The herald., December 14, 1883, Image 3

About The herald. (Big Stone City, Dak. [S.D.]) 1883-1890

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and fa iim.
'r Hot 0Tu i
two-thirds eii|) of sweet
^o-lhiraH rap f?-ur a
Antliu
lt
ter, uiie teaspoonhjl of
,/onc-hulftewpooiutti of
to taste.
a .-One qfiHrt of boiling
/meal, tw tabkspoon
., tablespoon fill of batter,
f(,Up of molasses, and a
one hour. I mix tin*
tier,
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i
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place
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:hen turn the boiling
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and chop up the rest of
ir, teacup of boiling water,
-ii'iir, one teaspoonful
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of
anil a little salt. Hake
WBtnj.1
juisix Pie.—One teacup
oratme. Chop the peal
,a little with the raisins in
the orange into small
in with one tablespoon
V
two tablespooniuls of
't- if tke orange id very
ei is very bitter, use
s aoEiaJ
coliectffll
Bake with two crusts.
-One cup ofshortening,
i:*r, sne cup of molasses,
j. jf hot water, one tea
r, and two teaspoonfull
,: iard, roll thin and bake
1 fa
s»ri:
'•rtmeatt
of the
Qs
tail
-One-half cup of short
i: cup of sugar, one-half
one-half cup of hot wa
lspociiful of sale rut us.
k, and bake in a dnp-
"'8? ilJil
suear
ie cahiMl
u {T
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Four or dive cold
hree eggs, boiled haid,
ion or lettuce chopped
•eai. sou.
iin a i
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luttifl
^2 03 aj
ve po*g|
the reiM|
pos'ta i
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of
)ne teaspoon
fui each of
sugar, a little pepper,
vinegar, and one-half
:tter. Mix ail well to-
VJ'I
ah aadj
t?-e 'h:Ti
•'•r-a|
b:
•ndm«#J
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i and om
latJOBofi
v
rat iii Brevities,
:I
Lo stole a cow from his
found on netting her
his own cow which hia
la earlier in the night,
rary to good taste ami
-ed the fair ground will
exclusive report of the
ciety only.—Colorado
burael
ectioa
intra
iry o,'!
4t e"
Kea"
i*
yoe'
ry veterinary skill i
8
the cattle around Law
ie farmers are I.Hiving
The disease alfeet's
snd lelt lung, produ
the anima living about
sine sick.
on, of Milwaukee, who
Bt Poin u it 1J Generai
ill.
-i
1!
V C£U
•n, Iroin the ShenanJo
"iiniti, paid s.l'i.O'H) in
rmsnear llilishoro, IIJ.
Id, "having no private
frankly tells The. Prai-
!ll,'re
reallv is "no best
combining all the good
mouth Rocks are pro
'aI purpo.se," and that
ess, peculiar llavorand
sh, is more ttian the
than of any natural,
best drinking-water
'9 obtained from springs
!""i
wells. It is gene/ally
••'-'.i' le and animal irnpuri
!'•salts of Jime and other
I*
U8efl1'
n
vA
building up
Picture. As conipar. witti
ot the atmosphere it is
f^rand cool in summer. It
,•
Ir,jaa
the noxious gases
'f-eair, and is well pup
pU'iiic ami, which renders
It is greatly to be pre
P*1 rainwater stored in a eis
k.'-merally contami Hated
and animal substance
-m lime.
[p|»'inK in England.
?,^8are
disappearing bi-
a,»'sax
and the saw mill,
•. "hrainution of the trees
"'-mowing to the perse-
e
H'e^
class in tree-plant-
Alone,
that of the'I hikes
-n a hundred'vears plant
''•i'lona of trees. The "plant
^"cnnieiired operations in
,"rnH,,H|l|0
trees
covering
Jail-i' n1^
U,,0n the J),lrl
i' lk-.i r!f ^lr.
neiKhborhood.
iukers
r:ree^waH
mr(il-v Iluti('
Island
*ah1e.
wen
N iu.,i' v
on
Unf°rtuuately
h^-eraflu
/here on the
•I'ttoui
tlu
ftterpit
which
1 l,,neyftUia
Tra»sph»vt
Wooas
'J,
cl'eH,'-r
l\Qtn
itheri,
I* tree, all the
i""r«ei»CI»
two or three leel from the trunk, few or
no fibres or feeding roots are left and if
he nass of ops ,h eft, the expand n of
the buds in the spring will not be re
sponded to by a supply of sap from the
roots, and death must follow If -u
trees have the tops conipletelv'removed
leaving only a hare p„h,f ,l
ally grow when transplanted'. The tree
is little more than an immense cutting
but there are roots ,no
U
Manufacture Of Suj ar.
