| Show 0 Wealth Showered Upon Favorites of Fortune An American artist named Mott Iott tra traveled veld to the Islands In n a sealing vessel a year ear U ago ngo II to point paint some pictures picture of or seals In their native home and anti one day noticed a curious bank of sand I lying clos close along the shore hore He Ile dug Into It and anil Pound beneath the sand a 1 mass of ot hones They were seal millions hones bones millions of which them which hail been heen flung up b by the sell sea in the course ourse of or centuries Further search has shown that there are miles or of these theoe hone bone deposits alon along the shores of the islands One pile Is a amile amile suite mile lon long half haIr u a tulle mile wide and amI sIx feet deep Now bones arc are one of ot the best hest of all of-all all fertilizers and the value or of the lie timid find Is 1 gigantic i far far greater greuter than that of any gold mine This brings s to mind the case of the wandering prospector who years ars a ago o while crossing crossing- a desert InV In Wyoming V come came across the body of a horse which though h It must have died lon long ago was still fresh and s sweet street The body bolly was covered co with a la layer er of fine dust which the prospector recognized us as borax He Ile saw sue the value alue of 0 the discovery and sold It to a large pack pack- packIng packing packing ing firm In ChIcago who kept the se- se secret se sc cret for a long time Today the uses of borax are arc Innumerable and ran range e efrom from the preservation of food do down to dressings s for tired feet and lotions for l e eyes es |
