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WEEKLY OREGON STATESMAN, . Tuesday. seitemdei. 4. THE CONTRACT IS LET rOB KIPAIKIKO THE WIIXAHEnE BITEU BTKEL BBIUGK, Work U B Doat Daring gptmbr-Tbe Straetar TTIII IVe ciot for -Scrrral Day. ; (From Daily Statesman, Sept. 1.) Tlie bids for thej repairs f tin big bruise we:v jesterday opeuwd by the Marion ami Polk county courts ami the council committee on streets and public iroiH-rty. at the court house. Tlwre wcrt' four,, li'ds, , as follows; A. M. Gilbert. ........ ... i'lia. liiukle ... J. J. ............ 707 11 It. McCoy.....1. .............. 7 pi C. 1. i:oyal.....j. ..... ... ...... 7f The con t nut was let to A. SI. t;j lert, the work to ( completed by Oe tolHT 1st. The Work ou the bridge will jcousjst of redecklng the main fj.au am-iiijil.lc t tin; two courts: to put In twenty-four new piling 011 the cast side of the. vest rpproaeii to liet icr. supitorl the structure ami also to strengthen it in various; places with braces. Oie provision i is that the Inidge is not to be closed lictwccu the hours of (i p. ut. mid 7 a. in., leaviug the contractors lit. work 011 the bridge froiii 7 a. 111 to O p. 111.' every day with out interruption, this temporary t hrsing to Ite iHmiittcd only for a total or twelve days during the mouth of September. i Tlie M i t ion county court also opened bid;; for the const ruc.t ion of a till near the CO. Wengcr farm east or Howell prairie. Tliere is an old lrbljr.- at this idaee. I'.Ci feet long, including the ai proaches. ' It was decided to shorten .the Inidge -by making : tilln for -approaches, a izSfnot till on tin west end and twenty f 1 et of till on tin- east cud of the bridge, with stole abut ments, the grade to In ten feel and sixteen reet j in width. The recciviii were: j J. II. Moser. ir cents ht cubic for till and Vl 'cents per etihh high bids y a id foot for stone abetment. J: 1. McCoy. IS i-cuts for till, and F cents for stone work. It. M. (iilhcrt, S4Ir.rsi fur abutment and till.'" t The contract was awarded to J. II. Mnscr, whose bid. for .the work as .planned, will make the; improvem-.mt cost alvut jlty l-t)iiililin vr tlie old itntle. the comity would probably wre Tu at this lime, but tlie same work would ha ve to lie gone over again in a fw years, while the stomahut im'til and till will, with ordinary eat e Maud a life-time, and be, by far. the cheaicst In the cud. .sudden WKAirii has i ITS DKAWr.ACKS: Accustomed, to a Humble I.ife. "Fortune-llriiiir This Woman a Psk of Trouble. McKei-sHrt.; Pa Aug; UT. Isph who are-al ways ; wishing that by some turn of fortune? they will Iweome rich can hardly credit that any one's '-jieaec of mind coiiid be eiulaugiTcd by too miu-h moucy$but Mrs. Susan Austin f Iteyiiohllown, a suburb' of this city, has learned lv ;exiMrieiie that sud lenly acquired iwealth has its objee f tollable features. A few days ago she was HHr. Tslay she Is worth $,",1111,1 mil. Her fortune was left to her by the will of her fa titer. John 51c 'afTrey. t t'hitio. who lescrted her and her sisters in infancy. S e:i king of her cxistm-ims'. she said: "It's all right to get numey after years of ' hard .work, hu there are a lot of things that one misses. I have no bmger any peace of mind. Onee my i only visitors .were my uelghJors. Now ; my neighlNUs won't call 011. me. and Ij ha ve all kiuds if visitors coming en all sorts of errands. Humln-tls of Is-g-gars liave lss-u here since I got my fortune.