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The Wingham Times, 1885-10-16, Page 6- ....es n.... it ... dA'L^t'). An Awful Adventure. Ii the Teeth of a Tornado —A. Thrilling Experience. 'We were kiding toward the northeast, having been to a ranch lying toward the Vega Pass, though a number of miles this side of it. Teat feeling which the birds had awak- ened had p-oved very transient. My sister suddenly asked in a tone of interest, unting- ed by fear, if we had noticed the cloud in the southw.st, and was it customary for Colorado akiee to exhibit such freaks ? Upon that we all turned us about, and as Nan, with a quick ory, pulled up her horse, we also stopped our ponies and gazed, Speak- ing for myself, I only felt,then a keen inter- est, without alarm, at the eight before me. Until I looked at my couien'a face I did not think of .fear. A great way off it appeared to me, I was told afterward it must have been about ten miles distant when we first saw it, was *cloud absolutely blank. For the first time 1 knew what the phrase "inky black nese" meant. Neither before nor since have I over seen a cloud of that colour. It was roughly cone-shaped, the point toward the earth, But even its shape and colour wero not the moat terrible things about it. The mass was " boiling." No other word applies to the incessant rapid changes in its texture, which all the time preserved its blackneea,antlthrough it there were constant flashes of lightning. But we heard no thun- der then. I shall never rorget the whiteness that came to Nan's face. Without know- ing that I saw them, I yet remembered af- terward that her fingers clutched painfully .about the bridle and that oho reeled slight- ly in her saddle. "Let me think," she said in a low voice. 3 did not speak, but my sister, who did not see Nan's face, Bald in a commonplace voice " Is not that rather a belligerent speci- men of a cloud ?'' Nan did not apparently hear her; she sat silent for perhaps half -a -minute, then she turned to us and said quickly ; "I hope you can ride fast, We can't get home ; what good if we could ? There is a narrow gulch about a anile and a half from here. It's the only place I know." She turned her horee sharply to the right and told hint fiercely to go. We followed, riding as I hadnever ridden before. The horses caught fire from us and raced on in that wild way they have, which is not like the man- ner of horses in the Eant. In epite of the fear which now possessed us all, there was a certain glorious feeling in that ride. After we had turned we could look oil' at our right at the cloud, which was rushing on with terrible quickness, and which I now fancied was pursuing us, and us alone. Suddenly there was a thunderous sound toward the west, and looking that way I saw a vast herd of cattle sweeping on, a dark surging mass, with tossing horns glancing white in the sunshine, for the sun was shin- ing brilliantly at tie time. It was a stam- pede. I never knew whether they were frightened by the cloud or had been urged on by the unexplained impulse that some times comes to them to flee madly over the plains. At another time this sight would have been of stirring interest ; now I did not care to watch the flight of the cattle. I was too intent on our own race against the cloud. The lightning was playing through the black vapor incessantly. Mere clouds, having the appearance of common " thun- der heads," rose and dispersed themselves over the sky, and at last obscured the sun- light. It wag a relief to me when the sun ceased to shine, for the scene seamed less abnormally terrific. Within a few rode of the opening of the gulch I heard a roar, as of oncoming wind. Nan cried out again to her horse, the ani- mals lurched forward yet faster, and in a moment we were all entering the ravine. It was extremely uneven ground, and cover- ed by broken sharp stones. My sister and I were watching Nan ; she slipped off the saddle and hurriedly motioned to us to do the same. The instant we were dismounted the horses scrambled rapidly forward fur- ther into the gulch, and we did the same, Nan now in the rear, and driving us along That night I found my shoes out, and a gash in my foot, but I did not feel the wound when I received It. While we were thus hurrying to get to the deepest shelter of the gully, the roar above us was awful, and was increasing every moment. It reverberated strangely through the ravine. We could not have heard a word had we spoken. We all stopped simultaneously and looked at each other. They were two very white faces that I saw, with strained frightened eyes. Nan made a movement with her head that we were not to go on; and we crouched down against the rocky sides of the earth. The next instant Emma leaned heavily