Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 27, 1891, Page 15

TRACK TALES AND TRUTHS. ms Drawn the Na- jonal Raport. Instruotive Los fom FETY APPLIANCES, and Palestine it Agents Taitroadi = Marvelous Tales o Tic' ~Collaring HI1 T Ot ¢ in Siberia Pass Talos, [nterstate Com- The last report of th mevee commission pr s many ine published in ¢ ) ructive figuroes, The number of Inthe United States on 7, 74 of which corpovations poive 830 por cent of the total amount puid by the people for railway ser The fuct is interesting that 79 men are employed in ronning the rail- vonds of the country, which ca your 492,430,8 617 tons of freight. The most_suggestive figures, are those which relate to passenger tar- iffs as related to the costof carryi The railway corporations received mile for er carried last 2,167 of cnrrying per assenger was 1.917 conts. Putin an- other form the por pussenger from a train run one mile was $1.08. 011 and the cost of running was 80,954 cents As promoters of gravevards the rail- roads are a melancholy siceess, During the yoar ending June #0, 1890, 369 brake- men were killed and 7,841 maimed while engaged in coupling The total number of railrond employes killed d ing the year was 2,451, und the number injured 22,600, “T'his is a « corporations June 30, 1800, passengors and 636.441,- ¢h passen cnts. The cost revenur cars ol and largely a need- gs sucrifice,” suys President Hurrison his last annual “The svernment is £pending noarly $1,000,000 annually to the lives of ship- wrecked seamen, lvery stean vessel is vigidly inspected and required 10 adopt the most approved safety applianc All this is good, but how shall we e. cuse the lack of interest and effort in bohalf of this army of brave young men who in our land commerce is being sucrificed every year by the continued use of antiquated and daungerous ap- plinnces. A luw requiring of overy rail- foad engaged in interstate commerce the equipment each year of a cent of its freight ears with automatic couplers and air brakes would very soon and very greatly reduce the present fourful death rate among railvond om- ployes.” Fhis i the third urgent appeal of the president to congress for legislation to diminish this shocking slaughter of human lives, and it is to be hoped his appeul will be hecded by the present congress, in messngo, * ¥4 I SIBERIAN RAILROAD. A report has just been submitted by Colonel Nicolai Voloshinoff of the Rus- sian army, discussing in dotail tho pos- sible routes for tho projocted trans- Siberian railway, and giving extremely saluable data respecting the navi bility of the various Siberian rive Three are singled out as most feasivla, The first is an all-rail route, 4,994 miles long, from Slatust to Viadivostok, esti- mated to cost 341,000,000 roubles,equiva- lent to about $170,000,000. A second route is from Tomsk to Stretensk, utiliz- Ing sixty miles of navigable water neross lako Baikal, thus ing nearly 200 miles of Irond. From Stretensk the line would continue to Vladivostok, making a total of 1,072 miles of track, costing 122,000,000 roubles or $61,000,000, The third line would coincide with the second, except that it involves the con- struction of the road around the south- ern ond of lake Baikal, and in addition an extension down the Awur to Jernayeva, 480 miles,and from the Amur 10 Viadivostok, making 2,500 miies, esti- itted at 218000,000 voubles, or $10,- U000, The two latter routes would be on on an avernge during six months of e year, while the first, being independ- o Gf navigation, would be availuble at all seasons. The estimatad time for pas- gongers by this line from Viadivostok to Moscow is fifteen aays. Tho importance of an ewrly consteuction of this read, in spite of its enormous cost, is urged with great emphasis in Colonel Voloshinof's report, says Goldsmith’s Geographical Magazine . The losses which would sustuin in the event of war with- out such a communication with the Pa- cific would unquestionably so far exceed this first cost as to renderit insignificant in comparison. It is fortunate that tho military needs of the empiro will in this caso coineide with those of commerce,and the trans-Siberian road will do infinitely more than the Suez canal toward devel- oping Asia as a whole, and bring Asiatic commercial life into touch with that of Suropean centers in the west. VILLARD AND TIE TICKET AGENTS, Henry Villard, the railway magnato, whilo in Seattle visited most of the rail- road offices in the city, says the Time: e walked up to the connter of a down town Northern Pacific ticket office and suid