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Fitzgerald Leader.
FITZGERALD, GEORGIA.
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SCKTAFP d) SORT.
During Queen Victoria’s reign the
taxes in Great Britain have doubled
and trade has increased seventy-fold.
It does not necessarily take gold to
arouse people to energetic aotivity in
a new country notes the New York
Sun. The people who made up tho
first rush to tho Oklahoma country
only a short time ago gathered in one
day 1000 bushels of plums.
Electricity in the operation of the
farm is to become a factor presently
on the far Pacific slope. Jesse Kil¬
gore, of Weston, Umatilla County,
Oregon, has employed au electrician
and is to install a thirty-two-inch
dynamo to supply light and power for
harvest work.
The ever active desire of newspapers
to give the public more than the worth
of the public’s money had a manifesta¬
tion lately in the case of a paper at
Juniata, Neb., which put in so modest
a bill for county printing that the
Supervisors voluntarily increased the
amount of it and paid it.
The Sun thinks that scorn must be
felt by New York gripmen and Brook¬
lyn motormen for the motormen of
Mechanicsville, Tenn. According to
local newspaper plaints these actually
stop in. one part of the town because
children are so thick upon the track.
“The cars have to be stopped,” one
paper says, “to avoid an accident!”
According to the lowest estimates
the'corn crop this year will be afoout
1,800,000,000 bushels, With short
grain crops abroad we ought to be able
to market the surplus from such a crop
at much stiffer rates than we have been
able to get for crops of 2,000,000,000
bushels and over. Corn is so hard to
handle that it is easily possible to get
larger cash returns from a moderate
crop than from one which breaks the
record.
■
Not ail the plasei gold in California
was taken out by the argonauts of ’49.
There was plenty of it left for the peo¬
ple who went there for many years
thereafter. If Alaska is as good a
country, or half as good as California
has been, prospectors will lose noth¬
ing by waiting a while for better roads,
more trading^pests and lower p rices
there. A region not much smaller
than the United States is not to be
overrun m one season or a dozen.
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Says the Railway Age: To railway
builders out of work Alaska offers a
jjreat if not an inviting field. With a
territory ten times as large as New
York State, it has not a mile of steam
road, or any other kind of road.
Thousands of citizens of the United
States are ready to emigrate thither
long enough to pick up what gold they
want, and yet our Government has
not built a single railway for their ac¬
commodation. The only transporta¬
tion line into the gold fields is owned
by selfish capitalists, non-resident at
that, who expect to make a profit out
of the indigent gold seeker.
It remains to he determined, declares
the Chicago Record, whether Professor
William Libbey, of Princeton Univers¬
ity, is | to be thanked for his piotur-
esque exploit in climbing up .the Mesa
Encantada in New Mexico. The mesa
has been the subject of endless ro¬
mance among the tribes who somehow
manage to hold to existence in the
furnace-heat of the middle plains of
New Mexico, It is a rock 500 feet in
height, not unsymmetrical in design,
and standing alone on the plain. Un¬
til Professor Libbey came along aud
in the interest of science shot ropes
from a life-saving service gun across
the summit no human hand, it is sup¬
posed, ever touched the mesa’s crown.
At least this is the belief confirmed by
Professor Libbey’s investigations; for,
instead of fabled ruins of ancient cities
and the relics of a prehistoric civiliza¬
tion, he found nothing but sage brush
aud the usual dry scrub-growth of New
Mexican plants. Science has gained a
few photographs of these things. It
has also gained the knowledge that the
summit of the mesa is not inaccess-
ible to exploration, provided the ex-
plorer he equipped with enough ropes
and a team of mules. But a whole
world of romantic traditions has been
wiped out. The mystery of the en-
chanted mesa is gone. It might have
remained for years useful as a figure
in poetic imagery and inspiring to the
imagination as a haunted and unknow¬
able land. Now it is nothing but a
colossal pile of rock covered with ugly
brush, and interesting only as an em¬
blem of some vast igneous upheaval of
prehistoric times. Figuratively speak¬
ing, science has again met poetry and
leant her to the ropes. ___ ....
THE WELCOME HOME.
When twilight evening bells echoes are ringing awoe*
And greet me,
My happy heart seems singing swoot
Of some one who will meet me.
