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¡Bulldog Carney *1 I By W. A. Fraser. Í Copyright, 1900, by W. A. Fraser. I I I Twenty-four hours after he started out he discovered that he could uot tind the uian with the neck like an eagle— Arvll Santley—therefore he had disap peared, had lit out, had hit the trail, had packed his outtit and dusted. These were the bits of local colored knowledge he picked up. It was from Mammy Nolan, who kept n restaurant in a big tent and sold whisky on the side, that he found out about Santley. "He got steered up agen a skin game up to Dan Stuart's.aud they corralled his last remittance from home. It’s about time he did get out, for they hud him stone broke. But he was a gentleman all the same,” said mammy as she stood w’ltb her hands on her fat hips and looked up and down the corporal’s ungainly figure. “Looks as though he'd done the trick,” said the major when Corporal Ball made bis report. “He's got a good start and will like ly bead for the second crossing on the Columbia and work his way down Into Moutaua. There’s a rough town at the crossing, and he's dead sure to head for that.” And then because the sergenut was away with two men and because the whisky men and the gamblers and those who were cussed simply because they couldn't help It needed much guidance in their daily life and be cause the post was always short of men anyway the major bad to put a special coustnble on with “Lanky” Ball to go nfter Santley. “You’ll need a good mnn, a rustler, to help you take this Englishman, for he’s a husky chap,” said the major. “Who’ll you get ?” “ ‘Bulldog’ Carney’s the man, sir,” replied Corporal Ball. “Get him,” commanded the officer. “Lanky” Ball found Carney after much tribulous search; found him at Mammy Nolan's, found him amid the glamour of many tin lamps, the smoke from which mingled with the odorifer ous steam of frying pork and tilled the big tent with a soft, summerlike haze. Looked at from some angles Carney was just the man to go after the slayer of “Whisky” Sanderson. lie was a big, powerful man, as big as the one they were after. He could handle “Pearl,” his big revolver, with a dex terity that commanded universal re spect. Long since lie bad tiled away the sights, and when it was necessary to place several bullets In a limited time he "fanned” his gun—turned it Into a miniature Gatling. Sometimes the police were hot on his trail ns leader of a big whisky outfit, and sometimes lie was on their side, lighting shoulder to shoulder to put down some tough gang, lie didn’t ap prove of toughness as a pastime. “Be gentlemen.” he used to say. "Gentlemen can’t work, and gentlemen must have money, lint don’t be tough for the fun of the thing. There is no fun in It.” When “Lanky” Ball explained to him what lie was wanted for and that there was a reward of $500. half of which he would get if they captured the man who did the job, he replied: “Cert, I'll go, for I’m gettln stale here. The game's ahead of me here, and I need a stake to start in again.” They rode out ten miles that night so that they would be sure to have an early start on the trail next morning. Over their pipes between "grub pile” >nd “blanket time” they drifted on to the subject of the dead man and Arvll Santley. “I’ll bet you an even $50.” said Car ney. “that Santley didn't do this job. I’ve got good cause to have a down on blm myself, for I've got Ills signature across the bridge of my nose, where bis big sprawlin English fist caught me unnwares one night. But he'll show, my trademark right enough every time he parts his hair.” lie added by way of vindicating bis outraged honor, “for 1 carved his lofty brow for him. and if bis skull hadn't been so thick perhaps we wouldn’t be chasin him now. Al) the same lie’s not the sort to lay a man out for the fun of the thing. He never had any dealin with Whisky Sander son, for he wasn’t in the know. lie was all right for sport, but the boys hadn't any use for him when they were runnln the stuff in.” "I'll just go you fifty, Carney,” said the corporal. “Tlie old man doesn't make many mistakes, and If we can get to the second crossin of the river before Santley we’ll bring back the man Hint laid Sanderson out.” "It’s a bet, then,” said Carney, and there was a queer smile about the reg ular lips set so firmly in the square jaw. Then they chipped In with their two blankets and slept under one cover, back to back, with their feet toward the small smoldering