Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, August 7, 1887, Page 12

% . HE OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY. AUGUST 7. 187—TWELVEPAGES . THE LIFE OF A PROSPECTOR. FRANZ SEPEL IN LIVERPOOL. THE INFLOENCE OF BOOKS. | hgreiissanevetiisoves,mdtrensie: | BEAUTIES OF LOS ANCELES. this number ja' a strong one, and “‘Tho : Whriter"” shounld be in the hands of every . How He Seccures a Start—The Ups and A Yankee's Experience With British Onstom Marvelous Growth of the Conntry Adiacent Downs of a Mining Expert. Officials. to the Garden of Flowers. shipped to Baltimore and enstern mar- kets, Prospecting 18 life full of hard- ships, but after a few years experience one enjoys it, and as soon a8 sprin, comes he gets the fever, and feels as he mmust go out for a few weeks anyway. The writer prospected four seasons, and during that time gained a pretty fair krowledge of minerals. He was “‘unfor- tunate' enough to strike a lead mine the first season, and, in order to develop it 50 that it would become salable vroperty, he put in three years of hard work upon it at an expense of about $200. The last year he was compelled to run into debt to the extent of $250 for grub, and being unable to sell the perty or raise the money to pay the bill, he was attached by the groceryman and lost the mine. A few weeks after THE. FORCED TRANSFER the grocer sold the same prop- erty for $6,000. This goes to show that luck is against some men and they eannot make money when they have a good mine, so the writer came to the conclusion that his fortune was not to be made in mines and quit. Mining is like a lottery, anyway, about one in every hundred ‘striking it rich. There are hun- dreds of men in Montana, however, who have made fortunes directly from min- ing. Among the mest prominent are Tommy Cruse, of Helena, who several years ago soid the Drum Lummon mine at Marysville to an English syndicate for 1,500,000, He is now president of a He= lena bank, has large mining and stock interests and is worth 3,000,000, Several years ago he could not sign his own name, but under the tutorship of OLD JEFF LOWRY, his lawyer and counsellor, he was taught to write. Lowry has since died; he was estimated to be worth $200,000, having made about half that amount for con- ducting the sale. A. J. Davis, president of the First Na- tional bank of Butte, is also twice u mil- lionaire. He made his money in mining, and 1s still actively engaged in the business. For a man of his wealth he is not very liberal,and he 1s universally dis- liked for his antagomstic feeling aguinst their union, and his attempts to reduce their wages. W. A. Clark, of the bank of Clark & Larabie, of Butte, is the brighest and most enterprising one of them all. He has vast mining interests around Butte, employs abont 1,200 miners, and has an income ot $1,000 }mr day, heing worth about $4,000,000. He was president of the last territorial legislature, and as an active, public spirited democrat, he is the ?mst widely known man in the north- wesf. 1t was said that in the early days he was employed by the CREIGHTON BROTHERS, OF OMAIA driving their bull teams to Alder Gulch. What would the Montaman think now tosee W. A. Clark swinging his bull- persuader over his head, and yelling: *Gat up, you— —— or I'll break every bone i1n your carcass.”’ He 18 a good business man, and a public-spirited citizen. This spring he built a $60,000 ence which is an ornament to Butte. When Montana 1s admitted as a state Clark will go to the United States senate if it takes a barrel of bullion. Theve are wumbers whose wealth ranges from wished there nover hvak such A place! It is now pretty well known that this Chester is the same old castra of the Romans. [t was at Chester that we fully began to realize that we were in a foreign country. The old, old Buildings seemed to stare at us with their beaten walls and speak of past centuries. As we walked about through the narrow winding strects the people looked at us twice then turned away with a' knowing air. Ven- ders of guide books and, photographs “'S1ZED U8 Up"’ as_easily as if “América” had been printed all over us int red letters. The cathedral of Chester was of special interest to us since it was the first one of these fine old churches we had cver seen. 1t dates back to the twelfth century, and aithough not one of the largest cathe- drals in the kingdom, its age and archi- tectural beauty render it famous. The finely proportioned nave with its exquis- itely carved canopies left an impression which I shall not soon forget. Leaving the cathedral we took a walk through the two principal strects of the city. 'These are remarkable as being the only streets of the kind in the world. The business houses are so arranged that the first floor front of each building is used as a sidewalk, so that as one walks along the sidewalk he walks under the second tloor front of the buildings. Not only that, but the strects are down a dis- tance of some ten fect below the side- walks. These streets are called ‘‘Rows.” und contain all the first class shops of the i 8 2 Al ica. Thi: Lives and Oharacters Moulded by the Litor- “’_:’i;sl‘c":i“ b“;‘d'h - «"‘by w“_‘“,‘i‘ffim " nn\: ature of the Day. obert Luce, of the Poswu Globe. s BABYLAND, & magazine for mothers S quite as much as for babies, is having ev- ery month this year two picture-pages of God’s Words to His Children—Life and 'l_“! ?fl; Elfi'-f.i:r :1“':""“’ .l;dwnzn';:;l‘u’:ll S , o ! - Times of Jesus—Drones’ Honey— | for ing baby. Fun for the baby is fun, or Bridge Disasters — Perfod- its equivaladnt for somebody else. fcals. 4 NEBRASKANS AMONG ROSES. Strawberrics Ten Months in the Year ~B8anta Monica Beach—Fleshy * Women n the Waves, SOME MILLIONAIRE MINERS. THE ENCLISH RAILWAY TRAIN. Quaint Okl Farm Houses — Gloomy Towers—The Fam ous Eaton Hall— The Town of Chester—8Sizing up Americans—Notes of Travel. A Former Teamster of the Oreightons Now Rolling in Wealth—Prosper- g ous Men—A Lucky Gambler— ¢ Jottings from Butte City. *" M’I‘m: %vaun ll.l‘linb‘l' of "‘Ul:f th';lle AT A period when men waxed wise for b 1t ‘\‘h-t \'ery“ s wisdom’s sake and not for political pre- ?,:‘,:nbl“:-.u :'&.,I:;.s::u ?ni‘(-'nl.ml loo;: .::l ferment, a very learned and unambitious | that all the inhabitants not only know man remarked that if he were permitted | 06 ‘l‘;’?:r!rl;nnl':&r‘h;icm::;n?e‘: ":l; ::'h':::g “Il‘; ":“m’:&“"l He .