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VrfE TIMES*
n 521 !; degenerate! Man’s faffch
= 1 ,
! than of old. No crumb-
[from the immortal soul its n^?cl
linS greater than itself, The
th cherished
file’s we in our youta
it to lot us welcome new-born
Lot worship at the ancient shrine
[ Lot his lace passed; in self-accusing he hails fairer scorn
is a
[ himself a something half divine:
worm whose heritage is sin,
t of God—he feels the Christ
tel
eiiovak with a frowning mien
hips. Nay, through love and not
kgh [tae fear is
truth, and finis its soure 3
ind owns the power of things un-
icehe scoffed. God’s groat pri¬
ll elan
folding in the soul of man.
jeler Wilcox, in the Cosmopolitan.
IDE DY SIDE.
BV Xj. H. BICKFORD.
IR3T, to discover a
mine. Second, to
know that you have
I. something to base
j your hopes on, and
•ik @ last, to get into a law¬
suit and evcnually the
Supreme Court by
*0 litigating with your
neighbor in under¬
ground adventure.
This, I believe, is the
c- t Aspen method. With-
[ ■"-* out entering upon a
discussion scientific
tic a 9 to apex and side lines,
[ou loutset, of an all Aspen the elements exception. of It
■: a
■m Lvr, both sides, from a lawyer’s
and might now be enjoy-
lusty run in the Circuit
As * fi;b others of its class. It
a pity that it isn’t, if you
worn what the newspapers call
meet.”
f ia point is that of Boulder
fcg, kin a prospector. One of bis
the Woody district; no
ere; it is enough that it was
aider usually spent the month
hjer at this particular claim,
fcntiy did more of his assess-
jtke |!ace, law half required. It hill, was and an
way up a
pg seemed to fit in with it,
ler of the rocks and burnt
p apart from them. He was
'jiiddle-aged tree anyway, he
■<4£f At. There were four reasons
■ le first was that he was dumb;
feout the others; if there were
led it would be, under the
|es, fci adjoining useless to belonged tell them,
I lit to one
was said that he was
■but Boulder and he got along
■considering lo everything that
lack. cause trouble, from wind-
I They met duriug two
When the third came
e lached the ground first,
leabin was closed when he
lit was closed for two days.
Ber woke up on the morning
I he looked across the little
law the door open.
Icame out.
0 questioning Boulder's sur-
was not much for women,
them during the winter at
its and in the vandevilles at
he never had to do with
1 in the summer he was too
lis ideas of them were un-
lan was not much for looks
could judge. Her hair was „
i like streaked talc. Her
kas patchy, like riffle blocks,
fce she was not graceful. At
i was fetching water from
the sleeves of her dress
Ip, showing big arms, with
■. Seeing Bouluer, she
■instant and regarded him
lulative stare, Boulder
p pally because he could
filing return else the just salutation, then to do. but
"W into the cabin. A little
9 W&jjg Uhe came out again, this
lc and shovel and her feet
fM* jots. k material She wore and a red miner’s shirt
a
lect was wholly sanguinary,
jgness that she either in-
I an express train or to lead
j pssuming of revolutionists that there against
land were
bastiles in the Woody
p there are not.
F over toward Asechiga's
P paused on the dump to
Bate Boulder. It has been
this mine, which has
■ e Cheetah—not that there
P I had thereabout, but because
once seen such an
Bia —was but thirty feet
Being own modest prospect,
P-tive abrupt.
under this deliber-
B of the person in skirts,
Bore, Ary. with results equally
The woman turned
Bdiass, Jerward lowered the bucket
disappeared down
-Joulder shook his head
went to work himself. It was not
clear to him as to what course
should pursue. The Cheetah was
claim; what manner of right
had a woman to work it? He could come
but one theory. She was trying to
it. If it had been a man in the
matter, Boulder's course would have
been instantly plain; but a woman?
Midway between the claims, and
serving as a boundary post, there was a
small blackboard, securely nailed to an
old tree. This had been provided by
Boulder as a convenient methed of in¬
tercourse between Asec'uiga and himself
when they were “on top” during the
day. It was his custom to write his
question and answers on the black sur-
tace with a piece of chalk which he
kept hanging by a string from the top
of the board. When he came up, an
hour latter, he noticed that the woman
was just leaving the tree, and, further¬
more, that she had written something.
Boulder went up to the lice. He
read:
•‘i know you. you are dum. i am
Asechegas widow, he got kiled in a st>ow~
slide, i am here to worke his ciame.”
