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THEY'RE L. TT HAS been a good while since women be-? I gam mvaaing ine ouictu, iub wui nauuyi, and the professional quarters which one time were supposed to belong exclusively to men. and there is not today a single vocation In which women do not find a means of earning a living. Rut If la nnt nlnnn In tho ordlnarv lines of work that woman Is found. She hastaken readily to those pursuits which custom through many generations has taught us to believe were only for men, and courageous and venturesome men at that.

The number of women who are at present engaging in odd pursuits proves that there is no line of work lor which man alone was "cut out." Whatever a man can do a woman can do, if not as well sometimes, at least successfully in the majority of cases. There are today women who practice law, who build bridges, who mine, go exploring, who enforce the law a regularly appointed officers, who are winning fame as star gazers, and who are doing all otner trying mings tuai uciciuiuit been left for men to do. A few days ago a wpman started to cross the wilds of Labrador on an exploring expedition a irl down In Texas Is a deputy i cHimt An Kliaf aiierilX, nu I uvi 1 am iu suwt. ern woman is making money catching rattlesnakes. A Western woman is working tho mine from which her husband was taken to be sent to Jail.

A Massachusetts girl baa made herself famous by the discovery of a new" star. A Pennsylvania girl had herself appointed sergeant of police. And so the list might bo extended indefinitely. How well these women perform the duties they have set about' is best told la separate accounts of the work of each ono of them. Hubbard's Widow Turns Explorer.

FOLLOWING in the footsteps of her late husband, who starved to death last year In the wilds of Labrador while on an exploring expedition, Mrs. Leocidas Hubbard has set out to complete the work her husband was unable to finish. On June 15 Mrs. Hubbard aailed from Halifax. N.

for the Nascaupee river region, and from there ahe will travel overland Into the great unknown and barren region southeast of Hudson bay. Mrs. Hubbard goes as a rival explorer to Dillon Wallace, who accompanied Hubbard on bis unsuccessful exploring trip. The little woman Is not altogether a stranger to Labrador. She accompanied her husband as far as Rlgolet, on the eastern shore of Labrador, on his expedition, which started In 1903.

With them were Dillon Wallace and George Elson, the guide. Mrs. Hubbard returned to THIS IS THE TORNADO SEASON. The arrival of the midsummer tornado in the Southwest. with the resulting loss of life and property, only goes to prove once more the truth of what the government says about these, death dealing storms.

Kansas, Missouri. Iowa. Nebraska. Oklahoma, Texas, and the rest of the treeless Southwest must expect these undesirable visitors during the hot months. Tbey must continue to expect them until the plains are covered with trees, until all the semi-desert land is Irrigated and becomes a great garden, for It Is only In a complete change of the conditions ot vegetation that the Southwest can be partially ridden of its greatest terror, the tor-rado.

Though the average frequency of tornadoes probably is do greater than It was twenty-five years ago. or eighty years ago, wbea the first records began to be collected systematically, the almost unnoticed rapidity wltbwhich the West is developing new towns along its leading railroads offers a field of destruc- tiveness increasing so rapidly tn wealth and population that the loss of life and property annually must seem to Increase through an apparently greater frequency In the number tornadoes. In the West this apparent Increase Is being accompanied by what seems to be a real Increase in the number of tornadoes In the region of the middle Mississippi, where the forests, wltirh once served as windbreaks, are now disappearing, leaving what was once one- of the most heavily timbered regions of the world now in rapid approach of treeless- ness. Develop la Treeless Area. The records of cyclones, officially kept for three-quarters of a centuty in this country, leave no room to doubt that one of the most essential conditions for their full development is a wide area of country, either treeless or nearly so.

When they have once developed tbey show by their work In the primeval forests of the middle Mississippi that the densest growth of the largest trees, such as tb hite oak. sweet auat. jollow NOT "CUT OUT" FOR THE WORK, BUT New Tork. while the party pushed on Into the wilds. It was in October that Hubbard perished.

George Elson. who accompanies Mrs. Hubbard on this trip, tramped for miles through the wilderness to seek aid for Hubbard, but the relief party found the explorer dead and brought out his body, which was buried many months afterward. Dillon Wallace started a few weeks ago for an exploring trip in Labrador, and when he left he had no idea that Mrs. Hubbard was about to do the same thing.

