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It Came Handy
How a Mother Prevented Her Son
From Being Killed In a Duel.
14th SATURDAY NIGHT SALE
By ROCKFORD KING
A Midget Horseman
and His Big Friand.
Copyright. 1910, by American Fraas
Association.
By LEONARD MULLOY.
April 16.
(Copyright. 1910, by American Freaa Asso
ciation.!
In Loubdanh about tiie middle of the
last century there lived on a planta
tion left her by her husband a Mrs
Stewart with one spn. She hud been
married at sixteen, and at thirty-six,
when this boy, Fitz Hugh Stewart,
wus nineteen years old, she was a
very young looking and still handsome
woman. Indeed, the boy apjs*ared more
like her younger brother than her son.
The two were devoted to each other.
One day there appeared In the parish
where the Stewarts lived 1’inktou
Forshay, a num about forty years old.
wiio gave out that he was intending to
settle there for the purpose of prac
ticing law. Forshay was a typical
southerner of untebellum days-long
hair, sombrero, tight trousers and a
flowing skirt to hl.« coat. He purport
ed to have sprung from one of the
oldest and best families of South Car
olina and was quite free in small ex
penditures, such as wines, liquors, ci
gars. etc. Nevertheless he had little
or 110 means, and it was his object to
acquire u foothold in the community
by making a profitable marriage.
Forshay and Fitz Hugh Stewart met
at the house of a planter, and Fitz
Hugh inched him to visit at the
Stewart home. Forshay culled and
ut once determined to make every ef
fort to marry the widow. Expecting
that the son would oppose his moth
er marrying a second time, he was
very adroit about his courtship, coti-
ceuliug bis intention from Fitz Hugh.
The history of gold mining regions
repeats itself. First we huve the land
worth from nothing up to a few dol
lars an acre. Then some one digs a
hole in the ground to put in a post,
scoops out a cellar for a house, or some
thing like that, and finds in the dirt
taken out indications of the precious
metal. He doesn't sav anything to
anybody, but goes off and gets ft as
sayed. The re|M>rt being favorable, be
lets it be known that he lias gold on
his property. Those who strike Indi
cations pre-empt claims and organ
ize companies with a few dollars cap
ltal, most of which is spent tor print
ing certificates of stock. Every foot
of the ground in the vicinity is staked
out for mines, which cross and
recross one another at every conceiv
able angle. There are thousands of
The giant George Auger, whose pic these pieces of paper, nearly all worth
ture you see here, was born in Cardiff.
less.
Wales. He is a trifle more than seven
When the Clear Creek region of
feet tali. His midget friend, Paul Oval,
Colorado was in such a stage as this
seated on the pony, is a native of Hun a man whom 1 shall call Peter Ander
gary and is only a little more than a j
son. a young lawyer from the south,
foot and a half high. The giant and settled in Denver and hung out his
the midget are the same age. Some shingle. He had a very frugal, pa
times the giant would put the midget tient wife, who was a real helpmate
in iiis coat pocket, and everybody to him. She never permitted anything
thought it a great Joke.
to be wasted, no matter how little val
ue it possessed, and when her hus
band rallied her on saving worthless
BOASTFUL SANDY.
things she would say cheerily. “It
How a Lazy Cat Was Fooled by an may come in handy just in the nick of
time.”
Artful Mouse.
The principal law practiced in Col
We once had a cat named Sandy,
who was large and yellow and had a orado at that time was with tiie re
volver; consequently Peter Anderson
long, bushy tail aud silky ears.
He was indeed ornamental, much found little practice in his profession.
more so than useful, for as a mouser But mouey was easily borrowed, and
tiie Andersons managed to keep body
Sandy was not a success.
Yet. in spite of other people’s opin and soul together by small loans. The
ion. in his own eyes Sandy was the husband found it dull sitting in his
terror of all the mice in the state. To office waiting for clients, so he spent
watch him at work was a treat. He most of his time in a neighboring bil
set about mouse catching with much liard room playing pool. He told his
style, such as “see the conquering wife that tlds was a good way to make
hero conies" air. And when he lost his acquaintances and thus get business.
mouse, ns lie nearly always did. he She said she thought he was right.
The members of such communities
always assumed a bored attitude, as
Refresh
if to say, “Pray, don’t imagine I really are inveterate gamblers.
wanted to catch that mouse; it was ments and tiie price of the game were
to be paid for by tiie loser. In addi
merely for practice!”
