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2 3 A STUDY IN SCARLET. BY A. CONAN DOYLE. CHAPTER I Continue.!. Sherlock Holmes seemed delighted t the i lea of sharing rooms with me. "I have my eye on a suite in Jlaker etreec," he said, "which would suit us down to the ground. You dov.'t mind the emil of strong t' haeco, I hope?" "I always euioke 'ship's' myself," I nswered. "Hi.it's good enui-h. I generally have chemicals alout. ami occasionally do experiments. Would that annoy you?" "Py no means." "Let me see what sre irv other shortcomings I get in the dumps at times, aiul don't open my mouth for days on ni. You must not think I am sulky w hen I d that. Just let me aloi:e and I'll soon be all right. What have yi.u to conies now ? It's just as veli for two ivltows to know the worst O! each i ti.er before they begin to ijve to-.vsher." I Ucghed at this cross examination. 'I kt-i ji a bullpup," I said, "ami ob Jtt to ruv.s. because my nerves are pi'.sen. and I s.-e: up at all sorts of tin p.id.'y h. and I am extieme'y lazy. C have :ui"t! er set i f vices when I s.m eU. but thc-.-e are the principal ones at pr.-sent." " J 'o you inclcde violin plavine in your category of rows'.'" he arked, aux-iou-'y. "It depends on the player," I answered. "A well played violin is a treat f r the gods; a badlv plaved one" "Oh, that's al! right," he cried with a merry laimli. "I thins we may con sider the thing as settled that is, if the rooms are agreeable to you." "When shall we see them?" "Call for me here at noon, ton orrow, nd we'll go together and settle every thing," he answered. "All right noon exactly," said I, shaking his hand. We left him working among hi chemicals, and we walked together to ward mv hotel. "By the wav," I asked suddenly, 'how the deuce did he know that I had come from Afghanistan?" My companion smiled an enigmatical smile. "That's just his little peculiarity," fie said. "A g'Xid many people have wanted to know how he tiuds things out." "Oh. a mystery, is it?" I cried, rub bins; my hands. "This is very piquant. I am much obliged to yon for aringing tis t'other. 'The proper study of mankind is man." yu know." "lou must studv him then," Stam ford said, as lie hid me good-by. "You'll find him a knotty problem, though. I'll w.-iaer he k-arns more about vou than vou about him. Good by." "Good-hy," Ianwsered: and strolled on to my hotel, considerably interested in my new acquaintance. CHAPTER II. "We met next day. as he had arrang fl, and Inspected his rooms at No. 221B Baker street, of which he had epoken at our meeting. They consisted of a couple of com fortable bedrooms and a single, large, elry sitting room, cheerfully furnished, and Illuminated by two broad win dows. So desirable in every way were the apartments, and so moderate did tnc terms seem when divided between us that the bargain was concluded upon the spot, and we at once entered into Jpossv-ssicn. That very evening I moved my thinns round from the hotel, and on the following morning Sherlork Holm es followed me w ith several boxes and portmanteaus. For a day or two we were busily employed in unpacklne and laying out our property to the best advantage. That done, we gradually began to set tle down and to accommodate our selves to our new surroundings. Holmes was certainly not a difficult man to live with. He was quiet In his ways, and his habits were regular. It wis rare for him to be up after ten at ninht. and he had invariably breakfasted and gone out before I rose In the morning. Sometimes he spent his day at the themk-al laboratory, sometimes in the disserting rooms, and occasionally In long walks, which appeared to take bim Into the lowest portions of the city. Nothing could exceed his energy when the working fit was upon him: but now and again a reaction would seize him, and for days on end he would lie upon the sofa in the sitting room, hardly tittering a word or mov ing a muscle from morning to ni'ht. On these occasions I have noticed such a dreamy, vacant expression In bis eye3. that I might have suspected blm of being addicted to the use of som narcotic, had not the temperance and cleanliness of his whole life for bidden such a notion. , As the weeks went by, my Interest tn him and my curiosity as to his aims In life gradually deepened and Incieas ed. Hia' very person and