0/ blue eyes 'neath a golden and crown—
Dear eyes! that watch wait—
And little footsteps pattering down •
/' The pathway to the gate.
Though sad the toll, In barren soli,
Though Fortune hns not found me,
I know that night will bring me light
And twine two arms around me!
And let the day be gold or gray—
What thought so sweet as this:
“It drifts and dreams my darling’s way,
Who keeps for me a kiss.”
O love of life, and strength In strife!
O O dear joy, child to sorrow that given! jnako life's; skies,
And earth eyes
as sweet as heaven!
I still can bear with grief and caro
And face the storms to be,
If Love, the comforter, will share
The crust—the crumbs, with me!
—Atlanta Constitution.
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| THE MISERABLE AUNT
BY OKBV1U.E B. STEWART.
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$ ' w- =flHE Robbins family
4 M '* was a fair illustra-
ta ... tion of a poor fam-
EpfeaSST'% ily in a city who
'tCaMUjI tried to soar above
\jpfr F their means and
sm t\ ./ shine in the wealth¬
ier society. Of
course, Jike most
people of a similar
ambition, they had
many inferiors and but few superiors,
and their country relatives were classed
as among the first. Mr. Robbins bad
long been dead, leaving a widow and
two daughters, who were the family.
An aged sister of Mr. Robbins, rather
eccentric in her ways, had for some
time been planning for a visit to her
brother’s family, which, it is needless
to state, was not destined to meet with
great favor with the Robbinses, es¬
pecially with the girls. The arrange¬
ments completed for her visit, she
wrote that they might expect her the
“Well, as she is really coming, we
must make the best of it,” sighed Mrs.
Robbins, when she had read the letter
aloud to her daughters.
“Is she really so miserable?” asked
Maude.
“Well, she’s nervous and fussy, and
likes to direct things wherever
she is!” . • .v
“And you let her ‘boss’you like the
meek little mother you are,” said
Lydia, the youngest daughter.
“Of course, I don’t like to dispute
or quarrel with her.”
“Well,” said Maude, “I shall re¬
member that she’s papa’s sister, and
said to bo very rich, but she must not
undertake to manage me.”
“Nor me,” said Lydia.
“But you must both show her proper
respect,” said Mrs. Robbins. “I will
see to her room, and you girls must
take a carriage and meet her at the
depot.”
■So Sext day, £when Aunt Rebecca
Whitcomb arrived at the station, she
found two beautifill jjeces with the
carriage waiting for her.
i . Humph! better than I expected of
Kate Robbins,” muttered the old lady
as she seated herself in the carriage.
She was a little, slim woman, with
bright, snapping eyes of black; and
that was all the girls could see for her
bonnet and duster. But at dinner she
appeared in some lace and elegant
jewelry, which delighted the girls very
much.
. . Well, Kate,” said she, “you’ve
raised a couple of pretty good-looking
girls. Are they worth anything—are
they worth the bread and butter that
they eat?”
“Of course we are,” laughed Lydia,
while Maude cast a grave look at her
aunt.
‘ ‘They are a great deal of comfort to
me,” said their mother.
“And a terrible expense to dress and
such as that, I dare say, ” dryly re¬
marked Aunt Rebecca.
“Well, of course, it costs some¬
thing.”
“Got to having beaux?”
Lydia laughed again, Maude looked
vexed, and Mrs. Robbins said:
“No; neither are they in love or en¬
gaged, if that is what yon mean.”
“I’m glad to hear it,” remarked the
old lady.
“I’mgoing to be an old maid,” said
Lydia.
“Yes, to be sure! I’ve heard girls
talk before. I was young myself, once,
and a perfect beauty too.”
The girls looked as if they doubted
that, but did not say anything.
After dinner Aunt Rebecca took a
nap. In fact, as her health was not
very good, she spent a great deal of her
time in taking naps, during her visit of
a few weeks. But she did not, at any
time, interfere with the pleasures of
tho girls, and Mrs. Bobbins waited
upon her, so the girls did not find her
stay as unpleasant as they had expected.
A day or two before she was ready to
go home, she invited both Lydia and
Maude to go with her and stay a few
weeks.
