Evening Star Newspaper, January 23, 1897, Page 19

THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, JANUARY 23, 1897-24 PAGES. The two hou in northern Minnesot breath on him, but lifted the cover off my pit, jumped into it without stopping to use the ladder, and pulled the cover on again. “By this time the cyclone was making itself heard. First, there was a low, rum- bitmg sort of sound, like a railroad train makes when it is-a good way off. It arew louder and louder, till it got to be a kind pitch dark, when I heard Martin coming along the road and singing. I knew froin his style of singing that he had filled him- self up wi_h whisky, and I calculated that he would be considerably surprised when he found out what had happened. He never saw the house till he had walked bang up against. it with considerable of a ctash. Presently he says to himself, at Tucson, Christ- mas morning, I heard a young man entirely to the use of the bicycle as apart from the tricycle, owing to the unconscious strain involved in keeping the former up- Ww leavening strength and purity. It makes your cakes, biscuit, bread, a: 2 = Z eau es es — whole state. I never said any-} and when the coroner broke into the house G tine om except to remark, also in a| a few days later, he féund Martin lying on s general sort of way, that If any rascally | the floor dead. old sailor should set foot on my land he| “Yes, sir, what with eyclones, and cloud- RAG GANG PAK? would have a hole bored through him so| bursts, and prairie fires, and blizgards, and quick that he would never know what hurt | such like, northern Mimmesota is a middling y % 3 him. Neither of us felt that it wouid be lively place. However.) we folks that live | Spanish Sport Transplanted to Ameri- ; judicious to quarrel, you understand, and | here never allows ourselves to worry over z oss ¥ zo we confined ourselves to remarks that| what may happen tomorrow, and then can Soil, Wik 1 neither of us was obliged to take any no-j again, may not happen for the next twenty { 4 tice of. .| years. Besides, it wauld take a first-class 7 = mat Ni “I waited about an hour after the cap- | cyclone, ee GB eccracn apes pieitnaas an ere ALD! tain had gone, thinking that he might turn | a house tha yu solid as this hote ; BY W. L. EN. back in hopes of catching me in the act of | is, so you needn’t be afraid that you'll find DIVESTED OF ALL ITS CRUEL FEATURES - = meddling with his house. At the end of an | yourself sailing through the air, or floating ¥ ri ? . heur I felt safe enough, for it was certain | dawn the Pomponoostic<that is, so long as | (Copsright, 1Se7, by W. L. Alden.) that he must have gone on to Lucullus, and | you pays oe ee as 2 ee ae as that he couldn't get back before dark. So | to say you always has-done, an é ae . FS COLO 07 I called the men that were working on my | you always will do.”,. {It is but a Weak Imitation of the The absolutely pure ? ist ptye K house and we jacked Martin’s shanty up ee : * ue ms with the hydraulic jack, and had her on fu Cyelings Ibealthy? Real Article. rollers in next to no time. Then I hitched r the oxen to her with a double ox chain | From the London Lancet. © and started her ae Aoived mere In the} The lengthy corresppndence which has re- | a it are as te “yes, sir” remarked the landlord, as he | near his house and saw him standing on | COUrS¢ of an hour I had her planted square | cently appeared in the columns of a con-| CHRISTMAS IN ARIZONA : Sat fanning himself on the veranda of nes veranda and lashing himself to one of body could possibly get by her, and I had temporary has, as might have been ex- the Mddlevile Hotel: “ss you say. thle | Some with me lf he valued is ie, He | Fee ee eee a earn ism Gaia Ral etianine ec eees ROYA L—the most celebrated of all 2 e a = i . smoothed out where a n cut up by | opinions. Some hay ut gi ol. 2 town has sprung up like a muskrat tr only said, in a mighty cool and condescend- | the rollers, and then I sat down and | say of the cycle; others record all sorts of | Special Correspondence of The Evening Star. the bakin vd in th orld— cel- the night. Why, only five years ago there ing = I don't ees eine you for | Weited for the captain to return. canes pane cas meneuasiatiesUnaniceaites PHOENIX, Ariz., January 14, 1807. a ig powders in the w > on . jouses: 5 dd now we; 4ny advice, my man.” at made me so ve z e . y ” iu a od es Shain sale sect of any town | Mad that T didn't waste any more time or| “It w:s 10 o'clock and’ the night was | on after a ride. One rider attributes