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By G1LBSRTA S. WHITTLE.
VHHm for Sunn, South
N T the fruit exhibit nt the
Buffalo exposition in the
autumn of leoi a stand
of Albemarle pippins—firm
of texture, of exlraordl-
W a ary size, symmetrical in
" form, beautifully tinted.
and of delielous flavor—
attracted thousands of
passers who marveled
to find that they were the
!” 'duet of a previous
year—a specimen of one
crop .preserver intact until
' " s of another. Grown on
aonn'*,"’ A SPUr ° f the Blue
2.000 feet above the S ea level-
estate Of 5,000 acres, belong*
u 1 e *. Terry - they are now
, " ’ ‘ "■' buyers everywhere,
, ' *‘'troducinR- to the great pub-
. ' ! deersting and Important section
only locally known.
Roanoke county, Virginia,
rorprt p ' ? fr ° m Hm '’oke city, an en-
ooo S wn ’ tvostern in type, of 30
wUhln^he 'a n r 8 ' Wh ‘° h s P™ng up
a train mtit" ° r thr,?f> decade s: but
k'e . - f ? ,nsr from that P° int to Star-
: ' %' nn 0,1 the Roanoke and tiouth-
. a ) feduces the distance to ll
The Journey must he per .
°™°teck or in a vehicle, the
r 't at times a mere shelf on the
-l “Ido—winding upward like a
cw, disclosing at each turn some
nn woodland beauty, or dis-
sT-voi’.ed landscape; while with
• the air grows fresher, more
tln ®' tbo tonic ozone banishing
' -S '• and producing a sens® of ex-
tlon like a draught of cham-
" bean 6 talk climb accomplished we
* vea • * a new world, as unique
the fabled one—an aerial is-
' fift Abo zt wild dewy
8 M nn oasis, even when
,w ■ 1 1 burn-
m a Coming R.ival
To Georgia Peach >£ >j»
™ b ™ 1 *«-»•
dustrios have irnWri > 'elopmenl of tho country, togr-ilier with
4 . iavw » incicon, been successfullv
tned. \ty tt* 'll- „ t*bsjun\ j the present
*• u. Baker, formerly editor I
gis. at Bell! lv 1U
Richmond
well being of its people, sug-
tralned in matters pertaining to the
farm, and the girls Could learn “domes
tic science”—to prepare and serve a meal
properly, to sweep and dust and keep a
lumse in order, to do laundry and dairy
Work, and to sew—and last, but not least,
. ... e , ln ,, , , a well equipped hospital. With competent
of The Aegis, at Belair, Wd and no r j gest themselves with tantalizing insist- | physician in charge and trained nurses
. Va., wlio owns a lienn'tifni i ence - The establishment of a summer | within telephonic vail, wherein the sick
farm of 200 acres adjoining Mr. Terr • I res ° rt ’ for Instance, with the valuable J and suffering could be cared for and in
having doubled his money in o-i.Hi 1 nie( * il ' ina - spring of nature’s furnishing as | troduced to comforts to which, alas! they
single year 11 a j a nucleus, giving to the tenantry and
Soon after the civil . i ! amaI1 landholder a home market for
wa 3 a special demand fora mJ""....!] f. r ° ! Warf>s ,<x> Inconsiderable to be profitably
industrial school, w r here the boys could j 3.600 tons of ore every day in the year,
be taught some useful handicraft or j and its owners have another of equal size
at Agua Calienites.
An interesting side light on the silver
question may lie gained by studying two
o.f the Guggenheim smelters of equal ca
pacity, one on each side of the Interna
tiona ! boundary. Their smelter at Pue
blo. Colo., is of exactly the same -size
j as the one nit Monterey. Earh employs
Will Japan Become Christ
lari Nation by Imperial Edict
and
or it, the growing | transported-
t uring 0 f tobacco was the principal j h
his
sggs. poultry and milk.
small fruits and ‘‘garden stuff.'
tire now strangers. True, all this is Uto
pian a mere dream—but every realized
effort, all that we see and handle, even
the boundless universe Itself, was onee
oniv a dream
1.600 men and each reduces 3,600 tons
per day. At Pueblo the employe
> stranger’s first surprise
upon a mountain top an
i with hills and dales
■*; meadow laud, while
the store
■ i o minerals and com-
tiMng views—points sky-
Mr. Terry's Fox Hounds.
BEAUTIFUL SYLVAN
ould the month be June.
SCENE,
a delicious
blossoming j “
soil which n
wild grape,
fe uooned.
