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About The Eugene weekly guard. (Eugene, Or.) 1899-1904 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 30, 1902)
Eugene Weekly Guard. American will curvy pff with bin» when, •ver offered for sale. ——♦— CAMPBKLL BUOI, 1'roprlelurs. EUGENE OREGON. * . -» My boy. don’t rock tlie boat. It is easier to make records and wills than It Is to break them. Many a man sets himself up as a hero because he baa no valet. Even tbe lecture bureau managers have deserted Colonel Aguinaldo. An amateur Is a person who has en- tered the first stage of Ignorance. Mary MacJ.ane says she has decided that she Is not a genius. Now maybe she la one, after all. Give a l»oy bis choice of presents and he'll take the one that turns out the most noise. Along with the nonappearnnee of Mr. Edison's storage battery is tbe two- minute trotter. There seems to tie a widespread movement among British statesmen to give tbe boys a chance. Gold-brick purchasers are born often enough to keep the manufacturers from going out of business. If every man wanted to do wliat the world wants him to the whole thing would be greatly simplified. Experience teaches. No tioy who has held a cannon cracker in Ills hand till It exploded ever repeats the i>erform* a nee. The Governor of Yucatan reports that hla country has neither a war nor a revolution on hand. Well by gum! Another miracle. Jane Toppun. the Massachusetts unir deresa, declares that she wishes to be knowu as the greatest criminal that ever lived. 1 »bl Jane ever bear of a l.ucretla Borgia? Japan Ims made a greater appropri* ntlon for her exhibit at the Nt. Louis World's Fair thnn was made by any one of the United States, which Is an other slgu of .lapan'a progressiveness. Professor Small miixt not be too linrd oil the hops of the rich. In Ills lecture at tbe Chicago University on "Re.nta and Interest” be denounced wealthy young men who lenu buck III their sea green automobiles nnd live on the In terest of their fortunes. It la not to be denied that the young mail might spend hla time and money to better ad vantuge. But if the son of the rich man still prefers his aen green uutomo mile, who shall say that lie Is doing uothlng for the omitnunlty? He is dis pensing Ills money In a legitimate way luatend of cornering other people's prlv llegi-s. He may withhold from the poor, but In his way lie la giving activity to business and employment to honest lubor. lie may come to grief by squan dering Ills millions, but Unit Is his own matter. The community cnmiot suf fer by a spendthrift as It can and does suffer from the miser and tbe tuonopo Hat. Professor NumII must give the rich young man some credit for bene tiling the community, even when the youth Is sitting In Ills sea green auto mobile and merely enjoying the laud aca pe. Albert Audet was recently In Jail In Chicago for house breaking. T he state meat brings up a mental picture of a lowbrowed character with furtive manner and restless eyes. But Albert Audet who robbed boarding houses Is not that kind of a man. Albert dress as In the mode and wheu arrested eight complete suits, none of which cost less than |tMl, were found In Ida trunk He Is a Hne-looklng. soft speaking young gent with marks of birth and breed Ing. And lie Is well edueahal He bolds a diploma for bachelor of arts In a Montreal university and la a gradu ate of a medical college Maurice Grau paid him good money also for the use of his voice, lie sang In the opening cast of "Florodora " What link did Fate neglect when It forged the chain of this gentlemanly burglar's make up? Birth, breeding, bearing, refine ment, physical and mental gifts but somewhere there was a weak spot. Here It Is: Illa principal complaint, after confessing to bls crlm*i, was that be couldn't lie down on Ills wood en Jail bench without wrinkling bls clothes! Vanity. It lias been polntisl out again and again that ostentation and shallow pride In her clothes baa ruins«! many a girl But It la also true, though less remarked, that conceit In raiment has »(Killed many a boy. The youth who thinks more of his clothes than be thinks of bis character la In danger. I The I-ondon Times asks If nothing can be done to atop the continuous wholesale exportation of rare and early printed liooks and Illuminated manu script» to the United States If some thing Is not done speedily all the tress urea referred to with the exception of those In public libraries will tie shipped across the Atlantic. Whoever wishes to see tbe test collection of the handi work of the first English printer will bsvs to visit the United Nt a tea. It Is difficult to see what can be done ex- cept for Englishmen to outbid Ameri cans when rars books coms on ths market. In Italy tbers are laws which forbid tbe sale to foreigners by ths Italians who own them of certain classes of paintings and statue« En gland Is not ready for such legislation, which would be