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A GOBLD MINE ON EVERY LOT. Recent Developments in the KENWOOD district, comprising the Bradford, Brooke and Syndicate Additions to Helena, make the above statement almost absolutely true. But there are other features of this part of Helena that out weigh the probability of finding gold in paying quantities, and those are the freedom from smoke and dust that w.KENWOOD _ Enjoys beyond any other suburb, the direct water service, insur ing purity and freshness, the fink view, the rich soil, school facil ities, street car service, good drives and numerous other advantages. Prices are now reasonable, and the present is the time to buy. My list com prises many very choice locations. 1 ,M. - JUT , 214, 215, 216, POWER BUILDING, HELENA, MONTANA. UNCLE LEM DREW A PRILE And He Wanted Some Advice About the Way to Collect the Prize. 2 Wan Worth $10,000 and the Charges Were Only $69. Some Friend Sent Him the Ticket, Though He Could not Imagine Who That Friend Iaon. [Written for T B SUNDAY INDEPENDENT.) HAVE BEEN OBLIGED TO SAY ONE or two unpleasant things about my 1 neighbor, Uncle Lem Drew, but if any body has taken the notion therefrom that he is a bad man I am glad to be able tocor rect that impression here. Uncle Lem is a mann who prides himself on, his unsorupu lons integrity, and on that thrift which en ables him to wear one suit of clothes every week day for four years and not look ill dried for those who knew him. regulates his daily affairs by thestriot e les. He has kept tally with the con tribution box, and flatters himself that he has obtained more spiritual advantage for less money than any other man in Grimes ville. He has been in a good many law suits which have stirred up some feeling among his neighbors, but nobody can say that he hasn't paid his counsel and his wit nesses according to agreement. Therefore when I observed that Uncle Lem was troubled in spirit I knew that it oobldn't be because of anything he was go ing to do, and the thought made me uneasy. For I was evidently mixed up somehow in Uncle Lem's musings. I caught him sev eral times looking at me over the fence which separates our property, as if he couldn't quite bring himself to out me off in the flower of my youth, but was trying very hard. These suspicions were proved to be unfounded when, one day, Uncle Lem called me up to the fence and told me what was troubling him. "I've got a letter here, and I want your advice about it," he began with that air of embarrassment which we all wear when we try to consult a doctor or a lawyer in a . DUiCD AN ENVElIOIP' runner so friendly that he can't send a lIll. "It seems that some aentlemen are tcndueting a lottery in New York for phil a throlic purposes. It's the only lottery -rl.mitted by the law of the state. Did you ver bear anything about it?" "Often," said I, "it's been folly desortbed a thbasand times in the papers." "Ye don't aay!" be exclaimed, brighten. Ing peroeptibly. "I wits afrail there might be something wrong about it. Though they refer me to any quantity of influential people-well-to-do men like,Jay Gould and Chauncey Depew. They write that the profits of the lottery are used for religious purposes. like sending out mission aries and helping young men through the schools where they make ministers of 'em. The head men of the lottery don't draw any salaries. That's what mado me think it might be a fraud, for it ain't in reason that men should work without pay. But these fellows do, because they admit it in their letter." He produced a worn and greasy envelope, and took from it a letter which had evi dently been read many times. "There ain't none o' your folks in henr in', is there?" he asked as he spread the letter out on the top of the fence. "Of course I have to be a little careful about this matter, because people round here think lotteries are sinful; though I don't see why, if it's for a charitable work. And it seems I've won a prize, too." "What's it worth?" "Ten thousand dollars," he replied, in a voice full of reve:enoe. "It's mostly in jewels, diamonds and such stuff-there's a list of them here. I'd rather have cash, but probably 1 wouldn't have much diffi culty in sellin' out at a fair profit, consider in' that it didn't cost me nothin' at all." "When did you buy the ticket?" I asked, although, of course, I knew what his answer would be. "Wal, ye see, that is," he hesitated, evi dently trying to decide whether he should lie about it, "the fact is, I didn't buy no ticket. I calc'late somebody must have bought for me, as a Christmas present, or something. The letter says that this is done often by people who want to help the good work along, and haven't got confi dence in their own luck so that they never expect to win anything on the ticket. I dunno who could a-done it. I ain't got none too many friends, and I don't know scarcely anybody down in York. There was a nephew o' cousin Sam Drew who went down ther, in '75 or thereabouts. I-le might a-bought it, though we Ain't none of us heard from him in ten years." How the old sinner tried to argue himself into the belief that this prize was his. I realized that he was addressing his battered wreck of a conscience more than me. I knew what he really believed, npud the temptation to put the question squarely be fore the corrupt tribunal of his soul was more than I could resist. "There may be some mistake about this," said 1, "Perhaps this prize belongs to somebody else." "Well, I can't see as that's any lookout o' mine," he exclaimed, with an asperity which showed that he was fortifying him self for argument. "If these men are run ning a business, it's for them to see that their prizes are sent to the right people. I ain't responsible. They say I've won the stuff and I'm goin to take'em at their word." "It might be inconvenient, though," said I, "if the rightful owner should show up later and claim his property." "That's what I wanted to ask you about," he said, and in his impatience and anxiety he gnawed his ragged whiskers. "Would they have any olaim? Suppose