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Show VOL. I. MARYSVALE, PIUTE COUNTY WONDERFUL STREAM. ANTES CREEK AFFORDS CHANCE FOR AbVENTURE. Exploration Made by Thrje Boy. the Fact That Much Hidden Grandeur Abounds Remarkable gik Holes and Subterranean Passages. EVERAL weeks ago a Pennsylvania had not struck bottom. This test but adds another element of wonder to the many curiosities that abound in this Antes creek region. Even though flows as an open stream nearly three miles before emptying into the river, the water of the Antes creek seldom freezes. For the first mile after gush ing out of the mountain at the big spring the water never freezes. This is undoubtedly due to the high temperature of the water caused by its long underground course. The theory ad vanced by some is that there is an underground lake of considerable magnitude beneath that section of Nippenose valley in which these sink-holappear, Whatever the cause may be, Antes creek and its curious caverns are source of much interest to those who are scientifically inclined, and to the adventurer or explorer the sink-holafford a wide field of research and practice. exchange printed a description of the curious cavern, or ' sink-holon the farm of John Eng' ler, in Nippenoee valley. Since that time photographs have been made of the Interior of a still more remarkable sink-holon the property of Mr. George Sanderson, In the Antes creek gap. This sftik-hol- e FROM NEWSPAPER FILES. is but one of a series located within a stones throw of each other, any one Advertisements Contain a Record of Business History. of which is very Interesting. The hole A lawyer from the south, who was in which the photographs were takenfor recently In Philadelphia, tells an adGrit is a rod or more south of the big vertising story that points a moral. It that forms the spring head of Antes creek. Its depth is about 50 feet, and seems he had been intrusted with the in this monster chasm stands a broken commission of finding certain possible wall of rock that has the appearance American heirs to the estate of an English decedent. In making this in of some day having been shaken asunder by an earthquake. Great trees quiry, said the lawyer, I found it grow out of the bottom of the hole. It is necessary to examine the files of lead a slight task to reach the bottom of the ing newspapers in Philadelphia and cavern, for a quite well worn path New Y'ork, covering quite a long .peaffords the curious an opportunity to riod. It seemed an endless task, owconinvestigate. Once on the bottom, with ing largely to the fact that I was the black, jagged rocks towering far tinually getting interested in some arabove your head, the novelty and ticle or advertisement that had no posgrandeur of this natural w'onder breaks sible connection with the matter in upon you. Down in the darkest corner hand. But that which especially enof the cavern is a pool of dark green gaged my attention while perusing water. The depth of this poollike these back numbers was the advertisethe spring referred to above is very ments of certain business men and deep, and a false step or a plunge would commercial houses that were constantsend one to his doom. Pen cannot de- ly recurring throughout the files. When pict a description of this rockbound they first attracted my attention they didnt occupy a great deal of space, hole In the earth v hieh is only equalled in wonderment by several other like but grew constantly larger as the sink-holwithin a radius of a quarter dates of the files came nearer the of a mile from this one. One of the present time, until they filled pages, other sink-hole- s, a little farther south, and from first to last, whether solid or display matter, they told their story is over 70 feet deep, with sides so precipitous that one cannot make the de- clearly and impressively about wbat the advertiser had to sell. In these scent without the aid of ropes. In order to catch a glimpse of the green well worded advertisements I seemed to nnnl that 1.hole one must cling the trees that that had inserted them. Being a sides. But grow over Its rock-ribbin both cities and not familiar few persons have ever gone to the bot- stranger with the places of business about which tom of this hole, most visitors being I had been reading so much in the satisfied with a glance into its threatfiles, I determined to gratify newspaper ening depths from the outer rim. It is my curiosity by visiting some of them. said that fine trout have already been This I did and found colossal buildcaught from the pool at the bottom of of trade, emthis hole. This is not discredited, for ings, great emporiums and in some inhundreds, ploying the water that forms the pool goes to stances thousands of men and women. create Antes creek, at the big spring From some members of these firms I a half a mile below, and that the underwould seek information regarding the ground channel Is directly connected of his house, telling how I had 13 with these great holes universally history followed its career through the adverconceded, says a writer in Pennsylva- tisements I had read in the newspaper nia Grit. and without exception I was asIt is told of the late George W. files, sured that the rapid growth and exYoungman, Esq., that when a boy, to- tension