Alpine Avalanche. (Alpine, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 5, Ed. 1 Friday, March 30, 1900 Page: 3 of 8
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THERE IS NO PLACE LIKE NOME,
THE LAND OF SHINING GOLD
OW—to the formB the boundaries on ^ither end of even he did not understand its great blc and disagreeable to do is sure to
* There is no place like No:
gold-seeker of today. As the season
approaches for the annual departure
of thousands of gold hunters to the
Klondike and to the Alaskan gold
fields It Is discovered that the destina-
tion of nine In every ten Is Nome,
writes a Seattle correspondent. It Is
the new B1 Dorado of this wonderful
xegion, is said to be richer than any
of the ether much-heralded districts.
Certain it is that in its formative pe-
riod It is more interesting.
It lies at the mouth of two rivers,
the Snake and the Nome, which afford
«every facility with their numerous
branches and ramifications for wash-
ing the placer dirt. The gold is easily
accessible and ^abounds in quantities
th'i* have attracted many miners from
the older established localities.
A great item of expense which is
generally attendant upon the opening
of an El Dorado lies in the cost of
prospecting both in time and money.
Many months and many dollars have
bean spent the world over in prospect-
ing worthless lands, but here things
»re different. Here it Is possible to de-
termine the value of a rlaim. or ^t
least to ascertain whether It is worth
svorking or not. almost at a glance as
the claltn. The rim is nothing else
but that place in the formation of the
land where the hills forming the water
shed begin to rise. It is estimated by
the transportation companies that
there will be a hegira of gold seekers,
numbering some 25,000. to these new
gold fields within the next few months.
INK ROLLERS USED IN 104-1.
Not Until a F«v Vmt* Ago. However, War*
Tfcojr Made of Glue and Melaasa*
As long ago as the year 1041, so his-
tory tells us, a Chinese blacksmith.
Pi-Ching by name, made a paste of
glutinous earth upon which he en-
graved separate characters. These he
baked, makiug movable type of earth-
enware. Even to this day in China
the impression is made by inking the
type with a brush; a thin absorbent
paper is then laid upon the face of the
type and pressed lightly with a dry
brush. We have now the first way by
which ink was transmitted to type.
This way of talking an impression
continued until abouL 1474, when pelt
balls were introduced. If in ‘ perfect"
order these would do good work. They
were made In the following way: A
piece of strong grain peit or skin was
usefulness. He merely spread it. when
in a liquid state, upon a piece of can-
vas and then made a ball of it. This
is the only in which it differed
from the pelt ball. The inventors of
printing machinery were nth quite so
slow, however. About 1830 the
composition was used as a coating on
wooden cylinders: and here we have
the first application for printing
presses worthy the name of a “roller,"
without which printing machinery
could never have reached the state of
perfection it has attained today.—In-
land Printer.
Naming mt Nails.
Many children and some grown per-
sons have found it in order to ask why
nails were called tens, eights, sixes,
and so on. There are various explana-
tions for this, and the scholar can ac-
cept that which pleases him best. Ac-
cording to one statement, "when natls
were made by hand, the penny was
taken as a standard of weight, and six
were made equal to the weight of a
copper penny.” This explanation is
open to criticism, on uccount of the
very small size of the nails, of which
six were needed to iiuiunce even the
be
contrary to his ideas of “right." What
he wishes to do cam never be "wrong."
By men's actions, not by their words,
m ist we Judge them. ~ <*'
A FALSE BEARD.
Had to
Why aa American la Europe
Wear Oa*.
Among the varied bric-a-brac,’ ob-
jects of art. and soflvenlrs of travel
that adorn the walls of one of the
coxiest bachelor “dens" in New Or-
leans is a false heard and mustache
put together on a false foundation and
supplied with a pair of delicate wire
hooks to go over the ears. It is Jet
black in color, and its effort is a trill**
piratical. "These false whiskers,"
said the young broker who occupies
th» apartment, "are an interesting
reiic. When I toll you that I used
them In all the ha liking business i did
when 1 was uhrouil a couple of years
ago you will no doubt look for the dark
lantern and jimmy to complete the sei.
My experience, however, was not bur-
glarious. and the story, in a word or
tw ». is this: I had never been In Eu-
rope before, and wasn't posted as to
the nest way to carry money, so on the
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the soil to he prospected lies but a few
feet below the surface, either on the
beach or back in the foothills.
