NTH. WATER-HOLE
To Track and Kill the Hunted
One Must Have Great
Endurance.
By L. K. DEVENDORF.
Just at dawn Cherokee rubbed the
circulation back Into his leathery
face, shivered a bit, and looked down
across the rock-strewn dip. Out
across the wavy haze purple and
undulating that hung over the sand
covered earth like the enshrouding
gauze of a dancer, he knew the water
hole lay.
For days he had kept to the painted,
' tower-like buttes. Scanning every
nook and cranny among the rocks,
silent; and stalking the sun-peopled
crevices; creeping up to the overhang
ing boulders and peering down below
to the thin yellow ribbon of a trail
that seemed to squirm In and out
among the dull heaps of drift.
He had watched, as a mother
watches for the fever to turn In the
first-born, for the thin blue spiral of
moke climbing skyward, to mark the
location of Mitchell's camp-fire. Ho
had watched and looked at Bhadows
that melted Into nothing until his
yes seemed dry.
When he winked the lids appeared
to be coated with sandpaper, that
scratched and burned his eyeballs like
the back-fire from a loose breech-block.
But Mitchell was "covering" well;
there was no smoke no telltale. Still,
he knew that somewhere In this great
cradle of rocks, snugly tucked In, lay
his game knew, too, that sooner or
later Mitchell must make for the
water-hole.
Today was the day he had figured
that he would "break cover."
Several tlmeB he had foun- the un
mistakable signs of another'3 pres
ence. Cleverly concealed. In fact hid
den entirely to a less skillful observer
than he, but nevertheless "signs."
Once he had found the burn! i ticks
and ashes of his Are found them be
cause the sand by which they were
covered was of a lighter hue than
that next to the little circle under
which they lay. The fire hrd burnt
out the color. Then, farther on and
In line with the water-hole, his pony
had pulled off some of the leaves of
a scrub-oak plain, and speaking to
Cherokee like the pages of a book
plain because of the inherited intui
tion from a Cherokee mother, and
they all told him that he was coming
up with the gnme.
All he wanted was a glimpse of
htm; Just a sight at him along the
blue octagon barrel.
He "hobbled" the pony and left her
In a sand-pocket.
Down across the slope he crawled
and out Into the gray sand; Into the
opalescent half-light; out to the fringe
around the water-hole to lie perhaps
for hours In the suffocating sun rack.
He cautiously looked over the
tumbling sand rim of the little crater,
but no living thing was within its
basin. He quickly Bllpped down the
aide. Flat upon his stomach he lay
and drank. When he had finished he
filled his canteen and climbed back to
the rim. Here he dug a trench In the
sand and mounded It up In front of
"him, leaving a low place through
which he poked the muzzle of his
gun.
Now, It was to wait.
Dack of him lay the desert, out of
which, burning Its way through- the
amethyst haze, came the sun, and he
shrank fnrther Into the sand-pit as
he thought of what he was to Buffer.
In front lay the Jumble of rocks
and scrub from which he had come,
and from which Mitchell was to fol
low. Unless, perhaps, he had miscal
culated or that It was not Mitchell
In "The Chimneys," and he had been
following a lonely prospector dodging
the Apaches or maybe he wouldn't
take the chance of stopping at the
springs before he crossed Into Mexico,
This did not seem possible, for It was
over forty miles to the Southern Pa
clflc and the next water, and no town
nearer than Columbus on this side of
the line.
mo a Btop; or course ne a stop; "as
sure as hell lacks water, he'd stop,"
he muttered.
For the first two hours he watched
the shore-timbered pile before him;
saw the sun chaBe out the luring
shapes from each pocket; felt Ha Im
partial rnys burn Into his back, and
1eat almost to Intolerntlon the sand
about htm.
He drew from his vest pocket
piece of folded paper and rend the
lines printed thereon, and then care
fully refolded It and put It back a
paper worn from many readings, soft
and damp from his body.
From under the brim of his hat he
could look away straight into th
cloudless space.
