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it had fallen. Taking aim he sent bullet
into the great black head. There was no
struggle or motion of the huge body. Then
going forward he stopped over. The
creature was rapidly growing cold in
death.
Taking Tins knife he hastily skinned
the brute, and, wrapping his friend in
groans and curses, to a sheltered crevice
in the rocks. and leaving him with rife
and flask of whisky beside him, hastened
down the ravine after aid.
The moon, which had risen soon after
Joe started, was setting, when half dozen
miners from the gulch below picked up
their wounded comrade, and by easy stages
bore him, nore dead than alive, to his
cabin in the little mining camp. Long be-
fore he was out of the delirium of the fever
that followed his adventure, Joe Derrick
had pulled up stakes and departed, not
neglecting to take from its hiding place
the little bag of dust he had earned by his
valor in stoning the bear before he de-
scended to the rescue of his companion in
peril.
=
1t was twenty years after his unfortunate
attendance upon Papa Grizzly's family
party when, on just such an early October
afternoon as that had been, Long Tim
Olin poOil cdt LII L1le uOOI VI CdDlu SluOh-
ing his short clay pipe and gazing down
upon the roofs Of his neighbors' more
| palatial residences all around him.
! He could literally gaze upon their roots.
Despite the fact that his tiny. almost
| tumble-down cabin. was the smallest and
most insignificant home in all Azalea, il
commanded the finest outlook IN the
| town. 1t was. in fact, the only bit of land
| thereabouts that had not been gone over
| md lave claH ad ont hV
pecting owners, for Azalea had grown uI
on the site of an old mining settlement
and lay, moreover, directly in the line o1
wash from an abandoned ledge which the
hydrauickers had long since exhausted
for their particular method of operation.
AS Long Tins was the last of the town
holdings that had escaped the periodic
overhauling OF the settlers, SO he was him
self the sole survivor of the red-shlrted
hard working, hard-living population who
been the first human invaders OF Silly
Horse Gulch.
With but one arm and only two fingers
upon his remaining hand, a broken leg
that had "never set straight" and body
bearing on nearly every square inch Of
surface the marks of teeth and claws left
by an infuriated grizzly, Long Tins
career as miner had necessarily come to
an end. He had managed, after..a fashi
| to extract little pay dirt from his claim
but had eventually been forced to sell ou,
to his partner and settle himself on a bit
of level plateau where his good-natured
chums put him up first-class shanty, as
shanties went in Silly Horse Gulch, and
he laid out with infinite toll something
less than an acre Of garden patch. which
| he called the Grub Stake claim. Here he
could putter and scratch about more or
less successfully, raising young onions and
potatoes and queer snatches of other truck
| that, poor though they were, were eagerly
bought by the others, and for a year or
two Timsfourished as a. market gardener.
| Later on when the "dry diggings" went
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too dry for profit, and the mining popula-
ton drifted away. he still fingered, for his
travelling days were over, and as time wore
on he saw the mountainside settled by
farming folks, who mined their gold from
fields of waving grain or gathered it from
orchard and vineyard, while about the
settlement grew up prosperous town,
its citrus belt. and boasted fine school,
house, two churches. only brick Jail in the
county and political job of the first mag
nitude. Through all these changes Tim
pursued the uneventful course of his
manned existence. always managing to
exc out living, albeit getting, year in and
year out, no very great amount of pork for
his shilling.
For Tim was undoubtedly shiftless. even
for cripple. 1t was the verdict of his
townsmen, too, that he was wholly with
out ambition. He always steadfastIy re,
fused every proposition looking toward
washing out his "Grub Stake claim" and
clung to his little shanty with peril
nacity as provoking as it was unreasona BILE,
alleging as excuse therefor that 1.-THE boys"
had put up the ranch and staked off the
claim for him, and it should remain as it
stood to the day of his death. So, too, he
refused all overtures from would-be pur-
chasers, and his claim, which, though the
NOuDJiy oiQc CdHlC W Dt IcDuItu dS IlU6Td1Iy
''streaked with pay dirt" came to be an
object of interested speculation for miles
around. "Rich as old Tim Simpson, s
Grub Stake claim" was favorite compari-
son among his neighbors, and on the
strength of this wealth, which was "bound
ter be some ones after his DEATH" Tim
was the recipient of many friendly Office
from those who sought his favor.
On this particular October afternoon, as
Tim sat smoking his short clay pipe and
gazing down upon the house roofs about
him, his idle attention was caught by the
approaching form of stranger, who came
up the main street, stopping now and then
to look about him curiously, as one In
search of old landmarks. There was some
thing about his walk and figure that
seemed singularly familiar to Tim, watch
ing him from his cabin door, but it was
not until the stranger had reached his little
gate and leaning over it, looked at him
with eyes of RECOGNITION, that the mans
identity flashed upon him.
Don't we know an old chum, Tim ?'
the newcomer asked.
Know yer, yer ornery, cowardly var
mint" said Tim, II sh'd think / did
know yer, Joe Derrick. What yer runnin'
away from now, that ye show up in these
here diggin's2'
The man WINGED and moved uneasily
from one foot to the other. He was shah
billy dressed, and had light, shifty, faded
