AN ODD NUMBER. AND AN ODD CASE, i
sad the Question la. Had ThlrtMa Anf- '
thine to Do with the Guit
There was commotion in the hotel
when the Denver stage came in, and the
men who were playing poker in the bar
room, and the loafers who were waiting
for somebody to treat hnrried to see what
was up.
'There's a sick traveling' man. He's
awful bad and can't go imy farther.' Fix
him tip a bed and send for a doctor,'
some one in authority was saying. -
There were plenty of volunteers to help
-carry the rick man to a room, and soon
a temporary uurse was installed and a
doctor in charge of the case.
There was nothing unusual about it.
He wasn't the first sick man that had
stranded there, and would not be the
last. The only curious thing about him
was this: He heard the landlord Bay: --.
"Take him into thirteen."
"No, no," he said feebly, "that is an
unlucky nninber to me don't put me
there." .
AH right," said, the landlord, "give
him eighteen, -.that's empty.' And the
men bore him carefully upstairs.
Bnt the landlord had winked to those
who had him in charge, and they had
responded by an answering wink, which
said in dumb show, "All right, we do-
-derstand."
So they carried him into the room with
the unlucky number, and he, having
faith in the man he had appealed to,
asked no questions. Indeed he could
not, for ns they carried him into the
. room he swooned, and they sad enough
to tlo, witn tne doctor s help, to revive.
him.
Then be dozed, and started up in fe
verish delirium,, and called -for .people
who were far away, and raved and mat-1
tered, aud the landlord was laughing
down at the bar, telling of his good joke
in deceiving the siok man. . . . .
"He'll never know the difference," he
said. "1 ain't no patience with such
superstitions, and what the eye don't
ee the heart don't feel. Here's health
and Jong life to the stranger in No. 13."
They clinked glasses and drank. -
The noise of their carousal .penetrated
the room above, where death wrestled
with life in an unequal neotmter.
- "What time is it?"' . , .
The sick man had wakened suddenly,
-. and as he asked the question 'the clock
on the mantel began to strike the hour.
' "One two three fourT he counted
the strokes aloud... ......
me nurse tried to dissuade him from
speaking by shaking her head in disap
proval and laying a finger on her lips,
bnt he persisted and had his way.
V "Five six seven eight"
The doctor held his finger on the sick
man's pulse and - felt on accelerated
thrill in its irregular beat. The sick
"Nine ten--eleven twelve" -
Vjjidnight,". said the doctor, giving
the nurse a warning look.
"Thirteen!',' - .
.Thelock struck one too many; . it is
oot of order," grumbled the nurse.
"It has stopped, said the doctor.. tak
ing his finger from the pulse,, to which
he referred. "Strange! I did not think
the end was so near. " . . . - ,
Neither did Joe landlord, who had jost
wished the traveler long life.
But the, .clock Uiat struck one too
of fate. Detroit Free Pkh.
Sou People Dliilk Clocks.
I loathe clocks! They are like your
"frank people who are always bawling un
pleasant truths at you. As I lookup
from my work ' just now. and , catch the
eye of that braaen little monster on the
shelf it almost seems as though it was
gloating over the fact that time has the
bestiof me. "Ah, ha!" it eems to be
ying, "would like to keep your bloom
a little longer, would yon? Don't like to
think how late in the day it's getting for
some folks, and how near the bedtime of
the grave! Bnt mortals can't hold on to
youth, and they cant , forget the inn
where they are bound to sleep the night
of death away, while my brazen tongue
is wagging! You're on the lightning ex
press that' stops at no station, and I've
got hold of the throttle valve, my dear!"
TOT AU X- l -.
i j muo ucusi, gu on wiin your
xnlting beat of passing time!. Swing
yourself loose and hnrry us away to the
sea as a spiteful tug tackles an outward
bound ocean steamer! Some day,, we
will get it all back on you, when we
.stand under the new heavens checked
off with no meridian of time! We shall
forget you and your paltry environ-:
menta as completely as the summer for-
ma tViA uinfi. - i
the Btornv Meantime J would like to
Herald.
Inlands of the Sea.
