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Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1897-04-03
A Thrilling Ride.

"What was the most exciting ex-
perience ever had?" repeated Clar.
ence Hight, as he jerked his chair
little nearer the comfortable grate at
the Olympic Gun Club. 81 think it
occurred last summer, when l was
hunting doves up in Sonoma County.
Now, shooting doves is not particular.
ly exciting or nervous, but this was
one OF the hottest experiences 1 ever
had.
81 had been travelling all day with
n big bag, and was pretty we'll tired
out when l struck the county road and
started tor home. 1t was good four
miles walk, and 1 was pretty we'll
pleased to see big wagon load of hay
approaching. The rancher gave me
permission to ride, so scrambled up
on tbs top, lay down on the sweet
new.mown hay and went swaying and
swinging down the road. 1 was ust
DOING off when bang went my shot
gun. I had forgotten to take the
cartridges out OF it, and something had
pressed the trigger. The horses gave
Jump and the driver rolled off into
the ditch. Then I discovered that my
gun had set fire to the hay, and l
thought it was about time for me to
escape. The horses were tearing along
the road as hard as they could run,
but clambered for the side OF the load
and slid for the road. The tail Of my
stout hunting coat caught on the top
of sharp standard, and there l hung
to the careening wagon that threatened
to upset and dump load of burning
hay on me at every turn OF the road.
"The fire was cracking and burning
fiercely, and already could feel the
flames. Still the horses ran and still
my coat held me fast to that seething
mass of flames. My trousers began
getting hot and then found my coat
was on fire. The next moment the
loose cartridges in my coat began ex-
ploding from the heat, and then I
smelled my doves broiling.
II had just made up my mind that
all was over when the tail OF my coat
burned of, and was thrown into a
ditch full of water beside the road.
did not stop to see what become of the
hay and the horses, nor OF the rancher,
but cut straight across that field for
home. That, gentlemen, was the most
thrilling experience of my life. "-San
Francisco Post.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1897-04-03

Boston seems 20 have forgotten for
the moment the Bacclante, and is now
trying to find suitable name for the
female chilnpanzee. which is the lates:
addition at the Boston Zoo.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1897-04-03
MAGGIE'S BRACELET.

OU'RE tho most
punctual girl alive,
Maggie; and how
sweet you look ~
Lady Carew sur
veyed her cousins
figure approvingly, as
Mrs. Fawcett's maid
put the last touches
to her toilet.
Sgno rou rool1v lilo
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1897-04-03

The French Societe Astronomique
was founded ten years ago, and nov
has q membership OF over 1900,
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1897-04-03

Some good people who set up soup
kitchens in New York were entertained
from tue window by seeing able bodied
men in the streets my down their tools
and come in for "feed." It's the
old story.
KNICKERBOCKER
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1897-04-03

Says Police Commissioner Grant:
"There are only three ways to get me
out of office--by death, by Legislation
or by giving me something better. !"
That's q rather remarkable declaration
from a son of his father. Mayor Strong
might appropriately quote the memo
rable language of General Grant to II
confederate commander who had re-
fused to surrender: II propose to
move upon your works Mt once"
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1897-04-03

Permission to change their motive
power to the underground trolley has
been granted by the New York state
railroad commissioners to several
street railway companies in New
York city-the Metropolitan traction
company on its lines in Fourth, Madi.
son, Sixth aud Eighth avenues and
several others. Tho work will begin
at once, and presently the horsecar,
which hns long given New York streets
so rustic an air, will be thing of the
past.
The old wraugle between the chief
seaboard cities over the export
grain traffic has been resumed. New
York thinks it is not getting its share,
and the produce exchange has brought
on n hearing before the interstate
commerce commission, respecting tho
ditferentials established in grain rates,
over the several trunk lines by the joint
tariff association. Boston has been gain
ing at New York's expense. and n whole
force of railroad lawyers and COM
mercal representatives have gone on
from that city to see that nothing lie
done to help New York at Bosto ms
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1897-04-03
How a Cowboy Won a Bride.

