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GEORGIA.
•ar
out oi every hundred
,• : United States are
ip . fifty-six in Canada,
i;
» France, seventeen in
iMretSa En*U*t.
United States maintains in
HSU hundred and thirteen mis¬
ery stations, quite fo rfe t ting
that China maintains, in Califor
^one, forty heathen temple*
Sfi Twain asserts that there
are
fifty original jokes In exis
je, all the others being simply
lideatione of these. There are
seven notes of music, bat we get
•at variety of harmony oat of
Onr trade with Japan is falling off
' In 1891^8.^15 cent, of the goods
per
bit county i eameto the
{ but in l898 only 31.49
S' or cant In 1891 10,87 per cent, of
ill the goods bought by Japan came
from this oountry; but in 1893 only
of art over nature was
kted recently when a well-known
' made a painting of some
trees In a Kent pasture,
Id for $1400. The owner
. I gdd Us land and the
for $800, and oalled it a
at that
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HetfS Consul Pen field, at
#*» hggrassively
in a small way with as, not
rope, but at home, in sup
% «»w ootton, and the oonsump
« m V
m 91 • .pJu* ,t haa grown from noth
years ago, to more than 60,
m and valued at $8,009,000.
nr months Pekin will be
NWfth St Petersburg,
aenoe, with the tele
I! the entire civilized
i -to* iim At t<> ,the torn latest imue
. _ Jtoette, telegraph
has been brought as
aa the city of Kfcbgar. The
n end of tke line is at Osh,
of abont 140 miles
v a,- iPieidltki sr, direct telegraphic
nnisiou from the Atlantic to
lily .of tha Interior has
experiments which tb«
has bean making for some
f 4n4tea raia over arid
railroad companies opera-*
Mexico and Arizona will;
tinue experiments along
Getting blood out of a
not be a difficult opera
•bian vegetable contained
> onta fl o isl might
v- -'orm of
in the almoa
_
u|teif t$a
rimer •Mf jpowder nor
out of ii whet it
have ail the
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• I urn set herey on a clover field now,
Or fool round a stable or climb in a mow,
'But my childhood comes back just as clear
. and as plain •
As the smell of the clover I’m sniffin’ again;
And! wander away, in a barefooted dream,
Where I tangled mr toes in the blossoms that
wlcam f
With the dew of the dawn of the morning of
» love,
Ere it wept o’er the graves that I’m weeping
above.
And so I love clover. It seems like a part
Of the sacredost sorrows and joys of my
• hearts
And whenever it blossoms, oh 1 there let me
bow,
And thank the good Lord as I’m thankin’
Him now,
And pray to Him still for the strength, when
I dial a
To go out in the clover and teu it good-by,
And lovingly nestle my face in its bloom » *
While my soul slips away on a breath of
perfume. —James Whitcomb Blley.
.
MONTE BOB.
ST GODFREY QUARLES.
OBEBTHABRIB
was his right name,
bet in honor of his
calling we all called
him “Monte Bob.”
I well remember his
\ advent among the
k citizens of Lone
I Horse Gnloh. It
' was in '57, just after
a rich find had
• made the heretofore
isolated * and lonely
gnloh famous caused in the a
day, and
Vf eager gold-seekers
to poor in from all
quarters. He wae
at that time very young. His fresh,
boyish face had apparently never
mad* the acquaintance of a razor.
Hi* bine eyes were round and laugh¬
ing, and his mass of jet black hair,
fine and soft as silk, would have been
on enviable source of beauty slight to and any
woman. Hia figure true
youthful, and strongly suggestive of
the truant school boy.
