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Í THE MIRACLE | I OF LAVA CANYON.’ b I I I BY W S. PORTER £ zJ OOWUUHT, HMD. Br W. S. roBTKR. HE sheriff of Siskiwah county bud a secret. He never told it to his best friend, but it was uever out of his own mind. He was a physical coward. A shot set his heart beating wildly, and be turned sick at strife and carnage. His pulse beats averaged 95 per minute lud his heart turned cold every time a summons for arrest was placed in his bauds. He experienced a sensation of nervous dread each time be swung himself upon the back of bls high spir ited horse. Every sudden sound con veying presage of danger thrilled him with fright. Ills disposition was high strung, sensitive and unalterably timid. And yet “Bad” Conrad was knowu as the coolest and most courageous sheriff In this territory. He bud attained this reputation by a dally and hourly strug gle with bls whole moral force against his natural weakness. Ills fear of dan ger, great as it was, had been subordi nated to a greater fear lest his falling be known. How to hide Ills cowardice from the world was his one aim. With a cold fear in his heart he sought dan ger with the eagerness of one who lov ed Its every phase. Quiet, persistent, plodding in his way, without any of the western dash and audacity belong ing to most men in his occupation, be continually sought the closest risks and hazards, driven by an abnormal desire to appear fearless. Men who had no conception of the meaning of the word “fear" sometimes stood npart, aghast at the man's daring, and admired him. Apparently without the slightest ex citement, almost sullen of aspect, lie trailed desperate criminals to their ren dezvous, engaged in combat against mighty odds and waged such relentless war upon desperadoes and outlaws that his fame as an upholder of law and order was spread far and wide. Radcliff Conrad kept his secret well. Not a man in Siskiwah county bad ever seen him flinch from his duty, and tales were told In saloons and camps of his Intrepidity and recklessness. The sheriff’s personal appearance aided him. He was strongly and finely formed. He possessed a blond head of classic mold and a steel blue eye under good control. His Inward struggles kept him at a tension that gave him a reserved and somewhat preoccupied manner, and his every action seemed the result of deliberation instead of im pulse. The giving away to impulse was the thing he was trying to avoid. He felt that some day bis moral cour age would fail him and he would stand stripped to the gaze of Ills friends the coward that he knew himself to be. No monkish ascetic ever scourged his fleshly sins as Radcliff Conrad did his one egregious failing. How well he succeeded In triumphing over it bis fame In Lava Canyon and indeed In the mouths of men as far as the sage brush grew to east and west attested. There came one cruel day when the sheriff was forced to apply the whip to his tortured spirit with double force. The town of Lava Canyon was built on a stretch of plain sloping down to a river from the exit of a mountain gulch. Within this gulch was a tangled wildness. Two miles back from the town It converged to a fissure half a mile deep like a sword cut cleaving the hills. The sides for its whole extent were Inaccessible except to the rattle snakes that made their dens among the bowlders. Within the edge of the gulch where the densely wooded sides began to straighten to steeper angles stood the white painted cottage of Emmet Reed, the postmaster and leading deal er in hardware, cutlery, arms and am munition. Here beside the mountain stream and among the moss grown rocks played the Juvenile Reeds, little more than rushes In size, watched over more or less carefully by Boadlcea, aged 20, eldest daughter of the house. To these confines late one afternoon came Arizona Dan, worst man In the county, after breaking half a thousand dollars’ worth of mirrors and glass ware in the principal places of enter tainment and Introducing sundry slugs of lend Into various citizens, to their great bodily anguish. Dan was not too drunk to entertain a wholesome fear of Rad Conrad, and it was bls Inten tion to conceal himself until darkness should lend him cover to escape. On being apprised of these events the sheriff of the county, recognizing bls duty, prepared to effect Dan’s cap ture. A brave man In his place who properly estimated the value of a good citizen’s life In comparison with the vi tal spark of a degenerate