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And giggles at the slightest thing?
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Who stands in danger day by day
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■ Who touches lovingly the keys
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IN A HOLE,
!
A by h. c. dodge. ><
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I ha l been aivay from the ranch
since daybreak on a solitary hunting
expedition for small game, and uow,
with night coming on, I was endeav¬
oring to fiud my way back.
Where and how far I was from
camp I know not, but with a general
idea of its direction, I plodded over tho
wild plain, expecting every moment
to strike the trail and get home with¬
out either trouble or dauger.
The thoughts of the good supper and
glad greeting I would have from my
jolly “cowboy” companions spurred
me on while the setting sun warned
me that I had no time to lose.
| In spite of my woodcraft and scout
ing skill and fearlessness in travelling
the wilderness alone I began to feci
apprehensive that I was lost. At first
I only laughed at myself for thinking
so, but when mile after mile in the
deepening dusk brought no sign of
the anxiously looked for trail 1 began
to realize that the smartest ranchman
somotimes can blunder in his reckon¬
ings.
, Still I wouldn’t admit yet I was
wrong and, fighting back the dismal
feeling of lonosomeness and peril that
oppressed me, I continued to push on
as fast as my tired legs would lot me.
I Ou I went through the prairie grass,
straining my eyes in tho dusky gloom
striving to find the trail—suddenly
down, down I tumbled straight to tho
bottom of what seemed to be a deep
well.
Stunucd by my fall, luckily broken
by tlie iicap of soft rubbish I landed
on, I must have Iain for a while un¬
conscious.
When I recovered my senses all was
pitch blackness about me aud looking
upwards I could see a few stars faint¬
ly glimmering from the sky.
>, After pinching and examining my
body and thankfully finding that all
my bones were intact, 1 struggled to
my feet and groped around to discover
if possible what sort of a place I had
gotten into.
* The hole seemed circular aiu. ap¬
parently five or six feet in diameter.
The sides felt like hard clay, and the
bottom was dry and thickly covered
with a long accumulation of leaves
and grasses.
How deep I was down in the earth
I could not tell, but I rightly guessed
the distauce was some twenty feet.
, How the hole ever got there I
couldn’t imagine. Maybe years ago it
was dug in the hope ot striking water
for the cattle which belonged to the
discarded ranch.
i At any rate the liolo wt^ thore and
I was in it. The thing that puzzled
me the most was how to get out.
As nothing could be done in that
lino till daylight, and perhaps not
then, I laid me down hikI went to
sleep.
! When I awoke after a refreshing
slumber the round spot of bright, blue
skv above me seemed higher than 1
ever knew it before.
As a needful preparation to escape
from my more than likely grave
made a little fire with some of the
dry stuff and managed to cook one of
the three birds 1 hud shot the day
before. On that with a few drops
from my water flask I breakfasted.
Theu I started my wits to work out
a plan of deliverance.
i I had with me my gun and plenty of
cartridges, pipe and tobacco, a small
hatchet, matches, hunting knife,
revolver, two birds and a pint of
water; also a few yards of rope.
In the almost vain hope of being
beard 1 determined to frequently fire
my gun and shout, though I knew the
sounds would be deadened.
After shooting and halooing several
times with no answer of course, I ex¬
amined the texture of the sides of niv
tomb. It was a red clay and firm
enough to cut without crumbling. If
I had some strong sticks—which I
hadn’t, though I searched tiirough the
heap of rubbish for them—I might
drive pegs in the side of my prison
and maybe climb up on them. Perhaps
1 could chop spaces there to answer
the same purpose.
Taking the hatchet I commenced to
do it, and for a while it appeared I
feght succeed, but after rising a few
M t in that way I gave it up.
Had the well been narrow so I
could brace myself by using my gun
ngalnd the opposite side I think I
should have accomplished the feat.
Then I attempted shooting with a
light charge of powder a bullet from
my pistol to which I attached my
watch chain fastened to an end of the
rope, thinking it might somehow
catch on a bush outside and bear my
weight while I climbed on stepping
places 1 should dig.
But that plan proved a failure, too.
By this time it Was high noon, and
the hot sun was shining for a few mo¬
ments straight to the bottom of my
awful tomb.
Like a caged beast I was becoming
furious in my vain efforts to gain
liberty and the hardo • I tried the
more difficult grew my task.
