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‘ Returning from a th’s hunting in ¢he Teton } tains, ‘nree of us who had
come | ver ft t $3", U day S bye fore were jmmens ly glad. to s¢ the little red static n building at Beaver as it lay away down
there ir: the basin, looking in the vastness
of space like some kind of tired bug. We
wert gl ui, for Clark, the ts legraph oper
ator and station agent, had proved himself
to be a worthy citizen during the two
days we had waited there on our way in—
two of us r the third of the hunting
trio. Clark was a spare, peaceful looking
man of about 30, who seemed to delight
in doing good turns to his fellows, and he
a was the last man on earth to. suspect of ay nursing combative tendencies. We were Uy therefore vastly surprised when on our re cane turn trip the door of the little red depot
a opened and a fierce looking creature step- ped out to welcome us
The unrecognized man head his hair clipped close to his skull; his mustache svas shaved off to astubbie: a thick sweat- er in-deflance of the hent of the day climb- eduptehischin With one hand he held the rope Which ended in the form of a vile * looking bull pup) The strange man was smoking a very short and stubby cigar ie Altogether he looked tough, very tough, 1 pugilistically tough.
“Hello!’’ he yelled. Then we knew it was Clark.
Clark's own transformation was im- mense, but greater was that of his office. ad In the days of our lounging there Waiting 4 for Hawkins we had been enabled to
srike a rather fair inventory of the fur-
nishings. and we knew them all, from coal box to water cooler and oilcan. Now, however. there was a great metamorphosis.
ig ° “Why, what does all this mean?’ Johnson inquires. “Them?’’ said Clark. ‘The boxing
gloves and punching bag and Indian ciubs?”’ “And the pictures? When did you take upthe prizcfighting business? Who are all these bruisers you have hanging on the a well?’ “Well,” said Clark, “I’m blessed if 1 . I wrote toa man in Pocatello and sent him $15 and told him fo ship the worth of itin secondhand things that had to do with prizefighting As a fact, | don't know a blessed thing about fighting, prize or any other kind, but them make a daisy bluff, don t you think?”
“Ishould say so Why, any one com- ing in here would take you, in that outfit and with these surroundings, to be the thampion middleweight of the universe.”
“Thats what 1 thought,” said Clark. “You see, I'm waiting for a rman.”
Then he explained Three weeks be- fore he had had troub!e over the telegraph line with the new operator down the road at Canyon, and the debate over the wire had ended on Clark’s part by telling the )@her operator that he was several kinds @ aliar and on the part of the Canyon ‘Inan of promising todrop in ebuut the end of the month and beat the life out of Clark. “And he’sa tix stiff, with arms | like flour barrels, 1 have heard,” said the me agent. “So I decided that as a thin. “@ peaceable man like me couldn't lick him one way I'd try it another He thinks > @ V'm just what | am, a common sernb rai)- =e Toadoperator <Aliright. When .ne gets t off No. 7! here and walks up the platform
and sees a man like me looking like the fellow who is xoing to whip Corbett, and _ When he sees these sporty furnishings and pictures, and expecially when he lights on the pup—well, 1 kind of think he’l! decide he ain't got any business in my neighbor- hood after all. Notice the padded round- _ Ress of this sweater.“
- We were Joafing at Marey’s general store NO 7) rolled up from the southward thenestmorning We walked idly over © the station, talking on the way of _ Glark's queer plan of impressing and ’ ng the enemy, when suddenly John- F herent “By George, who’s that walk- . ing Rpihe platform? It's the man from Canyon Well, the slaughter of the inno-
SEN ts 4) out to begin.”
The Canyon operator, a big thewed vil- dain, O}ened the door of the telegraph Mom and iooked flercely in Clark wasn't them, but his sporting garnitures were
Min stared at them in some surprise €fd then started toward a chair, doubtiess PeMtending to sit down and wait. We were PA the window and saw it all Clark step- Ped cheerily in trom the bauugage room, Weater stub cigar, bristling head and ai The pup followed.
“What do you want” Clark called doud!y Can t 0 man take a 20 mile run Wkeep in training without seme biz dub
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ane Visitor Groppea of “nis Cnalr in mmght and crouched on the floor
“Say! Quit that, mister!’ he cried. “1 don't mean any harm to you. I come up bere to lick a ham operator named Clark.
“Oht You didt Well. get up. I’m Clark !" “You?” gasped the other. “Why, I
didn t Know—you—were a fighter, or—
sey!’ as an idea cameto him. ‘Is this town Uraniter”’
*No. It’s Beaver.”
“That’s it! That's it! There, now,
dont hit me It’s all a mistake My man Clark works atGranite. I'm awfully sorry, mister, and if you'll be kind enough to accept my apologies and let me go out so | can catch No. 71 and ride up to Gran- ite I'll promise you'll hear of a fight that'll remind you of your old ring days. Thank you.” And be bolted for the train, which was now leaving the station.
He really did go to Granite, the next station north, but instead of making any hostile demonstration at the agent, a man named McPherson, he boughta ticket and took the passenger train back to his own town, Canyon ‘The conductor said that when thetrain was passing Beaver the big man from Canyon hid under # seat.
The next day Clark sold his pugilistic effects to the proprietor of a newly started saloon. ‘! hate tosee em go somehow,” he said to Johnson, ‘for they did their part nobly, especially the pup 1 think it was the sight of the pup that added the jast straw to the bluff that biuffed him,” meaning the man from Canyon Hawkins, however, insisted that it was Clark sown short cropped hair and tough, siubby mustache curbing scornfully over the butt of a cigar. —Chicago Record.