these HILE AT DINNER ebrated for its great ~ pretty small on too. Mine stood | just wh this hotel is standing, and it more than a one-story, two- shanty. Capt. Martin's house, generally stood on a knoll about a r of a mile from here, wasn’t much What Je you mean when you say that ichbor’s house generally stood on IT acked. “Wasn't it in the habit | aying in the same place?” what with cyclones and one thing apd another, and cloud- that house did do considerable traveling it was in this section. What be- of it after it left here I can’t pre- say, but T rather think it made its vurney when it went down to West ych. It was a curious sort of house, being pur together with repes instead of which was probably one reason why long as it dtd. ontinued the landlord, “I was ttler here. [ took up a quarter mn of land. and with the help of two 1a Norwegian, I put up my house 2 e farming. About six months Iatec along coraes Capt. Martin, and al- lows that he will farm the quarter section me He was a man about sixty who had heen & seafaring mam } fays, and like most seafaring men he wi rted to be a farmer, :hough he didn’t kr om a bull's foot. Firs i was a sociable sort ind he and ine used to spend tegether. But I found out that yulda’t take any advice, and when > was a blamed fool for s te eh 1s saying house rom Lucullus, w theme? en Was muc ept that it had a where the cat 4 down and look at Mariin’s there at that tim passed 0 | jest at the | ran the Pom- look much like a r. and you could | but of a men— Pom- Lueui- smart dozen right cir miserable litle hin and be t I said to 1 a cool- lone er dig ‘3 t 1 supp It's ju feet deep. When you see ui get into your cycion| or until the trouble £ only safe way. for if you house you're Hable to be | and if you stay outdoc :k you up and carry 3 But old Martin would uy ap He allowed that if i come utated to be on or. will F come it out. He said it was all to skulk down below, iy an, but th a landsr » for him one pit n arly opposite hi vad. for I calcu- har place for keep- ‘< and rakes and such uble of bringing them apt. Martin used to | pit, and called it | to be ir How- uld have a cyclone pit, imb down into it with- din't been living in hi rew six m hs whe the Kre IssT came along, nd Ty ‘ou have heard of it. It! oelock of we the morning, and | the middle le of August. breath of air stir a sort of greasy eel sort of suffoca The mules and the under a tr I was making a pre just Norwe- down in the | of w ing my onion bed houzh I ake much headway with it. I hap- turn round, a ere in the north- | little pateh of cloud, which | thinking as I did that per- in. But while I was was spreading ag wuld spread mill pond. In a one-half the sky ater. You could oud rolling o All of a ( breeze sprang up that blew toward the quarter where the cloud nd I knew then that we were going have a big storm, and that the wind was drawing toward it. The next thirg I saw was a sort of funnel that to drop from the middle of the lower end kept twisting and squirming like the tail of a snake when ‘ou've got your beot-heel on its head. I didn't wait any longer, but I just dropped my hoe and made a bolt for my eyclone pit. There's no mistaking what that fun- nel meant. There was the biggest kind of @ cyclone on its way, and it was coming straight for me: I wasn’t on speaking terms with the captain then, but as I came | was all upset, and the sides of the house | were cullus. to build me another house. You see, | | the full force of the cyclone had passed ! over just where my house had stood, while of shrieking roar, like a hundred big church organs mixed up with a dozen or two steam whistles. It was as black as night in that pit. except: when the lightning flashed, for there is always more or less lightning play- ing around the funnel of a cyclone. [ft cems as if no expense was spared in mak- ing a cyclone as various and entertaining as possible. Just when the roaring was at its loudest there came an awful crash that made the earth shake, and then the sound began to weaken, and in a few minutes it had died away. and: the place was as st!ll as a man’s house when he comes back to it from his wife's funeral. “"So far, so good!’ says I to myself. ‘Now I'l clamber out and see if there ts any- thing left of my house, and the mules, and “Here's a house anchored right in the fair- way, and with no riding Nght displayed! Thishyer’s a pretty state of things! Then he hails the house in his loudest voice, and wants to know how she is, and where she is from, and where she is: bound to, and what sort of an everlasting fool her cap- tain might call himself. Not getting any answer. he swore he would climb aboard and wake the anchor watch with a belay- ing pin. But after fumbling around for some time, and hammering on the door, and smashing a few panes of glass, a new idea struck him. ‘Thishyer's a derelict; that’s what it fs.’ said he. ‘I'll just stand by till daylight, and see if a salvage job can't be made out of it.’ That was the last that “SO YOUVE BROAK orwegian.” But when I tried to sover of the pit I could stir it only inches, and that didn’t let in anv} I couldn't understand what this | ant, but being a smoker, of cour: 1 had | y matches with me, so I struck a light | ind investigated. I found that there was a | ort of board flooring above the cover of | the pit which prevented me from lifting it, consequently L knew that the cyclune | pped something just over my head. Luckily, was a crowbar among the tools standing in the corner of the vit. nd I hunted it up and got to work as well | s I could in the dark. ‘It didn’t taken me long to burst a hole in the flooring that I spoke of, and after I had made an opening and let in the light I saw that there was_ house on top of me. [ set to work again with the crowbar, and presently I was aple to climb out, and I found myself in a small bed reom. I didn’t stop to examine it, but opened the first door I came to, and there s in Capt. Martin’s sitting room, face | with the old man. ‘The furniture | slanting one way and another, but | there was no mistaking that it was a hou: and that Capt. Martin was here, looking for having been through a been and broke into my house with a crowbar, have you?’ he asked ‘Perhaps you don’t know, my man, that you've committed burglary, and I can have you arrested for it.’ = “‘Parhaps you don’t know that you're | trespassing on my ” sai ‘I never | gave you no permission to put no shanty my land, and tf you don’t take it off mighty sudden there's a prospect that | there'll be more or less shooting.’ “You don’t know much about law,” says the captain. ‘I never put my house on your land. It was done by what the under- writers call “act of God or public enemies. and if you was a sailor, you'd know that nobody can be held responsible for such occurrences.” ust then he saw me looking out of the } window toward where my house had heen, | and he said, ‘The last I saw of your house | she was scudding before the wind, and heading about sou'east, or mebbe, a little | ast of that. She was making, as I should | judge, about thirty knots an hour. It'll take you considerable time to overhaul and you'd better give chase at once ain't anxious for to stay in your 1, ‘and I'll leave it this minute. It's my duty to warn you that if you set foot on my land there'll be trouble. As for the matter of your squatting with your house on land that don’t belong to you. [ll see a lawyer this very day, and | calculate | u'll wish you hadn't done it.” | “With that 1 made him a bow, and left | him. He came out on the veranda and sai “lf you're looking for them mui d that there Finn of yours, you'll be wasting your time. I saw a couple of mules about feet in the air, and when they do come down they won't be of any further use, nsidered as mules.” dy house and everything else belonging to me was clean gone, but | was that mad | it the captain that I didn't care a straw house,” .bout it. I walked straight to Lucul hich the cyclone hadn't touched, and 1) nted up ‘Squire Gibos and laid the ca: + him. He said that he couldn't see piain Martin could be held liable spassing, so long as he stayed in ise, and didn’t step outside on to ind. "You can’t set his house afire, or nything of that kind,’ said he, ‘without | etting into troub?. No more, can you? nove it while he is in it, for that would be an assault on him. But I don't see any- thing to hinder you from getting a team of | some rollers handy, and the first comes up to Lucullus to buy { you can move his house back | n Jand, and he can't find any fault with you.” “"Suuire Gibbs was a first-class lawyer, | and I knew Vd be a fool if I didn’t follow | his a¢ after paying $ for it. So 1} bired 4 that T could sleep in til such | me as I could run up ano! ions, and a Ss, not forge ck. When I got m L pitched th house; and | uke of Oxe ting a small back to my nt right in front of | s shanty, so that I could keep aj -h on him, and I went to wo help of a couple of men from Li geod with the outer sedge of it had struck the captain's ises. That accounts for the fact that my house had been