The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 16, 1898, Page 19

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, 1898 SUNDAY, JANUARY 16, 19 HUNTING ¥ Narrow Escape a Young Hunter From a Vicious “Tusker.” of OR years past a select lot of knowing hunters have been hav- ing ex sport knocking wild hogs in certa sections of the San aquin River bottoms. It J 4 y though that the ven- almost killed by fate, however, Dougla last isn’t every turesome hur the cornere nearly week. chester, hadn't S are T Willia n Pope, with a trusty Win- t t be telling the excit- es about the old “tusk him down in a rush. they hunted in is wild covered with an almost of vines, low brush All old residents wlong the lower San Joaquin valley Xnow just such territory along the | bottom lands where the water over- flows {n the spring. Hundreds of wild hogs inhabit some of them. It was in just such a jungle, near Lathrop, where young Douglass went Yo bag some wild hogs, and it was in “this same jungle that “Old Man” Ty- gon hid after killing Dep Sheriff Buzzell on Thanksgiving eve, 1895. To this wilder prush W Ber and rob the south-bound New Orleans express. Nearly every traveler in California knows of Lathrop, in the banner wheat county of this State, but very few of the passengers who dine at the station dafly know that less than five miles away there is this wild spot where boar hunting can be followed that is every bit as exciting as the famous hunts ir India. There can be no “pig sticking,” to be sure, for the hunter who wi to bay a wild porker in the § quin underbrush must re &nd enough nerve carry him on hands ar the netw f vine The land there and coon-ht with the County. ng down one of t despoilers of hen roos run across one of the droves of ¥ hogs that sometimes venture out into nd kne i bushes, the open pla the river bottom. The t rarely venture ets on the old Trahern the underbrush, where a living. Itisa one is pre- F that long through this ng of the Morano looking for a hiding uld t the officers was in just to find such a > at large had y forced him to the wild hogs. might still will have pienty of them alive,” was 1d-timers said when t ec had is is what fired a pair ai Doug- that the the unde heard ¢ no attention tq it, for when- » chance-to' go hunting T ucks or dov After the ted so much about that 1 Schlagel affair, and told the wild country they were supposed TO ¢ HEODORE F. SEWARD of New York the man who is trying to bring about the banishment of v there * circles in this nothing of others | throughout the country, and more are being formed So now all you t a copy Mr. “Don’t Worry; Happiness,” i epend the re without a row, what you s shall drink, or w be clothed. The t shall be yours. If you are a tailor, and your patrons forget to pay their bills, you will learn to get along without Worrying about it. And if, as a con- of le book, Law of n one of the circles and inder of your existence thought of 11 eat or what you ewithal you shall et of happiness gequence of the forgetfulness of your patrons, you are unable to meet your own obligations, you must get your creditors to join a “Don’t Worry” cir- cle, and then you will be all right. The movement had its inception in Mr. Seward’s little book, and since the first circle was formed, en standing near by | of willows and under- | e to do Is to buy | the mor- | last Novem- | WILD Ko B ' I WAas DOWN to in, I suggested to Jim—that Pox £ down into it > and s we could get one of tho Jim is always ready for g of that kind a has a fine er to help him ¢ 1 had no 1 borrowed arre ma zine shotgun, shot of the Relianc in breaking bl itted out a thre F stay, and hired a sk to go up BRING ABOUT | ber, it has taken definite being given a great ape and is the ,and t -ipal topic w n of worry to health. has decided to be giving as i anscendental ason t “don’t uced to . | Judge R 3. Cowing was one of the | leading_spirits in the organiz of Circle No. 3. The word organization, | however, is objected to by the mem- bers, as there is re no government, no officers, no dues, and nothing to | worry about. The members simply | meet at stated intervals, and practice together the art of not worrying. “The r take the form of an interchange of experien Stewart r told. he usually a topic for discussion, be: some relation to the move which those present tell If looks as though er had a care in the world, duces results, very curious and unexpected even in Britain, where storms have not the violence of those experi- enced in tropical countries. Some tim€ ago a landowner in Lan- arkshire possessed a very fine forest of venerable and sturdy trees, of which he was inordinately proud. Time after time an enterprising wood- merchant made him tempting offers for the timber, and as often his offers were repulsed with scorn. But pride goeth before a fall, and one stormy night a mighty wind swept over the district, and when morning came, in- stead of the stately forest, the aston- ished landlord beheld only a tangled mass of trunks, branches, and roots mixed up in inextricable confusion. This was bad, but there was worse to come. Thinking to make the best of matters, the owner resorted to the wood-merchant and offered him the timber on his own terms. Picture his astonishment and chagrin to find that the merchant now refused to accept 1t even as a gift, as the cost of clear- ing the ground