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to a leading general of the Chinsee army,
a man who was recently high in the dipio.
matte circle of Paris. While there he fell
In love with a French girl and married ner.
He was wealthy, and when he returned to
China he installed his wife in q fine house
on Bubbling Well road. and she paid her
visits In coach and pair.
One day when out walking she saw her
own carriage standing before door in an
other part Of the city. She went up to the
coachman, and In pigeon English said:
"Mafoo! what thing you do this sideF
The coachman, pointing to the house, re-
piled:
Master have go In there. Masters other
missy belong this side!''
The French wife was quite angry, and
she stepped into the carriage, saying:
IF that is so, my take carriage! Suppose
master come out, master can walk" She
then went home, and upon investigation
found that her husband had another French
wife and three children.
FRANK g. CARPENTER.
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StOrfn-The King.

| am St0rm-The King!
live In fortress of fire and cloud.
You may hear my batteries, sharp and loud,
In the summer night
When and my lieges arm for the fight
And the birches moan,
And the ce,aTs groan,
AS they bend beneath the terrible spring
OF Storin-The King!
| am Storn--The Kingl
My troops the winds and the hail and the
rain:
My foes the lakes and the leaves and the grain,
Tie obstinate oak
That guards his front to my charge and stroke
The ships Jn the sea,
The blooms the lea,
And they writhe and break the war guns ring
OF Storrn-The King
/ Storm-The King,
| Armada set sail from Spain
To redden with blood q maidens reign.
/ baf1ed the host
With blow In the face the island coast,
And proud deck
To splinters and wreck,
And the Saxon poets the praises sing
or Stonn-The King!
| am Storm-The King,
L scour the earth and the and the air,
And drag the writing trees by the hair,
And chase for game
The desert dust and the prairie flame,
The mountain snow,
And the arctic foe,
And never Is folded plume wing
OF StorIn-The King
FRANCIS MILES FINCH.
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QUEER OLD MODELS
Prototypes of Contrivances Now in
Everyday Use.
KEPT IN TIE PATENT OFFICE
The Original Telephone and EIec-
trio Light.
FL r S r Pc q Ct E D S II 0 Z S
Copyright, 1900. by F. W. Cauldwell.)

Copyright 1900 by F. W. Cauldwe)
Written for The Evening Star
On the shelves at the patent office are
scores of modest models of inventions the
world could not now well do without. A
visit to this great market house for ideas
impresses one with the knowledge that the
model is no indication of the value of the
invention. The patent office is filled with
hundreds of finely formed and carefully fin
ished models of inventions that have not
brought the inventor enough return even to
pay for the expense of preparing the model.
The greatest inventions have been but the
crude beginning of some idea subsequently
perfected. The models seem 10 partake of
the same crudty. AS the primary idea has
been perfected other models have been sub
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Practical Exchange of Presents.
From Tit Bits
''Halloa, old man, what have you in All
those bundIes?" asked a gay, airy young
bachelor of a careworn, solemn-ookinS
married young man as they met in SUBJ
urban railway train.
Presents for my wife" was the senten-
tious reply. It's her birthday"
We'll, what are YOU bringing your wife
in that package from your tailors?" gaily
pursued the bachelor.
Trousers" was the answer.
''What?"
yes. repeat-trousers. Just you listen.
/ had a birthday last November. My wife
got me three or four beautiful lace hand
kerchiefs, such women carry at after
noon teas and such places and black vel
vet hat with high feathers, one of the
three-story kind that obstruct your view OF
the stage in the theater. They looked
mighty well on her. and she asked me II
! wasn't having a nice birthday.
We'll l didn't mind that very much, but
when Christmas came around l got another
deal of the same sort. l gave my wife y
pretty gold ring. She gave me turquore
ring too small to go over any of my
knuckles, and she wears il now next the
one | gave her. But that wasn't the worst
of It. She got her sister to give me somel
after-dinner coffee cups. and my sister tol
make me lot Of lace doilies That wasl
all l got for Christmas.
Tomorrow is my wife's birthday. mi
this package | am bringing her a pair OF
trousers, which l had made to my measured
and which | shall wear. In this parcelS11I
a pair of the very best patent Shoes size
S12. good deal too big for my wife; In this
package is a box of cigars, and in my
pockets have new meerschaum pipe and
a packet of tobacco. Now, | don't see howl
she can fail to have q happy birthday, dol
you? l hope she'll enjoy 1T, for 1 want toI
get even for all the pretty things she has
given me-"
That's the style. old man. Don't let en-
walk on you," said the bachelor.
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CHINESE HAND LABOR.



