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WON IN POOR TIME. Oliver Captures the Leuhr man Hotel Stakes at Memphis. Only Two Favorites Led Their Fields Under the Wire. Favorites and Second Choices Win the Events at Eliz abeth. The Opening Day at Benning-s Favored With Good Weather. Memphis, April 24.— The tenth day's racing at Montgomery Park brought about 3,500 people out. The track was fast, the weather partly cloudy and warm and tha betting lively. Only two of the favorites won. The third race was the Leahnnan hotel stakes for three-year-olds, which was won handily by the clever colt Oliver in the rather poor time of I:4V for the mile. Vim race, ielling, *ix furlonss— Ed Gresn wood, 10»j d'aul i, sto i, won easily by one Length; Buckhound, 110 (McDonald*, 5 to I. second; Steve Jerome, 107 (R. Jones). 2 to 1, third. Time. 1:174. t-ecoud race, purse for two-year-olds, four furlougs-^Buckrena 108 (Thorpe 1. - to 5, won driving by a nose: Maryland. 10$ (Keagan), S to 1, second; Edith A, 106 (Sargent), 10 to 1, third. Time, :51%. Third race, the Luehrman Hotel stakes, for three-year-olds and upwards, mile— Oliver, 100 iKeag.m), 7 to I ', won, dtiviusr, by half a length; Mlcnel. l"t> (Fox), 4 to 1, second; 15ol> - ■ cd. 103, 2to 1, third. Time, 1:4315. Fourth race, selling, seven furious*— post. U1) (Muith), 7 to 1. won in a drive by a a length: Belfast, 14 (Ueiff) 7to 10. second: .Miss Palton, HO (Fox), 10 to 1. third. Time. 1:31. Fifth race, handicap, mile and a sixte?nth — Chimes '.'."> (.Cam, sto 1, won easily by a iengtn: Coronet, So (Cole), 5 to 1, second; Rook Laidley, 103 (Reagan), 3 to 1, third. Time, I:51V&. sixth race, selling, 6 furlongs— Wedgefield. 115 (McCafferty), 2 to l, won in a hard drive by a nose: Freedom. 100 (Perkinson), 2to 1, second; Ike b. &> (Perkins), 12 to 1, third. Time, I:l7£s. HAPPED THE BOOKIES. Favorites and Second Choices Take All the Klizabeth Event?. New York, April 24.— The following are the results at Elizabeth today: First race, half a mile — Ellen 11, 3 to 5, won by a half-length: Jennie V, 5 to 1. second; Clementine, it to -, third. Time, :M%. Second race, three-quarters of a mile — Dai sy rian. 6to 5, won by a neck; Double Cross, 5 to 1. second; Prince Howard, 6to 1, third. Time, 1:IGU. Third race, mile— Don Alonzo, 7 to 10, won by two lengths; Prince George, 7 to 1, sec ond; Ajar, •*) to 1. third, Time. 1:44%. Fourth race, four and a half furlongs- Gold Dollar, even, won by two lengths; Si rocoo. sto 1, second; Jact Lovell, 15 to 1, third. Time. :".t>. Finn race, five-eighth? of a mile—Chatta nooga. 7 to 5, won: St. Hubert, ti to 5, second; Blue Blood. 15 to 1 third. Time. 1 . ■ i:.U sixth race, three-quarters ot a mile — King- Bton won. Bolero second, St. JDeiiis third. Time, 1:10%. HAD A WALKOVER. Judge Morrow Without Competi tors in the Benning's Handicap. Washington, April 24.— Tho own ing day of the spring meeting of the Washington Jockey club at Benning's was favored with tine weather, fair track and a large and fashionable at tendance. Results: First race, five furlongs — won, Rosa B. second, Beldemonia third. Time, Second race, half a mile, selling— Violetta ■won. Edith second. Little Mac third. Time, ;5H2. Third race, mile and an eighth. Durang handicap— Judge Morrow had a walkover. Ko other starters. Fourth race, selling, three-quarters of a mile— Marguerite won, Greenieaf second, Salisbury third. Time, lilTVj. Fifth race, handicap, hurdle, mile and a halt, over six hurdles— St Lu»e won. Land seer second, O::lc wood third. Trine. \!:o.Mj. SAVED BY SECOND CHOICES. Gloucester Talent Have a Hard Struggle With the Bookies. Gloucester, April 24.— Though only two favorites won today, the second choices that landed first helped the tal ent out. Summary: First race, five — Jersey won. Clo verdale second. Lithberi third. Time, 1:06. Second race, six furlongs — won. Capt. McChesney second, Deceitful third. Time. 1:221*. Third race, six and a half furlongs — Bliz zard won. Mulatto second, Airtight third. Time, 1:25»4. Fourtn race, mile— Fernwood won, Text second, Knapp third. Time, 1:401,2. Fifth race," three and a half furlongs — New Dance won, Phiiura second, Cnevrus third. Time. :4'.t 2 . Sixth race, five furlongs— Lebanon won, Monroe second, Lowax third. Time, l:OtiVi. BABY'S SKIN AND SCALP Cleansed, purified, aud '.eautiried by Cctictea •—>. Soap, greatest of skin purifiers and - \t>?-J «»ntitiere, as well as purest ami ■«* J£?£ sweetest of toilet and nursery soaps /^S^l Only cure for pimples and black. I rXp A heaJfl « because the only preventive il -£^Ap of "inanimation and clogging <.i the ,j. . porc=, the cause of most complex ional disfiguration. iioid everywhere. * *®i?il (SA.ME -AS CUX) «£?