The Oregon register., February 24, 1888, Image 6

THE DANGERS Of FOOTBALL
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havoc among tbe devoted battalions of A us
tria, but they kept their ground, and for t
long time the scales of battto hungprett;
evenly. For a tnDe it seamed indeed as 1
victory would retrt on tbe standards of th<
Tbe wonderful providence that k
Hapsburgs, and the Fruraans looked fur th»
old Tom Heniper from the vengeance of
coming of the crown prince as eager y ss
the Comanche Indians fifteen or sixteen
Wellington had once looxed fot the coming
years ago has been discussed in many a
of Blncner.
western fort and around many a hunter’s
“Would to God the crown pnnee woui<
camp fire- That Uia adventures wçre
oome!” Suddenly Bismarck lowered
true in every particular can be vouched
glasaes and'drew attention to certain lines in
for by a dozen living persons today, though
ihe distance. All telescopes were porn.
old Tom himself was wiped out a dozen
tiqther. At first tbe lines were
yean ago. He was ' ■ ■ sront. burner and
to be furrows. “They are not fuiibws,
guide, and he took a party of amateur'
said Bismarck, “the spaces are not eq
.
hunters and sportsmen from Santa Fe
they are advancing lines.
was tbe crown
down the Canadian river into Texas and
prince's
army,
that
had
bera
delayed
y
tbe land of the Comanches. The party
condition of the roads, which the rains
numbered twenty-two men. some of them
made all but impassable. Only
being English tourists, and they were un­
miles, bat it took Ae anty nine boors to
disturbed for two weeks after gettiug
tbe distonie, and tbe emm prince K«
down to what is called the great elbow of
per
cent, of his men through exhaustion
Xh^Canadian. Then Indian signs became
the way. The crown pnnee lott not a nx>
very fresh, and one morning old Tom
ment in getting his forces into action.
started out on a scout. Two other old
krnthr assaulted on both flanks, and fierce-
hunters with tbe party remained in
pre>d in the center, tbe Austrians began to
camp.
slacken their fire, w give way, an
1 ue Canadian runs alongside of a moun­
retreat. The battle was won. and e n
tain range for several hundred miles, and . i
of having decided it were the croW11
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this range is broken with many small val­
Bismarck himseif adnr.to bow critical^was
leys and creeks. Tom went to the east as •
he left tamp, keeping between the font
the situation of the Prussians at one po
hills and the river. He was on foot and «]
the battle.—Globe-Den?¿»crai.
alert, but after a walk of an ho nr he dis- '
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covered no signa ind had to conclude that f
A Duel with Chief Left Hand.
thé Indians bad approached from the other
Duels ^vere as common in the west in those
direction. Just as he was on the point of
«tey* as in the south, and the following s U mw
turning back he found a spring of ice cold •
is told of Jua Baker challenging Left Hand.
water, and had to lie down on his stomach
the grtat war chief of the Arapahoes. He
to reach 11 and satisfy his thirst. He was
was known by that name by the whites as it
drinking when something alighted on his
was remarkable to see an Indian who was
back. His first thought was that it was
left handed. His Indian name was Ni-WoC.
a panther, but next instant he saw tbe
A mountsfin stream and little postoffice near
leggings of a red skin and knew that he
Denver bear tbe name Ni Wot, in honor of,
was a prisoner. When pulled to his feet
the old warrior. It wa.* early in, ths sixties,
he found himself in the presence of three 1
when Jim Baker waj living on Clear creek.
