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The Elk Mountain pilot., 1901-06-18

The old mansion of General William
Garrison and Bell avenues, st. Louis,
Is to be converted into family hotel.
Eastern capitalists have obtained pos
session of the historic old residence,
about which cluster so many memories
Of the great men whose presence made
the abode sacred in the minds of the
public.
But the ruthless hand of CONNER
cialsm which leveled the Indian
mounds. from which St. Louis derives
the name mound city, is not to be
stayed by memories of former great
ness and historic associations. The
old house is one of the best known in
the city, and in the country for that
matter, having often been the abode
temporarily of some of the most dis
tinguished citizens of America.
The house and lot were donated to
General Sherman by the citizens of
st. Louis shortly after the civil war.
1t was built at cost of $4,000, which
was raised by popular subscription.
General Sherman first took up his res
idence in the house in 1867 and lived
there with his family for seven years,
and they had dispute with the city
officials over the payment of his water
taxes. 1t was not so much the pay
ment of water rates than Gen. Sher-
man objected to as the high rate i'm
posed on him. Ultimately he paid the
taxes, but he was offended with the
city officials and chagrined by the in
cident, and this. coupled with the at
tacks of an editor whom he had
drummed out of his camp as cor
respondent, caused him to leave the
city.
Upon the generals death The q. A.
R. offered the heirs $4,000 for the
house, to be used for headquarters. but
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1901-06-18
Tho Center of tho Apple Indus.ry.


The center of the apple industry in
the United States and the county which
has more acres OF apple orchards than
any other section of the world is Clay
county, Illinois. The largest apple or
chard in the country contains $40
acres. Within the corporate limits of
Flora, the county seat, are found
more than 300 acres, and the major
portion OF which is bearing, and from
an eminece on the northwestern boun-
dary may be seen 1000 acres of the
best commercial apple orchards in the
state Clay county has within its con-
fines total slightly in excess of 49,
900 acres of apple trees. On an average
so trees are set to the acre, making,
therefore, a total of 100000 trees in
the county. The average age of the
orchards is IL years, and consequently
another year will see them in their
prime. The Illinois apple belt extends
from Newton, in Jasper County, south
to Fairfield, in Wayne county, and
from Olney, Richland county, to Gen.
tralia, in the extreme southwestern
portion of Marion county. The coun-
ties embraced in this territory contain
70, 900 acres of apple orchards, or one
half of the total areage of the state of
Illinois The soil seems peculiarly
adapted to the raising of the typical
tree the prodution OF the perfect ap-
pie.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1901-06-18
Fifth ugh Leo at West Point.

Gen. Fitzhugh Lee confesses to a
decided weakness for pranks when he
was cadet during the years 1S52-'56.
at West Point. Il am sorry to say"
he confesses, that | was one of the
wild boys at West Point: did not study
much, but could always be relied upon
to join in hazing or any other pranks.
admit, too. l frequently went down
to the well-known Benny Havens' of
that day, and one night, owing to the
dummy which l dressed and put i'll my
bed to represent me while l was alb
sent not showing some life and a little
animation when the inspection officer
came around about midnight and
threw the light of a lantern on the bed,
l was court-martialed for being out Of
quarters between taps and reveille, and
sentenced to walk ten extra tours of
Sunday guard duty, ten extra Satur-
day afternoon guard duty during the
time cadets were allowed to be out of
barracks. and to be confined to the
plain of West Point for one year.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1901-06-18
Beautiful Fata norSana.

The fata morgana is a singular aerial
phenomenon akin to the mirage. 1t is
seen in many parts of the world, but
most frequently and in greatest per-
fection at the Strait OF Messina, be-
tween Sicily and Italy. So many con-
ditions must coincide. however. that
even there it is of comparatively rare
occurrence. To allow of its produc-
ton the sun must be at an angle of
As degrees with the water. both sky
and sea must be calm, and the tidal
current sufficiently strong to cause the
water in the center to rise higher than
on the edges of the strait. When these
conditions are fully met the observer
on the heights of Calabria, looking
toward Messina. will behold a series of
rapidly changing pictures, sometimes
of the most exquisite beauty. Castles,
colonnades, SUGGESTIONS of beautiful
arches, palaces. cities, with houses and
streets and church domes, mountains,
forests, grottoes, will appear and van
ish, to be succeeded perhaps by fleets
Of ships, sometimes placidly sailing
over the deep. sometimes inverted.
while halo like rainbow surrounds
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1901-06-18

