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THE NEBRASKA INDEPEDENT Tan. 9.1 iQ7 MOST UNCANNY SPOT. BLOOD-CURDLING FEATURES IN SUPERSTITION MOUNTAINS. KxperUnrrs of Night Explorers CaTrrna Filled with Ghosts and Perils Strange 2X&T& m turn "mlu?r Wrirti Bound and Sight. HE most uncanny spot on the face of the earth is very likely within the boundaries of the Superstition moun tains In Arizona, says the San Fran cisco Call. The name was given this range of vol canic rock by the (ndlana, and never waa name more ap propriate. Of course the educated man of today knows all of the strange ind weird phenomenon to be seen there ire the result of natural causes and tan be easily explained, but the poor Indian who knows not these things can lardly be blamed for having a whole lome fear of any' part of the range. The Btories the Indians tell of the Superstition mountains would take months to repeat, but the idea of all )f them seems to impress the fact that ihe arch field who presides over the lomain has a hatred of the red man ind is constantly laying traps to de troy him. All who enter the realms f horror do so at the risk of never :oming back, and all who do come some back have eome new tale to add lo the already long list. The most ter rible things told of are the swinging 'tones that turn out from the walls of i canyon and crush the passer by. Then there are places where the ghosts aance; trees that reach out their branches and entangle all who come near them. There are caverns filled with witches and devila and awful birds that make the strangest sounds. The ever . progressive Salvation Army has Just added to Its equipment what many people consider its most at tractive feature. The latest novelty of this up-to-date organization, and the one which is shortly to come to New York, Is called the "Singing Battalion," and Is attached to the Western divis ion, which has its headquarters at Chl oago. Its members are all women offi cers of the army, and have been se lected with a special view to their comeliness. As a result the new corps makes a charming appearance, and, as each of these pretty girls is attired in the costume of her native country, the effect is extremely picturesque. The Idea of organizing this band of singers of all nations grew out of a desire on the part of the army commanders in different sections to reach people of etery nationality in the most direct and effective way. There were plenty of fine Bingere in the army, but they Wild animals by the thousands come light out of the solid rocks. Fishes with legs come from the lakes and drown all within their reach. Fire and smoke and horrible groans and howla fill the air on all sides. To see the weird aspect of this un canny region is best to select that time of the month when the moon is full. The most Interesting portion is in a canyon that opens on the north side of the range, and if an explorer will manage to get about ten miles into this during the daytime, and, after se lecting a quiet spot, wait for the moon to rise, he can have an experience he will never forget. But don't go unless your nerves are strong. In most parts of the world silence comes with the night Just the reverse seems to be the ease in the Supersti tion mountains. Or Is this imagina tion? But euddenly the air is rent with the most unearthly shriek that ever fell on mortal ears. Again and again It comes and rolls and echoes through the canyons, getting weirder with each reverberation. The cry is taken up on all sides until the moun tains seem tike pandemonium. But nerve yourself and pass on. Keep to the bottom of the canyon and you will be In no danger of a fall. Silence will come again and If you keep on you will soon come to a cone shaped moun- tain rifting before you. Approach clos ' r and a castle is perfect as any on the banks of the Rhine will appear perched on Its summit When near enongh, a soft muffled sound of foot steps will be heard. What is It? By looking carefully a procession of pan thers can be seen walking around the cone shaped mountain, as if guarding the castle on the summit. flound and round they go, looking neither to right nor left, and though considerable noise is made they will not notice it Many old hunters say that it is possible for a man to walk right across the line and the panthers will not attack him. Farther up the canyon are numerous gulches intoKvhlch the moonlight falls. One of them has a sort of overhanging ledge and beneath It appears a crowd of men. Surely they a 41 talking, for their arms appear to moe, their heads turn from side to side. Some have on white clothes and others appear to be of different colors. A .peculiar sound like the murmur of voices fills the air. By climbing a small canyon to the Jeft