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Show EH COUNTY NEWS AiixrTvn rcmTIOX oura east of h Pinar del Rto la ona of the moat valuable tract of land on the face of the earth. There are but two places lu the whole world where the ground la worth ao much aa in the THE BLAME PENDEXTER By HUGH II a Tana in The logs blazed and crackled with all the luxurious disregard of expense which logs iu the fireplace of a wealthy country club shuuld have. Outdoor Be-a mist turned the prospect gray. fore the fire Redlands sat with a pH He had decided Df new magazines. that the link were too wet to negotiate. I'rcsently in floated Mrs. Kreeble. It was uot at all the aort of day for a s woman to be at a golf club and also frowned. Ho observed that Mra. Kreeble looked more animated than usual. This caused him mine alarm. Redlands love quiet and comfort and he was very comfortable lust then. "Oh" sum Mrs. Kreeble a she "I'm 'barged down the room at him. I was Just so glad you are here! aud hoping to find some one! Come violets!" me to pick help Violets!" echoed Redlands, In great scorn, attempting to hide hla fear that to she would Indeed make him do it. this rain? You'll catch an awful cold! aald hi "1 have on thick shoes," look my And, sweetly. '.ormentor, lublmnd'a raiuccut!" s, "You know, further objected to am "I subject desperately, '.oiisllltis. I hud a terrible attack of t once." "You are the picture of health," aald Mrs. Kreeble. "Of course, if you don't :are to " "I'm dying to go!" said Redlands, a last iSBtily, getting to hla feet with fire. 00k at the crackling lie got an umbrella and they atarled. lair a mile from the clubhouse a black :loud of wind and rain swooped down n them. When the darkness lifted. umbrella was wroug Mrs. Kreeble lido out and her batr was coming town. Let's go back, she moaned. Redlands look a mean advantage. 'Never! he said, firmly. "The only under-akln- g edeemlng feature of a foolish ia really accomplishing what reu have aet out to do. We came to )lck violets, and violets I Intend to Irad Biglows Necktie Tree Vuelta Abajo. Those two places are that portion of the valley of the Rhine where the Johannisberger grape is grown, from which Llebfraumilch and other tine wines are made, and the Kimberly diamond district in South Africa. In the Vuelta Abajo the soil grows tobacco which when properly cured, rolled and stamped can be sold In the shape of cigars at the rate of 7.50 each. What, then, la tfce marvel of this To the priceless tobacco ground? eye nothing. Dusty red loam rather thin on rocky hillsldea and sparingly spread with tender concern as a half bald man disperses hla hair impartially over hla head. Next to each tobacco vega (a farm of an average extent of 40 acres) is a hayfield. The hay la not raised for animals. It is cut and spread on the tobacco land and there decomposed and washed Into the soil by the rains. It la the Iled-iuml- may light a cigarette, the sugar cane, flip fle-- he the partially consumed weed into an hou and pass on. In less than that entire plantation will be In aahea doand thousands upon thousands of Ana smoke. In will up have lors gone one, who will decipher the origin? No guard preunless the an vents the toaalng of the cigarette then there will he no fire. nevBut a great number of tourists the see er see the sugar fields, never wealthy are who Those tobacco lands. along uie spend their time motoring I surround which roads beautiful anas far as even vans and stretch Across te Clara, a third of the way to the the Island. The othera stick cockfight, hotels, see an occasional the dance or courts alai visit the Jal under pleasant evenings away semltroplc moon. The people who support the leading hostelries are to a great and growing extent those who take their own to Cuba. Every year new and better roads are being opened. bUt Already ibose climate. as the perfect d fertilizer. But It la not hay fertilizer alone that makes Vuelta Abajo tobacco what it Is, nor yet the cheesecloth protection that keeps out the hottest rays of the sun, nor yet the choice seed, nor even yet the mild, equable nature of the climate, nor the chemical composition of the soil. For each and every one of these conditions is reproduced in other places without that surprising and delicious climax of tobacco culture that comes alone from the heart of Pinar del Rio. Neither science nor experience can tell exactly what it is that makes twin backbone