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Show DENVER TO SALT LAKE CITY VIA THE UNION PACIFIC RY. I doubt If a mor sumptuously equipped tram eier leit lk over than .that which pulled out of the Union depot Tuesday evening, July 23d, conabout fifty newapnper mea. v taining mostly from eastern citlea, who had been invited by the Union Pacific railway to b their gueata on a trip from Denver to Sait Lake City and return, with the special object, of noting the Improvements recently Completed and la progress along that llfce. The train consisted of three Pullman alee pert, a dining car and the private car of General Passenger Agent Lomax. At Cheyenne the next morning there was added an observation car and the private car. of Superintendent Parke. As thus composed the train was carried unbroken to Salt Lake City. Accompanying the party there were. In addition to 'Mr. laimax and Mr, Parke, Mr. G rt IT, n, the general agent of the company at Denver, Mr. Darlow, the advertising agent of the road. snd Professor Knight oLWyoming univer- - W to th harbors of th Mikados lealm. He had four men of war In hit expedition and one bright morning ln July WORLD NOW REAPS WHERE HE they entered the bay of Tedo and put Into the memorable landing place of SOWEO. Gorihama, now called Klcrihama. Th am hors had hardly gripped bottom ere iJmpma, Baa CanlM a Haaaasaaft ta the vice gqvernor of Uraga the town Mat.h.w Calbralta Tmrri. Ik. Am.rk-aa- a immediately abreast the C4l ps set out Coataaodara Wba Bad a Famoaa for the squadron followed by a fleet of guard-boaTraaty. to surround the vessels. Great waa his surprise to see his police The present, when the development craft ordered from the ships sides at of thetr Oriental trade Is one of the the point of bayonets add guns and even he was not adchief concerns of civilized nations, is an exceptionally fitting time for the mitted to the flagship until his purpose dedication of a monument to the man was fully stated. When permitted to who did more than any one other in- board Anally be was met only by deledividual to give western nations an gates of the unseen commodore for opening In the east The man was the sake of added impression created and he waa inCommodore Matthew Calbraith Perry, in name Admiral formed that the great admiral would member of a family whose name an honored place in the naval hold no intercourse personally with history of this country, and himself any one short of the emperor or one one of the most illustrious sailors ever of his counsellors, and that he came In command of an American ship. His bearing a message of peace from the memory was honored July 14 by the president of the United State who dedication of a monument, erected by should be spoken of in the same exJapanese, on the spot where his foot alted terms only applicable to the emof peror himself. After several day first tread the soil of 'the Mikado kingdom, 48 yean ago. The visit of ceremonial Intercourse, a meeting with the emperor was finally arranged and Perry, according to an eminent of the Japanese empire, was took place on the morningbf Thursthe turning of the key which opened day, July 14. The result of this meetthe doors of this country to friendly in- ing was a temporary arrangement fatercourse with the United States and vorable to the United States. The following year, Ferry wept oanother Subsequently to the people of Europe. expedition to Japan, when the "ports Parr. Matthew (albi-altwas the son of Christopher, Raymond were ihrown open to Americans by a Terry, who fought on privateers In the treaty which Is still In force, Four year after this great work, of revolutionary war and made numerous voyages to the East Indies In the mer- his life was accomplished, Perry passed away March 4, 1858 cantile marine. Of this veteran comOliver Hazard manders two sons, THE MIDDLE-AGE- D WOMAN. Perry acquired the greater distinction OPENED JAP POETS. 11 tween the steel and th walla aide to mak a thick backing of Port land cement. The bore of thla part bf e the tunnel wn also changed to aa form, as being beat able to resist pressure. This whale encoded for 7b0 feet, and Increased the cost of the tunnel by hundreds of thousands of dollars The visitors were shown a lot which was covered over thick with the broken and twisted beams taken from this part of th tun- Green River and Bryan, L Roy and Evanston. Altogether there have been built 156 miles of absolutely new track, there has been a saving of miles in distance snd the thirty-on-e grade has been reduced to forty three 1 feet to the mile. All of Wednesday was spent In examining the Improvements between Cheyenne and Rawlins Of especial interest to all was the powerful