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The Omaha Sunday Bee. j EDITORIAL SHEET, g PAGES 11 TO 20. ESTABLISHED .TUNE 19, 1871. OMAHA, SUNDAY MORNING, AUGUST 31, 1U02. SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS. S LURED BY MYTHICAL MINES Bearob. af Last Cabin and Other Mysterious Treasra Cam pt. TRADITION AND TRAGEDY IN MINING LORE Stories ot raaled Wealth Which Blades ths Eaa-er Search al Man Death Freajaently Bads tha Chase, The reported dleeovery of a "lost cabin mine" la the Big Horn mountains of Wyoming conveys the Information that It is the real thing and the only "lost cabin" mine In the whole range of min ing tradition and fiction. Tet the Wyom ing discovery is but one of hundreds of mysterious mines which have lured pros pectors on and oa for halt a century, and are likely to remain an irresistible at tractlon while fortune hunting animates the prospector's breait. There Is nothing more romantic in mod ern gold mines than the legends and myths of golden and silver ores, whose redis covery would bring fabulous riches to the finders. Nearly all prospectors, no mat ter how long and severely buffeted by hard fortune, have an abiding faith that some time they will strike a lost mine and be unspeakably wealthy. Every mining camp In the west has Its own char acteristic stock of stories of Incomparably rich mines once found by some lonely prospector, miles away from any human being and In a region barren of readable landmarks, and then lost by some fateful incident, some tragedy or some strangely accidental circumstance. Every mining camp has its veteran residents, each of whom has some set theory as to how those lost treasure beds may be relocated. Nothing else In the realm of mining has auch a charm upon the prospector's mind as the stories of lost mines. In every mining region every year men risk life and fortune In searching for legendary ledge once found and then lost.- Last year some fifty men gave up months of their time, traveled over burning deserts, endured severe privations for weeks at a time and came back to civilization older, ' poorer, haggard aud ragged, after a search for the Peg Leg mine among the Cocopah mountains. There will undoubtedly be as many more men go hunting for the Peg Leg this ye.-r. j Montana's Loaf, labia. A Frenchman came Into Helena, Mont., many years ago, bringing with him thou sands of dollars' worth of gold dust. ' He told his friends that he had found some placer ground richer than any ever worked. The dust he brought down had all been panned out. With sluice boxes thousands of dollars could be washed out in a day. Of course this new created the greatest excitement. His friends pre pared to accompany him back, but ere the day for their departure arrived the Frenchman was taken ill and died. . Just before his death he managed to gasp: "Blackfoot country, two small lakes, cabin between them I built." Now this information was very indefinite. There are two Blackfoot countries. One Is - k ' that great expanse or forest In which rise the Big Blackfoot rlvnr and its tributaries; the other was, in those daya, tha eastern slope of the Rockies, from the Missouri to the Saskatchewan. Tbe miners wondered which one he meant. Party after party was organised to search for the Lost Cabin mine. Both countries bava been explored again and again. Tear after year has gone by and parties are still searching for it, undaunted by the failure of their prede cessors, hoping ever that the morrow will reveal to them two little lakes nestling In the depths of the forest, and, between, a rude little cabin, long since in ruins, perhaps, but still the evidence of untold wealth. A Mexican Mystery. The Vallagrana mine is the famous lost' mine of Lower California. It was a silver mine and the ruby ore from It, so tradi tion says, was so rich tnat Don Thomaao Agulla, the richest man in Monterey, Mex ico, In. the '60s offered to buy one-third of It for IISO.OOO. Jose Vallagrana was a Mexican governor of the district of Lower California who fled to La Pas, at the ex treme southern end of Lower California, In I860, during a political revolution. On the way be and his party took refuge in an Indian camp, and the Indiana there, tak ing a fancy to their courteous visitors, took them out in a canyon and showed the outcropping of a silver ledge. The tra dition runs that the silver ore could be clearly traced along the mountain side for some 1.800 feet, that the ledge at the sur face was over twenty-five feet wide and that there were indications that it widened rapidly below the surface of tbe earth. Gov ernor Vallagrana promised not to disturb the Indians in their ancestral rights there and to keep the silver ledge always a se cret. On that promise he and his asso ciates were permitted to take away with them seven specimens of the silver ore. The next day the governor and his party started on mules soma 200 miles farther over an unbroken, barren wilderness to ward La Pas. In the course of two months the party was at the City of Mexico, where they were political prisoners for nearly a year. When they were freed only one of tha party had kept his specimen of the rich ore. An aasayer in the City of Mexico assayed a part of the specimen, and he re ported that such ore ran 1. 