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tbarrison Journal.
BO. D. CAM UM. Editor ud Prop.
fcUBRISOH,
A late idea for ladles' dress gloves Is
frog-skin. They are approriate for
hops. r
A Boston woman left 9-M.oihi to sup
port her pet parrot. Crackers shouldn't
be beard of by tLastt bird: it s got a pud
ding. An Atlanta paper says that "no man
should tote a pistol." That's true, too;
any dictionary will substantiate !i:it
tatetuent.
The problem. What shall we do with
oar ex-Presidents? is no longer a puz
ale. Sir. Harrison and Mr. Cleveland
have solved It.
Could the English have invented mod
ern foot-ball as an expression of the
national instinct for grabbing other
people's ground?
Conduct is generally an index to char
acter, and on the stock market those,
working for a drop in prices can always
be told by their bearing.
There's a proposition afoot to estab
lish a penal settlement In Alaska. In
many respects as well an latitude this
might be on a line with Siberia.
The Missouri man who started for
Washington to dnpliea 3 Guiteau's
tragedy and landed in a Chicago jail
may be a '97 model, but he is geared too
high.
A New York physician advertises to
-restore outstanding ears to their nat
ural position." Gentlemen who have a
few ears still outstanding will do well
to bear this advertiser In mind.
It Is possible to obtain a divorce In
Missouri now after one day's residence
In that State. Why not abolish the
time limit altogether and offer a divorce
chromo with every pound of tea?
A clergyman In Milwaukee asserts
that "the nude figures ou a &5 bill are
, positively indecent." There is some
consolation, then, in the thought that
even If one be poor one's morals at least
are uncontaminaled by the Govern
ment. On an Eastern street railway were re
cently exhibited specimens of the old
and new passenger cars. The old stage
seated twelve persons. Inside and on
top, while the modern car, which occu
pies less space, provides seats for forty-two,
to say nothing trf the facilities
for banging on to straps.
Tbe old world vineyards have been
of uncertain dependence for years and
the output becomes more and more pre
carious. The end is evident. America
will be the world's greatest vineland
rn the near future. Already the Cal
ifornia vintage is getting in competi
tion with tbe older wines of commerce.
h but needs a little more care in culti
vation and expertness In manufactur
ing. Tile world at large has long looked
upon attetnins to solve the mystery of
the Icy north as foolhardy and uncalled
for. A certain admiration Is provoked
by tbe daring of the men willing to un
dertake them, and the written story of
those who have been so, fortunate
as to return makes Interesting reading,
tot tbe substantial benefits gained have
not been sufficient to offset the dread
record of tragedy attaching to the full
history of polar exploration.
i In our family of States, as In a house
hold, there are now and then exhibi
tion of selfishness and Indifference
even occasional outbursts of anger. But
let real trouble come, as In the case of
tbe yellow fever visitation in the South,
and discord ceases. Sympathy and aid
are quickly offered. What finer evi
dence that we are one people than this
ready response when need arises! In
onr.body politic, as In the human body,
If one member suffer, all the members
suffer with It.
Some time ago a naval expert wrote
an article for the Pall Mall Gazette of
I.ondon, In which he said the battle
ships Massachusetts and Indiana of tbe
United States navy were a match for
all tbe Spanish warships afloat. This
may not be an exact statement, but It
conveys an accurate Idea of the supe
riority of our navy over Spain's. Spain
has more vessels than we have, but
moat of them are old and would be
helpless In an encounter with any of
onr ships. If there ever should be a
war between the two countries Hpaln
would be swept off the seas in a week.
The tendency of young men In this
country to embark IB tbe learned pro
fessions with no especial aptitude for
snythle except avoiding manual labor,
1 constantly on tbe Increase. It la
greatly to be deplored, for to such fail
arc Is almost the Inevitable result. The
trovMe with these young men Is that
tbey do not understand the dignity of
manual labor. They do not realise that
honor and fortune may be more read
ily realized outside of these so-called
learned professions than In them, and
that It Is Just as honorable to swing a
hammer or to bold a plow as t is to
make a speec': mrrt or amputate a
limb.
The Dominion Is evidently deter
mined that the Yukon gold fields shall
ytaM np to It all the revenue which can
aaaslMy be gathered from them, and
al ww laying a royalty of 25 cents a
.tort on the cord wood with which tbe
mlistrs thaw oat tbe gold from Its Icy
afrli and cook their rations of side
mi coffee. Tbe logs for their
t;lli are similarly taxed, and a sat
Manila! fraction of the gold they dig
Is also levied uihmi by minions of her
revenue stationed there. These ordi
nances look rather mean, but we are
not complaining of th,-m aud are not
likely to institute any of the same sort
la reprisal when the golddigging comet
around wltl.iu our own lines.
