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16 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, S MODERN ASTRONOMY. Charting of the Heavens by Photography, and Deterioration of Star Negatives. Nearly half a century of patient experi- ment has developed the art ot photography fnto an efficient aid to telescopic research of the heavens. Asin the case of the dis- covery of the property of lenses, the use of the camera was at first only thought of in connection with terrestrial objects, but the vigilant watchers of the midnight sky dis- cerned in it a possible substitute for draw- ings of celestial objects, which up to that time were the only obtainable astronomical pictures. Beginning with the moon experiments were gradually extended to the sun, plan- ets, stars, nebule and comets, and with these first successes the names of Bond, De La Rue, Rutherford and Draper will always be associated. For many years the use of the photographic wet plate, which lost its sensitiveness with its moisture, re- stricted the range of star pictures to the brighter orbs that left their impress in a few minutes; but as early as 1865 it had | Emctical advocate of the merits of the re- ecting telescope, has produced excellent photographs of star clusters and nebule, that of the nebula of Andromeda surpass- ing all other representations of that cbject that have appeared. He is one of those who have clearly dem- onstrated the superiority of the photo- graph to the best drawings that have been made. Comparing one of these elaborate draw- ings with a photograph that he had taken with his 20-inch reflector he says: “There are several points of resemblance between the drawing and tbe photograph, and our sympathy is strongly drawn to the patient delineators who, during seven seasons of the winter months, stood on exposed plat- forms, without cover or shelter, to watch nous and difficult details and fine shadings that are shown on the drawing; but when the result is compared with the photo- graph which was taken with an exposure of only three and a half hours we are com- pelled to call the work of the delineators crude and unsatisfactory; not through and draw again_and again, the multitudi- | magnitude, but as this would necessarily cause the larger adjacent stars to become out of J:u'oportion by overexposure, it was decided that a second picture of each fieid two degrees square should be taken suit- able to the stars needing less exposure. It was calculated that by allowing for a safe degree of overlapping, 11,000 plates would include the entire celestial sphere and 22,000 sup'gly enough for the required du- plicates. The observatories undertaking this work are distributed over latitudes from Northern Russia to Southern Aus- tralia. Though the United States did not engage to join in this concerted action, it is probable that before its expected com- Fletmn in a few years work of equiva- ent value can be credited to this Nation. The instruments have been constructed, the plates provided according to. the rules adopted, and these important observations that were designed to unfold to future ages the minutest changes in the starry vault have been progressing favorably for several years. Quite unexpectedly a serious doubt has arisen within the last few weeks as to the permanence of the starry records. As much of their value lies in their supposed permanence, it is not surprising that the zealous cartograph- ers are considerably disturbad when such a high authority as Dr. Isaac Roberts an- nounces that a third of the smaller stars on his negatives taken in 1887 have dis- appeared from the plates. If this discom- fiting discovelg, published in the July number of the Observatory, had been made by an amateur it would have been ignored, but Mr. Roberts has been noted for his ISAAC ROBER1S8’ TELESCOPZIS. ested that photographs of the heavens two degrees square might be taken with a telescope eleven inches in aperture, such as Mr. Rutherford had constructed during that year. - ‘When the sensitive dry plate came into general use in 1876, it was an important n the development of celestial pho- and the general improvements n made in the process left the t ements far in the rear as to actual results. Various phenomena were pictured with increasing accuracy and facility, and with- the last fifteen years it has been fully gnized that a method of research second only to that of the telescope has been added to the outfit of astronomical science. The camera perpetuates the views obtained in the telescope for comparison with views taken later on, in this way affording a means of detecting change that is far surer than the conjectural comparisons of former times. Besides this advantage, it proved to be -8 marveloas discoverer of things actually unseen. This last advance was due to the ‘ want of skill on their part, but on account of the great difficulties of seeing and draw- i ing such faint misty