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THE WORLD'S SUPPLY OF GOLD.
Come Interesting Stat stirs as to the
Yellow Metal.
It has been reckoned that in the de
posit of clay on which the city of Phil
adelphia now stands there is sufficient
gold to gild the fronts of all the build
ings in the place. There the amount
is so small that it has no more pros
pective value than that contained in
the sea water. Thus, while it may be
said that wherever a person may be on
the surface of the earth, or on thG
ocean, there is likely to be enough gold
within a mile of his feet to make him
a millionaire, the places where gold
can be won at a profit are relatively
few.
The most important increase that is
to be looked for in vein mining arises,
however, from the rapid improvement
In the modes of applying power to such
work. The gain in this regard in the
last half century, through the inven
tion of the power drills, more effective
explosives, better hoisting systems and
more efficient methods of treating the
ores, is such that, on the average, in
terms of labor, it probably does not, at
present, cost one-third as much to
mine and treat a given amount of ore
from underground mines as it did in
1850.
Making no allowance for future Im
provements in mining, we may evi
dently expect a very great and rapid
Increase in the annual supply of this
precious metal from the betterment al
ready effected. As to the extent of this
gain, there is no basis for a trust
worthy reckoning; but those who have
some idea of the amount of gold bear
ing veins which can, with skillful min
ing, be made to yield a profit at the
present rate of interest, will probably
be disposed to agree with me in the
opinion that, at anything like the pres
ent price of labor, the yield from this
group of deposits is likely within 20
years to exceed $500,000,000 per an
num.
PROMINENT PEOPLE.
King Oscar of Sweden possesses a
medal for life saving.
Mayor Crane, of Denver, Col., has
Invented a rotary ore-working machine
for use in Ihe gold mines.
W. W. Astor has given SIOO,OOO to
endow those professorships In the Uni
versity College of London which are
to-day without endowment.
Jacob A. Riis has declared that he
would decline the position of Governor
of the Danish West Indies unless Pres
ident Roosevelt strongly insists upon
his acceptance.
Senator Hanna now possesses the
pen with which T. 11. Reed, when
Speaker of the Mouse of Representa
tives, attested the passage of the Mc-
Kinley Tariff act.
Gong Gee, n Chinaman, who Is a
practical electrician, graduated from
the Portland (Ore.) Technical School,
is writing a book on electricity in the
Chinese language.
Sir Henry Strong, Chief Justice of
the Supreme Court of Canada, has no
tified the Department of Justice thai
lie wishes to retire in September. Jus
tice Tnschereau will be promoted tc
the Chief Justiceship.
Dr. Hey man. Mr. Ivruger's physician,
enters an emphatic denial that the for
iner President of tlic Transvaal Repub
lic is not In good health. The physi
cian says that Mr. Kruger is very well
despite his advanced age.
Colonel John Mosby, the leader of
one of the most important Confeder
ate cavalry commands during tho Civil
War, Is In Government service in Colo
rado, charged with preventing the pri
vate inclosure of public lands.
Professor James Parker Hall, as
sociate professor of law at Stanford
University, has tendered his resigna
tion to tho trustees. He will go to
Chicago University, where he will hold
a full professorship in the new depart
ment of law that will be opened there
next October.
Mrs. William Taylor, an aged
woman who lives up Stone Coal
creek, near Weston, found some
strychnine which some one had
placed in her well bucket with tht
apparent purpose of poisoning her.
Two local capitalists at Sistervllle.
Henry W. McCoy and E. A. Durham,
are soon to commence the construe
tion of a three story brick I. O. O. F.
temple on the ground on Wells street
recently purchased by them.
A new bank, with a capital of $25,
000, Is to be established In Martins
burg.
LITTLE THINGS THAT COUNT.
How often in our busy life How often from our veiy heart
Wo speak a bitter word; We let our anger rise.
We care no*- who the listeners are, And never mind the pleading look*
We care not where 'tis heard. That come from soulful eyes;
We do not know within our heart We crush, we bruise, in passion's hour.
