The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 11, 1896, Page 19

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1896. 19 Gossip About / Californians In New York NEW YORK, N. Y., Oct. 6.—A ruddy- ed Californian told me the other morn- hat politics seemed like a tonic to the majority of men, while to him the very thought of politics was enervating in the extreme. *‘To tell you the truth,” he heartily explained, “Iran away from the coast just to escape politics, I shall return ime to vote, and, by the way—this trictly entre nous—for the first time ghteen years I will not vote the Dem- ocratic ticket.”” I’ll not give his name, that, at least, shall remain “entre nous.” Captain Thomas Mein has returned from the shores of Africa. He has been wonderfully successful since he left Cali- fornia, having cleared, it is said, over $1,000,000 in African mines. His head- quarters were at Johannesburg, and as superintendent of mines he has been a just very busy man during his absence from | California. Before returningto California Captain Mein, his wife and family will it relatives in St. Lawrence County, N. Y. Charles Dexter said a very pertinent thing the other day, just before leaving. A number of friends were bidding him good-by when he remarked in a far-away voic “Well, I've decided that the West is God’s lend, and California is as near heaven as I ever want to be,” Mr. Dexter seemed to be so impressed with his own ents that his Gotham friends are planning an extended pilgrimage »—California. vard has recovered sufficiently ness to be up and about. anied him and his brother, Shafter d, to Boston. Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Carrigan and H. F. Scott are registered at the Holland House. Mrs. H. E. Huntington and Miss Clara Huntington are also stopving at the Holland House. ' 0. M. Brennan, proprietor of the Pleas- anton, returned to town on Thursday. He has been visiting his sisters, who live in New Haven, Conn. Mr. Brennan has made several important purchases for the Pleasanton during his stay here. It seems but last week that Billy Emer- =on and Charlie Reed were the *jolly end- men” at the little Standard Theater on Bush street. How we used to laugh at their funny stories and wonder how dear oid, deep-voiced Frillman could sit as “middle-man” and never crack a jaw-hinges have grown rusty for- sooth, and we do not laugh as readily as we used to. Simplicity -of taste is lost wild extravagance of spectacular aerial ballets and vaudeville per- nces. es with a sigh when death took veral years ago. To-day Billy Em- not quite good-looking as he used to be, is “‘doing a turn” at the big ille houses. The other evening at there were a number of San to make it seem more homelike, a party of well-known Californians oceupied & box near the stage and laughed at and applaunded Billy Emerson just for “Auld Lang Syne.” They were “Billy” Miner, Frank Corcoran, “Harry” Pearson, Ted Tichnor aud “Lou'’ Hanchett. A7 Spitz, merchant, is at the Marlbor- and A. ¥. Reed bas decided not to take his usnal European trip this fall, but devote the time before election to visiting friends and relatives in the East and taking a long-deserved rest. He will be m San Francisco the first part of December. Mrs. 8. E. Pape and Mrs. Cyrus Walker His | Charles Webb Howard, ac- | Poor Charlie Reed closed his | iscans scattered through the house, | of San Francisco are at a Fifth-avenue hotel. Mrs. Amy Strong of San Diego is in the city. ! Mrs. Ira Pilerce and her daughter ar- rived last Wednesday. Dr. George N. Robinson of Los Angeles reached the city on Friday evening. His | health is very poor, and he hopes to bene- | fit it by his journey East. William L. Whitwell is at the Waldorf. —_— LADIES’ MERINO UNDERWEAR DEPARTMENT. At 75 Cents. 3 cases LADIES’ NATURAL GRAY SBANITARY WOOL VESTS, high neck, long sleeves; drawers to match; extra good value for $1, on special sale at 75¢ each. At $1.00. 