ABOUT A REAL SEA SERPENTTacoma Fishermen Prove the

Monster Does Exist

FOR THEY CAUGHT IT ALIVE

And Tbui Escapes Being Classed With

Antiquity's Liars

Hss ? Bulldog'f H.a, ? Tlfsr's Pengs. ?

Snake'? Body. \u25a0 Fish's Pins

end \u25a0 Puglllst'a Neck

That the west is rapidly assuming:many of the sacred prerogatives of theeast was clearly demonstrated the otherday by the news from Tacoma, Wash.,

that there had been captured InHood'scanal, Fuget Sound, two sea serpents.

Heretofore the east has monopolized

the sea serpent Industry, but In Itsbravest days Itnever ventured the claimof having: seen two eea serpents at theone time, let alone capturing them. Infact, heretofore the east contented It-self by thrillingreports from time totime by Its sea captains of the magni-

tude of the eea serpents which had beensighted. Sometimes these sea serpentswere only sixty feet long, and again they

reached the stupendous length of 600feet. One captain ofan excursion barge

which was kept out all night In Long

Island Sound, so that the manager ofthebar on board could sell all of his beer to

the thirsty passengers, reported passing

a sea serpent 1000 feet long, and someot the passengers were quite sure It was2000 feet long. It is necessary to etatethat this sea serpent was slgb.ts>l afterevery drop ofbeer and whisky ou boardhad been consumed.

The Tacoma sea serpents, as far aslength goes, are very mild in comparisonwith their eastern brothers and sisters.<.%.,.» measured, ten feet and the otherhave e£smThe?i fnem witnout MsMVWR-to classify them. One of tho B?lVpents was killed during tho "JvSStbut the other, a female, was alive ancwell at last accounts.

A COMPOSITE MONSTERShe is not a pretty creature, by any

means. She has a head like a big bull-dog and em extraordlnaryly thick andlong neck measuring about twenty-sixinches In circumference. Her body Islike that of a huge rattlesnake, stripedand Bpotted and tapering to a point atthe tall, A colossal lln runs the entirelength of the vertebrae, and a similarfin underneath runs along the stomachto the tall. She has great fangs likethose of a tiger and heavy molar teeth.Behind the gille are inside fins, and butfor these she would never be recognizedas bearing any kinship to the lish fam-. " sea serpent had not been cap-tured the fishermen who first saw Itwould doubtless be classed with whatis generally termed the grand army ofsea serpent liars. When the news ofItsSRRrXf JSS2?** aIIparts of th« world itWill doubtless cause something ofa sen-sation, as scientists have fought andwrangled over what is called the seaserpent myth for many years. Yet ontho books of the United States and Brit-ish navies are many records furnishedby capt.alnsj* warships of sea serpentswhich had been seen. Furthermore itit.<

kff? U:

' "'r lnßtan< se. that monsterscorresponding with the descrip-

il=?m h" 86Pent b*Peop l<» Whoclaim to have seen it existed In past

t'v.iEE the ."""cum of Tale collegeare skeletons of many of these creaturesdug out of rooks and from beds of driedUp sea V!£.ere they natl reposed for ages.PETRIFIED POINTERSOeologlsta all know that certain stratam°st c?rtaJn to disclose the skele-tons of great sea monsters, hundreds offeet In length, which In far remote ages

num^u^. 08*"°f W°rld and b e«

i*s.*«? thß rtb "' \u25a0fctUl. thejaws of these sea serpents ofa by-goneage are as well known to scientists asof the megatherium and themastodon. Coming upon such bones ortraces of them. In rock formation Jhiscientist classifies them jnS?SnUy knowserpen* M the W-SWtS \u25a0«

specimen I,» to be /een ' Uhai .",eh a

stance: Captain ll»r ° Forln -made oath before n mITf de Ferr ythat he had chased a «

a,SrlStrate in 1746a crew of ntton ln a rowh?.?l Nt. wlththe monster ascaped The fl'b, u} thatscribed the creature a! 2 <iapta 'n de-specimen, fully600 feet*'? a £,,rm 'dab,eabove water looked like2*r«w °?1 C°"3

heads. It had the head of «tZ hoffß -a sort of mane, and WithIn color. sray or brown