To what it may amount, And scorn the falling tear;
And truly, it is only one Little things, oh, little things,
Of little things that count. What sorrow wrought you here!
We often wound the trusting heart You count, oh yes, you little things,
By being insincere. You count, but not for gain;
We do not think that which we do You count to sadden trusting hearts,
May cause a lonely tear. You count for naught but pain.
We give it but a passing thought, You count as clouus in some one's sky,
And bother not about You darken some one's day:
The little things that rise and cause O cruel little deeds and words
The trusting heart to doubt. We can't undo, unsay!
We often wrong within ourself Then ever speak the kindly word
The ones who love us true, Instead of one of pride;
Because tliey tell us of a fault; Twill banish sorrow from a soul,
We're all impatient, too, And anger turn aside.
And do not down the angry words The lovmg word and deed and glance,
That to our lins may mount, Is borne on angel wings,
But watch ana wait; 'tis only one And angel voices echo true;
Of little things that count. Be kind in little things!
—Kathryn C. Murray, in the Hartford Daily Commnt.
Everybody 'round Pimly set up a
laugh when Peter Jethson and his
wife moved over on old man Grant's
west eighty and set up for farming.
Peter was always regarded as some
thing of a joke in Iloke County, and
the fact that he had married Sophie
Grant, the prettiest girl for miles
around, didn't save him. He was a
sort of second cousin to the old man's
first wife, and, of course, when he
came to Kansas his kinsman took him
in.
The objections to him were good
natured but numerous. Ho was al
ways dressed up, he had no more
knowledge of horses, cattle and pigs
than a Kansas City dude, and for the
first year of his life in Iloke County
he didn't do anything but court
Sophie. Old Grant never would have
agreed to it if he didn't know that his
son-in-law-eleet "had money," for the
youth was quite worthless from a
bucolic point of view, and after six
months trying to interest him in farm
ing the old man gave in with:
"Well, ye kin have her, Pete, bnt
goll darn ye, how you all goln' to
make out?"
Peter grinned quietly, saying,
"Guess we won't starve," and went
away to tell Sophie. They were mar
ried at Christmas, spent a week in
Kansas City and then came home to
settle down. Everybody thought
they'd open a store in Pimly, bat they
DOWN INTO TIIE TIM3DR, WHERE HE COUNTED THE WALNUT
TREES.
didn't. Pete leased the west eighty
from his father-in-law and built a cot
tage, declaring that he meant to make
bis fortune right there. He started
by bringing from his old home in the*
East all his books, fishing tackle, guns
and other impractical effects. When
the Kansas winter vanished before a
matchless spring he began to roam
ever "our farm."
"What you going to do first, retc?"
Sophie would ask.
"Just look around for a while, So
phie," he would say, and march off
whistling toward the creek or down
Into the timber, where he counted the
waluut trees nnd shot an occasional
squirrel. Then he rigged up s shop
near the barn and bought a lot of
second-hand gas pipe, iron rods and
queer implements that had nothing to
do with farming.
"What ye goin' to do naow, Pete?"
the old man asked, eyeing him with
unexpressed wonder.
"I'm going to make a well," said
Pete, smiling like a willful child.
"Well? You don't need no well;
you got one an' a cistern. -There's
the pond and the creek, an' it's good
an' rainy in Hoke. Well, Addle! Ain't
you goin' to put In no crap?"
"Later maybe. I'll get around to
that later." And Pete would saunter
away whistling, while Sophie In the
kitchen smiled confidently and her
father grumbled in his whiskers.
It was like that all summer and fall.
Pete didn't do anything In the way of
work except what he did secrotly In
his shop or on his well. The neigh
bors would stbp at his road gate some
times and shout at him: "Hey, Mis
ter Jcthson, struck watter ylt?'
Whereat he wou'.d smile gently, shake
Ills head and answer, "Not yet."
Sometimes, if they happened to ask
him, "How ye gettln' along?' he'd
crack his little joke by answering,
"Getting a long well, thank you." and
then he'd laugh like a pleased boy.
