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and promising looking slab of straw-
berry shortcake on the plate before
him.
“lI never see a piece of that,” he
said, aiming with his immense fore-
finger at the hunk of strawberry short-
cake as if he meditated shooting it up
some. ‘‘that 1 don't think of Chuck
O’Mallon. A strawberry contraption
of that same general kind, oniy better
—a heap betier—was sure one of the
factors that helped to get Chuck hap-
pily hobbled.
“Chuck was foreman of the old Tri-
angle-T, and before it happened the
rest of us used, to fritter away a lot of
the boss’ good time in trying to shame
or kid Chuck into annexing unto him-
self a long-haired side partner to take
charge of the neatest foreman's wick-
ieup that I ever saw on a ranch. Ail
of us in the bunk house regarded it ¢
man’s shack should go to waste, with
nobody but Chuck to hold it down :
no woman to train the honeysuckle ax
the wistaria over the front and rear
trellises and show herself once in a
while sweeping down tlie back steps
with a nice, clean towel wrapped
around ber hair, and all that.
“The foreman's house had been built
for Chuck's predecessor, a man with a
wife and a herd of young uns. Whea
whole foreman's wickieup to himse:
rassling 1 own hash and doing his
own housecleaning after the round-ups
**I bain’t much of a bridle-wise. cor
al-bred cayuse,’
us once when we got after him on the
matrimony game, ‘and 1 sure need 2
thull lot 0’ stanmpin’ ground—the length
7 the range hain’t none :
and breadth of th ge 30] ite cabin ony. ‘Tos
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too spacious for me wien 1 want t
% yuck and hang my heels up inj. i
Toll and Luck a : : | into the corral and then oncoilin’ a
spool o’ barbed wire around that corral
the air. Aud I hain't mentionin’ noth-
in’ about the het-up peri
the huncia t° hep the reservation—when
1 fee! like I jes’ nachully got t’ puil
down a few honkatonks in the adjo
settlements after gittin’ lit up with the
purlin’ loco juice. Which hain’t reck-
onin’ up. neither, what a pizen 'Pache
I am when the grub hain't skated t’
the centre prompt on the minnit when
the chimes is pealin’ the hour—and 1
hain’t never yit seen the female indi-
wvidjool that was prompt in the matter
©’ fodderin’ her two-legged stock, wim-
men havin’ no idee whatever 0’ the
meanin” o time or the value o’ the
same. Ther is on'y scme 0’ the rea-
sons why your'n truly hain’t a-jogglin’
along t’ pole.
“In private, though, Chuck told me—
I was assistant foreman — that he
wouldn't mind snagging a wife, ‘ef I
on’y knowed how t’ zit th’ same,” he
was accustomed to add.
“That's the way it was set with
Chuck on the day the boss nottfied him
to prepare to take a trainload of steers
to Kansas City. as Chuck had never
convoyed any cattle farther east than
Omaha, and I had been to Kansas
City, the bass told me that I'd better
hike along, too, to see hat Chuck didn't
step in‘o any ground owl holes or get
ditched or sidetracked in the more or
less Dorperiieyaiy Liustle burg cn the
Wyandotte.
“The night refore Chuck and 1 were
scheduled to slope toward the railroad
the boss set for Chuck. After the talk
with the boss Chuck nudged me into a
corner of thc bunk house.
“‘What-all kind of a stunt {'ye
reckon the old man’s got framed up
f’r your'n affectionately now? Chuck
asked me, nervously mopping his brow
swith his bandana.
“ ‘Wants you to keep sober till after
you've delivered the steers, eh? I sug-
gested.
“ “Worse'n that—a good sight worse,”
replied Chuck, gioomily. ‘The boss has
given me the job o’ ropin’ a pot-wal-
lower in Kansas City for his wife.