- If I listened to tlieAl all and to I heir scheiiies 1 would Hn In' . h Iwggar myself, j There are church tsg gars. hungry lcggars ami money beg gars. There are 11H11 : who have pat ents ' without money, and schemers who want stock floated.". They make 'it' Im-jhI ro J'ollild. 1IU getting tolls, of advice. Kveryr 'mail brings me let ters asking Tor hmathnis or giving hh dvle' on how' to Inve-d my fortu'n. Some of the letters are w 1 itt n by pco pie who never had a spare dollar, and others by people who have -hist- for tu lie's. ' ! "Sly ohl neighbors act qucerly. They doitt want pv borrow anything, but 'no lwrxiu cm! Into the; strts't but. -what ttu-v watch tiim. If I git auytiiingj from tliestore it is all over the tieigh Init IiimmI hi a miutiUv If :i w:gou tl at Hh dor there is a rush to .the win dows to see w ha I I liotight. When a stranger stops at the house a iine fenee convciitiolt is. called, and the dch'gitlesvjliseiiss my mil'T." ".Mrs. Austin ! takes her smm! fortune nMtettly. Sls.f still lives in a two suuy frame bouse, which is worth about S!.?!. 'Till tint going o move." she said..' "This litHHf is go.l enough .for me. I've had to work for my liv ing. I'm 11.M jused to Is ing ri. h and ' I'm too old tii cliange tuy ways. If I 1 tts.k a big houc and trictl to live l'k' f'.ie rich I'd only make a fool of my- silf. I'd Is- like a1 lish out or water. Money is not .'education or' refinement. I'll stav where 1 am. if my neighlmrs outd Iimvc live ahnie I'd be all right. Jet now I'm like a museum freak. That will mhiu wear fr. and I'll settle Ihu k Into irv-ol 1 way of living." Hntr MMj nf the Kr'eii North ilfnarp Miipphiir m the AtUutie- Tbe advent, of the iceberg season of l!!i was recently marked by the sighting of a jliuge uiass of ie ttoating sou tii ward by the steamship .tolum bl.in. ivhle .lf the coast of X.'Wfouiid- la mi. : ;-,J:!:."..1:j, ;':: . . At this time of I lie year otie'of 'the interesting features of. eeau travel is the frencelit v hw afforded t iti ls?rgs tTosshig the laues taken by the ocean liners, plyiug lctweca America ;and Kurois. ; j .':; :f ' The l"ebrgs seeu lu tlie North At lantic wean have a definite Imiit of , travel. They are formed iu . I ho. are- 11c regions or heavy inland glacial Ice which, moving to the sea, Is broken off in enormous masses by its owu weight and the action of the Water. These masses float away and are caught In arctic currents and entiled into Melville Sound, where the cur rent descriltes a circle i and carries them to the south along the coasts of l-abra"dor and Greenland. Such liergs as are not stranded on tin rocky sliores drift past ISelle Isle ami New foundland, across the paths of the transatlantic j steamers, until they reach the higher temiKTaturv of the Oulf Stream, in which they gradually melt and disappear. Their most somb erly Ihnit is Cape llatteras. and their eastern limit passes close to .the A .ores. Their field is then ttouivle I by a line that runs north to Southern llreeulaud, with a sweep again to 4 he east along the shores of Icvlaml. theme north into the Arctic ocean and east to Nova Zcinhla. It is a "matter of surprise to intsoii who become acquainted with ici'lN-rgs for the first time to learn Hiat 1 !' nr.' frozen fresh water, and are m't alt. Tlii .r arc formed of fres'i wa.er, fro7.eu many centuries ago, dun ng whicli they have been -slowly travel tilitr to ll: s.a. ; i' ' -i The danger