Evening star., 1901-02-04

to see the reservation filled with deer, ante
lope, buffalo and game birds. To person
travelling through the park the most strik-
ing feature is the comparative absence of
all these animals. The Yellowstone in its
present state is the natural home of them
all. If properly stocked it would be but a
few years before the place would be full
of these rapidly disappearing beasts. OF
course, it would cost money to make the
start and to pay keepers or wardens to look
after the enforcement of the game laws,
but in the end the lesson in natural history
which the reservation would afford visitors
would pay handsomely. OF course, the
Yellowstone is already a most beautiful
place, but its beauty would be greatly en-
HANGED by the presence of wild animals of
the sort named / understand the state
legislature means to present petition to
Congress urging something of this kind"
Kentucky being one of the greatest dis
tilling states in the Union" said d. B.
Bowman of Louisville at the Raleigh. at is
but natural that there should be more
Illicit stills there than anywhere else. In
the mountainous regions of eastern Ken
lucky these small liquor factories are quite
numerous despite the utmost efforts of the
revenue officers. Many of the stills are OF
the crudest description but they serve the
purpose for which they are made. 1 have
spent much time In business way in east
ern Kentucky and have seen some raids,
though never in the revenue service The
mountaineers are the toughest sort of illit-
crates, and 1 have often thought those of
them engaged in the manufacture of
whisky must be bound together by some
brotherhood tie. The firing of guns at a
raid is signal for rally of the mountain
clan, and pitched battles of considerable
magnitude often occur between them and
the officers of Uncle Sam. You may be
sure the life of a revenue officer in eastern
Kentucky is no sinecure. Some of this
mountain dew" l have seen was vile. l
have often thought that the use of it must
have something to do with creating that dis
regard for human life which seems so
strong among the mountaineers in that
region. Fresh from the still some of it is
of the kind that would literally make a
man feel like 'heaving stones at his grand
mother. The use of it is fortunately near
ly altogether confined to the makers and
the public is spared the trouble of dealing
with its consumers among other classes to
any extent
Mr.. Charles T. Meade of Chicago was at
, the Raleigh and said
Il have just returned from q three
months tour of Europe, and, having all my
life been sort of bookworm, spent much
of my time while abroad in the libraries of
the various cities and towns on my route
Many of the library buildings and espe-
cially in the smaller places, are unattrac-
| tive, and in some cases dilapidated but to
| the book lover they contain a wealth of
| old volumes and manuscripts which makes
| 1t seem sacrilege that they should not be
| better cared for. In Italy especially en-
| joyed the feast of viewing these old treas
| ures in book FORM l saw there volumes on
/ parchment and manuscripts hundreds Of
years old. done entirely with stylus and
| illumined most beautifully with brush in
/ colors that have stood the light Of GEN.
| turies without fading. Hundreds of old
| books there are printed in the most pc
| culiar type on paper now brown as the
F.! quaint old sheep binding which covers
| them. In some cases the binding itself was
| %ork of art With its silver or gold fila
I gree clasps and corner tacks. / felt that
could have spent years instead Of days in
| those old libraries without tiring. We have
| in this country no such collections