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Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1914-08-23

OullnS my stay III OerrO de PaScO | heard
much about the vanadium deposits that lie
on the tops of the Andes, only few miles
from the American shelter, known as La
Fundicion. The mines belong to the Vana-
dunn Trust company, which, | am told here
is branch of the United States Steel COM
pany. 1t controls the product and uses it
for making vanadium steel The chief mine
was originally owned by an Italian named
Fernandini, who. still holds large interest
1t has made Fernandin rich, and he is now
buying haciendas here and there in the
Andes and breeding fine stock.
This vanadium occurs in a carbonaceous
deposit, interstratifed with sandstone. The
lower portion of the stone contains or 5
per cent of vanadium The ore is roasted
before it is brought down to the smelter,
and the metal is shipped to Pittsburg. 1t is
not sold in bulk, but is kept by the company
for the making of steel. Only so much is
mined the output being regulated by the
demand
The Andes are peppered with gold from
one end to the other. Pizarro carried away
from them $lOOO0OO00 worth of that metal
and there were other millions which he
failed to get. Among the latter were the
lost treasures of the Incas | have already de-
scribed, including the gold plates that they
tore from their temples in Cuzco and the
mighty gold chain they threw into Lake
Urcos. 1t is said that there is gold mixed
with the sands of Lake Titicaca. 1t is still
being washed from the sands near La Paz,
and it is found in greater or less quantities
along almost all the tributaries of the ANA
zon. A prospector tells me that the whole
mountain range, running from Mount So
rati to Mount Illimani, distance OF $50
miles, shows color, and that some places
have undoubtedly veins of gold.
large part of the Bolivian plateau con-
sists of sedimentary deposits of gravel and
clay, and in many places upon it coarse gold
has been found The most of this is in small
nuggets and very little is dust.
There are extensive quartz mines on the
Atnazonian side of the Andes One of these
belongs to the Inca Mining company,
Pennsylvania combination, which altogeth-
er has taken out about 100000, and an
other is the Santo Domingo mine, that has
produced half as much. During my stay in
Arequipa | met B. II. Collins, the manager
of the Inca company, and had a chat with
him about his mines and the difficulties with
which the company had to contend before
they could make them profitable. The
mines are situated on the Madre de Dios
river, not very far from the headwaters OF
the Amazon. They are on the Atlantic
slope of the Andes about $50 miles east of
the Pacific ocean. To reach them one has
to go by the railroad across the coast range,
through pass higher than the top of Pixies
Peak, and then up the branch line which
leads from Julliaca to Cuzco. At Tirapata
the miners leave the railroad and go across
the country by a wagon road and mule trail
for distance of about 142 miles. The COM
pany had to build the road themselves, and
that across a pass over 10000 feet high.
The road has 10 bridges and it goes
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1914-08-23
) Treasure Vaults OF the Andes

the worlds output and fix the prices.
The exhibit will contain also many sam
pies of silver and gold, lead mixed with sill
ver and copper and silver and tin The
gold is in coarse grains and nuggets, washed
out by the Indians. Just outside La Paz the
Spanards picked up nugget that weighed
80 pounds and was worth $9OOO Last year
nugget as big as the palm of mans hand
was found near the same place.
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1914-08-23

