Evening Star Newspaper, September 4, 1897, Page 19

THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1897—24 GES. 500,000 FREIGHT ( TRAVELING ACROSS THE CONTINENTo ONE CAR BIG ENOUGH CAR LOAOS OF WHEAT ARE 9) FRE ivy WONDERS OF WHEAT, Moving Half a Billion Bushels of the Yellow Grain to Market. MONEY, MUSCLE AND MACHINERY a See The Present Crop Will Be Worth Three Hundred Millions. \ ——_ + --— ACTS AND FIGURES eee ag ee that the wheat crop | of the United State for the present year | 2 moving wheat, and | similar ship ments | sur from day to day son. It will all com and by with a generous It is a generally accepted fact that a good wheat. crop and good times gc to- gether, but few persons even of those most and just how it is that the two facts are related or wh enorm power for good is in the g flood of yellow grain that is sweeping east- vard over the country. more ¢! ew figure quently than any nary of freight car will hold 1,000 wheat. It will require 4 art of the crop that will be the Erie canal gets only 1 of the grain-carrying busine al boats w filled with whea make a tow half as long as the if If we put the ‘$ in the form of dol- > the array is even more strik- a million bushels of wheat ow per bushel—th t the tmer is receiving —means $31,000,000. hundred millions to be expended in mortgage: labor, buying and clothing is itself a But this is the fie pout 2 of portion moved half actoss fhe continent thi | ean tens of mil ef dollars for the.| v d_ eleva lake vessels and for the Euroy nd that me ross the 4 at. And oats, 1 ion man and laborer well for all | 1,000,000 OF | to pay fer y to refer to the share of th t which will be reaped by th nufaeturer of machinery and | © or less directly affected. Ho grain is m con- | ted is highly interesting as | in modern industrial de- | is interesting, too, » note | t crop is the for handling his year, Z ng machine, | S and the | built. sen It Cuts a Fifty Out in Red nd e been cut- harvester it a ma bar ith a moth cf its kind. r fifty feet in width, nm, thres! ties it up urns out ds of these In going a mile this ma- ch ty cres, and does 2 our g with his ¢ und flail, could in a whole s is the starting point of the wheat journey marketward. The sac! are thrown ou the great ha in wagons and] ‘st railw: station, d into grain cai e warehou: A grain box car fitted with an i mand a t can be tg. extra door of plank let down, making the car } he cars from the various | hurried off as soon as j at transfer sta-| Kansas City and Duloth | rgest. ‘There it is turned | runk lines or lake vesseis | - journey. mand for kets has led to ti K »ping allowed to lic in been found, y to transfer ators. Ac- points are ator, boats, for the e of the of cups is let One nd receiving side, and the grai to the lofty roof of the ¢ Vator, and hes down on the opposi side without paus ng a mement in the trans- | r 4 men have thus heen their toll of one-hait er bushel for transferring the grain. Two Great Wheat Routes. Thece are two great wheat routes from w to the Atlantic seaboard. One water route via the great lakes and erie canal, and the cther is a land route via the four great grain-carrying nk lines. The former is the cheaper the latter is the more expeditious, i the competition between the two pre- vents the prices of transportatton from rising to an exorbitant height. The larger part of the grain moved between Duluth and New York city travels by a combina- tion water and land ro: in big steel freight boats down the lakes to Buffalo, end thence by rail to New York. The lake rate from Duluth to Buffalo is 2% cents er bushel during the busy season, and, as -) To HOLD THiS. GRAIN. Woure REACH FROM NEw YORK i ona, Ee ET of 3,000,0M% bushels. The other will be Evering Star. known as the electric elevator, and is being T IS ESTIMATED | built for a capacity of 1,000,000 bushels, | 2,000,000. will be almost 500,- | I 000, bushels, and| tors is that in them the old-fashioned that 200,000,000 bush- | Wooden bins have been abandoned. Their els of this wil! be de- | Place has been taken by a series of gigan- manded by Europe. ! tle cylindrical steel tanks. In the G One New York bank | Northern elevator there will be three rows shipped west over a | Of these, with ten tanks in each ON | perth = with a bushe million dollars the | steel bins will -four feet high, and | other day to be used | will be t they can be her- | | lower ends are anty, SO great and so wide- won without a vast expend- | ¢ n effort. The way in which ! largest of | 5 jin 1 CAR, capacity of 160,000 bushels, the business is a profitable one for them. At present there are nearly 700 vessels ich are engaged, for a part of the season . in carrying wheat on the lakes. more than are employed in moving export crop across the Atlantic, and, rem more surprising, the larg- St lake vessels are considerably larger than the ordinary ocean craft engaged in the same line of work. The new craft of modern steel construction which have been | put on the lakes within the past two sea- sens by the Great