Comanches. who were out after .game.
that he had excited the animosity and hatred
His great surprise seemed to please them
of Left Itemi Un ooe occasion Left Hand
immensely, but they offered him no vio­
and a band ot his tribe camped near Jim
lence whatever. He was first disarmed,
Baker's cabin. Believing that they were bent
his bands then tied behind his back, and
on mischief and that his old enemy intended
the Indiana gave him to understand that
He was tied to tbe same stake, and the to make war on him. Baker, with rifle in
he was to accompany them to their village. fagcot«* heaped around him, but just as
hand, went alone to Left Hand s camp. The
While there was no Indian war at- that • they were being lighted be broke out in
Indians were amazed to see Baker enter their
time, the savages were hostile to any and “ fierce raillery aeatn. His words affected^,
camp alcfræ. and much more so when they
ail white men who invaded their domain, 1 • the whole crowd, but he wouht^no doubt
and old Tom swiftly realized that he wa? have perished had not Mature come to his saw him walk up to Left Hand and say:
“Is Left Hand, the great chief and warrior
tn a bad scrape. He could speak and I : aid. The hush which bail fkllen upon tbe
understood the Comanche dialect with per f village was broken by a far dff roar, and a of the Arapahoes. here for peace or war.
The chief, startled by tbe nerve and aBo
feet ease, but this fact he kept to himself. moment later a cyclone swept into tbe
As they moved away one of his capton \ valley from tbe east like a raging lion. It toe abrupt questions of the tqcaker, besi
taxed a moment
-eaid;
came and was g«>ne in sixty
and
—“He to an old hunter, and we shall havf '
: l~Md w reck w as left behind. Every lodge again said Bakeri “
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a goxl time burning him. He is probably was down and many of them carried
•Paleface no friend of Arapahoes,” replied
the leader of the party below.”
1 away, while many of tbe people were Left Hand. “Me no afraid of Jim Baker.
“We vent out after a deer and captured
hurt, and two children killed outright by He shoot rifle like Kit Canon, but Left Hand
a white man,” laughed the one addressed. ; falling limbs and flying debris.
no afraid.”
/‘Keep your eyes on him. for he is evi­
“I never saw Indians lose their beads
Angry words followed, and Left Hand
dently as brave as a bear and as strong as I ss those chaps did.” said old Tom. “I
shouted out :
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a horse.”
was left^quHe alone for the next quarter
“Me heap great warrior of Arapahoe»; mad
The prisoner was conducted about three of an hour, while those who Lad escaped
at
paleface.
Left
Hand
come to fight, and
miles up the river and a mile to the east, i unhurt were running about in a childish
at Which point a Comanche village was way. It was just growing dusk when an fight now.” shaking his rifle defiantly.
“Fight with rifles'” asked Baker.
located. It was in a valley about three Indian pony was Led up to the stake by
“Left Hand no afraid paleface rifle; fight
mile® long and a mile wide, and contained the bead chief in person. I was cut loose
with rifle hundred yards.”
sixty or seventy lodges. Nearly all tbe
by a warrior, lifted upon the pony by two
‘•Left Hand has spoken like a warrior and
warriors of ttye village were aWay watch­
Abers, and told by tbe chief that I was at
ing the white party, but as soon as tbe liberty to go. I was too .1a—1 to under­ I will fight,” replied Baker, for be knew that
prisoner entered the village a messenger stand. but they gave the horse a slap and he was more than a match for any Indian
with his rifle, and although tbe only white in
was dispatched to bring them in. Before
away we went. For tbe next ten minutes I
noon all had returned, and there was was no better than an idiot or a crazy man, or near the Indian camp, be feared them not
great rejoicing over tbe capture of tbe bat my senses finally returned and I saw The hundred yards were stepped off. and
Baker sad Left Hand took their places; but
hunter. The head chief of the tribe was
through it. They regarded me as an evil
expected at the camp on the morrow, and
before either had fired a shot tbe Indians in­
spirit and wanted to get rid of me. My
it was decided not to do anything with the
terfered and put an end to tbe intended duel.
rifle was strapped to the saddle, as was
prisoner until his arri val.
