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cILIA KIINSA3 CITY SUNDAY. AUGUST 29, 189T. 12 GOOD ROADS lig6ULD BE A GOOD LOCAL SLOGAN kmit SLOGAN raised big ones, which were not particularly g.md 01 WS. A Wktiout street restaurant has on exhibition in its front window a big Missouri watermelon which weighs forty-seven pounds. VALUABLE PEARL BEpS DISCOVERED IN ARKANSAS Many Thoroughfares in Kansas City Are Sadly in Need -ofAttention Sixth 5treet, the Most Direct Route to the Union Depot, Is Almost Impassable, for InstanceAnd There Are Others.

Need of Attention nion Depot, Ind Excitement Over Finding the Gems Is at Fever Heat in Arkansas and Prospectors Are Flocking to the Bayous of the White River Country, Where nany Large and liar nificent Stones Have Been Recently Found. 1 1 attempt. A man on a Lke his way to thc side imprisoned cyclist alai the remains of the li of property lthy the Board of Fob. recommend the pa liar the city pay half the on for the work is now I. rest Boulevard.

nent On the Southwest il years ago, is now I proper paving this magnificent boulevard, ing the distinction of outlet for vehicle trif. Kansas from the up. and the residence see. 1 Complains frequently I 4 1 1 1Nei 11 tfr'47: 5 1, 0 ii ll i'' 4 I 1 attempt. A man on a his way to thc side imprisoned cyclist alai the remains of the of property the Board of Pub.

recommend the ha lug the city pay half the for the work is now Boulevard. on the Southwest years ago, is now la proper paving this magnificent boulevard, the distinction of outlet for vehicle Kansas from the up. and the residence Q. complains frequently 'A) I A4 IHelsel" a Hamilton-norion who Is rarl of Aberdeen, another wild in Lord Stanmore, and a liamilton-itussell who is Viscount Boyne, while among the members Of Parliament upon whom the Queen conferred peereget, itt the time i.f ner iitiolco the other day lit Mr. Jon Trant Hamilton.

Th social influence which the Mimi itonot Wed Is something phenomenal. The old Dowager Duchess of Abercorn alone was photographed some time ago with her children and grandchildren, their respeetive husbands and wives, to the number of more than loth They are exceedingly clannish. and probably the most striking illustration that they ever gave of their social power was the manner in which they reduced to the condition of social outcast and pariah the late Luke of Marlborough, one of the most brilliant and intellectual members of his W.io,sexile lit merits." reprobation, was In no sense worse than dozens of other noblemen and men of rank and position who are still received with open arms at court and by aociely. WHEN IT DOESN'T HURT TO HE SHOT. The Ballet the Moat Beneficent, That In, for a Bullet.

Form the New York Sun. The Cuban war is furnishing daily a demonstration of some of the advantages and disadvantages of the use of the Misuser rifle, with which the Spaniards and many of the insurgents are armed. It is this rifle, according to the reports of men returned from the island, which Is responsible for the comparatively small number of soldiers killed In battle in skirmishes on each side, ste well as for the inaccuracies In the estimates of the number of the wounded. Some striking stories of the operation of the Mouser bullet. which might almost be described as beneficent in some of Its effects among the Cuban lighting men, from a part of the testimony taken by the sub-committee of the Senate committee on foreign relations last month and in June In their guest for information as to the ettite of affairs in Cuba.

When Captain William H. Smith, a former United States army officer, who served in the Cuban army from the spring of ISSit Until last miring, was asked by the Senators how many men had been wounded in a two days' battle at La Reformat he replied: WATERIEMS BY THOUSANDS IT TAKES 500 CARLOADS TO SATISFY KANsAS CITY. There Are Asterealmately 1,500 Melons to the Car, So That the Loral Demand Calls for Some 150,000 Melons a All These See Eaten Here-. th here the Supply Is Drawn From. How many watermelolos do you suppose Kansas ety uses a year? About 600 carloads.

At least that is what James McKinney, who probably handles more watermelons than any other Kansas City commission merchant. aye, In each car-load there are nearly 1,600 melons, and in 500 car-loads there would be melons. of course. not all of these are eaten in Kansas City. Perhaps a third, or a half of them, are reshipped from here.

The first of the season usually come from Texas. According to McKinney's estimate, Inp cars came from there this season. The Texas melons are good-sized ones, well flavored, and welsh from twenty-five to for. ty-flve pounds. Then there is the Cobb Gem from Arkansas.