“fodu‘mt 1°n"d° months. A naturalist found that out by There Xl“n startling ;’og{lc'\'l s‘:mon“;n ‘lhls‘ f.i‘é;'{i.';“ ::r&m txl‘llel': krfxfl‘li:z lt}lnleer’: b'::l: thought which impresses one the more | among their old neig :born.ql'helr friends thoroughly upon meditation. were 50 glad to see them that they actu- Ever since man has felt the warm em. :Ilz ‘&f’é‘n:”‘:‘ by o:‘:‘_.‘:,'.;‘.‘?“.r';"fl’ Iittle brace of civilizing influence the literature | piugazine is published by D. Lothrop of every age has operated to make the | Company, Boston. people among whom circulated either —_—— better or worse. 1n every period since | MEMORIES OF THE METROPOLIS the perusal of books has become a pleas- | ppe Early Homes of the Vanderbilts ure and duty to man, these productions and Other Prominent Persons. have had, perhaps, a greater influence in New York Mercury: Everybody knows moulding the minds and manners of hu- | something about the present palatial man beings, than all the laws ever en- go:neu:fodthu Vnndn’rbilts in I;Nuw Y'ork, o g i i~ ut nol y remembers anything of the aoted by man. It ds an i | earlier homes (which wefe mob at all Rt palatial), occupied by the Vanderbilt men of all eras and nationalities, } K amily in its early days in New York to l)reler marking out their own course | eit; in life, rather than have it dictated by {zot hold of a very old New York rples which permit of no infringement. | eity directory the other day. It is alittle The good order of literature tends at | book—a mero ‘‘baby’’ compared to the once to elevate the reader, kis morals, | “adult’”’ directories of the metropolis in andhis ideas, with that suasion which | the present—but it isa very interesting all men prefer to arbitrary rules and | relic. laws, Into the keeping of the children In this little volume there is one sug- of wise and Christian parents, are early | gestive entrv—- “Cornelius medurbifi. iven the character and virtues of some | mariner, No. 93 Broad street.” At this avored hero of fact or fiction, by which, | down-town address the Vanderbilt name in many mstances, the hves and charac- | appears for the first time in the annals of ters of those children are moulded. New York. Woven with pleasing phraseology and A yoar later the entry appeared as nteresting detail, to the old as well as | “*Cornelius_ Vanderbilt, No. 13 Stone the young, the characters of real or im- | street.”” This was a two-story house, agmary men and women come to | small, humble, and, to tell the truth, un- us through the medinm of | comfort. as great a contrast to any the book, the one as a pattern to im- | ¢f the V udorbfit houses now as the itate, the other as an example to deter; nderbilt, mariner,”” was then to what and who will say that it is on the infant | the Vanderbilts, railroad kings, are ncw. minds alone that these real or mystic The surrounaings in Stone street were beings have a strong and permanent | squalid. The only thing that saved the effect? Nor 1s 1t the individual alone | locality was its proximity to the Battery, whose ovinions, ideas and character have | The young Vanderbilt chilaren didn’t been shaped by & pet book. | like Stone street at all; even the Battery No better illustration of this can be | didn’t atone for the loss of the country. mentione than the famous “‘Uncle | they had just come from Jersey, from Tom’s Cabin,” which some, in their en- | their native New Brunswick, wflere ten thusiastic moments, have claimed was the | out of the thirteen of 'em were born. rrodumion of an inspired pen. Appear- | Vanderbilt had his “‘office’ at No. 17 ng as it did at a time when the right | Stone street, afterwards at No. 18 Stone of slave holding was a disputed question | street; then he ived at No. 56 Beaver among the American peovle, this work, | street; then he got a larger office at No. the accomplishment of » woman,perhaps | 58 Stone street, and got elevated, in the somewhat prejudiced, but withal a most | city directory, to what was called a trenchant writer and ingenious novelist, | ‘‘stcamboat mnaster,” or captain. certainly did more than may be admitted Vanderbilt was by this time makin’ a toward forming ovinions not already | good deal of money off New York, but settled, arousing feelings already bitter, | somehow he couldn’t, or didn't, get a and establishing among the popu- | house to suit his growin’ family, so he Iace a bitter prejudice against siavery | left New York for several years, in- and the masters of human beings. tendin’ to settle permanently in Staten The effect of the various literay pro- | Island, where he built a house near Sta- ductions upon the old and the young, | pleton. should cause the prospective author to This Staten Island mansion was quite pause upon the threshhold of his work to | an iniposin’ affair and very ‘‘roomy."’ ascertain if the labor will be beneficial | The owner putafine iron fence all around or detrimental to the rising generation. | the ground—which were quite spacious. Every book which finds its way to print, | The house commanded a fine view, and be it the offspring of a mighty genius or | in it the first Mrs. Vanderbilt passed the amonied fop, has 1ts effect upon the hnyriest days of her life, justas Mrs. mind of some one who may be injured or | William H. passed her best days on her benefitted by its perusal. In this day | husband’s farm. when all men are authors the only safe- But as all his commercial interests cen- guard lies in the reader or parent exer- | tred round New York the original Van- cising caution and judgment in the selec- | derbilt couldn’t stay away from it long,so tion of books for themselves or thosc of | he got a new oftice on Washington street, whose future they expect so much and in | then lured a house on Madison street, and whose welfare they are interested; re- | finally moved to what was then quite a membering that there is nothing morein- | swell house on east Broadway. structive and beneficial than agood book When the Vanderbilts lived in_East nor anything so destrnctive and detri- | Broadway, William H. Aspinwall re- mental as a bad oue. L sided on College place near the City s hall park. A. T, Stewart kept, and was REv. GEORGE H, ScHODDE, PH. D., of | kept by a small dry goods store on Broad- Columbus, Ohio, has translated from the | way near Cortlandt street, and lived German, an interesting work entitled **A | very modestly in a