Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 33, Number 29, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 August 1887 — Page 4

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We are negot:ating with It, J. Bardette one of the most prominent humorists of the day, and also with Mrs. Henry Ward Beccher, for a weekly letter from each, to appear in the Sacday Sentinel of the very sear future. It Is proper to say that General Sherman has been totally opposed to the assassination of the President at St. Louli. Bat we hav failed to observe that any Republican sheet has eulogized Sherman on that ac count 'lHi firm of Henry S. Ives & Co. has sus pended ; liabilities only $20,000,000. Mr. Ires went up like a rocket He had wind and brass. He certainly had nothing when be started bat cheek that mach he re tail. " Gejt. Sherman, old Tecump, never arose to the fall stature of greatness more grandly than when he opposed asaassinat In; the President at St Louis. Sherman sot Tuttle or Fairchlld, represents the Grand Army of the Bepublic Get. Ciecclab Carsahan, the indicted Republican boss, it is reported, will never be. brought to trial on an indictment charging him with perpetrating a peaitea - tiary crime, and the reason assigned, is that Gen. Circular Carnahan is a Republi can. Jam is G. Blaixc has given $10.00 toward building the Grant Monument. Consider ing that Blaine believed Grant willing to establish a monarchy In America and plaia himself and family at the head of the les tablishment, his contribution may .be re garded as liberal. The Springneid Itsputmcsa, referring to the language of the resolution, found on the person of Mooney, the dynamite crank, suggests that the fellow "may be an escaped member of the New York Tribune staff;" or, for that matter, tne ataü of any other Hepa blican sheet. Th Journal's effort to make the Sentinel opposed to the G. A. R. per bs reminds ns of the fellow who wanted to try his wind power in the matter of lifting weights. Pnttin? his mouth to the tube, the a in flating his längs, he blowad. Result, a call for an abulance, doctor, tailor, laan Lcssa and deoderizing Maids. Tex codfish, herring and bait troubles are increasing in Canadian waters. If a Yankee skipper sees a shoal of mackerel his anxiety to capture a cargo renders him quite incapable of seeing the imaginary "three-mile line from headland to head land," and before he knows it is a tresspasser, when away hook, line and s inker Mcbat Halstead, a Republican journalistic leader recommended the murder of Abraham Lincoln. Dare the Journal denounce Halstead for the murderous recommendation or suggestion? Come, neighbor, your duty is plain but it is safe to bet that you have not the courage to perform it. "The State Institutions first, and tha Orphans' Home next, is the way I stand boat the matter." Bruce Carr to areporter. That may be Bruce Carr's theory, but the fact shows that he and Michener put Col. Robertson first and the Soldiers' Orphans' Home last When the State Treasury was almost empty they took the scrapings and passed it over to a party spoilsmanthey simply gave It to him. A bsw Workingmen's Organization, Known as the "Progressive Order of Amarican Working-men," has bsen founded at Chicago. It is opposed to strikes and favors iiarmoay and co-operation between employer and employe. All persons having visible means of support and of good moral character, and eligible to membership, and business men, employers and workingmen who are opposed to strikes are invited to raternlze in the new order. The Journal has had the indiscretion to drag Morton from his quiet resting place, and . make him appear again In the Republican procession, for the purpose of creating hoitility to the Democratic party. We simply sugzest to the Journal, that that sort of damphoolism won't win a single rote. Morton, long since, ceased to be a trump card, and the reason why Is easily told. The proper thing for the Journal to do, is to let Morton severely alone give him needed rest Coloxix CHaBLia F. Ceoccib. vice-president of the Sinthern Pacific, being asked by t ie Pacific railroad commission If the Central Pacific had paid any money for influencing the state or national legislation, end what explanation he had to offer for paying bills without vou:hers, refused to answer, and the gentleman will M taken into court, when tha screws will pat to him ia away that will loosen tongue. It will be understood that

railroads pay money to influence state and

