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the deep shadows on the side farthest
from the mountains he had watched
so intently before he began his jour
ney and darted suddenly under the
overhanging ledge, where the water
had worn away the softer rock, and
hid again in q hollow as before.
Then followed hours of strange
toll. At times the man lay fiat on
the hot plain and dragged himself
along, taking minutes to move his
own length, so that any enc watching
would have needed a keen and steady
eye to be certain that he moved at
ALL Then, in a friendly gully, he
moved faster, with the crOuching
posture of the morning. and even
once, where the great boulders stood
like the ruins of an ancient city, he
almost ran through the black shad-
ows of what seemed once to have
been a street, only throwing himself
down to crawl where an open place.
like a cross street, let in the unwel-
come sunlight.
The perspiration had ceased to
flow, for every drop of moisture was
burned from his body. The CRIME
stood on his face in dry patches; his
eyes were red and bloodshot; his
tongue hung from his mouth. and
even the hot stones had ceased to
burn his flesh, so hot had it become
in his fierce struggle under that ul-
tempered sun.
In the early afternoon, he stopped
to rest in the shaded hollow of a
boulder, and suddenly, as he looked
to the ground, his face blanched I'M
der its coating of CRIME. A broken
sage bush told where a foot had
passed! This man had reached a
| point where signs of humanity were
more terrible than the death that
! surrounded him on every hand! He
| looked again, and the pallor became
| moro terrible, with the set terror of
| despair. He recognized the spot
| where he had rested in the morning
and from which he had crawled to
| the first guilty. 1t was his foot that
had broken the sage bush. and all
these hours of superhuman toll had
availed only to bring him back to
| his starting point Then he rose
erect, no longer creeping, no longer
skulking, but upright, as God meant
man to walk, and took the direction
in which lay the mist that was a
| mountain.
Hours passed again, The sun had
! almost touched the top of the noun
tains, which now rose huge and dark
| before the man who dragged ON and
| on, over the dead plain, with purple
| face and swollen hands and feet
| filled with but one thought, conscious
| of but one wish, to reach the shelter
| of the mountains, and there to find
! water, and, drinking, perchance to
| die.
Long shadows ran out to meet
| him; cooler air from the mountain
|. heights touched his brow. In q gull
| ly, high up among the ragged pines
he caught a sheen of light, where the
last sun rays struck falling stream
Suddenly, from behind a great boul
der. horseman barred the way, the
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-08-13

In the days before the Spanish con-
quest the art of the jeweler fiourished
in various parts of Mexico, among
tribes speaking distinct languages or
dialects Near the City of Mexico.
in the pueblo of Atzcapazalco, a town
still in prosperous existence, and
much modernized with it's villas of
well-to-do city people, the cunning of
the native jewelers. attracted the at
tention of the great conqueror, Her
nan Cortes, always interested in the
arts of the natives. Indeed, in his
letters to Emperor Charles v. he
writes of the workmanship of the
scales, a triumph of their craft, to
be sent to that monarch.
The recent discovery of a prehis
toric golden mask of rare design and
exquisite workmanship near Chilpan-
cingo, the capital of the state of Guer-
zero, is of great archaeological i'm
portance. The finding of this beauti-
full and costly object prompted Prof
William Niven, mineralogist and ex-
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CORN A VERSATILE PRODUCT.
InnumerabIe Uses to Which 1t Can Be


Probably few things that grow are
capable of so many uses or are as
completely used as corn. The grain
is used for food both for human beings
and cattle, while the stalks are used
as cattle feed. The pith of the corn
stalk is used in the manufacture of
smokeless powder, in the manufacture
of high-grade varnish, and in the man.
ufacture of paper The woody por-
tons are used in the manufacture of
a cheap quality of paper.
AS a food corn is supplied in many
forms. The most familiar are as meal,
hominy and grits. Practically all the
starch that. is used in the United
States is. made from corn Immense
quantities are also used in the manu-
facture of glucose, which, among other
things, enters largely into the manu-
facture of beer, as a substitute for
malt.
A large quantity of corn is used an
nually in the manufacture of whisky,
and nearly 100000 bushels are used
every year in the manufacture of CO.
logne spirits and alcohol. Even in the
manufacture of these products nothing
is lost. The glutinous and other resi-
dues in the manufacture of starch,
glucose, whisky and alcohol are used
as cattle feed.
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By george DYER eLDRIDGE
Copyright 1901 by shortsory tAn rights

