Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 July 1886 — A TUNNEL UNDER A MOUNTAIN. [ARTICLE]

A TUNNEL UNDER A MOUNTAIN.

Wonderful Discovery Made by a Party of Miners Near Leudville. “Wo wero doing prospect work and took out some pretty good stuff for the depth," said a prospector to a Leadviile Democrat reporter. “The boys were willing to go ahead as long as the grub lasted, and one day I was workin’at the windlass while one of Ahe others was pickin' down at the bottom. Of course, when he’d get the bucket full he'd swing the rope to hoist. I had been there for 'bout a nour without a stir from below, aid was about half nappin’. Ail at once I jumped up and yelled down the shaft. There wasn’t no reply, and I naturally got scared as a man sometimes does. 1 started for the other boys, who were off cuttin’ timbers, and told ’em somethin’ had happened. We went on a fox trot back to the shaft, and when they had almost shouted a lung out I agreed to go down. Well,- sir, when I got down to the end of the rope 1 found the bottom but of the shaft and a chamber as dark as pitch open before me. I could hear the Water runnin’, and called out to the man. He answered that he had struck the devil’s glen at last, and said he had hurt himself. I shouted to the boys to hoist. It didn’t take us long to piece out the rope, and, with a fresh candle, I started back. There was our partner, Btandin’ in a room ’bout as big as this one, and pale as a corpse. He was forty feet below the bottom of the shaft, and when he stepped on the bucket and went to the surface you bet your life he was happy.” They resolved to keep the matter quiet until they had secured the cave by a series of locations. Not long after they came into the city afid procured an engineer, with whom they returned. “We wasn’t long in getting to the -bottom that day, either,’’ continued Mr. Youtsler, “for every mother’s son of us expected to see gold on every side. Well, the engineer got his what-do-you-oall-it to workin’, and when the candles were all burned down he told us we were 5,000 feet in the cave. We were then without light, and for fortyeight hours were as badly lost as the babes in the woods ” According to the narrators they found the chambers divided by partitions through which the wear of the water had made a continuous avenne. There was a draft through it and they were all convinced that there was some opening upon the other side of the mountain. Mr. Youtsler said they failed to find the gold-clothed stalactites and stalagmites, but an abundance of porphyry similar to that which characterizes the formation at Bed Cliff. He volunteers to head a party to the locality and prove what he alleges at any time, and says he is satisfied that, had not the candles burned out, they would have found the end of the tun„nel upon an open surface. As near as he could describe it, the tunnel is about ten from .Leadviile aross Tennessee Park.

The Science of Silence. I have read somewhere the following arrangement for avoiding family quarrels r “You see, sir,” said an old man, speaking of a couple who lived in perfect harmony in' his neighborhood, “thej agreed between themselves that whenever he came home a little cbntrary and out of temper, he wore his hat on the back of his head, and then Bhe never said a word; and if she came in a little cross and crooked, she threw her shawl over her left shoulder, and he never said a word.” As it takes two Jo make a quarrel, either the husband or wife might often prevent one by stepping out of the room at the nick of time; by endeavoring to divert attention and conversation from the burning question; by breathing an instantaneons prayer to God for calmness bef6re making any reply; in a word, by learning to put in practice on certain occa..aiQiis ihe...ajdfinee_ of silence. Robert Burton tells of a woman, who, hearing one of her “gossips” complain of her husband’s impatience, told her an excellent remedy for it. She gave her a glass of water, which, when he bawled, she should hold still in her mouth. She did so two or three times with great success, and at length, seeing her neighbor, she thanked her for it and asked to know the ingredients. She told her that it was “fair water,” and nothing more; for it was aoi the water but her silence that performed the cure. He who has learned the science of silence may hide ignorance, and even acquire a reputation for knowledge and wisdom. A story is told of the painter Zeuxis, how he reproved a certain high priest of Great Diana of .the Ephesians, who discoursed of pictures in the artist’s studio, with so reckless an audacity of ignorance that the very lads who were grinding colors could not refrain from giggling, whereupon Zeuxis said to his eloquent friend: “As long as you kept from talking you were the adinirat on of these boys, who were all wonder at your rich attire and the number of your servants; but now that you have ventured to expatiate nponrthe arts of which you know nothing, they are laughing at you outright.” Denouncing the vapid verbiage of the shallow praters, Carlyle exclaims: “Even triviality and imbecility that can sit silent, how respectable are they in comparison!” It is said of one who was [taken for a - great man so long as he Qield his peace, “ This man might-have been a councillor of state till he spoke; but having spoken, not the beadle of a ward.” Lorjil Lytton tells the story of a groom married to a rich lady, and in constant trepidation of being ridiculed by the guests in his new home. An Oxford clergyman gave him this advice: “Wear a black coat, and hold your tongue.” The groom was soon considered the most gentlemanly person in the country. —The Quiver.

