The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 7, 1900, Page 7

ng es to save his sou D e g men, con ing about the Dutc: their system of administrat Qur com or at least are jolly. en and we all together and g goes smoothly, and the Dutch es are, take them al people to work for. But and On on a brass lead; ARk~ und, good are some frauds. PO (CRI0Us LXPERL N, r informed me that there that after roasting 'ld I!w native AT ut out in bars. a good settlement here now—a and ass office with a ldings serve for my head- All the prospecting is done in 1 creeks the whi coun- f jungle and forest. The mountains from foot to summit are one m: 24 1 from four to ten of surface s It is the toughest Y to prospect I ever struck. For instance, I a dense mass of have a small camp about twelve miles from here. This means fol- lowing up the river, wading half the time and cro: seventeen times. We have a tr is so bad t 1 for pack ponies, but it t all transport is brought up It takes the coolles a day and a half to get there, and & man can carry by coolt > < t HEY 'FOUND AN /\UT in Colorado there are a & and they eooked 1t and had it ready for r rich ores that present the dinner when the others got back. That (N g . chemical combir ison went just to the right spot, and which nothing but cya- th mp unanimously agreed to this d liberate man being authorized to keep them sup- such conditl: plied with fresh meat. to be somewhat more f Pikes Peak there was zen prospectors, for of country in all direc- say that very many of s miners are heavy s the men in this camp were exception. What Is worse, they had ¢ ply of the stuff, and fter their exhausting labors 000 feet of altitude tion of a debauch. e they were feeding on bacon rik canned goods once in ust by way of variety. But one ber of the party sighted a herd d the next day he took a day rifie, saying it was about time he camp had some real meat—some of the fresh kind. Well, he brought back a deer that day, good line re working out ter dinner they brought out the demi- john and filled up all around. It was no difficuit thing for that crowd to pour the uff down—the trouble came immediately afterward. One gagged; another choked until the tears streamed from his eyes— culties. monkeying with this whisky said one as soon as he could get his voice. “First time I ever knew whisky to go back on me,” said another. They declded to give it another trial, but it was no go. When they got it to their lips they couldn’t get it any further. They not only did not want it, but they had an aversion to it. This went on for several days, getting worse every day, and-they were getting 50 beastly sober that it was llke mak- ing new acquaintances all around. At last they decided to send one of the party in to Colorado Springs to consult a doctor. The way they figured it out was that as they were all affiicted in the same way “Who's been THE SUNDAY CALL only about thirty pounds, the trail being 80 bad. This camp is 2700 feet above sea level. Tinandor Camp is 900 feet, situated in the center of & large valley. We have done a lot of work on some reefs about three mile: from here (Bengiania); they have' assayed from one ounce to four ounces ten pennywelghts gold, but at present cannot say how they will turn out, as the whole country is so broken up. At present they are showing good copper, some of the mala- chite and boonite belng very fine, the lat- ter assaying as high as copper 37 per cent, gold one ounce, but this was a picked sample, and at present the tient would be just as good as the bu d when the doctor-had found out what was the matter with him and given him a prescription all he would heve to do would be to buy six times as much as was ordered, and then there would pe enough to go round. Just to be sociable this fellow packed in one of the deer that they had been liv- ing on. Well, he came back without much satisfaction, but plenty of medicine of one sort or another—at any rate, the druggist told him it was a good deal better. In a few days who should come chasing up to their eamp but the doctor. The up- shot of the whole matter was that the doctor had found himself affected the same way, but as he was an Eastern man it didn't so much matter in his case, He did some chemistry on the venison that was left him and found the meat jammed full of gold chlorides. That made everything plain, venison they had been eating a regular “Jag” cure and now they couldn’t drink. But the medicine man had plenty of "savey''—a heap more than the prospect- ors. Under his direction they trafled up the runway of the deer and finally found the place where they had their licks—for you know deer must have something sait to lick. Instead of OF TVE ENeIrIEER) Hovsm ) 5,.\4% copper enly occurs In small deposits. I should not be surprised if we strike it rich by sinking. This is a flendish country for fever and sickness. I have been phenomenally lucky, so far having escaped scott free, and I can verily say I am the only white man here who so far has escaped. The others all get malaria and fever more or less and many have to leave the country. The place abounds.in game, but the jungle is so dense that we seldom get a shot at the wild pigs or barbarousa (lon The prospectors had been looking for sylvanite and the tellurides; they had no idea what gold chlorides looked like and they had passed this place over a dozen times as not worth so much as the tap of a Lammer. The deer had been steadily licking the outcrop until they were fairly charged with the gold in its chemical combina-~ tion, which passed Into the men who fed upon the venison. To-dav. I am glad o say, that is one of the best propositions north of Cripple Creek.