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the rocks and the gold was deposited on
the sides of the cracks in the lava The
quartz and gold forced its way into the
pores of the lava nearest it. soaking into
1t like water in a sponge and altering II
into a rock full of quartz and gold.
Sometimes there were two cracks run
ming for half a mile or SO parallel with
one another and only a few feet apart.
The gold fluid soaked from the cracks
each side into the lava rock between and
filled its pores with quartz and gold. Such
a combination is called here vein and
the two cracks are the walls or the sides of
the vein. 1t is not true assure vein
OF ore in the proper acceptance Of the
wCrd. but 1t gives you in simple language
an idea of the veins about Cripple Creek.
In addition to these there are other cross
veins and you find cracks running off from
the main veins containing this quartz and
gold Then. by the action OF the weather
throughout the ages. a soil collec tod upon
the loose rock, the trees and grass came
and the country developed as you now see
1t all about you" 1850. - -.-..r go.
The Golden Palaces of the Victor.
1t was vein ike the one above describ-
ed that the prospectors. OF, the Victor dis
covered 1t was a great grayish blue sand
wich of gold and quartz running through
walls of lava. 1t had granite "cotfiiec1ed
with it. and the rock TO the ordinary. eye
when taken out looked like cobble stones
and broken granite. Immense works had
to be erected to get the gold out of the
mines. and | could see the big frame build
ingS containing these standing bleak and
bare against the SIDES of Bull Hill as
drove up. These are the golden palaces of
the Victor They look more like Pennsyi-
vania bank barns than anything else. but
they repres ent millions. and the mines TN
der them carefully watched to
the saving of every bit of Gre is the
business of saving the cents in a bank or
a great department store.
1t is not easy to get access to great
gold property like the Victor. ! had let
ters. however, from MIR. Moffat. and the
manager of the mine went through its
workings with me. We first dressed in
suits of olcioth and exchanged our derbiess
for old SLOUGH hats. Going into the shaft
house, I was shown the immense engines
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Greek prospectors flrst lived and such a
home was probably that of the original
disceverers OF the Victor. You have all
heard the story of how the Cripple Creek
mining camp originated in a COW pasture
and how last year more than $8,0ul0o0
worth of gold was taken out of the ground
You have heard that the country looks
like farm today, AMI that 1t would not
be strangely out Of place II II were dropped
down in some parts Of Pennsylvania or
New York. This Is 50 In some respects,
but far different in others. The coun-
try about the COW pasture is walled with
Mountains. 1t is more than a mile and
a half above the sea- The Victor mine Is
pie Creek. and all Of it's gold has been
taker out at a level of more than two miles
straightup In the air above New York.
Boston or San Francisco.
How the Victor Mine Was Discovered.
Over this mountain the prospectors went
digging here and there until at this point
they saw what they considered good in
diCations and staked out mining claim.
This was, according to government regu-
lations. 800 feet wide and 1.500 feet long.
comprising, all told. about ten acres of
ground. They then began to dig, and
made hole ten feet square. After q
time they got so deep they could not throw
the dirt out by hand and they rugged up
rude wfndlass and hauled the ore out
Win a bucket Iney soon grew Urea OF
this. and, finding that the outlook was
hardly SO good as they hoped, they sold
1t to other miners on an option of $5O,OOO.
These parties were working when Moffat's
men offered them $f5,O0. which they ae-
cepted. the first parties making their
10000 and they clearing $4,000 out OF the
mire.
Where the Cripple Creek Gold Comes
From.
A description Of my visit to the Victor
mine will give you an idea of how they
get the gold rock out of the EARTH / ask
ed Professor William Weston. a graduate
of the Royal School of Mines of London
and one of the best mining engineers of
Colorado the other day as TO this Cripple
Creek region and how 1t anne to have gold
In IT. He tells me that the territory Is to
large extent volvanic. Said he:
This Is the way, l suppose. that the
gold came here. Imagine a great basin of
81 anite about six miles wide, and the Lord
only knows how deep. This lay here on
the top of the Rockies. when all at once.
ages ago. there came a bang and a burst
up. volcano knocked a hole in the
basin and a tremendous stream of lava
of just about the color of cream flowed
in. 1t filled up the basin and then got
solid. Then ages followed and then there
was another shake up, and this lava was
cracked in every direction. Now, up
through the cracks came steam and gas
and hot water with gold and quartz in
solution. This penetrated every break in
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The Great Trotter Dexter.

