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t5 gBBgB5iwgwwSw wm iflwk TOL IiVIH SA2T PRA2TCISCO CAIi STJ2TCAY DECEMBEB 3 1993 TWENTX rOUB EAGES ITO 14 Mysteries Produced Photography by Ghost Pictures Not Hard to Make Process Which Eesnlts in FiTe Portraits at a Shot Carious Freaks ICecrrillit I 8 tfcClure Limited X893 1 Ghosts hot Ibsens kind but some that lookedllie the good old fashioned sort appeared a number of years ago in daguerre ItrDe and tintype plates exhibited by certain paovoginyuci i iwr Boston and elsewhere These ghosts which were occasionally risible in photographic prnts of the modern kind excited the liveliest curiosity for a time Occasionally they were unscrupulously advertised as visitors from the spirit land Even in comparatively recent times it has been claimed that the camera has photographed shadowy images invisible to the human eye The ghost pictures generally took the form of a figure of hazy and transparent outlines hovering near a seated figure or near a standing figure that might or might not be in a conscious attitude The nor raal figore occasionally exhibited recognition ol tbe ghost appeahngly holding out hand or starting back in alarm Although these pictures were most frequently offered as a pleasantry and often were devised to carry out personal jokes of one ktDd or another they frequently imposed upon the credulous especially those who had a leaning toward spirit smooth cranium resting on Another vine glass which it supported in a plats resting on a box The draping of the clothes suggests the actuality of the inverted position and the realism of the background and surrondings cleverly supports the first impression that the gure iras upside dow Then It was photographed More striking and grotesque is the picture showing a young man helping himself saw himself in halt Two figures hold double handed saw and the one to the right looks down in apparent dismay at tbe shocking sight of a severed body the tipper part of the trunk resting on a stool where it is assumed to have been placed as if for an execution the lower part of the trunk and legs lying on the floor The three faces are obviously the same Unfortunately for the perfection Of the somewhat ghastly illusion there are two right arms or at least one right arm and a half How are these things done A person cannot be in two or more places at the same time Three methods of producing these illusions are illustrated by the ac card as much less scientific is illustrated in the other examples above mentioned The figure holding aloft the two chairs and duplicaWfigure in another attitude is an instance of doable printing so cleverly done as almost to defy detection The figures are separately photographed and in the first printing a space is reserved on the Ipaper by placing a mask precisely corresponding to the figure and accessories that are afterward to be printed in In the second negative everything is masked out save the feature that is to be printed within the space left by the first mask Such printing has to be very prettily done to deceive ttie eye into thinking that the whole is an ordinary photographic print and in the present instance the closest scrutiny is required to reveal the functions The gentleman of the bottle and glass is another case of double printing In photographing the figure right side up the trousers are pulled up the flaps of the coat similarly treated the bottle and glass pointed down the heels lifted and the shoulders drawn np to add to the il i posm I Ef TWO A Japanese General and Governor Tolentono and His Strange History A Shipwrecked Barters Son Twice Chosen to Rule the State of Jalisco 8AWTNO HIMSELF ualistic beliefs In fact mediums were photographed with a crowd of spirit faces hovering about them The mple secret for a ghost picture is this The person performing the part 8 of the ghost takes his or her place in the tableau with tbe sitter who is to appear natural will suppose that the camera is to remain open for five seconds in the old days it was likelv to be forty or more in oier to perfect the image of the nat ural figure At the ena of an exposure of one or two econds the camera opening is closedthe natural figure being warned not to more the ghost figure steps out of the scene and the camera is opened again for the remainder of the ve seconfl period Thus then the ghost has made a one or two seconds impression on the plate and the natural figure a full normal impression of five seconds The result companying pictures which are faithfully drawn from the original photographic prints Tbe first is shown Colonel Pennington picture made by himself These three figures were made on one plate while it rested within the camera Vrhile the image of one figure was being impressed on the negative plate the plate was being screened from the action ot the light in those parts of its surface which were reserved for the other figures The trouble in such a matter is to present the showing of the line of demarkation between the three separately exposed areas of the plate Generally this line not necessarily a sharp one and preferably one that is not sharp is made to fall in a fold of drapery to follow some dark line where it will be unnoticed or to cross some dark field in the plate Every precaution has been carefully observed in the Pennington plate in the original print from which there are only one or two points whereat the experienced eye may detect the method of procedure Gentlemen of the Jury is a simpler matter consisting of keeping a background so dark that the plate will not be affected by