There is but little non-producing
dirt to remove, as bed rock Is found
five feet below the surface. Men who
have suffered with the gold fever for
fifty years aver that the inland mines
of IhlR district are vary similar in geo-
logical formation to the early placer
mines In California. During the min-
ing season at Nome almost all the op-
erations were confined to beach dig-
gings. This was due chiefly to the
accessibility to water and to the fart
that lltfle was known of the inferior
mining regions.
Two million dollars have been ex-
tracted from the beach already and no
estimate cun be made of what lies hid-
den there. I’rospectors have gone
over sixty miles of this beach and say
tjiat In every inrh of It there is pre-
cious metal
The beach for many miles is dotted
with mining claims. The particular
sand In which the gold is f^und Is ruby
red in color and lies in strata from two
to nine inches in thickness.
Labor Is the greatest item of ex-
pense, but this when taken in propor-
tion to the net gains dwindles into
insignificance. Perhaps one of the
greatest advantages of these fields lies
in their accessibility. The greatest
difficulty is manifested In the landing
of both passengers and freight from
the vessels to the shore. The gold it-
self has been pronounced by experts to
be of an exceptionally pure quality. It
la elean and bright, Is .easily retorted
and amalgamates perfectly on the
Conner nlatis. which li>* at the
selected, and from this the grease had
to be entirely removed. It was then
soaked 14 or 15 hours and afterward
"cut 'ied" by drawing It across a post
until every particle of dampness had
gone. Then long treading liy the feet
followed. Wool was wrapped uuder
the skin and the pelt was tightly
placed over, bift the great difficulty of
getting it in order and the uncleanli-
uess of the operation led to the Intro-
duction, about 1807, by Mr. Maxwell
of Philadelphia, of the dressed sheep-
skins or “skin rollers.” as they were
called. But they, too, were abandoned,
being found too heavy for the hand.
About 1815 Mr. Fanshaw of New York
introduced an improved roller made by
wrapping a blanket some eight times
around a piece of wood three and a
half inches in diameter, turned true,
and with an iron spindle on each end.
The skin was then .tightly wound
acpund the (ilgpkgt and afterward
nailed to the wooden end. It was in
1817. by the merest chance, In one of
the potteries in Staffordshire, England,
that the composition of glue and mo-
lasses first saw the light. This com-
position was used in the potteries for
wlyit arc commonly called "dabbers.”
Mr. D. Foster of Weybrldgc, England,
was the first printer to apply this com-
position to letterpress printing: but
large-silted, old-fashioned copper pen-
ny. Others are much more probable.
One explanation holds that tenpenny
nails originally sold for tenpence a
hundred, and so on. the smaller nails
selling for the lower price. Another
explanation Is that one thousand nails
of the tenpenny else used to weigh ten
pounds, one thousand of the sixpenny
size six pounds, and so for other sizes.
Of the ordinary sixpenny nails there
are eighty to the pound; of the eight-
penny there are fifty; tenpenny. thirty-
four; twelvepenny. twenty-nine.
Actloae, Not Words.
There are those who sny happiness
is nothing; that one should not care to
look for it. When you hear such a
sentiment expressed, know that the
speaker is saying what in his inmost
soul he disbelieves. While nobody be-
lieves that happiness is the only object
to be sought in life, there is not that
human being who. while he lives, say
what he may, is not seeking it openly
or unacknowledged to himself. He
who loftily waives off the acknowledg-
ment of this fact, generally is at the
same moment finding plausible ex-
cuses. of duty ur present necessity, for
securing to himself all possible ease
and enjoyment. What is uneomforta-
SHOEING ARMY HORSES Ilf WARM
advice of a friend who ought to have
had more aepae 1 got an old-fashioned
letter of credit in New York—one of
thoae Idiotic arrangements that have
a photograph of the holder pasted in a
little circle at the top of the page.
