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Gilpin observer., 1913-12-04

myself on my knees toward what |
had seen.
| had discovered. near the Pun1ab
lasso. in a groove in the floor. a black
headed nail of which / knew the use.
AT last | had discovered the spring!
/ felt the nail. :. | lifted q
radiant face to NJ. de Chagny. 3.
The black-headed nail yielded to my
pressure.
And then.
And then We saw not a door opened
in the wall. but cellar-fiap released
in the floor. Cool air came up to US
from the black hole below. We
stopped over that square of darkness
as though over limpid we'll. With
our chins In the cool shade, We drank
it in.
And we bent lower and lower over
the trap-door. What could there be
in that cellar which opened before us ?
Water? Water to drink?
| thrust my arm into the darkness
and came upon a stone and another
stone a staircase q
dark staircase leading into the cellar.
The viscount wanted to fling himself
down the hole; but l. fearing a new
trick OF the monsters. stopped him.
turned on my dark lantern and went
down first.
The staircase was a winding one
and led down into pitchy darkness.
But oh. how deliciously cool were the
darkness and the stairs? The lake
could not be far away.
We soon reached the bottom. Our
eyes were beginning to accustom
themselves to the dark. to distinguish
shapes around US circular
shapes ON which | turned the
light Of my lantern.
Barrels!
We were in Erik's cellar; It was
here that he must keep his wine and
perhaps his drinking-water. | knew
that Erik was great lover OF good
wine. All. there was plenty. to drink
here!
NJ de Chagny patted the round
shapes and kept on saying:
Barrels! Barrels! What
a lot Of barrels! !"
Indeed. there was quite number
of them, symmstrically arranged In
two rows, one on either side OF Us.
They were small barrels and |
Gilpin observer., 1913-12-04
New Mexico.

Meerschaum mines on the Sapello
River in Grant County, closed down
for an indefinite period.
Gold Range Mining Company OF
Bernalillo county, William jerks.
agent, field Incorporation papers.
Capital stock is 10000. and company
starts business with $4,000 subscribed.
A party of zinc men was in Silver
City inspecting property of the EN-
pire Zinz Company at Hanover, and
looking over the Utter zinc property at
Pinos Altos, but nothing definite was
given out regarding transaction with
Utter for Cleveland group
Gilpin observer., 1913-12-04

still hotter under the blue rays OF
the moon. l urged the viscount TO
hold our weapons ready to fire and
not to stray from camp. while went
on looking for my spring.
Suddenly. we heard lion roaring
q few yards away.
oh" whispered the viscount. ne
Is quite close! Don't you see
him?' There through
the trees in that thicketi
&. II he roars again, l will fire!"
And the roaring began again. loud
or than before. And the viscount
fired, but I do not think that he hit
the lion; only he smashed mirror.
a. perceived the next morning. At
daybreak We must have covered
Gilpin observer., 1913-12-04

0Dod distance during the night, for
edge OF the desert. an immense desert
OF sand. stones and rocks. 1t was
really not worth while leaving the
forest to come upon the desert Tired
out. flung myself down beside the
viscount. for had had enough OF
looking for springs which / could not
find.
to the viscount-that we had encoun-
tered no other dangerous animals
during the night. Usually, after the
lion came the leopard and sometimes
the buzz Of the tsetse fly. These were
easily obtained effects; and | ex-
planned to NJ de Chagny that Erik
initiated the roar OF a lion on long
tabour or timbrel. with an ass's skin
at one end. Over this skin he tied q
string Of catgut. which was fastened
at the middle to another similar
string passing through the whole
length of the tabour. Erik had only
to rub this string with a glove
smeared with resin and, according to
the manner In which he rubbed 1t. he
initiated to perfection the voice OF
the lion or the leopard, or even the
buzzing of the tsetse fly.
The idea that Erik was probably in
the room beside US. working his trick,
made me suddenly resolve to enter
into parley with him, for we must
obviously give up all thought OF TAX
ing him by surprise. And by this
time he must be quite aware who
were the occupants of his torture
chamber. l called him: ERIK! Erik!"
/ shouted as loudly as could across
the desert. but there was no answer
to my voice. All around us lay the
that stony desert. What was to be-
come of US In the midst of that awful
solitude?
We were beginning literally to die
of heat, hunger and thirst OF
thirst especially. At last, l saw M.
de Chagny raise himself on his elbow
and point to spot on the horizon.
He had discovered an oasis!
Yes, far in the distance was an
odSAo al Ooblb WIN
water. which reflected the iron trees.
-. Tush. 1t was the scene Of the
mirage. recognized 1t at
once the worst OF the threei
No one had been able to fight
against 1t no one. 1
did my utmost to keep my head and
not to hope for water. because | knew
that, II a man hoped for water. the
water that reflected the iron tree,
and If. after hoping for water, he
struck against the mirror. then there
was only one thing for him to do: to
hang himself on the iron tree!
So cried to NJ. de Chagny:
Its the mirage! It's the
mirage! -. Don't believe in the
water It's another trick OF
Then he fatty told me to shut up.
with my tricks of the mirrors, my
springs. my revolving doors and my
palaces of illusions! ne angrily de-
clared that l must be either blind or
mad to imagine that all that water
flowing over there. among those
splendid. numberless trees, was not
Gilpin observer., 1913-12-04
CHAPTER xxIv-(contInued.)

