Corvallis gazette., August 17, 1900, Image 4

MINING NEWS OF
BIG PLANT FOR HECLA.
Twenty Drill Compressor and Large
Hoist Oolite In.
Burke, Idaho, August 9. The Ilecla
mine, near here, on Canyon creek, iu
the Coeur d'Alenes, which reently paid
its first dividend of $20,000, has under
way extensive improvements. The
company is putting in a plant for its
eventual operation at 2,500 feet depth.
This plant would include two 400-horse
power boilers a compressor plant with
a capacity of 20 drills and a hoist that
could operate the mine to the 2500-foot
level The installation of these im
provements has been under way for
some time. The large buildings for
the reception of the plant are practical
:y completed the boilers and compressor
are on the ground and the work of put
ting them in place is going on rapidly.
It is expected that the entire new
plant will be in operation by Septem
bei I. In the meantime the work of
developing the mine is going forward
rapidly and about 1,000 tons of concen
trates a month are being shipped. The
mvin shaft in which the big hoist will
be operated is to be sunk to the full
L',500 feet, though operations will not
be confined to this work. The ore bod
ies will be opened and mined at the
successive levels as depth is attained.
TO OPERATE THE HEADLIGHT.
Cocur d'Alene Property or Remarkable
Promise to Be Worked.
Wallace, Idaho, August 9. The Head
light Mining Company will soon let a
contract for the running of a GOO-l'oot
crosscut tunnel to tap its vein 400 feet
below the surface. The property lies
immediately west of the Mammoth and
covers the same vein. It will be
opened by a crosscut tunnel half way
up the mountain side from Canyon
creek to the cropping of the ledge, cut
ting about 1,500 feet west of the Mam
moth where there is a blow-out, indi
cating ore below. No work of conse
quence has ever been done on it, al
though ore has been found near the sur
face in two or three different places.
It has been held for years by some pros
pectors who were not w illing to part
with it at any price which mining men
were willing to pay.
Iowa Capital In Hoodoo.
Palouse, Wash., August 9. W. J.
Springer, of New Hampton, la., writes
'from there that he has secured capital
to work the Blue Bird and eight claims
in the Hoodoo district. He has em
ployed M. W. Truax as manager of the
mine and authorized him to begin work
at once and push development.
Mr. Truax put a double shift to
work and the property will be
thoroughly developed. The Blue Bird
is a copper property showing high
values, and now that capital has been
secured to develop it is expected to be
come a valuable producer.
James Malone reports a rich strike
in the Elk creek disrict in Idaho on
Breakfast creek. The rock carries good
values in gold and copper.
STRIKE ON SILVER MOUNTAIN.
Another "Mere Chance Fortune Stum
bled Onto in Canada.
Spokane, August 9. The Thompson
boys have made a good strike on the
Silver Mountain claims, in the Slocan
district. After long prospecting, Russ
Thompson stumbled upon a very line
looking ledge. This was exploited
further with the result that one of the
finest surface showings of galena ore
ever shown in the camp was uncovered.
It is from six to 18 inches across and
chunks of ore weighing hundreds of
pounds cm be taken ont with a p ick.
Three claims are embraced in the
group, the Sinfi, Atwood and World.
PRESTON PEAK COPPER MINE.
Devolepment Work Is Being rushed on
That Property.
Ashland, Or. August 9. The Ash
land Tidings says that Schoonover &
Young, New York capitalists, repre
sented by Henry Phillips, have spent
$150,000 in the development of the
Preston Teak copper mines. Work is
being pushed on a 200-foot drift. The
rock is very hard. Some of the ore as
says 22 per cent in copper, $4 in gold
and a trace in sulphur.
OREGON WONDER TO START.
Contract to Run a Tnnnel Will Be Let
at Once. .
Prairie City, Or., August 9. P. J.
Morey and Elmer Cleaver have gone to
the Oregon Wonder mine and will at
once let a contract tor running 300 feet
of tunnel on the mine, to be completed
with all possible haste.
New Company at Wallace.
Wallace, Idaho, August 9. The
Cathella Mining and Milling Company
has filed articles of incorporation at
Wallace. G. A. Cunningham, Patrick
Sullivan, Adam O'Donnell, J. W.
Weyer and Joseph F. Whelan are the
incorporators and directors. Wallace
is the principal place of business and
the capital stock of $50,000 is divided
into 1,000,000 shares.
