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The morning call., 1893-03-05

in concert, and those on the inside Of tn
pack again came toward him and his tim
growled fiercely and snapped their teeth
FIRST the ola leader came up and gently in
serted his teeth into Pages shoulder-not
enough to break any bones, but SO that the
blood flowed freely.
Then the others came up and did the same
thing. and soon his body was q bleeding
mass from a hundred wounds. Sill they
came and bit him, until il seemed as if he
must bleed 10 death. The pain was fright
ful, and his blows on the beasts had be come
so weak that they no longer felt them.
Now the wolves kept up constant howl
and danced indiscriminalely and wildly
Ike derylShes. The scene was like pande-
mOnium. and the howls and snarling of the
, creatures were deafening. Still they bit
and snapped It the unfortunate man and
then came back 10 the dancing.
Round and round they went, snarling and
swapping and jumping over one another in
a sort OF wild freuZy. Faster and faster
they went until ii seemed q if they must be
exhausted, but they seemed tireleSs aud
gradually gained speed until they fairly
flew over the ground and were running over
Page as if he never existed
DE still realized his position although suf-
feTlng agony and seeing nothing before him
but death. Suddenly he heard the reports
OF several rifles and rev0lyers and became
| unconscious.
When Page came to himself he was in the
cabin and his friends around him. He was
all wrapped up in bandages so that he
could scarcely move. He was one bundle
OF aches and pains, but was glad he was
not in the middle of pack of wolves
When he got well enough after several
days his friends told him how they had
rescued him They had been alarmed as
soon as it grew dark and he did not come
home. One of tho men went to the door
several times to listen in the hopes of hear
ing his footsteps. The last time he heard
the howis of the wolves and called the
others. All took as many weapons as pos
sible and went toward the sound, feeling
sure Page was being devonred. They saw
the pack and charged into them, firing their
weapons as they went.
The cOwardly creatures vanished in a
moment and their victim lay In plain sight
on the snow. They carried him home with
very little hope that he would ever speak
again. But he came tn all right and is now
almost well. de will soon be able TO 90
hunting again, but if he can help it Will
never attend another wolf dance.
The morning call., 1893-03-05
STRANGE PETS.

l have used the words strange pets"
advisedly. / had intended 10 write "ugly"
pets. but remembered just in time that
ideas Of beauty and ugliness differ consid.
erably.
Some people admire turn-up nose and
call it by the euphemism retrousse. Some
like an aGuiiine nose, and then pronounce
such probosces noble, aristocratic and
Roman, while those who differ refer dis
dainfully to parrot-beaks. There are differ
ent standards, and l have known admra-
ton lavished on a wall-eyed, slobber-
mouthed, bloodthirsty bulldog OF the Bill
Sykes type which would be very tardily
conceded to the Venus of California.
l suppose that no one will deny that the
'horued toad" Of Southern California is
among the debatable subjects as to beauty
or ugliness. Most people will say that the
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Distress at a Lighthouse.

When the Government relief boat paid Its
semi-monthly visit to the lighthouse OF
ROches D0uvres, on the Breton coast, some
three weeks ago, the officers found one of
the two lightkeepers in half-starved and
almost wholly insane condition, and in one
of the two rooms In The lighthouse the dead
and decomposed body II the other keeper.
1t was learned that almost fortnight be-
fore the assistant keeper had fallen down the
stairs and was instantly killed. The sur
viyor made signals of Distress but not ves-
sci came near the lighthouse. and for two
weeks subsequently he had to keep by him
the body Of his dead companion, for lie
feared that If he threw it into the sea he
might be accused of murder. He scarce ate
or slept while waiting for the relief-boat
and vainly making signals for help. He
kept the light burning at night, but his ter
rible experience almost Killed him.
The morning call., 1893-03-05
A Clever Bit of Criticism.

We have in "Adzuma, or the Japanese
Wife," a four-aet play by Sir Edwin Ar
mold. 1t is flowing. mystic and wordy, in
Sir Edwin's own style. 1t is swift and
nimbe as a tai. and thirty sEaku long. 1t
flashes like a new katana, as anybody
hold of the mune or the hira, we are not
sure which. 1t is gratifying always when,
the shoji being pushed back, we may behold
Sir Edwin at intellectual play. Chiya mo
kawaranu fufu zo-he is q koro, like
wise the light shooting through
the mado. he is great; he sounds
like silver bu; he brings down the yashiki.
We tip the sakazuka to him. There are
great many Japanese words and phrases In
his play; we suspect good many readers
would give peck of rye to know what the
italics are all about. But sa. sal What
are you?
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odd customs at MarbIehead.


