Evening Star Newspaper, March 19, 1892, Page 13

‘ ri A : THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON. D.C. SATURDAY» MARCH 19. 1892-SIXTEEN PAGES. In the summer of 1859 Peter O'Riley and Pat SI LY ER IN M ASSES McLanghlin were located at Gold Hill, Nev. 5 + | They were working for gold and were in hard Tuck. Needing water for their rockers they augahole four feet deep and came upon an bu! Treasure in | °ot°2Ping of the marvolousiode. Itwasabed of Fabulous AD | of black sulphide of silver. The men did not know what it was, but tried it for gold and the West. Were astonished to find the bottoms of their rockers covered with the yellow stuff, which they were soon taking out at the rate of €1,000 @ day. ‘Old Pancake” Comstock, another Prospector. so called because he fed om pan- cakes chiefly, claimed and secared # share in the property. They ali were in the habit of heartily cursing the “infernal blue sand,” which subsequently proved to be silver ore, which clogged the rockers. The famons “Big Bonanza” was a slice of ore, cearly half silver, 300 feet in width and of unknown depth, ex- tending across the Comstock lode. For many years past it has yielded from $600 to €1,0000 ton. WILL SILVER EVER BE CHEAP? How the Wonderfal Deposits at Creede and Aspen, in Colorado, Were Formed—In- genious Ways of “Salting” Silver Mines— | ‘The Comstock Lode. HE POSSIBILITY that Uncle Sam may be obliged tocoin without charge all! the silver of- fered to him causes the government to regard with peculiar interest the new discovery in Coiorado of deposits of that metal which prom- ine to astonish the world with their pro- dnetiveness and per- haps to reduce the Market value of the precious substance itself. The silver ontput of this country is_growing steadily greater—it was more than $70,000,000 last year—and it is realized that the tiferous regions of the wes have Sar begun to be drawn upon. Bo- fanzas of fabulous treasure remain get to be discovered, of which a mere sugges tion is afforded by the recent finds of gigantic ere masses at Creede and Aspen. One of these, @alled the “Molly Gibson mine,” has yielded rock worth $12,000 « ton. A single carload produced 875.000. "A Stan reporter a few mornings ago ehunk of it at the office of the geological survey. Silver composed one-half of the mass, mixed with arsenic and antimony—a rare com- ination. Working in this kind of stuff is al- ‘most like digging for weelth in the vaults of the treasury at Washington. A pocket in the “Park Regent” at Aspen, as big as a good-sized room, struck vine weeks ago, held $100,000. ‘NATURE'S PROCESS. ‘The processes by which nature forms such ac- enmulations of silver aro very interesting. It maust be remembered that the earth’s crust is fall of water, which percolates everywhere through the rock, making solutions of elements obtained trom them. These cheinical solutions take up smail particles of the precious metals which they find scattered hereand there. Some- fimes the solutions in question are hot, the water having got so far down as to be set boiling by the internal heat of the globe. Then they rushed upward, picking up the bits of ‘meisl as they go. Naturally, heat assists the formance of this operation. Now and then Meeraeeay ther sores, perpetually flowing hither and thither belowground, pass through racks or cavities in the rocks, where they de- it their loads of silver. This is kept up for Bagreat length of time, perhaps thousands of ears, Until the fissure or pocket is filled up. mies permeating the stony mass in every direction may become filled with the metal, or occasionally s chamber may be stored tull of ft, as if a myriad hands were fetching the treas- ure from all sides and hiding away a future for some lucky prospector to dis- BARD LUCK OF DISCOVERERS, | Good luck seldom attends those who discover | mines. Comstock sold bis share of the lode for | $11,000, went broke and biew his braiss out. O'Riley disposed of his slice for $50,000, lost |the money and went to prosp-cting again. | He became insane and thought he beard voices | in the rocks prattling of great crevices filled | with pure silver and caverns lined with gold, Finally he was shut up in a lunatic asylum. “Old Virginia” Fennimore, who located a claim on the lode and gave his name to Virginia City, baptizing it with a bottle of whisky, was thrown while drunk by # bucking mustang and killed. One of the richest men now at Aspen, Col, D.C. R. Brown, purchased for 250 feet of lumber one-third of a mine worth at present $1,500,000 « year. Another discovery worth mentioning was made by two men who were grub staked by ex-Senator Tabor, this ar- | rangement signifying that Tabor supplied them with provisions and was to be entitled to one-half of whatever they might find. ‘They at once proceeded to get very drunk ana con- cluded that it would be just as well to sink a hole on Fryer Hili, Leadville, although there was no sign of a prospect. At thedepth of a few feet they struck the famous ore body of the Little Pittsbarg mine. William Wright, better known as Dan de Quille, tellsa remarkable story of a young matron’s adventure in Virginia City, which is built directly over the mines of the Comstock lode. She went to the well in her dooryard one morning to draw some water and let the bucket go down “by therun.” The instantthe bucket struck the water out dropped the whole bottom of the well. Every drop of water in- stantly disappeared, and naught was seen where it had been but a black and yawning chasm, in which dangled the bucket. ‘The lady rushed back into the house. “What did I tell you?” cried she to her bus- “I knew that the men who dug that well were taking no pains with their work.” “What is the matte: asked her spouse. “Matter? Matter enough! The bottom hae dropped out of the well!” “Bottom dropped out of the well!” exclaimed the husband, surprised. “Yes, the ‘bottom has dropped out of the well, and [am not one bit astouished. Iknew when I saw the men putting the bottom in the well that it would never be of any account!” FOR BACKS OF MIRRORS, Silver bas one interesting use that is very little known about. Nearly all good mirrors are backed with it, and not with mercury, as is generally supposed. Before it is put on the glass has to be cleaned with the utmost care. Everything depends on that, because if itis not | perfectly ciean. the metal will flake off. | the glass is laid with its back down in a ba of nitrate of silver, to which Rochelle salts are added, causing it to deposita film of chemic- ally pure metal all over the surface. The total product of the silver mines of the world from the year 1500 to the presens time has beer about 400,000,000 pounds. LAYING & MINE GuosT. So many men have been killed in the mines of the Comstock lode that all of them are sup- posed to be more or less haunted by ghosts. A very troublesome spook baunted the 700-foot level of the Ophir mive for along time. The electric bells were continually and unaccount- ably nd persons set to watch at the re frightened nearly out of their wits cans, shrieks, flashing lights and all sorts of feartul things. ‘This preplexed the electri- cian of the mine not hittle. One day, there- tover. VARIOUS COMBINATIONS. The silver is not deposited in a pure state, however, but in combination with sulphur, arsenic or other minerals, depending upon whether the original solution was sulphide of Silver, arsenide of miver, or what not. Fre- quently it is found together with