Rogue River courier., February 04, 1897, Image 4

He was, in feci, puzzling h*s brain to
conceive what iufonusGorj th? »t'i;
mulatto woman couhl h«'<* «»bt.. :
here. Hi« «trength. hi« p«»*i« on *
M«-nt to th«* » n«*m\ llMtFl ’
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like the trembling, eager woman lirfon*
him. a mere tool of other«
CHAPTER V.
In another ins taut buglet were ringing
“Did thi« woman live here?” be «aid.
“No,” »h? «aid. “She liv?«l with th?
through the camp. with the hurrying
ma»» of mounted officer» and the train p- .Manly«, but h.id friend» whom «he
ing of forming men. The house itaelf visiterl at your general’» h«-?ulq*-1 rt«m
WHb diff
■ Mil »MP r*
was almost deserted. Although that
The
•ingle cannon »hot had been created to start. It was clear to b'm i»ov
prove that it wa> not mere skirmishing information ha»t ln*en obtarDed nt the
of picket«. Brunt still did not believe in divisioo h« a<b|ua: t< rM am! |ma»ed
any serious attack of the enemy. His through hi« camp a« being near« et tl •
position, as in the previous engagement, conf?<lcrat4* line? But what wa« tic-
had no strategic importance to,them. information. and what movcim n« bail
They were no doubt otily making a feint j he precipitated? It wa* <-leur ib.’i t Li*
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against his position to conceal some ad­ | woman did not know II? look« <l nt
1 her ke«*nly. A sudden ?xplo?ion xliook
vance upon th? center of the army a the hou«?. a drift of ►moke | mim »»*«I th?
mile or two away. Satisfied that he was w indow- a «hell hail burst in 1l»e gar­
in easy supporting distance of the di­ den.
vision commander, he extended his lines
Sh? had been gazing at him despair
along the ridge reedy to fall back in ingly, wistfully, but «he did not blanch
that direction while retarding the ad­ or start.
vance and masking the movements of
An idea too possession of hi in. He
his chief. He gave a few orders neces­ approached her and took her cold hand
sary to the probable abandonment of A half smile parte<l hri pale li[>«
the house, and then i ?t urned to it. Shot
“You have courage you have devo­
and shell were already dropping in the tion,” he said, gravely. “J lirlieve you
field below. A thin ridge of blue haze regret th? step you have taken. If you
sheathed th? line of skirmish fire. A could undo what you have don?, «wen nt
small conical w hite cloud, like a burst­ peril to yourself, «hire you do it*.*”
ing cotton pod, revealed an opened bat-
“Yes,” ah? sold, breathlessly.
t?ry in the willow-fringed meadow. Yet
“You are known to the enemy, If I
the pastoral peace fulness of the house uni surrounded you could jinx« through
was unchanged. The afternoon sun lay the confederate lines unquestioned.”
softly«on its deep verandas; the pot
“Ye*,” she said, eagerly.
pourri incense of fallen rose leaves
“A note from me would |>aR« you
haunted it still.
again through th? pickets of our head­
He entered his room through the quarter«. But you would liear a not?
French window in th? veranda, when to the genera) that no ryes but his must
see. It would not implicate you or
yours—it w ould be only a word of w arn­
ing.”
“And you,” ahc said, quickly, "would
be aaved! They would come to your
assistance! You would not then I*
e
taken?”
He »■ Hmiled gently. “Perhaps—who
•>»»
knows?”
sat down an«l wrote hurriedly.
” he said, handing her a «lip of
paper, “is a pass «You will us«- it l»e-
yond your own lines. This note,” he
continued, banding her a sealed envel­
ope, “is for the general. No one els?
must see it, or know' of it—not even
your lover—should von meet him!”
“My lover!” sh? said, indignantly,
w ith a riash of her old savagery, “what
do you mean? I have no lover!”
Brant glanced at her flushed fare.
Mm FaulXoer swept quickly lnaide »nd closed “I thought,” he said, quietly, “that
tn* door behind her.
there was some one y<»’i eared for in
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th? door leaxling from the pn««age was yonder lines some one you wrote to;
Nuddenly flung open, and Mis« Faulk it would have been an excuse—”
Jle «topped as her face paled again,
n?r «wept quickly inwide, closed the
(l(M)i* b« liin<] her and leaned hack heav­ and her hands dropped heavily nt her
ily against it panting and breathlcK«. side. “Good God! you thought that,
Clarence was startled, and for a mo­ too. You thought that I would sacri­
ment Hhumed. lit* suddenly realized fice you for another man?”
