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DEATH IN THE WATER. IS THE ELEMENT WE DRINK DECIMATING THE PEOPLE? How a Universal Menaoe to Health May Be Disarmed. A few years ago the people in a certain section in one of the leading cities of the State were prostrated with a malignant disease, and upon investigation it was found that only those who used water from a famous old well were the victims. Professor S. A.

Lattimore, analyst of the New York State Board of Health, upon analyzing water from this well, found it more deadly than the city sewage! The filling up of the old well stopped the ravages of the disease. Not long since the writer noticed while some men were making an excavation for a large building, a stratum of dark colored earth running from near the surface to hard pan. 'T'here it took another course toward a well near at hand. The water from this well had for years been tainied with the drainings from a receiving vault, the percolations of which had discolored the earth Terrible A similar condition of things exists in every village and city where well water is used, and though the filtering which the fluids receive in passing through the earth may give them a clear appearance, yet the poison and disease remains, though the water may look never so clear. It is still worse with the farmer, for the drainage from the barn-yard and the slops from t'ie kitchen eventually find their way into the family well The same condition of things exists in our large cities, whose water supplies are rivers fed by little streams that carry off the filth and drainage from houses.

'Ihis "water" is eventually drunk by rich and poor alike with great evil. Some cautious people resort to the filter for purifying this water, but even the filter does not remove this poison, for water of the most deadly character may pass through this filler and become clear, yet the poison disguised is there. They who use filters know that they must be renewed at regular periods, for even though they do not take out all the impurity, they soon become foul. Now in like manner the human kidneys act as a filter for the if they are filled up with impurities and become foul, like the filter, all the blood in the system coursing through them becomes had, for it is now a conceded fact that the kidneys are the chief means whereby the blood is purified. These organs are filled with thousands of hairlike tubes which drain the impurities from the blood, as the sewer pipes drain impurities from our houses.

If a sewer pipe breaks under the house, the sewage escapes into the earth and fills the house with poisonous gas; so if any of the thousand and one little hairlike sewer tubes of the kidneys break down, the entire body is affected by this awful poison. It is a scientific fact that the kidneys have few nerves of sensation; and, consequently, disease may exist in these organs for a long time and not be suspected by the individual. It is impossible tofllter or take the death out of the blood when the least derangement exists in these organs, and if the blood is not filtered then the uric acid, or kidney poison, removable only by Warner's safe cure, accumulates in the system and attacks any organ, producing nine out of ten ailments, just as sewer gas and bad drainage produce so many fatal disorders. Kidney disease may be known to exist if there is any marked departure from ordinary health without apparent known cause, and it should be understood by all that the greatest peril exists, and is intensified, if there is the least neglect to treat it promptly with that great specific, Warner's safe cure, a remedy that has received the highest recognition by scientific men who have thoroughly investigated the character of kidney derangements. They may not tell us that the cause of so many diseases in this organ is the impure water or any other one thing, but this poisonous water with its impurities coursing constantly through these delicate organs undoubtedly does produce much of the decay and disease which eventually terminate in the fatal Bright's disease, for this disease, alike among the drinking men, prohibitionists, the tobacco slave, the laborer, the merchant and the tramp, works terrible devastation every year.

It is well known that the liver which is so easily thrown "out of gear" as they say, very readily disturbs the action of the kidneys. That organ when deranged, immediately announces the fact by sallow skin, constipated bowels, coated tongue, and headaches, but the kidney when diseased, struggles on for a long time, and the fact of its disease can only be discovered by the aid of the microecope or by the physican who is skillful enough to trace the most indirect effects in the system to the derangement of these organs, as the prime cause. The public is learning much on this subject and when it comes to understand that the kidneys are the real healtlh regulators, as they are the real blo purifiers of the system, they will ese an infinite amount of unnecessary fering, and add length of daysandha ness to their lot. Senator Paddock Threw too Straight. "I used to go to school with Senator-elect Paddock, of Iowa," said a man in a Madison treet barber shop yesterday.

"Besidesbeing a good scholar and a jolly playmate, Paddy was the best marksman with a snowball in the school At the noon recess one day Paddock and several of the boys got together to have a snowballngoontestontheplayground. The battle had aged for fifteen minutes or so, when one of the boys saw the principal of the school walking down the middle of the road on his way home to dinner. He wore a tall, black plug hat, which sat upon his head like a cat upon a grindstone. Paddock, who saw the teacher almost as soon as anybody, suggested that we give him a volley. The boys demurred.

Paddock then said he would take a long range shot at the hat just for luck. Scooping up two handfuls of soft snow the embryo statesman molded it into a perfect sphere, and taking careful aim shot it after the retreating pedagogue with remarkable accuracy. The ball hit the tile amidships and scattered the wreck ten feet away. The teacher looked round to discover his assailant, but there was no one in sight. When school was dismissed that afternoon the principal related his noon experience, and declared that there was only one boy in the school who could throw a snowball 150 feel with any precision.

That boy, be said, was Paddock, and, without waiting to take the customary rule, the teache sebied an apple sappling as big round a a baseball club, and, taking the championtarksman by the collar, he larruped him wtu tboth stood in a cloud of dust Paddock never threw any more snowballs at te Herald. Fiager sand Tips. The style of serving Anger bowls almost always acoods with the prices charged for the dinner. Thi Waiter brings you a bowl of strong yellow ea breamo tinged, a coarse color, sad no napkin. He will bring you a check then at least twenty-five centsless than you expected; but another waiter, who prepares the fnger bowls in your sight with cstatatios sad sprays the perume in them with a lavish band will charge you at least fifty cnts mo than you figured it in your mind wen gi.vingih order, and he is surem to bring bck nothing less than a quarter in change, thatyomay tee him liberally.