matter.” | , Professor Barnard’s wonderful work in | the same line is too well known to need comment. He was the first to picture the | starry myriads of the Milky Way by means | of the camera, and it is needless to say that his negatives rank first in excellence. Professor Pickering of Harvard in 183 | designed a camera for chart‘%ng large sec- tions of the firmament, with | determining the magnitudes of stars, and some years later MM. Henry of Paris ob- | tained photographs of stars not visible in the telescope. In 1886 many leading astronomers con- | cluded that an international congress | should be held for the purpose of a com- | bined effort to chart the entire heavens by | means of photography, and that such a distribution of the gigantic task be made | that a fulfillment umtinfi uniformity and accuracy would be insured in some years. This grand design was carried out, and in | 1887 delegates to the number of fifty-four tlrom all parts of the globe attended the THE GREAT NEBULA IN ANDROMEDA. dong fxposnxes possible with a sensitive ; te. ate. . n‘:m found that this artificial retina by a steadfast gaze into space saw more the longer it fiooked, unlike the visual retina that gains nothing if riveted on an unchanging point. From the seemmfly dark voids of space far off stars revealed their existence and faint sprays of nebule described their coils to the scien- tific manipulator of photographic chemi- cals, thus opening the portals of the un- seen universe. The study of the magnitudesof thestars, of their variability, their parallax, their roper motions and their unseen dupliu- R y means of their spectra, were gradu- ally included within the scope of stellar phohgu&hy; and there has yet been but a beginning of the valuable results to be expected. To enlightened experiment the progress of recent years is ely due, and asso- ciated with it the names of Roberts, Bar- nard and Pickuriniwm ever be foremost. Isaac Roberts of England, a well-known first meeting of the International Astro- photographic Congress at Paris. Admiral Monchez was elected honorary president, O. Struve president, Janssen president of the natro-rhotagn hic section and Anwers of Berlin president of the astronomic section which attended to the instrumental details of the work., Messrs. Roberts, Common, Vogel and other practi- cal photographers of the heavens gave opinions as to methods and instruments, and it was flnnll‘:gread that the celestial sphere should portioned out and a suitable section allotted to each of eigh- teen observatories willine to undertake the work in accordance with the rules de- cided on by the congress. A refractor about 14 inches in aperture, modeled on that constructed by MM, Henry Bros, of Paris, was the instrument selected, and carefully prepared plates affording a field of view oqlni:ldto two de- grees square were ¢o be sup to each of the co-operating observatories. Exposures were to be madeof a sufficient duration to inciude stars of the fourteenth h a view of | | success in celestial photography, and wide- | spread anxiety is the result. | It bas been asked Is durability thena | question of climate, surroundings and time, and are the larger stars also on the wane, only needing a longer time to vanish | from sight? There seems to be no reason | why the smaller spots should be affected than the larger ones, as if any chemical | disintegration set in it could scarcely be selective. A few lines received from Professor | Barnard some days ago on this subject will have much interest, not only for imronomers, but for the educated world at arge. ‘With his usual courtesy he explains as follows: “I certainly do rot understand Dr. Rob- erts’ statement. It would imply that his negatives were imperfectly treated, in that they were either not fixed enough or not | washed sufficiently. *If they were si{vex prints I would un- derstand that by fading he would lose stars but a carefully treated negative is as permanent as things of this kind can be. “I have negatives—not star pictures, however—in my possession that are over twenty-five years old, and they appear as zood as ever. They were by the wet plate process, and by care I shall expect them to be as good a quarter of a century hence. | I think the Astro-photographic &ngnss | will bave nothing to fear by deterioration | of their platesii they are carefully fixed { and washed.” | Professor Barnard’s skill as a celestial hotographer entitles his remarks to the ullest confidence, and it is satisfactory to | know that there is not any hitherto unde- | tected decay lurking in plates that have been dealt with in a professional manner. It is to be earnestiy hoped that the as- surance may soon arrive that the plates ordered by the Astro-photographic Con- gress are above suspicion. Rose O'HALLORAN, HE FOUND HIS FINGER. Sammons Discovered It After a Lapse of Nearly 32 Years. John Sammons is a responsible man, a good farmer, who stands