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s all be Wished , Just for the picking. but the
Il wish ! had an apple and in an in
slant he'held one in his hand. net one whit
better ha those on his fat hers tree.
The djinn burst into smoky laugh
Icould have given you bad penny just
as easily. Why don't you ask for some
thing worth whilef Hurry up, too. for I
two have passed
Have you ever tried to think quickly
on compulsion? How much do ten apples
and five plums and six cherries and seven
bananas and four pears and fifty-two grapes
make' Answer quick!
You can't answer quickly when the teacher
fires it at you like that. Perhaps you cay
there Ia no answer. but when you take time
to II you discover that the answer is eighty
four pieces Of fruit.
Well. Harry tried to think OF something
worth wishing for, but his mind seemed to
lie as empty as blown egg, and while he
was fairly trembling in his effort to think,
the smoke giant disappeared in thin stream
OF smoke that went straight up in the air
for hundred feet and then leaped behind
cloud on the edge OF the sky and was
gone
Then Harry felt mean enough. He looked
at tho apple in his hand and was so dis
g,pte1 that he gave it vicious pitch and 1t
landed plumb on the forehead Of Dick
Sturges. who had come up to the ovens at
who yer hittin''" said Dick savag ey,
for the apple had been delivered with all
the strength Of the pitcher of the Garfield
nine.
A fight would have been unavoidable,
for Dick was a spunky chap and never
let an insult 90 unavenged. but Harry said:
i waeh't firin' ut you" and leaning over
he picked up the lamp and once more gave
1t three ruhs.
The temperance Of the giant was the
signal for Dick to disappear. He was not
afraid Of any boy that ever lived, and he
had fully intended TO make Harry smart for
his freshness: but apparitions like the one
before him were good things to get away
from, and he took to his heels before Harry
could explain matters.
The giant spoke.
This Is my last appearace for a month";
hc said. Il cannot leave Asia more than
twice month. Quick. what do you WANT"
Now even while he was ainging the apple
away Harry had thought OF an invisible
automobile. and he blurted out the words
SO quickly that they tumbled all over each
other.
want an auvisibe intomobile,"
@Whatp' said the dim. angrily. II there
y, Wiz; thny'h'ns dim hate" it is to be trihed
i want an in-vis-i-ble au-to-mo- bile"
said Harry as distinctly as he could, and
with queer smile the giant said:
10 yours. and once more rushed
behind a cloud some seven miles away
and was no more seen
Harry booked around him and saw moth
ing There was no automobile.
The old fraud" said he. @He isn't any
kind Of genie"
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how to steer it. and he took an initial run
| along the lonely road that runs north from
the clay pit to where the Garfield road
He met no person. but he did meet a
dog. water spaniel that belonged to p,~tty
much everybody In town. he was 40 friendly
The dog ran yelping with terror az coon
az he saw Harry Ave feet up in the air and
/ moving rapidly forward.
the dog but he discovered very soon. for
now. feeling that he knew how to man.
are the machine. he turned into the Can
field road and ran along at Some ten miles an
hour.
blue stone up the avenue. and Harry did
not soon forget the look Of fright that came
over his features when he saw small boy
| rushing through the air at him.
To be sure. Harry steered the vehicle
h sas sa and svsSed sS0p but So+I he
were accustomed TO visible automobiles.
but the spectacle Of boy In a sitting post
ture. with his hand held rigdly in front Of
him, kiting along Ave feet above the ground
smoothly sn,,, and swiftly. was more than they
with their heavy load az II they had been
running loose in their past,irp
Fortunately. Sllaa controlled them he
fore any damage was done. but after he
had brough! them to trembling stand
s bs b ne went 70 see DOCTOR suPposins that
As for Harry. he thought Of nothing
but his delight ut owning such a convey
ance. and he determined to 20 home at once
and take his mother out for ride.
AZ he came In sight OF the house he saw
her sitting on the piazza, and he put on a
little extra squirt OF speed. yelling to her
with Joy and emulation as he did So
l do not believe that them was anything
the matter with. the steering gear; | think
that Harry merely got ratified, but whatever
the cause, Mrs Mum looked up when she
heard the yell and saw her boy living
through the air: first In q sitting posture
but just as he came within four feet of the
telegraph pole he assumed horizontal
position. face downward and landed in the
woodbine that shades the pia2zs.
For an instant there was a grinding sound
in front Of the house. and the telegraph
pole trembled like an aspen, and then
broke OF short. At the same time
there was the sound Of the whirring OF an
automobile, and then then the stone wall
on the other aide OF the road seemed
to have been hard hit and then there
was silence.
But for several hours people who hap-
pened to use the paths by the stone wall
went headlong over invisible obstacles
and then took to their heels In undignihed
haste.
A for Harry ne had come through the
vine with no bones broken, and without
waiting to explain things TO his mother
he made a bee hne FOR the clay banks to get
the brass lamp. for he realized that he
would need II again.
More fun n goat, he said to himself IA
he hurried along.
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Mrs Dempsey was downright slovenly.
Her business was washing clothes. but she
drew the line at clothes, and never thought
OF scrubbing her floor or polishing her
pots and pans and other utensils.
That il probably why her ugly brass
lamp looked so dingy. and one day when
IL was accidentally knocked of the table
and set fire to the house. Mrs. Dempsey
d ing 1t through the open window. and the
blazing comet that descended to the street
below gave the alarm Of fire.
The fire cleaned out her place pretty
thoroughly in fact, 20 thoroughly that
Il burned up not only the dirt. but about
everything else that the poor woman had.
But the chief loss, If she had but known II.
was the loss Of the lamp.
That battered piece of furniture burned
for awhile in the street and then, as II worn
out by its exertions. it lay on its side.
useless thing more ugly than ever.
1t was the next day that Harry Mum
came walking along the street on his way
ONE from school He had gone block
out Of his way in order to see the baekened
window that marked the place OF yester-
days fire. and. Like dozens of others, he saw
the lamp; but, unlike dozens Of others,
ne stooItu ana picked III up uftuuse-
well. because he was boy, and boys know
the value Of rubbish,
II was not liac any other lamp that he
ever had seen. and good reason. Mrs.
Dempsey's husband had been a sailor.
and he had picked up the lamp in place
called Jaygarh. somewhere on the coast
Of India
Harry took it home with him. and when
he walked into his mothers bedroom with
his cap on and the lamp in his hand she
said two things.
where's your cap, Harry9-
And:
'Oh. where did you get that dirty thine2
Do throw it away, Your coat isall smutted
up from it,"
Throw il away" said Harry, tossing
his cap upon the bed. I'm going to mako
a stove out of it to use in our ovens
Harry lived in a little suburban town
where the boys found endless amusement
in making ovens in clay bank at which
they cooked sweet potatoes, burned their
fingers and their trousers and otherwise
enjoyed themselves. They also made clay
IMAGES an' Fred them in the ovens and
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At FIRST HE DECIDED NOT TO BELIEVE I