blue eyes. A weeks stubble on his heavy
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chin gave him an unkempt looK, ana ne
was not pleasant object to behold.
"You shouldn't lay a misfortune like
that up agin feller, Tim. There wa n
nothin' l cd do fer yer. If I'd come down
inter the basin an got chawed up they'd a
bin no one ter git help ter yer"
mo, ner no one ter light out with all IL
cleaned UP fer six months, neither.
Joe flushed.
81 earned that honest Tim" he said.
Tim smoked on and made no reply. The
newcomer laid hand upon the gate as
though to enter.
Don't yer dare set yer cowardly foot on
that there walk, Joe Derrick said Tim,
and he desisted. He still remained at the
gate, however, pleading with the silent
cripple. He told him how he had heard
of his residence in the town and had made
the trip to AZalea on purpose to see MIN
and the old places and talk over old times.
81 alters liked We, Tim," he said seduc-
lively, but Tim smoked on in silence until
his pipe was empty, then, rising, he turned
and iimped into the house, shutting the
door behind him.
It was perhaps fortnight later when
one bright moonlight night, as he was pre-
pairing to retire, he saw the figure OF a man
at work in far corner of his squash patch.
CHIP he muttered to himself, "stealin'
punkins, are ye? Much good may they
do ye-the ornery things amt worth the
cullin' this year." and he was turning In
when the figure Strengthened up, In the
moonlight and he recognized Joe Derrick:
"Turnips an buckwheat" exclaimed
Tim to himself. "Now, what IN thunder
is that derned cuss prowlin' round the
Grub Stake claim fer? Thet's what want
ter know"
He was debatinglwhat he had better do
when, suddenly, as though taking alarm
at something, the man sprang over the
fence and disappeared in the shadow. AS
he did so Tim saw that he carried shovel
and pick and deep, broad basket, which,
however, seemed empty.
What in -" the watcher began, and
then stopped suddenly; "Why, the derned
sneak I" ne added, still gazing in the direc-
ton whence his visitor had disappeared.
| AT last his silence was broken by a
chuckle. "That'll do it," he cried, snap
ping his two remaining fingers gleefullyy.
I'll do it termorrer, sure's I'm what's
left of man."
He lay awake in his bunk the greater
part of the night, chuckling at intervals in
mighty convulsion OF enjoyment. only
once did he speak coherently, and to any
casual listener his remark would have
seemed in the highest degree enigmatic. :.
sI'll take some of the rainy-day pile, y
he said; "but l reckon the pile can stand
the strain" and then, his chuckle ending
in snore, he fell asleep.
Bright and early next morning he was
busy digging in the vicinity of the squash
patch and long before the first early
passers had begun their days work he had
apparently fixed things up to his own sat-
isfaction.
"ItlI look nat'ral as new milk by moon
light" he declared, surveying his work,
and then he went quietly about his wonted
pursuits.
Watching, that night, one might have
wondered at the extreme delight he mani
tested while watching his whilom chum
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and comrade busily digging about his
premises, first in one place then in an
other, until he had filled his good-sized
basket apparently with nothing more de-
sirable than the heavy black adobe, which
formed the Grub Stake claim. Why one
should dig up adobe by moonlight was a
matter sufficient to excite curiosity in any
should be in apparent ecstacies of glee over
the invasion of his premises certainly
seemed to helghten the mystery.
1t was late in the next afternoon when
Joe Derrick, as was his frequent custom,
walked pensively past Tins gate, appar-
entity engrossed in the surrounding land
scape. 1t so happened that Tim appeared
in the door just at this juncture and, to
Derrick s amaze, hailed him.
The latter could scarcely believe his
senses when, as in answer to the cripple
invitation, he entered the inclosure and
approached the house, Tim said:
"Tve bin thinkin' l was too hard on ye,
Joe. There amt no use holdin' old grudges.
Set here an have light
Derrick was more than willing. and soon
the two ancient companions were smoking
together in amicable discussion of old
times
Tins story was soon told, and Joe's
narrative of varying unsuccess was not so
iCHStliy uut tldJ, ere lODS, IuC ldbuCl udu
deftly shifted the conversation around to
Tins prospects, and the Grub Stake claim.
'Ye oughter to wash it out, Tim" he
said. "They's likely ter be pay dirt all
through it.
II s'pose so," Tim said, meditatively,
"but hate to tech the old place, Joe. It's
jest as the boys fixed it up for
me, an | recken it III last my
time. Pervidin' l don't fetch up on
the county first" he added. ''As a
grub-stake claim it's purity well played.
In fact, 'tain't pay dirt by little bit, an l
amt even as good as l uster ter be when it
comes ter work. There wuz a chap
down below, now speaking slowly,
and watching Joe as he did SO from, the
corner OF his eye, tibet wanted ter keep
me in clover fer the rest of my
life, fer the sake o. werkin' the Grub
Stake fer washin's, but he wanted ter do
1T quick off, an / don't want no change
while I'm alive. offered ter make him a
deed for the place when l wuz dead, but he
wuz out for the mejate stuff.
Joe gave an eager start and then con-
trolled himself
Seems TO me that there last ez fair
nuff proposition fer helthy man." he
said, ,contemplatively.
4e es,' Tim continued. "Fact is, Joe, +"
contidentially, 81 amt long fer this earth.
'Tain't that I'm half chawed up on the out
side, alone, but I'm turrible gone in my
lnwards. shedn't wonder + I'd 60 any
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Santa Clara County.
JOHN DAYS PEsopT.

