LOCAL NOTES
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M1I- \1 1: I,.l' was on the sick
li f'rnil, I' ar t of Pt oatellol
i lt l ity Sat ru'ay.
Iof '; iaro~l sil was on the
- ,t 'oli ;, ." ,- l this week.
iIil. I froim the , ffects of (cohl
li. 1,:ii;anit chf at the (;regs.on
" i. n - of.- t,' was inl the city thl.,
it-l\ rihi for the New Age, the
'aiding rac( joulrnal of the inter
lioluntaiu rtc ioln .
?Iirs. IT, '.i Miller has moved
:rnim 5,7 Maryland avenue to 728
o,,lth Wa:shington.
For Rent--Three furnished rooms
for light hous.epeping, 1231 W. Gral.
itc. Mrs. Ht. Johnson.
The editor spent two days in Ana
Gonda this week looking for new
sliscrihbrs for the .Age.
Mr. Ed. Baxter. Mr. Chas. Backel
fo rd. of Odger:. are in the city this
week. with a view of locating. They
ale hotel men by profesaion.
There will be a big Thanksgiving
dinner at the A. M. E. church; so
you may commence fasting now, so
you can do justice. Turkey heads
the list on the bill of fare
in addition to the programme
which will be given at the Methodist
church next Thursday, will be a solo
rendered ':y Miss Mary Davis, enti
tled. "Oh Promise-Me.'
The social function has been closed
to some extent this week, owing te
preparation for the masquerade ball.
Keep your eyes peeledl on this col
umn in a few weeks. There will soon
le things doing.
Mr. J. C. Allen is filling the place
of Mr. C. F. Smith at the Overland
club, during the vacation of the
ýteward, who is taking a much need
ed rest, at Gregson springs this
week.
Mr. Charles A. Lair, the gentle.
rman wh presented himself as the
real devil at the masquerade ball.
and Mr. C. F. Smith, who rigged
hIimself up on the Punch and Judy
order at the same ball, entertained
Mrs. Annie and Miss Ida Nelson at
a duck dinnner especially prepared
by Mrs. Jenkins last Thursday even
ing.
Presiding Elder Hubbard, of Den
ver. Colorado, was in the city this
week and held quarterly conference
at the A. M. E. church. He reports
everything p osperous throughout his
district. He filled the pulpit at the
.Methodist church last Sunday night
and added three new members to the
church. He left the latter part of the
week for Helena.
Mrs. Adline Lawrence of Chatham,
Canada, mother of our genial tonsor
al artist. Mr. Robert Lawrence, ar
rived in the city last week, and is
visiting her son and wife. Mrs. Lanw
rence is one among the old resident
ers of Chatham. having resided in
that place for forty years. Several
years have passed since Mrs. law
rence visited Butte and she says
things have changed wonderfully
since she was here. She will remain
in the city until after Thanksgiving,
then she will retturn to her home in
Canada.
The grand masquerade ball, which
was given by the Odd Fellows last
Wednesday night, was one of the
most amusing events of pleasure that
have occurred in Butte for a long
time. Quite a number came out in
mask and the only thing that could
be heard: "Who is that. Oh I know
them feet. I know that walk. Oh
yea I know your voice, etc." The
hall was a. success in every partic
ular and everybody had a good time.
The dance lasted until 3 o'clock,
when all retired, after a very pleas
ant evening of pleasure.
There will be a grand programme
at the Methodist church on the
evening of Thanksgiving, rendered
by the church choir. The programme
opens with a selection by the choir.
Organ Volunteer ....... Mrs. Bullett
Solo .......... ...... Miss S. Scott
Mandolin Solo ........ H. C. Parsons
Accompanist. Mrs. Bullett.
Recitation ..........Miss Williams
Solo-"Queen of the Night"....
...............Miss Ida Nelson
Recitation ...... Mrs. F. M. Lucas
I)uett .................... Mrs. H.
Jackson and Mr. C. M. Watts
A Comic Quartet-Miss Davis, so
prano; Mrs Parson, alto: Mr.
Nuell. tenor; Mr. Parson, bass.
There is on foot a musical organi
zation which if carried out will be
a great treat to the amiture muai
clans. It will be composed of ladies,
whose object will be to master the
art of string instruments, and will
he called the Ladies' orchestra. The
line of Instruments to be introduced
in this organiation are mandoline.
violin. cornet. clarionet, bass violin
and violin cello and slide trombone.
The leading violin will be operated
by Mrs. Bullett: second violin by
Miss Birdie Simington; leading cor
onet. Mrs. J. M. Tate; tromboae,
Mrs. H. Jackson; pianoist, Mrs. H.
