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f JOSIAH THE CLAIM-JUMPER 4
4-4-4: t lilt. I4-44-44
OKlAH GODBOLT was new to
tfjl the Sliasta. hills. He was new to
any hills, anl, of course, be w as
Dew to the milieu. Hi- was new to ev
erything western, ami new to almost
everything not relating directly or indi
rectly to the swamp lands of ttie Mi
sisslppi, where boys prow ho fast into
human sapling that liy the lime they
are stubbly of chin their legs are long
enough for them to stride away, or to
the locomotion of a St. Ivouis street
car. Uodbolt had been a conductor
on a street ear not!! that cvcntfis! slay
when Ills ear collided while he wax en
gaged in helping a small girl with her
banket, and he was discharged. He
had had wages due him sufficient to
pay LU fare to California, which seem
ed the place most distant from the
aceue of his yielding to a weakness.
Hither he had come in a hurry. Hut
Josiuh knew, or, to be pmisc. he "al- I
lowed" that he wanted a copper mine.
As he had no snug fortune with which
to buy one, his recourse was to di.-
cover a new ledge and plaster his no
th'e of locution upon it. These are
sidelights upon the trail along which
Fate led Josiah to Pete Han-lay.
Rariiay was a tenderfoot -nearly
twenty years before Josiah ,;, born.
the back room now, says lie' willing
to pay big for somebody to go up the
hill with him to-night and keep some
old claim or other from being Jumped."
The remark wan not lost upon Josiah
GodbolL and as he toiled after Barclay
along the trail, winding tip hillsides
and around little peaks, (sometimes un-
oer trees ana usually through dense
chemise, he asked: "Will this Flat foot
party try to Interfere witii us to-night,
do you reckon?"
"You'd Iwtter save your wind to get j
up in- .-i.. uoin, mill-ail ui WIlNIJllg It
asking questions," answered old Pete;
"and liesides, a pine tree, such as you
tie, with a six-shooter handy, ought to
be able to bluff off a half breed, any
way." It was while they were cooking sup
per In a Heci tided spot In the ravine,
Just Im-Iow the llrst of the claims they
had come to operate ujmmi that night,
that Josiah learned more of Henry
Flat foot. It would seem that he must
be the loss bad citizen of Shasta
('unity. Hardily told Josiah that the
half breed bad shot at many men in
various tights, had stabbi-d one or two.
mid bore the record of his encounters
in scars over his body and a ioiig knife
mark across his left cheek. "He served
Four decades he had spent in getting j" term in San iiientin." wenl on liar
into such close and fortune -hunting clay, ruminating. "It was after he
communion with the "likely spots" of tried to hold up the Riehcr stage, up
'.oust
the Sierra .eadas and tht
Hai: . that lie had really become a
part of the mountains. He was so
gray and weathered, and so perfectly
attuned to the surroundings, that be
could squat among the little bowlders
on a Shasta hillside and a jack-rabbit
might bop over and wTabii its back
Hgaiust a corner of him without noting
the difference. Fortune had not al
ways been menu to him, and if he was
foretcr at the ebb it was mainly be
cause, like all chronic prnsix-ctors, he
ktieiv a gixid deal more about hunting
for mineral than about using Jt after
ho found II. Once, at Cherokee, he
took out nuggets as large as buzzards'
eggs: nt nan tsar ne piped down a
bank which washed ten thousand dol
lars in ten days, and a week later, in
a gambling house but that is not this
story.
Josiah (iodholt, tired of mucking at
the Iron .Mountain, ami resolved to
make a find for himself, drew his sti
pend and went to Wedding. Pete liar-
clay, driven away from the high alti
tudes of Coffee Creek by the flying
simw. was in town with the price of
four weeks' living used out of his shal
, low dust-sack when he met Josiah in
the lime Goose resort. "You're fresh
e:i null from nowhere to have some
g;-(".u!ioni lurk with you." commented
ISa relay. "You're long enough on the
be't to teaih me how to find a copper
in. ic." was Josiah's theory. And so
th" iiartnership was formed.
