Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 44, Number 26, Jasper, Dubois County, 28 February 1902 — Page 3

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A LITTLfc GRAVE. ,ri i w the wintry wl.xU have bl AI. - th- yellow grass blade. r. . Ar.d thrta tbe Man intra iuni and tV'wn. Aiul thrice the leave, all brown und s. r-. JUve drlfteü softly, gently down. While I. to win the praise .f men. tlnve labored In the busy town Fjlgaltlnf now and then. Forgot tin? Nay. I have but tried To laugh the ready tears away: Hh bt an outward .how of pride I II have mourned from day to day. And Ml the bu.y market -place. At night, to .It apart. alon . And. dr-amlng. faai a little facs l'ri.sed softly to my own. fhrlre now the wintry wli.is have swpt Above my darling, sleeping here. A-1 I. unseen, to-day have wept I I ;t many a long, long treasured tear. st .1 where my hopeless teardrop fell N a KOWafl of hope have bloomed for mt Oh. 1 !1 be P'a,l ln aolnc WH. Sine- one I love shall . -9 K Kiscr. In Chicago 1 .. r ! I 1. ? JSd-se? : - t i i e' A TENDERFOOT AFTER DEER. BT T. K. VAN UTKK. "WH'HAT do you take me for. anytny? Hav n't you stuffed me aottgh already? The idea of a deer liing in this kind of u country!" said my friend Doswell one day. when we were out hunting quail. It was on one of the U'ost forbidding parts of the cobble-stone and cactus mesas along the lower coast of California, and when I suggested that we should come out after deer the next day with titles I had quite forgotten how absurd the same idea had seemed to me some years before, as it must to any one who has ever known much of deer !n the eaut. I induced him. however, to try it. and as he had neer hail any exjcrieii-. with deer except with the kotgUO befOM hounds, we had r.ot been out long lefore his kicker was In good working order. "Caul you dig up something deeper than this?" ha said as we started a ros a bij ravine. "If there is anything I like it is a California canyon on a hot lay." "We'll haxe some hills that'll make vjp for the difference before we get through," 1 replied. "Yon bet. There are aome expectations here that never go kCh me. :t how the deuce do you expect to tind any deer here? What is there for the to l:e on?" 'What's the matter with living on climate, the same as some of the people?" "I'.v Jove, there is some hope that you'll live to tell the truth yet. I'ri afraid, though, you slipjed that admission out a--ilentaHy." he growled. A glimmer of greyish brown through a bush on a hillside maile me whirl my rifle from my shoul Vr before it came into full sight outside the liiili and showed it waa a coyote getting utnliT full sail. BotWCil tumbled to the ground and rolled w ith laughter. The best I could do vns to smile a cheap smile and keep still. It was my turn again before we had gone half ' mile. As we rounded n point of rocks at the bottom of a gulch, just above sorne brush about GO yards ahead ti;;red the big round ears of a doe, nnd lower down, still larger by contrast, were the ears of two fawns: all looking much like huge lobes of the dead priekly pear, with little l-sides ihe neck and part of the batofc to indicate the difference. In those days we paid no attention to the sex of deer as we do now. It was aitnply a quc-tion of whether we wanted venison or not. and when we went after any we made a practice of wanting some. So I said: "There are three der. Hurry up. oo, for they see us and won't stand long." "Where? Where? Where?" he said. looking in the direction in rhkft wa pointing, while his hand trembled on Die rifle. "I don't sec any. XXhere are thev?" "Why. right over that brush there. Don't VOM see their e.TS. "What? That! Why. they're gone. he sr.id. ns with that mysterio-.Js pow er a deer has of folding his tent like the Arab nnd silently stealing away. they dropped their heads and left us f '::' : th:- brn- h. "Why. darn it! I thoi:gM that wma eaeitm," he said. "Of course. You never raw a deer landing still before except in a picture. Sou were looking for the attitude of the sculptor's warhorse. with fObee) neck, mouth wide open, a Ooajplfi of doen tines on his head all f aslii:- like streaks of lightninc. scteral hundred individual hairs all shin-

