THE ROANOKE NEWS, TIIUItSlMY, MAY 25, 1893.
HATURALISTS' PORTFOLIO
How Apache Warriors Prepare
Poisoned Arrows.
HAIR-BREADTH ESCAPES.
Thrilling Experience of a Cap
tain With Stray Bullets.
A Decoction Made of Rattle
snake Heac!3ancl Red Ants
Killing of a Wolf by Others of
His Kind for Lying The Violet.
We are indebted to L. B.
Hawkes, recently in the govern
ment service in Arizona, for a
description of tho manner in
which some of the bruves in tho
Apache region proimre their
deadly arrows. Although the
Apaches have had little or no utse
for their poisoned weapons for
vearsi. still they, liecause of a tribal
instinct, e.MC'h Biunmer go through
a preparation of their arrow tips
us eiuvl'uliy and methodically ntt
though mi old-time war were at
hand. This work on tho arrows
is olio piece of labor that the In
dian brave will not leave to the
squaws. He gathers a dozen or
more rattlesnake heads and puts
them in a spherical earthen vessel.
With these he puts half a pint of
a species of largo red ant that is
found in many parts of Arizona.
Tho bite of this ant is more poi
sonous than that of a bee.
Upon those ho pours a quantity
of water, and then souls up with
moist earth the lid of this
vessel. Ho then digs a hole two
feet deep into the ground in which
he builds a roaring fire and puts
in some stones. When the inter
ior of the hole and the stones are
red hot he makes a place in the
bottom for the earthen vessel and
Euts it in. About it and upon it
e puts the coals and hot stones
and upon the tops he builds a
fierce fire and keeps it up for
twenty-four hours.
Then he digs out his vessel, and
standing off with a long pole, he
disengages the top and lets the
fumes escape. The Indian insists
that if the fumes should come in
his face they would kill him. The
mass left at the bottom of the ves
sel is a dark brown paste.
To test the efficacy of his con
coction Mr. Hawkes has seen an
Indian with a hunting knife make
a cut in his lee, just below the
knee, and let the blood run down
to his ankle. Then, taking a stick,
he dipped it into the poison and
touched the descending blood at
the ankle. It immediately began
to sizzle, as if it were cooking the
blood, and the poison followed the
blood right up the leg, sizzling its
way, until the Indian scraped the
blood off with a knife. The sav
age assured Mr. Hawkes that had
he allowed the poison to reach the
mouth of the wound ho would
have been a dead man in twenty
minutes.
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DO YOU KNOW
Wolf Vengeance.
During ono of my hunting and
fishing excursions, says a travel
ler, I was fishing on a large lake
in Louisana, from one-quarter to
one-half a mile wide. On one side
the hill land came down near the
lake, leaving about one-quarter of
miio ot sana Deacn, ana wnne
t.ure I saw a deer running at the
top of its speed towards the lake,
and a moment later a wolf in hot
pursuit. I kept my place, ex
pecting them to plunge into the
lake, when I could overtake
and kill them both in the water.
Just before the deer reached the
water it was caught by the wolf,
which pulled it down and killed it.
Then the wolf stalked ground,
looked about, trotted off some dis
tance, and set up a howl; went
father and again howled, and then
into the woods, when I heard
more howling. The wolf being
out of sight, 1 rowed my boat to
the place and got the deer, and
then went back to my fish-hooks.
Shortly after there appeared on
the scene a pack of ten or
twelve wolves. They sniffed and
moved all ar-ound where the deer
had been killed. These move
ments occupied considerable time.
They would huddle together,
change about, mixing up, trot
around in all directions, keeping
close together. Finally they got
into a fight, the whole pack at
tacking ono wolf and killing it.
It was literally- bitten and chewed
to pieces. Now, what was the
wolf killed for! I am almost pos
itive that the duud wolf whs the
one that killed the deer. I have
talked to many hunters about this
matter, and have come across but
two who had seen anything simi
ilnr, and they have thought the
wolf had been killed for lying. If
this was so, it was the only time
I ever knew a wolf to be killed
wrongfully.
The Violet
Violets have always been re
garded with especial favor, and
their part in the world's history
has not been an unimportant one.
The Athenians wore them on all
occasions, and wova them into
garlands to decorate their doities.
Ionians in their origin, they rec
ognized in the ion or violet an al
lusion to the name of their
founder, and their olassioal and
beautiful city was known far and
wide under the nam of Io-Steph-anoi,
which means violet-crowned.
While Taking it Ea3y Under a
Caisson He Has a Close Call.
A Huge Tree Under Which
He Was Resting Shattered.
"A man is not safe from bu 1
lets anywhere," was heard to re
mark Capt. Eugene May the other
day to a tot of old comrades. "I
have reason to appreciate tho
truth of this observation whon I
reflect upon an experience I had
at Jackson, Miss., once during the
war. Bullets were Hying around
pretty lively, but we felt fairly safe,
as wo were behind a high embank
ment, which extended some dis
tance above our heads. Well,
tlioro wasn't anything to do just
then, so 1 stretched out beneath a
caisson with my head just behind
a wheel.
" Tho last thing in the world
seemed tho coming of a bullet into
the shade of that caisson. But
while I was lying there taking it
easy I suddenly heard a sharp
'sping' just behind my head. It
was unmistakably the noise of a
ballot hitting something. Well. I
turned over and looked at tho
icel, and, bv ( reorge, there was
a bullet imbe j.l'J in the tire of the
wheel just about an inch from
where my head hacl linen. II that
tiro had been a fraction less wide
I'd have cot tho bullet in the head.
1 wasn't sleepy after that, I can
tell you, and I moved away from
there almost as quickly as 1 got
from behind the hole of that tree
at Chicamauga."
" What tree at Chicamauga '"
queried some one.
"Well," replied Capt. May,
"it's a long story, and I had
almost forgotten it till I was re
minded of it the other dav bv old
Jim Dabney. Tho way the thing
happened was this: Our section
had been fighting it alone in a
poach orchard until the other
members of the battery joined us,
when we moved forward and had
quite a brisk engagement with the
enemy. Our ammunition ex
pended and our men worn out. we
halted at a spot in the woods to
rest and to replenish our ammuni
tion. The fighting was going on all
around us and stray bullets were
coming along past us every now
and then. I don't believe I was
ever so tired in my life as I was
after that engagement. It was
absolutely necessary for me to take
a rest, and perceiving a huge tree
near by 1 concluded to plant my
self alongside of it. So I leaned
against it witli my back to the
enemy's line, stretched out my
feet and was having a splendid
rest, when a twelve-pound shot
came bounding along and struck
the tree plumb on the opposite side
from me at a lomt lust behind
my head.
" Well, sir, I didn't know what
struck me. The shock was tre
mendous. Great Jerusalem! But
didn't 1 run from under that tree,
looking sideways up and expecting
momentarily to see the whole
enormous mass of wood and leaves
come crashing down on me.
didn't know what had happened
till I saw some of the boys dancing
around in high delight, clapping
their hands and yelling at me,
felt for a week as if I had been
struck on tho back of the head
with a sledge hammer."
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