Klondike Gold Shipments.
Seattle. August 9. Gold shipments
through Skagway from the great Klon
dike camp to the outside world this
season have reached in round numbers
more than $7,000,000.
BRIGHT CARBONATE MINE.
Property In the Greenhorn District That
Looks Good.
Pendleton, Or., August 9. Parties
from the Bright Carbonate, located in
the Greenhorn mountains, near Law
ton, and owned by George Darveaux,
Hemy Kopittke, Frank Dnprat, John
Siebert and others, of Pendleton, re
port a rich strike in that mine in the
face of the 160-foot tunnel. The vein
has been penetrated 2i feet and shows
high values.
Hidas Mine at Elk Cit v.
Boise, Idaho, August 9. Jesse
Coulter has returned from a trip to the
property of the Midas Gold Mining
Company at Dixie, 26 miles from Elk
City, Idaho. Eleven men are at work,
and Mr. Coalter reports that the prop
erty is looking fine. v
In the Summit Oistrict.
Seattle, August 9. A number of lo
cations are being made in the Summit
district, on the Cascades. The numer
ous discoveries in that district are ex
citing lively interest in the Yakima
valley.
NEARBY STATES
SLOCAN IS ON THE JUMP.
Nearly All the Mines Are Attain Ship
ping Ore.
Sandon, B. C, August 9. Nerly all
the mines around Sandon are shipping
again. The Idaho sent out 500 tons in
i July of high grade ore, and will do bet
: ter in August.
The Payne shipped about 1.200 tons
I in July, and has paid its quarterly
; dividend of 3 per cent. The Truth,
! Queen Bess, Whitewater, Slocan .Star
and liambler-Cai iboo are regular ship
pers. The Ruth mill in Sandon is running
double shift and the company is put
ting in two more Whifley tables, these
doing bettei work than the round
tables. It is shipping about 200 tons
of good grade concentrates per month.
Sandon is building up rapidly. About
900 men are on pay rolls in and around
Sandon.
PLANS FOR GOLDEN ZONE.
Capacity Will Soon Be 10O Tons of Ore
Dally.
Loomis, Wash., August 9. At the
Golden Zone plans have been com
pleted for increasing the capacity of
the mill to 100 tons dailv. The neces-
j sary machinery has been ordered and
the work of adding to the present mill
j structure for its accomodation begins
at once. The Golden Zone is so
' thoroughly opened up that it will be
j able to supply the daily mill run with
a minimum force. Continuous devel-
opment of the ore bodies will go stead
I ily forward though there is more than
; 100,000 tons of ore in sight.
The management proposes to increase
the capacity of the mill from its profits
until it can treat 500 tons daily. That
a mine of this character could in three
years be brought to such a high stage
of development, show quantities of ore
and be scarcely known outside of the
district tells the story of the quality of
work being done at a dozen properties
in the Palmer Mountain district. Mill
runs up to date havs averaged about
$10 per ton, and this is probably a
good average of the mine.
Silver King Again Going.
Seattle, August 9. Captain (iifford,
who has been appointed mine manager
of the reorganized Hall Mining and
Smelting Company, proposes to justify
the faith which he has had in the Sil
ver King as one of the great mines of
British Columbia. He has an exten
sive programme of development mapped
out and within a short time he expects
to have 500 men at work in the com
pany's property. A small force will
go to the mine and get things in shape.
Electric power instead of steam power
may operate the mine machinery and
possibly the smelter.
Kellam's Camp Is Next.
Helena, Mont., August 9. W. Kel
lam and J. D. Bone, two Montana pros
pectors, own a group of six claims on
the eastern slope of Eureka mountain,
two and one half miles from Grand
Forks, B. C, that are attracting con
siderable attention, and are regarded as
of considerable promise. There is a
well-defined quartz ledge on the La
conia. It averages about 20 inches
wide. A shaft has 1'een sunk to a
depth of 25 feet. The foot wall is in
granite. Assay returns gave small
values in gold and copper and it is ex
pected that they will improve with
depth.
FAMOUS MONUMENTAL MINE.
Likely to Start Up With a Good Foree
of Men.
Baker City, Or. August 9. It is
currently reported that the once famous
Monumental mine, eight miles north
of Granite, now idle for five years, is
to be started up shortly with a force of
100 men. C. S. Miller, the principal
owner of this property, will neither
confirm nor deny the report.
