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. _______ \ __ —an form Drvrsror.
A friend proves false, another dies,
Black clouds hang over social skies;
A little child we lovegrows cold,
Pleasure turns pain, and hope is old.
Fast, hard and cold, falls trouble down,
Like hail upon a. mountain’s crown:
Justice seems deaf, as weil‘as blind.
And self is ruling all mankind.
Not so: Stand firm, be brave, be true,
Fling out your banner: start anew,
Write courage on it, clear and bold;
Hope in the heart cannot grow old.
Look up: The darkest sky but hides
The altar where the sun abides;
False friends, false words, the better prove
The glorious truth of changeless love.
Be brave: Good soldiers face‘thre fire; -,
'Brave men who-fall will still aspire;
No harm can come to me, to you,
For God still reigns: Be brave, be true.
—Kate Tan-natt Woods, in Unity.
IWWWN
THE JACK POT.
By Charles Dwight Willard.
w
IWW‘OWE.
[The Los Angeles papers recently have
mentioned the fact that Mr. Charles Dwight
Willard has been appointed librarian of the
'Los Angeles library, and the further fact
that he was for years a contributor of the
Argonaut. He was indeed. Up to the time
that he became secretary of the Los An~
geles chamber of commerce he furnished
the Argonaut with the following stories:
“The Herald of Fate,” “The Fall of Ulys-
ses,” “The Doppelganger,” “The Diamond
of Dorey,” “King Cole,” “The Itinerary of
Caliban,” “The Palimpsest,” “The Turn of
a. Hand,” “Tomasson,” “Auto Da Fe,"
“The Earth Bubble,” “Sentence Suspend-
ed,” “Evolution of News,” “The Jack—Pot,”
' “The Family Tree,” “An Introduction,”
“Affairs of State,” “Fingal, the Hoodoo,”
“A Superfluous Man,”' “A Sense of Jus—
tice,” “Joan of Arc,” “The Scapegrace,"
.“The Mortal Coil,” “An Amendment to
Destiny,” “County Roads,” “Sleep No
”More," “Poor Little Girl," “Female Rela—
tions,” “Second Death," “Subsidy Bill,”
“A Lost Soul," “Earlier Bird," “Brother’s
Keeper,” “By Any Other Name,” “The In-
cident at Casey’s,” “The Masculine De-
coy,” “Jonah and the Mascotte,” and
“Boys and Frogs.” Among these there is a.
great diversity of treatment. As a sample
of Mr. Willard’s humorous style, the an-
nexed story, “The J ack-Pot,” will be read
with interest by those who are not familiar
with his work and will be reread by those
who remember him.—Eds.]
HERE were five of us in the party
-——six, counting Long Tom; the
guide. After two days’ hard. climbing,
which the burros endured. with exem-
plary fortitude, we arrived at the little
valley high up in the mountains,
through which threaded the trout
stream. - ‘
“Jest you all go over into the cabin
there and make yourself comf‘ble, While
I ’tend to gettin’ this stuff unpacked,”
said Long Tom; “there ain’t. no one
there. My pardner, he’s down. below."
“The cabin appears to be two cabins,”
said the colonel, as we approached it.
“That is for economy in ridge-poles,”
said the doctor; “sleeping apartments
on one side and kitchen on the other,
In the space between, you keep your
fishing tackle and worms." - .
\V‘e- entered the right-hand section of
the. twin cabin, which proved to be the
kitchen side. There was not. much
_ furniture—a table of hewn- logs, a: chair
of bent. saplings, and a rough bench.
However, we did- not notice such
furniture as there was, for each mem-
ber of the party, as he. stepped over the
high threshold, had his attention in-
St-ant‘ly attracted by the stove, and a
brief roundclay of ejaculations went
along the group. _
“W'ell, that staggers me." said the
stock broker.
"Il’m,” said the professor, in a mys-
terious tone, and rubbed his chin.
The stovc was a plain, small cooking
range. rather old and rusty. The
strange thing about. it- was its position.
Its abbreviated logs stood upon large
cedar posts, which were planted in the
floor and were over four feet in height.
This brought the stove away up in mid-
air, so that. the top was about. on alevel
with the face of the colonel. and he was
a six footer.
We formed in a circle about the stove
. and. stared atit as solemnly as agroup
of ‘ iests around: a sacrificial tripod.
We ll. of the posts—they were firm
and solid, showing that. the mysterious
arrangement was a permanent, not. a.
temporary one. Then- we all bent our
necks and opened our mouths to look
up at the bolcin. the roof through which
the stove pipe vanished.
Suddcnly the stock broker burst out
into a laugh.
“Oh, I understand it now,” said he.
