Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 November 1895 — Page 4

THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, WEDKESD AY, INOYEMBER 27, 1895.

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The grateful silence which Vice President Stevenson has been observing for come time past is probably due to a discovery that the grapes are sour anyhow. With 40,000.000 bushels of coal loaded In the harbor and awaiting shipment, which has cost $250,000 to maintain during the summer, coal Interests at Pittsburg, may well be anxious for a rise in the Ohio river. The country respectfully declines to become excited or even Interested over the distribution of congressional patronage in organizing the two houses of Congress. Having elected the men of Its choice to make the law?, the people care very little who gets the paltry offices. What is the matter with Col. Abe Slupsky that the New York Sun does not bring him out for the Democratic nomination for President? With the Hon. Dink Botts, of Georgia, Colonel Slupsky would make a ticket which, if not ideal, would be a better one than the party Is likely to have. There is undeniable significance in a mass meeting like that held in New York last night to express sympathy with the Cubans. Editor Charles A. Dana, who presided, is one of the best known men In the country, and the list of speakers Included some men of national reputation. The cause of Cuba 13 marching on. A provision in the new Constitution of Kentucky makes it necessary for a new election for Governor to be held In case that official resigns before serving two years. As the Republican party In Kentucky cannot afford to make another contest for Governor next year, this provision will probably bar Governor Bradley from the nomination for Vice President. Now and then an essayist appears who declares that an adverse balance of trada does not require, gold to , adjust the difference. The average man, however, who sells a neighbor $5 worth of wheat and buys $7 worth of corn, knows that he must, on the day of settlement, pay $2 in cash or some commodity which the neighbor will accept In lieu of it if he continues in business. The New York Herald says that "the firm and able statesman now in the White House has done more than any other man to save his party from disastrous blunders and the country from the consequences of those blunders." Admitting this to be true, why keep a Democratic President in office to save the country from the consequences of Democratic blunders when It can be so much more effectually done by a Republican President? Judge J. F. Taylor, heretofore a promi- j cent and influential Democrat of southern Illinois, has resigned the chairmanship of the district committee and his place on the county committer and proclaimed his allegiance to the Republican party. Among the reasons assigned are disapproval of the present administration, the demonstrated Incapacity of the Democratic party to administer the government, failure of Cleveland's foreign policy, and, finally: My , father was a Union soldier and while bearing arms for his country he sickened from exposure and hardships of camp life, ' was left by hla companions, who reported him R3 dead. Atout six weeks after his regiment was mustered out of the service he arrived home alive, but with ::ot sufllclent strength to get in the house. His rccust constitution was undermined and his health gone. Since then his life has been that of a confirmed invalid. Of course lie draws a pension. The habit some politicians have of criticising soldiers for drawing perslons always Rave me pain when indulged in in my presence. The Missouri preacher "just returned from a three months' tour of Turkey and the Holy Land," who declares that our minister to Turkey ought to be hanged, is probably as 111 informed in regard to the facts of the case as he is intemperate in his language. His assertion that Minister Terrell has "Joined the Mohammedan church and is aiding in the persecution and killing of Christians Instead of protecting them," refutes Itself by its absurdity. There was & time in the early stage of the Armenian troubles when our minister to Turkey appeared to be inactive, but that may have been because the time for action had not arrived. Latterly he has been exerting himself very actively, and, as the dispatches show, very effectively for the protection of American missionaries. The Missouri preacher seems to have acquired a large amount of misinformation during his brief foreign tour The article of a correspondent of the Philadelphia Record regarding Representative Heed does Mr. Blaine an injustice. Mr. Blaine might have been a candidate for the Senate against Mr. r'ersnd'n, but the lines were never "::nn, as Mr. Fcssenden died before the rtember election of 1863, and his term I not expire until March S, 1871, so that " ' z ruccerrsr was elected by a Legisla-

: c!:crrn In Crtember, 1370. Mr.

Blaine was not a candidate, but used his Influence to elect Lot M. Morrill, both for Mr. Fessenden's unexpired term and for the full term following. Mr. Morrill was elected. 'As for Mr. Blaine's opposing Mr. Reed for Attorney-general, it is fair to say that he never meddled with State nominations unless some officlal madQ war upon him, as one or two did to their sorrow. Mr. Blaine did not oppose Mr. Reed at any time, but Mr. Reed took offense at Mr. Blaine because he took sides with Senators Hale and Frye in recommending a collector for the port of Portland, Mr. Reed claiming the right to suggest the collector, while Mr. Blaine sustained the Senators, both in 1881 and In 1SS9, when General Harrison appointed the candidate of the Senators sustained by Mr. Blaine. For years the appointment had been regarded as a State rather than a district matter. General Harrison so regarded it, and for that reason he incurred the hostility of Mr. Reed, as did Mr. Blaine. TUB REPORT OS TIIE NICARAGUA

