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j.,n is ;, '¦¦¦.eyed fro m the little rail-
road stiit:' .'-'
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¦ :' brigh tly painte d stage
dra ff" '•: '• ' ¦
' iron gray uors6s - He
OTs the ¦¦'¦'->' l^sseuger for the beach .
and be s!v-:< a lxmt in the huge vehi-
cle Uke :!>-
¦I'vovcrbial pea in a barrel.
it the K.-'.:vv-: >- to a uarrow sandy
lane sbaiW •':• wind blown cedars,
under wi:: .•'¦. ' marsh grass straggled
sparsely, i'm s-' vse stopped.
"All ¦;:: " ••=—>S the driver lustily.
"Goia ' t' 1 :^>' ¦¦each, ye said?" He
fjeervd J->»a ..c Jarvis with beady
black eyi> '.¦
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.:Uh thatches of white
eyebrows.
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.•.:;er cottage. Straight
ahead":" .i;.t • is asked the question
wiille lii- '.;i "ow his luggage to the
CT0UJid a:w !>:V.d liis fare.
"Edgo wi. -.s¦:• ¦: Uage ? That 'll be the
Bow i-'a-.e. !.!-i cottage on the left.
So Ion?:"
"Muc 'j ¦A-' \~ --y.- Goodby!"
Jarvi.* tt.r 1:: -l u> the left and walked
slowly il'.'w:: •¦> the beach, his head
bared to iU :':vsh breeze, his lungs
gratefully is.: -:rr,i;- re placed not far be-
vuuil liii 'i v..r-r mark. Its shingles
were \u-a;:;vr M-aten to a silver gray,
and Hw n^.'.iy windows tightly stiut-
tereil J'M'kfii ':!- •
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¦ closed eyes in a sad
face, it SL-o'.'.vi desolate enough com-
pared !¦ the u\\'.' 'Y cozy houses along
ihe u--.vh. tut j .irvis decided after a
kisty ¦
•\:!uii!.:i!:>m that when he got
out so;!;^ :"•!¦' -I; furniture aad opened
up t!je r-huV : rs the cottage he had
lured w.m;..'i !"
j fit enough for his pur-
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The ru? ;y U-y tie had obtained from
ibe agent •. r.¦;il, ..>d in the lock and the
door s^vutr_- < 'p<~>n , admitting him to
lane, ivnu'ortablv furnished rooms.
His fir*t i.'.iy was to throw wide the
shurrers :>: ¦•) raise the window sashes
to the tivsii :i:r Except for a layer of
flrisr nvt 'j- ev-Tvi hJH s the bouse was in
exquisite <.>n'i.'r of arrangement. He
rtei-iilpj to .-
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tvp in the wire inclosed
haloony. aiijd :¦.
¦* be had arranged by
letter for his 'iiftils to be sent in from
tbe h.'to! on the long point beyond
ibere \v.ns iirtlf for him to do save to
arrange a o.vr ju rhe balcony and un-
fi;ii:k liis p.-iii 'iir. ff things.
At sunset ;i steam launch from the
hotPl di^lwn'eil a boy with a basket
Mutafnins : hi* 'Hnner. Jarvis discussed
the c-icpllrti; >i)e;il on the veranda, his
artist's eye lingering on the wide
sneep of -;-.??fj and blue flecked with
white that f.ilt .-fl the foreground.
Here n-eiv -nior and life enough to
limn any number of canvases. Jarvis
was glad he had decided to close his
studio aim run away from all his
friends, an d the chance that brought
him to B.?v-hs'nie had been decided by
the cbll^i-ii tuiT 'iod of closing.his eyes
end running his fi nger along the map
of New Jersey while he counted ten.
Then he hnd opened his eyes and
found Bc;u h-if] ,.. ruost inconspicuous
of small watering places, under his
finec-r. \ow he was here.
He SIMM a Thoughtful cigar while
the sunset tints faded to opal and sil-
ver ami then a uniform slate gray set-
tled over the water .
