The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 23, 1897, Page 31

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, MAY 1897. 23, The recent rich strikes in the Gwin mine, fn | the new 1300 and 1400 levels, continue to be | frequently discussed in mining circles. It fs | observed to have a twofold significance to | mother-lode mining. Iis more general one | lies in its being the latest and the greatest | deep-mining development, and one calculated | to sl further stimulate the era of deep min- | ing which has just bsgun and to strengthen | still more the co: nce in mother-lode prop- erties. Italso has a local significance, apparently. | Between the Kennedy and the Utica is & six- | teen or mile stretch of the mother | ch are a good many located mines | e valuable ones, but nothing & to tha deep values of theso s had been found. Tae Kennedy a good newly found ore body at the Utica is down about 2000 tica is in this gap, and the new lopment in its depths see to connect ica ana Kenuedy and to indicate that | the deep-lying values of these may be fairly | inuous alorg that section of the lode and | ncountered in other places. e discovery is that of a thin vein of won- derfully rich ore running through a ledge of low-grade ore 12 to 14 feet thick. In plac:s the matter appears almost pure gold, at Jesst running into the thousands per ton, and it will give a high average to the whole ledge The vein bas been traced for a considerable distance dnd its continuation in depth is o course problematical. A new deep shait wil be sunk at once a litile farther sonth and stamps will bs added to the presen stamp mill. The property co s of four ad- joining locations along the lode. During the | career of the mine before the abandoament of operations many years ago the old shaft was sunk to 1200 feet and 000,000 was hort tunnels Owing to the ble crude and expensive then employed the profiis became othing and operations ceased jusi e 1iches that have now been fo ew shaft has been sunk 200 fee and in time the ol through this correspondi great min is working 2300 £ taken from the comparative y Tun at various levels. h water and the hods e we below workings will nafts and a vast ore body in sight that could not be worked out in two generations, b sides the unmeasured promises of riches deep down. This mine, which was bouded two 3200,000, now takes its place as e greatest and richesi gold m of | val there is a certainty tha! on the mother lode. e~ of millions. here are other During this week the executive committee | Celifornia Miners’ Association will meet | der the question of participation in the gold mining convention to be held in Den- July 7, 8 and9. Maoy of the leadinz ing men of this State will attend thls im- | antgathering in which California has as | ich interest as any State. The official call | for the convention has reached various offi- clals and organizations here, and it includes t7e following statement of the scope and pur. poses of the gathering: The objects of the convention are to secure such | Natioaai legislation as may be calcnlated to pro- 1.0 € the business Inierests and developmentof resources of the mining Industry ia North and | sb Amerca: to bring together miniog men | 1 Investors; to lucrease reciprocal trade amoug | em: 1 discoss such questions as are naturally ested by its abjects; to culiivate acquaintanee fiaternal feeling and hear:y co-operaion amon us mininz, commercial and lsbor bod! represented, aud especialls to take under advise- | ent the Importance of the creation by Congress ofa department to be known as the Department es Mining, thus secaring a Cabinet officer that represeats an iterest whica affects thsn one-third of the people of the United | | hoped that this convention will prove to be | the greates: and most eff-ctive effort ever made in | erest of mining, therefors the Governors of States and Terrltories, friendly nations, County | Commlssioners, Mayors of citfes and towns, ail | mining, commerclal, trade and Iabor organizations | are urged to take ho d of the macter at once, and | 1o only see that their delegates are appoin ed and aitend the couvention, bu: that aitractive and | theroughiy educatioual displays of minerals are made from every mining dis | Associatio: | b | coal supply will be invaluable. second Cripple Creek. The executive committee solicits proposals of subjects wh ch may be embraced in a programme now being prepared. At midnight of next Tuesday the new State | mining law relating to locations, regisiration, etc., goes into effec:. After that time every locator of & guariz claim must do $50 worth of assessment work within sixiy days, while 10 worth of work must be done on & placer claim. New requirements as to posting notices of location must be observad, and on that day the books of all aistrict recorders will be closed o be turned over tocounty recorders within thirty days, Hereaiter all mining lo- cations must be registered with the Recorder of the county. These and other provisions of | the mining laws passed at the last session of the Legislature may work some annoyamce and uncsrtainty fora time, but thelaws re sa- lutary 6:es though capable of the improvement they wili likely get at the next session of the Legislature. 