> fragrant
while the
ic country
white and
et lobelia,
rer yellow
straw c ol-
ne, wht’e
v to lm-
bltc road
kot. suffl-
intorprise
to a high
numbers
colonies
i the red
•d. Rapid
beds, and
ar as crys-
voe.i 1 with
iping from
o cascades
ey are de-
• e, as the
and grist
le through
a shining
(. which,
and more
ioth by the
rich |
ter- |
; return to the j
aid of artificial
>S thrive in it.
, v, ns 800 hush -
of unusual size
icumbcis. rivnl-
vtrests dairying sud the rearing
ON CURINf
Health Specialist if ea ith Specialist.
Rproule, who knows sritorhE
Ha Jn h0 evcrv n fo?m P 'aiid who has cured
thousands of cases where other doctors
,, ...i ivher treatments have Wiled.
T>onk suffer with l>ys„e|.»lu any longer!
Don’t let It go on poisoning your blood,
breaking dowm vmir nervous system, sap-
mne vour strength and making your life
lung jour sii c once how to have a
* od d Srone ‘benithy stomach-one able
^. digest foal easily and without distress
Write today
Sproule and l p t him ST*'«
knowledge and counsel. H
tu n Churac Whatever
mo ' and telling you
f T 6, . l ' d: ;' e an Without paying a rent
i 'St what 11 _ ... best medical ad-
• " U 7h U t ra lni show you how to cure your
vice that wU ‘ for a week or month
Dyspepsia, not j pjJ R MANENTLY. Don t
or *. year, but 1 Answer the
-h—one able
t distress.
Health Specialist
you free his
He will make
offer pass.
write vour name
cut out till?
■ v - generou?
questions yes or no.
Plainly on the dotted lines
r. C c i Viupon and s- ‘; x , noane
Ilenlth s;p«»«iall9t • .
Host
FBEE MEDICAL ADVICE COUPON.
Does vour food sour?
Do" vou feel drowsy in the ^lay?
Do you have an an gou
ADDRESS - --
bright wrapper, fragrant as a Havana
cigar, being .produced, which commanded
a higji price in market. With the grad
ual disintegration of labor, however, this
industry wtls practically abandoned.
Some years before that time Colonel
Joseph M. Terry, the father of Mr. Ter-
j ry, set out an orchard of Albemarle pip-
| kins, known in England as the “queen’s
.orite," from the late queen's firefer- j
ence for it, an.l also from the fact that
j upon being presented with a dozen bar-
| r. la by a Virginia, consul she caused the
j passage of a law removing the duty
from it.
With great foresight Colonel Terry rec
ognized in this apple the future crop of
j the section, and, inspired by his enthusi
asm, his son planted 25 acres in pippins,
interspersed With, the wine sap, the York
imperial apd other standard varieties'.
Apple seeds falling by chance by the
w a wide produced plpkinsgafic.M S(4k,G
wayside produced prolific “seedlings,”
illustrating the adaptability of both soil
and climate to the cultivation of the
fruit.
The codling moth, the tiny cut worm,
and other microscopic enemies had not
then found their way to Bent Mountain,
mol the young orchards grow m d flour
ished, apples being shipped from them to
Liverpool, and bringing as much ns Sll a
barrel. With the settling up of the coun
try the insect pests appeared, when the
fruit diminished in quality and became
knotty, worm-eaten and unsalable.
Kmht years ago, however. Air, K W
Baker, then a resident of Maryland,
bought a farm on Benf mountain. Air.
Baker was an honorary member of the
Deer Creek Farmers’ Club, of that state,
where modern methods were discussed;
and. introducing spraying by improved
srientifio prooes*?**? 3 Into tre noip;iiborhoo<i,
ho oxporimontozl with it In his own or-
chard. The result was a parked Im
provement both In I he stzi and quality
of the erop. Inaugurating a new era of
| prosperity nmon/r frnlt sjrowors. witn hti
immense revival in the apple-planting iu-
j dustry. Since that time Mr Terry has
(annually increased bis acreage in pippins,
til he has now 10.000 flourishing young
>es in various stages of advaneement
j From his original orchard of 25 acres be
| realized from a recent crop $-1,000; his
j retiinifs from it rhirJnar tho rrir
| (exclusive of ‘Vulls’ l were T5.500. and
i it is estimated that his young treps. wlion
| fully matured, will y ield him an income
' of 150.000. The greater parr of the crop
i- shipped to foreign markets, hut were
this pot the case, the growing popularity
of th" Albemarle ptpptn. together with
the very limited area In which it may be
successfully cultivated. makes It alto
gether unlikely that the supply will ever
eyrerrl. nr even equal, the demand.
A MERRYMAKING SEASON.
