THE DAILY HERALD: Pl.ATTSRYOtli'rt, wiCiJKASKA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 18. 1S88.
.ailA'S GOLD.
J. MINERS SWEATED AND
.ZD FOIX IT 1850-60.
tlm of lllaatcd Ifspea for Tboa
aa Who Vmft th State Fall of E
;ctancjr Plenty of Gold Left lodl
ct Ion.
Taken from 1830 to 1SC0 tho great majority
Of digger did not, iu my belief, average $1
pt-r iluy fur their work and time. Thcr
waa often o much time used up before the
actual gold bearing earth could bo worked
or wah.xL Men worked one, two, and koiiio
timin three year in digging ditches to get
wa!-r on their claim Water is almost a
necessary for gold working ft a U air for
hiimai) brtathing. Jitchet had t le dug
(caualf would bo tho mora appropriate name)
over 100 miles in length to tap tho snow fed
Ctrt oftis in tho highest .Siurrnn. Ii;;gi"g up
there iq places won of n avail There wa'a
JiUlo to dltf in, and tho water was in places
brought In imuieiiKo flu men, bolted to the
eldoa of precipices 00-fect from tho valley
below. In river mining yearn were xomo
tinies jent in blaming rutin through a quar
ter of a mil of flinty rock, and then, when
tho river td was finally laid bare, little gold
was fou?i In river mining certainly on
clnJni cut'of three proved a Jotul fuiliue. Jp
jlry, ppUnd wrfAr,o 'doings' men "spent
j'yan ' waiting ur water," that is. waiting
either foftuo promised ditou to b com
liuled, or waiting fos tho wluter rains. How
did they livrf perhaps by packing bucket
of dirt half a mile to the nearest creek or
river and there washing it. Or by "rocking
out" a dyllar or two a day fmrn tlp oft
Vnmed ever gravel on some liver's banku.
4nd a: miserable, 'squalid lifo St was for thou
ennds who had come put from tho statea full
of tho expectancy of returning home in flvji
ynaTH at lasfc wfth a f'pile," feij.J mafrv tle
i-ft U Uir.-l.
JJut thcyfctav! '
unit Hi toon and twenty
years in cabins which here would not be
doomed fit for. fc tables, ooking for them
selves, washing for themselves, forgetting
what it was to sleep in clean sheets or any
other kind; living on tough botf, beansmid
bacon, woi king hka packhorses summer and
winter; getting yearly more gray and
grizzled and angular; looking year after
year on tho same gloomy, sterile, chaparral
covered hillside, their only recreation tho
Nunday trip to the nearest store or camp for
their provisions, where they might or m'ght
not, but generally did, wind up with more
or less of a drunk, aad then for two, three
or five miles over hill and dovyn gulch
trudge home again. Utile wonder they got
druuij. It niwi the only method of getting
temporary relief from a lifetime of blasted
topes tho only salve to apply to tho old
longing for their eastern homes. Theeo were
the men whose eastern relatives sometimes
thought strangely of because they did. nut
make or send homo money. "oat of them
now are buried and enriching tho soil they
dug in. iluny of them are in naiuele&t and
unknown graves. Many went insane. Some
times ouo was l.f t, the only resident "on the
15ar.n Then it would 1 rejmrted that Smith
was acting quecrly, and Smith's next tinnsi
tion would bo to the county hospital and
from, tl,ei;Cj to one of California's two insane
us Iuiua
li there much gold yet in California?
Lots of it. Ixts of it, though, wherj you
must put a dollar and a half iu to get one
dollar out. Lots of it in places where, after
yon dig a certain depth, you meet too much
rock to blast and hoist out and water to
pump out. Like Springfield Flat in
Tuolumne county a geological curiosity
a plain a mile square, out of which all the
red pay dirt has in former years been taken
to a depth of ten or twelve feet, leaving ex
posed great knobs and ridge3 of reddish rock,
washed and worn by somo great water power
untol't ages ago into fantastic shapes. These
are all really loose bowlder from the size of
a small church down. They are of marble.
