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would advise you to be diplomatic in your
expression if you ever mention the suDJect
of carp to him"
| spent an evening this week with Secre-
tary Rusk at his home near Thomas Circle.
He lives very nicely at Washington and has
a big house in the most fashionable part OF
the city. He is not, however. very fond OF
Washington society and he prefers quiet
chat in his pErl0r 20 dancing attendance on
the Washington round OF receptions. lie is
very philosophic as to tile results OF the
erection and his only hope is that live man
will be chosen as Secretary of Agriculture,
and the great farming interests Of the conn
try will be cared for. There is no better
story-teller at the capital than Uncle Jerry
Rusk. He is packed full of interesting an
ecdotes about the public men he knows, and
he can tell a story almost as we'll as Joe
Jefferson. During my talk with him the
subject OF the campaign in Wisconsin came
up, and l asked him what ex-senator
Spooner was doing since his defeat as can
ddate fer Governor.
'He is doing nothing yet" was the reply,
"but he is going back to his law practice,
and will devote himself from now on TO
making money. SpOoner Is one of the finest
lawyers in the United States, and lie can
make 1000 year at his practice lie
lost great deal by coming to Washington,
and he is, ] venture, worth less now than he
was when he was first elected to the Senate.
He has not made much money since be left
the Senate. He got a taste of public life.
and he hungered after its flesh pots to such
an extent that he didn't care 10 do anything
else as long as he saw chance of getting
back 10 them. 1t was for this reason that
he wanted to be Governor of Wisconsin. and
he hoped, 1t is said, to come back TO the
United States Senate"
How did Spooner get the nomination."
| asked. Il have understood that one OF
the other candidates had the lead up TO the
time of the convention"
1T was largely through Senator Sawyer"
was the reply. "Philetus Sawyer is great
friend of John Spooner. He has helped him
in the past and he wanted to see him Gov
ernor Senator Sawyer is the best friend q
man can have, and lie is the only man who
could have given Spooner the nomination.
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of ebb and food. But those trips made
choice hours TO me. and are sweeter than
the memories of s ort in the summer grass
and of hunts in the rank gT0wths OF ditches
and the country hedge
/ remember that during one OF those trips
we nearly ran down a large boat when we
were not very far from WOolwich lying
over with the wind ahead and the water
splitting briskly at our foTefoot ! went TO
the side to look. She was a big boat with
soldiers in her and full OF strange
looking men in gray clothes and
sort OF Scotch cap. l saw the irons
upon those men as the boat swept
close past and heard the clank Of the gives
or chains as the wTet"hes shrunk or started
in terror at the sight of the mass Of our bare
black hull rolling Ike a stormcloud almost
right over them. Father was below. l
asked Mr.. Smears, the master OF the brig.
who stood close alongside OF me IN tall
rusty hat aud stout coat that descended TO
within foot Of his heels. what boat that
"a convict boat, missv," he answered.
"Wbat are those people in her?"
'R0gues all, missy, Togues all.
Where are they going to-" said /.
He pointed 10 a great wooden hulk that
lay off WOolwich, the hull of a man-oi-
war, made hideous by variety OF deck
erections and by lows of linen hutterlng
betwixt the poles which rose out Of her
decks. That's where they're a-going to,
said Mr.. Smears. And shall | tell ZEE
who's the skipper of that craft? 'Tain't
no government blokp-let ne'er man be-
lieve IT, The shippers name begins with
d and ends with hell. I'm no going to say
more, missy. Father'n supply We with the
missing letters. Ynn shippers name begins
with a and ends with a bell, and them
liveliss in gray" said be. nOddi & toward
the boat we had nearly run down. 'are his
young 'uns, and they do credit to their
PARENT If looks ain't lies.
Then starting up he cried, Ready about,
lads" and a moment later the helm was
put down and our canvas was wildly shak-
ing and then the brig heeled over aud with
steady sails ripped through the yellow lus-
trous surface Of the rivers breast on her
sIanting course down WOolwich Reach.
/ did not long look at the great hull OF the
old man-o Of war and her hideous deck cree
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me at the death of my mother. Under
my fathers will there was settlement
that secured me three hundred pounds q
year; the trustees were two sea captains.
