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Show WRITER OF FAMOUS THE HUMOR OF LIFE WESTERN STORIES DEAD The death of Francis Bret Harte, which occurred in England recently, has removed one of the most forcible and distinctive writers of the West His Btories immortalized the western mining camp and reflected the atmosphere of those days, half a century ago, when California was the Mecca of the gold seekers. Quaint, humorous and refreshing, his writings will long hold a unique and exalted place in I wouldnt go so far as meditatively, that There may be four or five more somewhere. GIFT OF PRINCE SYMBOLICAL IS Banner for Chicago Fn vaIntellectual Tie. The Bavarian-Amerlca- n society of a banner from Prince Luitpold, the Loltpoid riant Blgolfisfl English literature. Mr. Harte was born in Albany, N. Y., in 1839, and was the son of an educator, who died leaving the family with little means. In 1854 young Harte went to California with his mother and in Sonora tried his hand at the father's profession of teaching. He did not succeed in this and became a compositor in the office of a mining camp paper, beginning his literary career by composing his first articles in type while working at the case. In 1857 we find him a compositor in the office of the Golden Era, San Francisco. The experience of his frontier life had been impressive and his literary talents soon put to profitable use the vivid scenes of the previous three years. Clever sketches, contributed at first anonymously, attractand ed the attention of the editor, Harte was invited to join the corps of writers. Prtare Luitpold. In July, 1868, the publication of The Overland Monthly, with Mr. Harte as Chicago, which will be the recipient o. its organizer and editor, was begun. regent of Bavaria, will receive an honThe second issue contained The Luck or at once unusual and suggestive. The banner hot only will express the of Roaring Camp,' a story of mining LATEST WORK TURNED OUT THE WORLDS FUNMAKERS. BY O' Fly on. Mro. f New Aliment Coming the Sncond Baby Woke Parent, from Their Dream What Broka Up tha Ping-Pon- g Social. HI. Meaeago Was Not Urgant. I was out in a town in the Interior of the state, said a Chicago business man the other day, and, desiring to I telephone, stepped into the headquarters. . There was a farmer just ahead of me, and he turned to me and said; If you wish to use the wire first, go ahead. But you have the privilege, I replied. Yes, but Ill waive it. I only wish to talk with Chicago, while your message may be one of life or death. O, its not so bad as that, he replied, with a grim smile. My 'wife eloped with a windmill man last night, but you go right ahead with your talk. I was simply going to notify the constables along the line to let her slide right along. Lo and the Whltn Man. Is your hair cut? It is, answered the Indian. Have you washed all the paint off your face, and instead annointed yourself with bay rum? I have. Have you cultivated habits of thrift and saved up some money? I have. Sure youve saved up money? Yes. Well, come on. You are ready for the next step in civilization. I will now teach you how to play poker. Then She Froze. attendant at Mt. Vernon not long since found a lady weeping most bitterly and audibly, with her handkerchief at her eyes. He stepped up to An her and said; Are you in any trouble, madam? No, sir, she sobbed. I saw you weeping." All. said she, "how can one help weeping at the grave of the Father of His Country? Oh! Indeed, madam, says he, thats it! The tomb is over yonder. This is the ice house. Her. As They Impressed No reader of Frank Stocktons books can deny that there is a decided element of the unreal about all of them. A lady of malaproprian tendencies had been laboriously reading A Storytellers Pack. asked a What are you reading? friend. Oh, A Pack of Lies, by Frank Stockton, came the unconsciously vivacious and strenuous reply. . A Hard Pall. my wife and me and my mother and my wifes mother and two sisters and an old aunt of mine and half a dozen of our cousins to pull our first baby through till it was Yes, UT to. in the distance tho clouds brsalc aw.y, The Oatss glowing portals I sss; ,'And I hear from the outgoing ship lr tha bay The song of the sailors In glee So 1 think of the luminous footprints that bora The comfort oer dark O a It lee, And wait for the signal to go to the shore. To the ship that is waiting for me. j Bust Hams. the beginning of Hartes brighter and more artistic contained work. The next number The Outcasts of Poker Flat, a realistic story, considered by many his best production. It established his reputation, and was followed in quick life, which marked n prodsuccession by other uctions. The Heathen Chinee appeared in September, 1870. Harte received the appointment of professor of literature In the University of California In 1870, but In the spring of 1871 resigned that chair and his editorship and settled in New York. He became a regular contributor to the Atlantic Monthly, and lectured on The Argonauts of 49" In various cities. . In 1878 Mr. Harte was