“Pardon me," said Brant, quickly,
that in th«* excitement he hud entirely
forgotten her and the dangers to which “I was foolish. But whether your
she might be expomd. Sh? had prob­ lo%er is a uiiui or a cause, you have
ably heard the firing, her womanly shown a woman’s devotion. And in re-
fear» bad la*«*n awakened; she had corn« pairing your fault you are showing
to him for protection. But a« he turned more than u woman’s courage now.”
To his Rurpriw th? color ha<1 again
toward her with a reassuring smile, he
was shocked to see that her agitation mounted txj her pretty checks, and even
und pallor were far iieyond any physic­ a flash of mischief shone in her blur
al fear. She motioned him d«*R|>erately eyes. “It would have been‘aji excuse’
to shut the window by which he. had —ye«—to Rate a man, surely. Well, I
will go. I am r«*ady.”
entered, and said with whit? lip«:
“One moment,” he said,gravely. “Al­
“I must s|>eak with you alone!”
“( ertainly. Bu« there is no immedi­ though this pass and an escort insures
ate danger to you even here and 1 can your «afr conduct, there is an engage­
boon put you beyond the reach of any ment and some danger. Are you still
ready to face it?”
l' [joNSibk* harm.”
“I am." «hr said, proudly, turning
“Harm me! God! if it were only
back a braid of her fallen hair. Yet
that!”
a moment she hesitated. Then she said,
He stared nt her uneasily,
“Li«ten,” she said, gasping, “listen in a lower voice: “Are you as ready to
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to me! Then hate despise tne—kill me forgive?"
“In either case,” he said, touched by
if you will. For you ar«* b«*trayed aud
mined—cut off and surrounded! It has her manner- “and God «¿wed y ou.**
been helj>ed on by me, but 1 swear to
roadoas. .»t Mir. tor Maalr.
A nice little animal story ia given in
thia mouth's Nature Notre, which raters
the interesting question whether tn ice
have a fondness for tnu»ic. It ia con­
tributed by a muaician, who aay»: "One
evening I was somewhat startled at
hearing my piano suddenly giv ing forth
sweet sounds, apiatrently of Its ow n ac­
eord. A mouse, so it proved, had got
inride the instrument, and «»« making
music on the wires. Whether thia va»
intentional on mouaie'» |>art or not I
cannot aay; perhaps he was trying to
make a neat for himself there. Some
\ «‘¡irx «go, however, while a piano wa»
being played in the dining-room of my
old home, several mite came out upon
the heart hrug and liegan to jump about.
ap|>arently with delight at the sound of
the music, and one was either so ah-
•orlied or overcome by it that he allowed
himself to lie carried an ay in a tongs by
the housemaid.—
After this, ladies
ought to lose their antipathy to mice,
indeed, we may anon expect some hu­
manitarian dunie to eonimence musical
parties for their delectation It would
thought the hab’t . swallowing fo
tie amusing to see them dance, and
before it was niTiciently mastics’'
the cause of insuf •ienrt nourinhim » ' ‘ would form a really humane method of
catching them Loudon News.
in manv cant* N. Y. Ia«!g?r.
The Fool nt S< 'tool < hildren.
It is a lamentahh fact that too little
attention is giv?*^<> the b\g»?nic sur­
rounding« of the pupils in the school’,
and by far too !
to th? nature of
tte- food and tl
nner of eating. The t
aim nftati anti t ♦ > tc to so pnrparr the
food that it will require littl« or i
mastication I m »for? it is swallow«xl, at I
when solid food is taken it is not suf-
flcieptlv masticated to properly pre­
pare It for th? digestive organs. Rott
year* ago a doctor requested many of
his patient* to report as to th? number
of bite* it required to maeticat? differ­
ent food*. H? ««specially desired to learn
bow much lc»s children chewed t h? food
be fora««allowing it than their pai
ruts. He got r*q>orts from 150 in tell
gent people, and learned tliat pru*
in til)is regard varied very much, t
children generally were entirely t
apt to bolt their food. To encourn
the habit of chewing it mon ’ ,
oughly hr had adi <d parent* to p
the children chew ing-gum, much to t
The highest claim for other
tobaccos is “Just as
good as Durham.”