A buzzard was Idly describing a cir
cle. Ho watched It as long as Hb
path was In front of him. He count
ed from when It left his sight, In Its
tireless swing, until It came around
Into range again. He fell to wonder
ing If It was the same one or If there
were two, for the count did not tally
each time.
He felt an almost uncontrollable de
sire to turn over and look, but he
knew that a moving object could be
seen too far In that atmosphere, and
he had waited too long now to spoil
It all.
At he lay there ho planned how he
would pull on Mitchell as he rode
down Into the water-hole. He wouldn't
Itlve him chance to draw frac
tion of second late with Mitchell
meant that one would never have a
chance to pull thin, with the sua In
his eyes as he knew It would be, foi
he had figured where the man would
coma In, he would get him. He had.
planned to shoot the instant the pons
started to drink, and Mitchell would
be climbing off, facing him, with hit
head and shoulders above the pony'i
back and both hands In sight, one on
the pommel, the other on the pony'j
neck he could picture them.
If there was any such thing as pit;
In Cherokee's nature, it was going out
to Mitchell now.
Again he tried the hammer. II
came back soft and easy noiseless
as he pressed the trigger; the spring
was strong and stiff; the oil oozed
out on his thumb, and once more he
lined up the little white bead vlth the
tiny crotch back by his eye.
He read the paper again and mut
tered lowly to himself, then looked up
at the sun-glints on the wings of the
big bird as it came round In its sweep.
He wished he had two canteens ol
water and wondered If the pony was
down and if that rusty w-gon-tlre
would ring with a bullet hitting It, o:
if it would sound dead how long had
the bones of the horse been there
If his head would stop aching.
Suddenly there came upon him the
half-conscious sensation that he had
been asleep. He stared down Into the
water-hole.
There beside a pony, still In the act
of drinking, stood Mitchell.
Cherokee rubbed his eyes; yes,
there he stood. It seemed but a mo
ment ago that he had looked ovei
toward "The Chimneys," and between
them and the water-hole there wa
nothing but a stretch of radiating
sand. But here before him, supreme
ly unconscious of the presence ol
anything but himself, stood "Quick"
Mitchell.
Mitchell had- come across to the
hole while he slept like a herder.
Ignoring completely the plan he
had formed the plan that had con
templated the deliberate shooting ol
the game through the notch In the
sand-pile, he rose to one knee, fairly
staggering. With one foot slipping
across the rim of the water-hole and
the other pressing tightly against the
sand behind him, he slowly covered
the pocket in the flannel shirt
His eye twitched, he trembled; hla
vest was bunched under the butt ol
the gun and he could not hold It tight
to his shoulder. His right hand wat
asleep and felt full of cactus spines
He was going to pull when he felt
sure when the pocket and the two
sights along the hot blue barrel came
In line. Somehow they wouldn't; hi!
thumb was trembling upon the stock,
the muzzle was wobbling, and he
couldn't Bteady down.
He cursed himself that he should
have fallen asleep, for his nerve wat
bad, and he knew if he missed thai
he'd never have a chance to pull
again. The foot hanging over the
edge was slipping; a pebble loosened
and rolled down the slope. The man
below turned slightly and looked up
from the bottom of the hole In the
Band.
"Throw up your hands, or I'll bore
ye!" yelled Cherokee as he iM him
self unable to pull, with the chance
of missing, and hoping for a steady
ing down of his nerve when he saw
Mitchell's hands in the air,
The man waa talking not respond
lng to lis command standing mo
tionless. He heard him say something
that Bounded like.
"You don't expect that gun's going
off with your vest caught uule." the
hammer, do you?"
Cherokee unconsciously lowered the
forward sight a trifle, and for an In-
Btant dropped his eyes to the breech
then In Just that Instant, from the
almost Indistinct arc of blue as the
man whipped down, there came
sputter of flame once, twice, three
times, and Cherokee crumpled up like
a piece of burning hide and slid down
the sandy slope.
