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Show THE WORLD AMERICAN FOHlv, UTAH, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1S17. VOL. IV. Whalen was la the negotiating a trade of sheep for mules on a basis of fifty to one, and prepared to accept much less. Three days later, he sat in the door of the shack which had long done duty as messhouse on section 3 of the canal, as many an evening before he had sat watching the mules come in from water. Tonight there was never a mule in sight. Down the breeze came a pungent odor and a tinkling of little belles. Over the crest of an adjacent hill appeared the flock browsing on the rank sage. "They do look some like mules, he soliloquized, and Ill bet Im the only Irishman In America ever owned a herd of sheep. Winter came and passed, and the only Irishman prospered. By roofing In a cut with brush he had commodious sheds, and cross sections of poles divided the broad ditch into as many corrals as he chose. The sheep were fat and carried heavy fleeces. Whalen had for help two boys who had wandered there and asked for work. He had proposed to hire one of them, but the boys protested that they had never been separated, and that if they got jobs at different ranches the other one wouldn't know where the other one was, a contingency which they could not abide. So Whalen offered to take the two at the price of one, and on that basis they shared with him the shack, herded the flock, and cooked the grub. They soon knew as much, or as little, about sheep as Brick hlmself,and the proprietor found opportunity to break the monotony of camp life by occasional trips to the railroad, and once to San Francisco. "I'm going to see my friend Martin, he told the boys. "Now tend to business and don't let any get away. And the boys gave their word that not one should escape. During Whalen's absence In the city he went out of the sheep business even more abruptly than he went into It the previous autumn. The Instruction to the boys was fulfilled to the letter not one got away. It happened on s hot day In June, when, contrary to usual custom, ihe hoys brought the flock to camp and the shade of sheds at noontime. It never rains In that arid region, hut sometimes pours. This was one of those times. Charged with Ice and water, a great black cloud came drifting down the wind and emptied out its load upon the camp, and the hillside above It The canal, curving around its base, formed an eavet rough for the whole mountain, and poured several thousand Inches of water into Whalens Improvised sheep sheds. The flood very soon subsided, but when the cloud had passed and the sun again shone forth, there were no living sheep. Not many minutes are required to drown a rat In a hole. Meanwhile, the boys, greatly frightened by the sudden storm, and with no thought for the safety of the flock, were In the shack. The hall pounded, and the wind shook It Water covered At daybreak, WHALENS RANCH. sheep-cam- p HALEXS luck was coploua, and It became proverbial; the facta here recorded are but ape-- c linen pages from the book of hla experience. When the ConCanal solidated Company went Into Insolvency, lta assets consisted of a mortgaged right of way through he sagebrush and several completed but detached sections of a big ditch. Mr. Brick Whalen, the contractor on aectlon No. 3. tad finished the heavy work there, and was preparing to move camp to aectlon No. 6 when the company went broke. It was. In fact, upon the very day the suspension was posted that Whalen, having tad his work inspected, took the engineers certificate up to headquarters to get his check. He received instead a statement that the company was In temporary difficulties and an assurance that it would soon resume. Whalen had before this worked for aaky corporations; he knew better, a d lost no time In acting on hla Jri ow'edge. No good howlin over a broken pipe or fryin to save the pieces, he told ht'nself. To his gang of twenty men hr aald: Bya, the companys broke, and so am I. 1 cant pay ye, and 1 cant feed ye. You got to rustle." What's the matter with us taking the moles? said one. Than mules and scrapers dont belong to me, as Ive often told ye. said Whsbna, whose custom it was to refer to a legendary backer. "This ditching outfit is the property of Martin, of San Fi a nr--' sco, and any man that meddles with Vc will get the sheriff after him. TI1 take one, just the same, said Shorty, "and tell Martin he can have him again when my wages Is paid. Ttat'n about fair.. A w others took the svme view of thn s imiles Involved, and took mules, to which Whalen made only a wordy rer lstance. Most of the men were Induced. to accept orders on the defunct company for the amount due them. eon-tra- ct . - the floor. "Pray, Billy, said the one on the barrel. "No; you do It, he answered from THE RANK SAGE, payable with large Interest. "And if you don't get it very soon, the Interest will double your money, said Whalen. When the last man had gone.Whalen went out to the corral and counted the mules. "Forty-on- e head; that waa a pretty close call. said he. It wm late In the season to find another job of scraping, but the mules could not live on sagebrush, and were at once started for the railroad. On a small stream where camp was made one night, a Land of trail Bheep was also camped. Whalen eyed them disdainfully. I see thb beggars eat sage, said BROWSING ON he. Why, certainly," replied the sheepman; thats the finest kind of feed for sheep. T wish work mules would do that, I never was so