Bulldog Carney.1
By W. A. Fraser.
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Copyright, 1900, by W. A. Fraser |
~ O miles from Dan Stuart’s
1
rblsky dive and 18 from Golden
.he Missoula trail took a sudden
A kink in its flesh colored ribbon
and wound around the butt of a big
fir stump.
Behind the stump a man was kneel
ing that gladsome September day-
all among the tawny gold and crlmsou
of the dead rose leaves and the soft
gray and cream of the bleached bunch
grass.
He might have been praying, so
Quietly was be kneeling there, but he
wasn't. He wns blaspheming softly
to himself as bis impatient eye wan
dered In and out among the bowlders
and trees that fringed the trail.
The morning sun picked out little
bright jewellike spots on the Instru
ment be bad leveled across the top of
the big stump. He seemed to be a sur-
• veyor taking levels.
Just as three men riding bronchos
came In sight at a sudden turn In the
trail he bowed his head to the level of
the instrument and looked carefully
along Its smooth length.
The bronchos were coming along at a
swinging walk, tbelr beads ou a level
with tbelr withers and their bridle
reins banging loosely lu the hands of
tlie riders.
Suddenly there was a nervous tight
ening of the right band grasping the
instrument, a sharp click close to it,
a puff of smoke, followed by a sharp
crack, and the man riding the second
broncho tumbled from the saddle, shot
through the heart. He rolled over as
lie fell, and the bright blots of blood
splashed over the rose leaves by the
side of the trail.
The first cayuse, startled out of his
sleepy lope by the report and flash,
reared and plunged madly forward.
As he took the first bound in the air
a bullet glanced from the high horn
In front of tlie man and went tearing
its corkscrew way through the leather
flails of the big Mexican saddle.
The rider yelled and dug the spurs In
the trembling flanks of the horse as be
felt the hot lead scorching its way
close to his skin
"Blamed bad shot!” the man behind
the stump Jerked out between his
square Jaws ay lie pumped the lever of
his repeater forward and back.
Evidently he had meant well, but
the cayuse rearing had diverted the
bullet from its intended way.
The third broncho and its rider were
making good time in the other direc
tion. The shot he sent after them did
not Increase their speed any, for they
were doing their level best.
The animal the dead man had ridden
did not move. He stood beside the fall-
eu figure waiting with dumb patience
for bis master to rise and mount again.
Throwing the empty shell from the
breech of bls rifle, the man who had
fired the shots walked leisurely over to
the figure lying on the ground.
“Well. Jack, old man,” he said, ad
dressing the horse, "you’re a blamed
sight honester than your master. If
he’d stuck to his pals as close as you’re
doing, he’d be ready for grub pile at
noon Instead of bleaching out here.
“And I guess he cached the ‘stuff* In
this big apperajos, too,” he added, shov
ing his hand down In the ample, bag-
like affair.
Yes. It was there right enough, a
whole bagful of It. Forty-four hun
dred dollars, as was found out after
ward.
Then be turned his attention to the
man lying on bls back, with the great
ragged red gash In his chest where the
encircling bullet had plunged through.
"Well, pard, you’ve thrown down
your mate for the last time. Whisky
drinking Is bad business, but whisky
trading Is away up in ‘O’ to Judge by
this wad.” And he handled the bag of
money lovingly.
"You might ’a’ known better than to
throw me down,” he added reproach
fully, as though he were trying to
throw the blame of the murder upon
the man himself.
"Come on now. Jack. I’ll use you
for a little.” And he leisurely threw
his leg over the cayuse and disappear
ed down the Missoula end of the trail.
He bad not gone far before be turn
ed short to the left up a dry water
course.
Here he stopped and. dismounting,
proceeded to wrap some old bags he
pulled out from behind a rock about
the feet of the cayuse.
“You're a tenderfoot. Jack. You’ve
hit the trail so often that you're a bit
sore In the toes,” he remarked In a
dry monotone as he worked at the bags.
Then he mounted again and went
across country for about three miles
until he struck the big cedar swamp
which runs for miles and miles from
Golden.
“Tliey’U think that the prospector
who laid your old man out has bit the
trail for Missoula and lit out.
“They’ll pick up tracks there, all
right enough, but they ain't yourn.
Jack.
“Let me see,” be asked, pulling a
watch from Ills pocket “Whisky Saun
ders took that bad spell about 10
o’clock. The Jay on the cayuse will
strike Golden about noon. Old Steel
and bis Jim Dandles will pull out In
half an hour and pick up your tracks
beading for Missoula about 3.
