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WHAT IS LIFE?
From the Brooklyn Magazine.
A. little crib beside the bed,
A little face above the spread;
A little frock behind the door.
A little shoe upon the floor.
A little lad with dark-brown hair,
A little blue-eyed face and fair:
A little lane that leads to school,
A little pencil, slate and rule.
A little blithesome, winsome maid,
A little hand within his laid;
A little cottage, acres four,
A little old-time fashioned store.
A little family gathered round
A little turf-heaped, tear-dewed mound;
A little added to his soil,
A little rest from the harvest toil.
A little silver in his hair.
A little stool and easy chair;
A little night of earth-lit gloom,
A little cortege to the tomb.
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I
SANDWICH’S TWO KINGS.
BIS MAJESTY KALAKAUA AND
CLAUS SPRECKELS, HIS FRIEND.
How the Advancing Ambitions of the
Coffee-Colored Monarch Were Grati
fied by the Ruler of the Sugar Bar
rels—A Cabinet Created from Mem
bers of the San Francisco Bohemian
Club— Spreckels Finally Supplanted
by a Business Rival.
From the Chicago Newt.
San Francisco, Cal., April SO.—Since
the arrival in this city of her Majesty Queen
Kapiolani she has been more than busy. A
couple of Hawaiian princelings who are at
tending a California college near San Mateo
hail to lie seen, the Bohemian Club had to
be propitiated by a royal visit the opening
night to the Art Association exhibition, a
sort of excrescence of the Bohemian Club.
Several Kindergarten and benevolent aid
entertainments had to be assisted, so that
the royal progress so far has been full of in
cident.
The attitude of the Spreckels people to
ward the royal party has been that of
haughty and chilling reserve. The gallant
Sir Claus Spreckels, much as he may like to
avenge the wrongs done his plethoric purse,
cannot afford to make active war on an old
woman, and a benevolent one at that, so
that as far as the Spreckels people are con
cerned Kapiolani and her suite met with no
stumbling-blocks in California.
The Queen’s presence here, however, re
vives the whole story of Spreckels’ relations
with Hawaiian royalty, a tale that is quite
entertaining, and could be told in full only
within the covers of a voluminous novel.
Some six years ago Claus Spreckels was
the uncrowned King of the Hawaiian
Islands, having obtained a monopoly of the
sugar business and controlled the Pacific
coast markets. He built palaces for the
crowned King, planned European excur
sions for his dusky majesty, and formed the
Cabinet and swayed the government to suit
his own purposes. He was jocosely referred
to in the public prints as King Claus, and
sometimes satirically alluded to as King
Sugar-Barrel, but he kept on raking in the
ducats all the time and getting more planta
tions and sugar mills within his
grasp. Kalakaua gave him no
trouble whatever. The alleged
descendant of Kamehameha was
an easy man to handle. His greatest neces
sities were an ever-convenient *2O piece, an
artistic barkeeper, a showy suit of clothes,
and a first-class baud of hula-hula dancers.
All these were provided to his majesty, and
in addition palaces on a plan never dreamed
of by his projenitors. But the ideas or a
King of cbe Cannibal Islands expand like
those of other mortals, and when Kalakaua
returned from a tour of Europe he was a
changed person. His taste for linen dusters,
plug hats, and ornamented top boots had
gone and a latent passion to shine as a
fenuine blood of the semi-English pattern
ad been dangerously aroused. The Court
of Victoria had filled the Hawaiian monarch
with new ideas of what belonged to royalty,
and when he again touched the volcanic soil
of Hawaii he was a changed man. He ex
acted a close observance of the outward
forms of deference to established rank, and
resented the advances of plebians with king
ly hauteur. When be snubbed the purser
of the old steamer Ajax by refusing to join
in a game of pedro at the Royal Hawaiian
Hotel, one night society was amazed, but
the social strata were destined to be further
convulsed. Not long after ho created an
immense sensation by declining the invita
tion of the Captain of the steamship Wonga-
Wonga to join him in a morning cock
tail. Several incidents of this kind finally
killed all hopes that his majesty was unaf
fected by the attention of European poten
tates and it,'lias resolved to gratify his
new ambitious to eclipse the glories of
Northern thrones. A poet laureate was
specially imported for his Majesty by
Spreckles as an experiment, tho choice fall
ing on Charles Warren Stoddart, of the San
Francisco Bohemian Club, who had attained
some distinction os a contributor to Eastern
and W estern magazines and journals. Stod
dart proved a great acquisition to the Court
of Hawaii, and soon added to the classics of
the country several fine poems on the King’s
yacht, and the royal hula-hula dancing com
bination, with a number of chaste and
elegant sonnets on the snub-noses and
fine Vandyke-brown complexions of
flic favorite ladies-in-waiting. At this
time glowing verses to the Queen were
not the correct thing in the Hawaiian Court,
a* her majesty had become estranged from
lier royal spouse by reason of his pronounced
ambition to rival Albert Edward of Eng
land. The importation of a poet laureate
worked so well that the wily King
Spreckels concluded to introduce a court
historian, and after looking around found
the right man for the place in Editor
Creighton, of the San Francisco Post, for
merly of the Auckland (New Zealand) press,
and still more remotely of the Fiji Islands
and the Irish Times roportorial staff. Edi
tor Creighton had not the poet's eye for the
hula-hum dunce, yachting made him seasick,
and absinthe cocktails oil an empty stomach
were his special aversion. He was, therefore,
handicapped at the start, but he went to
work and soon earned fame, prestige,
and royal favor by his compilation of a biog
raphy of Kalakaua. His majesty had long
rested under the cloud of a suspicion with
regard to his lineal descent from the great
warrior Kainchamelia. The newly-imported
court historian showed conclusively that tho
hue was perfect, and that the accidental
likeness of the ruler of Hawaii to the negro
cobbler who did service at the palace was a
mere innocent freak of a sportive nature in
the tropics. The gifted historian was
Promptly promoted to the post of Secretary
, Foreign Affairs and the poet laureate
became a star of tho second
magnitude in comparison; Tho
scheme worked so well that Clans Sprocket
concluded to import some celebrities. Tho
next east of his drag-net among the intel
lectual Tritons of the Bohemian Club on
>ungled Joe Tilden, the burst stock broker
and bon riront, ana Paul Newmann, a tal
ented wnl highly educated but, erratic Ger
inon lawyer. Paul hiul served in the Cali
loniia Legislature for one term, aud made
uea a notable record that the lodgings
wniish Be honored by his patronage nave
since been known as the Robbers Roost.
