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Show -- t - ('A u t, . , . L ' ' r THE WORLD AMERICAN FORK. UTAH, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1899. VOL. VI. ing up after the sound of horses one way be would catch the rattle of hoofs from the other way or see a flying pony and would have to put back for a race WESTERN GAME FOR BOYS AND to home base. It was a disgrace to let PONIES. more than one or two riders in without d a contest men liked to and High Jump Tba In Ilsrd be Tt so as to make high records, tarsat That Hones Took la tha Sport and of course the variety of animals Kldara Oftoa Loft la Crock or was very great V Uaaglag from Hoag ha. .AH the horses, however, learned the game and enjoyed it Indeed, it was their Interest in the sport that made it One of the games hoys played on horse-bac- k in California In my day dangerous, for often when a rider would not see "it" coming, the horse was It was exciting would, and at the familiar call would sport, says the New York Commercial dash for home regardless of low Advertiser. As I recall incidents of the game they seem to me now to have boughs and trees dose together. It was a common occurrence for a pony been dangerous, but that is a mature to get home safe, but without his view, which never occurred to us then. Our favorite place for the fun was on mount, so common that It was a point the edge .of a neglected park, with a long unsettled whether this should count safe or not Sometimes we creek running through it, and another would agree before a game that it crossed a Held nearby. Both of these should, sometimes that it should not It had to be a good horseman, for his horse, put on the alert by his cautious movements, would listen and watch, and at the slightest sound of running hoofs would whirl and dart off at full speed. Fences were taken by horses with unready riders, creeks received boys who could not keep up Many and strange were the things slon plan, hung from big cables made with their horses, and brush and the seen by the French expedition of Bon- - of twister creepers; from these limbs of trees often kept them back, de Bonchamps in Africa, but . pend the uprights bearing the floor suspended till help came. nothing stranger than the bridge of supports. The roadway is very nervines over the Omo river in Abyssinia, row, for no one ever travels across the HIGH EXPLOSIVE EFFECTS. which is pictured in LTllustratlon, hills except with caravans of porters from a photograph taken by a member bearing trade goods. The skill with InatanoM of Enormoas Power Disof the party. In most parts of Africa which the bridge la built is something played. bridges are undreamed of; big rivers marvelous. The Bonvalot de Bon-athe many accidents which crossed by rafts and little ones champs party set out from Djibouti, on areAmong on record one of the most notable e is thatof the explosion of tons of blasting gelatine which was being unloaded from a railway train at Braamfontein, 300 yards west of Johannesburg, in South Africa, on Feb. 19, 1896, and which was exploded collision. The result of by an end-o- n the explosion of this 'enormous quantity of one of the most powerful explosives used was to produce, says Crosiers Magazine, a crater SCO feet long, 65 feet wide and 80 feet deep in soft ground; or, taking a cubic foot of earth as weighing 100 pounds, the sutons perficial explosion of this fifty-fiv-e of explosive gelatine excavated about 30.000 tons of soft earth. Besides this there was a total destruction of all buildings within a radius of 830 yards, whUe from that distance to 660 yards all the buildings were shattered, and the roofs were battered in up to about 1.000 yards; but all these buildings were built chiefly of corrugated iron and mud, and therefore were of a most unsubstantial character. On the other hand, we have in the United States the blowing up of the Hudson river Palisades at Fort Lee in 1893, when the explosion of two tons of dynamite placed in a chamber In the rock, brought down 100,000 tons of rock; the blasting at the Dinorwic quarries, Lamberts, in the same year, when two lf tons of gelatine-dynamiand placed in chambers In the dike overthrew 180,000 tons of rock, and the destruction of the famous Talcen Mawr in 1895, when seven tons of powder poured into two shafts dislodged a mass of rock computed to weigh from 125.000 to 200,000 tons. From this we find that the dynamite on the interior at Fort Lee was over forty times as efficient as the explosive gelatine on the surface at Johannesburg, while the powder at Talcen Mawr was over forty-tw- o times gs efficient. It is hence not surprising that the superficial explosion of the charges of gun cotton thrown by the Vesuforded. But in the mountains of Abysthe Red sea, and traveled across the vius guns at Santiago the late sinia the torrents that pour down to Somali desert and the Abyssinian hills war between the Unitedduring States and so Nile are not Join the lightly to Join Marchand at Fashoda, which Spain produced no serious structural s, stemmed. Over one of these the he reached from the west coast Thus damage and simply harassed the enewho have something like a they planned to throw a strip of my by their frightful reports, which settled country and stable government, French soil right across the dark con- occurred at