Newspaper Library, The (Newspaper) - April 3, 1897, Milwaukee, Wisconsin HT THE or S Per BO PRICE 5 A STRANGE By EDWARD WILLIAM DUTCHER Written tor the Newspaper On one of the large ocean steamers that left New York harbor not long was a delegation of American tourists bound for There was nothing unusual n as foreign countries are over run by residents of the United until the world is well night brought to a national level by the continual inter mingling of the After the vessel had passed beyond the reach of waving signals between the pas sengers and their friends on the hours were devoted to ing personal effects and in becoming adapted to the new It does not take long for congenial thrown together under such circum to gravitate toward a common The politician finds someone with whom to discuss the great questions that are at all times agitating the body politic music lovers seek each other as do those who delight in literature or It on the evening of the second day out that a little company gathered in the drawing room and formed a Story Tellers the principal feature of was the reciting of personal experiences in narrative form by a num ber selected from among the passengers that the voyage be ninde ble as well as Songs were to enliven and music ns in keeping the sessions from grow ing One of the lots chosen fell to and I was to contribute my part of the entertainment the following At the hour appointed there was n number and following a song by one of the I related this bit of romance that had accidentally fall en under my observation and which I assured them was strictly true Several years connected with n large mining industry in the far my business called me to Cripple Creek just at the time when that since famous city was in the wild excitement of a My intention was to the Winter possibly remaining the greater part of the Consequently I secured the most comfortable quarters ob at one of the more boarding of which there wore n none of which could be designated as There were but few congenial souls in the place from whom I might select com panions for my leisure men of re such as had been my associates in my native city in one of the Eastern During the winter the Riven up to not of the highest as gambling dancing halls and saloons were the chief resorts and where the larger part of the inhabitants spent their Among the few that wore to my liking was a young man of perhaps years of whose History was not unlike many others who are found occasionally on the intelligent and gifted in having been as I in an Eastern we wore soon drawn together by a fellow feeling and found enjoyment in each ers One ns we were seated in my where he often came by invita I ventured to usk for his life his as il seemed strange to me that one of his delicate refinement and evident in experience with the rough side of the should be found In that part of the country and seemingly without occupa In giving a brief history of his life I learned that he was engaged to a lady of culture and rare musical living in a Pennsylvania but father was opposed to their mar riage on account of the man not having what was in his a income in order to his daughter in a manner to her taste tind That she pledged to him her eternal and thuti had lie gone out to gain that which was sary for the consummation of his hearts Having no definite idea as to what ho should do or might he had drifted along until he found himself among the motley which was then crazed by the wonderful of fabu lous wealth iu the newly discovered min ing Nothing yet had been favor able to his although he had con sought iu every avenue to ob tain honorable until now he found himself with barely money enough to carry him through another About this time a stranger appeared in the stopping at the same house where my friend and myself hnd been for several The newcomer was evidently a man of us he took the apartments in and displayed many costly gems exquisitely His dress was his hands delicate and man unused to hi He spent money freely and attracted at tention by his suave He was with a fine physique and wore giving him tin air of gentility which his actions did not By n strange circumstance he had n Rent directly opposite that of my friend nt the dining Naturally we fell into conversation and general topics were discussed in a pleasant at the same time there was a certain re serve that barred The young was especially yet sufficiently as not to appear About two weeks after the appear ance of tho stranger nt onr my friend came to my room and informed me of what I had for some time that our table acquaint ance was a gambler and that he had added quite a snug sum to his purse during his brief at thr expense of several of the wealthy mine It was were not averse to in in the ruling passion of the place if the prospects were nt all fa It was also said that his methods were not above but however that may be I do not as 110 one seemed able to fathom his play or expose his unfair if the suspicion was I was quite ns when my friend expressed n de sire to try his skill with this expert as he evidently for in all onr con versation he bad never