THE NEBR SKA INDEPENDENT.
Sept. io, 1896.
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JENNY WREN'S CHILDREN.
fp thre patn of winding stairs
W ith luafy patterns carpeted,
There you'll find, it you are not blind, -Little
brown babies in a brown bed.
Whispering together some secret deep:
"Peep, peep, peep!"
Nightcap and gown of the finest down,
Crazy quilt of sunshine and shade,
Pillows of moss and thistle floss.
Where five little drowsy heads lU'htly are laid.
Softly singing themselves to sleep;
"Peep, peep, peep!"
Youth's Companion.
ON THE PLAINS.
'He crawled on his bands and
knees at least twenty-five miles over
the snow and ice, with one leg
broken and one arm dislocated. It
took him three days and over to do
it, and in that time all he had to eat
was a handful of cabbage seeds.'?
F. R. Walti of Santa Cruz, was re
lating the terrible experiences of his
brother and partner on the Reese
river, Nevada, 'country.
"On the morning of tbe 13th of
January, 1898," the narrative be.
gins. "I started , to drive hair a
dozen head of horses from Stein's
range on the river bottom to my
stock farm, thirty-five miles over the
hill to the northward. It was
nearly noon, when my horse stumbled
while trotting along a side bill and
fell, throwing me and then rolling on
my right leg. I received the brunt
of the fall on my right arm, sprain
ing my wrist in so doing, and the
weight of my horse broKe my right
leg between the knee and ankle.
"The pain caused me to lose hold
of the reins, and when the horse
staggered to his feet he was beyond
my reach. I crawled after him at
once, but he was a mustang, and not
very well broken, and, of course he
galloped away. After halt an hour
of fruitless pursuit 1 five up the
chase through exhaustion and com
menced to study the situation. Pret
ty fix, wasn't it? One leg broken so
that I could not stand, and one arm
so badly crippled that all crawling
had to be done with a hitch of the
sound limbs on the left side. The
thermometer was down to twenty
degrees, it was snowing and the
ground was covered with frozen clods.
"It was five miles to the nearest
road and fifteen miles to Addington's
ranch, the nearest habitation. Of
course, I started for the road, hoping
to be picked up without covering the
entire distance.
"It is not necessary to describe the
pain I couldn't if I tried for any
body can figure it out for himself.
At first I just hitched along, reach
ing ahead with my good hand and
moving my knees up so I could t each
out again, but I did not save myself
any pain by this method, and it was
so slow that I soon got down to using
the knee of the broken leg and the
sprained arm, suffering' anything in
order to make time and get it over.
'About 7 o'clock that night it com
menced to snow furiously and I lost
my way, though I did not know for
hours afterward that I was crawling
back toward the hillside on which
my upset occurred. At 11 o'clock I
tried to kindle a fire, but the sage
brush was so wet it would not burn
and there was nothing left to do
but crawl on.
"Between 3 and 4 o'clock in the
morning the snow ceased falling and j
the stars came out, when I was near
ly crazed to seen only half a mile in
front of me the same . hill I had
started to make the road from four
teen hours before. Well I prayed
and cried and swore, and was unde
cided for a time whether to give it
up and die or make another trial
The coyotes x decided me. A man
was frozen , to death and eaten by
them within a few miles of where I
was last year, and I was one of the
party to drive them from their horri
ble feast. I suppose it doesn't make
much difference to a dead man what
becomes of his body, but since that
poor fellow's fate I had an awful hor
ror of becoming food for coyotes.
So, as I say their howling settled it
I opened my knife handy for use and
made another try for the road. This
time I made it, but it took me until
4 o'clock in the afternoon, when I
was about as bad off as a man could be.
"Both gloves, the pbints of my
leather chapajaros and breeches were
worn through and cut to ribbons by
the ice and sharp points of the rocks
and frozen dirt, and the last half mile
that was made took the skin off, so
that I was crawling on my bare bones.
