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4 THE WEEKLY LEDGER: CtAFFJTET, 8. 0.» DEOEVBER 18, 1898. UN UNEVEN KACE. The Desperate Run of a Brave California Bronco. ft* Keeps Ahead of a Thoroughbred Raee- ihone Until He rai n from Exhaus tion — A Thrilling Narra tive. An exciting story is told by Crom well Galpin, in St. Nicholas, of a race between a bronco and a big thorough bred horse. The former was ridden by a mere boy, a Californian, who had i to file a certain paper in court before noon in order to retain possession of a ! farm. The writer says: There was still wanting the one thing that stirs a racer to his utmost endeavor. Felipe had almost forgot ten the horse behind him. Two-eyes had not. He had been on the alert, horse fashion, with one ear now and again turned, and increased his speed as the thoroughbred drew near. Felipe turned his head with a sick feeling that in a minute more he would not be obliged to turn his head to see. One sidelong glance showed him a bay horse with his head in the air, his dainty ears upright and his frothing mouth wide open. The rider stood in his stirrups, leaning over his horse's neck with the reins wound around his hands. White foam had gathered at the saddle girth, and sweat dropped from the horse’s body as he ran. Felipe shut his teeth, and turned his face toward Los Angeles. He did not need to look long nor to know very much about horses to see that this one was a true race horse, and the man u steady and a skillful rider. And Two-eyes? Two-eyes heard the quick hoof-bouts, and the “huh-huh, huh-huh” of a horse at speed, and felt hot breath on his Hunks us the thor oughbred drew alongside. Not the unmusical cry of Tomas, not the fierce shriek of the savage who in the old days rode him—neither beating with knotted rope, nor cruel stroke of sharpest spur—could have gained from the bronco horse the response he gave to the challenge of the thoroughbred. The big head came down closer to the ground, the hairy ears were laid back till the mane concealed them, and the deep lungs labored as, through blazing nostrils, the horse sucked in the strong salt breeze. So far the race had been run over level ground; but as the riders approached the city, the country became hilly and the road rougher. It was not for nothing that Two-eye:- had spent live wild years in the Sierra Madrcs, where the gray wolf and th mountain lion are always swift and a ways hungry; nor was it wit hois ;. vantage that Felipe's tomboy si: ..a Ignacia, hud raced the pinto horse ov r this road till it was us familiar to M. i as the stablcyard at home. To t!.. bronco horse, used to the mountain from colt hood, the hilly road ap; siv i to be rather a relief, lie galloped la boriously up the little hills and ru i, d down the opposite sides with a spe .. that took away his rider's breath; I jumped from hillock to hollow, an- across the little gulches; he dodged tn spots where reedlike grass showed tie. the ground was wet and soft; and whether running or trotting or pr gressing by irregular jumps, he went m. his way with scarcely lessened speed The thoroughbred had never been al lowed to run except on a smooth at d level track. He refused to leap the first gully which crossed the road though it was scarcely a foot wide When Harry made him face »t again, 'm jumped ten feet farther than was net. essary, and stopped stock-still upon the opposite side. Then he bolted side wise, and ran in the wrong direction; and Harry felt as if his arms were be ing pulled off as he forced his horse tu return to the road. As *for Two-eycs, he did what nc could. He was old, as horses’ years are counted. He had run many races for Apache masters who jerked his head from side to side, and threw him out ot his stride, in their ignorant and fero cious efforts to make him go faster. I u all his life there had been but one year in which his feed was regular and good; of all the masters he had ever known this was the only one who had called upon him for speed, riding with steady hand and watchful eye and inspiring voice, sparing him needless pain. It is bronco nature to respond heartily to these things, and Two-eyes tried desperately to keep away from the clattering hoofs behind him. Ills breath came in gasps; his mouthi was dry, and his sight was dim; his trem bling legs grew weak as side by side the horses raced down the street leading to the courthouse, now hardly a mile away. As in a nightmare, Felipe saw the thoroughbred forge ahead, the bony head outstretched and down to the level of the withers, the dainty ears laid flat, the crimson nostrils widely spread, and the eyes glaring with fierce eagerness. The bronco ran on, but unsteadily. Felipe drew his legs out from under the rope, and as he did so the bronco’s feet sank in the soft earth where a little stream crossed the street. The horse’s courage was greater than his