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WHEN HER LOYEJXJMES BACK.
i.va Mcffhuuon in Tid-Bit*.
When li'' comes back I'll say the fault was
mine;
Forgive me. Oh, my love! let pardon shine
I’noii these tears that have not ceased to flow
Since I offended thee and saw thee so
With flaming auger on thy brow benign!
My heart is wasted with the fires malign
Of vain regret. Oh. with a smile of thine
Restore mv peace' Thus will I tell my woe
When he comes back.
To pity error is a grace divine;
"Twill move him but to see how I repine.
Is that his step? Now, then. I'll let him know
Just what I think of temper’s pettish showl
I'll make him suffer anguish most condign
When he comes back!
STRAIGHT AND CROOKED LEGS.
What Makes Men Bandy Legged and
Knock Kneed—The Cure.
From the New York Evening Sun.
Comparatively few men have really
Straight legs. In a walk from Fourteenth
street to the Battery a reporter made a rough
estimate and found that not more than one
in three of the men who passed him were
straight limbed. Most of them were bow or
bandy legged, some of them were knock
kneed, and in a few instances both legs
bent the same way. It was noticed that as
a rule the stout, heavy men had parenthesis
legs, while those of slighter built in many
caa’s carried their bodies on a figure re
semiring an X.
This rule, however, does not always hold.
Many men of no inconsiderable avoirdupois
strike their knees together when they walk.
It is not uncommon to see a long, lanky man
whose legs are so bent that he is physically
incapacitated from stopping the traditional
pig in an alleyway. Frequently bow legged
ness is associated with strength. It is usually
seen in short, sturdy men; Those who are
knock-kneed have no such recompense unless
the excuse for renewing trousers, which are
constantly being worn out at the knees by
chafing one against the other, be considered
as such.
A well known surgeon who has had long
experience in a city hospital was asked to
explain the prevalency of crooked legs. He
said: “It is a fact that very few persons
have straight legs. My attention is often
called to it It is hard to say just why it is
Many say that it is because children are
made to walk when they are too young.
Mothers like to have their little ones on their
feet at as early an age as possible, and so
sometimes force them to stand before their
iegs are able to bear the weight of their
. bodies. Nurses, too, when they take
children out for an airing often make them
walk without their parent s’ knowledge. Un
doubtedly this is sometimes the cause of the
deformity, Probably many a man owes his
curved legs to a careless nurse who got tired
of carrying him when he was a baby, and
put him down when away from his mother.
Others say, with good reason also, that it is
due to baby carriages. The child is wheeled
about until it is quite old. Its body is thus
developed while its legs are doing nothing,
and when finally it is made to use them,
they being still soft, bend under the weight
of the body. I believe that this treatment
of children is responsible for more bow
leggedness, or cnemoscoliousis, as we call it,
than anything else.
“Every one knows that the bones of the
human body are made up of cartilaginous
or sinew}' fibre and mineral matter, and that
when young the former predominates. The
bones at that stage have, therefore, little
rigidity, and ary very easily bent. Un
fortunately they have little elasticity,
either, and readily take a set. The propor
tion of cartilage and mineral matter varies
in different children, so that it is impossible
to give any fixed age at which they should
be made to walk. Many can walk well
when 12 months old, while others cannot do
so until they are 2 years old.
“In some children there is an unusual pro
portion of sinew in the bone, and in these
cases the legs are almost certain to become
crooked. In these instances braces can be
used with advantage until the bones harden.
This simple remedy is rarely used, however,
sometimes from the apathy of the parents,
hut chiefly because the tendency is not
noticed until it is too late. The legs bend
one way or the other very gradually, ana
when the curve is perceptible it is usually
past the cure of braces. This condition of
the bones is often due to insufficient food
and general neglect,. Unless the blood is
kept rich and healthy the bones are apt to
lie retarded in development, and so, remain
ing soft, are readily twisted.
“Sometimes bow-legged children become
straight when they grow older. My mother
told me that when I was a child my legs
formed an] almost jierfect ellipse. Now I
venture to assert, they are straighter than
most men’s. In my own experience I have
seen this occur, but it is impossible to fore
tell if the curve in a child’s legs will
straighten out in after years or not.”
“Is there any means of straightening legs
when oneo they are set crooked?” asked the
reporter.
“Yes, and by a very simple process. The
|curvature in bow-legged persons is usually
just below the knee. To remove it we take
a piece out of the outside of the bone —that
is, the convex side—mid then break the bone
ou the other side. This enables us jto make
the leg properly straight by using stiff
splints, and ft isn’t long before the legs ure
all right again and as straight as can be
desired. In knock-kneed ptersons the curv
ature is above the knee, and the same pro
cess can be used. It is not so often done,
however, as few people care to have the
thigh bone broken merely to increase their
personal beauty.”
“Then you often cure bow-legged men in
this way ?”
“Oh, yes. Of course when the curve is so
marked that it actually interferes with the
walking some such operation is necessary,
hut we frequently are called upon to do it
simply .to improve a man’s appearance.
Borne tune ago a young man wrote to me
from the West, begging me to suggest some
Weans of making his legs straight. He
kuld walk well enough, but he wasn’t
satisfied with his appearance. I told him
Wbut ho would have to undergo, and
although ho hesitated at first, he finally
consented and went through it manfully.
He is very proud of his straight legs now,
although’he never tells how he got them.
Braces can sometimes bo used to straighten
the, legs of young boys, but when the bone
has become really hardened they are not of
much use.”
MORMON ELDERS.
