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ASSESSMENT NOTICE.

NAVAJO MINING COMPANY-LOCA-
~ ton o. principal place Of business, San
Francisco, California of works,
Tuscarora, Elko County, Nevada.-Notice
is hereby given that at q meeting OF the
Board OF Directors, held on the 4th day Of
June, 1906, an assessment mo. 29 OF Ten (1O)
Cents per share was levied upon the capital
stock Of the corporation, payable immedi-
ately in United States gold coin, to the Sec
rotary, at the ONCE OF the Company, No. 80
Pine Street, Rooms IS & IL, San Francisco.
California. Any stock upon which this as
sessment shall remain unpaid on
The 14th day OF July, 1896,
will be delinquent, and advertised for sale
at public auction; and unless payment is
made before, will be sold on Tuesday, the
18th day Of August, 1896, to pay the delin
quent assessment together with the cost OF
advertising and expenses Of sale By order
Of the Board Of Directors.
..- j. w. PEW, Secretary.
Omce-No. $40 Pine Street, Rooms IS g. II,
San Francisco, California.
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particulars or IS cents for S1.0O sample.
BIG RAPIDS MINERAL WATER Co.
Big Rapids. Mich.
l6-S 1md1
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Collection Agency.

Endorsed by the Leading Firms OF the
Coast.
What isH
The INTERSTATE COMMERCIAL
AND COLLECTION AGENCY.
Send your slow accounts to them foricol-
lection.
once, o1O Fifth Street. Sacramento, Cal.
Don't delay. Call ut once and let us have
your business
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BOOMING GREAT AMERICA.
A Swiss journal Celebrates tho Nation'i
Varieeated Immensity.

A Swiss journal Celebrates tho Nations
variegated Immensity.
One of the most amusing descriptions
of America is that which recently ap-
peared in The Nachrichten, Basle,
Switzerland. It runs as follows:
"America is country in comparison
to which Europe is small peninsula.
The United States is all empire by
whose side the powers of Europe appear
as petty states. America is the land OF
unmeasured capacity and dimensions,
the land of dollars and electricity, the
land where the plains are wider, the
rivers greater, the waterfalls higher,
the bridges longer, the express trains
faster, the catastrophes more horrible,
than in all Europe; the country where
the buildings are taller, the rascals
more numerous, the poor poorer, the
millionaires richer, the thieves bolder,
the murder ers less bothered and educat-
ed people more rare than anywhere else.
1t is the land in which the teeth are
more false, the corsets tighter disease
moro dangerous, corruption more COM
mon, insanity more systematic, the sum-
mer hotter, the winter more chilly, fire
warmer and ice colder, time more costly,
than in sleepy old Europe. The land
where old lnen are younger and youths
older, the niggers blacker and the whites
yellower tlan elsewhere, the land OF
immeasuraIole natural resources and Of
the most plodigious avarice. In short,
America is the land of the greatest con-
trasts, the craziest presumption, the
most reckless hunt after the dollar. 1t
is the land Of everything colossal and
unapproachable- the last Of course form
the American point Of view" "
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Kimberley. Johannesburg.

Kimberley, as town, does not look
as if it had been built to stay. 1t has O
run up in night appearance, and al
though some may find its general jerk
ness of architecture quaint, 10 one, I
take it, would find it either picturesque
or imposing. Corrugated iron is exceed
ingly serviceable and easy to handle by
the builder; but, frankly, it is not pretty,
and what lot Of corrugated iron has
been used in the construction of Kim
berley! You see it everywhere, and you
long for stone or brick building, with
slated roof or old fashioned thatch.
Stone and brick arc evidently scarce in
Diamond Town. In place Of the COM
mon or garden fowerpots. painted meat
tins stand in many window. They
answer the purpose required of them,
but nothing--not even the varied coats
of paint and enamel-can disguise the
fact that they were once meat tins. 1t is
a small thing in its way, this meat tin
fowerpot; but, small as it is, it adds to
the "metally" appearance of the town.
Your Johannesburger despises gal
vanized iron; nothing less than the best
building stone satisfies him. 1t is easy
enough today to bring stone and build
ing materials to Johannesburg, but pic
ture the difficulty of it all before it had
railway connection with the south! Ev-
cry stone, every brick, every bit of wood
and iron, had to be brought up by bull
lock wagons, long, weary and fabu-
lousy expensive toll, which speaks vol
umes for the perseverance and Ego" of
the early Johannesburgers. -" Some I'm
pressions of Africa. "
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Blind

