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PORBRIDKAMWOXOR ODD ROMANCE OF A CHICACO PLUNGER Vka w»k» to VitolM! • mt nn,w» Ttai M# Mar < »■■■< • !»■>»> a%4 Marrj Ik* fatrl The ««wr«st and mat interesting ! Mary that ever mate out of the mael strom mi aymthUia to that of Arthur Maa-.fr a Chicago piuegrr. who to try- . Mg bo Hkahr a fortune of in ] |«4*r bo cancel a debt of honor and Marry the girl of hi* cLo. e He neat Ml orveral amih« ago to gather la this aeaa from the Xen York ato* k exrhangr fuurtinv lurk vas with j him and he starve ed in neromulatlnf ns Much a* Si:***. at other times fortune was unfavorable aal be luat the hwlk ai his iitm.it- He to up and down hy turns- ue week clear ing froM i^a.ou* to fTi.OOs and the neat down, prwrtamily on has uppers Mot he to never discouraged and be ibtes he will WM M the end Mas, u want* in*- q .... • ■ AKTHt K MAfO.V iK,a with * nicfe to r* |m) the sum that fit friend Horace L Porter l«at in •peculation on Alt advice in Sac Fran- j tiato two years ago. Porter is dead. hot he left a pretty sitter Mai Alva Porter to • bum Ma son fa« be-n engaged for five yearn. He aays be durso t a isb to marry tbe girl so lot.* as the <1»l: of honor i* unpaid, but at tbe ?ame i be fneis that it is unfair to keep a girl at her age tied up with a matrimonial contra't the foifIlment < f *bi 1 is certain So Masm has set to bimself the task of semr.ng tbe money within the neat sit months. Arthur Mason is the son of C o Ms* c. the head of a large shipping business on tbe great lake*. Tto elder Mason would gla .ly have his sow Join h.m in business but tto young man has determined that, n on* and unaided he will make his own fortune Masons ambition and romance are the result of a five years' career as interest lag a* sny young man bad after leaving college While Mason was at Pnaretu® be met Hor ace L. Porter, a quiet, mild-mannered youth of a rather retiring disposition Porter was of tbe sort that is suscep tible to a man of strong personality, so a strong attraction sprang up be tween tbe young men which strength ened as time wore on. Shortly after leaving college Macon came to Chicago and legan to speru klste. Like many another man who has tried tto same game, be lost, and lost again and again His father refused la give him an additional allowance At the very time of Mason s finan rial diagram to rawiipd an invitation from his farmer co.lege < bum Horace L. Porter, to vtait him at hi* boat in Nevada. Tto Invitation tame ms a pw*e of good fortune to Mason, who Jumped at this temporary abatement of his troubles It was there that Mason met Alva Porter and won her town and tto promise of her band Ton poor to marry. Mason went to San Franc sc© and began operating la storks, and was soon Joined by his friend Horace Porter who brought plenty of cash to da bu*in*a# with As am evidence of his sincerity in hu friendship. Porter suggested to his friend that they go into some business t<ge her. Porter had the • apitaJ. aud to was sure Maaoa had the brain*. Tto offer was accepted and under Ma sons guidance Porter began speculat ing on tto stock exchange In ieas than a year Porter's lnberi MISS ALVA POKTEU Use* <d fZUt.M had dwindled to about fink'd. Mason would not ask his father for assistance and Porter refused to writs to bts mother for •ooey. and thus It was that at the ootbreak of the rerent war with Spain Porter was work ng as eiurh la a Bos too dry-goods store, while Mason earner a sort of livelihood as a board marker la a Boston bucket-shop. When Presidei.t McKinley issued his rail for volunteers Arthur Mason and Horae* Porter acre among the Urn to present ti«m*e5»e* for enrollment on the hooka of the Ninth regiment of ManaairiiasrfT ruinate*** Ma*on went ?ram choir*. Potter because his friend They went to Cuba sad un jyrwcaT all the hardships into which fw* giUaat band of heroes was drlrea ,a »tsM of p-'■ * ttntooii the awful ordeal, but Porter, always delicate ia health, quickly b*gan to feel the effects of the climate. He became ill and was removed to the hospital. Mason begged to be allowed to go with b;a frit nd and the request was granted. Porter was unable to resist the tropical f*-ver. and In a few days was dead. Ma*(>n cared for Porter as tenderly as a neither would for a sick child. As he held the fever-stricken hand of his comrade frit nd he made a vow that In ifc hi- only motive would be the re demption of Porter's money lost In >! • < illation and the re-establishment of his own previously good business c baracter. I'pon his return from Cuba almost the first one to meet him at Montauk Point wa* his father. An affecting •rose follow* d h Mr. Ma son implored his boy to return home and tl*e past would all be forgotten