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white line has fringed the little melon
patch lake with the floating hoe handle.
Sea gulls! That is all. They have
come like arrows from the hot heavens
above. They did not come from the
waters below. But they came so sud-
denly and so soon that little wonder it is
that people, even those who are engaged in
piercing the buried river below, have in
sisted, and still insist, that a sea gull has
been known to come up from the watery
world below, dry and white, and clean
as snow, along with the curious little
schools of fish that so love the light that
see the light; leap once, twice, thrice, and
then melt away like little spears of ice in
the sun and are seen no more. They see
the light, although they have no eyes.
AS [ write, wen before the ink is dry
on the preceding page, a ponderous book
comes to hand by post from three thou
sand miles distant. It is the latest work
of General John c.. Fremont. On page
SIS / read:
"While engaged in operations at the
South | had the great regret to learn that
in just such a boat voyage through the
Straits of Carquinez, Commodore Mont
gomery had the shock of losing his eldest
two sons"
It is needless to recite here the long
search for these gallant young officers
and their crew of many good men. Ere
mont made all possible effort to find some
trace of ship, men or money. Nothing
was ever heard of any me or of any
thing connected with the sad loss.
The names of the lost officers were not
dropped from the rolls of the navy even
at the end of the Official year it appears,
but special search was made for long
years after.
Nothing, nothing at ALL No sign of
men, ship or money. And yet it Was
right here in these Straits of Carquinas-
the Spanish spelling which Fremont fol-
lows you observe is a little different
right here on the bank and edge of abody
of water not five miles square, that the
mar spoken of as the author of the first
story about the Buried River located the
mouth of fright here, where General
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that somehow, by means Of lake, sea, or
river, they must meet and mingle in this
dark and silent underworld.
a sight it is to see these glittering little
creatures leap into the air and fall, a
shower, in the grass round about the
newly bored well leap and leap again |
alivel Then in a little time they lose all
their strength. They lie quite still die
almost instantly then melt away into
~nothingness, like ghosts. And you almost
doubt your senses; till suddenly up leaps
another school of poor fragile little fishes.
Then they melt away into the air, as the
water sinks away into the dried earth.
But the story that the white sea-gull has
been known to come up through these
wells must not be credited.
The writer is a part owner in large
estates that lie in what is known as "the
a~rtesian belt" By artesian belt" is
meant the lands that lie above and in the
Of what we understand to be the
River. Boring these wells is
tedious and costly work. The little wells
of Artesia, France, are merely pools in
comparison. The cost here is tremendous.
The wells are very deep. The excite
ment is intense as the long, long task
completion. The arid world all
about for miles and miles is on tiptoe.
At last! ten, twenty, thirty, forty feet
in the air the white, foamy water leaps,
and leaps, and leapsl Then it falls off,
melts away in the hot air; drifts away in
the wind; sinks down-up again; high!
than ever before! The little fishes
fill the thirsty cracks of. the alkili earth
and diel The water flows on and down
by a dusty, thirsty ranch. A farmer is
with a hoe to turn the welcome water
his garden. And now he wants to
turn it out. There is too much. He
drops his hoe and rushes into his adobe
hut, and gathers wife and babe to fly to
the neighboring hill
And now little black specks, far away
in the air! The birds Of heaven are COM
ing to drink. There is a little lake in the
farmers melon patch. There is a float
ing hoe handle Floating and floating round
and round, as the edying waters swirl in
their new found force. There will be a
bill of damages for our company to
pay the frightened old farmer who
dropped his hoe and fed to the dusty
hill.
But seeI What is that? and that
apd that? And still another, till a long
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from a man who had made a Yorage from
the sink of the Humboldt river to the
Bay of San Francisco by sailing under the
SierraS. This man was doubtless a liar.
He claimed no great discovery further
