Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 March 1889 — Page 2

KING SOLOMON’S MINES.

BY H. RIDER HAGGARD, CHAPTER XIII. •* THK ATTACK. Slowly, and withttfit the slightest appearance of haste or excitement, the three columns crept on. When within about five hundred yards of us the main or center column halted at the root of a tongue of open plain which ran up into the hill to enable the other two to circumvent our position, which was shaped more or less in the form of a horse-shoe, the two points being toward the town of Loo. their object being, no doubt, that the threefold assaultshould be delivered simultaneously. “Oh,for a Gatling gun! "groaned Good, as he contemplated the serried phalanxes beneath us. A“I would clear the plain in.twentv minutes.”’-;' “We have not got ode, so it is no use yearning for it; but suppose.you try a shot. Quatermain. Sees how near you can go to that tell fellow who appears to be in command. Two to one you miss him, and an even sovereign, to be honestly paid if ever we get out of this, that you don’t drop the ball within ten yards.” wish my Wend walked some ten yards oat from his force, in order to get a better view of our position, accompanied only _,by an orderly, and then, lying downimd resting the express noon a lock, T covered him. The rifle, like all expresses, was onlv sighted to three hundred and fifty vards, so to allow for the drop ib< trajectory I took him half-way down the neck, which ought, I calculated; to find him in the chest. He stood quite still and gave me every opportunity, but whether it was the excitement or the wind, or the fact of the man being a long shot I don’t Know, but this was what happened. Getting dead on. as I thought, a fine sight, I pressed, and whepjthe puff of smoke had cleared away, I, to my disgust saw my man standing unharmed, whilst his orderly, who was at least three paces to the left,"was stretched upon the • ground, apparently dead. Turning swiftly, the officer I had aimed at began to ran toward his force, in evident alarm., / “Bravo, Quatermain!” sung out Good; “you’ve frightened him.”» This made me very angry, for if possible to avoid it, I hate to miss in public. When one can only do one thing well one likes to keep up one’s reputation. Moved quite oat of myself at my failure, I did a rash thing. Rapidly covering the general as he ran, I let drive with a second barrel. The poor man threw np his arms, and fell forward on his face. This time I had made no mistake; and—l say it as a proof of how little we think of others when our pride or reputation is in question—l was brute enough to feel delighted at the sight The regiment wno had seen the feat cheered wildly at this exhibitiqn of the white man’s magic, which they took as an omen of success, while the force to which the general had belonged—which, indeed, a§ we afterward ascertained, he had commanded—began to fall back in cßnfnsion. Sir Henry and Good now took up their rifles, and began to fire, the latter industriously “browing” the dense mass oefore him with a Winchester repeater, and I also had another shot or tiro, with the result that so far as we could judge we put some eight or ten men horse 'de combat before they got out of range. Just as we stopped firing there camp An ominous soar from our far right, then a similar roar from our left. The two oher divisions were engaging us. After the sound the mass of men before us opened out a littfij, and came on toward the hill up the spit of bare grassland at a sjow trot, singing a deepthroated Stiong as they advanced We kept up a steady fire from our rifles as they came, Ignosi joining in occasionally, and accounted for several men, but of course produced no more effect upon that mighty rush of armed humanity than he who throws pebbles does on the advancing wave. On they came, with a shout and dashing of spears; now they were driving in the outposts we had placed among the rocks at the foot of the hill. After that the advance was a little slower, for although as yet we had offered no serious opposition, the attacking force had to come up hill, and came slowly to save their breath. Our first line of defense was about half way up the side, our second fifty yards further back, while our third occupied the edge of the plain. On they came, shonting their warcry, “Twala! Twala! Chiele! Chiele!” (Twala! Twala! Smite! Smite!) “Ignosi! Ignosi! Chiele! Chiele!” answered our people. They were quite close now, and the tollas, or throwing-knives began to flash backward and forward, and now with an awful yell the battle closed in. To and fro swayed the mass of struggling warriors, men falling thick as leaves in an autumn wind; but before lone the superioi weight of the attacking force began to tell, and our first line 1 of defense was slowly pressed back, till it margedpinto the second. Here the straggle was very fierce, but again our people were driven back and up, till at length, within twenty minutes of the fight, our third line came into action. But by this time the assailants were much exhausted, and had besides lost many men killed and wounded, and to break through that third impenetrable hedge of spears proved beyond their power. For awhile the dense mass of struggling warrioreswung backward and forward in the fierce ebß and flow oi battle, and the issue was doubtful. Sir Henry watched the desperate struggle with a kindling eye, and then without a word he rushed off, followed by Good, aad flung himself into the hottest of the fray. As for myself, I stopped where I was. The soldiers caught sight of his tell form as he plunged in the battle, and there rose a cry of—“Nanzia Incuba!” (Here is the Elephant!) “ Chiele! Chiele!” From that moment the issue was no longer in doubt Inch by inch, fighting with desperate gallantry, the attacking ... force was pressed back down the hill's side, till at last it retreated upon its reserves in something like confusion. At that moment, too, a messenger arrived to say that the left attack had been repulsed; and I was just beginning' to congratulate myself that the affair was . over for the present, when, te our horror, we perceived oar men who had been "engaged in the right defenseJ3ng driven toward us across the plain, followed by swarms of the .enemy, who had evidently succeeded at this point who was standing by me, took