Northern Company are mong the finest models of American-built nerchant vessel At Buffalo the grain that is brought down the lakes again passes through the elevators for reshipment to New York and Boston. Its fortcnate position has made Buffalo one of the greatest grain ports in the world. Two new elevators which are now in process of completion there are the largest in the world, and embody some new and interesting arrangements for the handling and storage of grain. The larger of thes is the Great Northern elevator, which will have a capacliy when completed with the probability of enlargement to An Elevator Run by Magara. The unique feature of these new eleva- metically 1 in order to protect the Spain, again, the proportions of ladies with the masculine characteristics is said to be quite equal to that observable on the Gold- en Horn. AsAmertcan medical man states that in Philadelphia fully 3 per cent of the adult fair sex are similarly adorned, and probably the proportion would be still larger but that many women ‘ake the trou- ble to eradicate the unwelcomed growth by the application of depilatory prepara- tions. Is this increase in the number of women with hair on their faces to be regarded as a sign that the human race is improving’ Very few men, at all events, will be dis- posed to consider that a mustache adds to the charms of the opposite sex. English- men, indeed, only a generation ago, had such a detestation of mustaches and beards that the practice of shavirg all the nair off the face down to their mutton-chop whiskers was All but universal. From one extreme our clean-shaven fathers plunged into the other, and beards and mustaches rapidly became the fashion. The fashion has of late years been modified. Beards are less common, but the mustache is cul- tivated in England as widely as on the continent. = But why should the fair sex be visited by this affliction? Some writers on ethnology hold that the higher races of mankind are always the hairier, and Mr. Mott thinks that in a few centuries men and women will be clothed in hair. But we do not be- lieve Mr. Mott; and we certainly do not wisk to live to see the day of bearded beauty. —————+e+______ MODERN ©. ON AND EXPLOSIVES. What the Next War Will Be Fought With. Gen. 0. 0. Howard in the Independent. What is called the six-pounder Maxim- Nordenfelt gun, or some slight modifica- tion of it, is the one about which so many inquiries are made in the journals of the day. We have had this gun under trial since 1994, firing it with rapidity and ac- curacy through different ranges. The provers began with one sighting shot, then delivered ten shots without a miss. The deviations from the middle of the target were inconsiderable. This was accom- plished in 2 minutes and 37% seconds for @ one-mile range. For a three-mile range three trials were allowed for the sighting, then ten shots quickly followed at the tar- get and all hit. The caliber of this cannon is 2.244 inches. The estimated time is twenty rounds per minute, or sixty-five rounds in three minutes. The Germans called the field pieces to which I refer, after making their own improvements upon them, “the model of '73 and '78,” the cali- ber being 88 millimeters (3.3 inches). Dur- ing 189) the Germans succeeded still fur- ther with these field guns and their car- riages, making progress. Their new gun is now denominated the model of ‘91. They have secured elasticity of metal and in- creased tenacity, thus eliminating. as far as possible, dangers from breakage and bursting, which, of course, always had im- mediate deadly effects upon their own ar- tillerymen, and could not help causing widespread apprehersion and terror among them. And again, in their carriages and ammunition wagons made for these guns, 3 al rain from moisture. Between the rows of they have secured greater lightness, and GD 10.000 CANAL BOAT LOADS Of WHEAT ARE PASSING a e IF PLACED IN LINE THESE (FQ BOATS WOULD MAKE A TOW HALF AS LONG AS THE CANAL ALONG THE ERIE CANAL « ° PoP REPIOMEARIO ee will steel bins bins, into which lofty be smaller storage the grain will first be moved from the vessels, and afterward elevated to the larger bins by the usual cup method. The method of discharging the grain Is equally interesting. The huge steel cylinders raised above the floor and rest on square steel columns. Their bowl-shaped, with a valve at the lowest point, so that by simply mov- ing a lever the grdin will run out and can 1 by Steel tubes to cars or boats the use of hoisting machinery. ry bit of machinery in the new eleva- tors will be run by electricity from Niagara Falls, and 1,000 horse-power dynamos are now heing built for the purpose. The silent ease and resistless power with which these tons upon tons of grain are to be moved by Niagara's mighty arms, when compared with the old cumbersome methods of lift- ing and shoveling, afford a striking testi- moniai of the wonders of modern industrial ent. From Buffalo the wheat travels eastward gain b canal and ‘the raliway rato Buffalo and } and is held