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V-a ' "pw ;& ' -rr ' a; PUBLISHED EVEBY THUB8DAY At Flagstaff tha county Mat of Coco nino county. THE NEIGHBORHOOD BOY. The neighborhood boy Is a neighborhood Joy, With a heart that Is earnest and true: lAnd whene'er-he's away, to be absent a day, It puts the whole block In a stew. Tor without him the world In a shadow Is furled And loses Its beauty and light: But whene'er he appears, then It suddenly clears. As he sets all our troubles aright. Not a smile or a frown comes to our part of town, Hut what he can give us the facts: Ko Is able to bring just the one needed thing Which elsewhere our happiness lacks. Folks may move In and out, yet he knows all about , All the people who dwell In our street, And ho brings us such news as we love to peruse While he gives every Item complete. He runs errands galore to the office and store, " Minds tha baby" and favors like that. And there's ne, we agree, quite so able as he To find a lost dog or a cat. lie's a "mother's boy," yes, and that helps him to blpss Whoever he happens to meet, And his heart Is of gold and as manly and bold As any he halls In the street. If there's anyone sick, he's the first one to pick And to take them a simple bouquet, And though rich folks or poor doesn't matter he's sure To scatter kind deeds In their way. .The neighborhood boy is a neighborhood Joy, With a heart that Is earnest and true; And whene'er he's away, to be absent a I It puts the whole block In a stew. ! Nixon Waterman, in U A. W. Bulletin. !a storm on the coast. It was during one of those hot spells In the month of June, when between the mosquitoes and the heat life seemed unbearable, that Dalton suggested n basty retreat to the pine woods and gulf breezes on the Mississippi sound. ' "By all means," I said. "There is nothing doing in the way of business bere; we aro tied down by reason of other people's absence to our office desks, so we might just as well take up our quarters until fall by the blue wa ters of the gulf and run in daily to see our mall." Then 1 bethought me of nn elderly nunt of mine, Aunt d'Arville, whom I had not seen for quite a number of years, partly from disinclination, for I preserved a vivid recolleotion of her unpleasant manners, and partly be cause I had been absent-abroad repre senting our house, first In Havre.and then In Bremen. "We will go to Seavlew cottage," I said to Fred. "I have an elderly relative who will take us in, I have no doubt, and as we will be out of the house most of the time fishing or sailing, the old lady's moods and temper will not be in tolerable." Aunt Martha was a caution, I remem bered, In those days of my youth, w hen we were familiarly acquainted with each other. I suppose the poor soul's temper had been soured by her husband's failure and his too philosophical acceptance of it afterward. His death later on did not mend mat ters; for like all people of her exacting temperument, and hard, determined, narrow-minded nature, she was te nacious in her affection, if wearisome in n degree in the repressed, chcment, puritanical way she had of showing it, and her grief, while sincere and re spectable, was an added infliction to her surroundings. It was a dreary atmosphere in which to bring, up her only child, that pale faced little cousin of mine, Adelc. I wondered vaguely what sort of n young woman she had grown into. She was a plain child. Her only re deeming feature I could recall was her eyes. She had inherited them from her father. They were large and brown, soft and brilliant, and were veiled with thick, dark loses, which threw n shadow on her pale little face, making her look, I thought, still more frail and melancholy. What had Induced Aunt Martha to marry our consul, Paul Beremmaux V Arvllle, no one had been able to dis cover unless it was his brilliant wit, intense divergence from herself and handsome face. Certainly no two people were ever more dissimilar in taste and modes of thought, and I fancy d'Arville, whom I always looked on as a most fascinat ing man from his fine manners, versa tile conversation and general attract iveness, soon wearied of his wife's too -austere, methodical temper and habits. No doubt he failed to discover under her cold, precise manner the fine feeling nnd nature which lay hid and did not reveal itself. So, like many another marriage, they grow apart, and when financial troubles befell she became 3iarsh nud bitter, albeit she bore her "burdens bravely, and d'Arville drifted into club habits and kept out of the louse. Scavicw is a beautiful place. A low, wide-spreading cottage, whose -windows and piazzas are covered with Numbering rose vines and whose green lawn is shaded by gigantic oaks, it In vites lo leposc. As a boy I would loll on one of 1be various benches under their shade, reading some novel or detective story, while the soft swish of the water on the narrow beach just beyond the garden gate played a minor key