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Show 7 KING liOCATED. LAND DORADOS The Story of Eldorado According to Aodern Research. 7 FEEDING Guatavlta ke untold treasures, TM . One of the things which seem to only trouble le to get at them. Ov1 have pusxled those who took the story or two crude attempts have been toad t of Eldorado seriously is that nowhere be to draw off the waters of the lake and dig out the gold which Ilea in the soil of Its bottom, hut such efforts se far have not met with success. Now a expedition Is start lng out from England to capture, It poeslble, the gold of El Dorado. The land of Eldorado was, as a matter of fact, much less prolific in gold than either Mexico or Peru. It was the use that the Chlchas made ef their gold which appealed to the imagination of the- The fame of the sun deeoended was spread "all along the shores of ths Caribbean, and ths natives of whom the Spaniards ed t his city. As bod-er- a research seem to have determinof the capital ed, the descendant of the eun was ' WATERS OP THE t AND OE' KING DORADO Galahad result has beeh the location of Eldo- tually and as valiantly rado In the region of Colombia, now ought the Holy Grail, though not with such pure hearts and high ambiknown as the department of round about the Colombian tions It Is probable that a model ia capital. Much gold has already been gold of the raft, with the king and his gathered from the shores of Lake Gua- chief Caslques on It, was a favorite came tavlta, and the company formed to offering of the rich pllgrlmr who draw off its waters want what treas- to, pay tribute to the sun by throwing their offerings Into the sacred ure remains there. aa modern take. The story of Eldorado, Such a tribute would not otflr be research has it. Is this: Long before valuable from a religious point of to hla down and the days of Columbus, view, but would time, probably, there reigned in the also be a delicate a Colombia now is what of Cundl-namare- a, biyn Of frame, wood houses, the aides f Which were covered with gayly colored cotton doth. Odd does not seem to have been much thought of except as it represented the color of tbe sun and most faithfully reflected his beams Over the cotton cloth which draped the sides of the houses of the prehistoric capital of Chlcha were hung many strands of cord, threaded with gold heads and aa tbe morning breezes swept down from the Cordilleras, these golden strands waved to and fro, making a mighty shimmer In the early sunlight, and to one who ob-- could be found the city of Manoa. vrhlch on Spanish adventurer declared was the capital of the desired country. Now the only authority upon which the name Manoa rests ss that of ths capital of Eldorado ia that of one Marti nes a mutineer, who was set adrift from a Spanish ship. He returned to civilization and declared that be had been cast upon the coast of Gaines and had been conducted through the wilderness to the city named Mano&whtch was the capital of Eldorado; that the king of the country was In alliance with the Inca, and that the roots of the houses of the city were covered with He had gold. Martinet was a liar. heard the story of Eldorado, and It la not hard lo seek for ths' place to" Which he taken, for, far up the Amazon river, at the Junction of that mighty stream with the Rio Negro, stands ths city of Msnaoa, still bearing Its old Indian name, which became Manoa la . the Spanish of the romancing Or perhaps he was right and Manoa waa the original name, and Vanaoe la a Portuguese corruption of It 4 But he haw no gnsiMerww" Sir , Walter Raleigh led no leu than two expeditions In search of Eldorado, and so enduring was the belief In the existence of the place that 'Spanish 'expeditious in search of the place were sent out as late as the latter part of the eighteenth century. Those who are interested in Eldorado, as It apn pears ia fiction should read the chapter In Voltaires "Candida." To ns of today Eldorado hat resolved Itself Into a question of hydraulics-draini- ng of Luka Guatavlta. u Mar-tines- well-know- The Tint Prlatar. Consul Schumann of Mains reports that on Junne 23 next a festival will be held In that city In commemoration of tha SOOth anniversary of th birth of Johann Gutenberg, the Inventor of the art of printing. In this festival almost all civilised nations will take part, and It Is to be hoped that the , highlands mighty king who was In alliance with the Incas of Pern. Hla people were the Chinchas. Stretching southward from Bogota to this day can be Been remnants of the old highway which connected the kingdom of the king of the Chinchas with the domains of his great ally of Peru. Now the Chinchas were sun worshipers, and their king claimed descent from the sun. For all that Is known of his ancestry he might .have been also brother to the moon and first cusln to all the fixed stars. But for him and his people It sufficed that he was a descendant of the sun Every morning at the rising of the sun the king came forth in state to do homage to his ancestor, and the mountains' and the valleys resounded with the acclamations of. hlsl people. Their places of worship were upon the shores of streams or of lakes, and of all the holy Shores, the shores of Lake Guatavlta were the most holy. To the margin of this, lake used to repair pilgrims from all parts of the kings domains, ss now pilgrims go to Mecca or to Rome, and offer their tributes They came to those waters as the