The Galveston Daily News. (Galveston, Tex.), Vol. 44, No. 338, Ed. 1 Sunday, March 21, 1886 Page: 9 of 12
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THE GALVESTON DAILY NEWS, SUNDAY. MARCH 21, 1886.
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thus anusi company.
Be,M B»»e« on Mhlpmeoti of Fifty Fonnl. mi
Cater when «"> Value Does Not Kirerl
Fifty DolUra.
[Shippers are requested to mark the value on
necksKes, and when jiowsible to give local address
(street and number) to facilitate delivery.]
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Atlanta 40 .
Arlington 35 50
Autttin 30
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Buffalo
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Bristol, Tenc...
Boston, Mass...
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Big Bandy
Calvert.
Crowley
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Cameron
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Chicago, Ills.
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Dallas
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For rates 011 money and special rates cc freight
apply at the company'! office, oorner Treraontaoc
avenue A.
Qalvniiton. July 10.1885.
Rates and regulations of wharf-
age of tlic Gulvcstou Wharf Company,
April 1, lbtjl.
All vessels and their owners landing goods
011 the wharves thereby contract to pay, and
arc responsible for, the wharfage on the same,
according to the following rates to be collected
from tile vessels or their agents: $ cts.
Anchors and chains per 100 lbs 5
Barrels wet 6
Barrels, dry 6
Barrels, empty, wet 3
Barrels, empty, dry 2
Barrel Staves, peril 30
Bacon, per cask 25
Bacon, per ease 15
Bags or Sacks in bales, per cubic foot 1
Bagging, per cubic foot 1
Bagging, per 100 yard roll, each 6
Bagging, per 50 yard roll, each 3
Baskets, per nest 2
Bullast, per ton 25
Bales, over 5 cubic feet, per foot 1
Bedsteads, each 10
Bedsteads, common, each 5
Bedsteads, boxed, per cubic foot 1
Bellows, per cubic foot 1
Bananas and Plalntains, per bunch 2
Breakfast llacon, per box 5
Boxes, liquors, cheese, soap, caudles, etc.. 3
Boxes, extract, coffee, ink, bluing, etc.
(small) 2
Brooms, per dozen 3
Broom Handles, per M 50
Broomcorn, per bale 5
Brick, Are, per M 60
Brick, common, per M 50
Bran, per sack 4
Bran, per ton of 2000 lbs 50
Blinds, Doors and Sash, per cubic foot 1
Boilers, steam, per 100 lbs 5
Bones and Horns, per ton of 2000 lbs 30
Bone-dust, per ton of 2000 lbs 50
Boneblack or Bonemeal.ner sack of 100 lbs 3
Bolts ana Spikes, Rivets, Nuts and Wash-
ers, per keg 5
Buckets, per dozen 5
Bucket*, well, per dozen 8
Butter, per keg 3
Butter, per firkin 4
Building stone, rough, per ton of 2210 lbs.. 50
Buggies, each 50
Buggies, boxed, per cubic foot 1
Carboys, each, full 10
Carboys, empty 5
Casks, wine 20
Casks, hardware, per 100 lbs 5
Casks, merchandise, per cubic foot 1
Carriages, boxed, per cubic foot 1
Carriages, each 75
Carts, each 25
Castings, hollow or solid, per 100 lbs 5
Cattle, grown, each 30
Cattle, two-year-olds, each 20
Cattle, yearlings, each 10
Cattle, calves, each 10
Champagne, in baskets 5
Chairs, per bundle (2 each) 5
Charcoal, per sack 3
Cotton, per bale, landed 10
Cotton, per bale, shipped 10
Cotton, per sack 10
Coal, dumped in carts or cars, per ton of
2240 lbs 20
Coal, dumped on wharf, per ton of 2240 lbs. 50
Coal, in casks 25
Coaches, stages and omnibuses, each 1 00
Corn, per sack 3
Corn, in shuck, per bbl 3
Cotton Seed, per ton of 2000 lbs, cargo 25