than the fact of having found a way to
reach California without climbing over
the then almost impossible Sierras. His
story was that he had stolen an Indian
canoe on the banks of the Humboldt river,
a desert region at that date, and keeping
the middle of the river, and drifting only
at night In order to escape, he had finally
drifted into the heart of the grass-lined
lake known as the Sink of the Hum
boldt," and was thence borne on under
ground till he came out safe and sound
into the strait of Carquinas. This strait
OF Carquinas, sometimes spelled Car
qulneez, being a portion of the Bay of
San Francisco; or rather it should be,
since a part of San Pablo Bay. However,
1T may be best to explain right here that
the strait of Carquinas, San Pablo Bay,
the Bay of San Francisco, Suisun Bay,
and even the Golden Gate are all one; all
in line with the great muddy and tumult-
uous Sacramento river, which flows down
from the gold mines, over the melting
SHOWS of the Sierras, and debauches into
the Pacific Ocean, with its dusky and tur-
bid waters pointing straight toward the
three steep and s%tupendous islands of
stone, and the ten thousand sea lions that
stand in savage and solemn wrath at the
Golden Gate. These islands are called
lie Farlones )" spelled Farallones.
AS indicated before, this man made no
mention of discovering gold in his dark
voyage underground. His book fell at
once into disrepute, and was soon for
gotten. One statement, however, fast
ened itself upon the mind of the writer.
He claimed to have lived for a whole day
and night at, or rather in, the mouth of
his. buried river, unable to escape or get
out from its narrow jaws into the Bay.
He described his sufferings from thirst
and hunger lhere in such a graphic and at
the same time powerful fashion that it
was hard to forget. He asserted that he
could feel his buried river breathe; that
he was borne up and down, humping
against rocks, logs, broken spars, the
masts of buried ships, which his breath
ing river had swallowed, and was finally
" vomited out"-that is his own express
sion-into the open bay by the sudden in
hux and overflow of some tremendous
tidal wave.
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Of course, other books have been put
forth from time to time IN this anne sub
iect, but none of them have been so dis
mally graphic as to fasten on the mind
like this morbid first one published. And
no longer ago than last year the Christ
mas story of one of the oldest publica-
tons in San Francisco was made up from
the account of a man who claimed to
have fallen into an air hole of the earth
near Yosemite escaping only after a
long voyage underground.
This latest liar of them all claimed to
have found a new race of people on the
banks of his Buried River. His story
was supported by the afidavits of many
good people. But the man was perhaps
out of his mind, At least he is now, /
am credibly informed, in an asylum for
the insane.
But let us pass hastily on over all this
ground; pausing only to remark by the
way that all these stories tend only to tell
of the continual yet vague idea that we
have a great underground river here,
rather than to give any real evidence OF
it. And yet what shall we say of the
blind fishes that leap into the air up from
our artesian wells The fishes of the
Adriatie Sea came upto testify for ST.
Anthony under the heights of San Marino,
when the people refused to hear him. Let
us then take these blind little fishes here
as witnesses, and demand of the doubling
Thomas that he shall answer from whence
they come, or be at least respectfully
silent. One fact further in relation to
those fish from the undiscovered world,
under our feet, and we pass on. These
fish, these blind fish that leap up to the
light from newly opened wells on this
the western side of the Sierras, and with
in forty and fifty miles of the ocean, are
exactly the same as those found in the
fathomless lakes on the eastern side of
the Sierra Nevada Mountains one and
tw6s thousand from the ocean. OF this
there can be no doubt. They are of the
same deep, dark, rich color, the same size
and shape; and both examples are abso-
lutely without eyes, or eyen any sign of
place for eyes. And so it surely seems
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Two cups of molasses, one cup each of
sugar and shortening, eight tablespoon
fuls of hot water, one tablespoonful each
of vinegar, soda and ginger, and -four to
Ill
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CHAPTER III.
rHE ON oAR1N Ar MOUNT prAnLo.

