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The Savannah morning news., 1904-02-28
CLIMBING THROUGH
THE ZONES

There are two places in the world
tropical, sub-tropical and temperate
zones inside of an hour.
Hawaii is one and Darjeeling, in
Northeastern India, alongside of little
Nepal, is another.
In both these places the trick is done
by climbing up the high mountains
In Hawaii the traveller starts with
the warm breath of the Pacific tanning
him and the smell of palm trees. He
passes for a space of great clusters of
tropical fruit, and as he mounts the
trees change, until he is in the kind
of scenery that may be found in the
Southern United States. Still he
climbs, and soon he notices that it is
much colder and that the character of
the scene has changed to one that re-
minds him of the temperate zone, with
| fields in which potatoes and other
Northern vegetables are growing.
In Darjeeling the change is still
more wonderful. The entrance to the
table land, on which the little noun
tain city stands, is through a dark,
somber tropical pass, full of mighty
palms and hung with orchids and other
jungle growth. After a while the trees
change from palms to the wonderful
tree ferns. These alternate with ba-
mana trees until, after some more
climbing, forests are reached that are
composed of magnolias and similar
trees. Through these magnolias the
way leads ever up, and all at once,
over an open pass, there come to the
view immense thickets of Himalayan
rhododendron and the evergreen of
frs and cedars; and beyond stand the
white, grim, snow-clad, frozen noun
tain peaks like Arctic icebergs on land.
In less than two hours traveller
can ascend from orchids through jun
giles to tea plantations, and thence to
climate of northern roses and violets.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-02-28

terrible tug at my line, which 1 had
tied fast, do you see to my wrist for
just such a happening.
well, l woke up quick, you may
know. And l began to haul and haul.
l hauled until my boat tipped side
ways and the water began to come
into it. Then / went to the bows and
hauled until my boat tipped upwards
and the stern lifted out of the water
and the boat stood on its head, so to
speak. But 1 couldn't bring that big
fish in. Deep. deep below he pulled
and splurged and swan and founder
ed, and every time he plunged he pull
ed so hard that my arms went souse!
into the water up to my shoulders.
But l couldn't bulge him.
AT last l got so tired of hauling
that l just simply had to tie the line
fast to the thwart and sit down and
rest. And the fish at once began to
shoot ahead as fast as a locomotive,
towing me behind him.
He towed and towed and lowed
He seemed to be pulling me straight
away from the sun that was setting
now and sat on the very edge of the
sea behind me like a big, fiery-faced
man going in swimming.
Il suppose you will wonder why
didn't cut the line and go home. Why
should 1? / was out for fish and you
will admit that l certainly had a fish,
so why should 1 let him go? Be-
sides, was getting a fine sea voyage,
and there is nothing so good for the
health.
We'll, the sun sank and the night
came and all things went to sleep ex-
cept that big fish deep down in the sea-
He just kept right on pulling, as if
he never would grow weary.
so | took drink of water. l had
big ten-gallon jug of it, so l wasn't
worried on that score. Then l got
out my luncheon that I had been too
busy to eat before, and 1 settled down
for a quiet meal.
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a toy gun. The British exercise a
protectorate over the young king and
his kingdom, and have established for
him sort of parliament, which the
royal boy opens regularly with much
pomp.
The new railroad which has been
built recently into the heart of the
boy kings territory has developed the
trade of the country, and the natives
are becoming civilized rapidly.
Little Daudi Chua speaks English
and gives state dinners, at which there
is curious mixture of African and
European foods and customs, though
the royal table is supplied with fine
linen, cut glass and silver brought out
from London. At these banquets the
chief duty of the prime minister is to
see to it that his royal master does
not eat enough to make himself sick.
The youngest professional organist
in the world is little Kathleen Mills,
who presides over the great organ in
the Catholic Church at Ongar, in Es-
The Savannah morning news., 1904-02-28

of my dinner left, and here are a few
pennies to buy more food when this
is gone. That is all l can do for you.
