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Show SOME ODD hi OR U.S. iN T EREST1NG INCIDENTS RELATED BV ALFRED R. CALHOUN A Till ill..,,; T.ito from A i i'ci ih.n . mull"! A lolls me I m e or H, lice., on lions I'lrrlpko-A I- sl.-.e Step mill n ITigliliiM Full A I . nmlly Cedar Tree, Copyricht, tj American Press Asaoria-tion.l Asaoria-tion.l Arizona, particularly the northern part of the 'prri!ory. has been called, and wit li truth. 'The Country of the Canyons.' North nt Latitude o., and extending up to trie Colorado line, the country is a succession of veidlireless mesas and deep nits ui c.invons, oyer which only birds of tin; met powerful liight can succcssfully eat yhere the Colorado Chiquito enters the Cleat Colulado through a gorge whose pei!-mliPt:!:iiU-i!ikii are nearly 7,001) P i t ids:'! Ned Brit ton and hi.s "piirdner," linle r'leicher found pay dirt a few years M Chiii claim yvainiia the bed of a dry CI eek oi Hrrovu. into which the two niinei-s, after much nil.ur and not a little engineering l.ili. smiii-ilcil in conducting the waters ol a spring th.it Howe. I from cne of the northern spurs ol Ihe S. in I'lauoisco moon tains. The p'.itneis got their supplies at Flax staff htit u -t being anxious to have com pinions Miev succeeded lor nearly a year in keeping their liml lo themselves. But ' ' ll.ei-e ivei" oll.ors ms Mil vein 11 reus .-mil nee and looking up through the rift he saw the stats shilling, like lights ol aerial ships on a far oil aerial river. lie could not change his position. He felt that at the best he w as only postponing the inevitable, but with the Iniut hope that hint as srxm as it was d.u liht ho "tiling on U that little cedar and t hut toe hold led.;;e like i;riin (leal h to a defunct I'tiiiu pian." At last, after sneha uiulit. as man neyfr silent iH-fuiv. l;i vi i l; li t crv-pt down tile canyon walls, and witii a desperate tll'oit Xcii I iri t ti.n nerved himself to look below, then he shoaled out ano.ilhth.it the men searchim; for him on theehll heard. Within six inches of his extended feet, as he huny from the cedar, was ijR. bottom of the rift, lie had stumbled into aliille side canyon not I hirty feet in dep; li. and l he walls of which were sh.piim and he had clllliH there all nielli, when iiij toes coui.l touch the bottom. However, the danucrous canyon was only .a hundred yards away. Xe.l Hriltonuas sick in earnest for ten days after this, and Jiy the time he was ready to io to work a4ain his hair, which had been black, had become entirely white, and so it remained Tom Hk lis' Choice. Tom 1 licks, hs al. his friends call him-aud him-aud li- has many ol them, for he is rich, retired re-tired and he entertains handsomely -wan sitlim; recently with a few congenial com panions enjoying an after dinner smoke, w hen the subject ol "self made men" au.l the secret of their success came up for dis loin laid ilowu his cigar, placed h's hands on his ampleshirt front and lanshed long atnl loud, as if from a pleasant mem cry, for nothing particularly bright or humorous had preceded it. tin being ipiestioued as to the cause, he coughed, calmed down and said: "I was thinking of my start in life. It came about in this way: .My father died liefore I can remember, leaving my mother to support myself nn.l two younger sisters as best she could, with her needle. "1 went to the public schools in I'hila-delphiatill I'hila-delphiatill I was fourteen, at which time I was small for my age. and 1 hail though you may not lielieve it. seeing me now a particularly gentle, innocent face, but I ioved my good mother and 1 had man enough in me to start in to help her. "Old Kobert llalloway was an Orthodox Quaker, and at this time was one of the most prosperous merchants in Phi lade! phia. and, I may add, one of the very best men in the world, lie advertised for an office boy, and the instant I saw it in The lipdger l hp next morning I made a bee line for the merchant's oiiiee. but lo my great disgust there were two bright looking boys ahead of me, and Mr. llalloway was taking down their names. "1 told him why 1 had come, and he r plied that he would take my name, and give each of the three boys a week's