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Show , 2 . . THE SALT LAKE TIMES. MONDAY AUGUST 18,-189- 0 ' TAILOR. W, A. TAYLOR, TAILOR. " NEW SPRING MERCHANT arrived. 43and4Deast second South street, Salt Lake City. , XKUNK9. EULBEET BEOS,, OF FINE TRUNKS. MANUFACTURERS sample trunks and cases to order; repairing a specialty; il west First South street. WATCHMAKERS AXBJKWKLKBi ""adolph haueebaoh & soil's, T)RACTICAL WATCHMAKERS. WATCH--1 en, clocks and jewelry repaired and cleaned. A full line of Watorbury watches. No. IB, L. First South street, j T. M, SUEBAUGH, AMERICAN WATCHES, CLOCKS, FINE watch repairing a specialty; prices reasonable; 75 west First South straeS Salt Lake City. Utah. BUSINESS DIRECTORY. ADVERTISERS OF f'IRSTCLASS CITY. The Times commends to its patrons the Business and Pro fessional men whose cards ap-pear below. TEE PENN. MUTUAL LIFE INS. 03. PHILADELPHIA. PA.. INCORPOB-ate- d OF 1HJ7, conducted for members by members, and having unequalled security and KreateHt dividend paying ability. Taylor at Btnhens, general agents, 40U and 401 Progress building. - LIQUORS AND CIGARS. BEAED'S CIGAR STOEE. IMPORTED AND DOMESTIC! CKiARfl. 1 SoleagentsfortheSuckerocCigar. 17 west 2nd South at. TEE TWO PEILLIPS PLACE. BRANDS OF IMPORTED CHOICEST and Clt-ar- Si jiusteb Phbi.ps, proprietors, 83 E. Third South street, Salt Lake City. P. T, NYSTROM. SALOON - FAMILIES COMMERCIAL First South and Commer-cial streets. j . ij5 2 Ml H C KL LAN KOUS. t MINNEAPOLIS OFFICE AND SCHOOL FURNISHING CO. FURNISH for schools. W. P. Dodds, general atfent, 18 east First South street. JOHN GEEEN, WITH OREEN & CO., SANITARY CON-T-tractors and scavengers. P. O. box 851 WM. MOEEIS. EMYE EYNON. SALT LAKE STEAM CARPET CLEANING corner Hh West and Hazel streets, telephone 47ii. First class work guaranteed. Orders taken at J. O'Conner's drug store, 2,'8 Main street. P. O. box 510. Real Estate Exchange 29 Commercial Street. MONEYTO LOAN On Good Real Estate Security. F. REHRMAN & CO. ACCOUNTANTS. EAEEY E. BROWNE, ACCOUNTANT, EXPERT AND W, 351 south Main 8t The very best of city reference given. AKCiiiTEC rs 0. E. LaBELLE, ARCHITECT. ! EAST FIRST SOUTH Lake City. I am prepared to furnish all manner of plans in the most im-proved style of architecture, such as churches, opera houses, hotels, banking houses, private residences and business blocks of any descrip-tion. Best of references given as to my stand-ing. J. HANSEN, 'LATE OP nmr;AOO. RCHITFCT AND SUPERINTENDENT, has removed his offices to 7, East Second South, room 28. PEED A. BALE, (LATE OF DENVER.) ARCHITECT OF COMMERCIAL BLOCK, UO, Wasatch building. WHITE & ULMER, ARCHITECTS AND SUPERINTENDENTS. and 411, Progress Block, Salt Lake City. THE COTTAGE, CHOICE WINES. CIGARS AND LIQUORS, opposite the Utah & Nevada depot, J. Sullivan, proprietor. E0UD0IE SALOON, 39 MAIN STREET. SALT LAKE CITY, NO.Utah. Hlllstead & Co., dealers in Wine. Liquors and Clears. Salt Lake City Brewing Go's celebrated beer on draught. M0SEEE, FLOOD 4 00,, MIRROR SALOON, 135 MAIN STREET, City. TEE PECENIX SALOON, TE. PEACOCK, PROPRIETOR, 228 STATE Ice cold Beer on draught; choice Wines, Liquors and Cigars. MACHINERY. sIlveYbeos IRON WORKS, MACHINE SHOP AND steam engines, mining and mill ing work, No. 19 west North Temple street; Telephone No. 4J0. MILLINERY AND DRESSMAKING, Geo. M.Scott, JAs. Glendenninc H.S,RCl President. Vice-Preside- GEO. II SCOTT & C( (INCORPORATED.) --DEALERS IKT Hardware and Met Stoves, Tinware, Kill Findings, Etc, AGENTS FOR the Dodge Wood Pulley, Roebling's Steele Cylinder and Engine Oils, Hercules Powder, Atlas Engine, ers, Mack Injectors, Buffalo Scales, Jefferson Horse Whim, Blai, Miners' and Blacksmiths' Tools, Etc. 168 MAIN STREET, Salt Lake City, - - t NOW IS THE TIME! Yes ! Time to See CBTil 1 