Inj- aftd plninlv visible at M yards or j some smaller one at an .witnoro; dew daws all drawn out in j would almost anjotnt the tail of a f'i! with glistening curve, with a rabbit. Minding glitter on perfect hoofs and It waa only a wild and desperate a line of dark j t for the split in th chance of touching one. but I whirled

ssftof, Such a deer was never seen ex- " pt in a snioothlv shaven park, but that is exactly wh. t the tenderfoot ft.. " m always loi.king for. and cnsccmno ran t s - anv thing else. "Y-n-r gratmv's' nightcap. It's in the russed eountrv. Like everything 'le h. re. i-ata-Vtw Owe In inlk "ubi.ut. NtaiM inspect ion. Just like 3-.'.. alwnvs sneaking out when 1 cor"r you ön nnvthing in that euswed "ook of yours that brought me out k . . . ...... -wre to mill..- a tool oi nivsen wnen tl,r. , ..,. of i,...,r i,.,!.

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gcr mi. mm I J aii ma or you Ii see something there with enough se.-d and twiat t lie entertaining, You an bet one thing, though, that if yu shoot at one. at you hae been in the habit of doing with a shotgun efre the hounds you will make a .lead jnis with the rifle most of the tilne. fhat kind of talk is all right for . those who don't know how t tdioot a shotgun or anything else. Uut .von I jut run me up again t one of your deer if you want to see something artist ie. "And your talk is all right for one who knows nothing alout a rifle. Rut I am surprised you should try to work it on me when you know- that I know that you have never shot a rifle ia your life," said I. with great gravity of tone. "You had better confine your talents to ainting California rainbows. You can fool people that way all right. But you needn't start in so late in life to educate me on shooting." In about half an hour we were in some higher hills and there we met Bill Martin, another old companion of mine, who was out after deer. A we sat down to rest a bit Martin pulled off his cartridge belt and laid it on the ground so that Boswell could see the end of the ballets. They were hollow in the point and filled with wax some of the first expansive bullets used in this country. Boswell took out one from the belt and began to examine the ball with great interest. What's this for?" he asked. 'That's the chamber for the antiseptic. It's capped with wax." I replied very seriously. "Antiseptic!" he exclaimed, bigeyed. "Yes. In these big hills we have to make such long shots sometimes on wild deer we have to have something to keep the meat from spoiling in hot J weather before we can get to it. Mine are that way, but they are all in the magazine of the rifle." Martin took the cue In a twinkling and, with an air quite as serious aa mine, asked me: "XYhat kind do you like best?" "Why. concentrated creosote is the best, if you are going to smoke venison. Hut for fresh meat chloride of zinc is the best," I replied. "I don't like the idea of it. though. Too much like erabslming." said Martin, with an air of disgust. "It's a j pity arsenic is poison, for it'a ao sure and don't taste a bit. lou can notice bafl a faint taste from the chloride if vou have had to lose much time in finding your game in the brush, or if its got away wounded." Boswell had started to pick out the wax with the point of his knife, but had suspended operations and sat looking at us w ith big-eyed wonder. Neither of us quivered, but we continued t!;e dis-isv.on in that line until finally Pa well, with all the artlessntss of a sucking lamb, gracing a childlike smile of bashful incredulity. said : "Say. you fellows are fooling about that, ain't vou? XX'herenpon we took a roll on the ground, but he didn t see anything funny aboOd it and kept a dignified silence for the next hour, as he wan dere,! awav bv himself. XX'e finally beckoned him to ns. f.r we had found the track of two big bucks. XVe told him to go ami get a position on the top of the ridge where he could get a ahot if they ran around on either side. "Tig tracks." he said with contempt as he looked at them. "X'e, you make goat tracks for that ridge, and you may see something." "You just want to get me to climb that big hill in the hot sua for nothing" "It'll lr nothing all right enough, for you'll never hit anything, but it s worth something to see a good buck run through the brush and rocka," said 1. "Another California fake. TT) bet a dollar." he muttered aa he went off. After waiting awhile for my friend to reach the ridge. I sent Martin around the hill one way while I took the tracks that 1! the other way. so that some one would have a ch.mea for n s'ot if we could start the deer. After following the tracks about half an hour, as they wound around a hill. I rescind the ridge that commanded a view of the other side of the main hill. As 1 followed the trail up ita side there was a heavy thump of hoofs from its top and a grand smash of brush. I scramhled to the top aa fast as I could, and reached ita crest well out of breath in time to see two big bucks in high riochet career, now clearing brush with lofty bound, then diving through the heaviest like a dolphin through the wave, now skipnine a huge bolder as if playing fol low mv leader, then twisting around the rifle from my sbouWer cnti raise, ! it on the largest buck just t he rose in a curve of glistening hair hfgh I . - S i TL. . M tM Iaut a-s 01 Isfk i aoove ne .-r. -'"s - i Mlr :- his body wuld drop two r three feet while the hall was making the trip I bad the calculation made in great shape, when, just a. I - rendv to pull the trigger, the bu suddenly wilted like a wet rag st the top of ha bond and at the same time a. -aw ..ir.rm.nmf .n tue rrars oi - ' ..v.! rie-r from away up among tba

