Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, October 9, 1887, Page 12

Rg— 5o 3G il il e iy i B ' ©AK OMAHA DAILY BEE: SUNDAY, OCTOBER 9. 1887.—~TWELVE PAGES. CIIANGED TO . On account of having the Foster Lacing Mooks, many inferior Gloves are being s0ld as the “Foster” to parties who believe fhem to be the Genuine Foster quality, which is a superior French Real Kid Glove, made with special care in our own manu. factory at Grenoble, France. To enable purohasers to distinguish the difference, we have changed our trade » mark, and shall hereafter stamp all of our best quality Fomster, Paul & Co. MANUFACTURERS. FOR BALE BY Lt e our Specialties are Fancy Work and Materials, Fine Wools and Yarns, Corsets, Kid Gloves, Underwear, Laces, Hosiery, We import our own Kid Gloves, fit them and guara ntee them. 15th and Harney Street. The ladies of Omaha and vicinity are cordially invited to attend our opening on MONDAY, TUESDAY and WEDNESDAY of a large and elegant stock of FANCY DRY GOODS. Embroideries, Infant's Outfits, Dress Trimmings and Buttons. ‘We have the latest designs and handsomest fancy work and materials for working to be found in New York City, Indeed, some of it had not been shown in the retail stores, but was being held back by designers until near the holiday geason. give you good values and low prices. All we ask is that you look at our goods and prices and we know we will soon have your confidence and trada Mrs, Beaman, the lady who had the fine exhibit at the county fair will be with us to teach fancy work. MRS. BENSON,=— We intend to sell a great many goods this fall, and to do that, we know that we mus MRS. J. BENSON, 15th and Harney Streets. Imported Long Waisted P. D. It has ne ood Sense Corset. FORTUNES MADE (QUICKLY. The Oomstock Millionaires—An Interesting 8ketoh, SENATOR JONES' TWO FORTUNES The Ups and Downs of William Sharon ~Senator Hearst's Rapid Rise to Great Wealth—Adoliph Sutro and His Family. 1In a previousarticle, written by George #]. Fitch in the Cosmopolitan Magazive, re given sketches of the representa- tive railway and bonanza Kkings of the Pacific coast—men whuse wealth, made within twenty years, rivals the fortunes of the Astors, the slow accumulation of over a century. In the follo wing article will be found sketches of other Pacitic coast millionaires whose careers offer good subjects to the writer of romance, 80 rapid has been tneir advance from poverty to enormons wealth, Shakespeare's pithy say in regard to the tide that, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune, is often quoted to illustrate the rise to fame or wealth of great men; but Senator Jones, of Nevada, is an ex- ample of & man who has twice scized this tide at its flood; who has lost an im- perial fortune without apparent regret, and is now again on the wayto great wealth, Jones is an Englishman of Welsh descent, who came to this country when very young. \Vith three brothers he left Cleveland, Ohio, in the spring of 1850 for the new El Dorado of the Pacific. He tried mining in several counties of Calfornia, but made no great success, and it wus not until he went to the Comstock lode in 1867 that his star began to rise. Like Sharon he was among the luckiest of the original investors in the Nevada silver mines. His mining experience in California stood him in good stead, and he was soon superintendent of a number of valuable mines, among others the Crown Pomt and Kentuck. In this pesition he showed the qualities that have made him one of the most popular men in Nevada. During a great fire in the Yellow Jacket mine it became necessary, to prevent the spread of the flames to the connecting mines, that some one should go down to the eight- hundred foot level of the Crown Point and cut the air pipes. The superintend- ent, with a boy to hold a candle, was lowered in the cage and performed the dangerous work. This made him the hero of the mines; the establishment of eight hours as a day's work rounded out hfi opularity. hen the first great bonanza was struck in the Crown Pomt mine, it brought mmllions to Superintendent Jones. He and Sharon divided most of this wealth between them, but Jones had not his partner’s facnlty ot clinging 1o his money. With a warm imagination he saw, like Mulberry Sellers, millions in every promising scheme that was un- folded before him, Inventors and pros- poctors besieged him. He tried to develop mines in Mono, Inyo and Kern counties in California. He lavished money like a prince. He spent nearly a million on the Sumner mine in Kern county, and took out nothing but water. Water sometimes brings a fortune to & mining man when it is cleverly mixed with stock but the water that Jones struck had to be pumped out, and for two years he kept the largest pumping works on the coast going duy and night, only to find that when the mine was drained there was nothing in it. Another million was sunk in southern Utak m & mine that never paid one cent on the dollar. ‘The Inyo mines next absorbed his at- tention and with Lis usual prodigality he arted in to connect them with tide- water. He built twenty miles of a nar- row-gauge railroad from Santa Monica, the