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formed my life for my present income.
1t is not good for men of my years to
be violently discovered from their hab-
it's"
That was a sharp brush. The Doctor
breathed hard, and fell into taciturnity
for the afternoon. AS for the boy, he
was delighted with the resolution of
his doubts; even wondered that he had
not foreseen the obvious and conclu-
sive answer. His faith in the Doctor
was a stout piece of goods. Desprez
was inclined to be a sheet in the winds
eye after dinner, especially after
Rhone wine, his favorite weakness. He
would then remark upon the warmth
of his feeling for Anastasie, and with
inflamed cheeks and a loose, f1ustered
smile, debate upon all sorts of topics,
and be feebly and indiscreetly witty.
But the adopted stable-boy would not
permit himself to entertain a doubt
that savored of ingratitude. 1t is quite
true that a man may be a second father
to you, and yet take too much to drink:
but the best natures are ever slow to
accept such truths.
The Doctor thoroughly possessed his
heart, but perhaps he exaggerated his
influence over his mind. Certainly
Jean-Marie adopted some of mis- mas
ter's opinions, but 1 have yet to learn
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1897-06-11
Internal Heat of the Earth.

1t is found from observations made
in very deep borings that the aver
age increase of temperature for a long
way down towards the center of the
earth is about n degree for every
81 feet of descent. This is not con-
slant, however. being less down to a
certain depth and more beyond it.
The increase varies in amount. too,
in different localities. These results
are quite in agreement with the sup
position that the center of the earth
consists of matter in a state of fu-
sion; the nearer We get to this molten
matter the faster should the tempera-
ture rise. and the rate may also be ex-
pected to vary on account of the crust
not being all of the same thickness,
nor consisting of material equal in
conducting power.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1897-06-11

the mire. See," he would continue,
producing a handful of silver, 81 de-
nude myself, / am not to be trusted
with the price of a fare. Take it, keep
ii for me, squander it On deleterious
candy, throw it in the deepest Of the
river-I will homologate your action.
Save me from that part of myself
which i disown. If you see ne falter,
do not hesitate; if necessary, wreck the
train. / 4 speak, Of course, by a parable.
ANY extremity were better than for
me to reach Paris alive"
Doubtless the Doctor enjoyed these
little scenes. as a variation on his part;
the represented the Byronic element
in the somewhat artificial poetry of
mis- existence; but to the boy, though
he was dimly aware of their theatric-
ality. they represented more. The
Doctor made perhaps too little, the boy
possibly too much, of the reality and
gravity of these temptations.
One day a great light shone for jean
Marie. Gould not riches be used
well?' he asked
I'm theory, yes replied the Doctor.
But it is found in experience that no
one does so. All the world imagine
they will be exceptional when they
grow wealthy; but possession is de-
basing, new desires spring up; and the
silly taste for ostentation eats cut the
heart of pleasure"
Then you might be better if you
had less" said the boy.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1897-06-11

movement to and fro across the axle,
which well entities 1t to the style OF a
| Noddy. The hood describes a consid-
cradle arc against the landscape, with
a solemnly absurd effect OF the con-
templative pedestrian. To ride in such
a carriage cannot be numbered among
the things that appertain to glory: but
liver complaint. Thence, perhaps. its
wide popularity among physicians.
One morning early, Jean-Marie led
forth the Doctors noddy, opened the
gate, and mounted to the driving-seat.
The Doctor followed, arrayed from top
to toe in spotless linen, armed with an
immense fiesh-colored umbrella, and
girt with a botanical case on a baldric;
and the equipage drove off smartly in
a breeze of its W ~provocation. They
were bound for Franchard, to collect
plants, with an eye to the Compare
tive Pharmacopoeia."
A little rafting on the open roads,
and they came to the borders Of the
forest and struck into an u~nfrequented
track; the noddy waved softly over the
sand, with an accompaniment Of snap
ping twigs. There was a great, green,
softly murmuring cloud of congregated
foliage overhead. In the arcades of the
forest the air retained the freshness Of
the night. The athletic bearing of the
trees, each carrying it's leafy mountain,
pleased the mind like so many statues
and the lines of the trunk led the eye
admiringly upward to where the ex-
IRENE leaves sparkled in a patch Of
azure. Squirrels leaped in mid air. 1t
was a proper spot for a devotee of the
goddess Hygeia.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1897-06-11
CHAPTER W-fCoSrINuED.)