“There’ll be a high old row, and
they'll run in some poor devil before
nlgbt They’ll cop almost any one
but me.”
Just as they neared the edge of the
Big Cedar a horse neighed a short dis
tance within.
"1 guess Blazer smells you. Jack,”
he said, chuckling softly. “He thinks
we’ve been a long time over the Job.
"I’U give you a drink,” he said as h*
dismounted, “and you'll bang out here
until some one throws a line over you
tonight. Bill'll cut you loose when it's
time.”
Then he mounted Blazer and rode In
a big circuit, skirting the cedar swamp,
and upon the mountain side on bls way
back to Golden. It was dark when he
got to the ford on Kicking Horse river
Just opposite the town. Half way
■cross he took a careful pull to one
side, letting Blazer feel his way care
fully. Stopping the horse, be took bis
Winchester and threw it far out on the
upper side of the ford—that Is, be took
a big swing at It. but the loose end of
Ills hackle line eaught in the breech,
and the rifle came splashing down at
Blazer's boofs.
“A blamed bad throw,” he said,
grinning; then he chuckled softly to
kimself, “1 guess this outfit’ll cut loose
better,” and he commenced tiring .'18.55
cartridges far out into the stream with
vigorous swings of his long arm.
“That’s a cinch.” he grunted compla
cently. "1 wish the gun laid as deep,
but it’s bad fishing now, and I guess
they won’t find It anyway.”
When Blazer’s hoofs lost the muffled
sound of the water and struck with a
sharp ring on tlie smooth worn stones
on the Golden side of the Kicking
Horse, the rider gave his long legs a
bitching swing and the horse broke In
to a lope.
It was the night before the day that
the whisky smuggler lay out on the
Missoula trail stark and stiff, with his
red lifeblood splashed all over tlie
tawny mat of dried leaves and wither-
“That long Englishman. Arvll Sant
ley. has a neck like an eagle, and Con
stable Grmlv says that he's been work-
in the racket to beat two of a kind
lately, sir." was tlie sergeant major's
graphic report when be lined up In
front of ll:e desk again.
“Let Scrgi nut Hetherington take two
constables and rations for two days
ami get after this devil before his
tracks get cold. Commence at the
body Send it back to Golden. Tell
Corporal Ball to look up this Santley
outfit ill town If he’s got the stuff,
he'll have It cached somewhere about.”
That was the beginning, all in one
day. the dead laxly lying out on the
silent trail so stiff and cold, with the
glazed eyes staring straight up luto the
mountain blue of tlie smiling sky. and
the hurrying of men In brown jackets
and dark, tight tilting, yellow striped
pants, as they saddled aud bitted the
strong limited bay horses which were
to gallop anti gallop after—the wind.
Sergeant Hetherington and his mer
ry men picked up tlie tracks the tall
man told Blazer they would find mid
followed them for many a goodly mile,
which lime thereof tlie tall man with
the long neck was working bls way
along the mountain side to the ford.
Many miles beyond Dan Stuart’s place
the tracks vanished. Perhaps some
one else had put bags on Ills horse’s
feet aud led him across country.
"Corporal” Ball was the official rec
ognition of Mr. Ball’s efficiency, but
"Lanky” Ball was tlie godless form of
expression Ids Int Alike superstructure
provoked among the fellows.
“Lanky” Ball was more fortunate
than the sergeant; be discovered some
thing
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A DARWINIAN THEORY.
Why
The usual Idea that a drowning man
Is stretching out bls hands for aid or
"catching at straws" is not altogether
satisfactory. A possible explanation
has lately beeu suggested, and this
supposes that the drowning man. losing
all his acquired habits and even some
of those inherited from more recent
parents, in bis terror goes back to the
Instinctive movements of bls arboreal
ancestors, and the movements of the
drowning mau are those of a frighten
ed ape seeking safety by cliuglng to
the nearest tree.
The movement Is certainly instiuc-
tive. for it «an only be eliminated by
considerable training nnd voluntary
efforts, and yet it is fatal to the Indi
vidual, for tlie specific gravity of no
human body is so nearly that of water
thnt the removal of the arms from the
supporting fluid at ouce sinks the face
beneath the surface. In cases of so
called “cramps” the victim, often a
highly trained swimmer, generally
throws up the hands, but these east's
are probably due to heart failure, and a
similar movement takes place on land
when the subject receives a fatal lieart
wound, and It Is even a common ex
pression of shock or astonishment. The
ordinary movements of walking or run
ning would keep a man’s face above
water, but these curious climbing
movements of both hands and feet
make floating Impossible and are re
sponsible for many deaths by drown
ing.—Cincinnati Enquirer.
