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By E. H.
GOSSE.
Sr IFO OP Og gE ag gOgT age
Justice to the large field of close
competitors was the only consideration
that could have withheld from ‘“‘Red-
Eye” Heustis the name of being the
worst all-round “bad man” in Texas,
using the term in the amplitude of its
Western significance. His escapes
from lynching were numerous and rc-
mantic. He had missed legal execu-
tion chiefly because no sheriff had sur-
vived the preliminary operation of
placing him under arrest.
He was a cowboy when a ranchman
could be found foolhardy enough to
engage him, but his real work, his
serious business in life was gambling.
Sometimes Providence protected the
settlement and “Red-Eye” lost; more
often he won, and when he did he
entered on a campaign of riot and de-
vastation. He didn’t as a rule, yearn
for the culture and civilization of large
towns at these times; he found a wid-
er opportunity to let himself out in the
unconventional atmosphere of the
more remote communities. Neverthe-
less, the greatest celebration he ever
had, and the most momentous in its
consequences, occurred in Galveston.
Toward the latter part of the Saturn-
* alia, when he had satisfied all his in-
stincts for lawless activity, and was
drinking anything, everything, hour
after hour, till he should reach a state
of general collapse as a grand finale,
he wandered down to a dive in sailor-
town, hardly a block from the wharves
a cowboy among the scum of the
waterfront, incongruous scene for his
last stand!
' The grog was, if possible, worse
than what flowed among his own kind,
and as evening drew on, “Red-Eye,”
seated by aggreasy table in the rear of
the room, mellowed to the pathetic,
confidential melancholia which, in
some cases, characterizes the last
stages of an unduly protracted spree.
Flinging himself back into an attitude
of bitter abandon, he observed audi-
bly that he was ‘nothin’ but a low-
down, dirty, drunken bull-puncher;”
after an interval of sleepy muttering
he burst forth with the additional in-
formation that he was ‘no good,” and
just as a thick-set, hard-faced young
fellow, fairly dressed and very sober,
dropped into the opposite chair, the
inebriate was dilating on the impos-
sibility of getting back on “the Ring-
bar K ranch.”
“Down in yer luck?’ queried the
newcomer.
“ Taint the word,
sponded the cowboy.
“Want to go to sea?”
“Sea? Go t’ shee?” ruminated the
bad man. “D’go to h 'f they'y lem’-
me sit 'n th’ shade till I sobered off.”
“You come along with me; I'll fix
you up all right,” said the younger
man; ‘“where’s your outfit?”
“Red Eye” named a resort not a
great way uptown, and muttering,
stumbling, stupidly drunk, the worst
man in Texas went forth convoyed by
the most notorious “crimp” on the
Gulf coast.
They got back to the waterfront, in
time, burdened with an old valise and
a roll of blankets, and, tossing these
into the bow of a little “dingy,” the
shipping agent managed to land “Red
Bye” in the stern, and taking the oars
himself put out into the darkened har-
bor. The cowboy slumbered where he
lay, neither knowing nor caring whith-
er he went, nor why. There was no
sound but the measured ‘“‘creak-clock,
creak-clock” of the rowlocks and the
Japping of the water overside till they
ran under the great, black, overhang-
ing stern of an anchored ship, and the
rower gave a hail. The cry aroused
“Red-Eye” momentarily, and jn his
learing, upturned gaze at the mass
overhead he noticed the gilded name
siranger.” re-
“Boadicea,” sourrounded by scroll-
work not improved by age.
“That you, Mr. Hanaford?” ' called
‘the crimp to a figure overhead. “I've
got the man ‘you want.” «
“Any good?” came the laconic reply.
“Sure! He's arr old hand; knows all
about ropes’ shy Mey
“Send him ahoard.” A jacob’s lad-
“ed Ss¥ished downward through the
= . air, %ts ena dangling in the waist
the dingy. ‘With labor and patience
ed ‘Bye Was eventually landed on
deck; the crimp followed with his val-
ise, took his blood-money, and with
a suggestion that the new recruit
might be sent below without delay
in view of his inebriation, put out
from the ship with no undue tarry-
ing.