He Wanted So Tricycle. This happened one evening recently, not a thousand miles from Cambridge: Two tricyclers chanced to halt by the roadside for a brief rest just as a group of Irish laborers were passsing on their Say home from work. Attracted by te bright new machines, two of the men paused a moment to look at them. “Jlf you only had a tricycle, Pat,” said one of the cyclers to the nearest

of the men, “yon could ride to and from your employment, * “ Ride to the divil!” said Pat with a contemptuous look at the combination of man and wheels. “Do ye think I cam from the aould counthry to drive a donkey-cart, bedad, and be me own horse?"— Boston Record.

Instantaneous Photographs* The friends were standing where the Catskill hills lay before them in echelon toward the river, the ridges lapping over each other and receding in the distance, a gradation of lines most artistically drawn, still further refined by shades of violet, which always have the effect upon the contemplative mind of either religious exaltation or the kindling of a sentiment which is in the young akin to the emotion of love. While the artist was making some memoranda of these outlines, and Mr. King was drawing I know not what auguries of hope from these purple heights, a young lady seated upon a rock near by,—a young lady just stepping over the border-line of womanhood —had her eyes also fixed upon those dreamy distances, with that look we all know so well, betraying that shv expectancy of life which is unconfessed, that tendency to maidenly reverie which it were'cruel to interpret literally. At the moment she is more interesting than the Catskills—the brown •hair, the large eyes unconscious of anything but the most natural emotion, the shapely waist just beginning to respond to the call of the future—it is a pity that we shall never see her again, and that she has nothing whatever to do with our journey. She also will have her romance; fate will meet her in the way some day, and set her poor heart wildly beating, and she will know what those purple distances mean. Happiness, tragedy, anguish—who can tell what is in store for her ? I cannot but feel profound sadness at meeting her in this casual way and never seeing her again. Who says that the world is not full of romance and pathos and regret as we go our daily way in it? You meet her at a railway station; there is the flutter of a veil, the gleam of a scarlet bird, the lifting of a pair of eyes—she is gone; she is entering a drawing-room, and stops a moment and turns away; she is looking from a window as you pass—it is only a glance out of eternity ; she stands for a second upon a rock looking seaward; she passes you at the church door—is that all ? It is discovered that instantaneous photographs can be taken. They are taken all the time; some of them are never developed, but I suppose these impressions are all there on the sensitive plate, and that the plate is permanently affected by the impressions. The pity of it is that the world is so full of these undeveloped knowledges of people worth knowing and friendships worth making. —Charles Dudley Warner, in Harpers Magazine. A Day’s Journey for a Horse. iLccordingto Hon. John E. Bussell, Secretaryof the Massachusetts Board of Agriculture, the regular daily journey of the horse should not exceed twelve or thirteen miles. This is as great a distance, he thinks, as can be economically allotted a horse as a day’s journey for every day in the week. If he has a longer daily journey he must have a day or two off each week. This day’s work of the traveling horse is based on the experience of stage and car companies. For the stage, where more speed is required, ten miles have been found the limit of an economical day’s journey. But a great deal depends on the speed. Give the horse plenty of time and he can do a longer daily journey than he can if he is urged beyond an easy gait. In emergencies a good horse can do fifty or sixty miles a day. Seventy-five and eighty miles have been driven. But such long, fast journeys are very trying to the horse, and he needs to be managed with great care and judgment to prevent harm from such vlbTeat," continued' exertion. Such driving cannot be repeated often with safety. The regular day’s journey should be lengthened or shortened according to the condition and character of the road, and the weight of the load. Then there is a difference in individuals, and what one horse does with ease, may be very hard for another. Feed and care are also a factor in the problem not to be overjftbked. :t '■ .