lead and sul- Phar, because lead has the peculiar property ‘of being able to dissolve silver. This is the ease with the ores at Creede, which are in Pnormous masses of rock that were thrown by Woleanic action ont of the interior of the earth thousands of years ago. So wonderfully rich are they that the stuff dug out is sent crude to the mills without sorting and yields often thou- + sands of dollars a ton. When it is considered that 13 cubic feet weigh a ton it will| fore, when signals were coming from the be perceived how great the profit is in the | haunted level he took a dark lantern and went working of sach material Here and there | down to that point j chunks of the pure metal are found, where the | Hardly bad he stepped off the descending other elements have been dissolved out of it by | cage before he wasvaluted withan awful groan. the action of the water, leaving what looks like | Advancing into the drift a blinding light silver moss. flashed into his eyes, and he heard alow, gur- gling laugh that almost froze the blood in his veins. Nevertheless, he advanced toward the laugh, throwing the light of his dark lantern simple and pretty process. A little cup of | before him along the drift, but it was empty. Porous clay is made and inte it is put the speci- | Far away, however. he heard groans, and then men to be tested. Heat is applied to melt the | a fearful shriek. Pushing on and flashing bis latter, when the lead runs into the pores of the | light this way and that, he pursued the ghost. clay cup, leaving @ button of pure silver be- | Time and again the light wes flashed in his eyes hind. Atacertafm point in the performance | and the low, mocking laugh was heard; but, there occurs a sudden brightening of the silver | however quickly he might turn his own light in button, which miners call the “*blick,” and it is | the direction whence came the sound, he could at this moment that the operation must | see nothing. A moment later the whole mine be brought to » close, lest some of the | would seem to be lighted up in the distance and metal be volatilized and lost. In smelt-| the iaugh would be heard faraway. ing the ore in bulk the same method is| Did he attempt to advance, the light flashed often employed on a big scale. The clay cup | in his face from some nook near at hand and ‘used is four or’ five feet across and the silver | a shrick was uttered almost at his side. Be- Datton obtained may be of several pounds | coming desperate, the electrician charged about Weight. At the last, for the same reason not|at random through the level, flashing his well understood, certain gases which have | lantern in all directions. At length his light formed within the metallic mass barst out in | fell upon man just as the latter was making miniature volcanoes, producing a remarkable | into the mouth of an old drift. Keeping his effect. light upon the spot, the electrician rasbed for- wrard and found bis man crouched behind some 7 = A timbers. Being caught, the feliow rose up au Silver, as it is ordinarily found in natar ca 2k, Sn es ee eee Rot pretty to look at, nor has it any glitter. | cent” In his hand he held the bull's-eye The rich ore from the “Molly Gibson” is of a| lantern which he had been flashing in the face bi y color and lusteriess. There is | of the electrician, and be owned to having a plenty of glitter to be seen in the silver | confederate similarly equipped. 7 eaverne, bat it is the iron or copper pyrites RATS As MaScoTs. gled with the precious metal thet shines} fines are always filled with rats. The miners oe npr Fee ee ane rtial ob the | never kill or molest them, aud therefore they eye, as well as amethysts and other shining | become quite tame and saucy, living well on stones, usually of no value. Often there are | the fragments of the workmen's lunches, They spangies of free gold in plenty. Much of the | are really of great service, inasmuch as they bullion of the famous Comstock lode in Nevada | devour all scraps of meat and bones thrown has yielded as much as 50 per cent of gold. | upon the ground. When there is about to be a ‘The suiphide of lead or “galeva,” which forms | great cave-in in a mine the rats give the miners most of the ore at Creede, however, has «| their first warning. They become uuexsy and bright luster of its own. are seen scampering about in an unusual ‘A CLEVER TRICK DiscovenED. manner. It is supposed that in the begin~ An amusing story is told by the noted geolo- | "2% of the settling they are pinched in . - > ns their holes and haunts by the waste rocks and gist, Clarence King, of au investigation which | timbers, being thus obliged togo forth in he made of an alleged silver mine in Utah. Hie} soarch of new quarters. A fire in @ mine undertook the task at the instance of certain | kills them by thousands. Poisonous gases gen- capitalists who proposed to buy the property, | erated by combustion penetrate to every part which was represented to be of enormous | of the levels and drifts, and not a ratis left value. Appearances were certainly very much | alive. Sometimes after such a catastrophe its favor. On the way down the shaft the | they are gathered up on the floors by bushels. walls on every hand gleamed brightly with | In trying to jump across the main shaft a rat shining ore in the light thrown by the lamps | cccasionally miscaiculates the distance and “and the sides of the deifts were equally beauti- | tumbles to the bottom. Falling 1.000 fect and eof the observing expert. How- | striking a miner on the head it is sure to knock ile e: ing the rock more criti-| the man down. noticed by chance a coarse DETECTING A RICH STRIKE. banging out of Ae ne inarily | When a “strike” in a mine is learned of and do net grow in sock, and the finding of | . strict secrecy ie maintained by the owuers fact was developed that the | then the mining reporter has a chance to dis- the mine had taken a great quantity | play his genius. On one euch occasion a bright it to powder, made it with | youth got information that was worth mouey into a plaster and carefully stuccoed the | in a very curious fashion. He loitered about of shaft and drifts with the ma- | the closed works until the superintendent came plaster was carried for this pur-| out and changed his clothes, throwing aside in gunny sacks, @ thread from which got | bis muddy boots and clay-besmeared overalls mized in with it. and shirt, Watching his chance the hangry ‘A SALTED COLORADO MINE. secker _ after news darted into the Perbapseven funnier was the salting of a|‘ressing§ room and with Jeckknife in Colorado, which was bought by ex. | %<7Aped fromthe boots, overalls, felt hat and shirt all the mud and clay sticking to them. Of Senator Tabo# by order from some friends of | this and the loose particles of ae found in the bis in Denver. Chicken Bill. » prospector of | pockets of the shirt he made ball, which was rather disreputable notoriety, did the job, | Composed of @ general average of abe bot. performing it eo successfully that $40.00 was | tom, top and sides of the drift from paid over to him for the property without any | which the superintendent had just come. ‘This question. He was soelated over the transac-| ball he assayed, and from the result tion as to be anable to keep the secret, com-| obtained he became satisfied that a strike of municating it to s number of intimate friends | extraordinary richness had been made. He In this manner the news reached Denver, and | immediately telegraphed to his employers in ‘the people who had employed Tabor as their | San Francisco to buy all of the stock they could agent in the matter refused to receive the | get. They bought lacgely and made an immense mine. So Tabor, finding it left upon bis | profit, as the stock soon went yp from = few hands, determined to make the best of the | \ioliars to high in the hundreds, situation and proceeded to aig nae = Pes ———_+ee—____ __ hole. He pierced the rock ten feet farther po Rl harap Ler pipe et gate ‘The One Great Problem. be one of the richest ever found in the state. From the Chicago Tribune. How MINES ARE SALTED. The young man who had just received a be- The gullibility of persons who buy mines | quest from a rich uncle aad been puffing away has passed into a proverb. It is said that such | *t his ciger in silence tor some moments. Sud- Properties have actaally been salted with baif.