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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.
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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. Wnklng up sudden
"Well, does you know anybody what ly and finding a strange lady nt her
wants to buy a live alligator?”
bedside, she asked, “Are you the doc
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The history of wireless telegraphy
would not be complete without some
mention of Joseph Henry, America's
greatest scientist, for it was he who
first, In 1842. discovered the oscillatory
character of certain electric discharges
■nd wlio showed that these oscillations
produced disturbances which could by
suitable receivers lie detected nt dis
tances of many rods and through In
tervening buildings, writes Professor
Joseph Ames in The Review of Re
views. He even arranged nn apparatus
on this principle to respond to the
lightning discharges of distant storms.
The grout genius of Henry was never
more apparent than In bis investiga
tion of electrical discharges and their
oscillatory nature. It Is a lasting tes
timony to the Ignorance among Ameri
cans of tlielr own great men tlint the
name of Joseph Henry was not Includ
ed In the first 50 selected for the nail
of Fame of the nation.
Wholesale Bathern.
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.