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What Lord
Blarneyston Said
By LOUISE & CUMM1NGS
One evening at a theater Lord Blar
neyston, chatting with an American
Mend who was spending a great deal
of time and money on his lordship, see
ing Mrs. Harkaway In one of the
boxes, asked who she was and when
told said:
"She's the most beautiful woman I've
•een In New York, and there's no wom
an in England who can compare with
her."
Such a remark made by a member
of the London smart set was bound to
be repeated from mouth to mouth. In
a twinkling it permeated the social
circle, the members of which were at
once agog to see a woman whom Lord
Blarneyston pronounced more beauti
ful than any woman In England. The
first Sunday after the encomium had
spread In society the church where
Mrs. Harkaway worshiped was over
flowing with strangers who went there
to see her.
Of course his lordship's remark reach
ed Mrs. Harkaway. It was her husband
who told her, and he was proud to bo
the husband of the most beautiful wo
man in New York or London.
Mrs. Harkaway belonged to that
class of New Yorkers who years agone
were social leaders, but who now oc
cupy back seats, the front seats being
taken up by the commercial multimil
lionaire aristocracy of America. Why
not use Lord Blarneyston's encomium
to regain the position occupied by her
ancestors? True, the ancestors of pres
ent day leaders had some of them sold
meat and vegetables to Mrs. Harka
way's forefathers, to say nothing of
one who had cooked the said meat and
vegetables In her grandfather's kitch
en. But times were changcd. Present
day aristocrats had assumed the lead
ershlp by virtue of their enormous
wealth, and It was Impossible to dis
lodge them. Possibly they would take
In a woman whom an English peer had
pronounced the most beautiful In New
York or London.
Arter a consuiiauon oeiween .>ir. miu
Mrs. Harkaway It was decided by the
husband that the wife's chance for so
cial prominence should be made avail
able. Certain relatives of Mrs. Hark
away who had married Into multi
millionaire families were found to In
troduce her, and she was launched Into
society simply on the fact that Lord
Blarneyston In order to compliment the
city of the man who was dining and
wining him had said that she was the
most beautiful woman in New York or
London.
The Harkaways had misgivings
about entering the golden circle on a
beggarly income of $10,000. They fig
ured, however, that Mrs. Harfcaway's
beauty, certified to by a British peer,
would be considered a quid pro quo
for what they would receive and that
they would not be required to give en
tertainments. In this they were cor
rect The difficulty In the multimi'Moc
aire set Is to get persons to attend en
tertainments. But there was one thing,
however, on which their calculations
were in error. They thought that Mrs.
Harkaway would be able to provide
herself with costumes out of her hus
band's Income, leaving enough for their
other expenditures.
Possibly had Mrs. Harkaway been
admitted to the golden circle on any
other plea than Lord Blarneyston's ex
pressed opinion of her beauty a few
thousands dollars a year for costumes
■would have sufficed. But society ex
pected the most beautiful woman lo
wear the most beautiful costumes. Be
sides, Mrs. Harkaway received the
concentrated gaze of society not be
cause she owned the highest bred dog
In the universe, but because of Lord
Blarneyston's remark. For this rea
son her costumes were of supreme im
portance. They would attract far more
attention than her beauty. Therefore
they must not only be superb, but In
great variety.
Not only did Mrs. Harkaway's ward
robes cost a great deal of money, but
at least one trip abroad a year was
necessary to procure them. Then much
more Jewelry than she possessed was
Indispensable. Indeed, the Harkaways
had not even prepared for the wife's
entry Into society before they saw that
within a short time that which pro
duced their income would melt away
like ice under the rays of the sun.
Nevertheless the preparations were
made.
At the first function attended by
Mrs. Harkaway she found herself the
cynosure of all eyes. "That's the wo
man that Lord Blarneyston said was
the most beautiful In New York or Lon
don," said everybody to everybody else.
She stood in one position while a
throng of persons passed her, ogling
her as they would a freak In a dime
museum.
It happened that Lord Blarneyston
was still In N6w York and was at this
assembly. A lady to whom he was
talking called his attention to Mrs.
Harkaway, remarking that she had
been told she was the most beautiful
•yoroan In New York or London.
"I cawn't agree with that" said his
lordship. "I think Mrs. Monkerench
far niore beautiful."
The remark was overheard, and Mrs
Harkaway's beauty was blighted. She
was dropped from society, fortunately
In time to save her husband's fortune
She resumed her norma] position, but
Bomebow the spell of happiness that
pervaded the narkaway family was
broken. There has never since been
the same contentment
! A Valuable
j Nugget |
j! Story of an Olden Time In i
Colorado.
