Show I r COUNTRY CO i LIFE I IN 1 jj i salt Mines TI Tho Tho Most o World n 5 ut w Dec pec u 16 1 i n 0 idea of rural life rr t t c i rait me nie to tell you ou of t t to tho lie makh fa tor i n 0 I nit t In tn the world rt 1 tr ImI edge of the 1119 I r I on J I L 1 t to tiLt lust jut jU t beyond tho trio triot r fr r plum plain t 1 i d 1 uty on horseback hor l I n 1 i minister el 1 Ii I I i u mown men wr ser rd lad laden n with y 1 I s t I i nl 1 r u h on gully Bally on a 1 bright or of rover i ut f in Iu th these there M I i mb n r one finds It hard hardt of er f peen dismal winter lt ti ul 1111 r is I I II I t I l rel J I u 1 tilt tal that come como tour to toa tous n Ji r n a II famine and con us ur tr United States line rinG in the I myths of ot tho the pal mil 11 than an t I UL r tn in I l t 0 i feel POI that II i i around this his hl jU di At n great grent elevation n P A N profitable the fancy CancY prices that paid for the mime rarer Mid Middles We stopped at on one OM of ot tho or whose 1 ten tOIa a son Bon who came hero ll ro practically recouping the family tortures fortunes In l and ami en cn enabling abling th the titled brother to keep up liP an estate which his ancestors loaded with Ills III methods seem very V r simple but with true truo he lie did not tell t 11 us much about thorn them He lie showed us hi hla hili nur tery ter whorl where wore several thousand small wooden boxes In etch each of Clr which Is I nailed a tl stick the tho latter hatter wrapped with sphagnum moss mORS among which an plant was tied lied The Tho lovely tovel parasites grow wild all over Colombia in to Infinite of ot form and coloring Thi Tho growers fiend Bend native natives out Into the tho woods and hills to collect them pay Jay payIng hag Ing from one cent to thirty cents rente for far pitch each slant plant and antt Belling selling the time In nt prices ranging between fifty mid t I five hundred hundred dollars per plant some Imes even thou thousands ands of pounds sterling for a n particularly scarce and Like opals these curious freaks of tho tM l Kingdom seem to y JUDGE WILLIAM R 1 DAY DAY S X j ji jt ja 1 a i J t r 1 J 9 t t St Str r t q t dt d a ill A Ai i l li i x t LJJ Former S Be of State Stale William n U Day flay of Canton Ohio has been be n ap by President Roosevelt to succeed s Judge on the bench of ot States court Jud KO go flay Day Da has wide Wi do fame famo for his pro mi lad of the law III t 5 COO teen re t though almost on ont one t e equatorIal Jat rial yin IIII the air Is ls I never it nOT nor t 1 M J d but bat Jut jim n to and pure and andio anda io o a that simply Imply to be Le on ont ono t p o of b od earth curth Is Joy 03 ouch Our real mss s sump u most mo 1110 t of oC the way wayon on ong the t e b f t tip Ih hills that environ ciote OC III a rIPI on use above another to toA toron ron A an heights of eternal snow now led d t 1 by an any creature except exco t atre at re 18 inter JI i r condor We WeM Ores lens nr F M h s a of reedy swamps swamp b k m ti 1 1 l by l b y myriads of oft i t au aut K 1 rib r waterfowl at al ghow I g errs b re a n d J l th n il nc the edges tall lall cranes cr t Hu lu herons h rons or pink r t f i ft standing m ti on cn M non ire ing I k ilS is If f O for or scenic rot 1 1 V Gr Ih r t ti d are not nota n r a mid I so PO have liae never tb th r l t ba i a and ind birds the fear fell j f Un ran i i i t II southern sun eun lint has tard ti II r with the tho con I a s ln nd mid 1 Indifference to mgt uis r tbt the people rt in It n jS that tha oar on In need not waste I M lit ox 01 r I st t PI M o do tho Id 1118 ba hw her but iut n may iv i walk lk i wH and Kno A t c i j i t r with a II Crean f r an I lild a d It n t heart to be no so sort rv rt f cur cear Yie Instinct of the th sus 3 at the right lIght If 10 t w so ma mu II h i snag f Y i v y and und every overy male maleu iSa ioa aa Ij I h u r i v sought his pistol 1 M set i ll i U wh 1 K hi n mar r the perfect day ll Un its r 1 ii I di dr i r r rf ni i S CI n l f fr fir r b o i iThe The pleadings Ji I i laa pr I i 1 I and It Is pleas II to tIT I el e 1 u it the th birds were f I f ergo 1 to torl 1 their th lr Utile little day diy e a sr I rl r iJ tie the th mar nur hs II 11 a region ot of ta tae a ll iii em 11 t 1 I which w ilch are art chief I h n tar I IK nt if orchids for Elro rn What sn Rn easy enay al 1 l piggy nt In nent nt and how TV TV r have no set get price but arc are valued ac no according cording to the craze of wealthy Collectors There are aio other oth r quintus In Inthe Inthe the vicinity bf If where fruits and I vegetables are raised for the tho market of the capital mind and small mall with wheat corn and an 1 dower clover Noth NothIng Nothing Ing tells more moio truly trul of oC the even cen tern tent posture of the locality than the tho Mir var various lIr ious Ions stages of the cornfields ld proving that seed time