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Natural Causes.

"As understand it," remarked the
stranger as the procession disappeared
over the hill, 'the coroner's jury returned
a verdict OF death from natural causes"
YES" replied Rattlesnake Pete, lyon
see, he was naturally slow, and so wus
slower with his gun than tn other fellow,
which made it very easy to get quick
verdict. colorado Springs Gazette.
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Resolution,

A German boy was reading blood and
thunder novel. Right in the midst of il
he said to himself: Now, this will never
do. get too much excited over it. !
can't study SO well after it. So here
goesr and he flung the book into the riy-
err He was Fichte, the great German
philosopher. ..-.-..
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what He Thinks.

"Spiffins is a thoughtful chap" said
Beechwood to Belefeld.
~ never heard any one accuse him Of
thoughtfnlness before"
"Well, he thinks he can play golf,"-
Pittsburg Chronicle Telegraph.
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wife-Oh, George. the water pipe is
leaking, and the water is spelling the new
hall carpet. Go and'get plumber. quick.
Husband-That's all right, my dear, let
1t go; it's cheaper to get a new carpet
New York World.
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OVER
100 Million Dollars
FOR DIvIDEH Ds.
r FAD THE PROOFS:
United States official Report
MADE TO
MADE TO
Commission r Of The United states,
General Land Office, Washington ID. e.,

by Geologist aud Mining Expert Of world
wide reputation, Professor Benjamin Sillman,
who spent several months there then being con-
nected with theil nited States surveying corps.
and In his official report says:
HERE ARE COT NTLFSS MILLIONS OF
TONS OF RICH GOLD QUARTZ reduced by
the great forces of nature 70 a condition ready
for the application of the hydraulic process.
while the entire bed OF the Rio Grande for over
a. miles is n sulee on the bars of which the gold
derived from the wearing away Of the gravel
banks has been accommodating for countless
ages and now lies ready for extraction by the
most approved methods Of river mining. THE
THICKNESS OF THE RIO GRANDE GOLD
GRAVEL EXCEEDS IN MANY PLACES 600
FEET OR. NEARLY THREE TIMES THAT
OF THE LIKE BEDS IN CALIFORNIA,
WHILE THE AVERAGE VALUE PER
CUBIC YARD Is BELIEVED 10 BE
GREATER IN THE NEW MENICO BEDS
THAN IN ANY OTHER SUCH ACCUMULA-
TlONS YET DISCOVERED.
II have made a reconnaissance Of the whole
OF this gravel along the Flo Grande. and have
examined with al the care possible In the time
at my command the character OF the gravel AMI
its contents of gold. NOTHING. ! AN PER-
SUADED SINCE THE DISCOVER OF
CALIFORNIA AND AUSTRALIA. IS COM
PARABLE FOR ITS MEASU EABLE RE
SOURCES OF GOLD AVAILABLE hy the
hydraulic process TO the deep plaeers Of the Rio
Grande.n
Other reports from eminent mining experts of
national reputation pronounce the property OF
this Company the richest and most extensive
known.
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GUEST MEETING OF THE ClvIO
CLUB.

The February nesting of the Civic club
Will be held at the Falmouth hotel, next
Thursday evening at eight o'clock. Each
member OF the club Is entitled to invite
two guests. IL Is hoped all members will
be present as the subject, Portland City
Charter, il one which the club has
studied and no one is better qualified TO
present this subject than the speaker Of
the evening, Hon. Charles r. Lippy.
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Cunning French Spies.