national legislation, and will continue to do so while the people elestta office men with itching palms. Oklt $3,000 In the treasury, and no more money expected till December, and Michener, the Attorney-General, giving an opinion that Robertson, the pauper, was entitled to pay for presiding over the Senate a position occupied by A. G. Smith Bruce Carr, State Auditor, thereupon Issues his warrant and Robertson pockets something over $500 not one cent of which did he earn, and not one cent of which was he entitled to. Such an Infa mous raid upon the treasury of the State was never before known In its history. If that la the way the peoples' money is disposed of, the wonder is that so mach as $3,000 remains, or was on hand at last accounts. An agent of an Eastern manufacturing concern proposes a scheme to build the Gra-t monument In New York. It seems that his concern manufactures "Iff ills.' the "best eoods for linings ever made," These twills are to be manufactured in large quantities and are to be known as "The Grant Memorial Twills." Everybody, it ia expected, who wants -'twills," will bay the "Grant memorial" article, and the ladies are expected to tafcs hold of the twill business in down right tamest. The proüb of the sales are to go to tne "Grant Memorial Fand," and it is asserted that within s"x months at least $1,000.000 will be secured. The idea Is a novel one, but the manufacturer is confident 'twill pan out according to programme. Indiana has a feeble-minded institute, here between sixty and seventy unfor tunate children are cared for and educated. The Governor of Indiana, sonn days since, made an arrangement with the trustees of the institute to provide for these unfortunate wards of the State at the least possible C03t, economy being re quired, because upon inquiry the Governor found there was only $1,000 in the State Treasury. After the arrangement had b-ien made, Attorney General Michener, who has 83 many opinions in his head as the Republican dog has fleas in its hair, put In his oar for tne purpose of embarraEsing things, and. if his fool ideas were carried out, the feeble-minded children would be left without any one to look after their welfare. Michener and Brace Carr will have about all they can do, with only $4,000 in the treasury, to keep Robertson out of the poor-house, by formulating opinions and drawing warrants. Bio guns are now all the rage for war ships. Manifestly the old prophet, when he foresaw the good time coming, when nations should learn war no more, did not obtain a glimpse of the big guns con stxucted during the fall orbed moon of Christian civilization at the close of the nineteenth century. It is remarked with much satisfaction that during the past thirty j ears great progress has been made in the construction of big guns. In 1SX) the largest guns could only throw a ball, weighing Bixty-Öght pounds, with an initial velocity of 1.570 feet a second, and an energy of 1,100 foot tons, but cow initial velocities have been increased to 2,100 feet They weigh as muoh as 2,300 pounds, and in some cases require for their propulsion nearly 1,000 pounds of powder. France has on some of her iron-clads guns which weigh seventy-six ton3, which de liver projectiles weighing 1,710 pound with a muzzle velocity of 1,739 feet per second, having a muzzle energy of 30,000 foot tons. The Italians have guns on their ships weighing 100 tons, which throw balls weighing 2.00D pounds. Englani, howrver, beats the world for big guns, haring con stmcted one which weighs about 121 toas; the projectile weighs 1,800 pounds and it has an actual muzzle velocity of 2,073 feet. The Chicago Herald, in a few well-choicn sentences, diep3ses of Ives, who "aspired to be a greater Gould or a mora resplendent Vanderbilt" Ives for a time, traveled at a thundering gait toward the hundred million goal. In various ways he had sscured $20,000.000 assets, but liabilities managed to keep up with tne procession, and suddenly the crash came and Ives went down. "Legitimate trade,'' says ths Herald, "lawful profits, enterprisss within the lines of conscience, never piled up a fortune of a hundred millions within a siDgle lifetime. Several such fortunes ai.d combers of others scarcely less tre mendous, have been accumulated since the civil war, but by what methods? The few who have achieved this questionable success are they who have plucked the fruits of corrupted legislation, a debauched judiciary and unrighteous public subsi dies. The oppressed majority have paid the fiddler, and are paying for this unholy dance of multi-millionaires which now toes merrily on." The question naturally arises, how long will the "oppressed ma jority" pay the fiddler? When, in all probability, will the "unholy dance" cease? When will legislation cease being corrupt, and when will a debauched judiciary be purified? Tnere la no donbt about the corrupted legislation, no doubt about the debauched