f iAXVS
ultWs Most
lie Render
itute
j Amwles.
river of tbe
Lroerlea. 1 on
ljJd travellers
t tiiphways, the
t Irs channel,
i Its desire
, the cauae of
,' f7e r'aJry fov
V1 &,Yi fc-jre'
V
.1
r tt ewfrM.oi tl part of the
U-oad wUidi LlpjX'DS t l.e located
ly, ud of uke UitJe & iaquietude
I tire . Si iwjp'n.lT t
errs lie Stmiila"
erraiic atmnlyan be
nn to lUaUTutbwav
-l" t-riie man
chu-dal ccmJitlons
a-kjn-eraU In the Col-
mi f " Tnnui, Ar'aonn.
- - cut its banks at three
tsaiUtj through old. dry
i now pouring westward
ri into Saltou Sink. An;
' t voiante of this preat
i Lint has already become
: J a, cpreadinir out for
on direction and SO miles
. tii J crowing d&ly.
Tt e Out Force of Nature
"asse;. ..- n the train now ex
lh a wonder as they look out
a tb tmad sea reach in? to the
.iiera horizon, There but a short
j iituut-d
?v7 feet le-
tiiis remark-
: tij: t In anci
Gblf of Call-
'HEX
Crew' '
( prtfvnng tf
! , Luiid.Qdtn.
f
t"T northward. The
Trtnc as It does a
1k derritns from a
.ut iSMO square
uutvii man the
1 1
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I
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v no rw
tapP'
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'f-V. ""r- 4-"-.. - .
ly traced by the oll beaches Which
are found there.
Enormous Salt Beds.
Tin? or an almost troplml una the
pa evaporated, tmoorerlnff a rreat
level plain ever la rse portions ef which
was laid a deep deposit of rich river
sediment Vi-auting only irrcjMtion to
produce abundant harvests. At the
lowest depression In the Taller, where
evaporation hns. not yd carried ore
an the water, the salt were donoslt.v!
t UK LIT and lnrse works have lens
been established there marketing
thousands of ton of this mineral.
For centuries the CoWrauo has beet
!1 ' 1
atv
bnlldlns rrp Its dc'.ta, h!-h"r cc3
bighi-r until today the bed or Le riv.-r
Is above the valioy na tit'i'T bil'.
Once k't it cut Its liauk nud t-.e
stream spreads out nil over the coun
try. About four rears aro a larce
corportion. lmbud with the In a da tie
purpose of makin? homes for wttlers
in iie Salt on 1 errt, completed a big
canul tending In the rlvi-r ik-Iow l'u
ma and almost on the lntenuul.n-U
lKundurr. TUe canal was a large
one, tio feet on the bottom, and carried
A. pvut amount of water through
Mexico Into California on to the nrci
now called ln-ierial YaCey. l'Ue
canal boaJinj, owing to the character
of the banks of the stream, was h.st
cure. It has always hvm parce of
trouble and annoyauce. Tl river
resented It as an oUstrnrtio4 its
course and deposited great kVt of
silt In front of It aad then rrx.-jflj
to cut a channel around J. lr
were used conatant'y tj
heudUif open.
The
r'
... re In
relieve that the task is be
t "tid the atrenirtn of the preaent com
I'tmy to perfoin and that mirattun s
now being undertaken will not prop
erly nor permanently safeguard the
pri'jierty of the jx-ople la the ralley.
This Is a quekUun for the engluoer
'
t settle, aleamrblle, the cltleens of
'lie ralley are somewhat phUoeophl-i-ul
and are I'ouUuulu to reap, under
almost tropical aklea, the bearloat
civpa frewa la tint std4 .
Smparia
J) ' Can
Statement.
Tr. Wmiatn Osier, late prnfw,f
John IIokins l Diversity, Jtaltinjore,
met with a preat deal of undowered
notoriety because be was misunder
stood when be said the creative faeul
disappeared usually at the ape of forty
rears, lie did not uenn to convey the
impression thnt Etnn's usefulnesa
ceased at thnt time, but that the imas
lnative faculty was ret as active then
as it was in earlier years, when men
are creen and raw In Judgment and put
forth many things that they wish to
have suppressed Liter on. Ills little
.lest about chloroforming those who
"lag (tuierfluous on the stace" was
meant to app'y w'T teacher who
falliHl to nieve with the sdvam-ed
thoucht and had a special humorous
reference to blnioelf, but the mlscora-
prehensUm and exaeeirntlon of the
press 1ms mamilfliil his utterance and
plven It a swtnp he never luteuUed.
