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Show +1 aera igre acne seme ig St eek ‘PEE? OWES Thoughts from a Lady's Diary. IT have a passion for prying into the private thoughts of quiet people. Itisa very impertinent thing to do, I know, but the delight it affords is greater than I can resist. There is such a very great difference between the outside and the inside of this world that when one beholds something that has ‘not had its day for exhibition, it seems almost like a stray from some other uni- verse. When everything I see and hear becomes so vapid and uninteresting that I grow almost faint with mental hunger, nothing could be more refreshing than a communion with some quiet soul whose mantle of seclusion falls about her with so natural a grace that as she goes and comes none seem to be aware of her. She moves in an atmosphere that is so rare amidst the world’s bustle and confusion that its very mustiness becomes enjoyable. I have an abiding faith in the usefulness of life in its inner tem- better go there. Here are the bench and the stove and here am I; but the stove has no fire in it and the bench is not any too comfortable for a feeble old woman sons who would show plainly dressed country civility people, to even persons who would not reserve all their politeness for silk and feathers, who all the time these siieat and ceaseless undercurrents are at work, and underneath the rush and the roar they are moulding its future channel. Many are the voiceless hearts that ing one thatis uninitiated like I am, “This is no waiting room; it is no place for you.” I have preserved this scrap now thirteen years hoping some day I should meet once more with its author. There is only one that should be any way ashamed of its publication and that is a creature without a soul, a corporation. Linpba. Park City Items. THE DALY MINE. shaft. They are those that enjoy life in its purer and warmer atmosphere. Into its true emotions, its joys, its cares, its bereave- cends. The engineer at his post is some fifty feet from the shaft but in full view thereof. Two indicators, bearing a ments, they enter with a deep and ardent strong sympathy. But in the pettiness, the artfulness, the intellectual emptiness of the men and women of the period, they numbers painted on as. th eis low when of miners descending to the The shaft is constructed so that one cage descends resemblance to the other barrels, as- with their sides, revolve th ; are u quiet and unmoved.. Thinking of unspd to my mind a scrap I « m train and was alone save for the presence. coat, armed with a miner’» candlestick, we entered the cage, the signal was given, andin a moment with hardly a of a somewhat perceptible movement a railroad station. I was waiting for the elderly lady whom I found in the waiting room. She was sitting in the corner with a little old hand bag on her lap using it for a sort of we stopped at the 200 level. With Mr. Judge (who, by the way, is a good judge of a mine) for a guide we began explorations. Starting desk while she scribbled on a bit of north we traversed what appeared to be brown paper that she had evidently a tunnel which was well timbered, and picked up in the office. There was an which was cut through a, vein of rich expression of mystic intellectuality in ore. After a few hundred yards we her countenance which at once drew me came to a man-way, as itjis called, which into her sympathy. I spoke and she permits the miner to pass from one answered with a civil reserve which gave stope to another. This stoping process is me no encouragement to press my ac- nothing more than a vast system of quaintance farther. We were together timbered tunnels as one might say; for only a few minutes, when her train instance, the main shaft is 800 feet in arrived and she went aboard. As she depth with levels te hundred feet. passed out I felt a pang of disappoint- The ore being encovhtered on each level ment that returns even now after many is worked as high af practicable, then it years with as much-vividness as at first. is timbered over head as they go along. After she had gone I noticed that in After working a level they work up the momentary bustle she had dropped through the ore which necessitates anher paper, and as it was then too late to other set of timbers overhead then the restore the lost property, I picked it up waste is utilized to fill up the section and preserved it, for it was worth preserving. Ae underneath and so on up to the upper “_____Sration, April 6th, 1875. Well, here I am in the waiting room— half past nine o’clock-—nearly three hours till the cars will come. z 8 I have always been a little before the right time. I left Cincinnati just before the ‘cars reached that city, then