He tried to get the services of George Elson again, but the guide refused, giving his coming marriage as the reason, though the real reason was that he was under engagement to act as guide to Mrs. Hubbard. Mrs. Leonidas Hubbard Is a Canadian. She studied nursing in New York, and, having passed her examinations, became a nurse in one of the Brooklyn hospitals.

There she first met Mr. Tlubbard. He had typhoid fever, and It was under her tender care that he recovered. His convalescence was an idyl, and soon his restoration to health they were married. They lived happily at Congers, N.

until the exploring trip which ended his career. Her devotion to him did not cess? with his life, but after his death was consecrated to his memory, and it is this devotion which has now sent her away to brave the perils of unexplored and almost barren-regions. She looked upon her husband as a great genius and feels that his work must be completed. The object of this work was to examine the Nascaupee Indians, a tribe which had never seen a white man and was known only through the stories of guides. He also desired to explore the unknown interior of Labrador and to come out down the George river to the entrance to Hudson strait.

Before leaving Halifax Mrs. Hubbard outlined her plans as follows: I "'We are going first to Glllisrport and then to Northwest river, which is about ten miles from Giilisport. From the Northwest river post we shall go up the Nascaupreor North west river to Ltia aiicnmamau, imsms through Seal lake en route. The object of my expedition Is not so much to see Indians as It Is to secure a thorough map of the Nascaupee and George rivers. The Indians would be of use to us in that they might give us Information on which we could base a course for ourselves.

VAfter leaving Lake Mlchikaman we shall try. to cross the country to the head waters of the George river. It Is possible that we shall have to make many long portages: but If everything goes well we expect to be In Ungara In time to get the Hudson Bay company's steamer Pelican on her annual return trip to. Rlgolet. The route Is the same as that marked out by Mr.

Hubbard for the previous expedition, but he had two alternate routes picked out by which he hoped to get to the gulf of St. Lawrence If he found it impossible to get to Ungara or back to the starting point. These alternate routes do not enter Into our plans at all, as should we find that as the season advances we should be unable to reach Ungara in hickory, and elm cannot be relied on as "windbreaks" by any particular locality. The midnight tornado is one ot the exceptions to the rule that the afternoon, "between 12 'clock and 6. Is their daily period of by far the greatest frequency.

Out of 162 whose periods were compared from official records by Buchan and Stewart, only two occurred between midnight and 2 o'clock in the morning. Between noon and 2 o'clock in the afternoon there were IS; from 2 o'clock to 4. 47; from 4 o'clock to 6. 52; from 6 to 8 o'clock. 17.

Thus the total out of 162, occurring between 8 o'clock in the even-log and noon of the next day. was only 26, or for these sixteen hours Just half the total number occurring In the two hours between 4 and o'clock in the evening. Move ta East. This in connection with what Is known of their general direction seems to be the most Important fact in their recorded history. The direction of over 300 was east by north, and of thirty-eight east by south, whilefifty others of the total thus compared had some easterly movement.

The movement thus established is almost without exception toward the east, and In the great majority of cases to the north of east. The suggestion Is that the general course of the cyclone tends to that of the lines of force from the sun as connected with the time of day and of the year. It seema to be clear that as the sun descends from noon to 8 o'clock its movement toward the west is In some way the most directly explanatory factor of the general easterly movement of tornadoes. The fact that the greater number of them occur In the afternoon seems closely connected with the action ot the sun in changing the rate ot vibration in surface air. as the revolution of the' earth presents a given amount of surface, say forty miles square, to the sun's rays.

The accumulated effect of this change, whether It is in heat or electricity, is. of course, greater la the afternoon, aad it is'not, therefore, so difficult to form an idea of why the majority of tornadoes should occur in the afternoon as It is to explain their general movement tway from the sun in its apparent movement to the west. Although almost universally named "cyclone" In the Jocainiea. of Its greatest fre THE DTTER OCEAN, SUNDAY MOBNCfa, JULY 9, 1903, Drputtr Sheriff time, we shall return to Northwest river by the same route. I would not undertake to winter in Labrador, for many reasons." This Texas Girl Is a Deputy Sheriff, ON a ranch down in Texas there lives a young woman who for soma time has been engaged In a vocation for which It has always been supposed only men were "cut out." She Is a deputy sheriff of Mexico county, la the Lone Star, state.

This young woman's name Is Clara Driscoll. She i no untaught lass of the "wild and woolly" Southwest, but Is a highly educated, extremely wealthy young woman, who numbers among her intimate friends the wealthiest and best known people of the North. Almost every year sees her In Chicago and New York. In the latter city she Is often the guest of the George Goulds. Miss Driscoll is a small, lithe, active, and very pretty girl.

