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The sun., 1891-07-12

road again. It was quite dark. and / fancy
that the fellow thought that was bumpkin.
for We did not exchange i've words. As he
drove OF he showed this into my hand. 1t is
tho merest chance that I did not chuck IL
away, for feeling that It was crumpied piece
OF paper imagined that IL must be trades
mans advertisement or something OF the kind.
However. as luck would have II. put 1t In my
pocket and there found It whom looked for
the Sst.s y q our Sru!ss Now you know
Broth'ssr l'.s and sistsr stared At ths erinklsd
yot uPSp .PpSn..I s
been Monte Oristo. or Eothschild.. .at lhe least
,SSs ,SSfF ;on b,ss An Ioss SoYna Ysr e LsSF shat1
si.ss y s, T. H,eiss' sss.
spprllng, looking somewhat raeiuily at the
wa. ' JOHNNY 5sfs %as = Sr.w VERY 'hs vel s s
soLmewherH som Besides y must have been q mis-.
Ispppose must advertise for the follow" -,
mritt seams ga Ply @ toon rem rSsmarked ,Ro@nert @ II
Nbt hay r6n tnst don't quite soc 1t In the sam0
Indeed: Ind think ths. you arc ysry r. ou!so.io,
zss Ss. sssssi .Ss ySlsk isSs !. was
YSa dS & tsoW
reason aRalnat your Keeping IT, 49,
mot ory one would care to tell At mess.
IRE has: no ,I%s 10
You mus, really make the best OF It,"
Well look here. Laura. you put 1t In your
work basket" cried Hector Squirting. lyon
shall bs my banker. And L the rightfu! owner
turns up. then can refer him to you. II not. I
suppose We must look on It as o kind Of sni-
wage , mosnsy. though am bound 70 Az don't
bis feet and threw tne note down into the
oeside her, Now, Laura. must up anchor.
f..r promised ths Governor to be back by 8.
Il won't be long this time. dear; and L shall
"Good.hy. Hector! Bon voyage" The
young. artist remained BY this. table. while his
etster followed her lover to tho door. In the
and overhaar their words:
NeSt timn. little girl"
Next time be 1t. Hector"
.Ann;dbnTnos.h .Andb no.h,iius can part uss"
IN ths whole worli9"
Robert dtscreetly closed the door. A mo-
ment later u thud from Without. and the quick
footsteps crnnching on the snow told him that
their visitor had departed.
The sun., 1891-07-12
CHAPTER Ill
A HOUSE OF WONDERS.

Robert McTntyre's face must have OK pressed
the utter astonishment which filled his mind
at this most nnlookedfor announcement. For
must be Iosing. but the o SO aud assurance
with which he lounged up the steps. aud tho
ary In the Hall -wung open the door to admit
him, showed that no spoke In sober earnest.
haiiles Haw glanced pack, and seeing the look os
features. he chucklsd quietly to himself.
You will forgive me- won't you, Tor not dis.
New-York tribune., 1891-05-03
PREPARATIONS FOR YACHTING.
A CHILLY DAY AT LARCHMONT-BOATs IN COM
uTScrON

A CHILLY DAY AT LARCHMONT-BOATS IN COM
MISSION.
Spring has not yet awakened Larchmont Harbor,
and It's deserted and lonely appearance was heightened
Yesterday by the fresh, chilly sOuthwester that blew
clouds Of dust along the roads, and started white
breakers rolling over the Sound The only boats
aNoat we're few catboas. bobblng disconsoatcly at
anchor a stray steam launch and few closereefed
oyster sloops. Only four large yachts are on the
shore al Larchmont most of the fleet being lard up
AT Bav Ridge. but in few weeks they will probably
arrive as they are almost all ready for launching,
and the opening day May 16 will no doubt be
marked by fine fleet
When the Larchmont Yacht Club book comes out
Il will show a great many changes in owners and
alterations I'm n number Of the club yachts. The
following yachts are ready for the water at Larch-
mont being fully rigged and prepared:
scbooner Cevalia G6 feet over all, 50 feet water
lire. 10 feet beam, owner Howard W. Coates; keel
schooner Cochette 81 feet inches over all, % feet
,roterlipe Il feet , inches beam, owner f. L. Bush
keel schooner Elphn. 81 feet over all 4o feei wateF
Vel schooner Cleopatra, 80 feet over ALL
>5sei AN feet water-lne. Il feet inches
Dan 90 owner r. Il. Ii ;ston. J. =. winsow's
schooner Agnes, which been rebuilt, is expected
Tbe Government has begun work on breakwater,
40 rnn from Umbrella Rock TO Fleming Point and
tron Huron Rock tI Flagler Point. stone wall VIII
h hniIt by the club. a cost Of 81 ,0OO to be o36
yards long and 10 skirt the water front
New-York tribune., 1891-05-03