A land SO desolate that magma
ton might not picture it; the surface
alternating in gray and red, where
the disintegrated line and sandstone
lay side by side without minging;
soil too coarse for vegetation, hard
with the baking of a burning sun.
and worn into ridges. where the
spring torrents from the melting
snow of the mountains had eaten
away the softer earth. In scattered
clumps, gray sage-seeming in It's
1ifeless dryness rather a part of the
dead soil than a living growth from
1t. Here and there cleaned white in
the sunshine masses of bleached
bones of cattle-perhaps of men
who had wandered there and died.
The vast plain that stretched, dead
waste, to the mountains which hung
like banks of mists on the edge of the
horizon, was broken by hideous
masses of red sandstone, gigantic.
water-worn into curious shapes by
the floods of aged untold. Here, one
STOOD isolated, in the form of
crouching animal ready to spring;
there, they lay along the plain, as if
huge lizards had been suddenly
turned to stone Again, one lowered
like a pillar, carved with strange de-
vices of a forgotten people, and yon-
der, in masses and groups and rows.
they seemed the ruins of some vast
city, whose streets and squares must
have echoed to busy feet hundreds
thousands of years ago. Not tree
in the vast plain, but over all a sky
without cloud, and a sun, not yet
at the meridian, that burned with
more than tropic heat.
Suddenly, in the very center of this
horror of desolation, appeared a man
He was crouching in the water-worn
hollow of one of the biggest rocks
covering in its blacklist shadow and
gazing off across the wide plain to
the dim mist that told where the
mountains lay. There was a bag
gard, hunted look in his face, and
when in the deep stiffness, unbroken
by the hum of a locust or the buzz
Of a beetle, a bit of sandstone
dropped from the great boulders, he
shivered as with fear and drew deep
er into the shadow of the followed
rock.
After some minutes. he seemed to
gather courage and suddenly dropped
from his rock-shelter, fiat upon the
ground still, however, within the
shadows of the great boulder. Then
he raised his head and again gazed
away toward the mountain. 1t was
as if he felt that the mountain had
eyes and was watching the great
plain, on which anything that moved
would be seen through the clear air
and known by its power of life to
be strange to that dead world.
After time he was crawling like
a lizard, out of the shadows, across
a stretch of hot sunlight, in among
the scant sage bushes-crawling as
ii he would be part of the gray and
red earth, If only he could burrow
into it and escape sight. Even when
he reached the sage bushes he did
not rise, but instead, crept on and
on. until he came to one of those
hideous water-worn gullies, into
which he rolled without raising his
body from the ground.
There he lay for a time, as il ex-
pecting that the dead plain would
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plorer, now resident of Guernavaca.
state of Morelos. to make some inves-
LEGATIONS into this interesting subject.
and his efforts have been rewarded
with much success, he having in the
past few months seen and photo
graphed more than fifty gold objects.
which clearly prove that the Indian
goldsmith was a workman of great
skill and thoroughly efficient in his
art.
The finding of these costly relics.
together with the rich gold discov-
cries made during the past year in
southern Mexico strengthen the be-
lief among some students of Mexican
history that the coveted sources of
Montezuma's gold treasures may be
found within the bounds of this COM
paratively unknown region.
1t is related that when Cortes de-
manded of the Mexican monarch
where his stock of yellow metal came
from, Montezuma directed two of his
lords, or caciques, to accompany some
of the Spanish invaders to the local
ity now believed to have been accu-
rately determined. Upon the return
of the Spaniards they reported to Cor
ties that the Indians picked up the
grains of gold in deep barrancas, or
ravines; that the gold was extremely
scarce, and that the gold country was
about eighty leagues southwest of
Tenochtitlan, as the City of Mexico
was known to the Aztecs.
A glance at the map of Mexico will
show that the region must be close
to where the recently discovered gold
objects were found. Many archaeolo-
giStS assert that the highest culture
of Aztec civilization was centered
around the capital, and that the In
dams who lived outside of this circle
were but semi-barbarous tribes, some
living in caves and others leading a
nomadic life. This may have been
the case when Cortes first entered
Tenochtitlan, but that there lived a
civilized people in southwestern Mex
leo ages before the time Of Monte
yuma there is every reason to believe.
Prof. Niven, who has explored this
region, is entirely confident of the
correctness of this theory.
He says that tens of thousands OF
ruins of buildings which had been
substantially built of stone, to the
northwest of Chilpancingo, were
doubtless in the same ruined condi-
ton when Montezuma flourished.
Then, as now, little was known of the
former jewellers in those houses. The
beautiful gold and jade amulets, cop
| per and stone implements and gold
| dress ornaments found in and near
| these ruins in the state of Guerrero
| appear to prove that there lived a
mighty people in this mysterious land.
people as highly cultivated as the
Aztecs have been represented to be.
Who were they? Why have they
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is town called Pascalalan del Orc.
which is said to be near a gold de-
pOsit of fabulous richness and tradi-
ton relates that the inhabitants of
this section paid their tributes to the
conquistadores in gold nuggets. Many
stories are told of attempts made to
wrest from them the secret of their
gold region, but to this day all efforts
have been in vain. A priest, at one
time, very nearly succeeded in max
ing the coveted discovery. He had
shown many acts of kindness to the
poor Indians, and was held by them
in great reverence. All payments to
him were made in native gold
His ceaseless pleadings to be taken
to the mine were met by steady re-
fusals, but one day the Indians relent-
ed sufficiently to agree that he should
made the journey blindfoided. Be
fore departing the old padre tied a
small bag of corn to his belt, under
his cloak, and every few steps of his
horse he dropped a grain to the
ground. After many hours over a
rough, broken trail the padre and his
guides arrived at the entrance to the
gold mine, where he saw the quartz
y
al. AS he stood spellbound, contem-
plating the wonderful bonanza, he
joyfully congratulated himself that he
had outwitted the Indians by his cum
ming ruse of scattering the corn. But
as he was felicitating himself one of
the guides came up and handed him
a bag saying: Padre, you lost your
corn; but here it is, every graini" On
returning home he, of course, had NO
means of knowing where he had been
the return journey having been made
blindfolded-
ION my recent trip to the Pacific
coast" says Prof. Niven, 81 rode over
these mountains, and camped near
the town where it is said the priest
started from. / found indications OF
gold over a wide area. 1 also know
that the late governor of Guerrero
bought small quantities of gold mug
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The Bow SpecuIated.