2 cases LADIES’ SCARLET LAMB'S- Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Sharon and Miss Sharon arrived from the West Friday, and are stopping at the Park-avenue Hotel. This hostelry was originally built by that wonderful old millionaire, A, T. Stewart, for the purpose of providing a home for professional and working women. The | scheme was a magnificent one, and should have succeeded. Discord among the | “powers that were' caused the project to | fall through, and the immense structure was shortly afterward converted into a first-class hotel. Mrs. George W. Baldwin paid a flying visit to her father, *Lucky” Baldwin, this week. On her way home she will join her hus- band in Cincinnati. Together they will | visit a week or two with relatives in | Ohio, and then proceed westward. | “Lucky’” Baldwin has done very little | with his stable this season. He has every | conlidence in the ‘‘string,” however, and | expects big innings later on. W. 8. Hobart will ship his Del Monte | stable in a few days, when it will be en- tered for the winter races in California. | Ferrier has made a remarkable record | during the Sheepshead Bay meeting. He | has won a good share of money, and his | behavior has been enough to make his owner, Mr. Hobart, and his trainer, Mr. | Hunn, very proua of him. | There are a lot of great men’s sons in | New York just now. There’s Blaine’sand | Grant’s, Garfield’s and Harrison’s, Sher- | man’s and Ingersoll’s, and yet the world | never bears of them as havinz done any- | thing great enough to be recorded. Way |isit? May be they are too young to have | decided what will make them great quickest and with the least trouble. They | all have time to be heard from, for none | of them is over 42. | Frank Brown, who divides his time be- | tween Idako, Utah and California, has | been in New York for several weeks. He | has succeeded in placing his Idaho properties at a handsome profit. | Every baldheaded man who has a back | yard to sitin or a fire-escape to stand on is congratulating himself these days be- | cause some wise noddle has discovered | that a fine new crop of hirsute decoration | will sprout and grow on a bald pate if the | pate is exposed a given time each day to | the warm rays of the sun. It will not be | very long ere there will be as many bald- | besded sun-worshipers as there are bara- | footed grass-walkers. Already a number of the faddists are combining the two “new wrinkles” and walk over the dewy sun-kissed grass with bare feet and un- | covered heads. | Onecan’t blame men nowadays for be- coming alarmed at their baldheaded futures. The majority of men have very thin locks, even if they have not arrived at the perfectly bald stage. There seems to be considerable philosophy and good reason in the open-air sun bath. What's the need of hats, anyhow? Thick felt hats and deadly dyed beavers are undoubtedly very destructive to the hair follicles and sabaceous glands. At | least, there will be no harm done in try- | ing the “bareheaded sun shower.” TreLLa Forrz ToraxD. Lured by a Mirage While Thirsting on the Desert Sands John Wickersham of Los Angeles, who some months past has been riding an Indizn pony in the Northwest, partly for his heaith and partly while prospecting for gold, bas returned here on his way He says there is a stretch of desert ing between the Columbia River and home. Iy what is known as Coulee City, in the Moses Coulee of the Big Bend country in Washington, that enormously surpasses in dreariness anything that he has ever before seen. Mr. Wickersham carried pick and pan with him on this trip; he s also provided with a roll of blankets a lariat for roping his pony. His visicns consisted chiefly of a piece of P bacon, some prepared coffee, some flour, sugar and salt. The culinary outfit was (\4 light as it was possible to make it. In ¢lis way, with only a single 45-caliber pistol to defend him, he moved about, camping each night wherever be might be. “I have seen and heard a great deal about dreary stretches of country,” said Mr. Wickersham yesterday. “I have been on the plainsof Colorado and Arizona, and on the Mojave and Colorado deserts in California; I have aiso been in the dry regions about the Humboldt 8ink in Nevads. They are fearful in their desola- tion. However, 1 passed over a region in the Big Bend country that is, if possible, more frightful than any of these. Icame near famishing there for want of water, my pony was completely fagged out, and it was only with the greatest exertion that I managed finally to get through