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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1893-12-18

could not icave igis body ABOVE grounn
to be eaten by the wild beasts. lie had
hardly spoken since his illness, lis men
tai faculties seeming 10 be benumbed,
and / was therefore greatly surprised
when came in from my grave digging
20 find him looking better than for days
before. / took it as a sign that he had
passed the crisis and would now mend,
and was trying to cheer him up when
he said:
"Sam, / heard you at work. You have
done right. You know You could have
depended on me 70 do the same"
why, Tom, old man, you are much
better today! You are surely going 70
pull through! 1 was digging bit 20
run the water of if il came on TO rain"
But ne was not deceived. After bit
he told me Of his old mother and sister
in the east and asked that his share Of
the find might be sent them in case
things turned out right. That night the
chinook" vanished as swiftly as shad-
ow moves, and winter came bowling
down on rs. II was the Goth of Decem-
Der. Before morning it was far below
zero, and a heavy snowstorm was raging,
and Tom had relapsed ip.o his former
lethargic state. / was in for it now for
sure-snowed up on the mountains with
dying man for companion. From the
morning Of the Goth to the afternoon OF
the oath the man never uttered a word;
sometimes he would open his eyes as
moistened his lips or forced little soup
down his throat, but he neither knew
nor saw me. knew by the look of his
eyes that he was stone blind. About 3
o'clock on the afternoon Of the date Civ
en-, as returned from the spring with
kettle Of water, Tom quietly asked:
"Sam, is it near Christmas day!
within few hours"
''And you have got the grave ready!
why. man, you won't need grave
for years to come. Come, now, / want
to try you with a bite to eat, and I'll
warrant you'll feel better for it."
But before 1 could get around to IL he
had again become unconscious, and the
next and the last time / heard his voice
was late that night; don't know but it
was Christmas morn, for it was mid
night or after when he moved IN arm
and broke my sleep. By this time had
of course given up all hope and realized
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a half had knocked together pretty
comfortable shanty. Then l gathered n
great heap of firewood and was as ready
as could be for change of weather.
For some DAYS Tom neither grew better
nor worse. When | insisted on 1t. he
would take bit of rabbit soup, but ms
appetite was gone, and he lay for the
most part in deep stupor. neither
speaking nor moving.
For three years we had knocked ABOUT
the Silver State together IN hopes OF
find 1t had been q hard life and
rough one. We were more often hun
gry than not, and up to the time OF
Toms illness we had found nothing of
any consequence, but now-well, If in
dicaticrls amounted to anything. we had
str;lcI. y rich, and our tens OF thousands
1vere right in sight. It seemed douDly
hard for Tom to be bowled over just at
fills time and harder still to know that
tbe chances were all against him. Inc
only hope had was that his robust con-
stitution would pull him through this
mysterious illness, but as he lost
strength and grew weaker day by day
even this hope died away.
The chinook lasted nine days. 1t
seemed as if summer had come back. L
nursed Tom, gathered lot more wood,
made the shanty more comfortable and
ding a grave for Tom on knoll 30 feet
back of the cabin. IF he pulled through,
he would never know it: If he died. L
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that it was only question OF rev
hours more. His long fast had reduced
him to a mere skeleton, and during the
last two days could hardly get the beat
ing of his pulse or heart. By the time
was awake, he said:
"Sam, where are you? / cannot see:'
took his hands in mine and bent over
him as L said:
Here am, old fellow. Do you feel
betterl"
''Tm most gone, Sam! And it's
Christmas day, amt it?''
eyes" answered, greatly surprised
that he had kept the run of time so &C
curately. But you are not going, Tom;
you are betterP'
Christmas day in the old home,
Samp' he went on. ''It is years since i
was there. They'll remember me and
speak of me, though-father and me!
Fathers grave is there, near the old
home. Mine they will never seer
"But Tom, Tom, you are better. You
will get wellr' / cried, as 1 lighted a
candle and bent over him to lift his
head.
mo, Sam. I've been dreaming,
dreaming of my mother and sister-of
father-of the old home-of- Good
by, Saml l know you dug the grave
DAYS agol Mark it, Sam. Mark it so
that mother may know it if she ever
Mother! Moth
And it was all over with poor Tom.
1 sat beside him till the day came, the
day of prayer and feasting and rejoic-
ing among millions, and then wrapped
him in his blankets and carried him out
and gave him burial and uttered the
PRAYER which knew was on his moth
er's lips, and shed the tears which felt
were yelling up as she thought of the
absent one. He asked me to mark his
grave. 1 did so, and then waited for
weeks before 1 could get down into the
valley. The next summer when the
snow had melted away from the noun
tains went back to the lonely shanty
with laborers enough to develop the
mine, which we called dead Mans
Find" and before another Christmas
day his mother sat by his grave while
told her the story of his illness and how
her name had been the last on his lips
on that dark Christmas morning when
his soul went out into the great unknown.
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DEAD MANS FIND"
BY NJ. QUAD.

