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Show imw. gfcUer Comttu r. N. LIGHTS POTTER, Fabllsbor. UTAH. OGDEN. TBAVEL IN SICILY. AND SHADOWS TAORMINA. tki old HouiUiy nHler-don- fftorj of OP of San la and . About mlna Tho Crowded Mountain Funks of Aetna. M (Enteric fever Is calculated to htti killed ten Britishers In South Africa for each one who has fallen a victim to Boer bullets. (Rome Letter.) In my stay at Taormina I found out The heaviest precious stone Is the more about the old monastery at ban zircon, which Is four and one-ha- ll Domenico, which is now a hotel. The times heavier than an equal amount story is more interesting even than of water; the lightest Is the opal, only I had thought at first. The monastery twice as heavy as water. was founded by Dameano Rosso In the year 1430. He was a direct descendant The 38th anniversary of the estab- of Tancred IHauteville, and therefore lishment of a territorial government claimed kindred with William the for Arizona was marked by the dedi- Conqueror. The place has remained in cation of the new capital at Phoenix. the possession of the Rosso family ever sine and it was the present repreGovernor Murphy presided. sentative of the family who told me Pope Leo XIII. has just reorganized its story. In all Its long history services in the church have been kept 'his historic bodyguard. These gentlemen always accompany the pope in his up, and they are so still in one of the walks and attend him at all public chapels, though this is only a private functions. Leo XIII. has Increased the for the Rosso family and their housecorps from eighty to 340 In number, ' hold. The wood carvings in the choir and and has placed them at the head of the the sacristy and on the pulpit, which .Vatican troops. I are so marvelously rich and fine, were the llfework of one of the old Benedic, The numerous islands of the Pata-jgonarchipelago are covered with tine monks, who labored upon them severgreen forests capable of supplying forty years, finishing in the year 1602. fmmense quantities of valuable timber, This man must have been a kind of while the mountain ranges, being of Fra Angelico, for every figure bear the same geological formation as those 'testimony to his fervent piety as well of Chill and Peru, are probably rich! as to the exquisite refinement of his art and the religious scrupulousness In mineral resources. with which every detail was wrought ' out. The lovely surroundings of his A passenger train on the Minneapolis, St. Paul and Sault Ste. Marie monastery taught the monk how to (Railroad was recently delayed an hour adorn his stalls and his pulpit, and by heaps of Russian thistles which had right well did he use the flowers, fruits been blown upon the track by heavy and leaves that filled his garden and winds. The thistles were caught on covered the mountain sides above and the wire fences along the right of way, below his cell in embellishing his cap-ta- ls and corbels and all the surfaces of .where they collected in bunches in (much the same manner in which snow his construction work. There is among the other carvings a curious Tree of drifts into railroad cuts. St. Domenic, whose body seems to been a fruitful soil for the proThe king of Italy has just asqulred have duction of abbots and saints, for each the island of Monte CriBto, the scene of branch of the tree that grows from Dumas thrilling romance, as a huntbis side has borne fruit in one of them. ing ground. It Is about six miles In same The most pious and devoted extent, and abounds in fur and feather. There are to e found the wild boar, monk had time in spite of his forty the wild goat, the moufflon, hare and .years of carving to paint the missal of the church and adorn it with pious pheasant. When he was Prince of Na- care. ples the king used to often go hunting1 One must linger awhile at Taormina on the island, which then belonged to to learn about its beauties. No hasty the Marquis de Glnori-Lesc- l. glance suffices. The theater in the arms of its mountains is not the same Colonel James G. Milner, once assistant secretary of the confederate navy, when he died at Milford, O., on Tuesday, had in his trunk a million dollars - ia Zagitaf Bnaln ti On the outskrts of London there il smoking establishments, conducted by an Austrian, where meerschaum pipe! are smoked until they assume the proper color; It Is a large house that used to be the country seat of an English gentleman. Hither come every day a score of young men who are the experienced employes of the house; They pass upstairs to the business room In the rear of the house, seat themselves In arm chairs and forth with begin