The Lampasas Daily Leader. (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 9, No. 3320, Ed. 1 Friday, August 16, 1912 Page: 2 of 4
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IFALLS ATJfllflNIGHT
!Writer Describes Wonders of Yo-
i Semite by Moonlight.
'Wad Thrilling Experience When He
l Ventured Back of Waters to Ad-
mire the Dim Veiled Grandeur
of the View.
MJf. Muir tells of an exciting ad-
venture that once came unexpectedly
to him when he was enjoying the
Yosemite fall by moonlight.
“A wild scene but not a safe one,”
|he says, “is made by the moon as it
appears through "the edge of the
Yosemite fall when one is behind it.
Once after enjoying the night song
[of the waters and watching the forma-
itipn of the colored bow as the moon
1cable around the domes and sent her
| beams into the wild uproar I ventured
out on the narrow bench that extends
yjpick of the fall from Fern Lodge and
’Degan to admire the dim veiled
|gran<|pir of the view.
*-> “I could see the fine gluzy threads
of*1 the fall’s filmy border by having
[the light in front, and, wishing to
[look at the moon through the meshes
[of some of the denser portions of t^fe
[fall, I ventured to creep Jii£tfrer be-
ihind it while-, lt^w^g-^eently wind
iswayed- -Wltnout taking sufficient
Jtfiought about the consequences of its
i swaying back to its natural position
[after the wind pressure should be
[removed.
“I was in fairyland between the
dark wall and the wild throng of
(illumined waters, but suffered sudden
disenchantment, for, like the witch
[scene in ‘AlioWay Kirk/ ‘in an Instant
[all was dark.’:. Down came a dash
[of spent comets, thin and harmless
[looking In the distance, but they felt
[desperately solid and stony When they
[struck my shoulders, like a mixture of
: choking spray and gravel and big
i hailstones.
“Instinctively dropping to my knees',
i.I gripped an angle of the rock, curled
tup like a young fernn frond with
jmy face pressed against my breast,
land in this attitude submitted as best
jl could to my thundering bath. The
[situation was quickly realized. How
(fast one’s' thoughts burn in time of
(stress! I Was weighing chances of
lescape. Would the column be swayed
j|a few inches away from the wall or
would it come ,yet closer? My fate
[seemed to depend on a breath of
/idle wind.’ It was moved gently for-
! ward, the pounding ceased and I was
once more visited by glimpses of the
moon. But fearing I might be caught
Seaside Resorts In England—English
Town Has History of 2,000
Years Ago.
London.—The borough of Bexhill,
England, lies in a more exposed posi-
tion than most of the Sussex seaside
resorts. There are no rolling downs
to protect it , as are found at East-
bourne and Brighton and the sea
breezes sweep unbroken across the
Pevensey levels.
Old Bexhill stands inland. The ma-
nor of Bexelei, as it is called in Dooms-
day, belonged in pre-conquest times to
the South Saxon sea. Elizabeth in
1561 secured tile place on the vacancy
of the bishopric and transferred it to
Thomas Sackville, Baron Buckhurst,
Knight-^of the Garter, a famous Sus-
sex worthy. Bexhill belongs to the
present representative of the^family^
Earl de la Warr. k
East ofB^x&ittf'at the mouth of a
j^r^dtttffriver called Asten, was the
fold port of Bulverhythe, most of which
is now submerged. Through the Wind-
ing ways of Pevensey marshes, where
feed the heron, the gull* and the shy
In Camp on the Yellowstone.
at a disadvantage in making too hasty
a retreat, I moved only a few feet
along the bench to where a block of
Ice lay. I wedged myself between the
ice and the wall and lay face down-
ward until the steadiness of the light
EAT SPARROWS AS DELICACY
gave encouragement to rise and /get
away.
“Somewhat nerve shaken, drenched
and benumbed, I made out to build
a fire, warmed myself, ran home,
reached my cabin before daylight, got
an hour or two of sleep and awoke
sound and comfortable, better, not
worse, for my hard midnight bath.”
NOTED PLACES IN SUSSEX
Italians In Boston Buy Them Satur-
day Night as a Dish for
Sunday.
Boston.—The much despised Eng-
lish sparrow finds a warm spot in the
^hearts and stomachs of the Italian
residents in the north end. There is
a ready market for these small birds
there. On Saturday nightq one can
find a smal. push cart among the
iinany peddlers’ carts near Faneuil
kail from which the birds are sold.