“Understand what?” asked the colo-
nel, sharply.
“Why Long Tom has his stove hoist-
ed up so high from the floor.”
“So do I,” said the doctor; “but 1 sus-
pect that my explanation is not the
same that anyone else would offer.”
“Well, I Will bet that I am right,"
said the stock broker, “and put up'tlm
money.”
“I am in this,” said the judge; "1 how
a clear idea about that stove and will
back it." '
“Make it a jackpot,” said the colonel;
“I want to take a hand.”
The stock broker drew a small yel-
low coin out of his pocket and drOppcd
it on the table.
“lie has the stogc up there,” he said,
“to get a better draught. In this rare-
fied mountain air there is only a small
amount of oxygen to the cubic inch,
and combustion is more difficult to se-
~ cure than in the lower latitudes. I have
heard that if you get. high enough you
can’t cook an egg—that is, I mean,
water won’t. boil—or something like
that," he continued, thrown into sud—
den confusion by the discovery'that the
professor's eye was fixed upon him with
a sarcastic gaze.
“Is that supposed to be science?"
m‘anded the professor. ,
“Well,”‘ said the stock broker, dog-
gedly, “never mind the reasons. Ex-
perience is probably good enough for
dc-
Long Tom. He finds that he gets a bet- '
ler drought for his stove by having it
up in midair,‘so he has it there."
( any bigger than the moon does through
that " > :
“Excuse me.” interrupted the stock
broker, tapping the table; “are you in
this pot?”
The professor made a deposit, and J
proceeded: ./
“Have you noticed that our host is
a very tall man ‘3 Like most men of his
height, he hates to bend over. If the
‘siove were near the floor, he would have
to stoop down low when he whirled a
flapjack or speared a rashcr of bacon.
Now he can stand up and do it with"
ease. Your draught. theory is no good;
the longer the pipe, if it is straight, the
better the fire will burn.”
“Professor,” remarked the colonel,
“I regret to have to tell you that your
money is gone. Long Tom told me, on
the way up, that his partner did all the
cooking, and he is aman of rather short
stature.” The colonel then paid his
compliments to the jackpot, and con-
tinued: “Now, my idea is that the
.stove heats the room better there than
on the floor. It is only a cooking stove,
to be sure, .but when the winter is cold
it makes this room comfortable. Being
up in the middle of the space it heats it
all equally well, which it could not do
if it were down below.”
The doctor greceted this theory with
a loud laugh. “Colonel,” he said, “you
are wild—’way oif the .mark. Hot. air
rises, of course, and the only way to dis—
seminate it is to have your stove as
low as possible. According to your idea,
it, would be a good plan to put the fun
nace in the attic of a house instead of
in the basement.”
“I think,” said the colonel, “that I
could appreciate your argument better
if you would ante.”
“The pot-is mine," said the doctor, as
he deposited his coin; “you will all
adopt my idea the moment you hear it,
and Long Tom, who will be here in a
minute, will bear me out. This room rs
very small; it. has but: little floor space,
and none of it goes to waste. lNow, if
he had put. the stove down where we ex-
pected to find it, Long Tom could not.
have made use of the areaaunderneat-h,
as you see he has done. On all sides of
the supporting posts you will notice
there are hooks, on which he hangs his
pans and Skillets. Underneath there is
a kitchen chest for pots and cooking
utensils of various sorts. What could
be more. convenient? Under your or-
dinary stove there is room only for a
poker and a few cockroaches.”
The judge, who had been listening to
the opinions offered by the» others with
the same grim smile that occasionally
ornmented his face when he announced
that ran objection was overruled, now
stepped forward and dropped a coin on
the table. He then rendered his de-
cision as follows:
“It appears that- none of you have
noticed the forest of hooks in the roof.
just over the stove. They are-notin use
at present, but they are there for some
purpose. I imagine that- during the
Winter huge pieces- of venison and bears
meat dangle over the stove, and are
THE STOVE W'AS A PLAIN, SMALL
COOKING RANGE.
dried for use lat-er. pr, if the stove
were on the floor, it would be too far
from the roof to be of service in this
way.“ ‘
“Here comes old Tom,’ shouted the
colonel, who had stepped to the open
door while the judge was speaking.
The old trapper put down the various
articles of baggage with which hisarms
1
She Is the Prettiest Princess in, Eu!
rope and Is to Marry the Old
Emperor of Austria.
The little Princess lsabel of Orleans
is the prettiest princess in Europe. She
is so pretty that she is like a realization
‘of the princess in the old fairy tales.
,Adviccs from Vienna say that she is
the lovely victim picked out to be the
bride of' the old emperor of Austria
"when his state period of mourning is
over. That will be next September.