st the joint trafile 2 ars there has been a fierce rival- ry between the c and the railways, and BOAT. are now in these respects considerably abead of the French. The smokeless powder will aid much both the French and the Germans in gaining for themselves a prospective morale over a foe not so wel! furnished—a foe having only other kinds of powder. It is interesting to observe the efforts made by German offi- cers to have exploding shells give some plain signs of where they strike. I am re- minded of our own efforts in the war to read the enemy's signal code. The German artillerists, using the smokeless powder in their cannon, “put 300 balls into the shell, and in the interstices of these balls they introduce a powder whose composition is a secret,” that is to say, thus far secret. The French can analyze, and so can our chemical experts. The new explosive mix- ture is colored. The impact and explosion of these shells can now, from the flash, be easily detected by a fieldglass at a distance of three miles. We shall soon be abreast of other armies in such things as these colored flashes, enabling the battery offi- cers to measure length of range and dis- cover far-off points of danger and obstacles to" be overcome. No one can exaggerate the effect of a battery thus equipped, after the range ghall be ascertaincd—its’ effect against infantry, cavalry or inferior ar- » when the project of devoting $9,- to the improvement of the canal the voters of New York, the sociation put down the price of unsportation two and one-half cents per bushel, in order to show the usek ne of 000,000 the “state ditch,” as it is trreverently called. In that year the canal carried only 14,000,000 bushels, while the railways brought 72,000,000 to New York. The canal men hope that with the improvements now being made on their highway and the pos- ullery. Troops in open ground without cover, so withstood, must give way or be practically annihilated. McKinley at Antietam. From the St. Loufs Globe-Deanoerat. In the part of the field where Burnside first pushed back the confederate right and then swung around to meet Hill is a tablet of particular interest at the present time. sibility of bringing grain all the way down the lakes in stee! canal boats, they may re- gain some of their former prestige. Methods of Grain Weighers. At the seaboard the grain is weighed, in- spected and graded, and takes its final transfer to the ocean vessels. In New York harbor this transfer does not take place directly, but is mzede by means of barges. | The cars containing the grain are run into the elevators; again the leg of a long chute ts let down into the car, and the fron cups earry the grain in a steady stream forty, fifty or sixty feet to the top of the build- ing, where it passes under the eyes of the weighers end inspectors. Wheat is graded according to its weight per Winchester bushel. The hopper bins have a certain city in bushels. The weigher sets his ules at the mark required of No. 1 or No. according to the grade to which the he moves a lever and lets the grain run out into the bin prepared for that je. om bottom of these same bins ms of wheat run into another set of ning bins, and thence into the barges that He elengside the elevator. These barges are then towed alongside the ocean steam: hick are to carry the grain to ion. Here another elevator, this a floating one, picks up the grain, it along to another set of weighing and thence into the ship's hold. The passe: ah numero weighings to which the grain is subjected act as a safeguard for the ditfer- ent companies, any discrepancy greater than the 1 per cent lost in dust and in the process of handling would require an ex- planation, and would indicate that some- body had made a mistake. When the wheat passes out of New York harbor it ceases to pay tribute to America, but In the course of its travels from the plains of the Dakotas to the Atlantic tides it gives employment to thousands of Amer- icans, and scatters its golden increment it over the land. —— ROBERT EARL, _——————— Bear for Women. From the Pittsburg Dispatch. A learned German, who has devoted him- self to the study of physiology, anthro- pology and allied ‘sciences, makes the rather startling assertion that mustaches are becoming commoner among women in the present day than in the past. He tells that in Constantinople the unveiled women that are to be met with one out of ten possesses an unnmtistakable covering of newer grain ships have @ carrying” down on the upper lip. In the capital of supposed to belong, and when the { It marks the location of the Kanawha Brigade, of which the 23d Ohio was a part that day. From the early morning fiasco at the stone bridge to the advance upon the confederate right, the brigade had marched and fought. Hungry and faint, the troops were still in line confronting Hill's fresh arrivals, when suddenly a great shout went up. There, under fire, with a team of mules and a wagon, was a boy commissary sergeant, dealing out hot coffee. Two miles in the rear he had