San Francisco is the financial center
Tor the western half of the American
continent.
It Is a very inconsequential town in
deed that has not either a homicida
mystery or an exposition on hand.
Now that petroleum has been dis
covered in Egypt, the phrase "Egyp
tian darkness" may become wholly
reminiscent.
European governments are some
times in doubt as to the exact purport
of the Monroe doctrine. They can al
ways get an efflcial and authoritative
Interpretation by applying to the
United States.
Wireless telegraphy may yet rob
fog-bound coasts and the graveyards
of the deep of their haunting terrors.
It may keep the ocean traveler in
touch with the world's events. It
may be the means of saving vessels
from disaster and their passengers
from death.
The Brooklyn woman who married
a former convict in order to make
sure of his reform believes in heroic
measures. If she is disappointed, sin
will got a precious little sympathy
any where. For if there is one thing
absolutely established by some cen
turies of experience it is that reforma
tion, to be genuine and safe, should
precede marriage, not follow it, re
marks the Seattle Post-Intelligoncer,
Trade between the United States
and all South American countries is
seriously handicapped for want of sat
isfactory transportation facilities and
by excessive shipping rates. The
transportation companies operating
between the States and South Amen
can ports, as well as between Europe
and South America, are none of them
controlled by American capital, and,
as a result, it costs about one-third
more to ship a ton of freight from the
States than it does from European
ports.
An industrial arbitration law, mod
eled on the New Zealand plan, has
just been placed upon the statute
books of the commonwealth of Aus
tralia. It recognizes only registered
industrial unions of both employers
and employees. The president of the
court must be a judge of the supreme
court. Every care has been taken to
make the court an independent and
dignified tribunal. Its powers are-very
large and no appeal lies from its
decision. The compulsory provisions
of the New Zealand law are of course
retained.
That the world in general is ad
vancing toward temperance is the be
lief of John G. Woolley, a prohibition
leader, who just has returned to his
home in Chicago from a seven month'i
trip around the globe. His expedition
was taken for the purpose of studying
the condition of the liquor traffic in
foreign lands. He addressed more
than 90 temperance meetings, speak
ing against rum in Australia, whiskey
in Scotland and kava in Honolulu. Mr.
Woolley says that "among all the
greater nations I that Ameri
ca is at present the farthest advanced
In the struggle for prohibition."
The supreme court of North Caroli
na in a recent decision held that as
a trolley car cannot go around a ve
hicle, a wagon must turn out for a
car whether going in the same or oppo
site direction. Another reason that is
feiv?n for the superior rights of th.-;
car is that the public demands it shall
travel at a greater speed than an or
inary vehicle. At crossings, how
ever, the rights while not equal are
greater in the case of the wagon
than they are between corners. The
right is reserved for pedestrians, with
the exercise of reasonable care to
cross the track at any point that is
convenient.
The temporary weakness of the
authorized legal authorities, when op
posed to reckless lawlessness, was
curiously illustrated recently at Pen
tonville prison, in England. A con
vict who managed to elude the war
ders, established himself on the roof
of the prison, and for thirty hours
baffied all attempts to dislodge him.
Thousands of spectators showed their
sympathy for what was in the end
the under dog by giving him a time.-
ly warning of the movements of his
would-be captors. Ladders placed
against the walls were promptly
thrown down by the occupant of the
roof. He collected a large pile of
slates and hurled them at the heads
of the officers who attempted to scale
the ladders. The lame and impotent
conclusion was that he surrendered
for a mess of pottage. Hunger ac
complished more than the representa
tives of organized society were able to
accomplish.
The geologists have discovered soan
springs in Arizona. They should nest
dig up some petrified laundrymen.
A Chicago woman writes books ia
her sleep, but the despatch doesn't
state whether they are sweet dreama
or literary nightmares. »
The telegraph messengers of Chi
cago have been inspired to speed and
activity by a change in the method of
payment, from monthly wages to a
fixed fee of 1 1-2 cents per each mes
sage delivered during the day. Since
the new rule became effective, some of
the boys have been seen to run.
According to the Naval Register fop
1902 Uncle Sam has now afloat and
available for service 225 war vessels
of all sorts, with no less than GO in
process of construction. Of the latter
eight are battleships, six are armored
cruisers (a type in which the United
States navy is strikingly deficient)
and nine are first-class protected cruis
ers. These 23 vessels alone would
constitute in an emergency a most for
midable fleet for offense and defence.