to navigation by h -Is-rgs is very great, and many a gMHl hip hst mystriioiIy at Kea has fouuilenil from coililoii: witli cm at ailit or In a 5ens. fug. In I8!ll tie seamship .Miranda, carrying a party i f scientists to tireeulaud. came into collision with an Jeelierg in the straits of I'clte Isle, almost foundered, and w as 'iiniH'ilal to run r to St. John's. X. IV, for reirs. ? In crossing Davis Strait the Miran da aain em-ouuteri-l nmnlierless ii-e-Ihtrs of all sizes and of tin? greatest variety of fantastic shais-s. Sailiit;; toward one of these a Hplrited discus sion arose on board as to its size, tlie estimates made putting it all the way from to l.HMI-fet in height. lt was mesisin-ed by the sex Unit ami was found to be JS feet high and to cover an area of live acres. Tims it was three and one half limes as high as the steeple of Trinity church, in New York, or nearly twice as high as tlie Washington Monument. The siKM-ltie gravity of lee is sm-h that the proNrtim f It when tloat'.iig is one part above the water line to, eight parts llow. This would make the entire height of the iceberg meas ured by the Miranda 7.13 feet, or ihore .than one and a (iiiartcr mill's. .The berg had ati area of live acres-, Kch. i..n Into a .uuudrau xi Masijr- ed T7i ftf't mi '.'iirii side.. Tlie mini- ler of cubic feet in the mass may be arrived at by mid: iplying r rl-l feet !ngth by r15 feot ilcp'li bv 7.''u feet height. This results hi tin eiiormo.is f sum of I.:r..rjMN cd ie feet. A j cubic -foot of it-iv weighs a I unit isty ; IHMinds. henv this, iceberg weighed j apiro.imately 1H.."i77.'JtMHK) pnuml ; or ."i7.2.V.iiti tons. j The great deith to which icidx-rgs sink In the sea prevents chr . ap- j proach to shore than live to ten miles. ) The tempera tjire of iiortiiern waters aln;ve latitude ?S ilegres is In-low -J.N degrees 'Fahrenheit, and the air is j only from 1 to ; degrees higher. Therefore the ieeliergs melt very slow- i ly unjil tliey drift to the edge of the : tiini pircaui. ' Sen, a i sea. the tlistjiuce and diincit sions 'of "u-elMM-gs are very deceptive, tine seen off tlie coast of librador by the party 011 tlie Miranda lookiil from a listam-e like a low. tableland only a few feet almve ' the surface of the water. Two scientists rowd ight iniles to niaki a closi-r inspectitni of it. and thn dis.overel that its walls were lifty feet high ind that the berg was two and a half miles long. Till: LAST FHJHT. New Vork, An; At the Itro.id way Athletic t'lub. toiiig'.if. the last of the series of tiotits under lln li.trion law was brought to a eont lusioti by .p'e (iani. of llaltiiiiore. kinx kilig out lel Hawkins, of fuliftunia. i:i the .third luiniil. in a f'-otitest th:it was schedjh.'d to go tvcntv-tive rounds. ; A Minister's Mistake. .V city minister was recently handed a notice l be read from his pulpit. Aocompaniiiig it was a clipping irom a nc.vsp.ipcr bearing uHn the matter. The clergyman started ; to read the extract and found that ?it began: "Take Kemp's RaamAi the best Couwh Cure.' Tin? wa hardly what he had expected and. afttr a mo ment' hesitation, he tnrned it over, and found on the other fide the mat ter intended tor the reading. 3. STttUY U A SHAM COIMT. M. Trotiillebert. a talentol 'painter and a pupil of forot. has just died in Ids - seventieth ; year. Twenty years ago lie Iss-ame rather -cHebrattsI in coiisitient t of a ctTlgul.ir in - id-nt. Ah .vamlre Duiu.is liad bougld for V2.