She was standing on a knoll, a little
way off, and Boulder nodded again.
This time she returned recognition.
Carefully rubbing out her words, the
man replied: pleased make acquain¬
“i am to your
tance i am not deef you kau tak to me
all rite but ill have to write to you.”
She came down to the board again
and took the chalk:
“i dont care wether you are pleased
or not. I dont talk because I am in
your fix only worse—I am def and
dum.”
Boulder looked at her sympathizingly;
a look thpt met with a cold return.
The reply shocked him.
“go to grass with your sympathy i
dont want eny more to say to you.
just wanted you to now I a int here to
jump.”
With this she went to her cabin.
Boulder returned to his prospect. If he
had known anything about women he
would, probably, have considered her a
queer one but, as I have said, he didn’t,
and was merely puzzled, He went
about his work iu his usual methodical
way, ignoring his neighbor just as suc-
ces^ully as she ignored him. In this
way an uneventful month passed. Finally
Boulder struck a vein in his prospect
and prepared to follow it up. It led
northward, and in the eccentric way
some veins have, trended up instead of
down On the seventh day he was in a
good ten teet when he met with a sur
prise. He could distincty hear the un¬
steady and yielding thump of a pick
almost in front of him. Now, by all
reasonable calculations, Boulder's claim
extended twenty feet to the north; the
stump blackboard proved this; that was
mainly what it was there for. It was
plaiD to him that the woman, striking
the evidence of a vein at its upper end,
was, with a true miner’s instinct, fol¬
lowing it up, or, in this case, down, and
had, in her ambition overstepped the
bounds.
Making this discovery Boulder paused
a while, and in the cool blackness at¬
tempted to decide what course to pursue.
Finally the sound above him became
more and more distinct. Suddenly there
iras a crash. The yielding mas 3 came in
down and with it a red petticoat excited,
which floundered a very geeatly Sitting
not to say frightened woman. debris she
there on the mass of mineral
blinked in a dazed manner at Boulder s
candle and then at Boulder. In an in¬
stant she was up again and climbing
through the aperture she had uncon-
sciously made. Boulder also started for
tb « surface through his own property,
Tbe Y arrived at the blackboard by a
common impulse almost at the same time.
Boulder seized the chalk,
“Your on my ground.” and
Her fingers were still yellow gray iu
from the mass of stuff she had struck
her fall, but she found them useful
enough to write:
“Your a lire.”
Boulder did not hesitate this time. He
wrote:
“Your a lady.” her somewhat.
Perhaps this appeased indisputably
Perhaps the modest and
manlike attitude ot the miner took her
fancy. She was certainly less vehement
in her use of the chalk when she replied:
“Wharc is the line.”
Boulder indicated the tree aud board
and, taking a stick, traced a mark in
the ground for several feet between the
claims. Common sense was enough to
show the creature in the petticoat that
the mau was right. She did not trust
herself to reply, but walked away. Fif¬
teen minutes" later Boulder saw a blanket
flying, without any visible means of lo¬
comotion, from the doorway of her
cabin. It was followed by another and
then another. There was no doubt of it,
Mrs. Asechiga was preparing to leave,
and that suddenly. himself hesi¬ .
Boulder, looking toward over, the door
tatingly walked timidly bhe did
and beckoned her to come out.
so and walked behind him ungraciously foUowed
toward the blackboard. She
him with interest as he formed the lol-
lowing: the wnrs o
“I don’t like to give you of this: lak
it. Thare is one way out
intrest in my ciame and I U t ak i m
vours.” J
She nodded “no.” and wrote:
“No, that woldn’t be fare to you,
vou haf the vane.” the offer,
But she was waverin< T ia
after she had deckned it. They
evea
looked steadily at one another for some
time; nnaiiy, seized with an idea and
growing bolder, the man ventured this :
“i am 45 yrs. old and want a part¬
ner, and liaf a little money and we mite
get ritch. Will ycu axcept a proposle
of murage?’’
Mrs. Asechiga looked at him doubtfully
for a second, and then even became coy
as she took the chalk:
“Asechiga sed he mared me because I
was deef and dum and couldn’t talk him
blind.”
This time, she handed the bit of white
over to him, and their hands met for the
first time. I believe there was some
blushing, and Boulder inscribed his final
message:
i know a ’justice of the pece in aspin
who will marry us for § 2 , we can go over
to-morrow; will you?
And she decided:
“Very weil.”
I believe they are working the Chee¬
tah Tiger together now.—New Yurk
Press.
Oil From Corn.
