Coquille City herald., December 28, 1897, Image 6

touched at Indian Point, Siberia. There
EXPENSIVE H O SP IT ALIT Y .
“ a good rame to a house of entertain­ see them through the key-hole. Com«
COALING A BIG STEAMER.
he found the principal native of the
ment is better than rubles.”
on!”
A
flo
u t W h o P u t U p u S ig n fo r th e
village,
Holland
by
name,
a
trailer
Co you have wondered at me—guessed in
Having delivered himself of this sen­
All three stood together for a mo
f
«
r
j
r C ru d e M e th o d » Y e t P r e v a i l —C o »t
B en efit o f Y i » i t o r » .
noted all along the coast.
vain
timent, lie spread ills hands over the ment at the ltottom of the stairway
o f th e W o r k .
<
“ Down in nearly any of the Southern
What the real woman is you know so arms of his Windsor chair and leaned There was a moment’s hesitation, while
Writing of this old trader. Dr. Jack-
AJI the »hips of the transatlantic
States,”
remarked
the
New
York
drum­
well?
son
says:
“
He
has
a
little
fnune
store­
forward with an air of awaiting sug­ the landlord and Mr. Masters adjusted
lines are coaled by practically the same
I am a lost illusion. Rome strange spell
house, tilled from floor to ceiling with mer Suudaylng in Washington, “ the
gestions. But none came.
the processiou behind Bill, who had
crude method. Barges of about 350
Once made your friend there, with his
oppression
of
hospitality,
if
I
may
so
tobacco,
flour
and
looking
glasses,
He coughed, looked at Mr. Masters, planted Ills foot on the bottom stair. At
tons capacity are brought alongside of
fine disdain
express
it,
is
something
the
Northern­
which
he
has
obtained
from
the
whal­
Of fact, conceive me perfect. He would and went on. “ There was a dear old this inopi»ortuue instant, the tall clock
the ship, tiooiiis are rigged, and by
er
has
no
idea
of.
1
have
traveled
in
ers,
and
from
which
he
supplies
the
gentleman come here, let me see, why It in the comer struck 1, with a shrill me­
fain
tackle controlled by a donkey engine
New*
England,
as
well
a»
oil
over
the
country
for
hundreds
of
miles
around.
was
as
near
ns
possible
a
year
ago.”
(But could not) see me always, as be­
tallic stroke, and Bill withdrew his foot
steel buckets are lowered to the barge,
South,
and
I
have
actual
knowledge
of
This
man
has
l**en
known
to
have
as
“ It was a year ago,” put in George.
fell
suddenly, dropping the bill-hook. It
tilled by four men with shovels, ami
much as $75,000 worth of whalebone what 1 am talking about. I never heard
His dream to sec me, plucking asphodel,
“ Well, he come here H’ll have to go fell to the red tiles of the floor, which
In saffron robes, on some celestial plain. out and kick that dog), and ‘Is this the gave back clang on clang.
in his storehouse at one time. lie does of a Yankee being eaten out of house hoistod toa projecting platform, where
All that I was he marred and flung away Deptford Road,* he says, ‘my men?*
a business of probably $100,000 a year, and home by his friends, but I know of two men dump the bucket and shovel
Aghast at this mishap, the host push­
In quest of what I was not, could not and you says, ‘Matter o’ twenty mile,
and yet not a single coin of gold, silver, a dozen families in different parts of the coal Into tlie porthole. It is then
ed his clurasy-ttngered servant back in
be—
nor a single bank note or Iwink check lie South w’ho have a continual strug­ taken by other men and stowed a wav
master, and a bad road for a lonely to his place in the corner; Mr. Masters | Greek and Roman doors always open
I.ilith, or Helen, or Antigone.
Is
used, nor are any liooks kept. All gle for existence simply because they in tin* ship's hunkers. Five and a half
traveler
to
leave
a
comfortable
public
and himself reseating themselves with j ‘‘«1 outward, and when a man was pass
Still he may search; but 1 have had ray
transactions
are by barter, furs and laven’t the courage to put up the bars of these buckets is equal to a ton, and
behind
on.’
And
he
says,
*My
horse
is
a hastily assumed appearance of genial ! big out of a house he knocked on the
day.
whalclxmes
lielng
exchanged for tobac­ uid shut out their thoughtless visitors, 1 tally by «’mint of the buckets is tlie only
at
the
gate-post
and
he'd
be
better
in
' «loor, so as uot to open It in the face of
And now the Bast is all the part for me
domesticity.
co,
flour
and
whisky.
This wholesale tv ho drop In at any and all times for a record to show how much coal the
That this world's empty stage bus left to the stable,’ and he walks In and orders
But no startled guest appearing on | a passer-by.
merchant of the north Siberian coast tneal or a night’s lodging, or both, or steamer lias taken aboard.
play.
candles aud supper.”
the stairs after ten minutes of complete
A doctor says that persons who at
can neither read nor write, nor can any palf a-dozen of them, for that matter. ! In coaling tlie steamship St. Paul of
“Did he have them?” asked the host­ silence, the procession re-formed in its tain their thirtieth year without suffer
one associated with him. Although no Of course they are just as ready to ex­ the American Line forty-eight men are
ler, breathlessly.
old order, and went up.
lug from any serious disease are likely wealthy, he lives in an ordinary tent, tend a similar courtesy, but It Isn’t employed Inside the ship. The average
He had all he ordered, and more,”
Outside the bedroom door they held —all things being equal—to live till
and sleeps on the ground on a pile of every family who can make itself even amount of coal bunkered is 3,000 tons,
said the landlord, slowly, “ but he went their breath and listened—not a sound they are at least 73 years of age.
reindeer skins.” —Washington letter tc by boarding it out, and the result Is the time required to unload and stow
on
that
night,
after
all.”
