Morning journal and courier., 1890-10-17

negroes. This exception was an old ne gro, who had one leg shorter than the other, and was nearly bent double, but whether with age or not no one knew. He looked as if he had worked hard all his life, but appearances are deceitful.
 The workmen became so incensed at the "wood hustlers" that they drove them all away except the old man. After while the old man became more bold and endan- gered himself in trying to get pieces of wood. One of the workmen spoke to him about it, telling him he would be hurt if he persisted in getting in the way. The old man mumbled out something, but paid no attention to the warning.
 Finally he got close to the wall and stopped to pick up piece of beam. Just as he stopped brick fell in front of him, and he narrowly escaped being hit. See ing this, workman yelled:
 "Look out, ole man, or you'll be killed" ]"
 sT don't care," replied the old man, and he continued to confscate all the wood that came within his reach. Again he barely escaped being hit with another brick, and again the workman shouted:
 '1 done tole yor onst to git away from dere. The fust thing you know you won't know nothing"
 
 looking around for more wood and, seeing some in the interior of the building he went for it. He had hardly passed the door when heavy beam fell in the place he had just vacated, enveloping him in a cloud of dust.
 Several workmen, thinking that the heavy beam had pinioned the old man to the ground, jumped down to render all the assistance possible. Imagine their sur prise when on reaching the place, he found the old man gathering the wood as uncon- cerned as though nothing had happened. The workmen were speeches. for awhile and then one said:
 feLook a har, ole man, you'll have to git out O this. We don't care bout losin' time CT carryin' yer korpus through the street"
 The old man looked contemptuously at the speaker, and then said in a don't-give- a-continental tone:
 '1G'way, niggers, I don't care. I jist had my life 'sured for s4O.''
 ROCKY MOUNTAIN BIC HORNS. How They Descend from Grea, Heights on Invisible Stairways. From the Kansas City Star.l In Main street cigar store is stuffed specimen of the argali, or big-horn sheeI of the Rocky mountains. This animal i. not only shy, but, having an appetite fol vegetation which can only be discovered among the very higest plateaus of thu Rocky mountains, is dweller of the crsg! and cliffs It is seldom it breathes a nor, rarifed atmosphere than is found at an al titude of 9,000 feet. Its manner of life ant it's place of living make it a difficult anima for the hunter, and the Utes and other In dians in the day of the bow and arrow looked on the killing of a big horn as feat They are very scarce and not at all pro life.
 There has always been a large amount oi l lying about the big horn. Hunters had fol a time some unexplainable experiences | with them. A bunch of four or five would be seen feeding on some high, grassy mess | or table land, which would find termina | ton, on three sides perhaps, in a precipi | tous up and down descent of several hun | dred feet. The hunter, ambitious and in \ defatigable, would, with infinite labor | creeping up canons and crawling among I rocks, come in behind them. He wouit l exult in the certainty of a shot. The biz horns could not escape. X 40O-foot preci | pice on three sides so steep that birt could scarcely sustain itself thereon an' the hunter cutting off the retreat on tn fourth, matters looked gloomy for the bi ! horn. Resting himself for a moment t
 recover his breath and nerve, both some | what strained in his scramble among tn | rocks, the hunter will move forward. Ol catching sight or scent of him the bi
 horns would amble in a confident and con
 tented way, apparently, to the edge of tn
 precipice, and disappear.
 The hunter on coming forword would see his game racing far out in the valle,
 400 feet below. How did they get there | That was always the question with tn,
 western man. It was finally concluded ol | all hands that the big horn jumped. A
 his four leg could scarcely be expected
 to sustain such a descent, the in
 genious western mind had recourse to tn
 big horns from which the angali gets hi
 soubriquet These are from four to sever
 inches in diameter at the base and sprout il | horny spirals from the animals head mucl
 after the fashion of the horns of that en
 zine of destruction, the common Merlin
 ram. When the big horn leaped, said thes
 Munchausens, he turned head downwarl
 and alighted on these horns. They ha'
 seen him make the trip, they said, ,and the
 would thereupon enlarge on the downwar'
 whizzing plunge of anything from 300 t
 2 1000 feet, according to the mendacity O
 the raconteur. They would tell how h
 descended like some curved, woolly boom
 erang, and rebounded from his horne
 frontlet to a height of forty feet, and the
 ambled away bleating with pride and plea.
 sure at his success. So accurate a nasura
 ist and SO careful a writer as Mayne Rei
 wrote a book about it and in his story ca.
 his big horns over precipices of 1, ,00O fe'
 without a scruple.
 But the argali does not indulge himself
 the flights ascribed to him. He has to
 much good sense. A jump from sue | heights would smash to slnithereens a bi
 left to doubtful argument Their mannt of descent has been discovered and is eas
 enough-for bighorn-when you ono
 witness it. All through these mountain
 you will find seams and rifts which spl
 the preeipice from top to bottom. I'll
 rock has been torn asunder by some forC | of nature, and the result in many instanc,
 is cleft or split where the walls are nc separated twenty feet. and yet run froi the bottom to the top of the cliff, son hundreds of feet. That the rocky sid,
 were once together may be seen in Il protuberances of one wall corresponding { : the depressions in the other.
 The big horn is the prince of cautiol Before he is found anywhere he has made
 complete war map of the neighborhoo' which he carries locked in his woolly hea, : When he disports himself on some dig
 plateau he is always certain of an outle , No cul de sac for him; he is too good , a mountaineer for that. Before he nibbl } a mouthfhl of the crisp herbage he has lool 5 ed up one of these deep rifts which { t down to the valley below. The moment l | is disturbed he makes straight for it. A irving at the verge he never hesitates, b,
 jumps boldly out and down, aiming for Il v other side of the crevice. This he strik ae with his four hoofs, which are hard as ca 2 steel, and at once leaps back for the oth { side. He descends perhaps fifteen or eigh
 cen feet at a leap, and as he could not I f tain foothold for a moment at any one - these places he strikes the rock, he nev
 pauses in his zigzag leaping until the Ia
 one brings him to the valley, hundreds feet below. That crevice is the big hor1 I stairway, and that is the way he descend - The Hunters Moon. From the Providence Journal s The full moon next following the Hi @ vest Moon is called the Hunters Moo
 Our satellite is still at a point in the ecli g tic near enough to the sign Aries for h