high among his neighbors and whose reliability has never been brought into question. He was a brave soldier of the Confederate army and was one cf those who participated in that bloody tragedy on the banks of Chicka- mauga Creek on September 18, 1863. Dur- ing the hottest of the engagement Sam- mons found himself in an exposed posi- tion with shot and shell playing high revel around him, and he sought such shel- teras was afforded by a large oak tree which was in direct line of fire. While handling his piece a bullet struck his guns stock and cutoff the two firsc joints of the forefinger of his right hand ascleanasa knife could have doneit. The dismem- bered finger dropped among the leaves, and as he was more ganimflu about sav- ing the balance of his body than about reu:umE as little a thing a8 a missin finger, he made the best of his way out ol the fight, stanching his bleeding hand as best he could. & The war was fought to a finish and Sam- mons came back home and went to work, charging up his maimed hand to the losses of the Confederacy. Some years ago he decided to visit the battlefield, which he had not seen in nearly thirty-two years, and so he betook himself to Chickamau and started to stroll over the battlefield. The tree where he s when wounded occupied such a conspicnous position that he found little difficulty in locating it, with all the scars and knots in its rugged trunk caused by the flying missiles of death. Having found the tree he put himself in the same position in which he was standing when wounded, and then it occurred to him to look for the bones of his missing finger. Scratching around among the leaves, much to his astonish- ment, he found the bones where the finger had fallen, and they corresponded ex- actly with the finger he had lost. They had laid there undisturbed ever since that dread day, and it was with a strange feel- ing that ie took them, and after establisn- ing their idenfia to hi satis] tion, wrapped ‘them up and took them away with him as a strange souvenir of his ‘wartime experiences, . Sammons has them in his possession now, and will preserve them as an evidence of the fact that he found them on the battlefield after a lapse of s0 many years.—Atlanta Constitution. Mr. Kansas le tes against certain noxious weeds not by making an nn}:mpflldon. but by adding to the tax bill of the farmer 1':'3':'31;" ;wh%tthh‘n?tgo '..Qd'b.‘l: disappearing rapidly. fac- | Monterey, from which considerable quan: DAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1895. THE FIRST DISCOVERY OF GOLD IN CALIFORNIA. Said to Have Occurred Long Before the Find at Sutter’s Mill. : By J. M. Guisx, Secretary of the Southern California Historical Society. If asked to locate the place where gold was first discovered in California probably nine out of every ten of the intelligent residents of the State of the more recent arrivals would name Sutter’s millrace at Coloma as the spot. Even among the Argonauts of ’49—those searchers after the golden fleece of Phryxus’ ram—who are popularly supposed to know all about The days of old, The days of gold, probably no larger vpercentage could give a correct answer. 1f the anxious searcher for historical truth were to consult the ordinary run of histories of California he would find in them repeated and re- repeated with slight variations the old, old story of Sutter’s millrace and Mar- shall’s wonderful find therein. Yet,with all due respect to the historians, good, bad and indifferent, with all defer- ence to the opinions of the Argonauts, and with patriotic regard for the wisdond of the conscript fathers of the State, who reared a statue to the memory of Marshall, the so-called first discoverer of gold, I here enter a protest agamst the iteration and reiteration of the story that Coloma was the place where gold was first discovered in California or tgnt Marshall was the first discoverer and 1848 the year of the dis- covery. 4 Outside of Bancroft’s voluminous his- tory and the published reminiscences of pioneers who lived'in the countri greviaus to 1848, it is very rare indeed to find in any compilation dignified by the name of his- tory any mention of the fact that gold had been found and extensively mined in Cali- fornia previous to 1848. The fullest and most reliable account of the first discovery of gold in California is that written by Colonel J. J. Warner, a pioneer of 1831, and published in “A His- torical Sketch of Los Anfeles County” (a work not out of print). I quote from this sketch: *“While statements respecting the exist- ence of gold in the earth of California and its procurement therefrom have been made and published as historical facts, carrying back the date of the knowledge of the au- riferous character of the State as far as the time of the visit of Bir Francis Drake to the coast, there is no evidence to be found in the written or oral history of the mis- sions, the acts and correspondence of