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LANT LIFE, to- be
Deer Lassoed, Bough Bider Style
William Worthing, an ex-cow
boy who went*to Cuba with the
Bough Riders, now working on a
farm near Pine Grove, Penn. } is
an unerring twister'of the lasso.
The other day he went fox hunt-
in sr. The * dos went up a ravine
the more rea<
-Coil Springs under your buggy. Easy
evenly, without any roll, throw or jar.
Br.ttom
—spri a;,':'
itUvCLOtl.
Nitrogen,
deer, on the dead run, with
the dog at their heels. Worthing
promptly urged his horse forward,
twirling the lasso, and in an in-
/ The merchant who constantly
advertises is generally the one
who does the largest cash busi
ness. He is’therefore enabled by
having cash on hand to- discount
his bills.-and the merchant who
discounts his - bills is the one that
the manufacturers of the country
look up when they have bargains
to dispose of. Place your business
companions, we attemptea to assuage \*| I \\f H) AT I Mr A N IA
our thirst with water, but it did no U ^ IhJX ± *X ±£L.
good. We had acquired a taste for the
frozen water, and it seemed to have in- A PECULIAR HABiT THAT DEVELOPS
vigoirating qualities. At night We could IN THE KLONDIKE.
not sleep unless we took our snow.
“We Were fast approaching the de- ApjVetrie, when Once Acquired,
generate stage when I reached a realiz- Js ExtPemely Diir ,cnit to ’ Control,
ing sense of our condition and under- and ^ Illdllls e it Means a snort
took to break off. I began by degrees Cmt fo t&e Grnxe .
and worked down, bnt up to the very
moment I left the country the sight of Every great discovery in the world's
the snow always raised in me an inor- history has brought with it an accom-
dihate craving." It cost me many sleep- panving affliction, and it remained £br
less nights and weary days to restrain ’ the Klondike to develop a peculiar mania
myself. Had I given way to the habit 1 that threatens to outrival opium eating.
I would, like many another poor fellow. ( Among the residents of the far north it
have lost all ambition and filled an un- ris known as the “snow habit, ” and it
known grave in that frozen wilderness.* ’ -] is said to be incurable. A returned
-—Cleveland Plain Dealer. * j Klondiker tells the strange story.
—— | “There'are many strange things in
Dynamite. J the Klondike, ’ ’ said the narrator, ‘ ‘but
Dynamite explodes so rapidly that its ! perhaps the* strangest and that about
force is exerted in the direction from ! which nothing has been written so far.
Which the greatest pressure comes. That j is the dissipation caused by eating
is, if the dynamite be placed on the > snow. In the north, when the ther-
ground the explosive force 13 down; if mometer reaches 30 to 40 degrees below
it. be hung against a wall its force at- j zero, a mouthful of snow is like molten
tacks the wall; if it be hung under an ■ metal. It brings an inflammation to the
object its force, is upward. j palate and tongue and it is impossible
‘ : £ to. quench the thirst. The first advice
The curious fact that corn, potatoes an old timer offers a newcomer in the
and other plants thrive better when region is ‘Don’t eat show. ’ There are
placed in rows running north and south men in . that country, once hearty, ro-
has been proved, by Dr.* Wollny of Mu- bust miners, now weak, effemi^ te crea-.
nich. This reduces the shading by each tnres, "whose fall can be .traced'directly
other, to a minimum, more uniform and to the time they began munching snow,
regular light, he&S.and moisture result- “The matter has been but little in
vestigated,. but the scientists who have
examined the subject sav that the wa
ters of the north are rich with mineral
AmTisixksr (k*ci:rrence in nn office j deposits which are being constantly
Bziiiaixxs; Elevator la ciiieasro. j washed down from the mountains. A
People who ride in. “lifts” in this! certain percent of'this mineral is taken
city acquire some queer experiences at j into the air when vapor 'rises, and the
times. The calling of the floors where ! snow , becomes impregnated with it.
