"Hermann was pleased with the open-mouthed attention he was creating, so he walked out into an open space where he could face them all, and began drawing rabbits out of his sleeves, his coat collar, his pockets by the half dozen. He threw them down, and as fast as they could scamper away the great magician kept on pulling out more rabbits to the view of the astonished natives. "Suddenly, with a loud yell, the sheep raisers seized clubs and stones and drawing their long sheath knives, rushed upon our party. "The prince seized my arm. "'Run for it, Pollock,' he cried, 'this rabbit business has set them wild. They'll kill us all if we don't cut our sticks.'" * * * * * "I believe," said Colonel Pollock, "that that was the closest shave I ever had. I struck out as hard as I could run, with about forty natives after me, some of them throwing spears and boomerangs at me every jump. When I was going over a little hill I turned my head and looked back just in time to see Steve Brodie jump off a bridge into the Murrumbidgee river at least 200 feet high. All our party escaped, and came straggling back within two or three days, but they had some tough experiences. Senator Sherman was out two nights in the bush and was severely frostbitten. "I understand DeWolf Hopper is going to dramatize the incident, and will produce it next season, appearing as a kangaroo. "Coxey was caught on the edge of a little stream which he refused to enter, and the natives dragged him before an English justice of the peace who released him the next day. The prince took the whole thing as a good joke. He is an all round good fellow and no mistake. "Sometime," said Colonel Pollock, as he rose to receipt for a telegram, "I will tell you about an adventure I had among the Catacombs of Rome, along with Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barney Gibbs and the Shah of Persia." Colonel Pollock leaves on the night train for San Antonio on his way to the City of Mexico. (_Houston Daily Post_, Sunday morning, January 26, 1896.) A Mystery of Many Centuries Up to a few years ago man regarded the means of locomotion possessed by the fair sex as a sacred areanum into which it were desecration to inquire.