000 ounces to the ton. Silver was then worth fl an ounce. Every year since 1861 men have gone In parties of a dosea or twenty to seek tne silver ledge. First and last, several thou sand men hare climbed over the mountains toiled across the arid wastes and broiled in summer and shivered in winter while they prospected for tha ledge that Vallagrana told about and from which the specimens bad come. Time and again the poor, Ig- I norant Indians of Lower California have gotten money on the promise to lead pros pectors to the Vallagrana mine, but each time it has been an Instance of a eavage buncoing a trusting miner. In 189$ Gov ernor Lopes of the district of Lower Cali fornia officially reported that that year some 200 men had been vainly trying to get a clue to the mythical Vallagrana. Trasredy af Death Valley. The pitiful story of Death valley victims in 1(64 Is connected with the Gunslght mine narrative. Sixty-two emigrants to tha gold fields of California, by ox and mule teana in the summer of 1864, were trying to find a southern passage through the Sierras to California. They were .persuaded at Salt Lake City to follow what was knowa as the southern rout in preference to the mora frequented one farther north. The new route took them through southern Utah, across the Colorado river and Into the lei -rlole and then little knowa Colorado desert. In a tew days they reached tbe dreary waste of Death valley. One by one, as they went oa, their worn horses and oxen f ill by the wayside, to rise no more, and ene by one they war forced to abandon their wagons, Th.a death and famine stole la among the little band and, the weaker ones perishing In quick succession, were burled where they fell. Finally the survivors' scant stores were exhausted and ao water could be found. Within a month tha party waa reduced to four men. There waa no chance for retreat, and, though dying by Inches, the survivors pressed on toward the southwest. One night while camping near a rocky ledge George Dennis discovered that the sight en the muzxle of his rifle had been In some way loosened and lost. Searching for something with which to replace It he no ticed a whitish metal Ho substance In tbe roc k close at hand and, securing a piece of It, he speedily whittled out and fitted Into his rifle a clumsy substitute tor tbe lost sight. The following morning, without par ticularly noticing tbe locality of the catnip, the four men resumed their Journey. Two of them, falling by the way, died during the following week, and only two survivors of the party finally reached a settlement In tbe San Bernardino valley. Here the gunslght which the amateur gunsmith had carved In the desert attracted the attention of an old miner, who at once pronounced it pure native silver, and eagerly Inquired where It had been found. Dennis told how it had come Into his possession, but could give only scanty information as to the locality of the ledge from which It had beeo taken. A careful computation of the number of miles probably covered by the unfortunate men, together with a reckoning of the number of days they had wandered after leaving the camp, enabled a general Idea to be formed ef the probable location of the ledge. A prospecting party waa at once organised and a careful search made for what has ever since been known ss tbe Gunslght ledge, but fat'uie attended the effort. Every year from 1854 till now some men have gone In search of tha silver gunslght. Only a few weeks ago a party of three prospectors started out from the desert town of Baratow, Cal., to follow what they believed was a sure trail to the long and dearly sought Gunslght mine of Death valley. Pea; Isj Tradition. Tha Colorado desert, in the extreme southern part of California, and the moun tains on the boundary between California and Mexico have been scoured annually for more than thirty years by adventurous gold seekers in quest of the Peg Leg mines. No lost mine, after the Gunslght, is more fa mous than the Peg Leg. Once every few years the mining population of the coast is excited by tha news that the lost Peg Leg has been found again. Even now there are parties of miners prospecting for some indi cation that will show the location of the rich ledge that Peg Leg Smith found years ago. A drunken, rollicking gold miner, John O. Smith, who waa known as "Peg Leg" Smith, because of a wooden leg that he wore in place of a leg, came into Los Angeles one day in July of 1868 with his camp out fit and his mules laden with several sacks of gold ore. The rock was assayed by mln-1 tng experts iu i'u plies, ssd the news quickly spread that "Peg Leg" Smith had ore that ran all tha way from $450 to 2800 a ton. Of course the whole country In and about what was then the little Mexican town of Los Angeles waa soon wildly axclted at tha news of the find of a mine that yielded such ore.- Nothing Ilka it had ever been found aoutb of Amador county. "Peg Leg" Smith was a curious, taci turn kind of fellow and It was several weeks before he could be induced 'to say a word as to where he got his ore and the quantity there waa of such rock. When at last he did say something about his dis covered treasure he refused to give more than a vague idea of where his claim was situated. He said, however, that it was down across the Colorado desert, in the mountain range in San Diego county, and that until he knew whether this mine wa situated in the United States or Mexico he must keep that part a strict secret to himself. He said that he had spent five months In the locality of this mine, with two half- breed Pima Indians, who had guided him there In payment for kindness he had rendered them In serious Illness. Ha told again and again, and always with rare exactness of detail, tha surface indica tions of his mine, the direction and slant of. the gold bearing ledges and the sur rounding geological and mineral condi tions and characteristics. "Peg Leg" said be was confident there waa as much gold ore In his claim as in Mackay, Fair and Flood's Comstock ledges In Nevada, and every miner who questioned and cross questioned htm day after day made the same estimate from the old prospector's statements. Probably 