San Marcos Free Press. (San Marcos, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 7, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 18, 1883 Page: 6 of 8
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MY HUSBAND.
Who took me from my ohlldhood'n homo
And id he'd loo me all alone
And for my Monfioe atone?
My huftband.
VUo jrambled at the poor beefetealc
And bade me bettor coffee nuke
And told me greater cure to takeT
' My hunband.
VV'bo awore becauae tbe baby cried
And to the iare room quickly bicd
While I to quiet vainly triedT
My huaband.
Who tiara tho button off bia ahirt
And mid I could thone ilia avert
If I was more on the alert?
My hunband.
Who bade me riae the fire to make
Whilo be another rap abould take
Although I'd been all night awake?
My buHband;
Who when I auk for half a crown
Knita up bin brow into a frown
And aka me "Wbere'a the other gone?"
My hunband.
And when I neo my mother doar
Who trieamy lonely lot t) chocr
Who ayn nbe'a dreadful dreadful queer?
My husband.
Who Htaya away till late at night
And thou cornea home so very tight
That nearly 1 expire with fright?
My huhband.
Who breaks the china nlamn the door
Leaven all hia clothes upon tho floor
And Hweariit's all a dreadful bore?
My huHoand. " . ;.'
And who do ) for hia dear sake.
Of every sacrifice partake
Lest 1 bin confidence shake?
My husb;ind.
... Wathiiiglon Mat.
IN DOUBLE DAGGER.
I've had many a queer voyage (said
Capt. M ) but the queerest I ever
had was one that I made (somewhat
unexpectedly as you willsee) upon the
Great Fish riverain South Africa on
my way hack from a hunting excur-
sion. As I neared the bank I saw that the
river was .in full Hood more than
twice its usual breadth and running
like a mill race. I knew at once I
should have a very tough job to get
across for a flooded Africa river is no
joke I can tell you. But I knew also
that my wife would be terribly anxious
if I didn't come back on the day I had
fixed South Africa being a place where
a good many things may happen to a
man.and I determined to chance it.
Just at the water's edge I found an
old Bushman that I knew well who
had a boat of his own so I hailed him
at once :
"Well Kaloomi what will you take
to put me across the nver?
"No go $50 this time baas" (mas
ter) said the old fellow in his halt
Dutch half-English jargon. "Boat
no get ''cross to-day; . water groed
(great!")
And never a bit could I persuade
him although 1 ollered him money
enough to make an ordinary Bushman
jump head first down a precipice.
Money was good he said but it would
bo no use to him when he was
drowned ; and in short he wouldn't
budge.
"Well if you won't put me across"
said I at last "lend me your boot and
I'll just do the job myself; I can't
very well take my horse with me and
I'll just leave him here in pledge that
I'll come back."
"Keep the horse for you master
quite willing; but 'spose you try to
cross to-day you never come back to
ask for him."
lie spoke so positively that though
I'm not easily frightened I certainly
did feel rather uncomfortable. How-
ever when you've got to do a thing of
that sort the less you think of it the
better so I jumped into the boat and
shoved oil.
I had barely got clear of the shore
when I found '. t the old fellow was
right for the bi r. shot down stream
like an arrow. I saw in a moment
that there was no hope paddling her
across and thai all I could do was to
keep her head straight. But I hadn't
the chance of doing that even very
long for just then a big tree eunie
drifting along and hitting my boat
full on the quarter smashed her like
au eggshell. I had just time to
clutch tho projecting roots mid whisk
myself upon them and thou the tree
and I went down stream together at I
don't kuow how uiaiiy miles an hour.
At first I was so rejoiced at escaping !
just when all seemed over with me
that I didn't think much of what was
to come next; but before long I got
something to think of with a venge-
ance. The tree as I've said was a
Urge one and the branch end (the
opposite one to where I at) was all j
one mass of green leaves. All at once :
just as I was shifting myself to a safer
SUce among the root? the leaves sud-
fnlr shnnk an J and rtnt rprwl
a great yellow head and fierce eyes of j
sa enormous lion. I
I don't think I ever cot snh a fright
in my life. My gun had gone to tho
bottom along with tho boat and the
only weapon I had left was a short
hunting knife which against such a
beast as that would be no more use
than a bodkin. I fairly gavo myself
for lost making sure that in anoth-
t moment he'd spring forward and
; me to bits.