1! relay did know of a copper prosper-!
which seemed large enough to
meet the ideas of the young Missou
rln:i, to say nothing of bis own hopes,
e.ov modified by experience. He knew
where a streak as of half worn off red
paint ran through a ravine and over a
hilltop, back from Copley, within rifle
fhot ol the great lialaklaht. This red
gfx-au meant more than an Iron crop
ping, of that he was certain. On the
Fourth of July, when every miner of
ths section had gone to Uedding for
Uie celebration, he had improved the
unv.-atclied opiMUtunity to pick into the
vein where the hill sloughed away, and
lie had found copjier sulphurets. The
obstacle Which prevented Harclay from
taking up the two claims which the
red streak crossed was- that they al
ready lwre the location notices of Hen
ry Flutfoot, half-breed, drunkard and
fighter. The half -breed hnd been keen
enough to see that there was value
there, but too lazy to get down to It,
or even to do his assessment work, re
quired by law, Pete Barclay had wait
ed his opportunity. In another night
the year would expire, and wlthdt the
location notices of the half-breed. The
first man upon the Rpot after the hour
of midnight could re-locate those two
valuable claims. The surest way was
i for a man to be on each of the claims
exactly at twelve o'clock to tear down
Flat foot's notices and post new ones of
tbelr own. This was what Pete Car
clay bad in mind in taking partner.
An old miner and a young one drop
ped from the enlKMse of the afternoon
freight train nt Copley, and slung down
tlieir packs while tbey went in to pat
ronize the bar, which constituted half
tfje town. The older miner was care
' al to explain to the dispenser of re
freshments and the loungers In the
pUee that he and bis companion were
' " going to the Balaklala to work. "See-
, iTJ you're ot Jobs, It ain't worth
:vr;r.J," Mid toe proprietor, "but
. "173 rCa. who's a -gambling in
you way, and was shot in Hie shoulder.
I hey chased him for live days. He
was so near petensj out that he even
threw away his gun, or some of them
wouldn't have lieen so hot to overtake
him. At last they caught him in a deep
cave on the MeCloud, ami how do you
s pose they kuew he was back in the
dark hole'r It was by the shine of his
eyes; they were just like an animal's."
It was very dark in the iiiiis at inn.
o'clock. At that hour. Pete lianiay
stationed Josiah ;xilx!t beside the
scrub-oak upon which Henry Flatfoot's
location of the claim was posted, with
the Instruction that when lie could feel
both hands of his big silver watch.
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moved, pointing straight upward, he
was to tear down the half-breed's no
tice and tack up their own as noiseless
ly as jMjssilile. Then he was to stand
guard !esi(,. the sign of their posses
sion until morning Pete would do the
same on the other claim.
"Ami what if somelxiijy rouies snort
ing around here and wants to elean me
out?" askiil Josiah.
"Well, the law gives a man the right
to defend his property in the certalnest
way he knows how, and that's my best
gun you've got In your belt there." re
filled Pete, as he felt his way into the
little trail which led to the other claim,
half a mile sway over the hiil.
J oh la h found his vigil growing tedi
ous rapidly. He feared to move aliout
In the darkness, lest he should lose the
tree, and he hud been advised not to
disclose his presence to chance prowl
ers by striking a light. For the same
reason he checked a half-iuvoluntary
impulse to whistle. He slid to the
ground, with his back against the tree
and occupied himself with thinking
over all he had heard about the half-
breed, who would own the very ground
upon which he was sitting for more
than two hours to come. Supoosini'
Henry Flatfoot should take a notion to
visit the claim while it still belonged
to him? Who would be the intruder
then, and on whose side would the law
be? Josiah moved his big foot, and the
crackling of a twig beneath it startled
him and set his heart to beating.
The darkness was so Intense that Jo
siah could see as little with his eyes
open as with them shut. He could
not see the hand on his crooked-up
knee, and he could not see his right
hand, which, somehow, seemed com
fortable only when It rested upon the
butt of the revolver swung loosely In
his leather belt Many the night when
he had followed the dogs nt a run In
the bottoms along tbe Mississippi until
the 'possum was treed and the axes
could be swung to fell the perch, but
he had not supinised that a night, when
neither snow nor rain was falling,
could lie as dark as this. Clouds bid
every star. In shifting his position he
was delighted to discover u glow
worm. He seized the insect, find draw
ing up his cowhide shoes, smeared
phosphorous on the toe of each. He
could now follow the motion of his
feet when he moved them, and he felt
more collected.