judiciary and no doubt about the accumulation of fortunes of Immense proportions by criminal methods. The questions are, when will a change coma and how will it be brought about? Many think that there is danger of applying a remedy worse than the disease. History is not entirely silent upon such subjects and history does sometimes repeat itself. A COURT IN RUINS. PoEsibly some of our readers have ssen a western village after it had been caressed by a cyclone. If so, they have a verycorrect idea of the power of wind to produce wrecks. If such a spectacle as a wrecked village is not photographed upon the mind of the reader, we are satisfied they have esen ruins wrought by the "fire fiend" ia cities and villages and elsewhere as they have journeyed through the country. It is quite probable the reader ha3 walked long the strand where ships, unable to breast the storm, have been tossed by the billows upon rocts and reefs and wrecked past recovery. Wrecks and ruins are everywhere, the sight and contemplation of which excite feelings of sadness. The whirlwind, the lightnings, the flames and the billows, as alio the rust of age?, the

gnawing of centuries, are all engaged in

the work of wreck and ruin. It seems to be the natural order of things, and the de vastating work will go on In spite of pro test or prayer. Bnt it was never designed that a court of justice should be seen in ruins, nor could euch a repulsive sight be presented if those to whom the administration of justice is commuted, could appreclthe majesty of Shakespeare's advics: "This, above all, to thine own self be true, And It will follow, as the night the day. Thou canst not then be false to any man." It Is only when a judge, from considera tions which warp, dwarf and deform Ignoble minds, betrays his trust and lends, not only his faculties, but his position and prerogatives, to bring justice into con tempt, that courts are mined wrecked. It is then that men turn away from them, not only with disgust but with horror. It ia then that courts cease to be the guardians of the rights of the people. It is then tl at innocence Is cloven down and vice exalted. It Is then that the bnlarks of so ciety give way, and virtue is overwhelmed with vice and corruption In their mansefold forms. A trial in a court, where the judge has earned the scorn of thousands of bis fellow citizens, is something worse than a farce. It partakes of the nature of a crime. It might be characterized as legal legerdemain, judicial chicanery; any thing indicative of a condition of things at war with even handed justice.. In such a trial, perjury may go nnrebuked, worse still, may be dignified to an extent that imperils justice. Such a trial could occur only in a court in ruins, dilapidated, a place where virtue is in danger and where truth and Integrity find no refuge. A court In ruins, a bench befouled, where law is tortured.'innocence threatened, truth bludgeoned, perjury! exalted, and equity stabbed, is the most haggard spectacle that men are required to contem plateand the higher the court the more revolting the exhibition of man's de pravity. It matters not with what pomp and par ade trials are conducted in such a rained court indeed, the more display and ostentation, the more content ptable become the proceedings for beneath the tinsel, the gauzy covering, can be seen the ebb and now of the currents which have wrought the ruin. Those who have control of ruined courts owe it to the people whose rights are in jeopardy to repair the wreck, and the rpeedy way to do the work is to remove the corrupt Judge compel him to resign or impeach him anything to get him out of the way and restore the confidence of the people in courts where life, liberty and property are In peril every time a trial occurs. True, an honest, inflexible jury may de feat the schemes of a judge, and God is to be praised that honest men can yet be found who hvre the courage of conviction, but even such a safeguard is not sufficient always to protect the people, if the judge is known to be depraved. Courts are, sad to say, losing the confidence of the people, and society is constantly laboring under forbodings of evil resulting from such a state of affairs. The time has coaio far serious reflection and robust talk. The demand is that courts In ruins shall be re constructed, and that judges who flaunt their befouled robes before the people shall be retired. CONVICT LABOR. Tue second annual report of Col. Carrol D. Wright. Commissioner of the National Labor Bureau, has been published. The report relates entirely to convict labor in the United States, and the statements made are based on the information col lected in pursuance of a joint resolution by Congress. The