to Ticket Agent Johnson, who hud not the slightest idea that he stood in the presence of the highest ofticer of his road. *(iive me a ticket to Boston over dinn Pacifie,” fanadinn Pacific’s blocked,™ Iy responded Johnson, 't believe it,” said Villard, “act,” aftiemed Johuson, “How?" inquired Villard, “Mountain fell on track, cutting nel half amile lon S investigate, id the fiancier, ns he asked Mr, Jacob Furth to await his roturn, and started over to the Canadian Pacitic oftice, Agent MeGinni boolk, but did not v “Want to ) Boston over tho wihern Pacitie,” said Villaed briefly, “Can’t do it,” said MeGinnis, S\Why?! “Four feet of sand on the road at fusco. Lake Pend d'Orvelle overflowed and Indinns on the warpath in Dakota.” “Anything else?” “Yei, Gung Of train robbers near Helena. Prohibition in f in Dakota nnd a steike on the Eastern division,” “Jowbilikens,” exelaimed Villard, “Think I'll go and try the Union Pucitio then. That's all right, ain’t it?"” “Yes, that's all right,” sarcastically observed MeGinnis, who stopped tele- I,! oning to Johnson for assistance, 'hat’s all vight, T said,” continued Me- Ginnis again, with a sort of lost-hope move of the hand, as his supposed cus- tomer was about to lea “What do you mean? lard, “Oh, nothing. Go on and take the Union Pacifie. You'll see time enough 1f you live through it.” )h, good morning. Mr. Johnson,’ said MoGinnis, greeting his ally as if he had not seen him for a month.” *Have You any tidings of your father yet Would you mind telling this gentleman what you know about hin Johnson, after struggling with his th tho laconi- tun- looked up from his ygnize Villard N " inquired Vil THE feelings and wiping away sove imaginary tears, spoke up sorrowfully: It paing mae to speak of 1t, but m father started west six months ago over the Union Pacific. o died on the way corpse before Christmas.” “Well done boys,” said Vilas after a hearty luugh und haading each agent his cacd “When the Canadian rvicos fails to and Paeifi appr your se come ove McGinnis, 1, laying an’s shoulde ome day you will his hands in a fath- oply manner, * tuke my place,” A PALESTINE Public interest in has recently been roused by the fact that two American engines have been manufactured and dispatehed to Pales tine to bo employed on a railroad now in process of construction between Jonpa and Jorusalem. It not generally known, however, that for many years an extensive system of railvonds "has been planned throughout Asin Minor, and that, indeed, an overiand route to India by way of the Orontes and Euphratd vislloys has not only been in contemy tion, but that surveys have actually been made for the puipose of locating the road. During tne lust few years tl scheme has gradually been taking mor dofinite shupe, until now it muy I decmed a possibility of the not distant future. When the project was first in 1557, Alexandrin was sclected as starting point on the Mediteranean. more thorough examination and surve of tho interior of this part of Asia proved, however, that this was an im- practicable starting point, for the v mountain ranges north of Aleppo enme down abruptly to the seu, aud as they were practically impassable to railvond enterprise, they placed a barrier to pro- gress in that direction. So the onco old and famous city of Andoch was lected as the starting point. Thence up the valley of the Orontes it is designed for the railrond to pass by easy grades 10 Aleppo, and thence across the divide which at no point is more than 300 to 400 feet in height to the Luphrates at Kaalat Jaber, a distan from Antioch of about 150 miles. F'rom this point an Arab village at present of not great im- portance, the Kuphrates is navigable to the . and to Basso ships of consid ble burden may ascend. The distance from Kaalat Juber to Bassora is said to be 750 miles, and a line of steamers, small and of licht dravght, may traverse the stream at any scason of the year without expericucing seri- ousdelay. It is not at present coutem- plated to extend the railrond down the valley of tire Buphrates, since the river itself furnishes a ural means of trans- portation at once speedy and certain,and with a better knowledge of the currents, sands and rocks, it is expected that this distance will be made in less than four days. As the demands for transport tion increase, it is hoped that the rail- roud will be extended down the river to the Persian gulf, From Bassora to Kurrachee, the ex- treme wastern point of India wheve the railroad system of that country begin is a distance of about 1,000 miles, which can oo traversed in