Some time ago a writer for the Farm
eis' t'niou asked a very ardent admirer
of Prince Bismarck what he thought
was the secret of that great man's won
derful Influence. In reply, his German
companion said: "Mine friendt, Bis
marck knows how to hold his tongue
in six languages!" No doubt a saga
cious silence saves many a difficulty.
But Bismarck has liceu babbling in his
old age. He has volunteered the opin
ion that our much misunderstood Mon
roe doctrine is "uncommon insolence to
tbe rest of the world, and does violence
to the other American States, and Eu
ropean States with American inter
ests." It is a very difficult thing to be
lieve that such a great mind could
blunder after this fashion. But then
when Polonius grows old he will talk!
Tbe abuse of the right of petltiou
consists, In part, in an Indiscriminate
use of that method of reaching a de
sired end. It is a truism that the ob
taining of signatures for a petition is
usually an easy matter. Men sign out
of good nature, to get rid of Importuni
ty, because they have signed similar
documents, and so on, and sometimes
the body of the petition Is not even
read. An excellent Illustration of reck
lessness was recently furnished. A cit
izen complained to the Governor of a
State, because a certain criminal had
been pardoned. The Governor seut for
the papers In the ase, and the com
plainant was found to have signed the
petition for a pardon. lie had put his
name to the paper without reflection,
and had forgotten the fact. But when
bis own request bad been granted, he
Indignantly held the Governor guilty
of an act injurious to tbe public In
terest! The state of public sentiment In Can
ada toward the United States Is not of
the friendliest nature, if some one,
signing himself "An English Visitor,"
In the St. James Gazette (London). U
to be believed. He says: "Prof. Gold
win Smith stands alone as a consistent
advocate of the erasure of Canada
from the map; aud he is without fol
lowing or Influence, except that com
manded by social position and Intellec
tual eminence. One cannot help admir
ing his courage In facing the over
whelming tide of public opinioo. His
obvious exasperation is the meas
ure of his failure and Hie proof of Ca
nadian Independence. The ant!-American
spirit Is, Indeed, abvilute. I have
been amazed at lis strength and inten
sity. In some quarters it amounts to
an almost fanatical hatred. If those
Englishmen at home who have had
enough of American abuse and blui
ter and I think we are all getting a
bit sick of It want to find themselvei
in congenial society, they should ruri
over to Canada, where they will hear
sentiments vigorous enough to satibfy
the most impatient. Everybody Is not
equally bloodthirsty; but 1 verily le
lleve Uiat, next to a duly on American'
wheat, the most popular thing in the
cyet of Canada which it is within the
power of England to do would be to
administer to the United State a good
ringing diplomatic box on the ears.
This Is not merely empty jingoism.
The Canadians, who have much better
opportunities of judging than we have,
do not believe that the Americans
mean serious business against Eng
land; but they are willing to abide the
Issue, even If It should come to that,
although tbey are perfectly well aware
that they would be the chief sufferers.
At the time of the Venezuela crisis, for
two days after President Cleveland's
message, Canada expected war; yet
there was only one feeling throughout
the country the hope that Lord Salis
bury would stand Arm. They knew
the brunt would fall upon themselves,
but every man was ready to stand to
his rifle and face It. Home may pooh
pooh this as empty boasting. For my
part. I have been assured of Its truth
quite independently by too many calm
and thoughtful men not to be Impress
ed by It."
Three Queer Tcnn usee Farmers.
"There Is In Tennesse a family of
three sisters which present some of
tbe most startling peculiar I ties Imag
inable," said Mr. i. J. Kennedy, of that
Plate. "The three Sisters live together
on a farm, their sole means of suMst
ence, and work early and late to turn
a livelihood. Two of thern work la tha
field; the third does the cooking and
other housework.
"There is but one period of the year
when any member of tbe trio has any
thing to say to any other member. All
during the winter, spring and summer
they go about Wielr business with the
seal of silence on Mirtr lips. When fall
comes and the crop Is harvested they
break the silence, am then only to
quarrel over the division of the pro
ceeds. When eaefi has succeeded In get
ting an that she thinks jiossible, silence
reign again until the next harvest
time. The sisters, as you may Judge,
have made a name for themselves.