How the cowboy got below is a mys-
tery, but he did; fell into the fcre-
castle, fell into an empty bunk, and
‘with his dunnage for-a pillow, spraw-
ed there unconscious, unheeding,
hcapable of motion or thought, dead
drunk, till the sun and the bo’sun rose.
The cold dawn was announced with
a roar down the companionway:
“Come on, now, you useless curs; turn
out before you're kicked out, and do
something for your grub.” They did
turn out, sleepily, reluctantly, a sorry
logking band, and one took compas-
sion on “Red Eye,” shaking him and
whispering, “Come on, mate, wake
up. The bo’sun will murder you if he
comes down and finds you asleep.”
But nothing could rouse him. The
bo’sun’s simple attentions in the way
of kicks, profanity, and buckets of
water caused only a transient flutter
of consciousness, and that worthy fin-
ally left him to “sleep it off,” the mate
suggesting that he wasn’t worth the
trouble of waking. In fact, the ves-
sel had been th t sea before
"Red Eye” Wwe
on deck. When he did appear, he got
a royal welcome. Clumsy and ignor-
ant of sailor work as he was, in ad-
dition to being a “Yankee,” the cock-
ney bo’sun gave -him special attention
and within five minutes an “officer and
a gentleman” came forward from the
quarter-deck expressly to knock him
down and then kick him onto his feet
again, and the Texan was still too
weak and bewildered by his new sur-
roundings to resist.
Brutal as it was, “Red Eye's’ treat-
ment was not much worse than what
fell to the lot of his companions. The
Boadicea was no “happy ship.” “Red
Eye” came on duty in the morning,
with no breakfast, he had no dinner
because the mate “hazed” him through
the day to even up for his previous
idleness, and it was well along in the
dog watch before he got below for
what was left from the crew's supper.
After the bracing sea air, the warm
food, poor as it was, revived him woen-
derfully. They had not troubled to
search his effects, and it was a differ-
ent man from the stupefied,. passive ob-
ject of the earlier hours who went
over to his bunk, took out a brace of
guns and a well-filled cartridge belt,
and started for the deck, seeking ‘“‘the
derned coyote with th’ brass buttons,”
otherwise Mr. Hanaford, the chief of-
ficer. When “Red Eye” came into
view, the gentleman in question was
leaning against a davit in the waist of
the ship.
“What are you up here for?”
“Trouble,” answered the Texan, and
there was a ring of deep sincerity in
his tone.
It is the rule at sea, a principle that
may account for the surprising success
of more than one mutiny, that the
very type of officers who garnish their
orders with the greatest profusion of
profane and insulting personalities,
and who cultivate ‘‘bucko” tactics of
discipline as a mannerism, are the sort
most quickly cowed by a turn of the
the tables.
In the present instance there was
less of a rict than one might have
been led to anticipate from a knowl-
edge of Mr. Hanaford’s reputation as
a general terror. He roared an cath
and a command to go below at “Red
Eye” and then threw up his hands,
squirming and screaming with fright
as the party relieved him of his arma-
ment. The second mate, roused by
Mr. Hanaford’s excited requests to he
spared for his aged mother’s sake,
rushed up the companion-way brand-
ishing a revolver, and the shot that
welcomed him as he struck the quar-
ter- deck took the feeling out of his
wrist for an hour, and the mechanism
out of his weapon for good.
By the time the bo’sun was engaged
in religious exercises in a remote cor-
ner of the most obscure hiding place
he could find under the gallant fore-
castle, and, running over the second
mate for any additional arms he might
be carrying, ‘Red Eye” went down io
interview the captain. He met that
worthy hastening on deck to interview
him, relieved him of a shotgun and
two navy revolvers, and marched him
back into the cabin. The table showed
preparations for a late breakfast, and
the mutineer ordered the steward to
bring it on forthwith, at the same time
pressing the skipper to join him. No-
ticing the skipper’s evident reluctance,
he urged him to feel no embarrass-
ment, as he, “Red Eye,” was a rough
and ready fellow and not above as-
sociating with any one, however hum-
ble his station and be ‘his breeding
never so neglected. Such tact, backed
by an artfully careless display of ar-
tillery, was not lost upon the captain;
he took a seat, and held his peace at
an imminent risk of apoplexy.