seaport of Los Angeles, toward In- dependence, the capital of Inyo county. The railroad never got any ther than Los Angeles, and the tourist to-day mar- wvels at the word *“‘Independence’’ on the side of these cars. Jones' fortune was gone and the mines had “pe d out" by the time the railroad was in opera- tion, and soon after the Southern Pacific octopus absorbed it, He also spent sev- eral millions in San Francisco in costly buildings and manufacturing enterprise: When his wealth slipped from him, he accepted his loss philosophically. He was then in the United Sta senate, where he has gained a reputation as one of the leaders of the bi-metallists. About eight years ago he with some others invested a few thousands in the Treadwell mine at Douglas Island in Alaska. The stock hawked about the streets in Sau Francisco, but no one had any conlidence in the fur northern terr| tory. The mine proved a veritable bonanza to its owners. A huge stamp- mill bas been erected, and for several years Jones' share has netted him from one hundred thousand to one hundred and fifty thousand dollars a year, and there is enough ore in sight to yield the same revenue for years to come. So Senator Jones may yet regain his lost wealth. He is still in his prime, of magnificent physique and undi- minished vigor. Of "all the Comstock mullionaires he is the only one who has shown a genius for national affairs, or who has developed any ability as an orator and a writer. The late William Sharon was known chiefly as a Comstock millionaire, a United States senator from Nevada, and the defendant in one of the greatest divoree cases in American legal annals, He came to California with none of this world’s goods; he accumulated a fortune ouui.uog.om yet he left this world for the unknown country from which none roturn with ap esiate valued at §450. This Moninhmq result was duc to the fact that he made over his estate months before 1o his heirs, i orderto defeat the i court decision that ordered him to pay alimony to the woman who claimed to be his wife. The story of Jones' fortune 1s that of Sharon's also. He made his first great “stake’ in Crown Point and Belcher.From that time on it was like the record of the athering mass of a great snowball. fi‘hcre were oceasional checks to its ad- vancement and growth, but these were only temporary. Sharon had the genius for the manipulation of mines which brings wealth into the manager's pce cot. He controlled tor years a half score of mines out of which he made large profits, while the stockholders received nothing but the liberty to pay assess- ments. Sharon was intimately associ- ated with Wililam R. Ralston, and when the erash came in the Bank of Calfornia aron was the man who took the dead financict’'s estate and entered upon the legal fight with the creditors. Many predicted that the burden would swam 'I\“l, but he managed finally to ruucg firm ground; and by his shrewd manage- ment he actually plucked profit out of the tangle of involved interests. He built many houses in this city, and he carried onat a profit enterorises t had been a dead loss to the more gener- ous Ralston. Sharon was small of stat- ure, and his only striking feature was his eye, in which gleamed cunning, courage and power. His last years were clouded with the divorce brought by Sarah Althea Hill. Her case wzs based on a marringe certificate which she claimed, and w! held, was genuin supreme court reversed this decision. The bitter legal fight, which was continued for many months, cost Sharon not less than a quar- ter of a million, and when it was decided that he must pay the woman council fees and alimony, he stripped himself of his millions in order that she might not se- cure any of his wealth. He left a memo- rial which ought to keep his name green, in a bequest of #50,000 for a children’s play-ground at the Golden Gate park in San Francisco. One of the most successful mining men on the Pacific coast is George Hearst, re- cently elected by the democrats as United California. Hearst ian, of small educa- tion and no polish of manners. He has spent most of his life in rough mining camps. Upon mines ana quartz mining his judgment is almost infallible. For ten years atter he crossed the plains from Missouri he suffered the hardships of mming life with few of its rewards. Finally, in 1850, he journeyed in the winter to the Com- stock lode, then just discovered. The value of the new *‘black ore” he discov- ered from assays, and getting all the cap- ital he could command he invested it in the Ophir mine. Five years saw him a millionaire, and since then he has touched nothing that did not turn into gold. He owns the richest mine in Mon- tana, he has valuable mines in Utah, Idaho, Nevada and Mexico. When he began to appear as a power, Haggin and I'evis invited him to become an associate with them. Thus he has ac- quired large interests in California lands. Heisa_man slow of speech and of ac- tion. He hesitates over a decision, but he can be rapid when the occasion calls for prompt action. ‘Thus he had been negotiating for a large Mexican ranch just over the border, which had been allowed to go to ruin be= cause