infrequent Intervals and have thrown the bridge. Unlike the It reached the head waters of unexpected times. tinent or the suspension Brooklyn bridge Sobat the and went boating merrily bridge at Niagara, these Abyssinian the down but meanwhile the A She river; no scientific engineers had no cables, Kipmwd It. Yes, said the lady from Boston, bands of steel. Instead they had only British gunboats reached the Junction natures growth with which to with- of the Sobat with the White Nile, and speaking of her favorite lecturer, "he stand natures force. But Ingenuity the expedition is now toiling bock to is one whom the lady would designate succeeded in the absence of other re- Djibouti. The road going out is a as a biscuit John." "Beg pardon?" source. It is built upon the suspen- - good deal longer than it was going in. said the member of the laity. Oh, to be explicit, a crackerjack. Indianapwere hard Jumps, especially for some called the riders name and rode for olis Journal. of the ponies. But there were several home, unless the fellow caught gave in ller Opinion. good jumps, five or six over three or to save the horse's wind. And if it "People ought not to take children to four board fences, two over hedges, called a boy from a position between and fallen trees were innumerable. home and the hiding place, this usually the theater," said the baehelor. "Not The great advantage of this place, happened. This wasn't easy to do, If they can possibly avoid it, answered a perfectly straight road however, for the lay of the land was the young mother. "The noise on the however, such that the outs could work around, stage does keep the poof little things side of the park. We measthe along ured off a distance of about 300 yards moving north or south from the main awake so." Washington Star. down the road from the nearest bunch road and then eastward, while "it" had Lout Time. of woods. For this distance there was to hunt sometimes half a mile from no obstacle except on one side, a fence home and far off on one side or the "The first act, you know, is supposed too huge to take. It was the hometo cover a period of twenty years." other. Then when he was off the road beat "What a long time between drinks." stretch to the line we drew with ouf NEW HIDE-AND-SEE- spurs across the road, and many were the hot races down It. For the game was to pick a boy to be "it." Usually the fastest horse decided that point. The boy who rode him had to count 100 or 200 to give the others time to scatter off into the woods, across the creeks and down any of the many side roads, paths, trails out of sight Since everything was dear off east of the home mark, all the riders went off to the west before they left the main, straight road. After that they could ride any distance in any direction. But they did not go far, for the purpose of each boy was to get back either undetected to the home mark, or if seen, to ride across this line before it" did, and he tried to ride cautiously after us, slipping along on his horse at a walk, while he peered into the woods and high brush to catch a glimpse of boy or horse. When he saw one he K. Bu hide-and-se- Well-mounte- STRANGEST BRIDGE IN THE WORLD. de-val- ot re fifty-fiv- DEAD OR ALIVE. narrator is an old, white-hairTruth speaks from gentleman. My ed his gentle, withered lips. Strange as his story sounds, his whole existence vouches for it He has lived the life of a lonely man, a recluse almost, who never experienced the tender ministrations of a loving wife, nor bad ring in his ears the Innocent prattle of little children, and all because of an incident that cast a shadow over his early youth. My fiiend was at Heidelberg in the days when the old German university was as popular with Americans as with England and the entire European continent From the outset of his student life abroad to his sophomore days he was intimately acquainted with a colleague from a little German town in the Hars mountains, who was studying law, and whose only desire was to gain for himself a position which would make it possible for him to support his aged mother. In order to reduce expenses she had come with him to Heidelberg, and the two were keeping house together in a little cottage not far from the university grounds. During the first year of their sojourn at Heidelberg Karl Werner, the young fellow from the Harz, fell in love with a beautiful German girl, the daughter of a glovemaker. She was a Gretch-e- n beauty, with long blonde tresses and eyes of heavenly blue. The attachment between the two young lovers was most pathetic, especially as Karl was poor, and suffering from the same dread disease that carried away his father tuberculosis. He could not take part in their sports, their drinking bouts and their frolics, but once a month he insisted on dancing the supper dance with his German sweetheart at the sophomore's reunion. Months went by, and Karl grew te one-ha- "KARL, YOU HERE!" neither better nor worse until, when the winter set in with unusual severity, he was missed from the lecture d room one morning. My man a handsome then young friend, with raven black locks and alluring dark eyes, immediately hastened to see him. Karl was ill. He had taken cold, his mother said, and it probably would be several days before he would be able to resume his studies. The two friends