CHATTER Vl-tCoSTISCED.)
But the boy could never be brought
TO see that he had dom anything wrong
when he stole. Nor, indeed, did the
Doctor think he had; but that gentle
was never very %scrupulous when
in want of a retort:
And now" he concluded, do you
ibegin TO understand? My only friends
were those who ruined me. GretZ has
been my academy, my s~anatorium, my
heaven of innocent pleasures. If mil
lions are offered me, l wave them back:
Retro, Sathanas!-Evil one, begonei
Fix your mind on my example; despise
riches, avoid the ~debasing influence of
cities. Hygiene-hygiene and medioc-
rity of fortune-these be your watch
words during lifer
The Doctors system of hygiene strik-
ingly conceded with his tastes; and
his picture of the perfect life was a
faithful description of the one he was
leading at the time. But it is easy to
convince a boy, whom you supply with
all the facts for the discussion. And
besides, there was one thing admirable
in the philosophy, and that was the
enthusiasm of the philosopher. There
vas never anyone more vigorously de-
termined to be pleased; and if he was
not a great logician, and so had no
right TO convince the intellect, he was
certainly something of a poet, and had
a fascination to seduce the heart. What
he could not achieve in his customary
humor of a radiant admiration Of him
self and his circumstances, he some
times effected in his fits of gloom.
Boy he would say, avoid me to-
day. II I were superstitioas, l should
even beg for al interest in o pray
ers. l am in the black fit; the evil
spirit OF King Saul, the bag of the
merchant Abudah, the personal devil
Of the medieval monk, is with me
is in me-" tapping on his breast. THE
vices of my nature are o uppermost;
innocent pleasures WOO me i'll vain; l
long for Paris, for my wallowfng in
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1897-06-11
TAKE IT, KEEP IT.

that he yer surrendered one Of his
own. Convictions existed in him by
divine right; they were virgin, I'M
wrought. the brute metal of decision.
He could add others. indeed. but he
could not put away; neither did he care
if they We're perfectly agreed among
themselves; and his spiritual pleasures
had nothing to do with turning them
over OF justifying them IN words.
Words were with him a mere accom-
plishment, like dancing. When he was
by himself, his pleasures were almost
vegetable. He would slip into the
woods toward Acheres. and sit in the
mouth of a cave among gray birches.
So while the Doctor made himself
drunk with words, the adopted staEia-
boy bemused himself with silence.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1897-06-11
ITO BE
CURIOUS CLOCKS.
How Some People of Foreign Lands
Reckon Time.

How Some People of Foreign Lands
Reckon Time.
Neither clock nor timepiece is to be
found in Liberia. The reckoning OF
time is made entirely by the movement
and position of the sun, which rises at
6 a. m. and sets at 6 p. m, almost to
the minute, all the year round, and at
noon is vertically overhead, says Popu-
lar Science News. The islanders of the
south Pacific have no clocks, but make
an ingenious and reliable time-marker
of their own. They take the kernel
from the nuts of the candle tree and
wash and string them on the rib OF a
palm leaf. The first or top kernel is
then lighted. All of the kernels are
of the same size and substance, and
each will burn a certain number OF
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1897-06-11

minutes and then set fire to the one
next below. The natives tie pieces of
black cloth at regular intervals along
the string to mark the divisions of
time. Among the natives of Singar, in
the Malay archipelago. another peculiar
device is used. Two bottles are placed
neck and neck. and sand is put in one
of them, which pours itself into the
other every half hour, when the bot
ties are reversed. There is a line near
by. also. on which are hung twelve rods
with notches from one to twelve.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1897-06-11
The President Favors Prompt Action

The President Fayors PROMPT Action
A dispatch from Washington saws
that President Mckinley is trying to
impress upon the senator's the neces-
sity Of speedy action on the tariff bill.
Mr.. Mckinley is not accused of max
ing threats or OF trying to Improperly
influence legislation. He simply calls
attention to the enormous increase in
imports, and shows how the govern
ment may be deprived of much rev.
enue to which it ought 10 BE entitled
il the passage of the tariff bill is m
necessarily delayed.
It should not be necessary for tha
president to make such an appaaI IN
the senators. The members of the IN
rer branch OF congress should under
stand the need of haste without being
told. Last week thirteen steamers
loaded to tho rails with foreign goods
discharged their cargoes at the nori
of Boston, and more are coming The
importers and the free traders are.
overjoyed because Of such a condition
OF affairs, and they may be trusteI tn
do their utmost TO prolong the debate
OIL the tariff bill and delay its pas
sage as much a. possible. Every dav
that is wasted in talk in the United
States senate will cost the Emitted
States government a large sum of
money.-ClevelanG Leader.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1897-06-11
1896