of Cuban industry, and Vuelta Abajo tobacco Just what it is. on a par with tobacco, Is guiding there, But the native Cuban knows the se- the finances of the realm;- and, as evcret. In strict confidence he somefinance is today knows, eryone high times confides this secret and I in- the soul of Indeed of politics, tend now for the first time to make It The public. great superiority of VueIf any Cuban workman becomes dls- lta Abajo tobacco, over all others lies affected for any cause whatever or for in the fact that each year on Easter Sunday the soli of every vega in the province is anointed with the blood of a fighting cock killed in honorable combat That I might have no doubt of this astonishing agricultural theory I was Gives a Glimpse of Manners and Customs In Demosthenes' shown the training quarters of the Time. cocks of the While district. fighting I was there the old trainer gave them A little leaden tablet, tarnished, ugly their morning meal of bananas and milk and massaged them under the and otherwise trivial in appearance; 'was senf a felF years ago from Athens wing pits wits Malaga wine. J the ' The cockfight has entered curious- to the Imperial museum of Berlin, side one On Scientific American says. ly into Cubsn politics. The most bril- of it was some writing which only reliant man in affairs there is Alfredo He is the cently was deciphered with precise Zayas, now Ellhu Root of the island, an attorney, correctness by Adolph Wilhelm. The letshrewd, hard working, farsighted. Un- tablet is the original of a private ter that was written about the time for his fortunately presidential aspirations he listened long and eagerly of the orator Demosthenes. The writer of the letter lived in a to American ideas of Cuban affairs as rural and wished to should be. is where That he fell send aneighborhood they to a town. commercial order down. Jose Miguel Gomez listened to The form of the address was: To be Cuban affair as they are. taken to the pottery market and to be Zayas thought It would be a good handed to Naualas, or to Thrasykles, thing to suppress the cockfight. The or to the son" (perhaps the son of the Americans told him it would be. It is writer was meant). The weekly mara cruel sport; it is barbaric; It is not ket, to which the Attic countrymen taste; so had gone to offer their produce and pleasant to the the Americans told Zayas and Zayas wares for sale, may be imagined in listened, too eagerly. Gomez knew he progress. There the boy who was was dealing with a Castilian people; bearer of the letter was to find the he was a Castilian himself. He loved stand or booth of one of the three a cockfight himself. Just as every one persons to whom it was addressed and of his true compatriots did. He loved deliver it to him. The text of the Zayas In Havana was trying to con- letter says: "Mnesiergos greets you vince his countrymen that they should cordially, he greets your family with abolish cockflghting Gomez, in Pinar the same esteem and wishes them del Rio, was personally attending the good health, and he says also that his Easter Sunday anointing of Vuelta own health is good. Please be so Abajo tobacco lands; and Gomez was kind as to send me a mantle, either of elected president of the Cuban repub- Anglo-Saxo- n let , sheepskin or of goatskin, and be as cheap as possible, for it does not need to he trimmed with fur. Send with a pair of heavy soles also. As soon as I have an opportunity I will r-- v pay you. So much for the letter, to the Wo-tlv-e of which the reader can point with as much precision as the author. Apparently it was written in winter, poor Mnesiergos having been surprised out in the open country by one of those icy snowstorms which sometimes even at this day cover the temples of Acropolis with a mantle of snow. Therefore be desired to receive as quickly a possible the heavy and warm garment of the poorer countrymen, a goatskin, which could be bought for 44 drachmas, and the strong soles which were worn under the ordinary sandals on the rural plains and hillsides. A good pair of the latter could be bought for four bill of drachmas, ns a that date shows. A noteworthy feature of this artless letter is the formula that may be found used in very numeroua letters that were preserved by the Greek literature of later times. Even at the present day every letter written by a rural Greek begins with the same cordial inquiry about the health of the peraon to