While the meal proceeded, work on
deck had been abandoned, and the
inevitable sea lawyer had convinced
the crew that whatever came their lot
could be no worse than before, and
that they could plead before the Ad-
miralty Court that they had been co-
erced as much as the officers, and
could not have assisted them without
imperilling their lives. The appeals
of the two mates consequently fell up-
on deaf ears. These gentlemen came
aft and obtained permission from
“Red Eye” to come to the table just
about the time the skipper had recov-
ered the gift of coherent speech.
“Now, my man,” said he, impressive-
ly,“do you realize that this is mut-
iny?”
“What's mutiny?” asked “Red Eye.”
Here was a poser. Doubtless tradi-
tion and the force of habit have much
to do with preserving discipline aboard
ship. The seaman has been taught by
word and by symbols that his officers
are his betters until he thoroughly,
though sometimes reluctantly, believes
it; resistance to them seldom occurs
to him as a feasible idea. But when
you find a man who never heard of
the Board of Trade, who has always
associated brass buttons with messen-
ger boys and car porters, and who has
be reared in the most democratic cor-
ner of a country where ‘all men are
free and equal,” you meet a new prob-
lem calling for executive talent in no
ordinary degree. The captain of the
Boadicea, who, to do him justice, was
less of a fool than one might infer
from the reputation of his ship, real-
ized this fact more or less distinctly,
and changed his tack accordingly. The
subject of mutiny was drepped.
“Well, now, Mr.—ah—Mr.—"*
“ stis,” put in “Red Eye.”
1, now, Mr. Heustis, I have been
idering. It appears to me that
you are not the ordinary forecastle
type, not at all, and now, I don’t
know, you see, a-h’'m, you see we have
no third mate this trip. What do you
say, eh?”
“I want to rise up in meetin’,” said
the ungrateful Mr. Heustis, “and ob-
serve that I don’t calculate to be no
third mate. I want you to understand
that from this on I'm boss of the
whole derned show.”
At first the powers that had been
were not without hope, but the new
commander ran across the medicine
chest accidentally, and to guard
against any criminal carelessness in
the galley, dumped the contents over-
board -en masse; likewise those who
ventured near his room at unseason-
able hours discovered that he slum-
bered lightly.
The great question was where should
the vessel go? By owners’ orders she
was homeward bound for London, but
“Red Eye,” who had no appreciation
of foreign travel, showed that fine in-
dependence which distinguishes great
naval commanders and bade Mr.
Hanaford to make for Texas. The
vessel was now southwest of Cuba.
Failing to subdue the mutineer, his
victims had decided to make, by
strategy, for the nearest English port,
Kingston, and let the shore authorities
show him such attention as his deeds
merited.
It would have been quicker to go in-
to New Orleans, but they were not
sure that American law provided pen-
alties adequate to the cccasion. There
was one difficulty, however, in the way
of carrying out this program. It ap-
peared from artful conversation that
Mr. Heustis had discovered the loca-
tion of the ship, as a ccrollary, there-
fore, he knew what course should be
steered to bring them back to Gal-
veston. Now from their then point of
view there was a difference of some
sixteen points between the bearings
of Texas and Jamaica, and it was
tempting Providence to expect a man
of “Red Eye's” brilliancy to overlook.
for the best part of a week, a matter
involving half the compass.
It was in this quandary that Mr.
Hanaford illustrated the wisdom of
reading Board of Trade pamphlets, a
practice not wholly recognized as help-
fu beyond question. In the quiet of
the “12 to 4” watch he coliected some
bits of iron, a wrench, and other sim-
ple tools, and, getting the ship’s bin-
nacle apart more or less, began to mis-
apply certain facts and principles bear-
ing on the phenomena of deviation
and local attraction. When his la-
bors were done the chief obstacle in
making Jamaica was overcome; the
needle turned easily and gracefully due
south when it should have been
north, pointed north when it should
have been south, and followed this in-
version all around the circle, what-
ever way the ship swung, so that as
the mate, in a scientist's enthusiasm,
expressed it, they were prepared “to
start in the middle and go both ways
at once.”