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:6 ci"nr consumed . Jarvis felt for
another one in vain. His cigar case
was empty; aJ>r, he had forgotten his
tobacco pouch . He fingered his pipe
Wistfull y inn] rummaged his traps for
tobacco of some sort. In sheer des-
peration he carried his tallow candle
«bere was no kerosene in the cottage)
"om room to room in an aimless
search for nk-oiiue.
•V U,st h,« u-w.stied joyously.
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small stand in one corner of the )iriD*r
room he found a smokin g ser of ham-
mered brass. The huge tobacco jar
contained a few pinches of the desired
weed, and he crammed it into his pipe
gratefully. '
Now-he closed tiie door and locked it
and went up to his balcony. He threw
himself down on the cot and smoked
contentedly, dreamily. Overhead was
the shme of gentle stars, and on the
beach the waves broke softly, musi-
cally. He weut to sleep.
Jarvis was awakened by a crashing
volley of thunder, followed by a vivid
flas h of lightning. He sat
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up and
gazed open mouthed at the strange
scene depicted before his eyes
There was ali the wild fury of a
hurricane bursting about his ears.
Huge waves pounded on the beach
breaking in blinding spray that drench-
ed his face. Some dark shape loomed
out of thp blackness, coming nearer.
He discerned tne outHues of a large
white steamer, saw dark forms tossed
against her whiteness, heard the biare
of her distress signals, saw her careen
on the shoals and become engulfed in
the sea. Still the waves broke on the
beach, and in their tossing they flung
a dark form on the white sand beneath
the balcony.
Jarvis tried to rise, but his limbs
seemed paralyzed. He endeavored to
utter a sound, but his Ups were dumb.
He could only sit there on his couch
wildly conscious of tragedy heaped on
tragedy, powerless to help.
Another wave rose high crested,
curved downward and greedily snatch-
ed the still dark form from the sands,
drew it out into the sea's bosom and
feept ft.
Horrified, the painter stared down at
the beach,- now conscious that the si-
lent form had left something behind, a
small dark objett whose outlines were
lost in the darkness. Then the waves
came again and again, sucking up the
sand and piling it over and about the
dark object until it was entirely hid-
den from view.
With appalling suddenness the storm
vanished as if it had never been. Over-
head the stars shone gently, and the
waves softly lapped the quiet beach.
Jarvis found his motive power as if
magically restored. With a leap he
was off the cot and dashing down the
stairs to the sand. There he stood
flumfounded.
To the touch of his stockinged feet
the sand was warm and dry. His
groping fingers confirmed that fact.
The tide was rising, and almost to its
verge the sand showed no trace of
dampness. The sea stretched a level
expanse, broken here and there by dim-
pling wavelets.
"I'll be hanged if I know what to
-make of it," muttered Jarvis dazedly.
"I couldn't have been dreaming, and
yet"— He looked at his watch. "It's
certainly up to me or the tobacco Vve
been smoking! Nine o'clock when I
turned in, and now it's 9:30. Even
ha these swift times they don't turn
storms off and on at that gait!"
.
Chagrined, he walked over to the
place under his balcony where the
waves had tossed the dead man for a
brief instant before they reclaimed
him. Jarvis had watched it with his
own eyes, and he had seen the follow-
ing waves heap sand about a small,
dark object the man had left behind.
There should be a little sand mound
here—and there was'
.
The painter was too excited to re-
turn to liis bed; therefore he went into
the cottage, found an old fashioned
lantern-, in which he stuck a candle
end. took up a coal shovel and went
back to the beach.
Here by the candle's dim light he
grimly dug into the shallow heap of
sand. It was a fool's business, he told
himself as he delved downward to
where the sand was soaking wet and
the water o»zed up into little wells and
impeded his labor. -
At last came rsigs 'ttud shreds of
something that might have bepti an oil-
skin coat, and afterward, deeply em-
bedded in the saud. Jarvis found a
small water soaked bos bound with
iron bands. This? was treasure trove.
Jarvis hastened to the cottage and
with hammer and chisel pounded
away at the little box until its rotted
sides fell inward and the iron bands
crumbled to rusty flakes.