their days work of smoking meerschaum vote themselves to and figures for new tention being given of producing quaint oring. designing shapes pipes, special atto the possibility effects in the col- HOTEL SAN DOMENICO. The board of health of the city of In the moining as In the evening, and Galveston Is arranging for a large supat it is again quite different. midday of oil from Beaumont the wells to ply be used in fighting mosquitos. The oil At few places do the lights and shadwill be distributed in all the stagnant ows produce a more Impressive effect upon the landscape than here. pools in the city, sprinkled on the surTo see the sunBet from the Greek face of water In the gutters, and distheater at Taormina is an event in cisowners free to tributed of open terns for use In destroying mosquitos anyones lifetime. There is no other and the germs which place where such a sight can be seen. collect in the ponds. Experiments As the sun sinks behind the mountains shadows creep over the theater deepenmade by the board of health have demonstrated the virtue of crude oil as a ing, ever deepening, till it becomes gray and dark, while the Cala sanitary measure if properly used and quite bian on the Italian shore mountains petroleum water as healthful and are still rosy and luminous, and Aetna, nourishing for drinking purposes. towering far above them all, seems still light almost to its base. GraduAgents of the German government however, the vast mountains beare scouring Arizona for horses for ally, to glow. It becomes deep purple use in the army. Several days ago they gins down its valleys, then amethysamong closed a deal with ranchers in the more roseate till the then tine, northern and central parts of the terdome shines out out in radiritory for several hundred head,- - and ant pink. will buy as many more. The Arizona has lost its blue Long after the range horse is peculiarly adapted to and the shadows have covered even the hard campaigning. The stock comes highest Italian mountains, after even of excellent 'blood. Indeed of such the clouds that have been bathed in quality is the Arzona horse that United rosy light are beginning to pale, there States army buyers prefer him when is still a radiance about the crest of he can be secured, to the product of Aetna. It seems as if the great dome any other region. The heavy demand, far up in the heavens were luminous g however, of the past three years has in itself, perhaps because drawn heavily on the Arizona horse of the fires within. But no, that canranges, and prices have risen. Army not be, for aB the moments pass a buyers are paying from $25 to $55 and pearly gray succeeds the rose color, getting horses from three to five years and only the column of smoke reold. mains, red, like a pillar of fire, upon this highest, purest sanctuary of the At last even this one Pennsylvania Is the latest state that Sicilian land. Benefit of Enrly Rlalng. is trying to encourage and regulate! gleam of color fades away, and for a David J. Brewer, of the Justice new time cover methods. shadows vast deep Representhe marriage by tative Roth of Lehigh, Introduced a bill mountain and all its attendant peaks. United States supreme court, is in the But soon the moons light touches habit of getting up every morning at in the state legislature lately which white dome of Aetna. Then a broad 4 oclock. When some surprise was the a Pennthat male citizen of provides sylvania over forty years old, making path of silver leads across the sea expressed by a recent visitor at this application for a marriage license shall from Italy to Sicily. At last all the early rising be said: that when I lived in Kan pay to the clerk of courts a license of gray rocks and crags and castles and sas.'I began I was very ambitious, and at $100. TMs is to be turned into the the little towns and monasteries that rest quietly on their hill crests are night I found myself dreamUv over state treasury for the purpose of mainsilvered the moonbeams. The great the cases I had tried during the prewomen over homes for taining forty mountainbythat dominates all the land ceding day. I did not rest well and years old. who have not had a suitable is bathed from base to dome in a this troubled me so much that I con opportunity or offer of marriage and have not means sufficient to keep flood of tremulous moonlight In such suited a physician, an old friend ol a light and such a place all the won- mine. He advised me to drop all work themselves in clothes and spending of Sicily seems to be told in the evening. In those days we had money. Any bachelor over forty yean derful story noon, and a light meal, or old who