THE HONEYMOON HOUSE
By Hazel Dale
By HAZEL DAIJK.
Janet stood in the middle of the
wonderful studio apartment that
Bhe and Jarvis had discovered.
She wore a big apron over her dress
and she was trying to bring order
out of chaos. About her in varying
degrees of disorder stood her things.
The beautiful ivory bedroom suite
had not arrived, as Javis and Janet
•were not keeping house by any means.
They were only spending their honey
moon in a novel manner, that is, in
doing what they liked.
Most of Janet's wicker things had
been put into the bedroom, but the
things that had come up from the
other studio were in the big room. A
woman was working at the windows,
and as fast as Janet could unpack a
thing the papers and strings were
hastily disposed of by the obliging
janitor, who evidently thought the oc
cupants of the top floor studio very
strange and wonderful beings.
Jarvis came in suddenly and found
her among the half opened packages.
He almost staggered under another
armful of boxes. Janet gave a little
scream of delight.
"Jarvis, did you ever see anything
like it?" she said delightedly. "Why
people have sent things just as though
we had a big wedding. Here's some
thing from the Daskells. I never even
sent them an announcement."
"Let's open this one right away,"
Jarvis suggested, and Janet seized the
big registered bundle eagerly. It was
from Jarvis's one relative who never
did anything for him, an aunt, who
lived in California, and they were
naturally anxious to see what it con
tained. Janet pulled the heavy wrap
pings of? quickly and beneath them
was a huge wooden chest.
Janet looked up at Jarvis suddenly.
"Dear, I have a premonition that It Is
going to be something wonderful. I
wonder if you are thinking what I
am?" And then they raised the lid.
Janet gasped.
"Imagine owning silver like this
and living in a studio apartment," she
breathed. "Do you know I had an
idea that Aunt Grace would send it.
Just look, a dozen of everything. Why,
we shall live like kings, Jarvis. No one
could own anything nicer."
"What shall we open next?" Jar
vis said eagerly. "This is just like
having a wishing lamp. Let's tackle
this big box over here; we'll get the
large things out of the way first and
then we can gradually get to rights."
The large box required a hammer
and plenty of hard work to get open.
It was marked "Handle with care,"
Fashions of To-Day - By May Manton
t' I 'HIS very full middy is one
I of the smartest develop
ments of that favorite gar
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absolutely smart and up-to-date
costume. You can use it for
the Spring if made of a suitable
material and also you can use
it for the making up of the
pretty Summer materials that
are so attractive and shown in
such an interesting variety, for
girls wear middies of cotton
gabardine and of gingham and
material of such sort at all sea
sons. In the picture, the dress
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it is trimmed with a plaid
gingham that shows stripes of
buff and brown with an occa
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For the lo year size will be
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yards 44, with 2 yards 36 for
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Rheumatism an Insidious Disease;
Begins With Insignificant Pains
Real Torture Bound to Follow If
the First Warnings Are Not
Heeded.
Anyone afflicted with the pangs of
Rheumatism will tell you that the first
pains were hardly noticeable. Slight
at first, in fact too insignificant to be
heeded, pains increasing very gradu
ally, the disease had them firmly in
its grasp before they realized that
they were its victim.
Those who have been trying lini
ments and other external applications
will find that they have not reached
the cause of the trouble, and that their
Rheumatism is back with them again,
increasing in severity as the days
go by.
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Notice is hereby given to holders of the above bonds that The Star Printing
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dated March 2nd, A. D„ 1908, given to the undersigned Trustee, and intended
to secure the said issue of bonds, to redeem all of the bonds of said issue on
the Ist day of March, 1917, at par, with accrued interest to said and that,
there having been deposited with the undersigned a sufficient sum to redeem
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March 1, 1917.
Bonds should be presented for payment, at the office of the undersigned,
on or after March 1, 1917.
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MONDAY EVENING,
and Janet could not Imagine what it
contained, although it ought to be
something nice, for her father's broth
er had sent it. The big wodden cover
was lifted off and Janet dived down
Into the excelsior and brought out
something wrapped with paper.
"It feels like a cup," she said ecstac
tically. "Jarvis, I know what It is—
dishes!"
She unwrapped the cup carefully.
