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Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-09-18

OI my ancestors portraits to my bed
room; those crowding recollections of
dead days were infinitely painful, my
senses were all on the alert for laughing
voices, the memory of which filed ev-
cry echo of these gloomy corridors with
ghostly meaning, and my heart hun
gered for some sign of life or love to
break the speechless emptiness of the
desolate place. washed and dressed
in moody abstraction, and then made
my way down to the great banquet
room, where a solitary, stately supper
was laid for me in grim parody of my
condition.
Then supped under the wide vault
ed roof at the table that had sat hun
dred, the pale shine of the two candles
making bright island of my supper
napkin and plate and tankard in the
ocean of the gloom notwithstanding
the white tips of the antlers my kins-
man had brought hC.ne from the long
forgotten hunts, and gliding with their
faint yellow beams buckler and breast
plate of that ranked armor they had
worn in lOng-forgotten fights. On the
one hand-far down the hall-the lone
ly fire burned away back in the great
cavernous grate-place, singing low, sad
songs, it seemed, to itself as the gray
smoke twined in wreaths up the wide
chimney; and, on the other hand, the
long, uncurtained sequence of the null
Toned windows and the wet, raven night
outside-the plaintive rustic of the
dead. unseen summer things that for
ever drew their withered strands to
and fro against the streaked diamond
panes, and the sad sob of the evening
wind wandering like a restless spirit
on the broken garden terrace-lifting
with the invisible hem of it's sable
skirt the rustling dead leaves, and
gently trying in turn with wet, soft
fingers each easement, catch, and
latchet! Not being moved in that
full-haunted house, not sound broke
upon the dead stiffness; my head
dropped upon my hand, and 1 grieved
with stony, emotionless grief like the
grief of the stones around me.
Then, all on sudden, someone was
coming, and upon my empty ear fell the
sound of fine, small footprints in the
dim corridors at the distant end of the
hall. Those steps were like the drip
ping of water in the silence of a cav
ern, and somehow every awakening
fiber in me thrilled instinctively to the
measured approach of my invisible Wis.,
itor. I held my breath and gripped
the carved lions on my chair and
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-09-18
Temporarily.

II reckon Simon jerks hes lost his
reasonin' facilities sence he he'd that
last spell o. sickness, don't you? in
quired Mr.. Hanson OF his gentle faced
wife.
"HOw old is v'r Cousin Simon?"
asked placid Mrs. Hanson, who had
been listening to long story about
the old mans shortcomings and Pc
culiarities since his recent illness.
"Eighty-twO come next Septem-
ber," said Mr.. Hanson after a reflect
i've pause.
"Oh, we'll. he amt so old as he
might be. by good DEAL" said Mrs
Hanson, cheerfully. II shouldn't
feel to call 1T that folks he'd lost their
reasonin' facilities at his age, Ezry;
but p'raps in y'r Cousin Simon's
case" she added, seeing a mutinous
expression on her husbands face,
.'p'r'haps, take it by an large, you
might say that Simon's facilities was
mislaid for the time bein'."
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-09-18
PlutO's Safety Valve

Two and half miles south CT the
little Mexican village OF Las Hum
mettas, in Western Arizona, in low,
sandy valley, tiznked by tall noun.
tains, there is hole about three
feet in diameter and OF unknown
depth.
From this cavity, which is as round
as if fashioned by an experienced
well.digger, a dense cloud of SMOKE
and steam is constantly arising. For
100 feet on each side of this appar-
emily fathomless pit the ground is
moist and damp
Water collected from small holes
dug in the damp soil has a curious
effect upon the person rash enough
to drink it-dispelling sleep for as
much as fifty hours in succession.
IL the hands and feet be washed in
it, it gives them brazen hue and a
paralytic numbness.
OF an evening, about O'Clock
Seldom varying as much as five min
ntes either way,) large volumes
of sand are shot from tho
hole several yards into the air.
Sometimes this latter exhibition ID
preceded by increased activity and
loud subterranean noises; at other
times the emission of smoke and
steam almost entirely ceases for
about ten minutes before the sand
squirting show takes place. The peo-
pie OF Las Hummettas know the hole
by the name of "Pluto's Safety
Valve"
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-09-18

