Sabinal Weekly Sentinel. (Sabinal, Tex.), Vol. 5, No. 2, Ed. 1 Saturday, April 1, 1899 Page: 2 of 8
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Mrs. Gallup's TrIDulatlon
She Receives Warning That She la
Hot Long *or This World
<i.|.yM(rh«, 1SK
II- OALLl’P find been lnterestlng-
1 1 ly perusing theudv.rtiMng in the
family hloiannc for half an hour,
and Mrs. Gallup luid been tearing upnn
old skirt and sewing carpet nigh, when
she looker) up and said:
“Samuel, 1 want to talk to you a
loin it. Do you know that I’ve bln.
wwrned of my death?"
"I hadn’t heard of It,” he calmly re-
plied.
“But I hcv, and mv time in this cold
world in brief. Jly thin time next week
you tuny he a widower.”
“WaJl, I took them chances when 1
married you. 1 npoeo It won’t kill me
to he a w idower."
‘“I’ll bet joit are jest w inhin’ you was
one this very night!” she exclaimed, art
shf crowed her hands in hor lap to
look him straight in the face. “Mrs.
Tompkins was tel I in’ me ylsterduy
that you was steppiu’around us lively
ns a colt, Itowin* to uil the wlniln you
met, mid that you’d git married agin
in a mouth after 1 was dead."
"I should wait at least three,” he
raid, as he clasped his hands behind
his heud and looked steadily at the*
eloek.
“Wall, I ain’t goln* to worry over
what you’d do. I’ve had nulliin’ hut
worry all my life, and now when I’ve
got (i chance to Ik- an ungel in a week
or two I ain’t goln’ to fret mill stew
about- whnt 1 leave behind me. Do you
belie-vo in warnin'*, Samuel?"
"It’s aeyonling to w hur’ they hit me,"
he replied,
“Don’t make fuu of solemn lliing*.
Your brother Aaron tised to do that,
and lie fell off the bam and broke his
neck. I'm one as believes we- was put
he-re on earth to he warned. Do you
know what 1 heard at two o’e-lock
t’other night? You was snorin' away
antj didn't he*ar it, hut it come to trii
ni plutiT «.* 3ay, 1 heard a bell
tollin’."
s- was she. tollin’fur?"
"Fur iny funeral. Yes, Samuel Gal-
lup, that hell tolled -17 tlin«-s. wliioli is
my age, and then it stopped with a
Mirt- of groan and shiver.”
"Got tired, probably!" he said, os lie
scratched at bln leftbeel with thetoc of
Ids right slipper,
“If you ain’t struck dead fur sie-h re-
marks it’s because the. Lord is savin’
you to Ik- drownded In the well. When
that bell fust started I thought incbhc
it was tollin’ fur Aunt Hetty White,
who in 70 years aid and expectin' to
spread her wings’ every day; but It
stoppl'd ot 47. Samuel, liev you priced
the price of coffins lately?”
“No. I lievn’t.”
"I s’|Kw>e they enn he luid all the
way from $15 to $1<X>. I don’t want
the cheapest, anil I won’t ask ye to buy
the dearest. Jlow much d’ye think you
Remember it’s
continued Mrs. Gallup, as she recovered
her voice, ‘‘1 sut right where yosi do,
t’other day, mendin’ one o’ your shirts,
when there was a rocket iu the kitchen
to scare me into fits. What d’ye »’pew-
it was, Samuel?”
"The cat," he briefly replied.
"Nix It wasn’t the eat. She, was lyin’
over there on the lounge. It was an-
other warning that my days on earth
was numbered, anil that I should soon
he. soarin’ with the blest. It was the
dish-pan, Samuel—it had fell oft the
nail and rolled to the floor. Nobody
had tcehed it, or even looked at It, hut
it had fell. It was jest that way with
Martha Sweet, She was in us good
health as I he when the dish-pan fell
down one day, and three days later
slit fell out of a chamber w indow and
got killed. Yes, Samuel, that was a
warnin' fur me, and I went right to
cleanin’ up your black coat fur the
funeral. Them that go down to sea
in ships shall behold the wonders of
the deep."
"When did you go to sen ?" he asked.
"Never, luit it's the same thing; and
if you go sroflln’ at these mysteries,
you'll hev Idles or rheumatics or
southin' to mortify the body.