"It was a little easier on the road,
but not much, and 1 soon gave over
trying to rig protectors for my hands
and knees, and just drove ahead
blindly. It was only by my weakness
that I knew I was hungry, for the
pain of my leg and arm overpowered
all other sensations, ber one, and
that was my fear of the coyotes. I
can thank those infernal brutes and
their constant howling for being
alive to-day. My misery was such
that 1 forgot wife and babies and
everything, and would have been
glad to give up and die but for the
remembrance of the gnawed bones of
the man we found last winter.
"I made breakfast, lunch and sup
per that night on two little five-cent
packages of cabbage seed I had in
my coat pocket, and then commenced
a system to keep awake. I would
crawl 500 I don't know what to call
them steps or hitches, and then rest
five minutes by my watch. I Kept
this up all night long, even after I
lost my mind, which was about mid
night, when the snow commenced
falling agaia I did not exactly lose
my mind, but I had strange fancies.
One was that a man was with me and
urging me to stop and take a rest
" Take it easy, Ed,' this fellow
would eay. seeming as plainly as I am
talking to you- this minute.
" 'No, sir,' I would answer, 'I want
to get along.1
"To cut a long story short, it was
a case of crawl 500 steps and rest
five minutes all through the night
and till the afternoon of the next
day, and the further I went the less
sensible to pain I became, and the
keener the desire for sleep. 1 Finally
it was so bad that I could only keep
awake during the rests by saying,
Coyote meat! Coyote meat!' over
and over again as my watch ticked
off the seconds. While crawling it
was not so bad, for I had to look out
for ruts. Every time I 6truo one
the break in my leg got a wrench
that was very good keep-awake medi
cine. "An hour before dark I came across
an oasis in the awful desert in the
shape of a moldy old haystack, three
miles from Addington's. Near it
were some old boards nailed together,
part of a hay-press and a broken
sledge-hammer, but I did not discover
these until next morning. When I
sighted the stack the 'man' who
wanted me to rest bad deserted me,
and I was as clear-headed as ever in
my life. There was an old fence
board with a couple of nails in one
end of it lying on the ground, and
with this I managed to rake a lot of
the straw off the top the foot of the
stack was as solid as a rock to make
a bed with.
"Half a mile more would have boon
beyond my powers. The broken leg
was swollen to an enormous size with
fever, and the other one, strange to
say, was frozen and frost-bitten until
it was as black as my hat. Both
hands were also frozen. Now, I
needed two things, cold to take the
fever out of my broken leg and fire to
warm the upper part of my body.
The first was easily obtainable, for
the snow was a foot deep against the
windward side of the stack, but after
raking for half an hour to get at
some dry hay, I found I had lost my
matches. This left only one member
to be cared for, which was some con
solation, and I devoted myself to the
fever. After ..... cutting away the
ragged remnants of the clothing
about the broken leg I buried it in
the snowbank for fully three hours.
"The snow snizzled around it al
most as it would on a red-hot stove,
and it required a fresh hole every
few minutes in order to keep it sur
rounded. "The fever left it to a considerable
extent, but then the pain came back,
and though I had a comfortable bed
in the hay it waa impossible to sleep
for the torture.
"With sun up Thursday morning it
did not seem as if it were possible
for me to stir another inch, and but
for the sight of the hay press, I
should have been lying there yet.
"Then I think it took me at least
half an hour to get on my one good
foot and get the boards under my
arma. It was better than crawling,
but getting along was about the most
awful fight you can imagine. When
I set the boards down on the ground
It was always on a corner, and the
sudden tilt to the other corner as I
swung forward upset me about every
fifth time. Then I would have an
other long struggle to get on my feet
again. My fingers had no strength
in them, and time and again one or
the other of the boards would slip
from them, and I don't think I ever
picked one up under ten minutes.
Every tumble seemed as if it would
break my frozen, brittle body in two.
"Right at this point five horses
came galloping up behind me, and
went by on the run. Trotting along
behind them was my horse, the fel
low who had caused all my misery,
still saddled and bridled.
"I tried to stop him, but he dodged
me easily, and then it seemed as if
the end had come in earnest I fell
down and could not get up again, set
my teeth and try as 1 would. Neither
could I crawl, and the last hope lay
in helo cominsr from the house.
