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THE GORDONYMÄSSAURE...

**A TALMA OF ZANUT PIONEER DAYS.

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In the spring of 1850 (says Captain Drannan if the Chicage, Record) I went to Fort Kearney for the purpose of piloting a train across the plains. Just what time in the month I got there. I do not remember, but it was early In May, and the train was walking there for a guide when I arrived, I made a contract with| the emigrants that evening to go with them to the foot of the Sierra Nevada Mountains.

In this outfit of enigrants was Henry Gordon, whose home was in Christian County, Illingss, I got intimately acquainted with him before we got through. He had his own saddle-horse, and very often he would ride with me for hours when I was on duty. He told me he was not going to California to dig gold, but was looks Ing for a better climate than his home In Illinois, and if the Califomla country suited

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JULY 29, 1899

over their ankles into the ground and also over their wrists, and in this way had made them ist, while the captors lay down and slept.She succeeded in loosening one of her hands during the night, and finally freed herself and her sister. They started to make their escape by running, but had not gone far when they found the Indians were after them. Maggie having outrun her, Mary had bidden under a bunch of brush, when she heard the Indians capture her sister,;;;

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SHORT STORY.

him he calculated to move his family to the dians camp fire, only a short distance from Tulliver's conceptions. With an added touch | Lady Jane of Newcastle Inthe following with these musical boxes, and they, went being fair in love and war, Mick made bold ·

Western coast.

Instead of taking his family West at once as Gordon had intended to do, he remained in Christian County until the fall of 1852, having been elected sheriff of the county After serv ing out bis term of office, he sold his farm and stack and persuaded some of his neighbours to accompany him West. About this time a man of the name of Myers made his appearance in Mr. Gordon's neighbourhood and pretended fall desperately in love with Miss Mary Gordon the oldest daughter. She rejected him from the start. A day or tivo before Mr. Gordon got ready to start this man Myers called on Gordon and insisted that she should become Miss his wife. She gave him a pointblank refusal, and told him positively that she would have nothing to do with him. He then told her he would "meet her in the wilds of the Rocky Moun tains, where she should crawl on her knees and beg become his wife."

After making all arrangements Mr. Gordon, his family, and friends pulled out for California by way of New Mexico, known at the time as the Butterfield route. I was in Nevada, work,

ing as a Government scout, Our quarters were in the south-eastern part of Nevada, and we were camped on the north side of the Clover Valley Mountains..

When I returned to quarters early one morning Colonel Elliott told me that James Davis, my first assistant, had been on top of the mountain about 9 o'clock that night, and had seen what be supposed to be on emigrast train on fire in Choke Cherry Canyon; that he also imagined he had heard a number of gunshots,

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I had Davis call another scout named Maloney, and it was not long before the three of us were in our saddles and on our way to Choke Cherry Canyon. We rode alors together until daylight, when I halted ond. gave each man his route to take, also telling

them the road I would take.

Before I had got to the station where we were all to meet I ran into a band of Indians having- a scalp dance. I dashed into them and succeeded in getting two scalps, which I found to have been freshly taken. One scalp was from the head of a man, the other from a woman. "Soon Davis came to me. He had heard shooting, and knowing that it was on my route, he sup- posed I had got into trouble.

TRAILING A NO. 9 BOOT

track of a No. 9 best this morning, made by a He said to me: "Captain. I have seen the white man, and he is with a band of Indians who have a barefooted prisoner with them. The man wearing the boots is not a prisoner, though

he is white."

I myself had crossed and recressed this same boot track during the morning, but I had not seen anything of the track of a bare foot told Davis that the runn evidently was some scoundrel assisting the Indians in their depreda

tions.'

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Just at daybreak: we caught sight of the In Sagebush Mountain. We tied our horses and started to trawl into their camp. Within a few yards of the camp we saw three Indians asleep also a white girl, tied to the roots of a tree only a short distance from where the Indians were lying. We had crawled within a few fect of the Indians when we discovered another person in a sitting position, a little to one side. He was in the guise of an Indian, with the excep tion of his dress."

We then took off our serapos, wrapped up this girl ne comfortably as possible and took her about a mile and a half to a grove of timber. 1.took her in front of me on my horse. When we got to the grove we cut boughs and

the bookstore, or a limited company to flostivessels. made é bed as comfortably, as we could, left

some of your inventions? A limited.com her there and started to hunt for her sister;pany had always been Tulliver's dream. telling her to be perfectly easy and that no

Something bigger than all these, be returned, with modest pride."1 am starting one would molest her

as a Universal Agent.

