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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-11-07
Public Notices.
IMPORTANT To TAXPAYERs.

IMPORTANT To TANPAYERs.
Department Of Finance-Bureau for the CofIecsfo,
Of Taxes No 81 Chambers Street (Stewart Buildingl
New York. November I. 1905.
NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN TO ALL PER
sons whose taxes for the year 1908 have not been
paid before the first day OF November
unless the shall be paid the Receive =.
Taxes at his office in the borough in which
is located follows |0F0-''
BOROUGH OF MANHATTAN No 81 Chambers street.
Manhattan, ~. Y
BOROUGH OF THE BRONX. corner Third and Ire
mont avenues. The Bronx. y. Y.
BOROUGH OF BROOKLYN. Rooms 2 4
Municipal Building. Brooklyn. N Y ~ .
BOROUGH OF QUEENS. Jackson avenuo al
Fifth street. Long Island city N Y anu
BOROUGH OF RICHMOND. corner Bay and Sand
streets. Stapleton. Staten Island. n. Y
before the first day Of December o
charge. receive and collect taxes "a
ing unpaid that day. in addition the an,ounf -
such taxes. one centum the amount Thereof ~.
provided by sections ole and e1S the C;reater Ne
York Charter tchapter SIS. Laws 1871 49,"
DAVID Z. AUSTEN. Receiver Of Take.
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Department OF Water supply. Gas and Electric'ty.
Room 1886. Nos 1521 PARK Row. Boroush Of Manhat'A~
SEALED BIDS OR ESTIMATES WILL BE
~ received BY the Commissioner OF Water supply Gas
and Electricity the above Office until O'clock D. M
TIIUR>D NOVEMBER Ie. 1905.
chS Manhattan and The Bronx.
FOR FURNISHING pEIJV FIRING AND raAYlNe
WATER MAINS IN BELMONT. BRIGGS. CLINTON
CsANHRFT,F,NCs CRESCENT. HUGHES. NORRIS
OIIN PARK. PROSPECT WALTON AND WEBSTER
AVENUES: IN BNI(RETTO. DONGAN. FREEMAN.
ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY SECOND. ONE HLN11
DRIED AND FORTY NINTH AND ONE HUNDRED
AND EIGHTY SECOND STREETS; IN DENMAN
PLACE. TIMSON PLACE. CROTONA PARK SOUTH
AND FORDHAM ROAD.
Fer full particulars city Record
ROBERT GREER MONROE. Commissioners
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r W ALL DE- 1hECElN III ~
the Bureau OF Supplies and Accounts. Navy Derart-
ment Washington. d. c. until Il O'Clock noon Novsno-
10 1903 and publicly opened Immediately Thereafter 70
furnish the yard. New York y y. quantity OF
incandescent lamps. illuminating outfits. cable wire cor
duit tape electrical supplies bolts and nus
rvets hair brushes deck scrubbing brushes cotton t
undershrts bleached drl blraps white muslin
kitchen utensils staterOom crockerv and rings lavt
fittings. glass. buckets nails. ockS.
hardware hand tools. rivet FORCES chaln
blocks. pipe crucibles lamps and lanterns. lestne
and leather betting ash cedar spruce white pine yellow
pine hewn ard sawed timber brass. copper steel ion.
solder. sheet zinc. sheet lead sun
sperm oil concentrated I've rosin glue phosphide %
calcium pipe fittings hose couplings copper and ste~l
tubing valves timed pears and peaches. Stationery
boat stoves. and athletic OUTFITS
Blank proposals furnished application % ne
Office. New York. y Y X. T. B. AAhklS.
Paymaster General L. s. y lV-l0&
Ofhce OF the Department % Parks. Arsenal Buiiins
SiNtyfOurth street. Borough Or Nan
haitian The CITY OF New York - -
SEALED BIDS OR ESTIMATES WILL BE
received BY PARK Board the above o.cs OF ths
Department % Parks until . O'Clock m. on
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10. 1908.
Borough of Brooklyn
FOR FURNISHING ALL THE LABOR AND MA
TE.RIAIS To COMPLETE THE PAINTING OF THE "
TERROR or THE CENTRE PAVILION. BROOKLYN
INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES.
WILLIAM r. WIILCCN.
JOHN =. EUSTIS.
RICHARD YOUNG.
Commissioners
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SurrOgates' Notices.

