Walker Lake bulletin., November 15, 1901, Image 4

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HE LOST THE TRAIL.
A TERRIBLE EXPERIENCE IN THE
ARIZONA DESERT.
Miner Wautlero About in Search of
Borne Mark to Uuiiie Him l ntil He
Becomes Insune from TuirJt—Kescued
bj Cattlemen.
It was In the summer of 1877, and
Mr. Porterie watt working at the Grand
Gulch copper mine ou Grand Wash, as
tt Is now called, north of the Colorado
In the Bupal pluteau In the northwest
ern part of the territory. The mines
wore being worked by u Mormon com
pany from St. George, Utah. The com
pany could not get the proper fluxes for
Its ore, and therefore did not make a
auccese of the enterprise. It closed
down the mine, and all who were em
ployed there wanted to go back to
Utah except Mr. Porterie, who desired
to come south Into Central Arizona.
He knew there was n good road down
the Virgin Itlver nnd to Mineral Park,
but It was some distance west of Grand
Wash and over a desert country he had
never traversed uud was not familiar
with. He was taken up Into u high
mountain by an old muu named Pierce
and shown the general direction of the
road to the Virgin River. He wus told
where he could tiud water half way
along the trail, at a well-known spring.
He suddk'u up Ids mule, nnd with two
canteens of water started out alone.
When he got down into the valley he
lost the trail, but kept traveling all that
day und the following night. Some time
the next morning, when the sun got
pretty hot and he became almost ex
hausted, he stopped to uiuke some cof
fee, having still one canteen of water
left. He was holding Ills mule by the
bridle when along came a desert whirl
wind nnd enveloped them, frightening
the mule, which dragged him through
a cactus plant, anil, breaking away
from him, started buck over the trail.
Ho followed the mule for a couple of
miles, then gave up the chase and again
started towurd the Virgin River on foot
and without water or anything else
save un umiuenched thirst.
Just how long he wandered he does
not know, but before night ho began
to get delirious, and after that lie re
membered nothing, except the hallu
cinations that passed through Ids mind
before he became unconscious, lie was,
oh, so thirsty! It seemed ns if his
throat was literally on lire, nnd lie was
aching nil over his body. He tried every
method he knew of moistening his
throat, but the relief was but tempor
ary. He tore open the cactus plants
and everything that gave promise of
containing the slightest bit of moisture,
but bis thirst seemed to lie an ever-in
creasing one. He could think of noth
ing but water.
Finally, as his strength gave way,
pleasant dreams begun to flit through
his mind, lie fancied he suw Niagara
Falls nnd the vnstness of the rapids
below them. Then he seemed to face
the broad expanse of a great fresh
water lake. lie could not see ncross It.
It looked so cool atul refreshing he
could not restrain himself, and waded
Into It clear up to his neck. Then lie
fnneied he could feel the fish cavorting
about his feet, and everything seemed
so peaceful. He was perfectly happy
and contented; did not know whether
he was alive or dead, nnd did not care.
About a week later, when lie recover
ed consciousness, lie found himself In
the camp of some cattlemen, who had
found him some hours after he lost
track of himself. Ills lips were swollen
and full of cactus thorns, where he had
chewed up the prickly pear In his des
perate thirst. The cattlemen said that
when they found him he was stark
naked, doubtless having disrobed and
thrown Ills clothes away when he fan
cied he was going down Into the lake.
Ills lingers were raw and bleeding from
wounds mndc while digging In the suml
for water.
He says that the agony that comes
over one when he llrst begins to realize
tlrnt he is about to perish for water Is
simply Indescribable, und it Increases
every minute till lie begins to lose con
sciousness. But when the body gives
up tlie struggle the mind seems to be
come unnaturally active In Its efforts
to soothe by seemingly furnishing that
for which the body suffers, and the
tlnnl hours of the thirst victim nre
hours of sweetest anticipation.—Ari
zona Republican.
HAD FAITH IN THE PEOPLE.
The Lntc President McKinley Alwuys
Trusted Himself to the Crowd.
