The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 17, 1901, Page 1

FIVE - t the Father VAV eavy beers, long- and the fragrax sauerkra from the k American t s ne of these mesti whicl me ered in conrection with ays. Mr. Mason, and- be pine months of the year » b u at table, at s every-day entertain- Eve ge has its flock and s particular boldings of . with all g s work m of the feathered re not enough geese to “go reaily a misfortune, t of the Emperor will B the national menu if be can contingency, the implored and this Russia is A /AT THE TEN.-EQR MAKES LOVE “BUNNY RUG™ EATRICALS N SAN FRANQISCO: BY OF MY LIEE: BY PAPINTA.:.PAGE TWELVE TOEL?&JAHE‘Q{!%J&// bz Tie pomnted out (he hiding place, for which he was rewarded with $1 and a day's hol- 1day v onre in 8 while thé old man would Of Geese Eaters. 000 geese cars on A special goose train, of fi ordinary days to .thirts forty on Mondays, brings the birds.from the Russian frontier. The cars are spe- cially boflt and, rigged for this service each carrying about 1200 geese. Experienced buyers for the big dealcrs and marketmen meet the trains and pick out the fattest of the lot, which the bear away in triumph to their stallé. A= for the great majority of angular fowl— the kind assdciated inthe American mind with boarding-house - keepers and th- comic papers—these are sent to farms and put through- a fattening course. There.is one notable feature of.the re. ception of the geese in Berlin and other cities, and that is the thoroughness of the sanitary exammnation. If one goose has falled to survive the journey it means eight days’ quarantine for the entire con- | signment. If, at ‘he end of that time, there have been other fowl fatalittés there | must be another period of quarantine, | arid this means a very large expense to | the owner—about $476 In our money. The | TLZA JANE MAKES LOVE Yo ~ B TREASURE., CHEJST get the locaticn of some of his numers safety deposits, ‘and then zll hands were turned out and the whole place - plow=d and replowed until the missing slugs Were turned up i In one spot he buried $24.000 in $50 slugs John Sweeney, or “Swamp John,” as he was known, a farm hand, witnessed the burial and on or about the night of July humation on his own account. With the 480 elugs tied up in a gunny sack, Sweeney shook from his feet the dust of Temeles Ranch and started over the trail for Petaluma, Someéwhere on the trail, and presum- cely & T result is that at the intention is to make the ShiPpIDg of “‘sus- | ably not far from the ranch, for 534,000 in T rg stat in the southeastern pected” geese -such ‘a costly experiment | gold is a burden few men could tarry far, < ¢ Berlin, there dally arrive-15,-_ as to dissudde dealers from atteinpting i¢, | Bweeriey burféd his bodty. He first, How- , performed the ceremony of ex-. <oL. SWIFT BURIE, His GOLD? ever, took out a few hundred dollars for immediate expenses. In Petaluma he lent a friend $200 to tids him over some business difficulty. And this act of kindness was his undoing. The day following Sweeney’ Colonel 8witt discovered his los thorities were notified, Sweeney was ar- rested, tried and, on the testimony of his friend’s wife, who told of the $200 loan, convicted and sentenced to State's prison for eleven years. s DRANCE: BY AN . PAGE FIVE S..PAGE TEN and took with him to the grave the se- eret of his burted leot: ~ After his conviction Sweeney frankly admitted his guilt, but, in splie of ali kinds .of inducements, declined to diyuige the Niding place of the money. He made lots of capitul otit of his secret, however. and, during bis Imprisonment, enjoyed all the luxuries the law would allow by pre- tending to divuige, for a consideration, the Kiding piace of the gold. Dozens of people visitéd him in prison. and they all went away with a carefully | drawn-plan of the burying place. Each contributed -according to- his' means to Swecney's comfort; while the latter wait- ed_patiently for thesday when freedom would bring him the opporfunity to se- cure for himself what he must by this time have considered his' Hard-earned gold. e o But Sweeney died. The money is still where he laft it. For years after Sweeney/s:trial treas- ure hunting was the vogue along the Pet- aluma trail. . The men from Mexico have, .or- think they have, a clew. Wil they find it, or will they simply revive the old story and flood the: trail once more with prospectors. divining 1od cranks and curiosity seekers. Bweener dlel afier serving two vears, | @eeieininfelniulainiuiods] SWIFT BOILT FOR KIS BAIZA JARE» [ SSRGRLESCEAYS Wasp Stins TRat win Proclce Death. 