From Scrif,ners Aasnzine
Mr.. Jonas Hawkins Ut Orange county OBJ
tanned from a strulling gypsy band a brown
mare, 1872 hands. with four white feet He
user her for 4 family nag. and by Seely's
American Star got q black FLY, foaled In
1888 which was named Clara The FLY
became the property OF his son, Jonathan
Hawkins. and she grew into q mare OF l43
hands. She had star. snip and three
white feet. and was driven pretty hard on
the country roads by her young master.
IN 1901, by Rysdyks Hambletonian. she
had the paragon, Dexter.
Ihe brown gelding. with blaze and four
White Ieet, was purchased by Mr. George
B. Alley Tor 500. and he subsequently be-
came the property of Mr.. A. F. Fawcett
dexter. under the tutorship of Hiram
woodruff. made his first public appear
ance at Fashion course. May 4, 1864. He
met and defeated, during his short but
orliiiant turf career, such horses as Cen
erai Butler. George NJ. Patchen, jr, Lady
morn and Goldsmith Maid. and ne prob
apiy was in the enjoyment of more world
Wide lame than any horse foaled OH Amer
lean soil. He brought Budd Dobie into
public notice. and the sight of the white
raced gelding coming with tremendous
Iorce down the home stretch Inspired the
ioItfest dreams. The people swung their
mats and shouted, "Hurrah for Dexter,
Long live the horse of the century,"
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A GREAT HISTORIC TABLET.

Professor Petrie Finds q Record Of
the Crushing Of Israel by Egypt.
Prof. Flinders Petrie in the Century
Last winter 1 was permitted to excavate
along q part of the ruin-serewn desert at
Thebes, and to examine the sites of temples
which stand there. On these few furiongs
found that there had been seven temples of
the kings Of the eighteenth and nineteenth
dynasties, about 145O-11JO r. c. Most of
these entirely cleared out; the largest piece
of all-the great buildings around the Ra-
meseum-being the clearance of the Esyp-
tian research account worked by Mr.. Quibeil
Each site gave us some return In informa-
ton or objects, but the most valuable of the
sites, as it proved, was one of the least In
viting. A field Of stone chips showed where
the funeral temple of Merenptah had stood
and. left in the ruins. l found the great
granite tablet bearing the long inscription
of Merenptah about his Libyan war and :, q
Syrian war, and naming Israel
This tablet Is over ten feet high, over five
feet wide. and over a foot thick, of one flaw
less block of very f1ne-grained granite, or,
rather, syentte. 1t was first cut by one of
the most sumptuous kings of Egypt.
.Amenhotep III; brilliantly polished as fat
ana CLASSY as mirror, and engraved with
scene Of the king offering to Amen, the
god of Thebes, and an inscription of about
three thousand hieroglyphs recording his
offerings and clarifying the god His son
Athena ten. who strove after higher faith
erased all figures and inscriptions of Amen
and so effaced most Of his fathers fine cary
ing on this great tablet. This, however. was
all re-engraved by Setf I, about fifty years
later. as a restoration. Then, some two
centuries after 1t had been erected in the
temple of Amenhotep III, Merenptah cast
an envious gaze on the splendid stone and
stole 1t for his own purpose.
Not taking the trouble to rework it. he
simply built the face of 1t into hts own wall
and engraved on the comparatively rough
back of the block. AT the top he figured a
scene of the king offering to Amen, and he
low an Inscription very nearly as large as
that of Amenhotep III on the other side
The painting of the scuIptured figures still
remains as fresh on the day 1t was done:
for, as the tablet fell face forward when the
temple was destroyed. the side belonging to
Merenptah lay downward. while that of
Amenhotep III was .uppermost In the
ruins, then. amid the fragments Of columns
and foundations. heaped oyer with foot or
two of stone chips. this grand bftcK had lain
since about the time 81 the Trojan war, All
Greek history, Roman. and 'mediaevai-the
prophets. Christianity and Islam-have
swept along while this was waiting, un-
suspected. with its story of the wars Of
Pharaoh of the Hard Heart and his crush
ing of Israel. 81
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A Mexican View of the Candidates.

