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mm, &&fS&&Z-Wl I t "XVI .. 'AA, la' l &l its i : w- V"-; TT occurred on a Mtk' M th Jun j -1 -J.fru, -which la parhapa Taca for J : arnt tngulrara vho want - to know tha aiaat, apot, tlm nd quality of ropa; but a I am about to rclata ion hitherto unrecorded facta - connected with the tnoldent thla rarue neea mar not bo without tta charm. If - Profeaaor Abraham K. Oreyiton had not allpped while Pierre waa eteadylnc him on a htdeoualy knLfe-llke arrata and aent ue eplnnlnf aeroaa an ice-pollehed . Incline, bounded on- all eldea by foe, it would have happened all the aame.. At thai momenLI, bore no malice, and thla ' taiafnanlmltr waa not lessened bjra aud- denv alanlflcant . Blackening of what z threatened to become an nnpleasanuy - atralned - relation - tha rope had parted and Pierre- vanished, apparently ruldlnc the professor to a speedy solution of - the boss riddle of . humanity. . t Lie strictly on your side alona; the ; outside edge of a sofa, lmasine tha floor ' a modest three or four thousand feet away la distance m'y fait rlen end you will comprehend my bodily posi tion, -t My mental attitude was -one of auspended Judgment A little way the blue, snow-corered. - flattened curve o: "lce enCrock went .up. then nebulous ln- - flnltyr and beyond tnflnttyi If yon allow . the expression, a star. It waa the first time man's absolute nothingness In the - face of creation cam' home to roe, and. -glthough.the result waa sublimit, I could have wished that the visit" had1 been reserved for a less crowded . epoch -hold of my consciousness waaa. steady "draw" on the rope from behind; some -mo -was dragging -me upward X aeo- tha advance effort, "Steady,': said Miss Oreystone's voice in my ear; "keep your eyes skinned. trink. Pop's bound to come out right aide up." - After a pull at the brandy a stren uous as tha lady'a at tbe rope I looked FIRST CROP SNAKE ' Fishing for Ratttarukt. v Jacob Watts,', a fullblood ' Cherokee, brought a Urge rattlesnake to tha olty yesterday, says tha Muskogee Pioneer, and after trying all day to get rid of It failed to find a buyer. - He says he captured the enake, which for the laat year baa been living under hta house, by looping a heavy cord and fishing for his snakeshlp for several - days. . l: ,i i .ritv It r-'y:1 ' ' "- Cat Chased a Bin Viper. . " ' The first snake of Jtha season ap peared In tha . second ward yesterday rooming" in the garden of Mrs; Nettle Arnett, says tha Falrmount . Times, - The garden of tha Arnett home was . being plowed when a largo tomcat waa notloed running through tha lot. In vestigation proved that tha feline was -giving a large snake a. run for Its life and It waa only by climbing' a bean polo (or perhaps a bunch of bean poles) that tha "varmint"' escaped. , The enake was killed by some person who saw It - and proved to be a blue viper. It meaeured four feet one Inch long. Upon climbing to tha top of tho bean poles the snake aeeerted Ita rights by" giving a keen . whistle oc Rowing noise on Us forked tongue, KHItd Big Battler; ;L ; 1 J Jamea Hewitt, a farmer living three miles south of Independence, says the Kansas City Star, reports that he re cently killed a rattlesnake mi the ad aolryng farm of Nicholas Itelpa that a r j . . round. Florrla and I ware cllnrlas' like woodpeckers on. an angular ledge of twieted rock formed aeona ago, appar ently -In- sympathetic forethought for waist tha cord ran taut to A ridge. A face showed there suddenly, dim in the shifting; fog It waa Leroy; there waa apother at hta shoulder Zlmmer; After the wittiest conversation-aver held. If brevity be the soul of wit, we found ourselves in comparative safety again) - Hans, our second guide, exam ined tha frayed end of rope trailing from me and uttered a furious paUu then he irJed..thtspaces between uaWhen hs reached that between Miss Oreystons and Leroy hr -appeared about to sur pass himself, but his voice died in a long drawn "Ach." stunned by a blud geon blow of amassment, I said to myself that Zimmer'a strange forebod ing had been speedily realised, and waa edging near htm to restore tbe packet he had privately aaked me to carry on our return Journey when I was pre sented with a purely personal surprise ths musale of a revolver. Under the most favorable ctrcumstanoee the view could not be described aa extensive, and flyet there was morethan enough of It. L-!XO.L.eouirsO.'.'tf(.Oh.