The Dutch kitchen mechanic they got
now is slopin’ back East nex’ week,
and the old man hereby delegates me
t rope, tie and brand a housemaid and
general hash-mixer down yonder in
Kansas City, and fetch her back on
our return. What d'ye s’pose—what
does the old man s’pose—I know ’'hout
lassoin’ a all-round ranch maiden,
when I hain’t had the nerve or the git-
up t’ lariat a presidin’ skirt for my
own jayout yit? And the boss’ wife
has give me a list as long as a Moqgui’s
ride fer water o’ the things this yere
hash-slinger’s got t° be able t’ git by
with—cook and wash and iron and dust
and sweep and do plain gsewin’ and put
up preserves—say, podner, how am 1
goin’ t’ git the loop around a female
able t’ do all 0’ them things?
“I told Chuck that I had many pass-
ing troubles of my own when I saw
that he was trying to cook up a job to
shift the responsibility for ‘ropin’ a
pot-wallower’ onto my shoulders.
“Well, Chuck looked a lot worried
over that end of his mission all the
way to Kansas City. I didn’t have any
consolation to offer him. Didn't know
much about any kind of women myself
at that time. Since then I've met up
with several thousand of ‘em — and
now I know less.
“Chuck was a conscientious fore-
man and a rattling good one, and after
we'd seen the trainioad of steers un-
loaded he threw a jar into me by sol-
emnly announcing that the drunk was
to be postponed until after he'd a
least made some kind of a bluff to ac-
complish the task given him by the
boss and the boss’ wife.
“‘1. know it’s a Luil heap
you all, ombrey,” (man). Chuck
me, sympathetically—and the
teeth were leaking a goo
ghap mine were—
o¢Jeidellpsseletieiiet
HE huge Arizona man—here to ob-
serve the drift of statehood cur-
rent events in the Congress—
gazed reflectively at the large
ds when I git!
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ness—and a big way o’ bizness. at that,
if you're askin’ me. Now, what's the
openin’ break and the preliminar
move, as it were, toward achievin’ t
yere quest f'r a skirted spud-peeler?
Do I take a stand on o’ them big streets
and at the point of a dirk hold up every
ribbon wearer that sashays by and ast
her questions ‘bout her °bility t° cook
and wash and iron and sew and do up |
the boss’ wife’s hair, or do I-—
“Well, I could see that Chuck was
some liable to make a rockpile finish
there in Kansas City if I didn’t get in
to the extent of handing him a tip or
so as to the prevailing methods in civ-
ilization of engaging serving women,
and so I steered him to an employment
agency and myself uanreeled to the fat
woman in charge of that plant the
qualifications desirable in a ranch-
house servant. The fat woman asked
me a lot of shrewd questions about the
ranch and the ranch people, and 1
couldn’t do any more than teil her that
s | old Triangle-T was the finest outfit,
a sin and a shame that that tidy fore- |
with the whitest boss snd the nicest
i boss’ wife in Arizona—ali of which
was on the level.
“That was a lucky fat woman for
Chuck. She had the goods all ready in
stock, it seemed, which was why she
| was asking me so many questions. She
had on ber list a widow—oh, a woman
about thirty-odd, she said—whose man
had been killed in a eoal mine accident
about six months before. The widow's
| name was Kate MecGlone, and she
Chuck was made foreman he had the |
lived across the river in the other Kan-
sas City—the one in Kansas. The fat
woman thought Kate McGlone would
not mind going West. because she had
| a brother working in a mine some-
Chuck rounded upon |
where in New Mexico.
“ “This,” delightedly remarked Chuck
when he got outside with Kate Me:
Glone’s address on a slip of paper, ‘is
as easy as stam-
pedin’ a bunch o' locoed cattle plumb
to keep em there—it sure is.’
and spin over to Kansas City, Kan., to
give Chuck a chance to make a lariat
throw for this Kate McGlone and get
that errand off his mind.