in the situation *taglance, and issued a rapid order, instantly the reserve regvmeat round ns (the Grava) extended it86lf. Again Ignosi gave a word of command, which was taken up and repeated by the captains, and in another second, to mv intense disgust. I found myself involved in a funous onslaught upon the advancing foe. Getting as much as I could behind Ignosi’s huge frame, I made the best of a bad job, and toddled along to be killed, as though I liked it. In a minute or two—the time seemed all too short to me—we were plunging through the flying groups of our men, who at once began to reform behind us, and then I am sure I do not know what happened. All X Qan remember is a dreadful rolling noise of the meeting of shields, and the sadden apparition* of a huge ruffian, whose eyes seemed literally to he starting out of his 5 ; head, making straight at my with a bloody spear, But, I Bay it with pride—l rose to the ococcasion. It was an occasion before which most people would have callapsed once„ and for all. Seeing that if 1 stood where I was I mast be done for,-I, as the horrid apparition came, flung myself down in front of him so cleverly, that, berng unable to stop himself, he took a header right over my prostrate form. Before he could rise again, I had risen and settled the matter from behind with my revolver.

Shortly after this, somebody knocked me down, and I remember no more of the charge. When I came to, I found myself back at the koppie, with Good bending over me with some water in a gourd. “How do you feel, old fellow?” he asked, anxiously. I got up and‘shook myAelf' before answering. , ' “Pretty well, thank you,” I answered. ’Thank Heaven! when I saw them carry you in I (eij; quite sick, I thought you were done lc?, ■) “Not this time, my boy. I fancy I only got a rap on the head, which knocked me out of time. How has it ended?" , They are repulsed at every point for the time. The Joss is dreadfully heavy; we have lost quite two thousand killed and wounded, an,d they must have lost three. Look, there’s a sight!” and he pointed to long lines of men advancing by fonts. In the center of, and being borne by each group of four, was a kind of hide tray, of which a Kukuana force always carried a quantity, with a loop for a handlet at each corner. On these trays—and their number seemed endless—lay wounded men, who as they arrived were hastily examined by the medicine men, of whom ten were attached to each regiment. lithe wotlnd was not of a fatal character, the sufferer was taken away and attended to as carefully as circumstances would allow. But if, on the other hand, the wounded man’s condition was hopeless, what followed was very dreadful, though doubtless it was the truest mercy.. One of the doctors, under pretense of carrying out an examination, swiftly opened an artery with a sharp knife, and in a minute or iwo the sufferer expired painlessly. There were many cases that day in which this was done. In fact, it was done ifi most cases when the wound was in the body, for the gash made by the" entry of tne enormously broad spears used by the Kukuanas generally rendered recovery hopeless. In most cases the poor sufferers were already unconscious, and in others the fatal “nick” of the artery was done so swiftly and painlessly that they did not seem to notice it. Still it was a.ghastly sight, and one from which we were glad to escape; indeed, I never remember one Which affected me more tnan seeing those gallant soldiers thus put put out of pain byj the red handed medicine men, except, indeed, on an occasion when, after an attack, I saw a force of Swazis burying their hopelessly wounded alive. Hurrying from this dreadful scene to the further side of the koppie, we found Sir Henry (who still held a bloody bat-tle-axe in his hand), Ignosi, and one or two of the chiefs in deep consultation, d “Thank Heaven,here yop are,Quatermain! I can’t quite make out what Ignosi wants to do. ft seems that, though we ha re beaten off the attack, Twala is now receiving large re-enforce-ments, and is showing a disposition to invest us, with a view of starving us out.”