The late President McKinley always
loved a crowd and used to say that he
hud uo fear of It. lie often stated that
the American crowd was the greatest
Inspiration a public man could have;
that the faith of the people In a leadej
appealed to the best there was In him,
and that no man could be conscious
of this public confidence without trying
to live up to the expectations of the
people.
It was natural that he should believe
In the people. Before he came to the
Presidency he traveled over the country
more and spoke to more people than
any other man living, l'or almost a
score of years he had been a national
character, and for six or seven years
a Presidential possibility with a tre
mendous following In every part of the
country. He was the Idol of protec
tionists, and yet his public career and
his private life bad been such that uo
man of opposite political faith had ever
uttered a public word against him as a
man and conscientious, patriotic pub
lic servant.
Mr. McKinley was exceptional In this,
and It helped to convince him that he
had uot an enemy In the world, lie be
lieved he was always safe with the
crowd. lie had no fear of being hurt by
the mol). He said no man ever need
fear a crowd thnt came to do him honor.
The people might press upon him, but
he surrendered himself to them, and
without trying to protect himself, he
was never hurt.
In the campaign tour he made before
Ills election to the Presidency he often
surprised other public men Into whose
States nnd districts he W'ent by this
fenrless plunging into a sea of human
ity. Once at Danville, 111., the crowd
was so great that the carriage Intended
for him could not be driven iVnr the
car. Congressman Cannon fumed and
fretted at the inability to make way
for Ills distinguished visitor, but Mr.
McKinley jumped down from the cnr
platform into the thickest of the crowd
nnd called to Cannon to come on. Can
non feared that Mr. McKinley would be
hurt, but shaking hands and chatting
with those who surged about him, al
lowing himself to drift like a cork on
the waters, he was not long In getting
through to the carriage that could not
come to him.
Another time at Topeka, Kan., the
old veterans nnd the flambeau clubs
formed a cordon about the stand to es
cort Mr. McKinley through the Im
mense crowd, but just as he started to
pass through he began to shake hands
with the old soldiers of his escort, and
in a second all discipline was gone, the
cordon was broken, and Mr. McKinley
was swallowed up In the eager crowd
to shake hands.
The local committee was pnnic strick
en. but Mr. McKinley chatted and al
lowed every man who eould to grasp
Ids hand. They pulled him about, but
without resisting, or trying to, he went
through to the carriage waiting for him
in safety.
lie had hundreds of such experiences,
and they gave him greater faith in the
safety of public men in the hands of
the crowd. He became Indifferent to
that fear which so many men have of
great crowds, and when he became
President he had absolute faith In Ills
safety ivlth the people. He regarded the
crowd c Hie safest place from attack
by any man who might seek the life
of a public official, for he held to the
theory that the assassin is always a
coward and would seek to kill from am
bush.
At the White House he sought public
receptions of the people who desired to
see the President, as It was a relief
from the Importunities of those who
had admission to bis private office,
seeking public patronage. He said oh
one of these occasions:
"This Is my hour of relief from offi
cial care nnd the worries over trying
to find places for all who think they are
entitled to office. It Is the small group
of Senators or Representatives who get
the President into a corner of Ills of
fice to appeal for places that worry him
and here with the people who ouly
come to honor him and Ids high office
he finds relief. I never want the peo
ple kept away. They are my Inspira
tion to high endeavor, because of their
confidence In me as their Chief Magis
trate." ..
What One Man Thinks.
A man who tins been doing Europe,
and kept his eyes < p n all the way, says
that to his mind American women as
a class nre the best dressed in the
world. They have goed figures and
pretty hands and feet, and the only
fault he has to find with them is that
their costume is so often incongruous
as to details. A two-dollnr shirt waist
Is constantly worn with a thirly-doilnr
hat; diamond stars on the simple high
necked dimity evening gowns, and
shabby shoes with otherwise handsome
toilettes. He thinks that incongruity
is shown to a greater degree by the
frocks worn in the morning ' by young
women at summer resorts. Excessive
ly open-work gowns of organdy, swiss,
mousseline and even lace, elaborately
trimmed with Insertions of line lace,
nre dragged about on the beach and
through the streets of the small towns.