With limbs numb from sitting so
long in this posture, Josiah pulled out
his watch in" haste. Surely it'was al
ready past midnight. Tbe long hand
was undoubtedly pointing straight up,
but an angle separated the short hand
from It It was eleven o'clock. If
Henry Flatfoot were coming to fry to
v his claims be would arrive during
j the next boor. Josian tri-d to keep
I thoughts of the deKw-rate Iiiduu out of
; bis uiiud. The night had tn-en very
! stiil. Suddenly the brush crackled
Ki.gnuy. josiau louna When all at
silent again that he had uiieon-iousiy
risen to his feet and was supM,rting
himself with one band aalu.-t the tret
while in the other he gripped hi re
volver. It was only a rabbit moving
i in the chemist-, of cvurse. He restored
the weajem to its phu-v and sank down
again. After a time a sound in the
brush off to the other side set him a
'lUiver again, but be eouvmcei himself
that only a toad could make such a
wee noise, though it had sounded loud
enough at first. When a strange night
bird cried out he did not move or
touch his gun, and be told himself that
he bad banished his silly fears. The
night was cold, but somehow he did
not feel the chili.
During the last half-Lour before utid
night, Josiah held bis watch on his
palm, and with his fingers followed the
long hand as it mounted the dial. Any-
Isxly would know that if the half
briHHl Henry Flatfoot were coming to
prevent his location notice from lieing
torn down, he would not have waiUsI
until so late to come.
Josiah could feel his palm perspiring
Iieneath the cold case of the watch
when at last both bauds were squarely
uMn the figure twelve. In a moment
be was uim his feet ripping the half
rotten cloth sign from its place uimiii
the tns The new pie-e of cloth a
foot square he spread against the
trunk, whether right side or wrong
side to the bark he neither knew nor
thought, and tiegau to drive tacks with
his heavy pocket-knife. The sound of
the hammering was like the thunder
ing of a stamp-mill to him, and yet bis
ears caught that cautious sound in the
chemise. He drofiied bis knife and
drove the rest of tbe tacks with the
sheer strength of his callous lingers.
Then he dropped to the ground upon
his kniss and waited.
The quiet va absolute. Yet Josiah
knew that the soutd he bid heard was
not made by n rabbit or by a toad.
Something a goc! deal larger than
either had moved !n the briMh within
a hundred feet of blni. He was on
his own ground u m but somehow be
was more nervous ti .,n before. Tense
ly he waited. At lost it came again.
Just as he knew it no.ild. Somethin
or souielsxlv was moving slowly to
ward the little clearing. In the midst
of which was the tree beneath which
he crouched. Two steps, three steps,
the tiling would stop, wait in silence,
and then come on. With his long pis
tol across bis knees and gripped tight
ly. Josiah bent forward. The sound
was most like that which a man would
make in crawling. Only one man on
earth could have any reason to ap
proach that lonely spot by stealth at
that hour of the night, and that man
would be .Henry Flatfoot, the half
bnsMl desperado, liming to we wheth
er the notice by virtue t which iie
had held this mining claim had b-en
disturbed. The sounds were repeated,
and again ceasisj. Another sound
broke the hush: "Henry Flatfoot the
is.wr !s now on my side; you'd better
go bark so help you Gawd!"
There was a light commotion in tiie
chemise. Perhaps the unseen had
heeded the warning, and was now re
treating. Hut in another ten seconds
the steps came on again.
Fpou the straiuiH gaze of Josiah
Ihere burst two balls us of yellow lire.
fhey dazzled him even as his senses
told him what they must be. Such
eyes as those burning out of the dark
ness there into his own. Josiah God
Imlt had never dreamed existed, and
he knew negro superstitions liLa a
book. The hellish eyes wen; growing
into the size of full moons, and they
seemed to be coming, coming.
Silence, awful, ominous; then a pis
tol shot rang out. Two screams suc
ceeded almost on the Instant. One
shrill cry was from Josiah. who had
tired, the other from the spot where the j
eyes had vanished, and the brush
crackled as with a heavy body plunged
buck into It
When, Just as daylight was chasing
away the last shadow, Pete Harclay
stepped from the trail Into the clearing
where he bad left his partner, the spec-
Hie which met him caused him to stop
md titter a characteristic exclamation.
In a heap upon the ground by the tree
was Josiuh. His face was white and
drawn almost past recognition. His
eyes were bleared and teury. In both
hands his pistol was clutched, and it
was held ready for instant use. Har
clay moved up to hiin and gently
wrenched away the weapon. "What
In the name of all the gliosis has hap
pened to you, Jo?" he asked, with a
tenderness of which no one would have
suspected him.