four days by fast steamer, and thus by the railroads of India any point in the peninsula may be. veached. This, in brief, is at present the projected route, but of course it is not impossible that it may be changed by circumstances, or oven oxtended to cover districts of country not now contemp! in the original plan. Railroud lines now extend from Calais to Constantinople. From Con- stantinoplo to Bassora or Bagdad is a distance of about 1,200 miles: from Bag dad to Kurrachee, through Persia and Beloochistan, is about 1,200 miles. The country is not especinlly difticult for ailrond construetion, and it is quite pos- ble, therefo that men now living may be able to travel from London to Caleatta, adistance of nearly 5,000 miles, with no more water travel " than across the Straits of Dover and the Bosphorns. * *n T UHE RATLROAD. oriental railronds broached the A PASS. HI A good story is told af tha president of a cortuln railroad in Illinois, and how he obtained a pass over the Great North- orn railway from President Hill. The wn'in question walked brusquely Tnto My, Hill's private office, not long since, and said he would like to see President Hi Mr. Hitl informed the ler that was talking with the personnge wus seeking, whereupon thoe strang sked in blunt tones for an annual y 1 huve sent you a pass, and I think I ought to have one,” he said M Hill questioned the fellow rail- road president about his road, aud found that it wasonly thirteen miles long. The man who controls one of the largest systems in the country hardly thought that a pass was due the president of a thirteen mile road. ““Your road,” he replied, “seems to be her short. idwe have so many ulls for pusses from otficials of small rvoads that I really don’t see how we can grant thom. *Well,” exclaimed the visitor, ‘‘my road miuy not be quite as long as yours, Mr. Hiil, but, by gosh, it is just as wide.” The argument was unanswerable, and the man who is vresident of a road as wide as the Great Novthern got the pass he wanted. gentler he he IN A QUICKSAND, Says a locomotive enginec to the New York Tribune an interesting experience witha quick- sand. My en an off - low bridge near River Bend: about 100 miles east of Denver, and fell into a small creck filled with quicksands. A wrecking train ame up in a few hours, but the engine had entively disuppeared. The raiivond ofticials ordored it raised, but it could not be found. We sounded with rods to a depth over sixty feet, but not a trace did we discover of the engine, which had vanished as completely as if it had never existed. “our years after it was found at a depth of over 100 feot and was raised, We then sscertained there was scarcoly o bit of rust on it, the breaks were fow and ufter a little tinkering it was put on the voad again. The sand had kept out the air and provented theiron from oxi- dizing.” according “I onco had ¥ RUNAWAY, Locomotive runaways are not uncom- mon. 'Two engines once collided on a track of the Boston & Maine railroad in Towksbury, The shock opened tho throttle valve of one of them. The en- gincer had alvendy jumped down and off went the locomotive like a shot, headed for Lowell. Reaching the end of the track atthe Lowell station it overturned the bunker as though it were amere wisp of straw, went plowing through the station for a distance of seventy-five foot and entered the express office, - Crashing through the partition that separated this oftico from the sta- tion quarters, it wrecked one end of the baggage room in passing, At last it od its head ugainst the brick wull which adjoined the public sidewalk, and had torn out quite a section before the floor gave way. Down plunged the engine into the basement, emitting clouds of steam and smoko,but now com- paratively harmluss. Dr. Birney cures catarrh. Bee bldg. OMAHA DAILY BEE: DRIVEY T0° MARKIAGE, n ston Glane, declared that Hugh Cole- to be the happiest man in Everybody wood Greenville. Ho was young, handsome, and well educated; then, just as he was prepar- ing to fight his way to fame with pov- wrayed him, ho had sud- denly been made the solo heir tothe fine o'd estate of his eccontric aunt, Miss y Colewood, recently decensed. What more was necessary.to the hap- agay voung fotlow like Hugh Nothing, it seemed tg the ort against Woot anchelors, However, there were conditions, or one, at least, in his aunt’s will which eaused him little uneusiness. He must love and marry the girl of her choice, one whown he had seen. Hugh Colewood caught up his aunt’s last letter to him and read it again and again, hopiug to find some little