She first figured in th public life of her state when she made an effort to rescue from oblivion the celebrated old Alamo. Her father is the owner of the great Palo Alto ranch of 400,000 acres, in southwestern Texas. The ranch is about eighteen miles from Corpus Christi and a little more than 100 miles from the Rio Grande. When young she was sent to France, where she spent three years In a convent. When she returned to Texas she became known as the Diana of the Southwest, she being one of the best hunters in the state.

But the strangest side of the life of this young woman has to do with her commission as deputy sheriff of the county In which she lives. Sho has bad numerous experiences with cattle rustlers and bandits and fence cutters, and she has proved her worth as an officer of the law. One of her experiences had to do with the rustlers. From time to time there had been on her father's ranch depredations by cattle rustlers and "fence cutters." mostly Mexicans from over the border. These men expected no mercy and gave none.

A bullet cut down whoever happened to interpose between them and their retreat. A trusted foreman, an elderly man. had been shot dead by these desperadoes. Miss Driscoll was determined that justice should be meted out to these men whenever run down by her cowboys. The sheriff or the Texas ranger might be miles and miles away when he was mopt needed, and she wanted no lynch law on her ranch.

Then, too. given as she was to riding on her spirited mustang to the outermost limits of the ranch, the license to carry a pistol gave her a complete sense of security. It happened at a time when she had taken an unusually long ride and had started to return to the ranch over a more southerly route. It was midday. Entering a copso of low trees, she saw ahead tho outline of a river bank.

As she came nearer she detected a thin column of smoke rising from below the bank of the dried river bed. Thinking it was a part of her father's men, she rode up until she could get a better vision. There below, crouching over a fire they had built, were two Mexicans, villainous looking fellows; near at hand lay their rifles. They were so absorbed In their occupation that they did not hear her approach. Her keen sense detected the odor of cooking flesh, and Uor the first time she noticed the carcass of one of her father's yearlings lying further on.

Then, as she thought of the fate of the former foreman, who had fallen, a victim perhaps tq these same men. she realized ber peril. As an officer of the law it was her duty to arrest them at any cost. She drew her .11 caliber Colt's navy, and. covering them, she dashed down over the river bank.

The men, taken unawares, threw up their hands. They were commanded to move away from the fire, while she secured their rifles; then. quency, the tornado is supposed to be distinct from the cyclone in being a more nearly local disturbance, and by some it is also supposed to originate In currents moving upward from the surface, while cyclones are associated with more general currents, moving parallel witb the surface. The common name of "cyclone." however, is accurately snggestive ot the whirling storm center, which forms on some stretch ot prairie, exposed to the full power of the sun, and then moves with what is for a time an irresistible force, as under its rapid revolutions the air close around It is drawn toward its focus, and apparently almost or quite solidified. The effects of the passage of such a whirling column of dense air near a are now only too well known.

The bouse may be so affected by the tremendous power of ths vacuum outside as to explode in a literal sense with a violence which may reduce a frame building almost to splinters. Such fragments have been noticed after tbey bad been drawn into the whirl of a Missouri cyclone, and strewn as drift along the prairie Into which it was deflected by a group of frame houses on the outskirts of a town, whicih lay In what proved to be the direct line. of its general course. After being thus deflected, and after having strewn the group of frame houses in splinters on the prairie, it returned and wrecked In whole or part over two-thirds of the bouses in the town. Westera Tornadoes Klectrlral.

The universal testimony is that every Western tornado is heavily electrical, and there has been much discussion of electricity its cause. It Is manifest, however, that the direct general cause is the change tn the temperature of the atmosphere caused by the steady shining of the sua on an extensive area of the earth's surface which has no trees or other vegetation sufficient to deflect the rays. How the cyclone is formed after a sufficient body ot air bas its molecules thrown out into an extraordinary rapid rate of vibration by the sun's heat Is a disputed with the general opinion in favor of currents of heated air meeting (ach other, and by their opposition producing the whirling movement. If it is assumed that air sufficiently beat-4 wiib a sufticlent area la which to form woman like, she saw that they appeared desperately hungry, and she allowed them to finish their roasting, and even ate with them. This strange repast ended, the comely deputy mounted her mustang and marched these men ahead of her back to the ranch, where they were securel until a ranger took them in charge and saw them safely in Corpus Christ! Jail.