upon me, and silently pointed up- ward toward the chasm's opening, were we had entered. The black cloud was just going pact our point of vision ; it had dilat- ed to twice its former size, but still retained its cylinder shape. If it could be poesible it was mora dense then ever, and boiling in its hlackneea. Balls of fire sped back and forth in the Mr; or my eight was under a hallucination to that of let, All the phe- nomena seemed to have their center in that cone of black cloud. The strangest, the. most awful thing of all that fearful experi- ence wag what 1 saw now, Behind that black cloud, whether foilo- -i g it or driving it 1 know not, came a tall dead of int;-nsest, most dazzling white—apillar of glory, gow- ing every instant more like a p'Ilar of fire, andisoon appearing to control the inky shape. The roaring noise was now at its height, In a moment the two myaterione shapes had passel frorn our c.,nt: acted line of vie - ion ; ie•ion; they marched on destroying as they went, l'he crash of timber along a stream not far off, thecennnneding of the thunder, -Wash had ns ' opened its forces, and above all the overwhelming roar of the wind, made us shrink and cower closer together. A fiercer Mast caused us to throw ourselves fiat on the stony ground grasping at each other's hands, 5,, ignorant was I that I he. lieved at the time that we were in the full power of the ternaide, instead of being shel- tered by the walla of the gulch, Afterward I knew that we emit' hardly have saved our lives had we not been able to roach this ravine. Once I felt a touch on my head, from which my hat had long since gone. 1 found that it war. one of the horses, They had all come back from their first run up the gulch to be near us ; the three stood huddled close by, when we had a chanoo to look, As I re- call thinge in a dream, so I recall the inci- dents of the time while we remained in that refuge. Once, in a glare of the light- ning, and while my eyes were open and my heed raised, I saw several objects flying over the top of the gulch, They were sheep, and their dead, bruised bodies were found, as if they had been flung hard against the ground, after the storm. Once something name down close by me, hitting my hand where I had dug my fiogers unconsciously down into the earth. It was a small prairie dog, atill it lay still in death, near me. Many prairie hens the next day wero found dead, with almost all their feathers stripped off by the wind. While the terror lasted there was hardly a lull in theferooity of it. I thought we had been hours hiding there when at last the rain began to come down heavily, and a moment after the wind son• aibly diminished to a hard gale. We were directly soaked thoroughly, but I think none of us oared for that. The hurling noise of the storm was still deafening, but we felt that the worst was over, for us at least, That demon cone of cloud was flying further on its road of destruction, but it had loft us. ADA GREEN'S QUEER HISTORY. Comtng All tate Way from Cuba to Go to J:tiI IniCotupany with her Husband Ada Green, the young Cuban wife who traced her husband to Virginia some weeks ago, was brought before the court for burg- lary. Her set, y, as given in her testimony, is romantic. "I was born in the West Indies eighteen years ago," she said, "and my ocoupation is that ofa dressmaker. I lett Cuba several years ago and went to Philadelphia. While in that city 1 became acquainted with Wit- ham Hicks and married hi n. He deserted me, and I returned to my home in Cuba. Some time elapsed before I could obtain any tidings of his whereabouts, but finally I learned that he was in this country and in trouble. I immediately left Cuba and land- ed in New York, From New York I went to Philadelphia and Boston and diligently searched for him. At last I heard that he was in Richmond and in prison. I came on to Richmond, passing through Washington, where I put on male attire. When I found that my husband was in jail Iset to work•to know how I could get to him. I concluded to commit theft that I might be sent to jail, where I could be with him," The wife told her story calmly, and excit- ed much sympathy in its recital. She had no idea of the enormity of the crime she com- mitted. After she got in jail she constantly talked with her husband, and was with him several times in his cell. She talked so loud- ly that she was overheard by some of her fol- low prisoners, and they communicated their suspicions to the officers. The evidence was dead against her, and she pleaded guilty. Many bystanders were touched at the scone. The officers of the court will sign a petition requesting the Governor to commute her sentence to twelve months in jail. Even with this commutation her huebaud will be out