Brahmin of India goes to the were Ganges, for the waters thereof. piece of flattery for the king. Human nature did not dif- re-No- w frrf Ay ratting Im lata Kina Cant A It aad Caste Ginas. Few sights are funnier than to see Brazilian drinking beer and putting Ice tn the glass to cool IL In that equatorial country no attempt Is mad to keep ths beer cool before It Is bouse it wholesalers the In lrawa. b eooled before delivery, but If the van who drinks It doesnt, like Its temperature, In goes a hit af lee. If ten is bandy. Brasilian bear can be When an army le encamped tn a friendly country there la not so great a difficulty In feeding It aa when It u penetrating hostle territory anjl his separated itself from Its own country. And yet in either cam It ts no light task to furnish and distribute the food that Is to keep, say 30,000 stomach satisfied and 30,000 hearts In t)e right place.- - Tbi (a the work of the - - com mtsaary department When aa army division or an army corps is encamped at home tbe problem of getting euppllee le comparatively simple. Sometimes they are furnished on contract, sometime brought In large quantities a week or more tn advance of the time at which they will be needed. The commissary general is responsible for the procuring of these euppllee and having them deposited at a depot within easy reach of the troops. Each company of a regiment has Its cooks; each regiment has its commissary depot, where supplies are kept sufficient for, say, a week or 10 days tor all the men. Men sre detailed from each company to aulst In the work of getting the supplies from the regl mental depot to the company kitchens every day. Others are detailed to help transport the supplies to the regimental depots from the general headquarters whenever ths stores In the- form w nr getting low. As all supplies are Issued from only on orders end receipts are given for everything secured. It can be seen that tbara la an Immense amount of clerical work necessary to the smooth and uninterrupted work of - hesd-quarte- the department tohnvelanded on Suppoee an ,aj-ma foreign coast The first move after tbe landing of the men and Arms Is to secure a convenient spot for a depot of aupplies. These are landed and piled high on the shore until there seems to he a mountain of boxes Inextricably mingled In the general mass. Gradually these are separated Into different plies and order begins ;,tO. make Jte pppeara nee 'out of ehao. until sll the supplies kfe"bropefTy housed. For an army of 80,000 men and 10,000 horses tor three , months It is estimated that there are necessary 11,000 totns of food and forThis food Is made up of age. suppalatable and strength-givin- g plies, with a proper proportion of meat, vegetables, coffee and flour for bread or biscuits. - Tbs meat Is generally canned, although sides of bacon are abundant, and even herds of live cattle are taken along for fresh v meat Whenever any Important move Is to be made by tbe army each soldier la generally supplied with rations for a day, which he carries la his haversack. These be le not to use unless ordered to do so. There two days' rations carried In transport for each fraction of a command to tide the troops over ths march. In the English army there are even wagon arrangement for cooking meals on the inarch, quantities of sc--p being bested ana meet and potatoes being prepared while on the march. But, when the army moves away from Its base of supplies, then It Is that tbs feeding problem becomes mors complicated. There are always a number of men detailed from each regiment to assist in the work of bringing up supplies The keeping open of a line of communication with the base of supplies Is the first thing that a comm&ader moat ee to, for It means ths safety of hts army. If this 11ns of communication Is but a days march, the work Is simple, and does not take many men detailed to wagon driving' to replenish the Impoverished stock of tbe regimental or division larder.- - But when tbe distance la Increased to 60 or 100 miles the trick Is one of great diffare.-besld- ea, chilled only once, and It la undrinkable' overnight. Bahia draws Its hear supply from Rio Janeiro and Sao Paulo breweries, which "make for tbe most part light beer. A glass of beer la called chopps, and It sells for sixty rela, or nine cents. Teutonia Halle, In Bahia. tbe only establishment in the town that approaches the dignity of a saloon, sells as many as three and sometime six kegs of beer a day. A keg once opened has to be sold before ths day ts over or else It spoils, for refrigerators are unknown. - Most of tha lower classes buy cheap wines, sad especially the native rum, cachaca," a glassful of which costs only forty rela So with them the drinking of beer Is a cultivated taste. At society functions it is tha custom to have all kinds of drinks In a room set aside specially for that purpose. . Beer In the eaik la oif tap at. the weddings of the 400. New York Press About 0 per cent of the schoolboy of the District of Columbia use tobacco In some form," i . - KaitMiwt Dime Oat Cbmk. The Protestant Episcopal church of tho Archangel tn Harlem, N. Y, has been meeting In a kail over a restaurant The proprietor of tbe restaurant tired 'of singing and the cheating, opened the windows leading from hi kitchen into the alrshaft and kept them open. The smell of the cooking and ths stocks that ascended swery time tkc cook waa careless were too much for the congregation, and the ehurch had to move. bo-a- o, ; , isfied. Of course the buyer waa onder a contract and ths merchant could sot get rid of him without violating IL What did he dot Why he sent lor this man and said to him; Mr. , yon have done splendid work tor ns, and we ars more than satisfied, W feel that you deserve some reward and we -have determined to Increase your salary 11,000 a year, Well the buyer said , be waa very grateful and all that and, went out and put in some of his best Ucks He got the Increased salary for two weeks and signed a receipt for IL Then the merchant aent tor him and Mr. said: , ws are mistaken In our estimate of you and w have determined to let you go. We dont need, you any longer. 