Pitiful indeed was the little treasure
contained in the tiny cbost—u sailor's
keepsakes. Bits of coral and pretty
shells and atones, a woman's lovely
face smiling from a tarnished frame,
a baby's first pliotograph. the mother's
loving inscription penned £>n the back;
a few letters, intimately lender, from
wife to husband: a copy of a will, a
few months' wages-tied in little oil-
skin sacks, the owner's name on the
Inside of a memorandum book-James
Petrel, master of the freighter Sea
Nymph—that was all.
So the man who had been thrown on
the beach as revealed to Jarvis in the
vision-for such the painter believed
his strange adventure to be-must have
been the captain of the ill fated vessel
On the morrow he would inquire con-
cerning the w reck of toe Sea Nymph
and try to find the relatives of James
Petrel.
After that Jarvis tumbled into bed
and went to sleep, wondering why he
of all men had been chosen to bring to
light the long buried box. He dreamed
about the curly headed baby, whose
charming smile pursued him through
his dreams.
"Yes," said the oldest cottager when
Jarvis guardedly made Inquiries con-
cerning wrecks on the coast. "It was
as far back as 1
885 that the Sea
Nymph went ashore off here. She got
on the shoals, but the seas were riding
so high she didn't stick. Back she
went, and they simply swallowed her
up, so the story goes. Bits of cargo
floated ashore long afterward—one or
two bodies of seamen. That was all.
Divers never found trace of her. It
was the worst storm ever known on
the coast. After that they built the
breakwater and the lighthouse. At
that time there was an old fisherman's
hat on the spot where your cottage
now stands. Tradition has it that the
old man lured the steamer to her ruin.
If he did it was small profit to him,
for the storm washed his hut into the
sea, and he went with it. The man
who owns your cottage once found a
copper canister filled with choice
smoking tobacco buried in the sand
near by. It pleased him to resurrect
it and smoke it. He quit using it aft-
er awhile because, be claimed, it gave
him the nightmare—said the Sea
Nymph went ashore every night in his
dreams. If there's any of it left you
better not smoke it," added the oldest
cottager whimsically.
It's ail gone," replied Jarvis, with a
cryptic smile.
And this is the treasure that Jarvis
found. When he had traced the wid-
ow of the luckless Captain Petrel he
found her prosperously married to one
of the ship's owners, while the curly
headed baby with the charming smile
had grown to be the loveliest girl Jar-
vis had ever met. As a consequence
Doris Petrel became the artist's wife.
In addition, the memory of the vi-
sion that had come to him that night
cUing so persistently in his mind that
he transferred tbe stormy scene to
canvas with every defal) of that wild
night of thunder and lightning, hurri-
cane winds and mammoth waves, the
ghostlike vessel shuddering to her wa-
tery grave, the package on the beach
half obliterated by the sand. Next to
Dorjs herself, this picture proved to be
Jarvis' treasure, for It made his for-
tune.
What Is an Element?
In his little book called "The Ele-
ments" Sir William A. Tilden defines
an element as "a substance from
which by the operation of ordinary
chemical processes only one kind of
matter can be obtained." This is some-
thing quite different from tbe four ele-
ments of Aristotle—fire, water, earth
and air—or the salt, sulphur and mer-
cury of the alchemists. Even In mod-
ern times the conception of what an
element really Is has changed some-
what. Sir William adds: ""Until quite
recently the elements of tbe Inorganie
world were supposed to be fixed, im-
muta ble with the lapse of ages or un-
der the mighty forces concerned in tbe
making of worlds. But within a few
years we have learned that the atoms
at least are continually crumbling
away. It is impossible to say whether
all may not be suffering a slow waste
which in the long run may lead back
to tbe primal tUaos."
Advertising pays if the man that
has something to sell so regulates his
advertisement as to convince the peo-
ple that it is worth buying.
All the substitutes for newspaper ad-
vertising can be easily avoided or dis-
regarded by the people the advertiser
tries hardest to attract, the man or
woman that can afford to buy.
