FHELMiD TRIBUNE, F.sTAIIMSI/EI) IK formal.ces are viewed with a less in dulgent. eye, one-something per hour had been about its record. However, 1 I had been offered the opportunity of seeing the veteran fairly "extended," as one used to say of a horse; and, I as I am still fond of new experiences, ! I closed with the offer. The first thing I learned was that i you cannot ride a motor, when cxten- j sien is contemplated, without acer- j tain prescribed mode of habiliment: i and thus, I presently found myself in I goggles and a Tapped cap, constructed , to tie under the chin, and a water- . proof jumper. In tills guise I was pro- ! nounced ready for the road and we < took it It is unnecessary to recount what tho particular road was that we j took to. Suffice it that at that ma- i tutinal hour we had it pretty well to j ourselves and that its condition was ! not unfavorable to free and easy loco motion. So, from one-something the motor got into two-something, and that process ol' extension was gradu ally continued, until, from the indica- I tion afforded by the milestones, I con cluded she must be doing nearer four somathing than three. I have an idea that somebody else, who looked like a mounted county po liceman, arrived at much the same conclusion, s.nd was rather inclined to tell us so. Plowever, he thought better of it, for we certainly left him. as who should say, standing still. Wo Deemed to leave a good many people like that. And yet trees and houses rather rushed at us, and tho landscape generally took to be having in the way you will find re corded in the late laureate's "Amphi on." The use of goggles, a cap, a wa terproof jumper and apron were now quite satisfactorily explained to me. The use of tobacco had evon earlier become first inadvisable, then impos sible. Any exchange of remarks was attended with • the inconvenience which arises from abnormal pressuro on tho respiratory organs; and there was present to a marked degree that titilation of the spinal cord which sometimes has the effect of making people seasick. I observed my automedon cock his eye at mo, inquiringly, now and again, but ills expectations, if he had any, were not realized. Mine were. I had expected a certain amount of ex citement, and when we reached our • destination a few minutes before our scheduled time, I was free to confess that I had it. All the same. I doubt whether I am likely to find my ideal of motion in a motor, yet awhile.— Pall Mall Gazette I A. FAMOUS "LOST MINE." ! OLD PROSPECTORS FOND OF DIS ; CUSSING THE WHITE CEMENT. | I>!%ciivorod by Old Sinn White, Who I>is |>l>eaie(l Willi (lie Secret or Iln I.ocn -1 tion— failure ot a Keliemo to I.enrn ItA j Whereabouts Proof ol' lis lilcllliess. j The most popularly discussed lost mine among the miners in the Rocky I mountain camps, especially those in northern New Mexico, i 3 the White j Cement A few old miners who knew White personally still remain in the Rock mountains, and their narrative j of the excitement he caused when he j showed his rich specimen chunks of j gold ore is always heard with inter- I est. It is safe to say that several thou- I sand men have, at one time or anoth er, hunted for the White Cement mine. The late millionaire silver king, Nat C. Creede of Colorado, spent a year in trying to find it. White was a New Englander, GO years old, who wa3 in California in 1842. As a gold seeker ho was known j and talked about in every mining camp i on the coast, and stories were told of j his phenomenal luck. He, no doubt, | made several small fortunes, but was j always poor and prospected about with a lean mujp and a halfbreod Indian j boy, getting supplies where he could. I Many people thought he was slightly j demented, but he undoubtedly knew ; more about the gold region than any man living. | One day in July, 18G8, White came | into Horse Head gulch from northern ! New Mexico, driving his mule and looking utterly used up. Ho got | something to eat. Some one bantered j him about his vain searches for a I mine. "Well, just look at that," said old | White, handing out several pieces of I what looked like hard, white clay, j glittering with specks of metal, hut 1 White suddenly became mum, and put j ting his specimens in his bag, went out j to find an assayer. j Before night it was known in camp | that White's specimens showed 1000 j ounces of gold to tho ton. Everybody went wild. Nobody slept that night, hut sat around the fires and talked j "Cement." In the morning a party i headed by Senator Sharon's brother ' Henry called on White, who was 1 sleeping in one of the shaek3. He ; was told that l:e must pilot the men I