I'm sure you had better turn about
for home, but if you will keep on, then
/ don't want to see you suffer too
much for your foolishness.'
Not much more was said until the
teamster was obliged to turn off the
main road. Then he bade them good
bye, told them about the road which
lay before them, and all shook hands
as they parted.
IF you find giant or a pigmy," he
said with a laugh as he drove away,
please bring one back in a cage for
me. Don't forget my name-Carl
Dondewetter-and that I live in the
| village of Hasbad."
sat down and began to cry, and for
time Hans stood in the middle of the
road kicking up the dirt with his shoe
and not knowing whether to turn back
or keep on. At last he made up his
mind and said:
'Yuly, it may be that we were fool
ish to run away from home, and
wish we had never started, but having
got this far, let us go on. If we find
the lost river we shall not be scolded
so much as if we don't. Carl Donde-
wetter laughed about giants and pig
| mics, but I do believe in them after
all. We have both seen giants and
dwarfs, and why shouldn't there be
more of them? Dry your tears and
let us walk on
In a few minutes Yuly was smiling
in place of weeping, and the two were
going forward at a good pace. AS
| they did not want to be stopped and
questioned, they turned aside when
ever they saw any one coming, and
when they came to a village they hur-
J ried through it and shook their heads
| il spoken to.
With the lift of ten miles the
! teamster had given them, they made
| over twenty miles that day. That
night they slept under a spreading
| tree in a field, and were on the road
again at an early hour, and next night
they slept in barn.
On the third day, while they were
sitting beside the road eating the last
crumbs of their bread and sausage, a
tramp came along. He was an evil
looking fellow. and at sight of him
the children drew closer together and
Yuly whispered that she was afraid.
"Oh, ho!" exclaimed the tramp as he
caught sight of the children and halt
ed. Let us know whom we have
here. Where do you live?''
What is that to your" asked Hans
in reply.
what is that to me? Boy, don't
you give me any of your impudence.
You look to me like two young vaga-
bonds wandering around. and l want
to know all about you. 1t is my BUSH
ness to know that all the people that
pass along this road are all right.
Again. I ask. who are you and where
do you live? and you'd better be quick
about answering
II shall tell you nothing" replied
Hans, who was brave and sturdy lad
for his age.
"Oh. hol Oh, hol So you defy the
King of the Cannibal Islands. do YOU
This is matter to be seen to at once.
II is a long time since / met a kid as
fresh as you. but j think l can humble
you in very few minutes. Let us see
what a few blows of a switch will do. ="
To be continued.
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weary wanderer hid safely for the
night.
The next night the Yaybichy led him
to cave at the foot of a valley. AS
they advanced into it, the air grew
warmer and at last they came upon
four bears sleeping by the side of a
fire. The fire was not of wood, but
burned from four pebbles which lay
on the ground-a black pebble to the
east, blue pebble to the south, yell
low one to the west and a white one
to the north. And the four bears were
colored to correspond with the four
pebbles.
The bears demanded tobacco, and
the traveller gave them some, which
they smoked, although it made them
deathly sick. The black bear could
bear but one Whit. the blue bear took
two, the yellow bear three and the
white bear managed to take four be-
fore he became so dizzy he could not
sit up.
However, the bears said they were
grateful and gave the traveller food
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Children
of the World.

All children are mighty important
people in their own families. but some
children, either by accident or birth or
through their own achievements, oc-
cupy positions, which make them in
teresting, not only to their friends
and relatives, but also to the general
public.
