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, THE RICHEST WOMAN
, Hrs. Richard King Has More Money
Than Hetty Grten.
SHE IS THE CATTLE QUEEN OF TEXAS
.And Owu« the La < st Ranch in the World.
Miuploje an Army of Cowboys and
Llv ■ With ureat Simplicity.
The richest woman in the United
| ' States lives in Texas. She is richer than
I ’ Hetty Green, and tier name is Mrs.
Richard King. She is a cattle queen
and the owner of the largest ranch in
'the world. Figures convey but indis
| tinctly the extent of Mrs. King’s do-
? main. For instance, unless you are a
■surveyor, you will probably fail to real
ize the greatness of her possessions from
the simple statement that she owns
1,250,000 acres, or nearly 2,000 square
■ miles of land.
It may convey the idea more clearly
to say that her ranch is larger than
'Some of the New England states and
i 'that her front gate is 13 miles from her
■ front door, as the crow flies. She has
i 40 miles of water front, and her barbed
I T wire fences stretch out over 300 miles,
r ;She could drive in a straight line 65
: miles without’trespassing on the prop
‘ »-erty of her neighbors or leaving "her
‘■own ranch.
This vast estate, over which Mrs.
iKing is absolute monarch, is located in
'that southern point of Texas which
seems to project down into Mexico.
Her seacoast lies along Corpus Christi
"bay. Should Mrs. King ever wish to
-secede from -the Union, she could an
chor a big fleet off her possessions. She
already has a standing army of 300
cowboys, who are supplied with 1,200
ponies for their sole use. The cowboys,
’ however, are employed in the peaceful
pursuit of looking after Mrs. King’s
jgreat herds of “scalawags,” or long
horned cattle, which number something
like 200,000.
Almost in the center of her estates
the palacelike chateau of this cattle
• queen stands. It is on an eminence and
■ surrounding it, after the manner of an
cient baronial estates, are the numerous
and modest cottages of her hundreds of
dependents. Eeyond them are acres on
~ acres of tilled fields, which a short time
ago were green and gold with waving
corn and grain. In the distance, stretch
ing far out of sight, is a fertile wilder
' ness on which grow mesquite and cac
’ ’tus and over which graze her great
herds.
During the best part of the year Mrs.
.IKing lives on her raaeh, and her home
• MRS. RICHARD KING.
"there is supplied with every luxury’and
» to be found in any mansion
on Fifth avenue. When she wishes a
i -change, she moves down to Corpus
-Christi, a city just on the edge of her
•domains, where she has another palatial
residence. She built the branch railroad
"which has its terminus in Corpus
•Christi.
Mrs. King is a widow and is now
I ; about 60 years old. She is a daughter
.of the late Rev. Hiram Chamberlain, a
missionary who established the first
Presbyterian church south of the Rio
Grande, and who went there with Bible
and staff to preach to the Indians.
-When a young woman, she met and
married Captain Richard King, who
was one of the pioneers of the great
southwest. He was bom in 1825 in New
York state and when a boy of 10 ran
.-away from home to become a sailor. In
1847 he appeared on the Bio Grande as
•a pilot and later became a boat owner.
Captain King was an adventurous
speculator. He foresaw the possible fu
ture of that great country, and with the
profits of. his^teamboating business he
Can’t
• This is the complaint of HEM
‘thousands at this season.
‘ They have no appetite; food UHH wt A
• does not relish. They need the toning up of
the stomach and digestive organs, which
a course of Hood’s Sarsaparilla will give
them. It also purifies and enriches the
blood, cures that distress after eating and
internal misery only a dyspeptic can
know, creates an appetite, overcomes that
tired feeling and builds up and sustains
the whole physical system. It so prompt
* ly and efficiently relieves dyspeptic symp
toms and cures nervous headaches, that it
seems to have almost “ a magic touch.”
Hood's
Sarsaparilla
rls the best—ln fact the One True Blood Purifier.
_ _ ma. are the best after-dinner
i IlOOd S rlllS pills, aid digestion. 28c.
purchased the Santa Gertrucies
then in itself a vast possession. By
shrewd management and daring busi
ness ventures which turned out success
fully he was able to add to his posses
sions from time to time until at his
death he had acquired a big slice of
this .part of the Lone Star State. On
his broad acres grazed 80,000 head of
cattle, 20,000 horsesand 20,000. sheep.