A single day served to make the
newcomer a citizen of Lone Horne
Gnloh, and soon after his arrival
“The Kid," as he was called, on ao
oonnt of his boyish ways, his soft
White hands and apparent inability
to work, waa known to the whole
camp. Eve err one liked him; but
when one night he won five thonaand
from one of Frisoo’s most noted sport¬
ing men, and pocketed the money with
oareless indifferenoe, changed his reputation^ ad¬
waa made; pity was to
miration { Lone Horse Gnloh .wSs en¬
thusiastic, and its oitizens to a man
vied \n doing honor to the new found
hero. From that daV forth he beoame
a leading eftifen, uM the faro bank
wldch he eoon mU/et set dp was well
patronised. Like others, “Monte Bob”
many reticent regard his
in to past
history.' He was frequently the re¬
cipient of letters bearing an Eastern
postmark. Some were directed in the
weak,’ nervous hand peculiar to wo¬
men of advancing years; the rest in
the round, graoeful hand of a school
girl But it was a notioeable fact,
voaohed of for unquestionable by the postmaster, veracity, a gen
tleman
that **Monte Bob,” though healwayu
read them carefully, very seldom re¬
plied to the letters received. But, as
ths postmaater had been a heavy loser
■t Bob’s faro bank, these state* his
tnents in regard to his negleet of
private correspondence were teoeived
with a marked grain of aUownnoa. On
the other hand, the agent of the Weill,
Pa*go k Company express line, the a gen
of equal standing “Monte in Bob” com¬
munity, asserted that
often cent large «mb* of money to a
certain Mrs. John Harris in the
was made beioif a
wd of at
ex&mmatio jl
4 gr-ys
Kfe-tSt
r
w ^”prtto*«.tt«.wi»taaaj4 few, by elotjHjgftf*
ttu« arooad him M *•»*»£ J *?« ^ U(l
ZZ*g£fi*£Z hw^tiofS^ $flhJeS ^
«“« »“
£°i^ioo, by the it. bars glory petered «.d it. ont. dee.* The
o n e one foroed seek
dissatisfied miners were to
newer more paying fields of labor,
an d I lost sight of “Monte Bob.”
Five years had passed and I was la
boring on one of the well known Sac
ramen to dailies as city editor. In
bnrrv and rash of daily journalism
the old life at Lone Horse Gulch had
] ong ^ noe become a thing of the jSast,
when suddenly sevoral things occurred
to bring it back, fresh and . vivid, to
mind; for going to my duties at an
early hour one morning, I ehanoed to
overtake my old friend “Monte Bob.”
The flight of time had left its shadow
upon him, and he was changed. A
moustaohe coveied the smooth,
lip. The rakish high hat hadbeen dis
carded, the shiny suit of broad cloth
had been supplemented dazzling by a' plain dia
business suit, and the
mond had disappeared. He was taller,
his shoulders broader and his step
firmer than when last we met. The
dashing, reckless gambler of five years
before was gone, and his plaoe had
been taken by a quiet, earnest hearty, man.
He knew me, and by the cor¬
dial pressure of his hand, I knew was
glad to me$t me. He talked freely of
the old life at the Gulch, and of those
who had been onr companions ther A
We chatted for a few moments and
then I left him at the door of a well
known business house with an invita¬
tion to come and see me. That very af¬
ternoon I learned from another old
citizen of the Gnloh that he had long
since abandoned the life of a gambler,
and was now and had, been for two
years working as a bookkeeper. And
le£ me say that my informant was
none other than “Monte Bob’s” warm
friend, the old-time express agent at
the Gnloh. I also had it from that
gentleman, that a larger portion of
the young man’s wages was regular
sent to his mother and sister in the
East.
Contrary to my expectation, Bob
availed himself of the invitation I had
extended to him, and soon after spent
an evening with me in mycosybaoh
elor apartments. I found him an in¬
telligent and pleasant much companion.
Besides reading he had been a
shrewd observer of men; and in the
flow of conversation the evening
slipped away before we were awaie of
it. When he arose to go it had been
arranged that he should spend fcn
evening of every week with me.
the months that followed onr aoqnain
tanoe ripened Into confidants, friendship; and from
friends we beoame ere
long I knew the history of his past
life.
