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by RANCISOO CALL, , 1899 ’ { THROUGH THE GREAT | NORTHWES?, PASSAGE MY, 1 1.9 AR T\ l 10 i T HEN the revenue cutter ar ed from San Francisco north a few days ago, she carried with her & number of open The mission of these casks was perilous one which has cost so , April 1T—Cave J.| condido {8 known all | 2 California as the | d himself rich. covered a wonderful gold ough a dream. wes e surveyor. He to California and bought & ran the prettiest the land to the Couts ranch at Eecondido and re- mained over night, and the start for the Indian reservation was made from there “My dear, this will be my last survey g trip,” sald Couts to his wife, as the party was about to leave on the follow- ing morning. 7e are soon to bs rich, and I shall give up surveying forever and enjoy the blessings which riches can bring us. We w money than we know what to with, for I have discovered a gold : There were no gold dido Valley, and of c f the perty were a wild, r one of th les in the he went old woman mountains, and gold there ir little over . Couts was be e through g ne day ridl the mountains r the Jullan mining district, in San Diego Cou 1y. He had followed n trail for bring him he might in- y he e came out in the center of » had never been in But as he he rough and deep- saw the forests he rushing stream canyon, he recognized re. m in the dream!” he exclaimed. ace I saw in my dres For dur- long years he had never e hope that he would one day golden mou of his sleeping And now it stood before him! *“This > to the door of the cabin. An old Mexic an appeared. His voice trembled ced her in Spanish if thera was not a spring near where he could find a cool drink. She motioned with her hand, and he went directly to the All is dream. ack he went to the cabin and asked the old woman the very same question happened exactly as it many lives, the determination of the c currents. If these casks emerge e day, as it is belleved they will, from the Arctic Sea and find lodgment shores of Greenland, the scien- s belleve that this will be conclu- proof that it is possible for a ves- Californian, he had asked in his dream: “Is there any gold in these mountains?” “Plenty,” she said; “it is in all rocks.’ | Then the old woman told him that her | husband had taken a great deal of gold out of the mountalns and that after he | was dead her son had also found many | of the precfous particles; but he, too, died, and she was all alone. She s him the hole they had dug in the mo tain side, and the rough arrastra where d ground up the ore end tak the metal. She was waiting to sell little mountain ranch, he could go to San D! and sp the rest of her days there in comfort. the she s: In ten minutes more Cave Couts had started for San Diego, and he rode there as fast as his pinto pony would carry him. He borrowed $5000 of friends, and with that he bought the little ranch and hired men to go there and open up the mine. The “Ranchita” mine was sold by Cave Couts a few days ago to Gall Borden, the condensedy milk millionaire, for half a ] @Mlars. Cave Couts dreamed How Gouvnod Became HORTLY hefore his death Gounod 2 brief sketch of the manner in which he became a musician, and this has just been published for the a Musician. wrote first time by the Petit Bieu of Paris. It is wholly from Gounod's pen, and as an autobfographic fragment will sure prove of much interest to all admirers of the famous composer of “Faust.” I was 13 vears old,” he begins, “and s a pupil at the Harcourt School. My ther, a poor widow, was obliged to vork hard for her and had to dge through snow and sunshine in or- der to obtain the me education. I was continually worrled over the thought that she was sacrificing f for me, and I longed for the day I could set her free from her un- labor. Her views, however, In mine, differed from mine. She 1 destined me for a university career, whereas I ever heard an enticing voice ying, ‘You must be a musician.’ “One day I told my mbther about my heart’s desire. Are you In earnest? she asked. *‘In dead earnest.’ sity Never!” “Where will you go then? ““To the conservatory.’ “It was now her turn to say ‘Never.' Tt seemed fated then that I was to remain at the Harcourt School until I had fin- ished my studies, and that, if misfortune £till dogged my footsteps at that time, I would have to become a soldier. I could not look to my mother for any help. She would rather that I should do anything else than become a vagabond musician, *‘My dear mother,’ I finally said to her, ‘I will stay at school since you wish it, but one thing I am determined upon, and that is that I will never become a soldfer.’ ‘Do you mean that you will not obey the law, which calls for military . sere ; but I mean that the law will by a dead letter g0 far as I am concerned. “‘What do you mean?’ “‘I mean that I will win the “Prix de Rome,” which will free me from the ne- cessity of becoming a soldier.’ “My mother then abandoned the idea of trying to make me change my mind, ‘And you will not go to the univer- f /! i s sel properly constructed, to make the circuit from Bering Sea to the Atlantic, n- for her children’s | without harm to {tself or those aboard. These casks are not to be placed in the water and allowed to float, but in- stead are to be firmly lodged on the ice surface, 8o that perhaps (it O 0 ¥ 306 100106 108 06 306 10 300 300 00 300 200 08 00 00 00 08 208 08 06 SO 000 00 00 XK 008 00 0K 00 30K 308 200 108 306 300 08 06 00 0RO 06 00 O X 0 0 e 3| : FOUND A RICEH MINE: 5| THROUGH A DREAM Has Just Sold It for Half a Million Dollars—Strange Experience of a Southern o b=3 b=3 b= b= o o o the matter he decided, however, to lay fore Father Pierson, 1. The jolly old gentlen me and began in a father Uttle fellow, we r life among musi . Plerson.’ ! Ts that a profession?’ ut _ Mozart, Meyerbeer, Didn’t they b A pro. somewhat principal was and _replied tily: ‘Oh, | different tter alto- | oroof of genius when he | But you! What can | With these words of paper Joseph's en my childhood nanded me the sheet. | - have some music for these | 1 off and two k to him with my urs later T first musical gracious!' said the old gentle- re a terrible fellow. Go ahead r little song now.’ ny other way to set forth the f a work. | ! 1 don't care a fig for | What I want to know 1s | ther vou have any ideas, any (rus‘ musical témperament. Go ahead now.' “T began to sing. When I had finished I | glanced timorously at my stern eritic. | Tears stood in his ey ing down his cheeks. tears were roll- w that he was | not surprised | myself ‘the next moment in his T strangely moved and I wa d Cave Couts at work In the mine found through a dream and which he sold last week to Mil- lionaire-Gail Borden for half a milliop dollars. | him back to me a mu | does mnot | something.’ X 4 4N N e would be as well to say they will dem- onstrate the ice drift, instead of the current, for the experience of Dr. Nan- gsen and the Fram showed that these two things are oftentimes very differ- ent. How long it will take the casks to make the trip no one knows, but it will certainly be several years. Henry G. Bryant, the president of the Geographical Society of Phijla- delphia, stands sponsor for the experi- ment. Mr. Bryant is an old Arctic traveler, having made two voyages with Lieutenant Peary, and, like every sclentist who delves in such matters for the love of science and not money, is an enthusiast. A man of means, he is paying the entire expense of this trial of casks out of his own pocket. I asked him what he thought would be the practical result of the experiment. He sald: ‘“What we hope and belleve s, that some of the casks will find their way to Greenland and be thrown upon either the west or east coast by that current which first sweeps down on the west side of Greenland, curves about it, and then trends along the eastern coast for a distance. If these casks, or any of them, succeed in making this trip intact, it is fair to draw the deduoction that & vessel, if she were properly bullt, could do the samse thing. “The casks are the invention of Chief Engineer Melville, and I regard them as furnishing the most common sense and practical plan for getting at the secret of the Arctic drift and current yet devised. I have thought enough of it to pay the expense myself, and be- leve that eventually by means of this experiment we gre more likely to find & way to reach the pole. Every one knows what Nansen achieved with the Fram. He believes if he had drifted with the current instead of with the fce, he would have been quite likely to drift directly across the pole. “Here 18 what Engineer Melville has to say about the casks: ‘It will be ob- served that the casks are made after the ordinary manner, with solid wood- en ends, fitted to bear on the ends of the staves, not on the heads, held in place by a brass rod, with conical brass nuts to hold the cone ends in place. The cask is painted a heavy black to preserve it from decay and to help keep it watertight—black, that it may readily be seen. 3 “‘If thrown into the open water, they are apt to be drifted with the winds. The deep ice, being affected by under currents, will probably carry the casks on a more correct drift. The customary bung hole and bung are fitted, the intention being to place in each cask a bottle, tightly corked, to preserve—in case the cask should leak —such records as {t may seem proper to place therein. “"The casks being properly prepared, should be carried on a Government vessel through Bering Strait, and set adrift in sets of five, numbered con- secutively, commencing with the first five at or near Herald Island, then pro- ceeding to the northward, along the eastern edge of the ice pack, until the highest safe latitude is obtained—say latitude 75 degrees north, longtitude 170 degrees west from Greenwich. I sug- gest this latitude and longtityde be- cause the polar pack in the above lati- tude commences to erowd well over to the tward and toward the North American archipelaga, where other cur- rents are known to exist. “ ‘There is no doubt the casks will come out somewhere. Siberian drift- wood has been found on the northeast- ern shores of Bennett Island, en the northeast point of Nova Zembla, on the eastern coast of Frans Josef Land, on the eastern shores of Spitsbergen, and, possibly, in the drift of the eastern sidz of Greenland.” “We placed some of these casks aboard whalers which started north before the Bear. Our idea I8 to place these casks on the ice floes at different points, covering quite an expanse of territory, and in this way we shall not be apt to miss anything.” One of the men who has been very active in assisting Mr. Bryant in ecar- rying out the cask project i8 Professor Angelo Heilprin, Speaking of the pro- Ject and its