Freeland tribune., August 13, 1891, Image 3

A Queer Spantat Cuntoin.
The present of the Spanish school
ship Nautilus in the North River re
calls a curious custom in vogue on war
vessels of that nationality. It origi
nated in superstition and has long been
the subject of many jeers from English
speaking mariners.
Years ago, so the legend runs, a
Spanish man-of-war was lost under
peeuliar circumstances. The ship was
careening before a Levant breeze, when
suddenly the heavens grew dark with
an approaching squall.
It became necessary to shorten sail
quickly and the seamen were hurried to
their stations. The vessel heeled under
her bellying canvas and the sailors
tugged at the clew-lines, but not a sheet
would start.
As a last resort the halyards were
\ cut, and under ordinary circumstances
the yards would have fallen upon the
caps and spilled the wind out of the
sails. But they remained mast-headed,
and in a few moments the vessel cap
sized.
It was afterwards discovered that the
sheaves, through which the ropes for
shortening sails were rove, had been so
tightly plugged up with sticks and
other small obstructions that it was im
possible for the ropes to slide through.
It was urged that no human agency
could have done it, and tho deed was
laid at the door of the evil one.
Shortly after the fateful occurrence a
general order was promulgated direct
ing that tho crew of every Spanish war
vessel be sent aloft to chase His Majesty
out of the sheave every evening at sun
down.
From that day to the present it has
been the custom for the crew to go
aloft for this purpose when the colors
are lowered at sunset. They scramble
up the rigging as the flag comes down,
run out upon the yard-arms and closely
examine every hole and crevice.
Theif patient search for the elusive
old gentleman has hitherto been as
fruitless and tireless as that instituted
by single ladies under beds for lost
burglars.
What would happen if they should
ever find what they search for can only
be imagined.— New York Times,
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trees; not in the voung, the vigorous,
and the thrifty. Some persons can al-.
most defy the deadliest disease. Others
fall before the slightest attacks. Many
diseases come from germs, which plant ,
themselves within tho body, rnd then
multiply and destroy. If we have the
vigor that can resist the first of these
little germs, we escape. But if the
system is debilitated; if bad food and
' bad air have impaired vitality; if stimu
lants, strong drink, sensual and vicious
indulgences, excessive strains, idleness
or inactivity, have sapped the vigor o£
the system, then disease lays hold upon
the enfeebled frame and works its over
throw. Many a poor fellow whose life
is wasting and wearing away with some
incurable malady, is only paying the
penalty for the excesses of those young
days, when nothing he could eat, drink,
or do, ever injured him! He had the
treasure of health, —he squandered
it, and now comes the time of settle
ment, and he finds that "the wages
of sin is death."— Medical Brief.
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THE COLORADO DESERT
THE WEIRD WASTE WHERE A
SEA HAS FORMED.
Walking on What was Once a Part
of the Ocean's Bed—A Mosaic
Floor of Gems.
The Colorado desert, a great part of
which has been transformed into an in
land sea, may soon be explored by the
government. Of late the Department of
Agriculture has been devoting much of
its attention to investigating the waste I
regions of the United States with a view
to finding out what things, animal and J
vegetable, live in them. Two years ago i
the so-called Painted Desert of Arizona
was the object of inquiry, and, in ad- j
dition to zoological and botanical speci- i
mens for enriching collections, vivid pic-1
tures were brought back of that red '
expanse of barrenness, with its scattered ,
cliffs of rainbow hues, topped by heaps '
of fossil wood, and its sand storms, I
threatening the luckless traveller with :
their towering columns of whirling sand j
dancing over the plain.
Not less weird are the descriptions
sent by the present expedition to Death |
Valley respecting scenes and experiences |
in that strange alkali sink. But even
Death Valley is nothing as to heat aud
picturesqueness when compared with the i
Colorado Desert, which was the original j
•lornadodel Muerto, or Valley of Death
of the Mexicans. That region is 200 ;
miles south of the so-called Death Val- '
ley in almost a straight line, being that i
much nearer the equator, and is a con-)
siderably deeper hole. It covers 9,000!
square miles, and more than a quarter of j
this area, a space 100 miles long by an
average width of twenty-five miles, is j
below the level of the ocean. In some
parts its bottom is 200 feet below tide
water. Reliable authorities assert that 1
it is the most intensely hot spot on the
face of the earth; the Sahara is no
where compared with it. Expedition
after expedition has been lost in attempts
to cross it. Prof. Gilbert Thompson, of
the Geological Survey, tells of an oc
casion some years ago when a railway ;
train on which he was a passenger broke '
down in the Colorado Desert. By good !
luck the nearest station was only three
quarters of a mile away, and a number
of people started out to walk the distance
over the ties. Before reaching their
destination twelve of them were struck
down by the heat, so that a rescuing
party had to be sent out for them. The
thermometer stood at 120 degrees in the
shade. Under such conditions people
cannot live long witeout copious draughts
of water. The water in the blood dries
rapidly, and all the secretions of the
body thicken.