4 CHAPTkR <xlV.-(Continued.
Z Then he lay nat on the floor. as
one does in a wood. and declared that
he would wait until found the door
Of the forest, as there was nothing
better to do! And he added that,
from where he was. the view was
Splendid" The torture was working.
In spite OF all that l had said.
! Myself. forgetting the forest,
tackled a glass panel and began to
finger 1t IA every direction. hunting
for the weak point on which to press
in order to turn the door In accord
ance with Erik's system OF pivots
This weak point might be a mere
speck on the glass. no larger than a
pea, under which the spring lay hid
den. hunted and hunted. felt as
high as my hands could reach. Erik
was about tbs same height as myself
and thought that he would not have
placed the spring higher than suited
his stature.
While cropping over the successive
panels with the greatest care. en-
deavored not 70 lose a minute, for l
So AOSAAh6 hAsSA . 0no AAOi0 OV6I COm6
with the heat and we were literally
roasting In that blazing forest.
had been working like this for
half an hour ana had finished three
panels, when. rs ill-luck would have
1t. turned round on hearing a NUT
tered exclamation from the viscount.
Il am sitting" he said. 'Ali those
mirrors are sanding out an internal
heat! Do you think you will find that
spring soon? II you are much longer
about It. we shall be roasted alive!"
was not sorry to hear him talk
like this. He had not said a word OF
the forest and hoped that my CON-
panion's reason would hold out some
time longer against the torture. hut
he added:
What consoles me 10 that the mon
stsr has given Christine until eleven
tomorrow svsnfng. II We can't get
out Of here ana 60 to her assistance,
at least We shall be dead before her!
Then Erik's mass can serve for all OF
us!"
And he guIped down q breath of
hot air that nearly made him faint.
Al had not the same desperate
reasons as M. 10 vicomte for accept
ing death, returned. after giving him
. word of encouragement. to my
panel, but had made the mistake
Of taking fe~ steps while speaking
and, in the tangie Of the Elusive for
est. ! was no longer able to ind my
panel for certain! I'had to begin all
over again. at random. feeling. fum-
bling. cropping
Now the fever laid bold OF me in
my turn for pfound nothing.
absolutely nothing. In the next room
oil was silence. We were quite lost
y tht feeesA without An outlet .
Gilpin observer., 1913-12-04
SYNOPSIS.

