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H I1 I H i I BUTTERWICK'S BEAR H By Max Adder H Butteiwlck was out lit Colorado 3 ant spring Tor a nioiitli or two, and 1 just before ho started for thu Jour H noy home, lie wrote to hi wife con- H coming tlic probable tlmu or hla ar- fl rival. Ah a iHistscrlpt to the letter H he ndded the following messagu to H hla Hon, u buy about eight yearn old: H, "Tell Charley I nin going to bring H -with me a dear little baby bear that Bi I bought front an Indian." On the night which had been fixed B by llutterwlck for IiIb arrival, ho . tie did not come, and the family were 1 ver much dlsnppolnted. Charley, B particularly, was cut up because ho LLH couldn't got the bear. 1 On the next evening, while Mrs. B llutterwlck and the children were sit- ting In the front room, with the door B open Into thu hall, they beard Home- body running through thu front yard, H Tbn the front door was suddenly 1 lmr.it open, and a man dashed Into H tlio hall and upRtalra nt frightful H Mrs. llutterwlck was JiiHt about to go up after lilm to ascertain who It wns, when a large, dark nnlmnl of H some kind darted In through thu H door, nnd with nn awful growl wont bowling upRtalrn after thu man. It H suddenly llaidicd upon thu. mind of H Mth. llutterwlck that thu man wnH H lier husband, and that that wax the H llttlo baby bear. H .lust then the voice of llutterwlck H was heard calling from thu top land- H "Maria! for Heaven's Hake get out H of thu house na quick oh you can, and H ' shut all t)io doora and window-abut- H Then Mth. llutterwlck sent thu H ' boya Into l'artrldgo'H, next door, and H j alio closed thu nhuttorH, locked all H the doors, and went Into the ynrd to H await further developments When H' alio got outHlde she saw llutterwlck H on the roof, kneeling on the trap- H door, which ho kept down only by H the moflt tremendous cxertlona, H J Then he screamed for somebody to H comu up and help him, and Mr. Part- H'; ridge got a ladder and a hatchet, and H' no mo units, and ascended, Then they nailed down thu trnp-door, and Hrj . Iluttorwlck nnd Partridge came down H the ladder together. After he had W greeted his family, Mrs. llutterwlck Hl staked him what was thu matter, and Hg ho HtT "Why, you know that llttlo baby bear I said I'd bring Charley? Well, f I had him In u box until I got off the K trnln up hero nt tho depoL And then if " I thought I'd take him out and lead H f him around by thu chain. Hut tho Br -. first thing ho did was to fly nt my I""1 leg, nnd when I Jumped Imck I ran, nnd ho nftur mo. Ho woulil'vo eaten mo up In about a minute. That In fernal Indian must havo fooled mo. lie said It wna a cub only two months old, and It had no teeth. I believe Jt' a full-grown bear." It then became a very Interesting !, question how they should get that 1 bear out of the Iiouhu llutterwlck H'l thought they hud hotter try to shoot M j blui, and he tisked n lot of tho neigh- jcj bore to come nroiiud to help with Hj their Rhotguna. When they would H hear tho bear acrntchlng at one of Hu tho wlndowa they would pour In a H volley nt him, but after riddling M every shutter oii thu flrat floor, they H( could atlll hear tho bear tearing Ha nrouud In there and growling. HJm Then Pnrtrldgo said maybe a H ( ' couple of good dogs might whip him, HB! and he borrowed u bulldog nnd a. sot- HH ter from llnmoy Mnglnn and pushed Hfj thorn through thu front door. They HJ " listened, and for half nn hour they Hb1) could hear u most terrific contest rag- ' Then ovcrythlng became still, nnd Htl n few momenta Intor they could hear Hj the bear eating something and crack- ' lug bones with hla teeth. H;' At Inst llutterwlck thought ho H'; would try strategy. Ho procured a ; ' huge Iron hook with a sharp point H' to it, tied It to a rope, and put three H ' or four pounds of fresh beer on thu H hook. Tlion he went up the ladder, H. ' opened the trnpdoor la tho roof, Hj'j and dropped In the halt. In a few ' ( moments ho