Evening Star Newspaper, October 3, 1896, Page 17

CREEDE’S BOOM DAYS Graphic Description of the Famous Colorado Camp. MEN CRAZY 10 DISCOVER MINES ————— ed Striking Pen Pictures of the Char- acters in the Crowd. GAMBLER WOMAN A Written for The Star. REEDE, COL, OR Jimtown, as the low- er portion of the camp was called, ame nearer to the old hurrah camps of the Deadwood and Leadville type than its rival, Cripple Creek. Its growch was more rapid and the laws were not enferced with as much rigor as they are in Cripple Creek at the present time. situated nea two miles 4 level, shaped was in a deep gully, more like an hour glass than anything else above walls of rocks, h with immense fron ) to a thousand feet, on rising sm@i¥orapid stream running through it ing into the Rio Grande sorc b In some places the gully way se narrow, and building lots so scarce that the stream was bridged over wiih logs and hou: were built or thrown upo: and in t them, which were buils, of green lumber, undreds but thousands of persons d, many of then knowing t when the warm days of spring and rr would come and met: the snow, udden rain cloud wou! raise swee care of a of the the w . the resulting torrent woul But little did the me he sno they accepted these risky abode I bad to sleep for two months in one ot : ks, in a large room over a bar. up with a big three tir sing glasse three ¢r ach gues but thers ankets, MESA ii T OFFICE) mbered, and a 3 411-44 ove at name. Authority. were not rigid! artly due to a very peculiar t just at the for a county deal of trouble were visited almost rifts or their deputies, ea joning the prc against pey a to the « as d pretty crowded into © the nev three mines in ed at a profit at of silver). Men and nations, kinds and de- . who were n all the trai orms, OF > pilots of the le waiked in w two to over the div Miners. ere going up ike magic; car- coull not be arly ned at any price, nted Fo pros- one every ith ap day ni, ard the used } be the for the Last Chance Mine. wr $4 or $5 day, when there was y for them to find a mine that them rich! &@s We have a cent to buy a nsual reply to all requests K for wage heir little stakes were ex- ospecting, you would see them p> the bu with saws and nal luster had not ated by the touch of wood or be put to work. k at it just long get a grub and back they > with their little tent to hunt for they knew they had a chance den golconda, as knowledge and m to be of much use in riging by p cedent, bec: nearly if not all the mines in Colo: { heve b ‘overed by accident, | and a rfoot’s chance is j as good | as i graduate from the School of Mi far as discovering a mine is eencerned. A Washington ‘rospector. Was a young man out In Creede me few y 1 in Wa on a pros; he ver ee him n rs ago a prominent ington, and he was ct hole just below the ad worked before. I arly every day for three and never found him absent from with neck and arms bared uds of eariy spring or the summer sun, al- with the hope next last would disclose the vein would make him rich. That blast never came. I believe he did strike very gcod dirt, but not good enough to mine at the present rate of silver, so he had to m: as to that nour } arovnd, than anything else. abandon it. His case was the rule in that vnfortunate camp. When the trains would arrive at Jim- town, which was a mile east -of Creede, the mail would be thrown off and opened by. the station master (as at thet.dime we had no post office) and thrown into @ large dry goods, box. Some one im:the growd would call off the names on the mail par- cels, and as the owner would caleut cr hold up his hand the letter or paper would be passed to him. All letters*sot Zaken away at that time were left ig the box un- til called for. Z Mss 1 received all of my letiere.in that way. for some time, never losing one or having cue mislaid. E Among all this mixed mass of people thrown together at such a short netice you eculd hardly help hearing of and seeing some strange characters. Mild-Mannered Bat Masterson. Ore of the first men peinted out to me Was Bat Masterson, who has quite a num- ber of notches on his gun, twerty-five or six if Dame Rumor and the chronicles of several other camps are correct... A milder man under ordinary circumstances I never met, very fond of fun and liberal to a fault. I was beginning to think that ther= was some mistake about his firmness and determination, until one night a great bix six-foot miner came down from the hiils and lest about two hundred dollars at faro. He then filled up on bad whisky and swore that he was go:ng to get back his money. Befere doing any harm he was tarown into the street by the united efforts of the in- mates of the gambling room. He :hen got out twp guns that appeared to be abovt two feet long, and he had the street de- serted in two minutes, every one consii- ing it too cold te venture out. Abavi that tme I saw Bat coming down the street, walking just as jeisurely as if noth- usual was going on. He walked etly up to this drunken madman and his guns away as if he was a child, ng him to go home and get sober, and n the morning he would find