It might be said that this Jornado del
Muerto is the ideal desert of the world.
In no other of the earth's most fearful
wastes can be found such natural con
ditions of ideal horror. Even the mirage,
tempter of the dying traveller's despair,
reaches a more extraordinary develop
ment there than anywhere else. One
can behold in the Colorado Desert, where
all is hopeless misery, beautiful lakes, 1
tempting verdure, and even towns with
houses and churcLe* within distances
apparently small.
The explorer who is bold enough to j
venture into this region for purposes of
investigation is struck, to begin with, I
with the weirdness of finding himself j
walking in what was once the bed of the i
ocean, hundreds of feet lower down than
Neptune's waves are flowing a few miles !
away. He knows that this branch of
the sea subsequently became an inlunti
lake, and it is with interest that he looks
upon the shores of what was erstwhile a
mighty body of water. A great shallow
lake it was ages ago, and the rocky
banks which enclosed it still remain—
cliffs of imperishable stone, with the
ancient water marks still on them.
When water was there the lime which it
contained was gradually deposited on
the rocky shores for thousands of years,
so that now the cliffs are coated with it
three feet thick in many parts, and one
is thus enabled to observe just how high
this strange inland reservoir threw its
waves in times gone by.
Its bed to day may well afford a study
to the seeker after marvels, as well as to
the geologist. It is a desert wonder
land. Imagine a plain of clay, monot
onously level, relieved here and there by
hills of sand built in beautiful wave
like outlines. These hills are not sta
tionary; they travel constantly, though
slowly, journeying over the plain as the
winds direct. The sand of which they
are composed is not like ordinary sand.
Most of the grains are transparent;
others are trauslucent, while many are of
rainbow hues, being in fact small gems
of red carnelian, green chrysolite, and
vari-coloted garnet. Beneath a micro
scope they are most interesting. A
majority of them are perfect spheres,
rounded and polished by attrition with
one another. When mixed with a cer
tain acid they effervesce like SSeidlitz
powders. Composed of these strangely
wrought materials the sand hills look
like great snow drifts, with here aud
there a gleam of color.
In some parts of the desert, here and
there, water boils up from springs,
which are surrounded by circular hil
locks of carbonate of lime from four to
eight feet in height, the material of
which has been deposited from the flow
ing fluid. The latter is so highly
chaigcd with gas that it is very difficult
to keep corks in bottles filled with it. It
seems queer to find in such a desolate
country real soda-water fountains sup
plied by nature. Syrups are not offered
to order, unfortunately. The lime de
posited on the rocky shores was con
tributed by such springs as these, bub
bling up from what was then the bottom
of the lake.
The atmosphere of the desert is so
clear, owing to the absence of moisture,
that small objects at a great distauce
seem close at hAnd. All sorts of illusions
deceive the eye. A man far away on the
plain assumes gigantic stature. Ranges
of hills take on wonderful effects of
color—rose, violet and yellow. The
phenomenon of the mirage is developed
on a gigantic scale. Mountains below
the horizon rise into view, and vast
lakes invite the traveler to turn aside for
refreshments.
The northern part of the desert is
paved with the most wonderful pebbles ■
in the world—in many places so exquis- '
itely laid that they defy successful imi- :
tation by the most skilled worker in mo
saic flooring. These pebbles are por
phyry, agates, cameliin, quartz, crys
tals, garnets, chrysolite, and other bcai
tiful materials. They are packed together
so that the surface composed of them is
like a floor, and they look as if pressed
into it with a roller. As a rule, they are
of nearly uniform size, and each one is
polished brilliantly, as if oiled and
rubbed. Most of them are perfect
spheres, aud the reflection from them of
the sun's rays is gorgeous beyond de
scription. Each convex surface gives
back a ray of light, and the ground fur
miles seems as if literally paved with
gems. Thus the surface is a combina
tion of myriads of reflectors.