Every old smoker
knows there
none just
as good as
Blackwell’
Smoking Bracco
You will find one c .«.¡.» jh iu»it
each two on nci b %nn<l t wuetm-
poijs in* id <’a< i Liiir ouuce
Lug of Illa, k w< J' h Durham.
Buy n bag of this r«le-
Lratrd toLnocoand read the
COUJMiU— whi< h give» H list
of valuable pr<
aud how
to get them
aa
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you the blow* did not cotnc from my
hand! 1 would have saved you. God
knows how it happened it was fate!”
In mi instant Brant saw its truth in­
stinctively and clearly. But with the
revelation came that wonderful calni-
nebs and jwrfvct >u*if-jw»HN«xN8i<»n which
n«‘vrr yet had failed him In any emer­
gency. With the «otind of the increas-
thr> cannonade and its shifting |Mwition
made clearer to his ears, th? view of
hi« whole threatened positiou spread
out lik? a map licfore bis vywi, the
swift calculation of the time of his men
could hold the ridge, in bin mind even
the hurried estimate of the precious mo­
ment« he could give to the wretched
woman l»?forv him all this he tyas
t—NEWS FROM ALL OVER THI. WORLD E rv «ok, in: „nd keenly
alive to a« he gravely, cvVn
complete and in condensed form 1 >r bmy peopb
gently, led her to a chair, and said in a
critical atul level voice:
> — PACI I' I«’ C< >AS1 .
“Thi« is not enough! Speak slowly,
of the week from Behring Strait- to the istnnd of Terra del Fuego.
plainly. I must know everything.
How ami in what way havn you lw-
J— JOSEPHINE COUNTY HOME NEWS
'< d fn in reliable
trayed me?”
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Sin* liH>k«-<| at him I’liplontigly n>-
ces without tear or favor or intent to .!<«■ m distant peopli
a««urvd, yet awed by hi« gentaencss.
4—INDEI’EN f>E NT EDITOR I A I. i w i h II in the
H1KII-.
utiicc ’You won’t telieva me! You cannot
I »«•lirvr mr! But I do noteven know; I
without asking any man's or party's opinion <u |Hrmrs«i. n
have taken and exchanged '< •
whne........Lt. Hts i never hmi tetwet n
thr font. .1. i ufcK ami n spy w h<» r.-ni. s
t»> this houae but who {« far away
by this time. I did it l>?cauR«» I thought
I
yon hated and despised me, l>«*c.tusr I
thought it was my duty to help my
■'.Ol r, bo ;in .• \ mt .. u.| |t u
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OR fi WHEN NOT IN ADVANCI
te’twren us, but I haw «pied on you I
■wear it!”
All the News,
The “COURIER" is the best paper
in Josephine County because it has:
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aeeMMr» I» aiq«" ar WHOLESALE FS’Cf
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Yet all along that fateful ridge, now
obscured and confused with thin cross-
partlj rubbed oat •!«’? pencil mark»,
or rise. whoa cleared of those drifts,
■tenetrating only an indistinguishable
map of zig-zag Uoos of straggling wag­
on» and horse*, unintelligible to >nv
?• e but his, the singular magnetism of
th? chief w as felt evert w here. Whether
A Monument to Be Erected in the
Ernst to Mark the Hero's Tomb.
* ll-.llf.l »pol ». ‘‘‘«"X“.
IMleeum tor »»• «»Moo» ’
KalU-l n»ee-Tb<Joa Ei*<a<ed
tn tb«^ Work.
A SIZZLING SPOT.
Yuma Is the M ojí Torrid T jwi in
the United Stance.
E xmhh H»« <>■>• Hundred ».►
er.w for !>.!• »< - TH»»- Uourrte Ttot
Mak. H lu»« -»'»
°“r
Desperute tvowcU.
Beware
Of Mercury!