got n bite, nnd nil hands H. mnnned tho rope and pulled, when W "1 C1UU l'nrtrldgu'a hulldug, which ! had been hiding In the garret, lint- ,'v terwlck waa disgusted, hut hu put H' on fresh halt and throw In again, H and In about nn hour tho bear took H hold and they hauled lilm out and H I knocked him on the bond, ' ; Then they entered thu houso In H:! tho hall the curpct.wna covered with U particles of dead sottur, nnd In tho H'j pnrlor tho carpet and tho windows H'i had been shot to pieces, while thd fe furnltiiro wan full or bullet-holes. l, Tho boar bad amaahod tho mirror, j torn up fdx or soveu chairs, knocked H:p. over tho lamp, and demolished all tho H crockery In tho pnntry. Iluttorwlck H ; gritted his teeth ns he survoyed tho H; ruin, and Mra. Iluttorwlck said alio H'y wished to patlenco hu had stayed In H2 Colorado. However, they fixed things H'1 up as well as they could, nnd then Hj2 Mrs. Iluttorwlck sent Into Partridge's for Charley and tho youngest girl. H When Charley came ho rushed up to Hkj llutterwlck, and said: HY -"''' "Ohi pop! whornV my little baby Rj bear?" K Then nuttcrwlek ftaM at him ao- Hn verely for a moment, looked around Hil to soo U Mrs. llutterwlck hnd left the Hj room, and thou gavo Charley thu Hk most torrlflo spanking that hu ttvur K rocelvod. KM, The llutterwlck children liuve no Hh potB, nt preHutit. but n Poland loostor Kd which has inoulle.l his toll. CITY WITHOUT PEER ! ADMirtERS GIVE WASHINGTON PRECEDENCE OVER ALL. I Cartalnly None Other In the United States Is as Beautiful Points of Superiority Over. Paris. Washington Is absolutely unique among the cities of tho United Stales. ' It Is the most American hocnuse Its . population Is made up of people from all thu states, and yet It Is not Amerl-1 can at all, for thu reason that Its iesl-j dents cannot vote. It Is the uiont ros. j inopolltau because representatives of all other nations dwell In It, yet It has no foreign quarter. Washington's grenlvst Industry Is government, and ' Its greatest product Is polities, but tho Issues aio all national. It Is the only Aiucilrun city whore there Is no locnl party politics; lu fact, It Is the only city "of thu civilized world which can not choose any of Its locnl olllcers by vole. Tho .president appoints the ex ecutive and Judicial officers, and con gress, sitting as u city council, "exer cises excluslvu legislation." Despite the anomalous apeetnele presented by thu cnpltal city. of a demoerntle coun try being governed In theory by an autocracy, the people nro content, pub lic opinion rules .nnd tho city Itself It a masterful argument Tor the continua tion of the present plan. Washington Is thu most beautiful city In thu United States, and Is claimed by many authorities to have no peor In tho world. ParlB has moru magnlllcont vistas, but theru are quar ters of the French capital with never a claim to beauty. There aro more shade trees In Washington than lu any city In tho world. It has 92,000 trees, while Paris, the next In tho list, has only 85,000. It must bo remem bered In this connection that Paris has Man ' IttiS&S&xv? Home of the Papal Delegate In Washington, One of the City's Show Places. nearly .1,000,000 ixipulatlon, while Washington has but 330,000. Tho national capital Is thu only city In tho United States which had nn arti ficial origin. Alt tho other places "Jos' growud," Topsy-fashlon, but It was a city completo lu tho mind or Oeorgo Washington buforo It was traced on paper by MaJ. L'Kutnnt and MnJ. Kill cott. Tho plan niado for tho cnpltal whoro there was naught but "squares lu morasses and obelisks In trees" has been suftlclent for thu needs of the great city of to-day, and extensions or .tho syatom as Indicated by the original plan will open thu whole territory of tho District and uvuntually accommo date ten times us many people us live thuru now. Washington streets are wider than those of other cltlua, being originally f i om SO to 100 root wide. Many of these were too wide for