steam shovel which was at work on Shermsn hill filling a long train of freight cara lth the wonderful disintegrated granite with which -that region abounds. Nearly a cubic- yard would be taken at one scoop, snd a freight car would be filled every two minutes This disintegrated granite is wonderIt is not rotten rock, as ful mater-fat- . some may suppose, bot live, bright granite with sharp edges. It has simply been subjected by nature to an enormeua crushing end grinding force, whfch Las broken it in bits aring In SlZ from small shot to pieces as large eWorld ib As i 'Rc'Ool'Ocs t Sittran ConJuT "Record. Horatio J. Sprague, United State consul at Gibraltar, died recently at that place, aged 77. He was the oldest of the American representatives abroad and had been consul at Gibrale tar for years He was very ts egg-shap- flfty-tbr- open-mouth- five-acr- e nel. Soon after the shale had keen passed through a large flow of water was encountered, and as in this end of the tunnel the grade is toward the breast, an expensive pumping ylant bad to be Installed. The next obstacle was a strong vein of oil, accompanied by dangerous the utvost gases. Notwithstanding precautions, several serious eiplo-sion- s have already occurred?1 It lathers in debse clouds along thi roof of the tunnel, where a spark struck ky a popular among the residents. Mr. Sprague was the dean of the American consular service and hu record at Gibraltar was altogether unique repre-aentatl- THE UNION PACIFIC RETWEEN ' 1 . CHEYENNE AND OGDEN. CONSTRUCTED CUT-OFFS- THE DOTTED LINES SHOW THE NEWLY . Mot Jboo' as a pigeon's egg. It makes an abso drill or a short circuit In the electric I lutely perfect .ballast for a railroad. wiring la liable to aet It off any moss It will not blow away nor slip and ment. slide, but packs Into a solid, homo- - j phis oil, by the way, although so geneous mass. It Is gradually coming troublesome to the contractors, Is Into use also for paving city street, j ngely to be the cause or rapidly has several so paved, Omaha oping the surrounding country. The la experimenting with It. and recently oil has a paraffine base and Is ex Buffalo visited tremely valuable. Already a number an expert from far-of- f the deposits for the purpose of deter- - of companies have been formed Jft. --mtntngwhcther lLwoujt:idaBtranigpfospeci tite- - eigh boring hills. 10 rwU dl8lance In the What will be - , mainlng 600 feetencountered city. . no one can tell. We Wednesday night waa passed at understand that beta are even between Rawiine, and on Thursday the train tha laborers who prophesy Milwaukee Wat pushed in front of the engine, got as far west aa Spring Valley. The beer and those who are looking for with Superintendent Parkes private stops were made at Rock what la known In Kentucky as Mouncar between them, and prepared them- - principal ts p rings and Green River At the tain Dew. aelves to be shown. former place are worked the most ex- The length of this tunnel wtll be - Heretofore no of th most difficult tensive coal mines In the West. Be-- 1 about 6,900 feet, and the cost some-twee1 car-two and three hundred piece of track on the entire line was thing prodigious, but when completed 111 be a monument that between Cheyenne and Laramie. loads a day are shipped out the year to the enter-arounTh ' Cheyenne has aa "elevation of 1,050 company. were . taken prise and perseverance of the Union feet above sea level, Sherman, thirty-thre- e I through one of the larger mjnea .pacific officials that will apparently mile west, the top of the divide, ' aaw for themselves how the thing was endur for thousand of year, nd the highest point between Omaha done. A short stop was also made at and Ogden, has an elevation of 8,247 Fish Cut, a little west of Green River. ! b" ?a feet. This made a rise of 2.200 feet where there are wonderful fossil bed a HlB ade at Lvanston and In thirty-thre- e miles, an average grade It washere Professor Marsh of Yale , made hie principal discoveries. I Over 115,000,000 haveibeen expend-Nea- r of sixty six feet to (he mile, while the this point is one of the most re-- 1 6,1 ln the,e various improvement. Aa maximum was over eighty-eigh- t feet. result of them Union Palfio bae Although even this is less. (ban that markable cute on the Vntire line, the ancountered Jiy any other railroad whole face of a mountain having been not on,Y much the shortest line across .but one almply incorapar- crossing the mountains, still It is a sliced off to get room for th track. the Rockies. ease of lta grades Dd the Aa noted above. Thursday night waa pretty stiff climb, and a large number of extra engine were kept constantly tiananit ai flnrinff VeHav e am sAwn