Break off a piece and the fracture under the
yellowish red of tho outside is as white as loaf
sugar. Kich gold, and plenty of it, has been
taken from Springfield l'lat. It was worth
nearly f 19 per ounce, when Tuolumne Itiver
gold brought but 1 17. But Springfield Flat
could never bo lottomsd on account of the
enormous bowlders so strangely piled in
there and tho water beside, though tho nug
gets grew bigger as they w orked down into
the crevices. It is on the "bowlder range."
This Is a remarkable underground geological
freak, running many miles in southern Cali
fornia, of great bowlders similarly piled on
each other, and in places, as at Vallecito,
where shafts were sunk in it, the bottoms
Lave tumbled out and revealed subterranean
streams running underneath.
There are ranges of low hills bordering the
San Joaquin valley in Merced, Stanislaus
and adjoining counties, where small "pros
pects" of gold may be obtained. There are
miles of these "washed gravel'' mounds." But
save in rainy weather, wheu tho water comes
right down on the 6pot where you want o
use it, there is little working these placers to
any profit. What with digging and carting
the dirt half a mile or more to the river and
there washing it, and possibly being under
the necessity of "puddling" it before you can
wash it, there is more than a dollar spent in
getting a dollar out. Yet gold lies in those
bills lots of it, could j'ou get it out in a
lump. And there is many another deposit
' locked up iu California's hills and mountains
which time may reveal, but to look for it
now is to look for the needle in an acre of
haystacks.
This side of the "Rockies" has never been
"prospected"' for gold so thoroughly as the
other. There nine-tenths of tho first settlers
Lave been miners more or less. Whatever
their occupation, they have kept an eye ojien
for "sui-face indications," and a pick and pan
handy to test gravel for gold whenever they
had leisure and water to wash it. As a re
sultVom Cariboo to Mexico scarce a gulch
exists that a white man has visited but that
lias felt the good seeking miner's pick. On
this side, and especially at the extreme east,
an klea prevails that because it is an older
settled country it can have no unknown min
eral deposits. Few people here know how to
prospect or wash a iin of dirt. Gold dutt
may be in your door yard for ages and give
. no sign of its presence, and many people
wouldn't know what it was if it did. Pren
VV Mulford in New York Star,
r
yr Varieties of Hay Fever.
Hay fever is not hay fever at all in most
ases. Intelligent physicians have found
hat the varieties of this fever are scores, if
not hundred, in number. The pollen of or
chard grass is one of the most common irri
tants producing vio-nt sneezing and expec
toration for hours or days. It can be at o:.co
cured by the use of witch hazel extract
snuffed up the nostrils. But these grasses af
fect some people. So the flying pollen of
millow trees affect others. Jimson weed has
victims, and so have many more common
" -xAs. A German scientific journal reports
the pollen of the palm tree is exceed
t irritating to the nose, throat, eyes and
"l It is well for bay fever patients to
the stomach can 'suffer from the
- f bat affects their other organs.
Teen the vegetable and animal
nng. Globe-Democrat.
THE" FAIR SEX.
A New York girl has varied th cus
tom by being married at sunrise.
Mrs. John A. Logan is liaving a nor
trait bust of herself made by Mr. Flan
nery, the sculptor, who made a bust of
lier basljand.
Mrs. Lclaiid Stanford's jewels are val
ued at a round million. Her diamond
necklace is the finest in tho United States
and possibly in tho world. It cost 74,
000 and consist tf largo "bluo tint"
ol itaircs.
Qucon Victoria hai decided to import
a number of Indian servants for her jer
sonal establishment. Last year tdie 6cnt
to India for two, who always stand,
robed in their nativo picturesque attire,
behind the royal chair.
Miss Ethel Sprajfuo, who is living with
her mother at "Iilgcwood," her home,
just out of Washington, recently enter
tained her young friud.s by giving a
blackberry party." The novelty of this
party was that tho guests helped them
selves off tho bushes that grow so thickly
in the garden of this line old place. Tho
idea is an attractive one, much more so
than would bo that of a ,'slrawlerry
party" if one had to help cno &pif from
tho lnc5. ''
Speaking of Mrs. Alico J. Shaw, the
American whistler, Tho Saturday Review
of London remarks that many people
have been asked out to hear her, regard
ing tho whole thing as a joke, and have
come away in simple wonder uif
looked for 'sp'uy ;." ne powers, T liey
have found' her a eoutul musician arid' a
subtle mistress of her particular art'.
