I -'-~- -~I- - I•1i -- ' NO. 16. VOL. XII. LAKE PROVIDENCE, EAST CARROLL PARISII, LA., SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1899. l i ii iii .. li i iii i i i i i i iir~ ~IA- heightened by making the "joining of TO T AK E DO WN CHINA' S G RE AT W ALL cling the wife with thanks, I am, yours XX-RAYED AMOTOR FRAUD OUR BUDG(T OF HUr IM 1l lcao ya leate xpects o Get t e most dutifully, the posts with the base rough. The C • B d E t h thing ork Prom the Ch ne "CUTHBERT BARTON. was put together with artistio AU HT R-PROVOKING S TRIES 'OR W i se Governament. P RP TU L MO IO M CH NE L C E C "So you've been offering him a wife," A E E A T N A I clumsiness. The keyholes by which According to Frank Lewis, a Chii W NT BY CL CK OR . OV RS OF FU . remarked Alice, when she had finished T HA T E O W K the clockwork was reached were con- L E N cago civil engineer, the Chinese Gov- it to her uncle. the letter and returned cealed under the base of the big brake. ernment contemplates the destruction SWOMA5IN LUENCE "I told him it was time for him to got Thisblock, it was found, F could be lifted De '0'eP- CIHAP•TER IX. Investors Sent It to the Patent Office After Tnellned to Sfubborn-Iithert married," was the short reply. "This * of the ancient Chinese wall, that sep- D ME TI ENCOETEI . Aldrich Got Into Prison--atent Office from the baseboard, but even then oa ainThis Case-A Double G•tof A O S C L answer, the rascal. Prefers arates China proper from Chin( so The news of Margaret's engagement Is his WVouldn't Bother With It-Scientifce the two little keyholes were not sus- Morninglest Vndliturbeod-An u rti.r- to choose his own partner. Wants an Tartary. He is bound for China, on traveled rapidly, for S- was one of American Tries a Slragraph. picious appearance, eating Rteort-Too Sure, Jte., ate. old mare to his liking. Let him get for they were behalf of a syndicate of Chicago cr.pi- those limited communities in which one unseen "works" made to resemble worm holes. It was an automobile personally one. Confound him! Thinks of 'giving In revealing the talists, to assist in tearing down the knows every one else, if not "We have no doubt whatever," says Digan to balk and r ant, famous structure. He said: and where up Blackstone and winning laurels with which made a perpetual motion ma- Ayd when 'twas told to move os safi, at least by sight or hearsay, He the Scientific American, "that Mdr. of others his pen . ' W inn ing fiddlesticks. chine "mote" the Scientific American I auto, but I sha'u'tl" that the enterprise a lively interest in the affairs an "I understand eaems to be the congenial occupation of hasn t sense enough to know he's has found a new use for the X-ray. Aldrich believed that his extensible -Harper'r4Bazar. is one of the Chinese Government's idiot. 'HIas serious intentions of de- arms, with the weights flung far out own conception, and is independent of a large portion of the inhabitants. scending on my rural fold!' I'd like to r.there came to the office of the paper An Interesting Report. Opinions were somewhat divided in on one side of the shaft and drawn Russian, German or French influence. know what else he's been doing for the wInot long ago a box containing a mys- "What sudden popularity among the matter. The unprejudiced regarded torions machine. Along with it came snugly in on the other side, would The cost will be great, involving mill- the cousins as a last six months? 'Wants to enjoy some t the girls Howard Hicks in ei4oying.". a marriage between tote-a-tetes with me.'" a letter from a man in Bradford, not only insure perpetual rotation, ions of dollars. The concessions that happy solution of the unpleasant state argumentative "Yes; he got his sister to start a i Confound his assuranco! What are you Penn.,p who said that the machine was but in a machine of sufficient size will be granted will be worth the can, of affairs, while the more interested, it num- report that he is a womanihater."- of sons whose laughing at? Perhaps you consider the invention of J. M. Aldrich, now would exert a not inconsiderable die, and I anticipate that there will be notably the mothers Maybe you agree with him?" Chicago Record. matrimonial designs had thus been frus- amusing? serving a sentend6 in Auburn Prison ber of horse power. As a matter of sharp competition." 