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-7 $ tr w $$ Î$ u ÎJ “THE SHADOW# or THE tt "CORDILLERA:# Or, The Maanofia Fiower. •$ —•— BY VIRGINIA LEILA WENTZ. tt --------- •— # tt tt tt it tt # tt OoeVKIQHT, 1W0, Bv E rvin W àkumàm . CHAPTER I. PERLA DEL OCCI- DENTE” partakes of the character of both ■ones into which Mexico Is divided. Merry Guadalajara is placed on the boundary line between the hot and cold lands. The Cerro del Col, a kind of extinct volcano, tlie peak of Tequila, and be hind this melancholy looking mountain a complete chain of rugged bills hein- miug in the Rio Tololotlan compose the somber looklug amphitheater which screens the capital of tlie state of Ja lisco on the north. But upon the banks of the Tololotlan prevails another at mosphere, and the traveler finds him self In tlie region of the tierra caliente, where citron trees and bananas take the place of oaks mid pines and arid sands are succeeded by fields of sugar canes watered by numerous streams. Refore the era of railways, when the phrase ferro carrll was an uncouth one ami incomprehensible to all save the padres, the Pearl of the West was the queen of the entire rich western const of Mexico. Even today she lifts her Ivory towers, her mass of shining domes and moresque minarets with sweet pride. For the skies toward which she lifts them are of such ra diance as scarcely anywhere else are to be seen even in this land of radiant skies. Tree arched avenues lead In e^l’Mjjdh'ftlon from Guadalajara to In- numenhHljL villages that dot the ver dant plalnol>-JXWch she lies smiling. And these villat^S-Jor all that they are such mites of thingy are nearly perfect as types. Low adofre. bouses straggle around three sides of the'' town plaza: on the fourth side is the quaint* church (even the pueblltos, the tiniest settlements of all, usually have their churches). Back of the houses are cor- rales and gardens, and back of these, In turn, are the cultivated fields cross ed aud recrossed by acequias through which the water comes that makes fruitful the land. Not alone are-these villages typical; they possess, more over, histories that far antedate the time when the fierce aud warlike Nuno de Guzzman led Ills army Into western New Spain. On a smooth, green billow of the laud, just without one of these puebll- tos, are two houses. Tlie.v are not al together like the rest; they nre larger and more pretentious, and standing up there on the knoll as they do they seem to command the village as a mouse might command a seigniory. One morniug, something like a dou ble score of years ago, two horsemen came up the willow shaded road that leads past these houses. Tlielr conver sation was in French. They were dis cussing mines, intent upon specula tions and Investments nt least the eld er of the two was. He was not a man you would be likely to pass without observing. There was something In the restless, wiry, nervous expression of bls face that made you wonder what be bad done. Ills companion, on the contrary, made you question what lie possibly could do. He was the dain tiest, golden haired, blue eyed mani kin that ever stepped out of a Parisian bandbox. At the threshold of the first bouse, the one nearest Guadalajara, from whence the horsemen rode, was a young girl busily engaged In stringing colored beads. She was seated upon a mat, her legs crossed In Mexican fash ion, and from beneath her dress peeped two little stockingless feet. Iler rebozo had glided from her head to her shoul ders and from* her shoulders to tlie reed mat upon which she was sitting. "Mon Dleu! What a beauty!” ex claimed the younger man. And as ti midity was not the principal defect In the character of this cavalier he po litely took off bls hat, caused tlie row els of Ills Iron spurs to clank against the sides of his steed, and the animal reared and curveted In Ills most ele gant manner before the porch of the bouse. The movement was so unexpected that the girl uttered a cry of terror and started to her feet. The next moment the horse had thrown its rider. He lay senseless on the road, having struck his temple on a stone. When Berrendo Oajaca, tlie master of the house, bad been called, when the unconscious young man Lad been brought under cover of his roof and everything that hospitality could sug gest had been done, Henry Beausoleil went on his way to San Pedro. His host had tol<l him of a doctor whom he would find there, and It was nearer than Guadalajara. "Bah!” he muttered angrily to him self. “What a milksop that fellow Is!" He referred to his whilom companion. Then he added with a chuckle:'“He Is the one whom his money manipulates. I am the one who manipulates his money.” Which was true enough. Benusoleil was Claude Catou's agent, and he had sent his fortune out In all directions. For the most part It came back