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Show ? V . ' e first astor and the Id scratched It. I staked out a kla and sold It to Jenny's father for poet. Halleck'e Humoroue Ob'Tvatlon In pressed Wsslthy Man. John Jacob Astor and his son rigidly attended to business In the asms office a little one story building In Prince street. Just east of Broadway. Their constant companion there was Halleck Marco Bozzarla Halleck. Halleck became a clerk for Astor In 1832 and worked seventeen years The employment, ho himself said, was not profitable but permanent" Astor warned him when he began not to talk to anyone of his wealth. The two men became great friends. Halleck spent months with kg patron at hts country seat and ber came one of the trustees of the library. The poet frequently rallied the old man on his wealth. "Why, Mr. Astor, he would say, "If I had $200 a year and wag sure of It I would he content" The great landowner took him at his word, and In his will, much to the amusement of Bohemian New York, left Halleck an annuity of $200 Burton J. Hendrick In McClure s. WXMXXMX MX msm CHAPTER XII. Continued. "How rich, and how badly in love? Two hundred feet from the house My strokes of fortune and my love the dog paused and sniffed the air. affairs are all Jumbled together, exThen, with a yelp, he plunged to the plained Blake, laughing heartily. right, made for a rock which showed oull have a bad opinion of me, dim through tbe snow, and burrowed John, but Ive reformed and am going frantically Into a drift on its leeward to lead a better life I made my first side. In the white mass Blake saw a strike on the Little Calaveras. Talk dark object, and as he reached the about luck! That was a funny thing. rock It moved. Tim next instant a I broke my neck and discovered a bearded face appeared from the folda gold mine and a sweetheart in doing of a heavy fur overcoat, and a man it! struggled unsteadily to hla feet. Broke your neck? Surely youre Can you walk?" shouted Blake, jesting! "It's a fact, just the same, asgrasping him by the arm. "I think so, said the stranger, as serted Blake, thoughtfully rubbing the he grasped the rope. "How far Is back of his neck, which showed no It? I was a greenhorn signs of fracture. "Not far," replied Blake, encourthen, and my prospecting expeditions Pull on the rope. It will were the joke of the old stagers. I agingly. Meaning of Colorado. you. help was bought a horse and a Mexican saddle named of Colorado The state Once In the cabin, the stranger and prowled through 0 the jnoun-tain- s for the river. The word means red." seated himself near the stove, while and foothills back of the Little As a general thing Colorado stream are clear, limpid and reflect the blue Blake produced a flask and heaped Calaveras. Ope afternoon 1 was following a trail that skirted along the of the heavens and nature's green. fuel on the fire "Keep your hands and feet away side of a mountain. Therea a lot of But when mountain storms arise there from the stove. If they are frosen," woodchucks in those hills, and in burIs rolled through these disturbed waters quantities of red sand. Hence cautioned Blake. rowing around one of them loosened , was the a rock, which came rolling down In Im not the name. stranger's reply, as be clapped his my direction. My horse saw and A Great Discovery. hands vigorously and pinched his heard it, and shied off the trail. He Clayton, Tax., May 1st. (Special) ears. I was completely dons for. If slid about twenty feet and then fell, -- That a genuine cure for Diabetes and as he went my right foot went you hadnt found me when you did, fens been discovered la the opinion of he said with much feeling, as he ex- through the stirrup. He rolled over Mr. J. H. Bailey of this place. Speaktended his hand, I should never have me, and we started down the slope. left there alive! Sometimes 1 was oh top, and someing of the matter, Mr. Bailey says: "1 believe Dodd's Kidney Pills la At the sound of the mans voice times he was on top. the beet remedy for Diabetes and the James Blake started and gazed Four or five hundred feet below I at him. When the bearded saw a thin row of trees, and I knew only one that has ever been discover-- ' ad that will cure Diabetes. stranger raised his eyes and offered they marked tbe edge of a cliff. For 1 have a genuine case of Diabetes. his hand the recognition was com- some reason theres most always a ( have taken sevea boxes of Dodd's plete. fringe