Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1903-09-09


land, not far from Cracow. Is one
of the most extraordinary cities liz
the world, Tor not only is ii
entirely subterranean, but the mate.
rial used in its construction is not
stone or brick, but salt, says Pearsons'
Weekly, EoDdon.
Three thonaand people,are resident
in it's 700 houses. and they are all
workers in the great salt mines. The
street and squsres are paved with
rock salt slabs Of pureat white, and
are kept exquisitely neat aud clean
by corps of volunteer scayengers.
The pride Of the city, however, is
its Cathedral, carved in salt and
lighted with electricity. It is
gorcgously decorated and on the
high altar blazes the magnificent
CROSS which was presented by the
late Gar of Russia, when he
descended from the upper air in order
to worship there for brief space
eleven years ago.
Disease of an infectious or conta-
gious nature is quite unknown in
Kelburg; in fact, the majority of the
inhabitants die of old age. A nom
fatal ailment of a scorbutic type is,
however, occasionally prevalent, and
a mild form of ophthalmia, said to be
due to the continual and all-pervad-
ing whiteness is more or less com
mon.
Regarded as city of salt, pure and
simple, Keblurg is of course, unique.
But there are several examples of
cities situated beneath the surface OF
the earth.
In the Peruvian province of
Cuzco, for instance, is an abandoned
quicksilver mine, ITO fathoms in
circumference and about 100 in depth.
And within this profound abyss are
streets, squares aud chapel, where
daily religious worship is carried on.
Among the inhabitants are many
old men and women who have never
cared to visit the earth above them
since they left it as little toddling
children in the early years of the last
century.
In Japan, again, thirty miles or so
from Kumanolu, some 10000 men,
women and children are permanently
resident in tho crater of an extinct
volcano.
In this pit-like city, surrounded by
a vertical wall more than 500 feet
high, the entire community lives,
moves and has its being. Rarely,
indeed, does one of its members
make journey into the outer world;
and they are not often intruded upon,
for they are of a churlish, not to say
revengeful, disposition.
The Etahyans, or "Arctic High
'landers," of Ross, live in the ice
caves within the vast glacier cap
which covers all Northern Green
land. Theirs is, perhaps, the most
wretched and isolated existence it is
nooo;bln 10 oonoo;,,o
Their dwellings" are always wet,
owing to the melting of the ice walls
and floor. For full six months of the
year the darkness of the arctic night
envelops them. The ice is around
them, beneath them, above them.
In nine cases out of ten, if they ven~
ture abroad, they breathe the frozen
particles and the sensation is akin
to that which comes from inhaling
the blast of furnace.
Nevertheless they refuse to move
further south with the approach of
winter, as do all the other Eskimo
tribes. They take sort of perverted
pride in their loneliness as in their
misery. "What NATTER" they say, elf
we are cold and hungry2 We are the
last of all peoples. We dwell liter
ally at the end of the world. To the
aorth of us there is snow, there is
ice but there is no land, and there
is nothing that lives, breathes or has
independent movement"
In 1893 wild tribe of natives was
discoverd in the Wentworth district
of New South Wales, whose dwellings,
and mode of living approximated al
most exactly to those of our troglo-
dyte ancestors. The tribe had it's
origin in a runaway black fellow hid
ing in some little known country
thirty years with a few gins.
During that period the horde had
increased to above thirty persons.
men, women and children. They
herded together in two low caves,
which they had dug for themselves,
increasing their length as fresh
arrivals in the shape of babies neces-
STATED more room. Their only food
consisted of kangaroo, with cat and
ant eggs. Their sole weapons were
spears and they were merely stems
OF malice wood, pointed and barbed.
They produced fire by rubbing two
sticks together and their water
was contained in bags made