copyright, 1898, by American Press Associa-
toni
1t was along in November that Tom
and discovered indications" at spot
in the Pinyon mountains of Nevada and
started drift. We didn't intend to put
in more than a weeks work-just enough
to develop the ''find" and load up with
specimens for assay-but after four or
five days Tom was taken sick. Winter
was already at hand, with a foot of snow
on the ground.
If you have never been among the
western mountains, may tell you that
at about the middle of December, after
winter has seemingly shut down, there
comes what is called a 'chinook"-a
warm wind off the Pacifc-which melts
the snow and stands the season off for a
week, as it were. We had calculated to
take advantage of this break to get out
of the mountains, but fate willed it 9th
erwise. Tom was New Highlander,
rough and rugged. He hadn't been sick
a day since he could remember, and his
sudden breakdown was n complete sur
prise to both of us. He was attacked
late in the afternoon with violent
twitching of his muscles, and by mid
night was in profound stupor, which
lasted with but few intermissions until
the end.
I knew that he was in dangerous
condition, but / could not leave him,
helpless as he was, and make my way
down into the valley for help, nor could
take him down. In his weak and help
less state there was but one thing to do,
and that was to get a shelter ready and
take the best care of him possible. /
found sheltered spot and in a day and
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Fitted with Elliptic sprockets and G.. &
J. corrugated air tube tires. These tires
can be fitted to any pneumatic safety,
they are practically puncture proof, dc
not slip on wet roads, and are very fast.
ANY desired gear can be furnished with
these wheels from No. SIS to so.
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AE-

Mrs. Brown-That's a nice turkey, but
l expected you'd have brought some
thing to wash it down with.
Brown-My dear, that's a rattle tur-
key, and he's been washed down al
ready.
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CHRISTMAS AGAIN.
HRoW nwnr nnrns

!. !. !. :: !" !" !:
~ and all live IN
%Z/AC@H the present;
~ $40 Youngsters are
GELS4gEkN/ flirting with
tI.N1<SH laughter and
~ XIII noise:
%kU Christmas indoors
tSEEC Is remarkably
pleasant
~ q. !: &: !: 4: C.: G:
ows are colder
It's showing
Soft fakes whirI downward and drift on The
pane.
Round the warm hearth. where the fire f.
glowing,
Old folks draw closer at Christmas egaini
The head Of the house. in the glow OF the en-
bers,
Stands straight as at arrow. smiling. but
grand.
There Is his wife, and some fifty Decembers
Leave her as lightly a. waves on the sand.
she Is TO him still as fair as he thought her
when In her teens HIS allegiance he svyoTc
Many a son. now. and blossom checked daugh-
ter
Gather about them for Christmas once more,
Then there are neighbors and cousins and low
BERTHE. from college. and stroke Of his crew;
sDortsmen who come with an eye on the COW
ers;
SAldens OF beauty whose charms nrC not few.
Dainty Dianas OF favOrs quite chary:
Reginald, fresh from the ranch on the plain;
Learned girl graduates, Sallie and sIary.
Meeting and greeting at Christmas again.
Still, TO my fancy, the faIrest OF faces
fonder Is shining In silvery curls
Framed In soft wrappers and delicate iaces
Grandmother sits N cluster Of girls
watching the dancers with eyes growing ten
der.
Clearer and dearer for long ago pain;
Holding the loving hands near to defend her,
Safe with her children at Christmas again.
i can remember when beaux by the dozen
Toasted her beauty in wit and in wine:
j, too, adored her-though I was a cousin
Many sword tried its mettle with mine.
Ah- gallant company, vanished TO hadesl
swept with the years till we only remain.
She Is for me still the sweetest OF ladies
i. her old sutton, at Christmas againI
Madam. your handl Though the dancers be
plenty.
Let US, too, stand-not in waltz or In reel
This was 1.-The mode" eighteen hundred and
twenty,
When It was voted as mighty genteel."
All. that was dancing. Then steps" were 'de
rigueur''
Not a wild scramble. absurd and insane).
You will remember that elegant figure
Let US walk through it at Christmas againl
Yes, that is WELL Strike n statelier measure.
Fitting the SHOWS and the honor of wears.
Say, does il bring to you visions of pleasure.
Or has the music n tremor of tears7
Here let US stay Why this laughter, young
misses1
Under the mistletoer' Zoundsi then. It's
plain,
Grandmother, blushing, must bring out those
kisses
She has been keeping for Christmas again!
-Launce Lee.
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Massage.

