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5 0£D MEXICAN HIN£& «f t. Cfcedlioovered After Being Lost fotr Three Hundred Years. Ih« Find Wm Accidentally Mad* bj American Prospector* Near the Pueb lo# of Coehttl and Handli In N*« Mexico. All New Mexico and southern Colo rado are excited over the rediscovery near Safita Fe of rich gold mines that were worked by the Spaniards more than three centuries a go and were lost during the Pueblo insurrection in 1080, when the Indians, oppressed beyond endurance, suddenly arose, massacred the priests, destroyed churches and drove the last Spaniard out of the country. The Spanish masters had compelled the Indians to work in the mines, and that labor was so hateful to them and its results seemingly so useless—they attached no value to gold, according to the San Francisco Examiner—that when they had ex pelled the Spaniards they filled up the shafts and tunnels, removed the debris and utterly obliterated all traces of mining. All the white men who knew the exact locations of the mines were killed during the insurrection, and when De Vargas reconquered New Mexico in 1G03 none of his men could find the miwos. Men have spent their money and their lives in searching for them, and so futile has been the search that the liisr.-.ry of them has come to be regarded as mere legend and fable. But the old Spanish people of New Mexico have always stoutly asserted that the Pueblo Indians have preserved in their traditions the secrets of the mines, and that tliey know to this day the locations of the old workings. So jealous of this knowledge are the In dians that they punish with death any one of their number who so much as hints at the location of a mine to an American or Mexican. The richest of the ancient mines were known to be in the vicinity of the Cochiti and Sandia pueblos, and the present inhabitants of those villages are supposed to know the exact locations of the old works. The Sandia Indians have a deeply worn trail in the mountains that is supposed to lead toward the mines, but they guard it very carefully The mines of Cochiti have been re discovered, not with the assistance of Indians nor through traditional infor mation, but by plain American pros pecting. The Indians could fill up the old shafts, but they could not conceal the croppings of mineral veins. Two men of Jemez, named Eagle and Dor sey, have been knocking about in the mountains near the Cochiti pueblo for about four years, and last fall they stumbled upon some croppings that assayed high. Other prospectors heard of the find and went into the district and now they have found a mineral belt tfiat has set the country wild with excitement. The veins are true fis sures in porphyry, running north and south along the slope of the Jeraez .mountains, parallel with the trend of the range. The rock gives high assays in gold and silver, and mill runs on average lots from eight-foot veins have returned one hundred and fifty dol lars a ton. The lead has. been traced In an unbroken line for eight miles and claims are staked out for five miles. There are several parallel veins, all of them assaying high. Old miners who have been in the Cochiti camp declare that the strike is the biggest that has been made in fifteen years. Of course the usual comparison with the Corn stock is made, sometimes to the dis paragement of the latter. The Cochiti Indians view with wonder and be wilderment the procession of pros pectors through their ancient plaza and have not yet quite got it through their heads that all their precautions to conceal the old Spanish mines have been in vain. ONE WAY TO TREAT BEARS. Out In Arizona Man and Bear Live To gether tn Amity. Up in the Sierra Ancha mountains of Oila county there are plenty of bears, great big bears as big as four^fear-old steers, and with claws on them that leave a mark like a butcher's cleaver in the snow. There are not many peo ple in the Sierra Anchas, though some years in the month of May, a few peo ple go up among the pinep and plant potatoes. And the potatoes they harvest before the snow comes in the fall are the finest in, the world. Well, these potato farmers all have an inex haustible fund of bear stories. Of course, there is plenty of other game— the residenters principally live on wild turkey and deer meat, and esteem bacon and beef in the light of delica cies. But as to bears. The potato farmer will prop himself against a tree in the woods at night, gaze into the -huge fire of pitch pine deadWood and between puffs of his comforting pipe tell a story something like this: "Ye see, I was a-goin' over the sad dle near Mount Lookout, not noticin' like and all of a sudden I heard ahead of me a kind of a sound like a hone was