trial, ill the order of their application, after which he would decide as to which of us he would retain. "Well, when my turn, came I. did my bpst. but so had 1 lie other bovs. bat what morning thev woke uptiiseea lineof tents larupthe mountain where .silver had re 'viitly been discovered, awl where .Silver City like a creation ol Al.tddiu's lamp, had sprung into exisu-nce in a night. A store was established at Silver City, and aflei this the partners bought their supplies there but as the trail from their camp to l he s-ett lenient up the mountain ran for about half a mile along a narrow . ledge that crowned the wall of a canyon at least s.imoteel in perpendicular dept h. they took care to make all llieir journeys lie Iween thy two places in broad daylight. neither of them dared at the narrowest pait to look down the SI ygian dept lis, nl the bottom of which there was a stream of foaming water, w hich from t lie towering heights looked like an agitated white thte.nl If the lowers of the Hrooklyn bridge had been placed at the bottom o'f this chasm, they would have been dwarfed and foreshortened fore-shortened into insignificant points com paied with the walls of black, igneous rocl: that rose in smooth, glistening expanses to the sky. tine day Xed Hritton, on t tie plea of not feeling well, went over to Silver City "to get some medicine," he said, and there is no rpason to believe that he was shamming or that it was not his parpn-e to invest in some patent panacea at thestore. 1'ut on nis arrival Ned fell in with a lot of poor fellows, and when they learned that he was "'feeling out of sorts" they advi-ed against patent medicine and suggested . that he try instead some brandy that had just arrived trom i.os Angeles. . :ayT:. ' ' i '! - : . :'J j ' . -: '). '. ., ; '. ' 'V .'Isf ;;;! , V"-I ' ' , --' ever advantage there was I had. tor I mad-the mad-the last impression, and. .1 may add. I had been as innocent as a dove and as wily as a serpent, for I not only obeyed, but I kept the old gentleman under watch. ( "We were summoned to his office the morning wdirti the deebion was to be made. Mr. llalloway beamed on us. .'tid ! could see on his desk, to the left, a twenty dollar gold piece, anil to the right a cheap ly bound Bible and a pamphlet copy of the constitution of the United Slates. "Mr. llalloway called up the first boy. and .pointing to the money aud the books, he said. '.Mv young friend," t.he can have tins money or these books.' and hp held up the books for inspection, 'which will thee choose?' Without hesitation the boy pointed to the money. He was told to step hack, which he did with the money in Ids band, and a second coin was substituted substi-tuted and the same question was asked the second bny, and the same answer given wilh the same result. "When it came to my turn I said, '.My mother needs money Very much, but I love the dear liible,' and I took the books, and the delighted old gentleman retained uie. A nd from that day I prospered. "I found forty dollars within the leaves of the liible aud ten dollai-s concealed in the constitution. I'p to this day no one hut my dear mother, who is still living, knows that I had seen the old gentleman concealing the bills in Ihe books the night before, so that when the lime to make a choice came I was, to use the slang of the day, 'Dead onto his little game.' " "Yon Must Oct u I'.iipe." As a rule the instruct inns given to sol diera doing guard duty in camp or over PLPNGKO 0 Tit ANO DOWN. California brandy and California honey make a most seductive drink, and when compounded in the right proportions and lmnibed at the right time and in limited quantities they are uodoubt excellent for a cold. But. although not an intemperate mau, Neb Britton felt when he came to re-Inru re-Inru to camp, just a the sun was setting, that it would have been prudent lo have carried more of the medicine in a bottle Hnd less inside himself. He walked steadily, aud the men who had shared the medicine with him at Sil- stores are so simple mat it would seem no I man, no matter how stupid, could misinterpret misin-terpret them. Yet the anxiety of even bright men to construe orders literally often led