with considerable booty In the way of per centage. It dipped Into every transac tlon In the «tate of Louisiana (New Or leans was ntoti’a birthplace), It walk ed around In slaves, It floated In boats, ■nd It shaved paper. Claude was the last representative of in aristocratic family who for genera- Jhms bad married for blood and money together. When they were not polish ing and refining the original stock, they were fertilizing and cultivating their money. If It happened to be a case of cousins, so much the better. The process of concentration, howev er, was more favorable to the money than to the blood. The children had grown smaller and weaker, prettier and punier, fewer and fewer, genera tion after generation. This last repre sentative of the race had got to that pass Intellectually when be had to buy the business ability he required. His agent. Beausoleil, had business ability to sell and over. ••••••• Down In the depths of her Aztec blood Ouelle had a superstitious faith In the coming again of Montezuma. She knew that when the god returned it would be with the rays of the rising sun, aud as the blond young fellow had lain there in the road for a few moments in the early morning sun light he had Indeed appeared to her as a god. When finally he opened his eyes, she was standing by the door watching him, one arm half raised aud resting on tlie sill, her body partly turned, as If arrested. The position showed the beautiful lines of lier lithe figure. He looked at her dreamily and tried to raise his head, but he could not. Then the girl moved slowly toward him, as though fascinated by his look, and gaz ed into Ills eyes ns a little child might. "I am so sorry that my scream frightened the senor's horse.” Tlie voice was as melodious as that of tlie cenzontle, the Mexican nightingale. Caton had sprained his ankle, It ap peared. and in the weeks that follow ed Benusoleil came to see him dally. But he never staid long. He was dis gusted with the whole affair, lie said. His opinion, however, made little dif ference to Claude, who was lu the habit of doing as he pleased. An agent was paid for managing business af fairs. nothing else. Young Montezuma meanwhile bad won tlie heart of the stout, middle aged señora by commissioning Beau- solid to fetch her the most gaudy dress pattern to be found in all Guadalajara, Aid lie had become a great personage— • very great personage Indeed—to the little brown faced children because lie had bidden Ids agent never to forget to bring them dulces. Berrendo Oajaca also liked him because he spoke the Spanish “tnuy galante.” But with Ouelle it was different—altogether dif ferent. One day Berrendo was out lu the garden by tlie ncequla planting a mag nolia tree. The señora had just reach ed up and seized one of a number of chickens perched beneath the roof of the Jaeal. She was wringing its neck with a view to supper. Ouelle was preparing the American senor some coffee. He liked It often. Tlie senor. for bls part, lay back In ids chair. Ids ankle nicely bandaged, watching the door leading to the kitch en, which from time to time Ouelle would pass. In some strange way he could not understand, and yet. which seemed per fectly natural to him. lie longed to re main here, away from the fuss and fret aud fume, the noise and complexi ty of things. He was tired of white kid gloves and evenlug clothes. What claims had New Orleans on him, Claude Caton? Death, who had al ways been hanging around the corner with a pistol or a knife or sailing up the Mississippi with a cargo of yellow fever or cholera, had robbed him of all his people. As to Ids business affairs, Beausoleil could attend to them, of course. It was farcical for him even to attempt to meddle In their manage- ment. Besides— Ouelle entered tlie room with a cup of coffee and a flask of cognac. She placed the tray on a table at Ids side, lie touched her hand, and her lips parted as though to speak. Iler fa ther coming In at this moment she turned away and sank In a huddled Leap on the floor near tlie door of the kitchen. Berrendo was in something of an 111 humor. He had not been all tills time planting ids magnolia tree, It appear ed. He had been quarreling again with Ids neighbor, Crlstlno Miguel. Now, Berrendo and Crlstlno were tlie closest of comrades. When tlie detest ed Americanos liad Invaded their coud- try. they had fought together and suf fered loss of property together. And since those days but one discord ever had Jostled upon tlielr harmonious friendship. Tills discord came In the shape of bickerings over the right to the water which reached Berrendo's land only after having crossed a field of Crlstlno. Usually these wrangles were of a good natured sort. But today, decided ly. Berrendo’s temper had got the up per hand, lie tried to explain to Ca- tou: "He thinks”—referring