A New York Woman Is a Snake Catcher. Ta snake hunter and a very enthusiastic HERE is a woman in New York who is one. She is Mrs. August Saunlg, wife of a merchant. There is one other member of the family who goes on the hunts Puck, the fox terrier.

On a recent trip to the mountains tbey caught thirty-seven snakes In five hours' hunting, thus establishing a record Id this exciting sport which it would be hard to beat. When a score or more of men belonging to a society club at Kent. set out on a hunt a fortnight or more ago. their day's labor only resulted in the killing of a dozen and a half of snakes. Mrs.

Saunlg was born under the sunny skies of Italy and lived most of her life there. She writes pretty little poems in Italian, and paints water color sketches which are Tar from bad. In Italy, when a girl, she loved every form of outdoor exorcise and especially real mountain climbing. Many a little expedition which counted ber as a member went exploring over ranges seldom visited by the foreigners. Mr.

Saunig is a native of Austria. He bas always made it a practice to go into the Pennsylvania mountains about four times a year for a week's hunting." visiting at Sho-hola Falls, and making excursions with a guide into the good fishing and hunting country thereabouts. Once he shot a black bear weighing 267 pounds, and be has always been on the lookout for another. The deer hunting Is good and woodcock abound. Then there are the snakes.

Once when Mr. Saunig was fishing a trout stream with male friends, a rattlesnake gilded silently along the surface of the water to within a few feet of him. The others warned him Just in time, and be whipped out the revolver from his hip pocket in time to send a shot through the snake's eye. It "Was a rosy cheeked and spirited girl whom this, hunter fell In love with In the person of Evelina. Those who like their snakes best at a distance may make disdainful remarks about snake hunting as a liberal occupation, but Evelina Saunlg had a clear complexion and a healthy, supple figure which your fine lady with too much in-toors might well have envied.

They were married six months ago, and the joy of the "sporting" life for both was Increased fourfold. No skirts for Mrs. Saunig on those trips Into the mountains. If you please. Her brown denim hunting costume is not bloomers, not knickerbockers, but half way between.

The light jacket fits loosely about her shapely and rigorous figure. She carries a rifle or a light hot gun for she is a capital shot with both, as well as the revolver and she wears a six hooter in a holster at her belt. And that long knife, by the way, which -bangs at the other tide, has historical associations. Mr. Saunlg was In the Argentine republic In July, 1890.

Just in time to occupy a front seat at one of impromptu for which our South American neighbors are Justly celebrated, and. after the fighting was ever, ha stepped out into the -street, where people wera scooping up thrown away weapons by the armful, and modestly helped himself to a bayonet for a keepcake. Sharpened a bit. It makes a very good hunting knife, and Mrs. Saunlg wears It in case of an emergency for Mr.

Saunig still expects to meet that other black bear some day, and there are times, with a bear's affectionate its vortex will do so, even without meeting resistance from other currents, the cyclone. In Its subsequent history. Is largely self-explanatory. When uch a vortex of dense air once began Its rapid motion it would become electrified by Its friction against the air through which it moves. Electricity, under this view, is merely a change in the rate of vibration of the particles of matter involved from that originally given tbem by the direct rays of the run.

A whirling column of air in rapid motion, both forward and around its own force center, the cyclone bas a double force of de-structlveness; first, from Its enormous power ot direct Impact, and. probably, a greater Indirect force in destroying buildings from its "socks" duo to the vacuum it creates in its passage. While all that can now be said on the subject is largely by way of suggestion and merely tentative, tha rapid accumulation of facts Justifies the hope that an actually comprehensive knowledge of the causes and general operations of these "twisting" columns of air will result in greatly decreasing their destmctlveness. The Oldest Mule. Special Correspondence of The Inter Ocean.

JACKSON, July 7. The oldest male In Mississippi is the property of a negro farmer named T. J. Jefferson, who lives tn Copiah county, about thirty miles from this city, and the old darky Is Inordinately proud ot his venerable possession. The mule Is 36 years of age, and was born during President Grant's administration.