By EUNICE BLAKE
West of the Missouri river are the
alkali plains, stretching to the base of
the Rocky mountains. But how chang
ed from "the plains" at a time when
ttey were traversed by the prairie
schoom i . the gold seeker who was
making his way across the continent!
The schooner—doubtless named from
its white cover, which on the level sur
face resembled the sails of a ship at
sea—gave place to the stagecoach, and
the stagecoach gave place to the rail
road.
During the stagecoach period, when
Colorado was becoming prominent as
a gold region, Joel Slmonson, a young
Ohioan, went out there to seek his for
tune. In those days the mountains
were full of men dignified by the name
of prospectors, who went about in
flannel shirts, trousers tucked in their
boots, picks and shovels on their shoul
ders, stopping here and there to dig a
hole for gold, one in thousands finding
It In paying quantities, the rest con
tinuing their wanderings till starved
Into other work.
On hearing of the great gold find
in Colorado Joel Shnonson had left a
sweetheart in the east to go to seek a
fortune to enable him to marry, for
both he and Mabel Harwood lacked
enough money between them to fur
nish a cottage. What they had they
put together, and Joel used It to help
him to Colorado. He spent a year
there digging holes and finding noth
ing of value, during which his story is
one of privation and sufTerlng, for even
a prospector must eat and have cloth
ing. By the end of this time he was
so discouraged that lie sat down to
think over what he should do.
Tbe Inst article of value-except worn
clothes, hat and boots—was a pipe
fill of tobacco. It was evening and
darkness was closing in on him, though
sitting on a mountain side looking to
the west he caught *he last glow of
the twilight He had one pipe of
tobacco, sufficient for a good long
smoke, which was fortunate, for, hav
ing no supper, the weed must serve in
stead.
Joel had sat down to deliberate upon
a matter on which his mind was bal
anced. A girl had been waiting for
him In the east for twelve months,
and now lie was no nearer a condition
to marry her than the day he came
away. lie was ragged and hungry. A
desire came over him to end the mat
ter. And yet it occurred to him that
the sensible thing to do would be to
make his way back to Ohio and the
two work out the problem together.
lie smoked till night came. Every
time he pulled on his pipe the tire with
in cast a slight illumination about him.
Presently he noticed that a lump of
quartz near him reflected this light
from his pipe. The harder he pulled
tho more Intense the light and more
marked the reflection. Joel got Up nnd
with his pick detached the illuminated
lump from its surroundings. Then
with the starry heavens for a canopy
he stretched himself on tho ground
and went to sleep.
In the morning he examined his
lump, but could make nothing of it
There was gold in it but there was
gold In everything in Colorado; the
trouble was to find it so plentiful in
any oue spot that its extraction would
be worth the trouble. Joel threw the
lump down. but. noticing a minute re
flection of the morning sun upon its
many small surfaces, picked it up
again.
His deliberations of the night had
ended In a draw between working his
way back to Ohio and suicide. Under
the freshening Influence of morning he
turned from both of these and decided
to put in his pick ouce more. So he
laid about him, gathering bits of earth
and quartz, which he tied up in his
handkerchief and set out for a camp
In the valley below.
There he found an assayer whom he
persuaded to make u test of his collec
tions without the hope of early re
muneration. What was Joel's surprise
to find that his lump of quartz was
nearly pure gold and likely worth from
S3,000 to §4.000. The earth and chips
of quartz did not assay satisfactorily
except to indicate that gold in paying
quantities might lie near tho point
from w .lonce they were taken.
Joel resolved to go down to Denver,
raise some money on his nugget and
make arrangements for prosecuting his
flnd further. That night he slept on
the floor of a deserted miner's cabin
In the morning his nugget was gone.
Joel was disheartened. Doubtless
some one had come into the cabin dur
ing the night and relieved him of his
flnd. The assayer had advanced him
Us stage fare to Denver, and ho con
cluded to go there and make a final
decision as to what he would do.
One of the principal parts of Colo
rado society in those days was the
road agent He infested the stage
routes and looked about for any
booty, from a gold ring to the treas
ure box of an express company. Trav
elers knew that they were liable to
be relieved of their belongings and
resorted to all sorts of devices to hide
them. Joel found in the coach on tbe
. way to Denver two women and three
men. The women expressed f«ahi of I
being robbed, for the coach had been 1
stopped by the ngenta at least one day 1
In tho week for a month. One of the *
women expressed wonder why tho 1
authorities did not do something to ]
clear the roads of the robbera. At this «
a quiet looking little man in a corner !
seat said that to eradicate them wonld
be impossible. He hoped that he would "
reach Denver in safety, and if he did (
he would never ride In a coach again. ^
Suddenly the coach stopped. The
little man trembled from head to foot
When it was learned that the pause
was to enable tho driver to fix some
part of the harness the otuer passen
gers Jeered the little man for his timid
ity, whereupon ho wrapped himself
up in his greatcoat and settled back 1
in his corner. The men passengers c
blustered a good deal about what they c
would do if attacked, and the women ,
were very sneering in their remarks „
about the coward.