carried cleau away, while his had only been picked up and carried a few rods. As for the mules and the Norwegian, they were scattered all Minnesota. It was said that some of Norwegian was picked up about thirty miles from here, but it wasn’t ever satis- factorily identified, ‘apt. Martin's house happened to be planted in such a way that one corner of it projected a few inches on to the high road, and he was able to get out of a win- dow and into the road without coming on to my property. However, he didn’t feel easy to leave the house alone, for fear that i might meddle with it, so he stayed at home for the best part of a week, when his provisions, or his whisky, or some other necessary run short, and he had to walk over to Lucullus to lay in a fresh stock. This was what I had been waiting for, though I never hinted it to him. He used to come out on his veranda, and remark in @ general way, without addressing himself to me or any one else, that he was mightily pleased with his new location, and wouldn't change tt for any other building INTO MY HOUSE Sa | you. } on WITH A CROWBAR, HEV YE?” I heard of Capt. Martin that night. He lay down in the road close alongside of the house and was asleep and snoring the snore of the just in less than a minute. Then [ went to bed myself, considering that there wouldn't be any more performances that night. “Phe captain woke up before I did the next day, and when I came out of the tent he was nowhere to be seen, having unlock- ed his door and gone into his house. About neon he came out on the veranda, looking prett ‘avage, and I remarked to ene of my men that nobody but a born fool would put house in the middle of the public road, for he would be certain to be fined for obstructing the road. Martin didn’t say arything, which sort of riled me, so I said to the man who was nearest to me that I wanted him to go straight up to Lucullus tell the sheriff, with my compliments, that Captain Martin’s house was standing directly across the road, so that I couldn't get by it with the oxen, and that it was the sheriff's duty to see that the road was kept clear. The man naturally did as he was told, and in the course of the day the sheriff rode down and investigated things, and ordered Martin to take his house out of the read. “I didn’t put it in the road," said the cap- tan: ‘and there ain't no possible way of taking it out of the road without putting it on the property of that there individual standing alongside of you.” “*Heaving cuss words at one of our lead- ing citizens,’ says the sheriff, ‘won't help Tl give you two days to take your house out of the way, and if at the end of that time [ find it still in the road, I'll make kindling wood of it, into the bargain. You hear me.’ “The capiain heard him well enough, and knew that he meant business. However, he | didn’t condescend to make any answer, and I could see that he was determined to let his house stand where it was. The truth is he couldn't do anything else. He couldn't ; haul it back on to my land without com- mitting a trespass, and he couldn't haul it on to his own land without first getting it across the river, which was more than he or any other man could do. My own idea is that if it hadn't been for the cloudburs: that happened the next afternoon, Captain Martin would have waited for the sheriff with a shotgun, and the sheriff, being one of the brightest minds in our section of country, would have had his revolver ready, and before the work of demolishing the house could begin there would have been or two corpses ready for the coroner. You don’t know what a cloudburst is? Well! that is astonishing. A cloudburst is what we call a sort of Noah’s flood without any ark. You see, some big cloud, that holds perhaps a million ions of water, sud- denly goes to pieces, and the water all comes down at once, the same as it does at Niagara Falls. There's the same difference etween an ordinary rain and a cloudburst hat there is between sprinkling a cab- bage with a watering-pot and dumping a whole washtub full of water over it. Thish- yer cloudburst that I'm speaking of took place thirty or forty miles above here, and the whole lot of water ran into the Pom- ponoosue river and swelled it into a raging to nt that swept everything before it. I heard it coming just before it reached me, and L went for that hill yonder as fast as 1 could run, and just managed to reach it in time. Before 1 started I hailed the captain, and told him to run while he could, but he pretended not to hear me, and remarked, as