The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 19, 1896, Page 19

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, APRIL 19, 1896. 19 -A DearAYalley FlopéMEN: FATH VALLEY is the last place in the world where one would look for a romance, and yet the desolate alkali pit in Inyo County was lately the gcene of the most thrilling kind of love story. There was no romantic element ing in the little life drama. The | g maiden, the fairy prince, love at | ht, the irate father and a daring | elopement all combined to bring matters | to a climax in the marriage of Walter Newton and Carrie Jeffery in Los Angeles about four weeks ago. To tell the story it will be necessary to take a brief look backward about twenty years to the time when John Jeffery was a | prosperous merchant in Louisville, Ky. | Ie had accumulated a fortune before he was 20 years old and married the dauch- ter of a prominent statesman. The bride | Jookea forward to a life of bappiness, as Jeffery was a kind, indulgent husband, | and nothing seemed wanting to make it‘ so. But in less than two years, and before | little Carrie was born, Jeffery had become | aimost crazy on the subject of lost mines in California. He could speak of nothing | else, and in spite of his wife’s protests that | they had more than enough money to | keep them in ury the rest of their lives | he ted off after selling out his business and investing a large vortion of his for- tune in Government bonds. Jeffery wrote oneletter home after reach- ing San Francisco, and then nothing was beard of him for two years. He came to see his wife and child, but was a changed | man. and he only remained a few daysand started for the desert again. During the next eight years he made | only three brief visits to his family in | L ville, and on the last said that he | had built them a home near his mine and ‘that they shouid Jive there with him. He was sure he had found the location of a | long-lost mountain of gold and would 001 Mrs. Jeffery did not like the peculiar, nervous glare in her nusband’s eye when he was telling of his mines and describing how an oid Indian wizard had guided him to the right spot. But she was a Southern | The gold fever had its grio on him, | ? the circumstances would permit. For the first three years she made no complaint of her distastefu! lot and never even wrote to her friends of the awfully desolate place in which she lived. But when she saw Carrie growing up and being deprived of so many advantages of civilization she felt re- bellious and ventured a mild protest to her husband. He tlew into a passion at the idea of allowing them to go away even for a short time. From that day he became almost brutal in manner. He read all the letters before they were sent and a large vein of vicious- ness seemed to break out in his nature. mine, of course, did not turn out as he wished and he vented the wrath of his dis- appointment on his wife and daughter. There was no pleasure in life for either of them and by the time Carrie was 16 years old she felt the injustice of being com- | pelled to pass her davs amid such uncon- | genial surroundings and entreated her father to let herself and mother go away, if only for a little while. This only added to his fury and many times he became so enraged that he threatenad their lives, Mother and daughter frequently contem- plated escape, but always gave up the idea after turning over in their minds the awful dangers of the venture. They did not know the way across the desert sands and besides the only horses about the place were two old creatures who could do little more than carry them. Jeffery had a fine | rie never lost courage. When the cloud of had to keep out of sight when Jeffery was ' about, but still he managed to see a good deal of Carrie and her mother. It was a week before the Indian re- turned, saying that the wizard could not come until the next moon. Jeffery at once started for bis m.ine, and in less than an hour the Indian was in the deepest Tecesses of the cave tied band and foot, ‘Walter having managed to jump on him from behind” a rocs and subdued the coward without trouble. Jeffery was in no hurry to come back from the mine, and in a week many things had happened. Walter had told Carrie the old, oid story beside the spring in the barren desert,and no doubt it counded as sweet to her ears as to any woman that ever lived, for she accepted him on the spot and ‘“mamma’’ gave her consent at once. It was planned that they should all leave as soon as possible. There was no hitch in the arrangements. A note was left on a table telling Jeffery that they had gone and thatthe Indian was tied up in the cave back of the spring, but with plenty of food and water to last him a month or more. The two women bade farewell to their prison that afternoon, and, in company with Walter, started across the desert just as the sun was setting. This was to f,ive them a start by preventing Jeffery follow- ing their trail In cese he returned that night. Walter's horse was a fine, power- | ful brute, but those ridden by the two women were the poor jaded creatures be- longing to Jeffery and could not be de- pem{‘ed upon for any great amount of speed. 