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MADE A FOHTUNK OK NHAHLY HAM' A MILLION IN THE GOLD
FIELDS OK ALASKA.
Lawrence E. Hrooks, known on the J years oC ago and lives in a little back
Pacific coast as the UitiK miner of the
londlko, has returned to Los Angeles
o look after his Investments. All
.hlngs considered, ho Is regarded as
.he most signal success In placer gold
uintng in the Klondike. In May. 1S9C.
ie gave up his Job as a track laborer
oi the Northern Pacific railroad, sall
il for the Yukon River gold diggings
villi all his money, some $2.10, In his
eather holt, and caino back to San
Tninclsco, twenty-eight months later,
room near the entrance to Brooklyn
biidge.
Sitcml Kcllt'i Cimiiiiiimi.
Sacred relies have of late become
exceedingly common. They nre not
conilncd to lintels In Ephcsus, letters
in Kdcssa, or palimpsest in Egypt, for,
according to a Itom.in Catholic corre
spondent of the London Telegraph,
among the many valuable and valued
offerings made to Cardinal Vaiighan,
vlth boxes of his own gold that he i in kind and In specie, for the new
told at the mine for $10:5.000. He went I Westminster Cathedral, undoubtedly
lack to the fiozeu north and came the one most treasured by his cml-
lown the coast again last July with !
;old worth $75,000 more.
Among all tne stories or suuueii
vealth acquired In the Klondike that
uvo thrilled gold hungry men of the
"iclfle coast none is more Interesting
man that which Hrooks tells of his
ong fight with poverty and adversity,
md of how fortune finally smiled
jpon him. At the ago of 32 he was a
poor day laborer, and at the ago of 31
ae was worth upward or $.100,000. In
1890 ho lived at a 20-ecnt lodging
house in San Francisco. In 189S lie
ived In a handsome suite of rooms at
.he Palace hotel In San Francisco, and
.vas giving dinner parties to mllllon
lire friends.
"I ha've often bo asked If It did
lot turn my head toVt o wealth come
ipon mo so fast," he said the other
iay. "I believe It would have turned
my head, but we had to work so hard
ind stand such hardships in getting
our gold that wo were kept sobered
by them. Somo young Klondlkers
were, beside themselves nt the fortune
:hat tumbled on, them. There is that
Jim Watson, who brought $50,000
town tlio coast from his clnlm on El
iorado crook In July, 1807. He got out
seventy pounds of gold In the month
of his tninlng, when ho was nbout Si
years old, and he was literally crazy
with excitement for a few woeks.
"The sluicing of tho dump on my
claim lasted twenty-ouo days. I em
ployed three Indians nt an ounce of
gold each for ten hours' work, to help
In tho operations. Every night I gnth
?red tho gold from tho jlllles in the
lulco boxes. Tho aggregate yield
from tho season's sluicing was 1.47C
ouuees, Troy weight, of gold, at $10
an ounco. Tho clean-up netted pic
about $23,14?, but I had kicked out and
punned out In- tho course m my
mining operations during tlio year
$25,000 worth mofe of gold.
nonce Is that of three large particles
of the crown of thorns worn by the
founder of our religion, and presented
by Mr. H. (Irissell to the cardinal.
These pirtlcles weie piesented to PhiH
IX. by a member of the royal family of
Piedmont. After the death of that
pope they wen given to Mr. II. Oiis
hell by the then cardinal vicar of Konw
and by him duly aiithontlcated. It U
Intended to place theso relics In oiw
of the chapels of the cathedral.
Not until tho development of tho
postal frauds did wo know the Cuban
was such a s.ai castle cuss.
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They mado a strvnuous matter of
religion In tljo good old dayf.. as Is
shown by this extract from the diary
of Charles Creamor of Waldoboro,
under date of, June, 1828: "Sunday
Uiora was a knockdown In tlio Con
gregational mee'tlng house, between
tho CongibgHtlouallsts and Universal
is. The Unlversajlsts camo oft vic
torious. I was there. Saturday night
the pulpit waa guarded all night by
men with clubs. Sunday was tho great
day. Uoth parties occupied thu
church, and there wero gieat music
and eipglng. Afterward tho Congro
gatlonallsts bought out the Unlvorsil
ists, and there was no more trouble."
Kennebec (Maine) Journal.
Claim ir Wur-Tlino HrWlcpB.