it was on the trail that Geronimo always used when on one of his period- ical raids. Hearst got early intelligence of the capture of the Apache chief and sccured the land at about nty cents an acre. r $200,000 he obtained a body of rich land that is worth to-day several millions. Many amusing stories are related of Hearst's peculiarities; but with all his oddities he commands respect for his hon- ty tofriends, two traits not picuou mnunf; mining millionaires. Zenerosity to the democratic party in California led to his elevation to the sen- ate. He has strong political ambition, but his advisers have usually been badly selected, Thus, when ne was placed in nomination for governor of California, he de n speech so full of learnec words and florid rhetoric that everyone knew it had been written for him. It fell flat, and General Stoneman sccured the nomination. But after the result was announced Hearst came forward and in siple, plain language declared that he would work for the candidate sincerely and faithfully. His speech was the event of the convention, und one of the audi- ence called out, “Uncle George, if you nad talked that Way before the vote, you would have got the nomination!” is estimated dollars and his H at fifteen million thousand _ dollars income eighty a4 month. He has just made a r to R only son of a or in San Francisco. The young s 0 strong taste for journalism, and an almost unexampled opportunity for gratifying it. ‘The name of Adolph Sutro will always be connected with the great tunnel which he constructed for draining the lower levels of the Comstock mines and whic is one of the wonders of modern engi- neering. Little 15 known of his eareer, as he i8 reticent about his life. He is a Hebrew, of French birth, and he evidently enjoyed’ good educational advantages, as he speaks many of the modern Europ- ean languages and is also familiar with Hebrew, Arabie, and Persian. He very poor whea he came to Californ more than & quarter of u century ago. There are tales that he peddlea Yankee notions about the strects of San Fransisco, but in this he had good company, as one of the present justices of the United States supreme court pieced out a scunty law practice in the same way. 1t was in 1864, while on the Comstock lode, that he conceived the great project of boring a tunnel which would tap “all the deep mines and thus furnish drain- age and pure air. Sutro formed a tun- nel company, made contracts with the mining companies to receive a eertain royalty on every ton of orecxtracted after the tunnel was finished, and then crossed the Atlantic to get funds for the vast enterprise. When the big bonanzas were struck, Sutro began to encounter u storm of opposition, us it was seen at once what an enormous revenue the tun. nel would draw from the mines. For years he made the fight single-handed, which would have broken any ordinary man. Finally, in 1878, after nine years of work, the tunnel was completed at a cost, with interest, of #%6,500,000. Then the mining companies, which had nearly exhausted their paying ore,refused to pay the stipuiated royalty. Sutro at once closed the tunnel, the mines were flooded, and soon u compromise was made. The buik of the stock of the tun- nel company is held in Europe, and has | never paid interest. Sutro, however, made the fortune out of 1t that his genius and persistence deserved. He has in- vested most of his money in San Fran- cisco real estate, which has increased greatly in value within the last ten years, In his frequent trips to Europe Mr.Sutro found it a recreation to gather rare and ' valuable books and manuscripts, and when he retired from mining these tormed the nucleus of a great library, For the past tive years he has been adding to this libi until now it numbers between 000 volumes, many of them unique, and a large number of oriental manuseripts, includi th original leather sheets of Hebraic text from which the infiemuus Shappira made up his spu- rious book of Deuteronomy. Mr. Sutro's plan is to establish a free hbrary in San ‘rancisco that shall be second to none in the world in the departments of histor and science. In connection with it will be a museum for the display of Egyptian and other curiosities. Besides four well authenti- cated mummies of hoar antiquity, he has & boat discovered in an Egyptian tomb, of the time of Abraham. The California legislature, which has just ended its ses- sion, passed a bill giving Mr. Sutro full power to establish this library. Its site will probably be on the heights overlook- ing the famous Seul Rosks and the Pacific ocean—u beautiful spot that the million- aire has alveady converted into a great pleasure ground. In common with ex-Senator Fair, weaith brought contention into the Sutro family. For several years the divided household lived in_one large residence in San Francisco, Sutro en g at one door and his wife at another, the chil- dren sharing the time between the par- ents. Of late years Sutro haslived in in his cottage by the ocean with his handsome daughters of whom he 1s justly proud. In appearance he isa striking man, with the eye of an eagle, and a nose which bears out the sem- blance to the king of birds. With a s! as deeply bronzed as Stanley's, and with his snowy white hair and beard, he looks more like an Oriental sheik than an American. They call him he Assyr- ian’’ on the ock, and it is easy to sec how the title tits him.