'Well, I dont want to stay where Im not wanted, said the buyer, but I've a contract, you know. Contract? said the merchant What contract? Oh, no, you have no contract You consented to the abroga- tlon of the contract two weeks ago. the buyer, Well, I don't think that began. It doesnt make any difference what you think, said tha merchant with forty years of business Integrity, you did abrogate it Ws dont need you any longer. Good day, sir. New York Bun. , rs g-- fer much in El Dorado from human j In New nature York, and people with an eye to political preferment kept the other eye on the boss then as they do now. One of these vorafts was tive found recently imbedded in the soil of the shore of the lake-h- y a German archaeologist, and is now in the museum in Berlin. Gold pieces, evidently offerings, to the value of many thousands of dolhave been lars, found from time to , time On the shores of Lake Guatavlta, but, as the region is one to which few gftCTtde TRAVELING INTO EL DORADO. The pilgrims all brought offerings Europeans or Amno notice waa serves them from afar, aa Philip von United States will also be duly reprepenetrate of gold and precious stones and cast ericans fact until Hutton believed he did, the city might sented. In connection with this festithem Into . the lake f jr the propitia- taken- - of the It has been proved be- weir seem "Id" be one ofhouses And val the foundation "of aGiratenberr tion of the sun god. On occasions of eently, mseuns la planned. high festivals the king himself repair yond doubt that at the bottom of Lake street of gold. BEER IN BRAZIL TUi If he agrees to pay yotf mors than yoa are worth hsA find It out sooner or later and than your contract Isnt 1 know H shouldnt worth a fig. but It ia soTTve goOn'mind ow a case In which a New York merchant who boasts of forty years of business integrity figured." He employs S tayer In one of his departments at a yearly salary and contracted with him for five years Tbit buyer waa one of tbe heat in the business He worked along for about a year and then something happened that made the merchant dissat' chine new continent told not only of the -..glided - acVbut of WILD 4 LITUE. Uk Kmflojvn, Says "I wouldnt give a cent for a contract with aa employer, said aa advartts-tn- g Contracts are useless If a man. finaUUn at lappBse Mast man hires yon for a certain son to Be CaasSaatly Harriet ta Ska Maa aa4 do certain work, ha pays yoa that sum aa lauaaasa Aasaaat af labar la Ua- - because you are worth it to hla and V hell keep you without a contract Just a, great aggregation of fighting men, armed to the teethwlth rlflea-- s words and what not, while they never once give a thought -- to the men in the rear Yet these men In the rear are an Important part of the fighting ma- asksd their questions regarding the - in Csslnrte aa long aa be will keep you with ona. os the lake before daylight and began thoBe mystic rltee the major part of which have been lost to history. From out the far times of the loet American empires and kingdoms, however, this much has been rescued. When the first rosy beams kindled upon the mountain tops the beacon fires which announced the coming of the tun god forth from hlg black tent of night tbe king, stripped of hts royal robes, was anointed with clay by the priesta,prob-abl- y to the sound of weird chants, and the high priest blew gold dust over him until he was coated from head to foot with the precious metal. Then, stepping on board a gilded raft with his chief Caslques, the king was towed out Into the middle of the lake. Suddenly, as It does in tropic reglous, the eun sprang with Its light above the and there, mountains, towering among the nobles, who had accompanied him, shone the descendant of the eun in the reflected beam of his ancestor, while from the vast multitude which surrounded tbe lake arose Joy-fff-i acclamations and the sound. of bar baric music. , It was the story of this ceremonny which was told to tbe Spaniards who first visited the shores of the new world, and so they called the king of the Chlchas "El Dorado" the gilded. From the description of the king the phrase came to mean hie country, and so, made into one word Eldorado it became something which the knights and nobles of Castile sought as Ineffec- - WORTH I It Is very probable hat SO people out of every 100 think of aa army as - waters of tbe lake and get some more of the .treasure of tbe gilded one. That region, the rumors of which fired the Imagination of tbe adventurers from tbe time of the discovery of the New World down to the end of the eighteenth century, and lured tbe through tbe foresta anil mountains of South America, and which even at tbe beginning of-tseventeenth century exerted a master Influence on tbe schemes of Sir Walter Raleigh, baa liven up to modern research tbe secrets which it guarded for four hundred years, Begota, the capital of the South American republic of Colombia, liea in a mountain valley eight thousand feet above the level of the sea. In the mountains near Bogota ia the lake of Guatavlta. The waters of this lake are to be drawn off to find the treasures of Eldorado. From the end of tha eighteenth century up to within a few year ago the story of Eldorado has been dismissed as being ona of tha phantoms which hsuated tha brains of the ea.