¡Bulldog Carney *1
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By W. A. Fraser.
Í Copyright, 1900, by W. A. Fraser.
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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”
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"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.
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$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
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“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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The largest stun ever paid for a pre
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win paid by a party of buainess men for
»specific for Bright’s Disease and Dia
betes, hitherto incurable diseases.
They commenced tlie serious investi
gation of tlie s|«‘ciflc Nov. 15, 1900.
They interviewed scores of tlie cured
and tried it out on its merits by putting
over three dozen cases on tbe treatment
and watching them. They also got phy
sicians to name chronic, incurable rases,
and iministered it Witli tlie physicians
for j .1'
I p to Aug. 25, eighty-seven
perv.-iit. of the test cases were either
well oi progressing favorably.
’I'li. ' - being but thirteen per cent of
fai'.un -. tlie parties were satisfied and
closed the trail-action. The proceedings
of the investigating committee and the
clinical reports of the test cases were
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Ask for
Col«»rlnK off Fl«iw«r*.
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.
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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.