DISCOVERED BY ACCIDENT.
Row
All Mua«ulmm*ai Secure Convert*«
The puff o1 smoke was followed by a eha rp
crack.
ed rosebushes, and a young English
girl stood in Arvll Sautley’s bachelor
quarters—not very sumptuous quarters
were they either, showing much of
careless misrule and absence of order.
Santley was astonished and said so,
which was quite right, for lie bad not
seen Grace—Grace Alton—since lie bad
left England.
"I’m glad to see you, Grace.” be said,
“but you shouldn’t have come here, all
the same. You always had sense, but
this Is fairly foolish.”
“That doesn't matter in the slightest,
and besides," with a fine touch of wo
manly inconsistence, “no one saw me
coming here except the friend who is
waiting outside. It’s none of their af
fairs If they did.”
"Well, what’s expected of me?" he
asked resiguedly.
“You're wanted at home; your moth
er wants you.”
"1 suppose I ought to go. but I'm not
going all the same,” be added, taking a
long breatli as though the words
scorched bis throat a little.
“Yes, you must go, Arvll. 1 want
you to go. This life Is not the life for
you. Your mother sent this money to
you to take you back to her, so you
must go now.”
ne stooped his tall, magnificent fig
ure toward her a little that she might
see better and with his hand parted
the heavy black hair which swept
across his broad forehead lu luxuriant
abandon.
“Do you see that big red scar?” he
asked. “Well, If I were back there my
mother would put her band upon my
forehead so, ns she did when I was a
little boy, and when that ugly sear met
her gentle eyes she would ask how
came It there. I could not tell her,
neither could 1 lie to her. And It Is
that way with all the scars, both on
mind and body. They are too deep. 1
cannot go back.”
“Arvll. I do not believe that. You
were good when we were together ns
children In England, and you are good
now in spite of all you say. and you
will go back 1 promised your mother
that I would find you here nnd tell you
that she wanted to see you before she
died. Father is coming here for a
few days to look at his mines, nnd then
we go on to the coast.
“You need not come back with me to
the hotel. I have a good guide with
me; the friend who got her to come
with me called her Mammy Nolan. I
know that you will go back, for you've
promised me. nnd you never broke a
promise to me yet,” she said as she
slipped quietly out of the door.
A little roll of bills was lying on the
table where she had left It.
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It lacked half an hour of 12 o’clock
when a French half breed. Baptiste
Gabrielle, galloped Into the square of
the police barracks at Golden on a cay
use reeking with the wet which Is from
the Inside. The constable on guard,
pacing solemnly up and down In front
of the major’s quarters, thought the
fnDntlcnl looking rider was drunk or
running amuck, and swore that lie
would put a hole in him unless he
stopped.
"By goss, that fell' Whisk’ Sund'son
be get keel,” panted Baptiste, with a
face the color of a lemon In a bottle of
alcohol.
“By tam! a fell’ wit’ long neck lie
keep him beblnt stump, an he s'oot him
soor."
“Is be dend. Ba’tlste?” queried Ser
geant Hetherington, in a voice with a
full flavor of peat bog about It “Is be
dead, or on'y hu-r-rt?”
“Bet you life, that Whisk' fell' he
dead,” replied Baptiste. "That fell’ he
s'oot tree, to' time, an Sand'son he kill
for soor, be dead w’atever. He try soot
me, but I stan’ him off an come quick
tell police fell’.”
“March him in to the major,” said
Hetherington to a constable.
Before the major Baptiste's harangue,
boiled down, rend; “Shot at 10 o'clock
on the Missoula trail, about 18 miles
from Golden.”
“What was the man like who did the
shooting?” asked the major.
"Tall fell’ wit’ long neck,” was the
graphic description this query brought
forth.
“Indian, breed or white man?” asked
the major.
“Don’t know. Me t’lnk be white.
Tall fell’; tam long neck. That fell' he
got Whisk’. Sand'son stuff, too, you
bet. Fo', five t'ousan he get In np-
par'o."
"Who's tall, with a long neck?” ask
ed the major shortly, turning to the
sergeant mnjor, who was standing in
front of his desk.