A Maine veteran, happening the other
day to be speaking Of the sorrows of a
blind person, recalled an instance of
cheerful giving on the part Of some
pretty hard customers. "It was at Camp
Berry, in Portland, where we had a
queer lot, I can tell you. We had drafted
men, enlisted men and substitutes, the
first E, solemn looking set, the second
cheerful men enough, and the third,
the substitutes, perfectly happy. As q
rule, they had got big money for taking
somebody's place in the service and
were making the most of it.
t'In this class were q lot Of profess
sional bounty jumpers who had come
from New York down to Maine to en-
list because prices were high here I
remember that one day four men of this
class were playing poker for high stakes,
when into the tent was led blind vic
tim of some blasting accident.
''The men who were playing poker
would either one Of them make little Of
lifting mans pocketbook if it had
anything in it or perhaps of taking his
life fol. it. They were "A bad lot, but
when that blind mar came in they stop
ped the game and looked at him. 'I'll
ante $40 on that, said one, passing over
O bill for the visitor I'LL raise you
$685. said the next man, passing out
the money. I'll 60 you $50 BETTER, ,
said the third man. The fourth raised
the pot still higher, and the blind man
carried out of the tent $3.50 as the result
of thei: compassion for lis hard lot. -
Lewiston Journal.
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The California Lion.

The running and leaping ability Of
tho California lion when hard pressed
by hounds and hunters in open field is
almost incredible. Only fine pack Of
hounds, accustomed to the mountains.
can even attempt to run genuine lion.
There are scores of hunters who declare
they have seen California lions, when
hotly pursued, rise like winged crea-
ture high above the greenwood and
chaparral and make leap after leap Of
over 80, sometimes 40 feet, across bowl
ders, logs and rocks. Ground scent for
the dogs is barely left, SO daintily does
he alight. The hounds must use the
slightly tainted air for their guide. It
is O well known fact that the mountain
lion stands in the greatest terror of dogs.
When chased by them, he will first try
to outrun them. Failing in this, he will
take to the nearest tree. But when there
are no trees of refuge and the lion comes
to bay, then look out. One stroke Of the
powerful paw means q dead dog, and
unless the hunter comes to the rescue
with rifle or revolver the savage brute
will slaughter the whole pack in detail.
Should he succeed in killing all the
dogs he will Immediately turn his at.
tention to the human enemy, whom he
considers the most insignificant of the
pursuers. San Francisco Chronicle.
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First nars of the World.

When geology took up the worlds
history in early Archean days, 3oO,-
600, 900 Of years had passed since the
molten rocks Of the sunlike earth had
formed from the condensing nebule.
The cooling Of the exterior had gone
forward with remarkable slowness, but
at last it was hard, solid rock. The
thick, heavy vapors had begun to con-
Dense and waters, hot and acid, covered
the world, or at least its greater part
Over the continental region the sea
was more or less shallow, and the break
ing ard grinding Of the oceans bed laid
the nucleus for future land.
A triangular island slowly appeared
above the waste Of waters in what is
now the Hudson bay region. There
appeared, too, a narrow strip which in
centuries to come was to be the high
land Of the Hudson. There was also a
coast line in the broad area covering the
Rockies. Small islands dotted the great
northern seas where Norway and Sweden
now stand.
AS time passed the waters slowly be.
came cooler, and at last life, lowly life,
appeared in some structureless plants
and animals.
A warm and equable climate covered
the land, and a clouded sky tempered the
rays of the sun, but the rocks were yet
bare, and no sounds filled the air save
those of lifeless and voiceless nature
the surging Of the waters and the raging
Of the tempest. But a gradual change
was taking place. The seas adjoining
these Irimordial islands became shall
lower; corals and sea lilies filled the
bays; 1nollusks and crustaceans had be-.
gun, and for ages mollusk life reigned
supreme in this embryo world. .-Lippin.
catfln
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Tho Rsrem on sElpboard.