They have found that, through her
special' medium cl,q could ifilV CVjTWii
tl;3 boiteet mto
..iercl notes the execu
tion of which only years of rehearsal could
achieve. It may be diflicult to conceive
a whistling prima donna; but the fact is
that whistling as a fine art i3 worthy of
attentive study. Those who have once
heard Mrs. Alico Shaw cannot fail to
realize that, if whistling were cultivated
as a fine art by those who, in addition to
musical endowment, have strength of
vocal chord, a high roofed palate, and a
flexible buccal aperture, they might bo
trained to tak3 part in a concert, as of
many clarionets, with an effect more
thrilling than the most exquisite instru
mental music has ever conjured up, and
which, from its novelty alone, would be
moro surprising than any concert hitherto
heard, whether instrumental or vocal.
Symptoms of JokjU and Hyde.
Etlgar S. Kelly, tho composer, relates
in Tho Theatre that a short time ago a
student devoted to chemistry and of a
sjieculativo turn of mind, was deeply
impressed by Mansfield's Dr. Jekyll. A
few weeks afterward he was on two oc
casions awakened by strange convulsive
motions of the muscles of tho throat, and
looking into tho mirror ho was startled
to find that his features were so dis
torted that no one would recognize
them, and it was some time before
they became relaxed. For years he
had felt that ho was possessed of
an evil spirit which tempted him to
do cruel and absurd things, but he had
thus far contended successfully against
it. It now seemed as though it were to
appear in a new form. Dr. Malcolm ac
counts for this as tho result of morbid
brooding over past shortcomings, mag
nified through lenses of a supersensitive
conscience, thus assuming abnormal pro
portions, while the muscular contractions
were due to insufficient protection for
the neck whilo asleep. These incidents
contain the germs of a story similar to
Mr. Stevenson's, and may console those
prosy individuals who claim they prefer
read that "which might have been
:aaie," by the thought that there is less of
the improbable in the narrative than
yaight seem at first glance. Brooklyn
Eagle.
A Millionaire's Lofty Parlor.
A New York millionaire is having
built a suite of rooms on tho top of the
lofty Equitable building, over 200 feet
above the sea level. The apartments are
reached by a flight of gilded iron steps.
The suite consists of three rooms a par
lor, dining room and bath. All are to be
carpeted and crowded with costly bric-a-brac.
Tho little suite of rooms is pro
vided with oval windows four feet in
diameter, and will bo lighted by elec
tricity and furnished with steam heaters
for tho winter months or any inoppor
tune cold wave that may break in upon
the summer's heat. This superb apart
ment is the highest in point of elevation
from the ground level of any similar
6uite of rooms in the world. In the
hottest day of summer breezes blow m
the altitudinous parlor and makes a so
journ there quite as enjoyable and cool
ing as a siesta in the mountains under
the bhade trees. Chicago Times.
Women Who Will Work.
A recent writer is exceedingly out of
tune because German women will work,
lie sees the farms bought up and the
American stock bought out, because the
American woman will not do garden and
field work. Walter Besant insists that no
woman should be compelled to work at
all. It is a shame, he says, that "any
lady should ever have to stand in tho
labor market for hire like a milkmaid at
a 6tatuo fair." He likes the French
plan, where, as poon as a daughter is
born, they commence to accumulate Jier
dowry. But tho women themselves are
inclined to settle that question in this
country by assuming absolute equality.
An increase of general out door helpful
ness undoubtedly would make financial
matters more secure and healthy mothers
more common. Globe-Democrat.
l or Weary Shoppers.
The International Hygienio society has,
begun the erection of two buildings or
4 'kiosks," in a fashionable shopping
quarter, for the benefit of wearied women
shoppers who have no place to leavg
their parcels or meet their friends or get
a cup of tea during a long shopping bout
The Duke of Westminster has granted
the land. New York Sun.
Dr. Leiser propounds the idea that Pen
sickness can be regulated by a system of
breathing, One must sit still and breathe
regularly and freely according to a fix,ed
schedule.
The man who volunteers the informa
tion that he is sober is not to be believed.
Washington Critic.
AT THE TABLE.
LITTLE PEOPLE SHOULD FEED LIKE
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN.
