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CHINESE COWBOY OF MILLIONS, CELIBACY
MONTANA.
"Wizard" at Driving a Four Horse Team.
DRAMA OF INDIAN DAYS.
I
Cut Bank, Mont., Sept. 8. Only a fair brone rider, but wizard at driving a four horse team was' George Taylor, the only Chi- the annals ot nese cowboy in Montana, who now has put 'away
hoe on his little ranch here..
Taylor's Chinese name was for gotten when he was adopted in 1855 by Jesse F. Taylor, owner of a big
known 'ns cattle outfit
the. S. T.
brand, located near Helena. The by had been brought to Helena
from China by his mother who died that year, leaving the five-year-old
stranded.
The wealthy rancher sent the boy through school and then put him to work on the ranch as a cow hand.
While still in his twenties, Taylor was entrusted with a drive of 1,000 cattle from Helena to Chotean, at that time the agency for the Black
feet Indians.
AND TRAGEDY.
Vast Inheritance Which Ruined Many Lives.
UNTAMEABLE ANIMALS.
The Romance of a Black Cat.
FALLACY DISPROVED.
THE CHINA MAIL.
BABY CARRIED OVER ADVENTURE OF A
GLACIER.
Mother's Flight Across Mountains.
BALLOONIST.
Attempting Height of Ten Miles.
OBSERVATORY IN FLIGHT.
Berlin, Sept. 7,
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1980.
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A remarkable story of an Ita- Miss Ella Wendell, who has in
lian mother's hardy exploit with herited property in New York ex- ceeding £30,000,000
a child in order to join her hus in value, through the death of her sister; The other day a well-known band in France is reported from Mra. Rebecca Swope, lends a her-F.M.S. planter sent home an excel- Geneva,
A world which has just been A party of four climbers obforcibly reminded of the daring mit's life in a gloomy and myateri-lent little collection of wild animals
and another men ous Fifth Avenue mansion.
from Malaya. to the London Zoo, served two These immense riches will make writes Eland
in a Siam paper. whom they first thought to be balloon expeditions undertaken by WING HING CO.
the Swedish selentist, Dr. Andree, no difference to the 80-year-old Amongst them was a binturong, and a priest struggling to traverse the 33 years ago, may see shortly an- recluse who, dressed in the since their arrival I have seen it glacier of Zwillings Pass which
in a house still lighted by gas, and furnished exactly as it was
years ago..
on
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Another seven
equally hazardous and romantic This is the attempt of nature. Professor Piccard of the University. of Brussels to reach of height of 9ixteen thousand metres (10 miles) tions in the upper atmosphere. for the purpose of studying condi
balloon with an open passenger in trying to climb still higher in car of the ordinary kind.
the black snake whip for a garden fashions of the 'seventies, lives in stated in about half a dozen papers runs at an altitude of over 12.600 other. voyage by balloon of an
of repute that they, even when feet between the Castor and obtained quite young, never become Pollux peaks on the Italian fron- tier. Coming closer they saw to really tame. Now this is rather u Suitors Forbidden.
cruel libel of the animal and I beg their great surprise that the third Her, grandfather laid, on his
to aver (1) that they are very was not a priest but a woman in descendants the injunction that
or eight months in her most interesting pets.
The greatest height yet reached they must never buy anything but easily tamed and (2) that they make a long black robe with a baby of property (real estate) in, New
The passage was so difficult by a human being is 12,945 metres. and the American who made this) York, and must never relinquish statement is that they are nocturnal arms.
in their habits. This is only partly their grasp
any they had
truc, about as true as it is of lions, that the guide had to back foot-ascent, Captain Gray, lost his life bought.
Miss Wendell's brother, John, was tigers and a number of other holds in the ice, for the woman so obsessed by this family tradi- animals that do their hunting at was wearing the thinnest shoes The tourists made the tion that, he told his six sisters night. It is true that they possess wholly unsuitable for the moun-
that lest the very useful claws and teeth, which tuine.
they they must never marry
they show every disposition to use happy suggestion property be broken up. . During his long life he kept them under when first caught, but, having had should knot their ropes together. his iron rule in the forbidding several of the animals, I am pre- then let the young woman down Fifth Avenue house, taking them pared to aver that they, if properly the side of the precipice a drop of a vacation to treated, are very responsive to kind 200 feet, to a more negotiable cach summer for
house on Long treatment, even at a fairly advanced track below. country their
Dangers Avoided. Island.