Among tho many claims against tho
United' Strttes government In connec
tion with tho war of tho rebellion
thero Is a rather peculiar ono that has
Jiwt been made public. Tho claimant
la tin old man nanicd Ulbson, who
makes, tho remarkable doclatntlon that,
though ho was nppolntnd by Secretary
"Btanton to conduct a rocririllns station
till Urn closo of tho war, ho novor it
eclved nny salary. Now ho Is trying
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In a slope quarry at Burryvillc. 'iul
llvan county, Navr York, llvs Stephen
Shotwpll, an ilged hermit, whose love
is centered updn Helen Could. Ho Is
happy in llm belief that tho young
woman returns his affections. He
goes about singing lovo songs and each
week writes a letter to Miss Could
tolling her of hit. affections and of his
life.
in llan'yvlllo Shotwell Is known as
the stone man. Ho leaves his cave In
tho quarry once a woek and Journeys
to tho postofllec. where ho malls n let
ter to Mlbs Could and asks If any has
been received for him. For ten years
ho has waited for a letter from Miss
Could, and lb not disappointed, nor
docs his lovo lag bocause of her falluro
to wrlto to him.
Shotwell traps in the woods nbout
Shohola Cilen nud lives on 'what ho
catches. IlOj.rarely eats vegetables,
and his meat la eaten half raw after
an attempted broiling over a smoky 4
fire.
About a week ago Shotwell disap
peared from Ills Usual haunts. Ho re
turned Tuesday and announced that
ho had tramped nil tho way from llar
ryvlllo to MIbs Gould's residence fn
New York. Ho said ho was met nt tho
door by ono of Miss Gould's servaufsH
who told him. Miss Could thougut well
of lilin. ltd was given h omall sum of
money to pay his faro home. He put
the money In his belt il'nd walked nil
tho way home. Ho said he wHl not
pend the money and will keop It as
u memento of Miss Could. In another
ten years ho will again travel to MIbh
Cnlild's home and hoj her. Hu ex
pects a lcttor from her dally, however,
Inviting him to call and settle down
In New York.
Shotwell Imagincfl that lo owns
Shohola Glen. Once i mouth he visits
the hotel and tries to collect tho rent.
Hu nays Miss Gould has deeded hira
the property and that he wuntb tho
rent to tend to her.
"David L. Hardenbrook, who owns
the hotel, hns been threatened with
assault by the old man and has to
avoid lilin when ho visits the glen.
Suotwolf Is n shnrpshooter nnd always
carries his gun with him.
Tho old man has a jen'afknblo mem
ory and lecountB many events, giving
the dates of their comiirrunre. Ho enn
recite tho papers of moat of the presi
dents, and ho carefully preserves nil
tho message sent by tho executives tg
congress. Ho hns a s,crapbook of Ury
nn's speeches 'delivered during tho last
campaign and can rattle thwn off u
lino, stylo.
Tho quarry in which the old mnn
Uvea Is'tho1 duo which supplied tho bl
atones for tho pavomont In front ql
tlio Vunderbllt rcsldonce on Fifth iiV-qnuei
Wonder ami delight thrilled the Man
gold boys when the rullioad gang
reached the edge of the pralile claim.
For daH. alnio-Jt for weeks, the slow
approach of the laborers had been
watched. Flist, Just above the hot I
ron, then cieeplng across the level
plain It seemed that they would
never come.
Hob. Tad and roly-poly Link stood
111 line, galng curiously as the wield
era of pick and shovel crossed the
boiiud.uy of tho farm.
"Want a ride, bulis?" called one of
the men. motioning toward the Hat
push en standing on the newly laid
track.
"Course we do." and the three boys
soon sat on the long car. and six bare
brown legs, hanging off. while the men
trundled them along the track toward
the jillcs of rails and ties.
That was the beginning The men
stnyed for a long time on the Mangold
elalni. for there were along the eieek
bluffs and hills to work through. The
boys f.ililv lived beside the track and
pushed the now little used Hat car
back ami forth, enjoying tho novel
plaything.
"Wish we had an engine." remaiked
Ted one summer day. gazing away to
the noith; "It's such hard work push
ing."
Hob. wlile-hatled and brown-cheeked
lad of 11, had an Idea. Perhaps It
came because of the seafirlng ances
tors hack in Maine, the family's natlvo
Mate.
"I know." he exclaimed; "let's put
up a sail!"