National Labor Bureau in conducting the investigation, relating to convict labor did not attempt to a3certain the entire convict population of the country, but the tables of the report do comprehend nearly all such population, certainly within a few thousands, and it is shown that it amounts to 61,340, of these. there are 53,451 males, and 5.895 females. Of this total number 45,277 are engaged in productive labor of some kind, 15,100 are ergaged in prison duties, and 8,872 are eickoridle. Of the total number 11827 are employed under the public account system, 15.670 under the contract system, 5,676 under the piece-price system, and 9,101 under the lease system The report proceeds to show the veiious industries in which the con victs are employed, and says the industry employing the greatest cumber is that of the manufacture of boots and shoes, in which 7,476 males and 133 females, or a total of 7,600 prisoners, are engagea. The industry coming next to boots and shoes, so far as persons employes are concerned, is clothing, engaging 5,501, while stone em ploys 4,876; then comes farming, garden in?, etc, with 3,560, furniture, employing 3,410, and mining, 273. The industry em ploying tbe tmallest number in the whole country is lumber, in which 223 only are employed, carpeting employing 212. The total valne of goods made and Work done by productive labor in the penal instita Hons of the whole country is $28.753 9D0 13. It took 45,277 convicts one year to produce this total value. It would have taken 35, 531 free laborers to have producsi the same quantity of gooäs in the same time; or, in other words, a free laborer is equal to 1.27 convict or, to reverse the statement, one convict is equal to .73 of a free laborer. It is In, estlng to note the post lion of States in the value of convict laborgoods. New York stands at the heal of the list, the value being $G,2S6,820 03. Illinois Is next in rank, producing $3,234,267 50, Then comes Indiana, with a product valued at $1.570,901 37. Ohio is next on the list with a product of the value of $1,303,122.51: then Missouri, $1,342,020.07; then Pennsylvania, $1,317,265.85. Kansas ranks next, with a product worth $1,270,575.77. Tennesaco comes afttr Kansas, with ody $1,142.000; then Michigan, $1,087,735 62, and, last of the states producing ever $1,000,000 worth, Ntw Jersey, $1,019.603.32. Each of the other states aad territories drop below the million dollfr point, Dakota coming at the bottom of tbe list, with a product of . 11 077 ;;(J, In examining tha vain of tha Industries, bo.it?, shoes lead, the product being $10,100 279 CI, or 33.13" per cent, of tbe whole proiact of the penal institutions of the country, $23,751.9.)') 13, the next largest item being thelmanulac-

ture of clothing, which is $2,100,6? U25. while carriages and wagons are manufactured to the value of $1,939,790. la all other Industries the product lawless than $2,000,C00, the smallest being lutnbar, to the value of $63.890. The report discussss a number of topics connectedJwithconvict labor, and referring; tol.thoseJwho feel egrieved it is stated that workingmen object to the system because contractors are able to employ labor at a few cents per day, ranging perhaps from twenty to sixty cents or long term men, and that Ithejcontractor, as an individual, should have the advantage.ua-

der the patronage of the State, of securing gains to himself. They feel that it is an affront to them, not only as wage receivers, bnt as contributors tolthe general wealth through their producing capacity. All manufacturers not identified with prison contracts feel aggrieved that the State should effer individual advantages which they themselves cannot secure by any individual competition, and while It is true, as conclusively shown, that as a whole the convict is not equal fn efficiency tolthe free laborer, yet it is also conclusively shown that this inequality is more than made up by other advantages secured to the contractor. Col. Wright is of the opinion that no plan can be devised which will remove all competition, but any plan which reduces competition to the rr'nmum, both in wages and in pales and quantity commends itself to all those who oppose the present systems and the adop tion of the hand labor plan, it is believed, would go far towards BOlviug the problem. WONG CHIN FOOISM. Tee Sunday Sentinel does its thoughtf u and devout Christian readers of all denomitations special favor, by inviting them to read in the August number of the North American Review, Wong Chin Foo's reasons for being a heathen. This almond eyed celestial i3 thoroughly educated. That he is a close and keen observer goes without eaying. His arriagnment of Christianity, or rather