111 the wake of Messrs. Tilden and New
nianii followed several struggling and
“Jilt-starved artists, and the Bohemian
colony in Hawaii became a large and
nourishing institution. It was next, found
necessary to import a court journalist, and
rjRR O’Connell, copartner of James Connor
oche,n°w of New York, the author of
I lie Red Fox” and other Irish dramatic
UKoti-hoa, was imported to take charge of the
i or al weekly newspaper. The court of
iIH .vaii nt tlus auspicious moment was some
thing to be remembered. It is highly ques
tiouubi,, if history can show anything liko
•t- l he hand of irresponsible Bohemians,
"ho could never manage their own limited
excliequnr, directed the destinies of the lit- i
*"* kingdom, and us nu inevitable result tho I
monarch, the subject and the Cabinot were
soon inextricably tangled up and submerged
m a quagmire ot debt. Meantime the thrifty
Spreckles had gone cm absorbing sugar plan
tations and sugar mills but not altogether
without opposition. His monopoly of the
sugar trade on the Pacific coast nail roused
strong feeling against him, and a rival sugar
company was formed. At first King Claus
laughed at the opposition. He then became
serious, and uext lost his temper at finding
that the newcomers meant to fight to the
finish. He lowered his rates and the opixisi
tion went him l-3c. better. He tried to bluff
on another startling reduction, but again the
opposition saw him and went l-2c. lower.
1 hen Claus made a splurge that meant the
loss of half a million, and was expected to
wipe the new sugar company off the face of
Hawaii and California, but the late arrivals
only set their teeth and hung on. They are
hanging on yet, but now it is King Claus
who seems to be having the liveliest part of
the battle. F
The change in the relations of the rival
sugar combinations was partly brought
about by the “talent” which King Claus
had imported for the edification and glori
fication of the Court of Hawaii. Oik- by
one the influential members of the Cabinet
had gone back on their creator and prostra
ted themselves before the rising sun repre
sented by Herman Bendel, the prosperous
San Francisco grocer. Finally the climax
was reached. The control of the sugar
trade was wrested from King Claus and
Herman Bendel, and his re
finery company got a firm grasp
on the chief industry of the
Cannibal Islands. While all this was going
on the Cabinet and King had with cold
blooded dissimulation managed to borrow
$250,000 from Sprockets, which sum was
speedily exhausted by the living expenses of
the court, the laureate’s salary, the histo
rian’s rewards, and the perquisits of Attor
ney General Newmann and the Cabinet
generally.
Then the imported and native combina
tion of talent got their heeds together and
resolved to add insult to the injuries already
done King Claus. Spreckels had offered to
loan the government the money it actually
needed and take bonds for the same. The
Cabinet,however, inspired His Majesty Kala
kau with the idea that any further transac
tions with King Spreckels would be
derogatory to the government, that Claus,
notwithstanding his wealth and aspirations,
was still at heart a corner groceryman and
had no thought worthy of an empire as vast
and progressive as that of the Hawaiian
Islands. It was further suggested to his
majesty that as 1887 was likely to be an ex
citing year all over the world, it behooved
a monarch as potent as the descendant of
the great Kamehameha to be properly
equipped for social intercourse with the
crowned heads of the world. This, it was
argued, could only be done by having an iron
clad frigate or a couple of them built. The
scheme when fully unfolded contemplated
the floating of a loan of $4,000,000 in
London if possible, but if not possible there,
then anywhere that confiding bondholders
could be found. When King Spreckels was
informed of the project he extracted por
tions of his venerable beard in the fii-st
paroxysm of his rage. 'Then he rushed on
board his fastest steamer, plowed down
under a full head of steam to Honolulu, and
demanded a reconstruction of the Cabinet,
the dismissal of several of the chief con
spirators, and an immediate abandonment
of the four million loau project. Kalakaua
had, however, been well braced for the in
terview by logical, moral and other neces
sary stimulants, and he manfully
negatived all of King Spreckels’
peremptory demands. Then Spreckels,
it is said, called for the liquidation
of his claims against the royal exchequer.
This also was vetoed, and in a towering
passion the autocrat of all the Cannibal
Islands rushed back to the Hawaiian hotel
and got together all his knightly decora
tions, presented in days past by the grate
ful and submissive deputy monarch,
Kalakaua. The scene which took place
when the now hostile monarchs again came
face to face in the royal audience chamber
is said to have been very dramatic. History
has unfortunately not preserved the exact
language use! by King Spreckles on the
memorable occasion, but it is on record and
indisputable that he concluded the interview
by hauling the knightly stars, medals, and
garters out of his small clothes and hurling
them on the tessellated floor of the palace.