Mexican View of the Candidaf es.
From the Mexican Herald.
1t is foolish for the New York papers
which privately (and sometimes publicly
opine that every American nonresident on
Manhattan Island is a jay and clod-hop-
per. to abuse Bryan they are doing.
speaking of him as Billy from the wild
and wooly west. New York is great city,
but is not Enthusiastically American. Its
shop signs recall the nations of Europe and
its atmosphere is essentially plutocratic and
mercantile. 1t is the wharf. the landing
place. of the United States, and not by any
manner of means its heart. Bryan is MAX
ing votes through the abuse he is receiving
He may be economically wrong, but many
millions Of honest and sound-th thinking
Americans believe him exactly right He is
no jay, no clown, no barbarian, but a true
American of good lineage, and he may be
the President and have to be treated with
the respect due to the occupant of that great
office.
No wonder the west is FESTIVE under the
supercilious treatment 1t is receiving from
foolish newspapers in the eastern Cities To
be called ''bewhiskered barbarians." "Jaco-
bins, swindlers," "rogues'' and lag
zaronf' is more than any honest granger
stomach can digest. Both Bryan and Nc
Kinley are excellent types of self-respect-
ing. thoughtful, patriotic American man.
hood
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claim. He went ever and crawled down
into the hole. He Inspected the rock and
saw that it contained fine vein OF ore
He gruntrd a little as he got out. as though
ii did not amount to much. and upon the
men saying that they would sell the mine
for SeJ,po. he laughed at them and Wen.
away. AS soon he returned to LEAH
Vile. however, he telegraphed his agents
to find out whether the parties had a title
to the mine and to buy 1t If they could.
They did buy it. paving the owners sJ,HS
cash. with an option on ii for one year for
sGJ,0oo- This is the way many mines are
bought The understanding is that the
purchaser shall at once put his men in to
develop the mine. and all the gold taken
out up to the amount of the option shall
belong to the sellers. If in the course of
some specified time, nine months or year.
he fails 10 take out that amount or fails to
pay IT, the mine. with all the gold taken
out. reyerts to the original owners. The
Victor nine raid for itself from the start.
Within month several thousand dollars
worth OF good paying ore had been sent
to the srneiters, and long before the year
was up MofTat and Smith. out of the pro-
ceeds of their ore. had received back their
5000, had paid the $4,000 additional
all the expense OF putting UP their works
and also some big dividends. They then
capitalized the mime at face value of
N.000.co0 and Offered to sell the stock This
was along in about 1882. when the whole
mine was offered by them for sale in Ne"
York for s2IO.oDo The New York capital
lists, however. were afraid of il and II went
begging They continued to develop the
mine. and later on they sold the first lot
of stock at 30 Fer cent of it's par value to
the French syndicate. guaranteeing divi-
bends for a limited time. Now they have
sold the balance of the stock at % per cent
above par. and have. as / have said. clear
ed nearly million and quarter of dollars
in less than four years out of a single in
yeStment.
Prospecting for Gold.
The above seems to be an easy way of
making money. 1t represents however
an enormous amount of labor a fortune
invested in machinery and the use of ex-
ecutivc ability equal to that of managing
a big manufacturing es Establishment. Some
people seem 10 have the idea that all
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Knots Tied by Machinery.

FROM the AFgOSy
If inventions continue to multiply at the
present rate the day may speedily come
when nswill have to, sit with folded
arms while his work. and even his pleas
ures, are turned cut for him by nickel
in-the-slot devices. Science has lately
given us a marvel in the shape of card
counting machine.
Two Of the most interesting automata
row working within the limits of the
United States are those used by the gov
ernment for counting and tying postal
cards into small bundles These machines
were made in Connecticut. and the two
are capable of counting JOO.OOO cards in
ten hours and wrapping and tying the
same in packages of twenty-five each.
In this operation the paper is pulled off
drum by two long fingers" which come
up from below, and another finger dips
in vat of mucilage. and applies itself
to the wrapping paper in exactly the right
spot Other parts of the machine Irvine
the paper around the pack of cards. and
then thumb" presses over the spot
where the mucilage is. and the package
is thrown upon carry belt ready for de-
livery.
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THE COMPRESSED AIR MOTOR.
Mr.. knne's Criticisms of the Hardis
Method ReDlfed To.

