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The San Francisco call., 1899-03-26
ALMOST KILLED By WOLVES
Desperoee Adventure Of TWO California Miners Driven
Into Tunnel by the Ravepous Beasts

''That sight spurred me on and we'
dashed right into the tunnel. AT TINS mo-
ment am sure the wolf In the iead mace
a bite at my leg. But he didn't toiio" me
in on the instant The darkness scared
him a little and that gave us the chance
to get a few feet in the lead ana graz
the picks and shovels
I'VE were about forty feet back to the
turn. and as the tunnel is large there was
considerable light.
Crack the first one that comes along,
gasped Henry. If you show fear we are
gone. They'll be here in second II they
are coming at all
And in a second we were right In the
track of a fight The big fellow that was
right behind me only waited for the rest
of the pack to catch up and then dashed
right after US. Our running away seemed
to give the beasts courage
'NThe big fellow seemed to have singled
me out, for he jumped straight Tor my
throat I was ready for him and hoored
him with the pick between the eyes He
went down like a log.
Then l warmed up to the fight ana
went for the wolves without giving them
a chance to come at me- Henry did the
same and we laid about us on all sides,
and wherever we saw wolf one OF US
hit It, But we didn't get in another blow
like my first one. Every wolf had to be
struck several times 1 hit one fellow on
the head and rolled him over, but IN a
couple of seconds he was on top OF my
back with his teeth in my shoulder
Henry caught him one over the loins with
his shovel and laid him out, but my lett
arm was useless for fighting after that
and things began to look mighty serious.
Part of the time the wolves would
crowd us, and part of the time we Wouio
crowd the wolves. Our arms ana legs
were bitten and our faces and hands
Scared but fortunately we managed 10
beat the beasts off.
after we had killed three wolves and
had all the others pretty badly battered
up a big fellow got up behind me ana
knocked me down. For moment 1
thought all was up and expected to feel
the sharp teeth in my neck. But Henry
was on hand. With a swinging blow
from his shovel he caught the wolf under
the law and put it out Of tie fight
Another blow on the back of the head
stretched him out good
"Then I got up and went at 1t again.
I was badly used up, but so were the re-
naming wolves. In few moments there
was only one wolf left. He lost courage
and started to get out, but Henry cor
nered him and split his head with his
shovel. Then we sat down 10 rest anu
cool off.
1--WE killed eight wolves, and all of them
big fellows We were badly used up, but
with no serious wounds. We managed
to get back to our cabin, where we found
neighbors. They went up and skinned our
game after seeing US safely in bed. The
eight skins are beauties and 1 guess we
can sell them for enough to pay US for
the time we have to spend in bed. | am
feeling all right now, except my shoul-
der. It hurts occasionally. Both of US
will be out in a week. Pass me the ar
nica."
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vicinity Of New York that has caused all
her fears. There was a time when no
body knew Hetty Green, as her appear
ance never conveyed the impression of
the possession OF millions. But now peo-
pie point her out and look upon her as
they would a freak. This notoriety has
greatly disturbed the wealthy woman.
At present Hetty- Green Is living IN
cheap boarding house in Hoboken. pay
ing for her accommodation about s. a
week. She has just moved from Brook
.Iyn. and, it is said. does not like the
change.
But she never refuses to see members
Of the press and is always ready to talk
about her lawsuits, several of which she
always has on hand. That is what she
thought I came for and was all ready
with her long tale of oppression. =
In Hetty Green's interninable lawsuits
the attorney for the other side is usually
Joseph Choate. Tonight Hetty Green
chuckled.
"Joseph's gone to England" she said.
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A booksellers opinion Of book may
be as instructive as critics, though the
point Of view is different: and letter
which Literature has received from
correspondent throws a certain amount
of light upon this branch of the subject;
For reasons which concern no one but
myself" writes the spondent, II re-
Gently decided to get rid of a certain
number of modern books, and a book
seller duly arrived to look at them and
make an offer.
What 1 particularly want he said.
as he turned them over IS red books
"'What sort of books?' I asked.
Red books-that is to say, books in
red covers was his reply.
course, there are few people who know
about books, ard insist on having the
book they want without reference to the
color of the binding; but the great mass
Of our customers Judge by appearances.
