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Refractug Optician
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Examinations made and Glasses
Fitted by Means of tho
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Fiue Engraving and
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Errors of Refraction Corrected.
Each case receives the utmost
i are and special lenses ground
where required.
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210 rooms.
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WATSONVILLE. CAL.
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Wtl-. >o ?e While Co.t'rop.Chos Perry Mgr
STRIKE STILL ON
j Stay a*vi?v from Tieadwell. The
strike is still on between tho Trend welt
Golil Mining company and No. 100, W.
F. of M., Douglas, Alaska. All work
ing men are requested to stay away
a ml asist us in securing an *i-hour day
and living wage. All rumors to the
elVct that the strike is otT are false.
I.oc il I'nion No. 1011 will notify you
wncn a settlement isreacned.
My older of DougNs Isliuid Miners'
(Jnlou No. 109, W. P. M.
Nl.lL MrDoNAU), K. AtSTROM,
President. Sec. -Treasurer
July, Hi, loos 118 1 mo
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good minino PRQPosinoN wanted
Watteil to purchase (or will assist
p r y having good proposition) a gold
nii-e tli.it has been sutllciently devel
oped to demonstrate possibilities. Ad
dress Charle- \V. I.ork, Oil Spruce
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
SO Ohio.
DON'T WORK ALL THE TIME
Why not play * name of Kuglish Bil
liard* at Limerick Alley this evening.
QUICK DELIVERY PHONE 30
Baggage, coal and wcod delivered up
on shortest notice clay or night.
U. Freidenthal,
Ceneral F.xpressine Bonded Carrier.
POSITION AS SALESMAN
Would like position as salesman in
store or would take an outside job. Ex
perienced furnitur -.ilesman? relinish
er, upholster and repairor. Addres F
A ci re Alaskan. 130 tf
WHAT THE KIDNEYS 00.
Vliglr Unc?a*lti<; Work Ko?p? Un
Str.mi; nu'l Healthy.
All the blood in the body pusses
through the kidneys once every three
minutes. The kidneys filter the b'ood.
Thev work night and day. When
healthy they remove about 500 grains
of impure matter daily, when uuhealthy
,-onie part of this impure ma'ter Is left
in the blood. This brings on many
diseases and symptoms ? pain in the
back, headache, nervousness, hot. dry
skin, rheumatism, gout, gravel, disor
ders of the ryesieht and hraring, dizzi
ness. irregular heart, debility, drowsi
ness, dropsy, deposits in tho ur;ne, etc.
I Sut if you keep ihe filters right jou
v. II h ive no trouble with your kidneys.
W. A. Hawkins, 0(5} Vesler way, Se
attle, Wash., says: "It gives me
pleasure at this present time to confirm
i!ic sta'dment I gave some years ago in
favor of Doan's Kiduev Fills, the relief
1 obtained from their use having
.) oved permanent. I used remedy
after remedy, was unable to obtain re
ricf. I bad the most severe pains
acn?-s the small of my b<ck, and was
also annoyed by the irregular action of
ihe kidney secretions. Do.m's Kldrev
I'll Is helped me at once, and a con
tinued use entirely relieved me. 1 am
an a dent advocate of Doan's Kidney
P. lis. aid have recommended tbem on
many occasions, as I Know they do just
n hat is claimed for them."
For sale bv all dealers. Price So
?cr.ts. Foster Mil burn Co., Buffalo, N.
V.. sole agents for the United States.
Remember ihe name ? Doan's? anil
[take no other.
Only One "EROMO &UIMNE," that ?s m
Laxative froxo Quinine^
Cures a Cold in O.ie i)ay, Cr.* in 4 Days
on evtry
25c
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GOLD AND
SILVERSMITH
MANUfACl URER OF NlrtiGEi JEWflRY
DEALER IN
Hand Painted China
and Cut Glass
A fail Line of tlgifl
and Wallham Watches
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"Carl, this Is dreadful."
"Calin yourself, Gretchen. Try to
throw It off your tuliul. If you can't
you will land In a lunatic asylum. '
"But to tliluk of Ilelnrieh belig put
to death and he Innocent of the crime!
How can 1 throw that off my mind?
We must find a way to get thin new
evldeuce before the court. '
"That is Impossible, sweetheart. We
have had the last rehearing of the
case, and it Is closed. l'<? ? ry to make
up your mind to bear It. You will not
only lose your reason, but make me
lose mine. No judge or court can now
help us to save your brother."
"Could not the emperor?"
"The emperor cannot Interfere in law
cases. Besides, it would be Impossible
to got an audience with him."
"Not on a matter of life and death?"
"Unquestionably. Suppose every con
victed prisoner or his friends could in
terview the emperor about bis case,
lie would have no time for his legiti
mate duties. Besides, the courts have
exclusive control of such matters."