■Baker then threw his rifle over his shoulder
every other article they had taken from
Tom was shoved into a lodge and three
me, and they had given me one of their and returned to his cabin, and was never
warriors placed on guard over him. While
best horses. Inside of two hours I was afterwards molested by Left Hand.—Denver
they evidently feared him, they at the
back at our camp, but only to find the Cor. New York World.
same time wanted to keep him fresh and
party gone. They had become alarmed
strong for the “fun” next day, and they
In Itegarti to Explosives.
and moved about thirty miles up the
therefore gave him plenty to eat and
The prevailing opinions in regard to expk>
drink and did not even tie his hands. He stream, where I found them next day.”
Tom not only bad the Comanche out­ uydfe are. in the main, incorrect. The state­
realized what was in store for him if he
fit to prove tbe truth of what he said, bat ment that tbe main force of a dynamite ex­
could not make his escape, but any at­
the next year, when the chiefs of the tribe plosion m downward will go uncontradicted
tempt to take French leave with three
held a powwow with a government com­ in almost any company that has not given
warriors on guard would have been his
mission. the entire story was told anew by expL'jsiv« special attention. But. in fact,
death. Every five or six milites one of
the Indians, and many inquiries were there is no shoots.g upward or downward
them looked into the lodge, and until a
m^de as to what had become of the white ar edgeways with one explosive more thAr,
late hour of the night tbe whole populace man’s devil.—Siew York Sun. *
with an-xher. They all explode alike, and
wore on the move and helping to keep
the variety of effect is caused by the differ
watch. All thoughts of attacking the
An
Aristocratic
Term.
en-^e in their power—that is. the rapidity
party below were given up for the time
The term “blue blood” is a Spanish expres­ ■ with which they explode. Tbe explosive
being, and every one looked forward to a
sion
and
means
of
high
aristocratic
descent.
power of powder, which, of all explosives, Is
fine entertainment on the morrow. Tom
heard the fiends discussing in what ways The words "sang bleu,” from which we de­ ■ liesX understood, is about 40.600 pounds to the
they should torture him. One of the rive our term “bide blood,” are French, but ; square in-'h. and other explosives are mea&-
guards said that he had seen a white man the notion is Spanish. The old families who > ured as being a given number of times
hung up to a limb with a stick thrust trace their pedigree beyond the time of the » stronger or weaker than powder. The force
through the bones ot his legs, as the Moorish conquot say that tht ir venous blood 11 of that explosive is generally believed to be
farmer hangs up a slaughtered hog. and is blue, while that of the common pro-pie is upward. when, in fact, it is equal in all direc
_—— ----------------- ,-------------- U*«. But it burns slow enough to allow the
that he lived for half a day. One wanted black.
air to get out of the way.
to skin him alive, another believed in a
Presidential Tot« of IMO.
Dynamite, on the other hand, explodes w>
slow Are, and almost every one who came
The popular vote in 1860, when Mr. Lin­ rapidly the air cannot be displaced in time to
up had a suggestion to make. It w as con­
coln
was
for
the
first
time
a
candidate
for
the
prevent its force downward being much
cluded that he would die game, and that
presidency, was as follows: Lincoln. 1.866,- greater in proportion than thntof powder.
his equal hnd not been captured for years.
352;
Breckinridge,
845.763;
Bell.
M0JB1;
8.
It is became dynamite will break a stone be­
“Seeing there was no chance of escape
just then,” raid Old Tom. “I made up my A. Dougin«, 1.375,157. Tbe electoral vote neath it tbit the people think its greatest
mind there was bo use fretting over the was: For Lincoln, 180; Breckinridge, 72; Bell, power is in that direction. To prove that it
case, and I took things easy.