Everybody knows, without looking
at the map, how Lower California runs'
south from the Pacific coast like a sort
of tail, separated from the United States
—for it is a part of Mexico, aa some
people are not aware —by a loug arm of
the sea called the Gulf of California.
Once tho gulf extended in a northerly
direction 300 miles beyond its present
inland limit. Ir.to that northern exten
sion the great Colorado River emptied
millions ot tons of detritus annually,
until the deposit accumulated in quantity
sufficient to shut off the upper part of
the gulf, which was thus transformed
into a lake. To begin with, of course,
it was a salt lake, but it gradually be
came fresh through the influx of water
from the Colorado. Thereupon fresh
water fishes, mollusks, and other crea
tures not of the brine were developed in
it, and in this way it happens that the
dry bottom of to-day is covered with
their fossil remains.
However, the Colorado, like other
rivers, has been steadily diminishing in
volume as centuries have gone by; so
that its supply of water was at length
cut off from the lake, only dry channels
remaining where once torreuts flowed.
One of these old channels is known as
the New River. Within the memory of
tradition of man there has been no flow
worth mentioning through this New
River; but in 1853 a geologist, Prof.
William G. Blake, attached to a party of
United States engineers which first ex
plored this region, said in his report that
the desert would again become a lake
for a time, if there should be an unusual
rising of the Colorado. Now that is
exactly what lias occurred recently. A
large tributary of the Colorado, called
the Gila River, has been affected by such
a flood as has never been heard of there
before. Consequently the Colorado,
augmented in volume by this swollen
stream, has poured a part of its overflow
through the New River channel and the
ancient lake bed has become inundated.
Necessarily the water will soon dry up.—
[Boston Transcript.
A Voracious Fish.
In a water-trough in front of Sullivan's
Hotel on Chelten avenue, Germantown,
there is a black bass that has attracted
the attention of hundreds of people be
cause of his peculiarities and the degree
of intelligence exhibited on many occa
sions, says tho Philadelphia Times. The
fish is the only inmate of the trough and
has occupied it for two years, to the ex
; clusiou of 200 others which had been put
in it for propagation purposes, but the
bass killed them one by one until the en
tire number had fallen victims to his
voracity. He not only killed the fish
but ate them. He swallows flies by the
dozen, which the boys of the neighbor
hood gather for him, and the more they
give him the better he appreciates them.
He is fed almost daily on cheese, lobsters
and choice beef-steak, and after he re
ceives his morning complement of the
latter he rises to the surface and splashes
the water furiously with his tail. This
is presumed to be his method of return
ing thanks.
He also eats mice, and several times
during the past week John Leithead, of
engine 19, provided him with this
quality of bait, only to be swallowed
without any ceremony. He likewise eats
birds, and hardly a day passes that he
does not dispose of at least two sparrows
and two chippies. The fact that the
feathers are upon the bodies of the birds
makes little difference to him, and it is
only when the legs have not been re
moved that he refuses to touch them.
Otherwise he gulps them down with
great rapidity. Although he measures
eighteen inches in length and weighs
about live pounds he causes no trouble
to horses at the trough, and never has
beeh known to molest one ol them, ex
cepting Joe Ladley's gray mare, and
several times he has risen out of the
water and snapped at her while she was
drinking.
How an Oarsman Trains.
I When lam in training, says Edward
Banian, I get up at 0 or 0:30 o'clock,
: walk one mile, running perhaps two
| hundred yards at a stiff speed, sufficiently
|to get my wind. Then I return and take
a light shower-bath, after which my man
i rubs me down with flesh gloves, rubbing
|in all directions. Afterward he goes
over me with his bunds and then fans
me dry with a towel. I then rest for
twenty minutes before sitting down to
breakfast. I eat for this meal some fruit
and a small steuk and drink a glass of
milk and cream. After sitting around
1 for an hour I go for a two or three mile
walk. Then Igoto my boathouse and
iam rubbed down. After this I take a
spin over the course, rowing from twenty
six to thirty-two strokes a miuuto. This
is simply an exercise row.
| The rubbing process is gone over again ;
I when I return. For dinner I have roast
i beef or mutton, sometimes a fowl, with
i vegetables. I rest until 2:30 o'clock,
take a walk, and then go for another
! exercise row. Once or twice a week I
take a "speeder'' over the course. One
i thing amateurs should bear in mind—
never leave your race on the river; that
is, never row six races a week before the
1 day of the race comes. It stands to
| reason that no man can row as hard as
he is able each day and be in better con
! dition the day of tho race than when
he began training.—[Ladies' Home
: Journal.
