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“Difference Between Snob*
bery and Affection
LARGE number of our journalistic
and other friends are making a
strenuous protest over the symp
toms attending the marriage of
Alice Roosevelt to Nicholas Long-
worth, the congressman from Cin
cinnati. Their plaint runs that this
interesting young lady has been
the recipient of more adulation dur
ing the last two months than any
princess of the royal blood, and
that the presents showered upon
the happy couple combined with
the scramble for bids to the wed
ding ceremony were most profound
exhibitions of snobbery in a supposedly demo
cratic com -y. We cannot agree with this view
of the ca It appears to us that the charge of
snobbery is discharged at the outset, when we con
sider how unanimously it would have application.
Does anyone imagine that any prince or princess of
Europe or Asia or any other country where royalty
plays a large role, would have attracted one-hun
dredth the attention and the playful affection be
stowed upon the president’s daughter and the
young man she has selected to spend the rest of
life at her side? We believe that this very mani
festation of interest is one of the strongest possi
ble proofs of our democratic sentiment in this
country. It comes from high and low, rich and
poor. The gamin on the streets of New York was
as anxious to get a glimpse of Miss Alice on her
recent visit there as any of the title-worshiping
members of the new rich.
The three-jlollar-a-week charwoman as well as
the wife of the multi-millionaire, has been greedily
devouring all details of the wedding, the trousseau
of the bride, what the groom said, how he acted,
the probable itinerary of the bridal tour, etc. Oc
casionally, perhaps, some particularly popular
member of the European royalty will provoke
such unanimous enthusiasm on the eve of their
nuptials. The marriage of Wilhelmina of Holland
was an instance. But in the vast majority of
cases the note of rejoicing at a royal wedding is
one that is forced and perfunctory—in startling
contrast to the spontaneous interest and merry
making that has ensued ever since the first an
nouncement of the Roosevelt-Longworth be
trothal.
Had Alice Roosevelt been of the patrician, aris
tocratic, stiff-necked breed of American women—
and we have plenty of them—she would have been
troubled precious little by the attention or the cu
riosity of American citizens. Had her now hus
band been an austere, forbidding sample of the
frock-coated gentry who would freeze the hoi polloi
with a stare and put them off with a sneer, the
engagement would have been announced, the pres
ents bestowed and the ceremony performed with
not a scintilla of the furore we have witnessed
during the last few weeks.
But each one of these two young people em
bodies the genius of Americanism. They are both
democratic, affable, easily approached, with not
a suggestion of false or stilted dignity. They both
stand on their rights—good-naturedly—it is true.
Who can blame them? Who could blame Miss
Roosevelt when the genial interest of the people
of Philadelphia and New York threatened to put
a summary end to her privacy? Who can blame
J_.ongworth for laughingly fending the photogra
phers and reporters from the'then Miss Roosevelr
when they would have positively impeded her
progress and given her not even the rights ac-i
corded the ordinary private citizen?
It was just a wholesome, rollicking, HUMAN 1
American girl that the people of America were
very much interested in. She had endeared her
self to them by showing that, at all times, she was
very much in sympathy with the popular view
point. And when this romantic crisis in her life
happened along, they retaliated by displaying in
unmistakable fashion their unbounded admiration
lor her personality.
There is as much difference between snobbery
and affection as there is between midnight and
midday.
This Dentist Is Very Foxy
NEW YORK dentist who makes a
specialty of catering to women, is
EE on the high road to fortune by rca-
gj E son of an ingenious scheme he has
originated for the benefit of his
fair patients. He subscribes to a
large number of French and Amer
ican fashion papers, and thorough
ly familiarizes himself with the
latest frills and turns of the street
and boulevard. When a quivering
woman seats herself in the chair,
he sets that horrid drill rapidly to
work to the soothing accompani
ment of talk concerning what the
women of Paris, London. New York and Chicago
are wearing, with a shrewd hint at the toilet best
suited to madame’s particular needs, or perhaps
some cleverly turned compliment on the costume
she may happen to be wearing at the time. The
plot has proved very effectual. Tie cannot, of
course, eliminate the pain altogether. But he
makes it seem merely incidental to the absorbing
chat on lingerie, etc., with the result that his vic
tim is apt to sit, fascinated, in the chair after the
process of gouging has been finished-—-forgetful of
the painful errand on which she came.
We trust this pleasant anesthetic will be imi
tated by all the fraternity throughout the country.
There is not a single woman who does not ap
proach the dentist’s office with fear, trembling and
hesitation, and if she finds, after the first visit, that
the ordeal is likely to be made easier, the flutter
ing little heart will be spared many a jump and
the tender nerves a good many thrills—anticipa
tory and otherwise.