of trees at these Jumping off John Burt, or Im a ghost! Dont places. We were going like lightning. Kidney Pills and am still taking them. They have helped me ao much that I you know me, John? Just as we neared the edge the horse am now up and able to work some. I Jim Blake! rolled over we again. As I came on believe that If I had conformed strict The New Englander is not demon- top I saw that we were going to pass iy to a Diabetes diet 1 would now have strative in his emotions or affections, between two small trees. A big been completely cured." but the joy which danced In the eyes rock slewed the horse around, and he Dodd's Kidney Pills have cured hun. of these reunited frienda as they went down head first I grabbed at a dreds of cates of Diabetes and never ahook hands and slapped each other tree, and by the merest chance throw once failed It Is an old saying that what will cure Diabetes will cure anr form of Kidney Disease and thats Jnat exactly what Dodd's Kidney Pills do. They cure all kidney diseases from Backache to Bright's Disease. Aa-to- frost-bitten- ' - By Another Name. Lillian was a great reader, and evan at the age of 8 found great pleasure in reading books suited to the understandingot older children. One day, however, she found her Waterloo In a word she pronounced Lillian thought she had duffnuts. heard of every kind of nuts frnm to grape nuts, but. "duffnuts had certainly not been among their number. She Inquired of her mother what kind of a nut a duffnut might he, bat mother Insisted she hadjMrfo one mistake in the word, for no snch nuts existed. Lillian wefft for her book In which the contested word appeared. Mother had a hearty laugh at Lillian's expense when the word pronounced dufTnuU" tui aed out to be spelled "doughnuts. S100 miin Reward, $100. Enemies of Oysters. Starfish are the principal enemies of oyster beds. It Is estimated by the fish commission of the United 8tates that they do damage to the extent of $250,000 annually to America! oyster beds. TEA Tt wouldn't cost much to bum all the money our cers pay-bac- gro- k. Tow griie rstaras yens moMf If yeu don't like Please the Pigs." On Thomas Spence, an advanced thinker of the day the latter part of th eighteenth century la hli PenLes-iony Weekly" had Piga Meat; or In Multitude, Swinish the for which "What will please the pin is used as synonymous with "What the people desire." It la the old story von populi vox DeL si ECZEMA FOR TWO YEARS. Little Girl's Awful Suffering With Tsr-ribl- e Skip Humor 8leplee Nights for Mother Speedy Cure by Cutlcura. My little girl bad been suffering (or two years from eczema, and during that time I could not get n nlght'n sleep, as her ailment was very severe. I had tried ao many remedies, deriving ne benefit. I had given np all hope. Chit an a last resort I was persuaded 8c try Cuticura, and one box of the Ointment and two bottles of the Resolvent, together with the Soap, effected a permanent cure. Mrs. L B. Joaea, Addington. Ind. T. Habitual Drunkenneea. Thla is a gross case," said a cheater magistrate to a prisoner, who wsa making his 114th appearance fore him lor drunkenness. t i PRIMITIVE TIMES. e -- 1 et TEA h TEA o n -.- .-j 2zizr A Tke of ibis ptpvr win be pimmS lean oo dreede4 dtseeee that scteace tWl ibere et m fceea able 10 car la all tie suce. ao4 ttaa la Catarrh. Ball Catarrh Cara la U only positive aura now kaawo to tbe medical fraternity. Catarrh fcai&f a aoaaUtuUooal diaaaaa, require a ooanitu tloaal treatment. Haii'a Catarrh Core tt taken lap really, actiof directly upon the blood and maohaa eorfacea of toe system, thereby destroy ia the foundation of the disease, and firing tbs patient atrenfth by building up tbe communion and aUt-In- f nature in doing its work. The proprietors here ao much faith la its caratire powers that they offer One Hundred Dollars for any eaee that It falls to dare. Send for list of teetlmoolale. AddreseF J CHSNBT CO., Toledo, 0. told by all Druggists, 7o. Take Bail's Family Fills for oooatlpattoft TO hundred and twenty-fivthousand . ellars Hes made two millions out -c it. I made love to Jerihy, and 1 I (Ink she would have had me, but rnt to San Francisco and dropped te hundred and twenty five thousud 4 the mining exchange. I went back . Ad asked Jenny to watt until I made dream to have sous like her, men all small mouth, hiding behind red full Nother fortune. She said she'd think nature Humanity, In Its earliest age. Ups, even rows of small