“I shall be at the expense, of
course,” said she, “and a.s it is in tlie
country,you won’t haveto fix up any. It
isn’t an attractive place,but if you want
to go and cheer it up for a lonely,cross
old woman, why, come on, and I will
do whatever I can for you.”
“I’ll go,” answered Maude quickly,
pleased with the opportunity of a jour¬
ney. “I’ll go if mamma can spare us,”
said Lydia.
“Then run away, pack a few traps,
and dust your traveling-dresses,” said
Aunt Rebecca good-humoredly.
“What a queer old soul,” remarked
Lydia as they shook out their dresses.
“I half like her, aud half don’t.”
“So do I, ” said Maude. “But with
all her wealth I don’t believe she’s
happy. I wouldn’t like to live with
her, but I guess we can stand it a few
weeks.”
"I suppose we shall find [things in
grand style.”
“Ho doubt. I wouldn’t go but for
that. Say, Lyde, Aunt Beck may take
a notion to leave us her money.”
They packed their trunk and retired
early to rest for the journey.
It was near dusk, the next day, when
they stepped from the train upon
dingy plntform. A carriage took thorn
to a building which it was too dark to
see plainly, but light enough to reveal
none other than 'a common, ordinary,
farmhouse. They followed Aunt Re¬
becca into a small room carpeted with
rag carpet, and lighted with a small
lamp. Then into a sitting-room with
another rag carpet,blue paper curtains,
a settee covered with chintz, a half-
dozen very plain chairs, and a wide
old fireplace. A plain, comfortable
farmhouse, but not at all what the girls
expected.
“Why, is this the place?” cried
Maude.
“Yes, this is the place. Why not?”
asked Aunt Rebecca with a grim
smile.
“O, nothing,” stammered Maude,
blushing, “only I thought that—that
—it—”
“It isn’t as fine as you expected to
see,” interrupted their aunt. “Well,
girls, when I go to town, I wear my
best clothes and some real old jewelry,
and folks take me to be a great deal
richer than I really am. Now, you
see the plain facts in the case. But
maybe wo can have a pleasant time, if
we are poor.”
“O, I’m sure we will,” said Lydia
quickly. But Maude spoke up plainly
and said:
“1 always did want to visit a plain
old country home, just for the novelty
of it.”
“All right,” said Aunt Rebecca.
“Betty, you show the youngladies up¬
stairs. Have the trunk taken up too.
Take off your things and come down
and we will have supper.”
They were shown a large chamber
with a high-posted bedstead, low,
wooden-seated chairs, a pine wash-
stand, and a cheap bowl and pitcher.
i i What a big, bare place!” exclaimed
Maude.
“But it’s nice and clean,” protested
Lydia.
‘ ‘Lyde, we’ve been completely sold. ”
“No, Maudo, she never said she was
rich. Mamma merely took it from
common report. ”
“I wouldn’t have come had I known
this.”
“I would, just for the fun of it.
Corns, if you gre ready let’s go, down;
I’m humrry ”
- '^SoIKT i.'”
The supper was plain, and served
upon the commonest dishes, with steel
knives and forks, that didn’t look ae
well, but served just as well as the
silverware the girls were used to at
home. But they had plenty to eat,
and it was well cooked. Being tired,
they retired early that night. They
had not been asleep long, however,
when they were awakened by loud
groans from below. The girls got up
quickly and went downstair..? to find
their aunt ill from a sudden attack of
rheumatism, to which she was sub¬
ject.
N'oah had gone for the doctor, and
the girls watched the sick woman for
several hours. But the next day she
was able to sit up.
“I’m a victim to those spells,” said
she’. “I’m not afraid when anyone is
here with me.”
“That’s what she wanted us for,”
whispered Maude to Lydia.
“I can’t go out to-day,” said she;
“but N'oah will take yon for a drive
and show you the country.”
When they came home Aunt Re¬
becca had a visitor. She presented
him as her nearest neighbor, Mr.
Walker. Lydia and Maude beheld a
handsome face with piercing, dark
eyes and black hair.
“He owns a splendid place next to
mine,” said their aunt, after the young
man had departed.
“I would like to know where that
splendid place is,” said Maude when
the girls were alone.
“It must be that old rick-racked
thing over in that thicket of weeds,”
remarked Lydia laughingly.