if he was speaking to the universe and all the rest of mankind, that the curse of thishyer country was the con- founded impertinence of the lower classes. He was one of those men that nobody can heip except with a ciub, he was that ever- lestingly obstinate and concelted. “Martin saw what was going to happen as well as I did, and just before the flood struck his house [ saw him trying to rig up a sort of steering-oar by lashing a plank to one of the veranda posts. Then the flood, which came down like a wall six | feet high, burst on the house, and away it whirled. The captain's steering oar wasn’t of the least use, and before he went out of | sight he dropped it, and sat down on the railing of his veranda with an arm around | the post and his pipe in his mouth, as com- fortable as you please. I watched him for the best part of a mile, and I couldn't see but what the house was doiug very weil, and that the chances were that it would bring up in some safe locality before reach- ing the Muskingum Falls, which are forty- seven miles from here. ‘Anyway,’ I says to myself, ‘here's an end of trespassing on my property, and blocking up the public road, and an end of a mighty disagreeable neighbor.’ The sheriff, when he came the next day and found that there wasn’t any work for him to do, said pretty much the same thing. “What became of Capt. Martin? Well, his house floated ashore down nigh on to seventeen miles from here, and the cap- tain never so much as got his feet wet. When the water went down it left the house on the most valuable corner lot in West Antioch, just where the people had calculated to put up a new opera house. Of course the owner of the lot made trouble for Martin, and Martin made ‘trouble for him. There was no less than arate law suits going on at the same time Letweenthem, and the prospect was that they would both die of old age before the courts would find out who was in the right. Capt. Martin made an arrangement with a grocer in the town to heave.in all his sup- piles through # window, and he loopholed the walls off his house, and made it shot- proof, and swore that he would never leave it alive. He never did, for one day he got so particularly mad that he had a stroke, and arrest you | fifteen sep-|- right. The plain truth seems to us to rest at an adjoining table upen @ very simple besis. Cycling is not ask another if he good for everybody, and if abused is good were going to the for nobody. Within the last two years people of all ages have rushed into cycling bull fight. I pricked in the most haphazard way. They have regarded neither age nor previous habits ner their physical condition. Small won- der, then, that many have found evil rather than good come from an exercise which in- evitably demands a heavy expenditure both of nerveus and muscular force. Probably just the same outcry would have arisen if the same class had suddenly taken to run- ning or rowing or mountain climbing with- out any previous preparation. It is easy to preach moderation, but it must he re- membered that moderation is a term vary- ing with the individual, and every one finds for himself how much he can do. With re- gard to the strain involved in keeping up a bicycle and keeping a look-out, it is pro: ably no more than that involved in wall ing down the strand without “‘cannoning’ against others, but many of us have done the one from chilahood, while the other is but a newly acquired accomplishment. There is no need to make a bicycle a wheel of Ixion, especially with a “safety, for it is easy to get off and equally easy to remount; therefore the cry, “You must go on or you will fall,” seems to us to ignore the fact that we are reasoning animals. zs SS His Experience With Chafing. Dishes, From the Chicago Record. “I had heard of chating dishes for ye: said Smiley Williams, “but the one I saw the other night for the first time floored me completely. | “I never thought much about the blamed things, but somehow I supposed a chafing dish was some sort of concern that grated things—something that rubbed together and mashed things. “The other night, though, Bolton and I | went into a Madison street restaurant for | dinner. You know [ always had a sneak- ing iiking for hash of any kind, and so does Bolton. Bolton ordered turkey h two, and the waiter brought it on in sort of silver dish n ly as basket. It had a tight cover opened it it steamed? like power boiler blowing off. up my ears and made some inquiries, for a bull fight is some- thing 1 have long wanted to see. I wit- nessed at the