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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-02-16
PETER SEES THE CENTAUR FAMILY

Why, most people don't believe that there
are any eentaurs. Some folks even say
:here never was a centaur, but made up
my mind to discover you and prove that
people are all wrong
They certainly are if they say we don't
exist" replied the centaur; "for there are
over a hundred of US yight over yonder at
breakfast, and if you VIII come with me
We viii give them a fine scare. You sneak
up right behind me so that they cannot
see you until you're close to them, and we
viii surprise them"
Peter did as the centaur directed. and
they stole up to the group of older cen
taurs, who were eating breakfast. Be
fore he was discovered he could plainly
see what they were eating. Each cen
taur had a dish of horseradish before
him, and was evidently enjoying it, al
though the sharp odor almost made Peter
sneeze. Old Chiron. with a long white
beard. was in the centre. and they had
all been discussing the subject Of being
discovered by human beings. Old Chiron
was just finishing his remarks as they
stole near.
81 tell you," he said, 'It is dangerous to
cultivate such an acquaintance Look
what they did TO the good horse. They
made him draw the pillow and the war
chariot; they rode him roughly to battle
and TO the hunt: they hitched him while
they went into the tavern. so that be had
to stand out in the cold and the storm;
they shod him with iron and banged his
tail. and they locked him up in a dingy
old stable at night; they hired him out to
fellows to take their girls out riding. made
him haul loads of pig iron, and put him
in front of horse cars, to trot all day and
all night with a little jangling bell on his
chest. Let us take warning from the fate
of the poor horse, our cousin. and beware
of men and their wlles.
Just then Chiron saw Peter standing
there listening, and he leaped about ten
feet in the air. All the other centaurs
turned. dropped their horseradish and
scampered away in great alarm. but as
SION as they heard the young centaur be-
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since. can't direct you TO her cavern,
but the satyr could
You don't want to bother the Chi
maera," said Eurytion, 'and get al
burned up. You'd better leave her alone. -
Where can ind the Satyr?" asked
Peter. for he had decided to see the Chi
maera as soon as possible
III show you" answered Eurytion. and
he told Peter to get on his back. They
found the Satyr living in hut made Of
birch bark. and he came out when Fury
ton called him. He was quite surprised
to see Peter, and little afraid, as he
avoided men entirely. but when the young
centaur told him what Peter wanted he
said he would show him the cavern in
which the Chimaera lived.
The Satyr was a very interesting Great
ure TO Peter. although he had seen many
pictures Of him. He looked ike a big eli
with a long gray beard, but he had little
short horns like young goat, while his
legs, instead Of being like a mans. were
just Ike goats also, all hairy and with
hoOfs. He was very pleasant and skipped
around in the snow as he told them about
the awful monster, and then he asked
them into his house, where he had some
fine honey, and while the centaUr could
only get the front or mans part of his
body into the door of the hut he did what
he could to be sociable and polite.
While they ate the honey the Satyr
played on pipe made Of cane. but when
Peter took the pipe and played the latest
ragtime airs the Satyr almost danced his
head off, he was so pleased. He was de-
lighted 10 hear that Peter thought of seek
ing out and destroying the dreadful Chi
maera, but he agreed with Eurytion that
it was almost an impossible thing to do.
Why" said William Capricornis, the
SatyT," hundreds Of men have made the
attempt since the most distant times
Only once was the Chimaera defeated,
and that was when Bellerophon fought her
on the back Of Pegasus, the flying horse
I've heard of horse-fy," said Peter.
but not of a flying horse
There was such horse, but I don't
know where he's got TO now. All the
poets used him in olden times and sus-
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some man, the first one I meet, and show
him whether I am a dead one or not!'
mo, don't do it," replied Peter. 1T
would be very unwise for he might have
a gun, and then where would you be?"