Thank God, it came sooner than
I expected.
"Addington's was deserted, save
for a Slavonian ranch hand, and his
attention was attracted by my horse.
He caught him and then rode to the
top of a little knoll to look for the
rider. Of course I was a plain mark
on the white snow, and in a few min
utes he was with me, He would not
believe but that I had just been
thrown off until he saw my hands
and knees and my bloody trail in the
snow. They were enough to con
vince anybody.
The Addingtons had taken the
only wagon belonging to the ranch
away with them, and it took what
seemed like hours to rig a litter to
trail from the horse s neck and haul
me to the house. The Slavonian
carried me in to the fire and in a
minute I commenced to burn, the
sensation seeming to be about what
you would expect from being stuck
full of pins and needles. I kept that
man pretty busy for about an hour.
First thing he had to do was to get
me a tub and a bucket of water with
chunks of ice in them, and into these
I stuck my legs and arms, which
were frozen by this time. Then he
fed me two cups of strong coffee and
three or four eggs, and I commenced
to think I was a lot too good for coy
ote meat t
"After building up more fire and
placing some food within reach he
saddled a horse and rode off to the
nearest neighbor's, an Italian named
Philipene, twelve miles away. There
they kindly started out two men,
one to my home, twenty-eight miles
away, and the other to Beowawe, the
nearest railroad station, fifty miles
away. Philipene himself hooked .up
his team and drove bacn. to Adding
ton's with another of his men. The
Slavonian returned directly, and
there he found me, sound asleep, with
my legs and arms still in the ice
water. The long immersion did the
business, though, for the blackness
of the freezing was all gone and a
good deal of the swelling, while the
dirt was mostly soaked out of the
cuts on my hands and knees." San
Francisco Chronicle.
BYCONK DAYS.
I would that we had never met,
In days that now are past,
For oh! I never can forget
Those daya too bright to last
Ah t then what happiness was mine,
When thou wert by my aide,
And whlap'ring asked my love for tolas,
And me to be thy brida
But now the time is pivst, when I
Alone possess'd tuiue heart,
And knowing this. I breathe a sigh,
Then say that we must part
Yet still, when thinkinr? of the past,
My constant prayer shall be.
That thou may'st know and feel at last
The love 1 felt for thee.
CAPTAIN JANE.
It was early in the spring of 1850
that a person walked into the store
of Chenery & Hazeltine, in Sacra
mento and inquired for the head of
the firm.
Mr. Chonery made his appearance.
"I want to purchase a load of
goods for the northern mines and I
want to purchase them entirely on
credit. I own the six-mule team
standing just on the outside. I am,
as you soo, dressod in male attire,
but I am a woman. My name is
Jane plain Jane. Women, ' you
know, have no rights in this world
and it is not necessary for them . to
bother about names. I drove this
same team across the plains, arrived
here last fall, took my teum to the
Gordon ranche, over on ( ache creek
and did work of one kind and another J
to Bupport myself while the mules
recuperated. They are beauties, as
you will see. They were in better
condition when they reached Sacra
mento than any other team I saw.be
cause I took care of them. There is
not a mule out of the six which would
not follow me around like a dog if
turned loose. They love me, you
see, because I am kind to them. My
plan is to take up a load of goods,
sell them, return the money, take up
another load, repeating until I get
rich and the firm gets richer than
it is."
Richard Chenery whistled, and the
whistle had a big exclamation af
ter it.
"Who are you, and where did you
come from?"
"It is not to our purpose to discuss
that point. I am here before you. I
am 22 years of age, I am. five feet
seven inches high, weigh 165 pounds.
I can lift a barrel of flour into the
wagon, and can cut a fig ' re 8 in the
6treet with a six-horse team. I will
pull the lines over the wildest team
ever hitched up. I came across the
plains, stood my ' watch regularly,
handled a gun in two fights with the
Indiana and asked no odds of any
man. 1 am nere to maice some mon
eyget rich. I am going to get rich
by my own exertions. Then it's
mine, you see."
