Leads filled Wltn the freshly cut fruit
To one who has always lived In the
North the colored part of the commun
ity would be the most interesting feat
ure of this southern city On every
corner were groups of men and boys
hands in their pockets lazing in the
sunshine women earring big baskets
of laundry work on their woolly heads
and pickaninnies rolling and tumbling
everywhere I reached the steamer
well satisfied with my sight of Charles
ton and at 2 P M we left the Harbor
The remainder of the day was bright
and although cool we stayed on deck
until dark We passed close to Fort
Sumter so quiet and deserted that
it was difficult to realize that the first
note of war was sounded from that
spot nearly half a century ago
The St Johns in Florida
The next day was bright warm and
beautiful and at 7 A M we entered
the St Johns River In Florida with
its low banks entirely devoid of inter
est Reachin Jacksonville in the
morning we drove all over the city
saw the large new hotels and some
handsome dwellings and the builtup
district over which the big fire had
swept We took the train for St Aug
ustine ne of the dreams of my life
was to be realized and rode for more
than an hour through woods of the
long leaf pine and the scrub palmetto
then behold the bay and the quaint
old city State Senator Swho was
in my husbands company during the
war met us with his carriage and his
hospitality was so imperative that we
could but accept He owns a pretty
place a little out of the city on San
Marco Avenue where we spent a pleas
ant evening with him and his wife and
the next morning he drove us all over
the old town past the superb hotels
the old Spanish housesthe oldest is
300 years through the narrow streets
the narrowest five feet wide to the
lcrrarlsand along the beautiful bay
wi1e beyond Anastasia Island lay the
o ean
oceanPalms
Palms and Tropical Fruit
The Plaza overlooking the bay
teems with tropical growths palms
l nanas oranges tree ferns agaves
end many things I did not know At
the end stands the old slave market
I
HISTORY OF RAIN DROPS
AS TRACED FROJI THE STORM
TO THEIR FINAL ENGULFMENT
IN THE OCEAN
Uncle Sams Extensive Work in In
vestigating the Water Supply
Great Subterranean Rivers Polu
tion of Domestic Water
IThe history of the rain drops and
I the snow Hakes from the time of their
formation till it merges with the
o ean to be again evaporated and re
peat the process is ofttimes a long and
devious one Some of the rain of
course falls back into the ocean but
much finds a temporary abiding place
on the tops of high inland mountains
and enjoys a year or more of travel
and usefulness before it finally reaches
its old mother ocean
The Government is devoting con
siderable energy to the accumulation
and dissemination of facts concern
ing the behavior of water from the time
it reaches the earth as rain or snow
until it joins the ocean or great navi
gable rivers Public appreciation of
the value of this work has steadily in
creased and urgent demands for its
extension have come from all sections
of the country The work includes the
collection of data relating to the flow
of surface streams researches on the
location and movements of under
ground watersgreat subterranean
rivers which move with deliberation
and the investigation of the physical
character of these waters such as
hardness color turbidity etc The
sources and effects of the pollution oC
i municipal water supplies have also
received much study
Measuring the Streams Flow
As a means of obtaining reliable re
cords of stream discharge in the im
portant river basins of the country
approximately SOO gauging or measur
ing stations are maintained by the
Government The records furnished
by these stations are used by manu
facturers and investors in planning the
development of water power by muni
cipalities in studyingjiroblems of water
supply and by irrigators in determin
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then we drove to the Ponce De Leon
Where Senator and Mrs Slunched
with us This hotel is a vast Moorish
Palace covering acres of ground One
enters through a massive iron gate a
Bight of steps leads to a veranda on
either side with a large open court
in front filled with tropical growth
bordered with verbenas mignonette
geraniums and roses in full bloom In
the centre of this paved court a large
fountain is fed by bronze frogs and
turtles while the basin flashes with