Kansas City has taken about sixty-five cars of these this season, and about the same of the Black Diamond from Tennessee. Both these varieties are splendid melons. The Tennessee melon is regular in size, and weighs from thirty-five to fifty pounds. The Arkansas melon la striped, and about the same size end shape of the Tennessee melon. but weighs only about thirty pounds.

Oki llama sends out a number of melons. but they are not good sellers, because they don't look well. They are knotty and gnarled, and pate of (men Last year Kansas furnished Kansas City about KA) cars of melons, but this year -we What with the remissness of the Board of Publics Works and the war between the two houses of the Council, many much-needed public improvements are being delayed this summer. In the matter of etreet paving this is especially true. some of the principal thoroughfares of the city are now almost impassable for the reason that either the pavement is in a deplorable state, not having been reneweti or repaired since decay set in years ago or because no pavement has ever been laid at at all.

Cyclists, teamsters, business; men, all, are complaining because of the wretched condition of some of the streets. sr hey must either go several blocks out of their way to avoid the bad portions or else risk wreck ANAll 4 1. -1 i.k.-:;.! -07 1 fisherman, who had his house-boat tied to the bank of Walker lake, picked up a half dozen good sized pearls by merely remelting over the side of the boat. The lakes are easy to reach. They are within a few miles of the St.

Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern railroad, and the White river is navigable far beyond the neighborhood of these bayous. A regular packet plies that trade during high water, and one of the sights of these days is the crowd of people who take passage on the boats destined for the pearl hates. They take about as much equipment as one would need on a trip to the Kiondyke, although the search for pearls is attended by none of the discomforts that the Alaskan adventurer may count upon meeting. Wi Hams has taken extraordinary precautions to guard his treasures. He hen encircled the two lakes with a cordon of deputy sheriffs, whose instructions are to arrest any persons found prowling on the shores of the lakes.

The two bodies of water have been surrounded by gasoline lights that at night illuminate the entire circumference, so that it is impossible for anybody to approach the pearl deposits without being seen and halted by the vigilant officers. Mr. Williams has also made arrangements for working the deposits 'in a businesslike way. As soon as he leased the lakes he ordered from Indianapolis a large dredge boat to be shipped down in sections and put together upon arrival at the scene of the fisheries. This craft has arrived and is now being put In shape for service.

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"It is a common saying that only the Almighty can tell what jury will do," said the third vice president of a trunk line. "It should be amending by adding. or a "I read a dispatch the other day," he went on "about a Kansal sheriff who fenced in al railroad of that state. The dispatch reads that the road was abandoned for two months in the spring Of DA while there was some trouble between the Santa Fe and Union Pacific systems as to which should operate it. Stone, who had owned the land at one time.

brought suit and Loosened that the land had reverted to hint by the temporary abandonment of the road, and Judge Myers rendered a decitit011 reStOring the land to him. "I do not recall a parallel case, but it reminds me of 'some things I have seen lit my railroad experience. Several years ago a road was built in a section of Iowa. There were the usual suits on asiscased damages, and proteste and ail that sort of thing. The road waa operatt at a loss.

That is, nothing new. But the people along the line had ouch a strong prejudice against tho road that they subjected themselves to all sorts of trouble rather than patronize it. This prejudice was transmitted. It is not often that a railroad company gives in, but this one did, In a measure. It found i that it could have built a shorter line, where there would be more revenue.

The company offered the Untwucessful roadI think it was a branch road about seventy-live miles longfor sale. It did not connect with any other corporation's lines, so no other company wanted it. The farm- era in the country through which it passed 'did not wint it, of course, and the line was simply abandoned, and several years ago when I was out there, I learned that the Iowa corn crop was growing over it, and right along the roadbed, for the rails were never taken up. "The attorney of the company, an Iowa lawyer, was well paid for the clever set- tlamente tie made for the company, but after years, when he had forgotten ahout it and announced himself as a candidate for the Congressional nomination. in his district, the grudge was dug up and he was defeated.

"One of the deeded towns in Missouri, and I don't know but anywhere, might easily have been the metropolis of the Platte valley if Its people had not refused absolutely to confer with a committee which had authority to locate the Western terminal of the line. The chief objection to the proposition was that the road would fill the country with Yankees, who were inimical to the pet institutions of that country, and the citizens informed the committee that they preferred to travel by wagon or steamboat. A blight fell upon the town from which it has never recovered. I do not mean that the blight was the result directly of the failure of the town to accept the offer. But if it had accepted it the decay would have been less rapid.