He
looked
but the ticking of the clock below, the
Past 9 o’clock, and a bitter night.
One of the most beautiful orchids Chicago Tribune.
that burdens r.re thoughtlessly thrust Is about forty hours, and the total av­
at
his
companion;
appreciated
the
rem­
rushing of the wind without, and the was recently exhibited In Loudon. 1
It was raining as It liad rained all
upon many who are kept with their erage cost o f the work is $l,noo. These
iniscence
in
the
eye
of
George,
the
moaning plaint of the dog.
flay; a gathering wind lashed the hedge­
figures, varying only with tlie coal con­
F A S C IN A T IN G PAWNSHO P.
was a white flower, shaped like a sea
noses to the grindstone ns long as they
A stealthier man than the hostler, the gull with outspread wings, and a gold
sumption of the ship, will apply to (lie
row* and the shrieking boughs o f the childlike admiration for sui>erior
live.
achievement
in
that
of
Bill,
and
pur­
F
e
w
P
e
rs
o
n
s
Can
G
o
By
W
it
h
o
u
t
a
landlord thrust a sleek hand forward
naked elms, and there was sleet In the
vessels of other transatlantic lines.
"I never knew of but one w ho had
L o o k I n ut I tit \\ in d o w .
sued; “ Yes,” lie went on, “ an’ when to grasp the latch o f the door. It was and vermilion heart. It came from
Efforts to reduce this expense have
wind.
Venezuela, and cost $5,000.
the
nerve
to
inaugurate
a
new
order
of
lie
went,
he
left
his
gold
watch
and
Few persons can pass a pawn­
unsecured, and opened a little way un­
For his own reasons. Mr. George Mas­
been productive of many Ingenious me­
things,
and
lie,
or
she
rather,
has
been
A
tortoise,
weighing
a
quarter
of
a
sneezin’-box,
and
nineteen
guineas
in
a
brokers’
window*
without
stopping
to
der Ills gentle pressure. Through the
chanical devices, and the inquiry is
ter» was avoiding the highway, pre­
ton, has been purchased for the Zoo at look In. says the New York Evening qt It so shortly that I cannot sny how
ferring instead toplunge inthodarkness red silk bag. He didn’ t want ’em foot of opening they could see the two
often raised why none of these is in
it
will
turn
out.
though
so
far
it
is
a
Loudon,
by
Mr.
Walter
Rothschild.
It
where
he
was
going.”
Sun.
It
contains
so
much
suggestive
waxen candles flame in the sockets ns
general use. The answer is given In
across the fields, falling agai. and again
This man liad a
“ Where was that?”
interest, so much that speaks of asso­ glittering success.
they burned by the sleeping man. By is sbpposed to be the oldest living crea
the statement by a representative «>f
in the ruts of sandy mud ridged with last
good
farm
and
a
raft
«>f
friends
who
tore
in
the
world,
aud
Is
known
to
have
“
Don’
t
I
tell
you?
Deptford.”
ciation and history. No parvenu prod­
their light his legs modeled themselves
one of the transatlantic lines: “ W e %
week’s snow, gray and sodden. He
lived
at
least
150
years.
It
was
men­
seemed
to
think
that
liis
house
was
They
all
laughed
gayly,
and
the
land­
ucts or things of mushroom growth,
under the white counterpane. I-Ils
have liad many offers to deliver coal
( urged through chattering teeth, as he
theirs free of cost, and used it accord­
tioned in a deed in 1810.
lord
took
out
a
stone
tiottle
and
thick
such
as
stare
at
one
from
the
windows
face and shoulders were in the deep
to our steamers at the rate of anywhere
made for the far, twinkling light of the
ingly.
His
first
w
ife
was
a
native
of
glass
rummers
from
the
corner
cup­
Fogs
on
the
ocean
or
navigable
of shops that preach the gospel of the
shadows of the faded green curtains
from 5o to 500 tons per hour, but what
* IIarc and Billet.’*
streams may be dispersed for some dis­ brand-new. Each article of the pawn­ the same count;’, and she couldn’t turn is tin* use when we cannot take care of
of the half-tester.
Pretty luck this for a inau--on board.
people
away,
though
she
and
her
lnis-
“
His
Majesty,
King
George,
wot
tance
ahead
of
a
vessel
by
means
of
a
broker’s stock-in-trade lias its reason
it inside any faster than we do now?”
