THE CEMENT MINE.
'A PHILADELPHIA'S EXPERIENCE I
SEEKING MYTHICAL GOLD.
A Bard Tramp Through Mia Klirrnu la
Saarah fnr ths Deposit That Awajred
Thou land Oonans in the Ton Moma
tblnt About the Lost Cabin Mlaa,
Jamb Mote, a lafitmaker of thin city,
fc am old time California miner and was
to alevrra years a prospector in the
jnrantjiius, nnd he tolls a ottrioua atory
abont the alipwl rediscovery of the
Lout Cabin mine in South Dakota. He
saya:
There are two ninnntain mythatbat
nave iwen oothuring the heads of irnaijt
native treasure eookeni in tbe Rookies
atnce 1H55, One in "White's Cement
anine" and the other is the Loat Cabin.
fa IBM Kit Oiiinon, Jamoa Kinney and
a half breed Bluckfoot come into Fort
Eandal, on the Missouri river, with a
bag full of nuKpitu and a atory of gold
deposit of Incredible, richness on Cabin
oreok, a branch of the North fork of
he Cheyenne river jnst west of what is
now the Montuna boundary line. As
they wore old mountain men, and Car
son having a groat reputation as a gnide,
werjabody went crazy. No white man
was (apposed to have beon within 500
miles of the place, and indcod men were
being cut off by Indians within five
miles of the fort.
Carson and Kinney went on a week's
drank, and soon gambled away their
gold, but allowed no disposition to take
a party to the uew Eldorado. The
United States officers at the fort dis
credited the whole thing, and dissuaded
the orowd from following it up, bnt
men started ont and none returned, and
hundreds tried it from time to time. The
Indians no doubt knew of the existence
f gold there, and of course wanted to
keep the whites out, and thoy did ef
fectually for thirty years. A thousand
lives and a mountain of treasure were
pent in seeking the location in vain,
ud it was believed by the old timers to
be a fraud from the first. Neither Our
on nor Kinney ever made the attempt
to seek it again, but both repuatod their
original story from time to time. So
' this is about the truth as to the Lost
Cabin bonanza.
White's Cement mine is much more
remarkable as a narrative. White was
a New Eaglundor, aixty years old, who
had come to California in 1842. As a
gold seeker he was known and talked
aliout in every mining camp on the coast
and stories related of his phenomenal
lnck. He 110 doubt made many fortunes,
but was always poor, and tramped about
with a lean mule and half breed Indian
boy, getting supplies whore he could.
I believe he was slightly demented, but
all looked np to him, and he undoubted
ly knew more aliout the gold region than
any man living.
One day in IMS White came to Horse
Head gulch from the Sierras, driving
bis mule and looking utterly used up.
He got something to eat, and then took
sot of his puck a number of pieces of
what looked like hard white clay glit
tering with specks of metal, bnt he aaid
little and went off to an assayer, a Ger
man named Holyat, and au honest man,
Before night it was known in camp that
White's specimen showed 1,000 onnoes
ef gold to the ton. In Ave minutes every
ane wont cruzy. Nobody slept that
night, but sat around the fires and
talked "cement." In the morning a
party headed by Senator Sharon's
brother called on White, who was sleep
ing In one of the "shacks," He was
told in a few words that he must pilot
tiie men to his find, he should have the
pick of the claims and help to work it,
but go be must, and on his refusal was
warned that bis life would not be worth
hacks if ho "stood off" the oainp. Then
be consented.
Every one was wild. I was offored
f 1,000 for my two mules and outfit, but
like a fool wont with the rest. The trail
led right into the Sierras. The first day
was a race and one-third of the men
broke down. The Indian leaped ahead
like a wolf and then White followed,
his long gray hair flying in the wind.
By the end of the second doy we were
in the heart of the mountain, in a des
ert whore no human being had ever
been before. Half of the animals were
lost, and the men were haggard with
latigne and excitement. White was told
"bat if he played false he was a dead
man, but he still pointed east. We
passed good indications that showed
color, but in that laud of desolation all
the gold in America would not have
svailod a man then.
On the evening of the third day White
aid we were neor to our journey's end,
and by tomorrow and then he waved
his long arms and such a yell went np
from the f roruriad men that partly made
the pine clad mouutains shake. Erory
on lay down expoctingto arise a mil
lionaire, bnt in the morning White was
gone and left no truce. About one-half
of the parly, after incredible Buffering,
got buck to life and civilization, and
yet, despite our story, 100 men started
bock over our trail two days after.
Three years after White reappeared in
Bolt Lake City with his cement speci
mens as lief ore incredibly rich and again
diflnppeurod, and from that day to this
bos never been heard of, but men stiU
wear out their lives in seeking his lost
oement mine, .
