Evening Star Newspaper, June 27, 1891, Page 13

THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, D.C. SATURDAY, JUNE 27, 1891—SIXTEEN PAGES. THE MEXICAN MINES. The Silver City of Guten and Its Wonderful Productions, TALES OF THE DIGGINGS. ‘The Batopiine Mines and How ex-Gov. Shep- herd in Working Them—Ex-Senator Tabor’s Mexieun Enterprises—How = Muleteer Be- Special Correspondence of The Evening Star. Zacatecas, Mexico, Jane 20, 1991. HIS IS A CITY OF 1 half abo | to be considered | ter than what strike mast be far bet- be considered 2 good mine ‘im the United States. Miners won't touch ore “here that would be looked upon aa splendid ore | must pan im California or Nevada. A Mexican mine feast $30 to the ton or it is not ‘ing. In the United States mine. thought worth ope if it is worth $20 a ton it Many inquiries among miners, both fand Foreigners, and 1nd that. th take, ‘The Mexican mining laws the best in the world. “They are rigoroasly forced and there is no country where the mit | of any nationality has a better chance than |here. The laws permit came « Count—How the Mines Are Worked. | mine, but man to chim a in order to hold bis title | must’ work at least four men in it for | twenty-six consecutive weeks every year. | by any thie ree £0,000 people amile and | the “mine and ‘tulfille be fails to do this his mine, however good,can be denounced, as it ie called, y, and the government will ‘sright to it if he takes above conditions. ize tha’ the sea. A | Good mines are carefully watched here and great jumble of flat-| failure to work them resulta in thelr loss. As roofed, box aped | long as the law is complied with the miner, built close up to whether Mexican or foreigner, is protected. cobblestone sidewalks aboveanet work of tan- nels, which run inand ont, acrom and abore each other with all the wanderings of Rosa- mond’s bower. These tunnels are dug through veins of solid silver. Silver in specks all round ant about you from the hundreds of ‘mines whi-b dot the sides of the monntains to the clear, silvery sky which hangs overhead. This isa bere outline of the great Mexican mining city of Zacatecas. Here everything is wlver In the days of Cortes the mines were worked, and from then till now the work hae gone on, giving hurdreds of millions to the world. It oes on still, and under my feet the Aztecs of voday are working away as they did in the past, and acrows the way I see the mules tramping their hoofs off in the vitriol and quicksilver with which the crushed ore is mixed in order to rednce ‘t for the market. Mexico has given the world more than four thousand million dollars’ worth of gold and silver, and much of the latter has come from hole region ix full of silver. The om every side and in fact in nearly every part of Mexico and from the Pacific ocean to Gulf of Mexico there is a vast coun- try of i Jeulable powsibilities, Travelers and ‘oki Mexicans tell me that the southern part of the country is even richer in minerals than the northern and all agree that the land has not as yet oapected. The western coast contains undeveloped regions of gold and #: ver, and this will soon be opened to the rail- Towde. THE CHINUANTA srNEs. In Chihuahua, just north of here, there are mines out of which $344,000,000 have been tuken in about one hundred and thirty years, and seven days’ ride by stage to the west of these are the Ratopiins mines, which are owned Shepherd and out of which he is} filled with | mines is where the company gets a concession | | A record has to be kept at all mines in Spanish of the work done, and the only cnee in which the government grants « fee simple title to of a zone by agreeing to keep thirty-four miners constantly employed and within five years to build reduction works at an expense of at least & quarter of a million dollars. hese mining zones are valuable some- times and they are not granted without investi. gation. They comprise st times from ten to twenty square miles of land and the company having the right to one of them can work thirty laims upon it and have the right to denounce and such other claims in the zone whose wners do not fulfill the law. do not, as I anderstand, have any right except to the mineral products of the land. ‘The most of the work in the mines in Mexico is done by the Mexican Indians. They make splendid miners and they never strike. They quantities of good are. So | get all the way from 50 cents to €2 a day, don't put all of his profits his mines and he ig, 1 am} told, developing them on the same magnificent scale that he improved Washington cits. He hives in the hope of a vast fortune in the future, and is dmg, it is said, in impraged ma- chinery and fine mining furniture what any Mexican of ordinary American would consider a fortune. About twelve miles from Chi- hunhua there uw a httle mining territory the size of an Ohio township or sboat six miles square. It ix among the mountains and in it more than 200 mines have been de- velo The veins ran deep down into the earth and fifty of the shafts are more than 600 foot deep. 1 mines lave been worked for nearly ten generations and the mines of Gov. Shepherd years old. They have read; cost millions and it i easy to spend millions in the development and furnishing of a mine. The Count of Regia, who made so im@s out of the famous mines at Pachuca, spent, it ie | maid. two anc one-half millions om his redu Yon works of an hundred years ago, but he cleared a helf « million dollars « year out of them for twelve yeurs, and was so rich that he had