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Will the Epofjnous flood of J^ew Gold
Disofgapize the Cuffepcy Systejn of the Wofld?
The flood of gold pouring forth from
the mines of the world in all ever In
cit-:.sing stream will reach its high water
mark this year. At present 'the produc
tion of gold per capita is increasing at
such a rapid rate that, although only
three years a?o several million Americans
believed that there could not be enough
tsold in the < orld to supply the demand
for money, there is no such fear among
those of today who know of the flood of
gold that is pouring into the mints. On
the contrary, there are some who believe
that gold will become so plentiful that
the currency systems of the world may
be disorganized. This, however, is not
regarded as a serious fear, because of the
le&sening margin of profit to a ton of ore,
which requires greater capital and more
labor in production, says the Chicago
Ti llirne.
The original estimate of the director of
the United States mint of the gold pro
duction for IS9H was 5.T>0. 000.000, and from
this he deducted 125,000,000 for the suspen
sion of woik in the Transvaal. But in
spite of the Boer war it was announced
In st week that the South African gold
li«-!d~ have so greatly increased their yield
us lo restore me original figures. Consul
McCook, of Dawson City, expects a yield
Of $10,000,000 from the Klondike, and a ship
has recently arrived from Cape Nome
bringing $2,500,000 from Cape Nome. Crip
ple Creek and other fields in Colorado
show greater yields than ever before.
Great as has been the production this
year, the next twelve months Is likely to
p«-e it exceeded, for the action of the
Russian government last month in open
ing 'he Siberian gold fields throws open
what is believed to be as rich a source of
BURply as Alaska, South Africa, or Col
orado.
[NCREASE IN THREE YEARS.
Estimating the production for 1899 at
000, the yield for the year will be
nearlj three times as much as it was ten
years ago, and twenty-three times as
K'«a: as the average production during
the first sixty years of the century. The
iiji'ii^s for last year— s2S9.l47,779— was 21
r greater than in 1!<97 and 36.9 per
— ■ . ___-_
£k jit
TABCOTT DISCOVERED
SLWKH OF AMOS J. SNBIX
TURNS UP AT CAI'E
NOME
GOLD DIGGINGS IN ALASKA
Went to the Far \orth Soon After
the Crime Was Committed — Said
to Have Told the Story of the
Famous Murder When Supposed
to fte on His Death Bed — Strange
Yarn Told by Miner.
"Willie Tascott, the long-hunted mur
derer of Amo> J Snell, is working as a
miner somewhere in Alaska. This U
the story that comes from Cape Nome,
«n<l it is told with so many corrobo a
tive details that detectives who have
studied the case accept it as true. Dur
ing the eleven years that Tascott ha 3
bet-n in hiding many alleged olews have
been offered to the police, but in nj in
stance was ihe evidence so direct and
convincing as that which is now sent
from the gold diggings in the Cape Nome
distri.t.
Report of the finding of Tascott is made
by William Rigler, a miner, who has
lately returned from Cape Nome. One
nierht last fall a man too ' ill to work
was carried into Rigler's cabin. He
grew worse rapidly, and, under the firm
impression that he was dying, the
s: ranger made what he supposed was a
death-bed corfession. He said that his
name was laseott, and that for eleven
years he had been in hiding from the
Chicago police, who wanted him for the
murde of Amos J. Snell, of this city.
He further said that at one time there
h;ul been a reward of $50,000 for his cap
ture, in the hope of earning which d -
tectivea had visited all parts of the
world. "They never got near me, how-
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cent greater than in 1896; but the present
year will show an increase over last year
of 22 per cent, and may be even greater
than is expected, In spite of the Boer war.
The most apparent reason for the in
crease is the exploitation of new gold
fields. The development of the Alaskan
region, both in the United States and in
Canada, has been great, but not sufficient
to keep pace with the increase in South
Africa. In 1597 the United States led in
the production of gold, with South Afri
ca second, but in 18i*8 the Transvaal
mines poured forth such a golden flood
that Uncle Sam had to take second rank,
although he increased his output 9.9 per
cent. In spite of disturbances with the
natives and the opposition of the Boers
to mining, the output for Africa In 1898
was $78,070,7G1, a gain over 1897 of $21,352,
--082, or 37.6 per cent. Nine-tenths of the
South African gold comes from a single
district— the Witwatersrand. Yet the
South African fields have been scarcely
scratched. John Hays Hammond and
other engineers estimate that there is
enough gold in the Rand which could be
profitably worked to nearly equal the
quantity of coined gold in the world in
the year IS9O.
