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■ I Editor's Note.—This account of a sev ••nteeth century scientific expedition was published in the Auburn (III.) Citizen. March 18. 1SSS. as an item of local in terest. there living at that place at that lime many descendants of Pauly, tiro en gineer—the Poleys. Parkses, Fosters, and other families being represented in the list. The original manuscript in French was in tlie possession of John Pauley of Kansas, who was at the time of the pub lication visiting his Illinois kinsmen. This account is particularly interest ing at this time, as it describes the con ditions prevailing on the coast of Cali fornia. in 1769, an event fittingly' celebrat ed by the Golden Gate City. The malady described by Pauly', which decimated the ranks of the French expe dition, occurred at the same time as sev eral other writers mention a very severe prevalence of scurvy in California, and was probably the same.] _ . / y HE observation of the tran sit of Venus on the 3d of June, 1796, was an object 6f interest to all the learned. The Koyal Acad emy of Sciences proposed to the king, Louis XV., to make the necessary outlay to send to California for this purpose. The late M. L'Abbe Chappe undertook this voy age with a courage worthy of his zeal for the progress of science. I was se lected to accompany him and we set sail for Mex ico in the month of September, 1768. After a perilous voyage of about 3,000 leagues, we arrived in Mexico on Easter day, 1769. Time was passing; we stopped but eight days to re fresh ourselves. The viceroy procured us mules and provisions, and we undertook to perform by land a part of the remainder of our travels, which was about 300 leagues. Amid lofty mountains, dreadful precipices and arid deserts, we encoun tered new dangers every day. We failed from fear a thousand times. We were also oppressed by the excessive heat, which left us hardly strength enough to drag ourselves. A thousand Insects of every species gave us no rest by day or night, and we had constantly to be on our guard against the very ferocious beasts with which the country is covered. Moreover, we lacked the nec essaries of life, for the provisions that we got in Mexico had been spoiled by the heat. We were obliged to live on wild cattle and whatever fruits wo could find here and there. We made our halts near some river or spring, that we might slake the burning thirst with which we were constantly consumed; to find one it was often necessary to inarch a whole day’s journey. miMCU 1U IUC till 11*5 *»* OX/111C VUUCj! U1 UU the side of some hill, we would endeavor to take upon the ground (et a la belle etollle), the repose which our cruel fatigue rendered so necessary. When scarcely asleep we were often aroused by a storm, and then by the impetuous torrents that came down upon us from the heights of the moun tains. Many a dark night we had to save our selves and our equipage, fearful at every step of tumbling down some of the precipices. After running a thousand risks we arrived at last at the port of San Bias, on the Pacific ocean; thence vve embarked for California on a brigan tine which the viceroy of Mexico had had pre pared. The Pacific ocean, although very tran quil. is not the less dangerous on account of the (vigics) with which it is filled. The great calm which prevailed at that time caused us. to despair of arriving in time to accom plish the object of our voyage. After six weeks' sailing, during which wo made but 150 leagues, on the greatest breadth of the sea, the shortness of the time caused us to risk a hazardous exploit. The part of California near which we found our selves was the port of San Jose—so dangerous that no one had ever landed there. The access to it is guarded by the incessant waves that break Impetuously against the rocks. The Spauish astronomers who were of our com pany wished to wait for a favorable wind to land at Cape St. Lucas, which was distant but ten leagues. The landing there is Indeed less danger ous, but we did not follow their advice because we were pressed to arrive at the place of our des tination; we resolved to attempt to disembark at the first land we should discover. While these gentlemen were yet deliberating, four Indian sailors and myself let down the long boat; we took with us half of the instruments. 1 agreed with the Abbe Chappe that if we per ished he might find other means to land else where with the rest, which would be sufficient for making his observations. I embarked then in the long boat with my four sailors, steering di rectly for the coast; the nearer we approached it the more we were sensible of the difficulty of landing. We were constar.tly thrown back by the accu mulated waves, and our boat threatened all the while to ship water. When on the point of losing courage, one of the sailors discovered, at a dis tance, the mouth of an unknown river. This dis covery animated us ; we reached the coast by this mouth but with great difficulty. I sent back the long boat for the Abbe Chappe and the Spanish astronomers, who arrived safely enough. niuveu vu tut: puunibuia iuc mcuij'-ui at ui May, 1769, 13 days before the epoch of the tran sit of Venus. We found no (azile a pouvoir nous mettre a labir), the inclemency of the weather. The savages that repaired to us said that a con tagion was prevailing in this country