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TUB OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: FEBRUARY 10. 1907.
WE MAKE THE M05EI FLI
Aaericant ?() Up a i Extraordinary
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SIGHT-SEiraG JAUNTS TAKt MllKM
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The Americana are the moat extraordinary
race of pandora that ever lived. Hiving
mora money than tha people ef aay other
nation, wa proceed to squander It In a
way that maae foreigners dlxsy. There la
Tientlon but that wa m-nil more money
In tha mnlnf for fun than tha rest of
tha world live on during the day. Our
unheard-of extravmgaacee take innumerable
forma. miring tha racing season wa bt
E.ono.ono every dy-nd loea moit of It.
Our women spend about Rrwn.eoe a year
for faathere to wear an their hats, and
our small boya cat an aariy etart aa spend.
thrift by squandering n.000,009 a month
tor peanuta and popcorn.
Tha people of Chicago spend two. svery
week la going to their theaters, and they
pent more than that aura laat fan on tha
erlea of championship ball games. A New
Tork firm reporta the sale of I'JM.COO worth
of rugs for oaa ouui'i bouse; a Philadel
phia jeweler sold a riOO.OOO ruby to com
plete one woman's collection of . Jewels,
and now comes a New Torker who spends
CtflO.aoe for a site for a private residence.
The annual expenditure In this country for
little things Uke golf sticks and balls la
HaoO.OOO, and golf la a new game with us.
When It aomes to speculation wa are tha
easiest lot of "marks" that ever drew the
breath of life. ' Curing tha laat twelve
months the get-rlch-quick element to the
Vnlted States oaa Invested enough money
In wildcat mining schemes to py off tha
frovernment debt.
Eatravaaraat la Travel.
- The Atlantis Uaers have suites af rooms
which coat C'JOO per voyage in summer.
and these sumptuous apartments never
.lack for occupants. Americana are excep
tionally extravagant in their, travela. Worn
X was la Cairo, Egypt, tha man fee of the
largest hotel there told me that 70 per cent
of his guests were Americana, frilly Sd.Ao
af our people ga to I'erl every year. The
keepers of the great shops and resorts of
tha French metropolis would think dull
times had struck them If .tha easy money of
tha Yankee spenders should stop falling
;on their counters. Vncle Sam's tourists
are so generous In their expenditures that
In most parte of tha world tha natives ask
them Just as auich again as they do tray
elera from other countries. Bead sellers
and curio venders nt tha Wast Indies know
that a Yankee will readily pay for aa
article that a Britisher will hesitate U pur
chase for a shilling.
And Americana squander untold millions
n travel tn thxir own country. Los An
geles has over 80,090 rooms for rent, and
they fill up every season. It Is estimated
that the tourists spend t2S.0u0.Dua In south
ern California every winter. Tha number
at people who visit Niagara Fella during
an ordinary year la between TOO. 000 and
00,000, and during years when many ex
cursions are run from distance tha num
ber of visitors to tha scene of this great
cat oral wonder run over a million. The
amouat of money spent here by tha tour
lata la Incalculable. They spend all the
way from 13 to ROM apiece. Tha laat esti
mate may seem high, but when people
coma with a retinue of servants, and take
whole suites, or several suites of rooms In
tha big hotels, and make large purchases
af bric-a-brac, furs and curloe at, tha
basars, a thousand dollars" doesn't laat
-ions. ' '
Sightseer' Haaata.
Tha Teltowetoee National park, with tta
natural wondera and beauties ef nature,
attracts upwards of 20,000 visitors a year,
tha majority of whom coma from east ef
tha ' Aneghaniea. Railroad fare to and from
tha park to such sightseers means almost
aa much expense as a trip to Europe.
Tha Toseralte valley. Inaccessible as It la, la
visited by 1,000 sightseers yearly, nearly
all of whom coma from great distances.
The volume of travel to Colorado has In
creased so rapidly durtng the last few years
tSat although carpenters have been busy
through the entire winter building new
hotels, each summer tha capacity of the
state la taxed to its atmoat. During last
year soma sixty conventions were held in
Denver, Thousands of travelers go dowa
tha St. Lawrence every summer, and
thousands mora Sock to Florida la tha
winter. Although AahevUle. N. C. te not
looked upon as one of tha great national
show place. It la now attracting
visitors every year, i
Our people are great enthusiasts for
posttlons. calibrations and eoaventloaa. At
tha St. Louis exposition one morning a
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ST. LOUIS, 1904
PARIS, . 1905
PORTLAND, 1905
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group of newspaper men and etndel were
talking about the mtmmy that had bean
squandered In this country an exposition
Aa maul ring young scribe asked an ex
position afflcnO If tt would be aoestble to
estimate the sunt and compere It with
something. This was the reply: "Just say
that if all the money that has been thrown
away on eapostttoae In the Called States J
was gathered to ether and put In a heap, tt
would make a pile so hlgH that you wouldn't
By a balloon aver tt. There were IS),
paid admissions at -St. Louis, and It la
eetlmsted that the visitors to the fair spent
over SV.om,OQO In the city while the big
show was In progrvaa.