They promptly acted on this Suitors were forbidden, enter- tainments very few, and the family Circus, when on a visit to Bangkok suggestion and the guide and always wore black, the sisters had one, and I was told it was very porter were likewise lowered. In fierce. Eventually I gave two small this manner hours of wearying making their own clothes.
Steadily, with the growth of bears in exchange for it. At the and dangerous plodding along de- which had vious track were avoided for the New York, the property they own-outset the animal,
hitherto been kept in a cage far too fugitive mother. ed became exceedingly valuable.
small for it, was distinctly "nasty," Zermatt was safely reached at One Who Married. There were only two rebellions but in the course of a week I could last, and there the young woman in the family during 40 or 50 handle it with impunity, and a few explained that she attempted this to escape from years. One sister, Georgiana, at weeks after that it was so tame that perilous route
about the Italy because the Thecdule Pass, the age of 50, was unable any it was allowed to run longer to hear the monotony of her garden and used to have capital by which so many fugitives have times romping with a small dog. So lately succeeded in gaining Swiss existence, and ran away.
Her brother had her committed much for the "untameability" of the territory, is now so closely guard-
ed by the Italian military, to an asylum; she was later re-binturong.
She further declared that the leased by order of the Supreme
Encounter with Blackfeet. The outfit was encamped for the night at the present site of Woll Creek, A band of a dozen Black- feet who had jumped the reserva. every to steal horaes took tion horse on the drive during the night. Taylor and two of his cowboys. Louis Morgan and Jim Fisher, set out on the marauders' trial afcot. They overtook the Indians, shot and scalped two of them and recovered the horses.
Young Taylor then followed round-up for 10 years.
-
the
All of the countless adventures of the early west were Taylor's until he settled down to stock ranching in 1878. He had been clawed by agrizzly.on a hunting expedition. saved from the swollen waters of the Marias river and another time had the brim of his hat perforated
in the shooting up of a saloon.
1. While spending the night in
smmall cabin in the Sun River coun-
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try with small hunting party. Taylor and his friends were awak
submitted to her brother's will and
house until her death.
age.
Some
years ago
Harmston's
Unlucky Black Cat.
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Professor Piccard, Anancially sup- ported by a Belgian scientific fund.
He is con- has prepared his enterprise in the most thorough manner. adent that he will reach the still and lonely region. He believes that he knows exactly the conditions he will meet there and that the pre- cautions he has taken are adequate for every emergency,
Seated with his assistant Cipfer in an aluminium ball suspended beneath the balloon, he proposes to study the mobility of lons, the elements of atmosphere electricity and other problems of meteorology.
There are windows with thick glass in the walls of his spherical laboratory for optical observation, and inside it there are sensitive and record instruments to measure the results of these observations.
Professor Piccard is now at Augs- burg, where the balloon was made, and he hopes to make his ascent as soon as weather conditions are
favourabllo.
Court, which declared the action I was always under the impres-Italian authorities would not per- unconstitutional, but. Georgiana sion that the black cat, if it strayed mit her to leave Italy and thus
Living Quarters. The aluminium ball, about 61⁄2 feet an omen of good luck. But I have the only means open to her of returned to live in the gloomy into a house, was to be regarded as escape over the mountains was
Part of in diameter, is airtight. added that she ita exterior is painted black, and if The other rebel was Rebecen, just read that in China it is con-joining her husband in France.
babe from being the adventurers begin to feel too who, at an advanced age, decided, sidered as the reverse, as the fore- Smiling, she runner of sickness in the household, guarded her ened by a grinding of the loge in
cold (the temperature outside the under zero) they will turn this black surface with its high capacity for absorption towards the rays of the
in spite of her brother's furious But then China, where they eat cats, frozen by hugging it close to her the cabin. The party found a herd opposition, to marry Professor
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aa inflexible as John's but John "demonology and devil-ore" say treacherous glacier. Press.
was ao enraged that he is said to that a three coloured cat is a certain have forbidden
remaining protection against the house in his
which it lives being destroyed by sisters to go. to church any mure,
One by one the celibate Wendells fire, though I have yet to learn died, and, with the brother's death whether the presence of one in a 16 years ago, Mrs. Swope assumed house is considered a good reason by the administration of the estate, the Insurance Companies for a re- As she was a childless widow all duction in the amount of their.
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"KICKED OUT" OF SUNDAY the property now reverts to Miss premia. However, with regard to
SCHOOL.
Under a will published recently United Methodist Free Church has been left a legacy by a man who fifty years ago was "kicked out" of its Sunday school.