to Crlstlno Miguel—“that because his people have handed him down as a treasure a let ter addressed. ‘Al Senor Don Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla. Parocco del Pueblo 1e Dolores’—why, caramba! he thinks that because of this he ought to own :lie whole of Mexico.” Berrendo snap ped his fingers with so much em- ihasis that lie quite conveyed the ltn- nession of having stamped his foot. "He claims some sort of relationship A’lth the conquistadores,” he began tgain. "Have some cognac?” interrupted Ca- :ou, pushing the flask toward him. •And coffee?” Then turning to Ouelle r ith n smile. “Will the señorita fetch mother cup of coffee?" When she returned, her father met ber, having forgotten Crlstlno and the Ninquistadores. and leading her to Ca ton. placed her band In Ills and said: “It Is well, senor; al 'ata’ueno. You ■re rich and will be kind to her.” And the señora, coming from the Ja cal. nodded her hend so that the great (olden hoops lu her cars bobbed merri ly. Aud she echoed, “Yes, it Is well.” So the next day the padre came, and before a gracious picture of Our Lady bf Guadalupe and little lighted candles shining like stars the girl whose an cestors had danced a war dance and cried “Oulch’ka! Ouieb'ka!” aud the man whose ancestors had lived lu a castle and wrltteu on crested paper be uh came man aud wife. Ouelle was radiantly happy In -pi of the clothing that came from Gum i lajara for her use. This clothing aiuaz ed her. and at first it was Irksome to remain dressed as her beautiful Monte zuma would have her. But whenever he would show her a likeness that he carried in a locket that of Ills mother, be said— she would smile and, feeling of her dressed hair and glauclng at tier slippered feet, would say gayly: “And I also shall look like that one day.” • •••••• One evening Catou sat looking over the mall that Beausoleil had fetched him. Ouellt' was cuddled in a little heap on the floor, her head against Ills knee. Catou had tried several times to open Ills mouth. At last tlie words came: "Sweetheart. 1 must go to New Or leans. but I can't take you, because”— Ouelle sprang to her feet In an In stant. and into her dark eyes came a wild look. "But you are mine—mine.” In a moment she forgot her queenly bearing and fell sobbing in the man's arms, her whole body quivering. “Probecito," ho said, holding her close. "I will come back to you soon. “But you arc mine—mine.” Listen. There Is going to be war in the States between tlie north and the south. I must tight for my rights. But we'll whip those Yankees In a few weeks, and then—then I’ll come to you, dear.” The next day through her tears she saw him ride off. Ab, poor little brown wife! Go back to your bend stringing aud look up tlie road that leads to Guadalajara. Your tears shall be your meat day and night, while underneath your breath you moan, “Oh. Dios!" [ to be continued .] Needed a Chain, A story Is being told about a German who has a hotel far down town. An artist—one of those barroom artists who make pictures on mirrors with soap - called on tlie German tho other day and asked for some work. “Well,” the German said, “you might paint a brown bear on my sign. How much would you charge to do it?” "Two dol lars,” the artist answered. Thereupon the contract was made, and the bear was painted. At the end of the job the artist said, “Don’t you want me to paint a chain on the bear?” “Would you charge ex tra for that?" sahl the German. “Yea. That would cost $1 extra.” "Then I can't afford to have It done.” The art ist departed. That night it rained, and. Io. In the morning the bear had vanlsli- id from the sign! The rain had washed It nway. The German sent for the painter at once. “My bear,” he said reproachful ly. “Is gone.” The other answered. "Well, I wanted to put a chain on It, didn't I?” The German then handed out $3, $2 for the painting of another benr, the third for a chain to make the picture permanent. The chained bear now remains upon the sign Impervious to the weather.— Philadelphia Record. A Terrible Talker, A well known Milwaukee lawyer with a weakness for long stories was a visitor at Madison “once upon a time,” as tlie story books put it. He saw upon the register of the Park hotel the name of Colonel Gabriel Bouck of Oshkosh and decided that he was In duty bound to call upon that Nestor of the Wisconsin bar, especially as they had both occupied the position of grand mnster of the grand lodge of Wisconsin Masons. He called on Mr. Bouck In bls room In the hotel and found the Oshkoshlan In Ills shirt sleeves, yawning. He be gan on Masonry. First he gave his views of the brotherhood, from tho building of Solomon's temple “without sound of tool or Iron” down to date, and then he started In on the chapter. Finally, startled by an extra yawn, he broke off bls story with: “Well, Gabe, ns I have been appoint ed trustee for the Asylum For the Deaf and Dumb I think I had better go to bed. I have to take an early train for Janesville." “For land’s sake! Is it possible that you are going to learn to talk with your hands too?" came the blunt reply from the old lawyer.