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Men Who Are Reckless In Han
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STORIES BY HUDSON MAXIM
We are Agents for the
Famous
Baldwin
Tt.s Accident by Which the Inventor’s
Left Hand Was Blown Off— John Ben
der’s Contempt For Dynamite—Mix
ing Fire and Nitroglycerin.
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THE GOLD IVAS THEHE,
CURIOUS PERUVIAN TREE
But Mark Twain Mined It by Just
One Pail of Water.
With Steve til.lis, a printer of whom
he w is fond. Murk Twain went up
into Calaveras county to a caliin on
JuckiiHH hill, where Steve's brother
Jim, a lovable, pleiuresque character
(tin* "Truthful James” of Bret lltiriet.
owned mining claims, Mark de
to spend his vacation in p<M-ket mln
lin mid soon milled that s. Ience to 11.-
store of know ledge. It was a halcyon,
happv thris* months that In* Ungerei
there. One day with Jim Hillis he
was followln 4 I':.* specks of gold that
led to a pocket lomewliere tip the hill
when a chill, drciiry rain set in JI 1
was washing ami Clemens was carry
Ing water The "color" lieeiinu* boi I or
and better as they asi endtsl. and fill
lis. pu- sesst il w ith I lie mining passhei.
would Imve gone on iT-.ardleis of lli *
lain Clemen < how ever, protested and
declared Hint eaeli pall of water c :
ills l ist, l-’innl’y 111* said In his dellb
»rate, drawling fashion:
“Jim. 1 won't curry any umre water.
This work is too disagreeable. I er* -
go to the lion e and wait till It ch-1.
lip.’’
Hillis Imd just taken out a pan of
earth.
"Bring one more pail, Sam.'' In* plead
ed.
“I won't do it, Jim! Not a drop!
Not If I knew Hiere was a million
dollars In Hint pan!”
They left tlie pan standing there and
went over to Angel’s camp, wliiclt was
nearer than their own cabin. Tin*
ruin kept on. nlid they sat around Hie
grocery and birroom smoking ami tell
ing stories to pass (lie time.
Meanwhile the rain Imd washed
away tin* top of the pan of earth left
standing on the slope of Jackass hill
and exposed a Immlftll of nuggets
pure gold
Two strangers had coni'.’
along and. observing it. Imd sat down
to wait until the thirty day claim
notice posted by .lint Gillis should ex
pire. They did not mind tlie rain not
with that gold in sight and tlie min i
ute tile thirty days were up the. fol
lowed the lend a few pans furt’mr and
took out $20.1100 in all. It was n good
pocket, Murk Twain missed ii by one
pail of water. Chicago Post.
It Produces a Copious and Continuous
Supply of Rain.
The ruin tree of Peru grows very
large. Is rich iu leaves and is called
by the Indians taiuaicaspi. It has tho
power of collecting the dampness of
the atmosphere and condcnsinj it into
a continuous and copious supply of
rain.
In the dry season, when the rivers
ire low and the heat great, the tree s
power of condensing seems at the
highvd. and water falls in abundance
from the leaves and oozes from the
trunk. Tin* water spreads around in
veritable rivers, part of which inters
into the soil and fertilizes it
Tlie<o
rivers are canalized so as to regulate
the course <»f the water.
It is estimated that one of the Peril
vian rain trees will on the nvernire
yield nine gallons of water per diem
In a field of an area of one kilometer
•quart* that is. 3.250 feet oa< h way
an be grown 10,000 trees separated
from each other by twenty live nie’i r
This plantation produces dall.
.01
liters of water. If we allow for eva
« ration and infiltration wo have 13*
too liters or 2’3,531 gallons of rain foi
distribution daily The rulli tree cut
be cultivated with very little trouble
for it setmis indifferent uh tu thè soli
in w hlcli It grows. Tlie tree im-reuses
rapidly nml reiists bulli extremes
••limate I.spana Moderna.
‘‘it is practically impossible." writes
Hudson Maxim in Advent ure. “to
make tile ordinary laboriug i.mn ap
preelate tlie nis-esstty of can* in the
i s: ie handling of explosives, ami the
| 11 o of tie- careful man is always on
| d ni.ei'. d by the actions of th,* <-.ire
less one.
After I laid sgld the works at Max
im and had invented niotorite 1 needed
If you are contemplating a place In which to make the material
I and hired a branch of the works there
buying a Piano, give us for t ba I purpose It was winter. My
I wife had accompanied me us n pre
cautionary measure. She was sluing
a call. It costs you noth
in the laboratory’ to keep warm, lie in
a big barrel stove charged with bitu
ing to examine them
minous coal.
