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About The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 17, 1900)
1NQ NEWS OF BIG PLANT FOR HECLA. Twenty Drilt (ompreiinr and Lsrgs Holat Going In. ' Burke, Idaho, August 9. The Hecla mine, near here, on Canyon creek, in the Coeur d'Alenea, which reently paid its first dividend of $20,000, has under way extensive improvements. The company is putting in a plant for its eventual operation at 2,500 feet depth. This plant would include two 400-horse power boilers a compressor plant with capacity of 20 drills and a hoist that could operate the mine to the UiiOO-foot level The installation of these im provements has been under way for some time. The large buildings for the reception of the plant are practical ly completed the boilers and compressor are on the gronud and the work of put ting them in place is going on rapidly. It is expected that tho entire new plant will be in operation by Septem bci J. In the meantime the work of developing the mine is going forward rapidly and about 1,000 tons of concen trates a month are being shipped. The miiu shaft in which the big hoist will be operated is to be sunk to the full 2,500 feet, though operations will not lie confined to this work. The ore bod ies will be opened and mined at the successive levels as depth is attained. TO OPERATE THE HEADLIGHT. Coeur d'Alnne f'rnpArty uf Rpinnrktthle l'romliie to lie Worked. . Wallace, Idaho, August 9. The Head light Mining Company will soon lot u contract for the running of a tiOO-foot crosscut tunnel to tap its vein 400 feet below the surface. The property lies immediately weHt of the Mammoth and covers tho same vein. It will be opened by a crosscut tunnel half way up the mountain side from Canyon creek to the cropping of the ledge, cut ting about 1,500 feet west of the Main moth where. there is a blow-out, indi cating ore below. No work of oonse quence has ever been done on it, al though oru has been found near the sur face iu two or three different places. It ha been held for years by some pros pectors who were not willing to part with it at any price which mining men were willing to pay. lora Capital In Hoorino, Palouse, Wash., August 0. W.J. Springer, of Now Hampton, la., writes from there that lie has secured capital to work the Blue Bird and eight claims in tho Hoodoo district. He has em ployed M. W. Truax as manager of the mine and authorized him to begin work at once and push development. Mr. Truax put a double shift to work and the property will be thoroughly developed. The Blue Bird is a copper property showing high values, and now that capital has been secured to develop it is expected to be come a valuable producer. v, ',r.,y'::- James Malone reports a riVh strike in the Elk creek disrict in Idaho on .Breakfast creek. The rock carries good values in gold and copper. ' . STRIKE ON SILVER MOUNTAIN. Another "Mere Chance" Fortune Slum bled Onto In Canuda. Spokane, August 9. The Thompson boys have made a good strike on the Silver Mountain claims, in the Slocan district. After long prospecting, Buss Thompson stumbled upon a very fine looking ledge. This was exploited further with the result that one of the finest surface showings of galena ore ' ever shown in the camp was uncovered. It is from six to 18 inches across and chunks of ore weighing hundreds of pounds cju be taken out with a p ick Three claims are embraced in the group, the Sinfl, Atwood and World. PRESTON PEAK COPPER MINE. Devnleninent Work It Heine; Pushed on That Property. Aflhland, Or. August 9. The Ash land Tidings says that Schoonover & Young, New York capitalists, repre sented by Henry Phillips, have spent $160,000 in the development of the Preston Peak copper mines. Work is being pushed on a 200-foot drift. The rock is very hard. Some of the ore as says 22 per cent in copper, $4 in gold and a trauo in sulphur. OREGON WONDER TO START. Contract to Run a Tunnel Will Be Let at Once. Prairie City, Or., August 9. P. J. Mo my and Elmer Cleaver have gone to the Oregon Wonder mine and will at once let a contract tor running 300 feet of tunnel on the mine, to be completed with all possible haste. Mew Compaur at Wallave. Wallace, Idaho, August . The Oatiiella