hO" ~ SO"'Oy "Ou - AAANC'
Very romantic were the incidents
leading up to the marrige IN South
Dako'a the other day of Myrtle Nor.
rison, the noted "bronco buster" and
Frank Dupree. mixed blood Sioux
Indian.
The bride besides being pretty is
famous as breaker and trainer of
broncos, being known as the girl cow
boy. Though she had many admirers,
she stoutly insisted that che would
never marry man who could not
shoot, ride and throw a lariat better
than she.
Dupree is O splendid horseman.
courageous ard a member Of very
wealthy kalf-breed family. In addi-
tion he is we'll educated. Riding to-
gether one day, Myrtle and Frank
came In sight of nerd of sixty or sew
enty buffalo. In spirit of bravado
Frank urge his bronco alongside huge
buffalo bull and sprang from his sad
die upon the animals back. Instantly
the herd was stampedinR madly across
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1897-04-03

Eric Fawcett did not return to the
Delawares, and couple of days later
the diamond and emerald bangle had
a companion. which was clssped on
Magg,e's arm by her husband himself.
London World.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1897-04-03

certainly dance. n Great many timna
with this Mr.. Dobson -Dodson-she
was not at all sure of his name, and
she really did not care Mt all who was
her partner. The Darshire Hunt Ball
was not amusing, she thought, and it
was little embarrassing that SO many
people noticed aad admired her ban.
gle; she touched it doubtfully, twist.
ing it on her arm so that the diamonds
flushed in her eyes. 1t was very
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1897-03-25

it became apparent that they had
struck Cita's trail.
1t was far into the night, however
and the men had ridden a long iour.
ney before they heard family in the
distance a pony's whinny. Guiding
themselves thereby and putting spurs
t. their own jaded nags, they came at
length upon Cita. Stopped short at
the big drift of sand, piled high like
Il dyke and left at last by the spent
wind, the brave little mare was reared
up OF her hind legs, digging away with
front feet and muzzle into the embank-
ment. Taking their cue from her the
men set to work with might and main
and in less than an hours time came
upon "Kaintuck' and the horse he
had been riding, both buried in the
drift. BY II of those singular inter-
ventions of Providence the horse had
fallen across "Kaintuck's" body in
such a way as to protect him from the
drift of the sand and while the pony
IA dead Of suffocation the old man
showed faint signs of life and soon re-
vived on being relieved. Cita's joy at
her masters restoration knew no
bounds and the great, rough old fellow
put his arms about his little mares
neck and wept.
1t is pretty good sort OF "horse
sense isn't 1t, that knows how to save
a mans life against such odds?
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1897-03-25

him unrecognizable to those who Or
dinarily knew him, and acceptable to
those with whom he had to deal.
His identity was thus concealed with
out my loss of personal dignity, such as
is usually involved in a disguise. and
yet could be resumed without difficulty
and almost at a moments notice. He
gave a final glance at the general eff
feet, completed it by the addition of a
low-peaked cap of we~ather-beaten ap-
pearance, and turned from the glass
well satisfied. He took with him a
small sum of money and no arms; what
difficulties he might meet ne hardly
knew yet, but at any rate they would
not be of a kind to yield 70 force.
The closed carriage in which ne left
the house set him down at the entrance
of the narrow streets beyond the houses
of parliament, and Immediately disap-
peared in the direction in which il had
come. lie quickly made his way TO the
river SIDE and hailed a waterman to
take him over TO the other bank. When
the boat was rather more than half
way across, however, he appeared to
change his mind, and asked whether he
could be taken as far as the Tower.
The waterman assented readily, gave
a single stroke with the left hand, and
in a moment the current was sweeping
them rapidly down toward the bridge.
1t was a bright, keen morning, and
the boatman was in a cheerful mood
and inclined to be laxative, as is the
custom in his trade; but he got little
response or attention from his fare, who
was bordering his next move, and had
not yet come to the stage when conver-
sation would be of use to him.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1897-03-25
Tho Famine In India,

The appalling extent of the fam
Inc in India is indicated by
the statement that the districts
aifected by the scarcity include
about two-thirds of the country, and
those suffering actual famine include
outone-fourthof the whole. The fam
inc districts contain more than eigh-
ty million people. The has
instituted public works to give en-
pioyment to the needy, and at last
accounts the number was about two
million, and vas increasing rapidly.
AT the shortest. the famine must con-
tinue four or five months longer, and
II the June monsoon should be dis
appointing 1t might be continued much
beyond that time. Some previous fam
ines have been more acute than this,
but few have extended over SO wide
an area or affected so large a popula-
ton. (
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1897-03-25
CHAPTER VI.