shall go outside of the state, again. The old people who lived here dinner at toward before Greeks supper, the built long nightfall. I was to go yonder for a wife shall pay $100 into the! castle far above out in the with my wife, atthe theater. Then the evening state treasury. The act is irrevocably Greeks came tend the and theater, in play all cards, or go ta Syracuse aro?e and ran never be repealed without the but her and the law. Then I temthe parties, forget grandeur, majestic consent of the majority of the old woas early in the morning crowned the hills up get about ples might GIrgenti. men who have been regularly admitted Then came the Romans and conquered as pleased. I followed his advice, to the homes established for them. after long wars, leaving their amphi- anv gradually acquired the habit ol theater and many another noble build- rising at 4 oclock. I began to sleep The negro population of the United ing to tell of their power. Christians, soundly, and without dreaming of anyStates is not diminishing, as many Saracens and Normans follow in the thing so far as I could tell. I got up suppose, but is on the gain. The pertrain of these, and with them came in the morning with a clear head and Monreale and the Royal Chapel, lus- was able to do two or three hours ol centage of increase since 1890, accordtrous to census gems of art, inspired by the love good work before breakfast. I have of 1900, is 13.78, the ing and power of the Conquering Christ. followed that practice ever since. 1 which is a greater percentage of InWhere is another land like this in know many people do their best work crease than that of the previous decade. The actual figures, according to which history and story and the most in the night, but my best hours are in exquisite beauties of nature and of the early morning. the latest census are as follows: Colart are blended in so marvelous a way? ored population. 8,500.000; increase, W. C. LARKED. 1,029.960. That is the largest increase That the native population of New shown by any census since 1790, exis not maintaining Its How England IsnilanipM, of when that 1880, the gain, cepting New Almost Zealander every lives strength is pretty well known. was 1.700,784. within sight of the mountains or the Hence the facts brought put in the A decree has been issued by the ocean, or both. Its landscapes show vital statistics of Conecticut for last and ranges long governor-genersolitary giants tipped year, that the native population is fast of Moscow, forbidwith there are waterfalls being overwhelmed by the element of Alpine glow: the to inhabitants ding carry knives, with the exception of those whose vo- everywhere, some of them among the Immediate foreign extraction, will surfinest in the world; luxuriant countryprise no one. It appears that in all seccations require it. Persons transgressof the state the deaths among the side. tions farms, golden lakes, geysers. fine are to a this liable regulation ing forests from with volcanoes, miles native parentage, while the bur of pink, not exceeding 500 rubles or three white red and den of trees In flowering providing a natural lncreaseln spring, months imprisonment. and there are fiords of the sea thread- - the population rests wholly upon peo-in- g their way around the feet of moun- - pie of foreign birth. This Is true of the The government of rrussla Is about to establish public libraries. For cities,' tains crowned with glaciers and per- country as well as the urban districts. petual snow. The scenery is a synoppermanent libraries and public reading sis of the best in Norway, Switzerland, The man who goes to law for damrooms will be maintained, while for and Lsily is reasonably sure to get them. England. ages the rural districts movable libraries will be sunnlied. ng snow-crowne- n light-givin- J nu-merc- al I EXCORIATINO THE SMART SET. ostetr PBvplB of Atlanta, Ga, Como la " IW TENDERLOIN LY DECEASED, Mas Tu s.ooo,. The Wild car ay tied to fbr( aad Typlmi FredlgaL few days ago oc-J. Elmer Ellis, Bud, the scion of nda prodigal whose lat of the erring son For a time Ellis was a and his wild of the laws good' living shocked the peoifie of this In the absence the leading clergy-lli- s rented his home, gies here that start-- e bartenders of the of hab-isrega- sis rd their best patron. Champagne, mint Juleps, sherry cobblers, gin fizzes, punches and all vapalate-pleasirieties of drink found their way down his oesophagus, and the supply vas scarcely equal to the demand. In his home town of Schenectady then were similar carousal But it vas in New York that he flourished. He was a prince of Tenderloin sports. ng 88 Taeie Old. J. Elmer