He'd be in the horsepitai," said Fury
ton; that's where he'd be"
Anyhow, viii show people that we are
still in the ring. I will go to the places
where men meet anu exhibit myself TO
themi"
have an idear' cried Peter. You
come to the very first Horse Show, and III
bet you win get the blue ribbonr'
Yes, answered Chiron, "and they will
lasso me and hitch me to a horse carr
Then Peter told them that since the troll
leys had come horses were no longer used
on cars except in New York, and he ex-
planned all about automobiles and their
uses, so that he soon convinced Chiron
that the horse was going out of style and
would soon be as scarce as centaurs them
selves
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KALs Failed Monster

The Chimaera raised her head and out
shot stream Of fame for many Yards
into the air, melting all the snow and ice
for half mile around. Then an awful
roar came from her open mouth. for she
had looked up and seen the two on the
rocks above. but before she could dart any
fame toward them Peter hurled the box
at her.
It landed on the rock Just in front Of ths
monster, and there was a terrific report
The whole mountain shook. and Eurytion
galoped away as fast as his four legs
could carry him a cloud Of dust. trees,
brock and pieces Of Chimaera rose into tia
ar for great distance and then settled
uoWn again When they climbed down
Iney couldn't find a piece Of the monster
as large as a button, so completely had
she been shattered, so this time It vas
certain that there would be no Climasrz
70 ever poster people again. BY and BY
the centaur came trotting back still quite
frightened, but when Peter and William
Capncornis laughed at him he 5lusnet
ana said il was not 10 be expected that
50 young centaur could be as brave as
an old fossil like William. who had been
on earth since long before the flood
wen, they went back to CeutaurvlAs.
and then after a meeting had been held
IL was decided that Eurytiou could 50 TO
America with Peter and see what the pe0-
PIE and country were like So he came,
and that part Of the story You may have
reao IN the papers, how everybody went
crazy over him and so forth, bu- yoI
did not hear, for It was not known until
This week, that all the centaurs are com
ing over next spring to live in America
and they are/going TO make their living
by manufacturing centaur Hnimenr-a
rare old remedy of ancient Rome and
Greece Eurytion has bought q lovely
place with beautiful pasture lot a big
race track with a grandstand, that VIII
hold thousands. and a farm with about
twenty-five acres Of horseradish already
planted, while a whole forest Of horse
chestnut trees grows in the immediate
vicinity Here they viii live, and there
they viii welcome you. If You call ana
mention my name.
WALT McDOUGALAA
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By WALT McDOUGALL

side Peter laugh they stopped. at least all
but the very old ones, and stood still
Come back" cried Peters new friend;
come here and meet Mr.. Peter, who has
Travelled long way to call on us"
I'VE are afraid. Eurytion. He looks
harmless, but Chiron was only this min
ute warning US against men," said one of
the centaurs. but he stepped a little nearer
as he spoke.
Eurytion, for that was the name Of the
one Peter met first, replied:
"Oh, this is only a boy like myself. He s
only two or three thousand years old and
he won't harm us. He's friend of mine. -
So they all came back, and finally got
very friendly, even the very old ones,
whose names are all in the mythology
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title
CadaT and the Sy Whom He Hidden iudaka8a Forest

sand years old. OF course, can't tell
my exact age, but that's pretty near it.
Near enough, anyhow. isn't it? How old
arc your"
"oh, only some three thousand years
DID, answered Peter, for. OF course, he
did not want the young and skittish cen
taur boy to have any the best of it by
letting on that he was only ten years old.
I have come from far away to see
you" he continued, land 1 want to be
good friends to you and all Of your fam
ily 1 want you TO make them under
stand that nobody viii harm them at all,
for the people who used to trouble your
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IN THE SATYR'S HUT

a half before I managed 10 shake her
off,
What is the Chimaera like, or, rather
what was she like. for s'pose she's dead
this good while?" asked Peter.
She is nasty creature, who at certain
seasons of the year breathes fire. In
front she is mixture Of a lion and a
goat, and behind she is a dragon, with a
tail several yards in length. I don't want
TO see her again, and so I keep away
from her haunts."