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ft was a much bnger shot thaa 1 ff tT Irl. .a Id probajbtjr have km a mis, mm na 'amount of calcuatioa will make anj certainty ia such bot. I was so paralyed with surprise that instead of I at, . . -

snooting at the thrr buck, which was bounding away ia plain sight. X mo waiting for Hoswell to shoot at it. But. J.ke all tender feet, be had to take a repeater down from bin shoulder to w..rk the b-ver. and that littl scrap of time is so valuable that before be could pet a sight with it. or lief ore I could nint to mr sense again, the deer had whirled around n point of rocks and down into n busby gulch. -Well, do you think now there in anything in Calife. ia?" I asked, aa a huge smile illumined the somber brush around the dead deer, which was struck squarely in the middle of the neck. "You bet yonr boots there ia. There's a chap that can shoot." replied the proprietor of the smile. I didn't have much to say to that, and he resumed: "Humeri poor shot, though, too. I'm out of practice some. I meant to hit him right where the spinal column joins the brain, and dunned if I ain't three inches too far back. Talk about your antiseptics. Bah! Yoa don't need any if you point the gun right. You want to touch the spinal marrow and then you won't have to chase any wounded ones around in the brash. And if you ain't too slow alout it you don't need to take maty long shots." I stood half paralyzed again at hia audacity, for when a deer is struck at the top of his leap at such a distance it ia certain that he was at the lowest point of the arch when the trig-

ger was pulled and the danger of (T MJ Wfl Uve m oax jMson thrB live upon the Aootrt, an.! that certain ,ain ranp,. an(1 M fnr west as San Oorovershooting ia aa great anyhow that lh? contrast between one filled with de ah await the explorer. XXith these .j,, JiakS in the southern part of

ao one of experience tries to aim a ball so that a deer will rise to meet it. but just the reverse, so that he will descend to meet it. And even if the deer were standing still, such a ahot would be the last one of any sense would try to make for the mark ia far too small. But I waa afraid to argue the point with him, and at last ventured timid) v to ask: "If you are such a fine shot as that, shr didn't vou take the other one?" "Great Caesar! How many bucks do you want in one aay : no yoa take me for a game bog?" he replied, with an air of astonishment that would have made a reputation on the stage. Los Angeles Herald Illustrated Magazine. IN THE INTEREST OF SCIENCE e of Ihr lira bar La to oeial lav tlmarv silk m i braalat af Ulout Faealttra. When one's friend is a scientist ino given to experiments a little caution may not be out of place before consenting to do him a favor. That, however, did not occur to a certain

wel, -known public man whose espcri- an,j tephea lost the sympathy and ence is related in an Australian paper, interest of h hearers when be utile went to the laboratory of aa terrd them old schoolmate, a Mr! bourne profess- stoning of Stephen Such words , or of chemistry, to make a friendly ' foujd onpr make the feeling of the aoJt The professor waa studying a I jPWt more intensO. and the r hatred gsnffc brown substance spread out on showed itself by gesture. The hatred a sheet of paper. : was .till further set egow by "I say." be cried, when greetings Stephen's bold anr.ouncemn of bis had been exchanged, "would you j vision of Jesus in glory. T".a vision, kindly let me place a bit of this on comforting ss it was to th- martyr, your tongue? My taste has leirM rs to the sachedrin only arrester vitiated by trying all aorta of things." anj more atrocious blaspher-y. The

"Certainly." responded the accoromodal ing friend, and he promptly opened his moutn.