ON THE BANKS OF EEL RIVER, THE
~ finest trout stream In the State miles from
Potter Valley, Mendocino Co.; round trip SO rs
from s. F.; terms $6 to 81 per week; plenty milk,
fresh butter and eggs; the hunting in this locality
is the best In the State. For further particulars
address JOHN DAY, Potter Valley.
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HOTEL DEL MAR.

ON THE SEASHORE, TWENTY MINUTES
" ride from Santa Cruz; climate perfect; table
buses meet s raua w e. 1s9ing
week; adults, SO per week. special rates to socie-
ties and families. Address MANAGER HOTEL
DEL MAR, Santa Cruz, CAL, or room 20, Maze
building, s. F.
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wv LODGE.

III Sequel Avenue, Santa Cruz, CAL
SELECT PRIVATE BOARDING.
Large grounds, fruits and flowers central; first
class accommodations.
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His Starched Pajamas

vated train yesterday, ''insisted upon
starching my paiamas so stiff that found
it impossible to wear them. I suspected
that perhaps she thought they were used
on tennis court or as a bicycle suit, SO
called her attention to the mistake"
"Well, boss" she said, 'I 'clar thought
you wore 'em to breakfast. New York
Evening Sun.
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SOLID COMFORT HOME RESORT.

I MILES FROM NAPA; 1900 FEET ABOVE
Napa valley, on Mount Veder. Mountain
scenery unsurpassed. Fine climate. Positive
Cure for Asthma. Elegant mountain spring
water. open July l to January. Rates 81 per
week From Napa via Phoenix livery stables. $1.50.
MRS. A. F. ALLEN, P. o. box 1872, Napa City.
EoR RENT AT BEN LOMoND-NEw COT
y tage, rooms, bath, storerooms; unfurnshed or
Will furnish for tenant for the season. Address or
annly to BENJ. LLOYD. station agent. Felton, Cal
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below and my blasted gunbelt busted and
fell inter a gulch down yander. Git yer
rife out an shoot her.
Il can't move finger" gasped Tim.
EVERY bone in mes broke"
Disturbed by the whispers the brute
stopped shifting at her cub and made a
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LAKESIDE HOUSE. LAKE TAHOE,

A PLEASANT FAMILY RESORT WITH
n home comforts; good boating and fishing,
pleasant walks and drives. For terms address
f. B. SMITH, Biiou, Cal.
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"LAUREL DELL" HOTEL.