HMCE(1T)HWM OCCu SOllS(tlllS SPSNiiiNiio
to show her mineral re-
sources, and she will undoubtedly have the
finest mineral collection shown at the fair
The exhibits already prepared fill room 20
feet long and 20 feet wide, and DR.. Manuel
Vincente Bolivian, who is to take the collec-
ton to San Francisco, tells me that when
completed it will be three times this size
examined the specimens already collected.
They embrace every sort OF metal, from
bismuth and tungsten to gold, silver, copper
and tin. Bolivia has the richest tin mines Of
the world, and it now supplies about
fourth of the worlds production. One block
of tin ore to be sent to the fair weighs 500
pounds, and of that 70 per cent is pure tin
This is in striking contrast to the less than
per cent ores of other parts of the world
Another sample weighs 1000 pounds, and it
contains more than 1900 pounds of pure tin
1t comes from the mines of Simon Patino
who is now the tin king of the world He
has an income Of about 100000 a month
from his tin mines at Nucia, which seem in
eXhaustibe
Another large exhibit consists Of speci-
mems of copper. These come from various
parts of the country, and especially from the
mines of Coracora and Carangas, where the
ore lies in layers of sandstone, nine or ten
feet in thickness. The copper runs through
the sandstone in grains and all that is neces-
sary is to pulverize the stone and wash out
the sand. You have then the pure grains of
copper ready to be put up in barrels and
shipped off to Europe. Other copper speci-
mems are ingots or charqui, some Of which
weigh several pounds, and others are pure
copper i'll the shape Of seamoss, or in great
sheets or plates covering many square feet
| saw one such plate that would cover din
ing table. The exhibit will also have cop
per water bottles, basins and utensils made
by the Indians.
Another mineral that will be shown in
great variety is tungsten, used so largely in
our modern electric Lighting. The tungsten
comes from the department of Potosi which
now supplies the most of this metal used in
the world The owners of the mines are
Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1914-08-23
Copyright, 1914. by Frank G. Carpenter)
LA PAZ. Bolivia

HE San Francisco exposi-
ton will have a wonderful
exhibit showing the treas
ure vaults of the Andes.
For months Bolivia has
been collecting specimens
The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1914-01-29
SLEIGH BELLS CAST IN 176O
Strings Have Been Handed Down
Through Several Generations
of Westerners.

In Prairie du Sac, Wis, are own
ers of a string of sleigh bells be-
lieved to be the oldest in the middle
west
This anent the fact that the old
time ringers are becoming more and
more valuable as family treasures.
Just few years ago it had got down
to a point where three or four small
bells riveted to plate and the plate
bolted on the hills of the sleigh were
all that fashion dictated in sleighing
time, but in winter the people, old
and young, are bringing out the old
bells, whole strings of them and with
mettlesome horses are setting them
jingling in many places.
For many years the family Of
Charles H. Stoddard, in Prairie du
Sac, has prided itself in owning two
very old strings of bells. Some time
ago Mr.. Stoddard said they were
brought from Vermont by Carlos
Grow. The Grows were stage drivers
down through several generations Of
the family. At one time they OPP
Grated stage line between Baraboo
and Prairie du Sac. 1t was Mrs.
Grow who presented the bells to the
Stoddards.
The Grows and the Stoddards were
accustomed to hook four horses to
big sled and use string of bells on
each pair, and it is told that on
frosty nights the mountains were
made to fairly reverberate with the
music of these bells. They could be
heard and identified four and five
miles distant. M
The bells are believed to b 153
years old, they were cast in England
before the Revolutionary war. Thel'
is one big bell about four inches in
diameter in the middle of each string
and then they decrease in size down
to tiny jingler at each end of the
string.
The bells were brought to Chicago
in that city's pioneer days.-Milwau-
kee Correspondence Philadelphia
North American.
The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1914-01-29
RESULTS ALL TO THE GOOD
Must Have Filled Father
With Happiness.

1t was the season of the college
graduate, and, at dinner in Lake
wood, George J. Gould said:
''The college graduate has many
charms, but the chiefest Of them is,
perhaps, his cocksureness. All, if we
were all but as cocksure as the
young college graduate on COM
mencement day!
81 know a manufacturer who took
his son, fresh from Yale, into the
mill last fall to learn the business. /
met this man the other day and said:
"'You took George into the mill
recently to teach him the business.
How is it turning out?"
"The manufacturer passed his
hand over his brow and sighed.
"'Oh, splendidly,' he said. George
is teaching me now Chicago Rec
rd-Herald.
The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1914-01-29
Order Of Publication
No. 1886.
LEONA GREEN,
VS..
ELISHA GREEN,