And so it came about that the folks
at Pimly nnd roundabout In Hoke
County came to talk about Peter Teth
son as "Poor Pete," the women pitying
Sophie and the men pitying old man
Grant, who had given his pretty
daughter to a "half-wit."
It was along In the spring when
everybody found out that Peter had
taken a ten-year lease on the Brown
son place adjoining his own untllled
acres. Mayer Jenkins of Pimly voiced
the public sentiment about this trans
action when ho said:
"B-ownson has just took advantage
o' pore Pete. Them hundred an' sixty
acres o' kis'n ain't wuth two dollars
a year. Won't raise nuthln' an' ylt,
come t' think, they can't raise no less'n
Pete's eighty."
Whereupon everybody laughed and
repeated Mayor Jenkins's joke. Then
the wags out Grant's way begnn to
"put up jobs" on Jetkson. They
would stop by and ask casually If he
wanted to lease any more land, and
when they realized that he was dead
la earnest about getting more acres,
that he wasn't particular about the
quality of the land, so long as it was
near Plmly, and could be leased for
ten years or longer, they begnn to
get a vague idea that "mebbo Pete
was up to suthln'." Then for a while
old mnn Grant was waylaid on the
corners in ritnly and at intervals
along the road, by farmers who want
ed to know what Pete was to do with
his leased lands. When Grant said
he didn't know, they either disbe
lieved him or pitied the necessity of
veiling his son-in-law's mental frailty
and went their ways. But the old
fellow wns now bent on knowing. He
refused to accept the theory that Pete
was "daffy," preferring to estimate
his eccentricities as "pure ornery lazi
ness." At last he got the young man
Into a corner of the sitting-room, when
Sophie was away, and quizzed him re
lentlessly.
"Now I kin keep a secret. Pete," he
coucluded; "folks is fceginnin' to think
yore daffy and It's agoln' to hurt Sofe
lan' the baby •when that comes. Jest
own up, what Is your Idea o' making
leases when you ain't so much as
fnrmiu' truck?"
"Qas, dad," said Peter, quietly.
"Just keep It as secret as you can, but
there's gas under every foot of this
ground."
It was not a very satisfactory ex
planation to Grant. He didn't seo
what particular good gas might do.
and the next time he saw Dr. Jewett
In Pimly he let slip the secret about
Peter's idea. From the doctor's of
tice the story spread, reaching ears
that were not Indifferent to the story
of a possible gas belt under Hoke
County. Strangers who had snick
ered at Jethson began to cross-ques
tion him, but he put them aside with
a childish smile and n harmless joke.
"How you goln' to git tho gas?" they
asked him.
"Dig for It," he would say, laughing.
"An' If you git It, what then?"
"Then It's up to you," grinned Jeth
son, as he walked away.
Some of them did dig, or rather bore
Into their farms. Ashamed of their
enterprises, they kept them secret
from each other, but when they had
vainly gone down 200, SOO and 500 feet
through rock and clay and water, rage
against the Innocent Peter took hold
of them, and they watched for a
chance to get even. Ceorge Hough
set the pace by actually leasing the
"gas privileges" of his farm to Jeth
son for ninety-nice years for the cash
sum of SICO, which was paid the mo
ment the deed was signed. After that
there was a rush to "do business" with
Peter. The malcontents who had spent
work and money sinking for gas
wanted revenge, but they were afraid
to give the victim "long terms," for
fear when his mental condition was
discovered his engagements would be
come valueless, so they did business
with him on a cash basis until h.s
money wan gone and he had "the gas
privilege' on every farm and free
holding near Pimly.
"What air you goln' t' do naew?"
groaned Papa Grant when Pete admit
ted that he'd like to borrow a hundred
dollars.
"I'm going' to give Pimly a fire
works exhibition," be answered naive
ly. "I'm going to town now to put a
card in the Banner announcing a show
over at my place."
And he did. The erratic announce
ment drew every man, woman and
child for miles around. The "fire
works" was all gas, it Is true, but
from a hundred Jets along the drive,
around the lawn, In the house and out
side, it flared in clear white glory.