CAXAL. The report of the Nicaraguan canal commission Is somewhat of a surprise ! because of Its decidedly unfavorable bearing on the project and Its wide ! difference from previous reports, either official or semi-official, in regard to the feasibility of the proposed route and estimated expense of the work. For some years past the public has been led to believe that the proposed route was entirely feasible, and that the estimated cost of the work was approximately correct. The present report differs so materially from previous ones that it is likely to have an unsettling effect and perhaps cause a revision of. existing views. The present canal company got its concession from the Nicaraguan government in 18S7 and was incorporated by Congress in 1833. A construction company, of which ex-Senator Warner Miller, of New York, is president, took the contract of building the canal, which was to be begun in one year and completed In ten. In September, 1S0O, the Nicaraguan government acknowledged that the stipulated sum of $2,000,000 had been expended within the year. This expenditure had not been made recklessly. The route chosen had been surveyed several times, twice by expeditions sent out by the United States Navy Department. During General Grant's presidency It had been approved as the most practicable and feasible route by a government commission consisting of the chief of engineers of the army, the chief of the Bureau of Navigation and the superintendent of the coaBt survey, after a technical examination extending over several years. The detailed estimates of the cost of construction, amounting to J63.000.000, were examined and accepted by eminent engineers in this country and in Europe. Following this report a survey of the route had further demonstrated its practicability. The matter has been a frequent subject of reference in - presidential messages, and the feasibility of the route has been generally accepted as an ascertained fact. In January, 1891, Senator Morgan introduced a bill in the United States Sen-, ate by which ' the government was to become interested in the work. By this bill the capital stock of the company was fixed at $100,000,000, of which $70,000,000 was to go to the United States as paid-up stock in consideration of the government guaranteeing the bonds of the company to that amount. After a debate lasting several weeks the bill finally passed the Senate and went to the House, where It died with the end of Congress. At the same session, however, Congress appropriated $20,000 to cover the expenses of a government commission to examine the route. This commission consisted of Colonel .Craighlll, of the army; Lieutenant Commander Endicott, of the navy, and a civilian whose name Is not recalled. This is the commission that has now reported. The general trend of the present report Is decidedly unfavorable to the canal company if not to the project itself. Without distinctly asserting that the work is impracticable, the . report says it is neither practicable nor advisable to attempt it upon the data at present available. It is intimated that the surveys heretofore made were incomplete and inaccurate, and the esti mates of cost much too low. To remove these doubts and lay a foundation for intelligent action the commission recommends the appropriation of $330,000 for additional surveys and examinations covering a period of eighteen months. As the concession of the Nicaraguan government will expire in April, 1898, so long a delay as these new surveys would Involve would probably be fatal to the enterprise. In view of the vast importance of the work and its immense value when completed, the question of a few million dollars more or les3 in its cost is not worth considering. If the route is feasible the canal should be constructed regardless of cost, and the United States should lend all necessary aid to the work and control it when completed. WHY BRADFORD CHUCKLES. The only accurate information received In this country as to the Increase of British trade under the present tariff law is contained in the British official reports. The State Department is re luctant to make these public, and would suppress them altogether If it could, but they get out through other chan nels. A statement showing the value of declared exports from the consular dis trict of Bradford to the United States during the month of September, 1S93, contains some Interesting facts of the kind which the State Department does not give out. Bradford is located In "the great manufacturing district of York shire, England, and is the principal seat of the worsted yarn and woolen goods manufactures in that country. It Is also the seat of cotton, silk, mohair and alpaca manufactures. The statement re ferred to shows that the total value of the exports to the United States from Bradford during September, 1S93, was $2,CJ1.123, against $S32,6S5 during Sep tember, 1894, an increase of $1,538,440. The increase during the three months ending Sept. SO, 1S95, over the corre sponding three months of 1S94 was $6, 097,630, and the increase during nine months of 1S93 ending Sept.' 30. as com pared with the corresponding nine month3 of 1S94, was $16,943,370. Or, to put the comparison in another shape, while the value of the total exports from

the Bradford district to the United States during the entire year 1S94 under the McKInley tariff was only $8,840,G93. the value of the exports from the same district during nine months of the present year was $21,541,973. When It Is remem-' bered that these figures, taken from British official statements, show the increase in exports of foreign manufactures to the United States from one consular district alone, one can form an approximate idea of the total increase. No wonder foreign manufacturers are rejoicing over the prosperity they are enjoying under the Wilson-Gorman tariff and are hoping for a continuance of the Democratic party In power. Secretary Morton has written a letter to the secretary of a Democratic club at St. Paul, in which, after declining an invitation to deliver an address by reason of a previous engagement, he discusses the political situation and the recent elections. On the latter point he