imoothness of its tracks. It is said employed In helplug trains over the that has sprung up at the eastern end j fortvVeent bnfmhi! bill As will be see a by the map ac- of th Aspen mountain tunnel This 1!?. companying this article, a very large tunnel is not yqt completed, the head- part of this line was entirely rebuilt. Inga being ajjout 600 feet apart, but IS b? "The work required th handling and both end were visited by the j nWbThthlhbnninf pi party of 8,000,000 cubic yards of on Friday morning., This tunnel la snoring c flc aa ln doing. l,cceeded non 1 000 cubic the most expensive Improvement on Sherman gravel and : .yards of hard grange nxk. and the the entire ilnerwnd Its completion wjll To President Burt, more than to air boring of a tunnel I !)') feet long. To save a greater distance than is due the credit for these the average reader these figures con- other. It is a very remarkable tunnel others, changes. It waa he who had tha vey but little mrantng. Some idea of In many respects. In fact it Is claimed nerve to go before a board of directors th Immensity of the work may, how- by the railroad officials ttf be the most and ask for the enormous sum menever, be obtained when one la told that daring piece of railroad engineering tioned above, not to open up new terthere are three fills within a single ever attempted on thin continent ritory or to build new lines, but simtulle of track which contain enough They make this claim on account of ply to improve an already existing rock and disintegrated granite to bal- the difficulties .encountered In prose- line. Railroading Is more than almost : last the New York Central road from cuting the work. It was supposed the any Offa buslnesa of New York to Chicago. Some Idea of mountain through which the tunnel icials other, and boards of directors ere concoat may also be realsed when passes was of ordinary granite and stantly changing. Not one of those " the we are told that the contractors who the contract was let on this basis. It connected with the road may bored the tunnel received a bonus of hss proven, however, to he a veritable be with It five years hence. For this more contract than the '1160,000 called museum of wonders, each of which reaeon Mr. Burts daring and success for, because they completed the work taxed to the utmost the ingenuity of ta the more noteworthy. It can be exsevers! months earlier than waa the contractors. Th first serious dif- plained in only one way. and that la specified la the contract Aa a result ficulty waa a huge mass of moving that the money kings of the East have of all this change the grade has been shale, struck within 600 feel of the a prodigious confidence In thd qulck feel to the mile. western entrance to the tunnel This development of thl western country, seduced to forty-threAn engine that before required n shale when exposed to the air swelled and In the enormous growth of our helper to haul twenty freight cars op like sponge, and Us expansive trade with the Orient. over the hill can now pull forty with- power was simply irresistible. Geest of Denver and Colorado The out help. The saving In fuel, la wages Oregon timbers twe!e Inches square should people -- be - Interested In .especially snd In repair of rolling stock Is pro- set as close together as they would these Improvements. Anything that stand were snapped off like pipestems add to the ease of communication be digious. Like changes, with grade revisions, lt wa Impossible to braee themso tween Colorado and Utah benefits hire been made between llowell and they would hold. The floor of the tun- both. Three things are essential to -- Hutton's station. Lookout station and nel would sometimes bulge up four Ideal railroad traveling safety, comMedicine Bow, Hanna and Dana, feet In a single night It was finally fort and speed. In each of these re Cooper's Lake find Lookout, Walcott found necessary to replace the tim- specta no other line can compare with nd Fort Steele, Rawlins and Tipton, bers with heavy steel beams, and be the Overland Route elty. The latter has a national reputation aa a geologlbt and paleologlst, and added much to the pleasure of the company by his description of the different formations they examined. All of the above gentlemen exerted them elvee to the utmost to make the trip a pleasant one to their guests, and we believe have the assurance that their effort were fully appreciated. entrain only: tnov e J in the day flmeT The first night was spent in vCheyenne. After breakfast Wednesday morning the whole crowd found eats In the observation car, which devel-Denv- re-m- ai , n r 1 e !r thl1 I.8 !,. iv to-da- to-da- y e ; VENDETTA IN CORSICA. !, BlMr Cuhia f That Chi-tr- y