It might not have come at all. "Do I know of any instances on the other aide? Yes. I call to mind a town in Wisconsin. Some twenty years ago the Chicago and Northwestern built a line from Milwaukee to Madison. The road is not far from the village of Cambridge, which was a stage coach point in Wisconsin in the early days.

I think the town is within bearing of the noise of the trains. The people of Cambridge were indifferent, and the company concluded that its interests would be advanced if Cambridge was left out. The company located a town site, and, as if to overshadow and crush Cambridge, the new town was called London. It was three miles from Cambridge. The company put up grain elevators and helped some newcomers build houses.

But the Cambridge merchants did not move and the farmers drove into Cambridge as of old, and the town actually improved and thrived, while the station with the pmtentious name was left, and is today overgrown with weeds. I do not know of NO people in the place. The Cambridge people are building a road of their own now to a line which is the rival of the Chicago and Northwestern." Soria-Moria Caudle. To Soria-LMoria Castle, where all the dreams come true, To Soria-Maria Castle would that I went with you: A thousand miles of meadow-land, a thousand miles of sea, And what though winter overtakes and rough the waters be? To Soria-Moria Castle we'll rise and go today, And sure some leagues we'll cover or ere the west turn gray; And though tonight we slumber beneath the rootless blue, We'll dream of that fair Castle where all the dreams come true. Round Sorla-Moria Castle it's always afternoon, The thorns are thick with Mayflowers, the air is sweet with June: Though fields are white with winter but half a league away.

Thorns in the Castle Gardens are always white with May. 0, you may walk In satin, shod, and barefoot I may go, But we shall take the self-same way and all its perils know. We'll sail the hungry waters and flee the following tire That fain would drive us backward from the laud of our desire. To Soria-Moria Castle the way Indeed is sore, For we st tread o'er Brig of Dread and pass o'er Whinny 'Moor; And we must sail, unpiloted, upon the hungry sea. And turn not back, however black doom o'er our heads may be.

And if or e'er the Castle upon our vision shine The hungry sea take toll, deas, of life o' mine or thine; We wiii not grude to pay the price, but drink the salt cup down; Since. though the sea-weed wrap us, and though the rough seas drown. 'Tis sure we'll find the Castle the day that we are dead. For souls may enter freely where bodies had sped: To Soria-Moria Castle, where all the dreams come true, To Soria-Moria Castle I'm fain to go with you. Nora Hopper In Black and White.

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(Kinney says the Misu so one man wounded who was shot with a a disappointment. It doesn't Mauser bullet, which passed right through rich, blood-red meat that the ot "ay" Kts outfit him, and we never knew anything about it do, and doesn't sell well. Ile i for two days. Tennessee and Arkansas melon et 0 As" 1II 1 T-1 14 h70-W1 nl Kts outfit 1 4SAT i 2 ,1,311 41. Vt, ,4, lir, IttliA 1 4 'i, et '4 00,,, PeAP q.

ti nAyors op ATITCASSAS 1 "We never knew the exact number Iwounded, because too many are wounded who do not pay any attention to it. I saw one man Wounded who was shot with a Mauser bullet, which passed right through him and we never knew anything about it for two days. 1 Vol "'VV. i l'. 1 i 4' Yfrr, 4 P'7 4-0-1b 1'.

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ri 4 1 I i 1 4 I I 4 1 4 i i e. I 1 1 i 1 i i 1 ill i i tance to witness his horse managed to make of the foolhardy and rescued him, towing wheel to Broadway. Although the OS ners on this street are wealthy lic Works would not without advising that expense. The resolution tied up in the Council. on the Southwest The macadam pavement boulevard, laid several bad condition.

With highway would be a as It should be, having being the only direct tritfie into the State of town business district Von. The fire department 3 2.5 1 A 1' 4 "-'sI'As ty; it111 o- -r. LOOKING WEST FORM BROA DWAY. of this boulevard and fire engines and wagons are driven at a comparatively slow rate of speed there for fear of accident. Independence avenue east of Gladstone is In very bad shape.

There is no paving at all on this part of the boulevard, though it is well paved to Gladstone avenue. Rocks and mud holes dispute the honor of being greatest in number, with the chances in favor of both. A cyclist going out Summit street rnuq dismount at Eighteenth and carry his wheel down hill three blocks to Twenty-first. From Fourteenth to Eighteenth the pavement, of blocks, is bad enough. The block pavement on Holmes street south of 'Fifteenth is a disgrace to that part of the city.