The professor took np some of the ances. they them r Ives ru.-h-d upoa jn he ,JpsorIt an,i it is not so un- ,r;,ght waters down from the MO ill substance under analysis and put it Stephen, not waiting for tie guards B1L.h.v ami useless as ft is reprted to tamÄ. When this supply beta me eaon his friend's tngue. The man to remove him. snd bnstled Tim out Perhaps the most beautiful sight hansted by filling with drifting sand.

worked it around in nis mouin i.r fully a minute, tasting it as mach as he might have tasted a choice con feetiaa .te any effect?" asked the pro 'es -or. "No. none." "It doesn't paralye or prick yoat tongue T Not than I can detect." "I thought n.t. There are no alka loids in it. then. How doea it tastcT "Hitter a gall." "Hem m ml AH right." r.y this time the visitor's curiosity s aroused. "Hut what ia it, anywa how?" be in iuirr.1. -I don't knw. That's what Ym trying t find aad. Someone has l-eea poisoning horses with it." or I. Tnf Mela tar OSS er. A town in central Illinois boosted for man v years of a most ornamental re figure which adorned the town squa seven davs in the week. Iiis I. 5-. .nle-lor of attire he rivaled the Beau Hk-kmaa gd the capital. He had a numerous famii;. which he kept we,, in the . , " i -,.rt,i mlfe. in assertive wife. the background ,n . . . UIV . Z.P,r wis' electnan irsriniaiii m as 'a mm mm w - - '-' who krpt him wrll during the few hours - In ik eoiirse ll.'ll-r. . 1 . fTfltl m lllmmi ITiff l"or awnw ed justice of the peace. Me -as Per of the ol.V ,J "lp!r" dise. The nrighbors snarci nia . a glory by reneet.on One of them was seated in Justice l'oor - sitting room one day soon after the election and heard the justice talking with his oldest son. "la we all jest ices, pawr?" tne boy asked wistfully. The old man had something of an impediment in iiia speech. "Kb -no. my son." he aa- : awered. "Onlv eh m- and en your rh csgo Chronicie. Crarl Jot Vrst r.aussirs I umlrrataadl "9 - 1 guilty of conduct unbecoming a gvn- ; '' , Mrs ''-"n' T JJ , "F.r goodness sake now. vvneu I - a ., . ,,,,,-, i. "O! constaatly. My dectot a a