4 dirtier and more cockroach infested
craft never sailed upon than that LIE.
vartine coaster, peace to her ribsl They
are whitening now on the Syrian coast,
where she went quietly aground one
calm night without loss to life and de-
Gently insured. The officers were Scotch
and the crew Greek, and the latter un-
derstood the former according to the
vit1iolic expletives It might be said
that the ship was worked wholly by
profanity. Many are the ridiculous
memories that revive with the name Of
that disreputable tub that scavenged
along the Levantine coasts, shipping
oontraband where she could not get IL
oensed cargo and defying pilots and the
rules of ports, but none funnier than Of
a certain squally night on which we ran
out of Iskenderun, the whole sea red in
the reflected light of forest fire.
We were carrying on the quarter deck
o pasha's harem, come from the interior,
and probably new to the sea, and as the
ship pitched and rolled, and wives and
children and slaves fell very sick, the
oldest and stoutest duenna Of them all,
starting up unveiled and half clad,
rushed to the side and began to climb
the rail, with the evident purpose of
leaping out Of the accursed ship some
how and somewhither. But the old
Scotch mate was too quick for her. In
an instant he had gripped her waist,
and for five minutes there was Ho-
meri, battle, he cursing gutturally as
he held on like grim death, she backing
out behind, twining her disengaged
hand in his hair and defaming his ma
ternal ancestors to the tenth generation.
The harem shrieked at the awful spec
tacle of their comrade in the grasp of
man, but there was none to help, for
the pasha was lying abject in his berth
below, and we enjoyed the scene far too
keenly to cut it short. At the last she
succumbed, exhausted, and the old Scot
bore her back like sack to her bed
HOgarth.
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TIE Oueerest Of Human Ailments.

If you will carefully read the statis-
tics o.. the late war between the states
you will find that according to the state.
ments which have from time to time
emanated from the adjutant generals
office 1919, 72O Union troops died Of dis
ease during the years 1875. OF the
199,2TO who succumbed to various NAL.
aides during those terrible years 81, 1877
died Of disease that was not classi.
fed simply because of its varying symp.
toms.
The majority Of readers have never
heard of this malady, but that it exist
ed among the troops on both sides dur
ing the civil war-and in all other wars,
for that matter-will not be denied by
any observer who took the trouble to
look little beyond the havoc caused by
shot and shell and the long catalogue Of
we'll known and we'll marked diseases
incident to warfare. We refer to the
malady known as nostalgia, which is
the medical term for "homesickness. {"
When this queer disease seizes it's VIC
tim with q strong grip, he is almost as
sure to die as though his malady were
cholera Persons who die from nostal-
gia apparently die without cause for 80
doing, but they die just as dead as
though their ailment had been charac-
terized by the eruptions Of smallpox or
the black vomit Of yellow fever.
Nostalgia is not strictly an American
disease, but has been known in all coun-
tries ever since men first became able to
distinguish between physical ailments
and cases Of literal pining and fretting
ones life away. Bismarck once said
that for every 100 deaths in the army z
were due to nostalgia or inconsistencies.
st. Louis Republic.
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The Effecta of Heat,

In The Nuovo Cimento, Signor Petit.
nelli describes q new determination Of
the lowest temperature at which hot
body becomes visible. He heated q cast
iron cylinder 80 centimeters long and IA
broad, in wrought iron Jacket over a
Bunsen burner to a temperature Of 460
degrees G., as indicated by an air ther-
mometer, and then observed its fat end
in dark room from point 60 cent?
meters above it. When it had cooled to
about 4a5 degrees, the red heat vanished
and gave way to an indefinite hazy glow,
the latter completely disappearing at
4O4 degrees, and repeated observations
giving an error of only 8 degrees. High
emissive' substances became visible at
the same temperature, but rejecting SUR
faces had to be heated 20 degrees higher
before they appeared to the eye, and
glass still more. These low temperature
rays were found to traverse glass and
water like ordinary light rays, but suf-
fering q comparatively greater absorp-
tion. Different eyes differ slightly in
their capacity for seeing them, the max
imum divergence being about 6 degrees
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gmAersoa gmtelGiaeuesr.
EAME-AN AlLEGORT.

