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/'S’ ihrough llcllt , : . .through and . >w new bent, • / ,. ift and true. she Orient 111 her stores ; set shores th spent, W Jae— . . le . . • . 'fates, • jS. . ce, ae-set land; n either hand, ; • -osaries ivme of, these— time •, yer place, ■ ‘ her face. . by face ; uncommon wise— afin her eyes— . it of place. . . ' ' - is stars of old " ' ^'aence of song, - and of gold, purple passed along— ' : face of hers . ind worshipers ! ; ' ling face ; among ' ices just the one . when all is done, ■ jv, a harp unstrung, se shining sheaves among ■ e half hid, ’mid sheaves of gold • ce that never can grow old ; .as never been quite young. Joaquin Miller. ANGE OFLOS ANGELES Of all Don Antonio’s graphic narra tes of the olden times, none is more in teresting than those -which describe his , adventures during the days of this con- Z test. On one of the first approaches made by the Americans to Los Angeles, he went out with his little haphazard company of men and boys to meet them. He had but one cannon, a small one, tied by ropes on a cart axle. He had but one small keg of powder which was good for anything ; all the rest was bad ; would merely go off ‘pouf, pouf,’ the senora said, and the ball would pop down near the mouth of the cannon. With this bad powder he fired his first shots. The Americans laughed; this is child’s play, they said, and pushed on closer. Then came a good shot, with the good powder, tearing into their ranks and knocking them right and left; an other, and another. ‘Then the Ameri cans began to think, these are no pouf balls; and when a few more were killed, they ran away and left their flag behind them. And if they had only known it, the Californians had only one more charge left of the good powder, and the next minute it would have been the Cali fornians that would have had to run away themselves,’ merrily laughed the senora as she told the tale. “This captured flag, with important papers, were intrusted to Don Antonio to carry to the Mexican head- quarters at Sonora. He set off with an escort of soldiers, his horse decked with silver trappings, his sword, pistols—all of the finest; a proud beginning of a journey destined to end in a different fashion. It was in winter time; cold rains were falling; by night he was drenched to the skin, and stopped at a friendly Indian’s tent to change his clothes. Hardly had he got them off when the sound of horses’ hoofs was heard. The Indian flung himself down, put his ear to the ground and exclaimed, ‘Americanos ! Americanos !’ Almost in the same second they were at the tent’s door. Is they halted, Don Antonio, clad only in his drawers and stockings, crawled out at the back of the tent, and creeping on all fours reached a tree, up which he climbed, and sat safe hidden in the darkness among its branches lis tening, while his pursuers cross-ques tioned the Indian, and at last rode away with his horse. Luckily, he had carried into the tent the precious papers and the captured flag; these he intrusted to an Indian to take to Sonora, it being evi dently of no use for him to try to cross the country thus closely pursued by his enemies. “All night he lay hidden; the next day he walked twelve miles across the mountains to an Indian village where he hoped to get a horse. It was dark when he reached it. Cautiously he opened the door of the hut of one whom he knew well. The Indian was preparing poisoned arrows; fixing one on the string and aiming at the door, he called cut, angrily, ‘Who is there ?’ “ Tt is I, Antonio.’ “ ‘Don’t make a sound,’ whispered the Indian, throwing down his arrow, springing to the door, coming out and closing it softly. He then proceeded to tell him that the Americans had offered a reward for his head, and that some of the Indians in the rancheria were ready to betray or kill him. While they were yet talking, again came the sound of the Americans’ horses’ hoofs galloping in the distance. This time there seemed no escape. Suddenly Don Anto nio, throwing himself on his stomach, wriggled into a cactus patch near by. Only one who has seen California cactus thickets can realize the desperateness of this act. But it succeeded. The Indian threw over the old cactus plants an old blanket and some refuse stalks and reeds; and there once more, within hearing of all his baffled pursuers said, the hunted man lay, safe, ‘ thanks to Indian friendship. The crafty Indian assented to all the Americans proposed, said that Don Antonio would be sure to be caught in a few days, advised them to search in a certain rancheria which he described, a few miles off, and in an opposite direction from the way in which he intended to guide Don Anto nio. As soon as the Americans, had gone bound up Antonio’s feet in strips of raw hide, gave him a blanket and an old tattered hat, the best his stores afforded, and then led him by a long and difficult trail to a spot high up in the mountains where the old women of the band were gathering acorns.