—Milwaukee Senti nel. Which of Yonr Eyr« Cries! It seems a positively absurd question to ask, “Which of your eyes cries?" In an everyday, common or garden cry It Is well known that salt tears make their appearance and rush away down the face seemingly as fast from one as from the other, whichever the "other” may be, but If careful note Is made, more especially with emotional people. It will be found tlint one of the eyes lias a special emotional tendency and often opens the tear valve before its companion has decided upon the un happy event. Probably the best method of discov ering the emotional eye Is to atten<l a pathetic stage play and when the we< >- Ing period comes along look out for tear No. 1. The writer attended such a piece re cently and was somewhat astonished to find that all his grief came from the right eye. Whether the solution to the problem Is to be found in the fact that he was leaning on his right arm must and can only be decided by an expert. THE KUKLUX KLAN. Where and lluw the Famous Rudy Was tlrssnlifd. CARD PLAYERS’ CRAMP. What Dice Huppeu«-«1 to an Old Faro Dealer'« Hand. "Were you ever paralyzed?" said the old timer. “No, and may the”- began the other. “Well, you see that light hand? It looks pretty good and strong aud It is. but for about three days once it was deader than a frostbitten tomato plant “You know of course that I used to tuake my living playlug cards, chiefly dealing bank. There wasn’t a day I didn’t deal bank or lu other games six to eight hours a day. Many a time I have dealt or played longer. “Oue night I was dealing bank. It was a good, big game. All at once when I went to slip a card this old right refused to work. I looked at It and the fingers were kind of twisted luward and the hand from the wrist was bent downward. "This stopped the deal for me, and 1 told the lookout 'to get busy,’ for tue players were getting a little 'queered.' He took my place, and 1 watched the bets. "I rubbed my right, but It wouldn't straighten out and it kept this way until the next day, and then 1 went to a doctor. He didn’t know me as well as you do, but the first question he asked was: “ ‘Deal cards a great deal, don’t you?’ " 'Yes.' “ ‘Do you deal with au elbow move ment or with finger and wrist move ment?" “‘Why, I don't work my elbow.’ “ ‘That explains It. You have card players’ paralysis.’ "This hit me center, and I showed It, but the doctor was good and said: “ ‘Now. don’t get flurried. I'll straighten you up. Just quit dealing awhile, aud I’ll give your hand a few doses of electricity, and you'll be all Aaora phobia. right.’ Builders, with tlielr stone and mor “He did It, aud In about three days tar, brick and lime, water and sand, m,v band was strnight as a string. But have loft little puddles on a stretch of I haven't dealt so much since. There's upper Broadway. An irregular string many au old timer whose dealing hand of pedestrians flung Itself past the has quit him. And you say you were place, Ignoring for the most part the never paralyzed?” slight Inconvenience of stepping over “No.” the miniature lakes. But one man, “Well, you ain’t played cards much.” when he was confronted with the situa —Louisville Times. tion, started back with an exclamation of vexation and passed around tlie Near the Popping Point. pools. “Mary,” said her father, “you have "That chap has agoraphobia,” said been keeping company with that ■tie of two men who liad noted the Mitchell fellow for more than a year movement. now. This courtship must come to a "Has what?" asked the other. termination.” “Agoraphobia. It means simply an “Oh. father, how can you talk so? abhorrence of open spaces, and It lias He is, oh, so sweet and nice!” a great many victims. Specialists in "Ah!” And the fond father arched this sort of nervousness say it takes his eyebrows. “Sweet and nice, eh? various forms, some of Its subjects Has he proposed?” having an insurmountable dread of “Well, father, not exactly.” And the trussing from one side of the street girl hung her bead and fingered the to the other, while others have a dis drapery of her dress. “He hasn't ex inclination to go more than a few actly proposed; but, then, last evening blocks from tlielr home. when we were out walking we passed “Some dread to step across n puddle by a nice little house, and he said, of water, like the man we just saw. ’That’s the kind of cottage I’m going to Others dread descending Into a well live in some day,’ and I said, ‘Yes,’ and beyond a certain depth, and still oth then lie glanced at me and squeezed ers have a fear of getting too high in a my hand. Then, Just as we got by, I building or an elevator. As a rule, glanced back at the cottage, and—ami these persons nre m utely Intellectual, 1 squeezed his baud!” so It is no mental disgrace to be a vic “Oh, ah, 1 see!” said her father. tim of agoraphobia, simply a misfor "Well, we’ll try lilm another week or tune that is commoner than most per two.”