The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 7, 1897, Page 25

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, MARCH 71, 1897. 25 He Sought Fortune in the Copra Groves A Galifornian’s Rare Experience in the South Sea Islands and Why His Venture Failed I1TLE is thougnt, as we daily gather around the “festive board” to par- B} take of the delicacies of the menu, how they are obtained or how great a dis- tancethey come from. this statement the experience of F. ndall, a Californian, in respect to one article of delicacy will be interesting. In illustration of | M. | meet the natives as they line the shore. The captain of the schooner and others endeavor to persuade the natives to go ous measures, Mr. Kendall says, are em- ployed. Few natives from New Guinea landed in small boats at various points to ] in bearing. Between these trees cotton is aboard the vessei and often success crowns | | their efforts; at other times more strenu- | planted similarly in style (o that em- ployed by American farmers in their | cultnre of peas. In ten or twelve days after planting appears the green blade, and in six months the first crop is gath- ered, which, it ordinarily productive, is | sufficient to remunerate the expense of | fascination over ‘all Europe. | think I was immortal ?” asked the Kingon of seventy-three years, from 1642 to 1715. This reign is regarded as the most bril- liant in French annals and exercised a “Did you his deathbed of nis sorrowing attendants. The Spaniards boast justly of the reigns of some of their sovereiyns. James I of Aragon ruled sixty-three years, from 1213 | to 1276, while Pedro 1V and John II ruled respectively fifty-one and fifty-four years. From the time Spain was consolidated, in 1479, eight kings ruled whose reigns aver- aged thirty-five years. pendence by the Portuguese. four and forty-six years. AN has been stirred to a turbulent pud- ment the scene, and she has also gone the lengtn of wild extravagance i borrowing A Bradley Martin Affair in Siskiyou How Mrs. Dutch Pete of Greenhorn Gulch Intends to Outdo Al Rivals in Her Sphere Nobody is to be allowed to carry home Alphonso I occupied Portugal’s throne ) for seventy-three years (1112-1185) and he is regarded as the founderoi their inde- Other Por- tugese kings reigned ior forty-three, forty- { EJ%HE calm pond of Siskiyou’s society dle by the news of the dance to be given by Mrs. Dutch Pete of Greenhorn | Gulch next Friday night in the school- house, on which occasion Mrs, | promised to knock all the spots off the some little flags from the teacher. Your reporter has with much difficulty Mrs. Pete told your reporter (exclusive) that “she don’t mind no expense so long as any supper in his pocket, but to balance that drawback Mrs. Pete will open a jar of her famous watermelon-rind preserves. Not more than three couples will have to use one spoon. Mrs. Pete bas reck- lessly determined to bring out her whole bali dozen and all her rare old ironstone | dance given last month by Mrs. Turkey Joe of Cricket Fiat. The sums spent for cheesecloth and prize-box jewels will amount to some- succeeded in getting descriptions of a few of the most expensive and notable get-ups. { Having learned How much profit coutd be | | Mrs. Ernestina Blinky, the world- acquired in the cultivation of * gl cocoanut, the greater part of which is preparing the land and considerably | The reigns of several of the Prussian toward the payment of it, if it could be | | kings bave been very long. Frederick William, the great elector and founder of are selected for this work since their escape to the interior is easy, while those cups. If any one gets too drunk to dance he is expected to roll under the bench like & Pete has ; she can put out Mrs. Jee'seye.” sed in the northern part of the island New Guinea, Mr. Kendall sougit the advice of prominent officials of the Ger- man Government, and encouraged by their representations concluded to enter into the pur t. ner one who was an acti ageacy.on the island. Mrs. Kendall ac on his expedition, anc o ve member of th nied her husband s the first Ameri- | He accepted as a part- | irom other islands have extremely limited opportunity to get away. three years made between | slaves, us they are in fact,” said Mr. Ken- re to be housed and fed t munificent stipend of two sticks of infe- “‘There is a semblace of a contract for these poor dall, ““and the agency, whereby the natives ro and rice nd for their weekly services: receive the rior tobacco, one-quarter of an inch square purchasea. This cotion production con- | | tinues, to greater or less success, every | | six months for five years without replant- | ing and only an occasional weeding, 100 | | pounds to the 2}4 acres being an ordinary yield. | “In planting the copra, nuts fairly | ripened and those fully matured are | the shell