- iNHI finite 11 oictlire bV t'ofot. -of whicli he was very proud, and wnlcli j was ad, nired by artists ami amateurs. One day TioutileiH-rt. -tiapiiciuux 10 -e this picture, ivcegnlzed it as a work painted by himsHf under the. title "Foiitaitie des it.ilmurets." and sold, at the time for 1 francs to a picture dealer. He brought an ac tion, sained it." and 'obtained :the right to inscrile his name 011 the jMctnre. Tlie incident gaineil Trouilleliert a tardy retsgnilioti and r rtputatiou. I.imlon Uuilder. "When you asked me ti marrv you." she said regretfully, "you made .-in oversight." " 5 "In what way?' he demande-k "WelK you told me how much you ! loved me. but yntl neglected to . sjij how much you loved t your cum. dhln't realize that I wa to have a rival." "-; : 5 ';" - ".Vow. is there"'' anything i meaner than a samistie wonianr he asked himself, as he staried for bis car. t'hjeairo Tost. ' i I Volcanic flruptkn$ Are grand, but Skin Eruptions rob life ot joy. r.uck'cn'i Aruica Salve cure them: also Old Running and Feef Sores. Ulcers. Hoi!?,? Felons, Corn Warts, Cut. Kruisc. Burn?, Scaids. Chapped 1 I amis, Chilblains. Rest I'i.'c cure on earth. Drives ouj Pain and Ach-. tdy 25 cts. a lx, Cure guaranteetL Sold by Dr. STONE, drugget. -i' :'i 'I--. ' i - . ; -I laughter. Is your husband amia ble?" t f :.'- 4 -Well, ma.' he's exactly like pa: when he gets his own way alnutt ev erything he lovely'-rKxchaugc. I J ' hakim; iu:i:i Of vii. 1. a:i: vvaa v. Miss I;l-1; I'olvot of Soul ii I '.fewer. Me., Won Held and Oc-ei !y t.Tunbhig P'i;-FMt Clrinjisey. ISaugor. Me.. Aug. '17. The prettiest sirl in South I.rewer, Miss s-"d.i l'ol-'t yot. creatsl a sensation o.ie night last t wt-ck w'heu she. eliin!sl lo the top of'j an inui chimney l'Jf! feet from thfj ground, took a seat on its :ron rlin j and almlv looked .upon tne hundreds of p.sple who were, watching 1'jt from lielow. Some W.eeks ago- ! he Fas'eni Mjiiui facturitig t'oiupany r,-'el this chim ney, and. when it was I'mii'i'-d left' a little iron ladder, hardly wid. enough for a )orsoii to place iwo Cv.t ai tme rting at tlie same time. The eoiniiati.v offered anv itersoti a ri goMji.-e who won hi --limb to the top of .the. -tig iimi i eolttmu. j None of tlie men around town 'dared i to try it, and it remained for Miss1! I'olvot to perform the Teal. Some one remarked to her tier day before that there was a reward of for the per son who would start tw.ird tin clouds b.- the chimney route, anil s'n rep. d: "That's easy, ami i ff just show you how to do tiie trick -ifler supper." Accordingly, after the evening tm'.i: had Immmi finished f-ul Mis hrled lur lliolher v.as;l she donned her short skirt I'olvot had the dishes, and startt d for It s!ie lll".V der Hie mill. had leeu talked altout town I'm. was to go to tlie 'top of -tlie .'li'n aud when she standi up the h:d-ev-rylMly sltssl and woiidere.1 ;f Itad the iicrve. sht Miss I'olvot climb"! to th- too as easily as. n ln-ar would go I'P .1 Arriving -there. sii w.ivisl her I r, r. 1 -ind to tlie crowd below, sat and rooked across the ctiuntry for a few and then made tlie dc-v-ent as miiity . . . as a sailor comes ilown from .-lloit. She got the T. and rue cheer " J1" tlie men in town. IXIUAX IAII,T XF.WSI'AI'KIi EXOLISH. IX The Indian Mirror Is the oldest es tablislnsl purely Indian daily newspa ier" comlncteil hi English in all Imha. Next ill isfctit of age omes the Hindu ef Madras, ami the Hindu is the oldest ludiau daily of Madras, I-mbay has u.