-jre "Captain Henry Doser.- I arrest-you," said Leroy In cold, sharp Engltah. "What do von mean, Leroy?" I said He made a statement I venture to uppresaNcuJBtry.cooKfvx. showed a. whiter face than Jones did; Zlmmer turned green. "Tf ynn are a detective,-whtt-la the ehargef demanded Mlsa Xireyston "Torgery of bank notes snd causing the - death . of two persona by cutting thst ropa!!aald-Jjeroy. "I don't believe 1C erled Florrle; "It's mean of you, Ben. The Ideal He never touched the rope, and it'e got to be proved that pop and tha mountaineer are dead." ' -VTt mm- V V i.r .... :.. ' 1 II COMPILED BY WE NEW YORK was seven feet long and had tl rattle. -- .-- w , K .f Great Ball of Snaket." . - " Testtrday afternoon as1 J Mrs. Anna Hurt and two grandchildren of Peters burg were gathering greens they saw two snakes In the old canal bed near Oleaen and killed them, says tbe In dianapolis News. Later, Jack Hurt while outtlng "props" .near tha same place, saw two mora snakes and. killed then and, looking about for mora snakes, A ha saw . a : . ball of snakes wrapped together that was tha stse of a peck meaaurc - He hurried back to tha house and se cured hla double-barreled shotgun and hoe, and sent for his natghbors to come to his assistance. When they arrived P There Mr. Hurt had first seen the naksa tha ball had disappeared, but snake tracks pointed- toward -a - big brush rplle near by. Fire waa set to the bro s h. : - " As the heat became too Intenaa tha anakes .left tha brush, in drove. Alto gether 117 were killed, while 17 mora were found under tha rocks sear by. There were eight copperheads and one blue racer, while tha rest were vipers, garter, chicken, house and black snakes. Rattleinakea Take Charge of Stable. Pan! IX Shaffer, grocsrymaa of Belle font e. In company with hla brother, Herbert, and- William Walker, apent a week Ashing on Big-Run in tna Alie rheny mountains and camped about one mile below tha month of what ta known as the Middle Branch. ' ,.., After they had proceeded about on mile up from Its mouth, say the Belle font Gaxette, they cams to an aid di THE OREGON PAlLYOinWAte-IKRTIJlNlV I as3 2 Tou may put down your hands." continued Leroy, unheeding. "Ah, would you? Hold him. gentlemen." in a moment I was secured, for peo ple do not Indulge In frantlo struggles on a mountain slope tilted at an angle of 14 with nothing, and Leroy quietly drew from my pocket the Identical packet Zlmmer had given me. Ha felt. pecUdA ho remarked, "p4oto-and-H."4 spttmerea an explanation; be laughed, so did the others. ""Too thin," waa tha comment, "but you cant reserve your defence, - Get that rope-off htm, Hans. Zlmmer. and Ir Jones. Xllbrlng -up tho rear with Miss Qreystone. - , Jtla crdere- wsjs-- and X found myself a prisoner trudalna wearily and warUy In the footsteps of my captorswho hy their manner evi OenOy believed Leroy. Hans In partlo-ulnr-waa mest offensive, and would have made no bones about throwing me over any of the precipices In which the district Is so rich. However, X promised myself a speedy revenge once wo STORIES SUN. lapidated lumberman's log stable. It was located about feet from the stream and up on a rocky ledge. It had a double atable door, tha : upper half being, swung back, while tha lower one waa eloeed, and on It waa a piece of cardboard about ll-lnohea square, on which' waa scrawled by some considerate person the warning: BEWARJB OF . RATTLESNAKES. Mr. 'Walker did not go near the stable, but he told Paul to go up to it and look In over tha door. . He did so and the sight that presented itself sect the cold chills chasing each other up and down his back. . The i stable was literally alive with rattlesnake. They lay stretched at full length on the floor, aome were coiled In huge piles aa big ae old-fashioned breadbaakete, others lay under the planken floor with, their keade -at taking up eut af holee, while huge reptiles lay In and hung. put ever the TiArae "trough all sleeping as con tentedly aa though ' they had never known a disturbance for they had not yet discovered Ms presence. ' Mr. Bheffer declares that he saw no less than ft snakes, large and small, black and yellow, some of them, and especially on hanging on the horse trough, wa a thick as his leg. Mr. Bheffer had with him a 41.10 Win chester rifle, and taking careful aim at the big one on the trough, be pulled the trigger. The exploeion woke up the sleeping colony end before he could trnn and" run