In the Chancery Court at Newport,
Tenn.
In this cause, it appearing from the
bill which is sworn to that Elisha
Green The defendant is a non. resident
of the State, he Is, therefore, hereby re-
quired to appear ,on or before the Fourth
Monday in February next before
the Clerk and Master OF said Court, at
his office in Newport, and make de-
Tense to the bill filed against him in
said Court by.Leona Green, or other
wise the bill will be taken for confess
ed.
1t is further ordered that this notice
bepublished for four consecutive weeks
in the THE NEWPORT PLAIN
TALK. This Jan. It'll, 1914.
A, A. GATES,
Clerk and Master.
W. 0. MINIS,
Sol. for Complt. 1-S-14-4t.
The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1914-01-29
Winnie CLARK,
VS..
Hubert CLARK.

In Chancery Court, Cooke County
Tennessee.
In this cause, it appearing from the
bill, which Is sworn 10 thas HUI
bert Clark, the defendant is .
nonresident of the State; he is
therefore, hereby required to appear
on or before the 4th Monday of Febru.
airy next, before the Clerk & Master Of
said Court, at his office in Newport,
Tenn, ana make defense to the bill
filed against him in said Court, by
Winnie CLARK, or otherwise the bill
will be taken for confessed.
It is further ordered tn at this notice
be published for four consecutive weeks
in THE NEWPORT PLAIN TALK
This January 21st, 1914.
A. A. GATES,
Clerk & Master
w. o. MINIS,
Sol. for Complt.
1-22-14-4t.
The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1914-01-29

either Of us. hereby call your atten-
ton to the following advertisements,
cut from the pages of the Jericho
Howler, the leading weekly paper Of
this part Of the state. 1t is neutral in
politics. Read this:
A Victim of Publicity.
ITO the citizens Of Jericho and sur
rounding country: This Is to inform
you that another barrel of hard cider
has just been tapped at the postofice.
and its contents are free to all callers.
The postmaster does not watch you
while you drink. Only postoff1ce in the
known world keeping free cider on tap.
Your patronage respectfully solicited"
And this:
"Old Pap Pinkham, postmaster,
wishes in this public manner to cor
rect an impression that has got abroad
that he is running this postoffice in
the interests of the old church at the
corner. Nothing could be farther from
the truth While old Pap Is member
Of that church and is expecting to so
skyward by that particular route, he
does not mingle religion and business.
He has smile Of welcome for all,
even for well known sinners. and will
as promptly hand out the mail Of a
hog thief as churchman. Call any
time"
And this:
"Old Pap Plnkham has arranged to
sleep on a cot in the postoffice every
night in the year after this. and any
one wishing stamps or to inquire what
quarter the moon is in can waken him
up at any old hour and 1t will be all
right Only postmaster In the world
The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1914-01-29
JOB FOR PSYCHOLOGIST.

Practical application of psychology
to the routine business of a police
court is designated in the appoint
ment, recently announced, of DR..
Victor Anderson, physician who is
an assistant in philosophy at Har-
ward university, as a probation off,
Ger in the Boston municipal criminal
court.
The appointment was made by the
judge of the court. who plans to ac-
cept the report of Doctor Anderson
in individual cases to determine
whether medical, psychological OF
penal treatment is needed for those
who come into court on criminal
charges.
The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1914-01-29

Heavy, impure. blood makes a
muddy, pimply complexion, head
aches, nausea, indigestion. Thin
blood makes you weak, pale and
sickly. For pure blood, sound d.
gestion, use Burdock Blood Bit
tiers. $1.OO at all stores. adv.
The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1914-01-29
old pap P|NKHAM
Adventures of the Best Postmas-
ter on Earth.
AS RELATED BY HIMSELF.
A Letter to the President In Which Is
Revealed Spartan Dissemination to
Weather the Storm of Criticism
Raised by a Hostile Press.