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i la the laleraalloa.l rlesl trek Ui llms-lkt Staalass wl tlr.kra. THE letlllW TKXT (Art. T Ü. 2 a ftrt.es they ser Ums tatagft the were rut is is heart, sad ta gt. Ud ta nlaa w:ta th.r teetb. bv but a, atiagj (uii of tb Hu Gaaau looked as r scfaatly lata Heaven.. ar4 ss tar . j .-. ;-: ua Iba r gat baatf ot Ud. fa Asd awid. Heboid. I ae taa beavena op cJ atd taa Bon, o Die aiasCo-g t tb r - K Ttr tbti erlöst out with 1 vo:e. .- - : .: r. i.vi rr. -i u s a -.in un ssntard, aV Ac2 east him out of the city, ird -1. o r :r. . . r ;tt. o- . ... .n irtr cum at a a ou&g gaaa taat. tos Lasse aa Saui. SO. As4 tkey stome Stepbes. caliirg upoa Goat, sxtf aavlac lort Jesu, recelv my svartt &. Atd b ktek4 djwa aad cried with a load vase. Lord. But ibu ale to taeir ibargt. Acs tbt be bad said tals. be tcU gg4ano L At ! aaul was eoaseattcg ucto bus dratb Atal at that tune law re aas s great persecution agalrat the cburch which a as at JeruaatosB. sssi the) were all scetlrrrd abroad tbrovasrhout the reanocs of Judaea alc S sir.irij. cat pt the apostles. 2. Asd de vest men rarrieO Stepaea to bis burial std ssaUe grtat lasset.::. ju vr It. t.oi.m: n:T -rrsr ir tsaaaa kirk deallerwli amr yum. mm arraeealr yum Halt. 100. KOTfü AJCJD oliAUKXTfi Manjnlom.-A martyr, literally, ia a .tLr... and. by historic force, a witness who aeala hia testimony by his blood. That there should be martyrs for the fiospel was inevitable. Truth and error cancH come into contact without a conflict. The secret of persecution is hatred of the truth. Stephen revealed it whea he said to his malignant hearers: "Ya do alas-. - rea -t the lloly Ghost the Holy Spirit aad those who were resisting Him. Stephen's Defense. The right to be heard in one's own defense before the sbahedrin was complete and i r f 1 1 v iniinlil fx n in tk. of Jesu it was freely accorded. Jewish ideas, as expressed in the !aw. for the procedure of the Sanhedrin in criminal eases, were almost. e I if not quite, as strong in favor of giving the accused every opportunity s are our own in America. In bis plea. Stephen reviewed the history of the patriarchs and the early vears a! l.rtl wifh ih. niirThoae o f thnwing that the svtem of worship in the temple might be changed. The Jew. believed ia tiod s revelation to Abra- . . . - . bam. Jacob. Joseph. Moses and , , , , . , Joshua, none of whom ever had a , . ,. ,. . - . . temple. As tiod s worship had changed from altar to tabernacle. ; and from tabernacle to temple, so it might change again from temple to spiritual worship. X'erses 4 V) point out the fact that God's superiority to the temple wa declared in Scripture (Ia. 08:1. 2). These words, however, seemed to the Jews sacrilegious, as throwinsr contempt oa the temple. jjt,jation w.t- too tT -e f. he dig. itj of the Sanbedrin. StoppTg their . .-, I" - rr.-r-io the place ot -xrcuiion. -re mr procedure liecarre more orderly. It wa9 toe d)nt 17: "). trf t when anvone wa ton"d to death ?t false gfajrship. the v rnesses agail it him shonld cast the fi -at stoaes. 1 he w itnesses in this C!a,e prepared to act by removing tbir outer gr"tnests, which thev laid at the feet ' ' Saul. ho th'is appear first in the history of which he sooi becomes TM cer.tral fig ie. Kvidnt:y he did ft take tral figeie. Evidnl!y he did n-t ta anv persoral pai in the sto-ing fact which Is ore of the sf-ngest indications that he had attained the dignity of membership in ti the Saahedrin. His enthasiastie real would have led him to enjoy burling j stones at the supposed blasphemer i had his position permitted suh aetion. Stephen's first prayer iv. .Vi) I proves how he kept the faith; his second (v. 6) shows how Christlike his spirit wss. Th:- Istter !s exactly in the spirit of Jesa own words (I.uk- 3:34. while so utterly U.nerCnt 18 torTO SS I o ir c lorm . uo ,vee ; . - i - . i i rst ' fee Ting. Burial of Steafseft-Way gbft ftga Vies cou u reu.-... o. -t.-"-.s r- roo.a others were driven away does not appear IVriapa they staved from ft wcw f dntv and were espreiaüv protected. Even to. thy mu.t have nr.,rrtrll r ,w..-.Kt. m.1 f f hrase "devout men" is oniT of Jews. The fact as to nrn, ,hat the rema " fc , n. , n canimou-'v supported bv those who had rot accepted Jesus as the Christ. PRA'T.' Sahfa Al'PI.b . T'- I M flThen a disciple of Thrift fa'.'hfn'ly sritaesses for li ra, he maj expect to aroue ppositi-vn ar.I hatred. The faithful Christian may look for the sweetest i:on to be gives i him ia his worst trials. Tlrr true Christian udB rhow that he is such by praiag for bis eneTo '.he true Christian death i but sleep, from which there ia a glcriou awakeairtg. The heart that sings, wtaaga itself . Ig- heave a Kam's Horm.