Cotton Seed Meal, per ton of 2000 lbs 15
Cotton Cilns. per cubic foot 1
Cotton Planters, each 10
Corn Planters, each 10
Corn Shelters 0
Corn Mills, per cubic foot 1
Coffee, per sack of 135 tbs 4
Codfish, per drum of 500 lbs 15
Cordage,.per 100 tbs 5
Cotton Ties, per 100 lbs (inward) '~Y\
Cotton Ties, per 100 lbs (outward) 5
Copper, per 100 lbs 5
Copper, pig, per 100 lbs 5
Coal Oil, per case 2
Cocoamifs, per 100 25
Collars, horse, per doz 5
Crates, Crockery or Merchandise, cu. ft. 1
Cultivators, each 30
Drays, each 25
Doors, each 3
Demijolius, full 2
Demijohns, empty 1
Dry goods, in ease, po-100 lbs 5
Filters, boxed or otherwise, per cubic foot 1
Flour, per sack of 100 lbs 2X
Flour, per sack of 50 lbs IX
Fustic and other Dye-woods, per ton of
2000 II, s 50
Fertilizer or (i 11 alio, per ton of 2000 lbs 50
Furniture, boxed, per cubic foot 1
Groceries, dry, boxed, per 100 lbs 5
Grain, for export,including Bran,per 100 lbs 1
Grind and Millstones, per 100 lbs 5
Gunny Hags, in bales, per cubic foot 1
Hardware, per 100 lbs 5
Hamcs, per dozen 4
Hams, per cask 25
Hay, per bale 10
Hay, per half bale 5
Hogsheads, empty 5
Hogshead Staves, per M 50
Hay Cutters... 6
Half banels, wet 3
Half banels, dry 3
Halt barrels, empty 1
Herring, per box 1
Hoop Poles, per M 25
Horses and Mules, each 50
Hogs 5
Horseshoes, per keg 5
Household Hoods, per 100 tbs 5
Hides, loose, each 1
Hides, in bales, per 100 lbs 5
Hides, green, in bundles of 2 each 3
Ice, in hogsheads 25
Ice, as per invoice, less 30 per cent, foi
waste, per ton 50
Ice Cream Freezers, each 2
Iron, boiler, plate, bar, hoop, wrought,
sheet and galvanized, per 100 tbs 5
Iron Pipe, Water, per ton of 2000 tbs 50
Iron Shutters and Wrought Fittings, per
100 tbs 5
Iron. Junk and Scrap, per ton of 2240 lbs... 50
Ironj pig, per ton of 2240 lbs 50
Iron Sales, over 3000 tbs, per 100 lbs 10
Iron Safes, under 3000 lbs, per 100 fcs 5
Iron Wire, telegraph and fence, per 100 lbs. 2X
Junk, in bales (except iron) 10
Kegs merchandise 3
Kegs, empty 1
Kits Fish 2
Laths, per M 10
Lemons,per box 4
Lead, per 100 lbs 5
Lumber, per SI 30
Leather, per 100 tbs 5
Marble, per 100 lbs, dressed 5
Marble, per ton of 2000 lbs, rough 50
Marble dust, per bonol •••• 6
Machinery, per 100 lbs
Mineral ores, per ton of 2000 lbs
Mowing Machines, each
Moss, per bale
Matting, per roll
Nails, per keg
Nails, per half keg
Oakum,per bale
Oats anil bran, per sack (under 5000 lbs) —
Oil cakc, per ton of 2000 lbs 15
4
5
5
5
5
3
3
1
Oranges, per box..
Ordnance StorcB, per 100 lbs
Oysters, per bbl
Paint, per 100 tbs
Pails, per dozen
Palls, Hour, per nest
Paper, printing, per bundle
Paper, wrapping, per ream
Pecans, per sack
Pianos, boxed, per cubic foot
Pineapples, per 100
Plows, each
Plows, Sulky
Plow material, k. d., per 100 lbs
Posts, fencing, each
Powder, kegs, 4c; !i, 2e; '.j
R. 11. Material for construction and opera-
tion :
Railroad ties, 8 feet long, hewn each
R. R. Iron and Steel Rails ) Per ton
li. 11. Fish Bars, Plates & Chairs f of
K. It. Frogs,Spikes,Bolts&Nuts ) 2240 lbs
R. R. Iron Bridges, Locomo- > Per toil
80
1 00
i ) Per 1
."hairs J o
ftNuts) 2240
S. R. Iron Bridges, Locomo-1 Per toil
tlvcs > of
R. 1{. Trucks,Wheels,Axles,etc) 2240 lbs
R. It. Iron, for street railroad, tr ton 2240 tbs 50
li. It. Passenger Cars, each 15 00
R. It. Passenger Cars, Narrow Guuge 10 00
R. R. Platform Cars 8 00
R. li. Platform Cars,Narrow Gauge 5 00
R. R. Lumber, per M feet SO
R. It. lies, eight feet long, each
Raisins, per box. 3c; X, 2c;
Rags, per bale.