and 5000 5000 tons of the lower grades 10
ports in the United States. Fernandina is the
outlet for the hard rock. New wharves ana
warehouses are building there and the por1 Is
naturally on the high tide of prosperity. Inc
pebble or bone phosphate, less rich than the
other, but more uniform, is shipped from tho
southern fields by way of Tampa and Punta 1orda'
The rock is found here, not as at Charleston IN
thin sheets in level land below the surface, pue
in pockets among the hills. The huge bouidcrs
lone weighed eighty tons stuffed into the
hummocks like figs in a pudding, occasionally
cropping out through the crust, but everywhere
imbedded in clay, gravel or powdered phosphate
The extent of a bed is ascertained by Jabbing
sharp steel rods into the earth or by bringing
up specimens on the worm of auger. IL the
eoundings promise well narrow experimental
trenches are sunk, from which the rock is picked
or blasted. Mining begins when diggers uncover
a rich area as il for the foundations of q house
The unbured rock is heaped in Jumps on pine
logs in wooden shed. At night, when the wind
falls and the shed is sure not to burn, the logs
are lighted and the Jumps calcined. Sometimes
they remain hot for days. Then they are ready
for shipment. There is no smell. The dirt taken
from the mine is piled separately. In the early
days-that u.s. twelve months agO-the eXcavating
was done with wheelbarrOws, as the cuts show
Now machinery has been introduced. The cost
of mining is 50 so a ton and the freight to Europe
Sc to $s. The margin on the best grades is
New-York tribune., 1891-05-03
A PLAYWRITER'S LUCK.
From The Detroit Free Press.

From The Detroit Free Press.
A man with his trousers In his bOOt-tOps and a
whip in his hand called at the box Office Of one Of
the Detroit theatres, the other day. and after mbng
about his pockets for awhile, brought out about a
dozen sheets Of fOOlscap pinned together and said
Here's a play my daughter has writ an composed
all by herself. What are yOu paying this springl'
"The price is way down. replied the courteous
attendant. ,
"That's it,"
"Waii. this is stopper Of play and mistake.
Four murders in it, and 10 end Of love and banging
around ,,,,
House gets afre, and the heroine puts IL out
with CIDER continued the man. " Work In cider
and a fire and sure TO hit every body.
suggested the cider myself"
Yes but as | told you, the price is way, way
down. - .,,,, 49,. ,,,
expect so. How much'H We gye1'
81 am ashamed 10 make you an OifeT'
Pooh, Don't be 2feared Of hurtn' my feellns' :
lest 90 right ahead and what yen give
Well sir, plays are such drug In the market
that couldn't offer you oyer-oyer % cents-really
couldn't do IT.
Twenty -tvefp
Only twenty-five , -,
sGmme the money-shes yoursl' said the man,
as he handed IL in and after swallowing the lump IN
his throat and turning about forty different colors
the ofcia passed out quarter and took In the play
and sadly dropped it in the waste basket
New-York tribune., 1891-05-03