C. Parson; elarionet, Mr. Parsons.
We will be pleased to chronicle the
fact when this new enterprise laun
ches into existence, for we see the
great merits that they are sure to
attain.
JOSEPH KIDD Y,
BACHELOR
By PHIL M. CONGER *
CopyrigLt. 1901, by A. H. Rlcharduso
I had gone over to Paris from Lon
donl fr a few weeks. At home, in
l.otl'nIIn11. I was as staid, contert\ ltive
...;_,,1 rartniC ,,, n an, 1- }h'o hr of
forty-tte you could find. I knew very
few I .opde, belonged to only one club,
and a.hldoit went to the theater or had
I (,ompauy at mly roomIns. When I was
in Paris, I usually gave myself a
little more license. On this occaision
I had so far departed from miy house
programme as to pick up an acquaint
ance .fore' I had been In the French
capital a week. In a cafe where I had
dined several times I encountered a
middle aged gentleman of my own na
tionality iand ss(on became quite friend
ly with him. Had he been of any
other taltionility I should have been
less ready to make his acquaintance.
He had come over from IUverpool. he
said. on business for a well known
firm, and his cards showed that he was
a solicitor.
We attended the theater twice in
company. and then Mr. Graham. as
he called himself, asked me to ac
company him to the rooms of a friend
to a little dinner. I was astonished
at myself paomising, as little dinners
with people who would probably drink
a bottle or two apiece and bring out
cards afterward were quite out of my
line. I was ready at the hour ap
pointed, and when we reached his
friend's house I found him a young
man and a capital entertainer. I am
a man who laughs perhaps but once
a year, and then only with conserva
tism, but this fellow soon broke down
my natural reserve and got me to
laughing very heartily. He was full
of pleasant and witty anecdotes, and
the dinner was all that could be asked.
When the table had been cleared and
the cards brought out. I did not utter
a protest. To my consternation, I had
thawed out and become both compan
louable and genial. As I roared with
laughter I wondered what my land
lady would say If she could hear, and
as I slapped my leg and roared again
I realized that I was guilty of a mis
demeanor that would expel me from
my London club Instantly. There were
forty members of that club. and I had
been with It ten years and had never
heard a laugh. In our club we played
for tuppence a game and never went
beyond, but when the three of us sat
1Ri2a OF LR HAT DOWNI TO POKEI AT A
down to poker at a dollar ante and $5
limit it seemed all right to me. In oth
er words, years and years of strict
probity rolled off like a blanket, and I
felt myself going to ruin. I fully real
ized it, but did not care. In my utter
abandon I coutinued to laugh and
make merry.
I had never played twenty games of
poker in my life, but I went right at it
as if I had never patted a Sunday
school scholar on the head or sent
tracts to sailors. I am a very econom
ical man and scrutinize my bills very
carefully, but on this occasion I found
myself saying that I did not care if I
lost even a whole pound. The old say
Ing of a fool for luck held good in this
case. I knew afterward that the din
ner was a put up job to skin me at
cards, but the two sharpers failed in
their purpose. I have no doubt they
resorted to all sorts of tricks with the
cards; but, do what they might, the
hands ran, in my favor, and I raked in
the pots.
It was a no less personage than my
self who by and by suggested that
the limit be removed. The others
promptly assented, and the result was
that after two hours' play I had them
dead broke. As their plan to skin me
had failed, they resorted to other tac
tics. One of them must have poured
knockout drops in a glass of wine of
fered me. for I no sooner drank it than
I felt my senses leaving me. As near
as I could ever figure it, twenty-four
hours elapsed before I woke up and
found myself in a hospital. That was
not the worst of it, however. I could
remember nothing. I could not recall
my name, nativity, hotel or anything
connected with myself. I had not the
remotest idea where I lived or what
had occurred.
I was told that I had been picked up
in the street. Graham and his friend
had robbed me, dressed me in an old
muit of clothes and carried me out upon
the street. They had shaved off my
whiskers, trimmed of my heavy eye
brows and otherwise disguised a!.
mnd one of them had gone to my hotl
with a note signed with my name and
ettled my bill and brought away my
things. Whep the hospital doctors
orand that my memory was gome, thMy
did not press me to talk, but gouit to
encourage me by saying that things
would soon conime right.
I do not believe that a man standing
defenseless before a crouching lion
feels the terror I did when I found
that I had been wiped out of exlstet:ce.