to Coulee City. This dreary stretch of desert extends for a distance of for y miles along Foster Creek, from the mouth of the creek to a point nearly on the bigh tableland on the south, It must have been merely in de- rision that the broken guich was called a creek, for during no year from the time of which the memory of man runs was there ever any water in its bed, except at the lower portion during freshets. Into this ghastly region, not knowing that there was really no water there, I went on my exploring trip. Foster Creek winds by some chalk-white cliffs for several miles south of the Columbia, and finally, when the trail made by the Indians leaves this goree, you traverse an almost level streten sandy desert. On either side are great re places, as white as the chalky cliffs. 1 mark places that are poisoned by dlkali, so that even if there was water nothing could grow there, “In traversing all this long distance I saw no living thing except a few horned toads and some curions brown birds that bad no tails. What the birds lived on I csnnot tell. Aside from these there was | | no bird, no animal, nothing in the air or | on the earth; the sun beat down fright- | fully with a baleful glare; it was so hot | that presently I was so overcome [ could | scarcely sit on my horse. Riding over | this desert one becomes desperate; what E he has been becomes a memory, and over- | come by the thirst and heat you feel as if yon had been projected into a new and strange world. In trying to reach the hamlet of Coulee City, which is on a branch railroad irom Spokune, I took the wrong traii at a point on the desert, and for a time I was lost. “It was while I was lost on this desert that I saw a beautiful lake before me. It | could not have been more than a mile away and came suddenly into view. I | wondered that { had not seen it before. | As T rode toward it I saw that some wil- | lows were growing on the opposite side of it, and to my right was some waving green grass. At the same time a refre:h- ing breeze swepnt over my face. I thought I would soon have plenty of water and 1 | pushed forward as fast as I could to- ward it. “Strange to say, my pony showed no energy, and I was surprised at this, for vou know that a horse half famished as mine was can scent water even if is ten miles away, and as this was in tull sight I could not make out what the trouble was. I urged the pony forward and must have ridden a mile in this way, and still the lake drew no nearer. I had thought that in the distance I saw wild fowl on the lake, and my perplexity increased; sudden- ly it dawned on me that this was no lake, but that it was a mirage, which in truth it was. Then I made all possible haste to retrace my steps, but the pony was nearly fagged out. “By dint of great exertion I managed to get him back over the plains, and at last, | after two days of struggling, I reached a little house about five miles from Coulee City, where a lonely rancher had inclosed a little piece of ground and dug a well. There I got water, was enabled to re- cuperate, and at length pushed on to the railroad. Talk about frightful stretches of country, that is the most grewsome and WOOL VESTS, high neck, long sleeves, drawers to match, worth $125, on special sale at §1 each. At $1.00. 4 cases LADIES' JERSEY RIBBED ' CASHMERE WOOL PLAITED VESTS, high neck, long sleeves; drawers to match; warranted non- shrinkable, white and natural, worth $125, on special sale at §1 each. At 75 Cents. 75 dozen LADIES'’ ECRU EGYPTIAN COTTON UNION SUITS, high neck, long sleeves, heavy weight, worth $1, on special sale at 75¢ each. At $1.00. dozen LADIES’ JERSEY RIBBED WOOL MIXED UNION SUITS, high neck, lon: sleeves, ankle length, white and natural, worth $150, on special sale at $1 each. At $2.00. 75 dozen LADIES’ JERSEY AND SWISS RIBBED WOOL UNION SUITS, high neck, lonz sleeves, ankle length, white and natural, worth $250, on special sale at $2 each. At $1.50. 