Pity this poor little. princess, says the
New York Journal.
When the present emperor of Austria
and Hungary married Elizabeth of Ba-
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PRINCESS ISABEL OF ORLEANS.
7 (Said to Be Engaged to the Aged Emperor
of Austria.)
varia ‘lO-Odd years ago, she, too, was.
the most beautiful princess in Europe.
Her teeth dazzled people when she
smiled, and she could stand on her own
hair when she let it down. Since then
her brother-in-law was murdered in
Mexico while trying to be a real king,
and his wife is now the “Mad Carlotta."
sister of the famous and infamous king
of the Belgians; her only son, Prince
Rudolph, killed himself—or was shot
-—in disgrace; her sister, Marie of Na—
ples, was deposed from her throne and
is still in exile, and her sister', the
Duchess d’Alencon, was burned to death
in the Paris charity bazar.
One of her cousins was the mad Louis
of Bavaria, who drowned himself and
'hiskeeper in the Sternberg lake 13 years
ago, and another is the present Ba—
varian king who crawls around naked
on all fours, mad. She herself was
killed by an enemy of kings and princes
—Lucchcni—and he has gone mad,
too. ‘
But the throne of Hungary and Aus-
trio. is without a queen and the. em-
peror no son. So this little pretty prin-
cess who has to live on English soil be-
cause France is disgusted with kings,
etc., and especially disgusted with her
disgraceful brother, the duke of Ur-
leans, who pretends to be a pretender.
must marry the old cmpcror of Austria
to see if that tottering. worn—out and
" utterly dissatisfied dynasty can be kept
together by a baby.
THE SENSE 0F TASTE.
~ Experiments Provo Thai “1193: a Per-
son ls Blindi‘oidcd it Has No .11;—
tual Existence.
It would now scum from experiments,
which have been carried on in the Uni-
vcrsity of iowa. that we do not» taste
many of the things which we eat at our
1 daily means. It is asserted confidently
I that we merely smell them. It the nos:-
is tightly closed in the ordinary mun
; and he is blindfolded, he will not be
-, able to distinguish coffee from water 01'
a weak solution of quinine.
This has
‘ been proved by experiments made. on
; many persons. Common cofi'ec was said
were loaded and came into the kitchen ;
cabin where we all stood. lle glanced
at. the group and then at the stilted
stove in our midst. _
“I see you air all admirin’ my stove,"
said he, “and I'll bet'you’vc been a-won-
.derin’ why it. is up so high.”
“Yes, we have,” said the professor:
“how did you know it?"
“People most allus generally jest as "
soon as they come into the place begin
to ask me about it—iha’t’s how i
knowed.”
“Well. why is it up so high?“ dc—
manded the stock broker. impatiently.
with a. side glance at the well—developed
jack-pot on the table.
"The reason’s simple enough." said
Long Tom, with a grin: that showed his
bicuspids; “you see we had to pack all
this stuff up here from down below on
burros. Originally th ere was four j‘ints
of that. stove pipe, but the cinch wasn‘t
drawed tight enough on the burro that .
y
was carryin’ them. and two of cm
slipped out and rolled down the moun-
tain. _Vv'hen we got, hereand found that
there wasn’t. but two pieces left, I reck-
oned that I would have to. kinder h'ist
the stove to make it fit the pipe—so l
jest in and h’ivsted. her. And tiiar'sbc is. ;
Say, what’s all this here money on the
table for?"
Therewasadeep silence. which lasted
so long that Tom ventured to repeat
his question about the money.
“It is a jack-pot," said the doctor. sud-
ly, “and as near as I can make out it‘be- .
longs to you."—-‘Charles Dwight Wil-
lard, in San'll‘rancisco Argonaut.
Mars Through Telescope.
The largest telescope in existence
does not make the planet Mars appear
“The right explanation,” began the; m ’opcra glass.
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\ Mvm‘W-«rm ’-
..r- 1 ""“""""5luu"'(' ‘5"5'wflm ‘-
; most. all of our common ’ foods
to be water,‘it was also said to be qui-
nine. Water was said to be cotfcc. Tea
was called cofl‘ec. Turkey was called
SANS EYES, SANS TASTE.
(In This Condition You Cannot Tell Tea
from Coffee.)
law apple was called grape juice.
pork.
Lard
Malt cxtract wits sherry wine.
was pronounced butter.
The experiments which led to thcsc
conclusions were carried on by Prof.