At FIRST HE DECIDED NOT TO BELIEVE IT.
then. as likely as not. fired them away,
after the fashion Of boys.
Harry deposited his schoolbooks in the
wrong place. and snatching up his cap,
he rushed on to the clay bank.
None Of the other boys was there, 40 he
sat down on heap of clay and began to do
what Mrs. Dempsey had never done nat
In, TO polish the lamp He had no rag handy,
but he used something just as good-his
coat sleeve.
Three times he rubbed the dusky brass
globe. and then he dropped it with a cry
Of terror; for curling out Of the top was
a thin stream Of greenish smoke, thai
twirled and twisted and rapidly grew
larger. until it was twenty feet high when
it suddenly assumed the size and shape of
a giant.
Harry had read Of such things, but he
never had seen one before. and at first he
decided not to believe it. But what 3
the use Of having eyes il you don't be-
lieve them? Harry's eyes never had gone
back on him. and 80 he trusted them and
started to run away from this spirit that
his rubbing had evoked.
But in a roaring voice the smoke wrath
said:
Don't run away. American boy. am
the slave of the lamp. 1t Is not the lamp
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SABOTS AND GALOCHES.
Many Wooden shoes Made and Worn In
New York city.

The Philadelphia doctor who recommends
wooden shoes and says they can be had at
20 cents pair can hardly buy them at any
such price In New York.
The sabot makers here are mostly in the
French quarters, old and new. Galoches
which are shoes OF leather with heavy
wooden soles, are more used in New York
than the sabot proper, a shoe all of,wood.
A galoche maker Of the new French quar-
ter, who speaks almost no English, but il
amability itself, produces half dozen diff
ferent kinds Of such shoes.
He sells them by the dozen pairs to the
shoe dealers and other shopkeepers OF the
quarter. and the wholesale rrce is from
81 TO $i8 dozen pairs. The cheapest are
heavy shoes with low upper OF unvarnished
stih black leather without lining. Better
shoes are lined and vanished. They re-
tail at prices varying between q so and g.. 50
a pair
True sabots all of wood are made by a
workman near the shop OF the galoche
maker. The sabot made here has the high
pointed toe. traditional in the shoe OF the
European peasant The woods used are
tulip poplar, known AZ white wood, the same
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NOT MtCH CARGO TO FAR EAST.
Japan Mail steAmship Company Reports
Unsatisfactory American Business.