Peter showed them his lathe and his
pumps all run by burning gas. Tho
men who had ridiculed him aside, ad
mitted that they had dug for gas too,
"Just on his say so," but that "they
want no gas within five hundred feet,
an', Tote, ef ye want to stan' from
under that lease, wby all right"
But Peter didn't want to "stand
from under."
"Digging for gas, boys," snld Peter,
radiantly, "Is like sizing up your fel
low men. It's no use unless you go
deep, say a thousand feet or so."
And they smiled with him, but they
didn't mean it.—John H. Raftcry, in
the Chicago Record-Herald.
First Step In Village Improvement.
First in order in activities of this
kind come cleanliness. Clean streets
and public places, clean private prem
ises—with thcEe secured, tho first great
transformation la the community takes
place. When nuisance-breeding rub
bish heaps are cleared away, aud va
cant lots covered with all scrts of lit
ter are cleaned up, everybody noto3
the improvement and is interested in
seeing it maintained. Orderliness, of
course, goes hand in hnnd with clean
liness. Tho latter cannot be secured
with good order. And with good
order there Is an aspect of neatness
that eommnnds popular respect It
pleases the public eye. Nearly every
body will desist from throwing rubbish
in a well kept place, and from scatter
big torn up paper, cr other litter iu a
clean street rublie sentiment Is eaclly
cultivated in favor of public cleanli
ness and order. A notable instance
of its growth Is to he found in tho
agitation against spitting in public
rlaces, since It was determined that
tho practice was a danger to public
health. The posting of notices with
regulations against it, and tha fre
quent discussion of the subject in the
press, have made a strong impression
upon public sentiment, and in conse
quence the offense Is not practiced ts
anything like the same extent in com
munities where there hns been such
agitation.—Sylvester Baxter, iu the Cen
tury.
A Fascinating Profession.
The tradition iu India is that the
man-eating tiger never gets over his
thirst for human blooTl. Men reform
from evil habits, break o.T from trades
and cut loose from associations and lo
calities, but never or rarely from jour
nalism. Some have tried to account
for this well-known fact by recounting
the fascinations of the "art preserva
tive."
'lhis may be the case In some de
gree, but it cannot be all of It When
one has engaged in the newspaper
business he acquires some partlul
knowledge of all the ordinary pursuits
and avocations, and this seems to un
fit him for centralizing his faculties
upon any of them. Consequently he
experiences a certain timidity as to
embarking upon mercantile or manu
facturing pursuits.
Besides this they all seem to him
to be narrow and limited. There Is a
boundless wldeness In Journalism
which gives the country newspaper
man the Impression that he would not
'■ike to be tied down to the groove in
which he sees even the biggest furni
ture dealer or the most active grocer
enguged.
FACTO
A banker and muuleipal treasurer
In an Italian town disappeared, leav
ing a deficit of SIOO,OOO. The authori
ties proceeded to open his strong-box,
which was found to contain a piece of
paper inclosing thirty-six cents and
stating that the. money was for the
locksmith who should be deputed to
break open the safe.
An extremely funny slCiation has
arisen in Marienberg, a small town in
Prussia. Three friends of a ltussian
living at the town gave him 100 marks
to shave off his beard. But his wife
Interfered with a police notice to the
effect that she claimed a part proprie
torship. The other friends are now
suing the husband for non-perform
ance of his contract.
An elderly man, having the appear
ance of a laborer, was walking down
Blackfrlars road, London, one Sunday
night recently, when his wooden leg
caught in a grating, and about a fool
and a half of it snapped off. To the
amazement of the passers by there
rolled out from a cavity several sov
ereigns and some silver, for which
there was at once a scramble, and
some of the coins were stolen. How
ever, the old man received back most
of his hoard, and he was placed in a
eah and conveyed to his home.