communicated to mo the fact that he was proficient in that Said I do not know much about the yet have played oc for diversion with my 1 have a favor to that will you be present if we meet and aid me if any thing occurs to make it necessary for iny owu protection I attempted to dis suade him from his rash purpose but without I wonld not ask this of he but that he has urged me to no doubt thinking me a man of means when in fact I have but about and am going to give him a chance to win that I finally consented with some believing that either he was beside himself from or had misled me in my opinion of But my curi was aroused and I determined to see the outcome whatever the result might meeting took place the following evening in one of the rooms occupied by as by previous From the first I saw that he was an adept at handling them with a grace of command that could only come from long Gradually he led his opponent along as if certain of some favorite coup de grace at the proper allowing him to win small sums at then increasing to several hundred dol At last there was a small stake on the mv friend having been dealt an exceptionally good one that might be considered a sure The gambler added a large amount to his when my scrutinizing his antagonists face for n quietly laid his cords on the This was a to the but if surprised he id not betray it nor change his The playing continued until the clock struck with my friend several thou sand dollars The gambler pushed hie chair from the My luck is against me tonight meet me here tomorrow night at He cast his eyes quickly about the glancing suspiciously at the chandelier which hung directly over the as if to discover then lighting a he bade us a pleasant I saw nothing of the two men till at dinner the following when we met as but there was no reference to the event of the previous As the stranger arose from the dining table he At it I believe replied my if so it please I went to my busying my self in reading and writing till the hour pume for the two players to Find ing myself again in the room I noticed that the puzzled expression had disap from the gamblers face and he the cards with the utmost confi Steadily he lost in spite of his endeavor to draw my friend into the various schemes which he had ingenious ly laid out for The almost prophetic vision of my friend seemed like the certainty of fate At last the gamblers purse was empty then his elegant diamonds were added to his the game from luck of means on his part to The winnings are fairly he ex as he leaned back in his apparently without much when turning toward the door and taking a fow steps he then coming back asked my friend for his nt the Kume time handing him a small note book in which he requested him to write This was done and we parted for the The next day both of their seats nt the table were The men had no one knew I did not wee my friend for several days and the strange circumstances of the few previ with the disappearance of the participants was entirely ble to About two weeks after this my friend walked into my room one evening saying that he had been called away on business of not having had time to see me and On account of the expiration of the time for the of a certain claim of which he had accidentally and on which the party interested had neg to pay the assessments he i had invested and thereby se I cured to himself a mining property worth at least for which he had the papers all legally certified iu his Among the letters awaiting him on his return was one from the He handed it to me for It read as follows dear sir I do regret the loss which I sustained at your hands but will gladly con tribute ns imich to some charitable need could I become possessed of the secret by which you wgii He hud another ready to mail which he save to me to the following of which is a cupy Cripple sir Find inv cheek for full amount won from If yon please 1 shall retain dia monds HB mementos of bur brief acquaint If you will allow me to suggest a worthy of your proposed I will name the Associated Charities of Blank AH there seems to be no ob to giving you the as you will not be able to make use of I will say that your glasses with your dark eyes of make miniature I discovered this as you held your you while Boated opposite me nt the dining Yours My friend called upon me next day and fastened n beautiful diamond stud in my shirt to keep till called as he expressed telling of his arrangements for leaving the following morning for his Eastern where far richer possessions awaited A few months after this I picked up nn Eastern paper and in glancing over its pages my eye fell upon the following paragraph We lenrn that the Associated Chari ties of this city has just received n do nation of several thousand which fact of itself gives cause for much grati ns it will enable the to pro vide for its worthy poor the coming win No doubt the who modestly withholds his is possessed of a sincere desire to aid those who are less fortunate than or as the case may In another nearly opposite this was the following Fred erick the junior member of the firm of William Willing was