A report reaches st. Paul, Mimi,
that tribe of wild men" has been
discovered in the northern part of Fre
mont county, Wyoming, 1t is said
that two families there married and
intermarried until they evolved such
characteristics as to male them really
a tribe. There are about 200 of them.
They live among the mountain fast
nesses and resent all intrusion with
great fury. The law can give victims
of their assaults little satisfaction. He
who goes among them goes at his
peril. 1t is further alleged that sew
eral of the men committed such dep
relations on the ranches in the north
ern part of the state that stockmen
organized to defend themselves, and in
the pursuit of one of the marauders the
stronghold of the cretins was discov-
cred. One of the stock thieves was
man of 40 years of age or more. He
wore no clothes except of the most rud-
imentary nature. His body was COW
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1901-06-18
A Peculiar Industry.

AS as instance of peculiar industrial
occupations. it is said that dealers in
secondhand bread have pretty good
trade all the year round in London.
They collect fragments of bread from
the restaurants and dust heaps, which
they carefully sort into first and Sec
ond quality. The former, being COM
paratively clean, is baked and then cut
into dice for soup and made into rasp-
ings. which are bought up by the cook
shops for garnishing. The second
quality bread is sold for food for poul-
try and other domestic animals.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1901-06-18
WHY WOMEN DON'T GET RICH.
Mrs. Hetty Green Speaks OF Some OF
Their DimcuIties-

MIS-. Hstty Green Speaks of Some OF
Their Difficulties.
Mrs. Hetty Green, the richest woman
in the world. has been venturing into
the domain OF literature and appropri-
ately chooses as her theme the sub
ject with which she is most intimately
associated-the accumulation of money
by women. Nearly every woman wants
to be rich, she says, but she has vague
ideas of how she should go about max
ing money. She reads in some news
paper about some woman who has been
successful in stock operations, and the
first spare cash she gets she invests
In stock with some curbstone broker
Ninety-nine times out Of every 100 she
loses her savings. Then she's discour-
aged and believes that it is not posi-
BILE for women to make money. She
resigns herself to keeping house for
the rest of her life and her career as
a capitalist is ended. This woman
went about her task in the wrong way.
and so does nearly every other woman
who starts out to become rich. Those
men who say that not one woman in
ten has the money-making instinct are
very nearly right. Women like to
spend money, but they don't know how
to make it. If they could become rich
In day, or month, all would try. but
they can never make up their minds
to work years to accumulate fortune,
as men do. Women would much rath-
er spend than earn. And because
women spend so much they are hardly
In ha Gn1l
the chance comes along. No person
can invest unless he has the where
withal. Most great fortunes have been
started by men who saved and saved
and finally mad a few hundred or a
few thousand dollars to invest when
ever the opportunity should come.
There are many women who earn good
salaries and who might lay by few
hundred dollars year il they were SO
minded. But that is not the way of
women. They spend every cent they
make. and in most cases have their
monthly salary spent before it's in
their hands. AS long as women won't
save we're not likely to have many
women millionaires in this country.
Sometimes there's woman who really
wants to increase her fortune, but she
soon realizes that conditions are
against her. A woman hasn't as many
chances for making money as men
have. She amt around among men.
as rule, and she doesn't hea, of the
opportunities for investment which
are talked of day by day in Wall street
and other financial centers.-Chicago
Chronicle.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1901-06-18
HOME OF THE IRISH PEOPLE.
1t Is in the United States Rather Than
Ireland.

