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liberties with an electric battery The i
luminous writing was gone but in his I
ears roared the flowing water of the
sluice and through the roar the sharp
clear eut tap tap of a pick Again the
flash of warning light and before him
stood Tom Bowers I
The California miner is no coward
The rifle was lifted fired With a yell
of rage the ghost brandishing pick
and shovel In excited arms pursued
ithe trespasser
- A race between life and death in a
mew sense was thevme that followed
ail the way to Pike City There the
jother miners celebrating a new find
by a dance In a saloon were suddenly
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JAMES BUCHANAN
The fifteenth president of the United States was born at Cove Gap Paf
In 1791 and died at Wheatland Pa In 1868 He was a private soldier in the
war of 1S12 He served in both houses of congress and was secretary of state
under President Polk He was elected president in 1S56 as a Democrat de
feating John C Fremont the first Republican candidate Buchanans admin
istration was marked by his feeble resistance to Impending secession After
his retirement however he upheld Lincolns policy in prosecuting the war
against the Confederacy He declared that the administration of his successor
should be sustained at all hazards and lent his influence to that encL
CALIFORNIA LEGENDS
Weird and Thrilling Tales of the
Olden Days
A MINE THAT ViAS HAUNTED
The Ghost of Tom Bowers an Elusivo
Luminous Warning and a Race Be
tween Life and Death The Building
of Lofty Mount Shasta
A haunted house in the family sends
flelicious shivers down the spinal cord
of the ancestral tree but even more
delightfully spooky is the possession
of a haunted mine and such a boast
California can make on the authority
of early legend
Once upon a time in the days of old
and the days of gold a miner of the
name of Thomas Bowers lived and
delved in the vicinity of Pike City
A shy silent man was Thomas doiug
his prospecting without a partner and
even holding aloof from the jolly com
pany of the other miners after the
days work was done And in the
same shy silent way that he had lived
he died noiseless footsteps across the
snow to the brink of the slope where
he had been prospecting and at the
foot of a landslide his speechless body
alone in death
After his remains were buried dc
cently and in order there were excited
whispers about strange noises at the
mouth of the old shaft and soon quite
incidentally of course the mine was
abandoned
The greed of gold however taps im
patiently at closed doors and after
some little time a thriftless miner hop
ing for a short cut to wealth undertook
to work the old mine again and sud
denly surprised his creditors by pay
ing his bills But things flowed not so
smoothly as they seemed There was
many a slip of nerve between nugget
and pick Every morning the miner
found that his sluice had been tamper
ed with that during the night the wa
ter had been turned on by unknown
hands Yet the most diligent search
led to no discovery and as a last hope
of untangling the clammy mystery the
miner one evening Inaugurated a
watch well armed with a rifle
The shadows deepened into dark
ness into an absolute blackness Sud
denly while reconnoitering a phospho
rescent light attracted- his attention
and as he boldly advanced toward it
he discovered a placard hung from a
tree a sort of spectral transparency it
seems bearing the following words
Notice I Thomas Bowers claim this
ground for placer mining
When the readers mind had recov
ered from its earthquake of astonish
ment the miner made a snatch at the
placard A pricking thrill went through
ibis fingers as though they had takeu
alarmed uy ternnetr screams Txunmng
out they found neither man nor ghost
but tossed upon the ground a rifle and
a pick and a shovel with the initials
T B cut in the handle
A legend of an entirely different type
Is connected with the same period of
California history
During the rush for gold in the fifties
a party came west by the Gila river
route The heat was intense The sup
ply of water gave out On the hot
barren sands just below Yuma the
dying cavalcade pitched their desper
ate camp
In the silence of the early night from
one of the wagons came the prattling
voice of a little child lifted in prayer
Do dear God give us water and I
never will be naughty again
And scarcely had the petition gone
up to the stars when the sound of
running water was heard and up from
the dry hot sands bubbled a pure life
giving spring
The water of this New river as it
was called swept north for twenty
miles at one place spreading into a
deep lake two miles wide but when
migration went by the northern route
the pretty tradition naively ends no
longer needed the New rivers spring
dried up
Perhaps no more desolate spot can
be pictured than Death valley with
its terrific heat its lack of water the
soda dust of its plains strewn with
mummified animals and the bleached
bones of lost prospectors But fair
and fertile once lay the valley a flour
ishing pueblo ruled over by a beauti
ful queen
Alas the beauty was only skin deep
and ambition alone ruled a cold cruel
heart A palace to surpass the houses
of the neighboring Aztecs was her
dream and she cared not how many
lives might be sacrificed in speeding
the labor
For miles the tribe carried stone and
timber and when they faltered by
the wayside she lashed their naked
backs So sacred was royalty regard
ed that her people dared not protest
but in her zeal to have the palace
erected before accident or possible
death she had forced her daughter
even to join the throng of workers