looked on as an inva sion of private rights Of course. If Englishmen were so patriotic as to ac cept a lower offer from a countrymaa for an Illuminated manuscript In order that It might remain In England there would be m occasion for complaints like those of thy Times, but because of bla love of art and antiquity the Amerlcnn makes the higher bid and the English owner. Itecause of hie comm er dal Instincts, accepts It. The Times might lead In the organisation of • na tion» I defense fund for the purrbase of rare books and manuscripts which otherwise Mr Morgan urj some other Young man, If you want to succeed in life, beware of self Indulgence; That vice Is tbe bane of modern times. Your forliears succeeded lieranse they exer cised the virtues of self-restraiut and self »aerifies. Tb—e virtu»« sound strangely In your ears. You have little conception of what they mean. In your grandfather’« youth there were no heating and cooking stoves, to say nothing of gas ranges. Your grand mother cooked the meals at the tire place or In a Dutch oven. There were no kerosene lamps, no railroads, no telegraphs, no telephones. Tbe civili zation of those times was not rich In Invention, but It was rich In men and women. There were few luxuries In those early times and little temptation to self-indulgence. I.lfe Is made easy for you in one sense und bard for you In another. Mastery of self Is more difficult now than It was fifty years ago. There - ------------- ----------- an* ’— less difficulties * to over come laid more temptations In the way. And If you are not careful of /our opportunities the children of other lauds will outrun you. It la the children of tbe foreigners who are do- lug the heavy work of the laud and In so doing they are building up the phys ical, mental and moral fibre that you lack. Don't make fun of the Immi grant. He cornea of a large family nnd Is glmpy. The man who gets the largest salary In this country Is named Schwab. Your greatest enemy Is a dlsjastltlon to self indulgence, self In dulgence In drink, or passion or social dissipation. If you are to run your race with patience and poise you must deny yourself. Sounds strange? It la true. Tbe last official act of Judge Andrew Ellison, who died In St. Louis recently, and who for twenty two years was a circuit Judge at Macon, Mo., was to re fuse a decree for a divorce. \\ hen tbe divorce proceedings came up for trial tbe Judge waved aside the lawyers and took the case himself. He asked a few questions und read numerous letters written by the parties to each other. Then he said to tbe litigants: “I suppose that you have both been hasty at times, but you have three lit tle children, who are not responsible for these troubles Tlie law of both God and man says It la your duty to rear these children, and In tlie face of the fact that you both come from good people and have good hearts, I will not be an Instrument tbe last act of my official life will not result In tlie severance of two young people and In tbe making of orphuus of three little children. I will not do It.” It was Just b<*fore Christmas. The Judge, an other ‘‘Daniel come to Judgment,” pleaded with the couple to return home together ami today they are living In harmony, I ’ n Im pi illy for society, few Judges will thus exert themselves for the reconciliation of mini nnd wife. They forget that It Is tlie alm of tho law to reform, to pacify and to concil iate. In fulfilling the letter of the law they forget the spirit of It. Moreover, tills Judge knew all the stops of the human organism. He knew what heart strings to touch. The weakness of the belligerent liusliaild andwlfewas the children. Three little children, three tender ties between husband and wife that Hatred could not disentangle. These could never he "his children” nor "her children.” Always nnd for ever they would be ”our children." The little ones hnd done no wrong. Why should they be branded nnd hu miliated nnd imide forever aore of heart? That was the tender •pot and the Judge touched It deftly. Because It Is Hie best thing left to us from I’lirmllse the home lives always In the shadow of Its foes The devil would have only man and wife Inside Its walls. But Gist, knowing Its needs, sends children. • The varying color of a vacuum tube containing krypton, seen by some as li lac and by others as green, la explained by l’rof. W. Itamaay to depend on the size of the yellow spot of tbe retina. To Illustrate immensity and minute ness, J. E. Gore cites the fact that the nearest fixed star Is 271.'JOO times as far away as the sun. ami that a speci men of certain Infusoria can lie between two lines of an Inch space divided Into twenty five thousand parts. Obesity la regarded by Dr. Gabriel Laven, a French physician, as a ner vous disorder. It Is not a disease, but a symptom arising from various condi tion«. with some disturbance of nutri tion usually a kind of dyspepsla-as tbe foundation. Treatment is directed to the dyspepsia. It Is difficult to account for tbe enor mous velocity of some birds' flight when migrating. Tbe northern blue throat goes at the rate of 540 miles an hour, flying 4.8ts) miles from Egypt to Heligoland In a spring night of barely nine hours. Virginian plover fly from Labrador to North Brazil. 