says: My real and profound conviction is that the five Senators who. like mutinous sailors on a craft, scuttled the Wilson tariff re form bill are wholly and entirely responsible for the temporary loss of New York, New Jersey and Maryland. The Democracy, instead of having one Judas Iscariot among its disciples, had Ave in the United States Senate. Unlike their original prototype, besides hanging themselves, they hanged their party in three States and demoralized it everywhere else. Coming from a Democratic Cabinet officer, this opinion of Democratic Sena tors is decidedly interesting, especially the characterization of them as pirates and Judas Iscariots. Is Mr. Cleveland's Secretary talking without permission, or does he voice the views and feelings of his master? Mr. Morton is awfully severe on other bosses, but most loyally attached to his own. Foot from the Pension Report.1 The report of the Commissioner of Pen sions presents some interesting facts in regard to . the relative importance of the pension business, so to speak, in the several States, or at the several agencies. There are but two agencies which pay more money than the Indianapolis agency Co lumbus, O. ($15,447,359), and Topeka, Kan. ($14,900,023.) Indianapolis is third in the list, with a total payment of $10,873,428 during the. last fiscal year. New York and Pennsylvania, however, have two agencies. The largest number of names on the roll of any pension agency is found in Kansas, 101,917. Columbus, O., follows with 103,eil. The others come along as follows: Illinois, 74,118; Indiana, 71,439; Philadelphia, 57,749; Knoxville, Tenn., 57,042; Iowa, 56,989, etc. When It comes to the number of pensioners living In the different States the numbers are changed omewhat, as the following figures show: Ohio, 105,160; Pennsylvania, 90,433; New York, 88,719; Indiana, 69.S30; Illinois, 68.678; Missouri, 53,933; Michigan, 46,258; Kansas, 42,827; Massachusetts, 38,602; Iowa, 37.931; Kentucky, 2S,90f; Wisconsin, 27,738. That Missouri should have more pensioners living within its borders than has Massachusetts, Michigan or Iowa, or that Kentucky should lead Wisconsin, will be a surprise to many persons, particularly those who have regarded the two States named as rather Confederate than Union during the war. The Eastern States have lost their soldiers by immigration further west, as the large numbers in Kansas, Nebraska, Minnesota, etc.. Indicate. Indiana lost many by immigration, but, sending more men into the war than any other of the larger States, it could spare more. Besides, Indiana has gained a large number of soldiers from other States in recent years, particularly from Ohio. Last year 3.4S1 of the 970,524 pensioners resided in foreign countries. More than half of them reside in Canada, G64 in Great Britain and 573 in Germany. All the world loves a lover, and the fact that both parties to the McCormick-Rock-efeller marriage are prospectively very wealthy will not prevent people from sympathizing with the young groom who had to be married on a sick bed, or from admiring the young bride who cheerfully accepted this kind of a wedding instead of a spectacular one. That citizen of Shelbyville who slept soundly through a storm which blew the roof off his house, and who knew nothing about the event till he got up in the morn ing can make a fortune by putting up his remedy for insomnia In a compact and available form. DinnLGS IX TIIC AIR. A Talker. Frlggs You know Cablets, don't you? Braggs Oh, I have a listening acquaintance with him. Enny. Simmons How In the world do you get yourself into the proper frame of mind to write those pessimistic poems? TImmlns I use a fountain pen. Horse Talk. Wickwire There can be - no doubt that the horse is rapidly passing. Mudge Mebbe; but the ones I bet on don't seem to pass anything very much. , It Depends. Willis What do you lawyers charge for your ability or the work you do? Breeves It depends. If I win, 1 charge for the work, and if I lose, I charge for my great legal ability. All OUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. ' Dr. Frederick Wines, the authority on criminology, has been appointed lecturer on social classes and social evils in Harvard University. The hut in which the Marquis of Salisbury lived while at the Australian gold diggings In 1832 is still preserved as a relic. He was then Lord Robert Cecil. It is said that a book on the Virgin, written by Pope Leo XIII when he was Cardinal PeccI, was placed on the Index Expudgatorius by Pius IX and that it is there yet. Two ladies have just got divorces at Toledo, O., both on the ground of their husbands' cruelty. One was Mrs., Orrln S. Whltten and the other Mrs. Lillian Phelps. Mrs. Whltten la Mrs. Phelps's grandmother M. Zola is to pay England another visit next spring. He is credited with the intention of studying the provincial Englishman in Manchester and other leading'cltles and the industrial and social life of the people. A large number of hymns and other poems in Charles Wesley's handwriting were recently found in a pile of old documents at the Wesleyar Conference office In London. Many of the poems are political and relate to the American revolution. That the Lord's supper ought to be a real meal and not a sham supper of crumbs of bread and drops of wine, was the radical proposition put before his congregation by the Rev. I. M. Gibson, of I'lattsburg. Mo., a few days ago. And it Is stated that many of the congregation are heartily in favor of the innovation. There are three negroes In the Ohio Legislature, which will meet on Jan. 1, 18D6 W. H. Parham, ot Cincinnati; William R. Stewart, of Youngstown. and H. C. Smith, editor of the Cleveland Gazette. Mr. Smith was re-elected by a plurality of ten thousand, or about two thousand more than he received two years ago. Mrs. E. O. Turbush resides on her farm about one mile east of West Bay City, Mich. She Is a widow, eighty years of age and well off. She has practical Ideas upon the subject of philanthropy, and during her lifetime. has adopted twenty-one friendless children, all of whom have gone out Into the world and made honorable names for themseivei. Some have married, and two are still on the farm. She is unostentatious

in the carrying out of her Ideas. It is said that she will donate a site for a children's home to any association that will establish one. One of the members of . the new Baltimore City Council is Dr. J. Marcus Cargill, a colored man. He was born in Georgia, attended the Atlanta University and Is a graduate of the medical department of Howard University. He was elected to tha City Council by a phenomenally large majority and is widely known and respected In Baltimore. Paul de Witt Hay ward, an eight-year-old Chicago boy, is the youngest person who ever received the bronze medal of the Royal Humane Society, of Canada, for saving a human life. He and a Canadian lad much larger and older than himself were playing on the lak-2 last September and the latter fell in and would have drowned but for Hayward's stubborn and finally successful attempt to rescue him. Japan has a highly Interesting new woman In Mme. Oyama, wife of the Mikado's field marshal. She is a Vassar graduate of the class of 1SS3, was president and valedictorian of her class, and is a lady of great cultivation and ability, and of beauty as well. Mme. Oyama speaks Russian, French, German and English with fluency, is the Empress chief . lady-in-waiting, and draws the highest salary paid to any woman of the court. She is a sort of arbiter of elegancies for the feminine portion of the court, which she instructs in European manners and etiquette. She is also the most active apostle of dress reform in Japan. A Hundred Miles. He tumbled from his weary wheel. And set it by the door; Then stood as though he joyed to feel His feet on earth once more; And as he mopped his ruppled head, His face was wreathed in smiles; "A very pretty run," he said, "I did a hundred miles!" "A hundred miles!" I cried. "Ah, think. What beauties you have seen; The reedy streams where cattle drink, The meadows rich and green. Where did you wend your rapid way. Through lofty woodland aisles?" He shook hU head.-i "I cannot say; I did a hundred miles!" "What hamlets saw your swift tires spin? Ah, how I envy you! To lose the city's dust and din Beneath the heaven's blue: To get a breath of country air; To lean o'er rustic stiles!" He only said, "The roads were fair; I did a hundred miles!" Harry Romalne. CURIOSITIES IN IIOXDS.

