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Show acne enceren hn lane ee ape a D8: NORTH le POL prospector: his had | He men often have talked of a one-man gash for the North Pole. There has t safled from Hamburg a ~ started. ge boat is the little one corner conclu- | Charlgr but Last Its owner a says December, . | Mae w of six men the North Pole. Pole a few days with his| : s 2¢ asked. us. of of S. Kyle “What by a witness, Cbhambers- | ° replied Now, speak up and “And yppattered, “The @ does net dene ” near ang oe of4 yours. vases Tell the courtea your born on birthday Feb. only in four years.”—London Stealing a Steam A gentleman in Waldo, who Mass., Was The BY GEORGE a a) ee ee ae ae ae appearance and climbed mill large ee ae a ee a a ) guided by ) $ ; d 6 to take either the Franz Josef Land or the Greenland route, according to weather and ice conditions. Despite the small size of his vessel he carries enough provisions and fuel h for three I ed in water-tight his for All which boxes, constructed that they can be used either as rafts or on the pottom, ‘ i ‘Z t t : t 0 " 0 a Sag from a letter a Frank F.| opened the throttle ‘ was rechief. and appealed to the audience to | Woman's letter, which in turn Into his | covered by Geyer and sent by him to| supply the ‘aendal article. Miss Kyle. pocket the lieutenant governor thrust i t it « when d wnen his A hand i. came OUT Sem BORG, Ane. A Chief Justice’s Jests. the handkerchief, clutching it was : d a ig a alse ~ cé y a ie . Dh ig . cs a esata coeoasa li recognizing Sionte, o what # ee the “ “ eka es ‘i i aa broke | leader, es NN wide there| and | | | . .. ogg Deiter ee p d n n e J . & coal great day, One writes, before gict ~; tice took sick, when another: the benches ew were ™ legal sorresponaes chiefre jus-. lord the late itti ¢ he ee ares = Sou we Darriaie? ee a during sagt —— i eS Seen oe asi seiole peneny oe ee big- woman the you came Slate Pencils. were formerly as it is dug from was instead So, the a current new of giving aside mizing from with ment, a they, As philosophized ineptly. we go and show you she said, oe PROXY TALKERS. the crop as a mechanical substitute for the tired or bashful candidate is likely to be light in Bar- an interesting feature of the approaching general] election. For some years each other the talking machine portant part in the Walt’s they could view too, main to his were December breathing one for econo- establish- on, the §. his political views into the fe funnel of a phonograph and allowing the machine to do the rest on tour. In the hands of a capable agent, and under the control of a popular chairman, the meeting of electors takes place just as if the candidates were present | in person, and with certain saving. came if has played an impolities of Amer- ica, where in many instances the candidate has in the retirement of his own heme contented himself while gifts young oa t Hi os ie 5 i icism, it may refer to the candidate in at the boundaries was a favorite exercise with him, but this was another man’s land. Walt father!” side, off “You're “Yes, yes, Barden halted. shouted. he the house mood. as were the that to know be to engaged ed, sad, joyful up with dad sald #8 fa : ‘ Something’s Wait-to Laure. “atew coverine ap all result. its and dough is subjected to a heavy hy- put coal out spread it thick, though!” On Christmas Eve the both sides was complete. ‘tise walen choad forty feet I followthe course of the ed in imaginatfon steel—felt alternately hope and disgnnointment as in Barden’s subdued 5 : ten yoice these were echoed across | “Was : y ch iE ' é “at nap. et called into use, but conveyances were he Gne tnast’ often seta Aha tae ae in only are found caravans, which served as temporary rural districts, boilthe frum retreats bathhouses and The temperature was about ing sun. no terrors for. the it had 100, , but _, | ? I ma i ae tt | served as bathing suits for the women, and shirts answered the while overalls Ce The bath same purpose for the men. was the important event of the day ~, it coal?” ea JA. ' and at the same time favorable. Then answered slowly. be “r-—well, I wasn’t quite sure—an’ devices, and in the yambh'ing heavily ‘ . were gonenarrowly fights free several down eun had The avoided. carawhen the farmers entered their Many peer caseoon 3 new drill to the “Hj 8 hands clenched ms , just with meso couldn’t ‘at was them we eaveted {t for certain, make out three-card the came it to next monte men, the shell gamblers and the The farmers lost eane and ring men. rr (| / and , a Old calico wrappera pleasure-seekers. ; ifs se 0Gll caravan canvas covered cae WH “a f t 500 b b = arm but abou sometimes called, ers and their families from Monmouth and Ocean counties celebrated the ocPond, between Sea casion at Wreck Lake, of All sorts Girt and Spring surprise on Just before j / / 4 He hesitated, hunting, no doubt, for the | and | larguage that would be conscientious the prope tor unfavorabie decidedly to trying and is of by Inch ia ws as end it, of Salt Water Day or the trying '9we | observance endf his It, andmind. is Won’t - Annual |. Carnival, as it is We | warmers’ Ont his mind, 1] wedding 1 will and held up a much in the: ; "bout as big as that.’