1t will not now be possible for an enferprising prospector fo file twenty or thirty locations and hold them for a year with- | out s dollar of expense The pending new trouble between the Anti- Dehris Association aud the Nevada County miners, caused by the injunction suits against the owners of two gravel mines on eccount of ground sluicing, bids fair to be adjusted by calling off the officials of the debris assocta- The committee from the Sacramento “hamber of Commerce which went to Nevada to inspect the Goding and Goodwin mines seems inclined to smooth things down, snd it has filed the following report to the Chamber of Commerce: “We recommend that further proceedings in | d and that the honorable c Works, or competent engi. neers, be selected by the Anti-Debris Associa- tion and the Siate Miners’ Association, said board to be requested to make a thorough in- vestigation of the whole matter and report to the rbove assoclations. We furiher recommend that the Anti-Debris before it takes decisive action, await the resuit of invesiigation, which will w the true state of affairs. We believe that by so dofag this important question will be edjusted upon an equitab'e basis within the Iaws, with the least possible friction between be interests icvoived at & mimimum cost.” There have been o other definite develop- ments during the week. “Official” reports on the Yukon diggings are somewhat new. They have heretofore con- sisted of prospectors’ tales painied red. The Candian Inspector of Poiice of that regivn has the court be st Board of Pu | made one, and in the course of it he says tha & large seam of good soft coal lies about ten miles from Forty-mile Creek, with about 200,000 tons in sight, and that it will proba- bly become the chief fuel supviy of thatre- gion. Without question rich quartz lodes, from which the gold in the creeks has come, will be discovered before long, to be deveoped when transportation faciiities make it possi- to get mining machinery into that almost ‘When that time comes a The inspector last year spent $9000 of his collections of mining fees on trails on the Canadian side of inaccessibie region. | the boundary, which illustrates the difference between the governmental policies of the two Governments, the Unitea States not having yet even supplied police protection on the American side. The inspector urges the open- ing up ofaroute irom Brtish Columbia on the south, In Colorado the Commissioner of the Mining Bureau is having & complete survey of the Crivple Creek mining district made, and will 1ssue an official bulletin giving the geological formation of the district, the nistory of the camp and detailed information about the mines, etc. The latest Colorado semsation is the nmew town of Yale City, a week old. Recent strikes in the Cottonwood mining district near Buena | Visia have created an excitement and a rush, and now, while the first tents are going up, “it is predicted” that Yale City will be a Copper discoveries n British Columbia seem to only increase in number, ana the reports of new finds of great ledges of rich ore continue. The Northwest is dsstined to develop an enor- | mous supply of this metal, for which the | world’s demand is rapidly increasing. One of | the discoveries is that of water which assays twenty pounds of copper to 300 gallons Recently a member of the United States i Geological Survey who examiued the Montana copper belt said that it was an open question whether the copper washed away in the water ! from the mines in Butte did not equal in value | the entire output of the istrict. The copper development in Shasta County | goes rapidly on. At Keswick, tho Mountain | Copper Mining Company will have five new smelters going before long. A mile from the | smelter 1s the idle diammoth quartz mine, and | it is now to be reopened to supply the copver company with fifty tons of ore daily for flux ! for the smelters. An endless ropeway will | transport theore. Many other quariz mines | in that region are supplying ore for flux. In | this county, the Evening Star quartz mine has | peen sold to W. M. Fitzhugh of Sen Francisco | | for $60,000. A large snaft will be sunk at | | once. The buying, bonding arnd rehabilitation of | | ola mines is a rapidly increasing feature of mother lode news. Among tha2 latest are those | in Nevada County. The German mine, on the | | Yuba, owned by the Shasta Mining Compaay, is one. The Ormond, owned by Baron vén Schroeder, is being prospected after being { closed for six years. A twenty-stampmill is | on the property and when additional machin- ery is in place, production will be resumed. Alfred Tregidgo hes bonded the Yuba mine, owned by the Haggin & Hearst estate, and s g0 at & depth of 800 ] | The latest California purchasa by the Lon- don Exploration Company is that of the Ne- vada City mine, whnich has been idle for some time and which has been sold. for §50,- { 000. On Monday the California Debris Com- mission’ will consider applications for hydrau- | | Jic minlng permits from the Ivdustrinl Gold | Mining Company in the ola French mine, El | | Dorado County; from James Rooks in the | Messerer mine, near Spanish ranch, Plumas | | County; from the Heskel Ravine Mining Com- | | pany in Mohawk Valley, Sierra County, and { tfrom Costa, Davis & Co. in their mine at | Cherokee, Butte Count |GRETNA GREEN'S BLACOKSMITA. 