"What can wo make It of and where
enn we get It?" asked Tad, rather in
dcflnlMy. Hob thought a minute. Then he
whlspeied something to the others and
a series of chuckles and leg-slapplngs
followed. The. three hurried througii
the prairie glass honiewaid. Kather
had ganc to the rounty Heat town 20
miles away; mother was patiently lln
Ishlng the week's Ironing in the sum
mer kitchen.
Cautiously Hob led the way to tho
little iinpaluteil granary where wet
kept the implements and tools belong
ing to the farm. Over tho plows anil
binders he crawled until ho came to
a pile of blown sacks long, close
woven and soiled. When tho sheep
were sheared in tho spring tho Hecces
wero packed In such icceptacles.tramp
rd down bv Hob's baio feet. A few of
tho sacks had been left and wero toss
ed on tho granary iloor. forming ono
of the favorite resting places, of tho
threo boys.
"Just tho thing," declared Hob.hold
Ing ono high In air, and when Tad had
Joined him they quickly ripped the
stitching and Imd before them several
largo squares of bagging.
"Now for n mast." Nothing Is quite
so scarco on tho pralrlo claim. Ions
mllos from a lumber yard, as n stick
of timber. Hut tho granary HhoU whb
a resource. Climbing among t-ho raft
ers, Hob found a long narrow board,
which ho thought would do, and could
Ihj spared. Down It enme clattering to
the floor.
Days of labor followed before the
sail was completed. With n picture
from n mauozlnc as n guide, and somo
cord nnd wire for fastonlngs, Hob
measured nnd sowed, and dreamed of
tho sen, almost making hlmsolf believe
that ho Was to guldo nn obedient sloop
over bluo waters.
When It was ready he lifted tlio odd
apparatus against tho granary wall.
Thero wero threo timbers tho upright
mast Mid tho cross-pieces holding the
big and nenrly square sail.
"We'll call It tho 'White Dove,' " an
nounced Hob.
"Hut tt ain't white," protested Tad.
"Never mjnil that was the name of
grandpa's boat, and ho s. tiled to tho
Newfoundland banks In It."
So tho "White Dovo" It was. Next
was to como tho launching.
Thu hills and n curve In the railroad
ihado opportunity for the young navi
gators. Ono day, when father was
again In town, they tolled toward the
track Hob burdened wlHi the sail
r611od tight and Tnd laborloimly drag
ging tho timbers.
Up and down tho. track they looked
to tlif southwest It wound Into tho
bluffs where the men wore making tho
dirt Hy; to the north It stretched
strnlght away until It wns lost In the
shimmering hazi of the horb.on.
"Quick, Tnd bring It on," were Cnp
tain Hob's orders, and tho equipment
of the land sloop began. The task wns
liipru dlfllcut than they had thought,
but patiently they labored nnd con
trived, all thu tlmo forgetful of their
surroundings or of tho danger of bolng
discovered.
LIMlo Unit had been left behind.
111k tears nfade wide paths through tho
dirt on his round ehVeks, but ho was
loyal to the adventurers, who had told
him that ho would bo In tho way at
tho launching, but might go somo oth
er time. Ho crawled amdng tho plows
nnd binders to tho remainder of tho
pile of sacks and sobbed himself to
sleep.
It wn.s ono of those "hot-wind" days
known only on tho prnlrles. Llko
furnnco breaths tho air came out of
tho southwest, curling tho blades of
com niwl wilting tho morning-glory
vl.ir.o lh.it Hhnltnretl tlio cabin win
dows, It was tho second day of tho'1
"hot wind" "fhere will bo ono moro
and then rain," sa.ld tho farmers.
Hut at the Mangold cabin there was
something besides the wind or possible
crop failure to alarm the tired mother
Mrs. Mangold looked out of Hie whi
tlow several limes, marking the close
ness of the atuto.iphere. but she saw
nothing In the hazy sky to frighten
her. At inld-afleruoon she became un
easy and went out of doois to tho
south side of the bouse.
For an Instant It seemed that all her
strength would leave her; her face
paled and she gave a despairing cry
for help
Extending In n long Hue from east
to west and dilven by the fierce wind
came a ribbon of lire that ate up the
dry pralrlo grass and was bounding
forward as if rejoicing In Its free
dom. It was a tulle away was there
time to escape?
To the barn and sheds she ran. calling-Hob!
Tad! Link!"
Not a voice answered. Wild In her
tenor, she leturned to the bouse,
seized a few keepsakes and again went
out of doois. Where could the boys
be?
The granary' To It she hurried and
her cry ran through tho
"Oh. Hob! Tad! Link!"