he heard such a bussing f rattle a never came to tha ear of man. He declare It sounded Ilk 10,. to locusts all singing at one time. Upon Inquiry we find 'that the spot la known and avoided by both lumber and, fishermen, and tha card ea the door ,v 1 .If 1 Ik reached tha confines of civilisation and comradeship of chance companions. Le roy waa a man whose acquaintance I made casually at Basel, where be acted aa Interpreter to a party of English tourists, of . whom I made one. Oh, why had I . not gone on with them to Turin instead of wasting my time at Orlndewalde with Miss Oreystonet Of itglit1 knowl't erignrTJtroduca wrtbemrby us toy himself only the day before. I rec ollected now that what I did know waa not to their credit -The thought of conspiracy did not cross my mind, for .ny p urfllty i Msilrla In so badly- conducted a world, but I dls missad It. -Who would conspire against a poor retired -offteeTnf 'Xndtan'regtt "are ? Bitterly Xf el t I waa- ta- blame more than any one else for having fal len Into the trap of the tnf trust Ztra- mer, who I believed now was the real culprit, and I cross-examined him for the benefit of tha party, aa well aa our position would allow, but ha merely entered; Jones prodded - ma - brutally with his alpenstock and Leroy advised was evidently placed there by someone who may have had an unpleasant ex perience In trying to camp 4n the stable, but- whe has nsver mad bl story known; for the point seems to be a rendesvous for the rattler, and It 1 presumed that they hibernate during the winter in the rocky - ledge near by, while In summer they use tha stabls as a place to congregate. -. Snakea That Fly. - At the last meeting of the London Zoological society, says the London Graphic aome notea were read by R. Shelford, lata of tha Sarawak museum, on "flying" snakea. These snakes are climbers, and a wonderful provision of nature baa been made for them to break their fall In can af acoldent wbsa at a height from the ground. - They have a sort of hinge line tn the skin, on either side of the body, and by muscular contraction the ventral sur face of the reptli I drawn in so as to becom quit concave and the body mor flattened. When falling. Instead of wriggling as other snake do, they hold their bodlea perfectly rigid and glide down slowly to the ground, which they reach at quite aa angle from where their fall began. : : WW'. - Shoot Snakes From Skiffs. Residents -of Calhoun county, Illinois, have found a new diversion ta enter tain traveler In tha form of snake shooting, says the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. . r Sine the nilnol river flooded the lowlands ft ha drlvenifrom their home rattlesnakes, blacksnakss, water moo caalna and bull snakea, and tha reptiles have taken lodging In tree. Between Kampevill and Eldrad the rout of. the old atage eoach la now covered by a man In a ekloVWho Carries a rifle With which hla paasengers are allowed to eboot the snakea from tha beat Th snakea are found colled : up tn the branches of trees, sunning themselves and waiting for tha water to go down, f Charles B. Johnson f Alton claims 1. i -. ait :.m ma to reserve my defense. Miss Qrey stone among the faithless was the only faithful found,' her conversation-' being streamed with references to the absent "pop" and incisive satire on the obtru- mlvo Leroy. We could hardly be described aa a merry company when we reached the Elsmeer. where we encountered a. relief psriy slgnslsl for by- Hans the first moment 4he-fog titled, end at-Orlndel- wald gendarmes took ths places of my companions. I pass over the ensuing 1 wo days; they were the moat anxious I ever spent One point of light alone relieved the? " gloom.1 Piufessur ' rjieystune " and Pierre were recovered -from tltr enow drift nothlnc the waru aava-from-shock and exposure.-OrrihehIrdmomngtnsd run out tif Hie supply and bsd to arrested and that 1 was at II aequenUy I - received ample " apologlea from Leroy over an excellent breakfast. "And now for an explanation," I said, lighting a cigar. "Quite simple," he re plied. "For the past four years I have been an the track of a select gang of ruffians who bava operated In every ta hav sh-t II snakss In a rids of four miles, not on of which waa under Ave feet long. :rrL Uncover Den of Snakes. , . While laborers working under the di rection of Roadmaster. William Abbott were blasting out stone In Carroll town ship, says the Pittsburg Despatch, yes terday they . were astonished upon setting off a dynamite charge In tbe orevtoe of a rock to see sections of anakes flying through ths air. - Investigation showed that the blast had uncovered a den of . blacksnakes, knotted together Into a ball, and alL In a comatose condition. . Out of nearly (0 of the reptile all but five were killed by the exploeion. Theee five, ranging In length from four to six feet were captured and placed tn a bos.