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Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1906-03-15

mouth when a noise of feet and a
changing Of iron proclaimed a renewed
attack upon the tower. Upon those
heights, as l have explained, lay the
wreckage and debris Of centuries.
Cropping in this, Montgomery found a
large stone and, leaning owe the para
pet, hurled it down upon the crowd.
Almost as quick as thought we follow
ed his example and had the satisfac-
ton of seeing the parties withdraw to
a safer distance. It was now plain to
me that Sercombe had issued an order
against the use Of firearms. If the
business could be managed without IN
due disturbance, he had decided that it
was wiser. Indeed, the strange part of
saving the first shot and my own sig,
nal Of distress, the conflict had been
carried on in comparative silence.
I had also come to the conclusion
that the fight was u to obtain pos
session Of ourselves. 1t was to secure
our bodies that the attack was directed.
Sercombe knew well enough and Hood
knew ever better that to gain access
to the precincts Of the castle meant
very little provided we we're still at
liberty and able to resist q forcible re-
moval Of the treasure. Bound and
gagged or stunned or dead we should
offer them no further trouble, and the
treasure of the Vyvians would be theirs
to deport at their convenience.
Sheppard clicked the trigger Of his
revolver. 1.-The first man that essays
this position shall find the time has
come for real warfare" he observed
quietly.
= do not be in a hurry" answered.
"We have still the upper hand" He
waited expectant. You know the
drum tower down which ! climbed?
I think it would not be a bad plan to
venture that and take them in the
rear
"The devils are plotting mischief"
said Sheppard uneasily.
Il wonder IL we could manage that
ascent" | said.
Montgomery moved forward. Il WILL"
he said.
NO. no. said Sheppard.
II think had better 60" I hazarded.
you're wanted here said Mont
gomcry. II know the way" And ere
/ could speak or interfere he sprang
away and was on the ladder leading to
the southern b%attlements.
Come back. Come back" called
under my breath.
Med. Ned, Don't spoil his chances"
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1906-03-15
my mongreI Indians here I'd reckon :.
dnish the job in a couple of dave
one has to use the material Mt hon, ~
kTo BE c%oNrrNuEp.I
COFFEE HOUSES
The First Of hen, That Wer. o,.
In Old England.

Our ancestors could little imuyir,
that their descendants would Lo
duced to the necessity of scnaiu,
the East and West Indies for tn. ~"
terials for Il comfortable breakfast ~
Is observed that while Nathaniel cow
plus, a Cretan baron, continual y.
Ballot college, in Oxford, which no ,of,
In 164S, he made the drink for his -
use called coffee and usually drank i
every morning, being the first coffoo
as the ancients OF that house jnforuo1
him, that was eve drunk in Dixon
In the year 1850, we learn, '.I,cor
opened a coffey house at the Angel IN
the parish of st. Peter in the east
Oxon, and there it was, by some who
delighted in novelties, drunk. In l65I
Cinques Jobson, a Hebrew aud ,Jar-
obite, born near Mount Libanus. sold
coffey in Oxon, and in 1866 Artti I'm.
yard, a%pothecary, sold coffey publidv
In his house against All Souls ColI
This coffey house continued till his
majesty's return and after, and then
they became more frequent and had
an excise set on coffey."
The author Of the New View of Lon.
don Q708) found 1t recorded that one
James Farr, a barber, who kept the
coffee house which is now the Rain.
bow, by the Inner Temple gate Zone
Of the first in England), was in the year
1857 presented by the Inquest of St
Dunstan's in the west for making and
selling a sort Of liquor called coffee as
a great nuisance and prejudice of the
nelghborhood. And who could then
have thought London would ever have
had near 5000 such nuisances and that
coffee would have been (as now, 17Os,
so much drunk by the best of quality
and physicians"
In the Kingdoms Intelligencer, a
weekly paper, published by authority
in 1862, are inserted four advertise
ments, the last Of which is as follows;
AT the coffee house, in Exchange al
ley, is sold, by retail, the right coffee
powder, from 4 shillings to Gs. Sd. per
pound, as in goodness; that pounded
in a mortar at 2 shillings per pound;
also that termed the East India berry
at 10 pence per pound, and that
termed the right Turkie berry, well
garbled, at 3 shillings per pound; the
ungarblcd for less, with directions
| gratis how to make and use the same.
Likewise there you may have chloe
olate, the ordinary pound boxes at
Is. Cd. per pound. the pe"fumed from
4 shillings to 10 s%hillinss per pound;
! also sherbets made in Turllic Of lem
ons, roses and violcts pcrfume1. and
tea or chocolate, according to its good
ness, for all of which if any gentleman
shall write OF send they shall be sure
Of the best as they shall order and to
avoid deceit. Warranted under the
house seal-viz, Morat the Great, etc.
Further, all gentlemen that are Gus
toners and acquaintance are (the
next New Years day. invited at the
sign Of the Great Turk at the new cot
fee house in Exchange alley, where
coffee will be free Of cost."-New York
| Herald.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1906-03-15
Humor ana Philosophy
BY DUNCAN NJ. SMITH
ON CLOSER VIEW.