OLSEN 1 Who Have From S500 and Upwards to Loan on Cood Sesurity or First Mortgage. Will give 1 to 1 V4 per cent Interest. Guar-antee strict business. CFinsfiaosoii & Ob. 29 Commercial St. - Salt kake City A. H. C0HN, THE ONLY LADIES' TAILOR IN THE Ladles desiring the latest styles and fashions will do well to call on him. No. 08 East Second South, rooms 3 and 4. MONEY TO LOAN. "L WATTEESi BROKER, 31 E FIRST SOUTH STREET, Deseret National Bank, Salt Lake City. Makes loans on Watches, Diamonds and Jewelry; rents collected; railroad tickets bought and sold: business confidential. Es-tablished All unredeemed pledges sold at Vuty low rates. MUSIC MAGNU'SOLSON TEACHER OF VIOLIN, GUITAR AND Olson's orchestra and brass band. .Residence, 85 M street, 21st ward. Leave orders at any of the music stores, or at Sharp & Younger's Palace drug store. ATTORNEYS. EiluMNoi IAWYER. ROOMS FIRST FLOOR First South, between Main aud Commercial streets. S. A. MERRITT, CITY ATTORNEY, building. ROOMS 610 611, John M. Breeze, James A. Williams BREEZE & WILLIAMS, ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW- , HOOM3 314 ft 116, O.W. POWERS, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW- , OPPOSITE Second South street. A. L. WILLIAIVIST Second Door North of Postoffice, SOLE uG-ElT- I' UTCCR R, G. PLEASANT VALLEY, CASTLE E Anthracite, Charcoal, Blacksmith and Figiron. Yards Cor. Fifth West and Second Soul Telephone No. 1 70. fncoporated, April 10, 1890. Iota loss Boilding Csupj, J. T. Lynch, F. P. Mogenson, B. R. Hickos - President., ' Treasurer. .:. '. General ll: Sa.lt Lake, Utah. This company is purely a homo institution, organized to stay, and: spectfully invites the attention of those desiring cottages, either for home sale, to the neat, tasty and attractive appearance presented by this cbi tages when completed.1 We claim that they are stronger and warmer il ordinary rustic building, the sections all being made and put together chinery, thereby making the work perfectly tight. We are now prepare! msh estimates, take contracts and complete buildings on short time, t ronage of the public is most respectfully solicited. Office and yard No. 5 A orth Temple street. ,. Examine Oar Plans and Prices Before You Build. OPTICIANS. J!' ST OPENED A FIRST-CLAS- HAVE hmise. Teejr make a specially of making, and repairing spectacles. No. 11 west South Temple. FAINTliKS AND DECORATORS PETEES0N 4 BE0WN, SIGNS, 03 WKST FIRST SOUTH STREET, Lake City. 1'IXMHIMi. " " "A. J. B0UBDETTE & 00,, PLUMBMRS, STEAM AND OAS FITTERS Jobbers, 16 east Second South street, Salt Lake City, Telephone No. 431. JAMES PENWI0K, PRACTICAL PLUMBER, STEAM AND OAS Enslneer. 61 East ThirJ South street, bait Lake City, Utaa. GUMMING 4 GBIT0HL0W, ROOMS 4 AND 6, ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW- , I'M Main street. ' M. E. MoENANY, ATTORNEY-AT-LA- floor. PROGRESS HOOT AND SHOE MAKING. THE PAEAG0N IS THE BEST AND CHEAPEST PLACE for Shoe Repairing. 11 went South Temple street. CIVIL ENGINEERING. HAVILAND & DENBY, (1IVIL ENGINEERS AND SURVEYORS. laid out and platted. Rooms 614 and 615 Progress building; V. O. box 647, Ealt Lake City, Utah. CONTRACTORS AND BUILDERS. DE. ENDRIS, DISEASES of WOOT and CIIILMEilL Koyal University. Julius-MaximUia- - Wurzburg, Bavaria. We hereby certify that Dr. Wra. R. Endrls, of St. Louis, Mo., U. 8. A., has been late as-sistant In the University Hospital, In the wards for Midwifery and for Diseases of Women and Children. Signed) SCANZONIVON LlCHTENPELS, Professor of Midwifery and diseases of Women PlOF. Kl.NDt'LElSCH, Pathology, Histology and Medical Chemistry. To make this certificate valid, we attach the seal of the Royal University. (Signed) Dh. Helde, Rector. Do. Koebel, Sect. Wurzburg, April 34, 1RS2. f Vikxna. Austria, June 29, ISS3. Witness