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Show rijHOa r 'I , Ci vu missmim Whs Gibczsi n&aas cstf nan mra aa a coon eD3as nvamxs AfavcrJamcasr jravazt, Picturesque and mysterious In its lonely grandeur atanda what la left of the town of Allaire, In Monmouth county. New' Jersey which, In the early daya of the last century, waa the moat Important industrial center of In l!tl Mr. Allaire projected a road to tha town, of Allaire, hut h waa dissuaded from undertaking Its erection by some of bis friends who feared lt could not be carried throuda successfully. Had he carried out hla Ideas th history of Allaire might have bee far different. D Hal Allaire, the son of the old The grim Matterhorn, standing In a la a graduate of Columbia and d majesty, has claimed of much learning, yet he. for some lta two more victims fascination , to lta him!! burled has unknown reason, and onty a mlraciilous accident preamong his ruins. He waa left the major portion of the vented the number from being four. It Is another costly tribute to the estate by hla father and the will wa contested. In 1876 the New York conrta dangerous delights of mountain edited in hie favor and ha was leftling. Not a season passes without ita list in undisputed possession of a strange of terrible deaths; scarcely a day . legacy. " He has lived the Ufa of a quiet coun- without an accident. try farmer, and because of the many And yet the fascination of a aowdifficulties to be surmounted ha sever mMcmoy$ psscasi co mm irdwsasms KC&irbtJW v early daya, and through lta agency waa cast some of the iron which revolutionised water travel and created a new era In the method of transportation. When Mr. Allaire took hold of the old Howell furnace that section of the state. It la known today aa "the Deserted Monmouth county was a wilderness. There waa a fair water power, by Village. and as such it la the mecca means of which the old furnace had been operated, and this waa greatly Improved. The pine treeadn that section had been stripped by the charcoal burner. A tract of land comprising attempted to restore the town to 11 one thousand acres was purchased and former Industrial activity. Mr. Allaire la highly esteemed by hla moie charcoal waa made. Boon. 01X003 A ASxmamxwf .lsawpoaa. cloud-cappe- . And, instead of heeding the warn- ings of experienced engineers, tourists are crowding the neighboring hotela and are swarming up the mountain aide, peering into the great clefts that -- have already opened among the rocks. If thecrssh should comenaw Jhe death Hat would be nppalling, The rocks may give warning enough before they fall to enable the touriBta td let out or the way. but lhen again they may not and the engineers say Everything was wildly astonishing Id them. They bad Imagined that the Koran contained all the wisdom and knowledge of the world, yet here was the telephone, the electrotype, the printing press. The plant was a veritable enchanter's castle to them. They would never have believed In tbe telephone If I had not called vp their hotel and got one of their own party at the end of tbe wire. The dervish who had come elong was bold as well as pious. When he heard that his friend five mile away wa talking through the Instrument he made a dash at It He was greatly excited and yelled In a megaphone voice. He thooght- we VM tricking him; bur here was his friend talking Arabic. He rolled his eyes at mejn a despairing manner and then began a search foi devils, being quite convinced that thv phone was an invention of Satan. A TYPICAL RESIDENCE.. , -- - . - InMiN DM Utuhih - SCREW FACTORY. and In 1834 a lot of bronse coins, one and two cents, and bills from six and were placed la a quarter cents to circulation.1' . The right to put the money in circulation wae discussed by the lawyer of that time, hut It waa accepted, and e people of the town a passed good aa the currency of the federal government. Ths name of Allaire dn It Was considered a sufficient guarantee that it would he- paid. Mr.