Magnificence has always been the note of of humility I begged for particulars after he had acknowledged my curiosity with My method has always been," he replied,

a laugh, "to find out what existing-lines are prospering most at present, and then to see if I cannot carry then a little further. Now, the modern life. Nothing now is done, in most agent is, I consider, one of the great factors in professions, without an

tan agent. Schoolmasters get their pupils, headmasters their assistants recently, as you know, literary agents have clergymen their curates, by his means. And sprung up all over the place like muattroom

1 nodded. 1 trod on one the other day; accidentally, at the club," I put in. sometimes a trifle deaf. Well, as I was "What was that?" said Tulliver, who is saying, I can see pretty well how things are going, and I don't see why I shouldn't chip in A few years, and every one who wishes to get on in his profession will employ an agent. The daty of an client alone, as I conceive it, is to get his I interrupted him for a moment to applaud this sentiment. I employ an agent myself.

"And how are you going to begin business ?" | maisters crood thir ships.wi' a lot o' loons wha. up their minds that Bill Jones had rushed right and, cheerful trader, who could look a

dare not whisper to one another, and every

We were so close on to them now that we thing had Luxdud to be done by signs. But we thorough

fect. When we drew our pistols on the person at a given signal and not an Indian got to his sitting off by himself with the intention of firing on him, we were surprised to hear him cry out in good English: Don't shoot; I am a white man.".

THE CAPTURE of the renegÁDE, I knew that he was not a prisoner, conse. quently as soon as we got to him we took his guns away from him and bound him. We next released the girl, and she told us who the man was. We took her to where we had left

her sister, making the prisoner walk in front of us, hoping all the time he would give us some. excuse to shoot him down before we got to

quarters.

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of musketry. The occasion for these displays | his old folks raised an serious objection to this is often of the slightest, but love an easy step. His first cruss sea yoyage was to the

Fiji ram will make a nów chúm hammer his best sweetheart ; it makes the hastened trader laugher-pus who hoards up his dry approving | Iultic, bùthe femuraad," you could kick a foot. chuckle, for real wit

it ruay have a finer taste in ball to it "On the Igh March, 1334 thịp efferander

“PIGEON-FOST," TRAGEDY.

moody and morose, Bill and Mick gut moody. the risible, but is not always so pleasant a left taldeeforthe Davis Straits whair, hing,

afid morose after drinking a few pannikinsful companion.

and the subject of this sketch was one of the neighbours in Los Bay in the picturesque east trading was antous in, fact to give the whole Bill Jones and Mick Daly were traders and Mick at last announced that he was sick of "No" he said. "I have given it up tegenhoma ou that occasion, this being his end of Vanua Levo, and although trade, mat thing up and go back to Ireland. He would porarily at any rate, I have come up to London first trip on a whaler. It is questionable if any ters brought them, into fierce competition at clear by the next steamer it he could get any to-day to make arrangements about a new other member of that crew is still alive, for since business. My offices are chosen it only then sixty-three years have come and gone- cetimes, the rivalry was of a more or less friendly one to buy him put... remains to get a brass plate, and I'begin work." years that have been full of revolution in the methods of rivalling each other to secure busi had Daly out of the way he could make bis

sort, and they even got much sport out of their

That was a grand chance for Jones. What is it?" I asked, with interest, for I know shipping as well as other industries, but full, too,ness among the the men well enough to be sure that thereof ret

so far as the whaling indu

fortune. Felice would marry him and come to would be something novel in any idea he started is concerned. Whereas the Greenland whalers are occafio vode down in yun. Blick receiving a good figure in cash for his trada wait the old tobacconist's shop scheme, or could now be Cerman mercha introduced to him a new sis small sailing boat for Tavinul, ostensibly to

retrogression, so

industry

On one when Billens buying a fresh live at Los Bay. The two spon effected a deal, used to call

Om Bordeen, Berwick,

stock and goodwill. On Monday he started in Boness, Dundee Greenock Hud, Pitched imparted, from Hamburg, and he bought a

