The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1885-12-05
APAcHEs ON THE MARCH.
HOpeIessness of Pursuit--The Numerous
Articles Which Serve as Food.

HOpeIessness of a Pursuit--The Numerous
Articles Which Serve Food.
lCapt. Bourlze in Outingl
1t may serve to give some idea of the
courage, bOldness and subtlety of these
raiders to state that in their dash
through Sonora, Arizona, New Mexico
and chihuahua, a distance Of not less
than SEQ miles, they passed at times
through localities fairly well settled and
close to an aggregate Of at least ., 900
troops 500 Mexican and 800 Ameri-
can. They killed twenty-five persons,
Mexican and American, and lost but
two lone killed near the Total Wreck
mine, Arizona, and one who fell into the
hands of the American troops.
To attempt to catch such a band of
Apaches by direct pursuit would be
about as hopeless place of business as
that Of catching so many fleas. All that
could be done was done; the country
was alarmed by telegraph; people at ex-
posed points put upon their guard, while
detaehments Of troops secured in every
direction, hoping, by good luck, to in
tercept, retard mayhap destroy, the
daring maTauders. The trail they
had made coming up from Mexico could,
however, be followed back to the strong
hold; and this, in a military sense,
would be the most direct, as it would be
the most practical, pursuit.
The Apache scout trudees along as
uncon cerned as he was when the coli
rain or snow Of winter chilled his white
comrade to the marrow. He finds food,
and pretty good food, too, where the
Caucasian would starYe. Knowing the
habits of wild animals from his earliest
youth, he can catch turkeys, quail, rab-
bits, doves, or field mice, and, perhaps,
prairie dog or two, which will supply
him with meat For some reason he
cannot be induced TO touch fish, and
bacon or any other product of the hog
is eaten only under duress; but the flesh
of horse, mule or iackass, which has
dropped exhausted on the march and
been left 10 die on the trail, is de
icious morsel which the Apache epicure
seizes upon wherever possible.
The stunted oak, growing On the
mountain TANKS, furnishes acorns; the
Spanish bayonet, a fruit that, when
roasted in the ashes of camp fire, looks
and tastes something like the banana
The whole region of southern Arizona
and northern Mexico is matted with
varieties Of the cactus, nearly everyone
of which is called upon for its tribute
of fruit or seed. The broad leaves and
stalks of the century plant called mes
cal-are roasted between hot stones,
and the product is rich in saccharine
matter and extremely pleasant to the
taste. The wild potato and the bulb of
the ''tule' are found in the damp noun
tain meadows; and the nest of the
ground be is raided remorselessly for its
little store of honey. SunfoWer seeds,
when ground fine, are rich and nutri-
tious. Walnuts grow in the deep raw
ines, and Strawberries in favorable loca-
tions: in the proper season these, with
the seeds of wild pumpkins, the gum Of
the mesquite, or the sweet, soft inner
bark Of the pine play their part in STAY
ing of the pangs of hunger.
Fine Field for the Cremationist.
kate Field in Globe Democrat
Think how the death rate of New
Orleans might be reduced by the aboli
ton of earth burials It's thirty-five
cemeteries are mostly within the city
limits, and as it Is impossible to dig
two feet underground without coming
to water, all the dead are buried in
tombs or ovens" almost universally
made of brick and Whitewashed.
These literal ''whited sepulchres"
vary in size from 3x6 feet to 10x10
feet, or 10x20 feet. The collins are
slowed away on shelves which surround
a post in the center, and at the end of the
year, when it becomes necessary to use
the tomb for another occupant, the re-
mains Of the preceding coffin are
dumpted into a pit. 1t is said that
economic and barbaric plan is adopted
even by the owners of family tombs
What wonder that yellow fever runs
riot in the Crescent City, when the air
reeks with the fostering corruption of
thirty-fve plague spots, exposed for six
months of the year to tropical sun.
Mons. CspeI on American Original ty.
sshi Francisco Chronicle
Mons Capel is a singularly observant
man, and he seems to cover everything
as he goes along. We were speaking of
his tour and he touched upon the lack
of originality in houses and house-furn-
ishing in America.
81 have visited, he said, several
houses in Philadelphia, for instance. l
have found in each house the same kind
of chairs and tables, arranged in the
same way in rooms that look exactly
alike They are all made wholesale by
machinery and turned out to exact pat
terms YOU cannot tell one house from
another "
IroInedaries as Racers.
New York Timesl
a large crowd, numbering 10, 600 per-
sons. assembled recently in the Prater
a.. a,