that Da. Wm. H. Enoris of St. Louis, u. S. A., was assistant in the Hospital for Diseases of the Genito-Urlnar- v organs of tliemale and female. Syphilis, etc., and is skilled in the various enerations and treat- ment and In the microscopical and cnemical diagnosis of the urine. (Signed) DR. Robert Ultzman, Prof, of Diseases of Urinarv Organs. Dh. H. Ritteb von Hkbr A, Prof, of Syphilis and Skin Diseases. We hereby certify that Db, Wm. R. Endrib, of St. Louis, was our assistant in the General Hospital, Vienna, in the department for the Heajt and Lungs. Throat and Nose (Catarrh) and has much experience in the diagnosis and treatment of these diseases, (Signed) Dh. Jos. von Drozda, Prof, of Internal Medicine. Profebsob Schnitzleb, Vienna, June 1, 1H84. Office, 2G West 2nd South, opp. Cullen. P.J.M0EAN, STEAM HEATING ENGINEER, 359 MAIN Salt Lake City. plating! Z aviimMANui GOLD, SILVER AND NICKEL PLATING the Dynamo Process. All kinds of repairing done with neatness aud dispatch. Knudson Hhos, 61 E 3d South. P HYSIC1AN3. DR. G. J. FIELD. WASATCH BUILDING, LATE OF ST ( Louis DE. J. S. BLA0KBUEN 4 00., HERNIA SPECIALISTS; RUPTURE cured without surgical opera- tion. 6S E. First South St., opp. the Theater. ' DBS. PEEEMAN 4 BUEB0WS, YE, EAR, NOSE, THROAT. 8PECTA-- J cles accurately fitted. Rooms 17 and la. building. 0HAELE8 E. FIELDS, CONTRACTOR - BUILDING MOVER, and general engineer, brick, adobe or wooden houses raised, moved or repaired. All work guaranteed against cracking or other damages. The only practi-cal building mover west of Chicago, Office aud shops 711) to 7M State road. J. 0. D0WLING, CARPENTER, CONTRACTOR & BUILDER. executed ; fitting up stores and counter making a specialty. itH w. First South street. GE0EGE B0GG8 4 00., CONTRACTING AND BUILDING, FITTING a specialty. Arhitecet-nra- l wood carving. li7 State road, between First and Second South street, DENTISTRY. DE. BIS0H0F, DENTIST, ins SOUTH MAIN STREET, and 9. Teeth extracted without pain. Teeth extracted plain 9f cents, with cocaine Nl cents. Durable fillings Bo, 75 cents and upward. Best set of teeth sflO. All work guaranteed. Open from 8 a. m. to p. m.; Sundays from 8 a. m. to 1 p, in. Cut this out. ENGRAVING. Frankin Fire Insurance I Of Philadelphia. Organized 1829. -:- - Charter Perp Assets, - - $3,174,357.04 Insurance Reserve, - 1,765,294.71 Continental Insurance Compani ' Cf Hew "2"orlr. SALT LAKE VALLEY Loan and Trust Company, Salt Lake City, TtaK CAPITAL . . . $300,000. Money to loan on real estate and other good securities, on short and long time. wbectobs: ?vJZSili'!!urv'e'- - H. Dyer, Vice-P-McCornuk, George M. Downey. 8. Bamberger, John A. Groesbech Emanuel Kahn, M. K. Kvam, G. M. Cumming, Secretary. S.H.FieUlt,Jr. . . Treasurer. Real Estate Mortgages, guaranteed by the company, for sale. Office Daft building, No. 138 Mainst KKAL ESTATE AND LOANS. THE SYNDICATE INVESTMENT 00., REAL ESTATE, ROOM 1, OVER BANK OF Lake. Investments for non residents a specialty. MONEY WANTED. 1 F YOU DESIRE A GOOD LOAN PLACED 1 on real estate, call on S. F. Spencer, 967 Main street. J, JEPPEES0N, IPRACTICAL SCULPTOR AND CARVER, Office, 11 east North Temple street. J. . WHITE0AE, DESIGNER AND building. ENGRAVER ON WOOD, FURNITURE. SANDBEEG FUENITUEE 00.. MANUFACTURERS AND DEALERS IN School Desks. d.W. Farrell & Co pfi 1 Flmliers, Gas & Steam Fitters Dealers in all Kinds of Lift and Force Pumps Orders taken for Drive and Dug Wells Co1Moilusmbuilt and Connection mad SJrert, opo. Auerback Bros. Telephone 2M, ALFEED DUNSHEE, REAL ESTATE, LOANS, INVESTMENTS Main street rear Jones Bank. Salt Lake City Utah. " J. G. JACOBS & 00. REAL ESTATE DEALERS, M7 PROGRESS have for sale residence pronertv in all parts of the city; also choice bargains In business and farm property. THE MIDLAND