Northwest Notes.
John P. Yollmer is erecting a large
grain warehouse at Genessee, Idaho.
A hail storm is reported to have shat
tered 5,000 bushels of grain near Ox
ford, Idaho.
The people of Genessee, Idaho, have
asked for a special election to vote on
the subject of a waterworks system.
Forest fires are still raging in the
White Pine district, Idaho, although a
large force of men is at work trying to
check the flames.
B. Gieda, a sheepman of Condon,
Or., died recently in Texas, from con
sumption. He leaves considerable
property.
The O. R. & N. Co.'s gang of track
layers has completed its job of putting
down heav v rails on the branch from
La Grande to Elgin, Or.
The Albany, Or., ice factory, al
though running night and day, is un
able to supply the demand, and a car
load of ice was brought up from Oregon
City on the 5th.
The Toledo, Or., Leader reports a
sample of "pieplant" or rhubarb,
grown in that town, whose leaf is 21
feet in circumference, and whose stalk
is seven inches in diameter.
Forest fires are raging near Medical
Lake, Wash.
Colfax, Wash., is threatened with a
water famine.
Ex-Senator Warner Miller, of New
York, was recently in Spokane. He
is said to be considering Kettle Falls,
with a view to transmitting elect lie
power to Republic.
There are 200,000 sheep in Wallowa
county, Oregon.
An unknown man committed suicide
in a variety theater at Spokane the
night of August 4. There was nothing
in his clothing to identify him, and
his body lay all day in an undertaker's
without being recognized.
Largely as a result of the vigilant
crusade against owners of unlicensed
bicycles, instituted by the president of
the Tacoma Wheelmen's Association
and carried on by the police depart
ment, the city treasurer has issued
4,255 licenses to date. It is believed
the 5,000 mark will be reached before
the year is out.
One salmon cannery at Fairhaven,
Wash., has received 85.000 fish two
days in succession.
J. D. Barnett, of Ritzville, Wash.,
lost 300 sacks ot wheat, his barn and
gome fencing last Wednesday by fire.
BUYING FOR FALL TRADE.
An Immense Business In Steel Reported
from tile West.
Bradstreet's eavs: Trade is still ex
hibiting many of the irregularities in
cident to the transition period between
mid-summer and early fall trade. De
spite the hot wave, with its effect on
the growing distributive demand, and
also because o' the reports of damage to
the corn crop which it has incited, a
more cheerful feeling is perceptible in
general trade, and the booking of fall
orders for dry goods, clothing and hard
ware at leading Western centers, and
heavy engagements in iron and eteel
products, though at lower prices, are
of encouraging proportions. Prices are
not snowing the precipitate declines
noted some time ago, and among the
really encouraging features is the ad
vance iu wheat, mainly based on im
proved export inquiry.
Wool is rather firmer than of late
because of the better inquiry, though it
must be admitted that this steadiness
is somewhat at the expense of new
business.
Cotton goods partake of the strength
of raw material, and while weakness is
still perceptible, brown cottons, print
cloths and wide sheetings, the natural
corrective of reduced production, are
being increasignly sought.
While the dry goods demand as a
whole is still classed as backward for
the season, hot weather is credited with
some of the responsibility and trade at
titude as a rule is one of hopeful ex
pectancy. An immense business in steel pro
ducts is reported booked at Pittsburg
and Chicago, and steel bars are really
firmer with an advance of $4 per ton
announced bv Western manufacturers
who have sold their output up to the
close of the year.
Failures for the week were 177 in
the United States, against 136 last
year, an'l 23 in Canada, against 29 last
year.
PACIFIC COAST TRADE.
Seattle Markets.
Onions, new, 1 )ic.
Lettuce, hot house, $1 per crate.
Potatoes, new. $15.
Beets, per sack, 85c$l.
Turnips, per sack, 75c.
Carrots, per sack, $1.00
Parsnips, per sack, $1.35.
Cauliflower, native, 75c.
Cucumbers 10 20c.
Cabbage, native and California,
2c per pounds.
Tomatoes 40 (3 50".
Butter Creamery, 25c; Eastern 22c;
dairy, 15 1 8c; ranch, 14c pound.
Eggs 24c.
Cheese 12c.
Poultry 14c; -dressed, 1415c;
spring, $3.50.
