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About Bohemia nugget. (Cottage Grove, Or.) 1899-1907 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 1, 1899)
- m??- whim Tr ; Hf.tl h c. ... ATTIIEW ELDER, editor of I llvl the Inner Circle, had gone out for half an hour to synchronize bis watch, and his assistant, J. Graham Ohampnles, reigned temporarily In his stead. On every occasion when Elder was absent, whether he had gone out to get his hair cut (at a restaurant op poslte), or was away on a two-months' holiday, or had taken a week off be cause he felt far from well, J. Graham Champnles reigned In his stead, en dowed with plenary powers. He was ambitious, and Intelligent, and hnrd- worklng, and trustworthy; Matthew Elder, brilliant and lazy, had long since recognized that. Elder thought of things to do Champnles did them. A clerk had Just laid on Champnles' desk the form which a visitor had filled up: NAME. Miss Cynthia Page. TO SEE. The Editor. BUSINESS. Private. DATE. 3.5.09. "Well, I'll see her," said Champnles He had seen the name Cynthia Page In good magazines, appended to curious and Interesting stories. He was not Ill-pleased, when the clerk showed her In, to find that she inaa youtn anil beauty on pale and mys tical lines. Her long, raised lashes, and the lingering glance of her gray t MISS PAGE WAS A LITTLE DOUBTFUL. eyes, seemed to say: "You do interest me." J. Graham Champnles found him self hoping that Matthew Elder, after synchronizing his watch, would find it necessary to go and see a man about a dog or, at any rate, would delay his return. In the meanwhile he was anx ious to know what he could do for Miss Page. "I am speaking to the editor?" said Miss Page, a little doubtfully. "The actual editor, Mr. Elder, Is not in at present, but I have full powers to aet for him." "I see." She was still In douht. "Pray be assured of It. I can make contracts with you, accept stories from you, sign checks for you, so If you have nnytuing to propose " "Oh, it's not that! In fact, I came In consequence of a proposition which he had already made to me." "Well, I shall be very glad to carry on anytinug tnat he has begun. As rule he mentions these things to me, but this time I am In the dark." hue smiled mysteriously. "But you can't be sure that you would wish to carry on what he has bezun ." "As Mr. Elder Is the supreme author ity Here, I should have no choice. But, even if I had, what you suggest Is ex treraely unlikely." "Why unlikely? No two men can have minds exactly alike. It's such a funny urrangeinem you nave nere." "it works well enough In practice. we uotu lniow the character of our pa yci, uu iviuii our iiuuuc wants, i say it is unimeiy mat 1 siioum be unwilling to carry on whatever Mr. Elder has begun, for this reason and also because I know and admire your work." t "Oh, do you think it's any good?" "Of course I do." ' "Speaking frankly?" - "Speaking frankly, It's full enough or rauits; some of it seems to have run away with you and got all over the place. But It's horribly Interesting all tne same, you see, it's original." "Ob, yes!" she assented. "I am oris- jnnl. If I were not, I shouldn't be here." "That sounds cryptic," ho said. "Pos sibly, I shall understand It when 1 know the nature of Mr. Elder's pro posai. uo wants some stories from you?" . "No, no." "Then what Is It?" ' "Do you know that I'm afraid I can't tell you." "Very well, then; there's nothing more to be said. Mr. Elder is out at present. You'd better call again. I suppose you think It would make some difference whether Mr. Elder went on with his busiuess, or I did?" "I'm sure it would the greatest difference." "You think I shouldn't do as well?" "Not ns well. You'd do better lulln Itely better. Oh, I must go," she blush ed, rose, good-bred, and faded out of the oillce. Ten minutes later Matthew Elder, middle-aged, bald nud cheerful, saun tered Into the room with his hands In his pockets. "Well, Bill!. Everything all right?" Mr. Elder had not found In the as sortment of names provided for Champnles by the accident of his birth and the guesswork of his christening