Must Seek New Fields.
TXhen the acquisition of knowledge
Is used merely as a mean through
which to earn bread, that is the end
of a man's career, whether be be thirty
or forty or a thousand years old. Men
who seek no new fields of exploration
nor carry forward to fulfillment any
work they attem t in early days are
mere drones In the hires of life.
Ir. Osier, who is close to the sixty
year line, hns pone to F.uaiand to take
a professorship of medicine In Oxford
University, which will without doubt
lead to an Increase of bis professional
fame, which did not come to him until
after be bad passed the half century
post in his journey of life. His part
ing Injunction t bis medical asso
ciates in America, at the Washington
meeting In May, was to follow the
U"Mcn Rule in all their actions, and to
cultivate that moderation which la said
to be the golden thread running
throtiLh all the virtues. This advice
Is not new, but It cannot be repeated
tK often In an age when many men
are striving to shove their neighbors
to the wall In their denlre to occupy
the mi-idle of the road themselves.
Man is naturally a clSb animal and
needs to be often reminded that be
must do unto others as he would have
them do unfa him, even if he desires
to attain more worldly success. The
man who 1ms no consideration for his
laboring fellows is likely to Hud no con
sideration extended to him when the
hour of misfortune comes.
Best Work Late In Life.
Vr. Oslr never depreciated aire,
knowln; thnt man's best work Is done
after ace has mellowed bis under
rt&nding and streiurt honed bis judg
ment. There nre numerous examples
of what virility in ape can do all alone
the track of history. It was seen in
l:en.laB.In Franklin. Wiliinm E. Glad
stone, is seen in Edward Everett Ilule,
Lrd Kelvin, Charles IL llasweil, en
gineer and author, still at the age of
07 at his desk in New Tork, and other
names will occur by scores to general
renders.
It is nn Inflexible law of nature that
the being who does not progress must
retrograde. There is no place on this
fearful ascent of life where, spiritually
and intellectually, we are not forced
to go forward lest we slip back. But
it 5s a happy provision in nature that
even in the longest life there is no
arbitrarily fixed point of time where
expansion must-cease as if bv a fiat.
where there are no more heights bo.
fore the soul to climb, no more views
to be o'. 'ied. no broadening and ex
t'.ve vision poimible. Al
er a new bud may be
"riuiwt bough of the
-h the trunk be
nourishing sap
bark.
CUSTOMS.
X Cooked
the
the
it to
by
im ......... .. 10 ioe land which theie
most s'olid of sentimentalists Insist on
believing to be the only one where the
dsd cn ret comfort-lily. Thse an
nual Illustrations of the fart that the
Chinaman has feelings like the rest of
us, even if he does choose different
ways of showing tbem. attracts the
usual amount of attention, some of It
respectfully curious and some openly
derisive, but neither rarlety affects the
performance of the ceremonies or
enables us to get a bit nearer the mys
terious Mongol mind. It is bard to
believe that our far-traveled Chinese
really think that anything: Is accom
plished for the dead by putting roast
pig and boiled rice on a grave, and jet
they do It year after year.
A Bright Retort.
The ancient story of the Chinaman
who, when acked at what hour the
spirits consumed the food thus offered
to them, replied that It was at the same
hour rhoseu by our dead for smelling
flowers we similarly place, la always
pertinent to discussion of this mystery,
snd reflection on the story has the
admirable effect of giving a new
standpoint from which to study the
"outlandish" custom of our useful but
unloved guests. In all these things It
Is the thinking so that constitutes
rlrht, propriety and cougruity. The
Chinese ceremonies do show affec
tionate or pious remembrance, and
wliether the dead are indifferent or not,
the reflex a-tiun on the living la eSo
tivelj brought to bear. t
Black rriday.
"Now, children." said tbe Bnnday
school teacher, addressing the juvenile
class, Mcan any of you tell me any
thing about Cood Friday f
"Vea. ma'am, I can," replied a boy.
"He was the colored man what done
the housework for Boblnsoa Crusoe.''
A Cood Buggy rr Sale.