Since then the chasm has liven widened
rather than bridged. Soon after King
Spreckles got back to San Francisco Herman
Bendel, the grocer, who was one of the
active members of the rival sugar company
was called to Hawaii by special command
of His Majesty Kalakaua. Speculation as
to the motive of this edict was rife in mer
cantile and corner grocery circles while Mr.
Bendel was dallying with Hawaiian prin
cesses among the banana groves of Hilo and
Man). When he came back, however, it
was noticed t hat Mr. Bondel walked with a
more erect carriage, and that when his old
corner-grocery acquaintances hailed him
across the street his response lacked
the effusive cordiality of earlier days. One
afternoon a week after his return Mr. Ben
dei called his confidential bookkeeper into
the private office, and, after carefully lock
ing the door, went to the safe and extracted
therefrom a small plush-covered box. Care
fully opening this precious casket, Mr. Ben
dell lifted from the velvety interior whereon
it reposed a Maltese Cross in gold suspended
from a ribbon of blue, red and yellow. Mr.
Bendel pinned the cross to the lapel of his
black cloth coat, stuck his thumbs in hi*
vest, and turned proudly toward his book
keeper.
you haf join the Grand Army, Mr.
Bendel,” cried the confidential employe.
Mr. Bendel nearly fainted; but, master
ing his emotion by a tremendous effort, he
corrected the humiliating mistake.
“I haf join nothinks,” he exclaimed. “I
have been made the Knight—Sir Knight
auf Hawaii. I take the place of Claus
Spreckels. No longer it is Sir Knight Claus
Spreckels. It is Sir Knight Herman Ben
dell. Vat you dinks, ehi ’
The admiring bookkeeper thought so
loudly and enthusiastically that his salary
was raised $lO a year on the spot.
“You must no gif it avay—keep it mit
yourself,” whispered Mr. Bendel to the
bookkeeper, as the happy accountant
moved back toward his desk again.
Next day the news was in every corner
grocery in town and the day after a San
Francisco paper published the fact that
Herman Bendel was a Knight of Hawaii,
vice Claus Spreckels, resigned.
Mr. Bendel was so incensed at the expose
that he raised the bookkeeper’s salary $lO
more and immediately got a corner on all
the newspapers with the offensive news in
them. For the next week one of
the clerks was busy mailing the
papers to various parts of the United
States and Germany where the intelligence
of thejviiightly creation would be most en
thusiastically received.
Since then" the new sugar company has
gone on adding to its advantages.
LEMON ELIXIR.
A Pleasant Lemon Drink.
Fifty cents and one dollar per bottle. Sold
by druggist-:.
Prepared by H. Mozldy, M. D., Atlanta,
Gu.
For biliousness and constipation take
Lemon Elixir.
For indigestion and foul stomach take
Lemon Elixir.
For sick and nervous headaches take Lem
on Elixir.
For sleeplessness and nervousness take
Lemon Elixir.
For loss of appetite and debility take
Lemon Elixir.
For fevers, chills and malaria, take Lemon
Elixir, ull of which diseases arise from a tor
pid or diseased liver.
A Prominent Minister Writes.
After ten years of great suffering from
indigestion, with great nervous prostration,
biliousness, disordered kidneys and constipa
tion, I have been cured by four bottles of Dr.
Mosley’s Lemon Elixir; and am now a well
man. ' Rev. C. C. Davis, Eld. M. E. Church
South, No. 'JH Tattnall street, Atlanta, Ga.
THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY, MAY 8, 1887-TWELVE PAGES.
AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHY. .
The Bicycle, Not tlie Tripod, Camera is
All the Go.
New York, May 7.— The Girls’ Camera
Club has had a field day in Central Park
this week. There was a rendezvous at the
Fifty-ninth street entrance, and then a
capacity for infinite frolic drove through
the gateway in a couple of buggies, followed
by red cheeks and flying ribbons on a
quartette of horses, while vivacious energy
on two or three tricycles brought up the
rear.
The New York girl is going into amateur
photography with considerable enthusiasm
this spring, and the Camera Club is the first
fruits of her zeal. She has not lifted the
implements of the bewitching art upon the
pedestal of a craze, but they are coming to
hold an altogether respectable place in the
ranks of her whims. The Camera Club
is a devoted body; and on the morning in
question had a business-like programme laid
down. A series of eight “exposures,” half
of them studies of subjects agreed upon be
forehand and half of them detective sketches
snatched on the spur of the moment from
the moving humanity around, were to lie
submitted in competition for the honors of
the day. Down by the lake you might have
come upon the personified mischief of the
party lying in wait for a pair of unwary
spring lovers in a boat, and taking a chance
shot at a rolypoly baby tumbling ou the
grass, to pass away the time. Up in the
antiquarian region, by Revolutionary forts
that still mark one chain of the city’s de
fenses, you might have recognized a couple
more intent on grouping and composition
and bribing a trio of rollicking small boys
to lend human interest in the foreground of
the view. In the neighborhood of the
menagerie the elephant chained by one foot
posed as ho munched a peanut, and the bears,
pit and the eagles, cage a ffiirded opportunities
for glimpses of brute and human nature not
to be lost by such an eager baud.
The number of women among the amateur
photographers of the city is not large as yet,
hut it is growing daily, and the sex feminine
has some good work to show as the results
of its ventures in this field. Tlie newspaper
correspondent seized upon the dry plate
and the handy little detective camera about
as quickly as anybody, and some half dozen
women journalists about New York find in
the rage for illustrated letters abundant call
forthe exercise of their skill. Women artists
in common with their brothers of the craft
owe no little help to the sun picture.