loop- hole of escape from the galling condi- tion, But it was there in merciless black and white, This is the part that wor- ried him: “If you cannot comply with my wishes for you to meot Ethel Wayrne and love and marry her, you forfeit your heirship in my estites. Ethel’s mother was my doarest friend, and if you marry her daugh t will be fulfilling my fondest desires, You eannot help loving her. S could not rest in my tomb peace- fully and know that Ethel was not mis- tress of my estates, and you, dear boy, the master, My lawyer, Mr, Cranston. will areange for you to meet Iithel, as he is one of her g dians, You know how thoroughly [ despi old Dbachelors therefore | give you warning that I will not allow you to inhabit my houses and lands as one of that disagrecable crusty order.” So had written the cccentric spinster. Hugh nibbled the ends of his mustache impatiently as he pondered on the con- ditions which the will imposed. Hugh loved the Coiewood estates, and could not bear to think of giviag them up. Now, if » will had not specified whom he must marry, but left the selec- tion of a wife entirely to himself, Hugh belioved that he would have enjoyed the romance of looking for a bride. He picked up his hat ana rushed from his room, going up to the hotel where Me. Cranston was stopping while he ranged some business matters with Hugh. “Hello, Colewood! Have a sent’ said the lawyer, scrutinizing the flushed faco and vous manner of his visitor. He was just wondering to himself if the un- xpocted good fortune Lad turned young Colewood’s head, when his visitor re- marked: ou are aware of t featuro in my late Cranston?” Light at once dawned upon the lawyer and there atwinkle in his eyes. However he asked, indifTerantly “To what peculiar feature do fer, Mr. Colewood?” “The one that absurdly commands me to marry a girl that I havenc ! **Oh, that?" returned M “You are a luc fellow, That’s the best pact of the fortune,” *It’'s the most exasperating part,” Hugh eried, de: no never even one peculiar aunt's will, Mr. you re- “Well, its a deal of time and bother saved to the wooer,” remarked the lnwyer, puffing: *“I've no dount Ethel Wayne will suit you better thun any se- lection you are capable of maling. " Hugh' Colewood flushed warmly at the lawyer’s cool observation and he spoke hotly. “I'm sure she won’t suit me, sir. The estates can go to chavity for all T care. Idon’t love any woman, and I love my freedom yet a while. I don’t want to be thrust upon any woman for the sake of a fortune, and I don’t suppose Miss Wayne cares two straws about tho absurd con- dition in my aunt’s will.” *It is very likely, although Iithel had the greafost respect for the late Miss Colewood und was very careful to humor all her vagaries,” returned ‘ranston, much amused at young Cole- 1’s excitement. ‘‘Howev I feel sle to state whether the girl would accept Miss Colewood’s 3 great ary, in the shape of her impulsive phew or not.” “Ishall not give her the opportun- ity,” said Hugh, nettied at the lawyer’s word *Hold on, Colewood, let’s drop non- zense and come to business, You liko your aunt’s estates, but vou cannot re- tain them without complying with her wishes. You have never met the girl hom your aunt has chosen. Perhaps it will bo proven thut neither of you are opposed to fulfilling the condition “At loast you must meet. 1 will ar- range that. Ethel will pass the summer with my sister ia the country, and I'tl manage it fob you to spend a fow weeks with them. You can very soon tell whether the condition is whol obnox- ious or not. What do you say “1 will do as you advise, thank you, sir,” replied Hugh, who had now cooled off, and was trying to take a business- like view of the strange situation, Four weeks later Hugh Colewood was speeding away from Greenville on the morning express, bound for a little town among the blue hills of Virgini When he stepped from the was disappointed to find no one waiting to convey him to tie country home of Mr. Cranston’s sister, a distance of eight miles, He was in the act of asking the way to the best hotel when a buggy came rap- idly up .o the station and halted. The station agent hurried forward to meet the driver, who was a slender young girl with bright dark eyes and huir us golden ns the June sunbeams touching thoso hills, *1s Mr. Colewood of Greenville w ing here to ride out to Mr, Thurston’s? inquired the fair driver, in o sw voice which won Hugh's iuterest at once, *Iam here and waiting, thank vou,” returned Hugh for himself, smiling pleasantly, ns he came forward on the station platform. “1 came to drive you to Murs, she answered simply, shall I take the reins?’’ he asked, as started away, o, thank you, I like to drive,” answored, 1t was too bad for you to take so long a drive for a stranger,” he remarked, as he stole aside glunce of admiration at he girlish form in dainty blue, Oh, T didn’t mind the distunce at besides, I rather had to come,” she replied; I did wish to go with the young folks, who ave having u picnic this morning over on Laurel hill, but Uncle Jerry was sick, and, of course, he couldn’t come for you. “Then Mrs. Thurston and Miss Wayne never dvi they mnde a virtue of necessity and sent the last re sort on the place,” and she iaughed merrily, “Iuis too bad my coming provented you joining the picknickers,” he sald [ ghall not be able to forgive myself.” ““That's nothing, I am enjoying m self now too well to think of Luurel | hill,” she returned,brightly. “Thank you, and at the same time let me assure you that I, too, am enjoying train he Thurs- ton's she all, | vo, S0 | find it plensant,’ | wysell oxcellontly well,” and Hugh to the yorng pped beneath thw warm light of ¢ miration in his blue ones. T hope you willidijoy your visit, Me Colewood, to change the sub joct, I know Mrsy *fhurston and Iith: will do all they can’to make your stay plensant.” “Thank you she snid I'vo no doubt I sha'l returned Hugh, **You, too, are one of Mrs. Thurston’s summer household, I suppoge? “Yes,” with a smilo. “You seo I am a distant elativg to Mrs. Thurston; then Miss Wayne is my cousin, and ex ercises a kind of coysinly guardianshi over me, which, nodoubt, is very neces- sary. "’ 50 you are Miss Wayno's cousin? 1 do not remember hearing Mr, Cranston mention you. Tdid not expect to have the pleasure of meeting any ladies but Mprs. Thurston and Miss Wayne,"” & How unkind in Mr. Cranston not to prepars you for this meeti nd thero was a roguish gloam in hor eyes which Hugh did not see. *I had, up to date, regarded Mr. Cranston as one of my very best friends, but to ignore me 8o utterly whon he knew I would accom- pany Cousin Iithel hore, looks downright intentional neglect.” “You huve not given me the pleasure of knowing your name,” said Hugh, hoth amused and pleased with his protty driver. “Oh, I'm a Wuyne, swered, laughingly Wayne variously ni will observe later on. Two Ethel Waynes! Hers was a res surprise for Colewood. Why had Crans. ton not mentioned that strange fact to him? If the Ethel Wayne referred to in the will was only half as animated and gen- erally captivating asthe one by his side, Hugh thought it might be an'easy mat- ter af Il to obey that condition which had so vexed him, . Colewood received a cordial welcome at Mrs, Thurston’s pleasant home. He found Miss Waynoe to be a tall, dignified girl of about with coal black hair and deep gray oyes. She was us unlike her little merey-hearted cousin as it was pos- sible to be. Yes, Hugh decided sho was just sach a woman as his eccentric aunt would be likely to select as the wife of her heir. In the weeks which followed Hugh's avvival he saw a great deal of Miss Wayne, although much of her time was divided between her taste for literature id in vemonstrating against the inno- cent pranks of her cousin. 1t did not require a long time for tho young man to realizo that he could never love Miss Wayne as the man should love vl whom he intends to marry. He made another importantdiscovery, that his life would be a failure without the little cousin to furnish daily sun- shine and wifely chepr for his ownhome. He resolved to let Miss Wayne have one-half of his aunt’s estates and the phan asylum the other. He would marry the girl of -his own choic vided he could win her, and boldly his own wey through life Having so decided, Hug' stroll along the river, manly for his resoly He' came suddenly upon a little figure in white, reading fna little viney nool by the river’s side. “Wat, Estelle,” He called, forshe had started to run awagf *T shail leave to- morrow, and [ hayegomething to say to you which you musghear. The tell-taie flusle which swept over face and-neck at hisiwords nmught have given some hint of n easy surrender. Howsver, in a momgabshe had regained that customary plguaney which had more than onee exasperated Hugh. “I'd be sorry to have you leave us with any burden on your mind,” she said, provokingly. “Itis needless for me to tell you why it was arranged for me to meet Miss Wayne heve,” bo said, unheoding hor light words,” *You know, I suppose?” “Some slight idea, I believe,” sho re- turned, fingering her boo *Well, T may us well tell you that that