from the effects of the gtorm would far exceed the value of the wood s The same storm produced a still more surprising effect on a neighbor- ing estate, where a path, about twen- ty or thirty vards wide, was entirely cleared of trees, while those on each | side stood unharmed. But the gueerest pranks of wind are played in towns. Recently a severe wind swept over one of our large cities, and did considerable damage to many of the buildings. In one in- stance, a stack of chimneys crashed through the roof of a house, and, fall- ing immediately in front of a bed, welled in the inmates so securely that, " QUEER FREAKS OF WIND STORMS. The wind in a frolic sometimes pro- | though unhurt, they had to remain soners till dug out by their aston- 1ed neighbors. A somewhat led to very size Court at Wo chimneys fell thr Nisi Prius Cour stop to the bu ir w similar accident once r effects in the As- A stack of ugh the roof of the and put an effectual ness for the time be- unhurt, but four out of the five barristers pre: were injured, | though not fatal One of them, a Mr. Aston, with great presence of mind, slipped under the table and escaped unharmed,while another, Mr. Moreton, was jammed in by the rubbish and had to be dug out. Less fortunate than the legal lumin- aries, the crier of the court and five others were killed, while many people were injured in the mad rush to get ut of the falling building. The most interesting result, | ever, that ever followed a great storm {is that which still stands and defies the force of the elements at Piymouth. | The great. breakwater was originally { pianned with the seaward face laid | out at a slopg of one in three. When | the work was well advanced, a storm | displaced a large portion of the work, and altered the slope to ome in five. The engineers, not profiting by the | | | lesson, again altered it to its former | slope, and again some years later | Nature, in the form of "a furious | | storm, reduced it to one in five. This | time the lesson was not without its | due effect, and to this day the great [broakwal'zr remains a lasting testi- | mony to the engineering skiil of the | forces of Nature. —_—— The tobacco raised in Beloochistan is exceedingly strong and cannot be smoked by any but the most vigorous white men. The natives do not ap- pear to be affected by it. The Judge (Mr. Justice Wilmot) | how- | T —————— ety AND DRAWING MY KNIFE WHEN T as far as San Joaquin City. 1 did not That's the toughest country I ever ex- | *“The woodchopper routed us out at know much about the couptry, but pect to tra ough. There is noth- | 4 o'clock ing to get outside Jim had lived in the county all his life ing but tangle willows, blackbe teal duck and knew the lay of the land. vines, hazel bushes and underbrash, rh e us eat a “When we reached San Joaquin City ' and you have to crawl on the ground ous kfast, , as _he put it was earl n the afternoon, and Jim | or climb over it or cut nw way ou don’t feel full you'll never inquired 1 ey 8 woodchop- | through. It was nearly might when we nd to hunt long in that pers’ camps near by. Just as soon as | reached the clearing where the wood- . Youll need it before you get we 1 1ed in what direction we cou chopper’s cabin is. 0 one would e back.” We were mighty glad aft find one we started for it. Maybe ¥ ward that we fed well, for when we don’t think it was work getting the struck the brush we found that it took HE VISCIOUS BRUTE MADE A GOUGE AT ME. v an hour to go a mile. t must have been fully three hours be we got a sign of a wild hog. Jim caught a glimpse of him in a bit of clear We crawled through the tangled blackberry vines in front and got a good view of him. boar, just » the pictures seen. ar him was a sow and three f: grown pig: They were too far off for a good dead shot, so we moved | ne; He was an old | HOGS ON THE SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY LOWLANDS. The Savage Brute Knocked Over in the Nick of Time. about to get a little nearer. I went to the left and Jim to the right. “The old rascal must have scented us for he lifted his snout and started for the brush directly in front of where I was standing. I stepped out and in the excitement shot too soon, for he was over seventy-five yards off. The shot never touched him and he made straight for me. “1 did not think there was any dan- ger, for I knew all I had to do to get another and a better shot was to pump another cartridge into the magazine. I tried to work the gun. The cartridge stuck. I pumped it for all it was worth but it would not budge. “I was on one kneee using every muscle to dislodge the shell and the boar was coming head on like a lim- ited express. “I saw he'd reach me before I could jump anywhere for safety, so T clubbed the gun and made a emash at him. But I slipped on the soggy ground and he was at me when I heard Jim’s Winchester crack. The boar looked as big as an elephant to me for an instant. I'm sure his tusks looked larger than a mastodon’s. ‘““He was right over me, and one of his tusks grazed my duck coat as Jim caught him between the shoulders. I laid flat on the ground, reaching for my knife, as the boar toppled over. “That’s the closest shave I ever had. Catch me fooling with those magazine shotguns any more. ‘Trombone,’ that's what the crack Rellance man calls himself, may break biuerocks with them, but I'll take a