1t Is in the United States Rather Than
Ireland.
There are more Irishmen in the
United States than in Ireland. says an
official of the census office. The latest
returns from the British census shows
that the population of Ireland is now
4,456.546, loss of five per cent. in the
last ten years. Sixty years ago there
were almost twice as many peopld8n
the island, or S.173124. The United
States census returns which show the
foreignborn population have not yet
been compiled, but it is believed the
number of natives of Ireland now in
this country is nearly 100000.
For every Irish-born inhabitant Of
the United States there are probably
two descendants Of Irish blood from
both father and mother. and this
would make the Irish population of
this country about million greater
than that of Ireland. In this estimate
no account is taken of the large num-
Der of Americans who have in their
veins Irish blood from one or the 9TH
er parental side. The cause of Ire
lands loss of population can be found
quickly enough in the steady increase
OF the Irish population of America.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1901-06-18
The Bloody Malta
Record Of Treach>
cry, Murder and
Abduction.

sort of vast mutual help association,
| to which an indefinite number of ST.
| cilians belong. Its aim is to gain in
fluence by every means SO as to pro-
mote the interests of its members. 1t
assumes many different forms. and has
no generally recognized leaders. 1t
often has recoursed to bloodshed and
violence for purpose of terrorizing, of
getting money, or of revenge. Its ef-
feet is to produce an appalling state
of moral anarchy and lawlessness. 1t
is distributed unequally over the is
land, and, as Signor Cutrera shows by
map. does not by any means flourish
least in the richest parts of the coun-
try. There are three main divisions
of the Malta; the Malta of Palmero,
the Malta of the district round Paler-
mo, and the Malta of the provinces.
Palermo, and the chief center of the
institution and the residences of mose
of the ''pezzi grossi." or leaders. Ths
youth who aspires to Malta honors be-
gins as a 'ricottaro," which means
man who lives on the Illicit earnings
of unfortunate women. Among the
"ricottari" are men of the upper
bourgeoise-idle students and smart
men about town"-as well as mem
bers of the lower orders. They are ar
rogant, insolent, and ready with the
knife and the revolver They act as
the official claque in the theaters, and
are commonly used as electioneering
agents. The higher members of the
Malta are often men of civic and
political Importance. Their houses are
like government offices. They are con-
stantly busy with secretaries, agents.
etc. Their halls are filled with all
manner of people waiting for an au-
recommendation, legal advice. the re-
moval of some obnoxious official. pres
sure on the judges in lawsuit. and
so on. The ''capi-mafia" are not paid
for their services, but by this means
they acquire influence and power
among all classes. At election time
their services are invaluable, and the
candidate who has the Malta on his
side is almost sure to be returned,
whatever his political views are The
Malta in the "Conca d'Oro" is respon-
sible for more deeds of violence than
the other sections. This proves that
the institution is neither attributable
to poverty nor to the "latifondi"
Oarge landed properies). as this region
is the richest in Sicily and that in
which property is most sub-divided
into small holdings.-Montreal Her
aid and Star.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1901-06-18
Bread Instead of Rice for Chinese.

Economists who have been studying
the social and industrial problems of
eastern Asia predict that the Chinese
will soon become a bread-eating in
stead of a relocating people. The presi-
dent of the San Francisco chamber of
commerce said at the rate of the pres
ent enormous increase in flour exports
to China there will, within three years.
be employment for 40 first-class Nor
chantmen carrying flour from Pacico
coast ports to the Orient.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1901-06-18
HING AN OSTRICH.
The Labor Dividing Process of the Male
and Female Birds.

lho LADor- DiSiuinH Irocess or tho sIals
and Female Birds.
Early in the year, Just as spring
dawns, pair of ostriches will begin to
build nest, or rather to scrape one
out of the ground. The male bird rests
his breastbone on the ground and kicks
the sand behind. when one side Is sur
fciently deep he turns around and op-
crates in a like manner, until round
hole about three feet in diameter and
one foot deep Is the result of his ex-
ertions; occasionally he intimates to
the female that help is desired and
they take turns. The hen forthwith
begins to lay an egg every day, until
IL or ls are located side by side in
this hole IN the ground: they scatter
\ little sand over the eggs to protect
them from the rays of the California
sun; this habit has doubtless led to
the supposition printed in many ancient
natural histories that the eggs of the
ostrich are Matched by the sun, unaided
by the birds. AS soon as the full num-
Der of eggs are laid. the couple share
the labor of Matching; the male bird
setting on the eggs from o'clock in
the afternoon until o'clock the fol-
lowing morning; and 1t may be under
stood with what skill this is performed
when it is remembered that $50 pounds
of ostrich is bearing down upon IA
eggs; at 9 o'clock the hen takes his
place. The male ostrich. however.
with remarkable intelligence, relieves
the female for an hour in the middle
of the day while she goes in search of
necessary nourishment. A pair will
follow this regime with the greatest
regularity for about 40 days. when the
eggs are Matched.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1901-06-18
Snap Killed at Yale.