▲ Gigantic Wooden Statue.
In the Japanese capital there is a
' gigantic image of a woman, made of
wood and plaster, and dedicated to
i Hachimun, the god of war. In height it
measures fifty-four feet; the head alone,
which is reached by a winding stairway
in the interior of the figure, being large
] euough to comfortably hold twenty per
sons. The figure holds a huge wooden
sword in one hand, the blade of the
| weapon beiug twenty-seven feet long,
and a ball twelve feet in diameter in the
; other. Internally the model is fitted up
i with extraordinary anatomical arrange
' ment which is supposed to represent the
different portions of the brain. A fine
j view of the country is obtained by look
ing through one of the eyes of the
; figure. The admission to all parts of the
structure is two cents.
! Japanese tradition says that during the
| time of tho Te-Shoraeug rebellion, in
| 1522, hundreds of cords of wood were
| piled around it and fired, but that the
sacred object itself failed to burn or to
j even be scorched by the flames,—[St.
j Louis Republic.
Chinese Love Pork.
The principal article of meat diet with
, the Chinese is pork. It is to them what
| beef is to the true son of Albion's isle,
j The Chinese butcher having only tho
! one species of animal on which to exer
j cisc his skill, has become by practice a
hog anatomist in the full sense of the
i word. A fat porker as soon as it is
j placed on the block in a retail Chinese
! butcher shop is scientifically rid of all
! its bones. The carcass is expertly cut
i into strips, so that every customer gets
an equal quantity of fat and lean with
his purchase. It is sold salted, smoked
or roasted ready for eating.
It is also smeared with nut oil and
disposed of in a semi-dried state. The
hungry Celestial is frequently to be seen
investing a five-cent piece in a large strip
of roasted pork, which he cats with every
evidence of satisfactory relish as he
strolls along.—[New York Press.
WENT ON WITH HIS DYING.
Pathetic Story of a Hod-Carrier In
jured Unto Death.
A hod-carrier had been badly crushed
by the fall of a scaffolding while he was
at work on a tall building in Wall street.
His fellows had picked him up as ten
derly as possible and had borne him
bleeding and dusty to a shady spot to
wait for the ambulance. It was a long
wait for the man in torture, for the day
was an intensely hot one, and people
were being prostrated by the heat all
over the city, and the ambulances had
been on the*run all day. An hour is not
a long time for an ambulance to set out
from a hospital, bring back a patient
and then reach another one, but to those
who watch a man slowly bleeding to
death for want of medical assistance, it
seems an age.
Big, rough men stood around the fal
len hod-carrier with tears in their eyes,
uttering low curses at the tardiness of
the ambulance. But the victim of the
contractor's gieed or carelessne-s was the
most patient of them all. As the min
utes passed along he uttered no word of
impatience, only he looked wistfully on
those about him. After about half an
hour of this suspense a doctor who was
passing was called over. lie kuelt down
by the man, felt his crushed-in side and
examined his fractured skull. Then fie
shook his head and asked softly:
"Has he any friends among you?"
"None of us knows him, sir,"said the
foreman. "He struck me for a job this
morning, aud as I was short-handed I
put him to work without asking him
any questions."
"Well, if any of you can get any in
formation from him about his people
you'd better do so at once. He'll soon
become unconscious and will die, with
out doubt, before night, no matter if
fifty ambulances came for him. Nothing
can save him. It's only a question of a
few hours."
A of brandy was procured and a
few drops put between the sufferer's
lips. They seemed to revive him, and
he opened hi 3 eves and looked around,
but to all questions as to his name, his
home, his parents, his wife, his children,
etc., he gave no answer. *
"Well, old man," said the foreman at
last, tenderly, "we can't do nothing at
all for you, the doctor say 9, though you
kuow wc would if we could. The day
is weariug on and our job mu9t be
finished. The ambulance will soon be
here, so you won't take it hard if we
leave you now, Mill you?"
The hod-carrier looked up at him slow
ly and spoke with a great effort.
"I've got to die, ch?"
"Doctor says so." .
"How soon?" fofc
"Before sundown, my boy."