therefore less than $40. This of course takes no
account of cost of plant and incidentals
In the river-beds the phosphate exists in large
quantities. The State objects seriously to dredg-
ing, but the mining companies, of course, do not
stand on ceremony, and only complain pathet-
ically that satisfactory device is lacking for
testing the deposits under water They also la
ment the expense" of mining, although its cheap
ness is really their great advantage. In Spain,
for instance, the phosphate from the mountain
lands of the Orleans family can only be packed
out on mules Just as iron ore is valueless with
out coal. so is phosphate rock without sulphuric
acid In Europe the Sicilian schooners run over
with sulphate OF lime to the neighDOrlng coast
of Austria and unload it at the door OF the
mills There arc no mills in Florida. Their es-
tablishment has been talked of, but the grinding
machinery is expensive, and material for the acld
is said not to exist here. If some pushing AanKee
knows better, however, here is frst-rate chahce
for q fortune. The soft or powdery phosphate,
IL Is curious fetches considerably less than the
rock not because II is not so good, but because
buyers don't happen to be accustomed 10 II. Inc
discovery, by the way, has had no Dad enecI on
South Carolina prices. that rise steadily with the
Mr., Vogt. who is slender, dark-haired and about
forty has been merchant" United states
Marshal and an orange grower ana mas 1G1ode es1 a
yariepated career in Mexico, the sandwich lslands
and Alaska. He sold out early in the game 10
Mr. Dunn for something like $4,000. lie mas
beeu enjoying himself hilariously ever since,
filling his house with wines, diamonds anu si,H
hats, and his stables with expensive horses and
top-buggies He fishes OF leisure In the snooth
Withlacoochee and the shady Wilsewa, and rides
IN Hounds like lord over his own domains; lie
has incidentally acquired orange groves ana sdo
of him on horseback in Drand.neW rlalns sqIV III
and picures of his ornamental sitting-room he
has not yet invested in $500 nlghtsmrts' Dut his
New-York tribune., 1891-05-03
A HUNTER CAPTURES A GRAY EAGLE.
THE BIRD SHOT on GARRETT ROCK. NEAR PAT.
ERsON, n. j.

West Of the busy manufacturing city OF Paterson
" j. and separated from the city proper by the Morris
Canal is one Of the highest mountain peaks In New
Jersey known as Gsrret Rock On the side toward
the city shoots straight UP the sky but the incline
to the westward is more gradual The top Is well
wooded and from the summit one has fine view Of
Northern New-Jersey. IL Is a favorfte resort fof
sightseers and picnic parties, and a sportsman
occasionally get a good bag OF game there.
A hunter who is known In the vicinity Of Paterson
as Skip, took his gun and bag few days ago to
try his fortune on the mountain, and while walking
along the top OF the rocks unusually largo
bird. lie made good shot, hitting the bird IN one
wing and disabling II so that IL could not fly. The
hunter ran up to his prize. and threw his game bag
over IT, When he examined the captive he found he
had shot a young gray eagle which. when the wings
were spread out, measured about eight feet from tip
to tip.
"skp" is man who, besides being good shot, has
some financial genius So the day after the capture
Of the eagle he put the bird exhibition In public
hall. charging ten cents admission and so many
people wanted to II that the hunter cleared enough
TO Keep him in powder and shot for many day 70
New-York tribune., 1891-05-03