teeth; ears A year could be but It. guess she did aot altogether small, from .which the and legitimately but Iter she married a man who is now a It had then to that, take possession of the hair abould grow In the circular of lilted States Senator. So I broke world which had just been born. It Fujiyama shape, that shape recalling iff neck, lost my fortune and my engaged In sternest combat with the the truncated cone of the famous volMeetheart all in less than a year" primitive, shaggy creatures, well arm- cano. Add to these the modesty,--sweAnd what have you now? humility and gentle submission ed with teeth and claws, that looked This mountain chateau " replied with contempt at this last born of crea- which the Japs deem essential In their Bhke, with a lordly sweep of his arm, tion, without claws, unpfotected by womankind, and which long centuries Sid a hole In the ground back of It hair, ail naked and unarmed. To con- of practice have Instilled into them Tien I have a fine view of the valley, these creatures man must be like pretty thoroughly and the result a good appetite, a slumbering con quer them "He also must belong to th's might wall be a very Interesting and sfience, and and Dog, here, who lower world, or rather he must take adorable little creature md for being seven on the two natures that Is to say. he barer upbraid kkds of a fool. must needs become at once man and John told the story of the dying beast, possessed of Instinctive craft ffow little it is! How lit-t- ls 61or and his map. and read an ex The as well as bloodthirsty fury. (lct from Peter Burt's letter. Then victory, which rested decisively, at add to the weight of h produced the map, and they spread so many points of the globe, with (he it out on the table and examined It weaker, show "none the less the It has covered the (he by the light of the lantern. original auperiority of the conquered "I followed the trail ail right. In the manbeast, at first controlled entea with ships for a hundred John, until the storm Bet In. tirely by physical fatalities, slept al4 then I had to feel my way. Reready as in the cry sails tbe true man, fceff fute I lost my bearings I was abftut who walks upright and with hla face tot miles from the point where this to the heavens." And thus true man, Last Bohemian War Correspondsnt aaSor claims to have found gold. I little by little, eet himself free. To-dtla noting tbe death la London, ot kept near the edge of the cliff until I To John Augustus OShea, once a noted mind Is decidedly the victor. cotld go no further, and then curled the heavy dreams of a troubled blood, wav correspondent, the Times renp behind that rock In the hope that to the energy ot the brute, has suo marks: "He was probably the last ol storm would cease. ceeded the nervous life of delicate, in- the eld school erf journalists, who If lake studied the map with grow- telligent sensibility; la short, tbe high(acted the mood of gsyety and IrreWith a er life." But tbe beast la pot dead, sponsibility expressed by the word ing interest and excitement. splinter from a log as a marker he he must be watched. 'Bohemlaalsm " i traced the trail. I know every foot of it!" be exGUARDS AMERICAN NEUTRALITY. claimed, resting the point of tbe Rear Admiral Charles J. Train,' who splinter on a round spot on the map. has made such disposition of the was a royal indulgence two- Here la Ftshera Lake. You came squadron that the ahlpa at once can obhundred years ago. Ti yet that far by atage. Here Is the creek serve the movements ot foreign fleets which you follow for seven miles unnear to or In Philippine waters, la the far , til you come to tbe old Wormley trail. American naval commander In the I and take that to the cliffs, go Philippines. He waa commander of aloag the cliffs until you cross four the auxUIary cruiser Prairie during the Couldnt Stand for Always." brooks and come to tbe fifth one. You Spanish war, and later of the Puritan A Scotch laborer who hadnt boon la wen within a hundred yards of that America tong enough t lose the fifth stream, John. Now let's see tbe to get married. brogue got a lay-of- f key to thli thing." However, be surprised hla employer John handed him the letter. by taralag up snj going oa with bis IFrom the east face of the iquare work Just as usual rod, on tbe north bank of the brook, Why, John, what art you doing at tbe edge of tbe cliff, read Blake. said the foreman. I here "I know the rock well. Lets aee. thought