press- ed into service some stragglers, had made some hot coffee and cooked meat. He had loaded two wagons and had started for the front to find and feed his regiment. Again and again he was ordered to the rear. One team was disabled. The youth- ful sergeant kept on, unheeding the bullets, intent only upon carrying that coffee and meat and hard tack to the place where it would do the most good. The shout told , of his arrival where the regiment was still fighting. The serving of hot coffee to sol- diers in the midst of battle is not recog- nized by the tactics. It was done at An- tietam. When the colonel of the regiment got back to Ohio and told the war governor of the incident, the ¢omment was: “Give that young man a commission.” Thus William McKinley became a lieu- tenant. oo_____ The Menagerie by the Sea, From Life. THE BOARDING HOUSE Types of Character “Always to Be Met at Table THE DICTATORIAL MAN AND OTHERS Personal Mysteries That Baffle the Busiest Gossip. a FUN ALL THE TIME Written fer The Evening Star. If the famous traveler who declared the Swiss pension the most characteristic of all institutions of public entertainment in the world had ever partaken of the hos- Pitality of a Washington boarding house he might perhaps have revised his judgment. Collectively, the Swiss pension is a suffi- clently odd establishment, if one is affluent and good natured enough to complaisantly endure imposition that attains the gro- tesque. But Swiss pensions are all alike. But—myriad as their name is—are any two Washington boarding houses alike? For all this, is not any single Washington boarding house absolutely unlike the board- ing houses of any other city, town or ham- let on the globe? All Kinds. It is the cosmopolitanism of the Wash- ington boarding house's room holders that makes it charactertstic. The institution it- self is typical only of Washington’ In the old days, Washington boarding houses were the hives of statesmen; even now. many of them are the rigidly-ruled castles in miniature of sta——- “members.” Who that has ever lived in a Washington board- ing house has not been brought to a sud- den realization of his own extreme no- accountness, because ef the presence _un- der the same roof—usually second floor front—of the austere, gloomy-visaged, heavy-weight member from Any-Old-Place, who is a Jove of the upper cloud strata in the reverential eyes of the landlady, and who gets all the hot water, all the clean- est towels, all the first fruits of the larder at all hours of the day or night, and who perhaps takes pie with a knife from a pure love of the bizarre? Tke change that has been gradually com- ing over the Washington boarding house during the past decade has by no mean: yet deprived it of its most essential char- acteristics. It is probably for the purpose of remain- ing in alignment with the theory that “old things are best” that the old-time Wash- ington boarding house still exists in ex- ceedingly large numbers. In truth, there are many men and wo- men new advancing toward middle age, or quite past it, who would perhaps not find themselves comfortable in their boarding house beds if the walls of their rooms were not adorned by a couple of faded portraits of a couple of their landlady’s, earlier hus- bands—melancholy-looking gentlemen = in ante-bellum costume, with their h: brush- ed forward above their ears. ‘The tenants of the Washington boarding house dwell in greater unity together thaa do the boarding house occupants of some other namable cities. The people who live In boarding houses’ in shington have been somewhere and se2n something, which perhaps accounts for the greater atmosphere of peace, white-winged, which hovers over the Washington boarding- hevse table. The dictatorial man, of curse, sometimes glowers over the break- fest table, arising very early in order to become thoroughly awakened to his task of squelching all hands at the morning on every conceivable topic, from the limitations of the infinite to the outrageous playing of the home ball ‘team. The Indian Row. “See they're having a row about some- thing or another in India,” says the mild little man at the foot of the table. “First thing you know there’s going to be a scrap that—' “Scrap!” thunders the dictatorial ma ‘Sir, there shall soon be an unleas of the dogs of war in India tha rock that stricken empire to its base, and I shall be greatly mistaken if we do not hear of 2 thousand repetitions of the siege of Lucknow that made the year 1859 such & gloomy period throughout the civilized worl: “Didn't the siege of Lucknow take place in 1 or 1858?” inquires the mild little man, shriveling palpably under the leonine glare of the dictatorial man. “No, sir, it didn’t!” orates the dictatorial man, who swears by all his dates from the Assyrian calendar down. “Not by a whole hogshead of rum did it take piace in 1857 or 1858! It took place in 1859, as I believe I stated in a sufficiently clear tone of voice, didn't 1?) And what's more—"” Crushed Him. “Well,” puts in the mild lttle man, in