Mr. Beecher’s Fondness for Gems. He rides his hobby for gems as persistently and enjoyingly as ever, and hardly a day passes that he does not take it out for an airing. He usually has a number of sapphires, emeralds, or rubies in his pocket, and while he never seems to take any care of them, it is. not reported that he ever loses one. The incident of liis watching the play of color in some pet opals while waiting for an English mob to shout itself hoarse, so that he might begin his antirebellion speech, is well known. He often borrows jewels from dealers to *show to his friends, and, though his careless way of carrying them is well known, they are glad to loan them. The other day he went to Mr. Manvel, clerk of Plymouth Church, and said: “I’ve got something you will like to see. It is a purple stone by day and red by gaslight. Isn’t that handsome ?” Mr. Manvel, who is a jeweler, took the stone carefully in his hand and said: “Yes, it’s very pretty. If you should over want a peek of them let me know, and I can supply them cheap. That is the violane du cap, and it is artificial. —Brooklyn Eagle. “Obeah” is a species of witchcraft practiced by the negroes of the West Indies, and supposed to have been introduced from Every white West Indian knows that it is practiced by certain “obeah men,” and that in past times it has cost many a white man his life, but few can tell how it operates. Negroes are afraid to talk about it. The real danger lies undoubtedly in a subtle system of poisoning and in the extravagant fears of superstitious people. There are about 500 “obeah mqn” in Trinidad. The Government has tried to crush out the practice at various times, but has always failed. ' ——- .... i. The north was always supposed to be the particular habitation of bad spirits. Milton, therefore, assembles the rebel angels in the north, ~ ' •

Deserved Promotions. President B. R. Cable, of the Chicago, Book Island and Pacific Railway, announces the appointment, of E. St. John as Assistant General Manager of that company. Some months ago Mr. St. John received the appointment of assistant to the General Manager, and then , assumed the duties which fall to the position which he now takes. There will be but one comment on the gentleman’s promotion, and that, that in qualification, ability, and past devotion to the interests of the corporation he has served so long and well he fully deserves the place ne has been chosen to fill. In whatever capacity he has been tested, from the lpwest round of the ladder up through the various grades, he has demonstrated his entire fitness for the duties and interests intrusted to his charge, add discharged them so well that advancement on merit was also a certainty of the future. His record is one that he may well be proud of, and those officials and opponents who have crossed swords with him in the numerous tilts that have enlivened Western railway history in the past will be the first to concede his eminent fitness for any position embraced in the railway world. A close student of railway problems, an acute observer of passing events, forcible, and with a touch of combativeness, when the aggressive is the right method, he has made his influence felt at the right time and place. That he will be universally congratulated is assured, and, better still, there will be no touch of envy or jealousy in the chorus. ' Mr, St. John entered the railway service in 1862, as clerk in the general ticket office of the Quincy and Toledo Boad. On July 4, 1863, he became attached to the Bock Island General Ticket Department, progressing through various grades until on J une 1, 1879, he was appointed General Passenger and Ticket Agent, a position he has continued to hold to dute. The vacancy made by Mr. St. John’s advancement promotes Mr. E. A. Holbrook to the position of General, and Mr. George H. Smith to that of Assistant General Passenger Agent. Both gentlemen deserve the recognition thus given, and will doubtless make equally good records in the future as in the past. —Chicago Times.

