Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 15, 1891, Page 13

| | Omaha People Will Drain it and Secure the Mineral, COLD PAVED MOUNTALN LAKE, '"WCRKING A RICH GOLD HILL PLACER. Where s Been Can im Golden Studded tby a Natural ~ One of Wyoming's Wonders. Catchment Ore b Sanatoos, Carbon county, Wyo., Nov. 12. [Special wo Tk Bre, | —~Citizens of no other soction of the west are more deeply inter- estod in tho outcome and future prospects of Gold Hill and other outlying mining districts of Saratoga than Nevraskans. Residents of Omaha and other Neoraska cities and towns are peculnarily interested in mining claims in one or more of the districts surrounding the Upper Platte valley and tributary to Saratogn. But as this section is comprised in the tarritory that 1s dependent on Omaha in a commercial and financial way, the greator trade and wealth here developed will result in advantage and benefit to Omah It may be simply a coineidence, or mayhap 8 tribute to the forethought and business acumen of Nebraskans, that nearly all the mining investments they have made hore have been in placers. That is the safest way to make money and tho largest roturns on the money invested are derived from gold wash- ng. Of course where bonauzas aro dovel- oped by the expenditure of small capital tho profits are big. But bonanzas are by no means s0 common now as in the days wkhen the mining industry in this country was in its infancy. Over on the continental divide, twenty miles west of Saratoga, at the head of Jack crock, a company composed of Fremont, Arlington and Omaha men, spent most of tho season just ended in getting ready for active and profitable placer mining that will begin next spring. This company has already had 8 chance to sell out its properties at a handsome profit. It has wisely concluded to hold on to them. Made a Fortunate Alliance. In the Gold Hill camp. Omaha people and capital have but recently become ivterested, William H. Crary, the well known real estate operator of Omaha, and others who are 1dct tifiea with the city, lataly acquired an inter- est in valuable placers at Gold Hill. A com- vany will soon be organized and incorporated to work them under the name of the Villette Mining and Hydraulic company. Mr. Crary and his associates were fortu- nate in formine an allance with the Hopkins Bros, of Providence, R. I., who have one of the best stock ranches in the upper Platte valley. Besides other valuable proverty they own in the Gola Hill district, the Hopkins boys hold valuable placer ground on Gold Run, that skirts A\{mun\l and Eoterprise Lills, that have alveady become the scene of active operations by the Massachusetts syn- dicato that has started out to develop the claims that passed into the control of the Til- ton Mining and Development company. One of the placer claims owned by Hop- kins brothers, known as the Bay State and comprising forty acres of ground that pros- peots rich, has been generally regarded as one of the most promising properties of it: class ever since the Gold Hill district was organized. Numerous provositicns have been mado them to open up the ground for an in- tocest in it. These, as well as offers to pur- chase that were made by persons of specula- tive intent. have been declined. The owners were catisfled to hold on to the Bay State, convinced that it would pay them hand- somely to work it themselves. James J. Hopkins 1s now at Gold Hill look- ing after work undertaken for the purpose of making up estimates as to the cost of sys- tem of devolopment that has been mapped out. A contract for work has been let and if the woeather pormits, operations will continue this winter, so that an active campaign for a good clean-up on the Bay State can b car- ried out next season. Whila big returns are insured on overy in- vestment of this sort that may be made, be- cause the Bay State ground prospects rich enough to justify an expectation of large re- turns, others than those who are interested in the new company will be indirectly bene- fitted through ito operation: ‘What Placer Lake Promises. Gold Run heads up in tho hills whoro the Wiue Bell and other promising leads are lo- ocated. Somo of theso claims will develop into rich mines. There is no doubt of that. At all sensous of the year there is a_good- Bizcd stream tuat flows down from this ole- vated ground. In tho spring ana early sum- mer it is swollen to a regular torrent, always emptyiug into a natural reservoir, known as Placer Inke. This body of water covers an aren of fifteon to twenty acres, all embraced within the linits of tho Bay State placer, 7'he outlet to Placer lako i3 likewiso called Gold Run, and its course, as previously men- “tioned, lios botweon the Lills that contain the Acme, Euteroriso and other rich leads. The oro from these claims has proven valuable enough to warrant the orcetion of a stamp mill and other machinery already ordered. fChe wash as well as drainage from these hitls fl #oos into Gold Run. Holow the Bay Stafe is a chain of placor claims extending down to where Gold Run empties into South Brush creek aad for a considerablo distance below the junction. Sy opening up “the ground of tho Hopiins Bros., the owners of claims lowor down would be encouraged by whatover good re- sulta woro obtained and the valuo of the propertics enhauced. It