| denly he looked up and asked bis companion: melted silver dollars and.sold to investors who} “Ever do anything in real estate? did not realize that the metal was not ‘Ye tried to,” was the guarded response, found in nature with the stamp of the mint Ever buy any property in the west?” Upon it Undoubtedly the most scientific} “Quite alittle. Want to buy some?” method of accomplishing this sort of swindle is} ‘Well, I don’t know,” said the young man, toapply the silver in the shape of a ritrate | indolently. “I'd like to put my money to solation. When it isready for use some salt is | some use, and western real esiaie iss pretty it and it is squirted the the | good investment, it seems to me.” Eat couning an immediate precipitation of the | ©°ie iit Fe pCa peng a ee metal ine manner that is equally couspicuous| “Of course, of course. Now, ifI knew and deceptive to the eye. to buy——" reac prem | When to bay!” exclaimed the one who had THE assatixa of s bit of this sulphide of lead ore isa very IN ITS NATURAL STATE. invested. “That's the easiest part of it, to my mind. At any rate, it never bothered me.” “What does one want to know, then?” asked THE ELDER BOOTH. How He Made His First Suooess in London. THE WASHINGTON THEATER. Bits of Reminiscence in Regard to That For- mer Fashionable Resort—A Naval Hero Whe Won a Battle Against Tremendous Odds—The Late Wm. W. Seaton’s Courtesy 862 Host. - ‘Written for Taz Evewive Stam HE VERY TOUCHING article on Mrs, Duff in ‘Tax Stan of Saturday, the bth instant, awakens the spirit of reminiscence, and I re- call those who trod the boards long ago. My memory of Cooper, Kean and Booth is so fixed by the impression made upon me that I , Can recall their appear- ance most vividly. I never hear of or rend of the “Gamester,” that gloomy tragedy, without seeing in my mind’s eye the stately, graceful form of James Cooper as Beverly, nor “Othello” without recalling Charles Kean as Richard, Sir Edward Mor- timer, Sir Giles Overreach, without seeing, and, in memory, hearing, the greatest of them all— Booth. John Howard Payne gives a most in- teresting account of Booth’s first appearance at Covent Garden in 1817. He says sooth was announced for one might, February 12, as “Mr. Booth of the Brighton and Worthing Theaters” in Richard. Nothing was known of Booth at that time in London. He bad per- formed in the humble capacity of messenger Covent Garden, but subsequently he had di tinguished himself at Brussels, Brighton, Cheltenham and other theaters in the provinces. He was not greeted bya full house, but was very warmly welcomed. Payne says he was thinner and smailer than Kean, but his voice and manner was the most extraordinary imita- tion of Kean. Some opposition was manifested, but applause drowned it and at the fall of tho curtain, when the manager came forward to announce “Midsummer for the next night all parts of the house, ! no! Booth, as Richard! Booth! Booth!” And the manager, after consultation at the (pote side, an- nounced that Mr. Booth would repeat Richard the next night. The next night the sume scene occurred at the fall of the curtain. This suc- cess stamped Booth asa favorite, and negoti tions were opened for a fixed salary. Up to this time Booth had received a little over £2 a week, but coming to London he di manded London prices. Failing to secure his Drury Lane, through Kean, secured nd with Kean ‘he played a long and suc- cessful engagement. Mr. Payne says ho saw him as Jago to Kean's Othelio, and he says “it was a grand pertormance. ‘the nev little man behaved himself like a great hero. Kean seemed to feel the force of the new comer, and per- formed up to full height of nis ‘wonderful ower.” Atthe end of the performance Kean jed Booth before the curtain, and the house exhausted itself in the wildest appluse. TUE DAY oF MRS. DU: Thad the good fortune to meet anold army friend, a hero of the Mexican war, a day or two after the appearance of tho very interesting article in THe Srax of the Sth. His memory is sopertect of the events of that long past he was enabled to recail Mra. Duff in many of her rose from characters. His memory of Mr. John it. Duff, her busba In talking of that pe ren had the American Theater on Louisiana avenue, he said Mrs. Wood was one of the best and most versa- tile actresses of that period and Wood was— and pausing for acomparison—said: “Weil, he was the Murdock of that day”—and Murdock still lives to wear the laurels he so nobly won. In a letter from his daughter, his received some months ago, “He enjoys tolerable health, keeping himseif constantly employed, and is as fond of his profession as ever.”’ His marvelous voice, the music of which will never be forgotten by those who have heard it, re- tainsali its power,and at one time led’ his friends to hope he might be heard again, but the time he fixed in his letter for visiting ‘New York has long past and I fear we have heard that great elocutionist and reader and actor for the last time. My old frieud remembered most vividly James Cooper and he regarded him as one of the greatest actors he had ever seen. Howard Payne says: ‘in natural grace Cooper is beyond any actor I have ever sec and be is, too, the Lest Hamlet on the stage.’ Wymmes says: Cooper is responsible for the introduction of the “tar” system in this coun- is advice George Frederick Cooke country. Cooper lived in a house he owned in New York on the corner of Leon- ard street and Broadway, subsequently the Carlton House, where the tragedy of the killing of Saydam took place, and created the most in- tense excitement. Though the act was commit- ted on that crowded thoroughfare the mur- derer was unknown. It is said Cooper lost his house one night at cards. His daughter, who presided at the White House as the wife of Mr. Robert Tyler, is remembered here asa very accomplished and charming woman. Your correspondent from New York, speaking of Edwin Booth, gives his name as Edwin Thomas Booth. The name his father gave him was Edwin Forrest Booth and so he is registered in “Wymmes’ History of the Stage.” OLD-TIME RACING IN THE DISTRICT. My old friend is an authority on racing, on the thestricals of the long past. The cap- tain’s memory isa veritable “stud book,” and he told me what surprised me very much, thet the first independent second watch used to time horses was made at Washington by au old gentleman I remember very weil, Mr. Julian Montandon, a Swiss, who kept a watchmakers shop ina little one-story butiding next to the corner of 13th street, where there is now a hat store. He says it was used on the