1 | Death of the Last of the Men Who Made the Scottish Town ¥Famous. Gretna Green, on the Scottish bor- | der, where, according ‘to local rec- |ords, more than 10,000 runawsy mar- | riages have been celcbrated. According to | Scotch law, says the New York World, an acknowledgment before witnesses that a | woman was one’s wife constituted a legal | marriage, and so runaway couples made | their way from all paris of England to | Gretna Green, where they would acknowl- | | | | edge themselves to be man and wife at the | smitny in the presence of the biacksmitb, who would take his position behind the anvil, repeat a short prayer and give them his biessing and a certificate. | Some time azo an act of Parliament was passed forbidding these Gretna Green | marriages uniess the parties had resided | three weeks in Scotland, and Great Brit- | ain marrisges will soon be a thing of the | past. William Lang died recently. Old | Lang, who recently celebrated his eigh- | tieth birthday, was the last of four gen- | erations of these marrying blacksmiths. Among those who have been wedded by the Langs have been the Earl of Dundon- | ald, who eloped over the border with | Miss Barnes, and Lord Ersiine, who posted all the way from London to the Seottish border with S8aran Buck. The smithy stands within five minutes’ walk from the bridge which marks the line between the two kingdoms, and looks on Wretna Green, an open, verdant space | surrounded by a few one-storied ancient cottages. Few tourists ever visit the ro- mantic spot, which figures in the guide- book and possesses no hotel. and yet which is associated with the thrilling ad- ventures and marveious escapes of some 10,000 English lovers of the aristocracy and the wealthy classes. ———————— Of Anclent Origin. Those Americans who dislike the an- them ‘*‘America’’ on the ground that is | founded on the British national anthem will be interested to know ibat James Payn has su:gested the abolition of *‘God Save the Queen’ asa happy way of com- | memorating the Queen’s Diamond Jubi- | lee. Mr. Payn’s quarrel is with the words, | however, and not with the music. He compiains: *“The words have not even the merit of an English origin. Raikes | informs us in his journal that they are al- | most a literal translation of the antique | song sung by the Demoiselles de St. Cyr, | when Louis XIV attended the chapel of that establishment, and were transiated and adapted to the House of Hanover by Handel.” There can be no objection to | the music, which Beethoven himself i called “a treasure.’”—Philadelphia Press. | orbitant prices for badly served food, and | then a regretful good-by. | Europe on the Paris Wednesday was a |ing of Mrs. Maurice Casey, Miss Kate | | Hotel yesterday looking extremely well, | maid. Few spots in the United Kingdom are | gyenue Hotel several days before their possessed of more romantic interest than | geparture for Europe. FROM GREATER NEW YORK Personal and Miscellaneous Gossip About Well-known Galifornians .in Gotham. 'Tis cheaper to go to Europe these days than it is to stay in America and put up at a big summer hotel, where you have to show off your best clothes and jewelry, be on your best behavior constantly, pay ex- at the end of a month or six weeks drag yourself back to town worn out comple tely and giad to get home and rest. There- fore, the score of monster ocean steam- ships are crowded to their utmost capsaity during the months of April, May, June and July with, rich and poor Americans who go abroad, where board 1s cheap and tourists are not supposed to carry extrava- gant wardrobes. 