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THE MOROTNG POST. SUNDAY, OCTOBER 15. 95 4JE asnt tb Plmn Bib mi m lr mw g J I - - . : I1 a si j Hi see: the wonderful STIEFF PLAYER, PIANO The most recent a'nd best of all Automatic Player Pi ano ever invented. The Stieff Player Piano is unlike any other player on the market. It isn't an un sightly box to be attached to the front of the pjano it is an instrument in itself, PIANO and PLAYER COMBINED The most wonderful inven tion of the Twentieth Cen tury! So simple in construc tion that a child can op erate it with ease and produce the most difficult composi tions of the world's most noted composers with the skill and precision of a Pad erewski. No rubber tubing to get out of order. It positively requires no adjusting. On exhibit at our Booth. Be sure to hear it. Come play it yourself. ffiFY very cordially invite you and your friends to visit our Booth. We Have endeavored to make our BootU at the Fair not only pleasing to the eye but a source of help to prospective piano buyers as well, by dis playing a group of the most beautiful models of o : o 0 o o o Hfi n imuu The Piano with the sweet tone. The richest art creations that ever left a piano factory. The QUALITY of our superb instruments is the HIGH EST, the standard of the world, as is evidenced by the facts that The STIEFF has won PRIZE MEDALS at all the world's great Expositions. PHILADELPHIA, PARIS, ATLANTA, 187C 1876 1881 NEW ORLEANS, CHICAGO, CHARLESTON, 1884 1893 1902 EVERY PIANO we are exhibiting must be sold. This gives you an op portunity to purchase one of the finest instruments ever turned out of a factory for the price you would have to pay for the regular run. The instruments we are exhibit ing are specially picked for this Hair. Also in dealing with us you deal direct with the manufacturer, saving the middle man's profits and thereby placing the instru ment to you at about the, same figure the dealer has to pay for it. M If you have the slightest idea of ever being the possessor of a piano it will pay you to call and,examine our display. If you do not care to pay the price of a high grade piano, we can furnish you a piano at your own price and on terms to suit. Every instrument backed by a Guarantee, protected by unlimited capital. - - .: ' :,.v. ' 1 INVESTIGATE f I CHAS- M STIEFF. INVESTIGATE 1 j GEO. S. NUSSEAR, Manager. i - " - I . , , , . . - , -' " - I ' ' "'-r , n.,, IMM.,u.,r.v - J I , i . I GOING. WEST ARTICL NUMBER NIQIE By A. G. MOORE stretched across the river, high enough for the steamers to pass under. Written for the Morning Post It Is a sixteen hour ride from El Paso to Yuma, and if taken in the day time and in the summer is apt to bea hot ride, beginning in the des ert and ending in the desert. A Southern Pacific old burning locomo tive, however, does away with much of the ordinary annoyance pf travel ing in hot weather. Crossing the high high bridge over the Rio Grande just outside El Paso, then along the gray and light brown sandstone hills and eand drifts, overlooking a beautiful valley which stretches away for miles where cattle appear like pigimies graz ing in the distance, from an eleva tion of 3713, one gradually rises onto an immense plateau and travels for miles and miles across barren desert, with only an occasional station here and there, where are usually a few wretched Mexican huts around it and a bit of green shrubbery kept fresh by water from Southern Pacific tanks. 'A maximum elevation of nearly 5000 feet, one attains, then up and down till you reach Bra goon, and after that gradual, but steady, descent from 4600 to 240 feet, and you are at Yu ma, on the banks of the Colorado, in to whose valley you have only to de scend to be almost on a level with the sea. But this ride, barren as Is the coun try, is not without Its attractions. It was even interesting to watch the mirages appear one . after anot'ir.r, when one could have sworn there was a great lake ahead, but on coming- to the place, sees only the desert, dry and bare, save for perhaps some non descript small desert weeds. And there are Stein's Pass and Rail road Pass, where the cars run almost beneath the great rugged peaks, crowned with immense bowlders, which compel a certain admiraMon for their very baldness. But how dif ferent from our forest-covered high lands, furnishing cool, shady nooks! Their elevation cannot ward off the heat, and here they stand, as they have stood for ages, battling with the sun and no means of escape or pro tection from their mighty persecu tor, who gradually browns them and crumbles them to dust. From Railroad Pass we wound down to Benson, in a little valley 1000 feet below. Backwards and forwards we went, long loop on loop, Immense fold on fold, a distance of fifty miles by' rail, not half that as the crow fles And past Benson another tremendous loop, then steadily down, through Tuc son, an important little southern Ari zona town, and on down, down to Yuma. " Yuma is a little town of about three uiuusana innamtants, situated on the Colorado river just where it flows