They give a liberal view of necks and
arms, and while entirely suitable for
evening wear, are hardly more so for
the breakfast table than if they really
were cut low in the neck Instead of
merely having that effect. There are,
of course, plenty of girls nt the shore
who wear plain little shirt-waist suits
In the morning, but the more elegantly
gowned ones• seemed In the majority.
Yet the custom Is in distinctly bad
taste.
From Mutton to Money.
There Is, or rather was, years ago In
this city, a gentleman who did a thriv
ing business In mutton In the market
district, and was well known to hun
dreds of people as a bright and orig
inal sort of man. Another man, who
had not seen him for nearly twenty
years, met him a short time ago, and
after Inquiries ns to his health, asked
If he was In the same business.
“Oh, no,” was the reply. “I’m pre
siding now.”
The man who was Inquiring about
him was really phased by this answer,
and remarked that he presumed It was
his ignorance, but he must admit he
derived no idea of his business from
the statement that the former market
man "was presiding.”
“Why,” he replied, “I mean that I am
a president—president of a bank in
Cambridge."—Boston Record.
Baggage Checked in IL-rtiinuy.
The railway companies entering Ber
lin have recently adopted the Ameri
can plan (with modifications) enabling
passengers to check baggage to their
homes before arrival of the train.
You can’t make us believe the Lord
loves all alike; To some He gives nat
urally curly hair and lots of It.
SKYSCRAPERS ARE MINIATURE VILLAGES
CHICAGO MASONIC TEMPLE A MODERN SKYSCRAPER.
The skyscraper, aside from Its massiveness, may not be a dream of architec
tural beauty, but It is the best development of successful utilitarianism that the
world has ever recorded. The architectural beauty will come wpth time. Safety
and convenience were the first things considered. However, they are comfortable,
well lighted, well warmed, well aired, and are supplied with all modern conven
iences—running water, electric lights, serviceable telephones, mail- chutes and
messenger service, while many of them are further equipped with barber shops,
news stands and restaurants.
fgoberfCT.tgj j~ | Justice Trumaji C.Whetc |~|| Lorcjo Lewis jfjj
The judeo who sentenced Czoljfos* and the two attorneys appointed by the
court to defend the assassin.
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THE TIMELY WARNING.
r? AST week a pretty New Jersey
JLa girl went out driving with the
young man to whom she was be
trothed. On the way the horse became
stubborn, aud the man, flying into a
violent passion, began to lash it cruelly.
When they returned home the girl
promptly broke the engagement, say
ing that where a man could so easily
lose bis temper, aud so brutally flog a
horse, the woman marrying him would
take the same chances of ill-treatment,
uud she declined the risk.
It seems to me that the pith of all the
wise advice, from Solomon down to the
present day, on how to he happy though
married, is comprised iu that little
story. It throws a sidelight and a
searchlight on the Importance of look
ing before you leap into the abyss of
matrimony. It is applying downright,
hard, irrefutable common sense to the
place in life where it is needed ynost,
and where it is scarcest.
No engineer on earth would be tool
enough to dash on with his train iu the
face of a red signal of danger. No pilot
would fail to heed the hoarse cry of the
bell lfuoy when danger was evident, but
the average man and woman, more
reckless than they, rush heedlessly on
Into unsuitable marriages that wreck
their happiness, in spite of the fact that
every inch of the way is placarded
with warnings of disaster.
As for those other cases, iu which a
girl marries a dissipated nmu, believing
she can reform him, or a lazy, good-for
nothing, thinking he will work for her
sake when he never has for his own,
nothing need be said. If a person hasn’t
enough sense to keep out of the tire,
nothing short of being put In a straight
jacket can prevent them from being
burned. 1 suppose every woman has a
right to wreck her life if she wants to,
but when she does, she ought to have
courage enough to keep her troubles to
herself, aud not burden the rest of the
world with lamentations because every
thing has turned out Just exactly like
she was warned it would.
