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wiue with dinner orders, free in place
of lea or coffee. Come on boys.
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Having put in a steam uoiier and
other machinery wo ?re better , re
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r. ul??jASO VALLSY !
WA7SCNV.1L .-..I^JASO VALLSY
A :i f;trmt?r id the Paj.ro Val
ley :?* t most iniepeu'leat nun io
tbe world.
Api'i >puv$]('' to >.'500 aa acre,
straw i .ori ii 3 ?\ i ! ran>:o as hi^'i us
J">0O.
Sujrar beets y.JJ > > to th>- acre ?
Potato^*- about ! le ??rai; ? the aos
wer is "You can Iwavs sell all \ou
grow, all the time.'' '!'i>tnk it over.
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WATSON VI LLE, CAL.
ALIKE FOR ALL
Tli* World might l>e better If you had the
;
As to the Improvements, no doubt
Sotuo minor suggestion you huvo In your
mind
Might do for a chance to try out.
But do not expect very much on that
score.
Although your amendment* are few.
Just tako It for better or worso and be
sure
It won't bo made over for you.
In looking It over you cannot but note
Some places In need of repair*.
Some customs and manners pertaining to
men
As \n II as to monkeys and bears
That In the beginning, had you been on
hand
And freely consulted, no doubt
You would have amended, remodeled and
patched
Or. if they annoyed you. left out
It's easy o point out offhanded the
flaws.
To criticise, curp and object
,Or nay that the world on the whole Isn't
, what
j On - suro lias a right to expect,
Cut If you are certain unaided you could
Improve on Its manners and tone
' And make It a model for all to admire
I Just try building one of your own.
You might as well tako It the way that
It stands
Without any kick or complaint.
I The world will wag on In Its dingy old
way.
You can't rig It out with new paint.
' Pretend that you like It. though fully
aware
Its faults may be more than a few.
Because It's a cinch? bo resigned to your
fate
It won't be made over for you.
Moving Spectacle.
"I figure the world owes uie a liv
ing."
"Why doa'tjou collect It?"
. "Blamed thing won't staud still long
enough."
Chance For Them.
"You know the fortunes of many of
our l?-st families were founded by
pirates."
"'l'hat is tough ou future generations,
as there are no pirates these days."
"You are mistaken," spoke up the
great author with the threadbare coat,
who was pushing a copyright suit.
"We still have literary pirates."
One Thing Left.
"Positively can't you sing or play
for us?"
"Positively. I haveu't a single ac
complishment."
"You have to do something, you
know, to hold up your end, and If you
can't do anything else 1 will have to
usk you to throw a lit for the ladles."
Will Learn Setter.
"Funny notion they have In Tur
key."
"What's that?"
"That a congress will cure all of
their Ills."
Plenty of Time.
"So Mabel Is going to get married at
last."
"Why say 'at last?' Leap year Is
uot much more than half over."
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Jewelry Repairing
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Diamond Setting a
Specialty.
Refractng Optician
Grailunto of South Benil Optical College
Examinations made and Glasses
Fitted by Means of the
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Errors of Refraction Corrected.
Each case receive* the utmost
caro and special lenses ground
where required.
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MANUFACTURER Of NUGGET JEWEIRY
DEALER IN
in mis il
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and Cut Glass
A full Line of Elgin
and Waltham Watches
Joel Throggs was a driver on the
tow path. Joel wns reaching aii age
where he wished for ft home. He ud
mltted to. himself that he couldn't have
a home without a woman, and he
never stopped loug enough to do any
courting. He was always moving on
the towjxith. and how can a man make
love who la continually walking behind
a horse or a mule pulling a canalbont?
On the route was a little unoccupied
house across the road from the tow
path that Joel would have coveted If
he had had a wife to put In It. One
day when he passed lie saw suioUo
curling from the chimney and u woman
at a window. After parsing and re
passing on several trips he made up |
his mind from observation that the I
woman lived alone.
Here was an opportunity, the first
he had ever had. He resolved to take
advantage of It. Before starting on
one of his trips he prepared a small
board, on which he wrote In chalk:
dere Miuhlam. i would bo liapv to tnak
yure aqualnteuco. I am driven n mulo
on the towputh. JOEL THKOGGS.