Professor Wiley, of the I'nited Su:,
Agrieultural Department, at. Washing
ton, has been making experiments with
process which has been littie tried
in the manufacture of sugar, which
promise asto nisbing results. It is what
is technically known as the diffusion pro
cess, and by it he gets "0 per cent,
more sugar from the cane fiian by the
old process of pressing the cane between
rollers, ilv this process he cutsthecane
into pieces an eighth of an inch thick,
and, nutting it into a series of iron re
ceptacles and pas-dug hot water through
them, by a pressure tarries away the
sugar in the cane, leaving the starch
and gums, which are retained by the
old process, and making a better and
purer sugar and much more of it. The!
process is quite a simple one, and the.
professor thinks it will take the place
in time of the old plan. The machinery,
he says, will cost a little more tor the
new process, but he thinks the advan- I
tage gained far myre tnan pays the uii
ferencv
^-,-0
A Fancy Box.
This is made bv using a cigar box.
Take oil'all the paper and rub it *-[11001,1
with saml paper, then give it a coat of
biaek paint, Limp b'nek mixed with var
nish will 1 It 1. ne!i.ii- varm-di best as
it tiries soijuicki -lit 'jet thojough
ly dry. Varnisii th «lear y.ir:ii-fi,
and have ready some presse.J fern as
soon as the varnish is nartsv dry, ar
range the ferns in any1 way you fancy,
using the vart.isu ns a giue. Set the box
wliere it will dot get du-ty, tc wliere
you can see it.
1 1
stems of
Trees Prom
and better to
the wood
a few feet in
u
a n i
IUbfset.,,i
Seufe0n°nnrvand
ene«
,h left to meet
the demand of the few shoots that start
from the top, and growth above and be
ow ground arc well balanced. We
have seen maples, elms, and basswood
trees hfteen feet u--inore high, trans
planted this manner, without a fail
ure. ome tre'-s treated in. this manner
were planted in our neighborhood about
ten y ears ago, Jhev have now as fine
heads as one would wish and
show no signs of former rou^h'treat
ment. Trees in pastures, or onlhe ed»e
of woods, are belter furnished with
roots. These should be prepared for
transplanting by digging down to the
roots, and cutting oil all that extend be
yond the desired distance. This will
canst the formation «ffibrous roots near
the tree. It will be safer to take two
years for the operation, cutting half of
tin* roots each year. Such trees mav be
removed safety, especially if a good
share of the top is removed in trans
planting. (Shrubs of various kinds re
quire the same treatment. Many ot our
native shrubs are of great beautv, and
desirable as ornaments to the grounds
As ordinarily transplanted, thev are
rarely satisfactory. If the whole top of
these shrubs, every branch, be removed,
leaving only a stick with a much root as
can be secured, success is quite certain.
We have removed the laurel 'Kalmia
latifolia) safely in this manner: the shrub
show no signs" of their rough treatim t,
-American Agriculturist.
will lie necessary to
press the ferns down o TUSitinaUy until
drv, as the edges olten lottseii aihl tlv
up". Then' varnish again, ferns and all.
After being exposed to light t!ie ferns
bleach, and you have a box that looks
like inlaid work. 1'aiut the inside
crimson, or lini.-h with fatic\' paper.
Home Decoration
A lovelv finish tor a silk quilt for a
lounge is strips of ribbon linished in
points with a frill of Jae'e extending be- I
low tliefti.
('anton tlannel in gurnet or gold makes
a pretty cover for a toilet table. Decor
ate the ends with outline tiiiires and
finish with white ball fringe. Turkey
red rotten will furnish a satisfactory
lining.
A handsome handkerchief case is
made of crimson plush with sa'in lining
of the same color on the upper-fide put
a sprav of rosebuds and leaves in i ibboti
embroidery, lne case sliould be
the
».