OIL. DE MONTAUT
saw no more of his
sister-in-law that
evening.
On the following
day he was up ear
ly and ~breakfasted
alone in his room,
occupying himself
at the same time
with the details of
a toilet which was
intended to make
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1897-03-25
A WOMAN'S
1t Is More Like a Child's Than a
Mans.

1t Is More Like n Child's Than a
Mans.
Women do not, as a rule, laugh at
jokes. They generally laugh to re-
ward the teller of a good thing, and
not for mirth at the thing told, says
the New York Advertiser. In this way
a woman fulfills a most definite duty.
for she laughs ven when the story does
not come off well. Her laugh would
not be so temperate or so pu%nctual il
it depended upon a sense of humor.
1t is somewhat between a child's laugh
ter and a mans, but most like a
child'S. At almost every stage Of his
early years, a child laughs for mere
movement, and not for comedy or de-
rision at all. A little humor there may
be in the earlier sense of the word.
He laughs at the humOrs and antics OF
a rather elder or rather more enterpris-
ing child; but always from gayety and
for interior reasons of Astounding
breath and blood. Granted that a
woman has a small sense of humor, she
still owes her laugh to the humorists
even to the unsuccessful. 1t is a
positive debt. If she were held to the
duty OF criticism it would be other
wise; but, as it is, she is committed to
nothing. Her laugh is no evidence in
the contention of humor and wit, and
it Is but just that in this, too, public
opinion should relieve her of respon-
sibility. For nothing but an expected
silence or a half-hearted smile should
be held really answerable. II she were
to enter upon the way of criticism she
would be more or less unready: il
might be necessary to explain things
to her, which confessedly would be
very dull. Besides, the laugh of 1udg-
ment and criticism is apt to be. on fit
occasions, also a laugh too much from
the heart: it takes deeper tones. and
is no longer the treble note. I'M
drowned. No; men who invent the
jokes may laugh at them the open
laugh OF appreciation; women, if they
would be kind, must be more IMPARTIAL
A feminine laugh, too, has to be dec
o~rative, and SO should be the laugh OF
gayety rather than of humor. There
can hardly be a question as to the
sweetest laugh to be heard among ma
tons OF women-it is surely the French
Woman's. She has the softest MARBLE
OF all. If doves were not SO serious.
they might remind us of Partisan wom-
en- laughing together. The Italian
laugh is happy enough, but it is not
quite so Independent of the subject of
laughter; it has a jollity all it's own.
1t Is somewhat uncivilized, but needs
no civilizing. But its principle char
acteristic is the contralto tone proper
10 the woman who is to the last some
what OF a peasant. The laughter of
English women is too various for any
brief description. For Englishwomen
laugh, not according to their race, but
according to their caste, as caste has
lately been revised and redistributed.
1t may be said that in caste also the
treble note, the ready, the immediate,
nlts up to its own place-the top-and
Is audible there, for all it's splendid
quality.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1897-03-25
SAVED BY A HORSE.
PONY HELPED DIG ITS MASTER
FROM A SANDBANK.
Working Against Tremendous od"s
The Greatest Terror Of Western PIain
Life "A ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Grati-
tudc.

ERE is a story
that will illustrate
most ~emphatically
that much-talked-
of commodity COM
monty o as
horse sense" 1t
m direct o
Arizona, and, be-
sides being perfect
ly fresh news, has
the additional quail
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-11-17
SAILORS SAVED ON THE SEA.
CREW OF THE THEODORE DEAN
PICKED UP BY A STEAMER.