Numerous accidents resulting in damage suits against the city have happened here because of this poor paving. Cherry Street In Had Shope. Cheery street, from Fourteenth to Eighteenth, needs repaving. The macadam is full 4,14 4f 'e-4, 41.F ,4. te.t0'1 I -It It May Soon Come to This on West Sixth Street of holes and dangerous to vehicle or pedestrian.

One block of street which Is sorely in need of paving is on Fourth street, west of Broadway. connecting with the Fourth street viaduct. Horses with broken legs have had to be shot here on several different occasions. If Springfield avenue were paved from 'Holmes street to Troost avenue, four blocks, cyclists would have an excellent speedway from Wain street to Troost, south to Linwood, one block, and thence east on LinwoOd avenue, several miles in length. Many other streets of a block or two in length need paving or repaviing sadly, but the present Board of Public Works anti the present Council seem not to have discovered the fact as yet.

MISS BELKNAP'S FIANCE. Paul May Han No Title, but Ile Is tery, Wealthy. Brussels letter In the Chicago Record. Paul May, the young gentleman who is to marry Miss Alice Belknap, daughter of tile late ex-Secretary W. W.

tBelknap of IOW makes his home in this city, although at present he is secretary of the Belgian legation in Japan. It is generally understood that Miss Belknap is going to marry a title, but that is a mistake. Ir. May is an ordinary citizen, but he is very rich. His father, the late Joseph May, was a native of Frankfort-on-the-Main, and came from a well-known Hebrew family.

When he was a young man he emigrated to Amer and followed the gold hunters to California, where he made a large fortune. lie returned to Belgium about fifteen years ago, and carried on considerable business here loaning money and handling a good deal of wool. He left a.widow, three sons and a daughter, all of whom, except Paul, reside In this city at 22 Place de l'Indostrie. Paul May commanded sufficient influence to secure a position in the foreign office as clerk, and afterward a commission as attache to the Belgian legation at 'Washington, from whence he was transferred to Japan. It was in Washington that he made the acquaintaace of Anse Keiknap, and asked her to be his wife.

the Property is entirely under the control of the mother, it was Impossible for Air. May to marry without her consent, and she being an orthodox Jewess of the strictest tyPo would not permit her son to wed a Christian. It is understood here that Miss Belknap has met that ditliculty by adopting Oa Jewish faith. airs. Alay is a woman of strong charneter, frugal habits and business ability.

Much of her husband's commercial success was due to her advice and assistance. They were plain people, and when Mr. May cage) to the consulate to have an invoice certified his manners and appearance were so humble that the consul never charged him the usual fee, supposing that he was some Peel' American straggling to make a living. lfter Mr. May's death It became necessary fiT his wife to secure a consular certificate to a power of attorney to authorize the settlement of that portion of the estate which was invested In America and still being under the improsision that the family 'were Poor Mr.

Roosevelt, our consul. remitted the lee. He was considerably astonished when he learned a short time after that the amount involved Was over in Amerie can gala, 4,741 1 (11 4:,..3.., Iti 7--ri-r-1- 1. A---1- 7, i ---7 i' iii.1 ,10 l'v fp I I A 0 It eiffi'l BROA DWAY. fire engines and wacomparatively slow fear of accident.

east of Gladstone Is TO is no paving at all ulevard, though it is avenue. Rocks and honor of being great3 chances in favor of Summit street MUSt and carry his wheel Twenty-first. From ath the pavement, of on Holmes street disgrace to that part iccidents resulting in the city have hap-this poor paving. Had Shape. Pourteenth to Eight-The macadam is full 5-07v-: 1: 0.

14 -4-1, ici-- r. 1' I'S 6 0 rflt: "2..,::, -9'. 4 1'9' fl I 4-0 ,0 on West Sixth vehicle or Pecksch is sorely in need I street, west of with the Fourth th broken legs have everal different oewere paved from tvenue, four blocks, excellent speedway yost, south to Lin. tence east on Linles in length. a block or two in Tpavitig sadly, but bile Works and the ot to have discov.

''S FIANCE. but Ile Is terr ay. iicago Record. entleman who is to aP, daughter Of the Belknap of Iowa, 3 city, although at the Belgian leo. understood going to marry a take.

Ir. May tt he is very rich. )sepb May, was a te.iMain, and came rew family. WhOl emigrated to Amer. Id hunters to Call large fortune.