It is fair to assume that some equally ingenious
dentist will now come forward with a device cal
culated to soothe the masculine mind, while the
owner is undergoing the torture inevitable to this
modern science. Perhaps if monsieur the dentist
will familiarize himself with the great American
game of poker, or the equally intense and abstruse
one of politics, he will straightway increase his
patronage. Or if he would resort to some such
scheme as having his office boy suddenly dart in,
just as the drill was beginning to whirr, with a
bogus telegram announcing the decease of the vic
tim’s mother-in-law, the pain might dwindle to
negligible proportions. It would be cowardly, we
admit, and the dentist might lay himself liable to
a wrathful visit after the fraud had been discov
ered. But the scheme would be temporarily ef
fectual—from what some of our married friends
tell us, in their more morbid moments.
Serious.
(From The Brooklyn Life.)
First Prohibitionist—Yes. lie’s active in
the cause, but there's a deep stain on
his early history.
Second Prohibitionist—Indeeu
First Prohibitionist—Yes; it is charged
that, notwithstanding his claims to the
contrary, he was not a tank in his
youth
Men Shoppers Considered.
(From Punch.)
Scene: Early closing district for public
houses.
Candidate (rather tired of heckling,
to Scots audience, exclusively male and
non-teetotal)—We'l. gentlemen, I am en
joying- this meeting very much, but in
view of the fact that it is now 9:30
P- m.. and some of yon have some 1 i11 If—
er—shopping to do, j propose—
General rush for the door.
Suggestions.
He:
If T were you. and you were T.
I’ll toil you what I'd *io:
I’d “mile upon you pleasantly
r
Along' the Highway
By FRANK L. ST A NT OX
the final best.
I.
Oh, the night it’s dark, an’ the road
it’s long,
But we’ll rest at the end some day,
Where the Hope shines bright an’ the
Faith is strong.
An’ the sigh is lost in the welcome
song-
Oli, we’ll rest at the end some day!
II.
The storm blows loud, an’ the ship
is tossed.
But we’ll get to the shore some
day;
A star will guide when the stars seem
lost—
The roughest ocean will soon be
crossed,—
Oh, we’ll get to the shore some day!
GREAT INDUCEMENT.
“They’ve unveiled a bust to that
new poet.”
“Is he dead?”
“Not yet.—but 'they’re tryin
:RS.
vVoK O'r'Url I'Hfc vrtrtHtN i c
“Don’t swear, John, when you get
mad,—just slam the door.”
“And what’ll you do, father, when
you get mad?”
“I’ll raise the roof, my son!”
“A Silent Musician” is the title of
a new story. Really, if some of em
were not silent occasionally there j
would be no living in the country!
THE SONG FOR LIFE’S SINGING.
I.
This is the song for Life’s singing.
With beautiful banners unfurled:
There’s love enough still all arounJ
us
To bless and to brighten the world!
II.
The same love that sings to our sor
row—
A star in the shadows of night,
That whispers full sweet of tomorrow
And lifts us and leads us to light!
Whene’er you came to woo.
And some day when you told me that
Your lifelong happiness
Depended on my shy consent.
I <3 softly whisper “Yes!”
If yon were T. and r were you.
Instead of standing there
And beating all around the bush,
As if i didn’t dare.
I’d make my mind up. one e for all.
From doubting to be tree.
’And plump and straight I’d ask of you:
Dear, will you marry me?”
Somerville Journal.
Detd Silence.
(From Puok.l
h’n!—scandal of which you
the washing ma-
kept pretty quiet.
Persuade him to give up the ghost! ’
Severa 1
“That -ei
were speaking.' said
chine agent, ‘to being
isn't it?"
“Yon hetchar replied the landlord of
he Pmnytnv.j tavern. nobody
knows a word tbout if rxcepi the Em
broidery Glub.lhe Missionary Sewing cir-
Cle the Da dbrs of Rebecca, the Art
rit.h, the Vo*: Men’s Christian Asso-
ciahon. t',.. ioinl Science Federation,
the Shakesp.-nfen coterie, the Woman’s
i remieance I’nion. the Knights
ies off he Fireside, tho Rqval
Neighbors, thefihnnakaboo Club and the
clam peddler. ;;
“The Weekll piaindealer dfjH’t dare
to print it. and of course, the injured
hasn’t caught |-so. ns y 0u might say
the secret is |: inviolate, or whatever
tlie word is. afhp grave.’