They are known far and near as the
'deaf ami dumb triplets, although such
a title Is scarcely appropriate." Wash
ington Post.
Itack to the Old Proposition.
Miss Perklnson My ancestors came
over In the Mayflower.
Miss Westlake Indeed! 1 suppose
yon were too young, though, to remem
ber much about It, weren't you?
The "HcorcherV' Way.
Walker-Tbe way of tbe transgressor
Is hard.
Rrder Is that so I stoat tsk a
spin over It some evening on my wheel
When a man's temper la raffled his
brows are usually kail
Pf
We all thought Pyrites Sam was a
fool the very day he struck the caui,
but were not absolutely certain until
tile night he came in with his (sickets
full of pyrites of Iron, and taking each
man aside privately Informed him,
with many injunctions as to secrecy,
that be had discovered and located a
brass mine. As a rule we had grown
vi ry tired of initiating every tenderfoot
that came along Into the mysteries of
quart milling: showing them the dif
ference lM-twcen gold-bearing quartz
and country rock; between a true lis
sine and contact vein; between gran
ite, porphyry, schist, spar, serpentine,
quartzilc. etc.; of trends, !';'s, spurs,
angles, etc.; of shafts, tunnels, slopes,
winzes, and drifts; of the manipula
tion of the horn spoon or gold pan; how
to distinguish the resultant sediment.
If gold, from mica, pyrites or sulphur
ets; in a word, teaching them in an
hour or two all we had learned after
years of toil and privation. We had
reached this stage of the "tired fin-ling"
when Sam brought in his "brass" rim-cI-mens,
and not a man of us would tell
him what it was. "t'h-huli," we said,
as he carefully exhibited his di-ccptive-looking
And. What did we think of It?
Why, it was a great tiud and very high
grade ore if it was brass. "If" why,
of course it was brass; look at It; auy
1 i iy e n, lid see what it was. We admit
ted Uiat they could; yes, anytsxly that
knew anything at all. So we permitted
Sam to work away In Ignorance ou his
claim for two weeks until he received
returns from the sample sent to Los
Angeles for assay. Then the "Bras
Monkey," as Sam called It, shut down,
and he went to prospecting again. We
LOOK T1KKK,
never asked him any questions, out he
volunteered the Information t'. ;t It
was of gixxi ore, but at that dl' .ince j
from a railroad It could not be br :dlel
at a profit. One day one of the boys
found his certificate blowing als,.t the
camp. It contained no figures, only a
statement of what his find cumtisted.
and that hereafter to Insure an answer
he had letter Inclose a stamp, as the of
fice could not afford to lose the postage
In replying to the queries of alfalfa
miners. The finder tacked this on to
the postofllce door, but Ham only grin
ned, and said "we ell got to leom."
lie was so persistent ami Industrious
In his determination to "strike it rich"
that we finally liegan to have a fellow
feeling for him and to appreciate his
pluck; sympathy he did not need. He
was jolly and good-natured, did not
drink to excess and was never known
to turn a card for money. In a friend
ly game in his tent the suggestion of
"draw" at only a dollar limit was al
ways met by lils quiet statement that
he never played for money, that he wa
raised different, and, besides, his mon
ey "came so hard" that he knew he
would be a bad hater. He wan always
ready with bis sympathy when anoth
er's ledge "pinched," "petered" or
"broke off," and encouraged hi in all he
could: always had a song or a story for
a bad night; and In Uie event of sick
ness or inj iry bad some simple remedy
In the way of poultices that his mother
"used to use." In fact, he wat one of
those happy-go-lucky, light-hearted fel
lows, handy slsnit camp and a friend
to every lsdy, but one could not get rid
of the impression that he 'Vlldn't have
any more sense than the law allowed."
Therefore, It was accepted as a matter
of course, when a tenderfoot struck
camp one day In the first stages of des
ert fever, that Sam should take entire
charge of hint and dose hltn with w(ld
sage and ' 'squaw" tea and concoct ap
petizing dishes from bacon, beans, rice
tnd flour. Homo of us dropped In oc
casionally on our way to or from work
to learn the patient's condition and (o
ffcr suggestions, but Ham was coosld
sred h"sd nurse.