Ile tbout fifteen years msiderable business Ld handling a good three sons whom, except Paul, Place de l'Indostrie. sufficient influence he foreign office as commission as otgation at 'Washing transferred to that he I of Miss Kelknao, wife. As the ProPthe control of the hie for Mr. MY to Nent, and she being the strictest tyPe on to wed a Chris that Miss Belkilty by adopting Oa Ivloeehafasretssesong nsit invoice btvai rosi n. iui tcel aecaysersnreTtleniwuhit ince were so humble charged him the he was some Poor make a living.

After ame necessarY fir ocular certificate to suthorize the settlef the estate which ea and still being att the family were consul, remitted the dy astonished when me after that the sr in Amerie iblemphie Dispatch in New York Herald The excitement over the discovery of un- limited and fabulously valuabre deposits of pearls In the bayous of Arkansas and the neighboring States has within the pest ken days developed into a perfect fever. and the lake regions to the West of this city are literally alive wiCa preepectors, equipped -with nothing more than a sharp snick, who are poking about in the soft toil in the hope of hnding new and still more valuable shoals of the precious stones. It has about been determined that the best beds of pearls are to be found in and around a couple of lakes a few miles from Bald Knob, on the White river, and, although these lakes have been pre-empted by a party of local capitalists, who have leased them with the pearl privileges for a term of years, that has not prevented hopeful hunters from traversing all the other lakes in the western part of the State in the expectation of locating other deposits. The value of the pearls in Arkansas can not be computed, even approximately. The stones are to be picked up wherever there is a stream of water to support the mussels, and although it is possible that the more valuable beds will be worked out in the course of a few years, it is likely that for gE many years to come Isolated specimens of the stones will be picked up from time to time.

It is a curious fact that, though the stones are the product of the native bivalve, which flourishes only in the water, some of the largest and purest specimens yet shown on this market have been found many miles distant from the water, a circumstance due to the fact that the Arkansas waters, like the parent stream, the Mississippi, are very shifty, and the river bed of two years ago may be the cotton patch of today. Nearly all of Western Arkansas Is under water at certain seasons of the year, and so it Is possible to pick up a pearl in the most unpromising locality. However, that kind of pearl mining is more a matter of luck than of skill, and there would not be much inducement for a man of means to invest any money in the industry were there not localities that yield the gems in better paying qualities. tPearls of large size have been found throughout the Mississippi valley from time immemorial. Old men now relate how in their youth they used to go to the branch and pick out the stones to play marbles with.

They would throw away all "'wept those that were perfectly round. Of course, they did not know the value of Ike stones. They were so common that they never -tad any idea they possessed any more value than the ordinary pebbles on the beach. Over in the button lands of Arkansas pebbles are scarce. Frequently the natives would run across beautiful smooth of a delicate buried in the mud on the bank of the bayous.

They would maybe carry them home for mantel ornaments. or would carelessie throw them back into the water to see the fish jump after them. Very few people who lind their way into that heavily timbered country know anything about the precious stones, and no one ever thought of sending one of those pebbles to a Jeweler to ascertain its value. A few weeks ago a young man from St. Louis came down over the Iron Mountain railroad, to hunt and fish for a week or so in the bottom lands of Arkansas.

Ile got off the train at Bald Knob and penetrated a few miles into the lie found on the bank of Murphy Lake. famous for its fishing. As he sat on a prostrate log, waiting tor a bite, he espied a glittering object in the mud. Ile picked it up, and was at once struck by its similarity to the pearl, he having some familiarity with precious stones. The guide who was with him offered to show Ifirn where there wet a lot of such stones, and in a few minutes the St.

Louisian was picking up pearls as fast as he could shove them into his pockets. The guide assured him that the stones were of no value, as the people of that section paid no attention to them. The fisherman. however, was determined to assure himself, and by the night train he sent a few specimens to an expert lapidary at St. Louis.

By the return mail came the as- surance that these stones were pure pearls, of excellent quality, and that the specimens scnt were of unusual size and of great value. The St. Louisan made up kild mind to devote himself to the pearl industry for an iedefinite time. He prospected in all the nearby lakes. To make assurance doubly sure he sent a few specimens to a jewelry establishment in Memphis for sale, and when by the next mail he received a sum in return far in advance of what he had expected he knew for a fact that he had This lucky fellow kept his secret for some time, but it finally cropped out.

Jr leaked out through the jewelers in this city. They were receiving consignmente of pearls every clay or so from over in Arkansas. and it naturally suggested itself to them to inquire where so many and such large gems were coming from. A. O'Hare of this city WON nt over to make the inquiries, but he had no sooner reached the peeri country and learned the facts of the ease than he sent in his resignation to the home house and arranged to go into the pearl Industry on his own hook.