5 The night trip across the southern part of the desert was a trying one to the two women. To them every ghostly cactus appeared to be some enemy, and in the awiful stillness they fancied the howl of every wild beast to be the enraged Jeffery, in pursuit. No stop was made until morning, when they had reached the western side of the desert and there was a little sign of vegeta- tion. At a point called Windy Gap a road commenced that led to Hinckley, a station on the Atlantic and Pacitic' Railroad. Walter, however, decided to cut across the desert for Daggett and there take the train for Los Angeles. It was about seventy miles, and at the end of three days they had covered all but ten of it without being compelled to urge their horses. The next morning, after they had been an hour or s0 on the road, acloud of dust in the dis- tance told of pursuit. By theaid of a pow- erful glass Walter assured himself that Jeffery wason the trail. The horses were urged to their utmost, but it was a losing game from the start, and the cloud of dust grew nearer and nearer until it was not more than four miles in the rear. Walter had determined not to give in and also made up his mind to shoot if it became necessary. Mrs. Jeffery and Car- woman with exalted ideas of a wife’s duty, and hurried over her preparations for d parture without ¢ questio: ‘Where he went it was her duty to follow, | she felt, but her wildest imaginings and | dread misgivings never conjured up one bundredth part of the hardships and dan- | gers she was doomed to pass through. She had visited some of the coal mines in In- | diana, and thought, perhaps, her new | home would be somewhat similar. The influences would not be desirable and the opportunities for the education and train- ing of 10-year-old Carrie would be lacking, | but as she had been told to buy anything she wished and take as much as she wanted she felt that she could overcome many difficulties. The trip across the continent and down through California was novel and pleas- ant, and when Los Angeles was reached | the anxious mother was feeling more hope- ful. 1 great many househola articles were needed, Jeffery had decided to buy them at Los Angeles and make the rest of the journey by wagon. 1t was a ten days’ {rip over seeminaly | endless miles of blinding desert wastes, | and when a stone house, standing close to acliff on the edge of Death Valley, was reached the mother was nearly wild with fear. The location of the house had been care- v selected. Tt wasnot far from Furnace | 't 2nd about half a mile from the road | g the eastern side of the valley. It | was so0 concealed behind cliffs that it conld | not be seen from any direction until one | was quite ciose to it. A thousand feet | south of the house, just within the-mouth | of asmall canyon, wasa spring of good ] water bubbling among the hot rocks. The house itsell was comfortable enough, but ! the surroundings were desolate in the ex- treme. Nospot of green to restthe eye[ no matter in which direction one looked. | Only the white giaring sand of Death Val- | ley and the distant mountains quivering | through the heat. N Jeffery and Carrie had suffered agor ou the trip and were nearly pros- trated. The awful heat and dry, burning’ desert winds had cracked their lips and their faces, and hands were swollen and blistered. The mother had expected some sort of settlement and afew servants at fu! C | hesitated to commit murder. THE “OLD, OLD STORY.” KING OF GREAT TUNS, The Gigantic Wine Cask at Fresno Which Holds 79,000 Gallons, HEIDELBERG IS FAR ECLIPSED. It Took Two Cars of Steel to Hoop It In and Used Lumber Enough for a Mans‘on. Down at Fresno, on the St. George vine- yard, has lately been erected a gigantic wine cask, or tun, beside which the famed | Great Tun of Heidelberg sinks into insig- | nificance. It is the biggest in the world. | For almost 150 years the Great Tun has been celebrated iar and wide for its im- mense size, and nothing on the globe could compare with it. It was built in a part of the picturesque castle of Heidel- berg, the finest in all Germany, itself erected at the end of the thirteenth cen- tury. Mighty rulers and brave knights have occupied it, and throngs of beautiful ladies aud their royal escorts have gathered at the old castle on the Neckar and partaken of the wine which the Great Tun held. It has got into the cyclopedias and into all bistory as the one unreachable, irreproach- able thing in the world in the way of winemaking. So it has been by right, too, for till now there was nothing anywhere to compare with it in size. But the gentlemen who own the St. George vineyard have knocked the fame out of the gigantic Hei- delberg tun, and it is a has-been. History will have to be corrected. The Great Tun holds 49,000 German gal- lons, or 42,000 American gallons, while the St. George tun holds no less than 79,000 gallons, or almost twice as much as the tun which has for 150 years been figuring in history. 