the civil or military officers, or in the unwrit- ten and traditional history of Upf" Cali- fornia that the existence of gold, either with ores orin its virgin state, was ever suspected by any inhabitant of California previous to 1841, ana furthermore, there is conclusive testimony that the first known grain of native gold dust was found upon or near the San Francisco ranch, about forty miles northwesterly from Los AnEe- les City, in the month of June, 1841, This discovery consisted of grain gold fields, known as placer mines, and the auriferous fields discovered in that year embraced the greater part of the country drained by the Banta é’lnrn River from a point some fif- teen or twenty miles from its mouth to its source, and easterly beyond them to Mount San Bernardiro.” The story of discovery as told by Warner and Don Abel Stearns are simiiar in the main facts, differing, however, materially in the date. Btearns says gold was first discovered by Francisco Logzz, a native of California, in the month of h, 1842, at a place called San Francisquito, about thirty miles northwest from this city (Los Angeles). The circumstances of the dis- covery as related by Lopez himself are as follows: ‘‘Lovez, with a companion, was out in search of some stray horses, and about mlddns they stopped under some trees and tied their horses out to feed, they resting under the shade, when Lopez with his sheath knife dug up some wild onions and in the dust discovered a piece of gold, and, searching further, found some* more. He brought these to town and showed them to his friends, who at once declared there must be a placer of gold. Thisnews being circulated numbers of the citizens went to the place and com- menced prospecting in the neighborhood, and found it to be a fact that there was a placer of gold.” Colonel Warner says: “The news of this discovery soon spread among the inhab- itants from Santa Barbara to Los Angeles, and in a few weeks hundreds of people were engaged in washing and winnowmg the sands and earth of these gold fields.' Warner visited the mines a few weeks after their discovery. He says: “From these mines was obtained the first parcel of California gold dust received at the United States Mint in Philadelphis, and which was sent with Alfred Robinson and went in & merchant sailing-ship around Ca&n Horn. This shipment of gold was 18.34 ounces before and 18.1 ounces after smelting; fineness, .926; value, $344 75— over $19 to the ounce, a very superior quality of gold dust.” It may be regarded as 4 settled historical fact that the first discovery of gold in Alta California was made on the San Francisco Rancho in the San Feliciano Canyon, in the county of Los Angeles. This canyon is about eight miles northwest of Newhall and forty-two miles northwest of Los An- geles. Itis also an established fact that the first discoverer was Francisco Lopez, also known by ‘the name of Cuso, a vaquero, living at that time on the Piru Rancho. Lopez had been for many Fsm previously mayordomo of the San ‘ernando mission. The time of the dis- covery is not so satisfactorily settled. Colonel Warner, usually very reliable, Eve! June, 1841, as the date, and quotes on_Ygnacio del Valle, on whose tancho the discovery was made, nx‘d who was ap- pointed encargado de justicia to preserve order in the mmmti district, as one_of his authorities for that date. Don Abel Stearns gives the date March, 1842; Ban- dini, April, 1842. Coronel, who spent some time in the mines and emgloye Indians in mininamru positively that it was made in 1842, Bancroft is contradictory in his_dates. In the text of his history he gives March, 1842, evidently following Stearns’ state- ment. 1n his Pioneer Register he states: ‘“ * % Antonio del Valledied in 1841, the same year that gold was discovered on his ranch.” In his Bibliography of Pastoral California he refers to & manuscript b, Alvarado entitled ‘“Primitivo Descubri- miento,” in which isan interesting account of the discovery of gold placers in the San Fernando Valley in 1841. William Heath Davis, usually one of the most reliable chroniclers of pioneer events, in_his book, “Sixty Years in Cali- fornia,” gives the date of the discovery 1840, and the discoverers a party of Sonorans traveling to Monterofleofle evi- e:nu uhu eoxnfonn’ded r:t:a discov gg usite, a variety o 8 SUp] ln&uta the nreleynu &y 1d, m-j« by the Mexican mineralogis n Andres Cas- tellero, with the discovery of gold by Francisco Lopez a year or two later. Alfred Robinson, meer of 1823, in his book, “Life in (.Jtrilf%m'h." published in 1846, two years before Marshall's dis- covery, mentions a mine at Alisal, near tities of silver ore had been taken. * s he says, ‘‘was the first mine discovered alifornia. At one time,” he adds, “the mania for mining was so great that every old vomln‘hld her specimen of what she called ore. Finally,” he says, ‘“‘rich mines of placer gold Were discor ered near the Mission