AMERICAN YIELD.
So far as discovered the gold region or
the United States is less in area than the
South African district, but the ores on
the average are richer, and there are
enthusiasts who predict that through
the Colorado mines the United States will
regain its supremacy as a producer of the
yellow metal.
Most encouraging reports come from
the Colorado fields. The state is easily
first, being ahead of California and
Alaska. The rich mines of El Paso, Gil
pin, San Miguel and other counties of
Colorado were wonderfully productive
last year, the yield for the state being
$23,195,300. a jump of $4,000,000. This year
it is predicted that the figures for Col
orado will exced $30,000,000, which would
be more than tjie yield of the Klondike
and California combined. An Alaskan
yield of $10,000,000 this year would be an
enormous increase for that region, for
the whole territory yielded only a little
THE OLD WAY.
ever," the sick man added, "because I
was in the interior of Alaska all the
time, and nobody thought of looking for
me here."
Tascott gave many particulars of the
raid on Snell's house, which ended In
the murder of Ihe aged millionaire, and
told his story in a manner which con
vinced his hearers that he was the long
hunted man. Satisfied that he was go
ing to die, and that no good could be
accomplished by sending out a messen
ger with the news at the time, Rigger
and his companions kept the mat er
quiet. A few days after the confession
was made Tascott suddenly grew better.
WILLIE TASCOTT.
His host then saw there was a chance
for his recovery, but did not put h'm
under guard, as he was still apparently
too weak to make any effort to es a'je.
The next morning Tascott was missing,
having left the camp in the middle of the
night.
Rigler and his partners at once took
the trail and sent word to all near-by
mining camps, but could get no trace
of the missing man. It was plan he
had not taken refuge in any of the min
ing settlements along the coast or in the
near-by interior Cape Nome is en the
seacoast, and after a long, frul Isi
search Rigler and his fellow trailers b?
came convinced Tascott had made h's
way out to sea in a small boat and
boarded some passing whaler or trading
vessel bound for the Arctic. He would
hardly run the risk of remaining in
Alaska, when his story was known all
over the country.
MYSTERY IN SNELL MURDER.
The Snell murder is one of the most
sensational in the police history of thia
country. It occurred in February, I^B J ,
und beyond the fact that Willie Tascott
was known to be one of the princinae,
the sharpest and most persistent kind of
detective work has? failed to disclose any
further particulars. Theories of many
kinds, some of them of a most peculiar
nature, have been advanced, but no real
evidence to warrant them has been
brought tut.
Amos J. Snell was a rich man, well ad
vanced in years, who lived in an old
fashioned mansion at the corner of Ada
street and Washington boulevard. He
THE ST. PAUL, GLOBE. SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1899.
more than $2,524,800 in ISOS, which is not
more than came from the new Cape
Nome fields alone this year. The larger
part of the Klondike production last year
was from the Canadian side of the boun
dary, being $10,000,000— tigurcs which, it
is asserted, will be increased to $15,000,000
when the present year shall have ended.
The gold mines of Nova Scotia also
promise the largest output they have
known. In Australia, also, where there
had been stagnation, the yield thus far
in 1899 has been 25 per cent greater than
in the previous year.
Exploitation of new gold Melds has not
increased the production of gold so much
as have the introduction of new machin
ery and the greater cheapness with
which gold may be mined, thus making
it profitable to treat ore that previously
was thrown away. This is well shown
at present in Colorado, where old mines
long abandoned are opened up and new
processes of extracting the metal from,
refractory ores have made even the
dump heaps from abandoned mines as
profitable in some cases as the first
skimming of the cream from rich strikes.
In some of the silver districts, notably
Leadville, the last year has seen gold
properties opened, and the working out
of gold combined with silver made profit
able certain mines that were not profit
able when the silver alone could be ex
tracted.
CHEAPER PRODUCTION.
While the ounce of gold is now worth
$20.67, just the same as it has been worth
for over fifty years, yet the cost of pro
ducing the ounce of gold has declined.
