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Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-06-17
HOW HE GOT HIS START.

II am obliged to admit" said a New
Orleans physician who had enjoyed a.
large practice for years. that I got my
start in my profession through a very
shady ruse; in fact. it was a piece of
downright rascality. Now. don't look
SO shocked" he continued. smiling. land
IN ten you the story. | hung out my
Single in a very sleepy town up in Vir-
glnia. and for about two years l lowered
on the ragged edge of starvation. My
speciality was eye and ear, and | dare
say that it contributed to my lack of
success; for in those days all specialists
were regarded with more or less distrust.
Anyhow, ! got barely enough to do to-
keep me alive, and, as often happens, I
was the victim of a good deal of gratui-
tous backbiting on the part of other doc
tors. One old fellow in particular never
overlooked a chance to say something
malicious, and the consequence was that
l became deeply embittered. l felt that
l deserved better fortune, and this, by
the way, brings me to the point of my
yarn. one day, while cussing my luck
in my office, | was greatly surprised to re-
celvc a visit from Il wealthy old citizen
who was one of the Staunchest patients
or the very doctor who had SO antagO-
nized me. The old man was extremely
irascible, and as deaf as a post, and for
y NaiF liz iANAt ticuIitt Il lOIIS llcA~
ible tube, which he used as an ear horn.
AS soon as he entG,ed he began telling
me his troubles Three days before, he
declared. he had suddenly lost his last
vestige of hearing. ard the tube became
perfectly useless. DR.. Blank had worked
with him in vain, and as a last resort he
came to me. for, praise God he said,
you can't make it any worse While I
was examining his ears, he took the tube
out of his pocket. and I noticed, by mere
chance. that a cork had been driven into
the mouthpiecc. Tt was the work of some
i practical joker: and. like a flash, | saw
my opportunity. Saying nothing, I man.
! aged to extract the cork without drawing
his attention and then proceeded to drop
a little water into each ear. Now, sup
pose you try the tube / wrote on a label;
and, signing incredulously, he put it INTO
position. How dye feel?' I asked through
the aperture. ! wish you could have seen
his face! He almost Rugged me in his
joy, and declared that l was the greatest
healer on the face of the globe. He also
remarked that DR.. Blank was a deep
dyed quack. The reputation of his mar
velous cure and the advertising the old
man gave me put me OF my feet in a
month, and before the year was out 1
had more than ! could do. / got on very
intimate terms with my deaf friend, but
| could never screw up my courage suff1-
GENTLY to confess. Poor fellow, he is
dead now, and no doubt he knows all
about it,"
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-06-17

something over 400 feet which will be
story being given over to some attraction.
There will be a dance hall "a vaudeville
theater, beer gardens and restaurants so
that the visitor will have no need to leave
the building from early morning until
late at night and all the while this i'm
mense structure will be turning round
and round at the rate of about three
miles an hour. Architects who havc eX-
amined the plans are satisfied that there
will be no danger OF collapse and that the
continued revolutions will be attended by
no diSagreeable sensations.
Already arrangements have been made
tistic balloon that will have a seating
capacity of more than one hundred per-
sons, not including a brass band, and
that will be held captive at an elevation
of more than two thousand feet. This
balloon will be the handSomest specimen
of its kind ever launched into space as
it is to be decorated With twelve allegor-
zeal figures representing the months OF
the year. AS the diameter of the bal
loon Will be SO metres and the circurnfer-
ence 1903 metres each figure will measure
, about s~evcnty-five feet. In this balloon
those who are looking for new sensations
feet higher than captive balloon ever
went before n from this point of want
age they may watch the carrying on OF
Photographic and meteorological expert
ments to the accompaniment of a brass
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-06-17