Hay Puget Pound timothy, $11.00
12.00; choice Eastern Washington
timothy, $16.00.
Corn Whole, $23.00; cracked, $25;
feed meal, $25.
Barley Rolled or ground, per ton,
$20.
Flour Patent, per barrel, $3.50;
blended straights, $3.26; California,
$3.25; buckwheat flour, $6.00; gra
ham, per barrel, $3.00; whole wheat
Hour, $3.00; rye flour, $3.804.00.
Millstuffs Bran, per ton, $12.00;
shorts, per ton, $14.00.
Feed Chopped feed, $19.00 per ton;
middlings, per ton, $20; oil cake meal,
per ton, $30.00.
Fresh Meats Choice dressed beef
steers, price 1c cows, 7c; mutton
7a; pork, 8c; trimmed, 9c; veal, 9
11c.
Hams Large, 13c; small, 13 H;
breakfast bacon, 12c; dry salt sides,
8c.
Portland Market.
Wheat Walla Walla. 55c;
Valley, 55c; Bluestem, 58c per bushel.
Flour Best grades, $3.10; graham,
$2.50; superfine, $2.10 per barrel.
Oats Choice white, 87c; choice
gray, 35c per bushel.
Barley Feed barley, $14.00 15.00;
brewing, $16.00 per ton.
Millstuffs Bran, $13.00 ton; mid
dlings, $20; shorts, $14; chop, $15 pei
ton.
Hay Timothy, $1112; clover,$7
7.50; Oregon wild hay, $6 7 per ton.
Butter Fancy creamery, 45 50c;
store, 27c.
Eggs 17c per dozen.
Cheese Oregon full cream, 13c;
Young America, 14c; new cheese 10c
per pound.
Poultry Chickens, mixed, $3.00
3.50 per dozen; hens, $5.00; springs,
$2.504.00; geese, $4.005.00 forold;
$4.506.50; ducks, $3.004.00 per
dozen; turkeys, live, 16 17c per
pound.
Potatoes 40 50c per sack; sweets,
2 2 i c per pouna .
Vegetables Beets, $1; turnips, 75c;
per sack; garlic, 7c per pound; cab
bage, 2c per pound; parsnips, $1;
onions, 1 c per pound; carrots, 90c.
Hops 2 8c per pound.
Wool Valley, 16 16c per pound;
Eastern Oregon, 15 16c; mohair, 25
per pound.
Mutton Gross, best sheep, wethers
and ewes, 3c; dressed mutton, 7
7)aC per pound; lambs, 5jac.
Hogs Gross, choice heavy, $5.00;
light and feeders, $4.50; dressed,
$5.006.50 per 100 pounds.
Beef Gross, top steers, $4.00 4. 50;
cows, $3.504.00; dressed beef, 6,l
7 o per pound.
Veal Large, 647c; small, 8
8c per pound.
San Francisco Market.
Wool Spring Nevada, llI3cpei
pound; Eastern Oregon, 1014c; Val
ley, 16lBc; Northern, 9 10c.
Hops 1899 crop, ll18o pel
pound.
Butter Fancy creamery 2222c;
do seconds, 21 21c; fancy dairy,
19c; do seconds, 16 18c per pound.
Eggs Store, 17c; fancy ranch,
22c.
Millstuffs Middlings, $17.00
20.00; bran, $12.5013.50.
Hay Wheat $8 12; wheat and
oat $8.00 11.00; best barley $8.50
alfalfa, $6.00 7.50 per ton; straw,
i537Mc per bale.
Potatoes Early Rose, 80 75c; Ore
gon Burbanks, 90c $1; river Bur
banks, 30 85c; new. llc.
Citrus Fruit Oranges, Valencia,
$2. 75 3.25; Mexican limes, $4.00
5.00; California lemons 75c$1.50;
do choice $1.752.00 per box.
Tropical Fruits Bananas, $1.60
2.50 per bunch; pineapples, nom
inal; Persian dates, 66o per
pound.
DISPENSED WITH A BLACKSMITH
How Arizona Cowboys Punched Holes
in a Wagon Tire.