A good Illustration of the American fond
ness for "going cmewhere" was afforded
when the annual reunion of tha ' United
Conferadea veterans was held at Dallaa,
Tex. At this time the census credited
Pallas with a population of a.W0 p-fla
to the reunion. Therefore the hoepitality
of Tillaa waa taxed with the remarkable
responsibility of entertaining nearly three
times as many people as It had population.
But sou there hospitality was equal to the
emergency, and before tha week was over
very visitor waa. ready to throw vp ha
aat for Dalian
"Hesse) reastwga."
The "Horne-Comlng Weak" la a new de
parture In eelebratlors. and there la a
good etory tn connection with It origin.
Mia Louise Lee Bordlrt, a former Ken
tucky g!rt living ht Denver, listened to a
band play "My Old-Kentucky Home" one
night and got the blfce. She wrote a letter
aoxt morning suggesting that Kentucky's
wandering sons and daughter be Invited
to return for a home-coming week. The
suggeatton waa adopted, and It coot M,ng
ex-Ksntucktsns not less - than IEOO.S0O be
cause a bluegTassr girl ln far-off Colorado
got norneslek; ' but every' Kentuckiaa
thought It wa weH worth the money.
- One of the beat established and moat
popular annual festivals hi the country la
the Marui Oras . at New Orleans. The
southern city does Itself proud In provid
ing entertainment for Its -Visitors on- these
occaalona. Four ' precessions. stomus.
Proteus. Bex and Comua. cost 3.000 each, i
or 1100,000 for the four. A gorgeous ball Is
given "in connection with" each, of these
rocesMons, the expense of -which amounts
to S3.!0lh Other entertainments. Ilium
elation. . decorations, rich and rare cos
tume, etc., run the expense up to $2So.00t
for the week's teetijrtUe. The New Orleans
people figure that- every v lie tor who come
to town -spend tn, and that the big show
Is a paying proposition for all parties con
cerned. - Other 'celebrations almost equally
as- famous aa tha Mardl Ora are the Vetled
Prophet at 8t Loola. the Priest ef Pallas
at Kansas City, Ak-3ar-Ben at Omaha, the
Fall Musical. Festival at Cincinnati, ato
ate Louisville Courier-Jc-omaL
LINCOLN'S, ONE GREAT LOVE
la NiImn fee Ansa ftnUeds, Wit
' Died, tn SapvosM Paasloa C
HI Ufa..
: It wa whU Ann Rutledge wa quilt
ing that Lincoln asked her to become his
wife. She met his love with one as great,
yet, m a Strange agltAUoa, she repulsed
him. There waa a half secret la her life
that held bar back end mad her feel that
aha waa not free t be happy. Some timo
before, when she was very young, aha
had engaged herself to a man who called
himself McNeil, but whose real name wa
McNamar. Urn had made money a4 wa
ready to provide a home foe Jier. .But
first, he said, he must visit hi parents In
the east. On hi return . he would claim
her aa his wife. And so1-fee had atoparted
for his old home tn New York, which, tn
those days waa more distant from tha
little western hamlet than 1 Chicago
from Tlmbuotoo today. At first he wrote
her often, then lass often and more coldly,
and then at last be wrote no more. Anne's
friends. declared that he.bad .wUJfuUy de
serted her; yet shs still felt bound. She
bavd" pledged ner word, and even though
no letters came, and ah had learned to
love another, she could not marry until
she had been formally released, Lincoln
pleaded earnestly, and her own heart spoka
for him. yet still she could not lay the
ghost of he first love. - Lincoln begged
her te write to McNamar and aak for s
release. 8he wrote, but still no answer
came. -Then she felt that she waa really
free, and when Lincoln, now ardent and
thrilling with hope, asked bar once more
the great question, she turned to him and
let him rea4 tile answer la her ardent
face.