sengers will make a voyage from Mar
an imaginary voyage, since the vessel
will not move forward at all, the illus
ion of sailing being produced by a me
chanical arrangement that will give to
it every motion of pitching and rolling.
In fact the illusion is carried out so per-
fectly that actual sea sickness will result
in the case of passengers who are sub
ject to this i'll.
The vessel will be surrounded by foam
ing and boiling water which will be
thrown against the sides of the ship in
regular swells. while. at the same time,
on all sides of the vessel will unroll can
. vases fifty feet in height, painted to
represent perfectly the scenery during
the voyage. To the rear will be seen
the port of Marseilles and other views
of the shore of France; then the open
seas, FOLLOWED by the Algerian and Tunis-
ian coasts towards which the vessel seems
to be steering. No detail that would
add to the reality Of the illusion will be
neglected.
The passengers may walk about or sit
at ease in the steamer chairs on the deck.
which viii reproduce that of a genuine
at the command of an experienced cap
rigging, smoking and vibrating funnel
and a crew executing various maneuvreS
a tthe Of an experienced cap
tain. The mareorama will be 131 feet
in length, 112 feet in width and Is feet
in height. 1t will be different in me-
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molars was decayed in such a. manner as
to show conclusively that toothache was
one of the ills to which he had been sub
ject during life.
Another popularity abou the Wine
,eux tumulus is that all the bodies had
been placed in a peculiar position at the
time OF burial. In each case the head had
been placed upon a stone rest and always
LAID toward the north. The bodies rested
on the right side. the arms being folded
and the legs drawn up instead of being
stretched out at full length.
In one case the body of the man buried
had been covered by a thin slab of stone
extending from the chin to the feet, and
on this the mourners had placed the peb-
bleS and the implements of warfare, after
which the tomb had been closed in the.
usual manner with the heavy slab.
close examination Of the bones ound
IN the collins have led to the belief that
they We're those of a race of people who
existed in one of the most remote of the,
prehlstorlc ages, probably in the early
part of what is now known as the Stone
Age, several of the implements of con-
venlence used by men during the latter
part or that period not having been found
IN the WlmereuX tumulus.
IInere is every reason to believe that
they represented a race of small men and
Judging from the shape of their skulls
and jaWbores they We're people of ex-
tremely Slight intelligence. who existed,
not by Staying animals. but by eating.
shell-tish or such fish as they could catch
with their primitive appliances.
slnce the news of the discovery was
made public several photographs of the.
tomhs nave been taken. while the relics
themselves have been carefully collected
BY Ir. Salvage. and they will be placed
II the pubic museum at BouAogne. In
the meantime arrangements are being
made for q thorough, exploration of the
country around Wimereux in the hope
that more tomhs of this character may
be discovered, in which case they will be
closely Examined by the scientists before
they are wrecked by ignorant men.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-06-17

chanical structure from the rocking ship
Everyone has heard of the gigantic
globe on which the surface of the earth
is to be pictured in minutest detail, the
gigantic telescope that is to bring the
moon within a mile of the earth, the in
verified Eiffel tower in which the visitor
may descend LOCO feet INTO the earth and
the moving sidewalks that will carry one
to every section Of the grounds in such q
manner as to make walking practically
unnecessary.
But these are commonplace incidents
compared to many of the spectacular
features that have been arranged for,
suvius at its greatest eruptions, with IA
realistic presentation of the literal Hell
of Calvin and Knox in the center of the
mountain; the Palace of Electricity with
all the marVels that its name can sug-
gest, or the pneumatic lined projectile
in which courageous persons may be
dropped 1000 feet into Il hole in the
earth.
In fact if should tell you Of some of
the marvels that have been devised you
! would not believe but that / had drawn
upon my imagination but it would take
more than the imagination of a Bellalny
would equal, to say nothing of surpass-
ing, those that have been submitted to
the Paris exposition commissioners dur
ing the past twelve months.
PAUL LECLERC.
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band.
The big wheel of Paris, which is forty
five metres higher than the wheel at
Earls Court. London. has been COM
pleted for some time and it will undoubt-
edly be one of the great attractions of
the exposition. 1t is not only a wheel,
is a series Of wheels within wheels and
contains man features hat We're lack
ing in the American invention. For in
stance there are numerous cafes and res
%taurants, a casino and a concert and
dance hall similar to those that will be
seen in other parts of the grounds. In
fact the new wheel is an Illustration of
how great a big wheel may be.
Hair lifting experiences appear to be
in order at the Paris exposition and not
the least of these will be the gigantic
umbrella that has been invented by r. E.
Sherman of Chicago. This invention,
which resembles an umbrella in its form,
is a steel structure over $50 feet in
height. To each rib of the umbrella a
car capable of seating fifty people will
be attached and these cars will be lifted
from the earth to a point even with the
top of the structure where they will be
suspended in midair long enough to give
a magnificent bird's-eye view of the
| grounds and the city beyond.
Another ''clou,' as the great features
Of the exposition are called, Will be the
mareOrama which has been invented by
NJ. Hugo d'Alesi. This will consist of
a large ocean teamer in which the pas
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-06-17
Graveyard Under His Garden
TIL ATT IS WHAT NJ SARGE. A WEALTHY GENTLEMAN OF FRANCE, DIS
COVERED IN BOULoGNE.