•? Can only he had -+\ during next 10 days IS^ at above price. /^SR -'-\ A ■ ■ I fSIMON Sp».g.-V; ;-y . i r * LEADING te; ; 0 JEWELER, siercrant. Cor. 7th & Jacksor. Open Evenings. Mail orders promptly filled. KING COMES TO TOWN. Bad Weather Forces the Wrestler to yuit the Country. This abominable weather has proven a little too much for Jack King at Fort Snelling. He found it impossible to do good training out there, and yesterday he came into town and went into train ins at the Phoenix. ttanager Barnes has givun King the forenoon hours for work, and Moth the afternoon, so they do not need to come into contact unless thej desire to. Both are doing hard work, and are last getting into the linesi trim. Harry Robinson went down and watched them work yester day, and he was delighted. "Friday night will oe nn event at the Olympic," saiil lie, with enthusiasm. "There are a pair cf gladitors, sure enough, and they will give a great show. King Is a little the larger, but Moth is 'foxy.' "' Lasker Scores A^afn. Kokoko. lad., April 24. —Today's game of the international chess match was won by l.asker, the European champion, Lasker had the attack and opened on the queen's Bank. The American defended skillfully and en tered the mid-game in tine form, but the German by small accumulations led in the close and won in forty moves. The score stands: Lasker— Won 4; lost ■„•. Showalter — Won 2; lost 4. Drawn 2. l.asker must Ret two more games to win the match, while Showal ter requires four more to win. St. liouis Race Tracks at War. St. Louis, April 24.— The owners of the East Side track, who are already at war with the St. Louis Jockey club, have now opened a campaign against the South Side people, who are soon to start their track. The East Side author ities have decreed that no jockey, owner, bookmaker or employe who connects himself with the South side track in any way, can figure in a like capacity at East St. Louis. Yale Says No. New Haven", Conn., April 24.—Com modore D. C. Creiger and Secretary F. S. Pratt, of the Chicago. Athletic club navy, are in this city for the purpose of inducing Yale to row at the world's fair. They offer special inducements, but the management of the Yale navy tonight assert that under no circum stances will Yale enter a crew at the Columbian exposition. "Wheeling to the Fair. New Yokk. April 24.— Robert Bruce, of the staff of Outing, left this city astride of a bicycle bound for Chicago at noon today. His object is to write a series of articles entitled. "A Wheel man's Ideal Route to the Fair." He will travel through Western New York to Buffalo and Niagara Falls.-theuce to Buffalo and along the shore of Lake Erie to Toledo and the "relay" route to Chicago. Will Fight in New Orleans. New Yoiik, April 24.— The articles of agreement for the glove fight be tween Billy McCarthy, of Australia, and George La Blanche, of Sao Fran cisco, were signed by McCarthy today. Steve Brodie, the backer of McCarthy, has deposited $500 to be forwarded to President Noel. The fight will be for $2,000 in the Crescent club on May 18. Denny's Dell. Sax Francisco, April 24. — Martin Denny, the champion lightweight of Australia, who arrived here on the Mari posa last week, offers to fi?ht any 130 --pound man. Stan ton Abbott preferred, for $2,000 a side and the largest purse offered by any American club. .OB Minneapolis Opinion. "Another thing which gratified me on returning home was the magnificent train service on The Burlington road. I found on tae Eastern roads a class of cars which the Northwest had dis carded years ago, and I found some new compartment cars on the Burlington Route which surpass in elegance any thing 1 have seen in the world. '•Certainly the people in the North west have nothing to complain of as to the passenger service this railroad is giving betwen here and Chicago." — . Hon. Clias. A. Pillsbury, interview in Minneapolis Evening Tribune, Jan. 31, 1593. "Even in this age of progress and emulation, wherein all lines of enter prise are, with one accord, struggling for pre-eminence, some one of each gen erally leads the van. and 1 am impressed to say that in the effort to remove from railway travel every objectionable feat ure and make it an absolute pleasure, your road (The Burlington), in my opin ion, occupies this proud position. "1 had the satisfaction of riding over your road last night in one of your ele gant new compartment cars, the finest and most complete in every respect I ever occupied. it is evident that you have made tie comfort of passengers over your lines a persistent and intelli gent "study, and have thus elevated travel to an actual