Despite the building of factories aud the
invasion OF summer visitors the genuine
Marbleheader retains markedly the charac-
teristics and old customs that have
descended to him from the early settlers of
this quaint old fishing town. The notes
OF bugie called US from the breakfast
table 10 the open front door and windows
one morning" said a lady who visited for
several weeks last summer at a private
house in Marblehead. walking down
the middle Of the rocky street came fisher
man in Oilskin clothing. In his right hand
was the bugle. and over his left shoulder
was slung huge Goldfish, the tsil of which
almost dragged on the ground. Look
ing neither to the right or left, he
strobe toward the town house, built
in 1927. All teams that he met made
way for him, and the itOwnspeople ranged
themselves on either side of the road So
earnest were their faces and so rIveted their
eyes upon the fisherman and his prize. that
the occasion seemed almost solemn. There
were whispered comments on the catch, and
even the small boy calculated 10 nicely
the weight Of the fish, which proved to be As
pounds"
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Causes of GRAY Hair.

New OK LommerciaI Advertlser.
Gray hair is so common now that one
wonders what 1t comes from. Young men
have it in profusion, and young women are
very proud when they have a coffure in
which gray has prominent part. | at.rib-
ute tine prevalence of gray hair TO frequent
cutting and soap. The doctors speak of in
herent tendencies and old women gable Of
early piety. butsoap and the barber d more
tow ard taking color and strength out of hair
than anything else does. The singeing
of hair is done TO prevent the oils exudn ng
from the ends of clipped hairs. and smuggling
it is in this regard better than cutting. But
ammon la-loaded soaps are the worst actors.
Many persons use ammonia when washing
their head and il enters into ali shampoo
mixtures. II is also an ingredient of most
soaps. II dries up the scalp and robs the
hair of all its moisture. That Is where
most of the gray air of to-day comes from.
The morning call., 1893-03-05
ChIadni's Lines.
New YORK Times.


The curves formed by fernseed or some
other very light substance on plate uf
glass when the bow of a violin is drawn
across the edge of the plate are called
Chladnfs lines, and are generally found in
textbooks Uf physics. Professor Sedley
Taylor invented a "Dhoneidoscope," in
which a film Of soapsuds is set vibrating
by the human voice. Now Mrs. Watts
Hughes has published "Voice Figures"
which she has produced on elastic
membranes by an instrument she
calls an ''edOphone." The vocal SOUNDS
are uttered through tube and the
area Of the membrane stretched across
the mouth OF receiver is affected in certain
lines, ''VOiee figures" being the result
when various substances are strewed over
the membrane. Curves and complicated
figures of great beauty are produced in this
way. BY covering the membrane with a
liquid, into which e0Iors are infused, the
voice throws the liquid into col0red curves
Of differing shape and intensity, according
TO the volume OF the voice and the quantity
of pigment introduced. Mrs. Hughes gives
great number Of figures produced in diff
fHrant
The morning call., 1893-03-05
The Fountain Head OF strength.

When we recolleet that the stomach is the grand
laboratory ia which food is transformed into tue
secretions which furnish yigor the system after
entering and enriehing tie blood; that it is. In
short, the Suntsin head strength It is essentai
to keep this Important supplying machine In order
and to restore it TO activity when 1t becomes inae
tive. This Hostetter's Stomach Bltters does most
efeetually, seasonaby regulating snd reinforcing
digestion, promoting due action OF the liver and
bowels. Strength and quietude OF the nerves de-
pend in great measure upon thorough digestion
There is no neryine tonic more highly esteemed by
the medical fra ternity than BtterS, Physicitns
also strongly commend 1t for chllls and fever
rheumatism. kidney and bladder trouble sick
headache. and want of appel te and sleep. Take a
wineglassful three times q day. 10
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Clerical Stories.

Dean Hole tells of Sunday-school boy
who answered the question: "What proof
have we of St Peters repentance?" with
"Pease, sir, he crowed three times" His
sister while teaching in the Sunday-sehooi
asked her class what was meant by the law
and the prophets. A bright little girl i'm
mediately responded: 'lf you please,
ma'am, 1t is when you sell anybody
up" AT a certain service the rec
tor. seeing there was only one
aims dish provided, asked a rustic to
bring dish from the dining-room table of
the rectory and pass ii up and down both
sides of the north aisle. When the COM
mand was carried out the rustic whispered
in the rectors ear: I've done as yer tcld
me, sir I've taken 1t down yer side of the
aisle and up tother, but they'll none o.
them have any," Judge of the worthy
rector's amaZement when he discovered that
the dish was full of biscuitsl
The morning call., 1893-03-05
A HOST OF SNAKES.
Unhealthy Greer County, Tex, Where
Lived and Died Strange Hermit.