But whether it was that he had al-
ready gorged himself with prey or
whether (as I suspect he was really
frightened at finding himself in such a
scrape ho showed no disposition to
attack me so long at least as I re-
mained still. Tho instant I made any
movement however ho would begin
roaring and lashing his tail as if he
were going to fall on mo at once. So
to avoid provoking him I was forced
to remain stock still although sitting
in one position cramped mo dread-
uiiy. -.: ....
There wo sat Mr. Lioii and I star-
ing at each other with' all our might
a very picturesque group no doubt if
thero had been anybody ' there to sec
Down down the stream wo went
tho banks seeming to race past us as if
we were going by train while all
around broken timber wagon wheels
trees bushes and the carcasses of
drowned horsos and cattle went whirl
iug past us upon the thick brown wa-
ter. 1 - '"
At once I noticed that the lion was
getting strangely restless and turn
iug bis great' head from side;toside
in a nervous sort of way as if he saw
or heard ' something "he didn t' like.
At first I could not imagine what on
earth was the matter with him but
presently I caught a sound that scared
me much worse than it had done the
lion. Far in the distance I could
hear a dull booming roar which Iliad
heard too often not to recognize at
once; we were neanng a waterfall.
I had seen the great falls of the Fish
river more than once and the bare
thought 'of .being carried over those
tremendous precipices made my very
blood run cold let being devoured
by a lion would hardly be much of an
improvement and as I hadn't the
ghost of a chance being able to swim
ashore there really seemed to be no
other alternative.
Faster and faster we went louder
and louder grew the roar of the cata-
ract. The lion seemed to have given
himself up for lost and crouched down
among the leaves only uttering a
moaning whine every now and then.
I was fairly at my wit's end what to
do when all of a sudden I caught
sight of something that gave me hope.
A little way ahead of us the river
narrowed suddenly and a rocky head-
land thrust itself out a frood way into
the stream . On of the lowest point
of it grew a thick clump of trees whose
boughs overhung the water; and it
struck me that If we only passed near
enough I might catch hold of one of
the branches and swing myself up onto
the rock.
No sooner said than done. I start-
ed up hardly caring whether the lion
attacked me or not and planted my-
self firmly on one of the biggest roots
where I could take a good spring when
the time came. I knew that this
would be my last chance for by this
time we were so near the precipice
that I could see quite plainly a little
way a head the cloud of spray and
vapor hovereu over the great wa
terfall. Jiiven at the best it was a
desperate adventure and I can tell
you that I felt my heart beginning to
thump like a sledgehammer as we
came closer and closer to the point
and I thought what would happen if I
missed my leap.
Now or never. I made one snrinor
(I don't think I ever made such an
other before nor since) and just
clutched the lowest bough ; and as I
dragged myself on to it I heard the
last roar of the doomed lion mingling
with the thunder of the waterfall as
he vanished into the cloud of mist that
overhung the precipice.
As for me it was late enough that
night before I got home and I found
my poor wife in a fine fright about me
so 1 thought it just as well ou the
whole tb keep my adventure to myself
and it wasn't till nearly a year later
that she heard a word about niv strancre
fellow-voyager.
"Why do women so often wander;
aimlessly in the murkv solitudes of i
the dead past brooding over days for-
ever gone?" asks a correspond-
ent and we give it up unless it be
that the hopes that in ransacking the
dead past to find that in the wardrobe
of the aforesaid dead past she may
find something to work up into a rag-
carpet. IjartmU Doom-iang.
A Nobweuu woman living inj
Xebr&JaA kid never seen norj
beard much about bears. That's the
reason she followed one with a dab
the other day und that's the reason j
bruin gave her a huf that broke three J
rib. 1
Discovery of the Mammoth.