campfire; slept soundly, as just men should—"Bulldog" Carney, gambler, whisky smuggler and special constable, and "Lanky” Ball plain corporal In the N. W. M. P. “He’s ahead of us,” said Carney as they galloped side by side the next day. “1 picked up some tracks back there, and here they are again. lie doesn’t seem to be In any hurry, though, for. nccordln to his tracks, bls cayuse has been takln It pretty easy.” That afternoon when they struck the crossing they couldn't find anybody who had takeu Santley across the river. “He must be on this side somewhere yet,” said the corporal. “If you stop here and watch the crossIn, I'll try and look blm up on tills side, nc'll be about some of the garnblln dives like ly” He looked him up. He found him. In the queen’s name he was made pris oner. Santley Inugbed when the cor poral told him he wns wanted for mur der. “It’s some blawsted debt, I fancy.” be said, “and the murder racket is only a blind, but I'll go all the same. I'm half sorry I left the beastly hole any way, It’s so beastly slow down tills way.” When they came back to the cross ing. Carney was gone—gone, cayuse and all-over the river. He bad given the ferryman $50 to take him across, so tlie ferryman told the corporal. “He’s a queer fish.” said the boat man. "I didn't want to cross till the morning, but he got me down there b« I the boat aud gave me my choice be tween $50 and a plug of lead from that gun be spun around on Ills forefinger.” The cor;x>ral was dumfouuded. "It's devilish queer.” be muttered, “but or ders are orders, and I've got my man. '•/ know that you will go back, for you've promised me." and I don't see as I’ve any call to go after this crook.” And he thought of Pearl and Carney’s beautiful marks- mauship and various matters and went thoughtfully back to Golden with his prisoner. "Lanky" Bal) had a good bead tor obeying orders, which is a good thing for a corporal to have, but be hadn't much of a head for solving just such problems as tills, which was perhaps good also Perhaps that was why he was corporal after 20 years of service. “I’ll bet you 50 cases that ‘Bulldog’ did that trader up,” said Santley as they rode side by side. "That's queer,” said the corporal. "Carney bet me $50 that you didn't do it. and now you want to lay me the oilier way. If he did It, I don’t suppose that lie’ll come back for the stuff—the $50 he laid tliat y<m didn’t do It” • «*•««• "1 got the long Englishman, sir," re ported the corporal to the major when they got back to the barracks, "but the other one's lit out—took Ills hook when I was lookin up the prisoner." "What other one?” queried the ma jor. “ 'Bulldog' Carney, sir. lie skipped across the river.” "That looks suspicious,” thoughtfully replied tlie major as he pulled at his iron gray mustache. "It would be a bad one on us if it turned out that be had done this and we hud carted him out of the country given him au escort; eh, corporal?” Of course there was a trial with Ar vll as tlie center of attraction. The other had gotten away, and they had t<> haug somebody if they could. > they devoted their energies to proving Arvll guilty, and tlie chances are they irould have succeeded If It hadn't been for one person. Ills clearing out looked very suspl- ylous, and they found quite a sum of uoney on him when lie wns arrested, ilthongh It was known that he had >ecn cleaned out before be went away, lie would not tell where lie got it et her. "None of tlielr blessed business,” te told them. “It may bang you.” said a friend, “If , ( U don’t tell.” “Hang It Is, then,” he replied dog gedly. But worst of all was Baptiste Gabrl- •He's evidence. “Yes. by goss! Dat fell’, he s’oot t’ree’ fo’ time me. Steek his head up Com dat stump. See him me soor.” Then Mummy Nolan went out to the place where Whisky Sanderson had net his fate, and she found something Do. The bullet that had killed poor -nnderson had been In a terrible hurry tud had gone clean through and hrougb him. Mammy Nolan followed up the line if sight from the stump across where Sanderson had fallen and luckily lo- ■ated the bullet In a sand knoll 30 ,ards beyond. It wns a case hardened 18.55 Winchester bullet. "That’s the bullet that killed him right enough." mused Mammy, "but It 'l ight possibly have been fired there some other time.” It wasn't quite con clusive. Then she found the bullet that had icorched the leg of tlie foremost rider that day Imbedded In ids saddle. That was conclusive. Then