BY M. QUAD.
copyright, 1918. by Associated Literary
Press
AY Dear Mr.. President-Since
| |" your Inauguration and my
4 u reappointment as postmaster
of this town of Jericho the
following incidents have trod upon
each others heels:
I have been called a durn liar by
Elder Bascomb.
have been knocked down by pea-
ron Goodhue.
I have three times been mobbed by
the suffragettes.
l have been thrown out of Liberty
hall Ave times, and it has always TAX
en- pint Of arnica each time to soothe
the Commissions.
I have been stoned on the street at
night. Ha
/ have had red ink spattered on the
front door of my house as sign that
my red blood Is to be shed.
/ have had the tail Of my pig cut Off
and nearly all my hens stolen.
have lost all my trade at the gro
Gerry in dill pickles and baked beans.
My name has been mentioned in
prayers at prayer meetings.
have been bitten by dogs and kick.
ed by steers.
I have been called turncoat and a
fopdoodle.
The Growing Insult.
l have been warned by anonymous
letters that when the hour came for
the uprising Of the sons and daugh-
tiers of freedom I would be the first
son Of gun to be Drained with an ak.
All the above and more, Mr.. Presi-
dent, besides the personal sufferings of
Mrs. Pinkham, who was expelled from
the Liberty. Blood and Literary socie-
ty, because she would not mix my BIZ
chloride Of mercury tablets with my
cough drops!
Don't get the idea, Mr.. President,
that am going back on you. When
Topped from the G.. o. P. to the party
in power it was flop to stay Topped.
I am as firm as rock, and, like all the
rest Of the political enthusiasts. am
all there as long as my Office holds out.
1t Is that want surcease from this
troubling and to bring the Jericho
postoffice up to the high standard set
by me the first week. l must admit
that the complaints of the citizens that
postal matters have gone to the bad
since took up politics are well
founded.
As you are now firmly intrenched
and have got the whip hand, feel that
I can make change without peril to
The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1914-01-29
Belle Telephone Haunted Him.

DR.. Bell had strong aversion to
the ringing Of the telephone bell-the
great invention for which he Is re.
sponsible. l occasionally went into his
room and found the bell stuffed with
paper, or wound around with towels.
Little did I think when I invented
the thing" said DR.. Bell one day,
when he had been awakened by the
jingling Of the bell, that It would rise
up to mock and annoy me."-From
Aviation Book" by Glenn Curtiss.
The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1914-01-29
ungersnaps.

Boil one cupful Of molasses and one
quarter cupful butter for two minutes.
Add two teaspoonfuls salt, one table
spoonful ginger, one-half teaspoonful
soda and three cupfuls -four. Beat
well; chill overnight. Roll very thin.
Cut out with cutter and bake on but
tered pan In hot oven for ten minutes.
The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1914-01-29
A COOKING Hint,

When chopping suet II It is sprin-
killed. with little ground rice It will
not stick to the knife and win chop
quite easily. 1t Is also better to grease
cake tins with suet than butter as they
are not liable to burn.
The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1914-01-29
THEN AND NOW.

Knicker-We used to watch the
game through knot hole in the
fence.
Bocker-Now we see it through
hole in twenty-dollar bill.
The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1914-01-29

Dressmakers Comment on the Ocean
A watery stun that, ruffled by the
airs pursuing touch, curls like helm
along the bias beach, and is fettered
on its selvage by the foam.-Life.
The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1914-01-29
Probably Accidental.

Rambo - What makes this water
taste so funny?
Baldwin-You're not using 1t as
chaser. as yon generally do.-St Louis
Times.
The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1914-01-29
CLASSIFIED.

George-What's a faith curist,
dad?
Dad-He's fellow who won't
take his medicine.Judge.
The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1914-01-29
HIS DEFECTIVE MEMORY.

Minister (out calling)-And what
is your name, little one?
Little Girl-You ought to mem
Der. Ma says you kwistened me.
The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1914-01-29
Not Many Of That Kind.