Mitchell climbed up the little Inter
ventng distance and turned him ovei
upon his back.
From out of his vest pocket a papei
Bllpped and fluttered, half-open. Pick
lng It up, he squatted down upon hit
heels and read:
FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS RE
WARD
Will be paid for the body of "Quick'
Mitchell, or
THREE THOUSAND DOLLARS
For Information that will lead to Mi
capture.
(Signed) JAMES CRE880N,
Sheriff of Orant Co., N. M.
"Poor old Cherokee," he whispered
as he tucked the upper corners of the
bill under the dead man's suspendert
and the lower edge beneath his belt
"And I Btaked him to his last outfit
too. He shouldn't have come alone
But Ave thousand was big to Chero
kee."
The pony came up and sniffed, thei
rubbed her nose ngalnst his sleeve.
When he had ridden to the edge ol
the rocks he turned and looked back
High In the air a buzzard was keep
lng to Its tracklesc path around the
waterhola.
(Copyright.)
Confidential Communication.
"Who painted that wonderful ol
picture?" asked the visitor.
"Let me toll you a secret," replied
Mr. Cumrox. "If I had spent my life
learning to pronounce the names ol
alt these great artists I'd never havt
made money enough to buy their pic
tures." '
A Perfect Bear.
Emma My husband Is the most In
consistent man.
Muriel What has he done, now?
Emma He said he was too poor tc
buy new drawing room furniture, ye
he gave thousands of dollars for a seal
on the stock exchange.
CURE FOR FUNGUS POISONING
Antitoxin Enables Enlcjra to Devour
Toadstools Without Fear of Any
injurious Results.
It may be comforting to the epi
cure who trembles every time he callB
for mushrooms lest the cook has in
advertently slipped Is a poisonous fun
gus or so, to know that an antitoxin
can be made from the most poisonous
varieties of mushroomB which if in
jected in case of fungus poisoning is
Just as effective as the common anti
toxins for diphtheria and rabies. In
addition to this, if the mushroom eat
er Is in sufficient fear of poisoning and
is so fond of mushrooms it would be
possible after a series of frequent
injections of the poison covering a pe
riod of several months to inoculate
him so that he could wander out into
the fields and devour toadstools raw
without worse effects than a possible
Indigestion.
The French scientists Radias and
Sartorv were the men who made this
consoling discovery, and the plants
from which they made their vims
were the frightfully poiBonous aman
ita phanoides and the amanlta mappa.
The original experiments were made
upon rabbits and were highly suc
cessful. ROTECTS MARKSMAN'S HEAD
Sharpshooter Need Not Now Be Com
pelled to Expose Himself When
Shooting From Trench.
Much of the modern warfare Is con
ducted from trenches thrown up by
the Boldiers, from behind which sharp
shooters keep up a fire back and forth.
By watching closely the source of
the shooting may be closely located,
and then as the head of the marks
man rises over the embankment it is
necessary for him to expose himself.
It is only for a second, but It Is long
enough for the enemy's sharpshooters
to pick him off. There has been re
cently invented a weapon which makeB
this exposure unnecessary. The gun
is rather heavier than the average,
Shooting From Shelter.
having a hollow tube adapted to be re
movably mounted upon and to extend
longitudinally of the barrel and hav
ing front and rear sights so arranged
with respect to the hollow tube as
to be In alignment with the opening
through a tube and visible to one
sighting through the tube. Removable
plugs are supplied with the weapon
for closing the forward end of the
tube and barrel, all so constructed
as to enable the barrel and tube to be
repeatedly forced Into or through an
embankment or earthworks In such a
manner as to form a tunnel or aper
ture In the earth adapted to enable
the firearm to be aimed or sighted and
discharged while In the tunnel or
opening thus formed and to prevent
the earth from falling In upon the bar
rel and obscuring the eights, where
by the person using the firearm Is en
abled to be shielded and protected by
the embankment through which the
barrel and tube are thus Inserted.