ay of making his listinguished guests walk on bars of wiver when they came to see him. It wae ome of his descendants who founded ax» ebarity the government pawnshop ot Mexico, and the original count, whe began lite by dr get drunk and work right along. Here at Zac- tecas there are thonsands of them and you Will not find a quieter or more orderly town of 10,000 people in New England than this city of 50,000 here in Mexico. A MILLION A YEAR. What a Man Could Do With a Little , Income Like That. LUXURIES IT WOULD BRING. One Could Pay His Debts, Pension His Poor Relations, Dress Well, Live High, Keep Fast Horses and a Yacht—Bat It’s Not Sure That He Would Be Happy. MILLION DOLLARS A YEAR! JUST think of it. Yet thereare men who have it, and they are not s0 scarce as one might imagine. Jas. Gordon Bennett, a young man, unmafried and bis own master, has it, and he certainly had more than that until recently. He is fond of sports. It is easy to seo what he docs with his money. He has a fine ocean Steamer all to himself, and he likes to take Parties of friends off with him for months at = time. Torun a floating hotel, where none of the guests pay any board, must make # pretty dig hole in the pocket of any man, no matter, how rich he maybe. Bennett likes the turf, too, and a man who basa taste both for horses and yachting can spend any amount of money. A writer for Tur Stax had those tremen- dous figures of a million a year hurled at his head the other day by # young man here in Washington, who is fond of surprises. what,” said he, “would you do if you had, all at once, an income of $1,000,000 a yeur?” Oh, eternal powers of heaven and earth, what wouldn't a man do? He would have end- less horses, runners and trotters and pacers; he would have a French cook who would serve up anything that was wanted; he would eat straw- berries at Christmas and shri m November; he would have country houses and city houxesand thousand dollar dogs; ho would go to Europe and to the Sonth sexs; he would buy a seat int United States Senate: he would, like Alnascar in the Arabian Nights, marry a grand vizior's daughter; he would buy a newspaper and pay himself a thousand dollars a column to write for it; he would, to sam it up, do everything he had ever wanted to do. WHAT SOME XEN WOULD Do. “All that is very well,” sid the young man who had propounded the question, “but what would be the first thing you would do with your million a yea “Pay my debts.” The answer came from another one in the party. ‘This sounded very fine, but it showed simply that the young man who had made the reply would rather pay his debts than do anything else in the worid, from which it was clear that he must be vers poor indeed, and that his tailor must have becn dun- nin “Buy fourteen white flannel suite” This answer was made by one whose greatest thoughts are centered in clothes. Itwould be a comfort indeed to wear a nice. clean flannel suit every lay, Dudes sometimes strike the nail on the ead. Pension my poor relations.” This reply was made by a scion of an old femily. As he is not altogether a pruper. aithongh he hasn't, of course, gota million @ yerr, it was clear that he ceived a letter from some member of his family begging for money. To get rid of this annoyance eemed to him the first desira- of imagination likes to think what he would do if he were enormously rich. It is very much the same as with gembling Chronic gambiers would rather play and win than do finything chee in the world.” Next to that, they said to hke playing and losing, and, if that is impossible, they like to look at other people In the same way many of than any = and, failing of that, like to infagine wint fun it would be to suddenly become rich. A SUGGESTION TO MB. PULLMAN. Mr. Gearge M. Pullman of Chi have xt lenst a million a year, and recently in an interview with = reporter declared that the acquisition of his foriune had not made much difference in his happines he was cbont as well of when he poor. Oh, of conre! That is what rich men img mates and whe beaght hix ce cool million, when he struck it rich, had the cheek to ash the King of Spaim to come to visit kum, and told him he would plate the walls of bis bed room with silver if he would do so. and hat wherever be walked about the place he should have the paths paved with silver bars. Count Kegin made an immense fortune and hove mines are still among the largest in the wor! LOADS OF SILVER. Still on these very mines some English capi- talists lost millions. Thev spent something like $20,000,090 iu developing them some years ago and got out less than three-fourth amount. This was at the time thet Engla had her lest great craze for American in- Yestments. It was about fifty years ago.and they then lost more than $50,060,000 im Mexican imines. They have a similar craze today w! tends to all kinds of syndicate enterprises in the United States. They are buying our breweries, ir salt works, ovr iron founderies and our railroads, and the same is the case with Mexico A great deal of English pital is now coming here, and though they have been tring to swallow up the cotton fe- tories and other industries their chief invast- Mente have been in mines and estates. saw an American at Silno who has sold out his mines near Guannbuato to an English com- pany at « big profit, and has heid enough of the stock to give him a if they make any. He gets agood salary for managing the mine, and is now placing on the market «big mining sone in Sonora on the West coast which he has discovered. A great