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Ive been past It a hundred times
Ive struck a pick all around there and
never found ore said Blake reflective
ly but that proves nothing A thou
sand people walked over the Little
Calaveras before I found the gilt
Wall John he concluded relapsing
to the familiar Yankee drawl dont
this beat time as Uncle Toby Ilaynes
used to say
It certainly is remarkable said
John Burt folding the map How
did you happen to select this particij
lai spot Jim
Just happened to thats all was
the laconic reply I laid out claims
all along here but this one seemed
the most likely
I suppose your claims cover the
ground indicated on this map dont
they asked John
It dont make a bit of difference
whether they do or not asserted
Blake with much vigor If you find
ore the claim is yours John and dont
you forget it
Supposj wo go partners in the
Sailor mine suggested John I have
a tidy sum of money and Ill offset
that and the map against your claim
and experience What do you say
Jim
Its not fair to you John but Ill
gladly accept and heres my hand on
it
After breakfast they set about lo
cating the sailors vein In less than
an hour Jim Blake sunk his pick inco
v quartz rock which showed free gold
While Jim was gloating over his find
John appeared from behind a ledge
He handed Blake a nugget which
weighed fully ten pounds and a
lance to say nothing of the weight
showed it to be almost solid gold
Blake grasped it devoured its dull
gloss with sparkling eyes and hurled
his hat high in the air
We are rich We are rich he
shouted until the rocks resounded
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By FREDERICK
UPHAM ADAMS
Author of Tho Kit nppcd Millionaires Colonel Monroo5 Doctrine Etc
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We can try John- said Blake
hopefully Two hundred and fifty
thousand dollars is a lot of money I
would take it In a minute if I could
get it
They discussed the matter for
hours but Blake would not recede
from his position Dangling before
his eyes was a purse containing two
hundred and fifty thousand dollars to
be obtained without further work or
worry It meant pleasure affluence
ease liberty it was enough Not so
with John Burt When the rock
crumbled beneath the first blow of his
1 pick and the ten pound nugget gleamed
in the shale he recalled the parting
words of Peter Burt quoting the lan
guage of Isaiah I will give thee the
treasures of darkness and the hidden
riches of secret places
Well talk no more about this mat
ter to night Jim he said when Blake
had finished telling of the great things
which could be accomplished with a
quarter of a million dollars Ill think
it over for two or three days and then
well take the question up and de
cide it
Blake curbed his impatience and
worked and waited He knew John
Burt well enough not to mention the
topic during the days which followed
One evening after supper John
spent an hour or more figuring in an
old note book
I suppose you are still determined
to sell your share in these mines
Jim said John
I am if I can get an offer of a quar
ter of a million replied Jim
Youre making a mistake old
man said John Burt laying his hand
on his friends shoulder but you
have as much right to your opinion as
I have to mine So we will call that
settled I told you I would make you
a proposition and here it is There
are two mines and they look equally
promising I propose that you take
one and I take the other We will
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Monte Cristo was a beggar compared
with Burton Blake Hurrah for
the Sailor mine and John Burt You
cant keep a good man down Hur
rah
CHAPTER XIII
The Quest for Geld
rhe two young giants performed
wonders in the three weeks which fol
lowed their discovery of gold Glow
ing with health and strength and in
spired by ambition they gnawed
ragged holes into the side of the
mountains with their picks and drills
Several nuggets were found but these
were of small value compared with
the broad stratum of ore which opened
out from the spot selected by John
Burt The claim chosen by Blake
soon exhausted itself and he turned
his attention to the third expressing
a fear that he was a hoodoo
But theres luck in odd numbers
says Rory OMoore sang Blake as
he poised on a shelving ledge and vig
orously drove a crowbar into a crev
ice Ere the sun dropped below the
range he had uncovered another wide
deep vein of gold bearing quartz
The spring rains set in and the
brook became a foaming thundering
torrent Avalanches tore down the
mountain sides plowed their way
over the cliff and with a roar which
shook the cabin hurlea themselves
into the valley The pine trees lost
their plumes of snow and sang in a
higher key the refrain which told of
relief from burdens carried complain
ingly for months
Piled in gray heaps near the tunnel
was ore worth not less than forty
thousand dollars With the flight of
the snow and the birth of spring
Blake wearied of his task and longed
for its rewards
Tell you what lets do John he
said one night after supper Lets go
to Auburn and negotiate the sale of
these mines We ought to get big