commenced the senreb for the ride Itself. There was only one such rille owned In Golden, and it had be longed to Bulldog Carney. Now, Carney had been back In Gold en after the murder, aud be hadn't taken Ids rifle with him when he went away with "Lanky" Ball, so he must have hidden It somewhere. To return to Golden after killing Sanderson he would cross the ford at Kicking Horse. It was a forlorn hope, but she made up her mind to drag tlie ford for the rifle. When Mammy found tlie rifle where It had dropped, she knew she had forged one of the strongest links In the chain of evidence which fastened 'lie guilt on Carney. It was Mammy, too. who Introduced a new witness (o the court In the per son of Grace Alton. She had come back from Vancouver In obedience to Mummy's telegram. Iler evidence wns very simple, but effectually clear ed up tlie mystery of the money. "I gave it to 1dm.” she said simply, ‘to pay Ills passage home to fils moth er 1 told Idin a falsehood; I told blm it was from his mother. He wouldn't have takeu It from me if lie bad known the truth, but I wanted 1dm to go home to bls mother, who was ask ing for him every day. We were chil dren together—Arvil Santley aud my self.” It was a revelation to that wild western life, tills sweet, womanly girl and the man who would rather haug than compromise her by telling that she had given him the money. "I had too bad a name,” he said when Ids friends rounded on him for a chivalrous goat Mammy didn't know about the mon ey when she sent for Grace. She ouly knew tliat Grace and Santley had met when Grace was In Golden. Iu the face of the new evidence not much stock was tnken In Baptiste Ga bi mile's saying tliat Arvll Santley was the man who had shot at him. He had been too badly frightened to know wliat the mnn who had done the shoot ing really looked like. Besides, the other man. who had galloped on in from, «wore that it was a fair man who I..id ■ . while Santley was daik. It came out that Mammy Nolan was a I’lukertou detective, aud the business of runulug a restaurant aud selling whisky ou the side was ouly a blind. Nobody but the major had kubwn this liefore. After many moons of anxious tracing word of Carney came to hand. He was ul St. Vlnceut, Just over the border from Manitoba. "The extradition law is slow.” mused the major; "likewise Is it uncertain. Now, If we had Carney on this side the line we could arrest him.” At this the sergeant, who was stand ing by. pricked his ears. "It molglit be managed, sor.” “Perhaps, perhaps,” said the major reflectively. “Corporal Ball knows bls man. lie escorted him out; per haps he’ll escort him back agaiu. You will ueed considerable money, for it’s a long trip." Aud he wrote out a fairish sized order. "Lanky” Ball and the sergeant locat ed Carney at a small hotel at St. Vin cent. not a stone's throw over the line. A little preliminary arrangement with the hotel keeper, and that night as Carney gently slept the sleep of the Just two figures stole up the narrow stair which led to his room and silently slipped through the door. How still and dark the room was! Ah. not so dark now. tor. like the head light of an engine, a bullseye lantern was throwing Its full glare upon them, and they were looking into the dark depths of two murderous looking re volvers as Carney held them above the coun terpane. “Oh. that's you, 'Lanky,’ is it?" he said cheerfully. “Glad to see you. Come to pay that $50. I suppose? Just put it on the table there. I don’t feel like gettln up. That’s right. You can take one hand down,” lie said. "Just lay your gun down on the ta ble first, though. Quick, now, cough up’ that $50, for you see you’re bur glars In ray room, and if I let daylight through the pair of you It will be all right, you know." Then "Lanky” put up 50 cnses of the good government money he had brought to pay the expenses of taking Carney back. That was the nearest they ever got to Carney, for he Is still living the life of a "gentleman.” The Mintake of the Polar Bear. N'ordenskjold found that the white bears generally went through a long performance of stalking ills sailors, clearly on the mistaken conclusion that they were seals. As tlie men were clothed partly iu sealskin, it was a very natural mistake. But the Interest of tlie story lies In the generalization made by the bear. The bear said: “There are two or three seals, one standing up on Its flippers in a very unusual way. I will therefore stalk them unseen as long as I