It peculiar to nger bowl New York restaraats that they never ave any fve cent pleces Thamallstplm of change awaiter ever brings a dima That is only with plain gmssagerbows It the bowl isicrt glme tim abange isin lquarter hles. The only man who ever seaped giv ea is aid to be ts aoe who told was' that the plaes wa runach better is or me proprietor. lhe walter was dase tl ahebr.b.twosagerbtows,anda eens. S.Itelalmmeigtebaq.--Nw York Mr. We Never el sea the "Amen." A saintly In4vidal whoi ol.

er ap a prayer at the melgof ds ii os I 9Q ea Victoria eekt teew Jer neongt ngo, did not get as tar as a that ocessiceL Anslcor hissrdite ire got eri Stlh im i SJW tilt OUR NEW SECRETARY. GOSSIP ABOUT THE HEAD OF THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT. How Fairchild Looks, Acts and Talks. His Family and His Home at Washington-Senator Palmer's Spanish His Wonderful Versatility. WAsHINGTON, April 6.

Secretary of the Treasury Fairchild is a striking contrast to the secretaries of the treasury of the past few years. Old age and ill health have been replaced Ly the vigor of youth. The new secretary has none of the unhealthy pallor of Secretary Folger and his tread is free from the totter of Secretary Manning. His eyes laugh with the brightnesS of good digestion and his rosy cheeks show that his blood is full of life giving iron. He is the personification of health, and there is no danger of his breaking down under the strain of his duties.

Secretary Fairchild is 45 years of age, but he does not look to be more than forty. He has a strong, well rounded form of medium height, and he stands as straight as a Lake Superior oak. His shoulders are broad, his chest full and his head is large and well made. His forehead is high, broad, and full over the eyes. His face is rather long than round.

His nose is slightly inclined to the Roman, and it has a bridge formed to gracefully hold his pair of black rimmed eye glasses, which he uses only occasionally. The secretary's eyes are hazel. They are large, full of expression, and are serious or laughing as the conversation demands. His hair is short, dark brown in color, and it is combed well up with a rather high-but not at all dudish-part at the left of the forehead. He talks easily and is perfectly at home in his office.

He has also the faculty of making others feel at home, and, unlike Secretary Manning, he can talk to more than one man at a time. He dresses in good taste, and he will rank with Secretary Whitney, who is now the elegant gentleman of the administration. He is not afraid of a dress coat, like Attorney General Garland. and his closely buttoned black diagonal frock fits him like a glove. Still there is nothing snobbish about himi, and he has the reputation in Washington of being one of the most accessible of the public men here.

Secretary Fairchild is not an experiment. He has shown his capacity for the position by having performed its duties for more than a year, and I am told by one of Secretary Manning's most intimate friends that he hesitated about accepting the portfolio of the treasury until he could be assured that Fairchild woull become his assistanlt. As assistant secretary Fairchill practically acted as the head of the treasury department, and the change is one of amre rather one of work. He is a fast worker, and he disposes of his business very rapidly. He rises early, and during the past winter has been in the habitof walking to the department from his house, which is fully a mile away.

He arrives at the department at about 9:30 o'clock and finds his mail opened and ready for him. He has the faculty of making other people work for him, and nmuch of his mail has been disposed of by his private secretary before he comes down. The remainder he takes up at once and rapidly reads. As he finishes each letter he directs what shall be done with it, and generally has it answered by the chief of the dirison to which it refers. Letters which require his personal attentic: and further consideration he lays aside, and after the rest of the mail is disposed of, takes these up and decides upon thlenm, writing some of toe answers himself amid directing the answers to others through his private secretary.

He does not use a stenographer in his work, but prefers others to shaoe the letters after the plan of their answer has been given in word by him. He is a good reader of menm and knows the lI-rsirmnel of the chiefs of the department thorouighly. imlail is u-mmally flnished bly 11 a. at which time lie receives the chiefs of his divisions and consults with them about their sork. After this the mail, whieh it is necessary for him to sign, comes in from the various iranches of the treasury and he spends an hour or so in affixing his signature to such of the letters as he approves.

He has to read many of the letters carefully, and it is a surprise to many that he often receives callers while he is doing this, carrying on the conversation while lie glances over the letters. Manning, during his last days here, was not able to sign his letters anid lie had a stamp prepared with which they were signed. At 12:30 Secretary Fairchild takes his lunch. This is a light meal, and it is brought into his office by his messenger. It consists of a glass of lmilk, several slices of brown bread, a dish of prunes, some Malaga grapes, and it istopped off with an apple.

The I secretary dloes niot take a smoke after it, mand the only smoking hlie does in the department is several hours later, when he takes a cigar after thie heaviest part of his day'swork is done. He works pretty steadily, however, throughout the day, and oftemn receives callers during his lunch, talking ibusiness between the bites of his brown bread and apple. He leaves the department at 4 o'clock and takes a horseback ride between this and dilmer. He keeps two good sadldle horses here and nmkes it a rule to ride at least one hour daily. During the short days of the winter he rode in the morning biefore coming to the department.