like Arizona Dau as a furtherance of the survival of the fittest Idea would have summon ed a posse and by moral force of num bers would have secured the surrender of the offender without risk of blood shed. Radcliff Conrad was not the man to do this. He shunned all ap pearance of lack of courage, ns he de sired In bls heart to slum the danger. “What arms did be have?” asked the sheriff of some men who bad seen Ari zona Dau’s retreat to the gulch. “Nary a one,” said a saloon keeper who bad suffered from the fugitive’s Iconoclasm. "He left both bls guns in my place.” The sheriff unbuckled his revolver and shoved It across the counter. “Keep that for me.” be said. "I’ll go ■nd get Dan.” He passed slowly down the street, walking In the direction of the gulch, and the men gazed nfter him admir ingly. “Never knew wliat beln nfrnld was. Rad uever!” said the mail carrier. "He 'uz born that a-way,” said the county clerk. “A man as ain’t got no ikeer In him don’t deserve no credit fur bavin sand. He wouldn't take his ¡un along 'cnuse Dan had left hls’n. With a creetur like Dan it 'pears to me that’s a leetle reckless. Dan over- weighs Rad a matter of 25 pound the very least" In the gulch things were as usual to lU appearances. The little mountain brook that dashed down the steep rocks purled In the deep shade and lent out diamond flashes where stray leeks of sunlight dived into It, and the ¡Ards In the redwood trees whistled iway as though there wns no such In- harmonious and degraded thing as Ari T zona Dan somewhere lielow trying to -uncial his desecratlug presence. The It tie Reeds were at school, and such wises as might have been beard by that legendary and overworked crea ture the casual observer were sylvau lud well attuned. A critic in sight harmony would also have found little ¡0 cavil at, unless his too fine drawn perceptions liad deemed the aspect of Miss Boadlcea Reed, who sat negli gently In u grapevine swing, too un- «ylphlike for perfect accord. Miss Boadlcea- called “Dicey” by her mmediate family and friends, a dimin utive evolved from their original and tired irbitrary pronunciation of her name— mounded a note which may have been i dissonance, but It had Its true power >f accentuating the soft melody of ths wood. As she half reclined upon the giant vine her freshly starched white muslin crackled nbout a form whose measurements faltered not an inch from the modern standard of perfec tion. Her glossy black hair was ar ranged In the latest fashlou shown in the most recently arrived ladles’ maga zine In Lava Canyon. Her features were dear cut anil regular. She had the eyes of Melpomene and the heart of the ancleut British Queen whose name she bore. Miss Boadlcea Reed also had a se cret. Being n woman, her dearest friends had often heard it divulged, but as it was a secret there needs must be those to whom It was not Imparted. That portion of humanity was the one denominated by Miss Reed as “the gen tlemen." This awful secret was that she had never—no. never—felt the slightest sensation of fear or abash ment at any person or thing since she could remember. Miss Boadlcea despised and contemn ed nil the little feminine weaknesses and terrors of her sex with all the prej udice of one who did not understand them. Had Bhe been born with time and circumstances in her favor she would have led the overturning of a dynasty or two, captured by force the crown of some social queendom or at least have gone up in a balloon as the special female representative of one of the several greatest newspapers on ■anil. Snakes, mice, dogs, spiders, gos sip. lightning, men. the partial list of the tilings regarded by Miss Reed with a serenity approaching contumely, will afford a slight conception of her In trepidity of spirit. In the presence of mau. the lord of creation, she felt no awe. Living in a frontier mining town and possessing the attractions she did, offers of marriage had come years be fore, but her suitors had never awak ened in iter a feeling softer than com- rat' -ship. She had laughed at most of them, pitched one out of the window nml informed them all that they “made her tired.” In fact, there was nothing iu all creation, with or without life, that had ever caused her a qualm or a tremor. She regarded robbers as vul gar persons beueatb notice, serpents, horned toads, mice and Gila monsters as uninteresting and unterrifying ver min too insignificant to dread. Her se cret ambition, cherished in good faith until she was 18, had