The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 21, 1900, Page 11

Son . She was aper d b e f, who wante se eves what of ‘storfes S the palaces and Orlen were to see for them- from ri#kshaw Sl S S e e :T’_;\/"‘fifi il honor of be- the most any in which of a vthical Carthaginian g to tradition, have beneath the waters rom Tunis. This moun, who was er the name of it is said, consisis jeweled vessels it is valued at here are and the that they bject of treasures re. and egends about it ¢ Bvile ave convinced onderful Nero's this wo s Emperor life of Nero, book of his a t a fleet to Carth his teenth e pe of recovering this treas he had heard surprising fron rthaginian knight named The fleet, however, ain, and as a result Casellius de. At a later period a according to which the v before the destruc- carried off thelr costliest ried them in a subter. hose of the god. be under the hili san, and to be con- by means of a tun- when the harbor of acted the engi- that ng eers 1 traces of a tunnel, which ied a native of Morocco at- nts 2 Tunis owing to copdition of extreme LA g g THE SUNDAY CALL. ADVENTURES of on to elephant rides, from Sikhs to Governo letters, enthusiastic and unded to them like stories fancy, and they must see the outcome of Mary's f embellishing phrase. was the w than Da! She always had this g rifle less Americ rea Daisy rance of being somewhat m al than her older sister. Mary never particularly AT RT 2 very but wa witty, e poverty he suddenly atteined a position of great wealth. Daily he squandered large sums of money and there seemed o limit to his riches, He ex ined that he had suddenly discovered heaps of gold the bowels of the earth, and he attributed his good fortune to an anclent manu- script, which, he claimed, had pointed out to him a secret way leading to the cham- ber in w have been stored for cen- turies the tremsures of the Carthaginians and of their god Eshmoun. A friend, he said, had helped him 4in g¢he search for gold. Soon afterward he and this friend left Tunis, and fifteen years later the former returned and made an attempt to acquire a fresh supply of gold. Finding that he could not succeed without help he entered into partnerhip with a man named Em- barek, as we!l as with several others, and 11 AMERICAN GIRL ~ INDIA gracious, lovable. When Dalsy India found her crisp, sparkling, and lovable, too. serious, arrived, The first thing she did was to greet her the next to greet a red gowned servant and inquire of ns were to be had. Where did he cutta? He her. relatives; was se ad. brown n ¢ gaze at weeks and nd the that followed Calcutta Burrackpore A been overturned. They d on before in their own state- had ly way, But new there was a small hur- ricane in the midst—a hurricane that had swept over the seas all the way from America and was sweeping up dignified British officers and whirling them whither listed. Some were young and pr ffed, some were old and pompous; all of them were whirled, however, just as and she was bound d do likewise. party-giving well enough herself, as every one knows. But there are two small Curzons ncw who great deal of time, for the t the mother to turn ail as calls what some people name car er to a nursery AR mald. the strenuous social entrance into Indian life demanded wheu in swept Dalsy. manded. the most Intoxicating thing.I ever drank. Let's dance. rather to lose solemnity. geous young .officers and like thelr eyes. of a red setter.” natives. kindness on their part was genuine liking on hers, their Ler in return. a had entered from far-off Chicago Into aii the soclal distinction that the greaf colony SE A TR OR TSRS R SR So she was relaxing a little from functions that her she de- is parties,” This climate “Give partles, Mary “More, more. dance, dance.” Whom do you want invitea?” The swout old officers, them, or gor- to bof lend solemnity, And the those stunning plenty of natives, i They are like \tives—have . as well as her What may have been policy or admired themselves. She anners, thetr costumes, They admirec giddily as if they had never known wWha: sy pails were gorgeous affairs., At tw 0 be majestic. them N Leiter held center stage while Miss Dailsy Let bad swept social In- 41} the English girls who had been plura- Ha off its feet. There was no use re- ng themselves upon their calcium effects Isting, for she wouldn't be resisted. She, found that they were relegated of a sud- was bound to go elephant riding by day den to dark wings. They merely formed circle about one small American who tune sprang up in the night and made him a millionaire. He took his money and his family and scttled with them m Washington. There the attack upon soclety was made. People looked on and sald it couldn’t be done. They did not count upon Mary Lelter's vast reserve force. By her beauty, her brain, her complete charm, she won her way into Washing- ton soclety. She left this way paved for the little sister, who