1t took two carloads of steel to hoop the gigantic cask, and there is enough lumber in it to construct an elegant mansion. The lumber is all redwood, obtained from the forests of Humboldt County. Not one | stick in ten from which the material was | selected would answer. Absolute freedom from any kind of flaws was required. ‘When the redwood was selected it took almost two years for it to dry and undergo the preparation for the cask. About two complete railroad trains of this California redwood is used in the Fresno great tun. The tun towers to a height of no less | than thirty feet, and it is_twenty-six feet | wide. It can contain thirty carloads of wine. “‘This is by all odds the greatest cask | that ever was built,”” said George H. Malta, | one of the largest owners of the St. George | vineyara, at the Bohemian Club a day or | two ago. **We built it and the other casks | in the winery so as to always have a sup- vly of uniform wine on hand. The big AU AT . = By animal, but he used it all the time and seldom if ever let it out of his sight. Visitors never came to the stone house | on the edge of the desert as the road ran some distance to the west. As time went on mother and davghter occasionally contemplated suicide, so un- bearable became their lol. Jeffery grew suspicious, and to make things as unbear- able as he could he hired an old Indian to act as spy and see that his wifeand daugh- ter did not leave him. The Indian wasa miserable wretch, who would rot have He did his duty so well that mother ana daughter were kept in constant fear of their lives. Things daily became more and more un- pleasant, and Mrs. Jeffery’s health began to fail to such an extent that she threat- ened to break down. This was the state of affairs about the first of last March, just after Carrie had passed her nineteenth birthday. As Jeffery’s mines had failed to turn out as he expected he concluded to send the Indian spy for the old wizard who had gurded him to the locality to tell him what Wwas wrong. It so happened that the morning the In- dian left, Walter Newton, a professor of geology in a Pennsylvania university, came upon the Jeffery spring and after drinking lay down beside it to rest. At this moment Carrie came for a bucket of water. She aimost lost breath at the sight of a stranger and Walter thought he must be dreaming when he saw a pretty young girl in a white muslin dress trimmed with pink ribbons standing betore him. It did not take them long to get ac- dust had eained another mile a sudden turn in the road brought them to a sur- veyors’ camp. Their story was told in a few moments and the boys enthused on the subject. T.ey proviaed the women with fresh horses, promising to turn the others over to their owner as soon as he came alone. They even offered to capture him and hold him until the elopers had time to get safely aboard a train. It was thought best to let him continue the chase, however, as the chances were all against him now. All the surveyors asked was that their horses be left at a certain stable in Daggett,where they could got them later in the day. While the exchange was being made Jeffery had gained a mile or more and the race became a hot one. It was four miles to Daggett and tife road was rough. But Jeffery’s horse was pretty well used up and the elopers commenced to gain. When about a mile out of town a locomotive whistle was heard and the horses were urged with whip and spur until they fairly flew over the ground, throwing the sand in clouds about them. Daggett was reached when Jeffery was still a mile on the desert. A train was just ready to leave, but the horses were turned over to the stableman dnd the elopers got aboard in good time. A few moments after the train pulled out Jeffery dashed up to the station, but too late. The rest of the story is soon told. The entire party reached Los Angeles in safety, and after the wedding Mr. and Mrs. New- ton and Mrs. Jeffery started East. A letter was sent to Jeffery telling him that they were all going to Louisville, and that *“ They Started Across the Desert as Soon as the Sun Had Set.” cask inside is twenty-four feet by twenty- | four feet.” But Mr. Malta, not satisfied with having | knocked the spots off the Heidelberg tun with one gigantic piece of architecture, started in and erected three more casks, any one of which holds more than the Heidelberg tun. They are in the vineyard not far