As s "aiayar," OMiaiiaJ or Cbagres
RITE5
DAM
fever Is not to Is compared to desert
fever. The latter drags along and
hangs ou day after day, wwk after
week, and although the patient may be
able to crawl about he Is weak, debili
tated and nerveless ami "don't care a
rattle out of the Isix" whether be lives
or dies. This was thf condition of that
tenderfoot. During the middle of the
day hedrnggisl himself about the camp
In the sun, but . ... ,t-r of the
time he spent in his bunk in his tent.
One night, w hen most of the iniys were
assembled in the "Bedrock." Sam came
in. and. going n.i to the bar, drunk
alone, contrary to his usual custom,
then turned his back on the crowd,
leaned bis elbow on the bar and gazi-d
out into the darkness, at the same time
twisting his mustache fiercely, as if
worried over something.
"What's wrong, Sain? Patient dead?"
some one asked.
"No," said Sam, "but he's a-layln' up
there wishin' he was. I tell you, part
ners," he continued, turning to the
crowd, "I've been in hard luck mvself
o've all of us, I guess-an' seeu oth-
ers in hard luck, bin thai sor cuss up
there's In the hardest streak of luck I
ever see. He's plum down to bedrock
au nary color."
"That's nothin,' Sam: we've all b'-cn
there many a time. What's the maiter
out of grub?"
"Now, he ain't out o" grub, an' won't
be as long's Sam's got any; but It's
somelsxly else. I got a letter for him
to-day on the stage an' took it down to
him. After he read It he Jest turned
ovej with his back U me an' laid quiet,
but purty soon I shifted to where I
could set his face, an' I'll lc denied If
PAKTNEIIS; LET'S ANMVEK BESSIE'S PK.AYEK."
be wasn't cryln' yes, sir, cry in' like a
Imby, he's that weak, you know. I
sjiys to him easy tike, 'What's the mat
ter, pard?
"'Nothin',' he says, 'only more hard
luck.'
"'Girl gone back on you? I said,
thlnkln' to be clmerful an makln' up
my mind to Josh him.
"'No,' he says; 'It 'ud a-ls-ea betlor
for her If she had long 'go. Head that,'
he says, an' handed me this," concluded
8am, as he drew a letter from his iock-et-
It was dated from au Ohio village
and read as follows:
"My Own Dear Husband Your lov
ing letter received yesterday, but it
found us, oh, so down -hearted and
wishing for papa. Hear husband. It
seem that our troubles will never end.
Mr. Uhoades has changed his mind and
will foreclose the mortgage. You know
be said before you went away that if
we paid the Interest up he would let it
stand a while longer. Well, when the
mortgage was due I sold the an!
took some of the money you left me to
live on aud paid the six months' buck
Interest. Now he says, as the mortgage
Is due, he must have his money and
will foreclose. 1 tried all the companies
and banks to Isirrow the money lo pay
him, but they nil say that 1X000 Is too
big a loan on the place; they won't loau
over $l,."(Hl, and be won't take a second
mortgage to secure the other f.VSI. Yet
It does seem hard, when the place
ought to le worth three times 9 1, OK).
I've tried every way to sell It. but I cau'l
gift no one to give anything alwve the
mortgage. Eveiylsidy knows It is
mortgaged and are waiting to buy It nt
Sheriff's sale. Uhoades knows tills, too,
aud now he says It w ill save us lots of
trouble and costs If we will give him a
quitclaim deed and surrender peace
able possession. I begged him to wait
a while, but after lie had learned you
had gone out to the mines he said he
would not wait a day; that you were on
a wild gMe cuase, and, dear husband,
he even Intimated that he believed you
were never coming back to us. That
made iiai sngry, and I may have wild
thlnn to him that I should not, but I
could not help It. Now. dear husband,
I can not stay here after having sold
the cow; there Is nothing to do here,
you know, except washing and ironing
and house-cleaning, and I am not
strong enough for that. Mrs. Simmons
will take Bessie and let her help with
the housework and go to school, and I
will sell the chickens, pigs and furni
ture and rake little Charlie and go to
Cleveland to try to get sewing or some
thing. It will lie, oh. so hard, but It
can not lie helped. Now, dear husband,
do not worry: we will get along some
way. Kemember the words of the
prophet: 'Once I was young, but now
I am old, but never have I seen the
righteous forsaken or their seed lag
ging bread.' Now. dear husband, take
care of your health, and if you do not
find anything out there soon, come
back to us. we miss you, oh, so much.
Every night Bessie prays for her pajMi,
'way out In the mines,' and that he may
find something rich. You may be sure
that I echo her prayers. Write as soon
as you get this, dear husband, for I can
not slay here long. Your lo lug wife,
"M AGGIE."