pleasure. Your compartment car is also fittingly sup plemented by your dining-car service aud the prompt attention to wants of passengers by your employes on the train. I shall take pleasure in recom mending your road to my friends." — A letter from a prominent real estate deal of Minneapolis to an official of The Burlington. Indian Rubber Koads. Texas Sittings. New ideas in paving have lately at tracted attention. Among these is the paving of a bridge by a German engineer with India rubber, the result having been so satisfactory as to induce its ap plication on a much larger scale, a point in its favor being that it is much more durable than asphalt and not slippery. In London a section ot roadway under the gate leading to the departure plat form of the St. JPaneraa terminus has for some time past been paved with this material, with the effect of deadening the sound made when being passed over on wheels, besides the comfortable elasticity afforded to foot passengers. Another material which is being satis factorily introduced for this purpose, is composed of granulated cork and bitu men, pressed into blocks, and which are laid like brick or wood paving, the special advantage secured in this case being that of elasticity. Killing Frosts in Tennessee. NAsiiviLi,r:.Tenn.,April 24.— Specials to the American from Middle and West Tennessee counties state that the re cent frosts have done much damage to fruits and vegetables. Strawberries especially have suffered, and in some small fruit-growing counties the crop, it is thought, will not be two thirds. The corn has also been injured. Wheat is also somewhat damaged, and in the tobacco-growing comities the plains have suffered seriously. Drummers ! Drummers! Tailor-made, perlect fitting and fash ionable Business Suits (ready to wear), : $20 (twenty dollars), at The Boston, on Third street. Iron Mines Consolidated. IsnPEMiXG, Mich., April 24.— A ru mor in the oast six weeks of consolida tion of extensive mining interest* of this city finds confirmation in the ap pointment of W. D. Rees, of Cleveland, as treasurer of the Lake Superior lion company. _ His Opinion. New York Truth. New Yorker— You are the first Min neapolis man I ever saw who would acknowledge that the population of St. Paul was on the increase. j - Minneapolis Man — Certainly it is. Where do you think all the wicked that die go? THE SAINT PAUL DAILY GLOBE: TUESDAY MORNING, APRIL 25, JB9"j. BIG INDUSTRIAL WAR. Probabilities of a Great Strike in the Pittsburgh Iron Trade. Employers Look Upon a Re duction in Wages as a Necessity. World's Fair Carpenters Re fuse to Obay the Order to Strike. The Union Pacific and Santa Fe Shopmen's Strikes De clared Off. Prrrsßtrma, April ~4. — '1 lie Pittsburg Pont wili say tomorrow tliat the proba bilitifs are the iron trade will witness this year one of the greatest strikes that lias ever occurred in this part of the country. Certain it is to occur it tlic Amalgamated association is not prepared to pare down the figures in the next year's si\ile with no stinted hand. The manufacturers look upon a reduction in wages as an absolute necessity to the life of the business. They cite the fact that labor m the South is much cheaper, and that iv the Bast manufacturers are favored, and that as close as the Mahoning and Shenango valleys iv Ohio, the same terms are not demanded as here. Though as yet action has not been preconcerted on the part of the manufacturers, and no formal confer ences nave been held.the feeling is gen eral that this year the ironworkers in the Pittsbursr district must ask for no higher wages than are paid elsewhere. The feeling is general that manufact urers have been discriminated against by the labor organizations in this part of trie country, aud that they cau best afford to settle the matter this year while the Buslucs* Is Stagnated and while profits are out of the ques tion. The manufacturers are not feel in? unkindly toward their employes. They feel that it is a matter of absolute necessity that wages come down. The whole thing will be set candidly and fairly before the scale committee when the time comes for v confereuce, and they will be asked to divide the prolits and" losses. The question of a strike will depend this year on the attitude of the iron workers themselves. The manu facturers feel tnat their demands are just, aud that they In tend to abide by their resolution to stand for a cut in wages Is most undeniably certain. The whole trade today is suffering from a lack of confidence. There seems to be no bot tom to the prices that are ottered and taken, as they are at figures now that are lower than has been the case for a long time. Not an iron manufacturer in Pittsbanc will hazard any definite opinion ou the outlook. They are dis pirited at the condition of affairs, and have little confidence in the future. The fluctuations of the market are dead against exciting hope, as the record of the past two years shows a steady down grade, relieved by upward jumps of a spasmodic and transitory nature only. WILL GO BACK TO WORK. Settlement of the Santa Fe Shop men Strike. Topkka. Kan.. April 24.