The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 2, 1899, Page 25

A N THE ¥FRAN CISCO CALL, SUNDAY, JULY 2 1899. i L vy — e, o the 16 for S, n she ointed up in ads. . Jake all but 1 and as a good des ed about the lion, 2nd when k arried it back to camp’ and took the dogs along, I said TRILIING J 1 tell my husband rawber nd as I have, o vild straw- own he ild turn the browse hom d 1 did not know h out half 1 from the lay of the land I I knew where the camp ws took a trail leading that d on, b come to the camp; so T turne ) back to the buckskin was frightened, and his vice, but I reme nd I I yelled and , but nobo answered, ly did not know what to do. etting late; the sun Imost down; and I knew they would be miss- ing me at the camp. “T could not stand still, and besides 1 was hungr 1 knew there was a ranch house come place, and counting the chances, 1 thought I ran the best one by walking on. I might come to something. “T kept thinking of ‘all the storles I had heard of people being lost, and wandering till they starved or lost their o s L s b e e — ns of blooc I had ) when nd 1 A fire when he I did not quite see how 1 without kindling. [ k v own brought rlorn with was glad 1 he did not tt o k ) I kept a stick in cted any told us 1 asleep a 1 when rtled E: ‘attracted by the . had told h e crawled warmti w th I sat and listened light I did not dare fter 1 was zone to sleev. i quite “Finally T stood up and loaked care- fully, but could not a_slgn of a snake. I poked Harebell and made him go out of the tree. He did not seem to cee or smell any snakes, so I ventured out. 1 could not find anything, and don’t believe now it was a snake at all. “Oh, of course, I told about it. Jake «aid it was a cricket or a katydid. “One might think he knew a great deal, but just let him get lost and have to look out for himself and then see how much he know “When I was satisfied about the snakes I discovered I was hungry an wanted a drink. I did not let myself think about it, though. I had too many s °F Plucky Woman in Mendo= no’s Wilds for Obliged to on Berries and a Few Birds Caught by [Her Faithful Dog. other things to occupy my attention. It was a magnificent morning, and do you know I really half enjoyed the idea whole thing ,only I was so anx- because [ knew my husband would. be ly- frantic. He was, too. “I had been thinking what I meant to do. I w the creeks all emptied River, and there were ranches all along on Eel River. ow, obviously if 1 followed a creek, 1, too, would get to Eel River. So I set about finding a creek. It sounds such a : to do—just go into the the creeks ere is where in the afternoon before I tried to follow > all made by to drink s trail I tried just went al, and ded there. trawber- .. ‘Then 1 and sheep 1e ends of the black- lered if I would not t Harebell I we y than good deal of dr Vas tired S0 hungr. me just ing at s >l', bird down hought it no more than fair divide, so 1 got the bird t follow any special recipe cooking it, but k it on a sharp k. It tumbled into the fire twice. hes were as good as salt to me we I set out to find Part of the the walking on the shore was , but some of the time the ba ally 1 gave up \ter or jum me or got on I could. s awfully hard and 1 kept hearing things or think- I did. There was a noise in the brush, and T was awfully frightened. I thought I hear 1 waited and Harebell kept right at my feet and sneaked behind 2. There was a big brown stump about a hundred aheard on 2 little plateau all by its I thought by getting to it I could h a to look about and rest a few 1 o Harebell would not follow. He seemed to prefer the water, so I went alone. I was so tired 1 didn’t have much sense left, and I thought if the dog didn’t want to come he could Do you know I thought I w al- beginning to lose my reason? ) gave a low growl and then started off up the steep hillside. I had been on the lookout every moment for bears, and yet you cannot think how or 1 felt for a minute. Then I re- »d that T had taken a big brown ar for a stump. “I sat right down and made up my mind that some of the bear stories I had he: were not true. ‘I just trudged on and on all day, and I think I saw very little nor had much cf an idea of what T was doing. “The next day almost at night I found a great empty barn. There was > hay and several bags of salt in a shed, so T made up my mind there be some one living in that part I lopked for a trail, Lut must of the world. there were not less than three and all overgrown and unused. three cows and some calves suddenly appeared on the top of a hill.. They stood a few minutes, loked at me, and then away they went as if they did not care to meet me. “I went back to the barn and lay down on the hay to sleep. I began to feel as if T could not go much further. My feet ached and had been blistered the first day. proof shoes coming to my knees, and with a thick hob nailed sole. They had moose skin lacings and when I was having them fitted the man who sold them had said joking] “‘If you get hungry, vou know vou can live for days on those shoe strings.’ “I began to think I would soon have to efther eat my dog or my shoe strings unless something happened. “In the night I was wakened Oy . A little after, | T had a pair of water- | Harebell. He was howlin soul-stirring howls. I liste and then I went to see what v matter. There was nothing to be nd I think he was only homesick. made him lie down in the . but he got up and began to howl. It was the first time I had cried, but I did then. 1 cried and Harebell hc ed. Then we both felt better and went to sleep again. “It was toward evening of day before I at last came to I did not stop to knock, but the next house. ghost n kin T cc nd him. £ WAS HOWLING ,— LONG DEEP SOUL-STIRRING HOWLSY « « He was glad enough, too, and knew v most thir “I went to bed and slept for thi six hours and when T woke up I all right. to catch up with the dinn though. Jake made me a dorg that'll s git lost in the countr: to go live in the d than I had been. found I was neither a robber, she was all s much milk as v paring ld Le dne uld drink ng for I mis she me to ¢ somehc arve to death Her ‘ole man’ she felt sure would be v too glad of the chance to go and HELEN GRA “‘He glad do onyting, only not vork.’ the I had come al- rty- felt I réally have not been able 5 d, present of Harebell and s jest the kind Y. - San Francisco’s Queer Centenarian. od and thirteen years lay. After landing ex he was a Mexican woman, Angle Bar { - Maru Modi was She was installed in room the farawa of t which he Appi Maru M 1s a double stroke and happy, and spends His wi his time in the 3 Since home out- near chari says th entiful diet of And b and his touc He does not world. ) er thri 2 a being able to get around » he does have Iy, even tho to gr blindness ze. He | and has to fe s to be takes ¢ 3 deep interes time hat he kee] Maru Modi's life is and the wonder 13 to crowd it into the ry of Appi remarkable s been able 113 vears to which he lays claim. His father was onc of the native princes whose power and glory departed. The - first fifteen vea nis life he among the tawdy splendors of a native court, until at last his adventur- les of an out- ous disy side world left behind guised fon, fired by t told by war home low te a tive stowed away on a trading vessel bound for Singapore. His stz mary end thre in Singapore came to - sum- ugh an encounter with safl- ored in the harbor. A mess boy was weded and Maru Modi drew the attention of the sailors. He was invited to go on board. He refused. His ¢ overruled and he was shan board the man-of-war, when the persuaded him to bear his lot with as- sumed resignation. A long cruise through the waters of the an archipelago finally ended at Here he was sold to provide s for a drunken carouse for his te shipmates. His purchaser was the skipper of a little trading vessel, cruls- ing among the Islands of the Philippine group. Five years he spent among Spain's sely held island possession. During those five vears he visited island after | tsland f Mandandoro to the Sulu group. was eighty-five years ago. The Spaniards even then, he were | ighting the nativ His most vivid | recollection, of Manila was a compactly | bullt city on the 1k of a sluggish stream, surronded on three sides by high walls, the river forming the other bound- | For twenty years following his sojourn in the Philippines few of the islands of | the Pacific, north or south, but knew | Appi Maru Modi, pearling, copra, buy- | ing and trading among the islands of the | South Seas; sealing and whaling in the North Pacific from Alaska to Japan and Siberia. Drifting eastward in 1845 this scion of a royal house was filling a snug berth in one of the trading schooners controlled by John Jacob Astor, sailing from Van- | couver, B. C. Nearly four yvears passed | crutsing along the coast, when early in 1849 the word reached Vancouver of the mad rush for gold in California. The captain of the vessel immediately loaded with an assortment from the lim- ited supplies at Vancouver and sailed for San Francisco, where he expected to | realize fabulous prices for his cargo. His lust for gold was shared by the majority of his crew, and when near the entrance | to the bay Applt Maru Modi, with two | shipmates to bear him company, slipped over the side and started to swim to the land, where fortunes were to be made in aPPI MARU MODI, i3 Years Old, - \