In a way she was happy, but In an
other way she was almost afraid to
look. Suppose it was a design unsulted
to the studio life; just suppose Uncle
Ned had sent a dinner set banded In
gold! That would be a catastrophe.
And then ishe had the cup in her hand
and she looked up at Jarvis.
"Isn't it adorable," she said with
shining eyes. "Oh, look, Jarvis here's
an envelope. From Uncle Ned and
Aunt Florence," she read, "hoping
that this queer design will please our'
young Bohemian relatives."
The design was of the kind used in
tearooms. Queer birds and flowers
were scattered over it promiscuously.
Janet had seen a set like it in a Fifth
avenue shop and had sighed longing
ly, for she knew that the money she
and Jarvis had set aside to buy things
with would not be nearly enough to
pay for them. And here they were.
"At this rate, we shan't have to buy
anything but kitc'ien utensils," Janet
said, as they went on unpacking and
gradually disclosed a silver meat plat
ter, a silver cake plate, a queer old
brass coffee pot, an electric chafing
dish and countless other smaller gifts
of the kind generally presented to
brides.
"There are two large packages
down stairs," Jarvis said finally when
they had unwrapped tho last one.
"Jack said he would bring them up as
soon as he could get some one to help
him. Suppose I go down; we might as
well have them."
Ten minutes later two more queer
looking packages were being rapidly
divested of their outer garments.
"I wonder what this thing is?"
Janet said, and then, "Oh, it's a chaise
longue done in ivory, and what won
derful chintz. Do you suppose we
could match it for curtains? And
what's that? Jarvis, it's never a rug."
But it was a rug, a gorgeous, rich
toned thing, blue and yellow .It would
look regal in the studio.
"I'm so happy I could cry," Janet
said, looking up to meet Jarcis's eyes;
"but to tell the truth," she finished
naively, "I haven't the time. Come on,
boy, let's get to work and clean up."
(To Be Continued.)
Don't overlook the first signs of
Rheumatism. Prompt treatment is
highly important, but the right treat
ment is the only kind that will do you
any good. Have you ever known of
Rheumatism being cured by liniments,
or other external applications? Most
certainly not. Do not, therefore,
make the mistake that many have, but
bear in mind that external remedies
positively cannot reach Rheumatism.
It cannot be rubbed out of the blood.
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(Continued.)
We had proceeded for possibly an
hour without serious interruption and
Thuvia had just whispered to me that
W9 were approaching our first destina
tion when on entering a great chamber
we came upon a man, evidently a
thern.
lie wore, in addition to his leathern
trappings and jeweled ornaments, a
great circlet of gold about his brow, in
the exact center of which was set an
immense stone.
As tho tliern saw us his eyes nar
rowed to two nasty slits.
"Stop!" he cried. "What means this,
Thuvia?"
For answer the girl raised her re
volver and fired point blank at him.
Without a sound he sank to the earth,
dead.
"Beast!" she hissed. "After all these
years I am at last revenged."
Then as she turned toward me, evi
dently with a word of explanation on
her lips, her eyes suddenly widened as
they rested upon mo, and with a little
exclamation she stnrted toward me.
"0 prince," she cried, "fate is in
deed kind to lis. The way is still diffi
cult, {jut through this vile thing upon
the floor we may yet win to the outer
world. Xotest thou not the remarka
ble resemblance between this holy
tlieru and thyself?"
CHAPTER VII.
Through the Goldon Cliffs.
mHE man was indeed of my pre
cise stature, nor were his eyes
and features unlike mine, but
his hair was a mass of flow
ing yellow locks, like those of the two
i had killed, while mine is black and
;lose cropped.
"What of the resemblance?" I asked
the girl. "Do you wish me, with my
black, short hair, to posa as a yellow
haired priest of this Infernal cult?"
She smiled and for answer approach
ed the body of the man she had slain
and, kneeling beside it, removed the
circlet of gold from tho forehead and
then to my utter amazement lifted the
entire scalp bodily from the corpse's
bead.
Rising, she advanced to my side and,
placing' the yellow wig over my black
hatr, crowned mo with the golden cir
clet with the magnificent gem.
"Now don his harness, prince," she
said, "and you may pass where you
will in the realms of the therns, for
Sator Throg was a holy thern of the
tenth cycle and mighty among his
kind."