appointed United States consul at Crefeld, Gerwell-know- From "The Tmo Sk ip. good will of the prince for his former subjects now in the United States, but will symbolize the intellectual ties to the binding Bavarians abroad fatherland. WILL ATTEND THE CORONATION Mr. While a nr Reid Envied by Mew Yi rk Society Lender.. As the wife of the special ambassador of the United States to the corona it took two years old. And did the little one become stronger by that time? No, we had another by that time and came out of the dream. Of Mor Interests exNature, noble Nature! claimed the maid, in a rapture of delight. .Oh! Mr. Spooneigh, is there anything more delightful than to sit here and listen to the gentle patter of the raindrops? Ah really, I er think the supreme delight of my life just now would be to remember who borrowed my umbrella last. Ah! A Business Head. You ought to have been ashamed to take money for that mule." was kind o shamed, answered I was mighty glad to git shet of him. But I was afraid dat if I offered him to you foh nuffln youd get suspicious. I Mr. Erastus Pinkley. many, and was transferred in 1880 to Glasgow, Scotland, where he continued as consul until the advent of the new administration In 1885. He had since resided in England, engaged in literary pursuits. Beside the books mentioned he wrote many other works. Dla Objection. .Prisoner, said the stern old jndga, a the Jnry, by vote of 11 to L baa found you guilty of smashing all the windows and ruining the stock of ten millinery stores. Have you anything to say before sentence is passed upon you? I have, announced the prisoner, rising to his feet Say it I protest, your honor, against this verdict. I was not tried by a jury of my peers. On what do you base that objection? Why, only one of em is married. r PIERCED BY AN ARROW W. H. CROMIN. Co. Copyright, IMS, by Daily Story Publishing Lieut Ewing had a secret service to perform near his station. The Job would require two weeks of his time; but inasmuch as the town was something of a watering place and, as he knew, fairly filled with guests, he had Girls no fear of dying from ennui. were sure to be there and with the gentler sex Ewing generally held his own and sometimes a part belonging Their Sad Good-by- s But, Agatha, said the husband to someone else. He was a dashing fellow. He had whose heart was breaking, what I want is your love. You seem so cold the true military bearing, the soldiers at times. Think of the affectionate walk, the athletes carriage, eyes as good-by- s Chaffeurs wife gives him blue as the emerald sky, a face that denied he was of plebeian birth, and a each morning. True. answered Agatha, but you forehead, that denoted intelligence. Ha know Chaffeur has an automobile, and needed no one to tell him that he was his wife doesnt know but that each good looking. At Attica, his point of destination, he registered as Giovan parting will be the last one. Colbert. There wasnt much of a purpose in concealing his identity. Still his home village was not so very far away and at certain times In his life he had said things to young women of kls community that lead them to believe he was very much In love with them and really wanted to marry when such a thing was not true at all. perhaps some of his escapades were still fresh In the minds of those about him. News travels fast and bad reports linger painfully long. Perhaps some of his flirtations were known to the guests of this resort. Therefore to be on the safe side, he Tramp Lady, Im hungry enough to would conceal his identity for the eat a house. time being. Kind Lady What kind? He had not been in the village Tramp Porter-housmore than two days before he saw a dream of a woman. She possessed all Home Compliments the graces which belong to her sex. The south Georgia man was loudly Certainly she was beautiful of face proclaiming that southwest Georgia and figure. She dressed differently was the garden spot of the world. from the other women; her laugh had Yes, said the north Georgia man, mirth to it, her eyes had the light of but youre d n poor gardeners! a June morning. Try as he might, That, replied the south Georgia Ewing could not get an introduction fellow, is because we imported some to her. She seemed to have few acof you fellows who thought you knew quaintances. Her walks were made it all! and when she rowed on the And then they went to betting on alone, lake that fronted the hotel there little the campaign and called for the was no one else in the boat with-her- . drinks. Her greatest delight seemed to he in the practice with how and arrow and Theyd Come Back. in this she was quite an expert. Rimers having some success with Five days after Ewings arrival one his poems now, I believe. of her arrows pierced his coat, as he Nonsense! What makes you think lay hidden behind a foliage of honeythat? suckles. Instantly he was on his feet He told me he was holding his and she, seeing what had happened, own. seemed for the moment quite disJust so. Hes just realizing that mayed. he might as well hold them as send But the accident