“Kate McGlone's address was a rick-
ety, tumble-down shanty in a long row
of them, occupied by coal miners and
their families, but, poor and common
as it was on the outside, it was ueat,
though uncommonly bare, inside—the
furniture had been going out piecemeal
for the necessaries of life since Kate's
man’s death, we found out afterward.
“But the neatest thing in or within
forty miles of that shanty was Kate
McGlone herself. For Kate was a
staving beauty from the far south of
Ireland—a smashing, handséme woman
of buxom sinuosities that were dis-
cernable even arrayed as she was in
her poor calico dress.
“Chuck took one look at Kate Mec-
Glone when she came to the door in re-
sponse to our knock. Then he acted
like he was going to sit down on the
rickety steps and take a rest for him-
self. There was no manner of Coubt
whatever that Chuck was all in. all
right, so powerful was the immediate
impression created upon him by the
looks of Kate MecGlone. Chuck could
not much more than wobble in when
she invited us into her poor little old
stripped outfit, ‘and when he thought
Kate wasn't looking Chuck gave me a
kick on the leg that I can almost feel
yet.
“For her part Kate cast quite ‘a num-
ber of sidelong glances at Chuck when
he seemed to be not paying any atten-
tion. Chuck was something good to
look at, an arrow-straight ombrey, two
inches above the six foot mark, broad
as a door at the shoulders, and with as
good a head and countenance as you'd
ever see on a cow-thumper if you
looked from the Columbia to the Rio
Grande. I'd seen many a smart wom-
an in Kansas City wheel in her tracks
to take another view of Chuck after
he’d gone by. although Chuck himself
didn’t know that there was much dif-
fereiice between lis looks and a jack-
rabbit's, not being any whatever stuck
on himself, so to speak.
“Yes, Kate would take the ranch job,
she said after Chuck had nudged me
to the cenire and made me tell her all
about it. There was nothing to keep
her in Kansas City, now that—well, she
didn’t say what, but we unaerstood all
right, and coughed a-plenty so’s to get
her off that. She'd like to get within
reasonable distance of her brother in
New Mexico, and she had no children
to hobble her movements. We had
come at an opportune ime.
“Chuck didn’t say thirty words while
Kate McGlone was telling me that she
could do «ll the things a ranch-serving
woman woula be called upon to do, but
when she got to that Chuck crossed
and recrossed his legs four or five
times and twirled his sombrero around
on his thumb and cleared his throat
several times, and then he asked her,
in a hoarse, embarrassed kind of way:
“ ‘Some few on the cook, I reckon,
Mrs. McGlone?
“Kate smiled confidently at that, and
replied that she regretted that she had
no means of proving it to him by lay-
ing a meal before him, her larder not
being exactly overflowing.
“‘A sure-enough hungry camp, this
yere K. GC.’ sald Chuck then. ‘Ain’
never been so hungry nowheres as I
am yere. Could get away with a coy-
ote, pelt and all, yere and now. Was
to suggest, Mrs. McGlone, that
Li You wouldn't mind, s’posin’ I'd
around and rummage ’r a armful
the eats on the hoof—imaybe you
uldn’'t mind pansizzlin’® the same
me and my podner yere, so0’s we
| nery grub plants that's all
{ nothin’
wouldn't have t{' hike t’ none these on-
lugs and
t eat on’
“Kate McGlone's smile of acquies-
cence when Chuck got off that delicate
suggestion was worth seeing. Ot
| course she would be glad to cook any-
thing for us. She hated to be so situ-
ated as to have folks bring in their
own stuff to be cooked. but—
“Well, Chuck was already out of the
door and sailing for the nearest market
house at a pony lope. That left me be-
hind with Kate McGlone, and I put in
the time plugging for Chuck. Kate sat
with her hands in her lap and looked
a-plenty interested while I talked of
Chuck's good points.