Christian Tem|
and Ladle
literary exchanges are
calling for “The Great American
Poem,’ blit this is the winter sea
son, and the weather is depressing
enough—heaven knows!!
IN DARK DAYS.
The winters are weary,
In sorrow’s embrace,
But Life wears a lily
And smiles in Love’s face!
LOVE AND TEARS.
I.
Though Poverty keep the door
Through, sad and solemn years,
Never a soul on earth is poor
With the gift of love and tears.
II.
And Love will come when his day
seems past
In the humblest cots to stay.
And brighten the lives of the world
at last
With blossoms of the May.
I PROVERBS OF THE HIGHWAY.
A handful of happiness sometimes
makes us forget a world full of
misery.
The rougher the road the sweeter
the rest when we reach the shade
trees at the end.
I
Some folks have a way of cele-
j biating Prosperity, and then, when
j Trouble comes, that is only another
! excuse for celebrating.
Some of us have a way of waiting
for the wagon, forgetful that the
very best plan is to meet it half way
up the road.
FEBRUARY 24, 190(1.
Busy World
OHN AUGUSTIN R
McCALL, former
president of the
New York Life In
surance Company,
recipient of a S100 -
OGO a year salary,
and until a few
months ago looked
upon as the fore-
m o s t insurance
* man in America, ic
not the entire
world, is dead at
John A. McCall, the palatial Laurel
house, in Lakewood, N. J., of a broken
heart. He died discredlited and de
nounced, and the closing hours of r.t
life were filled with bitterness. Only
his family remained faithful and be
lieved in him to the end. Mr. McCall
was 60 years old, and in strong healtn
and spirits when the Armstrong legisla
tive committee was called together to in
vestigate the affairs and methods Of th a
great life insurance companies. His
breakdown and death were caused <Js-
rectlj* 'by the sensational revelations
which followed—revelations that called
down on MieCall’s head the criticism
of a nation and forced him in haste to
resign and to sell, under the hammer,
his beautiful summer palace -at Long
Branch, %N". J., which cost him close to
$ i ,000,000.
LICE ROOSEVELT,
daugnter of the
president, has In
come the tentii
bride of the whim
li juse by marrying
Nicholas Long-
worti’j, congress
man from Ohio.
T h e ceremony,
which occurred in
the big east room
of the executive
mansion, was wit
nessed by over a
cabinet mem-
Alice Roosevelt,
thousand guests, includ-in
bers, members of the diplomatic corps
other men prominent in public life a l
numerous friends of the two famiih s
to us. but we close our ears even to i The.wedding presents were unpre ced.-m -
I ed tor number and richness. The hap; T
j couple will .spend a larger part of the.r
I honeymoon in Cuba.
Life keeps saying beautiful things
us, but we close our
the music of the angels.
THE EVEN SPIRIT.
“I try to keep an even Kpirif in this j
life,” says a philosopher, ’’and every 1
bright daj' that comes I never fail
to open the life-windows and sun my !
soul!” I
Odd Pranks of Mother Earth
In Thrusting Riches On Despairing Men
Having rond Fij
yam, the
And nf paroj
more.
It Is natural
adopt tlie
When the Ml
door (or Ilf
To Do It.
t'l-.nd’s version of Khay-
>ing Persian,
thereon a score or
thought-t,sain shou d
flog quatrain
describes the tavern
Leaves from an Old iScrap Book
By A GEORGIA COLONEL.
I N 1863 The Knoxville Reigster gave
the following story of the heroism
of “The Boys From Atlanta:”
“In our accounts , of the defense of
Knoxville from tlie Yankee raiders, we
unintentionally omitted to notice the dar
ing conduct of. and efficient service ren
dered by Captain Wyly's Georgia battery.
This battery is composed principally of
young men front Atlanta, Ga., and its vi
cinity, and is attached to Major Leyden's
battalion. On Friday they had made a
forced march from this city, over rough
roads to Island ford, a distance olf 25
miles. Here a courier overtook the bat
talion with a requisition for a battery to
return to Knoxville. Wyly's battery was
•elected, and, jaded and fatigued as were
Loth men and horses, they retraced their
•teps with such expedition as to reach
the vicinity of the city by 7 o'clock Sat
urday morning. Here they found a large
force of cavalry and infantry drawn up
In line oif battle 'between them and the 1
city. Several officers in the rear politely
saluted the battery with their swords,
and Captain Wyly was at a loss to know
whether they were friends or foes. In
his emergency, a young man of his com
pany drew a white handkerchief, and
rode boldly up to the officers mentioned,
and ascertained that they were the raid
ers. Upon communicating the fact to
the captain he Immediately placed his
guns in position, and issued orders as
if for attack. This threw the enemy’s
lines into momentary confusion, taking
advantage of which the guns were unlim-
toered and the battery dashed
through them and reached the
the city in safety, notwithstand
ing, they were fired upon by our pick
ets, who mistook them in their headlong
entree, ifor the enemy. This feat lias
been pronounced by the experienced mili
tary men to be one among the most dar
ing, skillful and successful of the war.