"Over there," whispered Josiah,
pointing.
"What's over there, the ghosts?"
"The half-breed," piped Josiah.
"Lord Gawd, I had to kill him." He
sank his head upon his knees.
Pete Harclay went over to where the
brush was beaten down, and peered
Into the thicket. There, lifeless, lay a
gaunt, ugly form. Josiah had shot the
panther squarely between the now
half -closed eyes. San Francisco Argonaut.
jdgfe Science
off ladiatiuim. but which emits them
vxjutaiii-uusly all the time, night ud
day. Following the lead of KecqucrH
Niioe. and M. Curie made an eibaustite
examination of the pitchblende, which
uas ludio-active. It was a task of
ujlfb separations, of continual divid
ing, tit constant asi-ayiiiirv until at
The birds of I-apljnd are reported lat nothilig was left Imt the (.alt that
by H. Gwbel to number !!" species. ' is now known as radium :dt.
Of these 1.T! -ert:tiiiiy hnvl in that I Tbe material possibilities of radium
country, thirty-four probably do so. ; are enormous. A'uiong many sugges-sevciitt-cii
are stragglers and iix in- j tloos as to the oute une are; The trans
fer visitors, one is au o.-ean spceh-s mutation of me als (the making of gold
and seven are een only iu the Solo-' ho solving the problem of light
without heat, the perfection of wire
less commuuicatioii. the cure of cer-
vetski Islands.
A itovel watch iu Zurich is iu the
form of a bail which moves impercept
ibly down au inclined plane without
rolling. There Is no spring, the sliding
tain phases of blindness, uew source
of beat, and, since it would now seem
that there is, after ail, but one sub-
givlug motion to the hands.and the trip; tahee iu the world (which appears to
frjiu top to bottjw of tbe Inclined sur I our untutored sense to assume varioun
face, a distance of slxteeu iuche. re- forms merely because each form cvn
quire twenty four hours. The ball j4 ' "'ns a special number of particles to
then lifted again to the top. the atomi, chemistry may un lergo such
The Highland luilway Comjxihy of!
Great Kritain announces that it has
completed arrangement for telephonic
communication between trains and sta
lions on Its line, thus not only greatly
lessculng the danger of wrecks on the
road but also enabling Its passengers
to communicate with friends and busi
ness associates while traveling from
place to place,
A tret- using aluminum almost to the
exclusion of other mineral elements
has been rejiorted in New .South Wale
by H. G. Smith, of Sydney. It is
known botaulcally as Orltes excelsu.
It. Hr., and the aluminum Is depolt-d
as a basic succinate, other flowering
plants show only a trace of aluminum.
although It seems to serve as a food
of cryptograms.
'ugo Haiberger. of Munich. Ger
many, has found that when an elec
tric current is sent into the earth by
thrusting one of the terminals into the
ground, the worms and siihIIs within a
radius of Fix feet or moie crawl out
and get away from the affected area.
Their behavior seemed to him to indi
cate that they were distn-ssisl by the
electricity, and lie suggests that the
remarkable effect of an ibstrlc cur
tent In stimtd itlng the growth of
p ants may be nally due to the exter- '
iiiniition of paraitcs about th ir roots, !
lather than to a dliectly beiie.' clal in
tiuelnv upon the plants thctiischi s.
A comparison between the heating
projicli.cs of acetylene and coal gas
siiows that the heat uni:s developed
per cubic f.sii are IsVi ami Ulio, re
spectlvely, the temperature of the
acetylene flame being about '2.i' de-gre-s
Fahrenheit. Willi an acetylene
burner consuming two cubic feet of
ga per hour a quart of water
brought from a temperature of about
,V degrees to the boiling point in about
light and a half minutes. I uder sim
ilar conditions It required ten and a
quarter mlnuti-s for the illuminating
gas to accomplish the same results,
though the burner use. sixteen cubic
feet of gas per hour.