It will probabiy be a surprise to many
to know that there is a company whicn
purchases corn solely to extract the oil
from it. This is precisely what a sugar
refining company in Chicago is doing,
This compauy is the only one which has
the secret of obtaining the oil, and em¬
ploys it a iter the corn has been converted
into a starch or glucose so that nothing
will be wasted. The oil is a soft yellow
liquid, and resembles linseed oil in ap¬
pearance. Dr. Arno Behr discovered
the process of separating the oil from the
corn, and the doctor says this in regard
to the oil; “It has been known for a
long time that maize contained an oily
property, remaining for some one to turn
the idea to account. There is no dan¬
ger of corn oil ever taking the place of
linseed oil. Iu the first place, it will be
too scarce. The amount of oil contained
in corn is only four per cent, of its total
weight, and we lo3e almost half of it in
the process of abstraction, so that we
get a very small amount of oil after all.
The assertion ha 3 been made that corn
oil can be put to little use—that it can-
not be employed in making either soap
or paint. The great value of linseed oil
paints is that it dries readily, and it has
been asserted that corn oil will not dry.
Now, this is a mistake, and as a matter
of fact, corn oil can be used in making
paint or varnish, and also in soaps. It
makes a splendid soft soap. That there
are valuable uses to which it can be put
is shown by tbe fact that there is a de¬
mand fov it in foreign markets.”—Amer¬
ican Farmer.
A Mooted Question.
Why some seals sink and are lost
after being shot and others float, is a
mooted question not likely soon to be
decided. Wuere they are struck or
whether they have much or little blub-
ber, all of which have been urged to ac-
count for tbe anomaly, seems to have
little or no influence. It ha 3 been often
observed that a seal falling head down
on being 9 hot will come up and float,
while if the head is up he sinks and is
lost. It may be that in the latter case
he more readily fills. With weak seals
or pups it has been seen that they, too,
arc often not recovered. Of those tljat
are killed, discarding pups, the chances
seem to be about equal as to whether
they will sink or float. Sometimes a
considerable interval elapses before the
dead body rises to the surface and ha 3 te
or carelessness may loose it. The great
damage to the sealing industry lies uu-
doubtedly in the indiscriminate killing
which lays low so many cows ou their
way to the islands, heavy with young,
I whereby two lives are lost. It is impos-
sible to distinguish the female iu the
water, and she would not be spared were
it possible to do so.—Detroit Free Press.
A Fly Iuiliug Brigade.
The last Siam Free Press says that an
order has ju3t been issued from Siamese
military headquarters directing that the
troops in garrison at Koh-si-chang should
be employed in killing flies. Each man,
said the order, must exert himself to the
utmost and capture each day at least a
match box full of blue-bottle flie3, or be
punished in default. Says the paper:
“Though the order reads exceedingly
ridiculous there is no small need for
thinning down the myriads ^of imperti-
nent blue-bottles that bask in the smile
of royalty at Koh-si-chang. The Siamese
warriors will have their hands full, and
arenottobe envied. The pity is that
the troops were not exercised in some
evolution by which the nimble enemy
may be annihilated at one stroke. How-
ever, with our new coionels we have
sufficient military taleDt to guarantee
the success of some strategy by which
the grand army of blue-bottles might be
destroyed, and at the same time a very
coveted decoration well earned-com-
maaderofthe fly catchers in ordinary
to his Siamese Majesty may yet be eag-
cdy competed for amo n s Sia«e. s m, li.ar,
m “-
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A Simple Test for Milk.
The following test for watered milk is
simplicity itself. A well polished knit-
ting needle it dipped into a deep vessel
of milk and immediately withdrawn in
an upright position. If tbe sample is
pure some of the fluid will hang to the
needle, but if water has been added to
the milk, even in small proportions, tbe
fluid will not adhere :o the needle—
Boston Commercial.
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Even au all-round nan ought to ba
square in his dca.icgc—Lowell Courier.
HIKING STICKS OF CANDY.
WHAT A REPORTER SAW IN A BIG
CANDY FACTORY.
How the Candy is Mixed, Boiled, Fla¬
vored, Colored, Rolled Into Strips
and Finally Cut Into Sticks.
Y j Y HE particular candy factory the
I News reporter visited is on
Chambers street, and if you
*£* ever go to the ferry at the foot
of tuat street, you have, perhaps, seen
below the level of the street, the huge
copper cauldrons in which the sacchar¬
ine substance is boiled. This is, per¬
haps, all that you can ever see of candy¬
making, unless you can convince the
proprietors of the establishment that you
are in no wise financially interested in
the candy trade. There are secrets
which they do not care to have known
in the trade, and it is necessary for them
to take precautions to keep those secrets
from leaking out.