“1 will find out, sir,” replied the lat
ter, saluting as he passed out
Europeans habitually forget that ev-
■ry Mussulman is more or less of a
nissiomiry—that is, he intensely de
tires to secure converts from nou-Mus-
lulinan peoples. 8ucli converts not
»lily increase ids own chance of lieuv-
■u, but they swell Ids own faction, Ids
iwn army, Ids own means of conquer-
ng, governing and taxing the remain-
ler of mankind.
All the emotions which Impel a Chris-
Jan to proselyte are in a Mussulman
itrengthened by all the motives wjilch
tnpel a political leader and all the mo
jíes which sway a recruiting sergeant,
intil proselytism has become a pas-
lion, which wherever success seems
practicable, ami especially success on a
• rge scale, develops in tlie quietest
Mussulman a fury of ardor which ln-
luces him to break down every obsta
rte, bls own strongest prejudices in-
rtuded, rather than stand for an in-
itant in a neophyte’s way. He wel-
totnes him as a son, and, whatever Ills
>wn lineage and whether the convert
5e negro or Chinaman or Indian or
jven European, he will without, hesl-
;ation or scruple give his own child in
carriage and admit bint fully, frankly
tnd finally into the most exclusive so-
•iety In tlie world.—Townsend’s “Brown
Man.”
the Drowning Man
Always
Throws Up His Hands.
the Paring Value of Asphalt
Was Brought to Notice.
All forms of bituminous pavements,
whether manufactured from natural or
artificial asphalt, are in fact artificial
stine pavements. The Industry started
with the use of tlie natural rock as
phalt from the mines in the Vnl de
Travers, Canton Ncufebatcl. Switzer
land. Tlie mines were discovered in
1721, but it wns 1849 that its utility as
a road covering was first noticed. Tlie
rock was then being mined for the
purpose of extracting tlie bitumen con
tained In it for use in medicine and
arts. It is a limestone found impreg
nated with bitumen, of which It yields
on analysis from 8 to 14 per cent.
It wns observed that pieces of rock
which fell from tlie wagou were crush
ed by tlie weight of wheels, and under
the combined influence of the traffic
and heat of the sun a good road surface
wns produced. A macadam road of as-
pl ait roek was then made which gave
very good results, and finally In 1854
a portion of the Rue Bergere was laid
in Paris of compressed asphalt on a
concrete foundation. In 1858 a still
larger sample was laid, and from that
time It lias beeu laid year by year In
Paris. From Paris it extended to I.on
don, being laid on Threadneedle street
In 1899 and Cheapside In 1870 ami In
successive years on other streets.—Mu
nicipal Journal and Engineer.
Loaded With Fat.
In the good old days when we were
No Limit to New Ideas.
greatly pestered by a neighbor's sow,
There never has been a time when
or mule, or bull, or dog. Invading our the individual has stood for so much
premises and taking unwarranted lib as lie does at present. There has
erties we loaded the old shotgun with never been a time when individuality
powder and fat meat and, after serving and persoual Initiative brought such
due notice upon said neighbor and said amazing rewards. There never lias
notice being Ignored, set out to uphold been a time when the individual could
the first law of nature, self defense.
or did exert so much influence ns at
Tlie amount of execution that can be present. There is no Individual today
done by a wad of fat meat on top of a so Insignificant that, If he became the
good charge of powder Is amazing. medium of a new or potent Ideal, he
Wherever it strikes hair and hide dis would be prevented by uncontrollable
appear. It seldom If ever kills, but conditions from expressing his Idea
leaves sears that time does not obliter and reaping his Just reward.
ate. The fat being salty, causes excru
In all ages up to this man has been,
ciating pain, which lingers long in owing to his limitations of physical
memory, and the stricken animal does force, a plaything of conditions, a slave
uot offend again.
of his environment. Skill and Intelli
A tallow candle can be shot through gence were but two of the factors In
a two Inch oak board without injury to bls progress, bounded and restrained
tlie candle. In like manner a tallow by limitations to their employment.
bullet If driven by a sufflcient charge of Now, however, with universal energy
powder would penetrate a man’s body at the disposal of each Individual, this
and grease him so well internally tlint terrestrial sphere scarce puts bounds
be would not care to go dueling again. to his field of Influence.—Cassler’s
A glancing shot would plow ugly fur Magazine.
rows In the skin.—New York Press.
Fruit Adds Kill Germs.
Met Ills Match.
That well known historical person
age, Augustus the Strong, elector of
Saxony, has furnished the subject for
many a tale of his wonderful muscular
power. We need refer only to one
characteristic story in which, however,
he met bls match. On the occasion In
question he entered a blacksmith’s
shop. To show bls suit bow strong he
was, picking up several horseshoes, lie
broke one after the other, asking the
blacksmith whether lie had no better.
