Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, November 8, 1902, Page 4

Berae'Review Pubjlshed Eypry Saturday. By E. C. KILEY. TWiy DOLLARS. AYER IN ADVANCE Putered in the -Postotiice xt: Grand Rapids Minnesota o Matter, Oficiat Paver of Marca County, Village of Grant Rupids and Deer River gut Town of Grand Ravids, REASONS FOR REFUSING. Peprieiens Women Whe Preferred Be Levere to Those They Had Aocepted, A young woman of Birmingham, England, became betrothed last sumg jer to a young solicitor, preliminaries wereserranged and the fond couple only awaited the arrival home of the bridegroom's father from a lengthy pojourn in America to be made one. In due course he came, but when the bride beheld one who, while he would have easily qualified for “fat man” et @ fair, asserted that in his son he once again beheld himself in youth, phe refused to fulfill her promise, and now secks a lover to whom the future floes not threaten such ample propor- tions. Some years since a lady was en- feged te a gentleman who bore the pame end was a relation of a certain gallant soldier, who, a month previous }o the date appointed for the rere- mony, while on service abroad had the misfortune to meet with a severe reverse. No sooner did the news come fo hand thun the lady, @ member of whose family had been wounded fp the disastrons action, declined, unless pe should promine to change hie pame, te bseome hia wife, To thir faprice the gentleman r ‘used to sub gait, so the match fell through. fllS FIRST FIRE ASSIGNMENT. Phe Excuse Gi by a New Reporter feos Neglecting His Daty. “Say, hustle down to the stockyards fight away,” aaid the city editor to the new reporter, says the Chicago hronicle. “There's a fire down there, > may turn into something big, but even if it doesn’t we want a good lit- tie story on it anyhow.” ‘The new reporter shot out of the oor, with perspiration starting at gvery pore. The fire did not turn out fo be @ great conflagration;;.sp to Poore reporters were sent down to the yerds to take care of it. ‘The’ city bditor depended upon hie new man for the story. But for some’ unaccount- able reason the reporter failed to re- turn to the office and the paper had to go to. prees without the account of the fire.” “ The next day about noon the new an strolied leisurely into the office putirely unprepared for the thunder. storm that broke over his head as soon es the city editor caught sight pt him. “Say, what the dickens is the mat- fer with you anyhow?” said the edit- pr. “Why didn’t yeu write ap that Bre that I tuld you to? “Why.” gasped the youth, “there wasn't any use to write it up, every pody woe there and saw 1t.” KNEW ALL ADOUT GUNS. rPiet” Jocbert .utontshed AN Heasw ers, sneluding Krupp the Famous Uimselt. An American wonmn tells of « visit phe and some friends paid to the erupp gun works ai Essen, Germany years ago, and of encounterlug Peter doubert before be thought of going jo South Africa, The woman was the uest of the American ambassador pod his wife, and at the works they were met by Krupp himself. In mak- ng their tour’ of the arsenal they were joined by a mnan who followed jhrough each department, and In 8 few moments responded to a casuai question about guns from one of the party Once having spoken he jaunched forth Into such detailed de- scriptions of their manufneture that Krupp. who had hitherto been talk- ing, kept still and simply followed as gneof the auditors. The man accom panied the party, explaining as he jvent, until the tour had been mada Then he bowed and retired. « “Who {ts that man whe knows ap much about guns?” demanded one of the party. “Oh, that’s « Dutehman named Pete Joubert,” vegiied ene of the ef Rew Form ef Phonograph, Among the exhibits at the Paris exposition was a phonograph, invent- e4 by Valdemar Poulsen, a Danish en- gineer, which uses a wire-wound in- ptead of @ waz-covered cylinder. The wire is of steel, and over it, in place pt the usual stylus, passes a smal) gleetro-magnet connected with « tel- ephene transmitter and battery. The pound waves cause a variation in the intensity ef the electro-magnet, and @ magnet, ecting upon the wire ag beneath it, leaves a perma mt impression upon the latter. lpou reversing the action the wire acts on the magnet and correspond. sounds are transmitted by the tel gpheae. In order to obliterate the magnetic trace on the cylinder it is paly necessary to revolve it under the gnagnet while this is subjected te « qeutinuous eurrent. When you want butter made in prasca county go to Hughes & Co, .signd and forgotten. And the old man eat ig bs ged Creraod Minty." E Pn smisomns, KEEPERS” Coyinty Offices BY ROBERT B. GRANT. “Click! Click!” went the hammeron the drill, through the stillness of the afternoon, ringing musically over the lonely sup browned hills. In the little gopher-hole ot a tunnel, up in the dark end, Ah Sing bent to his work, his brown leather face, with the black pig-tail coiled above it, as motion- less as the rock he was boring. Only the eyes showed life, gleaming like the earth- demon’s he resembled. Near the mouth of the tunnel lay a shovel and pick, and sev- eral cans. In one of these was powder anc in another a coil of fuse. Ah Sing was stripped almost naked, fos it was a warm summer's day, and the white man’s work was warm work. Ab Sing knew the white man’s trade almost as well as the best of them. He was tired of cooking ant had gone prospecting on his own account. Figuring that an old hole was just as good as a rew one, and a near prospect as good as one distant, he had plumped himself down on an old e@aim that had been Sawhorse Jule’s, and was hammering away with the industry of bis race. A few rods down the sloping hill stood the little shack which was his new home. “Click! click!” The hole was nearly deep enough. A few more strokes, an ex- ‘amination, and then the drill was with- drawn, and the hole cleaned out. Without wasting time in stretching and beaving sighs of relief, Ah proceeded