I left levels; this is called stoping. Of course, the main levels being 100 feet apart are kept open. Crawling through these man-ways is rather a tedious operation. It, however, is amply repaid by a visit to the men at work in the glistening ore bodies which, to the inexperienced eye, seem inexhaustible. We went Illinois through the stopes to the 400 level where just before the cars got to Han- LUCKY AMERICAN. A Boy Running The Court cf Wurtemberg. newspaper of Munich has published a sensational recently article on court life at Stuttgart, the capital of the kingdom of Wurtemberg,in which an alleged American plays. a conspicuous role. The article declares that King Charles of Wurtemberg has become the complete dupe of three American I visited tue Daly mine the other day by invitation of Mr. John Judge the foreman. After an excellent dinner at the company’s boarding house, and a few moment’s chat with the genial clerk, we entered the hoisting works and saw cage after cage The World's News A Farmer's The article adven- further alleges that Richard M. Jackson, well known to his fellow countrymen who have visited Stuttgart for any length of time, and a gentleman whose history is indeed remarkable. So far as known, however, he is not a spiritualist, and in no way deserves the title of an adventurer. Theg@ference of someof the despatches ing Charles was a second mad of Bavaria, and that the Amerisre male Dis Debars, seems an abne to the Americans who have met Jackson and enjoyed his company. Itis a fact, though, that’ Baron Von Jackson, to speak of him by the title which the King of Wurtemberg ferred upon him, has acquired King a marvelous influence. has con- over the The son of a poor farmer in Steubenville, Ohio, Jackson has become a noble of the German Empire, the confident and Privy Councillor of a German King, in whose palace he resides, and from whom the American is the constant recipient of favors and honors. rumor in Stuttgart, says too, Common that the American is deeply in love with the Grand Duchess Vera, the adopted daughter of Queen Olga of Wurtemberg, and the widow of Prince Eugene, and that his love is warmly recipro- cated. Court jealousies in Wurtemberg and Germany are bitterly aroused at the American’s infiuence over the King, and every effort is being made to oust Baron Von Jacksonfrom King Charles’ favor. The wise ones say that this cannot be done. But there are those who recall that. the intimate friend of the King, when the latter was a young man, was Frederick Haeklender, the writer, whom the King afterward disgraced and dismissed. Haeklender died, and soon <i —~<Ee cock county. And Salt Lake City I left we again entered the cage and went ALASEA., before the railroad whistle was heard down into the bowels of the earth to the there. 5 5 I am all the time 800 level where we encountered a cold An Interesting Report From Governor getting into the wrong place and getting blast from the air compresser stationed 4. P. Swineford. into every place at the wrong time. = at this point. A thick coating of ice was a I walked into the ticket office around its nozzle and the atmosphere The Governor of Alaska, in hisannual and met there a very fine young gentle- was as pure as on thesurface. A few report to the Secretary of the Interior man of that class that has lately risen yards further on another spring as thick states that the population has greatly among us, who feel a manly displeasure as a man’s arm added its volume to this increased, and estimates there are 30,000 at the thought of agricultural instru- virgin stream; following this level to the natives. ‘The total, population is 49,850, ments. He advised me to wait.and buy end we saw the miners drilling and pre- and of this number there are 6,500 my ticket on the cars, but he never paring a blast, to unearth some more of whites, 19,000 Creoles, and 2,905 Aleuts. told me where to wait, and so I sat down the treasures of the mountain. After In regard to the settlement of public by his door. He meanwhile glanced at returning we entered another lateral to lands, the Governor states that. all setme sidewise like a knowing one who the east which showed an immense body tlers in Alaska upon public lands are pitied my ignorance. I could not help xf rich ore, then back to the cage where mere squatters, who are waiting legislawondering whether I was not again in she signal was given and presto we were tion from Congress which will enable the wrong place. The wind blew cold as again in daylight. But what a change! them to secure a title. All the salmon the breath of the world’s charity. I did 't seemed as if we had emerged from a canneries in the Territory, seventeen in not ask any questions of this polite nice