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emigrant cars, or conestoga wagons, with
rounded canvas tops.
Although the Piners proper have al
ways had good records for honesty, there
still exist among them remnants of a
once larger. nomadic. gypsy-like class,
said to be the descendants of Jersey To-
ries, who became forest refugees, but
vulgarly known as pine rats" Subse-
quent to the Revolution this unruly ele-
ment banded together as forest freeboot-
ers and issued forth in the nights, raid
ing farms and dwellings of the opposite
cause. Their descendants, becoming more
degraded by ostracism meted by the hon
est foresters, lived In tents, thieved cram
berries and farm products and struck ter
ror to the hearts of the respectable folk
by causing destructive forest fires when
force was used against them.
Leeds Devil is as firmly believed in
by many of the better class of Piners as
by the Pine Rats" Now that this demon
is again abroad these superstitious un-
sophisticated felix at night prefer their
peaceful homes to the many and uncer-
tain forest paths with their vibrating
shadows and weird whisperings Indeed
some dire fate awaits the nation, other
wise Leeds Devil would not have come
again to dry the COWS, sour the milk,
wither the crops. lame the horses and de-
YOUR the babies.
John Elfreth Watkins Jr.
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be closed only to prevent back flow from
the 110-foot weir which will next be de-
scribed.
Immediately beyond the twin valves is
the mouth Of the second tunnel, which
starts from the 110-foot level Of the reser-
Voir, away up the side Of the granite but
tress bowlder and pierces the rock at an
angle Of 40 degrees. This Is 6 feet high
and feet wide and Is intended to be the
main waste way. Through this the sur
plus water Of the reservoir will flow, sup
plying the quantity needed to fulfill the
requirements Of the irrigation law, as we'll
as to regulate the flow of the South Platte
past the main Rumping station of the city.
especially during the summer. With such
force will the water rush down this in
clined tunnel that at it's exit 1t will fur
nish thousands of horse power for the
operation of an electric plant which 1t is
intended ultimately to establish. The
stream will strike the granite wall Of the
canon with a force estimated at Is, ZOO
horse power in itself.
The following figures convey in con-
densed form the main features of interest
concerning this grand enterprise:
Height Of dam, 210 feet.
Width of dam, % feet at base and 500
feet at crest.
Length of base of dam, 24O feet for 100
foot level, 900 feet for 21O-foot level.
Capacity 35, ,OOO, ,O0O, 900 gallons for 21o-foot
dam, &C, 900, ,00O, 900 gallons for 29O-foot dam
Extreme length Of reservoir, seven miles
on the Platte three miles on Goose
Creek
Width of reservoir, from 200 feet to one
half mile.
Depth Of water, 2lO feet at dam, $50 feet
three miles up the South Platte, 80 feet at
distance of six miles.
Total cost, $780, 600.
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In his humble cottage in Africa" the
negro quarter of Richmond, a quaint old
clergyman, known the world over for one
idea persistently preached for fifteen
years, on the Fourth of July celebrated
his eighty-seventh birthday, pastor of
the South Mount Zion church, paid $500
a year by his 5000 parishioners, the Rev
John Jasper has made an international
reputation by propounding the doctrine
the sun do move"
Somewhat enfeebled by his great age,
the negro preacher spends most of his
time in meditation, a strikingly original
and picturesque character. John Jasper
has remarkable head. Tremendously
high and prominent cheek bones under
kindly eyes strongly mark face of
benevolence and good nature. In the
that add to his otherwise clerical look
A phrenologist would be puzzled to de-
eide where his intellectual bumps lie as
his forehead commences with protuding
eyebrows and runs at an angle of forty
five degrees to the top of his head, when
his Uranium swells out, only to end in an
abrupt precipice.
Newspaper reporters have made him
out wholly illiterate and grotesQue, and
biographers of his own race are prone to
picture him as a learned doctor of div
unity. Neither picture is correct
John Jasper does not speak in the
negro dialect, as he is often quoted. but
in his effort to talk proper" and in the
quaint originality Of expression, no less
than his vehemence of gesture, the visit
tor looking for amusement finds plenty
to interest him. OF his ministry fasper
himself says;
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''I was inspired before I was born. My
father told my mother So. She did not
believe much about it until 1 got to be
ten or eleven years old, for was just as
bad as any other little niger, but when
I commenced to get big and commenced
to notice knew that 1 was inspired, and
the word of the Lord came to me like a
fash.