An Ambiguous Bargain. A blacksmith in a little Indiana town had for a customer an ostentations citizen, Maj. H., who made a dicker with the smith for his season’s' smithing “on account,” to be paid for in dried fruit at $1 per bushel in the fall season, the bill amounting to $lO. Late in the fall of the year, the Major drove up to the smith-shop and announced : “Well. Mr. W., I’ve got that ‘dried fruit’ for you.” “All right,” said Mr. W., who was very busy, “just empty it in that large box, ’’ .and kept on at work. The Major deposited in the box one sackful after another until the last was emptied, and then the blacksmith turning to inspect the “dried fruit,” discovered that he had ten bushels of dried pumpkins at $1 a bushel for pay, worth in afl about $2. The smith, a very profane man grabbed a red-hot iron from the forge and ran Maj. H. two squares—swearing like an army in Flanders —that he would brand him for life. —Detroit Free Press.

A Widower Set Back. Uncle Pete, of Maury County, Tennessee, had been a widower about six months. Feelijag very lonesome, he began to look around among the young girls. Coming home from preaching a few nights since he overtook a light sorrel-colored girl, and sidling up to her said: - “ Miss “Miss Jinnie. I would be exceedin' - pleased to exort you home, es you haves no dejections. ” “Well, I’se got dejections, I is. Why, Uncle Pete, is you don gone clean, fool crazy? What would I look like er gwine promiladin’ long hyar wid yon? No, I thanks you, I doan need yo’ comp’ny.” “Blcbb God.” said Uncle Pete, scratching his head, “I’se gwine on 60 odd year ole, en bin iner heap uv places, en seeder heap uv folks, but dat is de fus’ time F ever heerd uv er buzzard’fusin’carrnn.” Having delivered this parting shot the old man strode on and left “de pullet ter git ter her roos’ de bes’ way she could.” —Detroit Free Press. , ..

There is a difference of opinion among publishers as to what constitutes a successful sale for a novel. One of them writes to protest against the tales of 25,000 and 50,000 circulation for American novels, in the days when there were no cheap reprints, and claims that there has never been a time when 5,000 copies has not been a good deal over the average sale. > The truth is, that the vast majority of novelists, of respectable ones, cannot get ! beyond 1,000 copies, except in raie cases. If it were not for the cheap reprints they might sell twice or three times this number, perhaps; but to talk about 50,000 is foolish.

It is said that in 1826 there was not a nursery for the sale of fruit trees in all New England, and the neglected gardens yielded only a small quantity fruit, chiefly cuirants. The first horticultural society in the century was founded in 1829. s **A Great Strike.” Among the 150 kinds of Cloth Bound Dollar Volumes given away by the Rochester (N. V.) American Rural Home for every #1 subscription to that great 8-page, 48-col, 16-year-old weekly (all 5x7 inobcs, from 300 to 900 pages, bound in cloth) are: Law Without Lawyers, Danelson’s (Medical) Family Cyclopedia, Counselor,' Farm Cyclopedia, Boys' Useful Pastime*, Farmer*- and , Stock- Five Years Before the breeder*' Guide, Mast, Common Sense in Poul- People'* Hi*, of United try Yard, titles, - . World Cyclopedia, Universal History of What Every One Should All Nations, Enow. Popular Hi*. Civil War tooth sideo). Any one book and paper One year, all postpaid, for #1.15! Satisfaction guaranteed. Reference: Hon. C. R. Parsons, Mayor of .Rochester. Samples, 2c. ' Rural Home Oa, lid., Rochester. N. Y,

V V Important. Whan you visit or leave New York CSty, salve baggage, and 9&carriaga hire, and stop at the Grand Villon Hotel, opposite Grand Central Deppt ’ . , , 613 rooms, fitted up at a ooat of one million dollars, |1 and upwards per day. European plan. Eleyator. Restaurant supplied with the beet Horse oars, stages, and elevated railroad to all depots. Families can live better for less money-at the Grand Union Hotel than at any other first-class hotel in the oity.