Consternation il caused on the last
RiSnt that the Opera is managed by Do
psarance Of % ghost BECAUSE said to 81 have n besn
n evidence on several previous occasions.
christine Daae. a member of the opera
Important part and scores a great sue
eess: Count de Chagny and his brother
ss saouI are among those who applaud the
the Dressing room. but Ia unable to do so
nnd later discovers that some one is max
unon ns ,owe nt.r, to her; She emerges alone. and
While the farewell ceremony for the re-
uGhhng Ghg managers Is going on. the Opera
Box No is sold with disastrous results.
1ne managers receive a letter from the
ror 5rasnS nSsf calling attention to the ,sa, err
shs has gone to visit the grave of her
fofs: foo%. b.s He soe, also and In the night
violin music IL heard. Raoul visits a
graveyard. Raoul is found next morning
snmost frozen. Moncharmin and Richard
ths performance Of Faust Iron from front
seats es Of that box. Carlotta, who sings
Il; ay. leading ,bs part in Fsust" Is wsrnsa to
refusing, loses her voice in the middle
OF Z song and the main chandelier
~oundinx SrssnsI dGwn killing woman and md
Christine. who has disappeared He sees
ner AZ last. but does not speak. and later
to - ieceiNeu from ner making an
meets Christine at the ball. He sees a
person in the disguise of Red Death.
Ae hears her conversing with some one
whom she calls Erik Raoul visits
Christine and tells her he knows the
namk OF the unseen man whom she calls
the angel of Music. Christine and Raoul
peconne secretly engaged prior to a polar
expedition that Raoul is to make. Chris
une relates strange adventure with the
unseen Erik and promises to run away
with Raoul. Raoul announces his inten-
ton OF marrying Christine. which dis
formance the stage Is enveloped in dark
ness and Christine disappears No trace
OF her Is found. Moncharmin and Rich
ard behave strangely Raoul searches
madly for the missing singer. The Opera
Ghost demands the first installment OF his
allowance, and when II Is left at an ap-
pointed place the sum mysteriousy dis
appears; Raoul goes in search OF Chris
tine. He meets mysterious person
known as the Persian. The Persian plans
g aid Raoul in locating Christine and
The two find themselves in a passageway
which they expect will lead to where
Christine has undoubtedly been carried
BY Erik The Persian knows Erik to
have been one of the contractors who
built the Opera Also that while the work
was in progress there was built a secret
torture chamber beneath the structure.
From this chamber Raoul and the Per-
sian hear Erik and Christine conversing
keys. Christine looks into the chamber
and assures Erik that there Is no one
there. She discovers that he Is q ven
triloouint
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Colorado.

colorado.
After several months of preparation
work is to be resumed on the Revenue
mine, In Quay district
The November output from the E.
Paso mine at Cripple Creek, while it
was lighter in tonnage, carried much
higher general average value.
In Eagle county, where the new dis
trict was located last spring, the North
Dakota claim is encouraged by assay
tests that run high in silver.
Indiana capitalists have purchased
the Electric Coal Mining Company's
property at Lafayette for $780, 900. The
mine has daily output of 200 tons
incorporation papers for the Gold
Pinnacle Mining Company recently or
ganized, were filed with Clerk and Re-
corder Thomas T. Bernard, at Cripple
Creek
The dredging of the stream beds of
French gulch and Swan valley at
Breckenridge for the bedrock gold OF
the Breckenridge district continues to
be profitable.
lease on the Little Annie mine Is look
ing like winner. They have good
sized streak of ore and considerable
quantity of mill dirt
Returns from a shipment of ore
made from the Sunshine mine in the
extreme northeast end OF the Cripple
Creek district, have been received.
n oh
ton.
The White mine on Red Elephant
mountain, Clear Creek county, an
early day heavy producer. comes to
the front with one of the best dis
coveries made in years in that Sec
ton.
rich strike of tungsten ore is re-
ported from Magnolia by r. Six and
Bud Shaw of Boulder. The discovery
of tungsten at Magnolia Is unusual, be-
cause it has been essentially a Tellu.
ride product.
The Ell Paso Extension Gold Mines
Company, new corporation, has filed
its certificate with the clerk and re-
corder of Teller county. The company
is capitalized at $1,000. O.00O-20O,0 900
shares at the par value of s5.
Five recent assays on North Dakota
ore, as reported by the Denver and
Rio Grande agent at Eagle, yielded
290,1S6, LAS, 220 and so ounces in
silver to the ton. Sample No.
showed 220 ounces silver and Is per
cent copper.
Gold values increase at great depth
in the Cripple Creek district. This
was demonstrated again when the ex-
tension of an ore body giving good re-
turns at the upper level showed rich
streak at a depth of 1,265 feet below
surface of the Elkton mine.
Mrs. H. Ettie MINER, general man.
ager of the Little Giant Mining Com
pany, controlling the White mine, an
nounces that early next year work will
be put under way in the construction
of a modern mill that will have an
initial capacity of fifty tons daily.
Gross value of Colorado's output OF
gold, silver, copper, lead and zinc re-
covered from placers, from gold-silver
bullion, and from ore sold or treated
in 1912 was $37.32O, 900, compared with
s32.41S,21S in 1911, an increase in val
ue for 1912 of S54,902,74S or Is per cent
The Silver Bow Mining Company. op-
Grating the Big Four, on Breeze hill.
Leadville, recently shipped several car
loads of $500 ore from a small ore
body about foot In width, which is
increasing in value. The latest assays
gave results of $4,000 per ton from a
three-inch streak.
Gilpin observer., 1913-12-04

