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The St. Johns herald., 1901-07-13
A Shadow on Her Life.

Somebody once asked a tranquil old resident of Nantucket if her life had always run as smoothly as she could wish; if no great sorrows or disappOint- ments had ever come to mar its seren- ity.
 The old lady sat looking out of the window for a moment, and then turned to her queStioner with little smile on her sweet face.
 "I suppose you'll think it's foolish, maybe" she said, but did have one great disappointment, and I've never forgotten it. There was a man that came to the island once with a hand organ and a monkey. He got as far as the corner of our street, and I thought he was coming right this way, but he didn't.
 'T was housed with a cold and couldn't go out to see him and his monkey, so I only caught just a glimpse of them. They played half an hour in the next street.
 "Disappointments like that stay by folks all their lives" she added, after a sympathetic ejaculation from her visitor. Tt was more than thirty years ago, but I've never ceased regretting 1 didn't see that monkey. I've been wonderfully blessed in every other way, dear; but that organ-grinder never came to the island again, neverr'
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GOOD FORTUNE FOR TWO MEN.
They Are Both Named Thomas, but
 They Never Had Doubts.

They Are Both Nsmed Thomas, but
 They Never Had Doubts.
 When Fate has slammed man down hard and upset his opinions or turned them inside out, she sometimes takes compassion on him and sets him up in business as millionaire. That was the way it was with Tommy Cruse of Helena, Mont, and that is the way it has turned out with another man. Tom my Cruse located the famous Drum Lummon mine at a time when he was near neighbor to starvation. His hard luck had been persistent for years and his credit was worn out. His friends were as scarce as the proverbial hens teeth. But Tommy had a good thing in the Drum Lummon and he knew 1t. So sure was he of the fact that he re- | fused to sell when the money was showed at him, although he was so hungry at the time that he could have eaten his bootlegs with relish. Tommy i took a great fortune out of the Drum Lummon In a few years and then he sold the mine to an English syndicate for $2.OOO.OOO.
 The other man who has reached the end of his hard-luck streak is Thomas Cooney. For a long time he was a land agent in Helena for the Northern Pacific Railroad. Then he branched out for himself, and everything went wrong so fast that when the Spanish war came along Cooney was glad to volunteer and go to the front. He went in lieutenant and came out lieuten- ant, although he had counted on finish ing up his career on the battlefield When he got back to Montana Cooney was "stone broke" As a last chance he took a turn at mining. He had a prospect known as the Blue Grass up in the same district as the Drum Lum- mon and he went there and fell to work with pick and shovel and drill in the hopeless fashion characteristic of men who have been on the down grade financially for long time.
 One day he struck what is known as a contact lead. It widened into beau tiful shute of ore, and when Cooney had 1t assayed he was astonished to find that the ore clear across the lead sampled" $1OO ton in gold. Then COoney began to examine his lead more carefully. Almost in the center of the vein he found a streak six inches wide that was just studded with ''free gold" The lead was all ''pay ore." but that streak was a fortune in itself. Various assays made of it gave returns of from g 900 to $2,500 ton.
 Cooney had prospected his lead far enough to make certain that he Is an immensely rich man. He could borrow $500. 900 on the Blue Grass mine. But only a week before the "strike" half a dollar looked as big as balloon to him. Now he doesn't need to borrow
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GROWING FASTER THAN EVER.
The Mormon Church and Its Shrewd
 Policy of Colonization.