Atlan- ta exposition = a wretched apology for one, the managers actually having the impudence to intro- duce a cow, and quite a tame one at that, instead of the foaming and bellowing mon- ster which our imagination and the bill- board outside had pictured; but here ia Arizona, so near oid Mexico, and among People not accustomed to being imposed upon by a “fake show,” I had strong hopes of seeing something more like the genuine article. The affair did not seem to-have been much advertised, and I had some difficulty in | | finding out just where it was to take place, | but learned eventually that it was to be at | the old race course, about a mile from town. I looked about for a conveyance, but all the stages had gone, and I was com- pelled to “hold up” a passing dray driven by two Mexicans, and ask for transporia- tion to the seene of the excitement. ‘The younger of the two proprietors grinned genially and said: “We take you for twen- cents both,” which proposition I ac pted forthwith. I had twenty cen worth of jolting and several dollars’ worth | of dust, besides the ride, so the bargain | Was a good one. When I was set down at | the gate whieh led into the grounds a most picturesque group of horsemen was wait- ing for admission. Som seme Mexicans, but all tempt at gala attire. hat with silver brero_ with | | | | i were Americans, | d made some at- | The mbroide cord nket pointed straw the wide som- and tassels, the | the red silk sash, loons with elxborate i and bebuttoned sers, the great jingling silver spu long stirrup leathers and highly bede a forty-horse- “I loaded up Bolton's plate, and in the | S#ldle and bridle, were all there, and with | first pass at it-he toek the ‘skin off his | the dark faces of tne owners went to make | tonene sit wasiso hot up a fine color picture, which was height- “Just like these infernal plac Bolton | “Ned by the occasional impatient move- growled: ‘anything vou've got (o is | Ments of the horses. | bh ing hot, while coffee is alwa > I paid a dollar for a “reserved sea nd found E my way to the “grand stand.” It | ‘After awhile Rolion took some more | COPttined rough board benches, on which | Hash Wandlan demecantel $anig ake ae cin: j the seats were marked off and numbered | “ “Holy Moses!’ he said, ‘what's got into | With chalk. Below us was the arena, an | that hash? “I told him nobody was expected to know | anything about restaurant hash, especially | bY the grand stand and blea the fellow who was cating it, but he wasn’t | CT. 0m the other by an exceptionally satisfied. and close fence of heavy scantling. Well, we kept on eating hash until we| Urvals about the inclosure were built | aimost circular inclosure about in diameter. h- tout At in- | had enough, and do you know that hash | “Shelters” of stout boards for the fighters | left in the dish was hotter than it was at } Of the bull to take refuge behind when too the start? closely pressed. They were just far enough “Well,” said Bolton, “L wouldn't have be- | from the wall to admit the body of a man, Heved my e: but with most of the skin | but not far enough to let in a bull, or even off my tongue I've got to give it up. ‘Then | his horns. The bull pens were under the he called the waiter. ‘Say,’ he said, in @ low tone, “ll give you a quarter if you'll tell me what in blazes is the matter with that hash.” “Beg pahdon, sub,” bleachers. Music by the Band. Before the show began the orchestra dis- coursed sweet strains. There were four | pieces, and the audience was evidently de- h so. adl-fir “hats haw Pint termined to make the players earn their dish is a silver fruit stand with a fi money, for if they stopped playing for under it.” nd ¢ minutes there was sure to be a howl “Musika,” with a prolonged accent on | the last syllable. This always brought re- | newed efforts from the musicians, and con- | tentment to most of the listeners. A Business Dinlogue. From the New York T~ibune. Between a merchant and his advertising manager: Finally a gate on the further side of the Merchant—“We are beginning a new | Mclesure opened and three _ toreadors year; a proper time for changes and im- marched in and made low bows to the provements. How many city papers did | Benches. One was in blue, one in green you advertise in last year?” — and one in red. Each wore a flat cap, a ‘Advertising Manager “Seventeen, 1 | SHOTt, embroidered and bespangied jacket, thine cin o a sash, tight fitting knee breeches, aiso em- | Mérohent—“Didi-you stu broidered, and silk stockings. Each also | the character | : o