IBLOTTED OUT I
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if By CAROL MURRAY
? Copyright, 19(t>, by K. B. McOlure «
They were a rough lot of men under
the shadow of I)lamond hill miners,
teamsters, prospectors, traders and cat
tlemen—but when old John Dyer, one
of the mine bosses, brought his daugh
ter Kate from civilization to live with
him there and keep his humble cabin
he had faith in that chivalry that has
always made the western man respect
the other sex. He knew that she would
have many admirers and that there
would be quarrels on her account, but
he was a widower and she motherless,
and he hoped he was doing what was
beat
The cabin, like the rude and strag
gling village, was backed by the grim
mountain, while along Its front as far
as human eye could reach there glit
tered the white sands of the Mojave
desert. Here and there out on that
dreary waste were patches of ugly
cacti, and Intuition told the girl as her
eyes searched the desert for the first
time that out there under the blazing
sun the rattlesnake basked and the
lizard glided swiftly over the bones of
men and animals.
The desert was not always at peace,
Its surface resembling a placid lake.
Now and then a wind, born up In the
gulches of the mountain, came down
and went sweeping across the sands,
and then the spectator saw great
clouds of dust as the flinty particles
were caught up and driven here and
there to cut and gash and wound
whatever lived. The sands never
swept In from the desert, but always
were driven the other way. Had It
not been so Diamond mine and the
town around It could not have been.
The coming of the girl among the
thousand men was an event. There
were a few old women there—cooks
and laundresses—but here was a girl,
a handsome young girl. Her influence
was felt almost Immediately. The
mine manager said that more soap,
combs, handkerchiefs and looking
glasses were called for from the com
pany store In a week than were bought
during the preceding three months.
At least 800 of the thousand men
determined on an Introduction at
once, but when It came to the
point, and even after three months
had passed, there were not a dozen
callers at the cabin. A month or two
later It was said that only two of the
dozen stood a chance. By "chance"
they meant marriage. It never oc
curred to any of them that a girl might
have come among them without fall
ing In love and marrying one of their
Dumber.
It was strange that among Kate's
earliest and most persistent admirers
was Pedro Diaz, a full blooded Mex
ican. He had charge of the company's
transportation, and he managed through
the father to force an introduction.
He was kindly received by the girl,
but no more. He was tolerated by the
father, but there was no welcome for
him. Pedro was a swaggerer. He was
an egotist. He thought he was in love*
and once having made up his mind to
this he was ready to maintain what
he called his right by fair means or
foul.
The thousnnd men said that Pedro's
rival was Tommy Brltt. the keeper of
the company's store. He was an Amer
ican, young, fair looking, and down on
the books to be promoted for his en
ergy. ambition and integrliy. Perhaps
he admired, as all others did, but lit
had never asked himself if he was in
love. He found both father and daugli
ter congenial company, and that would
have been his excuse had any one
asked him why he paid two visits a
week to the cabin.
There came a day when Pedro Diaz
made up his mind to know his fate,
He chose an hour when be knew the
girl would be alone, and he dressed
In his best and knocked on the cabin
door. He believed himself irresist
ible, and he smiled and smirked and
offered his love. There was a moment
of astonishment, and he found himself
rejected. The girl tempered her re
fusal as much as possible. It was her
first offer, but womanly instinct told
her to soften the blow even though the
man was obnoxious to her.
"What: You refuse Pedro Diaz!" ex
claimed the man in reply. "You re
fuse me—me, who am worth &I.OOQ
and could marry any senorlta in my
own country! Do you quite understand
me?"
"I have no love for you," replied the
girl.
"But that makes no difference. You
shall love rne later on. I am Pedao
Diaz. It is the first time I ever did
a woman the honor of asking her to
marry me."
The girl's reply was a flrtn one, and
Pedro flung himself out of the cabin
with anger raging In his heart. He
had been snubbed, humiliated, made u
fool of. There was a man in the case,
of course, and it could be none other
than the storekeeper. Whoever oppos
ed Pedro I>iaz in any of his cherished
schemes must die. He was not five
minutes deciding on the death of Brltt.
That morning the young man had
ridden away across the desert, a stretch
of twenty long, hot miles, to strike the
railroad on the other side and order
further supplies by telegraph. The ride
was twenty miles over and twenty
miles back. He would cover the dis
tance In a day, but It would be late In
tb« evening when he returned.
"I will meet and kill him as he re
turns," decided Pedro, and when dark
fM fell he eluded observation as much
as possible an 1 rode out on the desert.
TTiere was no trail across the sands.
He who would hold n straight course
must di»>end upon the compass, and he
must consult it ofleu. There was fair
starlight light enough to see his rival
mauy rods away. The sky was clear
of those scudding clouds which might
be taken as warning.* that the whirl
winds were being born in the cold air
of the gulches, and n i noise came from
the mountain except the whispers of
the pines to the cedars.