deal of capital is now into the rede¥: lopment of mines in Mexico. umboldt estimated that there were 3.000 mines in oper- ation in Mexico at the beginning of the cen- thing oat of the profite | tury, and if the legends are correct there was | never so great @ success in Mex atthe time end driven the re mining as m the Spaniarcs were overthrown of the country, in 181, when wanted. the mines in Mexico thers, ating the revolutions allowed cach other in quick suces asion ines Were abandoned. They secame *B water and the names and records, fact, the very locations of many of t. Others of the old mines had ‘Ver? well, until the miners struck water. Pamping machinery of the time was suc! to preclude their being worked farther ane they have from time to tee in the been staudoned. Such mines are to be found all over the great mining territory of Mexico, andi there are hundreus o Jookout for good ones. If Humboldt's figures ere correct there must be at least 2.000 mines yet to be reciaimed and the search for these is AMERICAN ENTERPRISES. the old legends and mow and then they tind mine whieh they can pump out with oar mod om pumps and strike = bonsnza under the I met a Denver man who a mine which he wait be i making Fis a Fels: | A terven. An old Californian who has mined in both the Sierras and the Rockies and who has large interests near Guanabnato telle me he thinks | these are better workers and better men than the miners of our country. They are satistied with what they get and they are more polite than we are. They are for many things cheaper than machinery and the oldest of these Mexican mines «re run on ti lniders up WI Indians in bags here at Zacatecas are merely logs or rafters with notches cut into themabout eight inches apart, and the wonder is that men go not fall daily.’ ‘They do lose their balance metimes, I am told, and are crushed to pieces at the bottom of the mine, but asa role they are sure-footed, and I saw men working who had passed their three score ‘All of the miners wear Dat little clothing in the mines. They do most of their work bure- footed and bare-legged, and the little clothing they have on is searched before they leave the mines to see if some silver has not oy into it by mistake. The average Aztec bus little idea of property rights ard he tikes what he can get as a gift from God. In some of the ies the mer, are Searched by three different sets of men, and they conceal the silver under their arms, in their ears and under their toes, and, in fact, in every conceivable manner aud place. Mexican honor is not built on the con- scientious Calvinistic plan, and the mine owners take every ation. ‘These mines about here are not quite as old as those of Pachnea, but they were being | worked — years after Montezuma died. About the same time the mines of Guana- huato were found. They have been worked ever fince, and ont of them has come a great Part of the €4,000,000,000 worth of gold and Silver which Mexico has given to the world. ‘WEALTH IN THE REFUSE. It ie estimated that the mines of the country turn out $20,000,000 worth every year now, and I saw a stream at Guanahuato which contains the refuse washings of the mince there and which is «nid to earry off about 4 million dollars’ worth of silver every year. There were little knots of dark-faced, bare-legged, black-haired, big-hatted Indians washing the dirt of this over and over again to Sutch something of what the big works had thrown away, but a large pereen’ Kotten, After the ore ie, deg, blasted and picked out of the mines it is crushed in a | most primitive way by dragging a sort of mill- | ow the th through hours until iv ie thoroughly mixed. This | stone around over it, and when it has become fine enough it is reduced by what ix known as the patio process. Imagine ‘a great round vat of el te-colored mud a foot oF se dec and in the center of this # Mexican Indian dirty white shirt and wide cotton pants rolled up to his thighs. Let him have four fn his hand and to each of these let there attached one or two or three mules. Put a hand and jet him thrash the | chocolate mud is the crashed silver ore whieh has been chemically treated and is now being mixed with vitriol, aalt and quicksilver in order that the silver im the ore may be united with fr. and this be redueed by chemi- ct | America, and_ he is « rel rocesses of a generation and more ago. The | ~ ch the ore is carried by these | 2 but, then why don't they give all th 2 vast wealth tr ’ just send itonto Washington and the resi- dents of this ed town will guara: take the burven off your mind and leave but there are many mor. this is the rule everywhere. There m several Washingtonians who have a million a year, but it would make them furious if s were printed. h men hike to pre that thi poor and poor men frequently | piste they are rich. It is a falling of aman nature, but Washingion the nbode | of unquestionably th We eali him Unele Sam, and he kas an income of more than a billion ‘dollars a year, and he ix probably the richest feliow in the world, for he doesn't owe nearly ax much us ti Jobn Bull. As for his contemporarie. Germany, Russia, France, Spain rest of the earth, they are hard put to it to pay living expenses ‘and are allot them i the solid comforts of amount indeed —2 m hundred millions, why day that it suited his f A RICH MAN WITHOUT cast. It is related that one of the richest men in Washington, and, by consequence » very rich man indeed, finding himself down on P vania avenue one day and being alittle fatigued called