THE LAND SAILOR.
Cone, fill try sails, you wastrel wind.
And waft me o'er the fields.
The golden fields, rich harvest lined
With all that red earth jeilds.
Come, blow me down the valley way
Between the crimson hills,
Where hardwoods make the landscapes
gay
And Nature's glad heart thrills.
Blow, blow my craft where‘ 0 * *
Swirl vagrant through tne
Anti blow me where the rustling s iea\t
Dot fields of stubble ban1
For I would sal! the autumn land
While glow its radiant hues;
With boat and breeie at tn> comman .
Down all its vaies I'll cruise.
—Frank Farrington in I.ipplnrott s.
GENERAL JOLLYMORE’S IVORY HUNT.
By C. L O. LUCKEN.
(Copyright, 190!. by Dally Story Tub. Co.)
“Hello, Jolly more; when did you
get back from South Africa?”
The remark was addressed to a
rather portly personage, of medium
stature, who was seated at the win
dow of one of the most popular clubs,
his chair tipped back and his feet on
the sill, ana a long, pale cheroot in
his mouth.
“General Jollymore, if you please,
duly commissioned by the joint gov
ernments of the Orange Free State
and the South African Republic. Well,
I returned a few days ago. Nothing
doing in South Africa after the Boers
quit; I put in a month or so up in the
north country ivory hunting, but
found it too tame,” repliea the “gen
eral," toying with a miniature ivory
elephant's head, which wras attached
to his watch guard.
“Hunting elephants, eh, and brought
back a trophy of the chase?”
“Oh, yes. The adventure was such
a peculiar one that I felt disposed to
retain a memento, and so had this
head carved from the tusk of the ele
phant which 6o nearly finished my
career.”
“Well, genera], 1 should like to hear
of it, provided the telling will not en
tail the recollection of any unpleas
ant features."
“No, indeed, not at all. Were such
the case 1 would not wear this," and
the general twirled the ivory head
between his fingers. “But there's not
much to tell, after all, and perhaps I
am disposed to magnify the danger.
“At the conclusion of the war I de
cided to go north, having been in
formed that lions, elephants and oth
er large game were abundant. I had
put in five days in Msiris land, reach
ing the native village of Mpweto on
the evening of the fifth day, without
having sighted an elephant, although
the spoor was there in plenty, and
abundant evidences were encounter
ed which showed that large numbers
of the animals were in the Immediate
vicinity. I accordingly resolved to re
main at Mpweto for a few days, and
the morning following my arrival
there, I started out, accompanied only
by my extra gun bearer, a native
named Umbolalla, with the hope of
encountering the game I sought.
“A few miles east of Mpweto there
Is a circular plain, probably a mile
In diameter, almost entirely sur
rounded by forest. Upon approaching
this plain, it became evident that my
quest was at last ended, and that my
eyes were to be gladdened by the
sight of an elephant, for the frequent
trumpetings of a large bull-elephant
were distinctly audible. Pushing rap
idly ahead In the direction of the
trumpeting, we arrived within sight
of the plain, and there, standing in a
clump of small trees upon whose ten
der branches he was feeding, was the
largest elephant it had ever been my
good fortune to see. Cautioning Um
bolalla to keep close to me with the
■»xtra gun, I maneuvered around for
lome tine*. endeavoring to secure a
position from which I could fire a
shot which w'ould prove fatal, but the
frequent movements of the elephant
rendered this impossible. Becoming
impatient at the delay, I finally risked
a shot, the bullet lodging, as I after
wards learned, in the beast’s left
shoulder, producing only a painful
and irritating wound, without in the
least impairing his vitality.
“With a scream of rage, the huge
animal plunged wildly through the
forest and out into the open, running
straight across the plain. Snatching
the extra gun from Umbolalla, and
telling him to follow as soon as he
bad reloaded the empty gun, I set out
in pursuit, hoping to get another shot.
The trumpeting of the wounded ele
phant was terrific, and he had nearly
I 1
“I should like to hear of It.”
reached the forest on the opposite
side when I stumbled and fell, the
gun being discharged as It struck the
ground. On hearing the report, the
elephant turned In his flight, and, ob
serving Umbolnlla, who had reloaded
the other gun and was hastening to
ward me, gave utterance to a terrific
Cry of rage and rushed toward the na
Clvei Without a second's hesitation I
grabbed his gun and fired it point
blank at the massive head of the ele
phant, which by this time was less
than twenty feet from us. Providence
must surely have guided that bullet,
for it entered the right eye, and with
one last ear-splitting scream, the
monstrous bulk tottered and fell.