the most startling sight in the mountain can be seen. Surely it is not of this world. The canyon suddenly terminates in a gulch that crosses it from eide to side. At first sight it is only an abyss of inky blackness. Lis ten! A peculiar rumbling sound can be heard and from the profound depth a white robed figure will appear; then another and another, until there is a whole procession of ghosts passing over the brink. , Many of them will wave their arms, as if beckoning the observer. While this is going on clouds will appear to float in from the sides and perhaps thunder will be heard in the distance. But the procession moves on and passes up a canyon and finally disap pears over a cliff. Silence will follow and the act will be repeated. This canyon cannot be traversed farther, but by turning back and entering a small valley on the other eide three giants can be seen in conference. They are sitting close to a tree and their at- PRETTY SALVATION ARMY MAIDS. all sang in English, and this language was unintelligible to thousands of lately landed foreigners who came to the meetings. It was not feasible to give songs in all the living tongues, but it was comparatively easy to find mem bers of the army belonging to all the different countries represented In the various audiences. . So pretty girls from Japan, Russia, Roumania, Sweden, France, Scotland, Holland and even Turkey, were pressed into service and Instructed to provide them selves with becoming costumes, mod elled after those common to their sev eral countries. The result was that this novel band le creating a furor through Indiana, Wisconsin, Michigan and" the other Western states which It has visited. In the coal and iron min ing districts which are scattered thickly over these states, a large pro portion of the workmen are foreigners, and when they discovered that the titudes show them to be interested In what one of them Is saying. Farther up the canyon there is a large cliff and behind it at intervals can be seen flashes of light. Thunder follows and the earth beneath your feet will shake. Possibly one of the flashes may throw you to the ground, and you can hear the hissing of ser pents near by. If you happen to be In the right place you can hear a grind ing sound and a rock on top of a cliff will swing outward. But it won't fall, as the next shake will swing it back. Dozens of experiences like those Just related are likely to befall the night explorer In the Superstition mountains, so that when daylight comes he will feel as if he has been to the Infernal regions or with Alice In Wonderland. Peach Marmalade. Delicious peach marmalade may be made from very ripe, soft peaches, wiped carefully, but not peeled; cut in halves, remove the stones; allow half a pound of sugar to every pound of peaches. Put the peaches in a pre serve kettle, add water to cover, and bring slowly to a boll; stir and mash the peaches; add the sugar with a handful of peach kernels pounded to a paste, boll and etir until thick , and smooth, being careful not to scorch; put away in glass jars. Apple and pear marmalade may be made in the same way . ITALIAN ANTIQUITIES. Am tlndargroond lridi la rasas Sp'te of Legal Interdictions. Some Jays ago a well-known dealer in antiquities offered for sale to the Louvre museum, in Paris, a splendid collection of ancient silver vases from Italy or Greek or Italian workmanship, 6ays the London News. The museum was unable to pay the price asked 20,000 and declined the bargain. The Italian minister of education, having learned of this, has taken proceedings under the Pacca law against Sig. dl Prisco, the owner of these antiquities. The latter is a large land owner at Bosco Reale. He secretly made excava tions on his estate and found twenty eight silver vaees of remote antiquity Notwithstanding the Italian law pro hibiting owners of antiquities from sending them oiit of the country with- out leave, or, rather, on account of this law, which prevents old works of art from commanding anything like' their natural price in the impoverished coun try, Sig. di Prisco smuggled his find out of Italy and offered it to a Paris dealer for 5,000. Continuing mean while his search, he found other silver vasee, which duly Joined their fellows in Paris, and the whole lot waa offered to the Louvre. The Italian minister of education throws interesting light on the facilities which underpaid officials are supposed to afford illicit exporters of antiquities. He issues a notification that, should any officials be found to have connived at this latest evasion of the Pacca law, they will be criminallv prosecuted. Burled Thermometer. Recent observations made by Prof. A. Agassiz in the Calumet and Hecla mine, near Lake Superior, to ascertain