Baron Moncheur, the Belgian minis.
ter, visited Baltimore last month. At
a dinner in Baltimore he said:
"The spirit of business enterprise
and speculation is what impresses me
most profoundly in America. For in
stance, l was riding one day on the
outskirts of Washington, and at a
certain place 1 dismounted and got a
little boy to hold my horse. 1 was
gone about ten minutes, and on my
return 1 found the first boy gone, and
another, a smaller one, standing at the
horses head.
'''How is this?" 1 said. You are
not the boy 1 left my horse with.
No, sir said the tiny urchin, I
speckilated and bought the job off
the other fellow for a dime
'tOf course, after that" the minister
ended, cit was impossible for me to
bear the market''-Kansas City Jour
nal
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access on Pronoun."

Two negro women boarded Penn
sylvania avenue car at Seventh street.
One was a large, dark-skinned woman,
fashily dressed; the other was small,
yellow woman, wearing a modest
gown.
The women were discussing a mu-
tual friend, Mr.. jerks. The large wo-
man spoke in loud tones and pro-
nounced the name of the man as
though it. were spelled links. 1t
was evident from the expression on
the face of the smaller woman that
she was annoyed by the loud talking
and INSTRUMENTATION of her friend.
Finally she protested:
''You speak of Mr.. jerks as though
his name were spelled with an Il
instead of an 'e'.''
'Oh, yes" the large woman ex-
claimed, Il perceives you puts the ac-
cess on the pronoun.' Washington
Times.
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brid1e-rein hanging loose, a short rifle
at his shoulder, aimed at the hunted
mans heart Tine fugitive stopped.
his weary head droppeds and with his
swollen hand he made the sign of
the Cross on brow and breast. Then
came the sharp, quick ring of the
rifle, and the man fell, with arms
outspread, and wfth7sa single groan
lay dead, himself making the sign
of the Cross on the dead plain The
horseman adjusted his -rifie across his
saddle, gave one glance at the dead
body, to make sure that his aim had
been true, and rode away into the
depths of the mountains.
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lows of a Tent.