can and when they see me pretend to be doing something else.” So tlie men, with their guns and lances, who wanted to shoot the bear had the pleasure of seeing him careful ly crawling behind rocks and Ice hum mocks. making long detours tlds way and that and every now and then da inhering up a rock aud peeping cau tiously over to see If tlie seals laid gone. On the open snow tlie bear would saunter off In another direction and then, falling flat, push himself along on Ids belly, with Ids great front paws covering ids black muzzle, the only thing not matching the snow about him. .lust as the bear thought be bad got his "seal” tlie latter fired and shot him. a victim of false analogy. Spectator. Norwegian Hotel Fire F*c«tpen. Nor do Norwegian hotels themselves console you. Built of wood, their chief merit Iles In the lire escape, which Is to lie found In tlie chief room upon every landing. At Visiles 1 spent a happy night answering the questions of nerv oils travelers who came from hour to hour to see if the fire escape in my room was working properly. Angry assurances were powerless to convince timid If ancient Indies. Did I really think the rope would work? Was there any danger? Had I tried the contriv ance myself? Excellent souls! As If I he printed notice were not enough! Ah. tliat printed notice! I have a copy of it by me as I write. It Is the complete instruction In English to the traveler threatened by fire In a wooden hotel in Norway. Let me give it you ns I found it: "Eire escape to throw out the win dow. “The plaited snotter shall be found In every room. "To increase the hurry let down the body one by one until all shall be left. "N B. - Tlie cord shall put out tlie ground from tlie shoulder thereunder.” — London Mail. Fiori*«*’ Live* Are Short. "It is commonly supposed that the tnen who work In the mines or those whose occupations necessitate the hit milling of poisonous fumes and gnses are tlie shortest lived.” said a promi nent physician. "This Is a mistake, and It will surprise many to learn that the highest death rate Is found among a class who breathe In the sweetest odors— florists. “Tlie reason Is a simple one. The flor ist Ilves nt once in the torrid aud the frigid zone. From a greenhouse atmos phere of nearly 100 degrees In the win ter months he must step out Into one that Is nearly always below freezing point and often below zero. In sum mer he lias change to encounter, too, as In the spring and fall. By force of hnb- It lie grows careless and often works without Ids coat In the hot, artificial at mosphere, and this Increases the dan gers to which lie Is exposed. Lungs nnd throat and stomach diseases, as well ns rheumatism, find In the florist the least resistance.”—Galveston News. AN EFFT.GTIVE REMEDY. A Serie* of Or.li-r* That Rejuvenated the 'Jdnis Slave*. A corre ,.« ii’eut i-enils tlie following story of aii' old Virginia geutlemau: Some yea; before the war a gentle man of large I. tided Interests eouaUd among Ids |»os v ous a plantation cn the James river, an estate of consider able dimensions. Other Interests kept him away from the old place for some years, during which time there was a marked decrease In tlie revenue. Upou his return to the plantation he discov ered tliat many of the slaves were laid up with rheumatism and other miser ies, the farming Implements were tn bad order and the old homestead was fast going to rack and ruin. Calling his overseer he said: “Anderson. I notice a great many old wngous, plows and barrows about the place Have them brought and piled In front of the house, and ou Monday next order all the niggers ou tlie place to be present.” At the appointed time they came. The pile was set on tire and the imple ments destroyed. The following week lie called the overseer’s attention to the sick and Inflrm horses, hogs and cattle and gave the same order. When the negroes had assembled all the animals were knocked In the head. The Fri day following the landlord again called Ids overseer. "Anderson. I see a great many sick ulegers around here—many who seem to lie laid up with rheumatism and are good for nothing. Give orders that on Monday morning at 10 o’clock they all appear In the front yard.” The effect on tlie slaves was magical. On Saturday men who had been un able to walk were skipping around like children; the sick grew well suddenly, aod from tliat time on the plantation was most prosperous.