somebody else should some round and say that the jewels wa'n't mine, could I get into any trouble? I wouldn't mind bein' sued. I could beat 'em at that game, you bet. But what I'm afraid of is that they'd come up to this town, and make a fuss and let folks know that I'd been playin' a lotte y. They'le dead set ain it in this town, as I've told ye, though why they should be 1 don't see. They have raffles at all their church fairs, and they're a good deal worse. WhLnu you buy a ticket for a raffle you pay 10cents and you never get nothin' back. Here 1 pay $5, or would have if I'd bought the ticket, which I would have done if I'd knowd where they was sold and felt sure o' winuin' a prize-here, as 1 say, 1 ,ay nothin' an' wli $10,000. That looks fair and honest like. "Yes," said I, c'if the Charitable Mission ary Lottery company can stand that method of doing business I should think you could." "Now, what I want to ask you," said Uncle Lem, ignoring my iast remark and growing impressive as he neared the im portant point, "is, how shall I claim the property so Is to be safe from any t:ouble? I forgot to say that there was $tl. due for storage oharges. It seems that they had some trouble about getting my address. It's the rate in usnh oases to wait ten days and then turn the prize into the missionary fund, but it seems that the president of the concern thought it was a little tough to do it in this case, where the winner was a poor man and a farmer, so he put the goods in storage and extended the time to three months. lie urged me to send ;he money right on and not risk anything by delay. I wrote back for them to sell a few loose dia monds and pay themselves out of the .ro ceeds, but the president replies here- Uncle Lem ran through his pockets anx iously for this second communication from MADE FOR THE HOUSE. the kind-hearted lottery company, but couldn't find it. He got nervous and turned all his pockets inside out, but it didn't ap pear. "By Jimmy Neddy!" he exclaimed,"counld I have left that in my Sunday vest? and mother's going to sw a buttonon it to-day. Gre:lt Peter, qnupose she should find it! i-ay, wa;t a minute while I run into the house and save my reputation." Hie cams back in a few minutes breath. less. "Just in time," said he: "she had the vest and was all ready to begin on it, but she hadn't been through the pockets. Narrow escape, but I got the letter. The p:esident ears that it's against the rule for themt to take anything out of the prizes, and I must send the clsh. He says that $6(9 ain't much in comparison with $10.000, and by jiminy it ain't, now you come to think of it. I'll send it on to-morrow. Pm glad to hear that you know about the concern and think they're all right. I'm muon obliged for your advice, ani if the stuff comes, and is up to what they claim for it, Idn't mind lettin' t on have a gew caw of some sort for Mrs. Fieldin'. I suppose she wouldn't want anything very gorgeous-not to cost much money." He looked at me apprehensively with his little greedy eyes, as if he feared I should claim a share of his imaginary jewels, "Mr. Drew," Isaid, "It is very painful to me to have this duty to perform. I realize that if you got this wealth you would use LOOK OUT OC UNI'I,M I.-rM. it for philanthropic and worthy puposes, that you would give largely to thepoor-" "Wal. I dunno," said Uncle Lenam. as if he feared I was esaeting a pledge. "Nobody never gave me nothia'. an' I don't feel called upon to be extravagant in the matter o' oharity. It never does people any good, No, sir; I'm set agin it. I've worked for what I've got. an' anybody who gets a cent of it away from me, has got to work hard er'n I did, you bet. He's pot to have a good grip. "Mr. Drew," said I, "this whole thing is a fraud. There isn't any lottery-" "No lottery, hey?" he cried. "Why you see the letter yourself!" "I've seen a hundred like it before," I replied. "Its an attempt to cheat you of $69. New York had a large population which lives off the rural districts. Some of them do it by means of railioads which they steal, and others by means of buying and selling crops which they never see. There are others who scorn to disguise robbery in the garb of business. They go at it straight out from the shoulder as your correspond ent has done-for I cannot believe that anybody could suppose such a 1 roposition as his to be honest. Don't send your money; you'll lose it, and you'll never see the jewels for they exist only in the lottery man's im agination. Uncle Lem seemed staggered at first by this statement. T'hen he looked distrust ful; and finally he muttered solnething about my being jealonus of a neighbor's good fo~ tune. I tried to show him that the thing was a fraud; I used all the Irgumr.:.t and illustration I could think of. I even swore at him a little in a mild way, and called him a preposterous old idiot, blinded by his eovetousness, and his inherent love of getting something which did not belong to him. I said these things in a kind, neighborly way, but they failed to impress him. He preferred to believe the president of the lottery company; he even intimated that I had a plan for getting the prize away from him. Finally he said that he'd like to see any New York sharper that could get the best of him, and that he'd fix it so that he'd get the prize he'd honestly won in spite of them or of me. I hays watched Uncle Lem with interest dluring the weeks which have followed this interview. I have seen dim crowing thin ner and more nervous. He has looked at me with an evil eye, and he evidently re , ards me as the author of his misfortune. Ie has consulted the squire (whom I have referred to in a previous communicatiou) and there is something in the wind. In deed the sqilire confided as much to me the other night over a game of forty-live. "Look out for Uncle Lem," said he as he raked in the stakes; "he's after you. lie says you cheated him out off $10,000, anld he'll get it back if there's any law in tl.e land." Howian FIELDINo. Copyright. 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