The truly patient man is he VINO
asks the young father about bis baby
and then stays and listens to the
avalanche of words!
The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1914-01-29
DEFINED.

dad, what is political capitalw
''The campaign fund.- buffalo
Express.
The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1914-01-29
Nutty,

Nutty.
"That chap has kind heart. He has
chestnut tree on his place, and every
day the children come and find nuts
on the ground"
"But that tree no longer BEARS"
II know. He buys the nuts In town"
Washington Herald.
The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1914-01-29
Order Of Publication

No. 1889.
To Hubert Clark:
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1914-07-17
COFFEE in DEMAND

bles among the trees. the utilization
Of seaweed and other yield
excellent returns over cost.
The value of exports Of c%ocoanuts
for the past year amounted to $685.
800. Besides being interested in CO.
coanuts, the departments agricultural
station has a number Of other nut
bearing trees on trial. both edible and
%oil-bearing, and it is hoped that some
will prove profitable for cultivation
there.
Although the other agricultural
products show such great promise,
sugar and tobacco still continue to
lead all others by a big margin. The
exports OF sugar during the last year
had a total value Of $27. 226, 9O5. while
the value of the tobacco exports were,
manufactured. $~5,S24,030; unmanufac-
tured, $3,1SS,227.
Planters are now introducing I'M
proved varieties Of cane. while the
cultivation and fertilization OF the
crop has been vastly improved. On
the other hand, lands not well suited
TO the CfOp nave Deen pldHleQ ana
others have been continuously planted
to cane, so that yields have been re-
duced to a minimum. Many OF these
lands will now go out of cultivation.
Porto Rican tobacco, as well as su-
gar. is being improved in quality.
This Improvement is resulting In its
finding a larger market and increas-
ing prices. There is a large popula-
ton skilled in certain lines of tobacco
manufacturing such as cigar-making.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1914-07-17
irish Clash: Shot. Fired.

London, July IA Belfast dis
patch to the Daily Mail says shots
were exchanged in a fight between Ma
~tionalists and Unionists at Kilrea.
county Derry. The police succeeded
IN preventing serious disturbances.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1914-07-17
Dies at AIfonso's Table.

Gijon, Spain, July 14.-Major Mon
ties, a royal aide, died suddenly at
King Alfonso's lunch table, aboard the
royal yacht Giralda. Major Monies
was an old friend Of the king and AL
fonso was deeply affected by his death.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1914-07-17
FOREIGN.

A worlds altitude record for an
laroplane carrying only the aviator
was made at Johannisthal by the Ger
man airman, Otto Linnekogel. who
attained a height of approximately
1864 feet In his monoplane.
The Berlin police arrested the pres.
ident and members of the Servian
Students club and searched their
looms for evidence Of a ~pan-Servian
conspiracy which was alleged to in
volve Servians living in various
towns Of Germany.
The latest census OF the population
Of India is different than ordinary.
The story OF how 1t was taken and
the facts which It brought to light
are az entertaining and picturesque
as anything the readers OF newspapers
have had to amuse them in many
Moons and as unusual and striking,
too, as one would expect from that
strange and mystic land.
Confirmation Of the capture Of the
important town of Korisa, in southern
Albania, by Albanian Musselman in.
surgents, has 'seen received. The fight.
ing lasted three days, after which the
Albanian government troops took to
flight and t1e Dutch officers in COM
mand proceeded to Avlona. It was at
first reported that the entire garrison,
including foreign officers, had been
captured by the insurgents.
Two hundred coal miners were en-
tombed in the Vielle-Marihaye col
liery. near Liege, Belgium. when dre
broke out. Two hundred Ut their
comrades escaped when the alarm
q given.
The troubles Of tho American-Pan-
anna joint land commission. which Il
endeavoring to settle land claims,
have grown serious. according to the
jora1 omcers e the canal, w1o made
q secret Of their expectation that the
work Of the commission would result
+ failure.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1914-07-17
Ship On Rocks: Al Safe.

st. Johns, N. f., July 13,-AH OF the
passengers on the costal stea mer In.
vermore, which struck on the rocks
near Brig Harbor Point and the Labra-
dor coast, were landed safely.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1914-07-17

The sale Of the battleships Missis.
sippi and Idaho for use in the Greek
navy was consummated by the deliv.
cry to Secretary Daniels of q check
Tor 1885, 75.96.