his guns ai the Capitol bar. en there was Mr. Jefferson Randoiph ith, better known to fame by the short- The Public Ice House. uch more expressive term of It was he who buried during a -w storm a man who had been killed by bullet from his brother-in-law’s gun dur- a friendly dispute over some drinks ented to pay for. “Soapy” in- ains at his own expense, ing wine during the cere- was the last wish of the “Creede Alice.” all the characters in the camp © Alice,” as she was called, excited of my curiosity the most. With the exception of a large white sombrero that she wore and a Colts ferty-five hanging at her belt, her Sener) up Was not such as would att unusual attention. She was small ind had delicate features. Her linen was always white and clean and her dress neat plain. She was not at all pretty, not h looking. Her complexion had it that all per- licted to the “done habit ). She smoked c Ss and y and gambled; in fi © was employed as a stud poker one of the saloons. She was in s with men and never noticed per- sens of Ler own sex. In conversation sne ved and I only heard her swear I have seen this slip of a woman drinking whisky with the roughest sort of men, might in and out for weeks, and in all that time never saw her drunk. She aS never insulted. She had a quiet, de- termined kind of a way about her ‘that emed to repel all familiarity. I tried my best to draw her into conversation and get but she was always on the Principal Hotel in Jimtown. for such emergencies and would say, always makes me dry. What will One day when the boom was over she turned up missing and Creede had lost its female sport. The camp was getting too slow for her. The camp was full of all sorts of char- acters like the above. They were in fact too numercus to mention. tilly De Vere, actor and poet, deserves a little atter tion. Bill is as well known Jn all the mining camps as any person in the country. Church Held in a Gambling Saloon. In the early days cf the camp churches were conspicuous for there absence, so the minister obtained perm: on from the pro- prietors of the largest gambling hall in town to use their kero room every Sun- hetween 8 and 9, When the hour all games would instantly close minister would mount the stand, the man who called off the num- on the keno balls, and preach against vices of intemperance and gambling, herting his hearers to shun all saloons places w famy lurked. When the was use up the hat was _ passed and with much success; the pro- rieter would shake hanc with the min- ter, and Invite him to call again on the following Sunday night. After his de- games were opened and the ived, parture all werds of the divine were soon forgottea in the absorbing game of keno. yambling of all kinds in miaing camps is the cause of more failures, particularly in the cases of young men from the east, There Is so much of it and it is conducted so openly that It is hard to resist. A man who has been living in a prospector’s tent, eating a lit- tle bread and bacon cooked by himself or companion, and warmed by a little sheet- “Four Eleven Forty-Four. fron stove, must be made of pretty stern stuff, if he resists all the temptations threwn out to him. The Omnipresent Burro, In Jimtown burros could be seen in large numbers, and the amount of strength and endurance that these docile little creatures possess, judging by the loads put upon their backs, must be seen before it can. be be- lieved or appreciated. I have seen. them carrying extension tables, sidebeards, bu- Se = yeaus, bellows, anvils and, in fact, every- thing that could possibly be made to stay on. “F met about forty of them one day going up to the Last Chance. Each one had a‘long twenty-foot board tied on each of, ite’ sides, the ends dragging along be- hind, like an immense tail. The trail was very slippery and steep. In places I was compelled to crawl on hands and knees, but they went along without any trouble. But everything is changed now, and the half-house and half-tent that was fitted up with two bath tubs and a heater, like those used im a railroad car, have disappeared. We would have to stand in line, waiting our turn, sometimes for three or four hours, and then were only allowed a cer- tain length of time in the tub, and one towel apiece, all for the moderate price of seventy-five cents. The two big fires in Creede carried everything before them. The wind swept down that gulch as through a funnel, and people had to run for their lives, up to the railroad track near the tank. This tank had served the town with ice in its early days, as it was /very easy for the porters to chop off a huge tcicle and convert it into shapes suit- able for mixed drinks. So rapidly did the fire wipe out this place that only a few saved anything, even their clothes. Out of ten to fifteen thousand zeople who were there during the boom all have gone except a few hundred, and of them all not one single person struck ore that would pay to mine. Creede as It is Today. All that remains of Creede 1s its two mines and its miners. The parasites have gone. When the “Last Chance” mine was found its m!neral was