which rav aged it completely. The interpreter who trans lated this added that they said that in order to withdraw ourselves from the influence of this ter rible malady, it was necessary to remove some hundred or more leagues farther to the north. The means of undertaking this new journey, broken down with fatigue as we were; we had neither horses nor carriers to transport our bag gage; it was impossible to march on foot, and we shrank from a journey through a desert. All these reasons decide'd us to occupy ourselves with no business but that which had brought us. We labored to construct an observatory, which was ready the twenty-eighth day of May, six days before the epoch-when we would have need of it. We made our observations on the third of June, with the greatest exactness. The contagion made new progress every day; a general sorrow reigned in all this part of Cali fornia; we were not long without participating in it in a distressing manner. This dreadful malady came upon us six or seven days after the observa tion. We tvere wholly without succor; we could not be useful to one another, because we were at tacked almost all at once. v The little medicine that we had brought from France was useless, from want of knowing how to apply It. Nevertheless, the abbe, all sick as he was, con tinued his observations all the time. After ob serving an eclipse of the moon, he at last yield ed to his faintness, the delirium of his disease left him but little time to examine himself; he died the first of August, 1769. We were all dying (I and the companions of our voyage), when I had the sorrow to close his eyelids. Our situation and our want of strength induced us in this case to bury him without much cere mony. I devoted some moments to regret for the loss I had suffered, and in the height of a disease from which I did not exp*fct to recover, I took the precaution to collect all the papers relating to the object of the voyage. 1 placed them in a casket with an address to the viceroy of Mexico. I earnestly begged some Indian chiefs who were about me to make this casket safe in case we should all die, and to transmit it to the vessel which ought to arrive in the month of September to take us. My intention'in this was to secure to my country this valuable depot. I remained in my condition of sickness, pain and wretchedness until the twenty-ninth of September. At last the captain of the vessel arrived, he had landed at the island of Ceralvo. which is situ ated some 30 leagues from San Jose. My joy was so much the greater in seeing him that he pressed me to quit the fearful place where M. L’Abbe Chappe and all the rest had died. We were car ried to Ceralvo. I forgot to say that this cruel contagion had taken from us the chaplain and nearly all the persons that formed our little com pany. Although sick and oppressed with grief, 1 was compelled to undertake the perilous route which I had followed in coming, sometimes upon mules, sometimes upon the backs of the Indians, when It was necessary to cross the streams. With all this trouble, 1 reached Mexico the twenty-third day of November, 1769. There I was received by monsieur the marquis of Croix, the viceroy of that country, with a com passion worthy of that good patriot. He had had the kindness to send to meet me a carriage and his physician. Arrived at the capital of Mexico, and having paid my respects to the viceroy I was lodged by hiss orders at the expense of the city. When I left Mexico the marquis de Croix rec ommended me cordially to the commander of the Spanish licet, in which I embarked. We land ed at Cadiz the twenty-first of July, 1770. The court wras at the Escurial. I had myself taken thither, and presented myself to the marquis d'Os sun, then French ambassador in Spain. He re ceived me with marks of kindness and consider ation, and gave orders to show me whatever they have to shovt strangers in this royal house. He caused me to dispatch in advance of the party, the strictest orders through the minister of customs, that at no pass on my route must be searched either myself or the chests in which were the observations which I bore. I did not arrive in Paris till the fifth of the fol lowing December. I sent to the Academy the ob servations that we made In California. This so ciety expressed the greatest satisfaction with my zeal and my services. They presented me to the king, and to all his ministers. They solicited for me a recommendation of my labors. His majesty, Louis XV. granted me a small pension of 800f. The government is too equitable to leave me in want in the flower of my age, afflicted with the evils which 1 have incurred for the service, dnd indispensably obliged to have a servant to lead me. I hope, then, from his justice and from his goodness, that he will grant me an increase of the pension sufficient to enable me to accomplish with decency the rest of my public career. HELD TO STRICT ACCOUNTING - 'r> Chinese Police Officials A*e Expected to Be Urgent in Preventing and ? Punishing Crime. ' In lemon-colored silk a Chinese dip lomat on an Atlantic City pier talked *ibout Chinese laws. “Some of our laws, you know, are Very stimulating,” he said. “For ex ample, Chi owed money to a money tender. Chi would not pay, and the money lender hanged himself on Chi’s doorpost. Chi was condemned to death. You see, he was really, respon sible