9.600 miles, without stopping, going at tbe rate of 636 miles an hour, and probably more. How can this speed tie attained? The birds resort to great height, where the resistance of the air is light. Ont* of the puzzles of geography lias been the question of the situation of the sources and upper portions of tbe three great rivers, Hoangho, Yangtze ami Mekong all of which start from the lofty plateau of Tibet. Two of the rivers traverse China; the Mekong makes Its way to the sea between Anam and Klam. This puzzle has been partially cleared up by the explorations of tlie Russian Captain Kozloff during 1900 and 1901. He found that tbe three rivers flow on the surface of the great plateau, 12,000 feet above sea level, and are separated from one another by parallel ranges of mountains risiug about 3,000 feet above the plateau, and running In a northwest and southeast direction. The fact that the sun when poised on the horizon sometimes appears greatly distorted, or drawn out Into the form of an oval. Is well known, and tbe ex planation Is very simple, namely, the rapid change In the refractive Index of the air near the horizon. In consequence of w hich the lower edge of the sun ap pears to be lifted with reference to the upper edge, and so the disk looks as If squeezed between top and Itottom. Re cently Professor Prinz, of the Brussels Observatory, has obtained several large scale photographs of the setting sun which distinctly show the deformation of the disk, and rentier Its measure ment very easy. In one case the vertl t ai diameter Is to the horizontal In the ratio of 75 to 84. Sometimes the distor tion Is greater than that. Excavating by Compressed Air.—In sinking the Brooklyn caisson for the third bridge over the East River, It has been found possible to make compress- ctl air do tbe work of shovels In remov ing tin* sand, through a thick stratum of which the caisson la being forced down toward the bed rock deep be neath. The sand Is so pure and loose that the force of the compressed air supplied for the workmen In the cais son suffices to drive it up through blow pipes Inserted Into the caisson for the purpose. Jets of water are directed against the sand around the bottom of the blow pipes, and when thus dis lodged the sand readily passes up through the pipes with the strong alr- enrrents that are continually (louring Into them from the compressed atmos phere of the caisson. A WALKING STICK AS A MEASURE ■---- Height» Here is a mlero«coplr photogia|di of the eye« of J common house fly The microscop« brings out many things which are Uiiseen by tin* natural eye. Tlie fly ha» large eyes nnd a number of eye» In one eye. which make him hard to catch. This picture not only •how» the eyes, but the bead as well, enlarged many thousand times Its nat- ural size. The Knorr AaX«»u»et»e«l. Philadelphia has ts-en delighted with • •tory »!*■«( a prominent citizen of her» whom name la chiefly know u In connection with tho »try goods trade During an expedition to Norway the Germnn Emperor visited a ship of the Hamburg American line, almard which was John Wananiaker. He was pre sented to the Kaiser ami at once grasp ed the Imperial band, exclaiming: “I am gla»l to meet such an enterprising young man; that 1» Just the sort of thing we admire In America.” The un tonventlotial greeting seemed greatly to please the Emperor. Not Eiijoyable. "l»ellgbted to see you: llow did you enjoy your visit to tbe Riviera?' "t»b. •<>t very much There wasn't a «eoi where I was staying eicvpt Intimate friends." Mobbed the t metre. First CoUffff* Girl I hear you girls Mobbed tbe umpire at tbe clara game? S. ■ her •he I k&t Science vention nd College G r I- a 111* III "Id th ilg "» \ - as« .*'•••♦’•. «X«r» W e «al« « SB « K a «Kd« » of Object» Ascertained Help of a Cane. bj A walking stick Is mi Invaluable artl cle to accompany one on a walk, for It can assist you In other ways than luaid lug your progress. Suppose you wunt to measure the height of a cliff, a church steeple, or «oiua other tall ob ject, mid the suu shines not, and there fore no uluidow Is east. 