Drab books and gray books and brown
books they won't have anything to do
with; green books will pass; blue books
sell a shade better; but red books always
find a market. You can have no idea,
unless you're in the trade, what a differ
ence it makes to a book to be bound in
red. Fl"
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Mrs. Green told me that she dresses
shabbily for q purpose. She declared
positively that she believes there is
conspiracy among the lawyers of New
York to take her life.
They are my arch enemies she said,
kill me If he thought he could do so with
out being found out. I make them toe
the chalkline, and that's the reason they
don't like me-"
Mrs. Green has a desk at the Chemical
Bank in New York, and has TO be there
every day to look after her vast inter
ests. The travelling back and forth be-
tween the bank and her home is what
caused her to get a bodyguard.
MY bodyguard is a nephew of forms
er New York Police Inspector, and stall
wart young fellow at that. OF course,
l wouldn't have his name published, be-
cause that would establish his Identity,
and some day when it chanced that he
was not with me I might be attacked.
when we are travelling he does not
stay beside me. as you might suspect,
and we never have any conversation. lie
and then follows me as If he did not
know who l was. He changes his ap-
pearance every day or so in order to keep
people from getting to know him. II we
travelled together my enemies would sim
ply wait for chance 70 catch US un-
awares.
LAS 1t is, my guard keeps his eye on
me. and I am sure he would be on hand
when wanted y
AS she grows older Hetty Green does
not improve in manners. She is careless
in her speech, drops her final g's and
uses slang freely. Money making and
talking are her chief pleasures, and her
main object In life is to leave to her son.
Edward, who lives in a princely style on
his ranch in Texas, a great fortune. She
has proved that, in finance, woman can
be- the equal of man. Her energy and
endurance at co years of age surprise all
who have dealings with her. She is
woman such as only American soil could
produce.
The accompanying photograph was
taken by fashlight in the back parlor OF
the Hoboken boarding house. 1t is an ex-
act likeness and gives a better idea of the
character of the woman than any picture
made heretofore. With all her fear OF
assassination. she had no hesitation about
sitting in front of the camera, even
though the photographer was stranger
to her But that is Mrs. Green's dispo-
sition; when she trusts people. she Goes
so implicitly.
Mrs Green is now in q most happy
frame of mind on account Of big strike
said to have Just been made IN one Of her
mines In California. "It may amount to
a. million dollars she said. And II II
doesn't reach that sum. why, well and
good. Whatever it does realize is that
much gain. dollar Is a dollar.
In the number OF years she has been
around the money markets Of America
Hettv Green has changed very little. She
looks and acts now. just the same as she
did five years ago. when she attracted
the attention of the financial world by
the boldness OF her investments ana her
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of our beet sugar factories-nitrogenou
products. Now then. all we have to do in
this country to make our butter just as
good in the tropics as that of Denmark
is to raise the sugar beet and feed the
waste of the factories to the dairy cows.
There is no healthier fodder than this,
and it will make the sugar beet a mighty
valuable product in great many ways.
Congress has made an appropriation TO
help along the cultivation of the sugar
beet. In this way not only Is our sugar
production given a great impetus, but we
are strengthening our dairy products in
the only way in which they were weak.
Now we will not have to take second
place anywhere.
This shows how necessary 1t is that
the farmer should understand the science
of agriculture. 1t shows what scientific
investigation brings about. If 1 had not
wanted to find out why Denmerk's butter
would keep where ours wouldn't, If l had
not sent a man to Denmark to learn tho
scientific reasons, we would not have been
in the position we are to-day-able to
enter into competition with Denmark
without feeling that she has any advan-
tage over US In her butter and cheese. II
is in everything the farmer has to cul-
tivate and grow that the reason for his
being an agricultural scientist Is found.
If he knows the reason why things don t
or small he gains wisdom that will
help him the next year to increase his
crops and so make his income greater.
The scientific farmer has better chance
of making a big income than any farmer
ever had. But the man who insists on
following the old-fashioned methods OF
never learning anything that hts father
did not know is going to have trouble tc
make both ends meet.
There is no place that the farmer
needs to apply scientific methods more
than out where they irrigate their land
I am going to have that matter thorough
ly looked into. Hundreds Of acres of fine
lahd are being ruined because the mer
who irrigate them do not understand the
scientific facts about it. They let toe
much water run on the land; this brings
the alkan to the surface and the result
is that there is no use trying to grow
anything. Now what should be done Is
to study the science of the soil so as tc
know how to apply the-w water and in wha
quantity. II scientific reasoning had beer
employed In the beginning, this LAND
would not have been comparatively
worthless to-day.