When Pedro had made five miles
straight out from the base he pulled
In bis horse and sat and waited, his
face to the west and his ears alert for
the slightest sound. For an hour he
waited, and then of a sudden a cold
chill struck the back of li s »ie< He
whirled his horse about with an oalh
on his lips.
"It is the sand storm!" h • m t re I
as he jumped to the ground.
He had a blanket for him. < if i. I one
for his horse. The animal lay <: ... n at
the word and suffered his head to he
wrapped, and Just as the first -harp
grains began to fly the man snuggled
down beside the animal and muliled his
head and swore.
He had seen a hundred sand storms
on that desert. They came with a puff
and went the same way. In five mln
otaa t*» would be up aad watching
again, but when live minutes hail
passed the were stronger. At
the enil of ten they begun circling and
running across the sands like wraiths.
They also dug deep into the sands,
and when they met with an obstruc
tion they covered it in. Man and horse
were soon in danger of suffocation and
had to struggle up to throw off the
weight. They were just in time to be
caught by a circling breeze and spun
around as if they were straws, and
when the man was flung on his face
at last and covered a foot deep in an
instant the horse uttered a neigh of
terror and galloped heavily away.
'"lt will pass, it will pass, and I will
have my revenge!" muttered I'edro as
lie stood up with his back to the blast,
hut it did not pass.
lie was flung this way and that, car
ried along or left half senseless on the
sands, and not for a full hour did the
wind scream out its goodby to the
desert and return to its sleep. Then the
surface of the desert was smooth again,
and the man who came riding from the
west could not tell that under his
horse's feet lay a human body burled
two feet deep. There had been a I'edro
Diaz. The sands of the Mojave had
blotted him out.
The It is; lit Honor,
Before Millard Fillmore was elected
to the vice presidency of the I'nlted
States lie was head of the law firm of
Fillmore, Hall & Havens of Buffalo.
If was one of the leading law firms of
the state lie was the defendant's at
toruey in a certain action in Buffalo.
At the opening of the trial of the case
the plaintiff's attorney stated to the
jury that he would have to depend en
tirely upon the justice of his client's
case, as the defendant had sought and
obtained the aid and counsel of one of
the ablest firms of lawyers in western
New York, and he might say he had
opposed to liiin the right bower of the
legal profession. ' What does he mean
by that?" said Mr. Fillmore. Mr. Ha
vens replied, "He means you." "Yes,
I know," replied Mr. Fillmore, "but
what does he mean by that particular
expression?" "Did you never play eu
chre?" said Ilavens. "So," said Mr.
Fillmore. "Well," said Havens, "in
the game of euchre the right bower is
the biggest knave in the pack."
Tuiile MamnTN of Ve Olden DKTN.
Can any one still prate of the good
old times after reading the following
extract from a sixteenth century book
entitled "The Accomplished Lady's
Rich Closet; or. Ingenious Gentleman's
Delightful Companion?"
"A gentlewoman, being at table,
must observe to keep her body straight
and not lean by any means with her
elbows, nor b.v ravenous gesture dis
cover a voracious appetite. Talk not
when you have meat In your mouth,
aud do not smack like a pig nor ven
ture to eat spoon meat so hot that the
tears stand in your eyes, which is as
unseemly as the gentlewoman who
pretended to have as little a stomach
as she had a mouth, and therefore
would not sw: How her peas by spoon
ful, hut toil; tii in on<> by one and cut
them in tw > before she would eat them.
It is very unseemly to drink so large
a draft that your breath is almost gone
and you are forced to blow strongly to
recover you self."
Antiquity of Wire.
The manufacture of wire is of very
ancient origin. It has been traced back
to the earliest Egyptian history. Spec!
mens are in existence which can b<
proved to date to 17"<> B. <'. The Ken
siugton museum has a specimen whicli
was made in Minora 800 years B. C
Ancient literature contains many refer
ences to wire. From the ruins of Her
culaneum metal heads have been ex
humed on which the hair is representee
by wire. There is no question that this
ancient wire was made by hammering
out the metal, which was always
bronza or of the precious group. This
held true of all made previous to tli<
fourteenth century, during which tin
process of forming wire by drawing 01
elongating the metal by forcing 11
through a conical orifice, made In sonx
substance harder than the metal treat
ed, was invented.—-Cassier's Magazine.
Blfferent YVnya* of Putting It.
This is a scientific way: "If a mar
falls asleep in the sitting posture with
his mouth open his Jaw drops. Th«
tongue not being in contact with tlu
hard palate, the succotorial space is
obliterated, the soft palate no longer
adheres to the roof of the tongue, and
if respiration be carried on through
the mouth tlie muscular curtain beglaa
to vibrate." And this is the popular
form: "If a man doesn't keep his
mouth shut when asleep he will snore."