Women who used to try to sketch and
couldn’t are given up that waste of time,
having found such satisfactory substitute
for preserving travel and vacation sou
venirs.
Mrs. J. Wells Champney, wife of the artist,
and another of that bright book, “Three
Vassal - Girls,” is among the most enthusias
tic of the New York photographic guild.
Sne is blessed with good subjects in a couple
of attractive little folk, and keeps a progres
sive record of their growth, their doings
aud almost of their sayings, catching them
in the latest bit of roguery in unconscious
childish attitudes. Mr. Constable, of the
shopping house of Arnold, Constable &, Cos.,
spends all of his avaible leisure in photo
graphy, and his wife is quite as devoted
and rather more skillful than he. The
Marquise de Mores, who used to lie Miss
Hutton, and is now the wife of the Marquis
of cowboy fame, has done some of the clev
erest work, I suppose, of any New York
amateur. Spirited bits on Jerome avenue,
when the horsemen are speeding their trot
ters, are the subjects she takes to most kindly,
11,111 1 from her seat in lier phaeton she has
ifiade a collection of studies of the horse in
motion that it would lie hard to duplicate
or surpass. Ranch life in Dakota lias given
her another opportunity, and being a dar
ing rider she has utilized her chances to
perpetuate the wildest of wild West hunting
scenes.
Mine. Alice le Plongeon, whose work
with her husband, August le Plongeon, in
Yucatan, has made her known in archeologi
cal fields, is an amatur of no mean skill.
She uses wet collodion plates—a task that
few amateurs attempt—-and has brought
back from Mexico pictures of the relics of
the cities of the Mayas that are serving as
data for study of tlie lost civilization of
those aborigines. Alice Stone Blackwell,
Lucy Stone’s daughter and junior editor of
the Woman's journal, Boston, has gone
into photography for recreation pure and
simple, as many busy women do. There
were numbers of good things shown by
women at the first aimual exibitition of the
amateur photographers of the country at the
Ortgies gallery. New York, last, month,
among them the work of Mrs. Robert W.
De Forrest perhaps carrying off the palm.
WHAT IS MAKING WOMEN PHOTOORAPHETS.
Just as it was the dry plate that started
the immense development of amateur photo
graphy. so it is the perfection of the smaller
and more easily portable cameras that is
bringing the women into the field. The
photoprapher of old, with his black cloth,
his blacker dark room, his mysterious toy
ing with unknown, and to mortals of a com
moner stamps, unknowable chemicals, was
an awesome being from whom the last few
years have ruthlessly torn off the veil. The
substitution for the wet collodion plate,
which required technical knowledge and
special skill in its preparation, of the gelatine
film spread over the glass mouths before it
is wanted, ready sensitized and packed for
transportation to the ends of the globe
revolutionized the business for professional
and amateur. So far as outdoor pinitography
is concerned, the veriest bungler, if he has
artistic instinct enough to choose a pictur
able scene, can make the exposure, (levelop
his plate and print off the views with the
instruction to tie given in a single afternoon.
The camera has become a plaything, and
one of the most bewitching and satisfactory
of the toys that grown up-people affect.
The tripod camera is hardly used by
women at all. The bicycle camera that
screws on a tricycle equally well, and that,
without any extra impediment in the way
of luggage, gives one instantaneous views of
aii afternoon’s outing with barely the trouble
of pulling up to eaten them, is coming to be
a favorite with women who affect the
wheel. The tiniest of all cameras which slips
inside the clothing, the lens acting as dress
or vest button, is canned by a number of
women about the city streets. The photo
graphic appartus being completely hidden,
piquant life and character sketches are
picked up as you demurely pass your un
conscious fellow-beings at fifteen feet range.
It is the latest form of the detective
camera—that which counterfeits a neat
little hand satchel in appearance—that is
the usual favorite just now, however, with
women as with men. Tlie machine can be
had scarcely larger than tlie usual handker
chief receptacle, the size of the plate it
carries being much less of an object than it
used to be since the recent perfection of tho
enlargement processes by permanent bro
mide prints. For tourists and in all cases
where the baggage is ait object, the smaller
the plate the better, and tho best pictures
can afterward lie enlarged at borne. The
detective is focused and sprang on the in
stant, and is so quick In its action that I
have seen a clear picture of the lied of a
mountain brook —a much more difficult feat
than photographing an object which is it
self moving—caught from the window of a
train at full speed.
The spring brides have set the photographic
fashion, and I came across one of them at
the counters of a large manufacturing Ann
last week, laying in dry plates for a‘‘shot
at Niagara” on her wedding tour. Big
oiilers have begun to com:: in—so they told
me when she was gone—for cameras to go
with vacation outfits for European toui - 3,
camping parties and mountain climbing.
Amateurs arc notorious for putting fabulous
sums into photography, ana women have so
far taken the cue that, I Was told, their bills
have in some instances run up to the three
figure lino. Take it all in all the camera is
a blessing, for it puts picturesque nature
and humanity into the power, of the ap
preetiative eye, even if there dosn't go with
it the artist’s hand, E. l’. n.
HORSFORD’S ACID PHOSPHATE
Improves Nutrition.
Dr. A. Trap, Philadelphia, says: “Itpro
motes dig - *stion and improves general nutri
tion of the nervous system.”
STORIES A BOUT SNAKES.
EXPERIENCES RELATED BY VERA
CIOUS CA LIFORNIA MEN.