startled. An* right thar before my eyes was the biggest, wooliest bar I ever seed in my born days. Why, he was about as big as the cabin I built that year over near the head o' Coon creek. Well, I was skeered'clean out of my boots, and 'the bar appeared to wonder what I was doin' occupy In* that trail. Well, we surveyed each other for a few minutes, when I stepped off politely to one side into the timber, and the bar went off down the trail." "Why," exclaimed a Phoenix Gazette man who heard this story "didn't you have a gun?" "Why, of course never stir out with out my old Winchester 45." "Why didn't you shoot him, then?" "Good LorcTT youngBter, do I look like a blame fool? I hain't lost no bar. Bar's all right, only you just let him alone when you meet him on the trail and he'll return the compliment." Nobody shoots bears in that country. Bear and human live together with mutual respect, if not amity, and side cares to break the trnoa ir fr 7* 1 ii r*.', THE FUTURE OP LONDON.: ikcrliiil'i la' ifc# 'Popaiattdn Of tto Oily'' 'BtMlni Mo Merloni Check. The favorite name of Cobbett for London—"the wen"—is going to truer .th^d it ever has been if we can trust"some remarkably Interestihg st4 tiatics just issued by the London coun ty council, says the Westminster Budget. One question discussed is whether London is or is not being checked in its rate of growth. On a first glance at' the registrar's figures with regard to London itself it ap pear* 1 as though it were, for before 1881-01 London population was increas ing evory ten years at a rate varying from 10 to 31 per cent., but in the decade ending with 1801 the rate of in crease had only been 10 per cent. "Does this mean," asks the committee of which Mr. Costelloe is chairman, "that London has reached the( turning point and that in a few years the in crease will become a decrease?" The Committee finds that it does not. It appears that the true reason for the apparent diminishing rate of increase is that the building space in London is gradually being appropriated, and that the people, aided by improved railway and tramway and omnibus accommo dation, are betaking themselves more to outside London residences. Even in greater London this is noticed to a smaller extant. The rate of increase in population, while still very rapid in greater London, is beginning to show a tendency to became slower, and it is discovered that the Londoners are moving still farther out into this home counties. Then there are specu lations as to what the size of London will be fifty years hence or less upon the milder suppositions. If we do not add any more to the population than the amount per decade that has been added since 1881 it seems that we should have a population in 1041 of close upon 10,000,000. If we allow for a growth at the rate of the natural in crease of births over deaths there will be nearly 11,000,000 in London in that year. If we reckon that London Will grow at the average rate of the last three decades we shall be over 14,0Q0, 000, but if inner London and outer London go on together growing at the rate they have been growing for the last three tens of years we are to ex pect a London population in 1041 of a trifling 17,500,000. If we look at the matter in another way and ask what population greater London will con tain when it has attained throughout the mean density of well-known areas we get the following appalling figures: If greater London were only peopled as densely as Hampstead it would oontaln population of 18,000,000 If It were peopled on an average as densely Fulbam is now the popu lation would be 80,000,030 If It were peopled at the rate of St George's, Hanover square, the total would rise to 80,000,000 Whitechapel is now three times as densely peopled as St. George's itself. The moral is obvious. PRAISE FOR THE KEARSARQE. A British View of the Famous Battle with the Alabama. The. old Kearsarge, which sank the Alabama, has herself come to a vio lent end. She was wrecked a few days ago in the Caribbean sea, happily with out loss of life. It is all but thirty years, says the London News, since she fought her great fight off Cher bourg, so she has kept the seas along time. She deserved an honored place on the retired list of the American navy, for she had claims on national gratitude only second to those of the Constitution. Her fight with the Ala bama was a duel conducted very much on the model of the old personal con tests in the age of chivalry. After a hot pursuit she had at last cornered the confederate cruiser which had wrought so much ruin to American commerce, and it was well understood that pur suer or pursued must perish. She watched the mouth of Cherbourg har bor, which her enemy was under short notice to