In the four months. March-June in
elusive, the imports in both the pre-
ceding years were more than half he
imports for those entire years, but
this year they have been 1,243, 00O, 900
in two months, against S24,0 00, 900 last
year. The known heavy movements
in May thus far warrants the expecta-
ton that fully two-thirds of a years
supply may be in hand by the end of
h four months this year, including
What stock refiners held prior to
March, and on this quantity the diff
ference in price, if as much as the
proposed increase in duty under the
senate bill, would be about eight
tenths of a cent. or $40, 600, 900. a hand
some profit for the owners, namely:
the Sugar Refining company. The pay
ment of duties at the present rate on
about two-thirds of a years Consump-
ton will deprive the treasury of about
as much revenue for the coming year
which it would have derived from he
increase of rate on 80 degree raw SUI
increase of rate. Under the Dinglev
bill h increase in rate on 80 degree
raw sugar would be a little less. about
seven-tenths OF a cent, but the imports
after April 1 would be subject TO the
higher duty, which would make a diff
ference of nearly $1,000, 900 for the
month of April alone.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1897-06-11

number of exchanges OF goods Is made
In a year. What will be gained by
using two silver dollars. each worth
so cents. TO make the same number
and amount of property exchanges?
Thirty-two times the weight OF metal
are used. but the results accomplished
that is. the business work done-is
the same.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1897-06-11

saw all the colors
of the rainbow in
a moment; the sta
BILE universe ap-
peared to be about
capsizing will
h i m, Because"
said Getting
d~eliberation after
an obvious pause
because | have
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1897-06-11
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&H y e. ~; !5Et=a!!E:
INTERNATIoNAL PRESS AssocIATIoM.

Certainly not replied the Doctor;
but his voice q~uavered as he spoke.
Why" demanded pitiless limo
cence.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1897-06-11

a Paris doctor has discovered the mi
crobe OF badness and has exhibited it
at the st. Louis hospital. together with
a sheep innoculated with it which had
lost its wool. He is now hunting for
the means of destroying the microhe or
rendering it innocuous.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1897-06-11
Sugar Imports and Duties.

New York Tribune: The imports
of sugar are usually large at this sea-
son, but have been increased remark
ably by the expectation of new duties.
The treasury department has made
up the record for April, showing that
757, 799, 527 pounds were imported in
that n month, and in May and June
the quantity is usually larger than in
the preceding months, as the follow
ing figures for three years will show:
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1897-06-11
CHAPTER VIII

HE Doctors car
riage was a two
wheeled gig with
a hood; a kind of
vehicle in much
favor among u
try doctors. On
how many roads
has one not seen it,
a great way off be-
tween the poplars.
in how many
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1897-06-11

world is not sufficient for Its require
ments. Upon the same principle they
might argue that the expectation Of
wheat and corn indicated that the
world does not produce enough of these
articles for its requirements. The
mere fact that there is a monetary de-
mand for gol1 in Europe and Japan be-
aus countries there desire to increase
their stock and because of war pos
sibilities does not argue a general in
sufficiency Of gold in the world. The
quantity of gold money in the world
in 1873 was 1909, 800. 900, while in 1896
it vas $3.69S, 700. 900. The supply of
gold money in the world is now so per
cent greater than was the gold and sill
yer combined, in 1873.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1897-06-11

village streets. tied to a gate-posti this
sort of chariot is affected-particulaAy
at the trot-by a kind of pitching
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1897-06-11
Beet Sugar Factories.