.“On reaching the city and reporting to
the chief of artillery, the battery was im
mediately assigned to a position, and
commenced action, firing the first and
last gun of the engagement, and sustain
ing the principal part of the loss that re
sulted. The following are the casual
ties:
“Cotporai Thomas Caldwell, mortally
wounded, since dead.
"Private W. R. Hodson, supposed mor
tally wounded, leg shot off.
“Private Robert Fai%>w, wounded in
left arm by a minie ball.
“Private Turnidge, wounded In the
foot by a minie ball.
“After the battle the Yankee command
er seat his respects to Captain Wyly, by
a paroled prisoner, with the complimen
tary remark that his battery had done
the 'best firing he evc-r saw.
“All honor to gallant Captain Wyly
and his brave men. The citizens of
Knoxville owe him a debt of gratitude
that cannot easily be canceled.”
A WAR BILL OF FARE.
The Chicago Tribune published the
following bill of fare found in one of
tlie camps at Vicksburg. It is sur
mounted toy an engraving of a mule’s
head, behind which is a hand brandisn-
ing wTiat may be a bowie, or may be a
carving knife. The Tribune thinks it is
a melancholy burlesque. The most
melancholy thing about it is the reflec
tion whioh it must suggest to a thought
ful Yankee—if there be such, an animal
—on the prospect of conquering the men
who can live and jest on suoh fare:
“HOTEL DE VICKSBURG.
"BILL OF FARE FOR JULY, 1863.
“Soup—Mule pie.
“Boiled—Mulo bacon with poke greens;
mule ham canvased.
"Roast—Mule sirloin; mule rump stuf
fed with rice.
“Vegetables—Peas and rice.
"Entrees—Mule head stuffed a la mode;
mule beef jerked a la Mexicans; mule
ears fricasseed a la getch; mule side
stewed, new style, hair on; mule liver
hashed.
"Side Dishes—Mule salad; mule hoof
soused; mule brains a ia omelette; mule
kidney stuffed with peas; mule tripe
fried in pea meal batter; mule tongue
cold a la Bray.
"Jellies—Mule foot.
“Pastry—Pea meal .pudding, blackberry
sauce; cottonwood berry pies; China-
berry tart.
"Dessert—White oak acorns; beech
nuts; blackberry leaf tea; genuine con
federate coffee.
"Liquors—Mississippi water, vintage of
1498, superior, S3; Lime Stone water,
late Importation, very fine, S2.79; spring
water, Vicksburg brand.
“Meals at all hours. Gentlemen to
wait upon themselves. Any inattention
on the part of servants will be prompt
ly reported at the office.
“JEFF DAVIS & CO., Proprietors.
“Card—The proprietors ot the justly
celebrated Hotel de Vicksburg, having
enlarged and refitted the same, are now
prepared to accommodate all who may
favor them with a call. Parties arriving
by the river, or by Grant's inland route,
will find Grape, Canister & Co.’s car
riages at the landing or any depot on
the line of entrenchments. Buck, Ball &
Co. take charge of all baggage. No
effort will be spared to make the visit
of all as interesting as possible.”
BOMB WAR INSTRUCTIONS.
The following appeared in several of the
old war newspapers, printed by editors
who were doubtless doing their fighting
on paper:
“We reprint from the pamphlet lately
issued under authority of the general of
this department the following hints,
which should be carefully studied and
remembered:
“ *1. Field and company officers are
specially enjoined to instruct their men,
under all circumstances to fire with de
liberation at the feet of the enemy; they
will thus avoid overshooting, and. be
sides, wounded men give more trouble to
our adversary than his dead, as they
liave to be taken from the Held.
“ ’2. Officers in command must be cool
and collected in action, hold thc-ir men
in hand, and caution them against use
less, aimless firing. The meu must be
instructed and required each to single out
his mark. It was the deliberate sharp-
shooting of our forefathers in the revolu
tion of 1776, and at New Orleans in
1815, which made tnem so formidable
against the odds with which they were
engaged.
“ ‘3. In the beginning of a battle, ex
cept by troops deployed as skirmishers,
the fire by file will be avoided; it ex
cites the men, and renders their subse
quent control difficult; fire by wing or
company should be resorted to instead.