talked of the coming reunion, and Karl regretted that probable he would not be able to enjoy his monthly dance with the girl of his choice. "If I am not able to go, promise me that you will dance with her that night, and afterwards take her to the little round table in the corner, where we have been wont to sup together. Take my place, Geoffrey, and be her escort that night!" , Geoffrey promised. To cheer up his fiiend he made light of the whole thing; said he would go further, and endeavor to say to the young lady all the sweet things she had been in the habit of hearing from Karl. "She shall not miss you, old fellow," he remarked Jocularly, as he held out his hand to press Karl's slender fingers. Before the words had died away he saw that he had made a mistake. Karl's face grew deathly pale. "If you do, I shall stop you, dead or alive," he said, solemnly. "Nothlng'shall ever come between me aud the woman I white-haire- 300-pou- nd Abys-slnlan- T.-- love. "You cant bear to be teased," replied Geoffrey, with a jolly nod, and he went from the room. I NO. 14. The night of the reunion came. Karl was not able to go, and sent word to Geoffrey to take his place with the little' German frauleln. He danced the supper dance with her, as he had promised, and then led her to the little round table in the corner for the customary refreshments. "Ive promised Karl to do just as he would do," remarked Geoffrey in the course of their conversation, which reverted to the sick man more than once. "If he were here I know he would have all sorts of pleasant things to say to you, and it's about time I began to compliment you on your beautiful ball dress, your brilliant" Geoffrey stopped suddenly, lie was deadly pale. "Karl, for heavens sake; you here!" he yelled, starring at an imaginary figure behind his chair. Everybody looked at him in amassment first, and then with apprehension, for by this time Geoffrey was on his feet, searching the place with hlB eyes for his colleague, whom be declared he had seen standing behind his chair, whose hand he had felt drop heavily on his shoulder in the midst of the sentence, the last words of which froze to his lips. "It was Karl," he declared, ghastly white, and with blood all over his white dress shirt. The girl had seen nothing. Nobody else had seen Karl about the place, and Just as some of the college boys began to think that Geoffrey had imbibed a little more freely than lie should a messenger came into iho room and handed Geoffrey a note. It was from Karls mother. "Please come immediately, it said; my son Is dead." Geoffrey hurried away. In the little cottage under the barren trees he found a hysterical woman, beside herself with grief. She led him to her sons chamber, and there a ghastly sight met Geoffrey's eyes. On the floor before the bed lay Karl in his evening suit, his white shirt front bespattered wlh blood. Amid sobs, the mother told him that her son had felt so much better that evening that he decided to go to the reunion and surprise both his sweetheart and his friends. The exertion of dressing himhe self brought on a hemorrhage; moment a and to floor, the dropped later was dead. It was at the very moment that Geoffrey had voiced his admiration for his friends beautiful sweetheart, ar.rt there was never any doubt in his mind that Karl had kept his word, to let nothing come between him and tha woman he loved dead or alive- .SL Louis Republic. K I'm for Cut ft ah. In Portland, Ore., according to the Oregonian, the familiar catfish figures as a hardy pioneer and a valued adjunct to the street department, all because the terra cotta sewers and drains, especially those in the lower part of the city, frequently get choked. If the sewer is not broken, it can be cleaned by passing a rope through it, to be pulled backward and forward until the obstruction is loosened and removed. The deputy superintendent of streets has had a great deal of such work to look after, and the worry connected with getting the rope through has gone far toward thinning bis hair. He has at last discovered a quick, sure and easy method. He goes to the river, catches a catfish, ties a string to Its tall, drops it down a manhole into the sewer, and It at once starts for the river, and forces Its way through any obstruction not as solid as brick, dragging the string after it. Then the deputy goes as far down the sewer as he deems necessary, and picks up the string, which he uses to draw a wire through the sewer, and with this a rope 1b pulled through, and the sewer is soon cleared. An Ancient Fed If res. The "tuattera lizard" is said to be perhaps the most remarkable animal now living in New Zealand, and the "oldest existing type of reptile." So in deeply are naturalists Interested this curious species of animal, which seems to be as closely related to turtles as to lizards, that legislative protection has been secured for it. Unfortunately, the eggs of the creature appear not to be covered by the protective act, and Nature expresses gratification that only one man. a Mr. Henaghan, who can be trusted, knows where to look for the precious eggs. Before they are all destroyed it Is hoped that the biologists will have an opportunity to determine how the strange animal is developed, and whether it is more a lizard than a turtle, or more a turtle than a lizard. |