—Forest -~nd Stream. * The artesian wells of Eastern Algeria have reconciled tribes whom military ter- rorism failed to pacify. The first appear- ance of the rock drill machinery merely provoked their banter, but when unfailing fountains of cold water burst forth and filled tanks and refrigeration canals theif jibes turned to silence and finally to grunts of approval. Now they are besleg- ing the tents of the Government engineers begging them to try their luck here and there and promising their political sup- port in case an aquatic treasure trove should restore the productiveness of thelr parched out fields. South Dakota has an aggregate of 11,- 500,000 acres of vacant Government land, which 18 now subject to entry by qualified applicants. two in tne the lat- legged pigs with four tusks, lower and two In the upper jaw; ter curl back and in some c meet the skull). These brutes are both savage and dangerous. Musk cats, sloths and sapi- outans, wild cows and monkeys in pro- fusion, and snakes. This Is the place for snakes; it {s the land of the python. I have had six since January, the smallest nineteen feet, the largest twenty-five feet. One I got and could not save measured between thirty-three and thirty-flve feet long. I know people will say, ““Oh, v. snake yarns.” The day before yesterday 1 got one twenty-five feet long and have him alive here now, and'last night tho people from a native village brought me one In a big bamboo box. He dled this S kA A AT AT R DA D T A DA SA AT AR R TR T A A A A ASASASA A TSRS RS A TATH TSRS INVOLUNTRRY GOLD QURR F there is any part of the life storles of great men which has a fascination for every one it is certainly that which tells us how they wooed and won thelr wives, and it would seem that their differ- ent methods of lovemaking are at least as characteristi¢ of the men as any other of their acts. One cannot, for instance, plcture Lis- marck laying a long slege to a lady's heart and consuming himself with sighs and tea It was characteristic of the man that he should take Cupld by the ear and compel him to subjection—and so he aid. It was at a wedding that he first saw Fraulein von Puttkammer, and to see was to be vanquished. He had scarcely doffed his wedding garments when he sat down and wrote to her parents, demanding her hand in marriage. When Herr von Puttkammer receivel this peremptory demand from a young man whose repute was not too good, “it was,” he said, “as if some one had struck me on the head with a heavy ax.” How- ever, he invited the bold wooer to pay him a visit, and within a few hours young Bismarck made his appearance. On his arrival the parents and daughter were prepared to give him a polite and formal welcome; but Bismarck's inten- morning. him; h a st job getting them. I would ha something to save that big chap thirty- three to thi ve fee*, but he was twelve miles from the settlement. The My men are now busy skinning and u ca natives tied him up with rattan and speared him with bamboo and when I got to him the flies and ants had started in. I got his skeleton. It is seldom one cap- tures a perfect skin; they generally get torn or wounded somewhere. When we find a snake we slip lassoes (of green cane) over his head In most cases he chokes himself. My twenty-flve-footer is at present very lively. He has a couple of skin-deep wounds, but I think he will live and grow larger. The natives here are a mixed lot; thelr religion a kind of bastard Mohammedan- ism. They will not eat pork and are very particular about their food in many other N e Tervmey | e ARy T IS Labor is cheap and good. For na- pay men 1 ders & e and salt fish, and I get These peopls t T have found so my these men a set of time done. They There are several an be Celebes. They are the I ever met. I never fquors and tobacco always left on the veranda. g yet r bas caused a lot of here, but I'm away out apers sent regularly from am always and cigars are on is the great rice for £7 (guil« ntalc. It costs me £4 thus £13 a pleul. Now a good trall en miles port can teen miles in bullock carts; the rest of the way it has to be packed by coolies or native horses. The latter will pack only 100 pounds. A coolle packs 50 pounds. picul is 136 pounds. So you see port is a great and It is impos- e to take a wagon on the present as It the Bone River six times, besides twe: or thirty small ones. For two miles the trail !s in the bed of a small river and it Is very rough on the horses, but if necessarv I think a good trail to the south coast could be found. At present we have to be satisfled with the old trail. When we first came here we had & couple of Dutch assistants, but since last October I have been alone, as they were only a nulsance. I now employ na- tives o and get double the work dome. It is a pretty lonely life, but I have a good dog and a couple of good ponies and ean now ride to Govontalo and to the mine now and then. But if my partner should go away again I'm afraid I might be lonely in my jungle. R. trall, sses PARKYN CISH. TASESATATATSATATHAT A TS A T A TS ATHATHATATATY THE WRY FAMOUS MEN QOURTRD THRIR WIVES tlons were much more cordlal, for, ignor- ing the extended h: of the parents, he threw his arms around the daughter and gave her a hearty and resounding kiss. The citadel was stormed and within a few minutes the impetuous lover was formally betrothed. Mr. Gladstone's woolng was much more conventional and ceremonious, as might be expected. It was over a dinner table that Miss Glynne caught her first glimpse of the young man to whom she was to devote her life. “Do you see that young man?”’ a statesman who was sitting next to her said. “Some day he will be Prime Minister of England.” No wonder the young girl's interest was aroused; and when, in the winter follow- ing, they met again in the lovers’ land of Italy, what wonder that the woolng pro- ceeded apace, and that the foundation of one of the most beautiful married lives in history was laid? No man ever had a more romantic woo- ing than Richard Brinsley Sheridan when he determined to make Miss Linley, the beautiful “Nightingale of Bath,” his wife. She counted her suitors by the score, but Sheridan's romantic devotion won her heart. He diguised himself as a coach- man merely to have the pleasure of driv- Ing her: he escorted her to a French nun- nery to rescue her from the persecutions an odlous wooer, with whom he fought two duels on her behalf. And this was but a type of the chivalrous adventures which ultimately enabled him to lead her to the altar in April, 1773. His second wooing was just as persist- ent. When Sheridan first met the beauti- ful daughter of the Dean of Winchester he was a middle-aged man, and anything but personally fascinating. Miss Ogle could not bear the sight of him, and called him “an odious creature” and “a ridiculous fright,” but within a short time she was glad to give her hand and heart to the “most fascinating man in England, and a husband of whom any girl might be proud.” It was Mrs. Lewis rather than Disraeli who did the woolng, for she made no con- cealment of her admiration for the rising statesman, and pursued him with attene tions which in a younger woman would have been indecent. And yet the “dowdy widow” succeeded where mere youth and beauty would certainly have falled, for who can resist the worship of a woman? ‘And she succeeded by a life-long devotion in winning her husband’'s heart as well as his gratitude,