“Well, I’ll not set my cap for him,
if he is handsome. ”
“Neither will I,” returned Lydia.
But during their stay of two or
three weeks at the old farmhouse, they
found Mr. Walker a very pleasant es¬
cort, and began to like him very
much. One evening Aunt Rebecca
said to them:
“I’ve kept you here running about,
for a cross old woman, as long as I
ought. But I don’t like to be quite
alone. If one of you girls—one only
—will stay here and live with me, I’ll
give you what clothes you need, and
half of what I hare when I die. You
know how I live, and know what to
expeot. I will give you to the time
you get ready to go home to decide in.”
“I wouldn’t like to stay,” said
Maude quickly. “I could not bear a
oountry life. I should be miserable. ”
“Very well. You shall go home
whenever you choose. And how
about you, Lydia?”
“Well, Aunt Rebecca, I, too, do
not like the country. But I do not
think you ought to be left alone when
you are sick so often. If you want
me, why—why, I’ll stay awhile.”
“Thank you, my darling,” said the
•aunt.
“But,” continued Lydia, “I don’t
want you to leave me anything. I stay
because I like you, and think I am
needed.”
“That’s a good girl,” said Rebecca,
and Maude looked daggers at Lydia.
“Now go and help Maude pack her
things, since she has decided to go.”
When they were alone upstairs,
Maude said:
“O, Lydia, how could you hide
yourself here from the world all sum¬
mer?”
‘But I couldn’t refuse, Maude; she
does need some one.”
• r *
“But such a gloomy hole as this old
shanty. ”
“Yes, I know; but you can send me
some books and the latest papers, and
I will pull through all right.”
They started early next morning to
take Maude to the depot.
“We’ll drive around a little, and I’ll
show you one or two beautiful plaoes
before we go. I don’t think you’ve
ceen them yet,’’ said the annt, as they
left for the train. Through a little
village about a mile, they came to a
large, beautiful residence. And just
beyond they came to a handsome man-
sion, with beautiful lawns, a fountain,
brilliant flower-beds, and nice, smooth
walks.
“What a beautiful place!” said
Maude, as they arrived before tlie first
house. But when they came to the
mansion, her eyes opened wider, and
she exclaimed:
“O, how I would like to live there!
I did not know there was any place so
beautiful in these parts.”
“Who is it, Aunt Rebecca?” asked
Lydia. belongs grumblesome old
“It to a
widow lady. I am going to call there
awhile, so you will have the opportun-
ity of seeing the inside as well as the
outside.”
“It will be worth seeing,” remarked
Maude; “but. Aunt Rebecca, she must
be very stylish, and I am only in my
traveling suit. ”
“O, she won’t mind that.”
They drove in at the wide iron gates,
and up the gravel way, leaving the
carriage in charge of a servant. There,
to the girls’ surprise, Aunt Rebecca,
instead of ringing the bell, walked i
boldly in at the front door, ci<6ssed the
hall, and entered the large, magnifi- :
cent parlor, like one entirely at home. ;
“Welcome home, Lydia darling,” j
said the “miserable aunt,” as she seat- >
ed herself in a velvet-cushioned base- j
rocker, while a servant came to take
their things.
“Home!” cried Lydia, in surprise.
And Maude turned different colors.
and caught her breath quickly.
“Yes, home. We have spent a few
weeks, at the house of the tenant who
works my farm, and now we have come
to our own. I am wealthy, Lydia, and :
the brave girl who would not forsake !
the poor, old woman shall be the pet of .
the rich one. But Maude must go, 1
for she does not like a country life.” |
And Maude went,' leaving Lydia to
the luxury which she herself had
longed for. Lydia did not need any ;
magazines, etc., for there was plenty j
of the latest reading matter already at j
her new home.
She now prefers country life to the
city, and will become Mrs. Walker
soon, and will live in the beautiful
residence nearest Aunt Rebecca’s.
And Maude may not be entirely cut
out, as Aunt Rebecca means to give
her one more chance, which she will
not be likely gins tq refuse.
Both tho now think that Aunt
Rebecca is not indeed so miserable as
they at first thought her to be.—The
Magazine.
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Electricity an Aid to Dentistry.