It wa the supremely Joyous moment of
hi life. Just aa th days which followed
were to be the very blackest. For toe
young girl bad been worn out by the long
suspense, the hourly conflict between love
and what aha thought her duty; and now
she was stricken by a fever, of which she
6!d In her Illness shs kept caning plte-
ouaiy for Lincoln, until at last her brother
brought him to her tedside and left the
two alon together. . What pssssd between
them no one ever, knew; but soon she be
came unconscious, and ha went out Into
tha world, te be forever after. In hi heart,
a broken, melancholy man.
For Urn hie reason tottered. Hi
friends, fearing laat he might take bis llfs
watched him with, the ' greatest vigilance.
He said little, but once he burst forth In
an agony ef grief over the poignant
thought that "the snows and rains might
fall upon hsr grave. For many week
this grief, almost unbearable, beset him.
and when he once more took up his dally
tssoclatee had known. Although his aseJ"1 roilfloa of ths pyramid.
still lacked four years of XX men be
gan to call hie old. Ha stooped as he
walked; and those Unas, which tn later
year appeared to je marked upon his
face by vitriol, bow seamed his haggard
cheeks. Hs shut his sorrow In. hi heart
and played the man. but he never really
loved again. Lyndon Orr tn Munaey's.
CHOPPED OUT OF THE ICE
Trent Cat Oat ef
TA late
for
lanrtere Merrily sot la
tie Caeac
That trout remain alive for a consider
able time after being froaea la the ice
la declared by soma choppers at Caribou,
Ma. who say that they have proved the
tact te their own satisfaction.
The Ken were encamped eight tnOre
couth of hare en the shore of a small poad
bounding la trout when they ran oat
ef provision. It being Illegal te take
trout at this time of th year, they hesi
tated before fishing tor them through the
Ice, bat hunger overcame their aaruplea.
The fish bit wail and as they did not
wlak to keep aa oversupnly en hand where
game warden ' might discover them the
avea put ail tney euuid eat eat alive In
a nearby spring. They would then scoop
them out as they were reeded.
One night the temperature dropped sud
denly and la the mernlng - the spring as
well as the tsuut wa troaan solid. Pro
vision bad arrived to night before and
n attention wa paid te the epriag until
tha following day. whan ene af the man
wtnt there with an a and chopped out
enough, flab, for diaaer.
The treus, srisT ad hard, were placed
tn a r. of eoM weta- ta thaw eat and
a U'.tie later the cook was startled ts
see them open their mouth, wriggle their
tall and niove about. The smallest ene
shewed sign af activity Asst. but within
an hour all were acting as naturally as
tt they were swimming tn the bottom of
the pond. Three out af ten died before
aeon, but the rest lived -until the cook
needed tnam tor supper,---Chicago CnrenV
DIU1DS CIRCLES EXPLAINED
Timepieces Igvtntec by FriegU af tio lia
sad i lity fail.
St RCBMAN lOCKYEfTS DISCOYIRiES
Bwn svs I tare Tae ta Kara; (be
Caleeaae Rellalen' that ggreaS
TTsaaaaada af Yea re Age
traen Egypt te Britain.
A fasctnating mystery gurroanda ' the
Drulda. Glimpses are given In the works
ef Latin authors of strange Hyperboreans
living "beyond the sources of the north
wind." ruled by priests who worked to-
eantatlona by means of mistletoe cut with
golden knives and offered human sacrifices
on lonely atone altars nnder the stars.
Beyond this the researches of antiquarians
and students of folk lore show that tha
tradition ef these same Druida- still sur
vives In remoter parts of Orsat Britain.
as local superstitions and festivals, sacred
wells and. .more than all. in peculiar rows
and circles of roughly shaped stones. Such
blocks are often of gigantic si, while It
la not uncommon for a pair of stones, each
three times tha height of a man, te be
capped with another as large, neatly mor
tised In place.'
The great ' circle at Stoaehenge kt 100
feet across, i One of the avenues at Dart
moor la more than 1.0OO feet In length.
BUch monument of a vanished faith occur
all over the British Isles from Cornwall to
tha Orkneys.
Oddly enough, rt turns out that the most
Important of recent contributions to the
knowledge of these mysterious priests and
their templea has been made, not by aa
archaeologist, but by an astronomer Sir
Norman Lockyer. For twenty years and
more Lockyer has been studying ancient
Umples and ethsr buildings. In Egypt and
Greece as well as nearer home, endeavor
ing to make out their precise use a astro
nomical ebaervatoriea.