gave the soldier them out anywhere." the chance he had been looking, longShe hastened an apology ing for. and he in turn made little of the inUsed to Carrying a Load. Papa Are you sure you can support cident. Indeed, the arrow had done my daughter in the style to which she no further harm than to make a hole in his coat Ewing would have been is accustomed? The Suitor Well, I will only say willing for it to have penetrated his that yesterday I disposed of my auto- skin aye, to have taken off a piece mobile, which I kept in good repair of flesh. From that morning their courses took shape rapidly enough. for over two years. Papa (brokenly) She is yours, my He lost no time in placing his devotions at her feet. He sang for her boy. I, too, once owned an auto. in a glorious tenor; he played the guitar for her at the window in the A False Alarm. Doctor (who has been sent for a 2 evenings when the other boarders a. m.) Madame, pray send at once wished him sick or dead, or something for the clergyman, and. If yoq want of that sort; he .sent her costly flowers and he forgot his business entireto make your will, for the lawyer. ly, which is sometimes the way of Madame (horrified) Good gracious; men in love. Is It so dangerous, doctor? But Miss Agnes Dickinson, which Doctor Not a bit of It; but I dont want to be the only one who ha3 been was the name of the young lady, seemed unresponsive to his appeals. disturbed in his sleep for nothing. Indeed, she did not hesitate to inform the dashing young lieutenant that she Cp In the Air had precious little confidence in what Casey Did you say that Brannlgaq unmarried army officers, who had had quit? been educated at West Point, had to Cassidy Aye! He left his place say about love. She had known too lasht week. many of them. She had seen a half Casey Shure, he told me he had a dozen of her young female friends loife job. heartbroken because they had listened Cassidy So he did. Twas In a to what some of them had had to he an the blast wint when the moon wa3 soft and say wurks, quarry the off befoor he knowed it. chickens had been to roost a very long time. A Giveaway. One day she went into more specific Young Woman I think that new details. She asked him if he had ever novel, Skirting Matrimony, perfectknown Lieut. Ewing. Did he know ly impossible! Ewing? The question fairly took his Critic Oh, I dont know. One ought breath away. Was it possible that she not to form so decided an opinion really knew who he was that he wa3 based on a flighty perusal. But he sailing under a false name. Young Woman But it was not a did not permit his mental perturbaflighty perusal! I read every line caretion to betray him. I fully twice over. Why, certainly, he replied. know him quite well. Furchaaed Scenery. "They say he Is handsome; that he Is bright, and that he made a gallant A story is told of a man in Massachusetts who sold a scrubby farm for officer in Cuba, was her reply. To acknowledge possessing these $12,000, although its value was not more than $1,000. gifts and that afterwards he should How did you do It? a friend asked him. Well, he replied, I had $1,000 worth of farm and $11,000 worth of vis- ited Washington and met a statesman belonging to the minority party, who gave a most startling account of the corruption existing in the government and the terrible" struggle he had had against it Do you mean to say, sir, asked the stranger, seriously, that you are the only honest man in the American government? Well, replied the statesman, stroking his beard The submarine Silure has just been subjected to some interesting experiments. It was sunk to a depth of 135 feet, with a view of testing the effect this of the water pressure, which a pounds to the depth is sixty-thre- e square inch. The commander and the engineer were provided with instruments to measure the compression, which showed that the hull yielded to of the extent of one millimeter an inch). The crew experienced no more discomfort at this depth than at the average submersion. The lowest depth reached by a diver is said to be 204 feet, with a pressure of eighty-eigand a half pounds; the lowest depth attained in a caisson was 110 feet, with, a pressure of fifty-on- e pounds, at the sinking of the piers for the St. Louis bridge over the Missisht sippi. Lord Roberta a ovine Mrs.