T AUREL DELL LAKE CFORMERLY LOWER
~ Blue Lake,: handsome new hotel nearly COM
pieted 10 meet requirements of coming season;
fine bathing, boating, fishing and hunting. Address
III. WAMBOLD, Laurel Dell Bertha p O.. Lake Co.
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MeKINNEYS LAKE TAHOE

NOW OPEN. ROUND TRIP FROM SAN
IN Francisco, $16.. Best fishing fine groves free
boats; fine table: milk and cream from our own
dairy. $40 to S12 per week.
MURPHY BROS, Proprietors.
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DOiRDgRS TAKEN DURING THE SUMMER

A T RANCH IN THE COUNTRY: FINE Or
n chard house, modern improvements; home
comforts: terms moderate Address w. o. j., Law.
ence Station, santa Clara County. Cal
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CAMP TAYLOR RESORT

NTOW OPEN UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT
IN Best accommodations for families and private
parties terms from $S to $1z per week.
Tents and cottages for rent, with or without
board. Fine fishing, boating, bathing, etc.; stable
the hotel splendid Drive, connecting with Toca-
Iona and Bear Valley.
BERTRAND & KRAUsS.
City Office for Tocaloma and Camp Taylor, 327
Bush street,
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Sadie NIartInot.


 The well-known comedienne, Miss Sadie Marinot, supported by Max Figman and representative dra- matte company, in the high class English comedy "The Passport, ; will appear at the Opera-honse Thursday evening.
 As an actress, Sadie Martinot needs no introduction to the theatre goers of this city. She is considered the best dressed woman on the Amer jean stage, and the gowns which she wears in the Passport" are visions of loyeliness, it is said. She assumes the role of d frivolous young widow of fashion, with q treacherous mem ory and a decided feminine weakness, that is the cause of her troubles. and the basis of all the complications and amusing situations that follow. EThe opening act of the play is laid at a railway station on the Russian frontier. The young widow has for gotton her passport at Berlin A young English nobleman, Lord Bibary, which is played by Mr. Fig man, whose wife has deserted him some months previous. generously volunteers to take her across the frontier, as his wife, on the passport that permi ts himself and his former wife entree to the Czar's lomini0ns.
 While masqnerading as his wife, I he young widow is introduced to some political English friends, who are also travelling. The balance of the scenes of the play are laid in London drawing room.
 Lord Bibary has just married a daughter of one of these English friends, and the bogus wife of his passport, the widow, turns up at the wedding breakfast. He isconsidered d bigimist, as she is also. for she, too. has married one of these English friends. All sorts of complications follow, everybody playsat eross pur- poses.
 Max Figman is well known as a light comedian of high order, and furnishes able support to the star. The entire play is characterized by an atmosphere of fashion, as it is laid among the upper tendon of London society.
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WE may not all agree with Silver Dick Bland in his financial views and certainly there has been won derful defeetion from them in the West and South during the past five years or so; but it is hardly fair to say that he is a crank as ex- Speaker Crisp has lately done. Under the same rule Calhoun was a eerank' and Stephen A. Douglas, and Henry Clay, and others who de voted time to special subjects. We do not, of course, place Bland in the same rank as these statesmen, bat we hope the time has not yet come to attribute mental alteration to 8 man who makes himself known as being "upo on some particular topic and who cannot justly be accused of any kind of crookedness.
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REDUCED NOBILITY.
The Count Plunged, Lost, Was Ruined, and
 His Daughter Became n Thief.

The Count Plunged, Lost, Was Ruined, and
 His Daughter Became a Thief.
 The case of a ruined noble family was made public last week. says a Paris correspondent Count Stozzi hazarded the whole If his fortune in big land building speeulations in Rome a few years ago and for two or three short weeks was seemingly an assured winner of millions. But crash came while his operations ,sere still open, and he went under, with scores of families as noble, as ancient and as reckless.
 The counts young daughter was en- gagged to he married at the time, but her lover proved as fickle as fortune, and the ruined family retired to Bo- logna. The young countess, i'll order to support her parents, took a place as chambermaid and recently, under stress of poverty, stole some of her mistress jewelry. and being tried and convicted was meroifully sentenced to only 12 days imprisonment, the judge admit ting as extenuating circumstances the sad change i'll her familys fortunes The publicity thus given to the case may possibly prove the salvation of the family. The young countess is now 28 years of age.
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GONGRESS DID SOMETHING.

