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The morning call., 1894-10-28
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the night before and new storm wa
Just gathering on the lower slopes of the
sierra near the placers both east and west
Through open canyons in the sierra misty
and fleecy clouds drifted in over the dark
green mountain sides below us in con-
tInually changing forms and cOlors. some
times dark, grayish blue, at other times
18th the intensest white lining from the
sinking sun beyond.
The sky in the sierra of the cape region
is the clearest and most brilliant l have
seen anywhere. The sky OF the Sierra
Nevada, Mount Hamilton and Wilson's
Peak in California is absolutely dim IN
comparison to the pure, waveless bril-
liancy seen here. AT night every star
seems as clear-cut diamond in a setting
| of dark blue enamel and with light of
marvellous steadiness. We could not but
repeatedly remark that here certainly
would be the very best location of perhaps
any in the world for very large teesc' pc,
! like that of our Lick Observatory, for In.
| stance. For niue months OF the year alb
| solutely no clouds conceal this sky. and at
no time of the year is there any dust and
smoke nor is there any dust on the SUI
rounding plains, and theIe are never any
| forest fires in the mountains TO stain and
| spoil the air, as is so very generally the
! case in all other countries, where long
| dry season is followed by short raipy
! one. There is certainly no necessity OF
esta ablishing astronomical stations In far
away countries, when we have so much
better localities at our very deors-eXcept,
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and especially young dog. He should be
brought TO the coursing field full of spirit
and vigor. capable of performing herculean
tasks, for most assuredly 10 dog can hope
to succeed on the Merced plains that is not
in almost perfect condition
1t follows, then, as was said In the COM
mencemenf, that to train Gog properly
fer such meeting as that of Merced Ia no
light or inexpensive undertaking. ana TO
fit, say pair of them, will certainly cost at
least $40 or $40.
OF c0urse. where there are, say five or
six dogs in kennel, the cost of each Will
be somewhat reduced. but from inquiry
among the principal leaShmen of the city
the figures above quoted wOIld seem about
an average.
There are now in this city, and indeed
in many places throughout the State, as
fine greyhounds and as purely bred as pos
sibly could be found in any portion of the
globe, equal, when pro perry trained, 10 rub
shoulders with the proudest that ever
were slipped at Allcar. Shrewsbury or
the Border Union in Britain or on the
Warribee plains in Australia, and indeed
there are some among us, and not a few,
either, who believe they have nothing IN
either of these countries that conld live
with some of California's cracks" when
in chase of Merced flyer.
With this article are given pici ures of
SIX OF the dogs owned in this city that are
expected to do grea: things on the 18TH
and 14th of next month. They are all.
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ancestors Raymond de SeZe. who. with
Malesherhes and Tronchet. defended
Louis XVI before the convention. BY
curious coin cidence, an ancestor OF Ma
dame de Mohrenhein was the Intimate
friend Of Marie Antoinette, and when the
martyr Queen tried to flee. she took the
name of her friend, Countess de Kortf,
and in a carriage with the arms of the
KOrff family she went to Varenne.
During the wars that preceded Sad0wa.
Baron de Mohrenheim was in Berlin, and
had an opportunity to study Bismarck. In
1866, he was sent to Copenhagen as Minis
ter Pienipotentiary, and there be nego-
tiated the marriage of Princess Dagmar
with the CZarowitZ who afterward be-
came Alexander III.
The Emperor and Empress of Russia
never forgot Baron de Mohrenheim's share
in their happiness. and have named him
frst whenever there has been an advance
ment or promotion in diplomacy. When
Mile. de MOhrenhelm, who was maid OF
honor to the Empress, became engaged to
Viscount de SeZe the CZarina sent brooch
composed of three enormous sapphireS
! surrounded by diamonds. The autograph
letter accompanying the gift read in this
way: For dear Marie. with heartfelt
wishes for her happiness. October, 1890.
Marie"
Before he was appointed ambassador to
| Paris, in April, 1884. Baron de Mohren-
holm spent year in London, but his real
| place is Paris. Here he has done much to
| increase the friendship between France
and Russia. Perhaps he loves France
mere because his fav0rite authors are
| Pascal. Bossuet, La Roche19ucaulo, Des-
| cartes. Montesouieu and La Bruyere.
| The Frsnch classics are evidently the
| bopd of sympathy between Baron de
| Mohrenheim and France.
BARONESS ALTHEA SALVADOR.
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of course. for observing the extreme
southern sky.
Housekeeping in San Jose del Cabo is
not entirely without vicissitudes. We had
a cook, which, If she is in any way fair
example (God forbid of The cooks of the
platform in dime museum as warning
to Intending travellers TO keep home and
not 10 attempt To 60 housekeeping In
Baja California. Her name was Josefa,
her hair was curly aud black, her nose fiat
and slightly turned upward, her skin that
of the color of an Havana cigar, but her
form was extremely natural, without any
toucbingS OF those modern Improvements
seen in all civilized countries, where rules
and regulations of dress are received
monthly from the capital of France. She
would have made splendid hnla- hula
dancer If born in Hawaii, or not inferior
danseuse de veltre if her early girlbood
had been among the orlen al SDlendors nr
sQualors of the far-away East. Her duty
with US was, of course, To cook, bat she
greatly preferred TO be standing for hours
at time In the same position against the
kitchen wall. posing with folied hands
and slightly inclined head as some of the
very ancient madonnaS OF the early Italian
school of painters. When there was
nothing in the house to cook she would
never say word, but simply make the
fire and keep IL up, boil water, when there
was any, sit down or stand and pose and
wait for something to turn up.
The one thing that generally turned up
was the writer, who wondering why din
ner was not coming on would rush out in
the kitchen to see what was the cause of
the delay.
whats the matter to-day. Josefa?" /
would say. why are we not called to din
ner?"
There are no potatoes, no meat, no
eggs, no onions and no corn," Josefa
meekly said.
''Well, why don't you sing out and tell
me in tine SO we might buy?"
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known both to the explorer and naturalist.
as well as to the vaquero and arrierO.
whose only interests lie in good pastures
and in water for the stock. In one of Ou:
mountaia trips we ascended the steep but
wooded canyons on the north side OF San
Lszaro, the needlelike cone seen from
everywhere on the eastern side, and be-
lieved by every one here to be the highest
mountain crest of the sierra of the cape
region. AS we struggled along over can
yons and gulches, across streams and
gorges, through forest and brush land,
higher and higher day after day, 1t soon
became evident that the central peaks
west of San LaZaTn were much higher and
not the less imposing, ragged and grand.
At the junction of Sierra FL Taste and
San LaZarO there is a prominent groop of
peaks, the lower region of which is known
as Sierra Baena, but of which the upper
part has not yet been explored. Our camp
was made on a large, beautiful meadow
known to our vaOuero, who guided US
there, as the Carerd, or TacecourSe, on ac-
count of is level surface and obloGg form.
Surrounded by oaks and palms, mixture
of northern and tropical vegetation. 1t was
indeed q very lovely spot, To the west
we could see Sierra FL Taste, TO the east
again loomed high above US a sharply de-
fined. steep, treeless and ragged cone,
much higher than any Of those surround
ing, and which, as it was not yet sig
mated by any name, we decided to name,
as the accerred right and usage of the first
explorers, "Sierra MoleTa." in honor of
Z. y. Molera of the Academy of Sciences
Of San Francis to whom this expedition
owes so much of its success.
In climbing this mountain. we had first
to scale lower backbone just above the
camp. Arrived there, we found ourselves,
to our great astonishment. to be on the
very divide of three sierras-Sierras Ell
Taste, San Lazaro and Baiena-with a
tremendous deep gorge at our very feet to
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AHEAD OF THE PARTY.
IFrom a photograph