They did. During the succeeding
days “Red Eye's” fancy took him near-
er and nearer home and friends, while
in reality he was steadily approaching
the power of the British Admiralty.
This season did not pass uneventfully,
nor vet in a manner which would
lead the skipper and his minions to
cherish it in after years as a pleasant
memory. For old acquaintance sake
“Red Eye” saw to it that the bo’sun
performed a variety of stunts not men-
tioned in the articles under which he
shipped. As payment for his usage of
the Texan during the earlier part of
the voyage the chief officer took his
meals in the forecastle, and. at such
times as his services were not required
in navigating the ship, he holystoned
without interruption. Weather = per-
mitting, the crew assembled on the
forecastle-head every dog watch, while
the captain, at “Red Eye's’ sugges-
tion, mounted the capstan and enter-
tained them with songs and recita-
tions; as an encore he danced ‘“‘hornj-
pipes” on.the main hatch.
On the morning of the fourth day
after the coup d'etat, land was visi-
ble on port boy, very sisible as “Red
Eye” came on deck, and the town on
the shore, while attractive and pret-
tily situated was not Galveston, neith-
er were the surrounding hills any part
of Texas. The flags that flew from
various buildings along the water-
front were red and un-American, and
one just like them was going to the
peak of the Boadicea upside down,
when all the bright visions of a cut-
ter full of men-o'-war’s men faded
from Mr. Hanaford’s mind.
Off to starboard he beheld a ship of
their rival company, not only a ship,
but ‘as he looked more intently, the
ship, which carried their especial per-
sonal and professional. London ens-
mies. Would he and his captain, even
at every appeal of justice and outraged
dignity, put this Texan pirate in the
the hands of authority and pro-
claim to the world at large,
and to the officers and crew
of the Lord Devon in particular, that
they, they, the terrible Boardicea, had
been overpowered and held in terror
of their lives by one man, a landsman
at that, and a Yankee? Mr. Hana-
ford and his captain thought not.
A few hours later the little West
Indian town was enlivened by the
presence of a stranger, an American
by his accent. He was dresséd quiets]
ly, but with taste, in a blue suit of
evident quality, but a close observer
might notice something about it sug-
gestive of second-hand; on each sleeve
a little above the cuff, were three rows
of stitching, where some former dec-
cration had been ripped off. When ques-
tioned, he replied, for he was a man
of his word, that
passenger for health and recreation on
the bark ihat touched in there that
morning. He was still spending money
with a liberal hand, when, some days
later, he took a cabin passage on the
American - packet, and Kingston knew
| him no more.—New York Post.
. horses, and which are
SCIENCE NOTES.
An East India medical journal re-
ports the discovery, by Captain Rost,
of a cure for leprosy. It is “leprolin,”
a substance analoguous to Koch’s
“tubercolin.”
'A beauty doctor doing business in
ILondon undertakes to remove wrin-
kles and other lines in the face of a
patron by repeated applications of a
pneumatic cup, which draws the sunk-
en tissues out.
It has been calculated that t%he
power generated in a modern steam-
ship in a single voyage across the
Atlantic is more than enough to raise
from the Nile and set in place every
stone of one of the great Egyptian
pyramids.
Telegrams received at Madrid state
that the experiments which have been
made in the Bay of Puerta Santa-
Maria, for the purpose of directing
torpedoes by the aid of Herzian
waves, have given entirely satisfac-
tory results.
English miners are interested in a
new compressed-air coal-cutter re-
cently introduced by a Sheffield firm.
‘tL ue machine weighs only 150 pounds,
and it is said that it can be used in
seams so steep that the miner cannot
stand upright, and so thin that he has
to craw! on hands and knees.
The Brazilian government, convinec-
ed of the existence of immense sup-
plies of underground water within its
territories, proposes to organize a
&ivision of hydrology similar to that
of the United States Geological suwr-
vey. Drilling outfits have already
been purchased in this country. The
colonial office of Bermuda has sought
American expert advice in regard to
obtaining a supply of water from un-
derground sources in those islands,
and there is a similar movement in
Peru, where it is thought that water
drawn from beneath the deserts may
serve to irrigate the nearly rainless
area along the coast.
