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The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-12-15
NeM Rural Rnute.

Washington, Dec. 14.-(SpeciaI.)-. Rural route No. 1 ordered establishe cd March at New Hope, serving six hun- dred people ard 150 families.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-12-15
Snow in Virginia.

Winchester, Va, Dec. 14.--Northern Virginia Is in the grasp of heavy snow and sleet storm which began at midnight. Snow covers ground to denth of three or four inches. The sleet has interfered considerably with the telephone and power service.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-12-15
storm on virginia.

Norfolk, Va, Dec. 14,-The northeas. gale that swept the coast this mornins' while severe and forcing all ships m, shore to seek sheiter of iandiockeo harbors, so far as reported was ioi'i lowed by no disasters.
 The wind reached a velocity of fifty miles an hour of tho Virginia Capes and sixty miles at Hatteras. A high sea prevailed and a driving rain ana mist added to the periis of navigators' Scores of vessels took refuge In ha'np- ion Roads and the bay iniets.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-12-15
Schooner |. Abandoned.

New York. Dec, tf--The tug Asher J. Hudson. which arrived today rom Norfolk brought Captain Reed ana tne crew of two men of the schooner barge ,Addie Jordan which became water logged and was abandoned. The barge carried a cargo of lumber
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-12-15
severe Gale Reported.

Wilmington, N. C., Dec. l4--The schooner John M. Brown arrived to- night from New York. Captain e.eV. ems reports a severe gale iasl ns ass siight damage to the forward house Of his vessel but so far as he could ascer
 tain before coming in here there were no disasters to shipping on this coast
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-12-15

in the Mississippi valley Friday night and moved rapidly northeastward.
 High winds attended the storm along the coast and spread rapidly north ward to New York, where the winds were northeastward with snow turn ing to rain. The snow was widespread. falling in all of the cities westwaru from the Middle Atlantic coast to Chi cago. Milwaukee and other lake sta tions. The storm will continue nov ing northeastward and spend it's force over New England.
 The storm was not attended by cold weather, temperatures recorded being fairly high for the season east or the Mississippi river.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-12-15
wEArHHR FoREcAsr.

washington, Dec. 14.--Fcr Alabamai Fair sunday and Mendays fresh west winds.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-12-15
Severe In New England.

Boston, Dec. 14.-A severe nor u easteriy storm. reached New Esiaho this afternoon and the provinces .o night. several vessels were forced ashore and hundreds of schooners ran into port for shelter. The most seri- ous accident was the stranding Of the Thomson Line steamer Kiidona. bound from Shields for Portland. Me-, at Brazil Rock. Cape Sable. N. 5. cap tain Roberts and his crew were res cued by the Louisburg. The kiidons Is a total wreck.
 The tug Hercules from Newport .o, New London with four barges on Moves Point. R. l.. was obliged to run ashore to prevent sinking. The crew landed safely.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-12-15

the third and fourth divisions in the second squadron. Rear Admiral Evans. who next to Admiral Dewey. is the senior officer of the navy, is comman- der-in-chief of the fleet and also is nominally in command of the first squadron and the first division. The four ships of this division are the Connecticut fflagship). Kansas. ver- mont and Louissana. They are all of one design. displacing 16.000 tor, apiece and representing the heax;13 type of fighting craft known q ; Western hemisphere. .f squadron. like all the ott Visions of the fleet. consists o C vessels. The commander of tf = ision, Rear Admiral William H. k ,ory. < flies his falg from the Georgia. The New Jer- sey. the Rhode Island and the Virginia are his- other ships. and like the first division they are all of one class. Their displacement is something like a thousand tons less but their engines rate superior by 5000 horsepower and their speed is one knot higher
 The second squadron is under com mand of Rear Admiral c. M. Thomas, whose authority in the fleet is second only to that of commander-in-c chief. Admiral Thomas has command of the third division, made up of the Minne- sota (fiagship) the Ohio. Missouri and Maine. The latter three are his ships, but the Minnesota belongs to the more modern and heavier Connecticut class.
 The fourth and last division has Rear Admiral Charles S. Sperry in command, and is composed of the Ala bama (flagship) the Illinois, the kearsarge and the Kentucky.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-12-15
MT. Roosevelt's Plans.