Kirkenldy

barrel-organ of the cheese-shaped kind, just catch the schooner for Levuka, But he didn' Leith,, Montrose,

gof the worst on record, the year is

dozen at once, as the new instrument would be Friday fround him back beyond Los on the go far in that direction, as may be guerred. for, among the whole dect only tivo, whales a novelty on Vanua Levu. It had a dozen beach at Rambe, where he boarded the Solo- ware, got or one for each of the vessels lost in tunes round disco of perforated paper which that year the Superior of Peterhead, and you fixed on the top and clipped. When Billion and cutter as soon as she arrived

from Levuka. Bay he created quito a, sensa-

Felice was surprised and shocked. But all year the Alexander brought the bone and oil of eleven flüh into Dundee, but

off like e hot cakes, at about 7 apiece. The naj THE RECORD TAKE

tive chiefs bought them up engerly, and would headway. Bill had told him to say that he for this ship was twenty nine whales, which was

have the dozen, tunes, rolled off ons after his native wife at Loa to go off gallivanting to would see her blowed before he would leave more than could be slowed jaway... This was

another. Everybody was delighted over the Samos with a French barmaid Folica was in 1845, when two wiles had actually to be new thing except Mick Daly, who found his furious, and in the end sailed on with Mick of Dundee, which ship air Thomson had all flocking to the enterprising Bill Jones's are the lue waters to Apia, where the consul left untouched... A year or two later, the forn,

business falling off rapidly, as the natives were by this timed Joined, caught go fewer than store.

married

them, and, they took a public-house flirty.tive, wiles, yielding over two hundred

near the beach,

dred tons of oil. But of course, whalebone tons of bone, and considerably over two hun was more plentiful then the now, and did not therefore, command so high a price. The old man remarked that the last bone he dressed muchens the price formerly got for it. But Tatchell 63,200 per ton about three times as at 800 a ton a catch yielding eleven tons would give the tidy total of 63,805 and then there would not fait to be added so this the sum got for the oil. Nay said the old man, "then wir the days when th whaul fishin wis. aprofitable indiary. Dit man, thir wis men that could take thim (the whales) in they days, forbye nooadays, th ha'e are experience, ant ken wacthing about hoo to deeAnd then he launched forth on a, kind of men who manned the whalers in former dissertation about the contrast between the years, and the youths who, for the most part the decline of the industry in great measure to comprise the crew' nowadays, and attributed this fact, "for" he, concluded, "thic: fish are there. in hunners yet, bitt dinna ker sh wie | "ti-get ai them." It needed only a hint from the listener that he would like to know exactly how they did

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I asked. "Simply put up a brass plate, and sit at the receipt of custom, eh?” successfully reining up a boisterous laugh in "Such was never my habit," replied Tulliver, When we got the two young women together; mid-career. "No. 1 flatter myself you won't started Maloney to headquarters for able scheme in train. For the next few weeks.

often find ine sitting idle when I have a work ambulance, also sending my report with him, shall be pretty busily employed trapping clients, We had to take the girls about five or six miles the ambulance could get to us, and they were on horseback in order to get to a place where Authors are getting a bit shy of new agents now, so I shall wait for them to come in later." in such a condition that we were obliged to

Artists, lawyers, doctors, soldiers, and sailors travel very slowly.

it is among these that I expect to make my initial success."

"Lawyers, doctors, soldiers 1"I repeated, in some surpaise. How the deuce are you going to get anything of theirs for sale?"

Who said anything about getting things for sale ?" retorted Tulliver, with undisturbed good humour. I tell you I make it my busi nes as an agent to secure success for my clients,"

By advice, in short,

I struck in, rather sardonically

Well-es. Advice is one way of doing it." The only way, as far as I can see." Tulliver_nodded his head up and down sagely. "To a man who knows the ropes, like myself, there are ways enough of hustling a man along. Take a doctor, for example. I, or one of my assistants, fall down in a fit hard by it is in all the the residence of one of my clients. Next day

It was late in the afternoon when we got to headquarters. I had the women taken to my fresh water for them, when I met the com quarters in the camp, and I started to get some

mander. He asked about my prisoner, and for an answer I directed him to the young women in iny quarters.