INVESTMENT 00. BARGAINS IN REAL ESTATE, LOANS No. 177 Main street BUET0N, GE0ESBE0K & 00., REAL ESTATE, NO. 98 MAIN STREET Lalio City, Utah. Notary in office Telephone RESTAURANTS. foNfAiNlrabHSTMD7 TERRY T. SHIMOTSAKA, PROPRIETOR rl NO. 115. South Main street. Short order meals at all hours. Commutation Tickets J g. SALT LAKE WAFFLE 4 CHOP HOUSE MEALS AT ALL HOURS FROM 15 CENTS wet.o Second street. Jones & Sin-iq-proprietors. Cash Capital, - $1,000,000.00 Insurance Reserve, - ' 2,470,343.24 Assets, - - . - 5,217,773.01 When you purchase a policy that you expect worth $2000 in cass of fire, you should investigate the pany with the same care that you would use in lending sum'. No States in the Union have as good insurance as New York and Pennsylvania. Call at our office for copy of the Safety Fund i This law prevents the failure of a company by great tt grations. Under this law none of the surplus funds c divided among stockholders. ; Both have to be held fe security of policy holders as long as a policy remains in: ' DAVIS & STRINGER, 23 West Second South st .. ' ' ' Two doors east of Cullen Hotel. &geiH SSPEGIAL-S-Our Addition corner of Second West and Tenth South, with fine .trees on all streets and alleys, is the choice subdivi- - r-- ... ,. sipn adjoining the city. " Ties are now distributed and cars will be ' running on becond West and Tenth South within sixty days. Lots at original price until August ist only. Davis & String Screen doors and Windows. Johbing and re- - Eairing promptly attended to. 108 and 110 W. outh Temple street. GROCERIES. W, E, D. BAENETTrigS CGROCERIES FRUITS, POULTRY, PRO-- I visions. Flour, Feed and Fresh Meats; 68 east Third South street; telephone 454. E0GEE8 & COMPANY, THE LEADING street. GROCERS, 45 EAST FIRST FEED G. LYNGBEEG, CTAPLE AND FANCY GROCERIES, PRO-- visions, Fruit, Vegetables, Poultry, Fish, Uame, eto. 63 east First South street. Tele-phone (W. john McDonald & sons, IMNE TEAS AND COFFEES A SPECIAL. Main street. 0. M. HANSEN, DEALER IN CHOICE FANCY GROCERIES Grain, Coal and Kindling Wood, corner Third South and State street. mTtobias & son; DEALER IN FANCY GROCERIES. Poultry. Fruit anil Vegetables. All booos delivered to any part of the city. No. 818 south First East street. ELI L. PEI0E, CGROCERIES AND PROVISIONS, 354 MAIN J street. insuranck; LOUIS HYAMS & CO. FIRE, LIFE AND ACCIDENT. MUTUAL jBjjioiLlIe ol New York. 614 and 616 Progress GLOBE CAFE, S Fi.BAH:Co- - MEALS AT ALL HOURS 24 Main street. Salt Lake City. SECOND-HAN- D CLOTHJNoT mTlevey, "TJEALER rN CAST OFF AND SECOND Hand clothing ; hiphest cash price paid for u??;.n",t,2 bv maU Promptly attendeS to;all tailoring done. 6)1 w. First South street. STENOGRAPHY. F. E. MoGuiBIN " 0FsLAKLS.TENCHiRAPHER;ALLKIND3 and Typewriting. Dealer in Rminirton Typewriter and supplies; Progress Lombard Investment Co. OP ' Kansas City, Mo, ana Boston? Mass. Branch office for Utah and southern Idaho, Corner First South and Main Streets lt Lake City, Utah. ' W. H. DALE, . Manager. Make Loan, on Farm and Citu Pranertu at Easn Mate. ' TP DAYS OF TORTURE. A Stowaway Suffers For Thirty Hours in a Crank Fit--A Frightful Experience. - LIVES TO TELL A E0EEIBLE ST0ET. Lying Below a Shaft That Made Twenty-Fou- r Revolutions a Minute. ' This poor fellow wan an Englishman who had become penniless, discouraged and homesick. He made up his mind in his desperation to stow himself away and tulce his chances. lie stole into an ocean steamship one of the regular liners which ply between New York and Livorpool and hunted for a hiding-plac- e. He knew nothing about ma-chinery, and in his ignorance he picked out the most horrible place in the whole hip. It looked quite attractive when the poor fellow picked it out, and he thought that he was lucky to find it. It was