a hack and was driven to his bon When he alighted he put his thumb and for finger in the lower right-b waistcoat to extract a quar his fare. The pocket was nature loathex. "His pocket book was no better. He went within and called to his wite for a quarter, but she hadn’* a red cent to her nam nor had his daughter, and Crasus was obliged to borrow the paltry sum from his own butler. Wheu his friends heard of the accident there was agood laugh at the rich man’s expense, and he and his family have | since then been careful to keep a smalls of cash on hand in case How funny it seeme that a rich man should be without money! Yet it frequently happens, not, of course, in euch a manner as above re~ jeounted, but'in larger matters. ‘The reason is . Peovle who get rich are very much like the poor devils who are afflicted with an appetite for drink. ‘They on wanting more and more up to the very end be- fore oblivion comes. Thus the rich man no | sooner makes money thin he invests it to make | more, and thus Le sometimes finds he has very little cash, although he may have a great deal of money invested. RICH MEN OF TRE REVOLUTION. If any one had ever mentioned to Charles Carrol! of Carrollton, who was the richest | man, it is presumed, in America at the time | the government was formed, such a sum as a million a year it is probable that the good gen- tleman would have fainted away and never come to, und thus his noble signature might never have been affixed to the Declaration of I ndence. Carroll was enormously rich | for days. He had about « halt « million of dollars aud was considerably richer than Gen. Washington, although the latter was one of the richest men in America when he died, |Teaving upward of @200,000. But riches in | those in most instances, meant broad acres and many heads of horses and cattle and large numbers of alaves. Now it bay ail changed. It is highly probable that a lot on lower Broadway in New York of fifty feet front- [Zane ates Peel The Creesuees of the world get their incomes | in very diverse ways, James Gordon Bennett | owns a ner + Of course ke owns a great many other but bis sucuum, a thing (hit rents out lands. Jay Gould by for enormous stakes and £ t Bt f E i i f f 7 f t ie f it I | | F ; 2, s, Ht Fee f f i y ? i i i i i fortunes were ‘* and Pullman's. INHERITED FORTUXES INCREASED. ‘The latter has made his, the former bas won ‘bie—it amotuts to the same thing—and every one of the fortunes has incrensed in siav. a. Now, ali of these Jay i 8 # & | sf i £ AG i income is | in, ‘They are more apt to grow, uniess it oy Spr Tee re “ne, brs in that event it often happens’ that ® considerable slice of the goes property to compensate the lawyers who are. employed to content the validity of the will The aa way of accomplishing your purpose if you wish to'be oheritate is te o give while you Tare alive, and to the millionaire who reads Bran this evening it ts gent had better put his money it will do the most good—i.e., in some form of donation that Will benefit the city of Washington. Bat you poor fellow who hafen't got much money and who have many wants, what would you do if you had @ million a year? Probably you never will have it, but you can imagine that you have it and buikl castles with it, and you need not insure your rty unless you can take out a tornado policy in order to reim- purse yourself for the destruction of a castle in 6 air. —_-__. THE Dor ON THE 1. Various Ways of Putting It There and What ‘They Indicate. From the Pall Mall Gazette. Do you put the dot high above the letter i? Do you put it close to the letter? Do you send it flying before? Is it fat, ronnd, irregular? These are the questions which master in the art of deciphering character from handwriting asks in the current number of Vom Fels eum Meer. In each case your peculiarity is the out- ward and visible sign of some idiosyncrasy. ook at the dots of your i; try to make them different—smaller, larger, rounder, more ob- long—you cannot doit. ‘The dot above the i only changes with yonr character.” The fol- lowing are a few of the conclusions “Edel- weiss” draws from the tell-tale dot: The writer begins by giving a graceful lesson to the ladies. “If you often forget to dot your i, yon will also forget other things which ‘seem unimpor- tant to you, but which for the comfort of every- day life are as necessary as the dot is to the i. you have often to look in vain for the dot, you will often Jook in vain for other things, be- cause you have not put them in their proper place. For instance, you put the fifth knitting needle in your book because yon were suddenly. called away and no better bookmark was at hand. You aro anxious to finish your sock: where is the fifth ncedle? The servant girl must have mislaid it while dusting. Servants are such a trouble! “In order to practice patience and self-con- trol you knit on with four needles, ‘gently par- doning,’ and presently turn back fo your inter- esting novel. The ms immediately and there and then the glittering necdle preaches, ‘Miners Spared = Task That None of Them ‘Wished to Do. From the Detroit Free Frees, “For God's sake, fellers—took here!" Joe Colson stood at the bottom of the shaft, bending over alittle quivering heap of human- ity. The faint glimmer of light ¢hat came down from far above us only seemed to make the surroundings of that scene more hideous and ghastly. “It's Christie, boys,” said Joe huskily, stoop ing down and looking into the bruised childish face; she's dead!” Dead! What a thrill of horror crept