The city of Hull, England, has 13
miles of wooden pavement, and Is
gradually substituting such pavement
for the granite blocks hitherto used.
1t is as smooth as asphalt, but less
slippery. After many experiments
with woods from various parts of the
world, the city authorities have set-
tled upon the jarrah and karri woods
from Western Australia as the best
for the purpose. They are of a dark
mahegany color. The blocks are cut
to the size of large bricks, and are
carefully laid upon a foundation of
cement seven inches thick. Some of
these pavements, laid from 7 to 10
years ago, are not yet in need of re-
pair.
A Wonderful Herb.
Yerba Mate, the South American
tea, is just now attracting the atten-
tion of Uncle Sam, and the herb may
be introduced into this country as a
substitute for ordinary tea and coffee.
Yerba mate is a food as well as a
stimulant, and its praises are sung by
many of our consuls, who were asked
to tell the department of commerce
all about it.
“Its medicinal action,” writes Con-
sul Flagg, from Rosario, Argentine,
“is to arrest rapid consumption of tis-
sue and the consequent feeling of
weariness that comes from excessive
labor of mind and body. It certainly
does prevent hunger.
“The Paraguayan retires to sleep af-
ter having eaten his heaviest meal,
and in the morning he takes no break-
fast, as we understand it, and on that
alone works till nearly midday, doing
his hardest work of the day.
“All of us. may be subject to de-
mands upon brain and body when
both are. more or less exhausted. If
we take alcohol, there is danger of
acquiring a bad habit;: if we take
coffee, there is danger of bringing
\ about a bilious attack, and tea, though
less dangerous, still has its victims;
but here is a plant that millions or
human beings resort to every day, and
yet it is rare that one can find a per-
‘son injured by its use.”
It is said that more than 20,000,000
people in South America drink mate
daily. It promotes digestion, soothes
the nerves and gives activity to the
brain.—(Waushington correspondence
of the Kansas City Journal.)
An Automobile Fire Department.
The *municipal authorities at Vienna
have determined to abandon the use
of horses to draw their fire apparatus
and to equip their service entirely on
an automobile basis. The Vienna fire
department is considered the best
equipped of Continental Europe, and
within 10 years it has replaced all ob-
solete apparatus with the most mod-
ern and useful devices. The first step
taken was the ordering of fifty-three
motor chemical engines and wagons to
replace those previously drawn by
most’ useful
for dealing with small fires. When this
has been accomplished the horse-drawn
‘steam fire engines and the extension
ladders will be replaced in some way
not ag yet determined. It is claimed
thaf increased efficiency will follow the
innovation, while there will be a sav-
ing of some $15,500 per annum in the
cost of mai ining the stations for
which the fifty-three sets of apparatus
have been ordered. The outlay will
be about $177,000.—Harper’s Weekly.
Not What It Might Be.
“How do you like the cheese, sir?”
asked the waiter.
“Huh!” grumbled the high liver,
it isn’t half bad.”
“Very sorry, sir,”
“we were told it wa
—Philadeiphia Press
replied the waiter
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MEXICAN PEANUTS.
Process of Roasting Them Leaves a
Superior Flavor, It Is Said.
Where do the peanuts in Mexico
come from? This is a question that
few people can answer. Every one
has noticed that the Mexican peanuts
are of a superior variety and that they
are very cheap, yet a few people known
that the haciendados in Oaxaca make
the raising of peanuts one of their
principal side lines and every year
ship hundreds of bushels of them to
the capital and the other cities in the
republic, says the Mexican Herald.
In Mexico as in the United States
the peanut is one of the most popular
kniek-knacks. Every day dozens of
peanut venders may be seen around
the Alameda and other places whére
people gather. It will be found that
the peanuts sold by most of these ven-
ders are very large and perfectly roast-
ed. It is very seldom that a peanut is
found that has been burned while
roasting. It will also be noticed that
for a Mexican cent nearly as many
peanuts can be. bought as is given in
the United States for 5 cents gold.
The climate and soil of the state of
Oaxaca is especially adapted to the
growth of peanuts. There is scarcely
a plantation in the state that does not
cultivate the vine. When the nuts
have matured they are gathered and
shipped without having been roasted.