If women refuse to heed the warnings
they get before marriage, men are even
more averse to taking a tip from fate.
Every man cherishes in his secret soul
the illusion that he ran form his wife's
character, aud that being married to
him is going to work a revolution of all
her tastes aud beliefs. It Is a charm
ing theory, aud the pity of It is that
there Isn’t one grain of truth in it.
What a woman is before she is married,
she is to the grave. Women change
much less in character than men. A
man is broadened by going out into the
world. A woman’s life Is generally shut
within her own home, where every
thing tends to narrow her down, aud
conform her iu her prejudices and opin
ions.
To me otic of the most pathetic sights
in life—and it’B very common—is the
broad, Intelligent, cultivated limn mar
ried to the dool baby woman whom lie
has hopelessly outgrown. Sometimes
she still has the pretty face that Is the
visible excuse for ills folly. Sometimes
she Is getting old. and lias lost even
that, but always there is the tragedy
of utter unsuitability and lack of com
panionship. She does not understand.
She never can understand the things
that mean most to him, and between
them is a gulf deeper than the grave,
and wider than eternity.
A wife with a sliewish tongue can
make a home a purgatory. One who is
extravagant and thriftless and waste
ful will keep her husband’s nose to the
grindstone all his days, and balk his
every ambition.
Yet how would It be possible to erect
a more potent danger signal before
him? How can any man in Ills senses
fail to remember that a husband Is al
ways the scapegoat for a lilgh-lempered
woman’s spleen? When he sees Maud
dressing far beyond her means, and her
poor, old father, bent and worn with
trying to pay her Mils, can lie doubt for
n moment that the man who marries
her will have to toil like a slave to sup
port her extravagance? When he finds
that he cannot argue or make Janet see
reason on the simplest subject, does it
need a prophet to tell him how exasper
ating such a pig headed dunce will he to
deal with through the many problems
of domestic life?
We can lay no more Important truth
to heart than that marriage works no
miracles. We do not acquire a new set
of angelic virtues with our trousseaux.
When we marry a person we marry
their had qualities as well ns their good,
and it is a wise man or woman who
scrutinizes the faults of their future
partner before marriage and is blind to
them afterwards.- Dorothy Dlx in Now
Orleans Picayune.
Southern Women Not Athletic.
In the East, the North and the West
the proportion of athletic women Is far
above the proportion here, Just why
the Southern woman has never picked
up physical culture is a mystery. So
ciety women of the North and East are.
speaking In a general sense, sturdier,
stronger and have broader shoulders
than the society women of the South.
This Is due to swimming, tennis, golf,
horseback riding and wheeling, carried
to that extent which would surprise
most women here.
Innntc modesty of the Southern wom
an may have something to do with her
persistent refusal to place herself on a
tooting with her brothers in sports and
athletics, but that seems Improbable.
There is no good reason to give, but tho
fact remains. In Atlanta there are pos
sibly not more than four or five who
play tennis moderately well—and ten
nis has been the fad this summer—
there are not more than half a dozen
who play golf, very few who wheel,
and still fewer who join in other out
door amusements.
In Southern summer resorts these
things ure largely unheard of; in East
ern resorts—Newport, Saratoga, N'arra
gnnsett, Lenox and such places—the
women spend nearly all their time out
doors. That seems to be one of the in
bred differences between the Southern
and Eastern women.—Atlanta Journal.
The embroidered buttonhole Is the
newest notion of the moment.
Kobe gowns will enjoy considerable j
vogue this coining season, Chantilly, ,
Tuscan net, and point d'esprit all being
in high favor.
The latest imported French lingerie ;
shows all the seams joined by narrow
beading instead of being sewed ns
seams. On some of the garments baby
ribbon is run through all this bending,
but that elaboration is not considered
necessary.
Scotch plaid is sometimes used for
trimming, cut In narrow, bias bands
and introduced beneath tuckings, or ns
a binding on collars or euffsclAeshrdlu
a binding on collars and cuffs. Narrow
blnck velvet or fancy ribbons in mixed |
colorings are utilized as trimmings; i
also a sort of braid in very narrow j
widths, in black and white. But lace i
is by far thu most popular trimming.
