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tl1lt h" could easily have taken Il udur
barrel into his mouth.
There was no shark hook aboard.
bnt The captain. being willing to divert
the crew. gave them leave 10 throw
over Il lot of pork which had tccome
unfit for eating. There We're four tlll
barrels et this pork. and It was fed cut
piece lH piece to that shark till the
last pound WIS gore. 1t WAS so stated
by officers aud men. and there is no
reason to DOUBT their verHcity.
When the pork was finished. a piece
Of beef was thrown ever the port rail
and tho sharl: dived under the ship
and soizcd ii. How much longc; he
would have gone Oh eating no one
could say, as there was 40 more to
giTc HIM. He seymcs! TO be as raven
> -. fe" t&c 'a@t 7 - "s fo. tie fist
How Gae Si&. Z <: I'D II that
meat and another 60 eight d" W with.
ent eating Il t'z;n... IS yet anotlcr qnos
,ion for discussion
While off tie Southeast eG.sSt Of
lava in TIE New Bedford VIA, ,cr
Joshua Lee we one day cam" ul,on a
.i.,tive craft floating on Epr hn;;:! nts
Size had y crew If SIX men ;.ze@"d,
bat they We're frightened and lee! iHSs
The cr;sft had 10 cargo in her aaG had
taken considerable water tl."o l:sA her
single hatchway. which had been left
ffe:l.
We sent 4 boat aul! "ut o',av her
vic, .t.l vi
strange discovery WAS made. here
was tl.re" f"et of wYtor ii. her hold
and tiasl -" about il the W.T. ! WAS Il
Shark fourteen feet loag. He had come
/ BOARD Viii Il s'a and instead "t be n-
eft on eiec< Lad "aH d wa lie hatch
way. I!.e II stivcs aba..d II d ,!le s1r :, k
fa;' the wh#leY a.d tree H.t..'ls@ l ter
she WAS dr::tea ashore ca t:.e Ssada!
wood island with the .l.ar..z s II s,l.ve
and rushing. about. :4,;iloH@'':: 1e= lad
hsa nothing To eat and the WATERWAYS
very fou,.
On that same cruise the wNAler ran
:nto the port of Rarung. Java. t make
nep"!rs. Some fishermen had caught
Il shark nine feet lon. in their II t. and
hn had been lying on the belci! three
hours when | saw him. Some of eur
men went to tAe snip ana CT Il y TX
barrel. knocked OFT both heads and
slipped tie shell over the shark and
drove it down to his bll@e He WAS
then rolled into the water and the tide
foated him out. In Il quarter of an
hour he WAS swimming about and
headed for the open sea-.
Sixteen days later. when 22220 miles to
the south. that Sefsame shark came
alongside There could ha no doubt of
his identity because he still wore his
wooden Jacket The barrel had Shrunk
to him so tightly that no effort of his
could remove it. 1t must have bother
ed him abo keeping under water. but
it did not seem to affect him otherwise.
In the course Of year we heard of
him no less than five times. He went
up as far as the strait of Sunda. came
back to Barung. ran over to the coast
Of Australia and when last reported
was to the south Of the Coco islands.
Nj. QUAD.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-07-17

fearance Of poor, unoffending comet.
Biela's comet which Went astray, is
supposed TO have been abso.bed by
The earth. That amazing shower of
shooting stars Which was a=en on
November y. 1877. may have oeen
the death thr0es OF tbs nhsEy space
lave3ef-I.ondcn Answers.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-07-17
The Summer Visitor.

This is the season when the sum
mcr girl goes visiting and becomes a
nuisance to the mother of the girl
she is visiting Globe.
There is said to be very little serf
bathing in Russia.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-07-17
Dangerous.

Spindthrift' got himself in a
DOT of hot water.
She-Playing with fire again?
He-Yes; two of his flames met
last night.-July Womans Home
Companion.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-07-17
Always in Dancer.