His father had. died when he was a
mere boy, leaving him to the his .care life of
an ancle. Until twenty was
passed at his nnole’s house and at
school. Laoking the kind, watohfnl
care of a father and deprived by cir¬
cumstances of the loving thoughtful¬
ness of a mother, he had been led
astray by the influences whioh sur¬
round the yonth of a great oity. In
the oonrse of time fie beoame heavily
indebted to a gambler, and fearing
exposure, check the ha amofixit h^i forged of several his uncle’s hun¬
to
dred dollars, hoping to replace the
money are his uncle should learn what
he had done. This he failed to do—
and when his crime flee beoame known, he
waa foreed to the country to save
himself from a felon’s oell. By his
mother he was given money to aid
him in his flight, and had come to
California. Mode reckless and des¬
perate, he had first adopted the gam¬
ing table as a meant of support, and
with what auooaes I well knew. Tha
mo ney given him & ide mother sad
that taken from unole had been
promptly retnred. He had also £3
for the education of his young i,
and enabled hie mother, who has lam
most of her property, to live in oom*
fort. Her love hod always followed
him, and through her entreaties and
the promptings of hie own better self
he had given up drink and abandoned
the gaming table. had
He waa working hard; won the
>oe of hia employers i was re
**
had pMend ' ire hod
^hffim! and
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K,
rw
•S-A* FA ":rf *
(U ii tk.
noeeibilitiee JJJJ of hi. oUiin, aj*' hopi
. long tfu* hi. feUo»
rtookholdort h.ring ™*®i thoir
“BtiSSWl”iSS!«I—
b^.» .t,.Jly climbing Th-W™
were filled with accounts of thtuneh
find, and the Stock Exchange was
crowded with eager, excited men,
anxious to buy the long-neglected scanned
stocks. Daily we^eagerly the
reports and noted the rapid, rise oi
Tuolumne Mining Company b stock.
At last when it paused and stood sold still and
at seventy five above par we
found ourselves each seventy-five
thousand dollars richer than we had
been one month before. Bob seemed
but little elated by his sudden rise to
wealth and only thought of the happi
ness it would bring to those whom lie
loved. The modest little cottage which
he had rented was given up and a
handsome mansion purchased and
fitted up with the utmost^ care. Then
he wrote for bis mother and sister to
join him. A month later they came,
and no happier group could have been
found in all the West-than the foni
who sat down together on the night oi
their arrival,
Many years have flown since the
“Tuolumne Mining Company*^ made
its president and stockholders rich in
a single day. Loving oare and most
ekillful medical aid could not win
back the health of the good old moth¬
er and she long sinoe passed to her
home above. Robert Harris is a man
well known in the buajness circles of
Sacramento. His hair is now gray,,
and pretty, bright-eyed .children
climb upon his knee and oall him
“pspa.” The friendship began in
Lone Horse Gulch so many years ago
has not diminished, but has grown for
stronger with the flight of years;
the lady who sits opposite oall to wife, me
while I write and whom I
is “Monte Bob’s” sister.
Birds at the Pole.
In the oonntries bordering.on the
Polar seas, where the ohanging seasons
bring alternately and the two birds extremes gi
dearth plenty, are more
numerous in the short summer than
anywhere else all the world over, and
in winter absent altogether. All are
emigrants taere by force of circum¬
stances. In like manner the birds of
temperate climates are affected by the
seasonal changes, though in a less de¬
gree, through the influence of cold
and heat upon their food supplies
rather than by effect of cold upon
their well-protected bodies. A coat
of mail is not to be compared to a
coat of feathers for safety, so far as a
bird’s life is concerned. Layer upon
layer of feathers can withstand any
amount oE water or any degree of
cold; in proof of this see how the
delicate tern, after wintering in com¬
paratively mild weather, go b&ok to
the ice floes of the Polar Sea and lay
their eggs, on the ioe. For two or
three weeks the tender breast of the
sea swallow is pressed against a oold
block of ioe. Again, as another ex¬
ample of the influence of food rather
than climate in governing bird action,
take the colony of beooafiooe. The
beooafioo is a Mediterranean bird
common on the southern shores of
Spain and Italy, Malts, in the and Grecian
Islands, Sioily and oa the
northern shores of Afrioa. Formerly
it urea quite unkpown in the British
Isles, btlt some years ago a large
orchard of fig trees wee planted near
Brighton, and the beooafiooe have dis¬
covered the foot and pome over to
•hart the spoil. Doubtless the
English nightingales and told showed them the story the way
figs them
over. Be this as it may, the little
birds from the warm shores of
Mediterranean bid hut to become as¬
tabliehed ae naturalized British sob
jeoto. —Liiteli’a Living Age.