Some mathematician of leisure has
been estimating the number of islands
in the, world, and has succeeded in count
ing some hundreds of thousands. He'
says there are over 1,000 island under
the flag of Japan. Strangely enough, ha
makes no reference to the Thousand
islands of the St. Lawrence or to the
thousands ill onr nam fAm-orian )
BO III a of wliich am nf cnnswlarartla - inn
It was among these beautiful wooded
little islands that the Huron Indians
1849 by their implacable foes, the Iro
quois. Among the labyrinthian chan
nels the Iroquois old not successfully
pursue them, and ..those who escaped to
the islands saY.d ithemselves from-: the
extermination which .befell their friends.
Toronto Truth.
A Trio of Xractteikl jokers. -
The late W. 1. Florence was best
known off the stage as a practical joker.
He relied for his success .upon his clever
ness entirely. . And it is not recorded
that he ever made an enemy by a practi--cal
joke. This love of practical joking
made him and Dundreary Sothern
friends until the end of Bothern's life.
They, were continually playing jokes
each ui- jn the other, and whichever way
the joke went it was appreciated. Larry
Jerome, Sothern .and Florence were a
famous trio of jokers in New York ten
years ago. New York Sun.
BEAUTY AMONG INDIANS.
The Women Cannot Do Compared' t
"" Whites, nut the Children Are Pretty.
The Blackfeet are .poor enough; in all
conscience,' from . nearly every, stand
point frour-. which we judge civilized
communities, but. their tribal possessions
include several horses to each head of a
"family; and lliough the majority of their
ponies would fetch no more than twenty
dollars apiece out there, eveu this, gives
them more wealth per capita than many
civilized people can boast. They have
managed also to keep much of' the sav
age paraphernalia of other days in the
form of buckskin clothes, elaborate
beadwork, eagle headdresses, good gnns
nnu liik vmiiituuioii huui nmeiitB or meir I
chiefs and medicine men. Hundreds of I
miles from any except fsuch small and 1
distant towns as Calgary and Medicine
Hat, and kept on the reserve as much us
possible, there has come to them less
damage by white men's vices than per
haps most other tribes have suffered.
Therefore it was still, possible for iue
to see in some tents the squaws at work
painting the clan signs on stretched
ekins, and making beadwork for uiocca
6itJs, pouches, "chaps,! and the, rest.
And in one tepee I found a young and
rather pretty girl wearing a suit of buck
skin, such s Cooper and all ; the past
historians of the Indians knew ns the
conventional every day attire of the red
skin. I say I saw the girl in a tent-but,
as a matter of fact, she passed me out of
doors, and with true feminine art man
aged to allow her blanket to fall opeu
just the instant it took to disclose the
precious dress beneath it.
1 asked to be taken into the tent to
which she went, and there, at the inter
preter's request, , , she -: threw off her
blanket, and Btood, with a little display
of honest coyness, dressed like the tradi
tional and . the theatrical belle of the
wilderness. The soft yellowish leather,
the heavy fringe upon, the arms, seams,
and edges of the garment, her beautiful
beaded leggings and moccasins, formed
so many parts of a very charming pic
ture. ..For herself, her face was comely,
but her figure was an Indian's. The
figure of the typical Indian woman
shows few graceful curves. -;
The reader will inquire whether there
wa any real beauty, as we judge it.
among these Indians. Yes, there was;
at least there were; good looks if there
was not beauty. I saw perhaps a dozen
fine looking men, half a dozen attractive
girls, , and something like a hundred
children of varying degrees of comeli
nesspleasing, pretty or beautifnl. 1
had some jolly romps with the children,
and so camo to know that their faces
and afms me my touch with the smooth
ness and softness of the flesh of our own
little ones at home. I was surprised at
. this; indeed, the skin of the boys was of
the texture of velvet.
The madcap urchins, what riotous fun
they were, having! They flung arrows
and darts,, ran races., and wrestled, and
in some of their play fairly swarmed all
over one another, until at times one lad
would be buried in the thick of a writh
ing mass of legs and, arms several feet in
depth. Some of ; the boys wore only f'Q
strings" (as, for some reason, the breech
clout is commonly called on. the prairie),
bat others were wrapped in old blankets,
and the larger ones were already wear
ing the Blackfoot plume lock, or tuf t of
hair tied. and trained i stand erect above
the- forehead.' - The babies within the
tepees were chid only in their complex
ions. Julian Ralph in Harper's.
Little Happiness in Stately Mansions.'.