Eleazer Crabtree, "a mnn ?,. .peachable veracity," who dwelt ?»n J.m_

island, in Penobscot bay. in 1778 «lf£X

saw a sea serpent tM tlet Ion?description was very much l/taM,.?'!Captain de Ferry's, and the mm,l*at ?fsaw had a largesame Crabtree saw another sea »? ! h ?near Mount Desert In 1793

serp e'UAN OFFICIAL SERPENT

TT R6v

Veltur? ( Commodore PrebleU. S. N? when he gave chase tn L "serpent took place in 1779. He was th2sa midshipman, and when the sea serpent was sighted from the deck Of thesloop of war he was placed in command|of a boat manned by twelve seame

sessed of a large hffed. Its motion wasso rapid that It could not bs overtaken,but It was observed by the officers andmen for over an hour.

Captain Little, U. S. N., swore thatwhile In Penobscot bay, in 1780, on boardof a "public armed ship," he saw a seaserpent at sunriso one morning. Hohad a boat lowered, and took the tillerhimself, but before he could get nearenough for the marines to shoot, theanimal sank out of sight

Abraham Cummlngs reported a seaserpent In Penobsoot bay In 1802, andanother In 1808. In the same year theRev. Mr. Maclean, a clergyman, of Elgg,sent a careful description of a sea ser-pent, with "a head somewhat broad,"that swam "with his head above waterfor about half a mile." He describedthe creature as about eighty feet long.

In 1817 Capt. Tappan of the schoonerLaura and his whole crew told of seeinga sea serpent at Gloucester. They saidit looked like a string of buoys, with ahead like a serpent and a long tonguethat stuck out of its mouth like a har-poon. Its motion was more rapid thanthat of a whale.

CAPE ANN'S MONSTERSeveral persons made amdavltslln 1818

to having seen a sea monster off CapeAnn. In 1522 the sea serpent was re-ported from the fjords of Norway, andIn 1831 it was seen at Portsmouth, N. H.

In 1848 the British ship Daedalus, Capt.McQuahae, encountered a sea serpentwhich was distinctly seen by many ofthe passengers and afterwards describedby them with much care. The captainand passengers of the ship Silas Rich-ards reported encountering a monsteron June 7, 1826, in latitude 41 and longi-tude 67, and described the serpent asof a brownish color and seventy feetlong.

Three Maine fishermen, "all reliableand 'iod-fearing men," sailed far out tosea one summer's day In 1833 and cameacross a sea serpent basking near thesurface. Two of the fishermen were sobadly scared that they went below, leav-ing the third, a Mr. Oooch, to face theIntruder. Mr. Gooch is authority forthe statement that the boat passedwithin fifty feet of the serpent and thathe had a good view of it. It raised itshead and looked at Mr. Gooch and thendived down out of sight.

There were many kinds of sea ser-pents in that year. The steamship Con-necticut reached port several days over-due, and explained the delay by sayingthat much time had been consumed Inchasing sea serpents. The passengers

/ 'fff?o: rrKew were unanimous in thefr de-I 'j!)ra» f^arfin the monster, which fled

sWna°ke Wnted (^MWHftB

nt?** ? "'"w,"?" instances could becited in which mariners belonging toevery nation on the globe made eoltmna? ho..? ome cases sworn statementsof having seen sea serpents, but thosealready mentioned cover the eroundquite fully. It can be seen thatcase the sea serpent escaped, althoughin some Instances the monster was firedat by gun and cannon. Tacoma can Just-ly be proud of the llshermen who madethe capture, as the specimen should setat rest forever the disputes which have

survived a century or more.EFFECTS OP DELAY

The Suspended Llticatlon ol the Wright Irrl.gallon Cases

mE J" "ouhled whetheTaelay In ron-Sateen c,ChSlon waa ever moreB*te tnW. the supreme uoj.r'o postpone-ment of Its ruling In the Wright ffrlniowLAll,llluatratlon of 83? is ftfindin San Itornardlno oounty; there the RlattntSftfiPfif?

diVr,Ct ; whlc t ""bonded fortaklng steps to be dissolved Forsome time after the decision of JudcsRoss some members of the district ha?insisted that it would be better to turnthe Irrigation System over to the bondtion

etha

atndfh'^8 UP the boftd3 The quet

wm whether th. Same llp for settlementth « new owners would charireit i»

a hi'ite?for-,the wa,er aB cou i<t bepaS!