Heretofore rule has existed at
Yale whereby athletes were received
at the training tables at the prices
they had been paying previously at
their boarding places. Certain thrifty
fellows, 1t appears, took advantage of
this rule by engaging board at cheap
places for a week or two prior to 60
ing into training, and then participated
in the IS or $40 a week fare at the
training table by paying only So or
SO. The rules just issued kill this snap
by providing that the price to be paid
shall equal the average price the stu
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1901-06-18
Upton ON THE BOYS.
English Ynchtsman Compares Yankee Lads
to Those of England.


Sir Thomas Upton, who is preparing
the Shamrock III. for n race for the
America cup in September next, has
been writing of American and English
boys. He says: Il think the Ameri-
can boy is ahead of the English boy.
l find in America the managers of
large concerns are often very youth
ful. In England a man must look old
before he is thought to look wise"
Then follows n statement which, conf
ing from so high an authority as Sir
Thomas Upton, will challenge the at
tention of those who are responsible
for the education of the ingenious
youth" of our nation. II hold" says
Sir Thomas, that it would be gspl
thing to send every English boy to
America when he is seventeen'0n 0nd
keep him there for n couple of years
Sir Thomas himself, one recalls, came
to this country at that age, and his ex-
periences here constitute, in his opin'
ion, the best training he ever had.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1901-06-18

The electric street railroad is little
more than ten years old, and yet a
man whose business 1t was to inves-
sigate all the lines which were first
put in, says that almost nothing of
what he then found is in use today
Practically all the appliances of cleo
trio railroading Of that time have
gone to the scrap-heap. so rapid have
been the improvements in this new
field. There is always an experimental
stage in new inventions, during which
changes take place rapidly. Then ex-
perience sits out the best, the forms of
machinery become established, and
after that improvements are compara-
lively rare.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1901-06-18
Ian Maclaren's Views.

Rev DIR. John Watson clan Mac
who last year was moderator
of the English Presbyterian Synod,
asked for his opinion of the American
decision to revise the confession, said:
MANY on this side of the Atlantic
are glad to know that the Presbyterian
brethren in the United States propose
to revise the confession. 1t is an in
tellectual wonder, but would be i'm
proved by n reduction in size and an
infusion of love"
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1901-06-18
Saved by Moexan.. generosity.

For several years one OF the attrac-
tions of the lower Hudson, the famous
Palisades, has been in danger of utter
demolition owing to the fact that the
property owned by Carpenter Broth
ers. who were blasting out the stone.
To preserve this gem of nature the
New York Palisades Interstate Park
Commission will purchase the quarry
and a stop will be put to the blasting
The purchase is made possible through
]. Pierpont Morgan's gift of S125, 900.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1901-06-18

The arrest Of a thief in Madrid the
other day shows that Spain is still in
the race for progress. This gentleman,
who was always elegantly dressed.
carried in his overcoat strong cleo
trio battery, Joined by wires to n
metallic plate, which he held in the
palm of his hand. He would ap-
proach his victim with outstretched
hand. pretending to have had pre-
gious acquaintanceship. Result,
sharp electric shock. which rendered
the subject powerless. His pockets
were rifled of watch, purse, etc, in
moment. The thief had followed this
profession during the last few years
in various European countries, and
confessed that his ingenious apparatus
had been made at Chemintz, Saxony.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1901-06-18

We are at the beginning of things,
said captain of industry, not at the
ending. With scientific business
methods, he added, he would rather
have the dump" Of the mines than
the mother vein." If he had to han
die the mother vein in ignorance.
rhe principle is broader than any ap-
plication to a single sphere of opera
lions. More than ever before, ignor-
ance means waste and extravaganza.
even II it does not insure failure.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1901-06-18

immigration into Cuba continues to
be almost exclusively from the Spanish
peninsula, 1904 persons out of total
Of 14,57S in the second half of 1900
having come from Spain. 1t is aston
lshing to learn that in the same time
only seventeen immigrants to Cuba
were from the United States. The
situation reminds one of what the his
torian Froude said years ago: What
ever the eventual fate OF Cuba, the
spsnish race has taken root there, and
is visibIy destined to remain. Span
Ish. at any rate. they are to the bone
and marrow, and Spanish they will
sontinue."
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1901-06-18

every image. 1t is supposed that the
images are due to the irregular re-
fractive powers OF the different layers
of air above the sea. which magnify,
repeat and distort the objects on the
Sicilian shore beyond. but to the Ital-
ians these singular appearances are the
castles of the Princess Morgana, and
the view of them is supposed to bring
good fortune to the beholder.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1901-06-18
Ancient Records.

