NEW SHORT STORIES RIVER OF SALT WATER. A SCOTTISH LEGEND. Steggarad th« Interviawar. It was announced at 20 Broadway that William Rockefeller, treasurer of the oil trust aud ¡sxweasor of a re- Flaw« Inland In a Gr«ak Island and Than Disappear«. Were Pentiua Pilate's Scotch Guards at th« Maty Sopulcharf One of the most curious phenomena cf geography ts found on the southern coast of the Island of Cephalonla, uear Greece, it Is a stream of salt water which for an unknown period has left the almost tide I ess sea and flowed In land with considerable volume. The sea enters the land at four points where the coast Is practically on a level with the salt water surface. The four Initial streams unite to form the little river that flows Inland In a broken rocky channel until ft Anally disappears in the limestone rock and sinks Into the earth. This inland flow has continued al- must certainly for several centuries. It ts far too great for removal by evap oration. chemical combination or even physical absorption by ¡»ores or cav erns in the rocks. What becomes of the water that Is constantly flowing Inland and disappears Anally In the fissures that have ojtened in the lime stone ? The question has been the subject of much study, but no conclusive answer has been given. It Is probable that there is an underground chnnnel which carries the water back Into the sea at no great depth below the surface. The constant influx of salt water at Cepha lonla Is duplicated as far as is known at no other point of the world.—New York Sun. While In a company chiefly com posed of Englishmen an<l Scotchmen puted fortune of «»0,000.000, was last evening the conversation drifted •Mown and out.” I into military matters, atul one of tbe This apparently sensational news Scotchmen declured, aud bls statemeut was made pulJic by George Washing was borne out by his comimtrlots pres ton Jackson, one of Mr. Rockefeller's ent, tbst the first regiment ever form persona. representatives. It was made ed in the British army, the Iff rut Royal public lu this way: Scots, supplied the guard for the tomb An American representative called to of Jesus Christ after the crucifixion. ■ee the oil magnate for the purpose of It ap|M>ars that the Romans carried off ■Ubstantlntlng au Interview which, ac a number of wild, warlike highlanders cording to the ticker tape, he had given out in regard to the financial as prisoners after their conquest of Britain, and these men and their de situation. Mr. Rockefeller was quoted as saying that better times were com scendants became soldiers of the Ro-, ing and that the railroads were over tuan empire, and as such they guarded whelmed with freight they could not the tomb. This Scottish company, for handle It only consisted of a hundred men As the reporter entered a dark com under a centurion, was kept distinct pJexioned but extremely courteous rep from the Roman army proper. At the resentative of the “system" emerged time of the crucifixion they were called from behind a desk and said: Pontius Pilate's Scotch guards, ami “Lookin' tub see M assail Rockefeller, their descendants were the uueleua of I reckon? Wall. sub. Massa b Rocke the First Royal Scots in later years. feller is down and out." The archives of this regiment at the "Down and out!” exclaimed the re ( headquarters at Glcncorse, Scotland, porter, staggered by the thought of a are stated to bear this out. I had tremendous “beat” announcing to the heard this some years ago. my Inform ant now being a well known Scotch officer high In the ranks of the British army, and now that this strange tale is corroliorated by several others of his countrymen, one of whom Is an officer la a well known highland regiment, 1 i am anxious to know If the strange tale SPORTS AND THE SPHERE. can be borne out in fact. Perhaps you or one of your readers could oblige The Basic Pursuit In Most Games la me with the confirmation or otherwise of this statement.—F. S. K.. Brooklyn, to Drive a Ball. Some day there will arise a patient in New York Times. investigator who will work out this I Jollying Versus Guying. problem. Why are most sports but the "Queer how a man will langh If you variants of one object, the propulsion say you've just !>een ’Jolly-lug' him and of a sphere? Billiards, baseball, polo, golf, sling resent It if you declare you are 'guy ing. marbles, squash, handball, foot ing' him," said a thoughtful looking ball, rackets, cricket, hockey, bagatelle, man who had l>een listening to the tennis, shooting. pelota— the basic pur conversation of two young men stand suit in each is to drive a ball, the pro ing in tbe aisle, “Aud, after all, it's quite the same thing. But there's pulsion of a sphere. Tipcat. shuttlecock and top spinning something In the word ’guy’ we all re- I believe that word ’Jollying' are the employment of modifications of sent. the sphere, and archery is but another wards off many a fit of temper, for there's something almut it that sounds method of propulsion. It is a strange limitation of form, cordial and good naturisi, and It seems and there must Im a reason Those who as if the man who would flare up at delve ibto origins may ascribe the being jollied was a very sour minded whole motive of sports to some long person. “When I was a young man we talked armed, hirsute ancestor who first threw a pebble at a fellow cave dwell- of ’joking' one another, but somehow that sounds rather flat today. Later er and found it great fun. Or it may be poor mortal’s attempt people ’fooled' one another, but there was too much of a vision of a dunce world that the powerful financier who to get in a small fashion into the tre i had hitherto conquered all before him mendous scheme of the universe, cap to make that expression very pop In the triumphant march of Standard which Is the everlasting movement of ular. ’Guying’ followed, but somehow the spheres. Or It may be that sports that savored too much of bolding a Oil was at last “down and out.” Then, plucking up courage, the news are framed In Inevitable obedience to I fellow being up to ridicule. And now we've graduated to 'jollying.' and I paper man added: “What do yon some irresistible law of nature. At any rate the fact is sports are think It’s an indication that the world mean? Has Mr. Rockefeller resigned liased on the propulsion of the sphere In general is becoming better natured.” from Standard Oil?” “Well, suh, I reckon be don't do dat and some one ought to find a reason —New York Press. just fob de present." responded the therefor.