The Mormon Church and Its Shrewd
 Policy of Colonization.
 The Mormon Church is growing fast CT to-day than ever before in its his tory. It is building more churches. planting more settlements, maintain ing more missionaries all over the earth. The general public appears to know nothing of it except polygamy. And polygamy is only the ornamental buckle on its shoe Behind that is the sturdy body and enterprising brain of great materialism, which possesses attractions far more potent than a plurality of wives. Whatever mys- teries may be embalmed within the exclusive precincts of Mormon temples there is nothing occult about their method of gaining converts and making those converts prosperous and con tented.
 The Mormon policy is colonization. The Mormon method is cooperation. Fifty years of expanding prosperity have shown that this is winning con- bination. There is no reason to sup pose that it will appeal less effectively in the future than in the past. On the contrary, present economic tendencies more urgently favor emigration and CO., operative industry than those of twen- ty-five or fifty years ago. Where the missionaries of other churches speak chiefly of security in the life to come Mormon missionaries add their pre- scription for security here and now. The missionary who holds out the hope of three square meals a day" in this world has a striking advantage over his rival who deals only in the hopes of futurity.
 The great social and economic facts which alone give the Mormon religion habitation and a name and enable it to survive the assaults of Congresses, presidents and all the churches of the land have been overlooked. The truth is that the Mormon church is a great plan of cooperative settlement, to which thousands of people have fled as to a rock of refuge. Those who ask this church for bread do not get stone. They get an irrigated farm. They get a shrewd but kindly assist ance of able men in making their way from servitude to self-employment and landed proprietorship. All the church asks in return is obedience-Harper Weekly.
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QUEEN ELIZABETH'S FAULTS.
She Was Very Vain and IuordinateIy
 Fond of Fine Dress.

She Was Very Vain and IuordinateIy
 Fond of Fine Dress.
 Yet Elizabeth was never really sue cessful with her wardrobe as a more feminine woman might have been. Her dresses were never beautiful, only ludicrously and most inappropriately magnificent; laden with jewels, weight ed down with cloth of gold, stiff with silver embroidery, and so heavy that even her big, powerful frame must (withoUt supporting vanity) have felt the fatigue of carrying them about. Elizabeth was certainly vain, but she cannot claim femininity merely on that account, for vanity is by no means an exclusively feminine characteristic; there are perhaps more vain women than vain men, because women have more leisure, and their costumes afford greater opportunities for vanity than the strangely hideOuS clothing which custom has arranged for men; but no thoughtful 0eminine) observer can doubt that a vain man is vainer than a vain womani
 Elizabeth's hands were her especial pride, and. judging from her nnrtraits, they were certainly beautiful; they were laden with jewels, and it was her habit in public to pull her rings off with absent artiessness, and push them on again, moving those white hands about in the most obvious way. Once, during the grave consideration of a state paper, where in her cold sagacity never took second place, she inter- rupted the discussion to ask whether the Due d'Anjou, who was at one time one of her suitors, had been told what a pretty foot she had, and how white and we'll rounded was her arm? This, in the woman who financed the Armada with hard-headed economy, who dared the superstitious terrors of her own conscience in her high-handed and im-
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The Poison of the Honey Rec

So much attention has been directed of late to the effect of the poison of the honey-bee that any new fact in this connection is interesting. A German scientist has spent many years studying the toxic and chemical properties of this poison. Over twenty-five thous- and bees have been sacrificed in his work. He discovers that the peculiar odor with which every one who has been stung by a bee becomes familiar is due to a purely volatile substance. This is not poisonous, and disappears when the poison proper evaporates. The toxic quality of the poison is not affected by heat at PIP degrees Fahr., and diluted acids and alkalies have no effect upon it. The precise elements of the poison are as yet undetermined.
The St. Johns herald., 1901-07-13
FOUND DEATH IN A CAVERN.
Skeletons of Old Spanish Invaders Hav
 Been Eutom bed Four Centuries.

Skeletons of Old Spanish Invaders Have
 Been Eutombed Four Centuries.
 While prospecting for quicksilver in the Chicos mountains near the Rio Grande, seventy miles southwest of Alpine, Tex, party of Americans dis covered a large cave in which were ly- ing side by side the skeletons of twen- ty-six men. Further explorations of the cave revealed several copper and stone utensils and crude mining tools. Stamped or cut into one of the stone jars was the name "Narvaez" and the figures 1926.
 This discovery has awakened the greatest interest among the people of this section who are familiar with the early history of this part of the country and it is considered almost conclusive proof that the skeletons are those of members of the historical Narvaez ex- petition, which was shipwrecked on Malhado island, near Galveston island, about 1885.
 Narvaez and eight men came to the new world from Spain on an expedition of exploration and in search of gold. He and many of his followers perished in the vicinity of Galveston island and the remainder of the party, led by Cabeza De Vaca, started westward in the fall of 1535, and four of them, in- cluding Cabeza De Vaca, finally rooobod California
 Bancroft and other historians have differed widely as to what route Cabeza De Vaca, and his party followed on their trip to California, but the discov- cry of the skeletons, together with the relics bearing the name of Narvaez and the date 1926, is almost conclusive proof that they belonged to the ill-fated expedition and that they went to Cali fornia by the southern route.
 The skeletons are in a remarkably good state of preservation and several of them have been brought to Alpine. The cave will be further explored in the search for other historical relics. It is supposed that the men either died of hunger or were massacred by Indians. Cincinnati Enquirer.
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MOST PEOPLE LoPsIDED.