, '.Well, I tell you what has. struck me
most," said Mr. Qt.p&i Diekanson. "It is
the large and magnificent houses in sev
eral of onr great cities built by million
aires and the small amount of real com
fort or happiness which the millionaires
seem to get out of them. Dickens, in
one of his novels, portrays with vivid
touch the real life of one of the city
men whose magnificent mansion was the
talk of the town. " ;it has often occurred
to me. that there are many New York
millionaires whose peace of mind is no
greater thanthat of the character whom
he sets down! .
"Somehow there seems to hang over a
number, of,, these stately mansions a
shadow of gloom. In, the west it is the
same. Some of those great houses look
as deserted as if the men who built them
and every relative had been forgotten
and the houses were the only reminders
that they once existed. To tell the truth,
there is too much rush, I believe, over
the making of money to enjoy the sup
posed happiness which it brings." St.
Louis Olobe-Demodrat. - . ' - ; '
Value of Amber lrlug the Roman Umpire
In snch repute was amber in Rome in
the time of the historian Pliny.tbat. he
remarks sarcastically, "The price of a
small figure, in it, however diminutive,
exceeds that of a living healthy slave."
He observes also, "True it is that a col
lar of amber beads worn about the necks
of young infants is a singular' preserva
tive against secret poison and a counter
charm for witchcraft and sorceries." He
says further that as an article of per
sonal ornamentation smlwr maa ncoil' tn
' produce imitations of precious stones by
uriiuciai Braining, a use to wnicn It was
peculiarly adapted owing to its brilliant
luster, combined with . the ease with
which it could be worked and polished.
.Philadelphia Times. ; t ;
, Servo Thins; Hot. ' .
Serving things hot, too, goes a loiig
way; if cooks could only be made to
realize that hot food is very rarely criti
cised they would be more careful in this
respect ; An experienced housekeeper
said the' other day. "The real reason that
my things are so much liked is not that
they are one bit nicer than any one
else's, but I always see that each dish is
served sc piping hot that there is no
chance for much criticism of the flavor."
New York Tribune.
- Lobsters' often ! travel iu reipiueiits.
erVing new feeding : grounds. Their
migrating ntrues are always led by the
biggest aud strongest ones, while the
maimed anil weakly struggle alon? be-
l hjrrt, ..... . - , -
America' Earliest Discoverer.
: 1 J
'- Amopg pre-Columbian discoverers of.
America the claims of the Norsemen, or,
properly speaking, the Icelanders who,
by their, low stature .and features; are
somewhat different from the character
istic Swedes and Norwegians--and ' of
the Welshmen under Prince Madoc are
fairly well known, hut those in favor of
an Irishman, St; ' Brendan, bishop of
Clonfert, in "Kerry, are not so familiar
to-us, although they are to the French,
" According to eleven different Latin
manuscripts- in . the National library,
Paris, one of which dates - from -the
Eleventh century S Brendan left Tra
lee bay about A. IV 550. on a mission to
the undiscovered . country which he be
lieved to exist beyond the Atlantic, The
vessel he embarked in with his compan
ions and provisions, including five pigs,
was caught in a current, and after a
voyage of "many weeks he landed in a
strange country, where -he taught the
natives the. truths of Christianity.
After seven years he returned to Ire
land, and subsequently tried a second
voyage to the same country, as he had
promised to revisit it, but was baffled by
the wind and tide.. He died in the odor
of sanctity in 578,.aged ninety-four vears.
The curious thing is that when Cortez
invaded Mexico' he found the natives in
possession of. some ,of the doctrines of
Christianity, which they said had been
taught them by a 6tranger clad in a long
robe, who came to them from the Holy
island beyond tbe sea in a "boat with
wings" many centuries before and prom
ised to return to them. The advent of
Cortez was in fact hailed as a fulfill
ment of this tradition. Lippincott's.
Wealthy Men nntl Director' Fees.
The - mouey. making people of Wall
street were startled a few days ago by a
report that Russell Sage had gone away
trum a uireciors meeting witliout col
lecting his fee of five dollars.- Investiga-
tion proved the rumor to be unfounded.
-uncie itusseii is a director in about
twenty corporations, and he never misses
a directors' meeting if he -can help it.