As I stooped to the dead man to do
her bidding I noted that not a hair
grew upon his head, which was quite
as bald as an egg.
"They are all thus from birth," ex
plained Thuvia, noting my surprise.
"The race from which they sprung
was crowned with a luxuriant growth
of golden lialr, but for many ages the
present race has been entirely bald.
The wig, however, has come to be a
part of their apparel, and so important
a part do they consider it that it is
cause for the deepest disgrace were a
thern to appear in public without it."
In another moment I stood garbed
in the habiliments of a holy thern.
At Thuvia's suggestion two of the
released prisoners bore the body of the
dead thern upon their shoulders with
us as we continued our Journey toward
the storeroom, which we reached with
out further mishap.
Here the keys whieh Thuvia bore
from the dead thern of the prison vault
were the means of giving us immedi
ate entrance to the chamber, and very
quickly wo were thoroughly outfitted
with arms and ammunition.
By this time I was so thoroughly
fagged that I could go no farther, BO I
threw myself upon the floor, bidding
Tars Tarkas to do likewise and cau
tioning two of the released prisoner#
to keep careful watch.
In an instant I was asleep.
ITow lon-* ' upon the floor of
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the storeroom T do not know, but It
must have been many hours. I was
awakened with a start by cries of
alarm, and scarce were my eyes opened
nor had I yet sufficiently collected my
wits to quite realize where I wns when
a fusillade of shots rang out, rever
berating throtißh the subterranean cor
ridors in a series of deafening echoes.
In an Instant I was upon my feet. A
dozen lesser therns confronted us from
a large doorway at tho opposite end of
the storeroom from that whieh we had
entered. About me lay the bodies of
my companions, with tho exception of
Thuvia, Tars Tarkas and Cathorls.
who, like myself, had been asleep upon
the floor and thus escaped the first rak
ing fire.
As I gained my feet the therns low
ered tlieir wicked rifles, their faces
distorted in mingled chagrin, conster
nation and alarm.
Instantly I arose to the occasion.
"What means this?" I cried in tones
of fierce anger. "Is Sator Throg to be
murdered by his own vaswls?"
"Have mercy. O master of the tenth
cycle!" cried one of the fellows, while
the others edged toward the doorway
as though to attempt a surreptitious
escape from the presence of the mighty
one.
"Ask them their mission here." whis
pered Thuvia at my elbow.
"What do you here, fellows?" I cried.
"Two from the outer world are at
large within th& dominions of the
therns. We sought them at the com
mand of the father of therns. One
was white with black hair, the other a
huge green warrior."
Here the fellow cast a suspicious
glance toward Tars Tarkas.
"Here, then, is one of them," spoke
Thuvia,'indicating the Thark, "and if
you will look upon this dead man by
the door perhaps you will recognize
the other. It was left for Sator Throg
and his poor slaves to accomplish what
the lesser therns of the guard were
unable to do—we have killed one and
captured the other. For this has Sator
Throg given us our liberty. And now
in your stupidity have you come and
killed all but myself and lik.> to have
killed the mighty Sator Throg him
self."
The men looked very sheepish and
very scared.
"Had they not better throw these
bodies to the plant men and then re
turn to their quarters, O mighty one?"
asked Thuvia of me.
"Yes. Do as Thuvia bids you," I
said.
As the men picked up the bodies I
noticed that the one who stooped to
gather up the late Sator Throg started
as his closer scrutiny fell upon the up
turned face, and then the fellow stole
a furtive, sneaking glance in my di
rection from the corner of his eye.
That he suspicioned something of
the truth I could have sworn, but that
it was only a suspicion which he did
not dare voice was evidenced by his
silence.
Again, as he bore the body from the
room, he shot a- quick but searching
glance toward me. and then his eyes
fell once more upon the bald and shiny
dome of tho dasd man in his arms.
The last fleeting glimpse that I ob
tained of his profile as he passed from
my sight without the chamber reveal
ed a ctming smile of triumph nyon
his lips.
Only Tars Tarkas, Thuvia and I
were loft. The fatal marksmanship of
tho therns had snatched from our com
panions whatever slender chance they
had of gaining the perilous freedom
of the world.
So soon as the last of the grewsome
procession had disappeared the girl
urged us to take up our flight once
more.