of the business was due more gether with several juvenile companto judicious newspaper advertising ions, he went to the bottom of one of than to other single factor. One any sink-holes, and with the aid of these who was conducting an immense a pry, made an opening sufficiently mpn business told me it was almost entirely large to admit the passage of a body. the of newspaper advertising. product This passage opened into the unexHe stated that he commenced business plored regions of a great cave, and into with a of ?10,000, of which this the hoys scrambled. With the aid amount capital he invested $2,500 In stock exto were enabled of torches they and $7,500 in advertising, and at the plore the wonderfully wrought subterhis ranean passages. Mr. YToungman de- end of the first year had doubled to increase continued he that capital; clared that they walked in a southeasthis advertising and the double process erly direction for nearly a mile, making continued and quadrupled. He their way over walls of rock and along said his house finally was then well known stream. The roof of the green-creste- d his business fully established, and the cavern, he said, was a picture of and he felt that he should be relieved of torches from their the rays grandeur, the expense of advertising, but other revealing the most beautiful stalactite houses in his line had sprung up, comformations. That the exploration made was active, and he found he petition by Mr. Youngman and his boy friends musf continue advertising to hold the was repeated Is not in evidence, but had acquired. trade he Philadelphia scenthat the wonderful underground Times. ery Is yet to he beheld by those who will undertake the task is without a Imitation of Rain. it was that doubt. In which sink-hoof rain are imitated The cave to phenomena the entrance found the the boys is not definitely known, although it is by Prof. Errera of Brussels university 8 inches tall generally believed that it is the one in a beaker. The glass, located near the Rauchs gap road. by 5 in diameter, is half filled with 92 Here is an opportunity for some of our per cent alcohol, covered with a saucer and thoroughly heated over a water local adventurers to distinguish themselves. Who knows, perhaps some of bath without boiling the liquid. It is the wonders of famous Luray caverns then carefully removed to a wooden taawait those who will successfully pen- ble. Soon the alcohol vapor is condensed into visible clouds by the cooletrate this underground opening? ing saucer, innumerable minute dropThe water known as the big spring, of rain fall and the clouds become lets Antes of creek. which forms the head Is of Itself a curiosity. The great body gradually lowered away from the sauwater begins at the foot cer. The miniature storm may last of green-tinte- d hour. The action is intensified of a sharp declivity, circular In its half an if the warm saucer is replaced by a cold to the an north, opening form, with one. Whirlwinds and squalls are prowathrough which the suddenly-free- d when the alcohol is very warm ters start on their course to the river, ducedIf the and liquid is warmer on one side bubno three miles away. There is clouds the may be seen to rotate around bling or commotion in this spring it Is a horizontal axis Exchange. for water that but an outpouring of the nearly five miles, through Nippenoee For the Bereaved Families. valley, makes its way riverward far unthe conflagration of the Ring After measa week last One day derground. Vienna in 18S1 a large sum in theater of this spring urement of the depth was attempted. A rope nearly 300 feet was contributed for the indigent famin length was obtained, to one end of ilies of the victims. This sum amounts which was fastened a heavy block of at the present day to 1,326,736 florins, iron. This Iron was dropped into the the annual income of which is 39,817 water and the rope gradually and stead- florin; this is distributed in equal proto eighty-eigwidows and 107 ily played out. Down, down, down portions of children those who in the perished of the inch went the iron, until every flames Exchange, 800-fe-et rope was suhmergeiA yet it es e, es e, es 1- t-- . le ht is reported to have exclaimed aloud in the gallery, I must know that woman! By the merest accident the SOME STRANCE, QUEER Al two met on the following day and a CURIOUS PHASES OF LIFeI few months later were married. One of their daughters is Lady Henry SOME TIMELY TOPICS OF INTEREST TO UNION LABOR. Steel Ve Would Into Others" Kalin ays of the Olil World -- The CoinDay ing Rattle for an F.lght-llou- r General Chicagos Labor Troubles Notes. Marh My Home Count, Wrap and Tie Buudl.! Fell In I.ove with a I or trait: Iictu Drawn by Thumbnail. Bunting the 1'olar Bear, spite of what has been written t it, the Polar bear is not, in or- 1Snary circumstances, a very ferocious AY, where is home dmal. As a general rule, it is quite sea or intent to leave man alone so long as by . is not interfered with. It will even land, summer t times seek safety in flight rather Bright fields or silenthan In fight. But should the bear be emboldened shore, n In lowly cot ory hunger, or engraged beyond grand, nee, it will often turn on Its pursuers In years to come,nd attack them most desperately. or days of yoreTen