'The walking stick will none the less assist you to tell its height. This time take u dla- tam-e some 120 feet from the object which you wish to measure, nml in the ground nt that point firmly plant your •tick. Tlii-ii move along fnnn It lu a straight line until by lying down on mother earth the top of your stick mid the top of the object to lie measured will to your eye be on a line. Thia spot you will mark. This gives you three |>oliits one, where you lay down; two. your plant»*«! stick, mid three, tbe ob ject to be measured. Now. tlie dlatancv from the (xdnt where you lay down to the »tli-k 1» to the dlataiiee from the stick to the ohjis-t to l>e iiiensured as the height of tbe stick 1» to the height of tlint oh ect. Thus, suppose the point where you lay down Is six yards from tlie stick ami thirty-six yards from the object, then the obj«*ct la six time« 'he height of tlie »tick. Now. the »tick yoq know to t*e three feet high, the object moasuml Is therefore approximately eighteen feet. It 1» a fairly easy thing to olttalu the inensurviuent of an object If you but have a rule or a compass. The trouble Is that usually wheu one wishes to Judge a distance a standard to go ey Is sadly lacking. There are. however, ready nuletltutes If you but know how to use them. If the sun be sblaliig you can get tbe cardinal points as easily with your watch as with a com para Point the twelve on the dial toward the sun. Half way between the point st which the hour hand is and the Ig ors 12 will be «lue soittti. That point lo cated north, east »ml we«t follow, a» of coarse. Without explanation this sounds like legerdemain, but It la In reality simple and easily umh-rstool At noon tbe sun Is due South and the hour Ivin.! pointed toward 12 The mil and ths hour ham! both travel for ward, but as the hand goes »round the «1 lai tw • n the twenty four hours at » tbe sun rerslve« »bout the earth »«» «i«e ti ••»*• «•■•e.i «T t we. It • ra.»* «••«*• «•««•• ■ <**l « *1'♦ •' «O As •■•» therefore, by *Ilv *1 g It > es» J V T* •S<A<* msw «| i «•«•«■ a ««ss «Nsssaid t* ' by the ur liSlid It I« to fracture y» W’ t- a 1 12 y»» And « nth l>e.'i'> who live much In tbe open as board ng hoifce i '}:<». * I Jo ranchers and fartnris. csj general ly tell time fairly accurately b? ttw •un. and some although tbe feat Is •emlngly more difficult, can tell time from the length of the shadow thrown by the »un. The shadow 1«. however, un easy way of determining height« For example, suppose you wished to ascertain the height of » tree w ben walking. Pace the shadow of the tree made by the sun and then plant your walking stick and pace Its shadow. As many more or less times Its length as tbe shadow Is will give you the dis tance of shallow thrown by the sun. For Instance, suppose the shadow to be three times tbe length of tbe stick, then It Is nine feet, for the stick is tt*:ee, and If you then dlvlil? your paced distance or the tree's madow by three you will get fairly near tlie ai-tuat height of the tree—New York Tribune. i A STUDY IN SCARLET. BY A. CONAN DOYLE £_______________ ì said pointing to a narrow slit in the CHAPTER IV. line of dead-colored brick. "You'll It was 1 o'clock when we left 3 find me here when you come back.” Lauriston Gardens. Sherlock Holmes Audley Court was not an attractive led me to the nearest telegraph office, locality. The narrow passage led us into a quadrangle paved with flags and »hen he dispatched a long t*-.<gr, He then hailed a cab and ordered the lined by sordid dwellings. We picked our way among groups of driver to take us to the address given dlrtv children ami through lines of dis us by Lestrade. _ i "There’s nothing like first-hand evi colored linen until we came to No. 4il, dence.” he remarked: “as a matter or the door of which was decorated with fact, mv mind is entirely made up up- a small slip of brass, on which the name Rance was engraved. I on the case, but still we may as learn all that is to be learned.” f On Inquiry we found that the Con HAS SOUVENIR OF KING. “You amaze me. Holmes,” said I. stable was in bed. and we were shown “Surely vou are not as sure as you nre into a little front parlor to await his those particulars coming. It 1« Only a Cruat of lirrii'l, but Chi* tend to'be of ail cago Woman Prize» It Highly. whkh you gave.” „ He appeared presently. looking a lit- “There is no room for mistake ne tl Irritable at blng disturbed in his A unique souvenir of the banquet answered. “ The very first thing which given at tbe ltlchiuoli l House in Chi slumbers. cago in 1860 to the Prince of Wales, I observed on arriving there was that “I made my report at the office," now King Edward VII., Is possessed a cab had made two ruts with its he said. wheels close to the curb. Now, up to Holmes took a _ half sovereign from by Mrs. Charles Hunt, of this city. last night we have hnd no rain for a Mrs. Hunt Is the mother of Mrs. Moses week, so that those wheels, which left Us pocket, and played with it pen J. Wentworth, wife of tbe nephew of such a deep Impression, must have sively. "We thought that we should like to *’Ix»ng John” Wentworth. Mayor of tbe been made there during the night. he There were the marks of the horse’s bear it all from your own lips,” city at the time of the Prince's visit. Mr. Hunt was City Treasurer then, hoofs, too. the outline of one of which said. be most happy to tell vou “ I 1 shall ____ _______ aud he and his wife were living at tbe was far more