'{Mhan°t
Wht1!
aild
,r 8round80r
to
my ,,uraer
•Per 1
y fees.
8ile
I1digL,it
"»ii he-
aUtions
{lttve
«ot been
I i
U:ad
branches.
I'U-tura^J\b'1,8 the forest
f2 struck i
va
t°r'»ado must
rr°°t8nin nmnner in
N to
a
greaY
Stance. When
trees are cut oil' at
111
shape like the two covers of a book,
and should tie with a ribbon of tuesanie
color as the case.
The liglit which streams through hall
panes is s .ftened by panels of transpar
ent silk bearing appropriate ceMt,ns
brushed in with the pencil, or wrought
oat with the needle.
In looking over the novelties this sea
son, one is impressed with fliie predomi
nence of foliage forms, and the lovefi-
nosB of
»ii,iiict plants from
U y y The
L'.i,,, Js.
,,tutroyo,t
the Tav
'l
oflht
the articles that present the out­
line and color of the 'i.uhrageo«3H{eci*
i.nens attest the wisdom of it 1
xhe
leaf-gstherer
for repruduitio'n u,
•rich and .Inrable suhBtauce. A
as
UOr8 anUu k
5*t lieri
feWllarr°W
heJtH Of
inter
an!?
unique n g'ow lea
shaped bowls in atttumnat
Sloop More Noctss.ry Th.n rood.
Kvery ho,.Behold »nf
enforce a re.|«rt «'r».oe|.. h»t
not to «.v that hfitlthy
who sit ujt latit at ni«huiof «r« out very
tale, should l.e
Sum
r.-a to Beep past tbe
breakfast hour by too tmiulfct.
irthey need so tnuch
the retiring hour ear
u
y n(? ctiildren,
respect for the sleep of young
old folks and
econo
my
«uch a restorer that hrintein^ in the
to awaken an invalid 1 I
n
breakfast tray, or by
near to t,u
J", «eftkfttBt
rgon
bell loudly, when an
is hap-
er
dutieB
pily resting in sleep. The uo«w»
hulJI 8
regularifv ~TtP?m 1
,utiue
regularit v'in ti
hour's lonwr i
1(
J^
tr
e'derlv
IioHmM
u v wi
n
the
for home
0t be an
lSe
name,l vvhe!1
laakes more ditfer-
the repair of
,I,lvall,ll than the
to hem ,?ak[tt8t that can be served
idol i n
l8 the
foody81A f^''i
w! V
household
some uch 0 an idol in
®?nie placss. It i
8 not
)ple e( ll that i8
or »r
A
ni
cooked
)f 8om
he hS i
fi
e apples
8h, eon
"^'i. will do
an a lnHlfst, :lk
tl'rust on
stoinacii before it is
mnri 1 .? need be dig
hnw,
ref ,re fr0!
h**ting a child
sleep out, and all older chil-
8,0 !d be ta,1
ot otlj
fht to respect the
ers to enter a room noise­
lessly and not to call or shake he sleep
^""'jay's noon sleep for a person
overworked all the week long, does
i^ore good than the Sundav dinner, if
the house provider could onJv see it in
that way, and if any such bodv drops
asleep alter a well-digested sermon, it
may be, do not interfere with the prop
er uses of the day—for rest -by insist
ing on a slice of roast beef instead. The
importance of food is vastlv overrated
in this country and in proportion we
underrate ths natural sustenance of
•leep.
jVIi.seelhuiy.
^:Q6 San Francisco fistiemien reoent
iy caught a singular marine monster,
wiiieh they call an elephant fish, in
their net, after a struggle of several
hours, during which the creature drag
ged the smack a long distance. It meas
ures nine feet eight incheB in length,
lour feet wide, and seven feet in cir
cumference, and has a mouth eighteen
inches wide. It appears to belong to
tiie shark species, and part of a human
body was found in its maw.
The value of the willow crop of
Wyoming county, N. Y., is estimated at
^12,'Kt.i. The heaviest crops are found
in the towns of Perry, (rainnville and
Warsaw, and the willows are shipped to
Syracuse, HutLilo and New York tu tier
man baskei-ruakein, where they com
mand fr mil to per ton. Before
Ni'.» the willows had to be stripped of
their bark where they were raised,
whkh was accomplished by standing
the bunches a stream of water
Since ivi'.ittie buyers take them bark
and all, and strip the stalk by steam
power, which makes \t more profitable
for the producers.