you were golag to be sur Thence east along tbe bank of the rted." 8o I was, guv'nor, he replied. Bat brmk In a straight line four hundred last neet I wor seriously thinking ani twenty-twfeet, and then north feet to the abaat It, and It suddsniy struck ma at fight angles, sixty-eeveIt wor for alius (always), and that'a ban of tbe tallest pine In the neigh mors nor 1 con stand, so lts off!" borhood.' " Hake rushed to the door, forgetful Vta WtaUtoi IwtHn Spn, tor rktMrra tMtklM, rrSim to of the storm, to verify bis suspicions. rSMSMUto ..j-He pushed it open an Inch, but a sold bank of anow blocked the way. Rice ae a Bleeping Potion. Where do you suppose the base of "if people would eat plenty of rice tbit pine tree la? he demanded. QZ4PsixTj&ii: they would not need druga to make Wlhout waiting for a reply he found them Bleep, said ths drug clerk, pausTrain Masaschuaetta. Admiral and a latchet and tapped the clay floor was ing for a moment la putting up a graduated from the naval acad unil he located a spot which gave a a woman. "Thera was potion for 1864. commander sleeping a male my la , .The - r uVene4 ip-epped In ms. n tAntw la Hts. aaA ve-'- -4 m I, law inebaa ot psdua tlrt w4 hla Bala present position two years later, lank the hlkde into a solid subataaoe.-There- s Before , he had ices know that it he to the bate of the big pine been going ofthetbPhilippine board of Inspec- era. If properly cooked it has. Juc president tree described by your dead tailor, tion and until survey, and has served ia should he washed many times, and IH bet my life on it, he shouted. no water milky. appear longer, the In various and capao-ltiestations And here are sections of the tree," he many It should then he soaked a few hoars, continued, pointing tb the logs which salted and boiled rapidly abont thirformed the foundation of the cabin. When cooked la this minutes. ty Lift la Town and Country. Im dead sure of It, John. Its about We live In a day when the average way tt can be eaten each day with who rat It a hundred and forty yards from here man dose not get the physical exer- raliah, sad tba person alL New not at to the edge of the cliff. I know, for cise of hts dreams sad sleeps, primordial ancestors. He I measured It And its about twenty York Baa-Is engaged in sedentary occupations What Is more yards to the brook and he to not fortified for the work of conclusive, this was by far tbe largest digestion as are the field tollers. tree anywhere around. Thats why I Some of tbe work of digestion must located the cabin here. Let's see be done for him. -- Scientists It is charm; but, prey, say that His eyes gliswhat comes next! the cooking of food, especially ot fleah, tened with excitement what Is charm ? It it tome-thin- g Is a great aid to making It eaally diTl Instructions were to measure gestible. If this be true It develop three hundred and eighteen feet north the secret of the that makes you know tenacity with which from the base of the tree and thence the to hla holds worker sedentary east to a carefully described rock, you are strong I He realizes that he caa which Blake remembered. This waa cookery. more easily digest food from the fir the base of the Incline. Within a hun- than from The Fountain Pen Spouts, the ice box. Besides, all dred yards of this rock the key lo- other Queer fad. this fountain pen one. objections waived, eating Is a gold hearing quarts function in which man takes pleascated - three Isnt It?" said Mr. Cooke. "Ever noledges. ure. Uncooked food Is, as a rule. In- tice bow Jealous a man to of his pet (To be continued.) His appetite pen? When a man takes out bin sipid and unpalatable. most be coaxed. This to unhygienic, fountain pen every other fellow in 'HAD BEEN CHASING RABBITS. same and perhaps, but tt to true, and so long reach who has one does the as It Is true man will be a worshiper begins to blow about' Its woaderful Naturally Dreamer Had Not Enjoyed at the ihrlne of the kitchen range, capabilities. Iv seen bosom friends . Hie 8leep. almost com to blows about th little Kansas City Journal. A man down In my country," said pocket contrivance. Now, this pea has been ia constant ns for Farmers Gamble on Weather. Representative Clayton of Alabama, th The science of meteorology has not more than three year and taw a dog sleeping In the sun. Tbe sort on of the tho market a best and wbat inen aq waa thing day may bring starting yet taught dog twitching Going? Why, what's your dogs sometimes