awkward.” especially as Infadoossays that the water supply has given out.” “My lord, that is so,” said Infadoos; “the spripg cannot supply the wants of so great a multitude, and is failing rapidly. Before night we shall -all be thirsty. Listen, Macumazahn. . Thou art wise, and has doubtless seen many war inithe lands from whence thou earnest—that is if, indeed, they make wars in the stars. Now tell, us, what shall we do? Twala has brought up many fresh men to take the place of those who have fallen. But Twala has learned a lesson: the hawk did not think to find the heron ready; but our beak has pierced his breast; he will not strike at us again. We too are wounded, and he will wa ; t for' us to die; he 'will wind himself round us like a snake around a buck, and fight the fight or ‘sit down.’ ” “I hear you,” I said. “So, Macumazahn, thou seest we have no water here, and but a little food, and we must choose between these three things—to languish like a starving lion in his den, or to strive to break awav toward the north, or”—and here he rose and pointed toward the dense mass of our foes —“to launch ourselves straight at Twala’s throat. Incubu, the great warrier—for to-day he fought like a buffalo in a net, and TwalaV soldier’s went down betore his ax like com before the haii; with these eyes I saw it—lncubu says ‘Charge;’ but the elepnant (Incubu) is ever prone to charge. Now what says Macumazahn, tlie wily old fox, who bas seen much, and loves to bite his enemy from behind? The last word is in Ignosij the king; for it is a king’s fight to speak of war; but let us hear thv voice, 0 Macumazahn! who watches by night, and the voice too of him of the transparent eye.” “What sayestthou, Ignosi?’l asked. “Nay, ray father,” answerpdour quondam servant, who now clad as he wa»dm the full panoply of savage war, looked ■every;inch a warrior king, “do thou peak. iad let me. who am but achild in wisdom inside thee, hearken to thy words,” V V Thus abjured. I, after taking hasty, counsel with Good aDd Sir Henry, de * liverea ray opinion briefly to the "effect that, bi?‘;ng trapped, onr beet chance, especially in view of the failure of onr jester supply, was to initiate an .attack upon Twala’B forces, and then I

recommended that the attack be delivered at once, “before oar wounds grew stiff,” and also before the sight of Twala’s overpowering force cansed the hearts of our soldiers “to wax small like fat beore a fire.” Otherwise, I pointed out, some of the captains might change there minds, and, making peace with Twala, desert to him, or even betray ub into his hands. This expression of opinion seemed, on the whole, to he favorably received; indeed, among the Kukuanas my utterances met with a respect which has never been accorded to them before or sincel But the real decision as to our course laid with Ignosi, who, since he had been recognized as rightful king, could exercise the almost unbounded rights of sovereignty, including, of course, the final decision on matters of generalship, and it was to him that all eyes were now turned. At length, after a pause, daring which he appeared to be thinking deeply, he spoke: “Jncubu, Macumazahn, and Bougwan, brave white men, and my friends; Infadoog, my uncle, Jtnd chiefs: my heart is fixed. I will strike at Twala this day, and set my fortunes on the blow, ay, and my life; my life §,nd you: lives also Listen: thus will I strike. Ye see how the hill curves around like the halfmoon, and how the plains run like a green toward us within the curve?” “We see," I answered. “Good; it is now midday, and the men eat andXJMjft after the toil of battle. When the son has turned and traveled a little way toward the dark, let thy regiment, my uncle, advance with one other down to the green tongue. And it shall be that when Twala sees it he shall hurl his force at it to crush it. But the spot is narrow, and the regiments can come against thee one at a time ODly; so shall they be destroyed one by one, and the eyes of all of Twala’s army shall be fixed upon a struggle the like of which has net been seen by living man. And with thee my uncle shall go Incubu my friend, that when Twala sees his battle-ax flashing in the first rank of the ‘Grays’ his heart may grow faint. And I will come with the second regiment, that which follows thee, so that if ye are destroyed, as it may happen, there may yet be a king left to fight for; and with me shall come Macumazahn the wise.”