been to dress ill man's clothes ami travel round the world selling soap, or diamonds, or patent quartz crushers — anything would do. Since she was 20 her Ideas bad toned down to a flrm resolve to be prlma donna of an opera troupe, and the gulch had for many months echoed dally warbllugs that for clear ness and volume, if uot melodiousness, surpassed easily any voice In Lava Canyon. The form within the crinkling white muslin was a storage battery of Impetuous life and force that needed continually some object upon which to exhaust Its energy. As Bondlcea swung In the grape vine. some 3(10 yards up the gulch from the house, she turned her gaze Idly to ward a thick clump of bushes and saw an eye with a good deal of red in the normally white portion of It looking at her between the leaves. She sat bolt upright on the vine, and ns It appeared to be a man’s eye her hand without any special volition of her brnin went to the knot of luilr at the back of her head, smoothed it a little and thrust In the plus securely. “Come out of there.” she said. Red faced and heavy eyed from drink. Arizona Dan. hitching up his revolverless belt, shuffled bls huge form through the flexible branches of the bushes Into the path. “Sh-sh-sli!” he said, bls heavy face folding Into a dull smile Intended to be reassuring. “1 ain’t a-goln to hurt you. miss.” “Hurt me!" said Miss Reed con temptuously. "I should think nût Wbat are you doing here?” “Just n-lnyln low, miss, and waltln for night. You see, I was on what you might call a sort of spree and broke a glass or two. Maybe somebody was hurt too. The whisky done It A good lookln young lady like you, miss, wouldn’t give the word on a man, now. I bet a hoss.” Arizona Dun’s lumbering attempt at compliment produced no effect. Boadl cea regarded hint sternly with un swerving. disapproving eyes. “You don’t want to be loafing around these diggings.” she said, substituting the local form of parlance for her ordi narily more elevated style of conversa tion as being more worthy of her au dience. “You are not afraid, are you?” with infinite disdain. “I ain’t afraid,” said Arizona Dan, shifting bls feet uneasily, “except of beln took. I can't fight the whole town.” “Is any one after you?” "If they ain’t, they will be. Rad Conrad’s In town, and”— Arizona Dan broke off with an oath and looked down the steep pathway. “Here be comes now." he muttered. Boadlcea rose to her feet and peered over the tops of the Intervening bush es. The sheriff, unarmed, In a light summer suit that set off to advantage ills strong. graceful figure, wns coming up the path with the sun striking gold en lights from his head of curly blond hair. Boadlcea looked upon him and loved. When within ten pace« of his man. the sheriff took .off his hat and wiped his brow with n silk handkerchief. “Dan,” be said In an even tone, "I want you." Arizona Dnn drew a nine Inch bowle knife from the leg of his boot. “Come and get me." he snld. with a grin and a suggestive upward movement of his right hand. The old. well known, nauseating, deathly, cowardly physical fear came upon the sheriff as be saw the ablulug blade held by the huge desperado be had come unarmed to capture. Uls pride and the wonderful moral pula sauce that ground out courageous deeds from heart sluklug apprehension urged him forward another step. Ari zona Dan laughed a low, half sobe-r but chilling laugh So quiet it was that the voice of the brook sounded in the sheriff's ears like the derisive mockery of men at his poltroonery. For one iustant Radcliff Conrad swung In the balance. An all pervad ing panic seized him, and the foot he lifted to take a forward step weighed a hundred pounds. The rustling of a branch to his right above the path drew from him a swift glance, and he looked for ten seconds Into two dark eyes that seemed to flash some strange, exalting essence Into his veins. A weight seemed loosened somewhere within him. ami he felt that he could hear It fall down, down to unsounded depths. He looked at Arizona Dau and laughed low and Joyously as a child does who has come upon a long de sired toy. "Will you come?" said the sheriff In a tone a bridegroom might have used to his bride. “1'11 cut your heart out. Rad Con rad," said Arizona Dan, "if you come two steps nearer.” Boadicea, on the ledge above, rustled a little and the sheriff, without looking up. smiled again. Arizona Dan held his knife as oue holds a foil, point out ward. with his thumb against the guard. The sheriff