Sleepily, Link answeied
mother. clnRplng Ijltjk, went off tho
other, none being much hurt.
Tho ear plunged forward with llttlo
slackened speed. In vain the engin
eer tried to stop and get away from
tho queer-looking thing bearing down
upon him.
A clank, n crash, a crackling of tint
bent, and the " While Dove" lay partly
In tho ditch, pirlly on tho engine's
front. Its cruise was over. Charlej
Moreaii Harger In Chicago Hecord.
building:
from his
sacks, "What you
bed on the wool
want?"
In an Instant his mother was by his
side, almost carrying his to tho open
air.
"Where where are tho boys?"
"Salln' Hi' 'White Dove.'"
Link was almost afraid to tell lest
ho should lose his promised ride, but
the look In his mother's face decided
him.
"Where where do you mean?"
lie pointed to the north. She could
see two small forms standing on tho
low car, struggling with a Happing
cloth, evidently too largo for their
strength.
"Come." and half dragging the roly-
poly Link sho raced over the plain to
ward the track. The fire lino had
swung In nn Irregular course, and,
whllo it skirted the bluffs In ono direc
tion and was dying out In tho short
grass or tho hills behind which the
men wero working, It blnzed more
fiercely than ever to the southeast and
cast. Sho could not find safety In nny
direction but to tho north.
Hob and Tad, tolling with tho un
wieldy sail, has not noticed tho flro,
nor did they boo their mother until
sho was by tholr sldo. Then they
Btnrted guiltily.
"Wo ain't hurtln' nny " hognn
Hob, but ho glanced nt his mother's
faco and nil thought of excuses vanished.
"Come, Boys, run." sho gasped,
looking nlong tho track, wondering If
the narrow stretch of fiesh earth
would save them.
Sho made u atari over tho ties, still
holding to Link's hnnd, when Hob
spoko: "Let's get on the car and you
help us."
"And Ball It." added Tad.
It was a now Idea, but tho quickened
wits of the woman graspisl It. Lifting
llttlo Link to the splinter-covered plat
form of tho (Mr, sho lieljx'd 4tob With
tho sail whllo Tnd clambered aboard.
Wlth-hor nsslstiinco tho heavy cross
plccu and its burden of bagging was
hoisted. The;i each held a lower cor
ner of tho- cloth, whllo with tho hot
wind, heated moro Intensely by the.
blazu n fe'w rods away, It filled and
bulged nnd strained.
Hob slid to tho ground and pushed
tho car until It was under way. Thou
to his seat. Glory! Tho wind was
carrying them faster faster faster!
Following a slough, the tiro had run
ahead In places and now bln.nd on
both sides of the track, k mllo ahead.
For an Instant snioko blinded thorn,
llttlo darts of fiame wero hero and
there, the sail was In danger. Hob
and Tad lost courage and bowed tholr
faces close to their knees; then they
rushed nut into thu clear nlr again,
and the flro was behind one tall pil
lar of snioko far away telling of their
cabin home's destruction.
Swifter and swifter whirled tho
wheels of tho llttlo car, tighter clung
tho mother to Link's chubby form.
Mrs. Mangold's hair streamed loose in
tho wind. Tho sail rounded benutl
fully and they were pushed forward nt
a rate that would havo been a delight
under different circumstances, and
oven then gavo Jtob nnd Tnd a. thrill
of pleasure.
Ton miles nway was tho vlllago of
Manchester.
As they passod tho llttla depot tho
agent camo out waving his hands fran
tically. Peorlng under tHo sail In front
of tho car, euro enough they could sco
danger tho dally train from tho north
was corning!
Hob lookod nt his mother. Slto
shouted tho ono word; "Jump!"
Hob nnd Tad tumbled off on tho
fresh cntli on ono sldo while the
old mvrcn DAYS.