whom the letter is written and with the brief Information about the health of the writer. well-preserv- had undergone no such selection. They were not immune. And they, who had made a custom of eating their enemies, were now eaten by enemies so microscopic as to be invisible, and against whom no war of dart and Javelin was possible. On the other hand, had there been a few. hundred thousand Marquesans to begin with, there might have been sufficient sur-ivivors to lay the foundation for a new race a regenerated race, if a plunge Into a festering bath of organic polsoi. can he called a regeneration. Pacific Monthly. Of all the inhabitants of the South seas, the Marquesans were adjudged the strongest and the most beautiful, And now all this strength and beauty has departed, and the valley of Typee the abode of some dozen wretched creatures, afflicted by leprosy, ele- phantiasis and tuberculosis. Melville estimated the population at 2,000, not taking into consideration the small Life has adjoining valley of rotted away in this wonderful garden New Feminine Industry. spot, where the climate is as deilght- The studio girl showed 16 slabs ol ful and bealthfu , as any to be found cake and wrapped ln tlMue to the world. Not alone were the wlth wen.known names. That u ... Typeans physically magnificent; they weddlnc cake .h. s l. the bacilli and germ, and microbes of cakea. 25 or .t dowiwE ST When one considers r:fcalmdrlTen race laBt fall , t0 th SSMS.TrtiMS SfAIS took the situation, ncIU,on "Remove the Bark and Sell It by the Yard." "Cloth made from bark la aa old aa the hill," dreamily observed Irad as hi cousin, Edgar, impatiently waited for him to Join hla trunk In the wagon and take up hla Journey to hla Cousin Freeman's, where both knew the welcome would be scanty and the stay short Youre barking up the wrong tree," cunningly informed Edgar. "No more oui-- i- rich schemes for n:e Illg-lo- RACE IS NEARING ITS END lloo-u-m- Iled-and- ever-vigila- THE OLDEST ATTIC LETTER ers. Right here, in this sugar guard, you can study quickly all the complicated, melodramatic politics of the island. BeWhy should he guard sugar cane? cane the of In sugar heart cause the lies all the inflammable spirit of revolution. Around this sugar cane revolves world politics, for it is the PLACING INVENTIONS gf IRAD BIGLOW OUR lic. tobacco. But Cuba Is only one-hal- f The other half is sugar, with a dash of bacardl. This half stretches from Guantanamo to the Bay of Nepi and disgorges its sweet substance through the harbors of Clenfuegos and Santiago. A trip to Cuba would not be complete without a visit to a sugar refinery, and that is comparatively easy for an American, for four-fifth-s of them are either owned or managed by Americans and their countrymen are always welcome visitors. There you can see the sugar cane hoisted from the flat cars at one end of the refinery and, following it down the course of its Journey to the other end, you discover strange emanations into the various vats. Into the first pours a sirup as thick and almost as black as crude asphalt and into the end one pours the very finest sirup of all, a yellow stream as thin as the sap from a maple tree in spring. From the black stream Is crystallized the lowest grade, of brown sugar; from the light yellow stream the highest grade of cube sugar. As you leave the sugar refinery you will pass through miles of sugar cane and if you are there late in the season you will at convenient intervals come upon a treacherous looking fellow carrying a rifle in the hollow of his arm. He scans you closely and will be quite sure of your pacific identity before you will he allowed to pass on. All over the Island those guards are as numerous almost as the work- PAGE 19 wr t. .tiidrln.ocl.tj Potw. When. big wedding was announced put to a bid for designing the wed Uni cake, just as an architect bids for building a house. The Idea pealed to a number of people who are always on the lookout for novelties and they paid me a good price for drawing up plans for the baker to work on. In addition to the money r got a slice of every cake. The mon ey 1. .11 gone, but I am .till hanging on t0 the cake."-N- ew York Sum A flourishes on im-and corruption. Natural selee- tlon. however, gives the explanation, We of the white race are the survivors and the descendants of the thousands of generations of survive in the war with microorganism.. Whenever one of us was born with constitution pe-culler ly receptive to these m toute ene-mies, such a one promptly died. Only those of us survived who could with- An gaay Angel stand them. We who are alive are the "Any good thing in the new mu Immune, the fit the ones best const!