Once inside the factory you are con¬
fronted by walls and bare rafters j.made half
white with powdered sugar, A
hundred workmen with bare arms and
wearing huge apron 9 , move about in an
atmosphere, which is about as warm as
one can stand, and laden with an almost
overpowering odor of sugar. There are
at least a dozen of the large cauldrons
filled with gallons of sugar and water
undergoing the process of being trans¬
formed into thousands of jars of stick
candy, for the delectation of more thou¬
sands of north and south aud east and
west side youngsters.
Each of the cauldrons contains a quan¬
tity of water, into which fifty pounds of
tbe best white sugar has been placed.
Stick candy is the healthiest you can
eat, because it is made of pure sugar
and water, flavored with some sort of
essential oil and then colored. The ma¬
terial with which this coloring is done is
harmless. It is cochineal, mixed with
cream of tartar, soda and alum, Such
small quantities of each are used iu the
candy that even if you should cat au un¬
usually large number of sticks they
would not injure you because of the
coloring. Of course, stick candy is like
everything else, if you eat too much of
it you are liable to have a pain, but you
can’t blame the ingredients for that.
The flavoring is as harmless as the
coloring matter. Only pure essential
oils are used, and it may be well to re¬
mark that New York is the city which
furnishes these oils to candy-raaker3
throughout the length anc. breadth of
the United States. Lemon and pepper¬
mint are the favorite flavors, but large
quantities of sassafras, cinuamon, winter-
tf reea au< ^ strawberry are also used,
When the experienced the eye o e
candymaker tells him that sugar an
water is done, tbe contents are dumped
* nt0 aa * roa P ot aa ^ carried from uere
t0 a bu S e niarb.e slab, plenti u y
sprinkled , with powdered sugar, and
workman turns the mais over ovei
oa t^e table as it spreads out w lie un-
dergoing the cooling process. I hen he
mixes with the candy a small quantity of
essential oil, winch he pours out o A
bottle before beginning the folding,
^ sooa as ^ be ® ix ture * s co en0U o
he divides . and .
to handle it gives one-
ba ^ to anotber workman. F lica ®
rolls his share into the shape of a onto
bread and prepares for tne interesting
process of putting the stamps on w 11 c
at ^ to its value at least a hundre
P er cent, in the eyes of the juvem e
population of the country. Transform
tbe P^ e ' nto stic ks as it .ay, and it
would be plain white candy. While it
was yet warm he had cut off a arge
chunk and had pulled and pulled it over
a hook until it was almost pure w ate.
This piece he divided into a dozen nar-
row strips, which were well saturated
with coloring matter. These he stuck
on the loaf parallel. filled with
There was a furnace g ow-
. ac 0 a ong
ing coa s the candy soft 7
This was to keep enou J
to ™°rk. The loaf : was pi
the furnace, and the ca y-
dipped his hands and arms to s
m powdered sugar. Then he began to
nea e oa 1 f 3 ,"° ^ ^
, ,
6ee “ a
After he bad worked it thi way suffi-
cl * ? ltb ntly the he palms ^?!);“?!* of his baa .J, 1 « {fin b a 1
haa ^n worked out into , a !on strip,
6 rc ® 1D ° * I
an ° , ... f ...
reduced it .till further in . diameter .. , white . ..
constantly increasing its length, ^n t i
reached a third workman at the exl reme
®Jj . 0 e a ,® - a v ith hi* n*'m«
1, s as ma “ r "' y L,ua
. . . ,
un * 5 T* 18 c - ,ze •“ •
ve-poun Thus in a ump few moments^the 3 ran - twenty-
eix-foot strips, witn stnpes, all ready t
be cut 20 into j fe proper len ths “IlLi for jars.^Here J tl!
with red spiral . ', stripes, produ x h by the
C S
>ltI t
tbe desired diameter the men would roll
half a dozen at a time.
All that remained to be done was to
cu t the long strips into short sticks,
pack them in boxes and ship them to
the candy shops. All this is common-
place except the cutting process, which
jg done with a long sharp pair of shears.
It is no easy matter to cut stick candy
without breaking it. All the long strips
are laid together, and the lower part of
the shears slid along the table under
them, while tbe upper blade comes down
aQd SQ aps them apart as clean as if they
bad been cut w Uh a razor. The im-
% 7*11 Zll £
the cauldron and used in making candy
of mixed flavors. After this comes the
packing, shipping and eating process,
and vou have a complete history of the
simple stick of candy from the factory
to the consumer.-—New York News.