married last evening the youngest daughter of William nt Johns Episcopal The groom has large mining interests nt Cripple where he spent several months last After I had finished and while the lit tle company were moving about or chat with n card was handed to mo by a gentleman who approached from a side Glancing at it I read JOHN Real Estate and I face to face with the man who had figured so prominently in story A heavy growth of beard had so com changed his appearance I did not on the instant recognize Ina few words ie told me that his last game at cards was played trith the gen at Cripple he was then on his way to London in the inter est of a syndicate of real estate owners in He had hardly ceased speak ing when a man approached with extend ed none other than our mutual ac the fortunate mine There seemed to be a tacit understanding which was formulated in words when the latter Still a secret of which none but this trinity may know Shall we so preserve it A warm hand clasp was all that seemed necessary to ratify the sentiment and we parted for the even Subsequently I was presented to with her was on her way to where she was to play in grand concert on the occasion of the dedication of a new temple of mu On one of her shapely hands were two brilliants which may have flashed in less aristocratic with my made three of a kind TIMING BIG How Their Initial Velocity U Calculated in at Sandy To the layman one of the interesting features in a biggun test is the method by which the initial velocity of the pro is When he hears that the modern guns often expel a shot at an initial velocity of 2000 feet a a rate that sus would mean a mile in three sec he realizes the difficulty of lating the An ordnance officer must have accurate knowledge of the velocity of a projectile that he may pre dict its range and penetration and de termine the accuracy of the It is a comparatively easy with the new instruments to calculate accurately the initial velocity of n pro and any one who is fortunate enough to visit Sandy Hook when big guns are being tested may see how it is Two open frames ore set up 150 feet apart in front of the Wires are stretched back and forth across these making a screen through which the shot must The wires in each screen form a complete electric which includes also an electric battery and an The after leaving the flies through the wire in the first interrupting the armature of the In a space of time so small as to be hardly ble the projectile has covered the dis tance between the two frames and pierced the wire in the interrupt ing its electric current and releasing the armature of its magnet as in the first The interval between the drop of these two armatures represents the time spent by the projectifs tn traveling This time is indicated by the chronograph iu the laboratory near Wires run from each screen to the labo which is fitted up with batteries and The armature of the first electromagnet is an iron rod about throe feet which is suspended ver This rod falls when the first screen is The armature of second electromagnet is placed a little below the and when it is released it acts as a striking tbe side of the falling makes a slight The distant of this cut or mark from the end of the lod indicates the distance through which the rod has dropped while the projectile is passing from one screen to This forms the unit for the calculation of the projectiles ve in feet per New sives and guns have in creased the initial velocity of projectiles wonderfully in the last few Pro may be expelled now with a force that will make them effective at a range far beyond ordinary eyesight New York ALLIGATORS GROWING Florida Suffering from tne Inroads of the Reckless The United States fisheries commission has investigated the Florida alligator and reported that unless steps are tak en to protect this water animal from hunters it will soon be as completely ex terminated as the American The alligator is hunted for its skin and for and its combined have greatly reduced the number of ani mals seen annually in the waters and marshes of It is estimated that not many years will pass before the Florida alligator will disappear unless the federal government or the state De and Lee counties are the parts of the state where most al are taken by There the industry is said to be much less ex tensive than owing to ex hunting and wanton killing by those who make no nse of the animals or their In these three coun ties alone 214 persons were engaged last year in hunting their invest ment in boats and business amounting to During the skins were and probably 500 alligators were killed but never The commission has investigated also the culture of turtles in and finds there is danger that these will be annihilated unless the prac tice of stealing their eggs is These great turtles breed off the shores of the state from April until during which time the female seeks the sandy shores of the keys or the mainland in re mote She arrives at night and with her flippers dips n hole one or two feet deep in the above highwater in which she lays her num bering from 100 to The turtle then scoops the sand