to his find. He could have the pick of the claims, but go he must, and on his refusal was warned that his life j would be worthless if he "stood off" j tho camp. For a long time White gave excuses and aeclared he did not know ) where to lead the men to the find. But I when the miners showed that they l really would kill him if he didn't show | them where he (jot his specimens he I finally consented. i A crazier mining camp was never | known. Men in Horse gulch, who wore a little credulous and not desirous of following White over 300 miles from 1 camp were offered SIOOO and SI2OO ' each for their camp outfits, consist ing of picks, shovels, kettles, pans, ; greasy old blankets, a bushel of beans | and two jackasses. But in two days ' there wa3 no outfit to be bought in ' the whole gulch mining camp. Ev ! cry one wanted his own outfit. ! Tho trail led across the Rockies. It ' was a very difficult journey, even for I the old miners, who seemed never to know what physical fatigue meant. It led along rocky trails, up and down j canons, and across mountain crests, j Tho first day was a race, and two -1 thirds of the men broke down. The j Indian leaped ahead like a wolf, and ! then White followed, his long gray ! hair flying in the wind. Dy the end ] of the second day the party was in ; the heart of tho mountains, in a des ert where no human being had ever : been before. Many of tho animals | wore lost and tho men wero haggard ; with fatigue and excitement White I was told if he played false he was a | dead man, but he still pointed east j ward. | The old man led his aching, thirst | ing and wornout followers into a ! blind canon, nearly cn the boundary ; between New Mexico and Colorado. | There everyone was glad to take a | rest by the side of a brook, j "Boys, we'll bo there tomorrow. It's about 35 miles over that way," said White, pointing to the no: thwest. "I've got a little off my trail, but now I've got my bearings. You'll be the rich est of any miners alive when you got over where I'm pointin'." A ringing yell went up from the men, tired and almost famished though they wero. The camp fire wan made, supper was cooked and eaten, tho stock was fed, and every one but old White ley down in blankets to sleep and dream of wealth. "I guess I'll go and see about my horsea I'm too nervous to sleep, now that I know I am near to tho biggest tiling on earth," said the old miner, as ho went down tho car.yon to where tho I horses were picketed for tho night. Every one in camp slept like a log. When daylight carue no one could find Tvnite. His horse was gono, too. A maddened lot of raon tried to trail him hut they could not follow the old fel low in that region for more than a few miles. A council was held. It was real ized that the old man had duped his followers. For weeks the country where White had said he had found ilia rich specimens was vainly pros pected over and over. Not a trace of rock like that White had shown could he found. About one-half of tho par ty, after Incredible suffering, got back , 1o life and civilization, and yet despite . their story 100 men started back over the trail two days after. Three years later White reappeared in Rait Lake City with his Cement specimens as before, incredibly rich. and agaiii disappeared and frcm that time to this has never heen heard of. He lent SOO,OOO to a Mormon ranchman cf Provo, Utah, and never went to get interest or principal. The White Ce ment i 3 Btill one of the Rocky rnoun l tain miners' dreams. SOME ART IN THE VMX FICURES. .' killed Workmen Kept I>uy Dime Mu setiiin and Their I'roiluct. Although wax-works have heen a synonym for uncouthnoss and angular ity over since the days of Mr?. Jarley, the men who make them nowadays are somewhat trained in art, and in the intervals of their work sometimes turn out statuettes or decorative pieces of decided merit. So far as the designer is concerned, it really matters little whether his composition is finaliy to take shape in marble, bronze or wax. He first makes a rough miniature sketch in modelling wax, then a full sized statue in clay, from which a piaster mould is taken and the work men do the rest. The hot wax is poured inside the mould to the thickness of a quarter of an inch qr so, hacked up with the remelted wax from old disused figures. The body is of hol low papier macho, and the limbs, if they are to be movable, of wood; if not, of paper, or if they are to show when the figure is dressed, of wax. Finishing the face is the most deli cate work. The eyes, of course, are of glass, and the lashes around them are planted one at a time with forceps. The teeth, when the lips