the various sects who profess Christianity, is of a character that will not down by any amount of ordinary din or clatter. It may be urged that Wong Chin Foo sees Christianity with heathen eyes, but it should be borne ia in mind, that he sees it with educated eyes. "Corn and raised a heathen when I was seventeen, I was transferred to the mid3t of our showy christian civilization, and at this impressible period of life, Christianity presented itself to me at first under Its alluring aspects." lie met kind christian friends, ha read the Bible, and "under the spell of would-be soul-savers, seriously contemplated becoming the bearer of heavenly tidings to heathen people." He began study ing fcr the "high mission" and become ' bewildeied by the multiplicity of chris-i tian stets." Here Wong Chin Foo pays his respects to the various leading christian sects. Presbyterians, made him "shudder," he found the Baptists with too many "shells." "Methodism" "struck" him as a "thunder and lightning religion" Congregationalism had too much "starchiness." Unitarianism was "all doubt," and he was told that "Catholic ism" was "worse than heathenism." Wong Chin Foo having become disgusted with Christian sects, he turned to the "inspired Bible." lie got along so so with the "creation fable" and the "Eien incident," but the "deluge" and "Noah's Ark" were posers. Nor could he see why the decendants of Jacob were "chosen" of God. The heathen critic regards the "crucifixion of God" to "save" Christians, as "incomprehensible," but when in his investigation of "the New Dispensation, with its sin forgiving business ' he says he "went to piecea." He Is quite unable to comprehend the conversion of Dinnis Kearney, the "California sand-loiter," who once howled that the "Chinese must go" singing "heavenly songs" or how that murderers, cutthroats and thieves, can jbecome "pure as new born babss" in a few short hours of a death preparation," and he says the more he read the Bible the more "afraid he was that he might become a Christian." We submit that Christianscan, we think, with great profit read Wong Chin Foo's reasons for remaining a heathen. It will try their patience, and force the conclusion, that the conversicn of the heathen Chinese ia a herculean task and that centuries must intervene before the fulfillment of the prediction that "Jesus shall reign where'er the sun Doth his successive journeys run." But, since Wong Chin Foo doubtless expresses the reasons why other Chinamen prefer heathenism to Christianity, what he says is worthy of consideration. The heathen writer, in connection with the subject of sects andere ids, seems to have given some attention to the labor question. He Bays: "If my shoe factory employs 500 men and gives me an annual profit of $10,000, why should I substitute therein machinery by the uss of which I need only 100 men, thus not only throwing 400 contented, industrious men into misery, but making mytelf more miserable by heavier responsibilities, with possibly less profit?" Manifestly Wong Chin Foo sees in this labor-saving feature of Christian civilization calamities ot unspeakable conse quences i! China surrenders to its introduction. He does not offer any extended argument, eaylrg only that "all heathen believe in the happiness of a common humanity, while the Christian's only practical belief appears to bo money making." He denies emphatically the superiority of Christian civilization or that "tbe white man is the only civilized one." He boasts that "China has a national history of at least 4,000 years and has a printed history 3.50-9 years before a European discovered the art of typeprinting, and he declares that there are fewer robberies and murders annually in China, with its 400,000,000 population, than cccurs m the State of New York. We have not the space at our command Tor a thorough review of the educated Chinaman's reasons Why he is a heathen, I we make room for the following: "Iiove men for the io-xl t'i;y d j you ia a practicii Chrht'a-i lt a. rot for thg r 1 yen Bboali d then nu a matter o Lu:'i:.a duy. R CfcriatiaLu, lo?? t'- heUhen; yes, It.e Ltalha"s pos'-tvsions; and in pro portion to tittle tbe Christian's Live qrows ii intensity, Whsa the llcglish waited

the Chinamen's gold and trade, they said