tho demands of traffic, and when thu Improvement of thu city began In thu seventies thu thoroughfares wcro narrowed nnd por tions next to tho buildings were re served us parking spaces. The pietty strip of gieun along both sides of Washington thoioughfares Is really a part of tho street. It Is tho property of thu United States, and Is not under thu coutiol of the owner of tho abutting property, although he must keep up thu lawn. Thu real estate Is always sold by tho squuio root, Instead or by the clumsy front foot method. Theru Is no law to compel thu people to sweep the snow off thu sidewalks In winter, becauso they are thu property of Uncle Ham, and a private citizen cannot bo compelled to euro for government propurty. Moru than half or the property lu tho District or Columbia Is owned by tho United States, which pays half tho totnl expenses, while thu propurty owners of thu district pay thu other hair. Until 1878 thu general govern ment pnld nothing nt nil toward the maintenance or tho l)lstrlct. Bven now tho great" undertakings lor the permanent Improvement of thu capital, outside of tho public buildings, of course, aro half paid for by tho resi dents or tho District of Columbia, al though the whole people nro Interested In tho completion of the plans which will mnltu Washington thu envy of tho nations. They Appreciate It. "I toll you thorct nro n lot or mon who appreciate alngle-blessednoss." "Who uro llioy?" "Thu married ones," Detroit Free Prons. COY SAW HIS IhANCE. - May Truthfully Be SalAo Have "Bun koed" the Preldent. 1 can't forbid mentioning Mr. Roose velt's souvenirs. They if present his oomocrac) far better- llian reams nf temlniscencea could. Mr. McKiidnv once had three curloiids of such tokens hitched onto his -special trnln, but Mr. Roosevelt must altogether have nt least three train loads, He cannot Btop to pat n dog on the head without that animal being lmmrdlntely crated up and shipped to "T, R. Washing ton, I). C." Horses and saddles enough to fit out a brigade, chairs, badges, turke)a, guinea pigs, snaked from a traveling slde-jdinw. ciincs, vases, everything that the generosity of tlin Amorrcan nation enn conceive has been given to-hlin at one lime or another. Ho used to gut flowers and bouquets by the bushel, gencriilly presented by somo or tho young Indies! or the town, nnd thOko offerings would pile up to such an extent thut the 'porter would bo compelled to open tho car window ! and throw them out to make way for those of thu next town. An amusing Incident lu this connection occurred nt n little Kansas town. Tho president's truln wns Just pull hig out or the depot when, tlnoiigh thu crowd came a barefooted boy, run ning with all his might and cariylug a bouquet In Ills hund. He jelled.' Roosevelt saw hint:' so did the whole populace. "Well," said tho presi dent, "I can't run away like this and Insult the boy, "so he pulled the hell ropu and brought the trnln to n stop, The youngster enmo up brenthlesB ly, and delivered tho roses. Roosevelt smiled nnd hnnded lilm n dollar, and the Incident was closed. Later, as the train was speeding on Ita way. his "dee-lighted" smile wns n bit trou bled, nnd he called to tho porter "Jerry," ho said, "It scums tq mo thesu (lowers nro rather withered, aren't they. The boy must have had n hard time getting through thu crowd." "Well, thuy ought to he withered," wns the answer. '"Jhut thero bouquet has been on tho trnln for threo days, anil I Just threw It out of the window back at that town" Theru Is a boy somewlioro In Kan sas who will hu a captain or Industry one or these days," Success Magn-zlne. Has Gone Hatlett Three Years. There Is In Washington a man who for three years nnd a linlf has not worn a bat, Thu name or this citizen with an antipathy for headgear and a disregard for conventionality la O. I.. Shoruy, nn employe of the department or roiumeii-o and labor "Wearing a hut is more it habit than anything else and piolmhly descended to us from our feudal