“In about twenty minutes Chuck
staggered in under a load of eatables
big enough for a juniper-country hired
man's mess—about seven pounds of
rich. thick-cut lamb chops, sack of new
spuds, four cans of the most expensive
I'rench peas he could nail, four boxes
of strawberries, box of new tomatoes
and a raft of other truck. as much of
it as he could carry, and Chuck was a
powerful strong carrier, at that. kate
conducted Chuck to the kitchen, where
he sat down the basket for her to go
through and do what she liked with,
and then Chuck and I sat out on the
little front porch and smoked our corn-
cobs and inhaled the fetching aromas
that presently began to float from the
kitchen Chuck was pretty taciturn
during that smoke. He seemed to have
a lot on his mind. The only remark
he made was when a particularly ap-
pealing whiff of those broiling lamb
chops slipped through on to the front
porch and passed our nostrils, and then
Chuck knocked the ashes out of his
pipe and pulled his hat over his eves
and, looking at me solemnly, observed:
“ ‘Jes’ because their names happen
t" be McGlone and such like, they don’t
all have t’ be kitchen mechanics, pod-
ner. I've knowed a heap o range
bosses t’ be disapp’inted some in little
matters sence I been punchin’ cattle,
and no mistake,” with which myster-
. ious utterance Chuck again relapse
into silence until Mrs. McGlone ap-
peared at the front door and summoned
us to the feed.
“I'm not going to {ry to describe that
: feed or bow good it tasted. But, just
to give a line on how good Kate Mc-
Glone was in fixing up little impromptu
De D | things of that kind, I'll remark that
‘So Chuck and I charier a caloosh
those southdown lamb chops were pan-
broiled by Kate, and she served ‘em
each on a little triangular piece of toast
to sop up the good juices of the meat,
with a little sprig of parsley from her
back yard patch garnishing each chon.
And that strawberry shoricake was
one of those things that you could just
take a bite out of and then throw your
Lead back and listen to the music.
And the rest of it was to match. We
just ate and ate for haif an hour o- so
without a recess, and then Chuck
pushed his chair back a little to give
himself some breathing space.
“ “Which I'm bound to remark,’ said
Chuck, then, looking square at Mrs.
McGlone, ‘that they’s other jobs, ‘sides
that o’ which me and my podner spoke,
out yonder on the old Triangle-T,\ a-
waitin’ f'r a lady what knows so much
about heavin’ th’ eats t' the centre as
You 2ll do, Mrs. McGlone. Better jobs,
too, in a way. One of ‘em in partic’-
lar is a hull heap better, the on'y draw-
back t' the same bein’ that it involves
livin’ alongside o’ the meanest, sata-
mountest, onneryast, no-'‘countest om-
breys this side o’ Yuma or that other
warm place—the same ondesarvin’ in-
dividjool bein’ a ombrey by the name
0’ Al (long f'r Chuck) O’'Mallon. which
is here present t’ take whatever pun-
ishment is a-comin’ t’ him.’
“Kate McGlone blushed very red at
that. As for me, I always knew when
to duck. I bolted what remained of
my last hunk of strawberry shortcake
and then I grabbed my hat and told
Chuck that I'd meet him at our hotei
later along in the evening. I passed a
hasty thank-you to Mrs. McGlone for
the feed, and then I made my get-
away.
“‘You all want to keep sure sober,
podner,” Chuck called after me as I
hiked out, ‘becavse if I'm as lucky as
I'm beginnin’ t' feel I'll be needin’ a
pal as a witness t’ some doings’ in these
yere parts d’'rectly. 1 sure hope so.’
“I stood up with Chuck when they
faced the priest a while before noon
the next day, Kate in a powerful be-
coming suit of ready-made togs that
‘huck staked her to, and looking as
fresh and wholesome as a dew-streaked
morning glory around the hour of
dawn. After the ceremony I ducked
again and executed a mysterious dis-
appearance for four days, and when I
showed up again Mr. and Mrs. A}
O’Mallon were all ready and packed
for the start for the old Triangle-T.
“One of the boys had the two-seated
buckboard waiting for us at the sta-
tion, and the four of us made the thir
ty miles to the ranch comfortable
enough. The boss and his wife were
on the porch when we drove up.