- London Answers. sons suppose.”—New York Telegram. When the civil war ended, the little town of Pulaski, Tenn., welcomed a baud of young men who. though they were veterans of hard fought fields, were tor tlie most part no older than the mass of college students. In the general poverty, the exhaustion, the lack of heart, naturally prevalent throughout the beateu south, young men had more leisure than was good for them. A southern country town, even in the halcyou days before the war, was not a particularly lively place, and Pulnskl lu 180G was doubtless rather tame to fellows who had seen I'lckett charge at Gettysburg or galloped over the country with Morgan and Wheeler. A group of them assembled lu a law office oue evening in May, 1SGG, were discuss ing ways ami means of having a live lier time. Some one suggested a club or society. An organization with no very definite aims was effected, and at a second meeting, a week later, names were proposed and discussed. Some one pronounced the Greek word kuklos, meaning circle. From kuklos to kuklux was an easy transition—whoever consults a glossary of college boys’ slang will not And It strange—and klan followed kuklux as naturally as “dumpty” follows "liunip- ty.” That the name meant nothing whatever was a recommendation, and one can fancy what sort of badinage would have followed a suggestion that in six years a committee of congress would devote 13 volumes to the history of the movement that began in a Pu laski law office and migrated later to a deserted and half ruined bouse ou the outskirts of the village. — Atlantic Monthly. Shrewd Thievery. “Americans who go abroad must ex pect to be robbed right and left,” said a young man who recently returned front a brief European tour. “One ex pects to be held up for all sorts of tips, but w hen the beggars follow you home you can't help feeling a sort of admira tion for their ingenuity. “I went over on one of the Red Star line boats, and the first thing 1 did on landing at Antwerp was to go to tlie table office and send a message to my mother announcing my safe arrival. I paid tiie toll and thought no more about it Uiitll 1 got home, when among my mail I found a letter from the Ant werp operator, addressed In care of my mother, saying flint through an error lie had not charged me enough for my cablegram scut on such ami such a date, that lie bad been obliged to pay tlie difference out of his own pocket, end ns his salary was very small and lie had a large family and all that sort of tiling lie felt sure 1 would reimburse him. “The amount was n trifling one, aud I did send him a foreign money order. I have since learned from experienced travelers that 1 had been made the victim of a systematic form of robbery and that scarcely a cablegram is sent from the other side unless It Is of a business nature that Is not followed by some such plea from tlie European operator.” Hold the Fort. In October. 1864, Allatoona pass, a delile in tlie mountains of Georgia, was guarded by General Corse, with 1,500 men. It was a strong, strategic point, and, moreover. 1.500,000 rations were stored there. Freslcli, the southern general, with G.OOO men. attacked the garrison and drove the defenders Into a small fort on the crest of the hill. The battle was fierce. The northern soldiers fell in such numbers that fur ther fighting seemed folly. But one of Corse's officers caught Bight of a white signal flag fluttering In the breeze on tlie top of the Kene saw mountain, across the valley, 15 miles away. The signal was answered, and then came the inspiring message from mountain to mountain: “Hold the fort. I mn coming.—W. T. Sher man.” Cheer after cheer went up, and, though hopelessly reduced in numbers, they did hold the fort for hours until the advance guard of Sherman's army came to tlielr relief. Six years Inter P. P. Bliss, the evangelist, heard the story in nil its vivid detail from a sol dier friend ami then wrote the words mid music of Ids famous hymn.