would bo strange if sluicing of the Bay State eround does not disclose old nuggots s well us rich _pay dirt. One of its houn- cies is the Wyoming olaim, from which spocimens of quartz studded’ and bound by freo and wiro gold have been taken out that Dave excited the admication of minors and stimulated prospecting at Gold Hill fora year and more. All the wash from the Wyoming has boen swept down onto or neross the Bay State. Much of its golden freight has undoubtedly been deposited in the gravel or at the bottom of Placer lake. "his sheet of water is banked up or held in check by o reof or rock or a natural barrier which, save at times of high water, would servo to actasanfle to catch the gold, ground out of the rock that has boon riven from the capping of thoso treasnre houses. Since the Wyoming lead has been traced for moro than a milo to the Biue Bell ground, aiong tho crost of the hills whose drainage is Juto Placer lake, the importance and worth f tho Bay Statd is enhanced in popular esti mation. Aside from tho lake, that is sup- osed 1o have served as acatchmont for dis- lodged mineral, thore are numerous bars on the claim that would have been profitable to work in any gold country, for the gravel pans well How to Work the Rind. As to tho exact method to be pursued in yrorking the Bay State, it is too early to spenk of definite plans. It may be doter. mined as mwost expedient to drain Placer lake and ground-sluice its bed, or the whole ground below the lake ‘boomed,” as it is callod, by sottling frea the waters of the patural reservoir and running the dirt throuh sluice boxes. Hydrauhcking is contemplated, but that pystom will not bo resorted to until after the bed of the lake has been worked at anv rate. The ground below there could be worked by a giant to good advantage for a tremendous ressuro could be secured. There is a fall to iold Run of more than 500 feet in 1,500 and by husbanding such a force of water1t would not bo long until the grouna could be thoroughly worked. In addition to the forty acres embraced by the Bay State, two other claims will be con’ trolled by the Villette Mining and Hydraunlio company. Ono of these of twenty acres is at +he north end of the Bay State and heads to- wards the Blue Bell. The other,also of twen. 1y acres, is at the lower limits, below the lake ou Gold Run, and is especially valuable a8 a dumping ground, Work on the Bay Statois calculated to stimulate development of other placer claims In the Gold Hill district, hundreds and even thousands of acres having been staked out for such purposes. ‘There is o more profita- ble branch of mining than this. For good cause, capital s more easily intorested in placer wining and more money can be com- wanded for such work, Iu & recont issue of the Cosmopolitan mag- THE OM IAHA DAILY BEE, SU nzine was published an Intelligent article on | placer mining, treated from a_practizal and popular standpoint by Joseph P. Reed. observations by Mr, Reed are pertinent in this connection. He says There are throa prims requisites for success- tul placer mining—first, pienty of pay gravel; second, abundance of water, ind third,ample aumpinz facilities for the taliings. The ric s of the gravel I8 not as {mpot- tant as the abundance of water, for with the Tatter almost any zrayel that contains gold cin be mado to pay. The North Bloomfileld company of Callfornin desinred a dividend from eround that did not average 3 cents to the cubie yard This, however, 1S a Fa of t I 1es of ¢ riy of Montana, will averaze from b) ce uble yard of dirt, and with the ad- vantages of Intxe reservolfs for the storaze of water, wh t of them are bullding, they wili bec ormously profitable. Tn point of fact, placer mining is the safest and nearly “always the most profit- able mining thatcan be investod in, for It 18 aiways possiblo 1o thoronzhly prospect it by panning the gravel in all parts of the ground, and 1vis equally so to determine the amount of water that cin be depended upon. the pos- sibilities of storagze, the eatehment nrea the dumping facllitios,after whieh it i a me matter of caleulation as to the costof the pres Iiminary work und the running expenses, the amount of gravel tho supply of water will wash dally and the richnoss of the gri washed, exception, ns most wliforn i, and_partie- o are 150 working days av ance, the anid it 1s possibio'to wash 1,000 yards of i per day and the ground will avernge per yard, the Income ylolded will be #5000 per annum, which nay and may not be profit- ublo, depe n the orfeinal cost and the vol in sight. Modern s mining fs carried on with such care curacy that the amount of gold lost in washing Is hardly to be considered, while under the old stylo 1t was estimated always that from one-ihird to one-half the fine gold was carried off in the tallings, Hesult of a Mill Run, Members of the Tilton Milling and De- velopment company are elated over tho returns on a mill run on a ton of ore from the Acme claim that is ono of the thirty prop- erties thev recently bought. As previously explained in Tne Bee, tho Acme is where most of the development work will be done by the company this winter and the property from which ore will bs taken out to supply the ten-stamp mill of the combany, the machinery for which is now building. Mill runs on 100 pounds of Acme ore have been