to the thrill ing incidents to the story. Or I would sit on the grass and mend my lines and nets, while little pale-faced Bel would sit curled up with her Newfoundland, in a subdued, silent way, by my side. "Thcio is splendid fishing round the islands out in the bay, a few hours' run across from Seaviow," I said to Fred, as I folded and seuled my letter to Aunt Martha, telling her to expect us by the afternoon train. "The old lady has her cranks and crotchets," I explained, as we opened the gate and walked up a garden path be tween trim box borders and flower beds and skirted n well-kept lawn,"but she is 'true blue' all through." Aunt Martha greeted us with less frigidity than I had anticipated, and the frosts of j ears, in silvering her hair, had obviously mellowed some of her asperities of temper. Wo had a dainty, well-served supper, and it was only when Fred and I sat out on the pier-head enjoying our cigars over the lapping water of the bay that I remembered the existence of my poor, fragile littlo cousin Adele. "Great Scot I" I said, jumping up; "Aunt Martha will never forgive mei" I hurried back to make Inquiries and apologies, and as I was leaving the wharf which runs out over 100 feet in the shallow water of the bay, reaching nearly to the channel, I saw a fairy vision approaching. A young woman came toward me, walking with slow, tranquil grace, while holding her soft, pale blue gown aloof from the dust of the shell road. She was bareheaded, and the waning afternoon light seemed to pause, all entangled in the ripples of her golden brown hair. Never had I seen an thing quite so lovely as this maiden, whose brown eyes vhone with a subdued mirth, while her smile of recognition nnd welcome was beyond all descrip tion. "Why, Cousin Allen, you don't seem to recognize your poor little playmate of years ago. Del is very glad to see jou again, nevertheless." In common parlance, you could have knocked me down with a feather, as I Instantly told Del, while insisting that a long lost cousin was entitled to some thing more demonstrative than a hand shake. But Del laughingly objected until a renewed acquaintance, she said, would verify the existence of the "rough, good-natured fellow she liked so much." We strolled out on the narrow plank ing of the wharf, side by side, to. where Fred still sat, enjoying the cool breezes of the gulf, his cigar, the broad view of paling waters and sky tints, and the faint song of some fisher folks wafted to us by the light evening winds as a coasting lugger beat her way slowly down the channel. Fred's back was toward us, and he only turned, aware of our presence, when I called to him to present him to my refound cousin, Miss Del. That was my great mistake. No one knew better than 1 did that Dalton is a particularly pleasing fellow. Everybody likes him. He is clearly one of nature's favor ites, for besides an uncommonly bright mind, much practical sense, as evi denced by his success in life, Fred has a gracious and a bright, unaffected wit which makes him a much sought after man by ail, and everywhere, at all times nnd atl places. So it was to be expected that a child like Del, brought up austerely, aloof from the world, mostly in the grand solitudes of Aunt Martha's seashore re treat, would be quickly charmed by so pleasant a fellow. June merged into July, which in turn slipped by with swift, unconscious flight, the pleasant days following each other all too quickly, as we would run into town each morning, look at our mall, step in at the club, then catch the nine o'clock train and speed back to Seavlew to lounge through the cool, sweet evenings and nights. August came nnd went all to swiftly, each day adding to the long account of hopes, fears, desires, anticipations, de termined resolves and possible bitter antagonisms which we would hourly balance, Fred and I, when the fall would come and the summer cease. From a closo friendship and in timacy, built on long years of liking, esteem 'and daily Intercourse, Fred and I fell into a polite frigidity and an oloofness from each other, which was galling to each of us, but which neither could bieak through or overcome. Between us stood Dcl's sweet witch erics, rippling laughter, bright words and wondrous graces, piled moun tain high in an Impenetrable bar rier, which cut in two the ties of boyish years and the friend Lhips of manhood, leaving us a stern antagonism and an implacable deter mination to each seek without stay or stinct what the other most coveted on this green, smiling earjh. Aunt Martha led her busy life with calm regularity, and Del each day gave us a joyous greeting from her pony carriage when we alighted" from the train; chatted with Fred nnd coaxed me to a better humor, or tat with me on the moonlit porch and sang some sweet ditty, then chatted in French with Fred, adding each day to the list of our long reckoning, which in the after years would make or mar two lives. "You both leave to-morrow for