At the sight of the bed the heart of
Christmas eve, too! He had spent the
ban.i both felt that they were gradual­
In a modern ship fuel must be stored
gray, gloomy afternoon lying among you’re so fond of—here’s his health, the hostler became suddenly sick with­ new invention, consisting of an arelied for being there. Its own little tragic
ly being devoured and worked to death
and
our
gracious
Queen
Charlotte,
and
distributing
pipe
with
jet
tubes
set
in
significance.
The
eloquence
o
f
the
In­
wherever room can be found that is
the soaked gorse by the road-edge, with
in him. With white lips aud shaking
for their friends. Four years ago she 1
not required or available for «fiber pur­
the sleet in his cars, and the steady long to reign over us!” George gave knees he vacated his place in the pro one side to discharge water or other animate object is never greater than
died,
and
a
year
ago
lie
married
a
the
toast,
and
they
drained
their
w’ hen in a pawnbroker’s window*.
poses. Coal cunnot lie received on
cession, and pushing paRt the landlord,
' n 8l)ra-v against the fog.
rain winning through the shag-coat and
Wedding rings, love tokens, meuals Pennsylvania w’oman of sense and board faster than It can b«* stored away
the greasy brown coat beneath it, to the glasses.
who was still poising himself at the * Combinations of linseed, peanut,
courage, and with no traditions aud
“
Giniver!”
Said
the
hostler,
and
add­
and
badges,
liow
they
set
one
to
specu­
in bunkers, which, in tlie case of a m«»d-
flannel waistcoat that sheltered his pis­
stairhead, he made his way to the room 1 raPe <)r mustard oil with sulphur form
ed tentatively, “ a man could do any­ below’. A t that moment, could their rubber-like substances which are said lating upon their past, and the why customs to observe. She said nothing ern liner, Is at tlie rate of about one
tols.
for tlie first six mouths, but went
thing
wot’s
drunk,
Giniver.”
and
wherefore
for
their
present!
Often
and one-half tons per man per hour.
Chilled to the soul, with no dry
limbs have borne them, his companions ' *°
largely used In the manufacture
ahead keeping a free hotel and listen­
“ Anything short of murder, he could,” would have followed him. They hud- !
More primitive methods prevail in
thread on him, lie had waited faithfully
ln«Ha rubber compounds. Pure, uu- one is tempted to himself settle tlieir
ing
to
compliments
on
the
superior
assented
George;
“
but
It’s
nothing
short
ports of less ini{K>rtance than those at
till 'Squire Hales’ horse-hoofs splashed
dled together in the corner of the land- j vulcanized India rubber will float, near­ future. Class pins and fraternity
kin I of a w’oman she was, and then she either end o f the Atlantic lines. In the
o’
murder
would
do
for
that
dog
o’
badges
In
the
pawnbroking
plight
are
the mud over the gorse bushes, and
ing, holding their breath and listening I !>’ submerged, in w’ater, while the oil
called for a change.
West Indies coaling is almost exclu­
then the numbed finger-tips crept un­ yourn, Tom.”
until the taproom door opened and shut; substitutes, being slightly heavier In especially suggestive, aud more espe­
"She had a comfortable competence sively done by negro women, who pour
Indeed,
the
dog’s
long-drawn
howls
cially if one be a member of the class
der the flannel waistcoat. He half rose
und they knew themselves alone with proportion to their bulk, siuk
of her own, and out of that she took In a ceaseless stream over the gang
still
disturbed
their
Christmas
festivi­
or
the
fraternity.
Unconsciously
one
among the furze ns the red roquelaure
the sleeper.
I he ivory handles of knives or other
enough to paint and enlarge the house planks. ea« li carrying about 100 pounds
went past him, to the plash of the hoof» ties. Moved by this Incongruity, the
For the terror of those strained min­ ivory articles, when yellowed or dis­ soon forms the habit of never passing a
and Improve the grounds, and in the o f coal in a basket poised on her head.
landlord
went
out
and
kicked
It.
and the jangle of the bridle-reins.
utes. it might have been the old man colored from age or other cause, should loan shop in any part of the town
A gust of wind and rain found way behind the curtains who was the am­
without stopping to see if any of liis. meantime she announced that she was
In Mediterranean ports tin* work is
But when he saw the two servants
be
thoroughly
washed
with
water
and
going to keep a hotel. O f course, while done by men instead o f * omen, but for
turn the corner, with holsters before into the room, aud Mr. Masters coughed bushed watcher.
finely powdered pumice stone, and then class pins are being held as hostage.
the
workmen
were
tearing
tilings
up,
again
violently,
and
shivered
and
There is a conscious pride at the dis­
Hie most part with the same primitive
them, he sank back into his wet nest,
The wind had lulled, and the rain. dried In the sun under glass. Accord
the visitors had to stay away, and in instruments—shovel and basket.
swore.
a prey to natural annoyance.
falling ceaselessly and silently, made Ing to the condition of the Ivory, the covery that more pins of some other this way they quit for a time.
“ Can’t you shut the door?” he asked;
The horses went on toward Shooter’s
no sound on the thatched roof. For , washing and exposure to the sun’s fraternity are in disgrace. The re­
"On tlie 1st of September last she
P r o t e c t e d by T h e ir C o lo r .
