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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-12-01
NEARLY A MILE IN DEPTH.
The Deepest Mining Shaft In the World IL
Said to BE In Michigan.

A few weeks ago the deepest mining
shaft in the world reached the copper
lode in the Tamarack mine. Shaft No.
3, which is now trifle over 200 feet in
depth, was begun three years ago, and
reached the vein on August at the
depth of 4, 1885 feet.
A trip down three-quarters of mile
into the bowels of the earth is a de-
cided novelty. Entering the cage, say
the Chicago Record, which is an iron
elevator, fitted with all modern safety
appliances and hoisted and lowered by
an inch and half wire cable passing
over great drum in the engine house
near the shaft, the signal is given to
lower. A separate cage is always used
for carrying men, and the rate of speed
is less than where rock is hoisted or
timber lowered in the other compart-
ments. The trip requires five minutes,
and as the cage sinks at the rate of
speed equal to that of the swiftest ele-
vator in a modern sky-scraper, the dark
walls of rock, on which faint light is
thrown by the candles and oil-lamps of
the party, seem to be swiftly shooting
upward, while the cage is standing
still
At last the bottom is reached. A
dozen miners, covered with CRIME
and dust, are busily at work Power
drills, fed by compressed air coming al
most a mile through iron pipes, are
tapping the rock petulantly. Men are
shOveling the rock blasted from the
lode into the ears, which are trundled
into the cages and hoisted to the sur
face. The candles throw weird
shadows, and as the reflection comes to
the mind of the mortal from earth's
surface that he is deeper down under
the earth'S crust than man has ever
penetrated before, the desire to ascend
to fresh air and sunshine is apt to come
uppermost
A few minutes show all that is to be
seen, for No. shaft has just reached
the lode and the extensive system of
drifts, crosscuts, and wines existing in
other shafts of the mine has been but
begun down here. The work is all
planned for many years to come, and
the force of compressed air and the
muscle of man will transfer those plans
from the paper where they were placed
by the busy brain of the engineer into
openings in the living rock, inch by
inch, but with the same power of never
ceasing persistence which causes the
falling drop of water in the course of
long ages to wear away the stone.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1894-12-01

oemics. SISTER Kosane, VINO organized
the French military hospital service IN
the Crimea, lived to great age. The
other day the golden wedding of Sister
Delphine with the order of st. Vincent
de Paul was celebrated at Romainville.
She was full year a novice before she
took the black veil, and has been fifty
years a school teacher Sister Delphine
was thirty years old when she deter
mined to take the vows. BY the rules
of the order of st. Vincent de Paul the
nuns are not allowed to aspire to ex-
traOrdinary virtue through mortifca-
ton. Such efforts might feed pride
and cause self Righteousness. The
teaching is that those who want to be
angels before God calls them to a
higher world are liable to fall lower
than nrd ipar1
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I Never Can Forget.-3.
HISTORY OF ROLLER SKATES.
Invented by a Yankee and First
Used in a Ravel PantOmime.
From the Worcester Mass } Gazette.

FROM the worcester (1aSs. } UaLetIe.
The late ex-Mayor Winslow
made a good deal of money in
skates, ice and roller, although he
was a man of many affairs. His
death naturally recalls the days
when the rink was in its prime,
and when the gallant and graceful
Kynock, professor of the art of roll
ing about, used to promenade first
with one pretty girl and then with
another. occasionally darting off
with vast outeredge sweeps back
ward and forward.
Forty years ago the Ravels,
French pantomimists of extraordi-
nary cleverness, made great profit
in the United States. One of their
shorter pantomimes was Godinski,
or the Skaters of Wien. The last
scene showed Polish pond cover
ed with gay skaters, who careened
around merrily and threw property
snowballs at each other. Godinski
appeared with chair, learning to
skate. This was the original act,
and before the days of the Ravels
nobody had ever seen a roller
skate. The scene ended by the ice
breaking. Godinski fell through,
but was rescued in the end.
These skates ran ON little
wheels set squarely, in place Of
the blades of an ice skate-the
simplest possible form. They did
not pivot and could not be used
for fgure-skating. Except they
were low, they were like the high
road skates lately put in use in
Scotland and now OH trial in
Europe. They set Yankee inven-
tors to thinking. Why not a real
skating party on boards, as we'll as
actors?
One day there opened in what
was then upper Washington street,
Boston, in the top story of Plymp-
tons furniture warehouse, a school
and practice ground for roller skat-
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BATS IN Tue HOUSE.
From the Lewiston (Me. J journal.