Use SNaUl tNaiUlikMk Persona who derive their Ideas of Corsica aa' It Is today from Prosper ' Merimeee novel Coloroba," will be doomed to some disappointment Mansers and customs have changed a great deal In the island since th date. Shortly after the battle of Waterloo, when the gallant British officer snd his daughter Visited Colombi In her The (ancestral castle at Piriraner. (vendetta,' which la the theme of that thrilling story, has greatly : diminfan-cl- ed ished. During the carnival that we had come upon a real (Instance of this picturesque barbar-'lsOne workman killed another In a cafe, and then, In th expressive Corsican phrase, "took to tb maquls, ot brushwood, which covers a large portion of the island, and hu, from DHIIwm hi TMleMi No trees grow any her oa the Coast ot western or northern Alaska, and yet these shores for thousands of in Be and the islands of Bering sea are strewn wltk immense quantities of driftwood, ln places piled high oa th beach, bearing good testimony to the work of th rivers. This drift la the salvation of the Eskimo, furnishing him with fuel and material for houses, boats and sleds. Th entir northeastern halt of Bering sea Is very shoal less thaa 600 feet In depth, whtl the southwestern half la 11,000 feet deep, time Immemorial, been the refuge ot knives' snd daggers, bearing outlaws and bandits. The legend sub- looking such choice aa sisted for, some days, and excited a new Interest la life la Corsica, and quite a large demand for copies of ""Colombo." -- But a conversation which I had with th jug destruction who had Investigated .th can proved that It was. after all as he expressed It. a crime vnlgilre, and not, as w had hoped, a crime corse. W afterwardUhad the satisfaction of seeing the malefactor led In chains between two, mounted policemen on bis way into Ajaccio, whereas, the traditional bandit would have been fed and supplied with powder and shot by the country people, who. would have rather gone to the stake than betrayed his hiding place to the authorities. Here and there vendetta may stilt Hager la tha Island, hut It haa now become a means of attracting the tourist, who la invited to buy bloodthirsty- - "Vendetta Inscriptions morte al nemlco ("death to the enemy); or, even atlll more grw-eomV dlrltto al cuor del nem-tc("Go straight to the heart of th enemy). These choice weapons form, together .with' gourde engraved of Napoleon, or the negro's head, which la the Corsican crest, the stable Industry of Ajaccio. Westminster Review, Coras; e: o" s tllUMH la Cltto, American cottonseed Is responsible for a tremendous Increase In the production of cotton In Russia, middle Asia, Bokhara, and Khiva. The year 1900 show an Increase of 44 per cent over 1899 la the Asiatic lands, and the Increase In the Russian district is 2$ per cent. Most f the former Cornfields were planted with cotton. - ,4 ta tha Valteaa, Aa laSaaUV- Tb Vatican; the Ik'rgest palace in is followed at An Industry unique the world, will soon receive another was passing along I Atlantic City. addition to its bulk, which will bring the board walk there not long ago and up the number ot Its rooms to 12,000. I aaw a sign which read aa foiloxs: Th Pope haa decided to erect three "Children carefully cared for; five 200 new buildings. One, containing cents per hour." The man who man-ag- ed rooms, will b used to house th pilthe enterprise had several assisth while to Rome, grims coming tants and was doing a thriving busiother two, which will be much smaller, ness. tired mothers left their will be added to (he Vatican Museum. childrenMany with him while they took a will In the last mentioned buildings and nurses sometimes shift their be placed all th artistic offerings that bath, responsibility at the rate ot five sent Leo XIIL has received during hU Pon an hour. Washington Star. Vaa tificals,. , v of She sees, or thinks she sees, neglect and a lack of appreciation on every side. Even the fashion L.agazines forget her needs and cater largely to those who are young. So she either, quite Inexcusably, allows ' herself to subside into a noneuity or else she fll !shex dressing- - table - with lotions, and creams, and massage rollers and enter upon a combat with youth. She starves her mind, sometimes she neglects her soul, that ste ffiay find time to use her many appliances to urge back retreating youth. What the mtd-- d' woman needs moat of all la a better understanding of her privileges and of the amenities of her position. Let her refresh her mind and "Comfort her heart by a glance at the fragile dainty blossom and the golden fruit, at the lovely rosebud and the gracious rose, which Is odorless until all lta pet- ala are unfolded