good and all!" said Del' that last evening, clasping her little hands in mock de spair. "Whatever will 1 do without you! How dull Seavlew will be when you are gone! Boor mei No more sail ing! No more fishing! No more moody, silent, irrational, cross companions to make time pass pleasantly, and to break the deathly monotony of these great oppressive woods 1" Fred looked at me and I at him. We were grouped under a spreading oak, down by the water's edge, where a small table and chairs had been placed, for Del delighted to serve us tea when twilight set in, close to the murmuring tide, as the wavelets broke gently on the white sands of the beach. Fred and I understood each other. Slowly he rose, lit a cigar with a slightly unsteady hand and strolled off down the straight shell road. Del's eyes followed his tall figure ns it stood out distinct in the paling light, and unconscious of my steady gae, her great brown eyes took on a tender, wistful look, which pierced my heat like a poisoned dagger. "Will the solitude seem dull when we are gone, Del?" I asked. "Deathly dull!" said Del, with a slight quiver of her tender mouth. "Aunt Martha shall bring you to town, you poor little caged bird!" I said, taking her hand in mine. "Mamma will never leave Seavlew, nor let me go away even for a day without her," said Del, moving up closer to me, as if for protection against those long, solitary days of approach; Ing winter. "Then we must take you away by force, little one," I said, with decision, putting my arm protectingly around her shoulder. Del leaned her head, crowned with its rippling burnished gold, on my shoulder, not knowing of tho throbbing heartbeats so close to hers, or of the rising storm of emotions she was creating. "Oh, Cousin Allen, if you could only get mamma to leave this dreary, dreary place," she said, pleadingly "get her to consent to my living like other girls, I would lore you, oh, so dearly, ay my life!" "Do you promise that, Del? Is it a bargain?" I asked, while a dull pain seized hold of my heartstrings. "Do you truly love your elderly cousin?" "Of course I do," answered Del, nest ling close to my side, while the soft evening breezes wafted me the scent of her perfumer hair. "I love you dearly," she added. But her frank, unembarrassed words only added to the growing pain in my heart, to the tumultuous emotions which were invading me. "And Fred?" I asked, softly, hold ing her gently to my side. "Cousin Allen!" she murmured in an imploring tone, turning to hide on my shoulder her lovely face, over which had swept a wave of color. "All right, little one," I whispered, reassuringly, while the tempest of baf fled hopes, ruined anticipations nnd murdered joys swept in a burst of fury over my soul and senses, overwhelming oie with their bitter waters. "All right, Del, littlo cousin mine! You shall not spend the glorious years of your youth in these sad solitudes. Your happiness is dearer to me than life itself, and I know one who lives only in the hope of having soon the right to order your sweet young life on lines of light and happiness. 1 will sec Aunt Martha," 1 added, rising slow ly, "and I will send Fred to you." "Cousin Allen!" she again said, cling ing breathlessly to me. "Let me go, dearie," I said, lightly, while- the fury of a bitter regret and n hurricane of wild emotion shook my soul and senses and threatened to sub merge my loyal determination to let Fred gain the sunshine of life, hence forth lost forever to me. "Look here," I added, Jestingly, "1 must call Fred back before the storm bursts before a furious tornado comes along to interfere with our bright plans for the future!" "Why, Cousin Allen!" said Del, lift ing her head in astonishment from its confiding rest on my breast, and lift ing to mine in wide-eyed wonder her beautiful soft eyes. "What In the world are you taking about? There's no storm brewing! Why, the night is culm and beautiful! Just look how quiet the water is; how serenely the stars shine out 1" But I laughed aloud, knowing the tempest which was raging in my heart, the wrecked blossoms of hope and joy which lay bruised and scattered over the advancing years, and I called to Fred, who was slowly approaching: "Here, Dalton," I said, cheerily. "This little cousin of mine, over whom I have assumed a father's authority, 'fears the dull winter months. She would like, the silly little bird that she is, to flee from the sweet protecting solitudes of her old cottage home. 1 told her you could suggest a satisfac tory arrangement for her. I am going to discuss tho mattter with Aunt Martha." Fred stood up and" wrung my hand with silent nnd deep emotion. It was late when our evening, filled with so much joy to two of us, came to an end. "Cousin Allen," whispered Del, hold ing fast my bands, as we said good night. "How could you fear a storm? Was there ever a night so blissfully calm and beautiful? This is the kind of weather that reigns in Paradise." "Sans doute, little