made on a number of occasions and showed £23 to #24 a ton in gold. This was flattering, because the vein is eight feot wide and while such ore wouid not pay to ship, it will make its milling at Gold Hill profitable. The last test made on 1,030 pounds of Acme rock the present weok, at the Polar Starmill,at Black Hawk, Colo., gave $£24 in gola to the ton. The rock wasn't picked but was an average of the entire width of the cight-foot vein, A big cloan-up by tho new company’s mill is assure ", Ca Bee bldg. '1ON! Dr. Birney cures cutarrh, Sednen COMING CONYV h Important Meetings to be Held in Omah1 Next Year. Secretary of the Pan-Republic congress, Hon, W. O. McDowell, has written Secre- tary Nason of the Board of Trade, explaining the aims and objects of two important con- ventions that will be held in this city next year. Mr. McDowell in his lotter says: It gives mo great pleasuro to notify sou that the invitation extended to tho Pan- Republic congress organizing committeo and the Human Freedom league to hold their noxt meeting in your city was accopted at the meeting held in Independence hall, Phil- adelphia, on October 12 last,discovery day. At this meeting wo also organized tho Human Freedom league, and the first gath- ering of that body wili tako place with our organizing committee at its meeting in Omaha April 10, next. The writer was also elecced a delegate from both these bodies to attend the Inter- nationat Peace congress which assembles in RRome, Italy, on Noveraber 9, next. And he is making overy effort to fulfil this duty. Ho has also boan requested by the signers of the Siberian exile petition to present its paper bearing the signature of over 1,000,000 Americans to the Czar. These dutics will oceupy two months, and as he will not have the time to receive your answer and write you again before holeaves, or to visit your city before going to Rome, he takes the lib- erty of making the following sugeestions at this time 1n connection with the meeting of April next in Omaha. n tho meeting held in Philadelphia, tho special work that the committee had in hand was the adoption of the address to ail peoples, This was iu the nature of a now Declaration of Indebendence, not for tho peoples of the United States, but for the world; *not for the Anglo Saxon race, but for all races; not for man alone, but for' women as well. The second work was thoe creation of the Human Freodom league. This was succoss- fully accomplished, and thoreafter public meotings wore held with a sories of ud- dresses, 1n which the commander of tho Grand Army of the iRepublic and represent- ative ofticers of other patriotic societics spoke for their societics and the cause of human froedom. The repre- sontatives of the different races and schools of thought told the story of their people for the cause of human freedom. These ad- dresses will shortly be published and will be 1 the hands of yonr citizens. At this same meeting the flag of peace was adopted. the account of which will be sent you under seperate cover aud a committee ap- pointed to tako up tho idea suggested in the will of George Washington for the establish- ment of a national umversity. Wo felt that it was peculiarly the duty of the men en- gaged in this work that they should in- augurate a great university with its doors always open to tbe student from every land, that the cause of free institutions might be coutinually advanced by intelligent men, educated in the tellectual atmosphere of a university that owed the suggestion of its existeuco to the fatner of his country., At Omaha this committee will report.” The placo for the meoting and the date of the Pan Republic Congress will be fixed, the pro- gress of the work reported and tutlre worlk planned—this, the work of the committoe, The Human Freedom league will hold it: first gathering at this time. To this gathe ing will be invited not only the members of the Pan Republic Congress committee, not only the contributors to the fund that erected the statue of Liberty Enlightening tne World, but the ransing officer of every society in the United States whose funda- mental laws express belief in and devotion to the goverument of the people, by the peoplo and for tho people This will include the commaunder of every post of the Grand Army of the Republic, the captain of every Son of Veteran camp, the prosident of every state society of the Sons of the American Revolution, the president of overy Board of Trade, every peace society overy Soclety of Christian Eudeavor, ever woman’s society, and kindred societics upiversally that now or shall between unow and April 10 so amend their constitutions and by-laws as to proclaim their adhesion to free institutions, Woe take it for granted that if such a clauso does not exist in the fundamen- tal laws of every fraternal society in Amer- ica that it is merely au oversight and tuat they will atoace 50 amend as to beeligible to participation in this gathering. In othor words the Human Freedom league is in tended to hold to the fraternal soci ties of the world, by the resolution passed in Independence hall, Philadelphia, creating itthe same relationship that the United States occupies towards the states, Itis the United States of Froedom. All of the differ- ent points on which human beings may dif- for. such us creeds, special