TACOMA. Wash. Dec. 2a.--At the annual
meeting OF the Japan Mail Steamship Com
pany, held In Toxic three weeks ago. Presi-
dent kondo submitted facts showing that
the operation Of the company'sy American
line to Puget Sound. connecting with the
Great Noythern Railway, was not 10 salts.
factory. during the past year a. formerly.
MIR. kondo's report says that cargo from
Japan TO America was offered In fair guam
and that the cargo furnished by the Great
Northern for trans pacific shipment was
comparatively small. Mr.. Kondo's COM
pany has no idea Of changing its service
TO o,s america. now comprising ak vessels,
for carrying japanese malta.
The directors declared Q dividend OF
IL per cent, The company 70 having built
In NagAsaki ak steamships OF an aggregate
tonnage exceeding 10000
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OF Aladdin, but il was made by the same
wizard. For years have not been callec
Now l am here. Wish quickly for the
thing you most desire
| wonder why II is that when fairies or
djinns give people wishes they almost
always wish for some foolish little thing
a, first. II was no with Harry.
| AIDED With ripe apples. and he could get
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the new quarter In 80 much surrounded and
penetrated by people other than French
shoes before going out Of doors.
The best looking Of the Haloches might
easily be worn without attracting attention.
They merely look like an unusually heavy
shoe.
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Interesting Pointt In Law.

Henry XXI Kre 3. a a. :ais.rn." ' for { 81 pml
Wholesale liquor house. 10 soliciting trade for
his house. aroriins to thu. charFe. save a
farmer s ar,nk OF , ~h, ~ ana ne va J. q
Srohlsisn GuP eSe 'n sei M w ~ Scr Without
license, and VA, bound over TO the GRIND
Jury ne orpneht a habeas corpus ectlon
n b We sR grcmno ,nn MIA that no incn
retail igSnr dealers iiceTse Re eSSa nSs Giye
ton Tor rehearins came mp yesterdny and
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1902-04-14

Rod Curry, miner 35 years old, fell
down fight of stairs at the Pacific hotel
this morning at $3.50 o'clock and was
killed.
No one saw the accident.
1t is supposed that Curry, who was a
large man weighing over 200 pounds.
stumbled at the top of the stairway lead
ing from the Office of the Pacific hotel to
the dining room, and fell to the bottom,
striking on his head.
One of the hotel boarders heard the
noise made by the fall of the body, and
ran to the spot to find Curry breathing
his last.
There was deep cut on his right tenn
pie where the head came In contact with
the bottom of the stairway.
On his Neck.
The weight Of the dead mans body
was thrown upon his neck. and Ii is likely
that his neck was broken by the fall.
Curry was a miner, and until last Sat-
urday was employed at the Rarus mine
He came to Butte nine years ago.
A year ago he moved to the Pacific
hotel, where he has since lived.
He has a sister who lived out near the
Colorado smelter, but several weeks ago
she moved to st. Paul.
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ORDER OF SURVEY ANNULLED