She, too, had noted the questioning
; attitude of the thern -who had borne
Sator Throg away,
j "It bodes no good for us, O prince,"
j sho said, "for, even though this fel
| low dared not chance accusing you In
I error, there bo those above with power
! sufficient to demand a closer scrutiny,
and that, prince, would Indeed prove
fatal."
1 shrugged my shoulders. It seemed
that In any event the outcome of our
plight must end In death. I was re
freshed from my sleep, but still weak
from loss of blood.
I was discouraged. Never had a
feeling of such utter hopelessness come
over me In the face of danger. Then
the long, flowing yellow locks of the
holy thern. caught by some vagrant
draft, blew nh'mt in.v face.
(To Ee Continued )
MRS. ALICE MARKLEY 111 RI F.I)
Leraoyno, Pa., Feb. 19.—Funeral serv
ices for Mrs. Alice Markley, who died
at her home in Herman avenue, Friday
afternoon, were held this mornlngr. Bur
ial was made in the Camp 11111 ceme
tery.
CITY ONCE CLEAN
IN DISGRACE NOW
Public Health in Danger Be
cause of Uncollected Aslies
and Garbage
By Anna 11. Wood
Merciful indeed is great Mother Na
ture. Having stood the pitiful sight of
the streets of Harrisburg littered with
ashes, garbage and rubbish as long as
she could she sent her sofo white
blanket to hide it at least for a time.
This city, such a little while ago
praised for its cleanliness, its splendid
roadways, its wonderful progressive
ness which bid fair to make it Penn
sylvania's "convention town," Is be
coming a disgrace and a by-word
throughout the State.
"I have seen," said an uptown
woman, "wagons full of garbage
brought in the dead of night and
emptied into the open lots." These va
cant spaces are In the very heart of
the new residential district just above
Maclay street.
Another woman prominent in local
club and social life referred to an
alley back of her Front street home.
"For weeks and months it lias been
a disgrace! Ashes and bits of garbage,
old stockings, odd gloves and alt sorts
of rubbish are frozen to the ground.
Think what it means when the lirst
spring thaws come,"
Helping to Pile Up the. Litter
There is scarcely a householder who
Is not tormented with circulars, patent
medicine advertisements, cards of cut
rate grocery sales, etc., thrown at, or
In the general direction of, the front
.door. These bits of paper, ragged and
weather worn, give their share to the
general litter. Add to this the empty
tin cans, to which decaying articles
of food still cling, bones carried by
stray dogs from garbage receptacles
with ill-fitting covers or with none at
all and one can soon find a hearty
breeding ground for disease.
Not so very long ago a woman in
the lower end of the city had reason
to dispose of a dead cat. She called
the attention of the proper parties but
without success and the animal had to
be carried to a lot some distance away
where it lay for days in an advanced
state of mortification, the horror and
tho fascination of the passing school
children.
I Grumblings and complaints have
been going on all over the city for
months, but uselessly. The hard
j earned money of the householder has
had to go out to private parties for
the disposal of ashes and refuse whien
should be taken away without cost.
It has actually come to the pass that
a collector gazes at the overflowing
cans mournfully, throws out a strong
hint for the housekeeper to offer
money, and, if it is not forthcoming,
he mumbles something about them
being "frozen" or "an awfully heavy
load" and ambles on his way!
Why Not Knforcc Laws
The city of Harrisburg possesses on
her statute books laws and ordinances
which, if enforced, would solve the
whole problem and compel a thorough
clean-up. How, then, can the poor
man who throws his ashes over the
back fence be handled for breaking
the law when the municipality itself is
doing virtually the same thing? What
is the matter with the police who al
low wagon loads of ashes and refuse
to pass through our streets uncovered
when every law of cleanliness and de
cency as well as those adopted by the
city fcovernment call for covered
wagons ?
And the result of all this negli
gence? Pestilence and death! The
City Health Board fears an outbreak
of infantile paralysis during the com
ing summer, if present conditions con
tinue. equal to that in New York and
Brooklyn last season. With only four
or five cases on our record when the
whole country lay under the horror of
the scourge, this city became a ver
itable haven of refuge, but it bids fair
to become the opposite* before many
more months have passed.