In dentistry, cataphoresis is sup¬
planting many of the primitive methods,
from the reproach of which even that
progressive profession has for many
years past vainly endeavored to escape,
and has made actually painless opera¬
tions at last possible. For by this
method cocaine can be applied not only
to the soft tissues of the body, but to
the hard substance of the tooth. The
teeth, although coated by a superficial
skin—the enamel—internally are com¬
posed of a tubulous structure called
dentine, quite capable of conveying
current, since within the little cubules
is inclosed a gelatinous filament rich
in salts and fluid, which makes it a
good conductor of electricity.
If a cavity in the tooth—which is
constituted a cavity for the reason that
the enamel has been destroyed and a
portion of the dentine has been en¬
croached upon—is filled with a pledget
of cotton saturated with a solution of
cocaine, and to this pledget is applied
a piece of platinum wire connected to
the positive pole of the ordinary gal¬
vanic battery, and a very small current
is allowed to flow, in a period varying
from six to thirty minutes, according
to the ability and knowledge of the
operator—the shortest period recorded
is a minute and a half—the cocaine
will be conveyed by the electric cur¬
rent down the tubules to the nerve
itself, and the denti st can proceed with
the dreaded preparation of the tooth
without pain to the patient. The tooth
cau be excavated, filled or even ex¬
tracted without the infliction of the
slightest suffering.
If one takes into account the steady
and accumulated agony of dental opera¬
tions throughout the world, and con¬
siders the wear and tear of protracted
pain which they entail, he may easily
comprehend what an enormous boon
to suffering humanity such a process
as this will be when generally applied
in dentistry.—The Chautauquan.
A Drifting Buoy.
The chart of the North Atlantic
Ocean just issued by the hydrographic '
office records a most remarkable drift
of from a whistling its moorings buoy. off This Martha’s buoy broke Vine- J
yard just one year ago, and started
southward, since which time it has
been twice reported. . Its total drift
was a little over 4000 miles. It was
firstreported February 2 last, 500 miles
due east of Bermuda, where it struck
a southwesterly current that set it to-
ward the Haytien coast, and on July
7, when last reported, it was rapidly
making its way toward this island, and
unless is it around strikes and the sent gulf north stream and |
swung again ■ I
will probably next be heard from at
some of the eastern islands of the
Windward group.—Washington Star, j
Russia has abolished the compulsory
domestic pass regulations, which were
introduced in the last century, as aa
indirect system of taxation. .______
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FARMERS OF THE SOUTH-
i
SECRETARY WILSON TALKS ON THEIR
NEEDS AND OPPORTUNITIES.
Benefits fo Them l>y the Increase In Farm
i Products—New Crops and Mor« Diver-
silled Farming Are Needed—Dair;*.
| Fanning Should Also Be Encouraged*
, Secretary of Agriculture Wilson lias
been interviewed upon the subject of
farming in the Southern States by a
representative ‘of the Manufacturers’
; Record, of Baltimore. We quote from
the interview as follows:
j “How has the South been benefited
1 by the increases in farm products?”
I “It has been benefited in propor-
tiem as other sections of the country,
What that proportion is caunot look be ap-
proximated. It is best produces to at gen-
[ era j facts. The South crops
peculiarly its own—fruits, all varieties
i 0 f vegetables, tobacco, rice, sugar, cot-
ton, etc.—all of which are in demand
j n their own, Western and Northern
1 markets, and some in foreign markets.
If times are prosperous, if the pfosper-
Ry of the people at large is augmented
),y tj, 0 prosperity ' of tho farmer, are
no t the products of any one section,
' they
soy the gSoutk, whether are ne-
cessit.ies or luxuries, more in demand
everywhere, and, therefore, are not
their prices increased?”
“What are the most urgent needs
0 f
<<oh! That is the question. All
farmers everywhere may be said to
need something. Everybody in every
business or trade may be said to need
something, though he may be getting
along all right, There is room forim-
provement in every walk of life. I
might answer your question in a gen-
e ral way, as so many have answered it.
j have already spoken upon the needs
0 f a resuscitated soil. I know the
Southern people to be industrious.
