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XE of the great wonders of Cal
ifornia which natives and
tourists are so interested in
is Alabaster cave In Placer
county It vis but twelve years ago
thai an JI1 band dropped a stone
through a hole m the rocks which de
veloped the nvery of this cave of
1 such woikIim beauty aud remarkable
flreliiiecogiral importance
Alabaster ive which has since as
sumed such wnptirtauce through the
bones discovered imbedded in its
wails is wiMmi a few thousand yards
of the town of Auburn and yet
through ai Hie years while Auburn
was parsing from a minium camp to
the enter of i gnat fruit industry it
with its scieiitsiic treasures and won
drous possibilities remained hidden
In fact it vik by merest accident it
was discovered nt all Several open
ings in the nicks had been found but
no or over thought of searching to
find wliithei rlny led Some men
quarrying ruck were resting at noon
and one of them Idiy dropped a small
stone through a little hole at his feet
He was surprised to hear it go rum
bling down a if to a great distance
and then splash into water An inves
tigation of the vicinity resulted in the
discovery of another and larger open
ing in the rocks and down this a ven
turesome lad was lowered by rope
He found himself in a vaulted cham
ber in the center of which was an ex
tensive lake it was due to the per
sistence of Dr J C Hawver that th
real importance of the cave was
brought to light for when the inci
dent was told to him he at once set
about making a personal investigation
which was later followed by a visit on
the part of scientists from the Univer
sity of California He was the path
finder and paved the way that enabled
others to find the bones and then he
induced the university to send scieu
tiGc investigators to reap the results of
the Dr Hawver climbed
down by means of rock and rope for
eighty feet into the dark chasm and
found himself on a narrow shelf on
the brink of water He says of this
visit
AH we could see by the light of our
candle was a long high roofed irreg
ular gallery which we had no means
of exploring farther except by water
route Not being an expert swimmer
under the Jiest of conditions 1 did not
take more than two or three steps
from where I dropped from the rope
aij that was all the room there was be
tween the wall aud the water
But the doctor was not satisfied with
this casual examination of the cave
He secured a rubber air mattress and
SCEKERT XEU THE CAVE
sent it down the hole Blowing it up
and re enforcing it with sticks he had
a raft on which he ventured into the
ankuown blackness around him But
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leasts formerly maue their homos in
this cave will be known only when it
has been thoroughly explored at such
time as the accumulated water has
been drained off long enough to permit
of full investigation The walls and
floors are full of jueer shaped bones
and when these tell their stories of
past ages we can probably find out all
about the sequoias and what was hap
pening when they were young
But while the scientific mind may be
deeply interested in the discovery of
a lot of bones there is another and
more artistic side to the discovery of
this cave While the walls and floors
of the chambers explored are covered
Willi a soft red mud it was discovered
that the natural coloration was pure
whitein fact that the walls were
almost pure alabaster Stalagmites
and stalactites are plentiful andwhen
these are cleaned of the disfiguring
mud they stand like carved statues of
most beauteous design From the
sound when sharp rappings are made
on I he walls it is evident that there
are other aud probably larger cham
bers extending deeper into the hill
which could be developed by a little
tunneling Should this be done Cali
fornia would boast a cave that would
rival ay of the famed caves of the
world Even the cursory examination
made with the flickering light of a
rlrnnnofl frnm tlm n lilnli 11 -
he was doomed to further disappoint- J of1
the expioration the cave is in a
ment for he could find no outlet to
the large chamber and while he knew
that the underground lake extended
some distance farther in toward the
center of the mountain he could find
30 passageway Sticks seemed to be
attracted toward the north wall of this
chamber as if the current ran from
one chamber to another farther on
and by pushing one of these sticks
downward it slipped through an open
ing and disappeared Leaving his air
mattress raft in the hole the doctor
returned to daylight disappointed but
3etermined to make further efforts to
find what was really in the cave But
die high school boys got ahead of him
A number of them visiting the cave
were the discoverers of the poleon
tological specimens which led to the
scientific investigation and just what
was found by the investigation of
Professor T C Merriam and E L