The women of the Visiting Nurses
Association in their work in the poor
er districts have found filth and dirt
rampant in such localities as Seventh
street, part of Herr, etc., where the
living conditions are congested.
The contract with the city held by
the Pennsylvania Reduction Co. (bond
ed by the Pennsylvania Realty Co.)
expires January, 1918. Ten years ago
when it was made it was sufficient but
it has failed to keep pace with the
rapid growth of the town. But be
tween now and the llrst of next year?
Is there nothing to be done? Where is
civic pride, where is co-operation and
above all where Is common sense?
Shall we submit to a slaughter of the
innocents because of the stupidity of
a certain group of men?
City Health Officer Raunick in his
annual report to the City Council
urged municipal control of the prob
lems which are agitating the people
of Harrisburg to-day.
Prof. Zueblin, the noted expert who
recently visited us, made the state
ment that no city was on the real
highway of success and development
until its cars, its lights, Its ashes and
refuse collections were all under mu
nicipal control.
Economically speaking, clean streets
are one of a town's greatest assets, as
the dirt and dust carried by the wind
are a great factor in the spread of
contagious diseases.
McCabe Refuses to Grant
I Science Divorce From Humor
Joseph McCabe, of Eng
land, who will give an illustrated lec
ture on "Wonderful Chapters in the
World's History," in the Technical
High school auditorium to-morrow
evening, at 8.15 o'clock, comes highly
recommended by the American Am
bassador to England, Walter Hlnes
Page. The lecture will be given un
der the auspices of the Harrisburg
Natlonl Hsltory Society.
Mr. McCabe was for several years
professor of phllosonhy at Lou vain
Univesity, afterwards devoting his
time to the scientific side of modern
culture, especially In its bearing on
evolution. His critics say he puts sci
entific matters in language that can be
understood and is one of those who
cannot see why humor should be di
vorced from science.
Mr. McCabe's hundreds of lantern
slides Include many of his own photo
graphs of rare objects In scientific
collections.
POTATOES AT 53.00
Sunbury. Pa.. Feb. 19.—White pota
toes reached |n.6o per bushel In Sun
bury, and are hard to get at that. Fann
er* on the local market declared they
do not have very many even at that
price.
. f;' .V- * -
FEBRUARY .. 1917.
Copyright, 1913, by Boubleday, Pag* A Co.
(Continued.) (
We wandered about here there,
looking with all our eya*. The miners
were very busy and silent, but quite
friendly, and allowed us to examine
as much as we pleased tb? results of
their operations. In the and cra
dles the yellow Cake gold glittered
"Where can we dig a little of this gold
oureslvea?''
plainly, contrasting with the black
sand. In the pans, however, the resi
due spread out fan shaped along th
angle between the bottom and the side,
and at the apex the gold lay heavy
and beautiful all by itself. The men
were generally bearded, tanned with
working in this blinding sun and plas
tered liberally with the red earth. We
saw some queer sights, however, as
when we came across a Jolly pair
dressed lu what were the remains of
ultra fashionable garments up to and
including plug hats'. At one side, work
ing some distance from the stream,
were small groups of native Callfor.
nians or Mexicans. They did not trou
ble to carry the earth all the way to
the river, but, after screening It rough
ly, tossed It into the air above a can
vas, thus winnowing out the heavier
pay dirt. I thought this must be very
disagreeable.
As we wandered about here and
there among all these men so busily
engaged and with our own eyes saw
pan after pan show gold, actual metal
lic guaranteed gold, such as rings and
watches and money are made of, a
growing excitement possessed us —the
excitement of a small boy with a new
and untried gun. We wanted to get
at it ourselves. Only we did not know
how.
Finally Yank approached one of the
busy miners.
"Stranger," said he, "we're new to
tills. Maybe you can tell us where we
can dig a little of this gold ourselves."
The man straightened his back to ex
hibit a roving humorous blue eye, with
which he examined Yank from top to
toe.
"If," said he, "It wasn't for that
eighteen foot cannon you carry over
your left arm and a cold gray pair of
eyes you carry in your head I'd direct
you up the sldehlll yonder and watch
you sweat. As It is, you can work
anywhere anybody else isn't working.
Start in!"
"Can we dig right next to you,
then?" asked Yank, nodding at an un
broken piece of ground Just upstream.