Refrigerators, per cubic foot
Rubber Belting, per 100 lbs
Roofing Slate, per ton of 2000 lbs.. •
Rope, per 100 lbs
Salt, per sack
Salt, per sack (cargoes Imported).
Sand or soil, per drayload
Sewing machines, each
Sewing, K. I)., per 100 lbs
Seiv* per package, 2 dozen
Sawdust, per drayload
Shot, per 100 lbs
Shingles, per M
Sheep,each
Shocks, box, per carload. - ■
2
1
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10
5
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Shell, per drayload, 5 bbls 5
Soda,Potash, in casks and drums, per 100 tbs 2
Shovels and Spades, per dozen 6
Spices, per sack 5
Stoves, per cubic foot 1
Sugar, per hogshead 25
Sugar, per bbl 5
Sugar, Havana, in boxes 15
Stoves and Trimmings, per 100 lbs 5
Sulkies 25
Tierces Beef, I-ard, Rice, Ham, Tallow, etc. 10
Tierces with bbls inside 10
Tierces, empty 4
Timber, Walnut, etc., per ton of 50 cubic ft. 25
Tin Plate, per 100 lbs 5
Tin, pig, per 100 lbs 5
Tobacco, chewing, per 100 lbs 5
Tobacco, smoking, per cubic foot 1
Tiles, per ton of 2000 lbs 50
Trunks, filled with merchandise or nosts. 6
Tubs, per nest 5
Trackage, per loaded freight car 1 00
Locomotives, passenger trains and empty
cars,free.
Wagons, each
Wagons, Spring or Cane...
Wagon Material, K. D.,per 100 lbs—
Washing Machines, each
Washboards, per dozen
Watermelons, each
Water Coolers
Wire, per 100
Wheelbarrows
Wheels and Axles, railroad, per 100 lbs
Wheels and Axles, log carrier
Wood, per cord
Wool, per sack
White l-ead, per 100 lbs
Zinc, In rolls, per 100 lbs
Goods not In above list will charged in pro-
portion, say: Less than forty pounds to the
cubic foot will be classed as measurement and
charged 1 cent per foot; forty pounds and
over to the cubic foot will bo classed as
weight, and charged 5 cents per 100 pounds.
All goods and articles of every kind, landed
or received upon any of the wharves are
thereafter at the risk of the owners, and not
of the company, and must be removed the
same day, or at furthest, the next day. After
which time, any of said goods and articles re-
maining on the wharves, the owners and con-
signees thereof will be responsible for, and
will be charged an additional wharfage of one-
third tile rates specified in the preceding
schedule for every day they so remain, and
may be removed by the Wharf company with-
out further notice (at the risk and expense of
the goods and the owners and consignees
thereof) to any part of the premises, con-
tinuing the charge for additional wharfage
each day they remain on said premises. Or
the Wharf company may have the same re-
moved and stored elsewhere than on its own
premises without further notice (at the risk
and expense of the goods and the owners and
consignees thereof,) and the same will be held
until all charges are paid. Same wharfage to
bo charged on all goods or articles delivered
from one vessel to another, provided either of
such vessels is fast to the wharf, or to any ves-
sel fast to the wharf.
The company hereby gives notice that it will
not be liable for losses if caused by excessive
and unusual weights, or by piling up heavy ar-
ticles, such as salt, more than three sacks high,
and railroad iron more than three tiers high,
011 the wharves; or by landing articles of ex-
tiaordinary weight, such as locomotives, with-
out special permission (in writing) from the
company's agent; but that It will hold all per-
sons liable for such damages as may be occa-
sioned by overloading tliu wharves without
special permission.
O11 all shipments from the Interior which are
to be delivered to a vessel or agent, whether
on through bill of lading or not, tho carrier
placing or landing produce, goods, etc., on the
wharf, also the owner thereof and the shipper,
are each and all responsible for tho wharfage.