During the battle, the officers and non
commissioned officers must keep the men
in ranks, enforce obedience, and encour
age and stimulate them if necessary.
“ ‘4. Soldiers must not be permitted
to quit the ranks to strip or rob the
dead, nor even to assist in removing
our own dead, unless by special per
mission, which shbll only be given when
the action has been decided. The surest
way to protect our wounded is to drive
the enemy from the field; the most press
ing highest duty is to win the vic
tory.’ "
So, in singin
time hero!
One employs milted verse
trope, O Pof
If he chants of '
that’s mediev
Does ho scorn
dope? Nope:
/ '
e stoic scrappers of a
and
primeval in a day
kaleidoscope-
111LE it is true that many
of the richest gold and
silver mines in the world
have been discovered by
men who were out search
ing for the precious met
als. it is equally true that
others have been favore 1
by fortune rather than by
forethought. The rise and
fail of the “Coal Oil
Johnny’’ of a generation
ago well illustrates the
money craze that swept
through the land of the oi! fields till a
great corporation took control of the
petroleum finds and eliminated the ele-
VRQU1S VISCONTI
V LX OSYA, chief
Italian representa
tive at the Moroc
can conference at
Algeeiras, is a dis
tinguished stati ?-
tnan, who has held
the portfolio of for
eign affairs in scl
eral cabinets. He
first occupied the
office in 1870, whci
the Italian tr.'.rs
e nt e r e d Rome.
fore the threatening snows blocked the j
Sierra Madre trail for tlie winter. One ! Marquis Venosta,
noon while halted to rest their lean mule j From 1876 until 1894 he was under a
Hobart shot a jack rabbit, hut, having political cloud, but in the latter year J r—
a sprained knee, he could not follow the mier Giolitti appointed him Bering - i
creature into the gulch where it had fat-j arbitrator, and in 1896, after an absen e
len. Even a sage tainted, stringy rabbit j of twenty years from the department, he
was not to be despised when supplies \ again assumed the reins at the foreign
were at such a low ebb. so Mason started j office. Under Zenardelli, Pelloux ;
to find it. The bank of the ravine over j other premiers he also has held the .no -
which tlie prospector peered coved in and i tion. The marquis is now in his seve
he was dropped to the bottom-some fit- j eighth year, and owing to his expei-u n
and conservatism, is said to possess
( Fro |
“They say that!
up nicely.” remni
quires facts. "If
nosed individual:
silver.”
ve.
atler.)
iol will clean silver
the man who ac-
1,” agreed the red-
cleaned up all my
ment of chance from the discoveries and j
the output.
Bret Harte, in his dramatic poem.
"Do’s Flat.” tells of a man who had j
been in very hard luck who started to
dig for water, the “derringer hid in his
breast” to be used if he failed, but in
teen or twenty feet below.
TUMBLED INTO RICHES.
Urged into haste by the wild acts of his
comrade., whom he expd^fri to find sore
ly injured, Hobart limned to the gulch
and called down:
“Are you much hurt, Roger?”
“Hurt?” No, I’m in heaven,” came
I back the reply.
| “Didn't know the place lay in that di-
! root ion.” said Hobart.
j “Lead the mule to the head of the
SIEGE OF PORT HUDSON.
The Natchez Courier published the
following incident of the siege of Port
Hudson:
“At the late charge of our men on the
federal cotton breastworks—when they
took, burnt and spiked the enemy’s guns
—it is said fifteen confederates were Mr ‘
taken prisoners. The guard took them ha ® le
before General Banks, who said: ‘They i Mrs.
are men too brave to be my prisoners;At to
!• pse.
(IH Life.)
House Agent-**! sir. I’ve got {be
very thing tha-dHl suit you—beautiful
house a.nd fluctuation.
Clienet— Finn nation, eh?
House Agent *l*ndid situation, sir.
“Healthy pla !■ '
“Healthy! 10*3Id think so. Why,
sir. in that Gist sickness is practically
unknown.”
“Ah, well, tithe house won’t suit
me. You sec.n a medical man.”
A Less Well Learned.
The followliyory is told of Elihu
Root, secretait state at Washington. I
and his offipiy. Said Mr. Root to
the lad one ‘ “Who has taken my |
waste paper l^t?” “Mr. Riley,”, sa’d
the boy. “Aflp-o is Mr. Riley?” ash
ed Mr. Roe "’The caretaker, sir.”
"James. who®td that window?” Mr.