125 dozen LADIES’ SWISS RIBBED SILK VESTS, low neck and sleeveless, lace- trimmed neck and armlets, cream and fancy colors, worth $2, on special sale at $1 50 each. DRESS LININGS. OQur stock of Dress Linings comprises every want of the dressmaker. RUSTLE LININGS—Special line of Moire Rustle Taffeta Lining, black, grays, tans, browns, etc., 25 inches wide, on special sale at 5c a yard. HOUSEKEEPERS AND BICY- CLE RIDERS, READ TEIS. THE WORLD'S WONDER—*“FLASH- SKIN,” a magic cloth polisner of Silver- ware and all kinds of metals, and for Bicycle Riders a necessity, price 25c¢ 2 pair. NEW TO-DAY—DRY GOODS. OUR GREAT OUTOBER Our great October Sale is proving a never-ending source of wonderment and delight to the thousands who daily attend it—wonderment at the RIDIC- ULOUSLY LOW FIGURES PREVAILING as the result of the PRODIGIOUS }DISCOUNTS at which our magnificent New Fall Stock was bought, and delight | with the opportunity afforded them to make their Autumn purchases from the MATCHLESS COLLECTION OF RARE AND EXCLUSIVE STYLES AND NOVELTIES displayed at such GREAT REDUCTIONS FROM PREVAILING PRICES as are outlined in the following samples of This Week’s Strong Specials! LADIES’ KID GLOVES. At 75 Cents. 200 dozen 4-BUTTON ENGLISH WALK- ING KID GLOVES, embroidered back, colors and black, regular price $125, on special sale at 75¢ a pair. At 75 Cents. 200 dozen 4-button UNDRESSED KID GLOVES, large butions, coiors and black, regular price $125, on special sale at 75¢ a pair. At 75 Cents, 200 dozen 5-HOOK KID GLOVES, black only, regular price $125, on special sale at 75c a pair. At 75 Cents. 150 dozen 4-BUTTON KID GLOVES, em- broidered backs and large buttons. in dark, medium and tan shades, also black, regular price $125, on special sale at 75c a pair. Af 90 Cents. 150 dozen 4BUTTON KID GLOVES, col- ors and black, regular price $150, on special sale at 90c a pair. At $1.00, 150 dozen 4-BUTTON DERBY KID GLOVES, large buttons, colors red, tan and browns, regular price $1 50, on special sale at $1 a pair. At $1.25. 100 dozen 4-BUTTON GENUINE FRENCH KID GLOVES, embroidered backs, in dark, medium and tan shades, also black, regular price $175, on special sale at $1 25 a pair. NEW DRESS TRIMMINGS, Etc. Our New Stock of Colored Bead and Em- broidery Dress Trimmings 1s com- plete, both in variety of styles, quali- ties and prices, from 10c to $3 50 yard. We will offer an assortment of Colored Bead Trimmings special at 10c a yard. JET BEAD TRIMMINGS—We have in every conceivable design and in widths from 1-16 inch to 4 inches, prices from 2c¢ 10$5 a yard. ‘W2 will offer an _assortment of Jet Bead Trimmings Special 8¢ and 10c a yard. JET AND COLORED BEAD REVERE GARNITURES—An entire stock of the latest and only desirable styles, embracing all qualities and prices, from 50c to $15 each. We will offer a line of Jet Bead Reveres Special at $1 a set. BLACK SILKE AND JET BEAD BO- LERO DRESS GARNITURE, in a very choice selection of style, the co- partners in newness with the Ravere style. ‘We will offer a line of Jet Boleros Special at $2 and $2 50 each. OSTRICH FEATHER COLLARETTES. ‘We have received a full variety of quali- ties in our Fine Grade Black Ostrich Feather Collarettes, 18 inches long, and all at lowest prices. Our OSTRICH FEATHER BOAS are in 36, 45 and 54 inch lengths, and at prices from $6 to $18 50 each. RIBBONS! RIBBONS! At 15 Cents. 8INCH ALL-SILK TAFFETA DRES- DEN RIBBONS, in assorted colors, value 25¢, will be offer2d at 15¢ a yard. At 25 Cents. 4-INCH ALL-SILK TAFFETA RIB- BONS, assorted colors, will be offered at 25c a yard. At 25 Cents. 4-INCH ALL-SILK MOIRE TAFFETA RIBBONS, assorted colors, will be of- fered at 25c a yard. At 35 Cents. 5-INCH ALL-SILK DRESDEN RIBBONS, in assorted colors, value 60c, will be offered at 35¢c a yard. GOSSAMERS AND UMBRELLAS At $2.00. MISSES' CLOTH GOSSAMERS, in navy, black and assorted colors, will be placed on special sale at $2 each. At $5.00. LADIES’ WOOL DOUBLE TEXTURE MACKINTOSHES, value $7 50, will be placed on speciai sale at $5 each. At $1.50. LADIES’ SILK GLORIA UMBRELLAS, in horn and natural handles, will be placed on special sale at $1 50 each. S PP SALE! LADIES’ AND CHILDREN'S HOSIERY. At 25 Cents. 175 dozen CHILDREN’S 1-1 RIBBED BLACK MACO COTTON HOSE, high- spliced heels, double toes, Hermsdorf dyf; worth 40c, on special sale at 25¢ a pair. At 33} Cents. 150 dozen CHILDREN’S 2-2 RIBBED BLACK CASHMERE WOOL HOSE, double heels, soles and toes, full fin- ished, worth 50c, on special sale at 33l4c & pair. At 25 Cents. 