''Up at my camp near the Four
Peaks," told Jim Bark, the well-known
cattleman, "the boys are all handy
with a rifle. We've a lot of guns up
there. The old-fashioned black-powder
Winchester has been discarded and
nothing but the best goes. Most of the
new guns were bought during the
Spanish war, when we would experi
ment all day with tree trunks and
rough trenches, learning the art of war
at home. We found that a bullet from
one of the new Winchesters, driven by
smokeless powder, was good for four
feet and more of pine timber, and for
more than an inch of iron. I thought
the boys had done about everything in
the shooting line that could be done
long ago. but I was mistaken.
"I sent them up a wagon. In hauling
down some firewood they broke the
bolsters all to flinders. The bolsters
held up the wagon bed. you know. Well,
the boys figured out all right the re
building of the wooden parts, but came
near being stumped on the iron fixings.
They got some old Iron wagon tires and
cut them in proper lengths, but hadn't
a way that they could see to punch the
necessary bolt holes. Finally the ques
tion was solved. One of the boys care
fully marked the places for the bolts,
stood the piece of tire against a tree
and put a bullet. .30 caliber, through
the tire at each place marked. It was a
novel sort of blacksmith ing, but It
worked." Arizona Graphic.
THEIR DRINK IS MADDENING.
Native Tipple of the Filipinos Is a Hor
rible Concoction.
TVie effect of the so-called American
saloon on the Filipinos is not nearly as
bad as the effect of Filipino liquor on
American soldiers. In fact, the former
Is distinctly superior to the latter, since
American liquors do not produce mad
ness. George Hobart, a regular army
man, who has just returned from Ma
nila to his home at Indianapolis, says
of the Filipino booze: "It Is not heat
that is driving the soldiers crazy. It's
Just simply 'beno.' Absinthe is not
in the same class. It looks like water
and tastes like licorice." he says, "and
when the boys can't get beer or whisky
they buy 'beno' from the natives. It
takes a pint of it to make a drinking
man drunk. The third or fourth con
secutive drunk makes a blooming idiot
out of the victim. The soldiers crave
it after they have once tasted it. Out
on the lines the boys never get beer or
whisky and when the natives sneak
this "beno' into camp the fellows buy it.
"Iu the s'outheru islands, where the
demand is not so great, the natives
sell it for 3 cents a canteenful, but
around Manila the demand is so great
that the price has been raised to 50
:-ents. After a man drinks about a pint
of the stuff lie begins to get silly, but
he recovers In a day or two. Then he
will want more of it and if he can't
get It he will go mad. Then the offi
cers have to shackle him and he is sent
to the hospital for the insane at Wash
ington. They tell me that the poor
fellows who have been taken there will
never get well." Omaha Bee.
NOTHING IF NOT REALISTIC.
Wbat the Present School of Writers
Appear to Be Aiming At.
The russet sparrow sat on the roof
and blinked at the setting sun. Afar
down the alley a lone ragman drove his
chariot slowly along and chanted his
plaintive lay. The wind moaned through
the chimney pots, the red sun looked
dimly down through the smoke and the
russet sparrow sat on the roof and
blinked at the setting sun.
The russet sparrow sat on the roof
and blinked at the setting sun. Sadly
the stray policeman in the gray dis
tance swiped an orange from the bar
row of a passing coster and peeled it
with a grimy hand. He was thinking,
thinking. And the dead leaves still
chokedthe tin spout above the rain
water barrel in the backyard.
The russet sparrow sat on the roof
and blinked at the setting sun. Adown
the gutters in the lonely street ran
murky puddles on their long, long jour
ney toward the distant sea. Borne on
the wings of the sluggish breeze came
a far-off murmur of vagrant dogs in
fierce contention and life was hollow
mockery to the homeless eat.
And the russet sparrow sat on the
roof and blinked at the setting sun.
London Answers.
Coughs.
Every person who coughs should not
alarm himself with the idea that he le
In a bad way. Experience has con
vinced us of a fact that there are two
distinct kinds of coughs one proceed
ing from an affection of the lungs and
air tubes, as in a cold, the other pro
ceeding from effervescence in the stom
ach. The lungs cough is a symptom
which all know to require attention
lest serious consequences ensue. Th
stomach cough is a much more simple
matter, and may easily be got quit of.
It Is caused by the food and drink
which are put into the stomach effer
rescing. and producing an irritation. A
knowledge of this fact ought to lead
persons so affected to ponder a littl
on the nature of their ailment and the
tone of their digestive powers.
Friday Is All Right.