The usual custom is to pay each director
that attends a meeting five dollars'. ' Fre
quently the money is handed to the di-
j rectors in ine rorin or a gold piece as they
j enter the meeting room. At other times
the directors get their money just. before
leaving the room. Some days one man
is summoned to three or four directors'
meetings. If he happens to be J. Pier
pont Morgan he will attend the meeting
of the greatest importance. If -he hap
pens to be Russell Sage ho will attend
themalL. . ; . , v. ".'... ,:
Mr. Sage does not believe in neglecting
any of his official duties, and he considers
the collection of his five dollar fee as part
of his official daty. Mr. Morgan occa
sionally accepts the fee when it is handed
to him and passes it over" to a clerk or to
the porter of the building if he chances
to be near. Mr. Jay- Gould pays no at
tention whatever to the- customary di
rector's fee. ; The modest cashier , who
tenders him a paltry five dollars does not
even receive- the "courtesy of a glance.
New York Times. '
An Untaocbt Diplomat. . -
"Yon. know, Nick," said his mother,
"a gentleman never asks for things, no
matter how badly he wants them.4
"Why doesn't he?', said Nick, opening
very wide bis round four-year-old eyes.
' "Because it is impolite and greedy.
That is why it annoys me so to have you,
ask your Uncle - John, whenever :- .he
comes, if he has" brought you candy.
Remember, now, yon must never do it
anymore."
. "But it's my candy he says so and
he wants me to have it." ;' . . ; ,; ,
'Then he will certainly give it to you,
and you must wait his time for it. , If I
ever again here, you ask him 1 will " not
let yon have it. So'promise me that yon
will not. I know my little boy wants to
be a gentleman." -" - ..
Nick made the promise with a 'very
sober -face- He was the normal' small
boy, not a little angel,' yet he had been
trained "upon honor," and felt that a
promise once made could not be broken.
This is the way he kept it. When Uncle
J ohn came again, his nephew, after greet
ing him, leanexT meditatively .against
his chair and said, -You- didn't bring
anything but yourself this time, did you,
Uncle John?'' .
"Yes, I did," said Uncle John with' a
laughing shout; "I brought ; a whole
pound of candy, and after that I wish
it was two." Harper's Young People.
Busted," Not Broken..
Doubtless our unlettered, friends have
fine distinctions in the use of words, for
which we .do not give them sufficient
credit. A new pupil in a colored school
took a shattered lamp chimney to show
her teacher. . .
"Ah!" said, he, "your chimney is
broken, is it?'
"No, sir," she answered," "it's busted."
. In her distinction of terms lay all the
difference between a confession of guilt
and an assertion of innocence. : The
word "broken" she understood to mean
that the mishap" had occurred by her
own fault; and in correcting to "busted"
she meant to imply that some, unknown
agency, a current of cold air. perhaps,
had caused the break. ' -
' Here is a distinction as clear and real
as we make in more scholarly terms.'
Youth's Companion. , " ., . -
- The Most Drffienlt Tiling: to Match.
The most difficult, thing to match is
white paper. ' A customer comes in here
with a sheet of white paper, letter or
any other kind, and asks for paper just
like it Not once in 5,000 times can
such a customer be accommodated, and
for the reason that there is such an end
less variety of shades in white. People
look astonished when I tell them it is so,
bnt when they go out and try they soon
find out. Interview in Chicago Tribune.
. ' . .- v,
- Quinine Manufacturer..-
Those engaged in . the prou on of
quinine, whether from bark or cueinical
ly, suffer with a peculiar skin affection
caused by the inhalation of the vapor
from hot solutions of the drug. - Fever
is an accompaniment of this malady..
New York Recorder.
THE TETTIX.
Dewy and fragrant was the twilight falling
Upon the-wide sweep of the Argive plain, .
Bat, from the oleander copses calling, -
Xo niglit bird voiced its immemorial pain.
Vet, -clear and sweet, harmonious and win
ning Bar Intermingling with melodious bar
The tireless tettix with its violining
Filled all the sundown silence near and far.'
And we, who loved the blithe note of the cricket
Beside the hearth when automn days were
bleak.
Hearing this homelike sound from mead and
thicket, - -
Felt in onr hearts a kinship for the Greek.
Clinton Soollard in Lippineott's.
Uses for a Bottle of Gold Paint,. -
A twenty-five cent bottle of gold paint
is a capital investment for any woman.
She will find a dozen occasions for its
use every week of her life. - Perhaps she
chips some bit of Japanese or other
fancy porcelain in dusting; a brushfnl
of gold paint over the chip will make
everything right. A gilt picture or mir-
ror frame may be bruised or tarnished;
call in the little bottle again and remedy
in five minutes and for a fraction of a
centra damage the cabinet maker would
charge a dollar to repair and keep your
frame a couple of days besides. -
By, the by, yon girls who are clever
with . your paint brushes,- did you ever
spend a few dollars at the damaged
counters of the large Japanese stores?