limn and not harvest ore are entire entirely ly I in to the Ihie hands of pf the cultivator One field fieM Is being plow plowed d and an nn another another other by Its side elde has hns n a fine crop Iop of or full rull grown Brown corn on higher than the tile head of n 11 man on horseback hors while per perhaps perhaps haps haR the next 11 held field shows the Rr green ren en blades blat Just lust out of the ground It Is 18 the same way WIl with wheat Here fore and take our luncheon ul III fic fresco o oare are newly sprouted like velvet elot coso by each cart other In full rull head henr Some are arc being cut by women with short In many nany the tho prim Ilive threshing floor door Is la in operation The latter Is III odd enough 1 to deserve d cre a paragraph especially a as It Is an 1111 en cit l hed Institution In throughout nil cli of lr America A level leel Is select selected ed e for tor the mime J n nf of adobe Is built around It anti anU the floor Is b covered with stones Tho win at Is 13 then thrown In and andA andA A SPAN OF Ol I driven around and around the sure 11 until their trampling hn has shelled out the kernels kernel Sometimes Sometime a hock flock of sheep ate are turned lurn ll In and driven rapidly to and fro until the same name purpose I le accomplished Then ThIll women come In And separate the wheat client from the chaff the Into little lUll putting It Into Fags Wt We had planned pl to tn top stop for break breakfast breakfast fast ut st lit the po p ada dl wayside Inn Inti of 01 Santander but hut found time the pine pl Ip so crowded d that we 1 decided to 10 go 10 hark bark n a I little way wa ny to n a magnificent ma Peruvian I I I I pepper tree passed a II few Tew minutes bo ho bounder under er Its spreading 8 branches Never I ere re r such Ul h beautiful trees n us nS e ar 01 hols I de ilo Peru Iru with their f dark KM germ KIIn en haves Itu C in dense mus musses s and bang 1 ng pond jut of Ir ruse l pepper r mi erns ns Such a II i o or of dogs do and ant pigs and bubles fleas und and fowls nil all revelling in the dirt together er fr can be found Cound nowhere outside of oC Santander It lt Is In the general stopping slopping place for Cor all nil who tra travel l 1 this way and nn companies of oC muleteers with their loaded animals filled the tho courtyard of Ie f the posada while I lIe In III the were welo r rH jj l i ti ri iI I i H H IF r q t j Y r 1 y aR ls M t f I 1 III 1 1 X i f f I pl t 1 r 1 1 f fr j jt I t f r 1 l r I rf 1 I Ii If i I f f r I II I 3 t tF 1 t I r r F Ly L r r 4 e I 1 1 7 rI i i r H H CROl OF CF OLD FOLKS AT RECENT CELEBRATION OF THE AGED AG D AT A r PRICE farmers on horseback hou barl each mar map With t lIh Illi enormous spurs spurn on his heels a II wide wl 1 on iris his head I al and u n poncho en nn enveloping I the rest of oe his figure The poncho Is III another South American In Institution institution which should by b no be neglected It Is IR nothing but n II very Yen large hug square la blanket of e varyIng iK h grows II of or coarseness entlA s or elegance with exactly In the middle of or it which this the wearer nearer him hlll head It Ills fits close around the neck Of ot course cour e falling down dawn equally Quail on mr all 1111 Idea aide so 10 that u II man on horseback hor Is well Yell pro from dust duit rain or cold The Th commoner ponchos p are of or she p woven by the Indian In hand looms Others arc are very cry ver fine heavy hr and expels dye de made of the long silky fleece of ot the llama or alpaca I have seen i a afew few reI from Chill that Art are r really works of or art the outside of or dark blue l lue cloth very every er thick and wooly woolf like the flit eel and linear chinchilla lined out with th the B same samp texture In brilliant scarlet Nothing could uld lie r ml adapt adapted pl pled ed ell for ocean oan or railway traveling und trod nobody lu 1 lx be ashamed of the odd fashion of a garment that plainly shows how UK Its valve ahll V Th The per r a rl III are r generally gaily striped after art ni r the manner minner of nn pr or are Dr a ading dingy ding yellowish h brown t rown the natural cal col color calOs or Os of oe llamA lama wool Clean CI Santander he the steep And nd nin rigged d mountains of Torca Tolt Jut d down wn to th ro d ld e n Bernd N with low A and scant grass gris where wh r keen Iran cattle catts are r Th That Thai t n for the niH enre of the mII which h would other otherwise w wise c h have hae v no ex u o for ik the tle ther r I r PI even 1 this hili poor 1110 lc for tor IraliA grasa m gm growl am amen on Colony f i i blue cattle ran can ca l tI he ril M fi fur ff r th the ctt II makUa and of If there the mu mut mutI t ti i s I jeo to take fake Ink I o Ire care r of this theo cattle The th TOV eay TI a wilder lider i r ts as II tb tM the from Tall Tali ferns fern i the tho Ih was elu p aix and no end nd of Mild iM r liw