“Aroused, undoubtedly, by the dying
scream of the elephant which had
just fallen, and which was probably
the leader of the herd there appear
ed from the forest which surrounded
! the plain, a herd which in points of
numbers outdid anything I had pre- j
viousiy encountered, and 1 flatter my- ^
V
This plan worked well,
self that I have, in my time, seen con
siderable of them. In fact, it seemed
as if all the elephants in Africa were
assembled at that particular place,
and were bent on my destruction.
With trumpetings which were deaf
ening, they came rushing toward us
from every point of the compass.
Flight was impossible, for we were
entirely surrounded, nor was there a
distance of even ten feet between the
foremost ones, and as the leaders in
this magnificent charge neared us, of
course even this space was narrowed, j
“I felt that my time had come, for,
unfortunately Umbolalla, in h!s haste
to reach me before I was crushed by
the wounded elephant, had dropped ;
the ammunition, and we were with
out arms other than my two army re
volvers and Umbolalla’s assegai, a
weapon without which no native Afri
can can be induced to enter a forest.
The bullets from the revolvers would
have proven as effective against the
tough hides of the elephants as from
a boy’s slingshot, and I did not,
therefore, deem it worth an attempt
to use them, nor did it then occur to
me, as I remember It now, that I had
them with me.
“Then it was that a most remark
able thing occurred. You know what
will happen if you place a number of
moving bodies at an equal distance
from each other, upon the circumfer
ence of a circle and start them to
ward the center? Well, that is just
what happened in this case! Those
elephants in the lead reached the cir
cumference of the smaller circle at
precisely the same instant, and there !
they stuck, utterly unable to approach j
an inch nearer!
Not only had the terrific momen
turn of their huge bodies served to
wedge them tightly together, but be
hind the elephants comprising the 1
inner circle were scores and scores
of others, each possessed by an un
controllable desire to get at the some
thing which formed the center of the
circle of which they were the cir
cumference, and serving to hold fast
in their positions the elephants on the
inner circle.
“Conceive, if you can, the picture
of two men seated upon the carcass
of a dead elephant, surrounded by a
living circle of other elephants, and
these In turn pushed and crowded and
wedged In still more tightly by hun
dreds of others! The elephants on
the inner circle might as well have
been trees, so far as their powers of
locomotion were concerned. With al
most overpowering trumpetings, they
swayed from side to side, lashing
each other with their trunks in their
rage, but absolutely unable to stir
cither forward or backward. Al
though I had, but a few moments be
fore, resigned myself to a speedy and
apparently Inevitable death, the hu
mor of the situation now struck me.
and 1 rolled from the carcass in a
violent paroxysm of laughter.
“To make a long story short, it was
a simple matter, considering the po
sltion in which we had the herd, to
finish a few of the elephants nearest
us by well-directed shots from my re
volvers, as a bullet penetrating the
eye would readily reach the brain. We
had killed perhaps half a dozen in
this manner, the bodies retaining
their upright position in the circle
through the pressure of others, when
Umbolalla reminded me that the re
maining revolver cartridges might
better be saved, and that we could
kill the elephants as well with his
assegai. His plan was to clim » upon
lie elephants, place th<
issegai over the spina
where it enters tht
the heavy elephanl
drive it home. This
upon trial worked
seven hours incessanl
stilled the trumpeting
vast herd uot one re
Mpweto we enjoyed
and in the morning l
ty, such is the simpll
native, in arrang
Chlef Mugbokuku,
his tribe the car
in exchange
of his men in rernov
carrying them to a
at which transpor
could be secured,
months later, I re
taken from the 468
where the
of at a profit of
ECONOMY?
a Failing in This
you?” asked the
chief buyer.
’t buy matches
the buyer,
you with matches
” said the
Nearly P®1, ecoDOm>'
Ami one
Nearlv was right
and wi a fet pfonomy,
dulge i ,ength t0 ln‘
()f 8 they still tell
tieular who was par'
certain kind of
Thev „ to “•
took the clab’ and be
them. aa be needed
■ v n in small
8tuff them
butt ,that n°
«as plate and
would not
pencil. To
others write
£* so it goes.