- - steal show?" tuted to live In a world of hostile ml- - "Yee; the backer was a 'cooc The poor Marquesans thing.' "Kansas City Times y jlck!" ugaln I'll show you some more said Irad. "1 ain't considered Europe yet. Now, for that trunk of mine." "Guess the trunk will have to wait, mumbled Edgar, pressing a hand against his throat to still the choking "You stay here and go sensation. Now fishing with me at I ties-" them bark "riant ihn trees five f "Tfcen, said Mrs. Kreebles, as she summer house looming up law h rough the driving rain, you go pick i' hem while I do up my halrl Over to hose woods the grass la ao long and Uet, and I abouldnt dare go there. . inyhow. Redlands went. Being about as wet U HU knees aa It wa. possible for hu- - aun-dirif- Iff MI t) where you grow the bark as gather Ibe crop any time during the itBWand have it hanging to silky year. Ruin or snow or sun cant hurt reamers from the drooping boughs, em. Say a order for 2,000 dozen ti ady to pluck and wear, you've made cornea to assorted ties for Canada. Pick out the giddy colors and ship nslderable progress," earnestly em. A tree blows down, say; remove Irad. the bark and sell it by the yard to the "I've read of poor, miserable s I'd flggcred that in big factories. mashing bark till they could wear baby ribbons, assorted colors, I'd for cloth," sneered Edgar. "But we make a million a year. Put that's it living in the dark ages. Want simply a don't hanker r help with that old trunk of to fusa with 1L LookI after the big yij.irn?" things and the little things will" Dark ages, ha! ha! cried Irad. "I Yea, but when can we plant the s ss if you see one of my trees?" In full bloom you'd say it assured promptly ws a fairy age. It all depends on Irad. befw you bruise the seed, you see," he "And how long will It take a tree rapidly rambled on, as Edgar's impa- to grow?" suddenly remembered Edtience took on a sullen tempo. "Natur' gar to inquire. dots the mashing and bruising, and I'll admit the tree is a slow growyou have, ready to wear, a product er," confessed Irad, backing away. that the sharpest expert can't tell How long?" demanded Edgar, hla from the finest and nicest silk. When brows con trading. the tree gits up six feet or so, the We're hampered to not being down con-ue- d na-o- nock-tree- ," bark, because Its already bruised and woven by natur into silky libers, naturally droops from the branches and hanga to festoons like Spanish moss; only each atrip is well knit together. In other words, you ran reuch up and tie and put it snip off a on right under the tree, and folks will swear you give a quarter for It at Tlbbeta store. A orchard of them trees will revolutionize the neckwear of every civilized country." "Bay, what to sin do you mean?" demanded Edgar, to high exasperation. "The idea of necktlea growing on trees!" "Why, Lawd bless you, Edgar. It's simple aa one, two three. If the bark la softened and made silky while growing, you cant tell It from the best silk and satin; only It wears better. Take small bushes and the bark on them would be baby ribbon and would acll for such. By careful pruning and grafting I can force the bark to grow short and atubby. Just right for bow-li- e and hair ribbons. Say, there's 85,000,000 people to this country that wear clothes. It ain't unreasonable, reckoning five to a family, to aay there's 17,000,000 families with some member In each hankering for a Irad Biglow hand grown silky fiber tie. Now aay tlll average two In a family, that'll buy at a quarter per, and you have 34,000,000 ties sold at 25 cents each. Keep the price down la my motto, and let the poor profit by the scheme. Of course, we'd carry a extry fine line of choice trees, shedding ties for the genteel trade, for which we'd git 60 cents up to a dollar per. But reckoning the general run of trade, which la too low aa therell be women and children that must have ribbona, bows md such truck and we have 34,000,000 To make easy flggering, (Marlere. four-in-han- d call It 35,000.000 quarten, And there you be." or 7,000,-00- And Irad slapped hla knee enthusiastically. "Ding bust It!" cried Edgar. "They'd sertainly be wutfc a quarter. They'd be wuth 35 cents