Mining and Milling Company Ima tiled articles of incorporation at Wallace, (i, A. Cunningham, Patrick Sullivan, Adam ' O'Donuoll,' J, W. Weyer and Joseph F. Whelau.s are the incorporators and directors. Wallace is the principal place of business ami the capital stock of J50.000 U divided.: into 1,000,000 shures. ' " - - Klundlke Hold Shipments. Seattlo, August 9. Oold shipment through Skagway from the great Klon dike camp to the outside world this mohsou have reached in round numbers more than $7,000,000. BRIGHT CARBONATE MINE. rroperly In the Greenhorn OUtrlot That j t. . ,;"uk J"""1" A n t. Pendloton. Or., Angiwt 9. Parties 1 from the Bright Carbonate, located in the Greenhorn mountains, near Law Ion, and owned by George Darveaux, lleniy Kopittke, Frank Duprat, John Siebert aud others, of Pendleton, re port a rich strike in that mine in the face of the 100-foot tunnel. The vein has been penetrated 2,l feet and shows high values. Blldan Mine at Klk City. JRoise, Idaho, August 9. Jesse Coulter has returned from a trip to the property of the Midas Gold Mining Company at Dixie, 26 miles from Elk City, Idaho. Eleven men are at work, and Mr. Coalter reports that the prop erty is looking fine. In the Summit OUtrlrt. Seattle, August 9. A number of lo cations are being made iu the Summit district, on the Cascades. The numer-, ous discoveries in that district are ex- citing uveiy wieresi mine x annua , laiiej. M1N NEARBY-STATES SLOCAN IS ON THE JUMP. Nearly All the Mine Are Again Ship ping Ore. r-andon, B. (J., Augnit 9. erly a the mines around Saudon are shipping again. The Idaho sent ont 500 tons i July of high grade ore, and will do bet ter in August. The Payne shipped about 1.200 ton in July, and has paid its quarterly dividend of 3 per cent. The Truth Uueen Beep, Whitewater, Sloean ritar and Rambler-Cariboo are regular ship pers. The I'utli mill in Saudon is running double shift and the company is put ting in two more Whilley tables, these doing bettei work than the roun tables. It is shipping about 200 tons of good grade concentrates per month Handon is building up rapidly. About 900 men are on pay rolls in and aiound .Saudon. PLANS FOR GOLDEN ZONE. Capacity Will Soon Ke 100 Tone of Ore IMily. Loomis. Wash., August 9. At the Golden Zone plans have been com pleted for increasing the capacity of the mill to 100 tons daily. The neces- sary machinery has been ordered and the work of adding to the present mill strocture for its accomodation begins at once. The Golden Zone is thoroughly opened up that it will be able to supply the daily mill run with a minimum force. Continuous devel opment of the ore bodies will go stead ily forward though there is more than 100,000 tons of ore in sight. The management proposes to increase the capacity of the mill from its profits until it can treat 500 tons daily. That a mine of this character could in three years be brought to such a high stage of development, show quantities of ore and be scarcely known outside of the district tolls the story of the quality of work being done at a dozen properties in the Palmer Mountain district. Mill runs up to date have averaged about 1 10 per ton, and this is probably good average of the mine. Silver King Again Going. Seattle, August 9. Captain Gifford who has been appointed mine manager of the reorganized Hall Mining and Smelting Coinpauy, proposes to justify the faith which he has had in the Si) ver King as one of the great mines of British Columbia. He has an exten sive programme of development mapped out and within a short time he expects to have 500 men at work in the com pany's property. A small force will go to the mine and get things in shape Electric power instead of steam power may operate the mine machinery and possibly the smelter. Kellam'i Cump la Next. Helena, Mont., August 9. W. Kel lam and J. D. Bone, two Montana prog' pectors, own a group of six claims on the eastern slope of Eureka mountain two and one half miles from Gran roras, . u., tnat are attracting con siderable attention, and are regarded as of considerable promise. There is well-defined quartz ledge on the La oonia. It averages about 20 inches wide. A shaft has been sunk to depth of 25 feet. The foot wall is in