Hut no cotton or other cargo trill be permitted to
be loaded from the wharves on to vessels or lighters
without prepayment of the wharfage or satifactory
provision therefor by the vessel, except us to vessels
Kith general cargo for gulf ports.
The owners and consignees of all goods de-
livered on a wharf or levee of the company
thereby become bound to the company for the
wharfage thereon.
All wharfage is contracted to be paid, and Is
due and payable to the company, at its office
in Galveston.
The company also gives notice that it does
not undertake storage, and will not be respon-
sible for losses or damage, from any cause, to
goods or articles landed or received on its
wharves.
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AN HONEST MINER AND A BAD BRONCO,
The Mining Regions of Sonora—Diamond
Harpending and His South American
Scheme—Chicago Syndicate.
Chicago Herald.
There cr.me hobbling into the Leland ho-
tel the other day a dark, swarthy man about
forty years old, who has done more mining
and prospecting on the Pacific coast than
any man of his age in America. For several
years the gentleman lias been operating
some gudgeon claims in New York, but
lately he has gone into the legitimate, so to
speak, and now has a magnificent gold and
silver mine in Sonora, Mexico, which he
calls all liis own. It is netting him some-
thing like fJ-5000 a month, and he can afford
to take things a little easy. He also has
some very valuable copper mines near
Hermosillo, Sonora, but these he has shut
down on account of the low price of copper.
The name of this gentleman is Charles S.
Benham, and he used to be one of the most
familiar figures in the mining marts of San
Francisco. He has won and lost and spent
half a score of fortunes, but he is at last on
top, with apparently no immediate inten-
tion of climbing down. When a (represent-
ative of the Herald espied Mr. Beuham he
was shocked and pained to see him drag-
ging himself about on crutches.
"Why, what is the matter, mio amigo? "
he asked, with solicitation.
Mr. Benham could only shake his head
and smile half sadly. After the first greet-
ings—the Herald man was an old acquaint-
ance—he said, as he hobbled to the eleva-
tor, "Come up; I'll tell you about it." A very
elegant looking lady, blazing with jewels,
but tenderly solicitous of the man on
crutches, was introduced as Mrs. Benham.
"Yes," said tho lame man, " we arrived in
Chicago from Mexico some days ago for
surgical treatment for this leg, and, of
course, Sirs. B. would not be left behind."
"And the trouble with the leg? " asked the
Herald man.
" You see," said Mr. Benham, with a per-
ceptible wince,as he sipped a glass of wine,
"1 had a little encounter with a Mexican
' bronco,' and the brute got a little the best
of it. I don't like to talk much about it, for
you would laugh that I, an old plainsman
and acquainted with broncos, should ever
have been caught foul like that. Mrs. Ben-
ham and I are living at La Cananea, Sono-
ra. Here's a picture of our home."
Mr. Benham showed a picture of a beau-
tiful low Mexican house nestling in the
mountains and surrounded by the densest
of foliage. The last time we went to New
York I drove a four-in-hand to an ambu-
lance over to the railroad station, about
sixty miles. I left the horses at the station
until I should come back, for you must
know it isn't exactly safe in Mexico to
leave valuable animals in the country when
their owners are away. While I was gone
one of the horses died, and when I came
back Father , a priest at Hermosillo,
loaned me a nice, quiet bronco mare to put
in the team to drive home. She was a
mighty nice animal. So quiet and kitten-
ish and so cheerful and ready on the bit. I
made up my mind driving over that if
Father would sell her 1 would buy her
to put in the team. Whan we got home I
noticed that the mare had interfered a little
forward, and 1 cautioned the man to put
seme ointment on the bruised part. As I
stooped down to show the man where to
apply it, the mare, who was by this time
out of the harness, threw her ears back. As
I touched the sore spot her forefoot flew
out and she knocked me at least ten feet.
Then she rushed and wheeled, and quick
as a flash she began to ply her heels. For-
tunately I had on a big fur overcoat, but-
toned tightly around me, and that feuded
off the blows to some extent. I yelled for
help, but the men seemed paralyzed. She
just stood there and made her heels go. and
1 don't believe I touched the ground once in
ten seconds. She caught me once in the
stomach, and I know I rose like a bird in
the air. Before I came down she had me
again, and up 1 went once more. That time
she broke tins knee and bruised this leg. I
remembered enough to know that I must
protect my head, so I covered it with my
arms. But she struck me an awful wipe,
broke my forearm, and sent me flying again
like a ball. When at last they drove her
away, I had two broken limbs, one mashed
knee-joint, three broken ribs, and there was
not a square inch on my body that wasn't
black and blue. That was four months ago,
and yon see me here yet on crutches. To
think that I should ever have been such a
fool as to dally with the lieels of a bronco
gives me really more pain than the hurts
themselves."