I kept firing my gun and calling for
help, for now it seemed that that was
my only chance for life.
The afternoon passed slowly away
and night appeared again, and dis-
pairing, but not giviug up hope, I ate
my last bird, drank nearly my last
drop of water, and managed to fall
asleep.
It came morning at last. i had my
gun raised fire to a signal when I de¬
tected a something alive peering from
the grouud above me into the hole.
Could it be a human being? Even
an Indian in his war paint and certain
to scalp me I should have hailed with
joy.
The object showed itself again
plainly. It was the head of a wolf.
Taking a quick aim I fired and hit
it squarly. With a howl of pain the
wounded brute plunged forward and
into the hole, landing ou my
shoulders.
lit a moment it recovered from its
surprise and before I could draw my
pistol it was crouched to leap upon
me. Hatchet in hand I met its on¬
slaught. As it jumped with bleeding,
open rnouih I ducked my head and be¬
fore it could turn a lucky blow buried
the blade in its skull and finished it.
Now with its flesh to eat and its
blood to drink I could exist for a
week, at least, aud if help came in the
meantime I wouldn’t perish.
For three long, weary days and
nights I lived on iny providential sup¬
ply of wolf meat, firing my gun
hourly and yelling till my voice gave
out, but all for naught.
On the fourth day I completely de¬
spaired of assistance from outside
and resolved to make a last strugglo
to got out of my horrible living tomb.
While I franctically chopped with
my hatchet at the sides of the hole
trying to heap lip dirt enough to rise
on, even though I undermined and
brought the earth to bury me, I re¬
membered a picture of the tower of
Babel that I had seen in the big,
family Bible at home.
It had a spiral road running around
its outside on which the workers as.
cended as the tower was growing.
Why couldn’t I cut out a similar
path on tho Insido of my under¬
ground, turned-over tower?
With a glad shout of joy and won¬
dering why tho idea hadn’t come be¬
fore, I commenced at once the cork-
screw road. Starting as high as 1
could conveniently work I cut into
tho hard, clay wall of (he well until 1
had dug out a space big enough to
hold me. By shelving the roof of the
excavation and curving it to the back
part of its eighteen inch wide floor 1
prevented the earth from caving.
I laid out this open, half tunnel to
ascend on a rather steep grade so its
winding road-bed would be sufficiently
supported, and after some hours’ hard
and careful work, I finished the first
circle and found that mv engineering
calculaiious promised to be success-
ful—providing the earth as it neared
the surface would keep from crumb¬
ling.
Not daring to continue digging as
evening aud darkness caino, I lightly
crawled back to the bottom of my
prison, ate some more wolf meat and
went to sleop with hope renewed and
comparatively happy.
Bright and early in the welcomed
morning I began my toil for deliver-
aued. The higher I dug my way the
more hazardous it became. I almost
feared to go ahead for I knew that a
break now would be fatal to my only
chance of escape from a horrible
death. When night once more caused
me to stop, I was within about pixfeet
of the end of my agony or—alas I
might be only at its beginning.
The awful uncertainty of being so
near and yet so far from life and the
gtoriou*, beautiful world kept me
wakeful. By the following noon 1
should know my fate.
At daylight I tremblingly crawled
up my circular stairway and recom-
inenced operations. The earth that
had been removed lay in a big pile on
the bottom, but of course not high
enough to help me in case a cave-in
occurred.
Carefully I started on the last
cuit, and, as I expected, found
the dry earth there was much lees
than below.
was doomed to failure when
the ground broke over and under me.
Now 1 reached the place to dig
straight up, and, holding my breath,
1 attempted it. Slowly I .craped my
shaft s ceiling, little by little, then as
the sods above me loosened l tore
them away and—after a week of liv¬
ing death—I once more stood on tho
earth’s soiid surface.
I soon found the camp, and my
friends, who, after searching in vain,
were mourning my supposed death.—
[Chicago Sun.
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Trees.