From the Scientific American.
According TO a report presented by NJ,
Levitoff to the Russian Society of Encour.
agement, it appears that Chinese hand Ia.
Dor has made its appearance in the Trans
Baikal region since the construction Of Cha
railroad, and the influx OF the Chinese e!e-
ment is becoming more considerab BILE every
day. Hand labor, which has been scarce
ever since the construction of the Trans-
Siberian, is now more abundant, and its
cost has been considerably reduced. ON the
Amoor river the unloading of boats which
was paid only a few years ago at the rate
of sl.60 per ton, is now paid at So.so per
ton, or one-half. In general, the Chinese
workman, on account of his smaller pro-
ductiveness, is paid only one-half the wages
Of a Russian workman. AS an example tn
the cement works of Siberia $3.50 per day
is paid TO q good Russian workman, and
only 500 to the Chinese workman. Gener-
ally these are engaged for $3.50 to = per
month by the Chinese contractors, who sup
ply the food and lodging. Even on this
small pay the workmen contriye 10 save
money and send their savings to China.
The Chinese excel in certain kinds OF labor,
such as gardening, shoemakng, etc, whese
the Russian cannot compete in price. but.
on the contrary, he is not good for all kinds
of work, and especially refuses to work IN
the water or even III tdlup places 1 tt Hld~
sOnry work it is estimated that a Russian
workman. himself inferior to an Italian,
equals four Cinnamon. Among the Siberian
industries it Is the gold mines especially
which have adopted Chinese labor. Former-
ly in the mines belonging to the ear II
was forbidden To employ the Chinese; but
when on account of the scarcity OF hand
labor the price had reached 1923 per pound
of gold, the government decided TO let out
the work TO contractors. The Chinese were
engaged by these for 1913 per pound. which
reduced considerably the price of the gold
extracted. NJ Leyitoff remarks that the
Chinese carriers in the region between IT.
kutsk and Khabarovsk have the habit or
stealing the gold and sending 1t to Chipaa
Another thing to be deplored is the clans
destine sale of Chinese brandy, called khan'
chine In spite Of the advantages enumers
ated the writer says that ii is urgent 70
stop the invasion of the Chinese element
and he recommends emigration from tina
rural population Of European Russia
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Each year about 10000 is expended in
sprinkling the streets of London with sand
to prevent the horses from slipping.
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Up-tO-Date.
From Puck.

Customer-'Some crabs, please
Waiter-"Shirt waist or hunting caser
Customer-'What do you mean?'
Waiter-'Soft or hard shell, sir?''
--.e>-
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ORIGINAL FOLDING BED.

larger than ones hand. But he got a pat
ent on il, and hundreds OF other Inventors
have sought to improve on his invention.
The Arizona sentinel., 1900-12-12
THE VALLEYS CT THE COLORADO.

Several niles above Yuma. in the neighbor- hood of Explorer Pass, near the Purple Hills, the great Colorado River Valley proper com mences From this point northerly the river is shut in by cliffs which, with intervening noun tain systems, absolutely preclude the possibility of canal construction. Passing SOuthward, the cliffs are seen to gradually disappear until they become merged in the low bottom lands. The bottom meanwhile WidenS with every mile until the Gulf of California is reached. There are large quantities of land which could be made productive were irrigation practicable. These are gonrr"' fertile bottoms inciining toward the riI-c- G.-d covered in spots with dense under growth and cottonwood and mesquite trees. CUIiS.GcTaf>in of the valley is raised above the river as much as 100 feet, and to this height water must be brought, as the bottoms are dur ing ce-tci.. -ncathS completely oyerfiowcd by the waters of the swollen streams. The soil is extraordinarily rich and particularly adapted to the cultivation Of sugar, rice, and all the tex tile plants, in addition to an extended list of tropical. Semitropical and temperate products. According to careful chemical analysis, the fertiiiZing mud carried by the Colorado closely resembles that of the waters of the Nile while it's volume at low water has been estimated by competent authority as sufficient to easily irri gate more than 1,750 600 acreS''
 The lands of the lower Colorado River Valley have not been developed very extensively, owing to the litigation over what is known as the Algodones land grant, which has been in the courts for the last decade. The vexed question has lately been settled by the U. s. Supreme Court in favor of the government
The Arizona sentinel., 1900-12-12