from the king of tuns, and are con- structed for blending purposes. ‘‘These each stand twenty feet by twenty- | four feet over all,” said Mr. Malta, “‘and they hold about 45,000 gallons each, or an amount equal to eighteen carioads. I had to have them in order to enable me to make some fifty ears of gvine uniform and thus supply wine men with a uniform class of wine at distanttimes in the future | | “Not only is the great tun built in the strongest manner, but all of them are. size, though not in appearance, a great castle in the level str‘:'ch of land about Fresno. The three casks, which are connected for blending purposes, would be giants be- yond comnpare of themselves if it were not for the monstrous tun, now known as the King of Tuns. . Longfellow, in his Hyperion, tells of the wondrous size of the Heidelberg tun. Inkspeaking of the castle, Paul Fleming asks: “Does anybody live there now?"” “Nobody,” answered Baron Hohlen, “*but the man who shows the Heidelberg tun, and a Frenchman who has been sketching there since the year 1810.” Popularly the great tun of Fresno is re- ferred to as the 100,000 gallon cask and the others as the 50,000-gallon casks, though the figures heretofore given are correct. But by the conservative and actual figures the great tun of Heidelberg is laid far in the shade. *'This great tun of Heidelberg has not been used for many years, because there was not wine enough “to fill it,” said Mr. Malta. “In and about the St. George vineyard it is different. We can not only fill one almost twice as great, but are obliged to have three others, any one of which is greater than the Heidelberg tun. And this is but for one vineyard of the thousandsin the valley about Fresno.” WHAT MOLDS THE CRIMINAL. THE QUESTION VIEWED FROM 4| THEOSOPHICAL STANDPOINT. . By confessing to the murder of twenty- five or more men, women and children H. ! H. Holmes removes all doubt as to his guilt. The enormity of the crimes he committed and the various reasons he assigns for committing them make the man an interesting study on criminology | what it was that moved him is the ques- | tion. Holmes does not differ, however, from any other criminal except in degree of criminality. ‘The chicken-thief has more moral unfoldment than the mur- derer and therefore he is not so greata criminal, but he isa criminal. This brings up the question of why the chicken- thief, being a criminal, should confine his criminal acts to stealing property of small | value and the murderer extend his crim- | inal acts to the taking of human life; or, in other words, what is it that molds a Holmes into a heartless murderer and a | Friday into a petty thiei? Hamlet says, *‘There is a divinity that shapes our ends, rough hew them as we will.”' If that is divinely true, it follows that it is *‘divin. ity” that molds the criminal—and the good man, too, sinner and saint—accord- ing to “‘divinity’s” own sweet will and in- clination. If, then, “divinity’’ shapes the course of a man for a life of crime or a life | of righteous living, a man only kicks | against the pricks of an ‘‘eternal de- cree” when he essays to depart from the already blazed way he shall go. But that philosophy is the very essence of fatalism, and it makes so much of a machine of a man that it is repulsive to him, whether his aspirations be for higher or lower levels of existence. It isnot true, however, that men, law-breakers, are molded into criminals by some one or some intelligent force outside of them- selves. If criminals are the product of a'| molding process it foliows that there was a timie when they were not criminals, and it follows, too, that they were as clay in the hands of the potter to be shaped to suit his purpose. If that be true, the criminal is at once relieved of all responsi- bility for his acts, for he is under the law of Paul’s *‘election and predestination,” John Calvin’s “total depravity” or Ham- ing his ancestors prepared him to commit the crime by transmitting to nim a desire So strong to commit crime that the re- straining? moral influence of his environ- ment and the command of the Jaw were too weak to restrain his hand. Butsome will say good and evil were before him; that he was a free moral agent, and that if he elected to do evil let the consequence be upon him. What nonsense! Is it naturag law that one cominginto the world loaded down with the accumulated desires and propensities for evil of an evil-minded ancestry, reaching back through the ages, shall have moral courage and sense of right in sufficient force to enable him to overcome every characteristic of his na- ture? If character is transmitted, what we call the processes of individual evolution are little less than vehicles to keep desires alive and further stimulate them to deeds of vice or virtue, according to the natural product of the original seed. But human- ity grows