They do not stand gaping at bill-
boards and they do not bother with
circulars in the mail because they are
too busy, but their old friend, the
newspaper, is taken into the inmost
privacy of the family, circle. It is dis-
cussed at the breakfast table and at
the supper, it is read at leisure in the
evening, and its pages are scrutinized
with the interest born of long habit
and discriminating taste.
An advertisement in that newspaper
goes into the family circle and cannot
be excluded. It is welcome because
it is a part of something else that is
welcome, and it goes there at the very
time when the occasional domestic
economical council takes place. There
is no substitute for newspaper adver-
tising.—AUentown (Pa.) Item.
No Substitute For Newspaper Adver-
tising
The very high sounding word eti-
quette had a very humble origin, for
etiquette meant simply a label. It de-
rived Its present meaning from the
fact that a Scotch gardener who bad
laid out the grounds at Versailles for
Louis XIV. was much annoyed at the
courtiers walking over his newly made
paths and at length bad labels placed
to Indicate where they might walk.
At first these labels were Ignored, but
a hint from high quarters that in fu-
ture the walks of the courtiers must
be wltofn the "
etiquettes" or labels
was promptly attended to. To keep
within the "
etiquettes" came to mean
to do the correct thing.
Etiquette.
Mlldmay Is a philosopher In his way.
The other evening Mrs. M. gave him
a scolding that would hare made al-
most any other man crazy. But Mlld-
may said never a word tn reply. He
only murmured to himself:
"And that is rbe woman I used to
bold on my knee and call my little
tootsy tvoorsy.
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Read carefully our. Christmas advs.
As It Ui«d to B*.
THE POULTRY YARD
Warm wheat for breakfast makes
the biddies shell out the eggs.
Plenty of bone all the time. If you
haven't a cutter use an old ax or a
hatchet, but break the bone in small
"pieces.
Infertile eggs taken from the incu-
bator need not be an entire loss. They
may be boiled and used as chick food.
Pigeon-grass is becoming widely dis-
tributed in the East. The seed has
much nutritive value and is fine for
turKeys and chickens.
Takes more to tat a hen now than
it did two months ago, but don't win-
ter the hens that are so old they may
die before spring. Feed them well,
keep them warm and let them go the
first chance you have.
Oreen food must not be forgotten.
Some feed green rye when it can be
had, others give sprouted oats, othera
beets and turnips and cabbage, and
others add cut clover hay to ihe mash.
All of the greens mentioned are good.
Salt is as essential for poultry as
for human beings or animals. But it
is not wise to reed it by itself . The
better way is to season the food when-
ever that can be done. The warm
mash in the winter gives an excellent
opportunity to supply it.
A little more corn may be added to
the evening grain ration, as the hens
will need more heating food. On the
farm of the writer the winter grain
ration consists of two parts whole
corn, one part oats, and one part
wheat. During the summer only one
part corn is given to two parts oats
and one part wheat.
If porcelain eggs are used for nest
eggs in cold weather, cover them with
light flannel, or some other material,
to avoid torture to the hens. An arti-
ficial egg is always of the same
temperature as the atmosphere, while
the temperature of a hen's body is
about 102 degrees. It may readily
be seen that in freezing weather
these ice-cold eggs will cause the hens
to get chilled.—Farm Journal.
A case in Eastham in which a hunt-
er was arrested and fined for shooting
young night herons has excited con-
siderable interest. The man was ar-
rested oy Walter F. Nickerson, a game
warden, w-ho took his license as a
means of identification and summoned
him to court in Provincetown. He was
represented by counsel and after a
hearing was fined $5 for shooting one
heron.
it was contended by the sportsman
and his friends that the bird shot was
a quawk, or mud hen, the open season
of which is from Aug. 1to Dec. 3
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friends assert that the game warden
was mistaken in classifying the bird
as a heron and that the sportsman
was the victim of the warden's error.
They allege that the bird was of that
kind which is classified under the
general title of shore and marsh Birds
and that the hunter was entitled un-
der the law to shoot it.