Parties who are preparing TO estab-
lish beet sugar factories will be inter-
ested in a recent step taken by the
secretary of agriculture in their be-
half. Having supplied over twenty
thousand farmers of the United States
with beet seed for trial crops, Secretary
Wilson is now making a practical and
intelligent investigation to determine
the sections of country where beet
sugar manufacture is most likely to be
successful, the object being TO assist
those who desire to invest in beet
sugar factories.
G.. II. WILLIAMS.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1897-06-11
Hides to Be Protected,

The reciprocity feature of the new
tariff law is likely to be even more
satisfactory than that of the Mckinley
law. The addition of tea and hides to
the dutiable list increases the oppor-
tunity for obtaining favorable reciproc-
ity treaties and it is understood that
the senate will put into the bill such
provisions as to make it practicable to
secure very advantageous reciprocal
arrangements with many countries. all
OF which will be especially in the in
terests Of the agriculturists OF the
country. The duty on raw hides
which is proposed by the tariff bill
in the senate would probably add about
5 cents to the cost of the foreign hide
used in making the leather which goes
into a pair Of shoes, but as only one
fifth of the hides used in this country
are imported. the average increase in
the price of shoes would only be ne
fifth of that, or one cent per pair. AS
suming that the average man buvs
three pair of shoes in a year. his in
creased tax burden" would be three
cents a year, while the advantage to
the farmers will be millions of dol
lars.
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1897-06-11
Why Gold Goes.

With the importations of foreign
goods increasing enormously by
reason of the prospective repeal
of the Wilson law, it is not sur
prising that the gold exports are in
creasing. The foreign goods brought
into the country must be paid for in
gold and if foreign importations in
crease ten to twenty millions a month.
it goes without saying that the gold
expectations must increase. The sill
yer advocates are saying that the re-
cent expectations of gold are an evil
dence that the supply of gold in the
The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1897-06-11
CHAPTER VII.

OCTOR DESPRE'
The Hawaiian gazette., 1897-05-25
SUMNER
TIME
IS HERE

Your goods displayed in the
windows will be ruined un-
less something is done to
prevent the sun shining up
on them. Have you ever
considered the ACCESSIBILITY Of
putting up a canvas awning1
One of these in front Of
your windows will save you
hundreds of dollars in a year
many times the cost and
will add to the appearance of
the building.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1897-05-25

must have been dead several hours.
He was cut down at about 5 o'clock,
and the police were notified. About Z
O'Clock Captain Hookano and DR.. En-
erson went to the wash house to make
an investigation. Particulars were
found as above related. No cause could
be learned for the action of the de-
ceased. As it was plain and simple
case of suicide, the body was left for
the friends of deceased to bury.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1897-05-25
fourth ON MAUI
Preparations for Suitable
Celebration.
Plantations Putting in Pumps
Road Building Progresses.
Shipping News.

MAUI. May 19.-The citizens of Ha-
ma held a meeting May Sd at Hama
Post Office to arrange for the proper
celebration Of the coming Fourth of
July. NIessrs. Ovenden. Muller, Omsted
and Wituock were appointed a com
mittee of arrangements The program
of events viii probably consist of rife
matches. a pistol match a tug-Of-war,
climbing a horizontal greasy pole eN-
tended over the water, a grand luau,
etc X. S. Gjerdrum, manager Of Hama
plantation. has offered three medals
gold, silver and bronze-to be shot for
with rifles. Then there is another con
test of like nature for a gold medal,
which must be won twice, and which
Y. Omsted has already won once. A
lanai is now being built near the land
ing for the proposed luau.
Wailuku people viii attend the races
at Spreckels' Park. Kahului, and Ma
kawao residents win probably organ
lie a picnic party on the great Ameri-
can holiday
Spreckelsville boasts of some ice
cream parlors whose walls have the
vivid coloring of turkey red. Refresh
ments are dispensed while waiting for
the train.
Wednesday evening CHE 2Tth) La
halna teachers win entertain their
friends at the residence Of Hon. w Y.
Horner. A farce. entitled, AN Eco
nomioal Boomerang will be one of
the events OF the program,
Quite n jolly lot OF Makawao men
win attend the coming jury term to be
held nc Wailuku June "a. Messrs. u.
u, Baldwin, d. c. Lindsay, ]. ]. Hair.
w o. Aiken and c. w. Baldwin are
among the number. Hama people are
fortunate in regard to being drawn on
the jury Il costs the Government too
much for travelling expenses, and so
no jurors are taken from Hama. The
calendar this term is neither very eN-
tonsiyC nor exciting.
The Maui Board of Registration will
return from Molokai on the Goth,
Captain Ahlborn of Lahaina planta-
ton is spending a hundred thousand
! dollars or more in obtaining additional
water for irrigation.
The Messrs. Sinclair are putting in
the pump, etc, which will irrigate be-
/ tween GOO and 600 acres. There are
six wells Joined together, three in a
/ line.
The seasons crop of Olowalu planta-
ton is LOO tons.
They are working the Lahaina-Wai-
| lullu carriage road from both ends. On
the Lahaina side they have been blast
/ ing through solid rock. 1t is prophe-
sled that the road win be completed
/ by September of this year.
The British ship Dalcairnie, Jones
1 master, sailed today for New York. via
/ Cape Horn, with $3.50 tons of Paia
/ Spreckelsville and Hamakuapoko su,
gar. This is the largest cargo eyel
shipped from Kahului, and the sec
ond shipment of sugar to New York
| the Glade taking the first It is sale
that the freight on the 1850 ton.
amounted to S15,25O, at the rate Of 81
a ton The ship carried a crew of q
men.
The weather is warm and dry.
The Hawaiian gazette., 1897-05-25

