| Show I SLIDING DOWNA DOWN iON A SALT MINE Unique Method of Descent Used Used- in Mines of Bavaria 1 1 t I ILEATHER LEATHER EATHER APRON VALUABLE Wonders of or r Hock Hoek Salt Snit qU Rival of or Utah's Great Crent Suit Salt Lake How How ardently would Dr r Mary Ial Walker Valker enjoy a visit to the famous salt alt mines mines' of Bavaria Here is SR a n lon tion of ot the costume she and antI all other I visitors visitors' would wear A pall pair of white while duck luck trousers stiff as 15 pasteboard o rd reaching to th the th ankles a black coat reaching to the knees and fastened around th fhe flie w waist lit by a leather belt bell then lien a n vcr very scry hea heavy I leather eather apron pr n three quarters of ot an thick k and worn at the back finally a lantern attached to the side of the tile belt We Ve tried to believe that Clothes Clothe do tIo donot donot not mako make the woman writes ono of or that hat sex ex In LippIncotts LippIncott's Magazine and aud with an air of ur great dignity Went forth to meet the rest of the company compan only to be greeted with shouts qt cf laughter The guide lighted light lIght- ed Il o our r lanterns lantern and with a last hys- hys te giggle we followed him Through long hong narrow damp passageways pas g gway way we went until finally we came calile to a lighted chamber the tile entrance entrance en- en trance rance to lo the shaft The file flickering showed us the end of a great grea smooth wooden beam which at au an angle of or orI I 1 41 r. r degrees dl disappeared In he lie d darkness bolow below Astride of heath Beam The miner placed himself astride he tile great grent beam beani keeping ills his position by holding on to a it rope I took look my place also aiso astride behind him and andi cl i sped m my arms around his waist The rue others diners mounted the lie beam In ill like manner each one omie clasping tight tightly the person in iii front of ot him There was Avas a moment of oC suspense Then rhen with a sharp cr cry the miner loosened his hold or of the lie rope and we with a velocity not to be he described ed d feet feel into the tho earth The miner acting as ns brake brought us to a n stop enough so that we se felt tell Very ery ittle stok It wi s In adjusting our attire that We so discovered the tile value of ot our back aprons hind Hall we plunged Into a a. pool of or r water at that thai moment wo should ha have haC C sizzled 1 I Tho The apr aprons ns were piping hot from he the friction of or our descent They speedily became our most moat cherished O for Cor we hInd hall three throe more of th hese se shafts to slide down and amid we gr grew w faint taint at the tho bare thought of ot los los- ng Ing mig our bur aprons Ve We traver traversed ll many long Ions galleries at different hovelS Through the e t. mi ran the lIe aqueduct one ono one bringing lit In tin Lit fresh resh Wl water 1 others c carrying carrying- out the tin wall nit water Worked for Centuries We Ye were elO In the tho bosom of or a n moun- moun am of or salt suIt rock rock- Which IM Is I constantly forming and und Is I therefore a n never never- ending source of wealth For centuries this Ills mine has been worked The tock rock salt snIt l Is quarried and carried car car- ried out In the thc form orni of or rock salt sail method of or obtaining salt Is ls Isby b by 3 conveying water water- Into the large largo excavated ox- ox ca chambers and when It has bo- bo come impregnated drawing It off of and boiling oIling it down This Ihl water attracts and dl dissolves solves the he saline matter flIntier but as water can cannot cannot not lot so affect the lie salty portion of or the rock ock it Il leaves heaves it often oCton in most fantastic fan au- au shape hape sometimes sometime's as ns pillars or depending sheets These chambers kept full of or water vater are constantly con- con changing their heir level lovel on oui the lie withdrawal of or tho lie liquid After Afier three or four weeks two feet of ot If tho lie roof root will be found to have b been en enIll Ill dissolved my and two t fe feet feel t of debris hUbris found upon the tho floor noor Curiously I enough this thiR debris In lii time acquired the he properly property of the lie salt sail rock Chambers Chambers Above l There ar are arc chambers abu above chambers chamb chamb- ers rs some seine of ur them jOlt GOO yards Ill in circumference cir Hull and miles of galleries of at if these chamber which was a illum tinted Moor floor walls and I. I telling tell ing rig of oC pure rock salt CI very loel lovely In III color thought not hot so o br brilliant II t as aH In lit Inthe litlie the lie mine of ot which Is liken likened n ed tl 11 to four our subterranean an cities one below the other uther hewn n from roni rose roso colored color color- ed id rock One of or the lie party parly secured from Crom roni our guide red yellow blue and purple specimens The minors are obliged to dhe divest t thc themselves of oC all nil clothing when at their heir work garment I dangerous dangerous' as ns any will vill So sio absorb the tile suit Salt as ns to lo become hard and brittle tearing the lie skin JJ painfully They rhey musi mURt be relieved etl e every Iy few hours hour and though short lived th they york work for a q pittance which un till AmerIcan American Ameri AmerI- can laborer would scorn L Lake kt Descending l a flight o of steps t r n n t I shooting me tue imra 1 i w ve T e L caine ulon upon up- up up ul on oil a scene which filled us with won on tier der There fa far I down in the earth la may lay a tin tiny tranquil lake o of illk inky blackness black black- ness its borders outlined with blazing torches At the lie extreme end nd were svere the tho lie entwined F P J. J Franz Josof Josef gleaming in candle cantIl lI lights and amid over our heads the lie miners miners' greeting Gluck GluckAuf Auf Aut traced tracei In fire On the lie pink salt alt the thc roof the minors call It der tier HImmel rock rock rested rested tho ho f tearful fearful weight of the tho superincumbent nt mountain We Ve entered a u little boat walling to take tako us across tho lie Salz Sea There was not a sound in iii this strangely Impressive lve place save e the lie dipping of the lie ou our oa We Wc the lie black It water Tho The Dead Sea cannot be ho 11 waiter salter Iter The Tue miners were not at work on oIl that tiny day but like gnomes tile they were silently coming anti and going In the hie shadows shadows shad shad- Otts Ott's never or omit omitting tinS tinS' the Gluck Cluck Au Auf as thc they met and anti parked There were lung long WE-ur WE weary stairs to climb Il we came to a a. little car cor running on a n narrow nl Inclined track irack In Imi liis lii's we U W went lIt rapidly l through galle galleries gal gal- le and null dry chambers ero propelled Into luio the he daylight with unexpected l velocity |