Friday as an unlucky day has lost IU
grip. Superstition regarding beginning
great enterprises on that day is fading
away. Great steamers start on long
voyages on every Friday in the year,
Good Friday included. Journeys of al)
sorts begin on Fridays, and the sixth
Jay of the week has no more terror now
to the average man than the first day
of tho week. People even get married
on Friday. There are multitudes whc
make their advent into the world on
that 'lay, but that is not their fault.
Searchlights Required at Suez.
In order to facilitate navigation of
the Suez canal at night the company
has ordered that no ship shall go
through the canal at night unless
equipped with a searchlight sufficient
ly powerful to light up the channel ai
least 4,000 feet ahead, In addition tc
electric lights sufficiently powerful to
light up a circular area around the
ship of about 700 feet in diameter.
A girl never looks so killing as when
a man accidentally steps on her dress
kilt,
THE UNLUCKIEST WOMAN.
Fickle Fortune Frowns Upon La Belle
Brooks-Vincent.
The unluckiest woman in the world is
believed to be La Belle Brooks-Vincent,
who has returned from the Klondike to
Seattle, Wash. During the past six
years she has seen more ttuetfiations of
fortune and undergone more hardships
than usually fall to the share of most
people during a long life. Disappoint
ment and failure seem to follow her In
every undertaking, but she shows no
discouragement and bravely adapts
herself to changes of circumstances.
She was born in luxury and highly edu
cated. During her senior year at Ypsi
lanti College, Michigan, she met Ben
jamin Mason, a wealthy retired mer
chant, old enough to be her father, and
married him. The marriage was an
unhappy one, and after a few years the
young wife was granted a divorce and
given the custody of her young son.
The husband signed contracts giving
large sums of money instead of ali-
I.A BELLK BKOOKS-VINCKUT.
mony and settled $24,000 on the boy.
Subsequently La Belle married L. O.
Vincent, a musician and song writer.
This second marriage was also a fail
ure, and a short time after the couple
separated, Vincent died. Mrs. Vin
cent then indulged in speculation and
lost heavily on her investments. She
sold her property in Michigan for $1S,
300 and went to Seattle. The gold fever
seized her. She plunged into specula
tion again and took the largest stock of
staples and machinery ever transport
ed to Alaska In a single venture. She
there fell into the hands of a sharp
trader, who through misrepresentation,
beat her out of everything that she pos
sessed and who then incited a strike
among her former employes, whose
wages had not been paid. Many suits
for wages and other debts were begun
against her and her counsel advised
her to avoid them by returning to the
States. With $200, all that remained
of her fortune, she commenced the
journey on a dog sleigh, her only com
panion being an Indian who could not
speak English. Her creditors learning
of her departure sent officers after her.
She was brought back to Dawson City
ind placed in jail. Through the aid of
i friend she was released from prison
ind enabled to return to Seattle, where
3he arrived friendless and penniless.
RIVERS ARE TREACHEROUS.
In Times of Freshet They Frequently
Change Their Course.
The rivers of China, like the people,
are extremely treacherous. They have
no fixed channels, but move in the im
petuous floods that come pouring down
from the mountains in the rainy sea
son, sometimes as much as 100 miles
from their old beds, leaving the inter
vening tracts buried deep under the
sand, destroying life, making a desert
of cultivated fields over an area of
many hundreds of miles, and plunging
the farming population into terrible
poverty and famine. The enormous
canals, constructed by the Government
to correct the evil, have been of no
avail in this direction, although they
have formed in the past great water
ways crowded with craft, along which
supplies of food and merchandise can
be carried to the markets at a trifling
20st. Modern engineering, when the
break-up of China comes, will find the
subjection of Chinese rivers a problem
that will challenge all its genius and
perseverance, and it may accomplish
here what it has failed to do with oth
iv great streams where the alluvial soil
s carried down by the current to block
:he mouth and place a tantalizing ob
stacle in the way of navigation.
The Pei-Ho is a? crooked as a pennon
trying in the wind, and the present low
aess of the water is due to the long
Irought that has prevailed in the high
lands to the north, where it rises. Two
years ago steamers that now anchor at
1'aku, twenty miles or more down
stream, ran to Tieu-Tsin, where they
L-ould take their cargo and where pas
sengers could go on board comfortably
and conveniently. The change, under
the present circumstances, constitutes
the chief difficulty in reaching the cap
ital. For at Tlen-Tsin the passenger
anding at Taku must change cars, con
tinuing the journey to Pekin from the
former point.