The high and mighty seem to be
So very far away
Their halos we can hardly see.
Though looking straight that way.
But when we get SO very near
That we may elbows rub
We find the greatest one. I fear.
A very common dub.
Removed from common men SO far
And seated at the top,
Each seems to be almost a star
Without a chance to drop;
So very wise and so profound,
But listen for the thud-
The graft committee comes around,
And, 10. their name is mud!
A breath that hardly is a puff
II 1t IS rightly sent
May often serve to call their bluff
And cause them to repent.
The reputation that appeared
So mighty and so grand
You see as soon as it is queered
Was founded on the sand.
We're all Of us about alike
Though high or down below,
And II an average we could strike
I think that it would show
The man who labors with his hands
Is every bit as fit
AS he who with the mighty stands
And for a time is it..
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1906-03-15

signal.
clal popularity. and circumstances or
MS own wick"dness had made him a
conndre and a very bad scoundrel
Mt that.
ana so 1, was that | responded quite
anably TO bis greeting, oblivious of tho
past and almost forgetting the future.
ne stood by me. surveying the encamp.
mcht, his bulky form OVERCOMING mine
ov tire" inches at the least.
ITS a pity. Mr. Greatorex," saws
me- rejecting, TINT these animals hive
no Spunk. Spnnk goes n long way with
inc. | VIII admit. and that warns NV
near' to YOU. | doff my hat to MI.
and, by the way, to my
young friend Montgomery also"
what you lack in quality. | suppose,
20" calculate TO make up In quantity"
| said grimly.
PRECISELY, Mr.. Greatorex. You've hit
IT, lhurs the rub. IL | had three az
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1906-03-15
[coNIINUED.l
Nj.

CHAPTER NJ.
dawn was now abreast of
the hilltops, and the trees of the
park stood u like shadows in
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1906-03-15
CHI APTER XII.

VT was not long before we were Wis
tied by the first retribution for
what might be accounted a crime
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-06-03
NEVER TOUCHED HIM.
Burbank, the Potato Wizard, Escape d
the Earthquake.

From the Cleveland Leader
Santa Rosa was in the earthquake re-
glon, and Santa Rosa is the place where
Luther Burbank has been playing the
wizard of science with fruits and flowers.
1t is there that he has been giving the
world wonderful object lessons on the pos
sibilities of molding nature in the service
of man.
Therefore it is good news that the Bur-
bank home and the Burbank farm escaped
the ruin which fell upon many buildings
in Santa Rosa The marvels which have
been going on under the eye and touch of
this magician will not be interrupted by
the CONFUSION of nature which wrecked
many fortunes and massive edifces and
Knocked the hopes and expectations of
strong and successful men.
Burbank's experiments have been so
brilliantly instructive and the results of
his labors have been so wonderful that It
Is impossible to estimate the value of
the work he has done for his country and
the world. 1t may prove that he has
added more to the productiveness of Cali
fornla and the United States than all the
enterprises which were wrecked or Grip
pied by the earthquake and the fires which
it kndled.
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BE SE w Err DEPAR 7 w z ~ T.
MILLIONS FOR AFIRST
FOLIO SHAKESPEARE
THIS RESULT is OBTAINED BY
coMPoUNDlNG THE INTEREST
ON THE ORIGINAL COST OF
FIVE DOLLARS.