They Are Required Without Resard to the Duties of Officers. Philadelphia Press. Some Treasury Department officials have been making interesting discoveries In the method of bonding public officers. One hundred and six thousand officers are under bond to the government, the amount involved being more than $163,000,000. Most of these officers, 104,000 in number, are postmasters. There are 215 under the Treasury Department, being such officials as collectors of customs and surveyors. There are 261 offices under the War Department, including paymasters, quartermasters and surgeons; 298 In the Navy Department, 500 under the Interior Department and 800 under the other departments. One of the curiosities Is that no army, engineer officer is under bond. The eight army surgeons give bonds amounting to $160,000, while the engineer officers, who handle millions of dollars for river and harbor work, do not give the government any security other than their oath as army officers. ' The army officers who are stationed at military schools, and who are responsible for second-hand guns and a small quantity of ammunition, give bonds amounting to more than $1,000,000. The disbursing clerk in the Navy . Department, through whose hands must pass the vast sums paid out for armor, war ships and gun forglngs, furnishes a bond of but $10,000. The fifty-one army quartermasters who handle funds give bonds amounting to nearly a million and a half, while the engineer officers In the same service, who handle sums greatly in excess of that disbursed by the quartermasters, are unhampered by any such requirement. Fortunately, there have been few failures among engineer officers properly to account for public funds placedt in their custody. Officers are bonded without regard for the responsibility or risk incurred. Thus, the assistant treasurer in New York is bonded for half a million, while the treasurer in Washington Is bonded for $130,000. If the amounts involved in their respective offices were considered, the amounts of the bonds would be reversed. Neither of these officials could get away with any money of the government. They would have as much trouble In actual defalcation as Secretary Carlisle himself. It has been suggested that a regular scale of bonds for subordinate employes be adopted, so as to relieve leading officials of financial responsibility for the dishonesty of employes. The postmaster at New York gives a bond of half a million, while a subordinate employe may commit an offense beyond tha .postmaster's powers to prevent, for which the latters bondsmen must be unjustly held accountable. The department is in favor of discontinuing personal bonds and substituting therefor the bonds of trust companies organized to do this character of business. This substitution, it is estimated, would result in an annual saving to the government of about $70,000. ANOTHER OBJECT LESSON. Free Wool Hns Rntsed the Prlee of the Woolen Cloth. Cleveland News Herald. A pointed Illustration of the way In which free raw materials have failed to benefit American consumers, as the Democrats said they would, is furnished by the recent advance in the price of American woolen?. The American Wool and Cotton Reporter of last week said that the manufacturers cf textile fabrics had decided t. advance the price for next season on piece-dyed clay diagonals, all wool kerseys and beavers sharply bevond the opening price of last season, and from 10 to 15 cents per yard beyond prices which have been ruling dur ing the last few months. The Reporter adds that "One or the rour largest maKers nas named prices 17'a cents per yard in ad vance of the opening price for spring." This Is a fulfillment ot the Democratic promise of cheaper clothing for the people as a result of the putting of wool on the free list. Everybody knew that when the duty was removed from raw wool without a corresponding reduction in the duties on woolen cloth the result would be simply to put more profit Into the pockets of the woolen manufacturers, and that no jDeneht would result to the people In the way of cheaper clothing; and that Is exactly what is happening. Millions of collars nave been taken rrom the pockets of wool-growers In order that the business of manufacturing woolens could be made more profitable, and the Democrats are now rejoicing over the fact. The New York Herald, a Democratic news paper, commenting on the advance In the prices of fabric?, says: "There can be no doubt that tho outlook for American woolen mills Is now better and brighter than It ever was before." But this Democratic newspaper fails to eay anything about the failure of the DemocraU to keep their pledge regarding cheaper clothing, or the great loss which free wool brought to the wool-growers. Important Discoveries In Chemistry. Philadelphia Press. Recent discoveries and practical experi ments in former discoveries promise to revolutionize commercial chemical IndU3 tries. The price of caustic soda and bleach ing powder has greatly declined in re cent years, Dut it is Denevea mat new processes will reduce the cost of production to about half the present market value of these articles. The subject is receiving great attention in England on the part of chemists and capitalists. There in also much interest In recent discoveries affecting the commercial possibilities of acetylene gas, not only as an illumlnant, but as the basis for the production of valuable substances used In chemistry and manufac tures. Labor' Mistakes. New York Tribune. No boycott ever has served the true in terests of the working people. No attempt by any organization whatever to prevent the employment of persons not belonging to that organization ever has helpca labor. Every such effort is in Its very nature a robbery of ?ome laborers for the benefit of others. Just as every boycott is a foolish endeavor to deprive of their livelihood the employes of the boycotted firm. HnpltHUt- for Debs. Cincinnati Tribune. If Mr. Debs will come to Cincinnati, we warrant him as fine n mess of his iecullar brand of cucumbers as any state in the Union could furnish with the possible ex ceptlon of Kentucky. Fortune Fnvors Peffer. Philadelphia Times. Mr. Inealls announces that the Pomillst party Is about to appoint a receiver. Sen ator Ferrer is always waited upon by op

portunity.