"No help for it?" .
"No."
"Well," with a long sigh, "you goon
with your work and I'll go on with my
dyin'," and he turned his head—shut his
eyes—and—waited.—[New York Tri
bune.
Who Wero "Hook and CrookP"
There have been many attempts made
to explain the origin of the phrase, "By
Hook or Crook." The Boston Ncw9- :
Letter of January, 1770, explains the ex- I
pression thus: "Hook and Crook were !
the names of two English Judges at
the beginning of the last century.
They were both men of eminence in their
profession, but not more remarkable for
anything than the perpetual diversity of
opinion that prevailed between them on
matters of legal jurisprudence. Be tho
case what it would, every suitor was sure
to have either Hook or Crook on his
side."
Wilson's "Origin of Familiar Words
and Phrases" says that it probably
means "foully like a thief or holily like a
bishop," the hook being used by burg
lars, the crook being the Bishop's cro
zier. "The Hand-Book of Fact and
Fancy" gives the following story under
the heading of "By Hook or Crook:"
"The great fire at London in 1660 de
stroyed 13,200 houses, and in many cases
obliterated all the boundary marks re
quisite to determine the sites occupied
by buildings previous to the fire. When
the rubbish was removed, disputes arose
among tho people as to the position and
extent of their landed estates. These
contentions promised not only intermina
ble lawsuits, but also delayed the re
building of the city until they could be
settled. Accordingly two of tho most
experienced surveyors of the day, Mr.
Charles Hook and Mr. George Crook,
were called upon to act as arbitrators in
the matter, land-owners entering into a
compact to take the rlecision of Hook
and Crook as final and binding. From
this fact arose the famous phrase which
heads this article."
As a fourth and last solution of the
mystery, an old London legend tells us
that the numerous families of Hook and
Crook formerly did the ferry business for
the whole of the British metropolis. No
odds on what boat you crossed the
Thames you were sure to ride with Hook
or Crook.—[St. Louis Republic.
He Liked the Family.
Governor Jackson, of Missouri, was a
great favorite among the fair sex. His
first wife was a Miss Bappiugton. His
second wife was a Miss Bappington, sis
ter of his first wife. His third wife was
also a Miss Bappington, sister of the
first and second wile. When he came
the third time to ask old Colonel Bap
pington for his daughter the Colonel
said:
"Jackson, you have been here three
times now, and I haven't anything left
but the old woman. I suppose you will
come for her next, but I give you due
notice that she is iny own private prop
erty, and you can't have her."
Governor Jackson laughed immoder
ately at the Colonel's joke, but he never
had occasion to make a fourth call upon
the Bappington family.—[St. Louis
Republic.
Reminiscence of the War.
A large turtle, bearing upon its upper
shell the inscription "A. H. N., First
Illinois Cavalry, 1861," was captured the
other day in a pond at Linwood Lawn
farm, near Lexington, Mo., and the shell
preserved. Iu August, 1801, part of
Marshall's company of Union troops, be
longing to the First Illinois Cavalry,
\vas camped at Linwood Lawn, and the
inscription was no doubt made by one of
these troopers.
NOTES AND COMMENTS.
TIIF.UE are 46,000 oil wells in the
United States, representing a capital of
$120,000,000, with an output of 130,000
barrels per day. The refining capacity
of the country is 140,000 barrels per day,
while 15,000 barrels are consumed as
fuel. A surplus stock is held in tanks
of more than 35,000,000 barrels.
AT Brussels, the German government
supports nine hundred lace schools for
making the lace to which the city gives
name. Children begin to learn the art
when very young, sometimes not over
five years. Owing to some peculiarity
of the soil or climate, Brussels has so far
proved to be the only city in which the
precious lace can be made successfully.
Both cotton and linen threads are used
in the manufacture, the former being
spun by hand in dark, damp cellars with
only a single ray of light falling on the
hand of the spinner. The best of Bra
bant flax is used, and fine, soft cotton
furnishes the filling for flowers and
leaves.
A LONG time ago the distinguished
French astronomer, Flammanon, ex
pressed the belief that communication
would be established one day between
the earth and the planet Mars. The idea
seems to have appealed very strongly to
the fancy of an old lady at Pau,who died
the other day after bequeathing a legacy
af 100,000 francs as a reward to the first
scientist who may devise a scheme for
successfully accomplishing the feat. The
money is to be held in trust by the Frenc
Institute. It is not likely, however, that
messages will be sent to Mars just yet, as
the legacy is only to be payable for ten
years, a limit too brief for the most
sanguine experimenter.