s'Weil, did not know yous wanted to. !"
was once the reply.
This something was reported almost
exactly in the same way several times a
week, and there seemed TO be no possible
way out OF the difficulty. Josefa could
never be induced to buy anything herself.
as the custom here is entirely against
women going to he stores to buy, except
when three or four or more in crowd %
gether, and we fortunately could not az
ford TO have so many cooks at one time.
We had therefor to have special boy to
do the buying of the necessities for the
household. His name was Jesus.
This young gentleman, Senor Jesus,
would come iu and ask for 6 cents-a
"medio"-with which TO buy potatoes.
Then he would return in half an hour ana
ask for another medic" for getting sugar,
and SO on ad infnitum, between o'clock
in the morning to u o'clock noon. 1t was
impossible to get him to buy everything
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the south, beyond which stretched new
canyons. new mountain chains, in fact,
pan Drama of sublime beauty, wldness and
grandeur rarely seen elsewhere. To the
DoTth we saw one sierra beyond the other,
until in the misty far away we could dis
Germ the dim outlines OF Sierra I,agupa.
that high northern boundary of the cape
region. But to the south and at our very
feet was the most beautiful sight we ba9
seen on all our journeys here. To the left
rose the "Molera peak" TO a height of
over $500 feet. surrounded by CANYONS.
and valleys and streams of clearest water
separating other sierras to tue south and
to the west.
In gaps between the mountains we
could see the plains below those sur
rounding San Jose and Cabo San Lucas
and beyond. Then again glimpses of
sandy beaches, bordered By the blue
Pacific Ocean and the Golfo de Cortes or
Gulf of Baja California. II had rainep
The morning call., 1894-10-28