and when the lash was lifted against
her own flesh and blood the princess
turned before sinking down in death
from exhaustion and cursed both her
mother and the kingdom
The gods answered quickly The sun
sent down a heat so fierce that the
streams dried up vegetation became
scorched the animals sought new
abodes while queen and people died
as though by plague
But in the midst of the desolation
the palace half completed may be seen
to this day if fortune favors the trav
eler with a mirage
An amusing ghost story haunts the
early history of Santa Barbara island
Such were the awful noises heard
by ships in passing that every sailor on
board devoutly crossed himself con
vinced that it was the headquarters of
swimming and flying monsters Un
fortunately for the sailors yarns it
was latterly discovered that some ship
wrecked cats had landed on the is
land their numerous progeny living
sumptuously on dead fish and the eggs
and the ypung sea fowl
Long before the first white man en
tered Hern county that locality was
Inhabited by a superior race far ad
vanced in arts and devout worshipers
of the Great Spirit In fact one of
their number so excelled In wisdom
that the others fell down and wor
shiped him and In jealous anger the
Great Spirit caused the earth to shake
and swallow up the entire population
afterward wiping out every vestige of
their Idolatry by pouring water into
the valley until it became an inland
sea
Later repenting him of the evil and
in impatience over his own vengeance
the Great Spirit threw up the earth
smoking with heat into the Sierra Ne
vada mountains broke away the hills
damming up the lake at its foot and
drained off the water into the sea at
the Golden Gate Then he opened the
mouth of the earth and released the
Jonahs from their long captivity
Little took they the lesson to heart
No sooner had the place blossomed
into beauty again than they fell into
idolatry once more tho worshiped
chief going so far as to challenge the
Great Spirit to single combat The an
swer was a thrust of the gage in their
very faces The race was exterminat
ed forever by a horde of savages from
the Mojave desert while a whirlwind
swept away all vegetation
But If we are tracing back to the
origin of things we must dig deeper
till we reach the legend of Mount Shas
ta the very first part of the earth to
be created
The Great Spirit broke a hole in the
floor of heaven with a huge rock and
went on throwing down more rocks
until he could step from the sky upon
the top of the pile
Then caressingly he touched the
sides of the heap with his hands and
forests sprang Into being Leaves
from the trees he plucked and breath
ed upon until they fluttered into the
air fleet winged birds Beasts and
fishes he also formed from his staff
And so in love he became with the
mountain of his creation that he hol
lowed it out into a wigwam where
he dwelt for centuries the smoke of
his lodge fire being often seen pouring
from the cone before the white man
came May C Ringwalt in Los An
geles Times
Convenient Banking
The bank examiners of the treasury
department have some odd and amus
ing experiences during their investiga
tions of country banks At one small
and primitive institution an examiner
found a deficiency of 100 Of course
an explanation was demanded The
cashier made a brave attempt to look
wise Finally he took 100 from a
private money drawer There that
will fix it he said
How will you enter that to make
good the balance asked the exam
iner
The cashier looked bewildered but
finally said he would not enter it at
all
You see he remarked that draw
er I just went into to make the bal
ance Is what we call the outs and
over drawer Whenever were out of
balance we go to outs and over to
make things right Then again when
the sheet shows more cash than Ave
ought to have the surplus goes to the
drawer Funny the city banks never
thought of that scheme Harpers
Weekly
Some Notes on Origins
Humpty Dumpty Sat on a Wall
etc has come down to us from the
days of King John The Babes In
the Woods dates from the fifteenth cen
tury being founded upon facts an old
house near Wayland Wood Norfolk
having the whole story In carvings on
a mantelpiece Little Jack Horner
Little Miss Muffet Old Mother Hub
bard Mother Goosey and Goosey
Goosey Gander are each traceable to
the sixteenth century
Pussy Cat Pussy Cat Where Have
You Been belongs to the reign of
Queen Elizabeth Three Blind Mice
first appeared in a music book dated
1G09 A Froggie Would a Wooing
Go was licensed to be sung as far
back as 1G09 Boys and Girls Come
Out to Play and Lucy Locket Lost
Her Pocket both hail from the period
of Charles II And last of all Cin
derella Jack the Giant Killer
Bluebeard and Tom Thumb were
published by their author Charles Per
rault in the year 1G97 London Notes
and Queries
Fish Stories
Mr Townguy How long does a fish
grow in a year The Guide Waal it
depends on whos tellin It an his ed
dication an nateral inventiveness
Chicago News
Fortunate
I thought said the author as he
took back the manuscript that the
story would just about do for you
Yes rejoined the editor thats
just about what it would do if we
printed it but fortunately I happened
to read it myself so I am returning it
to jou for fear of accidents People
are so careless Judy
Starting Him In Business
Brides Father to his prospective
son-in-law a young lawyer I am not
going to give my daughter a cash
dowry but I have some doubtful claims
for 10000 that I will make over to
you and you can sue on them
She Was a Countess
Squaggs Sa y Squiggs is there any
thing in the story that your nephew
married a countess Squiggs Well
yes I suppose there is The young