HERSCHEL, MAXIMILIAN-TO ALL PER
having claims against the Estate of Macmillan
Herschel late of the County of New York,
n pursuance order Hon. Abner c. Thomas,
Of Surrogates the County OF New York bearing
14h Of October 1909 notice is hereby given
the undersigned intend apply for Ad-
minstraon the goods chattes and credits which
OF Macmillan HersChel. deceased under pro
o Code o. Procedure
which provides for the fixing OF the penalty
a exceeding double the of the claims
creditors of presented the
having claims against the Estate IF said deceased
hereby notified present Surrogates
the County New York their Office in County
House in the Borough OF Manhattan, New
City on before the day December 1903
Dated New York. October 10th, 1908.
ADOLPH HERSCHEI.
LORENZO SEMPLE.
COCDERT BROTHERS. Attorneys for Petitioners No.
II Broadway Borough OF Manhattan. New York City.
New YOrk
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pRoPosALs,- NEW LONDON. COM. Nov

90. isOS-SeaIed proposals n tripicate will os -
ceved once OF Constructing Quarte-nastsr New Loa
don. Conn. until A NJ Nov. - 1898. for rip rap =.
Fort Michie n Y u ; reserves right 20 reject or
all proposals part thereof Informs
furnished application Envelopes containins D.
posaIs should be marked Proposals for rip az 80
Niche. n " and addressed Constructing quarter
ma Granite street London.
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TIsEMENT IN TIE CITY RECORD OF novu,,,
-. 1903. Of the confirmation by the Board q,
Assessors entering Bureau for tho caii.e
ton OF and Arrears. assesnent o.
Local. IMPROVEMENTS N THE BOROUGH or THE
23Rp WARD SECTION 10 SOUTHERN Ror-tr
VARD-SENER and appurtenances. Iosenn
Street and land Street. between East iaa,h
Street and Longwood Avenue.
EDWARD NJ CIRCUIT. ComptrolI,r
CITY OF New York. November q. 1909
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- Abner c. Thomas. a Surrogate Of the County OF New
York notice is hereby given to all having claims
Stiefel, late of the County al
deceased present the with vouchers thereof to
the subscriber at his place OF transacting business
the Office of Leonard Bronner No 300 broadway in
the City Of New York, before the 18th day of
Dated New York, the 4th day OF November. 1903
JULIUS APRIL. Administrator.
LEONARD BRONNER, Attorney for Administrator. 300
Broadway Borough OF Manhattan. New York City.
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A ADVERTISEMENTS and subscriptions for The Tribune
"A received a their Uptown once.
NO. 1884 BROADWAY.
Advertisements will be received at the following branch
Offices regular Office until O'Clock p viz
264 Sth-ave., s. cor 2Sd-st.: 153 6th-ave., cor
i2th-st; 90 East 14th-st.g 2S7 West 42d-st., be-
tween eth and sth aves; 263 West I25th-st.; 1.33s
:Sd-ave.. 10th and nth SITS: 1.O26 3d-nve-
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MERRIAM. ELLEN MN PURSUANCE

" Of an order Aoner C. Thomas Surrogate
OF the County Of New York notice is hereby given 70
all persons having claims age.A<t Ellen NJ Merriam
late Of the County OF New York, deceased.
the with vouchers thereof. the subscriber his
place Of ransaetng business OF the Office Of Charles
/ Iatting, No. "a Pine Street, City New York Bor
oush Of Manhattan. before the thirteth day OF
| December next
Dated, New York. June 27th 1903.
] WALTER B. MERRIAM. Administrator.
CHARLES p. LATT1NG Attorney Administrator 81
Pine Street New York City Borough OF Manhattan
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Frank T. Fitzgerald. Surrogate Of the County Of
New York. notice Is hereby given to all persons having
Cole Morgan late Of the County
New York deceased present the with vouchers
subscriber At his place Of transactng
Of Evarts, Tracy & Sherman. his
attorneys So Wall Street, the City Of New York.
| on or before the eighteenth day OF February
Dated New York. the third day Of August 1903.
MATTHEW MORGAN Executor.
EVARTS, TRACY & SHERMAN. Attorneys for Executor
Wall Street. New York N. Y.
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u PURSUANCE OF AN ORDER OF HON