leave, and the fight was inevitable. The steamers in port come out to see it, and some of them carried ex cursion parties from Paris. The Kear sarge won by superior artillery, su perior discipline, superior patriotism. Her crew had a nobler idea to fight for than the medley of mercenaries^that crowded the privateer. These were a desperate gang, and they had given their officers endless trouble before the Kearsarge took the reformation of their manners in hand. As the Ala bama steamed out of harbor at ten o'clock on Sunday morning, June 19, she found her antagonist waiting to? her and the two approached each other in ever-narrowing circles, firing all' the time. The Kearsarge was better pre pared* for defense, as well as for attack. Her commander had roughly armoured her in the most vulnerable parts by laying all his spare chain cables in folds over the sides. The Alabama opened fire at a distance of about a mile, and when the ships had made seven complete circles she suddenly turned and headed for the land. She was sinking, for both shot and shell had reached her with fearful effects on ship and crew. A British yacht, the Deerhound, which had come out to see the fight, came up in time to save about forty of the crew as they jumped for their lives. The last shot was fired as she went down. It was a glorious victory. We can say so with a dear conscience now, as the Daily News was among the few metropolitan journals that said so when it was won. The History of an English Can at There is a canal in England which cost eighty thousand pounds to ^con struct, and was recently sold for one hundred pounds. It is known as the Stort Navigation, and dates from the reign of George III. In 1878 a firm of brewers obtained it fbr fifteen* thou sand pounds, as they found that when their malt was carried quietly by canal a saving in value was effected, as against the transit in trains, the dif ference being considered about equal to the rent of a malt-house. The pres ent proprietor had been for along time in the service of the firm, and the nav igation of the canal was handed oyer to him for one hundred pounds, ai a token of esteem, by his employers.^ Defective Page THE HOUSE OF LORbS. ranoanel and POIMM of flreat Britain's UnpopolM I«a4alaUvo Branob.' The English house of lords (or peers) consists of the whole peerage of Eng land and of certain representatives of tlie peerages of Scotland and Ireland but, according to the St. Louis Post Dispateh, many of these ilast have also English titles which give them seats in the house. As, for instance, the duke of Bucoleuch, a Scotch peer, sits as earl of Doncaster, and the duke of Leinster, an Irish peer, as Viscount Leinster. ^.ocording to the latest official list, ex clusive of twelve minors and one baron, whose claim is not established, the present house of lords is composed as follows: Five princes of the blood, two archbishops, twenty-one dukes, twen ty-two marquises, one hundred and fifteen earls, twenty-five viscounts, twenty-four bishops, three hun dred and four barons, sixteen Scot tish representative peers elected for each parliament, and twenty-eight Irish representative peers elected for life. In all, five hundred and sixty. All peerages are now hereditary, but until 1850 there were occasional crea tions of life peerages. In that year, however, it was decided that such peers cquld not sit in the house, and since then none have been made. Parages are lost by attainder for high treason, and an attainted peerage can only be restored by act of parliament—not by the crown. The house of lords may originate legislation of all kinds ex cept money bills, which must come from the house of commons. The for mer has also a veto power upon the legislation of the latter, and can throw out any bill from the lower house, no matter how large a majority it has re ceived there. It is this veto power which, more than any and everything else, makes the house of lords unpopu lar with the great mass Of voters. STRANGE DISCOVERY IN AFRICA Balsao's Dressing Gown In the Wardrobe of the King of Dahomey. Unlooked-for things have been found in unlikely places, says the Illustrated London News, but there has probably been no discovery more remarkable than that of Balzac's dressing gown in the possession of the king of Dahomey. Monarchs are rarely literary, and his dusky majesty, one would think, was the very last of them to have set much value upon the personal relic of a nov elist, however distinguished. Never theless, the French found it in the royal apartment at Abomey. There were some ingenious theories founded upon this circumstance. One of the amazons, it was thought, might have been a novel reader, and had sent to Paris to secure the interesting memen