-- . Allaire, who had extensive works la NewcYork city, suffered la the panic of 1837, and the plant la New York passed into other hands Improved methods of combustion in the smelting of ere followed and it was not long before it waa evident that iron could not be produced la the Howell plant aa cheaply as elsewhere. Reluctantly Mr. Allaire announced in 1848 that he could make no more of the town koa and ths deth-ke- ll wee sounded. The closing of the Iron furnace was followed by the closing of other ho-- 1 lories in the town and gradually the population dwindled down to a few . It 1. still standing, a methods o the who held on to the old place. the to monument Jestlc James P. proposition that prompted establish the Allaire, its founder, to of 7wa , polony which for n number was such a busy place. n deThat the town finally became a measure, in was due, serted village circumto a peculiar combination toof any attributed not and stances, of of foresight or ability on the part be hot been dissuaded froth carrying .out aome of bis that of building a railroad. retained some Allairs might still have sf it former glory- of an ;Iron The establishment Allaire marked Its crippled panic of 1837 wax Mr. All airs financially and It some years later by the discovof Improve4 methods of co"n4" ery refining of iron ore. These the tlon in were the beginning of the downfxl of the town, which resulted ultimately of a in the enforced abandonment contained time plant which at that smelting furone of the finest Iron, . ; naces In the world. ifacWhad P10-notabl- iol-low- ed . -- Jit by-th- Is a TkiaiUnlon. - Is an autocar safe in a thunder- - -storm r- The answer to this question is, generally speaking; In the affirmative. Although an autoear contains n comparatively large mass of metal, it could not take, and would not invite, the discharge of a cloud such as would bs dangerous. - It would Invite such a discharge, and would probably be wrecked by tbe discharge, if it formed part of the discharge path to n conducting mass below. Such a conducting macs would be the wet ground of n large level field, under which a bed of clay existed, so that the wet could not get away. A path like this might also be formed ia certain epe-- I rial cases on a wet road, but they would be rare. For safety, then, la a thunderstorm the autocar should he- - p right out In the open and on the hardest bit of road that can be Chicago News. tar MplnS FUuw PrsetiM. 'Most people think that hour es went out of style years ago," street a clerk in n Twenty-thir- d to the Hew York Sun, along j perukes and knee breeches, but we have more e (natter of Lthem today .than we have bed time within the last tea yeajs. T this renewed popularity of the . ht glass augurs Its universal acceptare as a timepiece by the coming genet-tloI am not prepared to say, ba If such s renaissance were to become t' ured It would be no more surprieg than some of tbe other recent fc based on a revival of lost cuetoa. Anyway a brief study of the hour gss will do nobody harm. There are tta- sands in this generation who have at I the slightest Idea what an hour gUs I looks like, and it wont hurt-them-o I broaden their education a little alcg j certain lines. Of the hour glasses 4 J at class Ua present the three-minu- te j the lead This glass Is used alnrt exclusively to measure time In bolKi eggs and its usefulness naturi? places Its sale a little In advance of b N6 more'sentimental varieties. corns the five, ten and fifteen mine and full hour glasses, which bought chiefly by musicians tor pltf practice and by lodges and secret cletles. The sand used in an h ar glass is the very finest that the wod affords. - The western coast of Itff furnishes most of it, as it has done ages past The cost of hour glasses regulated by the ornamentation of M frames.' A glass set In n plain rw wood case can be bought for fl, w a mahogany frame comes to 1.50 2. .Of course, the price can be brontt up tllLhlghef .by fancy carvlng- -i decoration. Swell lodges sometime P to this extra expense, but moat peck ara satisfied, with the cheaper grads' fat t.-ey-- JiSUa DlMmrr t Firpctul Llfb death of Dr. black and Mlse Bell, both , of London. Two other members of their party. Miss Trow and the guide, Carrel, were esbadly Injured, but by a miracle caped death. the cause of It one A landslip w of those treacherous accidents that It are constantly occurring tn all moun- ground way. Iron-sho- John P. Magrady, a Chicago claims to bare discover! perpetual light The secret of W light le the combination of chemk In a vacuum. These chemicals, wt r, are four la number, when brow1 Into contact in ' a glass or porct globe, dissolve and throw out a atr-'-- f and beautiful white light Tbe will continue to give light so lon it remains perfectly sealed. The ventor has had one of the lamps bf' tag steadily for seven months, ft tight is of dazzling brightness, a F c- -' showing it to be of thlrty-sl- x power. If the claims of the tare. be fully substantiated a revolution i51 be wrought In the methods of UlumS tlon. -- aa