— The strike of the Santa Fe boilermakers aud ma chinists and blacksmiths is off. It came to an end at 0 o'ciock. All the men put to work in place of the strikers and all the strikers are to so back to work with out prejudice. General Manager Frey says that the force will have to be in creased anyway during the world's fair. It is practically a surrender of the strik ers; that is, the company has not signed the agreement as demanded. Peter J. Hitt, of the Nationai Brotherhood of Boilermakers, and C. A. tilenn, of the International Association of Machinists. an I. A. Newboid, of the International Brotherhood of Blacksmiths, drafted a proposition which was laid oefore Gen eral Manager Frey yesterday, and, after a lons discussion, it was adopted by both sides of the controversy. The only point trained by the strikers is the right to appeal against the ralinca of the superintendent of machinists to the president of the road. Hundreds ot men will be on hand willing to work tomorrow moruiriK GOOD DEAL OF A FIZZLE. Only a Few World's Fair Car penters Quit Work. Chicago. April 84. — The strike of the carpenters which was ordered yesterday turned out to be pretty much <,f a fizzle. Not one-tenth of the men who were ex pected to go out left work, and many of them went back to work oefore the day was over. At tiie world's fair, where it was claimed by the walking delegates that ut least % 2.00 i) men would go out. the strike was not telt In the slightest decree. The men. as a rule, declared that they were making too much money to quit on the order of the walking delegates. The strike was practically over this evening, and there will be no trace of it tomorrow. Columbian Guards Strike. Chicago, April 24. — Columbian guards to the number ol niuety-six sent in their resignations last night, and Col. Rice realized that he had a full-sized strike ou his hands. The men who have resigned comprise ten tirst sergeants, twenty-six second sergeants, titty duty sergeants and 110 of the privates. The trouble has been brewing for some time, but the wholesale resignation of the men was an unwelcome surprise to Col. Kice. Nearly two months ago the men applied for a raise In salary. They were paid -Jik) a month; they demanded |70, but did not £et it. Boilermakers Win. Boston*, April 24.— The boilermakers' strike is practically ended. This after noon the Atlantic works aud two other large concerns conceded the strikers' demands for a nine-hour day with ten hours' pay. The men will return to work in these establishments tomorrow. Coal Miners llestless. PiTTSuiRG, April 24.— A strike of all the coal miners in this district — river and railroad— is threatened on the Ist of . 'JfofrgTig. A GOIIggA A BOX. ' I i JO& BLIND. i ' i^Wii\ They are blind who will • ! JK\ BEEGHAM'SI 4%\ BEEGHAM'Si I /7/N PILLS | ) / /I iltr the disorders which « | / LJ _J grow out of Impaired ! a V.l TlDi(Oi|los, For o i > / Jl' I lfTeakStomacb.Goß.t »^*d - J»jl«tipatiOß,Di»order«o \ r Mj^ I.iTcr. Sick Hear!- r nch«, or any Billon, ' am* »rrnaa ntimrnt«, they take the: ■M of an entire medicine chest. c COVERED WITH A TASTELESS AND I SOLUBLE COATIKS. "if all druggists. Price SB cents a box. ' New York Depot, 365 Canal St. . May. Tho railroad miners recently made a demand for an advance of wages to take effect on that date, which the operators refused. Tho railroad dig gers are now working among the river miners for the purpose ot getting them to join the strike movement, and have arranged tot h convention at Blononga bela City Thursday toorgnnlze them. WilltJot an lncrenHe. Ci.kvki.ani>. April 24.— The iini'>n carpenters of this city will receive a material increase in wages on May 1. Last year, and for several previous years, "they received 27>4 cents per hour, working nine hours per day. The new scale which gon into effect in May calls for ;jo cents an hour. But there is no decrease in thn hours of labor. The scale was presented to the employers a month ago. who have now announced that the scale would be accepted. Longshoremen Strike. LITDtROTOK, Mich., April 24.— A1l the laborers, over 100, employed at the Flint tv. l'ere Marquetti warehouse here, loading and unloading the com pany's boat, went on strike this morn tng, demanding 'ibi; on week days and 50 cent.