AT a recent meeting of the General
Practitioners' Alliance in Exeter Hall,
London, a mass of testimony was pro
duced to show that a great many well-to
do persons, in no sense proper recipients
of charity, were getting free treatment
at the hospitals, to the injury of the real
poor and the loss of the medical profes
sion. In one case a man who had re
ceived free treatment for a long time
proved to be worth $250,000 when he
died, and auother fice out-patient at the
Middlesex hospital used to be driven to
the institution in her own carriage,
which she left "around the eornei" to
avert suspicion. It was alleged also that
certain hospital doctors had accepted
"tips" from prosperous patients, giving
them in return prompter and better at
tendance than was vouchsafed to more
indigent sufferers. Other serious abuses
were hinted at, and resolutions were
adopted asking for an investigation by
the Committee of the House of Lords on
Metropolitan Medical Chaiities.
PEOPLE in the South, particularly in
Louisiana, arc much disgusted with the
settler who seeks the and lands of the
West and then calls on the Federal Gov
ernment for money to make them pro
ductive by irrigation. Their contention
is that he would exhibit a better claim
to common sense if he would select lands
that did not need irrigation to produce
more abundantly than any territory in
i the West. The New Orleans New Delta
tells him that in the Opelousas, the At
takapas, and Calcasieu country lying
west of the Teche beyond the Atcliafa
laya bottoms, and extending from the
Gulf nearly to the Red River, he can fiud
a farming "district that is superior to any
in the United States. It can be bought
for less money than much Western laud,
and yields four staple crop 9 a year, an
agricultural feat that cannot be per
formed north of Mason and Dixon's line.
The lands are gently rolling, mainly
prairie, and easily drained. Instead of
clamoring for Federal assistance, the
Northern people that arc beginning to
settle on them arc converting them into
garden spots, and adding to a gratifying
degree to their bank accounts.
TIIE decorator at work on the AVhite
House will, he says, finish the vestibule
in "the stylo of the American Renais
sance." The coloring will be a mingliug
of soft browns and terra cotta. The
walls will be done in a kind of panelled
effect. Over the mantel, wlicro there
are portraits of Washington aud Lincoln,
there will be medallions of these dis
tinguished men modelled in bold and
striking relief. The framework arouDd
the heads and the shield and pair of
flags over each medallion will also be
in relief. The only decided tints will
be the bright red and blue of the flags.
The ceiling will be in soft shades, and
the graceful turns and curves will con
verge towards the chandelier in tho
centre. Small gold stars also will be a
feature of the ceiling. Tho style of the
Green Room will be rococo, and the tint
that gives the room its name will be ac
centuated by tho piuk of tho pcnch
blow aud touches of gilt. The walls,
which will be of a color known ns
absiuthe-green, will be divided into pauels
framed in bas-relief design. The state
dining room will be finished in colonial
designs to conform to its architecture.
The coloring will be a blending of fawn
and golden-brown shades. The coiling
will be bordered in a garden of la.irel
leaves, and at each corner tliero will be
a medallion to represent a horn of plenty
overflowing with fruits and flowers.
CALIFORNIA'S Coyote Bounty Law, which
was passed last winter for the benefit of
the sheep-owners, and which went into
operation on the 2flth of May, is operat
ing in a manner that is filling the tax
payers and the fruit-growers of the State
with dismay. It provides that for each
coyote killed five dollars shall be paid out
of the State Treasury to the person pre
senting the scalp to tho Clerk of the
Boaid of Supervisors of each county.
Although only eleven of fifty-four coun
ties in tho State have been heard from,
the claims for bounty aggregated on
July 11 $10,81)0. A banking firm in
Tulare County, which has not yet re
ported, has notified the State Comptroller
that it holds claims for SI,OOO. Were
all these claims bused on the scalps of
coyotes killed in California the caso
would not be so scandalous. But it has
been learned that enterprising Califor
niums are importing scalps from Arizona,
New Mexico, and Lower California.