“On entering the laboratory for
something my wife asked me what
Was In those two tin palls sitting near
the stove, She said that she had a
A BRAVE TOREADOR
suspicion it might be nitrogvlycerin
and she informed me that one of mv
One of the Most Thrilling Incidents
men had Just been in stirring the fix <•
the Bull Ring.
and that the sparks llew out in all di-
The famous Spanish toreador Revert i
rections. some of them lighting in thp
figured In one of the most tbrillini
buckets to be quenched on top of I hi*
Incidents ever whuessed in the arena.
oily liquid.
It was at Bayonne, \ffer disposing of
'■ 'Horrors;' 1 said, 'it is nitroglyc
two
bulls Reverb* Imd twice plumed
erin !’
Ids sword Into a third of great strength
“I called tlie man who had placed it
and ferocity, and as tlie beast eontiti
there and told him to take it away. As
ne-.l careering wildly the spectators be
it wus necessary to keep tlie material
gall to hiss Reverte for bungling.
M. G. POHL, Optometerist from freezing lie took it into the boil
Wounded to the very quick of his
er house near by. A little later on. go
pride, tin* Spaiii.trd shouted. ‘‘Tin* bull
ing into tlie boiler house, I saw one of
is slain!" and. throwing aside Ids
the men stirring tlie life while tlie oth
sword, sank on one knee with folded
er wus standing witli his coattails out
arms in tin* middle of the ring. 11c
stretched In either band, forming a
was right, but I: le d not allowed for
I
flying
the margin of accident. The wounded
2d, 3d and 4th Saturdays at shield to keep the sparks from
into the nitroglycerin.
beast charged full n|ion him. lint the
Hotel Gallier, Bandon, Ore.
"In tlie manufacture of high expío-
matador, splendid to the last, knelt
sites anil in experimenting with them
INSURANCE MAPS,
motionless us a statue, while the spec
a little absentmimledness, a very
tutors held their breath in horrified
slight lack of exact caution, a seem • Handy Guides For Underwriters In suspense.
lieu liing Ids victim, the
ingly insignificant inadvertence for a
Fixing Premium Rates.
bull literally bounded at him, and as
Many persons must have noticed he sprang Ito stink In death, with ills
O regon moment, may cost one a limit or ids
BANDON
life. Tlie accident tliat cost me my when making application for fire in last effort giving one fearful lunge of
left hand is a case tn point.
surance that it is the practice of the the head that drove a horn Into the
Druggifd and </7 path rea ry
"(In tlie day preceding that accident underwriter to examine certain maps thigh of the kneeling man ami laici
Is „nut in receipt of n now slock of
I had had a gold cap put on a tooth. before he will fix tile rate of premium Imre the hone from the knit* It* the e
In conseipience tlie tootli ached or accept a risk on tlie prop'erty of Joint. Still Iieverte never tlinelied, but
Drugs at’d Chemicals, Patent and throughout tlie night and kept me fered. His lllliographic surveys mark remained kneeling, exultant In victory,
Propiietary Pieparaticns, Toilet Ar awake a greater part of tile time, in ed off ill diagrams of red and yellow but calmly contemptuous of applause,
tides. Drug Sundries, Perfumes, the morning I rose early and went and other colors lire always in evi-
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till In* was eayri. d away to heal him of
Brushes, Sponges, Soap, Nuts and down to my factory nt Maxim. N. J. I lienee, sometimes bound securely fu his grievous wound.
Candies, Cigars. Tobaccos and Cig In order to test the dryness of some dozens of large volumes, on other oc-
Killing the Ead Taste.
arettes, Paints, Oils, Glass and fuludnnte compound I took a little elisions laid conveniently in piles » of
piece of It, about the size of an Eng loose sheets for handy reference.
"Maybe I won't Imve to take modi-
Painter's Supplies.
lisli penny, broke off n small particle.
l-’ew persons realize, however, that cine again, and even if I do Imve to
placed it on a stand outside the labo these maps contain all the information take it innybe the doctor will prescribe
ratory and. lighting a match, touched wldch the underwriter desires to know ail ambrosial mixture, hut if I should
it off’
about tin* liuililing lie is asked to in- be condemned for my sins to swallow
"Owing to my loss of sleep the night sure and Unit in most instances more vile doses 1 know how I'll take them,"
before my mind was not so alert as matters are explained to him by it a city salesman volunteered. "A man
usual, and I forgot to lay aside tlie single glance than tlie applicant could who w as doctoring lilmself in the di ng
remaining piece of fulminate coni- make even though lie lie tlie owner of stoic showed me til:* way.
pound, lint instead held it ill my left the property.