vlstas round Wanlelgh court, weaving
golden fancies of the sweet share I
would play in the rule Of my mimic
kingdom, and when 1 was a little older
l quickly learned with sigh that had
no more part in that fertile realm than
the meanest peasant on it. Briefly, I
was the youngest son Of three, and be-
fore had come to manhood had had
a fiery word or two with those above
me, and taken the younger sons por-
tlon and went out into the world and
ate husks with social swine, and too
poor to ask and too proud to beg, kept
that sensitive, self-searching soul my
ancestors had bequeathed me and my
frail, fine body together on the
scanty wages of two unable hands.
Lord! how l suffered during those
years; how nicely I measured each
black abyss of humiliation and probed
each raw wound that my sensitive ma
ture took in the rough and tumble of
that grim, ugly strife for bare main
tenance, and then-even now I cannot
write it without lump of genuine
sorrow in my throat-my father died,
and Wanleigh passed to my elder
brother in the summer. and before the
next spring it had gone again from
that brothers dead hands into those of
Guy, who came between us, and here,
in trice, Guys horse had tripped and
tumbled at fence and Guy was gone
In turn; and I, ragged John Ruther-
ford, who had Toasted for years on poor
mems leavings and kenneled with his
peers in leaky attics, was Lord of Lut-
terworth and Worsborough, of Wark-
worth and Torsonce, of Thenford
House and Sudley Park, with a new
world Of delights opening at my feet.
It was as sweet flying sip from the
full cup of pleasure as ever q man tast-
ed, and my starving body and my hun
cry soul, remember, burst into new
young life with the bare conception of
it. And that brief glimpse of delight
lasted one day. Before l had scarcely
ventured from my lair or shaken off
those cruel rags, which weighed like
lead on my proud spirit, some rolls
were handed me as eldest now and
heir, the most secret archives of our
race, and therefrom learned in few
minutes what had been to me before
only vague, whispered hearsay, that
we held our splendid holdings by fraud,
and that many generations back, but
we'll hidden within the discovery of
research and the possibility of restitu-
ton, should a Rutherford arise so
minded, was foul deed of treachery
and usurpation, whereby the lawful
line had been Ousted from their right
and ours substituted. That was all.
For six long black hours, Tagged,
hungry John Rutherford-lay white
and silent and speechless in my garnet,
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-09-18
CHAPTER 1.

At the twentieth outset of this story
when have made up my mind many
times to tell it, and have as often shrunk
back from the paper and pen unwilling
Il still hesitate and doubt, weighing
with the wretched sensitiveness of my
nature your certain ridicule against the
hunger of confession that is within me-
Yet must speak, and l will!-here on
the twentieth veturing I feel the
crowded incidents of that one marvel
GUS evening of my life rise up strongly
before me; the giddy, fantastic thralI Of
the strangest hour that ever a mortal
lived through possesses me again; my
cola pen slips eagerly forward to the
betrayal, and this is the narrative of
my shame and my penitence just as it
came unasked upon me out of the in
visible past. was the youngest son of
an ancient family boasting an unfair
nished reputation, and one of the best
rent rolls in the northern country.
When l was very young I gloried
in the splendid sweep of terri
tory that spread out in purple
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-09-18
RUTHERFORD THE Twice Born,
Narrative of the Shame and Penitence of 2
Scion of Noble Family.
BY EDWIN LESTER ARNOLD

