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Show OGDEN DAILY COMMERCIAL: WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 26. 1891. the tiat Miaioaa was carried. and bis eoti ooopkh !. fie wonll awakened to a secae &f Art Minimi Minu, bark jaat once and aa her, aad oa go w , aust ciiKiiui ia Hocapar. tit jcmr&ey back be woald sat for a half ua toiiarerf Aa. U.j ;aa. Uioa om tut, bocr nader the tree where Eed Gload ktukil enrW . ke;L4 aJ .7vouca Lad focad bim. la u toy f iu oU at "What ail Martin?" said one miner to canst be la loTe oa fan another. WftM. -a atax, atUUt fcmi iw lur in bim "He in th old days. Gang to Ok. WM eT.4 ood tocnkwr quit camp, be aaya." Baa-taAfter Mart :a Lid decided to go to st awmri tW I Iwi before: h ;.: tat. Lb. tuu U Wt-ai4 Red Clood, bis heart aeasoed lighter, ll M us oa were ha er-i- ld at kat Doae in mu tomw, tiaa. LL mil ebow her bis gratitude. And if aba were aruei? Sorrow kf Hla!- - spear tW atrtaaU not? Well, it wo&ld be very restf al to see her one more! He started on bis journey. The full ftH a.jm;J Mmd.' are tl rLrge ail prvji. fedwal raooa was rising as be Beared the old tree, where Red Clood bad found bim As be approached be was startled by a He turned aside for a whit figure. THE KINO OF GOLD moment, and then went cautiously op to the great truck. Two dark eyes full ul Martin Daly bad become discouraged, tears gazed np inte his eyes, at first with like uiaoy another miner in th far a startled look and then with a gleam of west, be Lad dado money and lost it, joy and trust had propncUi fur miia. found ore and "Mimosa." be exclaimed, and clasped Ua cheated out of Li rights, had the Indian girl in bis arms. grown poor and ill, and bad thrown Li "Why are yon here, child, at this time under a tree, careles whether be of night?" lived or dial "1 came here to think of yon. Martin, The great anowy mountain peaks and and the moonlight is so sweet and comthe rich Terdare bad lost their attraction forting. The green trees and the mounfor hiin. lie bad boped and bea tains tell me of you." so inacy time that be bad come "1 hare brought yon Lack the ring. to believe himself unlucky; that be Mimosa." should never posse a dollar; tbat there "And are yon rich yet? You were to was neither happiness nor borne for him. keep it till yon were rich," lie bad seen better days. His large "No; but 1 would be rich, perhaps, if dark eyes, bis broad brow, hi well yon w?ld tell me where the gold in the shaped mouth and chin beepok refinering was found." ment in the years that were gone, lie "My father gave it to me," ahe replied had been well educated, bad tried many quietly. thing and failed in them, not from lack "Mimosa, would yon love me if I were of energy, uot from lack of judgment, richr bat bis tit seemed to be an adverse "Perhaps I should be afraid of yon If one. you were." "Would yon love me if I remained lie bad done many good acta, bad always helped bis brother miners, bad poor as 1 am now?" tried to look on the bright side of life, "Yes, always." had foujht manfully and been defeated . "And if I became sick and could not in the battle, lie bad imagined some- care for you, what then?" times tbat the clonds bad a silver lining, "I would care for you, Martin." bat the storms always came sooner or "I have brought back the ring. Milater. He meditated thus as be lay on-d- mosa, that you may give it to the man the tree, and finally, more dead than who shall make yon his bride," alive from want and exhaustion, fell "And would yon like to keep the ring asleep. yourself, Martin?" Two men passed along nnder the brow "Yes, dearest" of the mountain, by the tree. They were They went back to the home of Red tall and straight, and from their dark Cloud, happy because promised to each hair and skin it was easy to perceive other in marriage. their Indian blood. After a quiet wedding Mimosa said "The white man is dead," said one of one day, "Come with me, Martin, and I the men as be bent on bis knee beside will show you where the gold in the ring the sleeper. and the necklace were found." Not very far from the tree where the "No, there is a twitching of the eyelids," said the other. "lie is pale and miner bad lain down discouraged Misick. 1 will take bim home and Mimosa mosa pointed out the shining ore, the will care for him." spot known only to the few Indians. The conversation, carried on in a low "Mimosa, there is a mine here! This tone, awakened the miner. gold is the outcropping of the veins. I 'Come with na and yon shall have shall yet be rich, my darling." food and shelter," said the friendly In "Would yon surely love me as much. dian. Martin, if you were rich?" "I would give you everything your Scarcely able to bear his weight Martin leaned upon the arms of the two heart desired." men, and soon found himself in the I "And not go into an eastern country, humble Indian cabin. and be great, and forget Mimosa?" "NeverP "Mimosa, here is a stranger. Take care of bim. Red Cloud never left a huWith a happy heart Martin Daly took man being to die. He will get well, and his pick to the mountains. The shining then we will send him back to bis peo- ' ore opened under his touch. His claim He had, j each day showed more