—he 5 The! scarred hand, the thumb to the first bolted. a dough ané | joint thrust out between the fingers. draulic pressure, which. presses pencils out in the required shape attend Asbury Park (N. J.) Cor. of the New eo last ten years.” was The niaheat tasSaturday York Sun: . cine th f : . “He thinks our | . 0 of the his tracks Laura beamed. the drill and for-| years, At length he told ofhowblack to a very fine powder, all grit the stuff pow- | threw up “a litle piece ‘sia perhaps not he aid that gratified feels tomato and the proceedings upon | produces came the in busy nightfall at cax be sent back to the candidate, who re- long after this they Not when records the is over meeting that so audience, the of feeling mysterious | the a in “Gentlemen, I am | pausing to say: | much touched,” when a retired eg§ breaks impotently inside the funnel | By a simple contrivance the phono | 8Taph may be made to register the joined and replied, course,” to he loved | them to Platteville back of that, | lad, of proprietor’s views on the war of the acre lot adjoining even round his ground | youthful offenders’ act without ten the Striding inch, through sand, water, gravel, clay, so made were objected | to on account of the grit which they) To overcome this difficu'ty | contained. a scientific man devised an ingeniuos | ate i i Thich process by which ihe slate is ground eign substances removed, silk der bolted through as flour is same manner owder is then made into started homeward, and vans summer guests of Asbury Park, Long the last. iis | to Muzzy, the blacksmith. He worked wine babies i os y ; Scotch. pronounced badly very some At/| were present Pekin. at Girt Set and compounds the legation . | in the mines once, and Muzzy took it | the ceremony the prospector produced | Branch blavar ok <cibvs tha r swore | After the confusion caused by his ap- | 4 . lieutenant governor first the the carnival. enjoyed and | of Laura, and Walt to running deed, a | it called and—we up, it chewed and | Der. Pp they Sir ' where subsided, had blunder that a substitution had been made, but | parent the adjoining ten acre lot. coal.” EDL DELLE cena a ie das ine ule It’s “Build your house there,boy. and feels like sighing When one The onion is appetizin : epite of right; you didn’t know, but I’ve all | cue proper laughing both at once the eaccad oS eka, with atau Autiahhe the long | saved it. The land’s your’n and Not until after a is “mum.” mow deahd . ab i i care BONE. little .gal’s for a home.” pause did I venture to ask, “Have you 6 a * » "7 . > ; ae ViROgAt, conparcel the placed Then the two never followed it up?” “Oh, it’s no use without a diamond | taining the drill in his hands. drill The drill. * I ume that I had OP ee eayory orTSScold Afish meats the gossip, highway Tha: * * than the kitchen- — a — What made myself, It would take a good | platteville News, printed a long notice “ What eo oe ee . ; © vi as it? point to reach the—to get down to it. | of the wedding, without so much ae her Jar of p an ea on a hint of this “spreading it on thick.” | eliminates bu “How much would a drill cost?” I | a After much of the il odor, took the the wedding they was prepared for four figures, an as valuable less bulb the renders house, Jenifer the in live to prospector | nigh cost would one good a “Well, is. : up to seventy-five dollars, prob'ly.” which was tight and warm. All were | article of diet than the raw onion renders was bankruptcy. contented He must have felt the circuit of sym- | when : he had been for years. | !t than the Even He was better This | attentive to him there. I ground my heel in the sand. frost : : There, in the midst of tomato vine, ' was the excavation, some four or five ft feet " on the edge a paused the across a at might of it as he grave’s edge. There |. .+6ut have p 2 via inv! 1 and beard were grizzled. He began showing me in detail exactly how he is about to sink his drill. 