The Ketchikan mining news., 1907-03-08
LOCAL CURIOS

Let your sorrows ard discontents be secrets.
 Look carefully before, lest you find yourself sadly behind.
 1 The favor of the rich and powerful l is at best but poor inheritance.
 Prosperity gains and retains friends; adversity tries and loses them.
 Where is happiness always to be found? Why, in almcst any of the standard dictionaries, to be sure.
 No matter how rich and fashion a ble the apparel, he who is bare of vir tue is lacking in the raiment that most adorns.
 Why are merchants and tradsmen who do not advertise like shipwreck- ed mariners? Because they look in vain from day to day and see no sale.
 The doctor set the bridge of his nose alright, alright put the neces- sary stitches in his cheek and upper lip and ornamented his generally de- moralized countenance with strips and patches of plaster half an inch thick and then the young man went home declaring that ''the fellow is an in- ernal liar but I'll never speak to nim again-on that or any other sub ject.
 He was peacefully, aye lovingly, promenading with his best girl on Mission street the other evening, when he suddenly felt kind of-a sort of a-well, he says it more nearly resembled the shock small earthquake than anything else he can liken it to-and then he picked him. self up on the other side of the thoroughfare, and holding his coat tail down to hide the rent in his un- mentionables, backed around the nearest corner, leaving the girl to settle the matter with the old man as best she might.
 The Peasley boy has long hanker- ed for bull dog-one that would chew up and spit out all the other canines in this doggasted town-and his longing wa recently gratifed by the receipt of battle-scarred animal that had been sent to him by his cousin from Seattle, or some other wicked place on the Sound. The Peasley heir was so delighted that he could scarcely take time to eat his noon day lunch before starting out on his long dreamed of and contemplated campaign against all the other dogs in town. He took care, however, to first stuff the animal with all the raw and bloody meat he could hold, in order to make him particularly fer canine-came down town for wonder no dog of any size presented himself as a candidate for annihilation, where at young Peasley was vexed and waXed exceeding wroth. However. he curbed his temper as best he could, and with a smile wholly childlike and bland he and Grinder continued on their way, the latter keeping a weather eye out for the trouble the warlike appearance and action of his new master had seemingly led him to anticipate. Indeed, young Peasley h ad never before noticed such a scarcity of dogs in town, and he was well nigh provoked to tears on that account when, in passing store oi which a furniture department forms a not unimportant part, he was hailed by one of the clerks thereof who asked him to carry pretty fair sized mir TOT to house short way out on Dock street, which, there being no dogs in sight, he consented to do. As the easiest and safest way of carrying the glass the clerk hung it on young Peasley's back, by means of the cord which he passed over his shoulders and around his neck. As young Peasley started out of the store, Grim der discovered a ferocious looking bulldog waltzing around behind his new owner as if he meant mischief, and made a dash at him just as Peasley took hold of the door latch, and amid a shower of broken looking glass, seized what he probably thought to be another dog. It was alive, at all events, and squirmed vigorously while young Peasley, with howl, let go the latch without waiting to open the door, and the next minute boy, mirror frame, and a pugnacious bulldog, were rolling about on the floor in promiscuous heap. The clerk came to the rescue with ten dollar chair, whaled away at the dog and struck the floor knocking all the intrinsic value out of that necessary article of household use and adorn- ment, leaving, however, one piece in 1 his hand. with which he succeeded in knocking the dog loose from the boy and mirror frame. In the melee they had approached the rear end of the -to ooa ,rbopa a ,1,,,,Lo1 # afban ;n