two-story house on Day in Capernaum” by Dr. Franz De- | Warren street. litzch of the University of Leinz!g, This William B. Astor lived near the Astor work gives a vivid picture of the Galilean | house. His father's office was in Vesey miviL{ of our Savior, and embraces | street. The Lorillards lived in Madison many features which hitherto have been | street, near the Tappans. unnoticed. It is a historical sketch of an Willinm E. Dodge had moved ‘‘up eventful day in thelife of Christ, and is | town" to Fourth street, near the Bowery, written with an enthusiasm and interest | Prosper M. Weotmore resided in good m the subject that is pleasant to observe | style on Franklin street, and Peter The work 18 one which old and youn Cooper had erected a glue factory ‘‘out may read with proht. Funk & Wugnnlfi of town,” on the site of what is now the of New York are the publishers. the Madison Square garden. o ‘This is suggesti eadin’ for ‘‘modern’’ + AN IMPORTANT snbj‘ect is that handied | New Yorkers. But perhaps two facts I by George L. Vose in a little work en- | will now state will convey the contrast titled “‘Bridge Disasters, the Cause and | between then and now even more Remedy.” The book is a review of the | strongly. bridge disasters of America with praec- When the Vanderbilts lived on East tical suggestions for the prevention of | Broadway the New York postoftice filled like happenings in the future. Itis evi- | only a part of the basement of the Mer- dently the result of the study and ob- | chants’ exchange,on Exchange place and servation of a practicnl engineer who | Hanover street. There were just twelve knows how to put the result of his iabors | letter carriers connected with the vost- on paper in an interesting form. Lee & | office. Some thought these were two or Shepard, Boston, are the publishers. three too many. There were only two whe n]mils hmixl to” Brooklyn daily. "Some Y i _ | thought there was only need of one. umes, a series of little tales teresting, ““ 0.Imon 00 vfns“on Y xnowy hml ",':“ old fashioned and instructive to tho | ime 8 ' confestioner’ and had his oung. The same authoress, Sophie mi i '{.cfi ,{m l"’-“"!' etreet, Tho aite ilnv, has recently produced what vrom- | Y1 oimotico'sicstands now g Butre, M. T., August 2.—[Correspond- #nce of the B —1t is amusing to hear . tenderfeet tell the opinions they had formed of a mining camp, the process of working ores, how mines were discov- sred, ete. The majority of them have an Idea that gold and silver is picked up in its pure state on the mountains and in gulches, others have an idea that it has o be mined for by sinking shafts, ete., but have not the least conception of its form or avpearance. Some who have ) studied minerology in eastern schools naye an impression that they can dis- dinguish pay ore from waste the moment they set eyes on it, buton arriving at the mines they find that they knew nothing of minerals whatever. Everything about a mill 18 Greck to them, and they quietly “steal away without offering any scien- tiffically based snggestions. Jn order to have the reader understand fully, we start with the prospector. In the spring of the year he secures n pack-horse, which he loads down with 300 pounds of bacon, flour, coffee, dried np{ylcs, a few cans of corn, and pepper and salt. On top of this he i stacks his blankets, pick and shovel, gold pan and a shotgun or rifle, all of which makes the pack horse look like a smill mountain moving along. Everything ! being securely packed, he starts out, oither on foot or on a riding pony, lead- ing the pack animal, and travels until he arrives at a point where there_ is good feed, and then proceeds to look for float. In early days prospectors only looked for ledges ~that cru})pcd out of the ound, but as most of such ledges have { een taken up, they are now compelled | to depend on float and mineral stains on i the country or surrounding rock, in order to teace ledges, which are known as blind leads, for the reason that considerable surface dirt has to be removed before a vein 8 exposed. Float 18 ricces of quartz, either having o mineral stain or contain- ing ore; 1t .Eunernlly lics on top of the ound and is supposed to have been roken off the main ledge B. C., or there- sbouts, and carried by the elementsin succeeding years down the mountain side. On finding a piece of float THE PROSPECTOR LOOKS AROUND for more and generally finds small pieces higher up the mountain. He traces the flont as far as it goes and lo- 1 eating the point where it gives out he Los ANGELES, Cal,, July 20.—[Corre- spondence of the Bek.]—The growth of this city and Ccountry adjacent is mar. velous, The county assessment rolls for the fiseal year show a valuation of $92,000,000. ‘L'he city has gained 10,000 in population since January and another 10,000 will doubtless be added by Decem- ber 81 mext. Real estate steadily in- creases in price, the transactions for the week just closed footing up a little more than $2,250,000. There are over 700 licensed real estate dealers in the city and 8,000 others directly interested in the business. *“‘Why don't your city oflicials repair and water your streets?’’ 1 asked o citizen. “Because they are all engaged in real estate deals and don't haye time," was the reply. Judge Redick has secured some valua- bie business property hero, He says he has made $75,000 since last winter and ‘ that T. W. T. Richards has cleared double that amount. Richards told me when 1 was here six months ago that he was one of a syndicate that had just purchased a tract of land ten miles out, which he thought was & good investment. They soon v after platted a vortion of the tract and have sold lots to the amount of $250,000, and have several thousand acres left. Robert Harris bought several lots in this plat when he was here a fow . months ago and has doubled his money on them, He is building a fine house on Seventh street, one of the best residence streets in the city, at a cost of about ten thousand dollars. Near his property Mr. Ferris, formerly of the Planters’ house, Omaha, has two handsome lots on which he proposes building a house, In this vicimty Mr. Horace Jones, late of Emery & Jones, has established a grocer business and is making money. He pai $1,600 for two lots last winter which he could now sell for $6,500. He says that Nebraska is a good country, but that he would rather live here ten years than