The United States have in the last
five years enjoyed such wonderful
prosperity that it finds no parallel in
the record of any other people. In a
period measurable by months and
days we have marched forward into tha
foremost rank of commercial nations,
and also at a single bound have taken
aur rightful and acknowledged place
as one of the powers, with whom in
the international questions other
great peoples must consult, remarks
the New York Tribune.
The advocates of the project of eleo.
ting the president and vice-president
by popular vote and not by the inter
vention of electors chosen in the sev
eral states are again exerting them
selves through petitions to congress
and the adoption of resolutions and
preambles in meetings which they
have held in some of the states. Such
a radical change in the method of
electing a president as tney propose,
could be obtained only by a constitu
tional amendment, which after adop
tion, by congress, would have to be
ratified by the legislatures of two
thirds, of the states, a slow proceeding
since, with six exceptions, all the
stages have now biennial sessions.
A curious story of English naval
dicipline has just found its way in'.-j
print. When the Ophir, with the
Duke and Duchess of Cornwall on
board, was nearing St. Helena, the
signal was made to the attendant crui
sers St. George and Juno, as it was
desirable to reach port before night
fall, "Can you steam another knot?"
and the Juno replied, "Yes, four if
you please." This answer was regard
ed as impertinent, and when the ves
sels reached Portsmouth, as a mild
form of punishment the Juno was or
dered to lie up the harbor, while the
more respectful St. George eamo
alongside the dockyard. And the
Juno, at last accounts, is lying at her |
moorings still.
A Chicago horse-dealer was in
Washington the other day, selling a
couple of fancy saddle-mares to a
prominent young Washingtonian the
other day. He spoke of President
Roosevelt's objection to the custom
of docking tails saying: "That is all
right, but why does he not go after
the practice of branding government
stock? I have sold 3000 horses to the
government during the last year.
They have all had to be branded as
soon as accepted. The horses suffer
agonies when the hot iron is slapped
upon the flesh of their haunches. 1
have seen a horse jump five feet into
the air and cry out in pain. It would
be just as effective to brand on the
hoof. They would not feel it, and it
would last for months or years before
needing to be renewed."
There are many things which canst
the Americans to be objects of par
ticular interest to the English. We are
talked about and written about much
as would be a newly discovered pea
pie. Indeed, there has been a recent
discovery of America by the English.
The invasion of England by the Ameri
can Trust, the successful rivalry of
American enterprise in the makets to
which Great Britain has paramount
claims, the marriage of American heir
esses by British noblemen and the In
creasing numbeis of the American col
ony in London, as well as the
buying and renting of famous
English mansions by the Yankee
millionaires, combine to center pub
lic interests there in the "kin
beyond the sea." Even the person.il
characteristics of the American are
described much as would be the aji
pearance of an unfamiliar tribe Jf
Africans.
The Writing on the Wall.
# By Thomas C. Harbaugh
i Brant Durivage was in the neigh
t borhood of 40 when he came back to
the home of his ancestors. He was
a bachelor, very tall, and dark of
feature. He had been abroad 10 years,
and as I, a young physician, had but
lately settled in the adjoining town.
I had never seen him. I had heard,
however, that he had visited many
countries, civilized and savage, and
had concluded that he was tired of
roughing it and glad for a chance to
settle down beneath the roof of his
fathers.
His old acquaintances did not see
much of him after he came home. He
i nodded to his former friends, or
passed them by without so much as
a bow. Not long after his coming
home we learned that he was courting
Annie Kimball, the prettiest girl of
the neighborhood, already engaged, as
we believed, to Steve Morgan, a young
man of steady habits, but without a
tithe of the wealth possessed by Brant
Durivage.
Old Kimball, Annie's father, was
dissipated, and, just then, financially
embarrassed, and the truth is that he
sold his child to Brant Durivage, forc
ing her to break her angagement with
| young Morgan, who denounced the
! bargain in bitter language whenever
: he could find anybody to listen to him.
At times he swore that he would "get
even" with the man who had come be
tween him and Annie.
For several weeks matters drifted
along quietly. If Durivage heard of
Morgan's hot words and threats, he
said nothing. He seemed perfectly
contented with the conquest he had
won, the wedding day had been set,
and Annie had become resigned to the
fate from which there seemed no es
cape.