of jail some months before her. During part of her varied experience she served as cabin boy on a ship. The Phantom Headlight. Hank Van Buskirk is one of the bravest and best engineers that ever set foot in a locomotive's cab He is noted for nerl e, and the daring speed to which he sometimes urges hie fiery steed has made him a sort of a hero among the boys of the C. & A. road, over which he has pulled trains for many years and has been phenomenally successful in avoiding serious accidents, Hank has a world of warm friends, but they are mostly railroad chums, and we all know how they delight in joking each other when they get the age or rubber upon some luckless brother employe. When Hank first began servicefor the C. & A. he had no silver in his locks and no gold in his handsome pear,y ivories, But for a peculiar circumstance that happened early in his career he might still be young and happy. He was pulling the " Denver Express" from Roadhouse to Bloomington at that time, they say, with Conductor Lat- ham on deck. Suddenly the sh1'ill-voiced whistle called a halt and the train slackened • its speed as the air brakes pinched the grlt.ld- ing wheels. In a moment the long line of passenger coaches came to a stand -still, For- tunately the train was only a few rods from a switch, and it was but the work of a min- ute to side-track, to allow the approaching engine to pass. The passengers hurriedly dressed and secreted their valuables, think- ing that the James brothers were about to make them an early and informal call. The train men all got down with their lanterns to see what the trouble might be. They sat down on the track to await the arrivalof the strange engine and conjecture as to its pos- Bible mission. Some said it was an extra wild train, but no one oonidunderstand why it should encroach upon their time, as they were not Tato and had not been informed of any such extra, After they had smoked and guessed about the approaching intruder and swapped lies for about a half hour it began to dawn upon the boys all was not right. The headlight of the approaching engine had veered to the right a degree or so and was considerably higher than it was when first seen. The truth seemed to strike them all at once—it was the silvery moon—and not a headlight. But there it stood right in their way. Hank hung his head and stole quietly into his cab. The whistle sounded dolefully aa Hank gave it a feeble pull. When the switch was cleared the throttle was pulled wide open, and no engine ever flew oyer the rattling rails as this one did. The train was Iets upon the traok than in the air. It was the best time ever made on that road until the screeching and rumbling and hissing monster shot into Jacksonville like a cata- pult. For a long time the boys called Hank "Sil- very Moon," i0 Flying Dutchman," and other similar pseudonyms, Smith—"Does Mr. Jimson live hero 1" Derkey—"No, sah ; he did lib heah, but he moved away do odder night " "Left in bad odor, did he 1' "Yes, sah ; he had de wust bref yo' ebber smelt, sah," A pacer announces that "men make big and sudden junps in the 'Gaited States," Yes, and if they happen to have about their clothes a few hundred thousand dollars bo - longing to some one elan, their jump usually brings them down on the Canadian side of the boundary. STRANGE BUT TRUE. Stanley, the explorer, says that on several occasions he bought his life of wild tribes for a pound of two -shilling powder. A woman in Allentown, Pa„ goes to sleep every evening at 9 o'clock, and sleeps sound- ly until 5 o'clock $he next afternoon, and has been keeping up this practice uninter- raptedly for eighteen months past. Her health is of the best. The California papers report that a now epooies of bear has been discovered on Mt. Shasta which is found in no ocher part of the world. It is about the size of a shep- herd dog, is white and very ferocious. Three have been killed lately. The terrors of the cyclone have material- ly lessened, to a certain Dakota farmer since ho arranged a trap door and a system of pul- leys so that when he hears a storm coming in the night he can pull a cord and his bed will sink int • the collar. According to the observation of an Hava- na doctor, reported in the annals of the Royal Academy of Science in that city, mos- quitoes may bu agents for the trahefer of the germs of yellow feve: and of the parasites which produoe elephantiasis, Some charcoal barriers at the foot of a Nevada mountain had a narrow escape from death in a terrific snowslide recently, As the mans descended into the heated atmos- phere of the valley it melted almost instan- taneously and changed from an avalanohe into a roaring ttrrent, through which the noon escaped by wading and swimming, The healing power of earthquakes is a subject of discussion in the Spanish medical press. The statement is made that in the recent shako up at Malaga most of the pa- tients forgot their diseases and took to the open air. The change agreed with them so well that a few only returned to the hos- pital. The surest teat for watered milk is said to consist in dipping a well polished knitting needle into a deep vessel of milk, and then immediately withdrawing it in an upright position. 