When It came to paying the bill, the
Elector Augustus threw a six dollar
piece cn the anvil. It was a very
thicjc coln. The blacksmith took It up.
broke It In half, saying. "Pardon me,
but I Itnve given you a good horseshoe,
and 1 expect a good coin In return.”
Another six dollar piece was given
him, but he broke that and five or six
others, when tlie humiliated elector put
an end to the performance by handing
the blacksmith a louisd’or, pacifying
hint by saying. "The dollars were prob
ably made of bad metal, but this gold-
piece, 1 hope, is good.”
Searching For a Sonl,
A writer in a scientific periodical
states that It Is not generally known
that fruit acids are germicidal. "The
Juice," he says, “of limes and lemons
is as deadly to cholera germs ns cor
roslve sublimate or sulphur fumes or
formaldehyde or any other disinfectant
It is so powerful a germicide that If
the juice of one lime or lemon be
squeezed Into a glass of water that Is
then left standing for ten or fifteen
minutes the water will be disinfected
It makes little difference where the
water lias been obtained or whether it
has been boiled or filtered.” As boiled
or filtered water is not alwnys obtain
able this is worth remembering.
Diplomatic.
The late Lord Savile used to say. ac
cording to Tlie Candid Friend, “tlint
high diplomatists liad always to be on
tbelr guard against intriguing women,
mainly Russian agents, who would use
any wile to extract Information. Dur
Ing the Ilusso-Turklsh war, when Eli
rope was always on the verge of a
crisis nnd Russian statesmen were
most anxious to know what England
would do under given circumstances,
a lady came up to him suddenly at n
ball and said:
“I hear that the Russians have made
a forced march ami entered Constan
tlnople.” hoping no doubt that be would
be surprise») Into some indiscreet ex
pression.
He merely replied:
“Ineed! And I suppose the sultan
has conferred on them the order of the
Turkish Bath!”
The lady continued gravely:
“And they say in Paris that if Eng
land does not Interfere the eastern
question is settled In favor of Russia."
"And that.” replied his excellency,
“Is, I suppose, the new judgment of
Paris."
•
Before the astonished eyes of a num
ber of Parisians a singular funeral cer
emony took place the other day.
A resident property owner in the Rue
Malte-Brun bad just died. On the even
Ing of his death, when darkness had
fallen, his relations, five or six In num
ber, each provided with a lantern,
slowly made the circuit of the garden,
as if they were searching for something
In the walks. When they came to a
Inrge heap of stones, they turned each
one of them over and then re-entered
the house.
This curious procession Is an old Nor
man custom. The dead person was a
native of the country near Glsors. Be
fore Interring the dend it Is necessary,
Fretij Week.
according to the tradition, to Investi
The
Boarder
—I protest ngalnst drink
gate and see that the soul of tlie de
ceased Is not concealed In a corner of ing any such water as this. It Is post
tlvely warm!
his property or under some rubbish.
The Lady of th? House—Gracious,
man! That's not vater! That's your
Ills Slse.
coffee!
He—Often when I look up at the
stars in the firmament I cannot help
Man loves to be praised for his Intui
thinking how small, bow Insignificant. tion. woman for h«-r logic. As a rule
I am after all.
neither possess«-! either.—Smart Set.
She—Gracious! Doesn't thnt thought
ever strike you except when you look
To learn the vorth of a man's reli
at the stars in the firmament?—Ex gion do bushiest with him. —Aphorisms
change.
•nd Reflections.
A MArrtH OF
TtMPtR^MlT.
•«Tl u«> 1» #nr." <jus«h Mnr>
“Yet, lest it »hs'iltf ••■»«» on lu rero,
»»1,-rrruoi nn«J iimberell
And robber »ho«-« I'll ink» •«
For, though th«« mny 1« truublee.m»
In «»•» th,- «bower» do not come.
Methinks ‘«were bettor, after al!.
To he prepared, feet worse befall."
“The day is fair,” cried Jeanne Marie;
••Tlte day is fair—ah. tresjolil
My gayer« hat. my prettiest dretm,
1 shall put on. What happiness!
But if it rains—well, what of that»
I'll get another dress and hall
Ah. but I'll look so fresh and gay
The SUU will hare to shine sll day!"
— Alice Reid in Harper*a.
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Till» Quality I* «• Much a Necessity
MB I m Nutrimeut.