value. ple." A shy, pale Indian girl came forward indeed, become rich through the ring of and did as she was bidden. She did not Mimosa. Years have passed. Two thousand dolspeak, but looked very pityingly out of her fawnlike dark eyes. When Martin lars are taken each day from the niina had been placed in the simple bed she The children of the Indian girl, educated, prepared food for him and fed bim as gentle as their mother and energetio as though be were a child. Day by day their father, are in a handsome house. she came and went, speaking little, but Love in that home has kept as bright as doing gently the things which only a the gold in the mountain. Sarah K. Bolton in Independent woman's hand. can do. After a time the miner, still a young man, gained in strength and began once Prancing;, Poaturing- and Dancing. more to hope for a successful future. There is not in China at any time over"Mimosa," he said one day, "I owe much of the charity that thinketh no my life to you, and if 1 am ever rich I evil, and where women are concerned will come back and reward you." there would seem to be none at alb A "I shall miss you." said the girl shyly. handskake between a man and a woman "But I want no money. I shall be is as badly construed there as was ever a happy because you are well again and casual kiss in our own divorce court But Yuan, when describing our social happy." "1 shall yet find gold, Mimosa. I used gatherings, does so without an overt to think 1 should be rich, and then I be- condemnation; perhaps he thought that came poor and sick and lost heart You a plain and straightforward description wear a ring on your finger and someof them would be qnite enough. times a chain about your neck, both of "Besides invitations to dinner," he beaten gold. Did the metal come from writes, "there are invitations to tea parmines near here?" ties, such as are occasionally gi . en by "My fatlicr gave them to me," she re- wealthy merchants or distinguished offplied, and nothing more could be learned icials. When the time comes an equal from her on the subject. number of men and women assemble, "Would you care, Mimosa, if I wore and tea, sugar, milk, bread and the like the ring until I went away? Perhaps I are set out as aids to conversation. More can find the place where the gold came particularly are there invitations to skip and posture when the host decides what from." 'Ton may wear it till yon come back man is to be the partner of what worn an, and what woman of what man. rich," she said smiling. Days grew into weeks, and the time Then, with both arms grasping each drew near for the miner to say goodby other, they leave the table in pairs and to the girl who had become his comrade leap, skip, posture and prance for their A man and a as well as deliverer. Tears filled her mutual gratification. eyes as they parted. "You will forget woman previously unknown to or.3 another may take part in it. They call Mimosa," she said. "No, I will bring back the rtng, and this skipping tanschen (dancing). The reason for this curious proceeding you shall give it to the man who make9 you his bride. I shall never forget Red on the part of our countrymen was well Cloud nor his daughter." explained by a writer in a Chinese illustrated paper, The Hwa Pao. "Western and Martin took hopeful again, Strong up life, obtained work and believed once etiquette requires," he says, "the man more that he should find gold. So sweet in search of a wife to write to the girl's and blessed a thing is hope, giving luster home and agree upon some time and to the eyes and quickening the flow of place for a skipping match" (scilicet, a dance). Temple Bar. blood along the veins. But he missed the Indian girt The A Joker Taken Down. pines on the snowy mountain peaks In his desire to be thought a wit, Nash whispered of her. The evenings seemed longer than formerly; the conversation was sometimes brutal in his jokes, and of the miners less interesting. He was on one occasion received a smart reprilonely. He was earning a fair living, mand. He was walking in the grove but of what rise was money to him if he when he met two ladies, one of whom . asked was to feel desolate in heart? Mimosa was deformed. Addressing h was not of his race, but she had a lova- where she had come from. ble nature. He remembered that she "Straight from London," was the relooked sad at his going away. He wonply. "Confound me, madam," he said, dered if she evor thought about him. If she had some Indiau suitor, would she "then you must have been warped by not wish for the ring again? He would the way." The lady said nothing at the time to like, at least, to see the man and his had his life. so saved He who unfeeling and ill timed a pleasantry, daughter would carry back the ring. Ahl if he but it rankled. A few days after Nash knew where the gold in it came from, joined her as she was sitting in the perhaps he could indeed become rich, rooms, and asked her, with a sneer and and then who could make him so happy a bow, if she new her catechism and as Mimosa? could tell him the name of Tobit's dog. "His name, sir, was Nash, and an imMonths only increased the loneliness in Martin's heart He was becoming dis- pudent dog he