4 Bad oe the Athens find their itself ways ants heats of en | and whichhascallscurious the Spree, on Berlin, unwieldly, and | although famous, that ‘on itself foying muddy, river. The picture shows one throwing their | passed by the curious ofcallthose Otways.su) cat “river- ing bronchos. it a curious The Berliners horse a ai Citizens race.” oe do as of not hesitate substance turning |in the water, and so unhorse their |to make up for that he excellent | none of the horses to enter | daring riders, and he is an that does | has been drugged. d fortunate jockey, indeed, d found ae any | races. wasiness with knows that rave Ma that has entered | ne Oe sd No poclrooms do - the a peabeal azt. Saar ’ the word coal, “I he, said stance scrupulously er us On tc peer out AIS wide OFS for burnt-sugar when see the of can 4c ie rub the frost past the Rint from “black knows the tne bare-limbed with a that sub- black found in fired for the making the jack,” gravy coloring, the value of which is well known to This the maker of meat extracts. caramelin is due to the presence of carbon in the onion and sugar alike.— ter | Chambers’ cotton woods, tap nervously on the sill | 2d heave a great sigh, which trane- | “When theit frost does!”gets || ever just ated 0 meant: the ground—if ORE Perhaps in such moeds he had #| foreboding of the truth—that it never | in time I him, Would, Winter was prolonged caramelin, of identical “Plenty jin ‘ha wilaus acw—be jie Ain’t it grand? The Platte Valet.” ua what silee own ee mes he would | Pane. anh "| Oe aeares oing eh Barden, for all that he | point in its favor cae eet is hard, one riding about as || bis warvatien tate Otthem ra ae deaf,Sie heard val 5 mirch ‘ th @ | wasa eather scandals ce | & that noges tur! a fractious ates steeds eesadly . | poe oe oe no — coger for with propensities ae A nia having “po ais nea” riders that are not sur- | & joc ey the answer in a boy- | ¢ame “So-ho!” pui| t T cil ave | “tingerm and | of buck most it, but Pinte aiA “Hello!” in a cleas Weetle t of love to roll over | The starter has a we They bucking is the thecontest, horses | not get more swimming thanBut river Cone The great brink. draws river’swhich to horse races. carved horses’ necks in ordinary are barrels with d gone Pres- - plat—but an the everybody,” was more light here, the place being open ' to the stars, and I scrutinized his face He was bent, his hair (and figure. . fresh bulb the housewife fried onion—that rich and savory dish —and knows also that if she would abo wn in | Presence ‘aah an ausie to the suetace jet Neal paused Barden top. than useful Every 1. thought if as | than the fried bulb, more especially drew elaborate plans of the stratadrillshe includes a little of the skin in her |}. pag found them at the former the to due is coloring This frying. and such at lying At the bottom, ing. you—like to come out—an’| see the hole?” He led me into a narrow garden. n the soaking in vinegar it sometinies when | have & Fich brown coloriig for Be side him—fondled he was unobserved. He gravies she can find nothing better | Der:“Would ? : : less sliced. the o’ gets out “we'll see— | pathy to be established between us, | ground,” he would say, he kept be‘for he said in a confiding half whis- | what we'll see.” The drill é ' | i 1+ j unmix an is opinions ical poli unwillingness | © a new discover to prise — poy eee ee Wat or out on the subject of drills. had gossip persons shaft the the| f : on forgot the lovers and all else not closely pertaining to the sinking of : : !: little him. 2 How genuine was my intermar®ed. account will in the est I say that I very soon when prospector’s appear all eut| ! 8 ‘ so there him and village the wonder Gannore hasten their to Mr. is still on the t : : ‘ “Shall grave?” also and buy something for him. Only something there was, of course, he But sequent story a was It was said beauty, : non een but in lengths of aboui | diameter, Two motherp-in-law,” the wipe” by one corner and shook | amy? met Gamerst, | stantly replied Russell. On one occa- | three the pencils yet soft lengths it out, and as he did : so Woodruft’s While feet. saa | the desired inte eut are the help to went Russell Lord sion as long as it had previous; face grew After air. open the in dry to out set eet his aoe is eeuaanis Sy — wach | ae of | began a ee aee purpose with of setene een of holes speecher as one Ne kerchief was as full @ . the But had he they save what little money Besides the | lite went up into the stillaess of the night | jae dtemacy c in n bieeaedens s 4a : : Gee such a screech as wass never befofore |oo heard in Waldo. People jumped from | the drilling, I had a desire if possible ‘ :in a fright ' and wondered their beds Walt, who to see something 1 ofhadyoung seen the youth lived with him. The boys tumbled off what was up. 2 : . the roof of that mill as though shot, of singular | about town with a girl saat ; and departed as rapidly as their legs partaken so far of About Timothy L. Woodruff, lieutenant gov- is presumed that the soldier oe a late pencils ee es ant * In one of his | &T — ernor of New York. just slate erom | ‘ afierwar was who Filipino, feats of legerdemain the magician required the use of a pocket handker- | ified his pocket and found the young earth. Pencils - I had Only one English member earth, | in person. shoveling “Yes, came