TliA linn bp nt that rreat Northern
1 Siberian river the Lena are quite
peculiar. Those on the western sme
are generally low and marshy while
those on the eastern are often from
sixty to one hundred feet in height.
In tho extreme north this high eleva-
tion is cut into numerous pyramidal-
shaped mounds which are formed of
layers f earth and ice sometimes a
clear stratum of the latter is many feet
in thickness.
It was before such a mound that a
fisherman stopped dumb with stonish-
mcnt one spring morning many years
ago. About thirty feet above him
half way up tho face of the mound
appeared the section a great ice-layer
from which the water was flowing in
numberless streams; while protruding
from it and partly hanging over was
an animal of such huge proportions
that the simple fisherman could hard
ly believo his eyes. Two gigantic
homs or tusks wcro visible and a
great woolly body was faintly outlined
in the blue icy mass. In the fall he
related the story to his comrades up
the river and in the ensuing spring
with a nartv of his fellow fisherman
he again visited tho spot. A year had
worked wonders. The great mass
had thawed out sufficiently to show its
nature and on closer inspection proved
to be a . well-preserved specimen of
one .of those gigantic extinct hairy
elephants that roamed over" the north-
ern parts of Europe and America in
the earlier ages of the world. ' The
body was still too firmly attached and
frozen to permit of removal. For four
successive years the hshermen visited
it until finally in March 1804 five
years after its original discovery it
broke away frorn its icy bed and came
thundering down upon the san .ls be-
low.' The discoverers first detached
the tusks that were nine feet six
inches in length and together weighed
8G0 pounds. The hide covered with
wool and hair was more than twenty
men could lift. Part of this with the
tusks were taken to Jakutsk and Isold
for fifty rubles while the rest of the
animal was left where it fell and cut
up at various times by the Jakoutes
who fed their dogs with its flesh. A
strange feast this truly meat that
had been frozen solid in the ice-house
of nature perhaps fiftythousand years
more or less; but so well was it pre-
served that when the brain was after
ward compared with that f a recently
killed animal no dmerence m the
tissues could be detected. .
Two years after the animal had fal-
len from the cliff the news reached St
Petersburg and the museum of nat-
ural history sent a scientist to secure
the specimen and purchase it for the
emperor. He found the massiye
skeleton entire with the exception of
one fore leg. The tusks were repur-
chased in Jakutsk and the great frame
was taken to St. Petersburg and
there mounted. St. Nicholas.
A $2500 Gold Nugget.
A nugget of gold was on exhibition
at the banking-house of A. B. Car-
lock recently that attracted much at
tention. It weighed 150 ounces and
was valued at $2500 but it was al-
most untold wealth to the finder Sam
Howard a miner on Indian creek
near Happy Camp. Mr. Howard has
been under Fortune's ban for many
years. tie owns the claim on Indian
creek from which the chispa was taken
but it has not been a nch piece of
ground and as a rule has left but little
after expenses were paid. His health
has been poor and to crown his mis.
fortunes his wife died a fewyears ago
and left four small children whom he
has been trying to care for with only
indifferent success. The struggle with
sickness and gaunt poverty has been
an unequal one but he has never
yielded nor lost his courage.
Une day while sitting on the
bank watching a Chinaman in his
employ at work in the claim he saw
this glittering messenger of relief fall
out of the dirt into the cut. As might
be expected for a time it completely
unnerved him. It is related that he
had the nugget all that day and could
hardly decide what to do with it. Af-
ter a few days the excitement wore
away and the mass of metal is now
on its way to the mint to be coined
into cash that shall feed clothe and
educate his children and ' bring com-
forts to his lowly home. The piece
flat would if squared up be aoout
four inches square and one and one-
half inches thick. It is little worn
by washing and has several pieces of
quartz still sticking to one side of it.
As a specimen of crude gold it is one
of the handsomest we ever saw.
r.!l T TtT T .
positively that trains will be running ;
from Cairo to Clarendon in less than !
two weeks.
Manitoba has ice eleven feet thick
and they speak of it as "the young
crop."
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