Mr. Benham gives some interesting par-
ticulars of his life in Sonora and the min-
ing possibilities of that region. Sonora is
richer in the precious metals than the con-
tiguous territory of Arizona. It is a more
mountainous country; there is more water,
more timber, and very much cheaper labor.
The mines are not new discoveries by any
means, but tho best and most promising
are those that have been partially worked
in years gone by by the old Mexicans^ and
abandoned because they had no machinery
to handle the water. Most of these mines
are small, but are fabulously rich in native
silver. There are scores of mines in Sonora
that have been flooded for half a century,
and some of these claims have been sold
for a mere song to enterprising Americans.
Most of the good ones are gone now, but two
years ago, when the railroad was pushel
through there, they could be had almost for
the asking.
Benham tells an interesting anecdote of
an Irishman down there named McKim.
McKim is an honest miner, who drifted off
from Arizona a few years ago into Sonora.
He had a little money, but a great deal more
faith. Benham says: "I should say here
that every mine that has ever been worked
in Sonora, or indeed anywhere else in Mex-
ico, has its early history recorded in the
archives in the district. Thus, if a claim
has lain idle for half a century, and one
wants to get its record, he has only to go to
the prefect, or local authority of the dis-
trict, and he is given access to the huge vol-
umes that contain the information. McKim
got hold of a claim that hadn't been worked
for twenty years, and studied up its history.
He found that tho last year it was worked it
took three shifts of eight men each to pack
the water out if the mine. He also found
that the water increased so fast on them
that the mine had to be abandoned, and
from that he argued that it was by no means
exhausted. The problem then was to get the
water out. But how? McKim had no money
to put up pumps, but he did have a good
deal of courage and a strong arm. He went
down the hill, and resolved to run a tunnel
for the mine to strike the ledge below the
water-pocket. Nearly five years ago McKim
began work, and for'long years he pegged
away at that tunnel. He had fully 6),) feet
to run. For about a year McKim had a
brother Irishman to help him, but the latter
got weary of the apparently hopeless task,
and for the remaining time "McKim went it
alone. About a year ago he noticed that
the face of his tunnel was in moist, crumbly
ground, and he got fearful that it would
tumble in on him. He didn't go near the
tunnel for several days, for he was afraid
of it. One morning he went up and found
the water pouring out of the tunnel like a
millrace. The water-pocket had broken
through, and the tunnel was draining the
old mine at the rate of 1000 barrels a min-
ute. McKim was beside himself with joy.
In a week he explored the mine through the
old workings, and he found almost a bed of
pure silver. Actually, he cut out cabinet
specimens with a chisel. He sacks and
ships the ore, and the little property is turn-
ing out $100,000 a year, with no other labor
than that of McKim and two Yaqni Indians.
So much for patient industry ana four years
of faith and hard work."
" Are many of the old California crowd
mining in Sonora, Mr. Benham'/"
" No. as usual they are mostly mining in
New York and Chicago. It pays better,
you know. George Roberts is still in New
York, but lif's mostly into outside specu-
lation. The only really good mining scheme
that Roberts was ever into he allowed him-
self to get out of. Those Lake Valley mines
in New Mexico, which everybody thought
were frauds, have turned out pretty big.
On the other hand, the Qui jatoa proposition
in Arizona, which the bonanza kings took
hold of, and which everybody said was
going to be ft second Comstoclc lode, has
turned out worthless. Mackey and Flood
hive thrown away a big fortune there, but
all to no purpose. That is one of the vicis-
situdes of mining."
" Are there any schemes on foot in New
York now?"
"Oh, yes: the biggest is Harpending's
South American gold mining proposition.
You remember old ' Harp,' don't you?
He's the man that put up the big diamond
mining scheme out in Wyoming, thirteen
years ago, and he and his pals cleaned up
a million on it. They bought up all the
rough diamonds that they could find in
Europe, and planted 'em near Green river.