- ORourke Sure, and ye look bad since ye broke up housekeepiu, - tion of Edward VII, Mrs. Whitelaw Reid will be an honored guest of the English nation. Leaders of New York society are exceedingly jealous of her good fortune. Mrs. OFlynn. Mrs. OFlynn nished room-itls- m Yes, 01 have now. th fur- Wbnt He Needed. asked a man a music emwho was inspeciing ' porium. on violins. That? Oh, thats used We call it a chin-res- t. Gimme one! exclaimed the visitor. Supose it would work on my wife? Whats this thing? Sat m Tine's Deep Flange. Old. Lord Roberts exhibits few signs of the wear and tear of his busy life, but it is said that the strain of .the last two years has told very 'jonsiderably . on him, the Game soWhat broke up he ping-pon- g cial down at your church last night? asked the young man with the clerical garments. Some unregenerate son of Belial, said the second man in churchly garb, substituted eggs for the balls. Judge. Stopped A New Flower. The most remarkable flower of the coronation year will be a quaint introduction from central Asia, which has for its sponsor in this country a Holborn firm. According to the importers it grows on a saucer without soil or water, and without showing leaves or roots the bulb shoots out a flower, with red and yellow tip sometimes two feet long. When the flower is off it prefers to retire into toe soil and to be well watered, when it follows u with a three-foo- t umbrella leaf. n - Another Lie Snappe Yes, I believe I did say you were always lying about yeurself. Bragg Sir, Im not accustomed to that sort of talk. Im a gentleman, sir! Snappe There you are again! Ilaaband. Is your husband a good provider? asked a sympathetic visitor. Indeed he is, mum. He got me three new places to wash last week. A Kind Statue of Gto. McClellan. Another competition for the honor of designing the McClellan statue is recommended by the advisory committee of sculptors and architects that were asked to select from the pending Froof preaumptlva. competition. The committee selects of the A Mohawk Valley justice the designs by Niehaus, Waldo Story, judgment for gave invariably peace Austin Hays and Ferdinand Picirllli. plaintiff in civil suits before him, These sculptors will receive an awardi the siwithout hearing the defendant, in' of $500 each for the designs already unfortunate litigant with that lencing competition, and a further honorarium Veil, vot I ttnks be sue you for if of $1,000 for those which they are now dont ""e h'n:. you asked to submit. . Had Dim Convenient. have a feeling that the devil Is said present in this meeting the minister. Amen! cried an old brother from Youve got him In a far corner. close quarters. Lock the doors and give him where he comes from. I to-da- y, At Tain. Father (to George, home on vacation) How are you getting on with your work? George Out of sight, Governor. I made thabaseball team all right, and if we dont throw down Harvard this year Im a lobster! . A Punctured Superstition Swift Im sure Friday must be aa unlucky day. I lost ray purse with ten pounds in it on a Friday. Dont you call that bad luck? Shaw Yes; bad luck for you. But what about the fellow who found it. Advantage of Variety. you ever get tired of ing made love to? She I might if t were always He Dont same man. Detroit Free Press. be- the He registered as Giovan Colbert tell her he was Ewing would be an act of vaingloriousness that might operate against him. Well, I dont know so much about his brightness. Neither would I swear that he is handsome; and for his deportment in Cuba I think he did no more than the other members of his regiment Still, he is mot a bad fellow." Having delivered himself of this speech he felt easier. But he was treading on dangerous ground and he knew it He wished the conversation might change. Ah, but what a flirt he is, was Miss Dickinsons rejoinder. I think him little better than a cad. Two years ago he paid the most devoted attention to Mollie Sherman. The neighbors, her friends, all those who knew them. both were sure they were engaged, and that their marriage was but a little ways off I have never i Full many a year she bore the hopes of - men, The precious freight of lives, the countless store Of wealth, to meet at last the tempest when No power could save her from 1 . rocky shore. .e s seas, full sure to The glorijds promise of my hopes with 8 9, To see my golden argosies go down And Death, the Wrecker, King of all the seas! e , This Is the wreck that Time has left to me. But still beguiling through the mist of - Anon. Hanged and Darted, Yet Lived, Now,' tint was something that set Ewings mind thinking rapidly enough. Sure enough he had never been engaged to Miss Sherman, but It was tacitly understood that he wanted to be and could be if he were to say the right thing. And she coming where he was and finding that he was misrepresenting his name. Whew! There was a dilemma. If he was going to say anything td Miss Dickinson, with whom he was now really in love, now was the time; and so he told her of the entire affair; of how In a spirit of fun he had registered under an assumed name; of his love for her from the moment he first saw her, and of his earnest desire to make her his wife. Well, I patched the coat I tore with my arrow. See there, a3 she pointed to the place, one can scarcely perceive that it ever needed a darniqg. Maybe I can heal the broken heart you have been talking about At all events I am willing to try. I have known by that intuition peculiarly the gift of woman that you were in love with me from the first time we met, and it was a good arrow that has given light and love to both our hearts, wasnt it, dear? And the next day, hand In hand, they went to the train to welcome Miss Sherman. WHITE HOUSE HOODOO DEFEATED dr awe-struc- Won Her Point, A minister in Ann Arbor was putting his