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The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-05-18

An Irish beggar- woman, having received
the loan of a shilling, expressed her thanks
by saying May you live till | return it to
YOU We think, however, that the thanks
of the negro of whom this story is told in The
New York World were better:
Some time ago, one of Arkansas most
widely-known statesmen, who is how dead,
was passing along Il street in Little Rock,
when an old colored man, who had once be-
longed to him, approached, took off his hat.
and passed a hand over his white wool, as he
asked:
:. Marster. gin de ole man 80 cents"
"Dan, YOU are Il robber"
How? ?" asked the astonished darkey,
opening his. eyes, around which rougi-sllod
age had walked.
"Didn't you see me put my hand into my
pocket ?"
Vas, sah."
Well, you old rascal; you rob me of the
pleasure of giving you money without being
asked"
The old man received ST.. Bowling almost
TO the ground, while tears came from his eyes,
he replied &:
Marster, wild SIGH a heart as you hab. and
wild Abraham and Isaac, and de Lord on your
side, l don't see what can keep you out of
heaben."
The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-05-18

Psychologist are familiar with abundant
examples in which articles Of food, eminently
nutritious to the generality of human beings,
act as pOlsOnS upon some exceptional
organisms. There are many persons who can-
not eat fat, Others who cannot eat butter, or
eggs, or mutton. veal, or peculiar sorts of
game, without the most distressing effects.
The late DR.. Prout knew a person on whom
mutton acted as poison. ale could not eat
it in any form. This popularity was sup
posed to be owing to caprice, and the mutton
was repeatedly disguised and given to him
unknown, but uniformly with the same re-
suit of producing violent vomiting Tissot
says he could never swallow sugar without
vomiting. Hahn found that seven or eight
strawb berries was sufficient to send him into
commissions. In presence of such examples,
how can we help concluding that tobacco also
must to some organisms be OF quite peculiar
danger. If the excretory action be not
rapid, We know hat tobacco will be poison
to all men, and inasmuch as there are varying
degrees of excretory vigor in different organ
isms, 1t is clear that the effect of tobacco will
be strictly dependent on this varying suscepti-
bility. 1t is in every mans power to answer
very decidedly for himself the important
question whether tobacco is Injurious to him.
Does he suspect any evil influence ? Let him
abstain, and closely watch the result. II,
with no other change in his way of life, he
can detect the disappearance of any marked
symptom, which reappears whenever he re-
sumes his cigar, then he may be sure that he
is wrong to smoke, or that he smokes too
much.
The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-05-18
Advice to q Young Man.

And then, my son, don't be in too great a
hurry to accept 8 advanced opinions" 1t is
the ,'the thing" to be advanced = in this
progressive day and generation, but there is a
heap of shallowness in it. Did you never
notice, my son, that the man who tells you
he cannot believe the Bible is usually able to
believe almost anything else You will find
men, my son, who turn with horror and utter
disbelief from the Bible, and ~joyfiIlly embrace
the teachings of Buddha. 1t is quite the
thing just now, son, for a civilized enlighten-
ed man, brought up IN a Chritain country and
an age of wisdom, to be a Buddhist. And if
you ask six men who Buddha was, one of
them will tell you he was an Egyptian sooth
sayer, who lived 200 years before Moses.
Another will tell you that he bought letters
from Phpnica and introduced them in
Greece a third will tell you that she was a
beautiful woman of farther India. bound by
her vows to perpetual chastity a fourth will,
with little hesitation, say that he was a Brah-
ma of the ninth degree. and a holy disciple
of Confucius and of the other two, one will
frankly admit that he doesn't know. and the
other will say, with some indecision, that he
was either a de-vish of the Nile (whatever
That isl, or a fe 10 de Sc, he can't be positive
which. Before YOU propose to know more
than anybody and everybody else, IN SON, be
very certain that you are at least abreast of
two-thirds of your fellow men. | don't want
to suppress any inclination you may have to-
ward genuine, free thought, and careful, hoE-
est investigation, my son. only want you
10 avoid the great fault of atheism in this day
and generation | don't want to see you try
70 build a siX-story house Oh a one-story
foundation. Before you c%riticise, condem
and finally revise the work of creation, my
son, be pretty confident that you know some
thing about it as it is, and don't, as a man
who is older in years and experience than
yourself, let me implore you, don turn this
world upside down and sit down OH it, and
tlatten it entirely out until you have made or
secured another one for the rest of us to live
in while you demolish the old one. If ever
you should develop into an advanced "atheist'
my son, lust do ii at much for the rest of It's.
Burlington H0nkeye.
The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-05-18