Mr.. knne's Criticisma of the Hardie
Method Replied To.
To the Editor of The Evening Star:
In last evenings issue of The Star there
appeared what purported to be descrip-
ticn of the new Hardie compressed air cars
which are being run on the Sd avenue rail-
way In New York city. but which was, in
fact, severe criticism rather than an &C.
curate description. The writer, who signed
himself 7. P. Kane, states that he went
over to New York for the express pur-
pose of seeing a real live air motor in prac-
tical operation" and that he spent several
hours riding In one of them from Fort Lee
ferry to Harlem river. While the writer of
this article does not desire to dispute Mr.
Kanes statement Of his reasons for going
to New York, he cannot but think, from
reading his description" that he had 9TH
'er objects in view than the simple purpose
OF riding for several hours in a compressed
air car Competent judges from all over
the country have seen this motor in practi-
cal operation in Rome, N. Y, and in New
their praise Of this new method of propul-
sion of street cars. Not one Of them has
yet ventured a criticism of it. and to Mr.
Kane belongs the honor of first discovering
that there was "a great deal Of vibration
In the movements of the car" In fact, the
smoothness with which the cars run was q
source OF comment among the hundreds of
persons who have ridden on these cars in
Rome and elsewhere. Strange again, that
1t should remain for your correspondent to
be the first one to discover that there was
nothing to constantly remind the nervous
passenger that there is underneath the
seat on which he sits and the floor on
which he rests his feet stored power, the
explosive force of which Is two thousand
pounds to the square inch" Does Mr.
Kane wish that the inventor Of these cars
post notices to this effect I'm each carr
Is there anything to constantly remind
the nervous passenger on an ordinary steam
car that there is In front Of the car In which
he sits an explosive power equally rs great?
In his description of the run Mr. Kane In
forms his readers that the car passed over
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Organized BY the Epworth League
Workers.
OBJECTS OF fHy INSTITUTION
Sketch Of Rev. John o. Knott, the
President.
OTHER OFFICERS ELECTED

The Epworth Leagues comprised in the
Baltimore annual conference of the Metho-
dist Episcopal Church South have COM
pleted arrangements by which they expect
to accomplish a vast amount OF good dur
ing the remainder of the present conference
year.
With this end in view. there has been or
ganized a lecture bureau, of which Rev.
John o. Knott. pastor Of Epworth II. z
Church South, Washington. has been elect
ed president. and Mr.. F. E. Woodward. also
of Washington, corresponding secretary.
The other officers are DR.. J. ]. Williams Of
Baltimore and Mrs. w. H. Ballengee of
Capon Bridge. w. Va, and Miss Lou Kip
slime of Marshall. Va, vice presidents: Mr..
A. w. Mears Of Baltimore. recording secre-
tary, and Mr.. F. X. Thomas Of Roanoke,
Va, treasurer.
The officers Of the bureau will be expect
ed to procure the best talent that is at.
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Reindeer in Alaska.

Juneau Letter to Chicago Record.
Father Barnum Of the Catholic Mission
at the delta of the Yukon, after a visit to
the states, is here on his way to his field
of labor among the Innuits The reverend
father has spent five years in the far north
travelling, teaching and preaching, winter
and summer. Speaking of the Introduction
OF reindeer into Alaska, he said their in
PRODUCTION would ultimately succeed.
There are obstacles" said he, 1.-The most
serious of which are the Eskimo dogs. The
dogs and The reindeer can never live to-
gether, and now the dogs have the field
Ihey Will Kill and eat the deer. The 1nnuit
would not give up his dogs for anything
else. We have been trying to introduce
the ST. Bernard and other breeds of what
we call white dogs. but the same trouble
comes IN as with the reindeer-the Eskimo
ours Kill and devour them.
They are strange animals as we are
used to regarding dogs, being more like
wolf They have no such thing as affec-
ton in their makeup, but. on the other
hand, they are not particularly hostile.
When strange man comes into the camp
they pay no attention to him whatever.
They do not bite; neither cam they bark,
and there is a funny thing in that connec-
ton. When they are brought into assocta-
and 1t is the most awkwaCd and discordant
attempt at barking That any one ever
heard. But they affs tFEsacherous." said
Father Barnum. with a sigh. They tolled
house, and then all RnAsd on him like
pack Of wolves and ate HIM up and they
will serve the relndeeE thA same way"
Father Barrum renihrksd upon the prev
alent idea that fsHtndEer is nearly as
large as horse. an
.on the contrary. "a SAID, cit is a vic
ious. malevolent little animal. hardly larg-
err than an ordinary deer, that will sit up
on it's launches and strike savagely at a
doubt about its usefulness and adaptability
to the country and tho requirements Of the
people" -.x. n %
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~ Z
A Use fOrt MORkeys.
From the Pittsburg News :. T.