 Washington. Dec. 1.-The present arrangement for the departure of the Presidents party for Hampton Roads to witness the beginning of the cruise of the battIeship fleet, contemplates q start on the Mayflower from this city at 3 o'clock tomorrow afternoon. The vessel is due to arrive in the Roads at 8 o'clock next Monday morning.
 Besides the President. the party will he composed of. Mrs. Roosevelt, Miss Ethel Roosevelt and Secretary and Mrs. Metcalf. Assistant Secretary and Mrs. Newberry. Admiral and Mrs. Brownson. Rear. Admiral and Mrs. Cowlcs and Commander and Mrs. Sims.
 The dispatch boat Dolphin. which has been placed at the disposal of the Con- gressional Committee on Naval Affairs, will sail from Washington for the roads tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock. So far made up the party will consist of Senator McEnery and Representa- tiyes Roberts. Loud. Bates, Thomas of Ohio, Dawson and Padgett-
Albuquerque morning journal., 1907-08-18

no effort is being spared to bring OPP
erations to the producing stage at the
earliest possible moment.
Montezuma, Col-The Silver Prln-
cess mine, one of the heavy produ-
GERS of the early days, has recently
been attracting considerable attention
from visiting capitalists, and there
are Indications that the property T.
likely to soon excel all its former rec
ords. A series of 109 samples taken
from one of the ore shoots few days
ago showed an average of s15.75 to
the ton IN silver, lead and zine. Later,
in preparing for a mill test the mine
superintendent obtained sixteen sacks
Of milling ore. which. taken all to-
gether. yielded the following returns
0.O9 o. gold. 24.S0 oz silver; 1540
per cent lead l1.30 per cent zinc.
These high grade milling ores are by
no means in frequent in the Monte
yuma district and the facilities for
working them at a handsome profit
are soon to be at hand, II the recent
activity of operations and large inves-
tors Is to be regarded as any fore
shadowng of events shortly to come
to pass.
Albuquerque morning journal., 1907-08-18

days from May to October. On such
days the three railway companies
transport so many hundreds of thous-
ands that trains have to follow each
other every five minutes! II Is perfect
misery to go and see and get awayl
The folly" OF Louis XIV has
therefore, in the end turned out q
fine thing for France and for the
town. Half of its $4,000 Inhabitants
live in some way or another on the
flow of water-and sightseers. The
other half pay heavy rents and prac-
ticaly no taxes to live in the health
lest best-kept, peacefullest beautiful
lest and most socially correct little
city, perhaps, in the world, in these
days of hurry and excursions.
Life at Versailles.
Adorned with dignity and leisure. Ii
is dignity that cannot die, a style in
harmony with the bewinged and ra-
piered courtiers Of a pompous oldmon-
arch who had but to idle away luXur-
ious and refined lives.
"He who never knew the life OF
/ Versailles before the revolution,
Tallerand used to say as he played
tric-trac with my great-grandfather IN
the coffee house opposite Independ-
ence hall, philadelphia who
never knew the life of Versailles be-
fore the revolution, cannot know What
living Is"
To dream of 1t you must walk
through the forest park Of dark and
drizzling afternoons in autumn-wher
there are no sightseers.
The tip is from Jean Collot, nine
ty-six on his next birthday. born In
one Of the stone. cottages inside the
state carriage house.
when the mist rises over the carr
pond, when the leaves fall sodden
when the hamlet Of the beautifu
queen fades In the great silence"
/ The old man stopped abruptly as 1
frightened. Gle is shaky old man
but he certainly impressed me. re
late this very seriously.)
"she paid for those great fountain
with her life" he croaked, ominously
Then he whispered:
would monsieur behold her, tn
beautiful queen?"
We were alone at dusk. We stoo'
across the carp pond. opposite tn
house Of the queen, with its communi
eating bridge verandah. Begide US wa
the dairy where poor Marie Antoinett
played milkmald, sleeves up, singing
as she patted the sweet butter.
Jean, have you seen herr"
Fear not" he answered, mo harm
will come to him who sits with Col
. lot, father and son. son and father
back two hundred years"
Jean, have you seen hcrY'
"The queen walked In 1929. wa
boy Of seventeen. She walked 4
! ts47. She walked in 1850. In 1s5.
In 1859. And now she walks again
! Trouble and change! New things 70
: France"
Albuquerque morning journal., 1907-08-18