, , money
saved tha theSe m.
“ desire
to ecoaoun
wApd Tex., says
' and three
other
s°“td in the
3ta*e ' Mexico,
fmbiai This land
13 no; a four
ftrand to be the
largest
.f116 and 100
” miles of
barbed to fence
U ranch
proper for
about lf„
its pres
ent ra’
The
nish g
cattle
be gre
ranch
propos
rigatio
give n
A hi
years
bright,
ade ai
think
to the
tor.
She
bedtin
first, e
with p
0U3 n
sexes,
to the
ment
then I
“An
“Wl
that!
for?”
“We
pher, ■
as met
“Talked AS |i
The neighbors talked her (&dy
*••• ry where in, v , S
They talked about her diddl'Sey
‘ ‘ h
The high and ],m mil’ll her «
did old
And every gossip tosse ante upon
•■"r ndu...H
'Twas she who kissed tlflrat *u
. i'l-st its happy Ur$m/m
Iwas she who help,,,] , (t|
... through all the ; Mrtbr
iW 's she why wan h, | the
Wh'T,„,l. I h„ ,.j,!iir S
iwas she who sooth,-,'strickea
friends when one { away.
The neighbor* t.tlk-d n» nearly
1 “-j ■'-k»‘<i about her ti ml: th«r
•
1 hey taike.j about her wjhand*,
her heart *„ fi||, „f MH
A ddw°*i the, n w who I
•J*-is With t tn
Mxon Uat- rmanin i.
Only Trying 8 iff!
There are many way Tib ling*
in the pis.atoilal art ijBur- I
Iingame, who was up' tj ,9tie*f
Bose f,,r Ashing on S gave f
a peculiar reason hi*
Sabbath operations. - see,
iTTV "as e3tPer!mentln new
treditV f7,ne Beav fl8h
/ 1 ‘f ,th'' fivfr and lots
Creelh U dldn'1 "skiver
bait :'h!n°n!y Pxporlmenti ®y
fijhin ’ ho '6 p“op,<- "o
••That- rf'nion.stratf,(] ¥
i ; i
and Burlingame'wj^ ;
moderate fine as a row, »J»
loquacity^ East Liver^f |
Betty Lietep
Robert E. Catxoi* ss#
One afternoon last month Mrs.
Betty Lieter, a school teacher near
Sheridan. Wyo., remained later than
usual at the school-house, then on her
way home stopped by a pile of huge
bowlders to examine some curious in
scriptions cut into the surface. She
let the pony graze along the trail and
soon was deeply engaged in decipher
ing the marks.
A low rumbling sound startled her.
She sprang to her feet. A large
heard of cattle was coming toward
her, their noses to the ground, their
horn3 clanking together and envel
oped in a cloud of dust. At the same
moment her pony became frightened,
tossed his head in the air, and dashed
away across the plains.
She uttered a scream and sank
down. Yells arose from the cowboys.
They rode madly into the heard, try
ing to check the onward rush of the
leaders by firing revolvers in their
faces. Betty crouched for a moment
on the rock pile directly in
the path of the stampede; then,
impelled to make an effort to save
herself, she rose and darted off across
the country ahead of the herd.
The cattle came thundering after
her. She heard the angry roarings,
almost felt their hot breath, and, weak
from exhaustion, blinded by the dust,
she stumbled and fell. Without
strength to rise, she could only lie
there and await the oncoming merci
less hoofs that would soon trample
out her life.
At that moment, from out of the
clouds of dust, dashed a snorting
broncho, maddened by the gashing ;
spurs of his rider. A few leaps and [
he reached the prostrate form I
bending down from his saddle!
strong arm lifted her from the grcl
i hardly checking his speed, ami!
| study pony sprang forward unde®
double weight. She was saved®
A little later the cowboy rein®
his pony at the Meter gate, an®
the first time Hetty opened her®
and looked into the face of kefl
cuer Hubert Catton. Her arms fl
his neck tightened for one bricH
ment, she hid her blushing laH
his breast, then she struggled H
his arms and ran into the hen®
Tlie next day she received a H
no less than the little pony thtfl
saved her life. I
Young Catton is now a fr<Ht
visitor at the Meter ranch and He
other cowboys in the country aiH.i
solir.g one another, cacti regrettHe
could not have been the lucky H0
save the life and w in the heart lie
intrepid girl. 1
It is said that Miss Meter willrh
no more school, and that all thlw
boys on the range have been Bsd
to the wedding. I
Reading by Sound. I
M. de Turine has invented !‘W
style of hook for the blind. It Ats
of a sheet of transparent paplith
signs representing the Ietterslhe
Morse alphabet printed on it iles.j
The signs are small white sqia on
a black background, and wljthe'
sheet is placed between two i» of
glass and illuminated from bel/the
light passes through the whitfcns.