Hut overcome by her emotions she
begun to weep again, and Mr. Gullup
dropped the cat to go hack to the. fam-
ily almanac. He was just getting in-
terested in a weather prediction for six
months ahead, when she pulled herself
together and said:
“And one more warnin’, Samuel.
They say we are alius warned three
different times, and 1 guess it's so. 1
was out in the yard yisterday lookin’
fur catnip when a bird- lighted on m\
shoulder. You remember Sury Tower's
oldest gal. Wall, the same thiug hap-
pened to her, and she died in two days.
Vis, I’ve got my three wnrnin's, and
now I’m ready to spread my wings,
rm sorry to leave you, Samuel, hut
I—”
"Don’t stop on my account, Ilanner/’
he said, us lie looked up from the book.
“D’ye piyun that I can go right on
ui^ die?” she ask'd, in astonishment,
’’Certainly*
“Within two or three days?"
l'Yesr—ty-pight."
J‘Tiie and lent
“Yes,
'‘Snirihel Gallup, what on enrth are
you talking ubout?” she exclaimed', os
she rose up and tumbled scissors,
thread, needle and rags out of her lap
on the floor.
"I’m a talkin' about your dyin’," he
replied, as lie turned another page in
the nlinanac and rubbed- Ills knee
against the leg of the table.
"Wall, who's goln* to die? I'm sure
I nin’t. If you imagine I’m goin'to die
n mil be. buried fur $35, and let you cavort
around and bring n second wife into
this house, you are as much mistaken
ns the man who triedito fail upstnirs.
Now you lienr that, and if you try to
murder me in my bed I've got friends
who will hunt, you to the gallus.”
She sat down anil picked up her work
anil trotted-her foot and breathed hard;
and Mr. Gallup chuckled softly in his
anil went out into the kitchen to
He Read All the Papers
(Copyright. 1M.)
I < /GENTLEMEN, you may think you
Vj know all about it,” said the
naval-looking man as the talk
turned to battleships, “but nothing you
cam imugine comes up to the reality in
such an affair as took place at Santiago.
No man who lived through that histori-
cal affuir will ever forget his sensa-
tions."
“The roar of those big guns must be
terrible on the ears," observed a timid*-
looking man from the rear.
“You can't Imagine it, air. It is like
a barrel of powder blowing up along-
side of you. After the gunsgetto work
you hear nothing, and for a week after
the fight you feel as if you had water
in the ears. In that fight the engines
were being driven at their highest
speed*—big and little guns were roar-
ing—men were cheering-—sheila were
bursting overhead. Can you imagine
anything more terrifying? Men may
grow weak in the knees and faint-
hearted, hut there can he no shirking.
Knch one must fill his place, even When
blinded by the blood of his shipmate.'
“Did you notice any signs of coward-
ice?" was asked. '1
“Not a sign. Every mnn did Ids full'
duty, and everyone was entitled to
pruise. After the fight was over there
was a reaction, and many men almost
fainted, hut that is not cowardice, you
know. I hnve no doubt that a battle
op land' is a thrilling spectacle, but
what could equul the scene on board
the Oregon as slue steamed after the
Kpnniurds and brought all her guns to
hear? With her sharp bows dashing
the blue waters aside—with her guns
belching flame and smoke and death—
with her officers shouting orders and
her crew cheering—why, appointing of
ave J ou a widower?’*
“I Boairnt Every Daily Paper.’’
n.
DREAM of the South American
countries that axe seeking a
closer commercial relation with
the United States bea been the comple-
tion of an intercontinental railway
line that would stretch from New York
nn<l the Canadian boundary south
through Mexico, Central America and
South America, until lb would reach al-
most to Cape Horn.
During that historic meeting, the
Pan-American conference in. I860, the
Completed and Proposed Road in Mexico.
Dotted Lines Show Proposed Po»d.
subject received much attention from
the delegates, and before its adjourn-
ment a survey was arranged for. The
survey was not for a complete line,
hut merely the connections that would
be necessary to complete the chain of
rails by utilizing those now in exist-
ence.
Since that time the subject has prrnc-
tlcally been forgotten, until a short
time ago, when the surveyors made
their report to President McKinley,
and gave him In printed form the ne-
velopment or otherwise, it will not be
a hard matter to find the necessary cap-
ital to build. Hut sentiment will play
but a small part in the building. The
man with the necessary money must
see some possibility for a return on
his investment before he will attempt
to run a line of rails through the
swamps of Central America or the
mountains of Panama,Colombia, Ecua-
dor and Peru. The surveyors estimate
that it- will cost $32,000 per mile to
build the connecting links, or n total of
$175,000,000.