Abner &. Thomas a Surrogate Of the County OF New
York Notice hereby all persons having claims
Boyd. OF the County OF New York
10 with vouchers thereof
the place transactiug business. Room
T3s. Street in The City Of New York,
before the 2nd Of May next.
Dated New York. the Both Gay OF octoher ls3
J. BOYD.
Administrator with the Will annexed.
r. A. CAMPBELL Attorney for the Administrative etc
Broad N Y
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q PURSUANCE OF AZ ORDER or HON

Abner g. Thomas. Surrogate OF the County Of New
York notice is hereby given 20 all having claims
against William J. Banghart, County
York. deceased. present same. vouchers
thereof TO the subscriber at his OF transactng
business the Office ot Edgar Whitlock I4I
way the Borough Of Manhattan in The City Of New
York. or before the twentieth day Of April next.
Dated New York, the 18th day Of October. 1908
OSCAR II. BANGHART. Executor.
EDGAR WHITLOCK Attorney Executor. 14l Broad
Borough OF Mania ttan, New York City.
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building concrete and granite euIshead wall a.s
IN and paving IN the % same between ~ -
54th Streets. East River tContrac. No SIS W. ,s,t
ceived Commissioner OF Docks. at Pier 500
OF Battery Place until IL o'clock noon November n M
Cror particulars City Rsc0rd-)
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Abner c. Thomas. a Surrogate of the County OF New
York notice hereby given 10 ell persons having claims
against B. Russell Kate Fowler Kate r
Fowler. Kate Towel. Kate Il. lowell or Kate
Towle County New York. deceased.
sent the with vouchers thereof TO the SUBSCRIBE
his place OF transactng business Room 80 Fifth
of 100 Broadway in the City Of New York.
before the twenty second day of December next
Dated New York. the 18th day Of June 1903.
WILLIAM II. Russell Administrator.
traitor 30 Broadway. New York City
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order Abner {. Thomas a Surrogate
County Of New York. notice IL hereby given all per
having claims Henry Steers, late OF the
County Of New York deceased the with
vouchers thereof the subscribers their place
trHnsactng business Office Charles Thaddeus
Terry. No. 167 Broadway. in tie Borough Of Manhattan
IN the city OF New York before the LIST day Of
May next Dated New York. the 18th day OF October
1903. HENRY STEERS.
JAMES r.. STEERS.
PHOEBE a. STEERS,
Executors.
CHARLES THADDEUs TERRY. Attorney for Executors.
i6T Broadway. Borough OF Manhattan City OF New
York
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Official Legal Notices.
4 TTENTTON IS CALLED 10 THE ADV

I1ENIlON 10 CALLED III THE ADV Elk
TIsEMENT IN THE CITY RECORD Of November
10 Is. 1903. of the confirmation by the
of Assessments, and the entering in the Bureau
Collection OF Assessments Arrears OF
ment for LOCAL IMPROVEMENTS IN THE BOROUGH
OF THE BRONX:
BIRD WARD. SECTION 10. EAST I4isT STREET
REGULATING, GRADING. SETTING CJTRRSTONES
FIAGGING. LAYING CROSSwALKS BITII M S:G
FENCES AND PLANTING TREES. from Cypress ave
Locust avenue.
EDWARD NJ. CIRCUIT Comptrou.r
city Of York. November 4. 1903
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Cont. No. $50 BY the Commissioner
OF Docks. Ficr Battery Plice. ocloc<
Monday November o. particulars see cay
Record ~''
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Dated October IS. 1903.
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JOHN AITKEN Attorney for Petitioner. go Broadway.
York. ~. Y.
Amador ledger., 1903-10-23
Phil May and His Models.