It has, by the way, never been de-
MED that the revolver which the all
legged Anarchist pointed at the Shah
had been previously manipulated as
to render it perfectly harmless, nor has
it ever been explained why Salsan,!
sentenced to transportation for life,F
has never been transported, nor what
has become Of him. The enemies of
the prefecture declare that he was re-
leased Immediately after his trial and
sentence and that he is still In the:
service Of the police. However this
may be, it is certain that the majority
of the French Anarchists Of whom
one hears, and at whose threats and
mouthings the simple, bourgeois tremz
bles, are either In the pay Of the min I
istry Of the interior or of the prefec-
ture. Many are on fixed salary; some
are paid by item Of information sup
piled. The. emolument is not large.
The fixed salary Of such q spy rarely
exceeds $6 a month, and more often
is only half that sum. AS to the lesses
fry, the Indicators, the scale varies
from forty cents to couple of dollars
per item.-Paris Correspondence Be .
ton Transcript.
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Naturo Literature.

1.-THE growth of literature pertaining
to plants and animals and the out-of-
DOORS" says a writer in Country Life
in America, "is one Of the most en-.
phatic and significant movements OF
the times. AS an indication OF the In
terest on the part Of the public in read
ing matter appertaining to country
life, it may be recorded that there were
published within fifteen months 142
books devoted to outdoor topics. Not
one of these booksshas been what the
publishers call q. failure; number
have sold 10000 copies; some 10000;
others $4,000; and at least one 10000
copies. Publishing houses are prepar-
ing special catalogues of outdoor liter. :
ature. Added to all this, is the rapidly
growing literature Of agriculture and
its allied arts. The old days of dis.
trust in book farming have come to
an end. Farm literature of the pres
ent day is vital, resourceful, scientific,
entertaining. The demand for it is in
creasing. Much Of 1t will outlive Its
generation"
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plenished every quarter Of an hour
with fresh ore and fresh fuel, there Is
forced for hours at a time tornado
like blast Of hot air, which not only
makes the mass boil more actively, but
also tends to drive off Its impurities.
Ranged near each Of the blast furnaces
are several monster iron tubes, re-
sembling in general outline the ap-
pearance of the blast furnace itself.
These are the "stoves" Of the plant and
and in them is heated the air which is
blown through the fiery mass within
the blast furnace. When it Is ex-
planned that many present-day blast
furnaces give forth considerably more
than half a thousand tons Of iron
every day, and that two tons of ore,
a ton and a quarter Of coke and half
ton of limestone are required for each
ton of molten metal produced, it will
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So uoIlBo4yInd eQl u5q!M .uoIloB ~
this heroic. method is completed, the
molten mass is ready to be poured Into
the ingot moulds, where 1t hardens in
the form of blocks, each weighing
five tons.
The "open-hearth" method Is less
impressive in the eyes Of the onlooker,
but it results in the production OF a
better grade Of steel. Formerly 1t was
so much more expensive than the Bes.
semer process that few consumers OF
steel could afford to pay the price ex-
acted, but here, as in all other
branches of steel making, costs have
been shaved very heavily of late years,
In the open-hearth plant, instead OF
converter" there are long lines OF
furnaces that look like bake ovens and
in which miniature seas OF Wnlte
metal, so intensely hot that you cannot
gaze upon it save through blue glasses,
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CHAPTER XIV.