Such a road would aothelp this ooun-
try to any great extent. That it would
greatly assist in developing the nat ural
resources of the South American states
through which1 it would pass will not
bedenied. ToCentral America it would
offered a means of quick transportation
for their fruit and other agricultural
products to their principal markets; to
Colombia it would offer a means of at-
tracting men to develop its mines, and
the same is true of Ecuador and Peru.
But it is the countries-that-need it-most
that have the least to offer ini the line
of railway already built. After pass-
ing the City of Mexico such lines as
could be utilized are little stretches of
local road scattered here and there un-
til Argentina is reached, and to- Ar-
gentina the completion of the line
would be of but little value, for the
products of its great wheat fields find
transportation- by water cheaper than
a railroad through the mountains of
the northern end of the continent could
possibly offer.
In the United States the line is-com-
plete in every direction. Not a dol-
lar is needed to make the necessary
connections. In Mexico almost three-
fourths of the necessary line is now in
operation, and others now in progress
of construction in that country will
ufforsi. Samuel?
the only coffin yptl’U ever l.cv to buy throat nn(l went out in(o tho kltchen
Mh7t2^kt ‘ * ' ** ^ta-in^vf-a.vrjnt^^dippi'r.
Tj. "'J'iau'!} is putry hard, 1 tanner," ho
said, nfter a long (louse.
“I know it, Samuel. Tinin’t I bin
goin’ almost b’nrfoot fur the bint three
months ’cause times was hard, and
don’t I steep the tea-grounds twice
over to make ’em go further?"
‘I should think ye oricr git along
wit.h a $25 coffin, bein' it won't be of
no more use after it’s put into the
ground. Tnin't us if ye could rig it
up for a sled or a wheel-lmrrer after-
wards."
“What! You goin’ to bury me fur$?5
after my slavin’ fur all these years
and years!” she exclaimed, as the
tears started. "Pil never take no $25
coffin and agree not to haunt ye.
Times is hard, but I ain't goln’ to be
put away in no dry-goods box. If you
are so stingy about the coffin whut'll
you do about the tombstone?"
"Ten dollars gits u line one," he an-
swered, “and they'll gimme n year to
pay fur it."
“Ten dollars fur roy tombstun!" she
wailed ns she dropped her work. “Sam-
uel Gallup, if anybody had told me this
1 wouldn't n believed it. You’d be a
nice man to coute up to Heaven and
meet me and hev nil the angels know
that you didn’t pay but $35, all told,
fur funeral expenses. Not one of ’em
would look til ye, anil I couldn’t say
nothin' to excuse you."
•Then you hadn't better die, Itan-
nej%" he observed, after she had wept
for three or four minutes and wiped
her eyes on the old skirt Instead of her
upron.
“But how am I goin* to help it?" she
presently demanded. “I'm lyin’ asleep
and drramln* of tadpoles in the well
water, when sunthin’ wakes me up.
am all in a cold shiver, and presently
a bell begins to toll and strikes 47 times
It wasn’t tny fault, was It? Can any-
body help bein' teamed? I don't want
to die any more’n you do, but I can’t
help myself."
She had another crjing spell; Mr.
Only a Dakota Trifle
(Copyright, 1S98.)
HEX wo got to Parker's farm-
house, where we hail boon told
we could find lodgings for the
niglit, we saw three or four men and
horses at the gate and were for going
on, lint the shirt-sleeved farmer held up
his hand for us to halt and called out:
‘‘Gentlemen, things arc somewhat
confused, but if you want to stay all
night I’ll put you up ns well ns 1 can.
Let me Introduce you to Mr. Brown.”
We shook bands with Mr. Brown, and
the farmer explained:
"Mr. Brown is one of the eounty con-
stables, and he's here to levy on my
corn crop for a debt. This one here is
Mr. Perkins. He's another county con-
stable, and he's here to levy on all my
hay. The other one Is Mr. Swift. He's
n county constable us well, and he's just
levied on my teams and cow.”
"You seein to be in a peck of trou-
ble," said the colonel, as vve decided to
go on.
“Just a little trouble, but we’ll try
and make it pleasant for you if you
stay. The old woman is sick abed, but
I'm not a bad cook. I’ve got one boy-
down with u fever and auother with
measles, but things ain’t as bad asthry
might be. I wonder who tbatls coming
up the road?"