A Son of Brigham Youngand Another
Elder.
From the Birmingham Age.
Fat, ruddy and rather sensual-looking
Joseph, one of the numerous progeny of the
late lamented Brigham Young, in company
with another elder of the Mormon church
from Salt Lake City, sat in the Union depot
yesterday afternoon awaiting for a Georgia
l’arilic train to carry them eastward. A ro
tor ter improved the shining hour by en
gaging in a littlo chat with the son of his
father. Mr. Young is, despite a rather
stolid expression of countenance, intelligent,
Weil-informed and a (Table.
(i “No,” he said in answer to an inquiry,
hve are not going to stop in Birmingham,
much as we would like to inspect this beauti
ful city, of which wo hav e read so much. The
mat train will carry myself and com
panion, Elder Suscom, to Atlanta, from
whence we go to the vicinity of Asheville,
N. C., on business.”
“A proscltying tour,” suggested the repor
ter.
The two elders looked upon the repor
ter with a mild reproval, and Mr. Young
Contiimed:
“No, sir. Wo nro not in 4he proselyting
. easiness, as you coll it. Wo go to preach
'lie gosiiel of truth as wo believe it,and will
certainly use every endeavor to instil it into
the minds of the jmople. If that is proselyt
ing, so is every missionary of the Catholic
Episcojml churches, over) - circuit rider of
the Methodist, ehurcb, every preacher of the
Vuokein, .Shakers ami Hakers, too. for that
matter; every cxborter of the Salvation
Army ami nil other persons who expound
their own peculiar doctrines. We shall most
certainly look after converts.”
“From what class of people, elder, do your
converts generally come?”
“Well, we find the most fruitful fields
among the Methodist and Baptist denomina
tions of North Carolina, Virginia and the
Eastern Shore of Maryland, although' our
missionaries bring a great many to the fold
from New Jersey and the New England
States. They are generally from the mid
dle classes of people, and hear the oppor
tunities we give them to better their mate
rial and spixfitual welfare in Utah with ex
ceeding thankfulness.”
“The great bulk of your recruits from
the East are women, I suppose.”
“You have no reason, whatever, to sup
pose that, sir,” rejoined the elder, with
some asperity, “although I believe there is
a preponderance of women. The female sex
is naturally more plastic and spiritual than
the male. They see and appreciate the
truth more quickly. But the excess of
women is very slight. No, we never try to
Eromulgate our doctrines in the cities. The
usy marts of trade are barren fields to
earnest missionaries. The agricultural dis
tricts are the most prolific in results.”
“Our people in Utah were never in a more
flourishing condition than at present. The
infamous legislation enacted at Washington
against us has only resulted in cementing us
together in closer fraternal bonds, and al
though it has succeeded in incarcerating a
few of our best and purest men in prisons,
has not harmed us in any material sense,
and cannot ”
“Has not the Edmunds bill had a ten
dency to decrease polygamy?”
“Polygamy, polygamy, polygamy,” re
iterated the elder in a mimetic tone. “That
is the bug-bear of Mormonism with you peo
ple of the East. You either cannot or will
not understand that Within the last ten
years there has been less polygamy among
the Mormons of Utah than there has been
polygamy and polyandry in Massachu
setts, Connecticut, Rhode Island or Indiana.
Yet it is a fact; but the only thing the ene
mies of Mormonism can see is polygamy,
polygamy.”
“Excuse me, elder; but that is hardly an
answer to my question.”
“Well, then, I do not think the Edmunds
law, as you term it, has had any effect ■at
all. It is simply a dead letter. The Latter
Day Saints contiue to keep their own faith,
follow their own customs and improve their
condition from year to year. I do not
think, however, there are as many plural
marriages as formerly, but polygamy has
been decreasing for years. We are not in
any way alarmed at’ the Edmunds bill, or
any other form of oppression our enemies
may devise. We are abundantly able to
care for ourselves.”
“How many brothers and sisters have you,
elder?”
It was an unfortunate slip of the tongue.
The elder cast a reproachful glance upon his
inteiTogater, arose, gathered up bis traps,
and by his actions said as loudly as words:
“The interview is at an end ” and it was.
A Hindoo Woman’s Fate.
From the London Queen.
The sequel to n terrible storv has reached
England during the past week. A Hindoo
woman, well educated, intelligent, refined
and with all the delicate feelings of a lady
of intellectual power and literary enabling
her to publish a series of letters on the
wrongs of her sex in the Times of India—
letters so trenchant that some of them have
been thought worthy of being repeated in
the Times of London —was, in accordance
with Hindoo usage, married when a child to
a youth older than (herself. Arrived at
womanhood, her husband claimed her as his
wife, he being an illiterate, ignorant, uncul
tivated man little better than a coolie or
day laborer, unable to earn more than Rs.
10 (about $5) per month, and suffering
moreover, from consumption. The
lady refused to join the husband to
whom, in accordance with Hindoo
custom, she had been married when a
child, without her consent being asked. The
husband thereupon brought an action in
the High Court at Bombay for the restitu
tion, or rather the enforcement of conjugal
rights. The case came before Mr. Justice
Pinkey, who was so struck with the injus
tice of the claim that he dismissed the case
without calling on the counsel who apjieared
for Rukmibhai to reply, expressing his opin
ion very strongly to the effect that it would
be a most cruel and revolting action to com
pel her to live with such a husband. Unfor
tunately for Rukmibhai, her husband was
not satisfied with the decision, and appealed
against it. The case was then argued lie
fore the Chief Justice and Mr. Justice Bay
ley, who, while svnipathizing most strongly
with the wife, felt that Mr. Justice I’inkey’s
decision was wrong in law, and sent back
the case to the lower oourt for trial on its
merits, as judged by the Hindoo laws.