fiancee," I an tswered back laughingly; "neverthe less, a great storm has raged on the gulf coast thi9 evening, and the ruin and wreckage it has left behjnd it will uever be repaired." N. 0. Times-Democrat. THE USE OF BURRS. They Carry the 8eedi of Plant Away from the Farent Stem. After a stroll afield, in the fall, one is apt to wonder, as he works away at thu burrs that cover his clothes, what use they can possibly be. Burrs are n great nuisance to men and animals; but the plants tbey grow on find them very serviceable, for they are simply fruits covered with spines or prickles; and this is only another way plants have to distribute their seeds. That it is a scheme that works well anyone can see who has a hunting-dog, and keeps it in his yard. In the spring fine crops of Spanish needles and clot-burrs come up as if by magic, where there were none before. They have grown from the burrs the dog brought home' in his coat the autumn before. Around woolen mills in New England planta from the west spring up in a mysterious way, and nearly always these have burr fiuits. They have grown from the burrs taken from the fleece of sheep, in cleaning, and thrown out as waste. Some troublesome weeds have beeh in troduced in this manner. On the prai ries there are many plants with this kind of fruit. In former days, when great herds of buffaloes roamed the plains, their haircaughtup these burrs, which thus stole long rides, like the tramps they are. Even now, in old builalo-wallow plants are found that do not grow elsewhere in the country round. Some burrs, like Spanish needles, have only three or four slender spines, or awns, as they are called, at the sum mit of tho fruit. If we look at them through a magnifylng-glass, we find them, bearing sharp, downward-pointing barbs, like that of a fish-hook. The sand-spur, an ill weed that grows on sen beaches and sandy river banks, has burrs covered with such spines. The boy who has stepped on sand-spurs with his bare feet knows this to his sorrow. The tiny barbs go in easily, but every attempt to draw them out makes them tear into the flesh. Often the spines or bristles are hooked instead of being barbed. The clot-burr, or cockle-Burr, that grows abundantly in waste ground, and the agrimony of our woods, are examples. Burdock has such hooked prickles on its fruits, and they Btlck so fast to gether, that children make of them neat little baskets, handles and all. Tho tick-trefoil has jointed pods, covered thickly with small hooked hairs that can hardly be seen without a magnify ing glass. These arc the small, fiat, brown burrs that cover the clothing after a walk through the woods in Sep tember. They are most annoying burrs, worse than clot-burrs, they are f o small and stick so fast. Thomas H. Kearney, Jr., in St, Nicholas. Carlyle Reproved. An amusing and characteristic anec dote of Thomas Cariyle is given in Mrs. Boss' "Early Days Becalled." Mrs. Boss, the daughter of Sir Alexander and Lady Duff Gordon, enjoyed from her earliest years the privilege of meet ing many distinguished persons under delightful conditions. Her mother's beauty and wit, as well as her father's social and official rank, attracted men and women eminent in art, letters nnd politics to their home. The only visit or whom little Janet cordiolly disliked was Mr. Thomas Carlyle. She says: "One afternoon my mother had a dis cussion with him on German litera ture; her extraordinary eloquence unci fire prevailing, Carlyle lost his temper, and burst forth in his Scotch tongue: 'You're just, a windbag, Lucie, you're just a windbag!' I had been listening with all my ears, and conceiving him to bo very rude, interrupted him by say ing: 'My papa always says that men should be civil to women;' for which pert remark I got a scolding from my mother; but Mr. Carlyle was not of fended, and turning to her observed: 'Lucie, that child of yours has an eyo for an inference.' ' Youth's Com panion. A Thoughtful GlrL "No wonder the pleasures of courting have declined," said the stout youth. "Just look at the flimsiness of these modern chairs." And he pointed to a slender affair of white bamboo, touched with gilt. "You mustn't judge by appear ances," said the stout girl, softly. "I've had that chair thoroughly braced with the very best of steel rods, and it is now guaranteed to stand a pressure of 60 pounds to the square inch." Then they both sat down in it as a final test. Cleveland Plain Dealer. He Knew Him. "That's a very stupid brute of -yours, John," said a Scotch minister lo one of his parishioners, a peat dealer, who drove his merchandise from door to door in a small cart drawn by a doc key. "I never see you but the crea ture is braying." "Eh, sir," said the peat dealer, "ye ken the heart's warm when friends meet." Spare Moments. KNIGHTS OF LABOR RESOLVE. Favor the Ead Byitrm of Waterways Op pose the Walker Ranking Uv. Eochesteb, N. Y., Nov. 20. At yes terday afternoon's' session of the Knights of