undertakings,otc., are left enurely to the sociotics, as certain speclal powers are left by thy general gov- erument to the states, Butin the Human Freedom league thoy come together ou the ground 1n which they are all of one accora and that is the belief 1n and adhesion to, so far as government is concerned, tho principle :\‘md! “ithe voice of the people i3 the voice of 30d." 1f this meeting so planned can be brought about successfully on April 10 next, in Oma- ha, it Will bo the grandest gathering that the world bas ever seen, [f youcan have a meet- ing of your citizens at an early day, and iu- augurate the work, we are satisfisd that Omaba can make of the meeting a success of Which it will always be proud, We would suggost that special cowmittoes be appointed from each of your fraternal societies that shall join with'us in inviting the co-operation of the members of kindred societies all over the land. Kor wstance, appoiut a 0o mmittee of members of your Grand Army of Repubiic posts that shall issue an invitation accompa- nied by our statementof the work of the Human Freedom leaguo to every post of the Grand Army of the Republic in the United States asking them to send thelr command ing officer to this convention, Letthe Grand Army of the Republic post also issue a like iuvitation to the commander of every Con- federate Veterans orgsanization at the same timo, for oatzhe question of adhesion togeon. ts | stitutional or popular government these or- | wanizations are enthusiastically partiotic,and we know that no class of visitors would ro- coive a warmer welcome in Omaha than these ox-confederates, ‘orm a like committoo from among your Sons of Voterans, from among the 8. A. R, from among your socio- es of Christian Endeavor, and from among mombors of all your other fraternal socioties. hen let the program be as follows We ftnd that April 10, the date to which we have adjonrned, falls on Sunday. Let us invite the ministers throughout the world to preach that day from tho text that was cast in the Liberty bell, Philadeiphia, on the oc- casion of its recasting, “*Poace on earth, good will toward mon,” and make the subject of their sormons the progross that has boen | made or is beng made towards uni- vorsal peaco and fraternity from the stand- point of popular government, we at the sume time requesting that the membors of all fra- ternity societies snall attond theso different services in their_owa locality in a body and whero the organization is uniformed in uni- form, Then at 10a. m.on April 11 in the largest hall that can be secured in your city, lot the delogates to the Human Froedom league assemole, adopt constitution and by laws, approve the action of their organizing committee, ana plan out their work. When tley adjourn, let it be to the same hour the following day. In the afternoon 1n a loss commodious hall or in the same place, lot tho Pan Republic Cougress committeo assemblo at 2 o'clock and attend to this work adjourning to tho same hour the following day. In the evening lot us have a public meeting with a series of addresses from our most emi- nent men on subjects in 1ine with our worl. Already an invitation has been extended by the committee to Hon, Andrew D. Whito of Ithaca, N. Y., to speak on “Pressing Prob lems for KRepublics to Solve.” Invitations to other eminent mon will soon be issued. In the uduresses delivered, overy part of our country stonld be represented by able speak- ers, and if an aadress can bo secured from representative friends of freedom from other countries, they shouid be very welcome. The evenings of Monday and Tuesday could be occupied with public meetings. Wednesday could be made tho social day and we would suggest that the Christian kn- deavor societies should ospecially entertain the Christian Endeavor delegates, the Grand Army of the Republic the Grand Ardly of the Ropublic fdelegates, the colored citizons tho colored delogates and so ou through the list. This program is written hurriedly, when Tam pressed for time in preparing for my trip to Rome ana is merely suggestivo. By consulting with Colonel Chase, chair- man of our committee on plan and scope, also a member of our cxecutive committee who has been present at all our meetings, you will be able to outain full particulars of our work; and whatover changes or modifica- tions ' your board may make will, without doubt, meet with the approval of our execu- tive committee. P Dr. Birney cures catuvrh, Beo bdlg. PUBLIC. THE YOUNGEST It Review of Political Changes in Brazil . inTwo Years. As excitement in Chili promises abatement with the election of a president and the re- ostablishment of constitutional authority, revolution appears to be breaking out in Brazil, says the Chicago Herald. Tranquil- ity 1s not yet a chavacteristic of Latin A mer- ica. The strifo in Guatemala is not ended; a fortnight ago there was attempt at insurroc- tion in Uruguay. The Argentine republic is now practically under British domination and political discora is certain to follow com- mercial crises. Rovolution in Brazil 1s for- miaavle for voth domestic and foreign rea- sons; and it will benecessary for the govern- [ ment of the United States to take prompt action for the defense and protection of American property aud citizenship there. It is nearly two years since tue ‘‘paternal emperor,” Dom