to amusing bbwi'lers. I was at Memphis in the spring of 1803, where preparations on a vast scale were being made for (iraut's campaign against Vicksbnrg. Down near the levee there was a lot of ordnance stores, which it was necessary to pass through in order toreach the steamer on w hich a number of us were going down the river, and directly in front of tiie Mores there paced an Irishman with Tothesurpri.se of myself anil compau ions the guard halted us and said in a de termined voice: "Cintlemin. yez eaa't pass nnlessycz put ver city assured mm as-tnev bade In m gooilby that he "looked as fresh as a daisy and as straight as a string," and he cer lalnly felt in prime condition, but the (nought of having to crawl along that canyon wall in tiie dusk made him feel ,iut a iiltie squeamish. An ordinary man would not have undertaken the journey, under the circumstances, not for all the wealth that had tieen dug from the earth since the days of Tubal Cain. I'rnvelers in northern Aii.ona will recall the storms, as tierce as they are brief, that suddenly descend on the San Francisco mountains, eclipsing the sun in midday and turning the thy arroyos into roaring cataracts. Such a storm at night is terri lile beyond description. It becomes as dark as the bottomless pitof theMammoth cave, and there is nothing left for those caught out but to stand or lie still and take their drenching, till the storm has ex nsusted its lury and the stars reappear. Ned liritton was Hearing the dangerous part of tiis journey, when justsuch astorm ouisa upon him. and within a few minutes lie wa-" soaked with rain and enveloped in impend rable darkness. 'Chough ordinarily I lie coolest of men. Xed lost his head, the etteel of tile medicine, no doubt, and went niundeiingon with his hands extended be tore him. l eu or twenty minutes of this blind grop mg. and Xed s right foot was out ill the air. He brought it down, but it found no resting place. He staggered, slipped ami then, wil h a cry that rang out above the roaiing of the thunder aud the shrieking cf the winds about the rocks, he pluieed box. "But we are not "smoking," one of us j said, "we know enough not to do so neai ; powder." "Sure, 1 see yez are not, but my ordhers is that every man must give up a poipe lie-fore lie-fore he can pass, and lie gob I'll carry 'em out." "But I haven't one." 1 said. "Then you must get a poipe," he replied. He had been ordered to lake the "poipes" from all men he found smoking before let ting them pass, and he construed this to mean that ail passers must have a pipe, and we had to call the corporal ' or the guard before we could go on. A tooil lielnrt. This story of Thackeray lias' never be fore been published, fie was not a vain man, and he disliked vanity in others and made it the subject of his ridicule and sar casm. After long pleading his family induced him to have his portrait painled, and Law rence, a famous London art i-t. gladly un dertook the task. Soon after the picture was completed Thackeray chance I lo be dining at Lis club, when a pnnip-ei- o:!e-crol" the Guards stopped beside the tabic and said: "Haw, Thackeray, old boy, I hear Law j rence has I n painting yet portrait." "So he has," was the re-p a:se Full length:-" "Xo; full length portrait s are for soldiers, that we may see Iheir spurs But the ul her end of the man is the pi iacipal thing with uutbors," said Thackeray. Al.KUI.1) II. CALIIOL'N. over and down! In his swift descent and wild groping, lu clutched to the right and left, and his hands came in contact witli a stunted cedar that arrested his fall. After hanging lor some lime to the cedar and feeling every instant that it was about to come out by the roots, JN'ed found a little ledge of rock projecting abontsix inches from thesideof thecanvou. and cn this he succeeded in resting his feet so relieving to some ex tent l he strain on the cetfar. Above him blackness only and the de monlike shrieking of the winds, below, film the awful abyss and the hoarse roar lug ol the maddened waiters. After what seemed like long hours fioursof indescribable physical lortureand mental agony tothe poor fellow the storm latoided a quickly as it had appeared, |