'Tis a pity, however, that our beautiful land should be so de- serted. Foreign travel should be encouraged of course, but a little bit of sightseeing in one's own God-given land would be acom- mendable virtue for free-born Americans to cultivate. We have had a fleeting glimpse of & score or more of Californizns within the past two weeks. However, as they are | always birds of passage at this time of year we are compelled 10 be satisfied with a glad handshake, a few hurried messages from the dear friends in California and Even the resident Californians are flit- ting away to country vVillas and seaside cottages. Among the passengers who sailei for merry party of San Franciscans, consist- Ditlon, Miss Cosgrove, Master Casey and They were guests at the Fifth- Harrison Magowan Parker accompanied Mrs. Casey and party from San Francisco. Mr. Parker will remain in New York a couple of weeks. He paid a cail at THE Carn office on Park Row this week, and afterwards met a number of friends down town' with whom he exchanged ideas re- garding things journalistic. Mr. Parker as the manager of that bieezy paper, the Ban Francisco Wave, has a host of friends here to weicome him always. During his sojourn in New York he will ve at the Majestic. F. M. Smith of Oakland has been stop- ping st the Filth-avenue. Hon. Robert J. Tobin strolled throuch the grand corridor of the Fifth-avenue He arrived in town last Monday, and has not decided how long he will remain among his many friends here, Mrs. Fred P. Wilcox, who used to be pretty Bessie Garney, and who is now a recognized beauty, will leave for Paris the first week in June, to be gone several months, Though Mrs. Wilcox has been absent from California for many years, she still keeps 1n touch with her old friends out there by welcoming them royally when they visit Greater New York. George F. 8. White of S8an Francisco ar- rived the first of the week and is putting up at the Fifth-avenue Hotel. Hon. Jobn D. 8preckels has peen a d cidedly busy man during the past few weeks. He has made the Hoffman House his headquarters, but numerous calls out of town bave deprived his friends of the pleasure of seeing much of bim. On Baturday morning he ran down to Wash- ington and wi'l not return to New York until the last of this week. James Russell of San Francisco is here enjoying our delightful spring weather. Apropos, New York looks /ike a brilliant chromo at present, so vivid are the diffar- ent shades of green that clothe the wooded parks, aud so blue is the clear sky over- head. Wild flowers are growing along the banks of the Hudson, and the vacant lo's of the great city are brightened with here and there the blovm of buattercups and dandelions. ‘When vou visit Gotham and by chance | There is a good story find yourself lonely or a bit homesick just stroll around to the Waldor! about dinner- time and peep in at the folks who are sit- ting at the tables in the palmroom or dining-hall. You will never fail to recog- nize a hall-dozen or more familiar faces from dear old Celifornia. The other evening there was quite a number of well-known San Fraunciscans in the dining-room. Among them most con- spicuous was George F. Crocker, who has recently returned from a trip West. He was accompanied by James B. Brady, the wealthy iron contracior, famous for his wonderful collection of diamonds. There | are diamonds set in his canes and um- | brellas, not only in the handles but deep in the ferrules and along the outside sur- faces. His cardcase, cigar-case, match- box, watch and chaln, keyring and note- book are set with immense diamouds of the purest water. They say he carries a lot of unset dia- | monds about with him, just to shakein | the palm of his hand like so many dice. told about Mr. Brady and an indignant hotel clerk in St. Louis which causea much merriment at the time. Mr. Brady’s shirt is always adorped with diamond cofflinks, collar-buttons and studs, besides the sparkling bejeweled buckles and gold chains which adorn his white «ilk braces. As is his wont Mr. Brady carelessly removed his shirt on pre- | paring to retire for the night, and, throw- | ing on a biz ulsier, went down to the | office and flung the laundered, cambric | down on the desk, saving: ‘Please pn:l that in the safe and give ma a receipt.” The cierk looked at him 1n open-eyed astonishment, exclaiming: *Excuse me, sir, but we do not keep a safe as the re- cepracle for soiled linen.” “You won’t keep it for me until morn- ing, eh?” asked Brady, No, sir!” returned the clerk with in- dignant voice. “Well, don’t you think you’d better?’ | said Brady, with a sly wink and broad smile, as te turned the shirt over and ex- posed to view the immense diamond- gleaming around the collar and down the front. It took the clerk three long min- | utes to recover from his surprise and ad- miration of the dazzling gems. It goes without saying that the clerk found a place in the safe for the precious shirt, and that Brady smiled good natur- | edly when he was given the requested re- ceipt. Mr. Crocker expects his family home | from Europe within a comple of weeks. They will continue residence at the Wal- dorf. Just across from the table where Mr. Crocker and Mr. Brady were dining, on the evening in question, sat one of San Francisco’s prominent citizens, Jonn I Sabin, and Dr. Robert Eugene Payne, wko within the past five months has taken up his residence in New York, and is meeting with marked success. Dr. Payne is ths brother of Dr. Red- mond Maxwell Payne of San Francisco, whose engagement with Miss Sabin has been formally announced. Mr. Sabin came East several weeks ago, but has been in New York for a few days only, be- cause