- By the time they reached this place, blood was trickling from Antonio s feet and legs, and he was well-nigh fainting with fatigue and excitement. Tears rolled down the old women’s cheeks when they saw him. Some of them had been ser vants in his father’s house and loved him. One brought gruel; another bathed his feet; others ran in search of healing leaves of different sorts. Bruis ing these in a stone mortar, they rubbed him from head to foot with the wet fiber. All his pain and weariness van ished as by magic. His wounds healed, and in a day he was ready to set off for home. There was but one pony in the old women’s camp. This was old, vicious, blind of one eye, and with one ear cropped short; but it looked to Don Antonio far more beautiful than the gay steed on which he had ridden away from Los Angeles three days before. There was one pair of ragged shoes of enormous size among the old women’s possessions. These were strapped on his feet by leather thongs, and a bit of old sheepskin was tied around the pony’s body. Thus accoutered and mounted, shivering in his drawers under his single blanket, the captain and flag-bearer turned his face homeward. At the first friend’s house he reached he stopped and begged for food. Some dried meat was given to him, and a stool on the porch offered to him. It was the house of a dear friend, and the friend’s' sister was his sweetheart. As he sat there eating his meat the women eyed him curiously. One said to the other, ‘How much he looks like Antonio !’ “At last the sweetheart, coming nearer, asked him if he were ‘any relation of Don Antonio ?’ “ ‘No,’ he said. “Just at that moment his friend rode up, gave one glance at the pitiful beggar sitting on his porch, shouted his name,. dashed toward him, and seized him in his arms. Then was a great laughing and half weeping, for it had been ru mored that he had been taken prisoner by the Americans. “From this friend he received a wel come gift of a pair of trowsers, many inches too short for his legs. At the next house his friend was as much too tall, and’his second pair of gift trowsers had to be rolled up in thick folds around his ankles. “Finally, he reached Los Angeles in safety. Halting in a grove outside the town, he waited till twilight before en tering. Having disguised himself in the rags which he had worn from the Indian village, he rode boldly up to the porch of his father’s house, and in an impudent Lone espied for b£mdy. The terrified women began to scream; but his young est sister, fixing one piercing glance on his face, laughed out gladly, and cried: “ ‘You can’t fool me, you are Anto nio.’ ”—The Century for December. Too Hasty. Yes, some people are too hasty. Now a wealthy Chicago family charged a ser vant girl with stealing a diamond pin a year or two ago and the Court sentenced the culprit to three years in the Peniten tiary. But recently, in moving a large plate-glass mirror, that diamond pin was found by a workman and handed to the mistress of the house, who sat down and wrung her hands and cried, and asked: “What have I done?” Steps are being taken to release the prisoner, now that sorrow has put its lines on her face and bitterness has en tered her soul. Yes, indeed, some peo ple are too hasty. Her Wants.—California wants more people, and the authorities have issued a pamphlet stating that nearly 45,000,- 000 acres of land are open te settlement. LIFE SAVING SERVICE. Details of Operations for the Past Fiscal Year. The following is an abstract of the re port of the General Superintendent of the Life Saving Service : The service embraced at the close of the last fiscal year 194 stations, 149 being on the Atlantic, 37 on the lakes, 7 on the Pacific and 1 at the Falls of the Ohio, Louisville, Ky. The number of disasters to docu mented vessels within the field of station operations during the year was 300. There were 3,792 persons on board these vessels, of whom 3,777 were saved and only 15 lost. The number of the ship- wrecked who received succor at the sta tions was 651, and to these 1,879 days’ relief were afforded. The estimated value of the vessels involved in these disasters was $5,100,925 and that of their cargoes $2,075,615, making the total value of property imperilled $7,176,540. Of this amount $5,611,800 was saved and $1,564,740 lost. The number of vessels totally lost was 68. Tn addition to the foregoing there have been 116 disasters to smaller craft, such as sailboats, rowboats, ’'etc., on which were 24-1 persons, 240 -" whom were saved a^d 4 lost: The p , J Z^Jr-valT^ ( I, in the latter disasters vas $66,180, oi which $59,900 was saved and $6,280 lost. RESULTS OF Arm DUSTERS. The results of all the disasters within the scope of the service aggregate there ¬ fore as follows:— Total number of disasters 416 Total value of property involved... $7,24'2.720 Total value of property saved $5,671,700 Total value of property lost $1,571,020 ‘Total number of persons involved.. 