BIRD CUSTOMS.
The Habit of Hilling- and the Stork
Dove'n lion In it Fight.
An Englishman, Edmond Selous, has
been watching doves at play and in
combat. Of the habit of "billing," in
which so many birds engage when they
are nesting, he says; "Where birds now
merely 'bill,' they once, in my opinion,
fed each other, or the male fed the fe
male, but pleasure came to be experi
enced in the contact alone, and the pas
sage of food, which was never neces
sary, gradually became obsolete. I
think it by no means improbable that
our own kissing may have originated
in much the same way, and that birds
when thus billing' experience the same
sort of pleasure that we do when we
kiss must be quite obvious to any one
who has watched them."
Of a peculiarity of the stock dove Mr.
Felous writes: ''When these birds fight
they constantly interrupt the flow of
the combat by bowing in the most al>-
surd way, not to one another, but gen
erally, so to speak, for no object or
purpose whatever, apparently, but only
because they must do so. The fact is
the bow has become a formula of court
ship, and, as courting and fighting are
intimately connected, the one suggests
the other In the mind of flic bird, who
bows all at once under a misconcep
tion."
The Hank of Ireland, like the Bank
of England, has a military guard,
which is relieved even twenty-four
hours. Immediately after the mount
ing of the new guird every morning a
knock at the <' >or of the officer's room
announces the arrival of the head por
ter with a large bo >k. in which the of
ficer signs his name, rank and regi
ment. and on the departure of the por
ter with the book a half sovereign is
found ou the table. It is the officer's
perquisite.
The llnd One.
"That brother of yours, Lucy," said
the man of the house, "seems to be a
pretty tough character."
"'Deed he is, sub," replied the col
ored maid. "He jes' natchelly seems
to be de white sheep ob our fambly,
sho' 'miff."—Philadelphia Press,
ller Coo lift.
Mrs. Hatterson What! You've had
fourteen cooks in three months? Mrs.
Catterson Yes. and I didn't ph-ase
any of them.
| Little Dorothy's I
Courtship |
I By VIRGINIA LF.ILA WENTZ |
Dorothy knew that it was about tlino
for Joan and the rest of them to bo re
turning from their sail on the lake. It
would never do for Joan to find the
"big fish" of the house party- that waa
the name she had Riven the young Eng
lish earl—talking to her alone. She,
alas, was only poor little Cousin Doro
thy and acting In this particular house
hold as Joan's mother's paid compan
ion: So she pretended to be bored
with his lordship's society.
"La-la, la-la, la-la-la," she hummed,
sinking back Into the depths of the
easy chair and stretching her white
arms lazily.
"I say," said the earl, "am I tiring
you. Miss l«»rotby?"
Dorothy stopped humming. "No,"
she drawled, with mock mischief, "not
exactly. But" here, she smiled her
sweetest smile upon him—"you won't
be vexed, will you. If I tell you that
I'm a bit sleepy and that I must sleep
In the sunV Will you draw this chair
over for nie, please?" Hi.slng slowly,
she adjusted the fleur-de-lis at her
waist while his lordship drew the chair
to the sunny corner of the big veranda.
"llow 11 that do?" asked he.
"Splendidly. Now for cushions."
"llow many?"
"Hundreds," said she.
He collected as many as he could
carry and fetched them to her.
"Here are thousands," he announced.
"Delicious:"murmured Dorothy, sink
ing back Into them with a sigh of con
tent. "This is quite perfect."
"It will be when I fetch you a sun
shade," he amended.
"Sunshade:" cried she. "Go away,
you (ioth: 1 want the sun."
"You'll be pickled!" warned he.
"So," corrected she, dimpling, "pre
served." Her long black lashes lay mo
tionless 011 the wild rose flush of her
cheeks.
The earl chuckled and, pretending
that he fancied her already asleep,
crept elaborately away on tiptoe. Joan
and the rest of them were in sight,
and he advanced to meet them.
Joan Shannon was unquestionably a
beauty. She had been photographed in
every variety of pose; she had been
painted by several of the most cele
brated artists on two continents, but
in spite of this fact she had passed
through the whirl of three seasons and
was still unwed.
"She must be waiting for n title,"
people said, as other girls far less
beautiful came out, danced through a
season or two, and were led to the
altar by men of their choice.
However that may be, included
among the guests at tills particular
house party at the Shannon's big coun
try place 011 the sound was the young
Earl of Stowbrldge, and It was common
property that Miss Shannon already
had found him very attractive.
"So awfully sorry you couldn't Join
us In our sail this morning," she began
In her sweet, suave voice, with an ac
cent which was the result of much
travel. "Is your headache better now?"
