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â- V .B-0i . .•^ A $17 Makes Miltions A Story That Can be Dupli- cated Time and Again in Our Own Country During the Last Few Years EASY COmFeASY GO A swift bick started it, and a charit- able bat r^eoccupled merchant helped It along. And before It waa oyer Tarl- ous persons had found fortunes in the LeadviUe, Colorado, silver rush and lucky merchant had skyrocketed to riches on a S17 grubitake. The swift kick waa administered by_ Oeorge Freassle to the dog of August Rlsche, and tk« charitable merchant was non* Other than Horace A. W. Tabor, ot Colorado fame. Freaasle and Rlsche were partners, but when Freassle kick- ed Rlache'8 dog, the two parted com- pany, the latter setting out for I>ead- vllle, which he had not Intended to visit. On the way, Robert L. Duffus tells as in Collier's, in an account of Horace A. W. Tabor and tho LeadviUa rush, he met George T. Hook, who ilked dogs, and together they prt>- oeeded to their destination. To Lead- *Ule, one day, his whiskers flying In around he waa to have a third shars in It. Otherwise he would be out ex- actly $17. Probably ha set the tran- saction down to charity, for he was a \ good and kindly man, and never liked to have poor Drospectors starving oa his doorstep. j Meanwhile Rlsche and Hook went ' on up Fryer Hill, found a spot which' npbody seemed to want, and set to , work. It happens that tbo carbonate ' veins around LeadviUa do dont come > to the surface, and lie In great waves , at varying distances (^own. There la â€" or was â€" no way of telling how ' deep down a vein was, except by dig- 1 King tor it. Some shafts went down ' 500 feet, which Is a long way to go ' with pick and shovel to reach one's pay dirt Rlsche and Hook spat on their hands and dug, and hoped everything would turn out all right. They dug for cine long days. On the ninth day they due ? out a wagon-load of dirt, took It down | to Leadville, and sold it for 1200. At 1 a depth of only twenty-six feet they had struck what was to become fam- ous as the LltUe Pittsburgh mine. By July they were taking out |8,000 worth of ore every week. And Horace Tabor was no longer too busy to pay atten- tion to them. No, indeed. By the middle of November the little Pittsburgh had yielded 1375,000â€" a A View On Our Canadian National Railway What the Prince Dislikes By W. T. ROBERTS Anything In the natura of an elv borate celebration of his birthday Is among the things the Prince of Wares specially dislikes; hi* blrtJ> dtty Is not .therefore, celebrated In than lawn tennis, naA be undeiw stands the refinements of the gam* Bven so, the Prince does not freqiv ently attend a crlckai matoh-, though when a Colonial cricket team is toaf tng th« country he always makes a any special way, apart from the good P^'nt of seeing them play, and he can wishes of his Immediate relatives and Intimate friends. Incidentally, It may be remember- "talk" cricket with Knowledge. It would, perhaps, be overstatlna the case to say that the PHice has • HE' A WILD BEAR, BUT NOT WORKING AT IT Miss Marjorle Kyte of Ottawa and Miss K. Gallagher ot Toronto mak- ing friends with one of the pet wild bears near Jasper Park Lodge, Alberta. the wind, come George H. Fryer, who i '^ery tidy return on $17 and a little had just discovered silver carbonate. He had "dug a hole in a spot where the Eastern experts said there could Cever, never be any paying ore. Ha found a lode which, with all Its dips, angles, sinuosities, and ramifications. workâ€" and that was just the begin- ning, we learn as we read on: when Senator Teller died was chosen to fill out the remaining thirty days of his term. But all bubbles have to burst, and all ed that the Prince's dislike of birth- . **^"'^ o* books, but ^e haa admit- day celebrations has led to the pass- '*"* ^** ''® *" '"*' ^^^ o' readln*, Ing of most of the ceremonies that. In "** '''"*® knowledge of affairs and ot pre-war days, used to mark the birth- ^* *'"â- ''* '° general has been gained days of members of the Royal Family. ^'^ contact with people In all condi- tions at life and In nianr countrtaa rather than from books. ' The Prince's time Is so fully oo ; cnpied that he hae rarely to tblnk ' of how he may begnils m idle hour, but It and when such a thing happen- ed to him, ^a would prefer to past , It sketching rather thas by reading, A Royal Cartoonist He has done soma quite clover work with his pencil. Quite recent^ ly. whn ll&iening to Vr. ChuPt-hlU's Budget speech. !u made a pencil sketch of