to live in Nebraska five. His only regret 18 tbat his old partner, Emery, canuot see ROSES AS 18 ROSES, which this country prodnces in the great- est profusion. Judge Groff paid $1,600 for three lots here eighteen months ago, and was so doubtful as to the outcome that he kept the matter a secret from his family for a year. He could get $7,000 for the property now. The productiveness of the parched- looking gravelly soil of this region is almost beyond belief. In some loealities irrigation 18 necessary, but not in others. On the place of Mr. Thomas Gibson, near San Jose, I measured a bunch of anl on the vine and still fimw!ug and found it was a foot lonf; t will grow six inches more before it is fully ma- tured. A peach measured seven and one-half inches that will yet grow to a circumference of ten inches. On Frank Gibson’s fruit ranch there were suvunt{- five fie;\ches on a shrub two and s half feet high and an inch and a half in diam- eter at the ground. The hotels and restan. rants serve fresh strawberries ten months ina year. Withina few miles on the ocean I saw as fine a field of corn as I ever saw in Nebraska. It it expected that the const line of railway between San Francisco and this city will be com- pleted next year shortening the distance considerably between the two points and opening up AN ATTRACTIVE REGION alrcady well developed and of great his- torical interest, Yesterday and Inst night [ wes min- §ling with the giddy throng at Santa lonica, an ocean resort eighteen miles west of this city, and for the first time donned a bathing suit _and had a tusslo with the briny deep. For nearly a mile the beach ~was lined with bath- ers and presented a most at- tractive scene. The npumber of fat women—enormously fat women, I saw disporting in the waves, with ele- phantine gambols, was proof enough to me that this isa healthful climate.though a climate (,which will convert an erst- while, (I have waited for years for an opportunity to use that word) fragile creature into a mountain of flesh may be said to have its drawbacks. Coming out over the Central Pacific on 1 tha journey hitherward an old gentleman i and's pair of bright young ladies in the sleeping car section opposite mine, at- tracted my attention. 'he former was making funny remarks about a young man, evidently a favorite with one of the rls, concerning his fond for good food, whereupon she retorted with, “Now, pa, you've no right to say anything. A gentleman told me that he took dinner with you once when you complained that you were not feeling well and had no apvetite. He said he never saw & man eat so much at onu time 1n all his born days, and wondered what you could do in that line when you Loxpox, July 22.—[Correspondence of the Bee.]—The night of our arrival in Liverpool did not prove a very restful one. Being naturally vervy anxious to land we were on deck late Sunday even- day evening trying 1o make out the dim outlines of the rough const of Wales. The revolving and flash lights on shore sent out their vigilant “yes” or “‘no’* and 1t was interesting to hear the suilors ex- plain their meaning. One honest tar told a party-of us the story of a terrible shipwreck off this promontory, and death-dealing storm off that, until our ablood ran cold with fears of disaster; but there was an extra watch on the bridge and someone said that Captain Hains would sleep in his boots that night, an d give his personal attention to every turn of the wheel. This calmed our fears somewhat, and we retired; but not to sleep. The sailors were busy most of the night getting the cabin lnggage out of the hold; everything was hustle and bustle preparatory to an early landing on the morrow. At two o’clock in the morning the ship landed at the com- pany’s dock in Liverpool, and then the confusion was greater thanever. Notice had been given that breakfast would be served at 5:30, and to be sure nobody was late on that morning. We were per- mitted to go on shore, mto the eustom house, immediately after breakfast, but there was one little thing of some im portanee to be done before we coald get out of the custom house, and that was the examination of our bnmznge. ‘This operation iz generally a good deal of a bugbear, especially among ladies, who, as arule, do not relish the idea of hav- ing the mysterious depths of their trunks or the sacred precinets of their portman- teaux exposed to the eyes of a curious publie. But the average individual will suffer very little inconvenience at the hands of the custom house officials. 1tis only the Juggage of suspicious looking persons that 1s very closely examined. The contents of my valise were not dis- turbed, while the little handbag that 1 carried was not even opened. “‘Now, 'ave yew any segars or tubak- ker?” said a brass-buttoned Britisher to my friend, the professor, who sat de- murely on a dry-goods box, smoking a well blackened bull-dog pipe. My heart went out in PITY FOR THE PROFESSOR, and 1 feared he, and I too, had seen the last of those splendid cigars with which we was so well supplied. His answer surprised me. ‘“Yes, wir,” he said, *“I've got some of the finest cigars you ever saw; and tobucco, too. You Englishmen used to smoke good tobacco, but you don’t any more; those South African boors are put- ting too much salt petre In it. Our western tobaccos, sir, —'’ (the brass but- tons were fecl.iuz impatient)—*better quality—finely flavored, sir—and these cigars—purest Havana, sir—took ’em off stenmer myself—here, take a few!’ and he slyly thrust a handful of them nto the brass buttons’ pocket. , thank—"" “Not a word, sir,”’ continued the pro- fessor, “‘1 have three more big boxes in here—and now this tobacco; four bags of it, sir, genuine Perique and Lone Jack mixed; sweet, delicious, both mild and strong, and doesn’t bite your tonge— finest mixture out, sir—put this little bag in your pocket.’’ “*Haul right, sir; haul right!” the brass buttons blubbered with a guilty smile, ‘“‘you needn’t hopen yon bag, sir! 