“ this ain’t no weather for a poor man
11111, and a dripping figure stood in the
awhile the dog was silent In the yard.
bleaching influence should lie repeated demption of the pins follow’s as a mat­ opened up the place, which she had
For years naturalists have been
with his living to get, and his pockets
ter of course. As many of them are
This was an old man, scant of breath, until it is white,
way they had come, shaking a helpless
as empty as the day lie was born.”
marked with the name of the owner, made very handsome, and began wait­ studying tlie part which color plays In
fist and cursing all things below the
“ Well,” said the landlord, “ our pock­ or surely his breathing could have been j The man who either shuts the door it is often possible to return them, in j ing for guests. The only Indication of protecting animals from tlieir enemies.
beetling sky. Then George Masters
l..-ar.l
In
the
dreadful
ealmness
of
the
with
a
bung
or
leaves
It
wide
open
may
which case the finder has all the j 11 hoteI ih^re ,s is an ar<’»»"a y over the Protective coloration is the technical
tramped across the strip of furze-dad ets was empty enough last Christmas ni* ht-
, soon be unable to work havoc with righteous glow* of the good Samaritan. I
here, afore that ole gentleman called.”
0,1 ^ ,e
about a quarter term which is given to such cases «>f
common and flung himself through a
The
landlord,
w
ith
his
shoulders
rais-
people’s
nerves.
Doors
can
now’
be
op­
And still no sound from the room up­
But w’liatever the result, this sort of J a In^° ^roni *be house, and on this is protection. Last November Al>lK>tt
gap In the hedge of the turnip-field. He
ed.
had
stolen
on
tip
toe
into
the
room,
ened
and
closed
automatically
by
elec-
Thayer, the artist, gave an open-air
rescue work is always interesting. I f ! a ^0111‘ ^00^ snunre sign reading:
broke into a heavy run when he saw stairs.
talk, demonstrating his theory of pro­
Hotel Bountiful.
“ There’s another purse up there this One of the candles was now guttering trielty, the circuit being closed and the Impossible to trace the owner the pins
the light from the kitchen of the “ Hare
and
flaring
preparatory
to
going
out;
!
doors
opened
by
the
pressure
by
the
night,” remarked the footpad, “ waiting
make a significant collection on their j Best Meals and Beds in the County. tective color, to naturalists gatlmred
and Billet’’ blinking before him.
the
fragment
of
the
other
burned
on
visitor’s
feet
on
the
mat.
A
fter
the
vls-
from all over the country. He placed
for them as is sportsmen enough to take
own account; when unhampered by any j Everybody Welcome.
The unfortunate footpad unhasped
three objects of about the size ami
it, as two bold lads did last Christmas witli a long, red. smoking wick, lighting itor has passed through, the doors are stubborn facts th s imagination can in- | Entertainment for Man and Beast.
the gate, and stepped forward to stand
shut
by
the
same
current,
and
left
up
the
bright
point
of
the
rusty
case-
shape o f sweet ¡iotatoes, horizontally
vent their histories to suit itself. It is 1 Trices $5 [>er Day Up.
with the host of the “ Iiare and Billet” eve.”
knife clenched in his fingers.
on wires a few Inches als>ve the
ready to open with the next visitor.
Single Meals, $1.50.
worth noting how’ few* badges of wo­
The chill wind must have made its
in one gathering puddle.
He glanced upward at the brutal fea
ground. They were covered with a
A corduroy road made of small cedar men’s societies one ever finds at the I Lodging. $2.
“ Gone by,” said Mr. Masters, bitter­ entry still felt in the room, for the land­ teres of the footpad. Their eyes met
No Reduction by the Week or Month. sticky material, and then dry earth
trees, which were in a perfect state of pawnbrokers’.
lord shivered again, and the footpad
ly. “ gone by—to Greenwich by this
with the same thought in each. It was
from tlie road where they stood was
Dogs and Children Not Admitted.
[»reservation, was unearthed the other
The times are replete with clubs and
time, likely—-with his two bloody-mind­ wiped the palms of his hands upon his the recollection of that other night,
sprinkled over them to give them the
day thirty-eight feet below* the surface
lasses and fraternities of women, j Come one. Come All.
ed serving-men behind him—a coward­ knees.
when they had stolen into that room to
i f the earth, seven miles east of Ashta­ both in college and out, but their in- j MR. AND MRS. B L A N K , Proprietors. «same color as tlieir background. The
“ And another old man,” lie said. “ I
ly, white-livered, gold-laced hound.”
rob another helpless, sleeping old man
bula. O. Prof. Carl Wright, teacher of signln, It would appear, are rarely ! “ As I said,” concluded the drummer, two end ones were then painted white
“ You’re wet, George,” said tlie land­ was the mau that did it, and 1 suppose of sleep and life.
ecology in Oberlin Colege, who has vis­ pawned. The contrast with the num- | “ I don’t know how* the scheme will re­ «>n tlie under sides, and tin* white color
lord; “ come you in under a roof.” Re­ it’ll be my job again. That dog howls
The great silence w as not to be borne.