do in their sleep. forth In the way of weather. Farm- today The man said, Id like to know what ing operations are clouded with uncer- burry?" that dog Is dreaming about.' tainty from seed time to harvest, and an old chap from tbe nature of the cats the moat Easy enough, replied You Just put a chip enlightened and conservative tiller of who stood by. Was ever a wicked mam on that dogs ear and leave It there the soil 1s compelled to gamble in as doe the much futures" speculauntil he wakes up. Then you take that or woman especially fond of tor In the wheat pit. Unfortunately, chip and put It on your chest when and you will too, hla stake IS often his all. Delayed Hu go to bed tea, do you think? too much or too dream of what tbe dog la dreaming or premature froet, visitato ot the tittle rein, say nothing ot now A Future for Beaton Women. of creeping or firing destroyers, "The fellow got a chip sad put It tions threaten aays: "What soeasp Rochefoucauld, him loss or with rain to the dog's ear sad stood around always no more than disoften is forever He him and guessing. generosity until the dog waked up and brushed must keep on the presence of guised ambition. Aa Eastern beauty his bet crops It off. He put the chip on hla chest absence of favorable conditions, an stains her teeth black and dips th when he went to bed that night Next fact that in the coarse of the Ups of her fingers In heaaa. a morning I saw him coming listlessly ages may have had something to do will th perfect womaa, when the down the street , with the Ingrained gambling habit social millenlum comes in Boston, be s 'What's the matter?' I said. "What which besets mankind everywhere. permitted to pose as legislator on Vas the dog dreaming about?' Cleveland Plain Dealer. f " ladys maid, clerk or cook, doctor er tuckclean 'I'm Oh he anawered. solely In order that ah dressmaker, ered out I wee chasing rabibts all New Niagara In Booth America. desirable in th eyes more seem may tight- - long." Last week there returned from of man. And this to emancipation, i , South America to New Orleans a equality I Upplncett's Macazia. 1 Public to Own Telephones. party ot explorers which Included It has been announced that the from different institutions. British poetofflee propose to exercise With a score ot natives they visited Its right to buy out the Great National the Rio Leon territory, near the equaSo much goodness' dwells Telephone Company at tbe end of the tor, and penetrated a part never befrom year. Thla action by the fore seen by whit men. Among the In a little dry leafhri government to the first step toward discoveries was a wonderful cascade . , Bullet Works Way but. , breaking up the monopoly which has which rivals that of the Yoeemlt ha hackled and curbed tbe development height and Niagara la volume. tt Mr.' R. C. "Mieoa of Oran gw Courtbt telephones in the United Kingdom. Is orescent la form and has eight house, a Confederate , soldier, waa With low rates and quick service the cataracts, divided from each other by severely wounded la the betU of the public will he provided with a system Islands smaller than those at Niagara. Wilderness, near this city,' in 1884, suck aa has heretofore been undream- R to thought to be only a question of and carried thi bullet until a few .day ed of. The . poetofflee has already a few years when these Islands will ago, when It worked Its wiy out Mr. provided a system for a great part of be swept away and leave one vast Macon suffered no pain from th buK London at a charge lees than $40, foi cataract Philadelphia Ledger. Baltimore Can. M per cent of Its osbscribers. 4 Pltr-Green- Japanese Women. On tbe whole, the Japanese eoesid-er Nature Seeks to Drive Mankind, Do-that a wornas should aot exceed Clares Scientist f feet In height; should lava, a eons Nature tends 'obstinately, Michelet paratively fair skin sad bk well dethinks, to bring back toward primitive veloped; should have long, thla and animality, to unmake the civilised jet bleckh hair, aa oval face, with a inaa.aays Gusts ve Lenaon in the Quar- narrow straight note, rather. Urge It is perhaps still her eyes, nearly black, think eyelashes; a terly Review BACK er" r s. 77STMXT fD7&7r AA54&XZ) J> STtYT ittErpacAj op a fi&iyrjxjD on the back was more eloqnent than words. "This seems too good to be true, Jim!" exclaimed John, his hand on Jims shoulder. "But for you, old chum, my California experience would How small the have been ended world Is, that