Ellfcwaa 38 years old. He was the son of the late John Ellis, of Schenectady, and a grandson of John Ellis, who founded the Ellis lo- comotive works, which have been recently sold out to the new locomotive trust for a sum said to be in the neighborhood of $8,000,000. The dead man was the largest. Individual stockholder In the concern, of which were owned by-t- he Eliis family, although his holdings were controlled by his family. He had an allowance of $300 a week for spending 'money outside of his hotel and doctors bills, which were paid bv his family. His grandfather died soon after the war, and his father, John, succeeded to the presidency ol the locomotive company. The founders fortune was estimated at about $3,000,000. This was divided equally among a widow and four sons. The eldest son built a beautiful home In Schenectady, at Union street and Nott terrace, and there Bud Ellis was born 38 years ago. His father was fond of horses and always kept a number of trotters. Bud early developed a fondness for fast horses and his ftither gratified his taste. Betweeif the father and son seven-eight- hs . Wlth.nf UnutUUoa, Society in Atlanta, Ga., is at the boiling point of indignation owing to sf recent sermon of Rev. Le G. Grough-ton- , of the Tabernacle Baptist church, wherein he denounced the members of the smart set in unmeasured terms I had as lief, said the minister, nave Bob Ingersoll pray around mj death bed if I felt my salvation to be dependent upon prayer at that time, as a Atlanta society man or woman. Their religious pretense is a stench to the nostrils of Christ. Their lives set at naught every teaching that he gave. This is Immoral. In declaring its Immorality I do not mean to be understood as saying that every man or woman in society is immoral. I do not think that would be a true statement. Morally I think there are some good speaking, men and women who move in this circle. But as a whole we have to look at any question. And looking at this in this way, I do not hesitate, with a fair knowledge of the facts, to say that Atlanta society is soaked through and through with the virus of immorality. It is a known fact that society sets the pace for the rest of poor mortals. I hate to acknowledge their power, but must tell the truth. They will put on decollete dress, and every vain little idiot In town wants to do the same thing. This has gone on until the dress of our women, especially our girls. Is actually indecent. I tell you the devil cut the pattern for this style of dress.' Speaking of the drink habit. Rev. Mr. Broughton said: There are very few society women in Atlanta, If reports are at all reliable, that do not drink. Some one asked me the other day what was the latest news from Atlanta society. And I said, Down drunk. I did not mean that they were all drunk at one time, nor that they were all so drunk that they could not move about. But Atlantas society women drink. I am told there are certain recent society scandals in this town that would raise the hair straight on a decent mans head, the result of dissipation, mostly from drink. They drink at their punch bowls; they drink around the table; they drink at these abominable clubs; they drink anywhere they can get it I know facts on this line, and I speak boldly. I do not call any names, but I do single out a class of women in this city, that class known as society women. They do not any more hesitate to go to these clubs and sit down and drink than a negro would to walk up to a bar and take a drink. They acknowledge this open and above board. To justify it, they say they drink In their homes, why not drink In the club? full-fledg- ed so-call- ed . To Save Noted House (Torrlngton, Con., Letter.) The famous John Brown homestead is to be saved from the hands of the vandal' and relic hunter. The birthplace of the noted abolitionist will, if present plans carry, soon pass into tbs hands of the John Brown association. This is an organization formed by Dwight C. Kilbourn of Litchfield, an ardent admirer of the man from Ossawatomle. Sufficient funds will be raised to purchase the propof erty through the ' issuance stock of the association. The price asked is $3,500, which is considered a goodly sum. In view of the untenantable condition of the building. About half a dozen acres of stony ground go with the dwelling. Some time ago the Connecticut legislature was asked to appropriate the necessary amount, but it declined on the ground that It had other uses for the money. It was urged that in a few years there would be nothing left of the birthplace of the famous abolitionist. Doors, windows, casings and even boards from the