the hunter frequently becomes 'Tls where lifes he hunted, with occasionally far from way Is coveredlatigfactory results to him. Europeans oer carrying firearms are. of course, in With heartsease, fragrant, fresh and a pmparatively little danger, but with ree- oung and unpracticed Eskimo, the ase is very different. If he succeeds in Joubling on the bear and plunging hie .ance into the vital spot the left side oelow the shoulder well and good. But AVith feet most weary, heart mo8t30nie(jmeg the thrust does not go quite 8re .home and the hunter has to leave the Thoughts often come in merry band, epear in the bears side and run for his True, tender dreams, from memorysiife, Then, lmiess jle js well aided by store, j,ja jogs, his position becomes perilous Of long days when your clear eyesln the extreme. He cannot expect to Yre escape by superior speed on level 1 he hue of skies and distant sea. ground, for the polar bear, in spite of God left me then no boon to im- jt8 apparent unwieldiness, can run at plore , least as fast as ordinary man. lour heart, dear love, was home to me! His only hope, any therefore, is to scram hie down among the icebergs to places hy heed the ills from fate's stern, whpre hig pursuer cannot follow. We hand, can well imagine the perils of that Those woes that she doth on us pour? climb. Sliding, stumbling, falling from Lifes but an inn; we, guests trepanned one ledge to another, grasping slippery To pay an austere landlords score. at each projection to desperately I pay it bravely, and ignore with the knowledge himself, steady The roads mishaps; it leads to thee, that to lose hie footing means certain And there, V all true poets lore, death, and with the grim visage of hlB Thy heart, der love, Is home to me foe above him to hasten his movements, the young hunter has need of (Envoy.) all his coolness and nerve. Should he be caught, his chances of So bide we, then, a short while taore, Till gentle death shall turn the key, escape from the bears teeth for the Polar bear, unlike the grizzly, does not Sn ing wide at last the welcoming door, Anti your dear heart be home to me. hug, but bites i3 slight indeed. J'sit F I COULD SEE brother languishing in sore distress, And I should turn A and leave endur-mansio- ' . . Machines that Count, Wrap and Tie. Two of the most wonderful automata ROW. .tt'OClunB, Wrw used by the government for counting and tying postal cards into These machines are small bundles. made in Connecticut, and the two are capable of counting the prodigious number of 500,000 such cards in ten hours, and wrapping and tying the same in packages of twenty-fiv- e each. In this operation the paper is pulled off a drum by two long fingers which come up from below, and another finger dips into a vat of mucilage and applies itself to the wrapping paper in exactly the right spot. Other parts of the machine twine the paper around the pack of cards, a thumb presses over the mucilage spot and the package Is thrown upon a delivery belt ready for delivery. those Digging for Jewelry. Digging for jewelry eeems rather an .odd, .flflftunaiinn hut-l- a .Central Amcrb time with success and profit. Along the coast of Costa Rica are vast cemeteries in which the original inhabitants of long ago were burled. With them were interred great quantities of that metal being gold ornaments, found abundantly in that region. Many of the graves have been opened, and from them gold has been taken to the value of at least 200, 0CY The first discoveries of this treasure trove caused a rush for the field of exploration which promised to rival that of 1849 to California. Thousands of the graves still remaih, unopened, and it is a common practice for visitors in search of curiosities to rob them. A Gas Regulator Some of the gas companies In the United States have adopted the slot machine in regulating the supply of gas to kitchens for cooking. A twenty-five-cepiece is dropped into the machine attached to the meter. When twenty-fiv- e cents' worth of gas is used no more can be obtained from the meter until another twenty-fiv- e cents is dropped In. This insures prompt payment of bills, and prevents disputes as to gas bills. This method was adopted in London. The result has been to arouse public protests from the chimney-sweeps; the small dealers in coal and wood claim that their business is being destroyed. There are 37,000 gas Btoves connected with the slot machine meters used in London. Pictures Drawn by Thumbnail. old, to e seen In both China and Japan, are specimens of the most remarkable drawings in the world, pictures of ail The kinds drawn with the thumb-nai- l. nails of the thumb on the left hand of the artists of these are allowed to grow to an enormous length, sometimes to a foot or eighteen inches, and are then pared down to a point. Dipping this oddly constructed pen in e beautiful Vermillion or ink, the only kinds of ink used in these sacred thumb-na- il drawings, the artist gracefully outlines his work. Occasionally the bold touches from the studio of a master in this department of high art are life size, and are sketched by a few sweeps of the artSize and Speed of Waves ists arm. Like other pictures and Many different answers lhave been sketches of the Orient, these sacred given to the question How