Eugene Weekly Guard.
American will curvy pff with bin» when,
•ver offered for sale.
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CAMPBKLL BUOI, 1'roprlelurs.
EUGENE
OREGON.
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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
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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
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I
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vention
nd College G r I-
a 111* III "Id th ilg
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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 '}:<».
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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
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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
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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
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