The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 6, 1899, Page 30

THE SUNDAY CALL W e ¢ by the 1 entrance as good as contents and dkerchief or mentioned about $1 pe 4. Do not resorts devoted to the trea 1. Av culous. ment of the tuber- winter not le r 5 1l the laws in the world and all the good advic 1 ed will to diminish but not eradicate nuisance th, especially tl outum _on the si d 'throug this are taken home, dried, and thus infection is Introduced i a ho I \n efficic To secure such d ed of old paper and washed 1 ride (bichloride of merecury) uld b ainted afte: floors thoroughly Dpoison. Do not share a col sonal property, includin; 5. Avoid tuberculous foods. e where your predecessor disinfection of i ve the olution of one to_1000. g with t move into imptive’s bed nor use the per- dishes, belonging to one. Fowls and cattle are found Persons Who Easily dcquire All individuals are not equally apt to acquire tubercu- Some are peculiarly predisposed and must be es v careful to follow the above instructions. Such are; Persons born of tuberculous parents or having sev- atives who guffer with tuberculosis in any of its FRANK T. CANFIELD “LINE RIDER ™, litinois Society for the Priv:n.io For Those Who Ha How to Avoid Contracting the Disease. were boundary to its mar in it that TIGNS FOR THE TREATMENT OF CONSUMPTION. n of Consumplion. ve the Diszase. . tk ter. ( a fowls are susceptil become es ¢ n. In fact, do not at all s 1ot des d before it can dr pit on streets, and never swallow the spu- should k one on the us person any shaven. it being In- be smooth clean and from lways sleep alone. | d often (every day and should be at once im- tes. and cau them to be onal prop- ) nurse her baby nor ring its food must ob- engage in occupa compel food supplies. If ever on to prevent inf & berths when tray- tients nor of depriv- ful not to in 10 ne single hor comfort. susceptible to tuberculous infections. s thoroughly cocked infection is de- r children, must be from to be especially However, when focd stroved, Milk, especially that f cattle free from infection. By heating it to 180 degrees Fabrenheit for half an hour it becomes non-infectious 6. Never ins or other money in the mouth. e or wind In; 7. ument belonging tc a important of all, see that the diges- n perfect order. Dyspepsia is more f tuberculosis than any other disease. thy stomach will dispose of a large nfected material, but when diseased l‘le the principal avenue of infection. as much time In the sunlight and open air as sleeping and living rooms well aired and 1t. The sunlight acts as a powerful de- 9. Spend possible. filled with the stroyer of rm. 10. 1f possible to choose the site of your home, locate it on porous soil. If not, see that the drainings are perfect. 11. Protect all raw or wounded surfaces from any pos- sible tuberculous infection. 12. Do not forget that every new case of consumption comes from a preceding one. the Disease. Alcoholic excesses are pecullarly dangerous {n this re- spect. 3. The following may be termed predisposed: All ersons suffering or just recovering from measles, whoop- ing cough, smallpox, influenza. Those predisposed ghould not assoclate with bersons afficted with the diseases, full escal = o~ : and both whites it far too freely for n Mexi n pald for in Mex! fiver, it Is rid cheap, but th paid at the line makes a big difference to the American-side consumer. If this duty can be evaded even the i n or so of the lquor will a Mexican rich for and it is to prevent this sudd of wealth that the line-riders ke sharp lockout for itinerant mes £ Irish w and Mexicans dr thefr own good ers Canfield, giving his now submissive mal his head, g behind iloped swiftly around the the other rider had eing him drawing ble with his v load called to him sharply to halt. The man looked over his shoulder, ured with hiseye the distance betw and then, most unex leg over the back of er rifie as his feet sed the weapon to shoulder and.fired straight at his ad- neing foe. sed, of course, but the “an- d . in rock which and and fire at his opponent. The exciting difficulty of carrving on a battle of this kind alone in a mountaln gorge, with a frenzied horse trying to pull one’s arm off and a murderous face looking at one critically along the shining line of a rifle that unquestionably means business, can readily be imegined. But the new In- spector was equal to the occasfon. It was plain that, much as the man be- hind the other rifle evidently would like to pay off old scores upon his yet unac- climated person and use him for a target, he was far too excited to do good execu- tlon, even had the inspector’s horse al- lowed him to stand still enough to be a good mark. Canfield had not been in that section of the country long enough to learn to hate ‘‘greasers’” generically and individu- ally, as most Americans do down there, and he did not care about bagging, or even winging, him save in self-defense. He wanted, however, to spoil him for a smuggler, for that trip at any rate, and 0 he managed to fire another shot, which hit the Mexican's horse in a vital spot and laid him low. The broncho be- came simply wild at this second explo- T THE FIGHT WITH TRE —= MESCAL SMUGRLER . fligil e and tore him- sp, almost