Then they laid for Kalston, D. O. Mills and
the Bank of Calfornia. They sold nearly a
million dollars worth of stock in San Fran-
cisco and New York before the diamond
scheme was exploded."
" Well, old Harp is still on deck. His
scheme now is'tlie Colon Gold Mining com-
pany of Brazil, and he is moving heaven
and earth to float the thing in New York
and Chicago. Of course, I don't know
whether there is anything in the scheme or
not, but we had a good deal of fun with old
Harp the last time I was in New York over
a lot of nuggets he was displaying as from
the Colon. Some of the nuggets I would
swear came from the Sierra country placers,
and in the lot there were no less than live
grades of gold. There were nuggets that
would go plump to .+U2 an ounce, and then
there were others that wouldn't assay $I+.
And there were diiferent kinds of gold, too.
Some with a coppery tinge and others with
a silvery shade. Old Harp had the cheek
to say that these came from the same plac-
ers, and then the boys laughed. We guyed
him a good deal on his South American
gold."
" Sell stock? Yes, indeed, he's selling
stock all the time, and has shipped a good
deal of machinery down there to give color
to the deal. The stock is selling for about
$4 a share in New York, and someting like
10,000 shares have already been put out
here."
" Do you mean to say that the thing is a
humbug?"
"Oh, no," replied Mr. BenhamI only
say that it is Harpending's scheme, and
that his South American placers seem to
have as many kinds of gold as the whole
state of California. But Harpending is
smilir.g. confident and enthusiastic. Last
time 1 saw liim at the Windsor the old man
was shuffling about showing haudfuls of
gold dust. Of course, in another pocket I10
had a bundle of stock. He told me calmly
that as soon as he got his hydraulic ma-
chinery up he would bring gold up by the
shipload!"
At this pom C. I-I. McConnell, another dis-
tinguished miner, visited the Sonoran, and
the Herald man went off dreaming anew of
gold and silver
"There is another pri
foot which has its origin herein Chicago.
That isn't exactly a mining scheme, but it
is a big land project. Some of your Chicago
folks have got a big land concession m
Sonora embracing something like 4,000,000
acres of the finest agricultural lands in
that State. In fact, their grant embraces
the very cream of the northern part of the
State. It takes in the rich valley of the
Sonora river, and includes the best fruit
lands of the region. There is a man named
Travel s here who is at the head of the en-
terprise, and John M. Dunphy, ex-city trea-
surer. and his chief deputy, F. J. Howard,
are also interested. They are all down in
that country now, and are making my
ranch their headquarters."
"Are you interested in the scheme?"
asked the Herald representative, with a
kind of a dollar-a-line look in his eye.
"No," laughed Mr. Benham, "except in tho
general welfare of the country. I don't
want to buy anything more down there and
have nothing to sell, but want to see the
Chicago syndicate do well. I don't think
they intend to do much in mining. It's a
cattle and agricultural proposition they are
after. I don't know, of course, whether
they will succeed, but I know they have a
contract for indisputed title to about four
million acres of as fine lands as ever lay
out doors. Their purpose, I presume, is to
use part for grazing and attract immigra-
tion to the rest. It's a big scheme, and if it
succeeds at all there's a couple of millions
in it for somebody. But, as I said, they
know more about cattle-raising than I do,
and I wouldn't like to say much about
that."
The Old Tune.
THIRTY-SIX VARIATIONS.
18*29-1866.
This shred of song you bid mo bring
Is snatched from fancy's embers,
Ah, when the lips forget to sing,
The faithful heart remembers!
Too swift the wings of envious Time
To wait for dallying phrases,
Or woven strains of labored rhymo
To thread their cunning mazes.
A word, a sigh, and lo, how plain
Its magic breath discloses
Our life's long vista through a lane
of three-score summers' roses!
One language years alone can teach;
Its roots are young affections,
That feel their way to simplest speech
Through silent recollections.
That tongue is ours. How few tho words,
We need to know a brother;
As simple are the notes of birds,
Yet well they know each other.
Tlds freezing month of ice and snow,
That brings our lives together,
Lends to our year a living glow,
That warms its wintry weather.
So let us meet as eve draws nigh
And life matures and mellows,
Till nature whispers with a sign,
" Good-night, good night, old fellows."
[Di. O. W. Holmes in the March Atlantic.
Manners and Morals 0! London.
Fortnightly Review.