better as the generations come and go when it should grow" worse as each generation comes into the world bearing the sheaves of the harvest of its predeces- sor's ciiminal life. There is to-day, as there has been on every other day since man appearea upon the earth, more of what is called evil than of what is called good in the world, and it would seem that the greater ought to have overcome the lesser by this time, but such is not the case. And, again, if the great and good are powerful enough to minimize the evil pro- pensities of the race, and-that they trans- mit inclinations of increasing strength for higher and better conduct of life, it should certainly follow that the children of great and good people would be stil! greater and better, but no such results obtain. The history of the world does not record many instances of two persons who were greatly distinguished for moral and intellectual worth springing from the same parents. On the other hand, itis a fact of history that for the most part the towering geniuses of the world sprang from the lowest walks of life, where culture, refinement, wealth and social advantages were total strangers. From Moses to Abraham Lincoln the world’'s greatest leaders of men to higher and truer manhood were, with few ex- | lines. Something moved him to delight | ceptions, born amid poverty and ignorance | in taking the life of human beings, but | and of arents who did not aspire toa higher life than they were living. Thus it will be seen the environment of wealth, education, polish and high social position is no warrant that children born under such desirable and encouraging circum- stances will be even up to ordinary. We might ask, if the doctrine of heredity be true, from whom did Cain inherit his high temper and murderous inclination? And from whom did Abel inherit his meek and ious disposition? 1f jrom Adam and ve, who transmitted these contradictory dispositions? Ay, there’s the rub, for something does not come from nothing. But referring to Holmes, “Who did sin, this man or his parents, that he was born (morally) blind?” Theosophy teaches the truer doctrine. Strictly speaking, neither he nor his parents did ‘sin. He was born blind in obedience to the law of ethical causation. He gathered the harvest from seed sown by his own hand. Buat thisis incomprehensible unless examined and analvzed in connection with monadology .| and cause and effect, which isthe doc- trine of ‘‘ye reap as ye sow.” Holmes was the potterand the clay of his own spiritual being, and he chose 1n the long ago to dwell upon the confines of his lower na- ture. e resisted the yearning of his soul for a nearer apvroach to divinity, and caroused in his animal desire. He refused to let the light of moral sense ‘shine upon him, preferring the habits and customs of his cannibal life of ages ago. He advanced intellectually, but not upon ethical lines. The habits and inclinations of his jungle life cling to him because he 8o desires. He differs from the bushman only in mentality. .He is now and always has been a free agent, and the conduct of his life has always been of his own choosing, but he must reap in each life ‘the legitimate harvest of his former sowing. “There is no escape from the operation of Karma. He must himself atone for ever? criminal act. He must suffer. wrong for ‘every wrong done to others. He must come and come again into the activities of ‘human action until every tare and poison weed is rooted out of his field of existence, and the seed of the harvest of each life’s planting will he Y \ DR N\ DN ¥ N 1 R AN r east. In both she was disappointed, ana | even the teamsters went away as soon as | the;i had unloaded the piles of household goods. It was an awful day when mother and dauchter found themselves alone in the cheerless house, with the hot wind whist- ling around it. But it was only the begin- ning of eight long years of haxgsnlps. ef- fery’s mines were in a wild canyon about five miles from the house, and he spent most of bis time there. Frequently he would be absent for several days. hen at home he seldom spoke and be daily be- came more morose. Nothing that could be obtained was wanting in the little household. Jeffery made arraagements with & man at Keeler to come to the house once a month and | bring such things as were needed and take * orders for more. They had all the deli~ cacies that could be transported to the regioh and also all of the latest books and | magazines. Jeffery felt that if nis. wife | and child were not happy it was their own fault. Mrs. Jeffery certainly made the best of things, for she =ducated Carrie and kept her “dressed in pretty and becoming clothes. Her met od of keeping the (‘pvmmzed and before the day was over alter had met Mrs. Jeffery and heard most of the story of the cheerless lives of the two women. He wanted to stay there