My mother was well provided for. but one
saw by the terms of my fathers viii that
he had no confidence in her. Yet he did
not stipulate that she should not marry
again, though had / been Older at the time i
should have looked after some condition Of
the sort, for he was very jealous. In fine,
me 10 dwell upon these tTumpery
particulars, my fathers will gave
me his house at my mothers death, and
secured $500 year TO me in any case when
l should come of age or on my marriage,
the interest meanwhile TO grow and he
mine, and then at my mothers death ror-
ton OF what had been willed to her was to
revert to ME and the remainder was to be
distri buted among two or three poor and
distant relations and few charities. all OF
them maritime.
Thus at my fathers death l might fairly
have been described by forward-looking
eye as what you would call tolerably fair
match, and at the age Of seventeen l de-
served to be thought so, not only because OF
my money and the pleasant old house that
would be mine but because of my looks. At
seventy-seyen there can be no vanity IN
retrospect. Moreover. since this story is to be
told, yen shall have the whole truth. AT
IL then | was a tall, strong, well-made girl,
broad, but in proportion, and they used to
tell me that carried my figure with the
grace of professional dancer. / was ex-
actly opposite 10 nv mother in color My
hair was black as the wing of raven, my
eyes very black and filled with strong
light which Frightened TO look OF fever In
times Of excitement, my complexion was
pale, but clear my teeth large and white
and regular, and l showed them much in
talking and laughing. I'll lot deny that
my charms-and handsome l truly was
inclined to coarseness; by which l mean
that they leaned toward the manly
rather than the womanly side. Nv voice
was a cOntraltO, and when | sang | would
sink TO a note that was reck0ned uncom-
monty deep for girl.
My father had been dead about five years
when one afternoon my mother came to me
in my bedroom. She was in her bonnet and
outdoor clothes, and l instantly noticed an
agitation IN her manner as she sat down be-
side the dressing table and looked at me. /
forgot what | WAS about but / recOllact
ceaSing in ii and standing up before NV
mother with my hands clasped while l
viewed her anxiuusiy and with miSgiving.
Marian" said she with forced smile,
Il have come to give you bit Of news"
what, mother?"
my hand has been asked in marriage,
dear, and have accented"
felt the blood rush &c my face and then
! turned cold, and pulling chair TO me sat
down, but did not speak.
''Do you hear me- child?oe
'Your hand has been asked In marriage"
said |; 'by whom, mother?"
by Mr.. Stanford" she answered, lower
ing her voice and sinking her eyes.
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NOT ALL POLITICS.
Statesmen With Diverse
Outside Interests.
SENATORS AS MINE-OWNERS
Tom Palmer's Fish Pond - Uncle
PhiletuS Sawyer'S Base.
ball Club.
Correspondence of THE MORNING CALL

There has been more talk about gold mines
than politics at the Capitol this week. The
recent discoveries near Durango in Colo
RADIO have excited our leading statesmen
who have made OF lost money in mines, and
you hear more gossip about fortunes in gold
and silver than about the monetary confer
ence or the new schemes for equaizing the
ratio. Nearly every Senator has at some
time or other been engaged in mining, and
quite a number of the members of both
houses are interested in gold mines in the
South. The late Senator Hearst had min
eral fields in the Carolnas and John g.
Spooner used to keep quart cup of gold
nuggets on his library table which had been
taken out of these diggings. Senator Sawyer
made the only bad speculation OF his whole
life in his gold mine near Washington
and / learned the other night that he has put
$4,000 into the red clay and white quartz
lands along Rock Creek. There is a sprnk-
ling of gold all over the South Atlantic
States, and the veins run up through Vir-
ginia and crop out here and there about the
national capital. Just above the city very
good indications have been found, and
year ago Senator Sawyer bought about 400
acres OF this gold land and set experts to
mining 1t. A stamping mill was put up and
shafts were sunk, and L understand to-day
that the Quit ut if between 100000 and $751;
COO behind the expense account. In fact,
the irreverent people about the Senate who
have been out TO look at the land facetiOusly
say that "the only things you can raise on
i; are hades and Christmas trees" Its sole
value consists IN the gold under It. and this
seems 10 be like the lrishman's flea-"when
you put your finger on ii you tind it is not
there"
/ called upon Senator Henry NJ. Teller
last night and ehatted with him abont Colo
radios new mineral regions He said he
supposed the report was TO a large extent
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the loan. Sawyer slapped the keys with
which he was playing down hard upon the
table and sad
"'Don't you do 1t. Don't you take cent
nor hear to any sort of compromise. l
Will deposit 100000 in the bank for you.
and with that you can begin your new mill,
and II you will do exactly as tell you
think we can bring the railroad to terms.