On their arrival here they are taken
to the very common form of Mexican
oven.
The oven set apart for the roasting
of peanuts has a large circular piece
of fine netting in the interior. The
netting is so arranged that the ends
can be closed, making it look like a
great corn popper. Several bushels of
peanuts are placed in this net and then
turned slowly over a charcoal fire.
This process of roasting is a most suc-
cessful one, as every nut is thorough-
ly roasted if the work is properly done
and there is little chance for the pea-
nuts to be burned.
After roasting, the peanuts are scld
to the venders. The venders buy them
for little money, and even with the
large quantity that is given when they
are bought at retail they make a Jarge
profit. The profuseness of their
growth makes them very cheap on the
plantations where they are raised, and
as they are generally shipped in car-
load lots and transportation charges
do not add a great deal to their cost.
The roasting process is also conducted
with very little expense.
Americans generally when they first
come to Mexico seldom buy peanuts.
It is something new to them to stop
on the street and buy a couple of
cents’ worth of them and have them
delivered to your pocket direct with-
out wrapping of any kind, yet when
the ice is once broken, and they get
used to the way they are handled in
Mexico, they generally continue hav-
ing them, as the process of roasting
leaves all the flavor in the kernels, and
they taste much better than the pea-
nuts do that are generally sold in the
United States, where the method of
roasting so often takes away the rich-
ness of their taste.
A Breeze from the West.
One evening, not long ago, the af-
ter dinner chat of a little coterie cen-
tered on the subject of the New York-
er and his blind devotion to the great
eastern metropolis. One declared that
the average New Yorker couldn't see
over the Harlem flats; and another
said that though there were undoubt-
edly some extremely clever people
there, the thing that spoiled them for
him was their ignorance of and semi-
contempt for anything outside of New
York, especially in the west.
“It used to worry me a good deal
whenever I met a cut-and-dried New
Yorker,” said one; ‘“for I was born in
Michigan and am glad of it, and
whenever I was in New York I could
not help feeling somehow that they
looked on me in a half-patronizing
way that always rufiied my feathers.
But a few menths ago I was out on
the Pacific coast, and there I heard
some one make a remark that made
the New Yorker look so small that I
wondered why I could ever have al-
lowed him to worry me for a minute.
The man was a fine type of western
independence, and he was extolling
the advantages of San Francisco,
where he had been brought up. ‘It’s
the finest city in the world to live in,’
said he; ‘we're right near Honolulu
and Japan and Manila and in ’Frisco
you can get anything you want.’
“ ‘But,’ interposed an easterner who
happened to be in'the crowd, ‘you're
so far from New York!’
“ ‘New York,’ said the Frisco man,
with scathing indifference, ‘what
would you want to go there for? ’—
Detroit Free Press.
Russian Designs on Mongolia,
The Times is rather annoyed at the
cool reception which Washington has
given to its announcement of Rus-
sia’s intention to violate Chinese neu-
tality in Mongolia, Both a Times
correspondent and a Temps cor-
respondent in St. Petersburg have
spoken ‘©f the intention of Russia to
move treops into Mongolia to protect
herself against movements of Japan-
ese troops which are alleged to vio-
late the neuirality of China. But The
Temps does not mention the allega-
tion of Ti Fimes that Russia is pro-
posing to China, to fix the boundaries
of Mongoli: of present
operations \ manner as to
prevent flanking ions
Japanese
neutrality
ing an ir
golian boundaries
sumption that sending Srootn
Mongolia implies an intention to an-
nex Chinese territory and open up the
question of the rtition ‘of the em-
ire.—Tixondon Truth.
AIDS NATURE'S WORK
EFFECT OF ACETYLENE RAYS ON
CROWTH OF PLANTS.
Grow to Twice Actual Weight of Those
¥xposed to Sunlight Only — Latest
Victory For This New and Beautiful
Illuminant.
The experiments recently made at
Cornell University prove that the beau-
tiful rays from the gas, acetylene, are
as effective as sunlight on the growth
of plants, and this may soon become a
subject for serious consideration by all
progressive cultivators of the soil.