warm room into an ice box. Hast- number, are located on ‘public lands. young person but walked away to the ily exchanging the miner’s suit for over- He asks a favorable consideration of the tavern. Itold the lady of this establish- shoes and coat we returned to the office bill now pending before Congress proment I was cold. and would like to warm where a nice fire awaited us, and after viding for the organization of the Terrime. She said there wasa waiting room warming I bid goodbye to the friends of tory. The governor says that as far as with a bench and a stove, and I would she day and wended my way adown the he knows there are no practical farmers / The only agriculture, in the lands are not available for settlement. He says the climate is favorable and the soil rich. He sees no reason why rival Mon- Alaska may nct ultimately tanaand Wyoming asa cattle The stamp mill on Double country. Gass Island, which, the report states, is the largest in the world, has an estimated output of $150,000 in gold per month. Other gold mines are being developed in the same | island, and the report notes the sales of four claims for $1,500,000. Promising married before the altar of St. John’s Church, the most fashionable Episcopal place of worship at the National Capitol. The wedding was a very quiet affair neither bridesmaids nor best man being present. There were no. guests save a few near relatives of the bride and the President an Mrs. Clelveand, and some of the higher officials in Washington. The Catholic University. The board of directors of the Catholic University held a meeting today, and elected Rev. J. P. Sarrigan, of Fitchburg, Mass., Vice Rector of the University. silver discoveries have been made. The Governor thinks there is enough coal in Rector Bishop Keane, was instructed to the Territory to supply the whole of the proceed at once to Rome and submit the United States for centuries. The Gov- plans and statutes of the institution to On his reernor reiterates the charges made in his the Pope for his approval. last annual report relative to the viola- turn he will visit the far West in the inHe starts by tion of the law and the ill-treatment of terest of the University. the natives by agents of the Alaska January Ist, 1889. $1,000,000 will be Commercial Company. He credits the pledged, which will be sufficient to perthe divinity college. company with adhering faithfully to its petually endow contract with the Government as to the Other branches will be taken up in the number of seals to be killed on Seal Is- future. land, and the treatment of natives there, Scientific Thief. but elsewhere in the local Territory he Miles A. French, who, for three years says where the company rule supreme, the people are little better than serfs of past has been employed by the Bridgeport Copper Company to extract silver that powerful company. _ from <i. <Q ELECTION THE WHIFFS. FUTURE CABINET. Speculations are rife on the cabinet of the incoming administration. Following copper ore, was Postmaster-General,ex-Governor Swift arrested, together with his wife on Sunday night as they were about to take the train for Boston. French has been carrying on a system of stealing the silver obtained and when arrested he had with him $1,300 in silver bars. It is thought he has stolen from $10,000 to $15,000. is a guess from Harrison’s most intimate friends: Secretary of State, John Sher man of Ohio. Secretary of the Treasury, Warner Miller of New York. Attorney-General, John Spooner of Wisconsin. Canada Will Retaliate. An inspired dispatch from Ottawa appears in the Gazette, saying the Canadian government has decided to invite the Australian and New Zealand governments to send delegates to Canada at an early date to consider the question of trade relations, and especially cable communication by way of the Pacific Ocean. of California. Secretary of the Interior, Matthew S. This is understood to mean a strong move toward Imperial Federation, with Quay of Pennsylvania. Secretary of War, Russel A Alger of a strong suggestion of retaliation against the United States by establishing free Michigan. Secretary of the Navy, ex-Governor trade between Great Britian and the dependencies to the exclusion of other Long of Massachusetts. Here is another slate mentioned with countries. favor: > —~4 ~<a >_<. << Secretary of State, John Sherman of Ohio. Secretary of the Treasury, William B. Allison of Iowa. Attorney-General, John Spooner of Wisconsin. Postmaster-General, a Californian. Secretary of the Interior, Joseph H. Hawley of Connecticut. Secretary of War, Warner Miller of New York.. : Secretary of the Navy, another New A FORGER. A dispatch from Cleveland, Ohio says: Major EK. Braggins, chairman of the Republican