s Differences Between the Leg, Eyes
 and Ears of Men and Women.
 The two sides of persons face are never alike. The eyes are out of line in two cases out of five, and one eye is stronger than the other in seven per sons out of ten. The right ear is, also, as rule, higher than the left.
 Only one person in fifteen has perfect eyes, the largest percentage of defects prevailing among fair-haired people. Short sight is more common in town than among country folk, and of all people the Germans have the largest proportion of short-sighted persons.
 The crystalline lens of the eye is the one portion of the human body which continues to increase in size throughout life, and does not cease with the attain ment of maturity.
 The smallest interval of sound can be better distinguished with one ear than with both. The nails of two fin gers never grow with the same rapid ity, that of the middle finger growing the fastest, while that of the thumb grows the slowest.
 In fifty-four cases out of a hundred the left leg is stronger than the right. The bones of an average human male skeleton weigh twenty pounds; those of woman are six pounds lighter.
 That unruly member, the tongue of a woman, is also smaller than that of a man, given man and a woman of equal size and weight. It may be ap- palling to reflect, but it is neverthless true, that the muscles of the human jaw exert force of over 500 pounds.
 The symmetry which is the sole in telligible ground for our idea of beauty, the proportion between the upper and lower half of the human body, exists in nearly all males, but Is never found in the female. American limbs are more symmetrical than those of any other people. The rocking chair, according to an English scientist, is responsible for the exercise which increases the beauty of the lower limbs. The push which the toes give to keep the chair in motion, repeated and repeated, makes the instep high, the calf round and full, and it makes the ankle deli cate and slender.
 British women are said to average two inches more in height than Ameri- cans. Averages for the height of women show that those born in summer and autumn are taller than those born in spring or winter. The tallest girls are born in August.
 AS far as boys are concerned, those who first see the light during autumn and winter are not so tall as those born in spring and summer. Those born in November are the shortest; in July, the tallest.
 An average head of fair hair consists of 143,04 hairs, dark hair of 105,00O, while red head has only 29,2OO. Fair haired people are becoming less numer- ous than formerly.
 A person who has lived seventy years has had pass through his heart about 75,920 tons of blood, the whole of the blood in the body passing through the heart in about thirty-two beats. The heart beats on an average of seventy times a minute. or 36, 792, 900 times in the course of year, so that the heart of an ordinary man, 80 years of age, has beaten 3,0000O0,OO0 times. The heart beats ten strokes a minute less when one is lying down than when one Is in an upright position.-New York Sun.
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pudent treatment of the bishops, whose interest in methods of torture for state prisoners was most mechanical and in- telligent, entirely unhampered by any squeamish feminine hesitation as to blood or pain-is most curious. Tn connection with this last characteristic of cruelty, vanity is not at all unprece- dented. Indeed, if one observe closely, one will notice that excessively vain persons have almost always a strange inclination toward cruelty. The ac- counts of what Queen Elizabeth per mitted and indeed commanded in this respect will hardly bear reading by us sensitive folk to-day.-Margaret Deland in Harper's Bazar.
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Least Barbarous of Bullets.

Surgeons have discovered that for some reason or other the Mauser bullet is antiseptic, or, more properly, aseptic that it protects the wound it makes. It puts the soldier hit by it out of the fight, but it does not poison him, as ordinary bullets do. No septic infiam- nation follows. No needless deaths occur. The Mauser bullet is there fore the most civilized instrument of war ever employed, and every civilized nation owes it to humanity to adopt bullets of similar material and con- StructiOn
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MT. Meekton's Opinion.

"Is a married man g. free agentP' in Quired the cynic
 "Well, answered Mr. MeektOn. '-it ls impossible for a man to give an opinion on such a matter except on personal In- formation. Judging from the way he gets out and solicits work and makes collections, and turns the profits Into headquarters, I should say there was no doubt about his being an agent AS to his being free agent-I shouldn't feel like expressing my views without consulting Henrietta" "- Washington Star
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Shadow of the Earth.