Santiago, ChDe heglon, DaJd CslltoIula,
Sept, 1894.
ln order to perfect a map which the
Academy of Sciences is preparing of the
cape region of Baja California it was
necessary for me to undertake Journey
from San Jose Gel Cab0 overland to La
PaZ on the northern extremity of the cape
region. took no baggage along except a
very small hand-valise, which could read
lily be tied behind on the saddle. But |
required the help of boy to bring the
horses back to San Jose and whose busi-
ness It was 10 look after the animals on
the Journey. The distance is about 45
leagues. or somewhat less than 155 miles, at
a rough guess, the land never having been
measured, in fact all being more or less
close guesses. But the road is mostly bad
rocky or sandy. and l required very strong
animals in order to get through in time.
II is decidedly cheaper 10 buy horses than
to rent them and the trouble is very much
less. You must get a horse from one man.
a saddle from another, bride from a
third one ard with the fourth one you re-
quire six hours discourse before he Will
let his son go as assistant.
$50 you want my mule for La PaZ"
''Yes, Don Gregorio. And how much do
you want for eight days?"
"WeI. l don't know. | never let one be-
fore. but will let ii 60 for S8."
'AIl right, / take it,"
Now. it would seem as if this would be
sufficient to settle the business, but far
from it, and after one hours further con-
versation upon the good qualities Of the
mule and upon the great necessity of start
ing at once l am interrupted by such a
question as:
$50 you are in great haste to catch the
steamer? Yes, l can well understand this.
1t would delav you month to miss it,"
"Bu', Don Gragorio, | am in a hurry. !
want the mule now-this very minute"
''Oh. see; you want it now. l under
stand you are in hurry. think, though.
you will hardly get through in time"
| After two hours talk rise up and tell
| him l must look for another mule. This
| has It's effect, and Don Gregorio calls to a
| and water the mule and bring her up. An
| hour later the saddle is pul on and we
| start off. Bur now comes the boy Ramon.
and says that his mother tails him he can.
not go, rs his pants are not washed.
succeed in persuadIng his mother that the
boy might borrow pair OF pants from his
| brother and after considerable discussion
/ this is agreed on. i will not take time tc
mention all other delays, necessary and
unnecessary. Almost everybody means
well. but ages of separation from thai
world of business where time is worth
money has caused all idea of haste and
| hurry to remain an entirely undeveloped
faculty, and one the possession of which
does not improve our happiness and fre
quent tly not even our purse.
But alter all delays are over we gel
| started on our road toward the north
along the eastern side Of the sierra and III
| the broad valley of San Jose del Cabo.
Before my departure l received a cal
from Don Vincente Morada, rich land
owner of the place. who. with great pro
fusion of words. asked if we would no
wish his 'bad" company on part of ou
j9urney. as he had 10 go the sama road a.
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IN THE SLIPS.
Preparations for the
Merced Meeting.
MANY FAVORITE HOUNDS.
Some of the Probable Winners
Fine Sport i'm Prospect on
the Plains.

