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THE LUMP CITY MINER: LUMP CITY, MONTANA. e• - ,› d A FOREST ADVENTURE BILE YET A young man. It was my good fortune to make quite an ex- tended tour In the East Indian Archi- .pelSito. Among other places visited was the territory of Sarawak, which, ly- ing in the northwest of Borneo, the largest of all the Islands, was, in 1849, reclaimed from piracy and barbarism and erected into an independent state by the famous Sir James Brooke, its first civilized ruler. Here, in the village of Itejang, an im- portant seaport at the mouth of the river bearing the same name. I stayed for several months, during which I be- came acquainted with an American family named Dyett, the only one of that nationality in the place, I believe. This family consisted of the father and mother—extremely pleasant, well-in- formed people --and two children, a handsome boy of 15, named Walter, and his sister, Adele, a lovely little thing of four years, born on the island. Like myself, Mr. Dyett, though en- gaged in mercantile life, was something of a hunter, and, quite naturally, Wal- ter, already an expert shot, possessed similar tastes. Although the more formidable beasts of prey, such as lions, tigers and pan- thers, do not exist In Sarawak nor in any other part off Borneo, there are two or three small species of the cat family: and almost everywhere on the island may be found a great abundance of both four -footed and feathered game, While serpents, from the huge boa down to the tiny diamond snake, are more than pleasantly plentiful. As might be expected in this equator- ial region, the \four -handed folk\ are represented by many varieties of apes and monkeys, Borneo and its westward lying neighbor, the great Island of Sumatra, being, 1 think, the only coun- tries in which that hideous caricature of humanity, the orang-outang, is found. It is not surprising, then, that Mr. Dyett, Walter and I spent a good deal of time in outdoor sports. The Rejang river,is navigable for nearly one hundred and fifty miles from its mouth, as Mr. Dyett owned a small steam yacht, his whole household, in- cluding wife and daughter, frequently made long trips up the stream and camped out In some favorite spot for days at a time, the yacht serving as a magazine of supplies and a safe place ot refuge in case of prolonged or too violent rains. By special invitation I accompanied the party on one of theme outings, on which occasion we steamed eighty miles or so up the river and finally encamped in a lovely spot on its southern bank. Here we found a wealth and beauty of tit , :a imposcrible adequately to de- scribe in a sketch like this. On all sides was to be seen an amazing variety of gorgeous flower!, bleoming shrubs and wild fruit and forest trees, amid which flitted Innumerable parrots and other birds of brilliant plumage, while, over- head, frisked and chattered monkeys, seemingly great enough in numbers and diversified enough in kind to stock all the menageries in the world. But other creatures, more fearfully beauti- ful and infinitely more hurtful, were here. On the morning after our arrival, my host and I decided to stroll out and pick up for the larder a couple of those di- minutive and remarkably beautiful deer called \pelandok\ by the Malay natives. while Walter just then preferred to stay near the double tent in which were his mother, little sister and two Chinese servants, and amuse himself by rifle practice at the small but exceedingly toothsome squirrels playing about in the tops of adjacent trees. While searching for the particular gatme required, we came across nu- merous droves of wild pigs, and saw at least a dozen sun -hears, a harmless fruit -and- vegetable -feeding animal, nearly as dark -furred as our North crescent-shried sp•e: or au almost orange -hued yellow. Resisting for the present every tempt- ation offered by the beautiful pheasants and other choice birds constantly rising before us. WP went on and on without firing a shot, but being determined first to secure, if po bic, a pair of the shy and delicate creZtures we were specially seeking. At last, out from a grove of flowering acacias started five of te tiny deer; each of us dropped one as they sped away, and, after slitting It open and SIICYT THE BOA CONSTRICTOR retrieving the viewers, shouldered it and turned back toward the camp. Then, as the little thi ngs were scarcely heavier than Jackrabbits, w e proceeded to till our game hags with quails and pheasants. having tin 1tarti the va' lit a goodly attar of imported be wherewith to keep them fresh Rather heavily laden now. We plodded slowly riverwartl. and had In,tne with - ‚ti a quarter mile of camp. when. tilmoet pa roil Zing Us toy aptonislintent and f , ight. o w , rang out from a , 111ITID of rubber trees. a hundred yards ahead, amnot bored whelp iif a dog and three distinctly childish shrieks. followed al- most immediately by