" 'l'on my honor, I've not given it a
thought for the last half hour. I found
Miss Dorothy reading on the verahda,
and she took pity 011 me and put down
her book, and—well, somehow she must
have cured my headache! She's got Jol
ly pretty dimples, and she's a cousin
of yours, didn't some one say?"
"Yes distant. Mamma never liked
me to associate much with her family
when we were little, and now, as you
can 1111 a glue, we aren't very—er —con-
genial."
"Such fun," observed the earl lacon
ically. Ills fair companion turned and
looked at him reproachfully. "And who
would wish to be 'fun?' " said she.
"Oh, I don't know," said his lordship
gallantly.
Miss Shannon found herself wonder
ing for a moment as they walked on
whether the earl might not prove testy'
after all. Would he be uneasy under
the crushing and ordering about to
which her father and mother submit
ted. If there was one thing she dislik
ed it was obstacular people. She had
been brought up to expect people to
agree with her.
"Of course," she sighed, shrugging
her beautiful shoulders discreetly, "I
feel sorry for poor little Dorothy. Moth
er won't need her after the autumn,
and I'm sure I don't know what's going
to become of her then. Besides, she
hasn't any practical sense. Just look at
her now lying asleep In all that sun.
She'll be simply black with freckles!"
That afternoon when everybody waa
resting for a dinner dance In the even
ing the Earl of Stowbrldge wandered
Into the library, a cool, dim apartment
banked with books and made comfort
able with couches.
lit* had Just discovered one of his
favorite authors and settled down to
read when the sound of feminine
voices in the adjoining room disturbed
his attention. Six seconds had not
elapsed when he became aware that
it was no ordinary Interview and that
he should make a step forward to an
nounce his presence. It was not In his
character or traditions to be an eaves
dropper; nevertheless he found him
self curiously unable to move or utter
a'sound.
"Angling for him—l?" It was Dor
othy's voice, low and impassioned, but
with a quick little ga«p or two, such
ns would come from one who had sud
denly received an unexpected douche
of cold water.
"There can be no doubt of that,"
came Mr-- Shaimen's Icy tones. "Only
yesterday Joan was telling me of her
ovv • ■ :;i'sgivfngs"
"Misgivings!" There was still that
tremulous catch in the breath.
"Oh, of course young men will be
young men," continued Mrs. Shannon,
with a pur in her well bred tones.
"They will pursue the girl who holds
<;ut the angling iron. You are clever—
I 1 n't dispute the face; you are clever
an 1 calculating but one thing I have
to tell you: If you wish to remain In
this household you must assume a dif
ferent pise. And, remember, not an
other conversation alone with the Earl
of Stowbrldge while he Is under this
roof. You may go now."
There was silence just for an ap
preciable fraction of a second; then
little Dirithy seemed to be drawing
herself up to her full height as she
Hung a defiant, passionate answer Into
her aunt's face;
"I thought at least you were a lady,
but you're not. You're cowardly and
cruel and vulgar, oh, how can you be
so?" Dorothy, sobbing miserably in
her hot anger and insulted girlhood,
was obliged to leave the room. Mrs.
Shannon, cool and collected, as always,
touched a bell and sent the cook some
orders about the subitL
I After dinner, while they were danc
lng, the earl sought I»orothy out In the
star sprinkled night, where she had
I wandered to a hammock under the
trees, far from the chattering groups
on the veranda.
J "I've been wondering who was be
hind thut lighted cigar," she said light
ly as he Joined her, and then, more
seriously, drawing in her breath deep
ly: "Isn't it splendid out here tonight?
I like to catch that strong brine from
the sett. It gives one courage."
"Is that what you want courage?"
asked the earl, looking at her tenderly
In the starlight and feeling his big,
honest heart a-throb. lie sat down on
a stump of a tree close by. "You're
plucky enough, I fancy."
"I shall need it all, ull the courage I
have. I" She faltered, and under
the sweet, sudden spell of sympathy
her lips trembled piteously. The earl
leaned forward impulsively and gently
Imprisoned one of her hands.
"1 know,"was all that he said. She
measured him, not understanding.
"You see." he started to explain in
his straightforward fashion, "I was In
the next room this afternoon when your
aunt"—
She drew away from him with terror
In her eyes. "Oh," she cried bitter
ly, "you overheard all that cruelty,
and—and it's made you pity me!"
"It's made me love you, little one,"
he corrected solemnly. "I liked you
from the first moment I saw you, but
now I know that I love you. Of course,"
he added, seeing that she still shrunk
from him a little, "a thing like that's
easily enough said, but Just give me a
little hope, and I'll make It my life's
business to prove It to you, dear." Ho
held out his hand to her like a knight
of old.