1 tinuous body stretching to distance of two or
 three miles, and showing a thickness at right
 angles to the stratification of no less than 5000
 or 5000 or perhaps 10, 900 feet, and there is no
 evidence whatever of plicatfon. The stratffica- ticn is fat and regular the leaves of a book. Usually we detect more or less plication or folding in such a section, but there is no evil dence of any folding whatever in this series. There is, however, a great difference in the composition of the layers of these rocky ridges, now all turned black upon the surface-a condi- tion of colOring which seems to attend all the rock outcropS along the lower Colorado, and the origin of which, though discussed by Humboldt after noting similar blackening of the rocks along the Orinoco, has not yet been satisfactory explained. This general blackening of the sur face hides the changes of composition, which may be noted by careful and close inspection.
 In some places hornblendic states are more developed than the mica slate, and at others the micaceous schistose characters predominate and are accompanied by layers of quartZite in- terleaved and three or four feet in thickness, sometimes three or four inches, and some foliated quartz having little films of mica in it. These quartz beds are members of the series, but have been located as lodges and, it is claimed, are gold bearing. The quartz has little or no resemblance to vein quartz and yet at several points in the outcrop there are stains of green color, apparently from the decompos- tion of ore like that which has given green stains to the croppings of the Fortuna.
 Several dil1e-like seams or veins of white all bite or soda feldspar cut directly across the bedding of the mica slate series. These feldspa- thic dikeS do not appear to have any relation to the ore bearing vein or lode of the Fortuna. These dilSes are extremely irregular and appear to have filled cross fractures or breaks of the regular strata.
 Coarse granite was noted at the northern point of the Gila range, along the railroad, but no evidences were found of the existence of stratifed Paleozoic or secondary rocks. The mica slateS series referred to is the Huronian or ArchRan.
The Arizona sentinel., 1900-12-12

The following article is extracted from Governor Murphy's annual report to the Secretary of the Interior and is an interesting presentation of facts re- garding some of the mineral resources of Yuma county, and description of two of the richest gold mines; also something of the Castle Dome lead mines:
The Arizona sentinel., 1900-12-12
T0RaiTg!Ezae {!

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The Arizona sentinel., 1900-12-12

WANTED-ACTIVE MAN OF GOOD CHAR acter to deliver and collect in Arizona for old established manufacturing wholesale house.
 rience required, Our reference any bank in any city. Enclose self f-GddreSSed stamped en- velope. Manufacturers T'tird Floor, 9G1 Dear
The Arizona sentinel., 1900-12-12
NOTICE OF FORFEITURE.

To c. ". Culver his assigns and legal repres entatives; you are hereby notified that the un- dersigned, who is co-owners with you in the Placier claim, known as the Klondike mining claim, have expended the sum of Two Hundred dollars, in labor and improvements made for the years 1898 and 1899, in compliance with the United States mining laws requiring annual ex- penditures to be made on mining claims. The said mining claim is situated in the King of Arizona mining district Yuma County, A. T.. and is duly recorded in Book H of Mines in the the recorders office of Yuma County, A. T. and you are further notified thatif, at the expiration of ninety days from the last publication of this notice, you fail or refuse to pay your proportion of said expenditure, together with the costs of publication of this notice your. interest in said mining claim will be forfetured and become the property of the undersigned in accordance with law.
 Dated Mohawk, Arizona, Sept. 4th 1900.
 GEO. w. NORTON.
 First pub. Sept. 12, 1900 44t13
The Arizona sentinel., 1900-12-12