appearance were euch as to strike the attention of the most casual observer. In height ne was rather over six feet, and so exces sively lean that he seemed to be con siderably taller. His eyes were sharp and piercing. ave during- those Intervals of torpor to which I have alluded; and his thin, hawk-Uke nose gave his whole expres sion an air of alertness and decision. His chin, too, had the prominence and squareness which mark the man of determination. His hands were Invariably blotted with Ink and stained with chemicals, yet he was possessed of extraordinary delicacy of touch, as I frequently had occasion to observe when I watched him manipulating his fragil philoso phical instruments. The reader may set me, down as a hopeless busybody, when I confers how much this man stimulated my cu riosity, and how often I endeavored U break through the retirence which he showed in all that concerned himself. Before pronouncing Judgment, how ever, be It remembered how objectless was my life and how little there was to engage my attention. My health forbid me from venturing out unless the weather was exception ally cental, and I had no friends who w-ould call upon me and break the mo notony of my daily existence. t'nder these circumstances. I eagerly hailed the little mystery which hung around my companion, and spent much nf my time In endeavoring to unravel It. He was not studying medicine. Hp had himself. In reply to a question, co-ifi-med Stamford's opinion uron thpt mint. Neither did he arear to have pur ?'ied P"y course of reading which might fit him for a decree in science or B-.y other recormlsed po-tal which wnuH give him an entrance Into the loiT.er! world. Yet his zeal for co-tain studies was remarkable, and within eccentric lim its his knowledge was so extraordinar ily nniple and minute that his obser vations hr.ve fairly astounded me. Surely no man would work so h to attain such precise information un less he had some definite end in view. Desultory readers are seldom remark able for the exactness of their learn ing. No man burdens his'mind with. small matters unless he has some very good reason for doing so. His ignorance was as remarkab' as his knowledge. Of contemporary literature, philosophy and politics he apnoared to know next to nothing. Upon my quoting Thomas Carlyle, he Inquired In the nalvest way who he might be and what he had done. My surprise reached a climax, however, when I found Incidentally that he was ignorant of the Copernlcan theory, and of the composition of the solar sys tem. That any civilized human being in this nineteenth century should not be aware that the earth traveled round the sun appeared to me such an ex traordinary fact that I could hardly realize It. "You anpear to be astonished." hp said, smiling at my expression of sur prise. "Now that I do know it, I shail do my best to forget It." "To forget It!" "You see." he explained. "I eonsldei that a man's brain originally Is like a little empty attic and you have to stock it wl'h such furnitn-e as you choose. A fool takes in all the lumber of every sort that he comes across, so that the knowledge which might lie useful to him gets crowded out. or at hpst Is jumbled up with a lot of other things, so that he has a diffi culty in laying his hands upon tt. Now. the skillful workman Is very caref'.il indeed as to what he takes Into his brain attic. He will have nothing but the tools which may help him in do ing his work, but of these he has a large assortment, and all in the most nerfect order. It Is a mistake to think that that little room has elastic walls and can distend to any extent. De pend upon it. there comes a time when for every addition to knowledge you forget something that you knew be fore. It is of the highest Importance, therefore, not to have useless facts el bowing out the useful ones." "But the solar system!" I protested. "V.'hat the deuce is It to me?" he in terrupted, impatiently: "you say that we go round the sun. If we went round the moon it would not make a pennyworth of difference to me or tc my work." I was on the point cf asking him what that work might be. but some thing in his manner showed me that the question would be an unwelcome one. I pondered over our short conversa tion, however, and endeavored to dr?w my deductions from it. He said t!