a rifle -shot. Then all was still. Glancing fearfully at my comrade, I read in his eyes the certain confirma- tion of my own conviction that the human voice was that of little Adele! But how came the child there, and what had befallen her? Dashing deer and game -bags to the ground and retaining only our guns, we tore like madmen through the dense un- dergrowth toward the scene, trembling the while with apprehension lest we might find it one of unbearable horror. But what we did see was this: In a small, open, flower -crowned glade sat Walter Dyett, holding in his arms and tenderly soothing his little sister, while a few yards away lay the crushed body of her pet dog, and stretched out beside it the yet quivering form of a monstrous though beautifully mottled boa con- strictor! With a fervent cry of thanksgiving, the relieved fattier snatched the entire- ly uninjured child to his breast, when, between her sobs, she pitifully moaned: \Oh papa papa! that awful big snake killed poor Carlo!\ For many minutes the frightened lit- tle thing could not be comforted, but at last, while her soft arms still clung to her father's neck, the violence of her grief subsided. Then, gravely question- ing, Mr. leyett said: \Walter my son, why in the world did you bring Addle so far from camp? If the poor dog had not been a more tempting prey, she would surely have been destroyed by this monster.\ \It was very wrong of me, papa,\ re- plied the penitent boy, \but after I had shot all the squirrels I wanted, she begged so hard to be taken out for a walk, that I asked mamma to let her go with me, and always finding new and strange flowers to pick, we came farther than we intended.\ \Tell us about it, Walter,\ I said. \You've bravely atoned for your error, at all events, for I see that your bullet has completely shattered the boa's spine Just back of its head—the only way in which it could have been so quickly killed.\ • \Well resumed the young sports- man, \when we got to this bed of flow- ers, Addle began to flit about just like a butterfly, and I sat down, watching her pretty motions. \After a minute or two, with Carlo In front of her, she ran over to the rub- ber -tree grove, and then called out to me: \ 'Oh, Wattle, come quick and see such a booful thing all curled up in the tree!' \Thinking that it might lie one of those prettily spotted little wildcats. I was just getting up, when I saw a black and yellow streak dart down from a low tree, and ire one second the big snake caught Carlo by the nose, and quick as a flash of lightning wrapped itself around him. \The poor little fellow. had ‚time to give only one yelp, and then Addle be- gan to scream. I was there almost in a moment. but It was too late to save the dog, for when the snake uncoiled itself, after I'd put the muzzle of my rifle close to its head and blown its neck to pieces, he was quite dead and all crushed out of shape.\ \Well my boy,\ said Mr. Dyett, \you certainly acted with rare judgment, but how did you know' so well where to shoot?\ \Why I'd often read, papa, that the very largest snake is easily killed in that way; so I made sure of this one by almost touching its neck with my rifle before I fired.\ - Pretty cool for a 15 -year -old youngster,\ I remarked; but the boy, a born hunter, seemed to think nothing of his daring feat. Indeed, his joy at find- ing Addle unhurt was too great to admit of other exultations. Mr. Dyett, reflecting upon what might have been, shuddered, when, on measuring the great reptile, we found it to be thirteen feet long, a creature quite capable of not only killing but also of swallowing an ordinary -sized man! \This said he, \will prove a valu- able lesson to us all. Even the river crocodiles are not nearly so dangerous as these large tree -boas, because the latter can rarely be seen before they strike, and their approach is noiseless.\ Then, while the little girl still nestled in her father'a arms Walter and I gathered up the dropped gun, and the whole party hurried back to camp, where, when our startling story was told, the trembling mother wept over and fondled her now smiling darling ae If she had Indeed been snatched from the ja ‚vs of death. After !airier, two of the Malay boat- men were sent out to strip the bril- liantly marked skin of the snake and to bring in, for honorable burial, the body of the lamented Carlo, the in- voluntary sacrifice of whose life had undoubtedly saved tbat of his yeung mistrese. Net content with perferming their assigned task, the fellows brought back with them great flakes of the snow- white fat which underlie', the skin of theme huge serpent'', the oil tried out from this bring considered by allaborig- laal Borneans, a sovereign remedy for almost every conceivable ailment. I have no wish to inflict upon my readers any further account of our do- ings on that trip; but ne • onflrming the popular belief that Sc? p• of all kinds will. when possible, traet• trilmsing mate, I may env that, two tints after the fire wee killed, we mlifet flel11nd and equally large boa not ten feet from the spot where still lay some fragments of its departed relative • (•harfge or the fight Brigade. l u er s atz, of tic' Light ItrIgade at italaklava, 673 Off11.4Os and men took part There were 130 killed. 