granite. Assay returns gave small values in gold and copper and it is ex pected that they will improve with depth. FAMOUS MONUMENTAL MINE Mkely to Start Up With a Good Foroe of Men. Baker City, Or. August 9. It currently reported that the once famous Monumental mine, eight miles north of Grunite, now idle for live years. to be Btarted up shortly with a force of 100 men. C. S. Miller, the principal owner of this property, will neither confirm nor deny the report. North went Notes. John P. Vollmet is erecting a large grain warehouse at Genessee, Idaho A hail storm is reported to have shat tored 5,000 bushels of grain near Ox ford, Idaho. The people of Genessee, Idaho, have asked ior a special election to vote on the subject of a waterworks system. l orest fires are still raging in the White Pine district, Idaho, although a large force of men is at work trying to cnecK tne names. B. Gioda, a sheepman of Condon Or., died recently in Texas, from con sumption. lie leaves considerable property. The O. R. & N. Co. 'a gang of traok layers has completed its job of putting down heavy rails on the branch from La Grande to Elgin, Or. The Albany, Or., ice factory, al though running night and day, is un able to supply the demand, and a car load of ice was brought up from Oregon Jity on tne oth. The Toledo, Or., Loader reports sample of "pieplant" or rhubaib grown in that town, whose leaf is 21 feet in circumference, and whose stalk is seven inches in diameter. rorcst tires are raging near Medical Lako, Wash. Colfax, Wash., is threatened with a water famine. Ex-Senator arner Miller, of New lorfc, was recently m Spokane. He is said to be COUBidering Kettle Falls with a view to transmitting electiic' ,,owe,. to Republic' There are 200,000 sheep ia Wallowa county, Oregon. An unknown man committed suicide iu a variety theater at Spokane the flight of Antrnst 4 Tliara wua I ry r -- - " 1 " .i UUWJIUK i in his clothing to identify him. and his body lay all day in an undertaker's without being recognized. Largely as a result of the vigilant crusade against owners of unlicensed bicycles, instituted by the president of the Tacoma Wheelmen's Association and carried on by the police depart !ment, the city treasurer has issued ! 4,255 licenses to date. It is believed the 6,000 mark will be reached before the year is out. One salmon cannery at Fairhaven, Wash., has received 85,000 fish two days in succession. J. D. Barnett. of Ritiville. Wk lost sou sacks ot wheat, his barn and lioiue lancing last Wednesday by fire. BUYING FOR FALL TRADE. ku linuienae KuilutM In Sleel Reported I rem the Weit. Bradstreet's eavs: rlrate is still ex hibiting manr of the irregularities , in wident to the transition period between mid-summer and early fall trade. De spite the hot wave, w ltn its effect on the growing distributive demand, and hIfo becanse o' the reports of damage to the corn crop which it lias incited, nxue cheerful feeling is perceptible in general trade, and the booking of fall orders ior drv goods, clothing an hard ware at leading Western centers, and heavy engagements in iron and steel products, though at lower prices, are of encouraging proortiou8. Prices are not showing the precipitate declines noted some time ago, and among the really encouraging features is the ad vance iu wheut, mainly based on ini proved export inquiry. Wool is rather tinner than of late because of the better inquiry, though it inu.st be admitted that this steadiness is somewhat at the expense of new business. Cotton goods partake of the strength of raw material, and w hile weakness is still perceptible, brown cottons, print cloths aud wide sheetings, tne natural corrective ol reduced production, are being increasignly sought. While the dry goods demand as whole is still classed as backward for the season, hot weather is credited with some of the responsibility and trade at titude as a rule is one of hopeful ex pectancy. An immense liusiness in steel pro- ducts is reported booked at Pittsburg ami Chicago, and steel bars are really (inner with an advance of $4 per ton announced bv Western manufacturers who have sold their output up to the close of the year. Failures for the week were 177 in the United States, against 136 last