Furloug will not be known until they
ksue a monograph on the subject for
3iescientfic world is averse to mak
mginiown its finds except in the reg
alar method of collegians It is known
however that strange and rare bones
arere found belonging to long extinct
animals with equally long and extinct
Latin names But two of the prehis
toric species are fully identified One
the fells hippolestes one of the progen
itors of the mountain lion of today
but of such magnitude that he un
doubtedly was a fit antagonist of the
mammoth and cave bear and the oth
er megalonyx a huge ground sloth
whose living prototype has not been in
Sorth America for many thousands of
fears Just what other strange wild
chamber which has not vet been
reached and is such a distance from
the chambers that have been entered
that the dimensions of the under
ground wonder cau scarcely be com
puted The finding of the paleontolog
ical remains is of vast importance to
science and it is but a question of
time until a thorough exploration of
the caverns will be made with results
that bid fair to exceed those in the
Shasta caves which in no way equal
the cave in Placer county From the
appearance of the bones imbedded in
the walls stalagmites and floor the
Placer county alabaster cave must
have been a veritable cemetery for
prehistoric animals and there is also
possibility that there will be found
Hie remains of prehistoric man as the
tvalls in places bear evidence of hu
man occupation
Measuring the Height of Clouds
Scientists connected with the Vienna
istrological observatory made numer
ous measurements of the height of
louds in 190S by the plan of directing
l searchlight vertically upward and
observing the angular elevation of the
illuminated patch of sky from a fixed
base station The results for fifty
svenings have been recently published
Light was frequently reflected from a
greater height than six miles and on
May 31 the illumination could be
traced up to 10G miles and up to ten
miles on July 27 Cs two occasions
the dust or smoke layer was found to
have a depth of about 1000 and 400
feet respectively
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VIEW OP THE OUTCROP AT TOP OP THE
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candle showed that the cave is most
wonderful in its construction and if
the water were drained off and an
electric wire carrying a light ran into
its depths wonders undreamed of
would be revealed
The extent of the cave is still an
unknown quantity but future explora
tion will undoubtedly reveal one of
the most marvelous curiosities in the
world The vast chambers which
have been entered have shown even
with the dim light which the explorers
were able to throw with candles and
with crude torches that they are beau
tiful beyond anything that has been
found elsewhere Nearly pure alabas
ter forms the walls and roof while the
stalagmites formed by centuries of
dripping take on strange forms that
even unimaginative people can discern
as being so near to nature as to seem
to be carvings
The lake which forms the floor of
uearly all of the cave that has been
explored is shallow aud easily forded
were it not for the extreme low tem
perature of the water This water
rises and falls with the seasons and
during rainy aud stormy weather is
so high as to preclude the possibility
of exploration but during the month
of August it has receded to its lowest
point giving free access to the two
large chambers which have been ex
plored
The lake into which the stone was
DANGER FROM ICE
So Carelessly And
consumption receives mi much direct
handling ju t betuie it- dm as tines
this tood Mill mill water tea ami
luffcc are puumi dread ipeat int
butter are cut ltread p olial han
dled more than anv other Imuj on the
list lias i hord i rust wiicb ulicis a
rather unfavorable lodging phee for
perm life lee on the cuiilrari
washes the hands ot evcrj pciMiu wi
handles it and aiTonls an ewr read
liquid medium for the immeilime ad
sorption of the busts ot linctcria uincii
Hands may arry i lie iareiesies of
the handlers or lee their idler dNre
gard ot the resting plans ulinc ii
may receive infection miy be parti i
due to their laetc of realization iiai ice
is a food as real a lomj as meat
Whatever the cause lew suitaiiecs
which pas through the digestive pine
esses ot man receive such treatment
Its surface contaminated liy use pas
sage ot men and noises in tiie cnuing
its sides jiiki base fouled by muddled
platforms anil smirched stiaw coer
ed with thi tilth of black ice ars and
dust swept freight stations your cake
of ice commonly receives its only
cleaning just before It enters the in
chest So tar as the iceman is con
cerned this is generally a hasty bruh
with a time worn w hisfc broom well
filled with the dut ot the street and
blackened with constant use Accord
ing to the personal testimony of vari
ous icemen not even the precaution of