Washington course. The Messrs. Gait say stop watches were in use long before, but for racing purposes it is not unlikely, Mr. Montenton made such a watch. He was a most inger made for the engineer depar ment for measuring the flight of cannon bails, which, I think, Mr. Galt uow owns. This led the captain to speak of the introduction of the English race horse in the country, the first be- ing Diomede, and the fact of there being no watches to measure race time oxeept the ordinary watch of the day, the time of Flying Childers and the time of Eclipse, a mile ® minute, was taken by such a watch. Eelipse, he said, was bred by the Duke of Cumberland and sold to Mr. Wildman on tue death of the duke, and by him sold toa Capt. O'Kelly, who took the horse to Ireland snd for some years rau him in the country races. When Eclipse was five years old he was entered for the Derby und the odds were very heavy against him, all of which were taken by O'Kelly and his friends. On the day of the race Eclipse wor the first heat, when O'Kelly announced, for certain odds, be would place every horse on the field. Such a wager bad numerous takers, and before the start he was \d place the horses and he ing, “Eclipse first, the rest nowhere.” for Eclipse distanced the Id. Eclipse never lost a race and with the winnings of the great horse his owner retired from the turf aud became one of the “landed gentry.” There are so many interesting events connécted with the old Washington race course, the “National” it was called, and truly 20, for during the season the north and the south, the east and the west met there with the best racing stock of the qountry. My old friend has promised me enough racing jore to make an interesting column for the readers of Tur Stan ANOTHER AMERICAN HERO. I am indebied to a correspondent, who, I re- gret, has not given me his name, for an inter- esting account of a battle which deserves a under the heading you were pieased to Bree use Maine Mrareanest alludes to as affording him much pleasure. dangerous straite of Ghimonoecki Japan Cot yas straits i ja (o' at that time there were no charts), on of July 16, 1863. To avenge re- at carrying six ‘under com- mand of the late Rear Admiral David Stockton McDougal, then commander, three Japanese men-of-war, all of size and strength, and seven was 1,200 men. This brilliant and unprece- dented achievement has, with the exce + ms y hero ye occasion, coustned wabecelied, oving to the fact that the country was at it time struggling in the throes of the grest civil war. Such succes inst overpowering odds de- serves a higi on the pages devoted to our naval successes, The executive officer of the Wyoming at that time was Lieut. Commanding Geo. White Young, the only son of the late Commodore John J. Young, whose loss of both legs by the recoil ofagunon board the ill- fated Hornet off the harbor of Matan- zas in May, 1829, is so graphically de- scribed in ‘the journal of “Judge Drake. My correspondent says no braver offi- cer ever trod the deck of a man-of-war. He was, he says, @ worthy son of a noble sire. My correspondent, who signs himself ‘An Almost Eyewitness,” his action, requiring 80 much nerve, skill and courage, was not arash or unwisely considered move on the part of the brave commander. He was well aware of the dangers of the channel and also of the akill of the Japanese as gunners, also that they were well up in the tactics ‘of modern warfare | ({hrough instructions from both Dutch and ‘rench, and that they were enger and apt scholars). He knew the odds were fearfully against him, but with a clear head and good knowledge of the depth of the aground once during the action) and a wonder- ful reliance on Providence, his own skill and the intrepid officers and crew under bis com- mand, he resolved to do his duty unflinchingly or die in the attempt. To show his thorough re- alization of the immense danger he was about to run, and the knowledge he had of certain an- nihilation through torture and other barbaric methods which awaited him and his brave men in the event of failure, he gave clear and con- cise orders to have all in readiness to blow up the ship and all on board rather than fall into the hands of the enemy. With these fearfal odds against Lim and taking his position on the bridge, where he stood during the whole fight, he took the chances and won the battl ly correspondent says: “This authentic material farnished to the columns of Tae Sran will greatly gratify the few survivors of that mem- orable occasion and the family of Admiral McDougal.” I saw in Tae Sran, I think, a fer that the old ship’ Constituti sides’’—was at the Portsmouth navy yard and there was some talk of refitting this relic of the long past and sending her, after her long and obscure rest, to the Columbian exposition. THE OLD WASHINGTON THEATER. Talking with an old Washingtonian, whose theatrical experience began in 1835, when he saw “The Hunchback” with Charles Mason and ‘Mra. Chapman as the Sir Thomas Clifford and Julia at the old Washington Theater, he asked if Uremembered the series of portraits which gtaced the panels of the boxes (balcony) when the theater was refitted for the Inst time in 1837-8 by Alexander McKenzie, who married in the Jefferson family. -I do remember them very well, they were painted by Sam Charles, whose talent a8 2 miniature painter {on ivory) led some of our citizens, Gen. Van Ness among others, to send Mr. Charles to Europe to study. Soon after his return he painted in oil these portraits, some from life, Booth, Forest, old Ir. Jefferson, Mr. Warren, then the ‘only Falstajf; Mrs. Chapman and i think Mrs, Dufi, Mrs. Drake and others. Like my friend, wonder what became of them. Sam Charles succeeded the Joseph Woods, father and son, whose portraits were life itself. I remember # theatrical portrait painted by Mr. Charles of Jim Willis, a famed comedian, in’ Nepperkin, in th ig8 of Laurel,” which hung in the saloon of the National Theater and was burned in the fire of 1855. The old American Theater was sold in 1838-9 and purchased by Col. Chas. Lee Jones and then was fitted up for a ball room, and there tie inauguration ball of Gen. Harrison was given in iSt1, and after- ward the Washington Assemblies were given there, Those portraits were of sneh value they would hardly be destroyed. Can any old in- habitants give iuformation about them? They would be invaluable now, not only as works of art, but as actual portraits, THE LATE WM. W. SEATON. T obtained from the Smithsonian Institution asketch of the late Wm. W. Seaton, prepared at the time of his death by the late Prof. Henry and in recognition of his faithful and gratuitous discharge for many years of one of its most im- Portant and responsible executive offices. The pamphlet was published in 1567, at the time of is death, and recalls many of the charactoris- tics of that distinguished man. The notice speaks of Mr. Seaton's eftorts and’influence in obtain- ing from Congress the organization of that great institution, The funds bequeathed for that purpose by James Smithson had been loaned with other moneys by the goverament to the state of Arkansas, and it had remained for eight years diverted from the object con- templated by the donor. Through the infla- ence of Mr. Scaton, then mayor of Washington, the good faith’ of the country was re- dvemed by an unconditional assumption of the debt incurred by the improper dis- position of the fund, which was then declared to be a permanent