So much has been written and SAID
during the last few years on the sub
ject of living in open air, that 1 want
to recommend a substitute for a pi-
azZa in case you have not one for
work or rest in convenient place.
have taken great comfort in a tent
placed in retired and shady part of a
rather small lot My tent has flaps
that open up and form additional over
head protection on two sides. A
maple floor, several inches from the
ground, makes it habitable, even in a
rain storm, and an army cot, SEWN g
table and canvas chairs, looking glass
and calendar constitute the furnish
ings. (The looking glass is for my
guests.) 1 nap, draw, sew, read and
entertain my friends in my tent from
May until October. Last year I gave
a Fourth of July supper to ten and
added grass mats and bunting decora-
lions for the occasion.-Good House
keeping.
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Has Learned Much Of Africa.

A recent statement in the Scientific
American says that NJ Chevalier, the
noted French explorer, has just re-
turned from a prolonged trip through
Central Africa, where he secured a
valuable collection of interesting doc
uments and photographs of the coun-
try and its people A monograph.
which he took with him was the me-
dunn for obtaining re ords of the
languages of the various natives in
the regions which he explored. In a
course of lectures which NJ Cheva-
lier is to deliver he intends to repro
duce these records.
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lay and listened to his own heart
beats and the awful silence.
Evidently the gully had been Sc
lected as leading in the direction he
wished to take, for finally he rose
TO a crouching posture and began to
move up its course, walking almost
swiftly, though with still Bonded
back, where it was deep and the sage
bush hung over it, and crawling
again where it grew shallow and Law
open to the sun. In this way, after
an hour of toll, he reached a mass of
boulders, around which the gully
bent. and here he raised himself in
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Mahooany Hunters.

In Central and South America the
revenues of many districts depend on
the skill and activity of the mahog-
any hunters. Mahogany trees do not
grow in groups; much less are there
whole forests of them They are scat
tered, usually concealed in thickets.
It requires skill and experience to
find them To fell a tree involves the
work of two men for whole day.
On account of thick, thorny growth
near the base of the tree, scaffold
is erected around it, and above this.
at height of from ten to fifteen feet.
the tree is cut, so that the best part
is really lost. The felled tree is then
freed of branches and hauled on a
rough wagon by oxen to the nearest
river, where RATS are made and float
ed down.
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Mayor McCIellan's Smile.

Mr.. Mcclellan was accompanied by
a friend. He was smoking the last
quarter of an immense cigar and
talked earnestly. In front of the en-
trance to the Potter building half
dozen newsboys were sorting papers.
The mayor was caught there in the
crowd, and delayed a few seconds.
One of the gamins spotted him.
ssHey, fellers,'' he said, in a low
tone "dat's de mayor"
'Golly," said another. Look at de
size of de smoke. Folly him md see
where he tro's de butt"
AS the mayor, smiling at what he
had overheard, pushed on, he re-
marked to his companion:
such is fame-mostly a big
smoke."-New York Mail.
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IT, s s
Ready to Shoot.

Ready to Shoot.
The other day seven-year-old Gar
ence was seen climbing through the
skylight with his fathers shotgun
clutched in his chubby fist
Clearance come here, sir!
shrieked the nurse. Where are You
going with that gum"
You leave me alone" said the
youngster. I'm after that stork
what brought the baby to Tommy
Browns cause we don't want one OF
them bawling kids around here
Brooklyn Life.
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utterly disappeared. leaving hardly .

utterly disappeared, leaving hardly .
trace behind them?
Prof. Nfven, a competent archaeOl-
ogist as well as miner, holds that this
vanished race passed away by the
same awful agency that created such
havoc in Java, and more recently in
Martinique. If there are. perchance.
any survivors left, possibly traces OF
them may be found among the tribes
who dwell in the region northeast of
Acapulco and onward to Oaxaca-
There live to-day the Mixtecas, Tlap-
anecos and Amusgos, who have their
own language. and among whom very
few speak Spanish
In the land of the TlapanecoA there
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The Land of Long Ago.