Iu this case it has been
reheard before Mr. Justice Farren. Ruk
inibhai’s counsel pleaded eloquently in her
favor, said that she had never consented, or
even been asked to consent to the marriage,
and consequently never regarded the man
as her husband; that ho was poor, ignorant
and unhealthy, and that so strong was her
repugnance to such a union that if the
court ordered her to consort with him she
would be compelled to disobey, under what
ever jicnalties might be inflicted on her.
These she was prepared to endure, but not
to live in union with a man who was repug
nant to her. Tlio Judge, unhappily, had ho
alternative; he was bound by his office and
luff oath to administer the Hindoo laws, and
to pass an order that she should join
her husband within a month, failing
which she would be liable to six
months’ imprisonment. It might be
imagined that such a case would command
the sympathy of all persons, of whatever
race or religion, but it is notorious that
among the Hindoos themselves no voice has
lteen raised in favor of this much-injured
woman. The Anglo-Indians, however, felt
most stronglv on the subject: numerous ar
ticles have tieeu published in the English
newspapers printed in India, and it is pro
posed to raise a fund for the further defense
of Rukmibhai. Even those Hindoos who
callJiiost loudly for representative institu
tions, and plead most earnestly for the insti
tution of native magistrates and justices,
have no word to say in her defense, nor any
thing to urge against the cruel law and cus
tom which permits so great a wrong.
It may be asked what are the conditions
which render so great an outrage on human
liberty possible? The answer is not far to
seek. ' The Hindoo marriage law is based, oi
ls presumed to be based, upon their sacred
books, which have been received and acted
upon by many millions of iieople for thirty
centuries. The Hindoo religion inculcates
that every Hindoo girl must bo married.
For a father to have iui unmarried daugh
ter in his house is not only to become an
outcast and to forfeit every social position,
but oven woiwe; it is regarded as a religious
crime, involving not merely degradation in
this world, but eternal punishment in
that to come. Every Hindoo girl, there
fore, must be married. Her consent is never
asked. She is united when a child to a tit
and proper person, should such a one bo ob
tainable, but married she must be to some
one, and often, ns is the case with Rukmib
hni, to u person whose consent is purchased
for a small sum. The life of such a wife
may bo imngiued; it is frequently one of ter
rible hardship, without even the consolation
of hope, for widowhood in India means loss
of all social position, deprivation of civil
rights, and in two many cases the lowest
degradation that can befall a woman.
Dutch Etiquette.
F 4 om the Chicago Times.
In Holland an unmarried lady always
takes the right arm of her escort, while the
married one selects the left side of her hus
band. So deeply has the custom cutered
into tlio life of’the Hollanders that at a
church wedding the bride enters the edifice
on the right side of the groom, the wife re
turning on the left side of her husband after
the ceremony has beeu performed. No un
married lady in that country can dream of
going to church, concert or any other place
of public assemblage without the escort of
her parents or male members of the family.
She cannot take a walk, iy a visit or go
shopping unaccompanied by lior mother or
some tm married lauv friend.
THE MORNING NEWS: SUNDAY, MAY 22, 1887-TWELVE PAGES.
TIIE COMSTOCK LODE.
SOME OF THE MEN IT HAS MADE
MANY TIMES MILLIONAIRES.
Mackay, Jones and Other Bonanza
Kings Who Made Vast Fortunes
Sharon and His Remarkable Vageriea
—“Lucky” Baldwin and His Career-
Interesting Incidents Pleasantly
Told.
A Virginia City, Nev., letter to the Phila
delphia Times says: The presence of J. W.
Mackay in Virginia City a few weeks ago
set the tongues of the gossips going and
they are not ceased wagging yet. “There’s
a deal in sightthey’ve got SSOO on the
2,500-foot level;” “they’ve struck it rich in
Best and Belcher.” These are some of the
rumors flying around. Of course, they are
for the most part baseless; but there is a fa
tality about a hanger-on In a mining camp.
He never learns anything after his first les
son There is also a superstition about these
people that you will find nowhere else.
They are the Mieawbers of this epoch.
Their lives are devoted to waiting for that
ghostly something to turn up, Pending the
seldom-recurring visits of Mackay or seme
other magnate, these worthies endeavor to
turn up something on their own account—a
jack, an ace, a king—whatever is needed to
fill a hand. Sometimes they get caught
fooling with fate, and then they get turned
up. The coroner attends to the remaining
ceremonies.
THE WONDERFUL COMSTOCK.
What a career this wonderful Comstock
lode has had! And u’hat men it has brought
tothesuface! In the barroom of the Bald
win Hotel, San Francisco, is a large oil
painting, depicting the arrival of Comstock
and his associate prospectors to this place in
1859. They had eotne through the Carson
valley up to the head of Six-mile canyon,
where the Ophir Hoisting Works are now
standing, and were about to camp for the
night. The next morning Comstock dis
covered some “float” in this stream. The
party remained here, located some claims
far up the mouutaiu side on what is known
as Cedar Hill, being the north spur of Mount
Davidson. They found it a paying ledge,
and their discoveries having become known
down at “The Bay,” which is mining lingo
for San Francisco, there was a rush in the
spring of ’6O. Since then the history of
Virginia City has been given to the world
piecemeal. Stupendous fortunes have been
made here by men whose highest ambition
had never soared beyond the possession of
$20,000 until they began making big money.