-,al h" would acquire no knowledge which ''id not boar upon h's object. There fore, all the knowledge which he pos sesscd was such as would be useful to him. I enumerated In my own mind all the various noints upon which he had shown me that he was exceptionally well Informed. I even took pencil and Jotted them down. I could not help smlllne at the docu ment when I had completed It. It ran in this wev: SHERLOCK HOLMES His Limits. 1. Knowledge of literature Nil. 2. Knowledge of philosophy Nil. 3. Knowledge of Astronomy Nil. 4. Knowledge of Politics Feeble. 5. Knowledge of botany Variable. Well up In bella donna, opium aod poisons generally. Knows nothing of practical gardening. 6. Knowledge of geology Practical, but limited. Tells at a glance different soils from each other. After walks has shown me splashes upon his trous ers, and told me by their color a.iu consistence in what part of London he had received them. 7. Knowledge of chemistry Pro found. 8. Knowledge of anatomy Accu rate, but unsystematic. 9. Knowledge of sensational litera ture Immense. He appears to know every detail of horror perpetrated in the century. 10. Plays the violin well. 11. Is an expert single stick player, boxer and swordsman. 12. Has a good practical knowledge of British law. When I had got so far In my Hit I threw it into the fire In despair. "If I cannot find what the fellow Is driving at by reconciling all these ac-comp!is'---nents and discovering a call ing which needs them all, I said to myself, "I may as well give up the at- I tempt at once." ! I Bee that I have alluded above to his powers upon the Tlolin. These j were very remarkable, but as eecen ; trie as all his other accomplishments. I That he could plcy pieces, and diffl I cult pieces, I knew well, because at my : request he had played me some of Mendelssohn's "Lieder," and other fa vorites. I When left to himself, however, he wouia seldom produce any music or attempt any recognized air. Leaning back in his armchair of an evening he would close his eyes and scrape carelessly at the fiddle, which w-as thrown across his knee. Same times the chords were sonorous and melancholy. Occassionally they were iamastlc and cheerful. Clearly they reflected the thoughts j which possessed him. but whether the "music aided these thoughts, or whether the playing was simply the result of a whim or fancy, was more than I could determine. I I might have rebelled against these exasperating solos had tt not been that he usually terminated them by playing In quick succession a whole se ries of my favorite airs as a slight compensation for the trial upon my ; patience. During the first wees: or so we had ; no callers, and I had begun to think I that my companion was as friendless a man as myself. ! Presently, however. T found that he had many acquaintances, and those in the most different classes of society. There was one little sallow, rat-faced. : dark-eyed fellow who was introduced i to me as Mr. Lestrade, and who came three or four times in a single week. ' One morning a young girl called, fashionably dressed, and stayed for ' half an hour or more. The same aftei noon brought a gray-headed, seedy i visitor, looking like a Jew peddler, and who appeared to be much excited, and w-ho was closely followed by a slip shod elderly woman. On another occasion an old white haired gentleman had an interview with my companion; and on another a railway porter in his velveteen uni form. When any of these nondescript .. . , . . I uiuiwiiuuib jjui iii an appearance oner- lock Holmes used to beg for the use of the sitting room, and I would retire to my bedroom. He always apologized to me for putting me to this inconven ience. "I have to use this room as a place of business," he said, "and these peo ple are my clients." Again I had an opportunity of ask ing him a point blank question, and again my delicacy prevented me from forcing another man to confide in me. I Imagined at the time that he had some strong reason for not alluding to It, but he soon dispelled the Idea by coming round to the subject of his own accord. It was upon the 4th of March, as I have good reason to remember, that I rose somewhat earlier than usual, and found that Sherlock Holmes had not yet finished his breakfast. The landlady had become so accus tomed to my late habits that my place had not