Llfed anu Ditu Strange IISTIiliLs
New York sun.
In 1888 Greer County, Tex, was as much
unknown as was Darkest Africa" before
the explorations Of Livingstone and Stanley.
That there was beautiful stretch Of coun-
try belonging either to Texas or the Indian
Territory the army officers OF that wild land
knew, but no one except bandits and Indians
ever lived there. The soil is exceedingly pro-
life, and so is the semi-trop pcalsheat. While
the first produces large crops Of corn and cot
ton, the latter fills the air with poisonous
gases and the grass with venomous reptiles,
snakes, death-dealing tarantulas, great cen
tipeGes and other unpleasant instruments OF
torture and death. Few people ever heard
of Greer County until an adVenturer named
"Buckskin Joe" great blatherskite with
long hair and exaggerated SwaggeT, began
travelling about lecturing on the climate and
eXpatiating on the grand chance poor man
would have for obtaining a homestead. An
excursion coming up from Texas ami an
other down from Kansas started the settle
ment ball to rolling, and soon several towns
spranG into existence, the Inhabitants Of
which were kept busy doctorlng aguP, sun
strokes, lodging snakes, avoiding contact
with centipedes and tarantulas, and cnrslng
the men who had induced lhem to move
into such place.
The settlers. then and now, sleep with
either hair rope stretched around them or
lariat circles to prevent reptiles or insects
from reaching them. When the first set
tiers occupied Greer they found that besides
its wild animals and reptiles the region
already had had a human inhabitant. a
kingly looking individual, with massive
head covered with long yellowish hair
beard that reached to his waist, and he
always dressed in wofskin and buekskin.
NeTer was this strange hermit seen without
a snake, either with its head out of his flap
pocket or cOled about his arm or neck.
The few VINO talked with him discovered
that he was highly accomplished, and from
his accent English.
One day in 1880 this peculiar man was
found dead in a cave he called home. He
had died Of snake bite, and by his side lay
two huge rattlers. also dead. The most in
teresting fact IN their death lay in the GER
tainty that the snakes had come to their
death In fight between themselves. L is
matter for speculation as to whether the
hermit had been bitten by his pet, or
whether a strange reptile bad crawled into
the cave, struck the man, and was then
killed by the pet snake out of revenge
Most of the settlers thought the latter idea
the correct one. Who the dead man was no
one ever discovered. On his breast, under
the covering OF wolf hide, was found a
faded daguerreOtype of handsome woman.
Did she cause his exile and death out In the. j..
wilds Of the great West? Who knows?
The morning call., 1893-03-05

concentrated in the flying train of cars
coming from the metropolis to the Queen
CITY OF vineyards and viticulture, Fresno;
to the solemn hills lighted with twinkling
stars, from where you look out at night and
forty miles away see the city's electric lights,
telling of cheerful homes.
Tales that belong to every season of the
year-the gayety Of spring, the pine -balsam,
fragrance of summer. the snow of winter
and the haze of autumn when the mountain
foliage is illumin ated with gorgeous tints,
and you number the various ranges of hills
that rise up like steps from the plains by
their colOrs, and as they have been counted
oft no doubt by those infatuated French
fortune-seekers.
Dotted all over California in the mining
regions are deserted camps-moss covered
sheds, crumbliug houses with shattered
panes of glass, and each has its own story
but nowhere else in the wide world can be
found an entire village modelled on such
elaborate, expensive plans and deserted by
foreign people, outside OF Quartz Noun
tain In the foothills of Fresno County.
LOUISE A. LITTLEToN.
Zebra, Fresno County, March l.
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A SCHOOLROOM IDYL.