near a said Brick. sheep In my life, he continued; the smell of em a mile away is enough for me. Funny little fellows, and they look some like mules, with ears and tails cut off. What do you do with them? "Double our money on them every twelve months, was the reply. No extended description of would have Impressed the but fancy of the veteran "double your money was his own familiar phrase for describing any hopeful venture, and on that evening he smoked many pieces of black plug over it. A brute that can thrive on a brush diet and double your money every year Is an Interesting creature. sheep-farmi- mule-skinne- r, ng the table-to- p. The shack had no window, and, with the door closed. It was pretty dark In there. When Whalen reached home about two hours later, the floor was still wet, and the boys were yet roosting on table and barrel, but outside. In the bright sunlight, the ground appeared already almost dry. A solitary goat stood upon the shed roof; he had been among the sheep In the pen. You can't keep a good man down any more than you can a goat, was Bricks comment on the catastrophe. While Whalen was working the boys double time at pulling the wool from dead sheep, he had the happy thought of stocking his ranch with bees. Having money enough from the proceeds' of his wool sales to buy a hundred stands, he promptly carried the thought Into effect. Again he sat down In the door of his shack to double his money. "This Is better than sheep, said And he, for they herd themselves. one are in like mules thing they you are liable to get hurt If you fool with em. This wave of prosperity broke up as soon os former ones had done, for, he had Imported a bad case of foul brood, and within a year the hundred swarms had petered out. When we went down there last summer In the interest of a new company which had taken up the work of completing tha canal. Whalen gathered the bones out of the old shed In the hut and hauled them to the railroad, where he sold them for fertilizer, realizing enough to buy two mure mules. WliL ba team he Is at work la the ditch for days wages. Somewhat grizzled now, and not so briekved of hair and whisker as formerly, he is happy as ever, and sanguine that he wlil doubh his money. Heres hoping that he may. fours-mul- LENGTH OF A THOUGHT. rirliln llesulls of Kiportiiirnli Moil noted llrltlsh Scientist. by How long does it take a man to think? Professor Richet, at the recent meeting of the British association, gave the results of his investigations Into this subject. He found that by mentally running up the notes of the musical scale for one or more octaves and then dividing the total time by the number of notes thought of. the time taken foi each note was of a second. There are various ways of arriving at conclusions as to the amount of time necessary for realizing any physical sensation or mental Impression. If the Bkin ba touched repeatedly with light blows from a small hammer a person may, according to Professor llichct, distinguish the fact that the blows are separate and not continuous pressure when they follow one another as frequently as 1,000 a second. The smallest intervals of sound can be much better distinguished with one ear than with both. Thus the separateness of the clicks of s revolving toothed wheel was noted by one observer when they did not exceed sixty to the second, but using both ears he could not distinguish them when they occurred often-e- r than fifteen times a second. The sharp sound of the electric spark of an Induction coll was distinguished with one ear when the rate was as high as 500 to the second. Sight Is much less keen than hearing In distinguishing differences. If a disc half white and half black be revolved, it will appear gray when lta revolutions exceed twenty-fou- r per second. It has been found that we can hear far more raplflly than we can count, so that if movement runs faster than ten Vo the Jjuonfi we caa count four clicks, while with twenty io the second we can only count two of them. one-eleven- th HOME OF SECRY GAGE ITS IN MASSACHUSETTS AVE- NUE, WASHINGTON. Hn. Gage oa a Uoataaa liar Flint Wlatar la Capital Society Soma of New to USlelal tha Davor aHum Life, AS11INGTON Cor- Th e respondence Secretary of the Treasury and Mrs. Gage aie settled for the winter in the uew house that they will occupy during tho McKinley administration. 1'bey are among the first of the members of the cabinet circle to establish themselves, and their home will be among the most attractive of the official houses which Is saying a great deal In face of the splendor of nearly all of the residences that have been taken by President McKinley's cabinet of. ficers. The Gage house Is the one In Massachusetts avenue on the prettiest part of that thoroughfare. It Is only two years old. and, so far. It has never been identified with official Washington. It is built of white stone, as is the home of the Secretary of State and Mrs. Sherman, and the exteriors of the two mansions are not unlike, having been designed by the same architect The design Is striking and rather ornate, and the Gage house Is made more conspicuous by the treatment of the windows, where the handsomest lace that Is to be eeen In Washington Is shown. Mrs. Gage Is looking forward to her first winter as the wife of a cabinet officer with nothing but pleasure. She has s handsome house, she has good NO. 32. respondent, and who tried to be a little stiff with the newspaper man. The cabinet officer received a cold stare of surprise, and was answered thus: "Why, do you know that one of the chief occupations of our lives la to see you people come and go. Mrs. Gage has decided to have servants, and so far no livery has been seen, unless the black dress and white cap and apron of tho maid can be called livery. A cargo of things from the Chicago home of Secretary and Mrs. Gage has not arrived, but the mistress of the house has srattwed enough of her own rugs and hangings, pieces of puitcry and pictures, to Impress her own individuality upon the room. The large drawing room, where Mrs. Gage will stand to receive on the cabinet Wednesdays, Is a beautiful apartment, with high ceilings tinted in light green, and showing some flue fresco work representing rupids, garlands of flowers and in delicate colors. The furniture is of satin of an olive shade, and the portieres are of the same material. There Is an onyx fireplace and a cabinet for curios. Between the drawing room and the music mom Is the square hall, large enough to hold a reception in, wainscoted almost to the ceiling with old oak, with a carved stone fireplace, a tall. Inlaid clock, several attractive little settees and bright touches of red In cushions, lampshades and wall paper. The stairway Is a majestic affair, parting at the first landing and giving a domelike effect to the center of the house. The prettiest room In the house Is the music room, between the hall and the dining room. The walls sre covered with light blue satin damask, and the celling la frescoed In a delicate pattern. The piano Is of white wood, and the chairs are of gilt, and are upholstered In blue satin. The dining room is a splendid apartment. The furniture Is of heavy dark oak, there Is a wainscoting half way to the celling, and the chairs are and heavily carved. The walls are papered In warm green, harmonising will) the ng that covers tjie floor, and the portieres sre of tapestry pattern. The library, which Is upstairs. Is the favorite room of both Secretary and Mrs. Gage, and it has only one fault it Is too smal) to hold the books that the Secretary would like to have from his library In Chicago. Mrs. Gage's boudoir occupies the whole front of the house In the second story. It Is furnished in light blue, Mrs. Gage's favorite color, with a dressing room adjoining, which Is a nest of silk hangings, soft rugs, laces and tall mirrors. cul-or- ed bow-kno- ts servants, she has already made friends with the most prominent persons in Washington society, and she has, by nature, so much dignity and that she does no?. know what the sensation of being flurried means. She will know how to make the most timid woman who will venture Into her drawing room on reception days feel at home, and she will know how ALL OXEN LOOKED ALIKE. to disarm the most critically-dispose- d Belton Why Lawyer Couldn't Toll On woman of the "old Washingtonian Animal from Auother. set, which la composed of women who From the New Orleans look upon a new cabinet lady as some An ambitious young lawyer one wbo Is up on trial, as it were, for paid his first visit to a country court their favor, and who have established holding its session not far from New Ideas In regard to the proper bearing, Orleans not long since. He went to handshake, etc. represent a big railroad In a suit Their attitude reminds one of The brought by a countryman to recover reply that one of the regular Washthe value of an ox, which departed Last year Italy exported 21,000 anington correspondents made not long this life in a vain attempt to hold ago officer who bad not tique and modern works of art, valued a to cabinet up the limited mall. The question be- learned yet that the haughtiest person at $600,000. More than half of them fore the court was one of Identificaunder the sun Is the Washington cor went to Germany. testiand the had countryman tion, fied that he knew the ox by Its color and the flesh marks. The young city lawyer rose and with dignity said: "If your honor please, there can be no question that this witness has sworn falsely when he testified that an ox can be recognized by his color. I waa a stenographer before I became a lawyer, and for two days, your honor (drawing out his notebook), I have taken a detailed description of every ox that passed the hotel, and I am prepared to swear as an expert that all oxen look alike to me.' "You are trifling with the dignity of this court, sir, sternly said the judge, "and I will fine Hold on. judge, said the clerk; there hain't been but one yoke of oxen in this town In a week. Old man wood, and tbs Henley's been lawyers been counting the same oxen over and over. "Judgment for plaintiff, said tbs Judge, and the city lawyer, glad to escape the wrath of his honor, took bis departure, a sadder but wiser man. clock-clicki- ng Times-Democr- at: high-back- ed on Swearing by Herring Ilnue. The following curious oath was until recently administered in all the courla of the Isle of Man: "By this look and by the holy contents thereof, and by the wonderful works that God has so miraculously wrought In heaven above and in the earth beneath In six days and seven nights. I do swear that I will, without respect of favor or friend ship, love or gain, consanguinity or affinity, envy or malice, executp tho laws of this side and beween party as indifferently as the herring's backbone doth lie In the middle of the fish. About tho Nil of It. A young woman dressed In red from top to toes went gaily scorching down "She's riding straight IP Asian, remarked a Salvationist as sbt flip street. wk-el- ed by. CAGES NEW HOME, |