ancestors, who woio steel holmuts to prevent being knocked In the head by their warring neighbor," said Mr. Shoiey. "I reach ed thu conclusion some time ago that a hut was burdensome and have not worn one summer or winter for over threo years. I find that my health Is Improved and that my hair, which wns Inclined to fall out, Is now as thick as lu my jouuger days 1 am not uii' deavoriug to pose as an arbiter ot fashion nor am I the lender or u now cult, but ho far as 1 am personally con eeined, no hat for mine." Capital Is Clean City. Washington is the cleanest city In the United States It has fow roc lories and Is strictly a residential city. A rigidly enforced antl-smoko law has been operative for seven years, and practically no smoke Is mado lu the city now except, by locomo tives, Theio nru 200 of these, and,, when threatened with legislation, tho railroads voluuteeied to reduce the amount of smoke u burning hard coal or oil It Is possible to wear a collar all dny on the streets of Washington without gottlng n sign ot smudge on It. Soot .docs not fly In at tho windows nnd smoke does not choke tho curly morning nlr. Ungallant Sllenf. Towne "She Biih yoiro an Imper tinent cad. What haveyou snld or donoT" Urowno "Nothing, that's the trouble. When wo woj out walking yesterday tho wind jIow hor hnlr about her face most blcomlngly, and alio Bald, '1 know I'm a perfect fright.' I didn't say a word." PROPRIETARY REMEDIES VS.' PHYSICIANSPRESCRIPTIONS Statistic Show, of the Deaths from Misuse of Drugs In Two Years, Only Three Per Cent. Were Due to Patent Medicines, According to Figure Based on Medical Certificates. The press committee of tho Proprie tary Association ot America will pre sent at the next meeting at that body n report showing tho number of acci dental deaths caused by patent medi cines lu the two years ending Juno 30, 1007, na compared with deaths from other causes. Almost Immediately nftcr the begin ning of the Intest crusade ngalnst proprletnry medicines this committee wns Instructed to collect dntn. This work wna done through the clipping burenus, which furnished nccounts of all deaths, exclusive of suicide, duo to tho misuse of medicines, drugs or poisons. Tho result showed that only threo per cent, could be traced di rectly to the products rando by tho members of tho association. Tlio grenlest care Is said to have been exercised in tabulating tho fig ures received. Whenever the cause of dentil waa doubtful, special Inves tigation wns made, no matter where tho cubo might have occurred. Thu work ot nsBortlng and preparing the record wns .done In Chicago, nnd tho original clippings nnd correspondence nro In tho possession of Ervlu F. Kemp, 184 I,n Sallo street, that city, tho nssoclatlon'tf publicity ngent. Tho report says, In part: "A largo number of nccldents, re sulting fntally or otherwise, were caused by the carelessness of persons who left drugs, medicines or poisons within tho rench of children. A large number, also, wore caused by persons going to mcdlclno cnblncts In thodnrk nnd tnklng down the wrong bottlo. In no case reported was any medicine, 'patent' or otherwise, held responsible for Injury or death except when left within tho rench nf children or taken or administered In gross overdose." Tho committee Bays thnt It Ib un likely thnt nny enses of death from tho uso of patent nrdlclno escaped the newspapers, but that It Is prob nblo that death from tho cnusea tabu lated did occur without receiving pub llclty. Physicians, of course, report tho causes of death. Tho committee sajB thnt they would bo the InBt to suppress tho cnuso ir due to tho uso of medicine not requlnrly prescribed. A recnpltulntlon of the committee's findings Bhow 4,293 cases of poisoning, of which 1,703 were fatal. Tho great est number or cases, 1,636, with 803 deaths, Is attributed to medicines other than proprletnry remedies. There nro on tho list 00 cases of sick ness nnd 43 deaths duo to patent medi cines. Analyzing Its statistics, tho