San Fernando.” Evidently the goid fever had been epi- demic in_California long before the days of 1849. Robinson does not fix the date exactly, but from dates of events given in this corinection I tnfer he intends o lo e eventin 1842. Cronise,in ural Wealth of California.,” reouted to be a standard work on the resources of the Golden State, informs his readers that the first gold known to have been found in the State was obtained in 1833 in_the valley of Santa Clara, Los Angeles County. His- torically and geographicaily Cronise is vears and miles distant from the truth. owell, in his ‘‘Mineral Resources of the Golden State,” another standard work, evidently has never heard of the discovery of gold in Southern California. He gives the story of Marshall’s find with a few sensational accompaniments not given by others. In the dialogue between Sutter and Marshall, Sutter remarks: -‘James, you are lying”; and James, with none of the spirit of the old-time Californian, neither shoots the top of Sutter’s head off nor offers to bet his pile that Sutter cannot prove him a liar, but coldly pulls his sack of gold dust instead of his revolver, and Sutter goesinto ecstasies instead of eter- nity. 5 E?;om this mass of contradictory data it is impossible to evolve the correct one. Nor is it probable that the exact date will ever be known. The strongest evidence seems to incline toward March, 1842, It is said that republics are ungrateful. ‘Whether this be true or not, it is true that they are often unjust in the bestowal of theirfavors. Lopez, the real discoverer of gold in California, lived in obscurity, cied in poverty and sleeps his lastsleepin a nameless grave. Marshall, the reputed first discoverer, obtained celebrity —world- wide—in his latter years drew a pension of $3000a year from the State, and after his death the grateful republic erected a statue of bronze to his memory. Very lit- tle merit attaches to the discovery in either case; in both cases it was purely acci- dental; but whatever does, belongs to Lopez, not to Marshall. oth Sutter and Marshall, in all proba- bility, had heard of the gold discoveries in the south. The incredulity with which Sutter tells us he received Marshall’s story was probably an afterthought to give dramatic effect to his narrative. He had been in Southern California with Micheltorena in 1845, and was present at the bloodless battle of Cahuenga when the Governor was forced to abdicate. Marshall was a member of Fremont’s battalion. He was one of Cnguln @Gillespie’s garrison, and claims to have unspiked the cannon with which Gillespie repulsed the assault of the Californians during the siege of Los Anielu by Flores in September, 1846. He spoke the Spanish language, and no doubt heard of the discovery of gold in the moun- tains near 8an Fernando. From the pub- lished reminiscences of pioneers, I should judge that every intellizent resident of California in the early '40’s had heard of the discovery. As to the yield of the San Feliciano dig— gings, it is impossible to obtain any defi- nite information. Don Abel Stearns puts it at from $6000 to $8000 a year, up to the American occupation in 1847. William Heath Davis gives the amount at $60,000 to $100,000 for the first two years after the discovery. He states that Mellus at on time uhipged $5000 worth of dust to Bosto: on the ship Alert. Bancroft states that “by December, 1843, 2000 ounces of gold (worth about $38,000) had been taken from the San Fernando mines, the greater por- tion of which was shipped to the United States.”” There was a great scarcity of water in the mines. The processes used in extracting the gold from the earth were crude and wasteful. Panning, washing out with bateas, or close-woven Indian baskets, was one of the methods used. To pay over $2 a day with such a process the mines must have been quite rich. In 1854 it was stated that Francisco Garcia took out of the San Feliciano placers in one season $65,000 in gold. One nugget worth $1900 was found in this gold belt. Los Angeles is not classed among the mineral counties of the State, yet the yield of her placers has amounted to a consider- able sum. The San Gabriel placers were very rich. As late as 1876 two companies were work- ing them. One company reported a yield of $1365 for a run of twenty-six days, work- ing five men, an average of $10 50 to the man. In allthe mountain creeks tributary to the Santa Clara and San Gabriel rivers prospects can be found. In 1854 the Santa Anita diggings paid $5a day to the man. The great drawback to successful minin, in Los Angeles County is the scarcity o water. Ben Truman, in his *‘Semi-Tropic California,” a book written in 1874, says: “During the past eighteen years Messrs. Ducommun & Jones, merchants of Los Angeles, have purchased in one way and another over $2,000,000 worth of gold dust, taken from placer claims of the San Gabriel River, while it is fair to presume that among other