back satisfied we was | garden, apparently noticed that the | of parliament has so far addressed his on the right side o’ the river for it.” | In the morning Walt in level with | constituents by means of the phone I soon noticed that he never said the | old coal shaft was filled This enterprising gentleman id graph, the surface. it. avoid if he could ‘coal’ word fe MP. V. for ms : : face these : John Dorniman, days | Frederick prospector’s The other interest But lately he had one 4 Danek a , ne Penrayn, y and Falmouth | come to contend with the coal hope | Wore a look that was at once determin- | | ' carry them, from | could taken soldier that the statespocket | fired a gun after them Filipino dead was of a letter the Joke wa Lieut. Gov. Woodraff. The whistle retreat. | Americans, the by killed been had who | magician a in Albany wint Last a small | gaill the lett 7 . | . sii eal consal It d oigel ger a a oe . i American flag,. staine was | pera stage es the eee those seated near thc among ee t} of dollars amount. face. thet satisfied—?” GaN CaN TENN a of Company G, 28th | crew are enthusiastic and expressed | Geyer, a member ote i 4 t ’ ” infantry, who | i States United hey | regiment, eeé themselves as confident Reading, Pa., recov-| in home would return with the secret of the | jg : at his ering from wounds received in battle| The depar-| pole in their possession. , In the letter was a fragture of the little craft from Hamburg | near Manila. Miss| was made the occasion of a tremend-| ment of the missive sent by Kyle to the Columbus soldier. Geyer | ous farewell manifestation. evidently fresh from + Bf neatly folded and I, ih Ti Q i ely year several crops two past pacing off pilgrimages to lying | his own. mines made had the “Then | NS J A\\ while : the still requisite Meanwhile Walt and Laura had 4 secret of their own, In the early days of their betrothal Laura suggested | refused to marry a disfigured man. eae “ea? We My ieee so that each box is a sled also. Captain von Bauendahl has spent his for theee Picton ae ote, SMR preparation fortune entire . Saale ats j ™ “ in ; trip. He is 45 years old and has pass- | mannan ed seventeen years; at sea. He and his | jyst received : ened. attempted to draw the prospectDp /nin | people scoffer. he There i . ' ¥ But den’s enthusiast—“Mus:- more | too. They § ever “Walked every fuct | Nebraska. |mnear | o’ the way” said he, with quiet pride. | | “Was gone two years from home, ].st | | my eye in an accident in the Bloss | mine.” D / wisk a: readily appre thought he knew pretty well what im- | cessful candidates will For the unpopular candidate the | light treatment of his hobby that I | Plement was wanted, but it would not | ciate. — urs as geccrtnae 2 surre Imagine now, blunder to do just | was naturally received at first as | strength | most of moment. any at boats runners have great imaginable, it | sidewalk. and he was only relating in | the catalogue had disappeared. Search | every unpublished term throw antiquated | the dusk the progres of his boring o! | Tevealed the book all but hidden back | may even want to but the machine, vegetables at him, of the school books on the shelf, |ten years before, but was exploiting impervious, will ge | his whole theory of river valiey coal | One evening Walt and Laura return- | deaf, blind and better ed from a walk found the old man | right along, steadily grinding out it and In better days | beds. are so 5 The os 4 i is pack- cargo his death. i be r B 5 ing Co.) Pub. Story of 8 reach oar " pot: eee oe ° . vie ae e — os or + eines suddenly turned away, fright- | utes we sat cheek by jowl upon the | the mining machinery catalogue, but and to lessness unsue expects He circumstances. years. are return ! heartless blessing. The hostile constituency may | must have detected a note of sincerity | 0M the old man’s part to be led upon | Then they thought of | roar itself hoarse with unfriendly crit the subject. | in my questions, for before many min- to leave plans week... hoarded a little corn for the day Of & | yee of the Phonograph for Politien! better price. In the fall of this year OGraters Is l'opuiar, the better price prevailed. By drawThe employment of the phonograph BEARDSLEY. broken upon the roof | quaint || Be-Coal” ” an as one applied abead with sleds. If he finds pack ice so thick that he cannot enter the water His : of in was the the out Hrill, Dally 1900: and to abandon the craft and force his way Isiands his craft at the Seven press north in small boats. moxt summer. it of short “and it was coal?” I demanded | eagerly. I was sorry to press the old man 89 | ejogely for the exact truth, but I had | probably a more practical interest in who had his narrative than anybody qill permit him to do, As soon as be . meets 4 solid icy barrier he proposes : ; the slowness; wedding