Af tor eleven years' lubor in the mines
I got homo with tfiOl) and a heap of
knowledge that will last for the rest of
aw We, Philadelphia Preea.
MASSES FALLING FROM THE SKY.
Both!nc Abont Meteors and of Wlurf
They Ara Oomposed.
An addition to oitr present knowl
edgo of mntawitos has beon presented
by Mr. J. R. Eastman, who furnishes
a list of iron aerolites, together with
a table of thoir weights and remarks
as to the relative occurrences of iron
and stony moteorites. According to
this gentleman the ratio of weight of
the former to the latter is as 1 to
12.83, and the aggregate weight of
orolitic iron whioh has been observed
and discovered up to date on the
American continent is about 15S tons.
"If the above ratio be true in all
cases," he says, "there should hove
boon a fall of about 1,880 tons of
lithio meteorites, or in all over 1,000
tons of aerolitio matter precipitated
npon the earth."
Mr. Eastman offers the following
theory to account for the apparent
excess of iron over stony meteorites:
"When a stony meteorite falls to the
earth it breaks into many fragments.
and the ruptured surfaces indicate
the nature of the catastrophe. No
cose is on record where an iron aero
lite showed any indication of having
been twistod, broken or torn from
another mass of the same material
"The true type of meteorite which
readies the earth from outer space is
probably Bimilar to that which fell
in Iowa county, la., on Feb. 12, 1875.
This celestial visitor is composed
almost wholly of lithic matter, but
scattered through the mass are small
grains of nickeliferous iron. This
iron may exist in the stony matrix in
all forms and sizes, from the micro
scopic nodule to the mass weighing
several tons. When the hthiomass
comes in contact with the earth's at
mosphere the impact breaks up the
matrix, sets free the iron bodies, and
they reach the earth in the same con
dition, so fur as moss and figure are
concerned, as they exist in the origi
nal formation.
"In such cases it is probable that
the stony portion of the original body
is rent into such small fragments by
me explosion that these would not
reach the earth in any appreciable
size. The larger the masses of iron
the more complete would be the de
struction of the original body, and
the larger lithic meteorites would be
those contiiining the sialler granules
of iron. Iron.
THI FIKST LAW OP NATUHE.
This Alf-areaerratlon ! ac know lad ml to hn
and people who adopt afirnlnat the eucroar.bea oi
uisesse a senaine roeaicin&i tategnarfl, accred
ited br experience and the sanction of nhvsl.
dans, afford a happy Illustration of tbe wisdom
of the savins, Id the health thev restore and
continae to enjoy. Among the maladies, against
wo Knmiu 01 wniuii nosiauer s ntomacD Bit
ters affords effh-lent protection, diseases of the
kidneys and bladder are I rausht with the nt
moat peril and exhibit irreat obstinacy when op
pored by ordinary meam. The Bitten can and
will nibdae them. Notesllmony la stronger than
this, lifted at the outset and persistently, the
beat results may be expected. This medicine
aleo eradicates liver complaint, constipation,
dyspepsia, malaria, rheamallsm and nervous-
"Yoar ipeeah In rather sham. I think." eom.
plslned Mrs. Hawklua. "1 have In mak It uo to
set it in eugewue, retorted nawklns.
KCPTURS AND PIXM OUBKD.
WanoffltlvelT cmaa ro.ntnni.nllM anil all ma.
tal diseases without pain or detention from bnsi
neat. Mo onre, so pay. Alao all JYfcalc dis
ease. Address for pamphlet Dm Porteroeld A
Losey, Sie Market street. Ban Franclaao.
Tt ii not man's aim that find nlm ont-. It la his
neighbor.
100 REWARD 100.
The Manners of "Society."
These geese in stays and starch
("society" people) are ignorant of
the true philosophy of good manners,
which may be compressed into a sin
gle sentence. The secret of good
manners is an entire lack of self
consciousness. If all mon were bom
with a proper perception of justice
bad manners could not exist It may
be somewhat vague, but the almost
universal conception of justice is that
it is the interest of the stronger, as
Plato's sophist has it, and a moment's
review of our codes of manners will
oouvince one that this idea is at the
bottom of all. All manners are bad
which are built upon a substructure
of injustice, either mflicted or suf
fered. These "best people" paupers in
every essential of noble manhood
have elaborated a religion of which
an immense cipher is the symbol.
Their range of ideas is so limited
as to merely correspond with their
physical needs and indulgences, and
they have invented (with a wisdom
not common among geese and cocka
toos) a code of manners which con
demns all naturalness, individuality
and thought as the brand of tbe par
ish. New England Magazine.
Cardinal Wolaey'a Taate for Antique.
If Quenttu Matsys had a picture on
the easel, Woleey was ready to pur
chase it. If there was a curious clock
it was secured for him.; His fondness
for tapestry amounted to a passion.