The Land of Long Ago.
Where happy hours sleep
Where languid rivers glide,
With stately flow and deep;
Where fadeleSS roses blow,
And Love sits azure-eyed.
There comes no frost, nor snow,
But balmy breezes sweep
Ger gardens fair and wide,
And slow the waters creep
Through blossoms bending low
Above the charmed tide
How sweet to rise and go
From ways where mortals weep,
From love so long denied,
To dreams that roses heap,
Where crystal waters flow.
And golden days abide
r. G. Coventry in English Countr,
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pisoracinu Herself.

Mrs. Smartset-'For mercy's sake.
don't let me hear you talk about
books in society again."
Cultured Daughter Dear me!
Why not?"
Mrs. Smartset-tStrange will
think you have been a cash girl in
a book store."-New York Weekly.
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Usual Way.

Newpop- baby is awfully fond
of me-
NeighborsE"Oh, of course
Newpop-"Fact- Why, the little beg
gar sleeps all day while 1 am down.
town and stays awake all night for
the sole purpose of enjoying my so
ciety-"
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In a Peck of Trouble.

Paterson Pete-I dreamt last night
dat 1 had a million dollars
Stacked Oates-Did yer enjoy it?
Paterson Pete-Nit! wuz sued fer
breach NV promise. operated on fer
appendicitis an mentioned fer de vice
presidency fore I'd even got it count
ed.-Judge.
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An Ambition.

$50" remarked the sultan of Moroc.
co, that bandit wants to run the gov
ernmenti"
Eyes" was the answer. He says
he's tired of being dishonest. Be
sides, he thinks he can make graft
pay better than brigandage."
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No Children Permitted.

She was tired and vexed. She had
been wandering about all the morning
looking for an apartment suite.
81 know why they turned Adam
and Eve out of Eden" she said.
-Why?"
Because they had a rule that
barred out children and dogs"
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They Were Kind to Him.

The Mosquito-Do you see that
tired looking ham on the front steps?
Well, heard him say he was hungry.
and so 1 went over and gave him a
bite.
The June Bug-And I heard him
say he was thirsty and so l went over
and gave him a nip.
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GOLD OBJECT SAID 40
HANE BEE9 FoJHo
III STATE OEGJEERER

gets from his goatherds who live in
that locality. But my impression is
that if there is a rich deposit of gold
in that region it is not likely that
the Indians who live there to-day are
aware of it. The finding of gold by
the goatherds may have been at a
distance from the really rich region
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eue, Remains in Boston.

Z Prof. Marcus D. Buell. remains as
professor of new testament exegesis
in Boston University School of The
olcgy, reports to the contrary not
withstanding.
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Would Show No Mercy.

Hogan calling on next door neigh.
bor)-I suppose we've heard tn ILL.,
CANT, classical music that's bin imy
natin' from me residence for tn pasht
wake or so? We got wan av thin me-
chanica1 pianny-players on thrile.
Clancy (fercely)-On thrile, it is?
Glory be! I only wisht 1 wor the
judgei-Puck.
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Mr.. Squirtz-Good morning, Mr..
Potts Will zee come and ave a
drink?
Mr.. tts-Well-hic-ash a marrer
fac'-I've-hic-'ed one already.
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UnavoIdapIe inference.

Poor Jim. He dassen't call his
soul his own any. morei"
What? / didn't know that poor
old Jim was married-New York Sun.
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Sauce.

'"The impudence of that young
brother of mine!" exclaimed Mrs.
Nagget. HE just told me 1 was no
chicken when 1 married you"
"Well," replied her unsympathetic
husband. that's true enough You
weren't chicken, were you?"
mo, I was a goose"
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been In vain- Streams of perspira-
tkon rolled down his face and mixed
with the white dust that was rising
constantly from the dead soil, work
tng into the pores of his skin and
parching his mouth and throat as he