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I was gone some 15 or zu ininutes for the. water, and when I came back I met the colonel.. had been with Colonel Elliott a little over

two years, and this was the first time I had over seen him when I thought he was mad all over. He said:

Captain Drannan, I want that man executed at once, and I want him executed in the presence of those two young women. Get them in front of your teal there, spread down blankets so hardest-hearted villains die that God ever put they will be comfortable, and see one of the breath into."

execution. I asked the young women if they I immediately went to work preparing for the could witness it Miss Mary said, "Yes, 1. could readily see him shot, hanged, or bumed."

Oh, come " I

in, "that game is a

"GET AT THEM"

to set the enthusiastic old fullów off on a

At last Daly could stand it no longer. He goods, and also laid in a stuck of the German went down to Levuka for a fresh supply of musical boxes. Mick was a resourceful, Trish man, if ever there was one Returning home on the cutter he had one of the instruments tried it. Aner playing The Watch on the outon deck, and carefully overhauled and Rhine" over, he laid the paper upside down, and turning the handle, played the tune back wards. Barring an ocasional gurring, it seemet to go very well, and, indeed, the native sailors pronounced it a better make meke" than the real air. So that was all right. Mick sold his instruments-two dozen tunes guaranteed-pt ten pounds apiece, and the Fijians soon made them, when he charged seven pounds for boxes that only gave out twelve tunes.

Miet. The natives think much of a man's On another occasion Bill got the best of rank, naturally looking up with respect, to one who is a chief.

Mick did not mean to deceive anyone"

Mer-..

haps, but he had been drinking. Fiji rum, and

when a native chief casually asked him what up a good story. They were all big folk at class his people were in Ireland, Mick worked

home, were Mick's. All the other insh people had to dig yains and carry bananas for them, and all that.

natural.

The chief was somewhat sceptical at first and went and fetched an old illustrated London paper that contained portraits of the royal family. Some strips of bell leaf were carefully pasted over the names, and the sheet was placed before Bill to give him an opportunity of picking out his old London friend. Oh, Prince's photo. That settled it. that's Teddy," said Bill at once, pointing to the

lengthy explanation of the way and the where fore of the whole proceedings, and in order to.

The Fijians took a great, interest in Mick make his explanation intelligible to one less after this, and flocked to his store, to Jones's acquainted than himself with "bow-spirts,"

material loss. By degrees Jones came to know "troves nests," etc., he produced a truthful, if the reason, so he confided to a chief with whom crude painting of a scene at the whaling had why or his the shy of his own past, "grounrls" the sea), which greatly a man of should be rusticating to make matters plain. The following is his in Fiji. He had been a great friend of the story in succinct form: every whaler has eight Prince of Wales, used to go out on the spree five-oar boats and fitted up in each is a gun- with him every Saturday night, when they harpoon with about six hundred fathoms of drew their weekly allowances-the. Prince's was much bigger than Bill's but that was only rope, while some fifteen Gathoms are tied on to the small weapon. When at the whaling grounds the boats are always kept ready for action, The men take turn about of watching for the appearance of fish. The lookout, is kept fmm, the "crows'nesiaway up near the top of the main-mast. The job is by no means a cold. one, for, will the rocking of the ship and the dashing about, the bird in the nest often feels more dry, chilly atmosphere. Up in the lookout there than comfortably warm, notwithstanding the are three glasses, through which it is possible to see clearly for many miles. It is the duty the glasses, and the first indication that some of the lookout man to make a good use of thing good is about is the blow of a whale, may be several miles away. The alarm is raised, and the lackoutman shouts out the direction the whale is si hted, giving at the not know that sometimes the best of friends fell.

Bill was ready for this query. Did the chief

tance, from the ship. The boats make off within it, the Queen had got to hear of the now, and, same time a rough calculation as to her dis-out over a woman? There had been a woman all speed in the direction indicated, and by having to stick up for her son for public reasons, and by the men are able themselves to see the had conveyed a hint to Bill Jones that he had oily monster sporting in the water. Not a better go away for a white till things blew over. ward is spoken by any of the hunters, who So he went to Fiji, and then got to like the place pull unnoticed if possible, almost alongside so much that he didn't care to go away again "There are risks in all professions," said my their big game. Then, when a suitable oppor in a hurry. forget that I myself am no despicable band at heroic friend, with a smile "Besides, youtunity presents itself one of the harpooners the game."

conviction. However, there are other means trifle thin by this time.

But works, I fancy," said Tolliver, with merely mentioned this as an example." I pinned a piece of paper over Myers' heart, I suggested."