% “Lucky” Baldwin is a Californi lionaire, who has gained a nati utation by his victories on the Ameri turf. He will divide the honors this year with young Haggin, and some predict that his stable will rank first among the winners of the great races, Like most of his fellow millionaires, he came to the Pacific coust very poor. The ox-train of h he formed a part was besieged by Apaches for two weeks in the Humboldt valley, but unearly all es- eaped without 10jury. Brick-making was the first thing that he turned his hand o. From thut he drifted into the mining- stock market, and his shrewdness and nerve soon brought him to the front. He was dubbed *‘Lucky” because he nev failed in a deal. He made a careful in- vestigation of all the Comstock mines that he was allowed to enter, and, as the result of his work, he invested all his coin in Crown Point and Belcher. The saume boom that brought wealth to Sharon en- hed him. But he did not remain in the Comstock. He saw a ricner field in tifs San Francisco stock market, where he joined hands with James R. Keene, and the two conspirators planned the campaign in Ophir stock that broke the Bank ~of California, and trans- ferred to Baldwin's account $4,500, 000. Keene cleal up nearly as much, and, flushed with triumph, wentto New York to work the Wuall street money kings; three years saw him stripped of every dollar. Baldwin remained on the Pacific coast and was content to supply timber and crush ore for the mines that were now on assessments. He bought the great Santa Anita ranch near Los Angeles, and to it he added many other purchases, so that now he owns a principality in th fertile southern valley, of seventy thou- sand acres, on which is his celebrated breeding stable. He built the second Iargest hotel in Sun Francisco with a the- ater in one wing; he owns a large strip of the shore ot L Tahoe, 1n the Sierras, with a beautiful summer hotel; nhe works valuable mines in Inyo coun he has acres of real estatein San Fran- cisco; he makes more brandy and wine on his southern ranch than any one else in the state; he grows enough wheat to charter entire ships for Liverpool, and every year he shears 10,000 sheep. He imates his wealth at %20,000,000 and his income at a round 1nillion a X Baldwin has had lurge experie women, having been married thre not to mention morganatic alli cannot be numbered. The latter have | given him much trouble. He has been | shot by a fair young cousin who ch him with her ruin; he has been sued b a young southern beauty for breach of promise, and the case s still in the courts; he has had other u - ventures, out of which he | always managed to escape unscathed in person, if not in pocket. His lust wife is young enough to be his daughter, but though the old millionaire's locks ar white and his face is scarred with the lines plowed by his hard life, he still | ks with a_jaunty step, and he drives his thoroughbred four-in-hand with the | skill and nerve of youth. | | volunteer sold | and is engaced 1n business enterprises. Behi nd the Scenes. Herman Merivale. “M. P.,” aged 13; after taking her “be- hind the scenes at the Standard theatre.) Littie Maudle! little maidie, Tell me what you think it means; Tell me what you thought, youns lady, Of your peep behind the scenes. Was it worth the fuss and riot, _Just for pleasing me and you? Shouldn’t we be better quiet For that wasted hour or two? Reading books and storing knowledge Bothering our Little brains— rowling wise at school and college— That alone is worth the pains. Can there ever, could there ever, Anything so silly As to faney you are To Invent a fancy se: Pasteboard rocks and mackintoshes, Spread to keep the people dry, ‘Wiien the nonsense-water wash Up into the nonsense-sky— And a great big stupid curtain Falls between two sets of fools! Such a waste of time, for certain, Ought to be inst the rules— Yet your eyes grew bright and brighter, And your blood came fast and warm, And you set your small teeth tighter, As you watehed the painted storm. Can you let such make-belleviug Malke you laugh and make you ery, Sometimes joyin r, sometimes grieving? Never mind, dear, so do I! Was it very silly? clearly All of us were nothing loth; All nice people, Maud, are merely Children of a larger growth. 