King Mchelik of Abyssinia, propos
ing to take advantage of the scientific
methods of minting coin which prevail
Id the civilized world, has Just import- '
ed from Germany an outfit of machin-
ery for his mint, which is to be set ip
at his capital, AddisAbaba. The last I
stage of the long Journey of this ma-chlm-ry
will lie by caravan, and a
mouth will be occupied iu thus truns-
porting It from the nearest raliwav sta
tion. It is sui, that Mein-Iik, who for
several years has had a limlt.sj silver
coinage circulation In his kingdom
the coins were struck for him In
France has accumulated more than
110.000 pounds of gold bullion, besides
a still larger amount of silver, await
ing the arrival of the minting machines.
a rejuvenation as will result In tht
uiost unheard-of discoveries.
Already a hypothesis has been work
ed out to the effect that the emanations
from radium and kindred substances
are on a par with the rays which go tu
make up the aurora borealis. It is. In
fact, thought quite possible that the
aurora Is merely cathode or Roentgen
rays on a gigantic scale, and the phe
nomenon of Roentgen rajs Is analo
gous to that of radium rays. Out of
this has come the suggestion that
may s-xin lie able to predict ueathef
changes with greater accuracy than
heretofore. The U'aring of the dis
covery on astronomical speculation a!--Is
ltnortatit.
DISCOVERY OF RADIUM.
It Is a Product of Pitchblende 1 tm
fcffect on the l.odr.
No one, not even Mine. Curie, the
Jiscoveier, has yet s-eu radium In a
pure state, says Theodore Waters In
Everybody's Magazine. It has beeu
pos.-sil.le to obtain it so far only Iu com
bination with other material, it I
Judged by the effect of its properties,
which are truly remarkable, it la a
product of pitchblende, which is found
deep In the earth. The quantity al
ready found la so small that the figur
ative price of a gram has been placed !
IN OLD DAYS OF THE BUSES
A Philadrihin Mon'i Cnllrrtien ol
the Kir.t 1 It-keta.
It is odd to think of a common ex
change ticket having a greater com
mercial value than one trolley fare,
and yet K. H. Ji. Fraley, of tills city,
has a collection of somewhat similar
coupons that he would not sell for very
nearly the cost of an -entire line of
stn-et cars. For they are none other
than genuine tickets for the first llim
of omnibuses eer operated iu Phila
delphia. W hen Mary Deschamp inaugurated,
in the carry MOs. the lirst Philadelphia
bus line, she Mood supreme In a vast
and unlimited held, she was French,
as her name Indicates, and when still
joiing In tier business career linked
lioth her liuatuial and matrimonial for
tunes w ith au enterprising fellow coun
tryman, Joseph Glenats. The busi
ness prospered amazingly, and was ex
tended so frequently that Glenats be
came universally known us the "Na
po'con of omnibuses."
Ti'o Napoleon and lias wife soon had
ovci L'w buses in owration on most of
the principal streets of the city. The
Starting point for all the routes wui
the old Merchants' Fxehungo. now the
n-constructed Stock Ilxihange. at
Third, Hock and Walnut streets. All
the business, life of Philadelphia ten
tered at that place, and from there
all the buses started, at half hour In
tervals, their trijis northward on Sec
ond. Third, Fourth. Fifth and Sixrh
Mrccts. The upper end of the route
was usually Poplar street, und th"
M.ilie was located ut Heach and Pop
lur streets.
The Hcschau p -Glenats alliance, how
cer, was not always allowed to tread
its "primrose path" liic hei-ked. After
some years of prosperity a formidable
(ompetitor arose in shrewd Jacob Pe
lers, whose new Tenth street line
thrived amazingly. It Is said to have.
prosered largely on account of the
penurious methods of Its proprietor.
It Is even asserted that In squaring
i ciounts with a certain driver on
evening the employe misappropriated
0 cen's belonging to the bus magnate
ami was discharged on the spot. Phi!
tidciptin Record.
Why "Can Not" la Popular.
"Have you ever noticed," said tht
man who finds fault, "how many pco
pie avoid the contraction 'can't' now
adaya and make use of the two words,
Van not?' I have been so much struck
by the prevalence of the latter expres
sion that I to ik pains to Inquire Intc
the cause of It.
"I find that many people have adopt
ed the double term because, havinf
i beeu brought up iu a locality whert
(iratitnile,
"lio yon expect your subjects to hold
you In any sort of affection or esteem?"
said the pearl of the bnrein.
"I don't know why not." rejoined the
Sultnn. "it seems fo tne that the peo
ple I have not massacred ought to be
right grateful for being overlooked."
Washington Star.