How plainly l remember all
The desks. deep-Scored and blackened,
The row OF black boards round the wall,
The hum that never sIackened.
And, framed about by map aud chart,
Aud casts Of dusty plaster.
TEat wisest head aud warmest heart,
he kindly old schooImaster
! see the sunny corner nook
His blue-eyed daughter sat in.
A rosy, fair. haired girl. who took
W It'll US her French aud Latin
How iongingiy l watched the hours
For OuendoTf aud tTslri
And how | fought with Tony Powers
The day he tried TO tease her!
And when. one day, 1t took the "NextV
To stay some Gailtc slaughter,
Because I quite forgot the text
In smiling at his daughter.
And she and were kept TIL four
To study. after closing"
We StoORed the clock an hour or more
lille he, poor man, was doziHgI
And there he sits. with bended head,
Ger some old volume purng
(Or so he thinks; II trnth be said
Hos fast asleep and suOring).
And where the shaded lampllght plays
Across the cradles rocking.
My schoolmate OF the oldeu days
Sits, mending uaby's stocking.
c. Il. GONG IN March Ladies' Home Journal
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Indiarubber Roads.

New ideas in paving have lately attracted
attention. Among these is the paving of a
bridge by German engineer with india
rubber, the result having been so satisfae-
tory as TO induce its application on larger
scale, poiut in its favor being that it is
much more durable than asphalt and not
slippery. In London a section of roadway
under the gate leading to the departure
platform of the St, Pancras terminus has
for some time past been paved
with this material. with the effect of
deadening the sound made when being
pas sed over on wheels, besides the COM
Portable elasticity afforded to foot passeng-
ers. Another material which is being salts
factorily introduced for this purpose is
composed OF grsnulated cork and bitumen
pressed into blocks and which are laid
like bricks or wood paving. the special ad-
vantage secured in this case being that OF
elasticity.
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IS DESERTED NOW.
Twas Once a Flourishing
Settlement.
STORY OF QUARTZ MOUNTAIN.
How a Colony From the South of
France Sought to Gain Fortune and
a Home in California.
Written for THE MoRNIS4 CALL.

1t is in comparatively recent times that
the marvellous resources of Fresno County
as an agricultural and horticultural district
nave been discovered; it has ever been
noted for its wealth of precious metals
gold, silver and iron. The entire foothill
region has been placered; first by whites,
who comforted themselves with many a rich
blanket, then by Chinese and Indians, who
are more easily satisfied with making a
days wages. Along the creeks and ra-
vines piles upon piles of pebbly rocks. shal.
low excavation after shallow excavation,
proclaim the industry OF miners Of all ma
tionaities.
Upon the reported strike of rich lead.
something more than blanket mine. inuu-
merable parties of large means have ill.,
volved themselves hopelessiy; penniless
prospectors have by chance become en-
riched. Occasionally fine body of ore has
been unearthed which has given steady en-
ployment to hundreds of men for two or
three years and filed the Golfers of their
employers,
Notably of this class was the Abbey mine,
thirty miles north of Fresno. which lived
for two years. when it died from natural
exhaustion, and the Hildreth mine, which
gave its name to the camp adjoining and
surrounding the Abbey, and which for a
year or two numbered 800 inhabitants, who
patrOniZed two stores and eight saloons,
and kept The hills lively with fights and
carousals. The Hildreth mine has neither
been exhausted nor fully developed, though
a one time it was found eXpedient to sack
the ore as soon as hOisted, to keep the
miners from appropriating any of it, as
f. W bits would more than pay a days
wages. and several quartz specimens were
disemboweled worth from $1,000 to $500.
The owner, William Dunphy of San
Francisco Gately deceased. closed the works
because he could not give them personal at
tention.
Between Fine Gold Creek (Which washes
the corpse of Hildreth camp)-which is al
most dry in summer and frequently n roar
ing river in winter, spewing itself into the
San JOaquin-and Coarse Gold Greek, al
The morning call., 1893-03-05
Old Coins Minted in America.
Boston Budget.

The ''ninthOuse" in Boston existed about
thlrtyfour years. All the coins issued from
1t bore the dates 1862 or 1862, the same dies
being used, probably. throughout the thirty
four years coinage. Some coins had(been
made in Bermuda for the use of the Virginia
colony as early as 1914. Copper coins bear
Ing the figure Of an elephant were struck
in England for the Carolinas ana New En-
gland In 1854. Coins were also struck for
Maryland bearing the tffigy of Lord Balti-
more. mint was established in Rupert,
W., by legislative authority. in 1885, whence
copper cents were Issued, bearing on one
side plow and n sun rising from behind
nils, and on the other radiated eye sur
rounded by thirteen stars.
The morning call., 1893-03-05
The French in New York.