Then the wolf in human nature asserted it
self. “Give! Give! Give!” they cried to
mother earth and to their credulous fellow
mortals with a weakness for buying mining
stocks. Out of the debris of the past twenty
years a few names will ever be prominent
in the annals of this ragged mining camp—
John Mackay, William Sharon, John P.
Jones. There are others who have enjoyed
a brief prominence. Some of them are still
living and are very wealthy, but they have
no salient points of character on which one
may dwell with even momentary interest.
They are simply rich hogs, living in little
better stys than some other hogs, swilling,
groveling in their purely animal pleasures,
living out their little day and finally passing
into their original nothingness with a grunt.
Comstock, the discoverer of this great
lode, has passed into obscurity. Some say
he is dead, others that he is prospecting in
Arizona. Whether deud or alive he nas
passed from the contemplation of the people
of this town.
A HARD TOWN.
Virginia City was a hard town in early
days. A “nuuijfor breakfast” was part of
every day's biff of fare. Shootings, stab
bings, fights—these were always “on tap.”
Finally, as the town grew in importance as
a result of the constant discoveries, an ef
fort was made to hold down the “rustlers.”
A vigilance committee —“601” —was organ
ized and nearly all the respectable citizens
were members of the organization. The
toughs were notified to “quit or git.” There
were no second notifications. Failure to ob
serve the injunctions of “601” was invaria
bly followed with a hanging, conducted with
neatness and dispatch, and in 1873 the town
had quieted down so it was possible for a re
spectable citizen to live here. But there was
never a time when hal'd cases were not
plentiful. Of late years, however, they
nave been obliged to behave themselves.
Many of them have scattered to Deadwood,
Bodie, I/eadville and Arizona. Dozens of
the “rustlers” of early days on the Corn
stock have danced on air in Montana, Wyo
ming, Dakota, Colorado, or Arizona since
or threw up their hands and passed in their
chips at the crack of a rifle or pistol. Vir
ginia City is a very tame town to-day. And
it’s a badly frayed town, too; whereas in
the real flush times of ’74, ’75 and ’76 there
was a population of 15,000 people hero, there
are now but a few hundred. C street, the
principal thoroughfare, reveled in the pos
session of forty faro bauks and as many sa
loons. D street was the home of the soiled
doves. For four blocks there was an un
broken line of these palaces of bestiality,
and such orgies! And all the time,
night and day, and Sunday and Monday,
10,000 were digging in the bowels of tne
earth, underneath the town, for the root of
all evil, the purchaser of many good things
that without which we cannot exist in these
latter days; and the mills were reducing the
crude material, while other mills were
refining it and mints were coining it and
sending it forth to bless and curse the world
at once.
MACKAY’S START.
There never was such a mining camp in
this country as Virginia City for at least
five unbroken years. In the Ophir once
delved a sweating miner, pushing an ore
car on the 700-foot level and wishing
ho might be so fortunate some day as
to get $25,000 together to ease his aged
mother's declining years; then, as
his sobriety and intelligence were
better appreciated, he was given a
place as foreman In the Kentuck mine;
from there to the Bulletin, as superintend
ent, was but a step. One day he got a
pointer from the superintendent of tfie Ken
tuck, J. M. Walker, brother of ex-Gov.
Walker, of Virginia, and ho acted on it.
One other day, not long afterwards, he found
himself the possessor of SIOO,OOO in S2O gold
pieces. But that SIOO,OOO didn’t seem half
as big at the $25,M00 he didn’t possess a few
months ago. He took himself around be
hind the hoisting works one day and said;
“John, it’s time you were ‘catching on,’ if
you are gbing to," and from that day in
1871 he has never given up his efforts to
retch on. When I first knew him he mod
estly admitted an income of $8(X),0(J) iier
month. But at that time the famous bo
nanza firm hud liecome a fact. It was com
posed of Johu W. Mackay, the whilom ore
car pusher in the Ophir; James C. Fair,
a former California a miner; James C. Flood
and William O’Brien, formerly proprietors
of the Auction Lunch Saloon, in Han Fran
cisco. None of those men made their mon
ey or got their start in p day: nor have I
ever known any of the Comstock magnates
who did. The great world does not hear of
them until they suddenly blossom as million
aires. If we e.xamirus tlieir antecedents we
will find they have fid their ups and downs
like tho rest of us.
For instance: Flood and O’Brien began
their speculations in a moderate way. They
were more than ordinarily lucky and they
found themselves worth something over a
million iu 1873. Jim Fair had been a Cali
fornia miner for years, but he was a thor
ough miner and a very keen man. Mackay
aim Fair formed u coalition with Flood and
O’Brien. They kept those two posted as to
the developments on the Comstock, and so
fortunate were their investments that tho
fact that they were formed for one another
was forced upon them, and they gave tho
world a taste of their quality when iu 1874
they captured the control of tho Hale &
Norcross mine from the Bank of California
syndicate. This was the beginning of their
world-wide reputation. Then they got hokl
of the claims between the Ophir
and Oou.d and Curry mines, re
organized them, clapped on an a-owinont of
$3 per share and proceeded to develop what
a great many wiseacre thought would turn
out to be a porphyry horse. But there was a
howl when the exceeding richness of this
great property, the Consolidated Virginia,
was made i>atent to the world. There were
108,000 shares in the company, of which
the bonanza firm had a control. This mine
paid $1,080,000 per month in dividends for
months and months. Mackay was the con
trolling force in the bonanza firm as he had
a two-nfths interest, while each of his part
ners had one-fifths. They owned immense
tracts of timber in the Sierra Nevada*.