Tho old H.eifi- hmight the animal in 1871 from a planter u'aHTed William Flowers, and has been its continuous owner ever since, not even being compelled to plaster ber with an occasional mortgage. Her name Is Maud, and she was 2 years old when Jefferson became ber owner. Sines that time he made thirty-roar crops with this animal, and she is still hale, hearty, and frisky, and bids fair to live at least another decade. The passage of years is plainly marked In Maud's coloring, however, for In early girlhood she was a dark and beautiful sorrel, and now ber complexion Is a strawberry roan, while ber head is almost as white as that ot her venerable master, who cherishes for her a most ardent sllectioo. Jefferson has frequently declared that he wouldn't swap Maud for a pair of the finest mules in MisslssippL bug closing about one, when little shooting irons become superfluous.

From her knees to her ankles Mrs. Saunlg Is protected by leather gaiters, through which the rattlesnakes would make bard progress if they tried to bite; and on her feet she wears substantial shoes. Mr. Saunig is protected up to bis thighs in a similar manner. largest rattlesnake which Mr.

Saunig ever caught was five feet seven inches long. From the trip in May the Saunigs brought back to New York as many as a score of live rattlers, many of them more than four feet long. Mrs. Saunlg'a income from her strange occupation is no small amount. Woman Astronomer CD.

sewers a Star. THROUGH the sharp eyes, allied with the perseverance and mathematical skill of a young woman of Cambridge, a new star has been added to the catalogues of the hosts of heaven, and astronomers all over the world are verifying her discovery. The young woman is Annie J. Cannon, and she is in the photographic research department of the Harvard observatory at Cambridge. Now the observatory officially announces the discovery of the star over the signature of Professor Edward C.

Pickering, and the young woman is receiving the of astronomical people of all parts of the country. The new star that lias swum into the ken of astronomy a called RS Ophiuchi, and, although it was first noticed as long ago as 1898 by Miss Cannon, such matters require the most searching of investigation, and it is only now that the observatory bas accumulated enough confidence that the young woman has actually found a new star to make the announcement to the world. The discoverer of a star has, of course, come upon something far larger than Columbus did when he found the making of the U. but the practical value of the find outside the astronomical world might be questioned. Miss Cannon is most modest about ber discovery, declaring that it is all in the day's work, but ber fellow workers, particularly Mrs.

willlamena P. Hemming, curator of the astronomical photographs, are enthusiastic in their praises of the painstaking care in her work that led the young woman to note the variation of what to the lay eye is a mere dot among millions of other dots on a photographic plate. Miss Cannon at the present time, besides examining photographic plates, is preparing a history of variable stars. She bas made herself noteworthy among astronomers by her splendid work in cataloguing the southern stars. This Is one of the most Important undertakings of astronomical research.

To Miss Cannon a few years -ago was assigned the work of cataloguing the spectra of bright southern stars. Photographs for this examination were taken with the thirteen inch Boyden telescope at the Arequipa station of the observatory in Peru, where the great elevation and the clearness of the climate made it possible to obtain impressions of very many stars. This catalogue contains 1.122 bright stars, and was completed several years ago. 5,961 plates being examined, the first taken Nov. 29, 1891, the last Dec.

6, 1899. But Miss Cannon's more recent work bas been the more difficult. A complete bibliography of the variable stars then known was begun here some years ago by Professor W. who wrote about 15,000 ears WHEN DEAD Special Correspondence of The Inter Ocean. DEAD WOOD, S.

July For the first time In thirty years there is iy gambling In Dead wood. The most picturesque feature of life in the most noted gold camp in the world bas been suppressed, and every gambling Joint In famous old Deadwood la now closed all because a city official suddenly "went good" and decided to enforce the laws, which have been on tbo statute books tor twenty years. Never since the grand rush In 187Cr when in a single day Deadwood became a city of- 6,000 men and half a dozen women, bas there been a minute when the little ivory ball waa not revolving around tbo roulette wheel; when tbo click of tbo chip, tbo roll of dice, and tbo clink of silver and of gold bas not been loud in Deadwood gulch but all la now stilled. Tho "pcofesh" stand around in groups on street corners and discuss the situation. So great Is the sudden reform that even all chairs bave been removed from the saloons add curtains from tbo windows.

When a man drinks in Dead-wood now be must do so before any one who pleases to glance through the clear windows as he passes. There was a time In Dead-wood when people didn't care who saw tbem drinking, but under the new order of things public opinion counts. There are rows and rows of closed rooms on Deadwood'i principal street now. where formerly gambling went on. There are more saloons in Deadwood than all other business bouses combined.