Pedro, was suddenly aud dramaticaily dethroned and hustled out of tho country with an allowance that has mautained him in state in Paris, where he hes taken up pormanent abodo. His coerced abdication made tha way easicr for the proclamation of a republic, conforming in - abstraction closely to that of the Unitea States of America. Twenty-one states constitute tho United States of Brazil. i'he limitations of state and federal powers is modeled on ours; but there ave elements ot weakness in both tne imitation and the modi- fication of the model. Senators are elected for nine years, threo from each state, one third going out every three years ' ‘Th house of representatives consists of 202 men, elected for threo years on a unit population basis of 70,000. lliiterates, soldiers, monks and paupers cannot voto. Manhood suilrage prevails, Congress moets annually in May and sits four mouths, but the prositient, who has veto on legislation, can prorozuc 1t. ‘The revolution now apparently under way is due to tho same causes that™ precipitated that in Chili—interference by British com- mercial interests ia the politics of the coun- tey provokiug collision botweou congress and the executive. The prosident, General Da Fonseca, was & popular favorite at the down- fall of the paternal monarch und had much to do with hurrying Dom Pedro, under guard, out of the country us the only meaus of sa ing his lite, Chosen presideut by elector corresponding to ouv electoral college, he spoedily became 1nvolved in complications arising out of the accumulated interest deot on British loans and the greed of British trade, which is as deeply intrenchea asinany other Sontu or Contral an country. Hostility between con- gross and Da Fonseca was easily fanned until what eithor proposed the other was cortain to oppose. The prosidont used his voto so vigorously that cougress, fearing usurption of dictatorial powers, passed a law for impeachment should taat bicomo nece: sary. He vetoed the law, which con passed over the veto. Then he provouged congress, ussumed dictatorship, and revolu- tion is tho result. “The presidential term in Brazil is for six vears, the incumbent being inclizibie for ve- election. This departure from our organ structure doos not accomplish the good one- termers have claimed foritif it should be- come part of our system. 1t is almost gen- eral in the Latin Awerican republics: yot many of their revolutions have been duo to the scheming of the prosident to name his successor. This was onoe of the charges agaiust Balmuceda, whose term was in fact almost over. It is now alleged against Da Fonseca, who, an invalid during most of his term, was occupied, it is claimed, with so- lecting his successor bofore resigniu was the provalent desire ho shoulda do, on ac- count of physical inability to perform bis duties in a manner satisfactory to the peo- ple. It is probable that Le saw in_tha con- gressional enactment for impeach- ment not merely a prudent but im- personal national” safeguard, buta project aimed at himself, and, now that nho has dis. missed the legislature, ho will bo placed in the samo apparent unconstitutional titude in which tho junta pul Balma for proroguing it instead of permitting it to legislate, Should the revolution spread it will not bo easily quelled. Many of the states have been dissatistied with the federal relationship. In some thero will be eager attempts to with- draw and erect independent communitics, Othors will seek alhance with contiguous governments. The mixed character of tho population will aggravate all conditions, civil and military. In the northern proginecs the Indian element 1s proud, resentful and pow- erful. Negroes preponderate in many of tha large cittes. ‘The commercial world is almost wholly foreigu, chiefly British, and the first dispatches claim that they are the instigators of the revolution, as they certainly were in Chili, aud for the same reason—the promo- tion of their own control of the country. ‘There is an armv of 40,000, a largo and well equipped navy, with 6,000 oficers and mon and five naval arsenals. War iuvolving the ports would strike sharply on the commerce of Great Britain, the United States, Ger- many and F'rance. The first effect of the reports will be to raise the price of corfee. e Use Haller's Barb Wire Liniment for horses, it nover fails to cure cuts, wounds and old sores. P John D, Rockefellor, who hus a larger an- nual income than any other man ih America; has beeu bard at work in pursuit of bis lost health the last summwer. Ho has spent four months on his farm in Ohio, and has given himself up entirely to out door pursuits. Ar- rayed i overalls and shirt sleoves, he has worked with his won plowing and planting bis fields and cultivating and yathering in his crops. Ho has sawed wood for days, and has shoveled the ecarth for roadways iu his township, e Dr. Birney cures catarrh. Boo bldg, NDAY. NOVEMBER 15, 1801—-TWENTY PAGE WILL YOU G0 0N MY BOND? A Requost Whioh is Now Rapidly Going Out of Fashion, THE PERCENTAGE OF 4 HONEST MEN. Only Five Out of a Wandred Betray Their onfy Montana RRew iniscences—Hen Butler on Legal Mhics. 5 Citioaco, Nov. 12.—~[Special to Tie Bee.