"Hazeltine, come here; I want to
introduce you to this lady."
. "Lady?"
"Yes. ladv. Though not so dressed
she is a woman, and her name is
Jane, plain Jane; but, by Jove, she
is a captain!"
"Captain Jane, your most obedi
ent" said Mr. Hazeltine, as he ex
tended his hand.
The situation and the request were
explained by Mr. Chenery.
She got the load of goods and an
account waa opened with "Captain
Jane. " All that summer and the
winter following she made regular
trips. The winter of ISiO-Sl, 1 it
remembered, was the driest season
the Americans had seen in California,
so teaming was not interrupted. At
the end of the year Captain Jane had
deposited with her merchants about
$50,000.
Every resident of the west side of
the Sacramento valley and of Shasta
remembers Captain Jane. She pur
chased a farm on Thorns creek, just
below the town of Tehama. The
teamsters and tavern-keepers along
the road in that day had many inci
dents to relate of her. Camping
miles away from anybody she would
sleep in her wagon or beside it alone,
when it waa well known that she had
large sums of money. She was a
woman of action, not of words. She
talked more to her mules than to
men. When she threw the harness
on each mule walked to his place.
Nor did 6he ever, picket out one of
them. Freed to graze upon the best
grass they were sure to be on hand
in the morning. She kept her Teha
ma properly bu. a short time, and
Belling it at a profit she disappeared.
In 1852 George W. Frink kept' the
Tehama house at the corner of Cali
fornia and Sansome streets, San Fran
cisco. John Duncan was his clerk.
There were sitting around the office
stove General E. O. C. Ord, his
brother, Judge Pacificus Ord, - Judge
Cy Wallace, Dr. Robert Semple, Gen
eral J. W. Denver, John Bigler,
Lieutenant Derby and several army
officers. The Panama steamer had
just arrived and the political situa
tion at the East was being discussed,
when a plainly dressed woman
walked in, approached the counter,
regiftered and asked to be assigned
a room. The conversation lulled.
Duncan disappeared to show the lady
her room, and Frink walked to the
register to look at the name.
"Who is she," asked Lieutenant
Derby.
"Plain Jane Smith."
"From where does she bail?" '
"She doesn't hail that's left
blank."
For weeks and months the dis
tinguished guests of the Tehama won
dered who Jane Smith could bo and
whence she came, but none of them
could engage her in conversation.
The landlord was one of, the hand
somest men of his day, ' and a great
ladies' man withal, yet he could talk
to her of no other matters than those
connected with the business between
them. She took all the commercial
papers cf the Atlantic board, as well
as those of San Francisco. As a
pointer John Duncan noted that the
old papers brought down from her
room were minus the market reports
and shipping intelligence.
"No more ham for breakfast," said
landlord Frink, jocularly, to hie
guests. "Gone away out of sight;
been cornered just as flour was a
short time ago. In the last six or
eight months somebody has cornered
pork, lard, candles, flour, Bait, beans
tobacco, and be hanged if I know
what else. I am told to-day that it
Is a woman, who pokes around in
quiring prices, giving no names, but
when she buys she always says,
Cash.'"
A few minutes later "John Doe,"
supposed to be one of the richest
merchaats of the city, came In, sent
his card to sixteen and nervously
awaited a reply. It was noticed that
he drew a deep sigh of relief as the
message came: "Show the gentle
man up."
1 have given this gentleman an
alias.
"Miaa Jane Smith?" queried
Mr.
Doe, as he entered the room.
"Jane Smith, at your service,
"Ah! -Mrs. Jane Smith?"
"Jane Smith is my name,
sir."
and
yours, I believe, is John Doe?"
He bowed, and she continued:
"Oh, yes; I think I have hoard the
name before. You are engaged in
trade, I believe, something of which
women at e supposed to know nothing.
You deal in hams, sometimes in flour,
occasionally in pork, and it seems to
me somebody once told me you
handled candles. "
;You seem well posted On my busi
ness, Mis Smith. '
"Jane Smith has sought to post her
self on the business of soveral gen
tlemen. How well she has succeeded
the sequel must show."