But I am going to find out and study
thoroughly their needs, and I am go¬
ing to satisfy those needs as far as it
lies in my power. I am going all
through the South in October. I am
not going as a high commissioner or
special ambassador, or special envoy,
or anything of that style. I shall not
g 0 in a special car, viewing tho coun-
try from a car window while traveling
a t the rate of forty or fifty miles an
hour. I shall go as a plain American
citizen. I want facts, and facts only,
j T .’aut to see the farmer in his shirt
sleeves, not the politician, with his
high-sounding and plausible theories,
i cau ge t all of these I want right here
in Washington.”
“What are the general needs of tho
So-athern farmer as far as yon have
had an opportunity to observe them?”
“New crops and lots of them, more
diversified farming, more up-to-date
methods in some sections, more gen¬
eral and liberal raising of cattle for
market and for dairy products, and
sheep for mutton and wool.
“One general need of the Southwest
is a closer relation and a more rapid
communication with the European
markets, and with this object in view
I have already placed myself in corre¬
spondence with severed ocean steamship
companies to induce them to establish
lines direct betiveen the ports of the
Gnlf of Mexico and those of Europe,
the steamships to be provided with re¬
frigerators, so that the fruits, vegeta¬
bles, dairy products, poultry, eggs
and other perishable farm products can
be shipped expeditiously to all the
markets of Europe. Just think of the
vast territory to be benefited by such
1 enterprise—Southern Louisiana, Alabama, Arkan-
Mississippi, Texas,
sas aud all of that section lying north
of these States nearer to tho Gulf than
to the Atlantic seaboard. Why the
farmers of .the Southwest will bo nearer
European markets than their brethren
of the upper Mississippi valley. should
“The Southern farmer pay
special attention, and he is already be¬
ginning to do so, to more crops. At
least three-fourths of every farm should
be grass, should ho a pasturage, thus
affording that relief, that rest, which
the Southern farms needs most. Sheep
can be raised advantageously because
they can graze all the year round. Their
mutton should command good prices,
and their down should be in demand
and could be marketed at a greater
profit than heretofore. Tho projected
closer communication with European
markets should encourage dairy farm¬
ing in the Southwest upon a large
scale. Hogs should be raised only
incidentally to other live stock. Un¬
like cows and sheep, they produce
nothing but their own meat for our
consumption. And yet hog-raising
should be conducted profitably in the
South. Already the ham of the
Southern hog has gained a prominence
world-wide. Wild fruits, roots and
nuts are in such profusion in the
woods that the hog can be raised
cheaply, and that delicious flavor is
imported to his flesh as can be gained
nowhere else. The lard hogs should
not be raised to any great extent. They
are not profitable in tbe South.
“Speaking for myself, the I raising might say of
that I have encouraged
sugar beets in the South. I see that
a wealthy syndicate of Virginians has
been formed at Richmond to grow
beets in their State. A factory to re¬
fine tho product is to be erected at
Richmond. I expect to see other
companies to conduct the same busi-
ness throughout the South. I am
going to introduce the English walnut
in some sections of the South adapted
to its growth, I shall also introduce
the Bermuda lily. We import this
product for decoration purposes from
Bermuda to the value of $60,000 every
year. Why should not our Southern
farmers make this money? I shall
learn during my visit what and where
other new crops can ho advantageously
grown.”
The fastest trains on the continent
are the expresses of the Northern Rail¬
way Company, of France. Their
£peed is thirty-six mile an hour.
COLD IN PENNSYLVANIA.
It Is Being Mined In Paying Quantities
In the Tussey Mountain.
Gold in paying quantity, assaying as
high as $(>25 to the ton of quartz, bus
been found in the Tussey Mountain,
twenty-five miles of Altoona, Penn. It
is now being mined in considerable
quantities.
Tussey Mountain is a ridge of the
Alleghany system, forming the south¬
eastern boundary of Blair County, and
separating it from Huntingdon County
and a small portion of Bedford. It is
in Bedford County that the richest
portion of the gold vein has been found.
The discovery of gold in Tussey
Mountain was made about nine years
ago by Jacob Snyder, a blacksmith of
Henrietta, who owned a tract of 250
acres on the mountain. Ho followed
up his earliest “signs” until one day
about three years ago lie came across a
vein that to even his inexperienced
eyes indicated rich deposits. With his
own hands he sunk a shaft forty feet
deep on the mountain top.