aid so; but sfon directly under his no self away from Canfleld’'s gr dragging him to earth as h this move was a lucky one for the in- spector, as the Mexican, using the dead body of his horse for a bre: works, fired straight through the place wh his head had been bef his terrified steed had nearly jerked it off. It was the inspector’s turn now, and re- lieved from the necessity of trying to do two things at he sprang to the shel- ter of a n rock, and taking delib- erate aim sent a ball directly through the conical top of his enemy’s sombrero and followed it up with another one, which cut off a lock of his flowing hair. An instant later ti in was speed- down the rough t admg to his and Canfield was left con- sion, moreover. of ten s mescal, a addle very excelle: rifle, ad flung ¢ in his » hot breath of the s his cheek. under trying high pos companions, last bullet sweep acro: This exhibition of nerve, circumstances, gave Canfield tion in the estim: nd he soon showed them that it means a sporadic attack of for within a week he was mixed similar scrape and acquitted him as well. Riding through the mountain with a companion at night the two came .sud- denly upon three other men, also mounted and cach with a large bundle strapped on his saddle. Canfield’s companion, though a brave fellow, thought discretion the better part of valor in this case, as three desperadoes banded together in an illegal enterprise would be by no means easy game, even for an equal number of offi- cers, but Canfield, unwilling to let the prize slip through his fingers, dashed for- ward with the ringing command, “Hold up your hands! “Hold up ycur hands!” was the reply ish, and Canfield, instead of obey- s counter challenge, promptly opened fire, which was returned imme- diately with 200 per cent interest. Can- fleld’s companion joined in at once, and the result was a general mix-up for a few moments, during which bullets flew thick and fast, one of them going through Canfleld’s coat sleeve and grazing the flesh, and another slightly wounding the other inspector’s horse, which turned tail ing ] THRILLING EXPERIENQE IN THE Most Dangerols Branch of United States QUstoms Service. and fled choice Letween a hurried re leaving Canfield to make instant at and con- tinuing the unequal battle alone. He decided on the latter course, know- ing that as soon as his fellow-officer could regain centrol of his mount he would come tack to his assistance. The moon had not yet risen and the dim starlight made it almost impossible to distinguish the Mex rom jetty ma of rock behind which they were partly shel- tered. d rode boldly with his rifle poi out into the open d for action zer. One of the but the the tr t him instantl r ouble one and was fol- lowed by a shriek of pain, for, aiming at flash which marked the shot, Can- bullet took such serious effect upon smuggler that the next moment a came dashing up the trail t seemed a the riderless horse and two Me ne of them bearing a limp and apparently lifeless body in place of the keg of mescal which had shared his horse’s back with him, a which the officers found among the roc! later on—retreated down the slope with all spe sible. Canfield’s companion, returning to the fray, met and succeeded in capturing the runaway and still heav- ily laden steed, and the two inspectors nt back to quarters, very well pleased with th night’s work. Canfield’s latest adventure was of a The smugsgling of mescal dishonest traffic that goes though it is, perhaps, the most annoying to the customs office The reason of this is that it is consta indulged in by people to whom the petty profit of a gallon or so of the fiery liquid is object enough to make them spend their days in devising ways in which to outwit and elude the hated * who keep such sharp watth upon them. gling is one of the popular that region, as it has been since the Gadsden purchase and aithough the days of the v famous quartet—'‘Curly Bill,” y the Kid,” n George” and “Man-eater Johnson”—are long over, the memory of their deeds still lives and on al gri ves “A RIDERLESS HORSE DASHED UP THE Traw" forms an incentive to others to follow in thelr footsteps,as far as may be consid- ering inconvenient prese v obstacles. The cattle driven across the line with- out going through cere- m of paying to rnmen are usually h have cost their herd up and turni dlrection, catt busines as to, gaged thercin, any damages that Becoming a litt of captu g to flight petty mescal t ctor Canfield deter- mined to see what he could do in the cat- tle line. Two weeks spent over the border hang- ing aro n saloons in the guise of a dirty young vagabond, with no particular interest in the world besides mescal and flirtatious n: ve girls put him in possession of some very inter- i which he managed to s only the trouble o their faces ttle smug: ieves also, so large of the men en- e for almost notony and fon esting inform: have secretly conveyed to his brother in- spectors across the line. At the end of three weeks he was on v terms with two of the “cowboys™ who had helped Colorado Joe—the cham- pion “rustler” of that region—on several of his expeditions, and when the next one started out Customs Inspector Frank T. Canfield was hired to go along with the outfit