In this country 100000 is annually con-
sumed in making jewelry and for the arts.
Last year about S74, 100000 in gold was i'll
ported to America, and this added to the
home production gives an increase of $780,
1902 If we add still further the $751;
O32,S 57 in silver produced, we have $143, 202,-
119 of a monetary increase to our national
wealth. Large as This increase may appear,
it is as nothing when compared with our
future possibilities. The sudden influx of
Eastern capital to the trans-Missouri country
will meet a want long felt and cause the great
mineral wealth of the West to be rapidly de-
veloped. The rich deposits of gold and silver
there hidden in the earth will now be brought
forth, converted into money and made 10 adj
minister to the wants and conveniences of
mankind. America will astonish the world
in the next ten years and perhaps shake the
value of precious metals by her enormous
production of them. General Brisbin, of the
United States Army, says: 81 have lived
ten years III the West, and l sincerely believe
1890 will not PASS without giving US an
annual production of S4O0,00O,OOO of gold
and silver in these United States"
The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-05-18
Australian E~>iyores.

Divorces are managed very simply in Aus
tralia. In a recent newspaper published
there, a woman gives her husband notice that
If she does not hear from him in three months
from date, she intends to take another liege.
She warns him not to be dilatory III replying,
because she is very %punctual, and even a few
hours may be too late. This mode of notify
ing absent husbands of new connubiai intent
on the part OF their wives is not
and, in many cases, it has brought The truant
home. OF course, women who insert such
advertisements must believe that their lieges
are still fond of them. Otherwise the adver-
tisement would have the effect to keep the
men away until the date named had expired,
There are many husbands, We fear, who
would be delighted to see such an advertise
ment and there are quite as many wives, nc
doubt, who would be equally delighted to
make il, and 10 find that its conditions were
disregarded. Compared with the Australian
method, the divorce laws of some ofour West
ern States are to the last degree virtuous.
The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-05-18
to Write.

We believe that the whole of this method
is a mistake, that there is no single system of
mecdniquc for writing, and that a child be
longing to the educated classes would be
taught much better and more easily If, after
being once enabled TO make and recognize
written letters, it were let alone, and praised
or chidden not for its method, but for the re-
suit. Let the boy hold his pen as he likes,
and make his strokes as he likes, and write at
what pace he likes-hurry, of course, being
discouraged-but insist strenuously and per-
%sistently that his copy shall be lesible, shall
be clean, and Shall approach the good copy
set before him, namely, a well written letter,
not a rubbishly text on a single line, written
as nobody but a writing master ever did or
ever will write till the worlds end. He will
make a muddle at first, but he will soon make
a passable imitation of his copy, and ultimate
ly develop a characteristic and strong hand,
which may be good or bad, but will not be
meaningless, undecided or lllegible. This
hand will alter, of course, very greatly as he
grows older. 1t may alter at eleven, because
at that age the ran@e of the eye is fixed and
short sight hetrays itself; and it may alter at
seventeen, because then the system of taking
notes at lecture, which ruins most hands, will
have cramped and temporarily spoiled the
writing; but the character will form itself
again and will never he deficient in cleanness
or decision. The idea that it is. to be clear
will have stamped itself, aud confidence will
rot have been destroyed by worrying little
rules about attitude. and angle and slope, which
the very irritation OF the pupils ought to con-
vince the teachers are, from some personal
peculiarly, inapplicabIe. The lad will write,
AS he does anything else he cares to do, as
well as he car md with Il certain efficiency
and speed. Almost every letter he gets will
give him some assistance. and the masters re-
Inonstrance on his ELIGIBILITY will be attended
to, like any other caution given in the curric-
ulum.-PoplhT' Science Monthiy.
The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-05-18
Hobbies.