Steve Morgan had given up his
trade, but not his daily habit of curs
ing Brant Durivage. He had lost
flesh, and his eyes had a wolfish,
vengeful look. In common with oth
ers, I fully expected a tragedy of some
kind, and I went so far as to share my
opinion wim the constable, who nod-
I ded approvingly.
The tragedy came, but not in the
| manner expected. At ten o'clock on
| the night before the day set apart for
j the wedoing a man whom I knew to
I be Brant Durivage's factotum, threw
j open my office door, and rushing in,
j startled me with the intelligence that
| his master had just been shot.
Thinking immediately at Steve
j Morgan, I promised to repair to the
| house at once, and in a short time I
I crossed the threshold for the first
I time. I was conducted to an upper
| room, where 1 found the dark-faced
man lying unconscious on a bed, hav
ing been carried to his chamber by a
j servant who, standing by me, said
I i~at Durivage had ben shot through
tr)e open window of the library, which
| was on the ground floor.
"I pulled this out of the wound,"
continued the man, taking an arrow
| from the table, "but I'm afraid there's
a bit of it left. He's shot under the
left shoulder and and from behind; a
bad wound, I'm thinking." And the
| servant shook his head.
I fell at once to examining my pa
tient, and discovered that while the
barb had not gone deep enough' t r .
touch a vitai organ, the wound was
dangerous, especially u nie shaft had
poisoned. I found also that the
servant was right about a piece of the
arraw head remaining .n the hurt, for
PI removed it with my forceps and laid
jit alongside the weapon on the table.
Meantime the people attached to
estate were looking for the person
#who had attempted Durivage's life.
The town constable had been sum
moned and the town itself was al
ready in an uproar. I remained with
Durivage until I could leave him to
the care of a nurse, and with ar
row and the detached head, I went
back to my office. I was clear to me
that the shaft had come from some
distant land. I had seen many savage
weapons in collections, but never one
like it. The shaft proper was a light
reed, very straight and hard. One
end had been cut off transversely and
the other notched in order to receive
the bow string. Next came a piece of
bone nearly three inches in length.
One end of it had been passed into
the split, or open end of the shaft,
while the other end of the bone was
slipped a short piece of reed, over
which, in turn, a strong wrapping jf
intestine had been placed. All this
formed a socket for the true head of
ti-e arrow, the uone merely giving tho
shaft proper weight. I saw this much
by the light of my office lamp; but I
saw more.
I The "head" was the piece I had ex
tracted from the wound. It was of
ivory, and I now saw that it had
been attached to the bone weight in
such a manner as to loosen itself when
anyone attempted to pull it from the
victim's body. Under the microscope
I saw that the head of the singular
shaft had been coated with a sub
stance resembling glue, but which I
decided was some deadly poison. It
was bitter an nauseating when applied
to the tongue, and I had no doubt thiit
Its virus was then spreading itself
through out Brant. Durivage's system.
1 went back to the estate again be
fore daylight, and found my patient
raving in delirium. I administered
opiate after opiate, and a long time
passed before the medicine produced
tho slightest effect. The servants
said ho had not spoken rationally
since tho shot, not even during his
juiet moments, and this gave me
, small ho*»es of pulling him through.
The next morning Steve Morgan
was arrested on susic-ion. This did
not astonish me after what the pig
headed constable had said the -night
before. Nobody believed the young
man guilty, though he did not express
any sympathy for Durivage, and after
a hearing he was discharged. He was
strangely non-committal during the ex
amination, and when it was over he
came into my office and took a chair.
"Doctor," said he, leaning toward
me with a smile, "they didn't ask me
to tell what I saw, did they?"
"I believe they dia not, Steve," I
answered, wondering what he knew.
"I saw the man that did it!"
I looked strangely at him, wonder
ing if he was not losing his wits.
"I saw him, but not till after the
shot," Steve went on."I was up to
the house last night. I went there to
ask Brant Durivage to listen to me
for a minute, though I don't Sipeot
he'd have done it. Just as I was en
tering the garden, for I knew I would
find him in the library with the win
dow up, I heard a sharp cry, and the
next moment there passed a little man
carrying in one hand a box. This is
as true as gospel, doctor! He never
saw me though I could have touched
him while ho -was passing; but 1
would not because I thought he had
finished Durivage.