And suppose your client to be a sallor," and told Davis: to step off eight, paces in fronts that case my first step would be replied of him. At the word "three the entire scout Tulliver, "to secure him a Humane Society's force, five in number, should fire in rotation, medal. Our noble navy gets but little public a cording to their rank.

recognition, and I admit that to push: a) lieutenant may prove a difficult matter; but to keep him before the pubite, once let him by some means or other I fancy I shall be able pose as a hero."

#But will there not be considerable risk? I presume you intend to play the drowning man yourself. Suppose your lieutenant were only a moderate swiinmer?

THE UNIVERSAL AGENT.

"Well, here's success to you," I said, rising for I heard the sound of tea-things ascending to the drawing-room... I suppose 1 am not so young as I was not so susceptible to enthus siasm for I will admit that I felt no very strong conviction that this new project would raise my friend to affluence. The thought struck me with a sort of melancholy. The pleasant never recapture it now. I looked at Tulliver mounting the stairs in front of me, and sighed,

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FIRES THE DIG GUN, and, if successful, the harpoon is fraily em bedded in the whale. And now the excitement begins. The great fish will probably make sudden dive, causing the water to splash and dash in every direction, and the hunters some- times run narrow escapes of being thrown from their boats, which are apt to get upset. Yard after yard of the rope to which the harpoon is attached alestover the bow with lightning rapidity, as the enraged monster flies from her would-be captors with all the speed she hundred command. Soon the six can fathoms are nearly

and the rope exhausted,

of one of the other boats is called into requistion. But, in course of time, the whale becomes exhausted, and the hunter proceed to renew the attack. Fulling alongside armed with long spears, the harpooners await their chance, and when it comes, plunge, them into the al ready dazed and exhausted fish somewhere about the region of the heart: If they can [to this without much trouble the prey is as p

But the chief was shrewd. If he had been so well in with the Queen's eldest son he would If so, why didn't he borrow something from have stuck to London. Did Bill get hard up? his intimate chum, and so weather things that

way?

That satisfied the Loa chief. He had had trouble over, women himself in his time, and knew all about it. Thereafter he and his peo- ple had both sympathy and respect for Bill, whose trade receipts went bounding up, while Mick Daly's went tumbling down.

back to Noumes in a Frencli copts trader, and Mick never had any luck afterwards, which was perhaps as it should be Mrs. Daly bolted when he went back again, Mick found that everybody cut him dead. Bill Jones had found the dead pigeon, Beachcomber's Club in Levuka, well known as and had reported Mick to the coinmittee of the the most particular and exclusive club in the islands. When you are ostracised by the Reachcombers: there is nothing to do but die, In Fiji you are a sort of double barrelled out- cast, and if you leave the country the stigma of the thing follows you wherever you gokarte

So it came about that Mich Daly, once a

eren wincing, wandered off into the wilds of. missionary in both eyes without flinching or Livoni Valley, where he ale tipe bananas and chewed cocoanuts till he died of a bad Hver.

WHERE LONDON LAGS, PARIS SETS AN EXAMPLE IN ITS APPRECIATION

OF THE AUTO-CARI

The newest thing is the autocar, not as a toy, but as an established institution revolutionising social and industrial life.

It has reached its highest development in France, where it not only stimulates all social France is making motor-cars for the world. life, but has given rise to a great new Industry. England lags behind in its adoption of the new vehicle, and in its refusal to recognise its in dustrial importance, recog

The history of the motor-car is entirely. French in its development, and it is almost certain that it is to a Frenchman. that the honour of its invention is due.

the Englishman, made the first mechanical Although it has been said that Royal Bacon, carriage, it is now proved that the real inventor was a Frenchman named Cugnot, who was born in Lorraine in 1739 and who devoted his life to mechanics and military science, -

In 1810 Nicephore Niepce, one of the invers an automobile which was propelled by the aut tore of photography, succeeded in perfecting cesive small explosions of a chemical powder, and sixteen years after this Herseng Hazard produced a car which ran by means of hydros carbon vapour which is practically the petrol of today. and never achieved any real or lasting import

But these experiments were nice. It was about Boo that Lanvinand Bolla

only

tentative

Invented really serviceable, automobiles and French Academy of Sciences, obtained for them the official recognition of the

enacted in England, not quite four year ago When the Lecomtives on Highways law was it was passed owing to a pressure of opinion: in favour of automatic carriages being use tin sible to estimate how much this country han the streets and on country roads. It is impos last owing to the entire absence of a means of cheap internal transport. The agricultural depression is even described as one of the results.