Filled with busy workers, moving here
cud there beneath the heavy laden trees
- bending beneath their rich fruitage to
salute the uprising grass the orchards
in autumn present a beautiful and ani
mated scene. To the tenantry and small
landholders t hpi apple harvest Is at once
a season of profit and merrymaking.
Whole families take part In It. bringing
their dinners with them, and loading while
It last a sort of gipsylng. picnicking life.
The buyers—from the north or west, as
tlie case may be—bring with them their
own expert packers, the juxtaposition or
representative laborers from these widely
separated sections-differing essentially,
ns well os in voice, language, dress and
appearance—presenting a curious and in
teresting study.
Bickers are paid by the Qftskotrul, the
expeditious earning as much as $2 50 per
day. while the friendly rivalry gives Im
petus and zest to the work
roreivt* $2 a dnv in gr«»I<l, wliHe nt Montv
r*‘y they receive $1 a day In silver, op
approximately 40 cpnts in grolcl. While tho
payroll =at Pueblo amounts to $19,200 a
week, that at Mont* rev for the same
number of men is represented in 1 nited
States currency by only $3,840 for the
?nme period. The output of metals at
jibe two plants is practically the same.
■ The production o»f both is shipped to
| Perth Amboy, X. J. f where it. is sold at
j identically* the same prices. It is, there-
j fore, easy to understand! why the own-
j ers of mines and smelters favor a silver
I currency basis. It is equally evident why
: their employers should take the opposite
] side of the question,
! ANOTHER STRING TO THE! R BOW.
j Operated independently of the smelter
j trust and of the corporation of M. Gug-
J genheim <Y Scn.s is tho Guggenheim Ex- !
jploratlon Company. Apparently the oh- I
| jeet of this conrern is to corner all the i
undeveloped mining lands in Mexico. Its j
,holdings cover hundreds of thousand of j
! acres of land in Seri ora,, Chi- I
j htia, Durango, Sinaloa and other
: states. So far as visible evi- !
dence indicates anything, tho only |
j object in view in making these enormous j
1 acquisitions of territory seems to be, to |
keep any one "else from getting them, j
i No move has been made to develop their I
j wealth excepting some perfunctory opera- j
I tions to comply with the terms of the j
| concessions.
i At Paral, in the state of Chihuahua, j
1 are two of the largest reduction plants in !
I the world, one owned by Robert 8. Town, j
' of New York, and the other Try the Gug- |
j genheims. Both of these Interests own !
j extensive mines and vast properties In j
j the neighborhood, which have earned j
j for Paral the title of the JVxxdville of the |
( south.
t* Not far away Is Batopllis, where, for |
I fifteen years, lived one of the most re- j
I markable and eccentric characters in the |
! country. This was Colonel Shepherd, !
formerly of Washington, where be was |
known as “Boss” Shepherd, who lived I
like the khan of Tartary in a great wall
ed city of his own building. In his tm- [
ploy were an army of several thousand
people, over whom he maintained an ab
solute if kindly and bent Scent despotism.
Ho was literally monarch of all he sur
veyed, and would permit no one but his >
own hired vassals to remain within thej
limits of his town. His mines were fab- !
ulously rich, but be regarded the price !
of silver as too low and would sell only
enough to pay tho running expenses of j
the mine. For fifteen years he kept his |
men n.t work in the face of a steadily de- j
dining market, firm in the belief that the I
price of silver would go up and that a i
railroad would be built to his mine. j
He died with both his dreams unreal- j
ized, hut the Mexican Central railway Is
j building a branch that will pass close to |
his walled city and Ms mines will no j
doubt soon be reopened. The ore dug !
and stocked during his lifetime still re- I
mains piled up in huge mountains of
millions of tons around the shafts. It Is j
said that the Guggenhelms are negotiat
ing for the purchase of his holdings. If j
they succeed in obtaining them the Ba- |
topolas mines may rank among the grea
est producers in the republic.
HRISTIAN nations of the
world will welcome the
news Just received in
America., that the Japs,
following out their course
of Eastern civilization, are
about to adopt Christian
ity, and abandon the an
cient religions of Shintoism
and Buddhism, which has
flourished so generally in
the land of the mikado for
centuries.
The tremendous perva-
of Christianity throughout
has at last struck the pro
gressive Jap, and he n»w considers that
the time has arrived to adopt the e',e-
tian religion is Japan would put out of
service 85.000 Shinto priests, and t ■
abandonment of idols and temples to the
number of 71.983.