For sixty years I have. been. a min
sands of souls from perdition. If I
haven't 1t ain'temy fault. have worked
The text Of Jasper's famous sermon is
Is Man of War The Lord Is His
Name" The theories advanced: The
earth is square and immovable. The sun
rises in the east and moves toward the
west and there sets. The world is fiat.
The Bible says the sun stood STILL" he
announces a.ain dogmatically. Is anybody
before Jasper told it to stand still? Do
privilege to stop the sun If she had not
been moving. This morning when the sun
rose 1t was over there (pointing to the
easD. How, in the name Of God, could
the sun get from that side Of the house
over to this (pofnting to the wes) un-
less 1t moved.
Now Solomon was certainly scholar.
% you know he was the man who said,
The sun ariseth and goeth down and
nFasteneth back to the place she moved
from 1t Is nonsense to say the sun
Bible"
He fortifes himself in the same man
ner IN his belief that the earth is square
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forced upon the company supplying Den
/ yer with water by the really extrava-
CANT demands of the people of the city.
/ The present capacity is so. 100000 gallons
per day. and the maximum consumption,
: the hottest day of last summer and the
coolest day of last winter alike, was
slightly in excess of 45.OOO,OOo gallons.
The present average per day-an average
which will certainly never be decreased
is 30O00,0 600 gallons These figures are far
and away the greatest Of any city in the
world of approximately the same popu-
1ation. and are much larger than those of
any place in America or Europe Of over
twice the size of the metropolis Of the
Rockies.
Up to 1897 the Denver Water company
found Marston lake, a handsome artifi-
cial body Of water about ten miles south
! west of the city, sufficient for it's reserve
supply. The lake was then about one
half mile long and one-third mile wide.
The demands of that summer severely
taxed this, and it was at once decided to
increase the capacity by raising the en-
bankments about twelve feet. This was
done last year. and the lake Is now
about one mile square and contains p
100000 900 gallons of water. The embank-
ments are being raised this year an addl~
tional height Of sixteen feet, and next
year the water stored for the summer
demand will aggregate about $500, ,0OO 900
gallons.
Before another year shall have passed
the great reservoir of the South Platte,
one of the greatest, If not the greatest,
of virtually pure water in the United
States. in which 5000, ,000 900 gallons will
be constantly stored, and which, with
comparatively little added expense. may
be made to contain $1,000, ,OOO 600 or even
6O,00O.0O 100000 gallons, will have been COM
pleted. as a supplement to Marston lake
and the companys other reserve sources
OF supply. 1t will be 6,100 feet above sea
level and 1,500 feet above the level Of
Denver itself.
This colossal reservoir will be located
in the southeastern corner of Douglas
and southwestern part of Jefferson coun-
ties, about forty-eight miles south of
Denver in the midst of the mountains
The dam which will there impound the
Hmpid mountain streams of the South
Platte and Goose creek, neither of which
is in the slightest degree contaminated
by even a semblance of sewage. Will be
when completed to the height at present
=cided upon, 30 feet from its Twins
ranite base to its,stee and concrete TOP
will hold in absolute check the waters
both OF the streams named, and will
use these waters to completely sub
merge score or more OF goodly granite
hummOcks, and to cover all but the sum.
mits of score of others of somewhat
greater height. 1t will so completely
change the face of the immediate vicinity
that the only antedeluvian who possibly
dwelt there when the basin was prime.
val lake will recognize it,
me reservoir will be located in an ir-
regularly shaped basin, at present c1,t intc
many patches by masSes of red granite
from 100 to 500 feet in height Its greatest
width will be from the south side OF the
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The reason so many failed to make this
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"A Board suggestton.

Taylors Falls Journal
Bill boards are causing st. Paul a great
deal of worry, but if more attention was
given to board bills the sand lots could
be occupied by buildings, In the place of
bill boards.
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WORLDS HIGHEST DAM
RETAINING WALL OVER TWO HUN
DRIED FEET HIGH BEING
CONSTRUCTED
IT'S GOING UP NEAR DENVER

The Purpose of 1t Is to Make n
Great Reservoir Which Will Hold
35,OOO,OOO,OOO Gallons of Water
To BE Built on the South Platte
} Water VIII Submerge Several
Small Mountains.