Their Schooner at the Bottom of the
Ocean and the Men Adrift in "a life
BOat-The Captain Washed over
board and Drowned After Taking
to the Small BOat-The Rescued
Men Suffering Greatly From Cold
and Hunger.
Philadelphia, Nov. 16.-The closing por-
ton of the voyage of the steamship Bel
genland, which arrived to-day from Liver
pool was eventful and interesting to those
lookout can be credited the saving of a
number of lives.
On Sunday morning the waterlogged and
sailless schooner Willie L. Maxwell was
sighted and she was taken in tow, to the
relief of her crew of ten men, the vessel
having becomeS helpless.
On Monday morning a small boat was
sighted drifting helplessly with five men
aboard. When tie men were taken on
board the steamship it was found that
they were the crew of the abandoned
schooner Theodore Dean. Capt. James F.
Hodgson of the Dean had been washed
son resided at Somerville, Mass, and
leaves a widow, two daughters and son.
The Theodore Dean left South Amboy on
Friday last for Norfolk with a cargo of
coal When Oft Ahsecom light she lost her
mainsail and on Saturday at noon, when
forty-five miles east-northeast of Barne-
gat, she sprung a leak, plank having
been torn from her side. The vessel filled
rapidly and with four feet of water In
her hold the captain, at 1:SO p M, ordered
the small beat launched and the crew of
six men, all told. left the ship An hour
later the vessel was seen to sink.
There was a heavy sea and a tremen-
dous gale and the small boat was kept to
rights with great difficulty. At $50 o'clock
the boat was raised almost on end and
Capt Hodgson was swept overheard. The
oars were also lost and those i'm the boat
were left helpless. The boat drifted from
that time until o'clock Monday morning,
when it was sighted by the Belgenland
and the men rescued from their perilous
situation.
The shipwrecked men suffered greatly
from cold and hunger. They had with
them in the boat only a small quantity of
biscuit and gallon jug of water. The men
rescued are James Butler, mate, of Tre-
mont, Me; Frank Miller, colored, a cook,
of Providence, and Thomas Thompson,
Marion Olsen and Christian Olsen. The
rescued men spoke feelingly of the treat
ment they had received on the Belgenland.
The Theodore Dean was built in 1864 at
Totterville, N. Y, and was owned in Bos-
ton. Her gross tonnage was S49, and net
tonnage 291.
The schooner Willie L. Maxwell, which
was taken In tow by the Belgenland on
Sunday morning, off Nantucket, was
launched only a year ago at Franklin, Me.
She is 175 feet in length and her capacity
is PSI tons.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-11-17
GERMAN NAVAL PLANS.
Chinese and Haytian Incidents to
Be Used to Get New Ships.

Chinese and Haytian Incidents to
Be Used to Get New ships.
London Nov. 1.-THE Berlin correspond
ent of the Times says: mot only the rad
ical, but the clerical journals are of opin-
ion that the conflict with the republic of
Hayti, and the attack on the missionaries
In China will be used to influence Ger
man public feeling in favor of extensive
naval plans.
''Various journals, meanwhile, continue
to urge the government to take prompt
measures for reparation in Hayti. The
Neuste Nachrichten considers the action
of Hayt not only an offense to the dig
nifty of Germany, but an insult to Empe-
ror William.
1.-THE insinuatioh. in the documents pub
lished in the Haytien newspaper MoDiteur
that Germany had been acting as if she
contemplated a protectorate over Hayti,
is described as a ruse to excite the mis-
trust of other powers, particularly the
United States. 1t is said in official quar-
ters that the government is considering
sending an imperial commissioner to Port
au Prince with the German warships."
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-11-17
SULTAN SLOW TO SALUTE.
AUSTRIAN DEMAND NOT YET COM
Piled WITH.

should the Porte Hold Out Until
Noon Tomorrow BarOn de CaIice
Will Leave COnstantinOpIe and
Austrian Warships VIII BOmbard
Mersina-AbduI Hamid's Head Be
Iieved to Have Been Turned by
the Easy Victory Over the Greeks
and He May Become Dangerous.
London, Nov. 17.-It now appears that
the statement yesterday in special dis
match from Vienna that the Turkish gov
ernment in reply to the demands of Baron
de Calice, the Austro-Hungarian ambas-
sador TO the porte, had agreed to salute
the Austrian flag after dismissing the
vail of Adana and the mutessarlf of Mer-
sina, for indignities offered to the Austrian
Brazzafolli, was premature. The porte
has not yet yielded to the Austrian de-
mands.
Dispatches from Vienna announce that
up to midnight, Tuesday, no intimation
had been received of the intention of the
Turkish government to dismiss the Offend
ing officials, or to salute the flag. If, how
ever. the Austrian demands are not COM
Baron de Calice will leave Constantinople
and the Austrian warshps will lombard
Mersina
The Vienner correspondent of the Times
says: "It is now expected that the sultan
will hold out until the last moment and
then yield, which may appear to him
clever stroke of diplomacy and something
for the Turkish official press to boast of,
a semi-victory of the Padishah over the
Christian powers. Eventually, however,
it is as likely as not to prove an unmiu
gated blunder the consequences of which
will become manifest in the course of time.
Abdul Hamid is evidently just now in
a frame of mind calculated to inspire Sc
rious concern. His easy vietory over the
Greeks, together with the Indulgence he
was accustomed to expect from Germany
until lately, has completely turned his
head. The Neue Freie Presse says that
Baron de Calice has seized the opportunity
of demanding from the porte binding as
surances respecting other matters con-
cerning the Austrian company which
works the Oriental railway, and relative
to which representatives have already
been made repeatedly at Constantinople."
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-11-17
DREYFUs' DEFENDERS,
Esterhazy Demands an Investiga-
tiOn of Their InsinuatiOns.

