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Show when tho bonan.as were paying largo di idends and when men's hearts apparently ap-parently grew and expanded in proportion pro-portion to the lodes uncovered. In those days when tho earth was yielding yield-ing up her treasures so bounteously, it would seem that tho ablest and most generous men of tho country gathered in Nevada, and it is not strange that tint of that gathering Judge (iooDWlN found a few kindred spirits about whom he now writes such tender and lot ing reminiscences, 'The Coinstock club, from which t ho book derives its title, was an organization that grew out of the necessities of camp life. A few bachelors who delved in the mines got together and established a homo wbd'e they shared tint expenses of living liv-ing eiuitably. The evenings were spent in social converse, and most of the work is devoted to the conversation of the members of this club. The subjects naturally tire very divTThiliod and cover a wide range of thought. Evenings are devoted to the consideration of mines and the silver industry, to the subject of royal men met in lh west, to graphic descriptions of scenery in Idaho, Oregon, Ore-gon, Utah and California, to tales of self sacritice, and the book closes with three letters which are masterpieces of tho art chirographic. There is no vil-lian vil-lian in the book, the volume treating as tho author says on the titlo page, with 'neither radiant angels nor magnitiud monsters, but just plain, true men." Tho judge could not picture a villain if he tried. He docs attempt to place one of his characters in an unenviable light for a few chapter., but not for long. He finally brings him out a hero through a successful mining venture. The story is full of dramatic situations, tho most thrilling being the accident at the mine where several of the members of the club are imprisoned, and where, at the mouth of the shaft, tho other members of the club are clamoring for tho privilege priv-ilege of going down to rescue their friends. The story of Sister Celeste is as full of pathos and tenderness as anything in the Knglish language. The purity of soul, loftiness of purpose, and devotion devo-tion to a cause portrayed by the writer are not only grand, but the love story interwoven is so delicate and so touching as to appeal to the heart of the most hardened cynic. The whole book scintillates with Hashes of wit and pathos, and throughout through-out the work evidences are not lacking of the master hand and fertile brain that conceived it. The goodness of heart, the nobility of character, aud the love for his fellow man, so characteristic character-istic of the author, are everywhere visible, vis-ible, and tho book, which is dedicated to the miners of the coast, ought to be a solace and a comfort to many of them as they sit in their cabins at night and ponder over its pages. OUR BEET SUGAR INDUSTRY. Four yeara ai;o the production of beet suirar In the Vnitrd States was insignificant. Today It la Ijecomintr an important industry. In a sew years, under the fostering enso of the government, It will assume gigantic pro. proportions. lr. Andreas Sigiatnund Margjraf, on the 3d of March, 1747, announced ut a session of. the acudemy of sciences iu Berlin Hint lie lind discovered tai charino mutter lu lieele from which sugar could lie made. Little could lie dream that in lS'.lt Kurope would make :i,!i70,0oil tons and America 5,000, (XX) pounds of licet sn irar. The United states lust year imported 601,11!!. 470 pounds of licet sunur, valued at $1,K4S,417. Of this lii,0:n,4:n worth ciime from (iermaicy and tlie rest wus made in Austrin-Huflgary. Franco, Uelc'uun and the Netherlands. It Is proposed to make the aiifenr In tlili country, and save for our pec-pie pec-pie the money now puiil fur it to f ireiifnera. Lust week 701) delegates uttende 1 the lir-t session of the Slnte Hc.'l Sugar convention held at Lincoln, Neb. This event makes It pertinent to irive a short t-tnteiiieiit of our new infant industry. In lss7 there was hut one beet sugar refinery re-finery in the t'nitcd .states. It was situated at Alvarado, Aliimcdii county ( al. The Illi-nois Illi-nois reliiieries had been abandoned us not pnyinsr. In tliat year there were but 4O0,O!l(l pounds of 1 lie suiinr produced. Iu lhss the total had increase d toil.rtiKi.O'Hl pounds. Tlie following year it nearly doubled. This year California "turns out !:i!ooo.