floor have been carried away by the relic hunter despite the vigilance of neighbors and town authorities. Home la in Rnlns. The house has been untenantable for some years, and well it might. It has weathered the suns and storms of a century and a half, affording warmth and shelter for families Innumerable, who have eventually given up the struggle for a living from the next to unproductive soil and moved to more inviting locations. Owen Brown, the John Brown Asso- ciation to Preserve Birthplace. falher of the abolitionist, moved into the big barn-lik- e structure in 1798 after trying to make a living in other part of New England. Here in 1800 May 9, to be exact the future martyr was born. The first five years of his life were spent within its shelter. The Browns had more or less claim to the title of sons of New England, no less than six generations having tilled its soil since the coming of the Mayflower Family Xona to Ohio. In 1805 Owen Brown forsook the east and settled in Hudson, O., where hie son received his eerly education. In 1812, securing a contract to supply the army with provisions, the Brown family took up its abode in Detroit. Later the son settled in - Richmond, Pa., where President Jackson appointed ; him postmaster. In the subsequent stormy years of his life John Brown settled for a time in Massachusetts, but Torrlngton and! its vicinity knew him no more. It wasn't until years after that the sleepy old town awoke to the fact that the man who sacrificed his own life in the cause of the blacks had conferred undying fame upon it. Even then there wasn't enough loose money in the place to preserve the famous homestead. Trave-r- s came from near end far to Inspect the spot, and usually left with something substantial in the line of a momento. But Torrlngton slept on. If it wasn't for the enthusiastic Litchfield man it would probably continue to slumber while vandal and relic hunter completed the work of destruction. ' BREACH How OF THE CONTRACT. Man Got tho Hast of a Subscrip- tion Book Scheme. A citizen of Buffalo has -- . fever-breedi- BUPELLI8 IF 'PRINCE SPORTS pipes. Each one knows the art of smoking steadily, neither too fast nor too slow. The tobacco they use is a special blend of the proprietors, for he knows it Is only rarely that the right kind of tobacco Is used for this purpose. The bowls of the pipes which these young men smoke are covered with wash leather so they cannot by any chance be harmed or Improperly stained. The highly accomplished among these young fellows can get away with four ounces of tobacco a day. They are paid well and they have their regular holldaya Some of them have been with their employer for five years. But it lsnl a business in which one may stay a lifetime,' for, though they appear to be able to smoke for years, night and day without hurting them, when they get to be old men, their occupation has made them too nervous to be useful The proprietor himself, smokes not at all, except when he is teaching an apprentice how to go about It Tbs new hand receives a cheap pipe, and after being told how to go ahead is left to himself to show what he can do. There are prize competitions, and these thirty newly arrived young men who are on an upper floor, when they become proficient are graduated to take their seats with the notables on the second floor, back. This kind of work as a rule takes all the time and attention of the men, but some ol them are so perfect that they can de- QUEER DINING ROOMS. Hi Barral That Ones Accommodated IBS O Beats, An invitation to dine in a barrel hai In itself no great element of attraction; but when the barrel takes the form ol a champagne tun large enough to hold $1,000,000 worth of the seductive beverage, and when the dinner is one of a dozen courses, each perfect of its kind, the temptation assumes quite a different complexion. This was the invitation Issued two years ago to 155 chosen guests at Nancy, France, and the dining saloon was a colossal champagne tun built for the Paris Exposition. This tun was in the shape of an enormous barrel, 31 feet In length and diameter, with a capacity of 92,400 gallons. The mere preparation of the wood for its construction occupied four months; a year was spent in building It; its cost was $2,100, and it was so heavy that a strong locomotive would be required to draw it. Within this truly regal cask covers were laHl for 15E guests, just as many as the workmen who had made it; and for two hours a sumptuous feast was partaken of. A strange banquet was one which, a yeax ago, tempted the appetite of two dozen .villagers on the northern coast ol Norway. An enormous whale had