clearly cut than that of anything I can.” the constable nn- the other three, showing that there Richmond House. In deference to the the little was a now shoe. Since the cab was swered. with his eyes upon hotel's distinguished guest they gave there after the rain began, and was golden disk. up their suite of rooms for his use. Af not there at any time during the morn- "Just let us hoar ft all In your own ter tbe guests had left the dining room lnz—J have Greeson's word for that— way. as it occurred.” Rance sat down on the horsehair at the close of the banquet Mr. Hunt ft follows that It must have been there went In w ith a uuinlier of others out during the night, and. therefore, that , eofa and knitted his brows, as though it brought those two Individuals to the determined not to omit anything in of curiosity. bis narrative.” Seeing others seeking souvenirs, and house.” ’Til tell It ye from the beginning.” “That seems simple enough," said I: thinking that, as he and his wife had other man’s he said. “My time is from efgh» at given up their rooms to tbe Prince they “but how about the n’ght to six in the morning. At eleven were especially entitled to a souvenir, height?” there was a fight at the White Hut; | “Why, the height of a man. in nine Mr. Hunt took a small piece of toast but. bar that, all was quiet enough on i cases out of ten can be told from the from the Prince's (date. lie placed It ; length of his stride. It Is a simple cal the boat. At one o'clock it began to lu a little box and presented it to his culation enough though there Is no tain, and T met Harry Marcher—him wife "as a present from the Prince ” i use my boring you with figures. I who has the Holland Grove boat—ami we stood together at the corner of She has carefully kept the crust, ami , this follow's stride, both on the clay Henrietta street a-talkln' Prosontlv It Is in an excellent state of preserva i outside and the dust within. Then I —maybe about two. or a little after—I had a way of checking my calcu'a tion. a little harder to bite, however, tions. When a man writes on a wall, thought I would take a look round nnd than It was 42 years ago. see that all was right down tho Brix his instinct loads him to write about In connection with the Prince's toast tho level of his own ovos. Now. that ton road. It was precious dirty and Mrs. Moses J. Wentworth tell» an an writing was Just over six feet from lonely. Not a soul did I meet all the way down though a cob or two ecdote. It seems the Prince was not the ground. It was child’s play.” went past me. I was a strollin’ down, feeling well on the ulglit of the ban “And his age?" I asked. quet. He had so little appetite that a "Well, if a man can stride four and thinkfn’ between ourselves how un common handy a four of gin hot would piece of toast was aliotit all lie cared to a half feet without tho smallest effort, be. when suddenly a glint of 1f;ht eat. Having satisfied his slender ap he can’t be quite in the sore and yel i caught my eye in tho window- of that petite, and been nt the table ns long as low. That was the breadth of a pud i-ame house. Now. I knew that them he wished, he announced, ns 1« usual dle on the garden walk which ho had two houses In Lauriston Gardens was evidently walked across. Patent with royalty on such occasions, “I have leather boot« had gone around and empty on account of him that owns finished." This was the signal for all square toes had hopped over. There them, who wont have the drains seed persons at the table to quit eating, rise is no mystery about it at all. I am to. though tho very last tenant that und then follow the Prince from tbe simply appvling to ordinary life a 7oW lived in one o’ them died o’ tvnhnid rf those precepts of observation and fever. I was knocked all tn a heap, table. . therefore, at seeing a light in the wln- Now It happened that “Long John" deduction which I advocated in that I dow. and I suspected as somefh'ng Wentworth, the Mayor, was a good article. Is there anything else that was wrong, When w*e got to the deal hungrier on this occnslon thnn lhe 1 .-»tizzies you?” "The finger nails and the Trichinop- door------ ” Prince was. He had started In to eat “You stopped and then walked b-»ck ' oly, ” I suggested. something of a “meal.” when to the garden gate." my companion in “The writing on the wall was done terrupted. "What did you do that Prince's announcement. “I have | with a man’s forefinger dipped In for’” Islied," interrupted him. i blood. My glass allowed me to ob- Rance eave a violent Jump and "Well. I have uot linlshed." he ex- ' servo that tho plaster was slightly claimed, in a tone of good uatured but scratched in doing It. which would not stared nt Sherlock Holmes with tho ut most amazement upon his features. Injured protest. However, he arose Lave boon the case if the man's nail “Why. that's true, sir.” he said, with th rest and left the table. But had been trimmed. I gathered up “though how you come to know it. he afterward told one of his friends some scattered ash from the floor. It Heaven only knows' You see, when I that lie took advantage of the first op I was dark In color and flaky—such an got up to the door, ft was so still and ash ns is only made Lv a Trlchonopoly. so lonesome that I thought I'd be none portunity to "ski|> off by himself” and I have made a special study of cigar get something more to eat.