commit tee finds 201 case of sickness, with 143 deaths, duo to strychnine tablets, which nro nmong physlclnns' fnvorito remedies and nre often left within tho rench. of children. Under tho bend of miscellaneous prescriptions aro grouped 41 cases wheie. the report says, It bus been Im possible after diligent inquiry to ns certain tho nniiio or the character or the drug or medicine which caused In Jury or death, beyond tho fact that tho medicine or drug wns prescribed by n physician. Of ,thcso cases 18 wcro fatal. Tho committee snys: "Under the bend of 'All Patent Medicines' nre grouped all those rem edles which nro recognized ns patent medicines nnd which nro advertised direct to the public for Internal use. Competent authorities sny thnt nt lenst one-haU or tho medicines taken In the United States aro or tho kind known as 'patent modlclne,' and yet In two years among 80,600,000 people there havo been but ninety cases (forty-three fntal) thnt bnve been re ported In tho newspapers from the use or misuse of theso remodles." Not In n single fully substantiated case Is It ever ehniged thut any pat ent medicine in recommended doses wns Injurious. In this connection It should bo undeistood that lu making death rerllflcutes mid lu reporting enses of Injuiy to the newspapers liom which thesu eases Vere secured, n physician hud the final word, ami lu this connection Is theru any piob ability that thu doctor will hide his own cnrelessness or neglect or thnt or a fellow practitioner whose support he may want at some time, and Is theru even a possibility thnt he might hide nny responsibility thnt could bn thrown nt n patent medicine? Ask yourself these questions. Then when you have found the answer, consider thnt during nil this most thorough nnd enrerm investigation covering u period of two years, in not n Blngle established enso wna It shown thnt patent medicine In lecommonded doses wns Injurious. The most remnrknblo case reported was thnt of an Itnllnn laborer In Now York who suffered from pains In tho chest. A physician ordered a porout planter which the patient nte, with fntal icsults. Would Run No Risk. "Darling." said tho young man as he bent fondly over her chair, "I would dlo for you." "Woll," rejoined the practical but otherwise rail- maid, "tho rates of In surance aro pretty low., Supposo you get your life Insured In my rnvor for $10,000 nnd then die for mo?" "And let somo othor follow lux uriate on tho Insurance?" exclaimed the wise young man. "Well, I guess not." A woman, 71 years old, accused at Foltham, Knglnnd, of Intoxication and disorderly conduct, snld she hnd boon "keeping up" her mother's birthday. Her mother was 98. MINES AND MINING Over $10,000 worth of crude ore nn concentrates from tho Columbus Con solldatud company's Altn mines ha. been sold tho first three weeks of the present month. At Sydenham, Ontnrlo, 1C miles from Kingston, Is located the lnrgest mien mine In tho world. Tho product Is mostly nmbcr mica with some silver amber, thu highest quality mined. Tho annual report of tho Consolidat ed Mercur Gold Mines company does not make tho showing that previous reports havo dono, though it holds out u gooil deal of promise for the year to come. It Is reported that somo of thu rock now being encountered In the Cntlln mines at Sliver Bow, Nevada, la liter ally plastered with leaf silver und the rock la ull being broken nnd sacked for shipment Just ns It comes. Thu BiKlden drop In tho price of cop per, nnd tho present uncertain level of tho red metal, have undoubtedly had a depressing effect upon many pro ducers of the metnl whoso properties aro still in the development stage. J. 11. liurker, ot Bancroft, Idaho, has closed a deal by which his splendid lend-sllver-gold property, tho I.ad Ccn tor, located In thu Caribou forest re serve, bIx miles south of Soda Springs, will pans Into the hands ot a $100,000 close corporation. v Tho most sensational strike of cop per oro ever made In tho camp of