Seven years after the death of Shakes
peare his collected works we're published
in a large folio volume. now known as
"The First Folio Shakespeare says
Folnes of Science. This was in the year
1923 The price at which the volume was
originally sold was 81. but perhaps we
ought to take into consideration the fact
that at that time money had value, or
purchasing power. at least eight times
that which it has at present. Halliwell-
Phillips estimates it at from twelve to
twenty times its present value. For this
circumstance. however, full allowance
may be made by multiplying the ultimate
result by the proper number
The folio is regarded as the most val
liable printed box in the English Ian
guage--the last copy that was offered for
sale in good condition having brought the
record price of nearly $1,000, so that It is
safe to assume that a perfect copy in the
condition in which it left the publishers
hands. would readily command $4,000. and
the question now arises. What would be
the comparative value of the present
price 5000 and of the original price
(GD placed at interest and compounded
every year since 1923?
Over and over again I have heard it said
that the purchasers of the First folio"
had made a splendid investment and the
remark is frequently used in reference to
the purchase of books in general, ire
spective of the present intellectual use
that may be made of them. Let us make
the comparison,
Money placed at compound interest al
six per cent little more than doubles
itself in twelve years At the present
time and for a few years back. six per
cent is a high rate, but 1t is a very low
rate for the average. During a large
part of the time money brought eight, ten
and twelve per cent per annum, and even
within the half century just passed 1t
brought seven per cent during a large
portion of the time. Now between 1923
and 1899 there are twenty-three periods
of twelve years each, and at double pro-
gression the twenty-third term. beginning
with unity, would be s,3SS, COS This, there
fore. would be the amount in pounds
which the volume has cost up to 1898.
In dollars it would be S40.794,S7SSS. An
article which costs $40. 100000 and sells for
$4,000 cannot be called very good fnan-
cial investment.
From literary or intellectual stand
point, however the subject presents an
entirely different aspect
Some time ago | asked one of the fore
most Shakespearian scholars In the world
If he had n copy of the First Folio"
His reply was that he could not afford 1t;
that 1t would not be wise for him to lose
$500 to $500 per year for the mere sake of
ownership, when very slight eXpendi-
ture for time and railway fare he could
consult any one of a half dozen copies
whenever he required to do so.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-06-03
LITTLE DORRITT"
IS STILL ALIVE
Former Chum of Dickens Now
Aged 90 Years
SHE LIVES AT S0UTHGATE
Mrs. Cooper, Whose Maiden Name
Was Mary Ann Milton, Was a
Playmate of the Great
English Novelist.
SHE LIVES AT SOUTHGATE
ming Wisconsin.