The near approach of the great annual
coursing meeting at Merced has set every
ieashman in the State on his mettle, and
great is the excitement and hopes among
each and all OF them.
Any one riding out in the early dawn to-
ward Sutro Heights or Ocean View would
be astonished to see the number of dogs
that are being exercised on the various
routes daily. The number certainly can
not be less than thirty or thirty-hve. AS a
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L.
Although the mountain region, or sierra,
is close at hand and the top can be
reached in two days. very few of the in
habitants OF the villages of the valley have
ever been there. and that beautiful region
is, so 10 say, a veritabe terra incogDtta
TO them. And still with little trouble
they might reach the cool and salubrious
mountain air, where the temperature the
whole year round is nearly the same,
where the air is the purest i know of,
and where dust, fog, heat, mosquitoes and
other such miseries Of life are unknown.
The lofty peaks lying nearest the valley
or on the very border of the sierra are
more or less known and named. They
range in height from 1000 to 1000 feet. and
are prominent landmarks to the sailor
hundreds of miles out at sea.
The central peaks, again. not less inter
esting and picturesque, are entirely un-
The morning call., 1894-10-28

The earnings of the dog-catcEer OF Will
mingion, Del, for thu last fiscal year were
Sl57S so, which il near y 500 more than
the salary of the Mayor. The dog-cateher
works by the piece. while the Mayor is
paid by the year.
The morning call., 1894-10-28

One of the conditions of membership of
New York club is that each member
must give at least one hour week to do
ing some good action.
The morning call., 1894-10-28

Edelweiss is ratidly disappearing in
many parts of Tyr,l. To save it he
Landtag has lately imposed fine for SELL
ingtthe plant with the roots.
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to. The question still remains-how long
would she have been waiting there?
Santiago, Cape Region, Baja California,
Sept, 1894.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-06-13
SOLDIERS BUDGET.
The Right Spirit.

Memorial Day should be TO us Grand
Army men, and to all Union soldiers,
most sacred. 1t is in memory of men who
went out with us to defend the most
sacred liberties that God ever committed
to mortal man. They courageously en-
dured hardships and privations in almost
every conceivable form, and offered life
itself, and hundreds of thousands of
them surrendered life, for our holy cause.
The day we commemorate is therefore
a memorial for our dead, and first of all
should be sacred day. Then it should
be day on which the living should be
educated to appreciate the liberties
which they enjoy, and especially should
youth be stimulated to appreciate this
glorious fabric we call Our Country.
1t should be day of solemn joy and
holy aspiration, when most fervently
of all should be offered the prayer of
the great Nazarene, Peace on earth,
goodwill toward men," 1t is therefore
day lily adapted to worldly amuse-
ments. Games of baseball, horse-racing,
and the like, are entirely foreign to the
thought and spirit that should charac-
terize the day. The old boys of '61-'65,
WIN JCJ duSWOl W JiiO lOii-CdlI vi OdlJ
should take an active part, and yet the
duties of this sacred day should grad
ually be transferred to the rising gen.
Grafton, especially to the Sons of Veter-
ans and the Ladies' Aid Society, thus
preparing them to take fully in charge
the sacred principles soon to be wholly
committed to them. Would it not be
well for National and Department
chaplains, and chaplains of Posts, and
for ministers, whether ex-soldiers or
not, and all who love their country, to
discuss this subject and think upon it
more carefully than heretofore? Let
us henceforth proceed to the commence
ration with thoughtful and grateful
spirit.
" There only few years left to love;
Shall we waste them in idle strife?
Shall we trample under our ruthless feet
Those beautiful blossoms, rare and sweet,
By the dusky way of life?"
No; but
"Our fathers God, to Thee,
Author of liberty,
10 Thee sing;
Long may land be bright
With Freedoms holy light;
Protect us by thy might,
Great God our King!"
Cor. National Tribune.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-06-13
Mexican Mud Pies,