The richest baby in the world is the
little son of the late Harold Brown of
Providence, r. 1. The death, within
a few days of each other of his father
and his uncle, left this youngster the
possessor of a fortune which is esti-
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mics there"
The teamster burst into a laugh so
hearty that the tears came to his eyes,
and 1t was two or three minutes before
he could say:
well, of all the silly things / ever
heard Of! Don't you understand that
all this talk of giants and pigmies is
like fairy tales? Why, you might as
well expect to find a rag-doll which
could sing. You have made very
bad mistake, and the best thing you
can do is to turn about and go home"
Yuly began to weep, and Hans was
much discouraged. For time the
teamster seemed to be thinking. At
last he said:
Children, don't want to be too
hard on you. The captain of the ca
nal boat who brought you on ought
to get taste of the whip, and the
old farmer who was going to give you
up was perfectly right. However, as
you have come this far, and as you still
believe in the fairy story, perhaps it is
as well that you go on. 1t will take
you at least three days to reach the
lost river, and when you have seen it
l think you will be glad enough to
turn about for home. i think you will
be stopped before you get there, but
l shall not be the one to do it. 1 go
about eight miles further on this road
and then turn off, but you will get
down and keep straight ahead. Ho!
no. no. but this is queer thing-a
very queer thing!"
And is there no lost river-no gil
ants-no pigmies?" asked Yuly as the
tears ran down her plump, red cheeks
You shall go on and see for your
selves. That will be the best way
Have you anything to eat?"
Hans had brought some bread and
sausage from the canal boat, and had
it stuffed into one of his pockets.
That will last you only a day OF
two" said the man. Here is some
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sword swallowers in the circus side
shows swallow swords.
Many other strange places did the
youth visit, and in each one of them
he learned magic. At last came day
when he saw his home, Beautiful
Among the Mountains, before him,
and the whole tribe came to see him
and hear his wonderful adventures
He became a great man among his
people, and to this day the Navajos,
once a year, sing the Mountain Chant,
which tells of Neyani's adventures,
and they go through many mystic
ceremonies which he taught them.
At these festivals in memory of
Neyani the braves sing many beautiful
songs, keeping it up all night and, as
the day begins to break, they sing a
lullaby which goes:
Lullaby-Lullaby.
1t is overwhelmingly.
Now comes the Daylight Boy-Lulla-
by.
Now il is day-Lullaby.
Here comes the Daylight Girl-Lulla-
by.
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of the room. and when they winked il
was lightning; and the lightning was
red, blue. yellow and white, just the
color of the bird which flashed it.
AT the house of the butterflies
which was very beautiful, Neyani was
dressed up by the Butterfly Queen in
the most gorgeous Indian style, ana
whereas he had not been especially
good looking before, he was trans
formed by the magic into the mos
beautiful youth ever seen. The Queen
of the Butterflies also gave him two
streaks of white lightning, saying Ia
him, Now the white lightning is
yours. You can do what you will with
it,"
One of the houses that he visited
was presided over by an old woman
who had the sun hanging on the east
wall of her parlor and the moon hanp-
ing on the west wall. Another house
was made of water and was called fine
House of the Plumed Arrows In if
were young men who taught Neyani
how to swallow arrows just as the
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mated to be between $4O,OOOOOO and
$4,000, 900.
The youngest general in the world
is Sultan Ahmed Mira. youngest son
of the late Shah of Persia and brother
of the present Shah He was born
in 1891, and is, therefore, only thirteen
years old. but he is a full general IN
the Persian army nevertheless, and
has regular staff, his generals uni
form and his war horse. He also
holds reviews of the troops and "plays
soldier" with an army corps for a
plaything.
The youngest king in the world is
Daudi Chua, King OF Uganda, who is
now about eight years old. He is a
well grown little fellow for his age,
and has a lively idea Of his own i'm
portance as a reigning monarch.
He holds his court seated on a scar
let throne. with a leopard skin mat
under his feet, and bearing In his hand
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sex, England. The regular organis'
falling ill, little Miss Mills took her
place and played for several Sundays
with such skill and mastery of the
instrument that all the people were 40
tonished when they found out una
child ofN1>-xears was presiding oFe'
the keys and stops.
When the regular organist retlIee
the child took the post of orgahis' 90
permanency. ~
Tho youngest IN. F. H." when
means Master of Fox Hounds, IN lll9
world is the boy, Lord de Chnolv
who As Is years old. and has os
master OF the Dalgan pack, when nun ",
twice a week during the season =.