Heatrids* er Sealskins.
It hi said that pelsHns ere United going
ont of fashion, and perhaps the
S t at es are going trouble to end a greet deal ofi in
.nnnsoeeesry ex,-,-
guarding the preserves of the s ea ls kin
monopoly in Bering Sea. Certain it is
tfiat last winter e greet many ef the
fashionables of Europe, doors i' ia oool
never appeared ont of
*^ > ‘ > ** r * 1 11,11 notably
- • at, which is a
i Amer
jiiMiKy.mj 7 is largely
White
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hf«. tta*
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BUDGEr OF FUN. iff
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Summer Days — Her View of It —
Where the Resemblance Came
_
In—The Full Extent,
,
-- Etc., Etc.
Brooklets musically flowing. sighing.
Zephyrs through the branches
Cattle in the meadows lowing.
Glffesy ponds in carols silence singing, Iviag.
Bong birds gayest
Flowers exhaling scents delicious,
Maiden in a hammock swinging dishes.
While her mother’s washing
—New York Press.
Where the resemblance came in. ——
“The baby is wonderfully like its
mother.” .
“Yes, I have to mind her just the
same.”—Truth.
HER VIEW OF IT.
She—“I don’t see how anybody can -
like caviare. It’s a depraved taste.
He—“No; it’s cultivated tastg. 5
a
She—/‘Well, that’s the same thing.”
—Life,.
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A COUNTER ATTRA “W* . *
First Citizen (year 1*904)—“I no
tlced no female voters at the polls to¬
day, What kept them all away?”
• Second Citizen —“K big , bargain
iale on the next block.”
A SIGHT THAT GLADDENS.
Miss Peart—“Did you ever look at
yourself in the glass when you were
angry?’’ Belle—“No,
Bival I’m never angry
when I look in the glass.”—Life.
THE FULL EXTENT.
Little Clarence—“Pa, what does
Congressman Thickneck mean when
he says, ‘Upon my word of honor as
a gentleman?’” Callipers—“Nothing, • son.”
Mr. my
-Truth.
NOT THERE. * f/j
■*‘until ‘Will you not wait," he pleaded,
you know me better ?”
“It is quite useless, I fancy,’’she
answered, as she ran her finger down
the index of the commercial repqrt.—
Detroit Tribune.
EFFECTUAL. •
“Grump has at last solved the prob¬
lem of abolishing distress in the
world.”
“What’s his soheme?”
“To starve the poor off the face of
the earth V— Truth.
A LOGICAL CONCLUSION. "
“Cyrus,” she said, reluctantly, “I
don’t think I would make a good wife
for a poor man. ”
“Then you’d good man,” make a replied mighty Cyrus, poor
wife for A
grabbing his hat.—Chicago Tribune.
»
A MODERN MART.
"Wonder what kind of an entry
old man Golding made of the money
he gave his daughter when she mar¬
ried that nobleman. ”
“Don’t know, but presume he
paid it on a oount. ’’—-Atlanta Consti¬
tution.
SEVERELY WOUNDED,
Hoax—“Do you think the English
tongue will ever become a dead lan¬
guage?” judging from the
Joax- “Weil, way
some people persist in now.”—Phila¬ murdering it
it ought to be dead
delphia Record.
CR06S-REFERENCE.
The ever-ocute Critic discovers this
interesting cross-reference in the Cent¬
ury Dictionary (page 4908): ”
*To pop the question. found ’ See pop. morfe
Cipher Donnelly never hunts.
than that in all his Shakespeare
—Buffalo Express.
SXUUT PAKBOdL
Nibbitt—“That woman who just
went out is the partner of your joys
and sorrows, I suppose?*’
Bolton—“She’s partner to my joys
alT right, bat when it oomes to my
sorrows. rite slips over to see her
mother. "—Boston Courier.
PLAIN COROLLA«X
“Mr. Holdgold emit me ap a beauti¬
ful bouquet last night ”
Adels—Tt .make* an vary happy,
doan”- > ,
“Why?"* •>
Adel#—“I know now that flowers
are vsry eheap.”—Chicago Inter
“A*, m is soiriaUy
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‘Ten”
m
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so low couldn’t
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rivirn ^ hsm.” - ’
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ABiBBtHiI XOI UNWELCOME.