DENVER, Col, July 1S.-The highest
dam in the entire world-21O feet from
the living granite bed Of the stream to
the apex of the remarkable structure
will soon rise at the entrance to the
South Platte gorge, forty-eight miles
south of Denver, Col This dam will re-
store what was undoubtedly a great
primeval lake, and the reservoir thus
formed, containing from $4,000, ,OOO 900 to
10000, 100000 gallons, will alone assure to
the people of Denver immunity from wa
ter famine for at least three years m
der any possible contingency
! The construction of this great dam
iand this magnificent reservoir has been
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But today the only industry of the Pin
ers, besides their small farming and tav-
ern keeping. Is charcoal pitting, wood
cutting and berry picking. Considerable
areas of their land have been laid off in
cranberry bogs by outside growers with
capital, and their fruit is said to be larger
and superior in nutritive value to any
other grown in the world. In their manu-
facture of charcoal the pitters build hol-
low, conical stacks of forest wood with
blazing bonfires inside, the outsides
being banked with turf to promote a
smouldering effect upon the weed. Even
to this day the Piners cart their kindling
wood and charcoal through the neighbor-
ing villages. such as this, In wagons
built in miniature Imitation of the ancient
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makes perfect seem to feel that
his special brand of matrimony must
possess particular and most desir-
able virtues. To be exact, Judge Brown
has married up to date 621 more or less
happy pairs, and he has not only become
distinguished on account of the number of
times he has repeated the brief ceremony
that has united so many destnies, but
also because of the fact that in the pur-
enced far more of adventure and excite
ment than usually falls to the lot of a
peaceful official. A pleasing lack of COM
monplace sameness and wearying monot-
ony has characterized his exploits in the
matrimonial line. There is scarcely a
legal marriage combinat ton which he has
not helped to make and sealed with
congratulatory kiss, unless circumstances
were such that mere verbal good wishes
seemed sufficient for the occasion and his
own highest happiness.
He has married people in season and out
of season. He has married them in man
sions, in cottages. in his own office and
under the starry canopy of heaven He
has married them on the high road and
on the high seas.
He has Joined happy hearts at high
noon beneath floral bridal bells and sur
rounded by crowds of admiring friends,
and he has been reused from his peaceful
slumbers and routed out Of his warm
and comfortable bed on the chilliest kind
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or her career. Ethiopians, Indians and
Mongolians have appeared here and there
in the continuous double procession which
has been filing slowly and steadily by him
ever since he first made "hit" in tho
special role to which fate early assigned
him.
Most Of his clients he has married only
once; few it has been his privilege
to marry twice, and one couple-evidently
true of h TT though uncertain as to dis
position and variable as to ideas-he has
T rried no less than three times. two
divorces and as many subsequent recon
citations making the extra work and
extra pay for the genial Justice
In the matter OF fees the Judge has met
with almost as much variety as he has In
the applications for his services. The
question of recompen~- having always
been delic .tely left by him to the un-
biased decision of the newly manufao
tured husband, the offerings left upon the
shrine of Cupid have been of divers kinds
and values 1t is said that one hapnv hut
embarrassed individual pressed upon his
acceptance fve-cent nickel Iaborins
the While because of his c. fusion under
the slightly erroneous impression that tho
piece OF money which he presented with
many eHuSlVe thanks represented i,1st
that same number of dollars
Lonely two-bit pieces have occazonauv
most inadequately rewarded his efforts to
increase the worlds balance of happiness
ana on one ver-to-be-forgotten occa sion
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ST. PETERSBURG have had a peep
into the real home life Of royalty and am
simply quivering with impatence to tell
you all about it. The little unweicome
Russian baby, who began life with the
fatal mistake Of being a girl instead Of
boy, was christened last week and 1 had
the good fortune to be present at the
ceremony. The event was attended with
as much pomp and rejoicing as the ma
tional disappointment would admit. for
you know the birth Of this third daughter
TO the imperial couple is looked upon by
the Russian masses, who are superstitious
and simple-minded to a degree, as a di-
rect visitation from heaven.