London Cor. Evening Wisconsin.
As the crypt of the Church Of ST. Georges
the Martyr. Southwark. is to be let for
of Dickens have been concerned to make
inquiries about the identity of Little
Dorrit," who was so closely associated
with the place.
The result has been most gratifying,
and the original of Little Dorrit'' has
been found at Southgate, village nine
miles by railway from Kings Cross.
There in quiet old house in a quiet
street. dwells Mrs. Cooper, who, as Mary
Ann Milton, was playmate of Dickens
and the sister of his closest school COM
panion. She is now more than 80 years
of age.
In consequence of this discovery many
persons haye paid a visit to Southgate,
and accounts of interviews there show
how keen is the pleasure it affords Lit
tie Dorrit" to talk of the faraway times
when, as girl, she attended st. Pan
cras church with Charles" and of the
visits afterward paid by him to Manor
Farm, Sunbury, where the Millions lived
later.
OF the boy Dickens she retains the fond
est recollections. One of her quaintest an
ecdotes tells how, as a girl, she leased
him about his future wife. He declared
that she must possess an intellectually
which would qualify her to take keen
interest in his work, and when the girl
remarked "Then l wouldn't do for that,
Charles,'- he agreed. mo, Dorrit, you
wouldn't do for that"
How keen an interest both she and her
brother took in the young writer's work
is shown from the tales she tells of how
Charles used to bring his manuscript
and read it aloud to them. "If we thought
anything was not quite as it would be,
we would tell him strght, No, no.
Charles, that won't do at ALL " Mrs.
Cooper says.
OF Dickens, the man, the old lady says:
"There never was such a man. He
was so gentle and kind to every one,
and clever, for he never really had much
education, but he had a natural gift for
noticing things and describing them"
She still has in her possession many
relics of those old days notably part OF
the bed upon which Dickens slept when
he used to visit her brother during the
holidays at Sunbury. She is proud, too,
of having received many letters from
the great novelist in his younger days.
She dearly loves to tell Of the trouble
she used to get into in the early days
of young Dickens sojourn in Camden
Town (A1rs. Cooper was born in Hat
ton GARDEN, when, instead of returning
straight home after the service at St Pan
cras church. she used to listen to
"Charles's" persuasion and go to see
the "beadle in his gorgeous dress" or
some other wonder of childhood.
Speaking of life at Sunbury, she said
the you could always find Charles lying
out among the hay, absorbed in some
book"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-06-03
Variable.

From the Chicago Tribune.
Somebody had steered the theatrical
manager up against the professor.
ITS like this said the manager. IT
have new man I'm going to star next
season. His name is Haggerty but that
would be a killing frost, you know. right
at the start. What l want is a good
stage name for him."
rs he a first-class actor?" asked the
professor.
Sometimes he is and sometimes he's
bum. He's got it in him, all right; but.
to tell the truth about him, he has way
of dropping back into the amateur class
now and then. you understand"
The only name | can think of that
would come near fitting such a star as
he is said the professor. is Algol."
For astronomy is one of the professors
specialties
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Willing to Pay.

From the Detroit Free Press.
1.-THE court fined you ten dollars for
knocking a man out of your house and
you insisted upon paying fifty. Why was
that?'
Because | don't want to owe anybody
anything. and l had fifty dollars. worth
of satisfaction out of kicking the man
OUT
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The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-10-10
DIES FROM WORRY
Excitement Over Suit to Break a Will
Leads to Demise.