and forgiven The soldier's answer was: "When I have made things right with the mu'li r of th* dearest friend ! had on earth I will come to you. father, but until then I must work as I never work 'd before ” ! r t he past f-'-w months Mason has ! »< n liviitf- in New York city engaged n the mad whirl of speculation. He spends his time among the bucket 'll *ps and pool-rooms of the Wall *treit district, and he is now the rec ognized plunger among the world of -tiong speculators who woo chance for a livelihood. At times his play at the races is pjiirinwntnai; his luck s *ems to be al *a' n range; hi- play at the brokers' -to, kboards is considered remarkable. H - ♦ntranc* at any of the smaller brokers’ office* is generally the signal ! r the crowd to gather near and watch his moves. On tiire separate occasions his win nings lat ly have reached ever lift.000 a day. but in his eagerness to master '> rtiirtes at one bold stroke he has each tiro" forfeited the greater part. During all this time Alva Porter has written many letters. She urges him to a ban den his self-imposed task and marry ter. She wait- for him to say the word, and yet he refuses till he ha* accomplished his purpose of secur ing flfaO.Odfi. GEN. DEL. PILAR. One by one the supporters of Aguin aldu are falling from him. some by sur rendering to our troops, some by cap ture and st tne by death. One of those of whose services the Filipino leader recently been deprived was Gen. Gregorio Del Pilar, commander of Aguinaldo's bodyguard. Gen. Del Pilar, fell :n battle with the American forces -Thirty-third infantry—at Cervantes re. entlv. The engagement lasted four hours, during which TO Filipino* were k:.!«d or wounded. Gen. Del Pilar was one of the lead ers of the revolution against Spain and was one of Aguinaldo's ablest support ers .n the present resistance to Amer ican authority. Prof. Schurman met j * l GEN DEL PILAR. l:im as a member of the peace commis sion and rated him as a remarkably clever young man. lUntint linos In PannayIrani*. More men are under sentence of death in Pennsylvania than at any prior period in its history, and the probability is that 1900 will be the ban ner »r for executions in the nine teenth century. So far Gov. Stone has in hir> possession documents indicating the conviction of fourteen murderers, the date of whose execution he is re quired to name. To these must be added the names of Michael Baronsky, Andrew Coreas. Anthony Machulas, Joseph Sa< hinsky, Peter Stenkewicz, Andrew Stenkewicz and John Sten kerrtcz. of Schuylkill county, who were found guilty of the mur der of Joseph Rutkowski. This is the greatest number of men ever found guilty in this state for the murder of a single person, and probably the largest in the United States. If they are made to pay the extreme penalty of the law they will eonstituta the greatest number ever executed in the state at one time for the same offense. The nearest to this was a former trial in Schuylkill coun ty. when five men were found guilty and executed for the murder of Po liceman Yost of Tamaqua in 1877. free Plan<»« * Harden to the Deweys. It was announced the other day that a piano firm had sent Admiral Dewey a piano. As a matter of fact, five piano firms sent the Deweys five pianos and, much to the dismay of the re c .pients. the instruments being a form of white elephant not easily nor con veniently disposed of. At first, in deed. they were at a loss what to do about it, but Mrs. Dewey finally set , tied the matter by deciding that it should be a case of first come first serve. The first piano to arrive was therefore accepted; the others, with thanks, were returned as "unavaila ble. *' abnormal. Mammy—I wouldn't want no gal ob. mine to marry dat Sam Johnson. Dinah—Yo' wouldn't. Mammy—No. Why. dat fellah am jes’ as crazy 'bout dress as a sensible nlggah ud be bout wslah millions'—Puck. Umbrellas are not a necessity at Payta. in Peru, where the average in terval between two showers is seven years. To offset this there are fre quent sea fogs. I REFUSES A MILLION. EXTRAORDINARY CASE OF JAMES EADS HOW. Decline* to Accept an Immense Inheri tance—lie Prefers to Live Amuue the Poor anil Lowly—Endeavors to Follow In 11 is (Steps. James Eads How, of St. Louis, has iaid claim to unique and extended no toriety by giving up his inheritance of $l,iK)0,000 in order that he may obey the command of Jesus and follow his example of living among the lowly. This is perhaps the most remarkable example in America of the practical application of the doctrine of .the Sa vior. Other rich men sit in their cushioned pews of Sundays and listen to high-salaried ministers explain how Christ did not mean just what He said when He advised the wealthy young