passengers desire to debark or embark There have been several falls of red
not infrequently produces some amus- show pear Point Barrow, the deposit
ihg situations It all depends npon the being of a reddish brown color, due en-
styie of the. person making the an- tirely to minerals. Thus it can be seen
nonncement. Of course conductors that a person^ eating large quantities of
are mute participants in the game, the know fakes into his system a corre-
Eere is one happening of -yesterday spending amount of minerals. ”'
which is certainly out of the usual run. While coming down the Copper river
.Half a dozen passengers entered an last spring the narrator case upon a
elevator in a big down town office build- party of miners Where one was dying
ing. Doctors office there almost to the from the effects of eating snow. IJe had
. exclusion of other professions. One boy been a: hard drinker, but had run short-
with a package asked to be deposited o£ whisky. His thirst became unendur-
> at the seeond floor. A woman stood able and as water was scarce inmid-
mute while a medical man thought lie winter he had taken to eating snow,
would leave at the fifth. The conductor Soon he Claimed it relieved liis appetite
- turned an inquiring head and the re- for the liquor, but his companions no-
; maining passengers with one voice ticed that his appetite for the snow in-
; chiming in. full chorus shouted : creased until he was consuming enor-
“Tenth.” f. mous quantities. Gradually hi3 skin,
“Seven up, ” murmUved a gentle which was a dark bronze, grew light,
Voice as the car reached the indicated his rugged stature became bent, and
floor. , even his' harsh voice changed to the
Two men seeking the tenth floor effeminate squeak of an old woman,
glanced at each other with grins of ap- His strength gave way, and his com*
preciation as a stenographer, and a panions tried to break him of the habit.*
V pretty one, by the way, entered the car. He Would - lie on his pallet and moan
She seemed nnconscions of having ere- pitifully for- .a mouthful of snow and
ated more than passing interest, bnt when opportunity offered would steal
the conductor was alive to the situation, unobserved to the doorway and gulp
C “The lady wins,” he muttered to down huge handfuls. At last, seeing
himself as: he gave the lever a yank and death was inevitable, his companions
the car shot upward again.——Chicago allowed him the snow, hoping to pro-*'
Chronicle. ’ long his Ufa It proved unavailing,
_ . __ 7" ii- however, and one morning the man was
TheSOder’s Elastxe Appetite. . found de^
The spiderhas a ti*emendous appetite,’ There are some spots on the Copper
and his gormandizing defies all human river where the wheii melted &&
competition. ^ ^P leirfel9t ?J re ^?3? r ' strained through a cloth, shows percep-
not a spider s consumption of food m tible signs of minerals, and often gold
Sf °? T ^['Concluded that if the spider i 3 found plentifully intermixed, but of
Were hpilt proportionately to ^bie human cohi^^^ not in paying 4uantiti^.^>WhjeiB8
scales he would eat at daybreak (ap- 1 this comes .from is a mvstery, but it
proximately) a small alligator, by 7 a.- may be brought horn the far north by
. m. a lamls by 9 a. m. a young camelo- the heavjr winter gales t!mt sweep ever
. nard by 1 o clock a sheep and w.ould this part-of the cofintry. It has been
fimsn upvnih a lark pie in which there said that if the snow could be melted .
were 0 birds, bet, in spite of his aY /avit wouldleave deposits of millions
enormous appetite, ,a spider has wonder- of dollars in gold dust on the ground,
ful power pf refraining from food, and The narrator had a close call himself
? one nas been known to Uve for-ten from falling a victim to the snow habit,
months when absolutely deprived of « It was in the winter of 1896-7;” ha
one-tenth or the money awaraea
to bis vessel if it was acting at the
time of the capture under the
command of 'the commanding
officer of a fleet, squadron or di
vision, and three-twentieths if it
was acting independently.
- After the deduction of the re-
the prize 'money
i mainder
( awarded to a vessel is distributed
among the officers and crew of the
j vessel in proportion to their f re-
, spective pays. Alh vessels of the
nav.y within signaling distance of
the vessel or vessels making the
capture, under such circumstances
and in such conditions as to
render sufficient aid if required,
share in the prize. When the
district court of the United States
shall determine that the prize was
of inferior force to the captor,
one-half the proceeds of sale shall
j go to the captor* and one-half to
•j the United States. But if the
(prize was of equal or superior
j force to the vessel making the
| capture the entire net proceeds of
j the sale shall go to the captor.
“I wonder why Quigly never
brings that 'pretty girl’ to the
theatre any mere—have' they
quarreled?” -
“Nope. . Married. ”—Baltimore
Life.
THE LADY THE WINNER
What Inspired the Czar.
At *the recent banquet in Sar
rancisco given Irvin M. Scott
Will cure Croup without fail.
Doses are small and pl^ssanttotake. Docio. 1
recommend it. Price 25 cts. At all druggists.
Drs. Ryder and Merritt,
some nice, new battleships of his
own.
“ ‘Let me see your schedule of
prices^’said the <Emperor of all
the Russias.’ *
“Mr. Scott handed over one of
his price lists. The Czar glanced
at the first figure that caught his
eye. Then he retired to study
them oyer. ' -
“ ‘Before awarding ' the. con
tracts*’he said to Mr. Scott, ‘I
want to examine these prices care
fully.’
“On the following morning the
Czar issued his famous appeal for
the disarmament of the whole
world.”
First-class Dental Work. Head-
-• - -' y,
quarters tor best Tooth and .
Mouth Preparations.
ia Railroad
£ “Sam.” said the eloquent attor
ney after the prisoner had been
acquitted, “now that it’s all over,
tell me honestly .whether you bur
glarized that house?”"
“Say, boss, I thought I did till
I heerd that speech of yoiirn, but
now I know darned well that I
didn’t.”
[>cL A beetle lived in a similar state
nnrefreshment for three years.—St
>nis .Globe-Democrat
ly annihilated.