-, an hour for Sunday work. There is no prospect of trouble unless tiie company brings in laborers from the outside, when it is believed that they will not be allowed to handle a pound of freight. Terms Kept Secret. Omaha, Neb., April 2-I.— At the end of a conference before the joint ledera tion committee aud the Union l'acitic officials, the strike of the machinists, boilermakers and blacksmiths was de clared oil. By agreement between the two sides, the terms of settlement are to be kept secret. $18.50 and $10. Commencing April 85 tho Chlcaeo Great Western Railway will sell round trip tickets to Chicago for $18.50; single trip tickets for $10. Hotel and board ing house accommodations secured in advance for visitors to the world's fair. City ticket office, SO4 Uobert street, cor ner Fifth. RUINED BY WHEAT. McConnell & Magnire Company, Looated at Moscow, Idaho, Assign. Unfortunate Speculation in Wheat Said to Be the Cause of the Crash. Moscow, Idaho, April 24. —The well known corporation, McConnell & Ma cuire company, the largest mercautile house in Idaho, of which Gov. Mc- Connell is the head, was closed by the sheriff today. The First National bank of Moscow issued an attachment lor $20,000, and the sheriff at once closed the doors. The Moscow National bank immediately followed with an at tachment for 52.J.000. Murphy, Grant & C0., 0f ban Francisco.and Allan & Lewis, of Portland, also served attachments running the figures up to about £100. --000. More are expected tomorrow, which will increase the liabilities mater ially. The assets amount to about SSO.OOO in stock, and a large number of book accounts. The firm's business property is mortgaged for 8:25.000. The linn was incorporated for $100,000. A branch house, known as the McConnell-Cham bers company, conducted at Pullman, Wash., made a large purchase of wheat, and the firms profited largely thereby. The recent depression in the wheat market, however, is said to have caused heavy losses, and the firms were unable to meet their obliga tions. In order to save themselves the Pullman business was sold last week and the money derived therefrom was placed in the Moscow house. It came too late, however, aud the crash occurred today. It is thought with careful management that the firm may pay dollar for dollar. Tonight the firm made a general assign ment for the benetit of all creditors. The First. National bauk and the Mos cow National are not affected by the failure. lesson for i>ktl:ctiv t es. Not Kow to Detect, but How to Avoid Being Detected. New York Herald. 1 had occasion a short time ago to do some work under the direction of Supt. Byrnes, and received from him some in structions in the business of becoming a detective. "To accomplish the ends which we seek in tiie case in winch you are en gaged, 3 ' said the world-famed rogue catcher, "it is important that no one should suspect what you are after, and it is of paramount importance that no one should suspact that you are in com munication with nie. Now, lot me give you one of the first lessons that a de tective learns. "It is not how to detect, but how to avoid being detected himself. It very often happens that people who are playing a game for a big pot of money, and who fear the police will spoil their game, employ detectives to shadow Bvery one with whom they are dealing for fear that, they may be dealing with some one who will expose their schemes. "The first thing a detective learns to do, therefore, is to find out whether he is being shadowed by any one else. To do tills is simple and easy, and yet most people not familiar with how to do it would say, 'Why, how can 1 find out it I am being watched?' "All that is necessary Is caution and a little nerve. Keep your eyes open for any one whom you suspect of following you, and never go anywhere where your hand would be exposed unless you are sure you are uot followed, if you have an idea that you are being followed, pay no attention to the person following you. "Do not try to escape him. for that will at oncp arouse his suspicions. Let him follow you, and to make sure that he is really shadowing you after walk ing a block or two turn quickly and re trace your steps. As you pass the man you suspect look him squarely in the eye. Repeat this operation several times and you will be bound to make sure whether or not he is really follow ing you. "Of course, when you know you are being shadowed you will do nothing to reveal what you are really doing until your follower has abandoned the chase." President Cleveland First. Chicago, April 24.