C0L01UD0 GOLD MINES

RUSH TO SECURE PROPERTY AS DIS COVERIES HAVE BEEN MADE. The Business, irlth One Exception, Is Legitimate and Prosperous Famous Cripple Creek Field. Denver Letter In New York Sun. The general condition of mining in Colo rado at the present time is one of legitimate, honest. Intelligent and experienced operations in every camp excepting the present remarkably lively Cripple Creek gold mining district.. There has been but little opportunity during the last three years for Colorado miners to obtain money from the financial centers with which to do speculative mining, so that the work has been done by Colorado men and with Colo rado money. It is reasonable, therefore. to suppose that the money has been dis bursed as carefully as could be expected by people who are spending their own re serve. All over the State, in nearly every known mining camp, one, two, three or more properties have been persistently worked to the end that the mines might be developed practically and established. Cripple Creek, also, has been developed through the energies of local men with limited means. This has been the reason that the world has been so slow to realize its worth as a gold camp. Its present value as a gold camp is even yet doubted. not alone by the people from without, but by mining men within the State. These, however, are one by one becoming con vinced that Cripple . Creek is really worth notice and attention. Not longer ago than last spring, an ore buyer for a smelter on the Missouri river, when asked by an acquaintance what he thought of Cripple Creek, shook his head and quietly replied: "Keep away." Recently that smelting company estab lished an office In the camp, and is now an eager purchaser for ores. Now that speculation has entered the camp and speculators are flocking there to take their chances in the rush, it can no longer be said of Cripple Creek that everything about uiouin is uciug uptraifu nonesiiy, systematically, legitimately and with intelli gence. A former Leadville miner said the other day: Leadville Is all right, but the people are all going to Cripple Creek. There aro now lots of men with money to spend, many wun mines to sen. and between the two there Is an opportunity for me to make money, and that's the reason I am now in Cripple Creek." "If I do not have a hundred thousand dol lars during the next twelve months," said unoiner man, "i shall feel that I have not fully cultivated my opportunities." Colorado, men say that in a legitimate mining business, if conducted upon the same line as any other legitimate business is aone, the chances of success are ex cellent. Investors who bought Kansas and ..eDrasKa rarms during the real estate boom upon the advice of strangers and without making personal examination. lived to regret their investments, and those wno invest in mining without understanding what they are about may also And later that their mining investments were foolish. The risks that are run in mining are constant. An illustration in point is the Leadville. In that company is one of the most talented eneineers of the State, one of the most cautious and experienced mining investors, and another man thoroughly experienced In mines from boyhood. .The company secured control through leases of several mines of Leadville which, from one cause or another, had closed down. By judicious management and by the application of practical business ideas these mines operated under one management have for more than a year produced silver ores at a profit, and a regular monthly dividend of two per cent, has been pa!d. The remarkable success of this company In overcoming existing conditions so that in a "played out silver camp" silver mines could yet be operated at a profit induced other companies to try their fortune In the same camp, and the result has been to make Leadville a very lively mining district. FAILURE AND SUCCESS. The men of the Union Leasing Companyundertook during this year to take hold of the Freeland Mine at Idaho Springs and bring it out as a profitable producer. Th3 Freeland had once been a great gold mine, but through mismanagement and other causes has been abandoned. These new people, backed with money, experience, and careful management, worked hard all summer, expending 560,000 in the work of reopening the mine, "unwatering" the shaft, and putting In expensive new machinery, and yet have lately been compelled to acknowledge that they have failed to make the mine pay. Legal complications have arisen, and the enterprise may be admitted a failure. In Ouray, after ten years of energetic work and the expenditure of a vast sum of money, a mine has been made so valuable that it is certain of paying a regular monthly dividend to its owners for fully ten years. The ore is there awaiting the miner, and it cannot be worked out in less time. Then, by sinking upon the vein, another ten years of profit is as certainly predicted. In Tellurld2, this summer has seen the reopening cf the Tom Boy by a new company. Under Its present management, and with the modern machinery and modern methods of mining in vogue, it is paying enormous dividends every month. In Silverton electricity has been introduced upon a mining property above the timber line so successfully as to establish that property as a great dividend-paying producer. In Aspen, the one exclusive silver camp of the State, a tunnel company, which began under the most promising prospects to build a transportation route into the very heart of a great mountain, met . the crash of 1893 successfully, completed the tunnel, and is now draining several mines, disposing of the water, refuse and ore, and even lighting the mines with electricity, and, withal, is paying a dividend to its stockholders. At present one cf the most stupendous mining ,undertakings ever known in this country Is being prosecuted in Aspen. Over beyond Hahn's Peak, remote from civilization and transportation, a company of Colorado men have about completed a canal and flume sixty miles long to convey water to many hundred acres of gold placer ground which they own. and next spring they will begin active operations, which promise a rich reward. There is scarcely a district in Colorado where enterprises have not been in process of development during the season just closed. But the great camp of the year has been Cripple Creek. Gold mines have been discovered there which astonish the mining world, and the more the camp is developed the richer are Its promises for the future. Unlike any other known mining camp as to its formation, it has grown steadily, against persistent condemnation and doubta expressed by mining men, to be one of the greatest producing camps in the State: not in tonnage, however, for either Leadville or Aspen can eclipse It, but of richness of ores', in the widespread extent of its ore bodies, and in the profits it yields to owners of producing properties, it stands unprecedented. CUIFPLE CREEK GEOLOGY. The geology of the camp is still a matter for discussion and . theorizing. It is suggested, as the most plausible . explanation, that the entire field was in the center of an area surrounded by volcanic disturbances. Trachyte overflowed the field and cooled. The volcanoes became extinct, but underneath a disturbance continued for some time. During, this period of disturbances the trachyte above, being solidified, the upheava's below cracked and dispersed the trachyte In many places. and without apparent system in the cleavages, but at no point did the cracking extend through to the suriace. into tnese cracKs tne mineralized rock was thrown, and there it remains to-day for the happy discoverers. In other camps a distinct belt has always been defined by the mines as they are developed from prospect holes. Along these lelts gold might be looked for, but off the belts the -ground would always be found barren of that mineral. In Cripple Creek, In a tract of country more than six miles square, producing mines have been discovered at various places, "like the stars in the sky," without apparent order, direction, trend or system, so that the widest miners catmot definitely survey the field and fix trojab'.y productive ground. It Is this heretofore unknown condition that has given rise to the accep:ed statement that "gold Is where you find it." Richard Pearce, an Englishman, who for fifteen or more years has been the manager cf the most successful smelting plant in Colorado, deemed the roost conservative of conservatives, made hla first visit to Crlpole Creek this week. Mining men who