the Councillor. One thine may safely be said about But the Prince has several other dislikes la addition to the one men- tioned. Ho has always had a dislike of all card gamea Before his Indian I tour he learnt to play bridge for the I reason that one of the Indian princes I '•e was to visit during the tour was j a keen bridge player, and the Prince I wished to be able to take part In a ' I rubber to please his host. I That, probably, was the only occa- sion on which he has ever played bridge. He never enters the card- i room at any of his clubs. I He also dislikes billiards. He ' Cf«^^f G|O.Uf« \m% Pari< 'eamt to play billiards in the billiards ^^ Prince of Wales. He never at tJUCd.i.JlglII.9UI & CUia room at Sandrlngham a little while 'o^" 'I's dislikes to interfere with ; before he went up to Oxford, but It ^ prformancs of his duties. He pos- I But all bubbles have to burst, and all ! Flowers are among the loveliest | is now years since he handled a cue. sessee the capacity of doing what lia Hook, the least ambitious of the mines, it sometimes seems, have their sights ot tljie streets, in Paris as in He took a dislike to the game direct- probably dislikes Intensely quit* three, soon sold out to Tabor and Rlsche for $88,00, which, with what he had already received from the was to yield $150.00,00 wliUln the next ! operation of the mine, gave him $150,- ten years. As it turned out, he eveni^OO for a pleasant summer's work. got $50,000 out of that lode for his j Rlsche held on a little longer, be- very own. Every able-bodied citizen, j cause a partner in some ot Tabor's pended the coinage of silver. By 1893 not more profitably occupied, and able ; enterprises, built a big house In Den- his millions hail vanished like a dream. to get hold of a pick and shovel, dash- 1 y^*"- Anally sold out to Tabor for $262,- He went about half dazed. There were â- ed for Fryer Hill, as It was ever after- !°*^- Tabor bought several other no more fortunes to be had by remov- revengeful demons. The time came when silver lost its hold on the mar- kets of the world, mines were closed, and Colorado entered upon dark days. Tabor's investments collapsed when the United States Government sus- London. There is nothing like the ly he learnt it. i cheerfully and pleasantly, stolid beshawled women, sitting be- â-  Among other dislikes, the Prince -Vnybody knows that the Prince ii hind their baskets, as known to Eng- of Wales has an especial one to ''een on dancing, but he Ukos • land; the flowers are piled on bar- listening to lo>ag stories. No one Quick tempo; to dance to a slow rows, or set out in tall kiosks, and ever appreciated better a good story measure is a thing ha aislikes. But sold by vivacious Frenchwomen who than H.R.H., but It must be short. , anyone who saw him dancing a little belong to the great class of the petite Of a man wiio was rather noted for '^hile ago with a rather heavy lady bourgeoisie, and are far from form- the length of the tales he told the ing a class by themselves. In these Prince once remarked: "I am al-; small Edens the seasons are 'con- ways afraid of looking bored when ward called." So began the great jcl*'â„¢3 on Fryer Hill with the proflts ing a few feet of top soil, and he was founded; peonies and roses and stocks the man is telling a story when I am LeadvUIe ru.sh. But Rlsche and Hook'°' '^^ Little Pittsburgh, and then dis- couldn't ruih, Mr. Duffus explains: j Posed of the lot for a million dollars. They were busted. They were on i ^. ""'® """"^ '^'^''" " y<^ar after the their uppers. They had no tools fit i^*^'^"^"^' *° ^^''^'e' Moffatt and to dig with, no powder, and very little r®^°™® ^' Chaffee. to eat. So they cast about for a nice, I . ."' ^^ ^^^ ^'^^ ^ ^^"^ '« •'e satisfied kind man to grubstake them. They Iwlth a million. The genius and am- applled first, it is said, to Kd ward Har-!*^" "'^''^'^ ^^ ^^''^ l^een keeping rlson. Harrison took their names and "°^^'" "^'^ ^^^ ^^'er since he had first said that ihoy might come back a ''"* °° "^^' useful article of wearing Uttle later and he would let them *^P*''®' *"''''^°'y ''°"ed over. Every- know If anything turned up. So they '^^°^ "^^ touched turned to gold. He went dowu the street to Tabor's gen- i '^'" ** Matchless mine for $117,- eral stdre. j *"^*'' ^^^ ^oon it was turning out $2,000 ,a day in net profits. He built a "wig Tabor had had. an eventful history. wam" for political meetings, and when too old to seek them if they had been au'l lilies and ranunculus and apple- present. I hope I don't." Prefers Playing to Watchingl That remark Is characteristic of at a dance in an East End club would have thought by the look on his face that he was having the time of his life as be walked through the slowest kind of fox-trot. there. Yet, unlike Timon of Athens and a few other rich men, ancient and mod- ern, Horace Tabor kept his friends after his dollars were gone. In 1S98 men of all political faiths joined in a successful petition to President Mc- Klnley to have him made postmaster at Denver, and he passed his last days with dignity and without tear of want. He died on .