through the darkness of the mine and wrapped every heart in chill and unspeakable awo! Christic was old Dick Graham's granddaugh- ter, and Dick worked in the Prince Regent for ‘until a stroke of paralysis had incapaci- ted him for manual labor. The old man had buried his son, then his son's wife, and all that bad been left to his declining years was Chris- tie7-Christie. who now lay dead before us! And old Dick loved Christie—aye, loved her with a love #0 simple and touching that one was in doubt whether to cry or laugh when see- ing them ther. it now she was dead and we must take her home to him. There was not a man among us who did not shrink from the duty. Joe Colson took the limp form in his strong arms and stepped into the car. Up, up we rose from the blackness and silence batcath us and found the earth green and blossoming in the smile of a May suu. But the glare blinded our eyes when we thought how the light hnd gone out of old Dick Grabam’s life forever. Slow sadly we moved along the road to Graham's cott “There's some things I can't understand , an’ this is ono of em,” said Joe Colson, ie: “there's lots of old folks on to the edge of | are anxious to dic; but, no, they live, an’ this little one is the first to go.” Old Graham was not to be seen around his cottage as we drew near it, and wo paused at the gate “Boys,” said Joo, sadly, “I allow I'd rather my right hand than take poor little Christie to the old man. Mauy and many a time I've heard Dick say that he wondered what would become of her wheu he was gone, an’ it worried him—an’ now shes gone firet. Go in ahead of us, Tota, an’ break it to the old man. You know how better than any of the rest of With faltering steps I nppronched the cot- tage door. Noauswer came to my knock, #0 I pushed my way softly into the coltage. A lit- AUCTION SALES. AUCTION SALES. + FUTURE DAYs. SPECIAL SALE OF HORSES, WAGONS, HAR- ‘S THIRTIETH. at ‘we Will sell at publte ame- On TUESDAY MORNING, § Acta oie ee tion in fronter our auction ‘ave years Feers old; Brown Horse. str SincicHarners, one tnoubie vent’ articles are the property of metirinn oan hove offers a good chance for any 6 ‘wagons, &c, 3¢26-3t for any cae wanting ‘THOMAS DOWLING & 80N, “Auctionsers. ([ 208 DOWLING & SON, AUCTIONEERS, OF Vauwal IMPROVED GRTREET NOKTURAST, BE- AND SECOND STKER TS Steg berrenne Court of the De LOR ok nar. 8, Treamery. HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE AT AUCTION. bl. ae rentience, Nor 21g Maik ot nw tome ree CLOCK, we shall sell the entire Fompria oe Parhon st 1, MARBLE-TOP T. ALR KRESS a) HANG! ELS AND INGMAIN CARPETS. AMBER FURNILURE, IN SETS AND SEPi PIECES: SPuIsGS, WALNUT M.~' ULanttade einen ERD LATIME! contents, ommnenr ine BEAN PROPERTY. ty NALLYTOWN ROAD. | Hane peal tae | ares Sele cP peemne, Aenea of tm Liver No. 1455. folio 16e, wind t ‘of the sd nd jotoneers, + Beat U.S. Treasury. 1 deed of assienment to Teurises ou MONT TH, Ini, at SIX O'CLOCK B.M. aro) NIN 1x Improved bya neariy new with mneaiert f over $1,400 maturing May 2 tenting interest end scoured by «deed of trust. Ouveyanciue and TecoNtRe et purchaser's cost, mut Fegttired at 1 aaie, pitet Waa in fiiteen day: the property wil beresold at the MICHAEL 3. COLBERT, oe 3. sora siete andenee Atlantic building. Je2dkas 0 STOOL, AND COVER, vARLOK SUITK, UPHOL k r i TABLES. bast CHATS ND. TATE ASHST: THIRTIETH, commencing e whall sell at i eifence, NO. NT ST BE ggLSTH AND SEVENTH STREETS torus of male, wi the day of risk and com e detattiting purchaser aiter Hvedays’ notice 1m WALTER B. WILLIAMS & CO., Auctioneers. der Party secured 6) District of Coin: Lyle’s i feconts of the iis oe 4 th, GN decroes we ‘of beetning. wh thirteen one-lundreitiee 40) 13-100) acres of he sane laud conveyed by Arianiia i. gate: One-third of purchase money cash, three equal installments {ru day of wale She.twoand three years, with interest at 0 por ‘wen t-auntialls al to matings rion of cehawer oF Pancha eae a i das, ie pret : Fink and cost of the detauitine purchaser or pater Ts alter Sve days’ advertisenuent of such Teale mewaaper Lublishes hineton. D.C. ener DAN MARLON isHbow JOSKIM J. WATERS: In commection with the above tract about one acre: and seven-eighths (1%) of an sere adjomine © sol, making ageregate ate? iorty two actin, nore or tees, of ome of the miost denirabie. jonls of for sulslivision in toat sxction, havite: lone Feta oa roads and being Tish? to rene! ut sermon to you. ‘he knitting-needle story is nothing new:it occurs in infinite varia- tions, and happens especially to those who for- get to dot their i. “If the dot flies high above and far away from the letter to which it belongs, your hopes, thoughts, wishes and aspirations are apt to fy n far-off regions, and instead of making practical use of the present day you dream of the ideals of the future. If thin *high-flown’ dot is of an oblong shape, and if, in confunc- tion with it, the loops of your I, h, g, £, &e., are loose and long, then good-bye’ aymmetry and calm, for you have very little self-control. ‘If your husband's dots are heavy, shape- Jess arid blotehy, you will have a bard’ time of it where food is woncerned. He will not be satisfied with a cold supper, an esthetic tea or of beef and vegetables. On the other hand, you have, in his favorite dishes, a means to pacify the’ grambler snd to’ incline him {o ‘listen to your wishes. Your re- mest for a new gown, for theater tickets, whieh was peremptorily refused before’ dinner, is listened to with much more interest after the