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TEMPERANCE.
4 CYCLING TESTIMONY.

Almost every young man now can cycle.
Seeing young man pass, going like the
wind, and as straight as an arrow, a friend
(writes the Rev. ]. N. Stranhan, B.B., Kill
spindle, in Life and Work. said. "That Is the
champion cyclist In our county," Recently
mad the pleasure OF meeting him.
he has over seventy prizes gained by cy-
cling, forty-one gold medals, three silver
ones, and the rest made up Of such things as
silver tea-set and marble timepiece. Last
year ne rode 100 miles In five hours, thirty
1our minutes, twenty-five seconds: and last
year also he won the fllty mile road record
In TWO hours, thirty minutes, nine seconds,
%nlch means that he went on the road for
nifty miles at the speed OF mile in every three
minutes and much less than half a second.
He began his successful career by finding
that the more regularly he pedalled and the
straighter he rode he went the quicker. In
long race-he has broken three times the
road record for 100 miles-there Is no time
allowed to take any refreshment. It must
be taken on the back OF the bicycle. This
champion cyclist usually takes fruit or some
thin cruel.
Did you ever take spirits OF any kind2s I
asked. ~ mean whisky or brandy
mo. They cut the breath short. You
can't race and take brandy. Anyone who
tries 1t Is soon broken-winded and pulled.
1t may help for little, but it leaves you
worse. believe that II five or six men were
together In race, say two miles. from the
tape, and one was handed drink Of brandy,
1t might let him break away and win easily.
But II he had ten miles, or had long race
before him, he would find great difficulty In
riding. His breath would be CUT"
$50 you don't believe In brandy"
mo. II may help for short sput, hut
is no good for long run. Only temper
ate man can be a good racer" -.
IS Thought Of the vide meaning Of this
as applied to life instead of cycling, I said,
"Do you know, you are giving strong tes-
timony for temperance? We ministers often
teach that spirits do more harm than good
for long and successful lite. and that they
are only good In say an accident or illness,
when you need strength to pass quickly some
danger. Would you kindly allow me make
known your experience and words2 People
are willing to believe champion cyclist."
.'Yes, am quite willing"
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who wanted to give him a good send
off into the other world, hired a mai
to dig his grave for 500. 1t was il
the midst of the winter. There wert
ten feet of snow on the ground, and
the grave had to go six feet below
that. In order to keep the deceased
in proper condition until the grave
was dug he was laid away in the snow
for the time. Nothing was heard o:
the grave digger for three days, ano
then the boys, wishing to carry oul
the remainder of the funeral, went out
to see him. They found him digging
away with all his might, but they
found also that he had put up the
stakes and gone through the ceremon.
les which gave him miners claim to
all the land about the grave. In go.
ing down into the earth he had struck
pay ore, and the rock which he got out
was worth about $50 ton. The
mourners at once staked out claims
adjoining his, and the deceased was
forgotten. He remained in the snow
bank until the spring sun thawed him
out, when he was awarded an ordinary
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of these little donkeys known as
burros. He had another burro to
carry his pick and prospecting tools.
He was a grub stalker, that is, some
man had furnished him tools and gro.
ceries for a certain time with the un-
derstanding that the capitalist should
have half what he discovered. One
night, when Renniger camped, his
burros strayed away, and he spent
days in finding them. When he did
find them he looked at the rocks upon
which they were standing and saw
that they contained silver. He located
on that spot what is known as the
"Last Chance" mine, which paid
$3.50, 900 in dividends from its surface
production, and which has produced
fortunes. Near this mino Creede, now
a partner OF Mofat, discovered the
"Amethyst" mine, which, in 1892,
produced 81, 100000 worth of silver,
and which IS now capitalized at S5.-
100000. This mine now belongs to
Senator Wolcott and others. 1t is
very rich.
Not far from Leadville is the great
mining camp known as Aspen. 1t is in
Pitkin County, out of which has been
dug more than S40,000,00 worth of
silver ore. Aspen produced, in 1891,
$40, 900 worth of silver. 1t is sit.
uatcd on ON enormous silver lode,
which is said to be from eight to
twelve miles long, and which, before
silver dropped, was producing the
white metal OF the rate of $l,OOO,-
900 month. At Aspen is the famous
Mollie Gibson silver mine, the aver
age ore of which is worth $500 ton,
and OF which single car loads of ore
have netted more than $4,000 There
is one mine at Aspen which has taken
out more than $7,000,00O from an
area of about half an acre of ground,
the works of the mine going down
nearly 100 feet below thu surface.
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in the field. At present this shelter
tent is made of very unsatisfactory
material and is by no means water
proof. 1t is of no other use than as a
shelter tent, and beyond that is an
incumbrance to the soldier, adding to
his burdens on the march by about
three pounds.
Captain Edmund Rice, of the Fifth
Infantry, stationed at Fort McPher-
con, Georgia, has made a suggestion
which meets with considerable ap-
proval among military experts. He
proposes to make of the shelter tent
a cape which may be worn by the
soldier in inclement weather. This
use of the present tent may be readily
acquired by simple straps which will
fasten the cape about the neck and
waist. The double use of the shelter
tent will be appreciated by the trooper
and is in the line of modern military
equipment, the idea being now to
economize in the number as in the
weight of articles carried by the
soldier, and to make each article do as
much service as possible. In some of
the services the ration con, for in.
stance, when separated, furnishes the
cooking utensils of the soldier. The
meat.retion can of the foreign army,
when taken apart, supplies a frying
pan and plate.
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lose yours elf in this n.ne. 1t con-
meets with the great Henrietta mine.
and you might wander abcut from tun-
mel to tunnel without finding your
way to the shaft.
This is wet mine, and it takes an
enormous amount of money to wall it
with timbers. Many such mines con-
tain forests of great logs, AID 1t is es-
timated that there is more tbsc 81, ,OOO,.
900 worth of lumber and timber used
in the mines of Leadville alone. Each
of these tunnels is rooted ara walled
with big pine logs, and the Slopes, or
caves, cut away from the turreis in
order to get the silver out, have to be
almost filed with timbers, fc- fear
their sides may cave ip. No one Who
has not gone through grea. nine can
appreciate the amount of water which
flows into it. In the bottom CT the
Maid of Erin streams of ice.ccld water
flow through the tunnels like 60 many
mountain brooks.
Overhead are pipes for steam and
for compressed Dir to run the drills.
There is railroad track in each tun-
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NEW STYLES IN PETTICoATs.