But you must do exactly as tell you. La
the first place you must start your work.
men on the mill, then send TO yeur lawyer
In New York and instruct him to bring his
suit. Have him say to the railroad that you
will not accept their $4,000 as loan and
that you propose 10 fight the case to the end.
You must have him say that Sawyer has
loaned you enough money to complete build
ing new mill and that he will back you in
your suit for all he is worth
"Upham did this, and the result was that
before week had passed the railroad COM
pany came tn him and offered him $4,000
cash to settle. He took this offer to Senator
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is eating mp a good deal, is his farm. He
has one OF some hundreds or acres not far
from Denver, upon which he has spent, L
venture, more than 100000, and where, as
is the case on the farm of William Walter
Phelps, the buttermilk and the champagne
cost about the same. Woicott is fond OF
fishing, and he has dredaed big fish pond
out OF the fat soil and he is trying to raise
game fish in it,"
BY the way, Senator, how about that big
farm of yours in Southern Colorado? | have
heard it said that you have more land than
any other Senat0r?"
81 don't think that statement Is correct"
replied Senator Teller. Senator Stanford
has tens of thousands of acres, and you
could drop Washington City down into Sen
ator Sawyer's big Texas farm and wander
for days among the vast fields composing 1t
without knowing IL was there. Many OF the
other Senators have larger farms than L
have. My lands, however, are not for fancy
farming. We are gradually Improving them
by irrigation, and the water we put on them
Is for the raising of crops aud not for the
raising of fish. The fish ponds ! own are
in connection with the fishing club OF Den
yer. We have number of fishing lakes in
the mountains which are stocked with
trout, and we can offer fine sport TO our
friends. The trout of the Rocky Mountains
are the sweetest in the world, and when
you fill your lungs with the air of that
IckiOu gOu otSin W w bledlbiob OHoh-
payne.
"By the way" Senator Teller went on,
did YOU ever hear of Tom Palmer's fish
pond? Senator Palmer has. you know, a
place OF about AGO acres right on the edge of
Detroit. He is worth several million dol
lars. and this land is increasing so fast in
value that 1t materially adds to his fortune
He is very proud of il, for it belonged to his
father and was, think entered by him. A
street railroad runs TO the edge or 1t and
Palmer can go to his country home on cleo
trio cars. He does oil sorts OF fancy farm
ing on it, and he has, i have been told, log
cabin there which cost him $4,000 TO build.
and 1t was right in front of this that he set
a gang of men TO work TO make lake.
They dredged out the ground and made a
winding depression, with elevations here
and there to be used as islands, when II was
found that there was no water for the lakes
or the fish, Palmer was for time In the
condition OF Simple Simon, whose fishing
tour you may have read in Mother Goose.
You must remember It,
'Simple Simon went a-hshing
For to catch whale,
But all the water he could 1nd
Was In his mothers pail.
'There Is nothing simple about Tom
Palmer, however. and he Mt once laid pipes
to spring near his lake and put up steam
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The Kindergarten.

That 1t is a Thoroughly accredited, sue
cessful, scientific and rapidly Spreading
educational device and no mere fad of the
moment seems to be an established fact. a $
may be gathered from inquiry among the
leaders OF education everywhere in America
and from all the teachers who. whether
Undergraduates or Hot, have come in contact
with the system.
The kindergarten IS no longer an expert
ment. 1t is not now on the defensive either
on its educational nor on it's philanthrOpie
side. 1t is rather for those who ignoIantly
oppose the kindergarten to show cause for
their opposition in the face of the almost
unanimous approval OF experts and the en-
thusia site Endorsement of all that part OF
the general public vino have had the oppOr-
tunity of becoming familiar with its meth
DDS and results
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was In the next room or back parlor talking
with woman hired to sew.
Mother" said /. father can't wake up"
What Go you mean, Marian? Where
Is hep"
I'VE have been playing at sleep, and he
can't wake up," said ]. and ] began to cry.