sult, but when I was in that neighbor­ was shaded up and gradually mixed
proof of George’s bitterness of speech fit to wake the dead. I don’t like this The footpad put out liis hand and ited the spot and examined the wood, her of men’s badges that are so fated j hood ten «lays ago they hadn’t done with tie* brown of the sides. When
gave it as his opinion that the woo«l has is remarkable. Any one w’ho makes a i
was in the tone—the tone of a mau who indoors work, with doors and curtains, thrust the In milord forward by the
been where ft was found since the gla­ study o f the pawnshop windows aud i enough business to pay for the sigu. viewed from a little distance, these two
had his own dlsapoplntments to con­ aud stairs a-ereaking, and having to shoulder. He drew’ back, stumbling
the pawnbrokers themselves, indeed, j In fact, they hadn’t had a single guest, eml ones, which were white lieluw. dis­
cial epoch.
wash your hands this weather. I ’ m a
tend with.
heavily. As he recovered himself, they
will assure you of tills. The unexpect- > and I never saw two hotel proprietors appeared from sight, while the middle
man that earns his living in the open
The
London
Lancet
reports
the
re­
They came up the bricked path to the air, I am, where things is straightfor­ both sprang forward toward the bed
ed
happens when tlie badge of a wo- I as thoroughly contented and happy one stood out in strong relief, and a.p-
markable case of the killing of Major
back door and passed in under the lean- ward, and nothing can’t come creeping and tore back the old green curtains.
over the exceedingly bad business they l>eared much darker than it really was,
man
finds its way into a loan shop.
Behind these, ills poor white face Jameson by lightning in a field near
Mr. Thayer explained that terrestrial
to roof of the shed. It was quite dark, up behind you without your seeing it.”
were doing.”
Guildford
on
Aug.
25.
There
was
but
Shakapeare’s K n o w le d g e.
thrown back over the pillows, lay the
birds and mammals, which are protec­
and they moved shuffling among the
The landlord suddenly lifted the
i single flash and a clap of thunder.
QUEER STORIES.
It is not for a moment to be denied ■
tively colored, have the under parts
barrels of beer, the firewood, and farm, wooden latch of the inner door, held old man, his thin hands rigidly grasp­
The victim was found lying on his face,
hat Shakspeare’s plays show an extra-
white, or very light in color, and that
tools that covered the earth floor. The his candle above Ills head, and peered ing tlie edges of tlie sheet draw’ll up
close under his chin. They leaned over dead, with his clothing torn to frag­
dinary wealth o f varied knowledge, i Counterfeit silver dollars of greatci tlie color of tlie under parts usually
landlord raised the heavy wooden latch Into the darkness.
ments
and
scattered
widely
around
the bed and half drew back.
The writer was one of the keenest ob- | weight and fineness than those turned shades gradually into that of the up­
of the door lending to the house, and
“ No one there,” lie . aid; “and I could
"B y God! ’tis very like him,” said him. Even his undergarments were servers that ever lived. In the wood- out from Uncle Sam's mints are the per parts. This is essential in order to
they passed up the two steps into tlie have sworn that minute I heard a
rent
to
ribbons
and
scattered
over
the
and or on the farm, in the printing latest in the counterfeiter’s art, and counteract the effect of tlie shallow
,
,
,
„ , , ,
big room—kitchen and tap-room in one breath. I don’t like your talk to-night, the landlord in a w hisper.
limi l.is lmmls on the sheet | «found. Idle soles of Ids hoots were shop or tlie ale house, or up and down St. Louis is the first city to suffer from side, which otherwise, as shown by the
—and shut out tlie night and the cold.
George. Wake the dead, and washing
| stripped off, brass eyelet holes were tlie street, not the smallest detail es­ them. F o ra week St. Louis bank tell­ middle potato, makes the object abnor­
A pleasant kitchen with tiled floor of your hands indeed; nint’ it enough and pulled it back roughly.
caped him. Microscopic accuracy, cu- ers accepted thi* counterfeits in ques­ mally conspicuous, anil causes it to ap­
“ It. is him, by God!” lie cried. For, as I torn out, and nails forced from their
and a comforting mass of red coals
ious interest in all things, unlimited tion without hesitation. It was only pear much darker than it really it. This
he pulled back the sheet, the last can- i places.
glowing in an iron basket sticking out
He stopped abruptly to pour out more
tower of assimilating knowledge, are when they reached the St. Louis sut- device of nature is operative through­
die flared up aud died down and went i
of the wall. A kitchen with blackened spirit.
California Ostrich Farm.
out. Its last light shone on the sleeper’s
settles, long benches, anl tables ringed
Ostrich-farming is one of the most in­ very where shown in the plays. These treasury that the spurious character out the animal kingdom, tlie marine
“ Oh. let him talk, master,” cried the
world offering scarcely any exception
with many ale-cans. A quiet kitchen hostler, “ it puts heart into n man, it do throat, gashed across—horribly gaping | teresting of California’s variety of in­ are some of the marks of what we call was detected.
A Winsted (Conn.) man met a girl to its universality.
—red and wet. This was no stranger, dustries. Alnnit twelve years ago Ed­ genius, something that we are far from
where only one man was, and lie, the — talking over old times.”
mprehending, but which experience and was married to her an hour and a '
hostler, in the big arm-chair asleep.
George chuckled grimly, and when lie but tlie man they had murdered a year win Cawston brought over a cargo of
Imitation in Suicide.