the hole the crank pit, I think it is called in the floor of the engine room into which the great crank sinks twenty-fou- r times a minute when the Teasel is at full speed. While the vessel was still this crank was elevated above the hole, and the unfortunate man, ig-norant of marine engines, didn't know that in a few minutes it would descend with terrible effect upon him. He crept in; the ship started. The crank in its first descent struck his loft arm with terrrible force and croshtd it. He could not move, for in less than three seconds down it came again, crushing more bones and tearing more flesh. Just imagine such a fate if you can. The wretched man drew himself into the smallest compass he could and expected death. Every time the crank ' came down it escaped his head by about ' an inch and a half. He didn't know the exact distance, of course, but he knew it , came very near, and he was in mortal dread that it would come nearer. SUPERSTITIOUS SEAMEN. Most of this that I have been telling cam from the lips of the stowaway. For be lived to tell it, and is still alive. He must have fainted away after enduring this terrible agony for a while, and prob-ably he did not again regain conscious-ness until the ship was twenty-eigh- t hours beyond Sandy Hook. It was then the middle of the night, and one of the assistant engineers, who had charge of the engines on that watch, hoard heart-rending groans proceed from the ma-chinery. He was horrified, and the men employed about the engines, who are , superstitious, were not only appalled but thoroughly frightened, so much so that they became demoralized and almost un-fcb- le to work. The assistant engineer went to the chief engineer and reported to him what he had heard. He was called a fool for his pains. Presently his watch was over and he was relieved. This new assistant engineer heard the groans, too, and, thoroughly alarmed, he appealed to the chief engineer, and succeeded in getting him out of his berth into the engine room. The chief heard them, too, and at once stopped the Bhip. The watch on deck was called down and the machinery was thoroughly examined by the light of lanterns. What demoralized the super-stitions men about the engines was the impossibility, as they believed, of a human being remaining alive amid the swiftly moving, gigantic machinery, and their natural inference was that ghosts or fiends were present and the ship was doomed. SAVED AT. LAST. By and by a lantern was lowered into the crank pit, and a bundle of rags was discovered at the bottom. On being ' prodded a groan proceeded from the rags. They were lifted up, and in them was a man, limp and bruised and bloody. Terror and anguish and wounds had de-prived him of sense and almost of hu-man semblanoe. He could not talk; he could only uttor groans, which pierced ' the inmost hearts of the hearers, they were so pitiful. Luckily for the poor - stowaway the surgeon of the ship was a humane and skillful man. He said af-terward that he was bound to save that man if he could, so as to find out how he got into the pit, and was not killed at onoe when the engine began to move. The surgeon attended him night and day. He was obliged to amputate the arm or it wonld have mortified, it was . so dreadfully crushed. The other wounds and bruises he healed, so that the man was able to walk to the hospital when he got to Liverpool. There he was cured Of everytfiin except the shock to the Berves whicla he received. That will never be got over. Do his best, he says, the thirty hours he spent in that torture pit, with the great crank crushing into his flesh twenty-fou- r times a minute, can never be got out of his mind. That hor-ror is soared into his soul for the re-mainder of his life. New York Star. :r AN INCIDENT. A Simple Tale of