man of tie heavy dote has had a good meal. Never ask sach a man to ‘ou afavor when he is wuiting for his ‘The larger the dots appear the more dish will be attacked and judge Jarlabad, during the time when patients go to rink the waters, is full of people who dot their 8 heavily.” “The dainty dot, on the other hi together with a handwriting thut thin strokes only, denotes a mind. abov things.” ly nd, if it goes psists of “these ha dainty dot’ husband will be easil satisfied with hix meals. He will hardly know Renting. You can gct nothing ‘out of y giving himadainty disk. He may even fiend you by scunt praise when you happen to have prepareda dich with your own ' hand it may even happen—it other graphotogical signs agree—that uch a ‘dainty dotter’ forge his meal times altogether, uliows get cold, dors not eat, nor praiso, nor blame. spoils the pleasures of tire table for himself and others. ———_.or Love and Base Ball. From the San Francisco Call. It might have been a rain that hoodeoed the Oaklands, or perhaps it was that tonching little scene from “Romeo and Julict” enacted in one of tie boxes. Along about the m game some one on the grand stand discovered the simpering, rad-eyed lovers in the act of phighting their troth in the box. ‘they had evidently wandered in from the altulfa-girded regions round abont Milpitas to, take in the Decoration day es Then somebody steered them out to the ball park, here they placed themselves on exhibition iu two-hearts-that-beat-as-one ac jain wight of 4,000 people and the players lovingly clusped in each otler s arms. thoughts too utterly utter for words, First, ke would rapturously ‘kiss the maiden, and then gaze down into the sweet, soulful depths of her lovelit eyes, and she would bury her face in his celluloid collar aud sigh like bathtub exhanst. “Dors her love her ‘ittle tootses?” ke would exclaim with ail the fervency of which a strong man is capable. “Well, I should gurgle, Petie,” and the listen- ing winds watted the answer ‘to the 4,000 ex- pectant exra on the grand ‘They took no interest whatever in the game as they satin silent bliss, utterly oblivious to the shout of “Shut the door!” Both andience and players forgot the game for three innings while watehing ‘the un- conscious young couple in the box. Once, while the uproar was at ite height, Romeo’ tore himself away trom Jaliet’s side Jeng enough to gu out on the balcony and ascertain, if pousible, the enase of the excite- ment. He glanced down toward the scoreboard, thinking, perhaps, that some important news hus just arrived from San Jose. He then re- turued to the impatient maiden, who bad not been kissed for nearly two seconds, and made it as pleasant for her as he could. Not until the game was over did the young folks leurn that their sacred seanee in the box had been exposed to the vulgur gaze of a cold, unfeeling world. As they were leaving the ark some one exclaimed, “There they are!” and the crowd gave them a vigorous round of applause. ‘he girl wound a veil around her crimson checks and Romeo instinctively felt in his girdio for a dagger with which to stab hi to death. cr aR tae Not the Right Kind of License. From the St. Paul Globe. A young lady clerk in the conrt honse, the owner of a pretty pug, becoming alarmed at the vigilunce of the dog cateber in her neigh- borhood, was told to go to the city clerk's office to take out a license. In place of going to the city elerk’s office, she went to the, clerk, of the ‘ourts depart. ment. Harry . always re is sanner, inquired: se,” was the sweet reply. your name?” marked upon the astonishing precocity of the ebildren in Paris. ‘‘Why,” she said, “the little things speak French as carly as an American child speake English.” ‘The samo woman, or another like her, lately tengaeecnan « derstand each other in = “How absurd!” said another woman, rather all. Both they can’t under Sond cua ees verything to | tle clock ticked away on the mantel and the sound seemed to make only more hideous the death-tike silence that filled the room. A nameless fear enme over me. Old Graham was not to be seen and T called his name. There was no answer. A sheet of PACE oF the table attracted my attention and ted to examine it,but I drew back in hor- | ror, for there. upon the foor, lay Dic ham, motionless and rigid. He was dead. When the boys came in with little Chr we discovered that old Dick must have been dead for some time. On the he bad scrawled the fecble words e care of Christic,” and then had tullen to the floor. “It's God's hand, as we laid Chris- tie and her grandfather side by side. —_— - STKRAWBERKY KASH. It is Epidemic in Phitade!phia and is Caused ame given toan | | epidemic which has appeared this scason to an | | unusual extent. Physicians claim that while | the disease, which takes the form of « r: |has in provions years made its appearanc | this season, never before has it been so pr jlent. The rash xttacky the shin, w out in large red blotches similar i | Derry from which # take’ its na no Tespector of age, attacking you: | vtike. “There fx noknown conse for the af 2 etid Dr. J.C, the mubject. wbject to it, and fa consequence am oblixed 10 ref: a | jenting atrawberrics. Tdout know why some | i reo) sare x ¢ linble to cate color to the It is g and old rleumatinm | people, under | Alover the city people | the eifeets of th wl with an itehing sensation that annoying in the extreme. Many peoy | fgnorant of the cause of ths suffering. Others, it rd of the eof strawberry fe taboced the berry and find them- selves