know Mr. Pierce will understand the value of his opinions which are expressed In the following Interview. Said he: "I had only one full day to spend in the camp, and therefore I could not give as much time to an examination of the whole district as I would have liked, but I have teen well acquainted with the ores from a smelting point of view for years. I studied the district through the ores received at the smelter, and my visit to the camp was to find out whether the opinions I had formed after a study of the ores would be borne out by a personal inpetlon. I can say that the few remarks I have made regarding the district have been fully corroborated by a personal inspection. "I believe the camp Is destined to improve from year to year and to continue. I am fully Impressed with the permanency of the, deposits, and there is no doubt in tho world that the deposits corae from below. It will be a steady producer for years. What impressed me most was the area, taken together with the value of the ores. It differs from oiher districts in the extent of the deposits. The ore, generally speaking, is a tellurium, and while it is to be found in Transjivanla and in other portions of this Slate besides Cripple Creek, it is in small deposits, but In Cripple Creek It occurs on an enormous scale and in a wide area. What the extent of the area is would be hard to conjecture. About a quarter of a mile away from the eruptive porphyry district there is another district purely of granite from which I had some remarkably rich specimens. "I had not the time to examine the workings of the mines, but I saw the ores and looked over the dumps of the most important mines. I visited the Independence, and the Portland extension, and the Anaconda, and one or two mines on Raven Hill. I was much Interested In the Anaconda, it being the oldest mine of any size in the district, and I saw some beautiful specimens of teilurium ores at the Elkton. "One great feature of the camp is the immense quantities of low-grade ores to be found. The works at Flore-nce, where fuel is much cheaper than in camp, and where the. wages are slightly lower, are treating considerable quantities and intend to double their capacity, I understand, and there are some well-equipped mills In camp, but there is still a great quantity of ore not touched. "If water could be found in. abundance the low-grade ores could be treated with profit. I have no doubt that from year to year, with more economical processes of treatment, the amount of this class of ores which will .be handled in the camp will greatly Increase.- There should be an increase in the number of mils and in their capacity in the near future, and there will always be a large quantity of ores that must be sent tc the smelters. "My belief is that It is essentially a tellurlde camp, and the developments have demonstrated that there is not any depreciation In the ores with depth. I have no doubt that the area will extend. There is scarcely an outcropping as is the rule in other camps, and one must dig trenches to determine the vein. But Crlppla Creek can bo depended on for marly years to come, and the output will continue to grow. I went there with high expectations, but found it to be altogether beyond what 1 had ever imagined. It Is prosperous in every way, and new discoveries are being recorded every other day, and the older mines are doing as well. If not better, with depth." THE FIRST DISCOVERY. The first distinct fissure vein to be dlscovered in the Cripple Creek district was

