The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 2, 1899, Page 24

| THE AN trampl came seage. Mor r, he in o nearer trece an’ the went dowr f me. The man was a tall ""Shoot her! Shoot her! For God’s sake shoot her quick!” Y ) me man s Oh, what shall I do? when I tu (my side) t} precise m amusem vs paid ain't the 2 yellin® do ymetimes ace from »>wn the to the rocks to the road to see jump out with his thin specimen of e in upon me that the ship was f fr a flas atched op We were in collision n my door mmered out, ting. The - propeller 1d we h nd hammerin; the electric already the ports the steamer was in a bad way t for the upper decks. in hand ag me | . Codrin g nois of the d my knees. I gu the be: 1ce was empty, h ran coldly ab nd ran there my that I k waves no more ship. We had just time re mail ste I had felt that found her drifting ave her decks bef roof of a house, bridee cam of yellow flame. wurled about in tongue ad with fear. were raging f the lifebo. 1 hardly crawl n drowned 4 1 like a gr trembling finger: falls. Then the c siren and gave ds and all will be saved,"” its and men away rst swine ench and Nor b hoot the to port seen_the mewhat how 1 premium of two copper coins employ natte r ad we he triflin nehion or nd when I with elbow or sing gown. and rment of cotton I gave force) a spotted s string in the pocket of it skirt. Yol along more comforts like it. I've insured you let vou come (o gr anll squealing vo 1 have ten r Steamer, kets Then you t said the gr arm m—m" s speak agair ridge. the purse you're a m h over. 1 my sted too m s in the wa d if any one and kids you may would vo way tow wrenche man. Just L 1l soon in a minute i come o t wa to_try v. and ry to swamp 1 he a second nte ther people’s liv nounted to a m of those rd boats had been lowered Was in the w the after fs T The list had grown till the r davits. and the escape was cat off for g In half the into the windy ni that the ship them thought that his own i th the world combined horde—Polish and R nd the ith -an uncommon Jarge mouth ar thin nose, a-loomin’ up betwesr cheekbones. He warn't the most old me ame,’ | bear hunter?’ vered, ‘an’ I »u find a bes kon ht. Help me with my traps up r for me to kill?' nnsy 3 A big h tuck Sure g knife around hi belt was load- broad an’ he were middle. n minutes he ha that he was Aly. and told me porter on had run up his re big New t to kil s exactl t done. I soon dis- cove tha more” about bears in one minit n I had learned in all m trampin’ up and down the woo L wise he thought he did. an' T didn't care. ve him a_whole lot of satisfac- 1 knowe ai {0-morrow w i had in mind the identical bear I would turn him loose on. ht, afier turnin’ in, he cleaned his rif st a dc ever he told me just how a-goin’ kill the bear. an’ cautioned me, under reumstances, to do an nootin’ my 7ind the the bear, an’ I'll do he said. he next morning the d me at 2 o’cloc get a move on me. mon earl for it g tion, an A-comin’ old_she sg-zoned ic nd told m EXCELLENT TEA CAN BE GROWN IN AMERICA., When an American makes up his mind that he can do something, he gon- erally does it. There was a man Gown in Pinehurst, S. C., several years ago who decided that tea could be grown there as well as in Asia, and the result is that tea is being raised there in suf- ficient quantity for commercial pur- POS; nd of such a fine quality that it commands §1 a pound at retafl. Asiatic tea experts say that tea can- not be grown successfully where there !is not at least 80 to 100 inches of rain- fall annually. Pinehurst averages 46 inches. Asiatic experts say tea cannot be grown in a region where there are | frosts. Pinehurst has frosts. It has been asserted, too, that tea growing is |impracticable, except where there is the # cheapest kind of labor to be obtained l[ur the picking. Dr. Charles U. Shepard laughs at of . She lay down sodden rockets climbed up high into the Orders, praye 11 the clz at white A shout could not be heard above fumbled on at boat grips and ptain on t his orders before the silence could be he cried in German that disobeys me." . till his cry was lost once more ness of think wced, d to heavily So from the mome 1 in hunting for th nd outside the bulwar} ay. and had gazed = other her my own pilot jacket, carriage 11 that 1t that rC nk we at steam and while me t ter without swamping away the you wire brutes lived and could call thems Iready 1 had j: FRANCISCO CALL awake with screaming and the tened feet, and then the interpretation of these things We're going down! hip was full of noise had stopped, no light came d so heavy a list to starboard re covered most of the time. nd one’s first