A LUMP OF GOLD. The Largest Piece of Auriferous Metal Ever Found. Its Discovery Cost Three Men Their Lives. How many know where the largest single lump of nativo gold ever seen in America was found? In California? No. In Colorado? No. In the Black Hills, Ctcur d' Alene, Nevada, New Mexico? No. In Old Mexico, Peru, Bolivia, in in the Callao of Venzuela? No. "Where then? In North Carolina. And its story is as woird and fateful as the Rhinegold's. A poor and ignorant Irishman, living in the mountains, solitary and lonely, propped open the door of his cabin with a lump of metal. Ho had found it sticking out from a water-washed gully and carried it home as a curiosity. Though no larger than a small cymling, it was a woighty lug for a mile. It was a dull yellow, irregular in shape, and pieces of stone wero imbedded in it • For over two years a fortuno lay upon the floor of his hovel, while ho toiled, early and late, making a littto whiskey and digging ginseng root to oarn a scanty living. A companion mountain eer, who had known more of the out side world, thought this strango stone might bo sold at Ashovillc as a curiosi ty for a lot of money—ten dollars per haps. This was in the flush days be fore the war. lie had seen quartz crys tals from Roan Mountain bring that much. A third mountaineer was called in consultation. Ten dollars was a lot of money. The third man had been a traveler, a regular globe trotter. He went to Asheville four times a year, and had been clear to Wilmington. Walking around the dump he gazed at it from every side, touched it with his toe, spat upon it, and breathed heavily. "Hit air with nuthin', er hit air a pile," said he. "Hit air nothin' but brass, er hit air " He looked around on the other two with a queer expres sion— "goold." "Ef hit air brass"—ho drew a clasp knife and scraped the dull inetal till a new surface glittered— "vinegar'll rust hit. Ef hit air goold, hit won't." He poured some vinegar from a jug which was brought to him, upon the fresh facing of the lump. The three men hung over it intently. Five, ten, fifteen minutes passed and still the metal shone clear and untarnished. "Hit's goold!" "And I've heerd goold was wuth more'n two hundred dollars a pound!" said the second. What a d—d fool I have been!" groaned the owner of tho cabin. "For two years I've workod, an' wealth 1 never dreamod of kickin' uudher my feet." "I claim" a third," broke in tho as sayer. "Yc'd never a knowed what hit war, but fer me." "An' a third for me," said tho other. The owner of the gold gave a sullen assent. Thoy obtained a pair of steel - yards and weighed the gold. It turned the scales at over a hundred pounds avoirdupois aud they roughly estimated it to bo worth $25,000, over SBOOO apiece. That night all three sat up and watched the treasure, unable to sleep from excitement and thoroughly sus picious of each other. Tho next day they rolled it securely in a cloth and started for Ashevillo afoot with the gold Blung to a pole and carried between two. It was the devil's gold. At tho first halting place the Irishman and tho sec ond mountaineer conspired to kill the third and he was shot dead from be hind. Hastily throwing his body into a clump of bushes, tho murderers faced each other in tho road. Suspicion roused in each guilty breast saw treach ery in each other's glance. "Here, ' said one, forcing an uneasy laugh. "There's only ono way to set tle this. Let's divide tho gold and each go his way." "Agreed," said the other. The lump was laid in the roadway and chopped in two with a hatchet. "Take your choice, ' said ono. As the other bent to lift his half his com panion split tho head of tho stooping man with his hatchet. Tho gold was his. With biiu 1 fatuity ho dragged the second victim to the side of tho road, lifted the bloodstained treasuro and went on. At Ashevillo ho took it to tho bank and had it shipped to the United Sates mint. In less than a week, and before any return could be had from the mint, tho bodies of tho two murdered men had been discov ered and tho crime traccil directly home. The mifciablo wretch was thrust in j lil, an 1 there he died within a year. The "witcj gol 1 fortune never crossed his hands, remaining in the Federal treasury for lark of owner inip. The region wheoe the lump was found has been scoured foot by foot, but not another lump like that has ever been , discovered iu that or any other section of America. It is said that a few weeks ago an English company, which is working theNacoocheo mine in Georgia, took out a nugget weighing 1000 pen nyweight, yet the North Carolina lump weighed over 1500 ounces.