real water! And the desert
was real! And SO was the
forest! And 1t was no use
trying to take him in he was
an old, experienced traveller /.
he had been all over the place!
And he dragged himself along, say
ing: Water! Water!"
And his mouth was open. as though
he were drinking.
And my mouth was open. too, as
though ] were drinking.
For we not only saw the water, but
we heard t.! We heard II
flow. We heard It ripple! DO
you understand that word "rippie?'
1t Is sound which you hear
with your tongue! You nut
Gilpin observer., 1913-12-04

and. with a last effort, | burst the
bung
What's this?' cried the viscount.
This isn't water!"
The viscount put his two full hands
close to my lantern. l stopped
to look =. and at once threw
away the lantern with such violence
that 1t broke and went out. leaving
us In utter darkness.
What l had seen in NJ. de Chagny's
hands was gun-powder!
Gilpin observer., 1913-12-04
WE STERN
MINING NEWS
IN BRIEF

Western Newspaper Union News Service
Lead 41On 425
Spelter .,,.,, 51OGp 52O
Copper ............... 14254145O
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COFFEE AND IT'S EFFECTS.
Not Injurious When Used Moderately
by Persons In Health.

Not Injurious When Used Moderately
by Persons In Health.
In the light Of the data that have
been accumulated In respect to the
physiological action OF coffee it may
safely be affirmed that 1t is not in
furious when used moderately by rea-
sonably healthy people. With the
neurasthenIc and the dyspeptic 1t Is a
somewhat different matter. While
alarming symptoms have followed the
ingestion of enormous quantities., there
is no evidence that fatally toxic effects
have ever ensued.
Coffee Is mild stimulant, and the
effects are rather transient. The mod
crate use of coffee will not make a
we'll man sick. Such moderate use
will not occasion disagreeable symp-
toms In the healthy, such as insomnia,
headache. nervousness, drowsiness,
palpitation. dyspepsia. vertigo, etc. On
the other hand. 1t will obviate or re-
Iieve fatigue.
We do not consider coffee q neces.
sary concomtant of civilized life,
which some extremists claim it to be.
To our minds 1t is rather a luxury
which 1t is not necessary to dispense
with unless one is compelled to do so
as part of the attempt to combat
the increasing cost Of living. AS to
the moderate use of any of the things
which we INCEST the same principles
apply. Even such a valuable sub
stance as milk has to be imbibed within
reason as to quantity. lest autointoxi-
cation ensue Medical Times
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ONE OF ERIN's FAIRIES.
A Tricky Chap Is IreIand's Little Old
Man. the leprechaun


The story of the boy who was ex-
hibited throughout Scotland as a
genuine Irish leprechaun leads one to
ask what exactly leprechaun Is, for,
Of course, each variety Of fairy has
its special characteristics.
The leprechaun Is peculiar to Ire
land and Is In the form of little old
man, by profession d, maker of brogues.
He is only discovered by the sound
of the hnmmering of his brogues, and
any one capturing him can induce him
by threats to reveal where his wealth
is hidden.
But no one yet has laid hands on
that wealth. for If you take your eye
Off the leprechaun for as much as a
second he has the power Of vanishing,
however tight you may hold him. And
his ingenuity in making you glance
away Is always successful.
Only once did that ingenuity fall.
and even then the treasure escaped un.
pillaged. A careful peasant proof
against all temptations, kept his eye on
the little brogue maker until the money
WIS revealed in n field Of ragwort. But
he had no bag. So he tied his garter
round the particular plant under which
the money was hid and went to fetch
one. only to find on his return that
every ragwort IN the field was adorned
with n red garter = London Chronicle
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AUCTION SALES.
Elisha Yale Held the First One In
England In 1700.


England In 1900.
The first auction sale in England
was held in 100 by Elisha Yale, who
had been governor of Madras and who
adopted that plan for selling the East
Indian wares he had brought home.
The sale attracted wide attention and
was so successful that others immedi-
ately adopted the plan
Before the close of the eighteenth
century England began to place tax
on auction sales, and at times these
duties have ranged as high as 5 per
cent In 1845 the tax was repealed,
but charge imposed on the license to
be taken out by all auctioneers. The
abuses at auctions, caused by combi-
nations of brokers to bid up the offer.
ings, led to the adoption Of stringent
regulation.
In America auctloneers Of a certain
class have also been guilty of many
impositions on the public. Fake ''auc-
tion sales" Of alleged bankrupt stocks
of merchandise, fire sales" and simi-
lar schemes have long been used to
impose on the credulous At many
such sales the auctioneer has confed-
crates in the crowd who start the bid
ding and continue 1t until some legiti-
mate bidder has offered n price that
affords the promoters a handsome
profit. The imposition of heavy fines
and prison sentences has discouraged
this class of auctioneers In most Sec
tions. Milwaukee Sentinel.
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HIs RETURN BANQUET.
II Was Grand Social Success and
Cost the Major Nothing.