“It is well, oh king,” said Infadoos, apparently contemplating the certainty of the complete annihilation of his regiment with perfect calmness. Truly these Kukuanas are a wonderful people. Death has no terrors for them when it is incurred in the course of duty. “And whilst the eyes of the multitude of Twala’s regiments ard fixed on the fight,” went on Ignosi, “behold one third »f the men who are leit alive to us (i. e., about 6,000) shall creep along the right horn of the hill and tell uj on the left flank of Twala’s force, and one third shall creep along the left horn and fall upon Twala’s right flank. And when 1 see that the horns are ready to toss Twala, then will I, with the men who are left to me, charge home in Twala’s face, and if fortune goes with us the day will be ours, and before Night drives her horses from the mountains to the mountains we shall sit in peace at Loo. And now let us eat and make ready; and, Infadoos, do thou prepare, that the plan be carried out; and stay, let my white father Bougwan go with the right horn, that his shining eye may give courage to the men.” The arrangements for attack thus briefly indicated were set in motion with a rapidity that spoke well for the perfection of the Kukuana military system. Within little more than an hour rations had been served out to the men and devoured, the three divisions were formed, the plan of attack explained/ to the leadv ers, and the whole force, wichthe excMotion of a guard left with theWQunded, now numbering about 18,000 menm all, was ready to be put in motron. Presently Good came up and shook hands With Sir Henry and myself. 8 ~Z “Good-bye, you fellows,” he said, “I am off with the right wing according to orders; and so I have come to shake hands in case we should not meet again, you know,” he added significantly. We shook hands in silence, and not without the exhibition/of as much emotion as Englishmen aye wont to show. “It is a queer business,” said Sir Henry, his deep voice shaking a little, • “and I confess I never expect to see tomorrow’s sun. As fay as I can make out, the Grays, with whom I am to go, are to fight until they are wiped out in order to enable the wings to slip round unawares and outflank Twala, Well, so be it; at any rate, it will be a man’s death! Good-bje, old fellow. God bless you. I hope you will pull through and live to collar the diamonds; but if you do, take my advice and don’t have anything more to do with pretenders!” In another second Good had wrung us both by the hand and gone; and then Infadoos came up and led off Sir Henry to his place in the forefront of the Grays, whilst, with many misgivings, I departed with Ignosi to mv station in the second attacking regiment, f Continued next week.]*

Cultivation of Nutmegs.

Having rested sufficiently, we again started forward, and after scrambling along for about an hour, we gained a fine piece of table-land, over which we traveled for about another half an hour, when we reached three houses erected in the very heart of the forest. These were used by the natives for drying the nutmegs. The country was everywhere magnificent, and the aroma of the spiceladen air delicious. Nutmeg and other equally valuable trees were everywhere growing in great profusion. The fruit qf the nutmeg in appearance resembles a pear, and, when ripe opens and displays the nnt covered with a beautiful red coating of mace. The nuts are then picked from the trees, put into baskets, and taken to the houses, where they are husked and placed Bn shelves. They are then partially roasted over a slow fire until all the moisture is extracted. After this they cooled and carried down to the village in the nets ready to be bartered to the Bugis, Arabs and Other traders who frequent the gulf in their small prows or inkos at the proper season. - , lowa continues to be the com state. The value of its crop last year was equal to the mineral output of the country - and equal to the dividends paid by ail the railroads cr earnings of ail the banks. - !

THE EDUCATED FARMER.