On reaching the house In question
he threw the board into the yard
without stopping his mule. This was
Mr. Throggs1 tlrst love letter. It was
not very neat? Indeed, it wns some
what bulky? but they say "Love laughs
at locksmiths." Why shouldn't the lit
tle god smile benignly on a board billet
dous?
When Joel jwssed the house on his
return trip, on the end of a chicken
coop had bccu chalked:
MAHL'LDY WIGGINS.
So far so good. Joel hiul net pre
pared stationery, wooden or otherwise,
for a reply, so It was uot till he came
along on his next trip that he respond
ed. Then he ran across the road be
tween the towpath and the canal and
set the top of an old table on the Kate,
on which he had written :
I wud ost.'tim mlaelf oneivd of yoil
wud tuk a ride with mo on my i?-x
trip The mule has a easy irate. Bring
a plller to aet on.
But the course of true love can't bo
expected always to run smooth. When
Joel passed again the end of the chick
en coop glared with big chalk letters:
Can't. Out to work all day.
Joel was despondent Not only was
he tied to the towpath, but his love
also was at work. lie thought the
matter over as he jogged aloug. now
and then gently laying his whiplash
on the back of his mule, and when he
reached the terminus prepared another
letter, a longer one? so long that he
needed more room to write It. He se
lected the door of the canalboat cabin,
which he took ofT Its hinges, lay on
the deck and wrote as follows:
dere Muhuldy, I saved CM dollers. Im
lookln fur a home were two hurts kin
beet together. Sposeu I Jlne with you
an wo work your yard fur garden truck
fur the market. Hrlsos Is hi In town.
Stuy hum nex time 1 pas, wensday. Ilo
ride you a few miles, an we can taW*k
It over. Ilo pay you tho days u agus.
On passing the house the next time
Joel carried this bulky letter to the
premises aud set It up against the
fence.
When Joel passed the following
Wednesday afternoon Muhuldy was
waiting for him with a pillow "to set
on." Except for the lack of several
front teeth and one eye gone she
wasn't bad looking. Joel was much
pleased. He helped her up on the
mule's back and walked along besido
her. She told him that she was a wid
ow with no incumbrances. She had
been permitted to live In the house
reut free. It had no especial value,
and the land wasn't worth $r?0 an acre
She accorded with Joel's plan, especial
ly as he had money enough to buy the
place and stock It. Utit she was
somewhat coy about marrying a man
he had never seen before aud wanted
line to consider.
Joel's only objection to delay was
hat they would wish to communicate,
ind this was ditlicult. He had already
ieen obliged to u;-e the door of the
analboat. As his passion grow he
would need more space. The only
'arger stationery he could think of
.vas an old teut he possessed. lie
night rip out u side, write his mes
age on It and set It up 011 poles when
ie passed. If he needed a still larger
space. he might use the whole of one
uue or me canaiooai.
Mrs. Wiggins thought the mutter
>ver and found that her modesty would
not admit of such open loveuia'.cing.
She said the neighbors might get on
to it. Joel didn't care for the neigh
bors, but objected to the trouble of
getting up such lilt; messages. lie
?<ui.i mournfully that "if the.v kep'
i-growln' he'd bov to use the mainsail
of a <'"0 ton schooner before they were
married."
This settled the matter. Mrs. Wig
gins. who had already ridden three
miles, got down from the mule. It was
agreed between them that Joel should
resign at the end of the month from
his posltlou of mule driver and as
sume the )K>sltlou of husband But In
the Interval Mahuldv was to stay at
home. In order that they might eon
verse when he passed he was to buy n
megaphone for himself and one for
her. They were to commence the dia
logue when he was half a mile away
and keep It up till they were half a
mile apart. Having arranged all this,
Joel handed her $1 In lieu of tho day's
wages and kissed her. and she set off
back to her home.
In due time they were married. Tho
county turned out to the wedding un
invited. the bride wondering how they
knew about It OSCAR COX.
?RIAL LOVE
"une ui iuc utunc aiuyuiar ieutures
of humau nature." remarked the anat
omist, "Is the breaking up of Jove be
tween two persons wbeu one dies."
"Love does not necessarily bru&k up
In sucb an event," replied tbe ps/chol
Oi;lst.
"I dou't u^ree with you. Lore after
tbe death of I be ln lr.g loved Is sim
ply memory "
"Cn cs <>f nctual love between tbe
sexes arc very rare? one lu a thou
sand. They are not mere memory aft
er death; they are Immortal."