150,000,000 or $80, 000,000 was in the mines. A Fatal Search. Early in September "Peg Leg" 8mlth turned up missing In Los Angeles, and the news came across the country a week or two later from San Bernardino that he had been there and hastily and se cretly "fitted out" for a camp of several months in the mountains and a male rid across the desert. He had, at the last moment, taken two old mining chums with htm and set out In the night. It Is almost impossible to track a man across a desert of ever-shifting sand, so the several thousand men who had mad up their minds and prepared themselves to follow "Peg Leg" Smith to his treasure find were forced to await the next appearance of the old fel low In public. From tha time that "Peg Leg" and his companions set out from San Bernardino abaolutely nothing has ever been heard from the prospector. Several years later the dried and mummy like remains of the two men who ac companied him and the skeletons of the mules and remains, of their wagon and mining tools were found over 100 miles out oa the Colorado desert, but not one trace of "Peg Leg." It Is Impossible that he could have escaped from that spot In tha desert in September on foot. The reputed treasure is still awaiting the man who will disclose it. THOMAS RESIGNS HIS JOB Dspaty Caaaty Attorney dalts and ta aceeeded ay Qeora-e A. Maaaey. Deputy County Attorney Elmer E. Thomas has tendered his resignation to County At torney Shields to take effect September 1. George A. Magney, another populist, haa been appointed to take th place of Mr. Thomas. Too much private business is th reason Mr. Thomas give for hla resign tlon. ' . "I either had to neglect th county bust nesa or my own business," said Mr. Thomas, "and I concluded to resign." Mr. Thomas will leave Tuesday for New Tor legal business, which will necessitate bis absence from the city for thirty days and possibly sixty. . At the democratic state convention Mr. Thomas wa severely criticised on tha floor for not making a fight In the populist con vention tor toe nomination oi 0. J. Sinyia for governor. This, however, said Mr, Thomas, had nothing to do with his real. nation. He said hi relations with Ceuaty Attorney 6hlld bad always been pla&saaU BENCH AND BAR IN ENGLAND Peculiarities of Prao'io and Procedure as Viewed by an American. DIGNIFIED LONDON LAWYERS AND COURTS Jadae W. H. McKnfth Tells of Hie YLIta to the Faiaoaa Haaata of Solicitor and Coanael Dar !( the Stammer. Judge W. D. McHugh, who has recently j returned from a European trip of nearly : two months, brings back with him many I Interesting Impressions of the customs prevailing in the countries which he vis ited, and as he gave more than passing attention to the manner of administering the law, his conversation on that topic Is particularly entertaining. In contrasting the English court with those of America the Judge does not yield all advantage to the English, and presents much that Is in favor of the system pertaining In this oountry. Discussing this subject with a reporter of The Bee the Judge said: x "Tbe law and the courts of England oc cupy a position, peculiarly their own, and are unlike those of any other European country. Originally every nation of Europe fell within the scope of the Roman law; but In England, from time Immemor ial, the laws were framed and administered according to the customs of the people, and the decisions of the courts were re tained and followed and formed the old common law of England. Whereas the Roman law emanated from the church, the clergy In England was from tbe very be ginning of law limited to certain Jurisdic tion, based upon the --administration of strictly ecclesiastical law; for instance, the law of marriage and divorce. x English Lawyers Are Clannlah. "In England the lawyers have alwaya kept very much to the themselves. They get together In building which are devoted entirely to their usee, and not only do they live In these buildings, in their chambers, as they are termed, but tbe law school are also held there. These buildings are called inns, and many of them bav gained world-wide fame in his tory and story, such as Lincoln's Inn, Gray's Inn, and the Inner Tempi and Middle Temple, a well as tha Chancery Inn. Ttie establishment of the inns of court dates back to earliest antiquity; they were voluntary organizations among the lawyer to perpetuate themselves and the common law.' The Inns are for the greater part very old and each consists of a number of build ings comprising the lawyers' chambers. These rooms are small, dark .and dingy, csd. ss ?h but Minn are of antique archi tecture, the halls are narrow and in some case the staircase are spiral and the entire structure Is of a character to re mind one of a fortress or dungeon. Each inn ha its library and it dining hall, where the lawyer dine regularly, and even the students are required to dine four times in every term. The Inner and Middle Templea were originally the horn of the Knight Templar, who. flourished Juat after the Crusades, and the Temple church Still remalna as tbe property wf tha lawyer. In this church are the graves of a number of the' Knight Templar of old, who He buried beneath the floor, and their resting place are marked by recumbent figure la bronze of knight in full armor. Featares ef tha laas. "The dining halls of the inn ar im pressively antique in appearance and about them cling many associations of past ages. The dining hall of the Middle Temple has an oak floor which la eight Inches in thick ness and was laid centuries ago, and there Is also in that dining hall a very old oak screen which was carved by Flemish work men. Tbe Middle Temple nourisnea as a home of the lawyers as far back as the reign