ROCK ISLAND, Ill, Oct. 9.-Mrs.
Catherine McArdle, sister of the late
Dean Thomas Mackin, who died a year
ago. leaving an estate worth 100000,
died yesterday as result of the worry
and excitement of the suit to break the
will of the dead priest. The case has
beca on trial for three weeks in the Cir
cuit court here, and probably will last
several weeks longer.
Father Mackin was for years pastor
of st. Joseph's Catholic church here.
lie inherited property, and through Ju-
dicious investments the estate grew.
The bulk of his estate was left to Mrs,
Charles Plamondon of Chicago and Mrs.
Thomas Thomas, Dolly and Miss Grace
Mackin of Rock Island, distant rela-
tivcs.
The nearer relatives, including Mrs.
McArdle, who throughout the disposi..
ton of the property was dispossessed OF
her home at Hershey, Neb., began a
contest on the ground of undue lniiu-
ence aud that the testator was of ur-
sound mind. Mrs. McArdle followed
the progress Of the case closely, and
the strain finally told upon her health.
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-10-10
SALT0N SEA TROUBLE
PUZZLES D|PL0MATISTS
Relations Between the United
States and Mexico May
Become Strained.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 0.-Who is re-
sponsible for the creation OF the Salton
sea IN southern California, which al
ready covers an area of 400 square
miles and threatens to spread over 1000
square miles if some means of divcrting
the Colorado river cannot be devised
This question is perplexing Mexican
and American diplomatists. but for the
tlmo being diplomatic representations
nave been suspended and both the Uni
ted States and Mexico are bending
every effort TO check the river, which
has been accidentally turned from its
course through the efforts Of the Cali
iornla Development company TO irrigate
lands In northern Mexico and southern
California
Interesting complications of an inter
national nature are threatened when the
two Governments attempt to settle their
differences and make good the damage
which has been wrought by diverting
the Colorado from its old channel.
The California Development company
originally tapped the river below Yu-
ma, Ariz., and carried water from Arr
zona through a canal into northern
Mexico and back into q great valley in
southern California.
In 1904 1t was found that this canal
was inadequate to supply water re-
CURED for the irrigation project, and a
Mexican corporation, controlled by the
California Development company, was
authorized by Mexico TO take water
from the Colorado in Mexico, short
distance south of Yuma,
Origin of the Break.
The irrigation canal was only one
fourth of q mile from q river at the
point in Mexico where a ditch was cut
through the sandy bank of the river
connecting with the great irrigation ca
nal, No gates were provided, and when
the Colorado river was diverted from its
channel it cut away its bank and went
raging into tho lowlands in California
far below sea level Repeated attempts
have been made to turn the river back
into the old channel, but without sue
cess.
Again and again the Southern Pacific
railroad has been compelled to move its
tracks, which ran through the Salton
sink, and have been forced onto the
foothills surrounding the great basin.
which is being converted into sea.
Several small towns are now beneath
the waters which the Colorado has
places only the tops of the telegraph
poles indicate where the roadbed for
merly was.
In the lowest part of the sink the WA
ter is now seventy feet deep. For a
time the water from the Colorado raised
the sea at the rate of six inches a day,
and IT has been estimated that granting
the failure of engineers to check the
river in forty years. all the basin To-
Gated beneath the main course of the
Colorado will be covered with water.
Almost Large as Salt Lake.
4 part of this basin is in Mexico, and
a failure to control the river would give
this country and Mexico lake COM
parable to the great lakes separating
the United States and Canada. At
present the lake is greater than any
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-10-10

body Of water wholly within the United
States except Great Salt lake and Lake
Michigan.
The Mexican company TO which per
mission was granted to take water out
of the Colorado in Mexico was merely
created in Mexico to assist the Califor-
MIA Development company in making "A
success Of an irrigation project which
was a partial failure when water was
taken from the Colorado in Arizona,
Most of the land to be irrigated was
in the United States, and the Mexican
Government had comparatively little to
gain from the concession granted to the
irrigation company.
International complications have fol-
lowed, growing out of the fact that ex-
isting treaties provide that the Colora-
do shall be maintained as a navigable
stream, which is not now the case, be-
cause it has been completely diverted
from the Gulf OF California into the
great sink. Expert engineers are strug
Cling to control the flow of waters, and
the Southern Pacific railroad, whose
property is suffering greatly. is cooper
sting with the Mexican and American
Government engineers In an effort to
construct another channel with ood-
gates. into which the Colorado can be
diverted long enough to repair the Sal
ton break.
The Mexican Government commits
sion is headed by Brig, Gen. Angel Gar
cia Penayand, the American Govern
ment by the reclamation service en-
oinccrs
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-10-10
Turn Your Face
Into Dollars
ManS Man Has Failed Because His
race Was Picture of Calamity

II lakes sunshine to produce q rose
PERFECT rose. And SO man. TO bc snc'
Gesslul, must have sunshine inside tn,
liIe winch has it not, which has no
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Pesslnistlc, and a failure. The worIj
1aiIeady mas too many vinegar faces that
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oI; Tants Joy, comfort, sunshine, aud will
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ana why IS it that so many peddIe
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sour race. recklessness, disgust and lack
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