‘And this,” said the boss’ wife, as
good a woman as ever willingly passed
up a month’s sleep to nurse a poor sick
man in a bunk house, ‘and this,” pre-
paring to greet Kate, ‘is—'
“‘Mrs. O'’Mallon, ma'am, said
Chuck, stepping forward and looking
sheepish, but pushing his handsome
wife forward, and making a mighty
sweeping sombrero flourish and bow
himself. And then the boss’ wife steps
up and kisses Kate like the fine, sweet»
souled woman that she was, plumb.
“The next day I was sent a-rustling
to Tucson to snag out a Chinaman te
ptake the place of the boss’ wife's
Dutch hired girl, vho’'d
jumped the ranch.
“That's how Chuck O’Mallon started
out to ‘rope a pot-walloper’ and ended
by getting a wife, and they're on their
own Arizona ranch to-day, with ag
nifty a bunch of handsome, Irj h-eyed
already
young ‘uns around ‘em as you'd mee !t
up with on a four-day cayuse rambie.” |
—C. L. , in Washington Star.
There are now 303 schools in Cs:
ada for Indians, who number 107,637,
nw
i Senator for Ohio is
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-whoo
Ww tiers the slender chur
in the twiligl}
Che roofs of the
And I'm rom
rades to-nig
ch steeple looms
from view,
th my com-
Fuku enrnes a cheery voice down the old
“Hal w LEY ‘Hr lia ” echoes the glad re-
fr,
Then a oY vaade swoops to the jolly re-
treat,
And the village green’s peopled with fel-
lows again.
It’s “Beard the red lion,”
pull aw ay,
“High spy.” “The
ag, vou are it.
It's frolic and rollic and ma
Ww hile the owl from the hill
“To-whit.”
“Tomp-pomp
stealer” and
side re-echoes
A cloud scurries swift o'er the face of the
moon;
The forms disappear and the voices are
still.
Ah! then from my dreams I awaken too
s00n—
The city sleet’s weeping its tears on my
sil
Si.
—THorace Seymour Keller. The Sun.
“It sounds very strange to hear you
talking that way,” said Chumley.
“When we were at college you didn't
believe in a place of eternal punish-
ment at all.” “I know,” replied Bitter,
“but I didn’t have any enemies then.”
—Philadelphia Press.
“It seems,” said Citiman, *‘that Sub-
bubs spends most of Lis tinie nowadays
arranging Cook's excursions.” *“Non-
sense! he's in the insurance business
still.” “I know, but it Keeps him busy
taking new cooks out to his place to
spend a few days.”—Dhiladelphia
Press.
We got a new servant-girl. Myra,
We had lots of trouble to hyra;
She broke all our china,
I .wanted to fina.
But couldn’t—so we h ad to fyra!
flown Topies.
Reggy Frappe — “Yes . I met the
chawming Miss Flasher when she was
on her tour and she asked me for my
picture, weally.” Miss Tabasco—*Yes,
I heard her say she was collecting pic-
tures of all the curious objects she ran
ncross in this country.”’—Chicago Daily
News. :
“You objected to Jack because he
had to work for a living, didn't you,
mamma?’ “Yes. my dear. He doesn’t
belong to our class.” “Well, it's all
right now. May Le call to-night?’
“Has some one left him a fortune?’
“No, but he's lost his job.”—Cleveland
Leader.
“I like people who always tell me the
plain truth,” said the idealist. “I'm
not sure that I do,” rejoined Miss Cay-
enne. “I'm a little disappointed if
people don’t indulge in the conventional
falsehoods sufficiently to show that
they care for my good opinion.”’—
Washington Star.
Old Lady—“What's the matter, little
boy ?’ Street Urchin (whimpering)—
“’Fraid.” Old i.ady—“Afraid? Well,
I do declare! I didn’t know you street
gamins were ever afraid of anything,
seen or unseen, in this world or the
next.” Street Urchin—“Y-e-s, we're
’fraid of—ot each other.”—New York
Weekly.