— Washing ton Post. Concerning Cassava. With regard to the new bread plant, which has attracted so much attention of late from the milling journals, a newspaper in Florida has this to say: "The cassava thrives and produces splendidly. The eatuble portion of the cassava is tho roots or tubers. When the roots are grated or mixed in equal proportion with flour, nice dishes can be made of it, lit to bo set before a king. In custard, pudding, pies and fritters it can not be beat, whilo mixed with equal quantity of corn moal and made into frittors it will deceive an old oysterman. It is enormously productive, producing many tons per acre. It is fine feed for hogs, cattle, sheep and poultry; hogs will quit corn for it, and thrive and grow fat on it. I candidly believe there is no single article of food on the globe that will produce more to the acre. It succeeds well on good light soil that is well drainod. It re sembles in growth the castor beau, and is an ornament to any garden. It should be planted j on wido ranges (six feet) and set four feet apart on tho ridge. First cut your stalks in pieces four inches long, with two or threo good eyes, and \ set theia perpendicularly, just deep | enough so tho end may bo even with the ground. Cultivate as you would \ sweet potatoes, except in the latter part j of the season give shallow culture, so as j not to cut the roots, which usually ex tend four or five feet around the plants I in all directions. Tho tubes will not keep a week in the open air. We dig them as we want them, or turn our hogs on them. The roots or tubers will keep all winter in the ground when plau ted on well-drained soil. We keep tho stalks through winter by sawing them close to the ground and banking them yp with sand, a layer of sand and a layer of cassava stalks, until it is made [ steep; then put a shed over that so as I to shed off tho rain. It will stand a I certain amouut of moisture, but no j water-soaked soil. It stands drouth well, without wilting a loaf. Cassava, no doubt, will be largely planted iu tho South when better known." Why They Married. Iu an old book written by a West ern Congressman, a contemporary of Clay and Webster, containing remin iscences of his times a story is told of one of his friends, a farmer in Kentucky named Payne, who had six daughters, none of whom was blessed wiih beauty. The Congressman knew I them in their homely youth, and when he returned a few years later found them all married to good, in fluential men. So great was his sur prise that he ventured to ask their father why they all had been so sought when other girls remained neglected. The old farmer chuckle I. "Yes, and you may say, when they had neither dower nor good looks. Well, I'll tell you. When I want my cattle to eat buckwheat stubble, in stead of grass, I don't drive them into that field. I fence it off from them. They are so contrary that they always want the thing they can't get. They breakdown the fence: I drive them out and put it up. By tho time they fight for it onco or twice they think they like the stubble. "Well, I saw my girls weren't the most attractivo kind, and—l fenced them in! "You never found them in the hotels dancin', or keepin' stalls at county fairs. Young men to know them had to come to tlieir father's house. When the neighbors saw how the Payne girls were kept apart from the crowd they thought their valua must bo high. Young men came to break down the fence. The story was coarsely told, per haps," adds the old narrator, but thero is more in it than meets the eye." Youth's Companion. A Kiss Urings a Fortune. Through inadvertently kissing a pret ty customer, George Winch, a butcher at Sydney, New South Wales, has come into a fortuno. The girl objected to the attention, and ha I Winch taken up before the magistrates, who finod him. The local newspap r-> improved the oc casion by preaching several leading ar ticles on human depravity in general and tho misconduct of Gouge Winch in particular. Hi: woke next