was follow her soon on the road to young ladyhood. Daisy had already made herself known to Washington when she left. She had already caused Mr. Leiter some mental disturbance. He is a comfortable man and he hates to have his peace upset by these uaugh- ters. No sooner had Mary been taken oft his hands than Daisy began to make bim trouble. Mary lLad perturbed him very much by marrylug an Englishman He does hepe that Daisy will settle down at home. So when the young lady went a-visiting in India and half a dozen engagement rumors concerning her and half a dozen British officers were wafted back by gossipy seas, Mr. Lelter groaned halt a dozen times. It was the same old storv--oh, these girls, thesq £irlsl to _ on Be dav when she Legame an elephant what happened, gossip had to draw upon its own powers of ‘nvention. At any rate, Major Colin Campbell of the Central Indla Horse Guards ° was favor later on and appeared to be a compl usurper of Lord Suffolk’'s place as the months wore away And now she is home again and Mr. Levi Lelter is kept busy denying that there is any engage- ment at all and the Americarf men that have sighed for her for more than a year are brushing up their hopes again and getting ready to wear. However— nobody knows. Perhaps, afte much for h quite enougl man. 11, Datsy Lelter cares 3o at she can't find heart for a orse >om in her re Certaln it Is that she Is one of the most wg horsewomen that ever dazzled India and she says that tha reason she cap do ar & with horses is that she loves th he understands them and they understand her. S0 when she took up residence in an elephant country she tried the same tactics. It was not enough to know that the mahout was along to look after the animal. Miss Leiter would look after him herself. The howdah was ready for a smali pa has to give. Last year gossip fumbled for awhile all come abu'it so rapidly. Levl ard firally settled upon the Earl of Suf- iter made a fe. tu only a few folk. *“Miss Leiter rides with him every 3 T2 E, He had been day" was buzzed about Simla and car- elever enough to kn A0 was from there to Calcutta and on t¢ the place to go into His for hington. It was true. But as tq KA DA TR T A TR TR T AR TR K KRR the result was that he managed to get as far as the door of the subterranean tem- ple in which the treasures were concealed. At this point, however, a quarrel arose as to which should be the first to enter the sacred preécincts, and finally a furlous fight ensued, which ended In the death of the native of Morocco and one of his companions. The others, terrified at the tragedy, left the place hastily, and having bound each other to secrecy fled from the city. All this sounds rather mythical and nebulous, but now we come to solid facts. Two years ago Embarek, who had fled to Morocco, returned to Tunis and looked for those who had accompanied him on the previous expedition, his intention be- ing to endeavor once more to obtain ac- cess to the subterranean temple. He found two of his former companions, and ]D\ [y & ‘i\;t_‘..‘\—)) one night he and they went to look for the entrance tc the tunnel which leads toward the temple. As various excava- tions, however, and other changes had been made in that part of the city within the last few years, they were unable to find it, and after much consultation they decided to apply for advice to Senor Me- dina; an archaeologist who has acquired a wide reputation through his work on the ruins of ancient Carthage. He was amazed when he heard their story, and he advised them to take into their confidence Baron Anselme ce Kin- saye, a member of the French Academy and an enthusiastic archaeologist, who was then in Tunis. Embarek told the Baron the marvelous story of the subter- ranean temple and of the countless treas- ures hidden in its chambers, and his tale wag apparently so circumstantial and so B A TA TR A TR TR SR D TR ST AT AT AT AT AT kS h k> *‘Q*Qflk@‘*@*@. HOW MEXICANS MRKE T1CE. In one of the highest valleys of Oaxaca, Mexico, at an elevation of S000-9000 feet, there is a flourishing ice industry, which is based on the well-known principle ot the reduction of temperature by radia- tion of temperature during the night. The ground is covered with a large num- ber of wooden troughs, which are filled with water, and during the winter nights a film of ice not more than one-eighth ot an inch in thickness is formed. This ice is removed on the following morning, shoveled into holes in the ground, and then covered with earth. It rapidly solidifies and is then cut into blocks and sent by mules to the citles below, where it 1s readily sold. IN CHOOSING A COLOR- After deciding what shall be ths pre- dominating color in the room and what shades or colors you desire to use with it, arrange the colors together and study the effect carefully. It will be found that some combinations bring out all the sood and pleasing qualities of the different col- ors, while other combinations are discora- ant. There are many things to taks into consideration: the exposure of the room, the amount of light and the style of the house, whether in city or country. Soft finishes, elther in walls or draperies, blend more readily than does the smooih or glace finigh.