of each publication with reference to our | tick had Ones Deen ge th a lining requirements?” > zeman sl can't sav that 1 | BOPS*S: NO Swords, and no cruel bandeller- aig yeriisins Manager—“I can’t say that Ij ros to’ plant in the neck of the bull, all Merchant—“Would you distribute an ex- | [hese being ruled out by the United States aa uene : law against cruelty at such exhibitions. pensive, catalogue In the slums of the-| “Apter the grand entry of the toresdars; oe ne who were received rather coolly by t ace sing Manager — “Certainly not, jerowd, a aie unlatehed As pet oe - oy, . {door of the pen, and squeezed himself onerchant—""Well, see that during 1897 }\ery flat behind it. Out came a rather you apply the same rule in the selection of | small, mottled bull, and gazed about him newspapers in which my announcements | {gr an Mmatant, and thon, without firtie ere: OPaMvear: hesitation, made a dash for the nearest = ia aomere man, who evaded him without trouble and Almont Perfect. begen to tantalize him by ho!ding the Frem the Brooklyn Life, cloak befcre him. But the small details | She—"Wasn't she natural in the sleeping | free (nun PERE, have been described | so E often that I will not go into them. Suffi- scene? cient to say that the men continued to Her Husband—‘“Very. She couldn't have | irritate the bull and the bull to chase the been more natural unless she snored.” men for some twenty minutes, when the cee In a Flat House. From the New York Herald. H Landlord—“What do you think is in the | steam pipes to clog ‘em up?” Tenant—“Ice, I think.” — i gate of the pen was again opened and the animal went suilenly out. He had not given as much entertainment as was de- ‘i, and the crowd clamored for his suc- Fun for the Crowd. In a moment he came, a great dun- etc., healthful, it assures you against alum and all forms of adulteration that go with the cheap brands. oe areas BSECTSOCBOGD colored fi and with one glance, he charged but ‘ellow, heavy. AN ECCENTRIC PRINCE, a quick and light of foot, savage eye. After He Was 2 Monomantac on the Subject expectedly on the blue toreador that the — a eer fellow had to drop hat and cloak and | From the London Strndard. seek refuge on the fence, which he climb- | The Sicilian Prince of Valguanera at the ed like a under him. The spe: | sies, they jeered the man and applauded | situation attendanc rush for a cavale cat, with the bull's horns right tors were in ecsta- | niac of a rare pription j so fiercely and un- | | | He suce: | | | Of such horrors ther in | were 600 in the beginning of this century was a monoma- jed to the beast, and howled for more excitement, | 0M of the largest fortunes in Europe; his The bull’ was disposed to gratify them, | habits were studious and economical; he and in thirty seconds had “treed” the other | had no children; but in spite of these ad- two Ss behind shelters, and for vantages for saving money he contrived to moment held u: of the | oa, 2 Ting. Bet Mis ooponenee Dossession of the | euin himeelf. ‘The prince had a fancy fc and. they were soon playing with him | 8Totesque statues. with which he adorned again, occasionally having narrow | the stately mansion of his forefathers. — but neces on the whole, | Many descriptions of the place are extant Mind Oras aan pout seek, | fF it was renowned through Hurope in its DE a means of escape. The next instant | 943. ‘ he thrust his head between the lower | PBrydone visited it and he has left us a seantling of the fence and the ground, and | Pleasant pictur “y aching by a nobl pushed with all his strength. j avenue one found th > encire The scantling gave way in the middie, | 42 “army” of monsters. “The abs much to the surprise and horror of a num- | of wretched imagination which create ber of men and boys who were perched on | them is not less nishing than its won the rails above, and who fell off and scat-| Gerful fertility,” says Brydone on tered with a quickness and unapimity | Were a compound o: or six animals | which evoked much laughter from the | Which ann Ponca eae peieee. in more fortunately situated. T bull now | one it os ee had his neck beneath the next stringer, | "pon the » goose, with the body of and unmindful of one of the toreadors, who ; @ lizard. the eye of a goat and the t a was pulling with all his strength on his| fox. Upon the back of this object stood nos wary ety ees anot with five or six heads and a grove he snapped it like a straw. A j of horns. re is no kind horn in the BHAUHE fwerl thionel® nlite: | world that he (he prince hi ot colle: i) ie) Geta) with as discordant and his pleasur e them all flourt was the confusion and excite: ; but the | img on the same was “nuts” for the cowboy: ; with one accord they made aj "ue and the courty » when Brydon heir broncos. and in half a miny saw the collection. The prince maintaine de of some dozen riders crowded | a regiment of sculptors, who were reward rches and pyramids of through the narrow gate opening on the | ed proportionately their suc race course, and with yells of delight si | Signing new and unparaile ed on a run after the fugitive. There was | The effect upon a rstitious peasantry a great sputtering of he jingling of | May be imagined. So serious was th spurs and swinging of lassos, a glimpse of | tation the government of Sicily th the bull rolling headlong in a cloud of dust, | ed to demolish the wondrous array se a shout of triumph and a gene eral times, but a Prin of Valguanera was down. When the dust settled, a procession | not to be offended in those days without | was to be seen approaching—el toro was | the grave in the lead, hopelessly lassoed by horns | Matrons of Palermo would not take the! and feet, and apparently much broken in} drives in that direction, fearing dire rm spirit, while his captors followed behind. | sults. The inside of the house was He was returned to the pen, the fence | cent in another fashion. Here the mad hastily repaired, and a third bull let into} man diverted himse!f with columns . sand sau iisrom this time on, though five bulls in | teapots and the like, cemented toy : all were used, there was only one special | One column, for instance, started from a incident, One of the toreadors hnprudently | great poreelain vase of shape familiar in or daringly turned his back on the ring to 1 rooms, but not elsewhere: the shaft receive and drink a cup of water. The | Was teapots, with the spouts protruding, | bull caught sight of him and charged so furiously the benches was almost too lat mal’s hor: embroidered jacket thand to collar; the wearer was lifted wais from his arena, bu bied to one side, unhurt, rades diverted the bull's selves. Soon after the exhibition came to an end, | and I took my way homeward through a From the ¢ the shout of warning f the man’ from that openings of windows were this manner, the chimney pie up to the ceiling and the in loaded cent rooms of the palace were divided by onstruction. at ‘n passed up the back of and ripped it fantastic arches of the me e in Sicily ces thus trea feet and swung out into the | tt when the cloth parted he scram. while his com- ention to them- China Ga j s rare and f i and most of the 7 | great value. | chamber ful by there, in of supreme horror. ond conception, had their — Perhaps you would prefer Moving Upward. eda al ight of flannels te eland Leader. graduated In size up to a capital of flower magnifi- that i ha The prince's bed room was a Reptiles, aw- home ‘mixed with pleasing busts and 1 an allusion them sea of dust. On analyzing my feelings [| Statues which, if turned, showed a 5 concluded that what [I had seen nad not | ton or a hideous representation of decrepi- had a brutalizing effect on me, and that | tude. We have ni my sensibilities were not appresiebly | to these things in a modern work of travel. blunted. In fact, any possible injury -o | Perhaps the government my finer nature, I think, fully com- | at the prince's death, pensated by the gain to my fund of sym- | Mania. pathy for the dumb actors in the drama; | so = they, to my mind, played by far the wor- | Fortifying Himself. thier part. T. W. BIRNEY. | F renee: | | | if fire with Mrs. Flinder—“John, you must put an ad- virl whose father is expe vertisement in the paper for another girl | 2¢® ae tomorrow morning. Mary is in paradise | Wina> pau . Senn nes | From Fan. . Hs; PAnlery what) Didvehe siert tie) a. rump’ te hed, aad wow been 1 Mrs. Flinders—* work in a ¢ From the ¢ “That y: the paper an imitator.” “Do you know, I've often suspected that? If anybod: yawns, too. think I would. You se coal oil?” No; she’s got a chance to shop. +e Had Observed 1. ays Keeps me awake. Johr Mr. Grump (growlingly)— Why gon't you stop talking ——— ‘ocker I'm courting ‘imenting with —“When there is much wind at night it al- it does me. chicago Tribune. The Explanation. ‘oung Boryg, who writes verses for m the Cleveland Leader. 8, is rather clever, but he’s merely “Why is it that these managers of operas the cho: ly yawns in his presence he always, HELD UP. don’t always get young and pretty girls for ma donnas won't allow 4