the rate at which temperature in creases toward the center of the earth give a slower rate of increase than has been found in previous recorded obser vations. The observations were made at various depths by placing register ing thermometers in holes drilled ten army had girl singers who came from the Fatherland they flocked to . the meetings in great crowds. By giving their gatherings this international character the army has brought with in its influence many people who would otherwise have remained away. Often when a little family of Swedes or Polanders, for instance, have sat through one of the Singing Battalion's concerts one of the men will leave his seat and, stepping up to the young offi cer who happens to wear the costume of Lis country, address her in his own language. His delight Is touching' when he hears her kindly response in his own familiar tongue. The dia logue, which is as much enjoyed by one as the other, usually ends by the army lassie Joining the family group and volunteering to sing for them re ligious songs with which they have been familiar eince childhood. New York Journal. feet into the rock and plugged with wood and clay. After the thermome ters had remained in place three months the hles were opened and the results obtained. The highest tempera ture recorded at a depth of 4,580 feet was 79 degrees Fahrenheit. At a depth of ten feet the rock temperature was 59 degrees. Between these limits there was a column of rock, or 4,475 feet, with a difference of temperature of 20 degrees, or an average increase of 1 degree for each 223.7 feet. The obser vations in the St. Gothard tunnel gave an increase of 1 degree for each 60 feet and those of Lord Kelvin elsewhere made the Increase degree for each 61 feet. The thickness of the crust of the earth deduced from Lord Kelvin's rate of increase of temperature downward was twenty miles; from the St Gothart rate, twenty-ix miles. Prof. Agassis' rate would make the crust over eighty miles thick. It' is conceded, however, that the close proximity of the enor mous mass of cold water in Lake Su perior is a poseible source of error in observation made in the Calumet and Hecla mine. Popular Science Monthly. A Chicago Circle of The King's Daughters combines its Bible and art studies. The latter, an outlined in The Silver Cross, is based on photographs ot scripture subjects, and the corre sponding Bible text &n context ar studied at the same time with the picture NC AN DESCENT LAMPS. Uow the Horned-Oat Filament May Si Keplaced and Kenewed. It has been generally supposed to be a fruitless tass to attempt the renewal of a burnt-out incandescent electric lamp, although there appears to be some economic fallacy involved in the destruction of what is, except in one small if important particular, a perfect piece of apparatus. It is not intended, as a rule, to give in this column de scriptions of American devices or achievements drawn from foreign pub lications. This subject has, however, been taken up by the English Journal, Industries and Iron, and although it states that an American process for re newing these lamps after the filament has been broken, has been developed, it does not give the name of inventors nor tate that the process has come into anything like general application. Its description of the operation is, there fore, given for what it is worth. ' It states that a commercial success has been made of a' process for renewing burned-out lamps which renders possi ble the use of the old bulb at a very slight expense. By the new method the collar or bare end of the lamp Is not disturbed, the old filament being removed and the new one placed through a small hole in the lamp bulb made by removing the tip. The small holejs subsequently closed exactly in the same manner as in the case of the new lamp, leaving nothing to indicate In the finished repaired lamp that it had ever been opened. It is stated that some 400,000 lamps have been repaired by this method, the filament being in serted through the small hole referred to by a skilful twist of the hand and secured in position by a special carbon paste. The black deposit on the inside of the bulb Is removed by fitting the lamp to the holder and removing it in gas furnace; while immediately fol lowing this operation, a small glass tube is fused to the opening made in the bulb, through which the lamp is exhausted. When this has been done and the last trace of air and gas ab sorbed, a -blow-pipe flame is directed upon the throat of the tube, which is melted into the point exactly in every respect a counterpart of the original lamp. COULDN'T AGREE. A Jury of Lawyers That Disgusted the Judge. "I think it was in 1839," said an old member of the Cleveland bar to a Cleveland Leader