Labor the first work before the convention was the report of the committee on legislation, on a request for' assistance in securing the enact ment of a law giving all government laborers, including those employed by contractors on government work, a minimum wage of $2 per day. The report of the committee was favorable and was adopted by tho convention. Delegate Maher, of New York, submit ted a plan, indorsed by the New York Central Labor union, for the Eads sys tem of government waterways from the Atlantic to the Pacific, which the committee on legislation reported as inexpedient, which was concurred in by the convention. The last proposi tion was a report on tho Walker bank ing scheme, which is an extension of the Baltimore plan, and is indorsed by the committee on banking and cur rency of the Fifty -Fourth congress. The report recommends an active campaign against the measure. The convention adopted the report and' instructed the officers of the executive board to no tify all local assemblies to secure pe titions in opposition to the measure, to be forwarded to their senators and representatives in congress. PLATFORM GOES DOWN. Many People Injured In a Cotton Compress nt Macon, Go. Macon, Ga., Nov. 30. Thirty people, 3,000 bales of cotton and hundreds of tons of heavy timber aU. went down in one loud crash at 7:30 o'clock last night at the Central Railroad compress, in this city. Fourteen injured people, all employes of the compress, have been removed from the wreckage, but it is thought others are beneath tho cotton ami lumber, and, if so, they are dead or will be before they can be ex tricated. Superintendent A. A. Gor don was in the middle of the platform superintending the .trucking of cotton and went down in the midst of it all, but by a miraculous escape received only bruises on the legs and arms. Several employes are missing, and it is feared they are beneath the wreck. The platform was 20 feet high, 850 feet long and 140 feet wide. Over SO0 feet gave way without warning, the sup ports being rotted. LASSOED THE ENGINE. Dangerons Experiment of Workmen on at New lirldge In Ohio. East LivEuroor,, O., Nov. 20. A lo comotive was lassoed here yesterday. While hoisting the heavy steel beams for the new bridge over the Ohio river, a large heavy cable was allowed to slacken so that it almost touched tho rails. A freight train came on the Pennsylvania down a very heavy grade. Bridge workmen tried to raise the cable out of the way, but when it was high enough to catch the smoke stack, the locomotive struck the cable, carrying it with the train about 600 feet Telegraph poles, sitrnal towers and telegraph wires were snapped off like plpestcms. The traveling crane cars on the new bridge hung in the air from the steel cables. The workmen saved themselves by hanging to the drop lines. William Stevens, of Wells ville, fell from the bridge, breaking both legs, and will die. The loss to the bridge and adjoining property was CONTINUED IDLENESS. Fifteen Thooiand Wlndow-Glatf Men and Their Employer DUagree Over Wages. PlTTSnunoir, Pa., Nov. 2a The joint wage scale committee of window-glass workers and manufactures adjourned last night after a two days' conference without ' having reached any agree ment. The result of this failure means the continued idleness of 15.000 men throughout the country, who have already been without work for the past six months. At the session yes terday the manufacturers presented their ultimatum, which was to resume work at last year's scale, which is a general reduction of 15 per cent, on the net list. This proposition was re jected by the workers, who offered a compromise, but that was not satis factory to the owners. The owners then suggested arbitration, but the workers would not consent to it. About Mexican Tobacco. Washington, Not. 2a Consul-Gen eral Crittenden reports from Mexico to the state department that Mexican to bacco promises to take the place ot the fine grades of Cuban tobacco in the markets of the world. He makes no mention of the Cuban war as the cause of 'the depletion of Cuba's tobacco product, but points out that under normal conditions Cuba's soil has be come improverished until it can yield no more. Prison Warden Break UU Neck. PiTTSBunon, Pa., Nov. 20. While Warden McCrae, of Erie, Pa., was en route to Biverslde penitentiary with 23 prisoners, Thomas Cronin, under five years' sentence for car robbery, made a dash for liberty and jumped from tho train. McCrae followed, but, alicrht-1 ing on his head, broke his neck. Cro nin was seriously, but not fatally, in jured. Increasing Demand for Sliver. New York, Nov. 2a The demand for silver has been steadily increasing within the past few days, owing to the requirements for India, and exports are on an increasing scale. This inquiry is on account of a larger mer chandise movement. The doinest'c de mand for tho metal for manufacturing purposes is also improving decidedly. I $$. lir , a&Ar , 'rM 4 JMki & W