Twenty miles from Virginia City they
owned the water which was brought twenty
one miles in a flume from lake Tahoe.
They were the principal stockholders in the
mills. In a word, they “owned the earth,”
so far as this part of it and its interests were
concerned
OTHERS IN THE FIELD.
But there were others in the field, too.
Tne Bank of California owned the Ophir,
Savage, Yellow Jacket, Kentuck and some
other properties, and, in the guise of the
Union Mill and Mining Company, they
owned several mills, and Sharon was at
once their prophet and their profit. Ho
was agent of the Bank of California in this
town, and the annals of tho Comstock may
be searched in vain for a more adroit, far
seeing, unscrupulous and determined ma
nipulator than this same incarnate produc
tion of tho Hoosier State. I have yet to
hear that he was ever over-reached in any
operation he went into. Ralston discovered
him. and with that keen insight which
marked the unfortunate Ralston recognized
Sharon’s peculiar fitness for the position of
agent of the bank at Virginia City. It re
quired a man of Sharon’s calibre to cope
with the other Comstock magnates, and he
did it to perfection, and so well indeed that
he not only protected the interests of the
bank, but made a handsome fortune for
himself, got the bonanza crowd ns a measure
of self-defense to assist him in his aspirations
towards the United States Senate, and in
time became the leading authority in the
Bank of California and principal owner of
the Spring Valley Water Works of Han
Francisco. He came very near making a
fatal mistake once, and that was when he
wrote his name on a piece of paper anil
gave Sarah Althea Hill an opportunity to
write a marriage certificate above it. That
was the one weak act of his career. And yet
he frequently used women as a means to an
end. When he desired a certain kind of in
formation to get on tho street he told it to
someone of his numerous lady friends under
an injunction of profound secrecy 1 O, he
knew them, did the wily Sharon. He has
scoopod his competitors many a time and
oft by this same means. Filially there was
a consulation of the scooped and they
swapped information and the game was up.
But Sarah Althea’s raid on the old man
broke him up.
“To think that any one would attempt to
take such a base advantage of me,” he sor
rowfully remarked to \V. H. L. Barnes, his
attorney. Then, when the. trial was finally
ended, in victory for the ox-Scnator, he
made up his mind that it had been a pretty
close call, and, everything considered, hadn't
he better shuttle out of this wicked world.
And he shuttled, leaving a fortune of over
$23,000,(XX) to be divided “among” his one
child and heir, Lady Flora Hesketh.
JOHN P. JONES.
John P. Jones is a man of different calibre
from the average mining man. He came to
the Comstock at an early day; got hold of
the Crown Point mine; made a large fortune
out of it; went to the Senate, and cut some
thing of a figure. Then he lost his fortune
in the Sierra Nevada deal of ’79. One
morning, just after tho disastrous end, I saw
him and Johnny Hkae, who from a triple
millionaire had boon reduce 1 to a condition
'5250,000 worse off than nothing.” That is,
he was in debt in that amount to the Nevada
Bank. It was 2 o’clock in the morning
and they were seated in a box ad joining
mine in a Bush street oyster saloon. Skae
was “loaded” and the way he was cursing
the bonanza firm was a caution. Jones was
sober and he was trying to keep Skae quiet.
Since then Skae has become permanently
?|uiot and Jones is quietly gathering in a
ortune from his Alaska mining operations.
LUCKY BALDWIN.
“Lucky.” Baldwin Is a very commonplace
person, indeed. He wears good clothes, but
they never seem to fit him. He has a very
rod nose, which seems to fit him exactly.
He was formerly a showman. I think he
had or got together a show in China, which
he brought to San Francisco. He got into
mining stock speculation and the first thing
the world knew he was on top. Having got
a fortune he did the Henry VIII. act by get
ting rid of his wife. His attorney received
1,000 and shares of Ophir for his services.
This stock was then worth in the market
SIBO per share. Having rid liimself of his
wife he was ready to do tho town in the
most approved manner, and for some years
his life was the talk of the town. But many
of his deeds were pitifully despicable.
Finally he married a second wife. She
palled upon him in good time, and the next
tiling we hear of is a separation and “Lucky”
being shot by a female relative, whose ruin
ho was alleged to have accomplished. But
why go into further details? Baldwin is one
of the accidents made possible by the Com
stock. He owns a magnificent hotel and
ojsva house in San Francisco, a lovely rauc h
in Southern California and has a string of
running horses and plenty of coin. During
the coming summer he will lie smiled upon
within precincts of the charmed circle of
more than one grand stand by charming
society girls, who see nothing but the
glamour of his possessions.
“I say, Jedge,” as the tramp remarked
when ho paid his fine of $lO and costs for
vagrancy, “money talks—every time!"
OTHER PRODUCTS OF COMSTOCK.
There are other products of the Comstock
still flourishing in their different spheres.
Some of them have gono througii their for
tunes and are hanging around “Fauper
Alley,” San Francisco, waiting for newer
bonanzas. Many of them believe the Com
stock will have another season of prosperity.
It looks sometimes as if there were some
ground for hope that another ore deposit
would be found. Many of the shafts nave
penetrated to a depth of 3,000 feet. But let
the ore be found and there would be uo lack
of means to get it to the surface. It seems
strange that a man with Mackay’s interests
outside tlie Comstock would give thlsulmost
deserted camp any attention unless he had
substantial reasons for doing so. He is not
iu need of money, so tar as anyone knows.