money for the Sailor John
How much asked John after a
moments pause
Half a million replied Blake posi
tively with a loving accent on the
million Half a million is dead
cheap Dont you think so John
I shall not sell my interest at
least not at present said John Burt
and I advise you not to We can
handle this property without trouble
and make more in developing it than
by selling it Besides I doubt if we
can get an offer of half a million
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call the south one Sailor A and the
north Sailor B You can have your
choice
Thats not fair said Jim Ill
play you a game of seven up for the
first choice three games of ten points
each best two out of three to take
first choice
All right responded John as
Blake produced a well worn pack of
cards and shuffled them But before
we play let me finish my proposition
You wish to sell your claims for two
hundred and fifty thousand if you can
find a purchaser Will you give me an
option on your claim Ill give you
five thousand in cash for the follow
ing option on your claim you to deed
me all your rights in consideration of
one hundred thousand dollars payable
in sixty days from this date one hun
dred thousand payable in six months
from date and one hundred thousand
payable in one year from date And
You bet your life I will interrupt
ed Blake extending his hand Make
it two thousand in cash John That
will be enough Make it two thousand
and Ill go you
We will call it twenty five hundred
and you can have the other twenty
five hundred if you need it said John
smiling But I had not finished
You shall have one half of the pro
ceeds from the sale of the ore already
mined That should net you 25000
You need not shake your head In
any arrangement I may make with
outsiders you shall have ten per cent
of all profits payabl co me I wish to
feel that you will always have an in
terest in the Sailor mine
All right John said Jim finally
Now well play that game of seven
up
Blake won the first game and John
the second In the third game John
had two to go and Blake lacked six
points It was his deal He turned
two jacks before the trump was se
lected and then made high low jack
and the game and won the rubber and
the first choice
Lucky in cards unlucky in love
laughed Blake as he arose from the ta
ble Sailor A is mine subject to
your option John
John drew up an agreement and an
option which both signed and the
firm of Burton Blake -was dissolved
Blake accepted twenty five hundred
dollars in cash and three days later
both arrived in the little mining town
of Auburn from which they sent a
trustworthy man back to the cabin to
remain on guard until John Burt re
turned
Bidding Blake adieu for a week or
more Burt proceeded to San Fran
cisco
He engaged rooms in t e Palace ho
tel registering under tae name of
John Burton and made inquiries con
cerning the leading mining experts of
the city He decided to present his
case to David Parker He wrote the
famous expert a brief letter and was
duly accorded an Interview
During the brief preliminary con
versation John Burt studied David
Parker and decided to trust him Then
he related the story of the discovery
of the Sailor mine
I have always believed that those
hills that those hills contained
gold said David Parker hesitatingly
Why do you come to me Mr Bur
ton he asked I am not an an in
vestor Im an expert at least an
an alleged expert
I wish you to refer me to an in
vestor replied John Burt You are
an expert in metals and should be in
capitalists You know them I dont
Go and see John Hawkins said
David Parker as a faint smile froze
on his face He is honest but hard
hard as granite I hope you may suc
ceed with him Mr Burton If you
and Mr Hawkins cannot come to
terms I I might refer you to others
Good day good day sir and good
luck -
As David Parker predicted John
Burt had little trouble in securing an
interview with John Hawkins million
aire mine owner and investor
He wrote the name Jolin Burton
on a card and gave it to an attendant
Two burly men stood in the doorway
pausing to make some parting re
mark which was followed by roars of
merriment The attendant brushed
past them as they closed the door
Tell him to come in was the or
der given in a voice sonorous through
the heavy rartition
John Burts education in the eti
quette of servility and in adulation of
material things was singularly defec
tive This may have been due to his
country training It never occurred to
John Burt that he should stand in awe
of the Hawkins millions He was im
pressed by the leonine head and gi
gantic proportions of the magnate as
an artist is when he contemplates for
the first time some stupendous work
of nature He returned the great
mans gaze before which most Strang
ers quailed and faltered with an an
swering look which talmly asserted
an equality yielding deference only
to a seniority of years
How do you do What can I do
for you sir Take a chair Mr
Hawkins glanced again at the card
tossed it on his desk and wheeled and
confronted John Burt who had ac
cepted this gruff invitation
I own or control some recently dis
covered gold mines and am in San