- such daily iuer yet. though it was Mr. Malabar!" fotul dreain at one time, and is one of the large rescrvii! pndects of Mr. .Tata. For many years, the Indian Mirmr was the only purely; Indian daily newspaper In Calcutta. and it was - thmigt.t mere was inner Uttfef i.ni -r.M . .1 . t-Aiilnrn ltlffl rnu ira hiumiu i ........... ; the Age of fonsettt bill came. IliiiduSj were dividisl aiueng themselves, andj the optMirtnnity to minister to a ivrtaiii sM-thifi of the local Hindit community was sought ami found, when the Atnfiy,,.-j,,, far .without uei ess. rli Bazar Pat'rika was n!s convert'! i -j iKMigh i the gnus of t1e Creusot liTto A daily. The Hindu I"atrtor.;roif was next ufeTtcl from a weekly to a dailv journAIv Next came tiie turn of the Towerland the National Utian diau, wi !-. weeklies, to !" ttiiiteil lnt the daily Power and Ona pi ia m, lastly. Hie wH-kly Iluglee be-annf a dailv a few mouths ago. It is nol r The manufacturers of Royal Baking Powder have always declined to produce a cheap baking powder at the sacrifice of qu&lity or wholesomeness. The highest grade and most highly refined ingredients only are employed in Royal; hence its well known superiority. It is always the case GO Sis is GfoB&pBB ROYAL BAKING rOWCEFt CO..W0 WILLIAM ST., NEW YORK. our ui-iMis(. u MMiij.-".re the merits tf ii-esc tire pir-ely lnli;ui it.-iilies. eon il'netfHl in 'Vlii'is'i. Tiieir . existence shows thai there' is mere intellectual life and a larger circle of Indian read ers of newspapers' in l'-er.gnl than in the sister l'resideneies. Indian Mirror. Vv i'iii i;i:ii:irrr '''!" he true olitorial sp irit." said the ;dii timer, "is iciHiniig." "I guess j'jiu'rc ,igiit." agreed sitnylitm author. "It certai.ily the does uw.t appear to be acefpt ing. '- IS'.-uU 1 pliia I Yes's. i AKTIFIv i A t SFOMJKS. A large triide is done in (Jermaiiy iu artiticial sjioiigcS. whicli are pro duced by a 'patented, process depend ing prineijuilly on the action of zinc efe loride sol a l ion on pure cellulose. iiat ni:tA.Mi: of tiii; orxsv lystery Sti'rr'ounds IisapMirance of I t'annon in Sotilh Africa. Now that the war in South Afrh-a ivarly over it would Is? interesting to know" wh-'lt became of ft hose -o!e- tuaicd "long lou'is" and other big Vu-ge guns which m.tde life in the-be-ticgi-d eiliffi- of Ladysioith. Ivieilicr iey and Mafeking so nticouiforialde Tor a while;; These guns Mceiu to have Ta Hen o(T the earth.; While the He" Were in rojiiuens I of tl'je railways of the r-jritii it Woi;ld have Im-cii .e:isy enough for;.them to have spirited tlie i (tui.s away; but in tlie close, of the iilgl'l-- tlie Ib iiish fi ll up ui tlie' p- t jf rea nug ' larmeis miiii .m ni-'i s., ffwhieh i-iit tin 111 off from the railways j:fM,!,r jr,Ml that ha I be.'i guns. Now. iP CIS Jl .IS.-C'l 11.1 - Via - tu .Co k ro t tin rrtiliL V - -" : - .. .. ., Mi if is morally iituiui iji;;i no ifbig" siege gnus wlrh-h kef 'sde awake night at Kiuiberley, Mire king and Mdysmiih were not carried to v. here the remnants of the i'.oer army are lighting. . .'Xeithc at I'aar detwrg. . kadysmith. Kimbrley n--.tr Siafeking was one of these cch-1ri?"d guns 'captured. What has be-onie of them its one of the protdems '-which Ixrd Koisrts is irying to figure ontv It is mt i at all prolable that trie loers had i a heavier gun in their siege thana ftve-lneli phn-e. That is tlie cal'.ls.r -f an ordinary, siege