Some flcn, Some Lies ana a Ticket. ' lie was a thin, sallow faced man, with a large, drooping mustache, a square jaw, bright, restless eyes fringed by thick, black brows. He placed his smoothly brushed silk hat on the rack, and occupied the place at table opposite me. At length he ad-dressed me: "Are you in the picture business, toof" Unformed him "No," without any at-tempt at studied civility. "Perhaps tome of the other gentlemen are," he persevered. A few shakes from as many heads were the only replies he received, but even those encouraged him, for he continued: "Those are my samples in the office. I tell you" effusively, he had found a list-ener at his right-"t- he picture business is the thing there's money in. You'd be sur-prised to know the amount of orders I take. You're atravellug man, I suppose?" The party at his right nodded. "Us traveling men should be more socia-ble," continued theplcture agent. "What's life without sociability?" By dint of a tenacity which I was forced to admire the fellow raised quits a conver-sational breeze. He was in love with his profession. The expression "traveling man" had for lilm a fascination, and he used it frequently as he related exploits in which he had participated while on the road. "Oh, us traveling men get on to all the snaps that's going," he declared, and then related with considerable esprit an expe-rience of his on the Southern Pacific road. "I took the overland at Eoseburg," he said. "Sticking on the back of the seat in front of me was a conductor's chock. I made abet with a friend also a traveling man that I could use that check as a pass to my destination. I put the thing in my hat. The' conductor came through the car, looked nt my check and passed on. I won the bet and also the price of the ticket, for here it is, unpunched," and he held aloof the bit of pasteboard. At the conclusion of this narrative the portly gentleman who occupied the head of the table was regarding him with soma attention. This so pleased the fellow that he inquired of the gentleman if the trick had not been well carried. "Admirably," was the answer. "And is that the ticket in your hand?" "Yes," in unconcealed glee. "Want to see it?" The gentleman's face still denoting in-terest the ticket was passed to him. Dur-ing its passage the picture vender offered to dispose of it to any one south bound for half its value. "You're ahead of the company this time certainly," the portly gentleman declared. "That's the size of it," with a chuckle. "You did it very well," in a dignified tone. "You're a successful canvasser, I'll wager." "Decidedly so," profusely. The man's head was fairly turned by the attention given him. "What house do you represent?" was tho portly gentleman's next question. Immediately the man's card was forth-coming and passed down tho table, while the person whom it advertised principally sat enjoying the situation, fully imbued with the idea that he had attained tho acme of popularity. "Indeedl" the gentleman exclaimed, and read the card. Then he placed both card and ticket In his pocket. "You'll honor me by keeping the card," the man said jocosely; "but there's money in the ticket, and I generally get out all the money there is in anything." Ills was the loudest laugh at this sally. "I beg you'll excuse me," the gentleman returned quietly. "I would like to retain this ticket, as it bears my autograph." 