6 THE COLUMBIAN, BLOOMSBURG, PA. SUN TATTOOED HIM.j Plight of a Man Who Went to Sleep Naked on the Beach. Wkt He Awoke lie Looked Like m Lobater and Rfn the Friend of Hli Childhood Failed to Itrrognlie Him, Charles Ppenner has, according to lh Boston Advertiser, furnlHhed to Ut Emergency hospital a case of sun burn that will figure In history, lie accidentally fell asleep on the bench while bathing, and when he awoke found himself unable to get his clothes on. Dr. UnUemun .was seated in the Xmergeney ofllce when an individual chtd in a long ragged mackintosh walked painfully into the outside wuit ng room. ITU eyes glared like two holes in a red table cloth, nnd he ex tended both arms as if a spider had crawled down his neck. The doctor Hummed his man up quickly, and made up his mind Hint he was denling either with a lunatic or a victim of locomotor ataxia. Well?" "Doctor," gasped the visitor, "mix me up a dose of poison quick. I cun't moTe enough to shoot myself." "Oh, you don't wont poison," said thedoetor, reassuringly, as he stepped up to the man and pluced both hands on his shoulders. The patient writhed ns if touched by hot coals, and the doctor felt the flesh fairly crackle under the mackintosh, ft was an herculean task to strip even this simple garment from the patient. Spenser went camping with several friends a few days ago. They hnd a tent down the coast, and the days of torrid heat were forgotten. There were swimming und fishing, and Spenser, with his companions, was WENT TO SLEEP IN THE SUN. accustomed to spend hours on the .sand. At noon Spenser had n hard swim nd threw himself down on the sand ifterward in complete abandon. Like iip Van Winkle, he went to sleep. lie twajke just as the sun went down. Spenser had slept with his face to the r.and. Old Sol shed a regular Fourth if July smile on his left side first. When Spenser was well done on the "ft, the sun sped joyfully around to ie right and toasted the sleeping man lieely on tlmt side, too. Spenser's legs and feet were buried in a pile of sea veed.and were decorated with strange md artistic devices. Up to Spenser's nees a blended lace work of snakes nd water plants had been tattooed y the artist Sol. The sizzlingof his mck and sides prompted the sleeper o change his position, and soon he was well-cooked all over. Spenser awoke with a start, when a thousand hornets seemed to be sting os him for n prize. Half dazed, he .tarted for the camp, and found his riends wondering at his long absence. Ie was surprised and disgusted that hey were somewhat at odds in recojr liiing him. When he tried dressing le did not recognize himself. Amidst eers and laughter, he tried one piece .1 clothing after unother, only to roan in despair and throw them all jide. He walked the beach all night and icxt day borrowed an old mackintosh ind a pair of gunny sacks for trousers, n the train he clung to the bnck seat ind walked up to the hospital because le coukl not sit down. Spenser felt when he entered that here was absolutely nothing to live or, but under Dr. Ilukeninn's skill he oresently changed his mind. 'Vou certainly look like a lobster," observed the doctor, as he finished ith Spenser. And the putient wus ..illing to confess that he wos one. Vnnnuul Tribute to Artreia. An unusual tribute was frequently .aid to the late Mile. Cenjette, the rencli actress, t or months she enaet i the part of a woman who is poisoned y strychnine, and to prepare herself ir a faithful representation of the yinptoms produced by this drup; she ad studied its effects on dogs. So -alistic were her agonies that med al professors brought their students ito the Theater FranuaU to learn to .cognize through her manipulations le symptoms of the terrible poison, fche Ki'iit Tli In tea CIoIiik. A remarkable woman dwells In Gi- raltar.I'a. Recently, during the Illness f her husband, Mrs. John llnchtr di eted all the work In a blacksmith hop, a .sawmill and the management f a farm, besides taking care of five jildren and nursing her husband irough a protracted period of siek- esfl. Herole Cure for Corns, An heroic cure for a corn was tried .y Jacob Gannon, an old gentleman of Cincinnati. For years a corn on his rreat toe had been troubling him. lie harpened a chisel, and with it cut off ibe afflicted toe. western iron kino. lotin V. nates, of Chicane One of the Important Fatora In American Daslness Life, John W. Oates stands in the fore most rank f iron nnd steel manufac turers in the country. Business asso ciates say that they have never known hint to be wrong on the iron and teel morket, and his ability and Judgment have placed him at the head of eome of the most important enterprises in that industry in the United States. Mr. Gates was horn in Du Tage county, 111., on May 18, 1855, and was educated