they wanted "to open China for their missionaries." And opium was the chief, in fact, only, missionary they looked after, when they forced the ports open. And this Infamous Christian introduc tion among Chinamen has done more Injury, social and moral, In China than all the humanitarian agencies of Christianity could remedy in 200 years. And on you, Christians, and on yourgreod of gold, we lay the burden of the crime multiDg; of tens ot millions of honest, useful men and women sant thereby to premature death after a short, miserable life, besides the physical and moral prostration it entails even where it does not prematurely kill ! And this great national curse was thrust on us at the points of Christian bayonets. And you wonder why we are heathen?" Wong Chin Foo refers to Chinese methods ot rearing children which would be of advantage in Christian homes. He closes by Baying: "We heathen are a God-tearing race." A good deal of money Is being expended In trying to convert the heathen Chinese, hence it will be In the line of prudence, for Christians to know, from one capable of speaking, the character of the obstacles to be overcome. Wong Chin Foo states them in a way not to be misunderstood and the careful study of Chinese ideas relating to Christianity can not fail of being of great service to progressive Christianity. A THRILLING STORY. An FxcUlEg Incident-Saved by a Special Interposition of Providence. 1 Paso Inter-BepubUca. "A man gets some queer ideas in his heed when he's out all alone in the mountains," said John Sanderson, an old prospector who has his quarters at El Paso, but who mates several incursions into the mining districts every year. "Half of them believe in ghosts, nine out ot ten in signs, and about all of them in luck. My own experience has changed my views In a gocd many particulars, and, for one thing, it has made me a firm believer In special providences. It didn't come about gradually, but through as marvelous escape from an awful deatn as, I believe, ever fails to men. "It happened up in ths Mimbres mountains four years ago this summer. The il im f res lie in New Mexico, down below old Fort Tale Rosa, and they must ba full of gold somewhere, because the beds of the creeks that rind their way down the sides are so rich in placer diggings that you can't pull up a sage brush around there without Beting bright specks among the roots. I had a pet theory then that if you followed tne creess up mgn enongn ana looxea close enough you would find a tremendous deposit of geld in decomposed quartz. I thought, you see, that a little of it had washed on the surface in the course of time and formed those placers. What I wanted to find was the mother mine "I tilked the thing up to Charley Burke, another prospector and friend of mine, un til he agreed to put up half the outfit and join me in the search. We got a couple of burros, the necessary tools, and started early in the spring. The country about the Mimbres is about as wild and desolate as any on earth, and it wss a trip that nothing but faith and enthusiasm would prompt a man to attempt. It was one succession of gorges, gulcnes and acclivities, all strewn with granite bowlders from the size of a man's hand to a four-story block, and often we were obliged to leave the water course we were following and make detours that took days at a time. The creek we followed was almost dry, and we stopped frequently looking for placers. We found no very rich ones, but everywhere there was gold. Sometimes there would be lots of it in the bottom of the tin cup after we had taken a drink, and eomtimes here is a curious thing it would be floating on the surface. I will let tome one who is better posted in science than I tell why gold now and floats, but I only know that little flakes oft do, and lots of it is lost in sluice-mining that way. As long as we found placers, we knew that the main deposit was ahead, so we pushed alccg, tired enough, but confident. At labt we came to a spot wnere the sand was barren for several days' journey, and then we began to prospect the country all around. To make a long story short, we struck a ledge one morning with outcroppings that crumbled under mv pick and showed quartz all streaked with yellow threads. 'Charlie,' I yelled out. all afire at once, we have etrnck.it!' "But before we sank a shaft we found something else that sent our hearts to our mouths. It was an old shaft, back a little ways and in a claim, properly staked out, that covered that very ledge. There was a notification according to law on one of the posts, that Feter Sumner and Joseph Klauizy had taken possession of the 'Big Six' and dore the legil assessment work I eat right down collapsed, but Charley went over to the shaft and came back to tell me that it didn't cover half tLe amount necessary, under the law, to hold the property for a year. We measured it and, sure enough, it was down about half the required distance, so we took possession of the property, changed its name to 'The Treasury,' and went to work. "We built ourselves a rough shanty, rigged up a windlass and began to sink. In a few days we were into a formation rich