Eflfecta of DUuruVrlr Conduct at the Din
ii Tmblo Teaching Good Manuera to
Hunjjry Children A Taak for the
Mother Sad Kctult.
IIow often it is tho case that when guests
are at tablo to whom some deference and
ceremony may bo duo, we see tho children
made the center of observation and conver
sation, allowed to clamor for what they want,
to reach and grasp and tako and put back,
and indeed sometimes to make a pandemo
nium of tho whole occasion! They talk their
own talk, and they make other talk nearly if
not quite iuipossiblo; they join in tho gen
eral conversation uurcproved, obstruct it or
silence it altogether; they dolay the waitress
and tho dih, they express their wants with
vehemence, they leave their seats, they climb
back into them, they quarrel, they cry, they
have to bo appeased, they retard tho helping
of others, they spill and smear and mako
their neighborhood dangerous, and theit'
daubed fingers and faces end testis, and their
tricks and tfiolr u.anuerV irencrallv are
enough, to cauMi kuch qualms in the obnorver
as will prevent a repetition of the attempt to
dine in their coniiinv; for the cuebts are
driven to leave that tablo with a feeling that
pulse and water aro better with ioaco than
the t ailed ox is to this accompaniment of
children ruined by indulgence.
et noiio of tlijo uin ba or need, bo. It
; 4.os, c bo Hi-re, an eiitfrely'ear matter to
Uavo it otherwise; it requires constant pviv
i' .... .uri.in will como to tho ton
is left to itself, just as tho cultivated
garden flower, when neglected, will waste its
seed summer after b'.inuin r, aud at last return
to the wild stock from which it was brought
to its educated blossom.
Aud it is certainly far from an agreeable
ta.sk, this teaching of tablo manners to chil
dren of good appetites, especially if there be
among them any awkwardness, left handed
ness, absent miudedness or forget fulness, or
worse still, any disobodienco or resentment;
so disagrecablo a task indeed is it that it
sometimes seems jis if it might bo best to
have a person stand behind each little chair,
for no other purpose at all than to attend to
every Pjovemeufc of tho child's baud and
arm and mouth till habits are established
that shall be irreproachable. To see that
tho food is taken up with tho fork and not
with tho knife; that tho knife and fork are
both held as they ought to be; that the mouth
is not allowed to display its contents at every
revolution; that tho morsels are not spilled
and scattered over chair und floor and bib
aud cloth; that the lingers aro not used as
chopsticks; that the drink i3 not swallowed
in resoundiug gulps, or the soup sipped with
relishing gurgles; that glasses are not over
set; that hands do not reach forward and
grab for the contents of a dish, or hover and
handle beforo selection when a dish is of
fered; that tho left hand shall net replace
tho right; that the movements shall not be
hurried or nbrupt, violent or of too wide
sweep; that the tongue shall bo a silent
member.
Few things more early manifest the good
senso aud taste und dilligeuce of a mother
than tho behavior of her child ct the table.
A child who, uureproved, stufTs food into
the mouth as if the spoonfuls were to be
snatched away otherwise and vanish into
thin air, who bunds over tho table a3 a pig
does over a trough, and makes scarcely less
noiso about it, whose hair dangles into the
plate, whose elbows rest on tho tablo or make
tie u to angles with tho ceiling, whoso knife
and fork stand erect at intervals, who lolls
along tho board, whose Cngei-s aro greasy,
whose face no less so, whose mouthf uls aro
held high in air for the general survey be
fore plunging them to their doom, whose
gluss is iu a slop ail of whose actions iu tho
gratification of ap;etite or the satisfaction
of hunger aro moro those of a young savage,
not to say young animal, than of an intelli
gent child such a child betrays that its
mother has paid no attention to decorum at
decency in bringing it up, but has eaten ani
drunken and amused herself, and never
taken tho trouble to turn her head to seo
whether the child behaved liko a civilized
being, satisfied that, if only the food had
disappeared from its plate, it had then been
properly fed.
