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Show 7 I ; : ' i -- THE WORLD VOL IV. AMERICAN FOKK, UTAH , A PECULIAR FAItMEK. HE DEALT FARO IN VIRGINIA CITY. NEVADA. ;u A Cool llaud wltli 111 tiun 1 rally Ln 111 0inueul Takn tlia rint Shot, llut IIir Fig hi Knded with Funeral. g the New York "He dealt and, killed a man now and then Imt everylxidy HOM 'Sun: faro VirginiawellCityof thought Fanner Ieale, ex- the roughest sort, and It waa among them that ho did the killing, Biiid Jame Marker, a Nevada pioneer, in speaking of early days on the Comstock lode. "He wan a cool, polite, carefully speaking, determined man, aa thin aa a rail and brave aa a lion. Ilia thinness' was of advantage to him in hia shooting mateheii. for even a good mar Raman inay miss a alim man tugged out in loose clothes which hide tli outline of hia flgnre. lie had an uncommon fashion of allowing his opponent to have the flrsi ahot. and then plugging him before he ould Are a second. This may have come from the deliberation with which he aimed, for when the other man missed, as most always he did. Farmer Peale didnt, and the fight ended with a funeral that wasn't liis. "I was there when he killed Much-aca bad little Meixean. who quarreled with him at the faro table. It was agreed between them that, not to dis- cept some of h, MISS GRACE LEASE. A TWELVE-YEAR-OL- yoimg fellow's quilting the game as soon as lie had made a winning, aud said that lie ought to press his luck or at least glJe the house a chance io win hack its money. peale tipped i heir talking quickly. . 'The young mau has a perfect right to quit the game if lie sees fit. be said, and ro.mied out the money and passed it to him. "The teamster put the money into an inner Hicket of his shirt, sauntered up In the bar, asked I he crowd to drink, aud then stalled for his camp. As lie went, out two iTin who had been watching lucky play followed him. They were both hard characters and were more than once suspected of and having been corccruetl in hold-up- s Farmer I calc noied stage robbery. their movement, and signaled with his eye to one of his employes to come to him. "Take my place at the table. ho said, while I go out for a breath of fresh air. the saloon in ihe liiiuuing about If ITALIAN' FETE. o'clock. The coronir's Jury'll be sil- OLD ting there an t they'B whiiI you to testify. it won't take time than half an LILIES OF NOLA BUILT BY hour of your time.' FERENT "The young man' 'promised to b H then- on the minute he next day, and he waa. The inquest on the two man llullt of Tltrj Ar took Just twenty min men from start IIuuiIiriI Towering X curly On to finish. 'Justifiable homicide waf In the Air Muy Hat Original ml the verdict rendered, Then all hanth wltli lb 1ugaiiM. took a drink. Peale gave the coronet flip to pay for burying the meu, aud N THE CENTURY. the proceedings were' closed. Farmer Peale died with his looi Mary Hcuti-Udon. hut no man Killed him in uien gives an account of a quaint, hit of Italflghi. Au assassin waylaid him and ian killed him with a shotgun as he wa "The Lilies of walking out with hia wife on a Nola. The writer afternoon. The ir fifty smjs: irtiius despatched HILL CLIMBING. the narrow-gag- e by Some good suggestions in regard ft railway on hill climbing are offered by the June 24 are lnsufll-f-ieto routain the crowds .that (lock Uider" that are worth attention: n easy way of mounlir.g a fairly to Nola to admire the famous Gigli. or steep hill of a mile ill length when out Liliea, which are its pride. Pure trator a fifteen or twenty mile spin is to dition (for can flint no treatise or hisof the custom) lias begin by maintaining a steady tread on torical account the pedals, pushing them over when si handed down from father to sun tho art ihe top. and. more important still, claw- of making these large Hlnirture, which ing them round past tin- - dead center at I should lie afraid to describe did lint the bottom, sitting in an easy jiosimi photography come to Hie aid of t Iso and in a slightly fmward position. faith a ml enable me to lay Indore the With this careful ankle action the la's! Incredulous the proof lliat reality is risuli Is obtained, and the first half mile sometimes stranger than Action. The or more is compassed In comparatively "Lilies' of Nola. which in the beginA change of position easy fashion. ning were probably pyramids of flowers may then he made In onler to relieve earried in the procession in honor of the muscles. Sitting well hack in the St. Puiiliniis, are y towering saddle, head hack and arms straight, obelisks or turrets eighty or ninety