\pril ID, 1899. ' * â€" blossom all bloom together among ; late narcissi and early gladioli. Here. It Is hardly an hour between daffodils ' and asters, but it is certainly a crowd- ^'^« Prince, for H.R.H. Is nothing If ed hour. . . . There are blooms for n*" ^^'^'^ mannered. But those who sale which appear e-^cotlc to the l^now the Prince well enough to en- ^ foreign eye; there are homely nose- '*'^*'u ^iâ„¢ take care not to have I gays from cottage gardens; but let no anyone addicted to telling longj dazzled foreigner try to fathom the stories to meet him. ! . names by which they are known. Long dinners, however, bore the Tientsin la Last Big British more, probably, t'can Chinese Are Given an Equal Share in Ruling Concessions Quarter in China to Change Status Born in Orleans County, Vermont, on ! th-> ,.„<.>, hi* r j â- â€ž • November 26, 1830, he had been krst of ,879 re^t.H r ' '" '^' '"T"' a stonecutter, then a school teacher, i °'eryni/ht,o /fh""^ T^^ '° " In 1S55 h. trekked to ivansas with his dou7r and a L^t ^T ""'" ^' * wife and children. There he did welP h".^,^*^ "" ^f^ """'"''• In politics, and was a member of the i peSty which in r TIT "' T'' flrot c™„ o».i 1. .-.â- -,...„_ __ , . , .perity wuich increased the population dispersed by Federal troops. en was of Leadville from 3,000 In 1S77 to 35.0O | musthaveboenapoorfarmer to in k" ^^'^^ Overnight the little town I i8;;a >,„ „. â-  ^ v, "'''"'^'^' ^^^' ^^ became a roaring, roUickine citv i 1859, he abamloued his Kansas land.Th»r<. n,=,^ i^ . i '"'"c*""* '^"y. •and Joined in the rush to Pike's Peak ^ !„ '^'°°°'' ^°'^ =*'""'"' ^^ e .usu to t-iKe s i-eaK. , many gambling dens, but the great in- Noxt year, when gold discoveries toxicant was wealth, and the great' were reported in California Gulch, be- gamble was In mining claim. If a ' low the site of what was to be Lead- prospector wanted monev, all he had ' vile, he hitched four oxen to a prairie to do was dig a hole and offer It tor schooner and moved over-a six sale-he could sell it, no matter where weeks journey: Arrived at the gulch, it was or what was under it. One â- he not only prospected a little, but prospector salted his mine with car- also started a store. The store paid bonate and sold it for $2 000 While •better than the prosp.ictlng. When he was congratulating himself on his abont To^T'^^f began to peter out, cleverness the supposed victims claw- about 1S6G, he followed his luck to ed a little deeper, found a vein ot car- the mming camp ot Buckskin, but a 'bonate which nature herself had put tew years later he was back In the there, and became millionaires fnnv : 7 ,•!"., '^^^ °°'' beginning to , Horace Tabor, school teacher,' stone- Pnr "^ , K '-•""^'•' ^^''"«^' politician, storekeeper, J- or a time he was postmaster as gold hunter, was thoroughly at home ^vell as storekeeper at Oro. two or in all this uproar. He put a small thr^.e miles below where Leadville iron sate In a building next his store .was to \w. In the summer ot 187 . , ,. „ , ,, hired one clerk, and started the first tie U-ft Oro (following which the little bank in Leadville. He organized the town gave one gasp and died), and ; Leadville Stock Exchange, became went up thP creek to Leadville. Here president of the Tabor Smelter Supply He was popular enough and prominent Company, formed milling companies, enough to get himself elected as the street-construction companies, water erst tnayor of tho new clt^. He sold, and gas companies. He built the »s one of his contemporaries has said, Leadville Opera House. He had a everything from a tin pan to a suit ot , military company and a fire company Clothes, and did a pretty good busi- named after him. He was Leadville's ness. Still, there was nothing about leading citizen; in fact he became near There is a different word tor daffo- Pflnce even 'dlls and for cactus-flowers at each 1°°S stories. ! kiosk or barrow; you may buy sweet- When, after the war. he began to William, by some happy chance, but attend big public dinners he put up! Peking.