garding some of the mineral resources of Yuma county, and description o1 two of the richest gold mines; also something of the Castle Dome lead mines:
 KING OF ARIZONA.
 The gold-bearing property, known for time as the Gleason, has been transferred to the King
 Arizona Mining and Milling Company, a cor poration organized under the laws of the Terri tory of Arizona, with capitalization of 50OO,OOC shares of a par value of Sl each. This company owns four full claims-the HomeStalze, the King of Arizona, the Last Hope, and the Mucho Bueno. This district lies about thirty five miles due east of thd Castle Dome Land ing, on the Colorado River. It is north of the Gila River and about 40 miles from Mohawk Summit, on the Southern Pacific Railroad. This is the nearest station on the railway. There are several other locations besides those conveyed to the King of Arizona.
 The Homestake location covers the chief workings up to this date There is on this claim a strong vein of gold bearing quartz. This lode or vein has three well-marlzed divisions or layers On the hanging wall there is a soft layer from to 31I inches wide, which averages about 6<,OUO per GOu III Ndlu6 NGAI DelOW U0lS CQ6re is a middle layer or body of quartz about 20 inches thick, which will average about 800 to S1OO per ton in value. The remainder of the vein, so far as it is exposed by the shaft, aver ages about S24 per ton. Test holes have been drilled feet deep into the foot wall and all are in ore. The shaft by which the exposure of the nature of the vein has been made is 200 feet deep and follows the dip of the hanging xOR westerly. These show a continuity of vein, having the same characters and values develop ed by the shaft. The hill rises rapidly both east and west of the shaft so that the height of backs on the lode above the drifts is greater than at the shaft. At point about 30 feet west of the shaft and on level with the collar of the shaft the vein. has been crosscut from wall to wall, showing it IS feet wide at that point The ore in the crosscut is of about the same grade as that in the shaft. The croppings of the vein may be followed for some zoo feet of the Home stake shaft to a second opening, known as ''The King of Arizona Shaft This shaft is about 50 feet deep. and by means of drill holes the vein is shown to. be II feet in width and has an aver age value of STO per ton. At point 300 feet east of the Homestake shaft tunnel has been made which crosscuts the vein l6O feet below the sur face. At this point the hanging wall vein is IS inches wide and has an average value of $50 per ton. The tunnel then passes through 30 feet of vein matter running about B per ton, thence through z feet of ore carrying s26 per ton to the foot wall The total distance from hanging wall Go foot wall along this tunnel is 40 feet. drift has been run along the foot wall to the Home stake shaft at distance of 300 feet. and the average value Of the ore exposed is Sl4 per ton.
The Arizona sentinel., 1900-12-12
THE CHA VALLEY

The Gila valley extends from the Gila canyon near the junction of the San Pedro river, west eTly to the cast bank of the Colorado, distance of slightly exceeding 250 miles, That portion of it situated in the county of Yuma, known as the Lower Gila valley, is about 100 miles long and from to l9miieS vide all of which is suScept- ihle Of profitable @cn1 n1Givation The river from which it takes it's name cuts the valley in two. Its watershed extends some 30 miles north and upward of 50 miles south of it's channel, the land from either extreme inciining more or less rapidly toward the stream. The Giia traverses a Earvclously fertile country very great in extent, and ,splendidly adapted to the cultivation of nearly all the products of the temperate and semi-tropic zones besides many of the fruits common in the tropics. Nor is this longer matter Of idle speculation, for iouriShia3 ranches in various portions of the valley, drawing water from several important canals, amply demonstrate the magnificent results that will enSue should the water supply be rendered permanent, equable and adequate through appropriate storage systems.
 This consists of a broad expanse of tillable valley land, sometimes Cverfowed by the river, which is at times mighty uncertain, and steep range of volcanic hills coming close to the high ways, for dozen mlles or so, hot heavy, sandy. T. is hardly fair to say sandy as it is really friuDle aIuvia. soil Of gr&yish hue and loose texture Several ranches are passed, showing that the Gila bottom is cultivated. With irri- gation every square mile of the Gila valley is capable of producing prolific crops of grain and semi-tropical fruits, as well as cotton and sugar in great abundance. The river is able to fur nish all the water needed and good deal more, It would take no great skill in engineering and Eet ye:y large s2n Of Uol5y eittoI to cca.
The Arizona sentinel., 1900-12-12

cions appear to b9 wholly Of mica slate and hornDlende slate with some arenaceous layers l1e old mi tsceolS sln1s5oues and quartzites. The ~i-e i9 sgrrolqdel by black hornblendic s,.tes and iniaa SlaJeS, dipping sc2tbward and scI:hgesoward a a.- angie of about 45 degrees
 and these states are very evenly lamiuated sidse after ridge. This iS apparently con
The Arizona sentinel., 1900-12-12