Francisco for the purpose of interest
ing capital in their development
said John Burt I am informed that
you are an investor in mining proper
ty I am in a position to submit prop
ositions which may result to our
mutual advantage
Where are they growled Mr
John Hawkins
For an answer John stepped behind
the capitalist and placed his fingers
on a point indicated on a large map of
California which hung on the wall
They are located on the west slope
of the Sierra Nevadas at an altitude
of about two thousand feet above the
river five miles south of the Wormley
trail said John Here is a rough
detailed map of the surroundings
He handed the chart to Mr Hawkins
There is no gold there not an
ounce declared the magnate You
have found a mares nest young man
I looked that country over ten years
ago Theres no gold there
My partner and I have extracted
forty thousand dollars worth of high
grade ore there in three weeks said
John Burt quietly Here is a speci
men of it Here is something else
He placed a sample of ore and the ten
pound nugget in Hawkins out
stretched hand
To be continued
DESERVED ANSWER HE GOT
RaProad Head Was Wrong in Calling
Down Machinist
When A A Robinson of the Mexi
can Central railroad was the inspiring
genius of the Santa Fe he often vis
ited the big shops in Topeka One day
while on a tour of inspection he watch
ed a machinist execute a piece of
work Now Mr Robinson prides him
self upon his knowledge of every
branch of the railroad service Upon
this occasion it struck him that the
machinist was not doing his work
correctly
My friend he said that is
wrong
The machinist who did not recog
nize the railway magnate replied
Suppose it is what business is it
of yours
I am A A Robinson the railroad
manager answered sternly
The machinist turned white
I beg a thousand pardons he said
I hope my impertinence will not cost
me my job I have a- wife and five
children and to lose my place would
mean poverty to them I am sorry I
said it but you see we have so many
visitors here who give us advice about
our work that we cant tell one damn
fool from another
Mr Robinson who is full of humor
laughed heartily and assured the ma
chinist that his job would not be in
terfered -with
Investigation revealed that the ma
chinist was -executing the work cor
rectly and that Mr Robinson was
wrong Topeka Capital
Desperate Remedy
Singleton Im getting awfully gray
doctor Is there no remedy for it
Dr Gruff Yes Get married
PKQ0F AGAINST PANIC
SENATOR GALLINGER SOUNDS
KEY NOTE OF CAMPAIGN
Events Have Shown That In TImo
of Financial Disturbance and Spec
ulative Demoralization Protection
Operates as a Preventive of Panic
and Paralysis
Protection Is Panic Proof Under
this impressive title Senator Gallin
ger of New Hampshire has contrib
uted a speech which promises to be
come as useful in the campaign of
1901 as was his great speech Pro
tection is the Issue in the campaign
of 1902 Prosperity is once more the
issue which overshadows all others
It is even more true to day than it
was two years ago In the well chos
en language of the New York state
Republican platform
The greatest national issue is the
maintenance of prosperity
Prosperity we now have and have
had in marvelous measure beginning
with 1S97 when the Republican party
regained control of national affairs
and reinstated the national policy of
protection to American labor and in
dustry How shall we maintain pros
perity That is the leading question
to be considered in the great civic
struggle of 1904 Senator Gallingers
speech deals with this question It
has for Its text the following senate
resolution offered on April 22 1904
Resolved That our continued pros
perity as a nation is the best possible
assurance that our fiscal policy is
sound and stable and that its dis
turbance by legislation is not war
ranted by the best interests of the
people
Speaking to this resolution Sena
tor Gallinger drew attention to the
fact that as proclaimed by one of
the house leaders of that organiza
tion the Democratic party will go
forth to the conflict of this year with
Tariff Reduction and Genuine Recip
rocity inscribed on its banners There
is the issue It is plain and unequiv
ocal There is no mistaking the Dem
ocratic purpose The tariff law of
1897 productive though it has been
of the most extraordinary results
ever known in the history of the
world productive of the highest de
gree of prosperity and the greatest
sum of human happiness ever known
in connection with fiscal legislation
productive of abundance of work at
an average wage rate three times
that of continental Europe produc
tive of trade of commerce of indus
try far exceeding in volume the trade
commerce and industry of any other
nation on earth productive of a vast
increase in the total and in the per
capital wealth of our country as
shown by the mighty increase alike in
the bank deposits of the rich and in
the savings deposits of the wage earn
ers this tariff law of 1S97 with all
its splendid results is to be attacked
and repealed and tinkered and butch
ered by the double process of direct
reduction and wide open reciprocity
In competitive products