back over the smooths the and rapidly re treats to the leaving the eggs to hatch without further The hatching in a few and then the young ones make their way to the The turtle returns two or three times to the same spot during the each time depositing the same number of so that the total number laid by the average female a year is from 300 to These turtles attain an enormous some weighing 1000 This great turtle is said to be the most valuable in the state The commission recommends that term of years at least the animal should be unmolested during the period when it seeks the shores to lay its eggs and that the practice of gathering the eggs should be stopped New Spring Two kinds of drinks are making their annual spring appearance here that are not to be so far as the com bination of sound is One of the drinks is ginger ale and and the seems more parts of beer and It seems almost unnecessary to say they were first discovered in Another drink that rages over there and has the east and west sides is The bar name for it Is It is made up from red tobacco dynamite and horseshoe and tastes like years of 7 A MYSTERIOUS By ELMORE Written for the Newspaper The mysterious invalids room was on the second floor of Farmer Whitecliff s old at the farther end of the His room was always in Cim merian to secure which the green curtains had been reinforced with black stuff that excluded every ray of It was believed by the summer boarders that this darkness was rendered necessary by a peculiar affection of the invalids eyes but no one knew anything for for no one but Dick Bar ron and Farmer had ever been in the room since the coming of tne in and not a could be gotten out of of these The invalid had come to Whitecliff farm just as mysteri as he had since One sum mer morning young Barren had left for the The boarders and said that Daisy had broken an other heart The older were loth to believe that the keen young with his penetrating blue eyes and jutting had been so easily overcome by a mere chit of a Farm er when merely squirted his tobacco juice at a pebble twelve feet with a wondrously cute look in his little sharp Sure in the morning Dick was back arrived during the night and brought the invalid with so it was Dicks charge was reported to be as savage as a bear to have shaggy sharp an ungovernable tem and a mania for Some boarders went so far as to hint that he was a raving and that they had heard him gnawing the On the strength of this old Abe Grum pet declared that Dick Barren was a young of a Doctor that was temptin Providence by sleepin in a room that had a door with a But Dick only and said tnat he was used to and really liked their But when Daisy the co the inexorable little goddess of the summer butterfly that yearly fluttered from the hot city to the cool Whitecliff and every season broke a Cupids of hearts between Mayapple time and I bearded this monster of solitude in his the whole Whitecliff summer colony was Of Barren had arranged matters before hand some thought he in a hypnotic persuaded her to visit his strange But when Daisy came to go she had to go alone for for some inexplicable would not accompany For this act Farmer Whitecliff as he shot his quid with accuracy at the Shanghai that a braver and kinder heart never beat under a shirt waist and then he walked covert ly chuckling and Why Daisy ever did it I dont know for coquettes are supposed to be selfish and heedless of suffering in Perhaps she mere ly wanted to show that she was not per haps she wanted to show her versatility perhaps her curiosity was for she was only a woman and angels preserve wanted to make a unique She would never tell she nor what she saw Doubtless if the sequel had been differ she would have been less Dick knew nothing about it he and Farmer Whitecliff was a sealed book on that one and that The first time Daisy entered that dark her little which cer tain young men declared never quickened its thumped and how she wished Barron was at hand The hall in that portion of the house wan also and the momentary she caught before quickly clos ing the Barrens strict or have to talk to a little she began addressing the and not know ing to She heard a slight and the next instant a hand rested upon her wavy bronze What frightened I can feel the blood throb in your A ministering angel tothe blind has nothing to fear from the came in deep tones that were particularly pleasing to a maid en of coquettish My hands are my kind one May I look at you Permission being given with a very submissive little for she felt strangely subdued and helpless in this mans his fingers flitted light ly over her tiptoed down her white pressed her lashes as if to measure lingered on her straight Greek dallied almost affectionately around her sweet encircled her soft hovered for an instant upon her saucy dropped lightly to her crept around her slender and finally rested upon her Are you sir ventured with a flash of her old If I were I should indeed be hard to he answered and she fancied he must be It is now your turn but promise you Look with your and see what yon can and he bent his head forward With her pink so