fibrous covering is removed, selected. Once at the stockhouse an outer, | famed heiress of a rockpile, will weara the Prussian military power, reigned thing, while the grub will be hot stuff. | new dress of pink cheesecloth and pillow-: gentleman. “This won't be no low af- fair.” Those who are not invited are ready to | give opinions as to this waste of money | and time. Your reporter apoends s few. (Exclusive.) “If Mrs, Dutch Pete wants to make be- ieve she is somebody it ain't none of my Nancy Oldbird.” S ——————— , 2 b Mrs. Dutch Pete haint no business 1 iwd * aix? dnchbsiong brityia broken, The ‘verbenas,’ or female labor- | ; ; can woman to place her foot upon the soil | it S0 GOS8 SO THEENSX 10] ol ocure the white meat, cutting it into | puttin’ on style with her oid dance when i of this portion of New Guinea. TN A pipe (sl e natives | SMall pieces, preparatory to putting it she owes me 90 cunuy yet on her rag inlhl:;llel;e :\'u\ilL :u lands first became | \.o* ohacco, both male and female), | UPOD racks to be dried by solar or artificial | carpet.—Mrs. General Weaver. anakas is a mooted ques- It is thought by eome that refugees | the Malay peninsuia and adjacent islands crossed over in canoes and by lapse of time their original traits of char- acter became obliterated and gradually | “Every month a lavalava is added to their wages. This consists of two fancy cotton bandana handkerchiefs, used about the loins as their only article of covering by the men, and in many instances used came those of the present inhabitants. d with more perti- | ishment from Mexico | nge people ‘o seek an asylum ast wilds. This theory is par- | tained by the discoveries in Mexico of wa for their person similar to those now used | by the Kanakes. | Although much effort has been made to | civilize these peoples, but little success | comparatively has been aitained, as each | nd- embraces a separate tribe, distinct | elf and hostile to the others. re seemsto have particularly fa- | ed .the island of New Guinea ‘for the | raising of cotton and copra, but the Ger- | district, which these nomadic tribes hayg i prosperity and quiet, rude and unsettled ment is not liberal in extend- ng inducement to the world to come and | st in improving the vast territory by e sale and occupancy of | Kendall exiremely rly astonished when disappointed the Govern- | was Bis T blished there before the | consisting of such | paratively few, and none are large. by the women in the same capacity. After the expiration of this contract the native | laborers are furnished with a trading b articles as best suit their idea for disposal among their fellow creatures.. But, though they, in their implements and coverings | ignorance, consider this a gift, in reality | it has been paid for by their labor many times over. “The manner of preparing the grou nd for the planting of copra is very simple,” said Mr. Kendall. “The natives grub with a large hos the trees, which nre com- Vast tracts of land are covered ouly by grass cr berry bushes arising from the burned st on fire in their wanderings over the plains in search of food. “The soil is principally sandy, richly in- termingled with vegetable mold, which renders its productiveness exceedingly active. When all is in readiness for the maturity of the nut. The immature nuts are soft, but their contents can be readily eaten with a spoon. | | “It takes about 7000 nuts to produce a | ton of dried copra, and a tree will yield about 100 sound nuts yearly. The price | | varies, but the average result is $40 per ton. With some slight exceptions, the greater part of this production is shipped | from this island to Germany, where it is | placed in its commercial form, known as ‘desiccated cocoanat, ‘confectioner’s stock,’ ana by other names.” | Long Reign of Monarchs. | The fact that Queen Victoria is about to | | celebrate the sixtieth year of her reizn cails attention to the long reigns of other | monarchs. The majority of these lengthy | | rules have occurred ia times of national beat, the time depending mainly upon the | forty-eight years from 1640 to 1688. Fred- erick the Great was on the throne forty- six years and this was about the most im- portant reign in the annals of the king- dom. Frederick William I1LL reigned for forty-three years (1797-1840). Peter the Great holds the Russian rec- ord, forty-three years, from 1682 to 1745. It was of this ruler that Voliaire said: *‘He gave a polish to his people, and-was himself a savage; he taugnt them the art of war of whicii he was himself ignorant; from the sight of a smail boat on the , river Moskwa he created a powerful fleet; made himself an expert shipwright, sailor, pilot and commander; he changed the manners, customs and laws of the coun- try, and lives in their memory as the father of his country.”