Mr. Nickerson wrote George W.
Field, chairman of the fisheries and
game commission, whose reply was as
follows:
' Yours of the 31st ult, together with
the express package, duly received.
The birds, which reached here in good
condition, were young night herons
(nycticorax naevius), and do not be-
long to the family rallidae. This is
one of the birds known under the com-
mon name of quawk, but there are
other birds which may have the same
local name; but the Latin name,
which is the same in all parts of the
world, is the one upon which the de-
cision must be based.
"You were therefore entirely right
in enforcing the law on the bird.
These birds were hatched this year.
The adults are cream or slate-colored,
with greenish-black patches on back
and top of head."
Eastham Game Warden Upheld in
Court
The United States has passed the
100,000,000 mark in population. In-
ciuding - the Philippine islands and
i*orto Rico, and not including Guam
and part of the islands of the Samoan
group, the American flag floats over a
population of 103,992,757. Exclusive
of the Philippine islands, Porto Rico,
Guam and Samoa, but including Alas-
ka and Hawaii, the population of the
United States is 93,471,648. Ten years
ago the population ot the same terri-
tory was 76,303,387.
Let this newspaper work for you
through its advertising columns. It
is read all the week, by people you
wan t as fiiistornera.
How We Grow
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t is time for looking up
CHRISTM AS GOODS
And (here is nothing m»r<> useful or
thought more of ihim something in
F OO T W EA R = =
We have about eveiything you need in «lmt line
We afoo have two firet-clasa Shoemakers and do the Repairing quick and well
W. H. Bart let*
CASH BLOCK Telephone tot i HYAhHIS , MASS.
Shur-on
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COMFORTABLE EFFICIENT
INCONSP ICUOUS
Pro perly adjuste d they wdl not mark tlie
oridgo of tlie nose, sffp down or hurt beblnd
tbe ears .
BROWN, OPTICIAN
riOtt Union Street itOS
NEW BfcOFW It p, 1«ASS.
Lar gest Dealers in Shur-on 's
in Southern Massachusetts.
E. S. TALBOT
O. D. H.
SANDWICH.
fej TWlll be in Cotult, opposite Sanloil
House, on tbe Firwt and Third Tutadayi
ot each month; Jn Sagamore every Wed-
tea day.
Offlne hours. 9 to 12, 1to 4 .
Telephone, 32-4.
CHRISTMAS SALE AT AMERICAN CLOTHING HOUSE
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Hack year the public decides more and more on useful and practical gifts for Christinas. Useful gifts are the kind that are not only lasting but most acceptable .
We have planned for an extraordinary Holiday trade bj making Special Low Prices throughout our entire store.
This Store Will be Open Every Evenin g, Commencin g December 19th, Until Chri stmas.
Cloves Are Always Acceptable . Holiday Susp< nders Ladies' and Men's Hosiery ! Sweaters Are Useful Hen's and Boys' Xeckwear Umbrellas for Christmas High ClassClothing—The Leading Makers—
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Ul ^ "001 Golf Gloves all shade *
"nd Women's. mU. Lined Ciloves, Boy* Su*Ppnder? > 15o, 25c 50o Krad (8; Here we 8how
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V«L " d «Of f ram 3Oc to $».OO a pair : Children 's Worsted juid Jersey L*«Ri»s Christmas gifts : Pajamas , Night Robes, WiTS' aaJ PRArnT l» I-8e to 5©e *°> v
style*, all to be aold at reduced prices.
- -_. _ __irfJ __-_ - \m«ltW 1.00 a«d tl.»5 Bath Robe?, Shirts, New F5r Gloved WAYS »¦
« PBOESII Men's and Women's a»l linen initml " — —
a,, . , ¦ JlOfCHIC a : ; _^ Boys' and Hen's Underwear, Hosiery of Women's and Men's, very popular , Handkerchief s 19 t-»c, »5e. 5Oc borders, from l« l.9f i.*i
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mr Christmas gifts. You will flnd a large Hoe, 3Oc to $»,0O Gent 's Bath Robes 3.50, 5.