Chefs in the Italian cafes and res-
taurants declare there is not enough
icall for sparrows to warrant the bird’s
(name being placed on the menu card,
(but admit they can prepare them.
They say the Italian housewives buy
and cook the sparrows, the usual way
being to place the birds on a wire or
spit and toast them brown.
D
Ruins of Portal, Pevensey Castle.
plover, one comes to the wonderful
ruin of Pevensey castle, the ground
upon which it stands having a history
extending back for close upon 2,000
years. It is pretty certain that the
walls which are of Roman construc-
tion, . encompass the spot where stood
the city of Anderida, one of the nine
great fortresses which guarded the
southern shore.
Until the thirteenth century the sea
encroached so far inland that ships
rode at anchor beneath its walls. Un-
der the shadow of the castle is the old
Mint house, under whose roof Edward
VI. has slept. About five miles away,
On a clear day, can be seen the mellow
brick ruins of the castle of Hurstmon-
ceau, one of the finest specimens of
medieval brick ruins in England, and
dating from the reign of Henry VI.
Besides its advantageous proximity
to these historical spots Bexhill has
an extraordinary charm and individ-
uality of its own, quite unlike most
south coast seaside places.
| Head Broken; Eggs Safe.
Winsted, Conn.—A question puz-
zling Coroner Herman is how could a
man fall to his death with 'a bag of
twelve eggs in one hand and not
break a single egg?v
George Wilcox, sixty-six years old,
was found sitting beside the highway
in Sharon at the base of a wall, dead,
with two deep cuts in the back of his
head.
In a bag beside the lifeless body
were a dozen eggs and not one of
them was broken. One theory is that
Wilcox was murdered, another that he
was killed in the fall.
Very Different.
“I suppose he is made of the same
,stuff as other men.”
, “Good gracious, no! He’s a tenor!”
Swim With Children on Backs.
Rockaway, L. I.—William Frederick,
his wife and his daughter swam 200
yards in a heavy sea, each with a
child on his or her back after light-
ning had destroyed their lifeboat.
TWO BOYS WHIRL ON SHAFT
Yell Till Machinery Stops, and Then
Escape Alive at
York, Pa. '
York, Pa.—Caught by a belt in the
Kochenour flour mill at Mount Wolf.
Gilbert Beattie and George Knuedsen,
boys of the neighborhood, were badly
injured and only escaped death
through the prompt action of the
miller in shutting down the machinery.
Both boys were whirling upon the
shaft when their cries attracted at-
tention. The Beattie boy had one arm
almost torn from its socket, agd his
companion was severely bruised. *
Tumbled Sixty Feet In His Sleep.
Boston, Mass.—Robert Buchanan*
while asleep, took a saunter from his
bed and dropped 60 feet out of a win-
dow, hit an awning, bounced out of it
and landed safely on the lawn. He
stood up, looked out in a dazed sort of
way and then noticing he was not
dressed exactly for street parading, ran
to the front door and dashed up into
the house and went back to bed.
—-2E. 2. ■ 7/ <
ONE of WORLDS
/iOTTEST PLAGES
OF
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yjwN in.Yuma, on the border
I B between the new state of Ari-
I H zona and the older one of Cali-
fornia, they revel in the dis-
tinction of possessing the hot-
test place under the stars and stripes.
When the rest of the republic has been
gripped by winter, thermometers in
Yuma register 100 degrees. Just how
high they go in the summer no man
has as yet vouchsafed,
i ; That Yuma is inhabited by human
salamanders .goes without saying.
Only people who like such heat would
come there from choice, and would
try to get away after they do get
there. £ - \ 1 - v.;
| There are several things- at Yuma
that excite the attention of the stran-
ger. It seems just the sort of place
you pictured it before you came. Most
interesting are the Indians. Here,
alone, of all places under the flag,
Uncle Sam allows polygamy, and the
Yuma buck is permitted to maintain
as many wives as be can induce to live
with him in the wigwam. The pris-
on at Yuma is different from any pris-
on west of Gibraltar, and the only
counterpart of the village jail, which
is a sort of stepping stone to the pris-
on, 13 in the heart of Turkey. The
people of Yuma are otherwise so typi-
cally Mexican that one wonders almost
if one’s under the' rule of the stars and
wtripes.
How to Get to Yuma.
To get to Yuma you leave Tucson,
Ariz., at 8:40 at night. At 6:15 in the
morning you’re at Yuma,. On the map
the Journey seems nothing, but in the
west distances are startling in their
magnitude.