1.-The new-fashioued farmer, the scien
tifc farmer, must study the feeding o
cattle Not n pound of cotton seed wa
fed to the four hundred thousand cattl
we exported last year, although the Soutl
raised 1000 tons of It, That cotton sect
was mostly wasted. or made fertilizer of
Think what 1t might have amounted to /
It had been fed to beef cattle. Th
trouble with the farmer is that he don
know how to make the best Of what h
has got. and he has got to learn the sci
cree Of agriculture to know how.
There is only one way to find out theS
things we are ignorant of. I heard tina
out in Japan they were growing bette
rice than we did, rice that was NOR
marketable and cheaper to grow. I sen
a man out there to find out about 1t. HI
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he 1dTm6T OI the luIuIo uluSI Do
practical scientist. The man
who does not understand the
science of the soil has no business
- on the farm. If the boy wants to
be a farmer. it is just as neces-
gary that he take q course at an agricul-
tural college as it is to the boy who wants
to be Il lawyer, a doctor, preacher, to
have a university education.
1.-The great need of the agricultural col
lego has been instructors who could in
struct Why, out in Iowa we could send
TO Chicago and get a carload Of chemists,
= NC wanted to pay the money for. them,
but We could not find a man who could
teAch the student the science of making
5,.tter and cheese. The Government can
erdow agricultural colleges all 1t wants
to-. The more that is done the better
But 1t cannot furnish instructors, because
there have not been any. We are gong
to give few young men chance at the
department to learn the scientific features
of instruction In agriculture, but we can
only help few.
The only way that these instructors
can be made is through the agricultural
colleges. We don't want the students
taught the theory, but we want the prac-
tical facts put before their eyes. At one
college I know of they are making exten-
sive experiments with livestock to show
what particular breed II Is that will pro-
duce the best basis for butter and cheese.
The students are being taught that, not
by hearSay, but by what they can see
| don't say that every student puts on
overalls, takes q milking stool and goes
out ard milks, though I myself think
that is pretty good way to do. Tho
point is that each boy IS taught by the
facts that are laid before him-iving
facts-the essence Of certain truths, and
why they are truths.
There is no lesson rs good as an OBJ
iect lesson. The boy who sees expert
mc.ts in dairying carried on from day to
day knows when he sees the results how
Il all came about-and it is not because
some one else told him that It was thus
and so. He knows the science Of dairy
inr and has been taught it in the most
practfcal way. The dairy farmer Of the
Irni+ed States is going TO be q great fac
tc- IN the future He is q factor at pres
ont. to be sure, but nothing to what he
will be. and 1 will tell you why-because
we have learned the secret OF denmark
I,I+ter and cheese keeping so we'll in
tropicai climates.
..Tbe farmers Of New York State and
.Lo,o oF the Mississippi Valley make as
r.ood butter as IS produced anywhere.
IDar,nork makes good butter We send
ont butter TO China, and II cannot com
- y,-Itb rhe butter OF Denmark why?
~ Epa,'ra = wor't keep. There is splen-
a;1 1,oorl,et in the Orient but we are shut
H'. ,4 ~ - practically because our butter
Out our, u no+ " stand expectation to that sort
of 'i climate. Mind you, In al, otneI ne
niaces we never had any trouble. Dbr b,+ta, t,lv
1ninuto we struck the tropics WIN
c,1d cheese it was very diftereAl' 80,
~ en7+ a man to Denmark TO ma 90
abduf fe4t it. He learned that the ed, panish ndnl
darymen ao1e1 en- fed their cattle food that weste e9t
tained tain the same substances as the Wdsl'
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hungry. Any such action as that on our
part would stimulate the raising of wheat
in the valleys of the Nile and would give
the Russian farmer q chance that has
never come to him. I do not say that
they could all do these things in mo-
ment, over in Europe, but If they had to
get along without us that is what they
would do.