crouched some three Inches like a cat and seemed to gather himself together with his weight bal anced evenly on each foot. Arizona Dan stood still with his knife ready. Was Rad Conrad fool enough to attack him with his bare hands? The sheriff could have shouted for Joy. Like a flash valor and audacious courage bad come upon him. He felt REVOLVER WOUNDS. More Dautferunn. For Rraiont) t'httu Tbone of the Hittr. Wounds in eh 4 life differ from those in military life tn the greater after dan ger of septic luvolveuieut. Revolver cartridges are more Ruble than are rille cartridges to have been bandied frequently. to have been carried in dirty pockets and to have come iu con tact with various forms of Infectious materials that may prove of serious consequence when burled in the tis sues. Moreover, revolver cartridges are covered with a coating of grease, and this encourages an accumulation of manifold mleroblc material, some of which may prove to be of virulently infectious nature. Rille bullets are practically always sterilized by the Intense lu-at developed by the powder at the moment of their discharge. Their rapid prtigress through the air while In a heated condition still further serves to cleanse them of any extraueous material that may chance to have accumulated on their surfaces. This cleansing process Is very effectu ally begun by the rifling of the rifle barrel through which the bullet forces its way. All these favorable factors are lack ing In the case of the revolver bullet, and so it Is possible that iu any given case such a bullet may carry infectious material with It into the tissues. If this were in small amount, nature might effectually wall it off and no se rious consequences result. On the eth er hand, such infectious material might lie seemingly dormant for days, but really slowly gathering strength by multiplication, and when Its toxins were elaborated in sufficient amount they might paralyze protective chemo taxis and produce a septic condition.— New York Medical News. APHORISMS. The man who procrastinates strug gles with ruin. An apt quotation is as good as an original remark. Johnson. Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow.—Emerson. To be vain of one’s rank or place is to show that one is below It. Stanislaus. Tin' desire of appearing clever often prevents one becoming so.—Rochefou cauld. God Is oil the side of virtue, for who ever dreads punishment suffers it, and whoever deserves It dreads It.—Colton. The mind that is much elevated and Insolent with prosperity ami cast down by adversity is generally abject and base. Human nature Is so constituted that all see and Judge better In the affairs of other men than In their own. Ter ence. In spite all refinement, the light and habitual taking of God's name In vain betrays a coarse and brutal will.— Chapin. that he would uever know fear again. Something had pussed Into Ids blood that had made him a mau instead of the spurious l elng he had been. lie felt the two dark eyes above fixed upon him, but he kept his own upon Arizona Dan’s. Heretofore the sheriff’s exploits had been attended by a fortuitous chance that brought him safely out of them—a chance Just as blind and incomprehen sible as that which guards the ways of children and drunkards. Now be felt the caution, the Indomitable Intent to do coupled with the prudence of the successful general that gives bravery its value. Half a miracle had been ac complished. The other half was to fol low. It must have been that Arizona Dan’s nerves were unstrung by his debauch, else when a small stone dislodged by Boadicea’s foot rattled down to the path at his side lie would not lmve be stowed the advantage of turning his bead quickly to look. But he did so, and in tho Instant the sheriff had his knife arm by the wrist and his other arm about his waist. Then Arizona Dan was filled with surprise to feel tho arm that held his kulfe slowly twisting In spite of all bls resistance—twisting outward, until the tendons and muscles were cracking. The sheriff’s hand was like a steel chimp, and when the pain grew unbearable Arizona Dan dropped the knife. When the sheriff beard It ring on the rocks, be released the wrist suddenly ami laid bls left forearm across Dan’s throat. They were too close for blows, and there was little struggling or shifting of ground. The arm across Arizona Dan’s throat pushed Ills head back, and the other Iron band about his waist held him close. It was a silent, fierce, straining contention