been laid nor my coffee pre pared. With the unreasonable petulance of mankind I rang the bell and gave a curt intimation that I was ready. Then I picked up a magazine from the table and attempted to while away the time with it. while my companion munched silently at his toast. One of the articles had a pencil mark at the heading, and I naturally began to run my eye through It. Its somewhat ambitious title was "The Book of Life." and it attempted i to show how much an observant man ! might learn by an accurate systematic I exuimuauuu ui an mat came in ms i way. It struck me as being a remarkable mixture of shrewdness and of absurd ity. The reasoning was close and in tense, but the deductions appeared to me to be far-fetched and exaggerated. The writer claimed by a momentary expression, a twitch of muscle, or a glance of the eye, to fathom a man's j inmost thoughts. j Deceit, according to him. was an im possibility in the case of one trained i to observation and anilvsis. His con- 1 elusions were as Infallible as so many ; propositions of Euclid. j So stertline would his results ap- j ne?.r to the uninitiated that, until they learned the process by which he hail arrived at them, they might consider :him as a necromancer. STRVSGE. t m MrrA ' v - I II I i',li 1ft. T 1, i , I WWP. Old Hen (seeing her brood go in water for first timet Well, that's queer. I am sure we never did auytiiiug like that when I was youug.-Chicago An.erlcau. WINDMILL IN A TREE. Hn ! l:i ii-lini; of Nature nml Me- , cliunicul Construction. ! A wlr.diiiill is apt to be a very prosaic I and u'iy ouismu t;. n. but many at- i tempts have been made wi:U varying sun-ess to beautify these very useful ai.d e iiu .niical power producers, our j euj.'raviii,; illus:rates lnov nature end, niechalili's are sometimes bli nded. The j trees serve only ns n support for the I platform nt the top. aud as side rails j ' of a ladder, it beiiii uecessary only to ; ; provide rounds. The trees serve also j i to stay the iron supports. The wind : mill, which was built by J. G. Iietister, i of Muliuc. 111., Is of peculiar constnie- P.ut it would be ns grove a mistake to refuse to recognize the deep natural laws that are concealed under this con vergence. Is the case different as re gards our actions, thou-'h they ti;e in t'min lY more plastic and more complex individually? 1 iio not believe it. VERVOUS PROSTroVriov ' CURED BY PE-RU-U A CANALBOAT VILLAGE. i WINDMILL IX A IHCi;. (To be Continued.) The Mirrying Ajt. ' The marrying age, according to sta. . tistics, is steadily advancing. This accounts, perhaps, for another fact, that women are beginning to look younger and more girlish in the shady twenties and the early thirties than j they used to do. Twenty-five yeais ; a:-'o a woman of 32 who was unmarried would have been regarded as a hopeless ild maid. Now she is quite a girl at that age and her marriage is still thought of. If we continue to grow old in this leisurely fashion the very name "old maid" will disappear from our vocabulary, if indeed it has not done so aiieady. Pint Women to Win Scholirthlp. Miss Helen E. Wallace, a brilliant student at the Melbourne, Australia, university, has been awarded the Shakespeare scholarship of 150 pounds. This is the most important scholar ship in the gift of the university, and it has never before been won by a woman. In Memory of Dr.' Johnson. Dr. Johnson's long" association with the Strand, London, is to .be com memorated by placing a beautiful stained glass window in St. Clement's Dane chapel.. Beth'i Surpriie. Beth was delighted with her annt's new changeable spring gown. "Oh, mama!" she exclaimed, excitedly, "the colors of Aunt Mary's new silk dress are all extemporaneous!" Judge. A WUe GirL Alice How long should a girl know a man before becoming engaged to him? Grace Oh, long enough lor him to propose. tlon, there being no gear wheels nor crank, the power being transmitted by ' an involute wheel which is a part of the I steel wheel to which the fans are at I taehetl. The surface uf the Involute Is perfectly smooth, as is also that of the wheel uttiiehed to the pitman carrier, the uue rolling upon the other. The mast is TSf tubing, the pitman being carried down inside. The wires for . throwing the mill out of gear are at- j inched to a thimble on the outside of j