and the farm laborers We're at once di-
rected to place it on the vegetable gar
den. After the excavations had pro-
ceeded for some time the men came upon
a number of tombs. Not realizing the
Importance of the discovery, the slabs of
the tombs were thrown to II side and
the skeletons they covered were carried
away with the earth.
AS soon as NJ. SARGE was informed OF
the discovery of the skeletons he stopped
all work and had the bones that had been
taken away replaced. He sent for DIR.
Salvage, the eminent archaeOlogist, n
he notified other gentlemen who We're in
terested in antiquities, all of whom went
at once to WimereuX. Up to that time IL
tombs had been opened, but they soon
discovered others, n before many hours
had elapsed Is tombs had been unearthed
and examined.
The tumulus contained only these Is
stone collins, which had been placed close
together in a circle. They had been built
| up Of large square slabs Of Portland
| stone, which had evidently been obtained
from the cliffs near Wimereux.
The collins varied in length and ranged
in depth from IL to IS inches. In most
cases they consisted Of stone on all sides,
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-06-17

B%oulogne, France, June lone .of the
most interesting and important discover
les of the century has just been made at
Wimereux, near Boulogne, where some
of the most perfect relics of the stone age
have been unearthed. Already Is tombs
have been opened and the skeletons and
implements Of household and agricultural
utilit ythat ave been collected have de-
lighted the hearts of the scores OF scien-
lists who hurried to the spot as soon as
the nnouncemen of the find was made
In the local and Paris journals.
Never in the history of the country
nave such perfect specimens been found
and there is reason to believe that fur
ther explorations will unearth still great
err wonders. Arrangements for such in
designations are now being made as they
are to be conducted under the direction
of the greatest French scientists.
NJ. SARGE is one of the wealthiest of the
land owners in the Wimereux district.
Some time ago he decided to make some
elaborate improvements in his property
and gave orders that some mounds To-
Gated on his estate should be leveled.
Although the soil all around the mounds
was poor and sandy, the mounds them
selves were found to be Of excellent earth
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-06-17
RISE OF A POOR COLORED GIRL.