his they had called him of the building. Just for twenty years. The prosa wrench to the whistle, Mr. Sanborn | | Platteville to pector had grown so accustomed in the Aratic cirele he intends e ;| from whistle, which he carried home A number of _and placed on his mill. stealing | boys conceived the idea of For I owned a this whistle—‘just for a lark,” they |ever listened to it. said. The owner, hearing of their | modest acreage of that prairie mysef a romantic curiosity to plan, remained in his mill all night. land I had Sixty pounds of steam was kept up. | know what was under the surface. For | this reason I had hunted up Barden— About midnight the boys put in an ; 8 gone following pitiful clearing, mighty Mebeaske the drill fund could be completed. /one . had Diamond (Copyrighted, steam , » that of giant * a dollars each year, toward the price of | the children say.” The young wife gave me a grateful a diamond drill. The fund grew with look, and slipped her hand in Walt’s he like to the scene of a hundred oaks in the waste of its empty space. 29, in leap comes once a steam fell; and * ) io, to 5 add. om Oe haste “A great many Se times It seems the prospector, for years, | the frost does come out of the ground in time and the wish ‘comes true,’ as had been secretly saving, a very few Hall Caine in the Home Journal. Whistie. has the over unbroken, unbeaten, when the place, News. - purchasod y nee eir in n themselves when the storms were was the forest dell, breadth the . | And | “Don’t trifle with the court, and re| member you are ou oeth.” “It’s quite true. I was year, and my , dae himself get His plan is to sail as far north as|to the Philippines, and Miss Kyle| ™®mts” “I celehas| age.” . “Well,” said the man, She open water or channels through the ice | heard nothing from him. | brated my twelfth birthday last week.” | , the season, a belt of protecting trees. But at length and still sir. “Yes, be exact.” Well, of all the——” do t is your age’ witness. the ing?” court n “Is it my age you are ask- be exact! for | this place, wrote a letter to a soldier in Columbus, 0. He enlisted to go his run to begin George + tele had a delightful summons to the wedding, but when the holidays came it was impossible for me to leave New aa a Sosa - brpseeige'e branches roared, at eS 9 ey earth sprang up » rH “That is the tragedy of existence,” I heaped up thick—not spread out thin,’ says she, go Christmas Eve it’s to be.” | Suggested; “not death, but the ruth- ee others, over high so i. ik |, 4 on one occasion he fina was ¢iztinctly beat-os daughter a Kyle, tice of the Peace Although um- | ° me oe in a burst, ground— that on grew towering | And and he began to be—of a ck areca, this his hold om the | wan "ota With sky, bud | rivaled in the art of cross-examination, | Only the ripe young acorns it flung to War. Leve and It de- tons. | yan when that trees | ap- dr'nk sometimes I “end have | proceeded, is should as he usually maculate and he intends to sail from | Sadie Within fromsoe Tremendous was in the a thousand | and none knew Scotch, speak not do ¥ Such.” possessed and tried to palm off go tat-| Scotch.” ind eaptain is Captain-Lleutenent von | burg (Pa.) letter in the Baltimore Sun,| ; 1 vote head seen Plain how it was that anyone so im- | plause fNtowed, whereupon Sir Charles | Matador, a | tered a rag in place of a handkerchief. | audience was secured. pends wholly on sail power. pauendani, Musselt (as he then was) said: ever | “Gentiewta, and ownership, since he has been vainly trying to ex-| | mmon Worth sea fishing boat, with , register of forty-four in his peeved sively little ves- wi with a crew of six which will come } yearer to this than has any Arctic exst yedition thet ever moeesreia “The wedding will be soon?” “Christmas Eve,” said he—‘the little gal’s idea. She says, ‘I like good time Mis feet isid held of the mari! and earth, A fearfully short notice. Barden was cut down between a Thursday aad Sunday. His hands clenched the new drill te the last, they told me. left I turned to the After the lovers OAK, OLD THE See : . eionanricentiremenitna «eet >... Ce tourna. ea Detectives Goard EKmpress. The empress dowager of Russia has always declined to accept the guarRussianOn detectives vist, dianship her present during visits ofhome. her however, this custom has been seas at the command of the reigning czar, of the and, much against the desire into March. | empress, she is now followed by eight Russian detectives of the international After a thaw in February, there was a || service, Four of these detectives have ill” gaid Barden, | flerce aftermath. There was much and four ness in the county, Pneumonia claim- | taken station at Fredensborg h “Come along, and have a visit with ue river-horse | all.” ed more than one life life in in Platteville on at Copenhagen. |