it Thus a light object any part of this dark area will affect the sensitive plate in the camera withont altering the condition of other parts of the plate lnsion where the figure is inverted A pnnt being taken from the photograph of the figure this is neatly cut out and laid on a negative containing the background so that when the print is made a white masked spot remains in the middle As in the previous case the negative containing the figure is now masted so as to print the figure only The sheet containing the background is now placed under the masked negative containing the figure and the latter is thus printed in the in verted position within the white apace left by the first mak But for the error as to the arm the saw freak is very well done the detail of the illusion being skillfully wrought out The two standing figures are eaily made on one negative by the process mentioned excluding one part of the negative irom the action of the lens while the other is being exposed The other fignTe is photographed separately on another plate the print containing the standing figure is masked to receive the two halves of the other figure and these are then printed in just as a printer runs his sheet through his press twice to print in two colors A form of photographic novelty that is something more than a freak and that promises to come into fashion as a por trait sensation is shown in the product of the photo multigraph which gives five Few people north of the Rio Grande have heard of Tolentono the Japanese General of Mexico whose influence has been felt for years throughout the Mexican republic and whose sword has been drawn scores of times in defense of the Mexican Government Honored wherever he is known respected and venerated by the common people ne is passing his last days in the quaint old Mexican city of Guadalajara His life has been an eventful one colored by the glamor oi romance and full of exciting episodes on many a battlefield Twice he has been chosen Governor of the Mexican State of Jalisco and now he is waiting the end which will come for him as an honored one Although he has led the armies of Mex ice and has been elevated to the highest civic post beneath that of President of the republic General Tolentono is a Japanese the son of an adventurous barber who was cast upon the Mexican shore in a storm With every chance against him the Japanese barber son has won dis Unction as great as if he was of the most favored of Mexican families His progress was so gradual that when the climax came all Mexico talked of the strange Japanese general whose bravery on the field had won htm honors and whose shrewdness in the Cabinet had won him the confidence of the leaders of the republic Who he was and wher he came from were queries in everybodys month but tne Japanese general was not inclined to tell his story He was a general of the republic and Governor of one of the States of Mexico That was enough for others to know and if people otiose to call him the Japanese General that was their affair and not his There was one very important reason for his reticence Mexico has a law which disqualifies foreigners even when natu rained from holding tbe position of Gov ernor of anv of the Mexican States That law would very readify explain the Jap anese general disinclination to talk of himself or of his parentage tlcally the only candidate in the field for i Governor of the State of Jallscov He was elected withont opposition and served with such distinction that at the expirationexpiration of his term he was re elected That concluded his public life and he lives now in practical retirement He married a Mexican woman and has a family He Is extremely wealthy and passes bis time between his farm and the city of Guadalajara Forsixdays1n the week he may be found at his country seat but every Sunday he returns to his home In the city He has adapted himself to tlie traditions and civilization of a country Tery unlike that in which his father was born He is essentially a Mexican in politics and religion and to speak of Governor Tolentono is to invite praise for one of the most patriotic of Mexican cltixens with whose name is invariably linked the soubriquet of the Japanese General Some time ago the Japanese Consul of this city Sntemi Chmda was in the City of Mexico and while there heard of the famous Japanese General of the Mexican republic Naturally his interest and curiosity were excited and ie decided to go to Guadalajara to investigate forhimself He was told something of the story of General Tolentono by Walter Wolmheim who Is now Minister to Japan from Mexico The stones told of the Generals early life and parentage were repeated to him and he determined to sift the matter to the bottom himself He went to Guadalajara and there met a man who bad known Tolentono father who had lived with him in the little Mexican village and who knew him to be a Japanese The Consul learned all tbe stones of the Governors life from men who knew them from personal experience and not from nearsay He pursued his investigations as far as possible and then visited the man in whom he felt so great an interest In an instant he found the result of his investigations verified The Japanese General be found to be a dark skinned gray haired keen eyed man slightly above the medium height His eyes are small and set like those of tbe Japanese His cheek bones are prominent as are the subjects of the Mikado His attitude and manner derived from his race and never overcome in vcars of active life In a west ern land are thoe of a Japanese It was with them a