“That’s the sheriff," rcpliedoneoftlie
constables.
"So It is. Yes, lie’s dlie to-day to
foreclose on that mortgage."
“And you are to be sold out and
turned out?" asked the colonel.
"Well, yes," replied the farmer, with
a good-natured smile. “Yes, I’ve lost
crops, stock and farm, but. get right
down and put up with me for the night.
There ain’t three farmers in the next
nee, ten mile*, and all of 'em were sold out
that scene would be worth ten times its
weight in gold!”
“You saw it, ddd you?” asked the
timid-looking man, with-respect and ad-
miration in his looks.
"Well, no, not exuctly.”
“Were you not on the Oregon?”
"Not just on her—no.”
“Nor on the Brooklyn?”
“Not quite on the Brooklyn, I am sor-
ry to say.”
"Perhaps you were not there at all?"
suggested a cold-fuced man.
“No, not quite there, except in spirit,
and it will always be the regret of my
life.”
“Will you be good enough to explain
yottr attitude towards this crowd? You
seemed to want to convey the idea that
you knew it alL"
"Did-1? I didn’t mean to. I was in
Philadelphia when the news came, and
I bought every doily paper and read!
every wofd about the fl^ht, ami I flat-
ter niyseif that I am Weil posted. I
saved the papers, and I have them in
my sntchel, and if any of you gentle-
men didn’t happen to hear of the oc-
cqjfcucj—i"
"But he lias a naval look about him,"
prot^slfd |hg timid man, to end the
gainful pause.
"Yes, I have been told so," quietly re-
plied the know-it-all man, “but I don’t
quite belong to the navy—not quite.
Up to present- date I have only made
a thousandLmilc trip in a canoe and
crossed Lake Erie twice on a steam-
boat!"
Completed and Proposed Road in South America.
Dotted Lints Show Proposed Road.
Ill- Itnnac for n Gun.
“Ilangit, boy!” exclnimedithe tender-
foot from the east, as the bellboy of
a Texas hotel came bouncing in on him
without knocking, “haven't you got
any manners about you?”
“Didn’t you ring?” asked the boy.
"Of course I rang.”
“Didn't you ring three times?”
"It may have been three, ns I was In
a hurry for ice water, but that doesn't
excuse you for bursting in the door.”
“Beg pardon," replied the boy, as he
backed out, “but you ought to read the
bell card. It’s one ring for the porter,
two for the bellboy and- three for a
gun, and when a guest rings for a gun
in this hotel the orders are to get it to
him before the other fellow can beg hie
pardon!”
Merely a linratloa.
Irate Citizen—It's an outrage—a
shameful outrage! Here I’ve been call-
ing police for the last 20 minutes, and
not an officer haa put in an appear-
ance!
Casual Observer—If yon really want
a policeman why don’t yon try the
scheme of offering a fried oyster or
something of that kind with every
drink?—Chicago Evening Newt.
A Tree Patriot.
"Then you don't Uke the broad a?"
“Of course no*, it la not only nn-Amer-
Ican, but actually slnfuL”
"Get outl"
«... "Itie.
o«r|the
suit of their work in the countries to
which they were assigned. The sur-
vey lias been complete in every detail,
and while none of the countries that
were a part to the conference, and
who
ed road, they hope in this manner to
induce private individuals with the
necessary capital to take the matter
up, and ip time complete the intercon-
tinental line.
There will nodoubt come a time when
trains will run fromthe Canadian boun-
Completed and Proppsed Road in Central
America.
Dotted Lines Show Proposed Road.
dary to the southern part of South
America, but that time will not be dur-
ing the life of the present generations.
If the line for which the survey has
but recently been finished is ever bulH,
it will be more than 10,000 miles in
length, and to complete it there yet re-
soon decrease again the amount that
would have to be built. But south of
Mexico there are but few railroads, and
the few there arc can but rarely be
utilized, because they run in the wrong
djrectiou. In Central America every
effort at railroad building has been
made on lines running towards the
coast. Such Ifnes would not. assist any
as connecting links for an. interconti-
nental line, but might, if the greater
line was ever built*,, serve a good purpose
as feeders. Guatemala has a short
piece of track 43 miles in length that
could be utilized; Salvador has 63 miles;
Honduras has none at ail, but Nicara-
gua has 103 miles and again Costa Rica
has none, OftheSouth American coun-
tries the line would have to be built en-
tirety through Colombia, including
Panama, and also through Ecuador.