The petticoat of lawn, cambria or
batiste, which for while has been
rather under cloud, has come back to
fashionable favor, and that this should
be carefully chosen to harmoniSe with
all else that Is worn is proof of the
growing thought and taste of modern
dress. Some very well dressed women,
however, never wear anythjng'but a
white petticoat OF very fine fabric,
fearing the effect that the greater
thickness of satin or glace taffetns
might have upon the close fit below
the waist of the present fashionable
skirt. The pe:ticoat of white or
coio-si cotton is best suited to wear
un6e- Light dresses, with frills or
founoes around the bottom.
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Bl0chaded by Pumice.

A floating barrier of pumice stone,
nineteen miles long, over 1000 yards
wide and fifteen feet deep, closing
q seaport to oil vessels as efectually
as boom could do, is not the sort Of
thing one is likely to forget. And yet
that was one of the results of the
Krakatoa eruption, the port being
Telok Reboung, in Sunda Straits.
Formed in few hours, it would al
most seem to be the supreme effort OF
nature in the pumice.making line,
were it not that such imm ense quan-
titles are found at the bottom OF the
sea. A queer place for pumice stone,
but pumice when produced is really
heavy it is only the air cavities in it
that makes it light, and as it floats it
becomes water logged, and down it
goes.
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AN ElDORADO.
LEADVILLE THE CENTER OF
THE MINING INDUSTRY.
Millions Have Been Produced
Strange Tales of the Finding Of
Unexpected + ortunes by lmpe-
cunious Prospectors.