I ate hear­ 39; Douglas, 12. Thirty-three e>u*us voted, is not. suspend a large stone in the air and
tily, and about 10 o'clock at night turned the total electoral vote being 303.
rasperd the dynamite charge to the under
in and slept like a brick until after day­ I
side of it Tbe work of destruction will be
Old Citi«*.
light. I intended to take advantage of the
as complete as though the stone bad been
There are cities in Asia the date of whose underneath.
very first opening, and I knew that would
not coihe before I was led out ip the origin is not actually known, but it is known
The nr*t powerful telese*>j-*s now in use
morning. Where they set out to have a that they, are older than Rome or any other
regular holiday over a Prisoner, running city in Europe. Jerusalem and Hebron in magnify 2.000 times. As the moon is 240.-
the gauntlet to always the first thing in Palest me and Damascus in Syria are all OX) mi'.es from tbe earth, it is thus practically
brought to within 120 miles, at which distance
<><r, and U xflare the only opportunity to many centuries older than Rome.
the soow peaks of several lunar mountains
bolt”
Coats of Arms.
are distinctly visible.
It was 9 »’clock next morning before
the big chk*f and his staff arrived, and an
Heraldry seems to have had its oririn from
hour later the prisoner was brought out. the necessity of some distinguishing mark on
The warriors had arranged themselves in the armor covered participants in the tourna­
two lines, ami were armed with clubs and ments and combats. From the use of tuese
•witches. Old Tom was taken to tbe head devices on garin* uts is derived the phrase
of
lines, and a warrior who could *cuat of arms.’
TOM KEMPER’S ESCAPE
Car.ral Pr»par»u..
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Tb.r»n>.i.M mi. ■> .»y' «ndoor
can wall 1». proTbtod it to P»V«*
pr.p~.uo« «»1 training whicb am
«b. ruk in UK larger eolkgw; >* to a dangar-
oue and unfit game when men undertake to
pfey it Without eocb preparation and train
i,.g. 1« tbe ee®»nonaet year two fatal
. ideate were reported Both occurred in col­
lege which were attempting to play th* nine
e. it to played by -.be leading team, wnhout
any of tbe preparatooa which they find an
------ .i.i The writer, who baa bee« in tbe
habit of attending tbe regular gamee of tbe
college With which ba to connected, baa felt
under obligation« to lie equally comn.tent in
attending tbe daily prattle, game, of the
men, in order to watch tbe preliminary train­
ing, and ba must cniifeae to a great remiect
for the good aenae and good management of
tbe nndorgraduatee who bare the matter in
charge
Tbe
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pro-
1UC -uulrertoty team" —
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risionan y. ft j, pitted against a second or
b” ¿earn of somewhat larger numbers;
teams are kept under careful training
the playing is made short
gratia as possible at first, until th«
begin to lierome “hard;” tbe playing is
tjjeu gradually lengthened and made more
severe, as tbe men become able to endure it,
and, by the time the season contes to its last
game, tbe players are able to endure with im-
punity treatment which would be dangerous to
are
br out of condition. After
the first few weeks are over, ànd serious play-
ing has begun, men who have not yet played
are not encouraged, or, in extreme cases, even
allowed, to play on tbe “scrub” team; the
managers think it inadvisable to run any
risk*. The players are not only brought to a
point of physical condition which makes it a
pleasure to Watch them; they are taught
faow,
fa|1 when * faH ig ineTitabks in wicl)
a way o to retain < ontrol of tbe ball without
hazarding a broken bone or a dislocation,
w
lhe cIosing games come on the player
what
to tbe spectator a fright
faH n<H onJy without s bruise, but so
thafc it b regularly necce»ary for bis
opponent to “hold him down” lest be rebound
{aka
beel< again. The preliminary
practice games can hardly be more severe
elgewhere than at PrlnceU>n; and yet tbe
writer has never seen a serious accident oc-
cur lhers ♦ An accident may occur, of course,
and will give nq warning of its coming, but-
coming has been put as far as possible out
the
of probability. But if men in
other colleges wished to play football, as
shoul(1
the case, they must not ignore tbe
systematic course of preparation, take the
gnaj playing of a well trained team as a
and attempt^to imitate it. It is from
^cb fnUy that the recurring accidents in
j^ball come. With good physical condition
in the players, the requisite training, and
suitable grounds, the game is not only one of
outdoor sporta, but one of the
ga^st.—Alexander Johnston in The Century,
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Maximilian's Change of Freni.___
v¥hat was the secret of Maximilian's change
front on reaching Mexico! • To explain
oue niUst gO back a bit. At home in
A’istria he had pose»! as a Liberal, animated
p^-p^
reach if possible the imperial
of that country, tbe praadest position
among the princes of the Catholic faith. Tbe
Mexican project, carried through by the en-
ergy of Carlotta, took him bere, to tbe great
of ^is reigning kinsman, who wan glad
to get thi> amiable and scheming prince
across thè (icean. But even in Mexico (and
this I have, asz <11 of these ffets, from tbe
best possible authority) this ambition to be­
come emperor of Austria did not desert him.