In Peru there is 1S1 mile* now in opera-
tion, and in Bolivia 195 miles. Once
Argentina ia reached, and the line
would be practically complete, for there
would be but 125 miles to build to com-
plete the chain. The following table
gives the number of miles built, and
the number of miles of proposed road
with the totals:
Pro-
„ ,. ... . Built poeed. Totals.
United States.............2,094 ..... 2,094
Mexico....................UM 40 1,644
Total North America..IXH 40 2.7*6
Guatemala ............... 41 126 169
§£D*<l°r.................. 64 166 2*0
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Total Central America 210 ~M# 1,069
Colombia ..................... t*W 1"
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•••••eeeeeeeeeeeeeee 195 892
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urinQ locals • ••••.....
A Heater Sara I* Is Hard War
•4ori to Irlaf Brala
«• Hag.
Bears go into winter quarter* when
the first heavy snows and cold weather
begin, which is usually in November In
the Rockies. In the old dayr they
would den up right In open country. A
bear’s winter den is nearly always on a
north hillside, where the snow fall#
deepest, and if possible they choose a
place where a drift will form. Some-
time* a bear will den up in a natural
cave or crevice, but more often will
dig himself a hole ten or twelve feet
deep. Nowadays this den 1* almost al-
ways In the roughest country he can
find, and Is generally pretty well up in
the mountains in heavy spruce timber.
A bear may make his den early in the
season, but until cold weather drives
him in he roams around a lot. For
nearly a month before denning bears
eat very little, or not at all, and before
they go In for good the stomach and in-
testines are frequently clean and emp-
ty. The stomach is drawn up into a
solid lump like a chicken’s gizzard, and
the bear is a solid mass of fat, inside
and out. Along in February or March,
when bruin comes out again, he is still
hog fat, and he keeps this fat until the
snow is pretty well gone. When he first
comes out he does not travel much, but
as the weather warms up he soon runs
off all his fat, though I have seen very
fet bears as late as the middle of May,
after the trees were green. As vegeta-
tion starts, bears live almostaltogether
on grass, roots, etc., though of course,
they will often eat meat. Still, I have
had baits right among the bears, with
bears passing within 50 feet of the baits
every night, and it was the middle of
June before one of them touched a bait,
and then they were at the baits all tho
time.
■Even now bears feed a good deal in
the open in the spring, when they are
not molested, and spring is by far the
best time to hunt them. But, as a usual
thing, a bear nowadays keeps pretty
well under cover. During the day he
finds the thickest brush or timber that
he can, and there he stays, slipping
away quietly at the slightest sus-
picious noise. It used to be that if a
bear heard or saw anything that he did
not understand, he would stand up on
his hind legs to look. And if he was
suddenly startled, he would often, after
running away, stop and stand up to
look back. I have killed several bears
in thick brush by gettingclosetothem,
knowing about where they were, and
then speaking aloud. Bruin would
nearly always stand up to investigate,
thus giving me a shot at his head. But
now a bear that hears a human voice
hardly ever stops to look, but gets away
on the jump.
The blacks and cinnamons also used
to tree very easily. I have run a good
many up trees by giving them a sharp
run on horseback for a mlM or so in
open timber, and have run two up trees
by chasing them on foot. And twice I
have m'«sed bears at rather close range'
and had them take to trees. In one in-
stance the bear went up the nearest
tree; in the other the bear, a she with
cubs, bolted a hundred yards or so be-
fore she treed. And speaking of cubs,
I never saw but one she bear that
would not bolt and leave her cubs when
attacked. The exception was a small
cinnamon, and I got between her and
her cubs and. got charged. Only the
other day I saw three of the dogs maul
a grizzly cub until you could hear him
squall for a mile, and the old bear all
the time was standing in the brush ndl
a hundred yards away, and never offered
to attack. But nowadays it is almost
impossible to tree a bear or bring it t«
bay, even with good dogs. It always
was hard to bring grizzly bears to bay
with dogs, but almost any dog would
put a black or cinnamon up a tree in
short order. Now a bear will run all
day ahead of the dogs before taking to a
tree or coming to bay. About the only
way to hunt bears at present with any
chance of success is in the spring after
they begin to take bait well. By string-
ing out a lot of baits and still-hunting
early and late fair luck may be had.—
Forest and Stream.
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