Among the Oriental rugs on exhibi
tion at the Boston Fair there are two
which are so fine that photographs have
been made of them for exhibition, and
liiey are some of the finest ever seen in
this country. One of them is "Jl feet, 10
inches by 7 feet in size. One scarcely
recogniz- s the fact that such specimens
as these find ready sale among eonnois
senrsat ^l.ooo each. Another good rug,
smaller in size, line and thin, woven in
iarK,
rich colors, is the "iioh. In many
respects resembles the Alghani.-tan.
These ii!g are valued at about r'Joo.
There is not one factory in the world
that makes Mecca rugs. They are made
entirely by
families,
and it. is only pos­
sible to get three oj- tour at a time.
Some views on cholera, based 011 a
successful practical experience with
flit
disease in Madrid and the Phililippines.
have been expressed to the Paiis Acad
cinv of Sciences hv Mons. Kumon de
Luna, lie ielieve» that the cause of
cholera is always to be lound in the at
mosphere: thai it exerts its action exclu
sively through the respiratory organs:
that its incubation is most likely to take
pi,ice during a passive condition of the
individual, pai ticula riy during sleep
that the microbe or ferment acts chietlv
on the hi,lod-corpusclea,(preventing prop
er oxidation, and so leading to gradual
sulfocation: that the only safe remedy is
the inhalation of nitrons acid mixed with
air and that the best means of preven
tion is the nitrous fumigation of rooms,
utensils, etc., twice a day.
The Dashawav Society, a noted tem
perance organization of San Francisco,
hail a peculiar origin. One night in the
early history of the city a party of men
were winding up a spree in a siloon,
when one of the members dashed the
liquor from the glass, and faid: "I dash
it away forever!'' From 'hi-» incident
the society was formed.
The New Orleans Times-Democrat
claims that, according to the census re
port, although the southern states possess
only
one-eighteenth
One of the best stories of Jthe season
ctines from Wrightsville, S. C.. and is
thus told by the Recorder: "A lady
while engaged in the pursuit of her do
mestic duties, encountered a mouse in
the flour barrel. Now most ladies, under
such circumstances, would have uttered
a genuine shriek and then sought safety
in the garret but this one possessed
more than the ordinary degree of genu
ine courage. She summoned the man
servant and told him to get the gun, call
the dog and stationed herself at a con
venient distance, then she clambered
up-staira and commenced to punch the
tiour barrel with a pole. Presently the
moine made its 'appearance and started
across the floor. The dog "»*rteJ at
once in pursuit. The man hred and the
dog dropped dead. The lady fhinted,
fell down tiiejstairs, and the man, think
iue she was killed, and fearing that he
woul I be arrested for murder, disap
peared, and has not beer,
seen since.
The mouse escaped.
New York spent for education last
vear,
$.",,ii.)6,328.
A BRAVE COWBOY.
The "cowbojs" of onr Western plains havo
certainly gained for themselves no enviable
reputatiou. In leeJ, there are many both East
and Went who have been led to behovo that all
to whom the term is applied are ruffians and
desperadoes—a lawless arid dangerous c!a?9 of
men. l'et many who wear the cowboy's jackets
have hearts that are brave and true, and it Is
one of these last who is the subject of my
present story.
He was born in Montana, and had never been
east of the Missouri river, nor west of the
Iiocky mountains. I found in him a pleasant,
quiet young man of twenty, and be enlivened &
dr»aty day on the stage with many interesting
anecdotes aud facts relative to eattie raising on
the plains. Thore was nothing of swagger or
egotism in Ins CtUivernatiun, but rather the
manly mode-ty of a gentleman.
"I suppose you met with plentv of adven
tures?" 1 said.
"Well, yes, things often happen which hare
enough danger in them to be called adventures,
I reckon though there's a good deul of same
ness about a cattle-herder's lite, I promise you.
And it's this constant, wearing sameness—one
dhy just like another—that sends so many of
the boys off on a 'spree' at the end of the quar
ter, or the season
"1 really don't know," he continued, "as
I've ever had an adventure that would interest
you, in my flv« years of 'cattle punching,' as
"they call it You ve heard plenty of Injuu
yarns, I've no doubt on® almost just like an
other. A lot of whooping and hard riding,
some fancy shooting, an i perhaps two or three
scalps lost. One soon gets tired o! them. But
I don't mind telling you one of my adventures,
such as it was.