at the public schools and at Northwestern college, Js'apiervillo, JOHN XV. GATES. (An Important Factor In Western Business Life.) 111., from which he graduated in 1873. He entered business ns a denier in grain, and then in hardware. While there he foresnw the possibilities of the wire business, and finally estab lished the firm of J. XV. Gntes & Co. to deal in wire products. He organ ized in 1881 the Southern Wire com pany, and became its president. Three years later he formed the Bad- dock Wire company, of Pittsburgh, and with his associates became inter ested in the Iowa Barbed Wire com pany, of Allentown, Pa., the St. Louis wire mill, and the Baker Wire torn pony, of Lockport, 111. These com panies were combined in December, 1802, into the Consolidated Steel and Wire company, with a capital of $4,000,000. Mr. Gates resigned as president of the Consolidated Steel and Wire com pany in 1895, and in that year he be came president of the Illinois Steel company. He held that position until September, 1898, when the company was taken into the Federal Steel com pany. In the meantime the Consoli dated Steel and Wire company con tinued to grow, and in April, 1808, it was combined wih other companies into the American Steel and Wire company, and Mr. Gates was elected chairman of the board of directors. Mr. Gates remained in that office for some time after the absorption of the company by the United StsMes Steel corporation this year. Mr. Gates is traveling abroad now, hut has large business interests in Chicago. He and his friends bought the control of the Colorado Fuel and Iron company recently at an average price of about 50 for the stock. He is largely interested in Tort Arthur, Tex. THOUSANDS OF VIPERS. Slnln Every Year by a Peculiar O ra cial Employed In the Prefec ture of Haute, France. In the prefecture of Haute, Loire, France, according to La Nature, they have an official viper killer. The pre- COURTOL, VIPER KILLER. (On an Average He Destroys 1,600 Venom, ous Snakes Per Year.) ent incumbent of this important office is a gentleman by the name of M, Courtol, who, judging from the statement that he kills an average of 1,500 vipers a year, and one year killed 2,502, must be pretty expert in the business. He receives five cents i head for all he destroys nnd makes a tolerably comfortable living out of his employment. M. Courtol says the viper when at rest is not easily seen, according to the Philadelphia Times, ns it assumes the color of the ground or rocks of the locality, becoming bluish black upon basaltic rocks and reddish upon volcanic scorine. In addition to this, according to him, the viper chooses Its bed before retiring by seeking ground of-the srime color ns its skin. M. Courtol has utilized 1.R00 skins of these snnkes in making himself two suits of clothes. One of thern, which he is seen wearing in the pic ture, consists of a pointed enp, jack et, waistcoat and trousers; the other is in the style of Louis XV, A Western City Pport. Three bears were killed recently within the city limits of Beuttle.Wnsb. f Ax- V " Ayli ft , An Involuntary Wooing 5 By Kenurtt F. Harris. (Corn lutit, 1(01, Tjjr Author! SjndloU.) II was not the atelier of a fashion able, or even n prosperous artist; as a matter of fact, nobody was ever known to call It an atelier at nil. Teddy Stebbius usually referred to it as "my shop," a designation that was rendered more or less appropriate by its situation on the fourteenth floor of a downtown ofllce building. It contained no soft hucd oriental webs or faded tapestry; there was not ft rusty corslet or n Bpidery rapier on the premises, ond the big windows were as Innocent of stained glass as they were of curtains. Miss (ileason was the ttenog raphcr for Balch & Skinner across tne way. If Teddy left his door open and moved his easel out Into the mid dle of the room, he could sec her from where lie worked, and she could see him from where she worked; wherefore it is not to be wondered at tliat they soon detected one another in the net of what Miss Gleason characterized as "rubber ing." Within a few weeks, however, Miss Gleason met the young ortist's ar dent gaze with perfect frankness and a smile that was as sweet nnd sunny and altogether charming end dazzling a smile ns ever turned a young man's head. In fact, she smiled so fre quently that old Balch, her employer, noticed it, and was curlons enough to steal up behind her nnd find out what she was smiling at. To his credit, however, he said nothing about it, although it is more than likely that his glistening bifocal glasses were turned on his pretty stenographer rather oftener than before. Then Teddy, guilefully taking occa sion to wander out into the passage when he heard the slamming of the elevator gate in the morning, met Miss Gleason a :.d