for the money lender’s death. “A son able to support his parents is imprisoned for life if he won’t do so. A son unable to support them is im prisoned for three years, as we hold— and quite rightly—that there must be something wrong with a young man who can’t support his parents. I "Our police are excellent, thanks ; to the stimulus of our law. When a I crime is committed a sleuth i6 put upon the case and given, say 30 days, to land the criminal. If the sleuth fails, he himself pays the penalty of the crime, less two degrees. Thus, if ihe gigel murder had occurred in China, a police official would now be undergoing life imprisonment. That, too, is a just and stimulating law. For if the police can neither prevent nor punish such a crime as the Sigel murder, then they should he them selves punished for their rank inca pacity.” Good Gunnery at Sea. If our navy’s gunners can shoot lit tle targets so full of holes nobody is able to see the exact score they can shoot up an enemy’s big battleships so thoroughly that nobody can tell or many care to know which guns won the victory. The target practice ofl the Virginia capes should make every American proud of our ships and oi the men in them. - aycne Loitture By JULIA BOTTOMLEY. The beautiful hair dress shown here has made a veritable sensation, and it is a pleasure to reproduce it for our readers. Without the small pleasing little skeleton cap shown in the pic ture, it retains all the fascination of the Psyche coiffure, and is thoroughly practical for present millinery modes. The hairdresser has taken certain small liberties with her classic model in order to accommodate the coiffure to the hat and brow of the wearer, and they have turned out to be an improvement, since they enhance the beauty of both the face and hat The head dress, shown in our photograph, was adapted specially to this coiffure and leaves nothing to be desired. It may be said in passing that the head dress shown is made of gold rib bon and rhinestone ornaments set in gold. The aigrette at the side is pure white. Every one will see at a glance its simplicity of construction, and ap preciate the beauty of this coiffure or nament. The foundation on which it is fashioned is simply buckram cut in narrow bands and wired before cover ing with ribbon. It does not require an abundance of natural hair to build this style of coiffure. The hair, however, must be waved before it is dressed. The reg ular ondulations of the Marcel w'ave may be used, but are not absolutely essential. The hair is parted off in the usual manner, and that portion about the face and neck waved in loose, irregular curves. All the re mainder ot the hair (much or little) is tied at the back of the head and ar ranged in a coil. This forms the foun dation for the balance of the coiffure. If the hair is thick and heavy it will not be necessary to use a roll at all. The hair at each side in this case is simply “ratted," that Is, combed toward the scalp instead of from it, and then lightly smoothed with the comb on the outside. It is then brought back to the coil, pinned to It, and the ends fastened under it. A small portion of the waved hair on top of the head is treated in the same way and brought back lying loosely over the top, with its end fastened un der the coil. The hair across the fore head is arranged in a loose pompa dour. the ends lightly twisted, and brought back to the coll if long enough to reach. If not, they are concealed under that portion on top of the head which has already been fastened into the coll. This pompadour is then pulled forward and down over the brow and parted lightly with the fingers, a little to one side. Invisible pins, fasten it to place, and it is worn more or less over the brow to suit the individual taste in this matter. A very full cluster of false puffs is placed over and around the coil, where they are firmly pinned to place. A barette is adjusted under them, supporting the short locks at the nape of the neck, which usually prove so refractor^. Finishing touches are given by pulling the side hair against the puffs and pinning it tc them with invisible pins and curling any short locks which may straggle about the nape of the neck into little rings. These are held in place with the fluid which hairdressers use for that purpose. The natural hair, unless very curly, will not make satisfactory curls and puffs, and even when one possesses the requisite quantity of naturally curly hair it is much more difficult to manage than the false hair. Moreover, it will not stay well dressed as long and consumes far more time in doing, so that it is economy to buy puffs and curls. Of all things, however, one should get a perfect match in color and texture to one’s own hair. When the natural hair is very thin it will be necessary to use additional hair across the front of the head, for the hair dress just described. Sev eral styles are made in front pieces that will fill all the requirements, and when combed in with the natural hair are not to be detected. In adjusting the hat to this coiffure a portion of the hair about the face should be pinned to the underbrim or facing of the hat. FIT INTO A DRESSING CASE Umbrellas Now Made So They Fold Great Convenience for the Traveler. Umbrellas which can be folded to fit into a 24-inch dressing case are the only type which now appeal to the college girl