a momentary washing beneath the
faucet is oulmarily taken
MISSION OF THE LAND
To Produce Commodities For the Serv
ice of Mankind
The missjori of the land is to pro
duce and keep on producing food live
stock lumber and other commodities
for I lie service of man Lie who owns
land and is indifferent to this is guilty
of a moral wrong and be who takes
good land out of commission aud suf
fers it to lie unproductive and useless
is guilty of a greater one This is the
only criterion by which we can prop
erly judge of the right of an individual
to own land in large tracts
I he good results attendant upon
small individual holdings are natural
The purposes of nature in the upward
evolution of man are usually better
carried out in this way and not be
cause as is so frequently argued
every man has an inherent right to its
ownership The lazy the incapable
and the densely ignorant assuredly
have uo such right and land is too
precious and its mission too high to be
thus wasted
If the owner of a great country es
tate can farm his land as well as or
bettet than it it were in small hold
ings if following the precept ot Swift
he made two ears of corn or two
blades of grass grow where one grew
before if he supply his section with a
better breed of horses cattle or sheep
well and good -No one with any
knowledge of economies could say he
was doing any injury to the world or
mankind It Is not the amount of land
that he owns but what he does with
if for which he is morally responsible
David tiu ftu m in Atlantic
The Invention of the Panorama
The panorama was invented by a
Scotchman named itobert Barker who
obtained a licene in London in 17S7
and erected a rotunda on Leicester
square Lie was associated with Rob
ert Fulton the practical inventor of
the steamboat wbo introduced pano
ramas into Paris in 17li but resigneil
in favor of Thayer perhaps in order
to give his attention to the application
of steam to boats Thayer raised a
rotunda on the Boulevard Montmartre
whence comes the name of the Fas
sage des ranoramas Bonaparte causpd
plaus to be drawn up for eight pano
ramas in which his conquests were to
be shown to the Parisians whom he
always tried to impress with thp mag
nitude of the achievements in order to
keep them faithful to his star But
these projects were npver realized
Calves Screaming
I could tak iur uours about ray coun
try and my own people I am so fond
of both On my birthday many of them
came in procession to see me and I
danced wbat is called the bourree
with them Jhey say such quaint
things An old woman once hearing
me sing asked Doesnt it hurt you
to scream like that A peasant once
told me he was sure the proprietor of
the grotto would give me 5 francs a
day to sing there Calve in London
Standard
The Hater of Quietude
That man says he will create souip
real excitement it he gets into con
gress
Yes answered Senator Sorghum
he is one of those peculiar patriots
who want to climb on board the ship
of state simply for the pleasure of
rocking the boat Washington Star
Suspicious Circumstances
Do you know they suspect that old
man ot leading a double lite
What gives rise to thatV
Why hes so mean and cross around
home that they think he must be
pleasant and agreeable somewhere
Exchange
Ought to Have Known Better
Whats I be matter
lust quarreled with my wife
What about
She sanl that a woman whom we
met was beautiful and 1 agreed with
her Houston Post
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GOING FOR THE DOCTOR
no nicie or r ooa is Also the Reason Why He
1 admit that
miles an hour
1 was
but 1
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Handled After the Medical Man
A writer in t lit- Atlantic
Monthly -yes your honor said ttie man
cnijiliasixes one mihi ot the danger u o bad been arrested for driving bis
of infection irmii ice automobile at an illegal rate ot speed
M areeiy aumiitr article oi unman
running tnirry
was going for
the doctor
Oh you were going for the doctor
Ill Can you otter any proof to sub
stantiate that statement
es I can bring in the doctor
himself a a witness if necessary
Uni That ought to make a
The law is explicit but we
must grant that there may be exten
uating circumstances lucre have
been times when the court would have
been glad to run thirty miles an hour
if the court could have done so Cer
tainly a man should not be held too
strictly to the provisions of the law
It he happens to violate it tor the pur
pose ot trying to save a lite 1 he
court is wvy strongly inclined to dis
miss the case Did you explain to the
officer who arrested you that you were
going for the doctor
es your honor
Officer what have you to say
Well your honor 1 asked him
when he said he was going tor the
doctor what be was going for the doc
tor tor
Yes That was very sensible What
was he going for the doctor for
For to take the doctor and two
young ladies for a ride as 1 found out