7N ax drticle on the stings of wasps the British Medieal Journa} cites the 4 two following cases “h have coma e Ne' Setled ong. healthy xirl of 2T was & on the neck by a wasp and fainted: On regaining consclousness she comolained of a general feeling of numbness ‘and partial blindness and vom ited: she suffered severs abdominal pain She recovered in the eourse hours.” Two months later she was stung again, this time on the hand. Her face necame flushad, she again complained of numbness and biindness, suddenly became very and died twenty-five minutes after she was stung. pale, l1ainted Another case was that of a mirl of 22 years. who wa< stung by & wasp behind the angle of faw. The ‘sting was at once extrdcted and ammonla applied. In A few minutes she complained of faint ness and would have fallen if she had not heen supported. Her face assumed an ex- ression of great anxiety. and a few min- tes later she was tossing on thé bed, smplainiba of a hotrible festing of ¢hok- ing and of age pain in the chest and abdomen. Br gave no rellef. Thers was nausea, but no vomiting. She rapldiy ensible, and died fifteen min- receiving the sting. The most probeble explanation of such cases seems to lie in what is known as Idiosynerasy— that s, abnormal sensitiveness in particu- lar individ s in toxic agents. pwn that drugs vary much fa action in different people. What is a safs dose for one is dangerously large for an- other. The Inability of some people to eat strawberries or shellfish is another irstance of the same-phenomena. The active agent of bee siings is generally be- to tormic acid. Tt, therefore, t wa should have lieved be seems very desirable ate information regarding the action of this drug on different species of the lower animals, and through them on ™ himself. 4 | 4 HE fiight of birds has been studied ! from time out of mijnd without vieiding the first syllable of its se cret,” sald an enthusiastic_natural- | I8¢, ““but it is not a whit mare mysterious fthan the movement of fish fn .water | Aheir speed, thetr sudden leaps from fixed [ mositions, their abrugt turns in less than their own lengths, the extraordinary in- f_ rtia that enables them to swim against | tiémendous currents—these and a’hundred #nd' onie other things have beer the'ds- 4piir: of every investigator. “We know _that_such miracles are performed iy some manner by movements of the fins arid tail, but_in_ninety-nine cases out of a hundred those organs are altogether too small to decount for the apparent power they de- velop. ‘Tn less time thag it takes me o tell it a three-inch gofifish in a glass globe will upset every law of dynamics 'n the text beoks. It does things that are theorstically impossible. s i £« have s good-sized tank at home. in which I keep a number of small fish, and at_different times I have made some gurious observations, especially as regards -thelr speed., One of the fish is a young fresh water trout about five Inches long. @Great Strength of Fish. “On several occasions I have watched it with a timing strument while it was making plunges for files on the surface of. the water. [t would. approach urely at not over six. inches to the sec- leis- ond, until about ralf a yard from its prey, and then leap straight for the mark ke an arrow from a bow. The intervening distance would be covered in approximately one-tenth of a second. “That doesn’t- sound very remarkabls in cold figur but imagine a steamshin jogging along at about five knots an hour and then, in the twinkling of an ey increasing its speed to a mile a minute. The feat would be no more astonishing than that performed by my Mttle trout, and what makes the mystery all the greater is the extremely delicate anl flexible character of fts tail and fine. They seem to offer no purchase worts mentioning against the water. It is as \if 'an ocean liner had a propeller made of gauze. Yet, comparatively speaking, they accomplish more than the most powerful machinery ever bullt by man. When na- tare gives up the secret, i she ever does, we are apt to see the true -submarine —New Orleans Times-Democrat. » :