He site a hlorse well, and has a tholrough knowledge of the comntry about Washington. He attributes his good health largely to the regularity of his exercise, and thinks there is nothing better than horseback riding to keep the in good condition. Secretary Fairchild is a well educated man. He has a thie library in his house here, and there is an extensive law library in his office at the department. He is a graduate of Harvard college and of the Harvard law school.

Sam Tilden had much to do with bringing him to the front in New York politics, selecting him to prosecute the canal frauds. Afterward Tilden had him omninated for attorney general. The election was a closs one, and for a time Fairchild thought he as beaten. When the back counties were heard from, ho.rever, he found he had 15,000 majority. He was an active Tiklen man at the St.

Louis convention, and had been a very prominent public man snd lawyer before Cleveland took him up. At this time he was living in New York city, where he had moved from Albany itn 155t. His law firm in Albany was a noted one and its practice amounted to about $30,000 a year. Secretary Fairchild still owns a house there. It is a fine three story pressed brick on Lancaster street and is worth at least $12.000.

Secretary Fairchild is well to do, though he is not rich in the present sense of the word. His father has a goodly property at Casenovia, N. and his wife who comes of one of the oldest of the New York state families has also a comfortable amount. Mrs. Fairchild's maiden name was Helen Llncklaen, and the Fairchilds and the Lincklaens are the two wealthiest and most aristocratic families of their county.

Mrs. Fairchild was the favorite niece of Horatio Seymour, and Mrs. Roscoe Conkling is her aunt. She has been' in mourning for Governor Seymour. She will, I understand, give a series of receptions as soon as Lent is over.

During the coming social season she will probably entertain largely, and her house will vie with Mrs. Whit. ney's as the leading social center of the Cleveland administration. Mrs. Fairchild is well fltted for such a position.

She is a well formed, blue eyed, rosy eheeked blonde, well educated and thoroughly up in society matters. She is agood talker, reads several anguages, and, I am told, has lately been aak-. ing a study of the Dutch, the tongue of her forefatheau Seceistary Fairchild's honme in Washington is in the best part at the fashionable northwet. It is on the corner of Counectioutand MaNachsetts avenees, just 'aw Blaine's big house and a stone'sthrow frnma the Chinese legation. Secretary Manigab lived within a rod or so of ift and it is not far away from the big mseaIna of the Britis legation.

Mrs. Pairchild's moter, Goverior Seymour's sister, lives with her. There are no children In the famnly; and Mrs Fairchild San only child. It was very amusing to note the atieuplt of the various seaurandaingg the late trip to Cuba at the Wrouscitos at. Mr.

bosaock, Senator Sher maa'sivb fhe retary, mcamtl hadlybe perumadd bas ua eglidL w.sr.ai.e a r'm Paleer, by tmh tin ars nutr fs a shook a speech upon their reception. He concluded to surprise them by giving them a speech in Spanish. He went to a Spanish scholar of his acquaintance and had blm write a speech for him. This, by the aid of his experience in Spain, hawas able to pronounce correctly, and he committed it to memory, putting in gestures and pathos, as the seatime6nt required. When the Mexicans assembled before him he rolled out this speech in the soft, mellow tonme of their language, and to the surprise of all, brought down applause at every period.

When his speech was over the Mexicans crowded around him and attemptedto engage him in Spanish conversation. He tried for a moment to show that he could nottalk Spanish, and finally had to pree tend that he was deaf in order to escape from them. He is a wonderfully versatile fellow, this a senator from Michigan. He has a wide knowledge of history, and he has as many strange bits of information packed away in the recesses of his brain as he has dollars in his bank account. He can tell a good story, sing a good song and he takes life easier and gets more out of it than any other public man I know.

During the trip to Cuba he was the life of the party, and he is as pleasant a traveling companion as you will find in a twelve month. FafxK G. OsarPxwma. ABRAHAM LINCOLN. John W.

Nichols, of Omaha, Relates Some Little Known History. Correspondence.1 I OAHIA, March 31. "I am reading with a great deal of interest Nicolay and Hay's life of Lincoln in The Century," said Mr. John W. Nichols, expresident of the Omaha fire department, to me.

"The chapters that will most interest me will be those relating to his career from 1862 to 1865, and particularly the history of the assassination. It is not generally known that more than one attempt upon Lincoln's life was made in Washington, but such is the fact." Mr. Nichols' statement interested me somewhat and I asked him to explain. He then went on and told me substantially the followiug story: In August, 1862, Company 105th Pennsylvania volunteers, of which Mr. Nichols was a member, was detailed as body guard of President Lincoln.

Up to 1864, owing to the vigilance of the guards, Mr. Lincoln escaped all attempts at violence. The back of the Confederacy was broken, a good feeling pervaded all Washington, and vigilance was considerably relaxed. It was then conspiracies were hatched and Confederates overran the city unmolested. The president and his family spent the summer months at the soldiers' home, about three miles north of the city, whither the body guard accompanied them.

It was the custom of the president to remain late at the war department and after his work was concluded he would ride on horseback out to the home. That summer he had persistently refused an escort, imagining hlmself per fectly secure. One night about the middle of August Mr. Nichols was doing sentinel duty at the large gate to the grounds of the home. About 11 o'clock he heard a rifle shot, and shortly afterward Mr.