rifle and a 44- caliber Colt's besides when I go after wild hogs again. “What we should have had was a lot of good dogs. Then there would have been a pretty fight. I'll bet that old boar would have made it warm for the best dogs in the country. “When Jim fired the boar fell directly across my body, and I couldn’'t get out from under him till jim ran up and helped to roll the big brute over. He did not look quite s big when he was stretched out as he @id when standing over me with his head ready for a gouge, but he was a vicious looking rascal just the same. We each have one of the big tusks as souvenirs of that fight. “On the way home we bowled over another. An old sow and two pigs were ting acorns under an oak. This time we had a ‘cinch,’ for we were right on them, and while I put a load of buckshot into one of the pigs Jim caught the sow right under the left shoulder. Then our troubles began again. How to get them out through the brush was the next question. We finally decided to take the pig and let the old woodchopper take the sow out if he wanted her. “That night we had a feast in his cabin. He dressed the pig, did the cooking and we did the rest. I tell you we were hungry. Several other hunters are contem- plating a trip into the bottoms for a boar hunt, but they intend to take along several good coon dogs to see what sort of a fight one of the big boars will make. Oscar Marshall of the Stockton po- lice force is an old-time market hunter. | e declares that there are hundreds of wild hogs along that portion of the San Joaquin west and south of the rall- road bridge. He hunted there over twenty vears ago, and at that time it was a common thing for the market hunters to knock over a wild hog when they wanted fresh pork. It is estimated that 400,000 larks are sold yearly for food at the Leademhall Market, London. THE BANISHMENT OF WORRY AND CARE. vt believe he would k s 7 (7 bout anything if he draw people into closer sympathy. The w York £ 't worry movement is really an out- tion with which | 1f worry can be conquered nearly all the passions that destroy our happiness little man, with William H rd. He owth of that. It is a study disappear. s benevole by and un- truth from the scientific and prac- Che habit of worrying cannot be > of mind. Dickens :ntly taught mu > Teach- | tical k truth, when really un- ome,” says Mr. Seward in his ave selected him as a model for | ers’ College. He has long devoted his | derstood, eves the mind from anx- | book. “Don’t Worry,” “without res- of the Cheeryble brothers, thosc | attenti to Christian science, and in | lety and worry, and thus the move- |olute and persevering effort. But with kindly old gentlemen who carried so | 1881 anized the Brotherhood of | ment perpetuates itself.” such effort the habit certainly can be much of life's sunshine about with | Christian Unity. Mr. Seward claims that Americans | mastered. If the following suggestions them. “The motto of that socle sald Mr. | above all cthers are slaves to the wor- |are intelligently observed the habit will The founder of this crusade against | ¢ rd, “is ‘Love your neighbor and | rying habit—that it is a national vice, [lose its power, and quietness and brain exhaustion and nervous prostra- | respect his beliefs.” Its object is to | a disease which he calls Americanitis. | peage will take the place of the fever- BONES OF A MASTODON FOUND IN TULARE COUNTY. | T VARIOUS times in the history of California the | ably the bones of the noted mastodons of the Quarter- have ever been found on the Pacific Coast are those recently brought to light by 'some ranchers in Xings County. A short time ago, while J. H. Heriford and J. W. Har- ris were plowing on the former’s ranch near the mouth of the Tule River, some three miles east from the waters of Tulare Lake and twenty-three miles southeast of Han- ford, the plowshare suddenly struck some hard substance at a depth of some four or five inches beneath the surface | which investigation showed to be the bones of a masto- | don. The men at once began to excavate, and In a short time succeeded in uncovering some score or more of the | istics peculiar to the teeth of these extinct proboscideans. | different parts of the mammoth skeleton. Some of the | The tooth is ten inches long, seven inches wide, and largest bones were brought to Hanford for examination, | weighs ten and one-half pounds. The great weight is due and local paleontologists pronounced them as unquestion- | to the tooth's being petrified | of these bones, a horse’s vertebrae is placed by the side of | those of the mastodon in the cut. easily passed through the opening for the spinal cord in the backbone of the latter. Perhaps the most interesting of the fossil remains is the huge tcoth. This tooth is in a perfect state of preser- | | amel crossing the tooth and uniting with each other in of dentine, while between these areas and continuous with the exterior of the tooth is a layer of cement, character- | fossil remains of extinct mammals have been €X- nary age. | humed by the farmer's plow or the miner’s pick, | Most plentiful among the bones on exhibition are the i but probably the most satisfactory specimens that | vertebrae. In order to give some definite idea of the size | The former can be | | vation, showing very plainly the transverse ridges of en- | pairs at the sides of the tooth, inclosing an elongated area ish anxiety, the undercurrent of rest- 1 feeling which robs the human heart question so often heard, whether life is really worth the living.” He then proceeds to lay down rules for guidance as follow: thegtruth that God is infinite and that | you are a part of his plan. 2. Memorize some of the scripture | promi and recall them when the | temptation to worry returns. 