meaningless resemblance The Consul is convinced that ev Governor Tolentono is a full blooded Japanese General Tolentono knows very little of the Japanese language He speaks of Japan as any educated man might speak of it and no more An AulhenthrSfory of His Murder Citizens Monument 4t Snsanville 4 Near Californian Pioneer and Mason Whose JTemory Is Honored Written for the Chxosimjl Like a wild flower high np out of reach in the rocks the pretty Sttsanyille the county seat of Lassen is set on the side of the Sierra away from the track of tourist travel There is a little narrow gauge road over which once a day a TWO School FOOLISH TOUVO GIRLS Each Other in Chums Join Death I have kept my promise to the dead ft ith this exclamation Jennie McDonald a fifteen year old girl fell unconscious mto the doorway of her fathers house fm Dr Griffiths was hastily summoned He ThxMe with I HCXTI PHOTOGRAPH OF MR RVSGER and by moving the illuminated object from one point to another fresh images are produced on the plate each being unaffected bv the taking of nbse is also that such of the accessories back Lqnent images on adjacent parts of the pound etc as were obscured bv the dimensions of the ghost fienre during the two seconds are photographed during the remaining three seconds and shine through tbe ghostly lineaments quite after the authentic habit of backgrounds in the case of apparitions So much for tbe old ghosts Now the modern photographic Ieight of hand man thinks he has a trick worth two of this What says the camera wizard of to day do you sav to this and thrusts under your eyes tne photo graph of a man shaking hands with himself and Introducing himself to himself from a third position in the middle of the scene three figure all of the same per son I Or perhaps he shows you the picture of another man carrying himseli np The camera wizard waits for your expression of astonishment If you are posted he is disappointed If you are not and are ready with a question revell ing your bewilderment he is delighted in the modern photographic mystery plot certamlv has thickened consider ably Let us look at some of the phases of these modern mysteries Here is a strange picture called Gentle en of the Jury in which a middle aged entleman of serious mien is seen in the tode of a lawver addressing a iurv he twelve heads of the jury are before Mj while a figure midway between the peaker and the Jury appears in the attl ude of the stenographer taking down the peech The Jurymen exhibit various ex ressions from amnsement and excite ent to yawning indifference The tenographer Is busy The sjpeaker is in at on his observe centlemen or omethmg to that effect Thus there are onrtcen heads in the picture and they an portraits of the same person The peaker is talking to himself the slenog ipner is writing down his ownspeech Curious in a different wav i the niptnr I a man in his shirtsleeves kneeling and owing aloft two chairs on which he S31 appears with elbows restinertm one vvn ojranaieet on another ihe absence every effect of exertion in the lower fig wrves to accentuate rather than de Jthe mvstervof th illnsion Inanolhersingle figure photographVe waniea By the attitude of a Jnan med with bottle and trine glass who mmj 00 pouea neaa aown warar nis plate film Special measures have been taken this instance to clear the plate between the images The dark background is familirr in scientific pho tographr especially in the study of am mal locomotion Photographs of jumping and running are made by the use of a camera to which is fixed a rotarv exposing apparatus The rotary exposer is perforated with two or more openings during each passage of which across the lens opening an exposure is made In this way from ten to twenty distinct photographs of a jump are taken on one plate Natu rally the figures overlap each other but there is an authentic record of the position ot the figure at each stage of the movement and the relation of this position to all the others The processes here sketched belong to the order of freak photographs that are considered the most legitimate by the photographic sharps There are many portraits of one person at one time The result is a right and left profile a right and left three quarter new and a rear elevation affording an opportunity to see all the phass of an individual head There is so wide a vamtion in many cases between the right and left side of the face and consequently in the appearance of the profiles and three quarter views that the value of a photo multigraph becomes quickly apparent Indeed this Is a kind of composite photograph A hint as to the method of making the photo altigraph is offered by the appearance in the negative of a line down the middle of the picture This line tells the story of combination mirrors which are the means of repeating the face as one sees it in a French folding toilet glass The photographing of several views of a figure is not new Forty or fifty years ago photography was used to present studies of sculpture in this way But the use of mirrors for commercial photographing as in the photo multigraph is new enough to be a profitable novelty to its inventor GEXTLEMEN OF THE JURY the method Thus a boy seated on a tench leans in one exposure to the right In another lothe left giving 1 him the appctranc6 the final image of 4 a being with rVo legs but With two bod ies two heads i nd four arms But these tare tbe commonplaces oithe tomio pro cesses i A form of friak which the sharpr re Photography Is an energetic science It has shown us the upper surface of thunder clouds in action It has