'Ere, porter, carry these gentlemen’s luggage to the door, and mind you put m acab for ’em.” In five minutes we were rolling over the noisy pavements of Liverpool to- wards the Birkenhead ferry. ‘We did not stop at Liverpool because it has so_few things which are worth the while for the tourist whose time is lim- ited. The most important parts of the city are the docks and warehouses, and these are to be found in our own Ameri- can cities. The ferry took us across the river Mersey to Birkenhead, where it is better and cheaper to buy a stopover ticket through to London. These tickets are good for ten days and give one ample time to visit all places of special interest on the way. It was here that we had our iirst experience on AN ENLISH RATLWAY TRAIN and received our first impression of En- glish rural scenes. You have doubtless all seon or read something of English railways. To the American they seem to be a peculiar in- stitation. The carriages—well, take an American box-car, divide it crosswise nto four or five small rooms, put in two seats facing each other, with the parti- tions of the rooms us backs, and you have the English railway carriage complete. Bach room has two side doors which the ard locks as the train leaves the sta- city. &e next took a promenade around the old walls which completely surround the enfl. The walk is on tnr of the walls and there is not a single break in it. ‘The walls as they now stand have been built from time to time from the ruins of the old wall which was built about 800 years nfio. There - ure several gloomy and shaky looking towers on the walls, but the_guides said they were perfectly safe. The walls of the water tower are seven feet thick, and are remarkable for the solidity of their masonry. The Phoenix tower ubon which King Charles stood and saw his army defeated in 1645 is in a wonderful state of preservation. The celebrated country seat of the DUKE OF WESTMINSTER, and is perhaps the finest mansion England. The hall was open to visitors the day we were there, but we had only time to ride out to the porter’s lodge at Grosvenor Gateway, which in 1tself is a beautiful specimen of Gothic architec- ture. From this gateway we took the delightful walk bac ross the river Dee, over the new Grosvenor bridge, a remarkable structure with an immense stone arch 200 feet in length. From frequent chats with the people of Chester, I learned considerable about the Duke of Westminster, and found that he was almost universally hked. Butas one old lady said, ‘‘there 18 some ‘movls as never will be satified.” The duke is immensely wealthy; his estates at Ches- ter cover miles of rich farming lands, and city property in London reaches mullions. Yet he is very benevoient and puts his immense income to the best pos- sible use. Chester is)full of fine churel libraries, aimshouses and hospitals b from funds chietly given by the duke, On the day before our yrrival, we were told, there had been a great fete in the park at which every one.of the tenants’ chil- dren were given a, prespnt by the duke. We were nurrrisod to find such a feelin, c;f good1 will between the Iligshsr an ower classes. o FRANZ SEPEL. AP it MUSICAL 1] DliAMATlU. Mr. Thomas W. Koene has just come back trom Nova Scotia, wheree played a highly satisfactory engagement. Joseph Haworth ns his season in *“‘Rosedale” at the Arch street theatre, Phila- delphla, on September 12 Louis James and Marie, Wainwright will begin their season at the Grand Opera House, New York, in September. Helen Dauvray will oven in Boston on Oc tober 10. At present she is spending the summer in the Adirondacks. # Mme. Fursch-Madl has left for Columbus 0., where she takes part in the festival of tke Central Ohio sangerbund. A complete orchestra of Japanese musical instruments has just been presented to the museum of the Paris Conservatoire by M. van Vienten, the minister of the interior for the Dutch Indies. ‘Audran is to conduet the first performance in Switzerland, at Lucerne, of his operatta, “La Cigale et Ia Fourmi.” Mlle. Perteti will sinfz the role of the grasshopper, created by Mile. Jeanne Granier. Mile. Dorst, the premiere dansense, who has madea hit in Chicago by her Mabille dancing, came from Vienna after naving created a furore in St. Petersburg, where the czar headed the list of her admirers. Miss Helen Baneroft 1s on her way to Cali- fornia, where she has been encaged to play the leading female roles with Dion Bouei- cault’s cempany, Which begins its season at the Baldwin theater about August 20. Edwin Booth, Lawrence Barrett, T. 1. Aldrich, Lawrence Hutton and E. C. Bene- dict are makihg a crulse in the steam yacht Oneida- They propose to visit Bar Island, Hhalifax, the St. Lawrence, the Saugenay an, rador. Kraulein Elizabeth Leisinger1s to make her debut at the opera in Paris a8 Ophelia in “Hamlet,” and will afterward create the prineipal female part in “La Dame de Mont- sorean,” the new French opera, to be pro- duced there next season. Miss May Wilkes has been engaged to play Mercedes In “*Monta Cristo” for the coming season with James O'Neill. When the “‘F'as- sion Play” was tirst produced in San Fran- cisco Mr. James O’Neill represented Christ and Miss May Wilkes was Mary. Emma Abbott has arranged with Carl Rosa to reproduce *Ruy Blas” in English in the same manner as it was recently given at the Drury Lane, and in Paris she purchased ihe A few years known gambler, as the smoke house lode and had the round patented. The surface ground of this lomi takes in the principal business portion of Butte. At the time it was loca- ted Butte was a small place, and not much attention was puid to the location, and it was soon forgotten, and the town continued growing until finall the entire surface groun was covered with brick business blocks and houses. About two years ago Murray thought it time to put the screws to them, and he quietly informed the oe- cupants of the ground that they would have to put up or vacate. They were as- tonished at his demand and “assertion, thinking, of course, that the deeds they had secured gave them full ownership of the ground. The matter was carried into courts, the ecitizens having made up a purse to fight Murray, but about a year ago a decision was rendered in his favor, and the occupants had to buy the xroumi over agnin. Murray is reputed to be worth between $400,000 and $500,000, and he 1s supposed to have made $250,000 by getting a decision in his favor. Heis a natural born gambler and schemer, and is always putting up jobs to skin some one, no matter who, as he says he plays no favorites. To illustrate his disposition and show that there is no danger of his dying from the enlargement of tie heart, we relate the following econversation, ;rhioh the writer overheard and can youch or: eeds to sink a few small holes, or run trenches