man to give his all to the poor. James Eads How isn't that kind of a Chris tian. He holds that Jesus either meant what He said or He did not. If the Savior was in earnest there is only one road open to the rich man. If He was not in earnest then the words are mere empty sounds. In fact, says Mr. How, no ingenuity, however stimulated by a desire to blind one's eyes to the truth for the sake of gold, can extract from the verses in Mark any meaning but the one meaning which was clearly in the mind of the Redeemer. Mr. How is the grandson of James B. Eads, who built the great Mississ ippi bridge that bears his name, and the jetties near New Orleans, which opened the big river to the deep bot toms of the world’s commerce. His father was the late J. F. How, the vice-president of the Wabash railroad. The young man's share of the family The minister turned uncomfortably red in the face and walked away sorely grieved. That kind of liberal Chris tianity he was not accustomed to and it made him feel nervous. Mr. How was too deep for him. “That man,” the preacher said, puzzled, “is actual ly doing what Jesus has told him to do.” Mr. How has not the appearance of a fanatic. He is fanatic in no sense of the word. He is convinced that his only hapVit-i^s can be found in just the way of :jfe he has chosen. His ascetic, or at least, abstemious, habits have given him a somewhat gaunt look, but his face, with its beaminess and its strong humility, is more Christlike than half of the Christ’s heads painted by the masters. Prominent citizens have taken him up. and will see that his interest money is judiciously be stowed upon the poor, according to Mr. How’s dearest wish. A BOOM CITY OF KENTUCKY. Was Well Started When the Haring Failure Ruined It. The traveler will find ruins of “boom” cities east as well as west of the Mississippi river. Middleborough, in Kentucky, is an example. This place is a remnant of the Arthur syn dicate, a British company that intend ed to make money. It started broadly, spent lavishly, fell with a crash, bury ing everything that had been spent. At a cost of nearly $1,000,000 a creek that meandered through the old town was converted by Col. Waring into the outlet of a sewer system. At prodig ious cost a water supply was provided, a* mountain valley being dammed for the purpose. A street rail road was built and put in operation, with seven miles of track. Property bought at $10 to $30 an acre rose until it could not be bought at $410 per front foot. Crowds estate is $1,000,000. He refuses to touch a penny of his immense inher itance. "It is not mine,” he says. “I did not earn it.” One day not long ago he walked into the office of Mayor Ziegenheim and tendered that official $100,000 which he wished should be given to the poor. Mr. Ziegenheim nearly fell off his chair. He ques tioned Mr. How and found that his visitor meant business. The upshot of the interview was that Mr. How was escorted to Ur. Starkloff. the health commissioner, with the request that he examine the millionaire for his san ity. Dr. Starkloff pronounced the man perfectly sane. Then Mr. How renewed his ofTer. But the mayor couldn't get over bis fright and wouldn’t touch the money. Mr. How came to the con clusion that the influence of Christ’s words was pretty dead in St. Louis. He had forgotten that he was the only man in town who takes the New Testa ment seriously. Balked at the very threshold of his nobie purpose by an economic and sordid age, Mr. How de termined to live up to the second part of the Savior’s injunction. He would take up his cross and follow Christ. He went to live among the poorest people he could find, to teach them, to minister to them, to lead them toward the light which he himself saw or fancied he saw. He founded a mission at Washington avenue and Ninth street and here expounded the gospels after his own fashion. His dress is that of the lowliest, his faie as simple as that of the apostles and his life is ordered in every way to help on his hope of regenerating mankind. This modern apostle went east not long ago to attend a meeting of the Brotherhood of Daily Life, an associa tion which he himself founded. He visited an old friend w'ho was a col lege chum of his at Harvard. The chum sat down with Mr. How to a fine breakfast. But the rich young man de clined to eat the sumptuous fare. In stead he walked to the Medical Mis sion in Brooklyn and paid three cents for a breakfast of pea soup, bread and coffee. A visiting minister approached him and asked him what kind of Christian work he was doing. "Trying the best I can to get away from the Christ and the church that you preach and practice,” Mr. How re plied. "And it Is the hardest thing I have to do.” The minister