Oh Saak Pumpkins are an ingredient is t tent medicine that-i- e guaranteed cure a variety of ailments flesh I I to. but the world te Increasing ia I habitants who do not believe all V& hear What to Eat ' " ' . r fk I. j,i navy yard, when la commission la tbe carried a complement of 1,1 9 officers and men. Tbe new batthwhiiis, altogether much larger and InfinltUy more powerful, do not require trows to exceed 600 men. To such aa extent does machinery displace human labor. Chicago Chronicle. FSOM A Sr s urrrKH xi At O n Amo1 li V toss-u- p which course they take. Given tbe favorable conditions n sudden, unheralded slip, the tourists warming over the toppling crags, the crowds In the valley below and the fascination of the mountains will surely have claimed enough victims. Th Arab sad tbe Talaphon. We had a party of Arabs along with us. and took them all over a great newspaper office, writes a New Yorker. I QutlfivS. T see you advertise for scans see to run your trust, said the young man to the magnate, and I wish to apply for the position." Have you ever had any experience running trustsf inquired the magnate with interest. No." replied the young man, hut I ran a bucketshop which --robbed - tbv people for five years." Okie State -- Journal. SCH20U i rf Tn Dstmdsrs Organised Is :V T Dsstrsy tfcs tart, Falrmount park, Philadelphia, has a caterpillar crops composed of men who do nothing but scrub down the shade trees and kill the dislodged' insects. Thf implement used is simply an ordinary scrubbing brush nailed to a long pole, and ljL takes considerable endurance to t keep up such work all lay. As soon as the caterpillar touch the ground they start to climb the tree kgalu, and the men have to step lively to kill all the fallen Oiuwkfiaid one of Garys tork-eh?-Ea- M CO' ' feet. Below them Jagged peaks of rock Jutted out and seemed almost to reach for them. Dr. Black and Miss Bell were probably killed Instantly. The escape of tbe other two was miraculous. . Carrel, tbe guide, struck upon a ledge Of rock and an Instant later the lifeless body of on of tbs women fell - .-beside him. There, for hours, they lay with the weight of the other two bolls pulling taut the rope about thstr waists and aid reached them Just ia time to revive the dying spark of life. The accident was, of course, a sho k to all who heard it, but it did not act 'i as A warning- Parties of mountain climbers are today struggling toward tbe peak of tha Matterhorn and the tragic death of ll ha put Dr, Black and Miss Bell down In ths list of accidents that are not UkeT to happen again. And now, at almost any moment, we aP may hear of an accident even greater In horror than this one. ' The Roche de Is Clnsette Is likely to topple over Into the buty valley of the Travers snyjflsyand.Snd thousands Teacher Johnnie, of tons of rock and earth hustling asked him why be cut Johnnie He said, upon the people below. ' Samus! Peck, a Rush county farmer, and his son Edward, plowing in a field, captured a dout headed snake. The reptile is pefsd very way with the exception of heads, which are Joined ' has two eyes and each 1 V'-ded with n mouth. Indianapolis Nr sfu . There was no salvation for them. d pole could find noth The hold ; slowly - the ttr tag by whlch beneath the sink to began ground others looking the with climbers and, doomed one helplessly on, the four lid over the edge ol the precipice and dashed upon tbe crags below. was a sheer fall of thousand of I old wooden batik:-!- . Ip Vermont, M which It ts proposed to the receiving sfclp of tbe Br,k!yn - tains. The party was well on Its way to the peak of the Matterhorn when the beneath them began to give J The downed mountain peak Is too strong -tor the average tourist to resist This most recent fatality occurred only a tew veeks ago and caused tbe n, phoit-raphe- f sl 'iktL OK- Aatos i - CUIau -- " Cleaning Flan Key. To keep piano keys clean and prevent the discoloration of tbe ivory, dampen a piece of muslin with alcohol and with it rub the keys. The alcohol can do and If frequently applied the keys will stand in want of no other treatment hut If they have already begun to turn jreW-low rub thenr with cotton flannel wet with cologne water. Even old and discolored Ivory may be rejuvenated, no matter what tbe cause of discoloration or of how long standing. An acid applied repeatedly will usually restore the keys to tbetr original white sees. Cotton flannel cloths wet with a saturated solution of oxalic acid and water and laid upon the keys win remove