County Galway, Ireland, for two yea
A master Of fox hounds must Ogu s
daring rider and skillfui one, ~
has the general management OF w
Continued on Page Twenty-se''"A
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Solution OF the Picture Puzzle of the
Monkey and the Bamboo Tree.

The guesser whom King Rigamajlg
caught ana set to work at the puzzle
OF how the four monkeys could posi-
bly, hide themselves away In the bam-
boo tree, without infringing on each
other, solved the problem as shown in
The picture.
The oasis., 1904-12-31


 me that tradition has it that at one time there was a popula tion of : 7,00O living in the cafion, all de- irving support from the mines in the vicinity.
 The Prieta canon is q deep gorge cut down through porphyry states and shales on the east slope of the San Antonio range of moun- tains with every evidence of high naturalization. At La Libertad the corporation of that name (Libertad Mining Company has the old Libertad and Tres Her manos mines, which have splen- did records of production, both dntig,to and recent, and are pro- ceeding to development upon an extensive scale. The old workings are q series of tunnels, in the lower one of which a winze was sunk a depth of 100 feet or more, and ex- tensive workings run out there- from, extracting rich silver ores carrying some gold. That had filled with water, which the pre- sent company pumped out.
 Upon the croppings above the ore is an oxide of iron, carrying 40 per cent to 50 per cent of that metal but good silver values With depth tine ore changes to an iron sulphide carrying gold, silver and copper.
 The present owners have just started a double compartment shaft, at a point in the bottom of the canon just below the entrance to the lowest tunnel. 1t is calcul- ated to cut the vein at depth of about 300 feet; but at each level of 100 feet, after point has been reached that will be underneath the old workings, levels will be run to cut the ledge and develop it.
 The officers of the Libertad Min ing X Smelling O., are J. w. Duntley, president; R. c. Coy, vice president; W. o. Duntley secretary and treasurer; L. Bemdsley, assist ant secretary; H. L. Miller, man. ager; J. W. Cleaver, superinten- dent.
 Mir. Miller was absent, en route to the principal office of the com pany in Chicago, and Mir. Cleayer did the honors of the camp.
 Mir. A. J Edwards, from Bisbee, is at the camp, and will remain permanently as mine foreman.
 Friday morning, the 18th, we took an hour or more to look into the old workings of the mine, but not all through them. It was after nine o'clock before we saddled and started upon our journey, Mr. Cleaver going along about league, to put the scribe upon the right road.
 ne route continued up the Prieta canon, which is lined with old pits dug by aatiguo placer miners, at the time mentioned hereinbefore, when the canon sup ported a population of 1000 peo- pie. They sunk to the bed rock, brought to the surface the aurifer- ous dirt lying on the rock, and washed out the coarse gold. If all the holes, now filled to mere pits, that may be counted up and down the cahon, were sunk at about the same time, there were surely 1000 people.
 Not far above the Libertad
 4l
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 disappearing, and lofty cliffs of porphyry rising upon either side. Three great ledges-the Libertad, the Prieta, and the Grande, rum ming northeast and southwest cut through the slates, shales and por- phyry, and upon those are mines now working, and several famous antiguas as we'll. The lodges are doubtless the sources of the placer gold extracted during the days of Spanish occupation. There are also number of cross lodges, that give good assays, with numerous intrusions of trachyte and rhyolite, with some diorite. Even the coun- try rocks show naturalization, and the entire region is highly miner alized. A splendid field is here offered for the investment of heavy capital and operation upon a large scale.
 Farther up the canon we reached the huerta (orchard) which gives San Antonio de la Huerta it's dis tinctive name. By the nearest route the town, down on the river, is about two leagues away, but the road we had travelled had covered five or six.