year, anil 23 in Canada, against 29 last year. PACIFIC COAST TRADE. Heatlle Markets. Onions, new, U40. Lettuce, hot house, $ 1 per crate. Potutoes, new, $15. Beet, per sack, 85c(3$l. Turnips, per sack, 75c. Carrots, per sack, $1.00 , Parsnips, per sack, $1.25, Cauliflower, native, 75c. Cncu 111 bers 10 i 20o. Cabbage, native and California, 2c per pounds. Tomatoes 40(3 50'. Butter Creamery, 23c; Eastern 22c; dairy, 15 18c; ranch, 14c pound Eggs 24c. Clieese 12o. Poultry 14c; dressed, 14 15c; spring, $3.50. Hay Puget Found timothy, $11.00 12.00; choice Eastern Washington timothy, $16.00. Corn Whole, $28.00; cracked, $25; feed meal, $25. Barley Rolled or ground, per ton, $20. , ' Flour Patent, per barrel, $3.50; blended straights, $3.25; California, $3.25; buckwheat flour, $6.00; gra ham, per barrel, $3.00; whole wheat flour, $3.00; rye flour, $3.804.00. MillstulTs Bran, per ton, $12.00; shorts, per ton, $14.00. Feed-f-Chopped feed, $19.00 per ton; middlings, per ton, $20; oil cake meal, per ton, $30.00. Fresh Meats Choice dressed beef steers, price 7,'ac; cows, 7c; mutton ii' pork, 8c; trimmed, 9c; veal, 9 11c. Hams Large, 13c; small, breakfast bacon, 12c; dry salt sides iec. Portland Market. Wheat Walla Walla. 55c; Valley, 55c; Bluestem, 68c per bushel. Flour Best grades, $3.10; graham, $2.50; superfine, $2.10 per barrel. Outs Choice white, 87c; choice gray, 35o per bushel. Barley Feed barley, $14.00 16.00; brewing, $16.00 per ton. Millstuffs Bran, $13.00 ton; mid dlings, $20; shorts, $14; chop, $15 pel ton. Hay Timothy, $U12; clover,$7 7.60; Oregon wild hay, $67 per ton. Butter Fancy creamery, 45 50c; store, 27c. Eggs 17.0 per dozen. Cheese Oregon full cream, 13c; Young America, 14c; new cheese 10c per pound. ' Poultry Chickens, mixed, $3.00 3.50 per dozen; hens, $5.00; springs, $2.504.00; geese, $4.005.00 forold; $4.500.50; ducks, $3.004.00 per dozen; turkeys, live, 1817o pei pound. Potatoes 4050oper sack; sweets, 3(sf 2)40 per pouna. Vegetables Beets, $1; turnips, 75o; per sack; garlic, 70 per pound; cab' bage, 2c per pound; parsnips, $1; onions, 1 ;ac per pound; carrots, 90o. . Hops 28o per pound. Wool Valley, 1516o per pound; Eastern Oregon, 1516u; mohair, 25 per pound. Mutton Gross, best sheep, wethers and ewes, 8?4c; dressed mutton, 7 73ao per pouud; lambs, 6)e0. Hogs Gross, choice heavy, $5.00; light aud feeders, $4.50; dressed, $5.006.50 per 100 pounds. Beef Gross, top steers, $4.004.50; cows, $3.60 4. 00; dressed beef, 63b 740 per pound. eal Large, 6,ls7Jsc; small, 8 8.lgc per pound. San Franoieeo Market. Wool Spring Nevada, ll13o pei pound; Eastern Oregon, 10 14c; Val ley, 16lSc; Northern, 9 10c. Hops 1899 crop, ll13o pel pound. Butter Fancy creamery 2222c; do seconds, 21 21c; fancy dairy. 19c; dosecouds, 16 1 80 per pound. Eggs Store, 17o; fancy ranch, c. -9 Millstuffs Middlings, $17.00- 20.00; bran, $13.50 13.50. i Hay Wheat $S12; wheat 4 oat $8.00 11.00; best barley $8.5t maim, o.uu(S(.oo per ton: str .,537,sC per bale. ! Potatoes Early Rose, 80 75c; C sron liurlianks, 90ea$l; river .1.1... banks, 80S5c; new. ISlfa'c. Citrus Fruit Oranges, Valencia, 2.758.2o; Mexican limes, $4.00 .00; California lemons 75c $1.60; lo choice $1.75 9.00 per box. Tropical Fruits Bananas, $1.60 .50 per bunch; pineapples, nom inal; Persian dates, 66ao per pound. DISPENSED WITH A BLACKSMITH How Arizona Cowboys Punched H jlee in a Wagon Tire. LP at iny camp near the Four Teaks," told Jim Bark, the well-known cattleman, -the boys are all handy with a rifle. We've a lot of guns up there. The old-fashioned black-powder Winchester has been discarded and notning but the best goes. Most of tbe new guns were bought during the Spanish war, when we would experi ment all day with tree trun.ks and rough trenches, learning the art of war at home. We found that a bullet from one of the new Winchesters, driven by smokeless powder, was good for four feet and more of pine timber, and for more than an Inch of Iron. I thought the boys bad done about everything In the shooting line that could be done long ago. but I was mistaken. "I sent them up a wagon. In haulipg down some firewood they broke the bolsters all to flinders. The bolsters held up the wagou bed, you know. Well, the boys figured