we should meet here, of all places on earth!" "Take off your clothes and get Into bed, John, directed Blake, as he pushed John Into a chair and tugged at his frozen boots. "Do as I tell you and youll be all right Lie quiet and rest Dont talk, but keep awake. Several times, during tke next two hours, John fell Into a drowse, but by force of will he roused himself. The reaction after the awful struggle In the drifts was severe, but he mastered it and was himself again. Blake exhausted the resources of his larder In a dinner, which John enjoyed as never before In his life, and Dog did not go hungry. Then pipes were produced, and, seated near the red hot stove, the two friends recounted some of the events which had marked their lives during the preceding six years. It seemed ages to both of them. The striplings of seventeen were now stalwart men. Blake listened eagerly to his friends recital of the events leading up to the Jim quarrel with Arthur Morris. clenched his hands and leaned forward when John told of the straggle Vth Morris in the tavern. I have sometimes thought," said John, that I should have remained and faced the charge of murder which might have been made against me. Thst was my first Impulse, I did not kill Morris, and It is only by chance that he did not kill me. The revolver was still in his hand when he fell, though I had bent his wrist so that he eould not turn tt against me. It van one' of those new self cocking weapons and Morris shot himself. But I had no witnesses, and Grandfather Burt and and others advised me to pnt myself bewond the reach of a prosecution In which all the money and InfaeoM would have been against me. But ten me ot yourself, Jim. What have yen done li California, and what has tbe Golden State done lor yon?" - "Tt would take me a week, John, to tell my experiences of the last five years," said Jim Blake, tossing another log into the fire. Most of them would not Interest yon, some might amuse yon, and others would make yon mad Ive been rich three times, John, and in love twice ao, three ly times." . i -- i cvEPC&tr my free leg around It I held like grim death to a coon, and heard the leather anap as the horse went over the precipice. If it had been a first-clas- s saddle I wouldnt be here to tell the tale. I waa hanging down over the cliff, tt waa eighteen hundred feet deep to the first stopping place, and I saw that horse, all spraddled out turn over and over in the air. I closed my eyes so as not to see him strike. Then I crawled back a few feet and sat down behind a rock. Thats the last thing I remember until I woke up in bed. An old doctor, whose breath, smelled of liquor, was bending over me, and near him was one of the prettiest girls I ever saw. She and her father were approaching me when I started to slide down the mountain. Her name was Jenny Rogers." Jim sighed and paused. "This Is growing romantic, bnt how about the broken neck? asked John. "It was broken, or dislocated, which Is about the same thing, continued Blake. "Jennys father knew of an old Spanish doctor, abont forty miles away, and went for him. He was a wonder on bones. He was black as an Indian and uglier than sin. He felt awound my neck, swore softly In Spanish, rolled me ores on my face, climbed on my back. Jabbed his knees Into my shoulder blades, and grabbed me by the jaws He gave my bead a quick wrench. I saw a thousand skyrockets; something cracked and I became aenseless. When I awoke he had my neck in splints, and waa Jabbering Spanish to Rogers. He said he was the only white man la the world who could set n broken neck, and I guess he waa. He had leaned the trick from aa Indian medicine man. He charged me twenty-fiv- e dollars, and told me to lie quiet for a week. Jenny Rogers nursed me, and of course I fell In love with her. I was in their cabin, and near by Mr. Rogers had located some valuable claim. "Here is the most remarkable part of this story," Blake went on, "When 1 was able to dress I picked np that curved Mexican stirrup to see how the leather happened to break.- - It waa a pteel affair, and I noticed some bright yellow spots 1a the crevices. Blamed if It wasnt gold I . I didnt toy a word, hut when I waa strong enough I went back' and climbed slowly down the place where my horse fell. It waa easy to follow It Near tbe edge of the cliff I found a! outcropping of g ore, and tha mark of where tbe metal part ot my stirrup gold-bearin- TEA of-m- lno js TEA TEA )i bi V. X |