bordering on the Colorado line, are
the Peasegold properties, which are
likely soon to become prominent. This
vast mineral estate comprises $50
acres of placers and $50 acres of lode
claims, where values have already
been demonstrated, running into high
figures. The lode claims are tra-
versed by many splendid veins; and
the tests made on the placers along
the river have shown the presence OF
auriferous gravels that give every
promise of big profits. II exploited by
modern methods Of recovery. The
Snake River Consolidated company
is now in full control of the property.
Goldneld, Nev-As time passes II
becomes increasingly evident that
Goldheld is to be camp of perma-
nent values and that surface opera
tlons so far have but hinted at the
possibilities to be looked for at depth.
The Mohawk strike the other day at
the 45O-foot level furnishes a COM
mentary on this statement. From the
combination a continuous and heavy
production Is coming up from a depth
of 3SO feet. and similar facts might be
adduced regarding the Jumbo, Flor
ence and Combination Fraction. These
conditions are OF special interest tc
such a property at the Velvet, where
the shaft is now down $50 feet and
Albuquerque morning journal., 1907-08-18

which nevertheless, make Versailles
the healthiest town in France--by
draining all the country round for
many miles of its excess of moisture.
Building the Fountains.
OF all the Americans who spend
millions a year in Paris, few miss the
Fountains of Versailles, built to max :
the palace grounds what they have
since remained-the Olympian Para
disc Of Europe. Although Louis XIV
burned the accounts, they are known
to have cost him over one thousand
millions!
The extant details seem fabulous for
one mans pride and pleasure. some
36, 600 men and $4,000 horses were
fifteen feet cube for the storage and
leveling the park
The whole subsOi of the great for
est Is simply honeycombel with mys-
terious conduits and vaults, ageragns
! hftee infect cube for the storage and
exhaust of the torrents.
After making the alleys and the ba-
sins they found the situation was too
high: the water of the neighborine
resources would not rise sufficiently
for the higher-priced fountains. The
old king said:
Bring me water from the river
Seinel"
1t was fourteen miles away ai
( Marty. Seven years were occupied II
building the astonishing machine o.
waterwheels that still works per
fectly at Marty as a historic curiosity
beside the modern steam pumps.
Yet, with all its pipes and reser
voirs. even the Marty machine cOult
not make up the real deficiency. Th'
giant fountains of Versailles consumed
so much water the three monarch
whose extraagances preceded the rev
olution had never water enough &
make them all play at will.
once, In Louis XV's time. an at
tempt was made 10 divert the course o
the river Eure. Then an old aqueduc
from the valley of Maintenon. begun
by Louis xiv. was worked on one
again. The soldiers set to buildinl
lit mutlnied, and war cut short the ef
fort.
Modern improvements.
Later a complicated system Of grea
pipes, reservoirs and concealed basin
was added to help out the Marie
: machine and the existing resources
All these still continue In perfec
4 working order. forming the subterra
} mean network about Versailles 70
: many square miles, which IS alleged {
render the town 80 healthy. The con
: dults lead from many a plateau an
forest-hldden watershed, gatherln
rain. spring water and even meite
I snow In winter.
The average Of the Versailles res
ervoirs Is 22.S70.000 cubic yards. Q
this the town Of Versailles, with Il
; $4,000 inhabitants. consumes only },
100000 cubic yards-paying (havln
. paid for It by the three railway com
J panles) for whatever surplus Il need
from the Marty steam pumps (Which
nowadays. are also operated by tn
railway companlesD All the rest {
+ the reservoir apacity--rehlled afte
, each playing-goes to the terrlbl
: fountains.
Thus, at last. thanks to a moder
business arrangement under republ
can regime. what autocratlc klnf
!. could not do. was done for the con
r mon people OF Paris and the worldi
. Thus at last. the Fountains Of vel
: sallles, spout magnlflceutly all at n
I same time on their appointed day
( II II. more OF less. on alternate snI
Albuquerque morning journal., 1907-08-18
MARIE ANTOINE TIE
AGAIN WALKS At
VERSAILLES
ANCIENT CARP GLIDE
BENEATH HISTORIC BRIDGE
And the Old Men and Prophets
Say All Other UnfaiIing Signs
of Trouble for France Have
Begun to Appear
lParis Correspondence of the Wash
ington starD