A gentleman who went into the
woods region on a hunting excurs-
ion and put up" at farm house
in a remote clearing was annoyed
during the daytime with the abun-
dance of flies that found access to
the house. But when twilight of
evening came he was treated to an
exhibition of fy-catching that
more than repaid him for his vex-
tation. The windows were opened
as the darkness settled down, and
the hostess tallow dip only parti-
ally dispelled the gloom in the old
fashioned kitchen, when he sud
denly became aware of odd Great
ures darting to and fro In the room,
often coming almost into his face,
with queer little noise of snip,
snip, snip" seem to follow their
velvety fluttering motions. For an
instant he was startled, not know
ing what to make of such intrud-
ers. cts only the bats" said the
landlady quietly, as she pursued
her work. They're catching flies.
Don't you hear 'em snip off their
wings. There'll be hundreds of fly
wings on the floor here early in
the morning" The gentleman
arose early and looked for the
wings, and sure enough the floor
and tables were Uttered with them.
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wife feeds me you'd think I was a
mouse. It's raw cheese for break
fast, toasted for dinner and Welsh
rarebit for supper. It's no wonder I
kicked. felt like I was full of
mites" and Jacob wiggled uneasi;
ly. "The question of meals is mat
ter of taste,' explained the Magis-
trate. "And smell, too" added JAG
oh, reflectively. ITS a wonder
our neighbors didn't call in the
Health Department" go home,
both Of you," said the Magistrate,
land you, Mrs. Marmalet, take
cheese off the bill of fare"
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LONGEVITY OF NUNS,

Sisters Who Have Been In Service Half
Century.
Clustered nuns, writes a Paris CORE
spondent, are said to die early, and
chose active women of the orders of St.
Thomas de Villeneuve, st. Vincent de
Paul and the Augustine sisterhoods to
Give to great ages. know a sister of
charity who was engaged in the chol-
era wards of the Hotel Dieu in 1882.
She refuses to retire from active
service, andhas three times volunteered
% attend smallpox patients during epi-
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A Queer Maple Tree.

tree growing on the premises of S.
G. Scott, Plainwell, Mich, has been at
tracing scientific attention and inves-
tigatiOn for number of years. 1t is
of the common hard maple, or sugar
tree" variety. Annually for at least
ten years at this season of the year, or
even as early as the last week in Au-
gust, it sheds all its leaves and forth
with puts out new foliage. This sec
ond crop of leaves are full of moisture
and readily succumb to the first heavy
frosts of October.
Where Gold Coin Is Hoarded.
The amount of gold held by the
national banks of the United States is
shown in the abstract of the returns
just completed in the office of the
comptroller of currency. New York
banks alone have $25, 900, 900 more gold
than the reserve in the treasury. Re-
turns of July last include the follow
ing: New York, $50, 1O4, 900; Illinois,
S26, 4O6,O 900; Pennsylvania, S21 ,296, OOO;
Ohio, S6,S15,OOO; Minnesota, 81 $50, 900;
Wisconsin, So, 1924, 900; Indiana, S3,743,-
600; Missouri, 50, GIG, 900; Colorado, ST.
s96,OOO Michigan, 2,723 900; Nebraska,
S2,469, 900; Iowa, 81, O2O, 900: Kansas, ST.
1000; Kentucky, 81, O37 900; Montana,
1897, 900; Arkansas, SOL, 900; Mississippi,
$4,000; Oklahoma, S45, 900; Indian ter
ritory, $4,000.
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ers. This was about 1867. Plymp-
tons brother had invented a skate,
on which you could do the outer
edge by leaning over, as on ice.
The rollers were in pairs and on
pivots. The boys and girls came
out and found it easy to learn, but
it was not advertised and few heard
of it. The result was the closing of
the place and the apparent failure
of the invention as popular toy.
The inventor went to Europe.
Pursuing more liberal methods, he
made huge success. He planted
Kinks in every principal city, and
gathered ducats in piles. Unfortu-
nately they lasted nowhere more
than few years. New plants had
to be constantly established.
When the Laliines took up roller
skating at the Worcester Rink,
which, by the way, was admirably
adapted for the sport, and the skat
ing craze broke out in this country,
it was all over in Europe, but
Plympton had made a fortune out
of it. Here, to, Kinks were short
lived.
The Winslow skate, made later,
brought out lawsuits with Plymp-
ton, who claimed an infringement.
But Plympton's patent had not
long to run, and the dispute was
in some way adjusted.
1t was an admirable exercise,
and there was no end to the posi-
BILE skill. 1t was pity it could
not last, but Americans overdo all
amusementS.
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An unusal bone of domestic con-
tention was revealed in a Phila-
delphia Police Court the other day,
when Jacob Marmalet was charged
by his wife with threatening her
life. When she had finished Magis-
trate Pole inquired of the prisoner
what he had to say. Cheese" re-
marked Jacob sententiously. mo
impertinence," commanded the
Magistrate. That amt imperti-
hence" explained Jacob, cts the
cause of my trouble. The way my
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1894-02-01
CHAPTER XII.