strength He plunged forward half a dozen stumbling strides, and fell just at the edge of the little stream. Felipe slid over his horse’s head into a patch of tules, and lay, half stunned but not hurt, while the thoroughbred horse passed out of sight and hearing, and the dust his flying feet had raised settled down upon the quiet street WMEELfc AND PUFFS. Some In resting Information A’.oat s Lfx-oniot ivc. The number of puffs given by a loco motive always depends upon the cir cumference of its driving wheels and the rate of speed at which the engine is moving. For every one round of the driving wheels a locomotive always gives forth 4 puffs -2 out of each cylin der, all such cylinders being double. The size of the driving wheels vary greatly on different patterns of en gine-, they being from 15 to 23 feet in diameter, the general run, however, being IS, 19 or 20 feet. Five engines out of every 7 may be set down as having driving wheels 20 feet in diam eter. The speed of the average express train varies from 54 to 58 miles per hour. Taking the average circumfer ence of the driving wheel to be 20 feet, and the average speed per hour at 50 mile s, a locomotive will give, going at express speed, 850 puffs per minute, or 52.SOI) puffs per hour. During the same time the wheels will revolve 13,200 times, which will cause the locomotive to give 1.0515 pairs to the mile. There for,- an express train going from Lon don to Liverpool, a distance of 204 miles, will throw' out 213,048 puffs be tween the time when it leaves the Lon don depot and that at which it arrives at its destination. During the tourist season of 1883 the journey from London to Edinburgh was accomplished in less than 8 hours, the distance being *101 miles, giving a speed throughout of 50 miles per hour. According to the figures shown above, a locomotive making such a journey in the time stated must have given forth upwards of 500,000 puffs, or say 532,456. FIGHTING WITH CHEESE. Singular Cate of Blindness. Mrs. Jonathan Rowe, of South Atkin son, Me., who has been totally blind for twenty years, experienced an odd partial recovery of her sight a few days ago. She suddenly became able to Re quite distinctly one afternoon a bom two o’clock, but her vision was totalh obscured again in two hours. Since then she has been able to see every d.. between about two and four o’clock i the afternoon, but during the rest < the twenty-four hours is as blind formerly. A MYSTERIOUS LEAK. It Was m Worm Hole In tbe Keel of the Sailboat. There was a man had a Connecticut- river boat built, which cost him $235, aud she was a beauty. She could go quite nicely and the man was pleased with her till he found she leaked. “Oh, well,’’ said he, “that’s easily remedied.” So he looked her all over for the leak* He couldn’t find a crevice. Tie filled up several places that he thought might have let in a little water, but it didn’t do the least bit of good. He gave it up finally aud sold the boat for $35, and thought he had the best of it at that. The fellow who bought the craft, says the New York Herald, knew she was a fast sailor and he had an idea that he was smart enough to find that leak, but it wasn’t long before he began to think maybe he wasn’t such a suc cess as he might be. She leaked just the same regular amount all the time. One Sunday he made up his mind he would find that hole if he never came back. He took her out and, after she had shown that she was in good leak ing form, he beached her. After the tide went down he went all around her, listening as a doctor listens for lung trouble. He heard a sucking noise about her keel. He got down on the under side and in the timber of the keel was a worm hole in the wood. It had been there when the beam was shaped. It probably wound around like n letter S and to look for it on the inside would be something like hunt ing a needle in a haystack. He stuck a match in the hole to see how big it urns. It just fitted. The match broke off and he let it go at that. She has never leaked a drop from that dav to this. MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING. Two Elephants Quarrel Over a Peanut untl Injure Several People. Two elephants fought over a peanut and nearly scared the life out of fifteen thousand people at Lawreneeburg, Ind., the other day. It was during a circus street parade, says a local exchange. There are six elephants in the show, and one of the two big ones, named Prince, was offered a peanut by a bystander. In- star.lly liis mate, Diamond, rushed at him, trumpeting wildly. Prince knocked Diamond down and the fun commenced. The tigers, lions and hyenas added their outcries and beat the bars of their cages. Patsy Forepaugh and Johnnie Kelley, the elephant 1: . c.s, rushed on the hig beasts. Diamond caught Forepaugh and threw him thirty feet away against a box car, rendering him mu-( nscious and braising him