Coughs of an Engine.
The cough, or puff, of a railway en
gine is due to the abrupt emission of
waste steam up the chimney. When
moving slowly the cough can, of course,
he heard following each other quite dis
tinctly, but when speed is put on the
puffs come out one after the other
nrlieb more rapidly, and when eighteen
coughs a second are produced they can
not be separately distinguished by the
ear. A locomotive running at the rate
of nearly seventy miles an hour gives
out twenty puffs of steam every sec
oud that is, ten for each of its two
cylinders. '
Every girl who pounds a piano should
oe impressed with the fact that mak
ing bread Is not accompanied by &
noise that disturbs the neighbors.
LET US ALL LAUGH.
JOKES FROM THE PEN8 OF VA
RIOUS HUMORISTS.
Pleasant Incidents Occurring the
World Oyer-Sayings that Are cheer
ful to Old or Young Funny Selec
tions that Ton Will Enjoy.
"Horrors!" exclaimed the citizen of
the South American Republic. "This
paper says that six men were disabled
In our revolution yesterday."
"Is that so?" replied another citizen.
"Such occurrences give our sport a sort
of black eye. But how did the deplor
able affair happen?"
"Why, the weather was very damp,
you know, and the doctor pronounces
it pneumonia." Judge.
These Paren ts !
Mabel So your mother has married
again?
Maud Yes, thank' goodness! You
can't think how glad 1 am to get her
comfortably settled. You don't know
what a terrible trial she has been to me
lately.
Making Both Ends Meet.
Useful Some Bay, Perhaps.
Husband What! You bought an ar
tificial ml
Wife Yes, dear. You see It was a
great bargain and
Husband Great Scott! What are
you thinking of? You haven't any
earthly use for such a thing.
Wife But, dear, you know you
travel on the railroads a great deal,
and you can never tell what may hap
pen. Philadelphia Press.
Usually Fatal.
Briggs The doctors say I am suffer
ing from a complication of diseases.
Griggs How many of them have you
seen?
"Seven."
"The trouble with you is that you
are suffering from a complication of
doctors." Life.
That Was All.
"I can't imagine why Miss Rocking
ham treats me so coldly. The other
evening when I called she said she had
been eating green onions and hoped I
would excuse her. Since then she has
hardly spoken to me."
"That's curious. What did you say
when she excused herself?"
"Let me see! Why, I merely told her
not to mind; that it would be an easy
matter for me to keep far enough away
not to be disturbed."
"Oh!" Chicago Times-Herald.
A Considerate Offer.
Employer I think I'll have to let you
go; there Isn't much to do around here,
but you don't even seem able to do
that.
Office Boy Well, suppose you pay
me half wages, and I'll stay home un
til you really need me. Chicago Rec
ord. Decidedly Not.
"You don't happen to have change
fur a quarter, do ye?" asked Eaton
Shabbelong, who had had an unex
pected stroke of luck.
"Change fur a quarter!" echoed Tuff
old Knott, with Infinite disgust. "If
I had do ye reckon I'd be carryin' the
thirst I've got with me this minute?"
Chicago Tribune.
All Be Bad.
"Comrade, lend me your pipe."
"There."
"Got any tobacco?"
"There."
"Now lend me a match."
"Say, you don't seem to furnish any
thing toward your smoke except your
mouth, do your"
Competition Among Notables.
"They say that Kruger Is going at It
harder than ever."
"What has braced him up so sud
denly?" "Oh, he's mad because the empress
dowager has knocked him out of the
public eye."
An Exiled Belle.
'Ts your daughter Pamela having a
good time in the country?"
"No; she says she hates it; it scuff
her shoes out so."
A Mean Trick.
Juliet Dearie, did you mail that let
ter I gave you to mail?
Jack (fumbling in his pocket) Of
course first thing as soon as I gitJ
downtown. I remember distinctly.
Juliet (triumphantly) Ha, there. I'vw
caught you! I didn't give you any let
ter to mail. Chicago Record.
Where Ignorance Is Bliss.
He I want to know, once for aH,
who is master of this house?
She You'll be happier If you don't
find out. Puck.
Plans Gang Aglee.
Mrs. Brown Mrs. Jones always sa!8
if her husband died she would quickly
follow him. He has been dead a month.