The Population of France. In view of the new census of France, the following table, showing the progress of the population since the beginning of the last century, has been issued by the Census Committee: Total I Total Year. population.; Year. population. 1700 19,660,380 1841 .34,290,078 1702. ,21,709,163 1846 .35,400,686 1772. 22,042,000 1851 35,080,170 1784 24,000,000|186JL... 38,039,304 1801 , 27,349,003 1861 37,380,101 1806 29,107,425 1866 38,0.17,074 1821. 31,431,878 If 7i .38,102,221 1826.., 31,863,937 1816 .37,000,000 1831 32,519,223 1881 37,672,048 18.36 33,540,910. It will be remarked that twice within the last quarter of a century there has been a decrease in the population —viz., in 1861, when it was more than 600,000 less than in 1856, and aga n in 1872, when the decrease of nearly 2,000,000 from the census of 1866 was due chiefly, but not altogether, to the cession of Alsa e-Lorraine to Germany.

A bottle of “obeah water” put under a man’s doorstep is supposed to bring him the worst possible luck. It is worse than finding a white cock’s head lying in the yard with its back pointing toward the door. When a sorcerer wishes to give a mild touch of his supernatural power he gets some one to bury near his victim’s door a bottle containing a toad, a spider,rusty nails, muddy water, and other articles.

Surest Tranquilizer of the Nerves. The surest tranquilizer of the nerves is a medicine which remedies their supersensitiveness by invigorating them. Over-ten sfbn of the nerves always weakens them. What they need, then, is a tonio, not a sedative. The latter is only useful when there is intense mental excitement and an immediate necessity exists for producing quietude of the brain. Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters restores tranquility of the nerves by endowing them with the vigor requisite to bear, without being jarred or disturbed unhealthfully, the ordinary impressions produced through the media of sight, hearing and reflection. Nav, it does more than this—it enables them to sustain a degree of tension from mental application which they would be totally unable to endure without its assistance. Such, at least, is the irresistible conclusion to be drawn from the testimony of business and professional men, litterateurs, clergymen, and others who have tested the fortifying and reparative influence of tLAi celebrated tonic and nervine.

Prof. Dana, of New Haven, in bis lectures on Evolution, cited the fact that there are rudimentary muscles in man which are found strongly developed in apes, an indication that they existed in this state in some of man’s ancestors. Also, the fact that the rudiments of a tail, as found in man today, indicate that some of his ancestors had a tail. Birds and reptiles are now far apart in the scale of an'mal life, but there are lines of resemblance showing that once they were of one species. Then birds had teeth.— Dr. Foote's Health Monthly.. The first custom house in New England was established in Boston in 1680, with Edward Randolph, as commissioner. His authority was superseded by the creation, by the General Court, of a colonial naval office. Habit is a cable. We weave a thread of it every day, and at last we cannot break it. Before lying down to eat, the ancient Romans took off their shoes.

The Weaker Sex are immensely strengthened by the use of Dr. R. V. Pierce’s “Favorite Prescription," which cures all female derangements, and gives tone to the system, Sold by druggists. Fame is a greasy pole.— Unknown philosopher. And it takes a deal of sand to climb it.— Merchant Traveler. Fob ague, bilious, intermitent, break-bone, and Bivamp fevers, use Ayer’s Ague Cura What is the difference between a paper dollar and a dollar of silver? Never mined. Hall’s Hair Renewer is cooling to the scalp and cures all itching eruptions. The size of a man has nothing to do with the size of the lie he can tell.

> - Nothing Like It. No medicine has ever been known so effectual in the cure of all those diseases arising from an impure condition of the blood as SCOVILL’S SARSAPARILLA, OR BLOOD AND LIVER SYRUP, the universal remedy for the cure of Scrofula, White Swellings, Rheumatism, Pimples, Blotches, Eruptions, Venereal Sores, and Diseases, Consumption, Goitre, Boils, Cancers, and all kindred diseases. There is no better means of securing a beautiful complexion than by using SCOVELL’S BARBAPARTT.LA, OR BLOOD AND LIVER SYRUP, which cleanses the blood and gives permanent beauty to the skin.