unbeknownst to him
Thirty dollars and costs Chicago
Record Herald
A COLLECTORS RUSE
The Way He Secured a Rare Piece of
Dresden Ware
We should cultivate our fancy for old
china as did the late ilr Wertheimer
the art dealer concerning whom there
is a story that every bargain hunter
should take to heart
Wertheimer was one day passing
through Mayfair when he noticed a
sale about to take place of the furni
ture and household effects of a de
ceased nobleman He walked through
the rooms where dealers were critical
ly examining choice specimens ot un
doubtedly genuine Chippendale and
Sheraton interspersed among earlv
Victorian furniture his eyes apparent
ly dwelling on nothing But when the
sale was about to commence he asked
the auctioneer it he would take ioUOU
for everything in the house
The offer was accepted Now you
can resell everything for me said Air
Wertheimer except this and he took
down from the mantelpiece a dirty or
nament some nine inches high and put
It into his nnclcef It n mono nf
ed mark of the wand of Aesculapius
which he afterward sold for 10000
How the dealers metaphorically kick
ed themselves for overlooking it aud
how they bid against one another in
the chance of securing a similar treas
ure is still a tradition in Bond street
London Chronicle
She Makes a Suggestion
How beautiful and clean the hori
zon looks said Polly as on the second
day out she came up on deck and
threw herself down in the steamer
chair beside me
Well it ought to be said 1 looking
up from my book The captain has
been sweeping it with his glass for
the past six hours
That reminds me said Polly turn
ing two very grave biown eyes upon
me Did you remember to bring that
vacuum cleaner along with you as i
suggested
No said 1 unwarily 1 remem
bered to forget it however What on
earth does anybody want with
vacuum cleaner at seaV
It was only for you dear said
Polly I thought you would like to
have your brains massaged with it oc
casionally New York Times
The Ministers Tools
No workman can do good work with
out sufficient tools Books are the
ministers tools He must have them
it he is to serve his people well Yet
many a ministers salary is so small
that he is unable to provide the com
monest necessities for his family and
have enough left to supply himself
with needed books The church that
makes it impossible for ts pastor to
buy books harms itself even more than
it harms the minister Cumberland
Presbyterian
Etiquette
In our republican atmosphere old
fashioned etiquette has ceased to be
necessary but the word etiquette Is
suggested whenever one hears the
phrase thats the ticket for eti
quette is French for ticket and its
present English signification sprang
from the old custom of distributing
tickets or etiquettes which contained
the ceremonies etc to be observed
at any formal event exactly like our
word program
An Alibi
Examiner Whit is an alibi Can
didate For the Bar An alibi is com
mitting a crime in one place when you
Ere in another place If you can be In
two other places the alibi is ail the
stronger in law Puck
Marriage
Marriage is a lottery quoted the
wise guy
Oh thats an antiquated idea ob
served the simple Nowadays
its a game or skill Philadelphia
ltecord
The fellow who doesnt allow an
alarm clock to interfere with his morn
ing nap Illustrates the triumph of mind
over matter Philadelphia Record
A Clem man
HfNSfWN WsSTsSTn
SHAKESPEARES POISONS
They Are Taken Too Seriously
by
Some Modern Chemists
It Is one of the penalties of Shake
speares losition as a great poet thut
his words are taken seriously
A learned doctor in a foreign scien
tific review has been molding an inqui
sition into the poisons mentioned by
him lie points out that the juice or
cursed hebenon which Claudius Is
paid to have poured into the ear of
Hamlets father is incapable of pierc
ing the tympanum of the ear and
therefore could not have penetrated
the body and poisoned the blood as
the ghost alleges Again the narcotic
which Friar Laurence administers to
Juliet was probably either Datura
stramonium or mandragora root The
first Is used by the convicts in New
Caledonia when they wish to rob their
companions but its effects do not last
forty two hours nor anything like that
time A scientist who experimented on
himself with mandragora found that
intense sickness is caused on waking
and this did not happen to Juliet As
for the poison which was given to
the rarest Dresden bearing the covet 1 t vvs probably aconite or one of
those mixed poisons composed of vege
table alkaloids and ptomaine since It
was so remarkably rapid in its effects
But that Is the fault or too serious
people They will take everything se
riously Shakespeare probably knew
nothing at all of poisons or of nar
cotics He was a poet and not a chem
ist and might therefore be allowed the
usual poptic license London Globe
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