—Chicago News, Nobody Knows but Mother. How many buttons are missing to-day? Nobody knows but mother. How many playthings are strewn fn her way? Nobody knows but mother. | | | | IN NEW GUINEA, ] times being inimical. The three Danish | | kinzs of England, for example, reigned | only twenty-seven years altogether. Dur- ing the Saxon period fifteen kings ruled with an average of thirteen years apiece. But William the Lion ruled over Scotland How many thimblesand spools has she missed? How many burns on eac fat little fist, How many bumps to he cuddled and kissed? Nobody knows but mother. | How many hats has she hunted to-day? Nobody knows but mother. Carelessly hiding themselves in the hay, . Novody knows but mother. How many handkerchieis willtully strayed, How many ribbons for each little maid, How, for her care, can & mother be paid? How many little torn aprons to mend, How many hours of toil must she spend, What is the time when her day’s work shall end? Nobody knows but mother. How many lunches for Tommy and Sam" Nobody knows but mother. Cookies and apoles and blackberry jam, Nobody knows but mother. Nourfshing dainties for every “sweet tooth”— Toddling Dottie or dignified Ruth, How much love sweetens the labor, forsooth? How many tears for her babes hes she shed, | Mrs. Pete has been cooking the old hen a few days already, and she admitted to your reporter (exclusive) that she intended to make sandwiches oi said ancient fow! and pieces of soda biscuit. At the memorable function of Mrs. Joe the guests were regaled with fried pork between cold pancakes, and then the storm of denunciation that arose from the poor and the preacher almost drowned the fiddle. While partaking of the sumptuous sup- pver on Cricket Flat, the breast of Mrs. Pete swelled with envy <o that ber next- to-her-Sunday basque burst down the | back, causing some invidious remarks !abont red flannel and black shoestring. At that moment Mrs. Peie resolved to show them Cricket Flatters they are by n0 means the only shirts in the laundry, and to that end she has been doing extra churning ever since and laying by a part of her princely income to make a spread at her own dance. | Itis understood that persons appearing in the same rigs worn at Mrs. Turkey Joe's dance will be politely but firmly requested to chase themselves out of that, and Cricket Flatters are turning and dyeing and fixing up. They realize that not any old thing will do for an occasion of the sort. Red and green ribbons have ad- vanced in price, and Bluemoss of Humbug has been employed to design one new creation and take a settin’ of turkey eggs. placed with unstudied carelessness, and her diamond breastplate cost exactly 5 cents at. Mra. Heybrooke’s notion-store. Mrs. Pete intends to be head couple in the famous basket quadrille with young Pitchpine Jenkins, and to make sure of him he has been given a pound of butter and four pints of sour milk. The way tey will sashay, do-see-do and balance to the left will no doubt be a part of the future’s history. | on der ne case lace. The waist wili be made with needle and thread, and the skirt wi'l dip on one side. Every one will be wild over of her own, and it is whispered she has | | new shoes. Her hair will be dressed a la curling-iron, and she will carry a handker- chief 1f she doesn’t forget it. Mrs. Vanderwerthenheimer of Up-the- Guich intends to wear her old polka-dot wrapper, und ven dose Pete's don't let her in she smashes der whole compoodle Mis. Vandenwerthenheimosr will have a chip on ber shoulder and fire in her eye. WITH YOUNG PITCNPINE JENKINS *I wouldn't go if I could. She thinks herself better than them that ean buy and sell her any day.—Mrs. McStinger.” “If Mrs. Pete had donated the hen to the pastor's family she would be more certain of salvation,—Rev. Starvedout.” “Mrs. Pete’s hens and things is hern, and she can do as she likes for all me.— Mrs. Short.” “Mrs. Pete is jest right. I'd get ahead of them Turkey Joe’s 1f it took every old hen 1n the yard.—Mrs. Vindex.’” The Hungry Hill Ecuo says there are in Hungry Hill a dozen people who could | afford a hen, but no one thera wants to get her name up. The puddle will not subside into its usual stagnant quies until next Saturday, when Mrs. Dutch Pete’s dance will be a thing of the past. OLive HEYDEN. Quaint Enghsh Gustoms. There is scarcely a manor in Engiand where some queer old custom dating back to feudal times does not survive, recailing the former prestige and glory of thy W] ~ Y woi il N 3 ‘J’\(V‘Wm INDIANS MAY SITON THE 40(0) G0 BY s | : P | Mgs PETE WILL BE NEAD COUPLE 'KWJL’“M‘NE FENCE AND WAT(.HEl “lords of the manor.” Thus at Brough- ton, on each Pam Sunday since time immemorial, the so-called ‘“'gad whip” Nobody knows but mother. Mrs. Dutch Pete herself will appear as | her new greea glass breastpin. Mrs. | memorial service takes place. The | How many muddy shoes