"Lady, whether Miss or Mrs., have
you any mercy in your composition f"
"Do you ask mercy of me?"
I am bankrupt unless you grant
it I have been the unfortunate vic
tim of ail your deals, or deals I now
suppose to have been yours. Of
course, it was not intentional, but It
so happened just as I had agreed to
deliver a large lot of flour, flour went
up. It was the same with pork, to
bacco, sugar, candles and other arti
cles, and now I must deliver hams,
but cannot touch them. You hold
them alL Can you make no conces
sions?"
"Will vou reoeat after me one
sentenceP"
"IwilL"
"Repeat word for word as I speak:
That mercy I to others show, that
mercy show to me.' Ah! you stam
mer and flnallv halt at the last
word. "
"Woman, who are you, and why do
you persecute meP
"Let me tell you a romantio story
a story filled with acts of mercy.
You have a son. He married a girl
in everv way his peer, aye, I main
tain in some respects his superior.
Her descent was honorable. In her
veina flowed the best blood of the
land. High principles and nobility
of character were hers by the right
of inheritance. When she was very
young pecuniary misfortunes befell
her family. With her own hands she
earned the money for her education.
At seventeen she carried away all
the honors of the college. In your
eyes, however, poverty was a crime.
You would tiut eVeu boo this young
wife of your son. It was enough for
you that she had worked in the
kitchen. By perjured testimony pro
cured bv vou the people, and even
the husband, were led to believe this
wife false to her vows. All her
pleading for mercy availed nothing.
She was driven out and even her baby
was torn from her arms. I am that
wife, that mother. I swore to make
you ask mercy of me. I drove
team across the plains, I fought
Indians, I swam icy rivers,
stood guard in the cold, cold
blasts of snow and sleet I teamed
to the mines in male attire, attending
to six mules night and morning, and
driving them all day. I slept by the
roadside with only a revolver for
companion. But all, all for my baby,
oh, my baby! My purse grew and
hone grew with it I came to the
city with $100,000 to carry out
dreams of the lonely roadside, plans
formed beneath the starry skies,
amid a silence broken only by the
coyotes. 1 Degas. oper-anoBS
nere,
and when I found I could
corner an
article I first bought you short on it
All. this, John Doe, to force my way
to justice and my babe, held from me
by force and wrong. You know of
the perjury, you know
the wrong; confess them to my hus
band; give him baok to me; give me
my child; give me back my good
name. I can repeat the line without
a quiver: 'That meroy I to others
show, that mercy show to me." Undo
tbe great wrong, show the mercy you
ask, and all the hams in California,
all the money you have lost shall be
yours. I am not a blackmailer, I am
not proposing to purchase your son,
I am simply demanding justice and
justice I will have whether you yield
it or not. I feel like an enraged
lioness whose cub has been stolen.
Oh, my boy, my boy, my baby boyf'
She sank into a chair and wept
He, too, wept tears of genuine re
pentance. He approached her,
smoothed back her hair, kissed her
forehead, and said "My daughter.
San Francisoo Examiner.
Anxious to Change Its Name.
Residents of Dobbs' Ferry, N. Y.
are tired of that euphonious name,
and intend having the name changed.
The name is derived from the fact
that Jeremiah Dobbs, a Swede, who
was a fisherman and lived at Willow
Point, near the southern line of the
village, added to his meager income
prior to and during the revolution by
ferrying oroesional travelers across
the Hudson.
Faterson, N. J., boasts of a woman fc
years old who rides a wheel.
You cannot Improve the weather by
discussing Its Imperfections.
By the way. Mr. Gas Addicke seems
to have been lost since the St. Louis
convention.
The Vanderbilt family are discover
ing that money cannot purchase a
first-class quality of health.
Twlttlnar neonle roncernlna: their
weaknesses bears about the same rela
tion to wit that a gourd does to an
orange.