survey, commencing December II and
ending December ~.
December the Anaconda company
made an application to Judge Clancy for
modification of the order restricting
the survey. This was denied and De-
ccmber II another application was filed,
asking Judge Clancy to yacate and set
aside the order entirely, which was also
denied.
Writ of Control.
Thefeupon, January 2. 1902, an applica-
ton was made to the supreme court
for a writ Of supervisory control, 1t be-
ing alleged that Heinze simply asked
for the order Of survey for the pur-
rose Of harrassing the Anaconda COM
pany.
March Is writ of eertiorari was is
sued, requiring Judge Clancy to certify
up to the supreme court a record Of the
proceedings In order that they might
be reviewed.
This morning after reviewing the case
In detail Chief Justice Brantly delivered
the opinion Of the court.
Referring TO ID section of the statute
which has never been called into nues-
ton, the court holds thattit seems clear
that the inspection mast be limited to
tho premiees IN which the petitioner has
some proprietary lntci est.
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Her present address Is not known.
Curry's friends, say that this sli ter
and John Curry, brother of the dead
man living at Providence. II. l.. are the
only living relatives Curry had.
John Curry has been informed by wire
cf his brothers death.
James Confrey, who lives at No. 9iS
East Park streee, was Currys most in
innate friend.
Rod Curry was as fine a man as l ever
knew said Confrey this afternoon.
''He was generous, good-natured and
Invariably cheerful. l had known him
for the past nine years.
Was Great Surprise.
His death came as a surprise and
ssock.
Al noon today / sent my little boy to
the Pacific hotel to ask Curry to come
and dine at my house.
Imagine my surprise when the boy
turned with the news that Curry was
Tead." .E
Curry was at one time member 81
t.ie Ancient Order of United Worknen,
v alkerviile lodge.
s His remains were removed to Sher-
mans undertaking establishment.
Coroner Johnson will hold an inquest
tomorrow afternoon at o'clock.
The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1902-04-14
BRUSSELS TROUBLE IS BECOMING
MORE COMPLICATED AN, SEEMS
TO BE SPREADING.
MARTIAL LAW NOT PROCLAIMED
General Strike Has Been Started In the
Coal Mines-Rioting at Poul
and Other Places--Troops
on the Move.

Brussels, April IA dispatch from La
Louvre, n town In the province of
Hainault, announces that In accordance
with the decision of labor leaders, that q
general strike has commenced I'm the
coal mines, glass works and factories OF
the central districts, including Marie
mont and Bascoup.
Advices from Liege say that a general
strike has been started In the coal mines
of Seralng district ana at the Kcttin
foundrles at Solessn.
The quarrymen of the Amble valley
have also struck.
There has been roting at Poul, where
the convent of the Little Sisters of the
Poor has been stoned.
From Mons troops have started for
different points in the Borinage district.
AT cuesmes a town IN the province of
Hainault, 5000 strikers assembled around
the state arsenal with the object OF
already having stopped work.
The wayers of Ghent are ceasing
work, and general strike of the weaV-
ing trade. il is expected, viii be de-
clared tomorrow
A great strike has commenced at
Charlerol. $4,000 OF the 10000 coal miners
already have stopped work.
A general strike has been declared
In most of the large boot and shoe fac
tories Adequate measures have been
taken to enable the soldiers To reinforce
the police at q moments notice ut any
point required.
There has been, thus far today, no
question Of proelaimng martial law.
Such a step cannot be taken In Belgium
without special legislative action.
About 1900 men are now out on strike
In the Mons district.
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BUILDINGS WERE STRUCK By
LIGHTNING AND THREE HUN
DRIED FIRES STARTED.
ROADS ARE ALL ImPASSABLE
Embankment of the Railroad swept
Away and Some OF the Street Car
Lines Are Blocked-Houses
Collapse.
(Ry Associated presa.l

Berlin. April IA violent thunder
storm accompanied by torrentlal rain,
broke over Berlin and It's vicinity early
today, causing great damage. Many
buildings were struck by lightning.
The fire brigade was summoned to up,
wards of 300 places TO extlnguish fired
and cope with the floods. The water
was 80 deep around the approaches ia
the railroad station on Friedrich strasso
that 1t was impossible TO reach tho
depot.
At the Lehrte station some OF the wait.
ing rooms had TO be closed, as the wallis
threatened to fall A portion of the EN-.
bankment OF the Potsdam railroad near
Shoenenburg was swept away and SIM
iar damage to the circular railroad
necessltated suspension OF traffic.
The streets We're so flooded that street
cars In several districts were stopped,
The roads wore almost impossible for
pedestrians and consequently the schoold
were closed. The museum was considers
ably damaged. The decorative portions
of many buildings and the statues In
the public squares were seriously dam
aged by hail which, for time fell most
heavily.
Trains were unable to leave the Stettin
station because of the floods.
The cellars OF the Royal theater and
tho Relchsbank are under water AZ
house on Gericht strasse collapsed.
Some OF the occupants were injured.
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SHADWELL WILL SOON KNOW
HIS FATE-FIIS THIRD TRIAL

At noon today the testimony In the
Shadwel murder case was all In and
Judge Mcclernan announced he would
instruct the jury at the opening Of the
afternoon session.
The arguments followed the instruc-
tions and were made this afternoon.
The result OF the trial is "A matter OF
speculation, but II is thought that the
jury Will either dragree or the defend
ant will be convicted Of mansaughter,
as the prosecution has not made as
strong case against the accused as
was made at the two other trials
This Is partly due to the fact that two
Of the principal witnesses for the state
are dead and others have disappeared
since the last trial, two and half years
ago.
Shadwell's first trial began March l6,
1898, and on the 2bth he was convicted OF
murder in the first degree and sentenced
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Especial to Inter Mountain.)