splendid gold fish A few steps lead to
the main verandas the floors of which
and all the corridors are flawless mar
ble The rotunda rising to the roof
Is superbly carved in antique designs
of oak while marble fire places contain
huge lighted logs resting on the mass
ive brass andirons Very large paint
ings which are masterpieces hang on
the second floor of the rotunda The
immense dining hall in the centre of
the building must be seen to gather
any conception of its splendor The
frescoing on the walls and ceilings
beggars description Each side of the
room is enclosed in glass and the
guests gaze out upon the open grounds
green as in summer time The pillars
in this room are wonders of architect
ural beauty
beautyFairy
Fairy Land Scenes
The furnishings are magnificent in
old gold pale rose tints and pale blue
One of the mantels is veritably a thing
of beauty it is of white carved wood
and rich pieces of Mexican onyx with
a clock set in the onyx and with huge
brass andirons The cost must have
been thousands We came here in the
evenings to listen to the fine music in
the rotunda and the court looked like
fairy land lighted with many colored
incandescent globes hidden among the
plants It was a charming scene The
Alcazar opposite the Ponce on the
other side of the beautiful square filled
with all green plants is a charming
hotel built of concrete the Ponce is con
crete with trimmings and coverings in
terra cotta The Alcazar surrounds I
a very large court filled with flowers
In the centre of which is a large foun
tain always playing windows open on
it and a walk extends all around the
court The first floor is used for stores
where tempting goods are displayed
Across the street from the Alcazar is
the Cordova with a small lighted court
In the office filled with plants and
palms and beyond a small open court
where I saw my first banana plant
with ripening fruit The parlors are
furnished in oriental designs and dark
rich colorings Massive carved pieces
wonderful mantels brass tables bronzes
of rarest workmanship and a thous
and things I havent the space to men
tion everywhere meet the eye These
three hotels With their wealth of
beauty are a rare sight In my next
letter I will take you to Anastasia
land and further SOiliU W hig land
oi flowers
ing the acreage which can be re
claimed from desert conditions and the
crops which can safely be planted
They are also of great Importance to
engineers who obtain from them data
for the study of many problems such
as the relation between rainfall and
runoff the effects of forests upon
stream flow the occurence and control
of floods etc
Throughout the eastern part of the
United States the surface waters have
great value as a source of cheap power
and the demand for steamgauging
data is constantly growing as manu
facturing enterprises are developed In
densely populated sections problems
of water supply and sewerage dis
i posal have also become urgent and are
often complicated by the fact that cities
not only draw their supply of water
from convenient streams but in many
cases empty their sewerage into them
as well In such thickly settled regions
even small and insignificant streams
capacIty
Ity In the Central States underground
as well as surface waters are used for
i both Industrial and
andmuniclpal purposes
RELIC OF BULL RUN
A Small Monument Erected on the
Spot at the Time of the Battle
This rude little monument stands
on the bloodiest section of the Bull
Run battlefields about one thousand
yards northwest of the crossroads
at Groveton The site of the monu
ment is by the bankside of the old
railroad cut Before the civil war
a railroad was projected to run from
the Manassas Gap Railroad at Gains
vile Ta northeast to Leesburg
crossing Bull Run at Sudley Springs
The railroad was graded with a suc
cession of cuts and fills from
Galnsville to Sudley a distance of
about three miles No ties or rails had
been laid when at the outbreak of
the war work stopped In the second
battle of Bull Run Jackson took up
hid position along the line of railroad
Back of Groveton the line ran
through a long low hill and this
cut was in the center of the Con
federate line Here the effort to dis
lodge Jackson was most stubborn
and thousands of Union soldiers fell
in the unsuccessful attempt After
Appomator when the Union army
was on the march back to Washing
ton many of the troops returned by