As a rule If a ton of rock contains half
an ounce of gold it can be mined with
profit, but this is constantly decreasing,
and the Transvaal mines now yield on an
average not more than seven or eight
pennyweights of gold to the ton, or $7
or $8, yet are enormously profitable.
In the Deadwood Terra mine, in South
Dakota, ore is mined, milled and con
verted into gold bullion for $1.25 a ton,
while the famous Treadwell mine in
Alaska, which is still the most profitable
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I IMl^^^k f I^-90 \\ ' Jr 1899 \
« LT 1870 IT 5.040 TONS\|T 6640 TONS* \
/^booHl 3844T0NS I f2.4J9.206.0001 S3 137.200.000
l izoo tohsMl- 845.120.000y \ nl I
V J574. 000.000* V/ X / 1 1 X J
v Jwh* i illiv._
CAVERAQE ANNUAL PRODUCTION OF GOLDj
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/ 1881 - IB9o\ [ ] 15350. 000.000 1
was a large 'owner of real estate In the
immediate vicinity, the renting of which
was conducted in an office in the buse
ment of his house. On 6 night in the
early part of February, 1888, three m;n
broke into the Snell residence by borl-g;
a hole through a panel in the rear door
on the lower floor, and then s'ipp ng
the bolts. Their first move was to break
open and rifle a small safe in the office,
in which it was supposed Mr. Snell had
considerable money taken In for rentals.
Next they went up stairs to the parlor
floor, where, in moving around, th?y
were heard by Mr. Snell. The latter,
a brave, daring, old man, came down
from his bedroom in his nightrobe, pis
tol in hand, and cried out:
"Who's there? Ah, you d— d scoun
drel."
As he spoke Mr. Snell fired a shot
in the direction of the back parlor, which
was answered almost in the same flash
by two discharges from the burglars'
pistols. Snell dropped dead with both
bullets in his body.
KILLED BY TWO BURGLARS.
The autopsy revealed the fact that the
shots came from guns of different cali
ber, one being a 38 and the other a 32.
His body was found in the hallway, at
the foot of the stairs, the next morn
ing. Footsteps In the snow at the rear
of the house showed where the murder
ers had climl ed over a fence in getting
into the premises, but there was no trail
of their exit beyond some blood on the
front steps. It was supposed that Snell
had wounded one of the men when he
fired, and that the blood had tricked
from this wound as he made his way out
from the house by the front door.
The shooting had many mysterious
features. At the coroner's inauest one
of the woman servants, who slept In an
upper room, testified that she had h; ard
the disturbance in the house during the
night, but had not tried to ascertain what
caused it. She heard Snell get up and
go down stairs; heard him cry out,
"Who's there? Ah! you d — d scoundrel!"
And had heard the shots fired, and then
rolled over -md remained quiet un'l!
morning. When the shooting took place
and the trio of murderers made their
escape, a dancing party was just break
ing up not more than a block away, a' d
the streets were filled with people, yet
none of them heard any disturbance 01
caught sight of the fleeing burglars.
A rewart? of |50,000 stimulated the reg
ular police and private detectives to un
usual efforts In trying to run down the
murderers, but nearly two weeks passed
without anything being accomplished. It
w.js settled by the sleuths that three men
were engaged in the murder, and that the
object of the raid was to rob the safe,
which was thought to contain several
thousands of dollars in cash. This latter
part of the theory was plausible, but no
explanation .was ever offered for the be
lief that any particular number of men
took part in the burglary and murder.
FIRST CLEW TO TASCOTT.
The first real clew to the identity of the
murderers was had from the keeper of a
lodging house on West Madison street.
Some two weeks or so after the killing
this woman in cleaning up the room of
one of her lodgers, who went by the name
of T. A. Scott, came across a lot of char
red papers in a stove. In pulling these
out she noticed that one of the scraps was
the end of a check bearing the signature
of A. J. Sneil. She reported the matter
to the police, and a search of "Scott's"
room brought to light a number of other
papers that had been taken from Mr.
Snell's safe. A lot of stolen silverware
was also found in the closet. "Scott" had
disappeared, but It took little work to
identify him as Willie Tascott, the son
of a reputable paint dealer on the West
side. Young Tascott was a wild lad, well
known In the vicinity of Laflin and Madi
son streets, particularly at Woodberry's
billiard hall, where he was a steady pat
ron. He was never known to do any reg
ular work, and yet was always fairly well
supplied with money. Burglaries had been
frequent in that part of the city that win
ter, and It was an easy matter for the
property in that section, reports an aver
age total cost of not more than $1.50.