Besides this he had accumulated a great
deal of personal property and had a big
bank account. The whole vast estate,
of which the land alone was worth
$5,000,000, he left in fee simple to his
widow.
This big fortune Mrs. King has man
aged with rare skill, and it has greatly
increased in value until it is now diffi
cult to estimate just how millions
she is worth. It is doubtful if Mrs.
King herself knows. She does not
spend even a small part of her great
income, for in spite of her great pos
sessions and fine houses her tastes
are simple. She does not yearn for
the social prominence which her money
would command in any of the east
ern centers of civilization, nor does
she show a desire to dazzle the folks
of southern Texas by a display of
magnificence. She is a lady of kindly
instincts and admirable characteristics.
As most of her neighbors are landed
monarchs like herself, she has little op
portunity for doing charitable work,
but it is said that she is generous to her
employees and opens her purse freely
when occasion requires.
Jennie Moores.
Condensed Testimony
Chas. B. Hood, Broker and Manu
facturer’s Agent, Columbus, Ohio,
certifies that Dr. King’s New Discovery
has no equal as a Cough remedy. J. D.
Brown, Prop. St James Hotel, jt.
Wayne, Ind., testifies th't be was cured
of a Cough of two years standing, caused
by La Grippe, by Dr. King’s New Dis
covery. B F Merrill, Baldwinsvlile,
Mass., says that be has used and recom
mended it and never knew it to fail and
would rather have it than any doctor,
because it always cures. Mrs. Hemming,
222 E. 25th St. Chicago, always keeps it
at hand and has no fear of Croup, be
cause it instantly relieves. Free Trials
Bottles at Curry-Arrington Co. ’s drug
store.
The Morning Bath.
There is one point I should like to
emphasize, and that is the good a tepid
sponge bath every morning taken on
getting out of bed may do a man out of
sorts. If a person can take a cold sponge
bath, so much the better, but a tepid
sponge bath acts on the nervous system
in a very decided manner, and I know
of many persons who find it a very ad
mirable means of preserving their
health and tone. ‘ Os course the tepid
bath can be taken all through the win
ter, even by those who are not accus
tomed to baths at all, but personally 1
prefer the cold sponge bath every morn
ing, which is a capital tonic for those
who have a good reaction after it. Ido
not think we value cold and tepid
sponging as highly as we ought.—Dr.
A. Wilson.
J C. Berry, one of the best known
citizens of Spencer, Mo., testifies that
he cured himself of the worst kind" of
piles by using a few boxes of DeWitt’s
Witeh Hazel Salve. He had been troubled
with piles for over thirty years and had
used many different kinds of so called
curss; but DeWitt’s was the one that did
the work and he will verify this state
ment if any one wishes to write him. Cur
ry-Arrington & Co.
The* Skylark’s Song.
In the winter the skylark of England
does not sing, but in early days of spring
the great flocks of these birds break up,
and then go in pairs to look for places
to build their nestsand reartheir young
ones. And then the charming song of
the skylark is heard in all its sweetness.
While the mother bird is brooding over
her eggs to warm them her mate often
rises into thq air, and then with quiv
ering wings mounts vertically upward
so far that be looks like a mere speck
in the sky, and all the time pouring
forth his rich and beautiful song, but
at last ceases his song before descend
ing again to the nest.—St. Nicholas.
WARNING:—Persons who suffer
from coughs and colds should heed
the warnings of danger and save
themselves suffering and fatal results
by using One Minute Cough Cure.
It is an infallible remedy for coughs,
colds, croup and all throat and lung
troubles. For sale by Curry-Arring
ton Co.
The Winding Up of an Englishman.
It was a shrewd observation of one of
the keenest critics of the Anglo-Saxon
mind that ever lived, Cardinal New
man, that it takes an immense time to
wind up an Englishman to the level of
a dogma—that is to say, to get him to
understand what a dogma is, what it
involves, what it necessarily asserts
and what it unavoidably denies. Often
when, after great toil, with pulleys and
hoists, encouragements in front and
goads behind, the Englishman’s bullet
head slowly appears almost on the level
of the ground, something goes wrong
somewhere, and down he falls to the
very bottom of the pit, and the»work
of winding him up has to be begun all
over again.—“The Law of Employers,”
by Augustine Birrell.
Lemons. /
In selecting lemons avoid those that
seem light in weight and that have
thick rinds that resist pressure. A juicy
lemon is heavy and thin skinned and
gives under the fingers when pressed.