The landlord roused him with his had drained his glass, he said cheer­ ago; they liad left him just so last forty-two ostriches from South Africa. has shown that books and universities half later in order to fulfill the condi­
The power of example is perpetually
annot impart. All the colleges on earth tions of liis uncle’s will and come into
Christmas morning.
foot, and he sat uj»t rubbing a beery eye fully :
They thrived on his Norwalk and Pasa
being demonstrated. It is a peculiar
•ould not by combined effort make the possession of $5,000.
There was a heavy fall on the floor deim ranches, and now the proprietor
with a clii 1 blninod fist.
“ Ay, that does it. It all comes back
“ Mr. George is coming in here to to me. It was him as held the light by in the dark, and someone rushed to the lias over three hundred native birds kind of man we call a genius, but such
A tramp wearing a shiny silk hat fact, but om* well within the knowl­
and is increasing Ids “ troop” at the a man may at any moment be l>orn into was one of the sights in Portland the edge of railroad officials, that no sooner
sleep to-night, Bill.” said the landlord. the door, when I run in; and It was me stair, screaming loudly.
is one person found killed u|M>n the
The dog in the yard whined with rate of about oue hundred chicks year­ he world, and it is as likely to be in a other day.
“ I take It his majesty the king won’t as---- He bled very free, he did, very
line than other similar fatalities may
pleasure to hear a human voice, and ly. An average ostrich weighs about »easaut’s cottage as anywhere.
trouble a poor fellow a Christmas eve. f i ee.”
It is estimated that a single brewery I h * expected at the same sj>ot. More
There Is nothing in which men differ I
Hot him some ale—a quart of ale—and I “ Yes. I held the light, though much then once more there was the silence two li und red and fifty pounds and
in Munich makes $34,000 a year extra
stands seven feet high. Every few more widely than in the capacity for ! by selling foam instead of beer on tlie especially does this apply to places
spread his coat over that chair-back— i against my wish, mind .you—thank of deatli in tlie "Hare and Billet.”
where are found the lxxlies of persons
imbibing
and
assimilating
knowledge
!
months
the
“ripe”
wing
and
tail-feath­
main wet and main dry, Mr. George be. I Them as be.’’ said tin* landlord, regard-
mysteriously killed. At one place on a
The capacity is often exercised uncon- I top of each glass.
I take It.”
In the red haze of early Christmas ers of tlie mature birds are plucked or
| ing his grimy fingers with satisfaction;
It
cost
tlie
city
of
Bridgeport,
Conn.,
certain line no lens than four people
solously. When my eldest son, at the j
“ He’ll sleep in his chair, then,” re­ “ thank Them as be, my hands Is morning, the hostler came up the sod­ cut. without any pain or discomfort be­
$50
the
other
day
when
a
Hungarian
were found within twelve months- all
den lane, and with him, plashing in ing caused to the birds. The feathers age of (1. was In the course of a few girl tried to mail a letter in a fire-
turned the hostler. “ There's a man clea n.”
within ten yards of the death place of
weeks of daily instruction taught to |
above us now, in the bed, a real gentle­
“ They won’ t be clean long. then. It’s the white water of the cart-ruts, walk­ are variously disposed of in single read, it was suddenly discovered that j alarm box.
the first person killed there, ami all
man he Is, with his sword and his rook- me what holds the light to-night,” said ed the village constable and the bell­ plumes, tips. boas. ca]>es, collars, etc.
having ended their lives with almost
ringers, who had adjourned from East While the great bulk of the product his 4-year-ol(l brother also could read. I The average price of a cashmere goat
lay—come in when you was out. when George, firmly, and lie took tin* eandl
similar Injuries, inflicted by th«* engine
Wickham belfry to drink in Christmas goes to the wholesale trade, the os­ Nobody could tell how it happened. Of | or sheep is about $1,000. About tivi
the heavy rain come on. 1 showed him ! and walked to tin* foot of tin* stair,
nurse the younger boy must have tak­ IHHiuds of wool are needed for an en- of the same express. From instances
at the "Old Fox.” Marching with them trich-farmers carry on quite a retail
up to the bedroom and kindled the tire,
“ Not a sound,” he said.
of this kind railroad officials have ar­
en keen notice of what the elder one j tire Cashmere shawl.
and he lies there, burning two of the
The landlord had risen -the shock- were the unsteady white gaiters of two business for the accommodation of was doing, but the process went on
their patrons. The ranches, reached
I Corrosive water is a common source rived at the conclusion that, whenever
big wax caudles; and If he don’ t drink headed man shifted his big shoulder on I Grenadiers furloughing in the village.
without attracting attention until the j of trouble in metal mines. Its effect tin* first person is killed at any place.
A wet and miserable do; who drag by electric car from Los Angeles, are a
the bottle of claret, it’s opened, and w ill the bench where he lay, and the ex­
result appeared.—Atlantic.