deposit in the treasury of the United States, and interest was allowed upon the money from the time of its receipt in this countcy. The institation was then organized and Mr. Seaton was elected treasurer and one of the building committee. * * * Whocan forget Mr. Seaton as howt? In the gatherings about his generous board tningled the cordial welcome and that air of an older and better school which constantly distinguished hiw, the kindly and reassuring attention unaffectediy bertowed on the least distinguiehed guest,the colioquial charm which extended the fume of his hospitality far be- yond the sphere of its exercise. * * * An utter absence of seif assertion or dogmatism, he excelied by a delicate tact in shielding others from the wound which a thoughtless or unkind word might inflict, and the drawing forth to the best advantage the talents and attain- ments of each of his guests. A distinguished foreigner visiting this country while Gen. Cass was Secretary of State, was asked by the Sec- retary if he had seen He said he had, and Gen. Cass said: you have seen the best we have to show you.” ‘In all the twenty~ seven years of daily’ and honrly intercourse with Mr. Seaton I never heard aa unkind word come from his lips. ‘The brief account of Mr. Seaton's life closes by quoting the following passige from a dix- course delivered on the occasion of bis deat “One of the finest intellects of this country, and of the most devout, almost austere evan- gelical faith, has repeatedly said, ‘that of all the men he had ever known Mr.’ Seaton was nearest perfection, and most ready to enter God's presence,’ ” Joux EF. Covne. Knew W From the Chicazo He stopped a well-dressed man who had evi- WOMEN AS CLERKS. Their Great Value in the Different Government Departments, SUPERIOR EXAMINATIONS. Washington will be en! of women. It is plain ase ,” and he set to work to demonstrate bow many years will bo Rocessary to accomplish this result. So many clerks die each year, so many resign, so man are removed. ‘Then so. many are sppointed, the peroentage of appaintments belugy iheorct iy, at in favor of the women. There is the idea, ana Js logically carried ont, and men do not erise and assort themselves, ‘they will find themselves crowded out of the 0 the present rate this result will be accomplished in about 400 years, 20 there is plenty of time for getting ready. Bnt POISON IN THE FOOD. Alarming Prevalence of Adulteration—Even Medicines Are Faleitied. OME VERY STARTLING FACTS WHICH have a bearing on the present agitation in favor of pure food have been gathered by the Department of Agriculture. candies, sugars, jellies and siraps. the extent to which it is employed ie ob- Some Interesting Facts Gained From the Re-| let the women of the country who complain | tained from the fact that ten pounds of it are uae 4 Gs oun 6 Commission—A | that they have no voice in the government re- | manufactured annually in the United States for | oe time the government, in | every man, woman and child. It is prepared | Greater Proportion of Women Pass Than Men—What May Be the Kesult im the Fature. eee TIS NOT AT ALLA novelty for Washing- tonians to discuss the question of the wom: clerks in the govern- ment departments, but awriter for Tae Stan encountered ap official 0 enthusiastic on the subject, and who sug- gested wach « way of looking at it, that it is worth while pursuing the matter a little further. He was asked what he thought about th women clerks in his departmen!, and an- don’t see how the departments could get along without them. They are a positive ne- cessity in most instances, and 6o far as my ¢: Perience goes there are very few of them who do not deserve larger salaries then they get. 1was not in the service before Gen. Spinner introduced them into it, but I often wonder how the departments got along in those days. Not only do the women do good work, but they exercise an influence in s government office which is beneficial in every sense. Now, about their efficiency, lam going to give you Just look at the figures of their examinatio: before the civil services commission and see how they compare with the men.” THE WOMEN APPLICANTS, ‘These figures are certainly worth noticing. First of all take the copyist examination. Those who apply for this want to enter the depart- ments in the lowest grades. They are willing todo simple work that does not require much thought or responsibility, and they are willing to accept a salary of $900 or less per aunum, for any salary above this requires Pagina’ amination, which is far more difficult than the examination forcopyists. The latter are tested in penmanship, spelling, copying and arith- metic as far as percentage—that ix all. Natur- ally there area great many female applicanta. Young men who might have the necessary qualifications think themselves in many in- stances above such simple occupation and such modest pay as the copyist gets, and they strike for higher places, and in this way not infrequently miss the subordinate positions, which they are best fitted for. But women who are wielding the typewriter, or who, perhaps, are teaching the village school, or yet again young women who are just about to take up the serious business of supporting them- selves, look upon a copyist’s pay as not to be despised and upon a copyist's occupation as something that it is worth while doing well. ‘There is another point, too, in the acceptance by women of so much less pay than men are willing to take, which must not be forgotten. It is simply that the young woman usually has herself alone to take care of. with powmbly a contribution to the old people of her home, while the young man has to look ahead to the probability of having a young wife to take care of and a family besides, SUCCESSFUL EXAMINATIONS PABSED. The young lady who becomes a copyist hasat the time she sccepts her appointment the fall measure of her expenses in the world filled, but the young man's expenses have only just started and will probably increase year Sfter year. All this explains the fact that last year the civil service commission examined 1,204 women for copyists’ positions and only 880 men, but of these men 450, nearly half, failed to pass, while only 190 women failed. The examination is not a dificult one and the method of marking is not severe. In order to pass and become eligible for appointment it is only necessary to get 70 per cent on a scale of 100. The writer endeavored to find some good manly excuse for thisapparent superiority of the women applicants over the men, and one man who was asked about it suggested that a better class of women were ready to apply for these smaller places than men, the latter being ignorant fellows who were not able to make a living and wanted the government to support them. This may serve on a pinch asan ex- planation of a fact which cannot be said to be very pleasing in the eyes of the “lords of creation.” CANDIDATES EXAMINED LAST YEAR. Incidentally it may be remarked that it is quite extraordinary what a widespread and in- creasing desire there seems to be to enter the service of Uncle Sam. Last year thecivil serv- ice commission examined 5,251 persons who wanted to be government clerks here in Wash- ington. In addition to this 3.706 were exam- ined for the railway mail service, for the cus- toms service 1,579 were examined, and for the postal service no less than 8.538, making in all & grand total of 19,074 people examined for the government service in one year. Just think a moment how many people that means. If ail of them were appointed and came from Nevada it would take away a third of the population of that state; if they all lived in Alexandria, our neighbor across the river, and came over to Washington Alexandria would be left withouta single inhabitant—not even a hack driver to suggest a hotel to you at the depot. If all the applicants went to live in Portamouth, N. H., ite population would be trebled, and yet Portsmouth, as it stands, is a very respectable little town fo point of population. Itissaid that in the Chinese civil service, whenever an examination is held, several mil- lions of subjects present themselves. A few pass and, after yeare of waiting, several ap- poiutments are given out Bat'the examina- tions are tremendously difficult and involve a vearching ingniry into an applicant's know!