—New York American. esnrteous George Washington Jackson. ne is sufficiently learned that knows Wych Hazel, Not Witch Haz«l. “I mean Massab Rockefeller come ■ bow to do well and has power enough The correct name for Hamit melts vir- down tub his office today, but he's | Io refrain from evil.—Cicero. jest now stepped out. sah.”—New York ginl'-a is not witch hazel, but wycb hazel. Our plant has no connection American. with the magic of the water hunter. The blackthorn of England, Prunus Big Tim Lifted th« Lid. Seven words spoken by Timothy D. spinosa, was the wood used In these (Big Tim.) Sullivan in the assembly at divinations or whatever -these super Albany killed a bill for the passage of stitious practices may be termed. Ila ' which the ways had been well greased zel had a very wide meaning in the One of Sullivan's colleagues who had olden times, and the elm as well as opposed the bill at previous sessions, the nut now known as such was hazel. but was now supporting IL was ex One of these elms, now known as Ul- plaining his change of attitude. “In mus montana, was the favorite wood previous years,’’ he declared, “I was for making wyches, or provision unable to support this bill because the I chests, and was therefore known as alimy trail of the lobby was on It. the wych hazel. In the present day It These worms of the corridor were of Is the wych elm. Our hamamelis re fering stocks and bonds for votes for ceived from the early settlers the name the bill. This year, I thank God, the of wych hazel from the resemblance bill is in new hands, and no one of the leaves to those of the wych ha charges that stocks and tionds are be zel or elm of the old world. Language reformers Imagining that wych should ing distributed to effect its passage »» “No, Mr. Speaker,” "Big Tim” iuter- be spelled witch are responsible for the confusion. Wych hazel is the correct jected, “this year It’s cash.” The bill didn't pass__Albany Jour term for our plant. Klamath Wholesale Liquor House I Exclusively Wholesale Complete Stock of WINES, LIQUORS, BEERS, PORTER and ALE.. DOMESTIC and IMPORTED CIGARS Family Department Bar Fixtures, Etc. Special arrangements will be made for family trade. All orders will be delivered free of charge. A complete line of Bar Fixtures will always be carried and orders will be tilled on short notice. A trial order will prove that we can be of service to you ALL GOODS OF FINEST QUALITY Klamath Wholesale Liquor House BRICK STORE BLOCK Klamath Falls, Oregon W. IL DCLANEY Manager STEWART A LYONS Proprietors Lots In Mills Addition and Mills Second Addition Are Sure Money makers i nal. Dangerous Golf. Reckless Railroading. , Jesse Lewisohn, the financier, told at a shareholders' meeting In New York a railroad story: “America has a good many railroad accidents,” he began, “but we must remember that America is an immense country, with an immense railroad traf fic. Our roads, on the whole, are care fully and intelligently managed. They are not managed In the least like a road I beard a story of the other day. “It was before the war, and a north erner was traveling on a little railway In New England. Suddenly In an ont of the way spot the train halted, and the brakeman leaped out and ran up I the track. On the brakeman’s return the tourist said to him: “ "This is a queer place to stop. There I is no station here. What's the trouble anyway? “*Oh, nothin' of any cousequenctf the brakeman answered. 'The signa) wua agin us, that wuz all. I’ve Jest sot It right, an’ now we'll go on agin di- rectly.’ ” • Dividing th« Responsibility. Early in Baron Huddleston's career at the bar he shared rooms with aB- other barrister. Bodkin went one evening to take tea and wine with the future baron, and be particularly BO- tlced the dirty, slovenly appearance of the clerk who waited upon them and of whom the host had for the nonce assumed exclusive possession. Bodkin strongly advised Huddleston to insist on a change in the treatment of the youngster's person and appear ance. and said it was scarcely decent to linve a person In that dingy condi tion about him. “I do not much like to Interfere,” was the reply, "he looks Ufsin Mr. T. ns his master, anil at the utmost 1 cannot claim more than half of him.” “Tlien.” said Bodkin, "I would at all events make him wash my half of 11« face.”—Bench and Par. One of the rules of the Weston-super« Mare (England) Golf club reads, “A ball may be lifted and droppad with the loss of a stroke when played with in the railings surrounding the powder magazine.'' There appears to be an element of danger in this kind of golf which reminds a London writer of a certain golf course on the West Afri can coast where the eighth and ninth boles are always optional, as several golfers are said to have been lost there owing to the proximity of the jungle, which is known to be a favor ite lair of the lion. Where tha D iff «rance Lay. “One of bis complaints against his wife in the divorce salt,” said the law yer, “was that she smoked cigarette«.” “Oh. my goodness! And whenever he comes to see me,” cried the baehe lor girl, “I smoke and smoke!” “Ob, be doesn't mind other women smoking cigarettes,” declared the law yer. “He likes It It Is only bls wife.” —New York Press. No single lot higher than $300. Choice lots as low as $75. $1O K 7VVONTH Frank Ward will show you the lots and help make a selection. For the Dafan««. Ma— I hear that you’ve t>een playing with I>onald Smith agnln. Tommy Now, I told you— Tommy—Playing with him! 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