Mr. Henry Roth, of 18-J8 Sons
Eoau ra r-ople n Lu prate about heat­
r***f St. T.oitiu was «»¿a._ -
In the rar west, a mountain, capped ed u-rnu. itoil fiee to the mountain» or Street, St. Louis, was g1Ven th»'
mercurial treatment for coni lt*,-i
with everlasting snow, is an enduring .. nsliore upon the upprotcli of a brief blood poison. He was twice pe­
Proa,
it wax shown in th? quick closing in of
monument to Gen. John C.
period « ben t!w! temperature is amoutf ed cured, but the disease retuY^
orsec^
resistance to some »harper onset of the
and it i» now proposed that he shall
'- ihuuJd ecmider the uue of a time, he was seized with rt^Zj
rhs.
enemy or the mor? dogged stand of in­ have one in the etet. The ,A«ociated to’.'U where the temperature from pains, and red lumps r
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and
’
action under fire,rbis power was al­ Pioneers of the territorial days
al ..ut the middle o: June to «»Hy Oc­
ered hi,
ways dominant. A word or two of
iforniu have started a movement to ob­ to r r:.:'•■•s all '
way from h" to
comprehensive direction, sent through
rible fi,*-
tain funds for a statue to be erected
»ex in the »hade, and oeea-
an aid-de-camp, or the sudden relief of
on the grave of the "Pathfinder, who
goix to 123 decrees for a few
sa.v». "Mil
sionall,
hi» dark, watchful, composed face, up­ made it possible to aettle the states of
more tr,
hours, sty ^»t» a Yuma (Ariz.l corre-
lifted above a line of bayonets, never
ment I rR .
the Pacific coast snd who preserved
Whot would they think of
;
spondv
failed in their magic. Like all born
ert- the.., --
the territory for the United states.
rature for a full month of not
a
temj
kcetncd
to » 1
leaders, he seemed, in these emergen­
The final interment of Eremoul's re-
than '.'7. or two wed., at u Unto
A New y
cies, to hold a charmed life, infecting his
main, took place in 18H He diedI in when the tv in | erat urn * has' tuned from
speciali«
follower» with a like disbelief in death.
the city of New York July 13,
1 h* l.ii to 11J. and of a - week
- -?k w hen
1- the ther-
he coulc t *
M»*u dropped to right and left of him
oody wo» placed temporarily in the niometer has
stood at over 112 in the
me. but 4
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with serene assurance in their ghastly
vault of Trinity church »nd wm after­ shade?
treatment
. .
faces or a cry of life and confidence in
ward removed to the receiving tomb of
n‘e no j -
Thia i» V. hat the resident.-, of tins
their last gasp. Straggler» fell in and
Rockland cemetery on the Hudson. I be quaint old town of Yum» experience whatever. I was stiff and f.-K
closed up under his passing glance; a
pains,
my
left
arm
was
useleu
•ite «elected for hi» grave overlook« Tap­ regularly each xunsmer. So fur this
that I was un.ible to do eve, -
hopeless inextricable wrauglearoundan
pan Z*« and the Hudson. The pan­ M-ason Yuma ha» had two »¡lells of
lightest work. This was
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overturned caisson, at a turn of the
orama of nature, which the great ex­ w.-ather w hen tl.e mercury climbed up when I began to take
S. s’ 8., u
road, resolved itself into an orderly,
plorer loved so well, i« no more beauti­ to 117 in the «hade every morning for a few bottles convinced me 'hitI,
quiet, delilierat? clearing away of the
ful on any «pot on the globe.
The few successive days, and descended to being benefitted.
I continue
impediment, before the significant wait­
quaint little village of Hasting«, Dobb s 96tol00at night. I romJuae loto.Iunc medicine, and one dozen buttle»a
ing of that dark, silent horseman.
Ferry, Irvington. Tarrytown and Sing 14 the daily temperature here ranged me sound and well. My system
Yet under this imperturbable mask
Sing are on the opposite shore. In the from 107 to 114. From June 18 to under the effects of mercury,».
he wax keenly conscious of everything;
distance the waten of Long Island June 21 inclusive, the temperature on would soon have been a ¿on,,
in that apparentgconcentration there
sound add to the beauty of the location. each afternoon would go as high as 117 wreck blit for S. S. 8.”
was a sharpening of all his senses and
8. 8. 8., (izuaranteed purely rrj,ta
The long delay between Gen. Fre­ in the shade.