The results of the experiments are
astonishing, inasmuch as they show
conclusively the great increase of
growth ‘attained by supplementing
“The Light of Nature” with “The Light
of Acetylene” during the hours in
which the plants would otherwi-e be
in darkness. For instance, a certain
number of radish plants subjected to
acetylene light during the night grew
to twice the actual weight of the same
number of radishes given daylight only;
all other conditions being equal, and
peas had blossomed and partially ma-
tured pods with the help of acetylene
light, while without the added light
not even buds were apparent.
Acetylene is already taking its place
as an illuminant for towns from a cen-
tral plant, forlighting houses, churches,
schools and isolated buildings of all
kinds, and it is being used successfully,
for many other purposes.
A striking and important feature of
acetylene is the ease and small expense
with which it can be made available
compared with the great advantages
derived from its use. The machine in
which the gas is generated is easily ine
stalled.
A Gold Plated Lot.
A parcel of land in New York's
financial district sold for nearly
$600 a square foot the other day, and
this is said to be the record price in
the western hemisphere. “Cover it
with silver dollars and you can have
it,” said the owner to a young man
who was seeking to make real estate
sales 40 years ago. He took the pro-
position seriously, and figuring up
the cost on this basis accepted the
proposition. When the owner exam-
ined the figures and found them too
low, he said that he meant the silver
dollars should be piled on edge. Ten
years ago the same man was told
again that he could have the property
if he covered it with gold dollars. A
skyscraper will occupy the place, as
it will be the only form of building
that will’ offer sufficient rent space
for a profit.
Could See His Heart.
In Moberly recently there was a
man selling mucilage who is a curi-
osity to the medical fraternity, as his
left lung is eaten away with con-
sumption and from six operations he
had performed to obtain relief from
physical ills a hole was made in his
left side through which his heart
could be plainly seen aid its throb-
bing witnessed. The main claims
that by holding his nose and closing
his mouth he is enabled to breathe
through the hole in his side. He has
photographs showing the hole in his
side, and the caved-in appearance of
the chest which is due to some of
his ribs being removed. The man
resides in Colorado, and has written
a book about himself on which he
will obtain a copywright.—Kansas
City Journal. :
Business First.
A Canadian teacher fell heir last
year te an English estate of $100,600.
In the lawyer’s office the clerks made
bets as to how she would take it. One
thought she would scream, two were
of the opinion that she would burst
into tears, two others favored hyster-
ics. Her reply to the messenger was
disconcerting: “lI shall finish my
monthly report, hear these speiling
errors, whip two boys and be at your
office in 40 minutes. \
CHANCED HUSBAND.
Wife Made Wise Change in Yood.
Change of diet is the only way to
really cure stomach and bowel trouble,
A woman says:
“My husband had dyspepsia when we
were married and bad suffered from it
for several years. It was almost im-
possible to find anything lie could eat
without bad results.
“I thought this was largely due to
the use of coffee, and persuaded him to
discontinue it. He did so, and began to
drink Postum Food Coffee. The change
did him good from the beginning, his
digestion improved; he suffered much
less froan his nervousness, and svhen
he added Grape-Nuts food to his diet
he was soon entirely cured.
“My friend, Mrs. — , of Vicks-
burg (my former home), had become 2
neryous wreck’ also from dyspepsia.
Medicines had ‘no effect, neither did
travel help her. On my last visit home,
some months ago, I persuaded her to
use Grape-Nuts food. She was in de-
spair, and consented. She stuck to it
until it restored her health so com-
pletely that she is now the most enthu-
siastic friend of Grape-Nuts that I
ever knew. She eats it with cream.-or
dry, just as it comes from the package
—Kkeeps it in her room and eats it when-
ever she feels like it;
“I began eating Grape-Nuts fecod my-
self when my baby was two months
old, and I don’t know what I should
have done without it. My appetite was
gone, I was weak and nervous and af-
forded but very little nourishment for
the child. The frre Nuts food, of
which I soon grew very y fond, speedily
set all this right Sain and the baby
grew healthful, rosy and beautiful as a
mother could wish. He is two years
old now and eats Grape-Nuts food him-
self. 1 wish every tired young mothet
knew of the gpod that Grape-Nuts
would do her.”
Names given by Postum Co,
Creek, Mich.
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