CHURCH'S DECREES.
SECRET SYNOD AND BIRTH CONTROL.
aun.
A little motor with a propeller, which is fixed outside the ball, but controlled from within it, will en able them to do this. As long as they feel warm enough they must keep the aluminium surface with its resistant qualities between them and the sun.
The adventurers expect to be-in
many hundred miles by the wind.
a little sugared milk-for every ouuce Exhort all priests, to discour-weight matters and, as a precau- the age the practice of betting, tion against conditions in
greater altitudes, compressed and.
quid oxygen.
of
Decrees of the Irish Hierarchy Eila, and thus the brother's wish strange black cats, I know of one made at a secret synod at May. that it should not be broken up case where a man who discovered has been gratified. But when Misa one had very real good luck. Hear nooth in 1927, and approved by the the air only a few hours and reckon Ella dies the estate, by her sister's ing a mysterious noise in the night. Holy See last November, have been with the possibility of being carried
14 he came downstairs with bare feet issued in booklet form by the will, is to be divided among
to Investigate, trod on a black cat Catholic Truth Society in Ireland. They will take with them
They charities.
Tho shuttered and shabby on the stairs and was in hospital of the for several weeks, with a dislocated The will is that of Mr. Frederick myslery house is one
curiosities of Fifth Avenue, look-arm and some broken ribs. Stokes, a Nottingham accountant,
A Contested Will. who died last May, aged 64, leaving ing completely out of place in one
The things he said about stray of the world's richest shopping £46,053, with net personalty £49,647.
centres. Miss Ella never goes out, black cats were appalling, but ap- Among his bequests was £25 to
never receives visitors, still obey-parently they bore him no malice. -the United Methodist Free Church,
ing the memory of her brother to For in the hospital he made the Palm Street, New Basford, near Not-whose will all the sisters, save acquaintance of another patient, an tingham:
acquaintance that afterwards ripen- With my thanks that a hot-headed one, sacrificed their happiness.
ed into friendship, so much so that
teacher in the Sunday school kicked legacies.
dress.
Forbid them from taking any part in the making of wills the without the consent of
They will each have a parachute, Bishop.
although the aluminium ball looks Forbid panegyrics by laymen as if it might be difficult to get out of in flight, and a third smaller In cemeteries, and
Exhort the faithful to shun parachute is available to check any contraception and
indecent headlong descent of the ball itselt. This will be Professor Piccard's With regard to contraception, it thirteenth balloon ascent, but he is me literally out of the school Further, my 50 years' experience on his demise a year or two after- some 50 years ago, my crime being.of, the university "product" makes it Wards patient No. 2 left patient No.
care of souls should put forward. that I was talking to another boy, doubtful to me whether except in 1 a sum of £5,000. For some reason is urged that all who have the not superstitious. with the consequence (small thanks special cases-the training is any or other the relatives of No. 2 con- to him) that instead of being good for this work-a-day world, and tested the will when the whole story every effort to prevent "this un- "taught" by him I set to work and further still, as it seems a part of came out and you can find it in the utterable crime, hitherto unheard and not prolong, as a rule, even night, but indulge in them in studied hard on my Sundays and the policy of the Government to keep British Law Reports of about 1887, of in our midst, from ever taking modest dances to late hours of the
"Let the faithful avoid alto moderation.
whatever injures
"Let them shun obscene repre- thereby probably laid the founda- all sorts and conditions of men and the interesting parts of it being the rest in our land.
Let them not attend sentations including picture post- tlons for such success as I have had women "studying. etc." until they fact that the Court allowed the will in life.
are well on in years, I think the to stand and that during the hear-gether ing of the case a stray black cat morals. Mr. Stokes had left £2,000 to Government had better pay for twice came into the Court. The first theatres and cinemas unless they cards and illustrated papers. Let Nottingham University, but by a them.. codicil he cancelled the gift, stating: Mr. Stokes's bequests included time it was turned out but upon the are of good reputation, Let them them not read books, especially My reason is that the increases in £50 and $750 a year to his wife and second, it was allowed to remain, on completely avoid dances, which novels, except with the advice of taxes and duties have now got to £200 to his friend Edmund Hunte- the personal direction of the Chief are offensive to Christian modesty, i persons of established integrity."
Judge. such a pitch in this country that man, first Lord Mayor of Notting there will be very little left out of ham, "who greatly honoured mo my life's saving if I do what I with his trust, his confidence, and would like to do in the way of friendship."
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