is the only cure
mont’s death in 1890 and his burial in
All conditions s<*m to unite to make for real blood dis­
his impressibility; he saw the first
trace of doubt or alarm in the face of 1894 aro®«* in part because it was unde­ Yuma the hot Rummer spot it is. It is eases, The mer-
termined whether to lay his body in the located in a kind of basin on the edge of curial freatuient
a subaltern to whom h? was giving an
order; the first touch of sluggishness earth or in a mausoleum to be erected thr lazy, muddy Colorado river. \>hich of tlie doctors al­
in a reforming line; the more sig­ above ground, and the final determina­ meanders through desert sands and ways do es more
tion was not reached until the fall of adobe soil down to the gulf of ( ali- harm than good. Beware of mere I
nificant clumsiness of a living evolution
]»94, when Mrs. Fremont made a re- fornia. Away to the west, .nenns the
Books on the disease and its tn;
that he knew was clogged by the dead
IxMlies of comrades; the ominous si­ <|ue«t to have the remains taken from river and to th? sou‘h stretches the Col­ meat mailed free to any addrea
the receiving tomb and laid to rest in orado desert, several thousand square Swift Specific Co., Atlanta, Ga.
lence of a breastwork; the awful inertia
’• ffhOOt-
of some rigidly kneeling files beyond, the ground—“in the open air, for suns milM in ar' a. It 1« SO 1 ' ''
and »nows to fall upon his grave, as he ly and fierce a desert waste that few’
which still kept their form but never
so often unflinchingly met them in his dare cross it by wagon or on foot in
would move again; the melting away
life of toilsome duty done.”
Tur
the summer months, and in winter or
of skirmish points; the sudden gaps
It was Mrs Fremont’s wiah to have early spring travelers are careful to be
here and there; the sickening incurv­
WORK nr.d MATERIAL
the final interment private and without accompanied by’ a companion or two
ing of what a moment liefor? had been
publicity, but his old comrade« in arms and supplied with an abundance of
a straight line—all these he saw' in
and others who loved and revered his drinking water and food.
ull their fatai significance. But even
memory felt that the name of Fremont
Every summer venturesome mineT*
at this moment, coming upon a hasty
11 A 1« > »¿NH!
and his remains belonged to the nation, lose their lives in trying to cross the
barricade of overset commissary wag­
and that they should be permitted to lesert by being overtaken by a sand­
ons, he stopped to glance at a familiar
uttend his burial. In deference to this storm or weakened unto death by’ the
figure he had seen but an hour ago,
feeling th? final interment and services ilreadful heat. To the north there an?
who now seemed to be commanding
incident thereto took place under the \ast plains and uplands of barren, sun-
a group of collected stragglers and
auspices of the Associated Pioneers.
ba ken adobe soil, and a peculiar forma­
camp followers. Mounted on a wheel,
When the question of erecting a me­ tion of lava and soft granite, the re­
with a revolver in*each hand and a
morial was spoken of at the grave of the mains of numerous extinct volcanoes.
bowie knife between his teeth—the­
Pathfinder, and afterwards more fully This area alieorbs the sun’s heat by day
atrical even in this paroxysm of un­
discussed at th? unnual meeting of the and distributes it by night. To th**
doubted courages glared Jim Hooker!
pioneers, the opinion obtained that east ar? millions of acres ttiat arv th?
And Clarence Brant. woUi Ui? whole ro-
very many, if not all of the earl/ day next thing to absolute desert, where
ARB FULLY WARRANTA
«ponsibilicv of the field on I iis shoul* Californians, would feel it to be a priv­
nothing grows except by irrigation,
de.-K, even at that des|M*rate "moment, ilege and also a duty to coojierate with
and then only scantily; when* no one He also makes SHOES to O’,
the Associated Pioneers in contributing h\es who can exist elsewhere. For over
found bin.»« If nc;. .»eg a vivid pictu.i
and does REPAIRIXOi» -
and in raising funds necessary for a 100 mih*s about Yuma not a tree grow s
of the at tor Bool »«r personating the
the Beit Manner
monument. Th? opinion wm also ex­ naturally, and non«* of the forest trees
character of “Red Dick” in “Rosalie,
prense«! that if the general public were that the people of New England or the
the Prairie Flower." us he had seen
ON SHORT NOTICE
invited to contribute to this grateful middle states know can be grown even
him in a California theater five year»-
AODLliS. WHIPS, ROBBS,i
and patriotic work a fund sufficient to artificially.
before!
erect a very expensive and imposing
All price,
There is not. a thing in nature any­ aiwavs on baud.
It wanted still an hour of th? dark-
structure, a monument worthy of the where in th? region to add a degree of
ticss that would probably’ dose the fight
man,
would
be
readily
contributed;
but
i-oolness to the atmosphere.