To say that you could have heard a
pin drop in the crowded court at
Sroan when the doctor announced
that he had found bullet in the brain
OF poor Jem Stickels is to understate
the deathlike silence which fell upon
the dense mass of listeners.
Not one man in twenty among the
crowd had been prepared for this SEN
sational disclosure, which had, indeed,
been communicated to no one but the
police. This new fact threw such a
sudden light upon the case, thrusting
out, as it did, all possibility of his hav-
ing come to his death through acci-
dent, that every man and woman pres
ent needed moments breathing space
to grasp the new view Of the situation
thus abruptly presented.
In the meantime the doctor went
quietly on with his evidence, much of
which was technical and uninteresting
to the majority. But the crowd was
able to fasten on to the important
facts; that the shot had been fired
from behind the man, and from the
right side Of the road, supposing the
victim to have been coming toward
Stroan; that the injury could not have
been self-inf1icted, and the crime had
been committed within very short
time Of the discovery of the body.
Can you give us an opinion, doctor,
as to the length Of time which must
have elapsed between the firing of the
shot and your inspection of the body?'
MY opinion is that death had taken
place within an. hour, and probably
within q much shorter period"
Can you give us your reasons for
this opinion?"
The body was still quite warm. AS
it was a cold night, and the body was
lying in a very open situation, the "ool-
ing process would be very rapid
Can you tell us the time exactly
when you made this first examination
Of the body and came to this opinion"
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boil and bubble, like lime in the mortar
box before some building in course Of
erection.
Cast into ingots, these are allowed
to cool in their moulds, and are then
once more thrust into bath Of fame
and for the last time reheated. Thence
the metal may be fed into the enor-
nous jaws of giant rolls which flatten
it into plate of various size; it may be
pressed into armor for battleslips by
means of huge presses, or it may DE
squeezed into lcng slender strands that
are ultimately cut into bars or railroad
rails. All the while it remains red hot
and water must be continually poured
over the machinery, with the result
that every time the rolls "bite" q slab
of iron to force IL into some thinner
form, there is report like the dis
charge Of a cannon.
It may be stated advisedly that no.
where among the worlds workers are
there men who hourly brave death n
such terrible form as 1t Is presented
to the steel workers. A blast furnace
may "break-out" and engulf the poor,
helpless mrrtals at,its, base in an ocean
of annihilat:ng flame; one Of the giant
ladies hoisted hither and thither by
long, gaunt arms of steel, may Slip
from its place and drown hapless vic
tins in O molten cataract; OF some
wriggling, snake-like cable Of burn
ing steel may snarl and tangle and,
without an instant's warning, wrap it.
self around some Outstanding work
man before he can even turn to escape.
1t is by the conduct of steel-makins
on so heroic q scale that the United
States is being enabled to capture the
steel markets Of the world. Last year
she sent abroad nearly $11S,O0C.00o
worth of iron and steel, al increase
Of one-fourth over that of the two
previous years, and it was distributed
amongst all the countries on the globe.
The Book World.
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American Steel.
BY Waldon Fawcett.
Observation-Disclosures

~ TEEL, that most useful and,
~ after all, the most valuable
y Of metals, is so pre-eminently
the most important Of the pro-
ducts Of Uncle Sans energy, that Its
superiority has come, of late years,
to be universally recognized.
The age Of iron has passed and the
Industrial and commercial world now
lives in the age Of steel. The latter
metal is, Of course, an outgrowth of
that which was once supreme in the
manufacturing world in that the iron
are must, first be converted into pig
ron ere it can attain to the dignity
of classification as steel; but the lat
ter commodity is tougher and more
elastic, and so it is preferred for
:he construction Of buildings and
bridges and ships and, indeed, every
hing where great strength is required.
When steel first came into popularity
t cost much more to produce a ton
sf steel than to turn out the same
amount of iron, but gradual cheap
.nlng Of processes has been going on,
Ind now the disparity is not nearly
10 great.
To follow a car Of ore in. its journey
through the modern steel making
plant is to witness constant success
sion of the most stirring incidents and
the most dramatic pictures to be found
anywhere on the globe. The iron ore,
arriving from Natures wonderful
storehouses in the Northwest, a train
ioad at a time, is unloaded oy means Of
iron buckets, each holding more than
1 ton of ore, which spin back and forth
along structures that resemble minia-
ture suspension bridges and carry the
dark red material to the foot of the
blast furnaces. Here small cars run
ming on an inclined railroad take the
ore and ascend with it to the top of the
blast furnace and, upon reaching the
summit, an ingenious mechanical de-
vice overturns the car and tumbles
It's contents into great fiery pit which
yawns below.
A blast furnace is nothing more nor
less than a gigantic mixing pot in
which the raw material from the
mines, coke or some other form of
fuel, and limestone are churned about
until each has wholly lost its identity
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be appreciated that the operation Of
single blast furnace. is no inconsid-
erable enterprise.
In the tapping Of a blast furnace
there is presented the first of those
thrilling pictures. which have no coun-
terpart in any other field of activity.
A handful of men, pitifully pigmy in
appearance beside the towering fur
mace with its tiny, glowing white eyes,
thrust and wrench and pound until an
incision is made low down in this
great tank Of burning metal, and then
spring quickly out Of the way in order
to avoid the stream Of scalding metal
which spurts from the opening, looking
for all the world like q luminous por-
ridge.
This liquid iron, newly escaped from
the boiling pot. is deceitful quan-
tity. Apparently it is slow and slug
gish in its movement, and yet it burns
its way, forward with insiduous and
surprising rapidity. The workmen in
charge, black, half-naked figures sill
houetted against a glowing back
ground, either guide the furious stream
into ponderous kettles which stand
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road? In the illustration we show this
idea carried out under the invention
of Daniel Connerth and Josef Roth
weller. In order that the appliances
for manipulating the binders may moi
interfere with the control Of the horse
on ordinary occasions separate pair
of cords is provided, leading back to-
the carriage. The blinds are held
normally open by springs on the bridle,;
being hinged to the side straps. A pull
on the cords throws lever out from
the rear portion Of the hinge and
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A MODERN BLAST FURNACE.
(Stoves in the background.)