Paris, Nov. 1.-THE minister for war
Cen. Billot, replying to questions in the
Chamber of Deputies to-day, said that NJ
Scheurer-kestner, one of the vice presi-
dents of the Senate, who has been agi-
tating for the reopening of the case of
Alfred Dreyfus the former captain of
French artillery now undergoing life i'm
prisonment after having been convicted by
court martial of selling important mill
tary plans to the agents of a foreign gov-
ernment, had not considered it expedient
to take legal action in the matter, but,
the minister added, since the Dreyfus fam
lily had brought charges against an Off
Ger, the war department intended to de-
mand of them that they justify their
charges.
Continuing, the minister for war remark
er, "As the guardian of the honor of the
army, l shall not fail to do my duty"
Comte Esterhazy, who, it is said, an
swers the description "of a rich and titled
officer, well known in Paris society,"" who
had been requested to resign his command
in the army in consequence of the contin-
ued leaking out of military secrets since
Capt. Dreyfus was deported, has written
letter to Gen. Billot, with regard to the
alleged Infamous accusation He de-
mands an investigation and says that he
Is ready to reply to all the charges that
may be brought against him.
Comte Esterhazy, in an interview, de-
clares he is the victim of a plot.
The full name of the count is Ferdinand
Walsin EsterhaZy. He was formerly a
major in the French infantry. Early this
year he was placed on half-pay on the
ground of temporary infirmities. He is
connected with the celebrated Hungarian
family of Esterhazy, but when entering
the army in 1870, entered as a Frenchman.
At one time he belonged to the foreign
legion.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-11-17
MASSACRE IN AFRICA.
Thousands of Natives Slain by the
BIOOdthirsty Chief Snmory.

Thousands of Natives Slain by the
BIOOdthirstS Chief snmory.
Paris Nov ia special dispatch to the
Journal brings serious news from the
Niger region, West Africa. In order to
punish the inhabitants of the town of
Kong, capital of the kingdom of Kong,
in the Mandigo region of Upper Guinea,
for their refusal to supply his troops with
provisions, Chief Samory has razed the
town and massacred several thousand ma
tives.
For several weeks the French newspa-
pers have been calling upon the govern
ment to send punitive expedition against
Chief Samory, who on Aug. 20 last sur
prised and routed a French detachment of
native troops sent to occupy territory
which he had offered to evacuate. Two of
the French officers and forty-four men
were killed.
Kong Is a rich and fertile dependency of
the French ivory coast. If the report pub
lished by the Paris Journal is confirmed,
the French government will have no al
ternative to such a punitive expedition as
the French press has been urging it to un-
dertake.
Chief Samory, who is otherwise known
as Samadu, and who was formerly known
as the "West African Mahdi," is a Tippoo
Tib on a large scale. a wholesale slave
hunter"
He first came into contact with the
French in 1882, but in the two years which
followed he was repeatedly defeated. In
the latter part of 1884, he carried his slave
raids for the south into Sulamania, cap
turing and destroying Falaba, the capital
of Eulamania, and the great emporium
for the trans-Niger trade. A vast tract
of country was devastated; thousands of
natives were slain; thousands more were
sold into slavery; and the country was so
depopulated that trade came to a stand
still and the colony of Sierra Leone was
reduced to the verge of bankruptcy. These
conquests brought Samory fresh acces-
sion of strength; and in 1885 he again com
menced operations against the French
provinces on the north. Two severe de-
feats, however, brought him 20 terms and
in February, 1887, he signed a treaty of
peace with the French in which he recog-
nized that the River Niger was the boun-
GARY between his territory and that of the
French.