In addition to these, there are t
Bands of shrines dedicated to the .
ancestors of the in
meritorious subjects; these ar- i
nation
It is a
many thousand c
pies erected by tl
ries gone by whii
by the 40,000,000
in the near future
followed out. Th
wood will he destr
tired temnles. w s
majority of civ- I
at onee to tho J ®
idols and tern- j
lanese In < entu- j j
11 be abandoned 1 v
riristianized Japs j t«
resent plans are j °
is of stone and I ?
Grading the Apples.
Mem Who Have Made
Millions in Mimes of Old Mexico
X
HE mining kings of th®
western hemisphere are
the Ouggenhe.ims. They
occupy the same position
In 'the mining world as J.
Dierpont Morgan in the
u rid of finance and John
I* Rockefeller in oildom.
The smelter trust'. of
wliMi the Guggenhelms
i- i monopoly as remorse
less. ns absolute and al-
years ago he made a ruling to the effect
that Alexican crude ores imported into the
United Stares for reduction were subject
to a heavy duty. Up to that time Mexi
can ores had nearly all been shipped to
American smelters In Kansas City, Den
ver, Omaha and other places. A largo
quantity even went to Swansea, Wales.
Mr. Windom’s ruling, placing upon these
ores a duty of from SI0 to $15 a ton,
made it Impossible to continue shipping
1 States
them to
smelted,
rs to he
try Windom’s ruling was
From the first to last the fruit is han
dled with the utmost circumspection.
Each apple is taken by hand from the
tree and placed in a basket as carefully
as if It were an egg. They are thm
sorted in piles according to their size.
; h o S c reaching a stipulated standard be-
, „ barreled. The rest, denominated
‘ culls ” are sold In neighboring markets
or to’ distillers or evaporators, or are
made into vinegar.
The greatest drawback to Bent moun
tain is its remoteness from a market-a
disadvantage which will ho partially ob
viated when a road to Klliston. a station
on the Norfolk and Western rai road. 6
miles from Mr. Terry’s house, is oom-
n eted and should a trolley line also be
J Vo the same point It will put the sec-
rim, in close communication with the
-est' arteries of traffic and travel.
8 With the increase of population a bet
ter class of houses is being built and
In ted frame dwellings are gradually re-
palnt-d ^ log . cabin, formerly the
Jndnst i
The
family
that rit\
fure of
spoc-tablo
tho mini!
FORM NATURAL FEET SOCIETY.
English Women Seek to Reform the
Women of China.
Tito National Feet Society; organized
not long ago in China by Mrs. Archibald
Little, is struggling bravely against na
tive prejudices.
The English Woman's Review states
that there is an increasing opposition to
foot-binding among the official leaders !
of China, and, though the imperial edict !
two years ago had little effect, some of j
j the viceroys accepted it with interest, [
j one of whom, Tsen Chun-husen, not only j
gave the society his approval, but also I
I wrote a pamphlet on the subject and had I
5.000 copies circulated in his own prov- *
ince. Another viceroy had his own lit
tle daughter's foot unbound, and then
wrote a pamphlet condemning the prac
tice and caused it to be circulated.
Tlie missionaries give constant aid and
encouragement to the movement, and at
a meeting in the chapel of the American
Methodists ninety young girls attended
whose feet were in a natural condition.
AN iRISH COMPLIMENT.
"When F-'nl Spen-’er was lord lieutenant
of Ireland the people of Dublin call-d
the beautiful countess .-.ue of the loveliest
The Fox Temple Near
lug the land of the mil
has not been so long si
looked with disfavor up
High officers in array
ernment of Japan are n r
tians. Admiral Togo is
tian, as is also his wife
uato of Vassay college
and Admiral Leurato ai
members of the Presbyt
There
200.000
of
firn
th.i
in Japan is not iniprobab
RELIGIOUS FREEDOM.
is or A Farr
s were aboi
Allan try w.
vay. At tl
uggenheims con
thich settled in
they engaged
ire and acquire!
i rymensions. '
field. In whi.
mi accident,
into it miiei
tions and dr
Ire.
placing the
rule with the av n deed
hamlet, “Needmore, is. - •
rage inhabitant.
A tiny
pring-
unlon church, a store, a
SLMSLbop .M " postofflce .. a
vleltor .« B—““I?
To the
expansive views
and
attenuated pooM^to
FIRST VENTURE WAS MINING.
Having amassed more money than
could lie profitably employed in ' induct
ing the business of ttc la.-e factory,
the senior Guggenheim lent a large sum
on the security of a gohi mine at Lead
ville, ( olo., attracted by the promise ..f a
much larger rate of interest than could be
obtained from less hazardous investments
in the cast. Like many another gold
mine, the one at Leadville failed to pan
out. the interest was not lorthcoming
and the principal appeared to l,e fading
away. However, Guggenheim was not
the man to see his precious dollars dis
appear without giving them a hard
chase. He went to Leadville and saw
enough to convince him that the mine
needed nothing but capita) and brains to
transform it from a losing speculation
into a paying investment. He bought it
up for a song, and made it one of the
great dividend payers of the Leadville
district.