A temple in the morning light
Rose fair upon the mountain heighS
And shot its turrets high
Against the vaufted sky.
The youth set forth. with heart afame,
Full armed with faith to write his name
Among the deathless great
Who conquer adverse fate.
he leaves his home with pouch and stan
And answers back with easy laugh
The warning and distrust
OF those Whose hearts aro dust.
Tho mountain roads are hard to CLIMB
The solemn centuries Of timo
Have pressed the wrinkles deep
On every rolling steep.
Wild hungry beasts crouch IN his path,
And slimy serpents hiss their wrath,
While from the trees the owls
Foot in black robes and cowls
Then follows Night, pilgrim old.
A miser hiding the suns gold,
His dark breast decked with stars
Won In celestial wars.
Still through the gloom the temple shed
Its radiance round the travellers head.
But in its pallid light
His brown hair turns to white.
By colder winds his face is famed.
he longs to clasp some friendly hand
Or feel the welcome touch
OF lips that love him much. ~
At last the temple gates are won.
He enters In, his journey done,
Then sinks in blank despair,
No living thing is there.
He cannot breathe the sitting air.
The light, phosphorescent glare
That round his path was shed
Falls only on the dead.
Theodore P. Cook in New York Sun.
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DU MAURlER AT ANTWERP.
His Early Art Studies Interrupted by tho
Failure of His Eyesight.

His Early Art Studies Interrupted by tho
Failure of His Eyesight.
Du Maurier was soon installed in the
painting class and made q vigorous
start. particularly recollect lifesize,
full length painting of an old woman
and a boy, G. pen and ink drawing of
which is in my fathers album, that
showed talent enough and to spare, but
his artistic aspirations were soon to
meet with O serious check. His eye
sight began to give him trouble, and be-
fore long put a stop to his studies IN
atelier or academy. he was not to be-.
come painter, as he had fondly hoped,
but, as we now know, was to work out
his destiny in another direction.
In those days we called all that Carl
caturing, and caricature he certainly did,
mainly of me and himself. From the
first he imagined he saw a marked con-
trast between us. His nose was supposed
to be turned up and mine down, where
as really neither his nor mine much de-
viates from the ordinary run Of noses.
My lower lip certainly does project, but
his does not particularly recede. But
the imaginary contrast inspired him in
the earliest days of our acquaintance
and started him on the warpath Of pen
and ink. He drew Us in all conceivable
and in some inconceivable situations.
"Moscheles and T., he says on one page,
s'if we were artistically beautiful. !"
Then again, "if we were Of the fair
sex or soldiers or, by way Of showing our
versatility, if we were horses. In that
page he seems to have focused the es-
sence of our characteristics while ap-
pearing only to delineate our human
and equine possibilities.-Felix Mosh-
eles in Century.
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Big Laying,

A very dear little girl indeed is En-
lily, the granddaughter of the bishop of
Clothton. His lordship took her with
him one day when he went to con-
firmation, and she was taken into the
rector's nursery to tea after service.
The children were rejoicing over their
"reminiscences and possessions. Doro-
thea, the rector's daughter, was especial
ly jubilant over a hen Of which she had
recently become possessed. "1t lays an
egg every day." she said. "Oh, but my
grandfather is better than that " said
Emily. "He laid foundation stone
Yesterday. '-London Church Times.
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near mey ng1p me nnd It'll AS you were
NV wife. helm ma find itr'

near mey rep me nnd It'll AS you were
my wife, help me find it!''
The woman crawled to her knees, her
eyes raised to his. and the terrified cab
man, watching through the window, saw
that the kerchief folded across her boso m
was bright as if lamp glowed behind
it.
The other man saw it, too, and his
white claws shot out, burying them
selves in her breast. When he had fin.
ished, he held in his stained and drip.
ping hands the woman's heart 1t quiv-
cred, like the bruised human thing il
was, but the light shining from it never
wavered, lighting the hollow of the
mans hand and the hollow of the great
room, his face and his loose, white lips
smiling widely, and the pit of his
throat, that was black as the gate of
hell; lighting, too, the tumbled, tram
pied body and the star dust Of spilled
diamonds.
He paused m instant, he whose name
was that Of the dead, then he turned
and bounded toward the window. There
was smash Of glass, and the cabman
felt those smeared fingers at his own
neck.
"Now take me back where I came
from. Be quick; or else -" He did not
finish his threat.
The cabby gave sick gulp, as if his
throat were full Of paste; then he was
dragged over the ground and flung into
the seat Of his cab The creature sprang
after him, grinding him against the
dashboard with its bony knees, where
the poor cabby clung, frantic with ter
ror, as they fed, pounded, flew down the
road.
When the cabman opened his eyes
again, there was great burst of sun.
shine. Above his head shone the heav-
ems, deep as the core Of sapphire, and
far away he could see the blue haze OF
tho city streaked with gray plumes OF
smoke. In the grass lay his shattered
cab, and high over his head. its pearly
summit seeming plunged in the eternal
azure, rose marble shaft. On it were
carved these words: "To Judas Withers
Erected by his loving wife. %
The letters were Of gold, but the
morning sun had touched them into
words of fre.-Julie Closson Kenly in
San Francisco Argonaut.
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RoentpeniZed,