'About the wife part, I certainly do. frictionless machine trated, shook their heads rather doubt- for obtaining money by fraud. Al- fact, even in a Morning Rest Undlsturbal. Mr. Lewis said he has information of dire I know I shouldn't let any one select my IC there would be no turning moment CHAPTER Vl-I-Continued. fully, and prophesied all manner drich drifted into Bradford some time First Cook-"How do you'likeyour that a New York syndickte is the only husband." it was, Mr. Aldrich "We will not dispute the po nt. I be- e•tastrophes. from what tUey considered "Indeed, Miss! Anddo you think any aago and succeeded in interesting sev- whatever, and as now place?" other American.concern after the pro- hopcd it would starting his machine it &leve you love me in your Way, not a a loveless union. They one would take that trouble? Have erala men in his perpetual motion con- found that on Second Cook-"First rate. There ject'and that there are two British turn out well; so they assured oach very unselfish or disinterested way. some sense, for heaven's sake. I've trivance.t was very quickly brought to rest by alarm clock about the plaeo." syndicates out, a French syndicate You found me there in B'conset. The other. Indeed, they were inclined to pity isn't an enough to drive a saint crazy. Come, After they had seen it "mote" and the energy consumed in overcoming -Ohio State Journal. and three German companies. The place was dull and lonely to you. For Margaret, and, with admiring glances at sit hero, and I'll tell you what I1lldo " the internal friction. If he had been some reasou you enjoyed Tim or John, they wondered what she had scrutinized its exterior, they ad- Chicago syndicato is said to have such une.sp'ained Alice took a chair beside her uncle, content, as many another unfortunate A Double Grief. my society. You thought It an excellent had seen in Brian to lke. vanced money to the inventor to en- men back of it as the Armours, Mar- and he began in a confidential tone: had been before him, to consign his stolen, opportunity to try your arts of fascina- Margaret well knew that she was an monkey, who calls tiable him to perfect his machine and "So your fox terrier has-been shall Field, L. Z. Leiter and Carter "That independent to the scrap heap, it would tion on a girl who, so far as you knew, object of unusual ocmment. "There son, sha'n't have a cent of g4ggt it through the Patent Office. But, machine Miss Mary?" Harrison. himself my and for his would place implicit trust in your hon- were people in S- ," to use her own my money. I'll cut him off, that's what ast weeks went by, and Aldrich ab- have been better for him "Yes; isn't it a shame? And I had The Great Wall of China known in would sit at her table and esty of purpose. Please let me finish. words, "who I'll do, and I'll leave it all to you." sorbed the money advanced him with- victims; but, being of an ingenious just paid this year's dog tax on him, the language of the co',try as Wan li I speaking truth, nothing more. The break her bread and her oh'ractor at am "All what, uncle?" )1nut any apparent result, the pro- and resourceful mind, and doubtless too."-Chicago Record. Ch'ang Ching, or the 'Tenou Thousand pastime amused you and gratified your the same time." Yet, notwithstanding, "A': my money. You don't seem to moters became suspicious. At last 'tempted of the devil,' he conceived Mile Iiampart." is a remarkable forti- vanity at the same time. You knew the knowledge that she a'forded gratlil- Alice." One Great Objection. be smart, Aldrich was locked up in the county the idea of overcoming the trouble- fication, which was constructed by that she m'ght learn to like you. There oation to their curiosity filled her with "Oh! I understand perfectly, now. I "Bathe in the ocean!" cried the she might not give a feeling akix to indignation. jail, only to be released when thepro- some friction by means of concealed order of the Emperor Shi-Hwang-Ti, was no reason why am much obliged, but you may save 14 pure water crank. her heart and her future happiness in "Notorlety Is the fate of greatness," tooters concluded that they lacked clockwork, and, acting upon the the first universal Emperor of China. yourself any trouble in the matter, as, LO "Of course; why not?" your keeping.