benefite! by abstaining from it. Physicians unite in saving that the rash has never before appeared to auch an alarming © Neatly ail the doctors in the ety have | several and there are to ecme ance where jthe patient has stoppe: iG strawberries: | the rash hus greatly diminished or disappeared entirely. Whether there is auy germ of the | disease in the berries wisich have come to this market is a matcer of conjecture. ee DEAD MAN FLED And Was Found a Few Nours Afterward ‘Sti Dead. Frorn the Sem Francisco Chronicie. | ¥ connected with the death of Marchesico Doiminiso, which oc- | curred on May 20 from ch, alcoholism, Abont 6 o'clock on the night of is death Do- minico entered the restaurant at 1339 Stockton treet, where, after partaking of a light r he bowed his heat on his right for intending to indulge ina few miaute THE The proprietor tried to awake! guest by shal ng him first, uny_ response, vainly agher methods of pinching, punching and hair pull- | ing. Irritated ut the obstiante refuael of the | man to awaken, he called in Ofticer Linsky_ to | remove him to prison ‘That officer © and firmly grasped the reposing waist and gave 4 #troug aud quick puil to thor- oughly establish his prospective prisoner on a firm footing. Dominico war be lifted from the chair, but his legs remained as is ina sitting: — sud his bead rested on his forearm. A orrible thought suddeuly struck Linsky. He dropped the man with the startling exciama- tion: ‘hy, he's dead!” ‘The resinurant keeper's hair stood on end, | and the ofticer was not a little siartled to fin that he had attempted to arrest a corpse. ‘The | coroner's wagon ‘was sent for and. Dominics | laid on a slab, and the coroner's deputies re- tired to the upper offices. Meanwhile Dowinico, who bad been in trance, became conscious of his surroundings, and it took him no time to collect__his muddled thonghts and hasten away to the more con- Senial atmosphere of the street. Ne hed not departed more than half an hour when a deputy coroner had occasion to go to the receiving room. | Ho was horrified to find that the slab on which Dominico had been placed was deserted and nota trace of the = Perde be — We met made his exit an upstairs with bated breath and quaking legs, be told of his ghastly discovery = bis a For i | every oue officially connected with the morgue was paled by the startling i | ‘oecurred was kept a secret, i went forth to hunt the ere supposed to be at the bots » though a ion soomed to SS and quaking re was su; ural connected with ‘Dominica's eedder leave: le the deputies were attempting to solve the the “tading ‘St El ronnie t's aoc ghastly festures were found ‘those tho escaped Dominico. — eee Not Church Goers. From the Harvard Lampoon, Stranger—‘“Jast look at the crowds going slong. I shouldn't think you could baild churches enough to bold them all.” Notive—' ‘We can't—they're going to the ball strange Bet Tae una 8 son was removed to the morgne. ‘Ihe body wae |} cles, we euibr: ware, “tin Ware, Upright wine, lane tot ot Parniture, Crockery Ware, tovetier with many other artactes “ary YO tu GOB. LATIMER & SLOAN, Auction, z not pupchuee quared at ‘tame ot sale. on sale co be complied tres: Sadver- Tahed m Was tnstor coTLME at Cost @1 PRE. ‘dake Commabla Crs, uerlice OF capettes to LATIMER & SIVAN, Auctioneers. LIFFE, DAWK & CO., Ausjoncors, 20 Pa. ave. wee WAS ING iON, BY ALCON, NINTH. Uk NG AT “TEN O'CLOCK, wesw 1 Hove-noined resd ace al the Fine Par 1" Houscwold Goods contained PARLOR LOGAN § AAD a HOGA eT, wi Al AND BODY ‘hi UK, LIBEARY xo a fizstciaies condi ss: Mew. ts un olerent opportunity to sccure es the OWDEC WUSC sed OD accoUMt OF declin'as honehee ine. THE tol Le bz OPEN ML UNTIL TS'ALSO F tases art \ MARION STREET ENTH ASD Q AND 7 on with acl coaern nprovequents, ond at 0 per wont, being Nos. TWG5, Gerion ston.w. S vry dew raule property—o0d peizhl BisL Sqtare of cate carn, waxy distance oc the command the attentaa of fam— 1 utal coumortab.e hon &. use: Obe-ual: cash, balance in six- teen moulus with mierest cid secured by u deed of trust ou tie property sod. Adi conveyancmg end recording ut cost ot jrucchawt. A deposit or @100 will be Te Guired on euce MOUSE at tine oF sale, LALIMER & SLOAN, ae RATCLIFFE, DARE & CO, auctioneer, 2 Pa ave. DeUNIMPROVED TSE TWEES § WSCA AND SEVENTH AS! 1TH SIKLEYS NORCHEAST BY AUC ‘SDAY AFTERNOON, JUNE THIRTIETH, AN O'CLOCK, wo wiil sell im front of the NEST 24 FEET FROST OF LUT’, SQUALE ter, Thin lot ts beautifully situated or A etreet between th nnd “ch streein Mortueast and Tune beck Wit tbe “itiuntictely thereafter we sel cel es thedtie er we will we aOR ADL PAL UF LOT 2, SQUARE 806, Ernst’ 4 fe! Linc at A Street Deven snd 7th disk ais averuce devth Of 100 feet fon euch jour in one streets northeast, ‘rane ‘ern One-tinnd cash, {wo years Mit; snterest at G Per ‘cent yer Hain secured by deed of trust on the Y sold, or faite tte onan of te ptehawek. A doqont of eM Fequired ut tawe of sae. ‘Lerms to be comp! Mm filteen daye irom sae or the toresell at the Fisy wud com Of the decan.tan’ Ali conveyancing, &. se? "deas ‘[HOMAS DOWLING & SON, Auctioneers. TRUSTEE'S SALE OF PART OF LOT 14, IN SQUARE 403. By virtue of a certain deed of trust to me, dated October 2, 1872, which fae been dns" recorded sn Liver 00, at forlo “U7 et seq. ome of the lend records Of tue Dusiriet or Co. tubing nbd at the rages a euped, there wal FIVE O'CLOCK P.M. that part of Gi’, neguare four aundred ad aby Which vexius for the sanse on 4 160) feet zouth of ws will in trot of