produced in full One paragraph, stat
ing how the Postal Union originated,
viii be read with interest, by Ameri-
cans especially.
Postmaster General Blair, on Aug
ust 4. 1852. in a communication ad-
dressed to Mr.. Seward, then Secretary
of State. proposed an international
conference Of postal delegates to rec
ommend measures looking to the re-
vision. simplifcation and uniformity Of
its international postal arrangements;
and the Department of State submit
ted the proposition to the Governments
of Great Britain, France, Prussia, Swe-
den. the Netherlands, Belgium, Italy
and Ecuador Favorable responses
were received from all the Govern
ments named, and at Paris on the sec
ond Monday of the following May, the
first international conference assem-
bled. Out of this idea of an inteTna-
tional conference grew the larger idea
of a permanent Universal Postal Union
and the first congress of this union met
in the hall of the National Senate Of
Switzerland in September, 1874. The
treaty creating this union went into
effect on the LIST of July, 1875.
Before closing his address, he re
ferred touchingly to the recent sud
den death Of DR.. Won Stephan, the Post
master General of Germany, who had
held Office for over 80 years. The fol
lowing. anecdote is narrated of him.
showing what made him so popular in
that country:
His career was a remarkable one,
and he richly deserves the distinction
of being called the Father Of the Uni
rersal Postal Union" He was what is
known in this country as a "self-made
man" As an humble, awkward youth,
he entered the postal service of Ger
many in the lowest grade. and his fu-
ure was, in fact, so unpromising that
after a short probation his superior
officer advised him to resign, and go
into some other business if he wished
TO make a success. But Won Stephan
did not heed this advice, and contin-
ued in the service, working his way
gradually upward. round by round,
until he reached the top of the ladder
as a member of the Emperor's Cabi
net and Postmaster General Of the Ger
man Empire
The Hawaiian gazette., 1897-05-25
Case of Suicide.

Lin Wo, Chinese laundryman,
aged about AZ, was found hanging by a
rope attached to beam in room IS of
the wash house in Iwilei, between 8
and 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon, by
some of his countrymen who happened
TO be passing in the vicinity. He was
stiff and cold at the time, so that he
The Hawaiian gazette., 1897-05-25
Target Marking.

An improvement has been made in
the way of marking at the military
rife range, Kakaako. Shot marks, con-
sisting of small disks, three inches in
diameter, are so arranged that they
mark the shot precisely as it occurs,
the disk is inserted in the bullet hole
The Hawaiian gazette., 1897-05-25
ICE CHESTS and
REFRIGERATORS

are built expressly to suit the
most faStidious. Meat and
provisions kept in these cold
storage vaults last longerthan
in any other chest We know
what to handle and are care
full in selecting only the most
Serviceable and advantage
Gus styles of
The Hawaiian gazette., 1897-05-25

and left to remain, so the shooter may
see precisely where his shot was and
on drawing in the target for the next
shot, this disk is transferred to the last
shot. and so on. White signifies the
bulls eye and black for all others.
This is an odd mode of marking, while
it is quite simple, and is certainly very
satisfactory,
The Hawaiian gazette., 1897-05-25

LEADYILLE, Col, May 5.-Lee Reil-
ly, well-known linotype operator, has
again broken the worlds record for
fast type-setting. In seven hours and
ten minutes, with the linotype running
ninety revolutions a minute, he set
10000 ems of nonpareil on The Lead
vile Herald-Democrat. His former
record Of 800 on the New York TTib-
une was beaten by NJ. NJ Baker of Seat
tie, who set $500, and by Eugene w.
Taylor Of Denver, who set 101,SOO last
week.