When I procured the letter i was
wearing a hill beard, which, I am
told, changes me very materially, but
while stuylng In London I got tired of
It, and one day, on a sudden impulse,
I hnd it taken off. never thinking of
that coniminded letter of credit. 1 had
no occu-'on to use the document until
I arrived In Paris, and when 1 present-
ed it at a bank there was turned down
hard. The teller, or whoever he was,
told me he couldn't think of paying
money to a man who bore no resem-
blance whatever to the official photo,
and, when I explained the situation,
shrugged his shoulders and advised me
to come back after I grew another
beard. Doing out I chanced to notlc®
a costumer's shop, and was seized with
an inspiration. 1 rushed over, bought
that curio now on the wull, returned to
the bank.clapped it on my classic mug.
and said. 'Now gimme that money.'
There was some talk, hut l got it. and
afterward I worked the same scheme
from one cud of Europe to the other.
The bank oeople regarded it as an
amusing American eccentricity. With-
out It [ would have lost at least a
month, laying up somewhere, waiting
for my bristles to break out.”—New
Orleans Tlmes-Democrat. ’•
Ills Tnlng* In Pro* itlem-e.
Providence has the largest silver-
ware factory in the world, the largest
screw factory, the largest manufactory
for small tools and the largest Hie-
works. Perhaps it is especially unique
in producing more Jewelry than any
other city in the United States and
nearly as much as the rest or all the
country combined. There is no city
which possesses so many separate anil
distinct shops for the manufacture of
a single commodity as Providence does
for the maniifactfire of Jewelry. There
are at least 250 separate factories de-
voted to the making of gold, Hilver,
rolled plated, electroplated, and brass
Jewelry and novelties. In addition
the auxiliary industries for furnishing
supplies of special labor to the Jew-
elry factories number more than 75.
Many of the Jewelry shops are small,
employing only ten or a dozen hands^
while some employ as high as 300,
and in one case 1,400.—Nashville Am-
erican. i
WE ARB LONGER LIVED.
Loagevtty la IM OMtarj'i Chief Char*
_ —forlsMz I— caw—.
What has been the chief character-,
istlc of the nineteenth century? No
two critics agree, nor can they, because
each prefers a different quality. One
singles out science, another invention,
as the dominant trait. A third, who
looks mainly at the political aspect of
life, says democracy. Others, again.
Eay pessimism, philanthropy, doubt, or
toleration. So litany features, so much
diversity, argue at leastr for many-
sidedness. says 'the Forum. There la
one charactertstlc. jhowever, which dis-
tinguishes the nineteenth century from
all previous centuries—a characteristic
which has become tooeommonto at-
tract the attention it deserves, al-
though it really measures, all the rest:
This is longevity. During the past
100 years the length of life of the
average man in the United States an I
in the more civilized parts of Europe
has increased from a little over 30 to
40 years. A multitude of eausps.
mostly physical, have contributed to
this result. Foremost among these
should be placed <1) whatever man be
included under the general teriy sani-
tation; (2) the more regular habits of
living which are the direct ou’kime of
Industrial life on a large scale. These
are some of the evident means by
which life has been lengthened. In-
ventions. which have mude production
cheap and the transportation of all
products both cheap and easy, have
had an influence too great to be com-
puted. And no doubt much has been
due to a general . Improvement la
methods of government; although in
the main there has been much leas
progress in practical governqient than
Is commonly supposed. No great rail-
road company or banking house or
manufacturing corporation could pros-
per If Its officers and employes were
chosen and kept In office according to
the system by which political offices
almost everywhere are tilled. "NffltP
but experts wftnted" is the sign writ-
ten over the entrance to every profes-
sion. trade unit occupation except gov-
ernment But. whatever governments
have done or left undone, the fact to he
insist«H) on here is that the average
man today lives almost ten years loug
er than his grandfather lives. Indis-
putably. therefore, the year 1»00 finds
conditions more conducive to longevity
than existed a century ago This Is
true beyond question for the masses
who feel immediately the effects of
pleuty, hunger and cold—the great
physical dispensers of life and death.
MEDICINE IN 1800.
yutit Renaedle* Prescribed In New Verb
When the Century Wn* Just Begin etna
At the last meeting of the New York
Historical society Dr. Sydney H. Car-
ney, Jr., read a paper on "The New
York Medical Profession in 1800.” The
better to put his hearers into the prop
er mental attitude for whut he had to
say to them Dr. Carney reminded them
that at the time of which he war
speaking peach, plum, and pear trees
flourished lu Madison square, and
Babylonlun maples and sycamore trees
waved thetr branches as they had done
for generations in City Hall park.
