The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 22, 1896, Page 16

16 | BOUT five miles before we | reached Sidney, our train swept by a farmhouse standing at some i distanve from the track,and as | 1 looked back at the womar in | the doorway with her hand over her eyes, | watching the train, I wondered if it could ible that there was my sister's Vothing more desolate could be ned than the little wooden shanty ima standing alone in pitiful bareness on the Nebraska prairie, surronnded - only by fields of sun-dried grass. I had heard how lonely it was and how unfortunate my er and her husband had been, but as I was an inexperienced optimist with no troubles of my own to make me realize those of other people, I had put on a supe- ior air, and thought it “would come out A was to spend a couple of wee! There was no necessity for my s her husband taking so dark a view of things, I thought. The crops had failed, to be sure, but such matters were all in a lifetime, and should not be taken too | seriously. I bad telegraphed my brother-in-law to meet me, and here he was at the station. he bronzed features under his wide straw hat were so hard and the lines about his gray eyes were so drawn that I could bardly recognize in him the yoang fellow who had taken his bride from our home | only a year before. Then his eyes were | laughing, and although his face was tanned | it was not so blackened as now. And | where was the air of buoyant courage that had assured us Gertrude's life would be made easy for her? | He smiled when he saw me, but it was not the glad ous smile I had ex- | s sorry that I had | iould have written erhaps they did not want | me. The men in faded brown jeans hang- ing about the station mopped their faces | and stared at m I began to fear Ihad | done myself an injustice in coming out | here where it was hot and uncomfortable. | My work for the next year would suffer | ghould I not secure the rest needed. Why | nad I not gone on with the camping party | for Estes Park, where the mountain air would have g me the strength I needed? But I was fated now and wouid | not think of shortening my visit, so I as- | sumed an air of enthusiasm and handed my check to Marion. While he was attending to the baggage I climbed into the wagon. ~The seat was not comfo: le; Icould not touch the bottom | of the w ith my feet, but braced them on t ont endgate. 1t wonld be | y hot riding five miles, even with my | arasoi, but I must be cheerful about it. | The road was barren, without a tree to af- | ford the least shelter. For a time we were silent. Finally Isaid: “How is Gertrude? Does she get very lonesome? I thought I might be able to cheer her up a little.”’ | All the while I felt my heart growing | For the_ first time I seemed to at her discouragement must be. easy for us to sit in our cot- »0d and plan a free, happy with the man she loved, and with no care except that of being poor. Marion was-not thorouchly established, but he had good business ability and was energeti . “Oh, Gertrude is all right, I guess,” he | responded. “We have been in rather hard luck this year. Everything burned up, and there is no prospect for anything bet- ter that one can: see.” .. They had written me as much, but I| had been exceedingly cheerful with my | $75 a month in a pleasant office. 1 them in reply that discouragements come | to all of us, but that there is no use beirg | down-hearted. They should remember | the grasshopper year. People had lived through that. It would have been very hard to say this now to the man sitting beside me with the drawn look about his eyes. I felt faint and overcome with the heat, for my journey bad been long and tire- some. wished the horses would move faster, but there was no life in the poor, en sun-burned creatures. At last we came in sight of the house, which was indeed the same one I had seen from the car. Stand- ing in the doorway was the girl I had loved froni the time she was a tiny baby; | the girl who had shared my little troubles and the greater disappointments as I grew into womanhood; the one being in the whole world—except my mother—whom I loved with all the strength I possessed. She did not come forward to meet.me, and I could see the tears :tandin§ in her brown eyes. My poor baby. She tried to force back the sobs as I took her in my arms. There were only three rooms in her little home. They were neat and pretty, but there was about them an air of stillness or sameness, although how that should im- press me at once I could not tell. Later I understood it—how nothing new, no THE - SAN -FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, MARCH 22, 18%6. You know Marion wasso hopeful when we were married. He losta great deal last vear, but there never was known to be a failure two years in succession, and he thought he would get along well this year" 1 suppose we should have waited anothe® year before we married to see how thing$ were coming out. If we had only ha' snow last winter it wouldn’t have been s0 dry this spring and we might have had 2 good crop of hay, but the way it is th® grass all gfled upand the cattle have ab- solutely nothing to eat.” e “‘Has Marion lost many of his cattle?’ 