"Can you gl\e me Mich a ease?"
"Yes, one. It is i!?a only one that
has ever come lo my knowledge. Lis
ten and 1 will relate it.
"Douglas Blssell knew the moment
he set eyes on Caroline La ("our that
she and he had been appointed by
Providence to be lovers. Miss Iji Cour
recognized the fact at the same In
stant. Blssell wtts a .voting northerner
who, after being graduated at college,
went to New Orleans ns a teacher.
Miss La Cour was a Creole. Their
love caiue as a child Is born? that is,
a perfect tiling, though It grew as the
child grows. It cannot be said that
It was a rase of that turbulent evanes
cent love which comes with extreme
youth, for Hlssell was thirty years old
when they met and Miss La Cour was
twenty-five. It was unalterable from
Its Inception.
"It was the woman who was taken
away. She died during one of tho
epidemics of yellow fever that occurred
about the middle of the last century
and hut a few weeks before they were
to lia\e been married. Such pnrtings
?partings between beings In whom
there Is this real immortal love? are
terrible. Miss La Cour lu all the phys
ical agony of death resulting from that
awful disease did not suffer bodily
as the lover suffered lu soul, and when
all was over he fell into a stupor from
which his friends despaired of ever
awakening- him. He never was again
mi* same Minn.
B Use 1 1 never married. He lived
alone. If he had a companion It was
hl.s wife. He told other# that there
was such a companionship, though
when he attempted to explain it ho
failed signally. He could say rather
what it was not than what It was. For
Instance, she did not visit him. It was
not one of those cases where one
broods over a grave. The mortal part
of his love was placed In a tomb pro
vided for It. nnd Blxsell went there
but seldom. He did not consider what
was there as being any more n part of
his love than one of her gowus. She
was elsewhere.
But one day when he made one of his
periodical visits to the tomb to see
that tin1 promises were In condition lie
met with !?? surprise. He found a man
weeping before it.
" 'Pardon me.1 said Bisseil. 'we have
a common sorrow. You must )>e the
brother. I often heard my love speak
of him? he who was living in South
America."
" 'I was not her brother. I am her
lover.'
"For a few moments there was si
lence. during which the two men re
garded each other with n strange ex
pression on the faco of each. Then
Bisseil spoke:
"'You say you are her lover. That
Is my position.'
" 'Pardon me. It Is mine.'
" 'Do you mean to assert thut she
ever loved you?'
" 'She did. We met in Paris. She
was but eighteen. I offered her my
love, and It was accepted. Circum
stances which I do not care to reveal
parted us.'
" 'Strange,' replied Bisseil, half to
himself, 'that she never told me of
this? affair.'
" 'There was no affair. It was an
undying love.'
" 'On your part, not on hers.'
'"1 believed she loved me always. I
believe she loves me now.'
"Bisseil carried a cane. It was ono
of those sword canes very much in use
at that period. Taking it In both
hands, he partly drew the blade, then
thrust It back.
" 'Pardon me; I forget you are un
armed.'
" 'You mistake; I am armed.' And
the stranger drew from his own walk
ing stick a similar blade.
"'Fortunate,' said Bisseil, drawing
his steel. 'She whose mortal part lies
there Is mine. You dispute her pos
session with me. W e cannot both have
her. One must give place to the other
But, mind you, if I fall she is still
mine.'
"There was a fervor In the last foui
words that eoukl scarcely nave Deen
equaled had the object been a living
being.
" 'It Heems to me.' saJd the stranger
reflectively, 'that we are about to light
for that which has no real existence.'
" 'Your words show that this love
you speak of In your case Is not real
love. And she? she never considered
It worth the while to speak of It to
rae, though perhaps she may have con
sidered your preferenco for her as
sacred.'
"The words angered the stranger.
His eyes flashed ominously, and he
placed himself on guard.
"One of the workmen In the ceme
tery, ht-arlng the clash of steel, rushed
to tho La Cour tomb, but only In time
to see RIssell fall pierced through the
heart. His antagonist was unhurt."
The speaker paused. He seemed to
consider that he had established liln
point.
"What place," asked the anatomist,
"do you give the stranger In this trln
of love?"
"Xono at all. In a year be was mar
rled." D. HUNTER HALS Li'.
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