through tall mesa banks, which, rough and hilly, spread out immediately be low leaving an immense and fertile valley. The river makes a bend above the town and flows through it almost due west, while the railroad curves to the northward to cross, which leaves the new arrival all turned around to begin with. The station Is but a few feet from the river, as If to stand guard over the Southern Pa cific, which furnishes the only means except the ferry boat of crossing the , x.,cl iinu vauiornia, wmch lies just on the other side. The bridge will (only accomodate foot passengers, but , is used quite extensively by the In j dians from the reservation 'on the . California side. Early in the morning the old bucks begin to . pour over some looking for work, some come to j buy mostly watermelons, and behind I them the squaws, all barefoot and .more or less slniichv. hut tt.A j p a,i.Ler sure to have on dresses and to carry a cloth Wrapped around them probab ly a survival of the old blanket both made of some bright-colored, fancy-figured, goods, often represent ing horses, horses' heads and buffa los Later in the day come the young bucks, two or three together usually holding each others hands, gaily dressed in a close fitting blue or pur ple shirt and blue trousers, with often bright colored sashes and bits of the same in one or two places around the arms, and nearly always with great masses of hearts . . S ,1' almost hidinS their necks. j.ne maidens are flrpaeoii !r J? squaws, though clean er. They wear the longest strings of fancy beads, and their hair is always perfectly clean, well combed, evenly Parted In the middle and hanging down in great black, shiny . masses The young bucks, too, are careful of their hair, which is usually done up in a kind of turban of dark blue or green, and all . the Indians wear it long They may be seen; loitering about the streets all day. 8 The ferry boat at Yuma is easily run. There is a strong wire cable The town of Yuma, though most of its growth and prosperity and espe cially the white element among its population are matters of the past two or three years, is not entirely without historic interest, either. Just , at the foot of Main street is the fer ry, formerly used by the famous old Butterfi eld Stage line which traversed this country and ran over into Cali fornia in the earlier days before the coming of the railroads. At the right of the California end of this ferry, the mesa rises to quite an eminence,' and formerly the old Fort Yuma crowned his heigt. The fortifications were not very strong, as the Indian j were the only enemy, and with only , their bows and arrows wculd hardly i scale the hill in the face of rifle fire. I There were ten or a dozen small one I story houses, with a lattice enclosing them and this was the fort. It is told that several men who afterwards became famous in the Civil "War were once sttioned here, and there is a tradition that Gen. Albert Sidney JJohnston, when he had resigned his post on the Pacific coast and started east to join the Confederacy, camp ed at the foot of the hill and visited friends at the fort. Dithin recent years, however, the government ha.s established an Indian school here, using the same old build ings, except tht a two storv nas replaced one of the smaller build ings destroyed by fire. And still the American flag flies over the spot, not now as the terror and menace of the j rea man, but the emblem of his friend and benefactor. On a corresponding eminence across the river from the Indian school, and a hundred yards or so above the fer ry, is situated the Territorial prison, a formidable looking affair, perched on this eminence overlooking the river, and surrounded by a thick adobe wall with rock foundation. And so flag waves inanswer to flag across the water, like" silent sentinels guard ing the boundary line and -keeping watch over the ferry below. ' Formerly the Gilas river flowed into the Colorado lust behind this prison, and; the California boundary, calling for UioiVMie ol the Colorado to its Junction with the Gila, thense du wesr, tcok m all the south bank of the Colorado river here, including quite a strip of Yuma. The remainfler of the town site was Mexican soil un til the Gadsen purchase, which includ ed all this lower portion of Arizona. And then the people on the south side wanted to be in Arizona instead of California. The California tax col lector continued to come, however, un til they finally imprisoned him, and only released him when he promised to go home and come no more. From tht time the whole of the land on the south side of the river has been con sidered Arizona soil, and ed byt the state of California. Mean time; - however, the Gila river shifted two miles higher up, which made the point of confluence further north anyway.. There are a number of mines of gold, silver, quick silver and other precious metals, located in the mountains re7 gions north .and east of Yuma, which bring more or less businesss sto the town. There is Castle Dome to the east, named on account of the shape of the mountan, the top