business demands his presence in Boston. He anticipates returning home this week. Mrs. Hastings-Jerome, looking very bandsome and always becomingly gowned, is seen on the avenue wken the | days are fine. Mrs. Jerome will run over to Paris within a few weeks. | Hon. Russell J. Wilson and family are stili at the Holland House. Mrs. Frank Leslie, that delightful | nostess and feminine general, gave her last reception for the season last Thurs- day evening. There was a crush, and the programme was most entertaining. Mrs. Leslie leaves for England on the ity of Paris, Wednesday, and as is ber custom | will not return to America until fall. Mrs. F. L'hote and Miss Dorothy L'hote the city for some time. Hon. George C. Perkins, looking very well and happy, walked up. Broadway Baturday alternoon.’ He had just come i up from Washington to spend a few days inNew York. i A.C.Neybroof Los Angeles has been ! in the city several days. Mr. and Mrs. Alvert Ha!l of San Fran- | cisco are guests at the Astor House, where, by the way. Loie Fuller 'has just arrived. She has had a very trying time of it down in poor, unforiunate Cuba, and her spir- ited denunciations against the Spanish Government and its treatment of bleed- | ing, suffering Cubans are intense!y inter- | esting. Miss Fuller cut her Cuban en- | z2gement short, declating she could not | dance in a lund where the air seems fitled with the shrieks of broken-hearted women | and the groans of brave and dying men. Poor people! Poor Cubans! Well may they cast sad eyes to heaven and moan, “How long, O Lord, how long?'"’ Charles Welch of San Francisco arrived tue Fifth-avenue. Mrs. Fred O. Barto of San Francisco, known vrofessionally as Claudia Hazen Barto, has recently returned from Jack- sonville, Fia., where she has been teach- ing reading and elocution during the past year. Mrs. Barto has signed contracts with Koster & Bial to appear at their roof garden this summer. She 13 a very tal- ented woman, and her unique method of expression will surely win her a high place among the best names in vaudeville. The announcement of the engazement of Samuel M. Shortridge and Miss Laura Leigh Gasbwiler was to many of the colony here a pleasant surprise. Miss Gashwiler is a niece of the we.l-known writer and correspondent, D, F. Verdenal of New York. Mr. Shortridge's many friends in Gotham offer him congratula- | tions and best wishes for long and con- tinued bappiness. Itis not necessary to say that the lovely voung bride-elect is to be envied the love and proteciion of such a worthy and distinguished man as Mr. Shortridge has ever proven himself to be in courts of law and political debate. Again, may rarest happiness be theirs. Mrs. M. Donahue and daughter, Miss Mamie Donabu, have been having an enjoyable visit with friends in New York. They will start homeward this month, stopping over at Philadeiphia and Washington for a few days, and visiting T.os Angeles before their return to San Francisco. Miss Donahue declares that though she likes New York she does not like its climate nor its men, and will be happy to return to San Francisco, where one can live in comfort the year round, and where gentlemen don’t hold down every seat in a crowded streetcar. Her criticism is a just one in regard to the male seilishness exhibited in New York’s public streets and conveyances. valgar and discourteous as they are in this city. I voice the sentiments of thousands of indignant women, and from presonal observation and experience I do not hesitate to join in the murmurs that are growing louder every day against the ungallant manners of the average New York man. TrELLA Fortz ToLAND. 34 Park Row. BLAOK ANIMALS. Awful Examples of Sable-Coated Leo- pards, Cats, Ravens and Beetles. “Beware of black animals” is consid- ered sound advice by a magazine writer who devotes six pages and numerous illus- trations to warnings sgainst the awful examples of black animals, leopards, cats, ravens, beetles and undertakers’ horses. The black leopard is admitted to be the peds. The horrib'e black leopard Death ia Eugene Sue’s “Wandering Jew,” who was followed about by a loathsome Eng- lishman, anxious to see him eat his tamer, is declared not to be a scrap overdrawn when compared with the black leopard now in the zoological gardens — Satan by name. Satan hates the whole world and wants to fight it, | to gnaw it, to tear it to rags and splinters; and he is staring, dancing mad because he can’t get the world to do it. He lies there, black and deadly, his yellow eyes ablaze, ready to pounce on you—if only those bars suddenly melt away! But they don’t melt and yon come no nearer. Then Satan flings nimseli at the bars with a yell and flies up and down and over and over about his cage like nothing but a black are guests at the Imperial. They will be in | in the city on Tuesday and registered at | In no place in ail the world are men so | most savage and intractable of all guadru- | ieopard with about 300C seiilitz