1f the milk is pure a drop of the milk will hang to the needle, but the addition of even a small portion of water will pre- vent the adherence of the drop Among the. new applications of cotton is its use, in part, in the construction of houses the material employed for the purpose be- ing the refuse, which, when ground up with an equal amount of straw and asbestos, is converted into a paste, and this is formed into large slabs or bricks, which acquire, it is said, the hardneae of stone, and furnish a really valuable• building material. Under certain conditions some common articles of household decoration may be sources of danger, An insurance company is reported to have refused risks in houses in which perfectly spherical ilei globes or water bottles are kept. The company claims that through the coldest portionof the Win- ter three fires were started in parlors where articles were in such a position as to receive the d rect rays of the sun through plate glass windows. It is said there is no danger if the vessel in oval or alightly flattened. A writer in the Price Current says a fire was started on his library table by the sun shin- ing upon his paper wslght made of four glass g'obes fastened together so that three rest upon the table and ono rests above the others. The Largest Land Animal in the World. Since the death of Jumbo various state- ments have been published as to the exact stature of that giant elephant, The figures range from eleven fent to eleven feet and a half, but whether the height given is that at the shoulder does not appear. If Jumbo was eleven feet six inches high at the shoulder there is reason to 'believe that he was the largest land animal in the world. The size of elephants is commonly over- estimated. Their stature is almost always exagg rated in those countries where they are round wild. Even European travellers of scientific training have made notable mis- takes in this respect. African . elephants which Major Denham, one of the early ex- plorers, supposed to be sixteen feet high proved to be less than ten feet when killed. In Ceylon the native elephant, which was formerly thought to be larger than the Afri- can animal, is rarely taller than nine feet ; and Sir Emerson Tennent in his celebrated work on the natural history of that island says that in the dietrict where the hunters agree that the largest specimens are to bo found, "the tallest of ordinary herds do not average more than eight feet," In India the same tendency to exaggera- tion prevails. Dr. Falconer was authority for the statement by Prof. Anated, more than a quarter of a century ago, that "out of eleven hundred elephants from which the tallest were selected and measured with Dare, on one occasion in India, there was not one whose height equalled eleven feet." At the present day probably no one is bettor quali- fied to speak with reference to the size of Indian elephants than Mr. G. P, Sanderson, the officer in charge of the elpehant catch- ing establishment maiutained by the British Government at Mysore. He does not be- lieve that there is an elephant in India ten feet high at tho shoulder. He has measured a groat many, and tho tallest was nine feet and ten inches. " The next largest aro two tuskers belonging to his Highness the Maharajah of Mysore, each nine feet eight inches, captured in Mysore some forty years ago and still alive." Mr. Sanderson, in his very entertaining week on the wild. beasts of India, says that twice round an ele- phant's foot is his height, within one or two inches. Generally this measurement will give the exact stature, but when persona unfamiliar with elephants are asked to guocs how many times the circumference of the foot must be multiplied to ascertain how tall the animal is, they say from ten to fifteen times. Not only may we reasonably Conclude that Jumbo was the largest land animal in the world, or, at all events, without any superior in size, but it is safe to say that a much larger walking beast could not be made out of flesh and bones. This is me- chanically demonstrable. In order to sup- port a heavier creature, the size of the legs, even with practically solid bones, would have to be so increased as to render pro- gression impossible. 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