are to ha opened, are exactly the same as these used by dentists to replace the natural ones. Human hair is so cheap just now that it no longer pays to use an gora or any of the other Institutes cnee employed. The cheap grades of real hair it is interesting to note, come from China, and are genuine pigtails in fact. The hair is all black and straight a3 a yardstick at first, but it is bleached and dyed in any tint de sired, and can be crimped more or less, though artists have never suc ceeded in making it look naturally wavy. Designers make a sharp distinction between the figures used for displays and advertising and those used for other purposes, museums, for instance. "When you work for advertising," said one, "the more beautiful and the less iilce nature you get it, the better it is, hut for a museum they like it better the less beautiful and the more like nature it is." The regular muse ums have modellers of their own, so outside houses get only occasional jobs. Models of freaks, such as two-legged boys, armless and legless men, or pink eyed albinos, are among the mo3t com mon articles made to order. The faces of public men are sometimes wanted, too. As a rulo this class of business is looked down upon. "Dime museums pay dime prices and they get dime work," said a veteran dcigner. The dealers are kept at work mak ing new designs as fast as the old ones can be imitated. One house sent out GO new models in the past season. In former years, a third or a fourth of that number would suffice, as SOO or 1000 copies were sometimes made from the same mould, and sent out to cities in different parts of the country. It is not always dime museums, how ever, that try to get something for nothing. Advertisers often order spe cial figures or groups, agreeing to rent them for a certain length of time, hut leaving them afterwards for the maker to pay for by renting them again, if he can. A group showing Faust, Mar guerite and Mephlatopheles WP.S once - made for a linen house at a cost of s£oo or more. The first month's rental was $250. The owner kept it seven years, and then, despairing of ever finding any one else who wanted the group, broke it to piece 3. A most elah orate half life size group representing Aurora, Goddess of Morning, in her chariot, was made some years ago un der a similar contract, and is to be hod now on easy terms. Another man ufacturer has on his hands a mammoth mechanical water illy which is sup posed to open and shut at intervals by electricity, revealing a beautiful fe male within. This has been rented four times, but it always broke down. —New York Post Tlio UendJy T!ir#e-T-af*f| Vlnr. A certain little city in Illinois has suffered so much from the poison ivy that it 3 city council ha 3 empowered one of its officials to hire a force of men whose special duty it shall bo to rid the community of the pest. It is said that at one time there were 200 cases of ivy-poisoning la the place. It seems strange that any commun ity should suffer to such an extent frcm a cause that may ho so easily avoided. It is, of course, the poison ous vine's resemblance to the Vir ginia creeper that makes His trouble, and yet a more glance at It ought to stow the difference, for the creeper has clustors of five leaves while the ivy has clusters of three. Besides, the creeper bears purple berries, while those of the ivy are white. The best way to get rid of ivy— I which grows and runs rapidly, and is I very tenacious of life—is to pull it ! up by the roots and burn it in a | field. There are some pooplo that are i not poisoned by it, and the work | should be done by them; and even I they should handle the plant a3 little j as possible, and avoid inhaling the I smoke when they bnrn it. They ! should wear special clothing for the ! work, and wash the hands several I times a day In a solution of sugar of 1 lead in a weak grade of alcohol, cny, GO to 73 percent proof. This solution may also be used with good effect by those that have been poisoned by the i vine.