Dorothy tried to speak, but her lips
would not respond. Then she did a
curious thing. She took his outstretched
hand In her own and pressed It close
against her eyes, and they were wet.
Virtue Wlilcli Commands Love.
Should some women need encourage
ment they may learn with interest
that men are rather apt to be vain and
that It is enough sometimes to bo a
good listener in order to be a most
successful hostess. The following
typical anecdote proves this. Gomber
ville, the old courtier, somewhat of a
poet, too, was known to be paying a
deal of attention to a certain lady of
the hotel de Kamboulllet. One day
some one bad this conversation with
him:
"You are the 'cavalier servant' of
Madam ?"
"Yes, certainly."
"Do you love her?"
"With the most devoted respect In
my heart."
"Why? She Is not beautiful."
"No."
"She is not young."
"No."
"She Is not graceful."
"Not very."
"She is not witty."
"No. not particularly."
"\V -11. then, what Is It?"
"She can listen admirably."—Trofes
sor Albert Sehinz in Lipplneott's Maga
zine.
of <)Tilnn.
James Quinn, a noted actor of Oar
rick's tin:'', loved to dine, and was
oft> ii fuddled in consequence when he
went on the stage. Once while playing
with lVg WotHngton, who was acting
Sylvia, his daughter, In"The Recruit
ing Officer," Instead of asking her,
"Sylvia, how old were you when your
mother died?" he said "married."
Sylvia laughed, ainl being out of her
cue, could only stammer, "What, sir?"
"Pshaw," cried the more confused
Ouiuu, "I mean, how old were you
when your mother was born?"
The body of Duke Humphrey was
returned from Egypt, embalmed In the
rarest wine and the richest spices.
Upon seeing this tjuinn soliloquized as
follows:
Oh. j<lagu" on Egypt's arts, I say!
Embalm the deail! On senseless clay
Rich wines and spices waste!
I.lko sturgeon or like brawn shall I
Pound In a precious pickle lie,
Which X can never taste?
Let me embalm this flesh of mine
With turtle fat and Bordeaux wlnrt
And spoil the Egyptian trade!
Than Humphrey's duke more happy I
Embalmed alive, old Quinn shall die,
A mummy roady made.
The Spoiled Child.
"So/' wailed Tommy, "I don't waul
that big pink necktie on."
"It doesn't matter what you want,"
replied his mother. "You must have
it on."
"Well, If y <u put it on me I'll cry all
over it an that'll spoil it."—Phllade!
phia Press.
The Anthracite ( ual.
When the lirst two tons of anthra
cite coal wee taken into Philadelphia,
In lSda, tlit good people of that city,
so the records state, "tried to burn
the stuff, but at length, disgusted, they
broke It up and made a walk of It."
Fourteen years later Colonel George
Shoemaker sold eight or ten wagon
loads of it in the same city, but war
rants wore soon issued for his arrest
for taking money under false pre
tenses.
lii v.i I tin hie.
4 'ln what v/:iy could you be of any
use to an employment bureau?" said
the proprietor.
"Simplest tiling in the world," re
plieil the shiftless looking applicant.
"You are always In need of men to
fill positions, and I'm always out of a
l>b" Detroit Free Press.
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NO. 11« E. FRONT ST.
HARD QUESTIONS.
They Sound Simple, hut (on May
Fiud the VithncrN Klnaive.
"How many holes are there in a
la-C'l hoot of the ordinary type? Do
you know how many there are in the
pair you are wearing? That is another
question and it is a little ambiguous,
for the average man's ordinary laced
b » >ts are generally given away by his
wife before he has had time to count
the holes. "Which of the feet of a
horse toue:i the ground in trotting?"
a ks (lie examiner. You may imagine
the whole class raising arms and shout
ing. "All of 'em!"
Any one man may fog another with
Ignorance, for our knowledge Is in
patches. I-• it worth your while, sup
posing jou have any business to carry
througii, to ascertain how many f's
there are i.:i a clo< face? Do you
want t> know how ma.iy ribs there are
in the cover of y »ur umbrella? This is
the umbrelia maker's business. You
w;Uk! only to find the time of day and
avoid the r.Un. "Thousand words,"
says an editor to the amateur writer,
who may be an umbrella maker. It
happens many times a day. The ama
teur never knows what exertion and
what space this means. Hut the Jour
nalist knows exactly the amount of
gray matter, black ink and white pa
per the demand Implicit How many
words are there In this paragraph?
Now—quick!
THE JAPANESE GIRL.
She I* Civil tle n Ilnrlf, With an
Air of Dainty Modenty.