A ton of soot results from the burn
ing of 100 tons of coal.
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Lightning clouds are seldom more
than 700 ynrds from the earth.
Nearly four hundred women applied
for patents In England last year.
Instruments with whits, he cures
black eyes In 20 minutes have been
Invented by a Kansas City doctor,
e e
Folding rods, carrying wheels at
their lower ends, have been patented
to help bear the burden of hand
baggage.
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For window cleaners there has been
invented an adjustable wire scat which
can be suspended outside a window
from the sill.
e
From the seeds of the castor oil
plant a German chemist has extracted
what Is said to be the most powerful
poison known.
A sanitary drinking tube has beet.
Invented for use with any kind of
container, so compact It can be car
rled In a vest pocket
e e e
An American naval officer la th
Inventor of a writing tablet every
other sheet of which Is so cut and
gummed that it can be folded and
pasted to form an envelope.
MEASURING A LAMP'S LIGHT
Portable Device, Invented by Phlladel-
phlan for Determining Its
Candle Power.
A simple and efficient device for de
termining the candle power of a light
In a lamp post or other support of a
like character has been recently in
vented by a Philadelphian. It is a
portable device and Is meant partic-
Iarly for the convenience of gas
companies and gas experts or munici
pal officials who might have occasion
to test the character of lights. It
Find Light's Efficiency.
consists principally of a photometer
box on a staff with certain standards
markerPalong Its length. The box is
supplied with a standard electric lamp
taking Its current from a battery car-
led in the pocket of the operator. The
photometer box is supplied with mir
rors reflecting the light of the lamp In
such a manner that its intensity may
be readily compared with that of the
standard lamp.
In use the operator may hold one
end of the stalf with one hand and
place the other end against the lan
tern or globe of the street light. With
his free hand the operator presses
the 'handle elements together, thus es
tablishing the circuit and releasing
the clutch element, lighting the stand
ard light and freeing the photometer
box on the staff. The operator may
then ascertain the candle power by
comparison in the ordinary way and
having done this, the operitor re
leases the handle elements, thus
breaking the circuit of the lamp and
locking the photometer box on the
staff. The operator at his convenience
can then read the scale in respect to
the pointer and so ascertain the can
dle power.
SMELL CAUSE OF INVENTION
Odor In Sulphuric Acid Waste Led
to Production of Professor
Bell's Photophone.
Alexander Graham Bell, the great
inventor, in the National Geographic
magazine, tells how his photophone
was Invented primarily because of a
smell. The explanation Is as follows:
First, a chemist detected In sul
phuric acid waBte an odor which on
analysis was found to come from
hitherto unknown substance. This
was called sllenium.
Second, sllenium crystallized was
found to be a conductor of electricity
of phenomenally high resistance.
Third, the new resistant, having
been put to use in place of whole colls
of wire to balance the Atlantlo cable
during the period of laying, was found
to have at night twice Its resisting
power during the daytime.
Fourth, Professor Bell, playing upon
sllenlum's sensitiveness to light, pro
duced the photophone, by means of
which one may talk over a beam of
light.
TELEPHONING IS MADE EASY
Englishman Patents Device, Shaped
Like a Trumpet, to Increase Sound
From Receiver.
To do away with holding the tele
phone receiver during a long conver
sation or while waiting for some one
to be called to the telephone, H. W
Prance, London, England, has pat
ented a trumpet shaard device for
magnifying the sound from the recelv
Does Away With Holding Telephone
Receiver.
er so that It may be heard throughout
medium sited room, says Popular
Electricity.
The trumpet has a platform at ono
end to support the receiver, the open
tng In the receiver being over the
opening at the small end ot the trum
I
pet when the device Is In Use.
LAMP CAUSES EYE DISEASE
Safety Device Seriously Impairs Sight
of Underground Workers, Es
pecially Coal Miners.