all in a row? in the picture given (exclusive) in timo- | Biinky will wear a switch, and have her | lord of the manor, leaving his pew | Nobody knows but mother. thy green muslin de caiico, built high | weather-eye open for a beau. in the chancel, advances to the steps | How many stockings to darn, do you know? above the waist and cut short below. Her Young Miss Manzanita Jjim will pe | thereof and cracks a heavy cgrriaxe | Nobody knows but mother. hair will be dressed in Irish fenthers, | dazzling in red and white, made in a style | Whip three times, while the rector is reading the first lesson. At the beginning of the second lesson he approaches the parson with his whip in his band and a purse with gold pieces tiea to the other end of the lash. This he waves thrice in the air and then holds the whip so that the purse hangs directly over the priest’s ! head until the cone usion of the chapter, when the priest takes possession of the purse and reverently places it on the altar. Volumes might bs written about these ment als refused to sell or lease a| planting rows are made ten feet apart and | for forty-nine years (1165-1214). His son, | Nobody knows but mother. Mrs. Dutch Pete was one of the head | The gentlemen will wear clothes. There | Queer manorial customs, the origin of foot of available land to him, and to only | either young sprouted cocoanut plants, | Alexander II, reigned thirty-five years | How many cares does a mother-heart know? | guysat Mrs. Turkey Joe's dance, in white | was some talk of excluding washed over- | most of them being lost in antiquity. aliow him to purchase the wild land as he | obtained by the natives in the interior or |and the latter’s son thirty-six years, Nobody knows but mother. ., | pique basque and black lawn skirt, but | alls, but as men are necessary to pay the I R wentinto the interior. But his only exit | those without any advancement, procured | Charlemagne, the great consolidator ot | 10w many joys from het motber-love flow? | per costume this time is intended to | fiddler they may come any way that is A Bishop's Story. from the country was by means of a Ger- | from wild trees near at hand, are placed | the French republic,ruled forty-seven years Popesy S knock out the whole shootine match. jawful. X aobdben Ay e e | c How many prayers by each little white bed, ¥ good story is .oing e n steamer ¥ b plied between Her- | in the rows. | and Louis IX for fortv-four years, but both At great expense the hostess has hired Haifbreeds are not to be admitted if the Bishop, who was in the dining-room, | his hostess went to the kitchen to He and his wife and th thers of the | boil them herself. While o engaged expedition wouid have been in exceed- she began to sing the first stanza of a ingly sad piignt but for the courtesy of a hymn. Then she sang the second stanza, oman Catholic op, who ! | | | Ge » men of the party were taken into the brother's house and | an reg | joining in. When it was finished there was silence, and the Bishop remarked, “Why not sing the third verse?” “The AT e 8 R i UED———— | i Bishop Paret of Baltimore. Some time tshoh and Singapors once in every | ‘“These plants mature in three or four | these long reigns were exceeded by Louls | How many kisses for each curly head? a kid for 10 cents to gather juniper |they will stay out, and Indians may sit ago he was the guest of an Episcopal 0 m s. He was obliged to | years and continue twenty or thirty years | XIV, who reigned the unprecedented time Nobody knows but mother. branches enough to perfume and orna- | on the fence and watch the 40(0) go by. family in West Virginia. " Learn- o e s SRR 2 e S LY ing from the Bishop that he vernment houses until he was deposed, | e e ‘ ore the arrivai of th mer. the ¢ into a nunt and the | third verse ?" replied the lady, as she came | agers were entertained by the Catho. i into the dining-room carrying the steam- [ until the time of their departure arrived. | ing eggs. *'Ob, that's not necessary.” *I The personal effects of Mr. Kendall ana | | his associates were disposed of at a great | sacrifice. e first endeaver to open up this island | at Frederick Williams Haven. | was cleared 3750 acres of land, and -third of tiis area had been planted when, the effsct of opening up such an extent of the germ-filled earth at once, the yellow fever broke oat, causing the death of many hundreds of the na- tives and a number of Americans. Opposite from Frederick Williams Ha- ven, the Government seat, is situated the hemlet oi Herbertshoh, the place where | Kendall and his associates were landed. ‘There is a beautiful bay between the two ces extending several miles, and open p! reality because there is no earthly use in shutting it. The Arizona prospector fol- lows the trail that he hopes or thinks will lead to pay ore, and he follows it regard- ess