At last, discouraged with Sandy's tion to this, the players, all of whom
were possessed of worthless mining
achievements, we bought a trap.
stocks,
would put them up to be ab
Sandy was delighted with the trap,
for he found a mouse in it nearly sorbed by the winner. A number of
every morning, and he took to lying these certificates came Into Peter An
derson’s possession, but none of them
In wait and watching it.
One day as he waited he saw a ever found their way bark to the per
gray mouse steal from a bole in the sons from whom be won them. Every
corner and approach the trap. Nearer night after he had gone to sleep his
and nearer he crept, but instead of wife would get up, search his pockets,
getting himself caught he sprung the take out w hat mining shares she found
there and lot k them up in an old trunk
trap.
Like a gray streak the mouse made she kept in the garret. She never
for his hole, and like a yellow streak looked at the mimes of tiie companies
Sandy followed him. But, as usual, they represented or bothered her head
the cat was too late, and the mouse as to their value. Indeed, they were
worthless or they would not have come
got safely inside.
FORHHAY RECOGNIZED HKIt.
But now that he knew where the so easily into her husband's possession.
Every night his pockets were searched
He proposed to Mrs. Stewart and was mouse lived Sandy determined to have and emptied, but in the morning he
sat
very
quietly
by
the
him.
so
he
rejected.
He proposed again and
would not miss his loss. If his wife
again received a refusal. Determined mouse hole until the mouse should had taken a few coins he might have
to force Ids way into the Stewart fam come out of bis front door again. But noticed it. but mining stocks were i
lly and tin interest in their possessions, I tine mouse did not come, and at last quite a different matter. When he
he persisted in Ills proposals till he Sandy grew weary of waiting, He went round to tiie billiard room in the
was at last treated by the widow with wanted to go to sleep, and he did not evening he would think that he had
want the mouse to get out. so he solv
the severity lie merited.
won some shares tlie night before, but,
Mrs. Stewart, fearing to make trou ed the problem by crossing his paws finding none in his pocket, fancy he
over
the
mouse
hole
and
going
com
ble between her son and her suitor,
had been mistaken. He was a very
kept tiie matter of ids proposals to fortably to sleep.
good pool player and had no difficulty
Then
the
artful
mouse
stole
out
of
herself. Young Stewart noticisl that
in borrow ing a few»shares to begin on.
Forshay came no more to the house, his back door, ate the cheese from 1' aially lie would win, pay off the loan
the
trap
and
stole
gleefully
back,
while
but thought little of Ills remaining
and go on playing on ids own capital.
«way. Mrs Stewart seldom Joined In Sandy still slept on.—Philadelphia Rec If ho left the place with stocks in his
ord.
the social affairs In vogue among her
pocket, the next morning they would
neighbors, lull her son slid and was
be deposited, as usual, in Mrs. Ander
Cornstalk Values.
constantly meeting Forshay. But Fitz
son's trunk
Nothing
is
wasted
nowadays.
Things
Hugh noticed that Forshay's manner
But the pool players didn’t bring
toward him had climigisl. What had that were formerly thrown aside as' Anderson any law business, and tiie
refuse
the
hand
of
science
now
turns
l>een an effusive friendliness had be
into use and profit Who would have wolf was continually snarling about
come a marked antagonism.
his door. However, the wolves in
One evening at n social gathering of thought n few years ago that any good such communities are usually coyotes,
men Stewart made a' remark which use could be made of common corn comparatively harmless, for any man
brought a sneer from Forshay. This stalks? But practical science lias tak will give or lend any other man if he
was followed up by oilier overt acts en hold of them, and now they are | has anything he doesn’t need at the
plain to every one present. Stewart, used in many ways, the strangest per-1
moment. Nevertheless Anderson's con
fancying that his mother might have Imps being to help in building ships
dition was not attractive, and except
of
war.
for
they
produce
cellulose,
and,
something to do with tilts treatment
when be was playing (>ool lie was very
cellulose
Is
used
In
packing
coffer-
!
and dreading to have tier name dis
dispirited.
dams.