'Your autographl" There was evidently something less comi-cal in the situation, for the man had conned his hilarity. Ills face was considerably Hushed. A piece of meat he was masti-cating bade fair to choke him. "I am the general passenger agent of tho Southern Pacific road," was the answer. The man had evoked a degree of atten-tion really painful by this time. We were all staring and grinning. "So you evaded your fare?" came the measured tone from the head of the table. "Well, if you call it that," with a gulp. He looked ill. "Pretty serious offense, isn't it?" asked the gentleman at my left, who had been one of the original three at the table. "Not less than six mouths' nor more than three years' imprisonment," replied the agent. "I have your card, sir," to the thoroughly discomfited picture man; "I'll wait on you later." The picture man made a few attempts at his dessert. At last he rose abruptly, upsetting his chair, and reached for his hat, but on account of excessive nervous-ness he only succeeded in knock ing it to tho floor. Scrambling after it he dashed from the dining room. When we filed into the hotel office the gaudily painted pictures with tho picture dealer himself had departed the house. The imperturbability of the S. P. agent's countenance when informed of this fact I attributed to the excellent facilities in his possession for capturing his man at any time. Consequently I was not a little sur-prised about an hour later to bo waited on by the company with whom I had dined minus the picture vender. "The S. P. passenger agent, you know!" the crowd explaiued. Amid much hilarity I was conducted to that portly personage. "Hasn't he tumbled?" inquired the S. P. man. ."Come, boys, do the agreeable!" In answer to this request I was presented to Mx. Blank, farming implements, "Oh, I see," I said, for it began to dawn on mo that anOskosh man would have a free ride to Koseburg. C. P. M. in West Shore. Kissing the Rod. Small Boy (who has been undergoing imprisonment in a dark closet, where he ha discovered and slyly oaten nearly a whole jar of preserves) I was very naughty to run away, mamma, and I think you did just right to punish me the way you did. Harper's Bncur. A Tree Growing In Hid Air. ' Thore is to be seen a few miles from the outskirts of Richmond, Tex. ,a natural curiosity, the like of which is perhaps to be found nowhere else in the world. It is an enormous oak tree literally suspend-ed in the air. It stands in the midst of a dense grove known as Bentley's wood, and is made quite a show of. The mys-tery of its supension is that numerous hunting parties having camped beneath it during a period of many years their fires have gradually burned the trunk entirely away for a distance of six feet, but its large and spreading branches are so closely entwined in those of the trees growing closely about it that it is sup-ported by thorn. Just how its hnpre bulk is nourished is a mystery, but that it is well nourished is evident, for it is green and flourishing. Cor. Philadelphia Times. Honesty In Maine. An Auburn business man was surpris-ed the other day to see an old customer come into his store and pay him a bill, with interest, which was contracted forty years ago when he was doing busi-ness in another town. It was a small bill, and the one to whom it was due had forgotten all about it. Lewiston Journal. Proposed to Keep Cool. TV) fluttered into the firug store with a lineadustcr, beneath which appeared whit trousers and lawn tennis shoes. He didn't have a sign of a collar on and he used his hat as a fan as he sunk into a chair. "Gimme fifty cents worth of muriatic acid, quick!" he said. "What forf" asked the chemist. "I'm going to drink it" "Why, man alive, dont you know it will take tho coat off your stomach?" "That's what I want. I'm wrestling with the weather, I am, and I'm goin' to git the coat off thut stomach so quick that it'll be likeswallerln' an ice house." Washington Post, , Two Desperate Criminals. Sluggers There goes a fellow who pos eeses every kind of vice. He's a carpen---. ter. . Swift Ah! but he has just passed a man whose hands are literally steeped in blood. He's our butcher. American Grocer, |