â€" The last of the Important If you ask comment ca s'appelle you without complaint tor a while with British concessions in China, located will be told that ... the lady does not 'cng menus that took from an hour in Tientsin, is to be ruled hereafter oa know; it's something from the coun- to an hour and a half to get through, much by the Chinese residents as by try â€" and she casts a cold metropoli- The menus are always sent to the British. .V decision to this effect tan eye upon it. York House for his approval. One was R.aohed :it tho recent meriting of On the other hand, the newspaper \ morning a menu containing a list of the Tientsin uixy.iyers living in this kiosks, which present a microcosm of. sixteen courses arrived. A member special area, who resolved that here- the world in the time ot the journals i^' the Prince's entourage went to see after there shall be no discrimination on sale, are remarkable for the almost * member ot the dinner committee, against Chinese in the matt'-r ot elec- toolhardy (...urage with which the "Is there any addition his Royal toral votes and that only halt of the saleswomen attempt to pronounce Highness would wish to have made members of thi> conucil neod be Brit- those titles. Le Teemez, for instance, to tbe menu?" asked the committee Ish. .A.3 the Chinese taxpayers are in is no stranger to Printing-House man. â-  the majority, thera is nothing to pro- Square, though its editor might not "Well, no, there is not," replied vent their electing all Ave oouncllora recognize this sign of The Times the Prince's equerry. "A.^ a matter from among themselves, although at I But the most likeable outdoor mer- of fnct, his Royal Highness would this meeting they joined in the cua- ichandise ot Paris is the book-trade â-  mnch prefer just to have a mutton tomary practice ot naming one .\merl- ; along the river. This has been de- chop for dinner, but, of course, he has can to sit on the governing hoard, .scribed, printed, drawn and comment- no wish to interfere with the tastes Originally these foreign concessions led on a thousand times. Yet it re- imJ wisies of other diners, though '" China were intended as places of I mains fresh to the observer; ot all shorter menus please fae Prince bet- resilience for foreigners only, who ithe streets ot Paris the Seine is the i ter than long ones." were not permitted to dwell In other ;most romantic, most interesting, the; Sine ethen it has become generally parts of (he country. Many Chinese I oldest, and the most modern. Its {known that the Prince dislikes a din- sradually drifted Into the.'io protected I parapets have supported the elbows ; ner of many courses, and usually ai'ea.s, however, especially political re ot generations of dreaming geniuses; ; when the Prince attends a public f"g-?e» and rotlred merchants who IT doesnt now they bear great boxes of books, : dinner there are not more than eight appreciated the safety afforded hero I where old people . . . stand in shiny I courses on t,!i<3 menu. ' overcoats or shinier jackets to ttugerj Looking on at sports Is not a The French Canacfian Spirit ^^^ books they cannot buy. No rag- 1 thing, in a general way. that the "When money mean anything." talks him which hinted at a great future, being all Leadville's leading citizens ^;^ One does not expect miracles to hap- rolled into one. »â- * pen to country storekeepers in their But Leadville, even with 40,00a popu- ~ J'"'"*'^*- 'â-  lation, was too small to hold him, ami Tabor was very busy on the April he moved down to Denver, where he morning in 1S7S, a few days after, bought the finest residence in town Fryer's great discovery, when Hook 'and set o;it. as a Denver historian and Rischo approached his store. In! puts it, "to transform Denver from a I fact, as he afterward said, that turned ; straggling village to a metropolis " He I out to be the busiest year of his life, j built and gave to the city the Tabor ""'' Jinally he said: â€"Yes. yes, go and | Opera House, at a cost ot $850,000 take >< hat you want, but don't bother! With its finish ot solid cherry, its ""w'rj^lw, , I plush upholstery and Its rich draper- With this he returned to the import- lies, it was the best theatre between ant busiiio-ss ot selling somebody a j St. Louis and San Francises. He gave pair of boots or a can ot beans, while heavily to Ihe campaign funds ot the Rlsche and Hook, taking h.m at bis Republican partv of Colorado, and word. %vent off with about $17 worth after the death of Jerome Chaffee was of supplies. It was understood that it I generally considered its boss. He was they found any silver or gold lying I lieutenant-governor of Colorado, and ged urchin whitens his nose on a con-' Prince of Wales likes. Quebec Scleil (Lib.i: Hi^orically fectioner's pane as ardently as these! Good sportsman as he Is. looking speaking it is impossible, to dena- . . . plunge their eyes into the pages, ' on at a sport does not greatb' inter- tonalize a people against its will, cheese-colored with age or fresh us i est him; he much prefer.