Education as Necessary as io Ad) [ Other VocationPrairie Farmer.: , The time has come when, to be successful in life, a person mast .be educated. Naiural tact is a great thing. Money is a great thing. Gemus is a great thing. • These are all gooXthings and great helps to success, buß far greater yet is education. |As competition narrows down and the margin oi action grows smaller, the better must a' man be equipped for the battle of life, if he expects to be successful. This is as true of the farmer as.of any one else. The time has passed for farmers to depend on muscle and hard labor alone. They must use their brains as well as thair hands. They must do more thinking and planning if they desire to receive the best results. The termer who reads and studies is the one who works to a purpose, while the one who does not read iffthe one who makes his efforts at hap-hazard. The former is posted on the markets, and, from long study, is able to draw conclusions and form pretty correct ideas of what it will be to his interest to raise for those markets. He discovers that the wheat market is likely to have a downward tendency, from the fact that he is informed of a large area of wheat sown in the main wheat producing States. Consequently; he very sensibly concludes, that for a profit he had better turn his attention to other crops. The uneducated farmer, on the other hand, knows nothing of markets, or of the outlook for crop production, and is as liable to produce a non-paying crop as any- v Then again, the educated farmer is always posted in everything pertaining to his business, and is readyto be the first to take advantage of a new and valuable discovery, and every year there are many valuable discoveries made in the agricultural world. These are cheiper and more convenient methods of performing farm labor; ways by which better returns are secured from the same amount of soil and work; newer and more satisfactory methods of caring for stock and oi feeding and pasturing the same; and many other discoveries, trifling and insignificant in themselves, but which, in the aggregate, amount to a great deal.

The uneducated farmer—the one who does notread-is the one who treats emallVaatters as unworthy of any thought or attention, and who too often’walks over dollars in a mad chase alter phantom gold pieces. And yet, it is the small things most often that constitute profit. The educated farmer knows how to save. He understands the value of economy. He knows how to obtain the greatest results at the least expense. He knows how to secure the greatest yield from a given amount of ground. He knows what crops to cultivate and when anXwhere to market his products. He is posted in the new and best varieties of seeds,land also the best varieties of stock. He has the advantage of the experience of ether men, because he reads. He does not depend altogether on his own observation and experience. Farming is a science, and there are many new things to learn in it yet, and the best and cheapest way tp learn those things js by study. Take agricultural papers, read in their columns the experiences and observation of others, and avail yourself of the many useful hints and suggestions, and thus keep up with the procession. “Farming is no longer profitable,” some men cry, when the fact is they do not find it so for the reason that. they are away behind the procession, and are attempting to run on the old plan of all muscle-work and no brain-work.

Minister Hubbard.

New York Star. So our relations with the “Yankees of the east,” are to be more intimate and amicable, thanks to my ponderous Texan friend Dick Hubbard, who is our minister to the island empire cf the orient. Richard Hubbard, to speak of him with the respect due his position, personality, and ponderosity, is a renowned citizen of tfle Lone State. He possesses an inexhaustible supply of eloquence of the intense and flowery style which still prevails in some portions of the south. In size he is tall and of gigantic girth, like the late David Davis. He was, as a young man before the war, a popular orator in his State, and was opposed to old Sam Houston. Hubbard was big round then aXnewf and his tongue was even more glib. In a speech one day he irritated the hero of San Jacinto beyond endurance. Houston, at the first opportunity, referred to Hubbard’s speech, and said: “My friends, I never contemplate the too ample proportions of Dick Hubbard without a feeling of awe, for when he was made the creator tried a great experiment. He wanted to see how far the human skin could stretch without cracking.” - A

Mrs. Langtry Speaks of Her Debut.

From a Recent Interview. “It has been eight years since I went on the stage: it was necessity that brought me there; I like bread and butter and had not the money to get it. When Mrs. Labouchere came to me and suggested tnat I should make my first venture in amateur theatricals for the benefit of a charity I was juV making np my mind to start a market garden, for I

felt gore I could succeed in that, and I lad a vague, idea that cabbages, And cauliflower, and asparagus, having the stamp of my special attention, might be given a short vogue in Garden Market I went on the stage determined to accept criticism from whoever offered it, and I do believe that the orchestra and stage people are far the best critics, for they see all sorts and conditions of acting. I will tell yon something fanny that happened to me at my first professional appearance, which was in January, 1882. I was to play Blanche Hay, mid, if you remember, she has a song in the second act. Jdo not sing, consequently it was necessary to have some one behind the screen to sing [for me while I played the accompaniment and imitated ali movements. The first night it was a great success, so much so that Clement Scott insisted that I was doing all the singing, but the second the sing' er had either gotten so intoxicated with her own melody, or had looked too often upon the wine when If was red, for long after the time for her to stop she kept on singing, and though she was conducted from off the stage the audience could still hear her warbling away as she was taken out the stage door,”

Official Courtesy at Washington.