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(t Is Full of Attractions Peculiarly Its Own. Yaate Places mt aal T. steal Haeo i heir gaaa aoa Han of ia Hrarlrral k beate of lba I rrallaa. ISpecUl OsbaVarsda Letter Sl'PEHPH I XL writera tell ns that the Colorado desert is "very bot." that the aandatortn are 'verj" binding, that it ia a "very dreary waste" acd that it hould be reclaimed at government expense. Travelers, whose informs' i'n i iinired to car windows, while going 35 miles an hour, even go A DESEKT ritOSI'E'TOR. so far as to te!l us that nothing bat poisonous reptile and rtetoOJ anima'.s sitnp'.e statements, and misinformstion. the cry goes forth: "Down with h. -er- r rather. n i it up These interested in land schemes advocate a system of artesian wells, and visionaries want to II od it by tapping rcinc ",n "m" ' t!"rt n W reclaimed by artesian -.. but why shou'.d t he government ,,rk f"r the benefit of indi c .v... vidual land seeaer : ur.a mr Wim of deser: Nature argue: "XVhy should it be reclaimed? XVhy obliterate our "breathing space T To :he existence of tbi- leaert we owe much of ur "BJMtcblCM climate" f the far west. consequen t y. hea.rh. pr.spen y nd-wes.th 1 .r we Yno . at -hou.d kn.w. that the air o the desert ,s much ourer than that of ovlier sections or rurrr 'UJ . . countrr. where it is continually , , J L-aüass. t.. l,r a'he .it. p. iohe ! ,v human lungs . .' . , . , snd further made unwh..s,me bv the decay of animal snd vegetable matter. Were the desert "reclaimed," as it la ca led. the superior healthful condition of the country bordering the Colorado desert would not exist. For vegetation would grow. anl trees and rain would come. The atmosphere woiildcontain more moisture, and. consequently, the sunligh would In- less clear. "The purer the unlight. the purer the air." is a truism as o'.d as the -ands of the desert. The majority wh rlo not think, shoal tand thi: Nature made the desert, and for a purpoe. and that its greatest benefit to mankind is its pure sunlight and air. and health-givingquslities to more heavily atmospheric laden countrie. There are many swampy and malarious sections of etuntry that could be utilized, anl should lie. in .reference to walmi money otl the dwrt- ,,nt part i,.ulai ving is useless. ,, ...... v ; tiful thing l OYOTE OF THE UKSl ItT a this land of contradictions is the optical illusion commonly known a the "mirage," which excites tlo- sonder of all who are s fortunate as to see it. ami which so ew " e Iii rough There are two kind- of mirages one . ...... ...s . .... ........ - . I bv refraction. or Iwndingof the I light-rays as thev ftnftM from the sun; ai d the" other by reflection. The "re- ; frartcd' illiisi.n is distortetl. or re- ! r..,! HVr obirets hnni'inir in I he air "upside down." The "reflected" I illusion is the well-known and most ! fre.iuentlv occurring mirage of the !r.;: ,. ;- . ,r. a land where there is ro water, the wavering ol the sir striita. r -h-thi; nit. g f the dense air by the heat, gives it the appearance of H,,,f of water. This mirage occurs only in the deeper bedft of the desertt be last resting place of the dead .en. and where there is no gttation. Meeting a train coining through the - realism to tbe illusion, Or. it vou I e down .n the ground, vou will see the waves r'-shing upon vou. 'l"here is nothing that brings aa nearer to Nature than a study of il svrt 1 life! There are many, however, who do not see Ivesuty or usefulness in any- I thing unless it can le turned into dfttlofol Tbe desert has few friinds; nnd the SvrsaU slid fewer. Every oac makes,