From Bombay comes the intelligence
that records dating back to the first
century of the Christian era have
been discovered by DR.. Stein in the
course of his explorations in Chinese
Turkestan. The famous traveller and
antiquarian came upon a store of
some 300 documents together with n
quantity of clay seals and many in
scribed wooden tablets bearing dates
A. D. 36 to A. d. 70.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1901-06-18
Leaving England

A parliamentary paper Just issued
shows the, emigration and immigra-
ton from and to the United Kingdom
during the past year We're respective
ly 16S,S25 and 62,505. Sixty-one per
cent. of the former went to the United
States. The immigrants We're mostly
Jews from Russia, Poland and Rou-
mania.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1901-06-18
op.ns Council with Praxer.

DIR. A. j. Henning, the newly elected
mayor of Garnett, Kan, opened his
first council meeting with prayer and
later issued a manifesto beginning:
Fear God and keep his command.
ments and keep the Sabbath day
holy" He means to make war on Gig
arctic smokers to the extent of prose
cutting them.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1901-06-18

physician who has recently re-
turned from Persia says that the ma
hves still believe that human tears
are remedy for certain chronic dis
eases. At every funeral the bottling
pf mourners' tears is one of the chief
features of the ceremony. Each of the
uourners is presented with a sponge
with which to mop his face and eyes,
and after the burial these sponges are
presented to the priest who squeezes
the tears into bottles, which he keeps.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1901-06-18
Wyoming's Barbarous Men.

cred with black hair that afforded pro-
lection from the weather. He had no
language except unintelligible sounds.
His strength was herculean. Upon be-
ing closely pursued by one of the
stockmen the cretin turned upon the
pursuer. and, catching man and horse
into his arms, hurled them over a 40
foot butte
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1901-06-18

DR.. John w. Hoffman, professor of
.griculture in the Florida State Indus
trial College, is one of the most noted
negro scientists in the world. He has
lust been elected member of the Mas
sachusetts Horticultural Society, and
also belongs to the Royal Agricultural
Society OF England and many other
,imllar organizations.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1901-06-18
SILK In the United stntes.

The United States seems disposed to
take the lead among the silk pro-
ducers of the world. During the last
three years the consumption of raw
silk in the United States has exceeded
that of France.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1901-06-18
BODY Grows shorter.

The human body, it has been found
is shorter at night than in the morn
ing. due to the weight of the body
COMPRISING the intervertebral carti-
lagos. During sleep, or while in a re-
cumbent position. the pressure being
removed. their natural elasticity en-
ables them to resume their normal
size, consequently the hight of an in
dividual will vary from three-eights
to half an inch between morning and
night.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1901-06-18

Miss Josephine Bowen Holman. an
indianapolis girl who is to marry Mar
soni, is herself an enthusiastic labora-
tory worker and has devoted a great
aeal of her attention in that line of
electricity.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1901-06-18

Sad would it have been indeed had the
mast fallen and cut down King Edward
sefore he had had an opportunity to
celebrate his first semi-annual birth
aay.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1901-06-18
Survivor. of Grants Class.

Gen. William Bull Franklin, Gen.
Samuel G. French and the Rev Father
Deshon are the sole survivors of Cen
eral Grants class-that of 43-at
West Point.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1901-06-18

Talk as you may it is impossible for
some people to begin at the bottom and
work up--a well digger, for instance.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1901-06-18

The repartee you think of when II
ls everlastingly too late to work off
may save you a friend.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1901-06-18
A HISTORIC HOME.
GEN. 6HERMAN'S HOUSE TO BE
TORN DOWN..

It Was Given to Him by the Citizens of
st. Louis, but tho General Never En-
3oyed 1t to = Great E1tent-Loft the
City In Anger.