was bold enough to wish her a good morning nnd follow up with something about the weath er. Later the scope of the conversa tion widened. She admired the car nation in his buttonhole and he very gallantly asked her to wear it for him. ( "Some of these fine mornings I'm coming in to see your pictures," she said, as she left hiin. For the next few days Teddy got to "his shop" half an hour earlier, in order to sweep the floor and tidy up generally. The majolica utensil was pushed altogether out of sight under the desk and the pipes were stowed away into a drawer. The young man began to consider whether, after all, Robinson's advice was not good, and wondered how he would look with a beard. It was only the probationary month of bristle that deterred him from attempting it. As a mntter of fact, he did nmke up his mind to let hia hair grow. One morning Miss Glea son ma tie the promised visit, and he had a delicious half-hour of her all to himself. , "I think that you must be wonderful ly clever," she said, as he turned can vas after canvas around for her in spection. "I took lessons once, but I could never do anything but pansies, and I couldn't do them very well. I don't suppose a person could ever get anything as natural as you do unless they had genius for it. What a beauti ful girl that is! "It's Miss Teyton," he said, indif ferently. The coming of Miss Peyton a week before had gladdened his heart to the point of ecstasy. Not that she was anything like as good-looklffg as the little stenographer, although her skirt had perhaps a better set and swing, and her boots might have been a trifle trimmer; but she was the daugh ter of G. W.B. reyton, and consequent ly her patronage meant a great deal. "I wish that I could paint your por trait," he added; "I would give any thing In the world for that if I could doit justice, that is." "I don't see why you couldn't," said Miss Gleason, blushingly. "I I guess it's about time that I was in the ofllce. I heard Mr. Balch a moment ago," and she made her escape. Miss reyton called for her second sitting the day after that. Her chap erone was with her, of course, but had to leave for a little while to do a little shopping. Teddy decided that the girl was a particularly nice girl and not a bit spoiled. It Is not certain whether Miss Teyton had come to any deci sion regarding hkn at that time. It is certain, however, that as the sittings went on, he became more and more friendly. She had blue eyes, by the way, and while Teddy was prepossessed in favor of eyes of a velvety blackness, he was compelled to admit to himself that blue eyes had their good points. Naturally he looked into them quite often. He had to. ft Miss Teyton had a dash of the prac tical spirit of her father, apparently, for she took Teddy to task concerning his lack of sociability, urging the ne cessity of this quality from a busi ness jfblnt of view. "I didn't know that I was unsociable," said Teddy. "I don't mean that, exactly," she re joined; "I think that you are very nice, but why don't you only go out a little?" "If you only knew!'" said the young man. "And I don't menn that, either." Sh hesitated, while he looked at her, smil ingly; "I mean," she continued, "that I never see you' anywhere that I go, and" "Oh. that!" lau-hed Teddy. "Well, that's my wlafo-. iuue." It will be your fault from this time," she said. "Now, to begin with, I'm go Ing to send you an invitation to a party I'm co.'ng to have on Wednesday night. "You will premise to come, won't you?" "I won t promise." "Bnt you will" and he did. But as to keeping his promise, thnt was another thing. He was not par ticularly bashful, but he had an idea that the sort of society that Miss Pey ton movf d In was not his sort of so ciety, and he was a little uncertain about his dress suit, which was cer tainly not shabby from continuous wear; therefore Miss Teyton looked for him in vain and in consequence snubbed several of her admirers" so that they longed for death, or said they did. Miss Teyton scolded Teddy with nn air of proprietorship that the young man found to be very embarrassing when she saw him the next time, and then she suddenly became embar rassed nnd treated him with icy re serve for nenrly an hour. Soon after this she brought G. XV. B., her father, up to the studio, and the old man was quite cordial nnd seemed to approve of Teddy s shirtsleeves. He invited the youn artist to drop in nnd see him at the house some evening when he hnd nothing better to do. "That's what I have been trying to pet him to do," murmured Miss Tey ton, with a side glance at Teddy from under her drooping eyelashes, "but he won't come." "First time you haven't got your own way," chuckled the old man. "I guess it will do you good, missy. But if he won't come for you he won't for