lParis Correspondence of the Wash
lngton Star)
The gentle ghosts of Marie An
toinette and her two children again
walk in the forest of Versailles. fore
boding change and trouble 10 France
Five ancient carp, with their gold
collars round their neeks, have again
emerged from the mud of the hamlet
pond TO show themselves beneath the
little stone bridge--as they did before
the Franco Prussian war.
DO YOU believe old wives tales? DO
you listen to the maunderings Of
shaky. decrepit gardeners and fount-
ain tenders?
In 1863 most Frenehmen laughed at
tic same signs and portents.
Those who listened and believed
went to the war with Prussia dis
couraged In advance.
As / wrote you in July of "The Kids
of Versailles | know certain of these
old folks, good republicans, yes, bul
the descendants OF palace servants ol
the old regime They know Versailles
rs others do not
! who tell you have seen two OF th'
five carp.
"ff Monsieur would see Louis XIV's
carp let Monster stand silent on thii
bridge with me-" mumbled old JeaH
CoIlott. who Is ninety-fiye. Il, Jear
ColIot. first saw them as a boy Of sew
cnteen in 1929. Charles X was king
lie lived chiefly at St Cloud: bu
when they told him the, carp had
come out Of the mud he hurried here
i'm his old black travelling coach witt
Nix horses, troubled. He stood wher'
Monsieur stands, and he saw four o
carp swim past and disappear in th'
black shadows under the bridge ON
year later France lost her last leEitl
mate king by revolutionl"
Prove Evil Omen.
when did they next show"
sIouis Philippe. king OF the French
lived. much OF the time at Crane
Trlanon." replied the ancient ser
want. Il helped put in the heaters
the first hot-air registers in France.
when l saw the carp come N
again IN 1sf7 I told my wife onls
Whom did she tell? Everybody sh
Il dead. God rest herl The kin
came. very grave. and asked me. W
stood on this small bridge. Five car
swan By with their gold collars shin
ing red. and disappeared IN the blnc
shadows under the bridge, Next yea
Albuquerque morning journal., 1907-08-18
COntentnnent

If savings account did not provide any financial advant
ages whatever, would be we'll worth the effort takes to
accumulate it. simply for the cOntenmen that its possession
brings to the owner.
No one who has lived the handto-mOuh existence of the
credit buyers knows the genuine JOY of life as does the man
who is square with the world and with reasonable amount
ahead earning interest for him and ever ready take the
sting money worry out of any misfortune that comes his
way.
You can begin here with dollar and we pay you per cent
interest," COmpOunding quarterly.
Albuquerque morning journal., 1907-08-18