Not in need of money! Did you ever know a
man possessed of millions who was not in
need of millions more? They wanted to get
him Into the Baltimore and Ohio deal.
Suppose he bad “only fifteen or twenty
millions more” at his service? Ah! if he only
had. Then the Baltimore and Ohio and its
telegraph linen could huve been taken into
camp. Anil if the Comstock would give him
another $30,000.000 or $1<X),000,000 more he
might take in the Pennsylvania system.
And then having this, if he could but get
$300,000,000 more he might rival Vanderbilt
and even buy the Western Union! It’s so
easy to build up artificial wants if u inan
only has a little capital for a starter. We’re
all Oliver Twists; we want more, more.
The Comstock lias produced between
$800,000,000 and $400,000,000 in bullion tooe
1859. Most of this was taken out in a com
paratively short time. In the best of mines
there is nocewarily a great 1 deal of dead
work. Assessment follows assessment in
many instances before anything like sule
stantial results follows. ‘'lt takes a gold
mine to develop a silver mine.” This Is a
chestnut undoubtedly. But it’s a sound
chestnut. Virginia City and the Comstock
lode havo had a crowded and most interest
ing history. The treasures of these granite
hills huve enriched tho world uu<( played
their part in the blessing and the miseries
of mankind. It would be interesting to
know if the Comstock really is played out,
or if woain to have another grand deal with
something tangiblo to back It. I’ll venture
to say there is a fighting chaniw that tho
(!om*tock may be heard of again ere long.
A great many people have always declared
thut there is another ore body underneath
these everlasting hills.
Carr. James M. McDonald, one of the Super
visors of H<ui Francisco, hsx it.nat.Hl bis MuutU
ly salary. SIOO. to charitublc purposes
EDUCATIONAL.
DeLAND. FLORIDA,
Academy and College.
DeLAND ACADEMY. STETSON HALL.
A first-class Academy for Both Sexes. Five courses—College Preparatory, Higher English, Normal, Business, Industrial Drawhß
First-class Art and Music Department. Fine new dormitory buildings, enabling us to furnish board and tuition at reasonable rat®
The puns.se of this Institution is to give, in the delightful climate of FLORIDA, as thorough and Übtrdu e.luoation as can he*
cured in the Iwst New England schools. DeLAND COLLEGE will also receive students of BOTH BEXEB prepared to enter the Freß
man Class.
NEW DORMITORY.
The citizens of DeLand and vicinity—to
gether with generous friends of education in
the North—have erected a spacious and ele
gant pyrtnitory building, thus supplying a
very urgent need of tho institution. Chief
among the noble helpers are C. T. Sampson,
of Hamilton Manufacturing Cos., of North
Adatns, Muss., and John B. Stetson, the oelc
brated hat manufacturer of Philadelphia,
Pa., who has already given and pledged
amounts equal to about one-third the entire
cost of the building. Therefore, the Trus
toes decided to call the new Dormitory
“Stetson Hall.” The first, floor of this
building is supplied with Reception and
Music rooms, office, dining-room. etc. Tho
Dormitory rooms are large, well furnished
and pleasant, and the entire building is
heated by steam. The President and family,
as well as other teachers, will reside in the
building, and parents may thus feel assured
of a careful oversight of and interest >n
their children. The young ladies will be
under the direct control of tho Preceptress,
Mrs. Helen B. Webster.
LOCATION.
The city of DeLand is in Volusia county,
on the east coast of the Peninsula, about 100
miles south of Jacksonville. It is accessible
SEND FOIi CATALOGUE TO
J. F. FORBES, President, or.H.A. DeIAID, DeLand, Fll
MRO'. SPRAGUE INTERVIEWED
Concerning the Divorce Suit of Wil
liam, Jrteßoth Willing.
From 1 the Providence Telegram.
CanqncUct.
The sun had just commenced to gild the
tall towers of Gov. Sprague’s marine palace
this morning when an interviewer took up a
position commanding a view of all the ap
proaches anil avenues of exit.
The inmates at that time were doubtless
fast asleep, but the interviewer’s mission was
to see Mrs. William Sprague, touching the
reported action of her youthful husband.
It 'was a long walk, but at last smoke
issued in spiral columns from the cunningly
contrived chirnnfys and it became evident
that Canonchet was astir
Being admitted he was shown to an upper
room, in the doorway of which stood the
famous war governor, whose misfortunes
and romances have made him one of the
best known men of the day.
“Mrs. Sprague, is she in?”
“Yes, sir. Step into the library; up
stairs, first door to the right'”
Thus conducted, the reixirter found his
way into the library and sunk back in a
garnet-plush easy-chuir. This was the fur
nishing of the whole room and the effect
was that of faded grandeur. The room
proper was nearly square, anil around the
sides were mahogany bookcases 'Yell filled.
The furniture showed signs of wear, and the
garnet drajieries were frayed and faded.
Without looking closely at any one thing
the general effect was elegant awl grand.
One side of the room was open and a eircu
lar alcove was built, the floor of which was
raised about one foot, and on this floor and
hanging off at one corner was a large skin
rug. At the sides of the alcove were hand
some carved pillare, awl through the plate
glass windows imild be sreu a lieautiful
landscape. A long lawn, stretching down
to a rowl in tho distance, bordered with
trees, old ocean lieyond, and at the left
across the bay Newport showed faintly like
a blue streak.
These things had hardly been noted, when
there was a rustling ot silk, and the young
wife of the ex-Governor was ut the iloor, a
beautiful woman as she stood there just
parting tho portieres, with a look of inquiry
in her eyes.