- edge of Confucius and higher mathematics. The usefulness of this knowledge to a custom house clerk, for example, may well be a ques- tion of doubt. With us there can be no rea- dently been out for a night with the boys, and 'm in need of a little financial help.” Go 'way,” said the well-dressed man. “Wait a minute,” returned the otuer, “I want to make a business proposition. I need 50 cents, and need it bad.” “No time to fool with beggars,” protested the well-dressed man. “This i no begging trick; this 18 business,” persisted the stranger. “I need half a dollar and you need a cab. “What are you talking about?” man who hud been out with “the boy: “Business; nothing but business. You need acab as bad'as 1 do the baif dollar. I've got the cab. Have you got the half?” The well-dressed man looked at the other in- tently fora moment. ‘Then he said: I guess you're right. Ive got the ‘Cab’s just around the corner,” said the stranger. pills, 20k the well-dressed man to it and helped im i “I was just wondering what I needed,” said the latter: “sori of thought it was another drink, but I guess you're right abous it's being @ cab.” And so Le went home. A Perfect Dare-Devil. From Puck. sonable complaint against the examinations, for they are practical in character and are av- plicable, so far as possible, to the duties that a successful applicant will have to perform. But at cannot be denied that the number of people who wish to enter the government service is increasing at quite an alarming rate. What will be the end it is hard to predict, but if the thirst for office holding increases considera- ble proportion of the inhabitants of the coun- try will be applicants for examination before the civil service commission, leaving out, of course, those who hold state offices or are run- ning for state offices or for Congress. WOMAN'S GENERAL SUPEKIORITY. Bat to return to the female clerks, it will be found that their superiority is shown not alone in the copyists’ examination, but in the clerks’ examination, where out of 1,807 men examined 1,221 passed, but only 83 women failed oat of 133 examined. ‘The proportion is still with the fair sex. The next highest examinations are those that are beware espe They involve some amount of technical or professional knowledge, and are sometimes quite dificult. Thus, in the exam- ination for clerkships in the State Department questions are usked abont international law, treaties and government, and usually, too, the applicant is examined in {& languages, french, German and Spanish being the most usual ones, bat the applicant being pris foi to staud an examination in ortuguese, body cat be found examination in that office examination it is who is not He prepaetcetgen polled pension laws 0 Now, last year 788 'men underwent there speci nations and 300 while of who were examined while two more ne failed heap Yan —— passed to every one failed. Even @ thoroughly tific for such the other day who was"| flect that in course of its executive branches, will be entirely theirs and that there will comes time when it will not be a question whether the men will allow them to vote, but whether they will allow the men to vote. ——»___ ANIMALS’ THOUGHTS. Their Scope Regulated Not by Touch and Sight, but Probably by Smell. rom the London Globe. It is very doubtful, indeed, whether people appreciate haw great is the gulf between our human thonghts and feelings—thoughts more than feelings—and those of the lower animals. One hears commonplaces of the possibility of an extra sense, and 40 on, often enongh, but the entire difference of mental basis that must exist between us and the cats, dogs and horses which we fancy we understand, seems hardly - Fer to be conceived. In one direction all ani- mals are alike—all dread death and physical injary, all engerly seek and accept suitable food, all have in their earlier years that ten- dency to release the serious business of after life which we call play. These common needs and inclinations far- nish a mental substratum, a lingua franca, that roughly all may comprehend, but into itecrude, almost formless communicatious what an in- finite amount of ourselves we are inclined to read in, without farther justification, The lion in the menagerie sprawls, with his Breen-gray eyes staring out, it seems, into the infinite. lendid fellow,” we say; “noble creature! He is thinking of the blue moun- tains that bounded his desert world.” About as much, dear poetess, as you, when you have that look upon your face, are thimking of the sum- mation of infinite series ox katabolic metaboly. Lot us first analyze a littie the elements in the picture of the universe painted on our own minds It is a barmony in apace and time. You think of » thing as @ form having ® position in what you call space, gna chang- Ingasthe minutes, bours aud days slip by. The human world world of pictures, oar memories are sight images that we raise from their sleep in our brains for alittle while. We m to live at the back of our eyes. The hu- man world is a visible universe But since the\days of Bishop come to perceive more and more distinctly that he eye sees so clearly, not by its own virtue, but as the result of the education afforded it by our hands. At first the world of the child must bea flat confusion of shapes, which it Jearns to interpret by the movement of its an modeling, or atmosphere. Prof. Preyer's little boy, many months old, tried to snatch the lamp in a railway carriage several fest beyond arm's length. Those born blind, who at a later age have been restored to their sight by medical skill, and who consequnt!: ect sight and touch impressions, fancied all deed, it 18 one of the elementary teachings of ‘chology that our perception of space in our Vision of the world comes to us through our fingers. And the lion has no fingers. Neither do the cat, the dog and the horse possess, these neces- sary media toa nice discrimination of shapes ond position. The horse, with its digits im- prisoned in « horny hoof, is in a particularly ad case. It is impossible to believe that the painting on the eye of these creatures is in- terpreted by them with anything like the deli- cacy or truth that we can attribute to what we seo. Moreover, a certain “yellow spot of dis- tinct vision” common to us and the apes is absent from their eyes. The horse frequently seems to use his eyes independently of each other, undoubtedly the majority of animals do jow then can we imagine in their case, for a moment, single picture of a world as we in our wakiu; moments look out upon? A few simple experi- ments with s eat will convince any one that