The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-02-28

went to another hotel at the station. Ellis
snored SO in his sleep that tried to wake
him up, but couldn't, so l got mad and
emptled the ice water all over his head.
Then L poured the contents of the big
pitcher on him and got him on his feet.
gave him everything / had in my valise,
including package of common baking soda
and mustard plaster that was a Christmas
present from my wife. Just as got him so
that could walk him around the room and
knew that he had given me a general idea
OF what his diet had been for day or two,
there was big racket in the hall and a
pounding on the door. A big doctor rushed
IN, and with him sobbing drug clerk The
doctor rummaged around among Ellis'yital
with stomach pump, and finding that
barring few follicles and the everyday
coat of the stomach, ne was pretty empty
he got his breath and told US that
BAsCoM WAS DEAD,
and if Ellis got through it would be due to
my wonderful foresight, for the clerk had
given Us laudanum the last round by mis-
take. So | get along now without pre-
scription in Kansas, and hope to die a ma
tural death, greatly beloved and mourned
! by all who knew me, casting a great big
gloom over our quiet little community and
! generally mourned on acco MT of my
charming qualities both of my mind and
heart. Eastern papers please copy"
/ Then the conversation gradually drifted
into other channels, and man who handles
/ trusses for the northwest got to talking
about hunting. He could shoot with I'M
errlng accuracy, he said, and loved dearly
to shoot all kinds of large game. He pre-
ferred elephants, l judged from his talk,
and when he scared up covey of these
little songsters it was very seldom that any
of them got away.
! He was shooting the Rocky Mountain
sheep last year in Montana, he said, and
had 5agged two or three at about 3 O'Clock
/ in the afternoon. He was Just eating his
| frugal lunch of hot terrapin, cooked over
an alcohol stove, which he always carried
with him, when big horn weighing at
least 600 pounds sprang past him on ledge
| across deep gorge in less time than it re-
quires to calculate the word "scat!"
Selling his trusty rife and placing 1t to
his shoulder it was but the work OF mo-
meat to aim for magnificent beast, as be
had one eye already closed by g gentleman
whom he had thoughtlessly charged with
falsehood while east.
He had not time to pull the trigger, how
| ever, before the alert animal had bounded
up the face of the cliff, which was at an
angle of Is degrees at least and stood en-
tirely protected by an immense overhang-
ing rock.
HERE WAS A PROBLEM.
He could not cross the gorge. The animal
was no doubt safely there. He could cal
culate exactly where he stood beneath the
big and beetling cliff, though entirely out
OF his range of vision.
Making a few rapid geometrical calcula
tions-for he admits that he is a fine math
ematician and billiard player-he aimed for
a certain point on the angle of the rock and
then fired
For moment the report seemed to deafer
him, then there fell on the sloping rock al
least half bushel of warm vitals and NUT
ton talfow, and he knew that his aim haG
been true.
1t took two days to get the animal by &
roundabout way, and then he found thai
the t1attened bullet, with an edge like
razor, had completely disemboweled the
animal, these organs having been neatly
cut out and dropped down the gorge. The
heart and liver had been carefully preserv
ed. while the bullet had IN its fight also cu-
of the limb of sagebrush and inserted L
in the rift of the carcass so as to prop i
open and cool of the mutton in the pure
crisp air Of the mountain.
ran across Eugens Field once more the
other day in Chicago. The gathering year:
have dealt very generously with Gene, ant
he is growing to resemble me.
YES" he said, In that rich, deep, melod
ious voice OF his, voice that would wiz
the chick-a-dee dees down from the bushe.
Yves" he said. coloring up with boyisl
delight, several people have spoken Of it
You do not mind it. do your'
"Oh, no." said. Anything that give.
you pleasure pleases and delights me almos
to DEATH"