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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. 11