"A year ago lact fall, Jim Caldwell and I—
Jim was inv 'mate' then—were working for old
Sam Vesy, a big 'cattle king' up our way and
there were with ns at the ranch three other
fellows, good, square, up-and-down boys
every one of them—if they were cow-boya.
"1 his ranch was'way up on Rose creek,
close to the Crow country that's the reason
there were so many of ns together and our
business was to keep about «l,()O0 head of cat
tie 'rounded in' between the mouth of the
creek t'nd Seven Men's Buttes, away up nigh
the head of it,
"Twas a terrible rough country, that up
round Seven Men's Buttes but the hill grass
there makes the b-i#t of feed iu summer and
fali. And in order to keep as many of the
steers feeding up there as we could handily,
we built onr 'shack' pretty well up in the val
ley not far, iu fact, from the buttes.
'"there was another reii-oti. though, for
ronruliDK close to the head of the stream.
Tli'-re were two gaps that led back into the
mountains. "lie ea.'hmdoof the iuitte.-., through
which the steers inigl.t stray, or out of which a
party of Ciows nu^ht make a raid and drive off
a 'bunch' if wo didn't watch closely.
"We never f-'at .'d any danger for ourselves,
though: for of late years the Crown have done
nothing wors.i than run off stock, on the sly,
into the mountains and th^y won't do that if
there is any risk about the business.
"But there was a little realdauger, though we
never thought much about it. and that was
from the 'mid' Sioux. A party of their y .mug
bucks used to came up that wav every summer
from the .-outh, on a rai-.l after horses, and
Sometimes they made serious business fur the
boys along the creeks thoiur-h ihoy generally
kept pretty well off anions the mountains, and
picked up 'strays,' or IOOBH 'bunches' of horsoa
and cattle that had got a good distance off
the raune.
"We never gave these fellows much thought,
and the summer pass-d till one night in the
last part of August, when Jim and 1 ran into a
party of young bucks, fresh up from the Oga
lahah camps, and spoiling for a fraea*.
"Tim beggars were runnnu a good•siZ'.'d
bunch of fat st.-ers right into YesyV -as
w^ had i.amed th« deep cut past tho Butt s
ari n broad dayii^'hr, t"o! For ir wasn't ten
minutes after suinlewn when we caw them, as
we came riding out of the bill*, a mile lower
down the creek.
•"Crows. Ed!' yelled Jim over bis shoulder
to me for lie was a iittle ahead and saw tbeni
first. 'More'n forty of 'em! Jtunnin" off a big
bunch of stoers. Look at the yaller varmints}
Bold, aint they V
"I thought, too, that they were Crows. A
fancy lot of chaps they were, I assure you!
Even at that distance wo could see that they
wern all togged out big-tigurcd calico, with
red and yellow streamers tlutturiug all over
'hem. And weren't thev hustling those steers!
Not a bit of noise about it, though not a word
spoken! But they war e bobbing about as lively
as a whole nestful of yaller wasps, flourishing
their aims and quirts, and just scaring the very
wits out of those poor eattie.
'Jim,' says 1, 'shall we go for "em, or do
von expect there are too many of 'em for us to
hitch to
"They may be Sioux,' said Jim, looking
hard at'theni. 'If they are Crows, they'll scat
ter at the first shot and leave us the cattle. If
they »'o Sioux, we'll leave them the cattle, and
a
pair
of the wealth of the
country, thev contribute one-sixth of all
the monevexpended forschool purposes
—contributing to their schools threa
times as liberally as the north or west,
while thev furnish one-fourth of all the
scholars in the public schools. In the
south, loo, there is no distinction in the
pav of male and female teachers-—both
are paid alike. The census also shows
that children are much more numerous
in the south than in the north and west,
in proportion to the nopulation, the
birth rate being decidedly higher, and
the number of children to the family
greater.
of scalps into the bargaiu. But let's
take the chance, Ed. Hero goes!' Aud just
as the wholo porty, cattle and all, went out of
sight behind a spur of tho buttes, we went
flying up the valley after them.