After that it was not long before the general public learned of the wonderful discoverice. Memphis capitalists were early attracted to the pearl fields. J. 'Williams of this city took an interest in the business as soon as the first announcements were made. Having some acquaintances in the territory, he got In communication with persons who could give him the facts.

He sent for experts in Louie and even had a man come down from Tiffany's in New York. Together they went to the pearl country. The experts unhesitatingly pronounced the. pearls to be genuine and of excellent quality. There Was no doubt about the quantity of the stones.

The gentlemen poked around in the mud with sticks for a couple of hours and euccettled in finding three more stones, ranging in size from pea. to a walnut. The largest stones are worth from pie to VAC They are of various thus. The larger are quite pink, and the smaller ones range to a ebbing white. The stones are without exception perfect in formatfon.

Faulty ones are seldom found. The large ones are more nearly perfect circles. They are of oval formation. and the smaller smooth, as though they had been in the hands of the lapidary for special prepare-thou. The result of Mr.

Williams. was that he acquired the lertsehold interest in the two lakes where the best and most pearls have been foundthe Walker and Murphy lakes. These bodies of water are more properly termed bayous In this part of the country. They are located on branches of the White river, and are mere': expansions of tributary streams. They are perhaps two miles Jong.

They are surrounded by dense growths of cypress wood. They abound in all kluds of game fish, and have long iteen the favorite resort of hunters and fishermen for hundreds Of milts aroma Otte I ig I i 0 11.1'''41,i'Vi 31 It l'Ile''' f'''' AI! I .1 1 I it 1. k3.tr'', i 11. it i. 1 1117 I- 1 1 1' ki I Lei.

wag taft xi Aok 40 'A4- eV' 1 .1 tt! s.elq 1 I rtr tilq 1i ELI- It 11 it ci II -71j Whire II.ver, Packer kfaviA5 ilemphi5 Ltuet ears to come isolated specimens of es will be picked up from time to are the product of the native is a curious fact that, though the tive bi- which flourishes only in the water, the largest and purest specimens wn on this market have been found miles distant from the water, a cir- ace due to the fact that the Arkan- ers, like the parent stream, the Mis- r. Nearly all of Western Arkansas are very hifty, and the river bed years ago may be the cotton patch water at certain sea sons of the nd so it i possible to pick up a that kind of pearl mining i ti the most unpromising locality. -s more n' of luck than of skill, and there tot be much inducement for a man ns to invest any money in the in- were there not localities that yield is in better PflYing qualities. i of large size have been found out the Alississippl valley from time irial. Old men now relate how in lk -101 wheat to crop.

melon Is carry the other melons says the sell here now for from $1.60 to $1.75 a dozen, while Zlissouri melons bring but 75 cents a dozen. Georgia Melons Come Too High. There was a time when the Georgia melon was a great factor in the Kansas City market, but that time is gone. Too many good melons are raised in the West, and transportation is too high. The Colorado melon from Rocky Ford sells well.

They are long melons, and weigh from fifteen to twenty pounds. They are quoted at from 50 to 75 cents per dozen. A wagon load of Missouri melons was etacked up in the C. C. Clemons commission house yesterday.

They were being carted away. W. L. Crush, who was in charge, said they were being taken away because they couldn't be sold. You may have the lot at cents a dozen." he said.

"They're from Southwest Missouri, but we can't sell them. Good melons? Why, the Missouri melon is as good as anybody's melon." A negro boy came in and asked for a drink of water. "Haven't got any." said Crush. "but I'll give you a melon. Take your pick." "Pont want no melon," said the boy.

"That settles it," said Crush; "when a negro boy don't want a watermelon they must be cheap." Cantaloupes From Colorado. The'bulk of the cantaloupes that are disposed of in the Kaneas City market come from Rocky Ford. They are small, of the nutmeg variety. which is in reality the only cantaloupe, and sell in this market at from Il to per bushel crate. The Missouri cantaloupes are coming Into favor, too, since the farmers began raising the nutmegs.

There was a time when they sr- 1 0 VIEW OF WEST sum STREET ing their vehicles and sustaining personal Injuries by a trip over them. Why this condition of affairs should prevail the people do not understand. The property along some of the streets in question Is owned by wealthy citizens who could well afford to pay for the improvements. All that is necessary is for the Board of Public Works to recommend to the Council that such paving be laid. The Council could then pass a resolution declaring the work necessary and authorizing the letting of the contracts; After this the contract is awarded by the city engineer, and it then goes to the Council again for confirmation.

sixth Street, for Example. An example of poor paving on one of the city's most important thoroughfares is afforded on West Sixth street, from Broadway to Bluff street. This street would be the most used public way for heavy traffic In the city, as it formerly was, if It were properly paved. Practically all the traffic to and from the Union dep.oLssed to pass over this street. It was originally paved with cedar blocks, how long ago is probably known only to the oldest inhabitant For over a year the street has been almost unfit for travel of any kind.