Stiirli' of Mt'iiiiilioiit Kurliii; on (lit
.MUtl4litl
When one steamboat comes along
side another on the Mississippi, each
tries to pass the other. That Is nn In
variable rule of the road. No pilot
likes to takes the wash and broken
water of another boat, especially If the
oilier boat Is slower or moro heavily
loaded. Why. when tho procession of
steamboats escorted tho United Stnteu
gunboat Nashville up the rivor last
spring, one of the steamboats'sbnweil
the poor taste to tend tho Nashville on
tho way to the harbor. The engineer
and the pilot of the Nashville, an old
river pilot, had the greatest kind of
trouble keeping themselves out after
her and pulling her down. They did
hIiow their heels lii llist-clnss shape to
one river boat that tried to pass them
down below Memphis. It Is In the hu
man blood and no amount of danger
from overtaxed boilers, narrowness of
channel, sand bars, shoals or stings will
deter the fast boat from showing Its
heels to the slower boat. I have seen
passengers In the olden time, when
everybody knew a good deal about tho
rler and Its dangers, como up to tho
captain of tho boat they had taken pas
sage on and say to him solicitously:
"Now, eaptnln, I want you to assure
me of one thing, that you aro not go
ing to race, I've got my wlfo anil
children on board and 1 don't want to
expose them to needless danger." "0
course we won't lace," the captain
would answer, ami ho would mean it
when he said It. In a little while along
would como a slow, heavily loadeo
scow of a boat and try to pass us. Tho
captain would get busy nnd so would
the pilot, the engineer and tho firemen.
And as the competing boat would
shade down to a small speck on tho
rear horizon, the passenger who was
so anxious to keep his family out of
needles danger would como up from
below, wiping a pair of bruised nud
dirty hands nnd, iullatlug his chest
pouldly, say to the captain. "Sho
never touched us." That pasenger had
been down on the boiler deck during
the rare, passing cordwood to tho stok
oi s to lnit under the boilers. That's
how It Is with steamboat racing. St.
Louis Hepubllc.
TIMELY FALL
Of I'-ullitrH Allied 'IIiIov.h In i:-triiiln;;
1'rnin llm I'ollrv.
ew York Cor. Chicago Inter Ocean:
A friendly cloud of gooso and roostor
fenfbers that settled down over De
laney street yesterday afternoon, en
abled three thieves to escape from a
pair of confused doteotlVoa. Tho thloves
had been ransacking tho rooms of n
burning tenement bonne nt No. 217
Holancy street, from which tho teno
antH had lied, paiiicstrlckcn. In thu
opinion of tho police thero Is no mean
er thief than the ono who will rob a
family turned out by fire, and tho po
lice, who figured In this caso did what
they could to relievo tholr feelings by
kicking the thloves hnlf way down tho
(light of stairs to tho street, Intending
to grab them again on tho steps. Hut
as tho thieves renched tho steps n
score of feather beds thut had been
thrown out of tho Hobfiw onomo;
Upstairs hy lie llromon pluubCd il'Jtth"
on the sidewalk and burst. Fcathors,
rose lip and swirled nbout In eddies.
Flro depnrtment wagons and horses
were covered with them, nnd so wero
hundrells of Hebrews who werp In tho
streets, enjoying tho last hour of a
forty-eight hour holiday. Tho thieves
Jumped into tho cloud of fimthers and
escaped. Aftor tho cloud hnd cleared
uwuy the detectives yanked Morris
HoHonstelu and Isndor Goodman out
of tho crowd uud locked thorn up on
suspicion that thoy wore pickpockets.
Injurious I .(i mini.
A singer In grand opera contrndluta
tho statement frequently rnndo tluit
lemon Jnlco is excellent to rolloVB n
slight hoarsencsd. It may eloar tho
volco nt first, but only for n short
tlmo, and the strong acid Is extremely
Injurious to the Vocnl cords. To sooth
nnd relievo tho congestion tbnt pro-
duces the hoarseness, this slngor says
that nothing is better than tho whlto
of an egg whipped to a stiff froth.
CiMtly WIiiwIn.
It Is said that Qucon Marghorlta has
tho molt beautiful blcyclo In tuo
world. Tho wheels nro of gold, nnd
the frair.o Is richly Inlaid with Jowols
and niother-of-ponrl. Lady Dudloy,
ouo of the famoiu beauties of Eng
land, has a whlto cnnmolcd wliool,
whoso handles nro of ivory.
Uenanilantlon of Mtuuiw.
0.f the 230 stamps which havo been
issued tho values havo ranged from
ono cent to $5,000. Flvd dollars b tho
liighest value among posttfgo stamps,
but nowspapon stamps reach tho $100
mnrk, whtlo a revenue stamp may rep
resent $5,000.
Her I'lverliuMiiR Duty,
When n Now England woman starts
to go' upstairs, riho always asks her
solf whethor It Is her duty to bogin
with tho right or tljo loft foot, and
what relation her stop, boars to tho
groat lnws of fce unlvorfls. Gn'rdcn o
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