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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.
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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
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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.
There Is'ing but thirteen per cent of
failures, the jmrties were satisfied and
closed the transaction. The proceedings
of the investigating committee ami the
clinical reports of the test cases were
published and will be mailed free on
application. Address J ohn J. F i 'I. ton
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Orlaln of the Clearing Hnnae.
In 1775 the bankers of London rented
a house In Lombard street nnd fitted It
with tables nnd desks for the use of
their clerks as a place where bills,
notes, drafts and other commercial pa
per might be exchanged without the
trouble of personnl visits of employees
to all the metropolitan banks. Trans
fer tickets were used, and by means of
this simple plan transactions Involving
many millions were settled without a
penny changing bands. The Bank of
England ami every other Important
bank in London are members of tlie
Clearing House association. 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.