feed the rider now thrusts out forward high, artistically constructed in Gothic. ruther than downward, at the same Corinthian, and Doric styles, adorned time keeping the steering jierfectly with statues, ornamental friezes, straight. A great amount of power is and emblems, and built on exerted in this manner by the lowci movable platforms. iitnbg; it is a complete change from the the handsomest. Idly of Undoubtedly first j stall Ion, and the rider soon finds I am the year describing, for purity of himself at the summit still fresh fot of finish, was lliat and design elegance the continuation of his Journey, built by the lhitcbers' Gild. It was a turret iu pointed Gothic style, Inclosed A steep bank, if at all long, should on all four sides, representing lu pure If always be walked, but short may be and soft chiaroscuro tints the white ascended with moderate ruse by taking rentral minaret, with its delicate and a sharp spurt at the Imt tom. which with a strong puli on the handles will lacelike traoery, of the famous catheqhlckly land the rider at the top. To dral of Milan. A winged Victory accomplish these spurts without undue crowned the summit, and beautiful strain a great deal dejiends on the po- statues filled tho ornamental niches; e porsition of the rider, who must he well and, vanity of vanities! a above bis work with full play for ex- trait of the proud architect decorated betending his limbs. Those who ride the plinth, to the edification of with bent arms, apparently seated in a holders. The Lily of the prodigal 1 have hollow instead of well up on the sadquoted was in delicious dle. cannot expect to .utilize their full rococo style, a very tangle of brilliant, powers. In touring it Js always best coloring and elabotuie detail as fanto make a point of walking the greater tastic as a vase of vieux Saxe. The part of all long hills, even if ridable grocers' Lily was in Gothic aud the in an ordinary way. fur one long grind shoemakers' In haroco style. The Lilies takes more out of the tourist than five of the smiths and of Hie tailors rose like miles of level road, and if lie is out for colossal towers of glittering majolica, six or eight hours he should reserve his while Hie bakers Lily, built in pure was Corinthian admirably strength. style. adorned with reclining angels, trum"Thea. is one broad rule which may pet In band, that recalled Ihe exquisite be taken as fuirly decisive on the ques- seraphs of Fra Angelico. Thus the old tion of hill riding being harmful or artistic fire Ungers in the veins of nil not, and it is this: If during the ascent uncultivated people, who rudely Imt tho rider can keep his mouth closed the vividly express what they vaguely fed. whole time he is nut overstraining himThe choosing of designs and the work self; but if the exertion causes him of preparation occupy considerable to gasp for breath it Is distresaing to time; hut the erecting, or dressing, the lungs and heart, and consequently of the Lily, as it ia called. Is, like the is excessiv- e- it would be far better to of Aladdin's palace, done In a building wall:. Fur the sake of saving a few a haste rendered necessingle night minutes' walk ir really is not worth fact the that an accidental by sary while getting heated and would speedily melt the gay shower thus to a great extern neutralizing the structure to paste. However, in this health-givinproperties of eyrling." brilliant climate, in the month of June, unless Vesuvius has a very threatening A llrautlful Thought. doml-ca- p ou, fair weather may be Michael Minot, a French preacher, on. counted who died in Paris in 17.18, was noted for Aa soon as the Lily Is dressed and his eccentricities in thn pulpit and the adorned (I counted upon one no fuly rapidity with which lie changed from fewer than fifty statues of humor to pathos; fmui mmmonpluce anchored with ropes is it firmly There was once pilto the beautiful. balconies about the and to trees the lie on a cerlories for swearers." said, which becomes of home the glgliante, tain occasion, but if the law were enuntil it Is of the Mecca faithful, the of the empire forced now at the would be in the stocks, and there would called to Join the procession Then the rigging, which lp the child of five years and the dotard public square. thick bunches of green with is masked who rehas tan teeth of eighty, only la and box gaily decorated with fluttermaining to fling out an oniT. Changing Is mounted by daring bannerets. dennum-ting newho those suddenly to who poised here and there like urchins, who had cherthe aged parries glected ished them in