I on iron, curiously enough, is greater It immediately becomes a point «>f at-
have to be paid for. too. Terry don’ t pression rose in Ills face of a terrier god a broken chain, leaped forward in Mecca for tourists. There Is a protec
W h e r e W e A r e P o p u la r .
when it simply drips on the metal than tractilon to morbid-minded j>ersott» in
like him. Terry don’ t; hear to him howl­ awaiting with eager nose the rush from delight at their coming, and through live Import duty of 20 per cent, on os­
"There are two s|K»ts on the glot* "lieu the Iron Is immersed in it. A the locality, who seek it out for tlie
ing he’tli whined like that ever sin’ cover of Ids first rat.
| the unlatched door the party poured trich feathers, and under its beneficent
purpose «>f suicide; and now when any
the old gentleman come. Hark to ’mi
“ If,” said he, hesitatingly—“ If it I into tlie house. A Grenadier drew ids influence this “ Infant industry” is where I found the United States to I k * 12 pound Iron rail has been cut ill two two persons have lx*en found in suc­
again, now’ the w ind’s quiet.
•oines to that, you can both hold the j bayonet, and tramped upstairs like a thriving so well that It Is only a matter t he most idolized nation on earth." said ' in a few weeks by drops of water l:tU- cession at one place it is a common
hllip Lowden. a traveler from Syd­ ing off it.
The mongrel fastened by the front | light—sooner than see them guineas I h > 1(1 man. and the crowd hustled one of time before California will I k * able
practice to have the spot watched.
to compete successfully with African ney, N. S. \V., to a Washington Post
door was baying howl upon howl. A should get up and ride off in the morn another to follow him
The latest charge against electric
IM
'SI
bedroom
the
landlord
Inv
I
prodm-er»
for
the
entile
Amerlean
mar-
In th
kick at the panel, and a command to ing. 1 know a young man what would
man.
railroads is that in many places where
M a d e H im F a in t H e a r te d .
“ lie down” from the landlord, appeared hr lief hold a bill-hook as a candle any dcadou the floor dead beside the white I ket. That this market Is a valuable
"On my way to America I stopped they run near the coast they disturb
A burglar had entered a house as
j
one
is
shown
by
the
fact
that
the
Uni-
to soothe him for the moment, but Hie day of t lie week.”
j counterpane and impressed pillows of
some days at Samoa and also at Hono­ tlie working of sub-marine electric ca­ quietly as possible, but his shoes were
long whines son broke out again. The
And lie looked so savage that the ! an empty bed. Something wrong with j ted Stat«»s now annually consumes lulu. In both countries tlie feeling to­ bles. The electric street railway in not padded, and he made some noise.
about
thirty
millions
of
«lollars’
worth
dog walled to the wind, which answer­ landlord was unaffectedly shocked. his heart, folk said
ward the Yaukee race is of the warm­ Cape Town. Africa, says the Electrical
feathers. - San est character. In Samoa the people Engineer, has affected seriously the He had just reached the door of a bed­
ed with fierce gusts of passion, and But George came back to the table for
By the gate of the straw yard tin* ton- of inqiorted ostrich
room when he heard someone moving
hurtling of sleet Against the lattice another dram, and after It had been stable picked up a brass-barreled pis­ Franoisco Argonaut.
hate the Germans with absolute detes­ efth iem y of the siphon recorder of tiie within, as if about to get up. ami he
panes. When the dog was silent for a tendered him, remarked that that tol: and wanderlug about on tin* wet
tation. as they have never forgotten or sub-marine cable of the Eastern ami paused.
Bones o f a Mastodon.
while and the wind [mused to gather It young man would not want for a hack­ straw* they found a man with cropped
The Itone* of a prehistoric monster forgiven tlieir I huh bard ment by the j South African Telegraph Company.
Then a woman’s voice said " I f you
•elf for new etTort, the rain pattered er. Then he knocked the damp prim­ black hair ami a heavy Jowl, who gib­ have l**eu «11 »covered on a large farm German war vessels. In* Honolulu I
.lon’t take off your boots when you
gently, the clock ticked to the chorus ing out of ids pistol on the table edge bered and said lie was his Sacred alKUit a mile south of Batavia. While strongly suspect that the extravagant
M o r e P r e c io u s th a n G o ld .
L*onie Into the house there’s going to be
o f a choir of crickets and East Wick and filled the pan.
At last. After many dangers, she had trouble, and a lot of it! Here it’s lw»en
Majesty. King George, and God bl«*s«< Philip and George Baker, dairymen, protestations of affection toward this
ham’s belfry Jangled in the distance.
" I ’ll Just listen once again, if so be him. San Francisco Argonaut.
were digging a grave for a «lead horse, country are based on the «lesire for an bra veil the terrors of the Chilkoot pass raining for three hours, ami you dare
The men In the kitchen were sitting lie’s soundly off." and lie disappeared
at a depth of about three feet the nexatioti. The controlling element is and had rejoined her lover on tin* Klon­ to tramp «>ver my carpets with your
in the shadow, of an idea.
cautiously up the w inding stairs, turn­
A Peculiar Combination.
shovel struck an obstruction which, on simply crazy to l>e annexed to the Unit dike.
nimbly boots on! Go downstairs ami
“ He don’t seem to be moving.” said ing back to add: “ and don't any of you
“ Are you glad to s«*e me?" she asked. take them off this minute! Besides, you
Of all tiie peculiar combinations l being pried up with a rail, was broken. ed States.
the hostler, breaking the silence. "H e ’s come creeping up ttelilnd me, for I don't ever hear«l of. or read of. there is one
“
Do
you
still
think
that
1
am
worth
my
It turned out to be an Ivory tusk in
1 thought that if 1 lived there I
ought to be ashamed of yourself, leav­
not awake now, for sure.”