THE OLD CABIN At MoUET DIABLo.
Come now with. me to Mount Diablo
and we viii go right along with the story
about the Buried River.
1Well?p
"WeIll''
She put her two hands wide out, leaned
forward over the low, dirty doorsin Of the
old cabin, laid her two hands hold of the
two sides of the open door and said:
rs it houses, or is it land?s
The man at the rough board table had
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g0Etry.
THE PHILOSOPHERS MUSINGS.

Ring out wild bells to the wild sky,
Ring out and make a merry din;
Ring out the evil and ring in
The good time promised by and by"
Ring ont the fraud ring out the guile,
Ring out the envy and the hate,
Ring in the good for which we wait,
Ring out the tear, ring in the smile.
Ring in the beef, ring out the crusts,
Ring in the wood, ring in the coal,
Ring in the generous of soul,
Ring out the Corners and the Trusts.
RIM out wild bells. Ring out the rings.
Ring out the dude, ring out the mash,
Ring out the liver and the hash,
Ring in roast goose, mlnce pie and things.
Ring out the fools, ring in the wise,
Ring in the men who have the sand,
Men keen and shrewd, who understand
It always pays to advertise.
Ring out wild bells with merry din
Ring in all that we want-in fine
Rim in an able Boston nine,
Which will next year the penant win.
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CHAPTER II.

PREDATORY BITS OF HISTORY.
AS early as 1854 a pamphlet was pub
lished in California %purporting to come
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RAIsIN PUDDING

One-half cup of molasses, n cup of
milk, Que cup of %raisins, one-half cup of
butter, two eggs, two cups flour, two tea
spoonfuls of baking powder. Steam an
hour
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-04-05
The Tariff on Pharaoh.

NJ. Maspero, the eminent Egyptol-
ogist, told an amusing story of an
early experience with custom-house
officials in the course of a lecture which
he delivered recently at Brussels. He
had landed a case containing superb
mummy, an authentic Pharaoh of the
sixteenth century B. c., at some
European port-which, he did not say
and. having declared the nature of
its contents. he counted on seeing it
passed without further trouble. But
the officer insisted on opening the
case; and after q minute inspection Of
the article inside it, Of which he could
make nothing, though he concluded
that it must be valuable from the care
with which it was packed, he told the
archaologist that he would have to
levy duty on it. what! duty on ar
Egyptian Pharaoh" asked NJ Mas
pero, laughing heartily at the notion.
The official searched the tariff-table
carefully, but of course it threw no
light on the matter. 1T is true" he
said, that Pharaohs are not men
toned in the tariff; but they are duti-
able all the same. for they come under
the head of unbiased articles and
are subject to the maximum rate as
SUCH" And great Pharaoh dead, if
not exactly turned to clay. was passed
through the custom-nOuse as "dried
fish. the most highly taxed of imports.
London Times.
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Manufacture of Celluloid.

The French manufacturers of cellu-
loid now claim to produce the finest
possible description of that article
now made. and by the simplest process
yet attained. By this improved
method roll of paper is slowly I'M
wound. being at the same time satu-
rated with mixture of five parts of
sulphuric and two parts of nitric acid,
which falls upon the paper in a fine
spray. This changes the cellulOse of
the paper into pyroxyline or gun
cotton, and, the excess of the acid hav-
ing been expelled by pressure, the
paper is plentifully washed with water
until all traces of acid have been re-
moved, when it is reduced to pulp,
and passes to the bleaching trough.
1t is this gun cotton which gives it its
explosive character. Most of the
water having been got rid of by means
OF a strainer, the pulp is mixed with
from twenty to forty per cent. of its
weight of camphor, and the mixture
thoroughly triturated under mill
stones. The necessary coloring hav-
ing been added in the form of powder,
a second mixture and grinding follows;
and this pulp is spread out in thin
slabs, which are squeezed in hydrau-
lie press until they are dry as chips.
They are at this stage rolled in heated
rollers, coming out in elastic sheets,
and from this point they are worked
up into every conceivable form.
Y. Sun.
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ical progress in England. He was the
friend ard successor Of O'Connell.
O'Connell had been stirring Ireland
for forty years before John
| Bright came into the House of Com
mons. For long after O'Connell's death
Bright delighted to recall their intimate
personal relations. He often said
that O'Connell was right on
every question, meaning particular
ly free trade, religious equality,
the abolition OF slavery and parlia-
| mentary reform. The tactics which
O'Connell employed Bright adopted. His
witnessing the great Peterloo massacre
in his childhood gave him an intense de-
testation of repressive measures against
the people who by agitation seek redress
of grievances.
The platform upon which Bright first
stood up in public life consisted of few
plArks. but they were stout timber.
Abolition of state church, abolition Of pro-
iective duties, abolition of war, reduction
of hours of labor, abolition of a standing
army in Ireland, and the placing of that
country on exactly the same level as En-
gland.
John Bright was born at Greenbank,
Lancashire. November 16, 1911 He was
educated IN q L school
to the Society of Friends. At the age of
fifteen he was put to business by his father.
who was a cotton spinner When, in 1888.
the Anti-Corn Law League was formed in
Manchester, Mr.. Bright att ached himself to
It In 1913 he entered Parliament. In
1857 Birmingham elected him one Of its
members, and he has represented that
constituency ever since. Upon the advent
of Mr.. Gladstone to power in 1850 Mr.
Bright became Chancellor of the Duchy of
Lancaster the second time but resigned
in 1882, because opposed to the policy OF
the Governm mt with regard to Egypt
Mr.. Bright was member of the Society
of Friends, and as such was opposed to
war. During the civil war in America he
was an earnest defender of the Federal
cause.
In the House of Commons yesterday
Right Hon. W. H. Smith, the Government
leader with much emotion referred to the
death OF Mr.. John Bright. He said that
he would postpone his remarks on Mr..
Bright until Friday, when Mr.. Gladstone
would be present
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-04-05
CHINESE IMPLEMENTS.