awaiting il on the railroad cars near
by, or else they allow it to furrow its
way to little channels cut in the sand.
A few years ago all the iron from q
blast furnace ran into the hundreds
OF little troughs, each about three feet
long, which dotted the sand foor all
about tine fame-spitting tower. and
when the metal had become quite cold
each tiny trench contained On un-
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To be Continued.
Roll Exrs in Cold Water.

. "This egg tastes rs If 1t had been
boiled II hot water" said the emanci-
pated young woman with the snort
hair. II can always tell In a minute
if an egg has been cooked in that
way"
Her companion had not learned quite
so many things and was quite satisfied
with her egg. She only murmured
softly:
II never heard of an egg boiled IN
cold water, did you?"
at is high time you were introduced
to this institution" her wise friend
continued, "and I am delighted to illu-
inmate you even at the risk OF arous-
ing more Of your sarcasm. An egg to
be boiled properly for human consump-
ton should be put into cold water and
then placed over the fire. Then 1t
cooks with the water The egg cooks,
moreover, thoroughly and from the In
side.-
ASK n physician or trained nurse
how to boil IN egg so that It's greatest
nutriment and favor shall be pre-
served. Either of them will tell you to
put it IN cold water. The old way of
dropping the egg into boiling water has
long been given up. 1t used to COOK
the egg suddenly and destroy its fla
vor.
$50 don't he sarcastic because you
haven't heard of the century's al
Yance."-NeW York Sun.
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curing suitable roads or tracks upon
which to speed their machines should
get together and build dcuble-kite
track, something on the order of the
accompanying Illustration, with
bridge over the crossway. The track,
he thinks, should be at least eight
miles long and fifty feet wide, with a
level "run-in." A grandstand midway,
he says, would give commanding
view Of the whole course.
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? TEEL, that most useful and,
after all, the most valuable
J Of metals, is so pre-eminently
tho most imnortant Of the prO-

In one fiery boiling mass. The fright
full heat of the blast furnace may not.
perhaps, be better illustrated than by
the fact that it's binding intensity is
such that a person may not look stead
ily into this scething caldron even for
q few minutes.
The furnace derives its name from
the fact that through each great
:'brew" Of white burning liquid, re-
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shaply bar of iron appropriately desig.