was!" Murray's couraged again. He even began to fear iip-tft-ta-i- a! u pl a, wot -- to. U pi lf diaap-poiute- O d , I s CD O Qh C2 O O Keep in Ptomeer RHice. Elaa Terry I leaned that to do ocA work well ooa most work coatiana2y. teieBoe entirely through the relict of bis and Hr a hi of constant aoif denial tit mode of living tbat have been found thatparpoaa. la eaves and under wsur. Mr. W. D. EoweHs ha bees locking Even since the historic time real history is gathered from the ire piemen ta, textile at th picture oa th back of th paper fabrics, domestic ctenails and relics that aovered cor el cpoa tha eawsEtaada hare been preserved. It throw fettle He finis them huidly anggtiva of light oa aa anck&t people to know that aaughtuaat, far to? many of them. her two tribe fought and one whipped Moreover, then waa rather more kissthe other, with to many warriors slain ing and embracing going oa ia colon than waa qalta ia tail. oa both aide. What constitute true history is th If an American wera acked to guess knowledge of society, tuacaers. eoctocos and indostrie of a people. In deciding what b th leading product of this eooa-tr- y ha would undoubtedly answer th at to their advancement is drilisatioa these thing ar evea mors important corn crop. Yet tha who) corn crop of than a knowledge of the government th country doe not amount ia vain to Greatly to be regretted, therefore, it is a much a the poultry and egg bnsinea, not by aevaral million dollar. Tha ban g that American pay little heed to relios of tha pioneer settler of U mightier than th plow. this country. They presented a civiliThirty million dime have been coined sation and a society unique in tha world' in the last three year, and a writer exhistory. Their lire were to different wonder that they should b from those of the present day as almost presses acaro in the circulation. But considerto be those of another race. that there are sixty-thre- e million of The agriculture of America ha ing in tha million people country thirty ao much the that changed implements dime will not go very far around among our grandfather used would scarcely be them, even if the dime war rplit la recognised by tha farmer who till his two. wide field with modern machinery. While there has been no great outward The loom, the ancient wooden bedstead, demonstration of the fact, business firm the flaxen, cotton and woolen garment of the early time are vanishing ao fast have many of them had an exceptionally that soon there will not be a trace of trying summer on account of the dullthem left Little the youth of today can ness of trade. But it will all be made understand how hi great grandfather np to them in the fall undoubtedly, and waa accustomed to ride twenty-fir- e mile those who can hang on will find a haron horseback of a Sunday afternoon to vest waiting for them a good a that see his beet girl, yet that was what tha which the agriculturist ar now beginpioneers did and thought nothing of it ning to realize on. Even one of the log cabin in which ao Fewer and Longer Lived. many famous Americana first saw the Dr. Hermann Hollerith, whose studlea light ha never been looked upon by in vital statistics resulted in showing thousands of middle aged people. It is a shame to let all the relic of that the birth rate in America 1 decreasour wonderful pioneer civilisation thus ing, ha made, along with tha above disdisappear. In every neighborhood, in covery, another one. Ha find that aa every, family, there must be some such the birth rata diminishes In tha tame relics of the past of America. Whether proportion the average life of person almachines, tools, earthenware or texti' ready born lengthens. For instance, in the census of 1870 only 17 per cent of fabrics, no matter what they are, th the population of the United State waa to be The ought preserved religiously. over forty year old. But tha proporwill speak whole volumes in a glance the eye of the future historian. In ev- tion steadily Increased from lecade to ery county in the land there ought to be decade until in 1890 23 per cent of our enough of patriotism to save this nnlque population bad passed the aga of forty and wonderful past from destruction. year. A high birth rate signifies nothing if Historical societies should make it their ' only business to preserve all pioneer records the death rate ia just as high. inrise to old the on the give question of what nature soever. fant's tombstone: Since that so verjr soon I'm dons for. Some years ago the colored people i 1 wonder what 1 waa beg-ntor? Memphis organized the "Bible and Nor But the prospect opened by these fasmal institute." Its purpose was the infigure is pleasant indeed to n struction of the colored peopla Besides cinating on the scene of action. We can already the education in books that they ob- live and learn as we live. We longer tained, the institute aimed to lead them shall not be crowded off the stage by a intoward self help industrially. The of importunate youngsters wh gang stitution was controlled and officered come in droves and throngs mad t almost wholly by the black people them- take our places. The intellectual and selves. It succeeded admirably, and has moral that were given to