powder: | swallowed separately ana suadenly effer- | vescing ail toether inside bim. He claws and b tes at the walls, the bars, the floor, even his own tail and feet, in frantic rage at his inability {0 get near you. And finally he rolls over on’ his back, half choking, and crunches in his teeth a mouthfui of straw snapped from | the ground, just to make you understand | what would “happen to your head if it wern where tie strawiv And altogether Satan’s manners are not of a patient and ng-suffering sort.” The' neighboring l“m’s and tigers are comparatively solt- | hearted. The } ven is another ‘blsck rascal.” | He is *'sinister, sly, melancholy and grim- | visaged,” although mischievous. Yet | there are people who keep ravens ay | pets. Dickens had one, frem whom Grip, | the famous raven in *‘Barnaby Rudge,” was drawn and who died from eat- ing white raint, anything even so dis- | tantly approaching purity necessarily dise | agreeing with him. Undeterred from | rayen-keeping the uovelist invested 1n an« | other dark and melancholy bird, who { came to an untime y end throu; h indulg- | ing voo treely in g.szier's putty. |~ Although black cats have come to be re- | garded as maseots they were not many years ago looked upon with horror and distrust, and supposed to en- shrine the forms of familiar de- mons atronized by witches. Even now many peopie find something nncinny about black cats and refuse to own them. “Who,"” it is asked, “would trust a black beetie? Lock at his furtive, murderous, round-shouldered deadiiness of shape—u masked, blackclad hsadsman among in- sects. Doubly false even to his own name, he is neither black nor a beetle, but a cock- roach.” — B NEW DIVING MACHINE. It May Bring Abont = Revolution in Submarine Work, The first of a very simple and easily constructed combined diving apparatus | and life-saving raft was completed last week by John Curtin, under a patent granted to John Speirs of Jersey City Heights. This machine allows a workman to de- scend in the water to the bottom of a ves- seland yet have a free and open com- munication with the air above while he per~ forms needed work under the light of an | electric lamp. Then the apparatus, when not in use, can be folded like an accordion into a small space, and can in case of need be inflated with air and used asa life raft. The machine consists of a hollow cylin- dera yard in diameter, made of strong waterproof canvas and of sufficient length | to reach to the underside of the vessel using it, while its open upper end is above water. This long waterproof bag is held distended by hickory hoons pass- ing arounda its inner _circumf:rence about two feet apart. It is provided | with a light metal boitom, from which | along its length, with guides at the tou, are extended supporting 1oves. On one side of this cylinuer, at the height of a man’s shoulders from the bottom, are placed, on theoutside, water-tight sleeves and gloves, nto which a man on the inside can thrust his arms and hands so as 10 be able to freely bandle tools. Immediately above these appendages, 30 as to be opposite the workman’s face, i<a glass window, through which he can see by means of a light from 2 submerged electric lamp. If repairs are needed at the bottom or | side of a vessel, below tne waier line, the | diving apparatus can be sunk or drawn to | the desired point by a rope fastened (o its { bottom and passing under the craft, its upper open end being above the water line. This presentsto the diver a clear, well-ven- tilated channe!, into which he can descend by means of a rope ladder. When stand- ing on the bottom he can thrust his hands mto the pending sleeves, grasp tools sus- pended on ihe outside, and perform the needed work withalmostas much comfort as though the vessel was in a drydock. There is not needed heavy diving armor, pumps, uncertain tubes for air, great at- mospheric pressure and lile-lines; but the workman can directly communicate with his companions above and go back and forth at pleasure, with but little trouble. These cylinders, which admit of close compression, will occupy but littie space when stored,” and yet ina few seconds time can be converted into first-class life- saving rafts, similar to some now in use. ‘When one of them is inflated with air the { upper end securely closed by a cover pro- | vided for the purpose, it will possess great | buoyancy and be capable of supporting considerable weight. Then, if two or more of them are lashed together a_very serviceable raft is con- structed. In fact, a superior raft for food can be carried in them safe from loss, not- withstanding any heavy pitching they may be subjected to. Mr. Speirs, the inventor, says that the apparatus now completed wiil be used in the harbor this week, and will show its value for the purposes it is intended to accomplish.—New York Herald. WODDING POPPIES. Wiitten for “The Call” by J. M. Shawhan. STACEATO. ATEMPO . B A A g3 = Copyright, 1897, by J. M. Shawhaa.