Yon will get more comfort for 25 eta. In Lyon’s Heel Stiffeners than In any other article you buy. If afflicted with Sore Byes, use Dr. Isaac Thompson’s Rye Water. Druggist* sell it. 25c. sP, Don’t work your horses to death with poor axle grease; the Frazer is the only reliable make.

Advice to CfasuaptiTes. On the appearance of the Bret symptom*, aa general debility, low of appetite, pallor chilly sensations, followed by night-sweats, and cough, prompt measures of relief should be taken. .Consumption is scrofulous disease Of the lungs: therefore use the great antieorofulous or blood-purifier and, strenth reetorer, Dr. Pierce’s “Golden Medical Discovery.’’ Superior to cod liver oil as a nutritive, and unsurpassed *s a pectoral. For weak lungs, spitting of blood, and kindred affeotlons. It bss no equal. Sold by druggists. For Dr. Pleroe’a treatise on consumption, send 10 cents In stamps. World's Dispensary Medical Association, 033 Main street, Buffalo, N. Y. ’ A Maine doctor declares that he has the spirits of throe hundred Indians under his control. He’ll get the jiih-jams sure. Startling Weakness, general and nervous debility, impaired memory, lack of self-confidence, premature loss.of manly vigor and powers, are common results Of excessive Indulgence or youthful indiscretions and perniolous solitary practices. Victims whose manhood has thus been wrecked should address, with 10 cents In stamps for large Illustrated treatise giving means of perfect cure. World's Dispensary Medical Association, 663 Main Buffalo, N. Y.

Misplaced switches cause n great deal of tionble, not only to railroads bat also in the family circle. BED-BUGS, FLIES. Flies, roaches, ante, bed-bugs, water-bugs, moths, rats,mice,Bparrows, jack rabbits.gophors, chipmunks, oleared out by “Rough on Rata." 15c. BUCHU-PAIBA. Cures all Kulney Affectations, Scalding.lrritations, Stone, Gravel, Catarrh of the Bladder. |L BOUGH ON BATS clears out rate, mice, roaches, flies, ants, bedbugs, vermin, water-bugs, skunks. 15c. —4* "Bough on Corns” hard or soft corns, bunions. 150 “Bough on Toothache.” Instant relief. 15a

It is a well-known fact, admitted by physicians of every school, that it is from disorders of the liver arise nine-tenths of the complaints which afflict the people of the present aga The liver is the largest secreting organ in the human body, and the bile which it secretes is more liable to vitiation than any other of the animal fluids. Luckily for the bilious, however, there is an unfailing source of relief from liver complaint in that sovereign remedy known as Simmons Liver Regulator, prepared by J. H. Zeilin <k Co., Philadelphia. This medicinal preparation liai stood the test of time until it nos come to be regarded by millions of people as a specific for all diseases of the liver and kidneys. Simmons Liver Regulator is doing noble work for the afflicted in this section of the counify, where it is largely advertised in the newspapers.

THIN PEOPLE. “Wells’ Health Renewer” restore# health, and vigor, cures Dyspepsia, Mai aria, Impotence,Nervous Debility. Consumption, Wasting Diseases, Decline. Ith&s cured thousands, will cure yon. HEART PAINS. Palpitation,Dropsical Swellings,Dizziness,lndigestion, Headache, Ague, Liver and Kidney Complaint, Sleeplessness cured by“ Wells’Health Renewer." Elegant Tonic for Adults or children. LIFE PRESERVER. If you are losing your grip on life try “Wells’ Health Renewer. ” ‘Goes direct to weak spots. Great Appetizer, arid aid to Digestion, giving strength to stomach, liver, kidneys, bowels. Relief is immediate, and a cure sure. Piso’s Remedy for Catarrh. 60 cents.