and Its golden-hear- t exposed. Let her look at the loveliness of Juno and then at the glory of October. Then let her remember that the la October. Let her remember that the youth of creation waa chaos, and that the completed universe la maturity. Then will she understand the chorus of the morning stars. Then will she wonder at the mad chase after fleet-footyouth. Youth which accepts happiness In place of joy; the false for the true; the unknown - for the knowabfe; the shadow for. the substance; the apparent for the real. Then will she know that her years are jewels. The middle-age- d woman should lend herself to all sweet and pervading emotions. She could give herself to the varied influences of pictures, of sculptures, of music, of literature and of sweet afid noble thoughts. She ehould watch the splendor of the dawn and the glory of the night She should thrill at the grandeur of the tempest as well as the peace of the , sunlit windless sky. She should be compassionate, she should be loving, she should be true. Then will a charm more potent than that of youth abide with her, and her gracious influence will make her an added power of good in a needy world Ledger Monthly. -- - , Glory OelobtR , Th l4lli)c44 bat tho HORATIO J. SPRAGUE. MATTHEW CALBRAITH PERRY, by reason of the part he took In the war of 1812, but It is doubtful If be accomplished as much for the lasting good of the country as did Matthew. Born ln Newport, R. I., April 10, 1791, th latter entered the navy as a midshipman ln 1809 and served on the schooner Revenge, under bis brother, Oliver, for one year. Then he went aboard the flagship President and for three years was trained under Commodore Rodgers. It waa from this boat that the first hostile shot of the war of 1812 waa fired, when Rodger chased jibe (Bel vldera. Subsequently this vessel, which Is now used as a receiving ship in the British navy, cruised the seas of northern Europe as a commerce destroyer and at one time 20 ships Ver searching for it Hla first important poet waa executive officer of the Cyan, which convoyed a colony of negroes from this country to Africa, and it waa be who selected the site of Monrovia, the present capital of Liberia. These negroes were sent out under the auspices ot the Colonization Society, Congress having appropriated (100,000 for the purpose of carrying back to Africa such slaves as bad been SUrreptHlousty imported. Perry took in important part in establishing their Settlement Upon hla return from this IriD h Eeriitod Ootjtisiw In tke West Indies and subsequently went to Mexico where he studied Hhe Spanish language until he had become proficient He protected American commerce against Greek pirates during the revolution in that country In the early 20s. In 1829, when John Randolph went as envoy to the Czar, Perry commanded the vessel- which carried him thither and whjch waa the to enter first American Russian waters. Nicholas Wanted to confer high honors upon Perry, but the latter preferred his humbler station In the American navy to a place under the Csar. Mehemet All, conqueror of Khartoum and- founder of the Khe dlval dynasty of Egypt, waa the next celebrity to entertain him. He was with Commodore Patterson when the latter made a brilliant naval demonstration In the harbor of Naples, forcing Ferdinand L and Count Cassaro to pay the spoliation claims urged by President Jackson. t For 10 years succeeding 1833, he waa on shore duty and studied the science of naval warfare, originating many Improvements th adoption of which tended to atrength th navy. When he comagain went on sea duty it waa to squadron In Africa In mand an 1843-- 6 knd te enforce the Webetar-Ashburttreaty. During the Mexican war he had charge of the steam navy and at the alege of Vera Crus It was men from hla ship who reduced th wall to rubbish and' made a breach large enough to enable Bcotta army to dictate terms and proceed into the interior. Bla Jape mm KspaSttlaa. After various other important naval to with enterprise, he proceeded Japan of Presithe signature hearing a letter ded Fillmore and demanded that America bn given commercial prirl-legin Japan. Tha emperor- bad previtrsbe ously declared that no . coontrv with any allowed land. perry waa detpr , .ieu eutrance America should be man-of-w- ar -- - 80-g- on - ' ea 1- tut. to the department at Washington. The aged consul was born at Gibraltar, Aug. 12 1823. His ' father wae a Bostonian, who settled in the great fortress town soon after the war of 1812 and became a permanent resident In- - 1845 young Sprague was made consul and remained in that office for fifty-thre- e year.