Stories About Rattlesnakes, Some of
Which are True and Some of Which
Need a Good Deal of Confirmation
How Senator Hearst Got Into a Nest
of Them.
From the New York Timet.
The Hoffman House apothecary shop is
practically the New York headquarters for
traveling Californians. The Westerner on
a tour is very fond of Bouguereau pictures
and statuary, and “sich” whonevor ha can
look at it through glassware. Everybody
knows everybody else in the land of climate,
aud one man from San Francisco never sits
down to a table in the saloon without every
other Californian who drops in comes and
takes a seat by him. Consequently the ex
change of climatic views ana the telling of
stories is a regular thing. The other even
ing the conversation ran on snakes. Snakes
are a poor subject for cheerful talk in an
apothecary shop, but everybody was in
terested and had something to tell. Some
of the stories had only a scientific value,
others merely a romantic worth; but they
were interesting.
Col. Gillette began by a learned disserta
tion upon the virulence of rattlesnake poison.
He told of a miner on the Yuba, in early
days, who was bitten through the bootleg
by a big “rattler” and died. His trails were
taken care of, including the boot he wore
when bitten. Nobody wore them, however,
for eight months. Then a miner put them
on, and in doing so scratched his leg
slightly. In eight hours he was dead and
the needle-like tang of the rattlesnake was
found sticking through the bootleg. The
poison had kept its strength during all that
period.
“The strangest thing* alxiut the poison,
too,” said another, “is. the fact that the
chemical analysis of it shows it to lie com
posed of the most harmless ingredients, ox
ygen, hydrogen, nitrogen and carbon, noth
ing more. It can be swallowed without tho
slightest injury.”
“Oh, yes,” said a gentleman of unques
tioned veracity. “I have eaten rattlesnake
in Arizona, not because I was snake hungry,
but out of curiosity. The meat is as white
as milk and very delicate. The Yuma In
dians are very fond of it.”
“Speaking of Yuma,” said a surveyor just
in from tho Phoenix mine, “I was surveying
in Sau Diego county in 1878 with Gen. ri. J.
Willey,late Surveyor General of California.
It’s a bad county for snakes, because they
are a grayish brown, nearly the color of the
rocks and sand, and you’re liable at any
time to walk into one. In the hot season
they get blind and silent and strike without
rattling, just at the time when their poison
is at its worst. There’s a curious
fact, by the way, that every plain
in Southern California exemplifies. Ordi
narily birds make their nests where they
can’t be seen without difficulty. You know
how hard it is to find a bird’s nest in the
average tree. Well, all over these plains
there grows a cactus called the ‘choyu.’ It
is just a collection of thin prickly sticks,
branching and covered with spines. But
pretty nearly every ‘choya’ you see has a
bird’s nest in it, rising a little above the sur
rounding sage brush, and in plain sight of
everybody. The birds build in these for
protection. The snakes can't slide up to the
‘choya’ on account of the spines. Every
snake’s belly is soft, and it takes very little
to penetrate it. You’ve heard of sleeping in
side of a horse-hair lariat when camping.
Well, that’s the reason of it. A horsehair
robe is so prickly that a rattlesnake won’t
cro it under any circumstance*.
“I was going to say,” he continued, “that
Willey and I camped by a spring in a pretty
dry country, there lieing a grove or oaks
near the water. He and I rolled up together
at night in two pairs of blankets and, (icing
tired, went sound to sleep about 9 o’clock.
It was about 1 in the morning when Willey
slowly wakened. He told me afterward that
he seemed to be under the influence of a
terrible fear that had come on him while
asleep. He opened his eyes, but didn't dare
to move. As he tried to get his wits he felt
a slow, creeping motion ot something heavy
going over his right arm. His right anil
was inside the blankets, and was Between
him and me. The General is a thorough
bred. He has plenty of nerve and presence
of mind. He knew exactly what it was,
but without moving he called to me.
“ ‘Ned,’ said he, in a quiet tone.
“I was sound asleep. He had to call three
times before I, fortunately without moving,
said:
“' What!'
“ ‘Do not move a muscle,’ said he. ‘Do
you understand me?’
“ ‘Yes,’ said I. You can bet I was wide
awake then.
“ "There is a rattlesnake in the blankets
between us. When I say three kick loose
and jump.’
“ ‘One, two, three,’ said the General
slow, and we jumped. They were pretty
good jumps, as you can imagine. Then we
threw a branch on the fire, and when it
blazed up we went up for tlie snake. He
had coiled In the blankets, and you can bet
he was ugly. A pretty big fellow, too —six-
teen rattles and a button.
“One of the most horrible rattlesnake ex
periences I ever heard,” said Col. Jim With
mgton, was told me by a lady who is one of
the managers of a children's charitable so
ciety in Bail Francisco. It happened only a
couple of years ago. They have a good
many little waifs to take care of in the so
ciety’s home, and put them out for adoption
whenever they can get a good home for
them. Among them was a little oiphan
girl, 2 years old. The Child was given to a
man and his wife, who Soon afterward
moved down to Keru couuty on a ranch.
The tie girl had a kitten which she was
very fond of. She Was always playing
with it, but one morning, a few days
after the family hail got settled in their
uew home, she lost It, The woman
was busy, and paid no attention to the little
one until she heard her crying bitterly. She
went to look for her, and found that she
was under tho house, which stood several
feet uliove the ground She crawled under,
and when she got near the child almost
fainted away. Tlie kitten had been bitten
and killed by a rattlesnake. The poor little
child, hearing the kitten mewing, bad gone
after it, and nail tried to take it away from
the snake. It bit her repeatedly on both
hands, on the wrist and in the face. It
mast have struck and struck. Ugh! It
makes me shiver,” said he. “The woman
attacked the snake and drove it off and got
the child out, but.it lived only n few hours.”