little girl to bed one night not long ago. He had heard her prayers and was leaving the room when she called out: Papa, give me a drink of water. I will, my dear, said he, when you ask for it properly. The child thought a moment and then said very soberly, Papa, give me a drink of water for Christs sake. New York Hu Blind Fireman Saxe Martin, though totally blind since the age of 4, has been an active and useful member of the fire department of port Chester, N. Y., for seventeen years, running with the machine to all fires. Keep your secret from your friends and your enemies will never get next to it At Goleta, near Santa Barb",' n cries OtU month brought ed women of the A huge pelicsn family had tie one, who had beenattacked chicken yard, and with wtRfA ed, was in angry c ' pursuit, cious thrusts at the rhlld bird made no effort to but pugnaciously st00,j lu even wbbn the women retnr ; taking the baby 'm plM tf,. and fought until they capturing it. It measured from tip to tip. t the terror-stricke- I totv v -- be hanged and buried, and yet be able to tell the tale, but such was the experience of one John Bartesdale, who was executed at York in 1634 for felAfter his body had hung for ony. nearly an hour, it was buried. A gentleman passing by the grave, which had not been filled up, thought he saw the earth move, and with the help of his servant, he disinterred the convict, who was still alive. It was the custom In those days to bury suicides and executed criminals without any coffin. The man was carefully treated, and entirely recovered. He became hostler at the coaching house in York, and lived a most exemplary life. When asked what he could tell in relation to hanging, as having experienced It, he replied: That when I was turned off flashes of fire seemed to dart from my eyes, from which I fell into a state of darkness and insensibility. ' - . 4 Queer riahlK Food,' 3 Matilda Overham, a young v Galesburg, Mich., hai for ye troubled by something wig' ciawling about her stomach, i . Her father finally wound piece of beetjvith threaded I his daughter to swallow, on the part of the youn followed, but the father heL, the string and soon felt a bit; Pulling up his Up he found to the end of it a silver eel, si y long, transparent, but plivf -- iJ The daughters health enred a remarkable lmprovs. Pheoonisoat JJuok'a Kf duck belonging to'a ts Skinningrove, Eng., has just ' an egg weighing Exactly fc'" Its circumference measu wise was ten and a half round the width eight its unusual weight $ ment it pfoved, when bro! A Marvelon Costume. Th egg within an On the occasion of a garden party contained all theegg' usual av at Benares, given by the viceroy, a embedded therein was 1 wonderful dress was worn by the perfect and complete 14 Countess Palovolovetsch, which excit- shell ' , , ed much admiration. Seen from near i at hand the gown seemed to be made Korean Yialtinf I up of tongues of blue flame, with occaIn Korea visit! sional streaks of bright light flashing foot square are in Of on a all bed across, and resting of Dahomey liquid fire. Then the appearance each other annoii by ser would change and its wearer seemed d flame. wooden board or f to be wrapped in It was noticed that the countess never artistically carver sat down, but was constantly on the paid the card f move. During her peregrinations a sion of its owner, friend asked her about her marvelous for many years. 1 use for a via costume, and discovered that it was a tra wood about,a.fpff, ornarich of brocade, simple gown There were 535 a bunch of straw mented with of these little creatures, each in a Nambtf tiny net, fastened to the dress. The comm coins is th The Force of Wind The accompanying cut is from a words "qur " photograph of a remarkable result of letters. L thirteen seen . western We have a cycline. tfees riven limb from limb, and resi eagle are t shield are thirteen heads, a ' K through thirteen feathC Cr A , multi-colore- fire-flie- s. Hr Borlal Co' the g' rkish cem ,ter are plat ds, and tee ve basins 4 rpose, the ds carry mt the dead, aw Turkey, are iteful unless sots rry their favor. Upon Recovery of Little Tedly Show That Rooevelta Are Iminnne The Roosevelt family has been declared to be immune from the baleful workings of the hoodoo man by the colored gentry who preside over the domestic dutibs at the White House. That this exception must be made has just been ascertained fo su by the recovery of -- young Theodore Roosevelt from his recent Illness at Groton. A short time prior to that event the fastenings holding in place the portrait of Gen. Grant, which adorns the walls of one of the lower-florooms, gave way and the large canvas and its frame fell to the floor. The crash brought several attendants to the scene, and while the work of repairing the damage was being done one of the old retainers made the prediction, k in tones, that some member of the family would die, at the same time calling to mind the falling of the portrait of President Garfield, which was followed by the death of President McKinley and which sad occurrence had