JUf.. thl3 Problem which a committee hinow at work upon. Iftho ad fiistnVent shallbe as the district people hone then. thib?ndi Will ho Kjughl bSek anS the systemturned over. The district is on. «S' <K2largest In the county and embrace! oneThls

he hSien^Pr

aY,ora, ;KeC,rsPSutJ

ho?.L e|a ,?n'D?eg

,oa uXn' 3bbonde*ond

<=°- jIMMIfiRANTS BROUOHT MILLIONS

Darin, th. L.., Y«rTh.y AdOd «*833.39.to Our Cain Wealthq t? +

r ;. JoSeph . A.- the UnitedStates oommUslongr of Immigrationhas completed his draft of the annual'«?e"tlr f flSCal year "nTd

The report shows that during the fis-

° hereJyearxal were brought to the port

°hf ? N^WtIork 263 '709 persons, 72,781 nforethan in the previous year

I*2l*h^ sneB ' lnm| Si-ants 6M45 came fromXt *.?? Austro-Hungary, and24.330 from the German empire. Persons

be?ed 26a

4mlSSl °n a"d deported num "

The Immigrants brought In, so far asIs known, $5,534,399. The highest percapita average was $71.62, among theSpaniards. The average among Hun-garians was the lowest, being $5 89

More than half the number deportedwere Italians. Of those denied admis-sion to the United States 756 were sentback as contract laborers and 1756 aspaupers.?New York World.

CJIRLS THAT ABB WANTEDTh ,e Kir' B that are wanted are good girlst.ood from the heart to the lipsPure as the lilyIs white and pure

*rom Its heart to Its sweet leaf tips.O?rU th» t

h «lare want ? d a"homeTgirls-.Thit r?,i

at are mo'hfr's right hand"Ann t

ahilm'?. and brothers can trust to.And the little ones understand.

AmiV?iat are .fa| r on the hearthstoneKhuipeasant when nobody sees,Klrd a"d JWeet to their own folks,The!!f,Wi? anxious to please:Taß.f}rls that are wanted are wise girlsThnf rt,£? 0w. what to d0aI"l to say.

The car«nWf' L\Smne

v.and Boft ?rd\u25a0me care of the household away.Thß

heartsthat are Wanted are *lr>B w"h

Btronfi;est and frallosf?s

?MARY B. JAMES.

THE REAL SEA SERPENT CAPTURED AT TACOMA. IT HAS A BULL DOG'S HEAD, A TIGER'S FANGS, A SNAKE'S BODY AND A COLOSSAL NECK

THE HOME OFJOAQUIN MILLER

BY MRS. MARY B. MART

Located upon the heights about tenmiles east of Oakland, commanding a

.grand view of Mount Etiablo In the dis-tance. Is the home of California's great-

est genius, commonly known as "the

poet of the Sierras." Twelve years havepassed since the first cabin was builtupon these heights, and the seeminglyImpossible task of converting a wilder-ness into an earthly paradise begun. Atlength Indomitable courage and perse-verance have overcome all obstacles,

the desert Is "blossoming as the rose,"and the solitary cabin has been replacedby a number of substantial modern cot-tages, that possess, however, a unique-

ness and a certain individuality that re-mind the beholder of the intelligence

that planned and the hand that execut-

1ed, for the poet himself is chief builderas well as head gardener in his own do-mains, literally fulfillingthe Injunction,"By the sweat of thy brow shalt thouearn thy bread."

It was a bright sunshiny morning afew days since, when your correspond-ent boarded an East Oakland car, bear-ing the Inscription "Highland park andUpper Fruitvale," and upon informing(the conductor of her destination wastold to remain on board until reachingthe terminus, when a two miles' walk ordrive over the hills would bring her tothe desired point.