We have all, as children, made
mud pies, blt the children at not
spring at Gaudaloupa, Mexico, cook
them, eat them and, besides that,
make pocket money by selling them
to tourists as souvenirs. A peculiar
yellow clay is found there, and the
natives say that the mud pies made
of it by the children are not i'll fla
vored. They speak from the recol-
lections of childhood, though, think,
as | never saw an adult eat them.
There is an interesting legend con-
nected with the spring. 1t is said to
have been of miraculous origin. An
aged pilgrim, footsore, weary and
hungry, lay down to rest where the
spring now is. He had not morsel
to eat for three days, and there was
no village, or house even, for many
miles.
A rabbit had been caught in a
thicket, even as the goat was that
staid Abraham's hand. There was
no means of preparing it for food,
however. The pilgrim had the faith
that moves mountains. Planting his
foot in the yielding soil, he stood up
and prayed for succor. A spring
gushed out, as the water did from
the rock when Moses smote it with
his rod, only this spring was of hot
water The pilgrim slew and cooked
the rabbit He bathed his weary
limbs in the water which he caught
in a gourd and then allowed to cool,
and then found that the waters had
healing properties for the bleeding
wounds on his feet, sustained i'll his
pilgrimage, were made well. The
pilgrim afterward became a noted
saint, adored to this day in the Mexi-
can calendar, and the hot spring has
never ceased to flow.-Cincinnati En-
01tirer
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-06-13
CURRENT LITERATURE.
The June Magazines.

THE June number of Tales from
7'O,Cn Topics contains complete novel
called can Unspeakable Siren" 1t be-
ing story of modern society in New
York. The heroine is highly original
character, and the treatment of the
subject is clever throughout. A bright
collection of short stories, sketches,
poems and witticisms taken from To,on
Topics accompanies the story, the whole
volume making tempting summer
book. Town Topics Publishing Com
pany, 208 Fifth avenue, New York city.
ALL students of the New Psychology,
and, indeed, all thoughtful persons in
terested in occultism in its various
forms, will be interested in the article
on "The Sixth Sense, and How to De-
velop It," by Paul Tyner, which is
feature of the Arena. This number of
the Arena opens its tenth volume, and
is an especially notable issue. 1t con-
tains over 10 pages. Walter Black
burn Harte's brilliant, but somewhat
satirical, paper on " The Back Bay" of
Boston has nine photographers, illus
trating the wealthy resident center of
Boston. A fine portrait of Victor Hugo
lOlluo UllC llouVloplOOo VI bblo huIbDOl'
THE Revie,D Of Revie,os shows the
usual hexibility of that keenly-edited
periodical in adapting itself to the top
les of the month. In its department of
Leading Articles it groups together a
very remarkable series of digests of i'm
portant recent essays on various topics
pertaining to the political and social
status of woman. Moreover, its al
ways varied and curious collection of
caricatures illustrating the history of
the month is enlivened by number of
cartoons from New Zealand and Aus
tralia, some intended to eulogize and
others to satirize the Acknowledgement
of women in the New Zealand colony
and the unsuccessful woman suffrage
campaign in New South Wales. These
articles and caricatures are submitted
by the Revie,O Of Rerie,cs dpropos of the
great pending discussion in the state of
New York.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-06-13
The Image Peddler.

You know these Italian peddle boys
who go about with a tray load of plas-
ter images on their heads? They are big
ger robbers than the trusts. They make
up lot of the images in the dark, and
next morning they name them.
One of the peddlers went into gro
Gerry on Van Buren, street on storm
quiet day and begged with the custom
airy pitiful eyes and guileful heart for a
buyer. He was so persistent, he assured
his hearers so emphatically that all the
images were imported, he moaned so
perfectly over their ruinously low prices,
that the young woman who has charge
of the pickle department asked him what
he would take for bust of Shakespeare.
He said, 1.-TWO dollar.
"Who's this?' asked the fair patron.
Bacon" said the boy.
GLOW much for him?"
'"Three dollar.
"I'll give you 20 cents for the two, !"
said the girl.
"All right, said the boy calmly, and
quickly setting the twain upon the
counter.
But she was game. She bought them,
solemnly declaring with beautiful hero.
ism they were perfect licensees, wrap
ped them tenderly in tissue paper and
started home with them in the evening.
But the butcher boy from the Dear
born street side of the store said next
morning he had followed her part way
home, and he vowed he saw her smash
them against fire plug at Third avenue
and skip along without once glancing
at the pieces. Francisco Post.
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-06-13
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