of Queen Elizabeth; and she waa a bencher of the temple. "The libraries of the various inns ar extensive and complete. I visited a num ber of them and found, many American law Plans for the Program Tn rvtntmr tha Nebraska Federation of Women's Clnb will meet at Columbua, and tha program la now being made up lor its sessions. At the request of The Bee, two of the beet known worker among th Ne braska club women hav offered sugges tion, a to what should be done in at least two departments of tbe federation' work. These letter follow. Now that th synopsis of th program ot the coming meeting of th Nebraska Fed' ration of Women's Clubs Is In our handa it la but natural for ua to think what w should llks to see carried out in that pro gram. To the women for whom the novelty of organisation has vanished the practical side of club work appeal a th all thing necessary and desirable. We are coming to feel that only as we make our club work practical. Improving 'the home and our everv day life, alleviating conditions that bear heavily upon the tollers of th world. I it tn any sens worth while. In a general survey of the subjects studied In clubs we are Inclined to place art as among the purely ornamental, the abaolutely Impracticable. The tact Is, however, quite the contrary. Art touches the deepest roots of life and is Inextrica bly bound up In them. As for Its practi cability, the houaewlfe can not turn with out verifying some principle of bad or good art. Art enters Into tbe homeliest uten sils ef everyday life no less than into the realms of purs aesthetics. In considering art we make two great mistakes. Brat In relegating It to this latter place, and second, ws are not careful enough In the selection of our pictures and bric-a-brac, even when w consider art merely In this restricted sense. So strongly doe this latter point impress me that I am quite willing to say that a woman's taste is indicated more strongly by what she buys for purely orna ment than In her other purchases. Extremely limited Income compels us to ths Inexpensive or plain, common articles, but when a woman set out to buy a pic ture or vae there is presumably a littje money for luxury. I believe the art tac tion of our cluba sbculd aim to Instruct our woman In making such purchase no less than In selecting carefully the com mon articles of the house. A' thick, coarse dinner set may be a necessity, but a com mon, coarse, over-colored vase Is a dle grace to the woman who sets It lu her parlor window or offends bar caller by placing It in state upon her mantel. Tha diahee aha had to uave, iu. ase was a luxury. Ths great bulk of hand-patntet china I th merest sop thrown out to art loving women. Its cost I a great and often la execs of th prio ef com classi beoks which showed signs of having been much used. The decisions ef the supreme court of the United States are frequently cited In the English courts and even the derisions of the courts of the principal states. flaw he Wark la Handled. "The lawyers of England are divided Into two classes, solicitors and counsel. The solicitor gets the cases and prepares them for trial, end tben the counsel tries them In court. A solicitor In preparing a rase makes an elaborate memorandum, compris ing all the facts In detail, with the names of all the witnesses and the testimony that each witness will give and also the citations of authorities. These constitute the brief, which Is given by the solicitor to the counsel whom he retains and Is used by the counsel in the trial of the case. "All the counsel while In court wear wigs and gowns and the Judges likewise are In wig and gown. "I spent several days In the lower courts, which were In session while I was In Lon don. These were originally held In West minster hall, but now occupy a large build ing In the center of London which Is known as the Law Courts. Procedure In Ena-Ilah Conrta. "In making a comparison I should say that there Is less acrimony and more of dignity and solemnity of procedure In the trial of a case In England than Is usually to be found In an American court. I was Impressed with the" Idea that the lawyers of England realise more fully the respect that is due to courts than Is the case with us. I do not think the cases are tried so vigorously there as here. .Th Judge In a trial in Englnnd plays a much more Im portant part than with us. In most of tbe state courts the function of a Judge Is merely to rule upon the law In the case, the consideration and determination of the facts being left to tbe Jury; In England the Judge comment freely and give to the Jury his impression and opinion as to the weight to be given to testimony. For a great many years In England the ad ministration of law In courts of Justice was hampered by artificial procedure, full of technicalities and difficult to master. In recent years, however, all this ha been abolished and th procedure in the court of England 1 now as simple as obtains In any state of our union. No Sensationalism. '. "The court rooms In London are all small and there is nothing to encourage the large crowds of slght-seers which we frequently have in the court here. The proceeding are carried on In a matter of fact manner and there I a noticeable absence of. sensa tonal or spectacular features. The counsel examine witnesses In a staid and dignified manner and there 1 no bickering among the lawyer. Th trial appear to lack the snap that is put into them In this oountry and I Judge that this Is probably du to the fact that the counsel merely knows of the case and the witnesses from the brief which la set before him by the solicitor and has no personal Intimacy with It. The first few rows of benches in the court room are reserved for counsel