gun. That they' did ha ve gmis of that cnl Hr or m-arly that seems certain from the accounts received 'during the war of the artillery duels Js-t vvee i the l'.ritish naval "four-point seven" . mm ami i w ltg SMge iii 01 thej -n... fitjuig or t!ies neavy : .. t ...t: Tl I gUMS scetos aniitsi om-a jto ,i it-. o- , iSriti-sli lelieve that the lttrs have jj, thi-Mi away somewhere in th vast territory wliich has Iss-n fought uVIr aJi nre bs.Klng for them a-ssj la- t p.lUp, ,.e li-hter. it is sai.l. in pro- poriiou ti;tlMjr eaUlsT than the old cr'tyis they can not lie of much less weight, and in the old ,tyn.. th wLsds of. a siege carriage alone? we'ebed over n."a isuitnls. Then l all 1he p;irapl.eriial:awhieh wit'i a siegv gun, all weighing t nere gos hM v- that the consumer suffers in pocket if not in health by accepting cheap pow ders as substitutes for Royal Baking Powder, Care must be taken to avoid baking powders made; from alum. .Such powders are sold cheap, liccatisethcy cosf but a few cents per pound. ' Just as j;ood and ch en per," is a fraudulent cry, intended to deceive the unwary. Alum is a corrosive acid, which taken in food means injury to health. iiy. '' rt . ea use .-. ii t?i is Jieavy trace of it can 011s liieee of I lie lisa )) -a ra nee -of'a.ml sin material so that no.! jjether. be found-is a marcel- work. For a while "Oom" Paul persuaded his followers; and she has that '. miracles, were being, worked for 'livery st ible. tli benefit of the Unci's tint the ItrJt ish never iM-lieved in u spe-Lil dis lcus.iti,m for Mr. Kruger ui'til tliey leali.ed that they could nut find tlie big siege guns.' The niauuer in wliic-h they w-re spii'iied away was marvel 'otis. If anyone -'should see a I'.oer walking alMHil with a siege train "in his jmssession a suitable reward will lo 'p.iiil by tietieral KolM-rts. provided the Iloer will tell how he did it. AKMHKS liAFtJUTKi: a ii()usimi:ai,i;u. ! (.lever Woman Turns Her Iive and Knowledgi' of Horses Into a ! Means of IivelilHHd. j Syracuse. N. Y.. Aug. Ho.-MWh-i (.harlotte M. Kinney of thH city is a piomer in otening up a new now neliou for her s'. A womn 11 horse dealer is a novelty, even in tiiis day,' when .losh I'.illiiig's saying. ."Winien is everywhere." ir.ed. M iss Kiiiuey that way. and is. tiNi. All the is pretty neatly real is making her living a very good living if horsemen of 'tie state fpni They New York 1o Itutrato know -her. treat-ler wtdl and are alwavN. read Jo do her a good turn when. tlie opportunity offers. Ill spite of the business in Whiell sl-e is esig;lgc.i. s!e is Hot ill the If.Mt a "new wom.ro," Her falrbair 'and blue eyes and ' feminine' ways lpiile astonish jieopie when linw g.t tin h' tirsf giimp-M of -"that wou,iiii w!i. sells horses, you klt"W." it was really through a pif-,-,,! Ircinl , of events that this young woman first drifted Into selling horses. Iter girl-hood wasj so.-nl on ivr fatlos's (inn at Ja iiiesviP.e. wvi"i li lies iUof Syracuse, lie." as- she grew up she . learned t i kmw and love good horses, tiioi.gii at 'the time she never dreamed of turning that kuowletlge to' . any. commercial, a", count. Tliere we-e many children b the familv at," the rambile;; old farm- ! bouse, and money was not phi.t,rnl. !'So when a comm !-r5al traveler, a frieud of her brother's, one Jmi laughingly suggesf-,l to Miss Kinney that she' would in. ike1 a good s;ihs w.e.i.in an! ha'f stingly' cl'Vied to ret: her a -iosi.'