It ha long been known that ancient
priests have generally been astronomers
aa well. It has been known also In a gen
eral way that most ancient templea have
been placed to look toward ths rising or
setting point ef soms particular heavenly
body. In fact, early peoples are prone to
"worship tha host of heaven," and! many
early religious cults are baaed on the adora
tion of soma particular star.
It is, however, a new thing for a modern
astronomer, aided by the resources of mod
ern science, to put himself in the place of
one of these old astronomer-priests and
by refined methods of measurement make
cut exactly what the ancient worthy wa
looking at and Just when he waa doing It.
Lockyer reasoned that the old astronomer
priests would be sure to mix up their re
ligion with their science, and having built
a temple for th worship of soma heavenly
body, would tn addition make the deity
useful a an almanac Star god can bs
utilised to tell toe time by night. From
the morning adoration of tha sun "god It
1 but a step to fixing th calendar by the
successive points on the horizon where the
divinity appears.
Lockyer s studies go back to that obscure
source of religion and sclenca.Vha land of
Egypt. -. As a matter of religion the Egyp
tians worshipped the sun.' As a matter of
science , they were especially Interested.' tn
determining the summer solstice, because
at' that time began the annual rlee of the
Nile. In fact, the Egyptian were the only
early people who had any particular tn
tareat In determining the longest day tn
the year.
But tha early astronomers had no tele
scopes with, spider web sight lines and ml-,
cromster eyepieces. XU they could do
wa to fix some sort ef atone monument
in line with the point of the horizon where
the sun shone en a particular day.
Many Egyptian temple built between
SK and 1500 B. C. have their long axis
so placed that on the longest day of the
year the light of th rising sun come
through a long Una of narrow doorways
and Illumines a dark chamber at tha
further end. Thus the Egyptian knsw
when It wa midsummer. Wherever, there
fore, one discovers temples or othed monu
ment oriented with, regard to the rising
sun en June a there one may suspect th
Influence ef the Egyptian sun worship.
Now tt baa only been known that the
horseshoe line of block at Steaehange
look toward this point of tha horizon, and
that other parts of the structure and ens
especially prominent eight line have also
this direction. Lockyer made a careful
determination ef the position of this sun
rise point at various past epochs, a tt has
changed slightly in tha course of years.
Correcting hi ebeervaUona tor tha height
ef the ho risen where the ancient sight line
polntsd, allowing fur the refraction ef the
air and the apparent distortion of the sun's
die near the horizon, he computed that
Stonehenge waa built te face the precise
spot wbsre the sun rose on June II about
MM B. C The Druids, then, from about
the year IT00 B. C appear to have been
pries' ef a religion which originated tn
Egypt soma thousand or more years be
fore, and spread along tha coast a the
early seaman mad their way from cape to
cape until it reached Greece on the one
side and England on the other.
Stonehenge 1 therefore a monument to
This same
religion of the pyramids, moreover, aa
given a our legal year, who cardinal
points are the solstices and ths equinoxes,
and whose festival were the originals of
Christmas. Easter and midsummer day ail
now more .or leas misplaced by ehangea of
reckoning ana reformations af th calen
dar. The old Egyptian June year, the year
that begins near the end of June or De
cember, has, then, fixed th positions of
half th ancient temple ana monument
ef Europe and given ua muck of our mod
ern calendar. Nevertheless, th December
Juas year, based en the solstices, waa not
the original year, even tn Egypt.
The earliest monuments of ail, guing back
la tuue at. C, axe the record of another
religion and another astronomy whose year
began with May I A temple observatory
aligned for sunrise en that date will catch
the sun aguin en it way back on August t
and determine two quarter point of a
year divided Into four equal seasons.
Ail aver the ancient world, therefore, the
euser monument are oriented with respect
to a year- other than our legal calendar
year, for a year nanvely which, allowing
Sir changes ef date, began on May day
and still marks it half-way point by Hal
lowe'en and All Saint' day, and on of It
quartsr points by Candlemas, though th
ether eld quarter point holiday ha lapsed.
This May year la still recognised tn Irish
and Scotch common law, where It fixe the
quarterly rent day. and la our own prac
tice ef moving on May L
The greet sands ton block of Stone
henge are set to face the sunrise ef June
U. less B. C Nevertheless, this structure
ta not the ert final Druldical temple. Lock
yer recognizing also the remain ef aa
older, lees iinpoelag tempi tn a circle of
smaller, ruder blue atone set with sight
tine ta single outlying block a, to face the
sunrise ef May ft, some fowr hundred year
earlier.