and a lawyer is Just as likely as net to stand up in his place In th second or third row and try hla case from there. There are- little peculiarities in practice) which seem very strange to one not accustomed to the Eng lish courts. For example, th witness usu ally, stands a hs fclvea, Jils testimony, H 1 permitted to sU if be so wishes, but in all of th I beard tried,, while there I did not see one witness avail him self of that privilege." OPTIMISTIC WEATHER MAN Forecaster Welsh Says Batarday's Rata Bode Good for Mon day's Shine. "This gives people a better chance for a pleasant Labor day," said Weather Man Welsh yesterday morning, eyeing the angry sky. "A spell of rain now make on less likely on Monday, and It may very possibly be a fair day." The dash of rain which commenced shortly after 1 o'clock yesterday morning totaled .S3 Inch. Later .2 Inch additional fell. Omaha Is half an inch behind normal on rainfall for August and an inch and a quarter since March 1 laat. cal ware that ha a reputation and a his tory, and whose presence In the home pro claims unmistakably that here 1 "on who know." I believe that much of the amateur art of today 1 nothing short ot a bold, Imper tinent usurper filling the plac of real art.' If we would allow our Judgment to rule, amateur work would be a help, and U Is that to some extent even under present conditions. If we would us our amateur paintings as we do our amateur written compositions, simply a a mean of de velopment, then all would be well. In stead, however, of placing them in those secret archive devoted to the evidence of our progress, we put them in prominent places in our homes, and in our devotion to the weak,, Immature child forget the real, tha great beneficent mother. Art, that ministers so profoundly to the race. ' I cannot help but feel that great benefit would accrue to our women of the federa tion It, Instead of the elaborate displays of decorated china which have come to be ' a feature of the meetings, there was a carefully selected collection of aoma of tha great wares of ths word. Such a collection might be very small and yet be attractive and helpful. Indeed, It might be confined to one claas of war each year and still ba a rare opportunity. A display of Tiffany Favrlle glass, for Instance, would leave de lightful impressions of elusive opalescent colors, or one of th Rookwood pottery would delight by the pure poetry of it brown and yellow, It gray or blue. With a world full of such materplecea, and these at our hand. It 1 too bad to offer our women Instead amateur work where really skilled decoration Is the exception, not the rule. The present plan savor of advertis ing and sale-making, as every piece haa its price. At our laat meeting some of our finest papers were on ceramics of ons sort or another. That there were no illustra tions to these excellent papers was their only defect. " The two suggestions, then, that I would Ilka to make to our committee in charge of the art program are: First, make th work reach into tha home; In other words, make it more practicable; and, second, let us have alongside of our very best amateur' work, not for sale, some Illustrations of what the great potters and decorators of the world can do, JENNIE E. KET80R. It does not seem that so Important a branch of club work household economic ahould need an excua tor It being, nor an appeal for lu support It is said that woman's clubs are leading women away from the home and when one consider how mall a part la given to further better home-making we anight well bulleve at. WRONGS VISIBLY PUNISHED Striking; la it an ess sf How Fortuns Isoomss th Nemesis of th Family. THE FAIR AND THE TABOR MILLIONS Dowafall af Both Coincident with the Desertion of Their Wlvee "The Evil, that Men Do Live After Them." The recent tragic death of Charles L. Fair and his wife while automobile riding In France recalla the varied history of the Fair family, upon which fortune smiled generously and cursed betimes. It la unnec essary here to recite the details the Com stock atrlke, which made rich "beyond tbe dreams of avarice" the Big Four, of whom the elder Fair was one, the ambitions .and dissipations which wealth aroused . and partly satlcfled, the family feuds, . separa tion, scandal and Ignominious deaths with which the history of that fortune 1 check ered. The melancholy tory of th "Flr for tune is one of two striking Illustration of how great wrongs committed in some way at aome time recoil on the wrongdoer. Tbe careers of James O. Fair, founder of the family fortune, and of H. A. W. Tabor of Colorado, are Identical In many respects. Both men secured fortunes from mines. Both became lavish spendthrifts and dis solute In habits. Both became United States senators. Both, in their excess t wealth, deserted, their wives who had strug gled with them In the day of poverty. Here the parallel ends. The Fair fortune withstood the recklessness of the founder and was practically Intact at his death. Tabor's for tuna took wing and disap peared long before hla death. In both In stances "the divinity that dcth shape our end" imposed and exacted the penalty. Million! to Fla-ht Over. . When tbe elder Fair died eight year ago he left a fortune of 230,000,000. For seven years-the heirs squabbled over It and spent $2,000,000 in effecting a settlement satis factory to the children and a number of alleged wives. Now the son's share of the fortune will probably undergo the same process. From th day when they began to accumulate away back In 1865 the Fair milllcn have borne a curse. Everyone connected with them has had trouble and sleepless nights, they have twloe awaited heir in whole or In part and on each occa sion disputed claims have