she cannot distinguish « hand, with empty fingers, held toward her from one containing any not too odoriferous edible. A bull makes no dis- tinction between the display of ared pocket handkerchief and the sheddiug of blood, And while the animal may not, and in all probability does not, refer its world to a spaced picture aud think in visible as we do, there is no doubt that in other respects its seu- sations may have a definition of mental value quite unknown to the equivalent sense in our- selves, We may “carry faces to the heavens” and stalk about the temporary lords of the world, but for all that our noses are poor things. ‘The human nose is an apologetic pimple compared with the magnificent organ of the horse or dog. Our sense of smetl is, when con- trasted with our sight and hearing, singularly undiscriminating. We can arrange sounds into series; we know E is between Cand F; we appreciate cetavesand harmonies. Similarly the amount of blue in a purple and get almost to emotion at the sight of a white star in the blue of the summer twiligat or of the amber sunlight glinting between the biades of grass. But this seria! arrangement, this sorting and selective choice, isentirely beyond our rudi- meutary senses of smell, To us the idea of the scent ui the violet being a rich harmony or the suggestion that the frying of onious 18 a dis- cord or that patchouli und the mew mown bay | are pleasunt things in different umes aud keys sounds utter nousense. Our noses are entirely too duil to effect the analysis necessary before scents can be distinguished as complex and sorted and recombined so as to be made an we- thetic pleasure. But with the animals we have named all this is different. iaif the head of a horse or adult dog is nose. It is probuble, therefore, that the dog’s mind is based essentially on impressions of smell. He perceives the crafty Ulysses through all disguises that hide him from human detection, sniffs him and is satisfied. ‘The stories of the faithful dog crawling to his master's picture and licking the boots of it, show a lamentable want of imagiuation—even of common ovservation. Anyone wno has watched « lost dog in the street must, or ut least ought to, perceive that the animal has only the vaguest idea of what its adored master looks like. Only on that sup- Position can its movements be understood. ‘ue creatare is looking for a smell image with its nose And a seuse with such analytical power as the dog's olfactory perceptions exhibit must certainly be capable of harmonic and discord- ant arrangement and effects. Now here our reason takes us beyond onr powers of realization. How the great external paints itself on the mind of a dog we can specu- late, but not picture. But that a dog's thought aud e dog's mind run on different lines, aud Pass through phases entirely outside the scope of our experience, is beyond ail question. We have our own universe to inhabit; into the most familiar animal's world we may as litue hope to enter as into the worlds around the uttermost fixed stars. But suffering, and lovs and gain, auger and delight, are wider things than thinking, aud through’ these we stretch across the guif and establish a vague but often very strong sympathy with the minds we can- ‘not span. A Ballade of Loversiand. we cau put the colors into order, decide upou |and tartaric acids and gavored with from corn. Most of the less expensive jellies in the market are purely artificial products, composed of gelatine, sugar, cochineal and flavoring extracts. More costly jellies of various fruits are simply apple jelly colored and favored. Apple sauce is pumpkin boiled in cider. CRAP COXFECTIONERT AND LIQTOES. Tt is said that cheap confectionery and liquors are the articles most injuriously adultered. Candy commonly contains much fuse! oil and other poisons. Strawberry ice ere of it, often contains more fused glasses of poor whisky. It is colo: aniline dye. Licorice drops are nsuaily made out of candy factory aweepings. quently nothing but water. with a percentage of crude alcohol and aniline coloring. I is rectified alcohol from grain or the re beet root refineries, colored with burnt anger, flavored with oil of cognac and Given an agree- able woody taste with a litte catechu. Among other aduiterants of liquors are vitriol, opium, alum, copperss, log wood and sugar of lead. ARTIFICIAL COFFEE. Bome package coffees are made of peas, rye, Toasted and ground, almond shells treated with molasses, beans, acorns and chicory. There are twenty different substances known to the trade as “coffee substitutes.” Among these are the artificial beans, made out of potato starch and other materials, which are imported from Germany in large qunutities for mixing with the real article. They can be detected by the fact that they will sink im water, whereas true coffee beans will tle Shriveled coffee beans are commonly soakes i salt water to make them look plump. It i usual to extract the essential oils from coffee beans before selling the latter as coffee, the essences being mauufactured separately into extracts. FRAUDULENT srices. Spices of all kinds a‘ford an inviting field for the exercise of fraudulent arts. They are almost always sold in the form of a fine pow- der, stitute. Peas and beans are largely employed from which kind of spice can be readily manufactured by the retail grocer, has grown to bean important branch of industry. Lhese products are variously known D. pep- D. ginger,” “P. D. cloves,” and so on. re sola by the barrel and are made to bis discretion bow much of the real stuf he will add in each case for flavoring. SOME OF THE INGREDIENTS. Almost any sort of refuse serves very well as material for these preparations, For black ship's bread, mustard husks, orn meal, linseed shella. Pare ginger is made out of corn me by simply adding red pepper and salt. Allapice is composed of mustard husks, cracker uust and corn. Mace is mostly flour, cornmeal and buckwheat, Cayenne pepper is chiefly ground rice, flour and red | Mustard is flour and cayenne pepper. Whatever sub- stances may be employed, roasting serves to give them the proper color, while a sifting of finely powdered charcoal will trausform corn meal into black pepper at short notice. One firm in New York city puts on the market 5,000 pounds of ground cocouuut shells for pui of adulteration, advertising to wupply dealers with “all necessary information for spice manufacturing.” The flower bude of the clove tree, known commercially as “cloves,” are fraudulently sub. jected before they are which their volatile oil is being marketed ax “exsenc ever, the thrifty desler does not permit the cloves to leave his hands until he bas added to them clove stems, ailapice aud burnt nut stiells What is known as “essence of coffe mostly of burnt molasses. Many of extracts used in the houseboid are acids and other drugs. ‘hey are ail more or Jess harmful. Cream of tartar often contains as much as 5 per centof oxsiic acid. Cider vin- egar is apt to be corn vinegar with sulphuric acid added. It contains none of the lictie eels which are found in good vinegar, because they cannot live in it, When one buys tea for €1a pound very likely to pay im reality $2 pou cause halt of the quantity ix currant ‘caves, Indigo, soapstone and clina clay are emong other usual ingredients of tea. Sago is often potato starch. Grated horseradish is some- times composed of turmps. Bologna mosgo may be putrid meatof uuidentitied aaimain, colored with saltpetre and Venetian red. Flour is frequently weighted with so: Sweetened water, suarpened with eitric oil How of orange skin, makes orange cider. 