and most It was at 1 had already rushed outside the door with this in. But then I pulled mys: avy serge clothes over my p: fter which I pounded off n shared with the Vanrenn th the roll of f up and mas and long the alley- girl. ship. 1 iooked the rkness came a swirl d the; pace. had gone to There was a ind numb in the sluggish, sullen roll and boarded her in she sank down to and it was carpeted shriek: Europe kno that like devils unchained iked emigrants were there tore at the b and the few deckhands with 1da at awnings vere swept mor, and at ihat lamp _through the din and the e upper bridge let “Women to their peated Boat crew Then he r g about my own and 1 remembere insure two ladi; charges en sparing vigor in the proc There wera oup. and it was not a possible thing to go I had gone r¢ 1. occa- wn on th were wantec 1. Mrs. Cod- rl had turned out from a jacket, anl this d much better stop being fright- ) You aren’t going yto £1000 ce to_Van- price. Whej all go off in a bi ind us in half an have a cnance horn from the captain was ny elbow. = port_bo, 10w whe with Hff in them ex bld yarn, y' kr well do it in a way He knocked down a . Tho don't k weapon in and murder s wo up my mind myself oy use they I was ast packed with mmed 1 the other took ¢ he tilted bow downward and spilt into chs 15, Another boat inst the r amer rolled into her crowded in took the water sa shoved off. an: side crawled away over the inky w port boats hung in- r crowds beside them saw that tongus of Pen king. sin was worth more than They poured dc 1 n Jews, Hungarian fleeing from the conscription; Italian thieves, Belgian stoker: zs of Europe; and with them came men who ought vut who had gone mad also, smitten by this same peasant Toul gush from the dr to_have known better infection of terror. 1 had siung the stood with my back s the gunwaie Swede, rose up bestd ceti. gri gripped in his hand. Three deckhand ; iind swearing at the falis, getting the boat lifted off her chodks and : yutboard. The other women on the decks were knocked down and stamped on, and the mob of men leaped at the boat me for words. Th mate and I hit out at every face we could re avage fury, but none turned to hit again. They scrabbled at the gunwales “with their hands, and those behind tore the leaders their faces in my hate; ing there worthy The boat wa had ceased to r rail. The boat was floated came up and swayed her c the slanting deck; I leaned up , the floor grating of No. 3 lifeboat and the mates, a gigantic ind a belaying pin wo women on boat: I could have beat in t If to shoot; there was noth: The steamer bridge deck and a wave 'w back up wung outward coming green on he most before the falls were The crowd shrieked & breath ret g to me in labored gainst a davit. my pants. But the Swedish m: left me, and if murder showed in a man’s e I saw it gleaming from his then; and shrieks coming through the darkn told what his fury was doing. He, at any rate, 1 told ay- gelf. would die warm. But the lust for maiming had left me. The la and the women and children who were left h and with those who > nitely less than men t of the hoats had gone, i got to die with us men The rockets were =till spouting up in u ried series from the upper bridge. and once 1 saw the purser me, jaunty as of yore h a lit cigar in_his fing and an assurance | n’ his teeth that all would be weil. But I heeded him little. The chill of death was nipping me with its agues, and the hopelcs: minutes were dragging out intolerably. With a lifebelt I might—but no; there were women left, and I had got to stay. 1 of a t roar, and a gush of scaldir n ped and splinte rushed dow 5 No, not that death rail and sank : The instinct of the swimm curious. 1 had gone over the side q satisfied that escape was hopeless, and inter to drown with one plunge. But no sooner did jer in my ears than the instinct made me strike out for But I could not reach it. I swam on for what seemed to be irs, thousands of years my arms aching, the veins like tc my skin. And then it cam i their break ick in D tn the . we had_our conrag n cau- by 4 oclock to do an When might leave vour gun here we wert e he saw me pick up my rifle; fallen tr where 1 could look. into do all the shootin’, vou know t hole the roots, I st ed an won't,’ I goes in tI b )’ he said. ‘yo i could pump_a bear sieve with this g could touch you. The hots.” “‘Goldarn your old ‘When | shoots bear balls. 