me." Whereupon Teddy could do no less than say that he would most cer tainly call, if he still might, and he did call this time, and papa came down first and mnde him smoke and talked to him about his prospects in an easy sort of way and recommended him to cut the arts and 'go into business, which Teddy thought might not be such bad advice after all. After a little Miss Teyton came down in a most bewildering little frock and the smile that Teddy got ought to have been sufficient re ward for com ing. G. W. B. trotted off before long and Miss Teyton played and sang in a sweet, thin little voice songs that made Teddy rest his chin in his hands and lose himself in the flicker of the fire. Then the girl left off singing and came and sat down by him nnd be fore he knew it he was talking about himself, which is a bad sign, and he was conscious that the delicate per fume of her hair had somehow got into his'brain. For a time, it is to be feared that he forgot all about Miss Gleason.' At last he pulled himself to gether and rose to go, and she was ob viously unwilling that he Bhould go just then, so he stayed, and it was quite late when she waved her hand in farewell from the doorstep. There would, no doubt, have been a different ending to this story had it not been for Teddy's idiotic habit of talking to himself. He was a boy who took in a show, as a general thing, at least twice a week, so he might have remembered the almost invariably fa tal consequences of soliloquizing to villains and the occasional inconven iences to heroes from the same foolish practice, nevertheless he' talked to himself, and, as it happened, talked himself into a good thing. It was after he had talked for near ly ten minutes to Miss Gleason, whom he had called "Delia" for the first time. He was not only unreproved, but she noticed that his necktie had drift ed to one side and had straightened it for him. When he went back to the shop he threw himself into a chair in front of the easel, whereon Miss Feyton's near ly completed portrait was placed, and, thrusting his hands deeply into his trousers pockets and gazing at the pic ture blankly and unseeingly, began to free his mind. He was very much agitated, other wise he would have noticed that the original of the portrait had arrived and paused at the half opened door. Miss Gleason saw her, nnd shortly after old Balch saw his stenographer suddenly rise from her work and walk unsteadi ly to the window as the door on the other side of the passage closed with a slam. Miss Peyton paused at the door hi cause she observed the young man sit ting and gazing Intently at her por trait, not working at it, but just look Ing, and with a rapt expression that she had never seen on his face before, although she had tried to imagine it. Then Teddy spoke. "It's all foolishness," he said; "I'm a chump to think that she cares for me just because she has looked kindly at me a few times. She can't help be ing sweet and kind, bless her! And I haven't got any business to ask her how about it; I'm too infernally poor. It wouldn't be the square thing." Miss Peyton did not wait for fur ther particulars. She tiptoed in, and, being an impulsive young person, put her arms nround Teddy's neck, laid her cheeks against his and said: "You won't have to ask her, dear." So, after all, it was not altogether Teddy's faulty And we cannot hope to have things always turn out as we want them in this vale of tears. In conclusion Mr. Balch remarked to Mrs. Balch one morning, as he laid down the paper: "It's the same Steb blns used, to have the studio right op posite the hall from us. I used to think thnt you were a little gone-on him in those days, my dear." And Mrs. Balch answered: "Mel Gone on him? The Idea!" "Some of my latest photographs,' snid the camera fiend, "1 took 50 feet under wnter." "Why did you go to the trouble of taking them there?" remarked I'epprey. "It would have been easier to tie a stoiie to them and throw them lu." Philadelphia Tress. W here lie Wrltt for It. Albert was sent downtown by his mother to get some horseradish which she needed for her pickles. After quite a long absence he came hack home, tired and empty-handed. "Well, where is the horseradish?" nsked his mother. "Why, mother, I went to every liv ery stable in town, nnd they didn't hnve n bit," answered Albert, with a weary sigh. Tit-Bits. t nilerntond Ilia llnslnesa. Fruit Vender Why you notta tella me move on? Policeman Your cart is not in the way there. Fruit Vender Den I put ita In da way, nnd I wanta you tella me move on. Policeman What for? Fruit Vender Dat mnko big crowd and I sella bnnnn. X. Y. Weekly. A childlem home is a cheeriest home. The maternal instinct exists in every woman and when it is ungratified slie is deprived of much of the happiness of life. Ic often happens that chihllctsncss is due to some cause which can be lemoved, and often it removed by the use nf Dr. Pierce's Favor ite Prescription. The vigor and vitality which tliis remedy Impnrts to the delicate womanly organs, puts them in a condition of normal health, the lack of which is often the sole ob.