Wages of miners have been reduced.
They no longer earn the boom prices,
for the same reason that the price of
labor In the Klondike is seen to fall con
stantly and some day will reach normal
figures. Supplies also have cheapened in
price, the miner paying only 18 cents a
pound for giant powder, while In 1870 he
paid $1. He pays but one-eighth as much
for steel and one-quarter as much for
rope, and the price of nearly everything
else has lessened since 1870.
The greatest factor In this decreased
cost of production, which has made it
possible to work aver the dump heaps
of other mines, is the improved machin
ery. Nowhere has more Inventive in
genuity been displayed than in the mak
ing of gold mining and milling machin
ery. The elusive speck nf gold dust
finds it hard to escape nowadays.
MINING METHODS.
Before 1860 by far the greatest part of
the gold supply came from placers. The
few stamp mills were of the most primi
tive kind. Then the "Long Tom," which
handled a ton of gravel a day, made its
appearance. The great Improvement in
the production of placer gold is shown by
comparing the "Long Tom" with a mod
ern hydraulic plant, with half a dozen
"giants," each capable of moving hun
dreds of tons an hour, and making pos
sible the working of low-grade gravel.
With the exhaustion of the placers the
gold production declined, but the spread
of railways in tne United States made it
possible to establish large improved smelt
ing plants at centrally located points.
Concentrating machines were invented
and attached to the stamp mills, and
under improved methods of chlorination
ores once thought worthless and "tail
ings" were found to contain profitable
amounts of gold.
The last great impetus in the world's
production of gold came with the perfec
tion of the cyanide process, which is re
sponsible for the great production in
South Africa. The gold in the Rand is in
police, In view of the discoveries made In
Tascott's room, to trace most of »hem
to him. It is a surprising fact, however,
that nothing has ever been learned as to
the identity of his partners. That he had
helpers In his various raids is a certainty, ,
especially in the one which results *n
the murder of A. J. Snell, but the police
were never able to discover them.
Tascott was trailed to Milwaukee.where
the detectives found his satchel in a pawn
shop. He had been there a fiew hours
ahead of them, as was made plain by
the testimony of the pawnbroker and
the employes about the railway station,
who described him perfectly, but he
covered his trail' securely until he reach
ed Minneapolis, where he was again
heard of just ahead of the arrival of the
officers. At this latter city he dropped
out of sight completely. For weeks a
score or more of the best detectives in
the West scoured the country for miles
around, and turned Minneapolis virtually
upside down, but Tascott was not to be
found.
The family of the murdered man sent
circulars descriptive of Tascott over the
v.-orld, and offered $50,000 for his deliv
ery to the Chicago police. Every po
lictman, town marshal and county sher
iff in the country got one, while Eu
rope, Asia, Africa, Canada and Central
and South America, received them by the
package. Immediately a flood of tet
ters and telegrams poured in, with in
formation that the wanted man was un
der arrest at .each of the towns from
which the messages were sent. Fully
2,000 men in all conditions of life were
arrested and held until the Chicagoans
could be communicated with.
Policemen who knew Tascott were sent
in all directions. Long, hard trips to
out-of-the-way corners were weekly oc
currences. Canada and the Northwest
territory were searched by squads. Half
a dozen were s?nt to Mexico on informa
tion that placed Tascott in the silver
mines. South America was hunted over,
Europe was ransacked, nor did Africa
and Asia escape visits by the hunters
for the man. All the el'ews were un
founded, and after the expenditure of
fully $25,000 and years of anxicus time
the family refused to follow any tip un
less it were accompanied by a photo
graph of the suspect. One trip into . the
Northwest territory and along the Pa
cific coast cost $5,000, that to Mexico
nearly as much, and one man was sent
to San Francisco at a cost of $400. In
the Northwest trip two men w^re fol
lowed until they separated. One con
tinued northward and one went to Port
land, Or. The latter was followed and
caught, but he would not, or could not,
give any information concerning his com
panion, from whom he had Just separ
ated. The San Francisco man proved to
be a sailor who had deserted an Ameri
can ship in the Philippines.