prosperity, be said, "Sen squirrels firry fort in air. steady the the trees flourish slid recover their lofty pinnacle with invisible rapes. The leaves: It Is tlu-i- r root that has pro- platform is occupied by the band, withduced all; but when i he bram-heare out which it. would be impossible in loaded with flowers and fruits they keep step, and the underpinning Is robust porters, whose yield nothing to the root. This is an manned by the the day is over are before shoulders who children of those prefer Imago often cut and bleedand bruised their own amusement ami to game always like a The glgliante. titan own ing. fortunes lo their give away Hhead and gives the signal of to their old parents the care which they goes of small rrnwds boys dance and march, want. cut fantastic tricks liefore it. the people applaud to the echo, and the majestic Youngest ('Mnrt Lady. and smoothly moves swiftly The youngest lady In the cabinet Is pile the crowd scenting to be prothrough of the Miss Flora H. Wilson, daughter pelled by ils own impulse rather than secretary of agriculture. She Is a typ- by the will of forty men. Tho custom ical daughter of the West, and has the is undoubtedly of Pagan origin. gracious, lively manner of the Western girl. Mrs. Ollphant has written upward of sixty books since she was 21 years old. OlM-IU- k lHlar-Mui-I- ir Kt i u merry-makin- g, Sun--da- y j j LHcy-cl- l -- oner's Jury the next day. The two men that had followed the teamster out of the saloon put handkerchiefs over their faces, with holes cut for the eyes and moir.h, and held him tip as he was crossing a patch of waste ground on his way to his wagon outfit. He was taken by surprise, with no time to draw his gun, and there was nothing for him to do bur give tip. One robber held a cocked pistol at his head and the other had started to go through his pockets when a voice came from a tree clump close by: Drop that! I,t that young man nt e 1 to-da- bas-refief- go!' SPELLBINDER. s, life-siz- wine-mercha- I AN INDIANA FARM ON FIRE. Hir nt Like her mother. Mary Ellen the Populist orator of Kansas, the lit- with a visitor who called to Inquire about a mishap to her while riding her bicycle. She showed a thorough knowledge of the points at issue in the recent political tight, and argued stoutly for the principles her mother upholds. Bide-wa- lk ut The man who was rifling the teamster's pocket started hack and drew his gun. The other, with his pistol drawn, was peering into the tree dump. Again came the voice: nd 'Hands he quick about it!' At that both men filed, aiming at the sound of the voice aud the glimpse o' a figure showing indistinctly among the tree trunks. Crack! crack! crack! crack! came four shots rroni the tree clump. One of the two men tumbled dewrn dead; the other turned, limping, to mn. Crack! went the pistol again from the trees, and the man fell to the ground and lay there. The teamster stood without moving, still holding his hands up. not knowing whether it was friend r.r foe that he had to deal with. Farmer I'eale walked up to him fiom among the trees. You're all right. Put your hands down, he said. They didn't got your money, did they? No? Then youd better go to your camp and say nothing to any one of what's happened. Oh. by the way, he added, stopping as he turned to go, come over to up-a- Cullen's Calilmgn Hem In. Several years ago thn residents of Gallon, a little Her rein hamlet. In Michigan, were surprised ut the advent of a party of Chicago men who devoted their lima to inspecting a large tract of swamp land near lliat place. The curious citizens were sill) more astonished when the Chicago contingent purchased the alleged worthless land for a trifling sum per acre and set about opening up huge ditches to drain llie large area and season that fit it for cultivation. portion of the tract cleared produced 20,000 tons of cabbages, which brought in $80,000 to the ruminate growers, the land proving to be peculiarly adapted lo the culture of that vegetable. This year the cabbage patch comprises GOO acres of this erstwhile worthless land, now valued at $200 per acre, and there are some ppople in Galien who bint that there are cabbage heads in Hint regloq other than those under cultivation. n! - s band-maste- r, Heiiiff locomotive. g two-thi- rt A singular spectacle Is presented on the Jesse If. Dowell homestead, near Montpelier, which attracts hundreds of visitors daily, says a Wabash special) It Is the curiosii) of a farm of sixty acres w hich is literally being destroyed by fire. Much of the land in the vicinity of the Dowell place is muck