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Show CONFIDENCE IS BEING RESTORED. An Ogdenite, returning from New York City, reports confidence re-es tablished and many of the big interests inter-ests looking forward to a period of great business activity. The opening of the Stock Exchange under favorable conditions is one of the influences making for a normal financial outlook. Today the stock market resumed open trading under only two restrictions, restric-tions, and the initial sales were at higher figures than at the close of the Stock Exchange on July 30. There was only one sign of weakness and that was In stocks known to be held extensively abroad Many European Euro-pean owners of American railroad and other stocks are seeking to realize on their shares not because they fail to have confidence in our securities out owing to urn fact that this country coun-try today presonts the only market In which securities of any kind can be converted into cash without great sacrifice. sac-rifice. French, Belgian and English holders of American slocks are driven through dire necessity created by the war to convert their a.ssets into money at all cost. When they are out of the market as a depressant there should he a sharp rally and then we may expect buoyancy In business as a result of better financial conditions making for easier money. There Is a prospect that our export trade will expand to lnrge proportions; propor-tions; that we will eapture much of the foreign commerce of South America, Ameri-ca, Africa and Asia; that the warring nations will continue to place large orders for army equipment and provl slons. An expansion of that kind would do much to wipe out the industrial indus-trial effects of tbe war. MASUREN LAKE REGION OF EAST PRUSSIA. Wo liavo been reading of late of , the Russian Invasion of the Mnsuron I lake region of East Prussia without reci Ivlng much Information from the , geographies or encyclopedias of the , physical features of the country, but , the National Oeoerrnphlc Society has . just contributed an Interesting chapter chap-ter descriptive of what It termt Ma-surenland. Ma-surenland. as follows: "Samland is an unsung strip of cheerless plain in the heart of an-eieni an-eieni atuberiand, and It has remained unknown to th ultimate consumers of Its product from early Phoenician times down to ihu prepont day It Still supplies the bulk of the world's amber, and the pipe-stem or cigar-bolder cigar-bolder or Jewel that is of this fragrant, trnnBlucent substance, was likely gathered In its unmanufactured state on the beaches. In the sand mines or from low water around this peninsula Samland lies some 100 miles from the Russian frontier, and the soldiers of RusstS who recently crossed Its flat, sent hrnmost stretches first drew at-tentlon at-tentlon toward it "Konlgsberg, the capital of East Prussia and the central ambor market, mar-ket, is situated at the southwestern corner of the amber producing territory terri-tory upon the Pregel river Much of the amber produced Is worked in Ko-nlgsberg. Ko-nlgsberg. and Quantities are sent to Vienna where if is manufactured Into all sorts of smoking appliances. Amber Am-ber beads form an especially large item in the Konlgsberg trade, and are chiefly sold to the Poles. Russians and people of the East There Is a su perstltloo among the folk of Russia and Poland that amber beads worn by .an infant make teething easier, and that amber beads worn by the baby's nurse draw all contagious diseases to them and away from their charges, thus guarding the baby's health ' T.r c. tAil n. n in i - . I 1 .... n 1 1 Co of its mystic qualities. The people of tbe East value It ap a stuff of proper potency for amulets, and am-ber am-ber charms against death, disease and the devil are made in practical Prussian Prus-sian Samland for the Eastern markets. mar-kets. Erom history's dawn to the present day. many people have had faith in amber's curative properties As a medicine, it has been worn around the neck and taken dissolved Id alcohol. It is needless to say that modern medicine takes little note of amber 'cures.' "Curiosity alive in the breast6 of the Phoenician, the Greek and the Roman concerning the dreary north. The greatest supply of this product is found on tbe coasts of the Ral-lic Ral-lic where the coniferous trees of amber-resin grew in ages past, and most of it comes from Samland. Tn--ferlor ambers are found elsewhere in i he world; some are found in the preen sands of New Jersey; but genuine genu-ine amber, fragrant when nibbed, omes from Samland and other places ?'ong the southern Baltic coast. It occurs In the sands and in shallow waters wa-ters In the form of lumps, or in drops. Very raroly lumps have been gathered weighing as much as twelve pounds or more. Insects, leaves and flora of a long-decayed world are preserved in many pieces of amber "A tangled land of marsh and brake, of forests of pine and fir and birch, of canals and sluggish rivers; sprinkled over all with lakes of every size and figure, lakea similar to the glacier-scooped basins In northern Ohio where summer vacationists go; big lakes, little lakes, frog ponds; this is the Maeuronland Lake district, which makes up tho southern part of East Prussia, and which forms ono of the most difficult of military districts to be found upon the war map. .Ma-surenland .Ma-surenland is a great natural barrier of marsh and water against the Russian Rus-sian border, and a natural defense of her eastern frontier It Is, however, not the dismal country of damp and ,nr.,colMi ..rVi r. h on manv hlVfl nie. tured it to be. "On the contrary, Masurenland Is of such beauty as to deserve many more tourist visitors than have ever wandered wan-dered there. In summer, It Is a region re-gion of continuous, unexpected pleasures; pleas-ures; an intimate land of little lakes and even country, bathed In an air spicy with evergreen tang; of delightful delight-ful waterside drives, miniature islands in the midst of forest-darkened pools, of wild, wood-fringed, larger waters, and, altogether, of ondlessly interesting interest-ing combinations of water, woodland, sequestered villages and reclaimed fields. oo |