Many of the figures in Phil Mays
book "Guttersnipes" were sketched
from memory while staying up the riv-
er.
Zone day." he said, when speaking
on the subject, 81 saw a delightful lit
tie model for my purpose, dirty, rag
ged bit of girl humanity. / spoke to
her and wrote a message on my card
for her to give to her mother Next
morning she came in charge of an older
sister, as tattered and unkempt as her
self. When 1 had made my sketches
of the two of them 1 asked the elder
one if she had any more sisters like
herself. oh, yes, four or five, worse
than l am Bring them round said
l. is the little un to come againY she
asked. No, I've done with her. The
next day they came, the little un in
cluded. She had persisted in it, for
she said: He's my artist. 1 found him
first. London Tit Bits.
Amador ledger., 1903-10-23
Wordsworth,s secret.

And Wordsworth's secret? Any poets
secret? Well, for aught we can see, it
remains a secret, something as far
beyond human subtlety to explain as it
Is beyond human ingenuity to produce.
"The wind bloweth where 1t Iisteth."
Genius" "inspiration"-it is hard to
get on without the old words, vague
though they be. Nay, it is precisely
because they are vague that they serve
so useful purpose. Even Professor
Raleigh, after speaking almost con-
temptuously of impatient critics" who
seek to account for Wordsworth's
amazing inequality" by assuming that
sometimes he was inspired, at other
times not, is heard a little afterward
lamenting that In Wordsworth's case,
as in Coleridge's, "the high tide of in
spiration was followed by long and
wandering ebb."
One feels like quoting Lowell, whose
arrow in such competitions is apt to
hit the white. Wordsworth, he says,
"was not an artist In the strictest sense
of the word; neither was Isaiah, but he
had rarer. gift, the capability of being
greatly inspired. ."-Bradford Torrey in
Atlantic.
Amador ledger., 1903-10-23
British Museum Lottery.

The British museum was begun with
$500,000 raised by lottery scheme. OF
that lottery, authorized in 1853, the
archbishop of Canterbury, the lord
chancellor and the speaker of the house
Of commons were the managers and
trustees. This amount was $1,000, 900,
raised by fifteen dollar tickets, to pro-
vide $1,0O0,O00 for prizes and 5000
for the purchase of the Sloane collec-
tions and the Harleian library and for
cases, house room and attendants.
The operations of one "Peter Leheup,
Esq.," says the London Chronicle, made
the lottery notorious. He fraudulently
"cornered" the tickets, 5000 or SO of
them passing by his aid to a Sampson
Gideon, who sold them at premium.
An inquiry instituted by the house of
commons resulted In the prosecution
by the attorney general Of Leheup.
The per lty was a fine of f1,O0O, but
this was by no means excessive, as
100000 was Leheup's estimated profits
from the fraud.
Amador ledger., 1903-10-23
The Dust In the Air.

The air of cities is impregnated with
dust and filth. To combat their dele
terious effects the streets should be
freely ventilated and watered. Wind
and rain are the great destroyers of
dust. From the fields the wind lifts
the debris of vegetation-pollen, seeds,
spores Of fungi and bacteria; the dust
of the soil-silica, sillcate Of alumni
ium. carbonate and phosphate of lime
and peroxide of iron. In and proceed
ing from volcanic regions fine particles
of carbon and dried mud are taken up
and waited hundreds or even thou
sands of miles. In and round about
cities and towns the finely ground dust
of the pavements, fragments of straw,
hair, stable manure, debris of insects,
SCOT, epithelia from floor sweepings or
shaken from rugs, carpets and bedding,
together with gases and other volatile
emanations from factories, rendering
establishments, abattoirs, tanyards and
compost heaps Of all sorts, though not
OF the air, are in 1t, in so much as to
be in some degree almost everywhere
present.-Sanitarian
Amador ledger., 1903-10-23
By Hook or Crook.

Several explanations are given of
the expression "by hook or crook"
Two London lawyers, Hook and Crook,
were celebrated for locating sites of
buildings after the great fire, the own
ers often concluding that they must
get back their property by "Hook or
Crook" Once voters open to bribery
indicated it by placing straws in their
shoes and were called STRAW men,"
and when prosecuted for this offense
they were brought before Judges Hook
and Crook and often got off "by Hook
and Crook" 1t not infrequently hap
pened that Wit of habeas corpus was
issued, and as often the sheriff's re-
turn had not the Endorsement "hic est
corpus" is, there is the body
and the offender went scot free, which
action the public regarded as ''hocus
pocuS"
Amador ledger., 1903-10-23
China,s AIum Mountain.