This letter was passeii around; two
or three started to read it aloud, but
! they broke down, and it was silently
passed from one to another. It was
well for Mr. Blioades tha' he was not In
camp.
"He told me nil alwiut it." said Sam.
"They was five acres In the home place
that he got from his father's estate
close to town, an' he bought five more
Joiuin', luortgaglu' the ten to make up
the balance of the money. He'd a-made
It all right, but times got hard, an' first
! one, then anotner of them got sick an'
he had to keep on a-mortgagln'. He
j see he could never pay out, so he come
out here lo see If he couldn't strike It,
leavln' nearly all the money they had
with his wife, an' this cuss Uhoades
sayin 'that he'd let the mortgage stan"
I anuther year, now dern him. See that
stain there? That's from a bunch of
j apple blossoms that was In the letter;
I he 'lowed they must a been from the
yellow harvest tree back of the garden,
poor cuss. Take keer (f yehr health,
dead husbanV an 'him a-layln' Hat of
his back up there In his tent, without
money enough for a month's grub.
'Come back soon to us' huiii-m. l.ook
here, pardiiers, let's answer Bessie's
prayer, an" show this feller Uhoades
whether mlnln' Is chasln' wild geese
nr not. Meblie Sam's a dern fool, an'
I know he ain't got much money, but
be can rustle. I'll go puny nigh my
. ou it there's fifty; who's all in ou
It?" and he slammed two twenties and
a ten on the bar. It was Jut like Sam,
and whoever heard an appeal like go
unanswered In a mining camp? There
were fifty men In the room, and every
man saw Sam's ante, and those that did
not have that amount borrowed It from
their friends. In a few moments $2,
fs;0 In gold lay piled on the bar. Sam's
eyes glistened as he cornted the mon
ey. "Everybody's In on the game," he
said; "won't one of you ccm : down and
see what he has to say?"
"No nonsense, Ham; you take It down,
an' tell us what he says to-morrow."
"No, I'll be derned If I do. Home of
you fellers got to come along. I ain't
a-goln' to play this hand alone any
longer." So three or four of us went
with him. Well, there Is no use going
Intr- details. What would you or any
othir man say tinder the circum
stances? Finally he wanted to give us
a note or send a mortgage back as se
curity, but we laughed at him, and all
of os crawled Into our blankets that
night conscious of having done some
thing that might balance something
ese ou the debit side of the recording
angel's ledger. lie was too ill to travel
alone, and at last, after repeated urg
lngs. Ha in was Induced to accompany
hi in.
"You can bet your life," said Ham,
"that I'll give Mr. Khoudnai the camp's
resiMe's,"
Not long after that mypartncr and
I left the gulch and drifted Into Cripple
Creek. One day when court was In ses
sion we dropped In to sen how a court
organized under the code operated.
"Well. I'll be d ," muttered my part
ner as fie pointed to the prisoner's dock.
There were two men In It, Pyrites Harn
and the tenderfoot. The air seemed to
grow suddenly close In the court r om,
and we went out.
"Them fellers V" said an officer In an
swer to our Inquiry; "why, they're two
of tbe slickest sll round -on men In the
West. They're on trial now for taltin'
a mine su' doln' a tenderfoot np for
almut ten thousan'. Miners? Why,
man, they're experts; raised In the
mines; show Via a plto swe
anywhere lietween British Colombia
and Mexico, an' they'll tell you what
district It's from. The officers been
! a looklu' for 'em for mouths, but
they've Is-en hldiu' out some place
down In Southern Californy. I guest
they thought their last trick had been
forgot, so they come out."
At noon we went down to the jail, and
were allowed to see the prisoners.
"Hello, Sam; how's Uhoades?"
"Hello, hello; how's the boys down si
Tough Nut?" and Sam and his partner
grinned.
"Look here, Sam, you done tbe camp
up In good shaK and you know ws
won't squeal, but tell us about It."
"Sure; but then they aiu't nothin' to
tell; this Is my pardner, an' there was
no fever, no Uhoades, no Maggie, no
Bessie, no Charlie, no mortgage, no
form, no cow. no no apple blossoms, no
nothin', but Jest me au' him."