That is the Democratic program for
L904 What is to take the place of
the Dingley law in the event of Dem
ocratic success in this years presi
dential election Who can tell
may be as Senator Gallinger says
A Wilson bill or a Mills bill or a
Morrison bill or a tariff like that of
184G and of 1857 both of which tariffs
proved disastrous to the best inter
ests of the country Vigorously and
ably Senator Gallinger challenges this
destructive propaganda With an im
pressive array of facts and figures to
support his contention he avers that
the country should stick to the grand
old ship protection and not lower her
colors to free trade pirates The
speech bristles with strong argument
and fact It deals fairly and effect
ively with the trust question showing
conclusively that trusts owe neither
their origin nor their continued ex
istence to a protective tariff
This showing is made the more ef
fective by the plain business facts of
the past year It has been a bad
year for the overinfiated trusts Some
of them have gone down while oth
ers have had a hard time to weather
the storm of their own creation
Shocks and strains have occurred
which would surely have wrecked
prosperity but for the presence of a
protective tariff as a safeguard What
with trust stocks tumbling in values
by the billion and other stocks shar
ing in the general depression while
great labor strikes were keeping some
hundreds of thousands of men in vol
untary idleness the conditions were
favorable for a general panic of the
worst description But there was no
general panic The business of the
country went on as usual and there
was no damage and no disaster out
side the ranks of those who had
brought on and participated in the
reat speculative debauch Such pan
ic as there was was a rich mans
panic The poor man escaped What
was the reason of this exemption of
the general mass Production did
not stop employment did not cease
Protection took care of that The
country continued to do its own work
It did not as in 1893 1897 turn over
its great market to foreigners be
cause of Democratic tariff making
This time we had a Republican tar
iff
Protection proved panic proof
Giving a Dollar for a Dime
The pith of the whole free trade
business is the assumption that If we
throw down tne bars in this country
and let all sorts of foreign goods in
free to compete with American indus
try and American labor othir coun
tries will make similar laws and per-
mit our goods to enter free Of course
this Is a preposterous assumption but
it is not difficult to account for when
we recall that it was fastened upon
the Democratic party by the South at
a time when the South imagined It
could do anything but grow cotton
which it supposed it would have to
send out of that region to bo manu
factured This section of course was
considering not the interests of the
whole country but merely its own in
terests Then too it was jealous of
the Northern industries and preferred
to patronize the foreigner Once this
was fastened upon the party thi3
party was true to the tradition as Mr
Cleveland says it ought to be and
consequently fell a good many years
behind the times in this as in other
things Hence the party became com
mitted to this dogma or a tariff for
revenue which is the nearest ap
proach to free trade that any civilized
country has ever had Of course the
schoolboy knows that others nations
will not make such a law because we
do it but assume that they would Al
ready we have at homo the greatest
market in the world and this would
mean to throw all of it away for the
silly delusion of thus capturing in
ferior markets In the first place we
dont get the markets in this way
and even if we should get these mar
kets we should be giving away a
gold dollar for a dime in the transac
tion Marion Ind Chronicle
Where Is He
The Democratic leaders are no near
er agreement as to a candidate than
they were three months ago The
Parker movement launched in New
York has not developed as promised
Hill stock is going down and Gorman
stock is not coming up There is talk
of compromise but neither the Parker
nor the Bryan contingent is yielding
an inch
Parker it is reported from New
York and Washington is losing
ground Hearst has lost prestige and
Hills enemies are coming to the front
The reorganizes who have followed
the lead of Cleveland and Olney are
divided into envious groups The
Kansas City platform faction is not
standing together
The tendency is downward every
where Even those who talk of a com
promise candidate dispiritedly men
tion Mr Towne as a man who would
accept defeat in good spirit Others
talk dejectedly of President Francis
of the St Louis Exposition as a har
monizer
With the strong men of the party in
the background or on the retired list
witli the rank and file of the party
clamoring for leadership there is no
activity except in intrigue and no en
thusiasm not bounded by state lines
Basing all their hopes for success in
November on carrying New York the
eastern Democrats are haggling over
conditions on which they will accept
the New York candidate In the east
there is distrust instead of loyalty