There has been some speculation
among the curious as to the prevalence
of gripes at bedtime among New York
ers of a hundred years ago. The rem-
edy for this complaint prescribed by
the physicians was nutmeg and brandy
and the yolk of an egg to be taken be-
fore going to bed. .For apoplexy, salt
and cold water were to be used, where-
upon the patient was “immediately to
come to himself." A toothache remedy
efficacious always with one exception
in the practice of one physician was
to crush a ludyhug between the thumb
and forefinger and then to rub the
finger on the gum and tooth. Freshly
crushed bugs were recomtuended. For
the bite of a mad dog the prescription
was an ounce of the jawbone of the
bottom of each rocker. The
specie ib found in fine par-
ticles and Si'.iall grains in the pay
<lirt along the beat a, while in the in-
terior and along the numerous creeks
the product contains nuggets of ex-
ceptional size and weight. These nug-
gets arc generally smooth worn, show-
ing that they have at some time been
washed about or worn by the friction
of Ice in some prehistoric period.
This is the district Into which the
new gold seekers must plans;,!. Th
miner ou his arrival at Nome may
pitch his ten! any place until he lo-
cates his claim, either upon the beach,
the four stakes, one for each cornef of
the rectangle. As-soon as a piece of
land Is decided upon by the prospec-
tive miner the district recorder is no-
tified. who. lor the small sum cf 82.5!},
e^vmines the records to find oat if
d"^r,» are any previous claimants, and.
none are found, places the location
on record.
The area allowed is 500 feet in wid'h
and the length depends on the geo-
graphical formation. The width may
vary from a hundred feet to half a
mile. The creek od tee borders of
which the claim Is taken up gener: ''
posers throngii the claim. What ...
known trchnlenilv as the rim. at lie;;,
.... ^!--f •
'I:.
One of the necessary adjuncts of
everv military camp which counts ca-
valry anierg its forces Is a corps of
farriers. J-Iorseshoelng at the front,
howeier. Is not performed as it is In
the well-docked blacksmith shop. The
cavalry horse requiring a shoe Is seized
by two or three soldiers, promptly
dumped over on his side and, while It
is kcM down by a number of Tommies.
the army horseshoer goes to work sad
has the charger shod before he could
eat a feed or oats. A small portable
bellows and forge enables the farrier
to travel about the lines and do his
work wherever wanted. The accom-
panying illustration shows one of these
army horseshoers patting shoes on an
obstreperous officer’s mount In South
Africa.
Eailkk Postal Employe*. .
The English postofllce employs not
far short of 80,000 women, and it Is
probable that the largest number are
employed In telegraphy, or 1n duties
relating thereto. In London alone tha
number would appear to exceed 1,BOO,
of whom no fewer than 1,000 are em-
ployed at the central talagraph otBee
at 81. Martln’s-le-Orand.—Soottlsk
Amaricaa.
dog. some colt's tongue, and a scruple
of verdigris, that taken from the cop-
pers of George 1 and CSeorge II being
preferred, of which compound u tea-
spoonful a day was to he taken. If that
fulled to euro 180 grains of verdigris
and hulf an ounce of calomel were to
be glvenin one dose by a physician in
person. If this still failed four grains
of pure opium were given to the pa-
%ent,_Thls lust was a secret remedy so
successful that early in cen-
tury the state legislature bought the
secret for $1,000. For a visit the foe
charged was $1. for a visit and a dd*r~
$1.25. Pills were 12 cents. Doctors got
$1 a mile for going out of town. It cost
$4 to get one to Brooklyn and $10 to
have one visit Btaten island. For
bleeding a ( barge of from $1 to $5 was
made. Tadpoles figure in the regimen
of that day to such an extent that It is
said the people of Vermont, in a season
of scarcity, almost fattened .on them.
And one of New York's famous physf-
clans spent a part of Ala time lu the
study of the alimentary qualities of
these tld-blts.
Open Spare In Madonj
London enjoys * greater area of
open space than any other capttAl la
tfca world.
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McKinney, R. C. Alpine Avalanche. (Alpine, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 5, Ed. 1 Friday, March 30, 1900, newspaper, March 30, 1900; Alpine, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth803614/m1/3/: accessed June 10, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Bryan Wildenthal Memorial Library (Archives of the Big Bend).