—Exchange. FOOD OF AMERICANS. Au Ku*ll*h Woman Tell* of the Ntranae ‘China* She Ate Here. An English woman who visited Amer ica a short time ago has been telling her country women about the “strange food across tlie water.” Of course she discovered green corn, but she had been prepared for that. Oyster crabs were quite new to her. “They look like Boston baked beans,” ■die explains, "but they taste much bet ter.” An oyster cocktail tilled her with aw« and enthusiasm. She tried it at Del- monlco’s and thought it was soup. Of course in England one didn’t serve soup in a glass; but. then, neither did the English serve boiled eggs In a glass. One could never hi* sure of Americans. Of canvasback duck she has a poor opinion, but thinks she might like It better If Americans would have It cook ed or even warmed. As for terrapin, she slugs its praise. She found it much like calf’s head, and she always liked calf's head. Shades of Maryland gour mets, what a slur is there! "All the puddings In America are pie or Ice cream," she says, but It must be understood that pie does not mean game pie. The Yankee pie Is a tart aud Is ubiquitous, she explains. She sat next to an American man who ate a lump of cheese with his strawberry pie and turned a plateful of ice cream over both, but she doesn’t know that that Is a general custom. The oysters were good, but had most Impossible names, and the cockles (meaning clams) arc excellent. On the whole, Yankee food and cooking are good, but there is too much of tlie food on the table at one time.—New York Sun. Portrait of Cocker. Edward Cocker, who lived In the reign of Charles II., is chiefly knowu to the present generation by tlie say Ing In common use, "According to Cocker," which moans In accordance with arithmetical rules. I saw the oth er day amid tlie treasures of a private collector a copy of the first edition of Cocker’s Immortal work on arithmetic, published by T. Passenger at the Three Bibles on London bridge. Only two, or at most three, perfect copies are known to the book collector. One Is in tlie British museum. This par ticular copy. Its brown morocco piti fully faded, bears on Its title page the Inscription. “Cocker's Arlthmetlck, Perused and Published by John Haw kins by the Author's Correct Copy." It contains what purports to lie a portrait of “Ingenious Cocker." Ex perts. however, shake tlielr heads over the authenticity of this work of art. There are many engraved portraits of the epoch, but there was only one Cocker. The British museum copy has no portrait, and there is too much rea son to fear that this embellishment wns added by some Ingenious owner of an earlier century. Cocker died In 1G75. This rare relic of the past bears date 1G78.—Scotsman. The Tnabont Captnln. A tug lay hard by, and the cnptnln added Ids bit to my sociological noc turne, ns 1 sat In the pilot house and peered out on the water, where red lights nnd green lights, with many of yellow and white, dripped zigzag fash ion down from the wharfs nnd ships. “Where do you sleep?" questioned I. “Why, here,” lie replied, “in this very pilot house on that nice fluffy bunk you’re n-settln’ on; an’ sometimes I sleep at that wheel, a-steerln' this boat, sir. Can't be helped, sir. The hours we work would stave in n trnlned nurse an' send a sentinel to be shot. Why, man, I've seed tlie time when I’ve stuck by that wheel twenty grim hours nt n stretch. Once it wns forty-two hours. And when you rend in the paper nbout towin' a big propeller clean through a dock or jammln’ her Into her next door neighbor fer keeps don't you say us tug The Rnsslnn Climate. folks are Johnnie Raws. Just say we’re The Russians count upon their cli worked and worked till we sleep nt tlie mate as one means of defense, ns It wheel. For that's Gori’s truth, sir.”— was when Napoleon Invaded Russia. Atlantic. Their troops are accordingly trained In winter maneuvers. Including loading Snotrf Girl. a battery, with Its wnr transport und Her Mother-Edith, don’t yon think material complete, upon sleighs, mov yon nre getting too old to play with ing It for some distance over a difficult, I little boys? snow covered country and bringing It Edith—No. mamma; the older I get into action ngaln. 1 the better I like them.