From the Pittsburg NewR :. L"
When the Pittsburg;s school authorities
come to enforce the compulsory education
law. they may take a hint from the London
school board. which resorted to an ingenious
expedient to ascertain the. number of chil-
dren of school age in certain part of the
city. -. ~ <'
In one of the school. districts too many
parents reported no children IN their fam
lilies. and the suspicion Of the officers was
aroused. Two monkeys were gayly dressed.
put In wagon. and. accompanied by brass
band. were carried through the streets of
the district. At once crowds of children
made their appearance. The procession was
stopped in park. and the school officers
began their work + distributing candies to
the youngsters they took their names and
addresses. They found out that over sixty
parents kept their children from school.
This scheme brought to tl2s schools about
two hundred boys and girls.
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Lafayette's Souvenir Box.

From the Springfield Republican.
When Lafayette returned to France after
bis visit to the United States. he brought
with him a box, which is certainly one of
the most remarkable ever made. This box
is made of wood, but each piece of wood
has a NEST interesting history.
The body Of the box is made OF black
walnut from Philadelphia, and was taken
from a tree which in 1878 spread its
branches i'm front of the hall in which the
Declaration of Independence was made
The lid is formed of four pieces. The first
is made from part of branch of a forest
tree the last survivor of those which saw
the foundations of Philadelphia laid. The
second piece Is of oak a relic of the first
bridge built in 1883 over the little river
Canaro. This particular piece was found
in 1875, buried at depth of about six feet
below the. present level of the soil. The
third is a bit Of the celebrated elm under
which Penn made his first treaty with
Schachamaxum. The tree died Of old age
in 1910, but one Of Its saplings, IL is said,
still hourishes in the public garden Of
Philadelphia The, fourth piece has stiIl
more ancient associations. II Is a piece of
the first house built by European hands or
American SOIL 1t Is a piece of mahogany
from the house built and occupied by Chris
TOPPER Columbus In 1895
This box Is now In q private collection.
but am unable to trace II.
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Here is another who for years had been a
sufferer. Every fresh cold seemed stay longer
than former colds. and he Bstirei his ears got
stopped up and his bearing became duIler and
duller, and there were ringing and buzzng noises
In his ears. The Catarrii lad passed upward and
backward from the throat along the eustachian
tube leading from the throat into the lie had
visited throat doctors and ear doctors and catarFl
doctors without relief. In this condition We fud
him nhaling the never-f failing medication and
he notices change. The noises In the stop,
there is discharge, the hearing gets better
and firally the tubes of the OPEN uI and some
thing seems to give way In his bead. His hearing
had completely returned No wonder he considers
the result 4 marvel
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shaft and fa1f for sfxty-ffve feet before We
come to the first level. Here we see a score
of dirty miners In jeans and get q glimpse
pf car load Of ore which u being pushed
forward to the shaft Each miner has q
candle. which he holds m curious iron
candlestick. and the light makes him look
almost spectral against the darkness of the
tunnel In the background Then there IL
another signal. and we fall sixty-five feet
TO the next level. Here are more miners,
and away of IN the tunnel. where the min
ers ere working, we see the CLEAN OF the
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The "All Hairy People,"

The only known race of hairy human
beings reside on the Island Of Yesso, ad-
joining Japan. They are about 100000
in number and are known to the Japan
csc as the "Mosinos'' or 'all hairy peo-
pie" The women as well as the men
have the entire body covered with a pro-
fuse and remarkable growth of hair, the
only exception being that the faces of
the women are bare, but usually stained
SO as to resemble the boards Of the males.