shaply par OF iron appropriately deslS-
mated as a "pig." However, inasmuch
as The very next step in steel-makjng
is to get this metal back into the
molten shape, the shrewd ironmongers
who were ever seeking every possible
way to save money in the process, con-
cluded that it was simply a waste Of
time and money to let the pig-iron
cool at all, and now the molten metal
Is trundled away in broad-mouthed
kettles to the steel-making plant.
It is essential at this juncture to in
troduce the reader to the two different
methods of steel-making-the Besse!
mer and the "open-hearth" processes,
as they are respectively termed. Up to
this point the transformation of the
iron is invariably exactly the same,
no matter what its ultimate destina-
tion may be; but with the end Of the
journey Of the railroad train loaded
with half a dozen kettles each con-
tanning full twenty tons Of the bub-
bling, red-tinged mass, comes the part
ing Of the ways.
From a spectacular standpoint, the
Bessemer process is the more interest
ing. Each kettle Of molten iron, as 1t
arrives from the blast furnace, is
poured into still larger caldron known
Us the mixer" where it boils and siz-
zles in company with the contents of
other kettles for quite an interval of
time. Next it comes to converter" )"
an egg-shaperd receptacle Of hercu.
lean size and strength, and here once
more it undergoes publication by
means of another terrific blast Of air
forced upward through the mass with
such violence that the top Of the "con
verter'' literally resembles a volcano
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POURING MOLTEN IRON INTO MoULDs.

presses the blinds over the eyes, thus
shutting out the vision Of whatever
has frightened the animal. AS soon (
as the pressure Is released on the cords I
the blinds resume their normal posi,y
ton by the action Of the springs
Philadelphia Record. {.
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Made Sure of tho Pie.

A young girl who carried her din
ner was observed to eat her pie first.
When asked why, she replied: "Well,
if there's anything left, it won't be
the pie, will it ow"-Christian Reg
lister.
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The percentage OF water is eighty IN
plums and grapes, eightytwo in ap-
pies, eighty-four in pears. eighty-six in
oranges, ninety in lemons and ninety
five in water melons.
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Paris has always paid $1s,5o0 year
to the detectives who guard the Presi-
dent of France, but has refused to do
so longer, and the national govern
ment has assumed the task. Twelve
detectives are hired for the purpose.
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safety :Blind For Hor,sI,.. j.

When you want to get a frightened
horse out Of burning stable Dlanket
thrown over its head renders 1t ass
docile as though there were no fre,
and why shouldn't the same Idea be
applied to a runaway horse on the
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The war in South Africa has doomed
the Highland kilt as fighting dress,
and it will now survive as a parade
uniform only.
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Automobile Racing Track.

A correspondent in the Horseless
Age suggests that some Of the rich au-
tomobile owners who are constantly
grurlblirg at the impossibility of Sc
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1928; DIED IN 1o0.
his famous journey around the
this journey four great
all things consld-
cred but greatest Russell Young onetime
this fine word picture OF
Chinese naon see him an hstor
Chinese statesman with the presnce
western
his fortude
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The present growth Of London's pop
ulatiop is $500 month.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-07-05
IHE FREE FOR ALL RACE.
Promises 10 be Very Close and In

teresttng Event.
AS the date for holding the July races
draws near interest IN the meet
increases. The purses offered by
Secretary Finkle are large enough
TO bring good class Of horses
here, some of which are at the
rark nov. The free-for-ali race IL be-
Ing freely discussed for the reason that
some Of the fostest steppers IN the cir
cult are entered in 1t. Emmett II IS en-
tered in the free-for-all pace, and he is
practically an unbeaten horse and has
taken considerable money, his last be-
ing at Oskaloosa yesterday Lord Rose
BERRY, another fast horse, was cam
paigned by West in the grand circuit
last year and is one one Of the fastest
in the circuit. Fdoline is another good
horse. as is also Kona ". owned by n.
Wood, Of Eldon, and usually takes a
good slice Of the purse. The free for-all
pace viii be fast race and close one,
and those who attend may expect great
sport. The running races always draw
large crowd and as the purses forthose
races are big the horses that will start in
it are fast. 1t would be a good plan to
come the first day and be prepared to
stay ali three days, for the fun will be-
gin Tuesday and continue until the
races close Thursday night The dates
are July Q, 10 and IL. Reduced rates on
all the railroads.