and could not eat or drink. but sat like
that all the night, cold and alone,
fighting again all the incidents of the
fight, and SO fell asleep at last in my
chair in the twilight, wonderfully, in
credibly contented.
And now begins the strangest part of
the story! The search begun at my
orders prospered so we'll that soon the
long sequence of the wrong had been
followed down until at last it seemed
there was only step or two needed to
snatch the splendid peagantry of Lut-
terworth and Worsborough, Wark-
worth and gay Torsonce, from me for
all time. bore these endless hours of
torture in dull resignation. and then,
on the very morrow of the final discOv.
cry, fierce yearning took possession of
me to see the old house once mOre-a
fierce hunger which overlapped even
the physical hunger in which lived,
an Unsuitable longing to touch, even
though it were but the humblest thing
that friendly hands had touched, to
hide my heavy loneliness even for a
moment in the kind mother shadows OF
my home. And SO went.
CHAPTER II.
It was wet, rough evening when l
turned off the highway l had been
trudging, and, picking my way in the
stiffness of the dark along broad ave.
nues and through lonely fir plantations,
every bend and turn of which were
redolent to me Of bygone memories,
presently found myself amongst the
tangled, neglected lawns and effaced
1ower-beds of Wanleigh Hall itself.
And as l stood there in the sullen dip
OF the trees, while the white moon
shone between the chinks of the storm
upon the desolate face of that splendid
sorrow in front, and the black feet of
the clouds trod in gloomy procession
across the sOdden, unkempt lawns, the
measure OF the price of my victory, the
depth of my loneliness, was forced upon
me, and wrung my hands and hid my
face, and prayed to the great, unfor-
giving, inscrutable powers-prayed as
! had never prayed before in shame or
in sickness, cursing in my blindness
and folly that black debt and him who
had bequeathed me to pay it-and
leant me against tree and wept like
the weak fool that was-wept, but did
not waver!
Presently the gust was over, and
walking out into the light hardened
my heart and approached the house
from whose many windows only one
small streak of brightness shone into
the dark air from where an old servi-
tor and her husband lodged. The hall
had been left in charge of these, and ii
was they who gave me admittance and
had prepared in some measure for my
coming. Twill not say what food OF
memories rushed upon me as I stood
again in the old wainscoted hall, or,
later on, assembled the broad staircase
and passed down a long-ranked avenue
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-09-18
CHEATING A CHlNAMAN.
How One Western Landlord Was Cured Of
the Practice.

How One Western Landlord Was Cured Of
the Practice.
Justice in the Far West sometimes
takes new and startling shapes Jem
Blank, a ranchman, who died last
summer leaving large amount Of
money to found hospital in one OF
the cities on Puget Sound, was &C.
customed, it is said, when he saw q
scoundrel going unwhipped of justice
promptly to constitute himself jury,
judge, and executioner.
One day Jem, with a friend, was in
the Office OF a hotel in Portland.
Oregon, where they had been board
ing for several weeks The landlord
was reckoning with a Chinese cook,
who was leaving his service to return
home.
Twenty weeks at $40 a week
makes 5000, eh? That's so. owe
you that"
"All light" said the smiling Hop
Lee, holding out his hand
But stop little. l have bill
against you, Hop. The day you we're
late with the breakfast-that's $l5
agen you. The evening Judge Smith
said the chops were burned makes $40
more; the times you didn't make grid
die cakes when l wanted them. IS
EACH" and so on, while the old China
man, his face gray and his mouth
open, stood in dumb despair before
him.
II owe YOU" said the landlord.
chuckling, exactly 50. There they
are. Good-by Hop"
There seemed to be no peaceful
method of redress for poor Hop. He
skunk out of sight, having no friend
to advise him.
A little later In the day Jem and
his partner announced that they were
going back to their ranch, and called
upon the landlord for their bill. 1t
was handed them. Jem glanced over
it.
zone hundred dollars each? Cor
rect, believe. But we have little
bill agen you, Bob. There was the
night we couldn't sleep for the hand
organ in the bar. We want 500 each
for the loss of that sleep There's
the rancid butter; five a week apiece
for not pitchn' it out of the window.
Let me see that is not all; there's the
wear on our teeth because OF your
tough beet. Yes, that makes twenty
five more. Then it was worth $75
each for listenin' to your old jokes,
and it's lettin' you off cheap" etc.
BY this process Jem brought the
landlord $50 in their debt, but laugh
ingly offered to come the next win
ter and board it out
Bob also laughed. but protested
and at last grew very angry. Jem
looked at him quietly, then counted
out the money. "Find Hop" he said,
coolly, handing the amount to MS
friend. ''Give this to MIN, that he
may know there is such a thing as an
honest American. I'll settle with
this man."
The manner of his settling with
this man" is a favorite tale in the
town to this day. 1t is certain, how
ever, that the landlord was reformed
by Jem's rude justice. lie was never
known to cheat a Chinaman again. -
Youths Companion.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-09-18