The French colony Of New York, al
though one of the oldest foreign elements in
the city, Is as little understood as any other.
The application of the adjective French"
to certain annual orgies has given the gen
eral public a false notion of the French
colony as a whole. The French people of
New York are for the most part hard
working folk OF moderate means Many
of them ply with delicate skill small handi-
crafts, such as still withstand the modern
tendency toward concentration Of capital
and division of labor. The French resi-
dents are extremely conservative in all
things, little concerned in public affairs,
aad devoted to home life. The most orderly
visitors to public places kept by French
men are the French themselves, and the
colony is best seen at the pretty and we'll
ordered fetes of July IA.
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get into car they will flock about the
doors. like a company of hens in wet
weather. rather than walk ten steps to find
q seat. In an open car they will squeeze
into a seat that is full already, though the
one Just behind it may be nearly empty. At
church or lecture they want TO be where
the crowd is thickest. But they are hap
piest in dry-goods shop on bargain day,
when they have spent 10 cents in car fares
to take advantage of a two-eeDt mark
down, for then they are squeezed and
hustled to their hearts content. Queer
creatures But we all love them"
The morning call., 1893-03-05
No Scarcity of Men.
New York Sun.

The guns in use on the ships of our mod
erD navy have plate of steel armor fastened
over them aud bent slightly back, so
that missile striking it would be
DETECTED upward. visitor to one
Of the ships said ne supposed that
this was serviceable protection TO
the men who were working the guns. 'Lor'
bless yerP replied the old salt who was
explaining the mechanism of the big rife.
"'tain't TO protect the men. It's to Keep the
works from gettin' knocked out OF order,
There's men enough"
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A Valuable Sfan1n.
New YORK Sun.

DR.. j. r. CARRIER of Selma, Ala, recently
found ana has sold to stamp-colector Tor
500 postage-stamp that was issued under
an order of the Postmaster-G General of the
Confederate States, giving each office
authority to issue stamps bearing any
device that the Postmaster chose. Mr.
). w. Murley was Postmaster at Livingston
in 1861, and sent On to Richmond and lad n
stone autographed with which to print the
stamps. The device on the stamp was a
Confederate shield. over which was the tg-
ure 3. The stamp was square, and printed
on white paper with blue ink. On the left
hand side of the stamp WAS Livingston"
on the right "Postoffice," at the bottom
t'paid"
The morning call., 1893-03-05
Cows with Blue Snectac,es.

A remarkable story comes nll the way
from Morayia to the effect that all the cows
the rsil-fence corners chewing their cuds
with great blue spectaclcs fastened before
their eyes" 1t seems that the ground in
that country has been covered with snow
since the latter part of October. Nearly
every day has been clear and cold. the re-
Election of the sunlight from the snow
being very disastrous to the eyes of
both man aud beast. Thousand
The morning call., 1893-03-05
A Sensitive instrument

The kryptnphone, invented by r. Henry
In 1883. is said to have been so perfected re-
Gently as to promise practical results. In
this instrument very sensitive receiving
diaphragm is so disposed that it will respond
to and transmit air Vibrations produced by
any noise TO distant telephone-an alarm
bell being provided at the receiving station
10 attract the attention of the attendant.
The sensitiveness of the apparatus is said
to be such that with the receiving diaphragm
Immersed in body Of water the pulsations
of a steamboat, from two to three miles dis
tant, are readily diseernible. Buried In
roadway the diaphragm is claimed TO give
warning of the approach of vehicles and
foot passengers at a considera Bile distance.
The morning call., 1893-03-05
Let's Keep the One With Blue Eyes.


A little Harlem boy who has an old maid
aunt who is very fond of cats has been in
the habit of officiating as eXecutiOner when
ever the kittens multiplied around at his
auntie's 10 degree that even that venera bic
feminine cat fancier could not support.
As natural result he became very expert
at putting kittens in a bag, together with a
big paving stone, and consigning the whole
lot TO the tender mercies of the harlem
River
As it happened, only the other day the
little Harlem boys mother presented her
husband with a couple of daughters in the
shape OF splendid pair of twins.
AS great favor Johnny was allowed to
go into the room to see his newly arrived
sisters.
He gszed upon them with langud inter-
est for few moments, and then looking up
at his father said, suddenly:
SAY, pop, let's keep the one with blue
eyes"
1t was kent
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A Great Idea.
New York Press.

''Do you think you could lend SIS to-day.
Jaek?"
"Well, yes, can. But you will have to
wait here till 60 out and get it,"
Certainly"
Jack returns two hours later and says:
Here's the So
Look here. jack" says the borrower.
'you have got to give me six"
"Why?"
'Why? Darn it, I've got TO charge you
for loss OF time waiting for you, and that's
cheap at ST."