likewise been predicted at the time.. When Master Roosevelt became 111 many a woolly head was shaken and I told you so was the daily refrain when Mrs. Roosevelt and then the president left for the bedside of their son. When he was brought home and was on the way to convalescence the first doubts of the solemn warning were expressed and his recovery has removed the ban from the family. There is still a belief, however, says the Washington Post, that some one connected with the White House will ' yet he a victim of the omen. to-d- , It is not given to many men to Her walks were made alone. a measure had tired of her. Where did you get all this wild information about his playing dog in the manger act. Somebodys been playing with you. She never told you anything of the sqrt No, but some of her friends have been more communicative. By the way I am expecting her here .v made by hand. The keeping perfect time. --4t . size of an ordinary watch a.. J c . at' The case are mads r? ; while the works and the he has but one, are m&de of' r , , It has three levers, Instead ef U ance wheel, such 4 is . n8Mj U watches of - ,d-chlld I. too, have sailed crow n tears, I see the beauty of life's glorious sea And hear the music of eternal years! e. view. The Impressionable Englishman. Some years ago an Englishman seen the beast, hut that la what I hear. I am told that Moilie has aim-pl- y wept over his perfidy until her reason is well nigh dethroned, I wish the mn exclaimed, Perfidy! You dont know what you are talking about. I nappen to know something about that case. I know of a certainty that they were never engaged; that he never asked her to marry him. I know moreove- rAh, yoi seem to be one of his friends truly enough." Well, I have a right to be I ought to be, and I am. Listen; I happen to know that all this talk about hit failure to escort her everywhere, to he constantly at her ride since his return from Cuba is Decause she had, in a measure, tired of him, and he In Tha Wreck. How beautiful she lies! the shining shore Before her, and afar the blue sea's verge t Above her shattered hull the sea gulls soar. And all around her leaps the foaming surge! I. , V dences dismantled, and even sections of bark through which splinters have been forced by the wind, but a correspondent sends us a really remarkable freak of the power of old Boreas. It Is a section of a tree in which a shovel has been Imbedded to a depth t, the length of its equal to blade, and this was accomplished by wind power at Norman, Oklahoma territory. - lira I a of th, ckli i . single example 4oes I rd grounds for a a, but a careful eXait itly made of an Eskimo much scientific Interest nd to be, on the whole, k ;er than the brain of tl ite man of similar stat cerebrum somewhat ext irage white mans brain ails usually regarded at . ierior intelligence. one-hal- Curloa Place. Dwelling The perforated landscapes of must present a most remarkable appearance. In the district of a plathe ancient Caesarea-Mazacteau composed of a bed of tuff is topped by a layer of lava; denudation valhas resulted in broad canon-lik- e leys, from the flat floors of which rise innumerable pointed sugarloaf shaped pinnacles. Many of these have been pierced and tunnelled for dwellings for ages past, and the caves are still being made. Some of the caves were used for religious purposes, and we have ruins of temples and of Byzantine churches carved out of the solid ' rock. Kap-padoc- ia a, Old Chest Proves a Gold Mine. W. E. Koch, a jeweler of York, Pa., j Saloon ew as the sale they pay nej ;es total inco, sissippi is reg t ultra of prok by the anti-sa- l iority of the d option sys.C'j nties pay the jived annually A Cat Vie 'Ha :ia Q , V the barn of W, e, Ind., a malt ily of three ofJL-:- k kittens, two fox 1 rabbit The motlviImpartial in her dev, ng ones. The two ''ui. ick sheep of the . j the old cat their friskineaf i - f ! stV Divorce man suinliil several years ago bought an antique rce was a straf auction. was at Later it chest put ts at Upper Ss into the garret and forgotten. n Bauck Te g This week the spring of his iathe out the In old examinchest brought s ago, and nO ing it a false bottom was discovered, is a morp under which were found gold bonds r from b" comof the Northern Central Railway vhich he pany, 100 shares in a gold mine that has been paying dividends, bonds of Boa the York & Peachbottom railroad com,h boat caV pany, now the Maryland & Pennsylvania Railroad Company; several un- towed on tt cancelled judgment notes against local six and a j property holders and cash in gold and was made f greenbacks. Mr. Koch says the value current an been increai of what he found is about $15,000. house-cleanin- IzlUI . . A Watch. ; Iridium, whiel Elmer E. Manning of Ithaca, N. Y has a family heirloom in the shape of metals, is used V. a watch which was made about 1560. pens to lessen wear-$9-- ' a round- - , It Is the work of one Michael Gruber, a German mechanic, who lived at Nuremburg, Germany, and who died ' God never glveffc About the year 1600. It was entirely our jnWe. ld t I |