He talked with her a long while, but
failed to produce any effect. Who suf
fers most, one whom the law punishes
or those who love the offender'; Proba
bly the latter. At lust the lover went
away, anil Gretchen"" walked the floor
In agony. Presently .Marie 1' rolbel, a
friend of Gretchen's, came In. Marie
was employed in the central oftlce of
the Merlin Telephone. She not only
knew of Gretchen's trouble, but suf
fered from it herself. Carl, the con
demned. and Marie had been school
children together, and. although they
had not spoken of love and no one
suspected them of being lovers, still
Mario hid a secret In her heart. She
alone knew that she loved Carl. But
she must uot display her feelings as
her sister did.
"Marie," said Gretchen, "1 must see
the emperor. Carl says his majesty
cannot help us If he would. I dou't
believe it. He has the power to do al
most anything. I am sure he has a
kind heart."
Marie pondered. "It seems to me."
she said presently, "that a woman's
heart Is more susceptible to pity and
would l>e easier lutluenced, especially
when what Is asked conflicts with
duty."
"But the emperor is not a woman."
"The empress is."
"But has she the power"?
"Yes. to influence the emperor."
"Well, but we cannot get An inter
view with her any more than with the
emperor."
"I think possibly I may manage
that."
"You, a poor girl working for your
living, get me an interview with the
greatest lady in tlia fatherland!"
"Sometimes I have great power to
secure the attention of great people."
"What do yon mean? Tell me quick!"
"I have given you hope. Live on that
for the present. If I perfcct a plau I
will call yon upon the telephone and
give It to you. Stay at home, never go
ing even for a minute where 1 can't
reach you."
Marie kissed her friend and went
away. She had caught an Idea. The
question remained. Would she get an
opportunity to work it out? There
might be a penalty attached to what
slic proposed to do, but what was that
compared with a chance to save the
life of the man she loved.
In a few days, when Gretchen was
endeavoring to get her mind off the
tragedy by doing some housework,
(here was a ring at the telephone. Tak
lag up the receiver, she heard a worn
voire ask:
"Is I hat yon. baroness?"
"You a iv"? l?egan Gretchen.
"The empress."
Gretchen trembled.
"No, .vour majesty, I am not the
barone.-s. I am only a poor girl whose
brother Ins been sentenced to death
fur a crime lie did not commit. God
has Riven me this opportunity to ask
you to help to save him. 1 beg that
your majesty will Implore the emperor
to use his Influence to give me an op
portunity to get the new proof that be
Is Innocent. Think, your majesty, how
you would feel if one dear to you were
about to be killed."
"This Is singular," said the voice of
the empress as If to herself. Then:
"(.Jive me your brother's iiame, my
poor girl, and I will see If 1 can do
anything for you, th \gh you must
know that the courts are an entirely
different part of the government from
that which the emperor administers,
i P.ut I am sorry for you and will help
you If 1 can."
GretcL^.i gave her brother's name,
then thanked the tynpress, huug up the
receiver aud danced all around the
root:;. Hut soon she began to be de
spot. lent again, though now that she
bad i lie empress' promise to try to
help her she did not despair.
The next day the Judge before whom
the case had been tried received a
suuitiioii!* to the palace. There an In
terview occurred between hiui and the
emperor, which resulted In a reopen
ing of the case In question, and In the
end the condemned man was acquitted.
Marie* Frolbel had succeeded in get
ting herself assigned to a field which
comprised the empress' private line;
then the first time the empress was
called Marie couueeted her with
Gretchen. Marie waited, expecting to
receive her dismissal, but when a
month had passed aud nothing came
of it she concluded that since her of
fense concerned a matter of life and
death her majesty had pardoned it.
When the prisoner was released there
was great rejoicing by two families,
which was celebrated by a double wed*
dine. HELEN IMJIJJHART.
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I was first mate of the Mary Good
I wis of Philadelphia when the utruugest
I thing In all luy seafarJ .g life happen
| ed. We were on the Uinks oi' Nesv
i foundland, the home of (lie fog king,
: and the mist liml come down on us
| thicker than I had evci seen it. It
lasted so loug without lifting that the
1 captain lost all traces of reckoning,
j Wo were off Halifax, Cape Itaee or
Cape Breton, we didn't know which.
Finally he concluded to drop tin anchor
and wait.
There was a considerable swell roll
lug beneath us, but of course no wind.
That would have blown away the fog.
One night the watch heard the sound
of a distant bell. For an hour It tolled
faintly, then very slowly became more
distinct. It was evidently coming to
ward us. It must be drifting, for there
was no wind to till sails, and we could
hear no sound of steam. At last the
bell tolled dismally within a cable's
length of us.