In China, about twelve miles from
the village of Lionchek, there is, ac-
cording to a writer In the Liverpool
Post, a mountain of alum, which, In
addition to being a natural curiosity,
is a source of wealth for the inhab-
itants of the country, who dig from it
yearly tons of alum. The mountain is
not less than ten miles in circumfer-
ence at its base and has a height of
nearly 1000 feet. The alum is OBJ
tained by quarrying large blocks of
stone, which are first heated in great
furnaces and then In watts filed with
boiling water. The alum crystallizes
and forms layer about SIX inches in
thickness. This layer is subsequently
broken up into blocks weighing about
ten pounds each.
Amador ledger., 1903-10-23
WHY He DIDN'T MARRY.
Phil Mays story of an Australia,
Prisoner

Phil Mays story of an Australian
Prisoner.
Phil May, the English artist, worked
In his youth on the Bulletin of Sydney,
Australia. Occasionally the young man
would be assigned by the Bulletin peo-
pie to the police courts. and from these
assignments he would bring back
sketches, now humorous and now pa
thetic, that were admirable.
One of the best of the Bulletin
sketches portrays a thin, hangdog man
In the prisoners bar talking to very
mild and sympathetic looking judge.
Mr.. Mays story of the sketch was that
the prisoner had been dragged before
the judge every few months for a num-
Der of years.
"Your face is familiar here" the lat
ter now said.
'Tt is, your honor, worse luck" re-
turned the prisoner.
"Are you married yet?'
''Not yet, sir"
mot yet eh? How long is it now
that you have been engaged"
Seven years, your honor"
$50 long as that? Why in the world
haven't you got married in all that
timer
Because, your honor" the prisoner
explained, "Ann and 1 haven't man
aged to be both out of Jail at the same
time. Boston Post.
Amador ledger., 1903-10-23
FireprOOf Wood.

Though there are number of diff
ferent kinds of wood, ebony, ironwood,
ETC., of such close, hard fiber that even
the fiercest fire has difficulty in "get-
ting hold" of it, there is only one sort,
so far as now known, that is practical
ly fireproof. This is a small, scraggy
tree, native of South America, called
the shopala, with thick, tough, stringy
bark full of sort of fire resisting sap,
This curious shrub grows largely on
the great, grassy savannas, which are
swept by fire almost every year dur
ing the heat of the summer. There ii
thrives splendidly, for the annual
scourge only kills off its bigger and
harder competitors and leaves the
ground free for the growth of this
vegetable asbestus.
Amador ledger., 1903-10-23
The Women of Moro.

The women's dress in Bongoa shows
great variety of color, but because of
their black hued teeth, which are often
filed to an arch In front, they are, as a
rule, not charming to look upon. Their
hair is fringed over the forehead and
temples, while at the back it is drawn
into knot, from which one end inva-
riably straggles, giving a most untidy
effect. The weather. women wear
their finger nails very long, in some In
stances almost as long as the finger it.
self, and sometimes the nail is protect
ed with an artificial shield Of silver.
All have their ears pierced, and many
Of them wear a round bone or a stick
resembling cigarette in shape and
size thrust through the aperture.-Ev-
erybody's Magazine.
Amador ledger., 1903-10-23
Liszt Playing Chopin.