There was much unofficially expressed
sympathy sent out to the two weeks old
bit Of humanity, whose birth put the royal
household in an eclipse. The guests did
not have to be told that lamentations
were still echoing through the land, for
even with the tenderness, the personal re-
gard for the little lassie and the most
ceremonious toasts for her health and
happiness and that of the empire every
one was conscious Of an invisible pail. be-
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cause the celebration was for only =
girl"
Because this latest addition to the Rus
sian household was not a boy the ser
vices were at the cathedral at Peterhof.
They were grand and impressive and two
hours long, and after the custom Of all
the religious ceremonies Of the Greek
church we stood every minute of the time.
1 thought was in the fairy land of my
story books when the golden carriage,
drawn by six white horses with gold ca
parisoned harness and all sorts Of festive
trappings jingled along to the gorgeous
church. Before it reached the door the
bit of pink baby lost in laces and fine
raiment. was hailed and saluted and an
nounced as "her imperial Highness the
Grand Duchess Marie
And then the little royal lady, resting
on golden pillows in silvery robes and sur
rounded by pink satin and uncomfortable
yards Of exquisite lace, was taken into
the church. There were maids in waiting
and guards of honor, and the most obse-
Quious homage on all sides.
The baptism was by immersion. The
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seen anything more imposing.
Congratulations were offered to the En-
peror and the Empress mother and then
there was luncheon in the grand nalace
1t was here that I saw Mrs. Charlie
magne Tower. the wife of the IJnited
States ambassador You will remember
her as pretty Nellie Smith of San Fran
cisco The rank Of ambassador placed
Mr.. Tower and his wife at the table with
the Emperor and Empress Mrs. Tower
sat between two Grand Dukes and wore
by far the handsomest gown I have seen
since have been In Europe. The petit
coat was of yellow satin. upon which was
appliaued the rarest lace, outlined in cut
steel and turquoises. Over this swept Ave
yards of court train of TURQUOISE blue
satin. Upon this the lace and jeweled
coat, and 1t appeared again on the cor
sage. which was low, and the daintiest
confection Of lace and Jewels. On her
neck sparkled diamond necklace the
like Of which the Empress Eugene might
have coveted as an addition to her famed
casket. She looked-only BIT more ma
tronly-just as she did before she left
California.
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California Girl at q
Royal Russian Baptism

pillows of satin and lace were removed
and the baby was dipped three times In
a large golden basin. Even If the babe
was royal born, she was very human, and
acted like any other normal child,
screamed when she was taken from the
soft, warm things and put into the water
Archbishop Janisheff, assisted by other
clergy, performed the rites. Forty spon-
sors stood for the royal infant. The En-.
press Dowager, mother of the Emperor,
was one Of these, and the others were
members of the royal household, uncles
and aunts of "her imperial Highness,"
and members of other royal European
families.
After the baptism there was thanks
giving service, a grand TIE Deum, which
was participated in by all the members of
the synod. The magnificent church. with
Its splendid paintings and cloth, finely
decorated, was aglow with candles, and as
the long procession. headed by the Arch
bishop in his miter and flowing white
vestments, and the other clergy, followed
by all the members Of the great nobility
Of the empire, passed from the church Of
the palace thought that had never
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aIo lorced to acknowledge that the ac-
cusatiOn recently made against him is sus-
ceptible Of proof; and that accusation is
that he has cold-bloodedly and deliberate
ly married only a few less than 625
couples since the law first gave him the
right to go into the marrying business on
a wholesale basis
There is no other person, it is said, Of
like official capacity on the coast who has
done so much to add to the happiness or
the wretchedness of his fellow-beings as
has this same Judge Brown Others
there be in California, and many of them.
who by the votes of their townsmen are
enabled to repeat the words constituting
a marriage ceremony in a way that makes
them binding upon the consenttng par
ties, but none there are. say vainglorious
Santa Rosans. who have repeated those
words so many times and made such
good job of the affair in so large ma
jority Of the cases as he.
Major Brown has been a Justice Of the
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I'VE twenty-dollar gold pieces testified to
g mans enthusiastic appreciation Of the
blessing conferred upon him. More than
once it has been the bride herself who
has attended to the monetary part of the
affair, and on several occasions both
bride and groom have ignored the little
formality Of payment entirely, evidently
believing that there is no happiness like
making others happy" and that the Judge
was more In their debt than otherwise
notwithstanding the weight Of re-