of whicl vjry much resembles a house, and Picacho Peak to the north, both of which are rich in precious minerals. The principal industries in and around Yuma, however, are raising stock, cattle and chickens, dairying, and hay and truck farming. Of course Yuma is dry, being in the desert, and the valley is dry. There are two pumping canal systems, however, and one gravity system for irrigating the upper portion of the valley, which is extremely fertile and under irrigation produces all manner of fruits and vegetables. The government has a. sttion here, and just at present they are making experiments with hemp, which grows rank and wild in the val ley. The Southern Pacific Railway also has a large tract under cultiva tion on the mesa, where they have a large orange orchard, also palms, graue-fruit, etc. Blackberries, pome granates, grapes, olives, lemons, pears, figs, dates and other palms grow lux uriantly, and literally all kinds of veg etables. Sweet potatoes grow to weigh forty pounds. This is true, they've beeen weighed. There is a great deal of salt in the valley. In the uncultivated narts one finds dark spots all about where the salt keeps it moist, and others where it is dried and caked and white. The worst places are avoided by the white people, who use no manure, but the Chinese, who are the chief gardr eners, as well as chief restaurant keeepers, select the saltiest spots, then use manure and engage in a high form of intensive cultivation. This salt af fects nearly everything. The water is salt, the sweet potatoes are salt, and even the sorghum, if the juice were cooked, would seem more likely to make salt than sugar. It doesn't affect watermelons, however, and they grow as fine as I have ever seen. .It is nothing unusual for the ther mometer to . register over a hundred in uma during Julv and Aueust. and the average temperture for the two montlis, da yand night, is over 95. Several days during the past summer it reached 120 degrees. But that's not hot O no! For no one is ever injur ed by the heat- here. It is a kind of harmless, dry heat, you know. In New York and Chicago they "have sun strokes and die .but not here. Here people can work all day long in the sun without danger. But if you be lieve it is not hot and does not make a glare on this bare mesa, then you just try it about 1 o'clock in the mid dle of August! A man in the valley makes a practice of simply ' laying his eggs up on his mantelDiece and allowing them to hatch of themselves. 1 1 sa wseveral chickens which were hatched out from chance eggs left in ' the grass under the shade of a tree. Had they been in the sun they would have cooked. The ladies have to set a pan of water in their pianos to keep them from shrinking beyond repair. But this heat makes it possible for the farmers to raise two crops of corn on the same soil and to cut alfalfa every month during more than half the year. As they say, it coins money for them. .Bermuda grass is green all winter, and watermelons bear till Christmas; there is a good market for them all summmer, and the In dians buy them as long as they last when the ycan't steal them. . But the hot weather is gone now; early on the morning of September 30 the thermometer registered only 70 de grees, and people are wearing their coats and shivering. Cold is more o presssive than heat; the nights are sold all during the summer. The people Here are of all races and nationalities. The principal merchant is an Italian; there are many Mexi cans, as this was once Mexican soil and 4s near the line. There are also many Indians, and of recent years many whites. Besides there are a number of Chinese, and one Jap. Last of all there are just a very few negroes. They don't do well here they are not in favor neither are the Mexicans, very much, , and the Indians are little better. Owing to the dryness of the climate and the splendid winters many , people have come here from all parts of the Union for relief from rheumatism, nasal, throat, and lung troubles, as well as simply to make money. There are six or eight families from North Caro lina, who are still loyal to the Old North State, though so far away. In this conglomerate population al most anyone can find congeniel com panions, though he must occasional ly heave a quiet sigh in longing for the advantages of eastern life, i The country is building up. however; Yuma is growing; they have a good public reading room, good schools and a few earnest preachers and church members who are trying to improve the moral conditions. Yuma can ac commodate good settlers and wants them they are coming, and with them and with the growth of the town, are coming many more of the advantages of more thickly settled regions.' tenarians themselves, the Interest of the many in these veterans in the ar my of life is undeniable and increases rather than diminishes With the years. Men like Profs. Leob 'and Burke are studying in the laboratory the origin of life, but there have probably never before been so many intelligent per sons -who seized with avidity upon ev ery plausible ilan or rule to