Morgan then went on and described
the man with a minuteness that as
tonished me. He did it so well I
thought I could see him before me,
and at tile end of his story he declared
his intention of repeating his adven
ture to no one else, not even in the
interests of justice.
'"lf he gets well, he'll marry An
nie," said Morgan, savagely, "and if
he dies, let him rot without being
avenged!"
I watched Durivage closely for ten
days. I could see that the secret
poison was at work, and the case was
a queer study that opened up to me
a new field for investigation. During
those ten days the wounded man
seemed to suffer a thousand deaths.
On the afternoon of the eleventh
day I was hurried over to the house
by the butler, who said that Durivage
was writing on the wall before his
cot. At the foot of the stair we were
met by the nurse, who with blanched
face cried that all was over.
Bounding up the flight two steps
at a time, I rushed into tho bedroom
and found Durivage lying on his face
on the floor.
"You should have seen and heard
him," said the frightened servant.
"He awoke and called at the top of
his voice for a pencil. Iran and got
him one, thrusting it into his hand
when I came back. As his fingers
closed on it he laughed like a fiend,
and rising in bed, wrote what you see
on the wall yonder, and then fell back
and writhed till he pitched out upon
the floor.
Before this I was at the cot and with
burning eyes was looking—nay star
ing—at the writing on the wall.
"K'AA—K'AA—K'AA."
Here was another mystery.
"What did he say after that?" I
asked, turning to the two servants,
while I pointed to the writing on the
wall.
"Ho pronounced three times some
thing that sounded like idle' or 'Kala
haetlwe,' " was the nurse's answer.
"Before I could reach him he was
dead."
I was more than ever mystified. I
have never heard of the written or
spoken words. They were all "Greek"
to me, but I felt that they were con
nected with the awful death Brant
Durivage had died. During the next
few days there ran through my mind
nothing but "K'aa, K'aa, K'aa." I
had the nurse repeat "Kala haetlwe"
until I had mastered it, and until I left
the Shropshire village and located in
London, an event in my career which
took place a year later, I did not let
the singular words escape me.
During this period Steve Morgan did
not go back to Annie. He wrote me
that he would not do so until the mys
tery conected with Durivage's death
was solved, and I felt that the solu
tion would never come and bring the
two young hearts together.
One evening I was called to attend
a man who had been run over by a
butcher's cart near the Strand. He
had been carried to his lodgings near
by. and lay bloody and gasping on a
rallet of dingy rags. The moment I
saw the man a strange thrill took pos
ssion of me, and I rccallej Steve
Morgan's description of the owner of
the poisoned arrow.
When I had dressed the wounds
made by the heavy wheels of the cart,
and had my patient sitting up, with a
hot drink before him and his leng
dark Angers encircling the glass. 1
asked him who and what he was.
"I'm a Bushman," said he with a
chuckle, and then, seeing the look of
disbelief that I exhibited, ho went on:
"You don't think so? I can prove it.
Look here."
He leaned toward his pallet, and
to my utter astonishment took from
beneath the pillow of rags a bow and
two arrows. 1 could not repress a
cry of amazement, and did not try.
The dark-faced little man was hold
ing the arrows toward me, and I could
see that they were exactly like tho one
which had killed Brant Durivage.
"I had three, but I lost one "orae
time ago." continued my patient.
"Where did I lose it? Never mind
that, doctor. I could go back to the
spot, but I will not. Ho, ho. He
knew what it was all the time. My
little arrows are more dangerous than
they look. I prick your hand with
one, and all your skill cannot save
your life. The marurn tree grows no
where but among the Bojesmen, the
little men of South Africa. It looks
like your elm. but it has many thorns.
Its leaves are the homes of the grub
that builds house's like the silkworm.
When we want poison for our arrows
we take a grub between thumb and
finger, and make it shed its greenish
fluids upon the ivory head of the
shaft. That is all. The marurn grub
i3 death. How does the victim lie,
'eh? He writhes in agony. He be
comes a giant in his madness. He has
few lucid intervals. It is terrible, ho,
ho!"
I was holding one of the arrows in
my hands.
"What do you call your poison?" I
asked, looking up into his face, which
had the leer of a fiend incarnate.
"K'aa, answered the little man, with
a laugh. Some people call it N'gwa,
but K'aa is its name."
I was calm now.
"And its antidote?" I said.