man, "when the Su preme court Judges used to go from county to county, on horseback or In buggies, and hold court. On the occa sion referred to court was being held in the courthouse that stood on the south side of the public square. The judges were: Judge Hitchcock, Eben ezer Lane, Reuben Wood and Frederick Grimke; Harvey Rice was clerk and M. R. Kieth deputy. The case on trial, and in which the late Sherlock J. An drews and Henry. B. Payne were at torneys, I believe, was one concerning a contract and a jury was demanded. There were not so many people hang ing around the courthouse as there are now, waiting for a jury job, and Judge Hitchcock immediately ordered a Jury of the lawyers present. The legal gentlemen tried every way to get out of it, but the judge was inexorable. Twelve lawyers were selectd and sent into the box. I don't remember all the names now. but there were Herman Hurlbut.Woolsey Wells, Edward Wade, and, I believe, Messrs. Bolton and Kelly. Finally the case was concluded and the jury sent out. They were lock ed up for the day and returned at night with the word that they could not agree. Judge Hitchcock said they ought to agree and sent them back for another day. In vain they pleaded im portant business; there was no help for them. At the end of the second day they reported that they could not agree. Word was sent back that the court saw no reason why they could not agree and that they must try " - in. But in vain. At 2 o'clock ..c third day they were called out, and as there was no possible hope of their agreeing they were discharged. Judee Hitchcock was disgusted and I don't helieve that he ever held another case before a jury of that kind." , Salvage From Ocean. Some money, part of S100.000 in Bra zilian paper currency, lost in the wreck of the steamer Buenos Ayres. on the coast of Brazil, between Pernambuco and Rio Janeiro, six years ago, has ust turned up in a fishing village north of Oporto in Portugal. The British company that paid the insurance re cently received an anonymous letter from Portugal, which they put in the hands of the- Portuguese police, who have already recovered $1,500. The case containing the money was picked up by Oporto fishermen, fishing on the Brazil coast, who divided It among themselves and said nothing; they vowed to give part of it to the church, and were betrayed for not keeping their vow. , In the Dark. Bobbie I guess that fellow must be engaged to sister by this time. "Why Bobbie?" "Last night when I looked through the keyhole I couldn't 'see a hing." Brooklyn Life. A Happy Couple. now uo you ana your wife get you and your ilong?" "Oh, swimmingly, swimming ly! We are as happy as though we were divorced." Fliegende Blaetter. Poor Soul. An exchange announces on the death of a lady that "she lived fifty years with her husband and died in confident nope of a better life." Texas Sifter. It is a great mistake for the young to despise what the old have learned by ixperlence. A WATER CLOCK. A Beautiful Piece or Work that Requires Winding. One of the attractions of the beauti ful Monte Pincio garden, at liome. is a really unique clock, which is usually an object of interest to groups of passers-by. A description of this curious and artistic piece of mechinism is given by the Horologieal Keview: The case is composed of three branches in rustic work. It stands upon a square stone block, surrounded on its four sides by beautiful leaf plants, ivy and grasses, foot stands within a water The stone Viflsin Tim ppper part of the case contains a dial covered with glass on each of its four sides. Lpon the cupola stands a staff. which carries the two bells for the full hour and the quarters. At its upper end is a small vane in the shape of a battle axe. The frame for the wheel and levers of the striking work, in which a small centrifugal pendulum takes the place of the fly, is close underneath the dial. At the back of the clock frame oscil lates the second pendulum, and before this is located a mass of rustic work, similar to a large coral growth, from which issue two small jets of water at regular intervals. Two of the upper most coral branches are water conduit pipes, from which flows alternately, at each swing of the pendulum, a small quantity ot water into two leaflike spoons underneath, imparting to them an up and down motion. The peculiar motive power furnished by the water keeps the clock in mo tion by a very remarkable escapement, so that it nev- requires winding. The construction oi '.he clock is due to a monk, as is the with so many old pieces of art r TreLatest Society Fad. Leopold's Miniature Photo Buttons, iidwin F. Leopold & Co., 802 Colum I i:s Memorial Building, 103 State street. 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