been put for ward. Even th method of their getting poke romance and the methed of their pending while old Mr. Fair controlled tbem waa even more romantic. Born in Ireland In 1831, Mr. Fair eame to this country with hi parent in 1843. He waa educated chiefly in Chicago till he was 19 and then ne went lu antra, f.uii sd fortune in the California gold fields, then, in 1850, attracting the attention of the world. His was no rapid rise to wealth. For fif teen year he struggled on as prospector, digger and miner, earning his daily bread by tbe sweat of his brow and accumulating no more money than would suffice for a Ingle night' enjoyment. Suddenly "the tide, turned, dollar poured, in upon, him in en unceasing flood till in 18.72 he wa SfU.U be worth 250,000,000-. ,,'.; . A Gay 01d Boy. With wealth and th care of wealth, Mr. Fair began to develop tendencies which be bad either held in check or not possessed before. He tired of hi still handsome wife and spent much of his time courting th good grace of these who took his fancy. So free was he ' with his loves that Mrs. Fair left htm and later obtained a divorce. So free, too, that he left one will bequeathing $50 to every child who could prove his paternity. Neither dlr" he forget the women, for to many he made gifts of shares and deeds conveying real estate and to others presents of Jewelry and handsome checks. Such- gifts were often the result, apparently, of a mo mentary caprice, for the documents neces sary for the transfer were seldom drawn by lawyers, but penciled by tha millionaire himself on scrap of paper plucked from Surrestions Offered the Nebraska Federation of Women's Clubs. Aside from a ten-minute paper, this sub ject was not touched at the biennial of the General Federation of Women' Club re cently held in- Los Angeles, and the scant courtesy shown domestic- science by pro gram makers of state tederatlona call for at least a statement of facta about th work. Household science, or home economics. means the consideration of everything per talnlng to home life. Now, we may shelter. clothe and educate our families according to the highest laws of their Individual Beads. Thla science, embracing as It does the knowledge of ten other pur "and ap plied aclencea, mlgbt well be termed the foundation - of all the other - arte and sciences, and sine th dissemination of this knowledge can be greatly aided by being presented attractively at state fed oration meetings I would suggest bringing tha very best speaker to be bad to our aid. My preference would be Prof. Nellie Kedzle-Joncs of Kentucky, whose enthuai asm Is Inspiring and whose methods are both practical and helpful. By all means hare a conference of the mothers some time during the week and a dietary luncheon prepared according to Prof. Atwatar's table and served to the entlr convention. This would be an object lesson to every woman present, whether lntereeted In the work or not; It would end her home with new Ideas of nutrition and a well balanced ration. If It could be arranged, this feature might take the form of a banquet, la wblch the responses to toasts might be Individual experiences of practical help gained from the study, and would ba an Innovation from the long and (shall I say It?) tireaome papers compiled from hygenle and dietetic magaslnes; three-minute , talks upon home-making cleno. and how tt has helped them to "simplify their work." "train the children," "manage help," "eliminate drudgery, "fur nish the house" and "spend the house keeping allowance." Prof. Ammona of the Colorado Stats' Agricultural college is preparing a play to be given by her pupils, illustrating the value of domeatle science In every day life, for the horns science session ot the Col orado federation meeting this fall. A similar entertainment given laat winter tor the benefit of the work wa o much valued a to be requested for th stats program. The are but a few suggestion for th great work which can be presented so at traetlvely a to make thla session not only on of th moat helpful, but one of the moat Interesting of tha whole meet ing. bMaus it cover th entire field of bom life, th practical, tha artistic and the educational, and, with unbounded faith la (he women of Nebraska, "may I be ther to sea." . MART MOODY PITCH. hi pocketbook a he at in th evening In tbe company of some fair deceiver. So frequent were these gifts and so com monly did he have resort to his handy pocketbook that after his death his heir did little for a year save redeem such as were presented. The wlidneaa of the father, If late In de veloping, spread to the sons. One of them, th eldest, James, died a drunkard tan years ago and the other, Charles, whose tragic end a few daya back has raised again the disposition of his father's mil lions, waa also addicted to drink. Twice he took the gold cure and twice he Buffered rejapee.' He shared, too, the old man's ungovernable' love for tha aex. and, al though not so free In his affections, was none the less unable to relinquish the Idea of winning a woman once he had mad up his mind to do so. . Tabor's Checkered Career. Ten times a millionaire In 1890, Henry Tabor, the carbonate king of Colorado, waa reduced to beggary six years later, and was but few removes from poverty at the time ot hla death id Denver in 18)9.' Tabor wa neither a miner- nor a prospector. When h went to Colorado from Kansas with hi first wife, and little boy It was for the pur pose of engaging in some small business. He located originally in the Clear Creek placer mine, whore bis grocery store ven ture proved s failure. Thence be traveled across the mountalna with his family and the meager remnant of his outfit to. Cali fornia Oulch, at a time when th latter