Leesrtlle (Mo.) Light: Luke Bet
dmmu's new buggy la fur sale. tU gut
married last week 70s Jutow,
Otau.era d Men.
The Americaa naval officer and the
Jacky smoke and chew. This Is a fact
ot which the Government takes official
cognisance and recognises In a way
that makes such nahlts inexpensive
incidents to life on board ship, Ite
ctntly the Navy impart nient bad un
der consideration the award of a con
tract for KkUioo pounds of cut plug
tobacco, and In Novemlcr next bids
win be railed for another supply of
like amount The contract under
which the supply Is now Wing fur
nished was secured on a basis of a
bid of 40 cents a pound. Twenty
nine bids are now under consideration,
the prices ranging from aH cents a
pound to 48 cents. The contract will
not necessarily be let to the lowest
bidder, but to the kne supplying at the
lowest price the grade best suited for
the purpose.
Practical Chewing Tests.
Each bidder Is required to submit
a sample of the tobacco to be fur
nlsbed. and these, after the factory la
bels are removed and secret Identifi
cation marks substituted, are divided
Into small lota, part being sent to a
chemist for analysis, and a goodly
supply going to the various navy yards
for distribution among officers and ,
men for practical test the opinion of
the officers and "jacklee" be I tut taken
before the award Is made. Final re
sults are reached by the process of
elimination, until the selection of the
chewers dwindles down to two or!
three samples which are bound to le
favorites. These favorites are then
taken up with regard to the chemical
test and the contract Is awarded, so
that perhaps the lowest bidder has no
consideration whatever When ue hum
result Is obtained.
While heretofore the nary supplied
the men with the tobacco (a rery In
ferior article) free of cost the Gov
ernment now Insists upon the best
grade, which ft sells to the sailor at
the contract price, plus a very small
percentage to cover the cost of han
dling. Only snch tobaccos are consid
ered 'which are manufactured from
pure leaf tobacco of the growth of the
current or preceding year in which
the contract Is made, and which shall
have undergone a natural sweat
Bow to Tell Coaatcrteit.
An? rlctfne tn tl Ttnrean of Enrrav-
ing and Printing vrlfere I'ncle Sam is
printing the mnch sought-after green-
locks, comes sway Impressed with the
intricacies of the manufacturing of a
aper note. Few. indeed, understani
the rule of four adopted b. the Govern
ment as an aid In thwarting the j!.in
of counterfeiters. Acaalntanee with
the rule of four, might help many !."
pie of the outside World la dete-t!c?
counterfeit money. Everr note printed
by the Government national currency
and not bank notes contains a number
and a letter, no two bills having the
same number. These are primed, as
the Visitor can see. Id the blocks of
four as they leave the plate printer's
table. For instance, a number will be
found on a note, &S.HS3 with the letter
C In the upper left hand and Ijwer
right band corners; another bill bear
the number 7!).ass I); another 42.MG E.
These numbers and letters have a re
lation for each other and are easily d
termlned. The last two nnmlx-rs on
the note determine, when divided br
four, the letter to be found la the two
corners. Should the Ins two numbers
be divisible hy four, with a remainder
of one. the letter aptearlng should I
A; if two remain. B; if three remain.
C; and if the last two numbers are
exactly divisible by four, with no re
mainder, the letter appearing should
be V.
Meet Ibe Boac of Poe&honlau
jd proposition to nnng nacx to me 1
ancient city of Jamestown the body or
I'ocabontas, in connection with the ei
Itositlon at that place, has aroused con
siderable Indignation, both la England
and in America, by people who believe
that sue' a step is nothing hiore than
a move Intended as a side-show feature
of the exiswitlun. Vhile It Is true
there have been Instances of a disturb
ance of a grave made hundreds of years
fore, ss In the recent esae of Ad
iral John Paul Junes, still the cases
bad ms'-h to do with the prest-r mtlou .
of the American nation and na : the 1
other was the central figure la a tit of j
fiction surrounding the settlciueut of 1
this country by liugiish settlers. I'o
cabontas. it is true, was a native Amer
ican, which John Paul Jones was not,
but Pocahontas msrrled an English
man, lived and died iu England, and
the traditions of bur later life were sur
rounded by all that Is English.
The London Htandard, In comment.