way of the old Warrentown turnpike
which runs through these bloody
I fields The bones of the Union sol
diers who fell there had not at that
time been exhumed and taken to Ar
lington The returning veteran
paused long enough to erect and dedi
cate this monument It stands in
the woods in an isolated place and
Tery few persons ever visit It
Herschel a Great Musician
It may not be generally known
that Herschel who In spite of all ob
stacles became the greatest of as
tronomers was a most brilliant mu
sician as well and in his earlier life
taught music and was the proprietor
HERSCHEL
and manager of the famous Bath Or
chestra During the last half of the seven
teenth century while Herschel was
winning undying fame there flour
ished more great men than in any
other equal number of years during
the two centuries
A partial list includes the names
of Benjamin Franklin Fox Pitt and
Burke the great English barristers
Hume and Gibbon the great histo
rians Watts the inventor of the
steam engine Sheridan and Garrick
the play actors and writers Gains
borough West and Reynolds the
painters Voltaire the French author
and critic Paine the French atheist
Blackstone the greatest of legal au
thorities Goldsmith the poet the
Duke of Wellington George the
Third of England and our own im
mortal Washington
HOTELS FOR WOMEN NEEDED
Crying Need in New York City De
clares President of Little
Mothers Association
There are only three ways open to
the New York working girl whose wage
earning capacity is 3 a week and
who is dependent on herself for sup
portshe may starve go to destruc
tion or commit suicide
Mrs Clarence Burns president of the
Little Mothers Association flung this
bombshell into the convention of the
New York Federation of Womens
ClubsThe
The crying need of New York City
continued Mrs Burns is Mills hotels
for working wttaen
There are 255732 wage earning
women in New York These figures
do not include the women in various
professions Of these wage earners
22708 are saleswomen Their earnings
average 5 a week A woman can bare
ly live on that and keep herself respect
able The women and girl boxmakers
number 3094 This is the poorest paid
trade in the city Three dollars a week
is the average wago paid No woman
can support herself on such a sum un
less she lives In her parents home and
pays no board
New York must give these girls and
women respectable comfortable living
places within their means It remains
for the Federation of Womens Clubs
to make some strong organized effort
to start this thing It will be no trou
ble to establish these cheap comfort
able hotels once we can convince peo
ple of the need
The Dead Sea of America
The Great Salt Lake Utah has a
length of seventyfive miles a width
of thirtyfive miles and a circumfer
en 3 of 291 miles It includes six is
lands the largest having a length of
sixtfcen miles and a width of five
miltS with a peak rising to the height
of o 00 feet above the level of the
lake The water is of such density that
persois can float in it easily its
deusiy excelled only by that of the
Dead Sea The waters of the Great
Salt H Ice are gradually receding from
the she e line
I THE FAMOUS CANVASBACK DUCK
Deception in the preparation of our
foods not only is the stockintrade of
the manufacturer but large hotel
keepers are guilty also Wise indeed
Is the man who can tell when he IB
eating canvasback duck There is ap
parently but one way to distinguish
the canvasback and that is by the eel
ery flavor Imparted to its flesh The
celebrated ducks of the Chesapeake re
gion and those of Wisconsin are noted
for this flavor the former living al
most entirely on an aquatic weed
known as wild celery and the latter
upon the extensive celery fields of the
Wolverine State And yet the owner
of the hotel saves money when he has
the common duck fed and fattened on
celery served on the table ita flavor
Is the Mine as the wild bird
A GIANT SUGAR BEET
OShannasy Rasies a Marvel
hrough Accident
Thot shtory av Cindarella goin th
tha ball in a punkin said OShan
nasy aint wan carcumstance t phwat
happend out me way inColorado wid
shuga bates Now ye moind shugar
bates sometimes grows big an th
bigger ye grows thim th more money
ye are shure t get from th facthry
But me farm down by th Gunneson
ad all th ither farms in th Sthate
nate t dith s far as size av shugar
bates was consarned Why dont ye
knave thot th wather av thot river