! should certainly have blurted ont the
whole truth to clear myself and Gordon
from this monstrous imputation, but that
while | was pausng for the words To come
Mere Lucas said:
zone may live to eco and yet be no wiser
for it, look YOU An old woman may mistake
the good for the bad and the bad for the good
like an inexperienced child. Look, for ex-
ample, how shamefully | misjudged that
good NJ. kavanagh."
Again that name brought me to my
lenses.
"Do you see Mr., Kavanagh often?"
asked
"Oh, there's not n week passes but he
comes down to spend day or two with us.
| don't know what we should do without
him in our misfortune.
| looked around, AT "A loss to know what
misfortune she alluded to.
at seems very pleasant here, ventured
to observe.
pheasant is not the word for il. my
dear, its paradise" she said in a most
melancholy tone. IL should like you to
see the rooms. They are beautiful, and it
is no trouble to keep them nice, for here
there is no dust no smoke, no smuts and
the linen keep, its color aud does not need
washing ctery day. And the garden! 1t is
real picture already with spring flowers.
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Out Of the Jaws Of Death.
BY FRANK BARRETT.


old woman, and she broke the painful 81
lence.
"Monsieur is quite wells" she asked, with
hesitation i'll her voice.
"MonsieurF" | echoed interrogatively.
M. Gordon"
Eyes. but it is long time since left
him. end have travelled long, long way
to come here. and find everything changed
and altered. and-and-" impulsively Civ
ing way to my feelings, | sobbed-"and l
AIN wretched and unhappy"
| rose and went toward her, and she,
springiug up. broke through the barrier of
reserve and clasped me in her arms, she'd
ding tears of afiectonate sympathy
"Ah. my poor dear" she whimpered,
tive are wretched and unhappy, all of us,
and this is no time TO bear grudges, one
against the other My heart melted the
moment you told me who you were, for |
know how cruelty yOu must have suffered
to come down to this. But | felt that |
ought not TO forgive you all mt once for de-
ceiving Us as you die, and look you it seemed
as if yCtl had no feeling for any of us not
to send one word to us in our trouble No
matter That is all past, and we will for
get it as best we can. There. there" said
She, drawing me down on chair close by
her side and nursing my hand on her knee
1--WE are friends again, but you must not eX
pect me to feel Just the same toward you as
if nothing had happened" Then, still sur
veying me with plying establishment, Shit
said, And is it true, my poor soul, that
your hair has turned gray through all these
hardshipS:'
"No-that is false hair. don't want any
one to know me.
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to take the consequences upon my own
shoulders.
After begging me to be seated Taras
said:
1--WE would have sent a trap to the sta
ton if we had known you were coming last
night 1t 10 long way from the station.
! hope you feel better this morning,
madame"
had intended to disguise my voice, but
my heart revolted against deceiving my
dear, stricken friend and, after a moments
hesitation, in my natural voice ! answered
Eyes"
At that one word, faint as it was, he
started, and turning his head slowly toward
me-for he had mistaken my position in
the room--he faced me. For full minute
he was silent, his closed eyelids quivering
as if in conflict with the instructive effort
to penetrate the eternal shroud that hid me
from him.
"Mme Leroy" he said interruptivey,
with emotion in his voice.
Yes
He bent his head to catch my response,
md there was another pause.
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past, ave wi cease to think Of it. Lev us
go in { he garden" he added in a brighter
tone as he rose to his feet. "1he sun ought
to be shining today"
lie took my tren bling arm.
''You know the way he asked.
YES; walked across the lawn yestir.
day"