enough to make a man'e head swin and getting better as we went down. We were both so excited that we begrudged the time to sleep and eat, and weneither of us meditated for an instant giving ths claim up to anybody, assessment work or no assessment work. What had become of the two men was a mystery. They had left no trace except tbe notification board and shaft, and it gave me the creeps now and then to think that they might be dead. But we were not in a frame of mind to let sentiment interfere with business, "I euprose we had been there for a couple of wee'wj when provisions began to run short. We didn't want to both leave the claim at once, so it was finally arranged that Charley go down to the creek to a ctmp about flftv miles away and bring a tuppiy. He took both burros and started oST. I calculated it would take him a week to make the trip, and time hung heavy on my bards. I tried to work a little on the shaft. The formation was very hard, aad we hsd rigged un a sort of cross bar ladder. I would go down this, fill the bucket, climb to tbe surface and pull It up. EV'At about noon of the second day after he left I was startled at what I thought was a man crossing a little gulch a half a mile awsy. I only bad a vifw of it between two rocks, and whatever it was passed so quickly that I was not sure. However, I waited for a couple of hours, and then, seeing nothing further, concluded I was mistaken, and I went down into tte shaft. I filled the bucket with very heayv ore, climbed up, and had it about half raised when a man came walking up the creek bed toward me. Then I knew that I was riht before. "He was an ugly looking customer, big and brawny, with a ilat, ßoaüdinavian face, and carried a Winchester on hl3 arm. I bad a little stick that I slipped into the windlass handle near the axe to keep it freni turning backward, and, laavin; tbe t ucket just where it was, suspended half ray up, I started toward the cabin to get uiy arms. He covered me with his repeatitg rfl and ordere! me to halt. 'What are you doing on my claim T he feid. " 'I reckon you can ace,' I replied, puS tirg as good a face ou it as I poasioly C9Uld.

" 'You mean you've jumped It, you

cursed thieL' " 'No, I don't. There wasn't enough work on it to hold it, and it was as much mine as anybody's.' "'You lie!' " 'He looked at me over the sight j with bis wicked greenish eyes for full a minute. Then he said: I J" 'Did ycu ever pray?' . Sk" 'Yes,' I faultered.' "Then pray now, I'll give you two minutes to do it' "By that time my mind was clear enough to tBke in the whole situation, and I had no dcubt but he intended to murder me then and there. With me out of the way there would be no one to testify to the insufficient work, and woald simply be regarded, if the story ot my death was ever told, as a claim jumper who had been justly dealt with. I felt my knees begin to tremble, and tried another rock. " 'If you kill me,' I said, 'my partner will be back and see that you hang for it.' ".Til fix your partner" the same w ay, you claim-jumping cur.' "True enough. Kothing would be easier than to assassinate Borke on his return, and we had so jealously guarded the secret of our trip that no one would know where to search for us. We would simply disappear, as hundreds of prospectors do, never to be seen by men again, and speedily to be forgotten. I had no hope of mercy from the Instant I looked into that man's cruel face. I felt with a sickening qualm and a wild drumming in my ears tnat my time had come." " 'Oh, for heaven's sake, don't murder me !' I cried. Iwiil go.' " "The man made no reply. For a moment my head swam, and then, with a sudden reiurn cf vision that was excruciating in its clearness, I saw him stoop slightly, rest tbe gun barrel over tbe windlass handle, and marked even that slight contraction of tbe eyelid that always just precedes a shot. The next instant there was a crash, an exrlofion and a crv all minsled into one. I saw the man turning head over heels down the embark men t, the Winchester flying throrjeh a cloud of smoke up into the air, and all the while heard a loud, monotonous whirring noise that was like soms gigantic clock running down. "I did not realize it at the time, bit tbis is what happened: When he rested his gun across the windlass he dropped the barreil right against the little 6tick I had thrust in to prevent it turning, and knocked it out. I suppose the backet of ore weighed 150 pounds, and the great iron handle, swinging clear around, galnned such terrific momentum that, when it struck him square in the face, which it did, it lifted him off his test like a cannon ball. The gun was discharged by the shock, but the bullet went nowhere near me. Ik fore I