to, and, on the affair coming to the knowledge of her sovereign, had hastened to say she had purchased it for his own shoulders. For, indeed, he always wore it upon state occasions. It was not a dressing gown, such as literary persons in this country are wont to wear (of second-class flannel worn at the edges), but of purple vel vet embroidered with" gold. As a mat ter of fact, it had been.given to Balzac by some of his adihirers and after his death had been bought by a dealer In ouriosities, who had placed it, with other showy articles, on the West African market. It is sad to think how plain tale will "put down"—that is, destroy the materials of a fine ro mance. STOPPED THE DUEL. The Cool Man Objected to Being Riddled with On« Bnllet. "Down in my neighborhood,once upon a time," said Congressman John Allen, of Mississippi, recently, "there was bad feeling between two lawyers. A chal lenge was sent and duly acknowledged. The hour was appointed and the two men met in a secluded spot. One of them was a great sufferer from St. Vitus' dance, the other was cool and collected. As they faced each other, the afflicted man began to tremble from head to foot, while his pistol de scribed an arc with varying up and down strokes. His opponent stood firm as a rock, waiting for the signal to fire. Before it .same, however, he laid his pis tol on the ground,walked into thewoods and ent a limb of a true, with a fork in thq,end of it. This he brought back and stuck in the ground in front of .his antagonist. Then, turning to the sec ond, he said: (I must request you to ask your principal to rest his pistol in that fork.' 'What for?' asked his op ponent's second. 'Well,' replied the other, 'I have no objection to running the risk of one shot, but I certainly do decline having one bullet make a hon eyoomb of me. If that man was to shoot while his hand is shaking the way it id now, he would fill me full of holes at his first shot.' This was too much for the seconds, and, by mutual agreement, a truce was patched up and no shots were exchanged." SLEEPLESS LARVAE. Voracity of the Yonnff of Some of the Vegetable Feeders. Prof. Lintner, New York's state en tomologist, is of the opinion that the larvae stage of many species of in sects is one of the sleepless activity, the grub feeding incessantly from the "moment of its birth." He says that It Is doubtful,if some species ever sleep or take a moment's rest. The vora ciousness and rapid growth of these creatures may be better understood by making a statement of two faots: A certain flesh-feeding larvae, (which simply means the infant state of a carrion beetle whose soientlfio name would befof no particular interest, says the St. Louis Republic) will eonsume in twenty-four hours two hundred times his own weight—a parallel to whioh, in the human race, would be an infant consuming one thousand five hundred pounds of nutriment on the first day of its exlstenee! There are vegetable feeders—caterpillars-whioh, during their progress to maturity, in crease in sice ten. thousand during the first thirty days of thielr lives. To equal this remarkable growth a ma ture man would weigh scarcely leas than fifty JtooaL Wf *M 'f THE v!r6RtHi^Gtf6k XfrVA'ttci.' -»!»**v A MOTHER'S CURSI. Mvs. IwsMIs Galled Down Vongeanoo ea lU Headi of Her Son's Knenilee. Mrs. Zerelda Samuels, mother of those notorious bandits, train robbers and ex-guerrillas, the late lamented Jesse and the still living but reformed Frank James, is reported lying seri ously ill, with but slight hope of her recovery, said the Buffalo Inquirer, in a recent issue. "I'll never forget," said a gentleman recently, "the scene when she caught the first view of Jesse's dead face in that little undertaker's shop in St. Joseph, where the body was removed soon after Bob Ford killed the notori ous outlaw. ''She had aged years In the short tironty-four hours since her boy fell a victim to the treachery of one he had befriended. She seemed stunned by the tragedy. Here, for twenty years and more, she had lived in the full knowledge that every hour of each day might bring her tidings that one or both of her boys had met with a vio lent death, but when it came the shock well-nigh shattered her reason. "The ice box in which Jesse's body lay was opened, and for full two min utes the gray-haired mother looked on the f£ce of her dead son then all her vigor seemed to return, her bent figure straightened up, and in tones which could be heard half a block away she began such a tirade of abuse against his slayers as I never could have imag ined mortal mind capable of framing. "Whether it was in answer to her prayers I am not prepared to say, but certain it is that Charlie Ford never knew an instant of peace from