fear of his life, “I only happened to men- tion it, because I was looking over one of these newspaper almanacs yesterday, and it gave the date of the siege, I think, Satis ‘That's it, you think!” is the crushing reply. “So does the newspaper almanac think! What the de does the new: paper almanac know about it, anyhow I say that the siese of Lucknow took place in the year of our-Lord 185 and of the independence of the United States of America—let’s see; anyhow, it was in ’39, I am positive, dead sure, absoiutely certain about it! There’s a whole lot too much Buessing about dates around here, any- how!” The two pathetic facts connected with the boarding-house life of the dictatorial man is, first, that although -he has never been known to get anything right, he al- Ways thinks he is right; and, second, that he appears blissfully uncenscious of the fact that all the youpg men in the house are perpetually conspiring to get him worked up at the table, in order to have fun witit him. A Mystery. The mysterious: man generally occupies the third floor back room in the Washing- ton boarding house. He doesn’t scramble to get to work at 9 o'clock In the merning. He has no visible means of support, and yet the landlady, who is as befogged as to his antecedents and present station as any of her boarders, is always handed her en- velope promptly. He dosn't say a word at table, and (a perpetual grief) he keeps the drewers of his dresser tightly locked when he goes out. He keeps very late hours, and the supposition is general among the other boarders that there is gomething wrong about him. i “Shouldn't be surprised if that fellow got caught in a burglary one of these fine nights,” says the speculative stenogra- pher employed in the @reasury Depari- ment. “Looks to me like a short-card player,” volunteers the patent ‘ofiice draughtsman. When it finally leaks out that the mys- terious man's mission in Washington is to gather material at the Congressional Li- brary for a History ‘of Christianity in the Sixth Century the other boarders feel that they have been individually and personally wronged. ba Rides in n Landau, The mystericus middle-aged lady, first flocr back, dwelis in'#the Washington boarding house in cénsiderable numbers. The number and variety of her Jewels ex- cite the firmly rocted suspicion of the feminine element of jousehold. More- over, she goes driving in a landau at 3 o'clock every week day.dfternoon, She has never been explained away. The feminine simanbet ct the household has never ascee in yw she came,into the possession all the iamonde, nor whether the landau belongs to her or to a livery stable, nor how its maintenance is paid for in either ease. But the feminine element of the household has its doubts about the.whole business. True, she goes to church” every Surday forenoon. fe “But that’s so easy, you know,” smiles the feminine element of the household. ‘The young man who fs going the pace, and is proud of it, because it's ba-a-ad, and because all the young ladies in the house call him a “sad case” and “so dis- sipated” among themselves, and eye him critically at every morning just to see how ba-a-ad he has been the pre- vious night—always occupies a room at the tov of the house. ~ . He makes a point of occupying a room at the top of the house, so that when he comes ctomping imat Jcu'clock in the morn- ing he is enabled to awaken all hands from cellar to garret. He knows all about the under strata of “life,” and while the older men at the table regard him cu- viously oygr their eveglasses, as talk rakishly of how Marle Dressler has jus! smashed a faro bank at Saratoga; of how “bis” horse “died in the stretch” at Sheeps- head yesterday afternoon; of how he is going to knock off on absinthe, anyhow, because he believes it's hurting him; of the mournfulness of being confined to a government desk when there’s so much fun to bs had in the world, ete., ete. The older men, gazing at the ba-a-ad youth over their eyeglasses,hark reflectively back to the days when they, too, hankered for @ reputation for extreme wickedness—and smile profound inward smiles. She Whe Trii The young lady engaged in pursuing the vocal art is to be found in the Washington boarding house. She studies very hard, always, and her runs and trills and stac- catoes and colorature work ure really quite marvelous. “I do hope that my practicing doesn’t annoy you,” she.often says to the other boarders in general at table. ot at all! Why, the idea! is the chorused reply. “So glad!” murmurs the young lady en- gaged in’pursuing the vocal art. When she rises and leaves the table: “But d'je hear it this morning, though?” Seys the young man who has beon most vociferous in declaring that the practicing really soothed him. “Holy smoke! It must ha been before sunrise! Must ‘a’ heard it ‘way up at the Capitol! Nothing but scales, either! Woke me up, and I thought the house was afire!”’ etc., etc. Feminine portion of household delighted, and sub- ject pursued for half an hour after men have all gone to offices. And the Poodle. The lady who cherishes the diminutive Dlack-and-tan poodle with the bark ordi- norily occupies a room on the ground floor. Careful research would appear to war- rant the assertion that she does this in or- der that whenever the front door bell is rung the poodle has a chance to hear it and to arouse the house and the neighborhood over it. Moreover, she is enabled to open her room door on these occasions, and this enables the poodle to slip into the hall, baying lke a Great Dane pursuing a silver wolf, and to scare timid old ladies, and lit- tle negro children bringing in washing, into hysterics. The lady who cherishes the poodie is invariably such a profitable board- er that the landlady does not dare to glance sideways at the dog. The men in the house pat the dog on the head and call it “pretty little Gypsey doggie,’ when the dog's cherisher is within earshot; when the beast’s cherisher is out of earshot or of the house, they boot pretty little Gypsey Certainly doggie downstairs, and say dark things under their breath. Civil Servic: Through some queer dispensation of Providence, the man who believes in the civil service law and the man who does't believe in the civil service law always sit exactly opposite each other at the Wash- ington boarding-house table. Another queer fact that has been ob- served is that the man at the Washington boarding-house table who beifeves in the civil service law invariably has a job in a government building, while the man at the Washington boarding-house table who dcesn’t believe in the civil service law is always looking for one, and growing visibly wore haggard day by day in the quest. The pair go over the matter at breakfast and dinner every day. The people sit- ting beside them cauticusly remove the knives from the reach of the disputants when the argument gets under way. “Chinese fraud—blasted, blooming Chi- nese fraud and swindle perpetrated upon the taxpayers of the United States!” de- claims thc man in search of a government €csk, and therefore unalterably opposed to the civil service idea. “Made for a lot of ‘lool boys! The gall of ‘em, to expect a man who's been out of schoof for a quar- ter of’a century to answer such imbecile ave st Country's gone to the devil, that’s what! Look here! what good does it do a man in the Treasury Department, adding up columns of figures for his pay, to know how far the planet Jupiter is the Cape of Good Hope, hey? What— Those Questions, “But they don’t ask any such questions.” “The deuce they don't! What good— “The good is,” replied the man who has the job, warming up, “that the civil service law keeps the government of the United States from going to rack and ruin, that’s what the good It keeps a lot of thick- headed ward-heclers and cheap-Jim_ poli- ticians from swooping down on the di partments of Washington and drawing government money for doing nothing but bulldoze people who know fifty times as much as they know themselves,” etc., et Elaboration of the argument is unnece sary. It has been heard by every man, weman, child and dog ia Washington. Besides the tenants of the Washington boarding house here mentioned, there are others. Told in Explnnation of the Likeness of 2 Girl on the Face of a Clift. From the Denver Republican. Many are the eyes that are turned daily to the picturesque statue that siands hun- reds of feet above the busy village of Georgetown, incased, as it were, in a chiseled vault, and placed there in a most mysterious manner. With a silent vigil it looks down upon the busy populace, a sentinel of noiseless guardianship. Yet how few of the many who look upon the fair picture know of the legend connected therewith, and the sorrowful fate of by- gone times that is interwoven by Indian history with it. It was related to a pioneer of Georgetown some thirty odd years ago by an old Indian with whom he camped in Middle Park. The Indian's story, as near as the frontiersman, who still inves here, could remember it, is as follows: There was gathered in the valley where Georgetown now stands, in the early part of the century, a great meeting of the numerous tribes of Indians of the plains and mountains that had been at war as far back as the oldest chiefs could remember. A general desire for peace had been shown by the various tribes, and the council was for that purpose, The plains Indians had elected a powerful chief of the Cheyennes, named Cor-nu-co- ya, while the mountain tribes had for a leader Tu-se-now, noted far and wide for his excellent qualities in settling diflicui- ties. Tu-se-now brought a beautiful daugh- ter with him, whose name was Tah-ki. She was the pride of all the mountain tribes, and was known far and wide for her won. derful beauty. For six years the Parley lasted and broke up in a row. A battle was fought and won by Cor-nu-co-ya, dur- ing which Tu-se-now was killed and the beautiful maiden captured. The dead plains Indians were borne to the plateau at the head of Leavenworth canon and buried. A number of years ago a pros- pector driving