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i «*?..*• *« o, , , »«C «Oc aod Me Many other novelties in H.ndker- Fur lined coat nhi«i llnri donblo
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Mu®e" ;*•« «••*•«• Women's all linen embroidered Hand - chief8 for tbe holiday.. "
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v'Hi 't is tlvL:"» llDen «>r , »•*¦ or *llk
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Tbe Piazza del Venetzia is my fa-
vorite abiding place when I am in
Rome. The reason of this ia that it is
the most stirring part of the Eternal
City. Above the piazza Is the Oapi-
tofine bill, on which a state building is
being erected and from which extends
the Corso Uraborto, the main shopping
street of Rome. When there [ make it
a point every afternoon to go down
tbe Corso to one of the sidewalk res-
taurants and driuk Fras< atti wiDe.
1 was sitting »>De af ternoon <>« the
sidewalk in the I'i-.ma Colonna. just
off tbe Corso. when a youni; officer
and » young tfrl took a seat »t a table
near .by. 1 speak and timlersinnri the
Italian language tolerably well, nntl it
wa.snot Iouk before 1 catijiht ihe word
Amerifano. The m«« ws\s tsilkuiji
about the Americans who f>vqiietii
Rome in sucu large numbers, inveigh
ing against the manner in which they
demoralize the tradespeople sintl serv
ants by their lavish expenditure of
money. Officers of the Italian arm.
v
are from the upper classes, and mis
young man was of a retin^d t'
vpe. The
girl he was with was of the same
class, tastefully dressed and pretty.
My admira t ion was especially excited
by her splendid hair, which wns coiled
up in grea t rolls worthy of au empress
of ancient Rome.
The lady was lamenting that her
family must remove from tbe home
they bad long occupied, owing to the
rise in reuts. She was also telling her
companion, who, I judged, was her
fiance, that sht> needed a sum of mon-
ey, without which some, trouble or in-
convenience would accrue. The young
man was lamenting his inability to
furnish the amount , having nothing
but his pay in the army, which is small
enough indeed. I could uot but feel
the injustice of my having several
times the iucotne I could spend, while
these poor young people were in des-
perate straits for a few hundred
francs, and what disturbed me more
was that conventional barrier which
prevented tny giving them the amount
they needed, a mutter which would
have conferred upon me as much
pleasure as on them.
They arose and went away without
knowing that their strictu res on Amer-
icans had been overheard by an Amer-
ican and that they had not modulated
their voices sufficientl y to prevent my
getting a vague idea of their necessi-
ties. As they departed the officer said
pleadingly. "If you do it will break my
heart." to which the girl responded,
"If I do not 1 fear my mother will
die."
The very next day 1 met the same
young lady on the Corso. On her face
was a sad but determined expression.
Without any definite purpose I turned
and walked in tbe same direction as
she. Presently I saw her turn into a
shop, in whose windows were wom-
en's switches, wigs and cosmetics, I
could look through tbe glass and see
the girl in conversation witb tbe pro-
prietor. She removed ber bat and let
down her hair. It was the most mag-
nificen t display 1 ever saw—very thick
and reaching to the floor. The pro-
prietor was inspecting it.
The meaning of the words of the
officer who had been witb her the day
before—"If you do it will break my
heart"—was now apparent to me. She
was about to raise the needed funds
by parting witb her bair. 1 sauntered
into tbe shop. The proprietor motion-
ed me to a seat while be bargained
with the girl. Presently 1 heard him
say:
"It ia too valuable for me to buy
just now. when 1 am short of funds.
Come in at another time."
"Does the senorina wish to sell her
hair?" I asked. "My wife is looking
for a switch."
"Yes, senor; she would sell it."
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1 would buy it. but my wife Is not
A LONG TIME
PURCHASE
By ARNOLD HATHAWAY
Copyright, 1910. by Ameri can Press
Association.