Europe never will get along without
US, however. She will never want to. She
thinks too much of US. And there are no
set of circumstances that could entirely
stop the shipping of meat and breadstuffs
to Europe There can be no laws passed
in this country that will do 1t, and if any
country tries to have an international law
so construed as to shut us out anywhere
we will have the law changed. You can
not keep the American farmer down"
DO you believe I said, that there
there is as good a chance for the farmer
boy on the farm as there was fifty years
ago? Do you think the boys ought to be
urged to stay on the farm instead Of go
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4 scarcity of small game are ac-
I countabIe for this, but the extremes TO
7 which some of the beasts have gone are
! simply incredible.
9 Up in Ell Dorado County few days ago
= two miners, George Nelson and Henry
q @Young, were driven into tunnel by a
. pack Of eight wolves, and had to fight
4 <or their lives with pickaxes and shoyels.
I rho wolves were vanquished, but both
! non are confined to their beds with
2 wounds.
; According to the story told by Nelson
9 was terrible fight.
The camp of the two miners is about
/ rour miles from Pleasant Valley. On the
7 1iuside several hundred feet above the
= -arnp is the entrance to the tunnel in
2 ;vhich the two miners work. It was on
= The way from the cabin to the tunnel
Q hot the wolves made the attack.
! "I had no idea that there were any
4 rolves close to camp" said Nelson. "Of
! curse / know there are lots of them up
- the high mountains, but I never ex-
2 ,octed to see anything down our way any
: lfgger than a polecat.
= "It WAS early Monday morning when
@ Henry and I started for the mine. There
@was some snow on the ground. Just
Aofter leaving the cabin our trail starts
Aright I'D the mountain side. Then II
rms over a sort of lower spot right to
Ybottom Of another hill.
'.Henry and had climbed up the steep
Yascent and stopped a moment TO get our
@breaths. Just then / heard queer bark
4back on the trail over which we had just
spassed.
Whose dog Is that?' 1 asked Henry.
" wolf said Henry. Listen.
1.-THE bark came again and then several
@barks all at once There was no DOUBT
1now but what we were being chased by
Awolves and we hadn't splinter to make
IA fight against them
"Suddenlv we saw the wolves emerge
from a little clump of timber and take to
Your trail as if they were sure we were
other meat They bounded up the hill.
Astood spellbound. If it hadn't been for
Henry 1 would have been eaten right
Ythere; but he is an old hunter and knows
"a thing or two about wolves.
o Run for the tunnel he shouted
4grabbing my arm and almost dragging
mo along. It's our only chance. Graf
7 the picks and crowbars there. Run!
= "By this time the wolves were not more
~than a hundred feet away and coming VI
J the hill in long jumps. We ran a race
that would have broken any track record
When we had covered about half the dis
4tance to the tunnel the wolves were no
@more than fifty feet behind us and gain
4ing.
q IF they catch US we are gone sale
Henry Run for all you're worth
"The tunnel was only a short distance
Yahead A big fellow was just behind me
? 4snapping his jaws as if he was sure OF
@his game,
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Declores That the Old-FoshoDed Farmer Must Go.

get our cotton from mostly? The Louisi-
ana purchase. You see, that is why am
for expansion"
1 asked Mr.. Wilson if he believed the
statement that we could starve Europe
out If we wanted to; that we really had
control of the food markets of the world:
There is no doubt about the truth of
the last half of your question: he said.
LAS things stand to-day we have what
the speculatOr calls the bulge on the rest
of the world in breadstuffs. We could
certainly supply the markets of the world
if it was necessary, if they would make
hit worth our while. We are not growing
"a 1.-THE of the wheat we might. Take my
own State of Iowa. Why, the farmers
there could raise any amount of wheat
If you would give them a dollar bushel
for it. But at the present price 1t don't
pay them, so they don't raise it.
IF we should stop shipping food prod
ucts to Europe, although such thing
is not possible, we might not starve them
out. but we would make them mighty
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HETTY GREEN, THE R S(4E&F 4E&R{$ HQ"AN IS
she Particularly apy just Now Because Joseph (h00e Has Gone 10
Endand and She Has Made Strike Her California Gold MLe

er, though they never quarreled. ohe a.
lows him sort of pension from her enor-
nous fortune. 1t sufices Ior his modeSI
wants.
old man was known as "Spendthrift
Green" He was high roller before the
war and the gayest of a very gay set:
He came from Bellows Falls, Vt, ana
made a fortune at Manila, the capital OF
the Philippine Islands. He lived on the
islands seventeen years, and he had
million when he met and married Harriet
Robinson. Their married life was happy
enough, but after he lost his money spec
ulating in Wall street Mrs. Green did not
feel that she could accord him that re-
spect and honor due from wife to hus-
band. He was too poor man of busi-
ness. she said; so they agreed to live un-
der different roofs.
