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Show DAILY occasion, while a fierce fire was raging in Toklo, he calmly took his easel and sat down in the very midst of the furnace of biasing and tumbling houses, and puinted until his clothes PAINTING MILES ARTIST SOUGHT SOLITUDE THE HIMALAYAS. OF Worked Where the Slightest Exertion Would Make a Strong Man Gasp. caught fire and he was compelled to retreat to a safer distance. Among men who pursue their art under difficulties a very place, indeed, should be awarded to Bertram Hlles, who produces the most remarkable paintings with his mouth. As a boy of eight he was run over by a Bristol tram car, and lost both his arms, but such was the boy's qluck and love of art that he set to work to model to draw, and to paint with hla mouth. Within two years he had won a first class certificate for freehand draw Ing.' Charles Felu, the Flemish ar tlst, it may be remembered, was born without arms, and yet, holding his brushes between his teeth, he was able to paint pictures of surpassing merit, and James Carter, whose arms had been rendered useless by paraly sis, produced canvases which won the enthusiastic admiration of Landseer UTAH STATE JOURNAL, STRANGE TREES AND TREIR HABITS WITCH TREE OF NEVADA LUMIN0U8 FOLIAGE. HAS Story Is Told That Light from Leaves Is Sufficient for Reading Purposes. THURSDAY, JULY 1904. 7, ries are used as a substitute for soap Just as they come from the tree. The witch tree is a dwarf tree. Its stem rarely as large as a man's arm, and is seldom taller than eight feet. It has innumerable branches and Intertwining twigs. Its foliage is so luminous that at night it can be plainly distinguished a mile or more away; while, according to a letter to the writer from a resident of Tuscarora, in close proximity to one of these trees, fine print Is easily read. This tree Is evidently a species of bay, and the luminous property of Its leaves Is parasitic. It consists of a PABST OR. NONE Good TYiotiiraH which upon being In Venesuela there Is a vegetable transferred to the hand by the rubThere la something linpreaalve In the very thought of a man sitting sketch wonder known as the cow tree." This bing of leaves upon It, Imparts to It Ing 20,000 feet above the world of tree grows on rocks where no other the same phosphorescent glow, while men, amid the solitude of the lllma the glow disappears from the leaves thing thrives. Its leaves are leathery and ridges A unique tree on the Island of Goa, lays, with snow-cla- d and crisp, but by making Incisions in peaks stretching for a wore of miles near Bombay, la the "sorrowful tree,' the trunk a peculiar, grayish milk on either side, and with not a .vestige as the natives term it. That name ooxes out, which Is tolerably thick of any form of life to be seen anyIt because the tree has a droop given and of an agreeable balmy smell. where. sad Ing, appearance during the day The trees natives gather round these This Is a fent, says London Tit-Bit- s, and bring large bowls with time, but Its aspect changes as the at sunrise which A. D. McCormick makea light them to receive the milk, for toward sun goes down; then Its leaves open of, though he pleads guilty to a little no longer droop, and fragrant noonday the heat of the sun changes and pride at having painted a picture blossoms come Into bloom upon It The the milk to sour. However, the milk few thousand feet higher than any moment sun shows Itself in the the will harden Into a toothsome gum, At that other artist thHt ever lived, the east, blossoms close, the leaves himself. as the familiar much breaking of the he waa but 2,000 feet below height to droop, and the petals of the begin our school own stalk milkweed's by the summit of Pioneer peak, in the recent sweet blossoms fall to the TOOTH OF A MASTODON boys will ooxe the white Juice of that The he says, Himalayas slightest BROUGHT HIM FORTUNE weed, which the air turns to gum. The ground. This tree blooms thus all the exertion makes even the strongest round. gum of the cow tree acts as a good as year man gasp, through the air being so The baobab trees of Senagambla millionaire the lumber suager of thirst. Harry Hill, rarifled; and when I sat down It re- mun are to be the oldest living believed of Alaska, who found his for' a curious and to It is puxsilng sight quired strenuous exertion to cross one tune when he discovered the tusk of the stranger to see the trunks of these trees on earth. Some scientists have leg over the other, and it made me ipastadon, Is In the city, a guest at trees bristling with plugs, as he will put the age of one of these trees at gasp and pant as though after an ath the Oxford hoteL see them, for the drawer of milk from 6.0U0 years; and the conscientious and letlc struggle. At this 20, 000-feAlthough a young man, Mr. Hill is a hole in a tree will plug It up when conservative Livingstone was positive high camping place, I did one water to have a fortune large hla needs are supplied, to keep the that the one he examined was not less color painting, which haa at least the reputed than 1,400 years old. This Is the tree to even make Russell Sage sit tree from unnecessary waste. merit of beating the record aa to be enough and take and It he all up notice, made and odd Three useful trees are the that sends out the Immense branches Ing painted at a vast height, though I out of lumber. Nome City, from "butter tree of Central Africa, the that bend to the ground for support, made several water color paintings which he hails, was practically built manna tree of Calabria, and the although they grow sometimes to not many thousand feet below." feet before they by lumber furnished by him. "tallow tree of Malabar. The first of length of seventy-fiv- e The king's marine painter, The story of the mastodon tusk and these bears a nut from the kernel of bend downward. Martino, often practiced There Is a legend about a tree of his art under conditions which many Hill's rise to prosperity through It Is which the natives produce a butter common property in the great North which, so African travelers Inform us, Tibet, called the tree of 10,000 immen would And not only most unwest territory. much resembles butter obtained from ages," which runs like this: comfortable, but for physical reasons, Far away In the dreary lands of Seven years ago he went to Alaska cow's milk, and which will remain Impossible. "What I do," he says, la in Tibet, a green valley, In Ambo, to arrange a large basket at either as a prospector. He failed to make a sweet a year. In a Ttartar tent, was born which, beThe manna tree" Is end of the bowsprit or at the stern, strike and was about to