- .Last year nine copperheads were killed at the same plao. ,.... ... -. w - . , Fought Snakes Two Daa. . Workman tearing- down an old 'porch on the farm of J. F, Deems, near Bur lington, says tha St, Paul Pioneer Preaa, had a desperate battle with snakea, In which II of tha reptlee were slaught ered. - ... The snakes were discovered' In "an abandoned well. wh4Hwa nearly-full of vaiiouo varieties of reptiles. The battle lasted aeerly twa daya and aoma of tha snakes killed measured over five feet In length. . They Inoluded blue racers, black snake, water moccasin and other varieties, some comparatively harmless, while other were af tha meat venomou kind. - - w Olrl Receives Snake Through Mail Florence, th 11-year-old daughter of Charles R. Dtsslnger of Lebanon, says the Pittsburg . Post received, a . dainty package by mall. When ens opened It a snake, six Inch long, wriggled out and bit the child on the. arm. No one Is able to account for the Inci dent as th girl la popular and the pa rente hav no known enemlee. Th apec' i of rnake haa not y 1 1" '"i."!1 capltal of Europe, two were English, the third CmYjju-'jn1ntanna,t Ea'a'c! I was close on thenrtnreka- whenwe met at Orindelwald they were . in my company" - -' - - "Zlmmer and Jones! .. ' ' - "Those were the names by which you knew them," he replied. ' V f,,n whynot rrt the rascals on the spotr : ' -Tba great detective smiled, "Tou Judge "thlngs'from the military 'Und potnt, be answered; we work by more aubtls methods. -1 had Information that they were Journeying to meet the third at Turin, the worst of tha three, a man whose cunning goes to the lunacy verge o perfect ah adept at disguise hat be would conceal himself from himself." - "Ton interest me exceedingly," I said. and ha-T tonJesa-Jungfran caught my eye through tna open winnow. - "Naturally." replied Xroy, "yon may be said to bava a personal gratification liT thetrt capture. - "But vou have your eye on this rascal at last?" I remarked, knocking off some ash. Ha shook his head. "Chance favors him; he Is almost unknown to his con federates, directing their movements from afar; Jones met him once, Zlmmer never. And they wsnted very much to meet him." continued Leroy, blowing a smoke wreath, "because he has secured tke-4iea hava -la-thafaMaaT. great coup, the-forgery ef-Engltehv-bank notes, and some on the Bank 01 rrance. lira na-re no Idea of the finished perfection of the plates. After their refusal to work with him longer ha Invited them to. Turin, really, aa they suspected, to get possessh-arof-tboss very olatee, gtmmee-j being the artist. Tna niers-specuiy .paper, l am j. fall In with hta auggeetton.' at mer BUreiy you pe- lleva that- Zlmmer gave- ma that wretched packet?" " Do you recollect tea roper it aia not break by aocldent. Feeling - that they were being watched how, I can not tell Jones, who was formerly a ropemaker, got at It before our ascent. determined, and physicians hav thus far been unable to decide whether the sting is poisonous or not Burning- Xtaen of Ttah. ' : From the Washington Star. Through a long line of cliffs from Colorado to central - Utah, and then southwest toward Arixona, extenalv beds of . coal are found. $jsnd recent geological Investigation Into this soal formation of the far west has developed what may bo termed burning mountains, or coal beds, a fire with surface Indi cations of constant combustion for ages past Th coal field of Utah are somewhat widely separated, and even the known fields have been comparatively little explored; therefore very IJtUe 1 known of their productive area. . , ' Th edges of these bed a com to th surface In these cliffs nearly 1. 000 feet above the bordering desert, and In ages past thla coal haa burned Into the moun tain ellffs until smothered by the ac cumulations of ashes and- covering of superincumbent rocks; in places the heat- of this burning coal haa . been so Intense as to mslt the rocks. f From surface appearanoee tha fires have gone out In the cliffs, but at on point In the canon of Prince River. Where the coal Is being mined, the roowa are found to be uncomfortably hot and th miners were compelled toretire for fear tho tire would again break out Other oal field It In th desert west at Oreen river.