us at length developed into the Memphis all willcapabilities have time to develop to their Trade School association. The object full flower. Mankind will have breathof this association is no less than the esand opportunity to enjoy life ing space tablishment of a full fledged technical after working hard all through youth. school for colored youth. Branches Fewer and finer is the word. taught will be the mechanical trades, nurse training and domestic science. The Only Kecly. For some of this training the colored England had her Shakespeare, Gerpeople have shown themselves peculiarmany her Goethe and France the Man ly adapted. Prominent white citizens with the Iron Mask, but we of the United of Memphis indorse the project and give States have our Keely, the only Eeely it their full support and confidence. If the world has ever produced. The disthis school can be established successfully tinction none can take away from us. it will be the brightest sign of the progEver and anon a spurt of newspaper ress of the colored race that has ap- fame brings bim into notice. A compeared in many a year. What both mittee of scientific gentlemen visit him, black and white children need more see him strike his little tuning fork and than anything else in this country at set a metal globe to revolving by what present is not so much book stuffing as he claims is the latent energy evolved the knowledge how to do in a first class from the decomposition of three drops of manner some useful work. The colored water. They report that the Keely motrades school looks forward to being on tor is bound to go and that it will surely a level with the best schools of its kind revolutionize civilization. Then all dies in the north, and in this ambition all down again. Eeely returns to his den, the country must wish it success. mumbling still about "my system," the of the In"sympathetic negative Fashion has done some good at any finite One which is heldpower in the interstirate. It has started a new industry in tial corpuscular embrace of water," etc.. America that of bullion embroidery. and all is over for another year. In the elaborate garniture now made for Scientific men, Camille Flammarion ladies' and silver dresses, gold trimming among them, maintain that the molethread, pearls and colored stones are cules of matter are in a state of inceswrought making the embroidery very sant motion, whirling and oscillating beautiful, but also very expensive. with inconceivable So far rapidity. There are only seven factories in Europe science thinks it has with penetrated in which this embroidery can be made. if anything can be certain, certainty, These are all in Paris or Vienna. A which is doubtful. So far science and manufacturer from Vienna has now sucKeely agree, Keely says if a musical cessfully established himself in Phila- sound can catch the chord of vibration delphia. of these molecules they wall be disinteIt is not now necessary for United grated and the power that keeps them States soldiers to protect the Indian Ter- whirling incessantly liberated. This is ritory from white intruders. The red the power on which Keely depends to men do that effectually for themselves. turn the world of mechanics upside As many as a thousand interlopers are down. As a matter of fact it has been sometimes driven out in one day by the asserted by a scientific musician that if uniformed Indian police scouts that pa- he could only get the chord of its vibratrol the Texas border. A regularly or- tions as it swayed slightly in the air he ganized Indian militia also assists in the could "fiddle Brooklyn bridge down." work. The Indian militia is thoroughly This is in the same line as the boast of Paganini that he could cause the walls brave and efficient of a building to tumble by the sound of Along the blue river Rhone in Switzer- his violin. Disintegrating the molecules of a subland, in the neighborhood of Geneva, the hum of electric motors is heard stance by musical vibrations, and thus driving all kinds of machinery that the liberating a tremendous latent force, is brain of man has devised. The motors what our own Keely claims that he can horse power up to do. A club of musicians who visited the range from 6J5 horse power. The smallest ones run den of Keely, crank or great genius, acThe largest ones cording as one believes in him or not, sewing machines. declare that in their presence he disinlio'lit the beautiful city of Geneva. tegrated four drops of water into An old bachelor was rescued from a "etheric vapoi" with his little tuning fire recently. He had been helped out of fork, and that it fired off a cannon "with the smoking ruins of his lodging house a tremendous roar," generating a preswith difficulty. The smell of smoke was sure of 27,000 pounds to the square inch. yet on him when he heard a bystander Meanwhile Keely maunders on about remark that six cats and a canary bird the "sympathetic bombarding 6treams had perished in the flames. "Then that toward the centers of neutrality," and fire was not wholly in vain," said the never advances a peg further wit io rrebistorie Baa is placed br j o o pre-errin- 3 o cr o 3 -i 1- aveaai n - one-thir- d bachelor. machine.. 2-- cr 3 o 3 CD |