—Chicago i ashes—In fact. I have written a mono the worse for some one with me. I ain't afeared of nothing on this side Tribune. graph upon the subject. I flatter my- o’ tho grave; but T thought maybe ft s< If that I can distinguish at a glance MR. SCHWAB IN NEW YORK. was him that died o’ typhoid inspect the ash of any known brand of cigar ing tho drains what, killed him. The or of tobacco. It is in Just such de Only Cnptiiia <>f Industry Who Pre thought gave me a kind o’ turn, and tails that the skilled detective differs fers to Work for » i-slury, I walked back to the gate to see if I Mr. Schwab represents the highest from tho Gregson nnd I.estrade type.” could see Marcher’s lantern, but there “And the florid face?” I asked. tlevelopineut of lb»* salarie»! employe, wasn't no sign of him nor any one “Ah. that was a more daring shot, writes Naiuuel E. Moffett, in an arti though I have no doubt that I was else?” “There was no one in the street?" cle coiicerulng the presldeut of tin* right. You must not ask me that at “Not a livin’ soul, sir. nor as much United States Steel Corporation in the tho present state of the affair." as a dog. Then I pulled myself to Cosmopolitan. Other men compara I passed my hand over my brow. gether and went back and pushed the ble with him as generals of Industry "My head is In a whirl." I remarked; door open, All was quiet inside, so T have soon graduated from the pay roil “the more one thinks of It. the more went into the room __ _______ where the . light to work for themselves. Rockefeller, mysterious it grows. How came those was a-burnln’.' There was a candle Hill, Spreckels, Mills, Stanford, Hunt two mon—if there were two men—In flickerin’ on the mantel-pieci -a red ington, llopklua and Carnegie nil be- to an empty house? What has become wax on, -and by its light I saw------ ” of the cabman who drove them? How “Yes. I know all that you saw. You giiu ¡»oor, but all turned their energies ronld one man compel another to take to putting themselves Into a position poison? Where did tho blood come walked round the room several times, and you knelt down by the body, nnd In which everything amassed by their from? What was tho object of the then you walked through and tried the brains would go into their own bank murderer, since robbery had no part kitchen door, and then------ ” deposits. Seliwal» slone lias l»eeu con In it? How came the woman's ring*J John Rance sprang to his feet with tent to remain a glorified wage earner, there? Above all. why should the sec- ■ frightened face and suspicion In his cheerfully putting t> n millions iuto end man write up the Gorman word eyes. "Where was you hid to see all the (»ockets of his employers for every Rache before decamping? I confess that I cannot see any possible way of that?" he cried. “It seems to me that million retained by himself. reconciling all these facts.” you know a deal more than you Mr. Schwab is a socialist In disguise. My companion smiled approvingly. should.” He recalls the difficulty a worker "You sum up tho difficulties of the Holmes laugheil and threw his card found under the old Individualistic sys situation succinctly and well.” he said. across the table to the constable. tem of securing n foothold In business “There Is much that Is still obscure, “Don't get arresting me for the TTHir- ___ for himself. Ills savings would not though I have quite made up my mind der.” he said. “I am one of the hounds, buy a factory, or a partnership In one. on the main facts. As to poor Lo- and not the wolf: Mr. Gregson or Mr. •trade’s dfsovery. it was simply a I.estrade will answer for that. Go on, Tbe exceptional man could save blind Intended to put the police upon enough to start a little workshop ami a wrong track, by suggesting social though. What did you do next?” Rance resumed his scat, without, he could add to tils busine«« from day ism and secret societies. It was however, losing his mystified expres to day until with g»»o»l luck lie had not done by n Gorman. Tho A. sion. built up a great Industry, but the aver If you noticed, was printed some- "I went hack to the gate and sound after the Gorman fashion ed my whistle. That brought Mur* age wage-earner could newr hope to be what Ills own employer. Now a man with Now a real German invariably prints cher and two more to the snot." any thrift at all can buy a share of In the Latin character, so that we may "Was the street empty, then?” safely say that this was not written bv “Well, it was. so far as anybody that •tock. A little later lie can buy an one. but by a clumsy Imitator, v ' could be of anv good goes ” other share. Before lie know« it he Is overdid his part. It was simply who T t ■------ "What do yon mean?” perceptibly a partner in the business ruse, to divert inquiry Into a wrong The constable's ¿»attires broadened that employ» him. channel. I'm not going to toll vou Into a grin. This Mr. Schwab b»*lleves to be the much more of the case, doctor. You .. 