condition in my late aunt’s will cannever be fulfilled.” *And why not?"” “Because I love another,” he cried, passionate “Oh, Estelle! can you not see how tendcrly, how ardently I lave you? Without you I shall make a failure of life. Won't you show merey, Istelle?”” “Oh, Hugh! would you marry a poor girl when ve a'chance to®win a dignified br wnd retain those princely estates?” sho asked. “Yos, durling, [ prefer you with love o cottage to the wenaithiest woman with all the estates in the worl “Rash statement, young man “It is true. Do not torture me longer. Estelle. Can you not love me a little? *No.” “Then you do not love me “Dmoafraid [ do.” Do tot mock me, Estelle.” “I am not mocking you, Hugh,” in a very sweet voice. *Then you do love me a little?” “*No, not a little, but very much.” He would have caught her to his breast, but she eluded his arms, erying: “0, there’s Uncle Cranston!” and she rushed forward to greet the little law- ver, who had approached them unseen, STt is useless for me to ignore facts,” said Mr. Cranston, pleasantly T did not mean to overhear your conversation, but [ arrived unexpectedly, and thought I’d hunt up my sprite hero und surpriso her. I see you understand each othe preity clearly.” “Yos, sir,” enid 1. bravely, *1 have decided toen o in a cottag with this dear girvl, vioier than keep the estate with Miss Wayne,” “Love in a cottage! O, good!” And Mr, Cranston broke into a hearty laugh, in which the givl finally joined him. SWill you have’the goodness to ex plain what amuses You so mach in my statement?” asked " Tlugh, not a little nettled 3 “Pardon me, Colewood. But really you are the vietim of .your own blunde “Blunde I dou’t understand you, sir,” returned Hughy “Of course not,:pund the lawyer laughed again, *Thissprite, whom you took to be the unimportant little cousin, is in reality the Ethel Wayne referred to in your aunt’s wifl" I did not tell you that there were two,futhels, so while sho was driving you overs heve, you jumped to the conclusion thut Miss Wayne at the house was the Mihel. b *You see, I have been told all about ur amusing .x.i.-tlggl:.-. Iithel would explain her real! identity with the I whom your aunt had selected for you, and, as the other ladies believed you knaw, you have remained the victim of your own mis ¥ Six months later the condition is Miss Colewood’s will was cheerfully obeyed. e ures catureh, - Feats of Memory. When Mr, Blaine was ln congress ho used frequer.tly to ropeat bills under discussion after having read them once. Dauiel Webster was ablv to repeat th whole constitution of the United State word for word, ineluding punotuation stops Lipsius, a professor at the University of Leyden, offered to recite Tacitus' history in its entirety in the presenco of a porson armod with u poniard, who should stab him with it at the first orror she an- Estella a8 you t0o," “Ethel cnamed, sot out for a feeling more un that's too Dr. Bivnoy Boo bdig - Dr. Cullimore, eye and ear, Bee bldg 1801-SIXTEEN PAGES RONIZE HOME ISDUSTRI By Purchasing Goods Made at the Following N\ cannot find what you want, communicate with th dealers handle th 1( y a Faclories. manufacturers by ash ebrask /f you as (o what 'Y 000 r gooc AWNING AND TENTS, OMAHA AWNING AND | TENT CO. PEYCKE CANDY CO mmocks, ofl and| | rubh & Sond tor| 418 8. 1ith cntal Farnam. | it BREWERS. CONTECTION RS, PHOTO ENGRAVE =M. 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BESELIN. | Spectal bra made to | THE CUBAN Mg of Cubun made an the famous S B Factory. 2400 Stre, TH. HENOCH, | Dom estle Atrick . lith ave. hstotn, TJH. RICHARD, O okars. Aol 1622 Dodgo St 1017 Farnam AT S VRO R COPPERSMITHS. rnam. [————— PRINTERS, BOOKBINDERS, 1110 e OMAHA PRINTINGCO | POKROK ‘ZAPAD J waors to Omuhn ltep. Print, Co. ¢ a PRINTING CO. 1 .tith, Ioninn apeclatiy. Tnk REED JOB PRINTING Y EAST Havana and oo, GERMAN YEAST CO.,| OMAHACOMPRESSED YEAST CO, Piaan Yo nat fel package. Made In Omahu, pplles, blanks, ote.,| nd’ Douglas | 1L Narney HONACK & KAESSNER| Copper work of all kinds Co, Bee Butlding S48, 10th. on the long reach of smooth ico below the canon. The first morning that promised a fair day Louis, the older brother, con- cluded “to visit the traps set along thy 1 the canon. Accovd strapping on his skates, ho start the river, armed oniy with his revoly Sl be back by the middle of the after- noon,” he remarkek to Rudolf, * you have a warm dinner ready if will Al cight,” repli nev shall be ready Louis pursued reports of the revolver, he wounded lion, however, snapped at his sido once or twice, then sceming to divine