drifted ashore, bringing an unexpected fortune in oil and blubber and whalebone to its fortunate flnderB. He was a monster, even of its kind, measuring 8C feet from snout to tail, and yielded over $12,500 In bone and oil. In honoi of such a treasure trove the finders decided to give a banquet in the most novel dining room on record the Inside of a whale, which, after the removal of the blubber, afforded ample sitting room for 30 guests. How far the appetite of the guests was affected by the unesthetic atmosphere is not recorded, but it said that some of the diners, toward the end of the meal, were so enamored of their quarters that they expressed a determination to stay there forever, and were only ejected by muscular force. More than one banquet has been served In the Interior of a large organ. The most notable, perhaps, was that given by the Silbermanns, a century ago, in the magnificent organ of the Royal Catholic church, Dresden. in confederate bonds and money. Had he sold these to collectors he would not have been so poor that his wifes burial and his own need be at thej charge of friends, as was the case; Colonel Milner's wife, 80 years old, died three weeks before him; a neighbor then took him to her home, where the desolate man died at the age of 82. 8T0RY MBN WHO ARB HIRED TO SMOKE (Marias of Haanrlia BUD" ELLIS, there was a good deal of rivalry as to who owned The FMtw Hohm. A feature of the Schenectady county fairs each year was the trotting races, in which John Ellis and young Bud always had entries. It is recalled in Schenectady how on more than one occasion when the sons horse beat the fathers the two would get into an argument over the relative merits of the horses. When the father was beaten, he always had an excuse, and to settle the matter, finally, the match race would be arranged between the two, each to drive his own horse. If the son won the match, the father paid the wager cheerfully and told his son that he never would have won had he not had a father who knew enough to teach him how to drIYe. When Bud was reaching manhood his father died. The business of the locomotive works had greatly Increased since the death of their founder, and, John Ellis, holding a larger block of stock than any of his brothers, left a fortune estimated at $2,000,000 or $3,' 000,000. The greater part of this was left to his only child. Bud.. Then becareer which the wild gan made the young man a familiar figure in the Tenderloin. He lived at the Gilsey House for several years and then went into bachelor apartments. About seven years ago Ellis married Miss Eva Long, of Utica, an actresB and member of a family. His relatives were not altogether displeased with the match, because they hoped that, having married, the young man would settle down. He did, for a time, and went back to Schenectady with the expressed resolve of following the business of his father and grandfather. The determination held good for only a short period. He went to New York one day on business and he never went back to the shops again. His wife left him in 1897 and obtained a separation. well-kno- wn just won his case from a subscription' book concern. He subscribed for a set of Balzac's works with the understanding that the edition was to be limited to 1,000 seta He thought he was to be JuBt one of a thousand out of seventy-od- d millions in the United States to be enViVcf the possession; of the Balzac sets. He learned afterward that there were two other limited editions of the same work, that all three editions were printed from the same plates on the same quality of paper and differed only in the of illustrations and the color the binding. The Buffalo purchaser contended that the publishers had violated their contract with him and refused to complete his payments for the set. Whereupon the publishers brought The case has Just suit to recover. been tried in the municipal court in Buffalo and has been won by the defendant,- the court holding that a mere color of the binding did not constitute a new edition, and that the defendant was the victim of a breach of contract. This was good law and a correct result. The tricks of the subscription book publishers and their agents are many. When a man finds he has been cheated he should resist. The courts will protect him. Utica Observer. Shift of Arctic Realq. Lake Baikal is a remarkable body of water lying in a longitudinal trough on the edge of the central Asiatic plateau, whose surface is 1,600 feet above the sea with which it Is connected by the Yenisei river after flowing across the northern plains of Siberia for a distance of 2,000 miles. A most curious fact, long known