on one side for the displace ment and on the other to regain the center of gravity. The side for dis placement won, aud the gladiators went down with a crash. A small bowlder In the way of Arizona Dan’s bead left him lying in a disgraceful heap oblivious to defeat. The sheriff knelt upon the vanquished distributer of leaden largess, drew cords from lilt* pocket and Ignominiously bound him hand and foot. Then be sprang to his feet and turned his flushed face and yellow curls to the source of hfs new being as a sunflower turns to tlie sun. Boadlcea slid down through the bush es like a young panther. “You’re a Jim dandy,” she snld, “If there ever was one. 1 saw It. I”— She stopped suddenly. The sheriff wns looking straight Into her eyes. She felt for the first time a strange heat In her cheeks and thought she must have fever. Her eyes slowly dropped for the first time before another's. Iler tongue for the first time tripped and fnltered. "It'll be dark soon,” began the sher iff, and his voice sounded to ber far away like the wind In the pines. “You’d better let me walk back to the house with you. I’ll bring a horse back for this chap by the time he recovers. You are Miss Reed, I think. I know your father.” The evening breeze rustled airily through the redwoods. A squirrel frisked up n hickory, and the first owl hoot came from the shadows about the brook. The brook’s babble no longer mocked; it sang a pa*an of praise. As they walked down the path together a scream of fright came from the name sake of the battle queen of the Brit ons. "A horrid lizard!” she cried. The sheriff’s strong arm reassured her. The miracle was complete. The soul of each had passed Into the other. A I.arize Covey. Two old hunters were swapping yarns and had got to quail. “Why,” said one, “I remember a year when quail were so thick that you could get eight or ten at a shot with a rifle.” The other one sighed. "What's tlie matter?” said the first. “I was thinking of my quail hunts. I had a fine black horse that I rode ev erywhere, ami one day out hunting quail 1 saw a big covey on a low branch of a tree. 1 threw the bridle rein over the eml of the limb and took a shot. "Several birds fell and the rest flew a way. "Well, sir, there were so many quail on that limb that when they flew off It sprang back Into place and hanged my horse!”—Los Angeles Times. Turned (be Tables. A lecturer was once descanting on the superiority of nature over art when an Irreverent listener in the audience fired that old question at him: “How would you look. sir. without your wig?” “Young man,” Instantly replied the lecturer, pointing his finger at him. “you have furnished me an apt Illus tration for my argument. My bald ness can be traced to the artificial hab its of our modern civilization, while the wig I am wearing” here he raised his voice till the windows shook—“Is made of natural hair!” The audience testified its apprecia tion of the point by loud applause, and the speaker was not Interrupted again. Rice mid Rice. To most people rice is rice, but, not withstanding this, there Is a consider able difference between the Chinese or Japanese nml the American article. The former is darker in color ami In no way compares with the latter In flavor or quality. Of tlie American, how ever, there nre a number of grades, of which that grown in the Carolinas is considered the best. When purchas ing. see that the grains are large, plump and unbroken. In washing he careful not to break them between the bands. flow lllgli Birds Fly. A Strassburg aeronaut says he has SPRINGS IN THE SEA FRESH WATt.i STREAMS THAT BURST FROM THE OCEAN’S BED, I BOOKKEEPING The Origin of the I uderground Ulv- er> That Have an Outlet Vader lhe Persian Gulf Ila. Sever Beeu Salls- faetorlly hixplalaed. Along the shallow bottom of the ocean, not very far from the laud, a uumber of openings have been discov ered in various parts of the world through which water as pure uud fresh us that of any bubbling spring mingles with the salt wuter of the sea. Anoth er remarkable class of fresh water springs Is those that sink out of sight or perhaps never come to the surface, but follow hidden channels under the land ami under tlie sea until they final ly come to the open air ou an Island. Both of these types of uudergrouud rivers are perhaps most remarkably Il lustrated near and on Bahrein island. In tlie Persian gulf, a place that Is also noted as one of the chief sources of pearls. Bahrein Island, the largest of the group