Then Gen. mude a contribution to
reptilian data which was interesting.
“I was in tho Yosemite valley,” he said,
■•and wo killed a rattlesnake at tlie foot of
the Yosemite fall. Rather u rare thing
there, as none hud been seen in that neigh
borhood for yours. Well, the same after
noon wo were driving down on the floor of
tlie valley, after a visit to the Vernal fall,
and t he wagon passed close to a big pine, at
the foot of which was a small shruo about
fen feet high. It hud no leaves at that sea
son and was a mass of fine brauehes, aud
hanging in these branches was a brightly
colored object tliat caught my eye. We
stopped the wagon, and found tliat it was
the most beautiful snake I ever saw. It
was alxmt three fret long, slender and col
ored in alternating rings of shining black,
snow-white aud scarlet rod. It paid no at
tention to us, but slid very slowly along
through tho network of twigs without
showing either anger or fear. We watched
it lor sometime, and then I started to kill
it, Ixvause I always kill snakes on principle.
•• 'Hold on,’ said the driver.
“ ‘ IVlint is it?' said I.
“ ‘I wouldn’t kill that snake,’ said he,
‘That’s a king snake?’
“ ‘And what’s a king snake?’
“ ‘lts the only thing in the world that
kills a rattlesnake.’
•‘We loft the snak* - unharmed anil asked
him alxmt it os we drove along. There was
no yarn in It. Everybody in tho valley sold
the same thing, and several of the guides
ami others bud seen a k’"ig snake and u rat
tlesnuke fight at roine time in tlieir expe-
rience. The king snake only attacks when
the rattlesnake is asleep as they are most of
the time when coiled. It grabs the rat Ger
just back of the head as a terrier does a rat,
and holds on until tho rattlesnake is stran
gled to death.
“The rattlesnake has one other enemy,”
said Mr. W. H. Bullard. “It would sound
like a lie if most, of you, I thick, were not
familial - witli it All that it amounts to is
one of those manifestations of instinct in
birds which can’t lie explained. There’s a
bird in California which, in the middle and
north of the State, is called the trotting jay
or road-runner. It is a largo and special
variety of the jay, with long legs and high
topknot. It’s as big as a young chicken.
VV ell, in the south of the State, those birds
ore called ‘choya-birda,’ from the same
peculiarity that Neil spoke of, of building
m the cactus shrub. A pair of these
birds, if they find a rattlesnake coiled
and asleep, will fly to the nearest choya and
pick up little branches in their bills and
come and drop them around tho snake in a
circle. If he sleeps long enough he will
wake up to find himself entirely cooped up
in a prickly lx>x, w’hich he can’t get out of.
because the minute he attempts to crawl
over a bit of choya the spines enter at the
curve of the neck and hold him. The snake
stays there until he starves to death or is
killed by somebody who finds him. It’s a
queer fact, but there is no doubt whatever
of its truth.”
Thus tar the conversation had confined
itself to fact. The romantic element began
to enter when one of the settlers rehearsed
a story from an English piqxM' instancing
the extraordinary nerve of a man, nil Eng
ligii officer in India, who was waiting at the
mouth of a gully, which was being beaten
for a tiger. The tiger jumped from the
jungle into a clear space alxiut forty yards
in front of him. He fired and missed. The
tiger made a leap toward him and landed.
He fired again, ami tho brute fell over
killed. His friends, who were amazed at,
his first miss, understood when they sa w
him drop his gun instantly upon firing tin l
second shot and seize a snake which had
swarmed over his arm. He held it l>v the
neck and struck its head off with his Kilife.
It was a cobra, tho deadliest of the Hindos
tan reptiles. As ho had raised his gun to
tire the first shot he had felt it around his
leg, and he had to choose between tiger and
cobra, but killed both.
This startling encounter put the company
on their mettle. Mi - . Bui laid told of tho,
subtropical pithons, Mr. Flood, Jr., of his
adventures with monkeys and anacondas in
Java, and the narratives trek the color of
those stories which ore abandoned by the
standard books on the reptilia and left to
the sensational weeklies to tell. After sev
eral had been told Senator Hearst, who had
been an interested listener, trek a hand.
He did not propose that the Senatorial toga
should lie surpassed bv ordinary dialogue
when it came to snake stories.
“i was out in ItuKota,” he said, “and
there was an old mining friend of mine came
to me and wanted me to Irek at a claim of
his. He was broke and had had j iretty hard
luck, and 1 was willing to help him if 1
could. He said he had a mighty gixxl tiling:
that he had sunk down 50 feet on a claim
and laid bare a 8 foot ledge that was full of
free gold and lreked steady, hanging wall
and fret wail solid and clearly marked.
Well, wc went over to look at it. He had
opened it up with a windlass. A
couple of Chinamen had dono all
the work, and they had struck
six months before Ixtcause he hadn’t any
thing to |xiy ’em with. The hole hadn't
been touched since then. Well, there was no
water in the shaft, aml thc rope being good,
I went down in the bucket to take a look at
the ledge. I hai a pick with me and he low
ered me. Only one could go down at a time,
and 1, of course, imd to go, as I was the man
that was doing the investigating. Well, the
candle I carried went out on the way down,
and when the bucket touched I started to
light it.