stared. “Are you not a Unitarian?” he asked. "No.” "Then you are not a Christian?” “I think I am more of a Buddhist than a Christian,” the self-extin guished millionaire answered. “Some times I think I am more of a Christian than a Buddhist, and again more of a Buddhist than a Christian. I don’t Just know which.” of business men were constantly on the go, and slept in cots in all the available lodging houses. The town covered, on the map and partly im proved, six miles square. Other cap italists, attracted by the Arthur in vestment. put up the great Four Sea sons hotel, a magnificent thing that cost a million. The Baring failure withered everything. The banks broke and the bankers fled. Street railroad, fine shops, fine offices, fine speculators, fine men and fine women with lots to sell at 5410 per foot front, gay equip ages, blooded horses, vanished like the mists before the sun. The principal commercial hotel swiftly degenerated, the big dining-room was closed; the swell servants went beyond the moun tains. The building now rents for 5600 a year to a keeper who formerly ran a plain little unpretentious house below the hill and the same scale that he maintains the great tomb on the hill side. The Four Seasons also suffered a stroke of misfortune. Its end was melancholy. The whole establishment —building, furniture, appliances—was sold to a Chicago wrecking company for about 530,000, torn down and moved away, leaving no indication of its ex istence except the foundations. The town is such a sham that to stay in it and hear its past discussed distresses one. It is ghastly. The only enterprise in the vicinity is comprised in the iron and coal mines of the Virginia Coal and Steel company. According to an engineer familiar with the country, these are inexhaustible. The furnace has a capacity of 300 tons per day, and is in full blast day and night. About 400 men, mostly negroes, are on the pay roll. Gen. Itnller Dismissed III* Guest. Sir Redvers Buller is credited with being of that type of officer whose “butcher’s bill” is rather more likely than not to be large. That he is not a person who will allow any ordinary considerations to swerve him from what he thinks is his duty was shown at a dinner in his house not long ago. A certain well-known man was present and told an anecdote which was so “off-color” that the ladies were exces sively displeased and distressed. When dinner was over Sir Redvers rang the bell. “Mr. A.’s carriage,” he ordered when the butler appeared. “I do not expect my brougham so early,” said Mr. A., and there was a gleam of defiance in his eyes. Sir Redvers did not re ply, but he took Mr. A. by the arm and led him gently into the hall. “It Is time for you to go,” he said quietly, and his guest went. Trained nurses in German hospitals get from 575 to 5200 a year, with board, lodging and all their clothes. k CHINESE DAILY. SAN FRANCISCO CHINAMEN HAVE A NEWSPAPER. The Best Evidence That the Celestial Is Becoming an American—It Is Called the Oriental and Occidental Vat I’o Which Means the Daily News. The Chinaman has worked his way '.nto a prominent place in the life of the Pacific coast and is no longer re garded with the intolerance which marked the days of Dennis Kearney. The intervening years since the man Kearney waved a hangman’s noose be fore a savagely-delighted army of mal contents and preached the doctrine of Chinese extirpation, and the present day may be called the period of recon struction of the outraged law, and great has been the transformation. In deference to popular will, lawfully ex pressed. national legislation has shut off Chinese immigration in a large measure, and time has shown the wis dom of the act. But the 100,000 Chin ese then and now within the state of California have, by the laws of ab REV. NG. POON CHEW, sorption and amalgamation, as they apply to commerce and trade, grad ually merged their interests with those of leading American houses, and their world-wide reputation for business honesty and sagacity has won for them fast business friendships which all the demagogues on earth could not break or make. Steamship lines and brok ! erage and banking are largely in Chin ese hands, and the stated clearing houses of San Francisco passes upon j such a volume of Chinese commercial paper as to surprise those who do not keep pace with the wonderful progress of this people. Having such great in terests in financial circles, the Chinesa merchant needs a daily adviser and counselor, just as his Caucasian neigh bor does, and so the great Innovation of the nineteenth century follows—a Chinese daily newspaper in San Fran cisco. The new paper is called Chung Sai Yat Po. which means Oriental and Occidental Daily News. It is a