The University of Calcutta Is said to
i the largest educational corporation
l the world. Every year it examines
over 10,000 students.
The teleeranhprl (Wlaratlon that a
presidential candidate cannot carry his
own county Is an indication that the
mere politician Is getting In his work.
It Is exceeding fortunate for Chi-.
cago's reputation that visitors to the
city rarely think to amuse themselves
by attending sessions of the city eoun
cil. Prof. Hortet of Lvona France, who la
experimenting on guinea pigs, says that
nis investigation proves that tne
Roentgen rays prevent the development
of
bacilli In consumption.
Our lawmakers will hereafter have to
be careful. Two ex-state senators in
Ohio have been sentenced to the peni
tentiary for two years each, oae for
soliciting the clerk of the house to
change a record to show that a bill had
passed, and the other for soliciting
money to pass another bill.
Time brings many sad and pathetic
changes. Newell Clark, aged 85 once
the leading business man of north
eastern Ohio, and for thirty years the
president of the First National bank
at Ravenna, died last week an object
of charity. His downfall began several
years ago, when he was induced to buy
'gold" brick.
Now some Philadelphia doctors as
sert that there is no such thing as
hydrophobia, and that mad dogs are
exceedingly rare. The doctors say that
people are frightened into nervous dis
orders, and most cases of supposed
rabies are acute hysteria. Half a doten
of the most eminent physicians in the
Quaker City say they never had or saw
a case of the hydrophooia.
Delnhl. Indiana, people consider that
they were scandalized by Miss Carrie
West, the heiress, who became so in
fatuated with W. T. Harris, the mar
ried man of Hammond. Miss West
mortgaged a business block for fund
to pay for the Harris divorce and as
soon as it was obtained the knot was
tied by 'Squire Coster and the couple
left at once on their honeymoon. It
was certainly a rare leap year event.
The most remarkable act yet done by
a new woman may be credited to Mrs.
Mary Caton, whose husband conducts
a large stock farm near Lansing, Mich.
She sailed from New York on Saturday
In charge of a string of nine trotting
horses whose care-taker she will be
throughout the entire European trot
ting circuit She is said to thoroughly
understand horses, and her husband,
detained at the farm by business, con
sidered her the only person he could
thoroughly trust to manage the horses
during their European career.
Some writers strive to put the gist of
their subject into the opening sentence,
after the manner of the able newspaper
head liner. This can be overdone. A
lady went to a Louisville hotel to meet
her son, whom she had not seen for
years. He .was not there to meet her,
but he had left a letter. The opening
sentence read: "I am now in the pen
itentiary." Then the old mother faint
ed, and it was three hours before she
recovered. Then she discovered by
reading the rest of the letter that ber
boy had a good position with the con
tractors for the penitentiary labor and
had been unable to leave his duties.
However one may regret from pa
triotic motives the defeat of th6 Yale
crew at Henley, it Is refreshing to per
ceive how thoroughly they have wiped
out the remembrance of the disagree
able impression made there last year
by Cornell. The great banquet given
the Yale men at the Sports club In Lon
don after the race was marked by ex
treme cordiality towards the Amer
icans, and the victorious Leanders have
done everything In their power to make
the Americana feel as cheerful over
their defeat as possible. All of which
la entirely different from the events
following the defeat of Cornell last
year.
German papers discuss the origin of
the phrase, "Blood Is thicker than
water," which Emperor William lately
used twice as an expression of good will
toward England and, as usual, credit It
to the wrong man. It was used first
by Captain Ingraham during the British-Chinese
war in 1859 and not by
Admiral Tatnal, the commander of the
American fleet that witnessed the bom
bardment of the Taku forts by the
British gunboat Opossum. Captain In
graham was already a famous man on
account of the share he took in the
Martin Koszta affair, when he, at the
harbor of Smyrna, had his vessel pre
pared for action, placing her between
two Austrian men-of-war to emphasize
bis demand for the surren-" of Koss
ta, a political refugee, with a declara
tion of intention to become a citlBen of
tne United States in his pocket The
A ustrian a. of course vielded
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