Neither our manners nor our morals are
probablv much better or worse than they
were half a century since. The increasing
popularity of London and the decay of
Faris as a sociai center have made the so-
ciety of the British metropolis more cos-
mopolitan. Thus we have divested our-
selves of some of our insular superstitions,
and perhaps also of some of our insular
virtues. But, although there is said by
those who lament with the high-born and
stately dame in one of Mr. W. S. Gilbert's
operettas that "courtesy's an ingredient
sadly lacking in this time," there is no
reason to suppose that gentlemen are less
deferential in their bearing toward ladies,
or that ladies are less dignified in their de-
meanor toward gentlemen. Pepys says of
the queen and her ladies that they made
sport in very common terms: " Very poor
methought, and below what people thiuk
these great people say and do." The
amenities of St. James's Park and the Mul-
berry Garden, as depicted in the novels
and dramas of the epoch, contrast not to
their own advantage with the contemporary
records of Hurlmgham and the Row; and
a French diplomatist, who saw a good
deal of English society at the period now
mentioned, and was much struck by its
laxity, asks, in a letter to one of his com-
panions, " how it would become our ladies
to call Mons. M. JackM." "Can," he ex-
claims, "anything be more mean and
rude?" "It is," he said, "such as our
lacqueys would almost disdain in Paris,
■where I have often observed two chimney-
sweepers accost one another in better forms
and civiler addresses." It would be per-
fectly practicable to prove by the enumera-
tion of a sufficient number of individual
instances at both epochs that, whether as
regards the standards of social courtesy or
the practice of high play, there was nothing
in the habits of gentlemen and ladies at
one which might not find an exact parallel
in the habits of another.
Silver has been discovered and mines
partially worked in twenty-one counties in
Texae.
POINTS ABOUT PALMISTRY.
THE ANCIENT AND MODERN SCHOOLS
Revealing the Future by the Fingers—Charac-
teristics of Various Nations as Seen
in Their Hands,
Pittsburgh Dispatch.
A quaint art. once in universal repute and
practiced by men of the highest reputation
and learning, was chiromancy or hand-
reading. It quite occupied a place among
the sciences, and was studied even by men
of such wisdom and learning as Aristotle
and tho Emperor Augustus. Curiously
enough it was not forbidden by tiie church,
although that body would not tolerate
astrology, at least so far as it interfered
with the operation of tho human will.
Palmistry is very old, and it is thought
to have originated among the Egyptians,
among the descendants of whom, the gypsies
of to-day, it is still practiced. With other
people, however, it, has strangely lost coun-
tenance. There is but one individual who,
in modern times, has made a reputation in
connection with it, and who was considered
of sufficient intelligence tocau.se his avowal
of faith in the art to be received with re-
spcct. His name I can not recall, but ho
lives in Paris, and there was a good deal
about him recently in tho papers. Ho was
reported to have remarkable skill, and to
have been very fortunate, indeed, in many
of his prophecies. Still, he mado mistakes,
as even the best of prophets may sometimes
do; for, although he foretold the downfall
of Napoleon III. he added that he would dio
by violence, which did not prove to be tho
case. He also related in advance a good
deal that has happened to the ex-Empress
Eugenie, and .some things that have not.
The hand is probably the most useful of
all the members of the body. We have
power, indeed, which we strangely neglect
to use, for providence has provided us witli
two hands, and by practice one may be
made as efficient and valuablo as the other.
Instead, by an oversight or indifference,
the world has grown into the unthrifty cus-
tom of employing in effect only the right
hand, with a loss to itself which may be de-
scribed as incalculable.
The only people who are ambidextrous
are some surgeons, and how valuable the
faculty is they know. They believe that it
is impossible to be a good operative sur-
geon without it. There is no reason why
the left arm should be the lieutenant of the
right, and it is a singular fact that in palm-
istry the left arm is considered more impor-
tant, and is the one from which judgment
is made.
I11 astrology the arms, hands and fingers
are ruled by the sign Gemini and the planet
Mercury, and it is certainly a most natural
provision, for they are of 'all I,lie members
the most closely allied to the brain. Tho
eyes may see and the tongue speak, but it
is only the hands which can execute. There
is almost as much expression, as actors
know, in the hands as in the face, and it
would be impossible to justly represent
anything without them. They often per-
form the office of speech, and, though looks
may tell much, they are far short of pos-
sessing the eloquence of the hands.