G. T. W. Patrick, of the University cl
Iowa, who has just comnmnicatcd some
of the results of his work to the Ameri-
cunPsychologicalsociety. l’rol‘. l-‘atricl
was enabled to attain grout accurucg
in his work by the fact that one. of tin
persons 11c experimented upon was :1:
ztnosmic-thut is, absolutely devoid (.
the sense of smell. He was enabled tlu:
'to determine which sensations wet.
those of taste and which were 53103:
There are only four simple taste so;
sutious, numcly, sweet, bitter, sour or.
salt. It is said by some that thcrc m-
only two, sweet and bittcr.
sensations which are commonly cailC.”
tastcs are complex results of scusatiw
of smcil, touch, tcuzpcrnturc and sigla.
The means liy'which we distinguish :3
and
drinks is not the sense of taste so much
as it is the sense of smell. touch. tem-
perature and sight. All the fine (lifl’ET'
comes by which we distinguish the var-
ious fruits. meats andjdrinks depend
not upon tastc'at' all, but upon titer"
"other senses.
. soldiers.
' laut- and meritorious service" on several
;\il Oilzc‘
Robert Louis Stevenson “7115 a De-
voted Admirer of Sa‘mon’s Re-
cently Deposed King.
If the Samoan Chieftain, Mntaafa,
"whom the American and British forces
in the Samoan islands are jointly cn-
,gaged in shelling into submission,
‘wanted a certificate of good character
'he could get it from the writings of the
late Robert Louis Stevenson. The fa-
'mous novelist, who lived for several
years in the mountains near Apia, Sa-
-moa, went there just after the govern
ment of the island had been settled by
'the joint intervention of -Germany,
'England and the United States. Under
the agreement of the three powers
rMalietoa Laupepa, who had been pre-
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(A Glimpse pf the Great Novelist‘s Home
in Samoa.)
viously deposed and transported by the
Germans in favor of a nominee of their
own, was reinstated as king and his
kinsman,- Mataafa, the present rebel
leader, was excluded.
The three powers appointed as chief
justice a Swede named Cedarkrantz
and as president of the council 3 Cer-
fman, Baron von Pilsach. For awhile
peace reigned between Malictoa Lau-
ipepa and Mataafa, but Mataa'fa was not-
;suificiently consulted in government
'afiairs and soon removed, with his fol-
lowers, and set a royal court of his own
“outside Apia. From that time on there
were frequent outbreaks between the
'rival factions. Stevenson interfered
and several times visited both the royal
claimants. After one visit to Mataafa
he writes: “Mataafa is a beautiful,
sweet old fellow.” Royal feasts were.
given in the novelist’s honor and lie and
the rebel chief drank “kava” together
and grew confidential over the cup.
Stevenson had a poor opinion of the
white officials chosen to preside over
gthe islands: and in November, 1890, he
writes: “If the great powers go on as
they are going and the chief justice de-
lays the war conchcs will sound in the
3hills and my home will be inclosed in
camps before the year is ended.”
After Mataafa had been finally beat-
en he says: “Yes, of course I was sorry
for Mataafa, but a good deal sorricr and
'angricr about the mismanagement of
all the white officials. I cannot bear to
'write about that. ‘ Manono all de-
stroyed, one house standing in .lpolima,
the women stripped, the prisoners beat—
en with whips—and the women’s heads
taken—all under white auspices. Well,
well, it is no fun to meddle in politics.”
At one time‘ Mr, Stevenson decided to
write an account of the revolutions and
counter revolutions to which he was a
witness. It was to be called “A Foot-
note to History, 01' Eight Years of
Trouble in Samoa.” If he were alive
now he would dobutlcss sympathize
with his old friend .‘. ,utaai’a.
HAS—A FINE RECORD.
Gen. Arthur MacArthur. the Gallant
Officer ‘W’ho .Capturcd the Fil-
ipino Capital.
Maj. Gen. Arthur MacArthur, who
was in command of the portion of our
army moving against Aguinaldo at Mal-
olos, is a native of Massachusetts, and
isonc of the brilliant soldiers who en-
tered the army from private life. When
he was appointed he was a citizen of
Wisconsin. He lived in that great state
GEN. ARTHUR M’ARTHUR.
(Leader of the Army Now on the March
Against Aguinaldo.)
when the civil war broke out, and he
became a. volunteer lieutenant when
Abraham Lincoln sent out hiscall for
After two years of service
in the field he was made a major of vol-
unteers, and very soon afterward lie
was promoted to a colonelcy. ‘IIc
fought. in numerous battles, and the
records of the war department show
him. as having been mentioned for “tini—
occaslons. In "The Records of the Re-
bclliou” (Jen. E‘.luc.-\rthur is honorably
mentioned on several pages. Few
braver or more able men he ve bcen re-
cruitcd from the ranks of private cit-
izcusbip to make oificcrs in the Amer-
ican army.
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