in a sort of “general utility” role. ling cattle is not a picnic by any for there is the danger of pursuit from irate cattle owners at the back and the danger of governmental interference panting, rowd, the edge of whi fringe of rayers’” that are con- to be headed off and sent career= ck into the concrete mass of the friend at the front of the whole surging plunging bovine is a drove. The hours of work are almost continu- ous, the food is poor and hastily e but Inspector Can 1d—known to his companions_or “The Kid"—see of these to care nothing for He even helpe break down the barbed- wire fences which interfered with the ex- pedition’s neces progress *’cross lots,” an did » without swearing any more earnestly and profusely than his It was a lark’” for him, he his elders approved of him >d admiringly that he had “nerve,” and would ‘“‘get onto after a while and ‘“‘amount to somethin, They didn’t think so highly of him when after getting ever into Arizona and well on the ¥ to their stronghold they ran straight into the arms of a dozen deter- mined men, who seemed almost to spring out of the ground, so silently and unex- pectedly did they appear, and who made them prisoners and confiscated their out- fits and stock before any of them could have said “Jack Robinson,” even had he wanted to. The high officials of the customs service look upon Frank Canfield with approving eyes, but there are those who know the ntry and the people well who say that has taken his life in his hands by means of this, his latest and most bril- liant performance. id that a certaln lttle Mexican girl who is particularly fond of Colorado Joe thinks, with regret, that it might have been some careless word of hers, spoken while the disguised officer—then the hand- some, dirty, ged, young ne’er-do-well was loafing about her father's drinking place, that put him on the track of her lover’s plans, and she has sworn revenge: A M n’s revenge, as has been said, is generally swift and sure. It is gen- erally even swifter and more sure when the Mexican interested is a woman. But Frank Canfield is young and brave —and a bit foolhardy also, perhaps—and he says that he is not afraid. It is = A SON WHO WAS TRULY GRATEFUL story may not have a re be one it may be diffi- but ha t least the true, and hence possibly The followi moral, or if t cut to discover, virtue of being worth telling: In a certain office building not far from La Salle street and Jackson boulevard was for many vears the office of a highly successful grain and stock broker, 2 man who worked early and late for the inter- ests of his clients, and incidentally for his own interes We will call him Mr. Old Man Broker. He had accumulated, among the items of his fortune, a fairly extensive and very expensive family, consisting of three daughters and one son. Mr. Young Man Broker had been sent to an Eastern seminary and later to Yale for his education. He had never accom- plished much asa scholar, but had brought himself into more or less public notice in the New England town on numerous occasions as the leading spirit in unseemly pranks, and on every such occasion the old gentleman had come promptly to the rescue and footed the bills, following up such action with a letter of very good advice as to future conduct, which advice was as regularly pigeonholed by the young man and never followed. In course of time and in spite of the predictions of the good people of various localities, the young man was duly grad- uated and came back to Chicago to seek his fortune. The old gentleman initiated him into the mysteries of the brokerage business, gave him $10,000 and told him to go ahead. Much to the surprise of every one acquainted with the circumstances, the young man went ahead and rapidly forged to the front rank of traders, soon becoming a well-known character in the business. The panic of 1893 came on, and one ing Mr. Old Man Broker found that in spite of everything he could do absolute i s taring him in the face and dis- aster could not be staved off more than twenty-four hours at the longest estimate. He had had no direct communication with his son for several days, but supposed that he was also hard hit, as he was po; ularly supposed to be following much the same line of operation as the old gentle- man. In desperation he addressed a note to his son and sent it over across the street by a messenger. The note read: Dear Boy—The years have all been in vain. The end is coming soon. It will finish my career, but I trust you will he able to turn your talents in other direc- tions and be on your feet again before old age strikes you. Keep a brave heart and keep up as long as you can. I fear to tell your mother the news to-night. Come over and see me. Your Father.” In about ten minutes the messenger boy came back with a sealed envelope, which the old gentleman tore open nervously. He read: “Dear Father—I am exceedingly busy and camhot get away before closing time. Please receipt the inclosed bill and return to me. “Y. M. Broker.” Pinned to the note was a bill and a cer- tified check. The bill was as follows: Young M. Broker, Dr., to Old M. Broker: To raising one son -$50,000 The certified check was for 000. And they lived happily ever after.—Chi- cago Record.