Lincoln dashed up to the gate on horseback. The president was bareheaded, and as he dismounted he said, referring to his horse: "He came pretty near getting away with me, didn't het He got the bit in his teeth before I could draw the rein." Mr. Nichols asked him where his hat was, mid he replied that somebody had fired a gun off at the foot of the hill, and that his horse had become scared and jerked his hat off. "Thinking the affair rather strange," said Mr. Nichols, "a corporal and myself went down the hill to make an investigation.

At the intersection of the driveway and main road, we found the president's hat-a plain silk one-and upon examining it we discovered a bullet hole through the crown. The shot had been fired upward, and it was evident that the person who fired the shot had secreted himself close by the roadside. The next day I gave Mr. Lincoln his hat and called his attention to the bullet hole. He remarked rather unconcernedly that it was put there by some foolish gunner and was not intended for him.

He said, however, that he wanted the matter kept quiet, and admonished us to say nothing about it. We felt confident that it was an attempt to kill him, and a well nigh successful one, too. The affair was, of course, kept quiet in compliance with the president's request. After that the president never rode alone." Mr. Nichols then went on to relate the circumstances of a kidnaping conspiracy which was attempted to be carried out the next fall.

This plan was unknowingly frustrated by the- body guaiiird, whose quarters were immediately in front of the south porch of the executive mansion, equi-distant between that building and the treasury, state, war and navy depalrtlments. Just to the east of the quarters was the guard tent, where a portion of the body g.ard renmined on duty. For reasons then unklnown to the guard the tent was moved to the west end of the gravel walk, in the rear of the war department. Shortly afterward it was learned by the guardI that om the very night the tent was moved a plan had been laid to capture the president as he should pass along the walk and carry him to the house of one Green, a notorious rebel, on the bank of the Potomao, back of the White House grounds, andthence, when the opportunity offered, he was to he carried to Richmond and held as a hostage. It was always believed that the moving of the guard tent to the west end of the walk frightened the conspirators and thwarted their design.

At another time, not long after this incident, Bourke, the veteran coachman, who had served through two administrations at the White House, was saken sick. A tranger from Baltimore applied for the place and succeeded in securing it during the absence of Bourke. He did not hold the place very long, however, as he became so domineering and important that, he was intolerable. Bourke was reinstated. One night, not long after he had been dismissed, the diecharged coachman was discovered sneaking about the htables, which were soon observed to be on dire.

The whole guard was called out and by great exertiona seaved the presidential coach Mnd team, but Tad Lincoln's pony and Col. IHay's carriage team perished. It was believed that a plani had been formed for this aian to fire the stables, and during the exrciteie.nt conspirators were to rush into the VWhite House aid murder the president. Mr. Lin'oln, lhowever, rushed out with the rest to lthe of the ire mand thus frustrated any attenmptat assaa.inatioa.

"What made this plpear more evident," said Mr. Nichols, "was ihe fact that after- the incendiary was arrastedl he produced several witesses who were employed at Ford's theatre and who trestifled that he (the discharged eoachman) down iln the city during the whole evenirng on which thIe fire occurred. These were Slie persons who, nliy o.inion, laid the final Swim'nlecy that biugiitg Abraham Lincoln to as grave." AISam SORE8sON. Thomas B. Ceanery.

Thomas B. Connery, who has jt come before the people again beoause of his appointment to the office of secretary of the United Statoi legation at the City of Mexico, was very well ''inown some years ago as the managing editor of The Herald, and lter as the sditorof The Truth, in New York, alshough he was, of course, better known samong journalists than elsewhere He has lived in New TYrk nearly ab is Wfetime, withk re -e excelrthi -einseg period of THOMAs Coxar3T. the late civil war and of the, Caetaraon poro he acted as- chief coregpondest of The Herald in Wablngtiir, and was the trausted friend of Preiddent Jomhnson, ea 'e Lary Seward. s. ner, Secratery tsaton a ther mm of atl.ne span atiotm sedqatedSa JeouQ lege, lhrsmu.

her -se Ab emaation ritht eraldhsnaper been aed. his wa4suit ofChe rth aaioe The aSF 4 'ri LLK i JOAQUIN MILLER. HE WRITES ABOUT AN OLD MINING CAMP. Shasta City and the Mountain Calned BstaEemlniscenees of the Times When Men Mined Gold with Plck and Shovel-Other Matters of Interest. Sa3STra Crr, March I have slid a little further up the sacraneanto river on the iron groovesof the railroad since my lat.

We are a few hours nearer Oregon now. We are right before Mount Shasta and the world of eternal snow. This long pine covered and oak clad water shed, sloping down toward the south from Mount Shasta, is the California Piedmont. It is much like the Piedmont of Italy and not unlike the famous Piedmont of Virginia. This region is fairly well watered from natural springs which bubble up out of the ground, fed from melting snows on the majestic mountains before us, and out of which flow the headwaters of the Sacramento river.

And a little, cost and care in diverting this river and the smaller mountain streams out over this rich soil would make it all very profitable. At present the land is dry in the summer; too dry to advise you to settle on it without first making certain that you are to have plenty of water available. Nearly all this ground that lies in ravines and gulches has been washed over and over, of it five and even ten times, for gold. It was a famously rich mining camp thirty years ago. And here I dug for gold, working by the side of strong men, when but a lad.