1 asked, somewnat appalled at such a story of misfortune. 3 “Lost! Why, we haven’t anything left. You krow his father gave him a good start, and he had done well up to this yea1, but he didn’t feel like asking his father for more money, and he simply d.mn"i have enough to buy feed with. Ididn’t want him to send to his father, either, for, of course, times are hard in Chicago, and we thought we would get along by ourselves. If we should starve—of course there was no danger of that—but I meanif weshould lose everything, we could start over again some time."” 3 “T feel so worried about Marjon,” she went on. *He doesn’t look well this sum- mer. _If is hard for him to have so much trouble. He frets over it, I think, but doesn’t sa[x: very much. He has got down into the blues and to a point where he thinks he never will be able to recover what he has lost. We feel as though we should always be poor. Of course, this drought will” not .last always, but all our money is gone, and it is hard to get a start the second time.” 3 “Qh, there he comes now.”” She left me and ran to the door to meet her husband, | | | | | ——— “SHE TRIED TO FORCE BACK THE SOBS AS I TOOK HER IN MY ARMS.” [Sketched by a “Call” artist.] change, had come in there for many months. There was notbing new to bring in; no money for magazines, no tritling sums to be spent upon new decorations, not even a flower could grow in that dry alkali. The shades were drawn to shutout the white light. It was cooler inside and I soon felt that life was not so hard after all. “How hot and dry it is out here, isn’t it, Gertrude?”’ I said, taking a light view of the case for the moment and speaking with much briskness. **Yes, we haven’t had rain since the 15th day of May. Three months and seven days. And you know it didn’t rain last year at all. We thought surely weshould not have a failure two years in succession i/ 7 LI ““UNLUCKING :HE DOOR HE STEPPED ASIDE FOR [Sketched by a ME TO' ENTER.” “Call artist.”] who came in from the barn and sat down in the front room. “You look warm, Marion,” she said, running for a fan and hovering about him anxiously. “0Oh, I'm all right,” he replied. “Well, how is everything in Chicago?’’ he began, taking up the conversation with me as though we had not seen each cther before. *“How is your mother? Have you seen anything of my people lately ?"” “Yes, indeed. I forgot to tell you. I have a picture of your little sister,’” I said, and brought it from my trunk. “Well, well, is that little Harriet? How the child does grow!” His face glowed for the moment, and then dropping the picture and resuming his former mood he said: ‘I hope father is going to get along all xzight through these hard times. It would be bad for a man of hisage to lose his hold. He is going to need all of his money to make him and mother comfort- able in their old age, and to give the girls advantages.” It was growing late in the afternoon and Marion and I sat taiking—chietly of the crop failure and lack of rain—although he tried occasionally to throw off the thought of that and speak of other matters. But that one fact was constantly before us. I forgot all that was interesting in my life— so different from theirs—and became ab- sorbed, 00, in this one topic. Gertrude at last announced supper, which she had spread in the room where we sat. Her table was pretty with her wedaing gifts of solid silyer and cut glass—but why had she provided so little? This day and evening were much like the others’ that_followed during my visit. When I realized how strongly the trouble had laid hold upon my sister I resolved with desperation that I'would break the chain which was weaving itself about her. With all the reliance upon the Infinite that lies back of every soul, [ struggled to tree her; with all the strength could summon I tried to arouse her to a realiza- tion of the danger she wasin, There was a thought in my mind that I did not dare to speak of even to her ‘husband. I talked with him of the scrious conse- uences of so much anxiety, but did not tell him of that about which [ thought constantly, and with fear. He would have the right to inquire why this had not been told RWim long before, when he asked her hand in marriage. To be sure, it would not have mattered to him then, and he would have said as we did when we kept it from him, “That will pmbahl&never show itself in this genera- tion.”” ‘But now 1 dared not tell him— dared not even hint it to him—and he could not see how the sirengih of his will was dragging her down. The time of my visit drew to a close, and, in spite'of all the efforts 1 had made to bring some life ‘into their home and turn the channel.of their thoughts, I could but feel that my going would only intensify the loneliness which had . been’there be- fore I came. I tried to persuade my sister to return with me to” Chicago, but she could not be induced to leave her husband in the home alone; she would remain with him, - We talked over the matter of their going into the city for a few months, but they could not think of relinquishing their land, which they must do if they left it during the winter. “They still had Some little money, and would stay on the farm and try to save that at