[ The hotel is what Dickens might
have described as a depot restaurant,
built over the station itself, and with
its porches looking down into the tur-
gid Colorado river. There is a bridge,
with the Indian women trundling past
constantly. A boat landing is near by,
while on the opposite bank is the gov-
ernment Indian school. Everywhere
there are the Yuma Indians. The gay
garments and blankets they wear are
genuine, and not put on simply to at-
tract the tourist. As a matter of fact,
the Yumas hate the whites, and while
Increasing Sales of Red Cross Seals.
i[! Last year over 32,000,000 Red Cross
Seals were sold; in 1910, over 31,000,-
000; in 1909, about 23,000,000, and in
1908, the first year of the sale, only
13,500,000. In all, the sale in the four
years has realized nearly $1,000,000
for the anti-tuberculosis campaign,
since all of the money from this move-
ment goes for the prevention of con-
surnption. New York state sold the
most seals in 1911, disposing of 6,356,-
868; Ohio came next, with 3,500,480;
Wisconsin third, With 2,913,144, and
Illinois fourth* with 2,101,632. Texas
showed the greatest percentage of
gain, having increased its sale from
100,000 in 1910 to over 1,250,000 in
1911. Indiana showed the second
greatest gain, with ah increase from
683,756 In 1910 to 1,345,545.
He Spoke With Authority.
They were talking about that ter-
rible cry, “Man overboard! ”
| “Only those who have been roused
from midnight slumber on board ship
can comprehend its meaning,” said a
seasoned traveler. “The sudden alarm,
the fear and horror”——
they sell trinkets to them at the station
too few sightseers visit the town to
win themselves to affability. The
bucks, who squat along fhe changing
river banks in their straw hats and
jeans, idle the year round, are, in fact,
positively discourteous to the stranger.
After one' has left one’s belongings
at the hotel and started to explore,
Yuma is’found to be Interesting for
what it lacks in modernity. There is
practically but one long street. This
is lined /with low one and two story
cottag:s, built of frame, and housing,
almost without exception, saloons and
shops, in addition to the homes of the
householders.
There Is a fair public school build-
ing and a Catholic church. The latter
is Interesting for its Indian communi-
cants*, who come there as did the red
men to the missions in the Pre-Mexi-
can days in California.
At the time of day that you are out
Yuma is still half in its slumbers.
Aside from a flight of crows on the
main highway, the quiet of dawn reigns
supreme. You can walk over the en-
tire place in an hour, and you do so
while you may, unobserved. There
are lemons growing in one garden, the
first you encounter. Today it is cold
until the sun has risen, but then, and
in summer, Yuma is, next to Death
valley, the hottest place in the w*orld,
so that you may look for tropical foli-
age.
You wonder at the foolish custom of
the milkmen of Yuma, who knock at
each door until told, by the tenants
to leave the milk outside, a custom
whose origin lies shrouded in mys-
tery. Two women, seemingly Intoxi-
cated, attract your attention. They
are following a man, expostulating as
only Mexicans can.
It is to the jail that the women are
directing their footsteps. Ope is weep-
ing, the other seems angry. Both be-
gin pleading with the jailer. Last, night
the huSband of the weeping woman
came (home furiously drunk and began
using a knife upon her. So the police
were called and now be is here. She,
however, had no Idea it was so vile a
place/ and now she has come to beg
his release. Finally she becomes con-
“Oh, yes, they can!” replied a lame
little shoemaker, who had no repute
as a traveler. “I heard it opce when
I wasn’t on a ship, and I realized the
horror of it more than any one else.”
“You couldn’t!” said the great trav-
eler scornfully. And the assembled
company sided with him to a man.
“But I could,” persisted the cobbler.
“You see, I was the man who fell over-
board!”
Queen Wilhelmina.
Quite a Walter Raleigh and Queen
Elizabeth incident occurred at a mili-
tary camp lately with Wilhelmina as
Elizabeth. The queen was visiting
the camp to see a review in her hon-
or. [ Despite the rain her majesty
walked to one of the batteries to watch
the loading and firing of a gun. She
was about to return when the artil-
lerymen,‘noting the wet and muddy
ground, hastened to fetch boards,
which they v placed on the ground to
form a pathway for the queen. As
there were not enough for a complete
path, the men picked up the boards
behind her as she advanced, and set
them again in front At the end of
vinced that her pleadings are in va
and she and her friends depart
The environs of the town attract
In the rainy season, when the narrow
dark brown, shrunken Colorado rage-
beneath the great Iron bridge of th
railway, steamers run to the gulf ant
up river. Then one may take one o
the most interesting trips in the west
Where Rain Is Unknown.