who does not like to be burdened with more than one package when traveling. These folding um brellas come in black, tan, taupe, dark red, blue, brown and green twilled silk, mounted upon steel frames and usually have wooden handles. Among the newest umbrella handles Is one of flatteneu top, shaped somewhat like a huge button and about two and one half inches across. Other wooden handles are carved to represent the heads of cats, dogs, owls and butter flies. They are usually of natural col ored oak, ebony or mahogany, but oc casionally one is stained to match the silk covering of its frame. Very smart umbrellas which particularly appeal to girls of artistic as well as extravagant tastes have satin finished white wood handles, with tops of onyx, jade or carved dull red quartz. They are dec orated with narrow ribbon bows or with tasseled loops through which the wrist may be thrust Nursery in Theater. A nursery for the children of pa trons is connected with a Glasgow (Scotland) theater. BEST BAG FOR THE BROOM Should Be Made to Fit, with an Open ing at the Side—Good Tick ing Bag. The broom bag may be made a more satisfactory thing than the cloth that slips off in mid-air if it is made to fit the broom, and, furthermore, if it be opened at the side. The thing I have in mind is an oblong square bag of outing flannel from which the two lower corners have been cut, leav ing it somewhat octagonal in shape. The small remaining bottom of the bag is made into a faced opening, and when the broom handle is. slipped through the long, open side of the bag and dropped through the end opening the broom straws will be held securely. A ticking bag for clothes-pins has fastened to its upper end two wire hooks to hang It to a clothes-line. The end is first stiffened with wire, and there is no opening for the clothes pins except a round hole cut in the center oi one side. A facing round the circular hole forms a casing for an other wire to keep the opening In shape. Countless household bags are not to be scorned, but these two are partic ularlv useful shapes. Dinner Partners. A novel plan for pairing off girls and men at dinner parties, one which takes the responsibility of this feat off the hostess and is aften productive of interesting or amusing results, is in the form of a game, which is con cerned with likenesses of taste. The hostess makes out a list of modern novelists, for instance. Each name she prints twice on separate slips of pa per. Each set of slips is dropped into a hat or on a tray and passed among the girls and men respectively. The different members of the party pick out their favorite writer, and the man and woman who agree in this selec tion are partners for dinner. Musi cians, artists, famous paintings, poems and various other persons or things may be utilized in this way. This method often gives rise to con siderable interesting conversation, par ticularly where there are one or more strangers in the party. LEFT THEIR SEATS HASTILY Fair School Teachers Blissfully Una ware of Contents of Box on Which They Rested. “While in Paris this summer anoth er girl and I wen out to Versailles one afternoon,” said a school teacher who had just returned from abroad. “It was dusk when we reached the railway station, and as there was no waiting room wre sat down on two crates that were out on the platform among a lot of others. We noticed that the station employes kept.staring at us with a persistence that was an noying. Presently a man in a shabby uniform with a bucket on his arm ap proached us. .He touched his cap deferentially and said—in French, of course: “ ‘Mesdames, pray do not let me dis turb you, but I am forced to open the boxes on which you are seated in or der to feed the boa constrictor and other serpents that are within.’ “When we recovered from our fright we found we had been seated in the midst of a huge collection of snakes that had just arrived from their native jungles en route for the zoo near Versailles.” Laundry work at home would be much more satisfactory if the right Starch were used. In order to get the desired stiffness, it is usually neces sary to use so much starch that the beauty and fineness of the fabric is hidden behind a paste of varying thickness, which not only destroys the appearance, but also affects the wear ing quality of the goods. This trou ble can be entirely overcome by using Defiance Starch, as it can be applied much more thinly because of its great er strength than other makes. To Breaking One iMeck, $2. The "lineup ' man was a facetious soul. The woman tor whom he was putting up a pulley clothes-line was exacting. She ordered it put in a cer tain place, which it was almost impos sible tor him to reach. He hesitated. “If I have to put it there, lady,” he said, ‘Til break my neck.” Still she did not relent. “Ail right, lady,” he consented, with a clieeriul grin, “but it’ll cost yer $2 extry if I break my neck.” In the Beginning. “Yours is certainly an unusual case,” said the lawyer, “and it will be neccessary to consult a number of books.” "So?” queried the client. "Yes,” answered the legal light, “and we will begin with your pocket book.” Didn’t Stay There. Father—Didn't I tell you I would whip you if I caught you in the water again? Son—Yes, sir. and that's the reason I hurried out when I saw you coming. 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