least. With a heavy heart I went away, back fo my work and my home, but said noth- ing of this trouble to ourmother, except to ask her if she did not think we could livea little more economically during the winter and let me make an investment in the form of a loan of $10 a month to Marion. ‘T had with ty persuaded Marion to receive this amount rom e, but his love for Gertrude and the thought of what her f;::—imti(m would be at last influenced him ‘accept it. 1could occasionally send mag- azines, but it was littie enough I could do with the burden of city expense and a home to provide for myself. I knew by the letters that came that all Wwas not going well. The physictan had told me of the great danger from npervous gronration attending upon the excessive eat ad the alkali-laden winds, but had I not known the discouraging atmosphere surrounding everything and every one— every neighbor who might, perchance, bave been a help, the utter loneliness of that existence, and above all the peculiar temperament of my sister, I should not have believed it possible that she would succumb. Perhaps she was not so strong as she should have been, but those who have suffered can sympathize with her, even although they may recognize that their own strength was superior to this poor child’s, 3 7 At last the letters came written in Ma- rion’s hand, and he told us that Gertrude was exceedingly nervous and could not compose herself to write. I knew what the bleak winter must be there, but I could not ask my mother to go, for her own health was delicate and nc&zing remained but for Gertrude to come to us. 1 suggested it to her husband, but he replied that it could not be thought of then. My anxiety in- creased with each day, until at last the message came, in mid-January, when re- gorts told of Western blizzards and snow lockades: “Come if you can. Gertrude very ill.”” 1" left my mother and my work and started immediately. Marion met me at the train in Sidney and took me tothe hotel. He said: ‘“We came in from the. farm a couple of daysago.”’ “Where is Gertrude?” 1 asked. ‘“Was she able to ride so far?”” The great veins swelled out upon his temples and the look of anguish in his eyes was pitiful to see. **She is in her room,” he said. . We went upstairs together, and unlock- m% the door, he stepped aside for me to enter. “What, Gertrude, are iou up?” I cried, “I supposed you were sick in bed.” ““You see,” she said, turning to me, ‘‘this snow is a good thing. It is hard on the cattle now, but it will moisten the ground and make it better in the spring. And we shall have our home, shan’t we, Marion, dear?” _He stroked her nand as she looked up at him, her brown eyes glittering black. I turned away, for she did not know me, and sitting down by toe window in that dingy hotel and_ looking out upon the snow—whirling, drifting, driving—I went over again the whole story. It was but a poor one—a story of failure in plans, failure in will power, a common enough experience, but I.rebelled against the forces that had proven too stern for this woman. She had not been equal 1o her burden, and she was my sister. The years have gone by since then and she has come out of her affliction the more beautiful for what she has suffered. We can look back calmly now upon those days of trial, but they were bitter to us then, and we could not see beyond. E. C. EARRULOUS TYPEWRITER, Continued from Fifteenth Page. spicuous in San Francisco he decided to take lodgings in an obscure house where Lis name would not be required. To this end he was influenced by the stranger, who revealed to him glimpses of a stupendous scheme for manipulating cer- tain mining shares for their common benefit. All this seemed new and interesting matter as I read it. It woulid have been un- usual for me io copcoct so intricate a story without a painfully conscious effort. The florid, hearty man who had taken lodgings on Market street; his heavy drinking; the dark, cynical, saturnine ‘man who had kept completely. in the shadow and who had told me of his using a tyvpewriter; the man of similar appearance who had left a typewriter to be repaired; the ease with which this machine had brought me face to face with the two men whom I had sup- posed to be the principals of the tragedy— these were coincidences which it was im- possibie to ignore. The discovery of the recent whereabouts of the small, dark man would be a matter for patient police research and was foreign to my undertaking. A more pressing duty was to lay my evidence before the Chief of Police and thus make it possible for him to intercept the murderer’s flight. . His deep interest when I had told him everything may be imagined. The hour forthe departure of an eastbound over- land train was nearing. In order not to miss a chance the Chief hurried in person to the ferry and I accompanied him to identify the fugitive should he appear. I had written out this description: “A small, dark man with alcynical air, and possibly carrying a valise marked ‘Thomas Quigley.’ "’ At the ferry we ran plump into the big florid man! The surprise and shock were so great and ¥felt so foolish to realize that all my ingenious fabrication was utterly without foundation that I did not even draw the Chief's aftention to him. The big man passed on; our watch had been unproductive. The case fell with my pride and the murderer was never caught. I submit, however, that my logic was good and my conclusion intelligent. This was the only consolation I could draw from my humiliation. I think 1 know the whole truth now, and as the slayer is dead and I alone ever learned his secret, and as he was nota murderer in an extralegal sense, I will close this account with an explanation of the mystery. Recently, while searching the shops for a second-hand typewritce as the-agent of a friend out of town, I came across the iden- tical machine that had so curiously be- wildered me long ago. I recognized it the moment I tried the "keys. It be- gan the same garrulous old - tale, but instead of breaking down at the critical moment it paused where 1t had left off before, stammered, halted, and then rattied glibly on with a scheme by which Thomas Quigley was to be robbed of all his wealth. 1do not see how it was possible for the machine to have assisted me in constructing a solution of the mys- tery, for that would be admitting a mys- tery greater than all. .I know merely that without any effort whatever, and while testing the machine, I wrote this: “Thomas Quigley was the large, florid man. He was a rich miner whom the stranger .had planned to rob. Upon dis- covering the treachery of the man who had pretended to be his friend and whe had plied him with liquor, and upon as- certaining that while drunk he had been induced to sign documents which not only beggared him, but made him a criminal as well, in a moment of frenzy he killed the stranger, and then, aiming to shield him- self, had so reduced the body to fragments as to leave the impression that he himself had been murdered.” - But whether that is the truth Iam not ‘ready to say under oath. e — The average wealth throughout the world, taking its population at 1.500,000,- 000, is about £65 per head, according to re- cent calculations, - Russia, in spite of her natural resources, appears to be the T- 57t bglvuizud nation globe. The oldest charitable institution in Liv- erpool is the Bluecoat Hospital, founded 10 1708 for clothing and mfin' forty boys and ten gizle on the face of the| ‘WIN BROTHERS Islands are two basaltic formations that rise from the water close to the dividing line between San Francisco &nd San Pablo bays. One of the islands is known as West Brother and the other as East Brother. They are about 1000 yards from the shore of Contra Costa County and three and a half miles in a northeasterly direction from San Quentin Point. Their location has always been consideredla dan- gerous one for the fleet of vessels that nav- igate the baysand rivers atall seasons, but the United States Government did not erect a lighthouse there until 1874, Itis true that work was commenced a year or s0 sooner, but the isolated position of the islands made work slow. The lighthouse has been erected on the island krdown as East Brother, although ‘West Brother projects farther into the bay and appears to be the better position. -The reason for this is apparent in the fact that East Brother has a flat surface, while West Brother isa round hill on which it would be difficult to build and inconveni- ent to move about in stormy weather. The immediate vicinity of the islands is - EANT BROTHER [SLAND- and the twelve-inch whistle is blown by a smail engine. ‘It gives a four-second and an eight-second blast every minute. As there is always some sort of craft passing within a short distance of the island the keepers_have to keep a sharp lookout. Steam is not kcgn in_the boilers all the ‘time, but on the first sign' of fog a bell is t ringing until the engines 'he boilers are 50 constructed be raised in ten or twelve riing and ke are ready. that steam can minutes. In its natural condition East Brother Island is as barren as Death Valley, but the keepers have brought soil from the mainland in bucketfuls, and have suc- ceeded in making quite a garden grow on its surface. Flowers of different kinds bloom all the year around and enough vegetables are raised to supply a family, East Brother light station has been in charge of the present keeper, J. O. Stein-. mnrf, for the last three years. He has but one assistant, James Anderson, an old- time memver of the life-saving service. Togetber they do all the work of attend- ing to the light and keeping the grounds and machinery in_order. Mr. Steinmark has been in the lighthouse service for ten vears and has been at several stations on the coast so that he is thoroughly familiar with his business. The postoffice address of the East < i EAST BROTHER LIGHT STATION, FROM THE SOUTH. [From a photograph.] a most treacherous one’ for navigation, as a reef following the same general direction as the islands runs out into the bay a dis- tance ot half a mile. Buoys are anchored at different points, but the tide often runs so swift that they are pulled beneath the surface and concealed from view. Small river steamers are frequently unable to stem the current, and will remain in the same position for haurs. Before the light- house was built few if any vessels