and have a talk with Jeffery assoon as he came from the mine, but Carrie feared her father would kill him and induced bim to leave. Walter went back to his varty a few miles south and told them that he had discov- ered some interesting indications in a cer- tain canyon and intended to make a thor- ough investigation. He promised to join the party 1n a week or so. The next morning when Carrie went to the spring Walter was lying in tke same | place as the day before, but their greetings were somewhat different. They felt life old friends, and somehow Carrie had for- gotien all about her desire to leave the desolate recion. Walter bad made up his mind simply for humanity’s sake to help the two women, and commenced his plans at once. He found out all about the Indian spy, and fairly boiled with rage at the idea. g{e also discovered a deep canyon about a mile from the Jeffery house where he could stay at night and avoid danger of being seen in the daytime. Another thing he found was a cave a few hundred bouse was as nearly like her own home as feet deep not far from the spring. Walter if he would cume there and live like a ciy- iliz:d bein g al Jwould be forgiven. An Old Art Revived. Daguerreotypes are coming into vogue again. This were good news. A good fluiuerremypu portrait is much more than a photograph, and it is a wonder that pho- tography ever swamped this more dis- tinguished and exclusive art. Not long ago the Listener saw a wonderful collec- tion of daguerreotypes in an old house u in the country; though they were afi taken at least forty years ago, there were as sharp and clear in their neat black cases as if they had been taken butthe day before and some of them were as beautiful us good mimatures. Waoen we consider that all these fine old daguerreotyp made by professional operators with little experience and no artistic training, and reflect upon_the amount of skill an§ taste that is applied to amateur photography at this day we may realize somethi ngof what the result of the alfphcnlion of an equal amount of skill and taste to a re- vived daguerreotype art might be.—Boston Transcript. B e The ears of the fly are located near the base of his wings. Thev are very heavily built. There is no timber grown anywhere else in the world that is streng enough to hold such enor- mous quantities of wine. Culifornia only can grow the timber, and it is redwood. The commercial length of lumber here is twenty feet, but this we had made longer. There is not a kaot or a speck of any kind in the material. The timber was cut for two vears before it was used. “*Our winery is the largest in the country, too, and we have a number of other casks there, holding from 10,000 to 20,000 gallons each. There isn’t a_vineyard or a winery in Europe that handles one-third of the grapes that we do. We bandled last year at the St. George vineyard more than 7500 tons of grapes, and made 120,000 gal- lons of brandy for fortification purposes alone. Our vineyard consists of 1200 acres of grapes, but we buy a great many other than what we raise. The Vinavineyard is larger than the St. George, but. it doesn’t produce as many grapes. This, therefore, puts usin the front rank, not only as hav- ing the largest winery, but the largest vineyard in the worid. ‘““There is no yvineyard or winery partof the world that is as great.” Several million dollars are behind the great wine-making enterprise. The St. George vineyard is six miles east of Fresno. Some years ago Mr. Malta, who is a prac- tical vineyardist, conceived the idea of combining several vineyards in that local- ity. The grapes were especially fine and he believed if he could combine the various interests and made one vine- yard he could, by the aid of gi in any gantic casks, make a wine that for uni- formity and cLaracter would be of great merit. Aiter considerable effort six vineyard: were consolidated and then the owners set about to make casks to supply the de- mand. They built the three "casks al- Inded to and then set to making the king of tuns, which holds the enormous amount of 79,000 gallons, a quantity almost in- credible of conception in itself when the size of the monster cask is considered. The great tun towers 80 high that every- thing for miles about is dwarfed by it. ft is a landmark for all the country, being in let’s “divinity.”” He is upon the earth to) be used by & power higher than himself to glorify gods or rebel against them accord- ing as it pleases his creator, and hence he is what he is according to a general plan and purpose. If that be true, Holmes murdered by wholesale because he was arbitrarily as- signed to the role of a man-slayer, and provided with ample inclination and strength of character to resist any over- tures from his higher nature .to spare his vietims, and so it must be that he is blameless for the lives he took. But there is