for the purpose of cross- eutting the vein. 1f he is fortunate enough to strike a body of ore he takes a + ~ sampleofitand has it assayed to ascer- tain if it is rich enough to record and work. If the assay is favorable he some- times works the mine himself, but as a general thing he looks for a buyer, or some one who has money, to whom he sells an interest for a very small sum. Witha few exceptions, perhaps, the monied man eventually securesacon- trolling interest, and then gratitude 18 shoved aside, and he begins to push the prospector, who is forced to sell his re- maining interest for a small sum, or get nothing, as the varty baving the con- trolling interest has all the power, and can either work the mine or let itlieidle. It is seldom that the poor prospector gets the benefit of his discoveries,and no mat- ter how many mines he might discover a season he is compelled in debt Frub during the winter. Numbers of business-men have got}possession of valu- able properties by crediting prospectors during the winter and the following sum- mer, attaching whatever they might dis- cover, The business-men, as a rule, though, are a pretty liberal (?) class of men, often staking a prospectur for the season, in consideration of half of what he might discover. Placer mining i8 altogether different from quartz min- The prospector first tinds a gulch whero there 1s a sufficient head of water to wash his dirt, for without water no placer ground can be worked. He then sinks a hole to bed rock, which is a hard formation, and fills his gold pan with dirt. By working the pan to and fro in the water, the gravel and sand are washed out, and the gold or other min- eral particles, being heavier than the sand, remain in the bottom of the pan. :I running the leavings around the edge the pan 8o that they become separated he can easily discover if there are any specks of gold, each speck being called 8 color, and the more the colors the o richer the ground. 1f the ground is rich enongh to work, the prospector puts In & sluice box, in the bot- g tom of which are bo augur L~ holes and strips of board called rifiles are J najled across the slmce. Quicksitver is fun into the sluice and the prospector then begins to shovel in his dirt, the finvel and sand being carried away and e gold ainking to the bottom where 1t s mlu‘ht by the quicksilver and riffles, A BOOTBLACK accosted Murray 1n front of his gambling house, and asked him if he did not want a shine. *‘How much do youn charge?” asked Murray. ‘*Two bits,”” answered the bootblack. “l1 can't make two bits any easier than to shine them myself,” Murray, and he entered the saloon and did the job himselt. He has fre- quently made the remurk that he was worth 80 much money, and that if he thought he had an honest dollar in his possession, he would throw it away. More about Momtana, Utah and the Mormons in our next. J.G. 8. N PEPPERMINT DROPS. 1 | A good American wine needs no bush. All that is required is a popular foreign label. There i3 no change In the style of fishing this year, except that the jug has more body and 1ot quite 80 much neck. The states of Indiana, lowa, Kentucky music, wardrobe aud properties for Anber’s | ises to be a most popul then one mile ‘‘out of town.” Fifth ave- | felt rugged and heart; hero Is considorublo plncer mining yet | L oufsiana. Michican," Misaissipbt and ‘fen | tlon. Thero ure no means of communi: | opera, *La Fartdu binole,’ which sho will isosto boa moit. Pobular hook AMOLE | nue itself was only gradod as far as Clin- | “Then hier sister [nughed wiilo hor ne in Montana, although the richest | nessee employ women as librariane. cation between the rooms, and no bell | produce under the title of ““The Good Devil.” | i[yrones’ fk,m, ' This latest of Miss | toBPlice. 5 father flushed a little and said: it, gulches have been worked. The man who sits down and waits to be | ropes to the engine, and when o liberty- | iu addition to these new pieces Miss Ab- | piyyg admlrnb‘lye- ooks 18 of the vigrown | . Ihis was only fifty_years ago. Thore | tut, my daughter, how can you sit there B THE CEUR D'ALENE appreclated will find himseifamong uncalled- | Joving Yankee gets caged up in one of.| DOW's reportory noxt season will include 15 &) up series,” but will be found an interest- "‘:fi‘ul)‘!?nq olr)e Now, Yorkers still livin’ | and make up such storie ing tale to the enlire household. bl b D Throughout it 1s of that nature which en- IMPIETIES, titles 1t to a conspicuous place on the _ plucer mines seem to be taking the lead now, and the Helena banks are in daily receipt of shipments of gold dust from that section. A New York oomrqny acer standard operas. A new operatic concert company has been organized and will soon start on the road. It consists of Mmme, Marie Godini, soprano, for atter the limited ex| train P o by. i To the novel colors invented for women’s elothes of ‘“‘crushed nuwhflr‘{‘" and 0 the rooms he is apt to think it a direct in- sult to American freedom. The engines, too, are ill-looking affairs, with no cow- catcher, and a miserable attempt at a “It'sa_solemn fact, pa;it's a solemn fact,” said she, and thereupon her father changed the subject by calling attention {arie i ‘ 3 to the scenery. “ 0 sociated with Signor Brignoli in | family book shelf. Lee & Shepard, Bos- “*And so your father has gone to a mission- S 5 . recently purchased a tract of 'whibped croam” has been added color 5 0 ineerne: JTho WAL sesRoiAwd Wil H h Jo0x fasher The party party proved to be ex-Goy- b Yy thgre(urwhlch thoy paid DO, ¥ | of “siapped baby.” cab, which affords the enginecr nearly as | in his last concert tour, and sung with her | ton, are the publmh(;ri. ary station®” Yes; we are quite aloma | 08RG0 oY Migsissipni, and his much protection as a coverless umbrella, The first, second and third class rooms are all alike except that the first-class rooms have soft cushions on the seats and the third class hard cushions or none at all. First class tariff is nearly twice as high as third. There are compara- tively few first class passengers on most trains, and these are mainly the English lords of the earth or the nouvean riche of America and the provinces. Many respectable people travel second or even third class, especially when_going short distances. On the whole English rail- way oarriages can not be compared with those of America in point of size, con- venience or