Il knew it, he murmured Something
touched my arm, and felt that you were
near. | have been expecting you to come"
He said this, thought, to encourage me,
but the radiant happiness in his face sur
prised me- though / knew the vigor and
fortitude Of his character One would not
have imagined but for those. poor closed
eyes that he had lost the most precious
gift of nature He pressed my arm to his
side and spoke some wise words of assur-
pncc, adding:
eve have both met with misfortune,
little friend
II think too much Of my own
Mine he said to turn my thoughts, 'i5
not so great a. you would think. At first
IL was hard to bear-the world seemed Sc
empty. But ! am learning to see now with
put my eyes, and | find a multitude OF
beautiful things that had before escaped
my notice. | never weary of sitting here
and listenina-puzzing out where all the
sounds come from and making a better ac-
quaintance with the hidden world.
And in the evening you have Miss Bell
to read to you and play
Yes She is d good, amable girl won
! dcrfully patient and untiring.'
| There was a great whir Of wings over our
! heads, startling me for the moment, and
| then SIX or eight beautiful pigeons futtered
! down and settled on Iaras' shoulder and
| otFstrctched arm. He gave them hand
! full of maize from his pocket, and they c!us-
| tered about his hand with outstretchei
| wings to take the grain.
| DO they come down to Miss Bell like
! thatG' | asked, with envy.
They will come TO any one who has
something to give them he said, smiling.
wondered if he regarded me in the same
light.
j held out my hand timidly to the pretty,
futtering birds, but they had swallowed
the last grain, and they took to their sin -
and flew away in body.
could bear it no longer. The pain at my
heart Was greater than could endure.
Il must go away, too,' l said, choking
down nay .-ri"'
ITO RE CONTINVFD1
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that his little friend as he used to call you,
had come down so low. What a wreck,
What ruin. And to think that ! am Il
blame for il air.
"lou:"
"Certanly Didn't do all in my power
to throw you together? Did ever let him
20 up to see NJ. Taras before he had gone
into the front room to pay his respects TO
you? Didn't Aattcr myself from the very
first that he would make you his wife in
the end"
Gle. whof" asked in bewlderment.
"Why, that VI. Gordon, he sure. Whom
else could mean>'
saw at last what was in Mere Lucas
mind and the discovery took my breath
away.
And does Taras believe also that we
eloped in that way-Mr Gordon and T."
Mere Lucas shrugged her shoulders,
spread ont her hands. subdued an involun-
tary chucklc that shook her abundant per
son, and then, with becoming gravity, re
piled:
"AIon Deu. what else could he helicvc?"
"'raras thinks left him to do that"
murmured iucredulously.
| fancy Mere Lucas thought | was low
going little too far, for she said IN tone
of cXpOStulation;
"Be reasonable now it's all over, ma
dame. You must not expect too much.
To be sure. my dear master has never III
tered word that betrayed the slightest
suspicion of your fault, but what could he
think? You and NJ. Gordon disappear the
same evening without leaving a word be
hind YOU. and all that We ever hear of you
aftcrWard is that VI. Gordon drew all his
money out of the bank the day after your
flight For week before he came to see you
every day, and your behavior was so odd
as even to perpleN me. Iou go out together
one evening and the next day you are so i'll
that anyone could see something serious had
happened that some final arrangement
had been made and some great event was
about to take place. Come, come, madam
And how can one doubt what had happen
cd when everything is done so secretly. and
no word Of excuse or pretcnSe is sent tC
give things Il respectable appearance after
, ward, look you?'
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CHAPTER NIIII.