"An' fifty d n fools," said my part
ner as we went out. He made a brief
mental calculation, then said: "Sam
was there three months an' his pardnor
one, an' they cleaned up twelve hun
dred an' fifty each; not bad, 'specially
when they was hidin' out from another
trick they'd turned," Across the street
I saw a building with swinging doors
and red windows. I poinied to It and
asked, "Whafll you "ke. Jack'"
"I 'low It'll take about four fingers of
hot Scotch to settle my stumuilck"
and In? took it. St. Louis Globe-Demo-crat.
FASCINATING PAWNSHOP.
Few Persons Clin (o Itjr Without a
Look In at Its iuiJow.
Few persons can pass a pawn
brokers' window without stopping to
look In. says the New York Evening
Sun. It contains so much suggestive
interest, so much that speaks of asso
ciation and history. No parvenu prod
ucts or things of mushroom growth,
such as stare at one from the windows
of shops that preach the gospel of the
brand-now. Each article of the pawn
broker's stock-in-trade has Its reason
for being there. Its own little tragic
significance. The eloquence of the In
animate object Is never greater than
when In a pawnbroker's window.
Wedding rings, love tokens, meual
and badges, how they set one to syeoii
lating upon their past, and the why
and wherefore for their present! Often
one is tempted to himself settle their
future. Class pins and fraternity
badges In the paw tibroking plight are
esiiecliilly suggestive, and more espe
cially if one lie a member of tbe class
or the fraternity. Unconsciously one
soon forms the hnbll of never passing a
loan shop In any part of She town
withoiii stopping to see If any of his
class plus are being held as hostage.
There Is a conscious pride at the dis
covery that more pins of some OtlieK
fraternity are In dNgrace. The re-t
demptlon of the pins follows as a mat
ter of course. As many of them are
marked with Uie name of the owner,
It Is often possible to return them, In
which case the finder has all the
righteous glow ot Die good Samaritan.
But whatever the result, this sort of
rescue work Is always Interesting. If
Impossible to trace the owner the pins
make a significant collection on lhlr
ownaecoinit; when unhampered byany
sttiblsini facts tli Imagination can in
vent their histories to suit itself. It Is
worth noting bow few badges of wo
men's societies one ever finds at tbs
pawnbrokers'.
The times are replete with clubs and
classes and fraternities of women,
lsth In college and out, buf their In
signia, it would HpMar, are rarely
pawned. The contrast with the num-.
ber of men's badges that are so fated
Is remarkable. Any one who makes a
sillily of the pawnshop windows and
the pawnbrokers themselves, Indeed,
will assure you of this. The unexpect
ed hapS'iis when the badge of a wo
man llnds Its way Into a loan shop.
California ( .rloli firm,
( Mi rich-farming is one t the most in
teresting of Califon la's tariely of In
dustr1c. Alsiut twelve ears ago Ed
win Caws-ion brought oner a cargo of
forty-two ostriches from South Africa.
Th7 thrived on his Norwwlk and Paaa-,
deiut ranches, and now jtie proprietor
has over three bundredj native birds
and Is increasing his "troop" at tha
rate of about one hundred chicks year
ly. J.a average ostrich weighs about
two hundred ami fifty pounds nd
stands seven feet high. , Every few
months the "ripe" wing and rsJl-feath-ers
of the mature birds are plucked or
cut, without any ln or discomfort be
ing caused to the birds. The feathers
are variously dbqKised of In single
plumes, tips, boas, capes, ollsrs, etc.
While the great bulk of tbe product
g'Mt to the wholesale trsde, the ostrich-farmers
carry on qurtf a retail
business for the occomnKKlatton of
their patrons. The ranch, reached
by electric car from Los Angwles, trs a
Mecca for tourists. There Is a protec
tive Import duty of at per cent, on os
trich feathers, and under Its bttoeflotat
Influence this "Infant Industry" a
thriving so well that It is only a;i
of time lief ore California will !e ,
to compete successfully with JaMcaa
producers for the entJie American) mar
ket. That this marki4 la a valpable
one Is shown by the fact that tha1 Uni
ted Klutes now annually consumes
aliout thirty millions of dollars' worth
of Imported ostrich feathers. Baa
Frameset) Argonaut.
More Precious than Oolit.
At last, after man; dangers, she bad
braved the terrors of tfie Chllkool pass
and had rejoined ber lover on the Klon
dike. "Are you glad to see me?" tbe ashed.
"Do you still think thst I am worth my
weight In gold V
"In gold?" be cried contemptuously,
as be folded her to bis frosea bosom.
"My dsrllng, yon are worth our
weight In hssh."
The farther a man cau look Into tbe
fulutt tha fewer creditors ho seas.
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