skilled as his tut not lacking in delicacy of searched out his long falling to his a smooth high and a determined Any fault to honest he admonished I dont like a mus Women differ so on that he dislike not wear I and he laughed that that the reason at all she did not know just why she did not like she didnt a I said i They talked for half an He told one about his except Bar ron that she might call bun Hor or if she liked that be had a which he might tell her some they proved good friends and tell nothing about When she came to leave he took her hand and gave it just of a squeeze one of those deceptive squeezes that mean so if received and if wrong ly can be denied holding her no be said Please come again Come at 4 give three light and then However I am given to strange moods and if at any time the door be you will know I do not want Dont think I am You are the first never mind One word Never come except at unless I ask for I cannot see The next day she came at ap pointed and the door was not locked and she came on many a fol lowing day at the same and the door was never Evidently his mood was But one morn after she had come to know him very well thinking to surprise not possible she was im rapped at his deor at 10 Alas that time her magic Sesame had no effect nor did the mysterious invalid ever afterward admit her except at the customary Such being his inexplicable and able she acquiesced as graciously as only a woman can but nothing could keep her away at the proper Reginald de who loved the piquant little summer goddess all too fondly for his peace of could not detain her ten seconds after the hoar although his team of spanking blacks might be champing their bits at the Freddie greater of heart than of fresh from the city with his arms full of was un lucky enough to arrive just at the fate ful hour of and merely caught a swish of skirts and a gleam of as she tripped lightly up the warbling out that she would be as soon as she The gayest dance in the cool dining with old White cliff and his fiddle supplying the place of never made her forget her standing she loved to Of such things will create especially in a summer Was the coquette after only a desperate flirtation The wiseacres and those schooled in such af thought it was the The girl certainly had For in as stated had come under Daisys early in the season and the boarders had marked him as a But now she gently repelled and seemed anxious to avert a humiliating The cases of Reggy de and Freddie Marshall she handled with unwonted gentle The boarders at last appealed to Barron for but in Old Ezra was cruelly but was frequently taken at the most inopportune times with certain of the throat and redness of which made his good wife fear One Dick followed Daisy to the grape leaving most of the boarders on the cool where they sat flirt dozing and for Farmer Whitecliff enter for a all kinds of Miss began the has my patient bewitched you I dont know what yon she answered but blushing a brilliant that most perplexing of womans meaning sometimes sometimes a safe I mean that he has stolen your he but with noticeable He has told yon she an and covered with confusion at this inadvertent she buried her burn ing face in hor Not a HP is a man of anil would not thank you for that sus But I have I used to bask in your Now occasionally I get a and occasionally I Four oclock never finds you anywhere hut in that vaultlike I am Let me give you a word of That man is and altogether unworthy of To repeat your own he would doubtless not thank you for me she retorted with that dignity with which your true woman will always defend an absent And I am somewhat of a judge of human nature and I have not found him to be what you A dry smile passed over the doctors but he made no What time is it she Five minutes of Hold on I want to tell you something After she elud ing his outstretched she ran lightly golden striped shirt rustling skirts and leaving the arbor really By George soliloquized the a woman is a coquette or no coquette I am afraid the invalid has gone too The little pet seems to have thrown up her hands at the first au Perhaps she knew her best weapons are ineffective in the And I have heard of her turning out the gas on a moonless The doctor knew that Daisy would find the invalids door locked that He did not say or tell how he came to know it but he knew just the At the supper table he could see that she was oat of sorts about next day she was again destined to give the three raps in the who merely to be in that part of the told Lulu the cook that Mis Daisy had also put her laps to the and called ont Horace very softly and receiving no had stolen Wearily down the Xor did she ap pear at the supper table that night as a result of adding two and two to according to the timehonored cus and then multiplying the to suit individual a great deal of covert jesting and in among the Even pure homegrown vegetables ami while very serviceable in replacing flesh that active danced off during the painting cheeks bleached by too much gas will not cure the gossip habit On the day of Daisys second Barron threw himself in her way as she