came revolution and more troubles.
"Three years later, in the autumn
of 1850. | saw them again. They
swan back and forth in commotion.
] said nothing. Louis Napoleon made
his coup detat and promoted me to
be third gardener.
"Then the carp did not come up un-
til 1882"
'In 1862. monsieur" said Jehan
Collot, Napoleon heard of them" He
laughed. "They bring me luck" he
said. as he stood with me where mon
sieur stands watching for the carp as
monsieur watches. Next came the
disastrous Mexican adventure-and
the beginning Of the end! knew t.
SO did Napoleon. In 1869 he did not
laugh. The five old carp swan past,
one by one. in a line, and disappeared
in the black shadows under the
bridge. Shhh!--"
A horny old hand was incontinently
clapped over my mouth. We stood 81
lent, immobile. A great leathery-
hided. shapeless, obscene, half-blind
old fish lolled past
Round his neck. behind the gills
seemed a dull copper band. AS a ray
of sunlight struck 1t thought could
discern words and figures engraved on
It.
"Volla une autrel--Laa-b bas! La!-"
| saw two such fish. The second wa
like unto the first He slouched pasl
and disappeared in the black shadows
under the bridge (It Is the same lit
tie bridge from which the Queen Of
Norway's horse fell on her late visit
Changes. troubles. revolutionS'
croaked old Jean Collot. Jean dom
care. He Is an old man."
History OF the Carp.
The historical truth OF the carp ap
pears to be certain.
Louis VXVI. a youth OF ingenlu
turn OF mind, learned the trade o
elockmaker, then turned to black
smlthing. Given to natural histor'
he meditated much on the long live
attributed to elephants, turtles, eagles
whales. sharks and carp. In the for
/ est gardens OF Versailles there wer
no elephants, eagles, whales or sharks
SO he began with turtles.
He cut his name and the date o.
their backs with a iackknife, such q
every boy has IN his pocket God ont
knows what became Of the turtles
History is silent.
Finally the young prince turned [
the carp pond-beslde which bis ia
lture wife, Marie Antolnette. was late
to erect the delicious hamlet for play
ing peasant girl and forgetting he
Iirksome state.
He, who one day was to have hi
own neck cut In two. caused John Col
lots grandfather to catch ten soil
young carp In a hand net. The gol
collars had been prepared. There wer
ten names engraved on the heavy gol
bands, the dates the princes name
and arms, with the sonorous Lau
line:
MAR pisces currant jaml" ("L'
the fishes run In the sea!'D
once collared, the carp were r.
placed IN the carp pond. They has
lived there ever since. or late the
have been seen by thousands. one q
two at time, never all five togethe
On II thought that but FIVE romaln)
II r. the original ancient carp pon'
beside which Mary Antoinoite's pla,
house village was later CONSTRUCTED
II gets none OF the water OF the T
tanlc fountains Of Versailles. that ha
/. their origin IN Louis Xlv'a folly b
Albuquerque morning journal., 1907-08-18

A Corollary.
Where there's a will there's always
an Chicago Daily News.
Albuquerque morning journal., 1907-08-18

Encampment, wyo.-Iu the Three
Forks district on the Snake river, and
Albuquerque morning journal., 1907-08-18

Dawson. Yukon, Territory-The
gold resources Of the great northwest
are soon to be tasted and exploited as
never before; and the Klondike excite
ment of a few years back is likely 10
pale into lnsignlneanee when the pro-
posed feels OF gold dredges begin the
working of the auriferons grayels on
Wholesale scale. BY the old-tlme
placer methods one man was able 10
handle about four cubic yards OF
gravel daily. whereas the modern
dredge easily scoops up and turns out
S.O00 cubic yards per day. The Gug-
genheims are now investing millions
IN dredging enterprises in this vicinity
having recently placed S7.000.000 In
the Klondlke gold fields. The Yukon
Basin Gold Dredging company re-
cently registered under the Dominion
government. also controls thousands
OF acres where the gravel carries ay-
erage values OF over 81 per cubic yard.
Dredging operations are soon to come
mence.
Albuquerque morning journal., 1907-08-18