At his blacksmith shop he made a
crude assay, getting out about twenty
per cent, of copper and a considerable
showing of gold and silver. Being
unable to push the work, Suyder sold
125 acres of his land to a party of
Huntington men, who last fall began
operations under the name of the Tus¬
sey Mountain Mining & Improvement
at $1,000,000.
An experienced miner, Samuel Sors-
ter, was brought on from Denver and
placed in charge of the work. It was
decided to abandon the shaft on the
mountain top and try to catch the vein
by means of a slope from the eastern
side of the mountain. Before the dig¬
ging had proceeded far indications of
the richest sort were found. Samples
of quartz, taken only fifty feet back
from grass root, were sent to various
places for assay, and the results sur¬
passed all expectations. Isaac H.
Hildebrand, of Altma, Col., reported
it §529 to the ton. Philip Becker, of
Ouray, Col., reported $610,
The quartz is a hard, flinty rock.
The gold and copper deposits are of
about equal value, and there is a small
percentage of silver.
Early this spring a steam drill was
placed in the shaft, the machinery be¬
ing hauled to the mountain top in
wagons and sent down the opposite
side on slides. Since this drill has
been put in the work has proceeded
more rapidly, and now, 200 feet back
from the surface of the mountain the
miners are finding a quality of quartz
still richer than that which has been
assayed.
The vein is four feet thick. It
stands on its edge at an angle of about
sixty degrees and runs east and west
almost directly across the mountain.
The vein discovered by Suyder fol¬
lows the trend of the ridge, and the
workers in the shaft expect to strike
it about 200 feet back. One passed, heavy
cross vein has already been
and the few feet if was worked show ed
heavy deposits.
Already the company has 1000 tons
of quartz stored in its ore house. Ow¬
ing to the distance from railroads, it
has been decided to do the smelting
at the mine, and already orders have
been placed for crushers and smelting
machinery, which will likely be put in
place beiore ihe close of the summer.
Sorster, the head miner, sajs that
there is every reason to believe there
will be even better results as the shaft
is pushed further into the mountain.
In all the time that tho company has
been at work, its doings have been
kept secret. The few persons whose
curiosity was sufficiently aroused to
cause them to take the long tramp
through the voidest mountain country
in the State to reach tho workings
were not allowed to enter the shaft.
The men at work were all brought
from a distance and have ke^it closely
to the camp.
Gold exists in small quantities in
many parts of Pennsylvania, but in
other instance has it been found in
sufficient quantity to make mining
pay.—New York Sun.
Indian Hace of Gleaners.
People sometimes wonder haw the
Indians at the Sobobareservation across
the river, manage to live, It seems to
be the wife who is the provider in all
cases, and she has to work for what she
gets. They are virtually a race of glean¬
ers. The female portion of the town
across the river seems to have discov¬
ered that a now fangled potato digger
had been introduced into the valley.
The digger was warranted to leave po¬
tatoes enough in the ground for seed.
Ever since the season for digging was
over the squaws have been surrepti¬
tiously visiting every place where the
digger had been aud have been quietly
working away. They did not ask per¬
mission, though this would not have
been denied by most of the ranchers.
Johnny Botterell does not hesitate
to say that possibly a third of his crop
was left in the ground. He says the
Indians come over in tho morning and
stay till nearly noon, going away w r ith
a bag of spuds each. They dig the
potatoes with sharpened sticks so ns
not to disturb the ground. Now that
same of the potatoes are beginning to
sprout, they dig down gingerly and re¬
move the tuber and set tho plant back
so that no one will miss the spud.—
Hemet (Arizona) News.
A Novel Chime.
A chime made of eighteen bronze
tubes, arranged in two parallel rows
and struck by hammers working from
a keyboard, has been set up in the
Town Hall of Levallois-Perrot, near
Paris. The tubes vary in length from
four and a half to nine feet, and in
weight from fifty-seven to 100 pounds.
Ships as Koch Discoverers.
England’s Hydrographic Office re¬ of
ceived information of the discovery
209 new rocks aud shoals la3t year,
twenty-one of which discoveries were
made by vessels striking on the rocks.