Bo there were two aorta of Druids; two
sorts which folklore marks as Druid ef
th mistletoe and holly, which bear thetr
bemee at Chlrstaias, and Druid of the
hawthorn and aeh, which Sower ht May.
Stonehenge turn out. Uwsl to be a tem
J a gbaerv alary eg th Inter Druldical euit.
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built ever an earlier 'monument te the
May-November yeor- Most British monu
ments, on the other hand, have their princi
pal sight lines set for the more primitive
year beginning' early In May. The are.
then observatories of the ash. tree. Drnlda
to which" have been added sight lines for
the Observation of the solstices and equi
noxes. Not only In the British Isles, but
also aero the Chanel In Brittany, the sun
rise for May determined the location ef
the chief stone blocks or earth mounds.
The Egyptians told time at ntcht by the
stars, runolns; sight lines on the more
prominent ones which happened to be near
enough tha pole to be visible nearly all
night. So, too, did tha druids. And be
cause a star ta a far better mark to sight at
than the sun. and because the positions of
the star are more conveniently computed
for past dates than positions of the sun,
Lckyer has been able to determine tha
date of British stone monument to within
ten years. .
Eleven different sight lines ta Cornwall
alone are set to use Arcturus a a clock
star. Th earliest date thus fixed at
Tregaseal is 2330 B. C. Five more come
between this date and S000. Then follow
vm, una. mo, 1730, and so on down to lan
sad 1120 B. C.
CnpaJia, though It has only four known
sight lines, was ase) as late as 133) B. C.
while the pieladea served aa dock stars tn
1170 and 1030 of the older era. Moat of
these clock stars were choeen because
they rose an hour or two before the sun
on one or other of the festal days and
gave warning of th approach of day.
Thus tha star also, as weU, aa the sun. dif
ferentiates the cults.
At an especially well preserved circle
near Penxance tha Merry Maidens, " sight
ing points sometimes a quarter mile or
more away, mark the points oa the horizon
where Areturua rose In August of VSS9
B. C. and Capella' In February ef two.
Two more lines mark the setting af the
Fleladee la May of ISffi and An tares ts
May of ma
Four more Une are now too vague to
be nsed for computation, though at least
three of these also are related ta the May
year. This, then, waa a temple of the
hawthorn -ah tree cult. Stonehenge also
hs a Una on the rising Pleiades. In UM,
aa Inheritance evidently from the elder
structure.
It la possible, therefore, by mean of
astronomical method not only to deter
mine with much accuracy the time at which
some prehistoric stone monument wa set
up; but also tn a general way -how long
the temple of which It ta a part remained
in use. For as the clock stars shifted
thetr apparent position and no longer roe
or set at convenient points or times, ths
early astronomers adopted other stars tn
their peaces.
They also built new observatories or. if
the change wa small, ran a asw eight
Una from aa old one. Thus at the Hurler
In Cornwall three circles, evidently from
their conditions of different ages, are placed
nearly, but nut quit, tn a straight Una.
The southernmost Is the oldeeC
rrom It sight Una en distant porat
mark on th hoiiaon the sunrise and sunset
for November, while the same line, taken
In the reverse direction, give approximately
sunset and sunrise for May. To the north
runs a sight Una to the point where
Areturua, riamg. cut the h oris on ta K1X
But m about 10 years Areturua had
ceased to keep accurate time en the eld
basia. Th Lfuld. herefor. built a sow
circle, with It center on the eld sight Une,
and ran a new Une three degree farther te
the east to hit the rising ef the star In
Ma. One mare they repeated th prooes.
building th third circle oa the sight Une
of the second, and locating their Une by a
barrow some 4.0UO yards away. Tbi was tn
1W.
Of the shift after th next hundred years
there la bow no sign. In YTXK however,
they located th risin; of Beteigeuee by a
Us running-nearly east; and twenty year
later another Una. a little eowt af west,
marked the setting point of Aatarea, while
a still later line marked th rising ef gtrtua
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from th center of the most recent of th
three circle.
From tha sam circle, and from none
other, run a line to determine the solstice.
Apparently, therefore, the observatory
was tn us for at least five hundred yeaee.
and th Druids who ministered there began
with the old May year cult and finished
with the June year religion of the pyramid
buildera.-
At Btennea tn the Orkneys there la a
solstitial tins of a data as late as TOO B. C.