—October Ladies’ Home Jour- pal, NEW USE FCOR RAUTOMOBILE. The fleld of usefulness of the motor ve- hicle grows apace. The latest innovation is that of the projectors of the Kinloch Park racetrack, near St. Louls, who will bulld an elevated raflway track around the oval near the inner rail, for the pur- pose of running a patrol judge's motor vehicle to keep pace with the runners and enablfng the judge to keep his eye on the jockeys and horses all the way around. The trestle work and track will cost about $5000. Truer racing should result from this scheme, for, from his present station at the head of the home stretch, the pa- trol judge can see but little of a race. After the flyers pass him everything is ‘usually swallowed up In a cloud of dust, the elephant. She roked its way of first advance. regarded her “T am ready to m * she sald. The driver gave a o mand In his own anguage. The elephant began to knes That isn't the way you mou sha upted. ervant st “I want to be 1 she up by its trunk,” she was. Several is were blasted explatned n meekly to the ele- The creature o dominate was and was betn managed to ride that elephant uld ever gv It ts supposed to Vn\lCh an elephar Mise Leiter said But she h : apd 1t :ceepted enough to trunkful face and phases of life in India The I and the plague e “You mu while we are gone, D ‘I am goi The hunfers beg: going to be a very perhaps sy Leiter can't tell you to this ward true that the Baron deciflcd to join in the search for gold. The first step was to ob- tain the necessary concession from the Government, and «nis he succeeded in do- ing through, the officfals, Messrs. Millet and Gauckler, The Government thereby sranted him and his assoclates permission to make at their own expense the necessary excava- tions in the place designated, and in re- turn for this privilege the Baron and his colleagues agreed to hand over to the Government one-half of the treasures they might find. In order to avoid amy posstble misunderstanding, a committee was appointed to decide as to the value of any such recovered treasures. The excavations were then begun, but ® aid not prove as successful as was sus- pectad. Althocugh Embarek and his com- panions pointed out the very spot at which, they sald, they had gained access to the tunnel a few years ago, no trace of the tunnel has yet been found. On the other hand, varfous earthen vessels, Carthaginian lamps and relics of skele- tons have been unearthed and a few small galleries have been discovered. For this reason Baron de Kinsaye expressed his determination to continue the work and, as the necessary funds became lacking recently, he decided to form a stock com- pany, the shares of which are to be sold at 100 francs each. Every one connected with the work seems convinced that most valuable treasures will be found sooner or later and so hopeful is Embarek that he has refused to sell even at a high figure his claim to a portion of the treasures. As the ploneer In this enterprise, he is nat- urally ‘entftled to a goodly portion of whatever Wealth may, be recovered, . AND HER woman. When she came upon the ver- anda and saw the arrangement she frowned disapproval. ““Where is my elephant?” she wanted to know. ““This is the elephant for all of us,” peo- ple told her. “But I want my own. I want to learn to handle an elephant. How do you sup- pose I can do it if 1 sit in a box with the rest of you and leave the driving to the mahout? That is as tame as the cabin of a vessel. T want to be on deck.” And after much resistance she had her way. A private elephant was ordered for her and a private mahout along with it, and the canopled party heaved away and left her to her fate. Mrs. Leiter leaned over the edge of the howdah and called one last word of warnlng that the warned one never heard. THE WIFE OF THE WVICEROY OF INDIA TWO DAUGHTER S She sat still for a moment, becauss she couldn’t think quite what to do, and when she woke up she saw the man and the boar on the ground together, and she knew that the man was helpless and that the beast was standing back just far enough to charge with te; c force. She could not call; she could only grasp her spear and charge herself. The animal's eyés were fixed upon its im who lay upon the ground. It had no thought ex- cept for the attack it was about to make. Then swiftly " from somewhére else de- Scended a surely aimed spear that struck between the eyes and made it spring back angrily. Before it could recover to charge again the man's spear was ive once more, and Sir Bindon's hunt was con- cluded with a dead boar, a saved man and a herolne. She s an American girl