-.truction to maternity. 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THE KEYSTONE COPPER MINING CO., Incorporated Under the Laws of South Dakota, June 15, 1901. Capital Stoclr, $1,000,000. Divided into 2co,ooo Shares of Par Value of $5.00 Each. FULL PAID. AND NON-ASSESSABLE. We call special attention to the fact that one share of this Company, whose entire Capital Stock consists of only 200,000 shares of the par value of Five Dollars each, secures an interest in its property equal to 5 shares in a Company of One Million Shares of the par value of only One Dollar each, as is the case with nearly all Mining Companies offer ing shares at a price seemingly lower than the present price of the shares of this Company, but in reality much higher. ZPropertsr of Coiripaay. This is very extensive, consisting of four mining properties, each over one mile in length, on a great copper vein over 100 feet in width, pronounced by Copper experts as among the widest and richest copper veins known, lacking only the necessary development to place same iu the front rank of the greatest dividend and copper producing properties. It is on the same gieat Copper Mineral Belt upon which are located the world's pres. ent greatest copper mmes, each paying many millions of dollars annually In dividend and developed to the depth of from 1000 to 2000 feet, thus fully establishing the fact that the veins are not alone inexhaustible, but widen and become even more profitable with depth The great vein on this property is of such unusual width and so prolific in copper ore from surface that only moderate developments are needed to begin the production ofore on a scale to insure large dividends on the shares of this Company. The Company is sinking a shaft now nearly loo leet in depth on the vein of one of its four properties, the "Pay Koll." This shaft is entirely in ore, which, by tests gave values at the surface of from 3 to 4 pt r cent, copper; at the depth of fifty feet tests cave values of from 8 to 10 per cent, copper; at the depth of seventy feet tests gave values of from 12 to 14 per cent in copper, while selected samples show values m high as 12 per cent, copper' and nearly $15 in gold and silver per ton. cost Va'Ue f e'd t0" Wil1 e"able the Con,',any ,0 Pr0''u-'e copper at very low As showing that this great vein is not alone of .unusual width, but also of rare rich, ness m ore as compared with some of the richest copper mines, we refer to the great "An aconda Mine," paying over $5,000,000 annually in dmdends from ore avenging less than five per cent in copper; or to the "Boston and Montana" paying over $6,000,000 annually from ore averaging less than six per cent, in copper; or to the "C-reat Verde," payinc neatly $.,,000,000 annually in dividends from ore averaging less than six per cent, in cop. five.a1inrl;r0ximat:id,:a,0f Uleflmount of ore nnd its value, that can be opened by a moderate development ill only a small part of such a vein, the following estimates are given : Estimating pay or. vein at only 25 feet in width, depth of shapft, SooBfee lenn h of aTd Tons0.0 ' Pen UP 6'250'000 cubic ,00 ore, or over Five5 Hundred Thou.- t0 MiViiU"?, lhe netTPro"t8 at Twenty Dollars por tort, would give total net profits of Ten Million Dollars, or Ten Times the Amount of lhe Par Value of the entire Caoital stock 0 tt'.mTrT. thf lUientrt,rnSUre divi,'lends 10 amo,mt of Ten DolIa" f 01 tlie stock. As the length of the vein on this one property, the "fay Roll " is over one. ?"wiH Lm.',n,ie':t:th' a"d thV,e,,l ,0 Whijh " me M" be workeJ thousands ZV, JoTtilnS. 6 CPPer inve8t,nent ,l,e 8,lar:i of thi Company offer an unusual op! v. rroP,ertv of he Company is situated in Rio Arriba County, in the northern part of T ,nly V""'" fr0nVhe souther" ,,oudary ine f Colorado), convenfen u States " m 8eCtl0n heaVi'y timbere1 and one of ,he "Shiest iX United The Company has no debts or mortgages. Its property is free and clear and its management is under able mining experience. One-quarter of the entire Capital Stock of the Company being so oco Shares nf .h par value uft250,noo has been placed in the Treasury otihIcL.' tai, ot which a limited amount is offered for $100 FIR Until Or.tnhor 7 7 . ' "v"1 price win do ad vanced to $1.50 per share. As there are only 200,000 shares in this Company it will reouire net earnings of only $200,000 to pay dividends at rau s of $ 00 XTv upon each share. 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