There ,
of that day. Could he hold out. keeping
upon the suggestion that this great are no balmy breezes from anywhere,
his offensive posit it n so long? A hasty
publicity
would
jirobably
wound
the
no sea or lahe air to come once in awhile ,
council with his otlicers showed him
feeling» and the sensitiveness of Mrs. :us a relief after hours of asteady down­
that the weakness of their position had
Fremont, it was deemed best to confine pouring of solar heat; not a mountain S ixth S t . O pp . L ister &C alvi
already infected t.hrui. They reminded
th? cost of th? monument to $10,000, <>r brook, a canyou or dell, a grove or
him that his line of retreat was still
open—that in the course of the night and also confine the movement to the lieach throughout the w hole country’ to
the enemy, although still pressing to­ pioneer* of California, as also his mili­ which one may resort for so much a.s
a. moment of coolness. One ntay gaze
wards th? division center, might yet tary, political and personal friends.
Mr* Fremont was notified and ««'lit in any direction from the highest plaoe
turn and outflank him—or that their
the following answer:
in Yuma, and the only color in nature to
strangely delayed support« might come
.1. Ü. SCHMIDT, Tropi*.
“This will assure you that the idea of I be seen is a dull, reddish brown under a
up liefore morning.
Brant’s glass,
a memorial by th? Pioneers and Loyal ' blazing «kv. Even the sluggish river .Vim .Sireet---- ------------------ Opp. b-JÉ
however, remained fixed on th? main
legions is entirely congenial to my takes on the hue of the surrounding
column still pursuing its way along
MAMJACri Ri.R OF -
feelings, and for some reasons better territory.
the ridge. It »truck him suddenly,
than any personal memorial. The gen­
F
ine
H avana and D ome »« t
When a wind comes up from off the
however, that the steady current had
eral did belong to his country, and did desert t,!ie air is almost shriveling, anil
stop|>ed, spread out along thr crest on
do it great and unselfish service, and, even the native« of Yuma go into their
both sides and was now ut right angles
while I could not ask, I can value and edobe houses and shut the doors to
with its previous - nurse. There hail
thankfully accept so appropriate and avoid the,air that comes like that from
been a check I Th * next moment tin
friendly a tribute.” •
a furnace from a foundry. The glare of
thunder of guns along the whole hori­
Upon receiving this response a num­ the sunshine has a serious effect on the
zon and the rising cloud of smoke re­
ber of artists and sculptors were asked eyes of the people. Green goggles and
vealed a line of battle. The division
to submit designs for a monument that smoked glasses are commonly worn
center was engaged. The opportunity
would express artistically and impress- here by «‘astern ¡>eople.
There an*
he had longed for had come—the drs-
ivelv the following story:
many cases of blindness among United
|>erate chance to throw himself on
In Fremont’s first expedition across States soldiers w ho have been stationed
tbeir rear and cut- his wav through
the division—but it had com«* too late’ th? continent, in 1842 they had made the at forte in this region. The fierce Run-
ascent of what is called Fremont’s shine oauaes inflammation of the eyes. I
II? h»okr»i at !.
battered tanka
peak, now in Wyoming, where, by act Every one doe« a.« much work as pot?
■carve a reguneut remained. Even n
a demonstration- the attack would fa ! of legislature, it ia reserved as a state sible in the evening or early morning lie-
forv the sun has got in ite best ef­
{Mirk.
against the enemy’s superior number.
Returning to their camp of deposit forts, and there is little or no unneces­
.XotJiing clearly was left to him now
but to remain where lie was—within near a great rock 1,000 miles beyoud sary movement about town at midday.
Railroad brakemen wear leather mit-
»upporting distance, and await the is­ th? Mississippi, to which the national
sue of the fight beyond. He was put­ name of “Rock Independence” ha»s since ten." so that they may handle coupling
pins and links. The china and glass­
ting up his glass when the dull boom been given, he wrote:
“Here, not unmindful of the custom war? in the homes and at. the little ho­
of cannon in the extreme western limit
of early trawlers and explorers in our tel are as warin on any day in summer
of the horizon attracted his attention.
as if they had just come out of very
By the still gleaming sky he could see country, I engraved on this rock of the warm water, and window panes are un-
Great PESTO!1
far w eata symlMil of the Christian faith.
a long gray line stealing up from .the
Pastor,, |X*
I mad? on the hard granite th«» im­ bearnbly hot. When one puts his hands
valley from the distant rear of the head­
h«»ltr¡ ngwi
pression of a large cross, w hich I cov­ on a w all in a H our » on a hot day it feels
niMbOOd Ml
quarters to join the main column. They’
ered with a black preparation of india like the walls that surround a baker’s
hiotm »II '*■
were the missing supports!• His heart
rubber, well calculated to resist the in­ oven. All horses and cow« her? an*
It, to man»
leaped! He held th? key of the mystery
Resto-«*''
kept under roofs or ah«s!s at midday
fluence of wind and rain.”
now’. The one ioqterfeef detail of the
»ritiri ■ ur*
A number of designs were received; . w hen the mercury ia ranging high.—N.