regained my senses I heard the bucket strike the bottom with a smash. "When I nicked up the man he wa3 unconscious, but moaning a little, and the blood trickling out of his ears. His gun was broken. He lay at the cabin for a week or two, and after Charley got back we mansged to get him to SilverCity. There the doctors put his face in a sort of plaster of par is cast, but, although the wound healed, he was out of his bead, and eventually died. Tbe night before he passed away he motioned for a little slate he used to write'on, for he couldn't speak. He was very weak, and it took him a long time, bnt at last he scrawled: "Who hit me?" "Before they could tell him he fainted away. The mine? Ob, the mine pinched out after awhile and disappointed us. I sold my interest to Barke, and I think after working it for a year he gave up In dis gust and moved away." A. Touch Tarn. IDetroit Free Press. I "Talking of life-preservers," eaid the truthful mariner, as he knocked the ashes out of his pipe, "you remember the old steamer Roustabout that usad to ran from Buffalo to Chicago. I was mate on her the year before she was lost. We were about sixty miles out from Chicago when Mike Lanagan, who was doing something upon the mast, fell, struck on his head on the roof cf the cabin and bounced clean out into the lake. Well, the captain he see him fall and be stopped and backed that old Roustabout quicker'n you could say 'scat.' Mike went down like a plummet, for he was knocked insensible, and 1 know'd there was no uss to heave a life preserver for him, so I just hurried up the boys in getting the boat down, although I aidn't expect it 'ad do much good. We had Jim King onboard. Passenger from Chicago. You remember Jim King, don't you?" "Can't say that I do," remarked a bystander. "Well, Jim was champion quoit thrower In them days. He's dead now, poor fellow, but Jim was a hoss on throwing quoits. I tell you quoits were a great game them dsys. Every village had a quoit club, ar.d the boys on the farm used to throw hoss ehces. It was sometbin' like base-ball in these times, although I never could tee as much fun ia base-bail as I could in a good game o' quoits." "Oh, come off," cried the impatient listener. "What did Jim do, or did he do any thin g ? Did th e man dro wn ?" "Now don't be too fly. Whose tellin' bis yarn?" "Well, you don't seem to be." "Go on! Go on!" said the crowd. "Well, you know, In auoits a 'ringer' was when you put the quoit round the stake. It counted double. Well, Jim, he picks up the round life preserver, it's like a great big quoit, you know; and as the capp'n came running ft, Jim he sings out, Capp'n, I'll bet you $5 i'll rake a ringer on that man if he cornea up within the length of this line.'" "'Bet you $20 you can't said the capp'n.' "'Take you,' said Jim, and just at that minet up bobs Mike's head about sixty feet astern. Jim threw, and I'll be darned if tbat Jife-preeerver didn't go plump over on Mike's head, clear down on his shoulders, and there it stuck. We got down the boat, and when we got to Mike he hadn't come to yet, and didn't for some time after. He'd been a goner if it hadn't been fur tbat ringer, although it took the skin oßen Iiis nose." "Did the captain pay the $20?'' "Pay it? You just bet he did. And Jim he handed it over to Mike, and Mike he blew it all in when we got to Detroit. I wish some of it was here now fur I'm mighty dry. Thanks. Don't mind If I do." He Had Made Mistakes Himself. Boston Traveler. A Boston capitalist, who is a leading merchant as weil as a large owner of real eetate, is noted for the interest he takes in young men in clerical positions. Oace a frightened bank cashier waited upon him to eay that, by the mistake of one of the clerks, a check of the merchant's had got Into the pigeon hole marked "protested." As Mr. Millions might hive heard a rumor tbat his check-had been protested, the cashier hastened to explain, and said that he would discharge promptly the youug man who made the mistake. "And wby discharge him, sir?" mildly asked Mr. Million s. "Because he put your check in the 'protested' box." "It is a good many years," said Mr. MilHoes, S3 be tilted back in his oHice chtir, andsfcerhis fashion harpooned his blottirg pad with his pen. "since I was a y ouur man, but my memory is that I eometini? made mistakes. If 1 had ben Hv? harmed for every misrake I made, I should not bttve reale my fitnn. The yuot man bo?e mistate is pointed oruto h'.maud forgiven to the rr st cat-fal uau ia tne ctric evtr afterward. I tfiiuk rav tmiiiisi rtlat'os wih your bank lik iy to be piolcrped if ibe jouog tun is not eiscbargrd." Ai.d tLe jo -ig min was not d!shar--;d.

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