morning and f.iund himself famous, and it was then discovered, owing to tho publicity given lo his name, that he was a miss ing heir. A DANGEROUS SPOT. Where the United States Navy Stores Its Guipowder. Big Magazines on Ellis Island In New York Bay. More than one huudrcd tons of gun powder aro stored in threo magazines on a small isiand in the bay but two miles from New York City and within eight hundred yards of the Communipawi docks at Jersey City. The island is| known as Ellis Island, and is three acres and a half in size, with a rough, rocky back on all sides. It has been in use as a powder depot for the Navy Department for nearly thirty years, and all the buildings on the island, of which there are eleven,: are of plain, old-fashioned appearance, although they aro said to bo still sound} and good for many years' future ser vice. The main building is circular in form and is built close to the water's edge on the northern extremity, facing New York. It is a somewhat strag gling-looking building from the out-, side, being irregular in height and painted a bright yellow; but inside the greater portion of the 100 tons of pow der now on the island is housed and in spected daily. There aro two kinds of powder in the magaziuos. The prismatic powder, of which thcro is 130,000 pounds, or 1 about 65 ton", is packed in small square boxes, and the common cannon pow der, of which there is 200 barrels, or about 42 tons, is stored away in bar rels, as there is less danger from com bustion in this grade of powder than from the other. Inside the magazines, I where the powder is kept, the cases and ! barrels are carefully arranged in rows ! along the walls, and a daily examina tion of the condition of the combusti bles is m:ule. On fair days the maga zines are opened and aired, but greal care is taken to exclude the damp. No one is allowed to enter the pow- 1 der magazines without having first re-i ! moved his shoes, and even then ho ii i cautioned not to handle anything dur- J ing his inspection of the great store- j rooms, while a vigilant watch is kep! to see that he observes the commands properly. Besides tho circular storeroom there are two others, standing near the centre of tho island, which contain powder. Then there is a largo building, half workroom and half storeroom, for car tridges and gun cotton. In this build ing a force of three men is etnpl oyed in preparing the ammunition for war ships. In this workroom there are half a dozen kinds of gun charges. These are tho one, three and six pound shells for tho llotclikiss breech-loading gun, and tho five, six and eight pound shells for larger cannon. Some of these shells ni6 plain, while others havo steel tips, and their shapes vary according to tho make of the gun to which they belong. Oinl of tho most interesting of these charges is for the six-inch rifle bore. The charge is composed of numerous ftnifl pieces of compressed powder of a peculiar, six-sided shape. Tho man employed in making the charge begins by placing a round piece of board be fore him on which aro painted figures exactly resembling the bits of com pressed powder used. He then inserts an iron rod in tho center of tho board, after which he attaches tho powder to it by round holes bored through the cen tre of each piece. When the first pile is mado ho begins to build tho blocks up around it until he has a column ot a circular form about five inches in thickness. A common bag is then placed over the charge to keep it iw place, the iron rod ia removed and the bag is encased in a copper cylinder un til used. This b tho most complex and difficult charge used in the Navy do part meat. Two of the buildings on the island aro residences, and tho remainder aro used as workshops and magazines. All are painted a bright yellow. Near the main magazino stands an engine house, containing a stationary engine capable of throwing water to any part of the island. A hose and reel are attached; to tho engine house, and the flow of water ran bo conducted to any part of the island with little delay. Owing to I the close proximity of Jersey City, a close lookout is kept for sparks coming from that place. The regular force of watchmen in charge of tho magazinos numbers four- Every facility for hastening the work ol loa ling a ship is to bo found on thi