T EADVILLE, writes Frank G.
| r Carpenter in the Washing
L ton Star, is one OF the great
treasure vaults of the United
States. Within the past seventeen
years Uncle Sam has drawn upon it to
the extent of more than 5000, 900, 900,
but it has to-day more than one hun
+ dred producing mines and it's unde.
veloped riches are incalculable. 1t
contains some of the richest gold and
some of the most wonderful silver
mines of the world. The territory
surrounding it is being reprospected,
new mines are being opened and some
of the old mines are so wonderful in
their production that their owners do
not want them mentioned in the news
papers. Such one is the s'Little
JOHNNY" which now has an output of
$40, 900 worth of gold a day. and
which, I am told, could be made tc
produce, if the owners wished it, $780,
600 in gold daily for years to come.
In one of the banks there there is about
peck of specimens of the pure gold
which has been taken from it. The
gold in the vein is in the shape of Or
dinary gold ore, but in places there
are flakes and scales of pure metal.
and every now and then rich pocket
1 is struck in which 1t lies in Jumps. The
daily output of the 'Little Johnny"
is now about 200 tons, and the aver
age value of the ore is nearly $50.
There are now six shafts on the prop.
erty, the two deepest of which are $50
| feet. Gold is struck about 800 feet
below the ground, and it is said that
| the whole area OF more than 100 acres
| is mineralized.
Leadville is one of the greatest sill.
yer camps OF the United States. Mill
ions upon millions have been taken
out of the earth back of the city and
scattered broadcast over the world.
The city itself is unierlaid with pre-
cious minerals. About q year ago
Major A. Y. Bohn struck silver mine
on the edge of the town, tie ore of
which averaged 100 ounces of silver,
with now and then jump to as nigh
as from 800 to 1000 ounces. 1t has
been found that this vein extends right
under Leadville, and it is question
now as to whether Leadville can hold
its silver or whether it is to go to
others. If Leadville gets it it will be
the richest city in the world, and sin.
gle pockets of ore under the streets
will probably pay more than the city
debt and leave big surplus in the
treasury. Leadville claims that the
streets were dedicated to the munich
pality, and that all that is under them
belongs to the city. The original own
ers of the land are now claiming that
they gave the ground only as a right
of way, and so the question hangs in
the courts.
Many of the silver mines, of Lead
Vile are 30 rich that they can be
worked at profit, Notwithstanding the
low price of silver. In the Moffat and
Smith mines there are $50 men on the
pay roll as miners. and it takes about
three men to handle and care for the
! ore to each miner. There are 5000
men at work in the Leadvile mining
district, and laborers get from from 81
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burial in another part of the camp.
Mining has never been done go care.
fully as to-day, and science has never
done 80 much to make the production
of gold and silver cheap. Take the
Creede camp, which has made SO many
men rich. Creede was a poor pros.
pector when be discovered the "aoly
Noses" which, in 1892, netted more
than one and one.half million dollars.
Creede sold it for $4,000. he made
other strikes, and he has now an in.
come of a thousand dollars a day.
Still he tramped the mountains for
twenty years before he made his big
strike, and he was fifty before he be-
came millionaire. He made the bulk
of his fortune out of the Amethyst
and other mines. and the great re.
ceipts of the Holy Moses went to
Dave Moffat and his partners. A man
named Renniger was riding through
the mountains about Creede on one
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Ito So per day. The Wolfton mine has
recently struck an immense body of
ore, neither end of which has yet been
found, but in which 10S,000 tons of
|silver. bearing rock have been blocked
out. This, it is estimated, will pay at
least So ton above all expenses of
handling and smelling, making the ore
in this mine alone worth at least $780,
1000. Mr.. Moffat told me in my inter-
view that his best mine had been the
"Maid of Erin," for which he had paid
about $1,000 and out OF which him
self and his partners had made S5, 000,-
1000. This mine is still being worked,
and there are other great silver mines
here which are shipping ore.
I paid visit the other day to this
five. million dollar maiden. The Maid
: of Erin silver mine lies on the hills
bust above Leadville. 1t is surrounded
| by mountains of waste rock, and it has
immense frame buildings, something
like those of a great factory. A look
at 1t gives you some idea eff the enor-
nous cost of silver mining. The en-
gines which moves Its machinery have
item great boilers, and its furnaces are
so large that ten men are constantly
shoveing coal into them to keep the
fires alive. They eat up from twenty.
! five to thirty tons OF coal q day, and
/ the coal bill for the furnaces alone
amounts to $3.50 daily. Five hundred
dollars day is paid for wages to the
miuere, and the machinery is of the
most costly description. After dress
| ing in miners clothes went down in
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MRS. RHINEHART.