merchants and to parties in San Francisco has been distributed at least a like amount. The statistics of the San Francisco Mint show that in one year nearly $40,000 worth of gold was sent from Los Angeles County for coinage purposes.” There are a few specimens of gold taken from the San Feliciano placers in 1842 still preserved (in jewelry and ornaments) by some of the native® Californians of Los Angeles. The State should procure a specimen to put with the famous Marshall nugget in the State Mineralogical Museum. [Copyright 1895 by R. Garner Curran.] A TRUTHFUL METER. Nickel-in-the-Slot Affair Now in Use in New York. As turned on by the nickel-in-the-slot system is an innovation from England that has been adopted by the Consolidated Gas Company of New York City, and the ‘“pre- payment meter” so-called may in time succeed the present method of measuring gas as consumed in small households. In London a dozen rival machines are in vogue. The most popular ones are the “penny slots.” A coin of this value dropped into a small opening and g?llight is furnished for an hour or so. This class of meter is very popular among the poorer people, many of whom use gas only on state occasions. The penny gas-machines are also very ular with single gentle- men of limited means who live in lo g.in§5. The prepayment meters mtroduced in New York are not of the penny pattern. A silver quarter is the coin required to release the illuminating fluid. e mech- anism is simple yet delicate. The size of the coin, not its weight, is what re- leases the machinery. or twenty-five cents 200 feet of gas is secured, which at the regular rate n:gl 25 per 1000. The gas need mnot be continuously. A special indicator on the face of the dial, which is supposed to show how much as goes through the meter, moves out fi) the 200-foot mark as soon as the coin is deposited. As the gas is used this indicator returns to the zero point. Me- ters of this class are placed in the con- sumer’s room or flat, so that the number of feet stili to be burned may be seen at a glance at the dial, The machine is so arranged that two, three or four quarters may laced in the slot, and thus 400, 600 or 1000 feet of gas purchased. The me- ter will register and give credit for 200 feet of gas every time a coin of the proper di- mensions is placed in the receiver. Tm-unmt. tDtohm.' of the gltl onmpc%i believes 8 prepa; meter the large cities of especially.— Over 100 negro students live in the Paris uartier Latin. They come chiefly from ti and the French colonies of Guade- loupe and Guyane. The Haytians are well off and dress well, as their government K‘.’. them $90 a month while abroad. e Iu:: a newspaper of their own, La af 3 SINGULAR RECOVERY ! Mrs. Lee Walters, 823 First Street, Los Angeles, Tells the Public How Much Has Been Done for Her. SHE BELIEVES IN THE HOME REMEDY. A Peculiar Case of Nervous Dyspepsia, Insomnia and Impure Blood Hen Just Been Successfully Cured by the Great Home Remedy, Joy’s Vegetable Sarsaparilla-=-It Has Astonished the Doctors of Los Angeles, Many of Whom Are Now Making an Investigation, A Vegetable Sarsaparilla. She writes for the benefit of afflicted : aches. They are gone. not fill up and bloat. My dige: take Joy’s Vegetable Sarsaparilla read this who is looking for relief, I wish (Signed), KNEW ALL THE KIPLINES A Gentleman From Lahore Talks at Length of the Writer. Some Interesting Chat About the Artistic Father and the Lit- erary Youth. ‘While Rudyard Kipling is preserving the brogue of Sergeant Mulvany his father is preserving the original art of India with the same care and patience that his son operates on his favorite Irishman. B. Ribbentrop, Forests to the Government of India, at present a guest at the Occidental Hotel and recently a resident of Lahore, is well acquainted with both father and son. “I know the writer's father quite well. He is at the head of the School of Arts in India, and has done more to preserve the native art of that country than any other man living. He has prepared himself carefully in the ethnic art of the country, and is familiar with its foundation. While he is a modern painter and artist himself, he has kept his eye on. the original school of India, and preserved some of its rarest vroductions. There is a peculiar antiquity js | about it that makes it valuable from sev- eral standpoints, and it has been his mis- sion and desire to see that it does not die o\'{l‘: Pamong.lt]hc flnh]v{gs.u i ersonally Mr. Kiplin, a man of or- dinary stature, witha mnssiva and remark- able head. It is well balanced and at once ltnkinfi‘ to look at. His bair is getting very white, but there is a_youth about his face that is quite unusual’in ‘a man of his age. He i:‘ 'zory proud &tmfiudyud and eWS eve the youn, man writes. I molls:? very well th,c firsf literary work Rudyard uced. He came to Lahore from London to work on the Ciyil and Military Gazette, and in & short time he was so