Root asked lOur later. “Mr. Lantz.
sir.” “And ’ Is Mr. Lantz?” “The
window cha ■ir.” ?Jr. Root turned
and looked ,ie boy. “James,” he said
“■we call me*their first names here.
We don't ‘ er ’ them in this office.
Do you “Yes. sir.” Ten
minutes aft A** te door opened, and
the shrill * of .Tames was heard:
“There’s a * as wants to see vou,
Elihu.”
’ Shrewd Son.
from Punch.)
“Here!” ! <f the old lawyer to hi.?
son, study#* 1 ’ with him, "you told
me you liaJt this work on Evidence,
and yet tragus are not cut.”
“l*ed X*»” yawned the versatile
son; and t^* er chuckled with delight
as he tho What a lawyer the boy
W’-ould ina
Aftag to the Book,
item Tit-BIts.)
Madge— $h e young clergyman .^he’s
engaged t#>onize much In his :ove-
making? J.
Marjori •• when, he kisses her
good nigjl says he does dt firstly,
secondly, v ||y. and so on.
S Easy,
om Tatler.)
ake your story end hap-
the publisher,
hat,” replied the author
,ve my hero and heroine
last chapter!”
“You
pily!”
“Oh,
“I’ll sir
divorced!
te;id of finding what
struck phy dirt and a fortune.
In 1867 Donald Ross, a young Scotch
sailor, deserted his ship in San Francis
co, and with two companions, green as
himself, started for the new placers in
the Sierras at the head of Kern river.
Failing in their first efforts, the three
men crossed through the Lehatohepnh
pass and entered the volcano-rutted Mo
jave desert. Like many before them,
they reasoned that a region so worth
less and lifeless must have in it the
promise of gold. Again they failed, and
after some trials made their way into
Arizona and on to the head waters of
the Little Colorado. Here they had fa>r
success, hut the appearance of Cochin
and bis dreaded Apaches forced all the
white men in that region to abandon
their claims and fly to Zuni or the 'ar-
off army posts for protection.
IN THE DEATH VALLEY.
Ross ai*|l hfis friends succeeded in
reaching Fort Whipple, from which point
Colonel Gregg, then in command of .he
Eighth cavalry, sent them hack to Har
dy ville on the Great‘Colorado. At Har-
dyville the men bartered their 'dust for
supplies and, learning that Owen’s lake,
to the west of the Sierras, was a ne.v
and promising gold field, thev determined
to try their luck there. With a mule
to pack their supplies, but Without com
pass. map or trail to guide them, they
started across the 200 miles of desert
to the north and west.
In their futile search for water the ad
venturers were deluded by the mirages of
that region and so wandered into the blis
tering arroyos along the southern rim of
Death valley. Two days after Ross and
his friends entered these waterless depths
the mule died and his burden was aban
doned. The next day one of the men
died ;.the other, tliirst-erazed, fled fur
ther lnt othe desert and was never heard
of again.
Any position more desperate than that
In which Ross now found himself it
would be hard to imagine, but he had not
reason enough left to realize it. As
crazed' as the man who had left him, the
poor fellow wandered aimlessly on till all
consciousness was gone. When Ross
came to he found himself in the camp of
a band of Pah Utes, to the south of
Owen's lake. After many days and
when the young Scotchman was able to
walk an Indian guided him to the Sierra
divide and, pointing down to the emerald
expanse of the great San Joaquin valley
and the flashing waters of Tulare la”ke,
he said: "White man's land.”
FORTUNE IN TWO MONTHS.
About an hour after leaving tlie Indian
Ross found himself in the bed. of a rock-
was after he j ffi'lch and come down here!” roared Ma
son. the while dancing and waving his
[ arms.
“What is it?”
"Gold! gold! gold! till you can’t rest!”
shouted Mason.
Gold there certainly was and in suffi
cient quantities to make both men very
rich. “Mason’s gulch,” as the place was
called from that time on. proved to be
the richest placer so far discovered in the
San Juan country.
Even stranger and more startling than j
the foregoing was the experience of Cap- I
tain George Wells in New Mexico. The j
captain had been a prospector in the
“Pike’s peak or bust days.” During the
prestige held by no other Italian foreisu
secretary.
AMES WILLI.) M
LOWTHER, u ,, ,
has been reeled ■ f
speaker of the Dry
ish house of
mons, is a tory i
politics, and has
been in parliament
since 1883 In the
last parliament it
was said of h t
that he knew every
* member by name,
T \WT T 4.X. bUt h ® flndS 1 ’ - -
j. W. Lowther. markable chance
as the result of the elections. M
Lowther was born in 1856. and was ch
eated at Eton, King’s college, London,
and Trinity college, Cambridge, graduat-
mg from the latter institution with hon
ors. in 1879 he was made a” (barrister;
in ISC l was undersecretary for foreign
affairs, and the following year r^pre-
sented Great Britain at the international
conference at Venice.