world at large by her wonderful ex.
ploits upon the wheel. Mrs. Rhine
hart is the wife of one of Denver's lead
ing photographers. She is a native OF
California, having lived in Colorado
but five years. On September 20,
1895, Mrs. Rhinehart took her fret
ride, and, finding that she enjoyed it,
she invested in a wheel. December
IA she made her first century, and
when April arrived she had ridden
three centuries. and, in company with
her husband, had toured old Mexico
upon her wheel. Up to the present
date Mrs. Rhinehart has ridden forty
four centuries in all, and during July
gained worldwide fame by riding
ten centuries in ten consecutive days.
She followed that July % with double
century, which she accomplished IN
twenty hours and twenty minutes.
riding the last forty miles in darkness,
mud and rain. Feeling confident that
she could lower her record for 200
miles, Mrs. Rhinehart started out on
the morning of August at 1925 and
in seven hours and fifty minutes COW
cred distance of 102 miles. After
resting thirty minutes she started
once more, and accomplished the
second 1O2 miles in nine hours and
forty-fve minutes, making the entire
204 miles in seventeen hours aud
thirty-fve minutes. Mrs. Rhinehart's
record is one that is not equaled by
many male bicyclists, and probably
by no lady rider in the country. She
rides purely for pleasure. She has
never cared to break any record and
has refused to enter contests. She is
an easy, graceful rider, averaging
thirteen miles on hour, coming out
fresh and untired at the end of trips
that few corld endure. Her fastest
riding is always done near the finish.
When she began riding Mrs. Rhine.
hart Was an invalid. She is now the
picture of health, and laughs most
heartily over the dismal prediction
that she is killing herself riding. She
is slight young woman, with large
brown eyes, golden hair, and is per-
feet gypsy in color. Her riding cos.
tune is short divided skirt, sweater,
golf hose and low shoes. During her
long rides she is particular that her
clothing shall be very loose, 80 that
every muscle may have full play.
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TEMPERANCE NEWS AND NOTES.

According to statistics OF insurance COM
panies total abstainers live on an average
thirteen years longer than moderate drink
ers.
By careful investigation, Mr.. Otto Lang
found that eighty-eight per cent. OF the
crimes committed In Zurich. Switzerland,
were committed under the influence Of alco-
holism.
A brief but cogent argument In favor OF
abstinence from intoxicating drinks Is con-
tainei In two sentences from foreign jour
nal: 1T is computed that about sixty thou
sand persons commit suicide In Europe every
year. Alcoholism Is said to be the chief
cause
Doctor Baer. we'll known writer on Ger
man prisons, alleges that forty-four per cent.
ofthe prisoners were Incorporate.
Florida barrooms number zig. more than
half of them being In three counties. The
States revenue from them Is Sl09,000.
Men speak of the opium habit with bated
breath; and yet drink which slays infinitely
more, because its use Is more widespread
than that OF opium, Is introduced into homes
and actually "fed" to the children. lest they
should not themselves at maturltytake kind
ly to the drink habit.
The average workinSman has an idea that
beer or liquor Of some sort Is necessary to Dis
health, strength and comfort. This notion
Is 80 deeply grounded that 1t will be hard to
eradicate It. But 1t has been dem onstratad
time and again that alcoholic beverages have
the very opposite effect.
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and filled in with flowers or ribbon
bows. OF the hats in quiet tones,
black and white is extremely fashion
able. the shape either in white rice
straw, or chip, bound with black vel
vet, stretched quite tight in the old
fashioned style, or dead white fancy
crinoline with irregular scalloped edge.
There is q new shape, with round
brim and high "iam rot" crown, which
is very striking when sparingly
trimmed, and this is a favorite IN
white chip, with broad band of black
velvet, and big buckle in front, the
edge with narrow velvet binding, and
one large cluster of tall black plumes
at the side. More becoming is the
broad white crinoline hat shown here
with; this with an edge of fancy black
and white crinollne. The brlm may
be curved or bent, to suit the wearer,
but hats are worn quite straight and
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smooth cloths it is well not to choose
too heavy weight, particularly if the
skirt is to be braided; weight does
not mean warmth in cloth or WOODEN
materials, and that We have only
learned, many of US, through hard ex-
perience. In coats and tight-ftting
waists the smooth cloths are more be.
coming than the rough ones, for they
seem to fill the figure better, probably
on account of being more closely
woven. But this year it is not safe to
say arbitrarily that either one is the
only possible material. All the differ
ent shades of blue, brown, green and
gray, besides black, are fashionable,
but black leads all in the smooth
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cloths. In the mixed cloths there is a
pepper.and.s salt combination which is
immensely fashionable, but not be.
coming to everybody, as it really has
a gray shade which needs pink and
white complexion to bear well. This
last material for hard wear is simply
unsurpassable, and is being used by
great many women for both bicycling
and shopping, made in one jacket
waist with two skirts, one short and
one long-really two gowns out OF one.
-Harper's Bazaar.
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very forward, and the back turned up
and filed in to meet the small coil Of
hair.
The hat shown in the accompanying
illustration can be kept to black and
white, with pink roses at the back; or
a white hat is charming with dahlia or
heliotrope ribbon, black plume,
paste buckle, and band Of black velvet
round the crown. A black hat with a
white edge is also effective, with shot
rose and crimson ribbon, black plume,
and pink roses; and the style of the
trimming can be copied in any of these
combinations.
The band round the crown is cut on
the bias, and in forming the ribbon
loops each end is pleated up separate
" and tied round with stout cotton or
fine wire. The plume is sewn to the
back and the crown, and should be
high and stiff Home Queen.
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le same Is true everywhere.
AN UNERRISa MARKsMAN.