“T love the ground you walk on,”
Said he. He did, I wot,
Because the two were walking
On papa’s corner lot.
—Joe S. Miller, in Indianapolis Star.
“In thig instance,” explained the pro-
fessor of surgery, to the group of medi-
cal students, “the left leg of the patient
is somewhat shorter than the right
limb, thus causing the patient to limp.
Now, Mr. Fresh, what would you do in
a case like this?’ “Well,” responded
the alert Mr. Fresh, “I guess I'd limp,
too.”’—Brooklyn Life.
“Excuse me,’ said the old lady with
eyeglasses in the art gallery, “but
haven't you got any more figgers in
marble?’ “These are all, madam,” re.
plied the polite attendant. “Is there
any particular one you are looking
for?’ “Yes. I wanted to see the statue
of limitations my husband was telling
about.”—Milwaukee Sentinel.
Bill Nye’s Ad.
3ill Nye, the humorist, once had a
cow to sell, and advertised her as faqi- |
lows: “Owing to my ill health, I will
sell at my residence, in township 19,
range 18,
survey, one plush raspberry cow, aged
eight years. She is of undoubted cour-
ace and gives milk frequently. To a
man who does not fear death in any
form she would be a great boon.
“She is very much attached to her
present home with a stay chain, but
she will be sold to any one who will
treat her right. She is one-fourth
shorthorn and three-fourths hyena. 1
will also throw in a double barrel
shotgun, which goes with her. In May
she usually goes away for a week or
two and returns with a tall, red calf
with wobbly legs. Her name is Rose.
I would rather sell her to a non-resi-
dent.”
Will Explore Kamschatka.,
The proposed exploration of Kams-
chatka is reported by Consul wriefeld,
who writes from Freiberg that F. 2.
Riabuschinski, of Moscew, has offered
$97{330 to the Russian Geogranhieal
Society toward the expenses. It is pro-
posed to organize a party of specialists
who will go to Kamschatka in the
spring of 1907 and spond two years.
When strong west
end, where the outlet is, the flow over
the Niagara cataract is sometimes ine
creased forty per cent. above the nor-
nal volume.
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of as Joey Bagstock Foraker.
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The greatest monument of the
mound builders, not only in Ohio,
but in the entire country, is the Ser-
pent Mound, in Adams County. This
immense mass of earth, probably
piled up for purposes of worship, has
had a curious history in respect to
changes of ownership in recent times.
As an illustration of the widening
of the realm of electrical science ap-
rlied to the practical needs of civili-
zation, it is noted that the giant tur-
bine steamship Mauritania. which
the Cunard compnay is building, wiil
have two electrical passenger eleva-
tors, two for baggage and six smaller
electric elevators for mails and other
light work.
It appears that a small mixture of
aluminum in alloys will cause metals
to show unsatisfactory results
unde heavy pressure. It is said
that a few hundreths of one per
cent.’ of aluminum in metals used
for valves will cause leaks.
The reason why birds do not fall
off their perches, says Health, is be-
cause they cannot open their feet
when their legs are bent. When a
hen walks its toes close as it raises
its foot and open as it touches the
ground
Dr. W. J. Goodhue, the medical
superintendent of the leper settle-
ment at Molokai, “declares that he
has discovered the germ of leprosy
in the mosquito and vermin. He was
born in Quebec in 1869 and is a
rersonal friend of Sir Wilifred Lau-
rier.
By a secret method a London firm
is able to make hollow lead soldiers.
This greatly reduces the cost of pro-
duction, and the trade in these toys,
which once belonged almost exclu-
sively to Germany, is now rapidly
increasing in England. The weight
of the hollow soldiers is one-third
of the solid.