Chemists tell us that cheese is one of
the most nutritious aud at tlie same
time one of tlie cheapest of foods. Its
nutritive value Is greater than meat,
wlille its cost Is much less. But tills
chemical aspect of the matter does not
express the real value of the cheese as
a food. Cheese Is eaten not because of
Its nutritive value as expressed by the
amount of protelds, fats and carbohy
drates that it contains, but always be
cause of Its flavor.
Now. physiologists do not find that
flavor has any food value. They tench
over and over again that our foodstuffs
are protelds. fats and carbohydrates and
that as food flavor plays absolutely no
part. But at the same time they tell us
that the body would be unable to live
upon these foodstuffs were It not fol
the flavors. If one were compelled to
eat pure food without flavors, like the
white of an egg. It Is doubtful whether
one could for a week at a time consume
a sufficiency of food to supply his bod
ily needs. Flavor is as necessary as nu
triment. It gives a zest to the food and
thus enables us to consume It properly,
and. secondly, it stimulates the glands
to secrete, so that the foods may be
satisfactorily digested and assimilated.
The whole art of cooking, the great
development of flavoring products, tlie
high prices paid for special foods like
lobsters and oysters—these and numer
ous rttlier factors connected with food
supply ami production are based solely
upon this demand for flavor. Flavor Is
a necessity, but it Is not particularly
Important what the flavor may be. This
Is shown by tlie fact that different peo
ples have such different tastes In this
respect. The garlic of the Italian ami
the led pepper of the Mexican serve
tlie same purpose as tlie vanilla which
we put in our Ice cream, and all play
tlie part of giving a relish to the food
and stimulating tlie digestive organs to
proper activity.—Professor II. W. Corn
In Popular Science Monthly.
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The Humming Bird’* Flight.
Tlx- flight of tlie little humming bird
is more remarkable than that of the
eagle. We can understand the flapping
of tlie eagle's Immense wing supporting
a comparatively light body. But our
little bird lias a plump body. His wings
are not wide, but long, so he must
move them rapidly to sustain his
weight, and this lie can do to perfec
tion. Tlie vibrations of his wings are
so rapid as to make them almost Invisi
ble. He can use them to sustain him
self In midair, with bis body as motion
less as If perched on a twig. In this
way he can sip the nectar of the dell-
cate. fine stemmed flowers without
alighting for a moment. He never
alights while so engaged. lie moves
from flower to flower with a graceful
nnd rapid movement, sometimes chas
ing away a bee or humming bird moth,
of which lie Is very Jealous. Nor Is be
much more favorably Impressed with
any small birds that seem In his way
He knows Ills power of flight, nnd lie
lias no fear of any other bird —Henry
Halt's In St. Nicholas.
Lemur« For the Zoo.
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Dr. George Fordyce, the celebrated
Wrltiny »nd
anatomist ami lecturer on chemistry, MOf-NTI
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used to eat one meal a day and one
CARD HTwOr
meal only, but it wns a mighty one,
STRAW A NI» HINDRRS« board
washed down with liberal drafts of
55-&1 AD ni Fir*! N» .
wine and beer. At 4 o’clock every day
T* l . main ioo 51 m .\N FHANClNt <
ho used to enter a certain chopliouse
anil take Ills seat at a table always re
served for 1dm. A silver tankard con
tabling a «piert of strong ale, a full
bottle of port aud a quarter of a pint of
rates. Country
brandy were placed before him imme
patronage Hollcitod. and no pains will be spared
diately.
to make them comfortable during their visit.
Tho moment the waiter announced
the doctor's arrival the cook put a HOB MurUi't St. anti D Fills St., corner
stiwkton, Sail Francisco.
pound ami a half of rump steak on the
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MRS. UANFT, Prop.
fire, and to while away the time until
the steak should be properly broiled
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the waiter brought the doctor some
years with
For 3 yours with
tempting morsel like a broiled chicken O, For
E. Whitney & Co.
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or a plato of fish. When be had eaten
this, Dr. Fordyce drank half of bls
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brand)’ and then began on his steak.
While eating the steak he drank the
tnnkard of ale and after that the rest
of the brandy. The waiter then un
corked the bottle of port, and tlie doc
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tor proceeded slowly to enjoy it until it
General Commission and
was all gone. He spent nn hour and a
half daily at his one meal and after it
Produce.
returned home to give ills lectures on
Specialty,
Batter,
Egg* and Cheen.
chemistry, which are still quoted as
Your consignments solicited.
classics of tbat science. He ate nothing
else until the next day, when he re
turned at the same hour to tlie same
BRIGHT’S DISEASE
chophouse for tlie same sort of a menl.