From this small and involuntary be
ginning the mining interests of the Gug-
genheims have grown and expanded un
til the family now own morn mines than
any other firm in the world. The firm
consists of seven brothers, organized
into a close corporation under the name
of AI. Guggenheim Sons, with headquar
ters in New York city and branch offices
in every important mining center. Be
sides their multitudinous mines in the
United States they own important inter
ests in f'liili. Peru. Bolivia, Argentine.
Colombia and Venezuela. In Mexico,
however, they practically control the
situation, owning more mines, smelters
and a greater area of undeveloped hut
fabulously valuable mining lands than
ail other interests in the republic com
bined.
The real creator of modern mining in
dustries in Mexico and the true architect
of the Guggenheims’ fortunes was Wil
liam Wlndom, once secretary of the
UaJt«d Slates treasury. Some sixteen
Rnh-
ishville T'lin.. was on the
greatei opportunities than
were offered him in his native state, ire
was prominently identified with the
Louisville and Nashville railroad, but the
day after Secretary Wind«>m’s ruling was
announc'd he resign' d his position and
started for Denver 1 < see the. Guggen-
ht'Lns. His opportunity had come.
The result of this conference was far-
reaching not only for the individuals im
mediately concerned, but for the republic
of Mexico. A con icssion was obtained on
November I0. I387. authorizing the con
struction of the Afonterey and Mexican
Gulf railway, extending from Vonadito
mow Trevino) on the international boun
dary line to Tampico on the Gulf of
Mexico, passing through Monterey, Cui-
dud Victoria and other towns of lesser
note. Colonel Robinson was general
manager of the line, which made pos
sible Tlie wonderful growth and expansion
of the mining industries of Alexico.
When the road was begun Monterey was
an unimportant cluster cf mud huts. Now j
it is a. busy city of 100,000 inhabitants, j
called, on account of the bustling energy !
and enterprise of its people and the great i
future that lies before it, the Chicago of !
Mexico. It is the industrial and manu- !
facturing metropolis of the republic and i
is destined to be one of the greatest cities j
of soTffilwestern America. In recognition j
nf the services of Colonel Robinson he is j
known as the father of Monterey. The i
road iTc was instrumental in building is |
now owned by a LMsIm syndicate, but ;
lie still remains its general manager.
While Colonel Robinson was hustling ;
for his concession and getting ready to j
begin the building of tlie railway the ;
Guggenhelms were Investigating tlie min- j
oral possibilities of Mexico, accompanied
by some of the most eminent metallurg
ists of the United States. Then they went
to Monterey and made a contract with
Colonel Robinson, agreeing to build in
that city a smelter with a daily capacity
of 350 tons of ore in return for certain
freight concessions and privileges. Work
on the smelter was begun in I889 and it
was open'd for business the next year.
This was the first smelter to be operated
in Mexico. It was the beginning of the
astonishing mineral development of north
ern Mexico, which i*w adds 60,000,000
ounces of silver and $4,000,000 in gold to
the world’s stock of the precious metals
every year. The little smelter of 350 tons
capacity has grown until R now reduces
farewell banquet
gentleman eot u
fervor and manv
"We all hope
again, you and t
side.”
w
ded
>r-=hir
■strike
vld- d t
hands together
throwing some ee
entrance to the t
arch.
Shinto morally
seaulike followln
and proclaims r
its pri< stho > I Is
devoted to a relip
form of hero w ■
and its ■
f the sun.
his lies,.-.
r deities
presiding .
Great Bronze Statue of Buddha, Kamakura, Japan,
| Mars
the g
appear to he deified hum n h in*
Shinshiu or tru,
j set of .lapani se Bn I
| headquarters at Kioti
j Hongwanji temp.' Th. She -
j finds salvation in “the exturcion of pi,-
] sion.’’ V doctrine ■ t one. r in- u i
] effect of salvation, whi h salv il >n -
j call d Nirvana.
■ The doctrine of "help from an che-.”
! is also taught, and Amita
! less" Buddha, is relied upon for th.-
| pletion of merits and i reblrtl h
disc In this sect there is less differ-. , 1
than in any oth-r between laymen and
priests, the latter being allowed to marry
, and to rat flesh ami fish
! Wtih the extinguishment of these
1 heathen forms of worship in Japan, the
Christian nations of the world will soon
welcome into their fold another land or
country, adopting Christianity as its na
tional religion.