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MIRAGE OF THE WEST.
THE paANrAsMIaoRlAL SHADOWS
OF tho plAlns-rA. pA.p,on Lakes .ad GAo..ly
Forests that Rise Before the Trarslsr-rhs
SAtaralnsa Ofths IllusiOn-Ths LiftIag
ofths Mlats from the Mountains.

Correspondence Of he IateEfsncr.
KINGS RIVER, CAL, November.
There arc hands tina. are waved when the fairy
| shore
By the mirage isllited in air."
When / was school.boy, studying phys.
ical geography at Weston, l got the i'm
preston that the wonderful phenomenon
Of mirage was something that could not be
seen except in Egypt, Sahara and the
coasts Of foreign country. l thought that
1t was something too rare to be eeen by any
but the privileged few who could penetrate
the deserts Of Africa or make voyages to
the Arctic regions. But l have since been
undeceived.
The forms under which the mirage may
be seen are 60 various that 1t Is difficult to
explain them all. l have carefully studied
the works OF Blot, Monge and Wollaston,
who give the philosophy OF the phenom.
ena but, OF this 1t Is not my intention to
81 ak, pIesuming that your readers know
enough Of 1t already.
Last March, l was on the railroad be-
tween Ell Paso del Norte and Chihuahua,
In Mexico, when all a. once o lake OF
water, fringed by treee, burst upon the
horizon, directly in front Of the train. So
map to see what lake was there. The trees
looked natural, except that they were too
even on top-beipg as level as q line along
the tops. Il Is uselts, to add that there
was neither lake nor tree in sight. What
seemed to be water was the re-
Election and refraction Of the glow
ing plains Of sand. The sage-brush
were magni6ed into stately trees
EATuRALNKSs OF TIE ILLUSION.
The same sort Of mirage Is often visible
in Arizona. Sometimes a lake is seen
ahead Of the train-if one Is travelling in
that manner-one on each eide and one
behind, so, that the traveller seems to be on
an island with water on every side. The
surface OF the water appears 80 natural that
Jiten II Is impossible 10 distinguish 1t from
real water. It's surface is hecked with
waves that chase each other in regular un-
dulations, and the shores Of the phantom
sea are washed with breakers aud white
foam and flying spray that are seen as
plainly as they ever are on the beach OF
The ocean itself.
The region around the head OF the Gulf
Of California, on the west side Of the Colo.
RADIO river, Is famous for its mirages. In.
deed, am OF the opinion that what some
have regarded Us mirsge is not one, but
an actual lake Of water. I saw 1t from a
distance. In our party was gentleman,
brother think to the commandant oil Fort
Yuma, who insisted that 1t was a mirage,
and hs ridiculed me for thinking that It
was a lake. Hooked at 1t through ti9ld
glass, aud could see 1t SO plainly that was
bold enough to insist that it was water;
and l still think 80. There ia lake marked
there on the maps; and, and II is mentioned
by writers, among whom Is Washington
Irving. The lake IL said to be foil Of quick
sand, INTO which man and horse once
sank to riseon more. II it was mirage, l
acknowledge myself fooled, but not for the
II q, TINA
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NKRvoUs debility, indicated by lots OF
memory, universal lassiiude, constant fatigue,
vivid dreaming, unnatural excitements, fits Of
dizziness, etc., Is quickly cured by using DR..
Guysotrs Yellow Dock and Sarsaparilla
This remedy puriGes the blood, strengt hsns
the weak portions OF tae body, quiets the
nerves, produces dreamltsJ slnmper, aud IL
the only remedy that permanently cures the
many distressiul ailments resulting from
nert Gus debility, pAy
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.rpr.rnENr OF CANUEr.

twenty years hAy suered a., from 5.9 s cancer s
90 I1e nde y, SSIr catalogue Of remedies without
hAlsd ine qnc cancer growing worse all the time
InIrtlle NV, M ri OF my bydy became SID ano
lhsWho.e ny I'D virtually Loaf toe, use Of both
~ hsh had :" S,Sse %A sSTR lie a ise
~ Il NA QUIZ orst in this condition I COM
would p as1 ~ ~ swIis Specific. The 6rst bottle
nen;e1 tns ~ tne StIlesS in the neck, the second
iseied ny S,isct use Of my arms and feel strong
gre me P n syery way. am n poor man, but
spss I'd 'Ai iS sISe twill 6te
OutIll The P0'VWS " K. boRls1N, DaylsSoro. Ga.
o,,,,o,,I.e Oh Bloo, aud sE!u Diseases mailed
nee "'pF'' THE SWIFT SPECIFIC Col
Drawer 3. Ailants, Ga.
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EIY,S
cream BALM

e Apply by the finger
into the noetrils. II
VIII be AFFORDED, 81.
ectuAlly cleansing the
nasal passages oil O.
tarThal virus, causing
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Neu 2ork.

