Show la in the dry range a remarkable cave has been discovered ills it Is near the top of a pocket packet in the mountain and is almost in the shape of a flask it is about 34 feet deep 60 feet long and 30 feet wide its iti mouth in the limestone rock is about 3 feet and on an incline and so constructed ted that any living thing venturing near may be easily precipitated into the abyss below when covered with snow it is a perfect death trap to animals the bottom of the cave is covered with the bones of animals no doubt many indians and hunters have slipped into this horrible pit and perished the artesian wells of south dakota are very remarkable for pressure and for the immense quantity of water supplied the power is utilized for water supply protect protection I 1 on from fit fais and the driving ot of machinery at woonsocket is one of the roost most powerful wells known it was sunk by the city for the fire department it is feet deep 6 inches in diameter and throw water with a breasure pre asare asure of pounds to the squire square inch 23 feet above the surface at full size it can throw a 2 inch stream beirn feet perpendicularly the wasie waste water forms a lake from which 6 the e I 1 ice is taken in winter for the use of the city yesterday was arbor day the day they plant the tree but it you forgot to plant yesterday today will do just as well in northen neb nebraska aska are many prairie doz doe villages and it is asserted by well known geology geologists ests that each village has its own well it matters not how far down the water may be the dogs will keep digging d azg ing until they reach it some of these wells are a hundred or more feet feel deep the dogs decena by a circular staircase white while it is illegal to sell alcoholic liquor in the indian territory yet the traffic is carried on to quite an extent and the indians when crazed by this vile poison are even more dangerous than white men when under the same influence the arkansas moonshine whiskey brewed in the ozark mountain is the most dang erious element in the territory it is called white mule because it is made by white men and because it has destructive powers equal to if not greater thin of a mule we all understand the general difference between physical and moral courage the one belon belonging ling rather to the bodily temperament the other to the mind the one to the animal the ther other to the man physical courage opposing itself to dangers which threaten the person or the life moral courage the opposite of weakness and proof against ridicule false shame the fashion of the day and it is often to be noted that those who abound in cal courage never appalled by dangers or even courting them are deficient in moral courage afraid of their pinions pan ions easily seduced to evil shrink shrin I 1 ing before a laugh or a sneer in yellowstone park is a clift of vol canle glass it christs columns pentagonal in form and more or less irregular and distorted 1 I 1 he greater part of this mineral glass is J jet ot black and quite or araque aque it is the tole sole considerable output of mineral glass known the mountain Is over feet high and is an object of curiosity and speculation near the place many unfinished arrowheads and other relics have hav been found which go to prove that this hi place was known to the in 1 deans around the foot of this clift is a roadway of pure gla gia ss 33 a quarter ofa mile long in order to make a passageway around this clift great fires were built on and around the huge blocks of mineral glass which wh en expanded were suddenly cooled by dashing water upon them resulting it in shattering the blocks anto small fragments thus making a street paved with broken glass reports from scotland yard in london indicate that the famous spanish prisoner hoax has been modified and brought up to date by making the spanish prisoner a belgin this old swindle was formerly worked by sending to a prospective victim a letter setting forth that the writer ing himself as a spanish officer who had hidden the way war che chest 1 si of the car lists in a mountain was dying in prison the letter begged the correspondent spon dent to assume the guardianship of the officers little daughter for which service half of the hidden bidden fortune would gladly be given numerous Nume roas letters which have lately been turned over to the london police represents represent the writer to be a belgian who on the death of his mister master at the siege of leige belze red fled to spain with in cash and is in such desperate straits that he is willing to share his money liberally with the recipient 0 of the he t befi i 9 t ter if he will aid him in getting 0 cut ut of the clutches of the cruel spanish 1 law we pay you the highest price for your coyote hides beef hides and sheep pelts get our PRICE before you SELL and evans |