Tin- largest num ever paid for n pre-
Dr. Fordyce lived to be sixty-six years
old and kept up Ills one meal custom to Hcriptiun, change«! Iiandi in San l-’nm-
■<!ine<>, Aug. 30, 1901. The tniiiHfer in
tlie last.
NfilS
THECUSlEBts
MARTIN, CAMM & CO.
volved in coin and atockSI 12,500.00and
I wiH pai«l by n party of buRtneHB men for
a specific for Briglit'H Diaeaae and Dia
A big, good natured farmer wns betes, hitherto incurable diaeaH'H.
awaiting the suburban train, accom
They commenced the aeriouB inventi-
panied by a handsome Gordon setter. giition of the Hp««citic Nov. 15, 1900.
Two sons of Britain stood near him. They interviewed acorcH of the cured
The dog strayed away from his owner, and tried it out on its merits by putting
over throe dozen cases on the treatment
who was reading a newspaper.
"Hey!" culled the farmer. “Come and watching them. They also got phy
here. Locksmith," and the dog ItniMe- sicians to name chronic, incurable cases,
and aihninistered it with the physicians
diately ran to his feet.
jail
1'p to Aug. 25, eighty-seven
One of the Englishmen approached for
per«- ni of the test cases were either
the farmer.
well or pi tressing favorably.
"May 1 ask," he said, “what you
Th ■!<■ b- ing but thirteen per cent of
calk'd that dog?”
fii ; . the parties were satisfied and
"Locksmith." said the farmer.
elo-. «l the transaction. Tl*proceedings
of the investigating committee and the
"And why, pray?”
"Because every time 1 kick him he clinical reports of the test cases were
published and will bo mailed free on
makes a bolt for the door.”
There was ii general laugh, in which application. Address J ohn J. Ft't.Ton
( oMt-txv. 420 Montgomery St. San Fran
the Englishman Joined.
cis, -o, ( al.
Why the Joke Fell Flat.
When he returned to bis companion,
be remarked:
"Most extraordinary name that man
over there calls bls dog.”
“Wliat?” asked bls friend.
“Locksmith.” replied the first Briton.
“And why such a name?”
“Because, be says, every time he
kicks ’Im tie bolts for tlie door.”—St.
Louis Republic.
The WelKht o« Ice.
The iceman nnd the coalman are
often suspected of giving short weights
—maybe oftener suspected than guilty;
maybe oftener guilty than suspected.
The mentis of testing the weight of
from ten to thirty pounds of Ice are
not always at hand lu the bouse, but a
close estimate of the weight can be
reached by multiplying together the
length, breadth aud thickness of the
block in Inches and dividing the protl-
uct by thirty. This will give very
closely the weight In pounds. Thus. If
a block of Ice Is 10 by 10 by 9, the prod
uct is 900, and tills divided by thirty
gives thirty pounds as the correct
weight A block 10 by 10 by 0 weighs
twenty pounds. This simple method
can be easily applied, mid it may serve
to remove unjust suspicion or to detect
short weights.
The national zoo has just received
through an animal denier in Philadel
phia n magnificent pair of the large
black and white lemurs Indigenous to
the Island of Madagascar. This makes
the fourth pair of these animals
brought to this country, and. In addi
tion to being highly attractive by rea
son of their coat of long Jet black nnd
snow white hair nnd their abnormally
large nnd luminous eyes, they are of
very great Interest from the viewpoint
of science nnd evolution.
The lemur stands In the same rela
tion to apes and monkeys as they In
turn stand to the human race, only in
the case of the lemurs and npes the
“missing link” connecting the two gen
era is In real and actual existence, be
ing realized In the "aye-aye.” a pecul
French flnllwvnyB.
iar animal, also of Madagascar, that Is
Railways In France are forbidden to
as much lemur ns It Is simlnn.
carry persons visibly or notoriously af
fected by contagious diseases In com
The Hetort Courteous.
partments thnt are used by tlie public.