Tortoiseshell is not the bony cov-.
ering or shield of the turtle. but only
the scales which cover it. These are
thirteen in number, eight of them
flat and five a little curved. A large
turtle affords about eight pounds of
them, the plates varying from an
inch io a quarter of an inch in thick-
ness.
In recent Russian trials to test
the adaptability of snow breast-works
against an enemy’s fire, it was found
that a thickness of six feet was a
rerfect protection against bullets
fired at three hundred paces. Pack-
ing the snow and pouring water over
it to make a crust of ice was found
to keep the bullets out when the
thickness was only three and a half
feet.
CEMS COLORED BY RADIUM.
Diamonds Made Yellow by the Rays
—Opaque Stones Show Litile Change.
Glass is colored brown or violet by
radium rays. A. Miethe studied the
action of these rays on a large number
of gems and found that many of them
are influenced by the rays. No general
principles can be indicated except that
the more transparent gems show a
greater tendency toward coloration
than the opaque or highly colored ones.
Mr. Miethe used a preparation of
sixty mgm. of radium bromide. A col-
oriess diamond from Borneo was col-
ored a light yellow after eight days and
a decided lemon yellow after another
eight days. On heating the diamond
to 250 degrees the yellow color was di-
minished, but it could not be entirely
got rid of, even at a red heat. A color:
less Brazil diamond showed no cclora-
tion.
A peculiar behavior was shown by a
blue sapphire from Ceylon. After only
two hours’ exposure to radium brom-
ide it showed coloration—green at first,
then light yellow, and after a few more
hours reddish yellow. After a forinight
it was dark yellow approaching chest
nut. The color could be got rid of by
heating, but the light yellow color al
ways returned on cooling.
Rubies show no change. and tinted
tourmalines very little. 3razil tour
ghtly colored green and pink
respectively at one end acauired the
same color at the colorless ends on ex-
posure to radium. This coloration took
a day or two to appear.—Jewelers’ Cir-
cular-Weekly.
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Kipling as a Hocdoo Man.
Kipling is in reality a caster of
spells—a man with an “evil eye.”
His pose as a poet and a novelist is
a mere disguise, says Tit-Bits. So, at
least. believe the fishermen of Massa-
chusetts; and this is why:
He wrote a book entitled “Cap-
tains Courageous.” In it he vividly
described the lonely lives of the fish-
ers off Newfoundland, ‘and ne named
ty enty boats which were actually en-
gaged in the fishing industry. Since
as publication of that book every
one of those hoats has foundered,
and the superstitious survivors of the
crews are quite convinced that Kip-
ling is what they call ‘“‘a hoodoo’’—
which is the male equivalent of a
witch.
They are helped to this belief by
the fact that a curious flash seems to
come from the pupils of the great
g glint which often
r, when caught in
certain lights, as "pe i quite un-
anny.
may be, however, that Kip-
3 weak eyes.compel him to wear
divided lenses in his spectacles, and
would unnerve nitny a man '
less imaginative than a fisherman,
Keeping.
of Mr. Douglas, the president. The
last recom in this series is the sample
tween the bookkeepe
credit department is a hall leading to
the general bookkeeping room, where
is located the host of clerks which
this huge business employs.
The explanation of this]
South Australia tr:
carry a
abounds with the nests of the mag-
netic
axes of these point
south.
» glitter of light on the sections of |
: COMPLETEST BUSINESG BUILDING
Features of W. L. Douglas’ Adminise
tration and Jobbing House.
The dedication of the new adminis-
tration and jobbing house building
erected at Brockton, Mass., by the W.
L. Douglas Shoe Co. as a part of its
mammoth manufacturing plant at Mon-
tello was marked by the thoroughness
and attention to detail characteristic
of the firm in all its undertakings.
As the new building is said to be the
most complete and convenient of any
ever built for a commercial house in
the United States, so were the expres-
sions of appreciation by the many per-
sons who visited it for inspection sin-
cere and of a highly congratulatory
nature.