all stain. Care should always be taken la the use of such a bleacher as this that it does not touch anything from which tbe color Is not to bs removed, for it does not work with great certainty. Chicago News. f the guests at the seaside resorts, who love to ponder over the Becrets of lta past and the mystery of Its future, ays the New York Press. The town, or, more properly speaking, what is left of It In the shape of dwellings and ruins, for It has not all gone to decay, Is located on the line of Jamesburg branch of the Pennsylvania railroad, thirteen miles south of Freehold and six miles west from Sea Girt. Among the crumbling bouses Uvea the owner of the land, son of the man who founded the colony and made a fortune there. Whether lie has any dreams of reviving tha once gay village no one knows, hut tha allurements of city life have not tempted him and he lives The stone for buildings was brought peacefully among the ruins. brick needed was Giant trees, which have witnessed from Nyack and the there. mads a form pretty the storms of a century, In 1828 the Howell Works company grove which today, is ons of the atCultivated was incorporated and James P, Allairs the of place. tractions was elected president. In 1821 the company was sold out and bought In by James P. Allairs as an individual. After acquiring the property Mr. AH lairs made further Improvements. A modern furnace for smelting iron was built, which is standing today as strong as It was the day it waa erected. ' Roads were improved to Red Bank and Occanport, where piers were eon trucked and a line of sloops was opOLD CHARCOAL HOUSE, to New York City, erated ineadowland slopes off to the oJd river first steamboat built waa the The in and almost now bed. places, dry second Osiris, followed by the Yolas, deep, rs vises ffHyd, with. g$ abundance v the 1818. and Isis the of natural' foliage present nature at were built for houses Comfortable Its wildest and yet Bloat attractive 1837 Allaire employes and from 1834 to form. of ita prosperity. The at was height thg In the early days of tbs past century was in ope ration,-- , there the town was one of. thcw.largest in- big furnace a bakery, store, carwas mill, a grist dustrial centers in the East screw factory and about penter shop, , All roads led to Allaire, and they men were employed In hundred five laden were traversed by heavily wagwhich mads up ons carrying crude materials , to the the various industries town. . town of taking away the manufactured tbs A panal was dug three miles to . ' i product the Mlngemahone. a This continued fora period of twem bring water from near - harmlngdale, and five stream town and The odd grew years. ty Urge farms were bought to have- the prospered. way for the water. . For half a century, however. It has right of of stages were operated dally Lines If or and It life, bown little activity more Important - towns and the to visitors who, were not for the many from New York by were brought prompted by curiosity or real interest goods line which succeeded the steamboat a be would both town the visit the place line of sloops. Much of the iron was dead and deserted. to market by the Manasquan Although the natural beauty of the shipped a dock two miles below the from river Idea that .the location would suggest furnace. scheme behind there was some utopian scarce in those days Currency Its founding, it was a plain business . t; what did Georg e Waablfigton say when his" father down the cherry tfeef come, pop, let's bury the hatchet" , them the other day, according to the Philadelphia Record: This ia the only really effective way of getting rid of the pests. I hav tried other ways, but they were no good. Take tar trap for Instance. I hare watched caterpillars wriggle their way ont of their fur, leaving it in the tar. Poisons, instead of killing them, aeem to make them fat I took one of these lotions to n drug store, where I had bonght it, and told tbe man it waa worthleea Just pour some of it down a caterpillar's throat and see if he doesn't die,' said the druggist 'Ypu're foolish I -- - aid. 'You've got to catch your caterthat and after you've caught Mm you might aa weB stamp on Mm, and then you know he's dead." V Hv H OtlM KnrUifc . She (receiving n cycle lesson, naively) I suppose you learned hew to teach girls to rids while your seres sisters were learning? He (with kte arm around her) Oh. yes, I saw hew their fellows taught them! Bseek-ly- n Eagle. pillar first to do T A square foot of honeyeoihb coatatns about 1,000 ceil. t. |