the mast. From this it will be seen that the trees are not needed for actual support. A number of these mills have been t attached to trees and have been giving j excellent results. It is also possible to carry the mills nroutul on a wagon and set them to work at any part of a field. Scientific American. Every lueh nf Hpnce la Utilized in Their Tiny Cabin. People who object to living In snug quarters and think that love In n cot tage Is altogether too contracted for continual affection, should go and take a look at the cabins in the eaiialboat village in New York harbor. Those who are preparing to live in trunks and grtps during the summer could get tin.-1 lessons there of snug existence. The whole cabin is not much larger than an ordinary liedmum. but how every morsel of space Is utilized! If there Is a square inch of interior that gets away without doing Its duty In the great work of containing things It must have a politician's talent for evasion. The tidy little kitchen stove Is so close to the wall that you wonder If the latter was not made of asbestos to guard against fire. The clock Is about as small as our Ingenious Connecticut friends have yet been able to make contain twenty-four hours. The pantry-cuphoard-and-storerooui combined pos sess the appearance of having been packed and then put under hydruullc pressure. The carpet pattern, says a writer In Will Care-ton's magazine. Every Where (for n canal-villager always Insists on having her tloor neatly clad). Is ap propriately minute. A tiny library v hisi-ers Its titles from an unexpected corner. Minute bedrooms for child or adult appear to you now and then like prone ghosts. Several pictures, nar rowly but visibly framed, cover the wooden wainscoting. Hal. -P. Denton. Mr. Hal. P. Denton, Chief W ment Publicity and Promotion of Z tional Export Expositionwritei. Philadelphia, Dec. 20, 189 The Peruna Medicine Co., Columbm'o Gentlemen: "Toward the Utts part of August I found myself in 1TBT much run-down condition". I particularly ironi catarrh of the tton. ach, aggravated no doubt by thereto sibilities and worriinont i...u '! . , the exploitation of a great internationil exposition. What I ate distressed s, and I would lie awake at night 'thre4 iog i.ver, ii i may use tlmt exures'ioi the affairs of the previous day; "My family physician said I kij nervous prostration and recommenW a sea voyage. I gradually grewworse A kind friend whom I had knows ii Ohio recommended Peruna. Thou skeptical, I finally yielded to his 14. vice. After using one bottle I much improved and with the fifo bottle came complete recovery. In in perfect health today and owe everj. tiling 10 rcrunu. Very truly yours, HAL. H. DENTON. If you do not derive nrnnmt nml m. isfactory results from the use of tm na, write at once to Dr. Hartman, it iug a full statement of vour lie will be pleased to give you hia Tt! able advice free. Address Dr. Hartman, President i The Hartman Sanitarium, Columbu uino. PRIMITIVE INDIANA CHURCH. Still Ueed an Hnnxe of Wnmhip by De Rccndunt of llnilders. The old Goshen church building. In Rooue Township. Harrison Countv.' In diana, has recently undergone repairs This church was built by the Baptists In 1X13. It is about thirty feet square, and is a log structure, chinked ami daubed, with a board celling. There were formerly heavv hewn l.u.,..'. across one cud of the auditorium, some six feet above the lloor. on which the SOCIAL INSTINCTS OF ANTS. Sliow Strong Sense of Devotion toCom mon Weul True to Duty. In order not to leave my readers un der the impression of crime among ants. 1 shall give an account of a trait of devt tion to the common we.-.l. writes August lore! in the Intoninlioiml Monthly. A swarm of Koriaica pratcii sii w as closely pressed in Its nest by an army of the same species, aud crowds of alarmed d"feudeis issued from the entrances to the nest and tlew to take part in the tight. Like Satan, the tempter of old, 1 placed near thni a beuuUful drop of houey ou a piece of paper. At any other time the honey would have been covered in a few instants with nuts gorging themselves, but this time numerous working urns cauie upon it, tasted it for scarcely a second, and returned to It restlessly three or four times. Conscientiousness, the feel ing of duty, Invariably prevailed over gorniandism. and they