Flat trimming effects are far and
away the most fashionable for lingerie.
The erstwhile soft, fluffy effects so dear
to mnbelle’s heurt now are relegated
to second place, and fiat medallions of
lace, embroidered roses, bowkuots, but
terflys or myriads of line tucks have
taken their place. Blind stitching is
particularly favored on tiie new under
wear, and some of the designs in em
broidery are truly beautiful. The trend
of the selection of reilned women is to
quiet effects; large showy patterns of
lace or embroidery nre seldom their
choice. Lace and embroidery combined
on one garment is quite the mode.
There is a tendency to broaden the
shoulders with epaulettes, sometimes
set on just over the armhole or put on
beneath the collar and reaching over
the sleeve. On others the sleeve is set
cn from the neck somewhat in rnglnn
fashion, and usually plaited or gather
ed from top to bottom. This Is a novel
idea for a silk waist sleeve. The very
deep collars, almost developing into
capes, nre Intended to widen tiie shoul
ders. They are of lnce, but more fre
quently of tiie material, lace-trimmed
or embroidered. Some are quite flat in
Anne of Austria fashion, while others
fall in undulating folds over the bust
and well over the sleeve tops. Other
collars are composed of openwork,
while still others nre of velvet, stitch
ed In a pattern or in rows.
Snme Ways of the Worl'l.
The simplicity which used to he a dis
tinguishing trait of a well-bred young
girl is, it is snd to say, rapidly disap
pearing. The wearing of Jewelry, for
Instance, which, with the exception of
some simple'ornament, formerly was
forbidden, Is now not only permissible,
but has become so general that sweet
simplicity feels herself quite “out of
it” in contrast to her resplendent com
panions who even in the daytime wear
glittering chains and pendants of value
over their ornate muslins, while in the
evening many a rich married woman
might envy their array of costly jew
els. it is declared that such display,
which surely is in bad taste, If not vul
gar, is purely American; that English,
French and German girls dress ns sim
ply as ever, and that It Is one of the
evidences of new-born Independence of
European < pinion that mothers who
were wont to order the lives of their
daughters on the lines of English tra
ditions now allow the latter to vie with
each other in ostentatious display.
A Novel ('ardcaHC.
Ilnad-embroldcred card cases are a
fad of the season, the most popular
being those worked on canvas in
strands of silk floss harmonizing In col
or with one’s gown. The design is
worked In solid all over the canvas, and
much individual taste is displayed In
the selection of colors. For instance,
wood browns combine well with dull
art greens, all shades of gray with
white, and deep cerise with light pink.
A card ense makes a fascinating bit of
hand work to bo taken up at odd mo
ments, and besides being most useful,
Is, If cleverly done, extremely ornamen
tal. When the canvas lias been worked
In it may be left at !be embroiderer’s to
bo finished off and lined.
FORTY-SECOND COUSINS.
According to the Professor It th,
Beuiotest Relationship.
He wxs professor of mathematics m
one of our women’s colleges, nudity
aged, fond of a Joke and given to re
ducing the things of common life <jj
formulas, partly for the fun of It aim
partly to bring mathematical truths
closer to the minds of his pupils. On*
day, just before tbe lecture began and
as the professor came in, he overheard
one of the girls say, with a sigh: "Oh,
he's some forty-second cousin, I believe,
and I suppose I must show him
around.”
‘‘You should be careful," Interjected
the professor, with a fairly successful
effort to appear solemn, “you should be
more careful In your use of mathemat
ical terms. Are you sure you are strict
ly accurate when you say ’forty-second
cousin?’ He may be a closer degree of
relationship.”
“Why! He's no relation at all, If it
comes to that,” said the fair student,
“It is,” resumed tbe professor, Imper
turbably, “as you doubtless know al
ready, a question of the powers of 2.