Do you . know that you can buy for a
trifle lovely delicate vases and bits of
oriental wares that would sell for many
dollars were it not for a crack or a chip
some where. Buy them joyfully, take
them home tenderly and spend, half an
hour with your paint box,' filling up the
nick -with flour paste, plaster of paris or
putty. Any of these will take color
nicely, and if carefully painted and
dried the vases will be practically as
good as the best. New York Press.
In just 24 hours J. V. 8. relieves" constipation
and sick headaches. After if gets the system
under control an occasional dose prevents return.
We refer by permission to W. II. .Marshall, Brans
wick House, & F.; Geo. AWerncr, 531 California
8t, Mrs. C. Melvin, 136 Koam'y St, SF.;
and many others who hare found relief from
constipation and sick headaches. G.W. Vincent,
of 6 Terrence Court, 8. F. Writes: "I am CO years
of age and hare been troubled with constipation
for 25 years. I was recently induced to try Joy's
Vegetable Sarsaparilla. I recognized in it at
once an herb that the Mexicans used to give us
tin the early Go's for bowel troubles. - (I came to
California in 1830,) and I knew it would help ma
and it has. For the first time in years I can sleep
weH and. my system is regular and In splendid
condition. The old Mexican herbs In this remody
are a certain, cure in constipation and bowel
troubles." Ask for , . "::; :.
able
Sarsaparilla
For1 "SatWr' by-SNIPES-i' tetNRStY
. - - ' THE DAIXES. OREGON.
.Say the S.B.rugh.Cure is the best
-injug tney ever - saw, , we- are not
flattered for we known -Real. Merit wili,
Wix. All we ask is an honest tiiaK
; For sale by all druggists. " ;.';!,
- S. B, Medicine Mfg." Co.,
i ' - -. . -. - Dnrar, Oregon.
A Severe Law.
- - - t. .. - ,
. The English pee-'
pie look more closely
to the genuineness
of these staples than '
we do. , In fact, 'they '
have a lawjinder'
which they make
seizarei' 'and'"' de-;'"
stroy adulterated
products " that' are'
not what they are represented to be. - Under ;
. this statute thousands of pounds of tea have
been burned because of their wholesale adul-'
, teration. ' . , , ',.. : . - . ' '.."
- Tea, by the way, is one of the most notori-'-ously
adulterated articles of commerce, ifot "
akme are tho bright, shiny green tea artifl
clally colored, bnt thousands ot pounds of
" substitutes lor tea leaves are used to swell
V the bulk of cheap tea-i: ash, sloe, and willow :
"leaves being those: most commonly . used. '
-'Again, sweeping from tea warehouses are'
- colored and sold as ta. ' Eron exhausted lea
' leaves gathered from the tea-bowses are kept, ;
:." dried, and made over and find their way into
the fhcsp teas; ' . "; --7 - - "
The English gOTerninent attempts to stamp'
this out by con fiscal ion; "but no tea is too
- poor for u, and the result is, that probably
- the poorest teasuted ly any nation are those
; eonsumed iu America
Beech's Tea- is presented with the guar-
. amy that it is niiroiored and unadulterated;
.. .. In fact, the sun-earea tea leaf pure and sim
plet Its purity insures superior strength,
-" about one third Ichs of it being required for
a infusion than of Ihea-tiflcial teas, and its
.fragrance and exquisite flavor is at onee ap--
. parent. It Will be a rerelaUon to you. i
order that its purity and quality may be guar
anteed, it is sold only in pound packages
bearing this trade-mark: "
;BEECBTEA
Pore As -Childhood:
Just
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JUUS
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Price 60e per pound. Fox sale at . .
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was fonnded, namely, to assist in developing our
industries, to advertisethe resources of the city and
adjacent country and to work for an open river to
the sea. Its record is before the people ' and the
phenomenal support it has received is accepted as the
expression of their approval. Independent in every
thing neutral in nothing,; it will live only to fight
for what it believes to be just and ri ht.
Commencing with the first number of the second
volume the weekly has been enlarged to eight pages
wmie xne price (1.50 a year) remains the same.
Thus- both the weekly and dailv editionR nnntnin
more reading matter for
published in the county.
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