the. jrreaniecs, uray oF 3UL YT aa Lock P.M. ey sitittte AN tise bered twp hundred and. f follows: Beginning tor th tect and nd thence marth 3 ee to the pra of imgtanits, SE1O.3t Jeet by tine Width of ssid part of lot, however, to be s0.d suwject toa racist o: wa; over at au invor ot e owner OF owners of tie Feniainius portion ef asd ‘Terms of sale: One-thin! of the iucankeand thre tho equal Some he aud two years, with interest rom dat nu Payable senn-aa. XALTAPLE Pro BEACTIFUL co HOMES AT ATCT Tirtwe of ders of trust duly recone in Ither Mkts, Youve SUF sind ith as wtivels. pas oy he el re ea ty hewn we with ter fot ease hee fon FUBSP AL SUNY TT seri, ok at SIX O'CLOCK P.M. the real " Thies id SOIL VISON ae Gy Trond in oMn lo Bs, fe lama records of tas Jistete of Uo.Wiubun, tOzether Wath iuprovenents—we lance frase cottares. the pur. ner. A cieponit of $100 will be Fyaired on nance Of PRR erty at the tive of sale. recording at (aie cost of p teu dayt ait BEER EAS ANIEL O'C. CALLAHAN, se19-ahae is Latour & SLOAN, Au tiones 1405 G st.. near U.S. Treasury. TRUSTEES SALE OF IMPROVED PRopEETy, No. IG TENSH STREET, BETWEEN @ A Sratig Noktatwas — a uf tie Disbiet of Onli, | aud at the request of the party secured therehy., grew Tl Mtion, in front of the greiuises. om F qJPEY Flest. ison. at HALT-PAST # O'CLOCK P.M Jot _ietiered B in hobrer's suly division of jote 58 and 39 im the recorded subdivisic sauase memnbered 35, With the tumprovenents The | ¢ AUCTION SALES. FUTURE DAs. ERTL er | VIRGINL By virvne: Qria counts. S. Burdett’ wa "Frederick Walker et al sized eectal comma u O'CLOCK Das st. Al wit. Lon Va. conte YCLOCK NOL, we will court house wn Be carter Parc hanar ONDAY, JULI NOON. ta jexandrin. Va. ig st) A Siren of ‘hi at pure SIXTH, Inu, ot TWEL i, Tae at Twi the fo ne Property. to and 2, in block 6, of Curtis & Bus Tne ese om. sell at subdivision of Car‘in'’s Springs.” Alexapdrve ‘These lots are unprowed by hand meme e MONAT, set Wen ot Fairfax He Avtthint tract ot iactinn. op front of ‘Tesidtee feietaneoueny o Reirtne sees Conk mand Willian Ford, and de- St La om me * erter ds in the deed from Eume ‘Welker, i rcpeded ie Wier Ie rs a ier fe es land recone for Fairies sale: Onethind of the purges money cosh and Temtdue is Nureseueatioasiiomes st ae teen monthe trot day < Ive thelr notes for the 2 mente, whick ‘are tc bear interred from the day ef eae ar Over cent ELEVEN rechten ise iu the United Pres, Ali conveyancing. at the cost ot Pare ‘haart aint tiie ts be petalued tt ‘whicle oe the conti the A.W. ARMSTRONG, lars see WW. DOUGT.AS, janhineton. DC ie CLOCK AM franc , Bastia SIEVING print prem, and the crnera: Paraphernalia of 6 nowspator bres, tyr Shree ans = into ‘Terme of sale, canh.ann the rewainuer a two ey Tesetited by. the pron With ma tata tory Mt terest trom aud day al ale five Plianse wi ‘the risk and (9) dag notice: DUNCA: AN GI Pu.te aww the THT fret, toset = Comvint uae of 8 bew two-story and basement brick hous, known as cent Sud interest of John Runes in and Cot uuubereds a | TRUSTERS: SALE On 12 AT} STRE Iurmiture, ROL. co Yhettou, consivtsnz uf two-sto-y brick dwelling, being Xo. 1G Gun stavet nortiweet. ‘Terms: One-third cast:, balance in one and two with interest st pe? cent par a ‘and se Fired Oy'a deed of trust onthe property, or all set Ali convey ate thie and recording at! cet ‘of purchaser A deposit o: @1U0 will be required at tine ot sae, and if terms be not complied wita inten days from day of eserve the mihi to Teeell tie poop cost of defwuitiny purchaser, afver Eve days’ notice in Bvenine Star. CHKISTIAN G. LEDERF: je20-Aade HL. Me BLMGMANN. | Trustees, VV S°TER B. WILLIAMS & 00.. Auctioncers, ACSI GME coten a2ne PNvs - ners. SORTHWEST AT avcitos > * LATIMER & SLOAN, Auctioncers. By virtue of », of trust ‘sig & Rare tene mee Beall'eaddrtion t ‘ur hiamer's cost dia3® OF trustens reer. t toe terns x80 ry VETERE SALE OF IMPROVED mi AL ESTATE fain inet trust mand Dates ta sere hal her with the 1 90 street ‘One tinted ser and oak, at ect af tinue of na. Tern T & 00. Estate: dew ¥ ECM, isl, ot be m railroad, con’ t. ght to ieue obt ret tered sand dietinaa M the east half of tot 10%, hereto (equate, 0) “ih idle ot O atte! atad avi option of purchase, - tung be ween at the A deponit of Mauired atthe rel ou clef uil th come on ot the deft pase vertien sa OF « 4 respectively, the Preanniees, A. iN, wt ‘ot sronma | ae ne awed be asthe aout tren ‘seamen, camh, residue in two equal Payments tame and to poate Feswctively, Ropes ferent. pagatie I ret by thse 4: Yearly. secu cl ot frat oh te ree “All AUCTIONEERS, WILL Exchange salon rom. No. ork, om a at HALE PAST TWELVE Washineton inte verti » the asthe proert TW hos, f, AY ADCTIO’ Le weg Koon, kite 4 rs in part of Cookin Utensils, Tin Beis, Hed bute! parroses. ‘Teruus cash. HOSEA P. IRVIN ws. 14 G THE ENTIRE 13 {ULLMAN HOU ms rev tition No FRCTS CONTAINING ABOL No. EAU NOTH CAPTTO Virtue of a deed of trust, duly recorded ir Liber : one of Ure land cons of the Dawe ms tive hotmer o, Parlor, 1 wor MC L _ THOMAS DOWLING © SUR, I ATIMER & SLOAN, ay ee-ttone *t., near IMPORTANT SALE OF FINE GROCKRIBS OF EVERY DESCRIPTION. 03 MONDAY MORNING, encing at T ¥ SALE OF aU ‘E TWENTY. 1 CLOCK. we shall sell entire contents of the grocery establishment No. Tas vente Southeast, enter 3k A! OONDI MEN ge Fstatcé IN “TRE Bia. M By virtue of a decree of the Supreme Court of District of Cali Frets the Je Shocker | Eom RESERI aos Ba Hi i ; 1 BH | fi i f as fu Hd g 5 i i f i J aif H i i i! fs E; i j 1 | ; { ' '