This neglect on tho part of a mother is a
great pity, for it makes a sad differeuco with
a child's happiness whether it Cuds itself
sought for and beloved, or avoided and con
temned and laughed; at und the latter fate
can hardly be hiudred if a child's manners at
table are bad to uauseation. It will see other
children preferred beforo itself, kindly
entreated and caressed, and it will have the
injurious seuse of being a young Orson in
jurious because calculated to make it wild
and reckless iu many others ways, and there
fore again unloved. And certainly a child is
happier for the consciousness that it is quite
the equal of other children in all those things
which are within its volition and capacity;
and all children, it i3 notorious, lovo to be
praised for their gentlemanly or lady like
deportment. It seems hard then that, owing
to the idleness or indifTerenee of the parent
or tho proper care taker, a child should bo
denied tho pleasure which it might havo of
being noticeably gentle mannered at the
table. Harper's Bazar.
Fell on Lincoln's Shoulders,
TVhen President and Sirs. Lincoln first
passed through Cincinnati on their way to
Washington, a kind hearted old lady deter
mined to show Mrs. Lincoln tho courtesy due
her rack, and so she made a magnificent
wreath of flowers. This she suspended by a
frail cord over one of the seats along the pro
posed route. One end of the cord she held in
her hand while seated in a second story win
dow. In a second story window on the oppo
site side of the street sat a friend holding tho
other end. The plan was to drop tho wreath
in the lap of Jirs. Lincoln as her carriage
passed under it.
"When the carriage cams along, however,
Lincoln was in the front part of it, standing
up, occasionally bowing his head and waving
his hand. His tall form touched the wreath,
and it dropped over his head and around his
neck. The crowd laughed, and the kind lady
who had planned to da honor to the wife of
tho man she so much revered burst into a
flood of tear These tears were, however,
wasted. It was a happy accident A wreath,
not of laurel, hub of beautiful, fragrant
flowers, had been made to deck the shoulders
which were to bear burdens heavier than had
ever been borne by mortal man.
Mr. Lincoln smiled at the happy accident,
bowed to the involuntary donor, and so re
conciled her that her Vears were at onco
brushed away. Prairie Farmer.
Jut like Papa,
Mamma Harry, you must be still 1 No
respectable person will stamp and pound and
shout the way you are doing.
Harry (doubly aggrieved) Why, mamma,
I was only just imitating the way papa
preaches. Burlington Free Press. '
sigut ami euorc to prevent i u vounbyati
it; for healthy' hippy, hearty. Uuin--
all somt iluua (.f-'il'" ! V nave
Ml,i tl;& Villi ..l oarian iu them,
ITEM3 OF ALL SORTS.
Hipping from the Newnpapers Para
graphs of General Interest.
Five hundred dollars per acre has been
paid in somo cases in England this year
for cherries on tho trees.
California expects a wino crop of 25,
000,000 gallons tlii.s vear, an increase of
8,000,000 over last year.
Four men at Gainesville, Fla., in
twenty days killed COO alligators for their
hides and teeth.
Some jHMple have real good ideas of
comfort, and so a Iloston undertaker is
making two $3,000 collins.
It is reported that 1.1,000.000 cotton
wood trees havo been planted in south
west Kans;is this year.
Tho verdict of the appointed judges is
that British grown tobacco cannot lie
made to pay.
Tea cultivation, it is said, is to bo tried
by a rancher at Elko, Nov., who pro
foscs cm ploy big Indian women and
children to gather tho leaves.
At Vienna, last year, SG.'l Jews became
Christians, and another pacr saj-s that
"at no period since tho iirst century
have conversions from Judaism toChr-uV-
ianity lieen so frequent as thfy ate. at
present."
The authorities (4 CUeeu county, Ky
recently imposed a fine of $900. on the
4x-uSYi;m ana iNushviiio railroad -
breakiug the Sabbath bv dLstribn'
.or
along: tho imo of tho wo-
.-nt
ties
Telethon- t
i .j ratP' jut
oweden. At Ore bo, for instance, the
subscriber pays an annual rental of but
$-1 and gets the use of tlio telepnone sys
tem extending 100 miles in tlio country.
In Londo dressmakers and others are
fined heavily for allowing their girls to
work over hours m the bliops. Jay, tlie
trreat mourning storeman, was recently
up in tho police court on a charge of
this sort.
Ilao, a relative of tho Chinese general
of the same name, lias just been uecapi
tated for trading in forged decorations.