"The druggist Imd mixed n particu
As a matter of ' fact the lietails set larly obnoxious dose. The limn before
hand. A spark from tlie Ignited piece
of fulminate compound entered my forth are most i explicit. Tlie mnp taking II asked for cracked lee. The
Semi-Weekly Oregon Journal, one
left hand between my fingers. Igniting maker has niaiiug red by colors, cliarac errand bov brought it. several spoon
year
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the piece there, with lhe result that I ter-, and signs t- give a full description | fills nearly pulverized The sick man
Semi - Weekly Bandon Recorder
of lhe lonsfrtu-tion. equipment and oe held that in Ills mouth until if melted,
mv hand was blown off to the wrist.
.1.50
“ ‘Once
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one year
when entering my storage cupalion of the building, everythleu 4 after which lhe medicine seemed as
magazine at Maxim. In which were which over fifty years of this sort of I mild ns ten.
$3.C0
I otal__
several carloads of dynamite along surveying has proved to be of any pos | "‘I alwnys prepare my month that
with HT.oiio pounds of nitrogelatin, I slide Interest to tlie insurance man. II ' way for a disagreeable medicine.’ the
saw John Bender, one of my employ Is so complete, for instance, that an I man said. ‘The lee numbs the nerves.
Both Papers One Year $2.00 ees, calmly but emphatically- opening agent In New York city rail readily and the medicine slips down without
a case of dynamite with a hammer form a good idea of tlie character of a leaving any taste, goisl or imd.’” Ex
ami a chisel. I promptly discharged risk sitmiled in some tow n in Missouri change.
or t'allfornia. or. vice versa, agents In
him.
The Semi Weekly
"Not long afterward the innkeeper towns in these western states can like
Origin of a Sonq.
at Farmingdale called on me to buy wise tell tlie character of a risk In
Th<* grumbling of a negro groom led
some dynamite and said he bad engag New fork city. <'ussier’s Magazine.
to flic composition of the Immortal
ed Render to blow the stumps out of
"Old Folks at Home" While waiting
Publishes the latest and most complete tele
his meadow lot. I told him Render
Poising on Nothing.
for ii change of horses nt n Kentucky
was courting death for himself and
Awny up in the air, far beyond tin* hostelry I In* composer. Sle|di<*n Foster,
graphic news of the world; gives reliable
everybody around when handling <ly
mountain top*< lie* great * imilors will nutlioi* of so many beloved darky mel
market reports, as it is published at Portland
namlte, but Boniface still wanted hung poised ns motion lens as if peri h odies. lie: id ii melancholy, negro imir
where the market news can be and is cor
Bender to do tlie work.
eil un solid nek. True, tlielr wings mur io he threw a :<*t of harness to
rected to date for each is'.ue.
It also has a
" ‘Well.- said I. ’the dynamite you are outstretched, but even through flu* ground: ‘T h sick un' tired o’ dl«
page of special matter for the farm and
want is 1G cents a pound, but if John glasses not the slightest motion Is pel- life. 1 w isbt 1 was back wif de ole
home, an interesting story page and a page
Bender does not succeed in blowing < eptlhle They remain In this position folks at home.”
or more of comic, each week, and it goes to
himself up ami killing himself with for many minutes, sometimes for an
'¡.Where limy that lie. Sam?" :tsl rd
tlie dynamite you cun Imve if for noth
the subscriber twice each week---104 time a
hour, milking n careful scrutiny of ev
Foster.
Ing. On the other hand. If he does ery tiling b.dow them In their search
"Oh,’’ answered the diirky,
year.
blow himself up you must pay for tlie for prey. Then, with a slight tilting down on de Suv.-.-inn -e river"
The re-ult was the son- a*: we Imve
dynamite.'
of the wings, they tlap slowly away,
"A few days later there was some or. having found what they were seek
It today
The Semi-Weekly
hitch in Bender's exceptional luck. A Ing. ilart like a bullet toward it. The
Counter Diplomacy.
particularly refractory old stump had eagle, hawk and other species have
"1 tblnk oil will like this goods,
resisted a couple of Bender - dynamic tills sitme faculty of poising apparent
madam.'* m od n salesman In n Euclid
attacks. The failure to dislodge the ly on nothing.
avenue shop. “It E jiist the thing for
Gives all the local news and happenings and
stump Bender took as a personal af
a stout, middle aged lady.'
front because if reflected upon bis skill
should be in every home in this vicinity. 1 he
Banked Rails.