MRS. PRAY WOULD ANNOUNCE
w that she will attend limited num-
Der of patients. Address at ii. N.
Whitney's. King st.. Bell Telephone 70,
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1893-09-30
says We Arc a Ron,aucer

Clate Than can give the average man
cards and spades in romancing and then
win in a canter. In an article on the
subject af artesian we'll liars lie tells of
a we'll near Kimball which vomits coal
the size of a hod-through IL six-lnch
pipe. The pipe must be OF rubber, the
we'll an expert vomiter or Clute has won
hands lGwn.-SiouS Fails Press.
"Cal' is Il gentleman ana a scholar az
we'll as an nstute editor and thank God
he knows the difference between a COM
mon every day liar and q writer of
romance. But the big chunks of coal
coming out of a six-inch pipe stick him.
All, we'll, the bible tells us that o whale
swallowed Jonah. while the naturalists
say that the gullet Of a whale will not
admit anything larger than u herring
yet the sermon writer of the Press is not
prepared to suggest it was a rubber.gul-
let whale that heayed up Jonah. There
are some things in the GRAPHIC as well
as the bible that puzzle skeptics, but it
has been demonstrated over and cyel
again that both are infallible when it
comes to q show down.
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Can save xo

A good opportunity is extended to you
all. AS the summer has gone by and the
cold weather soon coming, it will pay
you to ascertain where you can buy your
fall goods at the lowest prices. We can
and will save you enough on your fall
goods to pay your expenses to the Mite H.
ell Exposition. We have a reputation all
over the country for selling at low er
prices than OR competitors.
How can We do that?
Simply because il expenses are lower.
We have no store rent to pay and buy IL
goods in large quantities. 1t does not
matter what you want, we Will compete
with eastern prices and we are able to do
it. Do~not take our word for it, come
Ind examine our goods and prices and
YOU will be convinced that we can suit
you. Our stock is complete in all de-
partments.
Our stock OF Dress Goods is larger than
ever. Among our latest novelties you
will find all colors and shades of Jacqwd.
nards, Panamas, B%riiliaDtines, Basket
Cloths, Armnres, Hop Sackings, Silk Sub
lines, Silk Warp Ansamans, Gloria Silks,
Henriettas, Serges, Manchester %Diagonals.
Puritan Cloth, Scotch Plaid Suitings. etc.
Please call and examine them, as we
know YOU will be suited when yon see
our many bargains. We car and will
save you % per cent on all dress goods.
CHAMPENY BROS, Mitchell.
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The Peerless H,c,s,e Plate.


ats q remarkable fact" said a Boston
newspaper man to me yesterday, "that
the dining a service on the various
railroads only begins to be good when
you get west of Chicago. whereas the
further east you get, the worse you are
served, with one noticeable exception
the Nickle Plate road"
II was agreeably surprised by the din
ing car service of the Nickle Plate road.
1t compared we'll with the best service on
the western roads," That was a high
compliment and l mean to let mytowns-
men know Of the good repute in which
at least, one Cleveland road is held by
strangers."-The Lounger In the Cleye-
land Town Topics.
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Plead Guilty