at- tempted to pass the islands at night, ex- cept, perhaps, an occasional man-of-war when it was a matter of great importance. The first work of the engineers on East Brother Island was to build a wall around the top, 8o as to make a perfectly level sur- face for the buildings. This was an easy matter, as the rocks scattered over the sur- face were simply piled up aiong the sides and cemented “together. The work was well done, for it has_stood the dashing of waves for twenty-eight years without ever being repaired. The question of water was an important one. There was none on_the island and the only way to obtain it was from the rain that fell'in the winter. To do this all of that portion of the island not occupied by buildings was converted into a ‘“rain shed.”” The entire surface was covered with a few inches of concrete made to slope to the center, in which a cistern was located. Plugs were arranged so that the water could be allowed to settle before be- ing turned in. The rain shed contains about 15,000 square feet and has .the ng— arance of an immense tennis court. It as always furnished enough water for the engines and domestic purposes. he first building pus up on theislanrd Captain J. O. Steinmark. [From a photograph.} was the light tower. The lamp was first lighted on March 2, 1874, and the keeper occupied the room on the first floor that is now used as a storeroom. .The first light put in was a revolving red and white flash operated by weight machinery. It re- quired three keepers and for some reason never gave satisfaction so that it was soon taken out and the fiyresem lamp put in. East Brother light is known as one of the fifth class. The lenses were made by Sautier & Co. of Paris, who made nearly ail of the lenses for the Government about that time. The lamp burns mineral oil and can aevelop about 100 candlepower, that is increased to 500 by the lenses. It has two wicks and gives a steady white light. The lamp is sixty-five feet above the surface of the water and cap be seen from almost any point on the bay. The location of East Brother light is such that on a clear day a person standing in the tower can see the shore line of every county that borders on the San Francisco and San Pablo bays. San Mateo and Napa show dimly, but S8an Francisco, Alameda, Con- tra Costa, Solano, Sonoma and Marin can be plainly seen. The keeper's residence is made to ac- commodate two families and is built up against one side of the tower, 80 that it is unnecessary to go outside unless there is need of the io%l:sm. The building is a g:efl.y and substantial structure arranged conveniently as 18 possible under the L] orn. was put up at the same :1‘11::' as ?in ng;:d “ld ‘gom_miudl lsmilding eastern end of the island. Steam is furnished by a twenty-horsepower boiler Brother Island is San Quentin, into which place the keepers go once or twice a week for mail and supplies. On account of its peculiar location East Brother is not al- ways easy to reach. When the tide runs outa veri light breeze from the south will be enough to turn the surface of the bay into whitecaps through which it would be impossible to pull a small boat. To make a landing is nearly always a difficult mat- ter. In very bad weathér it is impossible to come qr go, so that the keepers are fre- quently prisoners for many days at a time. In the winter East Brother Tsland is a most lonesome place, as visitors never come there. Butin the summer- the sur- face of the bay in the vicinity is ‘covered with yachts loaded with Elnmre parties, neatly all of whom stop off at the island. Hundreds of fishermen also frequent the locality. 2 There are very few casualties near Twin Brothers, but an occasional fisherman loses his oar and has to be picked up by the lightkeepers. Facts About Mouths. The teeth of fish, like the teeth of most amimals, are not fastened to the bone, but are held in sockets. The treatise of John Hunter in 1771 is considered the foundation of the science of dentistry in Eneland. Ovid, Martial and Horace all refer in their poems to the use of artifical teeth as common in their time. The mouth of the leech is a powerful sucker, which will sustain many times the weight of the animal. X The tongue of the toad and frog is pre- hensile. By means of it these animals seize and hold their prey. The mouth of the lobster is small, and he must tear hisfood to pieces with his claws before he can devour it. The largest mouth, proportioned to the size of the animal, is that of the frog. His head is practically all mo 1th, Artificial teeth of porcelain were made in France as early as 1776. A full upper and lower set cost a little over $1000. The molar teeth are hard to pull, be- cause their roots are bifurcated, and thus have a much better hoid in the jaw, The: trouble with tongue-tied people is that the membrane connecting the tongue with the lower jaw is too uhori The mouth of the heroine in a novel is, in nine cases out of ten, a special obieoto! attention on the part of the writer. The tongue of most serpents is really forked, though this member seems to be of no particular use to the reptile. Some moths have: no mouths. 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