a short tunnel in from the banks of the creek encountered the remains of some of the warriors and numerous ar- row points, which goes to verify the tra- dition. After the battle the maiden, refusing to} become a slave to her captor, was sen- tenced to be burned at.the stake. This sentence was duly carried out. They not only burned her until life was extinct, but until every vestige of her body was con- |, sumed; and as the last small cloud of as- cending smoke left the spot of suffering there was a’ terrible convulsion of nature. The mountains trembled for a moment, and the whole eastern face of what 1s now Republican mountain was hurled into the valley, burying every plains warrior beneath the mountainous rock nestled in the heart of the town and now known as Chimney Roek or Bunker Hill, The cap- tive mountain prisoners who witnessed te cataclysm from a distant point cast their eyes to the mountain that had hurled de- struction upon their enemies, and in the face of the broken cliff saw the beautitul maiden looking down upon them, and for many years after they paid annual visits to this beautiful valley to worship at the shrine of Tah-ki, the beautiful Indian maiden. : ——+ 0+_____ ; In Strict Confidence. Friend—“It must be very hard to fast Gay after day!” ¥ . after a while you get used to eating’ yout meals at night.” * ———+o+____ “Wart” ads. in The Star pay ‘because ‘they bring answers, — IN THE MIDS’ ONE MAN’S ENERGY And the Remarkable Transformation and he thought he could build « road here nore powder, ing rock that wouldn't mount of led and in and « aside it h. By the use of much dynamite all t the arts of rem removed, and i work, th uch It wi ling forth It Brought About. stairway than of a and four-horse teams that goes to the A FARM AT THE BOTTOM OF A HOLE —_—+-—_—_ Waste Land That Has Been Turn- 1 excites a oem vb horses se Suddent the wagon h & y above the bea e no uld dive into them, so straight ed Into a Paradise. low, but it would be a dive of seve hundred fe and it is a ride of sev- — -—— hun beside an springs. nt for irrigation purpose harged through subt The water in the lakes re- at the same level all the time It re- every minute of the year, without ee to Seasons, at the same tempera- ground | 400°. In honor of them, this place is transforme into aj known any more a the “Devil's CG veritable paradis: | but is called instead Blue hole in the tae ba Now a Paradinxe, Sack Ait | The “Devil's Corral” is now a 420-acre the place before Per- bees bigoming into life with 5,000 fruit th te wore | threes, and not a fort © began his work | | < them, 3 mada res n, | The luscious fruit is a ecntinual joy and a Some. with wider | Hfetime fortune to ner, and a source S . eg: Pd asure und din c Bore ie peaee, asure und admiration to visiting called it th devil's 000 fr ; | : lude prunes, peach- Corral.” It is on | es, peare Ronlser mre: Snake river, in | berries, gr: pn, each southern idahc, twenty mil uth of the | Or Ste mind: aan great abundance little town of Shoshone, and five miles | Qhove ts six Poe geet Sor puneten ninean down the river below the great Shoshone | of e+ ar, the fruit trees here hare falls. The “hole” is about 700 fcet deep, | "ev 2 known to suffer from the cold. and embraces 6 or Su During the winter m acres of bottom | bat sleigh can surfa were fh over the plains above, tut only For ages and ages this “Devil's Corral” | and down the road leading to no Peace has just been staying he lent, ghastly, | Hi ty little cottage, nestling among unknown. The prehistoric people, 1} a lown by the riverside, is a fancy, the Indians of later date, » lor peat ae eg Pei of around it when fishing along the Snake | more mountain trout thea mie ete river. The more daring white man looked | it in a day. Now that the place ie at it, gave it a name, and made m {Ur to keep it up i tle more than a uatter of play. To live like a lord upon it of other while men by bringing them along | and to gradually ay wae, ase 3 a fortune Upon closer € should appeal particularly to women, and to see it. One xdventurous personage, | problem at all. With (as moor tune BS no bout a half-white man, decided that down | With a ct if Regen about a half-white man, d that down | wife, a beautiful littie eid In the depths of this great basin beside | t it seems that this the river there ought to be gold. Accom- | in the wane pho came to seek panied by an Indian wife or two and half | as much as this goo) woes Sotten about a dozen children, he clambered down, lo- | S00d world can offer. cated a mine and began to work it. His Rrerea atiereeeel Progress ks not worth recording. WOMAN AND THE Camera, Burt Perrine, a young man from Tadiana, | », ae fortune in the we » out | Photomraphy as a Profession Should reat Shoshone fails and to + | Appeal to the Pair Sex. corral. He clambered down | Miss Frances Benjamin Joh. to where the miner was. He was | Washington writes, in the en ton Hot impressed by the mine, but he was im- | journal. on “Whar a wv: Las Hom, pressed by the sit nd general