MAKE MYSELF KNOWN TO TARAS
returned to the Grange that evening.
Mere lucas, though she could not conceal
the change in her sentiments toward me,
did her best TO make me feel at home IN
her sitting room and supply all my phys
zeal rcouirenents For the first time she
permitted herself to sit down to table with
me. aud we shared the same dish that had
come from her masters table. There was
significance in this. In her opinion |
ranked no longer in social distinction with
Tara> and Mile. Judith.
"Fil your glass again, my dear, said
she. 1.-The master begrudges me nothing,
as YOU know, and when told him eX-
pected Nine. Leroy he babe me fete you. y
Presently she left me to answer the dim
ing room bell. She returned with the cot
lee service, her under lip raised and rueful
msgiving in her face,
"lIe wants to see you" she whispered.
"'Tell Nine. Leroy says he, that it will
give me great pleasure if she will come in
and talk to me | begged him to excuse
YOU. as YOU have headache and are not
fit for society tonight, but do not see how
YOU are to get out of 1t tomorrow. We
ought to have thought of this beforehand.
II have thought of it. want TO speak
to him
! "Mon Dieui l didn't think you had
grown so hardy, Look You, You will have
! Do humble your words finely, or he will
| know you by your voice and then what
( will happen
! "lf he cannot forgive me, must bear it,
,aid /. but whether he forgive me or not
| am sure he will never tell any one of my
disgrace and that is all fear"
NO, that is certain. You can count
! upon his saying nothing about you to any
one as surely as you can rely upon my ST.
! lence. Nevertheless it's as good as confess
ing everything to make yourself known tc
him. However" she added with a sigh Of
satisfaction, thank God, there's your
clothes, that ] brought away from Lam
beth, up stairs in the press and all YOU
linen as sweet and clean AS hands can MAKE
| them"
Clean linen aud neat appearance were
very much more in accordance wiLN he
views of true repentance than sackcloti
and ashes, and | doubt if she could hav'
felt genuine respect for any one in such |
wayworn and bedraggled condition as mine
Soon after breakfast the next mornin:
she led me into the dining room wher
Taras was sitting, and having hastily in
trOduced me as her cousin, Nine. lie
roy, she as speedily withdrew, leaving M
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at the table. lie would have your cover
laid, and we spoke as If you were coming
back soon. But for my part ! felt that
there was more unhappiness to come--that
Providence had sent this warning to pre-
pare us for still greater calamity. That
was something more than superstition and
the fancy of an old women. Before the
end of the month second warning came.
The masters work was destroyed for a
second time"
"The group of statuary?"
"Yes--the beautiful group that he had
toled ut so long and patiently. 1t was in
the kiln. The master saw the fires lit and
staid in the pottery till past midnight
watching the burnin.. was sitting up.
for he had eaten no dinner, and had hot
supper to serve We'll, mon Dieul he had
scarcely seated himself at the table when
we heard terrible crash, and boy run
ming in from the pottery cried out that the
kiln had fallen in"
"Had it fallen in by accident?'
NO, for when the ruins were cleared
away traces of dynamite were found.
When NJ. Kavauagh saw it, he said: The
mark of the cars hand is here. This has
been done by the Russian police They
have not beaten me yet, replied my poor
master. and that very day he began to
model the group again. Then that good
NJ Kavanagh prayed him to abandon the
attempt, or ut least to turn his efforts in
some new direction, lest worst misfOrtunes
should follow heard him say one day:
These warnings are not to be mistaken.
Next time these agents of the czar-these
hired assassns-may be ordered to destroy
not your work, but yol.' Yes, that may
1 L
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An Ill Wind.

Jack-It's all over. I'm a cooked goose.
Tom-Wouldn't she nave you?
Jack Confound it, no! Cool as cucum'
brr about it. and nothing green either.
rum-Any chance of-er-her exercising
,omans peculiar prerogarive?
Jack Changing her mind? Not bit.
Toni suppose, too, yOu had planned to
buy her ring if she'd have had you,
Jack-Nes, | suppose so
rom-Had your money all saved up for
j., didn't you?
jack should sayso Had $50 all ready.
Tom-Ah, yes! | say, Jack
blackwell?
Tom ou-er-couidn't lend me-er-
that $50 till you find some girl who will
have YOU, could you,-Harper' Bazaar
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Feeling First Rate.

Tutter docking out in the front Yard
That dog of yours seems to be very frisky,
Miss Clara.
Miss Pinkery-Yes, he is simply delight
Ell. just after you came pa took off his
muzzle Truth.
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1t Made Him >orps.

He belonged to a gallant drum corps,
Tried 10 mash a young girl in storps,
But she thought him quito rude,
And called him a dude,
Ard never would speak 20 him morps.
botrujt News rlGuna,
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Il have no objection, Tommy, to your
playing with the rich bankers son." said
the poor widow, Iii he is a good boy. But
You don't toaay to him, do YOU
Yep, answered Tommy. Me and him
PLAYS leapfrog. Chicago Tribune.
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A Considerable Roy.

Mother--Back already Well I'm glad
its over. Did the tooth hurt much when u
was pulled?
Small Son-T-l didn't have it ont.
"What2 Didn't you go he dentist's''
"Yes'm, but there was two people ahead
of me"
Why didn't you watt"
"I--I was 'fraid they'd feel shamed if
staid and heard them holler food News