The miner clambered carefully out
of his waist deep trench, searched his
pockets, produced a pipe and tobacco.
After lighting this he made Yank a
low bow.
"Thanks for the compliment; but, I
warn you, this claim of mine is not
very rich. I'm thinking of trying
somewhere else."
"Don't you get any gold?"
"Oh, a few ounces a day."
"That suits me for a beginning," said
Yank decidedly. "Come on, boys!"
The miner hopped back Into his hole,
only to stick his head out again for
the purpose of telling us:
"Mind you keep fifteen feet away!"
With eager hands we slipped a pick
and shovels from beneath the pack
ropes, undid our iron bucket and with
out further delay commenced feverish
ly to dig.
Johnny held the pall, while Yank
and I vied with each other in being
the first to get our shovelfuls into that
receptacle. As a consequence we near
ly swamped the pail first off and had
to pour some of the earth out again.
Then we all three ran down to the
river and took turns stirring that mud
pie beneath the gently flowing waters
in the manner of the "pot panners"
we had first watched. After a good
deal of trouble we found ourselves pos
sessed of a thick layer of rocks and
coarse pebbles.
"We forgot to screen It," I pointed
out.
"We haven't any screen," said
Johnny.
"Let's pick 'em out by hand." sug
gested Yank.
We did so. The process emptied the
pail. Each of us insisted on examin
ing closely, but none of us suefceeded
in creating out of our desires acy of
that alluring black sand.
"1 suppose we can't expect to gat
color every time," observed Johnny
disappointedly. "Let's try her again."
We tried her again, and yet again
and then some more, but always with
the same result. Our bands became
puffed and wrinkled with constant im
mersion in tbe water aud began to feel
sore from the continual stirring of the
rubble.
"Something wrong." grunted Johnny
into the abysmal silence in which wo
had been carrying on our work.
"Wo can't expect it every time," I
reminded km.
"All the others seem to."
"Well, maybe we've struck a blank
place. Let's try somewhere else," sug
gested Yank.
Johnny went over to speak to our
neighbor, who was engaged in tossing
out shovelfuls of earth from an exca
vation into which he had nearly dis
appeared. At Johnny's hail he straight
ened his back, so that his hfnd bobbed
out of the hole like a prairie dog.
"No, it doesn't matter where you
dig," he answered Johnny's question.
'The pay dirt is everywhere."
So we moved on a few hundred feet,
picked another unoccupied pitch and
resumed our efforts. No gMuter suc
cess rewarded us here.
"I believe maybe we ought to go
deeper," surmised Yank.
"Some of these fellows are taking
their dirt right off top of the ground,"
objected Johnny.
However, we unlimbered the pickax
and went deeper, to the extent of two
feet or more. It was good hard work,
especially as we were all soft for it.
The sun poured down on our backs
with burning intensity, our hands blis
tered, and the round rocks and half
cemented rubble that made the bar
were not the easiest things in the
world to remove. However, we kept
at it. Yank and I, having tn times
past been more or less accustomed to
this sort of thing, got off much easier
than did poor Johnny. About two feet
down we came to a mixed coarse sand
and stones, a little finer than th& top
dirt. This seemed to us promising, so
we resumed our washing operations.
They bore the same results as had the
first, which was Just the whole of
nothing.
"We've got to hit it somewhere,"
said Johnny between his teeth. "Let's
try another place."
We scrambled rather wearily, but
with a dogged determination, out of
our shallow hole. Our blue eyed, long
bearded friend was sitting on a con
venient bowlder near at hand, his pipe
between bis teeth, watching our op
erations. (
"Got any tobacco, boys?" he inquired
genially. "Smoked my last until to
night unless you'll lend."
Yank produced a plug, from which
the stranger shaved some parings.
"Struck the dirt?" he Inquired. "No:
I see you haven't." lie stretched him
self and arose. "You aren't washlnf
this stuff!" he cried in amazement at
his eye took in fully what we wen
about.
Then we learned what we mighl
have known before—but how should
we?—that the gold was not to be found
In any and every sort of loose earth
that might happen to be lying about,
but only In either a sort of blue Claj
or a pulverize 1 granite. Sometimes
rhis* * * * ■> fnn<l ptn
the ground. Again, the miner had to
dig for it.
(To Bo Continued.)
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