the day that Jesse was shot. Unlike Bob, he did not even pretend to conceal his real feelings under an air of bravado. Both boys were in mortal terror every minute until Frank surrendered that he would cross their path unexpectedly some day and that their lives would pay the forfeit. Bob hid this fear by assuming a blustering boldness, which at times he was fir from feeling. His was the stronger character of the two. Charlie, on the contrary, passed his nights in restless sleeplessness and his days in terrified expectancy of ven geance. Even the short period of se curity which he enjoyed while Frank was in custody afforded no lasting peace for him. As soon as Frank was released the old terror returned with renewed force, and so preyed upon his nerves that he soon became a mental wreck. It drove him to a suicide's gsave at last." MORE POWERFUL THAN STEAM. Marvelous Force Obtained from Itosleal Vibration. I, for one, believe, says a Boston Transcript correspondent, that we are on the eve of a great era of applicable force, and ttiat the wasteful methods qf steam and electricity will be rele gated to a desuetude 6uch as has over taken the stage coach. The grounds of my belief are baaed not wholly on hearsay, but chiefly on a curious experience. A few days ago Si: young man living in the vicinity of Boston took me to his room and showed me an apparatus which be had Mmiylf constructed with amazing in genuity and skill. The fundamental primum mobile of this simple machine was musical vibration. I have no right to describe the apparatus, but the force produced in an incredibly brief interval of time by means of a fiddle bow was so enormous that there seemed to be no way of measuring it, and the chief dif ficulty in the way of practical applica tion lay in the regulation of this force, which, if directed full upon a human being, the inventor believed, would instantly vaporize his body. A single drop of water confined in a hol low stoll tube was resolved by a small fraction of this possible energy into a motor capable of running an engine, if properly applied. It is well known to all scientific men that a cubic foot of atmospheric air contains latent (if one might use the term), or in suspension, force enough to kill a regiment. Musical vibration seems to set free a portion of this en ergy, and its resources are infinite. If once they can be regulated it will be the simplest and most inexpensive way of doing all manual work, for it will require no heat. 'The young man who thought out this wonderful series of apparatus is self made, not having had great advan tages of education but for pure genius, I think, whether as a practical in ventor or as a theoretical experiment or, he will take high rank among the great of the world. An Interesting Sight. An interesting sight was witnessed by the visitors at Nlaqura Falls re cently. It was the annual migration of crows toward the south. This usually occurs in early winter, but this year, for some unknown reason, did not occur until the 1st of March. The crows passed southward by the mil lion, and for two days the air was blaok with them, and the noise of their cawing was almost deafening. When they got to the falls the lit in large numbers on the ice bridge and set up a wild cawing. The sound echoed against the walls of the gorge and made a tremendous noise. When they were rested they arose with a loud whirring of wings and continued their flight. Many flew into the falls and were drowned. The Nml Powers. An official report of the instantly available battle ships of the six great powers shows that of first-class vessels England has 15, France 9, Russia 3 and the Triple Alliance 10, of which 9 are Italian and 1 Geitnan. All the English vessels steam lflK. knots and upward, 9 being 18}$ none of the French is over 10.2 knots while 2 of the 8 Russians are under 10, the third reaching 17.8. In second-class ships England leads with 12, France has 9, Russia 4 and the Triple Alliance 11, of which Germany owns 7 and Austria 4. Here there is no suoh superiority of speed on the Eng lish side, three being under 18 knots, while no French vessel goes so low as that figure and all the Russians steam 14 knots and over. H' f, fc Give us a Call, fm 1 1 REPORT Of the Condition of the State Bank of Wortliington At Worthington, Minnesota, at the close of business July, 18.1894: tf RESOURCES. Loans and discounts $ 81,661.55 Real Estate, Fixtures etc 18,000.00 Insurance premiums advanced 100.15 Due from other banks, 41,559.40 Cash on hand 7,409.20 Cash resources 48.968.60 Total, LIABILITIES. -j [OrvmaLi u*, A CLUB MEETING. HAMMOCKS! HAMMOCKS Base Ball Goods and Croquet Sets —AT— C. H. BABCOCK'S. 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