—Tit Bits. The skin of tlie musk ox, which Is a denizen of tlie “Barren Grounds” nnd the arctic region of Canada, has taken . tlie place of that of the extinct buf falo for sleigh robes. It varies In price i from $5o to ns low as $5 for a poor nr tide. AM IFXT UMBRELLAS THEY FIGURED IN CHURCHES IN THE CARLY CHRISTIAN DAYS When First Adopt««! by the ff’shtlo. They SarmT-to Have Been t 'tillsrd Solely ««1,0" Protector*—Oner an AtlrilinVa'of Dignity. In the early Christian churches a targe umbrella usually hung over the priest, and it Is said that from this custom It became one of the attributes of cardinals appointed from basilican churches. For years the doges of Venice carried umbrellas of state, und hi 12,88 Pop«’ Alexander III. declared ‘hat these should be surmounted by golden statuettes of the annunclatlou. Michael Moroslnl was the first Vene Kan layman to carry an umbrella, which consisted of a small, flat square of green stuff, over which was a cop ier spiral. Soon after the umbrella was adopted by fashionable Venetian «tunes. According to Coryat’s “Crudi ties" (Hill), the Italian umbrella was a small canopy and was made cf leath er extended by a series of wooden aoops. He says umbrellas were used by horsemen, who, resting the handles on the thigh as they rode, bore them so tliat they should "minister shadow unto them for shelter against the scorching sun.” In tlie Harleian manuscripts, now In the British museum, there is In manu script No. (103 a crude illustration showing the figure of a yoeman hold ing an umbrella over Ills lord, which leads me to Infer that umbrellas were known In England even In the early Anglo-Saxon period. Beck, as quoted in tlie Draper's Dic tionary. asserts tliat at the time that Stephen usurped tlie crown of England (twelfth century) umbrellas were in common use among the English. The first mention of the umbrella In Eng lish literature is in Florio’s "World of Wonders" (15!>8), where it Is described as a "kind of round fan or shadowing tliat they use to ride with in summer Iu Italy; a little shade.” In 1G5G au umbrella was exhibited in tlie “Museum Tradescantlanum; or. Collection of Rarities Preserved at South Lambeth, Near London, by John Tradescant,” which was known ns “one of tlie wonders of the ark.” In the church of Cartmell, In Lanca shire, England, there was preserved until a few years ago an umbrella said to be over 300 years old, which was used chiefly to protect the host. References to the umbrella are to be found also in Blount's “Glossograplda” (1071) and Phillips’ “New Worlde of Words" (1G78). In the first the refer ence reads: “Umbrello, a fashion of round and broad fans, wherewith the Indians (and from them our great ones) preserve themselves from the heat of the sun, and hence any little shadow, fan or other tiling wherewith the wom en guard tlielr faces from the sun.” The second runs: "Umbrello, a screen against the sun's beat, used chiefly by the Spaniards,among whom It is known by tlie name quitasole.” Tlie imaginative Dean Swift in the "Tale of a Tub” (1096) depicts Jack, an ever resourceful type, ranking use of a parchment copy of his father’s will as a nightcap when he went to bed and as 'in umbrella in rainy weather. Did the worthy Hnnway take ills cue from this or from Kersey,according to whom tlie umbrella was a “broad fan ot screen commonly used by women tc shelter them from rain?” The last ref erence. made In 1700, is the first men tion of It as a protector from the rain Later Bailey, who in Ills dictionary (1737) called it a parasol, defined It as "a sort of small canopy to keep off the rain.” Small, light umbrellas came Into fashion among the ladles of tlie French court In 1G75, nnd these were carried by attendants. Rlchelet tells us tliat they were made of oilcloth or leather nnd had ribs of whalebone. A century Inter they found fnvor with the men, who enrried red umbrellas, with edges fringed with gold lace. The precise date when Jonas Han way. who died In 1786, introduced the umbrella Into England Is not recorded In liny of the encyclopedias I have nt hand, but they nil state that he was popularly known as its introducer. With the Dutch, as witli the Indian grandees, the umbrella was first nil at tribute of dignity, and well It might be, for the prices pnld for them at The Hague in 1650 ranged from $75 to $120 each. The Dutch colonists who settled nt the Cape of Good Hope were not slow to Insist on preserving the dignity of tlie umbrella, for Ryk van Tulbngh, governor of Cape Colony in 1752, en acted that “No one less In rank than a Junior merchant or those among tlie citizens of equal rank, and the wives and daughters only of those who nre or have been members of any council shall venture to use umbrellas, and those who are less in rank than mer chants shall not enter the castle In fine weather with nil open umbrella.”