8o then, as you're growing older, Let the wise folk have their say ; Chilly souls alone grow colder Wihen they’re sitting at a play. “Play” 18 work, my girl; to:merit ‘There above no little gain, 1f it ease a single spirit Of a single hour of pain, Little Maudie! little maidie, Let the heart's wild flowers grow wild; Over all things, be a lady, But—to God—remain a child. e -— OUR WARRIORS AT HOME. General James A. Wilson lives in Boston. General T. J. Wood lives at Dayton, 0. General Alfred Pleasonton lives in Phila- delphia, General H.J, Hunt is in the service at Washington. General Don Carlos Buell is pension agent at Louisville. General John G. Parke is superintendent of West Point. General N. P. Banks is United States mar- shal, Boston. General John Pope was retired last year as major general. General Alexander S. Webb is president of the City colleg General D. M, Gregg, the cavalryman, is in rezular serv, General Charles H. Devens is judge of su- perior court at Boston. Gen Lew Wallace lives at Indianapo- is, and is writing books. General W. W. Averell, the cavalry leader, is at home in Bath, N. Y. General Daniel Buttertield resides in New York, and is a capitalist. General W. F. Smith lives in New York and is a celebrated engineer. General Horatio G. Wright is on the re- tired listand lives in Washington. General John C. Robinson is on the re- tired list and lives at Binghampton, General Joseph B. Carr engineers a chain cable manufactory at Troy, N. Y. General Wesley Merritt, also a zallant cav- alry general, is in rezular service. General John F. Hartranft, ex-governor of Pennsylvania, lives in Philadelphia, General William B. Franklin is president of a manufacturing company at tartford. General A. V. Kautz, the cavalryman, is in Nebraska, colonel of the Eighth infantry. General John C. Fremont is president of a mining company, with an oftice in New York. General George Stoneman, ex-governor of California, owns large grazing lands in that state. General O. B. Wileox is brigadier-zeneral, commanding a department in the Missourl division. General H. A, Barnum practices law in New York and suffers constantly from severe army wounds., General Q. A.Gillmore is in the rezular en- gineer service and now at army headquarters in New York. General W. T. Shermen resides in New Yorl He was retired as general, and that oftice does not now exist. General Franz Sigel is pension agent at New York, He wasa German soldier who volunteered in the war. General Nelson A. Miles is brigadier-gen- eral U, 8. A., commanding department of Arizona, division of the Pacific. Geueral J. J. Bartlett, who received Le arms at Appomattox, is commissioner ot pe sions at Washington, General George Crook is brigadier-general .S, A., commanding the department of the Platte, division of Missouri. General Q. O. Howard is major-general U, 8. A., commanding the division ef the Pa- citic. He lost an arm at Fair Oaks. General John Gibbon is brigadier-general U, S. A., commanding the department of the Columbia, division of the Pacific. General John M. Schofield is majc eral commanding the division of the At- lantic, the principal subordinate eommand. General Abner Doubleday is on the re- tired listand lives at Mendham, N. J. He opened Sumter's guns on Moultrie in April, 1561 Genera! Alfred H, Terry is major-general comnanding the division” of the Missiouri, the central division of the army. He was a r, not trained to arws. ocum hives in Brooklyn He was'a graduate in civil life in 1561, became jor-general of volunteers, and resigned in General H. W. ieneral Philip 1. Sheridan is lieutenant- general and commander-in-chief under the president. A special act will be necessary 1o make him general. e is one of the four leading generals who were in_service when the war began, the others belng Meade, Thomas and Buell. R IMPIETIES, Why Is it that so many worthy clergymen disregard a great law of nature, and expand their sermous as the weather grows colder? ‘The family bible has been brought out service as a blotter for pressing autumn leaves. Some day, when Ignatius Donnelly hasn’t anytiine to do, he might sit down and figure it out thau the forbidden fruit was a banana, :l'('l(L that Adaw’s fall was caused by the Last Sunday a clereyman in Hartford, | Conn., was speaking to chlldean regarding | the benetits of a temperate life. "\Vlly.”.\mlfi he, “the stronzest man that ever lived” never | tasted liquor. Who can tell me the name of the strongest man?” “John L. Sullivan,” came instantly from a little fellow in the in- | fant departmen of the Sunday school. A clergyman officiated at the funeral of a man whose widow was a spiritualist, Searcely were the exercises concluded when she be- gan to berate the minister in a masculine tone of voice. ‘To reassure him, a bystander informed him that the spirit of her husband was holding forth. Our friend says that in all his experience it was the only time he was ever “sassed by a corpse.” “Parson Jinglejaw, why is it that your oul- pit facilities are of so crude a nature? Can’t your congregation afford you anything bet- ter than a barrel to preach from?” "*“Dat affa’r am jes’ a pruff ob de meanness of some perfessers er de gospel. Parson Widemouf ax me t'oder day if I wouldn’tisgehange pul- pits wid ’in I wanter commodate ’im, an’ 50 I sont my janitor down wid my pulpiton a wheelbarrer ter make de change—an’ 1 wanter say dat my pulpit war oner dese whitewosh frigeratol n’ blameif he didn’t sen’ back dat bar’l ‘ell yer now some kris- chins iz jes’ too scan’lous mean ter live.” “Dearly beloved,” sald the pastor of an Oakland, chureh, *‘for the past week my heart has been torn by conflicting emo- tions. I have long labored among you, and if I could have my will here is where I would die. But I recently received a call to care for a floeck in Los Angcles, and 1 have wrestled with the Lord in praver, to know whether it was His will that I should pro- ceed to that new field of duty. [—" At that moment the clerk tip-toed softly forward and handed the tor a brief note from the treasurer. As the good shepherd read it his brow cleared. “Brethren,” he continued. the Lord has vbuchsafed an answer to my prayer. 