There were not many Japanese wom
en at the party, which made me won
j der, considering the fact that there
' were hundreds of men present, but
perhaps the absence of the many might
j be explained by the uncomfortable
and self conscious air of the few who
| were there in most unaccustomed for
| eign flnery. Not that they wore it so
, badly. Not at all. That is a Action of
I the foreign woman who is pleasantly
blinded to the Imperfections of her
own kind.
| Of course there are no Japanese
girls with Gibson figures of lissom
j grace and Fifth avenue strides of
| splendid freedom, but the same thing
j may be said of many other women in
j many other climes. Everybody cannot
i be an American girl, you know, and I
' declare I think the Japanese girl runs
some of her European sisters a very
i close second In her ability to wear un
-1 graceful clothes as gracefully as pos
sible with very limited assistance from
Mother Nature. All Japanese waist
lines run up In front and all Japanese
girls are "pigeon toed." but all Japa
nese girls are gentleness itself, and
their dainty modesty serves to conceal !
a multitude of peculiarities.—Leslie's
Week ly.
I'D* and Oovvun or Santa frm.
Probably no other of the West Indian
islands has had such a checkered ca
reer as Santa Cruz. In turn It has be
longed to Spain, which abandoned It;!
to England and Holland Jointly; to,
England alone; to Spain again, which
fell upon the colonists and destroyed j
or deported them all; to France, which
took It from Spain; to the Knights of
Malta, who received It as a gift from j
France; to a private company of ad- j
venturers. Then it"was resumed pos I
session of by France, but abandoned, j
so that In 1720 It was uninhabited, j
Then it became a no man's land until
1727, when France took it again, and
presently sold it to a Danish company, 1
which sold it in turn to the king of
Denmark. In 1801 England took it \
once more, ga\e it back to Denmark, ;
repented and took it away again in a j
few months, held it for eight years, !
and then returned it to Denmark, which
holds It still.
Mot I'Iu JIIIK Future*.
"Yls, muni, < »i'li make yez as good a
cook as the nixt wan."
"I don't know anytliiug about the j
next one, but you'll have to be better
than the last one."—Houston Post.
Norifil Axiom.
"I think I will invite the Bronsons. j
I know they would be glad to come."
"Hut, my dear, people who would be
glad to come are the very ones you j
should not invite." Puck.
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HEAT AND TANNED SKINS.
| The Miracle That Nature Performs
When Sunburn Occur*.
.There are certain arctic animals,
dark coated in the .-hort summer, that
in winter turn pure white, thus match
ing the sn >\v covered landscape and
scaping notice and harm.
This change of color, tills protection,
effected no one knows how, is wonder
ful, as wonderful as a miracle, and
yet a kindred change of color, a kin
dred protection, happens among man
kind every summer, and nobody ever
notices it.
Wiien the pale city people go out in
the summer sun at the seashore or the
mountains the light attacks them
fiercely, lirst reddening their skin,
then s riling, blistering and scorching
it. If they kept in the sun enough,
and if no miracle occurred, the light
woul.l kill them finally, burning off
the skin lirst and afterward attacking
the raw flesh.
But a miracle does occur. The skin
changes from a pale color to a tan and
on this tan the sun lias no effect. The
sun may beat on tan colored skin for
days and weeks, but such skin remains
always sound, unblistered, whole.
Titus nature works a miracle. The
white skin is suffering, and nature,
aware, somehow, that a tan skin Is
sun proof, changes to tan the white.
How does she do this? Where did she
learn that it was wise to do this? No
one knows. Only the fact of the
miracle remains.
To prove this miracle—to prove that
It is not the hardening of the skin,
but the change in its color which pro-"
tccts it from sunburn—is an easy mat
ter.
Lot it pale person, unused to the sun,
stain one side of his face yellow, and,
leaving the other side untouched, go
out in the bright summer sun for a
couple of hours. The one side of his
face is no tougher, no more hardened
than the other, yet the unstained side
wiii I" i:i!i i<■ i. blistered, while the
tail coio. I'd one will be quite cool and
uit'..; i.
Suni.ani a miracle, a protection
to i:;:.:f.:iinl as inexplicable and as
wonderful ; the miracle of the arctic
an!:; a!:<' change in the winter from
dark oat - ; > snow white ones.—New
York Hera id.
BATTLEFIELD ORATIONS.
A Great Deal of Fiction About th*
Heeortled Martial Speeches.
Somebody once a-ked the Duke of
Well:::;;! n if speeches on the battle
field were really made .is reported and
what was their effect. The duke said,
"What effect on the whole army can
be made by a speech since you cannot
conveniently make it heard by more
i than a thousand men standing about
you?" Then the duke was asked if
it were not the fact that Napoleon de
livered some rather notable orations
j on the field. The duke would not have
I it."The proclamations you read of in
the Trench army were much more seen
j In the papers than by the soldiers—they
I were meant for Paris." It was all
I right, the duke agreed, to address a
. regiment upon presenting it with col-
I ors and that sort of thing. On the
I whole, French troops might be more
j impressed by a speech than the Eng
lish. who In the duke's Waterloo army
i were, he declared, "the scum of the
i earth, who had all enlisted for drink."