of islands bearing that name, is about twenty miles off the coast of Arabia In the Persian gulf. As the Is land lias almost no rainfall It is a dead level of sandy desert relieved only by palm groves and patches of vegeta tion where water springs to the sur face from the mysterious underground channels. In many places the water does not reach the surface, but Is found by sinking wells, the water being rais ed to the surface by donkeys and bul locks ami [loured into the channels from which the date palms and other crops are Irrigated. These springs can not possibly be derived from the Island, ami It Is no more likely that they come from the Bandy wastes of neighboring Arabia. The Arabian shore as far as can be seen is low and devoid of water except at El-Katlf where similar springs are found. Arabs say that these streams come straight from the Euphrates river through an underground channel by which the great river, In part, flows be neath the Persian gulf. Geologists, however, have dismissed this theory. Though the origin of tlie springs has not yet betm satisfactorily explained, the most favored theory is that they come from the well watered slopes of the Persian mountains fnr to the north. If this theory Is correct, it means that the rainfall sinks Into the earth's crust until it reaches impermeable rock strata along which It Is carried for a great distance to the south out under the sea until the rock, sloping upward, again brings the water near the sur face on Bahrein island. Some of the w« Is that are thus supplied are enor mous, and oue of them, the Adarl, serves for the Irrigation of many miles of date palms through a canal of an cient construction. The Adarl well Is one of the great sights of Bahrein, be ing a deep basin of water 22 by 40 yards in size. The fact that It comes from a far higher source is shown by the force wltfi which It enters the well. Divers, driven buck by the strong cur rent, are unable to reach the bottom. There being no wells within miles of some of the coast towns of Bahrein, they obtain water from springs that Issue from the bottom of the gulf not fur from the shore. These springs of course have the same origin as the wells. Divers, with goatskins under their arms, dive through the salt water und fill the skins with the cold, fresh liquid at the bottom. The water ob tained in this way usually contains u slight admixture of salt water, so that the mixture is Just a little brack ish. At some of these openings at the sea iMittom the head of water entering the sea Is so strong that when hollow bamboos are pushed down into It the water rises through the tubes, deliver ing the fresh water directly Into ves sels that are held by men and women who are sitting in the boats that brought them from the land. The force of some of the streams as they tome from the earth is so considerable that It pushes back the salt water, und the spring Is not mixed with the sea water for quite a space around the place of entrance. It 1ms been practically determined within the past few years that the wn ters of a small river In West Africa which disappeared In a fresh water swamp that lias no visible outlet find their way by an underground channel Into the Atlantic and mingle with the sea through an opening In the bottom that has been discovered a few miles from Cape Verde. A channel has been found on the sea floor which, appar ently, was cut by some fresh water stream. During some soundings that were made In 1895 for the purpose of finding and raising a broken cable the vessel engaged in the work was sur rounded by swamp vegetation that was continually rising to the surface. It was evidently brought through the un derground channel from the swamp. The breaking of a cable off the mouth of the Ilovuma river In East Africa has beeu attributed to the destructive action of a strong current of sweet water entering the sen level several miles from the laud. Another remark able example of n submarine river Is found to the north of the city < f Arica on the Pacific coast of South America. A river from the Andes that is grad ually swallowed up In the sand has been found to mnke Its way Invisibly Into the sea, with which It unites some miles from the land.