| —The practice of asking friends to act as bondsmen aud assume otiaer obligations as an accommodation 18 rapidly bicoming obso lote in Now York City and other great com mereial contors, according to Fredorie I ut, president of the Lawyer's Suroty ny of New York. *I¥ is getting to be 50 that one man thinks as littlo of asking an other to go on a bond for i or ussume sim- ilar obligations as he would of asking him to insure his house on the ground of friond- ship,” snid Mr, Nugent at the Grand Pacitic. Orgaaizations like our own which provids the required security and which are con- ductod on a purely businoss basis, are multi- piying rapidly. Thoreisa great amount of this sort of business to be done and the field for investment is therefore iuviting, Charles Francis Adams and Frederick L. Ames of Boston, stockholders in our company. There is practically no risk involved and tho returns on the investments are thereforo certain, the amount, of course, depending on the amount of business we o, “When, for instance, aman is appointed administrater of au estate and is required to give a bond we become his bondsmen, that is, we secure to the partics interested the proper administration of the cstate. But we take no risk because cvery bit of money which passes through his hands must be accounted for to us, and no check can be paid until our roprosentative signs 1t. “Other institutions de, amcng other things, what 1s known as a fidclity business. That is to say they guarantec employers against dishonesty on the part of their em ployes. ‘Ihis branch of the business is con- ducted on tho supposition that most men adhere to the time-honorod maxim that hon- esty is the best policy and _taeir experienco has proven that in ninety-five cases in every hundred this is the case. That is only b per cent of the peoplo who are entrusted with funds, misappropriate them.” Those Montana Szpohires, The Hon. Martin Maginmsw hile at _the Leland, on his way back from New York where he went to lend a_hand in conducting the late campaign, said that 1f the Chica, jewelers say there are no sapphires in Mon- tana they don’t know what they are tatking about. A. W. Lyman, editor of the Helena Independent, and \William Mint, also of Montana, who were preseut, confirmed overything Judge Maginnis said., “So far,” said tho judge, “thers lave been found no Stones ot the deep Burman blue, such as aro known to the trade and s s the reason, no doubt, that, tueso alleged ex- perts say that they are not genuinesapphires. “Tne fact, remains, however, that they are. They are of many varieties, including white, various shades of yellow an'l red, and a vale olue. They are a great deal livelior than tho ordinary saponire, and when the white va- riety is placed beside a diamond it is difticult to tell them apact. It is only when you move the stones about that tha aifference becomes apparent. At nigut thoy are irridescent and, T should imagine, would make most beautiful necklaces, I understand thatitis a part of the program of the Euglish syndicate which is to haudle the stones, to gt them into favor 1 fashionable circles in Kurope. 1 don’t kuow how this may be, because I am not in- terested in this enferprise or any other, but I do know that the stones aro there and that their iLtrinsic merits arg very great.” Terrorized by Vigilantes, ‘Chen, apropos of thesarrest of the girl who played highway robber ii‘Helena, the judge, who has boen & resident.of Montina fox 1he past twenty vears, felt4o talking about wild proueer days and the work of the vigilantes “Wa a the vigilantes wero first orgatize and <o luug ag such men as Senator Sanders romained at the bead of them they did a good wovrk iu ridding the commuaity of bad characters, but aftor this was uc complished ana the original organizers dropped out, things got into the hands of u lot of thieves and murderers who used the name of vigilantes as a cloak for their erimes. Peoplo were robbed and then bung up and plucarded as horse thioves. I remomber one lustance in_ which @ man was compelied to turn over all he had with him aud then or- dered to report to AnOtCr organization with more money, after which he was to ve set ai liberty. Ho was given a note and told to de- liver it to the loador of the other waug, He didso and profuced tho money and was prompily hung. 1 e had read ths note ho might have oscapad, s it directed that he was to be killed as 500n as he arrived with the money. The Grip of Tammany. “New Yorik is as helpless in tho hands the political corn kuown as ‘Tammany, said Cyrus J. Scolt, a prominent merchant of New York, “as a little child would be in the hands of a giaat. Passott was a good man, though perhaps not tho bast man the ropub- licans could put up. ‘Tuis, however,cut littlo fignro, Tho result woald have been the sawe if they had nominated Andrew V. White or any other man. People living out of New York City can have but little cou- ception of tho power aud extent of this organization. Boginning with the mayor and winding up with the man who earns 2L30 a day sweeping up the dirt on the streots, every mau in tho city’s employ is placed there by Tammany, You can't do anything 0- bo any- thing politically without the consent of this organization. 