The dedicatory program included
open house from 11 a. m. to 8 p. m.
with concert by the Mace Gay orches-
tra and the presence of a Boston
caterer to attend to the wishes of ail.
The building itself afforded a feast for
the eye, especially the offices, which
are marvels in many ways. Fifteen
thousand invitations were sent out. in-
cluding over 11,000 to the retail dealers
in the United States, who hardle the
W. L. Douglas Co. shoes, the others
going to shoe manufacturers and all
allied industries in Brockton and vi-
cinity. Mr. Douglas will be glad to
have anybody who is interested call
The new building is situated just
north of the No. 1 factory on Spark
street, facing the Monteilo railroad
station. Its completion marks the es-
tablishment of a modern up-to-date
wholesale jobbing house and office
building. Mr. Douglas has long con-
sidered the advisabilty of a jobbing
house, not only for the purpose of sup-
plying his own retail stores more read-
ily, but that the 11,000 dealers through-~
out the United States handling the W.
L. Dougias shoe might be able to ob-
tain shoes for immediate use with
greater facility.
Under the present system all shoes
are manufactured to order, and cus-
tomers sometimes lose sales waiting
for shoes to arrive. With the new job-
bing house they will be enabled to
have their hurry orders shipped the
same day they are received, which will
be far more satisfactory to the cus-
tomer and will result in a largely-in-
creased business to the W. L. Douglas
Shoe Co.
The new building is 260 feet long
and 60 feet wide and two stories in
Leight. The jobbing department will
occupy the entire lower floor, while
the oilices will occupy the second floor.
Leaving the new jobbing house on
the first floor, the main staircase as-
cends to the second floor level in two
divisions separating on the first land-
ing and meeting again upon the fourth,
where the large Palladian window is
situated, which appears over the ene
trance.
At the head of the staircase in
the mosaic floor appears the word
“Atrium,” the name of the inner hall,
planned and decorated after the man-
ner of the central apartment of the
Pompeiian house. This room is direct-
ly in the center of the main building,
being 26x68 and 16 feet in height, and
is lighted by three large ceiling sky-
lights of classic design.
Around the atrium are placed the
private offices, where the heads of the
departments are located, with their
assistants. Beginning at the right of
the main entrance, in order, are those
of the C. F. Richmond, buyer; HI. 1
Drake, general superintendent; Hon.
W. L. Douglas, president; and H. IL.
Tinkham, treasurer. They are finished
and furnished in mahogany and are
ensuite. Mr. Douglas’ own room oc¢-
cupies the southwest corner of the
building, and is a very handsome
apartment. To the left of these comes
the room of C. D. Nevins, assistant
treasurer, Mrs. Marion Shields, cor-
respondence clerk, and the store de-
partment.
On the east of the atrium and open-
ing into this hall are two alcoves sep-
arated by mahogany counters, the
fronts of which are plate glass and
grilles of bronze. These are the offices
of Warren Weeks, paymaster, and
Harry L. Thompson, the bookkeeper.
The next in order to the left are two
rooms devoted to the credit depart-
nent, one the private office of A. T.
Sweetser and the other occupied by his
clerks. The next two offices are those
of I. L. Erskine, advertising mans ger,
and his assistants.
The three other rooms completing
the outer wall line of the atri ium are
the reception room to the left of the
staircase hall, directors’ room and
lavatory and the sample room. Here
are located the telegraph ins struments,
telephone switchboard and booths for
use of guests.
The directors’ room is a fine cham-
ber occupying the space in the north-
west corner of the building. This
room is finished and furnished in ma-
hogany and all appointments are in
Here hangs a portrait in oil
room, also in mahogany.
On center with the entrance and be-
r's alcove and the
Romans Used Concrete.
In these days of increasing use of
concrete for building purposes it is
interesting to recall the fact that the
Pantheon, in Rome, about 2,000 years
old, is covered by a dome over 142
feet in diameter, which is cast in
concrete in one solid mass.
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