— Frank 11. Vlzetelly In New York Times. mj^MA^îA \ îa M> M a M a M a M a M a M a M* m M> m M> m M> M a M a M a M a M a M a M a M a M a ¥ M> w Do You Know A-*. ► • « M> M> M> æ w M> ► M> s fb M* ► au« $ <1* JP 4* MA T MA S 1 # T T æ i That at the old, reliable Stockton lluHincHH College the (Xini- biued cost of isiard, room and tuition by the year is only about $20 per month? Do you know that you limy there take Bookkeeping, Short AK a hand, Typewriting, Commercial Law, Penmanship, in fact almost MA any study deaired without extra cost of tuition'.’ Do you know thnt its teachers are also business men of M a ability, that its courses are thorough and U|eto-date,and its home » M • a and home influence nre not found in any similar school on tlie Coast? Do you know that there is a demand for its graduates in all the walks of life, because they poss«-ss push, are capable and trustworthy? Do you know that if you wish to secure a good practical «ah.cation for the least possible expense, and under the most favor able elrcuinstanees, you should write at once to vv C. Rumsey, Principal, ^< a aîa M a M a M a M a M a \J a - - Stocktoll, Cal. M z ^M a a V ajk ^ a M a \< a a T a M a Two Clrcu* Frat*. “A great deal of unneeesMiry sytu pathy is wasted upon the circus man who stands up proudly In spangled tights and lets another circus man bring down a sledge hammer upou a rock placed upon Ills bend with fore« enough to break It.” says an old circus man. “This Is spectacular, but is en tlrely painless nnd calls for no gerat strength or endurance. l'(ion the era nlum of the strong mnn Is put nn Iron contrivance weighing about 150 pounds and provide«! with cushions both above and where It reHts upou the head. A pretty good sized rock is used, and the hummer is n heavy one, so you can s«s‘ thnt the blow that cracks the rock Is really a serious one. But most of the force Is taken up by the rock and the rest by the iron nnd cushions, will!«’ the only sensation felt by the subject Is a gentle tap. “No more difficult than this Is the net whereby tlie hero of tlie canvas tent permits n rock to lie broken upon ills chest will) a blow from a sledge hammer. So long ns the subject's back is free and does not rest against any solid object the trick Is perfectly slm pie. A little Illustration: Take a lioiiril up and let it lie freely In your hand and lilt it smartly witli a hammer. It is difficult to hurt your hand, and the thicker tlie board the less tlie sensii tion. But now put your hand on tlie table and lilt tlie board. Hurts, doesn’t it? Well. It’s tho same witli tlie rock on the chest.” Ilow liar Ancestor* «Itinrreletl. A study of medin-vnl rural life Is apt to give tlie impression tliat the princi pal part of tlie life of tlie people was spent In quarreling or in tlie commis sion or prosecution of offenses. Our anttqftors certainl.i were a very lit) gious and a very disorderly people. Tlie recorils teem witli Instances of men nnd women drawing knives against one another, of breaking into bouses, of prosecuting one another for slander Then we have such entries ns these: “It is ordained by common consent that all tlie women of tile village must refrain tlielr tongues from all slnndi’r Ing.” “Thomas, son of Robert Smith, Is fined 12 pence because Ills wife Ag nes beat Emma, tlie wife of Robert, tlie tailor, and Robert, tlie tailor, six pence Ixs'nuse III“ wife Einnin swore nt Agnes, the wife of Thomas.” "It Is en joined upon till tlie tenants of the vil lage that none of them attack any oth ers In word or deed, with clubs or ar rows or knives under penalty of paying 40 shillings." Such entries, frequently occurring, In addition to tlie Innumerable Instances of individual attack, slander, petty theft and other lininorality seem to show a community of fur from perfect virtue.—Lippincott’s. Itnllnn* l.«»«c Tomato«*. Italians more than any other people value tomatoes, anil ench one that comes to pet lection Is ns cnrefully tend ed ns though It were an apple of gold. Not only do the housewives delight In the fresh vegetables themselves, but, generally speaking, those home tended are better than any purchased at the market, nnd so each one Is jenlously saved to make tomato«’ sauce for flic spaghetti, without which no Itnllnn Sunday would lie Sutulay One soapbox gardener one season sold enough toma toes to glv<‘ her quite a little pin money. No one who knows Hie Italian well will be surprised to learn that many of tlie boxes nre devoted to peppers, for they In truth furiiist) much of tlielr spice of life, anil even tlie little Italian girls know how to sluff nnd cook them In a dozen different ways that tempt th« palate.