Apparently the new religion traveled
slowly overland. I
What the Druids were about during the
next thousand years or so, up to the time
of the conversion ef Britain to Christianity,
doe not appear from the monuments; ap
parently they ceased to attend to the iters,
perhaps because they had some better way
of telling time. They seem, too, to have
given over building stone circles.
Although as practices and superstitions,
both the ancient religions have lingered
to the present day., Their monuments In ths
British tale show orientations neither so
early aa those of Egypt where the sfght
11 nee ef the templee correspond closely with
the very ancient dates given by the his
torical record nor so late as those of
Greece, which, beginning with SO JO B, C,
come down 'to 770 and KX.
A3 these peoples. It see ma came tn time
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MARK TWAIN'S CLOSE CALL
How Pert aat Mmm frwas Another
Xsa'i Gaa Prevented n Vleree
Eett, -'
Mark Twain tells tn the North American
Review the story of his dueling experience
In Nevada back In ISftL He wa at that
time an editor of tha Virginia City Enter
prise. He roasted a man named Laird, ths
editor of n rival journal, who replied m
kind, and Mark was prevailed upon by hi
friends to send him a challenge It waa
accepted.
"Then they took ma home. I didn't sleep
any didn't want to sleep. - I had plenty
of things to think about, and lees than four
hours to do it in because S o'clock wa
the hour appointed for the tragedy, and
I should have to use up one hour beginning
at e in practicing with the revolver and
finding out which end of It to level at the
adversary. - At 4 we went down into a UtUe
gorge, about a mile from town, and bor
rowed a barn door for a mark borrowed
it of a man who wa over In California on
a visit and we set the barn door up and
stood a fence rail op against the middle
of It to represent Mr. Laird. But th rail
wa no proper representative of him, for
he waa longer than a rail and thinner.
Nothing would ever fetch him but a line
hot, and then as Uks . as not he would
split the bullet the worst material for duel
ing purposes that eould be Imagined. I
began on the rail. I couldn't kit the rail;
thea I tried the barn door; but I couldn't
hit the barn door. There waa nobody In
danger except atragglera around on the
Hanks of that mark. I was thoroughly dis
couraged, and I didn't cheer up any when
we presently heard pistol shots over tn the
next little ravine. I knew what that was
that waa Laird's rang out practicing him.
They would hear my shots and of course
they would come up over the ridge to see
what kind of a record I was making eee
what their chances were againat me. Well,
I hadn't any record, and I knew that If
Laird came over that ridge and saw my
barn door without a scratch on It he would
A luncheon is more complete, an evening
-ii-m
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the world
and know how
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a. . .
drinker of good
wants.
at
will see that
be as anxiuu to fight as I wa-or a X
had been at midnight, before that dlsa
iruua acceptance waa
"Now Just at this moment a Uttle bird,
no bigger than n sparrow, flew along by
and Ut on n sage bosh about thirty yard
away. Steve whipped out his revolver and
shot tta head off. Oh, ha wa a marksman
much better than I waa. We ran down
there to pick up the bird, and just then,
sure enough. Mr. Laird and his people came
over the ridge, and they Joined us. And
when Laird's second saw that bird with
Its head shot off he lost color, he faded,
and you could sse that he was Interested.
He said:
" "Who did thatr
"Before I could answer Steve spoks up
and said quite calmly and In a matter-of-fact
way:
'Clemene dl3 It
"The second said. Why, that Is wonder
ful. How far off waa that blrdT
"Steve said. "Oh, not far about thirty
yards. i
The second said, Wel, that la astonish,
tag shooting. How often can he do thatr
"Steve said languidly, 'Oh, about four
times out of five.
"I knew th Uttle rascal waa tying, but
I didn't say anything. The second said.
"Why, that la amaslng shooting; T. aup
nosed he couldn't hit a church.
. "Ha was supposing very sagaciously, but
I didn't say anything. Well, they said good
morning. The seeond took Mr. Laird noma,
a Uttle tottery on his legs, and Laird sent
back a note fat his own hand declining ta
fight a duel with me on any terms what,
ever.
"Well, my Ufa was saved saved by that
accident. I don't know what the bird
thought about that Interposition of provi
dence, but I felt very, very comfortable
over It satisfied and content. Now, we
found out later that Laird had bit hi
mark four time out of ix, rlht along.
If tha duel had come elf he would have e
filled my skin with bullet hole that la
wouldn't have held my prtncipiaa,"
It la well to be sure you are right, but
don't be too sure everybody else la wrong.
call
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