What a strange underground life is
that which is led by tho organisms we
call trees! These great fluttering
masses of leaves, stems, boughs,
trunks, are not the real trees. They
live underground, and what we sec
are nothing more nor less than theiv
tails. Yes; a tree is an underground
creature, with its tail lit the air. All
its intelligence is in its roots. All the
senses it lias are in its roots. Think
what sagacity it shows in its search
after food and drink. Somehow or
other, the rootlets, which are its ten¬
tacles, find out that there is a brook at
a moderate distance from the trunk of
the tree, and they make for it with all
their might. They find every crack
in the rocks where there are a few
grains of the nourishing substance
they care for, and insinuate themselves
into its deepest recesses. When spring
and summer come, they let their tails
grow, and delight in whisking them
about in the wind, or letting them be
whisked about by it; for these taiJs
are poor passive tilings, with Very lit¬
tle will of their own, and bend in
whatever direction the wind chooses
to make them. The leaves make a
deal of noise whispering. I have
sometimes thought I could understand
them, as they talk with each other,
and that they seem to think they made
the wind as they wagged forward and
back. Remember what I say. The
next time yon see a tree waving in the
wind, recollect that it is the tail of a
great underground, many-armed,
polypus-liko creature, which is as
proud of its caudal appendage, es¬
pecially in summer time, as a peacock
of his gorgeous expanse of plumage.
Do you think there is anything so
very odd about this idea? Once get
it well into your heads, and yon will
find that it rendors the landscape won¬
derfully interesting. There are as
many kinds of tree tails as there are
of tails to dogs and other quadrupeds.
Study them as Daddy Gilpin studied
them in his “Forest Scenery,” bul
don’t forget that they are only the ap.
pondage of the underground vegeta.
ble polypus, the true organism to
which they belong. — [Dr. O. W.
Holmes.
The Diameter of a Lightning Bolt.
“Did you ever see the diameter of a
lightning flash measured?” asked a
geologist. “Well, here is the case
which once enclosed a flash of light,
ning, fitting it exactly, so that you
can just see how big it was. This is
called a ‘fulgurite,’ or ‘lightning
hole,’ and tho material it is made of is
glass. I well tell yon how it was
manufact ured, though it took only t
fraction of a second to turn it out.
( » When a bolt of lightning strikes a
bod of sand it plunge* downward in¬
to the sand for a distance, less ot
greater, transforming simultaneously
into glass the silica iu the material
through which it passes. Thus, by
its great heat, it forms at once a glass
tube of precisely the same size.
“Now and then such a tube is found
and dug up. Fulgurites have been
followed into the sand by excavations
for nearly thirty feet. They vary in
interior diameter from the size of a
quilt of three incites or more, accord¬
ing to the bore of the flash.
“But fulgurites are not alone pro.
duced in sand; they are found also in
solid rocks, though very naturally of
slight depth and frequently existing
merely as a thin glassy coating oil the
surface. Such fulgurites occur in
astonishing abundance on (he summit
of Little Ararat in Armenia.
“The rock is soft, and so porous
that blocks a foot lung can be ob¬
tained, perforated in all directions by
little lubes filled with boltle-greeu
glass formed from tho fused rock.” —
[Scientific Magazine.
A Queer Old Texan.
An eccentric character named Brit
Bailey came from Tennessee to Texas
in 1830- While en route iu company
with several others he requested each
man to tell what he was coming to
Texas for. When all were through it
came to bis turn, and he said: “I am
going to Texas to establish a charac¬
ter. I have not got any at home, and
I am going to try and establish one in
Texas.”
He settled at Bailey’s Prairie, and
soon after trouble commenced with
the Mexicans, and participated in the
battle of Yelasca. He carried home
with him a cannon ball as a relic of
this fight. When he came to die he
requested to be buried standing up six
feet under the earth, which would re-
quire a grave of more than 12 feet iu
depth, as he was 6 feet 2 inches in
height,
He also requested that there should
be buried with him his rifle, 100
rounds of ammuuition, his butcher
rxzas'CZ;zl:;
ball from Yelasco. All this was done
with tbe exception of the dog. He
died at home in 1838 on Bailey’s
Prairie, Brazoria Countv, and was
buried on Ov.ter Creek. Ho n.
liked and respected by all who knew
him. —[Dalis* (Texas') News
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1005 4* ......... Haisville......... 10 02 2 67 811
1035 4*. .........Riverdale......... 945 222 7«
10 44 OtCtCClCti^ib ..........Se'ina............ 940 213 ’(J
11 02 ..........B’alock.......... 9 31 1 56 7ff
1125 ........Fayetteville........ 919 1 31 7#
1153 ...........Inman.......... 9 05 103 6ff
12 03 am ..........Woolsey......... 900 12 54 631
12 20 ............Lowry.......... 8 51 12 30 611
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