1 seean inward light which con: vinces me that it is the Divine pleasure tnat 1 should continue to labor nmmlfielhis people whose spiritual interests have been dear to mwe for so many years.” e aforie’s Kiss. Walter €. Learned. Majorie laughs and climbs on my kneo, And 1 kiss her and she kisses me. I Kkiss her, but I don’t much care, Because, although she is charming and fair, Majorie’s only three. But there will come a time, 1 ween, When, if I tell her of this little scene, She will smile and prettily blush, an L shall long to kiss her again, When Majorie's seventeen. - The Last Lover. Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Come thou, the last, best lover ! For life hath been a rover From vision unto vision—the highest heart 1 seek the truest lovei No less than he ean move her, Whose human faith did perish of its con- stancy. Oh, come, thou awful lover! Draw near, and close the cover The trembling lips that ope not to any cry but this: Death is the dearest lovi Death is the Kindest lover ! Nor can the breaking heart tiust any troth but his. i Sl SINGULARITIES. A dog owned near Boston cliews gum. A crow is living in Ohlo aged about thirty- five years, The lake ot Merjelan, In Switzerland, has isappeared. Annie Mercer, of Missauke counli'. Mich., lsh;!\'ur six feet tall, though only twelve years old. A mud turtle with *1520” burned on its k was recently found in liorse creek, ison county, Il an in Maine has a hen which is sure mouse. le claims that she often Near Coal Canyon, Cal., isamammoth fig tree measuring 102 inehes in circumference four feet from the ground. 1t has four Im- mense branches, each of which exceeds fifty inches in cirenmference. A ten-inch lizard was_found in from England at the New York postoflice. It was directed to a.place in Indiana. The heast had crossed the ocean 1na tightly- ar box, but became as lively as could be when air was given him, st turtle has been captured at on the farm of J. K. i were tnese words: the mail 37 . o nes, except the first one. which is of a faint, photo- graphic chiatacter. In the town of Marlboro, Conn., there isa irl eight years of age, that has a long list of living ancestors—a father and wother, two grandmotners, two grandfathers, — three great grandinothers, two gre t-grandiathers, und one great-great-grandmother, the latter being nearly 100 years old. An orange grower near Lake Eustis, Flor- ida, found on one of his trees a fruit tiat seemed to be about two-thirds orange and one-third Japan persimmon. he latter re- sembles a full-zrown and ripe red pepper. te dug down to the roots of the orange tree and there tonnd the living root of a Japan persimmon tree twined among the orange- tree roots. James Williamson, of Toronto, 0, tured alive crow in his corntield. While ear- rying it home he was attacked by hundreds of other crows, He first tried to run away, then he made a vigorous attempt to defend himself with a elub; next he sought shelter in a shed, where the besieging crows kept Lim a prisoner for more than an hour, ‘I'his particular specimen (of tarantuia) came to Atlanta with a_bunch of bananas consigned to a commission merchant. It was captured after some diflicuity and placed in a larea glass jar filled witlh alcohol, The commission merchant kept it for two days on exhibition in his store, and then he con- cluded to take it to a friend at the Whitehall drug store. On the way the jaror bottle drovped and was broken into many piec and notwithstanding the two days’ incare ration in alcohol, the tarantula walked off as it nothing had ever happened, eap- o —-— OLD PEOPL Mrs. Phiebe Travis, aced one lundred and four, is _the oldest woman in western New York. She never saton Washington's knee, from its long retirement aud 18 now doing | nor indeed, did she ever see him, but she dis- | ! large famil I'in banishing threir troutles tinetly remembers his death and th cast over the country. Wbl Mrs. Lucy Lord Luther, who aied at Had- lyme, Conn., on Wednesday, atthe age of one hundred and three years and months, was the oldest person on the pen- sion roll, having drawn a monthly allowance as the widow of a soldier ot the war of 1812, E. C. Loomis, of Burlington, Vt., is ono of the best preserved men in New Engiand. Recently he celebratea the tifty-fifth anni- versary of his wedding, He still resides in | the house he was married in, never having removed from it. The venerable mansion once sheltered Prince Edward, duke of Keut, }{mxen Victoria’s father, for three days in v Mr. D. . Chamberlain, who died at the Old Gentlemen’s home in Boston recently, aged eighty years, was identified with many of the leading mechanical inventions of the past fifty years—the repeatine rifle, the hand and power planer, the spring roll for win- dow curtains, the hook and eye