He was continually thinking of it, and he
reasoned that to play tbe part of a liberally
inclined monarch in Mexico, and to issue de
crees which would auger tbe reactionary
clericals, would make his name resound
throughout Austria, and that, by and by, he
would be recalled to bis native land by a rev­
olutionary party and be made emperor.
He talked of this plan with his closer
friends; ic was his dream by day and by
night. Throned in Mexico, be sighed for
Vienna-9-stt*ai>ge and fatal fascination. He
became pold to his early Mexican friends—
conspicuously so to tbe chief mover in tbe
imperial movement in the country. His eye
was on the Liberals, meditating an alliance
with them. He angered tbe pope, be enraged
his early friends, be finally fell between two
stools, but bis death was tragic and noble, the
death of a soldier and befitting a monarch
Ou that last oct of courage his fame may well
rest That seems to be about all that is left
this unfortunate archduke, who, as a scholar,
a patron of tbe arte, an elegant prince, might
have lived a serene life unchronicled by his­
tory.—City of Mexico Cor. Boston Herald.
A Choice Montana Steak.
He was W cowboy minus the leggings and
sombrero, ¿nd hè said to a reporter: “I have
been east for two months, and in Philadelphia
a month, and have eaten at tbe best hotels,
but I have never eaten anything as fine as a
steak a la Montana.
“You see out there we have plenty of meat,
and this is the way we cook a steak in a
ranch. We first cut three large steaks, one
of them a trifle smaller than the other two.
A fire is then built in a bole dug in the ground
for the purpose, and when this fire is reduced
to a bed of coals the small steak, properly
seasoned, is placed between the two and
skewered.
-They are then placed on the fire, and an­
other fire is kindled on top of them. When
the top fire is well burnt it is covered with
earth and allowed to smolder.
“After a given time the steak is removed,
and a succulent morsel it is, absolutely per­
meated with tbe juices of tbe two enveloping
steaks and with tbe seasoning.
“Oh! you may beat us m some ways in the
effete east, but we can cook steaks against
the world.”—Philadelphia News.
Ten Tears* Experience.
New Girl—Please, mum, shall 01 cook
these dried beans?
Omaha Dame—Beans’ That’s coffee.
“That’s thequarest looking coffee Oi’ve
seen yet”
“You must grind ft tn that mill and
then I will show you what to do with it
I thought you had said you lived in thia
country for ten years.”
“Yes. mum, With Mrs. Winkum.”
“By the way, where does this Mrs.
Winkum live?”
“She kapes the Elite boardin’ house
mum."—Omaha World.
DAUGHTERS OF
Sarah Orne Jewett hascoBeJ
little fortune by the recant death
3
Mr. and Mrs. Romero expect fed
largely this winter at tbe h^J
Mexican legation in Washingto^3
Tbe tote M dm . Boucicault»-J
Paris is estimated to be worth
Kbe left <3,000,000 for the foun.J
pitaL
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Mrs Frances Hodgson Burnet J
Florence, Italy, for tbe winter,
SOOO for her story “Sara CretJ]
*ltoh magazinei*
Dorothy Whitney, t^e navel J
baby daughter, baa attained tin
months and celebrated theoocj
ting her tenth tooth.