to scientific men, is that this lake is occupied by a species of seal almost Identical with those found in the Arctic ocean. The same specieB, with slight variations are also found in the Caspian sea, but not anywhere else along the 3,000 or 4,000 miles which separate these bodies of water. The most probable explanation of this fact, and the one usually accepted by scientific men is that these species of seal were thus widely dis- tributed during a continental subsidence in which the waters of the Arctic ocean covered all of northwestern Siberia and extended up to the base of the great Asiatic plateau which we followed for such a long distance on elevated shore lineB of Turkestan, says McClure's Magazine. When this dearea emerged from the sea, it pressed Snakes Sold by tha Found. Isolated in the two great Snakes can now be bought by the left the seal water bodies of which still remain on pound in Klamath, Ore., where there its former So lately has this margin. is quite an extensive Industry. has not been there taken that Children gather their aprons full of time forplace, to be effectany great change snakes as they would of wild flowers, in ed of the characteristics specific and little boys gather them in their these animals. pockets for pets. The price paid is 25 cents per pound and a ready market is A ZteMiiiT Prernntlon. found for them in Minnesota. The A couple of fishermen went out from species is of a dark culor and when full grown is about three feet long. El Dorado, Kan. They had a jug of So great is the supply that tons of the pretty good whisky and a they intended to shoot at reptiles could be shipped annually if with whichcase the fish might not bite. there were orders for them. The a mark in snakes are used for medicinal pur- They left their equipment on the bank poses, as a superior quality of oil can of the creek while they went away to be manufactured from the variety hunt a boat. When they returned found at Klamath Falls. they found this note pinned to the grub Dear Gents We have taken basket: and pistol. We didnt want jug your Work of An Marlbqnske. you might be An earthquake wrecked several the pistol, but thought to us up and follow enough thirsty buildings in the towrx of Aulton, Mex., shoot for the drinka and then passed o to Zopothon, where it sported wit the waters of a Illiteracy Cmm Odd Statement. waters seemed big lake. At first t A Topeka medicine company has put in a state of great a tion, and then a lot of testimonials. The first is out subsided they and gradually disapa woman, who says: from Having peared. The earthquakrlhad caused a fissure in the bed of lie lake, and suffered fifteen years from, a fatal disI am happy U say that I am through this the lake hfld passed out ease, now entirely cured. of six-shoot- er, . sight JOHN BROWN HOUSE. detached, and thus escaped the flames.1 It is now used as a tool bouse for (be Treasure Vault Only The Country Is A pasture adjoining the gardener. Awaiting Development. grounds of the asylum is strewn with The enormous but undeveloped min- charred brick which are said to have ing fields of the northern Andes are a been from the walls of Martha Washperfect treasure vault for the yworld to ingtons house, and many of them haver pry Apen with railroads, Aays a mining been carried away as mementoes by', engineer who is about setting out for curious visitors. Ecuador, where he has had elgt subordinate parties exploring for him for BILLIARD CUES. the past year. My private reports have informed me of the discovery of America Furnishes the Best Frori act Every Way. alluvial gold fie ds in the une pi ore i Most billiard cues, says a New orient of Ecuador. We have not yet located the original lodes from which York manufacturer, are made in two these alluvial deposits of dust have pieces, the cue proper and the handle.. been washed by the denudation of the The cue is generally made of maple, is ledges. These legends told by the Nipa and the butt, which is wedge-shapeIndians of the fabulous mines of the inserted into a handle of rosewood,, Incas are undoubtedly founded on fact. snakewood, ebony, mahogany, walnut-osome other fancy dark wood, which Our prospectors have located rich placer mines after a hasty exploration of is cut to dovetail with the long part. The maple wood used in making the a few of the streams which flow into the headwaters of the Amazon, as yet handles is sawed into suitable lengths and seasoned. The logs are then split unsapped. Somewhere in those mouninto pieces from which the handles ara tains millions are sleeping. In the southern portion of Ecuador, made. These pieces are called bolts. already partially