For waunt of a naste they calledl me
"No 14" Inr. the hospital, and I ,ver
heard it without a gasp and a shudder.
In a way, the old suit of clothes and
empty Iockets suggested that I n as a
pottr run,l. yet when they came t" see
that I was one who had bathed *I:ily
and h ad taken prolper care of m n.l:ls
alibi /telt th.," p'll usn sole I l!
I speech proved mue to be Engllish. ,ut
that wilas ino great point gained. 'IThre
are hundreds of Englishmen to Ioe tilet
in Paris, and how were they to hunt
out my record without a name :aid
with a very had personal descriptitln':
It was two weeks before I was well
enough to leave the hospital, and then
came the question of where I sthould
go and what I should do. I was Iltni
less and among strangers. Influenced
somewhat by sympathy, no doubt. but
more by professional interest, the head
surgeon took me to his own home to
see if time or accident would not bring
back my memory. I, who had an in
come of £7,000 per year, a valet at my
aooms in London alnd wias Iooked uplon
as a gentleman of leisure, became the
doctor's "man." I blacked ais shoes,
brushed his coat and hat, ran on er
rands and bought meat and vegetables
for the family table. There was not
an hour of the day that I was not
working my brain over the mystery,
but try as hard as I would I gould not
go back further than the hospitail.
When I woke up, there my life began
anew.
During the six months I was with
the doctor various suggestlons were
made and followed. I took long walks
to see if I could Identify streets and
squares and buildings, and I mingled
with crowds In hopes that I might see
a face I could recall. A map of I.on
don was shown me, and the doctor
called off the names of hundreds of
streets. It was all in vain, however.
The book was closed, and I couldn't
open It. There would come moments
when I could almost grasp the past,
but as my heart began to thump and
my brain to whirl, memory would slip
away again.
At the end of six months and while
we seemed as far from the solution
as ever I started out one morning to
get a pair of the doctor's boots re
paired. Just as I was turning Into a
small street to visit a cobbler, I came
face to face with a member of my
London club-a man with whom I was
well acquainted. My whiskers and
eyebrows had grown again and I
looked like my old Self. He at once
put out his hand and saluted:
"Why, old boy, you've been dead for
months and months, and yet 1 And you
in Paris very much alive!"
I looked at the man in open mouthed
astonishment for a minute and then
went down In a heap. I was taken to
his hotel instead of a hospital and
after a time was restored to conscious
ness, and the very first words I ut
tered were a shout:
"Write it down-write it down! My
name is Joseph Kiddy, bachelor, of
London!"
Everything came back to me with a
ruh, and for a time I was so excited
that I acted like a lunatic. At home I
was supposed to be dead, and my law
rers had searched in vain for traces of
me. As I got out. Paris looked as of
old to me. Every little incident came
oack, and the French doctor who had
een so kind to me was one of the
leartiest in his congratulations. I
iought the aid of the police to hunt
lown Graham and his friend, but noth
ng ever came of it. They had moved
on to find other victims.
The Sense of Teach.
The sense of touch Is the simplest
but at the same time one of the most
important special senses of the human
organism. It is possessed by nearly
all portions of the general surface of
the body, but finds its highest develop
ment in the hands.
The true skin contains multitudes of
nerve filaments arranged in rows of
papillae about one-hundredth of an
inch in length. It is estimated that
there are 20.000 of these papillm in a
square inch of the palmar surface of
the hand. The cuticle is absolutely es
sential to the sensation of touch, for
when the true skin is laid bare by a
burn or blister the only feeling that it
experiences from contact is one et
pain, not that of touch. The cuticle
shields the nerve filamat from direst
contact with external objects. Touch
is moat delicate at the tips of the An.
gers, and the hand is one of the most
important organs.
Bufon declares that with fingers
twice as numerous and twice as long
we would become proportionately
wiser. Galen, however, taught that
man is the wisest of animals, not be
cause he poesessea th9 hand, but be
cause he is the wisest and understands
its use the hand has been given to h1i,
for his mind, not his hand, has taught
him the arts.
Why she Lest Isnteest Is Him.
They were watching the balloon go
np and he was telllng her about the va
rious crank aeronants, Lncluding those
couples who for the sake of notoriety
are married In ballees sad sail away.
"I don't think I'd like at get married
n a balloon," she said seotly.
"No," he amented thoughtfully;
'there's too much risk in it plain with
mt going out of egn's way to fnd
'ills." And after that she seemed to
e less interested in klm.
"So Smith acted as judge"
"At a church raet Foolish man'l
"No, no--not at a chureh raSe; at
i baby show."
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