Central Committee of this County has been “The World A Chicago woman Over. recently reason through smoking lost cigarettes. her _ On Friday last an. unknown man jumped into the Niagara river from Prospect Park, and was carried over the falls. The severest snow storm in Kansas ever at this season of the known year, oc- curred on Friday last. Trains were all delayed and many telegraph wires prostrated. Yorker. arrested for forging numerous notes, on which he secured betweon $6,000 and $7,000 at different city banks. He was locked up at the A $100,000 fire occurred in®San Fran- cisco on Monday. McCrie’s carriage factory, Pringle’s shoe factory and Fink and Shindler’s furniture factory were consumed. Steve Brodie, on a wager of $500, re- Central Police Station, and confessed his guilt. The arrest caused a great sensa- cently jumped 212 feet into the Hudson river from a bridge now in course of eon- tion. struction opposite Poughkeepsie. The leap resulted in the breaking of three ribs; otherwise he is apparently all right. THE POPE. af- ter his death the King adopted our American Jackson, who, in his genial, social way, strongly resembles Haeklender, the friend of the King’s youth. way of the opinion of the Governor, is that the adventurers pretend to be spiritualists, and that the name of oneof them was Jackson. who was formerly American Vice-Consul at Stuttgart. There can be little doubt that the man Jackson referred to is an American named or gardeners in the Territory. obstacle in the turers, whose cunning andrapacity knew no bounds, and who were using the King for their own selfish purposes. burn with a fervent heat, and speechless brains whose toils are as perpetual as the life that courses through them. when others side to the hotel where I leave you at present. instead of tell- ples, and its silent teachings persuade me but - WEEKLY. Park City is to have an electric light. The City Council granted M. H. Quirk to spend three hours on, waiting for the It is to be privilege to spend-her last. penny to ride permission to put ina plant. He on the cars. I can’t help thinking if I the Edison Incandescent system. were the railroad company I would have will have it in operation before New Years, and: proposes to put the light in such arrangements at a station like this that it would not be possible for custom- his house first, after which, no doubt, ers to be treated as I have been and every store will use it as well. The plant will cost $8.000. suffer the discomfort that I have suffered R. today. I would keep in my employ per- that the world’s fantastic tricks which at times are simply appalling, are not _ necessarily the forerunners of confusion. The stream of life flows in its wonted way, now serene, now urgent, now blindly tempestuous; mountain TERN The Vatican authorizes the expression of satisfaction with the election of Harrison at whose hands the Catholic interests | suffer. in America PAINTING As the Rudolph Van to the paint THE result are not expected to POLICEMAN of an RED. election wager, Clief, Sunday, attempted big liberty pole in Port Richmond in the presence of a large number of people. He climbed to the top of the pole armed with a paint pot and had begun to use the brush when a policeman commanded him to come down Van Clief at first joked with the officer and laughingly told him if he wanted him he would have to do some climbing. Van Clief finally slid down the pole but not before upsetting the paint pot over the gorgeous uniform of the policeman. The latter collared Van Clief as soon as he touched the ground and took him before Justice Huisebus charged with vio- lating the Sunday law. on bail. He was released Americo-English Wedding. At noon on Thursday, Joseph Chamberlain and Miss Mary Endicott were The Cunard steamer Umbria, collided on Saturday with the Fabre steamer, Iberia, four miles off Long Beach. The Umbria was badly injured, and the Iberia so shaken up that she sank before morning. A dense fog was the cause of the collision. M. H. Shoemaker, postmaster at Carbon Hill, Alabama, was on Monday shot and killed by his wife only seventeen yearsold. Inadrunken fit he had attacked her with a knife, and being disarmed had siezed an oil can, threatening to set her on fire, when she drew a pistol and shot him. She afterwards under- took to shoot herself, but: was pre- vented. A vigilance committee of 100 citizers of the Creek Nation, Indian Territorv, was recently formed to drive a band of desperadoes from the Nation. On Sunday they surrounded the house of Abe Carr, in which the notorious Barrett gang were concealed. A battle ensued. One of the committee and one desperado were killed. At last accounts 200 men had started for the scene of the fight. |