GONGRESS DID SOMETHING.
 The Fifty-Third Congress re- pealed the obnoxious Federal laws interfering with time-honored rights of the States, and it made a revision of the tariff, striking out its high protective features. This we must not ignore in our disappointment that more good was not done. Nor must we forget that whilst some ob- struction came from Democrats, the most of it was Republican, and based on selfish, partisan grounds. The least pleasant things of the last Con gress we know; the beneficial parts are to be realized hereafter; and we believe they will be many and prom inent. So whilst making our light comments, let us not withhold the need that is due.
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Proposed Legislation For Sleeping Cars

In New York, for example, uniform rate of so cents for berth, without regard to distance, is called for; ill Pennsylvania the rate demanded is $1 for the first 100 miles and 30 cents for each additional 100 miles. The legisla- tors of Illinois wfut rate of $l for 24 hours or less; the Hoosiers are near to passing a bill fixing q rate of 75 cents for the first 100 miles and 50 cents for each additional ton mics; in Kansas the purpose is to fix sleeping car rates at nothing higher than $l. 90 per night and as low as 20 cents per day A bill is almost certain to pass ill Arkansas limiting the rato to half cent mile, and the legislators of Texas are minded to fix the rate at $l a night, etc. Now Orleans Times Democrat.
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FOR POLICE JUDGE.

To THE VOTERS OF THE CITY OF PINE BLUFF,-After a full consultation among my friends l have consented to allow my name to be announced as a candidate for the office of Police Judge, at the ensuing city election, in my opinion the most important office 1n the city. If elected l will see that the laws of the city are reasonably and imparttally ''' - '' w.D, JOHNSON
 We are authorized to announce Mir. F. HITE BROWN as candidate for the office of Police Judge of the city of Pine Bluff, at the election to be held Tuesday April 2, 1895.
 We are authorized to announce E. CURRIE as a candidate for the office of Judge of the Police Court, city of Pine Bluff at the cleo tion Tuesday, April2 1895.
 We are authorized to announce Mr MALACHI DONOVAN as q candidate for the office of Polce Judge, of the city of Pine Bluff at the election to be held Tuesday, April 7, 1895,
 Vt are authorized to announce Mir. o. " ALEXANDER as a candidate for the office of Police Judge, of the city of Pine Bluff, at the election to be held Tuesday, April ?, 1895.
 We are authorized to announce MT. CHAs. ROARlIY as a candidate for the office of Police Judge, of the ciry of Pine Bluff, at the | election to be held Tuesday, April ,, 1S95.
 We are authorized to announce Mr. l. J. MOORE as a candidate for the office Of Police Judge, of the city of Pine Bluff, at the election to be held Tuesday, April 2tl, 1891.
 We are authorized to announce Mr W. J. D, VERNON as a candidate for reelection to the office of Police Judge, of the city of Pine BluH, at the election to be held Tues day, April ?. 1895.
 FOR TREASURER
 We are authorized to announce Mr T. W. 1 SPARKS as a candidate for the office Of City Treasurer, at the city election to be held Tuesday. A pril 2d, 1895.
 I hereby announce myself as q candidate for reelection to the office of Treasurer of the city of Pine Bluff at the election to be held April ?, 1895. Should I be honorod with an endorsement term, 1 promise to discharge the duties of the office faithfully in every particular. Respectfully,
 HUGH F. WEsTBROOK,
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Iife,s L.nftnrx.

A remarkable instance of the queer things turned out by life's wheel of for tune came to public notice yesterday at Bismarck. A clerk in the United States land office at the North Dakota capital threw up his job to start a restaurant and blind pig, and ex-Governor Short bridge was appointed to the elerkship, a position which pays $1, GOO per all. nun St. Paul Globe
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JUST as people were wondering what had become of B. H., that hoop-pole statesman got into the papers through timely illness from "overwork.
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TIE Kearney Lumber Company ill Little Rock will establish a big fruit farm on its property between that city and Pine Bluff. The farm will contain 100 acres and be devoted principally to peaches.
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FRED DOUGLAS white widow wore no mourning at the funeral. This does not prove she wasn't sorry, though he left property worth $2O0,- GOO
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TIE door-keeper of the Indiana House of Representatives has gone insane. But the proceedings have not been more exasperating than those of some of the other legislative lol;on
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George Tiles, GENERAL AGENT, LITTLE ROCK.

HAIL, gentle Spring. March came in like a lion and has hung on like a tiger.
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l have carefully examined the foregoing Statement and find the same to be correct.
 CHARLES A. PRELBER,
 Auditor.
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FOR CITY ATTORNEY

We are authorized to announce Mr, FRED NJ. HUDSON IS candidate for the office of City Attorney. at the ensuing city election.
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Insurance and annuities assumed
 and renewed .0t5u, ,2yUOff VI Insuragce and annuities in force
 December 3l 1894 - -SS55, ,207. ITS 42
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TEA AND COFFEE.

We would like to again call attention to superior grade of Tea and Coffee. These goods of superior quality and will surely give satisfaction soft water is used in drawing