out all right the re building of the wooden parts, but came near being stumped on the Iron fixings. They got some old Iron wagon tires and cut them in proper lengths, but hadn't a way that they could see to punch tbe necessary bolt holes. Finally the ques tion was solved. One of the boys care fully marked the places for the bolts, stood the piece of the against a tree and put a bullet. .30 caliber, through the tire at each place marked. It was a novel sort of blacksmlthlng, but It worked." Arizona Graphic. THEIR DRINK IS MADDENING. Native Tipple ot the Filipinos Is a Hor rible Concoction. The effect of the so-called American saloon on the Filipinos is not nearly as bad as the effect of Filipino liquor on American soldiers. In fact, the former f Is distinctly superior to the latter, since American liquors do not produce mad ness. George Ilobart, a regular army man, who has just returned from Ma nila to his home at Indianapolis, says of the Filipino booze: "It Is not heat that Is driving the soldiers crazy. It's Just simply 'beno.' Absinthe is not In the same class. It looks like water and tastes like licorice," he says, "and w hen thi boys can't get beer or whisky they buy 'bono' from the natives. takes a pint Of It to make a drinking man drunk. The third or fourth con secutlve drunk makes a blooming Idiot uui 01 me victim, ine soldiers crave It after they have once tasted It. Out on the lines the boys never get beer or whisky and when the natives suerik this 'beno' into camp the fellows buy it, "In tho southern islands, where the demand Is not so great, the natives sell It for 3 cents a canteeuful, but around Manila the demand Is so great that the price has been raised to 50 :ents. After a man drinks about a pint of the stuff he begins to get silly, but he recovers In a day or two. Then he will want more of it and If he can't get It he will go mad. Then the olli tiers have to shackle him and he Is sent to the hospital for the Insane at. Wash ington. They tell me that the poor fellows who have been taken there will never get well." Omaha Bee. NOTHING IF NOT REALISTIC. Who the Present School of Writers Appear to Be Aiming At. The russet sparrow sat on the roof and bliuked at the setting sun. Afar down the alley a lone ragman drove his chariot slowly along and chanted his plaintive lay. The wind moaned through the chimney pots, the red sun looked diuirj- down through the smoke and the russet sparrow sat on the roof and blinked at the setting sun. The russet sparrow sat on the roof aud blinked at the setting sun. Sadly the stray policeman In the gray dis tance swiped an orange from the bar row of a passing coster and peeled it with a grimy baud. He was thinking. thinking. And the dead leaves still choked the tin spout above the rain water barrel In the backyard. The russet sparrow sat on the roof and blinked at the setting sun. Adown the gutters In the lonely street ran murky puddles 011 their long, long jour ney toward the distant sea. Borne on the wings of the sluggish breeze came a far-off murmur of vaerant does in fierce contention and life was hollow mockery to the homeless cat. Ana tne russet sparrow sat on the roof and blinked at the setting sun. London Answers. Coughs. Every person who coughs should not Alarm himself with the Idea that he le in a had way. Experience has con vlnced us of a fact that there are two distinct kinds of coughs one proceed lng from an affection of the lungs and air tubes, as In a cold, the other pro ceeding from effervescence In the stom ach. The lungs cough is a symntom which nil know to require attention lest serious consequences ensue. The stomach cough Is a much more simple matter, and may easily be got quit of. It Is caused by the food and drink which are put into the stomach effer vescing, and producing an Irritation. A knowledge of this fact ought to lead persons so affected to ponder a littl on the nature of their ailment aud the tone of their digestive powers. Friday Is All Right. Friday as an unlucky day has lost Its grip. Superstition regardiug beginning great enterprises on that day is fading away. Great steamers start on long voyages on every Friday iu the yearf Good Friday included. Journeys of al) sorts begin on