“When I struck that match I don’t think
I was ever quite so scared in my life. You
never Beard suqh a hissing iu all your born
days,; The'fact was, that hole was just
plump' jjtijl W rattlesnakes. They were
thcir licajni tyi*rc sticking out of the crevice*
all atpumltUC, I knew I was a goner, but
I holjju-cd to the miner to hoist. Before he
could one big, black fellow struck at
my hamj,,'and fetched it, and before I could
get above them my hands and face were
bit, I don’t know how many times. It
was fearful. There’s nothing so horri
ble as the feeling of a snake bite. Well,
the miner got me to the surface, laid
me down and poured whisky into me as
fast as I could take it. We had alxiut a
quart with us. Then ho went to sucking
the wounds as best he could, and made me
chew up some tobacco and plaster it on
some oi tho others that he hadn’t time
for. But my arms began to swell up pretty
fast anil my face turned black, and f began
to feel a little flighty and deadly sick,”
and the Senator nauseated at the reminis
cence, shuddered and stopped with a look
of disgust.
“But you are recovered, Senator,” ven
tured one of the party, earnestly.
“Oh, no,” said the Senator. “That’s was
the worst of it. I died.”
HUNTING ANTS’ EGGS.
A Simple Method by Which They Ire
Rapidly Sorted When Fourto,
One of the strangest of sports, or rather of
industries—since to a few men employed in
the forests of FVance it supplies a part of
their means of livelihood—is the gathering
of ants’ eggs. The larvse of those insects,
which are often as large as the ants them
selves, says the Youth's Companion, are
used in zoological gardens and elsewhere as
food for tropical bird- reared in captivity.
Le Mouiteur tie, la Chasse, a hunting
journal, gives a picturesque account of a
hunt for ants’ eggs, from which we make a
translation of some extracts.
“At sunrise we set out into the woods, ac
companied by the old forest-guard, Denis,
and nis son Juan. The latter carried a big
bag and a shovel. We hail tied strings
around the bottoms of our trousers and
around our coat sleeves at the wrists as a
precaution against the sort of game we were
after. Before long we came upon one of the
little hillocks of twigs which form the ants’
taeuses.
“Jean hold his bag open by the ant-hill,
simply gave two or three strokes
with his shovel, thrusting ants, twigs and
eggs all pell-mell into the bag. The sack
was quickly tied up, arid another ant hill
sought and despoiled, and this was repeated
until the bag was full
“ ‘Anil now comes what, is more interest
ing,’ said old DeniN, ‘the sorting of the eggs.
I have an extensive establishment where
this is carried on' permanently.’ The old
man smiled as he spoke.
“We proceeded to a level clearing in the
wootls, ouen to the sun, in the middle of
which there was a ring made of empty
flowerpots laid on their sides, the moutlis
of tho pots turned toward the centre.
“Jean laid down his bag, with its thous
ands of squirming prisoner*, while he rev
ered the nng of flower pots over with tho
green brandies of trees in such a way as to
shade them completely, but not the middle
of the circle. Then into this sunny space in
the centre he opened his bag and emptied
its contents.
“Instantly, as if by inspiration, tho
writhing mass of ants began carrying their
eggs into the shaded pots. They knew that
if left many minutes exposed, to the sun
their delicate young ones would certainly
dio, and they (le)x)sited the larva - in the
pots ns fai! as they could carry them.
“Before long some of tho pots were half
flllixl with nothing but eggs, and these pots
Denis emptied, one at a time, into a smaller
Lag.
While tho ants continued to work at the,
rescue of their eggs from the broiling sun,
Jeuu returned to the woxls, aud came back
at length with stiil another fmg full of his
strangely mixed material, wuich ho poured
into the writhing arena. • Denis, in the
meantime, continued steadily at work
emptying tlie flowerpots white with larvse,”
Tu* Queen of the Belgians recently took pot
luek with the officers of a regiment of infantry.
Her dinner was a plate of cabbage soup aud a
pickled pig’s foot.
WHEN THE WIRES ERR.
The Complications Caused by Tele
graphic Blunders.
From the New York Star.
Telegraphy would have undoubtedly
found a congenial environment in Sparta.
Brevity in words was a quality that the
Spartan was trained to from his cradle.
When they lajised into speech they were able
to get their thoughts into the smallest
amount of verbal vesture that would cover
them. When verlwwe moderns try to do the
same a portion of the idea is generally left
uncovered. When the idea has been
kneaded again and again to get it into a com
modious 1 ittle circumference that will fall
within the tariff gauge, the sender will
often fail to put in some important punt, so
that, the receiver is thrown into a panic by
his throes at interpretation. The operator,
too, can make a mistake that completely
muddles the whole thing up. Sometimes
these mistakes are amusing, sometimes they
are afflicting, sometimes they are costlv.
A firm in New York whien dealt in bats,
caps and furs received from a small city in
the West, toward tho middle of August, the
following telegram; “Send at once 1,000
caps like those ordered before.” The firm
rustled around lively to (ill the onier. The
cap was a light summer one, and they had
very few in stock, as the season was near its
end. So all the female operators were nut
to work; scissors wuxed hot with cutting
and clipping and snipping; the sewing nia
ehiuo clicked feverishly, and at last a big
box, with tho 1,000 ca{>s, was duly for
warded to the address of the occidental
dealer. Poor man! he had ordered ten
caps, and the operator had centupled the
amount by milling two “airy nothings,” so
that he was furnished with enough to cover
tlio heads of every 1 icing in the place
n ’id one or two generations yet unborn.