anything which took his fancy. No," said Champnles shortly, still irritated by his interview with Cynthia i'nge. "Quart Into a tin not. Plugged up with ads, nud Bowse has Just sent up that he'll want another half-page. We shall have to leave over everything tnaril wait, nud some things that won't." Ah! you don't keep a tight enough hand on Bowse." Step In and tackle him yourself. nere, this woman called to see you wouldn't tell me her business." Matthew Elder took tnls paper slip and sank down In a chair. "BUI, this Is rather bad. I ought to have been In. What with my unfortu nate enthusiasms, and . my wretched memory, I shall get myself Into trouble. Listen. I met this srlrl two or three times a year ago; never gave her an other thought till I came on a story by her that was perfectly magnificent 6. horribly good! probably the best story that has been written In this century. I dashed off a letter to her at once, and so worked up myself about It that I said, to show my sincerity, that If she liked I'd marry her, and she could call at the office this morning with her an swer. She'd have refused me. of course. as they all do, and perhaps I'm better single; but, none the less, it would have been more civil not to have forgotten the appointment." Really," said Champnles, "you must be a little mad." "Undoubtedly," answered Elder. cheerfully. "It's the price one nays for being so excessively intelligent." Champnles stared blankly at the desk, trying to recall the exact words of his conversation with Cynthia Page. "Look bere, Bill," said Elder, "write and say you want to see her about a story; then when she comes do the ex plaining for me. Say I was called awav by telegram. Say It was from motives of delicacy. Say anything." The following Is from a subsequent issue of tbe Tea Cup; a Journal con ducted by ladles for ladles: "One of the most brilliant of our lady writers, Miss Cynthia Page, is, It is whispered, shortly to be led to the hy meneal altar. The fortunate partner of her future Joys and sorrows Is J. Gra ham Champnles, a young Journalist of great promise. Our heartiest fellclta tions. Speaking of weddings, hnve you seen the really beautiful designs In pearlettes Indistinguishable from real pear.s now being shown in the win dows of ?" Black and White. A STARTLING object lesson. UK IS IMCII, YET P00J1 llown Mcxlenn AlcnMo Learned Foin of the Dlfllcultlo of KiillromllilU. Tho old Southwestern engineer was telling tales of by-gone days down In Mexico and dwelling upon tlio Mexi can's Ignorance of railroading. "Once, near Victoria," said he, "wo were loaded heavily with Iron, and wo hit the usual drunken Mexican asleep on the track. Them folks used to think a roadbed bettcr'u a wool mattress. It was down grade and around a curve, and we were going at a fair clip, and, though we had air brakes, we couldn't hold up In time. We ground him up. and at Victoria, ten miles further on, we didn't have any better sense than to report It. Of course, the train was side tracked and we were put In Jail. Next day we were hauled up uefor.' tli nhal de. He was a little, dried up man. with mahogany skin nud snow-whlto mus tache. It bristled fiercely, but I noth-ed Unit his eye twinkled a good deal and I sorter cottoned to him right away. We told him that we couldn't stop tho train In the time allowed us. and It was the truth. He said, through au Inter preter, of course: 'I've heard all this before. Klve of my people have been killed by trains In six mouths and I have let the train crews go. They said they couldn't stop. I'm going to see about this. Your train Is on the sidetrack, coupled and loaded. We'll lire up and go kick to the place where you killed Vicente. We'll run down nt the same speed. When you come near to the curve you must try hard to stop. I will go In the cab with you.' "Well, we fired up and went back three miles beyond the death spot. Then wo started forward again. Of course It was not my business to run too slowly. I wanted to show tho alcalde that stopping In the space de scribed was an Impossibility. Old 1)3 was a quick engine, and Inside of two miles, It being