ap- | ‘ . hat oman Can Do With pearance of thi asin. His |@ Camera,” telling the requisites for artis- first thought was: wind can j tie ard financial success in the pursuit of never find its way ¢ This place | photography us a profession. “It iss pro ought to be transformed ranch OF @ | fossign ane patter eo L pro garden or a fi | 3 sR it that | found that were rolled out of the in it there are great opportunities for a Eee aie beers business —but only under very veral hun@re eres of very choice soil. | % caned conditions. The prime requi- In the high 1s of this big b: he | Sites—as summed up in my mind after long discovered, connected together, two glo- | experience and thought—are these: 1 rious cold-water lakes. They were forty | Woman who makes ital to fifty feet deep, and the tw vered | Must have, to personal qualities, good about aa acre of space. The | common sense, unlimited p. to carry clear as crystal, as blue | her through endless failures, equally them, with white sand glist limited tact, good taste, a quic bottom, and very lively trout of the moun- j talent for detail and a genius f: tain sort darting through them. From ] work. In addition, she needs training, ox these lakes the entire basin could irrigated. | Perience, some capital a field to ex- Ploit. This may seem, at first glance, 3 appalling list, but it is incomplete er A Big Underiaking. thane geerated; milbomgh abe sigan’ Against the undertaking was the almost | ambitious woman, with even or- incalculable amount of work necessary to | y opportunities, success is always clear and level and irrigate the land; the | nd d, intelligent, conscien- | tious work seldom fails to develop small beginnings into large results. ood work should command good and the vise woman will pi her by ness poli doing something uncertainty as to what the winters that brought snow six fect deep over all the plains above might do down here, and the possible power of the north wi its way down after all. As an menace to the undertaking, It y to try and adily is a build up cheaper mis- £ S$ ‘ ava walls, towering above than somebody else. As to your personal Ses bar Dioging vos san sane attitude, be business-like in all your meth- 70 degrees to a straight perpendicular. | ods; cultivate tect, an affable manner and These lava walls, burnt, rent, torn and | an unfailing courtesy. It costs nothing put twisted into confusing shapelessness by |a litue self-control and determination to the fires of former ages, seemed now as | be patient and gcod-natured under most enlunnk- os ene! i circumstances. A pleasant, obliging and He went away and advised with his | business-like bearing will often prove the friends about it. They told him he was | most important part of a clever woman's crazy. Without exceptton, they laughed the idea of putting this & “hole in the Sees: ground” to any useful purpose. They sald Mo teune Sk Cenk hat even the solitary miner was half-| 0). Ne Bow! Mitted or he wouldn't try to get gold dust | Fm the Chicago Record. out of there. But he decided to put A painter scaled the heights of a sky- opinions to the test, and bought out the | scraper and climbed the flagpole, pointing SE se ee ire ike nol; | up Wke a thin line of black against the Se eT Tal Cotalnea 220" ences ake ky blue of the sky. From'the sidewalk Z ined 420 acres that | Smoky 3 aie EET a below he seemed a toy man climbing a worked or reclaimed. He home- Bee ee partot the 1nud@'and mato Gee: | ihekdar ‘peacll. Minapiped ShBhe GLAS Ges ia: pot of paint. Coolly, as if he were on the ert entry on the balance. a eee aan down which pack | took his brush and began to decorate the wavering rod. On the sidewalk below the crowd, which animals could travel, and it may be weil re that the iittle mules Sara a moment before had been intent on shop windows, paused a moment and looked up. and the little burros used in this country “Oh, dear me, wouldn't it be perfectly can almost climb a tree or =a into = : erk necessury down in ais crea ar ers i dreadful if he should fall?” said a horrified young lady. this corral, Mr. Perrine had to have wag- Her escort mercly observed: “Even if he ons, scrapers.*harrows, plows: powder and 2 sorts of things to wor! Snes == rs should fali he would come down with col- capital.” with that even pack animals couldn't car- 3 be let down with ropes | ors flying. Se erepeaainair lava wall of 600 feet. | “Good-bye forever,” returned the young They were so let down. Think for a few | lady, icily. little moments of the care ond work that a this required. Obeyed Her. A Genuine Puzzle. From Pack. Mistress— Bridget, did you put the cod- fish to soak?” Bridget. ure an’ I did, marm. Here is the ticket.” But to get a road up that 700 feet of mis- cellaneous precipice wes the real puzzle. Perrine had done some surveying and a Kttle railroad engineering back in Indiana, Customer—Pity you didn’t "ave another apple, ain't it?” Landlady (whose cider is not of the strongest)—“What d’ye mean?” Customer—“Well, you might ‘a made another barrel.”—Punch.