return to beautiful boy named Tsong-Kab- a, states. the When traveling north of cause from a sap which Is tapped from and then craw Inside it and get the From his birth he had a long white Nome saw he tree In August a sweet gum is great forests there and the sailors to lower me a few feet by knew a fortune greater than any gold evaporated, which has no little food beard and flowing hair, and could means of a rope. Hree I remain susmine existed in them. value, and some commercial sub speak perfectly hla native tongue. Putting pended aa the ship pursues her course, Hla manners were majestic and his of the lumber Industry to stance In the drug trade. The talknowledge watching the tumbling waters, and were full of wisdom. When he words work. Hill soon acquired the right to low tree" of Malabar yieds from the taking rough notes In my sketch book. was three cut years old he resolved to unlimited timber, but he lacked seeds of its fruit, by boiling, an ex Of course you must be a good sailor means to do It. He had no money cellent tallow, which serves as a val- cut off his hair and live a solitary life; the for this sort of thing. We should to pay the enormous cost of a saw uable llluminant, both as oil and by Bo hla mother shaved hla head and think so, Indeed! threw his long, flowing locks upon the In that territory and he saw no candles, which are made from It mill But the chevalier has had more than outside the tent door. ground chance From of Is one it a mort until It the remarkable tree, too, getting day one predecessor who pursued art with his hair sprang this wonderful tree. mastodon's tusk on on flourlseha that Fierthe Island the of appeared an equal enthusiasm and under as Tsong-Kab- a lived many years, did scene. ro, one of the larger of the Canary great difficulties. Turner once, when countless In good deeds, and at last died. the heart of a dense forest group. The Island is so dry that not he was overtaken by a snowstorm at But the tree which had grown up from which the young man was even a small rivulet Is to be found, sea, had himself securely lashed to the through his hair lived on; and they called It and making vain plana for and for that absence of water a curmast, so that he might observe it wandering tree the of 10,000 the This waa future but Images. at ious same the is time keepmade by a tree compensation without fear of being pitched Into the his eye open for new species of such as Is not found elsewhere. The long before the Christian era, but It ing tumbling waters; and Claude Vernet, a famous eighteenth century marine timber, he leaned to rest for a mo leaves of this tree are long and nar- Is the testimony of the French missionaries that the tree lives yet. The painter, always made a point of going ment, against what he thought was an row, and they continue green the year leaves are enormous always green; the wood Is boulder. As he did so there through. out to sea when a storm was raging, a of reddish tint and has an aroma- as wns a The gentle mystery of this tree Is crash, he felt himself falling in and on one occasion, when everyone of cinnamon. a cloud of dust cloud when surthat hoves about it constantand, much else on board was praying for a safe The bark of the tree Is marked with prised he picked himself up again, It ly; this Is condensed to water, which deliverance, he threw up his hands well-knowas to find symbols In the Tibetan saturates that the boulder was In the and leaves, was luckily fastened to the mast falling'from In an ecstacy of adm'ratlon and ex- reality the skull of an antediluvian them In constant drops, keeps the language; alphabetical characters also appear In green on every leaf, some claimed, How glorious It Is!" Cale- monster. Investigating further he dis- cisterns, which are excavated beneath some lighter than the tree It darker, covered It was the skull of a them always full of water. In the that don Cameron ran terrible risks when self. The branches of the tree are mastodon with Its tusks buried in the absence of all water, save for this so he was painting his enormous picture, described as as being spread out like It Just ground. fallen thoushad strangely collected by the rain tree, Niagara in Winter." spending scores of feathers of plumes ands In some years that Island the ago crowning a trunk keeps of hours suspended from the cliffs at great bat. sparsely popufeet tie only with Its kind. but of great eight high, trees for are the tools he lated; but Securing few, and dlxxy heights at the end of a rope. girth. downwards and dug the of water one unearthed not sufficient is supply Verestchagln, the great war artist Two French' missionaries who saw of Russia, who perished so tragically perfect tusk and the broken half of for the needs of a larger population. tree were fully convinced that the the another. We have in our country at least a short time ago, was as much at marks To upon It were of natural growth. make a two long story short, he sold strange creations among trees home on the battlefield aa in his stuthe to tusk the the great Canadian govsoap tree" which grows in Flordio, and would calmly produce his Croup sketch book and make a drawing ernment for 18,000, and through this ida, although it la not Indigenous, and a violent Inflammation of the mumet sale whothe witch financed tree." in him The people more Is latter while bullets were whistling past his cous membrane of the wind pipe, ears and the flash of swords and bay- his lumber project properly perhaps, a bush or shrub, and From the broken half he has had Is peculiar to the Tuscarora gulches of hich sometimes extends to the laronets was in his eyes. He was woundynx and bronchial tubes'; it is one of made different small objects for use Nevada. ed many a time while following his hs and Edward presents, VII. of EngThe soap tree" was brought from the most dangerous diseases of chilart. I have been hit here." he once land billiards with plays the only Japan, where it Is common. It is a dren. It almost always comes on in said, pointing to his leg. "and there," balls ever made from the tusk of prolific bearer of berries about the the night Give frequent small doses pointing to his forehead, and there aivory mastodon. slxe of a cherry, and of the yellow col- of Ballard's Horehound Syrup and apand there. I have been wounded all Mr. Hill Is on his way to St Louis or of a common bar of soap. From ply Ballard's Snow Liniment exterover. But It was necessary. There to see the fair, but will return to these berries, boiled with the hard, nally to the throat. 25c, 50c, 11.00. was no other way to obtain the facts. 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