— Boston Transcript. 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A florist says tliat tlie law governing tlie coloring of flowers makes a blue rose I tn possible. According to this law the three colors red. bine nnd yellow never all appear In the same species of flowers Any two may exist, but never tlie third. Thus w(> have the red nnd yellow roses, but no blue; red nnd blue verbenas, but no yellow; yellow aud blue In the various members of the viola family (ns pansies, for In stance), but no r«'d; red and yellow A Wongolfrr*« Opinion of Golf. Imagine n great fat creature who gladioli, but no blue, nnd so on ought to wear n turban and n long llnl’brr 1‘lianl*. black robe to hide bls grossness whack- Many plant growers become nnnoyed Ing a little white ball for miles nnd miles with a perfect surgery of Instru beenuse tlie older leaves at the base of ments, whacking It either with n baby their rubber plants turn yellow nnd ish solemnity or a childish rage, as fall off. This Is a natural process It luck may have decided, nnd Inciden floes« not Indicate any defect In the tally training nn innocent eyed little plant. It Is simply the ripening of the boy to swear nnd be a tip hunting old foliage wlileli cannot lie retained loafer. That's golf.—II. T. W. Wells Indefinitely Sometimes, however, tlie loss of foliage results from tlie want of tn Pearson’s Magazine. root room, but In such cnses the plants refuse to grow To (he of Her Knowledge. A Indy wns looking for her husband Rntlroml T*leKrnu>*. and Inquired anxiously of a housemaid, When a traveler In the grand ducli.v “Do you happen to know anything of of Baden. Germany, wants to send a your master’s whereabouts?” telegram wlille lie Is In tlie train, b«1 “I’m not sure, mum,” replied the writes the message on a postcard, with rareful domestic, “but I think they’re the request that It be wiled, puts on a In the wash.”—Pathfinder. stamp and drops It Into the train letter box. At tlie next station tlie box Is Partly Arconnted For. Bfzzer—Where does that mnn Dim cleared and the message sent ooL mer get all Ids money? Too Rm ii 11 to Share. Buzzer—Well, I loaned him five dol Barnes —Yes. I guess It Is true that It lars two years ngo.—Ohio State Jour Is the little things that count. nal. Howes—So you have come to that It Is claimed thnt dentistry prolongs conclusion, have you? Barnes—Yes. Yon see. I wns walk life. As Ims been said of matrimony. It The < on.nltatlon. certainly makes It seem longer.— Ixiul» Ing with Tedworth. nnd he snld If he should find a million dollars he'd give “My wife always consults me sbont vllle Courier-Journal. me half. Presently lie picked up a every article ot attire she buys-frocks. hats, shoes, glove«, everything.” No mnn can build character by trying dime. nn«l when I naked him to share “My wife does, too-that Is, she asks to raze that of other«.— Nashvlll* Ban It with me lie abused me like a pick pocket.—Bw-'ii'i Transcript. n i for the money.” ner. R I’roonunced cat-fay—accenl)r>n lam ayllabla. Very Tired. It lias remained for a little girl to Dearly, If not quite, equal a famous witticism of Leigh Hunt. Of course slie spoke in clillilisli Innocence, where tlie English essayist and wit used bis ripened Intellect. Hunt. In describing nn exceedingly warm day, It will be remembered, spoke of it ns one which tempted him to strip off his flesh nnd sit In bls lx ties. The little girl had been romping aud running all day. Toward nightfall her father met her. “Are you not very tired, little one?” he asked. “Oh, not so very tired, papa,” sbe re plied. Then In a burst of confidence she whispered, “Only I do feel as though I'd like to take my legs off and carry them awhile.” A l.on* Sleep. Dr. Socn. an English physician, re ported the case of a young girl of sev- eut< i n taken with syncope after a cold “tub” who slept for seven months In the hospital to which sbe was admit ted. When she wns aroused from sleep, she responded drowsily to questions put nnd fell asleep again. At the end of «even months sbe died of pneumo nia. having slept herself out of life. Sometimes sbe wns fed In ber sleep aud nt other times while they kept ber awake.