A veteran officer in the United States
army recently told of the shrewdness
displayed Iy major in the old days.
He l;id been appointed to the COM
nlinc of'an army post on an island not
4 gre. way from San Francisco.
SoU;i after his arrival there French
fleet dropped anchor in the. harbor.
The commander invited the major
'iinmrd the flagship and entertainae
him royalty.
The idea struck the worthy major the
next day that he was in honor bound
to return the compliment, but he was
staggered by the expense involved.
To give banquet BETTING his dig
nifty as United States officer enter
tanning distinguished representative
of foreign nation would mean bank
ruptcy. as the government had not au-
thorized him to draw on its treasury
for such purpose, and the cost Of the
affair would have to come out of his
own pocket. A bright idea struck him.
He invited the naval visitors to be
bis guests the third day thereafter at
an American picnic" Then he sent
invitations to the best people of the
neighborhood to join him in basket
picnic at grove near at hand on the
same day, ito meet our French naval
friends now on our shores"
The people came with great baskets
and hampers of provisions. A royal
feast was spread in the grove, and the
picnic was long remembered as one Of
the most notable social successes of
its time.-Chicago Record Fl erald.
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SUMMONS.


In the Circuit Conrt for the State Of
Oregon for Umatilla County.
First National Bank of Athena, a
Corporation, Plaintiff,
VS..
Harry Brown, Defendant.
To Harry Brown, above named dc
fendant:
Iu the name of the State OF Oregon,
Yeu are hereby summoned and re-
quired to appear aud answer the COM
plant died against you in the above
entitled court within six weeks from
the date of The first publication of this
summons against you. and IL you fail
to appear aud answer and plead. the
plaintiff, for want thereof, will de-
mand from the aeove entitled court
the relief demanded In its complaint.
towit: For judgment against you
In the sum of $4,000 with interest
thereon at the rate of per cent per
annum from September ist, 1918. to-
gether with its costs aud disourse-
nents ln this action,
This summons is published pursuant
to an order Of the Honorable q. w.
Phelps, judge Of the above entitled
court. made on the a5th day of Sep
tenn ber. 1918, aud the tirst publication
thereof Is on the srd day of October.
1918. Homer |. Watts.
Attorney for Plaintiff.
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Eatino Crow.

Although the use of the expression
ito eat crow" In metaphorical sense,
meaning to eat ones words, may well
have dated from the time of Noah,
when the bird was first looked upon
as unclean and not at to serve as food
for man, 1t seems to have arisen from
the old tale of the officer and the pri-
vate, A soldier, having shot tame
crow belonging to one OF his officers
was discovered by the owner with the
bird In his hand. Selling the private's
gun, the officer commanded him to eat
the bird MS punishment. With the
trearm pointed at his head, the soldier
fell to, but no sooner had the officer
laid aside the gun than the culprit
grasped It and compelled his superior
to join In the distasteful banquet. The
private was court martialed the next
day, and when he was asked by the
examiners what had occurred he re.
piled, Nothing, except that Captain
Bank and ! dlned together"
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FATHER OF ALL HOT SPRINGS.
CarIsbad's Famous Sprudel and Its
White Robed Priestesses.


White ROBBED Priestesses.
The Sprudel Is the most ancient of
all Carlsbad's fountains. the father Of
all hot springs. and still pours forth
the greatest food Of all.
1t rises like geyser In its basin, Il
steaming. spouting column an inch and
half thick and from six to thirteen
feet high Around 1t stand priestesses,
the spring girls, dressed In lovely
white waterproof uniforms. They ix
the drinking cups Mt the ends of poles
and catch the water ms 1t comes fresh
from the earth's heart.
The geologists call Carsbad's foun-
tains virgin or volcanic water They
have their sources In no rainfall sink
Ing to Gil subterranean reservoirs. Gre
ated In those glowing inner laborato-
ries of mother earth, the water here
leaps to light and air for the first time
Pagan memories seem to stir In one
at the thought 1t becomes easy to be-
lieve that the springs bring from re-
cesses where II has lurked hidden since
creation some magic unspoiled. prime
val energy and that the cheerful, smil.
Ing German peasant girls who toll so
tirelessly are captive woodland crea-
lures serving forces more ancient than
the gods. -Harper's Magazine.