at ‘grass roots,” and so easily was it mtned that for a long time it required no blasting, and was dug out like so much moist clay, which was tilled with crystals of no value but very pretty and resembling the amethyst in color and shape. After this earth had been exposed to the air for one or twc days it looked just like so much ashes, and if such st=ff was found in any yard or cellar in Wash- ington the inmates would willingly pay to have it hauled away. This mine is worked at a profit today, not only on account of the cheap manner in which it can be worked, but because its ore possesses peculiar properties, and carries just enough lead to make it particularly valuable at the smelters. So much is this so that at times it is smelted free of coat. It requires several different kinds of ores to smelt silver, and when any kind is necd- ed they find it cheaper to work that kind free, as an inducement to the owners to mine and ship, than it is to buy the meta! Hd is required to make a higher grade ore ux. —_—>——_ THE NEW FARMED Bacteria to Be Used to Fertilize the Soil Chenply. E. P. Powell in the New York Independent. New discoveries tread close on each other in the realm of microscopic organisms. It is but a few years since the words microbe and bacteria were made a part of our lan- guage. It will not be long before farmers will say my micrebes as freely as they say my pigs or my hens or my cows. For it is no longer the injurious bacteria that are studied, but the advantageous; and it 1s known that no phase of plant life can go on successfuliy without the intervention of these microscopic aids. So it is to mi- crobes again that we owe the chemical changes that characterize the dairy. The chat trom fresh miik to butter are due to the actin of useful bacteria. To stertl- ize milk will keep it fresh for weeks; to expose it to bacteria will hasten’ its changes of form and quality. Milk is Pas- ceurized or demicrobed by heating it up to about 150 degrees Fahrenheit. This kills the bacteria, after which they must be ex- cluded by tight bottling. The air is siraply an ever-full laboratory of these minute chemists; they operate on erything, ourselves included. Health, as well as disease, is due to invisible neigh- bors. In our gardens we are learning that cultivation consists not simply in stirring and in feeding the soil, but in adding to it or in removng from~it those bacteria that affect plant growth. It will not be tong before every farmer will have what he may call his bacteria stable, as much as he now has his horse stable. In fact, we are likely to lose our horses, but not be able to get on at all without microbes. Such a stable or room will hold not only apparatus and substances for destroying fungoid attacks that destroy the right vital processes of plants, but it will hold ‘“cul- tures” of bereficial microbes. These can be preserved and put in usable conditions, as yeast is prepared for the kitchen or “pure cultures’ of bacterla for the dairy- man. The most recent discovery along this line is that of the famous Prof. Nobbe of Sax- ony. He has made it his specialty to pre- pare what we might call farmers’ yeasts, cr bacteria, useful for plant growth, in such ferm that a farmer may sow it in his field, or otherwise bring it into contact with the seed that he places In the ground. It Is only a few years since it was found that the leguminous plants by some means could directly extract nitrogen from the air. On _ the roots of clover ycu will find smal! and very beautiful nodules. These, it was suspected, had something to do with the nitrogen; but it-was a long while before it vas found out that these nodules were the work of bacteria; that at first they are ic growths, which later became pas- -, and that then the bacteria permeated the clover or the bean plant and give an that of nitrogen-fixation. But it not the same bacteria that aids the clover and the beans. It was clear that if this power could be transferred, or Inoculated, just as we inoculate flour with yeast, it would be of great value to agriculture. A new fleld of experiment was opened. Here- after it would be sought not only to de- stroy mischievous bacteria, but to multiply and transplant the useful. It was found that where bacteria had worked in co-op- eration with beans and clover the soil was richer in nitrogen rather than poorer, and that such soil could be sowed upon and worked into other soil poor in nitrogen to give it power to extract nitrogen from the air. This was to cultivate and sow the nitrogen-feeding bacteria. But it took from 1,500 to 2,000 pounds of such prepared soil to fertilize an acre. This was expensiv. and practically nullified the utility of the discovery. Prof. Nobbe set about endeavoring to se- cure a culture, that Is, a pure product of bacteria, or what you might call a bac- terian yeast, which could be bottled, and carried about, and stored, and planted in any soil where it might be wanted. The news now comes that he has succeeded, and that what he calls “nitragin” is now for sale. It can be had for a very small sum indeed—enough to nitragenize