Of medium height, there was a dignity
about her carriage and tlie poise of her head
that commanded instant respect awl admi
ration. Her fare was dark and her com
plexion clear, but without a vestige of color.
Her eyes were iif that deep raven black so
often raved about, hut seldom seen, awl her
eyebrows were arched ami clearly defined,
ller hair was gathered carelessly at the back
and coinlieil up in front, showing a high and
wide forehead jwrfectly smooth.
“It’s a lieautiful dav.”
“Yes,” answered Mr#. Sprague.
“This is Mi's. Sprague, senior?”
' “Yes.”
“I would like to ask you whether Willie
Sprague has yet begun proceedings for a
divorce.
No answer.
“Have you heard that he contemplates
such action?"
“I know nothing about any such proceed
ings." Then after a moment's hesitation she
added, “I wouldn’t lie surprised if such was
the ease, as you know the old saying, ‘mar
ried in haste, repent at leisure,’ and Willio
was very young.”
“But hasn’t It been a happy marriage?”
“Don’t ask me too many questions. I’m
afraid of reporters."
“I hope you’re not afraid of all the
species.” ,
“No, I don’t know as I am. but I mean re
porters as a general rule. They do say such
awful things. Now I don’t see why they
are always talking alsjut Goy- Bjiraguc, for
I’m sure it is a surprising thing h> ine, for a
more quiet, inoffcwqip man. than he is I
never saw."
Mrs. Sprague was nwvl if aheHtought her
stotison wonLl get a dlwree.
“I’m sure I shouldn’■jpuct, and 1 know
by both river and rail, located on high, roll
ing pine land, not near any water, standing
or running, mid is remarkable for its general
healthful ness. The Mutual Life Insurance
Cos., of New York, grants its policyholders
a /M’r/Miftud permit to live in DeLand the
year round. The famous Irondequoit Dairy,
established here, furnishes the city with
absolutely pure milk from Jersey cows, and
the large ice factory adds another luxury.
The climate is a sjieciflc for throat and lung
troubles, catarrh, rheumatism, etc. The
population numbers about 1,600 white peo
ple, and is far superior to most Northern
towns of the same size in its moral and in
tellectual tone. There are in the city six
white churches, all possessim? houses of
worship, a well organized public school and
a kindergarten. Three weekly papers are
published in DeLand also. Tin. general
healthfulness and beauty of the city, its ac
cessibility, together with the high character
of its inhabitants, and the stimulating intel
lectual, moral and religious influences make
this almost an ideal location for an institution
of learning. Htudents who are unable, from
delicate health, to attend school during the
winter in the North, find it possible to pur
sue their studies here regularly and yet con
stantly improve in health.
GENERAL STATEMENT.
DeLand Academy owes its existence to
the generosity and foresight of Hon. H. A.
the Governor wouldn't, neither would my
“But what grounds does he want it on?’
“Oh, I guess they both want it; I know'
my sister dons.”
“Your sister! Is she here!”
"No; she is visiting in another part of the
State.”
“Well, what does Willie have to say about
itr
“I don’t know. I haven’t seen him.”
“But wasn’t he here a little while ago?”
“Yes, but he didn’t come home. He
stopped at the Southern Hotel.”
“Then you don’t know on what grounds
he asks for his divorce T’
“No, I told you, I can’t see any grounds.”
“It is reported that he says he was drawn
into it against his will.”
A shrug of the shoulders was the only an
swer.
“Have you heard of any other grounds V'
she asked.
“There is talk of a gentleman who—”
“Oh, it must be Mr. Wheaton. He’s just
a friend of ours, and is staying with us so as
to tie nearer bis business.”
“What is Willie doing now!”
‘ *He? Ob, he's in New York in the World
publishing office.”
“Then he’s near his mother.”
“Yes; I suppose so.”
“Has she had anything to say about the
matter f’
“I believe she told him thnt if he wanted
a divorce he hail better try to get it, and
that she would help him.” •
Mrs. Sprague was beginning by this time
to show that she thought the interview had
gone far enough, and the reporter with
drew at the sound of the Governor’s foot
steps approaching.
Emperor William’s Habits of Life.
Prom the .Vein York Herald of Ifealth.
While ut home in the palace at Berlin ho
breakfasts at 7:110 o’clock every morning,
invariably using coffee, with a large allow
ance of milk, and bread without butter.
Weather permitting, he takes walking exer
cise daily before luncheon, which is served
at I o’clock. Boiled crabs is a favorite dish
at this meal, and is partaken of with great
relish. Between luncheon und dinner affairs
of state are attended to for three hours and
sometimes longer. Then he rests until it is
time to dress for dinner. The fixed hour for
this is 4. Every morning the ehfef cook
submits the hill of fare for approval. It
usually consists of five courses. The Em
peror has a decided preference for plain
rood, lie is liberal In the use of fruit, and
drinks mineral water procured from a
natural spring.
A cup of tea, without bread or cake, istho
only refreshment he takes between dinner
ana bed-time. He makes n point of resting
a iialf an hour after breakfast and luncheon,
and an hour after dinner. When there are
guests invited to dinner they meet him in
an ante-chamber. A quarter of an hour is
spent in chatting. He then leads the way
to the 'lining room. The invitations are al
ways sent out at an early hour, and the
seats discussed with the Court Marshal.
When there are no guests the Emperor dines
with the Empress, and the cook takes orders
from her.