3. Cultivate a spirit of gratitude for daily mercies. 4. Realize worrying as an which destroys your happiness. 5. Realize that it can be cured by per- sistent effort. enemy | of its natural happiness and raises the | 1. Consider what must be involved in | | 6. Attack it definitely as something to be oyercome. 7. Realize that it never has done and never can do the least good. It wastes | vitality and impairs the mental facul- | ties. | 8. Help and comfort your neighbors. 9. Forgive your enemies and conquer | your aversions. 10. Induce others to join the | Worry movement. Mr. Seward’s earnestness is shown in a later work on the subject, which has not yet appeared. “A don’t worry eir- cle,” he says, “may be large or small. Any family may agree to resolve itself into a don’t worry circle, and many are doing so. On the other hand, mem- bers need not even live in the same place. There is one circle of three members, two of whom live In New York and the third in Michigan. They study the sclentific principles of the subject and help each other by corre- spondence. Usually members live in the same town and have regular meet- ings.” It has been suggested that school teachers form circles and that the prin- ciple be applied to their work in the | schoolroom. Don’'t BIG PRICES PA The question as to the highest price ever paid for a single book is one which haslong interested bibliomaniacs—people who are not In any way to be con- founded with bibliophiles. The biblio- manlac is merely a collector—some would call him a crank—who looks upon a book | a thing to be valued only for its rarity, and not for its contents. The bibliophile, on the other hand, is a reader, a man who looks between the covers, but is not, as a rule, rich, and therefore the records of phenomenal prices have little to say of him. In the world of biblio- maniacs the prince is Bernard Quaritch of Piccadilly, the famous London book- seller, who for years has bought and sold the highest priced editions. Time was when Quaritch, starting as a re- tail bookseller on his own account, was willing to sell a volume for the humble sum of 8 cents, but to-day, nous avons changé tout cela. Quaritch’s catalogue, just issued, is in itself an expensive af. | fair, ranging in price from $1 2% to $ | according to the style of printing and get-up. A glance at the volyme shows that Quaritch nowadays does not deal in cheap editions. on his list is a follo copy of Cicero, printed in Venice, for which he asks only $70. From this sum the prices range up to $26,.250 for a copy of the Psalter- jum Latinum, on vellum. This is said to be the second book ever printed with a date. The year is that of 1459, and the magnificent typography of the work, combined with its age, gives it this al- most fictitious value. But Quaritch, ac- customed to handling big figures, does not think the sum at all excessive. Next on his list, at a price of $25,000, comes a still older Bible, the famous Biblia Lat- ina, or Mazarin Bible, dated 1454-56, the first book ever produced by typog- raphy. . ZBoubueu the history of this volume | as,he would upon a piece of blue china, | The lowest priced book | ID FOR BOOKS. justifies the enormous price Quaritch sets upon it. It was among the earliest products of Guttenberg, who is one of | the persons credited with the invention of the art of vprinting from movabhle types. This is a vexed question, but the Bible itself is undoubtedly authentic, it having obtained its name through the accidental discovery of a copy by De Beere in Cardinal Mazarih's library at Paris. Probably this is the Syston Park copy which Quaritch purchased, some years ago. At the famous Brayton Ives sale, held in New York in 1891, immense excitement was created by the purchase of another specimen of this rare work for $14,500. A contemporaneous ac- count of the sale says: “The circum- stances under which this copy was pur- chased, its acknowledged rarity, the various surmises ‘concerning its value and the report that it was about to re- turn to England, gave special import- ance to the sale. Although it has six- teen leaves in fac-simile, its condition, height, purity of vellum, its illuminated letters, have given it a world-wide repu- tation. The story of it is brief. Mr. Brindly bought it in Europe. At his sale in 1884 the late Mr. Hamilton Cole pur- chased it for $8000, Mr. Ives at that time being the next highest bidder. When the Syston Park copy, badly cropped, was purchased by Mr. Quar- itch for $17,500 and offered to Mr. Ives at a small advance he immediately decided | to purchase.Mr. Cole’s copy.” ‘Whether even this enormous sum was the highest ever paid for a book is ques- tionable, for a French authority claims that $50,000 was given by the German Government for a missal presented by Pope Leo X to King Henry VIII of Eng- land, along with a parchment confer- ring on that sovereign the right of as- suming the title of Defender of the Faith, ever since borne by British sov- erelgns.