Asoending to the upper deck, for thecar was constructed on the scenic plan,a fine view of the surrounding countrywas secured. The road is gradually upgrade, and upon reaching the terminus,half an hour later, the heat was begin-ning to be uncomfortable. Seeing thefamiliar legend, "family garden," over

' andri nhvei'tinc!!trance .which looked cool

\u25a0 moTi lnv't'ng, an investigation was

' Sell\an?d refreß Sments ordered from a

' To "Wearing Swiss woman who af- Iforward Proved to be the proprietress 1.»,? now Joa <luin Miller? Oh yes ""5 s«

nS hTered ' resp onse to my query-

-1 cfty and h/nfJ °"en on hl3 way *° themv health h

Stops and asks a «erlth« He ,i,s Buch * Wnd man, and !|the neighbors all like him. Are you to.lng to his place today'" S

tivoPO

sheb^. a"aTTe,red ln the afflr">a-S ju'sdt: waU IZll535? yrov

Wer""hIt°h "P

s^'^rsTrevrus 111 tad Waked £?made

imP?vements have beeniJlt ..th.e meantlme, the ooimtry thenbare and desolate, now wearln- a lenteral air of prosperity At lenfthsteepest part of^he'ascent is reachedthe long white fence, the luxuriantgrowth of fruit and flower, the nearowof snow-white cottages, s tuated aboutsZe^f- mutely «"'or« us. °mspite of the changes of the nail s vyears, that the home of the poeu'es be-U.P °,n Calllnff at his private cottage, located nearest the entrance aJapanese student greets us with the In-fo motion that the master is absent onFalT/" This'had '%n°W a "pokaneraus. mis had already been i»»? o h

bner

oaof

,aph

d;toS°' afHer ta

ber of photographs tacked upon thewalls, among which several fami*'ar,.L?« Angeles faces were recognisedI bade the young student adieu amipassing the guests' cottage, and a prettylittle summer house rennhon »Vl I yof the poet's mothTabouf2oo yards !tant. Mrs. Miller was seate/f? J7,rocker busily engagedlr

6 opting c\ZPings from various newspapers andmagazines. I hesitated in the open door-way, and watched the placidL contemed face, and the quick, energetic movernent of the hands for a fullmomentX!"lore the old lady Perceived my pTlsence"when rising with a stately g?ac c shecame forward to greet me ufZrS?* ?

a guest at her table. Although her ageIs stated to be 80, she appears as youngand active as a woman of half thoseyears. "I do not like the pictures theymake of me," she said, "for in them Ilook old, and I do not feel old by anymeans. Yes," she continued, "my sonIs away, but will, I think, return homeabout the 80th. Have I any pictures?Well, very few, we give so many away,but here is one of our home which youmay have Ifyou desire." Ithanked herand, after some further conversation,arose to take my departure. "Goodbye,my dear." said the kind old lady, as sh"leaned forward to bid me farewell, "andexcuse a woman old and ugly for kiss-ing you." Too touched to make reply,I mutely returned the caress and Bl-lently wended my way down the wind-ing path to the waiting vehicle below,and the erect form still standing in thedoorway was soon obscured by the In-tervening hills in the distance.

CIVILIZING NATIVESBritish Atrocities In Bulewa. Witnessed by

English TouristsThese are extracts from some letters

that have been written home by a youngEnglishman in Buluwayo, and have beenpublished in the Independent and Non-conformist:

"It Is grand fun potting niggers offand seeing them fall like ninepins. There

have been two or three caught in thetown lately and shot as spies. Crowdsgo to see it. They are stood ten yards offthe firing parly, who all blaze ai them atonce. It is quite a nice sight. One getscalloused and hardened and does notobject to seeing It.

"Several pgtrols have been put out afew hours and come back, having killeda hundred or two natives. Yesterdaymorning was the best. Two hundred andfifty of our people went opt. They killedover 200 in two hours' fighting.