Before he entered the service Major
George A. Vandegrift, United States pay
! master, was a resident of Cincinnati. He
was a member of the council, and is still
one of the owners of the well-known Bur-
nett house in that city. Chatting of past
experiences the other night he told an in
teresting story.
"Attaclcd to the household of one Of
my friends years ago. he said, was an
old mulatto woman, who was a great pet
of the whole family. She was Light in
color herself and had a very beautiful
! daughter, who was practically indistin-
guishable from a white woman. l knew
the old aunty quite we'll, and one day I
was greatly surprised when she told me
that the girl was about to be married to
a foreign gentleman who lived in the
Philippines. From what I could learn he
was a German, who, while visiting Cln-
| cinnati en- route to the Pacific. had seen
the young woman and became infatuated
with her great beauty. He was soon so
! deeply in love that he determined to-
ignore the color line, and, to make a long
story short, the pair were married and
| departed for the west. A dozen years
afterward, when the incident had almost
faded from my mind, I was introduced to
a distinguished looking German who was
passing through the city on his way to
Europe. Some popularity in his name
awakened my memory, and a question or
two revealed the fact that he was the
same man who had married the old SER
wants daughter. He was in deep mourn
ing, II told me that his wife had re-
Gently died. Her remains had been Gre
mated, he said, and his present mission
wa sto deposit her ashes in the ancestral
vault at Berlin. With that he invited me
to his room and showed me 4 tall silver
vase. full of white dust and bits of bone.
He was a man of superb education and
evident wealth, and spoke with deep feel
ing. 1 never met him again. but learned
later from an opera singer who had Wis
tied Manila that he was a merchant OF
high standing, and that his wife had been
a courtcd leader Of social life at their
home. Strange fate, was it not. for an
humble colored girl Of C~incinnati?'-
Philadelphia Times.
Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-06-17

Paris, June S.-Besides the exposition
proper, with it's thousands of attractions,
official and private, there will be count
less annexes or counter attractions, many
of which will receive fully as much at
tention from the visitor as the legitimate
exhibits. For many months the promo
ters of these freak exhibits have been
searching the world for ideas and when
these have been put into execution the
result will be a collection of architectu-
raj monstrosities the like of which the
world has never seen. 1t is difficult at
this time to decide just how many of
these strange propositions will turn out
to be impracticable but each promoter
who has secured option on land is con-
tident of success and if all succeed there
is scarcely a law of nature that will not
have been defied.
When France built the Eiffel tower
she turned up her nose at the world.
EnSland's response was the conception OF
the Wemb!ey park tower. while America
replied by building the Ferris wheel.
"Anybody can pile one beam upon an
other" they said, "but we have built a
structure as high as your tower and the
wonder Of it is that it goes our instead
of standing still"
Then France put on her thinking car
and the result is that she has devised and
is now completing a building that is tc
spin round like Il majestic top. The
height of this revolving tower will be
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the slabs having been fitted aogether
very neatly, but in two or three instances
the skeleton lay directly upon the earth,
showing that the body had been first
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sired by students of archaeology.
One skeleton was found which was that
Of an adult man, who had suffered so Sc
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1899-06-03
PERTAINING TO PERSONS.

Speaker Reed is an expert chatting
dish cook.
Cecil j. Rhodes is the fourth son of
Bishop Stortford.
In his features, face and skull Aguin-
aldo is said to look more like Euro
pean than Malay.
The brother of Admiral Albert Kautz
is retired general and veteran of the
Mexican and civil wars.
Ex-President Harrison, when at
home, is up every morning before five
o'clock and takes long constitutional
before breakfast.
Gen. Arthur Macarthur was one oil
the boy heroes of the civil war, was dec.
Grated with medal at 1s and year
later was in command of fighting reg
iment.
Edward Everett Hale recalls the sol
emn fact that when James Russell
Lowell first went on to the lecture plat
form he was content TO earn five dollars
a night.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1899-06-03
ECCENTRICITY AND GENIUS.

Goethe was the victim of illusions,
and used to see strange visions in the
streets.
Pope had a mind as distorted as his
body, and at times saw such fearful
visions that he dared not sit or sleep
alone.
De Quincy and Coleridge were eccen-
trio to the point of madness, the result
perhaps of laudanum as much as of
genius.
Edgar Allan Poe, Byron, Sir Joshua
Reynolds and hundred other men of
genius have been either eccentric or the
victims of strange illusions.
William Blake, the great poet painter
of last century. was undoubtedly mad,
and lived among the creatures of his dis
ordered fancy.
Tasso, the great italian poet, was sub
ject to attacks of mania so violent that
he was more than once confined in a
madhouse.
lola is mass OF morbid fancieS which
makes his life, successful as it has been
purgatory. Even when he retires for
the night he must open his eyes seven
times to assure himself that he actually
lives, while he sees disaster in every.
thing from cab with an unlucky mum.
her to entering his house with his left
foot.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1899-06-03
HOMEMADE BROODER.
1t Is Easily Managed and II easOnHbly
Sure to Give Satisfac ton to
All Who Try 1t.