1 lio coach had passed down from an (
eminence and was about to dlmb an
other when a shot was heard. The
coach again came to a stop, and this ■
time It was evident that something ,
serious had happened. In a twinkling a
the door was thrown open and a man I
with an enormous revolver pointed Into 5
the coach appeared at tho opening. j
The women screamed, two of tb« 5
men turned pnle—and, as for the little J
coward, he crouched ln his corner 6
wrapped ln his overcoat, which also I
covered his face. The only uncon- j
corned person ln the coach was Joel |
Simonson, who, not having anything j
valuable to lose, was not at all wor- f
rled. I
"Come out of there!" said the man at I
the door in a tone that Indicated he f
would be obeyed. Tho two women f
alighted first, handed out by the rob
ber, who was quite deferential to them
Then came two of the men, followed
by Joel. The coward still crouched ln "
his corner, with his face covered. The
robber had not the stamina to kill such
an insignificant person. Instead he
mounted the steps of the coach and
reached across it to the other side, i
where the man was, and, selling him, t
was dragging him out when there waa
a crack, and the robber fell on the floor i
of tho coach. t
The coward made one leap, in which '
he reached the ground, and there were 1
two more shots In quick succession, (
each bringing down a robber. When i
the passengers recovered from their ,
surprise they saw the coward standing ,
with a smoking "bulldog" revolver ln
each hand, quite cool, but his eyes (
darting about him ln search of any '
other man who needed his attention.
Seeing no more robbera, he turned
quickly to one of the men he had shot,
who was raising himself. Another
shot finished him, and this exciting
scene that had occupied about thirty
seconds was over.
While it had been enacted the two
robbers who were not engaged ln get
ting the passengers out of the coach,
greedy for booty, had relieved the two
women and one of the men of their
belongings. As soon as the tragedy
was over the little coward aaid:
"My friends, I was sent out on this
trip to lay for Jim Dugan, who has
been robbing the coaches single hand
ed and alone. I thought I'd meet him
alono and didn't expect that he would
have any one with him. If hU two
pals hadn't been in such a hurry to get '
the stuff and had been tending to bual- i
ness Instead of going through ti>« pas
sengers that had been taken out of the
conch I would have been a goner, for i
one of them, if not both, wouJd have [
dropped me." I
He then proceeded to relieve tne
fallen men, who were both dead, Of
what they had taken. One of the ar
ticles was a lump of quartz which made
Joel Slmonson open his eyes. Ho rec
ognized the Identical nugget of which
he had been robbed the night before*
"See here, you little stick of dyna
mite," he said to the man who had
killed the road agents, "that thing there
Is mine."
' What makes you think so7" Bald the
other.
"If you examine It you'll find my In
itials, 'J. S.,' cut on It"
The little man turned the nugget till
he brought the letters before his eyes,
then turned them over the passengers
with a scrutinizing glance. It did not !
take him long to spot one of the men
passengers.
"Who are you?" he asked.
The man made no reply.
"If I mistake not I've seen yon once
before"
With that the llttlle man clapped «
pair of bracelets on the fellow, who
made no resistance.
When all had been attended to the
coach was driven on, and on Its ar
rival In Denver the stolen property wu
returned to its owners on proof of own
ership, Joel receiving his nugget The
coward from the time of his quick
change was a hero and received a
largo reward for the service be had
done the express company, having pot
an end to a series of robberies that had
cost it many thousands of dollars.
Joel Slmonson sold his nugget for
enough cash to send for his betrothed
and to furnish capital to develop the
ground from which he had taken It
Great effort was brought to bee* on
him to learn where be had found It,
but be kept his secret till he bad en
tered a claim for the property! then he
began excavations which resulted In
the discovery of a mine that made him
rich.
Meanwhile Mabel Harwood Joined
him in Denver, and as soon as be had
built a cabin near his mine they went
there to sojourn while he was making
developments.
Joel Simonson became a wealthy Col
oradoan. He was sent first to the na
tional bouse of representatives and
next to the senate. He lived to a good
old age and left children who have
lieen an honor to him.
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