They Are ExceedinEly Crude and should
Be Supersedcd By American Tools.
II have just got back from a trip to
China" said an American the other
day, land the one thing that struck
me most forcibly of all the queer
things to be seen there was the
wretched agricultural implements the
people use. am in that line of bust
ness myself, you know, and that is the
reason, l suppose, why the want OF
good tools impressed me so much. If
the Chinese are as shrewd and invent
i've as they claim to be, why have they
used for thousands of years a pillow
that is simply broad blade fastened to
one rough handle and never cuts the
ground deeper than six inches, gener-
ally two or three? They thresh yet
with stone roller and winnow by
tossing the grain into the air. For
a harrow they use a hoe, and every
thing else about the farm is on SINH
lar scale The nation is largely COM
posed Of farmers, and there ought to
be splendid market there for Ameri-
can implements. One great obstacle
in the way, of course, is the conserva-
tive spirit Of the people and another
their extreme poverty; but if they
could once be walked up to the posi-
bilities that lie in the use of decent
farming tools the magnitude of the
demand that would ensue would well
repay the pioneer manufacturer who
risked some money in the endeavor.
If could only pick up some cute
washee-washee man in this city. who
could speak enough of English for me
to understand him, and who had bust
ness acpacity enough to go among his
countrymen and show them how to use
and sell the machines. / think l could
make my fortune and his in a short
time."-N. Y. Tribune.
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above uamed and fixed are % be considered -
open to settlement under this proclaramation,
or the act OF March 2, $50, aforesaid: and
warning is hereby again expressly given that no
person entering upon or occupying saic
lands before said hour of twelve o'clock, noon,
on the twenty-second day Of April, A. d.
1889, hereinbefore fixed, will ever be per.
mtted to enter any OF said lands
or to acquire any rights; and that the
officers OF the United States will be re-
Quired to strictly enforce the provisions OF the
act Of Congress to the above fact.
In witness whereof, have hereunto set my
hand and caused the seal Of the United States
to be affixed. Done at the city OF Washington
this twenty-third day Of March, in the year Of
our Lord one thousand eight hundred and
eighty-nine, and Of the independence Of the
United States the one hundred and thirteenth
BENJAMIN HARRISON
BY the President
ISEAI1 JAMES O. RI Secretarv ofC fata
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Honesty and intelligence.
It pays to be honest, you say.