St. Nicholas. V; All through the Government service as in private business establishments,we of course, find the relation of superior and subordinate, and from this relation necessarily follow certain distinctions of grade, or official classification, and certain rules of courtesy governing the business intercourse between agsntk of equal or unequal rank. The President is higher than a Secretary of Department, a Secretary higher than'a bureau, chief, a bureau chief higher than a clerk. An officer, issuing instructions or commands, the conventional or complimentary forms, observed by him when communjcating with afficers of equal or higher 1 grade; a subordinate,corresponding with one | above him in authority, is more or less deferential in his address. This complaisance, however, extends chiefly td such harmless expressions as, “To the Honorable Secretay,”and “I am, w .ta g-eat respect, your obedient servant, at the begining and ending of letters; and is only objectionable when it becomes indiscriminate or extravagant. In strict propriety, official communications should be addressed to their“office”—not to the name of the individual holding the [office; and a public office receives no augmented dignity by reason of mere wordy additions,, Thi s was the vie W. taken by. the House of Representatives at the begin ing of tbe Government, when the Senate desireX to style the President “His High Mightiness,” or by some other senseless title; and, the Senate, by submitting to this view; established a precedent applicable to every subordinate office. ;' In writing to a high official or a member of Congress by name, the prefix “ Hon.” is permissible on grounds of general usage, but the employment of this title in addressing minor officers is meaningless, as also is the phrase, “To His Excellency the President”; yet, this and other errors of over-effusion are frequently made/by correspondents both in "anil out of official circles. In ranking the President as head of the Republic we regared him only in his public capacity. His preeminence is the preeminence of his office; and this office, we have said; was intended to exercise business functions.

Marriages That Failed.

The total number of divorces granted during the twenty years in each of the several States, and the number of married couples to one divorce in each during the years 1870 and 1880, are given as follows: Married couple* Divorce* to One Divorce Granted 1870 1880 Alabama 5,204 1.6 2 795 Arizona 2i7 1,590 807 Arkansas 6,041 810 326 California 12,118 1 55 239 Connecticut.... 8,5'2 246 340 Dakota....—.. 1,087 ... 328 Delaware 289 23,b37 6,511 Diktrict of Columbia.. 1,106 638 508 Florida 2,120 622 - 341 Georgia 3,959 1,896 ’ 1,152 Idaho *6B 292 249 Illinois 36,072 407 271 Indiana 25,193 271 262 lowa 16,564 395 306 Kansas —. 7,191 435 425 Kentucky .•........-'10,248 678 549 Louisiana _ 1,697 1,629 Maine ! 8,812 Ktt 204 Maryland 7,185 1,757 -1,380 Massachusetts 9,863 681 566 Michigan 18,483 401 269 Mitofesofa \ 3,623 1,001 647 'Missouri ... 15,278 662 400 Montana 822 257 180 Nebraska 8,034 774 431 Nevada .... 1,128 , 265 170 New Hampshire...—— 4,979 369 186 New Jersey ... New Mexico < 255 16,077 2,615 New York - 15/55 1,1?3 1,151 North Carolina..— 1,118 4,9 8 3,149 Ohio 4 , 26,361 <_ 507 289 Oregon ■ 2.609 248 173 Pennsylvania —. 16,020 1,068’’ 851 Rhode Island 4,461 203 • 180 South Carolina 163 - 133,359 Tennessee ——9,621 836 421 Texas.'.*: .' -11.4 S’ J 949 382 Utah ~ - i 4,0 8 18’. 219 Vermont 3,238 3*o 455 Virginia 2,635 7,734 1/36 Washington —.. ] 996 579 102 Vfeat Virginia 2,556 / 1,044 974 Wisconsin..— 9,983 503 464 Wyoming..— 401 122 173 United States 938,716 664 479 An Arkansas man whe bears the name t>f Jerusalem John Johnson wants it changed to John the’ Baptist Smith, in order that he may inherit ten acres of land.. - }'. .--'11..'- • -• *

FLOOD'S FATORS.