200 dozen LADIES' FINE BLACK MACO COTTON HOSE, high-spliced heels, double toes, Hermsdorf dye, plain and Richelieu ribbed, worth 40c, on special sale at 25¢ a pair. At 25 Cents. 100 dozen LADIES’ NATURAL GRAY SANITARY WOOL HOSE, seamless, light and dark colors, worth 35¢, on special sale at 25¢ a pair. At 33% Cents. 175 dozen LADIES’ 4 THREAD BLACK MACO COTTON HOSE, extrz high- spliced heels, double soles and toes, Hermsdorf dye, worth 50c, on special sale at 33}4c a pair. At 35 Cents. 50 dozen LADIES’ IMPORTED BLACK CASHMERE WOOL HOSE, double heels, soles and toes, worth 50c, on special sale at 35¢ a pair. At 50 Cents. 125 dozen LADIES' IMPORTED CASH- MERE WOOL HOSE, high-spliced heels, double soles and toes, black and light natural colors, worth 75¢c, on special sale at 50c a pair. LEATHER GOODS. At 25 Cents, ‘We will offer a line of COIN PURSES, in black and colored, grain seal, fancy and alligator, at 25¢ each, At 50 Cents. LADIES’ COMBINATION POCKET- BOOKS, in black grain seal, allizator nndhcolored seal, a special line at 50c each. Nurphy Building, ,, Market and Jomes Stregfs Murphy Building, Market and Jones Streets Nurphy Building, Market and Jomes Stregts Murphy Building, Market and Joneg Streets. Murphy Bullding, Market and Jones Stregts. From a There has recently been brought to the attention of the French Academy a very rare and valuable curio in the shape of an ivory statue of Christ. It was carved by the celebrated Fran- cois Girardon in the latter part of the seventeenth century, and afterward be- longed to Marie Antoinette. At the time of her execution (1793) an inventory was taken of the roya! possessions at Ver- sailles, but a member of the Bourbon | family had removed this treasure and kidden it away, and for this reason no mention of it appears in the list. Twelve years ago it was sold to M. Durey, who resides at 208 Avenue du Maine, Paris. An ordinary engraving can convey no adequate idea of the exquisite workman- ship of this statue. The anatomy is per- fect and the portrayal of suffering ad- mirably realistic. The 1mage measures from the crown to the feet 1 meter 3 centimeters, or 3 feet 414 inches, the entire length being carved of one piece. The arms and the knot in the * A Remarkable Carving Mammoth Tusk drapery are adaed, but are of the same ivory. Its weight is 35 kilos, or 77 pounds. The breast measures 494 centimeters, or 1914 inches in circumference. These di- mensions prove that the ivory is of ante- diluvian origin, for no elephant tusk of the present age is of such size as to fur- nish these proportions in a single piece. To understand this better we must con- sider the structure of a tusk. It is not, as some suppose, hard, solid ivory from base to tip, but is hollow for about half its length. In life this cavity is filled with a pulpy substance. Its diameter is not pro- portionate with the outside diameter of the tusk, but decreases more rapidly, corh- ing to a point about halfway from the base of the tusk. From this point a dis- colored line extends through the solid por- tion of the tusk to itsouter end, and about this line center the delicate latitudinal markings of the grain. It is thus easy to gistinguish from what part of the tusk (diametrically considered) any article is made. In the proximal portion of a large- sized tusk there is a goodly amount of. ivory, for the walls of the cavity thicken rapidly from the base upward, but for a statue of the dimensions given above the solid half of the tusk only could have been used. Althongh the tusks of the extinct mam- moth do not always taper so rapidly in proportion to their length as do those of the elephant yet the circumference of the base of this one must have been at least thirty inches, and perhaps more. It isin- teresting to speculate upon how Monsieur Girardon came into possession of the rare geological relic from which he chiseled this masterpiece of art. The fact that the majority of mammoth tusks are much curved, often forming aimost complete circles, and thus can be ntilized only to a limited extent by tbe sculptor, renders his prize the more remarkable. M. Durey has been offered $60,000 for the statue, but considers it worth $100,000. He has, however, expressed his willing- ness to submit it to connoisseurs and