Lemons may be kept fresh a long time
by wrapping them separately in tissue
paper and keeping them in a cool place.
To Cure a Coldin One Day
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets
All druggists refund the money if it
fails to cure. So.
THE HOME TBIBUNE. TUESDAY. OCrOHEIf 19. 1897.
MINERS IN BLOOMERS.
r
Half a Doien California Women leek Gold
Sueces. felly.
Six women of Oakland, Cak, have
been out on a two weeks’ search for
gold in Shasta county, and they have
returned home to form a gold mining
syndicate as a proof of their success.
About a year ago one of the number,
Mrs. Annie Glud, discovered a placer
mine on her ranch, Which is located 12
miles north of Redding, the nearest
point to the Coffee creek diggings.
Naturally Mrs. Glud told her friends
all about it, and she persuaded six of
them to go prospecting in the vicinity.
Mrs. Glud’s health prevented her from
roughing it, but the rest of the party
left her at the ranch and started-out in
to the wilderness prepared to. live and
work as men do when they hunt for
gold. Each woman put on bloomers,
rough boots, leggings, a man’s working
shirt and a black slouch hat. Around
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CAMP OF THE WOMEN GOLD MINERS,
their waists they strapped canteens and
pans and on their shoulders they carried
picks and shovels.
Thus attired the six women prospect
ors struck boldly into the mountains.
They shoveled and panned dirt by the
brooksides and climbed steep hills to
pick at quartz formation all day long,
and when night came they built a camp
fire and warmed up canned goods and
cooked beans and bacon. Occasionally
they located a claim. They had a good
time and met with few startling ad
ventures. The most thrilling incident
occurred when one of the women missed
her footing on a steep hill and slid down
through the brush to where one of her
companions was working. The latter
thought she was a bear.
Some of the ore which the women
prospectors brought back with them as
sayed $65 to the ton, and they think
that out of the six claims which they
located the fortune of the Solid Seven
Mining syndicate will be made.
BUCKLEN’B ARNICA SALVE
I’he best salve tn the world for outs or
bruises, sores, ulcers, salt rheum, fever
sires, tetter, chapped hands, chilblain
oorns and all skin eruptions and posi-
Vely cures piles, or no pay required. It
is guaranteed to give perfect satis.jetion
or money refunded. Price 25 cents per
box For sale by Curry-Arrington Co.,
druggists, Rome <4*
Toning Solations.
The formulas for toning solutions arc
almost without number, but the toning
process which gives the best results for
aristo papers—the papers most com
monly used—is the one in which the
toning and fixing are done separately.
A favorite bath is made as follows:
Make a stock solution of 15 grains oi
chloride gold and' sodium (price, 40
cents) and 7>£ ounces water and a satu
rated solution of bicarbonate of soda.
A saturated solution is a liquid which
contains a little more of the substance
placed in it than it can dissolve and is
shown by a deposit at the bottom of the
bottle or vessel in which it is placed.
Mark the bottle containing the gold
“Gold Solution,” and the bottle con
taining the soda “ Bicarbonate of Soda
Solution.” To make the toning bath
take one-half ounce of the gold solution
and add 3 % ounces of water. Dip a
piece of blue litmus paper into tho solu
tion, and if it dees not turn the paper
red add a little more of the gold. Then
put in enough of the bicarbonate of soda
solution to turn the litmus paper back
to blue. The soda should be added a few
drops at a time and the mixture stirred
with a glass rod. Mix the bath half an
hour before needed for use. Place the
prints in this bath, and tone till nearly
the desired color. Rinse and place for
five minutes in a fixing bath composed
of an ounce of hyposulphite of soda and
8 ounces of water. Wash in running
water for half an hour.—Harper’s
Round Table.
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BABY HUMORS Ibved
GOLD FIELDS.
New Route to Klondike!
How to Reach Alaska.
Stop over in Rome and we will show you the Gateway wherein
untold thousands can be found by calling at
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Rye. Canadian Club Whisky, Paul Fannin and Pickens County Corn
Jones <fc Co’s Pure Rye, Whiskey, Jas. Hennessey’s Brandy.
Joo Gibson Sons & Co. Rye, Otari. Dupu <fc Co.’s Brandy,
■a® I vvw a „ /-l o • T • i G. H, Mumm’s Champaigns.
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