She went into the room with fear and
wildness IN her manner, stopped 10 lean
uron the table and look at her husband,
and in that pause / see her now, though il
did not pass beyond the space of q few
heart beats. She was about IS years of
age, very fine figure of a woman, indeed.
with a vast prOfuslon ot yellow hair. OF
which she was exceedingly vain, often
changing the fashion of wearing It TWO and
three times in a week. The freight
was upon her face, and she showed like
marble as she gazed at father with hand
under her left breast. Then, running up TO
BIN, she looked closely, cried out and fell
in swoon upon the floor. Win and l were
horribly frightened, and screamed together.
This brought the servants and the sewing
woman TO US. A doctor was sent for. and
when he arrived aud examined father he
pronounced him dead.
Ii was characteristic OF my mother that
she should faint when she looked at my
father and believed him dead, though for
all she knew he might have been in fit,
wanting instant attention to preserve him
from death. She was q tender mother, aud
/ believe did her best to be good wife, but
she had not strength Of character; she was
pretty and thought herself beautiful. and
was more easily to be cheated by fatterers
than any woman that ever met in my life.
Her weakness in this way was the cause Of
much unhappiness to me-, OF maHY bitter
secret tear some years after my fathers
death. as / will explain little way further
on.
CHAPTER IT.-HER MEMORIES.
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sensational, but that the mineral regions OF
the West were as yet practically unprOs-
pected and no one could prophecy as 20 The
finds" OF the future. I'VE KNOW, said he,
''more about mining than we did in The
past, and some of the ground which has
been gone over again and again has been
lately found 10 contain mines which are
turning out fortunes, and the CTeede and
Cripple Creek regions are still doing we'll.
Colorado has a vast amount OF mineral
wealth, and You can never know what VIII
be the discoveries Of the next few weeks"
"H0w about Senator W0leOtt's mine?"
Senator Wolcott is interested in num-
Der of Mines" replied Senator Teller, land
he has made great deal Of money in min
ing He is a shrewd investor, and he has
many mining friends. ain told that he has
made S125 900 during the past year out OF his
Creole mine, and the story Of this mine
illustrates how easily and how quickly
man may make fortune IN precious metals.
Tie mine was brought TO WOlcotts atten-
ton by a friend OF his named saunders,
man who has made several fortunes IN MIN
ing Saunders had been offered the mine
for Sl00. eco, of which $50 GOO was to be paid
in cash and The remaining $4,000 was to be
delivered within six months after the taking
Of the mine. Saunders said that be had eX-
amined the mine and that it promised well,
and lie advised WOlcOtt 10 take tenth
interest. This Wolc0tt aid and handed
over 5000, his share OF the cash payment.
Wolcottis brother took another tenth, and
the deal was consummated year ago. l
don't think the stockholders paid anything
except the first $4,000. The mine turned
out well from the Start. During its first
three months they took out enough ore to
pay the $50 coo which they owed, and
within year from the time they bought il
they had reimbursed themselves tile $50 COO
they had put in and have taken out 81, 900, 900
worth OF ore, which is all clear profit.
There seems TO he no end to the lead. and
they are doing better than ever. Senator
Wolcoits share OF this amount, as l have
said would be $4,000. and he is lucky
speeulatoE"
us Senator Woleott much of money
spender?" l asked.
Yes" was the reply. HE believes in
living well. he is a very generous man,
and one of his recent investments, which
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Electric searchlights are being adopted
by customs officers In England in order to
avoid the possibility Of explosion while
rummaging for goods on board tank and
other vessels carrying petroleum and explo-
sves.
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CHAPTER H.-HER MEMORIES.
I missed my father out OF my life as
though the sun had gone cut of the heavens.
] had been far more of a companion to him
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'sThere Is nothing simple about Tom
Palmer, however. and he at once laid pipes
to a spring near his lake and put up steam
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"Simple Simon went a-fishing
For to catch whale,
But all the water he could ind
Was In his mothers pail.
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Prof. Con Boyle's Departure.

Prof. Con Boyle, the we'll known
banjOist, who has been the means
of making large number of mu-
steal events in San Antonio pleas
ant with his music bag, leaves to-
night for New York, where he will
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He is one of the most accomplish
ed banjoists in the country and
will make his mark. After he
spends some time in New York,
he will sail for Europe. Prof.
BOyle's many friends in this city
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