let them determine a price. The party who made the offer of $60,000 referred the mat- ter to the great painter, Meissonier, since deceased, who stated that $60,000 was tco low a sum, since this statue is ‘‘unique in the world, and its value inestimable, not only as ivory but also as an ‘objet d’art.’”” Various members of the academy have been called upon to set a price, but their reports have not yet been forwarded. Another notable ivory statue of Christ To properly care for hay has always been a hard problem for the rancher of California. The danger of spontaneous combustion being great made it unwise to put it in a barn, as the event of fire only made the loss that much greater. Cover- ing it with tarpaulins and leaving it in the . field has long been the accepted method, although sure to cause some loss on account of rain producing mold on the top of the stack. But it was the best known and the loss less thar the loss of a weirdly fearful of any that I ever saw. I want no more experience like the one I have just had. Even gold would not tempt me to go again inta a country like that.” ———— Against the Charter, The snti-charter meeting at Metropolitan Hall on Monday evening, October 12, will be the opening of a vigorous campaign against that document. James H. Barry of the Star will express the sentiments ot the American Women’s Liberal Leagne, J. M. Reynolds of the . Macarthur Leggett will pre- Municipal Reform Le: of the Labor Council. Hon. side. The public are inyited. 5 barn and possibly several head of stock. The latest method adopted by the ranch- ers of Alameda County 1s to construct a sort of framework of scantlings ana cover it with thin canvas. This method keeps the canvas some distance from the hay and at the same time sheds the water as good as theroof of & barn. It also has the advantage of being cheap. The effect produced on the landseape by this method, however, is most startling and calculated to make a man rub his eyes the first time he sees a field covered with the strange looking white pyramids. An Alameda Hay Field Like an Egyptian Plain Houses are scarce down that way, so that there is nothing to jar on the impression. For twenty miles along the bay shore almost any part of it looks like the plain of Egypt. Only the trees.and the strange looking haystacks, shaped exaetly like the great pyramids, are to be seen. They are scattered all over the fields and large enough to dwarf most of the other objects in the landscape. Some of these stacks are at least forty feet high and few less than thirty. The small oaks and young eucalyptus trees help out the 1llusion. In the early evening when there is just light enough to make out the different objects the effect shows to the best advan- tage. The canvas ceases to be canvas and becomes stone. The different pyramids seem to rise to twice their real size. Nothing is wanting to make the beholder think be is in the land of the Nile, and if he has ever been there he will instinctively stop and listen expecting to hear the cry of the donkey boys urging their unwilling beasts to action. exists in the old papal palace at Avignon, but it is much smaller and is made in sections. i It is a matter of conjecture what associ- ation or individual will secure the great art treasure now awaiting a tender of ap- preciation long withheld. Possibly Ameri- can wealth and zeal may win the day and effect 1ts removal to this side of the Atlan- tic, where it will grace a classic museum or inspire the hearts of worshipers in some New World cathedral. A NEW ENVELOPE. You Pull the String and the Letter Flies Open. P. E. Gillette of Grass Velley has in- vented several novel and usefui kinds of envelopes, all of which seem to be great improvements over the ordinary letter envelope now in use. One of his designs presents a self-sealing envelope that cannot be opened without detection. The outside flap is cut bias and has a fastening on the reverse side that is quite novel in'its way. Another design was the flap cut square, but the method of fastening is secure and quite original. Perhaps the greatest and most useful inveation on both 91 these envelopes lies in the silk thread that hangs out at the end and at the back of the envelopes. Pull this thread