1 'T ’€en manT " drunk chap in mv direction In which evolution Is going know a conjurer eofg no credit when i time,” he “ '_ !*e said, s?'d. • "Vut never any one so to carry our industrial »ysteiu. He once he has explained his trick, and I cryin’ drunk as ......... that cove. He wa« at --------— If I show you too much of my method I the gate when I came out. a leanfn’ up ha» given his views a dazzling Illus of working you will come to the con tration In bl« own person. In Ills ease clusion that I am a very ordinary Indt- agin the railin's and .•’. ringin’ nt the • pitch of his lungs about Columbine’*« It has been uot merely the put chase of viituaJ after all.” New-fangled Banner, . or Romp some such one »hare at a time out of weekly sav “I shall never do that," I answered; stuff stand, far I less pss ings, but the acquisition of blocks of ,"vmi have brought detection as near ', help.” He couldn't stand stock as • reward for conspicuous an exact science as ft ever will be "What sort of a man was ha?" bar brought In thia world." ability. askovf Sherlock Holmes. My companion flushed up with pleas- John Rance appeared be somo- some ired to bp The Mice IMd No« » are. nre at my words and the earnest way Little Dorothea la one of tlMtae chll- In which I uttered them. J had al what Irritated at this digression. ' He was an uncommon drunk sort o' dreti whose danger signal is silence. ready observed that he was aS sensi Plan." he said. “He's ha’ found hfssMf When she 1» still, says Brooklyn Lite tive to flattery on the score of his art in the station If we hadn't been so as any gtrl conid be of her beauty ■he la In mischief. took up.” ‘TH tell you one other thing." he The other day her mother became "HI» face—hla dress—didn't you no »«Id. "Patent leathers and Square ’ aware of the quiet which boded trou toes came In the same cab and they tice them?" Holme» broke In. Impati ble. She was about to look for tbe child, walked down the pathway together as ently. "1 should think I did notice th«m. when, at that moment. iMrothea came friendly •« possible—arm In arm In in. her fac« rosy with bappluera and all probability. Wn they got insi 1e seeing that I had to prop him up—n-.o Tie wn.a a they walked up and down the room and Marcher between us her mouth covered w Ith crumb«. Lmg chap with a red face, the lower “Where have you l*een. imrotbea." er rather. Patent leathers stood «t’ll t n-t muffled round------ " and asked her mother. "What are you eat- while Square-toe» walked up and That will do.” cried Holmes," What down I could read all that tn the mg dust: and I could read that as be became of him’” "»'heese," said the young lady walked, he grew more and more _ We'd enoneh to do without lookin' et- calmly. «Ited That Is shown by the h»creaa«>d an*»r him.** the po’lcrman saM. !n an “t'heeee? Where did you get It, length of hi» strtdes. He was talking '■■grlevevl voice. ’TH wager he found all the while, and working himself np hi* way home all right." dear?" co doubt. Into a fury Then the trig I "How was he dressed?” “In the mouf-trap." "A brown overcoat.” "In tbe mousetrap!" exclaimed her •dy occurred I've toll vrni all I know ‘ Had he * whip in his hand?" ttyself. now for the rest Is mere «nr- mother, horrified. A whip—no." n.lse and conjecture We have » <0o,i •N»h. yeth!” "He must have left ft behind. working bas s, however, on which ’o it* ------- “Rut what will the mice do? They •tart. We must hury up for I want tore? my companion. "Yon didn't happen to won't have «ny cheeae." to go to Halle's concert to hear Nor see or hear a cab after that?” “Oh. »Icy don't care, mamma! Iter man Neruda this afternoon " "No." was two mouflea in de trap, aud dey Th . • « t ««•■ « I* t n > <'»mpanfon said, standing up and * h” ¡¡J* “I «n» afraid. Rance, lira ke <»f BBotbei X i>ut I in brak f tl® *T ir**, J0’1 jHn never rise In the force onr- . mat head of ynnrs should be for use •• » ' r* j. ’•7 j •’ ornament. You might have » Audley Court In there." he i gained your sergeant's »tripes last I night. The men whnm your hands 1« the m k«M u clew of this mystery *^h’"«»tC are seeking. There 1« no ,, *ho® wt Ing about it now; [ t(.n ,of *rr,. so. Come along, doc tor "y°U 11 u We st *rt-*| oi fort . leaving our informant in.-rra ’;'*’?>>«• obviously uncomfortable lu*01«. b'.t "The blundering fool"» bitterly, as we drove back Ings. “Just to think of hl. h?v?"r lw’t- an incomparable bit of erw,i , !