The hobbies of many men are utterly at
variance with their general characteristics.
A wealthy banker recently died who Was
considered a harG-hearted man of business, a
mere money getter. Yet, after his death, a
collection of toys was sold for one hundred
thousand dollars, which he had been accumu-
lating for twenty years. Scarcely any valuable
scientific or mechanical toy had been made in
Europe of when he had not a specimen, but
this assortment included also the most trivial
of children's playthings. Another, a citizen
of Philadelphia, one of the foremost jurists of
his day, had a fancy tor collecting fairy tales.
His shelves contained thousands of these
volumesi in every language. Manias for china,
old brasses and rare editions are so COMMON
among scholarly men that the incongruity of
the pursuit does not strike us. Many a hard
.ened criminal has been noted fer a love of
pets, while son.e genial people delight in
graveyards. A hobby is one of the things
still u~naccounted for.
The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1880-05-18
Notice to Creditors,

Notice is hereby given by the undersigned
adminiStratiN of the estate of Thomas M.
Barrett, deceased, to the creditors against the
of, and all persons having claims said de-
ceased, TO exhibit them with the necessary
vouchers, within four months after the first
publication OF this notice. to the said adj
ministratrlX. at her residence Oh Beaver Head.
at Beaver Head Canon, Beaver Head county,
Montana Territory. MARY BARRETT,
Administrat1X of the estate of Thomas Nj. Bar
fett, deceased. (ap27w5t
Dated Bannack City, NJ. r, April 23d, 1850
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1880-11-11

Portland Oregonian.

Track laying on the Cello and Wal
lula division of the O. r. & n. Co.'s
railroad is being prosecuted with all
possible vigor. They have now a con-
tinuous standard gauge line from the
Dalles to Quinn's landing, ~ miles
above Cello, and q continuous narrow
gauge line from Walla Walla to Coy
ote, II miles below Umatilla, leaving
a gap of less than 40 miles. The iron
is being laid standard gauge eastward,
and narrow gauge westward. The di-
vision will meetat or near Castle Rock.
The line from Castle Rock east will
then be changed to feet 81 inches and
they will have Il continuous standard
guage track from the Dalles to Walla
Walla, 15S miles. a steam shovel was
recently purchased by the company at
an expense of $4,000 and was for
warded to the front yesterday. twill
first be utilized to fill in all trestles be-
tween the Dalles and Cello and after
this is accomplished to ballast the en-
tire road with gravel. When ballast
ing shall have been completed the
shovel will be used to widen all cuts
and embankments.
On the Walla Walla and Grange
City division grading is finished to
Dayton and is within miles of Grange
City. 1t will be completed to the last
named point in Is days. Track laying
will begin without delay and Dayton
will be the first important place
reached. The main line north of
Walla Walla and branches will be
temporarily laid narrow-gauge so that
the rolling stock at Walla Walla can
be brought into reQuisitiOn for moving
this years crops without delay. Work
of laying out branch line from
Grange City up the Tucannon river to
Pataha City has been completed, and
If the weather is not too severe grading
will commence this winter. The line
from TaXas ferry to Union fiat, thence
east to ColfaX, thence northeast and
southeast to the Idaho line, ramify-
ing the entire Palouse country includ-
ing the lands recently purchased by
Mr.. Willard and associates, has been
established and varies very little from
the first survey announced some
months ago.
\ line tapping the Grand Ronde has
been located from point near Una
tilla, fifty miles southeast through
the Indian reservation to the summit
of Meacham's pass. At this point
there will be tunnel 200 feet long.
\ contract for the completion of this
tunnel and five miles of the heaviest
rock work was let last week, and will
begin Immediately. Contracts for the
remaining forty-five miles will be let
early next spring. The company eX-
pect to reach Baker City in the fall of
1882.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1880-11-11
NUMBER -.