* taking part You may rule t, take away its instl-'^cream, where live the words they*fn one which appeals to him. tutious, its belongings, everything, want to read. And, in all France, %o looking on at races do«3 not afford but you can never subject its spirit i traders are so slow to ask for monev him the same pleasure as riding in a or master its soul. Now our souls as the booksellers ot the quays. T-heir steeplechase. and our spirits are French, like our own poor living comes from selling The Prince, as a matter of fact, language. This victory is the most these pages; but when an old man, is not a great racegoer; he attends complete of all our French-Canadian ! with green reflections on his brown! most of the big meetings, like New- victories. It is from this that welcomes and stands reading a fifty- 1 market, Epsom, and .A.scot, but there meetings he never have won the integrity of our insti- franc book, chapter by chapter, day 'are mauv race tutions and our laws, respect for our by day. he becomes an honored guest goes near rights, liberty to govern ourselves to the salespeople who cannot under- j Watching lawn tennis, even first- according to our own ideas and tlJ» stand a word he reads. Immediately I class lawn tennis, is a thing that firm hope of growing without hind- underneath him the riverside plane- ' may fairlv be classed among his de- , ranee. We have today our own trees move their sliadows over the Unite di-siikes. He learned to plav schools, colleges, universities and fishermen, the cranes, the barges, the tennis at tho same time a» the Duke govermnent. and we are masters in steamer's; a waft ot steam, a deep-sea of York. Both princes were well in- own house. But we would be blast fro ma tadpole tug, bring ro- ' structed in tbe game bv professional making a great mistake if we did not mance like a smoke of distant ships coaches, but whilst the gam- made a remember that there is still a great and the sturdy, unnioving Louvre strong appeal to the vc^nger Prince. deal more to be done. i casts into the hurried water a profile it made little or none to the elder. * as immovable as a proposition in i Tennis a Trial Very Small Boy: "That new teach- Euclld.-George and Pearl Adam, In; -rhe Prince has attended t^e Wim er-3 very mean." His Father: "Hush, ^ A Book About Pans. ^ledon meeting on a few occasions, my sou, you mustn't say that." "Well. , * " \ but Iwking on at a five-set match she is! She borrowed my knife to i Diner: "Will the spaghetti I order- between ^ven champion players is a sharpen her pencil to give me a bad ed be Ion.?, waiter?" Waiter: "The trial to him. mark." ^ usual length, sir.' | Cricket interest* tho I>rlnce more for their persons and property. Chinese Demand Voice In time, as they came to be pep manent residents and taxpayers In these districts, Uiey began to demand a voice in sovcrnliig them, and this latest doci.sion in Tientsin to give ^en them halt of the control of the British concession is one more step in a long history of such adjajitments. The British special area.-> In Han- kow and Klukiang were retroceded last year: Kong Kong, an IslantI off the mainland. Is a crown oobny and therefore ot different statu.^ from the concessions. In Peklns only tho lega- tion Is in a proie<-te(l iiuartet; and Shanghai is an Inlernatioiial conces- sion, with an American chairin;Ln, and !-o also not to be consjdered as a British concession. When tho Han- kow concession was returned u; China last year, it w;is rumored that the Tient.oin district would be similarly dealt with in the near futiir'_<, and it is claimed in some (luarter-; to-day that apprehension of surh action caused the liberal derision at tho re- cent taxpayers' meeting there. At one time coilfish formed th« currency in Iceland. We are very gind that >vq didnt have to go round church, -Punol/. with the plate in S'MATTER POPâ€" B y Payne Old Timer Reversed CS.M:,.