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The Arizona sentinel., 1900-12-12
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The Arizona sentinel., 1900-12-12
at first.

this this picture on it, CT. lake more; not too much; enough is as much as you like and agrees with you. Satisfy hunger with usual food whatever you like and agrees with you.
 When you are strong again, have recovered your strength---the germs are dead you have killed them. If you have not tried it, send for free sample, it's agreeable taste will surprise you.
 s< SCOTT & BOVINE,
 Chemists,
 4O9 Pearl St., New York. soc. and $I,OO; all druggists.
The Arizona sentinel., 1900-12-12
YUMA COUNTY.

He Rich Mines--The La Fortuna and King of Arizona Great Mineral Wealth Yet Un- developed Castle
 Dome Lead
 Mines. The County Lies Directly in the rlain Gold Belt that Begins in Alaska and Ends in
 Mexico.
The Arizona sentinel., 1900-12-12

It acts as a food :; 1t is the easi est food |. Seems not to be food !; makes you hungry; eating Is comfortable.
 ' ou grow strong
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-03-18

ol "hite race or police uniform enough
10 reduce them to silence and that pretence of
STUPIDITY in which when he chooses to assume
IT, Ihe native Of India, whatever may he his
trne or caste, has no equal
Inc hoiy man. sitting on his heels on a tiger
SIKH spread in the porch Of the temple listened
70 the story Of the dream the loss Of the buIloc,
ana the wounding Of the tiger
i VIII ask the Devi" said the priest when he
hi'u heard all But what hast thou. SanthaI to
give her for thy life"
What have Babu, is naught." said the Moor
wretch trembling. II am but a poor iangliwala
ana have lost my best bullock What can 7 10
with one? Is it not better the tiger should eat
my wife and child and ME than that we perish
of hunger"
Ihou hast a wife and child. SanthaI" said
lhe priest. and thou hast a good bow" Then
i<aJandra Lal fixed his eyes on a hideous little
black image over the door Of the temple He
s"ayed backward and forward. and his ewes
began to roll. Then he spoke:
Son Of the Santhal. hear the Dew: The San
tnaI have forsakan my temple and withheld the
sacrifice Of blood which love Return. SanthaI
Bring thy child to the place of sacrifice. OFFER
MN on the sacred stone. and anoint thy arrows
with his blood. With those arrows shalt thou
XIII the tiger, and for the beast thou hast lost
thou shalt have a better Fail in this and
the tiger shall defile thy dwelling and sweep
thee and thine from the face of the land"
Sitaram trembled at the command Of the
goddess He laid two or three pce-aH the
money he had in the worId-on the old priests
ugersBin, and sorrowfully made his way home
He told Mana and Rebi the command Of the
goddess, and they, too. were very sorrowful for
little Ramchand was the light Of their eyes and
the JOY Of their hearts. But where was Ram
chand2 He had not been seen either by his
mother or his aunt. and they were in great fear
lest some evil should have befallen him sud
denly the child, in the midst Of the anxious
consultation. burst into the hut.
He had a tale 70 tell Oh. he was quite safe:
no evil had happened to him. What indeed
could happen? He had the bow, nearly a cubit
longer than he nigh. that his father had
shaped for him. Then the little fellow drew
himself up to his full height He could shoot
and hit a mark almost as well as his father,
though his arrow would not go so far or pene-
trate so deeply. But then he had his axe and
he katas, or knife, Sitaram had bought for him
in Birbhum. He could defend himself even
against the fierce Chita He had been to the
field where lay the dead bullock. and the tiger
had not returned to its prey He had tracked
the tiger through the jangal, but had come home
to report what he had seen.
Sitaram and Mana exchanged looks and each
never whatever might happen, fail under the
sacrificiaI knife. The boy was 4 true SanthaI.
learned in jangal craft beyond his years. and
destined in time to become I comfort ana sup
port TO his parents. Then they began to consult.
There could be no doubt that, since the tiger