One of tbe many things that strike
the tourist as curious at i'enang is the
type of baths wifb which the hotels
tire provided. Peuang is in tbe Straits
Settlements, a British crown colony in
the Malay peninsula, deriving Its name
from the straits of Malacca, waica i
form tbe great trade route between
Imlia nud Cuina. From each of the
first class rooms opens a dark, cement J
pavedi damp suj elfing little room
which serves as the bath. In it is an
Immense jar .of porous brown earth-
vnware about five feet high, nearly
three feet in diameter in the middle
tud but oue aud a. half feet in diame-
ter at the top. It stands huge and |
Kraeeful of outline, but dark and uniu- I
viting. and is full to the brim witb wa-
ter, not, however, to get into. Near
It are a supply of soft soap and a long
handled quart dipper. The proper pro-
cedure Is to soap tbe body well, then
throw several dippers of water over
It, repeating the process until satis-
fied. There is water enough to keep it
up for an hour or so, and there is a
huge crash towel as large-us a sheet
to wrap up in when the bath is over.—
Detroit News-Tribune.
Uurlout Bath* in Penang.
The color line is not very distinctly
Irawn In the Latin republics The San
Bias Indians are found in and arouud
Panama. Like tbe Semiuoles of Flor-
ida, they never were conquered. A
surious feature of native life in Pana-
ma is tbe cockHghting. which, like
oaseball iu the Dnlted States, is more
ittractive to the public than any otber
form of recreation. Even the work-
men on the streets have favorite birds
tethered near by and seize every op-
portunity to test their prowess. Tbe
;lick-click of steel spurs as the birds
strike each other, the spurting of blood
ind tbe clamor of men indulging In
small wagers seem to supply the men*
tal excitement that Spaniards find In I
bullfigh ts and that English speaking
races derive from less brutal contests.
The backer of each gamecock stands
behind it. and If his bird shows signs
jf exhaustion he takes it up and puts
Its bill into his mouth while he in-
flates its exhausted lungs. One game-
tock In a figh t witnessed by the writ-
er, appearing almost dead, was thus
revived, went back Into the pit and
Snally killed its opponent—National
Magazine.
Gamtcocks In Panama.
Prosperous Publisher—Do you write
before or after eating? Poet (faintly)
—Always before unless I have some-
thing to eat.—Judge.
Mostly Befo re.
Pedro Miguel, Fayal, Azores,
Nov. 1
3, 1
910,
Mr. Editor :
Dear Sir: Hardly knowing what to
write, i have kept aloof from your
columns for a long time, but an event
of the highest importance leads me
lo-day to renew my long relationship
with your ever interesting papers.
The political situation of Portugal
wmch bad been so uneasy and cor-
rupt lor the past three years, has
oeen settled at last. The old mon-
archy founded 800 years ago by Alfon-
so Henry saw its end on the 5th of last
month through a bold revolution on
the part of the republican element of
Lisbon. The republican victory tak-
ing into consideration the small num-
ber of the stragglers for Liberty as
compared with those fighting for
slavery, will no doubt surprise the
whole world.
The blood shed on those three
glorious October days is beyond val-
uation—it is worth millions of dollars.
The rejoicing experienced by 5,000,000
slaves upon their release from the
chains of bondage is beyond descrip-
tion. Everyone, noble or plebian,
rich or poor, old or young, display the
utmost satisfaction for . the proclama-
tion of the republic. Here in the
Azores the people seem to be in an
ecstacy over so grand an affair. It
was an Azorean officer of the navy,wno
when the republicans were about to
give up tneir cause, aroused them and
urged them to keep on. Shortly after-
wards the monachists were subdued.
The proclamation of the republic in
Fayal took place to-day. Five bands
with the city and country authori-
ties of the island and over 8,000 peo-
ple paraded the streets of Horta from
1
1 a.m. to 2 p.m. The streets were
brilliantly decorated with flags aud
nowers. A deafening noise caused by
the constant cries of —Long live the
republic—prevailed throughout the
festival. Dr. J. M. Serpa, the most
popular son of Fayal, is now our gov-
ernor. He has always distinguished
himself for his uprightness and chari-
table disposition.
Solomon H. Amaral.
Letter From the Azores
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