— The world's fair ceremonies committee at its meeting this afternoon decided upon plans for seating the visitors on the platform at the opening exercises. President Cleve land comes first and then the descend ants of Christopher Columbus, followed by the board of aldermen and other dignitaries. The board of lady manag ers has determined to celebrate ; the opening by a musicale. Numerous in vitations have been extended. ,jj c . til: il: ' A Queer Woman. New York Weekly. Judge (in will case)— Mrs. Bullion ever show signs of insanity iv your presence? Fair Witness— was often very eccentric. "Mention an instance." ■; ■; "On one occasion we came, from Europe in the same steamer, and she paid duty on her new furs instead of wearing them." "When was that?" "Last August.". v ■' Students! Students Tailor-made, perfect fitting and fash ionable Spring Suits (ready to wear), $15 (fifteen dollars), at The Boston, on Third street. WOMAN STAGEDRIVER A Remarkable Reminiscence of Mrs. Lang-don, of the Sierras. Shipped to California When a Child as an Express Package. A Widow at Nineteen, With Three Stage Lines to Manage. She Threw Out the Little Box to Road Agents More ' Than Once. New York Sun. Nervy Mrs. Langdon holds a place of her own in the class of American women who have risen superior to the limita tions of sex. The woman stage driver of the Sierras is known on every rail road and mail route of the Pacilic coast, from Arizona to Oregon, and away up on the trails of Idaho and Montana. Quite as well known is she in the postai department at Washington. Mr. Wana maker, of Philadelphia, will probably be able to recall her without difficulty. Llers is no title of courtesy. She owns stage lines that run for hundreds of miles through the regions of California, where mountains are steep and roads are roueh, regions where the railroads have not penetrated and probably never will: she can and does rein a plunging, rearing four-horse team around sharp curves on her mountain roads, and she can and does, when occasion requires, perform that somewhat perilous task of breaking to harness the wiry, cat footed horses of the hills. The road agent, with his gunny sack and linen duster disguise and murderous shotgun, is no newpaper myth to her, for she has met him in a business way, and has heard the nervous spoken in junction: "Halt! throw out that little box," and has shown her good judgment by promptly obeying. Mrs. Langdou, you see. has been long enough on the road to know that the men who go about levying tribute at the point of a double barreled shotgun have no tender regard for women, and would just as readily ponr a volley into her as anybody. Yet there is not anywhere in this country a more womanly woman. Pluck and modesty, businesslike ability and a retiring disposition, are her inseparable characteristics. For years she has been driving stages and carrying mails, and yet this is the first time she has ever tohd the story of her peculiarly eventful and adventurous life for publication, and it was not readily told at that. To appre ciate it one must know something of the heroine's personality. Above the me dium height, slender, and of rather graceful carriage, Mrs. Langdon is a typical American woman. Her hair is black and abundant; her eyes are in tensely black, and as she talks one notes the keen, swift quality of her glance. Usually she is garbed simply in black, with no ostentation of trimming, and her taste in millinery is quite as plain. She talks rapidly, fluently and well; her voice has the Western ring at times, but is not sharp. Her choice of words proclaims her to be a woman of more than ordinary education and her accen is good. Altogether there is nothing in her speech or manner to suggest the Amazon, which, indeed, she is not. Though she must be somewhere near forty, Mrs. Langdon looks several years younger. "I think 1 have always been connect ed with the express and mail business," suid the woman stage-drivsr to the cor respondent of the Sun. "In the fifties 1 came to California, consigned as an express package. I was a wee bit of a girl, and father and motlier had gone out before from Illinois, where I was born. 1 was shipped by way of the Isthmus. There was do Panama railroad then. and people had to walk or ride horseback from tc i an to ocean. I was turned over to a huge blacK negro, and perched on his broad shoulders, my hands clasped around his forehead, I began tiie journey. The parly became sep arated, aud at last I gave vent to my fear in a fit, of weeping. The negro quietly deposited me at the side of the road and went on. Probably I would never have driven any stage if Gotham Blake, the express messenger, had not been uringingup the rear. He put me on his horse, and there my fear ended. "Yankee