We all have two parents, four grand
parents, eight groat-graudpareuts, six
teen great-great-grandparents, each fig
ure being a power of 2 aud in —
generations consequently we have a
grandparent with (X—1) greats In front
of the title. It also obtains Inversely,
All who trace to tbe same parents arc
brothers or sisters, to the same grand
parent are couslus, to the same great
grandparent are second coils,us, to the
N—G grandparent are (N plus 1) th
cousins.
“The powers of 2, however, reach as
tounding figures rather quickly. We
have 1,023 (9—great) grandparents
each, for example. Going back twenty
generations, we have each a little more
than a million 19—great-grandparents,
over a billion 29—great-grandparents,
and in the forty-third generation we
have each about 1,438,800,000,000 42—
great-grandparents, and all who trace
back to any one of those 1,438,800,000,
000 are forty-second cousins.
“If you consider a moment, you will
see that at each of tills thousand bil
lions is a progenitor, that there Is little
room In the world’s population, as at
present constituted, for the mob of
cousins. There Is a saving clause,
however. Tills would only obtain if
everybody was careful not to marry In
the same line of descent.
“In practice we usually object to
marrying cousins and some people draw
the line on second cousins, but to make
the above statement come true we
should object to, say, forty-second cou
slus, which Is impossible, practically.
We cannot, In practice, draw the line on
twentieth cousins, for example. If two
twentieth cousins marry. It' throws out
oue from the million of nineteen great
grandparents to l>e considered, and so
with the other degrees. Probably in
practice that Is wliat we nre nl\v»j»
doing—when we marry. We are almost
undoubtedly marrying at least a tweu
ty-flfth cousin, and everybody in Lite
world Is at least a forty-second cousin
and probably somewhat nearer In rela
tionship.”
“Gracious!” said the original offender,
a blonde, by the way. “If I am born la
St. Louis and a young mnn Is born In
Newton—at—at—well, about tbe same
time—are we related?”
“Certainly,” responded the professor,
with a grin. “You are (N plus 1) th
cousins, having descended from the
same N—g grandparent, possibly along
where N Is less than 30 at least.”
“Gee,” said the tall brunette of the
class, who had been listening, ns she
felt of her back lialr and helped her
self to a caramel, according to the Bos
ton Herald, “he would bo an n—ggraml
pareut all right.”
A CHINESE STORY.
Pnbllc Frightened by Myaterions Chalk
Mark* Made by a Hoy.
A strange state of mind evidently
prevailed in l’ekin during the Iter
outrages outside the walls—outrages
which were momentarily expected to
be repeated within the city limits. Ev
erybody was preparing for a catastro
phe, and nobody could be sure why. It
all seemed like a huge practical joke,
which could not be taken seriously, aud
yet it was serious, and everybody knew
it, was. There was apparent peace, with
a certainty of coming trouble. The for
eigners were gathering In places of
safety, and the compounds they hud
left remained unmolested.
One incident curiously shows the
combined lightness and frenzy of the
public mind. On a certain evening a
boy of about sixteen walked down a
street, marking a door here and there
with a circle of white chalk, before
which he bowed solemnly.
Presently all the people came to their
doors in a great state of excitement,
and began to discuss the proceeding
and debate as to what It might mean.
The marked houses might belong to
the friends or foes of the Boxers, the
saved or lost.
Suddenly u mnn went up to the boy,
seized him by the pigtail, and asked
him what he meant. 'The bystanders
were amnzed at a courage which dared
Interfere with an emissary of the Bor
ers, ami the boy himself tried to swag
ger a little, and brazen It out.
“What were you doing It for?” In
sisted the man. “Tell, or 1 take you
to the police station.”
Then the boy fell on his knees and
owned that he was only doing It for a
joke, to frighten the people. His suc
cess had exceeded Ills hopes.
I&xr-enxlve.
Mr. Blnwed—I’d like to have hold of
the fellow who Invented those long
eonls for women.
Mr. Ncbb Why?
Mr. Blnwed Why? Groat Seottl
they cost twice us much as oue half a*
long.—Boston l’ost.