While progress in science has en-
abled Industrial concerns to greatly
Increase their output and has made
the life of the worker much easier, at
the same time it exacts Its penalties
and it has recently been discovered
that the safety lamp used by the mod
ern miner has greatly Increased the
prevalence of an eye trouble which se
riously impairs the sight of the under
ground worker, especially coal miners.
This trouble has been known for some
time and is believed to be caused by
the great eye strain to which the
men are subjected when working in
the dim light of the safety lamp. In
mines where an open-flame light or
candle can be used, the disease is
rarely found. In Great Britain records
show that some 1,618 miners were
found to be Buffering from the disease
during one year, and the loss in money
estimated at more than $15,000,
represented by the compensation paid
these men under the law. Thie, of
course, does not take Into account the
reduced earning capacity of the men
during the progress of the disease to
that point of acuteness which made
them eligible to compensation under
the law. This is one of the occupa
tional diseases to which much study
is now being given, though no real
remedy has yet been found.
SCREW MADE TO HOLD FAST
Supplied With Slot Along Length With
Edges Which Prevent Its
Easy Withdrawal,
Carpenters and woodworkers will be
Interested in a screw of new design
which has been recently patented for
the purpose of preventing the screw
from working loose after it has been
once driven Into place. In the manu
facture of much medium-grade furni
ture screws are made use of, although
they are tabooed In the first-class pro
ductions. In furniture the screws are
bound to work loose after the piece
has been in use a little while, and if
not given attention it Is not long be
fore the furniture will fall apart. In-
A Hold-Fast Screw.
deed. In such a piece constant atten
tion is required to keep them to
gether and fit for the service for which
they were designed. The new screw
has a slot along Its length with edges
so shaped that they offer no resistance
to the passage of the screw as It en
ters, but a series of little heels or
projections stand In the way of its
withdrawal.
Matches can be made waterproof by
dipping In hot melted pamffin.
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Chinese exports of firecrackers to
the United States axe yearly diminish
ing.
It Is only necessary to boll a cork
for five minutes to make It fit any
bottle.
e
A chimney 115 feet high will sway,
without danger, as much as 10 Inches
In a strong wind.
e
Next to the United States, Ger
many and France are the largest pro
ducers of Iron ore In the world.
The United States has more than
G.000,000 factory employes, and 1,600,
000 railroad employes.
e
That It Is very cool and light is the
claim for a new perforated metal
band for the Interior of stiff hats.
e
An excellent waterproof brown oa
per is being mad,e In England of which
SO per cent of the material Is peat.
Portable power plants up to 50-hoi
power that use crude oil for fuel i
coming into common use In France
Cork slabs, compressed from
thickness of 14 Inches to half an Inch
are being tried out for flooring In rail
road cars.
An Illinois man has patented clamps
to hold paint brushes on the ends of
poles at any angle to save painters the
need ol ladders.
Russian railroads protect ties and
telegraph poles against decay by soak
ing them for several months before
ssej In strong brine.
PUTTING UP PEPPERS
SEVERAL METHODS, AND ALL OF
THEM MAY BE TRUSTED.
Ota ma Is One of the Best of the Prep
arations That Can Be Made From
the Vegetable Stuffed Green
Chllles.
(By LIDA AMES WILLIS.)
We do not give this as the original
and authentic peck of pickled peppers
picked by Peter Piper, though it was
given us by an old gardener'B wife,
whose English forbears emigrated to
Virginia with the very Bret F. F. V.'s.
V.'s:
Remove the seeds from large green
peppers, slice and lay them in a stone
Jar, alternating each layer of peppers
with a layer of sliced cabbage; cover
with salt and let stand over night.
In the morning drain off the water.
Take enough vinegar to cover the pep
pers, an ounce each of black and white
mustard seed, Juniper berries, whole
cloves and whole allspice; half an
ounce celery seed, a large white onion,
chopped fine, and a head of garlic, if
the flavor is liked. Let the mixture .
boil up, then pom over the peppers.