1 don't wish that ‘Tammany with it is corrupt of to b understood as saying and_cverybody conndeted Whilo ‘therd have boen some atrocious steals carried on by some of its members aud thieving combinations like the I weed ring_formed, ta the main I think tho affairs of New York are about as well managed as those of most other American citios. The aanger lies in the capabilities of such an organization when it is controlied by dishonest men. ‘The majority of good citi- zens, 1 beiiove, vote and pray rozularly at overy clection that the power of Tamigany may bo broken, but I aw afrmd the day is fir gistant when 'these prayers will be an- swered.” Salisbury Not Guilty of Nepotism The Hon. Farmer Atkinson has decided viows on most things and is very emphatic in his expression of them. Referring to the charge of vepotism brought agaiust Lord Salisbury on account of his seloction of Balfour 1o succoed William Henry Siith as leader of the house of ¢ommons, Mr. Atkin- son said: Why, ho couldn’t have doneanything el Baifour’s ability pro-emipently qualifies b 1or the place. 1'wrote taLord Satisbury that [ for one, would not follow the leauership of othior man —above alt that I should rebel winst that Goshen off ‘that broken down buily, Vernon-Harcourt! The Lawyer and His Client. A Boston man at the Grand Pacific told of of a convarsation he had a short time ago witn Bonjumin . Butlér, Durine their talk tho oft mooted question 1S Lo the duty of a lawyer tyward a client Whom he kuows to be guilty came up, ) *1aople get & wrong idea on that subject,” said the great criminak kwvyor. *T'ne fact is a lawyer usually goes iato court with no mora knowledge as to the gailt of his client than the jury which ho is to address. A prisoner very seldom confesses to his lawyer and is almost never asked todo so. The lawye must approach the guilt or iunocence of his client from an unbiased standpoint. His duty is to present all the evidence be has in his favor, to insist upon all his legal rights aud to avail himsel( of all tho protecting pro visions which the law bas throwu about the accused. The laea that a lawyer couid mako an anle and earcest defonse of a man whoj he know to be guilty is oxtremely erroneous. A My dear sir, I love your daughter and want to marry her,'but sho says you have a con- dition to your cousent Certalnly sir, I want you to promise you will always keop Haller's Sure Curo Coigh Syrup and Haller's German Pills for the children Certainly, I will give them a dose Just as 5000 a8 —a3 All right—you have my blessing. L 296 GARME 13 NTS Is the Last Invoice of Our Celebrated Camel’'s Hair and Natural Wool 87 Undershirt and K1 Drawers. AIR WAR price. what we are retailing them for. longs to our trade. ING. Jobbing houses have offered to take them off our hands at This is the last we can get to sell at any such Come in and see our K712 Chenille Ulster. It's a special deal and on a special sale. But we've got a snap, and it be- In fact, we have been busy picking up bargains in the ecast, and if ever an effort has been crowned with success, our’s has been. With about $15,000 of Noew Goods) Just In And bought at a time when jobbers close out goods away down. We will promise you to give all competition a hot race. The Weather has been too warm, Our stogk is too large, And we've applied the ax. Consisting $1.50, W Our woolen and cashmere Hose, from 25c to you're dressed, \'LllllC as any man can 2 A JAG OF JERSIN OV ERSHIIRES will be sold at $1. QUL OF STGH At HELI.MAN’S, = CONNUBILALITIES, Some women have won the matrimonial race hy a nose. In > per coct of the marriages ono of tho parties hias been married before, In Germuny the men as well as the women weur marriago vings. Should cither die the survivor wears both. ‘The girl with a new eugagement ring al- ways wonders why other people don't secm to take as much interest 1n it as she does herself. A western girl 18 papering her room with love letv The dudo is composed ontirely of proposals for marriage, arranged chrouo: logically. A uotable New York wedding on Novem- bor 21 will bo thatof Miss lorence Wads- worth Prescott and Mr. Philip Van Kens- selaer Van Wyck, jr ‘Phe marriage is about to take place bo tween John Georgo Cox, heir to the Brox- wood estate in Herefordshire, England, and Mrs. Mary Porteous of New Orleans, rassmore: So you are married, Hipple: Yes. Passmore: Gone rl's parents, 1 suppose! No: they havo covie to'live with me, want you to promise me vou will again, John, Husband Do you really wish it! Dying Wife—res; I don’t want people to say I was the means of souring you on my sex “Phat engagement betwoen you and Miss IKarrimel isn't talked of so much as it used to be," said one vouug man to anothor. “No.' “Broke! “Yes; I went first and the engagoment followed. Licutevaut Paut Calm of the Austrian hussars and Miss Cora Louise Cahn of New York were married in that city by Mayor Grant last Saturday. The bridegroom 15 a Catholic and the brido a Jewess. The bold Briton, Colonel Vivian, who is to marry Mrs, Marshall O, Roberts, with all the willions thereunto appertaining, formerly held a command in the Scots guards, instead of the Hoss marines, as heretofore reported, The most chivalrous organization of moaern times is the Mariahill Matrimouial club in Austria. Tho members, who are rich men, take each & vow to marry a poor girl. If one breaks this vow and weds # rich woman he ays & fine of £2,000, which the club devotes to giving some impecunious betrothed couple a start in hifo A wealthy Georg luok in bis watrimonial ventures. About