shown us the heart of a cnal mine The camera gets into the rigging of ships and into the catacombs It registers vibrations in the vocal cords of the human throat It is reporting men as well as the earth inside and out AixXAKBtB Buck whom he mingled in official and military life knew nothing of him except through sources independent of himself There are so many stones aboht his ori gvn and early life that lids hard to sift from them all the exact truth but behind them all there is one fact which cannot be denied He is a Japanese with all the habits Of mind the bearing and facial development of the subjects of the Mikado Those who are in every way qualified to judge and have no reason to deceive have taken the pains to learn all that may be known of the Japanese General They have talked with him and watched his movements and they do not hesitate to say that he is undamably a Japanese It is safe to say that there is not now another living character in Mexico around whose early life so many romantic stories have been woven On te seacoast the fisherman and hunters will tell you that the great General was cast ashore from a wreck They will tell vou of a Japanese vessel which many years ago battled with the elements on the Pacific shore of Mex ico The only ones saved of those on board were a Japanese barber his wife and their child who had been born a few days before on board the ship They wera cared for by the fishermen and when able to move journeyed into the interior They settled in one of the maller villages near the capital The fatber took up his trade of barber and there the story ends so far as the life of the Japanese General is concerned Still another version of the wreck is given by the people on the coast and re peated by those who live near the plen did home which the Japanese General now owns and occupies It is that the General was born a few days after the wrecked barber and his wife were cast upon the shore This story makes it appear that the General is a native of Mex ico and legally entitled to all the honors he has won Not satisfied with two legends of his origin the people of Mexico have made current a third The story of the wreck is there but the Japanese barber who struggled ashore had neither wife nor son He left for the interior as quickly as he was able Traveling from place to place as best he could he learned the language established himself among the people of one of the villages and married a Mexican woman The issue of their union was the Japanese General whose history and personalty possess an undoubted fascination for the people of the republic These stories are all which have a coloring mere or less legendary in connection with the Japanese General What else is known of him is fact and it is upon that basis that he is known beyond question to be a Japanese His father was a Japanese wjto lived in one of the villages near the capital city of Mexico and earned his livelihood as a barber His son was destined for a military life and as soon as the baroer could lay aside money enough the boy was sent to a military school in the city of Mexico The young man attracted no particular attention by his looks or if he did no comment wai made He was unusually tall for a Japanese but had the browb complexion dark hair small dark eves and prominent cheek bones of the Japan ese He acquitted himself well at the military school and rose rapidly in the army but rxot nnl a few years ago was he elevated to the Tantof General Then peo ple began to talk about the strange man abontwhom so little was known Those who knew the Japanese barber and his saw the girl was suffering from a poison ous drug and administered an antidote It had no effect however and shs died in less than thirty minutes Miss McDonald was the school chnm ot Mamie Hippie the fifteen year old daughter of Dr Hippie who committed suicide a few days previous by taking a dose of acid because her mother scolded her for playing truant Instead of being at school the two girls attended the performance at a museum While on her deathbed Mamie expressed a deire to seejenni ilone The girls had an interview Jennie refnsed to tell her parents what it was about They did not press her The funeral of Mamie took place to day Among the mouners were the McDonald family Upon their ar rival nome Mr McDonald tried to learn the secret between his daughter and the dead girl She refused to divulge it say ing she would die before giving ltnp Her father did not press the point After supper Jennie said she would retire early and went to her room Instead of going to bed he got out the bottle that had contained the poison Mamie Hippie used to kill herself and which she had secreted and stole out of the house Going to a drug store she had the vial refilled On her wav home she drank a quantity of tne stun as sne reacned tne door of her father house she sank unconscious on tbe step Her ather is sure the secret the girl bad was a solemn promise made to her chum to follow her in death Phila delphia Pres rrrxa lassts General had become one of tbe most unique figures in the public history of Mexico When the General returned to his adopted city of Guadalajara he was prac OLD TIME GAMES Many of the Present Day Sports Borrowed From the Past It is curious to note how some of the games of the early age have been handed down to the present time The game for instance known to most of us as Odd and Even was also a favorite with the young Egjptian and many of the little counters that he used are still preserved in the British Mnseum There is also the game of draughts which was played