and the envelope is opened neatly and expeditiously. This part of the invention is one that will com- mend itself to every business man. Mr. Gillette has secured patents on his inventions, and is now in San Francisco preparing for the manufacture of his nov- elties in envelopes. A Mill Valley Dog That Pumps Water for Cattle Dog-motors are plentiful enough in Belgium and a few other parts of Europe, but they must surely be conceded to be a rarity in California. Many people who have traveled all over the State say they have never seen any. But there is one at least, and that is not very far from San Francisco. It is on the Swissranch on top of the hill to the westward of Mill Valley. It is in plain sight from the road and hun- dreds of people passing that way wonder what it is. They may see it turning around at a good speed, but few would think that the motive power was gener- ated by a dog. This motor has beenin use for two years and a most cheap and ser- viceable machine it has proved to be. The cost is trifling, not the twentieth partof what a windmill would cost, and for the purpose nothing could be better. One dog can easily pump water for a herd of 200 cattle. And the best of it is some dogs like the work. Dog-motors are built on the same prin- ciple as the exercising runs that are often attached to cages for squirrels and other small animals. They are really barrels made so that the dog can get.in and out at a place near the bottom, and as soon as he starts to run on the inside the barrel slides from under bis feet. In this way it rotates as fast as the dog runs. The motive power of the machine is communicsted to the pump by means of a crank that connects with a piston and sucker of ordinary type. Revolving the motor causes the piston to rise and fall the same as if a man were working the handle. For over a year the dog-motor on the hill back of Mill Valley has been operated by a dog named Gyp, and she really likes the work and knows more about pumping water than half of the men in the State. ‘When Gyp was firzst put into the machine she knew just wkat she had to do, and started in at a great rate, She ran so fast that she would have fallen from exhaus- tion had she not been lifted out. Butas she has} grown olaer at the business she has learned better. But she likes the work as much as when she started. When Gyp first started in to pump water she did not know when to stop. She pumped and pumped until the tank ran over all the time. In a few weeks though she was taught that all she was expected to do was to keep the tank full and now she dbesn’t do any more. ‘When Gyp is taken to ihe motor in the morning she first looks into the trough to see how much it lacks of being full. She then works accordingly and when she thinks she has done enough runs out and takes a look at it. If it is full she Hes down and rests and if there arestilla few inches remaining she starts in again and does not stop until the troagh is run« ning over. All the water that Gyp pumps is for cattle to drink. It flows directly from the well into the drinking-trough, so that they can get it without trouble. Gyp knows as soon as she sees a band of steers making for the trough what they are after and she starts in pumping, so as to keep them from emptying it. Her idea seems to be to keep the trough full. In fact, she is unable to rest unless she knows it is in that condi- tion. Gyp has to work hard to do her work. Each stroke of the pump brings up about a quart of water and she has to make about six jumps to do it; but when she feels like working nothing stops her and the pumps make at leastten strokes & minu te or perhaps 500 galions of water in ten hours. Gyp is the only dog on the ranch that has ever liked the work. Others have been tried, but it is always necessary to lock them in to keep them from jumping the job. Even Gyp’s brothers always had business elsewhere whenever they thought there was any pumping to do. There was one, though, that was a good worker. He used to get so mad at being put in the motor that he seemed trying to wearit out for spite. He used to run and run until the axle fairly smoked, but as soon as he saw that he couldn’t do the machine any harm hs curled up in the bottom and went to sleep.