ever knew. Vanessa. sometimes. / even think
you capable of being unkind to that girl-and II
you ever do make her suffer you VIII DC now
wible bwute. / shall hate You.
sweetly:
Let us sit down here moment.
The two sat down on one of the iron benches.
The woman,s face was much changed and softened.
Her lips were slightly tremulous as she salh .,
" How could you think l wOulu hurt her
with a stress upon the last word; .-..
"Oh, you won't hurt her until you are weary
of her I have known you since I've known any
But she appeals to something strange, unused
in me, Keats You don't believe IT, But 10 Is
true. When | am with her il is almost as II ! 1
also were unhackneyed, unsulled Dy the World
You can't be near her and not breathe pure t- ar.
She is tonic. She is something better Wnen
| look in her eyes / feel once more as IL mlght
keep true TO the dreams Of my youth. .
The Speakers voice ceased almost inarticulately.
The man did not reply. lie had averted ms
face. and appeared TO be gazing out toward the
pond. m,
. want to protect her, too went on Miss
Phillips hurredly. She will suffer so much, |
am afraid. l want TO take care Of her. Keats.
turning upon him with most unexpected hG savage
Why shouldn't do what you are doing :?
For the best Of reasons-because you are
man."
You have given just the reason why ] should
do it: it is n mans glorious privilege TO MAKE
love to a woman. VanesSa, you are usurpng
masculine rights . ,,
dropped his earnest manner with the utmost
abruptness. He rose and stood before his cousln'
looking down at her whimSically.
Miss Tuttle comes very near ador1ng you,
Vanessa, and | know you like to be adored. SHAH
we walk on ?"
Il wish you would let me go home alone. now,
Keats" responded the other. =" | want to think,
and YOU confuse me"
Mr.. Bradford went away in silence :.
Il was foolish enough, he said TO himseI,
"Rowena Tuttle must take her experience in life
as we all must, and when Vanessa Is really In
earnest why-she is in earnest.
The Young man strolled along aimlessly until
he found himself opposite Mrs: Searss house.
He rang lie was allowed TO go into small
apartment on the ground floor which Mrs. Sears
was in the habit of calling her withdrawing
room, because she said she withdrew there from
bOreS. -,
She was knitting and reading. She was OF the
opinion that women over sixty ought 10 knlt
stockings occasionally. One could always give
them to the poor.
Il hope you know it is great favor to be
permitted to enter here,' she said as Bradiord
came forward. - ~
A small dog almost exactly like Marmaduke,
slowly lifted himself from the skirt Of her dress
where he had been rcpOsing, shook back tne
hair from his eyes, and then sprang forward.
Bradford picked him up and put him comfortably
on his knee as he took the chair his hostess
moved toward him.
This young man fully aware that he had
called now upon this old lady because she had
said some very nice things of Miss Iuttle, and
because she had sent Miss Tuttle terrier.
New-York tribune., 1891-05-03
VANDERING BOTTLES ON THE SEA.
EXPERIMENTS WHICH HAVE PROVED A DEAL

OF all the wonders that those who go down to the
sea in ships brought In contact wIth none Is %
unratbonable or incomprehensblo those mighty
-svers that flow through the ocean and are Known a'
trcans where they are well defined. and as currents
- ,ior ara NOT The United states photographic
o,oo hoe heen making in the last few years, series
=, eVooriments calculated 10 test fully the theory OF
-, and currents in the North Atlantic. Lieutcn-
-. ,-,ro tas among his treasures in the branch n.y.
o,nhtc Office i'm this city. little bottle which once
no,d a balfnint of whiskcy. subsequent to that IL
no,a n nopcr saving that IL was dropped oyerboaru
from tine steamship Ccphalona, 400 miles east OF BoS
con, II was thought into this port two years after
=, ,ros dronned overheard, by n schooner from Am
horo,,s Ke, a little island in the Bahama group.
rbis hottie with It's paper inside, had proved the
.,on,, 90 ,cean cnrrents IL had followed the Gulf
stream until IL had been caught by that current whlch
queens 10 the south along the coasts OF Eastern Europe
and Northern Africa had been carried thence I'd the
westward until Il entered the Caribbean sea, then
sod het,reen the western end Of Cuba and Cape
Gracias Dos the eastern extremity OF iucatal' ahd'
having made the circuit Of the Gulf CT Me4lco' was
washed ashore on the western end OF AmbergnS Key.
Other bottles which have been dropped OVeFDoam
hv outgoing steamers have, as rule been as saus
factory in the result OF their drift ms the bo'ue rom
the Cephalonia, but Of them nave ue'eioPo"
marked eccentricitics in their voyages mus QUO
which was thrown overheard from the steamship Aier
off Cape Race the southeastern extremity ot new
fouudand seems TO have made Z" bee line" lor the
Azores where II was picked up on the beach near
Faya In It's voyage IL went directly across tle uuu
Stream and followed current never before shspected'
bottle dropped overheard by the steamship sardln-
ian about 800 miles southeast of Cape Farewell the
New-York tribune., 1891-05-03
yRoN A srAFF coaREspoypENr OF rHE TRIBUNE