on a checkered board in the earliest times The poor children were content with draughtsmen and boxes made of rough pieces of day but the richer ones usually had bean tifullv carved iron headed draughtsmen and boxes The young Greeks too well provided with toys and games for their amusement The toys were chiefly dolls made of baked clay the arms and legs being jointed with string and therefore movable They bad a favorite game called chytnnda which has been preserved through many ages and is now played by boys of to day under the well known name of puss in the corner In France the game is called qnartre coins or four corners Both in the old game and the modern version five players are required one occupying each of the four comers while the fifth player stands in the middle In ancient Greece he wore an earthen pipkin on his head and was called Pot in France at the present day he is the Nigand or simpleton and by us he is called Puss To guess the number of ringers another held up was also a favorite amusement and this too is frequently played at the present time So yon aee how carefully the character of the amusements and the playthings of the very early ages have been maintained in the toys and games in use to day NcwcattU Chronicle Thought He Wm at Home Markham is wretchedly absent minded Whats he been doing nowf Went tram of cars is hauled from Reno Kev on a steadv up grade the length of Long valley into the lower end of Honey Lake valley to an uninviting spot called Amedee From tnis white valley town where no green leaf is to be seen stage lines run in different directions through Honey Lake valley One of these stages conveys the traveler at an easy trot to Snsanville a journey of thirty miles through steadily improving country At first the ground Is spongy for it is alive with hot sulphur springs then an area of sagebrush sore sign of a fertile soil is traversed and finallv all but end less fields of rich green alfalfa are enconntered As tbe county seat is neared ranches dot the road on either side and one soon realizes that thfr country is both rich and beautiful The shallow waters of Honey lake are early left behindhand every now ancLthen a glimpse is canghtTef the swiftly flowing Susan river Away to the left its rjdge of snow a continual fascination xisea tbe Sierra range The oun tains are particularly picturesque at this end of the valley The sides are covered with sugar pine yellow pine and fir As the elevation increases the trees become sparse and patches of eternal snow stand out amid the dark green until at last the immacn late white rises alone its eerned line standing out sharp and clear against the sy Up the steep street into the little country town with its three or four hotels and many neat cottages the ride is pleasant and the greater the elevation the finer the view Once on the summit of the hill above and around Snsanville the traveler finds that be lias not journeyed in vain for a backward glance over the road he has traveled reveals an ideal picture The orchards and there are plenty of them the rich green alfalfa fields and the stock ranches present a picture of piOs penty and plenty which is seldom credited to remote Lassen county Off to the northeast the dweller in Lassen county will point out where Black Bock canyon lies well known as tbe pass across to the bordering State of Nevada through which many of the early settlers came and where many a bloody skirmish was fought with Indians in early days Let your gaze sweep around to a point on the opposite side of the valley and it will rest on the Sierras snowy crest Gradually taking in the steep side of the mountain to its very foot solitary tree of unusual height and girth will arrest attention It is the monumental the foot of this tree and Black Sock canyon which are mdissolubiy associated with the death and renting place of Peter Lassen the pioneer who gave his name to the county ho authentic story of the death of Uncle Pete has yet been told The Society of California Pioneers has no biography qf Peter Lassen in its vast collection of reminiscences of the argonauts of the State The history of Lassen county i J5i lt brief bioCTanhical notice of the nioneer son Sid not keep their secret long and ft e1 pr0InseJy at the end of the dinner the fnd hearted Lasen met his was dus asuurk nine uciure me Japanese for the poorness of the spread Truths The shark manifests a distinct choice for people of certain races and wilt eat an Asiatic in preference to a negro and a European rather than either XJLSSCSS XOWXSTtt published by Fanss Smith In 18S2 in its death at the month ot the rifle The In dians were chargedrwiltrhis murder but ii is a question whether the perpetrators of the deed were not of the Caucasian race Captain Weatherlow in the same work emphatically denies this instauation and In a brief account of the death of Lassen says that he and a companion were mas 1 sacred by Pitt river Indians The authority for the following narra tive of the lulling of Peter Lassen is EphrainxV Spencer who has lived in Lassen county for thirty fiveyearsi Th story was told to him over and over again by a man named Lemericns Wyatt who was in Mr Spencers employ for two years in fact nntil he died Though Wyatt was an illiterate man his story was well worthy of credence He bad the reputation of being both truthful and honest The reasons for his knowledge of the in cldents connected with the killing ot Peter Lassen the story itself fully reveals Lassen was a Dane by birth and first saw the light of day on August 7 1800 in the capitatcltyof Copenhagen In 