Pack tightly In a jar, cover with horse
radish leaves and close up tightly. A
little shredded fresh horseradish
placed on top will take the place of
the leaves.
Otama. Slice a sweet green pepper
with seeds removed, add an equal
quantity of Spanish onion and green
tomato. Put some fresh dripping or
sweet beef suet in a stewpan, adding
little hot water. Then put in the
vegetables, cover closely and stew
gently for an hour. Stir often enough
to prevent burning and serve very hot.
Stuffed Green Chllles. Remove
stems and seeds from six green chllles.
Boil two pounds of meat until tender
and chop fine. Add a large ripe to
mato, two small onions, one cupful
boiled rice, chopped fine, add olives,
raisins, a tablespoonful of vinegar, one
one of sugar and Bait and pepper to
taste. Fry the mixture in butter un
til all flavors are well blended, then
Btuff the peppers. Dip them In but
ter and fry in lard.
Deviled Peppers. Ubb green bell
peppers. Cut off the stem end and
remove the inside. Chop cooked cold
ham, or tongue, veal or chicken. For
a pint of meat use the yolk of a hard
boiled egg rubbed smooth in a scant
tablespoonful softened butter; half a
tablesponful made mustard, half a tea
spoonful sugar, and add enough vine
gar to thin sufficiently to moisten the
meat to a paste. Fill the pepper
shells, rounding up well. Serve as a
luncheon dish.
Oakland Stuffed Peppers. Cut the
tops from six bell peppers, Bcoop out
the seeds. Chop an extra seeded pep
per fine and mix with a small onion
chopped fine, a cupful of chopped to
mato pulp, two tablespoonfuls of but
ter or salad oil, teaspoonful of salt and
equal measure of bread crumbs. Stuff
the peppers, replace the stem ends,
and bake them for half an hour. Baste
two or three times with butter or
salad oil, and serve as a hot vegeta
ble.
Cheap Fish Dinner.
Get three or four pounds of chnw.
der pieces of halibut; wash good and
put on to boll with a little salt. When
done take from water and let cool;
pick over and remove all bonea and
skin, put Boine back in water in which
it has been boiled; add potatoes, on
ions, pork or butter and milk, nnri vnn
have a nice chowder. Now take re
mainder of fish, break it in small
pieces and spread on lettuce lAAVPR !
put two bunches of radishes through
tooa-cnopper, mix the radishes with
fish and pour over all seme mnvnn.
nalse dressing and salt and pepper,
ana you nave a dandy lobster salad
that you can hardly tell from the real
lobster. Now, for fried lobster, take
cod or haddock, cut In pieces, dip In
meal and pour some catsup over It;
fry in hot fat, and you have fried lob
ster. Serve these together and you
have a regular fish dinner. i
Peach Foam. j
This Is a simple and eautiv
dessert: One cupful and a hnlf nf
tanned peach, without the Juice, cut
very fine or strained; three tablespoon-
mis or powaerea sugar, whites of three
eggs. Add the well-beaten whites to
the fruit and sugar and beat until
thick, smooth and velvetv. then r,n i
a mold previously wet with cold wa
ter. Any other fruit would vary the
recipe ana oe good and Jellv mnv ho
used If you do not have peaches. Serve
wun wnipped cream.
Braided Necktie Rug.
A beautiful braided rug can be
made of discarded neckties. put two
bright ties and a dark one together
and so on. If you have a small square
of any bright green or red carpet a
foot square put Into center and' sew
braids around. Can make It Just as
large as you wish. Very pretty In
front of a dresser In bedroom.
Cleaning a Hairbrush.
The test way to clean a hairbrush
without softening Its bristles Is to dls
solve a large lump of ammonia In luke
warm water and wash the brl3tles
rinsing quickly. If these Instructions
are followed, the result will be satis
factory. Beef Ragout.
Cut cold roast beef Into thin slices,
put them In a hot spider with a little
butter, cook for a moment, then place
the meat on hot dish and pour over
them a tomato sauce.