Jim's, a typical California mining camp in Placer county, was our home. There were few women and fewer children. Every miner in the place soon knew Ida Scott— tnat was my name— and never had queen such faith ful attendants. Big-bearded men used to catch me up in the streets and kiss me because 1 was 'just like the iittle gal back home.' Mother always told me to kiss the miners if they wished, as they might be led to think oftener of their own little ones. Pat Fogarty, a rough, kindly man, was tiie driver, and my experience began with him on trips through the camp to the postofhee. "1 was sent down to San Francisco to attend school, but most of my girlhood was spent either among the mining camps or in Sonoma county. Circum stances rather than choice led in* to adopt the life I have since led. At 19 I wns left a widow with three stage lines on my hands aud mail contracts with the government to be carried out. Why should 1 have hired a man wlien I knew how to run the business myself? There was no reason, so 1 turned stage owner and driver. My roads were in the Sonoma vnlley. and there was little real work to be done, but here 1 met my first road agent. I sat on the box with the driver on a run out of Santa Kosa one evening. Suddenly the horses shied and we saw that there was a rope across the road breast high. Before we could move two men stepped out with the con veutionai linen dusters and sunny sack head coverings, wftn eye holes in them. • % 'Throw out that iittle box!" was their order. "1 whispered to Ith c river to obey, for tliere was only §15 in the box, and that was not enough to fight for. Tne rope was lowered and we drove on. "Of course you remember Black Bart. He selected one of my stages for his first operation, but I was not ou board." Mrs. Lan^don's experience on a night ride into the Sierras alone is worth re counting. She started at noon over a road she had never traveled, with strance horses, to take a load of mill machines to a station way up in the clouds. There was forty miles of hard climbing to be done, and it was a job that most men would have willingly shirked. The neck voice parted after dark, but the woman stage driver knew how to mend a harness, and there was rope in plenty. As the horses passed over a wild stretch of road they sud denly shied and leaped to one side, dragging the wagon out of the road and up the bank so that to move another step meant to capsize the outfit. "Wondering what had startled the US^Powder The only Pure Cream of Tartar Powder. — Ammonia; No Alum. Used in Milliorss of Homes — 40 Years the Standard. team," said Mrs. Lnngdon, "I started to get down and hunt a way out of a really serious predicament. It was pretty dark, but about that time I became conscious that there was a big bear close to me. Now, I am not particularly afraid of bears, but horses always are, ana it would have been unpleasant for anyone to be left alone hi the niouhialns with an overturned wagon, so 1 kept very quiet. The four-footed road agent inspected Dm outfit in a leisurely fashion and then waddled away. 1 hud to feel for the road and drag bush' ush and t>toncs out of the way, but somehow I avoided an upset, aud at midnight the journey was ended." Fora long time Mrs. Lansrdon has been a regular bidder tor mail contracts on the Pacific slope. Once she bid for 1,050 routes, and went to Washington prepared to uive bonus in the sum of 1500,000. She got 150 contracts, and either carried them out or sublet them. This business pays when one knows every inch of the ground traversed, as Mrs. Langdon does, and just how much it will cost to traverse eveiy route so many timtjs a week. And it is no slight labor to sublet con tracts in a mountain country, for the lessor must personally visit every station on the route and find the lessee. On this business Mrs. Lanzdon has traversed the roads and difficult trails of the coast through Arizona, Califor nia, Oregon, Nevada, Montana and por tions of Utah, much of the time on horseback, in all sorts of weather and company. "And yet,'' she remarked, "1 do not recall an instance whine I have been treated otherwise than with respect and courtesy by even the rough est of men." Once she found that a mail contract from Palisade to Eureka, Nev.