elegance. But what the En- lish lack in their Mll'flIFIl they certain- y mnkefood in_their ‘‘stations,” which are all e, elaborate and well ap- pointed structures, covering all the ‘rwh aud having a fully equipped ‘b:mkfn " (ticket) office, refreshment, waiting, luggage, parcel, and smoking room on either side. Notwithstanding the little rest of the l)rsvlous night, we enjofied the ride from his favorite opera “Don Pasquale” for the last time, tn San Antonio, May 5, 1584: Mme, Cozen, econjralto, of the Aungelo Opera Cow- pany; Signor Jovine, tenor, and_Kaya, bari- tone, frowm the Belini ‘Theatre Naples, who have lately arrived in New York, and Signor Ciconnl, pianist, The London Athenmum says: “The per- formance of “Traviata,” in whiech Madam Pattl appeared, and at which the prices were trebled, does not call for more in this place than a_word of protest agaiust the infatua- tion of the public. No ome would venture to deny that Madam Pattils the greatest vo- calist ‘of her eration,, but It does not show much artisiic_taste to prefer one eini- nent performer with boverty-stricken sur- roundings to a perfect ensemble. That it should be 8o constitutes the greatest difliculty in the path of operatie reform,” Since the burningof Paris Opera Co- mh}ue the artists of thé Vienna Burg theater, which has always been eonsidered a danger- ous building, have insisted on additional pre- cautionary measures against the outbreak of fire; and ‘the Emperar Francis Josepn has given orders to hasten tha completion of the new Court theater as yiuch as possible. The architect, Baron ‘ Hasenauer, has therefore withdrawn all the workinkmen from the Im- ‘The susceptible youth is like the mosquito. There is little hope for him after he goes washed. Probibition doesn’t keep the lawvers of Atlanta from throwiug law books, bibles and In‘klxflu at one another in the presence of the ol ‘These p ings smack very strongly of surreptitious rum, “Don’t you suppose,” said a member of the police force, “that a policernan knows arogue when he sees him?” ~ *“No doubt,” was reply, “but the trouble is that he does not seize a rogue when he knows him.” It is aunounced that a new paving stone called quartzite granite has been found In Dakota. 1t s supposed somebody has struek a batch of doughnuis baked by & young lad; graduate of & cooking school, and dumpos over the back ung-by ber mother. 0, no, ma'am, sludad the tramp, *'you may think my life all sunshine, but it n‘\{rt. Wherever L I am beset by dangers. in short, ma’am, I carry m{‘m- in my hands,” “Ah, I see,”exclaimed his temporary hostess, “that accounts for your not washing your hands. You don’t dare to do It for fear you'll drown yourself.” . Proud h#—ghloomflhn‘chk ton '.hezl Inld arm, m’ . 0 you roug!| all rightd ¥ ' N axy now.” “Don’t you 8 the directing hand “Gop's Wonrps to His Children” is the of your household?’ , mother didn’t go.” title of a compilation of sermons by Dr. minister of Canicatt], & largo town In George McDonald, the British author,re- (,,wm‘f, ':fm":,lg', ‘},',’,",‘,’{f";‘,,,}‘,’,;{.‘i TN 206 cently published by Funk & Wagnalls, | terializin, vil with the usual somber cast New York. ‘I'wenty-four sermons filled | of countenance, horns, and a body of con- with words of trnth and wisdom are | siderable length, ending in exploding fire- grouped in this book, which are worthy | crackers. He was more successful than he not only perusal, but a careful study of | had hoped for, for, a panic ensuing, several The oo and srguments. therein pon- | Of the women and chiidren of the congregu- tained. The work is worthy of n placa | 100 Were fatally kilied. =/ L on any bookshelf, but especially will it v Broaks. baclicior, § DOSOR L OUAHN 5 ' divine, preaches with a ravishing lisp and be found interesting to the clergy. dances ke a moonbeam on . frog pond. 5 g‘m young ladies gr !lxtl’:; |cnru{’ge nmgjove‘ % vl i h performances, bul eir fathers objec! L TE vromen ot Didvewe l told 1. 8| g dancing and would {ain throw the young ) . i3 tween he two factions T, by Jumes Freeman Clarke, author, and | Bitia Fangs in suspense, with- the odds Leo & Shepard publishers. ' In o charm- | slizhtly ‘i favor of his retention. . ¥irst ing manner the times in which the | thing the elders know, Mr. Brooks will have Savior appeared are reproduced, to- | married one of their daughters, and then gether with the characters who sur- | they won’t dare to fire him. rounded him, and the prejudices against “] guess I'd better withdraw from the him. Itis the result of many years of | clurch for two orthree months,” said a Da- study, and is, in fact, a brief commentary | kota man to the minister. “Why, how's on the four gospels. ' Tt is n book credit- | that brother, what's the matter?” inquired " 4 3 ¢ the pactor. ‘I feel three or four eycloue lies able to the sacred subject upon which it | gort'of working round in iy mind ana tioy've hey have erected a flume forty miles ’ * lohg for the purpose of brlnfiln: suffi- | pient water into the gulch to work | the ground, bed-rock being forty feet. Placer mining does not re- o quire much experience, but in order tojbecome a good quartz miner one has o have years of experience. Quartz mines rarely show silver and gold in their native pure state; one migat break up tons of ore around Butte and never see pure gold or silver. A tenderfoot would stumble over quartz that would mn up in the hundreds in silver and tnink it nothing but a common piece of gray-colored granite or slate, while you might show him a barren piece of highly solored pink maonganese or copper- stained roek, and he would think it would be a rieh roimen. is found in hundreds of different forms and colors, and a t many prospectors do not kuow the names of one-tenth of the min- srals found in Montana. The mines y around Butte are mostly silver B and gold, while there is a P great deal of copper produced. Silver daughters on an xtended west- ern_ tour_ for the benefit of his health, It was an easy matter to srike up an acquaintance, and for the nexttwo days the old gentieman was a most en- tertaining fellow-tr with his remin- isences of the ol and tacts and figures as to the th." 1 have since had as a fellow-passenger for a like number of aays, ex-Sgnator and Con- [ gressman-elect Whitthorhe, of Tennes- see,modest and unassuming,but one of the most interesting talkers 1 ever met. ‘Thousands of people from all over the