A man who Is a gentleman only by
tbe grace of his tailor doesn't count
for much.
Bl (UHrtlll If mar tin !. !!...... i
ire,. o,,,.,,!., :... ..:! '"- MUIlJ f 'a' prevailed, the;
- " s- ......... ... ... ,v BIVICH U1IU11 IUC ; ., f, . . , . . ,1
oim it. iiiiiiusnum- in mini m-ni looguef
around 'cahu't,' and since they believe
surface somewhere, but the man who
found a quantity of it in a state of any
thing like purity would probably not
live to tell the (ale. The particles
ttlil. h fly from It are charged with elec
tricity, and at night It shines
forth with a plywpboreacence which
has been shining since the beginning
of all things, and which will go on
shining until the final extinction of all
matter. A small quantity of it in
the possession of M. Curie has caused
the most painful blisters when brought
In contact with the skin. A small par
ticle of radium salt was sealed in ji
glass tube, placed In a pasteboard box
and tied to Prof. Cmie's sleeve for an
hour and a half. It produced a sup
purating sore, which did not beal for
over three months. Prof. Curie thinks
that a person entering a room contain
ing a pound of radium would be blind
ed.
The first suggestion toward the dis
covery of radium runic when a wrt
ern college professor demonstrated the
fact that many common substances
have the power of storing up sunlight
and emitting it again nt nigh!. Com
mon sugar is the most luminous of
these substances. Not only does fhe
ftugiir emit light at night, but the dls-
that plain, every-day can t stampi
them as being of Inferior origin, thej
cultivate 'can rot.'
"That requires no short 'a,' and al
though Its persistent use may savor ol
affectation, it strikes the iiersons whe
can not get around 'cahn't' as a great
improvement on the short 'a' 'can't'
Not All Mih.
A brand-pew young father had lieen
talking a blue streak about his baby
at one of the Itrooklyn clubs. Aftet
he had gone away one of the wearj
listeners said:
"To hear him take on you'd think bit
was the only youngeter ever. Why
hang It they say a baby Is born every
five minutes In New York City."
"Yes," responded' an eld riy man.
who had once bem a y.ung father'blm
sclf, "but, you see, they're not all his.'
Come to think of It, that's probably
so.
I-'. til in ph.
Ho had a cold and who ran tell?
Hr might perchance lisve gotten well;
Hut everything folks suld would curs
He took. Tim end was swift iiml sure.
Washington Slur.
bun t gypsum i called pl,iii-r-if-,
ar s, became- (he M. n nuirlr" Gypsum
ifuar-ies, mar Paris, are, and have
ts u. famous for affoidii g it.
TLe most osjiioiiiii al ptoo-swa ar
Used in the l-ake fs-gioll for the recov
ey of cpp-r. that it is fo ind that
f A- I, Jdiug Ij pf cent will pj cowls.
I 'id as the hiiory of the woild it-
telf is that of the queen of flower
The ale-lent Greeks and ltomsu rw
Veled in roses. They were um1 bV
ishly at ti;ir feast.
In a bog ou the island of Zceiand,
!(. mark, a votive bronze chariot ha
beeu found with the image f a borso
ten incurs uigu in iroui aim won
I idol 1 gold sun on one side.
AtalM-ier is a flue-gra u.sl vaii-ty of
gjpsuui. elth'T while or delicately
slunl.-d, and occur, iu flue quality ut
Castil uo. Italy, whiiiee it is taken M
Fior-m e for the manufacture of ia
fjgun-s. etc
One of the oldest isjins in the world,
the German thali-r. is dl ape.irijig. It
is to be replaced by a f ur-inark p.cce,
equivalent to our Amu lean didlar, at
the five-mark silver pieces have leeu
found to be too heavy
The ehs'trlcal loads of the isuutry
have a nominal lap.lal of $l 'Xi.
uxi, employ tlii.-e li iiidr.d thousand
pcrsimt who are paid xj.V).ss,usi a
year, and run sixty th nisand cars over
twcnlv thousand mi.es of Hack, icn
of .-li-- J i'n it! ro.id nVf biiiidiiig to
one of sinim road
The word I'i'.li- I'urii.sln-s a striking
Instam-e of a w oil I s rise from very
low to high etaie To the bulk of
MltgHslj r-p aklng folk It now ttli SUM tilt
b -k of books. In Chaucer's day it
meant any book whatever, or scroll
to speak by the card, lest equivocation
undo us. Tracing the word Hitds
straight home we tind It m buhl. but
another name for the papyrus reed of
KsTypt.