high are thumb-na- il pictures are mounted and the greatest ocean waves? M. Dibos, rolled up like scrolls. a marine engineer and laureate .of the Institute of France, has lately made some personal observations on this subA Peculiar Legacy. A lady patient of a Manchester surject. He describes waves encountered geon repaid his professional attention in the North Atlantic which had a feet by bequeathing him 25,000, the liberal height of at least forty-fiv- e legacy being clogged with the condition Driven before a heavy .wind waves may that he should have her body em- advance at the rate of from thirty-fiv- e balmed in the most perfect manner to forty miles an hour, and such unpossible; and that once a year he dulations of the ocean may travel more than 500 miles from the point where should look upon her face in the presence of two witnesses. The surgeon the wind created them, without being accepted the legacy and the condition, accompanied by any disturbance in the embalmed his whimsical benefactress, atmosphere. and put her for safe keeping in an orEnglish clock-cas- e. dinary glass-face- d Water Cycles. Upon his death, his representatives There seems to be a probability that considered there was an end to one cycles may become as popular on the side of the bargain, and the lady is rivers as they are on the roads. At afterto have figured long suspected Kingston-on-Thame- s, a machine ward as a mummy in the Manchester of this kind has this Eng., season been atmuseum. tracting much attention both on account of the high rate of speed wh'ich it attains and the ease with which it l Pell In Love with a Portrait. There is a curious and romantic his- can be 'propelled, costing no more tory of one of the earliest exhibits of strain in the muscles, it is said, than Mr. G. F. Watts, R. A. The picture an ordinary bicycle. It is propelled by was a portrait of Miss Virginia Pattle, three men, who manipulate it with the the lovely daughter of one of the di- greatest ease; it makes no appreciable rectors of the Old East India Company, wash, and eeems to he perfectly safe and it attracted great attention at Bur- in use. lington House. Among those who were4 Three new novels are issued struck with its beauty wae Earl 6om-dally on tint time Viscount Eastnoi, He an average ,by London publishers. In collections, centuries 1 nt pen-shap- sky-blu- I A Ballade of that him comfortless When 1 might be of A messenger hope and happiness. How could I ask to have what I nied. In my own hour of bitterness plied? de- sup- If I might share brothers load along the dusty way, And I should turn and walk alone that A their organizations to secure their share of the total product. One of the most remarkable features of th last three mom ha in connection withla- bo r has been almost thorough ostracism of politics in trades uuions, of which the action of the International Typographical Union in declining to indorse a free silver resolution in a hotbed of sllverisin because of Its political complexion is a striking indication. We can credit this to the attitude of the American Federation of Labor In Toting against all phases of politics in it convention, which action was wrought by the agitation of the socialists to commit the trades unions to their line of politics. It Is not generally known, but it is a fact nevertheless, that the past few years have been an important era in the history of the labor movement in the United States because of the stand that the movement has taken reserving itself from all political matters. The same can be said of the English movement, and there is rapidly growing up a striking similarity between the two movements. Speaking of the outlook for the coming year Secretary McCralth said: We expect a great revival during the coming year. Some betterment of conditions must come that is all there is to it. will need ME TOILERS CORNER IN THE ODD CORNeI A NUMBER 32. ATURDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1800. ' day, How could I care When in the evening watch I kneel to pray To ask for help to bear my pain and loss, If I had heeded not my brothers cross? One of the Try Again. matters under considera- tion by tho executive council of the American Federation of Labor at its session in Indianapolis was a plan to unite the labor bodies of Chicago, which have for years been rent by dissension, and form a single cenIf I might sing tral council or congress. Speaking of A little song to cheer a fainting heart this matter, the Chicago Chronicle says: And 1 should seal my lips and sit apart, The purpose of the American FederaWhen I might bring tion of Ia&bor is to once more bring A bit of sunshine for lifes ache and together in common amity all the big smart unions that have been divided in two How could I hope to have my grief central councils. The secession of tho relieved, clgarmakers, the typographical and If I kept silent when my brother other strong unions from the Trade and Labor Assembly was the beginning grieved? of that body's downfall, and was due to tho introduction of politics in what And so I know That day Is lost wherein I fail to lend was intended to be purely a trades The constitution union organization. A helping hand to some wayfaring of most of the unions nowadays forbid friend; With the consideration