The new generation may be curious to know how the various mines throughout California were found. Let me briefly state that the first men in Ihese mines were a sort of madmen. Like Cortez and his men t4pzPted every day, every hour, to comhe untold wealth. Men really expected to find great mountains of gold, or at least nuggets as big as barns. I remember that I always, day after after year, expected to some time and in some sudden and strange way stumble upon a colossal fortune.

Yet if I should receive twenty-five cents a day and board for what work I did in the mines, there would to-day be quite a balance to my credit, and 100,000 miners could say as much. No, the mines never paid the men who worked them at all, either in this rich camp or elsewhere. But the gold that was dug out contributed to the wealth of the world and carried it on and up, so that no one ought to complain. The great big lumps of gold, however, were never found. You can search the gold history of all 4ustralia through, as well as California, and be surprised to learn that there was never yet a single lump or nugget of gold found too heavy to be handled even by a woman.

Many nuggets were found, it is true, that were very promising in weight and size, but that was all. Yet they were like alluring beacon lights, and every new nugget or new and rich deposit of dust only excited men the more; and so, like the gold hunting Spaniards, they pierced every mountain pass, every canyon, and burrowed in the bed of every river on the western slope before they had been here a single year. It is a notable fact that all the placer mines of California were found during the first few months. The Comstock mines, bear in mind, are of quite another character. In the placers we washed the gold out of the dirt and put it in our purses the same day, clean and ready for the mint, while the gold or silver from the Comstock and other similar mines is ground out of solid rock by a long and tedious process.

I remember we used to wonder why we never found any silver. But while perhaps as many mountains of silver as of gold have been washed down, scattering silver dust up and down the gulches, you must know that silver dust corrodes and perishes, while gold dust endures foro ver. These mines here in Shasta were found by four Oregonians. They made a "rocker" out of boards split from a sugar pine tree, which they cut down for that purpose, and "rocked" out their fortunes in a few weeks. Then they pushled on through the wilderness to their homes in Oregon, and sent a small party by water to San Francisco to get a stronger force and push up the Sacramento river to this spot frTun where I now write.

Ex-Governor Boggs, of Missouri. whose wife was a of Daniel Boone, threw his sons and his fortune into the expedition, and, of tremendous results. But alas for ltmiletr's luck! One of the great grand sons of Daniel Boone, who was one of the leaders of the expedition, told me only a few days inl San Francisco, that nearly all of the cattle and some of the men perished from the extreme heat and for want of water, and the rest were glad to leave everything behind them in the wilderness and escape with their lives. But whenm I first came to this place-in 1855it was very faur front being a wilderness. It was bhere that 1 firstsaw a brick houseora hotel of any above the size and capacity of a roadside inn.

This indeed was my first cityuty flr-t gli.mpse of civiliuzation. I had been badly bitt in one of the little Indian bottoms a little further on up the river toward the Oregon line and was brought down here for treatment. I was brought into the place on a mule one evening after the many lamps were lighted in the one long and densely crowded street, and it seems to me I shall never see anything so beautiful as was that scene-the braying mules, the shouting Mexican packersor drivers, the red shirted miners crowding each other or shouting hurriedly back and forth and acroes. 8plendidl I was soon able to creep about and picked up a young fellow almost as weak and helpless as myself for a "pardner," and, pooling our few ounces of dust, we bought a pretty little "rocker" for $5, a fifty pound sack of flourfor $5, a box of yeast powders for fifty cents, a long fitch of bacon for $1, and so went out from the town, took up a claim and became miners. But it was a sorry struggle.

We worked hard, lived hard, tried hard in every way to get a few hundred dollars ahead, but in vain. My "pardner" was a nice, sensitive young fellow of fine education and noble nature. But we did not get on, and when spring came we separated and tried other and various Thie miners were very thick on the ground: so very thick that all this region for twenty miles around was one surging mass of men. There were easily a hundred men here then to where there is one now. We were never out of sight of each other while at work, and were in hailing distance of many toiling, handsome, good natured fellows all the time.

And I wamt to record my protest against the many stories of recklessness that are laid to the doors of the earlyminershere. Whatpver may have come after them, these first miners were sober and quiet. My fellow miner and partner, Volney Abbey by name, and no in Kansas, was something of a scholar and fond of reading Homer, and som be named the tortuous little stream on which we dog for gold the Meander. It was a swet spot wharewe had made our camp ander a giant oak, and had a delicious spring of water, And altogether it was a place that I remember with muish tendernas. Indeed, to confem the trqth, many and many a tim when siek iid tired in the battle of life I hwirldIown with a half formed reasolution return to that same spot and same apeibg and plant a trea will rest under its shadows tothe end.

But of coursewithth theming would come new strength, and I would keep smbbornly on. Yet when I was in-the Levant aw stood by the tomb of the Immort-I Greek, and bathed my feet-in the real Meander I resolved that if ever I pesed this way a I would seek out our muddy Bttle ere in Sbhsta, and sit bits b.ian hour, for old tlmee asta e. And so last smaLae urbenstere I hirsd a ho'se sd, taking the stable boy wiith me, I ms-inck out aeroe tbbhills ia saht of my Meander. I asket ever ma I elt up amidowa, sking a vai for tihe Meander. At last I turne to the stase bey aw demrirbed the spring asd the a edo couns of my Meander.

looked at me and grined a oait of or dlices aind "Oh, bel Yoou inde 'ai I do not mB I a si.g. m.l all tUhs hMd that I knme when mining hare thinty ya mand me ad e- ea. Iin eha ce fiy soon tine tai through a wenderab- ing, belh loeml aai86 ir iy IJQI4 PLANKINT'tN, Sketch of the Life and the Home of a Milwaukee Millionaire. Correspondeuce.j CHlcAGO, March 31. Not very long ago a very distiguished party left this city en route for Mexico and a the Pacifc coast, going by way of New Orleans and the Southern Pacifico railroad.