We began to In? anxious and rang our
own bell to let the stranger know that
we were In her course. There was lit
tle chance of her crew being able to
turn her, for there was no wind, but
they might anchor She was coming
so slowly as not to hurt us mueb from
fouling except for the waves. If we
should be rolled together In the trough
of the sea or one should be let down on
the other, there might be a terrible
crash.
our signal excited lie rcplj . except
the tolling of the l>oli. which continued
constantly. Fearing those on the ap
proaching vessel had not heard us. we
tired a guu. Hut this elicited nothing.
Presently we could h.-ar the bell toll
ing right beside us. and now and then
something black would appear not
twenty feet from us, hover there for a
few minutes, then disappear. Once It
came near enough for us to distinguish
the side of a ship.
We wtre on a terrible strain for
awhile, fearing that we would clash
with the stranger; then we caught a
glimpse of her stern under our bow
split. She had evidently passed us.
After waiting some time longer with
no view of her we concluded we were
out of danger.
At eight bells the next morning the
fog lifted. There was no sign of land,
but on our starboard quarter was a
harkentlne without sails, her foremast
gone, rolling with the waves. A wind
sprang up. and. raising sail, we made
toward her. When we came near her
the captain sent a boat's crew to inves
tigate.
Wo found a derelict tlmt had evident
ly been floating a long while. The only
thing aboard that had ever had life in
II was the body of a woman, uud we
had to stave In the door of the cap
tain's cabin to find that. It was lying
In a berth, and. notwithstanding the
many tosslngs the vessel had received.
It had not rolled out. We looked on
j the log book for the last entry. It was
tinted eighteen months agone, Nov. 10.
1*54.
We read the entry and weut back
further for an explanation. No part of
the log made mention of anything tin
it-.ua I transpiring aboard. Nevertheless
we traced what must have been some
thing of the story. A bundle of love
letters from a woman to the captain,
the last dated not long before the log
began, told lis that ho and his wife
must have uiade the voyage a wedding
trip. The last observation showed lati
tude degrees :;5 minutes north, longi
tude 18.20 east, or about 300 miles
south of the Canary Islands and off the
coast of Africa. The ship's boats were
gone, which led us to believe that ev
ery one on board except the woman
had left the vessel ami made for the
land.
The period, 18T>4, was when the
slavers were running t he last cargoes
of negroes from the African coast to
the United States. In the forecastle
we found a scrap of paper on which
was written, "The old man won't con
sent: do the Job." We Interpreted this
to mean that the men wished to force
!*ie captain to take the crew ashore to
MK tire a cargo of slaves. He declined,
and they were to kill him. Ail this
accounts for the captain's wife being
I >cked In his cabin. The port anchor
was gone. This Indicated that the
ship was at anchor when the crew left
her. We found no evidence to show
whether the captalu was killed or
went with them. The cr'.Ie had evi
dently parted and wns blown off.- ix.'.e.
Probably while the men were ash -.v
after negroes a sto.i i mine up 'and
broke the caolo. L.l^cly the captai.i
win killed ( ii the ship, r d during t!:e
melee liU \vi:'o went to the cabin r.nd
locked hen-elf In. IVssIMy tl:e may
have lain oa th ? l.e.'th, faint from
fright, and died there.
And so It was that this \wu> .n's bier
floated no one knew where. Likely it
drifted southwest ward, eventually
turning northward, possibly to the
northern end of the Atlantic ocean,
then caught winds or currents which
bore U south again to where we found
it. The rope to the bell rotted away,
and the waves tolled with It a requiem
for this bride whoso happiness was so
; short lived.
j But It was destined to float no
longer. Such a derelict so near the line
of Atlantic steamers between Europe
and America was a menace to life,
j Fortunately we had on board plenty
of combustibles to destroy her, and
after giving the body of the brldo a
1 sea burial we placed a large quantity
I of gunpowder In the hold, fixed a slow
match, then, getting Into our boats.
' pulled away, the bell still tolling Its
requiem. Presently a flame shot up.
the waters trembled, and the last of
' the slavers sank to the bottom.
I ALEXANDER ELY.
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Headquarters for Mining and Commercial Mai
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The Building has been liemodelled and Newly Decorated throughout
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g Herman Grimm, Prop. Only The Best Goods Handled
MOORE'S WHHRF OO.
Terminus W. P. & Y. Route
:: All South Bound Steamers Arrive and Depart From This Dock
REGULATION? 1905
H Warehouses - pen for delivery of merchandise from 8 a. m. to 5p,m.
H Perishables ONLY delivered on Sunday or at night.
All frtight shipments destined southbound must be accompanied by a
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office) and must be delivered before 6 p.m. No freight will be re
ceived on wharf after this nour.
BAGGAGE? Tolls win ou collected on Checked Baqoaoe Only. No
charge for bags and grips when unchecked.
The wharf gate will bo eloped to the public when steamer is nearlng
dock and will bo opened only when passengers have disembarked,
Wharfage Tariff can bo had on application at office on dook,
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