of politics. But if it show unions affiliated with the American A burden lightened by the cheer I send, Then do I hold the golden houra well Federation of Labor this is the10invariable case. And it is pur spent, that will do its .Wutmost for ortfafflzecD labor and leave -Chatham Planet. partisan matters severely alone. If the plans of Samuel Gompers are out the central organization carried OItt World Steel Railways. will be formed on these lines. It will From the Detroit Free Press: W. Df have a constitution providing for the Mahon has been making some inveetL exclusion of polities and will have a gations regarding the street railways of membership recruited from the ranks the old world, and he says that accordof the men who work at their trades or ing to reports, Buda Pesth, tho capi- truly for the interests of .their unions. tal of Hungary, Is deserving of the It will be a body without leaders, but credit of being one of the leading cit- with order and unity. It will be what ies of the world in advancing and per- the Trade and Labor AsseAnbly was in fecting appliances in electrical transit. its young days a powerful and influenThe Buda Pesth Electrical Railway Co. tial organization. as early as 1889 operated a model eys- A banquet was tendered the visitors tem of lines upon a plan of an insulon Tuesday, and on Wednesday the ated trolley carried in a metallic undercouncil indorsed the ground conduit. As to safety, each car bill. On the immigration bill which is provided with a Cushing fender, has passed the house and which promaking it impossible to hurt any one, poses to fix an educational test, the and furthermore, he says, that there council dissented, holding that illitare many things connected with the eracy doesn't make criminals any more railway management of Buda Pesth than education makes paragons. that would be well for American muniSteps were also taken to organize nacipalities to copy. While the street tional unions of butchers, railways of Buda Death are owned and engineers and common laborers. The e operated by private companies they-arFederation has already on its books controlled and directed by tho municia number of local organizations quite palities. The books of the company of each of these trades. must be kept open for inspection at all times; the rates of fares are fixed by General Labor Notes. the municipalities and the working reports a boom in unionism. Oregon must be carried at a induced people Chicago clgarmakers have 400 rate evenings and mornings. The commembers drawing union benpany must pay street rents, large taxefits. to contribute an insures to the city, The membership of the A. F. of L. ance and sick fund of the employes, has increased 25 per cent in the last make liberal payments to a reserve fund, besides provisions for interest four months. Sixteen hundred operatives in three and for a sinking fund to redeem its of the largest cotton mills in Mexico bonds, and at the expiration of the existing charters the street railway lines are idle from a shutdown. Contractors are signing the scale of and their equipment will become the property of the city without any Indem- the garment workers and the strike in nity to the private owners. Reports Boston will soon be over. show that the Buda Pesth Co. in the More gold watches are worn by artisans and laboring men in the UnifStt year 1894 were able to pay shareholders a dividend of 8 per cent on their stock, States than in any other country in the this being done, not on account of exworld. tra business, but because the stock Two thousand Illinois and 20,000 represents the actual investments, no Ohio coal miners went on etrike rewatering being allowed. cently against a reduction of their wages. A Decisive Rattle. The cause of the match girls strike New York, which was attributed to recent in of the conference of Speaking the A. F. L. Secretary August McCralth objections against the examination of teeth, turns out to be the reduction of said: "Elaborate preparations will be made wages by the introduction of improved during the coming spring to enforce machinery. At New York the old trouble beday on May 1, 1897, and the eight-hothe board of walking delegates tween of labor of the the council result the United Brotherhood of Carand the to the American will be submitted Federation of Labor at its annual con- penters has broken out again, and vention to be held in Cincinnati De- strikes and counter strikes of one cember 14. It was not intended to make union against another are likely to movement a general ensue. the eight-hou- r movement last spring, and yet considerable was achieved in that direction Making the Most of It. much more that) was expected. There We may net have much ability, but if are already signs of improvement, and we are faithful in the exercise of the business at headquarters was greater litle we possess, we may, without even the past week than it has been for six so much as intending it, either awake weeks. This we take as a good indicaor encourage others of greater power t tion, as political agitation interferes do their best.with organization to a certain extent however, Tho workers understand, He that is of a merry heart hath a hat, no matter who is elected, they continual feasts, Proverbs. core-maker- s, rk ur |