The blind person reads the by
moving an opaque piece of emird
( alDng the lines from left to right Be
he ‘‘anno* see the ill,mil
nattci signs, but the light passing
•rough them falls ou a selenium cell
J. £ rCU,t with a battery and tele
phone, or some equivalent device, and
he can hear them.
J The Shah's Wives.
;jyho Sfiah of Persia is the happy
IXm SB°r °f S'X,y w,ve9 and thirty
Children, quite a small household
J?°.n . "f remember that the late
Shah had over 1.700 Wives and nearly
- r, ° 8on8 an,, daughters! When the
1 |.fchab 8 wivcs go out for a drive the
j oyal subjects of His Majesty do not „
t Fthrorjg the streets to welcome them
as would he the case in a European
country. A band of running footmen
precede the Royal carriages, crying
out: Run and hide yourselves!” and
on reclpt of this hint every passer
by scampers up a side street to avoid
j the crime of high treason by looking
J on the Royal ladles.
Insurance Against Being Out of Work.
Insurance against non-employment
a an accompUshed fact in Germany.
Working men who have resided two
years in the city of Cologne and are
over eighteen years of age can Join
the society. The subscription Is six
[ fents a week- If no employment can A
be procured for a member during the C
dull season sixty cents per day is
paid to him If married, thirty-nine
jcents if single.
Bats Are Poor Walkers.
A hat is the worst walker of any
four legged animal.
ROUTE OF THE TELEGRAPH MEjlGE
THAT WENTR-OUND THE WORLD
_ ’ I
The twentieth century, aa foretold
by the mechanical prophets, has sent
a telegraph message around the
world. The message was started
from Boston and in thirty-eight hours
and twenty minutes was delivered
at the point from which it had
started.
The message around the world by
cable was made possible by the com
pletion of the British line from Van
couver, B. C., to Brisbane in Austra
—■——«i „i , ..—■m—
-—— -—■
wrote out the message: A via
Vancouver, British cattle, ,a!ia,
Glidden, Boston, around the •” ,
The dispatch was filed in 8os
ton office of the cable eonual1^
when the rest of the busint,eatl
of it was sent off the operat8 8
on the wire for Vancouver, the
operators along the line thoi,f 8
is a matter for surmise. awa*
all new business to them,
knew there was a shorter w;Bos* I
^---—---1
cable to Canada and down to Boston
The message handed Mr. Glidden had
met with a few mishaps on its tour
of (he world, but was still recogniza
ble as the one originally sent Mr
Glidden's name had been changed to
“Gleddon” and "Around tho world"
read "Armund the world.” An ex
tra "Boston" had been inserted but
in ail other respects the message was
the same.
The time it took to get around was
Route of the All-British Cable W°r,d' I
The last gap had been filled in on
evening of October 30, and the
day the British officials were
t to send messages of con
to the new stations across
Pacific ocean, but to none of
did the idea occur to try for a
girdling word.
es J. Glidden, a Boston bus!
in no way connected with
company, was deeply Inter
iu this latest achievement of
engineering skill, and decid- \
put it to a practical test. He ,
on than by way of the ot* t°n
he world. The message *°
banning Island in the ]/£!
•t was relayed. There
by an operator in light
t'lme and ticked ahead ' a
touching p0int it, ,h„ ajJ
rum there to Norfolk /
to Brisbane.
Afi< r Brisbane it Wa, c,^r
- '»• line
<;'a. across the Red g,., and |
ranean, through Franc* /tic
lh,'n 011 ‘ho oid estab# 1
due in part to the relays needed In
the transmission and partly because
there was nothing on the message to
show that any haste was desired it
waa, in fact, only an Idle experiment
with no idea of making a record
The cost has not been computed ac
curately, but ft will be only a llttia J
over $12 for the first six words of the ^
message and a proportionate sum f0
the others. Mr. Glidden thinks b
has secured a bargain at that price.
Wisdom seldom runs In a rut