"There are heaps of troops on the wayup. Then the natives willhave a warmtime of it. They willnearly all get wipedout. That l*the ony way to sette it now.They were never conquered in the oldwar, but now they willbe. Surrender Isuseless. We could never trust themagain. Now the idea Is to kill the greatevportion of every impi and thus teach

them a very bitter lesson"Yesterday three natives were nuncfor being spies. They were marched outot: town about half a mile. Ropes weretied to branches of a tree. They Zlllmade to climb up. the ropes were tied[totheir necks and they were made to Jumpoff the tree and drop. One would not torsome time; he would talk to M ?Coleh-brander, who asked him at last 'CanThL' said?Yes. So Mr. Colenbrander said: 'Havea good look at it. foryou willnever sllit aga.n.' So he did; then said: 'Goodby!

0Iffn^ander -' then Thecheek of the sweep amazed me. Thev

wme.We fflsnS&j? Bu,uway °"My stand has one big tree on it, and itis often used as a gallows. Yestertaythere was a goodly crop 0f seven Mata-

bele hanging there; today there areeight, the eighth being a nigger who w asheard boasting to a companion that hehud helped to kill white men, and gotback to town without being suspected."

What with allowinga crew of gam-blers In South Africa to hang natives,and allowing Egyptian regiments InNorth Africa to divide among them-selves the captureij women as the spoilsof war, we certainly are IntroducingOhrlstanlty and civilization Into theDark Continent in a somewhat remark-able manner. Between it and the Turk-ish system ofcivilizing the Armenians Ifail to perceive any difference.?LondonTruth.

hor in the Sky

One of the best known and most skill-ful fliers is a German named Lillenthal,who after years of study and trial madeIn the summer of 1891 a pair of wingscurved like a great bird's, says a writerIn St. Nicholas. As the result of hisstudies and experiments, he believescurved surfaces better than flat planes?in which he acrees with Le Brls, Goupll,Phillips and other students of the sub-ject. All these men believe that thec urved shape of birds' wings has muchto do with their flying, helping them togo against the wind?a strange effectwhich the French have named "aspira-tion."

Provided, then, with wings and a tail,

Lilienthal began to practice, at first up-on a spring board and afterward in ahillyregion near Berlin. Even af|er hewas able to sail as far as eightyreethe found that it was best to arrange thewings so that they could be easilythrown off; "otherwise." he coolly says,"I might have had a broken neck, in-stead of sprains, which always healed ina few weeks."

In 1892 he made larger wings andlearned to sail further than before, ris-ing twenty or thirty feet from theground upon a favoring wind. Sincethen Lilienthal has attached to his wingsa powerful little engine, and he is nowmaking attempts to learn its manage-ment. Just what be has done is not yetknown, but he has fewer accidents andimproves as time goes on.?New YorkMail and Express.

Society In 1906Society In 1996, I take It, will demon-

strate the superiority of cultivatedwoman to cultivated man. The charm-ing barrister reads nothing lighter tha ia scientific quarterly. A lady of greatliterary genius writes novels full of pas-sion and pathos, though she has a pooropinion of mothers. She gives herself

though how long we Shall SLftT*'!?*'supremacy is unVrtaln^BeZ d" &2the future is mercifully dark I h-ivfKC

wm £iVra 0-"rctche ldl b ueteSni k i >,eld to a spiritual logic ami

San ?h° f J.° m °re acc °"nt, say in'l'Sohen Afte? afrS

a£inf -'«?»»?« Of the

Discard, Her National Costume

Mme. Hoshi is IbSSt M» ,Wlfe'is very abnminnf ii Her dark hair

proved stryride

afra tPa ln the "S2t 4'not become accustomed as yet to theferv Am,erican institution of being in!Joined to her Inability to speak our lan-sttx; ,aiM her s ° far

Mmc Hoshl has been married ten2' buVhere ls only one child in hefamily, a boy of six years of age His

f|a? e '»Hf«hi Klkaru, and he is a brightin evident ? erln S al>out the housein evident loneliness for his manv c!r ve3

iSn 2he

fieaSt - The. u

a fine musician, and devoteswni ?ea ? VlT, to.that art- Mr'iIoahiwith m- ,Was ,hinKto n at an early datenorth

s,.famlly <<"? a resort In thenorth,_ciilcago chronicle.

JOAQUIN MILLER

THE POET'S MOTHER

LOS ANGELES HERALD: STTNDAT MOKNTNtJ, JULY 26, 1896. IS

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