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The greater the uevs-isiioni 1 he desert ia a- lieee-,ir, to the world n are the fore: Iwith are parts of the grand aeheme of ( reut ion! The i rd i.nrj traveler sec- nothing in tha '. kati but sum! ami mountains. Una never out of sivlit of the grand niouutains in the ( olnrado deert. Ha does not notice thai the brilliant bad larj elo ds ure prettier than elsaWbaH la the world, snd that their OOlOOl are more intense, lie is not impressed with the llsOf attj of space, I he pi ofoim.l silence, nor lhe mysteries of deert life. Yet, there is a fascination in thla life. loOBO natures love the plains, the hot sun, an bsfOfOtaifO silence, a treeless hind, but todowod with a wealth of eoli.rs and atmospheric affect-, aeen nowhere u t ii le of a desert! The nmre pfOOtieol may ask what is it that at t raets peoplo to thai waste of sand of in tense heat, drought, sandstorms, cloudbursts and death? It is the solitude, the silence und tha desolation, strange as it may seem. There is something inviting in spaco and distance, and this is why soma people prefer the desert, the sea or the mountain. There is romance ill desert life; there is poetry in its many boaaties; there is interesting history written in the sauddnnes that form the beach lines of this island laka bed. there is some tradition to gO with it. and there are many hard anl untruthful stories told of the desert by hose who have not studied its mya teries. For a desert is the most mysterioii part of emotion a dead) world, deserted by humanity, and which reveals its history only to geologists and scientists. (ieologists claim that ages ago (geological ages) the gulf of ( allfornla extended as far north as the San Iteruardino moun- ( -ajf,,rnia an(j lnat ,he so-called ' s.,,,, Bea- valley, further down, was he dee,, bed of the gulf. It is 12.', feet below sea level at its rim. anil TiOO fee deep at its base, (inly a few showera fall there during the year, yet thera are floods f r,,ni mountain cloudbursts and subterranean streams. Nothing lives in this part of the desert. Th XBl BBI1 ' Bswf-alBBBB ilonSHB AX ARIZONA CACTUS PAR DKM. 'ew reptiles that tourists see are migratory, like themselves. The sandlunes. H feet high, along the north,.rn shore of the lesert, and the shelelag beach rich in shells, mark tha trying up of the northern end of the gulf w, know .is the gulf of California, aad ebriatoaod three centuriea ig bv th laad-roabing Spaniards aa the Sea of ( orte:. The same beachline formation is seen on the southwestern abort whieh trateboa under a spur of the ioosl range f mountains. Here iir- aNo indentations of ii:iv harbors and river beds that .....I I. a ..miff eloi-ireil bv a bar of j .!.' ,,s ....... - - p, r. -rf sediment, this jiart of the gulf was change,! int., an inland lake. Kvaporatin began, and as there was no water supply from the mountains, from below, or from above, the sea became a desert. I logtata nssert. most posiitivelv. that ihe shores were inhabited, and have unearthed pieces of pottery. ftgfttO boodo, arrow heads, etc.. that belong to s race . bier than the Aztecs or Toltecs. nnd of whieb t-iese roe, luve left no tradition. Thev naturally aaaght the warm höre, of the gulf, where fish vvna more plentiful nnd fOftM less diflleult to obtain, and only tied to the mountainwhen pursued by a more -nvaga race that came centuries afterward. There 0.10 people living n the lesert btcauae of its beauty, gnjmdeur ,) Hiey nre of a lifferent M . from thosr of the rallrOOd towns, and from the mininp prospectors who Ure nothing in desert life but the dollar. ThOJ 000 a sense of the beautiful, though they do nt know it in that f -rin of e,rrssin. XVherever there are spring of water and a fringe ..t i.rbrht creen shrubs there is found ' xhr desert dweller. He has n "patch ... r r,- , ; ,,f vegetables and n garden of fnilta, i and here himself and his family liva out of the baay world, in a desolate. j f agfdtse-el rieken load, where nil nni- ..... I nn t re is n t vv ar. a nd t he very elemrnts nre in discord. Some of them I t. in the rocky caverns of the footmm- where st reams a re found in rock basins, nnd there cultivate fruits and 'vegetables, nno no,,e. j n gddltloa to mmanca and resllty. f,r le-ert nN has its fiction -tha probable, and vet not impossible. An expedition of scientists some years f ;ltr,, discovered Oft the bench line of i thi ancient ocean the hulk of a vessel ,mbelded in snnd The hulk vvns of a peculiar build, the poop being high ar,, f the type of vessel used by tha I ancients. Its uf ftatlvftttoll Ift ftCCaftftOa aa for bv the fact thai in this nrbl regin decay is very slow- wood Is da troycdonly by being benter. Into ftoftfta der by the winds, and when imbedded in sands it is preserveil for centuries. hen this vessel was wrecked Is a mat ter for speculation. J. at. SCANLANTX

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