Yorlngton, Nevada, has Just been re corded In the property of thu Mason Valley company. A winze Is now be ing aunl: on a body of blnclc oxide ore that averages DG per cent copper. Another oil strike tins been tnndo In the Utah fleliln, this tlmo nt Flllmoro. In the Flllmoro field the oil is largely mixed with gas. At Cedar City, wells nro being bored, but only gas has been obtained, although theru nru largo qunntlttes ot It nnd strong pressure. While prospecting In thu wilds ot tho Pnunmlnt, near Windy Gap, Neva da, ("Scotty'8" country), Ralph IJeamc, a half-brother of tho poet-prospector, ICddy, recently found a blowout which proves to be probnbly one of the rich est stillics made this past summer. Duilng tho recent strike ot machin ists lu Butte- every man employed by tho Butto &. Now York remained at his post. This wna due to thu fnct that nil the men employed nre stockholders la the company, having mado their purchases with parts of their wages. An Amalgamated director says: "Practically no copper Is being sold and If the' tlrst icducllon to about half our normal capacity la not cuoug'.i wo will order a further reduction. Vo are hopeful of a change lu thu nulta lion. Tho case of Utah, Colorado mines curtailment has been forced for lack of fuel." , Tho Kiindiclon "smelter, In Sonora, Mexico, will bo ready for business by October 1. With thu first unit of this smelter In operation tho company will treat 2S0 tons of oro a dny nt tho maximum cost ot $12 a ton, or $900, 000 for 70,000 tons n year. Tho oro Is valued at $37.40 per ton In copper, gold nnd silver. Work wns started recently on tho new building of tho Hnnson Consoli dated Silver mines at Port Arthur, Canada, which la to contain 30 addi tional stamps, bringing the to tal of tho mill up to 00 stamps. It la the announced purpose of tho manage ment to keep adding Btnmpi until ISO nro In operation. In tho property of tho Urah-Yerlng-ton company, which Is located cast ot the Mason Valley mines, tho workmen are now opening up a five-foot ledgu that Is different from those being de veloped by most of. the Yerlngton conii panics in the character of Its ore, as It carries well lu lead and silver, In addition to copper nnd gold. Official repoils filed In thu offlco of Nixon & Wlngfleld. nt Goldflold, fully substantiate, It Is claimed, the Import ance of thu sllvur-gold strike on tho Kaglo at Fnlrvluw. Georgo Wlngfteld says permanency with depth Ib proved by the fnct that tho oro Is straight sulphldo with no symptoms of oxida tion, not to mention other signs, Beyond ull doubt thu Yerlngton Copper shaft lias penetrated Into tho real sulphldo zone, thus demonstrating thu uxtcuca of the same at somewhat more shallow depth than was antici pated by tho management. Thu work lug first struck ore on thu 10th, nnd now at a vertical depth of 200 foot thu entire bottom Is in the sulphides of thu red metal. Thu nru production ot Uutte has been cut from 2,000 tons to 800 tons. Thu Berkuley, Diamond, Boll, Belmont nnd Clear Grit of tho Amalgamated aro down. Superintendent Gillies states that tho Boston nnd Montana mny be further reducod. Tho amount of tonnage under tho reduced force has not been estimated. Thu fulling oft will bo largo, Thu Copper Mountain mine, owned by the Guggenholms, and located six miles south ot Tccoma stntlon on tho Southern Pacific, and In Nevada, Is connected with the main lino with a road four and a hnlf miles long and ot standard gauge, and producing llvo cars of copper oro n day, A quartz mlno claim lu tho Trans vaal Is 150 feet long on tho lino of stiikp of the ledge and 400 feet wide. The government claim license, to be paid continuously, la $1 per claim per month. In addition to this tho govern ment takes 10 per cent ot tho net pro fit on tho gold produced. A fifty-foot business location In tho town of Yerlngton, Nevada, that could have been purchaoed n few months ago for $000 Is now worth $1,000. Be fore another year Is over tho camp will have Its railroad and a