It was made up of Philip D. Armour and family of this city, H. O. Armour of New York and John Plankinton and wife of Milt waukee. They travel in regal style, occupying the $60,000 private car of Alex.

Mitchell, president of JoHN PLANKItroN. the St. Paul railway, and are accompanSied by a chef and a retinue of servants. They were paid many attentions as they 0 journeyed through the south, and were tendered formal receptions in Atlanta, New Orleans and other places. It is a curious fact that this is the first time in his life that one important member of the party has been paid any public attention.

John Plankinton is the member I refer to. Newspaper readers everywhere are familiar with the portraits and careers of the Armours. Phil Armour, the pork packer, is the most conspicuous man in the west. He is just now being boycotted by the entire order of the Knights of Labor and his name, and his meats, too, have been in the mouths of the people from one end of 1 the country to the other. His wealth is counted by the millions and he employs an army of 20,000 workmen.

And yet John a Plankinton. the man who gave him his start in life, who backed his daring speculations and was his business partner for so many years, is not known by sight outside of MilI waukee, except to his personal friends and business acquaintances, and he has lived 5 for sixty odd years so quietly and unostentatiously that a sketch of his remarkI able career has never been printed. He is easily worth $10,000,000, and until he turned the bulk of his business over to the Armours was the head of the )argest pork and provir sion packing house in the world-Plankinton, Armour Co. As long ago as 1880 his house was doing a business of $15,000,000 a year. Mr.

Plankinton is a self made man. He began at the bottom of the ladder and long ago reached the top round. He is about 66 years of age and is as homely as he is honest. In personal appearance he is fully six feet in height, as straight as an arrow and as active and full of life as a man of 30. His face is i smooth, and its most marked characteristic is a very long nose.

A Cincinnati reporter, who interviewed the party as they passed through that city on the way south, said he saw Mr. Plankinton's nose long before he saw the rest of his body. His hair is worn moderately long and is rapidly silvering. He wears good clothes and is scrupulously neat. This man has had a most remarkable career.

He was born in Newcastle county, March 18, 1820, and came west in 1844. That year he left Pittsburg and landed in Milwaukee. The place was a mere village. The young man leased ground and opened a butcher shop. He killed the "critters" himself, waited upon his customers and lived over his shop.

He was industrious, frugal, honest and obliging. He made friends and money from the start and he saved what he made. He ran his little shop until 1849, when he commenced the slaughtering and packing business. In 1868 Phil Armour, then a ruddy faced young Scotchman, was taken into partnership and the business from that time on fairly boomed. Branch packing houses were started in Chicago, Kansas City, St.

Louis, Cincinnati and other places, and business offices opened in New and London. The firm did an immense business They speculated like fury, cornered the markets time and time again and made millions. The great corners were supposed to be Armour's, but Plankinton was really the power behind the throne. THE PLANKINTON MANSION. A year or two ago Plankinton disposed of his interests in the great packing firm, neerely retaining the Milwaukee house.

He publicly announced that he had all the money he cared for and didn't want the bother of the business any longer. Since that time he has taken life comparatively easy. His interests are wholly local, but his methodical way of living keeps its grasponhim. He leaves his homeat 7 o'clock every morning and does not return until 6 in the evening. He is the most public spirited man in the Cream City.

His residence on Grand avenue is palatial It is said to be the best furnished house in the west. By its side is another stately mansion occupied by his son. Across the broad avenue a $100,000 house is just being completed for his unmarried daughter. This rich man has a peculiar hobby. It is a hoteL He don't care for fast horses, fine dogs, paintings or "suench truck," but he is ambitious to own the finest hotel in the west.

It is the Plankinton house. covers a whole block, represents an investment of $1,000,000 and is said to be one of the best kept in the country. While he is not a fancier of works of art, his house is a museum of fine paintings, costly statuary and rare bric a brac. They were mostly collected by his daughter, who is now and has been abroad many times. When an exposition was started Plankinton fairly fathered it.

After investing thousands in it he ended by presenting the association with $50,000. A dozen of the finest blocks in Milwaukee have been erected and areowned by him. Last summer when the Suengerfest met in this city, he donated $1,000 for a prize composition. He is foremost in all public entelrprises. A year ago his daughter presented the city with a statue of Washington, which cost $25,000.

These are the salient points of his career, and Milwaukeeans, when they come to Chicago, never tire of telling new stories of John Plankinton's prodigious generosity and enterprise. G. H. Edwiln Booth's Spe1ea. Mr.

Booth is a most retiring and timid man about society. He is the only actor I ever met who is embarrassed at a compliment. Most actors, when you.tell them how well they do. immediately proceed to explain to you that they are really greater actors than you think they are. Mr.