placer field had been practically denuded. Little wa left In the famous gold camp of Oro save a few old cabins, the relics ot flues and sluices, snd old Tom Bradshaw, the deer hunter, who made silver bullets out of carbonate ore for fifteen years without real ising that he wa the original discoverer of the Iron mine, which was to add so many millions to the wealth of Mr. Letter of Chi cago. Augusta, as Mrs. Tabor wa famil iarly known to the travelers and prospectors of ths region, did the cooking and all-around work for. tbe little log hotel they atarted, and Tabor himself, with the assistance of his growing son, developed a small general trade In an adjoining cabin. Here the Tabors remained for years, leading a sort of Idyllic existence, growing neither richer nor poorer and having no wish to visit the outer world. After the accidental discovery of the char acter of the carbonate ores which were so plentiful In the neighborhood and the Inrush of prospectors and prospect purohasors Tabor moved down the gulch from Oro to what waa Intended to be the site of Lead vllle. Here he erected a store ot larger pretensions and hla business rapidly In creased. His appointment a postmaster also helped his mercantll enterprise. Fortune Smllea. Soon he began to grubstake needy pros pector, who with the outfit furnished by him would go back into the hills and hunt fof precious metal, which they usually diuu't 2nd. Tabcr's friends saM wa bad business and predicted his ultimate ruin, but he kept adding to his business and, despite the Items charged to profit and loss on account of his grubstake busi ness, he prospered. It was generally supposed that his aid to the prospectors was not regarded by htm a an Invest ment, but as a charity wblch he could afford - to dispense wher it was ' moat needed; and it I certain that he caved many men from want snd hanger Is this way. Everybody knew that these Items of profit and loss were all loss, and as usual everybody knew the thing which wa not. For on day in 1878 ther came to the storekeeper an Irish prospector and a German tailor, badly smitten with tha gold fever and without mean, whom Tabor tarted on their search with a good outfit They went up on the hill and dug until they were exceedingly weary of digging and attained to no gold only a species ot curious looking gravel, heavy in the spade and not pretty to look at. When they became finally convinced that no gold was In reach at that point they abandoned the claim and went away, the Irishman taking with htm a bag of the gravel, saying that as he had dug so much of it he would Just find out what it was that made It so eternally heavy to hoist. The asaayer to whom he took It told him it was silver, almost pure. The Irishman and the Ger man survived the shock, want back to the claim and sold out for $100,000 apiece, This was the Little Pittsburg mln. One- third of it belonged to Tabor a his stake for the grub. He was regarded a an irre sponsible Idiot when he refused $100,000 for hi share. Ther wa plenty of time, however, for those who so regarded him to change thelrtnlnds during the days when th claim achieved the neat little output of $8,000 a day. Tabor finally sold his part for a million and said that as he'd done tolerably Well on his profit and loss account he'd Just keep on In the mining business for awhile. Tha Downward Path. People said this wa bullhead tuck .and Tabor was a good fellow, but didn't know enough to go In when it rained. After h had organised a few stock companies and com out far ahead on all of them publlo opinion had ' another opportunity for second guess. From that tun on , , Tabor prospered amaslngly. . He bought claims and sold mine until he had amassed millions. People called him th luckiest man in Colorado, and as soon as he got th title hla luck changed. Speculation and dissipation sped him on the downward path. The climax of the man's moral degeneracy was shown whan he deserted his wife and toroed her to sus for divorce. Then cam hi thirty- day term In th United State senate. record which made him th laughing stock of th nation, and hi marriage tn Wash Ington to wife number two. The marriage waa made famous by Eugene Field's poem of th $10,000 nlxbt gown, which was al leged to be part of the mine king' trous seau. From that time he becam th butt of th western newspaper psragrapher, a or trial to him. ' , It I a lingular and significant clrcum tanc In a wcrld wher evil deed ar not always visibly punished that ths downfall of Fair and Tabor began when they de serted th wlvea who had been true bolp meeta In the day of their adversity. PAVED STREET TO FLORENCE Park Board Aek Ooanty ComaUaaloa. ra ta Aid la Impravlaa- Horth Thirtieth. Th park boaid baa appealed to the county commissioners for co-operation la the pav ing of Thirtieth atreet from Fort street to Florence with brick or soma other ub stantial pavement instead of macadam. . Park Commissioner Cornish conferred with aome of the commissioner yesterday, urging that ths substitution of brick would be economy. The park board, he said, waa ready to us tha batter pavement and pay for it out. of the present road appropriation of $17,000, providing the commissioner would In making their next levy reimburse lbs road fund for that expenditure. SOCIAL DOINGS IN MANILA AMericani1 Contribute Mich to 8Jtj of Filipino Capital FORMER .OMAHA PEOPLE IN THE SWIM Keep Cool and Kill Tlsaa tha Order af Exleteae Ther) Aeesrdtna;- Mia Dalay Doaaa Was Has Jn.t Retained. A chat one morning last week wtta Miss Daley Doane, Just badk from a five months' trip to the Philippines, where she visited ' her brother. Lieutenant Will Doane, of th Sixteenth Infantry, who ha been, stationed there, brings out Some