Fridays, and the sixth .lay of the week has no more terror uow to th average man than the first day of th week. People even get murrled des whe on of ny go ss 'equip''rnrrunscwtTiTieui 'suut.Mit ly powerful to light up the chauuel ai least 4,000 feet ahead. In addition tc electric lights sufficiently powerful to light up a circular area around the ship of about "00 feet in diameter. A girl never looks so killing as when man accidentally steps on her dress skirt. THE UNLUCKIEST WOMAN. tickle Fortune Frowns Upon La Bells Brooke-Vincent. The unlucklest woman In the. world is believed to be La Belle Brooks-Vincent, who has returned from the Klondike to Seattle, Wash. During the past six years she has seen more fluctr.atians of fortune and undergone more hardships than usually fall to the share of most people during a long life. Disappoint ment and failure seem to follow her in every undertaking, but she shows no discouragement and bravely adapts herself to changes of circumstances. She w as born In luxury and highly edu cated. During her senior year at Ypsi lantl College, Michigan, she met Ben iamln Masou. a wealthy retired mer chant, old enough t,o be her father, and married him. Tbe marriage was an unhappy one, and after a few years the young wife was granted a divorce and given the custody of her young son. The husband signed contracts giving large sums of money Instead of all mony and settled $24,000 on the boy. Subsequently La Belle married L. O, Vincent, a musician and song writer. This second marriage was also a fail ure, and a short time after the couple separated, Vincent died. Mrs. Vin cent then Indulged In speculation and lost heavily on her Investments. She sold her property In Michigan for $18, 300 and went to Seattle. The gold fever seized her. She plunged Into specula tion again and took the largest stock of staples and machinery ever transport ed to Alaska In a single venture. She there fell into the hands of a sharp trader, wno through misrepresentation, beat her out of everything that she pos sessed and who then Incited a strike among her former employes, whose wages had not been paid. Many suits ror wages and other debts were begun against ner and her counsel advised her to avoid them by returning to the states, with $200, all that remained or ner fortune, she commenced the Journey on a dog sleigh, her only com panion being an Indian who could not speak English. Her creditors learning Df her departure sent officers after her. She was brought back to Dawson City and placed in jail. Through the aid of 1 friend she was released from prison ind enabled to return to Seattle, where she arrived friendless and penniless. RIVERS ARE TREACHEROUS. In Times of Freshet They Frequently Change Their Course. The rivers of China, like the people, ire extremely treacherous. They have no fixed channels, but move In the Im petuous floods that come pouring down from the mountains in the rainy sea sou, sometimes as much as 100 miles from their old beds, leaving the inter vening tracts burled deep under the sand, destroying life, making a desert of cultivated fields over an area of many hundreds of miles, and plunging the farming population Into terrible poverty and famine. The enormous canals, constructed by the Government to correct the evil, have been of no avail In this direction, although they nave iormeu in tne past great water ways crowded with craft, aloug which supplies of food and merchandise can be carried to the markets at a trifling ?ost. Modern engineering, when the break-up of China comes, will find the subjection of Chinese rivers a problem that will challenge all Its genius and perseverance, and It may accomplish here what It has failed to do with oth ?r great streams where the alluvial soil s carried down by the current to block he mouth and place a tautaiizins oh- itacle In the way of navigation. The I ei-IIo is as crooked as a wennon 3ying In the wind, aud the present low aess of the water Is due to the lon Jrought that has prevailed in the high lands to the north, where it rises. Two rears ago steamers that now anchor at Taku, twenty miles or more down stream, ran to Tien-Tsiu, where thev ould take their cargo and where pas sengers could go on board