16 centsa gallon to make galion. Maple sugar may be glucose may honey. Keal honey can be disting! under ghe microscope by the pollen grains it contains. “hey have wonderfully beautifal forms and the very flowers from which the ‘They Are Used tn ‘Slam as Cousterfet Bo tectors. From the Calcutta Indian Mirror There are plenty of moukeys in Siam. They are of ali sizes, large and ewall; and the large spes of Sinm we bave heard are used by the | Samese merclante es cashiers in their count } } r excelience, | for this purpose. In tact the production of #0- | w rkeley wehave | called “spice mixtures” or “pepper dust,” | have not learned to con. | Pepper the fproducer jeommonly uses roasted | tiv the things they saw touched their eyes. In-| meal, wheat, rice and particularly cocoanut eT It costs | wa sells for 2.50 a | making change, or that they are able to keep the merchant's ledger for bist. Siamese mere chants probably do not bave complicated ae- count books: yet there must be some limit toe monkey's povers of mind—even in Siam. I de | Dot dunk the Siamese merobants expect quite all that of their ape cashier, altbough they may be more wondentul creatures than we in Amers ica have auy ies of, No; the way apes ame made useful is this In that far-off, ried-up little oriental comm try. quite near China, you know there are large qaantives of counterfeit coin in circulation, and the connterteiters of Sia for we thet it a the hardest hing in the workd to detect the bed from the good money. The met ceived and frequently swindled. ‘The smartest men they could emp Sere deceived, too, for the bad money was such s wonderful hemtetion that the closest scrutiny often failed to find the differeace between a good and « bud piece. Ju this dilemma some Siamese merchants called to ther help some one who sus alwase thought not sosmart as s man—a monkey. And these “large apes of Siam" proved such @ com at their avocation th: custom of ploying them for the purpose of detecting 1 money has become universal. The Lie hase peculiar method of tesung coin. T of Siam holds hi tuation without @ Every piece ts handed to him, and be picks up cach bit of money, one ata time, and. medita~ tively pute it into his mouth, testing e deliberation. If the coi is good the fact plainly. Me tal mouth and carefully places rptacte beside one in sativfied that the Bat if the coin ia bad the nown his verdict in an equally Istakable manner, He throws it vieiently mouth to the floor, shaking bis head with as much disgust as the merchant himself b iux imposed upon. With jond ring and angry gestures be makes known pleasure at being presented with # bad Piece of money. The merchant himeelf could hot express it better. oo Leap Year Observed in Boston, and any cheap substance serves as n ub- | From the Bosion eral, People who are skeptical about the extent te hich women avail themselves of leap year privileges ought to refer to the city registrar. He thinks he bas at least one genuine case. A wealthy Boston woman, m the best society and living on Commonwealth Avenue, Was married last week to « well-known w York man. A fow days before the cere over the forms it sees. The vision is at |Tesemble in appearance the genuine articles Tony she went to the registrars office and first without depth, without relicf, without | they represent, the merchant having it left to | asked form marriage license. She said she Wanted it for a friend of Lers who was sick and Who had asked her to do the errand for him. 1 Le license was given to blank, of course, and she was shown how to fill it out. der the registrar's eve and direction she wrote the names of the groom and his father, &c., then the name of the bride the Various necessary bite of information about Then the registrar asked hor to «ign ber wn name, as repreacnting the purchaser of the license, with ber address. The lady hommed aod hawed, asped questions tried to evade t . When she found the name must be made the best of it, took the pen ely and wrote. She fled without «ny ex planatious. From Puck. Mr. Bi He is painting from nature @ <ite-] alm tree; honey Las been obtained can be identified by | When a lion, be hadn't noticed before, the various exquisite shapes of these fructifying | Comes bounding along with a terrible roar. germs. It is estimated that 90,000,000 worth of fraudulent food products are mixed with good articles or sold in place of them annually in the United States, ‘This amount ts stolex from the people by men who coin fortunes by cheating the consumers. Incidentally the products of the farm are cheapeued and the producers robbed as well. —— ‘Women as Money Savera, From the Indionapotis Journal. ‘The fact that women are economical and money savers is difficult to impress upon the minds of men asaciass. The metiods adopted by women are sensible and practical, «me- times ludicrous and often pathetic, according to the postion in which they are placed in re- gard to the amounts which fall to their lots to dispose of. There are a few Hetty Greens, and it is more wholesome for the race that her class is in an overwhelming minority. Money savers of her kind are a detriment aud nota benefit. | ‘One who denies herself even the common e- cencies, not to mention the necessaries of live, 4s not a good example for others. Whenever a | woman is allowed a certain sum or earns a regular amount, with which all cxyenses must be met, then she 1 beiter able to appreciate relative values, and sho will soon accustom herself to the best methods for procuring the most and best for ber money. As « class women are more saving than men ever think of being. ‘The wife of one of the most prominent poll- ticians this state bas ever produced was the fivancier of the family, and but for her ambi- tion and faith in his abilities he would y rotably never have been known beyond the conitnes of his own county. Her ter-rightedness in real estate were exceedingly small at first, made for them a modest competency, which gave bim ties in furthering Lis itical career. the household iabor wa: Performed by ber own hands, and the anle o In Loversiand the skies are blue, Seicy poodeate gove tion Gaetr Sane saarts ‘Or barred with rosy clouds One plan was to buy a lot ina respectable ‘The dowers are fairer far of uarter and place several houses upon it. The ‘Than ever Qowers of earth were seen; —_— tbailt there. The pif . And all day long through meadows green, were Sot : wit eed Beside we river, hand in nand, through the streets would find Louses for sale ‘Walk youtis aid maidens of gentle mien— —_| cheap if they were moved from the piace. ‘hess Loversiand, in Loversiand. And some there are that lightly strew “And cua thar eneaiel Sheee ab nd some tt asant odors brew ‘From elder-fower and egiantipe; And others still, in deil and deuc, _ With brows the kindly sun has tanned, ‘grain and harvest glean ‘im Loversiand. ge & i it f HF Fy kerseus into the childless exclaimed, “Poor Mre. B—~, i i 5 ht and placed on the lot mentioned, the cout much less than a lke structure when new. Fresh paper within aud a cost of paint made them devirable to rent, audiittie by ttle the fortune was accumulated. | | | | | { ! 1 { | He places the picture with presence of mind= ust the date-palm tree, hides Lebind “Damn!” roars the lon, who really supposes * ‘That the picture a part of the landseape com>