Miss Sylvia Green, who is about 30
years old, has led rather uneventful
life. For several years she has travelled
around with her mother from boarding
house TO boarding house, but she tired
of this two years ago. and 1t was decided
to launch her into society. Miss Annie
Leary, who had always taken deep IN
terest in Sylvia. agreed TO introduce her'
and Sylvia went to some parties ana 10
Newport for two or three seasons. She
doesn't like society. and she has so de-
clared herself several times she would
like a home OF her own with her mother,
but Mrs Green knows that a permanent
residence means regular visits from the
tax collector, and so she clings to her
clearinghouse life.
These are the four people most directly
interested in a fortune of $50, ,O00-the
largest fortune ever owned by an Ameri-
can woman It is a fortune that paws
no taxes, develops no new industries,
supports no charities. It's enormous pow
er and influence are welded solely for its
own increment 1t is as useful to human
ity and civilization as miser's hoard or
q buried treasure.
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SFCRFTGRY 81 GGRiciT TRE vii AMERICAN
~udnn
Go. His GoIdeD Prophecy Of the Coming ForDer

ing TO the city?'
There never was time" said Mr., Will
son slowly, when the boy who wanted to
be a farmer, and was willing to go about
It the right way, had a better chance
than he has to-day, nor as good. He has
got scientific facts to aid him now where
before he had nothing but example
$50 far as making the boy stay on the
farm is concerned, 1 think it is a great
mistake to try to influence him. He
should be allowed to follow his own in
clnations or he never will get to the
front. There is just one thing to remem-
Der always, and that is that boy doesn't
make good anything unless he wants to.
Let him stay the farm if he feels SO
inclined and let him go to the city If he
doesn't"
Where do you think the best opportu-
nifty lies for the young man who wishes
to be a farmer?" I asked. The answer
came with the speed of a Mauser bullet:
'In the United States of America"
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odahone farmer is doomed James W wilson
of
o
wlsonto when said
might
enceo OF
Science in Wilson II
Learned a
s
marks
ferent
All make
Arizona New Mexico
and
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He Says That agricultural Colleges are Just as Ne

did find out. came back with a lot of the
rice, and I am having ten tons of 1t sent
out through the country now to expert
ment with.
81 sent a man to the steppes of Russia
because l heard there was grass there
that many months of winter wouid not
Xiii 7 got II experirnented with it here,
and found that what I heard was right.
1t will stand all sorts of winter weather
and yet be in such condition that as
quick as moisture strikes ii will grow IKE
O. weed That is not a particularly sclen-
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tific fact, but It shows the beneficial re-
suits of investigation for the farmer IN
almost any direction.
lover in South Africa now there is
man whom I sent there, who is study
ing and growing the date palm. Th1s is
being done with the idea of introducing
a. into Nav Mexico and Arizona. You see,
I believe in expansion in agriculture, ana
why not? 1 reckon If we had stuck TO the
little old thirteen States we would not
have been able TO supply ourselves with
the things we need to eat. Where DO we
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ETTY GREEN'S latest freak is
to have a body guard.
- For some time past she has
been living IN fear of abduction,
l. - murder. robbery, arson and
taxes. And the greatest fear Of
all is taxes. for It is to avoid paying
these that she exposes herself to other
dangers by moving from place to place.
With nearly 100000 900 to her credit, this
strange woman has never paid a cent of
taxes into the national treasury.
For many years she found it an easy
matter to avoid the tax collector by fall
ing to have "a place of habitation." She
kept constantly on the go, and for a
time came near to sleeping in a differ
ent bed every night. She used UP nearly
all the towns in the vicinity Of New
York because there is a paragraph in
the law that says something about "a
second residence" This has made it nee
essary for her to hustle and avoid giving
the collector time to locate her.
It is this constant moving about in the
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UNTERS, miners and ranchers
generally agree that wild ami
mails have been bolder the last
winter than ever before in the
history of California. The long
dry spell and the consequent
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. HE farmer of the future must be
practical scientist. The man
who does not understand the
science of the soil has no business