; The French, with their system of con
scription, had a fair sprinkling of all
j classes.
"No," comments a writer, "all these
martial obiter dicta which our histories
i treasure up for us were for the most
part never spoken at all. The 'lnst
words' of dying men and the speeches
! made on the battlefield or the deck of
an admiral's flagship are not to be re
garded as having been actually ut
tered. The famous 'Up, guards, and at
'em!' accredited to Wellington at Wa
terloo, was never spoken. Wellington
himself denied it."
And now, Johnny," said the Sunday
school teacher, "Is there anything you
don't understand about Eve and the
serpent
"Yes'm."
"Well, what?"
"Ilow'd Eve keep from havln' a fit
when she seen it comin'?" Detroit
Tribune.
THE HOTEL CHILD.
iJangers Thai lleset the Luckivna Ott-
HpriiiK of itiv-ilt-»N I'arentn.
It is not tiie material aids to ex
istence wiii. h are the bane of the iiotel
chilli; it is tli.' mental and spiritual at
tite.de accompanying this life which
is lj be deprecated. it destroys a
dt in uTatic spirit through emphasizing
the difference bet ween the servant and
11: -served, it exaggerates the power
hi money, footers a spirit of depend
eit e and unlit.- the pampered imlivld
uai for an.v other kind of life, and,
\vn: of all, in a child so brought up
1!:' c can li 110 urn erstamling or love
ol home. Tiie v may be some future
hilil v"ho knows nothing of
art, ome function for the one to whom
lite., tuie n.aki s n • appeal and who is
a ; sensitive to music, i• ut there Is no
in tiie -!ate for the mail who has
in ;h i initiative, self rel.ance, patriot
ism nor 1 >ve of home. He is a social
ii. ir i-' a (li-e:ise The community Is
bite o*Y without this satellite of the
man; p rasi.e of the bell boy and
source of supply for the waiter.
I! '.here is one child in our eommunl
l. v . !i i i superfluous It is the hotel
el' 1 A place-! for temporary occu-
I a ill Num it>s an.l childless adults
hole! are . > be tolerated, but as resl
•' 'i' «' Mren they are without
tli , >f excuse. Miss Martha
lii ■\ in Kveryli uly's Magazine.
V* MiMcri'M Teinnpps,
Ire ntly saw it s;l somewhere
'v. >: i n are r: :< h better tem
per.- ! ai i n." T1 of course, Is a
self i• • i-I proposition—up to a cer
tain | lint. Women, as a rale, are al
toget i-r more self po-sessed and have
a grc. : i .• control over themselves than
men, w!> j want everytning their own
way, i .nt all troubl •, cannot endure
the smallest discomfort and are rarely
unselti. !i.
ISut In justice to men It must be said
that, generally speaking, they have
very much more to try their nerves.—
| London World.
Ail Ancient Steam Man.
There are it host of authorities on
hydraulics and mechanics that could
I be quoted to support the assertion that
; the steam engine Is not a modern in
vention. Carpinl in the account of his
travels, A. I). 12S<5, describes a species
j of aeophlle, or steam, engine made In
the form of a man. Tills contrivance
was filled with "Inflammable liquid"
(probably petroleum) and made to do
terrible work in the battles between
the Mongols and the troops of Prester
John. "
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PENNSYLVANIA MllifT
Philadelphia & Krie Railroad Division.
Northern Central Railway Division.
Schedule in Effect June 11, 1905.
Trains leave SUI'TH DANVILLE as follows:
EASTWARD.
7.11 a m. (weekdays) for Wilkes Barre. Haz
leton and Pottsville and Philadelphia
10.17 a. in (daily) for Wilkes Barre, Hazleton
Pottsville. Philadelphia, Mahanoy City
and Shenandoah.
2.21 p. tn. (weekdays) for Wilkes Barre, Haz
leton and I'otlsvllle.
5.50 p. in. (weekdays) for Wilkes-Barre, and
Hazleton.
Making connection at Wilkes-Barre with
Lehigh Valley for all points North and
South and D. & 11. for scranton.
WESTWARD.
f.OOa. in. (weekdays) for Sunhury. I.eaveSun
bury 51.42 a in.daily for Lock Haven and
intermediate stations, tin weekdays for
Bellefonte, Tyrone, Clearfield Phillips
burg, Pittsburg and the West.
Leave Stmbury 9.60 a. m. |weekdays) Tor
Harrisburg and intermediate stations,
l'hiladeiphia. New York, Balfiinore and
Washington.
12.10 p. m. weekdays for Sun bury.
LeaveSunbury 12.43 p. m.daily for Buff
alo via Emporium.