"Whisky never misses fire." said man
the other day. No, It never does. 1t Is sure
to bring down its victim sooner or later,
whether he be high or low, in the social or
intellectual scale. And fluttering all about
him will always be the wounded hearts OF
mother father, wife. sister. children, sisters,
brothers, and friends, while beyond and be-
hind all this Is too often trail Of ruined
virtue and concentrating influences. At
least six hearts on an average carry life
long, overshadowing, dreary sorrow for
every victim alcohol brings down. The un-
dertow Of all family and social life Is largely
silent sorrow and dreary heartache over the
victims Of alcohol, Nc, whisky never misses
fire, never.
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APPALLING FACTS.

Archdeacon Farrar gives In the London
Humanitarian some appalling facts in regard
to the effect and prevalence Of drunkenness
In England: THE number Of drunk and
disordsrly persons for twenty-five years Is
no fewer than 4,26s, s,022, though not one In
twenty OF the drunkards are arrested.
Pauperism has extended enormously. but
the Chairman of the Coventry Board OF
Guardians has never seen an abstatner come
to the workhouse for relief; the same Is true
OF fifteen other Morkhouses."
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in fashion when braiding is revived,
and, as has been already stated, braid.
ing is very largely to be used. Even
on velvet and camels-hair serSes,
there are rows of braiding, while the
smooth cloths are fairly covered with
it. From $3.50 upwards ladies cloth
can be bought, which is wide, and II
we'll sponged. is most satisfactory
material; but in buying any OF these
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LEADVILLE'S ORE TEAMS,

upon by his neighbors as utterly
worthless and good for nothing. One
day he went into the pines back of his
cabin and dug hole. He struck ore
almost at the grass roots, and opened
up mine which yielded more than o
million dollars.
Another famous mine was known as
"Dead Mans Claim" and the man
who acted as grave digger on a certain
occasion became it's owner. A we'll.
known miner had died, and his friends.
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UDRItK AND PRAY"

The story is told of Highlander who built
a tavern near Abbotsford and called 1t "The
Flodden Inn." He applied to Sir Walter
Scott for motto for the sign board. The
novelist suggested "Drink, weary traveller;
drink and pray" The man objected to his
house becoming kirk, arguing:
1.-THE more praying there Is, the less drink
ing there will be, and don't want that"
Sir Walter suggested the omission OF the
letter "r" in pray, so that the motto might
read, Drink, weary traveller; drink and
paw" With this the "mine host" was de-
lighted, and hundreds OF his customers
found out to their bitter sorrow that whilst
drinking and paying 20 hand in hand, drink
ing and praying havo not even bowling ac-
quair'ance.
The same is true everywhere