something implanted in_every human being that insists upon holding every one responsible for his acts, and no philoso- phy, gospel or doctrine will ever be able to convince mankind otherwise, There is a grandeur in personal responsibility which no one, even the greatest criminal, would surrender for any consideration. The “I am I’ which every human being delights in repeating to himself is the one great in- centive to independent personal tbought and action. No sane man would think of giving up his personality and individuality for any compensation that could possibly be offered. There are those who vehemently deny that divinity, predestination or total de- pravity molds the criminal, but tl_mg ad- ocate the doctrine of heredity, which is a far weaker and less tenable theory than any other. To believe that one must be born right to be right is a proposition that cannot be sustained by logic or fact; besides, it is cruel, in that it places the unborn absoiutely at the disposal of men and women who may and may not them- selves be criminals. ~ Heredity makes the child subject to the caprice of chance. It consigns him arbitrarily and irrevocably toa life of crime or a life of correct living, asinclination. is transmitted to him by his parents. He comes into the world equipped with propeusities for good or for evil, ac- cording as his ancestors were equipped, for the law of heredity and of atavism marked him and he must go to his place upon the treadmill of human action. If the law takes him in hand for offend- ing against it he must submit to the pun- ishment meted out to him, notwithstand- the seed of the next sowing. “Whatsoeve @ man soweth that shall he also reap.” He cometh, reaper of the things he sowed, Sesamum, corn, 80 much cast in past birth; And 50 much weed and poison stuff, which mar Him and the aching earth. If he shall labor righily, rooting these, And planting wholésome seedlings where they grew, Fruitiul and fair and clean the ground shall be, And rich the harvest due, ARMOND. Counting a Million. I wrote to the Treasury Department in ‘Washington, and I put two questions, which one of the leading authorities an- swered 1n the most obliging manner. “Treasury Department, Office of the Treasurer, Washington, D, C., March 16, 1 - You ask me the following questions: (1) How long does it take, un- der the most advantageous circumstances, for an expert to count 100,000 silver dol- lars? (2) How long does it take, under the most sdvantageous circumstauces, for an expert to count 100,000 notes? n reply to the tirst inquiry, permit me to state that for a continuous count of an expert it will require twenty hours to handle $100,000 standard silver dollars, Under erdinary conditions, and observing the rules and regulations of the office for count as to correctness, and at the same time keep a careful eye for the detectipn of counterfaits, 4500 per Lour, or 27,000 per six working hours each day is about the limit capacity of our experts in that line. To the second inquiry 1 may say that it will take an expert 1624 hours to count 100,000 new notes, and for a carrent or or- dinary day’s work 40,000 notes is about all that can be done. Resiect(ul[y yours, . H. NEBEKER, Treasurer, United States. Take, then, 1,000,000 silver dollars, and set an expert countingit. If he worked night and day over it, lost no time in eat- ln};, drinking or sleeping, he would finish a fairly tough job of counting 1,000,000 sil- ver dollars in precisely eight and one- third days.—Harper’s Round Table. Caucasians are more liable to deafness than people of any other race. NEW TO-DAY. MUNYON DR. J. E. MORGAN, WHO SUFFERED FOR YEARS WITH RHEUMATISM, AND COULD SCARCELY USE HIS LINMBS, STATES THAT Hg IS ENTIRELY CURED. Strong Testimony in Favor of Munyon's Improved Homeopathic Remedies. Rheumatism, Dyspepsia, Kidney Trou- Dbles, Blood Diseases and All Nervous Complaints and Throat and Lung Affections Positively Cured by Mun- yon's Improved Homeopathic Rem- edies—Ask Your Druggist for Mun- yon’s Guide to Health, Buy a 25-Cent Kemedy and Cure Yourself. CALAMUS, Towa, Jan 25, 1895, This is to certify that I was troubled with therheumatism more or less for about eight vears, and a good share of the time obliged to go with canes or crutches. At the time I heard of Munyon’s Rheuma- tism Cure I was obliged to go with a cane and a crutch, and, in fact, could hardly put my feet to the floor. They were so swollen with inflammatory rhenmatism that I could not sleep, and Iife was a tor- ture. Within twenty-four hours after I commenced using Munyon’s remedy I threw away cane and crutch, and am now as free from it as I ever wasin my life. The same remedy cured two others here. JAS. B. MORGAN, Veterinary Surgeon, State of Iowa, County of Clinton, ss: Subscribed to and sworn to before me this 25th day of January, 1895, and if any one wishes