«k not taking advantage of ft •• ac^ "I am rather |n the ,|ark true that the <’• ". rfpt'.,n of 1 ’< 1» tallies with your Idea of ,fc ’ B!a« party in this mystery n..t he ccme back to tho house ,koal4 Ing it? That It not the way **” nals ’ a« way of “The ring, man th-» rfne' t > what he came back for if 21( ’•» other way of catching him w?^®0 ways bait our line with th. ?a **■ shall have him, doctor—i n* /n*' 1 two to one that I have him i ** thank you for it all. i might" J. i"* gone but for you. and so hav" l.h’” the finest study I ever came acX'*1 study in scarlet, eh? Why * we use a little art Jargon’ to ? dni tbe scarlet thread of murder ranT through the colorless skein of lit our duty is to unravel ¡t and ir^.*** ¡.nd expose every Inch of it a '?' " for lunch, and then for Norman Her attack and her bowing "re did. What’s that little thingn.”’ in’s she plays so magnificently t * « laltra-Mra-lay?” y’ Tr,'h' Leaning back in the cab this teur bloodhound caroled away Ilk. lark, while I meditated U1)on *.* many- sidedness of the human mind STRANDED IN THE DESERT Fully Equipped Steamer Rest, on S,ni), g,, dering the Colorado River. There uovs not seem’ Io be much nw for a shi(i in the desert country ifornia, whi.h Iwnler» on the Colorado river, vet travelers.in that region ma, see there a veritable "ship of the ert.” Ear from any body ol water <•». pableof floating even a inud-eo v.mavhe found a big stern-wheel sti amer, aiio«. tomed to ply up and down the river carrying pas.-engers ai .1 freight. Shi has been lying there since last Septem ber, stranded high an I dry on the sands a mile and a half from the stream’s present coir-e. This strange condition of affairs has come about »-imply ltecauxe the Colo* rado, a mighty at ream, but one of th, most tieaelierous of rivt rs, chose to cot a new channel for itself early in the fail without notice or warning. Ore night last September the Alviao t:e 1 up to tlie shore a couple of mi's« above Needle.«, awaiting telegraphic orders. She wa« loaded with passen gers and supplies, and as travel is sometimes leisurely pursued on the Colorado, all hands turned in for , good night’s sleep. Between 3 and 4 o’clock, < aj tain I abson was »routed by Indians, who warned him that for some reason the river via« falling rap idly, ’ami advised him to pull out into midstream a« quickly as porsible. This the captain tried to d >, but the water had already gone down so low that his prow stuck fast in the mini when be got up steam and tried to turn tlie paddle wheels and move out into navigable water. And there he ha« stuck ever h nee, becoming reigned to his situation perforce and hoj-efully awiating tlie H*x»<l water that cones down at the times of the melting of the Colorado ai d Wyoming snows. Things That Muy Interest Vou. □80^2E^S&3£iSE2£ESSEaBEHi It is said that the flint tlmt lorn:» the subi-tratuni of London is nothing but petrified apongea An examination of the fossil sponge »hows its structure. Several Kruger Sovereign», tl e last issued by the ex-pre»ident of the Trans vaal, and struck in hi« train near Ma- chadodorp Jn 1890, are now on view in Lausann«. John Philip Sou«a has sent to King Edwnrd a copy of his march, "Imperial Edward.” beautifully illuminated on vellum in antique fashion and enclowl in a gold-mounted morvtxo ease. Tlie statue of the late Governor Eion well P. Flower is to be unveii^i in Watertown, N. Y., on Lab' r day, 'ept. 1. The statute is the work of St Hau- dens, one of the world’» most famoM sculptors. As many as 7,287 men have l*een eloeteil to the national h'*u«e since the American congress wa« organized. The number does not include those who have occupied seats and lieen thrown out on contests. father Hartman, the yoiinj AnstriM monk who composed in hi« monae'ery ceil an oration which Earopvan critien pronounce a m.i-terp’c* <*, has h<*n feted in Rome ami St. I'eter»bti’g, anT is n >w the lion of the hour at \ienn». Sir George White, who would, in 1^« ordinary course, have be< n retired fr"in the British army thia month, has l**n given an extension, ami will ntain the governorship and con niai>,,, r in ' •1 ip at Gibraltar until Julv '*. I '1”' Jonathan Littlefield, of Bi'Lirf^l* Me., is one of tbe meet persist'’** souvenir hunter« in ti e I nit* I Mxtr** When Prince Henry ua« 1 ere u* secured hi» autograph, which v ritten directly under that of dent McKinley in hi C' ’i he Iras also splinter« of tl c the president stood when The annoiincen «'iit that King I of Sweden is writing I:-1 mem ir» hardly ¡«.me« as a utrpri-*'. for tb» reason that he ha» «" fr« entljr so “ucee««fnlly ve duwd in ;it»*r»tn»« that he might tea»<>nAb!' i iei «1^ to try his hand at stat** cr , r p<rsoiial reminiscent «*s. Wi''!am Biair of Li Jersey, celebnitevl his ni day on July 4. He w i friaixi of Genetal " it whom he made a ha min 1 n hi» trip to Mexico, ar modore Vamlerbilt 2"> «•ei a< ,-n • th«* Hll*i»'il when I r « ♦ at !• • ’h • ■ w»*4*’* r ilW*y r