».:♦»
,»d
enemy’s plan was lM»for? him. Th? sup­
several of them were very artistic an I Y. Sun.
lt*J 10MW.H
ports coming later from th? west had
lieautiful, but thr design «ubmitte 1 L\
movax »ff«* «
seen only tb? second signal from th?
»In, of yout» m C
A BOTTOMLESS PIT.
Mr*. Clio Hinton Huniker. of this city,
window—when Miss Faulkner had re­
rauw, of l,t* 7»
whose genius and fame as a m ulptor 1 Exploration of a Peculiar Cave Formation
placed th? vase and had avoided his
will soon become world-v xle.wns unan­
of diM Mtioa tri
in
France.
position. It was imptmsibl? to limit
imously preferred and accepted. The
pur» »II »uni"
Among the most remarkable of na­
th? effectof this blunder! If the young
Curt, Ir.KMUi'
statue i* to lw of heron s
,n<l the feet I tures wonders the subterranean pit at
I
girl wrho had thus saved him had
r»»'.or«, reffw
of th? figure will
on a pedmtal 14 Jean Nouveau, m ar Vaucluae, France,
»Iwp
CurOTJ
reached the division commander with
feet high, making the total height of which reaches a dt pth of five hundred
tx-tonC »r.rf •«'' a
his message in time, h? might be fore­
the monument >2 feet,—Chicago Tnb- I. and forty feet, while nowhere more
full ,il»l
warned. and even profit by it. Hi«own
Cur,, »ll)«*
une.
•
than twelve feet wide, has only recent­
position would I m * less precarious, as
ill»»»»»» Mid
ly been explored. The French .Society
Iwwasvert «o alllearv
“ rv ' tbs
ib» bodf
trodf
the enemy already engaged in front
USES FOR OLD RAILS.
NSRVi-LIFK I* .b» «tf-F
of »Speleology cave study» erected a
would I* unable to recover their posi­
Ml.s
Ufi.
icaiœent
and
afford»
re te.
tion in the rear, and correct the blun­ 4 Great Amount of B»rbad-Wlre Fencing derrick at the mouth »f the pit which
*
A. irti dsy't uts It rimo»«
rsmovas lM
'.MJ
begins with a funnel fifteen feet wide
1«
of
Th«*m.
der. The bulk of their column had al­
ani »»sigi »»tur» te »ffset • cur* »<v
at the top and narrow« down to three
tn
sp«-»kinir
of
th*
use
of
old
rail»
re
­
J-^srMWa.1
Syw
»1
di»oount
to
ready streamed |mst him. If defeated
feet at a depth of about twenty feet.
Oar nsw trsatlM on N,rvou» '■-«*
there was always the danger that it cently. aay» the Railway Reviewer, an
Ntsbsod IM L-ws and Recew-y. *•
From here down the crevice in the
might 1»? rolled back upon him—but official of the Pennsylvania railroad
fm
In plain walsd wrippsr for t»ol»
rock, for such it is. extends vertically,
he conjectured that the division com­ stated the life of a rail on the Pennsyl­ getting wider as it extends deeper, un­
Muass ManUoo thl» paper
___
vania
lines
west
is
about
eleven
years
Iste
Mt. lor Trial rrutsut si* M C m *»
mander would attempt to prevent the
and on the Pennsylvania railnwd only til at a depth of about four hundred
NiRyi-iin
-iwicAi
«a
junction of the supports with the main
a LSMires.M
nine years. The difference is perhaps and seventy-five feet it is twelve feet
(‘oluuin by breaking l»etw’een them.
due to heavier traffic on the Pennsyl­ wide At this point the shaft opens
• row ding them from the ridge and join­
vania railroad The friction of con­ into a roomy cave in’which just beneath
ing him. As the last stragglers of the
stantly pa»»inir train» wears on the rail the opening of the vertical pit a thick
rear guard swept by Brant’s bugle« until it must be replaced by » new one. layer of clay containing remain» of
wrn* already recalling the skirmishers. The company pays twenty-four dollars bones, both human and animal, was
II? redoubled his pickets, and resolved a ton now twenty-two dollar»—and found The explorers found no evi-
to wat* h aud wait.
the rails used on that line average dence that the place had ever been vis­
eighty-five pound» to the yard. When ited by man. but tradition has it that
I TO
i ■ ■ J l B f
t ha» paswl its uaeful stage the rail is criminals were thrown into the “bot­
i I B i
H .A
tomless pit, as it was (Popularly called
replaced.