CAA
The trial OF Frank Phelps and Henry
Shrader for the murder of Mot MatsOn
came on at Oacoma before Judge Haney
Monday. The case was adjourned to
Tuesday and then to Wednesday, at
which time Shrader plead guilty to the
Indictment of murder IN the first degree.
Phelps obtained a change Of venue to
Hanson county.
The particulars of the murder were
given in the GRAPHIC at the time. The
tragedy occurred at twilight on the Goth
OF May last. The murdered man was sit
ting in the doorway of his house on his
claim across the Missouri about Is miles
below Chamberlain opposite Phelps 49,
land. He vas shot through the head
with a Winchester, the shot being fred
through a window, filling the room with
smoke and extinguishing the lamp.
Christina, q sister OF the murdered
man, was in the house at the time and
soon afterward saw Shrader around the
house. He was in the employ of Phelps
and the latter was arrested as all accom-
plice. Phelps is now under an indict-
ment for stealing q COW from the Matsons
and had frequently made threats against
them. He is a hard character generally
1t is expectedtthat when Phelps trial
comes on and Sioux City's great criminal
lawyer, Argo, gets after him a regular
nest Of %cutthroats will be unearthed
across the river and others besides
SHREDDER and Phelps be implicated in the
murder.
The brother and sister Of tho murdered
man are residents of Kimball, and it is
safe to say that they will never rest con
tented until the murderers Of theil
brother are brought to justice.
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DID You Ever rhink of 1t.

Chamberlain Palladium:-When In
Kimball recently and noticing the ele-
CANT residence OF Editor Tinan (not built
with money made in the newspaper bus
mess eitherJ we wondered If two business
men in that city, or even one, appreciated
the investment Of the. money there, the
addition it makes to the appearance OF
the town or the effect it has on strangers
as showing the editors confidence in the
future Of the place enough to throw him
a dollars worth more Of their trade as an
encouragement OF such things.
When a man puts several thousand dol.
lars into a nice business or residence
building in a western town and puts soy.
eral thousand more into the building ul
Of a business that advertiscs the town, 8
little horse sense on the part Of the com.
munity goes a great ways in encouraging
him, while the showing Of lo appreciation
as between such booming and enterpris
ing men and those who never put n dollar
into the town where it can never beseen
is apt to set them casting their eyes else
where.
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Their noorn.et Fadeu.

Dell Rapids Times:-Some valuable in
formation has recently been given to
the publicin regard to several wonderful
artesian wells in this state, and not to
be behind in anything that will boom
his locality and to show that lie is
something Of a liar himself, the Klmball
Graphic man says that there is q we'll
near that place which is vomiting forth
coal by the car load-presamahly hard
or soft as desired-and that it is coming
up in chunks half as big as a coal hod.
This ought to make the spouters of
Chamberlain and Pierre-the correspond
ents, not the wells-scek the sEitude of
the reservation and mediate upon the
swift punishment that has oyertaken
them and the sad end OF their boomlet.
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For the Ladies.

We have a large and carefully selected
stock of Silks and Velvets in all shades
to match u dress goods. In dress goods
we have Black, Surah, Faille and Peau
de Sole at all prices from rs cents a yard
up. In fancy colored Dress Silks we
have some novelties. They are all put
up in liz yard patterns; all shades and
cOlOrs in Peau de Sole and Faille Silk.
AS we have no room to carry a large
stock of Carpets, we have q large line Of
samples and will furnish you a carpet at
wholesale prices on one weeks notice.
Our stock of fancy Chenille Table
Scarfs, Portieres, Lace Curtains, Draper
les, ETC., is complete and prices below and
competition.
Our stock Of Jackets and Plush Cloaks
is the largest in the state. Call and Elk
anime them whether you wish to pur.
chase or not and note the prices.
As our stock is now complete in oil
departments we heartily wish you tc
visit u store, where you will find a large
stock Of staple and fancy Dress Goods
Dry Goods, Notions, Cloaks and Capes
Boots and Shoes and Groceries.
CHAMPENY BROS, Mitchell.
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Now, Who's u I4inry


Kimball Index:-Jo!ln S. Stewart
brought in town last Saturday a chunk
OF coal which was thrown out Of the Tory
Lake we'll last week. 1t is 13inches long
aud Z inches thick, and so nearly filled
the S-inch pipe that the flow OF water
was greatly stopped till it got out. The
coal is not un-likG Iowa coal in appear
ance and. is said to burn readily. At
first a great quantity was thrown but
lately not so much comes. Every one
who visits the we'll is anxious to have a
piece. The piece Mr.. Stewart brought is
at /. A. Weeks Office where it can be seen
and Mr.. Stewart is ready to satisfy any
n that he saw it come out OF the we'll.
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wants the