4 T should think you would he »n
unwelcome visitor at the houses where
you call,” said the philosopher to the
bill collector.
“Yon would think-so, but it doesn’t
appear to me to he so.”
“It doesn’t?”
“No; I’m generally invited to oall
again.”
CLEVER REPARTEE.
• , ' “ \ W
Marie—‘‘Hire is a gray uair,
madame.”
pull Madame it Sparkle-Eyes—“Very ” well,
out.
Marie—“But, madame, ten mourn¬
ers will come to the funeral. ”
Madame Sparkle-Eyes — 4 ‘Well, what
dg.es.it matter? They will come in
black!’’—Life. •
TO THE BEST OF HIS KNOWLEDOE,
“Mr. Spriggs,” said the law sohbol
professor, “from this article on
‘Forms of Judicial Procedure’ how
many kinds of judgment do there ap¬
pear to be?”
“Tw 6 ,” answered Mr. Spriggs
promptly. judgment “Judgment for the plain¬
tiff and for t.he defendant.”
—Chicago Tribune.
. FIT FOB STATEHOOD,
“Yon fellows think we are not civil¬
ized down in Oklahoma,” said the
tourist tell from^the that* havd West, sixteen “but when I
yon we men un¬
der indictment for horse-stealing, per
haps you’ll change your mind.”
“I can’t see where the civilization
comes in on that score.
“Don’t, eh? Seems to me when a*
community goes to the trouble of in¬
dicting a horse thief it’s getting pretty
well along.”—Indianapolis Journal.
■....... *
HAD MET BEFORE. ,
Mr. McSwat had • risen nnnsually *
early, and as he opened his kitchen
door to see how a sunrise looked, he
encountered the milkman,
“Hello!”. he said. “Haven’t I seen
you somewhere before?”
“Yes, sir,” replied the milkman*
filling the crook on the step from his
oan. “I initiated, you night before
last into the Royal Order of the Nobles
of the Ancient Mystery. I’m the Ma¬
jestic Generaliseimo, von know. Fine
morning, isn’t it?”—Chicago Tribune.
’ me PARTING «HOT. '
She spurned his suit.
“Never,” she insisted.
Nor yet did hope flee his breast
“Can you not, ” he asked, huskily,
“learn to love me?"
She shook her head.
“And still—”
He hissed through his clenohqd
teeth as he made for the door.
“—they say never too old to learn.”
She started violently, turned pale,
and sank in a miserable heap on the
floor, crashed by his cruel words. —
Detroit Tribune.
PRELIMINARY.
He leaned gracefully against the
’mantel.
“Yes,” he repeated", “I love your
daughter.” chair
The old man in the easy \ re¬
garded Jpim keenly. family?” he
“Canyon support a
asked, after a pause.
• The yonth knit his brow.
“That depends. How—”
He looked the father of his beloved
straight in the eye. -
“How many of'you. ate there?”
Presently they came to titoAerms
of an amicable understanding.— De¬
troit News-Tribune. IS
Car Horses lor Farm Purpose*,
& 1
The advantages to be gained by
buying foot-sore street cor horses for
farm purposes was discounted yester¬
day by a Bergen County farmer who
recounted his experience timely;
“When the cable came oh Broad¬
way the papers were fnfi of the cheap¬
ness of the old-time horses, I decided
that the opportunity of my lifetime
had come.. Into New York I went,
and I bought four horses. They
soeiped sound and tough as shoe leoth- -
er. They had been working regularly I
on the oar service. Going seemed home
notioed that the horsed dragged to get
very tired. They their feet ;
after them, and raised a perfect cloud
of dust which nearly smothered me.
A few days afterwards I tried one
team plowing. The bones seemed
willing enoU;h, but they ’ an
clumsy ss cows, sad both at them fell
in the course oi the afternoon. and finally They
seemed to get very tired
one’of them* decided to quit on me, wSfe
sad then the other. The foci of
was that the difference in the
work brought Into play an entirely
not
and
team at regular ooantry k
what’s more, I didn’t have anwsasu
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