a down grade, we were dolug a two-nilnute clip. We struck tho curve nt forty miles an hour. The alcalde bad never In his life been on a train, nud he was leaning out of the cab window, waving his big straw hat and shouting 'Viva! Viva! As we sighted the spot where Vicente had been pul verized the airbrakes went on like tho clamp of death. I was thrown to tho floor of the cab myself. As for Uie alcalde, he shot through the window like a rocket, turned six somersaults and lit on his back in the sand thirty feet away. The train ground to a standstill, yards beyond tho blood stained ties. He came limping up, brushing the sand out of his white hair. I remember that his mustache was all bent down on one side. He looked up nt me and said simply, 'Valga me DIos!' which Is about equivalent to 'Dern my buttons!' We went back to town; ho discharged us all and invited us to din ner with him. We stayed and pulled out that evening. Everybody ran pret ty much on his own schedule In them times." JAMES HEALEY, THE CATTLE KINQ OF NEW rvitAiw. J. Worll. $1,000,000. ...id H... $100,- 000 l Yeurlr Incomr, el no nivtm k-t I ... .. 1 it till Artliioll Llfo "f 1110 P1MM Mcxicuii Cattle Harder. A man who doesn't know what to do ..tt. 1.1a titjilltlt ih somewhat of an Will. Ilio in""' - ... l.. i.nt James Ilea ley, of New ' ' Mexico, who Is worth $1,000,000 Mini whose iiniiiml In. ome Is $100,000, Is HtH'li u person. Il.-aley Is mi extra ordinary mail, whose counterpart ran scarcely bo found anywhere. II.- possesses laud, mule and copper p r o p e r 1 Un well worth far above a million tiny day In .. i i... jamka IIkai kv, me wecii. ji-i ii. llvi'S III a rude twnrd shanty that could bo duplicated for $m. Out of his an nual Income of $Ioo.WK) he spends less than $i:t)0 of It on himself. He owns thousands of acres of land In the fertile spots of New Mexico, and still he lives no better not even so well-than a good part of the Ignorant Mexicans he employ to help herd his cattle. James Henley went to New Mexico from Texas. He was born In Seilalln.' Mo.. In 1838. and with his parents went to Austin. Texas., In ltd). He has ai rways lived on the plains nnd has no .knowledge of any other life. He never Twenty years ago whTl l'nno, Texas, win, "L met an old coiup,, , f , uiin tH Texas border. -n,.i ' J0,,'o turned prospect...- ( ' rlt''i'l h the Dragoon tnoniiim,,. ,. '.'.""not Arlxonn. Aiiiiiiil. ,i " " "''Him, tit ho tinil locat, ,l . ,. ni I'tym the Hunger by nam.. ii,,1 touched (tyiho nciii,,,. .., ""Ujh Al.lp. but this Hi frl J " nm II llllw Of lIlHtlONS II,,,, ' ,0,'lltlr! .... ... . "" J L'lltal.i wiiuiKKi c-4iv ior tin ii.i-.i- : v ui ""' or ih... Mir C.llllll, A l Ti.r, . VO wns persuaded i. put &m more to hold IiIm i ".. 1 I II.. ..... . MIU IM.. r. -j .. ii. n i - ..... ...... . . il I n I... . 1" I'Uft llll'l iVIIUM III 111, i i..V 1 -" ....... ... .null- ii.t ill....... . . - tmli. i. mi p. Willi In. II lMltl..i i in nil. illuming until win. When copper rose in In ISO" Henley got .,. $, 0K) friini tin, l-.mi'iii. i i -l. . Ult hi II. ii ....... r Kim lit 1H unit l.i . . '"Mi " " " ' 11' 1111 lilt IIH. 1. . I w i win x:i ihhi mtii cm . w fromlL wmm His vnqueroM say n.j )(, millionaire must I,., u, ,. of , l has been a physlol,,. , M(.nfa ' for ovwUilriy.il v,. known no rest, lie ,;,lmiiy ,,' , thnii live out of tin. u. u fni,i. and Is often In tho HaMi.. r iu ral for two days and ..ici,, nt .. "' lit these Inter years, u(. i,t, come ho rich, he lias si-vornl vn.. hImmU him nl ways at ntgi,, i ll)B, mountains, where It u.ml.1 no trl.-k all for bandits to pcrp -irm,. notnerrim IniU design upon .,. w..nltlir ,!..' rciUOIllly tl... old (iinn trills, III a lvlnuket aloiigNl.lo ii,,. i-aiiipiiffJ the range for the nlglu. nml ltlui05. per on crnckers and eh.