Good gracious, is she alive yet?" asked
Peter.
Certainly, and she lives over in the
Helteon Mountains yonder in a blue
cavern that is almost filed with the bones
of the people she devoured ages and ages
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-02-16
ITS WINTER SLEEP
A Naturalist Watches alternating
Dormouse


DormouSe
An italian naturalist kept a dormouse
in his study, where he could watch its
actions when the time OF its winter sleep
came. On the oath OF December, when the
thermometer was about 40 degrees-that
is, s degrees above the freezing pOint-the
dormouse curled himself up among a heap
Of papers and went to sleep. On the 9TH
Of December. when the Thermometer was
several degrees lower, Mr.. Mangim ascer-
tanned that the animal breathed and sus-
rended his respiration st regular inter-
walls; that is, after four minutes Of perfect
repOse, during which he appeared as Il
dead. he breathed about twenty-four
times in the space OF a minute
When the theTmometcr fell nearly 10 the
freezing point. the intervals of what ap-
peared suspended animation were six min
utes. As the thermometer became higher
that Is. as the weather WAS less cold
the intervals of repose We're reduced TO
three mi -utes. As the winter grew in
tensely cold, the times Of perfect repose.
during which no breathing could be per-
oeived, became much longer
Within ten days Of the time of its fall
ing asleep the doTmouse awoke and ate a
little. food being provided on the shelf
near him. he then went 10 sleep again.
and continued to sleep and wake at about
these intervals throughout the winter
As spring approached his sleep became
lighter. until the warm days caused him
to shake OF his 6rowsiness altogether.
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was half man and half bull. who ate up
dozen beautiful maidens every year, and
they wanted to know what had become Of
nm during all the years they had been
hidden in the Hochderkaiser Forest. Peter
told them that the Minotaur had gone OUT
OF business many centuries ago and was
now considered a fabulous animal in
whom nobody believed at all.
That's funny" said Chiron, 81 suppose
some day people viii say we never ex-
listed. either"
They say that already said Peter.
Nobody at all believes there are any
centaufs."
That made Chir0n mad Wen lust
show theIn." he said. "I'll go out of the
forest, and Just kick the stuffing out of
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by the length of his hand. which he held
out in front. They had q great dispute.
for Chiron said that it was unfair, but
Peter said it was just the same as winning
by a neck. as was done in a regular horse
race.
The centaurs were just like people in
most things. although, Of course. they
couldn't do all the things people do. They
were fond OF sliding on the ice OF a lake
and they wrestled together like men, and
sat around the fire telling stories of the
ancient times. They remembered all the
old heroes like Hercules. Thesus, Apollo
Orpheus and Atlas, who held the world
up, just as John Pierpont Morgan holds it
up to-day They told Peter about the aw-
full monster called the Minotaur, which
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Dect he's fOundered long ago. said Will.
lam.
cor moulted and lost HIS feathers" said
Eurytion- Anyhow, he's never been
seen around since came
Peter explained that since the Chimaera
was last encountered there have been in
vented many wonderful things that would
knock out dragons and such things in less
time than it would take to tell. He said
al he asked was for the centaur to carry
him to the edge Of the Hochderkaiser For
est, and he then would go to town and
get the stuff that would lay the Chimaera
out sitter than a poker.
what IS it?' asked Eurytion.
dynamite, that's what. answered Pc
ter Just hunk Of it fired at the old
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What BeAerophon Did


He told Peter as they went along how
in ancient times, when King Iobates. or
Iodine, or some such King, ruled in the
land OF Lyeia, the awful Chimaera de-
stroyed so many people that the King
offered his daughter to him who could
drive away or destroy the monster. Bel
lerophOn came along and agreed to fight
the beast, but before he fought he went
TO a wizard named Polydus. who told
him to catch the winged horse, Pegasus.
He did this. but as this is a separate story
and one your father or mother VIII tell
you after you finish with mine, will not
stop TO repeat it.