1 don’t pump considerable rils e n:r)':vl;”)’: HHE Olg e Mr. Reporter threw his rifle wildly to nature an’ man nature to know thered shoulder an’ fired. As luck would have be trouble when them two collided it the ball struck the bear somewhere in T s A K AU TR DI the side an’ made her madder than ever. <melied sweet an’ fresh, wi just a For one desperate moment Reporter touch of pine in it, an’ the e to pump TR clear whistle.” I felt sure 1 could ered he couldn’t walk onto the old be: tlin he Dbl rk. The down under the roots of a gre tree right in which the wind had blown down. an’ face grow where she had been keepin’ house for and then. with a mad yell the last month. As we went deeper into g the rifle at her head the woods, an’ the rocks an’ the trees for a tree. The condemned ' a an to look more know enough to climb a small Reporter was bej scrambled up the trunk of a get nervous, an’ the way he kept what the bear coul 5 the trigger of his abou to these assertions. And Secretary of Agricuiture Wilson is metaphorically patting Dr. Shepard the back and endeavoring to encoura, others throughout the South to emulat: Dr. Shepard’s example. get Dr. Shepard down from the rainfall for his gard was small posal go further tha amount nature alone. He did this by soil unusually deep, instead of draining off after an’ he wanted to kill the be: An’ he smiled. m made me mighty he could Iked in front of I feet behi t 1 hot her. lon clouds tw fast long before yught to be. It was a wild lookin’ down in a deep gully, all overgrown sw York in time to get his t trees an’ thick with under- that night. 1 neve I told Mr. Reporter that I reck li-fired hot for bear a re near bear. He cocked his zan to look scart; but, with a eat and were ready 1 replied, shortly, hese woods my gun 1 up stone s re!' an he looked wildly u need be afraid as ful_of holes a yund Gy There,” an' I hurled the great stone [ € with all my strength right into the hole. magazine holds six- “.fimineyt You oughter ter see that bear flvin’ out ¢ ht for t lin' like tood on end : she looked as | that hole reporter. ne as thunder storm an’ her hair 1 over her body, so that 1S an ox make pump.’ T says ba i shoots them w noles into_them but 1 didy’ the spot whe went He knows better. ing in the neighborhood could be taught to be very expert tea icke The gardens were not exten- ve enough to keep a force constantly employed, and it was very difficult to the vickers together when they | thinkin’ were wanted. Dr. Shepard puzzled over | lo this problem for quite a long time, but of Pinehurst not able to draw ice as much she pau: ““Can you find a bear for me that the reporter didn’t dare to climb up high, but that the When- the d an’ b was being dragged her swirl down, down, where it was too upon m th Gown, down, down to the dark sea HOOF Coldodownidowns s s f SEBE O RS L L and blinked—blinked again, and saw dimly the rough sea luing room of fishers, It was wainscoted with bunks rourd to the udder Case, and on the -forward bulkhead: was a fireplace, resplendent with br: I'imagined I was in one of the bunks, but was not very cer; tain_about it, S0 coughed in mru‘.gl).‘.. Somebody '{!0“‘ %o khqw‘ SHiis bonaered a while, and then remarked, “I seem, somehow, : coat. 1 opened my eyes “Don’t you remember? I'm Mabel It’s yours,” said the some one. Ve Was more satist I woke further and inquired, ““Where's r—I said a “I'm a the other - **Codrington, I was getting on m one of the bunks. ‘“‘Here.” . 1 you must have lost all your clothes, was the next thing that occurred to me. s S Yes,” id the vol “and such lovely diamonds = P Thes came a torrent of sobbing, and between sobs: “Oh, how could I o There are only sixty, picked to think of such a thing now. be so horrid as £0,50N those other poor people drowned! up, they say. think about’ ““Very probabiy think we've anyth gathered me up, t A man cam Isn't ft awful to 3ut we've saved our own skins, and I don't ashamed of. It wasn't my fault that some one I said. B in and stared t me thoughtfully—a fisherman in Joots and brown patched oilskin. g Sy e boots eak youwve had, mister,” said he, slowly. “We've just passed that other boat what run you down. She'd about seven foot of her Do one and looked pretty sick T tell you. We hailed her to know. if she nything, but she said ‘No.” Got her ste x gear fixed up again Hoing o put in_Portsmouth. She's a Welsh collier bound. there. Rum go, that has been, Where was your steamer hit? “Haven't a notion.” n, and the mob of men leaped at the boat,” what were her water-tight bulkheads doing?” rry, but I can’t ‘tell you 1 the do you know about {t?"’ m here at present, and that just now vou won't do much toward t the inquiry, that's one ble: 1 you'd better Sleep. We're s because there ought to be a rew should be there. So long. dirtying any_poor ng.” I'll send_you nding in for Pen- rd kicking about beast of a ilor's ticket n of t nd t zance to carry the news and by the time you wake we oéz/d a-—.