Every time there is an assassination
the Sultan of Turkey feels lucky be-
cause it was some ether man.
Washington Star.
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-04-28
CHAPTER XII

How Uncle Peter Bines Once Cut Loose.
AS the train moved on after leaving
Coplen. Percival fell to thinking Of the
type of man his father had been.
- 'Urcle Peter he. said suddenly, ''they
don't all cut loose, do they? Now you
never did?",. y-.a - '>3"-. ~ :
''Yes, did, SON. I:yanked I away from
all the hitchin' straps of decency when I
first struck it.-rje like ALI the rest of EN-
Oh. was an Indian in my. time-a reg'ler
measly hop-pickin' Siwash at that.
you don't know: Of course, what livin'
out in the open on bacon and beans does
fur a healthy mans cravin's. He gets so
he has visions day and night of high liv-
in'-nice broiled steaks with plenty Of fat
on 'em, and specially cake and preserves
and pies like mother used to make-fat,
juicy nince pies that would assay at least
$500 ton in raisins alone, say nothing of
the baser metals. He sees the crimp
around the edges made with fork, and
the picture of leaf spricked in the middle
to vent the steam, and he gets to smellin'
'em when they're pulled smokin' hot
out of the oven. And frosted cake, the
layer kind-about five layers, with stratas
Of jelly and custard and figs and raisins
and whatever it might be-. saw 'em fur
years, with big cuttin' out to show the
dissection.
But man tnat mas TO work Dy the
day fur enough to take him thru the
prospectin' -season can't blow any of his
dust on frivolous things like pie. The
hard -workin' plain food is the kind he
has to tote, and / never heard of pie
bein' in anybody's grubstake either.
# well, fur two or three years at a
time the nearest I'd ever get to them
idainties would be piece of sour-dough
bread baked on a stove lid. But when
ever I was in the big camps I'd always
go look into the bake shop windows and
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-04-28
DR.. .Shoop'S
Rheumatic Cure
Costs Nothing if It Fails.

Any honest person. who suffers from Rheuuaa-
tism 10 welcome to this offer. s,...-~ = :,
am a specialist In Rheumatism and bav.
treated more cases than any other physician-' !
think For sixteen years made 2, 600 e.nsrt-
nnents with different drugs, testing all known
remedies while searching the world for sonoe
thing better. Nine years ago found q Costly
chemical in Germany, which, with my previous
discoveries, gives me a: certain cure. -,
:: I don't mean that 1t can turn bony Joints into
flesh again; but 1t can cure the disease at. anv
stage, completely and forever. have done Il
fully GOO times. a..
rernsdy on trial. Simply write me a postal for
nv book on Rheumatism, and I WIN mail w,
an order on your druggist for six bottles Dr.
Shoop,s Rheumatic Cure. Take 1t for month
It ny risk. II 1t succeeds, the cost ia nnlv
S5Ho II it fails, I Will pay the druggist nv.
self-and your mere word shall decide It. -
/ mean that exactly. If you say the resrlt.
are mot what clain, don't expsct penny
fram you
e have no samples. Any mere sample r.,
can affect Chronic Rheumetism must be drueeed
TO the verge Of danger. use no such dr,,rs
and 1t is folly to take them. You must get ths
disease out Of the blood. s.,,.2Izs 81
NY remedy does that even in the most difn-
easss that ever met. And in all nv ernsri.
snce-in all my 1000 tests-I never fonnd an
other remedy which would cure one chronic case
h write me and will send you the order. Try.
INV remedy for as month, AZ 1t can't harm von
anyway sIf 1t falls. It Is free. -. -.
Address DR.. Shoop, Box $40, Racine wis
Mid cases not chronic, are often cured by one
cr two bottles. s. At all druggists. 30
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-04-28
RIOTS CONTINUE
Frequent Clashes Occur Between
Parisian Police and Relipionists.

Paris. April 2s.-Crowds made demon
strations at different points yesterday
over the dispersal Of the congregations.
At Marseilles the Capuchins barred them
selves within their monastery and refused
admission to the officials. A crowd num-
baring several thousands OF persons filled
the streets In the vicinity, and during a
counter demonstration stones were thrown
at the building. The police had difficulty
In restoring order.
The Benedictines at Landerneau, who
caused trouble Sunday, were dispersed
yesterday and the officials locked up their
convent company of infantry pre-
served order At Annecy a Capuchin es-
tablishment was closed and the members
Of that order were arrested for resisting
the authorities. A squadron Of dragons
preserved order.
The Versailles Capuchin esta blishme MT
was closed after a scrimma9e between a.
n1anifestin8 crowd and the officials, who
were escorted by brigade Of gendarmes
and a squadron Of Dragons. Many ar
rests were made by tho civil and military
authorities. The latter strongly guard
streets surrounding the establishment
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-04-28