It pays to be honest, you say.
Granted.
Yet how many are dishonest through
ignorance, expediency, or Intentionally.
One can be dishonest and yet say nothing.
A clerk who lets q customer buy q dam
aged piece Of goods, witness who holds
back the truth which would clear prison.
er, medical practitioner who takes his
patients money when he knows he is doing
him no good,-all are culpably dishonest
Speaking Of the dishonesty Of medical
men reminds Us that only the past week
there has come under our personal obser-
walton form of dishonesty which is almost
too mean for narration.
1t is generally known that doctors bind
themselves by codes, resolutions and oaths
not to use any advertised medicines. Now,
there is q medicine on the market which,
for the past ten years, has accomplished q
marvellous amount Of good in the cure Of
Kidney and Liver diseases, and diseases
arising from the arrangement Of these great
organs,-we refer to Warmers Safe Cure.
So wide spread are the merits of this med
icine that the majority Of the doctors Of
this country know from actual evidence
that it will cure Advanced Kidney Disease,
which il but another name for Bright's Dis
ease.
The medical profession have put them
selves on record as admitting that there is
no cure for this terrible malady, yet there
are physicians base enough and dishonest
enough to procure Warmers Safe Cure in .
surreptitious manner, put the Same into
plain, four-ounce Walls, and charge their pa
tents &20O per vial. when sixteen-ounce
bottle Of the remedy, in its original pack
age, can be bought at any drug store in the
world for s125.
Perhaps the doctor argues that the cure
of the patient justifies his dishonesty, yet
he will boldly stand up at the next county
medical meeting and denounce Warmers
Safe Cure as q patent medicine, and one
which he can not and will not use.
The fact is that the people are waking up
to the truth that the medical profession is
far from honest, and that it does not pos
sess monopoly of wisdom in the curing of
disease, doctoring the many symptoms of
kidney disease, instead of striking at the
seat of disease-the kidneys themselves
allowing patients to die rather than use q
remedy known to be q specific, simply
because it has been advertised, and when pa
tents are dead from Advanced Kidney Dis
ease, still practicing deception by giving the
cause of death in their certificate as pneu
monia, dropsy, heart disease, or some other
accompanying effect Of Bright's Disease.
All this is primd fdcic evidence of incom-
potency, bigotry and dishonesty.
We speak but the truth when we say that
Messrs. H. II. Warner & Co. have done q
most philanthropic work for the past ten
years in educating the people up to the
knowledge they now enjoy, especially of
maladies growing out Of diseases Of the
Kidneys and Liver, and are deserving Of
all praise for their honesty and straight
forwardness in exposing shams and dis
honesty of all kinds.-Er.
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Extending Their Jurisdiction.

NEW YORK, March 2S The Immigrant
Commissioners enacted very important
rule yesterday concerning the examina-
ton of alien passengers on incoming yes
sells. Some of the most Objectionable peo-
pie, plainly of the prohibited class, come
over as second cabin and intermediate
passengers. 1t is to prevent the landing
of these people and for q more rigid en-
forcement of the Prohibitory act that the
Commissioners took this step.
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No Trouble on the Isthmus.

WASHINGTON, March 2S-Under date Of
Aspinwail, March 15 Captain Howell, OF
the Atlanta, informs the Navy Depart
ment that there is no longer any danger
of rioting or insurrection on the isthmus.
The destitute laborers are of smaller num-
Der than has been reported, and are
quietly taking advantage of the transpor.
tation offered by their governments. Only
about seventy-five had been shipped by
the United States Consul who considered
that there was no longer likelihood Of
frauhle-
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WASHINGTON, March 2S-Yesterday the
Commissioner of the General Land.
office, acting on instructions from Secre-
tary Noble, also Issued an order establish.
ing two land-offices in the Oklahoma Ter.
ritory. That for the Western district Is
to be located at Kingfsher's stage station
and for the Eastern district at Guthrie.
The two districts are divided by the range
line running through the Territory north
and south, between ranges and west Of
the Indian meridian. Each district con.
tains approximately the same number Of
townships.
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Machine Shops Rurned.

PITTSBURGH, Pa, March 2S-The ex-
tensive machine shops and foundry of Nc
Intosh & Hemphill burned yesterday
morning. Loss, 500 00l, fully insured.
The fire is believed to have been the work
of incendiaries and four men have been
arrested on suspicion. Melvin Harvey, q
fireman, was struck by a piece of timber
and seriously hurt. Through the efforts
of the firemen the pattern warehouse, con-
ia ming several hundred thousand dollars
worth of patterns, was saved.
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Aged Man Killed.

CHEsTERTowN, Nd, March 2s.-The
dwelling of Joseph Sinnickson, near Sas-
safras, Kent County, has been burned.
Mr.. Sinnickson, aged eighty-four, was in
bad health and was rescued by his SON.
in-law, but not before the flames and
smoke had inflicted injuries from which
he diad