Then
they
are
used
in
the[
cussed. bore all patiently till Forshay
One day there was a Idg strike up on
made a remark to him that was posi manufacture of smokeless powder, of'
A mining company laid
i paper pulp, of pyroxylene varnish and i Clear creek.
tively Insulting, when lie' replied In
as a packing material, and, with their! opened a vein that paid many hun
kind Forshay slnp|>ed ills face. The
leaves and tassels, they enter into the. dreds of dollars to tite ton. Peter
boy did not proceed further with tiie
composition of various fodders and i Anderson when be went home that
matter at tiie time, but when be went
foodstuffs. The thrifty farmer now night told his wife alsiut the strike.
home apprised ills mother of w hat had I
carefully saves them and sends them remarking, “Oh. how I wish I had
occurred.
to market, the same as the regular some of the stock of the company!"
Tills was nt a time when the code products of his farm.
"I think you have, dear,” said Mrs.
duello was in vogue in Louisiana. Mrs.
Anderson, and she went up to her
Stewart saw that a great misfortune
How to Sell a Diamond.
trunk and brought down an armful of
had befallen herself and her son. If
Philip II was once Interviewed by a mining share certificates. The two
Fitz Hugh did not challenge Forshay
he would Is* cut by all his acquaint Portuguese merchant, who bad for sorted them, tossing them when ex
ances. If he did challenge him For sale a diamond of unusual size and amined on the floor In their eager hunt
shay would doubtless kill him. In fact, beauty, There was a general desire for the one they coveted, Presently
the widow saw in this treatment of that the king should purchase su they came to a ten share certificate
splendid a Jewel, but he did not seem which alone would keep them for
her son a spirit of revenge that was
awhile. Then a fifty share turned up.
directed toward herself.
She lay likely to d<> so.
"Well." said the king to the tner- then another ten. then a hundred, five
awake all night thinking over the mat
chant. "h<>w much would you ask for hundred Indeed, all denominations. It
ter and In the morning told Fitz Hugh
this diamond if one were to take a
was a good while before they got
that he must challenge Forshay.
fancy to It?”
A friend of the Stewart family. Wai
"Sire." replied the merchant, "I ask through the accumulated pile. When
ter Langstalf. was called In aud re hut 70.000 ducats, the sum which It they did they figured up shares in the
quested to act as Fitz Hugh’s secoud. also cost me.”
lucky company sufficient to give them
He gave the information that Forshay
"What! So much money?" said the a fortune of half a million dollars.
hail fought several duels and was a king. "Who did you think would buy
When the excitement of the find had
dead shot. Mrs. Stewart did not wince It?"
died down a bit Anderson asked his
at this, maintaining her position that
"Sire." said the Portuguese, “I knew wife where she had got all the certifi
her son must send the challenge. Be then* was a Philip II In the world.”
cates. Then she told him that she
fore i-angstaff went with it to For
The king was so pleased at this an- had rubbl'd him of them, thinking that
shay the mother instructed him as to swer tint he bought the diamond.
some of them might some day come In
the terms he should Insist upon. Tiie
handy.
meeting must take place in some se
Anderson strolled downtown the
I’ll Tell You a Story.
cluded spot, only a second for each
next day. sold a few shares of his
T il tell you all a story
principal and a surgeon should l>e
About a man from Lynn.
stock apd went al>ont paying small
And If you can't stop laughing
present and Fitz Hugh Stewart should
debts. That was the last of his play
I'd bolter not begin.
be permitted to tight masked.
ing pool for mining stocks, for be
If Langstaff were to lie required to
The story is so funny
found plenty to do. The day came
That II really 1." «baurd.
giva a reason for this singular provi- I
when bo was sent to represent biff I
a
: ; ou don’t bsiievs ma
aloa ba ahoeM ffffy that stewart whs
|
itzte tn the United Mat« ffmffta,
Tou r.sadn't take my word.
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COUMERILH—CHRISTENSEN
Marrying For Votes.
Her Very Clear Thoughts.
"Well, aunty, what are your thochts
aboot marry in’?” asked a young wom
an in Scotland the other day of her
aunt, a decent body who had reached
the shady side of life without having
committed matrimony.
“’Deed, lassie," frankly replied tiie
old lady. "I’ve had but three thochts
aboot it a’ my days, an' the last is like
to be ttie langest First, tbeu. when 1
was young, like yoursel’, 1 thochL
'Wha'll 1 tak’T Then, as time began
to wear by. 1 tboebt. 'Wha’ll 1 get?