-ese or bolH beiiim will go to slei-p until the MrlU, streakH of daylight, when by will m up nnd go to work again. King of (Stoivnwnyg. The steamship Lackawanna brought into rnnaueipnia recently a boy who Is probably the most famous stowaway on the Atlantic. The fact that the cap tain or tne Lackawanna had Involun tarily carried him thrice across the sea is a fair test of his ability to secrete himself, as on each occasion the vessel has been thorough searched before leaving Liverpool. Edward Murnhv Is omy i& years old. He hails from Birk enhead, England, and has never had a home other than tbe gutters of tho world's largest city can afford. He be gan the stowaway business some years ago, when less than 10, and has made a great success of It. He has islted most of the shipping ports of the At lantic, nnd many South American and African countries besides. Durintr tho past year he has traveled from Liver pool to New York, to Santos, to Ito sario, to Argentine Republic, to tho Barbadoes, to Southampton, to Liver pool, to Philadelphia. He Is known to every skipper who sails from London. and as a rulo is a favorite with officers and men. Captain Wytte, of the Lack awanna, thinks s'o much of him that no lias offered to adopt him, but Mur- phy cannot give up his roving life. If ho can escape from tho Lackawanna1 on board which ship, in accordance with tho law which requires every sea' captain to pay a fine for foreleners brought to America without money, ho is closely confined ho will probably, beat his way across America nn.ii ship" on some Taclfic collier, as hoi mm l nas always expressed a deslra to cro to the Klondike. Wlicnoo Gutta I'crotm Comes. The tree from which gutta percha Is obtained grows In Borneo, and In oth er Islands of the Indian Archlnelairo. says the Philadelphia Times. It Is very large, but Uie wood is spongy, and of little use us timber. The lenves grow on long stalks, and are green above nd of a bright yellow beneath. Tho Mowers are smnll nnd grow In pretty turts in tlio axils of the leaves, each on a separate stalk or stem. To obtain the gutta percha of coin merce, the finest trees nro cut down and Incisions are made in the bark a milky Juice exudes from the Incis ions, and Is reserved by little troughs made for that purpose. When the Juice has hardened to a certain extent it is kneaded Into cakes and exported. The cakes are of a reddish brown col or and are full of Irregular nores. ucrore, However, tho cakes are readv for use they have to undergo some preparation. They are first sliced into very thin shavings nnd then placed ... llil....l . . . iu u. ii-uruiK iiiucuine, wnicli re volves in a trough of hot water. Tho macnines tears tho shavings into small pieces, and tho hot water washes tnem thoroughly. These pieces aro men made into cakes and the enkoa aro rolled several times between heat ed cylinders to free them from any air or water tnat tiiey may contain, and to mnue tnem uniform In texturo. Again they nro rolled between hontPii rollers nnd thus made Into sheets of various tlilcknesscs for use. or forinmi Into rods, water pipes or any other shapes which may be desired. MILLIONAIlti: H HA LEV'S S I'M. MICH HUM 1-2. went to school but three years and that was on the plains of Texas. Hut he was born with rare sagacity, a peculiar border shrewdness that reads men nt a glance nnd knows a schemer Instinct ively. His chief stock In trade Is an Iron constitution nnd n bravado nerve that made him well known on the fron tier before he was "0. He became n vaquero In Texas when he was 17 years old. His as.wcl.-UoH have been Mexican vaqueros, American cowlwys, hardened characters on tho bonier nnd half breed Indians. Wtinlo In Shrimp Not. A smnll bottle-nosed whale n t long and 0 feet In circumference has been captured off tho Essex Is now to bo seen on tho beach at Southend. It was surprised near tho shore by somo local fishermen, who managed to take It by tniuillmr It ,ln In an old shrimp not. Its vitality was so great that It ii,i for fifty hours after capture. The idea of tackling a ton of lively whalo wih a shrimp net does not In tho least im press Its captors, who, says our corre spondent, "would go for a sea serpent with a half Inch rope." World's Conl Fields. Tho total area of tho coal nni,i. in the world Is estimated at 47i.finr .n,,o miles. Ktnrt of tlio Henley I-'orliuic. When tho Xavajocs were moved by the government to Southern New Mex ico In the latter 'Ms, Jim