. — Before attaining
civil war he served on the union side with | and cMirm^n'of ^he^ 3 d ° PUty spf " ak, r
his old friend Kit Carson. After the war and means n. „ Cnmmitte !
the captain made a number of strikes, ! council a member of £
but, disliking routine work, he always
“sold out for a song” and returned to
the old lonely ways.
In the spring of 1872 the captain
found himself in Albuquerque and down
on his luck. A man named Murphy,
who kept the (principal fonda or hotel in
the place, offered to grubstake Wells on
condition that he should prospect in the
Sandia mountains. These mountains rise
brown and verdureless to the east of the
Rio Grande. Murphy, had heard the tra
dition that in the earlj- days of the Span
iards they had enslaved the Indians and
made them work in the gold mines in
the Sandia mountains. At length the
Indians rose in revolt, slew their oppres
sors and destroyed every’ vestige of the
mines in which over 200,000 of their fel
lows had perished.
BLEW UP HIS OWN OUTFIT.
To Wells, who had a* good practical
knowledge of geology, the undertaking
did not appeal, and then he was incredu
lous where Spanish or Indian traditions
were concerned. But having made the
agreement with Murphy, he determined
to keep it. With a rifle at his back an d
a Colt in Ins belt-Wells carried a’-ml
from force of habit, (for there was
neither game nor danger from attack in
he region into which he was going- an d
his grub and prospecting outfit packed
on a little gray burro, he faced Se
brown serrated peaks to the east
The desolution of that wilderness of
and Peaks and torri d arroyos would have
»<*? familiar withal!
committee of w . vs
le privy
SHIP COALED BY “CLUBWOMEN’'
U V. '' ' ** ow *\ in The Atchison Globe.)
he Japanese Federation of Women's
the «n me , t at Na ^ski today and oa!-l
the Siberia. We arrived at Nagasaki xt
,,„ P C °°k ln t!jt morning and remginel
h - i oee° P ’ m ' coaling was dor.o
) ,200 Japanese, mostly women, i 1
tn e Pe r f° rrnance was f-fig most interes’.-
‘ ft ling I have seen In Japan. Wh?:t
he ship cast anchor, it was imrnC -
ately surrounded by coaling boats. The
apaiiesc at once began building stages
1U § P steps, leading up from the oal
. a s *° the ship’s coal bunkers
stages completed
The
Lure in her most uninviting mnn ? c x.
Wells had patience and a purpose ‘ ^
ter six weeks of futile" heartiT , Af '
search the supplies gave out lad^hen
the sturdy prospector decided to it
his way back to Albuquerque an ,
knowledge himself beaten. d aC
In the caiptain s outfit there
^der and a^we'r!
conduct them to General Gardner, and
say to him, for 'humanity’s sake, to sur
render his works and stop this effusion
of blood.’ The prisoners were according
ly conducted to General Gardner, who,
having the like number of federals with
in his works, immediately ordered their
release, allowed them to inspect tlie
whole of his fortifications, and then di
rected them to be conducted by his
guard to the federal line, with this in
junction: ‘Tell General Banks that you
have inspected all of my defenses; you
know their strength; and for the sake
of humanity, request him to give up
further contest, and save the further ef
fusion oif blood in bis army,”
Mr.
Mrs.
know.
(I
Bili-
sclentj
bod,
gain
studyl
deserd
New Work.
•Yom Tit-Bits.)
Jusly)— My friend Bullion
opera box for tonight,
rors! You haven’t a filing
yofl?
I don’t need much, you
diy in Arizona.
e Yonkers Statesman.)
rofessor W. J. McGee, the
Jour months without a
lot sands of Arizona, to re-
h. He occupie.. his time in
insect and reptiles of the
the insects returned the
nd studied the professor.
banked stream that had its source In the’ ™ a f nifyin ^ glass. The only uso ^
snow peaks t 0 the north. He was hur- | . * atter so far had been to light o
tying down through the icy waters when P ^ pe or f start a flre - Before loading the
suddenly he came to a stop and pressed I „ °, r t the return Wells climbed
his hands to his eyes with the dread that 1 f the roc ky gulch in which ho v? -o
camped the night before in order t *t^t
a last look at the field of hi s failure
ssj.sr'hrss sl't™
the rocks on which lie stood 1 shake
from the little canyon Z 1°^ Up
to where he had left his L fl f W h flown
found it gone and the little ’ but he
was blown Into shreds. “ g ‘ ay burro
cause TtheffisaX" 1 V n haT t00d the
his magnifying gl ass on tn d S ° placed
the pack that the sun’s rajs b ° UtS ' de ° f
eused on the powder and fh me fo '
followed. Feelin"- th«t ^ be cx !Plosion
tlie wild gold dreams of the desert were
again mastering his reason. Half the
sand at his feet appeared to be gold and
the masses of crystalline quartz on eitner
hand seemed to be full of gold as a
■plum pudding is of raisins.