The brooder here illustrated is cheap
easily made and successful in every
way. l have tive. and have never lost
chick in them. 1t is double throughout,
The lining is ship lap put on cross
ways. The outside is fine flooring put
on up and down. The framework is
two by by four ripped in two. The
floors are four inches apart. The
lower one is nailed to the bottom of
brooder. The upper one can be put
and cleaned.
A is a three glass window, which we
purchased, and secured one that would
just fit the space.
B is an egress door, hinged and open.
ing down, for chicks to pass in or out.
G is roof in the form of door open
ing upward, allowing inside to be easily
cleaned. d D hinges on roof doors.
e one and one-half feet high; + r
is two feet high; A A is one foot ten
inches high. b B is the distance from
A A to f F, one foot. This we heated
with a common side lamp. Midway be-
tween the ends. and against the back
wall, cut circle hole in the upper floor
large enough to admit the bowl of the
lamp which rests on the bottom floor.
Have the timer make chimney SINH
lar to those used on incubator lamps.
Now when lamp is in position place a
gallon tin can, with top and bottom
removed, over it so as to keep the chick
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1899-06-03
FACTS FOR PHOTOGRAPHERS

What is needed among amateurs is
more study and thought and not so
many photographs.
Poor slides often make excellent COW
er glasses if they are free from bubbles
and we'll cleaned. Thus they are not
total losses.
Toning in photography means tint.
ing or giving slight change of color.
1t might just as well be called gliding,
for in the toning bath thin layer of
gold is deposited on the surface of the
picture.
1t is point to bear in mind in
slidemaking that slides which are Just
right for a lantern with oil light are all
wrong for the oxygen jet. Again, those
that are suitable for the latter are not
the finest for the electric light.
1t is rule Of photography that
breadths of shade should If possible be
linked together by other accidental
shadows. and the toning bath is some
times manipulated to put the desired
harmony there. This recalls the old
story of the artist who was asked what
the dog was doing in his picture.
Why" said he, The is carrying the
light and shade through it,"
A marvel in the line of rapid pho
Biography was performed in New York
when biograph pictures of the parade
of Astor's battery, taken in the after
noon. were shown the same night at
Keith's theater. The pictures. 1000 in
number, were taken in IS seconds, ten
minutes after four o'clock. They were
sent to Hoboken for development, and
were back at the theater at 9:15
o'clock. This is said to be the fastest
work of the kind. on record.
The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1899-06-03
HINTS FOR BEEKEEPERS.

Tall sections require more honey to
fill them.
Feeding should begin as soon as warm
weather sets in.
If the bees are fed 700 heavily the
combs will be filled up.
The average life of a queen bee is
about two and q half years.
Many keepers clip the queens wings
when they hive their swarms.
Old queens may be moderately pro-
ductive early in the spring.
Young queens are the most prolific
and are less inclined to swarm.
Stimulative feeding is the means by
which colonies are made strong.
Some queens are better at three years
old than others are at two years.
Italian bees are better workers and
are more easily controlled than black
ones.
Approach hive of bees from the side
or rear, so as not to disturb the bees at
work.
Strong colonies prevented from
swarming is the key to large honey
crops.
If moth once gain footing in the
hives the colonies will soon be de-
gtroyed.
Eastwood is said to be the greatest
honey producer for the time that it is
In bloom.
There is no possible economy in taxi
ing from a strong colony to build up
weak one.
Any colony of bees will be capable of
turning robbers if proper inducements
are offered.
Colonies that are well fed will in
crease to more than double the number
of those not fed.
Leaving honey about at any time
where they can get at it will often start
the bees to robbing.
There must be promptness in putting
on surplus boxes or sections whenever
the hives are crowded.
A large number of extra combs are
necessary when extracted honey is the
object sought.-St. Louis Republic.