Years ago the Ravels used to show, as
none have ever shown since, the wonders
of pantomime, and how a story could be
conveyed to an audience wholly by gestures
without the loss of a single idea. Got, the
famous French comedian, in a work pub-
lished some years since, displayed the inti-
mate connection between the hand and the
mind. Says he:
"Tho open hand signifies joy, confidence,
abandon; the closed hand, vexation, doubt,
suspicion, and if intense, the fingers squeeze
against the palm. 'I give my word of
honor ' carries an open palm, but wlem tho
liar says, ' I swear it is so,' the hands tiro
on his breast with the palms down. Hand >
joined show a bargain or compact com-
pleted. The man who keeps his own coun-
sel, depends on his own will, joins his
hands with the palms down. Invocation or
prayer necessitates open hands and lingers
tree; faith, hope and charity call for open
hands—the human will abandoned to tho
divine. Resolution or determined will
unites the fingers. If intense, I,ho fingers
are pressed closer, until with anger I lie lutnil
contracts and the clinched fist, indicates a
menace. As civilization increase, gestures
grow less energetic; there isgreatorj-e jcrvo
and calmness. Thus, the coarse peasant
gesticulates with his whole body, the me-
chanic with his arms, the man of the world
with his hands, and the diplomat with his
fingers, or possibly with his eyelids only."
So much for Mr. Got. tt is impossible to
say too much for the hand. Think for a
moment what the world would be without
it, and how cheerless existence itself. With
his own hand God gave us the globe; tho
rest we have made with ours. Not all hands
are pretty, but some are beautiful. Come-
liness or the reverse in this member often
runs in families. Byron thought it the surest
sign of gentle blood, and so it mostly is. A
single generation which is not required to
toil will leave to its offspring a softer and
smaller hand.
The fingers are particularly expressive of
the condition and temperament, and there
are national and religious types. For in-
stance, in the Protestant countries, where
the mechanic arts thrive best, square fingers
prevail, while among the Catholic nations,
where the fine arts are most cultivated, tho
fingers are necessarily delicate and slen-
der. There is, therefore, the greatest pos-
sible contrast between the hand of the Eng-
lish or German and that of the Indian or
Spaniard.
The lines in tho hand are certainly sug-
gestive of the occult, and it may be asked,
if they are not meant to unfold our destiny,
of what use are they? The Creator gave a
meaning and purpose to everything, and
here of course is where the Bible text comes
in—it explains that meaning and purpose.
Why the left hand was preferred tor judg-
ment instead of the right is not clear, nor
indeed is it easy to make a plausible con-
jecture. But such is the fact, and should
the reader ever be afforded an opportunity
to peep into the future by a gypsy, he will
know whether she is a true Romany or not
by the hand she asks for.
"A great deal may be drawn of tho char-
acter and temperament from the hand
itself, regardless of the lines, and one need
not be a professional chiromant to inter-
pret these matters. There is even some-
thing in the temperature of the hand — somo
cold, like Uriah Heep's, aud others hot and
dry. The reader doubtless remembers
what Othello said aboutDesdemona's hand,
which was moist, and Dr. Johnson held a
similar opinion. The chilly hand is not
pleasant to shake—one naturally distrusts
it, but the arid, feverish hand is also dis-
agreeable. There is a medium—the hand,
without being dank, clammy or parched, is
yet both cool and fervent, soft, tender and
comfortable to hold. Such hands are tho
property of sincere anil pleasant people
such as one is glad to meet.
A great deal of fine poetry and other
literature has been written about ladies'
hands, particularly by gentlemen in love,
and no doubt there is a great deal of mag-
netism in hands. The first time lovers elasp
each other in this sort of embrace it makes
almost as profound an impression as the
first kiss. And what is a more graceful act
than the old-fashioned ceremony of gentle-
men kissing the ladies'hands? It has now
quite gone out except in courts, where it
only prevails in the churlish office of desig-
nating the difference of rank. Ho.v pretty
a fashion it once was we may see in the old
comedies 011 the stage. It is to me a source
of surprise that, as this age claims to be
the most deferential and respectful toward
women, it should have permitted so pleas-
ing and natural a ceremony to expire. Tho
world, for all it may say, is clearly less po-
lite than it used to be, and certainly much
less gallant, and is, therefore, none the
better.
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