 We reached the orchard at the lowest point. and We stopped on the trail to gaze upon and admire the luxuriant scene. Stretching up the bottom of the caron nearly a thousand yards, and following it's sinuosities, is q broad stand of plantain (banana plants) fifty or sixty feet in width. They com- pletely filled the caiion to the width described and lining down the almost precipitous bottom of the canon, could be appropriately described as a cascade of brilliant verdure, pouring down out from tbe heights above. At the upper end, upon either side the brilliant stream of light green plantain is fianked by groves of citrus trees oranges, lemons, Times, tonqetos, and puneeLos (grape fruit)-their darker foliage suggestive of deep pool whence flows the brilliant cas- cade falling away below; and the ripened fruit hanging among the verdure, gives a brilliant contrast to the sombre green.
 Above the orchard upon the opp posite side of the calon from where led the trail we followed, are the substantial houses of the home of the owner, Don Manuel Guerrero, an old man who has lived there many years.
 As we rode up the trail we feast ed our eyes upon the beautiful sight, and when we went around the head of the orchard to the en- trance, we were met at the door by Don Manuel himself, who cordi- ally invited Us to enter and seat ourselves, which We did; and We feasted our guStatory senses upon fresh bananas and oranges served with a lavish hand by the cordial and courteous spouse of our host. She sent servants out into the plaintain grove, whence they re- turned shortly with a couple of great lunches of bananas, while another went to the orchard and brought a basket of large, ripe, sweet and delicious oranges. That is the way to eat fruit of any kind ripe. right of from the hee.
The oasis., 1904-12-31
WAYSIDE NOTES
Toledo to San Javier, across the San Antonio Mountains. A Delightful Journey. q Tropical Orchard.

Thursday morning the 18th was passed at Toledo, resting and look ing over the works, which are we'll arranged and finely appointed-a modern and complete equipment, with a lead stack having a daily capacity of 100 tons of ore, and a copper stack of thirty tons. There are half q dozen large we'll built structures housing the machinery and all operations of the company, including large and well stocked store.
 Mr. ]. Barney, assistant man. ager, is in charge, but he had gone over to Tonichi on business, and in his absence Mir. Marion 5. Me- Carthy, the metallurgist, did the honors.
 Mir. Frank Millett is in charge of the store.
 In the course of the morning Mir. NJ. Y. Howard, we'll known in Nogales, came in from Suaqui Grande, about forty miles away to the southwest, where he is engaged in mining with MT. c. NJ Cochrane.
 Mir. Manuel Johnson of Hermo- sillo is also in the camp.
 Toledo is beautifully situated upon the west bank of the Yaqui river about 100 miles eastward from the line of the Sonora railway in the vicinity of Torres. By the road via San Jose de Pimas, Teco- ripa and La Barranca, itss is about 100 miles from Minas Prietas. The circuituous route we have followed is about no miles. The Herbert map gives the altitude of the vicin- ity at TO feet.
 The camp stands at the summit of low ridge skirting the Yaqui river, and from the ride one ob- tains a manificent view, both up and down the river In the far distance to the eastward the main range of the Sierra Madre rears it's lofty crest against an elevated sky line, and the cylindrical summits ef the Dos Pilares peaks, fifty miles distant, are seen rising above the line of the ridge. Near at hand, just across the river. the conglom- crate cliffs have been carved by the clements into a score of fantas- tic and imposing forms, while beneath the swift current of the river is broken here and there by the points of q reef of diorite or trachyite, peeping above the water. To the westward, close at hand, the hills surrounding Los Bronces peaKs. at San Javier, overhang the camp. Turned in any direction the eye meets views fit subjects for the art of the pain ter and engraver.
 Shortly after noon of Thursday 1 started from Toledo in company with Mr. Jack Cleaver, superinten- dent at La Libertad camp, about ten miles distant to the northwest. Our route led over the rolling hills and into Prieta canon, at the mouth of which stands the ruined old reduction plant at Jecopaco, mentioned in the preceding letter, as having been erected by an Eng fish company, quarter of a cen tury or more ago, for reduction of the ores from the mines at La