This b to certify that am well acquainted with
man fity yearsof age, for many years resi-.
III, but could not tell from what cause, unless It
was worms. He told his attending physician his
saspicions, but the physician at once ndieuled
the idea, and refused 10 attend him any longer.
Ills son then mentioned DR.. C. MeLane's Yer.
mifuge, and asked him if he would take It; hts
reply was-I must take something to get relief,
or die.
They at once procured bottle Of Dr., o.
AcLaae's Ttrmifage, and he took one dose: Th b;
result was, he passed upwards Of three quartz Of
teor,as, cut up In every form. lie got we'll i'm.
mediately, and Is now enjoying excellent health;
and, like the good Samaritan OF old, 10 endeayor-
Ing to relieve hsunfortuuatc neighbors. lie makes
It Els busineS to hunt up and select all cases smi-
lar to his own, that may be given over BY regular
physicians, and induces them to Try Or. e. Nc.
Lanes Vermiiuge. So far he has Induced more
than twenty persons to take the Fermifuge, and
In every case with the most happy results. lie
Is well satisfied that DR.. c. Mc1.ane's Vermifuge,
prepared by Fleming Bros, of Pittsburgh, Is far
superior 10 any other known remedy. and that II
more generally known would not fail TO save
many valuable lives. For further particulars
inquire Of Mrs, Hardie, In,i Canaea street, New
York City,
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FOR LADIES.

.,,.ru,iug for month or two In nay house.
ihLVe ~ sIts nc IT, s. ~, the greater portion
sold, sHilt I'm cnpSumed BY the female portion
Oilt si'! I,IT md With the happiest insults II
I'D like chh'i nr ~ TIME, aud iOr whom have
~ heAln. u ii XII Grs for doctO and medicines
v1id hun1tSS H,IS her up from the fst doe. An
ItbT.a 70 put member OF M family tInk it with
Ot6sf ieng resulp. Il is certainly the beat
.a f Ssre hsT SS sESs Ssss w amt
have tEisu ~, rSnilue In poorly yentilRed
oeIeFcise Ia ~ aud mRlAri4l poison often
6Oasa ie" SSr,,, among our wives. daughters and
potaec " S4Ileye swift specific Ia the remedy
yer, t:r, mi, EIS soi. u blood EotNontng'
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HAVE suffered from Catarfh to such an ex-
tent tnat had 10 bandage my head to quie
the pain. was advised by Mr.. Brown, Of
Ithaca, TO Try Ey's Cream Balm. When SUI
ieriug with Catarrh or cold In the head !
have Reyer found It's tqual.-C. A. Cooper,
Dandy, N. Y. (Appiy with fngsr. Price
so cents 1THs&w
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rEEI very grateful for the wonderful
cures that lave been. perform with L VI
Cream Balm. / have had Catarrh In III worst
form for the past 25 years and have used
every thing could hear OF. commenced
using the Cream Balm and ! consider 1t the
best thing ever tried. l recommend II to
every one tiiicted.-J. B. Kelsey, 80 Broad
street. New York City. TrH:Aw
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FANTASTIC PICTURES.

Some twelve or fifteen miles northwest
from where l sit while writing this, a
splendid mirage is now Visible. It has
been playing on the horizon all morning,
continually changing form and taking all
manner OF ias.astical shapes In ordinary
times, and In o normal condition Of the
atmosphere, tho San Joaquin river Is not
visible from here; nor are the trees that
skirt It's banks to be seen. But now, the
mirage has lifted them in the air till the
whole picture looks like an ell painting OF
Fairyland. The scrubby oaks and Gotten.
woods are transformed into q beautiful
grove, as r, gular as the garden oil Shen.
stone, and the blue sky ID caught by
plimpses through the parted foliage.
Along the l2reen wales flows the placid
stiffness OF an ideal river, which might be
called the spirit Of the San Joaquin"
because 1t Is tho picture Of that river delin.
Gated in the pure ethereal air. Every.
thing Is more perfect than in nature, al.
though not true to nature. The trees are
more regular, the wales have no swamps,
the river Ia not fettered by stony banks.
The banks are, indeed, sees; but they have
lost all their grossness, and their transfer.
nation has rejected everything that Is not
entirely beautiful.
!. Nothing moves. The stiffness, calm.
nees, silence Of the scene 10 the most I'm.
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SOME waes awoke a milkman at midnight
with the hurried announcement that his
best COW was choking. He dressed him
self hastily. and ran of TO save the life Of
crummit; when Lei he discovered turnip
stuck in the spout Of the pump.
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We regret to learn that Rip Van Wrinkle
Jetfsrson has lost his voice. This sfilic.
ton has struck the wrong person. 1t Is
Rips vile who should have lost her voice.
And any one who has heard the yirago on
the stage will agree with Up.
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NIRAGRD LAKES.