SELECT SIFTINGS.
Manitoba is the prize wheat section.
Ships were not copper-bottomed until
1783.
The first horse railroad was* built ia
1S26.
The first photograph was made ia
July, 1839.
Twenty words per minute is the aver¬
age at which long hand is written.
In the United States there are about
sixteen million cows—one for every four
persons.
A corncob in Georgia is shaped like a
human hand, having four well defined
fingers and a thumb.
A woman’s tombstone is the only one
in England upon which the epitaph is
written in shorthand.
St. Martin’s, Canterbury, is said to be
the oldest church in England, It was
built about 360 A. D.
There were five Mondays 1644', in February
of the years 1616, 1673, 1700,
1713, 1740, 1763, 1796, 1808, 1836,
1864, 1892. The like will occur iu
1904. .
The largest child ever born, it is said,
was the son of Bates, the Kentucky
giant, and his wife, the Nova Scotia
giantess. The “baby” weighed 23|
pounds.
A fisherman caught an immense trout
in the Austrian province of Istria a short
time ago. The fish ia said to have been
over a yard in length and half a yard in
circumference.
In Chiua the cobbler goes from house
to house, announcing his approach with
a rattle and taking up his abode with
the family while he does the necessary
making and mending.
The following advertisement recently
appeared in the Wiltshire (England]
Times: “Notice—Baptizing by the Itev.
A. E. Johnson, Stournore Water, next
Sunday, at 10:30 a. m. Photographers
invited.”
William M. Rice, who went from
Massachusetts to Texas in 1838, lias
given the City of Houston $200,000 in
money, $17,000 in securities, and 9000
acres of Texas farm land to found a
college.
A Philadelphia optician which makes regis¬ a
special summer thermometer
ters ten degrees of heat less than the ac¬
tual temperature, and he says that per¬
sons with vivid imaginations can keep
cool with one in the house.
A resident of Columbus, Ind., has a
gamecock which was recently attacked
by a bull, but in a very few minutes the
bull was miuu 3 an eye. About a year
ago tbe gamecock killed in one day seven
geese, eleven turkeys, and three roosters.
An invention for the use of bathers at
Trouville, France, consists of a couch
made of a sheet of canvas stretched upon
a light metal frame, with a canopy, and
kept afloat by means of large hollow
metal tubes filled with air. On this the
bather reclines at ease floating upon the
water in calm weather.
A curious marriage custom is recorded
by Dr. Post as existing in southern In¬
dia among some of the primitive non-
Aryan tribes. This consists of wedding
a girl to a plant, a tree, an animal, or
even to an inanimate object, the notion
being that any ill luck which may follow
an actual marriage may be averted by a
union of this kind.
He Smiled at tile Savages.
Italian soldiers used to be trained, it
is said, to look as fierce as possible, so
a<i to terrify their foes by the faccia
feroce; but Lieutenant H. Crichton
Browne, of her Majesty’s service, during
his reccnt dangerous ? / journey ' across the
Ve , dt3 of Sou h Afr ca> f und that a
smile was far more potent than the fiercest
frown to subdue the savage breast. He
relateg llo >v one day a swarm of wild
Africa) s cime upon his little band and
tilled hj s soul with “an inward sinking,”
buthegays; t q knew that my safety
depended on my maintaining external
; coolness, ^ and so I remained irnperturba-
^ j distinguished in
front of mo> to the rigbt , an i n d una or
R . kop (lea(Jer3 aaiong the Matabele
wear a black ring on tbe head) who was
particularly violent in his objurgations,
and on him I fixed my eve smiled,
'
WfaeQ j first sm j led OQ this Ring-kop
Matabele he was the picture of savage
rage; aJ} j wcnt on smiling he mollified,
aud ^ j 8 , niled again aBd again hebroke
into a hoarse laugh. It was a hoarse
laugh> but x thiak l ncver heard a j oliier
one. and to.Mdhl.lj I followed „p mj
od-oohge. The s .v„ g e s were seen »
pacified that they were willing to do
anything to oblige the Lieutenant and
his party.—New Orleans Picayune.
The Legion of Honor.
The French order of the Legion of
Honor at present counts no less than
45,000 members, of which number 12,-
458 arc civilians. Of grand crosses, in¬
eluding fourteen civil members, there are
fifty-nine; the grand officers and com-
maDders number 1400; the officers, in-
eluding the army, 6000.—Detroit Free
Press.