And formerly nine out of every ten saloons bad a gambling Joint In but tbey don't any more. Uarcs't Worked tot SO Years. There are men In Deadwood who haven't done a lick of work for thirty years, except so far as dealing faro, playing poker or roulette, or some other game of chance is work. But they have to go to work now or leave tbo country. There been some famous old gamblers in Deadwood, and some great games bave been played here.

In the earlier days, when gold dust, lustead of "cash," was tbo medium of exchange, there were games when pounds and pounds and bags of dust and nuggets wars cast on tb table and won or DO IT ANYHOW. I If Wi in lie i TV Mi I 5 I 1 r- il vvvk. LJ 4 for it. This work was resumed in September. 1900.

and has since been continued by Miss Cannon, so that there are now more than 34.000 cards. The bibliography is a complete detailed history of each star in the series. A minute record of every observation of each star is given, the observations of maximum brightness being contained in one table, those at minimum in another; the name -of the observer in each case is also given, and the observatory and instrument, as well as the technical description of the star, with Its position and period of variability, date, etc. And now she has crowned it all with a "new star." Only astronomers, perhaps, can realize what that means to its discoverer. A PennsyVbania Girl Is Police Sergeant.

MISS NETTIE PAYNE of Butler. is engaged in an occupation which, so far as known, is not followed by any other young woman in the country. She is desk sergeant on the police force In that city. Miss Payne does not wear a uniform, nor does she smoke or awear while on duty or oft it, for that matter. Indeed, since her tenure of office began Smoking" signs have been placed in conspicuous places on the walls of the police headquarters, and the use of the weed by visitors Is strictly tabooed.

For several hours each night Miss Payne Is in entire charge of the force. Seated at a desk In headquarters from 7 p. m. to 5 a. she receives the hourly telephone reports of the patrolmen as they go over their beats', and marks the time of the calls on a big report sheet, which is the record of the faithfulness of each officer.

Simultaneous with the appearance of Miss Payne as sergeant, a new police system was put into force. Now. if there Is a call for police assistance from any part of the town. Miss Payne turns a button, which flashes a red light hanging from an arm at the top ot a thirty foot pole over the town building. It can be seen by the Main street "squad" and from many other parts of the town.

Every polleeman rails up headquarters the moment he sees the red light, and is Informed by Miss Payne of the nature and location ot ths trouble. Formerly Miss Payne was a seamstress WOOD QUITS lost on the turn of a card. Numbers of tho older gamblers have died with their "boots on," and the cemetery on a hill overlooking tho town Is sprinkled witb the graves of those killed in gambling Joints. Among some of the great gamblers who bave lived In Ceadwood and made the game famous here were "Wild Bill" Hickok and Jack McCall, his slayer; "Lank" and Charley Keys, brothers, sjamblers. stage robbers, "Lame" Johnny, gambler and stage Hale, Dick Ranklns, Billy Gay.

"Lengthy" Johnson, and a host of others, soma dead and others living. And the gambling fraternity was not confined to men alone. There were a number of women gamblers in tho early days, and Calamity Jane, who died last year, and other pioneer and border characters, sit in a game aad win or lose witb the same equanimity as did tbo gamblers of tbo opposite sex. Tao Twesly-Matk Aaalveraary. On Juno 23, 1S76, gold was discovered in Deadwood gulch; on June 22.

1905. gambling was stopped in Deadwood. That makes twenty-nine years of gambling, for. with the very first bunch of miners to arrive on tha scene of the new "diggings' came whisky and gambling "stud" and faro. With gold almost as plentiful as water, tho pickings were certainly great.

The mining at-that time was altogether placer' work, and gold was easily gotten. Tho Wheeler brothers, who secured one of the best placers in the gulch, took out gold dust at tbo rate of $5,000. per day for each man working. In less than ono month the two brothers took out 1250,000 In gold dust from ono little claim down In Deadwood gulch. An Irishman named Casey, on a near by claim, did almost as well.

Dozens of other placer miners throughout the northern Black hills took out fabulous sums in a few days. And where money came so easily it waa bound to go with a free band. At night the claims could not be worked, so the miners gathered in the rough slab shacks or tho tents, drank whisky, and gambled. Often a miner, after losing bis last cent (or ounce), would stake his claim. Independently wealthy ono day, the following day the same man would often bo working for some one else the very plaeer he bad previously owned.