of whatever crawling tbings there “Kiil the sarpint as soon as he stinds,” says Dorney. *‘Cut him up in small pioces and put the raw pieces over the bite. The rattier's lesh wiil begin to turn green as it absorbs the poison. When it is good | snakes yield more than ten ounces. The hides are worth from §2 to $3 a dozen in San Francisco. Purses and belts for women are made out of them, and sometimes shoes and slippers. The around and began to make things as pleas antasl could for the reptiles. L have a pretty nice harvest every year now. “How do Ikill’em? Just hit them with o thin stick. A rattler is the easiest sort don’t unde:srand,” replied Bishop Paret. “Ob, you see,” she said, “when i am cooking ecgs I always sing one verse for soft boiled and two for hard boiled.” oy s S Glow worms are much more brilliant when a storim is coming on than at other seasons. Like many other mysteries of nature this curious circumstance has never veen explained. KEW 7YO-DAY. FREE 10 EVERT HAN. THE HETHOD OF A GREAT TREATHENT FOR WEAKNESS OF MW, at either end to seafaring vessels, forming | may be ‘on his path, but the thirstiest | and green, throw it away and put on a|grease enters into the composition of | of thing to kill, you know. Only don’t a fine land-locked harbor. Here was made | desert prospector never ventures to tap | fresh piece. Keep this up until you have | some very high-.pricéd. cosmetics, and | hit down at a rattlel i he'll be apt to get | wyycH CURED HIM AFTER EVERY- & more successful attzmpt to cultivate the | that keg, and if it were filled with vellow | used all the pieces, whether it is a pig or a | when converted into oil has medicinal | you if you do.’ Hit sideways. You can THING ELSE FAILED, copra, and 2300 or more acres of land was improved. But immediately back from the unim- proved land the Kanaka lives in all his | native fierceness and savagoness. Within )¢¥ the Bill Williams fork of the ? Colorado River, in the western part A of Arizona, near the junction of the Rio San Marie mn Mohave County, within |'a stone’s throw of Yavapai and Yuma | bullion be would leave it just as severely | alone as he does now. Half a mile {rom Dorney’s ranch, which | lies nearer the river by a mile than the main wagon trail, there runs a long little snake. When the last piece has been used, youcan go about your business. See them scars—?"" Dorney has made a good deai uf money out of his surprising occupation in the properties that render it very valuable to druggists. Cattle rangers in the neighbor- hood lcok with some envy upon the profits of Mark Dorney’s outlandish busi- ness, and there have been rumors of rival hit quicker that way, and besides, it cuts off his movements better and more surely.” Dorney doesn’t have any rezular harvest time. He just goes around killing off the Painful diseases are bad enough, but when a man is slowly wasting away with nervous weakness the mental forebodings are ten times worse than the most severe pain. Thers isnoletup to the mental suffering day or i 3 3 3 . . night. Sleep is almost impossible, and under a mile and a half of Herbertshoh two |gounties, perhaps filty miles southeast | shallow ditch-like gully that is dry for | last three years. He is “proving.up” ona | rattlesnake ranches, but as yet no one has | biz snakes as fast as he wants to work. | such & strain men are scarcely responsibie for natives, a man and a boy, were killed, | 1rom the Needles and fifteen due east from | 2bout eleven months in the year. This is | quarter section, and every acre of his land | appeared Who combines the competency | When he has slaughiered four or five | T R I T A T roasted and eaten by the Kanakas. The | Planet Town, is the rattlesnake ranch of | known as the dead line on the west and | has its score or more of rattlers’ nests. | and the pluck necessary to engage in the | dozen he gets to work skinning them, and parties who did the eating were afterward arrested by the German agency and were tried for the offense and convicted and hanged. Insuch a neizhborhood Kendall and his party were cffered land to carry out their undertaking. The case cited is not isolated. The native has not the) semblance of fear of consequences when once his wild nature becomes aroused. " nmbalism still exists on the island with only a very thin veneer of assumed civilization to cover its ghastly form. The method the agency uses in procur ing native laborers, Mr. Kendall says, i in i - f them that | onlv that keg of firewater for company, nique. a h er i ioyed | and usually the door to the cabin is wide | thick leather boots that reach to his| wholesale, and perhaps a couple of aun- (I found there were so many of K Ny aucmsta el for{ ana 2 coltn;f::.?e:fi,fuv’,‘;rircez ST e collateral ciroumatance is that | thighs, the charm of his’ life would g |dred dozen can be sold in