island. Thero is a small railway lead- ! ing from all the principal buildings M the wharf, on which the powder and shells can bo conveyed more quickly mi i mfoly than by hand. A small pier, pr j cling into the soa, affords landing for the smaller steamers and sailing vessels. — Neto York Timet. " ir boas aro to bo worn again What Women Can Do. Every wife or daughter living near a vil lage or large market, can make many dollars each year raising eggs. Just as surely as that a woman can tend a baby better than a man, just so certainly can she care for any animal better. For example, Mrs. Eunice Goodwin, East Liver more, Me,, saysi kl ln four weeks, last autumn, my thirty hens laid 131 eggs. I then fed them Sheridan's Condition Power, advertised to make liens lay; and in eight t reeJcs they laid 478. Having sold twelve, the remainder laid 815 eggs in eight weeks, by feeding Sheridan's Powder. Isold the eggs for $15.03, making clear $13.38 from only eighteen hens in eight weeks. One of my Polish hens which I could not buy for $2.00 would have died but for Sheridan s Powder. I. S. Johnson & Co., 22 Custom House street, Boston, Mass. (the only makers of Sheri dan s Condition Powder), will nand, postpai<L two 25 cent packs of Powder and a Poultrv Guide, for <SO cents. For SI.OO, five packs and a book; for $1.20, a large 2% pound can and book; six cans, $5.00, express prepaid. Send stamps or cash. Interesting testimo nials free. For five cents a copy of the best Poultry paper seut. Things Are Seldom What They Seem. Half a dozen school boys were worry - ing their bruins in a sidewalk congress the other day over a difficult problem in quadratics. When they had fairly given it up a battered old individual who was shoveling coal a door or two away and who had overheard the boys' dispute came up and asked leave to try. Then picking up a bit of coal he soon spread the values of X, Y and Z on the flag ging before the astonished boys. Again, a party in a hotel not long ago were drawn to watch the emotion of a dirty and half-drunken tramp who sat in the barroom while the sound of the piano came from an adjacent room. As the music ceased the vagabond rose slowly as if in a dream, walked into the parlor, and seating himself played for half an hour the choicest classical music with an exquisite and marvelous touch. These incidents show that things are seldom what they seem.— New York Sun, A Now Kind of liiNiirnncfi Hash on putin operation by the mnnufaetur- Sr*. r . 112 , P., I>ierce ' s medicines. His "Golden Medical Discovery and "Favorite Prescrip tion are sold by druggists under the manu facturers' positive i/imranter. Hither benefit or a complete cure is thus attained, or money paid tor these medicines is returned. The cer titieate of guarantee given in connection with sale or these medicines is equivalent to a policy of insurance. The "Golden Medical Discov ery" cures all humors and blood taints, from whatever cause arising, skin and scalp dis eases, scrofulous sores and swellings The "Favorite Prescription" cures a:l those do rangem nts and weaknesses peculiar to wo men. Don't hawk, hawk, and blow, blow, disgust ing everybody, but use Dr. Sage's Catarrh Itemedy. PitivATr. SECRETARY HALFOIID is anxious to resume newspaper work. Mediocrity altra</x copies tiirperlority. Dob bias's KU-, trie Soap, ii Ist made in 1805, ban bet ii imitated more than anv soap made. Ask your grocer for l>"bbim'H Electric Soap, all other Klectrios, Electricity, Magnetics, etc., ure imitations. OLIVKII \\ KMIICI.I. HOLMES refuses to write ftuy more poetrv. Oregon. Ilie I'arudiMe oI Karuirrn, Mild, e<iuable climate, certain anil abundant crops. Best fruit, grain, grass and stock coun try in the world. Full information free. Ad dress Oregon Im'igrat'n Board. Portland. Ore. A 10c. smoke for sc. "Tansill's Punch." Dangerous Tendencies Characterize that very common complaint, catarrh. The foul matter dropping from the hca<l into the bronchial tut>es or lungs may bring on bronchitis or consumption, which reaps an immense harvest of deaths annually. Hence the necessity of giving ca tarrh immediate attention. Hood's Sarsaparllla cures catarrh by purifying and enriching the blood, restoring and tonlug the diseased orgaus. Try the peculiar medicine. "Hood's Sarsaparllla cured me of catarrh, soreness of the bronchial tubes aud terriblo headache."