i vrihly. Kelley was knocked down by Prince. Tim four other elephants were then called in to capture the two rebels. Ting i rowded upon them, and after a U rn'T : niggle, knocked the offend ers down and held them until they were chained. They were punished in the most seven- manner for three hours before they eried for relief. Severe! people were braised and lino l:ed about in the melee. One i i: ii.man had a leg broken and was hurled seventy-five,feet. In the after noon the parade was held as usual, the eh phant, being entirely subdued. WHY THE GIRLS LAUGHED. A Few EroaUsldea of tho Dutch Article Won the Day. The most remarkable ammunition ever hoard of was used by the cele brated Commodore Coe, of the Monte- vidian navy, who, in an engagement with Admiral Brown, of the Buenos Ayreun service, fired every shot from his lockers. “What shall we do, sir?” asked his first lieutenant. It looked, says the Pittsburgh Dis patch, as if Coe would have to strike Iris colors, when it occurred to his first lieutenant to use Dutch cheese as can non bails. There happened to be a large quantity of these on board, and in a few minutes the fire of the old Santa Maria (Coe’s ship), which had ceased entirely, was reopened, and Admiral Brown found more shot flying over his head. Directly one of them struck his mainmast, and as it did so shattered and flew in every direction. “What the dickens is the enemy firing?" asked Brown. • But nobody could tell. Directly another came in through a port and killed two men who were near him, and then, striking the opposite bulwarks, burst into pieces. Brown believed it to be some new fangled paixhan or other, and as four or live more of them came slap through his sails, he gave orders to fill away, and actually backed out of the fight, receiving a parting broadside of Dutch cheese. MEANNESS EXTRAORDINARY. Tlii< Namo of Hox Would Be a Compli ment to This Man. The champion mean man paid San Francisco a visit the other day, says the Post of that city. He was a big, long- legged, raw-boned fellow, with a nose like the blade of a hatchet. His eyes, like little black beads, were set within half an inch of each other and glistened and gleamed at everybody and every thing at once. He clutched the arm of a sad-faced little woman with long, bony hand and clawed at his whiskers with the other as he ordered the waiter in a Market street restaurant to give him a cup of coffee. The waiter brought it with some bread and butter and laid down a cheek for ten cents. “Would you give Yne an extra pitcher of cream?” asked the mean man. The waiter brought it. “Yes. by the way, give me a cup of hot water, will you, please?” The waiter brought it aud watched the mean man curiously. He poured the cream into the hot water, put a lit tle sugar in it, shoved it to his wife and flung one slice of bread without butter in her direction. The little woman ate it hungrily and the waiter added five cents to the moan man’s check. Tho row was heard three blocks up Market street. He declared he was be ing robbed because he was from the country, but he finally paid when threatened with arrest. Young Lady in a Fashionable School Was Unable to $ee a Caller. In a fashionable uptown boarding school the other day a young miss boasted that her sister was coming on the next visiting day with a handsome and very captivating young fellow. She said all the girls might see him, but only two or three of her best and dearest friends should be introduced to him. It was to be a case of “you may look but you mustn’t touch” to nearly all the school. Visiting day came, says the New York Sun, and with it came the sister and the young man. T here was a flutter all over the school. The visitors sat in the parlor while Miss Rapid gave the finishing touches to her toilet. Meantime the principal of the school entered the parlor. She asked for the visitors’ names and got. them. “And you are not related to this young lady?” she inquired of the youth. “No, ma'am,” said he; “just a friend, that’s all.” “Oh,” said the principal, “only relatives may visit our pupils, so I must ask you to let me en tertain you in my office until the sisters have had their visit.” This was the situation when Miss Rapid came down into the parlor. She bore herself bravely, but all through the air of the big brownstone house there was an undertone of strange, choking, inde scribable noise. It was the suppressed giggling of the other girls. SHARKS’ FINS ARE HIGH. Becoming Scarce, and Chinese Statesmen Are Greatly Exercised. Chinese politicians are doubtless making great capital out of the fact just now that the price of sharks’ fins has gone up enormously of late. Whether this is really due to these hot sea leviathans becoming scarcer, like whales, or to their displaying more ac tivity in evading capture, is disputable, but the fact remains that their fins, as a delicacy, are