"I on't think that they saw ue at all till we
had followed them nearlv three miles, and
rounded the second point. We were then about
half a mile from them, and it was getting just
a lutle dark
'Touch 'em up, now!" Jim exclaimed and
UDslitiging our 'Winchesters,' we began to lire
at them. We thought that if they were Crows
they would run at once into the bills. But
they didn't. They kept steady after the steers
never so much as noticed us by a shot back.
The canyon was getting deeper, and it was
growing darker every minute.
"Determined not to let them got away without
an effort to get eome of the cattle, wo now fired
in dead earnest, .lust here a bend the ra
vine took them round out of our sight for
moment.
'Shall we go around thar after 'emV ex
claimed Jim.
"'They may attack ua,'I replied. 'But I'll
follow your lead, Jim.'
"Jim never drew rein, and I kept near him
but still hoping they were Crows, we resolved
to make one more dash at them and see if wo
could not save the steers, for this bunch was
about the finest and fattest on our range, bo
on we went at full drive.
"Well, sir. they came at us, more'n a dozen
of 'em, the minute we rounded that bend. We
had no sooner passed the high rocks there,
when more than a dozen sprang out behind us,
8 as to out off our retreat. And such a veil!
They had been still as ferrets, but now thev
just" lot out, and it almost lifted our hair
right up.
"We)], it would be a pretty hard matter for
me to describe what followed 1 haven't got
the language to do it. They didn't fire a shot
at first but each redskin, as he spurred out
from the black shadow of the overhanging
rocks, gave a screechin' yell and they all
pressed their horses tight onto the rear of
oura.
"They thought they were sure of as and
we saw in a moment what their game was.
They meant to capture ns, ponies aud all, and
then have an interesting time 'roestin' us,
triced up to a pine stump—the same they had
served a poor fellow named Norcross, two sea
sons before in those same hills. You see, we
had no more doubts now about their being
Sioux.
"Well, as we couldn't turn back, we just
drew our six-shooters and urged our ponies to
a run. A Bix-shooter's a sight handier than a
'Winchester' in a close light and it was
scarcely a second's work to shove our carbiue®
down ui to oar saddle-hois
lets. We suDpuaed
that there were more of the redskins ale-a i of
us and so it proved, for in less than a minute
we ran into another squad.
"It was getting rather dark in the canyon by
this time and
I
reckon we overtook them
sooner than they expected, for they wero stii
scattered out and puuehin' tho steers along
Perhaps they thought, though, that we woul.i
not try to ride through all that crowd of catth
up the gorge ahead.
"We went in among them like a pair of sky
rockets, aud just turned loose on 'em with our
six-shooters right and left, wberevor, in th"
dust and dark, we could catch sight of any of
that llntteririg calico. They dashed, struck
and shot at us from all directions at once but
we plunged through the midst of them, and
went at full drive among all those floundering,
bellowing steers ahead.
"Only the darkness could have saved us
iYm tho bullets and arrows that were shot at
us as we were carried on the midst of the
stampede and only heaven preserved us from
being crushed to death in the jam of eattie
crowding along between the almost vertical
walls of rock on each fide. Our ponies were
spry and nimble they were more used to cat
tie than Indian ponies, aud we could get ahead
iu the press faster than the redskins could fol
low us.
"At length we came nut among tho foremost
cattle in a moment moro we could have cleared
the whole jam. Up to that tine not a ball or
an arrow had touched us but mnv a bullet-m
chance shot, 1 suppose- —brought down poor
Jim. horse aud all. He was half a stride in
advance of my right. Above the uproar, 1
heard him cr.yout, and then saw pony and man
go headlong to the ground.
"Checking my hoi so with a jerk, I tried to
pull up and face about but a heavy steer run
ning plump against me, and the place beiug
frightful rocky, my pony was upset and tum
bled head foremost into a deep rift in tho ledge,
whore I think he must have either broken his
legs or his neck, for we found him trampled
into the rift the next morning,
"By goo 1 luck my own neck was not broken,
and jumping to my feet, I ran to Jim. He lay
several yards in front of his struggling pony.
'Don't wait for me, Ed,' he groaned, as I
took hold of him. 'I can't go I can't get up.
Look out for yourself, old fellow."