lady ran the adding machine in Bug
house Bingles office Toledo Blade
Too Late to Die
Gerald I would die for you Geral
dine But pa says you are a dead one
already New York Press
Go astray and everybody knows It
reform and nobody will believe it St
Louis Globe Democrat
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CHINESE FOOTBALL
It la More Like j Prolonged Riot Than
a Pastime
The first game of football I wit
nessed upon my arrival in China one
of our consular representatives at home
for a visit lemurked recently I mis
took for a very serious riot and you
wouldnt have blamed me either
In the firat place I was not aware
that the Chinese had any such game
but later found that It is very popular
In north China It Is not played as is
the American game and instead of
eleven players to tho side there are fif
ty These northern Chinese are almost
giants and every man on the team will
be six feet or over in height and weigh
on the average 200 pounds There are
no goals side lines or halves The
game lasts until one side Is the winner
and frequently this is not accomplished
before two or three days
The idea of the game is to force a
small wicker basket which lakes the
place of our ball into the territory of
the other side this territory being one
half of the town and up and down the
streets the fight rages Each man is
equipped with a whistle with which to
summon assistance when too hard
pressed
Stealth as well as main force may
be used in getting the ball into the
enemys country and I know of one
clever player who did so by passing
over the roofs of the houses As you
may imagine a hundred giants yell
ing and fighting in the streets create
some excitement Harpers Weekly
SOUL HOUSES
One of the Queer Customs of tho An
cient Egyptians
Egyptian soul houses were curious
edifices made probably between the
tenth and twelfth dynasties that is
about 3600 and 3300 B C The same
principle that caused the Yarriors
steed to be slain on his grave seems to
have actuated the early Egyptians
when they built a house for the dead
mans soul
The beginning of the custom was
that a mat was laid on the grave with
a pan of food upon it Afterward this
offering was carved in stone as a ta
ble of offerings to give permanent sat
isfaction for the soul Then to the ta
ble was added a shelter copied from an
Arab tent and this gradually was
elaborated The shelter was placed on
columns a hut was put into this por
tico chambers were copied and finally
appeared complete two story houses
furnished with pottery models of
couch chair stool fireplace and the
figure of a woman making bread
The soul was conceived of as ascend
ing from the grave through the ground
and requiring shelter while feeding on
its everlasting provision and yet
though It ascended through the earth
it needed a staircase to go up to the
upper floor and the soul had a donkey
for which a manger was required
Chicago News
Ventilate Well
An old writer says When men lived
In houses of reed they had constitu
tions of oak when they lived in houses
of oak they had constitutions of reeds
This is a picturesque description of the
Injury which may come to us from
fine houses too closely confined to keep
out the fresh air and too heavily cur
tained preventing the entrance of sun
shine which is almost If not quite as
important as air But it is not at all
necessary to have our fine houses un
healthy and it requires only intelli
gence and thoughtfulness to render a
brick house as good a promoter of
health as a cabin Fresh air will come
into well ventilated modern houses as
well as through the open cracks of a
house of reeds and sunlight through a
window in a palace as well as a hovel
The Discovery of Iron
The stone age bronze age and iron
age so overlap one another it is im
possible to say just when one begins
or ends Men began to use both bronze
and iron long before stone had ceased
to be used In fact America was in
the stone age so late as its discovery
by Columbus 400 years ago It is safe
to say that history proper and tho
iron age were born together anywhere
from 8000 to 10000 years ago It is
more than likely that men gained their
first information concerning the prop
erties of iron through experiments with
the pieces t of it that had fallen from
the sky in the shape of meteors New
York American
Energy
Aubrey de Vere an Irish poet and
gentleman mentions in his Recollec
tions that When ten years old he had
a tutor who constantly inculcated In
him rectitude purpose and energy
The tutors praise of energy was ex
pressed by the saying
There are three letters of more
value than all the rest in the alphabet
namely N It G
Headed Him Off
My wife began Hicks dropped in
to see me at the office today and
Sorry old man interrupted Wicks
but my wife held me up before I left
home I cant lend you a cent Cath
olic Standard and Times
Destitute
Hungry Hank I feel sorry fer de
lady wot lives in dat mansion on de
hill She is absolutely destitute Saun
tering Saul Destitute Hungry Hank
Yes Destitute uv generosity Ex
change
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The Whole Show
Visitor And what is the special dis
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Fliegende Blatter
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McCook Council No 1120 K of C meets the
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C J Ryan G K
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McCook Lodfjo No -12 K of P moots every
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Emerson Hanson E C
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Mrs W B Mills Commander
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