becoming dearer and dearer. It is generally supposed that sharks’ fins are never eaten outside of the celestial empire, but they do occasional ly figure in select banquets in England and 1' ranee. So far as known they have not become a staple luxury in this coun try, however, though they areoccasion- ly served at banquets given by San Francisco epicures. The Chinese arc very fond of them, and, notwithstand ing the cost of the last war, still show such a desire for these delicacies that the price is still rising. A Costly Bello. An antiquarian in Taunton recently was the victim of a new kind of swindle. He sent five dollars in answer to an ad- vertisement which said the sender would receive a well-preserved piece of protective armor which had prob ably been used in the Trojan war. The precious relic arrived on schedule time, and on opening the bundle he found an old pair of musty-looking corsets beqj- ing the following legend: “Dear Sir— This beautiful piece of ancient work is thought by the most eminent anti quarians to be the very identical corset worn by the famous Helen when she took refuge with Paris within the ancient city of Troy. If this was not the ease, it was probably the property of the fair Cleopatra. Anyhow, we re ceived the money, and it is kindly ac- knowledged by X. Y. Z” Slot Machine Gives a Penny. The automatic alms distributor Is a reversal of the ordinary penny-in-the- slot machine in that it dispenses the coin instead of absorbing it. The con trivance is devised to act as a labor test for vagrants and beggars, for it exacts the turning of a handle 100 times before it yields the coveted fienny. And this labor is by no means lost, for it actuates machinery, electrical or otherwise, which will perform some actual work, or store up the energy ex pended for future use. A Libel on Girls. Women are now admitted to lectures at Edinburgh university, where they sit on the front seats. Recently eight women were attending Prof. Tait’s lecture on the geometric forms of the crystals. “An octahedron, gentlemen,” said the professor, “is a body with eight plane faces. For example:" “Look at the front bench,” broke in a T nan from the back seats. SFeel [Badly !To=day? 2 We a«k this repeatedly, because 9 serious diseases often follow trifling j I ailments. | Brown’s glron : Bitters If you are weak q an-1 k-rurally ex- Z hausted, nci vous, £ have no appetite m and can’t work, S begin at once tak- a ing the most relia- q ble strengthening n medicine, which is Z Brown's Iron Bit- f ters. Benefit comes S from the very first S dose. S 8 IT CURES S S Dyspepsia, Kidney and Liver 2 • Neuralgia, Troubles, $ ■ Constipation, Impure Blood, ■ 2 Malaria, Nervous ailments 2 e Women’s complaints. • ■ Get only th : genui e—it h s crossed red ■ ® lines on tno wrapper. • J BROWN CHEMICAL CO. BALTIMORE, MD. 9 Cut Prices From now till 1st of January I will sell yon Shoes. Bats, Dry Goods and No tions at Cut Prices 12‘4<: Jeans for 10c. 15c Jeans for 12 1 4c, 30c Jeans for 16S'e. 35c Jeans for 30c, 30c Jeans for 25c. 35c Jeans for 37‘,4c. . . . $1.50 Hats for $1.35. $1.35 Hats for $.100. $1.00 Hats for 75c and so on down. . . . Ready Hade Pants, Shirts, Shoes and Boots in pro portion to above • Best all wool Flannel 15 to 22!4 cents. . Give me a call before buying Yours respectfully, I. M. PEELER. JANUARY 6th, 1896. THE * WINTER * TERM HUDSON'S Business Uuiversity will begin Jan. Gth. Practical work, High grade of study and moderate expenses. £)^Send for catalogue. J. E. HUDSON, Principal. MAY BEFALL you while visit ing the Atlanta Exposition. For protection buy a Traveller’s Accident Policy from F. G. Stacy, Agt. A Serious J! Accident This is a season of good cheei and there are thousands of pet pie in this section who wish t< make it a happy event in th< lives of dear ones. -fAt My Stored- Will be found all the Latest Novelties which are not only appropriate for CHRISTMAS AND HOLIDAY GIFTS, * but are useful and will be appreciated for their intrin- .• sic value as well as for keep sake. Those Goods must go this year, as I do not intend to earrv thorn ovor, and if you want something that i' "Valuable and Oliea I would advise that you give me a call before making your purchases elsewhere, Tly long experienc in business demonstrates the fact that 1 do as I say^gfnd say as I do. I have a nice line of T>re»s and Goods, / do tiling, lints* iixicl as well as a Complete Lfric of -^STAPLE e GROCERIES.^ ) In fact everything kept iw a first-class General Merchandise Store. Givens a call. J. R. Tolleson Useful v!^ w vr Good NOTHING PRETTIER THAN & O vrei * ic v r HOLIDAY & GOODS. Everything New and Enough to SuppI; the Whole Country, Come and See Us Before Buying. LX ►, * Clothing: * The acme of Iqw prices has been reached and M will astonish you to know what bargains we will give you in these goods. ) ■ • ■ Carrolll & Carpenter, The