Ing on tbs movement to bring her body
to America, cites pages front a book by
an American writer tending to show
that the life of Pocahontas was a tra
dition and poetical version and add
ing: "If the original myth Is really
believed by the people of Jamestown,
we only nope they will de something to
auswer the audacious skeptic that baa
Impugned It"
Toothmeba or AppeadlelU$t
A. movement looking to the better
care of children 1 spreading. It Is
proposed iow that the tooth brush
drill be a part 0 the curriculum of
our schools, and that dentists should
visit regularly the children attending
them. JUoctorg bare spoken very
strongly oa the usefulness of taking
tonics and similar medicines In order
to promote better digestion, or to
purify the blood, when a constant
system of poisoning Is going on In the
mouth. It Is claimed that much poor
blood and weakness In children comes
from dental decay. A noted physician
declares that appendicitis Is caused by
bad teeth. Take your choice either
hare your teeth extracted or your ap
pofldlx cut out The doctors get you
either way, going or coming.
Te Be Reunited
"nave you aeen my p-or, dear little
duckllngf asked the distressed but be
witching young toother duck.
"Ah ftnudaiue," replied the polite but
still hungry fog, "I bars Inside infor
mation oa that point 70a wlU sous
nst goal UUia MM1
pUATnif IASDIAWS.
President Hiltof the Creat Northern
Railroad, I a. Is Attention to Enor
mous Disposals of Government
Land Without Settlement Into
Humes.
From tli rhllauVljiUia Rullctlo,
There will be people Ill-natured
enough to charge that ITesldent 11111
of the Great .Northern Hallway, Uiu
not come Into court with eutlrely clean
hands in the vigorous denunciation of
the land -cral'lHrs contained In bis re
cent siHvh U'fore the .National irriga
tion Congress at rortluntl. luis, now.
ever. l es not necessarily detract from
the truth of his charges. lVrbupa few
men In the country nre better qualified
to s)Hak uinu tli bubbling ellocts of
the dishonest Policy wiiicu lius appro
priated in I ili on of acres of valuable
lands, only to exclude from them the
actual scalers who would have dcvel-
OIH'd tlietu.
lYcsuient mil is a rnuroaa manager.
and railroads depend for profit Upon a
trailic afforded by a populous and well-
cultivated couutry. A railroad t tend
ing through territory without farms or
farmers, towns or industrial communi
ties must suffer serious disadvantages.
TA'bore great tracts of land are owned
and controlled by mere speculators, de
velopment is lnitHisKiMrt. It is re
likely that I'resldcnt II 111 spoke by the
card when he charged that those who
go uron Government land at this time
for the purtMwe or making homes are
only a handful.
Eajvd Dl. posals of Public Lands.
Ills figures, showing the rapid In
crease iu area of public lands which
have passed lulo private ownership
since ls'.ei, kwsss a significance that
Is startling. Nearly rti.issj.uio acres, a
total nrea equal to throe times that of
the State of Pennsylvania, bare been
awarded to private owners lu the six
years from IK'.iS to P.nfl, inclusive, very
little of which nvnrdiiig to President
Hill bus become the pros-rty of home
stead sevkcrs. The bitlk of It hns be-
i- e the bolditiES if the lumber kings,
cattle barons, and speculators pure and
simple. It is evident that there are
more men who deserve the penalties of
the law w tilth have lately been Inflicted
ujkii Senator M.tchell, of Oregon.
The duty of Congress In this connec
tion Is tnuulstnk.ui.le. The laws uuder
which this vast domain has been se
cured by private interests with no In
tention of niH'iilng it to development j
biiouiu I'v repenieu or ameiuieq 10 pre-1
vent any luriher looting of the public
In nd.
The Modem I'ab.
From the Cklracu Tlrors-llcrsld.
Ilo didn't l ave time b chew
The food thnt he bad to eat;
I'.r.t lie u nshed it lur bis throat
As if time was a thing to beat
At lrcul.fut iil l'.iui h and dinner
Tuas a il;e and a gulp and
Oh, the crowd Is so terrllily eager,
.i:d a titau bus to hurry sol
A I l'e r.uj a gulp mil away
To the IxhLs 11 nd the ticker! A bite
And a drir.k tin 1 a smoke and a seat
At a c:.rd la Mo half of the night;
A pressure, a li k and a pallor,
A 1..:!j- -overt d Ikjx and a sung;
A weary oil fellow at forty,
V.'Lo Is deaf t-j the nolss of the
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