~ you LIVE IN A SMALL Town AND
FIND IT HARD TO GIT WHAT YOU
les. WHITE uH. VIZ HAVE NEARLY
EVERYTHING. y, q. PRATT a 90.
Albuquerque morning journal., 1907-08-18

Remedy for Diarrhoen, Never known TO
Fall.
7 want to say a few words for Chamber
ialn's Collie. Cholera and Dlarrhoea Remedy.
have used this preparation In my family
for the past Ave years ana have recommend
ed II TO a number Of people In York county
and have never known it 20 fall 70 effect a
cure In any Instance feel that ! can not
say too much for the best remedy OF tho
kind IN the world "-2a. Jomlnon, Spring
drove. York County pa. Thiu remedy u
for sale By all druggists
Albuquerque morning journal., 1907-08-18
WEEKLY REVIEW OF
WESTERN MINES

Cripple Creek, Col.-With divided
payments running all the way from
SO, 600 to 100000 by leading mines
within a few days time. and a monthly
production of we'll over million dol
lars there Is no discussion here as to
whether mining should be classed
among the gainful occupations. One
company the Mary Mckinney, reports
ore shipments averaging $32.51 to the
ton during the past year. The mines
of Bull Hill continue to hold the rec
ord for production, The recent rich
strike of the Isabella at the 1000
foot level is still the talk of the camp.
The Delmonico, a portion Of the old
Stratton estate, is being vigorously de-
veloped by its new owners, the Consol.
idated Copper Creek company, whose
shaft Is going down rapidly to the
level where other operators in the dis.
trict have usually made their richest
strikes of pay dirt.
Albuquerque morning journal., 1907-08-18

Hermosillo, Sonora, Mex.-Phenom-
email advances in the price of mineral
properties are being recorded in this
section. due largely to the enterprise
of American prospectors and the in
rush of American capital for develoo-
ment purposes. 1t is stated that pros
poets which commanded not over
81. 900 last summer have been sold
this season for $4,000 to $5O,-
600. Many of the best proper
ties. however are not for sale
at any price. The experience of such
mines as the sultana, near Hermosillo,
furnishes the reason. This mine
started in to work for copper, with
very light gold values on the surface
At the S00-foot level an immense ore
body was encountered that has been
yielding an average of forty-two
ounces Of gold per ton, besides copper
and silver. A similar property Is the
Lluvia de Cobre, in the same neigh
borhood This Is being actively devel-
oped and a powerful modern COM
pressor and boiler are about to be
installed at the shaft.
Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1907-02-28
MAYOR JOE WEGLEY.
At!the Head Of Municipal Affairs In Wi'liston
and is Very Popular There.

U. E. Thompson returning Saturday
from weeks visit at Willis +on, n. D.,
says that there is quite COLONY of ex-
Langdonites over there. Mr.. Smith,
formerly jeweler at DR.. Donovan's store
is in business there; Doc. Smith, another
old timer is now practicing his profession
in Williston; Cashier Mic. Hayes is in
charge of bank capitalized by Lang
don inanciers; Emil Nelson, ten years
ago jeweler at the McGruer drug store
is now one of Wllliston's pioneers: and
at the head of the lumber business is
the firm of Mahon & Robinson, whose
business interests have spread over the
state considerably since they opened
their first lumber yard in Langdon
twenty years ago. At the head of Will
liston's municipal authority isMayor Jos
Wegley, another Langdon old timer,
who they say since he has been in Office
has cleaned up all the gambling dens
and other illegal resorts in way that
makes Willlston citizens proud of him
When raid is to be made Joe always
leads the raiders and says he is going to
have clean city if he has has to make
a raid every night alone. At Williston
they say Mayor Wegley is certain of re-
election without the slightest opposi-
ton.