4,026 Total number of persons saved 4,017 Total number of persons lost 19 Total number of shipwrecked per sons succored at stations 651 Total number of days’ succor afforded 1,879 In addition to those saved from ves sels there were twenty-two persons res cued who had fallen from wharves, piers, etc., and would have perished without the help of the life-saving crews. Investigations held in each case estab lished the fact that the nineteen persons lost were entirely beyond the reach of human aid. Of this number nine were drowned by the sudden capsizing of ves sels at some distance from land, before assistance could reach them; seven were lost in endeavoring to get ashore by then' own efforts while the life-saving crews were hurrying to the rescue ; one perished from being thrown overboard from a stranded vessel, and one died as soon as landed, owing to previous ex posure on a wreck. The report gives full and specific accounts of all the cir cumstances connected with the loss of these persons. COMPARATIVE STATEMENT. c The number of disasters during the year exceeds by seventy-one the number of disasters of the year preceding, which was ccnsicieisbly raTgOi' than that of any previous year a the history of the service. The amount of property involved was $2,476,493 greater than in the preceding year, fait tlie amount lost $88,750 less than that of the preceding year, while the amount saved was $2,565,243 more. The number of lives lost was seven more than in the pre ceding year, but in proportion to the number of persons on board the vessels suffering disaster it is considerably less, the ratio of reduction being six per cent. The assistance rendered during the year in saving vessels and cargoes has been much larger than in any previous year, 337 vessels having been worked off when stranded, repaired when dam aged, piloted out of dangerous places or similarly assisted by the station crews. There were besides 125 instances (39 more than in the preceding year) where vessels running into danger of stranding were warned off by the night signals of patrols, most of them thus being saved from partial or total destruction. ADDITIONAL STATIONS. Since the last report seven additional stations have been completed —one at Hunniwell’s Beach, Me.; one at Muske- get Island and one at Coskata, Nan tucket, Mass.; one at Brigantine Beach, N. J.; one at New Inlet, one at Cape Hatteras and one at Ocracoke, coast of North Carolina. Four other stations are in process of construction and approach ing completion—one at Lewes, Del.; one at North Beach, Md.; one at Wal lop’s Beach and one at Parramore’s Beach, Va. There have been nii,e sites selected for new stations which I is proposed to erect next year, provided titles, which have boon promised, ui obtained find sufficient appropriation shall lie made by Congress—namely, cue at Brenton's Point, R. I.; one at Grand Murais, Lake Superior; one at Frankfort, one at Pentwater, one at the mouth of the White River, one at Holland and one at South Haven, Mich. ; one at Michigan City, Ind., and one at Sturgeon Bay nal, Wis. Sites are also now being selected for the remaining stations authorized by Congress. Cruelty to Birds. The correspondent of the Chicago News thinks” New York ladies cruel, and says: “Henry Bergh will soon be gin a Avar on the milliners because of cruelty to birds. The style, you know, is to have a bird’s head and breast as an ornament on a lady’s hat, and so great has this bird craze become that the ten der-hearted public has raised its hands in holy horror. A lady created some thing of a stir on Fourteenth street one afternoon recently by wearing a choco late-brown castor beaver coat trimmed down the front with the heads and breasts of more tax wenty orioles. She was a walking v’ziaz co of Bergh’s ideas of humane traacm.2' co birds, and it’s a wonder she dicta l land in a sta tion-house.” Danger from Catarrh Depends upon the amount and extent of the scrofulous infection. Unquestionably many deaths from con sumption can be traced to neglected catarrh. There is a violent distress, protracted coughing spells, the eyes weep, the nose discharges copiously, and the head seems about to split. In such coses IIo.id’s Sarsaparilla corrects the ca tarrh by its direct action in discharging the poison from the blood through nature’s great outlets, so that healthy, sound bleed reaches the membranes and is wholesome. Catarrh in the Head Is more prevalent than many are aware of, and how readily relief may be obtained by the use of Hood’s Sarsaparilla, listen to the following: I have been a sufferer with catarrh in the head for 15 years. Never having found any benefit from the well known remedies, I resolved to try a bottle of Hood’s Sarsaparilla for my catarrh. I would not take any monied consideration for the good that one bottle did me.-1. W. Lillis, Chicago, 111., Postal Clerk. 10© Doses One Dollar “I have been troubled with that distressing com plaint, catarrh, and have been using Hood’s Sarsapa rilla, and find it one of the best remedies I have ever taken.—Martin Shield, Chicago, Ill. Hood’s Sarsaparilla Sold by druggists, $1; six for $5. Prepared by 0. I. 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