prolong life. The prediction is frequently made that the ordinary mortal span will eventually be so lengthened that man will be at his best from 70 to 100, and that those who die at less than the latter age will be deemed guilty of culpable negligence. Some find the secret in a rsturn to what they call the natural simple life of the patriarchs of . Scripture and would have us grind between rude stones the grain for our daily food. Some assert that in uncooked foods lies the road leading . to the century gate, while others would have us live as we please and take no thought of long life as the surest means of reach ing it. No rules or maxims are too absurd to have their followers, and the one conclusion that may safely be ad duced is that the majority of people would gladly live jlong provided the usual infirmities of ge could be avoid ed. "Whether the old kvorld with its set- teniarnish, because it is of general ap plication and refers the question 1 ot years to the personal equation OCTOBER DAYS tied ways and life ordered by cent u- LIVE PAST CENTURY MARK (From the New York Tribune.) Ever since the days of the many centuried patriarchs mankind has evinced great - interest in those who have passed the usual limits of life. The dispostion to calculate and spec ulate as to centenarians is shown by the estimate that a man who lives to be sixty years old has spent sev en months in buttoning his shirt col lar. Perhaps even such a specula tion is, on the whole, about "as val uable as some of the maxims and rules laid down by those who have passed the century mark. Still, not withstanding the jocular estimates and the contradictory maxims of the cen-' ries of precedent, or the new world with its different climatic and govern mental, agricultural and' industrial conditions, is conducive to the greater longevity remains a mooted question Certainly, many seem to have found if not the fountain of youth, at least the fountain of years in the New World. Indians, In California and Mexico are credibly declared to have reached ages from 120 to 140, and at Holuca, Mexico, a few years ago liv ed a man whose clarm to" be 192 did not, perhaps, require a discount of more than 33 1-3 per cent. - That New York, the busiest city on the continent, is not unfavorable to longevity is shown, in the large list of centenarians , it has numbered among its .citizens, while a pop ular saying inthe Connecticut Valley is that the inhabitants never die, but dry up and blow away. On the other hand, it must be ad mitted that many centenarians of the New World were born in Europe In the obituary columns of the London Times one day a few twenty-three deaths were recorded and the united ages of seventeen of those long-lived individuals amounted to 1,339 years, or an average of nearlv seventy-nine, Ireland has furnished a list of centenarians, including not on ly persons who lived and died on fh Emerald Isles but also a goodly nin! ber who emigrated to America II helped to swell the record? of vity In the New World The J ge" for living to be lrl to be equally divide Z 'vrT and America, and also Yl rope and women, which' llerTZ "T equitable. That, at lea? J . nly fortable rtil? In robes of airy purple. The distant hills are clad. And- Autumn's horn of plenty, The husbandman makes glad The corn fields are rejoicing In treasures yet untold; The orchard boughs are bending Neath wealth of red and golfi The shepherd winds are driving White flocks across the rIHps? j The vine's rich interlacings Are ciaa m Tyrean dyes. The chestnut's dropping largess The busy squirrels claim : Adown the val the sumac j Holds up Its torch of flame.' , The jaunty jay is jeering , Atop the locus tree, ' A cynic fop in feathers, Disdaining minstrelsy; The crafty crow, slow winging His lazy flight along, Reviles the woodland chorus; With critic croaks at sonff. The graceful maple trembles, A-blush with maiden shame The Forest King rudely kissed hei Her cheeks are all a-flame. The stately elm is crested With plumes of fairy gold; The vine's rich,, luscious clusteri "Imprisoned sunshine" hold. The ivy, gentle clinging, Has caught the gnarled oak. His ragged scars concealing Beneath her crimson cloak: The birch, arrayed in tatters Mia this rich brotherhood, , Clings The to his wastine trqnro.. miser of the wood. The thrifty bees hold revel V Upon the goldenrod; ' T zephyrs, gently waving, mi1"e Purpie asters nod; The brooklet's fairy island Holds beauty's sweet surprise, There violets, in secret, j Are Painting summer skies. Q?! Autumn's brows are flushfnf?, With warmth of amber wine, rvh dreamy eyes are closing. Oh, time most rare, divine! Now smiling, sun crowned summer Returns with glad surprise, softly she comes, on tiptoes, To say her last ennhvoo ' (Henry Walter Graham in National -magazine for October.) "How did you sDend th nmmoT-'"' said . the old friend. I "Very nicely," answered Mr. Cum rox. "Sent mother and the girls to .Newport." j "And you?" J "I stayed Tat "home with a fjr.e lot of old Port."washinston starK
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