The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1904-07-29

nave ldhsh pace just a.
To~ this time had IL not been
for an Arizona cactus plant and vii
lam l.. Anderson, her rescuer.
Recently Miss HOwlaBd went 10
Phoenix, says the Pittsburg Dispatch
10 visit her sister, Mrs. Henry v
Thompson. Near that city is cactus
farm and on this farm one day Maud
Rowland stood upon the back OF her
saddle horse. eating the fruit from q
cactus plant. II was delicious fruit
as red and as sweet as q stra awberry
and just about the size. But il grew
50 high she could not reach il from
the ground.
AS Maud Howand was busy with a
cactus berry something untoward took
place. A big fly bit her horse; he gave
leap and ran away. Miss Howland's
skirt caught and there she was ma
rOoned high and dry upon the cactus
plant, with her skirt hooked over a
big spine on the desert plant. That
was the beginning OF her romance.
Maud HOwland Is the daughter Of J.
William Howland, of New Orleans.
lie Is a cotton broker there. Mr.. How
land, by selling short when Suliy be-
gan TO fall, gathered in another mil
lion only n few months ago Indeed,
be is admitted 10 be one OF the coterie
who manipulated the downfell OF the
last cotton king
Until March Miss Howland was
among the pupils at fashionable
school In New Orleans. In March,
/ however, Miss Howland told her father
she was tired Of school, and packed
her trunk and went 10 Phoenix, a. T.
I No one would suspect Phoenix 10 have
attractions for society girl. Few
young men there wear evening clothes.
/ Instead, they have sombreros. fringed
trousers and top boots. But one thing
near Phoenix Is TO be found nowhere
/ else in all the world. 1t is the cactus
/ farm.
Here DR. r. T. Kuntz, the noted
/ naturalist OF New York, gathers cacti
/ from all over the Southwest, and makes
/ them grow TO enormous size and into
Outlandish shapes.
| Some are twenty feet tall and If
| teen feet in diameter; others look like
overgrown hitchng posts ali covered
with mossy spikes. From March - 10
| May 10. they shoot out rose-colored
/ flowers and grow delicious fruit.
This remarkable farm presents an
amazing spectacle in April. As far as
the eye can reach, for hundreds and
hundreds of acres. all one can see are
gigantic cacti bristling with ferocious
spikes. a background OF deepest green
set off by gorgeous bloom.
1t was here Maud Howland spent
the greater part OF her time and her
accident befell.
As her horse made his leap the
dainty girl from New Orleans-with
a red riE.a berry betwiXt her lips-hew
into the cactus plant. And there she
hung, her riding skirt speared 10y a
great big spine
| Now. close neighhor Of Or. Kuntz
/ Is William l.. Anderson, also OF New
York. Mr.. Anderson lives in Arizona
partly because the climate is suited
to his health, and partly for the reason
/ that he likes 10 ride about. lie owns
/ cattle ranch
| As Mr.. Anderson rode through the
ractus farm on the way 10 see DR..
! KuntZ lie heard sweet soprano
scream. He could not mistake; it was
n woman's voice, but what could she
/ be doing in such 4 spot? He FASTENED
! over TO where Maud Howiaud made a
/ picture at once appealing and mys-
/ tCrious.
In the first place she was about six
/ feet from the ground. How had she
/ got there In the second place. what
/ was she doing on Dr. Kuutz's cactus
/ farm, anyway? Obviously Dr.. KuntZ
/ did not approve. Into these questiors.
| for the moment, however, he was too
/ gallant 10 inquire. Instead, lie set
about getting her down
In removing girl from n cactus
/ plant the fundamental RUE 10 be OBJ
served is gentle care. Anderson ele-
waited Miss Rowland as best he might,
then he let her down again. She stuck;
the spine had speared clear through
the riding skirt, and refused 70 set its
prisoner free. And the more he tried
TO move her the more untenablc be.
came her position.
Forlorn hopes are undertaken under
other conditions than war Anderson
soon found the situation one that only
q jack-knife could relieve. So after q
little time Miss Howland was lifted
tendCrly 10 the earth. Then the clever
tailor and rescuer caught her horse
and escorted her To her sister.
Now, Miss Rowland was tho most
beautiful creature Anderson had ever
seen since journeying from New York
The accident occurred on q Wednes.
day; on Thursday he called; on Friday
tley rode through the cactus farm; on
Saturday he called again. Within ten
days the engagement was announced.
The wedding took place recently in
New Orleans.
But IL is not often one can pick q
nillion-dollar bride from eff 4 cactus
plant
a REVIVAL OF WHALE FISHING.
/ IN an article which presents all the