Leave Sunbury 1.13 p. m. weekdays for
Km pori u m, Bellefonte. Tyrone, Clearfield,
Philipsburg, Pittsburg,Canandaigua and
intermediate stations, Syracuse, Roche
ster. Buffalo and Niagara Falls.
LeaveSunbury 1.54p.iu. weekdays for
Harrtsburg tnd intermediate statiohs,
Philadelphia, New York, Baltimore,
Washington. Bullet Parlor Car to Phil
adelphia.
Leave Sunbury 3.48 p. m.daily for Har
risburg, Philadelphia. New York. Balti
more and Washington,
l '.l p. in.daily for Sunbury.
Leave Sunbury .">.lO p.m. weekdays for
Keuovo, Elmira and intermediate sta
tions.
Leave Sunbury 5.20 p. ni. daily for Har
risburg and intermediate points, l'hila
deiphia, New York, Baltimore and
Washington.
7.51 p. m. weekdays or Sunbury.
Leave Sunbury 8.36 p. in.daily for Har
risburg ;and all intermediate stations,
Philadelphia, New York, Baltimore,
Washington. Pullman Sleeping Car from
Harrisburg to New York.
Leave Sunbury 9.,">u p. m. Sundays only
for Harrisburg and intermediate Ha
tions, arriving at Harrisburg, 11.30.
Leave Sunburyß.s4 p. m. Sundays only
for Willlamsport and intermediate sta
tions.
LeaveSunbury !).Ti3 p. m. weekdays for
Willlamsport and intermediate stations.
Buffet Parlor Car.
SHAMOKIN DIVISION, N. C. K. W.
WEEK DA VS.
Leave Sunbury 6.10 a. m., 10.10 a. in., 2.10 p. m.
5.35 p. in.for Sbamokin and Mt Carmel.
LEWISTOWN DIVISION.
WEEK DAYS.
Leave Sunbury 10.00 a. in., 2.05 p. in.for Lew
istown and Lewistown Junction. 5.35
p. ui. for Sellnsgrove.
For time tables and further information ap
ply to ticket agents.
W. W ATTERBUKY, J. R. WOOD,
lien'l Manager. Pass. Traffic Mgr.
GEO. W BOYD, Gen'l Passenger Agent.
T ACKAWANNA RAILROAD.
■" -BLOOMSBURG I>IVISK)>
Delaware, Lackawanna ami Westren
Railroad.
,In Effect .lan. 1, 1905.
TRAINS LEAVE DANVILLE.
EASTWARD.
7.07 a. tn. daily for Bloomsburg, Kingston.
Wilkes-Barre ami Scranton. Arriving Scran
ton at !' 12 a m . and connecting at Scranton
with trains arriving at Philadelphia at 3.48 a.
in. and New York City at .'villi p. in.
10.10 a. in. weekly for BloomsV>urg,Kingston,
Wilkes-Barre Scranton and intermediate sta
tions, arriving at Scranton at 12.35 p. B. and
connecting there with traln> for V w York
City. Philadelphia and Buffalo.
2.i 1 weekly forßloomsburg,Kingston,Wilkes
llarre. Scranton and intermediate stations,
arriving at Scranton at 4.50 p. n
-s,|:t p. in daily for Bloomsburg, Espy, Ply
mouth. Kingston, Wilkes-Barre, Pittston,
Scranton and intermediate stations, arriving
at Scranton at pin. and connecting there
with t rains arriving at Nt w York City at ti.so
a' in., Philadelphia 10 a. m and Buffalo 7a. til.
T RAIN 8 A RRIV EAT DAN VILLE.
0.15 a. m week I> front Scranton. Pittston,
Kingston, Bloomsburg and intermediate stn
il< ins, ica\ ins Scranton at us a in . where it
connects with trains leaving New York City
at 11.30 p. m., Philadelphia at 7.02 pin. and
Buffalo at 10.30 a in.
12.44 p. m.daily from Scranton, Pittston,
Kingston, Berwick. Bloomsburg and interme
diate stations, leaving Scranton at 10.10 a. m.
and connecting there with train leaving Buff
alo at 2.25 a. in.
4.33 p. hi weekly from Scranton, Kingston,
Berwick. BtoomsDurg and intermediate sta
tions, leaving Scranton al 1.85 p. m., «lu re it
connects with train leaving New York City
at l .00 a in., and Philadelphia at 9.00 a. m.
0.0.") p. m.daily from Scranton. Kingston,
Pittston. Berwick. Bloomsburg and interme
diate stations, leaving Serai ton at 6.35 p. 111.,
where it connect* With trains leaving New
York City at 1.00 p.m.. Philadelphia at 12.C0
p. in ami Butfolo at 0.30 a. m.
T. K CLARKE, Oen'l Sup't.
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