Hudson Tribune:-We have been miss
ing the old Kimball Graphic from our
exchange table since we came to the
TRIBUNE office, We used to have fun out
of it every week while in Iowa. We
want it on IL exchange list again. We
used to call Tinan the 'theadline editor"
for ie used often to say moro in one OF
his significant headlines than we could
make show up in a half column. Send
us your paper Clate. You can have ours,
such as it is.
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Mitchell Mail:-J. K. Smith has an
elegant dog. An expensive shooting out
fit. Ee drove out to our friend, VIM.
Herbert, who introduced him to tlous-
ands of ducks. Jake banged away; and
the dog hung his head in distress. Two
hundred rounds ard no Birds" reports
Mr.. Herbert. In the lalcyon days when
Jake had not withdrawn from the turf,
no duck was ever known to get away
without being hit. Ducks now are diff
ferent. Then they wore corseta.
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buy 4 Few sreep.

Dakota Farmer:-Of all the times in
the world now is the one to start q small
thrifty flock of good sheep. Sheep are
low simply because wool is just now uIl-
fortunately and many wish to sell. But
few have the nerve to start in when ott.-
ers are rushing out. But wait. Soon
sheep will boom. II tho present slaught
ter and neglect continue any thing with!
wool on anda good sized body will cost
money before q great while, and then
those farmers who dare not 90 in !at e
toaS2.75 will tumble ever each other to
YestS3s0tSa
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me view Completed.

Clothier and Furnisher:-Briggs-You
know that girl we were dancing with the
other hight at the hop? Well, was down
at the seashore yesterday, and, by jove
there she was among the bathers on the
beach.
Griggs-You don't say! Did you have
a chance to see much of her?
Briggs-I caw the other half.
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GhOkpd O1n.

Northev s. Co. proprietors of the Woon-
socket mill, got all ready this week to &C
to grinding when their artesian well
which furnishes power got to throwing
mud and clogged up tight. The senior
partner is n relative of j. W. Motit and
said to him the other day that to his no
ton no we'll in the state is superior tc
the Kimball well for general purposes.
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The Kimballite will soon be- no more
it having been bought out by the other
Kimball papers. While we regret to lose
the bright pen Of Irvo from Brule county
journalism, we have Ions been convinced
that the field was too narrow at kimball
for three papers, and a reduction in the
number will be Of material benefit to the
other NORTHUMBERLAND Democrat.
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Married.

Almon G. Pond and Lucy q. Sedgwick
were married at the home OF the brides
parents in Chamberlain early Tuesday
morning and left shortly after the
ceremony for a trip to Iowa and other
points east.
The bride was for q long time a Kim.
ball girl, and no more sincere wishes for
her future happiness will be showered
upon her than from those here who have
known her intimately and we'll through
out her early girlhood.
The Young gentleman who has won
her is the head of the drug firm in Kim
ball bearing his name. and during his
short residence here he has won hosts Of
friends. He is q gentleman OF good
character and business ability and ought
to make q model husband. The GRAPHIC
hopes they will be as happy as the days
are long.
After October Is, Mr.. and Mrs. Pond
will be at home to their friends in the
Roberts house on Second street.
Now is the time to get the latest style
ladies' Jackets Az tfife above cost ut
lMK Ell
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Mecca FOR stoc1,,

Castalia Repyblican:-John l.. John
son drove seven head of horses, and all
his cattle and sheep to Brule county to
have them herded. on account Of a
scarcity Of water at his place. Brule
county can now boast Of having fourteen
artesian wells. The new one at Torey
Lake is equal to the Chamberlain we'll.
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We Eeed.,EBli.

Sioux City Journal:-The Chicago,
Milwaukee and St. Paul is handling an
immense number of empty cars through
the yards here. taking them to South Da-
kota to move the grain crops. Monday
morning a train Of about seventy-tive
cars was taken out from here with two
locomotives, and a similar one went
north yesterday.
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For a lame back or a pain in the side
or chest, try saturating q piece of Camel
with Chamberlain's Pain Balm and bind
ing it onto the affected parts. This
treatment will cure any ordinary case in
one or two days. Pain Balm also cures
rheumatism. so cent bottles for sale by
F. j.. Miller, Druggist.