She (time, l a. m. )-Where have you
been until this late hour?
He-I had customer from the west,
who detained me talking business.
When he had fallen asleep she applied
q cathode ray to his bald spot. '"Three
queens and pair of fours-and dou-
BILE jack pot" she exclaimed.
Quickly Investigating the contents of
his pockets, she resumed her place on
the bed, with the remark:
"Just as expected, the other man
must have held that hand-but wait
until morning. VANITY.
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Declined With Thanks.

The editor Of the Hillsboro (Ills.)
News thus declines in advance an i'm
pending nomination to congress: 1.-The
mission of the hireling who holds the
plow handles Of this paper is to keep
the fires burning on the altars Of liberty
and beacon lights blazing on the shores
Of time at ai1.5 q blaze, invariably in
advance He does not hunger and thirst
after official life. He did think once he
would like to 60 to the legislature, but
he has grown in grace since then and
purged his system Of that unholy desire.
Since then he has not yearned single
yearn or hankered hank after polit-
ical distinction.
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Tho Newest Hailstones.

The Washington Star reports hail"
storm in which the hailstones were like
goose eggs. This is new departure
that will nightly surprise veteran
newspaper readers. From time imme-
mortal hailstones have always fallen
the size Of hens eggs, according to the
reports in the papers. People finally
came to believe that some mysterious
law of nature caused all hailstones to
assume that size, and now their belief is
rudely upset by an iconoclast who
brings in a goose egg standard. Ger
tainly this is o revolutionary age The
first thing we know hailstones the size
Of ostrich eggs will be falling, and then
whege will we be7-NeW York ggibune.
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Rucklnna ArnicA SalYe.

The best salve in the world for Cuts
Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rhcum,
Fever Sores, letter, Chapped Hands,
Chilblains, Corns, and all Skin Erup-
tions and positively cures Piles, or no
pay required. 1t is guaranteed to give
perfect satisfaction, or money refund
ed. Prise 25 cents perbox. For sale
bv Hill Bros
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Judge of Pr0bate's Sale.
STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA,
Anderson County.
In the Court of Common Pleas.

III We COhTt " IOHUtO tcuS.
A. w. Pickens, ss Trustee, VS.. Mrs. f. G..
Allen, ct taL-Foreclosure.
DURSUANT TO the order of sale herein
Il I will sell in front of the Court House
in the City Of Anderson, 8 @ on Salesday
in October next, the Lands described as
follows, to wit:
All that certain Tract of Land, situate
in Williamson Township, County and
State aforesaid, on west side of Saluda
River, containing 35 acres, more or less, it
neing the same az decided to said Mrs. E
C. Allen by said A. w. Pickens, as Trus-
tee Of the estate of Mormon s CIardy, de-
ceased, and known as lots No. and s,
and having the courses, distances and
shapes shown by plat made by William
+ Lee, Surveyor, September 9Th to Octo-
ner 4tb, 1892, annexed to Deed made by
said A. W Pickens, Trustee. to said Mrs
E C Allen, January 4th. 1893
Terms-One half cash. balance in twelve
months, with interest from day of sale, SO
cured by bond and mortgage, with leave
to anticipate payment. Purchaser to pay
for papers.
R. M. BURRIsS.
Judge of Probate.
Sent q 1896 IL
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Some One Must Suffer.

If a Chinaman dies while being tried
Tor murder, the fact Of his dying is
taken as evidence Of his guilt He has
departed, but somebody must suffer, and
his eldest son, if he has one, is therefore
sent to prison for a year. If he has no
son, then his father or brother gets q
fogging. It's all in the family, and
somebody has to pay for it