—Pres byterian. quaint Hannibal Hamlin. Ask for Our New Price List The man is properous who saves a dollar on this and a half dollar on that; the prices quoted in our new complete 4o-page list help you in this direction. It pays you to deal where no false representations are made, but where goods are sold directly as advertised. Isn’t it much more satisfactory and much easier to sit down at home, look over the catalogue, select the g<ssLs required and mail your order, than to depend upon stores where the stock is small, as well as assortment incomplete, and get something that does not give half satisfaction, notwithstanding that you do pay an extravagant price? Smith’s Cash (Dept.) Store No. 25 Market Street, San Francisco. Dollar« In Odd Shapes. Under the law n silver dollar may be a grain and a half over weight or a grain and a half under weight, and this "limit of tolerance" applies to all of our silver coins In other words, they are not allowed to vary more than that much from stan«lar«l. In the case of goldpteces, the limit Is half a grain either way up to the eagle, n variation of as much as one grain being permissi ble In the ¡flu ami $2i> pieces Whenever a fresh batch of dollars Is turned out at the mint, samples are forwarded to the treasury nt Washing ton. where they are put through a very curious process. Each dollar Is first weighed on exquisitely delicate scales to make sure that It is heavy enough and yet not too heavy. Then It is pass ed between two steel rollers ngillu and ngain until it is flattened out and transformed Into a thin strip of silver— t sort of ribbon- a foot ami a half in length. Then it is put beneath a little machine provided with several small punches, by which hundreds of tiny disks nre punched out of the metal strip. Now, the object of this performance is to obtain samples of metal from all parts of the dollar. Inasmuch ns It Is conceivable that one portion might be richer In silver than another. The little disks tire shuffled together, nttd a few of them, taken nt random from the lot, are subjected to nu assay. Thus the fineness of the material of the dollar is ascertained with absolute accuracy and, the weight having been already determined, the value and correctness of that coin arc perfectly known. The sample pieces having been found correct, It Is inferred that the entire batch of dollars Is all right.—Saturday Evening I’ost. Nnturnl Water«, All natural waters contain a greater or less amount of mineral matter in so lution. Rain water has the smallest percentage of solid Impurities of any, and therefore It Is taken as the stand ard variety of soft water. The terms soft ami hard, however, ns applied to water are scientifically considered purely relative. Water Is usually reckoned to I m - “soft” when It contains less than one five-tliousand111 part of Its weight of mineral ingredients and "hard" when it contains more than one four-thou sandth. Soft water has the property of easily forming u lather with soap and Is therefore suitable for washing pur poses, while hard water will only form a hither, and that Imperfectly, with considerable difficulty. A mineral water lias more than oue two-thousandth of Its weight of nat ural dissolved solids, and a medicinal water Is u variety of mineral water containing a varying percentage of dis solved natural solid or gnseous drugs. To the day of his death Hannibal Hamlin was a figure that men would turn and look at a second time ou the street. His tall form, which In old age was but slightly bent, was always clothed In tlie ohl fashioned black swallowtail suit, and be always wore a tall silk bat, generally a “back num ber,” tilted slightly back ou bis bead. For years be was famous as a man who never wore an overcoat, and to Ills death he uever burdened himself with that, to him, unnecessary gar ment except on the most severely cold Battered Side I'p. days. For a half century be never One of the stories which Levi Hutch changed the style of Ids clothes. He walked with a swinging gait and bad ins, the old time clockmaker of Con so many friends aud acquaintances to cord, N. II.. delighted to tell related to whom lie had to bow that a smile seem the youth of Daniel Webster. "One day,” said the old man, "while ed to be ever on bls fuce. 1 was taking breakfast at the tavern kept by Daniel's father. Daniel and Ids Field, of Salt. At Salton, In southern California, ex brother Ezekiel, who were little boys ists a basin of land between 200 and with dirty- faces and snarly hair, came 200 feet below sea level. About 1,000 to the table and asked me for bread acres of the depressed area are cov and butter. “I complied with tlielr request, little ered with a deposit of salt, which C. F. Holden describes in Tlie Scientific thinking that they would become very Daniel dropped American as one of the sights of Cali distinguished men. fornia. The salt Is first thrown into his piece of bread on the sandy floor, ridges by a peculiarly shaped plow, and the buttered side of course was drawn by a dummy engine with ca down. He looked nt It a moment, then bles, and then Is piled Into conical picked It up and showed It to me, say heaps before being carried to the dry ing: " ’What a pity! Please give me a ing bouse and crushing mill. The ex panse looks like a field of snow. About piece of bread buttered on both sides; 2,000 tons of salt are removed each then If 1 let it fall one of the buttered year, but the supply is perennially re sides will be up.’ ’’ newed by the deposits of salt springs Where Americans Are Mode««, which flow Into the basin. In June the The American Is shy of proclaiming temperature of tlie nlr reaches 150 de grees, and on* Indian workmen can to the world his deepest sentiments and superstitions. If lie has any. He pre withstand the heat and glare. fers to take himself either ns a Joke or Information Deaired. as a matter of business. Ilence when The rural postoffico Is the bureau of he has a town to name he calls It general Information no less so In Geor "Smithville” or “New Bristol” or, ns gia than in Vermont, and the Atlanta actually happened In the cnse of one C‘ nstitutlon reports a conversation pre town, "O. K.” He mny believe In n lo cipitated by an old darky who ap cal ghost, he may love his wife, he may proached the village postmaster and udmlre the view from bls windows and said: pine when torn from the woods and "Any letters for me?” mountains among which be passed his “No.” boyhood, but he does not want to put "Any postal cards?” those emotions Into the postoffice di "No.” rectory.— WnsliIngton Times. “Is my paper come?” “No." Both Trained. "Got any almanacs?” Little Edith had been very 111, but “No." was convalescent. 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As regards facilities for bathing, which every Filipino demands, there is the open bay, with its miles of clean salt water, ready at any time of the day or year for n free bath. The genu ine Filipino Is half amphibious, loving the water and swimming like a flsli. An example of this may be seen lu the large tobacco factories of Blnondo, with their 10,000 employees. When the day's labor Is done, the thinly dressed workmen, men, women and children, speed laughingly to the bay, plunge In to the waiting waves and come out clean, cool and refreshed. — Ledger Monthly. tor ?” "No, dear," replied the lady; "I'm your trained nurse.” FTolntlon of the Apple. “Oh.” exclaimed Edith, imlntlng to a Apples are new in the economy of the cage hanging near the window, "train world's use and taste. At the begin ed nurse, let me introduce you to my ning of the last century few varieties were known, nnd we enn go back in trained cangry!” history to a time when nil apples were little, sour and puckcry—crab apples Not n Sueeeaa. "I warn you," lie said threateningly, and nothing else. The crab apple was “to keep away from Miss Bllton. I've ami Is In Its wildness nothing but a rosebush. Away back In time the wild been making love to her myself.” “Have you. really?" replied bls rival. ' rose, with Its pretty blossoms that turn “Well, she’ll be glad to have the mat j to little red balls, apple flavored, and I the thorny crab had the same grand ter clenred up.” mother. "Cleared up! What do you mean?” Old Lady And so you expect to get married when you grow up? Little Girl- Of course. Everybody gets married. I won’t say "no” like Aunt Lucy did and be an old mnld. No. Indeed. Tiger’s Make Relieve Kyea. “Perhaps you won’t like those who Mr. Beddnid of the London Zoologl ask you.” cal society calls attention to a pecul "Oh. yes, I will. I feel sure that iarity of the ears of ligers which lie when a real nice little boy—I mean thinks may be classed under the head man comes to ask me to get married of "protective markings.” On the back I'll be so happy I won't wait to run of each ear Is a very bright white spot, down stairs to meet him. I’ll Just slide and when the ears are directed for down the balusters." ward these spots are conspicuous from “Why, she sahl she thought that's The Bill All Right. It Is calculated that about 75,000 the front. Mr. Beddard suggests tlint In Its native habitat the shell of the "My dear sir. It strikes me that this when the tiger Is sleeping in the dim yams of ribbon will be Issued with ths what you'd been trying to do, but she j oyster Is always n little open, and wasn't sure. ” - Chicago Post. Is a pretty round bill.” African wnr medals. This estimate Is light of a enve or thicket the s|>ots on 1 microscopic waving hairs set up cur "Yes, I Lave sent It around often Its ears tuny appear to an enemy, look made on the assumption that about enough to make It appear so, and now Ing In, as the gleam of Its watchful 300,000 men will secure the medal, Wliat a man lacks In bis bead be rents which enrry the food plants to Its | mouth, where they are engulfed and I hope to get It squared.”—Baltimore eyes, and thus save the sleeper from an there being nine Inches of riblion terv- must make up In bls legs.—Atchison i afterward digested. Jewish Coninien* Globe. "’’expected attack . ■d out with each medal.