- - He served under fourteen presidents and personally entertained three ofThem who visited Gibraltar after lea mg jfieWhtte HouSer These were Fillmore, Pierce and urant. The consul was a warm friend of Admiral Dewey and when the hero of Manila stopped at the Rock on his way home Mr. Sprague took charge ot him for a time and hospitably entertained the famous sailor. During the war of the ebellion Mr. Sprague was In a most delicate position, but he carried It off with great credit to himself and to the cause of the North. In the late Spanish war he was placed in even a more exacting situation, but he met it rapably and well.' Although he haa visited this country but once he was a tatrlotlc and enthusiastic American nd most eminently gratifying I The Man on Horseback ed l5epl 14 Is said to have been set aa tho date for springing a conspiracy to Overthrow the French republic and Install Prince Louis Napoleon as an emperor. Extract from cablegram from' Paris. It A to "Ideal. that London financiers take the projected contl nentaLhoycott- arXmerican goods seriously, and that some of them ar inrUnoiV t.KMWn -tkaT England should take part ln it Swim te AbolUh rntiT Ttielr view Is that th menace of AmerThe town of Davos, writes a Swiss ica la not a matter of trade. They correspondent la considering a bold protesi tomerely regard the question from a scheme for the abolition of all the or- hlgUy moral standpoint They say It Is no advantage to the world that a great dinary Jorms of fuel It is proposed to nation should dominate It with ideals Into erect an extensive electric plant at the whk h, they allege, nothing except money can enter and with a system of governconfluence of two large mountain torment In which money Is the rents, whose united waters will supply power. The Ideals of Europe controlling have ever beee higher than that, and to drop to -the necessary motive force. A, large the American would be standard a fatal firm of Swiss electricians' has been Srro.--. Srd, Isnt it? The United States la studying the problem for over a year, and has obtained' the Concession of the the only country which has engaged forces of the torrents alluded to. The in war within the last forty years same firm haa bought out new electric from any but selfish motives. Its roe- -, heating and cooking appartua espec- cue cf the Cubans was the only piece seen in that1 ially designed for (he scheme. The first of pure knight-errantr- y cost of the installation la estimated to time. Europe allowed the Armenians be 8.600,000 franca. Already Electricity to be tortured and massacred because no European power could trust the la not only used for lighting and moothem where there was plunder In tive power, but la adopted ln many villages for cooking and heating and in sight For the same reason Europe one of the largest bakeries. The idea Is permitted the Sultan to trample on the to do away with aU contamination ot Greek - England la engaged at present In stamjping the life out ot two the air by the nse of fuel. little republics for their gold mines. Americana have the knack ot getting Ink rtM--a aa money, but they part with It more lavA Wall street man carries seven strange coins la his pocket for luck, ishly than any other people ln the each being dedicated t a particular world. They help to support the Imof Europe, day of the week. The loss of any one pecunious aristocracy would seriously upset him. A lawyer which Is willing to barter its soul for proudly exhibits .nine silver pieces American dollars. Mr. Frederic Harriwhich he plays with when listening to son said that the impression produced a client. He believes la the collective upon him by America educational resources waa that their volume was at power bf nine. A newspaper editor carries at least a dosen made of various least ten times that of the resource metals, from a diminutive gold dollar devoted to the same purpose In, Engof copper.. A land., More money is gjven away for to a Spanish cart-whe- el sufferer from rheumatism weans a education every year in America than magnetised ring on bla finger, a buck- -' In all Europe In ten years. In Amern on his ica money Is often prised as a mean eye in each pocket a watch chain, a buckskin bracelet on to noule ends; in Europe it is sought each ankle and copper soles ln bla for selfish enjoyment Above all, romance still survives In America and x shoes. Another carries an Irish potato In hla pocket having had it so long marriages are still made for love. that it ta hard as a stone. New York When people in Europe cease to sell Press. them selves into matrimony they may talk about their "Ideals" and "depreNothing la more profitable than cate to error of "dropping to th American standard. preparation. Ta Tall-aiaa- sea-bea- is said |