Florida, twenty-three years ago Before 1889 Mr.
Echelberger had for years been turning up
strange white substance on his farm, and wonder
ing what it was early in that year thought ne
would find out.
at is gypsum" said local analyst to whom he
applied, " of high quality"
Now gypsum, though common, is worth about
SO ton for building or fertilizing. and Mr.
Echelberger thought he had struck bonanza
The newspapers told of the discovery. and every
body began hunting for gypsum Among the
hunters was Mr. Vogt, who, in boring an artesan
well on his farm at Dunellon, about twenty-five
miles west of Ocala revealed a bed of whitish,
gritty rock. containing fossil bones and teeth.
He at once sent some specimens to Private John
E. Dunn, an Ocaa bank president whom the
farmers hereabout regard sort of Little
Father and asked his opinion. Mr.. Dunn
showed it TO Mr.. Eichelberger.
That's not like my gypsum" said Mr.. Eichel-
berger Il think it must be phosphate"
Phosphate, with the worlds supply growing
scarce and its sources inaccessible used by hus-
bandmen the world over for enriching land,
and worth $40 q ton in Liverpool and Hamburg
Dr. Snowden of Ocala and st. Louis firm con-
frmed Mr. Eichelberger's diagnosis. Then Mr..
Dunn, being prudent man, quietly bought
haIf-interest in the VOgt land, engaged Mr.. Vogt
and his brother as prospectors and DR.. Snowden
as chemist and in few weeks had taken his
nick of some of the best phosphate lands in the
State. lie let in the ground floor some
Florida and Scottish capitalists, also Mr.. Bradley,
the fertilizer-maker, and formed stock company
with a tremendous capital. BY that time Mr..
Eichelberger and others had begun looking for
New-York tribune., 1891-05-03
FLORIDA.
".
THE GULF SHORE LINED WITH PHOSPHATE
BEDS.

THE ROCK FOUND To HAVE A HIGH PERCENT
AGE OF THE OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES DIS
CovERY OF GYPSUM LED TO FINDING
THE MORE VALUABLE PRODUCT.
yRoaA STAFF CORRESPONDENT OF THE TRIBUNE.
Ocala, Fla, April 1.--Florida is phosphate
mad From Thomasville, in the southeastern
corner of Georgia, halfway down the Gulf side
Of the peninsula, extensive deposits have been
found. Some fortunes have been made and more
are making. Every farmer has turned prospector.
In Ocala brokers' offices the fluctuations IN phos
phate land and stock values are regularly chalked
on immense blackboards. Including "paper" con-
cerns over hundred companies are already reg
istered. and syndicate is talked of. The mineral
has even entered politics. and il Senator Wilkinson
Call is defeated this month for reelection it will
be because of the strength of the phosphate
ticket Yet the discovery is not two years old
The Marshall of phosphate is Albertus Vogt.
a German South Carolinian. Another German from
the same State shares the honor. A. L.. Eichel-
berger, who planted the first orange groves in
New-York tribune., 1891-05-03

phosphate themselves and found it. Other com
panies Immediately sprang up like weeds, and land
was gathered in right and left, regardless OF
its worth.
What percentage of pure phosphate VIII you
guarantee in a cargo ?" German firm asked some
local shippers recently.
Seventy per cent" was the reply.
Yesterday this dispatch came by cable from
Hamburg: Cargo received it averages sl.5o."
The South Carolina rock, now most extern
sivey used, analyses GO or SO per cent at the
best At this writing $4,000 tons of the Florida
rock it is estimated, have been shipped to Europe
New-York tribune., 1891-05-03

southern extremity Of Greenland was picked up on the
shores Of Norway, and one dropped overheard about
300 miles off the coast Of scotland was found In
nearly the same place Both OF these bottles journey
ing toward the land of the midnight sum- had shown
strong current setting from the North Atlantic on the
Norwegian shores.
The general result. far seems 70 be that strong
current sets from the east upon the shores Of the
British Isles, and strong one rushes into the Car
ibbean Sea from the Atlantic. This Is fact long
maintained by writer's on physical geography, but
before demonstrated as IL has been by the IIy
geographic Office. But the experiments Of the Hydro
graphic Ofice have also developed the fact that
various other subsidiary currents acting large
space, exist which were not before suspected.
New-York tribune., 1891-05-03
pBoyoUycTxG MODERN CREEK.
From The Boston Advertiser.