opened by a single The bolts are sawed approximately to line of road, 10 miles of which is in the shape of the handle to be finally operation, my engineers have uncov- made, and in this shape they are hanered five veins of excellent coal, in dle blocks. The handle block is turned, seams of from six to thirty feet in in the shape of the handle in a lathe, width. This Is significant of what nuy and, when the butt has been fitted, it be there. South America now imports is finished and polished. The finest and best cues are fitted, coal at great expense. In the northern district, the eruptive nature of the to the handle or butt by means of country has deposited enormous quan- double wedge. At the top of the cue i tities of sulphur. At present most of a ferrule of ivory or horn, or bone, in the sulphur of commerce comes from which the leather tip is fitted. While Sicily, and the demand is large became the ivory ferrule is the most expensive, of course, it is less durable than the of its growing uses in the manufactures, especially since sulphuric acid horn or bone ferrules, which are less has been used for the conversion of liable to crack. The extra workmanship phosphate rock into fertilizeis, as on cues is put in on the butts, some of well as bleaching, dyeing, sugar refin- which are elaborately inlaid and carved in beautiful patterns. ing and high explosives. There are a number of billiard playAmong other discoveries reported to ers who will not permit another perme has been the location of large copson to use their cues, and for the use ores in per prospects gold hearing complex ores bearing gold, silver and of these particular playerB cues are lead, zinc mines and alkaline earths turned out from which the tips may be unscrewed, leaving the cut with unfinand clays of high value. Several of our expeditions have de- ished points and useless. American voted their explorations to learn the billiard cues are the lightest, strongeconomic possibilities of this land of est and neatest made anywhere in the mystery. They report that the coast world. They are made in all weights districts already export $7,000,009 of and lengths, and rank in price from chocolate, no longer a luxury, but a 30 cents to $25 and more each, accordnecessity to the world. This industry ing to the quality and finish of tho could be increased several fo'.d by article. American enterprise. Since the pushBondar Shave a Necessity, ing of the road from Guayaquil the While Connecticut's laws are sugar ad coffee Industry has bad a sudden impetus, offering large possi- strict as to Sunday observance, a 2or-wa- lk judge ruled the other day ftat bilities for investment. Tobacco of a high grade is grown there in limited a Sunday shave is a. necessity and dls-- ' quantities by the indolent native plant- charged a barber who had been arers. raigned before him for shaving a cusWhile searching for gold in the ori- tomer on Sunday. The judge said in ent of Ecuador our party came upon rendering his decision: We have come to an age when thes Immense tracts of rubber forests, the sole output at present being what the matters must be considered with JudgIndians bring in on their heads. Here, ment and with common sense. People too, are large areas of valuable hard as a rule are extremely busy during woods. The high plateau which the the week, and when they go into a railroad is now crossing is fertile, and barbers shop in an orderly manner to will eventually play an important part prepare themselves for the proper obin the food supply of the other nations. servance of the day, I do not believe that it could be considered a criminal offense. Planted bv Martha Washington. One of the Interesting things at WilWhy Hnrseshne Are Lucky. liamsburg, Va., is a yew tree, one of There is a legend that the devil one' United in which few the the States, stands within the grounds of the Vir- day asked St. Dunstan, who was noted ginia state insane asylum. It was for his skill in shoeing horses, to shoe planted by Martha Washington on the his Bingle hoof. Dunstan, knowing day she became engaged to her hus- who his customer was, tied him tightly1 band, and symbolizes devotion and to the wall and proceeded with his Jobj constancy. The asylum occupies the but purposely put the devil to so much; site of her mansion, which was called pain that he roared for mercy. Thei The Six Chimney House, and was one raint at last consented to release him; condition that he would never enter1 pt the finest in Virginia, but was burn- on ed many years ago. All that remains a place where he saw a horseshoe of it is the cook house, which was RICHES OF ECUADOR. d, r p-e- tty |