familiar with all the m}o of the locality that heissued a little called ‘Dey t Ditties.” It was tullof humorand satire and attracted a great deal of attention. In ashort time he was sent around the world asa dent toa syndicate, and when he came back to re he was famous. He is idolized there, and his success is our pride ‘‘Very few people know it, but Rudyard Kipling is one of the best actors I ever saw. On one oceasion in pom'o‘.h introduced. It is a splendi you God’s blessing. Mf{s. LEE WALTERS, Inspector-General of | His got | est boy who found and rew ""~—Utica Observer. This | inal of ““Spoo) part was played by Rudyard, and when | Stanley H TRUE AND AUTHENTIC STORY comes from the city of Los Angeles which is really marvelous. It is especially interesting to those suffering from dyspepsia and an impoverished blood, for, while the !individual is now permanently cured, many doctors are | wondering how the cure was effected, and it is given out that the physicians of Los Angeles are secretly investi- gating the *‘formula” of what is known as Joy’s Vegetable Sarsaparilla. Four years ago Mrs. Lee Walters was considered one of the handsome women of Los Angeles. time she was in perfect health. All of a sudden she developed headaches—dyspepsia. that many of the best physicians were called in, but they could only give temporary relief. About a year ago Mrs. Lee Walters began using Joy’s She has completely recovered her lost health. All the old symptoms have disappeared. Up to that Her case was so painful those who may be similarly Tae Epwixy W. Jox Co., 269 Stevenson street, San Francisco, Cal.—GENTLEMEN: From a deep sense of gratitude I am glad to be able to tell you that I am now a well and hearty woman. All the old symptoms have disappeared. I have no more head- You see, my headaches were so awful, so extremely painful, I had to call in many doctors, but was never relieved until I used Joy’s Vegetable Sarsaparilla. It is sucha pleasant medicine. There is no nasty taste to it. I can eat almost anything and digest well. I sleep everly ni stion is really perfect. I prais Sarsaparilla and will always recommend it. t. My stomach does e the Joy’s Vegetable I utog?ed using pills as soon as I began to laxative. Hoping some person will 823 E. First Street, Los Angeles, Cal. the initial performance came off Rudyard, meanwhile having done very badly at the rehearsals, played the part so well and th such & marvelous understanding that the entire cast was thunderstruck. He went at it like an old hand and had the audience with him from the very start. Everybody in Lahore advised him to go on thestage at once, but he refused and stayed bi his pencil. Itell you it was the best piece of amateur acting I ever saw and I begged him to follow the life of an actor, but he only laughed and continued to call me the ‘Gigantic Head of the Indian Forest’ in his stories, He always had a peculiar way of forming quick acquaintance, and he knew every man in Lahore from the poorest to the richest. He never let a story escape him, and his understanding of men and their eccentricities has made it possible for him to give the world all sorts of literature. **His sister writes a little, but Rudyard is the bright particular star of the family. mother is either a sister or a sister-in- law of Sir Frederick Layton, the great English painter, ana he comes from very 8 stock.” A = Mr. Ribbentrop was loud 1n his praise of Ridyard as a young man, but frankly ad- mits that he was a surprise to his parents and those who knew him generally. B b Honesty Rewarded in This Life. #The case presented in last night's pa- per of a rew};rd of $10 being Kd for _{h‘e return of $50 reminds me of a similar anecdote—only different,” said the ancient New England member of the club this morning. “It happened in Providence, R. 1., forty yearsago, when the city con- tained but one millionaire, who was an old Scotchman, named Alexander Duncan. One day Mr. Duncan, in leaving his office, dropped a large roll of bank notes in the street. They escaped his eye, but not that of the small boy who is around every- where, and who pounced upon the bills immediately. The roll con- tained $500. hen Mr. Duncan received it he eagerly counted the money, and finding it correct, he turned to the boy and said: ‘I thank ye, my lit- {le man.’ Then noticing the look of dis- may in the poor lad’s countenance, he felt in {il trousers pocket and fished out a coin, which he handed to the finder of his wealth. And the coin represented—what do you think?" “Five dollars.” ‘A dollar.” “A half dollar.” “A quarter of a dollar.” “Just half of that. 1t was an old Span- ish coin that we used to call a ninepence in New England and that &on called a shil- hing in New York. In other words, it was u& cents which Alexander Duncan, the e of Providence, paid to the hon- urned to him it S S It is said that Enianc Field was the orig- lyke,”” made immortal by untley. : A