"Sir!" iipienhsi the customer in a
as a stump blaster.
two pa|»ers make a splendid combination and
In rounding n < urve the tendency
rage^
‘f'he clerk sit’” ills faux pas and
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Next
time.
’
said
lie.
’
something
is
of
the
weight
of
n
train
Is
Invariably
you can save $ I by sending your subscrip
going to hnpi>en.’ IT" plnced about to shift to tlie outside w heels. To recovered himself quickly
tions to I he Bandon Recorder. We can
"Pardon me.” he smiled. **| mistook
twenty pounds of dynamite under the counteract thin tendency the outer rail
also give our subscribers a good clubbing of
deep rooted veteran, touched it off. ami of a curve I.-; r.il-ed on a higher level you for the y<*tfn: lady who was in
fer for lhe Daily and Sunday, or Sunday
several things happened In very quick than the inside, lhe elevation being lure yesterday b. ting for somethin
I for Iter grandmother Now timt I look
Journal in connection with the Semi-Weekly
succession. Tlie huge stump let go Its in an exact proportion to tlie sliarp
Bandon Recorder.
bold on earth and proceeded to hunt ness of the curve as determined by the at you agiiln, 1 <*e ti mt tliis was an
Bender.
‘
principles of engineering
If Imtli older person. No.-.-, if you are Inlying
"it was a level race, hut the stump rails of a curved truck were of exactly for yourself, we have something over
won. Striking Render on the north tlie s:rtne elevation a train would not here that”—
—Cleveland I’hi iti 1 »paler.
quarter. It stove In four rib \ d f Mount
60 YEARS
dare round it nt high iqieed.
EXPERIENCE
ed several Joints and damaged him In
Literary Note.
several other respects and particulars.
Tender Hearted Youths.
The tear her laid been talking to her
Boniface mine to settle for the dyna
Sympathetic Old I,adv You’re kind
J'llplls on Onida's story. ‘‘Tlie Ilog of
mite.
hearted Ixiys to help that jxmr fellow
Flander».” and she followed her talk
" Sixteen cents n pound.' I said. up Here's a quarter for some candy
■Render hasn’t a chance in a hundred.
Stirili Boy (lielplm by an oral test
Enthusiast!'
"Now, what Is the mime of the au
Walt till tli<- doctors are through with fut man worse for liquori Thank-*.
T ha
Kt ARK«
DusieNO
him.'
missus, but Jest hang around a minute thor?” '■In* ,|U< ri' d
Small and Slangy Boy Oh Ton Ida.
COP’/GIGHU &C.
"'What do you say to a compro and watch th’ fun when be falls ag'in
Anvone wendltif a ekefrh «»'f’ .-kw'nrn.j, his »
—
Boston llis-ord.
mise.'
suggested
Boniface,
‘
of
S
ceuts
a
New York Time«.
•»liridy «wwertMii» our <»|’<:<i *»i free v»ri«fbrr ,*n
•iventtnn ia probably
pennd? For. really. 1 do not believe
■ HtistrietlyeonfldiMitia!. HANDBOOt* '• »t
it fra«, otrtaat aarancy f<*r w*eari«i< pate’*
Th« Joke on Her.
that Bender Is more than half dead .'
Camic Opera Milkmaids.
Patent« taken thr<»u.'h .Muan .< < $*. rt -uisc
"T SIlppiWM being tin* wife of II hu-
And the account was settled on that
rp» ««it noti«. without
in ti e
”1 thoiiglit I would Intrixlm e a r<*»l
rnnrist I* a continuous joke.' nil I<1 lier
ijasis”
■ow Into tny comic o|s*rii.”
former ochooimnti*
, "Ho sv did It w ork?"
A handamnety llln<tmf*d week’?. f.-rrr«-t r’r
“Yee,” she swll. elgl *■<!. looking at
Kind words are the brightest of
■' tatdon of any f !ei'tid>* j -umai *i • • "• •* < • c
”1 ildn't work nt all. The ruMk
a t
her failed and old feabloned gown,
horn- flowers. They make a paradise timid- frightened tb* cow.”—Washing
“»nd it's on me.” Exchange.
'3810reMl<r>,. f{3 V i Glii
of the humblest borne.
ton Herald.
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A general banking Ini. ine r, trar *;a< led ..nd cu torneis given eu ry accommodalioi t on-
si.lrnt With safe anti conservative* banking
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Merchants National Bank, Portland, Oregon; I he C base National Bank, of New \Oik.
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