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the form of sedimentary deposits, the ore
being coarse-grained sandstone, some of
these grains being water-worn pebbles,
the whole bound together by a gold-bear
ing cement that ontains 5 per cent or less
of pyrites.
The gold is so finely divided that the
ordinary process of crushing it and run
ning it over amalgam plates of quicksilver
results in the precipitation of not more
than CO per cent. The rest forms part of
a kind of slime called "tailings," and un
der the old methods before the introduc
tion of the cyanide process this was lost.
A small cyanide plant, in which a weak
solution of cyanide of potassium was used
to take up the gold in the tailings, was
introduced in the Rand in 1890. Proving
successful, the process was rapidly adopt
ed by all the mines, and this is chiefly re
sponsible for the enormous inrcease in the
South African supply since that time. The
same process ateo has made possible the
enormous production of the Cripple Creek
mines
OUTLOOK IN SIBERIA.
The effect of improved methods of ex
tracting gold upon the world's production
of the yellow metal is well illustrated by
the case of Siberia. Three weeks ago the
Russian government announced that the
Siberian fields would be opened to the
world and might be leased by foreigners.
Previously there had been no opportunity
for foreign capital to exploit the fields.
The Siberian gold yield has been an in
slgnilicant factor in the total production
of the world, in spite of tne fact that
these new g. 1 1 b?arii g regions are known
to be among the richest in the world and
were discovered before Marshall found
gold in California. The gold bearing
regions are scattered over an area of
about 3,000 miles east and west by 1,000
miles north and south, exclusive of the
limited Ural district, from which most
of the Siberian gold nas come in the
past.
So far the method of p!acer mining is
the only one that has prevailed, and
only the shallow surface placers, such as
were worked in the river bars and loot
hall gulches of California by the early
gold seekers, have supplied gold from
these regions.
There are many quartz lodes whose
value is not appreciated by the Ruffians.
The cyanide process is absolutely un
known and quariz mining is carried en in
the most primitive fashion. One mi ling
expert has estimated that the Siberian
gold fields, when opened to American
TONIC IN HER SPANKS
CHICAGO WOMAN SAYS THEY HELP
HER HISBAND'S AP
PETITE
VERY NEW IDEA IN TONICS
Puts Him Acron.B Her. Knees and
Spanks Him Every Morning-lged
a Volume of C'arlyle, Which Wa«
Too Heavy, and She Took to Hil-
II »' Sermons — Novel Treatment
With Which the Police Interfered.
CHICAGO, Nov. 11.-Mrs. Lena Rutz, a
etalwart and fine-looking woman of about
thirty years, was' brought before Justice
Dooley one day last week, the complain
ants being several of her neighbors. One
of the charges against her was that she
was cruel to her husband, the cruelty con
sisting in spanking him twice a day. Mrs.
Rutz, who weighs about 380 or 190 pounds,
and is above the average height of wom
en, admitted the spanking, but denied the
cruelty alleged. She tofd the justice it
was good for her husband's health, and
improved his appetite, and wanted to en
ter upon a long disquisition on the subject
of spanking, which his honor choked off.
To a reporter, however, Mrs. Rutz will
ingly expounded her views on this sub
ject, which have the merit at least of de
cided novelty.
"Spanking," explained Mrs. Rutz, "Is
the finest tonic known. There's my hus
band, now. He's a miserable,' lean little
man, and his appetite was something aw
ful—or rather his lack of appetite. I tried
cod liver oil, Ho Ho and a dozen other
things warranted to give a man the ap
petite and digestion of an ostrich. I was
throwing away my money— and his. I
could have bought a lorHv bonnet with
what 1 spent that way. Then I rec
ollected that when we T«re little ones at
home and wouldn't eat our meals— turn
up our noses at the food, as mother said
—she'd give us a spanking and we'd be
glad to eat. So I tried it on my husband
and it worked like a charm. He got a
splendid appetite. Then I gut to spanking
him twice a day, once before he went to
work in the morning and again when he
came home at night.
USE FOR HILLIS' SERMONS.