of any one's money --O TMuk it over, and when ws meet south, slowly explained Irad. to this soli I should aay three half to four yean fur the tree " I don't think the fish will Ing hoarsely observed Copyright, 1910, Now, and a parent be bib Edgar, by W. U. Clmpmun. A Hint to Writers, If you are determined to writer don't bang around home. Go off to some place where nobody else has ever been or wants to go, then writs about, that place. Romance about It, He about It. fabrlrate Improbabilities about It. No one will know better aud you will be considered great. Don't write about anything that la well known. You will be laughed at, and, worse, not read. People will know at once how great you are not. Or, if you cannot afford Is go away, at least you enn buy an encyclopaedia. Read to it about the must Inaccessible places and then Invest them with Impossible happenings. It is easy to write. It Is especially easy to write about things that are unfamiliar. That'a why the subject of heaven Is ao popular. A writing la without profit to Ita own country. New York Times. Celluloid Substitute. new German Invention la announced which may serve as a useful substitute for celluloid, especially where the color of the article 1s not of Importance. It Is made from cry talllzcd carbolic arid and formaldehyde, and the resulting product ia an almost transparent ruby colored substance, which la not liable to take fire. By the Introduction of a white pigment the color can be modified. A cinematograph film which It la Impossible to set alight la also being made on the continent with considerable eucceas. A The Herbaceous Diet. la Nebuchadnezzar eating grass like an ox!" said one courtier. "Let'e hope for the best," replied the other. Maybe he's trying to get even with the Babylonian beef trust." Washington Star. "There :are. When he got tc the woods he He return' t o Mra. Kreeble and reported: There ire no violets." "Well," aald Mr. Kreeble, Jauntily, icr hair now being pinned up, It does lot so much matter. See that lovely apple tree over there to 011 bloom! I'd love to have some of he blossoms! Can't you manage " 'ound nothing but mud. per-'ect- ly xi The upshot or It wvia that Redlunda tllmbod the small apple tree. Ail that jortlon of Redlands which the uinbrel-- a had kept tolerably dry now rereived a shower bath from toe trem-illn- g branches. Also Mrs. Kreeble rom below vociferously objected to Us shaking off all the blossjjis She vondered Irritably why he had neglect-i- d to bring his knire. Finally she with an Injured air the tranches be threw down to her. That t wns a thornapple tree and Red-and- s bad met most or the collection in his way up and down did not Inter-is- t her at all. It occurred to Mrs. Kreeble then bat marshy places were the beat for riolets, so they hunted for a marsh. Everything In the pouring rain looked .Ike a marsh, but the coveted violets lid not appear. Finally, on the steep banka of a little creek, some blue blossoms showed. Ry lying down on die green and reaching far out. Red-nod- s managed to collect quite e band-ru- l. Oh. thank you!" cried Mr. Kreeble is she took them all. "Of course, these are not many, but they'll do: Now, let's go hack! Yea." said the dripping, shivering, by all means, llsgruntled Redlands, leta go back!" Ar they stepped on to the clubhouse porch, wet. bedraggled, pools of water flowing from their garments, Kreeble himself appeared. He surveyed them sternly. Even If a woman hasn't a scrap of sense," he remarked Icily, "one would naturally think a man might have a little. If you both don't have pneumonia "I believe 1 am rather damp," admitted Mra. Krcetne. "We'd better go and have tea. John, take ua to tea-- no, this little outing will not have Its finishing touch If Mr. Redlands doesn't get stuck for the tea also! Take ua to tea, Mr. Redlands!" So Redlands did. Unappreciated Art According to en account pubUshed In Ita weekly paper, the people of Burgan a small town to Suabia, have not boon educated to a proper appreciation of the stage. Joeef Detaenriede, who waa the prompter of the company which performed there a few weeks ago, published a letter to the little paper, to which he said: "I wish to notify the theater public that I have resigned my place as prompter because I wee compelled by necessity to do aa For fire days my family and myself had to subsist on boiled potatoes and tea because of my small Income. Oh. art la o Jolly!" |