130 wound- ed atol 17, prisoners Only 19fr ride back, the remainder having been dismounted t »tit of g71 17, were killed and 42 wounded. ---- -- A Faille aleiert. TI'.' r u it an of Turkey is sending Out Mahornmetlan missionaries to Africa. Olt ere ow n expense, t» cheek the Christian advance in that continent. DANCED WITH A KING. Twe Lilla. Americans it the (\art at Christian IX. Virginia Yeaman Remnitz, in St.. Nicholas, tells a true story of tile ad - ventures of two young Americana at the court of the king of Denmark. They were children of the American minister, and had been Invited to a children's party at the palace. Here Is what fol- lowed: It was to Ellen a never -to -be - forgotten night. The crowds of happy children; the great room, brilliantly lighted; the strains of music; the pres- ence of a real king and queen -all com- bined to make the scene a fairy -land, wherein events took place which made Ellen feel herself a sort of fairy queen. The king opened the ball with little Ellen. Hardly understanding the honor, some sense of it nevertheless thrilled her childish heart. She could not even , iee his face, so tall was he. but his strong arms bore her around and around, she knew not how, for Ellen danced with as little precision and method as the leaves on a tree, or the ripples in a lake. Yet all through her being she felt that she was dancing with the king. It seemed but fitting, after that dance, to find herself seated on the sofa between the king and queen. With royal disregard to the claims of other small guests, and with royal in- difference to the effect upon little Ellen, they lifted her up between them. She looked pretty, natural and unconscious, and was herself a little queen in all her ways! While Ellen sat there, too happy and pleased to feel proud, the other children danced on. With no thought of imitating their elders in manner or motion, the young dancers abandoned themselves with childish freedom and simplicity to the enjoyment of the hour. Those who never had been trained in the different steps adapted their move- ments to the prompting» of happy hearts and light feet, and were as con- tented as the others. And little Ellen rested comfortably between the king and queen until she was ready to dance again. The evening wore on, and Ellen was overcome with weariness and sleep. Slipping away from the children, who now were whirling around in some dizzy game, she threw herself on a couch. Just as the scene grew misty to her eyes, and the dazzling events of the evening began to weave themselves into the suggestion of a dream, she was aroused by some one asking, \Where did you get your pretty pink slippers, Ellen?\ and she ripened her eyes. Why was the king sitting beside her and talking to her when she was so sleepy? She had a confused idea that he ought to put on his crown, and sit on a throne. \Please Mr. King, don't bover me; I'm so sleepy;\ and Ellen, turning her face upon royalty, slipped away to her pleas- ing dreams. \Little Ellen, little Ellen,\ said the king musingly, \It is not often that I hear the truth so plainly told, and it is refreshing to my ears.\ ALL UNDER THE WEATHER. Louisville Man Who it...1111O , Tired of Hearing the Complaints of Ills Fellows. - Hew are you? Don't tell me you are 'under the weather.' \ The greeting was uttered by a Main street man on Ille way back to his of- fice after dinner yesterday. He asked the question with emphaeis, not as merely using a conventional phrase, but as though he really wanted to know. Then stopping his acquaintance, he ex- plained his special interest in bike sub- ject. \I want to know if you feel really well.\ he said, \and I sincerely hope you do. Don't be astonished at ow un- usually strong interent in your well- being. It 114 simply because every man I have met to -day has told me be felt 'under the weather.' Some are only a little 'under the weather.' but none seem to have been able to stand right away from under it. When I sew you I hoped I had at last met a man per- fectly sound in wind and limb, arid liver. You don't mean to say you are 'under the weather.' too? Oh! Goodby. I've got to hurry.