Tho enerravcr who did the work re
ceived 100 lashes and was banished for
three years.
A company has been formed at Pitts
burg with a capital stock of $1,000,000,
with the object of opening a tin mine in
Mexico near Durango. A tract of land
has been purchased covering an area of
ten miles square.
Ilah-skin-gay-goh-lah, tho Apache who
has lust been taken to the Ohio peniten
tiary to servo an eighteen years' sentence
for .murder, has been put to work with
thread and needle patching prison gar
ments. He says he "no likee squaw
work."
The island of Foula, one of the Shet
lands, is for sale. It is three miles long
by two broad, and it is famed for its
rocky coasts and abundant wild fowl,
and is one of the few spots in Great
Britain in which the great skua, a very
rare bird, still lives.
Correspondents of newspapers will find
it convenient to have the front edge of
their desks divided, for the distance of
one foot, into inches and fractions, for
the purposo of measuring their printed
matter. This simple device does away
with the inconvenience of a wooden rule.
Tlio flag of the Pedee Light artillery
was never surrendered, but when the war
ended in defeat was hidden under the
color bearer's coat, and by him carrieJ
Ijack to the lady who, four years before,
had given it into his keep, and by her has
been religiously kept ever since, and only
brought out ujion occasions of the bat
tery's reunion.
Aluminum, tho silvery metal that used
to cost 240 a pound thirty-five years
ago, is now produced at the Krupp gun
works at Essen, Germany, for twenty
five cents a pound. Common claj every
where contains from two to ten pouuds
of it in every 100 pounds, and it is likely,
within the next decade or two, to become
moro common than iron.
Missouri contains over 20,000 manu
facturing establishments, which furnish
employment for about l."0,000 persons.
The capital employed is about $200,000
000. The material annually used and
worked up amounts to $300,000,000,
and the products put upon tho market
amount to $.300,000,000, while tho wages
paid are nearly $100,000,000.
A review called Der Frauenfeind, or
"Enemy of Woman," is to be started in
Vienna. The editor, Ilerr Grose, has set
beforo himself the object of emancipating
man from his subjection to "that doll
woman, whom idiots idealize and fools
bow down before as to divinity." lie
says that there are exceptions to this de
nunciation, and generotisly exemjits
whole classes of tho sex from the scope
of his review.
The Knsset Leather Shoe,
The russet leather shoe is frankly con
fessed by a oertain literary and common
senso dude to be really the lazy or the
economical man's shoe. Its chief merit
lies in the fact that it does not need to
bo blackened or dusted. It is the expe
rience of gentlemen who are sensitive
about their foot wear that a shoe ought
to be polished about as often as a cleanly
man washes his hands. Tho patent pol
ished shoe is objected to on the ground
that it has become greatly cheapened,
and, like the Prince Albert coat, has been
driven out of fashion's realm, because
the toughs have adopted it. Besides, in.
hot weather, the patent leather shea ia
very heating, so the russefc leather shoes
finds favor in the young men's eyes,
But if coolness and economy are what
are desired, why not go farther east and
get those wonderful shoes that theptl
nese make with braided straw? ''They
are nearly the same color, are lighter and
cooler, while they are also far more
unique. New York Evening Sun.
Bibles Pat Into. Circulation.
More copies of the Word of God, in
whole or in part, were put into circula
tion by the British and Foreign Bible so
ciety during the last year than existed in
the whole world at the beginning of the
present century. Adding the circula
tions of other Bible societies, the number
would be vastly greater. Missionary
Herald. - .
A thrifty Scotch chemist proposes to
dispose of corpses by putting their various
materials to profitable use.
(7
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T!
lie Plattsmouth Herald
Is enjoying a
DA3X1T AND
EDITIONS.
Tear
JLJULt5
Will be one during which the euhjetls of
national interest sum! importance will he
strongly ngi tuted und the election of it
President will take place. Ihe people of
Cass Countv who would like to learn of
Political, Commercial
and Social
of this year and would keep apace with
the times should
i-oi:
Daily or Weekly Herald.
Now while we have the subject before the
people we will venture to j-peak of our
Era
"Which is first-class in all respects and
from which our job printers are turning
out much satisfactory work.
PLaTTSMOUTII,
Boam in both, its
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