Booth seems to be nossessed by the unique conviction that Bhakespeare meant what he wrote, and one of his main dreads is of the man who wants to know if Hamlet was really insane or only feigning. i. was speaking of his reception at the Balda.1l the first night. "You saw my reception on Monday night," he said, "and I-I couldn't have said 'Thank you' before that curtain." He confessed to making one speeeh, but the remult was not very encouraging. Some years ago he went with his company to a place to play one night.

He had been specially requested not to play "Hamlet," as the people had seen him in that the year before and they wanted something else. When they asmsmubled at the teatre.they found the baggage had gone asgy and the eaotmnes for "BUidellsu" had not arrived. They must play else, and the only thing they coukd do wasteo-nae a bill a farce and three aete "Hamlet," which wre easiest to pate Boothwet out before the curtal and made aitts speechk "They listened to8m," he said, "and when I ot throgh a man in the front of thes aresr.aloatd up and said: 'All right, give as Haitme' I weist feeling very proud of my speedh I had done brlikhntly, I thought, ti InIheardsomnshedy Siig in freosnt of as eartals. What'athat I ald. to myselLf Sonebody objsectlag-a rw-ead I pgew excsslel nervoiw.

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Price six LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS. NOTICE TO CO-OWNERS. To T. H. BROWN AND H.

M. MONTGOMERY: You are, each and both of you, hereby notified that we have, in accordance with Section 2,321, Revised Statutes of the United States, expended in labor and improycments upon the WHITESIDES quartz lode mining claim, located in Oro Fine mining distrkt, Deer -Lodge county, stontana Territory, the same lode which was located November 1884, and recorded on page 767 of the Book of Lode Locations in the Recorder's ofilee of Deer Lodge county. M. being the same lode which was located in no organized mining district of Jefferson countl, M. on the 8th day ot November, 1881, and recolded ill Book of Lode Locations, in the Recoreer's office of Jefferson county, M.

one hundred dollars during the year ending December N1, A. D. 1881: And you, T. II. Brown and Ii.

Montgomery, co-owners, are hereby further notified that unless you pay, or cause to he paid to the undersigned, your co-owner', or either of them, Within ninety days froml the date of this notice, your one-focrth of said amount, vizT. Ii. Brown, Twenty-five Dollars for your one-fourth interest, and you, 11. M. Montgomern, Twenty-five Dollars for your one-tourth interest, all your right, title and interest in and to the said mininug claim will become the property of the undersigned.

lour co-owners, who have made the required expenditures. Dated at Deer Lodge, Derr Lodge county. Montrna Territory, this 4th day of Janutry, A. D. 1887.

SVITIH WIITESIDE. IIARRY C. CAIN. JAMES E. LAN'.

First publication Jan. 7, 1887. 913 13l Notice to Co-Owners. To Nell O'Donnell, John O'Donnell, or the heirs and assigns of either, or both. You, and each of you, are hereby notified that we, James McDonal, Barney Peoples and Cornelius Peoples, your co-owners, have, in accordance with Section 2324 of the Revised Statutes of the United States, expended for labor and improvements upon the CARBON Quartz Lode mining claim, situated in the Flint Creek mining district, Deer Lodge county, Montana Territory, Tfor the year ended December 31, 1886, the sum of one hundred dollars; and you are hereby further notified that unless you contribute or cause to be contributed the sum of Forty Dollars, your proportion of such expenditures, together with interest and costs, within ninety days of the date of this notice, all of your tigi litle, interest and claim in and to the above described "Carbon" quartz lode mining claim will become the property of the undersigned, your co owners, who have performed the work and made the required expenditures thereon.

JAMES McDONAL. CON. PEOPLES. uRNEY PEOPLES. Granite, Deer Lodge county, M.

fan. 1st, 1887. Eirst publication, Jan. 14, 1887. t14 'id Notice to Co-Owner.

TO JAMES C. are herchy notified that E. P. Mills, your co-owner, have, in accordance with Section 2324 or the Revised Statutes of the United States, expended for labor and improvements upon the CHAMPION quartz, lode inming claim, situated in Oro Fino Mining District, Deer Lodge county, Montana Terrilory, for the year ending December 31, 188l6, the sum or one hundred dollars And you are hereby further notified that unless you contribute or cause to be contributed to me the situ of twenty-five dollars. your proportion of such expenditures, together with interest and costs, within ninety-days of the date of this notice, all of your light, title, interest and claim in and to the above described Champion quartz lode mining claim will become the property of the undersigned your co-owner, who has performed the work and made the required expenditures thereon.

Feb. 7, 1A87. E. P. MILLS.

First publication Feb.11, 1887. 918 90d Naice to Co-0wner, To the administrator of the estate of James Brennan, deceased: You are hereby notifed that I have, in accordance with Section 2324 Revised Statutes of the United States, expended in labor and improvements on the NORTIHWEST Quartz Lode mining claim, situated in First Chance mining district, Deer Lodge county, M1ontana Territory, the sum of two hundred dollars, Ior the years l885 and 1886, ending and you are hereby furthernotified that unless you pay or cause to be paid to me, the undersigned, within 90 days from the first publication of this notice, your one-half of said amount, which is one hundred dollars, all your right, title and interest of, in and to the said mining claim will becume the property of the undersigned, your co-owner, who has made the required expenditures. MICHAEL McDERMOTT. Beartown, M. Jan.

2,1887. 913 9od First.publication, Jan. 7, 1887. Notice to Co-Owners. To J.