Anyhow, he got Peg all right, and tho
horse few with MIN into the air and right
to the cavern where the monster was wait
ing The story says it was easy for Bel
lerophon TO beat the Chimaera, and he got
the Kings daughter. and they lived happy
ever after, but it seems that he did not
do so much to the creature. after all. for
there she was still, although for many cen
turtles nobody had heard from her. and
they all thought she was dead long ago.
1T would not be bad thing TO have
mat flying horse. said Peter. when they
arrived near the cavern. for I could rise
Just over the cave and drop the dynamite
right smack in easy as looking"
I'VE can climb up on the rocks above
the cave, said William Capricornis. the
Satyr. and that would be just as we'll
Perhaps so, but I don't want 10 get
blown up with the Chimaera myself" re-
piled Peter. However, they climbed up
far above the cave, and looking down saw
the entrance and the very nose Of the
Chimaera just sticking out a little bit be-
yond. Her head was like a lion. and he
could see that her front legs were Ike d
goats, as Chiron had described her, and a
slight smoke came from each Of her nos
trils as she slept, showing that she stiu
had steam up. so to speak.
There she is said the Satyr. Soak
1t 10 her quick, for I think she is waking
upr'
She was. for she had caught sight o,
Eurytion, who, not being able TO climb up
as far as Peter and William had done,
was standing down at the foot Of the hill,
but not near enough to be harmed by the
dynamite, as Peter had cautioned him %
keep away of.
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DOCK, and they sat around smoking their
pipes and talking for several hours to
Peter. My, but Eurytion was the proud
eentaur when he saw what an impression
his friend Peter had made. for they all
took to him right off. He introduced him
to everybody, and made him ride on his
back to visit some Of the centaurs who
lived far in the Hochderkaiser Forest.
They visited the village of the Pygmies.
another race of people who are supposed
not to exist at all, little folks not more
than thirteen inches in height, and as
Peter had taken his camera he got a lot
of good photographs of them to show
when he returned home.
They told Peter about their battles with
the cranes. and Peter promised to bring
his fathers shotgun next spring and help
them wipe out their enemies. The Pyg-
mics gave him as a present, when he left
them, some large and beautiful diamonds,
which they had dug UP from the earth
and begged him not to forget them.
CentaurS Haze a Race
When old Chiron saw how the Pygmies
treated Peter. he got over his fear and dis
trust and asked the boy to ride on his
back, which made Eurytion jealous, but,
OF course, he couldn't be sassy to his
grandfather Old as Chiron was, he was
very brisk, and Peter asked him what
his record was.
The old eentaur did not know what he
meant, so Peter told him about Dexter.
Maud S, Alix and Cresceus, and how they
could make a mile in two minutes, which
made the old man-horse open his eyes.
The very next thing they got up a race,
and, in order to make time, they took off
their ulsters. Then they really looked like
centaurs, just like their pictures, with a
mans body right at the horses neck.
Some OF them were too fat to run, and
they were made the judges. They got very
much excited, and Peter had hard work
TO make them start off even, but finally
they got away. It was very funny sight.
indeed. for they didn't know the rules.
and when ore would bump against the
other they would punch each other and
fight as they galloped along. Eurytioo
won the race, beating old Grandad Chiron
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fEO ing II ythoiogy WITH q tutor who
knew the name Of every old hero
and the date Of everything he
did. but he didn't know how TO
make the study interest little Peter, VINO
used u sit and wonder why boy had to
learn a lot Of names Of played-out gods
and goddesses, who lived on top Of 3
mountain ana cut up all the time like
cageful OF monkeys. You see, his tutor
did not know how TO tell these really
blily tales to Peter 50 that they would
seem Ike stories. for then mythology
would be Just like Grimm's fairy tales.
re just handed out to the boy a long
list Of names. and made him try to learn
them all One day he happened to wake
up for moment and say something about
"centau,." whcreupon Peter asked him
what centsur was. He replied:
"a centaur. my boy, was fabulous
creature, which. of course, never existed,
remember, but il whom the ancient Greeks
and Romans ana other people believed"
Now wasn't that a fine way to start off
70 tell a thing to a boy? THE centauI'
v as supposed to be half horse and half
man. and larg, herds Of them wero said
- roam over the plains OF Scythia"
Anybody ever catch one?" asked Peter.
oh. you must remember there never
reilly were any centaurs," replied Mr..