in the Buena Vista shaft, one of the twenty-six claims now owned by the Isabella Gold Mining Company, stocked for 2,250,000 shares at a par value of $1, which stock is now quoted at 45 cents. The president ot this company is J. J. Hagerman. who came to Colorado to die after making a fortune In Michigan iron mines. The climate re stored him to reasonably good health. He promoted the construction of the Colorado Midland rallrcad, made another fortune in the Mollle Gibson mine in Aspen, is a heavily interested stockholder In the great Peccs Valley (New Mexico) enterprises, and is also an enthusiast upon Cripple Creek. When the shoemaker, the butcher, the carpenter, and the baker went over from Col orado Springs to locate claims In the new gold camp behind Pike's peak several years ago. and when the discoveries Degan 10 amount to something, Mr. Hagerman in vestlgated the field and bought up the only mines then showing much values In sight. and the consolidation of these claims makes the Isabella company. With something like 150 acres, and with some shafts producing ore, that company is now considered one ot the strongest in the camp, uut uun nm, upon which the Isabella property Is situated, did not contain all the gold of the camp. A carpenter wandered over there one Fourth of July and in an entirely nevr field fixed some claims. Out of these, by his own exertions' and by his remarkable luck, he developed the Independence mine, which he holds alone and which is so rich In fine material as to make him now a millionaire. Just how rich the mine is no on knows; but it is so rich that it has no price and will not be for sale for some time to come. Neither did the new region thus opened up confine the gold area. Over on another hill some Canon City men dug away at a claim until they opened Into a body of ore so rich that they have to send guards along when, they ship a carload to market. This is the Doctor, owned by a few individuals, and that property is not on the market at any price. The camp has spread and grown until it is now too large to be described in one newspaper article. A dozen towns and hamlets hold the 30,000 people who are now in that camp; a thousand leasers are digging trenches to find the hidden outcrop of a vein. Partially developed mines are sinking deeper shafts to explore the under ground golden area; and throughout the entire region a scene of ceaseless activity is to be noted on every hand. There are probably fifteen actual producers that are paying handsome profits, an Innumerable lot which could produce if the managements were in a position to do so, and claims by the thousands with shallow trenches and small shafts await the encouraging element of ready cash to continue further ex clorations. Leases are given, properties are bonded, the profits of stock sales are in. vested in machinery and expended ira wages, and so the rrpld development of the district PIOnee thing Is absolutely certain as to the camp. Whenever phonolitic rock is found, gold is found by its side. The problem is to find the phonollte. There seems to be no rule to follow in looking for phonollte. Mineral Hill. Tenderfoot 1B11. Carbonate Hill. Hull Hill. Raven Hill. Gold Hill. Gobe Hill. Battle mountain and other rounded knolls are being dug into from every point of attack to find phonollte. First the center of interest was Bull Hill. Interest switched over to Gold Hill, and now there is beginning to be a promise that Mineral Hill will arouse enthusiasm. From Cripple Creek it is a safe estimate to place the monthly production of ore at 18,000 tons, and. while the general statement is made thit thi output amounts to 51.OJO.000 a month, the year's footings will amount to probablv $3,000,000. What it will become another year is a matter of mere , con ecture; it will be large enough to establish the fact that the camp is permanent. Cripple T Creek te a difficult field to enter for investment purposes. There is hardly a patented claim to be bad in the entire district for less than 125.000. No matter If there has been no discovery ot mmerai upon it. the very fact that the ground has a clear title makes it valuable in such a camp, and the owners will not part with su-h claims without first receiving a substantial inducement. The owners do not like to lease, bond or give option. They want cash offers or part cash and gilt-edge scurlt v It I" impossible to find out Just what properties are dividend payers. Mines opened up under leases may be dividend payers, but the public is not informed, because the lessees are storing up the values In the shaft and drifts so as not to be compelled to pay royalties, and they are hustling around to secure cash to pay off tne bond and thus obtain possession of the property. Everv trick known to mining people Is practiced in Cripple Creek to deceive, and as the demand for Cripple Creek property increases the difficulty of obtaining information upon which to base values and estimate the probabilities of profit by purchase is increased. To describe in anything like detail the condition of the several thousand properties of the camp would mean the gathering of an array of facts that would occupy columns of space. A Denver newspaper has an experienced mining reporter in the field, who fumlsTica a column of Cripple Creek mining news dally, and though he has been writing ctcojiw f.-r two month, he has not kept up with the progress, of the improvements in the camp. It is apparently a field so wide that years must intervene before its extent Is fully knqwn. The rich mines are scattered without apparent order and .system over a great district, whose limits have not been defined. PLt CKV 31 All Y KINGSLEY. Climbing African Mountain Ranges V'natteniled liy White Companions. Philadelphia North American. Following the example of Mrs. FrenchSheldon, Miss Mary II. Kingsley, a niece of the lale Canon Klngsley, is seeking to gain fame as an explorer in darkest Africa. She went to Africa first on a pleasure trio, but has become so fascinated with tne country and Its numerous mysteries that khe has determined to add what she can to the world's knowledge of the vast continent. She is a young woman of gentle birth and excellent breeding, but when the goes exploring she docs not think

that it Is at oil necessary to fortify herself with a chaperon. She is now planning to climb over the Cameroonsy mountain, which have an altitude of 13.257 feet, and she proposes to make the hazardous journey unattended by a single white man. She will depend entirely upon native carriers and guides and expects to perform her difficult feat quickly and successfully. She first applied to the German authorities at Canuroons for carriers to aid her In her undertaking, but her request was refused for the very excellent reason that no carriers could be procured who wero willing to make tho Journey. Miss Klngsley was undismayed, however, and the Governor of Victoria has agreed to provide her with all the men the desires. She enjos's the best of health, has plenty of strength, pluck and courage, and there seems good reason to believe that she may carry out her ambitious design. Miss Kingsley has long been an ardent student of botany and zoology and is said to be exceedingly well informed concerning both subjects. In her quest for further knowledge she has often rcnetratcd regions hitherto unvislted by Europeans and speaks very entertainingly of her numerous exciting adventures among strange people and savage beasts. She has already spent about two years in African exploration and her botanical and zoological collections aru said to be of considerable scientific value. Besides being a niece of the late Canon Klngsley Miss Klngsley Is a cousin of the well-known English novelist, Lucas Malet. GEORGE WASHINGTON'S WILL. fc