The latest development In surgery l!
the molding of noses in paraffin, which
Is now being practiced In Austria. In
the deformity known as saddle nosf
the most remarkable results are said
to be obtained. The process consists
In the subcutaneous injection of par
affin, which before it completely sets
Is molded into the desired shape. A
warmed syringe is charged with the
melted compound and the needle is
inserted between the eyebrows, just
above the root of the nose. Tlieu the
compound is injected into the subcu
taneous tissues as the needle is slowly
withdrawn.
The body of a child appears to have
lain In London for fourteen months
as an unclaimed parcel in the cloak
room at London Bridge Station. II
formed at last the subject of inquiry
at tlio Coroner's Court, Southwark.
The Coroner said that lie understood
that the parcel was left at Victoria
Station on December 3, 1000, and not
being called for, was sent to the lost
Property Office for the annual rum
mage sale, and so the nature of the
contents was discovered. The body
was Completely mummified. The wit
nesses could shed no light on the mat
ter, and the jury returned an opeD
verdict.
The aborigines of the Malabar isl
ands employ a perfect whistling lan
guage by means of which tlicy can
communicate with each other over
long distances. A stranger wandering
over the islands is frequently sur
prised to hear from the hilltop the
sound of loud whistling, which Is
quickly repeated on the next hill and
so is carried from summit to summil
until it dies away in the distance.
But perhaps the most curious means
of communication in the world is the
drum-language of a Kongo tribe.
These queer people can talk to each
other with large drums made of ham
boo hoops, over which the skin of
some animal is stretched. Tito "drum,
however, is used only on importanl
occasions.
Navnjo Samt-ralnllng.
Sand painting by the Navajo Indians
Is a great religious rite. Sand for the
ground work Is carried in blankets.
The fire which has burned through
other ceremonies is first removed anc
ull traces of it covered with saud.
The colors used are made from
ground pigments, sprinkled on with tlu
thumb and forefinger. Pieces of bark
6erve as paint cups. The colors are
yellow, red nnd white from sandstones;
black from charcoal and a grayish blue,
formed of white sand and charcoal,
with a very small quantity of yellow
and red sands. The eye usually is
the only guide for drawlug liues, al
though sometimes a weaving stick Is
used.
The pictures represent gods and god
desses. The gods carry In their right
hands a rattle and in their left sprigs
of pluou; The goddesses carry pinons
In both hands. The rattle and tin
pinon bring the rain. After the paint
ings are completed the priests sprinkU
them with sacred meal nud water
When the ceremony is finished tilt
people hasten to take sand from the
hearts, heads and limbs of the figures
to rub upon Wtcmselves. The sand Is
gathered into a blanket and deposited
at the foot of a pinon tree.
These sand paintings are begun al
sunrise nnd often not finished until
late in the afternoon, although ths
artists work with great rapidity. Ths
mingling of the colors is most benuti
ful, some of the work having the np
pearance of Florentine mosaics.—New,
York Herald.
Railways to Be Built In Montonejrro.
Montenegro—the country of the black
mountains—is the only country on tht
European Continent which has no rail
ways. The Prince of Montenegro has
now given a concession to a syndicate
to construct a narrow gauge railway,
some 700 miles in length, to the Ser
vian border It Is reported that ihs
survey has already been made, and
that work on the railway will bt
started In the near future.
The bill collector says he has no de
sire to dwell In the land of promise.
HOW PERKINS SAW THE KING.
Clio Crtlifornia Senator Tolls of Ills Meet-
Inif With Oscar of Sweden.
Senator Perkins, of California, who,
to quote his own words, is a sailor by
profession, a merchant by necessity,
and n politician by accident, has had in
his life more adventures than fall
within the experience of an ordinary
man. Perhaps this is because Senator
Perkins followed the sea for so many
years. One of Mr. Perkins' most in
teresting adventures was his meeting
with King Oscar of Sweden and Nor
way.
"1 was quite a boy then," said the
Senator, telling the story yesterday.