"We seldom tell that it has one,*'
grinned the stranger. "But I'll tell
you, doctor. The antidote is 'Kala
haetlwe,' the product of a small plant
that in our country beats little star
shaped flowers."
The man on the pallet allowed his
gaze to wander from my face to the
arrows. He seemed to be rejoicing
in spirit over some stirring event.
"Your lost arrow is in my office," 1
said, fixing my eyes on the man."l
took the ivory head from Brant Durl
vage's back. I now know why he
wrote 'K'aa, K'aa!' on the wall and
died crying 'Kala haetlwe.' "
The man from South Africa fell
back, and regarded me with gaping
mouth.
"Why didn't he let me alone in my
love affair?" he exclaimed. I tol.l
him that if he took Mina away from
mo, I'd follow him all over the world
with my arrow tipped with K'aa. He
would not take my warning, and 1
was forced to keep my word. Did he
die hard, doctor?"
The next day I wrote Steve Morgan
down in Shropshire all about my
startling discovery, and when I sent
an officer to look after my patient he
was found to have gashed his throat
with one of his own arrows, and in
an hour was dead. In course of time.
I am pleased to relate, Steve and An
nie became man and wife, but I am
told that for many years on the wall
of a certain room in Shropshire was
to be seen this singular thrilling in
scription:
K'AA!—K'AA—K'AA! " —The Home
Magazine.
QUAINT AND CURIOUS.
A man should weigh 26 pounds foi
every foot of his height.
Mozart holds the record of having
written G24 compositions.
A New York assemblyman has in«
troduced in the legislature a bill mak
ing it a misdemeanor to "flirt on a
public thoroughfare."
In ISB2 the speed record on a high
bicycle was 20 miles in an hour and
12 minutes. Behind a motor pacer a
rider has recently covered 40 miles in
an hour.
The skin of the muskox, which is a
denizen of the "Barren Grounds" and
the Arctic region of Canada, has tak
en the place of that of the extinct
buffalo for sleigh robes. It varies
in price from SSO to as low as $5 for
a poor article.
An immense geyser has been discow
ered in Rotomahona, New Zealand.
It covers an area an acre in extent and
constantly throws columns of water to
vast heights, some of them ascending
300 feet, with clouds of steam which
go much higher.
The lowa supreme court has again
fixed the limit of value that may be
placed on a man's leg at SBOOO. In a
similar case some years ago the lowa
supreme court decided that a verdict
for $12,000 was excessive, and that it
should be cut down to SBOOO.
The telephone exchange of Cleves
land, 0., has instituted an information
bureau, from which subscribers may
ask and receive whatever knowledge
they wish that can be supplied from
a large reference library. During the
six months of its operation it is said
to have demonstrated its value and to
be a pattern that might be followed in
other cities.
Seven miles west of Connellsvillk,
Pa., a portion of an Indian mound has
been uncovered and innumerable in
teresting relics have been found. A
baby's remains had a necklace of beads
made out of curiously wrought deer
horns. Strangely-shaped pipes, many
arrow heads, sandstone wheels, which
are supposed to have been used by
the aborigines for the making of stone
implements; marine shells and many
other trinkets were also found.
The Longniit Stone Arcli Bridge.
The work upon the great stone an h
bridge whicn is being erected by tlie
Pennsylvania railroad across the Sus
quehanna river at Rockville, about iivc
miles above Harrisburg, is rapidly
ncaring completion. The masonry
work of the bridge, consisting of 48
70-foot spans, has been completed, and
the contractors are now putting the
asphalt covering over the arches.
When this is completed the work of
filling in, grading and ballasting will
be begun and the four tracks put down.
Work upon this, the longest stone
arch railroad bridge in the world, was
begun less than two years ago.—
Philadelphia Record
THE MYSTIC KINSHIP.
Not a thing that lives and move*
But the mystic kinship proves;
In the deep, the blue above.
All the mid-air ways along-r
Hark ! the same eternal song
Hinging on the lips of Love.
J! ur ' °' stream and twirl of leaf—
-1 nere the voice ot joy and grief,
Love's divine, undying art.
Waving grass and swaying tree,
Swinging of the star and sea—
'Tis the beating of thy heart,
—Thomas Hardy.
HUMOROUS.
Sillicus —All the world's a stag*.
Cynieus—And all the men and women
merely kickers.
Blobbs—How did your friend, the
weather prophet, lose all his money?