four page, six-colunm sheet, and is the only Chinese daily in the world outside tka Celestial empire. The promoter and editor of the paper is Rev. Ng Poon Chew, pastor of the Presbyterian Chin ese church, and his staff of writers embraces some eminent Americans. The common enemy of civilization among Chinese is superstition. Tha existing weekly papers pander to this weakness in the common horde and thus perpetuate hatreds and racial prejudices which often find utterance in the bludgeon or pistol of the high binder. To wipe out this cause of trouble will be one task of the Ching Sai Yat Po. and all the Christianized energies and learning of its reverend promoter will be turned into this needy channel. News and comment will be up to date and a faithful tran script of what the Associated Press furnishes for morning readers. It may surprise many to learn that Chinamen follow great national subjects closely. The recent Jeffries-Sharkey fight was as eagerly watched from a Chinese bul letin board as from those of the lead ing American dailies, and as many dol lars changed hands on the result among Chinese sports. THE KING OF ROACHES. The American Breed is the Fiercest and Most Aggressive. Of all the sturdy cochroach family the so-called American roach is cham pion. He is fiercer, more aggressive, and by far outmeasures all other varie ties. He came here originally from the West Indies, but, like many other for eigners, has become so much an insti tution of the country that he is known the world over as the American roach. He travels abroad a great deal, booking his passage in packages of merchan dise and in the crevices of well-oiled American machinery destined for for eign ports, so that for years he has been setting up colonies of his own in the sugar refineries, machine shops and vessels of other nations. He has grown to enormous proportions, measuring in many instances as much as three inches long, while his outstretched wings are spread a full six inches apart. These are the fellows that dis turb you at night and make such a noise that they have come to be known as drummers. They wear a yellowish coat with brown spots. While the means for destroying the roach are not numerous, they are at least sufficient if persistently applied to keep the in crease in check. Old wet clothes will attract them during the night and in the morning it is a simple trick to kill them with boiling water. A winged trap has been tried abroad with suc cess. In this manner, by actual count, 7,996 cockroaches were caught in four months in a house to which neither bakery nor kitchen was attached. The Germs of Cancer. Dr. Behla, a member of the sanitary council of Luckau, Prussia, has dis covered that man can take the germs of cancer by eating vegetables growing in a soil watered by a sewer. The gar den truck that grows in the suburbs of that city is watered from a ditch that gets its supply of wrater from a sewer. The folk in this city eat their parse ley, cucumbers, peas, onions, garlic and strawberries raw, in which state the germs seem to be carried easily. The Elizabethian Stage Society of London has just performed “Richard II.,” without scenery, in the lecture room of the University of London. OUR KINSMEN, THE BOERS. There I* a Tie Between Them and Our Country'* Early Settler*. Reminded incessantly of their kin ship with the English. Americans are not often asked to remember their kin ship with the Boers. And yet the tie is a close one. The Boer is a trans planted Dutchman, and the influence of Holland in shaping the destiny of this country is ranked by historians as second only to that of Great Britain. In contemplating the Transvaal war it is well not to forget what the Dutch did for America. The Pilgrim Fath ers, having been driven out of England, found a refuge in Holland, until they sailed for the New World. Holland was in that age the cradle of religious liberty. It was one of the world’s great states, and its people had won greater freedom than those of England. During their sojourn there the refu gees learned to admire and love many Dutch institutions, and they carried these feelings with them across the Atlantic. In the very founda tion of the American commonwealth there was a stratum of the elements that are present in the fighting Boers. Hendrik Hudson, when he sailed his boat, the Half Moon, through the Narrows, in 1609. was, though Eng lish himself, in the service of the Dutch East India company To Holland, therefore, belongs the honor of the dis covery of the Hudson river and what is now the port of New York. Eng land claimed all the territory on the Atlantic coast from the bay of Fundy to Florida, but did not oppose the colonization of the territory discovered by