an acre for less than $2. This pure culture is placed in contact with the seed before the latter is sown, or is itself sown and work- ed into the soil to a depth of three inches. The culture, which we-might just as well call yeast, is kept in bottles, and must not be exposed to light or to heat above 98 de- grees Fahrenheit. —_—_—_+-e+___ They Smoked Bird Seed. From the Philadelphia Record. Because of a little mistake of his wife's a@ well-known up-town lawyer, who has long prided himself upon his delicate taste in the matter of smoking tobacco, feels several sizes too small to fill his own clothes just at present. It was one of his hobbies to keep his choicest brands in an old cigar box, besprinkled with good brandy to keep the tobacco moist and to improve the flavor. Not long ago the lawyer invited three old cronies to visit his house and while away an evening with the company of their pipes. In honor of the occasion the host produced his finest tobacco and in- vited his friends to help themselves. The pipes were lighted, and with the first puffs of smoke came an odor too horrible to be described. The wife of the distinguished member of the bar, who had been upstairs, instituted a search for burning rags, in the ccurse of which she entered the room where the smoker was in progress. “Do you smell that terrible stench?” she asked, addressing her husband. “Yer answered .the chorus of three white-faced visitors, laying aside their pipes. But her spouse smoked calmly on in evident enjoyment, and suggested that, elthough he didn’t smell anything unusual, ppthans the cook was burning fat in the itehen range. It was not long, however, before the odor was traced to the tobacco smoked by the host and his three guests. “Did you get that tobacco out of the cigar box on the library table?” asked the lawyer's wife. “Yes. “Well, that’s too bad. I thought that box was empty, and I’ve been throwing waste birdseed In there every time I clean Bobby’s cage. Mzybe that’s,what smells so unpleasant.” And the laugh was on the lawyer—the connoisseur, who had smoked half a pipe- ful without digeovering that anything was wrong. THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, OUVOBER 3, 1896-TWENTY-FOUR PAGES. 17 SNAKES CATCH, BIRDS |Sisrass” ome soem to their nests. iWhy should the birds, which saw the soun “slang in other _—= that morning, -be unduly alarmed? y could easily and did easily avoid him. There was plenty of }room in the world for him and for them. But when he went into the branches of that ‘spek-boom the case changed entirely; every bird that heard of his trespass there had just ‘cause for complaint, and even for seri- ous alarm, because two of them had made f&'nest ir the vicinity. Now, just previous tq my first hearing their cries, he had eith- er newly arrived on that branch, or at least nee been then first noticed by the owners of that nest. : a i bye - Now, th ft al: d ti Does Not Believe That Heptiles Hyp= | mothernooa ts & ory #0 distinctly appealing < ‘ avove all oe eon that it Sure up the = if inmost soul of nature, and rouses to notizg, Theit Feathered Prey. Ye PRETO g desperate deeds, not only man himself, sav- Z - COURAGE IN DA N oe eee aD OF RIL, TH SHARE HAN BG age cr civilized, but even animals, with which otherwise we seem to have very lit- tle in common. Gregarious beings espe- clay are quick to sympathize with the heartrending cry of maternity. Every one is aware how a flock of sheep, ordinarily so timid, will, in lambing time, when a strange dog approaches, gather and try to drive him from the neighborhood. So it was with the birds. Cry of the Mother. When the snake on the withered stump sticking out from the spek-boom branch Was seen by the parents of a near-by nest, they were instantly stricken with fear for their young, and at once made the wood- land resound with cries of terror and dis- tress. That cry of the mother struck a chord in the little heart of every bird with- in hearing, and with one common and most natural impulse they flew to console or as- sist her and to find out the cause of the trouble; just as yesterday in the street the wemen ran out from the houses when a wagon knocked down a poor child. Togeth- er they scolded the driver. Tegether they GER N - 1875, SHORTLY i: ; after my arrival in South Africa, a Cape farnter told tne ‘that .snakes cateh -birds while flying—and that fe himself had “wit- nessed them doing it. “and where do they ~ get the salt?” I ask- ed, for I wouldn't be- licve that reptiles ap- parently so ‘unintelli- gent could-~really catch birds on the “They hypnotize them,” said he. wing. The idea-of hypnotism, of course, I scouted ‘4 oon afterward, I wept with the mother. ‘ogether the: FO en ret Mae reed oa birds ana | Meaned for the hurt one; ana each one read that some suakes feed on ie wept for her own when she answered the when the curator of the South African muscum at Grahamstown told me that he had found birds inside of snakes, I ‘coh- cluded—the ‘ways of snakes being then new to me—that they had. probably caught young birds as yet unable to fly or perhaps taken a mother