made Of sawdust with plasty of Paris fur
! frostin'. The sixth day was sure it was
sawdust, and my shameful debauch comes
to an end right there. I re-
Fmembered the story about the feller
that cal'lated his chickens. wouldn't
tell any different, SO he fed 'em
sawdust instead of corn meal and by-and-
bye a. settin' of eggs hatched out-twe1ve
Of the chickens had wooden legs and the
thirteenth was a woodpecker. Say, felt
so much like two cords of four foot stove
wood that it made me plumb nervous to
ketch sight of a sawbucl<. '.' '....- -.:-,
1t took jest three weeks fur me to
get right inside again. Ny, but meat
victuals and all like that did taste mighty
scrumptious when I could handle 'em
again. ..s ..- 49, =
after that when I'd been, out in the
hills fur a season I'd get that hankerin
back, and when L come in I'd have a little
frosted-cake orgy now and then. But I
KEEP myself purity well in hand. l. never
overdone it like that again., fur you see
I'd learned som ething. First off, there
was the appetite. I soon see the giSt. OF
my fun had been the wantin' the stuff,
the appetite fur it, and if you nursed
ian appetite along and deluded it with
promises, it would stay by you like one
of them meachin yellow dogs. But as
soon as you tried to do the good fairy
act by it, and give it all it hankered fur,
|you killed it off, and then you wouldn't
be entertained by it no more, and KEEP
stirred up and busy.
! And so layed out to nurse my appe-
| tite. and aggravate it by never givin it
j quite all 1t wanted. When I was in the
hills after a days tramp I'd let it have
its fling on such delicacies as could turn
out of the fryin pan myself, but when
T got in again I'd begin to act bossy with
it. It's wantin'. reasonably that keeps
folks alive, I reckon. The mis- -blest
folks I've ever saw was them that had
killed all their wants by overfeedin' 'em.
a:HThen again, son. in this world Of hu-
man fanin,s there amt anything ever can
be as pure and blanneless and satisfyin'
as the stuff in a bake shop window looks
like it is. Don't ever furget that. It's
jest too good to be true. And in the next
pIace-pastry good in it's way, but the
best you can ever get is what's made fur
you at .home-Im talkin' about a lot of
things now that you don't probably know
any too much about. Sometimes the boys
out in the hills spends their time dream
In fur other things besides pies and cakes,
but that system Of mine holds good all
thru the deal-you can play 1t from soda
to hook and not lose out. And that's why
I'm outlastin' lot Of the boys and still
getin' my fun out of the game.
Its good system fur you, son, while
you're lcarnin. to use your head. Your
pa played it at first. then he cut, loose
And you need it Worse'n ever he did, II i
got you sized up right. He touched me
on one side, and touched you on the other.
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-04-28

| lingerin' last look and felt proud of my
self when I saw the hump in the pack
made by my bag of beans. -.. r
'That-like fiunlmery foods no. kind
of diet to be trackin':up- pay-rock on I
says to kind Of cheer myself
-Four. weeks later I struck it.. And
six weeks after that I had things in shape
sot was able to leave. was nearer to
other places twas bigger, but made fur
Grand Bar, lettin' ont I wanted to see
about a claim there. I'd "a felt foolish to
have anyone know jest why I was maxim
the trip. - .-- --.~-.- a-~
"On the way got to havin' night mares,
fear that Chink would be gone. knew
if he was I'd go down to my grave with
something comm to me because I'd never
found jest that identical cake I'd been
famishin' fur r. .-'gs $3.50. -,
when got up front 1.-The window, you
| can believe it or not, but that Chink was
jest settin' down another like it: Now
you know how that Monte Cristo carried
his class, all right. I walked in past a
counter where the Chink had crullers and
gingerbread and a lot Of low grade stuff
like that, and I set down to little table
with this here marble oilcloth on 1t. I,
Bring her .back,''aI says. kind of
tremblin', and pointin' to the window. II
- '"rhe Chink pattered UP and come back
jest let it set there.
Bring it all says; 7 want the hull
ball of wax
" six doll's,' he says, kind of cautious.
II pulled out my buckskin pouch. Bring
her back and take it out of that, I says
when I get thru I says.
He grinned and hurried back with it.
well, son, nothing had ever tasted SO
good to me, and amt say'n that want
the biggest worth Of all my money't ever
got I'd been trainin' fur that cake fur
twenty odd year, and proddin' my inn
agfnation up fur the last ten weeks.
Il ct that all, and I ct; another one With
jelly, and bunch of little round ones
with frostin' sand raisins. and a bottle of
branded peaches, and about a dozen
cream puffs, and half I a lemon pie with
Ifrostin' on top, and four or five Charlotte
rushes. The Chink had learned to make
'em all in Frisco. j..
THAT meal set me back $34.75. When
I went out noticed the plain sponge
cakes and fruit cakes and dried-appIe pies
things that had been out Of my reach fur
twenty years, and - My. but they did
look common and unappetisin' I kind of
shivered at the sight Of 'em.
Il ordered another one Of the big cakes
and two more lemon pies fur the next
day. .s 5
Fur four days I led a life Of what they
call 'unbridled licentiousness while that
Chink pandered to me, never was any
hand fur drink. but I cut loose In that
fancy food joint, now tell you. ssEs
The fifth day began to taper OFF. /
begun to have suspicion the stun was
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-04-28
l4x18xoc-.e8>8{