He resented this stress of caps. Tho
New York firm claimed tluty had filled
the order and demanded payment. The
dealer refused it. Tho caps were sold at
auction for a trifling sum, and suit, was
brought against the telegraph company for
the difference io the market value of the
caps and the value received. The whole
suit depended on the telegram written by
the shopkeeper. If lie had inscribed 10
and the operator had added two zeros, the
company hail a sorry outlook. The clever
young lawyer to whom tho company en
trusted the case, secured this original tele
gram as his first move, and while the plain
tiffs begged adjournment (until they could
hunt up tho all-important telegram) the
telegraph company insisted on having the
cast' come on. The cap firm acquired an
unpleasant lesson which made them very
w'iry in the matter of telegrams forever
after.
cm une time ago a telegram was sent, to a man
from his brother in New York, bidding him
come to a certain station. This brother a
little while tefore had run a nail into him at
Asbury Park, and the whole family Imme
diately conceived that he had had another
driven in, and was probably in the horrible
contortions of lockjaw. The telegram was
dated from the wrong station, and for hours
the family were wildly searching for the be
nailed brother. It was a day of torture till
in the evening the gentleman showed up
with no nails, except what nature had in
serted in his extremities. "Why the deuce
didn't you come this morning to
street! I had two posses to the tench
show, and wanted you to see the prettiest
liver-colored bitch in the world I” Lockjaw
and dentil dwindling down to a prize pup I
Telegraphically, sounds that, represent
different things are often identical, and
some judgment is required on the ns-eiving
operator’s part in interpreting from the con
text. A New York society woman, fatigued
with the wear and tear of an incessant
whirl of social duties, went to Saratoga to
take the waters as a means of rallying.
They failed to do the work properly, and
she wrote her family physician for advice.
She received a telegram “Take a dozen
pills.” ’Twas heroic treatment, especially
when the cathartic globules followed a
course of Huthorn Spring water. She took
the pills, and almost took her departure
from things terrestrial as a consequence.
The doctor had telegraphed “Take a dose of
pills.” “ Done of" and “dozoa” are the same
telegraphically.
By a mistake of this kind, the Associated
Press at the time when Samuel Tilden had
!>een counted out of the Presidency, were
galvanized by a report wired in tho midst
of the intense excitement that James A.
< rarflelil would play a game of lxi.se hall in
the House! Instead of “play a game of
base ball,” Garfield was to “accept the gage
of battle." The similarity of telegraphic
symbols was again the cause of the mistake.
Frequently telegraphic mistalios in mes
sages have been trie cause of death by the
shock communicated to*the receivers of ,the
message. The humor of telegraphic errors
is not apparent in such cases.
One of the funniest things of tho kind oc
curred last winter. The correspondent of
the New York Herald telegraphed a long
-account of the ioe carnival at Minneapolis.
“Ice king” is telegraphically the same as
“Yo king.” The Herald came out with
big head lines about the “Yo King,” and
went through a column seriously expatia
ting on this mystic royalty. Every tele
graph man in the country saw how the mis
take was made, and there was a general
laugh at the Herald's expense. “Yo king”
seemed a carnival creature, and probably
ranked in the mind of the man who re
ceived the inossago in the category with
vikings.
Having the message insured by repeating
it does not always secure certainty. Once,
when the matter was as simple as tho mono
syllable “yes,” and repetition was ordered
to make certainty doubly sure, the message
was reoeived as “no.”
A lawyer telegraphed to a legal friend in
Boston tor some imjxirtant papers in a case
he was conducting. The Boston man was
laid up with a cold, and told his clerk to
send this tews to the inquiring lawyer as an
excuse for not sending tho papers. How
ever it was, it was flashed ovor the wires
that the Boston men was dead. The
greatest excitement was created by his sud
den taking off, and the family rushed
wildly on to Boston to take care of the re
mains. The corpse was found actively em
ploying a handkerchief. His cold was not
the <old of death, and he soon recovered.
The operator takes down the words or
sounds that are sent, and his duty is to get
those correctly and not to have any views
about style or sentiment on the sender’s
part. Messages sent in cipher, or where
some word has lieen conventionally agreed
to as signifying a comjiany's long name by
a short one. mav look oddly enough when
compounded with other words. This ac
counts in some measure for the mistakes
that may occur. So if a message comes
over the wire that “Lil is on the top ladder
and Kip’s shoulder is thoughtful" he lias not
got to wonder at Lil’* exaltation nor at the
extraordinary mentality of Kip’s body. It
is an unusual way of presenting a clear fact,
and the charity is there for the proper man.
Thus it is that the sienuer wires that stretch
like spiders’ threads over the country often
entangle tho swift-footed message tliat runs
over them and it arrives lame.
And the Bell Says "Dong I Dong I”
. From Peck's Sun.
I happened to be walking behind a couple
of school children the other day, when one, a
lad of about! years, turned to his compan
ion. and said:
“Say, Skinny, we don’t say ‘ehest-nuta’
no more down to our school, wo say church
tell.”
"Aw, g’long. Yer tryin’ to get off some
gag on me.”
“No, I hain’t. Hope to die, and cross my
heart., if I am."
“Honestly and truly?”
“Ah, ha!"
“Well, then, if there ain’t no gag, why do
you say church tell ?”
“ ’Cause it’s lx*en tolled before.”
“Huh! 1 don’t see anything so very funny
about that.”
“O, Charley,” she exclaimed, "what beauti
ful arbutus! and did you really pick them your
self r”
“Yods," said Charley, “I Licked >m hysef.
begauagitkaughed you'd prige 'em bore than if
L Ooughd Jißi ad a (chew ha*p-k'client! eggs
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