SpeeIer, the tutor.
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TITLE Peter Ramsay was study
ing II ythoiogy WITH q tutor who
knew the name Of every old hero
and the date Of everything he
did mt h. didn't know how to
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HAS THE AMERICAN GIRL
TOO MUCH FREEDOM
By MARIA DE ZUGASTI DE FABREGAS,
ConzaG enralo5s spain

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the other in the dreary little shipping
town Of Selfish. on the Northern Pacific
Railway.
Pablo owns 100000 head Of cattle. and
takes a justihable pride in them. but he
especially glories in his herd OF buffalo.
which numbers $50.
Pablo's regard for his buffalo is in
tense. He is not keeping them for profit
and will not sell single specimen. He
loves them because they are a part Of the
old free life he loved. and loves sin. He
has fellow-feeIing for bison because
like his own race. they have been driven
from their old ranges. So he has gath
cred together all that he could get. and
has placed them on the magnificent range
at the outlet of Flathead Lake.
They have the freedom Of the beautiful
valley and the foothills OF the mountains.
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astonishes his family by her Independent
nes There several ordinary
est in which both Mr. Kelley to
eelent advantage Capital support by
Isabel WaldrOn Russell Morton seen
propriate scenery. and should have profitable run.
The most charming graceful picturesque RosaIind
that this country has Adelaide Nelson who
captured New York many years that time we
have had other attractive Rosands and
Julia MarlOwe Now Henrietta showing az the
Theatre Republic her conception Shakespeare
heroine and while comparisons odious only
say that she has scored genuine part AS
the boy in the forest presents pretty pic
ture Her reading OF the lines perfect eocut1n
and appeals strongly intelligence audience The
Orlando OF Harry Woodruff mushy unsatisfyng This
young actor has fine Manager Campbell furnished
handsome equipment scenery costumes LAS You Like
It. is only booked for few performances.
The Wilderness is in its final the Empire tt e.
atre where has been well only withdrawn
because OF contract which a production Of The
Twin Sister next Monday play has been in
rehearsal for month presented every i'm
portant member OF Charles FrOhmans company cast
The Diplomat" is the the new play BY Martha
Morton which William Collier produce the Madison
Theatre in the OF the piece takes
place in this city that it is mild
satire the fads society Mr. Golfers mart
viii be radical departure from anything ever
before attempted NANCY SYKES
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witnesses from testifying on the ground
OF their having no belief in God. In the
trial several years ago OF the late Judge
Advocate General Swain. Of the army. /
recall the exclusion OF a witness upon ny
objection because he was an inhdeI In my
use Of the term. however. it must not be
confounded with that Of atheist. The frst
wholly disbeIIeves in God
It cannot be said that the use CT the
Bible in administering an cath gives any
validity TO IT, The upIifteG herd Is a
very ordinary method OF taking it, Cpin-
ions differ as to allowing heather prac-
tees in Christian courts OF justice in the
administration OF oaths. In my opinion
they should not be permitted. The unre-
liability OF such testimony was the reason
our ancestors excluded it A man
who has no faith or belief in God Al
mighty is not under the same obligation
70 tell the truth which charaeterizes the
Christian. A Parsee, a Hindoo or a Chi
naman may. in the ordinary affairs Of life.
be deemed honest and truthful. but having
no sanction 20 an oath such as the Chris
lian has. he does not testify under the
same responsibility.
Many oaths now required viii 10 doubt
eventually be abolished They should be
required. however. in courts Of justice
and in specially important cases. such as
in taking cath Of allegiance In naturaliza-
tion or assumption Of important Office