! just gloat-'rubber' they call it now days.
My! but they would be beautiful. Son,
If I could "a been guaranteed that kind
of a heaven, some, of them times. I'd "a
become the hottest kind Of a Christian
zealot. Ill tell you that. That spell Of
Egloatfn' was what I always looked for
| ward to when was lyin' out nights. -
| We'll, the time before made the strike
r eutftted in Grand Bar The bake-joint
|. there was jest a mortal .aggravation.
Sakes! but it did torment a body SOL!
I 1t was KEEP, by Chink, and the star play
/ in the window was a kind Of tWo-story
cake with frostin' all over the place-on
top and down the sides, and on the bot
tom fur all knew, it looked that rich.
And it had cocoatnut mixed in with it.
Say, now. that concrete looked fit to pave
/ the streets of the New Jerusalem with
and a hunk was cut out, jest like I'd al
ways dream Of SO much-showin' cross
section of rich yellow cake and fruity-
| lookin' film that jest made a man want
to, give up.
II was there three days. and every day
| I'd stop in front of that window and jest
naturally hone fur a slice Of that vision
The Chink was standin' in the door the
! first day.
| Six dolls,' he says. kind Of enticin'
me.
HE might as we'll "a said six thousand.
| I shook my head.
Next day I was there again, yearnin'.
| The Chink see me and come out.
Zone doll' iii piece he says.
st says. No, you slant-eyed heather,
or some such name as that. But when
you're looking fur tests of character, son,
don't let that one hide away from you.
I'd play that fur the heftiest moral cour-
age I've ever showed. anyway @
The third day It was gone and a lemon
! pie was there, all with nice kind Of
brownish snow on top. I was on my way
!. out then, pushin' the mule. took one
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-04-28
EARL 4 R GETS 100000
Thru His Marriage to Miss Thaw
Yarmouth Secures a Big
Annual Income.
a Hitch Occurred Before the Cere.
nony, but Matters Finally Were
e Arranged Amicably. f.

Fittsburg, April 2S.-George Francis
Alexander Seymour, the Earl of Var
mouth, and Miss, Alice Cornelia ThaW, the
daughter Of the late William Thaw, were
married here yesterday, but for time
1t looked as tho there would be no we'd
ding. s--. + .
There was hitch OF some kind, and
sossips tonight are busily engaged in
manufacturing rumors. Among the re-
ports is that the wedding was nearly
called off on account of the brides dow
cry. ~ 40 =
When the time for the ceremonies ar
rived the wedding march was begun, but
the bridal party did not appear until
thirty minutes later. The audience plain
ly showed surprise. Many rumors were
put in circulation, but nothing tangible
could be learned Of the delay.
When the waiting became irksome the
doors were thrown open to the public and
the church was crowded almost to suf-
location. When the bridal party arrived
and the ceremony began, Harry Kendall
Thaw, the BRIDES eldest brother, who was
to have given her away, failed to put in
an appearance. and her younger brother
Josiah, took the part. Dallas Byers took
the place Of Joseph Thaw as one of the
ushers
Society of Pittsburg and other cities
was represented at the wedding, and the
groom's father and mother, the Marquis
and Warehouses Of Hertford, were pres
ent. THE bride is 21 years old. She has
an income Of 100000 a year in her own
right, and her mother recently agreed to
make settlement sufficient to make the
couples income 100000 year. The earl
had his e1English lawyer with him, and
the settlement was drawn up and signed
to-day by the parties interested. BY
agreement the earl is assured of an in
come Of at least $5o.ooo a year, even if his
wife should die without children.
The earl had a disasreeabie experience
at his hotel shortly after his return from
the courthouse where he had gone to
procure his marriage license. When the
earl entered the Hotel Schenly at about
noon he was confronted by two constables,
who served him with writ from the high
court OF justice, kings bench division
London, England, for debt Of $500.
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-04-28
SHOT FROM AMBUSH
Bitter Range Feud eliminates i,