A d ’ after 1 got my leg broken wi' that
whuuiel out o' Saunders McDrunthie’s
cart my thochts syne have bln, ’Wha'll
tak' me?’ ”
Politeness In China.
In China parents are held responsi
ble for the manners of their childreu
Accordingly, for the credit of theit
parents, people try to be polite. If yon
are mobbed in a Chinese town yon
should look straight at one or two of
the people and say: "Your parents did
not pay much attention to your man
tiers. They did not teach you th«
rules of propriety .’’ A remark like tills
will make the crowd slink away, one
by one. ashamed of themselves.
Marrying for votes was a device of
old time British election agents. As
the law stood before tiie reform act
of 1832 widows of freemen on marry
ing again made their second husbands
freemen and therefore voters.
At
election times widows were conse
quently paid handsomely to go through
a formal marriage with a voteless
bachelor, who. for a consideration,
similarly agreed to support the candi
date. The pair were married, the man
voted according to instructions, and
then he and his wife, standing on
either side of a tombstone, said,
“Death us do part." Witii this literal
fulfillment of tiie matrimonial vow
they regarded their marriage dissolv-
ed. At the last election in Bristol be-
fore 1832 a hundred women gave votes
to men.
A Literary Light,
A short time ago a well known writ-
er of London, remembering that he
hud never read the noncanonical books,
went out In search of a copy and in
one bookshop after another drew
blank. At last he went to his own par
ticular newspaper shop, which also
dealt in Bibles and light literature.
“Have you tlie Apocrypha?" lie asked.
For a moment the young woman be
hind the counter was puzzled; then,
The Reason of It.
"Why is It that novels are so much brightening, she said, "Is it a weekly
more popular with the women thau or a monthly?”
with the men?"
"In n novel the fellow invariably
Acres and Bible Letter*.
It has sometimes been stated tliat
asks the girl to be bis wife."—Chicago
there are more acres in Yorkshire than
Record- Herald.
there are letters in the Bible. A per
son hearing the statement for the first
Stood on His Rights.
The Lawyer (who Is drafting Mr. time is inclined to doubt it, but It is
Snnrler’s fast will and testament)—Oh. true, nil the name. Authorities differ
but If I may make a suggestion, don't as to the exact acreage of the county,
.von— Mr. Snzrier—Hang It all, who’s one giving It as 3.KS2..H4H and another
dying—you or me, eh?— London Tit- as 3,771,843. But the number of let
ters In the Bible is said to lie 3.50R,-
Bits.
4SO. so the acres t>eat the letters, with
A lie always bns a certain amount something to spare. — London Notes
of weight with those who wish to be- and Queries.
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Never add the burden of yesterday's
trouble 10 that of tomorrow. The one
is past; the other may never come.
A COLONIAL HUSTLER.
Colonel Samuel, Sloper Was a Jack of
All Trades.
It is necessary that the pioneer be
a man ot infinite resource, who can do
for himself or his neighbors every nec
essary task. Such a man was Colonel
Samuel Sloper, one of the early set-
tiers of Blandford, Mass.. whose as
tonishing versatility ís recorded by S.
G. Wood in "Taverns and Turnpikes
of Blandford.”
Colonel Sloper, among other things,
kept something of a stable and pas
tured horses and stick. For the mu
nificent reward of 3 shillings the old
veteran in 1788 moved the family of
David Knox by means ot “tenme and
boy." Now and then be turned his
hand to odd Jobs. He carted and laid
out John Waldo Wood's tiax one sen-
son for £7 IDs.
He seems to have made shoes and
garments for his family and for his
neighltors. For Enos Loomis’ young
son. who was bound out to him. he
did on this wise: "Caping your son’s
shoes, 1-3.” "One bottle-green coat
trimmed and made for .Moses, 7 shil
lings.” He made several shirts and
a frock for the Martin Leonard com
pany.
Tbe number of things which this vet
eran and “dabster” did make an as
tonishing list He was surgeon in or
dinary to the polish of Blandford and
this long before he had accumulated
an army experience. Veterinary, too.
he was. His Journals are peppered
over with charges for the treatment
of young horses. In the account of
Eliphalet Thompson in the year 1772.
along with a "frying Pann” and “1
Pr Sizers.” is the charge. "To Setlng
jour boys risL twelve shillings.”
James Sinnott in 1785 became indebt
ed to "Setlng your knee and Dress
ings” and to "Sundri Dressings,” 4 and
3 shillings respectively.