#u;}zy*go, and .r}forwr.}é'e Didn’t ZZZ the Lear o shake, an’ all of a sudden the reporter nce an’ went down, but h limb with both hands. 1 tumbled the bear off, but she, too. caugit the limb with her fore paws an’ there they hung, a facin’ each other an’ kickin, not more'n six feet apart. Neither con!d get back on the limb. because when the bear would try to swing her body up ths man weuld kick her in the stomach an’ knock her back, an’ when the reporter tried to do the same trick the bear, with one vigorous kick of her hind legs, ripped lost his b on to the the loons an’ drawers clean off his leg took a lot of skin along with them. The limb of the tree had hent con- siderable with the weigi#t of the man an the bear. an’. the reporter's feet wasn't more'n six feet above the ground, but ne was too scart to know it an’ didn't dara to let go. thinkin’ that every bone in his body would be broke by the fall. v a moment thev hung there this way. the reporter ' for me to shoot an’ swearin’—gosh, he could swear! —an’ the bear kickin’ an' growlin’ an' gnashin' her teeth fft to make one's hload run cold: then. all of a sudden, the limb broke, an’ bear an’ man went to the ground together. the limb fallin’ on top of both. with a crash like thunder. “T don’t know who. was most scart. the man or bear: but I guess it was six of one an' I 2 dozen of the other. The reporter jumped to his feet an’ ran vellin' through the woods. the thick un- derbrus fump: an ccratchin’ his bare legs at every the bear. with a velp of fright, hounded awav un the mountain side. “I picked up the repérter's rifle an’ started out to track him up. I fou roostin in the top branche: 5 shiverin’ so T could » near the trunk I velled, ‘or the with you.’ -ta-dash! Dash! BI nk! Blank the bea: hen seein’ the mons t, he be N slow! 1 down thé tree. ched the ground I offered nk-it-ta- he re- er wasn't ¥ an’ painfully to to Kill?” H he gun!’ he said. shortly. “‘You e it. Take me to rour home.' _ie at glum all the long way back that great limb, 1ther word could T zet out of him, bear wou.d fear to fol- though I tried to put him in good humor bear came to the limb by tellin’ him how funny it all really was an to growl more te vhat a good story ould make for crawled out on a it ens as nature ordi- finally solved it. rible than ever. Mr. Reporter sat strad- per narily bestows on that part of South The quality of tea produced depends | {l° of the limb, a-holdin’ on with bot n we came to my cabin he grabbéd Carolina, but he was able to mak: the to a very great degree upon the selec- | BANds, an’ swore at the bear. He wi riodkoutia mew: pairiof trousers; of, moisture at his dis- tion of the proper. leaves in. pieking, | Lhat,sc BUD PR rusedt allehout L e n it would if left to and the high price obtained for the | his belt. The began cautiously to started dc the. puth: leadbny ta cans ure und=r- Pinehurst teas is due very largely to | creep out on the e Mill mile: » the valle iy draining his gardens and plowing the the care exercised in selecting the | 'Shoot he ‘or God's ‘Be vou in such a hurry to tell your so that the water, proper leaves. The pickers are trained | SaKe. shoot her quick!' velled 'the re- readers how to kill bear that you can't iheel ot after wetting o distinguish by the touch the leaves | i o o berAn funtlier, wliorie BieReR R caliens s aer nim. e surface of the ground, soaks in and which are just right for picking and | ‘I'm noi P e e 4 e oY o itnt the porous ground, to pass over all the other leaves. AS |know. I says back “Yousn ecfin joa [Lever hear of vour téllin' any one about is absorbed by which halds it like a sponge and gives off water graduall plants. The labor question was solved in an entirely original way. that the children of colored families liv- a result the teas put upon the market | bear are remarkably uniform in grade, and | hol¢ do not have such a large pcrrentane‘ of undeveloped leaves as in the case y to nourish the You w: “The reporter did some more swearin’. ‘“The bear kept nearer an’ the reporter kept hitchin' back 5 this bear hunt T'll send a prize- a goin’ to pump her full of ; o ufl from New York ta knock your through the back of your head, ar:'e‘)}[:e m . was_gone. crawlin’ nearer an’ - ‘““That was the most fun I ever had It was found with most imported teas, especially | further an' further an . eyearin huntin’ bear, finished the old hunter, as g St v Pt rther: . yearin' harder he knocked the ashes those from China, an’ harder. The limb began o bend an' refilled it with tobaceo. Cf N\ pipe and