•
I he old rail» that are taken out from in the neighborhood, ami the remains in
« »rr.la, M o I im MrMl rtw Mllra.
li- e to time are gathered up every the cave just beneath th«* shaft tend to
TRADf RM’*
dkbicwk
Ureal pota of molten metal (pi daily i-i nth and »old to junk and scrap deal- corroborate this belief.
CORVItlCHTS
•
Th? dcsceut made into the shaft was
.kiniminir alon^ the Erie railnw.1 from <i at twelve dollar» a ton It can read­
Anvn
nt
«ending
a
<<kat«*h
«nd
daaerfpt*®**
the < leveland Rolling Mill»company'» ily be seen that the company pay» only exceeding y difficult; it established the
quietly aacertain. fra«, ahetber »n n*«Bj**
pro'iMhly pata-itable <’<»mnjonlcsti' ' •
• ntrnl blaxt furnace to the Niewburjr Is. Ive dollar» for the u»e <.f rail» per fact that there must be a further car?
eonfl<l»»f)t!»! Oldaet •»?«<<•» f r•ecur’nfP**
I
L Wr I ire » Wan .
'
mill» a» aedately sa if thia traffic wa» of ton. The price received from the »crap far I »clow the one now knoffn, but the
Patent* taken through Muuu * 1
man is a g.sid figure, when it i» known
lon< »tandinr. »ay» a Cleveland letter
reyic? through which it is accessible
aJ uotioe in the
The plan H a perfect sue.-eM. It take. that the rails, w hen »old, are of no use • > choked up with debris and bowlders
SCIENTIFIC AMKICAN.
ju»t Hft,*en minutes for the metal, after to the company- Rail» that are not so that it will be a very difficult matter
^•Utifuliv iliuwrratal. larONt
it I» poured into the
ladle car», to much worn are sold to factories along to penetrate further into the cave than
J?L*'
J'-urnal. »e*k r. term« A 1
•l.k)«»i m »nth*, »pecimea a pi«*’»' 1 **
the road at eighteen dollars per ton.
»as
done The deepest point
Bova on PATCNT* «aot fr*e. Add' •»
mile, anay Eight tripa are made a where they are used for sidings ami an­ rcacuv.. m this crevice is fl re hundred
MUNN A CO.,
■ lay aa follow. At « «0. <• M and 11 » swer the purpoae quite as well aa new an ninety-three feet underground,
3b 1 liroadaio. New York.
in the morning, at *10 and «ilSo'aloek rail». There are many uses to which
yrcat quant it.«* n .f water rush through
n the aftern.>m. and three train, at the old rail is put. A great amount of the shaft at every time there is a storm,
nitrht. These tripa are made at a time barb-wire fencing is made of railroad »till no trace of w ater wi* found in the
Iron and very eften the rail» are used as ra»e explored, w ¡1
w<
when the tracks are practically cleared
Sieh ..............
proves that
some
Thna delays are avoided, which would foundation» for large buildings. There other »ubterran„'n Iini.,t‘exUt
J
tie expensive, for if long continued the are not many people who know that I
i ‘ .’i
metal would cool and the purpose of the the Masonic temple in Chicago rest, ,,n
?
FyJ
'I*-' ml delivery thus lie defeated At a foundation of steel rails, layer upon 1
Sor
the rolling mills the car is raised on a layer, six feet deep. *
nian tvax «?n-
hoist to the mtier the ladle is tipped
I
<rm? crim? to .•
JG«r
V»rk*< Miiret.»*-*
by machinery aud the liquid meta1
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15 MEMORY OF FREMONT.
CHAPTER VL
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HIT NI» BOOM 1.11>
iur aiaaor or »»tiu.iotun«,
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ni m dunk i
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w u
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him, or th.
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he mm hin file, nj pit away
•teady current without
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