came downstairs with a Jong face that actually wrenched his heart You did not stay long with your blind friend to he remarked His door was said quick trying to But he intercepted What does that mean That he want to see she now fairly sobbed and the that had been gathering in for two days suddenly limpid lakes wherein Cupid see his cruel ejaculated Perhaps lie is in of hia old tan I think I had better go up and see him I intercede for your he Barren she cried Dont if you respect I not crying about do yon sup pose that 1 am making love him A fine girl I should be Very Have you any message to send You might give him taking from her bosom a You know he loves Certainly laughed the pro But this is rather a thorny he sucking a pricked I fear he to admire it at a perhaps he does fhe Hem Shall I give him any place it last or anything like that Ofttimes associ a tion is the sweetest thing an oy I it would be so in this beautiful as the flower Go she commanded and say nothing about the unless you want to do so On your own The next a quarter of Barron went to his locked the could never brook interruption of his he entered the mysterious invalids room through the connecting That enigmatical personage not in sight to say by the aid of the light from the doctors his wig could be seen ly ing on the and close at hand his diminutive The doctor quick ly slipped on the former and pasted on the and they seemed to fit him re the door to his and unlocking the hall he sat down to Very just as old clock the landing was worrying out thp hour of three fairy raps came at his and the next instant Daisy Per haps the shafts from boarders gos sipy tongues had not flown so wide of the mark after I say be cause she felt her way quickly to the mock invalid in the and allowed him to take her in his arms with that sinuous caress peculiar to taught Mother Eve by the I not been wholly modest and so she insinuated herself past his arms and his pillowing her head upon his With a woman this is usually formal notification that something is going to Daisy was but a now said the sooth Who has been teasing the she blue to day and I gave up a and the day before a be here at 4 and the door was All this as haltingly as a boy construing a page of and interlarded with sobs and convulsive Cheer It wasnt be cause I didnt want see I have good news for soys I am and you shall see my Bur yon love me The golden head nodded em almost and then returned to its i You are very sure I am told on hava played many hearts in your You playing with mine The head shook this very and a of white bared half way to the stole his neck to confirm all that the head had AH right I believe But for all you I may be hideously If I do yon think love me I dont care how ugly you sbe Tin tired of pretty But I know you are not Thats growled the Your vivid fancy me an This dark room has bewitched as I thought it When you find out that I am jump and bold tight to my or not believe your With his free hand deftly removed wig smoothed his own luxuriant and then led her to the door opening into his He slowly it open and the astonished girl found herself clinging to tbe hand of Dick How about your love now asked with visible nerveless as he usually i I it is a shame that I should have imposed I have been inveigled into a trap set by ycni and Farmer and I will never board here another You stolen my heart in a most dastardly man ner since you have keep 1 love better than I can with she flung herself into bis pouting and But if had only cared to be half Bar ron as you were an should have loved you long ago by the tail feathers of a Shang hai sung out Farmer Whitecliff boots from un der the This is joke too by if Im to lose a boarder by Still I Dick Barron will pay jist her board aa ever Daisy old boy And he straightway went off into one of those apoplectic convulsions that so alarmed but of which doctor though took no profes notice And Daisy she merely backed into Dicks arms and from that safe retreat doubled up her fists at Fanner and looked im defiant withal for such a fragile piece of SHARK HOOKS Fitted witli a of Stout that the Shark Cant Bite Shark hooks are made in various ranging in length from 3 inches to 14 inches and in width from 1 inches to They a chain and tbe chains of the vari sized hooks ranging from 10 inches to 23 inches in Shark hooks with chains sell 30 cents to Shark skin and shark oil are utilized for some and in Mediterranean countries young sharks are eaten but the catching of sharks for profit is most ly confined to Here they are taken mainly for sport Every coasting vessel is likely to carry a shark fishing and every fisherman is sure and shark tackle is often carried on Fishermen may catch sharks to get them ont of the way so that they will no longer pursue tbe On a coaster if they run across sharks the men to fish for them just for fun and shark fishing from the yacht would also lie for diver It may be in shark fishing from a yacht tbe owner will try his skill on the shark with a if it is hauled Sharks are by the taxidermist showpieces for exhibition but whole as trophies Occasionally a sports man or a a sharks