CAPTAIN KIDD'S FAMOUS TREAS
UREs AGATN.-Captain Kidd's famous
treasure is being sought in the Hud-
son, off the south end of Round Island,
near Peekshill. The staunch schooner
Mary ID. Ledch is engaged in the
work for the international Submarine
Company of Connecticut, and her
powerful hydraulic force-pumps are
said to have already cleared the mud
from part of the deck of the sunken
vessel. The prophet of the enterprise
is ID. ID. Chaplin, 50 years old, who
searched for the ship 80 years ago and
finally invented what he calls ma
rine compass. This discovers metals
under water it is claimed but after
locating Kidds ship Chaplin aban-
doned further search and went into
mining ventures. He now finds that
the ship has sunk out of sight in the
mud, but asserts that his compass
shows her to have 100000 in gold
coin and many times that amount of
silver in her hold. Chaplin claims to
have once Seen book in which Capt.
kidd's first mate stated that they fled
up the Hudson from pursuit, but ran
into an island and sunk. An old cam
non found on Round Island confirms
this story in his opinion.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1880-11-11

Lieut.. Crittenden's watch was re-
Gently recovered in a singular way.
The gallant young officer wore it in
the battle of the Little Big Horn. 1t
was taken from his body by one of
Sitting Bulls warriors, and carried
with him in their flight to Canada.
There it was given to a halfbreed, who
sold ii for 81 to Canadian, as a relic
of Clusters battle. heCanadianf found
engraved in the case the name Of the
Liverpool maker and the number of
the watch. Upon this he wrote let
ter to the matchmaker asking whether
he could identify the purchaser. The
matchmaker replied that he had sold
more than four years ago watch
bearing that number to an American
gentleman named Crittenden. Then
the Canadian wrote to the Adjutant-
General at Washington to inquire if
an officer named Crittenden had taken
part In the battle. Finally, the watch
WAS restored to Lieut.. Crittenden's s
relatives by the Canadian who had so
generously taken all this trouble
Army d Nary Journal.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1880-11-11

Rev. J. II. Thompson has developed
into quite a farmer and has made his
place at South Bay valuable and
soon to be profitable. Among other
things he has done nearly a mile of
ditchlng, part of it Is feet deep, and
about 500 yards of it will average 10
feet deep. Some 800 yards are curbed
and covered from four to six feet high
and wide enough for a man to walk
through from end to end. This ditch
has drained the Knott lake by which
he and his sister, Miss Thompson, Sc
cure 80 acres of rich, black muck land,
without a tree or stump upon it. OF
this 20 acres has this year been seeded
with timothy and Is more soon will
be. He has spent about $1,000 in
these improvements, and shown a
large degree of private enterprise,
fully in keeping with his well-known
public spirit. olympia Courier
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1880-11-11

A company has been organized in
Philadelphia to run in the streets OF
that city one thousand one-horse
coaches, of light and novel construc-
ton, to carry eight persons each. The
fare is to be five cents, or six tickets
for quarter of "a dollar. The routes
are so arranged that, for ten or fifteen
cents, a trip can by transfer be made
to almost any desired point; while a
single fare will secure ride on any
one of the main lines, lengthwise or
crosswise of the city. The street car
companies anticipate a serious decrease
in their business by the new candidate
for passenger traffic.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1880-11-11

A few weeks ago an old man named
Alexander Swift, who had gone into
the Skagit mines to seek for gold, was
found by miner wandering in almost
famished state, among the mount
aims in that inhospitable region. He
had been out for % days and was taken
into a camp, fed, clothed and started
on the way toward the town of Fort
Hope, on Frazer river. He never
reached that place. The other day
news was received that the body of a
lonely old man had been found near
the boundary line between the United
states and British territory, wrapped
i'm its blankets and bearing evidence of
having been dead many days. The
discovery was made by Indians. Swift
had many warm friends in San Fran
cisco who will be saddened to hear of
his miserable end.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1880-11-11
Newspaper Decisions.