The earth has shadow, but few ever see 1t except in eclipses of the moon, or else few recognize it when they see it. Neverthelss many of us have noticed on fine, cloudless evenings in the summer shortly before sunset a rosy or pink arc on the horizon opposite the sun, with a bluish gray segment un- der it. AS the sun sinks the arc rises until 1t attains the zenith and even masses it. This Is the shadow of the earth
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Last Battle in Great Britain.

This was the battle of Culloden Moor Anril 1G. 1746 co. s.. 1t was fought on a plain about five miles from Inver- ness. Scotland. 1t was the last attempt on the part of the Stuarts to get pos session of the throne of Great Britain This attempt was made by Charles Ed ward Stuart c'Bonnie Prince Charlie') a grandson of James II. He defeated the English in the battle of Falkirk, but in a second battle, at Culloden, was finally defeated by the Duke of Cum berland. He wandered as fugitive in the highlands for five months, finally succeeded in getting out of the coun- try, and died in Rome Jan. 30, 173S.
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Unneighborly.
a fine fellow!

Hoax-YOu're a fine fellow!
 Joax-Whats the matter?
 'You've given your wife a twenty five-dollar bonnet"
 'Well, you don't have to pay for it" ''No; but I have to pay for another one just like 1t for my wife. ."-Philadel- phia Record.
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PhilanthrOpY.

How you must enjoy being a philan- thropistr' said the sprightly young woman.
 "I don't quite understand you," re piled the man of earnest manners.
 Tt must be such a pleasure to feel that you have plenty of money and can always be doing good"
 "Yes. But the only difficulty is that one can't always be sure whether he is doing good or being done good."- Washington Star.
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A Prnre,snn fnr Hin,

Fond Mother (of delicate dude)-I think it is time Clarence selected a profession. What would you advise?
 Old Gent Fefectivelyl-He might do nicely as a typewriter girl.-New York Weekly.
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The ContraltO-The soprano gave the choirmaster a canary bird for Christ mas, and he's named 1t after her.
 The Tenor-Quite appropriate, eh?
 The Contralto-Yes. l understand the bird can't sing a little bit.-Phila- delphia Press.
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Fuddy-Do you really believe that drummers are as smart as they are said to be?
 Duddy-I never believe in impOssf- bilities. They never succeed in selling me anything.
 Fuddy-It does look like a reflection upon their alleged smartneSs to attempt %.-BOstOn Transcript.
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Off Again, On Again.

Every we'll" said she, in a huff, "all Is over between us. I'll thank you to re- turn my letters"
 "All right" said he, 'I'I send them to you the first thing in the morning."
 "Oh, there's no killing hurry. Sup pose you-er-bring them with you when you call tomorrow evening" Philadelphia Press.
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Easily Adiustel.

Pardon me-" said the busy man tC the insurance agent who had forced his way into his office, but Pm not pre- pared to talk to you today"
 Don't let that worry you," replied the insurance agent, 'I'H do the talk ng.-Philadelphia Press.
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Where Vegetatfon Ceases.

Vines grow at the height of 2,3S0 feet above the level of the sea, trees at 6,7OO feet, shrubs at $500 feet, few plants at 10,500 feet; beyond which are few lichens, and vegetation ceases en- tirely at the height of 11,000 feet amid Arctic cold.
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Why Did HeP

Alex. Smart-Say, didn't Henpeck know his wife before he married berP Numskull-Why, certainly he did!
 Alex. Smart-Then why did he marry herAOhio State Journal.
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Reasonable.

"Well, my boy, any college debtsy
 Nothing, sir, but what with dilE gence, economy and stern self-denial you will not be able to pay."-Life-
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Sure Cure.

Yabsley-I wish I could break my wife of the habit of presenting me with cigars every opportunity she gets.
 JOllyboy-Do as do. Smoke them in the hOuse.-BrOOklyn Life.
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money. He can dig out few hundred pounds of quartz when he runs short and convert it into cash. He believes, and so do many experts, that the Blue Grass mine will make him richer than the Drum Lummon made Tommy C1s11ro
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He'd Settle Old Scores.