"No, 1 don't think he liked it," said
Mrs. Rutz, miiFingly. "In fact, to bo
Ira nk with you, he objected strongly,
but I was firm. I recollected that when
w,e were children we always objected to
a spanking, and so I never paid any at
tention to his protests. I'd Just lay him
over my knee, and if 1 didn't have my
slipper handy, I'd use the palm of my
hund, or maybe a book. Books are nice
things to have around the house, ain't
they? They give an air of refinement
to a room, and they are very useful for
spanking purposes. I've got a nicely
bound volume of Dr. HolUs' sermons
which I found Just weighty enough for
the purpose. I used to use a volume of
Carlyle at first, but he's pretty heavy,
you know, and I didn't want to be bru
tal, so I went back to a medium weight,
like Hlllls.'
"Curious how unreasonable men are,"
continued Mrs. Ilutz, as she rocked back
and forth and pensively eyed the shoes of
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these figures may be exceeded.
IN OTHER FIELDS.
The Venezuela gold fields are another
source of supply about to be opened. Lit
tle was done while the boundary dispute
was In progress, and before then mod
ern appliances were not used. Now that
the lields have passed into the hands
of the British it is to be expected that
they will be thoroughly exploited and
made to yield their limit.
Exhaustion of the gold fields is not a
matter to be considered within the com
ing century. Aside from the new dis
coveries that are made from time to time
the present fields seem almost limitless.
There is one deposit of gold in Utah, at
Mercur, which has been declared to con
tain 5,000,003,000 tons of ore containig $5 < -
000,000,000 worth of gold. This would be
twelve times as much gold as the world's
present monetary stock. The statement,
though startling, is not a wild estimate,
for hundreds of samples have been taken
at different depths, and in all cases the
finely distributed gold has been found.
The only limit to the output is the ca
pacity of the mills.
The working of such deposits as these
necessitates the use of expensive ma
chinery, and improved methods increase
the cost. The result is that during the
last few years gold mining is being con
ducted more on a business basis, the re
lftion between cost and price is maln-
the Inter Ocean reporter, and sized up
their latest possibilities as spanking im
plements. ' 'Do you know, .Mr. Rutz
never quite got used io being spanked,
and I've actually caught him trying to
break away In the morning before I'd
given him his tonic. But I'm a woman
of a remarkably firm and determined dis
position, even if I have got one of the
most tender and sympathetic of natures.
Between the question of duVy to my
husband and the question of hurting my
own feelings I never hesital?d. I be
iieved spanking was good for Rutz. He
didn't. Hut 1 never argued the point
with him. Discipline has to be main
tained in family lift as well as in the
army, and I was the ruler of my house
hold.
"And Rutz says I was cruel to him,
does he? That's just like the ingratitude
of man," commented Mrs. Rutz, her eyes
snapping. "He never dared say that to
me! Cruel! Pshaw! Why, the spankings
I gave him were only equivalent to a vig
orous massage, and every one knows
that's good for the system, sets the blood
to circulating briskly and imparts a
healthy glow to the body. Why, after
I've spanked Rutz, it was a positive pleas
ure to see the rosy glow the flesh would
take on. No, I never spanked him so
hard that it was painful for him to sit
down. That's a lie that some of those
gossiping women in our neighborhood
started. They also said that Rutz had to
eat his meals standing up. That's an
other lie! He may have done co once or
twice, but that was not my fault.
BLAMES WOMEN NEIGHBORS.
"Those women in our neighborhood had
very little to do and seemed to take a
great interest in our affairs, especially
in Rutz. Not that my husband was any
thing of a 'masher,' as the slang phrase
is. Oh, no! But. actually, I think all the
women are afraid of their husbands, and
the fact that I wasn't afraid of mine and
was boss in my family made them feel
spiteful and vindictive toward me. They
were conscious of their own .subjection,
you see, and jealous of me because I
had thrown off the trammels which bind
women down. Four or five of them cams
bursting into my room one morning when
I was spanking Rutz, and— well, it was
very embarrassing-, not to me. you un
derstand, but to Rutz. I told him to
stand in the corner, and then I gave these
women a piece of my mind that they will
not forget in a hurry. They called me all
kinds of names, too, but I never pay
any attention to such trifles.
"And then the husbands of these wom
en would try to make trouble for me. N
The men and women would waylay Rutz
oji his way home nights and counsel him
to rebel. 'Be a man and assert yourself,"
they'd say to him. He was late getting
home one night, and 1 went out looking
for him. He was standing out on tho
street, with four or five of our neighbors
about him. giving him advice. They'd
got his courage worked up to the point
where he thought he was a second Aguin
aldv, and was going to head an insurrec
tion. 'You come right home, Rutz,' I
said, 'and don't stand gossiping her<\"
" 'I'll come home when 1 feel like It,'
he said.