and an absence of anything resem
bling constructive leadership In the
west conditions are no better in some
particulars they are worse because of
resentment against any candidate
likely to be named by the reorgan
izes or Cleveland Democrats
The spectacle of a great party mark
ing time aimlessly on the even of a
great contest is a pitiable one If
there is to be the momentum of battle
in the loose organization some compe
tent organizer must come to the front
in the next two weeks Has the Dem
ocratic party such a man If so
where is he
Misstating History
Congressman Warner said to the
members of the Hamilton club last
Saturday The first purpose of Lin
coln and those who elected him was
to abolish African slave pauper labor
That was a misstatement calculated
to mislead members of the club who
are not familiar with the political his
tory of 1SC0 Col Warner who was
not old enough to vote in that year
but who was old enough and patriotic
enough to volunteer in 1861 and to
fight through the war may have en
listed to root out slavery as well as to
save the union but the abolition of
slave labor was not the avowed pur
pose of the Republican party in 1860
If it had been Mr Lincoln would not
have been elected Nor did any con
siderable number of those who voted
for him have in mind the freeing of
the slaves as the result of his election
The great purpose of the Republican
party was to prevent the extension of
slavery to the territories It said in
its platform that their normal condi
tion was that of freedom and it de
nied the authority of congress or of a
territorial legislature to give legal ex
istence to slavery in any territory
The fourth plank of the platform de
clared
That the maintenance inviolate of
the rights of the states and especially
the right of each state to order and
control its own domestic institutions
according to its own judgment exclu
sively is essential to that balance of
powers on which the perfection and
endurance of our political fabric de
pends
The domestic institutions includ
ed African slavery
The slaveholders would not accept
the pledges of non interference with
slavery in the states made by Repub
licans in and out of congress They
seceded and the Republican party
finally did what in 1860 it did not
dream of doing Chicago Tribune
It May Be a Mistake
Very likely scientists are mistaken
in supposing there is vegetation on
the moons surface All that is known
U that Democratic majorities are
found there and that is the only place
where they are found these days
Philadelphia Press
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Convinced at Last
Tommy Smokin cigarottes Is dead
sure to hurt yer
Jimmy Gon Where did yer git
dat notion
Tommy From pop
Jimmy Aw he wuz jist strlngln
yer
Tommy No he wasnt strlngln
me he wuz strappin me Dnfs how
I knows it hurts Catholic Standard
and Times
A Long Felt Want
This said the dealer is a won
derful thing the very latest Its an
alarm clock with a phonograph at
tached
Ah the phonograph yells Get up
I suppose
Oh no you only turn on the
phonograph when you go too bed It
sings lullabies to you and puts you to
sleep
Swept the Deck
Guyemoff I bought a tray of dia
monds for 50 cents yesterday
Japalak Say you take my advico
and stop hitting the pipe before its
everlastingly too late
Guyemoff Its straight goods I not
only got the tray of diamonds but tho
other 51 cards in the deck also
Preparing for the Worst
Miss Prim O I just know you aro
going to take this dime and get ter
ibly intoxicated
Rummy Robinson Yer do mum
Den yer might hand over a dollar so
I can take a Turkish bath an straight-
en up afterward Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph
Doesnt Like to Guess
Pretty Daughter Id rather marry
the worst man on earth than the best
one
Horrified mother Good gracious
Are you crazy
Pretty Daughter Not necessarily
You see Id know then right from the
Start what I was up against and
wouldnt be kept guessing
High Finance
Hes a splendid financier they
say
Yes indeed Why lie can manipu
late the assets of a corporation In
which you are interested so cleverly
that you continue to feel grateful
toward him when you wake up and
find you have lost everything
Possible Explanation
Ignorance remarked young Sap
head they say is bliss
That replied Miss Caustique
accounts for it I imagine
Accounts for what queried tho
youth
Your apparent blissfulness she
replied
A Boomerang
Stringem What kind of a cigar do
you prefer
Witicus A dark cigar with a light
end See
Stringem Thats all right too but
when youre smoking it is light at
both ends
Disturbing Peace
-
Did your daughters musical train
jig cost you much money
Sure Why the next door neigh
Dors have sued me for damages
Juvenile Theory
Nellie said a mother to her
daughter whats the reason
fou and your little brother cant get
llong without quarreling
I dont know mamma replied the
mall miss unless its cause I take
lfter you and he takes after papa
Russia and Japan
It is a sort of a war
snt it
Fur rugs and you
night say Indianapolis Journal
Partial Eclipse
Ernie And did you hide your face
when he kissed you
Belle Well I had on automobile
goggle-