flowers I ht omon the 1 1 f fKr j Kr gray and mossy m mn that thai were pitched I about a Pellet belter r ac III If Ir tile the th I i hid had been pla playing football with them i Luu brown girls In chap dill and size site Ilk Hk 1 sparrows twittered nver hens hIA larks v were re heard In the and ami an lIp uttered uller hi hicl his hili cl th Cheery er n fall call And most welcome sight ot of all so IO familiar nt at home i we saw dandelion yell v as AM mild cold Id though with lIh A different scent from th of the north of which we gathered In memory of or far away aW days dr drand and The famous unit salt mina ji ere are in inthe he the desolate looking hill behind 71 ZI I iu known Know how old ld the mines may be 1111 nor how ho many million pf of r tons ton of ot salt have ha bonn been b ln out of oC oCth i there th It Jt is 19 recorded that In the year the Spaniards found them old ohl and well vol bavin having ben been b n worked b by the aboriginal tribes tubes Knee before lefore eore this the th memory rv or of the oldest And ever evir 11 i since inte tine have JIRI l n cantina continuously worked bv lIy the ih inning govern governments governments ments to this day lla furnishing th the re rePublic Public of ot Colombia with about one eighth I of ot Its Ita total revenue W up a steep hill hili to Urn the most workings We e l both the And m systems of salt lIall the nl former Is In n one big Iron tank and the latter In numer numerous OtiS ous Pl tanks In other large build huM lags InkS the crude salt 1811 Is condensed Into Inlo Solid blocks block and all III the th lurl It out of or It 11 by rude n with n a lover lever nt Rt one end nd nt forced down dome domey by y men with rop ropes ropel s Tub hamed blocks t 9 alt ore lire thus made perfectly solid and ni at These there wo We were Mere told are Rrt told sold on Ino spot at cinco reels each or About SO ceil eats lilt mone mousy Sometimes k a thousand arrobas of or salt It are sold 1014 in ina a single forenoon on arroba arrota tIn K Yi S pounds In another shed Itt tI A row of nt earth to kettles arm are If I Rued nUll over furn rf and Int tilt the salt IK is thus thud ev evaporated t Into Cak lakes ket the kettles kettle having to be broken t is Mt t the salt out ut ot of f them m In another es nt the kettles art are made of ofelt CA elt the Mme JAme t ss th that t ut wed d for adobe Afterwards we e ColI fOno a n at t p T Mh h up to the opening of or the mint mine On the way WI thereto tn t d In by oxen and women om n bearing vy J l hap bags as of salt rait on their larks hark While awaiting for ran ean panI Hie hes A we w had hal haltI MM time tI tn to look about IK lie and enjoy p Jo the un I view 1 In front stretched l the least plain of fir the hI to 10 the till left 1111 shut hut in by Ly I high mountains the Important town of or on and dimly discernible a few I Inn A tb to the right the village ot of o mAde mAue by II one on feeble and pled pied girl who ho does l ii the moat mint wonderful Wood carving tl tig sceneS le the Ih earth rth 1 l the salt mine to tn higher and hither higher level leech oust ad of descending defending f a aIn as asin In nines mine The Th darkness render rendert ail t more Moto Intense by our nur tallow lip vas ap and utter litter of Df one run can form no conception above ground enveloped us as 8 with a The Th walls are RN supported by try Wild solid columns column of ot salt Nit wilt salt everywhere above aLove below nothing n thing but bur salt salti i Tho superintendent Informed us II that th a stupendous mountain of salt alt mutt must have havo been en formed by b th the ocean which In ages washed over the place where we WI were rt stranding standing II III n 01 but agree ogree ree with him rr nr firnot not I 1 cannot say In some lomo places the salt nit was 1111 white whit fig As snow and sparkled like I III I diamonds In the UIA light lI ht of If our tall ati 1111 tiles but bUl ns nil a rule rul it was n me 1 dirty dirt state Away WI up In th the heart of the tha mountain where the air is ii II close clone and op III and tiro th blackness anil And silence me nIt titre III ti terrible than before h in j a it itt tie chap I hollow hollod id out nut of or solid snit It In Is I an Imago of tit the Virgin sur nur surrounded rounded by Ull tall orO t Night and amid day do da h are art alike here from Crom year vear I r to veer j r w hll er r wart wain and may hlay be I Joins gIng cn n In the outer world candles are lire areal al ki P t buning in front of till this fat strange I never nl r fall to 10 ton tow n w their thil prayers hue here 11 fully l hellering r f fI rhut hut this art iff of o devotion alone saves M U B them from foiling falling into inlo the theo clutches of I I the I hI veil vell spirits nf or t to tl mountain U It WAnD VW v EDITOR GONZALES r A Aa t n nt t f r a r o ok oi 3 k i I 1 r is 1 t t 4 r j Wi Io A r u ui a i rt Bl II |