Henley and other vaqueros went northwnrd with little bands of cattle and settled on tracts of land close to the Arizona tor rltorial line. That was tho beglnulng of tho Henley fortune. In a few years ho had several hundred head of steers. Then he had several thousand. He spoke the Spanish tongue as well as his own, nnd no American knew the border nnd lt rude ways so well as Jim Ilea ley did. With further sales of cattle he bought more land. So he has kept on buying land, trading for cattle and water rights, occasionally dabbling In sheep nnd wool until ho has become more Uian a millionaire. Up to twenty-five years ago Healey's soio unnecessary expense was cam bllng. There are still tales In ancient Santa Ie of the times when Jim Henlev returning from a cattle drive to Trlnl- dad and Fort Dodge, used to sit In a faro gamo for forty-eight hours nt a strotch nnd lose or win S7.000 or S8.000 ' suung. une nignt bo saw the faro dealer give a significant wink to a pro- lunaiuiiui pmyer nioiigsiiio Henley and from that moment ho quit tho tables. Ho has had his tips nnd down., i,. .1. .: . - vnv ue, me same as all other cattlemen In tho groat freezo of 1878 ho lnt' i. greater part oi a nerd that represented somo $125,000. At another tl.,, i. inaf uylt sw.uuu wortn of cattlo by reason of a lung plaguo and tho Texas cattle ll-HTi Tho fearful depreciation ranges, which set In ni culminated In 1800, ruined many a cat tleninn but Henley not only hung to his herds nnd sold his cattlo f m,. n vtr 8lX, or 8evo successive years, but ho added to !,i , purchase of land from discouraged men whe abandoned tho Industry. X three years ho has been m,,,. . 'f - nnd ho Is Tho ore most cattleman in Now Mexico. lcli In Copper Property -tho present mnrvnim la linn... I.. Per has also added nsrS: Ho Is by no iiusiiir a miser, forhekii several Una's made gifts of $1.0u0i! $-,000 to his vaqueros. whom lie llkn Last Christina he deeded to a man m his range a bunch of prime A-year-cU steers that were worth $1,S00, anJ U gave till In his employ a ten or t twenty-dollar gold piece. Ho makM b!i headquarters and home In a plneibia ty on the southern end of bis great range, about thlrty-llvo tulles north- west front Cerlllos station, on the Sinn I'e route. There ho Klccpt In a rud? bunk built against the wall nml store are two other bunk. where a friend or u trusted vaquero sleeps occulonsll;.. I'r.iKiil lit 1(1 I xpciul turct. Henley cooks his own food, but ion tliniw he luts a cowboy help blm it cooking. A lot of burned black kcttH a burned skillet, nnd a grimy old coffe pot and a few battered pans, cblppw dishes, nud decrepit knives ami forts on n greasy table near the stove all tell What wort of meals this unusual mil lionaire imrtakes of. He has never seen a drama, heard concert, or anything Uieatrlcnl oroper. aUc since 1870, nnd then In III raw About onco a month, when there It n work Jim Henley cun busy himself at, nnd ho feels lit the mood, then lliccaH tie king will get out a three gallon Jof of claret (which he buys from the half-1 breed Indians) nnd produco several J low paper packagcH of cheap tobneco and he nnd several associates will " and tell stories either nbout a cnninr or In the cabin for a few hours. Pot that's tho end of tho cattleman's dissi pation. No one can Induce him to hare another tnslo of it In less than three or four weeks. IIoIiiion Humor. The Into John Ilo'.mes, whose rcpu tntlon for wit wns not ns wide ns that of his celebrated elder brother, Pr. 01H ver Wendell Holmes, wns yet knoffj nmong his Intimates iih a man of ready) roparteo and characteristic humor. Mr. Holmes never married, but 1"W by himself In a little house In Cam bridge, nnd onco a friend rallied him on his lonely life. "You ought to mnrry, John," said W, "nnd have n larger house." "Why, yes," replied Mr. noi. with a quiet smile, "If I should taw-, better half I would liavo, to Improve my quarters." Its Nnmo A'xnliiNt It. 'That now ladles' magazlno proved a complete failure." "Did It? What was- tho cause i Hod 'The Ago 0l that's Bonici 'thing tho women don't want to cow. out"-llilludelplila Bulletin.