left the honey to go and be killed while defending the community. I am bound to own. how ever, that there are ants less social, in which gormandism does prevail. Comapred -to 'the manners of other sociable animals, and. especially to those of man, the manners of ants ex hibit a profound and fundamental ng gregatlon of facts of convergence, due to their social life. Let me mention devotion, the uistimctive sentiment of duty, slavery, torture var, alliances, the raising of cattle, gardening, bar-, vesting, and even social degeneren cence through the attraction of certain harmful means of enjoyment It would be ridiculous and erroneous to see In the fulfilment of this serios of acts. In dividual reasoning, the result of calcu lated reflection, analogous to ours. The fact that each is fixed and circum scribed within one species, as well as the fatailatlc .character. It has -in that species, prove this superabundantly. 01.U OOSUi N till KCIl Ul II.lil.Nii Exactly. jvv tuu ilium ib is iHwfiuie vj ior two girls at the same time?" "Not if they know it." Melboorai Weekly limes. We ore not to lilunio tuwaiiaa vm Wa rheumatism ; but you are if you da lot try uunilin s w izarU Oil. A Story of the Priirit The Century magazine ii about to print a serial .which will have an wpt cial interest to people who are at home n the prairies. It is called "Tfe Hiograpiiy of a Prairie Girl," and the author is Eleanor Gates, a youn woman who spent her childhood it Dakota and who thus writes from th closest personal observation. The time of Miss Gates' story b about 25 years ago; it is put in tin form of a personal narrative of the life of a little girl, and there ii hsrdi' a pnase or event 01 prairie lire wni& is not touched upon in these patf the ulizzard, breaking colts, bor stealing by Indians, school days on lb frontier, fighting gophers and badgers, cattle raising and other typical ph of hardship or prosperity. It is not a novel, but the same due actera appear and reappear in the lt7 with a reality which inipreasei the reader with confidence in the truth i the narrative. "The biography of a Prairie GWj will begin in the August number olw I Century and it will be illustrated. choir was located. The roof was orig imillyof clap-boards, fastened i)V ,vo. en puis, ami with weight-p.l'eS tied down ,0 hold the roof ue secure. The door formerly swung m Woi)(, binges, and was kept closed bv a wood en pin. The building has been recently reroofed with shingles, and It now bfl9 a door with a modern lock. Church services are still held occasionally m tue building. J Countermanded. Ragson Tatters-dee! Wouldn't yer like ter be sittlu' In one o' dem swell restaurants, eatiu some strawberry shortcake? Hungry HlBgins-T orui.rp(, Oat d.s morula', but I changed me mind a terward. lhigson Tatters-Come off nu said if I wasnf satisfied wid coid neat au bread she'd sic de dog on me -Philadelphia Press. Some Conaolntion. Dlggs-I tell you, sir. It's n .rr.. thing to be a poor man ? gWat ni""" d you aeure 't t? Dlggs-U hy, my Inability to buv nn One has to be married and have chil dren In order to appreciate to the fu Candid. A Yon see that lady over tbe' She is Mrs. A. I fell in love with he I at first aitfht. What do vou think tl that? a I think it would have been bet I had you taken a second look. Ei. FT Prmntntif Cum So fits or w""! I I aiu-r linn .i.if I" M"" 'VliS I lUbbirer. neuuii.r r iitr.sa.miii .yrt k-it I iM. Uii.H.11 KiiNfcLia..wiAttUsu.l,iul," Pesijuj flu Hn Opportunity. "His poetry," the public complM "smells of the lamp." .. At this Pegasus reverted to equine side aud indulged in a laugh. "I suppose it's the odor of thatf line vehicle he tied up to afterlb o.i .t. ..l.;..,,;,! the iu luion uiui, iiiioi - atooil A i,ntv..-.kil Mmoizine. I Hair Split 's " I have used Aver's HirV for thirty years. It is legnt '' a hair dressing and for keeping hair from splitting at the ends. ' J. A. Gruenenfelder, Grantfort,!"- Hair-splitting splits friendships. If the hair splitting is done on yo"r own head, it loses friends for you, for every hairoi your head is a friend. Ayer's Hair Vigor tt advance will prevent tne splitting. If the split" has begun, it will stop"' SMS a UI. All " PILE If your druKeit cannot nSfjU0 end u one dollar ud " ,llnia' you ft bottle. He sure n1 il) 01 your nearest exiirem uj