Customs Inspector on the lookout for
Chinese on the Mexican frontier recently
seized a package of fifty coyote skins
that the owner was trying to smuggle
into the State. It is learned, further
more, that tho bounty has called into
existence a new and profitable industry
—that of breeding coyotes. As a female
coyote can produce three litters of seven
pups each a year, she is worth something
like SIOO to her owner. But this is not
all the evil of this ridiculous piece of
legislation. One of the most serious
pests tho California fruit grower has to
contend agaiii9t is the rabbit, which is a
particularly fine tid-bit for a hungry
coyote. Consequently tho extermina
tion of tho coyote for the benefit of the
sheep-owners of half a dozen counties
will be followed by such an increase of
rabbits that the fruit interests will suffer
seriously. This, with thousands aud
thousands of dollars that will be paid out
for bounties during the two years that
the law has to run, has aroused the press
of the Stato, aud there is a universal de
mand that au end shall bo put to the
evil at tho earliest possible moment.
"WHAT do you think of Dr. Holmes
idea that a fish diet gives a man many
fishy characteristics?'' "I think the
statement a little indefinite. He does
not state whether the man becomes a
shark or a sucker."
Money the Year Round.
Miss Smith says: "Can I make *25 per week
In the plating business?" Yes. I make $4 to
$8 per day plating tableware and jewelry and
selling platers. H. K. Delno & Co., Columbuß,
0., will give you full information. A plater
costs $5. Business i light auii honorable and
makes money the year round. A Kkadkh.
Urover Cleveland was born in Caldwell, N.
J. f in 1837.
"Guide to Health and Etiquette," i 9 a beau
tiful illustrated book. The Lydia E. I'inkham
Medicine Co.. Lynn, Mass., send it free for two
2c. stamps. The ladies appreciate it.
The women in Prussia, according to sta
tistical reports, far outnumber the men.
F. J. Cheney Co., Toledo, 0., Proprs. of
Hall's Catarrh Cure, offer SIOO reward for any
case of catarrh that cannot be cured by tak
ing Hall's Catarrh Cure. Send for testimoni
als, free. Sold by Druggists, 75c.
The ticket scalpers of Chicago have formed
a trust.
JJ'ITL' stopped free by Dit. KLINE'S ORLAF
rtKHVE Hkstokjui. No fits ufter first day's use.
Marvelous cures. Treatise ami $2 trial bottle
free. Dr. Kline. 031 Arch St.. Phila.. Pa.
In the 3.11 towns and pities of Massa
chusetts, 248 now have free public libraries.
There are ailments t hat rob young women of
both Health and Beauty and make them pro
maturely old. Lydia E. I'inkham's Vegetable
Compound will restore both if taken in time.
Texas is larger than the whole Austrian
Empire by 80,000 square miles.
If ufllicted with sore e>(suse Dr. Isaac Thomp
son's Eye-water. Druggists sell at 25c. per bottle
A company has boon organized at New
York to loan umhre las. U33
cowan#*
Saved
the life that is fighting against
Consumption.
Only act promptly.
Put it off, and nothing can save
you. But, if taken in time, Dr.
Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery
will certainly cure.
It must be done through the
blood and the " Discovery " is
the most potent blood - cleanser,
strength - restorer, and flesh-builder
that's known to medical science.
The scrofulous affection of the
lungs that's called Consumption,
and every form of Scrofula and
blood-taints, all yield to it. For
Weak Lungs, Spitting of Blood,
Bronchitis, Asthma, and all severe,
lingering Coughs, it's an unequaled
remedy. It's the only one that's '
guaranteed. If it doesn't benefit |
or cure, in every case, you have j
your money back.
"We promise to cure your Ca
tarrh, perfectly and permanently,
no matter how bad your case or
of how long standing —or we'll
pay you $500." That's what the
proprietors of Dr. Sage's Catarrh
Remedy say to every sufferer from
Catarrh. And they mean it.
"German
Syrup"
For Coughs & Colds.
John F. Jones, Edom,Tex. .writes*
I have used German Syrup for the
past six years, for Sore Throat,
Cough, Colds, Pains in the Chest
and Lungs, and let rue say to any
one wanting such a medicine—
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B.W. Baldwin, Carnesville.Tenn.,
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best medicine I ever tried for coughs
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one for these troubles.
R. Schmalhausen, Druggist, of
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scores of prescriptions and prepara
tions I had on my files and shelves,
without relief for a very severe cold,
which had settled on my lungs, I
tried your German Syrup. It gave
me immediate relief and a perma
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aver and Bowels, cleanses the sys
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00 Genuine Hand-newrd. the flnestealf
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