With proof of his find in his pockets
Ross made his way to San Francisco,
where he soon Interested capitalists in his
discovery. Within two months he had
sold out his interest for S250.000. It is
said that he got back to Glasgow some
weeks before the return or tbe tramp
steamer from which he had deserted.
It! October, 1870, Roger Mason, with a
partner named Hobart, both from Mont
gomery county, Pennsylvania, disheart
ened by his bad luck on the Animas vai-
. . 400 of the J.uipancse
ent mto the ship to carry the coal 'n’j
ie bunkers, and the other 800 remain?!
outside, to pass the coal up.
The operation continued seven or eight
hours. There were sixteen crews eight
cn each side of the ship. The coal tv.?
as.^ed up in wicker baskets, or baskets
a e °f rice straw. I should say each
basket contained forty 9 r fifty pounds of
, Rac, h crew consisted of a lot f
txx-??i'- erS ’ wbo fiH ed the baskets, an!
and : ^ orkf ’ rs to pass them along,
of M ii 7^° Sld ° °f the ship. At the top
the s * ood a woman who emiu’ief
where +if tS an<1 threw them to one si le.
worI?r, th y x ^ ere Picked up by another
eoaT w, a i nd H lroWn to the deck of the
bv ehnsrl' T U ro they were picked r:>
ele4" tv." and P assp d hack to the sh.iv-
ranta" 11 ao rps ult was a continous an I
sidLel'Yx of ?° al baskets passing up the
endlccf shlp: the line resembled an
chlnery ** lain levator operated by m.i-
7 b< L J vr>Ir, .^P and men were good-hum t-
ed in? "ira were gor
thL ail £*7 * e to each other; you notice
try von w« r iJ a r an ’ Tn any °ther coui-
fKhtme- have seen quarreling an!
o” g’ blit I have seen none rxerp.
''”3
1
ened by his bad luck on the Animas val- ^L Vl8 °/ OUS usc of the picturesone
ley in southwestern Colorado, decided to V ty of **i»iuh he was past 71
not be met by the
get back to Conjos in St, Louis Fark be-
Was Past master,
(Continued on Fifth p age j
Some of ("iV_V have SPen none here,
were vo,,V Pe women in the endless chain
old- n f x, p g girls not more than 16 years
black WPro elderly iwomen with
with tr,o etb ‘ Occasionally men worked
work (L but thej- did no name
one wIvUlJ? ttm women and girls. T «,n —
falling 1ln n v. Ket i* urt . a hig lump of cm!
down^ln°JI« he f from above. She same
Just thi *l Pr p ’*U e - I* 11 * the work went •«?
In a Httio TnP 1 . t ,l ,e others doing her share,
sumed n!, e ^ hile she recovered and re-
Plac,p ln t,hp Hue- While she
opoortun?*!? 11 ? °i f the other* women fnun!
h^affectionatel"^ a '\ hort pat
Tho m^ at ? ,y on the back,
for receive <! 25 cents of our money
cents Tn hours’ work, the women 15
tong * Pd } h l children 8 cents Not
boat! i 3 , sa mpan flsmal] Japanese
got ton nl ainin F a ,oa<1 of coal worke-s
in moti(Ux ear a , s hip’s screw while it was
and rhtMi! aru1 fourteen of the women
8 Manv of ei |i, w cre drowned.
■coaling in ^, womtn who assisted In
their gaoks ? be ^ a ( ' arri ^ babies on
loaded taV! ’ As tlle coa t boats were un-
m tiers do W T f>men “cashed up” as paal
fectfy naked \ saw »ne young girl per-
Pver you go -o n, T her waist up - Wh ” r ’
that cause S ° in Japan you see sights
Particularly y iV U to ,ook thp of her way.
After tho ™ y ° 11 are with women.
n>nny of th2 aI ng was finished a good
Pipes ana women laborers produce!
turn to n »ho£. 0ked Whl,e waiting to ve-
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