Especial to Inter Mountain.)
Helena, April 1.-the Anaconda Cop
per Mining company won an important
victory In the supreme court this morn
ing when the order OF survey of the Ana
conda and st. Lawrence claims, granted
Heinze by Judge Clancy last December,
was annulled. Heinze made application
for the order August 8, 1889, alleging
half interest In the Fairmount claim
and claiming that the Anaconda COM
pany hal mace underground workings
into the latter claim, also that there
We're certain ore bodies which apexed
in the Fairmount, but subsequently
passed into the st. Lawrence and Ana
conda, from which the Anaconda COM
pany was unlawfully extracting yalu-
able ores.
On September q 1895 the hearing was
had, but 1t took Judge Clancy amt, De-
cember 7, 1901, to render his decision,
when he found that il was necessary for
Henze to have n survey and inspection
order which allowed an examination by
Heinze's surveyors and attorneys of al
underground workings Of the Anaconda
and st. Lawrence claims, George w.
Turner j. III. Trcrise, g. II, Robinson,
Brice N. Turner Alfred Frank and A.
l.. Stad!er were ordered to make the
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EXPLAINS THE "WAT[R CURE"

ular army and DR.. Lyons, contract sur
geon, standing near, while many soldiers
stood about.
The man, he said, was then thrown
under a water tank, which held about
100 gallons of water, and his mouth
placed directly under the faucet and
held open SO as to compel him to swal-
low the water which was allowed to
escape from the tank.
Over him stood an interpreter repeat
ing one word, which the witness said he
did not understand, but which he be-
lieyed to be the native equivalent of
Confess"
to tell what he knew, he was released
and allowed to start away.
Given Another Dose.
He was not, however, permitted to
escape, and upon refusing to give further
information he was again taken as he
was about to mount his horse and the
cure" administered for the second time
This time the man was not stripped, nor
was he taken into the building. Dr.
Lyons said the water could be brought
TO the spot and given there, and when
it was brought in a five-gallon can, one
end OF a syringe was placed in it and
the other in the mans mouth.
As he still refused, second syringe
was brought and one end of it placed
in the prostrate mans nose He still
refused and handful of salt was thrown
into the water.
This had the desired effect, and the
presldente agreed TO answ3 all ques-
tons.
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YOUNG GIRL AND HER BROTHER
WAYLAID WHILE COMING
HOME FROM CHURCH.
POLICE HAVE NO REAL CLEW
Both Children Had Been Pounded on
the Head by Some Blunt In
strument - No Trail
Left Behind.
(By Associated Press.)

Des Moines, Iowa, April 14.-Whle
returning home from Highland Park
Methodist church. on the north outskirts
of the city last evening. Mary Peterson,
15 years of age, and Thomas, aged H..
children of Peter J. Peterson, a well-to- do
dairyman. We're murdered by some un-
known person, believed to be a negro.
The boy, when found al midnight, was
alive, but died in 10 minutes, not being
able to give description Of his assail-
ant. The bodies were discovered by a
farmer, who overheard the means of the
lad.
An investigation revealed the fact that
both children had their heads crushed.
The police SO far are without clew.
The body OF the girl was found at the
foot of telegraph pole, in a ditch two
feet deep. She had been ILL treated by her
assailant.
At the base of the head she had been
hit with some hard instrument, resulting
In the fractur'ag of the skull. On the
crown of the head there were four or five
indentations, all of which would have
proven serious If not fatal. Not a brick
or an instrument can be found within the
region where the murders occurred.
Head Pounded.
The boy, who was found in the ditch
on the opposite side of the road was
most cruelty treated. Fully half dozen
indentations were made in the skull and
his face also showed evidence of being
pounded.
The Peterson family consists of seven
children. Two of the girls now living
declare they were chased at the same
spot by a man on their return during the
evening from Highland Park.
They are unable to give a description of
the man. Not far from the scene of the
murder are the Marquisville Goa; mines,
in which some 20 colored miners are en-
ployed. 1t Is the impression of the police
that the murderer was resident of Mar
quisville.
The tracks of two men have been found
leading from the scene and were followed
by the police, but they soon led into a
path, where all trace was lost.