\ It is tiresome to hear the reined:linty; on all sides, and this particular kicker must be particularly tired of the gen- eral weakness of health. since he him-• self is one of those very people who exasperate the sufferings of humanitv at large by never suffering from any - - thing But the complaint is not ground- less There may be no great amount of sick -in -bed ranee, but every man !ri the city seems to be walking abroad with a load on his shoulderm, and he Calls that load the weather Some of th\ who try to explain things say that the t,areitneter is dire' ly r others tire theremometer. There seems, however, to be more probability in the theory advanced by a scientific person In my hearing yesterday that the heavy falls of enew purged the air of Impuri- ties only to keep those Maine IfirlpUrIlll'IR locked up as long as the fr o st l as t,' and turn them loose on the atmoaplo•re to pultion us when the temper a t ur e roe.—Doulmville Courier -Journal A Duke in Literature. The Due de Dino, who is better known in this country. perhapa, by the name of the Marquis oie Talleyrand-Perigord, and wile Is 11‘ , W the husband Or NIPW York girl, has once more distinguished himself in a literery way by the publi- cation of a poem entiLled \Ti'.' Land of Silence.\ It may be remembered that neeitit a year or two ago the 10m- rie Olno accompanied the well known author. Pierre 1.0t1, on a trip from the Red Sea to PaleatIne, following th same route as far as possible as that i passed ea,i over h ipr hy m • I aro''' l, ta t e ri › t r been desert h'e'i by Pierre Loll in a book pint puldieheil f`fltit led - L.' I aoiert. - and is iniel% regarded as the literary rracterpie, e of the youngest of all the sioademleame, while the desert finding wore It adequate to ex ‚orces the idea of the aentimente which the lonelinese of te. desert aroupeel in his breast, nas 11 really grand poem, which finds no more ,enihnisbuitie admirer snd appreciator than his intimate fri».nti. Henri Ro'hefort, Marquis de Luc.L.Î • PRINTING TILE BONDS. HOW THE WORK IS DONE BY THE PRINTERS. Smite Interesting Details Relative to the Lusher Perforated In the Bureau of Engraving and 'Printing rt lu Money SlIakie.K. (Wasi•ington Correspondence.) HIRTY - Tit REE years ago the bu- reau of engraving and printing of the United States treasury depart- ment was estab- lished in a nebulus sert of way, under the • direction of Spencer M. ('lark. Previous t) 1i62 all the public money of the government was printed under con- tract by the American and Continental Bank Note companies, of New York. The monopoly enjoyed by the companies and the danger of allowing such plates and diet, from which money was print- ed to remain in the hands of private parties at points distant from the cap- ital suggested to the teeasury officials the advisability of controlling the busi- ness more directly, and in August. 1862, the printing of money was commenced in the treasury department. The bank noté companies fought the new depart- ure vigorously. They had charges CLAUDE M. JOHNSON. brought against Mr. Clark for diverting the money he made to his own use. A congressional Investigation resulted in his exoneration, and congress quick- ly saw the necessity of increasing the efficiency of the bureau, and its scope of operations was widened. The quar- ters in the treasury department be- came tot, circumscribed, and a large building was erected on Fourteenth street, adjoining the Washington mon- ument grounds. The province of the bureau is to de- sign, engrave and print all the paper securities of the government, including bonds, treasury notes, national bank notes, gold and silver certificates, cus - toms and Internal revenue stamps, postage stamps and the checks and drafts used in the various departments of the government. When the treasury department re- ceived notice, on Feb. 1 last, that Presi- dent Cleveland bad determined to is- sue $62,500,000 worth of 4 per cent bonds the wIdeawake fellows in the bureau knew there would be heavy work ahead and prepared themselves accordingly On February 14 Secretary Carlisle notified Mr. Claude M. Johnson. chief of the bureau of engraving and print- ing, to design, execute and deliver ae fast as possible that amount of bonds in live varieties. Mr. Johnson called in Mr. Thomas F. Morris, chief of the de- signing and engraving division and ac- quainted him with what was wanted. There would not be time to make en- tirely new designs fcr the bonds, and he set to work to make up the plates from the \stock\ on hand. This \stock.\ as it is called, consists of rolls of hardened steel, bearing in relief upon them every vignette, border, scroll and die ever printed on one of Uncle Saries securities. Previous to the actual work being be- gun the designs for theobonds were carefully PIRTTIlt14.4.1 and ant to Secre- tary Car - limbo for his approval. The en- gravers worked night and dey trans - J. P SWANN of the enliven bond plates Poll. bonds and ronriltilll Were 111 , 0,1 g r een w ith (erring the rolls and dies to the plates Pooch largc bonde as the 4 renta had seldom m' -en And It wag IlProlasul'y Pay , . manufactiired for the Ionsue Some 1.1re, of the immense amount at» delicate labor required righ l o g i rut hnt n 1 , 1 , than 440 se ara te rolls had to be transferred to «Loh red seals and both backs were green when printed. Work upon the registerrd bond plates was progressing rapidly at the same tulle. The first work upon the $10,000 plate was the tranuferrence of the or- nate scroll work and then the portrait of Charles Sumner was added. A fig- ure vignette, representing agriculture, in the half figure of a voluptuous wom- an bearing a sheaf upon her 'boulders, addea to its artistic beauty, and $10,000 in large figure's in a maze of lathe work showed the value. The design called for three printings from this plate in black, orange tint and green, the words 4 per cronts, in large letters, appearing through the tint, the seal being green. A blue black completed this bond. The 81. 