—New York Sun. seen an eagle at tlie height of 3,000 yards, ami again a pair of storks and a buzzard 900 yards above the sea level. On March 10, 1890, some aeronauts observed a lark flying at a height of 1,000 yards. On July 18, 1899, another balloon met a couple of crows at an altitude of 1.400 yards. These, how Fire Amotiff Savage Nation«. ever, are exceptions. Birds are hardly According to I’llny fire was a long ever seen above a height of 1,000 yards; even above loo yards they are not fre- time unknown to some of the ancient Egyptian tribes, and when a celebrated onont. astronomer made them acquainted with Woman'« Intuition. that element and how to produce It Tess—She says she can’t understand they were wild with delight. The Per why people call him a flatterer. sians, Phrnnlcians, Greeks nnd several Jess—She does, eh? other nations acknowledge that their Tess—Yes; I guess It's because he ancestors were once without the com sever said anything flattering to her. forts which tire liestows; the Chinese Jess—More likely he did say some confess the same of tlielr progenitors. thing flattering nml she’s trying to Pompanlon, Mola, Plutarch and other mnke herself believe he was in earnest. ancient writers speak of nations which, —Philadelphia Press. at the time when they wrote, knew not the use of fire or had Just recently Ilrnln Wcticht. learned It. It Is stated by an authority that the The Inhabitants of the Marian weight of -in’s brain has nothing to Islands, which were discovered in 1551, do with I ital power. It Is a ques had no Idea of fire or Its uses. Their tion of chi. ate. not of Intellect. The astonishment knew no bounds when colder the climate, the greater the size they saw It applied to wood, most of of the brain. The largest heads of all them taking it to lie some kind of au are those of the Chugatshes, who live animal which the sailors had brought very far north, and next come the with them und which must be fed on beuds of the Lapps. Wuud I Stenography, Penmanship, Telegraphy, Commercial Law, a teacher's course, preparation for Civil Service examin- ation, or entrance to any university; thorough work in seven courses including over fifty studies, given at the old reliable STOCKTON BUSINESS COLLEGE, Be- sides these the rates are the most reasonable, the courses the most thorough, the accommodations the best, the home most complete ami the advantages many. Write for particulars to *♦»»»»»» W. G. Rumsey, - - Prinuipal Stockton, Cui. Learning tlie Game. BLftKE, Importers and Dealers in When that great plainsman J. B. Book, New«, Writing «nd Hickok, better known iis "Wild Bill.” MOFFIH Wrapping.,, came east on what he called a "redhot & TOWNE OARD STOCK trail to learn something," he stopped STRAW AND BINDERS' BOARD one Saturday night at a hotel iu Port A5-S7-S1MH First St. land, Me. T« l . main 190. I *»AN FRANCISCO. When he went to bls room to seek rest, he found that the adjoining room wns occupied by a company of fashion Nicely furnish ed rooms by the able and rich young sports of Portland day, week o who, it did not take him long to dis month, en suite or single,at low cover, were playing an interesting rates. Country pnne of poker for high stakes. In vain patronage solicited, and no pains will be spared did he try to sleep. II<‘ could not do to make them comfortable during their visit. so. nnd after ait hour arose, dressed BOB Market St. mid 11 EIH n St., corner himself aud knocked on the door. Stoektou, Smi Francisco. Instantly all wns silent; but he In Telephone Red 3U4 MRS. KANFT, Prop. quired politely that as they would not let him sleep would they let him come S am M ahtin C ham . M. C am . m In and watch the game? For 2.3 years with For .3 years with C. E. Whitney & Co. They did so and were Impressed with C. E. Whitney & Co the appearance of the man and asked If he would Join them. NEW COMMISSION HOUSE “I will If you will post me; but, you know. I’m a tenderfoot east,” he re plied. They were willing to "post” him, and, playing awkwardly, making blun 121-123 I)avlM St., San Francisco. ders and asking questions, but seem General Commission and ingly greatly Interested, lie continued to play until daylight, when he put his Produce. winnings, some $1,500. In his pocket. I Specialty, Butter, Eggs and Cheese. “I thank you, gentlemen,” he said, Your consignments solicited. “and I’m rather glad you would not let me sleep. I’ll be here until tomorrow, so keep me awake some more.” BRIGHT’S DISEASE But the players did not appear again. Tlie largest sum ever paid for a pre —Detroit Free Press. scription, changed hands in San Fran WEIS THE CUSTER MARTIN, CAMM & CO. BorroMtSH llablla ot Poets. On Tennyson’s habit of falling to recognize clearly his own borrowings from the classical