TOmmy-O! Ouch! Stop that!
 Mamma-Why, Tommy, aren't you ashamed? I wouldn't cry that way if it was my hair that was being combed.
 Tommy (tiercely)-I'll bet you would if 1 was dOin' the combing.-Philadel- phia Press.
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His Candid Opinion.

Binicus-One cannot believe every thing he hears.
 Cynicus-No; nor everything one does not hear. About half of what one takes for granted is false-Puck.
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A Lively IIrchin

"Your little boy seems to be full of energy"
 ''Yes; by noon on Christmas Day he has broken all his own toys and has begun on his little sisters"
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Cnn,tL Last Enreuar

Hopley-What seems to trouble your baby?
 POpley (wearily)-I suppose it trou- bles him to think that eventually hell have to go to sleep at night.-Philadel, phia Press.
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Indignant Ike-Dat cur O yourn bit me, lady. WOt ker goin' to do bout it?
 Housewife-Oh, shan't do anything for him, but just let him die. We were going to poison him anyway!
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eve got great scheme,' said he. 'I shall get rich at it."
 "Again?" asked his friend, who knew the usual results of his schemes.
 70, this will pay. Pm going to take large consignment of mice to Kansas and sell them to saloonkeepers at s a dozen. '-Pittsburg Chronicle Tele- graph.
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Her Fad.

Percy-May I consider myself your accepted lover?
 Edith-Well- -er-hardly that. But for the present you may consider your self my prevailing fad-Puck-
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A Treasure.

Mrs. PolkadOt-She is a fine nurse. isn't she?
 Mrs. Pahducah-Ideal! Why. I can go for days without even seeing the children.-BrOOklyn Life.
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Should Have Done That First.

Struggling Author-It is good story, as you say, and you have advertised lt well, yet it does not sell What can we do to make it a success?
 Publisher-We must have 1t pro nounced immoral.-Baltimore Ameri- can.
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The Secret Dixnired.

He-But you've known her all your life; how old is sheP'
 She-Pn tell you; but it's a secret mind. She is just at the age when one doesn't look it!-Life.
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LET US ALL LAUGH.
JOKES FROM THE PENS OF VA
 RIOUS HUMORISTS

eleasant Incidents Occurring fhs World Over-Sayings that Are Cheer ful to Old or YOung-Funny SeleS- tions that You Will Enjoy.
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A Policy Characteristic.

WnaC IS reserve, pa
 Reserve? We'll, reserve Is holding in and not telling all you know for fear you will keep other people from telling all they know. w."-IndianapOlis Journal
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Carryino Out tbe Dis1nI.e

The Bride-NOw, dear, we must act like old married people.
 The GrOom-All right. Give me back that fifty.
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MRS. JESSIE M. ROPER,

Wife of Gallant Commander Who Met
 a Hero's Death at Manila.
 Mrs. Roper, wife of the lieutenant commander who met a hero's death while trying to save his men from the
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Cause EnouRh.
Did Sarah

"So you saw 'L'AiglOn.' Did Sarah make you weep?'
 ''No. I did my weeping at the box office when I bought the tickets Life.
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The Four Seasons.

Teacher-What are the four seasons. i Sallie?
 Sallie-Pepper, vinegar, salt, and mus tard.
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A Fugitive.
Eezymark-NOi

Funnybiz- -Biffer Is a fugitive from justice.
 EeZymark-NOi
 nnybiz-Yes-the gas collectors been after him for two weeks.-OhiO State Journal
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Elsily Explained.

EatOn-These hot cakes are not as large as those I got here a few days ago.
 Waiter-No? Well, you see. these are flannel cakes, and flannel will shrink.-Philadelphia Record.
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RepOrter-YOung Scribbler has gone on a terrible bat; his best girl rejected him.
 Editor-UnaccOmpanied by stamps, suppose.
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The Autocraf

"Of course l am master in my own house" said Mir. Meekton a little in- dignantly.
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Warwick-Ah! I see in the papers that Agulnaldo has been killed.
 Wickwire-Is that so? How was he killed this time?
 Warwick-Oh! about the same as us- ual Smaller headlines, though, this time; and not on first page, either.- Puck.