- At two places near tributaries of Fremont river the coals are burning, and hav been without cessation slnoa they were discovered by the earliest explorer. The origin oH theee fires haa been tha subject of much speculation. -' - Three explanations are" commonly heard among-the Mormons, whoJnhatlt tnls peculiar country where the moun tane born. ' On ejr;.. station 1 tlst llnhtnlng has rv t r( a ruck th e of the- coal , I t! res I r I t ' "-- 71 m9 pi " 41- 11 s -"A . x opened tha strands moat artlatleally an cut some Inches of the core with a surgical ntilssor s. - reairanglng the en velope So that It waa" apparently atlll solid and would. Indeed, resist a moder-. ate strain. Jt waa dona In two places ta insure its breaking. They suspected us ' both, but, not knowing how many might be watching below, planted the plates oh. you., so thst they might be found - on your body when -the accident , came off." -"It waa pro-ndentlal." - ' "Yea for Mlsa Oreyatone. If X had not seen the ropa parting Just at my hand It would have been serious. Then, understanding tha desperate wretches--with whom X had to deal, there waa nothing left but to formally arrest you. get posesslon of tha plates wblon I bad seen Zlmmer give you-and by putting you In thelreustody Insure tha aafety of the party. ' Tour detention enabled " me to make absolutely sure, and when I atruck this morning they practically confessed. Miss Oreygtone will never forgive me perhapaS I should have told you wa were once acquainted. May I ask you to explain? And now. Captain Dosler," he continued,- rising. Tin off to Turin. Will yon accept thla aa soma reparation?" And he tendered ma an open envelope. It contained an English banknote for a tidy smount, I almost fainted by'the powers. It waa one of our own I Pulllng mjgelf . together X bowed and returned. it- :iJha.ali J4 .been close enough, "Fortune haa -been kind to me." X said with ' my frank Baxon smile; "pray aocept tho little sum aa aa humble testimonial to - the cleverness which effected the moat difficult arreet : I Jiaveveavkjiow-'- Jos-xay.-own.. Monsieur Leroy, I ahaU need nothing; to -remind ma of tha most thrilling episode In a "fa not devoid of experiences." An hour later the train waa whirling me northward. Tbe compartment waa deserted, and. having carefully shaved off the three -days stubble that had grown beneath my natty, iron-gray whiskers, now reposing on tha stand be side me, I kissed my band to the retir ing Jungfrau and tried to recollect Mlas Qreyatone'a Boston address. th mountains cam In contact with ex posed coal. The mor thoughtful point out that the forest in thla desert region are- too spares for forest fire ta ooour. - Still another and more common ex planation is that the Indiana built their campflres under th protecting ledge cf th mountain against th coal and It waa thus Ignited. They point to th fact.lhat there are ruins of tho habi tations of cliff dwellers her and that,.. In their day tha eoale began to burn. tor SexaolUhad. - Th structure known as Lincoln's old store, which until a week ago stood tn the rear of the Bishop building at Petersburg, waa first erected at ' New Salem and waa occupied by Lincoln as a store from 1112 until lsli. In It the future president studied law and mastered tha Intricacies of math matin without a teacher, and while b occupied It he also laid out th sit of Petersburg and many nearby towns. Robert "Bishop "ofLIhat ally" bought th ' structure In IMI sd moved it . there.' Lincoln himself assisting tn the opera tion. It was used for a gun shrtp or some. time. Subeequently, when Mr. Blahon erected hla brick structure, th Lincoln, stor wa, pushed to th rear. Rello huntera had carried err mucn nf? Oter-old building, snd storm wrecked Uo roof, eo that Its dmlltloej was necessary. . v' : Oaaapaof Monopoly Terminated. ' Conaul andorson of -Amoy report that tbe dmput between foreign ! Chinese governmental interests li 1 -klen province over a monopoly rf aarat 'r bnalnea of th I e-rrt'-' I J-panee f"vf i has finally been en.U.1 r y ' to the ompanv ft a c- of mncy by tt.e prov' The tnule in camr or . . la again open to ti v . t there Is no rreat to" - t i it la jr. - -a It t C