to put in the charge and sttach the fuse. Soon he had all plugged up securely and the slow end of the fuse burning, and then he withdrew to the outer air to await results. Somewhere im that hill, maybe, there was gold, glittering yellow gold, which would furnish wings to far-off China, and luxury there for life. Perhaps it was destined for him, had been kept from the greedy eyes of the white pig for that purpose. Ah Sing watched and waited—waited until his little strong friend, the powder, should do it? work for him. A minute passed, and then came a mufflea explosion, shaking the arth under Ab Sing’s feet. He waited and the smoke came curling slowly out. Several minutes later Ah Sing knelt in the back end of the tunnel, among the shat- tered fragments of rock. The air was heavy with the smell of powder, and still clouded with smoke. But Ah Sing minded not these. He was gazing through the smoke, hit whole soul gleaming out through his bulg- ing eyes, and a trembling fascination upon bim that held him motionless. Before him, in the shattered rock, lay the yellow gold, torn from its hiding place, where it had rested for ages unseen by the many who had tramped above and around it; by old Jule, who had dug and ewore and left the place in disgust—now tu be found by bim, son of the sacred realm. There were hundreds—thousands of dollars— wealth ubtold, in that wall of rock ahead of him. No wonder Ah Sing was dazed. He put forth his hand tremblingly, scarcely daring to breathe, as some one who fears to make a sound. The very walls seemed to bave eyes and ‘ears, and the stillness seeined pled with restless spirits im hiding. Fitting a lump of the gold-laden quartz, Ab Sing looked fearfully around. There are eyen which can glow with the evil of the fier 1, and there are moments when humans forget that they are humans. {e the mouth of the tunnel was the eye and the moment was at jiand. Never was the tust for gold more fx ly personified than in the face of the man who stood looking inte the tunnel at the gold in front of Ab Sing. He was a tall, grizzled prospector, with a pack on his back, one of the straggling fail- ares: of the- mountains. Mixed with the greed gleaming in his eye was a ghoulish gleam of triumph. At last he had made his find. Even as the eyes of the two met, they seemed to understand each other, and Ab Sing instinctively clutched the drill that lay beside him. The move opened the con- flict. Setting down his pack, the miner drew a revolver and a knife, and advanced slowly upon his prey. His prey was easy; the Chinaman was only of medium height and slender. He would kill him with the knife if he could, and no noise would be made. If he could not, he had the revolver. Several seconds of stealthy approach, and the shaking Chinaman waited, a fly at the mercy of the spider, his. eyes dilating and his lips apart in terror. The spider crept up; there was a pause and the uplifted drill shook in the Chinaman’s unnerved Captured Democrats Secure the Plums in ttasca County hands. Then came the lunge, swift and sudden, and the Chinamar’s counter stroke. As the drill shot out in the latter’s hands, a brawny arm knocked it aside, and another brawny arm buried the knife deep in the Chinaman’s breast. A shriek echoed through and out of the little tunnel—a shriek wild and terrible, seeming as the soul departing from the quivering form that lay stretched on the ground. But vengenace was at hand. Even as the shriek ended came the report of the revolver, exploded by the hammer eatching on a rock, and the assassin tell forward on the hody of his victim, dead. The bullet had passed through hisheart. The Chinaman stil) struggled, pulling at the knife, and partly wrenched it out. The blood spurted forth and in a few minutes death came, stilling the shaking form and glazing the eyes. Qut beyond the mouth of the tunnel the sun sank slowly to rest, throwing long shad- ows and bars of light over hills and valleys. The birds flitted hither and thither, twit- tering and scolding as they hunted places for the night. Down by the brook the lit: tle log house waited lonely and still. Then came the moow, casting its pale light inte the hole in the hill, over the boot of the stilled form wearest the mouth, and thea going on its way. The sun came again, and poured its heat into the hole; again the moon peered with wide-eyed wondering at the boot, and passed on. rose on the third day a dog and 8 man came walking down the hill above the hole. The man was old and carried a piek. The dog nosed the ground. At the hole the dog stopped and looked within. Then he growled, sniffing the air. The man stopped. “What is it, Jack?’ he said, The dog looked at him, then looked into the hole and growled again, taking a step farther The man came and looked. “Jack,” said the man, as he came out of the hole a few minutes later, “I think this place is to let. I think we'll move in.” Jack said nothing, but sniffed solemnly at the air egain. Then the man “took precau- tions,” whd marched down to the little town. - He went to the recording office first; then, in the leisure hours following, the coroner 5 notified ‘that there were a couple of ‘corps sup on the old Sawhorse claim, and they ought to be moved. Men heard it with gpen mouths, and poured questions upon the ers man. But he knew nothing and cared fess; he was deep in business. So the Leder ig to we rege tosee. And they gow, and they: sai and they said t but only the birds new, and they — | | | If You Are Going East On your summer vacation, and will tell us where you want to go we will tell you the best way to get there, and what it will cost. We can offer you a variety of de- lightful Rail and Lake Trips on the Beauty to Attend the Queen, An interesting repor: is in circula- tion to the effect that Queen Alexandra will be attended at the coronation by four duchesses dressed in cloth of! gold, and wearing their robes and coronets. 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