I like It.”
in Baltimore that I think surpasses any. a splendid state o f preservation. A would feel the same way. Undoubted­ weight in gold?”
ing your wife alone until this late
"In
gold?”
lie
crie«l
contemptuously,
The others looked at him with sud­ j The other two look »si an v where but says a traveler. The location is on East portion of the tusk Is of the consistency ly it will 1 k * a great thing for the Ha­
hour!”
as
he
folded
her
to
bis
frozen
bosom.
den Interest, a s if the presence upstairs ! at each other, without speaking. There Baltimore street. On the corner of the of chalk. One end o f it, however, was waiian* to come under the protection
He went downstairs without a word,
"M
y
darling,
you
are
worth
your
had passed from their thoughts.
was no sound from above after the street is a drug store, next is a doctor’s not injured, and was o f solhl ivory. It of the ‘Stars a ml Stripes.' While it may
but he did not take off his boots. In­
weight
in
hash.”
‘T h ere’s a purse alsive stairs. I make stairs had ceased to creak under th«* office. Two doors distant is an under­ Is five feet in length, about five inches be a good thing for your country to ap-
stead. he went straight out into rhe
no doubt, and a gold sneezin’ ts»x up footpad's weight.
Outside the dog taker’s place of business and the third in diameter at the wbleat end. and at proprlate the islands, the benefits are
night again, ami the “ pal” who was
S
w
a
llo
w
F
a
s
t
e
r
th
a
n
P
ig
e
o
n
.
there, as’ll keep awake, if they’ ve any howled, a long, low baying that never house away is a livery stable which the point about two ami a half inches, 100 to 1 greater on the other side.”
waiting for him saw a tear glisten in
Some
time
ago
the
experiment
wax
sense.” Bill went on, grinuing at the ceased.
makes a specialty «>f supplying funerals i A portion o f a rib. about 36 Inch«*» long.
his eye.
On
th
e
S
a
fe
Sid
e.
made
of
letting
loose
at
Compeigne
a
subtlety and success of his conversa­
The hostler fetched a bill-hook from with hearses ami earring«*». Adjoining was also found. Dr. K. K. Snow, who
“ I can’t rob that house,” he said; "it
Smith—V/hat do you think of that swallow belonging to Antwerp in com­
tion, but not looking at his compan­ the lean to shed and employed the time the stable is a dissecting room, the has traveled extensively in Africa, pro­
reminds
me of home.”
singer’s
high
note?
pany
with
a
number
of
pigeons.
The
ions.
In taking off his Imota. A fter a glance property of one o f the medh’al «*«>1 leges. nounce«! the tusk that o f a mastodon.—
Jones—
I
can't
indorse
it.
swallow
immediately
made
a
bee-line
“ There’s something I don’t like. Wil- at the other, he sat down with the bill­ A lialf block away 1» an abandoned Hchuitlfic American.
W h e r e D o t h e N e e d le s G o?
churchyard, with some of the grave
ftitn,” Mr. Masters remarked, "aliout hook hidden by Ills coat-flap.
It would be a good Idea for some peo­ for home ami arrived there in one
A German paper calls attention to th«
Rich M e r c h a n t o f t h e A r c t i c .
hour,
while
the
pigeons
re«|uired
three
old gentlemen's purses.”
ple to hold their tongues occasionally
Both men started at the first creak stones still in sight. Should the doctor
extraor«1lnary fact that In Aachen (Alx
Up near the ar«^dc circle lives an old
“ J wouldn't like.’’ put In the landlord, of the stair.
and give theli brains a chance to catch hour«.—Philadelphia Ledger.
and druggist start the pnvcesslon. a
la Chapelle) alone R00 tons of steel w i l l
man who Is very rich, and yet never
apparently addressing a pewter meas
George stood at the stair-foot, blink­ victim would have easy sailing the rest sees a dollar, or any kind of money, or op
_________________
Is used up annually In the manufac­
T h e E v e r P r e s e n t Q u estion .
ore, “ an ole gentleman to lose his purse ing in the sudden light.
o f the war.
First Cyclist—Oh. you wouldn't Ilk« ture of needles—4.590.000.000 In num­
A woman can strike a harder blow
representative of money. Dr. Sheldon
here. Gives the house a bad nam e-
“ He's a sleeping like the dead,” he
ber. valned at $1.500.000. And It aga!n
Jackson of the bureau o f education for with her tongue than she can with her Jobson: he*s got a wheel In his heat..
that sort of thing and a good name,** whispered.
“ Can't even bear him
Talk Is cheap and the t»arber always Alaska, on board the Bear, recently
Second Cyclist—What make?—Judge asks the old question. “What become«
Jfct continued, facing hla subordinate— breathe. Hie caudle* 1« burning yet; 1 supplies U at cut rates.
of all the needles In the world?“
HER E X PL A NA TIO N.
ÍY Í ' '
T H E S I L E N T GUEST.
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fla