twenty vears ago he was engaged Lo the daughter of a neighbor, Tho day before tho date set for the wedding the girl decided sho did not wish to marry and the engagement was broken. Four or five ried the daughter of his old flawe, and re I hoar! to livo Hipplo: farmer has had bad cently she cloped with tho farmer's hirea an, Announcement of the engagement of Miss Mattie Mitchell, daughter of Senator Mitch- ali of Oregon, to Duko F'rancois de la Roche- foucauld of France, has caused a breeze of excitement in oficial and social circles in Washington. Miss Mitchell is just 26, Sho is now in Paris with her mother and will emain there ull winter, No dato has been fixed for the marriage, but it will probably take place in the spring. “The marriage of Miss Mary Frick and Mr, G. W. Childs Drexel is not_to be celobrated until after Thankseiving, November 25 veing the dato set. Tho fiancee is now visiting the Droxel family at their home in West Phila- delphia. The weading will take place in the Episcopal church at Vincentown, N. J.,which has recently been much improved and on larged. Itisto be a_noon affair, and a wed ding breakfast will follow at_the ‘home of Miss F'ryci’s grandfathor, ex-Senator Frick, who is the largest land owner in Burlington county, N.J. S Dr. Birney cures catarri, — NOTABLE ME. Beo bldg. The oldest living ex-member of the cabinet is James Campbell of Philadelphia, who was oue of Prosident Pierce's secrcturies, Ho is a lively man of 50, Jay Gould and Mr. Ingalls entered nctive life about the same time. The former walked down Wall streot with a patent mouse trap, Ho sot itand came near catching the earth. “After thirty years of untiring toil,” says Ingalls in one of his lectures, “I, on tho other hand, am a staiesman out of a job," Tho great Nupoleon smoked tobacco but once, and then at thetiustance of the Persian ombassador, who presented him with a mag nificont oriental pipe. The experimont upset the emperor's stomach and he never ropeated it, thouh later in life he became a devotee of thie snuff-box. William € who died at his home in Troy, N. recently, claimed to have in- ventod and used the first cylinarical wall paper printing press and to have been the first to combine wood fiber with rags in the manufacture of printing paper. (f men were put under solemn oath beforo they wore ailowed to tell fish stories or make love, this worid would be a great deal less interesting thau it is now Mayor Grant is one of the best dressed men in New York. Homay be scen nearly very morning coming down on the elevated road with an immaculate blue tie, new tan colored gloves aad pantaloons fresh from the tailor’'s goose and creased to perfection. James Stepnens, famous Fenlan hea ceuter, though 70 years tains all L of about sixty dozen in all colors, with lace front, worth 1 a pair, are as good pect to get in this world. Don't forget ouwr Shirts and Drawers. They're like your own after 13th and [“arnam Sts firo of youth. Although an indictment for high treason “still hangs over his head, he is permittod to resiae in Dublin, Churlest Stewart Parnell’s grandfathor committed suicide,and so did two other mem- bevs of his family. Thero are also two por- sous of unsound mind among the immediato relations of the dead leader. Genius is allied to insanity. tophen B. Elkins, whose name has beer rumor’s lips with the suggestion that he enter Mr. Harrison's cabinet, 15 a mar years, big, strong and brainy. Hois o son-in-law of Senator Davis, the richest man in West Virginia, and has grown wealthy himsalf by fortunate investments in mines. He is bestknown to the public from tho way heled the Blaine forces in the memorabie cam- paign of 1884, Governor Bois of Iowa s a broad shoul- desed man of 64 years. He has a ruddy, smooth shaven face, o hearty manuer and a pleasing voice. He is & native of tho stato of Now York, and, like the regulation poor boy 1 search of fortune, started west with only a fow cents in his pockot. Daniel Dougherty, the silver tongued ora- tor. made his first money holding tho rib- bous over his fathor's 'bus team in Philadel- phia, Colonel Alexander McClure, the Philadel- phia_editor, is a man _who stands six feet three in height and has a magnificont physique. His head and featuves are Wob- sterian in their size and strength, John G, Nicolay, Lincoin's biographor anda MeClure's antagonist in points of controversy relating to Lincolu, 18 & man of weagre frame, intel- lectual face and gray full beard, = Ho is about 00 years old. R The Athletic Lung. *‘Athletic lung” is a medical. term used to designate tho abnormal develop- ment of lung pos: by some athletes, The condition is produced by those forma ofexercis o that call for the constant use ofthe lungs at their highest power, The rosult is an enormous development of lung capacity. Such men, upon giving up their active athletics and taking to sdentary pursuits, are peculisrefy sub ject to pulmonary complaints, Tho over- developed lung 18 only used in part, and the unused colls ensily fall a proy to disense when once an athletic lung has been restored o health. Tno wise phys sician forbid uny violeut athletios on tho part of the patient, for a second ate taci is likely to be followed by collapse. Tne term athletic heart is applied to a similar condition of the heart produced by like causes.