1. Any person who takes paper regularly
from the post-oliice, whether directed in his
name or another's or whether he has SUB
seribed or not-is responsible for payment.
he must pay all arrears, or the publisher may
continue to send it until payment is made, ana
then collect the whole amount, whether lhe
paper is taken from the Office or not.
5. The courts have decided that refusing TO
AXE newspapers and periodicals from Tue posi-,
ofice or removing and leaving them uncallcd
,or, 10 prima facia evidence OF Intentional
fraud.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1880-11-11

Some Pyramid Lake fishermen re-
Gently camped in small valley and
built fire, which spread, and greatly
to their surprise, lit jets of gas from
natural wells. They found no less
than nine jets within circle of about
five rods. The gas was found to pro-
ceed from little blow holes from half
an inch to an inch in diameter, and
the flames ten or twelve feet high.
They left the jets burning when they
broke camp next morning. A few
days later they found the wells still
burning the same as they had left
them. On this last trip a Piute In
dian went with them. Lighting n
stick he went some rods further up the
valley and touched OF dozen or more
jets that Were fed from holes upon and
around little hillock.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1880-11-11
That marvellous sea serpent has been

That marvellous sea serpent has been
seen again. This time il was by Mr..
B. Stowe, just Off Cape Flattery. He
represents that he "disported in the
water more than fifteen minutes, To
invite inspection of its prodigious size
and rare ugliness, throwing his long
tapering body ninety feet cut of the
water, disclosing wings that put our
mainsail in the shade. He then gave
two terrific snorts, blowing salt spray
all over the vessel ai,i compl,t ,t,is
drenching the secon! mate, then
quietly sank into the sea aud no more
was seen OF his barnacled majesty
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1880-11-11

BIG COAL NEIN.-The Seattle Coal
Company, looking to an increase in
the capacity of their mine, have COM
menced working what is called the
mammoth vein of the mine. This
vein was discovered while Mr.. Shat
tuck had charge OF the mine, but was
merely tested and never worked. 1t
is Il very large. vein, being Il feet
thick, and the coal is much harder and
heavier, and makes less ashes than
any coal in the mine worked so far.
1t is much harder than the coal now
used for shipping, rs ii will not break
up so easily.-Scdttlc Atctli9enccr.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1880-11-11

The Indians of British Columbia are
said to number $1,000. The Cowich-
ans and Tsimpseans are the most nu-
merous and powerful tribes, each num-
bering about 5000 souls. Shuswaps
IAN interior tribe are next in num-
ber-sOmething over 1000. The Hy-
dahs are estimated ut $500, and the
Ants mt $500. Other tribes, not SO
we'll known, go to make up the re-
mainder The whites OF the Province
are surely not so numerous as the In
dians, though they cannot be far be-
hind.
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The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1880-11-11

The Grant county Notrs tells us how
productive the desert lands Of eastern
Oregon are, in the following paragraph.
1t says: "Sam Harding brought us
some wheat a few days ago, that he
raised on his desert land ranch in this
valley, that cannot be beaten 10y any
bottom land ranch in the valley. 1t
is of the club head seed, and each head
contains about eighty grains of beau
tful and well filled seeds. There are
thousands of acres of the same kind of
land yet to be secured, and immigrants
will go farther and fare worse.n
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1880-11-11

Therc iS prnhably more clover seed
held over In this country, both in in
'er'og points and me rkets of distribu-
tion, than IN any preVions wear. The
amo,Int ~ New York i, estimated at
lo.,nD - fso00 ha~s; philadelphia,
S,O1D; Baltimore, l,OD}; Toleio, 5000;
at other points, enough 10 m IKE total
Of 1900.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1880-11-11
THE INDEPENDENT

Il Published every Thursday.
J J. BEESON EDITOR.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1880-11-11

The announcement is made that the
terminus of the Canadian Pacific rail-
road will be at some point on Burrard's
inlet. With this belief, several Cali
fornia capitalists are moving in that
direction for the purpose of getting
hold of property in the new town site.
Several gentlemen with this end in
view went up to Victoria on the Iddho
last week, believing that large and
important town will rapidly arise
wherever the terminus of this road
shall be made.