In summer while at < Jastein, or some
other watering place, the Emperor goes to
the bath-room at 7 -.ilO in the morning. He
breakfasts at S, walks at 10, accompanied
by a personal adjutant and sj>eeial attend
ant. Luncheon Is served at 11. Between
12 and he confers with the officers of the
civil and military cabinets who are in wait
ing. Dinner is served at 4. It consists of
soup, fish, boiled beef, two entrees, dessert
and fruit. All the members of the imperial
suite attend. At 0 o’clock lie takes a car
riage ride, makes a social call and chats for
an hour or longer. Ho is pever out of bed
later than 10 o'clock.
The Emperor takes considerable interest
in sanitary science, and is very particular
in the matter of air aud ventilation. Rid
ing to hounds has been one of his favorite
amusements, lie is a splendid figure ou
horseback.
DeLand, of Fairport, N. Y. The
its founder was to establish in
Christian High School/or both
to none in this country in character amm
rank.
It was assumed that there was a denunu
for such an institution on the part of
large and rapidly increasing classes
students. First, the young men and
of the Mtato of Florida -a Htate
population is increasing primps faster tligß
that of any other Stitt, in the Union.
secondly, the large number of young
and women, who from delicate healthnt
their own part or that of their friends, tm M
romjielled to spend the winter in this nio|H
genial and kindly climate.
Tliis assumption lias been fully veriflinfe
and these classes of students have
lieen largely represented among our l''i|iflß
The institution has now Uen fully
izud, possessing fine Imildings,
furnished, and supplied with apparatus
illustrative material of all kinds etpial, udH
in many cases, sujx'rior to that possessed Mg
the liest institutions of a similar
the North; with courses of study
adaptol to moot the varying needs of
who may desire a lilwral education, and*
faculty in charge coni] Mixed exaluxivelyjjß
teachers of liberal culture, wide
and marked sureeess, The Iloard of
Ins, therefor.., e.,i,lldeiitlv invite
0. a\all lie 111.,-ill ,ol those advantagosjßH
“1 WANT THAT MAN.”
Reasons for Thinking Albert
Johnston wits Killed by a
From the Chicayo litter neean.
Asa general rule the most, impartial
sounlity that I ever got acquainted with IB
bulletin Ixittlc. It is |rfectlydeinocrij|H
and fair, recognizing neither rank, statiMW
age nor quality. There are some
this rule, as, for instance, when a Imllaß M
directly aimed at some conspicuous offlNH
aud fetches him. 1 think it was a special
let that, killed Albeit, (Sydney .1
the reason why 1 think so is this:
lu the (Shiloh fight Pugh’s
which T belonged, was strung along
fence, having the cotton Held aud
eluird between it and the Confederate lilUt;
Across this field mid orchard the enemy imd*
three or four magnificent charges, and MHC
terribly repulsed each time. Capt.
the son of the General,frankly imknowluqHfc
those defeats in his account of the hattkgSßNßj
tained in tile biography of his father.
repulses caused much demoralization id tha(
rank of the Confederates, hut after aigj|Hjß
we could see that their lino was
fished in groat shape. Then we saw the {Hitt-!
eral riding down the front while the jgi|tl E
cheered him with u great deal of imH
siasin. We all supposed that Gen.
gard was in command of the enemy-,- to**
Gen. Johnston’s name was not familiar to
us and Beauregard's was. As he {Missed
along the line our boys said to each
ottier:
"That's Beauregard! That’s Beaure
gard I”
Just at that moment a tall, gaunt fellow
in a state of intense nervous excitement,
and carrying his gnu at the “trail,” tried to
break through the line where I ‘was, with
the intention of climbing over the fence
toward the enemy. I challenged him
sharply:
“What do you want here I What regi
ment do you belong to?”
“Fifteenth Illinoise.”
“(to back to your regiment; you have no
business here. Go back!
“Oh don’t stop me,” he said, “let me go, 1
wont that man on that horse.”
Before I could prevent him he had broken
through and scaled the fence. I watched
him zigzagging along from tree to tree until
he reached the log house alsive the centre of
the field. This brought hirii very near the
enemy, and if lie took a reel for his gun on
tile window-sill the man on horseback would
certainly be in jieril. I never saw that sol
dier again, but for twenty-five years I have
held firmly to the opinion that he got “that
man on the horse.”
It is evident from the accounts that (ton.
Johnston was wounded several minutes bo
fore he fell, hut did not think the matter
serious, even if he knew it at all. He had
txx-n slowly bleeding to death for some time,
ami when at last he fain Us 1 it was too late to
save him.
There is one ein-umstamv touching thft
liorderiand of Italian superstition in con
nection with tile death of Mr. Fargus that
is little known. During his stay at Naples
ho met the late Lord Houghton (Richard
Monckton Millies), and it chanced at that
time there wus opened up at Pompeii one of
those famous and long-buried villas. Lord
Houghton was anxious that his young con
frere should accompany him on a visit to
the spot, and the j>eer used his influence
with the government U> obtain the neces
sary permission. Home obstacles for a time
prevailed, as tho Italians have a belief that
two out of a company of visitors to such
scenes will surely die before tho eud of a
year; hut the authorities at length yielded
to Lord Houghton's request. 'The visit was
made, and the strange fact remains that the
aged |XH>t and the young novelist were both
dead within the predicted period. "Some
where in the dark the Shadow sits and
waits.” ______________
Dk. Omhud, one of the most eminent French
surgeons and President of the Academy ol
Sciences, died recently at the age of (10. Ha
wrote a number of medical treatises.
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