while sitting on the nest. As I continued to wander out constantly grief of the others. Who could attend to her household with such things convulsing her ne'ghbors? It is very easy to understand how b:rds, moved by such a cause, will venture into danger which they would at other times refully avoid. And that they do at ordi- ry Umes avoid snakes I have on very ions observed. Birds see snake: ting any unusuai excitement, ‘There must then be some grave cause when they gather in flocks about one. Every boy who rambles in the woods knows weil that birds and other ani- mals fly at his approach. They fear his bean shooter or hi But when he draws near to the tr the nest is, do they not begin to cr from the tops of neighboring when he commences to climb it, do’ th not flap their wings angrily about his he: about bush and veldt, observing the habits of snakes, I soon learned more precisely about the matter than any books could tell me. While rambling-one day in that arid traci of country which les to the north between Grahamstown and the Great Fish river I sat down, tired and thirsty, about noon- time oa the rocky hillside $n the meager shade of a tsengu tree. gun. where 5 ftentimes so far braving danger as to After a time I heard the voices of birds | 0) a Ne ae hele in hi at some distance, and listened attentively to | StUKe is hat flutter thelr wings in his locate the place where they were. There| nu Choose he might catch one by a quick were many of them, and they made a con-| J". : bere snatch of his hand? The other birds gather on hearing their cries and add to no! until the whole neighborhood is in a tur- moil of feathered ¢ siderable and continucus noise, as if some- thing delighted or alarmed them. “Aha,” thought I, “some comedy or tragedy of the wilderness is going on.” As the disturb-| These ‘manifestations of ‘terror amon ance continued, I concluded that they were | pirgs ure Just as extraordinary when it is a rather frightened than pleased; particularly | snake that threatens the nest. and. their as 1 believed I could recognize notes of dis-| yee;ings and motive in venturing into fatal tress among the discord of many voices.| proximity to the would-be marauder are Cautiously éroppirg down on the grass, 1] just as easy to comprehend: so that in slowly crept off toward tke place where] truth no pinch of hypnotic salt is at all they were. My course lay up the incline, | needed to account for a tragedy so com- toward a ledge of rocks running trans-| pletely reasonable and so thorvughly nat- versely. When 1 get among the rocks, I} ural. G. R. ORELLLY. lay cautiously down flat to observe, for the noise came from the branches ofa spek-| ,, 7 beom growing a little beyond, at the other] 2UR MAT EE DSS side of an open space. The place where it grew was a depression, and the rocks we some feet above it, so that 1 looked more or less down on the spek-boom;- which was lower and greener than the trees about it. The spek-boom was not forty yafds off, aud the birds were fluttering witdly around one They Moved Slowly and the Letter Postage Wan Very High. “In Washington s first term an effort was made to specd the mails—to move them at the rate of one hundred miles in twent, o2 its leafiest branches. FS four hours, or about four and a half miles Diskoverea « @ubaS an hour,” writes ex-President Harrison, in ; _ | his “This Country of Ours” urticle in Sep- Look as I might among thesersmall sray- | rember Ladies’ Home Journal. “This would ish green leaves I could see nothing what- ever, and could not imagine wifat the birds were after. An old stump of a rotten have been a notable advance, riers were then taking nearly for the car- thiriy hours between Philadelphia aad New York. The branch stuck out from the midst of the | roads were bad, and there were nany slow thick follagé, at the point where the birds| terries. © * * In 1776 there were oniy were swarming. I had seen'it wainly from | twenty-eight post offices in the colonies; the first. It was not a sritke,“and didn’t look a bit hke one; nor did I, indéed, at that moment think that a snuk¢ wa® the cause of the commotion among tite birfs. 1 rather imagined it was an owl or @ hawk, perched cn some of the inner limbs. But the ex- cited. flock flew so persistenfly ahd so notsi- ly around the top of’the branch whence the old stump protruded that I was forced to look there again still more attentively than before. To my surprise tow the old dead stump seemed to jut further out than it had done previously. I examined it, theféfore, most ¢arefully through the glass—and what did I discove ) there were four hundred and fifty- three, ard in 1 there were 4. “Dhe rates of postage when the department was under the Consutution were -bigh: for thirty miles, six cen one letter sheet; for sixty mile tor one bund s, ten © increasing with the increased the maximum, twenty-five cenis for tances over four hundred and nfty mite Stamps were not in use in those days, nor was the sender of a letter reguir-d to pay the postage in advance. The posiage, s s for 3 ce venty-five ce a he —the head and neck of a snake lying along | Cents or Ltwenty-live cents, as Ut = cn top of It, with his snout projecting out | Might be, was written ted = poe “is eyoud the cu’ uite With trenthimg (en, ite setter, and Af fhe sends: sed tcngue and large, glistening eyes, the rep- | Postage the word paid’ was added; if he did not the postage was collecied of person td whom the letter was addre : ‘These raies soon yielded a surplus over the cost of the service, spite of the franking privilege which the law gave to Cong t'le—a Boonislang or tree snake—was watth- the ing the birds which menaced him. For seme seconds he never moved, so that I noted him well. The fore part of his body was stretched longitudinally along the e e Eress- withered stump, and so much like the gray- | !en and the heads of iments. ish green leaves and purplish twigs of the | The demand of the ne apers and perio spek-hoom was he in color that even with | icais of every class for cheap posta the glass I had much difficulty in seeing | 0nded by their subscribers, has led to a reduction of rates greatly below t cost to the government. In his report 1892 the Postmaster General, after stating that the present letter rate pays twice the cost of the letter ma. » book and newspaper mail him Clearly, unless when he mcved. Alto- gether, he was probably about six fect long. But the greater part of his length was h den in. the fat little leaves so like his Had the birds not been there to bet presence, I should probably not even with the glass have ever noticed him. six cents a pound. In recent years The birds, now flocking around the boom- | Post Office Department has been character- siang showed this trait of cumulative Im: | ized by a very progressive spirit, and it ts | pudence ‘most clearly. ‘The snake's inae- | NOW rendering, not a perfect service, but a high-class service. No other department has more nearly kept pace with the mar- velous development of our countr - a Pound. tion and a growing confidence in their own numbers brought up to the fighting point the individual courage of every bird in the flock. They actually began, while I looked Se cn, to attack the snake. One of them wit Tea at $17. claws and beak flew viciously at his nose, | New York Letter. whereupon he abruptly drew back beneath Z 5 the Ieaves. But he soon again poked out It is the pickings of the first tips of the his head and neck—evidently this time with | blossoms. The greatest care must be taken determination to catch one—I could ‘see his | in the picking, and nothing but the bright, ao eg or eS In tig | Bolden-hued tip taken off the blossoms. All neck. AS 80 5 peas ae Lirds drew off a little, as if repelled by his | the picking of this grade is carefully done tkreatening appearance. by hand. The process of drying these tips 1s as delicate as the picking. The annual output is estimated at 12,000 pounds, valued The Excited Birds. at $2,100,000. But five pounds of this tea Now he would look sharply to the left. and now to the right, as if uncertain which | 14. ever been known to have reached the United States, excepting a few pounds side he ought to attend to most. The birds perceiving Wat even ae pa e ee placed on exhibition at the world’s fair. A em S Same 8, Brad-| yich lady residing at New York wrote to Mr. Marr, the agent of the Ceylon tea ually flew by in closer proximity to his snout, making, !f possible, still more noise | growers for America at Chicago, and asked him to try and procure for her, if possible, than before. As he drew out his body up- on the withered stump, the curves in his | five pounds of this remarkable and expen- neck grew more numerous and defined. The | Slve tea. Mr. Marr was successful in se- birds probably suspected that he meant to | curing six pounds of the precious article. attack them, for they now hovered about | The New York lady gave a check for $1,000 his back ard not out before his nose. I no- | for her five pounds. ticed that his tail was coiling more and more about the dead limb on which he lay— Saar SS AWFUL MONSTER OF THE SEA. ee OE IETY AT CARLSBAD Gigantic Creature. "BA r suns, Lt "Sent t= |THE ATTRACTIONS OF THE FAMOUS were the dest monster u' = WATERING PLACE. BAY SHORE, L. L, September deep y'ever see,” said Silas Van Camp, as SEEKING HEALTH AT THE SPRINGS he pulled off his, rubber boots.on Saturday night. “I see it fust jist a-churnin’ up the bay t’beat Dexter.” “‘An’ it hed fire a-comin’ outer its eyes. Den’t forget that, Sile,” sald Rufe Jackson. “An’ a-mane an’ a tale,” supplemented Rufe’s younger brother, Tom. “Big?” said Silas, reflectively. “Well, it were big-as that,”. and he stretched his arms in a way that included the entire horizon. Sile and the Jackson boys are clammers, and were cn the beach at Howell's Point when the monster appeared. They hurried home and told about it, and were the heroes of the day. But today Joe Marvin of this place went into the tavern and said: “D'ye hear ‘bout VIRTUES OF THE CARLSBAD ESPECIALLY OF SPRING, WATERS AND THE GREAT SPRUDEL WHICH MAY BE ENJOYED AT HOME THROUGH THE MEANS OF THE SPRUDEL SALT. Fancy a town built on the lid of a boiling kettle —that is Cerlsbad. Aud though it is but the lid of a kettle, it is a very beautiful one. There ts nt ber uty cverywhere; the mountains lvok down upon th’ swim my ole hoss, Jim, had last | the narrow littl: city, whose houses Me like beady sees 4 y vaioes e = ly? Swum four mile ‘cross Gret South | aie the mpid, winding river. Then Sile had to set up the rum and tansy. Marvin ferried his horse out to Wig Island, and the animal, getting homesick, had swam back; that’s all. _— The Mosque. From the Cortemporary I % The mosque is not merely a house of prayer. As its name, “Djami,” indicates, it is also a center of attraction and a plac: of meeting. Djami brings together the in- dividual Moslems, and by grouping multi- plies the forces of Islam. At sunset a great silence falls, with the night, on t eastern city; all noise is hushed, and o: hears nothing but the resounding voice of the Muezzin calling the faithful to their religious duties. Ablutions and prayers are but symbolic purifications of the body and the spirit in preparation for a duty even more noble atid more civic, that is, for public deliberation on the affairs of th: country. The ceremony of the Selamlik— the visit of the suitan every Friday in great state to the mosque—is a spectacle which much interests and, indeed, amus strangers who pass through Constantino- pie. But this procession,which closes now- adays at the threshold of the mosque, f erly went on, with even greater majes and significance, into the interior of sanctuary. ‘There the commander of faithful, after presiding at prayer and pressing the hands of his fellow believers, Zave a public account to the assembly of the more governmen: von gave opportunity to all the great personages of the emp! CROWN PRINCESS STEPUANTE. Perkeps there ere twelve thousand inhabitants to take part in the deliberations and to | '® Carlsbad; boarding houses are everywhere. It is cxercise influence over the conduct of af. a thriving manufacturing pla but the real source fairs. Monarch and private subject, link- | of gts prosperity ts al o pH js naturally its mincrul springs. ed together by a common faith, worked to- men ee on ee iio common interest. Islamism tion and the bond of t of all was the pursuit or tuce. The citizen, whatever i it was this hich produced the great men to important pro: So secn as the government failed to re nize their wo! dence of the Booker T. Washington’s Boyhood. From the Atlantic. My carliest recollection is of a small one- room log hut on a large slave plantation in Virginia. After the close of the war, while werking in the coal mines of West Vir- ginia for the support of my mother, I heard in some a vial Way of the Hampton institute. When I learned that it was an A FLOWERY MEETING AT THE SPRUDEL, institution where a black boy could siviy, | Ths Me in nearly ine—prcemen . could have a chance to work for his board, | #E In the 1id, some one ts and at the same time be taught how to, The Sprudel, the most abantaxt work and to re the dignity of labor, | 40d hottest of the wad isa ing I resolved to go there. Bidding my mother | spring tday, as it was in Ur fifteenth century, ried out one morning to find x mpton, though I was almo: penniless and had no definite idea wher Hampton was. iby walking, begging rides fer a portion of the journey n cars, I finally succeeded in reaching the city of Richmond, Va. I was without money or friends. I slept under a and by working on a vessel next J earned money to continue my way to the institute, where I arrived with a ) cents, At Hampton I found ortunity—in the way of buildings s and industries provided by the rous—to set training in the room by practical touch with industrial life © learn thrift, economy and push. I was rrounded by an atmosphere of bu: *hris influence and a spirit of s that seemed to have awakene y fac ty in me and caused me for the first time realize what it meant to be a man in- DRIVING UP M THE NTAIN, when Charles IV, Emperor of Austria and King of d of a piece of property. Bohemia, coming home from the wars, stumibled ———— upon the springs. Charles made it and Formidable Arctic Mosquitoes. when once be had built bis pal town From the tle Post-Intelligencer. that grew up about the he Some of the men who have gone to Alas- | the ka have returned to complain of the hi work, of the coid, the heat, the frost, or ti spow, but the real discouragement which makes life in the far north a er burden is the deadiy mosquito, from whose insin- for royalty th long It has become spr most ngs and the uating bill there is in Europe. _ “They are there in such swarms that| Bat men of all sorts touch elvow here and with semetimcs you seem to be looking at the | frankness and courtesy in the main, One's mind j Sun’ through a sncw storm,” said H. A. | rorures and returen to them and women who bave Fredericks of this city yesterday. Mr.