A story oft told Is that of Lord ---- , In tlie second place, the dally cleaning
who when a young man wns opposing nnd the p«*rlo<ll<al disinfection of nil
Mr. Sugden, subsequently lord chancel cars are required Linens of sleeping
lor of England. In a parliamentary con cars must bear a ticket Indicating to
test. "He's the son of a country bar tlie passenger tlie date of tlie last
ber," said the noble lord.
cleaning, and they must be properly
Replying afterward, Mr. Sugden said: washed and afterward subjected to a
"His lordship has told you that 1 am high temperature Dry sweeping and
nothing but the son of a country bar dusting which only serve to scatter
her, but he has not told you all, for I disease germs, are prohibited. It being
have been n barber myself and worked required tluii nil floors, seats and wood
In my father’s shop, and all I wlsli to work lie w;p««l with cloths moistened
say about that Is thnt had Ills lordship with some antiseptic solution.
been born the son of a country barber
he would have been a barber still. That,
The Arctic VVrssel.
to my mind. Is quite clear.”—Household
In
cold
countries where snow pre
Words.
vails during a long winter many of the
animals cluinge tlie line of tlielr coats
Birds’ tong«.
A French writer, Henri Coup«n, says to a white ilut The arctic bear and
thnt. not withstanding the fact of tbelr fox are white throughout the yenr.
simplicity, the songs of birds ennnot be The northern Imre Is brown In summer
Imitated with musical Instruments tie and white In winter The wensel is
cause of tlie Impossibility of reproduc especially curious It retains its brown
Ing their peculiar timbre. The notes of cent until the first snow nppears nnd
birds, while corresponding with our then whitens In a few hours.
musical scale, also Include vibrations
Katina n Pineapple.
occupying tlie Intervals betwin'ti out
A Florida fruit grower states that the
notes. The duration of birds' songs is
usually very short, two or three see natives of tlie pineapple district never
onds for thrushes nnd chnfflncbes. foui think of «-uttlng a pineapple ncross
or five seconds for blackbirds, but from They pare it. cut it lengthwise, slice it
or not. ii!iil. with the trimmed crown ns
• wo to live minutes for tlie Inrk.
n hnndle. «-nt It inticli ns n New Eng
lander «Iocs Ills green corn, rejecting
His Calaekr Dsg.
the core Tills, the writer stntes. not
Harduppc—Wigwag Is rather super only Improves the flavor, but lessens
■tltious. isn't lie?
the string« of fiber that get In the
Borrowed- Well, he refused to ac 4—41,
commodate me with a loan this morn
Hr Remembered.
Ing because It was Friday. -Phlladel
YVIfc (revisiting tin' scene of her be-
ph la Record.
trotlinb I remember. Algernon, so well
when you pro|>osed to me bow pnlnful
Willing Worker.
Lady—Why don’t you quit begging y enilinrrnssed you were.
Algernon Yea. denr. and I remem
•nd become one of the working people?
Tramp-Well, mum, ef I ain’t workln her so well how kiml ntnl encouraging
people, deu I dunuo who Is.—Chicago yon were ami how ensy you made it
tor me. aftei all. Tit Bits.
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bined coat of board, room and tuition by the year is only about
Í2U per mouth?
Do you know that you may there take Bookkeeping, Short
hand, Typewriting, Commercial Law, Penmanship, in fact almost
any study desired without extra cost of tuition?
Do you know that its teachers are also business men of
ability, that its courses are thorough and u|eto-date, and its home
and home influence are not found in any similar school on the
Coast?
Do you know that there is a demand for its grailuates in all
the walks of life, because they« possess push, are capable and
trustworthy?
Do you know that if you wish to secure a good practical
education for Hie least possible ex|>ense, and under the most favor
able circumstances, you should w rite at once to
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A Saini,»n'a l.enp.
One of tlie directors of the Norwegian
fisheries has been endeavoring to dis
cover the height a salmon will leap
when clearing a waterfall which ob
structs Its passage up stream. Masts
were placed below the fall to Insure
accurate measurements. It is stated
that a fish can leap to the height of
twenty feet. When a fish failed to
clear the fall at one bound. It remalued
lu the falling water nnd then, with a
rapid twist of the body, gave a spring
and was successful.
A Clever Dog.
"A Durango man,” remarks th«
Floresville (Mo.) Chronicle, "was show-
.ng to a friend the good points of hi«
dog and threw n half dollar coin Inte
the river. Obediently the dog dived fot
the coin and brought up a two pound
ratfish and 35 cents In change.”
The Hallway Instinct,
“now did that railway magnate’«
daughter hnppen to accept Jim Boozle-
by Buffer?”
“I think It’s because be runs bls namt
In three sections.” — Cleveland Hair
Dealer. _________________
The great majority of men who have
passed forty are old or young according
to tbelr belief. Those who think them
selves old are old; those who think
themselves young are young.—Chicago
Inter Ocean.