AS Liszt played his demeanor changed
in sympathy with the intensely dra-
matte content of the work During the.
somber fantasie his teeth were set, his
lips and massive jaw firm. his entire
face almost rigid, his gray eyes burned
with the composers inspiration, and his
body Strengthened out as he leaned
somewhat away from the keyboard.
When he struck the ponderous chords
Of terror there was vehemence almost
diabolical in the sudden swoop of his
great hands, and the tremendous crash
fairly made one shiver His nostrils
became distended, and his breath came
quickly, as one laboring under great ex-
citement. Indeed, 1t seemed that the
spell of the great tone poet" with
whom in his earlier years he had been
on such friendly terms, had completely
mastered him, as though he felt him
self again in his presence and he
would once more prove his devotion to
Chopin's inspired art and show him
that Liszt still knew and could portray
his innermost soul.-Silas G. Pratt in
the Booklovers Magazine.
Amador ledger., 1903-10-23
p ------,r- - -, -
HENRY CLAY, TROTTER.
The Price George NJ. Patchen, His
Owner, Put Upon Him.

The Price George NJ. Patchen, HIS
Owner, Put Upon Him.
When William Wadsworth of Gen
eseo, as John Gilmer Speed tells the
story in the Century, went to George
NJ. Patchen Of New Jersey to buy the
famous racing stallion Henry Clay, Mr..
Patchen thought to put a prohibitive
price upon him.
eve will give the horse all the water
he can drink" said he, "and then weigh
him, and you may give me a dollar a
pound for him." Mr.. Wadsworth
promptly accepted, and as the horse
weighed 1,05O pounds that fixed his
price in dollars for what Mr.. Speed
evidently thinks one of the finest sires
in the history of the American turf.
The story Is told Of Henry Clay that
when Mr.. Wadsworth needed for his
sister a doctor from Rochester, thirty
eight miles away, Henry Clay was har-
messed to two seated wagon and did
the journey both ways in less than five
hours.
''Then again." Mr.. Speed writes,
when Mr.. Wadsworth had a match at
mile heats, best three in five, he drove
his horse ninety-hve miles the day be-
fore the race rather than pay forfeit
and then won the race, one heat being
trotted in 2:35. This was in 1S47. Con-
slider the clumsy shoes, the heavy sui
kies and other impedimenta of that
time in comparison with the wirelike
plates, ball bearing, pneumatic tired
sulkies and cobweblike harness of to-
day, and decide whether even the most
than that"
Amador ledger., 1903-10-23
-KEMANAcs ARE ANCIENT.
They Were Made by the Greeks as
Far Back as A. ID. 1OO

They Were Made by the Greeks as
Far Back as A. d. 100.
According to Theon, the commentator
on Ptolemy, almanacs, as we under
stand the word, were constructed from
about the year 100 A. D. by the Greeks
Of Alexandria, but the dates Of festi-
walls and other events of national inter
est had been exposed on marble tab
lets in Rome 200 years B. G. Lalande,
an authority on the subject, states that
the earliest almanac of which the au-
thors name Is preserved was that of
Solomon Jarchus, who lived in the mid
die Of the twelfth century.
A primitive English calendar or al
manac was called the "prime-staff." !"
"rein-stock" or "clog almanac" 1t was
made of wood. bone or horn, about
eight inches long, like a square ruler.
On this the days were marked by a
series Of notches, every seventh being
of larger size The festivals were indi-
Gated by symbols, as were the golden
number and the cycle of the MOON
Specimens of this "clog almanac" may
be seen at the British museum and in
museums or libraries at Oxford, Cam
bridge and Manchester. Some of larger
size were hung "at one end of the man-
tle-tree of their chimneys" for general
use, and smaller ones were carried in
the pocket or on the walking stick
Pearson's Weekly
Amador ledger., 1903-10-23
A Canny Scot.

A canny Scot lived in a small settle
ment some miles from the neighboring
town. The distance, however, could
be considerably lessened by cutting
through large estate. This practice
was accordingly so much resorted to
that the owner gave peremptory orders
for all trespassers to be turned around
and sent back the way they came.
One time, however, the Scot In ques-
ton, having occasion to take some arti-
cles to town in wheelbarrow, decided
to run the risk and was about half
way through when he saw the owner
in the distance. Not relishing the idea
Of retracing his steps, he bethought
himself of a scheme, and, promptly
turning the wheelbarrow to face the
direction from which he came, he sat
down upon it as If resting.
Soon the owner came up and, seeing
him there, roughly ordered him to turn
around and go back.
AS back" was In this case his OBJ
jective point, the Scot obeyed and went
on his way rejoicing.