| jae nither for health and ph the came tedericks has just returned from a} S pigeons >in the Yukon country, and it was to | often, sud al that region he had particular referenc the in the coun- “cont de them the other difficulties amount to nothing. In the setulemenis they do not bother people much, Lut wher a man goes up one of the crecks prospecting he must envelop his head in a quito frame of cheese cloth—their bills would go through netting like a knife th ugh tissue paper—and must wear gloves and tie his trousers and shirt sleeves close about his ankles and wrists. “I have come back not because I am gusted with the country, but because I want to vote for McKinley; then I will be ready to return and fight mosquitoes until my work in the north is finished.” Z ewe s with adva to him PROMENADE AT THE MULT That any such impor inal product as is Boycotted Clergymen, now found in the val 1 salt could be Bison ebe KBicaeo BU ve ane: 4 obtained from the spring: first Lelievers im Every Protestant pastor who in | Carlsbad were profoundly ignoraut of, charge of a church at El Paso, Texas, at| ‘The natural Car which ts ob: A Sprudel Salt, tained from the water of the §; is an a and, the time of the great discussion over the | prize fight has been driven from the town “through want of congregations and finan- cial support.” This is the completed result of a boycott against them by the mer- | spoonful, is a gentle but eff chants and other classes because of their | taken in ordinary water, or as ar opposition to the prize fight. BEREAN aes spring, by laxative and evaporatic diuretic remedy, of a tea- Tt os he was clearly steadying himself for a spring. At each moment the excited birds came nearer and nearer to him, as if they meant to again attack him. They even swooped within a foot of him. Suddenly he turned his head around side- ways, as if looking backward, and then shot upward fully two feet of his length, seizing a bird that had ventured within his reach. The quickness of bjs syccess sur- prised me. He had grabbed. her from be- reath by the body, so that her wings were left free.. She fluttered wildly and squeqk- ed loudly and pitifully, so as to be heard above the-noise of her campaniens, wha irstantly scattered in terrog, tothe tops of the neighboring trees, leaving the triumph- |... ant boom-slang to enjoy his dinner in peace. Although snatching a bird thys.from-a threatening flock is not by,janycmeans the only way in which snakes gecune, feathered prey, still it is perhaps the most.eften to be seen, and is most spoken of angjmisunder- stccd. Consequently it merits;to be ex- amined in analysis, so thet we may see exactly how. far astray is)the popular su- perstition that the snake gets his prey by the hypnatic power of his;stoay and un- blirking stare. 1 we How It Happened..: “« Reasoning from adventures of snakes with birds, which I havp seen since in South-Africa, South America, the: West: Indies and in the woods about New, York, the explanation of the episode of the boom- slang and the birds is as follows: -— — + The large-eyed tree snake, gliding slowly about the bush since early morning, saw no doubt ..from. time: to time many birds, end many birds saw him, without calling together-a flock to attack him.. On.the con- trary, all these flew away at his approach, to peck:at their berries in another. tree or. search a little further off for their insects, always keeping one eye on their enemy, of course, as long as they were both in prox- imity. Why should they be unduly -alarm- ed at mere sight of a snake? Snakes were not at‘aH“uncommon, and were seen se vf- ten that if birds were to gather in excited flocks every time one was noticed by them: gliding about in the sun, the poor birds The last day of summer.—Life. creasing their effect. In from poorness of blood (ana constipation very gratifying results ar the ase of the salt, given In 4 spoonful or one teaspeonfal in four or six ou hot water, an hour before ea chronic catarrh of the stomach, liver int, bile and simple jaundice, one teaspoonfal of the salt dis- solved in warm ¢ water or ordi- nary bot water will be found invaluable. Its action increases the flow of saliva, and tm the ctowreh St without doubt, chemjgal laws and neutralizes any free acid contained in that organ. Given on an known to promote the ac by favoring exosmosis of hit is DVloed from which the acid of the stemach is ch 1, and to this ts attributed the blood purify- action of this salt and the clear of the complexion after the use of it. ‘The Carlsbad Sprudel salt is very diffusable and passes imto the blood of the body with facility, Tus pr ip the blood with oxy insures the gra 1 oxtde of the or; constituents af that fluld; un- edly the albuminous elements of the blood . the fats—are similarly oxidized. et that the Carisbad salts (powder form) ause the elit jon of the products of tie ju creased metat is of tissue indicates that it has, medici very It is used with great advanta disorders, as an excess of acid ed by at. indigestion of obs ly cured by Cw deticient, as in th is quickly affonted, and in cases vs is usual. sidation is well-known 2 reer tism gnd rheumatic gout good rv obtained Buyere are cautioned that pone with ont the signature of “Eisner & Mendelson Co., New York, Franklin street, sole agents for the United States,” on every bottle. at