interesting impressions of the social life of the islands as received by an Amer ican girl, together with a whole budget of news of those who have from time to time figured more or lees prominently in local affairs, but have since "gone out" to that very Interesting place and are- now con trlbutlng to Its social life. White Miss Doane was absent five months, that time waa occupied with going and coming, except seven weeks spent in Manila and a month at Aparrl, on the north coast of Luson, wher Lieutenant Doane wa stationed. "What ar thny all doing?" the said. "Trying to keep cool and enjoy themselves principally, that I the woman are, -and a good part ot th men, too, for Manila can hardly be said to be oppressed by any anxiety for tbe condition of the Island, and I found every one I knew bent upon seeking pleasure. There is really very little else to do, for being so far removed, together with that lack of permanence that to some extent always pervades army life, every one seem bent upon making the moat of the time, and there I no end of dinner and luncheon and hop and drive, in consequence. Things are not as Interesting as formerly, I waa told, for the novelty is rather 'wearing off, but still, even tn Manila, social functlona are unique, being a queir combination of con ventionalities wholly unsupported by equipment. This feature has its charm. however, especially for the hostees, and relieves entertaining of much of Its trials and rivalry, for every one understands that facilities for entertaining are very limited and the hostess who would excel has t consider the personnel of her party rather than it material detail. . Omaha People tn Manila. 'Among the people we know, now In Manila, ar General and Mr. Humphrey and their two charming daughter, who figure prominently In the most exclusive set. The Mlases Humphrey are among tha most popular young women there, both having come out since leaving Omaha. Then there are Mr. and Mrs. Cnaries Marpie. Their home is among the most attractive and! hospitable in Manila. Mrs. Marpie Is pending two month over in Japan Juab now and Major Slaughter and hi daughter, Mr. Gambel, are occupying tbelr residence during her absence. Mr. and Mra. W. II. Clark are also there, she being a prom inent member of the ..card club and an au thority on whist. Captain and Mr. Plok tn of the Second infantry and Captain and Mr. Hutcheson expect to return home be fore long. Lieutenant and Mrs. Wade and Mrs. Wade's slater. Mis Marl Low, ara down at Zamboanga, which la considered on of the most delightful location ot th Islands. "December, January and February ar the really gay months, and Ladles' night, which 1 observed fortnightly with a din ner by the Army and Navy club. Is the really smart affair. The fortnightly Satur day evening hop at the Hotel Orients and an ' occasional party on board one of the war ship at th naval station across the bay, together with the monthly cotillion given by the Cotillion club, and the wekly after noon receptions given by Mrs. Taft and Mr. Wright, contribute to the aoclal Ufa of th city. It la from C to 7 o'clock of every pleasant evening, however, that one sees everybody, tor at this hour the populace turns out to drivw on th Luneta, It 1 a custom that th Americans found and that they are pleased to continue. Everyone owns and drives the Filipino ponies, ex cepting Acting Governor Wright and Gen eral Humphrey, who use tha American horse and vlotoria and present a conspicuous ap- -pearance in contrast with th diminutive equipages of the other. It ba been tha custom of the women while driving to go without hats, but in Manila, a every where else, there are those who make things popular and otherwise, and as Mra. Taft and Mr. Wright have recently In troduced a millinery featur into tht pageant, the rest of feminine American Manila ha followed sutt, and It promises to be but a short time until the custom of going without hat will have vanished with many other that tbe Americana found in Manila." PROVISION FOR HORSE SHOW Auditorial . Promotion Committee , Makes Statement la Regard ta th Balldlaa-. According to members of tha Auditorium company ther is doubt In th mind of soms of th people as to th plan of th building now In process of conatructlon, and aome of the citizens who should lend ma terial aid to th enterprise ar banging back under the Impression that the audi torium building will not be arranged to care for horse and stock shows. To set at rest thla misapprehension th following: tatement is given out Jby th promotion committee: To those who ar not landing thelr"aHl and Influence to the different lntereata for tha benefit of the Auditorium, from th belief that no axrajigemont. have been made for the use of the building for horso show purposes, we wish to say that eucn arrangement In its construction have been made, providing a driveway off from Fif teenth atreet on the main concrete floor, which has been made the largest possible else. Now plena give ua your assistance by pulling on th other tug. TOLSTOI GOES TO R0UMANIA Is Said to Bava Aosepfed RspeafsA Invitations af Its Qnssn ta Vlalt Mer. (Copyright, 1301, by Preaa Publishing Co ) BUDA PEST. Aug. 80. (New York World Cablegrams-Special Telegram.) Th queea of Rou mania, known to readers of literature as "Carmen Sylva," ha Invited Count Tol stoi sevaral time to visit Simla, her coun try aeat, and a favorite summer resort of th Roumanian aristocracy. It I re ported her that th count haa finally ac cented th Invitation, laying that he shall nd hla day at Bucharest, th capital of Rou man la, snd b burled ther in order to eacap the eoaaequenoa ot xcommuDU cation from tha Russian church, whlclj would not allow him Christian burlaL t .4