Trusty agents ransacked the conti
nent to procure choice sets of arras,
new and old, for the rising palace.
If the owner generally preferred
Scriptural subjects, as became a
prince of the church, he also collected
many hangings wrought with scenes
from classic or medieval story. Thus,
while die walls of one chamber sot
forth the history of Samuel or David
or Esther, those of another glowed
with the labors of Hercules, the woes
of Priam or the Eomaunte of the
Rose. In the rooms where he re
ceived visitors the tapestries were
changed once a week. Macmillani
Magazine.
Potato rot is caused by a minute par
asite, which is ao small that a colony
numbering 300 individuals oan live in a
poos smaller than a pin's head.
Richard Baxter, the great Puritan,
preacher, was the son of a tenant farmer,
and until nearly grown the future author
did tbe work of a farm hand.
If yon wish enoeees In any society
void the belle of it. This, will put you
in tavor with tne other women and
eventually with the bell.
The readers of this naner will ha nlAaaM
leam that there la at leant one dreaded disease
that aclence has been able to cure in all lu
stapes, and that is Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Care
Is the only positive cere known to the medical
fraternity. Catarrh, betas a constitutional dis
ease, required a constitutional treatment. Hall's
Catarrh Cure la taken Internally, acting directly
upon the blood and muooni surfaces of tbe svs
tem, thereby destroying Ihe foundation of the
disease and giving the patlentstreneth by build
ing up the constitution and assisting nature In
doing Its wark. The proprietors have so much
faith In lt curative powers that they offer One
Hundred Dollars for any case that It falls to
onre, bend for list of testimonials. Address
F. J. CHUNKY 4 CO., Toledo, O.
CST" Sold by drugghue; 76 cents.
Use Xnamellne Btore Pollati ; no daat, no Email.
i lSaV MT IT
ON TRIAL.
That's good way
to buy ft medicine,
but iti pretty
hard condition
under which to sett
It Perhaps you'v
noticed that uw or
dinary, hit or miat
medicine doesn't aV
f I tempt it.
I
The only remedy
of it kind bo r-
ntarkable In Ha effect that it can be sold os
this plan it Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Di
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and flesh-builder, there's nothing like tt
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where the fault is in the liver or the blood, as
Dyrpepma, Indigestion, Biliousness, and the
roost stubborn Skin, Scalp, and Scrofulous
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benefit or onre, or yon hay your money back.
Hood's Cures
. The marvellous ears of
In Lottie Huntley of
Oertland.N.T.hal attract
ed wide attention. She
was nh to death's door
with hemorrhages caused
by ulcers In the stomach.
Oonld sat nothing. When
the physlelana said
there was no hosw,
her mother urged her to
try Rood's SarsaparUU.
aKissntjutlay She reluctanUy consented
tai in a lew days felt stronger, bloating aut
elded, appetite gradually returned! and la a
month aha costlet walk acvos the
taaa. In six months she was as well as aver
to her life, and has been In perfect health
war since. She says: " 1 know that
Hood's Sarsaparilla
and that atone, my! my life."
rninnt Pint mr i.,- nu T.aaniM mi-
tansntss, flics Headache and Constipation.
Old 6old snd Sllter Boatlrt sood mar old OoU
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rrtsniBu.fi ttwasth. Moordins to mmt. H tfaa ssuul
mat iMWMlnn vUl rrtnm colaL
. tv1H VII CarttaaatSat
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T 2f "i'w.,ii, raraijsis, money or
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Seeds
and re&D a rtoh-
baryeet They ara always reKsTrle,
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f FERRY'S SEED ANNUAL!
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4 un B.ivtrwa n iuS laitSl IH mi! lift. I
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To every sufferer from Catarrh, no matter
how bad tha case or of bow long stand
ing, the proprietors of Dr. Base's Catarrh
Remedy sar this; "If ws cant euro it,
perfect- and parmanantlr, wall par Ton
m In oath." Bold by all fenct-ists.
"German
Syrup
I simply state that'I am Dmo-Pist
nd Postmaster rjere and am there
fore in a position to judge. I have
tried many Cough Syrups but for
ten years oast have fnnnrl nntMno-
equal to Boschee's German Syrup.
i nave given it to my baby for Croup
with the most satisfactory results.
Every mother should have it J. H.
Hobbs. Drupp-ist and Pnctm
Moffat, Texas. We present facts!
living facts,, of to-day Boschee's
German Syrup gives strength to the
body. Take no substitute. O
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This Trade Mirk U on the best
WATERPROOF COAT
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I can ttate with p'easure that by tue H-e of MOORB S RE
VEALED REMEPY my huBband waa relieved irom an old
case of RHEUMATISM and my vnunireat boy cured entirelT
oi INFLAMMATORY RHEUMATISM when the besldootorl
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Sold In .
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p $H ART MAN FLEX I BLEfcJ
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