machine, the | kerosene lamp burner, and the lettered wheel hand stamp. dmond Montgomery recently died on Nick Jordan’s place, near the county line of Schley, Ga., aged 102 years. He was an African chief of the Askari tribe, and was taken to Virginia trom Africa in 1807, when lie wasa stalwart young man, He had a in Virginia, and when died he left his third wife and twenty-five chil- dren in Georsia. His grandehildren and great-grandehildren are unknown and un- numbered. One of the oldest Cherokees 1n the nation died near Paul's Valley, Cherokee nation, on last Thursday, aged 102, His name was Jim Flyb l?o came to the Cherokee country from Georgia in a very early day, and has lived here con- tinuously ever since then. He used to tell many startling tales in connection with early Indian warfare, and at his death many marks were still visible, caused by wounds received in battle. William Legg, better known as “Uncle Billy,” living near Benjamin, in this (Lewis) county, Mo., has passed his ninety-fifth mile-ston He w born 1n Botetourt county, Va., Auzust 25, 1702, He lived with his father until the war of 1812 broke out, when he enlisted under Colonel Richard Johnson, of Kentucky, May 19, 1818, He was in the battle of Thames, “October 5, 151: saw Tecumseh when he fell. and thinks Col- onel Johnson killed him. He lost s horse in that battle, andsays “Uncle Sam” has never paid him for it yet. Mrs. Rebecea Cary, of College Hill, Hamil- ton county, Ohio, s probably the oldest ‘woman in the southern part of that state. She was born in New ork, August 19, 1790, and most of her facul- ties are still well preserved. Mrs. Cary is the mother of General Samuel F, Cary, the well known temperance and greenback advocate. She has great-great-grand children fifteen years old. The venerable woman has a very retentive memory., and can recall all the cidents of her Flrllmml days. She has ne taken a dose of medicine in her life or con- sulted a physician. There died on September 25, at her resi- dence in Oakland, Cal, Mrs, Susannah Brown. a colored woman, who claimed to be 110 years old, She was born. according to herstory, in moved ome years afterwards to W «ton, where \e lived for nearly ninety vears, She said she remembered perfectly the inauguration of Washington in 170 in New York. She was then a child of lve years, and in the throng 1n the street she stood noshow of see- ing anything, when a kindly man lifted her on his shoulders and she saw over the heads of the crowd. She h ed that she had seen every president in wgurated_down to Grant in his second *term. In 1878 she came to Oakland to live The man who is bright May not always b: song of cipher, ’s o wondrous key \nkes a simple epitaph A thing of myste There may be nothing new in this world, but there's a heap that's fresh, Inglishman who said that hugeing was ‘“armless,” was wrong. It is’arinful. ‘The man who carries a brick in his hat will never own a block of the same material. Mrs, Langtry’'s new play “As in a Looking Glass,” was probably selected atter consider- able reflection. Some fellows think it adry joke to steal another man’s umbrella on & rainy day, It isn’t, though, 1f you happen to see a telegraph wire Iying on the ground, you will find it a very safe thing to let arone. ‘The peal of the breakfast bell doesn’t al- ways bring a_man_down, but the peel of a banana will do it every t . Joshua stopped the sun, but it would have piizzled him to stop & bob-tailed strect car after 1t had passed him a rod, Jay Gould is quietly buying large tracts of western land. Al he wants is the land that jines his'n A leading tailor makes all his trousers without pockets. His customers have no use for them after paying for the elothe If some of the kevs of a pano were utal- ized to lock it up, this world would be a lit- tle brighter. “Where are the bizgest sponces in the world found?” asks a corre pondent. They are found occups ing thrones and trec-luneh tables. et us have tax on luxuries,? eried a pub- er, and when he found three earpet | tacks in his huckleberry pie that noon he was | satisfied. California was thirty-seven years old last | Friday. She has sowed more wild oats and time generally than any other of lier age, - ‘The man who borrows 35 from you and neglects to retutn it is often thou It to have A poor memory, when, in tact, the wman is poorand not the memory. In this enlighten consists iu smoking t: cent ciears a da; that ne e ereatness 3 twenty-live having & signature | which was placed in the ha 3 e at Los Angel purpose, o laived, of searing bur, s has been stol Bunco Steerer (to stranger)—“Isn’t this my old friend Peikius, of Perkinsville?” Stranger—*No, sir, my name is Skinem, L' areul estate dealer, and I've some seven- | sister, after an_absence fron ! tle irls ought t room flats, with bath, steam leated, hards wood finish, bell-boy and——""The bunco steerer shouts **Police !” — -— 0ld people sufler much from disorders of the urinary organs, and are alway gratificd at the wonderful efieets of D, J. H. MeLean's Liver und Kidney Bula, $1.00 per bottle { S25 and | and dimes that eseapo th She Said that | Was Dreaming. Samuel Minturn Pech. The amber beams were flitting From the meadow newly-mown— My love and 1 were sitting n the waning light alone. 