comfortably and conveniently. The change, under the present circumstances, constitutes the chief difficulty In reaching the cap ital. For at Tlen-Tsln the nassenn-o. anding at Taku must change cars con tinuing the journey to Pekin from the former point. Coughs of an Eugine. The cough, or puff, of a railway en- tine is due to the abrupt emission of waste steam up the chimney. When 3ioving slowly the cough 'can. of course be heard following each other quite dis tinctly, but when speed is put on the puffs come out one after the other much mere rapidly, and when eighteen roughs a second are produced they can not be separately distinguished by the ?ar. A locomotive runuing at the rate of nearly seventy miles an hour give aut twenty puffs of steam every sec ondthat is, ten for each of its two cylinders. Every girl w ho pounds a piano should re impressed with the fact that mak ing bread Is not accompanied by & noise that disturbs the neighbor. l.A ntU.LK BROOKS-VINCENT. LET US ALL LAUGH. JOKES FROM THE PENS OF VA- RIOUS HUMUmai- incidents Occurring the World Orer-Bylngs that Ar. Cheer M to Old or YounB-Fnnny tions that Tou Will Enjoy. "Horrors!" exclaimed the citizen of "This the South America epuuut. Danor says that six men were disabled in nnr revolution yesterday. .T. thflt an?' renUed another citizen, "Such occurrences give our sport a sort of black eye. But how did tne aepioi- nhle affair haDnen?" "Why. the weather was very damp, rou know, and the doctor pronounces It pneumonia." Judge. These Parents! Mabel So your mother has married strain? Maud-Yes- thank goodness! You can't think how glad I am to get her comfortably settled. You don't know what a terrible trial she has been to me lately. Making Both Ends Meet. Useful Some Day, Perhaps Husband What! You bought an ar tificial m? Wife Yes, dear. You see it was great bargain and Husband-Great Scott! What are you thinking of? You haven't any earthly use for such a thing. Wife But, dear, you know you travel on the railroads a great deal, aud you can never tell what may hap pen. Philadelphia Press. Usually Fatal. Brlggs-The doctors say I am suffer lng from a complication of diseases. Griggs How many of them have you seen? "Seven." "The trouble with you Is that you are suffering from a complication of doctors."-Life. That Was All. "I can't Imagine why Miss Rocking ham treats me so coldly. The other evening when I called she said she bad been eating green onions and hoped would excuse her. Since then she has hardly spoken to me." 'That's curious. What did you say when she excused herself?" 'Let me see! Why, I merely told her not to mind; that It would be an easy matter fox me to keep far enough away not to be disturbed." "Oh!"-Chicago Times-Herald. A Considerate Offer. Employer I think I'll have to let you go; there isn't much to do around here, but you dont even seem able to do that. vuice uoy wen, suppose you pay 1 me half wages, and I'll stay home un til you really need me. Chicago Rec ord. Decidedly Not. "You don't happen to have chansre iur a quarter, do ye?" asked Eaton Sshabbelong, who had had an unex- pected stroke of luck. "Change fur a quarter!" echoed Tuff- old Knott, with infinite disgust. "If I had do ye reckon I'd be carryin' the mirst i ve got with me this minute?". Chicago Tribune. All He Had. "Comrade, lend me your pipe " "There." "Got any tobacco?" "There." "Now lend me a match." "Say, you don't seem to fninfch . thing toward your smoke exrent v,,. Competition Am finer Vnti.i "They say that Krmrer i i . mwiutti luuu ever. "What has braced him denly?" nP so sud- "Oh, he's mad because the. m dowager has knocked him out of the public eye." uie An Exiled Belle. Is your daughter Pamela ,..,. . good time in the country?" "Xo; she says she hates It; lt scuff, her shoes out so." ' A Mean Trick. Juliet-Dearie, did v0u mmi ... ter I gave vou to man? 1 Jack (fumbling in "big. nn,,. course-first thing as n V"' downtown. I reuieniW ,at gt Juliet trii,niphamiy)-Ha, there r "'Shtyou! I didn't give ;0u any lee! r to maiL-Chlcago Record. VherIrnoTac"e Is Bli8. He-1 want to know. who is master of this hn,,c She-You'U be hamiipr . find out.