1 )00 bond bore the portrait of De Wit*. Clinton. and the $100 that of Gen. Win tield Scott Hancock. The vignettes ter d ea ia c i t r w e . d ere an r { e i s g pe ree et n t I vely in III - AM soon as he was ready for them J. P. Swann, the chief of the printing di- vision, where 700 men and women work inasweltering and close atmosphere. n n secured a order for them ad gave his receipt to the custodian of the vaults. The first order sent by Chief John- son was for 5,000 sheets for the print- ing of $1,000, and the bureau was charged up, not with 6,000 sheets of fibre paper, but with *5.000,000 of bonds! When the paper reached the bureau the treasury count was verified, and the division to whieh It was transferred was made responsible for it. It was then sent to the examining division and counted again; and thence it was trans- ferred to the melting division. When the wet paper is rtomoved it is issued to the printer. whose assistant counts it, and the printer is , •liarged with the face value of the sheets taken. The plate printer's paraphernalia is a queer looking contrivance, consisting of a plank and two large rollers, one above the other To the upper roller, which is covered with several thick- nesses of blanket, is attached a series of five long arms, looking for all the world like a gaunt skeleton of a wind- mill. Behind him is S. stove, with a flat top, and on the other side of the press, opposite to him, is his assistant. On a table, in front of her, is the precious fibre paper. The printer takes the plate and places it on top of the stove and gently warms it. He takes a roller of woollen cloth, covers it with thick looking ink, and rubs it over the entire surface of the plate, and forces the ink well into all the lines of the engraving. Then, with a piece of fine muslin, ne removes all the superfluous ink frern the face. After remua' ing all traces of ink from it, and being careful not to remove any from the lines, he places the plate upon the plank and then pushes it between the rollers, whose pressure forces the paper into the en- graving lines, and causes it to take up the ink on its surface. This process le followed with each separate bond print- ed, and the finished securities are then sent to the drying room, and entered up to the printer's credit on his pass book and on the books of the examining • THOMAS F. MORRIS. division. So perfect is the system ot protection employed that but three sheets of fibre paper havi' been loto or unaccounted for in the bureau in tht» past twenty years. After the seal lo put on the tint IS lidded, ,a..11 division giving receipts and being briund by the Same rigorous rules as those indicated heretefore regarding the ether parties through whorge handm the bonds have paserod, and then the precious thinge go to the numbering division. where each honod is given an individual number. and each of the 120 coupon:4 on that kind of bond given the game distinc- tion. When numbered the bonds art ready to deliver to the loan division 01 the treasury, and there has just been jubilation in the bureau over the fart that the first hot of Me1e0,000 worth of etruoen betide ham been sent over. In Just twenty-two days from the time thr 'order for the bonds had been received from Secretary Carlisle all the itupen- firms and rieiiriate work had heron per - fey - noel anti a new record made for *f- emur , y end rapidity. Mr T J nreletant Is a native of WamblFellaw and has been conneeted with the bureau since Dec I, IX96, first as t hie! of the divi- sion of accounts api thereafter as as- Riatant chief Of 101, , R11 Ile Is rit years \lui Ile is rigid disciplinarian and possesses splendid PIP , Ilt I VP ai'Ii' iv. anti the syst\Irl prOtPrtiOn which now surrounds the manufacture of gov• et - torrent money is largely the resxtrit ot his study and development Mr Swann Is another tild employe. lie Is 54 years old and entered the bureau in IttRir as a plate printer. He piireeeertrel to his present position upon the death of iotno prodP , Pllignr. A P. Mot-. Ran. last ‚«ar Ile le another dieriplire go n e,. eel the 700 men and women un- der his hrirge move RbOtit their dutiee w ith the pre, sion derkwork and s4 mtien e ms , y Of tee billion* of 'oh p i n,' printed under hie Aupervielon not a nat.» has been lost er stolen. I .