1 told her of my passion, And the hopé I had at stake; Sho said that I was dreaming— Ah, let me never wake! The mellow glow grew dimmer; L clasped her hand in mine; The stats began to glimmer Above tho drowsy pine. 1 snid their boams were shining . The brighter for her sake; She told mie 1 was dreaming— Ah, let me never wake. I felt her fingers tremile; Shy teardrops I could seas Her heart could not dissemble ‘The love she bore tor ne. 1 whispered: “Were you faithless, Sweetheart, my heart would breaks 1t loving 1s but dreaming Ab, let us never wake ! MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC, cllarlo Rose inténds to shortly visit Amer- ca. . The Edwin_Booth-Lawrence Barrett com any drew $7,500 in two performances in Minneapolis. Mierzwinski, the tenor, will United States the coming winter. Wilson Barrett has obtained control of another London theatre—the Globe. Mille. Sigrid Arnoldson, the new Swedish singer, was recently presented with a fiftye foot whale by her admirers at Ber.en. Robert Planquette, composer of *Les Cloches de Corneville,” nas just completed a new three-act comic opera, entitled *Sur- couf.” ®Miss Emma Thursby, in_excsllent health, recurned from France last week with het her native visit the shores of more than a year. Manazers of London theatres are said to have offered to contribute $50,000 per an= num toward the expenses of theatre supervi= sion by a government department, ‘’he Grand opera house, Pittsburg, is somewhat in advance of its contemporaries in that it has o} air of opera glasses attached 'l:)'umuchulu to every parquet seat in the ouse, “Dolores,” which is Sard u’s noble drama of “Patrie” done over as « svectacle under the keen,colorful eye of Mr_Bolossy Kiralty, will be presented in New ) ork city eally in November. Wagner has invaded South ‘‘Der Fliegende Hollande harmonious title, of course, o Fantasma,” having just now been give: the first time at Buenios Ayre Teresina K. Tua, the violinist, has 'eft Berlin for New York, where she will m. ke her debut at Chickering hall on October 17, She will ma two-vears tour of the United Stats, kiving 225 conc for which she will receive $i0,000, exclusive of travel nz and hotel expenses. ‘The latest addition to the Gerster concort €O npan, Mume. Hastreiter, with whom Mr, 3 I articles of agrecment. Mme, ster's reappearance, however, will not take place at the New York Metropolitan oi era house November 10, as has been an nounced, but about a fortmgnt later, the Flim.ldumm having cabled Mr. Abbey of ier inability o arrive here before the 20th of that month, Mme. Nilsson's two pas and fans. Amerfca, under the more ns are tapestry Most of the former as picked up for herself, and she has some rare and beautitul bits, but the fans are mostly gift One of them was given W her in i, Pot by a Russian’ pri by of 13 fan of the qu o1t 18 , embroidered with pearls and the sticks of gold nnd ivory set it small ruties, and the monogiwms 1n diamonds. A tenor singcr has jus his appe r- ance at Berlin in Béllin’s “*Norma.” liig nom de theatre is Riccardo, but he is a Hun- karian by birth, and his real name is 1’a) k, He is said to possess the much coveted G sharp. e was a very successtul auimal portrait painter, but one day he discovercd 1 POSS d a voice, and as beliey matic talent. He made hig first appe at Breslau, whence he received an’ engage- ment for the opera house in Berlin, Helena Modjeska, the foremo-t actress on our staze, be.an her annual tour attie Tabor opera house. Denver, Col, Her repoer- season wil include ~seven of s works. Sne will act Juliet, Lwogen, Rosalind, Viola and Ik list of plays a'so Adrienne,” and a Diana; or, irom the German. —— BRIGHL LILLLE FOLKS, A little three-year-old girl, when her mother was trying” 1o get ber’ to sleep one Suinmer evening, began H about a noise outyide tolid 1 was caused by a cricket, shewi ely remarked, “Mamma, | think it ought to be oiled.” A litte four-year-old Louisy lie girl had her first dream, uid was exjiating upon the new-found expericnee and telling it out, when her mother said: ™ your dream?”’ ! were lyng right by know.” Parent—"Who is the laziest hov in vour class, Johnny?” Johuny--+1 dunno.,” “f should think you would know. Wi 10 1t others are industrionsly wr tine or studying r lessons, wito is he who sits id y in his and watehes the rest, instead of workin g hiwmselt?” s teachor! " re ated 50 U yshaw, e, and ot o have done so, i w for little bto; sthen e wisdom silent bt o1 1 oran too wich L you grow, 3o you will gain.” 150 for a moment. i s a good deal ol Mamma,” said Flossie, * nk that lie wear bustlesgin:toad of I dies, girls have to be spinker.” mme sone jie. M Gimwe some pie! Rovert: Aud uriy A e What else up bt provinls do you sity it Mabel has a ereat sister, whicl sho has ) that end st ire to have 1 little told woulleost ards the n e | A short time sinee she went with matlier to do_some shopping. During conversation in regard o goocs and m | caughit the expression *§24.7 “Why, Y UG leale i Cost unly 2b er the isper, * ot 10 Y \ DUy & Dby,