ayear. But|I gave up the job in disgust. Ibad killed fi‘:fifi'fll‘mf:g";g::y“";'{;e';;fi”b;c:s"g:‘ mpr:,;m‘muxnn:zy Cost uothing o get, n and is supplied with articles of trade cal- | the whisky is sale ander all conditions, | out—and perhaps his life with it. How- | that's a small matter, merely a side issue. | four or five hundred when somebody told | 5l him. No one will molest whatever | Sorth & oefuns U el Q?Cufefi!’flfl"fi ! culated to tempt the cupidily of the | When Dorney goes to Planet Town he | ver, it would probably take more than|The big thing I8 the fat. Rattlesnake | me I could sell the oil and the hides. I|yichesthere may be in Mark Dorney's | ThomasSinter, box 2383, Ka amaszoo, Mich pative. The vessel cruises among the | leaves the bouse wide operi—to let it air | one rattler’s bite to break the charm, for | crease, properly tried out, is worth | didn’t believe it at first, but when 1 found house, for no one will cm,,]:nn .1{}4 line. ::am:‘:::%mmon will be mailed in & plaia islands and the traders and crew are)out, as he facetiously remarks, but m‘Damny has a good, common-sense cure. |60 cents an ounce. Some single | it wasa sure go on.that line I just turned UKE NOBTH. | %€ 3 Mark Dorney. A more particular Jocation of the place—lacking tiresome citations of range, township and section—could scarcely be given, for this is yet & wild and unpeopled district of the Treasure Terri- tory, and guideposts and landmarks are neither plentiful nor certain. But a one who hails from that part of the Terri- tory will tell you all about it, because if they haven’t seen it they have heard of it. Of all the ranches on earth perhaps Mark Dorney’s is the strangest and the most fearsome. There is always a well- illed keg of rye or bourbon 1n the cabin north of the ranch. Beyond this aead Jine only one man ever steps knowingly, and that man is the proprietor of the rattle- snake ranch. He bears a charmed life, and some of the tales he relates at the | store in Planet Town make the blood | curdle. He teils of diamond heads that are twelve and fifteen feet long, and if you hesitate to accept his off-hand measure- ments he asks you to “come along and see for yoursell.” Some incrednlous people have an idea that if Mark Dorney should be turned adrift in his own ranch shorn of his great He makes the conditions agreeable for them. He harvests the old ones, and the others breed fast enough. In the begin- ning he found his claim overrun with rattlers. That’s what put the idea of breeding them into his head. Dead rattlesnakes are worth money, if one knows how to dispose of them and has a liking for the business. The har- Vest is a profitable one. To begin with, a good percentage of the rattles will sell to the curio stores at Santa Barbara, San Diego, Los Angeles and 8an Francisco. They bring as high as 50 centsa dozen bazardous enterprise. Men who do busi- ness in Arizona aie not, 8 a.rule, fas- tidious in the matter of avoiding rattlers. Yet no man seeks their company, and the idea of living forever in the midst of them is discouraging to the average cow- puncher, and not sufficiently enticing, even considering possible profits, to in- duce any precipitate rush of the very wildest and most dare-devil rangers into that vocation. ©1 drifted into it because I had to,” ex- .plains Dorney. “I started out by trying to kill off all the rattlers on my bpiace, but then he tries out the fat in a big kettle that rests on an adobe oven in front of his cabin. Dorney’s cabin is not entirely like the other cabins in that part of the world, It rests on stiits and is ten feet above the ground. This altitude is not for sani- tary reasons entirely, but tainsure soli- tude at night in the midst of unpieasant company. There is a rude ladder reach- ing from the ground to the door. “I had steps at first,” says Dorney, “‘but I found some of the big ‘fellers’ could climb them.” Now he sleeps soundly at night with until it was & question whether he had not Detter take a dose of poison and thus end all his throubles. But providential inspiration came to his aid iu the shape of a combinstion of medicines that not only completely restored the general health, but enlarged his weak, emaciated parts to natural size and vigor, an e now declares that any man who wiil take the trouble 1o send his iame and address may have the method of this wonderful treatment iree. Now, when I say free I mean absolutely ‘without cost, because I want every weakened man to get the beaefit of my experience. Iam nota philanthropist, nor do I pose as an enthusiast, but there are thousands of men suffering the mental tortures of weakened manhood who would be cured at_onca could they but get such a remedy as the one that cured me. Do not try to study out how I afford 10 pay the few postage->amps necessary to mail the information, but sead for it ana