Slobbs—Betting on his own predic
tions.
Nell—She's so deceitful! Don't vou
think so? Belle—Well, I certainly hate
to have to listen to her "voice of con
science."
Mrs. Muggins—Mrs. Bjones is al
ways having trouble with her ser
vants. Mrs. Buggins—Yes; they either
refuse to stay or refuse to go.
Mr. Botts —I think, my dear, I have
at last found the key to success. Mrs.
Botts—Well, just as like as not you'll
not be able to find the keyhole.
"Her little boy aas such a manly way
about him." "Yes, I noticed when I
was there the other day that he found
fault with what they had to eat."
"There is always room at the top,"
said the Good Adviser. "Indeed, yes,"
answered the Unfortunate Person, "but
the elevator is not always running."
Hook —Bjones is the most melan
choly fellow I know. Nye—That's
right. He proposed to a girl once by
asking her how she would like to be
his widow.
"Is he a golf enthusiast?" "Oh, no.
He pretends to be, but he isn't." "How
do you know?" "Why, he gives i;p
playing when the thermometer gets
down to zero."
"He never washes his hands." "Non
sense!" "No; it's a fact." "Then he's
a crank, eh?" Not at all. He saya
it would take too long. He employs
200 in his mill."
Tommy—Pop, a husband and wife
are one, aren't they? Tommy's Pop-
So we are told, my son. Tommy—
Then it doesn't always take two to
make a quarrel, does it?
Con. C. Tedbore —Really, I'm getting
to be very absent-minded of late. Miss
Kostique—l can hardly believe that.
An absent-minded man is ono who for
gets himself, is he not?
Photographer—Look pleasant, gen
eral. Remember this picture is for
your friends. The General —A suldier
should have no friends, sir. This pic
ture is for my enemies to look at.
Teacher —Why were you not at
school yesterday? Willie Green — It
was my birthday. Teacher—l don't
stay home on my birthday. Willie
Green —Well, I guess you've got used
to 'em.
Miss Upton—Did you tell him that I
was not at home? New Servant—Yes,
mum; but lie didn't seem to belie/e
me, bein' as I'm a stranger. Mebby
you'd better go, down and tell him
yourself, mum.
"This is tough luck," said Ham,
mournfully, as he leaned out over the
side of the ark. "What's wrong now?"
queried Shem. "Why, all this watar
to fish in," repliel Ham, "and only two
fishin' worms on board."
THE VAN ISHINC LOBSTER.
in Spite of All Ktt'orlfi tin; Deurtli Stil)
Continue*.
The annual report of a dearth in
lobster fisheries has made its appear
ance reinforced by the United States
fish commissioner who reports that
each year it becomes more difficult tc
obtain lobster eggs along the New
England coast. This decrease is most
noticeable south of Cape Cod. Meas
ures for the protection or ostensibly
designed for the protection of lobster
fisheries are an established feature of
annual legislation on the North At
lantic seaboard. In 1899 the Maine
legislature reduced the penalty for the
taking of "short lobsters" from $5 tr
$1 and New York diminished the pen
alty in the same year. In 1900 ivlassa
chusetts adopted a law prohibltini
lobsters from being caught in the
waters within or adjacent to that state
by any one not having been a resident
of it for one year, and the same legis
lature made it unlawful to sell, or tc
have on hand, a lobster of less thar.
10 1-2 inches long. Virginia adoptee
a law authorizing the board of fish
eries, on petition of 50 citizens, to la>
off shoals or rocks for erabbin
grounds, and South Carolina adopte
a statute for regulating the catch, sal*
export and canning of clams, oystefs
and lobsters. The two states which
have adopted the most comprehensivt
and stringent methods for the regula
tion of deep water fisheries are Mary
land and New Jersey. Massachusetti
and Virginia have followed, while Ne>
York and Connecticut have fewei
though New York is the great lobste
consuming constituency of the Unite
States and probably .of the world.
Although 00,000,000 lobster egf
were planted in New England wate
the lobster dearth still continues i
consequence of a constantly enlargii
demand. High prices are the rule an
recourse has been had to the wate
of the Pacific coast as a source of a<
ditional supply and the propagatk
of lobsters there is said to have bee
attended thus far with groat succes
A Klondike baker who has bet
burned out three times and lost
whole cargo of coal has neverthelc
cleared $20,000 in three years.