-iouin tier road xUn. tlc grtw-ery bouse he represent s, ,it iiiwKir :o:w Jiim ".at ins word. le got the jiositiiMi. n'iid 'soi l groeeiies j for a year. A well-known .vagon -company i ecani or hit. aim, .realizing nun , pr-s.id patrons w .eiM also need wagons, it no tuy m-un-en wt io g''"j , . up groceries for its -Jb.ie. - j -'f jM. u,Mr larmv is ilipjHuy iH-eause IMit the J Miotic to whom ' s!w srtdof ,e Uvet.--Toninto Ololie. f wagons (it info liie wav or ,! nil her where they coc!d set horses, and , .... . . . . r she siK.h ftu;id herwlf s them. SIm tinalty wot k'-sl , np sm-o a trade in lirss "that a year ag she dctermitief! to devote, herself excbi-u-i.lr tn It. find eave mi thewag'tiis. v..- is keiit lusv negoiitiii'g h.r sjiIs. People who have horses to sell and ixtple w-ho want to buy I horses lioth coiiiiiiuuicate witii her, J brings "t lie rigid part ies to .She usually makes' her ap- pn'ul ue-ut at Mown where Ihi leading hotel of the her purehasir. resides, lu-r horse sent on to a where s!ii takes him to look Ot ovef. If tlie "dear' gis-s throitgli.! a it invariably- does, for she Studies the ideas' of her customer beforehand and delivers only Just the kind of -goods that he will want. hlie gc?. a liberal commission, FUU KUAS 111''--MIM.Vt!. LKAOVIMdl . I-cadrille has now i'til'i'ed on a fourth era in Its history: The tlrst ei.i was that1 of.pl.ieer mining in ("al ifoinla Oideii from ti to isiiti. whieii at'traeiiil. many Umuy.and, of persons. Mint during -'.which iei'inl miMions of ilollars" worth if gold were taken out. 'the fccoud era commenced with the discovery, alont jMT'.t. of rich lead -carlHitiate or-s running high' In vihi.r. Tiiis le.l to' flu oietnng up of the .'"'wonderfully' productive inines en Iron Hill, Caib!nat' diill, Fryi-r Hill. etc.. some of w hich paid millions of dollars tu dividends. 1 luring this earlMuiate M-ritd thoiisii Tiuls of imtsus flocked to l.eadville from the ends of the cartli. and millionaires were made almost in ti day. The rich car bouaierore. ihiosits, found compara-1 lively mar the surface, are now pr:ic ticaltv i'h:infel. I ; Tlo third dales from Jhe decline In jllie price of idlvt r. i-uliiiinaf ing in i l!Ci -with the' closing of tlie Indian nduts in tlie coinage of .silver, aii l Mhe repeal of I tie silver -.purchasing ji-LiUses of the Sliermair iH'k ''h'. jjH-rio'l of depression. JioWeyer. only S . served to turn a itiew page in l-ead - ville history"nml to usher In tie third ,nr gohl.ii era of tids wonderful mill ing disl i b-l. , The fourth ''...era : may be called the j coinlMisite- era. in- which g'l l. silver,. 'had. copper. Iron, zinc, and, bismuth i .. . . . , , ari' pt'chiaiuy in in en aim ne;icu.--Thomas Toit'jje.' in T!ie Engineerini; Magazine for Septetnls-r. yris wants SKitvit'i: May Sileeis'd .'eiH-ral Jos. Wheeler When the letter ttetlres. Wash bglon. A ug. .".1 ... Ma Jor- Jeneral Otis ha 4 asked for. assignment to ae- live dul v, and he . will probably le place-.! in command of the department of I Ik Lakes on 11m retirement or Wlssder, Septemlter '.. Ciliel al -j 0st ten on Hoodoo Sat urday." "VesV Couldn't carry so much weight Hl)nmw," . . No: at'd Tie was carrying my llioll- Vl'iick. 1 1 p gM ;;;t:,;StDEAFNESS cured, or no pay. i;. J l. 1U) w A N, . Milwaukee", Wis. . ' Foil HALM- Pony; isTfectly gentle Price Ptuwiiiable; also n'ladi-s riding saddle altiHfst new. Address Clayton cntz, MiiKj 'School. tS'.'"Jd;t-wUb t