The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 4, 1901, Page 5

THE SUNDAY CALL. re various ways of descend- Hood. One is on a man. ne the customary way. few men who care to offer themselves for the pose, so if enybody is £ out to find a human he may have look long and there n. Professor Mc- m . who has tried the thing anxious to be he says he would s: er the same cir- it once m cumstances, He @id it to save Bethel Rawson's life. It was th succeeded. tory so strange in all the ¥ = Hood since its i Atkinson steep on a the strange ride the other day. always remem- not remember it 1scious all of the all right in the 35 e can joke about it Professor McElfresh. Both med mong the most enter- te who ever tried the jes Rawson was planning t she meant to do or die. t of anything but the result came the dving with grit to throw 2in climbs before, s dy knew alrea d as a goat in she was level- < better vet. You can get side with almost any is all right: Rawson she was as sure-foot < in Demoes, Oregon, but she She is and where she kes it a point to do and also her foot find- she traveled to Wash- and came upon and when she sed it she never fe in It. de her arrange- 5 n the party and crowd. They plowed the snow with a nd laughing that helped their veins warm. uld get in this line. Foot ascended the cold in- and then they stopped before and behind slaps set them that ere was some comfort in looking up n of smoke-like vapor that crater. To be y knew that it did not mean fire, chose to pretend that it did. bove se clouds are nothing but wreaths ed by the cool- * sald a professor »or cond mosphere, 1 man. sentiment overruled him. d as smoke so long as e them look like it,” sald Miss “and It's easy enough to imagine fire behind smoke. T feel much warmer refessor, don't know what »n 1s. You ought to the professor. Rawson! Her imagination warm in the end, al- keep the whole party r %0 Yong as it brave- y la A ough the professor's brutally litera of looking at matters was at times something of a'wet blanket, ne.or ed an Ymagination conceived of such 2 deed &: had never been done\or dared before Although the middle of July enough Poor aian’t though it served to Miss keep her way jess he devel later in the day that 1s\ warm the base of Mount\Hood there is opportunity for plenty of clif\atic change between the base and the skm- about mit, which, after all the squabbling, hys been settled upon as 11,700 feet. The party were not tenderfoots aad they knew enough to dress warmly when they start- ed out, and to carry more wraps. Even with th growing terribly the jokes grew lame. disappeared. Bethel Rawson, of all the twenty, kept on talking gayly. Bhe drove her spiked shoes into the lcy surfece with a vengeance and she shouted to the others behind to see what big holes £he was making. ‘m breaking the way for all you peo- ple behind,” she cried, trying to throw her volce far down the mountain. The wind wae coming In gusts and her words carried only in snatches to thoge at the end of the guide line. “¥ou can crawl into one of the holes if you want to keep out of the storm,” she shouted again, and a fiercer blast than the last picked up her words and scat- precaution the cold was severe. After & while Then they almost THE JTEEP SHOT THE TOBOGGAN WITH ITS HUMAN FRE[GKT i tered them afar over the mountain side, s0 that they were lost to all save the nearest one. Somebody who had not heard her stumbled into the hole she had driven with a lusty dig of her alpenstock. In a little lull of the wind something that the guide shouted came back and spread along the line. “Brace down there, all of you. Some- thing’s coming.” “It's a snowstorm!" “Ut's a blizzard!” The cry swept like the storm itself. Bome of the women screamed. Thelr voices were drowned in a screech .of wind that bore with it the snow. The blizzard had come, The party had reached a point 300 yards below Crater Rock. Only a little distance above lay the summit. But of a sudden the peak had become immersed in flying, driving, hurling snow that fell and twirled in tiny, hard-frozen particles, that stung the face like flving sand. With needle points it stung—with tiny points of the hardest enow. These beat wupon their faces and whirled in clouds that moment- arily stopped their breathing. “Can’t we hide somewhere?” a woman cried, feebly, pifeously, “I can't breathe—I can’t,” another gasped, choking with the sleet that drove against her face. “Come on, girls—we can make the sum- mit.” It was Bethel Rawson. Julia Hall, the girl next her, plucked up courage. She said afterward that nothing made her so ashamed as to think that Bethel held out bravely to the end, when she must in reality have been suffering so much more than any of the rest. “We can be sheltered if we reach the crater,” called the guide, and his words were picked up and carried along the line. “Shelter at the crater—pass the word along,” called one after another. “Shelter at the crater.” “Shelter at the crater.” “Pass the word along, Miss Rawson.” The professor ahead of her turned to see why she was not shouting the news joyfully along. As he did =0, he felt a tugging at the line that encircled . his waist. Bethel had fallen. “What's the matter?” he cried, spring- ing back to her. As he did so he jerked the line and dragged the man ahead to the ground. + This one sprang up and ran back to where the girl lay .unconsclous. Pro- fessor McElfresh, who was with her, was already dragging her along. *Youw'll have to help me,” can’t carry her alone.” Even the two of them could not carry her on that perilous ascent. They had to drag her as best they might, for the climb was difficult in the extreme and fraught with danger to any one without a burden. It was a miracle that the three of them ever reached a spot of shelter thirty yards below the crater. From there they shouted to the rest of the party who had already reached the he said. “I summit. Men rushed down. “There's a better spot above,” the guide said. Panting and struggling to make thelr way, three of the men set out for a shel- tered spot at the summit. A third went to help Miss Hall, who was patlently mak- ing her own way up the climb, too dis- tressed at her friend's danger to utter a word of complaint on her own account. Under the shelter of a jutting rock the twenty-four -worked over their uncon- scious companion, striving by every means in their power to revive her. But the intense cold and the exhaustion of the long climb had done their work thor- oughly and the brave girl lay as In death. “She's got to be taken back to the base if she's ever to revive,” pronounced a doctor finally. “This fearful cold and (he sreat altitude are more than nature can contend with.” INDIRN HROUSEKEERING. KAM