Space for a fort on a hill near Lon
don is being cleared of tree stumps
by an electric ro0t-grubber or stump
puller The dynamo for supplying
the current is about two miles from
the hill. The current is taken by
overhead wires on telegraph poles to
the motor on the grubber carriage.
BY means of betting and suitable
gearing the motor drives a capstan
upon which is cOiled a few turns Of
wire rope. A heavy chain is attached
to the tree roots, and as the rope ex-
erts Its force the roots come m
one after the other
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-09-18

ny head on my arm on the table, that
dreadful thing crushed in my unfeeling
fingers, my corporal body inert and
ifeless, while the good and bad within
me fought desperate and long for the
mastery, until, when the sodden dusk
Of December evening had fallen
across my cherries window, the fight
was finished and won, and rose to my
feet pale and faint and grateful. I
went out and ordered that search
which felt would condemn me forever
to my kennel, and the black drudgery
Of living from which my soul revolted.
Tbsn, I recall, I came back in the dark
AID took down my crust and my pitcher,
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-09-18

SHAKESPEARE never billed his plays
Yet he builded better than he knew,
Bill did.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1893-09-18

world again, and tossed my arms aloft,
and laughed and wept and reeled, and
then fell fainting right across the floor.
right at the feet Of the grave, calm,
gently smiling shadow who was watch
ing me, for l had seen them-all in one
binding, dazzling moment of swift
comprehension had perceived that in
myself was the focus of wrong and OF
right; in me was both the debt and the
creditor those two were my father
and mother!
-
There is no more to tell. I was ill
after that, and when l was well a bulky
blue letter was handed to me sayin.
those who had undertaken my search
had, to their marvel, come to conclu
sions the same as my own, but it need
hardly be added, by methods much
more prosaic. And Wanleigh ano
Worsborough, and Torsonce and Lut-
terwOrth have new master-a hum
BILE, Open-handed master, who goes
about thinking he sees better men than
himself in every wastrel that he meets.
and pNrpose in the purposeless, and
justice in injustice, and the clear heart
of eternal equity beating inviolate, i'm.
peIturbable and perpetual under all
the noisy pulses of casual life.
THE END.l
SopyrigfS 1892, By the Authors Alliance
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-04-26
Foreign News.

LONDON, April ga dispatch from
Belgrade states that discussions pre-
vail in the new cabinet of King Alex
ander, formed under his direction after
the coup d etat of two weeks ago. The
king has declined to accept the resigna,
ton of NJ. Franassovics as minister OF
war, and NJ. Djurecs, ex-minister OF
war, has gone to Roumania on a con,
fidcntial mission to Queen Natalie.
LONDON, Apl. 26.-Horatio Bottom
ley and Charles Dollman, who were in
dicted with Sir Henry Isaacs, formerly
Lord Mayor of London. on the charge
of having defrauded the shareholders OF
the Hansard Union, were today acquit-
ted by the jury, the case resulting in
the exoueration of all the defendants.
ROME, April 29.-Cardinal Luigi Sc
piacci is dead.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-04-26