Vehicles going to or from the depot must now go one block further north, to Fifth street, and over the latter thoroughfare to the up-town business district. From Broadway to Bluff is four blocks. Starting at Broadway, the pavement seems to get worse each block. Mud slides down from embankments on either side, part of the way. These banks have been left just as they were when the city was in its swaddling clothes.

A cyclist was recently daring enough to attempt the perilous ride from Broadway to Bluff. He started out blithely, thinking his experience as a trick rider would enable hint to get through in safety. He had bumped along one-fourth of the distance, when his front wheel went into a hole three feet long and about as deep. The trick rider would have been pitched on his head, and might have sustained a broken neck, had he not thrown out his hands and caught hold of the opposite edge of the abyss. Be bravely remounted his wheel and started again.

lie had gone only a short distance when his damaged bicycle struck a pile of rotten paving blocks, which had been upheaved as though by an earthquake. The spokes of his wheel were caught in the mass and the momentum sent the rider into a collection of driftwood several feet ahead. The fearless man and his wheel were both fastened to the earth by a weight of mud and paving blocks. Luckily the wheelman had been seen to fall by a numbec of persons on Broadway who had stayed at a safe dis ''Z' c--2 '4-- .11 S. ,7 7, r1 A That seems miraculous, but it is true.

I suppose you have seen that Mauser bullet. The lead Is covered with some metal. I can show you a wound that you would have said, if it had happened with any other cartridge, would have necessitated an amputation. A bullet went right through my ankle, and I was In hospital only two hourslong enough to have the wound dressed. The bullet does not make any fracture.

I have never seen a came of amputation since I have been on the island. And it does not cause septleaemia." Captain Smith showed his wound, pointing out where the bullet had entered his ankle and where it-had left it. "I was never laid up a minute," he said; "the doctor in camp simply dressed the wound with lodetorm and a little antioeptie. That is why I say it is almost impassible to gave an exact account of the wounded." Dr. If.

W. Danforth of Milwaukee, who passed a year in Cuba as physician to President Cisneros, explained this to the Senators as follows: "As I account for all wounds made by the Mouser rifle bullet. It is the most harmless and most humane rifle. and I am Intensely surmised at Spain's using it; the most barbarous nation in its treatment of the Cubans, according to the stories, and yet the most humane in the use of firearms. "The Mfauser bullet is a steel-clad bullet of .31 and a fraction caliber.

That bullet will penetrate anywhere. and will go through you as a Sash of sunlight will go through glass; but it leaves no disabiing effect, and unless it hit in a vital spot, as, for instance. the heart, which is the only spot where you can kill a person instantly and even then I have seen a person live unies hit in a vital spot you will not die." "77. -R i ck I. It IA 7 i I it UPI 11, ..:1, 11 II 0 1 ii 11 pi AUNT fo i 4 Ai, 4, i 4 .4.

-idlir fd-k i ac.4 TITI. 7war, 7 MINES like all the Southwestern courses, and it would be impossible for divers to' work at the bottom with any dcgre success, for It would be impossible for them to see a couple of inches ahead of their noses. It I therefore necessary to dredge up all the soil at the bottom of the lakes. The task is not such a great one, for the made land of Arkansas is not deep, and it will not take long to get over an acre of lake bottom. 'Memphis hi filled these days with won- death' lituries of pearl finds.

There is much of truth in most of them. For instance, it is an established fact that John lkirton, a negro living on the Barton plantation, near Marion. found in the stomach of a ring-tailed raecoon, at week, a pearl which he now holds for $US. The coon had evidently math, a meal of the mussel in which the pearl had formed. The negroes JIM( RCM the river from this city, who tied isolated stones, and who think It is all a Joke when told that the stones are worth big money, have betin swapping $ie0 gems for such trines as a gallon of whisky or a package of tobacco, and thinking they were getting the best of the bargain at that.