The fuil intensity of living is reached only by the perfectly healthv. Sickuess 4+iscounts the capacity for erjovment. Ji hs body is all ont of order and ran down, he will not be able ty enjoy anrthing, no matter bow full of enjoyment it may be for other people. If he is just a little bit out of order, if he is not -ick, but doean’t feel just right” he will only be able to enjoy things in a half-hearted sort of way The vearer he is to being perfectly wel | the nearer will his capacity for his enjoy -
4 Cming in and vceupying his ufficer Have JOU tionkey With any of this athletic SPreratus? it thought yeu bad. I'd nick
and throw you out over the tracks “mt ito the ditch Just as I threw the
O80 Francisco three years ago Uet out of F you big tramp! What? You duns Mover Take that!’ And he landed a hack flonase the Canyon man s head.
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LESSON FROM THE OYSTER.
Many a Peari of Wisdom to Be Gleaned From His Life.
STOMACH STUFFING.
Common Sense Reasons Why You Should Not Be Greedy.
What special pleasure is there, after all, in overloading the stomach? It certainly is not a sensible thing to de, and yet the so called greedy people often form this habit simply because they do not take the trouble to reason out the certain results. We see almost daily reports of death at- tributed to heart failure. Did you ever stop to think what it is that tho heart fails to do?
The heart is said to be the most perfect organ of the animal economy and one that never shirks its duty. It is ‘stomach stuffiing,’’ and not ‘‘heart failure.’”’ that causes the trouble in many instances. The heart goes right on doing its duty throngh- out our lives without one second’s rest, night or day, sometimes without the in-
Some
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years or nore
At every beat it propels two ounces of blood through its structure. At 75 pulsa- tions per minute, 9 pounds of blood is sucked in and pumped out; every hour, 540 pounds; every day, 12,960 pounds; every year, 4,730,400 pounds; every 100 years, 473,040,000 pounds, and all perform- ed without one moment’s rest; verily, a good record.
Now the heart has the very meanest neighbor that ever an organ had—namely, the ctomach—especially if it be the stom- ach of a greedy person. This organ isa drunkard, a glutton, a trespasser and al- most everything thatis bad. It ought to be walled in and compelled to keep on its own grounds.
The stomach lies directly under the heart, with only the diaphragm between, - and when it fills with gas it is likeasmall balloon and lifts up until it interferes di- rectly with the heart’s action. The stom- ach itself never generates gas, but when filled with undigested food fermentation takes place and yas is formed, and the in- terference depends upon the anicunt of gas in the stomach.
‘Yo overcome this obstruction the heart has to exert itself in proportion to the in- terference, more blood is sent to the brain, and the following symptoms are the ro- sult: A dizzy head, a flushed face, a losd
of sight, spots and blurs before the eyes, ite cf light, zigzag lines or chains, often followed by the most severe head- ache. These symptoms are usually reliev- el when the gas is expelled from the stom- ach.
Now when this upward pressure npon the heart becomes excessive, there are more dangerous symptoms. A larger quantity of blood is sent to the brain, and if blood clot in the brain result the pa- tient dies of apoplexy. When a sick per- son or an old one or one with weak di- gestion sleeps, digestion is nearly or quite suspended, but fermentation goes on in the overloaded stomach and yas is gener- ated.
The oyster is pre-eminently a creature of leisure, and he consequently has much time at his disposal for thinking and re. flection, and, in the absence of proof to the contrary, we are obliged to accept the de duction that he employs that time profita bly, theugh he may keep his wisdom to himself and employ it for his own uses He certainly has reduced light househkoep ing to a fine art He lives right im the water; hence the question of water supply and drainage is one that he never has to concern himself about.
He manages also that the water shall bring him his food; consequently matters of commerce, of supply and demand, the prices of commodities and other questions which worry other members of the ani- ma! creation, whether they are quadrupeds or bipeds or whether they walk on the earth, fly through the air or swim in the water, do not concern him. As for his house, as soon as he settles down, after a very brief period of wandering and sowing his wild oats, he builds it himself right out of the material brought to him by the accommodating water, and thereafter he lives a life of ease.
He knows perfectly well that things ; will come his way. He doesn’t even bother with having legs and eyes, for he has no need of transportation. He does not need to see in order that he may gather his food, and he finds no necessity for idly gaping about, and thus uselessly exciting his nervous organization. He sits down un- der his roof, if not under his own vine and fig tree, and enjoys a life of quiet and dignity. He has enemies, but he does nothing to stir them up, since he eschows all religious and political controversies, and he thus manages to retain the good will of all the denizens of the land and sea. There are many lessons indeed to be gicaned from the life of the oyster that we might learn and follow with profit.-- Pittsburg Dispatch.
Scmething to Learn.
As Mr. Ruffedge sat down after having elbowed his way back from a between acts trip, he happened to see some Japanese students sitting farther in front
“A great many Japanese come over to this country to get civilized, don’t they?”’ he remarked. ‘I suppose it takes them a good while to get used to our ways.”’
Aman is found deadin bed, and the medical attendant pronounces it the result of heart failure, and such is the certificate of burial given. Now that man was out and partook of a late supper; ate roast beef, turkey, lobster, oysters, mince pie, plum pudding, ice cream, cake, an orange, nuts and raisins and drank three or four cups of coffee, or perhaps several giasses of beer or wine. He went home at mid- night, retired, and died of heart failure before 9 the next morning What did the heart fail to do?
A more truthful verdict would have been: Death from a habit of yreediness formed in youth, ending in an exagyerated case of stomach stufling.—Philadephia Times.
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WHAT SHAKSPERE SAID
was nearly always about right. He knew more of human nature than most men of his time, and the pre-
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“1 suppose so,” said Miss Cayenne. “And I don’t think those young men have been here very long.”
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