! came near getting into the same scrape
near the same place. My brother and !
were crossing from Hollister to Fresno
when our horses gave out. We left them
on plot Of grass at place called "Fish
Slu," and proceeded on foot across the bar.
rem, waterless desert, guiding our course at
night by stars and at day by the sun. We
went tWenty.nine miles before we found
any water. We had resorted to the pro-
cess OF sucking the starch from some raw
potatoes, which we had In our pockets, to
allay thirst. The sand was heated to such
degree that ID -btistered our feet 90 that
we could hardly walk for month.
When the plains become cultivated the
frequency and vividness Of the mirage are
leesened. But, perhaps. the most beautiful
manifestation Is when houses, orchards,
vineyards and windmills are lifted In air,
and seem resting on a long, white cloud,
just above the ground. Every minor OBJ
ject Is deliniated with wonderful distinct.
ness. The trees stand still and motionless
as II listening. Their tops are as even as it
Ia possible to conceive. Every irregularity
In the natural objects Is done away within
the mirage. 1t is supeiAuous to say that
the mirage is only an image Of real objects,
which usually are directly under the phan.
toms In the air, but, sometimes are many
miles distant. Clouds are often pictured
under trees, which IL due to peculiar at.
mospherical states, The undulating sp.
peafance, as If water in motion, is not Of
len seen, except where the plains are cover.
ed with sand, in heated condition.
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PuRsE out the lurking distemper that un-
dermines health, and the constitutional yigor
will return. Those who suffer from an en-
feebled and disoIdered state Of the system,
should take Ayers Sarsaparil!a 10 cleanse
the blood and restore vitality. pAw
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HAVE used Ely's Cream Balm for dry Ca.
tarrh ito which every Eastern person Is sup.
oct who comes to live In high latitudp). II
mas proved cure 10 my case.-B. r. NJ
Weeks, Denver, Col. Easy to use. Price
oO eents.) TrRBAH
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TRAVELLERS GUIDE.

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$GS and 6:tS m; fos Elm Grove l:60 p m. Ar:
$40 m, AIS p m. q. o. Diy.-6:l0 p m, $50 m,
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La p N, tt7 p m. ARRfyR-S:s7 N, t1:l2 0 m,
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pressiye part Of II. The pulseless groves,
where not q breath stirs the branches, the
yaparian fields, resting in quietness, and
the bright, tranquil river, winding along
the hanging gardens OF this modern En-.
pirates valley, remind one of Arminda's
tsland Home as pictured by the fancy Of
TapRo
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NOTWITHSTANDING hearty Jack tar Ia
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still whole sailor.
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TIE LAND MIRAGE,

0biectsseen in mirage at sea are usually
upside down; and sometimes they appear
thus on the land. But have not seen any
OF that kind. In California mirsges are
probably as numerous as at any place in
tbs world. They are as common as SUM-
rise, for, in the basin OF Lake Tulare and
on the uninhabited plains between tho
S!erras and the Coast Range, several mir.
ages may be seen nearly any day. They
generally occur just alter sunrise, and at
that time are visible in the West, North
and South, but not in the East, 80 tar as
my observations have gore. The plains
around Fresno City are nearly always hov.
cred over by forests in air and lakes be-
tween the ground and sky.
About fifteen years ago, whom this part
OF the country was just beginning to be
settled, some land SPECTATORS came up
here from near Sacramento to look for
suitable sites for location. One Of the men
went some distance west OF Fresno City,
and saw what he supposed 10 be lake
about mile from where he was. He went
back to camp and reported his discovery.
The next morning a company started for
the lake, some tS enty miles d.sant. They
intended to camp that night on ils shore,
and took no wafer with them. Well, the
result is plain enough. There was no lake
there. They hunted and hunted, while
the paugs OF thirst-more dreadful in Cali
fornia than almost any place else-made
them desperate in their search for the lake
that had no existence. The thermometer
stood over 1909, and The land was like a
furnace. The horses became wild in their
rawlings, and their tongues swelled until
they could not shut their mouths. The
men were no less tormented. One Of them
told me that he would have given twenty
dollars for gill Of water. They struck for
the San joaquin river, and reached 1t in
time to save themselves and horses. This
cured them Of following miraged lakes.
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Az Annapolis cadet recently succeeded
in kicking foot ball over fifty yards. he
ought to try his hand on the Pennsylvania
I.ppistatnfe.
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"MY mind to me kingdom is," said
sn!iil4s to his girl. "Yts, should say it
was king dumb"
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DO not torture yourself longer BY wearing
ill-ftting shoes, but 30 at once and get q pair
OF shoes that have both style and comfort
combined. at l. J. R'nnd's
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AN AWFUL REALITY.