Over near Clarendon a negro cropper on Monday sent to Memphis mix large stones with instructiens to him agent to try and grt him a pair of shoes with the stones. The smallest of them is appraised at Ota in value. These pearls are not unlike others In the manner of their formation. They are grown Inside of the shells of the mussels that In some of the Souther it waters are so plentiful as impede navigation, as at Shoals in the Tennessee river. But it re-1 quires a peculiar soil for the propagation of the pearls.

so that no pearls may be found In some places where the bivalves are quite plentiful. The meat of these clear water oysters is eaten by many people. but it is too soft and flabby to be considered with fictor by gourmets. Under proper condi- lions a small grit finds lodgment on the surface of this meaty substance. It ad-term and begins to grow.

It seems to absorb the meat and to expand proportionately itself, with the result that in the course of time the shell is devoid of meat, but contains a pearl of greater or leas size. In places where the shells have not been disturbed by the action of the currents, or I otherwise, the pearl Is yet to be found in i the Shell; but where the shell has been I driven abont, considerably the pearls may 1 he scattered. It is much more convenient 1 for the pearl hunter to find the ettone separated from the shell, tot it is none the less easy to find, and it is much more easy to nes tile earl hunter will I get aveL oft'mene5i .00 or Celli shells before his search will be rewarded by coming upon a stone of any value. The operations of the Williams syndicate will be carried on much the same as the placer mining of the West. A sluice will be arranged on the dredge boat.

into which the sediment taken from the bottom of the lake will be poured, and, as the soil does not contain any other stony substance that the shells of the mussels or the pure pearls, it is plain that when the dirt shall have been washed through the sittlees nothing will remain in the bottom but the valuable oubstances. One of the most businesslike prospectors In the pearl country at this early date is Mr. Charles Wilms of this city, who represents a 10Vrt1 firm of Jewelers. who have sent him out to buy up all the gems he can hear of. Pis means of locomotion is usually a mule, that animal being tietter stilted than any other other for traversing the bayou country.

There is same secrecy maintained as to the amount of gems that hove been taken out of Arkansas, but it is evident that the stones are quite common from the fact that the people here in town who are without means are able to sport valuable atones in the way of decoration of their persons. The talk of the streets is about little else than the pearl fisheries, as they are called. and everybody professes a deep knowledge of the nature and value of all such gems. The House of Hamilton, the Chicajo There is no house of the British aristoc racy that it so extensively represented in the House of Loris as that of Hamilton. There is a Hamilton who is Duke of Hamilton and Bran hit, onoiiter wtio Duke of Abercorn, a third Hamilton who is Eltrl of Haddinp.ton.

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0'''. ji ,14 14UN1 PI2 Li 1 I i rr 14UNIPHDEY3 The center entrance Is twenty-four feet wide by thirty-four feet high, and will be Very rich In decoration. flanked on either side by coupled columns and their accompanying pilasters, standing six feet from the walla The main cornice breaks around a projection of columns supporting pedestals for groups of statuary twelve feet high. The center of the pavilion Is crowned by a colossal group of statuary. There will be also sin.

gle statues between columns resting on stylobate, which will be projected out to re. celve them. The spandrels above the arch will be decorated with bas-reliefs. The end pavilions with their entrances will be crowned with shallow domes. The implements emblematic of mining are so few that, with the exception of a few trophies the entire Interior elaboration will be conflned to classic ornamente and re.

serve for the wall space-3 of the large center vestibule, which is twenty-four feet wide and sixty feet long. such elaboration. The ceiling will be a large barite! Vault. with intersecting cross-vault, richly coffered and elaborately decorated. On the walls it is here proposed to have mural paintings emblematic of mining, placer it corking.

of ores by "Rocky Mountain Canaries," and other mining scenes. The perspective drawing of the Mines and Mining building shows a handsome structure designed by John J. along rigid classic lines Of the Doric order, moth. tied to eomport with nineteenth century requirements. The result is a building of simple dignity and having an air of repose considered requisite in a large building.

The facade presents a frontage of 400 feet, accentuated rot center and end with pavilions, tilxiy-four and forty feet respectively, thereby obtaining sufficient verity of mass. The solidity of these pavilions and their strong perpendicular lines and shadows will give a strong contrast of light and shade. The height of the building to the top of the main cornice is forty feet: the height of order thirty feet. resting on stylobate ten feet high. The height of the center pavilion to the top of the crowning group of statuary is eighty-live feet, while the end pavilion is aixty-tive feet to the top of the dome.

The lighting of the building will be obtained by large windows. ten feet wide by twenty-four feet high, placed tit intervals of sixteen feet. and the roof will have a large skylight area, making the interivr very briaht and cheerful. It I.