Over the bridge lies the Indian re
ervation, and on its borders is an in
teresting primitive corral for th
horses. Of course no roof to the she
is needed, for it practically never rain
in Yuma, and the stages themselve
consist of three open wagonettes, th
covers of which have long since bee
lost.
You get a new Idea of Indian contro
in the southwest as you step past th
corral. There Is a * sign forbiddin
whites to proceed, unless they hav
legitimate business with the Indians
and stating a heavy penaltyTor tradin
with the redskins. Furthermore, it i
forbidden to enter the reservatior
without a permit. The whole arrange
ment. seems well nigh despotic. Th
Yumas live in a sort of forbidden land
Squaws, with the gay, colored blank
ets, pass out. Old men, with their hab
down their backs in innumerabl
braids, saunter in or stop to watch th
stages being harnessed, and perhap
to lend an indolent hand to hitchin
the four horses.
The homes of these Indians are pi.
turesque, if nothing else. One fin
almost everywhere th© primiti
adobes in little groups or else mile!
from the nearest neighbor. Some a
on the open desert, where the suT
mer sun beats in fury; others are bid
den away in the tall, narrow wee
prairie. Basically/each hut is square
while from the front there extends £
root of dry brush and mud to a pole a
either corner.
Under this hut the gayly clad red
skins squat. Dogs are everywhere
noiseless as their owners.
| Children likewise are numerous, an
their quiet demeanor makes them eve
most conspicuous, strange as that ma
seem. Two Indian boys will occasio
ally gallop past on a horse, otherwis
the reservation seems to repose in pe
petual quiet. Maybe it’s the beat tha
drives folk to silence; It’s like the let7
argy of a midsummer noon hour. A
any rate, it saps all the strength fro
you and you’ve neither energy nor d
sire to stir when among the redskin
at Yuma.
Won't Have His Calling Insulted.^
There is one sure way to insult
delicatessen storekeeper and turn th
honey of bis disposition into gall,
can be done by remarking careless!
as you buy bis meat balls or fig
cakes that you only want them for th
cat, anyhow- No delicatessen ma
with an ounce of dignity can stan
that.
“I lost a customer last week by
fusing to sell a ring of liverwurst t
a woman who was buying it for b
dog,” said one man in the trade. “Sh
was a good customer, but when sh
decided that she guessed that ring
wurst would do because she only wan:
ed it for the dog, I said: ‘Madam, hi
man beings might feel honored to e"
that wurst; it is not for dogs,’ and
put it back in the case.
“Meat balls composed of the ver
best beef, veal, eggs, and crack
crumbs are likewise insulted^ The
will do for the cat. If women mus
buy these delicacies for their pets, 1
them, but let them refrain from insul
ing the storekeeper by telling hi
so.”
Malice Ill-Timed. f
The late Thomas P. Anshutfc, fth
noted artist, was once describing, dvu
ing a lesson at the Academy of th
Fine Arts in Philadelphia, the m^l
clous wit of a brother artist.
“Dawb, poor unsuccessful Dawb,
Mr. Anshutz said, “once told this mad
clous genius that he had just lost 1^1
baby. h
*5‘ ‘Lost your baby, eh?' the geniii
said, adjusting his monocle nerVousir
‘Poor old Dawb! Another of yo>
works skied, eh?”
the walk, her majesty held out he
hand to the man who bad placed ih
last board, whereupon having rempn
ed his cap, he bent down and kis
the royal hand.
Cosmopolitan Taxicab Drivers*
A Chinaman and a Japanese
now driving taxicabs in Paris, w:
the ranks of the drivers also incl
German-speaking Alsatians, Itali
speaking southerners, Spanish-sp
ing Basques, and a number of q"
feurs with a good knowledge of
lish who are either sons of Eng-
people settled in France or have
ed England or America. It is not
usual to see on the box of the Pi
taxicab the typical Algerian or
isian with coffee-colored tint and s
der hands, and there are several c
black negroes from Africa and
mond-eyed Orientals from Indo-C
The Chinese cabman has been dri
his taxicab there for two years,
was born in Peking, and is look
‘forward to the day when under
enlightened rule of the young Chi
Republic he may start a motor
age in his native city.
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Vernor, J. E. The Lampasas Daily Leader. (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 9, No. 3320, Ed. 1 Friday, August 16, 1912, newspaper, August 16, 1912; Lampasas, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth889278/m1/2/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Lampasas Public Library.