from whence came the wound, gave o foarful yell, and, followed by the others, made at 1 speed after Louis, . who now striking out for home with all his might. Ha bhent over his sk s and did his utter- most. But on a straight reach tho beasts gained on him, although the, could not turn in the shavp bends of th river like the skates Novertheiess gainea time and Louis was con- to drop a marten on the ico, by 1o n time. [tdidin- , 05 the prutes did their best The momentum had ond the gmme that in- ack they continued the pursuit result seriously alurmed the young mun, who now dropped all his me, but the lions were determined not o be balked of their prey. The r voiver in its holster flopping against his thigh impeded Louls somewhat and he unbuckled the belt and drapped it on . Al thiy assisted and his hopes He was now less than two trom the dugout. haa passed rough rapids over which the 15 stumblod apparently helpioss. But gatherod themseivés up with su prising quickness. [t was not long b ouis heard their amaziv arful distinetness, Then he menced a series of mane on which his very lifo depended. Skating with all his power along one shove he would denly turn and shoot to the 1k, while the li ble to ¢ themselves raka nlong at eve reponte the door ht and the tho river the CHASED BY MOUNTAIN LIONS. F. B. Heaton in Chicago Inter-Ocenn: In the autumn of 1870 two younyg men, brothers, by the name of Bruning, Louis and Rudolf, resolved upon spendivg tho winter trapping in the valley of Tonguo river, on the frontiers of Wyoming and Montanw. Accordingly, suppiying, themselves with tho necessary pick- horse outfit, they left Sioux City, Ta late in September, following up the Nio- brara rviver to its source near Powder river buttes. Thence, crossing over a narrow watershed, they struck the val- ley of Powder river, down which they continued some forty or (ifty miles. Here they left the muin valley to follow up o small tributary to its head in what is known as the Panthor mountains. Crossing the buck of these mountuins they struck the course of Robbins™ ereck, an afllueat of Tongue rviver, down which they continued to its mouth at the food of Tongue viver eanon, the scene, not fur from this date, of a desperate battle with | sport’s sake, omptied a chamber of his the Sioux Indians. Here the river v in the dircction of shoggy emerges from the lofty and precipitous | brain. At one point in the canon th walls of the mountain, to continue 1ts | ¢liffs nearly met overhead, making u solitury flow to the turbid Yellowstone. | partinl twilight., Oniy at one point w They at once set about getting ready | the ice rough, that was a short rapic for the winter's business. The dwellini | hut even here it was smooth in shot which they construeted was partly dug- | The bracing cold added strength and out and partly eubin—that is, & portion | vigor to hislimbs,and he was frequently of the front was logs. It was against | surprised at the ease with which he shot the sido of a perpendicular bluff on the | over the transparent suvface. north side of the creck, and close to the T T e s T river. The valley here was all on the [ trap in which he found a marten. From northwest, or loft shore of the river, but | thence he proceeded leisurcly on his lilke all these streams it alternated with | veturn. He had excellent loek, although overy crook in the channel. Along ail | from several of the traps he found that the streams of this region tho beaver | the game had been torn out and eaten. and otter abound. Besides thesosmaller | ITe [iid this to the account of the wol- species of the wensel family avo numosr- | verine, an animal of thievish propensi- ous, and the beautiful silver fox is not | ties,having some days bofore shot one in infrequently caught. Of larger game, | the very actof robbing a trap. Game, | while the bison have measurably disap- | however, was becoming scarce for the peaved, the antelope, black-tailed deer | larger animals, and they had alvendy and the elk, or moose, feed in the foot- | driven off lions that hangin hills of the mountains, Of dan us | around the dugout,attracted by tho s e, such as boars, grizzly and cinna- | of the flayed carcasses of the gamo, mon, and wolves, there is no scarcity While thus liesurely skating, ho w The mountains themselyes horeabouls | startled by a shrill ery up the river were numed because they were the | sounded piercingly down the trough of fuvorite habitat of numbers of mountain | the eanon. He listened attentively. The | ings, Scurcely was this accomphshed lions, or panthers, which latter