Hudson. Hudson named the region New Netherland and established trad ing posts on Manhattan island and at what is now Albany. The first Dutch colonists arrived in 1623 and settled on Manhattan island, which they named New Amsterdam. Holland claimed all the territory from the Delaware to the Connecticut. To stimulate coloniza tion the Dutch West India company offered a tract 10 miles along one bank of any river or eight miles along both banks to anybody who would transport fifty colonists from the old country. Among these brave pioneers were the forefathers of many who now look upon themselves as the aristocracy of New York. In just this way did the Dutch colonize South Africa and found the nation that is now fighting desper ately for its freedom. So that there is cousinship of race between many in the Four Hundred and the stern farm ers who obey Oom Paul. But inter marriage on this side has modified the original type, whereas the Boers in their jealous isolation have preserved the pure, strong, rugged race. MAYOR OF EOSTON. The victory in Boston, which makes 1 Thomas N. Hart mayor, was a sur prise. Boston is nominally Demo cratic, the party's nominee for gov ernor at the last election having car ried the city by 6.000. The candidate for mayor was Gen. Patrick A. Col lins. the distinguished lawyer and in timate friend of Grover Cleveland, who was consul general to London during ! the latter’s last administration. This ; was deemed a strong nomination and so poor was the outlook for Repub lican success that the men who run the machinery of the G. O. P. gave the nomination to Thomas X. Hart, whom they disliked because of his independ i ence during previous incumbency of the position. They thought Hart j would be beaten, but Hart stands well with the taxpayers and this fact, to gether with a split in the Democratic ranks, gave him a majority of nearly 2.000. The disaffection among the Democrats was due to the defeat of John R. Murphy, by Gen. Collins, in the nominating convention, and Mur phy’s friends retaliated. It was al leged against Gen. Collins that he was THOMAS N. HART. not in accord with the Chicago plat form. Hart served as mayor some ten years ago. A Noted French Woman. The Duchess D’Uzes, who has in dignantly repudiated the statement that she is backing the Boer recruit ing movement in this country, with which her name has been associated, is one of the wealthiest aristocrats of France and one of the noblest. She is the owner of the famous vineyard and champagne plant of Cliquot, which she inherited from her maternal grand mother. She maintains several im mense establishments, the most im portant of which is that in the old ultra-fashionable quarter of the Fau bourg St. Germain. Her great hunt ing estate, with its chateau, at Bon nelles, near the forest of Rambouillet, is one of the most magnificent proper ties of its kind in France. The duchess is a daughter of the family of Roche houart-Mortemart. She was married at 19 to the Due d’Uzes. one of the most celebrated statesmen of his time. Perils of High Llrlnr. High living and overeating have killed many a potentate and monarch. It carried off Alexander the Great in the full flush of his career. Augustus Caesar died of it Henry VIII died of overeating and so did George III. In our day many a man of millions has died similarly. William H. Vanderbilt fell dead of heart disease complicated with kidney trouble; so did ex-Gov. Roswell P. Flower. The annals of Washington official life are filled with the deaths of prominent men who dined unwisely. MADE KICH 1JN HASTE. — SOME NEW BONANZA STORIES FROM SOUTHWEST. ' J lake Eliuer After Tears of Weary Plodding with a Jackass In the Mountains Discovers a Fortune—An other Rich Find. Millionaires are now being rapidly made in the southwest. Never has there been such activity in mining operations in that region as during the past year, and never before has there been anything like the number of men prowling over the mountains, search ing across the desert wastes, in lonely gulches, through desolate canons, and among remote foothills or ledges and deposits of wealth in ore. The way some men have leaped from compara tive poverty to large wealth in five or six years is one of the wonders even in a land of quickly made fortunes. For instance, there is Jacob Kliner. who is a copper and gold king of Ari zona and Sonora, Mexico. For twenty four years of all manner of adversity, patient, plodding search for luck in prospects, and after a tremendous amount of endurance in heat and cold, he is enjoying an income of about $8,000 a month, and owns property that he can sell almost any day for $1,200, 000. He was born in Laban. Prussia, forty-six years ago, and came * to America with $17 in his pocket. He was employed in a New York brewery for two years at 70 cents a day. In 1875 he went to Arizona and along with thousands of other men became a mining prospector. He tramped over every mountain in the territory, all the way from El Paso to Colorado, from Raton, N. M., back to Albuquerque, from Tombstone to Yuma, from Mexico to Chloride, Jake Kliner and his half-starved jackass were known all over Arizona, and Kliner’s perennial belief that he was soon going to strike it rich became one of the jests of the miners’ camps. At last Jake Kliner found a copper prospect in Gila county that looked well. He had $70 that he had made by doing day labor in the copper mines at Bisbee, and, settling down in a $3 tent with all his earthly possessions, consisting of a frying-pan. a kettle, a coffee-pot. two blankets and a few' mining tools, he went to work to open his copper claim. He worked alone on it for eleven weeks in 1893 when cop per was at its lowest market value, and capital was a scarce article in the territories. After months of vain seek ing for some one to come and look at his copper ledge, Kliner trudged over t the mountains and alkali desert across the Superstition and San Rita moun tains. down to Sonora, Mexico, where he got work at day wages in a silver mine. He still owned the copper prop erty, and had done enough work on it to hold the claim for a year. After he had saved $100 he went to prospecting T again. He traveled along with his jackass some 300 miles altogether, sleeping out of doors, eating vile food and watching out for hostile Yaquis. And now his luck was due. H^ found two claims in five months. One was a base of ore—a combina tion of lead and silver—and the other was gold ore that ran about $14 to the ton. He met at Hermosillo, Mexico, a man who bought the base ore promptly for $4,000. That was Jake Kliner’s first real capital after his years of poverty and hardship. With that sum he began the development of his gold mine, and in a year he got out and shipped ore that brought him $600 clear profit. Then the Mexicans who owned the reduction mill where he sent his ore became interested and offered $50,000 for a half interest in the gold mine. Kliner was tempted to take the offer, but he says he knew he had a good thing and that it was worth more money. A week later he sold half the mine for $80,000. This was in March, 1895. Kliner’s fortune has grown rapidly from that time. The Armadijo mine has paid some $120,000 in profits since then, and is still yielding from $3,000 to $4,000 a month. Four years ago Kliner returned with ample means to his copper mine in Gila county, Ariz. He put in the best machinery he could buy, sunk shafts, and drifted and crosscut into the ledge. Copper was not profitable then, and many copper mines were idle. It took much hope » and confidence to put $18,000 into ma- / f chinery to get out copper ore that had no buyers at living prices. In 1897, however, copper rose from 8 to 12 cents. The Kliner mine began to make more money. Extra laborers were hired and the mine.was deepened and explored the more. In 1898 the price of copper advanced to 17 cents a pound. Last winter it touched 19 cents. It has since varied from 17 to 19, and the copper miners all over the west have prospered more than ever before. Kliner has steadily declined to sell his mine in Gila county. He had an offer of $100,000 for it in May, 1898. Last December he declined six offers of $100,000, and within thirty days he could have sold it out for $650,000. Catting. The law court is the modern substi tute for the tournament, and a pretty good substitute it proves when a bat tle is on between rival lawyers quick witted and outspoken. The late Col. John Atkinson was opposed in an im portant case by another able lawyer, James H. Pound, and they were fight ing like giants for every point of ad vantage. Pound had won a majority of the jousts; the colonel was nettled, and was lying low for a chance to de liver a swinging blow. “It came,” said the judge, “when I decided a point against Pound. It had been fiercely argued by both attorneys, and in de ciding it as I did, I stated my reasons at length, giving authorities. I saw Pound shake his head at one of my conclusions; his lips moved, and I suppose he made some comment, so when I concluded my decision, I asked: jA What did you say, Mr. Pound?’ Quick els shot, and in his most cutting tones of intense sarcasm, the colonel replied: Mr. Pound did not speak, your honor. He merely shook his head. There is nothing in it.’ ” Wbat Sor.ed Him. Finnegan—It’s a wonder Clanc** ion't get killed, the way he lets his :ongue run on. Moriarity—He would, 5egorrah, only the way he lets bis legs *un off.—Judge.