Freight on railways is enormously costly. The English Post Office charges £4.95. 8d. a ton for the safe and speedy conveyance of pur letters, while the transport of parcels for a few miles costs £15 2s, 7d. a ton.

The great and abiding trouble that eventually arose between the two traders did spring from a This is just over four times the cost of ship. woman, as it happened. Felice Lorin was a ping freight by a mail steamer on a ton of ans barmaid in the Pacific Hotel at Levuka, and goods from London to China | Accordingl Tones had been paying court to her for some the Act allowing the autocar to run without the time. She was a simple, honest; girl, notwith-attendance of a gentleman with a red Rag standing that she hailed from Noumica, walking in front was passed...

Many wooed her in Fiji, but Bill Joner was the favourite, and they regularly, corresponded by pigeon post. Both Jones and Daly used the pigeon-post between Levuka and Loa very freely, for they were large shippers of bananas to New Zealand and Australia. As soon as the incoming ateamer was sighted at Levuka, the terminus of the lines, the postmaster on Beach-st let of a message-carrying pigeon from Bill and Mick's cages in the post office yard. In a couple of hours they had the news cutting their bananas in time to catch the steamer before she left Levuka,

For the last twelve months hardly anyibia has been seen or heard of motors by, the general public. People have got it into their heads that the autocar is a failure, and that it will not eventually come among us to stay.

Who has not seen an autocar drawn up against the kerb and surrounded by a crowd, who stopped to examine the novelty Ite garded with open eyet and mouths, and an air of but ill concealed wonder

have never mentioned, as yet, I imagine sanguine spirit of youth was gone, and I should managed at, woll, but as there la "many. they were only 100 miles off and could start upon it. It might be a whale from the expea.

"If you come on to this man and be is not à

We had searched this man Myers when we prisoner," I said, "treat him as you would first took him prisoner, and supposed that we an Indian; don't ask him to surrender but had taken away all his weapons. When every ence, and do not allow him to take anything was in readiness, and I had counted advantage of you."

We now went on, arriving at the station a down like like a dog, with my hands tied?.*

"one," he said, "Are you going to shoot me half-hour behind time. While wandering what

I took qut my sheath knife, walked up be had become of Maloney, we heard two pistol hind him and cut the rawhide string that shots in the direction that Maloney should be coming. We believed that Maloney was in two, but before I had bad bring one, trouble, and we went to his relief as quickly as drew a knife and started for the girl who stood said “t Myers possible. Maloney had struck the track of a hare foot, made by a white woman, and had by my side. When the scouts saw the motion

And how about remuneration?" I said at dismounted his horse in order to trail better, they fired before I had given the last word, when the Indians sprang on bin from ambush but nonaltogether. Myers fell at the first shot, last, for it seemed to me that the advantages and took his pistols away from him. When came up to his knees, and tried again torget | secured by Tulliver's method were at present we got to him he was tied fast, and the Indians to the girl The second shot. struck him, and somewhat intangible. had began to build a fire around him, “..." he fell again, then tumed on his hands and Talliver considered awhile. "Ten per cent We had a fight with the Indians, but finally as and tried again to strike the girl, when on any increase of salary given within two years

a shot struck him full in the forehead.

of my employment," he pronounced, at length. drove them away from Maloney, taking two. We kept the two girls with us about two think that will be good enough, he con- scalps. After Maloney was released we mount. cd.our horses and started to trail this lone bare months before we could catch a train going to tinued, cheerfully. "Even the worst of them foot. This was Wednesday evening, the next; the east. When the first train came along are bound to get on a litle in two years; some, after the burning of the train. We followed the sing west, I went to it myself, fold the eini-especially barristers and doctors, may advance track until dark, and went into camp on the Krants of the circumstances of the girls, and by leaps and bounds." trail. I sent Davis off to the northwest, and asked the women to donate some clothes, when about six miles away he found an Indian which they did very liberally. With the first encampment so situated he could not crawl rain going cast the colonel seat the girls back into it to see just what was there. The next to the States, morning, as soon as it was light enough to see a-trail, we took up the track of this lone person again. One man would play back and forth between the trail we were following and the trail that the boot-track was making. My idea was to keep tmck of both parties at the that my friend Tulliver je a married man. In same time. We were not strong enough to deed, it was only a month or so ago that I heard

slip twixt the cup and the lip," so also is there follow up both tracks separately, and Ima the news myself. Tulliver is not a good cor-

many a slip between the harpooning and cut- maged in this way so that I would not weaken respondent. About once a year, on an average,

fing up of the whale. And David Thomson, my force

I get a letter in his peculiarly straggling.band

of all men now living, bas had his share of the

There can be no possible, doubt that as yet writing, cach time bearing a different postmark FOLLOWING A BARE FOOT