—Philadelphia Record SHOP TREATMENT OK BURNS. Cocaine, Ulno and Glycerine, and Diluio I'lcrlc Acietl In foundries, blacksmith chops and other places where workmen are liable to suffer severe burns, it is well to keep on hand a preparation whi :h will givo relief as promptly as p -~iblo. j The American Machinist reproduces ■ some advice on this point from the \ columns of a foreign publication. La ; Chronique Industrieke. On account of the (.annate of iron in certain hinds of ink, it is common to apply 'thi3 fluid in emergencies, but the practice is open to objection. While the tan nate may do good, it is often as;, jciat | ed with impurities which are iikely I to work harm. It is better to have ' something like one of these live prep arations: Cocaine pomatum. On the burned region is applied the following: Hy drochiorate of cocaine, 1 gramme: aris tol (biniodic thermol), 4 grammes; olive oil, 20 grammes; lanollne, 75 grammes. Repeat the application every two hours until the pain is sup pressed. i Olco-caicis-carbonaio liniment: Hy- I drated quickiimo (slaked lime) 100 grammes; powdered sugar, 200 grammes: glycerine, 200 grammes; water 1000 grammes; add to 100 grammes of the above mixture 200 grammes of arachie acid and agitato them in a large mouthed flask. Thus you obtain a liniment having consid erable constituency which can advan tageously ho used for dressing burns, of which it hastens and regularizes healing. Another liniment: Slaked lime, 20 grammes; powdered sugar, 40 grammes; distilled water, 20 grammes; glycerine, 40 grammes. Leaves of cot ton wadding are moistened with the mixture and applied upon the regions of the burns. Another liniment: Lime water and linseed oil, each 50 grammes. Mix by agitating. A compress saturated with this mixture is applied to tho burn. This is covered with other coid com presses, and if noed be with a rubber bag of ice. New remedy: This is a remedy which advantageously replaces the old formulas. It is employed at the Hos pital St Louis. When any one is burned from whatever cause, immedi ately apply compresses kept constant ly moistened with the following solu tion: Picric acid, 10 grammes; water, 1000 grammes. The pain will gradu ally become less acute and the slough which may form will be driven off. The yellow stains of picric acid may bo removed with carbonate of litliia. A Cure for Nuughtllieta. ' * I Conscientious parents realize it is i necessary to encourage good impulses I and also to train the child's moral nature through the education of his ' faculties; but it is hard to convince i them that in respoct of those venial J faults most children exhibit quite ear j iy neglect is better policy than disci | piine. ! Many times a child who accidentally j finds naughtiness an interesting ex ! periment would quickly weary of it j if it wero not for the commotion it makes in the family. To become an offender is to become important, and nothing Is more agreeable to young or old than that. One is liable in times of tedium to attract attention in some way. even if it involves making one's self odious. Tne desire for notoriety j is. in its incipient form, simply a de j termination to become the centre of | something, and children show it as I often and even more frankly than j their elders. J Is it not then desirable io make a j child's small attempts at intra;"r.biil- I ty dull affairs to him, so that he shall | forget them? Every act that we re i member well we Incline to do again, and the best thing that ran happen to ] children is to have oil their good acts 1 marked by red letters, while their j minor offenses are dropped into the gulf of forgntfulness.—Florence Hull Winterbum, in Woman's Home Com panion. r>oh wtth Hiding riaeiw. j A desk manufacturer says that in | the last year he has received more or i ders for desks with hidden springs • and secret compartments than in the I 10 preceding years put together. Some J of them nave Intricate mechanism, and ] by pushing secret buttons the wails i are made to fly open and narrow crev ices are revealed. As to the cause for this new demand j for hidden nooks and crannies in desks j he is able to givo no satisfactory ex | pianatlon. It would seem, however, | that the man of affairs finds himself | tho possessor of secrets so grave that i not even the stenographer is allowed to share them and that the common roll top desk is forced to give way to the intricate, many panelled contriv ance which alone is able to hide im portant papers from the prying eyes of clerks and oflce boys. "Accepting this theory as plausible," said the manufacturer, "it would logi ! cally follow that women sre burdened j with more than their share of secrets i for fully two-thirds of these cornbina ! tion desks are intended for female customers. Why they are going to i take the pains of locking up incrim inating documents while their tongues are still at liberty is another puzzle, but then the fad earors of the myste rious ail the way through, and the j feminine phaso of the situation is in j keeping with the rest of the circum stances."—New York Sun. ni.elnlino for A ni1,,,".. "Russian ideas are not all so bad." , "For instance?" "Well, in Russia when a man writes an improper book the czar makes him chew It up and swallow it."