The Document Kept In nn Iron Safe In n Virginia Conrt House. Washington Letter in New York Sun. At Fairfax Court House, Va., about twenty miles from Washington, in the custody of the present clerk of the county. Is the will of George Washington, penned in his own firm and legible handwriting, and Just as well preserved to-day as on the day It was drawn up. Under a law of the State the will belongs to the descendants of Washington, and the clerk of Fairfax county is the only person no can retain It in custody. Of all the writings and correspondence of Washington none Is more interesting and unique than his will, an! nono Is guarded more closely or is moro liable to Injury or theft than . this document. The State Department has made no attempt to secure it. probably because of the early laws of Virginia, which direct that it must remain at Fairfax. Washington's other writings have been gathered and compiled, and are now stored away in the archives of the department. No unusual care has ever been taken to preserve the will, and twice It has come near being destroyed, onco by tho oil courthouse catching fire, and again when some relic hunter came within an ace of stealing It. Efforts were made at the time of the Philadelphia Centennial and previous to the world's fair to secure the paper for exhibition, but the clerk declined to allow it to go out of his possession. Fairfax Court House is a small village of S50 Inhabitants, and sine the days when Mount Vernon cam into Washington's hands it has remained the county seat of Fairfax county. The old courthouse and tho clerk's office are upward of one hundred years old, and have all the characteristics of buildings of that period. An ordinary Iron safe holds the will, and any interested person can see it who applies to the obliging clerk. A few years ago a wooden box twelve inches square, of walnut, with tho top fitted with a glaFS pane, was made, and in this the will was deposited. No one has ever opened it sine then, and no one will be allowed to by the present clerk. The will years ago was torn practically In two, but every piece is retained and pasted carefully together. Washington's hand is as bold in his will as In other of his early papers, and tho ink is as black as though it were used a month ago. The document consists of about one dozen pages the size of legal cap of the present day, exclusive of appendices, in which Washington gives a detailed statement of every article ho possessed, down to calves and sheep. His entire personal estate at the time his- will was made is put down at about $32,000, which probably made him the richest man in the State at that time. His belongings consisted of bonds, stocks, tobacco, large numbers of cattle, sheep and horses, together with his vast estate, practically all of which he willed to Mrs. Washington. The present clerk of the county says that few persons ask to see the will, as they believe it is in Washington city. A NEWSPAPER SECRET. Cnube of the Influence and ImportcnvK of the London Times. W. E. Curtis, in Chicago Record. "What is the secret of the importance and influence of the London Times?" I asked & prominent M. P. who is spending a few weeks in this country. "The mystery that surrounds the authorship of the articles on its editorial page," was the reply. "Nobody except the editor-in-chief knows who writes for iie Times. It has no talT occupying desks In editorial rooms lie tho ordinary newspaper, but Its articles are all written on the outside. The editor-la-chlef sends the Important topics of the dav to d.fferent persons, who furnish the lead'.-j Many of them are gratuitous; the refit r..e paid for by the column, the rate ran, according to the importance of the writer, here is a public impression that ll the leaders in the Times are written by the great men in the British empire, aid whn a subscriber of the Times opens the damp sheet in the morning he always looks first at the editorial page instead of the news columns, as he does with the other papers and as you do in this country. He imagines that the articles he find3 there have been written by the Marqui; of Salisbury, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Minister of Heme Affairs, the Archb shop of London, the poet laureate, the ' or l Chief Justice or some other big bu ! popularly supposed that all the gr-t-sn In the British emplm are contlnvitily writ leg for the Times, while as a matKr of fact H0 per cent, of the editorials are prepared by ordinary literary hacks at the rtte of $10 a column. The Times is a great humbug. The late Mr. Barnum would have admired it Immensely. It has played this game of mystery for half a century and still continues to be considered as profound an authority on all topic as the oracle of the Pythian Apollo at D"But do the great men write for th Times''" "Occasionally. Just often enough to giv an excuse for the pretense. A Minister of State who wants to back up some not.on In Parliament, or influence public opinion in some way or another, will have one of his secretaries prepare an article on a subject and send it with his compliments to the editor the Times; or the editor of the Times, seeing that a certain matter deserves editorial attention, will send one or the writers on his list to some high functionary to get points for a leader. There is no doubt that the Times is a very useful agent for the government, and the Ministry reciprocates by shaking their heads gravely when any one suggests that certain articles are authorized." I)oublc-Hended Snakes. San Francisco Post. "Did you ever see a double-ender?" inquired an old resident of Marin county. t roo cno.ct.'l that there were various things that were called double-enders, among them being a patent rat trap. "Well. I'm not talking about rat traps or various things. I'm talking about the queerest little snake that crawls. I never saw one anywhere except in the mountains of Marin county. They are from ten to sixteen inches long, and are a lsht copper color. They have a wicked little head that Is very fiat and triangular, but until you kill one you will think he has a head on each end. There is no taper to the snake at all, and his tall Is flattened out and marked with delicate lines of a darker color, exactly like a head. You can see the eyes and mouth Just as distinctly on one end as on the other. "It is the popnlar belief that the doubleender strikes with hJs tall, and that it has a stinger and poison concealed somewhere in the blind he-id. but I never could find either. I learned the use for which natur intended the device. When I chased the little fellow he raised his tall In a threatening way and kept the blind head moving around as if it were looking for a chance to utrike me. All the while the snake was running like a good fellow. That extra r.eid was Intended for a dummy with which to cover its retreat." lor Austria Treats Drunkards. New York Medical Record. Austria proposes to deal with persistent drunkards by treating vhcra as mentally incapable and detaining them in spial retreats for a term of two years. Thty mar go In of their own accord or on compulsion, but cannot leave at will until their t-nn has expired, except in certain cases on probation. Persons may be sent to tr retreat either by the order of a magintra.'e or on the petition of the parents or children or of the husband or wife or trustre. or of the chief of a lunatic asylum In which a drunkard may be detained. Inebriates may further be assigned to retreats by t'.ie action of the public p-Msccutor or by the Mayor of the town cr Milage in which tho habitual drunkard resides. In all cases the Inebriate must be legally tried and convicted, the court being round to hear witnesses, including the drunkard h!m?elf. as well as the doctors. mor especially experts on mental diseases. The term of detention will be generally two years. I ut the patient may le released on leave after one year, but will bi confined ajjnln in case he relapses int Ms former bad hrtlUk