to the depth of twelve or fourteen feet, the vegetation having acenmulared and The slowly dinnyed for many years. recent dry weather has made this peat ns inflammable as tinder, and when Are reached it a few days ago tt ignited and lias been burning slowly ever since. Altogether, sixty aercs have been burned over, thirty-liv- e acres having been consumed, while twenty-liv- e acres are yet burning. The flames do not break out from the soil, but the whole surface is covered with dense smoke, the ground at times assuming the dull red glow of htirulng brick. It is utterly impossible to extinguish the fire, and the energies of the neighbors are directed to saving adjacent property. The fire ou the Dowell farm is more disastrous In a financial way than Is The twenty-fiv- e popularly imagined. acres uow being consumed is three feet lower in the center than It was when the flames began their ruvuges. The peat, or muck, dried out by the Intense heal, will continue to burn until the winter line is reuchnl; the fire will then die out, and when ihe aches that are left blow away there Is nothing but a huge, dry pond as unproductive as an abandoned gravel pit. For the next two or three generations the land Is worthless, and it acquires value only as the vegetable growth again collects and forms a new roat of soil. Mr. Dowell says he docs not ex pint to sea the day when the. sixty acres which have been fire swept will be worth a farthing to him. Near the burning muck, separated only by a ditch, which workmen are now laboring industriously to widen. Is a trart of lit) acres, an unbroken area of peat. Should this take fire from the laud now burqing, it will be Impossible to .save any part of it, and 170 acres, altogether, of Mr. Dow- -' ell's laud will have been consumed. A heavy rain would check the progress of the flames, but it would not extinguish tbe blaze, aurl all depends upon the success of the cfTorls of the laborers to dig a ditch so broad that the sparks will not Ite carried into the new territory. The land, when not burned out, is as productive as any in Indiana, raising phenomenal crops of corn and never wearing out. In the present inRtnncn the fire started from a spark from a papicr-mficlift- !) lurb the game, they should go out on the street to settle their difficulty. Aa Kn as they got to the street Muchach Jumped behind one of the posts that held up the awning above the and turned loose with hia pistol, dodging his head to left and right as he fired to avoid Feaie's teturn shots. Farmer Peale fired as coolly and carefully as If It wore target practice and not a duel to Hie death that he waa mixed up in. and his third shut killed Muchach. leale was not hit. I think Farmer IVale's trails of character were best shown in a transaction that I saw the first part of in Virginia City .in 1SCJ. He was dealing faro in his own place, when a young fellow, n tcanuler, Just urrived with a freighting outfit from across the plains, came in and began to play. He had greenhnrn'a luck and won right aloug from the first until front a $10 investment at the start he had $600 In rhlps stacked upon the table before him. Then ho asked Peale to cash his and some of the chips. The look-oabout the house began to hangers-o- n make sumo ugly remarks about the lullmuiniftM Slowly ( otiNiiitii'Hs over-fatigue- d, tle girl has a remarkable aptitude for political study. Mother and daughter are visiting in New York city. There the child discussed tho last campaign of Am- - S. - from D NO. :tr. 18117. DIF-GILD- af inward 1 learned happem-ithe young fellow that had won the money, and also from the statement mighty alma ami eonviiiclng it was -- of Fanner Peale before the cor"What sjvru K1)AY, JULY til, j From Mlllliina ta Mottling. John Henry ltarker. once a New York millionaire, but haring lost liis property, has been traveling through tha country taking orders for soap and window screens. Mr. Darker was for-- i niprly a real estate agent in New York, and two years ago. during the bread panic in tlie city, distributed food to thousands of Ihe destitute. He says he has slept In Central lark fur twenty-one nights while waiting for promIn some towns tho ised assistance. Young Men's Christian Association, finding him willing to do anything, have provided him with clothing and employment. Slf-ltlt- Mr. - Drinker "Waiter, another bot-ti- e. Say, WHiter! Wnlter "Yes. sail! Mr.Drlnker"Say-ci-l- s my nnso get- ting red?" sHh. It Is. sub; sorry Walter- to say, sah. Mr. Drinker "Hum! That won't do. Never do at all. Send out aud get mo a yachting cap. "Y-e-- s, 1 |