— Mrs. Langdon says "Nevahda," and thereby indicates her education — was costing her fri.OuO a year more tlian she could make out of it. On personal inspection she found that there was a little-used railway, paralleling a line owned by D. O. Mills, and covering the line of her contract. She quickly devised a way out or her difficulty. Permission was ob tained to use the rails, and a railway tricycle was hauled up over the stage road. The man who was to use it said it wasn't possible, so Mrs. Langdon climbed on the "spider," as railway nieu call it, and niadu a trip herself to demonstrate that it was possible. Her woman's wit in this case was worth pretty nearly $2,000 a year. Once her travels teok her up on the Columbia river. A hot-box stalled the train at night near Wallula, but Mrs. Laugdon could not wait. With two male passengers she set out on foot. A trestle was encountered, and for more than a mile the woman led the way over the rough, uneven ties. The moon light was too faint to distinguish the ties from the spaces between, so it was a raiher hazardous trip, The next day Mrs. Langdon saw that sixty feet below the trestle ran a river quite deep and swift enough to have drowned a practi cal swimmer. Of such experiences as these Mrs. Langdon recalls enough to fill a vol ume. In fact, she does not think much of them or of Jier own energy and cour age. "Women," she says, "are quite as well qualified mentally for such a life as men. What I have done any woman can do, I presume. It is not an ideal life, but it has eiven me ease and independence, and 1 have se«n many things. Busi ness and pleasure have taken me across this continent twenty times and more; 1 have crossed the Atlantic several times, and have traveled In Europe and South America. At Washington 1 have met many eminent Americans and have been the recipient of many courtesies." Mrs. Langdon's recent experience with Mr. Wanamaker, in which she ac cused him of willful disregard of the people of the Pacific coast in postal matters, was recalled to her. "Oh, affairs are quite as bad as ever on our mountain route," she said, "out Mr. Wauamaker's term is happily almost ended." Airs. Langdon was induced to harness up a four-horse team, don iier driving costume, aud be photographed for the Sun. The stage had to be hauled up and out of the dense fog that overhung Oroville before a picture could be ob tained. Then it was suggested that people would like to see a "hold up" re produced. Mrs. Langdon entered into the spirit of the thing and ordered two of her best drivers to rig themselves out as road agents and "hold up" the stage. They knew just how it was done, hav ing beeu participants in such affairs more thau once, though on the other side. The result, as caught by the camera, was strikingly realistic. Then the pseudo bandits made their victims alight and finish the programme. The passen gers.all stage drivers and mountaineers, complied. The calls of "Hands up, everybody!" was not a new one to any of them. It must be added that Mrs. Langdon has a husband who is very much in evi dence. Together they own ana operate three stage lines in the Sierras.covering 250 miles and crrrying thirty-six mail contracts. Seventy-five drivers are in their employ and a drove of 100 and more selected horses. Looking from their cozy home in Oroville, one may see on a clear day into seven counties. Far away on one hand is Shasta's snowy peak, and closer are the picturesque Sierras, with a foreground of foothill and canyon. -"I have seen the Alps," said Mrs. Langdon, "the Yo semite and Yellowstone, but give me for my home these beautiful mountains. When one has lived among then, as I have, and knows, as I do, every road, every trail, every one of their glorious pictures, one would not seek another place to live or die." OLD 81. He Discusses the Hawaii Annex ation Subject. Atlanta Constitution. The old man shook his head several times significantly before he said: "Hit's er moughty resky bizness for ter do." "What is risky?" "All dis heali skeme ter connex dese How-are-ye iluus. We belter lam how ter run dis country better dan raisin' six-cent cotton an' lynchin' swarees 'fore we takes oil mo' territory an' dncivilize trash." •'But Hawaii is desirable for many commercial and strategic reasons." ".Mebbe so; L dun no 'bout dat — but ef de people ob dis country hez lamed enny sense turn wall times up twell now dey'll let dem furrin niggers tek kyar derselbs. We's got plenty er homebred niggers ter speriment wid yit an' de hedway we's made gitten 'em ter reck ernize de ear-marks on hogs ain't inkur agin' ter take in mo' skollars. We better say how-are-ye to de iluns an' pass on." And the old man passed on to the sanctum of th« base ball editor. She Saw One. New York Truth. Old Soak— Delirium tremens date back to the beginning of the world. Jaggs— How do you make that out? Old Soak — Eve saw snakes, didn't she? More Money in It. Puck. Mrs. Poeticus— lsn't this hat a poem, dear? Poeticus (sadly, as he looked at the bill)— I wish 1 could write that kind. 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