—K. GIBBONS, Hamilton, Ohio. Hood's Sarsaparilla Bold by all druggists. $1; six for sr>. Prepared only by C. I. HOOD & CO., A|>otheearies, Lowell, Mass. _IOO Doses One Dollar IOVELY Calendar and Free Sample («oods that will J sell, he. stamps. \V. ('. W., No. Dunhurt'm, N. H. ✓r .tx . DR. KOEIIhKR'B FAVORITE COLIC mXTUIIF. /' X ft ! r all ,lon,eßtl ° HUliual*, U ill cure 9!> out of every 100 oases of colic, whether Hat* AWp'.i ulent or spasmodic. Karely more than lor 2 doses necessary. It does not con klipate, rather nets a laxative and Is entirely harmless. After 20 years of trial /," in more than SOOO cases, our guarantee is worth something. Colic inunt be Ato, JaMUßgl|M«|\ ! rented promptly. Kxpend a few cents and you have a cure on hand wadv t when needed, and perhaps save u valuable horse. If not at your druiriclst's en- V close 50 cents for sample bottle, sent prepaid. Address I>K. KOKIII.KR A CO., Heilileliem, l»n. aaMy *Mj* e ;r * ixhier'a "Favorite Colic j H> cheerfully recommend Dr. Korhler'i I Mixture" right along with success. Jtis I "Favorite Colic Mixture." Mould not be \ • • t,if best cort© medicine J have ever seen. J without it as long as we have how* ' ' Jlfr ISAAC MOOU, Jloree Dealer, ISAAC MOSES dt BRO- Brooklun* Sew York. I Sale and Exchanue Stables. F.n*t,in.. rn r€)f&good hous^-wife.,who uses SAPOUQIUis well SA-idrfhe mouse is muzzied in her housse'Try ihand keep your house cle&n+'All grocers keep ib- SAPOLIO is the house-wife's best friend. With it she conquers dirt and adds to the appearance of her house by keeping it clean. Don't be foolish and try to clean house without SAPOLIO. Quick work can be done with SAPOLIO. , Common soap and elbow service belong to the past generation. Be in fashion and use SAPOLIO. Sec tlie lariro advertisement in a previous issue of this paper. Send for Colored Announcement am) Specimen Copies, free. iTUIC FREE TO JAN. I, 1890. UIBTiT" I I U *'" o any Now Subscriber who will cnt out and .rn<l us this slip, with name an*! I*oM lnff BI N Office address and »1.75, wo will send The Youth's Companion FRKK to .lan. 1. ■■■■■■ A| in IH9«. and for a full year from that date. This offer includes the FOUR DOUBL£ i«p | ll* HOLIDAY NDMRRRS, and *ll the lI.LHBTRATED WEEKI.T SCPPIEMKSTB. Jk I fh I A<Mre„, THE YOUTH'S COMPANION, Boston, Mass. V,,,U ' A Few Pointer.. The recent statistics of the number of deaths show that the large majority die with con sumption. This disease may commence with an apparently harmless cough which can be cured instantly by Kemp's Balsam for the Throat and Lung*,which is guaranteed to cure and relieve all cases. Price 50c. and sl. Trial size free. For sale by all druggists. THKHK are 210 co-operative building and loan associations in the State of New Jersey. Beware ol Ointment. for Catarrh Tlinr Contain irtercary. As mercury will surely destroy the sense of smell and completely derange the whole sys tem when entering it through the mucous sur faces, .such art icles should never be used ex cept on prescriptions from reputable pbys - clans, as the damage they will do is ten fnld to the good you can possibly derive from them, llall s Catarrh Cure, manufactnued by F.J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, 0.. contains no mer cury, and Is taken internally, and acts direct ly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. In buying Hall's Catarrh Cure be sure you get. the genuine. It is taken internally and made in Toledo, Ohio, by J. Cheney & I-TT" Sold by Druggists, price "Sc. per bottle. P. T. Barnum was born In 1810. He brought Jenny Lind to this country in 1819. pains|Scfif|s TRADE MARK n^sS™ i 3BNS*^!y SfJacobsOil^ □ .THE GHAS-A-VQGELEREB* Ely's Cream Balm A a mmi nn ■ . CATARRH.^C^ EE cj3_sQJ^en 13. I Apply Halm Into each nostril. T ! -'S , ;MT. n M . N y lilt YOU WANT A SITUATION? KEL IIII v- i.' & c '°- Main Street, ftuftiilo, ■* w i.. can get It. Aililrens with stamp. II YOU WISH A . „ ■ RF.VOI.VKR (a*™i Craters SI rni "& \vESSoN arms. The finest small arms ever manufactured anil the tt, JJ )l l«m\ first choice of all experts. y Wl| Manufactured In calibres 32,33 and 44-100. sin- raw* gle or double action. Safety Hammerless ami Target models. 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