Home of the People He Made Rich, and What they Did with It. James C. Flood, the millionaire mine ownekwho died in Heidelberg on Thursday, waaeven-tongned, cool, calculating, patient and courageous. Like most men of his temperament, he made but few friends. It was hard to gain his confidence, but he never permitted an opportunity to go by to help the few who were his friends. While Flood was still dispensing liquors over the ha. of his saloon in San Francisco, he was a member of a voltffiteer hook-and-ladder company. When he became a power in the I ** stock market he did not forget the associates who had been members of the fire company or patrons of his saloon. One by one they dropped the reins of the horse car, gave up their hods, yielded up whatever might be called the badge of honest toil, and began to frequent the pavements about the Stock Exchange. They were at first ill at ease in their new station, but they acquired one good habit from Flood, “tße silent golden Irishman,” as he was called—they did not talk too much. They never missed a chance to talk of Flood’s virtues, but had nothing to say about his business. -

When, in 1873, the big bonanza was uncovered in the Comstock lode and Flood and his partneir began the manipulation which made them so rich and others so poor, Flood and his associates still remembered their old friends, and their fortunes went sailing skyward too. To help them along, Flood did far more than his share. He lent money to some, carried shocks for others and madp all richer than they had ever dreamed of being. But their riches, easily got, easily went, and to-day but few of them have anything left. J. M. Walker was one of the men who profited most in the big bonanza deal. Now his mansion in Oakland is a hospital, while his daughter, once such a belle, now the divorced wile of a clerk, was two years, ago playing minor parts in a small theater.

Dennis McCarthy was once city editor of the San Francisco Chronicle, and he was let into the secret to the extent of winning SIOO,OOO, He is dead and left only a small estate. Joseph Goodman published the Virginia City Enterprise, and his friendship for the bonanza firm got him information which resulted in the accumulation of at least $75,000. He felt that he must have at least an even million and f he went into stock speculation after the collapse of the big bananza deal; When last heard from he was raising raisins on a little ranch hear Fresno, and would probably be satisfied with any fortune that could be represented by five figures. Pat Crowley was Chief of Police of San Francisco. He; profited by his intercourse with Flood.-, to the extent o $425,000. His ambition was* only half as large as that of Mr. Goodman, as he wanted only $500,000. H(s followed the editor and is again a jibliceman. Flood bad a fancy 'for fast trotting horses, and Pete Finiflgan was his driver. Peter got his horse in first once in such a clever manner that several brokers “went broke” betting against it. Mr. Finnigan had a “tip” on the big bonanza which sent Consolidated Virginia up to &n unheard of figure. He also had sense. He kept his money and built one of the fineßtof the houses on Nob Hill, and became the chief patron of the turf on the Pacific Coast. Mr. Flood’s fortune, though greatly reduced; is still large enough for an ordinary individual to look after, and will be divided between James L. Flood, his son, and Jennie Flood, his daughter. She was engaged to Ulysses Grant, Jr., who afterward married the daughter of Jerome B. Chaffee, of Colorado. She has already $5,000,000 in her own right.

The Imitative Chinaman.

Washington special. Senator Stewart, of Nevada, does not believe in the theory that a Chinaman can progress,although he may be Americanized in most particulars. The other day he was tellinjg about some of his strange experiences with the soils of the Celestial empire, when he said: “When we got our first Cninamgn to cook, he didn’t know a blessed thing about the kitchen, and it became necessary for Mrs. Stewart to go down and show him how to do everything. When you demonstrate in an ocular way how things should be done John never forgets. He is very impressionable. Mrs. Stewart showed him how to make biscuits. After she rolled the dough she took a cutter and began to ctit out the biscuits. When the, whole roll was cut up there was a little triangular piece left, and of this she made a half moon, as is customary. I didn’t know, anything about it at the time, but at the end of three or four months I discovered that every day when our biscuits were served there was a half moon among the lot. At the end of a year I made inquiry about the matter of Mrs. Stewart, and she wentllito the kitchen and watched the Chinaman each time he cut his bisrofldft would Bpoil four or five biscuits to do so. He thought it was as necessary as the salt or the shortening.” —/ A Connecticut newspaper, speaking of American ladies who have married British noblemen, infers to “the _ Duchess oi Marlborough, nee Widow Hammersley.” \ -t