|
But 1t Is an error to suppose that Cali
fornia Is all mirage. A few days since ]
had the pleasure Of beholding scene Of
awful reality. Issy awful, not because II
was dreadful, but because 1t overwhelmed
the feelings with wonder and amusement.
It had been raining several days, and the
mountains were hidden In clouds and
mists, hiding nearly everything from view.
Late In the afternoon the clouds began
10 break up and rise. Then COM
menced the manifestations Of the beautiful
and sublime. In every quarter Of the
armament above work Of dissolution was
going on. Vast cumuli Of clouds melted
away and disappeared In the deep azure OF
the sky. The mists lifted from the earth
and were annihilated. Not q trace was
left, and In the Of only few minutes
the sky overhead was entirely free from
clouds, and as blue as any sky that ever
Bonded over Italy.
While / was admiring the gorgeous
change OF few minutes, and was speaking
to my comrade about 1t, looked eastward
toward the Sierras, where still grander
scene was opened to the view. The mists
and clouds were yet hanging there, but
rapidly rising. The mountains were from
seventy to one hundred miles distant, and
their submits were still shrouded in clouds.
Higher and higher rose the mass Of vapors,
disclosing more and more Of the snowy
mountains, which caught Che sunlight and
flashed like silver.
A friend Of mine in the east wrote me
few days ago, and cautioned me not to
write any more for the papers about the
mountains OF California, as I had already
worn the subject threadbare. But In spite
OF the warning must say another word
about this scene, which will probably be
my last mention OF mountains, unless ]
make visit to "Short Hair Valley" or
Yosemite" which am contemplating.
APlcrUREsQUE PANORAMA.
While we were speaking, the clouds roll
ed over the mountain and disappeared
Beautiful The five wild peaks OF Mt
Whitney, slistening with spotless white,
were never seen in such glory beforel The
very frost-covered rocks and dazzling pin
nacles Of ice and angry spurs piercing the
blueness OF the sky, all the yawnipg, abyt.
NAL chasms, where, perhaps, sunshine has
never been,-all was displayed to full view,
and SO intensely pure and clear was the
air beneath and the sky above, It seemed
that there was nothing at all between me
and the mountain. It seemed that It was
picture, and that could lay my hand upon
Il, II ! would only stretch forth my arm in
that direction. l had read Professor Tyr-
dall's lecture on the "Slrnctnre and Tight
Of the Sky" and could not help saying as
| looked toward the mountain: "What
would Tyndall think Of thal?"
once heard an orchestra in New Or.
leans play: "When the Miss are Rolled
Away" l admired the music then, and |
felt that It expressed something great, but
l never fully appreciated that music till |
saw the mists lift up from the plains Of Tu-
lare and roll over the summit OF Mt Whit
ney. H. NJ.
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HeRF,RD's CID PHosPaArE for Lemons or
Lime Juice, Is u superior substitute, and its
Use IL positively bsueilcial TO health. TTas&w
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RRIE,s EXPERIENCE.
Another Cure Utterly without a Precs'

ERIE, Pa, September 10Th, lssl.-DR HIATT.
MAN: cannot but express my thanks 10 you
for the great benefit received from the use
OF PeF1tna and Aandlin. One bottle Of each
placed ME squarely on my feet, after q long
sickness, which had laid me In bed and then
left me lame and crippled. Three days' use
fthese remedies dispensed with the cane,
ana In week was perfectly well.
NJ. WRIGHT,
Busintss Agent, Erie Esening Herald,
Ask your druggist for DR.. Hartmaa's Book
on the Ellis OF Life.m He will give Il gratiS
II not, address Dr.. Il. Of Columbus, 0. p4w