M. Knight, M. D. Annass and J. P.

Craigh. ton.You are hereby notified that I have, in accordance with Section 2824, Revised Statutes of the United States, expended in labor and im. provemesits on the MOUNTAIN CHIEF lode, situated near the head of Dunkleberg Creek, in no organized Mining District, Deer Lodge county, Montana Territory, one hundred dollars for the year ending Dec. 31, 1886. And you are further notified that unless you, J.

M. Knight, M. D. Annas and J. P.

Craighton within ninety dayasafter the date of this pay or cause to be paid to me your proportion of the above amount, for representation of your interests in said lode, all your right, title and interest of, in, and to the said quartz lode mining claim will become the property of the undersigned, your co-owner, who has made the required expenditures. AMBROSE ALIX. Deer Lodge, M. 24 1887. First Publcation Jan.

28, 1887. 916 90d Notice of Final Entry. U. St. L.AND tPPFICE, Belena.

M. March 10, 1887. Notice Is hereby given that the following named settler has filed notice of her Intpnuton to make flnal proof in support of her claim and thatuaid proof will be made before the Register and Receiver at Helens, on April 27th. 1887, viz: ODELIA LOGAN, who mnde Pre-emption D. 81.6314 for the SW3( NEW FrsciNWK NIE, Fraci S9)S NEM and N7 S93( Sec 2Tp9 7W.

She names Ihe following wittesses to prove her continuous residence upon, and cultivation of, said Edward Burns, of and Henry Klein, David 14. Sutton and Georre Booker, all of Helena, 92s6t 8. W. Register. Proposals for Military Supplies.

HEADQUATEras DBPASTamEW or DAOTA, OrrFc. CUma QUARTsxwr enAr, Br. PaI, March 26, 1887. SBALED PROPOSALS, In triplicate, subject to Sthe usual iondition, will bhe received at this oml or at the oioes of the uaartermasters at the following named Poets, and at Blsmarck, D. and Helea, M.

until lo'loek noon, on the 56th day of A.prl l. 1, at which time and places they will be opened In the presence of bhldders, for furnishing sad delivery of mslliary supplels durIng the seal July 1.,1817, as follows: Wood, Coal, Hay, Bran and Chasecal, Sor sac of said suppies as may be required at Saint Paul slid Fort Snelling, Ports Pemnbina, Sissetom, Totte, Buford, AbraBams Linoola, Needs, Yates, Basett, Randall, Sully snd D. (uartermasters Depot Forts eois CKE nerh 1mw ned.e stO th exene, Camp Poplar River 0e Heleaa, M. Siouxat City and Camp Prfenc gvein to artieles of domestic production and masmfacturrconditin peflt sad qtaity paen mce given to artile at and anafacture producd on the PaRde ECs to the extent of the consumptlon 1 reos.ed by the pablicaervlce there. The Government reserves the right to reject any or JAMas x.

do.o Farm for I fer.alee Mfae, coesi oif meaelldes and anuesea, es nl am sInsttsathe pi.4oa#lhamislm huMabr All.s~im a.st nlem s. a i 7, 4. HoUSE, DEEP LODcE, AYLESWORTH McFARLAND, Proprietors. Board and Room, $2 and $2.50 per Day. Single Meal, 50 Cents.

A Share of the Patronal of the Trarelin Public is ResFectfully Solicited. THE COLLEGE OF MON1ANA. CLASSICAL. SCIEN'TIFIC. NORMAL.

MUSIC and ART. INSTRUIENITS. APPARATUS. LABORATORY FURIISHINGS New nd Complete. OPEN TO BOTH SEXES ON EQUAL TERMS FOR TERMS, apply to Rev.

D. J. McMILLAN, D. D. President of the College, DEER LODGE, Montana.

8 6 N. J. BIELENBERG. ED. METLANDER.

Bielenberg Metlander, PROPRIETORS. Beef Mutton Pork Veal And all Kinds of Meat INCLUDING FISH and IAE IN SEASON. Main Street, Deer Lodge Montana. 918 JAS. Livery, Feed Sale 8table.

OLD VALITON STAND, DEER LODGE, MONTANA. Styllsh Turn Outs, Good Saddle Horses, Careful Hostlers. THE DEER LODGE TRANSFER "BUS" and Baggage Wagon, runrby the undersigned, connects with all Passenger Trains and will take passengers and baggage to or from any residence in Deer Lodge. 70(4 W. ESTILL, Prop'r.

JOHN O'NEILL, DEER LODGE, MONTANA. His the Knet Line of STOVES, Tinwire, Qeenswsw, 61li ilre, SILVERWARE, Ever hrought to the City, and is selling at prices that DEFY COMPETITION. Call and examine Goods and Prices before purchasing elsewhere. 931 IBI'Ell Upholstery and Furniture, Scott Deer Lodge, Montana. Parlor Sets al Bed-rool Sots An assotment 0 Wood and Cane Seat Chairs, WOVEN WIRE and all kinds of M3PRING MATT A No.

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PEOPLE'S MEAT MARKET, LODGE BEAUMONT, Prop'rP. Iain Street, Alljoiing O'Neill's Theatre, HAVING OPENED A General Meat Market, At the above stand, we will endeavor to furnish patrons with FRESH KILLED GOOD MEATS of all kinds, including GAMIE IN SEASON. And all articles usually supplied at a First-class Meat Market. lighest Price Paid for Pelts and Bides, A Share of Patronage Solicited. LODGE BEAUMONT.

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