going to tell you something about the uneducated Sioux women, thelr dress and their home life. The Sloux ‘woman does more work than the man does. Of course, the women do not know very much about housekeeping; in fact they don’t know anything about it. They live in log cabins with only the ground for tke floor, and they have but one room. In that room they have their beds in one corner, thelr trunks around the sides, and they often have beautiful bead work hanging on the wails. They have a large stove as near the center of the room as they can. On that stove you will always find a coffee pot and teakettle, and they are always kept full. If the women can have coffee to drink they are happy; they think it is a great medicine; they cail it the black medicine. “In the summer the Indian women do most of their cooking out of doors. They put short poles on each side of their fire and a third stick across from cne to tle other, and on this they nang their kettie. The women when at home are almost al- ways sitting in their tepee, doing some kind of bead work. “The women are always getting up some kind of a feast; that is, they have them very often, and especlally if one of their sons or daughters gets married, they will spend their last cent to make a great feast. They have a certain man go around and tell every one to come to that feast, whenever it may be; then when he has come back and told them that he has told every one, the women give him a horse. When they have the feast the women all dress up In their brightest colors, puint their faces and put all the bead work they can on their little children. They have a great time talking, especlally the old women and men. “The women's dresses are madé with only two seams, one on each side, so it makes a very loose dress. It s shor the back and front and long on the end they almost always wear a long b ed belt and a shawl; in fact, they wear a shawl all the time; when it is not around the head and shoulders it is tled around the waist. Th=y never wear a hat of any kind; even on the hottest days they are bareheaded.”’—Sioux Girl in Goud House- keeping. DISHES FOR ELLIED chicken is easily prepared. and makes an attractive dish, HOT WEATHER served with it, or quartered eggs around the mold, or chopped aspic jelly. Cold lamb, sliced thin. fs tmproved by a Border of brolled tomatoes, and cold roast beef s rendered more appetizing by them also. If there is neither a hot dish nor one of cold meat for the main supper course, then there may be a rather heavy salad, either chicken or lobster, or a potato salad made by mixing equal parts of po- tato, English walnuts and stoned olives with mayonnalse, and putting it on let- tucs. But if there is another dish besides, then a light salad, such as a plain French dressed lettuce, or tomato, or a mixture of tomato and cucumber, is best. Vege- table salads are indeed the most refresh- Ing In summer. Cold -caulifiower, or string beans, or asparagus with either French dressing or mayonnalze is deli- clous.—Harper's Bazar. = The party stood dumb. Hérfias the necessary- thing stated: How was It to be accomplished? She could not be carrled in any one's arms. She could not be carried between two. The descent was next to impossible even under the best conditlons. In the storm, on the slippery footing, any one who: attempted to carry such a burdea would of necessity be dashed to death with her. Professor’ McElfresh, the literal. had not been talking during the commotion. He had, instead, been doing an immense amount of thinking. “I'll-take her down,” he seid bluntly, in the end. ““How?" “On a toboggan.” The rest looked at one another. professor was surely wandering. “I can make a toboggan of myself.” “But<L" “You can't—" “If you try it—" “It will certainly—" "He waved their objections away like grats. “'Help me arrange the toboggan.” he commanded, and there was not one in all that party who thought of disobeying. A plank was found. It was strong, but cruelly rough to one lying stretched and strapped upon it. The professor did not flinch at that. Flat on his back he lay on the plank and the others strapped him closely: so closély that he and the plank could not part company. With hurrying hands they rigged ropes as he commanded, rigged tfem in such a way that a complete and simple system of guide lines was ready for the long coast. ‘Careful, now!” he warned as they picked up the unconscious girl. With slower hands, with gentle ones, they laid her at full length on her back upon the body of the professor. They strapped her in position and put the guid- ing lines into his hands. “You're sure it's all right, professor?” He gave a few last tugs to make sure. “'Yes, we're ready,” he said, and he did not flinch then, either. The onlookers were dumb with awe at The the terrible risk about to be undertaken. Siiently they stood by and watched while the helpers dragged the strange toboggan to the starting point above a smooth stretch. It was a fearful thing to look below. For below stretched the precipitous glacler. “Ready!” “Man alive, we can’t do it!" 8 “Go ahead,” roared the professor. A shove, and it was done. Over the steep shot the toboggan with its human freight. Down, down— The men strained their eyes until the thing was out of sight. One turned away. He could not look. Tied together, the party left commenced the descent. The snowfall was lessening now, the cold was less biting. The excite- ment of suspense over, the two who had gone ahead acted as a stimulant, and the descent was made in good form and quick time. ““There they are,” some one pointed out as the timber line was neared. There they were, indeed; for two figures could be discerned on the ground. But how were they? Alive or dead? The par- ty held its breath. “I heard something.” It was Miss Hall who said it. She was right. Faintly there came a shout, and an- other. It was McElfresh calling. He was alive then. Was she? The party almost fell down the rest of the way In their haste to reach the two, and the hurrahs rang out loud and clear when they found that no damage was done. Only for an instant, though, for there was work to do. Miss Rawson, just regaining consciousness, for the professor thad cut the ropes that bound them and had been chaflng her hands and feet while the party was descending. She needed all that impromptu medical attendance could do for her, and the whole party pitched in and worked like a hospital full of doctors to help her in her fight for life. By the next day she was pronounced out of danger. The first thing that she sald upon comprehending the whole story was, ““What a shame that I couldn’t have been conscious to enjoy the fun!” Which s characteristic. For Bethel Rawson is nothing if not game,