1329 having learned the trade of a carpenter he set foot on American soil In Boston Thence he went io Missouri bring at KatesviHe Jn 1839 Jie resumed his journey westward and with a xarty of twelve set out for Oregon and arrived after the usual trials of the pioneer at The Dalles The following year found him in San Jose after a brief visit to San Francisco In 1H1 he purchased a tract of land near Santa Cruz and there built a sawmill He sold ont for 100 mules and in the fall of 1S42 entered the service of Captain Sutter While in Sutters employ Lassen met JohnBidwelltandw5thhim first entered the country north of Red Bluff Bid well made a map of this region and Lassen having obtained a grantof land from the Mexican Governor Mieheltorena established his headquarters there Hia ranch became the best knewn place in Northern California and his services to immigrants are welt remembered in the roads be picked out in this virgin land some of which as Lassens route and Lassens road are still so called ft was in l5l that Lassen went to In dian valley in Plumas county and later on crossed Jnto what subsequently became known as Lassen county Between 1856 and 1S39 he lived in the log hut he had built and became quits notable for tbe skill he displayed making friends with the Indians His friendship for certain tnl es went so far that on occasion he helped them in their skirmishes with other Indians and the fact is mentioned that fn more than onein stance he thus joined bands with the Pah Utet against their neighbors the Pit River Indians Lassen was a skilled prospector and it was well known to his friends that somewhere he bad a cache Early Inf the spring of 1833 Uncle Pete with Lemericns Wyatt and a man who went by the name of Clapper and whose Christian name Wyatt never knew set out on a prospecting trip for silver They went to what is known as Black rock in the northwestern part of Nevada and about 146 miles northeast of Snsanville They had three horses two pack mules and a fnll prospecting outfit including nfles At the Black Bock range they camped oneevening beside a small stream evreince known as Clapper Creek Tho camp was in a nook of the canyon overlooked by hih Aloff on three sides The was a little feed for the horses and the place was a very pleasant if in those timesv dangerous location for a camp While the men were getting supper an Indian came to the camp carrying a good muzzle loading rifle He had neither powder caps nor bullets and by dumb show made his wants known Wyatt and Clapper strenuously objected to fuxnish ing the redskin with tbe ammunition but Lassen who as usual was friendly with tbe Indian said that no harm could come of it that all the Indians knew Uncle Pete and would never hurt him especially this Indian as he was a Pah Ute Mucbjo the regret of Lassetfs companions the pioneer gave the Indian a good supply of all he asked and the visitor immediately made off They picketed their animals for the nfghta short distance away and then made a common bed for themselves on tho ground Clapper lying in tbe middle Just asday was breaking Wyatt was awakened by tbe report of a nfle He sprang to bis feet and called to his companions Ha jerked tbe blankets off Clapper and caught him by the shoulder In so doing be turned the man over Blood spurted from Clappers temple showing that lie bad been shot clean throngn the bead Wyatt started to ran caling upon Lassen to do so too Uncle Pete however remained standing bv the bed shading his eyes with bis hand and holding bis rifle easily in the other trying to discover where the shot came from While he was still peering into the rocks a second shot rang ont and Lassen fell Wyatt ran back to Xassen and partly raised iim from the ground bat life was ebbing fast and nothing could be done Wyatt looked about for a place of safety knowing that he was a target for the same murderer He made for tho horses but before he reached the place where they were picketed he saw that they had pulled their picket ropes and stampeded He harried after them running for bis life toward the month of the canyon and the desert beyond A sharp reminder of the need of haste In the shape of a bullet passed through the leg of the fugitives tronserv but it did not draw blood Wyatt was then 60 years old weighed about 200 pounds and was both clumsy and slow on bis feet When he reached the entrance to the canyon bis courage fell Stretching from the base of the mountain away over the whte alkali plain was cloud of dust which bid from sight bis only hope of safety the runaway horses As he peered hopelessly after the retreating cloud be saw something which made bis heart leap into bis month Ont of the dnst the form of his own fine black pacing horse suddenly appeared The animal bad paced about apparently Struck by some sudden impulse For a second or two it seemed to rake Its bearings and then on a md gallop retraced its steps until it reacted the advancing Wyatt and invited the old man as plainly as signs could indicate io mount Vyatt roder the whole 10 miles to Susan vilU bareback at breakneck speed without a mantbf nl to eat and with nothing but a picket rope to guide bis faithful animal It was not until the fall of 1859 that the Lbodyof Lassen was sentforby theMasont and brought to CHsanvitle A final resting place was dag at the foci of the tall pine tree near Lassens ownloj cabin and overitastone monument was subsequently erected by the citizens of Susan Tille Ephraim Spencerjrho received thjsr story from the lips ol Wyatt Was a I Lassens funeral when bis body was placed where it now ilea w4tei i.