SER EXCITEMENTS AND HARDSHIPS

lucidental to the life of the whale hunter. Al

and it is equally..certain the autocar will be autocars are only in their infancy in England, We trailed all day Thursday. Late Thurs to demand constant traveling from which I (for the exgigencies of his present business seem

though he had never any very narrow escapes

come it has done In Paris an integral part the trailmakers, particularly the lady, there with fortudo. A good five years have passed certain amount of danger, even under the most nearly metawatery grave while chasing a whale,

from drowning by being thrown from the very

of our life mistake was made when go a were many places where I could trail her by since I firit know Tulliver, and even then he favourable circumstances, but that danger is The hat often dive below the huge blocks of the blood from her and this without ting off my horse. The country abounded in had been for sometime engaged Before I left increased an hundred fold where the waves are led that dof the Davis Straits, and get into very

experimental stage, and few really satisfactory time-English motora were practically i prickly pear and various species of cactus out offence, had become a standing jest. In off-times interspersed with huge blocks of ungetable positions, rendering it imperative

results had been obtained from any one of the Ion his engagement, if I may say so with which made it very bad to walk over even with stead of the Greek Kalends, or a blue mona, we frozen shores, and where the sallor, earns themonto the ice (dually several inches. ico, as is the case around Greenland's for the hunters to get out of their boats, lift mocassins of thin shoes. When night came used to postpone the impossible to the date of is bread by the bazardous pursuit of those the water), drag them across, and launch on Sunday, while Mick was the reverse. To very day that the Bill became law motor-ca Although this was a well-known fact, on the the trail, was leading up to Sagebuah Moun- Tulliver wedding. But the man knew how to hunting the oily leviathans of the northern them at the other side. All this, har got to relieve the tention the Irishman took his gun makers and enthusiasts organised a great gro

I took the centre, with a scout on either side caived a note from him asking me to be nis

Ind double quick best man. I was abliged to refure, partly be worthy old veteran, who for furenland whale of dangcher die occation, the boat of

time, and as may on Sabbath mornings and went up the moun- cession and motor drive, which, very natually, readily ba cause I have a natural objection to putting my set all every year for the Greenland well which Mr. Thomson was one of the crew got

was nothing less than a fasco Machines The green fishings, and who has spent altogether for the person who bag called. There, under that the best man at a wedding should always This is the cheery, ald octogenarian, David came rushing in, and in a few minutes n: chaparral bash, found a young woman yeni bine chapa, too, as the back Thomson; than whose 6gure bone is more fami got a pile of his jacket, rolled it up in a more dead than allre, a fair chance. at

She told me that the emigrants in the train of my mind lay a lurking doubt whether the

to the older class of Dundes seamen, for of however, pulled it had all gone to bed on the Tuesday night be function would really take place, after so long late years the veteran has spent most of his. Bundle, and plugged the hole; while two others 'delay. But I was, mistaken, Last April 1 time about the docks, taldag odd jobs as fled out the water as quickly as they could received a letter from him. 14 which he spoke harbour To a Dung in the The others pulled for a block of Ice with all

watchman on board chips thing, but their night clothes and stockings, Venkusy of having been to Panis for his honeysentative the enthusiastle" al recalled some threatened avery second to go to the bottom she levelled his fowling plece and the next minute to the new sport, and costumes are specialy:

their might, and Courier Topte

and though the disabled craft ting along to drop over the mountain top, Mick when the margacre occurred Thermoon, wrote back at once for the news of the many exciting incidents with; which was kept afloat fill the men got landed on old Brúng th

her clothes were almost entirely form interested me, and begged him to look me up his long career has been fraught, and so he the ice. Besides the actual danger incidental at the Irlahman's

dead pigeon off her. It was there and then she told me of and have a chat about old times when next he

to whale hunting, there is sometimes the possiNervously he cur the little letter from the this man Myers that he had caused their should come to town, There was no reply, but warmed on the subject the old harpooner.