But when wage run. from S10 to iiO per day, it waa possible a a 7 employed at a garment factory which recently removed from the city. She likes her new work very much, she ssys. It is very dull all alone in headquarters soma nights, she admits; but there is always the fascinating possibility that something might "break loose." In the meantime, the fair desk sergeant whiles away the hours munching popcorn, reading interesting books, or doing fancy work. The appointment of Miss Payne was suggested by Chief Edward Schults.

who believed that she could do the work as well as any man. The objection was raised that she would not be able to respond In person to the calls for police services. The chief overruled this argument with the common sense reply that such qualification was not necessary in a desk sergeant, tor. while he (or she) was out responding to one call, others ot more urgency might come In witb nobody on hand to receive them. Husband in a Cell, She Works a SMfae.

CLAD In boots, overalls, and Jamper, witb a strap for a belt, and wearing a big slouch hat over the glossy black roils of abundant hair that winds about her head. Mrs. Charles L. Geyman of Butte, descends every morning Into Yankee Boy mine and works all day among her husband's force of thirty men. directing them and superintending their duties.

Her husband is in the Silver Bow county Jail, charged with taking ore through an underground tunnel from neighboring mine. The charge was brought against him by the Amalgamated Copper company. For several weeks Charles Geyman has been in Jail, but never since bis Incarceration have bis interests been allowed to suffer or the much needed profits of his tittle mine to deteriorate. Tor when the sheriff took Geyman into custody his wife toak charge of tha Yankee Boy. A typical woman of the West, with physical strength and vigor as well as a brave spirit and diversified cspabilities, Mrs.

Geyman laid hold of the work with earnestness, and so capable has her management been that the Yankee Boy Is now on a splendidly paying basis. In all parts ot the mine the figure of the courageous woman who is saving her husband's property from lapsing into ruin Is familiar, sometimes at the throttle of a hoisting engine, sometimes beside the big stone crushing plants in the mill above, and again among the men giving or ders and comprehending at a single glance tha requirements of the situation. Mrs. Geyman is now and then called upon to circumvent a clever piece of maneuvering on the part of the enemy, or by actual force of arms to defend the rights of the Yankee Boy. "Why.

spies of the Amalgamated have actually tried to go down into the Yankee Boy- eight under my nose." said Mrs. Geyman, In dignantly. "One day I saw a number of them standing on the ready to go down Into the shaft. I noticed that they were not our men, and I bad to act quickly. I grabbed op gun and gave them Just thirty seconds to get off the Yankee Boy claim.

You should have seen them go!" Mrs. Geyman is not yet SO. and ber beaaty Is such as- would attract attention In any fashionable drawing-room. GAMBLING. to continue gambling, and possibly to recover the lost placer itself.

The rush to Deadwood was one of the most spectacular things in the history of the gold discoveries of the West. Seventy-five mile below Deadwood gulch was the town of Custer wtth some 7,000 inhabitants. Gold bad been discovered in the neighborhood, and Custer was the first town In the Black hills. Ono night in the latter part of June, 1S76. came the report of tbo big find of gold In Deadwood gulch.

Events proved the find very rich, but tho reports made it yet richer. It was said that "dust" could be Just shoveled up from the little stream. Tks Deaiwead StaaaB4e. Before daylight the next morning tho stampede began. Horses sold for any prico not less than S300 each.

Most of the mea went on "foot back" for want of other means. Within twenty-four hours Custer was deserted by all but women and children and even a number of women made the Journey to the new El Dorado. Another twenty-four boors and a new town bad arisen Deadwood in the northern bills. Those on horseback reached the place after one day's travel. Tha footmen straggled In the following day, and Deadwood had 5,000 Inhabitants, all living in tents and in the open air.

Two barrels wtth slab across constituted tha saloons, and drinks were $1 each. The next day the gambling bouses opened, and remained open-day, night, and Sunday for twenty-nlno years. Old Deadwood Dick, the noted scout sn.l plainsman, who Is yet living In Deadwood. was In the rush from Custer. He says: "There was a stream of people sixty miles long.

All day and all night they walked, and as they reached Deadwood gulch they spread' out over the bills, because there wasn't room enough down in tho canyon for them all. For the whole distance there was never more than ten feet between people ail tbo way from Custer to Deadwood. I hsvs been In many gold stampedes, but nothing lika tho Deadwood rush ever before or sine took place." But Deadwood without gambling is like river without water. The people don't know what to do, and every effort is going to be made to Induce Mayor McDonald to rescind bis closing order and permit tbo Joints to open again..