further proof, address me. WM. W. A. HUNTINGDON, Notary Public. Munyon’s Rheumatjsm Cure seldom fails to relieve in 1to3 hours, and cures in a few days. Price, 25 cents. Munyon’s Dyspepsia Cure is guaranteed to cure all forms of indigestion and stom- ach troubles. Price, 25 cents. Munyon’s Headache Cure stops head- ache in three minutes. Price, 25 cents. Munyon’s Liver Cure corrects head- ache, biliousness, jaundice, constipation | and all liver diseases. Price 25c. Munyon’s Kidney Cure speedily cures pains in the back, loins or groins, and all forms of kidney disease. Price, 25 cents. Munyon’s Blood Cure eradicates all im- purities of the blood. Price, 25 cents. Munyon's Cold Cure prevents pneumonia and breaks up a cold in a few hours. Price, 25 cents. Munyon’s Cough Cure stops couzhs, night sweats, allays soreness anda speedily heals the lungs. Price, 25 cents. Munyon’s Catarrh Remedies never fail. The Catarrh Cure—price 25c—eradicates the disease from the system, anda the Ca- tarrh Tablets—price 25¢—cleanse and heal the parts. Munyon’s Asthma Cure and Herbs re- lieve astirma in three minutes and cure in Price, 50 cents each. Munyon's Pile Ointment positively cures all forms of piles. Price, 25 cents. Munyon’s Vitalizer restores lost powers to weak men. Price, §1. Ask your druggist for free copy of Mun- yon’s Guide to Health, and treat yourself at home with harmless remedies that con- tain positive cures for all diseases. Sold by all druggists, mostly at 25 cents a bottle. Personal letters to Prof. Munyon, 1505 Arch street, Philadelphia, Pa., answered with free medical advice for any disease. | hEAST RERGECTATE AT EN OFFICE & SALESR! 638 /MARKET 307" At Auction TUESDAY. S8 2R R TUESDAY................APRIL 31, 1896 AT 12 o'cLock Noox, At 638 Market Street, Opp. Palace Hotel. Golden Gate Park Residence. East line (No. 112) of, Lyon, 125 feet north of Page st. A v pretty residence of 9 rooms and bath. Bay-windows: basement and atti Cement stone walk. One-half block from ti Golden Gate Park. Examine this. Must be sold; arare opportunity. Lot.25 by 102 feet. Elegant Mission Residence. Southwest corner (No.306) of San Jose ave. and Twenty-fifih st.—near the Valencia-st. depot. Elegant residence, with bay-windows: 10 rooms and bath: brick foundation. Cement stone walk, “hoice neighborhood. Examine this for a home. Large lot, 40 by 120 fee:. McAllister-Street Residence Lot. South line of McAllister, 37:6 feet west of Pierce street. - This magnificent resid-nee lot is located in the midst of splendid improvements; street bituminized: cement stone sidewalk; McAllister- street cable. Lox 25x100 feet. Castro Heights Residence. North line, 982 Fifteenth, 72 feet east of Castro street. Tw residence of 9 rooms and bath: stable, etc.; just the place for an expressman or drayman; Casiro-street cable. Large lot, 48x115 feet. Pleasant Home Near Market Street. West line (No. 36) of Elgin Park, 139 feet north of Ridley street, between Valencia sal_Guerrere streets. “Pretty home of 9 rooms and bath. con- servetory, laundry, etc.: brick foundation: new plumbing; house som3 gar- den; cement walk : alencis | Lot 41x75, or 22x7 Vacant lot, 22x75 feet. Mission—Fifteenth-Street Residence. North line, 824 Fifteenth, 280 feet west of San- chez street. Fine residence of eight rooms and h. Street in fine condition. Stable on premises. ine this. Must be sold. Large lot, 30 by 115 Mission Business Corner Lot. Southeas corner of Twenty-fourth and Noe streets. klegant business corner: good business location. Twen:y-fourth street biuminized; Noe street macadamized. »iission electric road. Large corner lot, 50 by 114 feet. Fine Residence on Falcon Road. South line of Falcon road. 200 feet northwest from Copper alley. Eight rooms and bath: largs ed basement; large outhouses; stable for four horses. Elegant view. Owner going East. Must be sold. San Francisco and San Mateo elec- tric road. Lot 50 by 110 feet. Mission Residence Lots. North line of Twenty-fifth, 80 feet west ot Noe street. Three handsome residence lots. Street macadamized. sewered and sidewalked. Lote fenced. Twenty-fourth street electric road. Lots 26:8 by 114 feei. Mission Residence Lots. South line of Twenty-first street, 203:7 west of Church. An elegant marine view. Street graded, sewered and macadamized. San Francisco and San Mateo electric road. Lots 25:51 by 114 feet. Richmond Residence Lots. East line of Boyce. street, 400 feet north of Point Lobos avenue, near Parker avenue. Two large residence lots, near Geary-street cable. Any per- son wanting a cheap iot for a home should examine these. Large lots, 25 by 120 feet each. EASTON, ELDRIDGE & CO., 638 Market st. Auctioneers. COAL! wellington Southfield Genuine Coos Bay Seattle. Bryant. Telephone—Black—35. KENICKEREOCKER COAL CO., 522 Howard Street, Near First. COAL'! 8 00—Hal? ton. 400 7 00—Half ton. 4 00