-l- explorers, caving no foundation except the inflamed imagination which had been engendered by te wealth of Mexico and Peru. But for the last few years the old legend had been studied, the old chronicles have been examined and the chaff winnowed from the wheat. Explorations have been made, not as the conquestadores made them. In shining mall and with flaunting banners, but as dry and musThe ty archaeologists make them. .ARMY. FEW REALIZE WHAT A GREAT TASK IT IS. Eldorado has At last been located, ed. to the lake and went through the the golden sacrificial raft of its king ceremony which has given to the world hia beea- found In a lake In tbe Co- tbe word Eldorado In Its modern lombian mountain, and now an meaning. .The high priests of the nala on tta a f td drain oft the tion metthe monarch on the border of expe-ditt- AN FORCE .OF HABIT. Tin rrasMael Hasty Sanatoria! Wllae Cm am. During the last two or three days the name of several United States senators have been mentioned la connection with tbe Republican aoEiIsiUaa, but tbi booming bas kot bean received with entire satisfaction or Indorsement by the senators themselves. One reason for this baa no vote la that the tn the senate, and, aa presiding officer. Is supposed to be impartial and without political prejudice. Some senators remember, says a Washington correand spondent In the New York Mall mprm, haw Vimm TVeefttegt -- Henry Wilson of Massauchueetts left the senofate to take the fice, and eoon after his inauguration the Republicans called a caucus of their side, and out of habit Mr, Wilson was the first to attend the meeting. Aa the senatora begah to gather they expressed surprise at the presence of but be did not seem the to notice this, and finally bad to he told that only senators could attend caucuses, and that, aa and presiding officer of the senate, be was not expected to attend party gatherings. Senators who have prostherefore, do not pects of care to give up their seat on the floor to become a mere presiding officer, with only the right to east tbe deciding vote In esse of a tie. nt nt ' from Fa Japan. is quite the fad of the hour for afternoon partiea Sir Edwin Arnold tells that the Japanese have a pretty way of entertaining, the hostess giving her guests a number of dainty bottles, containing different perfumes, and the lucky ladles who can guess the proper names of the scents receive prises. All that cornea to us from the Orient has a charm of its own. What could be more lovely than perfumes Dew From the Mountain, called Breath of Spring," and "Dream of the Garden, If the names give any hint of the odors At a party given Thursday only standard perfumes were given to the guests, and a young American lady from the Pacific slope mada ..the greatest number of correct guesses When she returns to her western home she will wear a unique brooch, set with diamonds and Inscribed with the word Detroit Free Press. A Tad "Ko-Kw- al Ko-Kw- al. Leader inonl cppe Frodaow. There has recently been published tn Germany an Interesting book entitled iculty. "A Century of Copper,- which shows that the United States now furnishes Vasts A 14 te Murbia more than half of sll tbe copper need York New Haven special New In tha world. While tha production World; Miss Lillian C. Morris. 22 has Increased with great rapidity in years old, has obtained damages from other countries, in none has tha copthe Winchester Repeating Arms Comper Industry developed so rapidly aa pany for Injuries resulting In the loss In the United States. In 1890 the total of the second and third fingers of ber value of copper manufactured waa only left band. A cartridge machine on $2,349,392; In' 1899 It had Increased to which she worked was responsible for $25,083,529. In 1890 we exported the accident Miss Morris held that pound to foreign countries. ber skill aa a pianist waa of no value In 1899 we exported 354,987,164 pounds.. . to her, s the lose of the fingers her performing.--He- r Attorneys 04U in Hen4 lb .In arguing tbe css declared that her T didnt have anything to do with were for chances marriage hampered NoT that job, protested the crook. by, tbe injury and consequent Inability remarked the detective, calmly. Well, as a her musician. exercise powers to for sociability's sake, 1 want you The machine on which Miss Morris just a hand le this. Thereupon be to have worked has a history of misfortune, a beautiful steel bracelet, the produced of those one that exploded and iMi of which being encircled hla own wrist. injured many persona two years ago. Fatal Rn4y. Dentist I sea that I shall have to lawyer Stodlwd lata. Hlsxoner Young man, this court kill the nerve Patient For heavens studied the law before you were born. sake, dont It would ruin me in my ' Tbe Lawyer Yes, yeronner, but I business. Im a life lesuranoe agent- -have studied the law since then. Stray Stories. Th - ' pro-vent- ed |