From The Boston Ad|erIlser.
As many may know the pronunciation OF the modern
-raolr language Is by accent and not by quantity as
Sr England and America has been the custom win
,ncenf Greek ever since the time OF Erasmus te Dutch
con schools have been pronouncng more and more Dy
accent and the custom has even invaded England anu
S:crmanV Now Il seems that the German schoifs
in athens noticing the interest taken by the Young
Rmperor n matter, Of education have petitloned nm
sorn 10 tLe usage OF the modern Greeks. Were thls
done il would be much easier for German IN Greece
20 nderstnnd the spoken language. which he can read
easily I'm the newspapers but cannot comprehend when
he hears IL at his hotel
New-York tribune., 1891-05-03

friends have christencd him "DuSe of DunelIon.'
lie bears the title with placid acquicscence. Dun
ellon the site of the richest mines is named aitrr
Private Dunn, who will probably succeed MI
Call. He is also a South Carolinian, and served
in the ranks during the war. Now they call nm
the Phosphate King" He is an able man, ana
bis good fortune is deserved.
You ask, What is phosphateP A &C, chemist an
swers, lime and phosphoric acid Inc proper pp
tons vary, and the formations diner widely
As TO its origin, some phosphate is petrited coke
some is watery deposit, and some volcanic eJectlon
Its discovery in association with the poor land
of Florida Is but an illustration Of the natural
law of compensation, whose application is world
wide. I' H.
New-York tribune., 1891-05-03
PRESERVING HER PROPERTY. If NOR PRoPRrErY.

rather good story Is told OF occurrence at
swell society residence In one OF the fashionable
quarters Of Washington. few evenings ago. The
lady OF the house showing a visitor OF her own
scx-herself n leader Of the uppercrust-some very
handsome photographs While engaged in this wsy;s
fresh caller arrived and the hostess asked the lady
who was admiring the pictures TO excuse her.
Oh, don't mind me- said the other, Il will stay
here and finish examining the photos"
NO you won't" said the fair entertainer. I've
Lost too many that way already aud gathering u
her treasures In baste she moved aways
Middletown transcript., 1891-06-18
Personal Mention.

|
Charles II. Jolls of Chestertown,
spent Sunday with his parents here.
= Frank Diggs of Baltimore, visited
friends in and near town this week.
B. w. Wilson of Elkton, spent
Sunday and Monday with his parents
here.
"A. Fl. Reynolds ofthe Cecil Whig,
Elkton, speut Sunday with relatives
in Middletown.
w. V. Hawke, pitcher for the
Middletown base ball club last season,
was in town on Tuesday.
Mrs. w. T. Connellee visited
friends and relatives in Philadelphia,
yesterday and to-day. a
Miss Addie Hoffecker and Mrs.
Annie Price of Smyrna, are visiting
friends in and near town.
= Miss Bessie Conrey of Chesapeake
City, is the guest of her sister, Mrs.
NJ. L. Hardcastle for few weeks.
= The Misses Clayton of Middle
town, are visiting friends in Newark
and attending the commencement
exercises at Delaware College.
= Miss Anna Matthews of Gales
burg, ILL.,, and Miss Nellie Wills of
Germantown, Pa, are being enter
tanned by Miss Blanche Cochran.
Miss Edith Reynolds and Miss
Edith Derrickson who have been Wis.,
iting friends in Newark, Del, and
also in attendance upon the com.
mencement exercises at Delaware Col
ege, returned home last evening.