" 'Well, you*ll feel like it right now.'
I answered, and with that I picked him
vp, put him under my arm, and walked
off with him. I'm not positive," said
Mrs. Rutz, with an engaging smile, "but
I think I spanked him with Carlyle that
night. But then consider the provoca
tion! There was no more Insurrection
on his part though!"
HER OTHER PECFLI ARTTIES.
Mrs. Rutz, who lived In "West Twenty-
Third street, had some other peculiarities
besides that of spanking her husband.
One of her diversions was to imagine
herself a torchlight procession, and to
be In keeping with the part, she would
prowl through the alleys nights with a
lighted torch. She had also a deep
seated jealousy of the fame of Mrs.
O'Leary's cow, and said that she pro
noaed to start a Chicago fire that would
tamed. and the stockholders of mints
receive only ordinary dividend*
Discoveries of the last half century
and the application of science to "he
mining industry, resulting in the Increa*
ed production of gold, have addJd 1* gOy
o the world's stock of the metal. From
the discovery of America in 1492 up ,™
3*60 the worlds stock was lncre^e.J by
&£££ h Du H n * the ** ssrsLS
15,341, 855,000 has been produced, which Is
more than was produced \u. the last 3*7
previous years.
The present decade has produced an
nually nearly twice as much as tht, t< n
years from 1880 to 1890. The amount ut
gold coin and bullion in the world at
present is estimated to be about K3W*
-000,000, which is less than the production
of the last forty yearg.
It is estimated that at present there ia
about 12,160 tons of gold in the world „f
which about 6,640 tons is monelary g,,] d
stock. In 1880 the monetary gold
Stock was 1,200 tons; in 1870, 3.844 tons
in 1890, 5.040 tons. There is at present 20
per cent more gold in circulation than
there was in 1590; 72 per cent more th;m
In 18/0, and more than five time;, aa
much as there was at the beginning „t
the century.
The increase in the production of gold
Is much, more rapid than the inereii^ In
population, for while the monetary stock
of the metal has already quintupled since
iSuO, the population of the world has in
creased only two and a half times.
THE >EW WAY.
immortalize her name and throw that of
OLeary into obHvion.
Mrs. Rutz has a delicate vein of nu
mor in her nature, which enables hei 10
see a comic side to incidents thai is In
visible to ordinary mortals. She I »■■. ;.
collection of brick, old iron, and oth r
missiles in her room, which she «. ,
throw out of the window at passe re b>
the joke of the performance eonsistirg
In hitting the object aimed at. Then
Mrs. Rutz would laugh henr.il> . the
natural indignation of the person (it
seeming to intensify the humor of the
joke. Sometimes Airs. Rutz would vary
the joke by taking her collection of m:«
--siles out in a basket at night, and pn c
tice throwing them through neighbors'
windows. She said it was good bin \
and made trade good for the glaz « 8,
who thrived in the neighbo hood.
All these and other acts rinaily csr
minated in the neighbors swearing out
warrants for Mrs. Rutz, and she is now
in the detention hospital, wai ing an In
quisition into her sanity. Mm wh le
Mr. Rutz is missing his daily tpank ns*.
ROSES AND VIOLETS
Owe Their Fragrance «n«l Beauty
to Various Deadly Bacilli.
Medical Journal.
The scent of the sweeten rosi becomes
noxious and the humble vide; Deems to
bo ecowling up at you from under its
eyibrows when you know that th s:
flowers and their fellows ">rt indebted to
the deadly microbes for the r colors and
scents.
The delicate pirik of the Ro.hs--cr-.ild ,«.-e
is composed of the bodies- oi thousands of
the identical microbe's which brin^ death
through consumption to so many <>f . ;.r
friends and relations. fh- violet and
lar.sy get their color from th. cancer
microbe, the tulip from the goui
and the geranium from the s. ar'.t ■
bacil'up. Likewise, every tl-ti« you ln
hnli: the scent of any flower you are In re
ality gulping down nvui hful after m< u'h
ful of some teii\ble dlseas?. There is 10
way of disinfecting flowers, «.= to. .. n
actually composed >f microbes ;;nri il you
take the latter away no flow*>r is left
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