pessibilities, he said: “Bo far as the northeastern er Nerth Ameriean drift is eeneerned, it is very likely that the easks, if geing threugh &t all, will fellow the line more or less clogely which was the path of the famous expeditian of MeClure over forty years ago, which solved the noerthwest passage, - “Again, with regard to the nerthwest- ern er Biberian drift, which weuld naturally be taken te be In the main eoineident with the line that was fol- lowed by the Fram, it is proper to say that despite the abselutely pesitive confirmation ef the existence of such a current, which the successful voyage of the Fram gave, there arc some even te-day whe loek upen the drift of this vessel as not being borne by a perma- nent current, but by a combination of temperary enes. Chief Hngineer Mel- ville himself has at various times ex- pressed a doubt upon the existence bf such a permanent current, and it was probably largely this deubt which In- fluenced him mere particularly teward - the present exploration. “In singular confirmatien ef Mel- ville’s views is the testimony which has been recently published by the sec- ond officer of Nansen's expedition, whe was on board the Fram during the memorable drift, te the effect that in his belief the current which bore the Fram northwestward in such close proximity to the pole was, contrary to the opinion expressed by Nansen him- self, not a continuous one, but one ac- cidental and brought about by the con- currence of interacting, temporary and local ones. “In evidence of this he says that at various periods of the drift hawsers that were dropped from the stern of the Fram, instead of following in the course of the boat, were drawn in tension in the direction opposite to it, show' that in those parts of the water which were some distance from the surface there was an oceanic cur- rent tending in a direction contrary to that which the Fram itself was making, “This view, which seems not-general- 1y to be known, has recently been pub- lished as a brochure in Norwegian and German, as & supplement to Nansen's exploration, and in German as & sup- plement to his work. It carrfes also the further information that the Fram did not go through her journey scathed, as is also currently belleved, but with such injuries to her as were at one time considered to be almost fatal to a further continuance of the journey.” PR e R R e R Re R Rk =RoR Rt R 2 2 R 1R =R Rkt 2-2-2-8-RcR-R:8-8=F=8=F=i=g=FePugegegegePeFeReFa e oToToTolsaFeRofofafefofatofotoReRatePeRoRetogeal “ ‘It 1s beautiful, beautiful, my boy,’ he \ sald. ‘We will make something out of | you. You shall become a musician, for | the real is in you.’ | is way I gained a champion. Fi- | ¢ my mother took me to Reiche, my acher. She was still troubled d she whispered into Reiche’'s ‘Don’t let him e an easy time. | Let him see the dark side of the musical profession. 1 will bless you if you send ® hater. “Reiche, however, could not please her | in this way. After'a year he was o d to her in reply to her you had better conte boy has talent. He k what he wants and nothing can dis age him. He knows already as muct 1 do and there is only one thing which know, namely, that he know. I W also, however, for every one who 18 esses self-con scio €8S, er I won the Prix Re had accomplished my heart’s in Southern Califorpla which TING AND HEATING FPARMS WITH RELECTRICITY FAR St. Johnsville, N. Y., is a farm[ of 30 acres belonging to G. R. LIGEE Beardslee. On this place Is a com- | N plete electric plant, which produces | the current for lighting and heating q\‘! well as supplying the power for other | operations connected with the farm. i This electric installation is the first of | s kind ever used for doing the work of nds. mechanical energy Is supplled by nature, and the cost and maintenance of | the plant is inexpensive. It has demon- ited thut electricity used for manual labor is 1ccess. The farm land is of the East Canad good-sized str within the bou 1ated on both sides ek, which is ing two f: s of the Beardslee prop- erty. sixty feet and the other 180 feet high, fur- nish the power. The owner of the farm employed the Westinghouse Company to put this scheme in operation he smaller fall was used as the operat- ing power, and near it was built a power- house in which was placed a 180-kilowatt Westinghouse generator, connected with a horizontal turbine operated by the water. i rent is transmitted by wires to the dwell- ing-house and other bufldings. One motor of ten horsepower runs g mowing machine, another a threshing machin€ an for cutting 1 The farmhouse is brilliantly lighted anq These waterfalls, one of which is| n this central power-house the cur- | 1 third works a 44-inch say | The kitchen is well heated by electricity supplied with an ele ing stove and in the are heated by the s dairy the churns and appliances all have electric motor attachments. The grounds ighted by several arc lamps, | and their in the barns greatly facill tates the work and lessens the danger of fire. —_———— In Paris the thousands of sardine and away other tin boxes that are thrown | every day form the basis for an ind | refuse cans are stamped by machinery into tin soldfers and sold so cheaply that ther the iumres‘ children possess vet the manufacturer makes a fair proft, | which he could not used new materfal. “‘My Dream,” He Exclaimed as Soon as He Set Eyes on the Old Mexican Woman. 4