"I had sniled in the good Ship Luna
from New Orlenns to Sweden with
a cargo of cotton, and while the slop
was in port 1 thought I would like
to see the royal palace in Stockholm,
One Sunday afternoon,in eompanywith
a sailor named Harry Branscombe,
an Englishman, we went up to the pal
ace. Boy like, we wanted to get Into
the grounds, and so we crawled through 1
a waste pipe which ran through the
walls around the palace park. As soon
as we got Inside, however, we were
arrested by the gendarmes, and as
we did not know a word of Swedish
we were in a sad plight.
"Presently," continued the Senator,
"a party of distinguished people came
along and seemed interested in our
trouble. One person In the party spoke
English. lie asked us what we were
doing In the King's park. I told him
that I was an American boy, who
wanted to see the King and how the
King lived.
" 'But don't you know,' he said, 'that
you might be put into prison for tres
passing';'
" 'Oh,' I said, 'I don't want to hurt
the King; I only want to see him.'
" 'I am King Oscar,' was his reply,
and then," added Senator Perkins, "I
learned that I was really in the pres
ence of the monarch." .
"What happened to you then?" asked
his listener.
"The King," he replied, "sent a sol
dier with us to show us the palace,
and we had a splendid time. But that
wasn't the sequel to the story. Thirty
years later, when I was Governor of
California, I went off on a little cruise
on a yacht, and who should be a sailor
ou the yacht but liarry Branseombe.
lie knew me aud I i nc..' liim, although
we had not seen each other for thirty
years. I took him up to Snu Francisco
and gave liim a place on one of my
ships."—Washington Post.
Drill of the CIIIUCRC.
The aptitude shown by Chinese sol
diers for drill aud maneuvers iu close
rank is said to be remarkable. The
drill is modeled on German methods;
the gun Is carried over the left shoul
der, the parade step Is the base of all
the marches in close rank, but the
Chinese still keep to their large red
standards; there is one for about ev- v
ery ten men. The only other Euro- f
pean method employed is the "Tiger
drill," a curious fencing movement
with the bayonet accompanied by
fierce hearings and savage thrusts at
the throat by the whole battalion.
The native character of tiie Chinese
soldier is admirably suited to the main
tenance of perfect discipline and a
faultless execution of parade drill.
Commanded well he will, perhaps,
equal the Japanese soldiers who are
already equal to European troops, but
the Chinese officers Ignore the art of
war and oven do not command their
troops during drill. While the mili
tary mandarins sip cups of tea seated
In comfortable armchairs in a corner
of the drill camp, quite Inferior officers
give the directions and exercise the
real command.
Little Squirrel* Kill Bigger One*.
A news item states that the people
ot Fall River, Mass., have succeeded V
so Tell lu protecting tlic gray wild
squirrels in tlie neighborhood that the
nulmals wander into the streets of
the city nud accept food from friendly
hands. Frobably such cases nre rare.
An experienced hunters says that large
gray and black squirrels can never
become abundant because they are of
a gentle and peaceable disposition, and
nre unable to defend themselves
against the murderous attacks of the
small red squirrels and chipmunks.
The latter are savage little beasts who
make rear attacks ou the larger
species, springing suddenly upon tlicm
and Indicting fatal wounds. With
these derce enemies continually on the
alert, the gray and black squirrels have
a poor chance for life, and altliovgh
some of them escape, they grow more
scarce year by year. In these circum
stances it is difficult to see how any.
measure of protection can do very ,
much toward saving them. ij#,
An Umlorffrouml Health Keiort,
In n recent address on ventilation,
to a lack of wklclj he attributed most
human ills, Dr. A. Wyuter Blyth, an
English physician, after discussing the
excellent metecrloglcal conditions
which obtain in the new Loudon "un
derground." said: "One could imagine
a Jules Verne cavernous city, where
the sky was the ever-white changeless
chalk, where no rain fell, where no
frost penetrated, where the light never
failed, and where dry, warm, filtered
pine-ozonized air bathed the lungs
nnd fanned the checks of its denizens
In the constant white glare of r, never
dying summer day."
An automobile truck is now em
ployed for moving iron safes. It has
two propelling motors and a third
elevates the safe to its place in thi
building. ' fc
The court language of England is t
English; the royal family is said to
speak It with a strong German ac
cent. L