The report of the Special Committees on
the reindexing and the preservation of court
records was adopted.
On the petition of VIM. Cocksey and others
for the passage of an ordinance levying a
license tax on all persons peddllng fish the
Committee on General Laws reported that
the Committee are of opinion that the subject
OF Inc within petition is fully covered by Sec
t;au - of the present license law and cannot
understand why the $40 license imposed
thereby is not collected from every fish dealer
whether lie sells from stand or vehicle and
the report was adopted.
Upon the petition of w. H. Smith 10 be re-
cmbursed for expenditions for fuel for the
City Jail the following report of the joint
Committee OF Finance and General Laws was
adopted The joint Committee respectfully re-
quest that this petition and bill and accomp-
awning papers be referred to the Corporation
Attorney for his opinion with his reasons and
reference TO ordinance statues and authorities
touching the question involved.
The following were laid on the table The
Committee Oh Streets report upon petition OF
Wheat & Suter received from Board of Alder
man for the legalizing Of the grades between
Princess, Oronoco and West streets and Cor
poration line, as shown on maps submitted
Also the report of the Committee on General
Laws upon a resolution of the Board of Trade
requesting Council TO order 4 new census:
also IAN ordinance to provide for the creation
of the Office of, and the election OF, q City
Engineer, TO define his duties and power, and
10 abolish the office of City Surveyor
The following were received from the Board
of Alderman and their action thereon con-
CURED in viz: the Committee on Streets report
upon the following : On the petition of j. A.
Marshall for proper grade lines on Fayctte
street between King and Cameron; also on
the petition of Edward Dunn for permission TO
move his frame house from S. E. cor. Henry and
Cameron streets TO lot on Henry street also
on the bill of j. w. Hammond for shells also
on the petition OF NJ. L. 0'Sulliyan and Others
TO have fences on Franklin street moved back
10 proper line also Oh the petition of NJ. B.
Harlow and others To have severed, graded
and paved the alley bounded by Columbus
Alfred. Wilkes and Gibbon streets.
The Board of Aidermant's action upon the
following was also concurred in: A resolution
instructing Committee on Streets 10 report an
ordinance for grading. paving and curbng
the alleys bounded by King, Prince. Henry
Fayctte streets and King. Cameron, Pitt and
ST ASiph streets also an order that the water
facilities on the first and second floor OF the
market building, east side, be put i'll proper
order
The board then adjourned.
Trste: JNO f. JOHNSON, Clerk
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-04-26
VIRGINIA NEWS.

Fayette Jones, prominent citizen
of Norfolk, is dead.
Mrs. II. C. Perkins died last Sunday
al her home near King George Court
house.
Congressman G. D. Wise, of the
Richmond district, has decided not to
enter the Senatorial race.
Alex. n. Stark, of Norfolk, has sue
cessfully passed the examination for
appointment as assistant surgeon In
the army.
In Prince William county Thursday
night last two barns on the farm Of
Andrew Lowe were burned, together
with thirty-live much cows. Loss $40,
900.
There are two rumors as to the pur-
chase of Chamberlain's Hotel at Old
Pint. One is that George j. Gould is
after the property, and the other is
that the Chesapeake and Ohio Com
pany has made an offer.
The Citizens Bank Of New York
Yesterday offered the Secretary of the
Treasury all the gold in its vaults in
exchange for United States treasury
notes in New York. The offer was
promptly accepted by the Secretary.
Mr.. Philip Williams Fauntleroy, the
st. Louis lawyer, entered the Protest.
ant Episcopal ministry and preached
his first sermon on Sunday last at st.
James Church, st. Louis. Mr.. Faun-
tleroy is native of Winchester, and
is son of Judge T. T. Fauntleroy, of
the Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals.
He is a graduate of the University of
Virginia.
Mr.. Thomas A. Brander, of Rich
mond, chairman of the executive
committee of the Jefferson Davis
Monument Association, has received
q letter from Governor Foster, of
Louisiana, stating that he will accom-
pany the remains of President Davis
to the border Of his State. Governor
Northen, of Georgia, has written that
he will meet the funeral cortege at the
borders of his State and accompany
them to Richmond.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-04-26

ExTRAD1TED.-In 1883 George A.
Pearce, then secretary of the Planters
and Merchants Insurance Company of
Mobile, decamped, and examination of
his accounts developed the fact that he
was a defaulter to the amount of
s1O2, 900. Indictments for grand
larceny aid embezzlement were
returned by the grand jury. The sher-
if' of Mobile county recently discovered
that Pearce was in business in Abiline,
Tex, and was respected in bust
ness, social, aud religious circles.
He procured requisition from the
governor of Alabama and went to Abb
line. Pearce made an effort to avoid
extradition. Yesterday Gov. Hogg
honored the Alabama governors re-
QUESTION, and the Mobile sheriff is on
his way home with the prisoner.