smelter will have to bo constructed to meet the Jeniands of the mines. jjjrt fa I You Can't be too I Careful I In the itlcction of t Range or Htiter. Cold H vrettktr It nerlnj; why sot btfio inveiti- H latiafnow? Come to ui bow; we are ready, H and a itock of beautiful itorei awaita jour H comitif. Or, can we not call on you? We H with to meet you to our mutual adrantate; H for we feel that a careful loipectioo of our famoui STEWART SIotci will remit is your becomiaf one of our. many tititfied M cuitoraen of STEWART Stotet. y Consolidated I Wagon & Machine I Company I Leading lraptrnunt Dtaleri Utah aad Idaho H George T. Odell, General Manager H 1 Houiti at Sail LaK', OJJtn. Lojan, H ft Idaho Fatlj and MontprlUr. H BE ON TIME I Him ytr Wtk m rlVt, r il llul will. 0f titwU will tilotr Hi viiM U kttp ccrtt lint r tttt H fta t that will. 0f itock it w Urft aid pricti H rtiMiublt lkl fa mail cktlJtr iktM If ym wl H SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH! I 62,000 TONS OF CURRANTS. I Orltoni Seem to Be Exceptionally I Fond of This Fruit. I Our great-grandmothers, although I they had to pay a very high prleo for dried currants, considered them quite Indispensable to the compounding! of M those pies, furmltles and florcntlnes which wcro tho pride of every holso- W .wife. Domestic catering must WlV(-C?js -til been an arduous undertaking In tnftso -n days, for currants and othor dried fruits wore not to be procured oui of London except once a year, at the 'an nual fair of tho local market town. Thu royal dish of plum porridge, which It wns tho prlvllegu of tho archbishop of Canterbury to servo to a newly crowned sovereign, was composed largely ot currants, the fruit being stewed Id strong beef soup en riched with red wine and rod Back. Now that the order has changed and simplicity Is tho keynote of the high est class cookery, wo Hrltons bavu trebled our appreciation ot the homo ly and wholesome currant; und al though flurentlnes and plum porridge ' nre dishes of tho pant, no less than , 62,000 tonB of currants go evory year to the making of broad cakes, pastries and puddings to tempt the British ap petite. Ladles' Pictorial Dream That Came True. During a dinner to welcome his flnnceo a young man at Hostlvar, near I Prague told of a dream ho had that i -s a shot wab fired In tho house. Ill- fathor rose, us u precaution, to ro movo a pistol from the wall, but da ho touched It It wont off and killed tho girl. On the Death of Balzac. There can bu but austere und seri ous thoughts In all hearts when a iibllmo spirit makes Its mujcstlc en trance into another life, when one nt thoso beings who have long soured above the crowd on thu vlslblo wings of genius, spreading ull at onco othor wings which wu did not see, plunges swiftly into thu unknown, No, It Is not thu unknown; no. It Is not night, It Is light. '" v It Is not tlio end, It Is tho beginning! . 7 It Is not extinction, It Is eternity. Is it not true, such tombs as this demon' strnte Immortality? In the presenea of tho Illustrious dend wo feel more distinctly tho divine destiny of thnt Intelligence which trnverses the earth I to suffer nnd to purify Itself which We call mnn. Victor Hugo, Want Motor-Tramport Wagons. Tho Indian govornmunt Ib, It is said, ,. . considering tho desirability of using motor transport wugons for frolght In moving produce of out-of-the-way dlstrlctB to market. This Is quite prac ticable, considering nhe good roads of tho plains In India, nnd It would solve a problem thut has perplexed the gov-eminent. In Doubt. In Egyptian hyeroglypblca a physi cian Is ropresuntod by a picture of a duck. Philologists nre not agreed whether this means that the physi cian In question was looked upon as 1 a quack or that ho was considered a I favorite among tlu fair sex. I Chinaman of Promise, L Seld Back, Jr., son of the wenlthl- P est Chinese merchant In Portland, I Ore., has boon admitted to practice at I tbe bar ot the feedral district and clr- cult courts. H