(Ki pounds, and Nebraska and l lali tt. t km, n h pounds each. A (jrcut impetus has been given to the industry in-dustry li V the present tariff. It permits until un-til July 1, IsiL", the free importation of foreign machinery for makiug beet sugar. Previously there was a duty of 4") per cent on such machinery, besides this, from July 1, lsnl. to July l.'l'.HCi, there will be puiil to the producers of sugar, testing not less than 1X1 degrees by the polariscope, a bounty of 'J cents a pound, uiid on sugar under Po degrees de-grees a bounty of 14' cents a pound. On application the commissioner of internal revenue gives n license to make the sugar, which holds good lor one year, and is renewable. re-newable. Tin- beet suuar factories now in operation under the bounty law are as fol. lows: rtah Sutrar company, Salt Lake City. '-.WO acres : Aliiineiln SiiL'sr company, Alwirado, l al., toi'O acres; U e-tcni licet siiuarconipany, Watsonville, Cal., -J.VIII acre-; l liino alh-y Iteot Siinar com. paiiy.Chino, l al.. 'iOO acres; Oxn-ird licet Silirar company. I, raid Island. Ncli , i.".i a acres; Nor folk lioet siiif ir company. Norfolk, Neb , v.jC0 acres; total, six factories, "l;(.is.O. In these places tlie soil is fully as well adapted to the beet culture as is that of the best districts in Kurope. Tlie Kuropeans by long experience have discovered the best kind of beet for tlie purpose, and they have perfected the niacbinci y to be employed in converting it into sugar. I )nr American beet sugar refineries have turned out us tine sugar as any produced, both in appearance and ill saccharine ipialities. One sample deposited in the ollice of Hie commissioner of internal revenue is of the purest white, and po. Incized ut Ir.'1. degrees. The industry wiil licn-'iit many people. The beet cultivation cul-tivation gives employment to great numbers num-bers of men, women and children. Last summer the fanners ill tlie vicinity of Norfolk, Nor-folk, Nebraska, grew beets on JJ70 acres and employed a thousand persons, some of whom earned as mm h as S.. ,'." a day. It is estimated that when fully established the fin lory there will pay for beets in one season' from Jloo.iioo to $."o,Uki, and that tile beet grower will liav tlie workers JA",iaxUo .?..0,000. The yield is twenty tons an acre and the average prh c is i a ton. The protit offered in beet cultivation is greater than that of cereals. The retine.r is certain to make a good protit. It is not at all improbable thai after a few years th" production oi la-et sugar will rank iie; in importance to tlie rop of cereals In the Cnited States. -. .... - i JlT.iiK iOOI)VIN ItOOK. Juilpe Goodwin' has written a hook. A copy of it lies liefore us, ami the opening chapter i' not only an indication indica-tion of where tho author has spent the cheater portion of his life but it bespeaks be-speaks the. strength anil beauty of his vo;'k. Tho opening sentences are in ihe nature of an apostrophe to "The 1'ionecr." Ho writes: Who thall fitly tell the story of his life ami work? The soldier leads an at-eaillt : it Ja-re hut a few minutes; drums and truinp''t- anil j-h.u;tMw cheer him on ; he knows tleit whether he live, ur dies immortality will in- hi reward What wonder won-der th:it there are hrave polilii-rer Bat when thi sotftier of pence a.-.iult the wil-derness, wil-derness, no buieH siiiniii the charge; the forest, the desert, the wild h.-at, tlie f-avaye. the nuilari i, the fstiae, are the foeg that lark to anilelsli him. and if, rtrainj-t ttie imetiaal viUU, he fall-, no vol-leys vol-leys are tired over him ; the pttil,.. uurld merely sponepp his name from tlie date. And so throughout the book the author au-thor pays homage to the men who have by their pluck, their bravery aud their power of endurance mado tho west what it is today. The book is entitled "The Coiusttvck Club." The scene is la' ! oa the Com-etoek Com-etoek in IS'evada about the year lbTy, |