-Puck. JOU aon 1 Pis ans Gan & Mrs. Brown-Mrs. Jnnl: if her husband died she wouTd T AT follow him. He has been I?, lck1' Mrs. Smith-Yes: but " a S' nly expect her to foUownt has seen the Paris expositor, - There is alw.y, 22 range a woman's ri. CiMr- Judge. " , '"u "ow.- It Ought to Re. Customer If this underwear foj fit may I change it? i .Clerk Certainly. Underwear j. I Bulletin. His Guess at It. "What does it mean, Tommy ,1 uuuuuj otuuvi icraiui an&eu, WflPf I says 'they rent their clothes?"" ' "I suppose they couldn't afford J buy them," replied Toraniy.-n,,1 Too Much for Him. Twynn I hear that the weather jJ uas ueeu lu&eu 10 xue nospital. Triplett That Is true. The 4 was xoo uiucu ior mm. "What shock?" "One of his forecasts came true," She Has No Chance. Miss Gllgal (readlng)-A girl npeft sylvanla has saved an express (, from destruction by taking off her petticoat ana waving It as a signal Miss Tenspot Oh, dear, I could net(, uo auyiuiug ueroic nice mat, "Why not?" "Because I don t wear red 1 coais. The Automobile Outranked First Horse Well, thank goodness Second Horse Thank goodness I wnatr First Horse When we get sick I call in a doctor; we don't have toy tinkered with with a monkey wreoej A 8on-ln-Law's Finish. "William is always used un for i eral days after ma starts to CalliJ nia." "How does that happen?" "Oh, he always has to go overtoil railway map with her, and tell hi what to do and what not to do." Frlarhtfullv Mixed. "Society Is getting fearfully mixed; J is embarrassing to meet one's landlord at a garden party." . "Yes; especially ff you are behind wain tne rent." A Heart-Breaker. Mrs. Seeside-Oh! I think divorcs are simply awful! I never could beu to hear of another woman filling m- piace neveri Mrs. Breezy You couldn't? Mrs. Seeslde No! It would break my heart to think of any other woman writing to Harold for mouetl -Puck. ' Families Supplied. Silas nayrlck Wall, by gum, these city fellows dp beat the world. I wod der what they'll charge for a wife an' about five children." Chicago Intel Ocean. In It, but Not Of It. "What Is a storm center, pa?" "A storm center is that member of 1 family who remains as cool as a cu cumber while he makes -all the rest raging mad." Chicago Record. Anatomical. With an engaging smile the Deddlei who had gone around to the side door addressed the sharp-featured woman who answered his knock. "Is this the head of the house?" In asked. "No, sir," she replied, shutting tne door in his face. "This is the wlne."- Chlcago Tribune. There Are Many Such, Mrs. Horn You can believe verv lit tle that Mrs. Gabbleby says. Mr. Hoon No; the Door woman Is sadly afflicted with Dalnitation of the imagination. Puck. Those Dashing Boston Girls. . Hester-Tell me. Kate, vou nnclit tl know all about it. Do men did Char ley go down on his knees when he De posed? Kate How absurd! Mow mnld he have gone down on his knees, when I . Wrhere do you suppose I wa anyway Uoston Transcript. Sure Enough. Little Clarence Pa. is the n reason for all things? Mr. Callipers Yes, I suppose so. Little Clarence Well, then na whf do hens lay eggs? Mr. Callipers Because thev can't stand them on end, my son. Judge. Daddy's Definition. Johnny raw, what is conscience? Paw Conscience, mv son. la some thing that we always think shoulJ bother the other fellow Baltimore American. , Too Long to "Wait. The Japanese, as is eenerallv known. are mainly vegetarians, their diet con sisting ror the most part of rice and few other simple vegetables. While they are a healthy and happy . people, they are undersized as compar ed with the meat eaters of Enrone and America, and it was seriously recom- menaea a rew years ago by advisers ot the Emperor, that he should encourage his subjects to adopt a diet of flesb, with a view to Increasing the average Japanese stature. An American who wns vlsitlne in Japan tells of a jlnriklsha man witti whom he became acquainted, who, al though able to trot fnrtir mil without fatigue, was vexed because of nis small size and had begun to eat meat. He asked his American friend one day, in the best English at his com mand, how long a time would be re quired, on an animal d!et to make the Japanese a larger race. . "I should say a hundred years, at least," replied the American. i f- The "rickshaw" man went back tf hi rie. - . .