"The bail had gone through his thigh, break
ing the bone, ami fatally wounded tho poay
beside him. Putting both hands under his
arms, 1 raised him and then, partly carrying
aud partly dragging him,
I
ran backwards,
stuniMing over rocks iu tho dark, and s um
came against the shelving craig on the left side
of the canvon—just as the dense mass ofsteers
came bellowing and crowding on.
"Had it not been for a little cranny, or ctofl
in the ledges, we should havo been quickly
stamped aud trodden to death. But right be
yond a projecting rock there chanced to be a
little nook, just largo enough to sheltor us,
which I succeeded dragging Jim into. Then
all that wild, crazy, bellowin', whooping crowd
of snorting st ers and howlinr* redskius plunged
aud struggled by, like a big avalanche smash
ing everything into it.
"lint those Injuns were careful not to get
verv far in the press of mad cattle. They had
tost sight of us in tho dusk and darkness of the
place and I don't suppose they ever had the
Irast id"a w hat hf-catno of us. At any rate,
none of them came back to look for us.
"Well, hal a time of it there with Jim, try.
ing to slop his bleeding. I tore up iny shirt
and stuffed the wound with lint rags, and
bound his leg tightly with stout strips, all the
while expecting that tho redskins would come
back for us. At. last I got the flow of blood
checked. But 1 did not dare to move him and
it was not long before ho was burning hot with
fever."
"It was not till after daybreak that our three
mates oil the range came out in search of Q«
and found our trail. With their help I got Jim
to the 'shack,' and *\o made out to set his
broken leg, In the course of a couple ol
mouth* he was out again.
"Our \»ld man iosi. by that raid 500 head 01
fat steer-, an.] felt pretty sore about it but w«
had done th" best we could him. Aud a
for Jim and me, wo had lost a nplo of good
ponies but we etiuld 80 much better part with
them than with our lives, that, after all, we
didn't take the loss very much to heart."
Arte inn* Ward's Programme.
Artenius Ward was very •••centric in
everything he did. Some old admirer of
tho great humorist has fished up one of
bis memorial programmes. It is one of
the programmes of his "Among the
Mormons'' entertainment, dated San
dusky, May 8 (probably lbtH). We copy
a few specimens: "The music on the
grand piano will compromise "Dear
mother, I have come borne to die bv re
quest," etc., "W-a-shoe, the land of sil
ver—Good quarters to be found there.
Playful population, fond of high-low ick
and homicide." "Heber Kimball's
llaretn—Mr. Kituball is a kind husoini
and a numerous father." "Selections
from the piano—Mr. Forrester. Mr.
Forrester oncc boarded in the same
street with iotschalk. The man who
kept the boarding-house remembers it
well." 'Those of the audience
wh do not feel offended with Artemus
Ward are cordial I v invited to call no
lam often at his firm new house in hi
^iigo. His bouse is on the riL'lu hand side
vs vou cross the ferry, and may tie easily
intinguisbed from tho other houses by
-ts bavins a cupola and mortgage on it."
"Answer to correspondence: Laura Ma
•Ida—'I have an unfortunate tendency
nen on trivial occasions, to she 1 tears.
How can I prevent it?' Lock tip the
-bed.'" 'Traveler—'How long was Arte
mus Ward in California?' 'Five feet ten
tnd a half. "Citizen —I am getting
bald. What will make my hair come
ut?' 'Oil of vitriol will make all your
hair come out.'"
"Rules of the house: f/adies or gen
tlemen will please report any negligence
or disobedience on the part of the lec
turer. Artemus Ward will not be re
sponsible for money, jewelry or valua
bles unless left with him—to be returned
in a week or so. Per.-oris who think
they will enjoy themselves more by
leaving the hall early in the evening are
requested to do so with as little noise as
possible."
People have turned to the scientists
for explanations of the gorgeous specta
cle afforded lor a fortnight by the rising
of the sun and the going down thereof
But the oracles are dumb. As usual iu
cases of strange phenomena, they know
nothing. The grand exhibition was re
peated morn after morn and night after
night, simultaneously in the east and
west. Brilliant flame colors lit up the
whole horizon, In some places the fire
departments were called out.and crowds
of people in various cities ran for miles
in search of the conflagration. A Koch
ester, N. Y., savant says that it was prob*
ably the reflection of the sun from va
pors in the upper atmosphere decom
posed by late tierce electric storms in the
I sun--and that is ail he knows about it.