Trinidad, COL, April 28.--W. A. Roman,
a wealthy stockman Of Gallins, Okla, died
IN the hospital hero yesterday from the
effects Of two bullet wounds which he re-
ceived about ten days ago while riding on
his range. ..'
The shooting, it is alleged by his broth
er. who accompanied him here yesterday
morning. was the elimination OF one of
the bittereet range feuds in the history of
the territory. The two brothers, it is as
serted, were ambushed and shot from
their horses by three mon who are known
and are strongly fortified in some rocks
on a. hillside
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-04-28

But, you can last longer If you jest keep
the system in mind a little. Remember
what say about the window stuff"
| Percival had listened to the old mans s
story with proper amusement, and to
the didactics with that feeling 1nev-
table to youth, which says secretly, as 1t
affects to listen to one whom 1t does
not wish to wound, Eyes, yes, I know, but
you were living in another day, long
ago, and you are not mel
He went over to the desk and began to
scribbe a name on the pad of paper.
'If a man really loves one woman he'll
behave all right he observed to Uncle
Peter '-.
"Oh, amt preachin' like some do.
Havin' good time is all right; it's the
only thing, I reckon, sometimes, that
justifies the misery of livin'. But cuttin'
loose is bad pedgment. A man wakes up
to find that his natural promptin's has
cold decked him. If I smoked the best
see-gars now all the time, purity soon I'd
get soft I wouldn't appreciate 'em. That's
! why always keep some Of these out
door free-burners on hand. One Of. them
now and then makes the others taste
BETTER 49, ~
The young man had become deaf to the
musical old voice. 1890 ~ -sf.-- --.ar H.
He was writing: r.: -.
"My Dear Miss Milbrey-I send you the
nrSC ana only poem L ever WrOte may,
of course, be a prejudiced critic, but it
seems to me to possess in abundance
those graces of meter, rhyme, high
thought in poetic form and perfection of
| finish which the critics unite in demand
| Ing To be honest with you-and why
should 1 conceal that conceit which every
artist is said secretly to feel in his own
production FL have Encountered no other
poem in our noble tongue which has so
moved and ca Dtiyated me: :5-sf~- iS 4E"55
1T is but fair to warn you that this
is only the first of volume Of similar
poems which I contemplate writing And
as the theme appears now to be mex
haustible, I am not sure that I can see
any limit. to the number Of volumes I shall
be compelled to issue. Pray accept this
authors copy with his best and hopeful
lest wishes. One other copy has been
sent to the book reviewer of the Already
Lyre, in the hope that he. at least, will
have the wit to perceive in it that ulti-a
mate and ideal perfection for which the
humber bards have hitherto striven in
vain.
Sincerely and seriously yours,
p Percival Binesn
Thus ran the exalted poem on sheet
AvIcE MILBREY.
Avice Milbrey, Avice Milbrey. Arice Mflbrey,
Ayice Milbrey, Avice Milbrey, y,
Avice Milbrey, Avice Milbrey,
Arice Milbrey. Avice Miibrey, Atice Milbrey
And ninety-eight thousand other verses quite
(To Be Continued To-morrow.)
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-04-28
SHE DIED OF FRIGHT.

New York, April 2s.-Loretta Magee, "a years
old, only daughter of Simon Magee, an inspector
in the department of highways, died Sunday at
to paralysis of the heart, as result Of fright
discovering burglars in her home two months
ago.. When the young woman discovered the
burglars she became hysterical. Miss Magee
received such nervous shock that her heart be-
came weak and three weeks ago it was found
necessary to call in physician. Sunday NOR
ming she became i'll and Dr. Theodore Burr was
summoned, but upon his arrival she was dead.
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-04-28
MONEY FOR FILIPINOS
The San Francisco Mint Will Shin
2OO 600 pesos to +h. Ts1onde

San Francisco, April 2s.-The authorities
at, the mint are busy experimenting the
packing Of the 100000 pesos, the new
coins for the Philippines, which are to be
shipped to the islands on the transport
Thomas. sailing on May 1. The money
will be sent in 500 heavy pine boxes, bound
with iron. The pesos are packed in sacks
each containing I, 900 pesos, and two sacks
will be placed in each box. Each sack is
sealed and each box Is doubly sealed first
with the treasury then with the war de-
partment seal.
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-04-28
= PACIFIC SQUADRON AT FRISCO,

San Francisco. April 2s.-within few day,
the Pacific squadron will arrive In port from
long cruise that has extended as far south as
Honduras. The flagship New York. flying the
pennant Of Rear Admiral Glass. and the cruisers
Boston, Marblehead and Ranger are in company,
and have Just sailed from San Diego. Upon
its return the feet will be placed in order pre-
Nnalnary to the visit Of President Roosevelt