Mrs. Smith Yes; but you can't de
cently expect her to follow him till alio
has seen the Paris exposition, can you?
There is always something to disar
range a woman's plans, you know.--Judge.
-
It Ought to Be.
Customer If this underwear doesn't
fit may I change It?
Clerk Certainly. Underwear is al
ways subject to change. Philadelphia
Bulletin.
Bis Guess at It.
"What does it mean, Tommy," the
Sunday school teacher asked, "where it
says 'they rent their clothes?' "
"I suppose they couldn't afford to
buy them," replied Tommy. Detroit
Free Press.
Too Much for Him.
Twynn I hear that the weather man
has been taken to the hospital.
Triplett That Is true. The shock
was too much for him.
"What shock?"
"One of his forecasts came true."
She Has No Chance.
Miss Gilgal (reading) A girl In Penn
sylvania has saved an express train
from destruction by taking off her red
petticoat and waving It as a signal.
Miss Tenspot Oh, dear, I could never
do anything heroic like that.
"Why not?"
"Because I don't wear red petti
coats." The Automobile Outranked.
First Horse Well, thank goodness!"
Second Horse Thank goodness for
what?
First Horse When we get sick we
call in a doctor; we don't have to be
tinkered with with a monkey wrench.
A Son-tn-Law's Finish.
"William is always used up for sev
eral days after ma starts to Califor
nia." "How does that happen?"
"Oh, he always has to go over her
railway map with her, and tell her
what to do and what not to do."
Frightfully Mixed.
"Society is getting fearfully mixed; it
Is embarrassing to meet one's landlord
at a garden party."
"Yes; especially if you are behind
with the rent."
A Heart-Breaker.
Mrs. Seeside Oh! I think divorces
are simply awful! I never could bear
to hear of another woman filling my
place never!
Mrs. Breezy You couldn't?
Mrs. Seeside No! It would simply
break my heart to think of any other
woman writing to Harold for money!
Puck.
Families Supplied'.
Silas Hayrick Wall, by gum, these
city fellows do beat the world. I won
der what they'll charge for a wife an'
about five children." Chicago Inter
Ocean.
In It, but Not Of It.
"What Is a storm center, pa?"
"A storm center is that member of a
family who remains as cool as a cu
cumber while he makes all the res!
raging mad." Chicago Record.
Anatomical.
With an engaging smile the peddlei
who had gone around to the side doot
addressed the sharp-featured woman,
who answered his knock.
"Is this the head of the house?" he
asked.
"No, sir," she replied, shutting the
door in his face. "This is the wing."
Chicago Tribune.
There Are Many Such.
Mrs. Horn You can believe very lit
tle that Mrs. Gabbleby says.
Mr. Hoon No; the poor woman Is
sadly afflicted with palpitation of the
Imagination. Puck.
Those Dashing Boston Girls.
Hester Tell me, Kate, you oughr ro
know all about it. Do men did Char
ley go down on his knees when he pro
posed? Kate How absurd! How could he
have gone down on his knees, when
I . Where do you suppose I was,
anyway? Boston Transcript.
Sure Enough.
Little Clarence Fa, is there a reason
for all things?
Mr. Callipers Yes. I suppose so. I
Little Clarence Well, then, pa,, wujr
do hens lay eggs?
Mr. Callipers Because they can't
stand them on end, my son. Judge.
Baddy's Definition.
Johnny Paw, what is conscience?
Paw Conscience, my son, is some
thing that we always think should
bother the other fellow. Baltimore
American.
Too Long to Wait.
The Japanese, as is generally known,
are mainly vegetarians, their diet con
sisting for the most part of rice and m
few other simple vegetables.
While they are a healthy and happy
people, they are undersized as compare
ed with the meat eaters of Europe and
America, and it was seriously recom
mended a few years ago by advisers of
the Emperor, that he should encourage
his subjects to adopt a diet of flesh,
with a view to increasing the average
Japanese stature.
An American who was visiting in
Japan tells of a jinrikisha man with
whom he became acquainted, who, al
though able to trot forty miles a day
without fatigue, was vexed because of
his small size and had begun to eat
meat. He asked his American friend
one day, in the best English at his com
mand, how long a time would be re
quired, on an animal diet, to make the
Japanese a larger race.
"I should say a hundred years, at
least," replied the American.
The "rickshaw" man went back t
hla rice. ,