CHASED THE WHALER dored with exception of herself, her

"and saddened" ||tion Mr. Thomson has had some awful expe- Dear Darling Bu

are you hat when he thought that

E. H. LACON WATSON in PM; Gasthui

50 YEARS A WHALER

EXPERIENCES OF A MAN WHO ·SPENT

HIS LIFE AT ITUMAT KA M

Pavement wits sharpen their intelligencies sion on the faces of the passers-by, and if there is a policemen near it his attitude is obviously one of suspicion and mistrust..ERNETA

day evening we were satisfied we were close to gather dimly soma particulars of his struggle Life on the ocean is ever warped with ai ing boat, he was one of half a dozen who very mountains of the Waikava. peninsula, which allowed motor-cars was passed." Att

over A

Every time they went down to Levula the traders took fresh supplies of pigeons to replenish the stock is the post-office yard, so that Follice bad facilities for writing regularly to Bill Pigeons for Lon Bay made always across

which they tumbled down into Loa the Goro Sea, over Coro Inlaud, thence, to the

Felice Lorin, and by degrees grew violently

Mick Daly had a great eye an, and a jealous of Bill Jones, Felice regularly wrote care about that Bill was always a happy man to Bill on Sunday. In her spare time, and to it

regard

for,

them.

tain, where there was no timber to be seen, wait About the beginning of last year" deep. Yet there lives in. Dundee, Scotland, a be done imagined it involves a good deal tains shootinged tungater got into his heart broke down, and the much-vaunted

of me. It was nehr 11 o'clock when I heard a faint call near by, I sprang from my horse

Tore, and that she and her sister had on no-

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one day as he sat resting on a falles cocoanut presented, the pathetic

pah

ever the Gora Sen he saw the regular pigeon and ill-advised notion retarded the subseque

the "homing" from the Levuka direction. The progress of

autocars in Great Brita devil, does come and stand at a man's elbow On the other alde of the Channel sometimes, no doubt. He was a Mick Dalleveryd

very become

y different Indeed, and

and the that peaceful Sunday for certain

As the innocent messenger of love came

Ait

and bounds.

TC by leaps able t

V

entire traid to be burned, and that all had been fortnight later be turned up unexpectedly, over again withismabited visa for him; auch niences, having to subsier for many days on and Woll, I hope. How is the wild Irishman ?: Isal CoÁL

bilty of a scarcity of foodtrand in this conner bird's leg, unfoldedfi

servant,

and spent the best part of an afternoon

The wealth and fashion of Paris le devoted designed to go riding f

France la the real home of the autocar Into every department of French life it is meting; rapid entry, and for the purposes of locomotion, freight and social meetings it is almost univar Je And; what sort of business ars you

shall be at Rambe with cutter, Solomon Island Meanwhile, what do we sep debate (1) that can be called a debate wherethe and experience he rauch doubts, David first The old man described in every revolting loving Felice.NA

to those not yet grown old, and whose prowessLOWHALE gumente wers all on the same alde) on the melt the sea breeze in Dundee, when detall how they went down to the hold day Here was some startling news, if you like. Northumberland

laboriously makid married life

inthe the century was yet in the middle of, its after day and lico a lot of tannibals cut up the Mick beat his steps down the mountain cogita. back to faxin the old days 1Tulliver teens, so that he is now four score years and sickening olly akin of the ugly monsters and ting Calling at Bill's, he found that worthy machin

precarious livelihood four His father was a shipwright, and

devoured it greedily Mr Thomson has, during treder rather down in the dumps looking David early contracted.

for Ching his long seafaring life railed in every capacity anxiously every now and again towards the often marife. This,

in the youth-except captain, and be statos that though he crest of the mountain. No pigeon came of people aluting blej khas served under skippers of various nationall-course, and Bill began drinklog with Mick ue paly to tas lie" (tlas, he never had a bad master ·

Linquired when we had finished an animated" ON was for over past and relegated, jen nothing but a hard wares and LAMA 10 crew, Friday 9efl out and come Samoa-Your .cumbrous and noisy van or two, i

sion running off to

@helping:

shed:

trip, in

and

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