Mme. Candelaria, of San Ant^J
living in extreme poverty at the
She is tbe sole adult survivor of
Fort Alamo ms—rrn.
Mrs. Cleveland has been doingL
of Christmas shopping of late. |
that she has spent much time in a
side saddles and fishing tackle.
’fra. Scott Siddons, years
warned that she was losing
figure,” discarded corsets and a
shapely from that day forward, a(
Sarah Bernhardt sent her phm
Mrs. Bernard-Berre, the English «
scribed with the words: “Th]
Fedora Bernhardt to Prine— ||
nard.”
Grace Matthews, daughter of
ley Matthews, will spend th«i
Princeton, N. J., keeping hot^
brother, who is preparing to en^
byterian ministry,
Margaret W. Leighton writes ta|
Cross that her favorite pet is a hi
grass snake of a milky green cok^
so tame and ante that she was aoeg
let it roam around tbe house at
opbidionhobic member of tbe f^
to object.
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PLAYS AND ACTi
Helen Bancroft intends to go ahrad
spring. She will rest for the na<|
the season.
Fanny Davenport will suspend If
for four weeks before opening theml
way theatre. New York, Feb, 27,vfi
dou’a “La Tosca.”
Dion Boucicault and Theodore
loggerheads over a canceled dated!
mer at the Star theatre, New Yorkdlj
Boucicault will reorganize his coopq
resume the road Jan. 23.
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Modjeska will go to Poland nexts
She may act there and inG—q
Russia. She will be seen for one a
Ulis city before her departure, al the I
bouse, in March, in a Shakespe—1 1
-toira.
Jennie Yeamans is a nagvs oOM
S. W., and has been on the stage o|
fancy. Four of her songs in ‘‘Chirk
were written by herself. Otbenwr||
ten for her by Edward Harripa,!
Fagan, Harry Pepper and Willi« j|
nam
M. Coquelin, the famous French Kb
it seems, as modest as he is great fa
said to him on an occasion when ben
signed to a minor rold in a play, thrtti
‘seem odd for him not to
part “But I have tbe leading
La.. A How is that» ^ft^/you not cat II
character----- F “Certainly. Thill
leading part Whatever part I teb I
ways the leading part”
STRAY BITS
A Hartford coin collector has a cat
of the United States coinage of Un
considered to be worth nearly ISOL
The Detroit Journal says that tbs
men in Michigan so mean anddespiMbi
“their souls would rattle around ia •
ear like a pea in u bass drum.”
A year ago Miss Clara Moore, «i fl
nati, went to visit friends in Lot M
Cal. She had a few hundred ddlw
her, which she invested in southern Q
nia lands, and in the boom that foDo*i
sold out her property at a net f
<125,000.
One of the cheapest and best nd
destroying insects in pot plants it tel
the pot ami dip the plants for a few ■
in water warmed to 130 degs. A &
paper, referring-to this plan, sap flj
azalea will stand 133 degs. withort i
Usually beat the water pretty
in cool until 130 degs. is reached.
One of the peculiarities of the ndj
South Africa is their aversion to tbe i
water for external purposes dfflk
weather, especially when they
ration. They avoid bathing except <
heavy rains, when they take advert
the opportunity for purpose of bw
line«®, t Their reasons for so dome •
.«■equent ablutions debilitate the sjrti
render it incapable of withstanding
climate and that very frequently ■
i . Howed by malarial fever cr c®
eruptions over the joints.
FURS FOR WINTER.
Fur trimmed costumes are in fa^®
Muffs are larger and badger to •
trimming fur.
Black lynx is a good fur to trim » h
garment with.
Silver fox is a beautiful but w<71
fur. It is always costly.
The long seal sacque, 42 or <•*
length, never goes out of fashion
Cross fox furs are very
brown bars ar crossings on the yeito"
a fine effect,