world are journeying up and down thig land, and it is said that a rush of nearly j 100,000 more this fall and winter has been arranged for by the raillway uml?»:n!n-u. —_—— THE SMALL BOY. Boston Courler: Notwithstanding that it 1% the green apple season, the smail Eoy gets along swimmingly most of the time. il City Blizzard: ‘The boy who has been in swinming under the blazing sun may be ‘armer’s son—Yes, fathor. P Birkenhead down to Chester most thor- al museums, which are als approaching | is venned, a worthy portrayal of the | gottocome out. Just give me leave of ab- | distinguised by his tendency to keep away ore 18 first fed to the oro crushers at the | —Ye know 1 told ye to study up on chemis- | oughly. Quaint old farm houses with mnlenon. and concentrated hllm;'orcea on | beautiful hfp of our g:wmr, and well f.euce for say ten days sml Il be buck with Trom the back of Lis SUirk as much as possi- g mills, which breaks it up in small pieces (r{ and thiugs 80 you'd know best what to do | tile or thateh roofs were thickly scattered | the,theater. worth a studious and careful reading. ain next fall, "I believe they will be | ble, i mbout the size of a hickery nut. Itis | with different kinds of land. What do you | jvar small but well kept farms. The following classified statoment pre- PERIODICALS. of the thunderingest eyclone lies ever | yifo: There may be room at the 1.,,],, but then fed to the ntnmfis which dro": ever mgl "é“‘i‘ fl"g""’“l" ““"* 'Mballl;“uw: THE FIELDS OF GRAIN p'-'fl by “{ih"',;cfif,‘:{‘frd;_‘{',;“},‘ 'fl,‘:'f,'l'(.fl'v! WRITERS I¥ every department of liter- and don't want 0 disgraco the church. | this is not the view take by '{“‘ ,“'“"' \ toy second, there being five stamps in Buffalo Express: “Fhore xoes a man i | 100Ked fresh and beautiful, for they had 15 exiremely prevalent upon' the operatic | ature have found 'the various numbers | ./ UAHOR Widemouf, dev tell me datyo' | who climbs to the highest flmb of & cherry brace or battery,where 1t is pounded into p off with Dea- | tree and aceid wife hab done gone an’slo) ally kicks the gable end of & ing & bigzer per cent on his capital in- ained that charming green which | stage: Suicides—Ernani, Elvira and Nor of "‘The Wniter,” published at Boston, | o0 Thttlesouls am dat a 7 “elUs jes' | densely populated hornets’ nest. » pulp as fine s’ flour. It fs then put | 18 MAK " ® the turn to yellow. !Africaine, 2; Romeo, 2; Gilda |R! decidedly 1nteresting and instructive; ) A “ .- i ’ . through r roasting process, which, as the | Seete 108 {0 SEHRLI A 1 s are . | Gattle and she g, | NN 8 s A | B st Burabar ol | LK Jo e, Briet dlmaon, Slserrs The small boy in a frolie cattle and sheep were noticeable by their fine appearance which showed good c: but especially is the Angust number of | signed, parson?”’ *'As ter dat, Br'er Jimson, heat increases, carries on all the baser this valuable periodical interesting to | do’ de burden ob de profl seems ter 'vite de Robs the orchard of ita appies, inerals such as sulphur, arsenic, ete. It alive—Maurice and Azuceno (Il Trova- ways showing how much mer know about b And his in'ards eruel colie things which they know nothiug about. He . ading. X tore), and Jean of Levden (Le Prophet). | journalists . F. R. Burton has an | ’clusion dat she am de one dat resi: ned, I B aannsuily &ximiy &iapplos then taken to (ho Fotort room, whero t | polnied to- s welkkiown underiaker who ’ififllxfifl'flweflr’i‘u Trl:nt;rn:ltho; Barued alive=Alde 08 Ehadames (R1da). !axuullenurliclfl ;n‘!Uu&rimive Writing'" | waut yo' ter un'stand dat sbuebber strick a EHMSqueL LY RTUE SIARRS: 5 a8 reduced und run into bars weighing | was coming down the street. As the latter | ware pretty; in fact we saw very fow l}o’nnn ;.ll!‘l‘?w‘:w—;a;‘ nflv:lmo:;wel:nr; Which, by the way, is one of the most | /Mereency when dar was o ba mlm ":} Detrolt Free Press: A boy who can’t be 200 pounds eachthe assay stamp and the | spprosched. the sveaker accosted blu. | fonues of any other kind. But I shall not | bady in Lucrers. Assassinatad-—Riccargo | difficult ’ accomplishments to ucquire; | £050} (8% de Lawd gibs an’ de Lawd | nduced to go toa store & quarter of a mile | mamoof tho mill stampod upon them, | Well; how many fobs today? Making bay | [UCH GL "t charms of English rural | (U5 Batlo): Leonora (Forzy del_destinoy, | Frank W. Holand gives a view of “Re: | flic awav, bressod autdermamecrds | away on an errand cap be hired to walk for . a:ill they are ready for shipment to | Jorlaine te” business ] tie | scenes, Poots have sung them and nov- | everybody ' in Don Sebastian, Les | porters at Weddings,” and Lew Vander- | ™ "™ D — tive hours on & ‘""d”'t}" 1t 1s ““‘_‘t’ saed » A aha for refinement. Some gold ores | pa| yery gravely. My youngest elists have praised them so much that | Hughenots, and the bicillan Vespera, Shoi— | poole writes of ‘‘My First Novel,” bath | - Imperfect digestion and assimilation | Walkinemateh and the dproprietorput up & sre worked in a similar manner,but most | ehild fl"w " their fame will not suffer by any neglect n an entertaining manner. Miss Alice | produce disordered conditions of the sys- ver § P —_———.——e life: “I belleve absence 1sa ‘-?lnh-nl Small ‘boy who wed to sehocl ufuumu-;mum ;Wfi- i i d i Somerville Journal: ‘This is the searon Brown sets forth some important ideas | tem which grow and are confirmed by ne- Y > strain their under the subject, “'Cruel Kindness to ['glect. Dr. S H. McLean's Strengthenin, '.”":.:“n&",‘::zly'fl go WAl 10 Siiail the'e Young Writers;" Frank H. Pope tells | Cordial and Blood Purifier, by its tonic rowing, but to bear the small boys climb!n; the novice_ ‘“How a District is Covered," m’opumu, cures indigestion and gives | the fence with a design of finding one : ! and D, J, McGrath exhibits - a gleam of ne to the stomach. goes “punk! punk!” to carry off. 2ol n_rzuu de Posa (Don Carols). illed in a duel—Carlo (Forza del destino) : aleutine Pause) Beheaded—Anne Iree milling ore is worked in gold mills or arrastras. Copper and laufn ores are weated at the smelters, I.whu [ to hat culled sopper matter, and it is then of mine. ‘The town of Chester is an |nmmxfi old place. You will remember the civitas )ufignum of the Romans in Britain. W many times you have Pol»nnu "f‘ vereux. Lunaey fol- lowed by suicide—Lueia and Enrico (Lucis). Murderer and suicide—Othello. Stabbed— Carmen. —_————— —— - —_— ] 4