is richern sthrong likid manyure an
whin I uses ut for arygatin me farm
somehowr ither I do be afther strap
pin down me plants they grows so
quickBut
But twas lasht year thot somethin
remarkable happend on me farm way
off in wan corner Why dont ye
knave somehowr ither a shugar bate
sade got mixed wid th soil an growd
3o quick wid th rich arygatin Gun
nison wather thot I didnt get th
chance t sthrap it down Yis sir
an whin it got so big I says t meself
says I Ill let er go clane throo t
Chinay Im goin t see jist how
big th bloomin bate kin grow An
would ye belave it whin th toime
came t gather in th crap tho I
hated t do it it took nearly me lasht
cint buyin foive hundred pounds av
dinimIte t blow thot bloomin thing
outer th groun An thin twas a
sight t see Twas sphlit into big
paces an naybur Smith was so good
as t bring over his saw mill an we
rigged up his guserline injin an by
next mornin had cut up that bate
into thirtyfoot slabs Now I only
owned five tames and naybur Smith
had three so we had t go f me ither
naburs until we had thirtythree double
team wagons filled up t doubleI
good shugar bate planks I can tell 1
ye we was th gran sight whin we
drew up t th factry at Motley Ford
FordI
Well whin th factry people wint
ahead an made th shugar from thot i
bate they found it phwat ye call a i
Shugar Countent as high as forty i
foive per cint Ye knaw ordnary bates
are good whin thay give twenty per
cint shugar and the Argricultural De
partment calls the coeffycient of pur
ity in thot shucrar was somethin gran
Faith didnt th facthry people com
plain aftherwards thot their customers
found fault wid th shugar made from
th bate they mado two car loads from
it 1 belave because twas so swate
twas so swate thot half a tayspoon
would swaten a quart av coffee
Yis sir an th factry people didnt
want th poolp afther thay had taken
th shugar out av it rottinin in th
buildln an bein as thay didnt have
th room t sthore it outside tha
i paid me foive dollars th load t haul it
away which same I did Now phwat
did I do but take th stuff back t
me farm Rtt put it n me twllvA silos
Thin I scoors th counthry an buys
up 2013 head av cattle wid th money
I gets from th facthry people an fat
tens thim up on th poolp Thin I
ships thim back t Chicago afther Id
fattend thim an I gets two toims
as much as I pays for thim
Not countin th money I gets for
th bate an th cattle I tell ye I
made money th next spring furnish
in arygatin wather t me nayburs
from th rizevoor I made out av th
hold th bate made in th groun I
tell ye arygatin is a success in Col
orado This year I be goin to plant
more bates
Come aroun some time an Ill
tell ye how I onct lived in a wather
melon growed on me farm Tis a
folne sthory
sthoryTo
To Rouse by Phonograph
Clocks are now being made which In
stead of striking them speak the
i hours through an ingenious application
of the talking machine The inven
tor has made clocks with speaking
discs of various kinds to serve as
alarms You can be awakened by the
vigorous crowing of a cock or the
sound of a wellknown voice They
are arranged to call out in various de
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to rouse the soundest sleeper As
alarm clocks they should in time su
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changed as often as the fancy dictates
so that the sleeper will not become so
familiar with the call as to continue
his slumber as often happens in the
use of the ordinary clocks with bells
The shores of Chesapeake Bay
abound plentifully in wild celery
the chief article of diet of the canvas
back duck The plant grows entirely
under water and the duck In order
to obtain the buds and shoots of the
plant must at times remain under
water as long as two minutes Then
too they often lose the choice morsel
for the baldpate lies in wait ready to
snatch it from the diver The poor
misguided canvasback is easily be
gulled to Its death by the waiting gun
ner through the use of decoys made
of wood or other light material But
if wounded by the shot of the rifleman
all its energy is aroused Hit it drops
into the water and diving swims wi
der water for immense distance in
order to escape the retriever
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wanted A gallon of oil a week absolutely wasted simply because your lamps cannot be
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