HE FELT LIKE A SWINDLER.
Man Who Knnteil tin- Oictnr H-liroiiiin-I
hv His I 'llsiieiu-r.
Hi re ai d th re. a'o g 1 f . s busy and
div ei sjiinl pnfhvvajs. uricits iv-isms
lor cut bus ii. o ids i:i man aie some
times eiieounlir d. h l.vs l!ie lclroi
Free Pk--
Kver siiie(. I've begun to gr-- well."
ta.' t a i ah lo ir.l1 g d-i.i h-maii who wni
stixd.Iiig along j- simiij sj(eW1,iK with
a comrade. "I'se ha I the blues, now
and then. Niiui.i y I'm very vrlad I'm
nlvc; but tin-re me cirruui'iimct
which rather make n.e ! el myeff a
humbug -an out -a. ml humbug. It's
.his w ay, y..u si e All th doctors ald
I Could tint gi t ' II I stively could
Hot g"t wi ll, of course, th. aroused
the neighborhood. eviry:ody becau to
shower me with a' eiitio.is and kb d-He-iseH.
All kinds of l.-val" food de
lightfully prrpar-d -pi.urcd In upoa
lue; flowers and frail e.me neaily ej
ery day. The nun of our bl ck clubbed
together ami sent me a l.oa.tlful Mor
ris chair; and the club fellows, own
town, neut me a loving cup. touching!;
ei graved w ith sentiments of friend
ship. Dainty china article., for my iu
valid s table were given me; and so oa
I can't recount the half
"Well, I gave the d n'tors the klip.
and Iiitc I am. almost well, and feel
ing that I shall soon tie sounder thau
cviT In-fore my illness. Now. wL-.i
gives me the blues Is this: I have got
these things on false pretenses. I've
fooled all these people and It make
me sad. They can't have any confi
dence In me hereafter. No, you cant
cousole me I'm a fraud and I feel like
fraud."
Gave Him Away.
Two young fellows at Liverpool,
partners In the tea trade, were the bint
of friends, and their Intimacy extended
to personal as well as to business mat
ters. Oue of them, a simple-minded fel
low, was a bachelor, and was in the
habit of reading to his partner ex
tracts from letters of an ardent and
affectionate nature from a lady In tht
North of England, who signed bcrseif
"Susie."
The marrtiKl one went to Chluu fot
twelve months, and returned Just In
lime to attend the wedding of bis partner.
"I hardly fed like a stranger," be
said, in his sweetest tones, addressing
the bride. "In fact. I f.s-I as though
1 ought to be well acquainted with
my partner's wife, since he has often
done me the honor to rend to me ex
tracts from bl dear Susie's letters."
The faces of the husband and the
wife were studies, as the bride drew
herself up and said, emphatically and
distinctly. "I beg your pardon my
name Is Helen!"
Remember, Algernon, that your besl
lark room. Among the sul stances trhd
with the sugar was tuanitim, au ore
A full dress suit enables a $(100 clerk ji vblch, ns Itecqtierel discovered, does
to pasa himself off for a 11,000 waiter. oot need sunlight to enable It to give
i ,1 i.A ..I.,.. .1.. i
--- '7"7""7 ) girl can buy better ready-made poemi
neans of It In an o.herwlse perfectly 1 7. .., . ,, , "
than you could write In n thousand
yenrs.
A bride Is highly prized, yet she 1
given away.
His Load Went Free.
Warren Scvery, one of the long time
residents on Severy Hill, Ulxfleld. and
whose ancestors, Indeed, were the first
settlers there. Is proud of the history
of those men. The Severy wit Is fa
mous, and Severy delights to tell tho
various stories of their shrewd re
plies, or their quickness In profiting
themselves. One day two of bis un
cles were traveling with heavy bagu
over their shoulders. Coming to a toll
bridge, one asked the rate of loll.
"Make any difference if we have a
load on our backs?" he asked latter.
"Oh, no," said the toll man In sur
prise. Thereupon the first man grabbed
tho fellow traveler and slung him over
his shoulder, thus evading bis toll
fare!
There Is one redeeming feature ubout
Milcide; It usunlly strikes tbe right per.
aon.
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