name | seream was answered from a neighbor- | when a heavy body steuck the door with they received from Bridger, the famous | ing gorge. **Bah!” said Louis to him- | a thud that thovoughly tried ity scout, and such as he, men from the | self, “'it is only a cowardly mountaiv | strength i LR mountaing of Virginia, wheve similar | lion.” Nevertholess ho involuntarily | greased paper whieh sorved as o window beusts bore that name, quickenad his pace, Mo had just | was torn away from the aperture in th During the months of November and | emerged from the examination of a frap | door and the i December they had remarkable success | in a side canon, when ho gave a glance | mountain lion were thiust through. 1t in trapping otter and beaver. They | up tho river and beheld what sont the | dolf grasped the situation and, seizing were congratuinting themselves unon | biood tingling to the ends of his fingera. | his carbine, discharged the contonts full season that should surpnss anything in { Not more than two hundred yards away | in the savige face, [t was father’s experience. But —on [ w three enormous mountain lions, | The lion foll in the stru Christmas eve a cold wave set in with | with hair all on end, their long black - | hut the opening was fil terrible severity. That night the sur- | tipped tails apparently twice their nat- [ only to meet th face of the river froze as solid us granite | ural size, und which they wore brandish- | which was the and a8 smooth us glass. This weather | ing from side to side. " They were ovi- i the effort and lasted for several days, so that the | dently onraged, though at what Louis | Louis, wiao hud r brothers were fearful io venture to any | could not conceive, He felt apprehen- | his feet, g great distance froia the dugout. Con- | sive, however, and increased his speed. | lucky shot, shattc sequently, only the traps in the imwedi- [ The lions uttered a tremendous eator- | peck. Over the bodies ate vicinity wore visited, waul and trotted n good gait » him. | they took off the While they were thus confined within | “The brutes!” ejaculated FLouis. Turn- | the thrilling race doors they whiled away the Lime manipu- | ing, he skated o fow yards toward them luting a pair of skates apiece from the | to steady his nim, und fired his rovolver untlers of the elks they had killed. the nearest. The distance was too They mado them very strong, albeit not | great. T'he bullet either fell shory or so artistically, perhaps, as the products | went to one side. All except the last of the east. They were fivst clussskates, [ one, which steuck the immonse cat however, und answered to their com- | squarecly in the side, tearing his skin but plete satisfaction, They tried them | not crippling in the least The beasts thoroughly on the ice iu front of the | had checked thomselves when Louis dugout, chasing each other aund raciog | turned. snd seamud hawildared hy the you d Rudolf, **the din- Mis way up the river, not intending to make wny stop until he reached tl t trap, his intention being to examine as he returned. It was a glorious trip. Past headland and cape he glided, often under the shadows of crevice anchored cedars and pines. Oceasionally he stopped under a frown- ing shelf of granite to count the mud built nests of the summer martins,which were numerous in all such places. He kkept an eye open for large and danger- ame; but b AW NONe, SiVe onee u Y grizzly sitting motionless on the of a precipice, evidently observing his proficiency as o skater. Louis, for pin deod as to stop. m so far cans com- ov L un: turn, would ice, catching thing ) wh, He had this move more than once wi of Robhins Creell came in si door of the dugout, On posite sido of the shot for dear i now close upon him, ming himsel with wondertul judgment, he turned just in the nick of time, leaped upon the low bunk, the momentum caveying him the haif dozon stops to the door, through which ne fell full length on the floor “Bar the doof ho gasped to Rudolf That young man, though imm derately surprised, obeyed the command and dropped the hoeuvy bur into its fusten ho lions wore square, cruel same fate woundod onoe, gave up was making off when vined his breath and his earbi by a ed the sping of the the lions, ue asping o, - SDIXIE FLYER SLEEPER, Nasaville to Jacksonville and St. Augustine, 1la,, with out chango via Chattanooga, Atlanta, Mucon 5t Louis & Atiantasieeper on morning trains from St. Louts via Evansville, Nashy Luno Space secured ot ticket oMes L. & | R 12, 4th b, St Louis. 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