poets, Mr. Lang ob serves that the poets have always had a kind of regal Indifference to their own lighter productions. Mr. Lang says: "Scott did not care; no, not when he found that lie had unwittingly taken a llm* from a poem by the valet of a friend. In the preface to a little col lection of verses from the novels he frankly declares that he cannot pretend to lie certain which are of his own com position nml which are not. “To take un example from the level at the foot of Parnassus, 1 once read, In an American paper, some lines at tributed to Mr. Austin Dobson. ‘Not bad for Dobson," I said freely to a friend. But It was proved on me that the rhymes were my own! Z. bard who forgets Ills own verses may be par doned for remembering those of other people and mistaking a half line of somebody else’s for his own. 1 dare say that Tennyson did tills is'caslon- ally, but he could hardly say that ‘the sun sets’ without beiug accused of un conscious borrowing.” Greek mid Romnn Stoves. Warm as Greece ami Rome and Egypt nre, stoves were made there in the dint and misty vistas of the past. It was not Just the pattern used at present, but was a metal basin Iu which charcoal was burned. It snt In tlie middle of the room, nnd ns the re sulting smoke was of the slightest no opening in the roof or elsewhere was necessary. The same Implement, still called by its old Greek name of bra zier, Is now employed In many portions of continental Europe, where it Is util ized for heating as well as cooking. But the progressive Romans Im proved on that ami made a liypoeaust It was the germ of the present fur nace. It wns made under the house' In a little cellar prepared for It, and the heat was conducted to the rooms and baths through crevices left In the floor and lower portions of the wall. Later flues were provided, conducting heat to any portion of the house. In some of the old Roman villas In England the remains of these old time furnaces are still found. cisco, Aug. 30, 1901. The transfer in volved in coin and stock $112,500.00 and wis paid by a tiarly of business men for a specili 'or Bright’s Disease and Dia betes, h.thcrto incurable diseases. They commenced lhe serious investi gation of the specific Nov. 15, 1900. They interviewed scores of tin' cured and tried it out on its merits by putting over three dozen cases on the treatmeiit ami watching them. They also got phy sicians to name chronic, incurable cases, and administered it with tlie physicians forjudges. Ip to Aug. 25, eighty-seven percent of the test, cases were either will or progressing favorably. 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The first clearing house in the United States was established by the associated banks of New York in 1853. Arab Munlc. Arab music lias been described as the singing of a prlma donna who has rup tured ber voice In trying to sing a duet with herself. Each note starts from somewhere between a sharp and a flat, but does not stop even there and splits up Into four or more portions, of which no person can be expected to catch All Charged bnt the Cork. A good story is told of a digger who more than one at a time. had ridden into a Western Australian To Save Time. town to consult a doctor. Having done Visitor—No. 1 won't come In. Could so, ho went to have the prescription I see Mr. Jones for two minutes? made up. Servant—What name shall Ol say, “How much is this lot?” he asked the chemist. sorr? Visitor— Profess,>r Vonderspllnkentoo- “Well, let me see,” was the reply. “There’s seven and sixpence for the tlelielmer. Servant—Oeh. sure ye’d better step In medicine and a shilling for the bottle." He hesitated, uncertain whether be and bring it wid ye, sorr!—Punch. hnd charged for everything. Mot Meeeasary. "Oh, hurry up. boss,” said the impa “When you are at a loss for a suita tient miner; “put a price on the cork and let us know the worst”—Loudon ble word, do you ever apply to your wife?” Tlt-Blts. "No,” replied the writer; "I don’t An Apt nrflnltlon. have to. il*r entire vocabulary Is “What Is a Bohemian?” said the coming my way most of the time."-- young man who wants to study human Chicago Post. nature. Sweden sp< H i- 115,000,000 n year In "A Bohemian.” answered the cold blooded friend. “Is a person who al coal nnd has 2,(100,(100 to 4,000,000 elee- ways needs two or three extra Indorse tricnl horsepower going to waste. The ments on bls note when he wants to government Is thinking nbout utilizing borrow money.”— Washington Star. some of It.
