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NEW phenome-non appar

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andi that is that the

L belching ofcannons canforce the earthto exude waterwhere arid re-

gions one reigned supreme-It remained for Magdalena Bay

near the southern end of lowerCalifornia to prove this to theworld according to a correspondent-at that point and the demonstration was made when AdmiralEvans big fleet of sixteen battleships visited that point for targetpractice-

It has long been known that water could be drained from the airby the generous use of explosivesthat rain almost invariably follow

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tho Magdalena bay region took Itleave Wells that have hwretofotnever given forth more than a fescanty drops of water are fitted with aplenteous supply and tbe receaseof the barren canyons from wherewater came are the trickling streamthat tell of the future glories ofland In plentiful harvests

Ever since the story of the bay wasknown to man the region about it batbeen a waste of sand and rock clothein a scanty growth of cactus chapral and rnesqutte it was shunned bmoan anc beast as a plague spot ofthe earth

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Even Missionaries RetreatEven the sons of Loyola those

missionaries were compelled toretreat before this dearth of waterand they went tack Into the interior

miles to erect the missionwhich stands today and bears thename San Luis Gonzaga When theybeheld the beautiful sheet of waterand gazed upon the encircling hillsthat shielded It from every stormthey looked Into their breviaries andnoted that the canon of the day wasin honor of St Mary Magdalene Withaccord they chanted Santa MariaMagdalene and set about to lay thefoundation of one of the links in thewonderful chain of missions which

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d a big battle was learned atof the civil war and in the

ar West rain making by explodingynamite in the air is a recognized

rofessionBut where land has been arid for

nturies the surprise is that thecoming of 12inch cannons aozen miles out at sea can forceWrings to crop out of the ground-nd the wells long since an empty

role in the ground to be filled withwater It seems incredible but suchare the facts vouched for by thecorrespondent

MAGDALENA BAY May 4 1Kmagic te there te

of great guns tothe transformation of

a barren waste into a loadof promise and cause the fountains ofthe earth to flow forth in abundancewhere only drought was known before

That is the question a few dosea ofsettlers on the snores of Magdalenabay Lower California are latlioir wonderment of science sad sashother

The concussion of other heavy ar-tillery salvos have shaken the hillsabout the bay and caused eartho tremble For everal years

British cruisers on tbe Pacific stationhave entered for target practice sadIre then the battle craft that flfcttot

the Stars Stripes have broken thesilence of this solitude with the roarof their cannon But It not untilthe great fleet tinder Admiral vansbelched forth Its shot n4 heft atthe improvised targets tiutt the tellspell of drought that for centuries has cast its curse upon

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they wore perfecting from La Paz atthe very point of lower California tothat of San Rafael on the northernshores of the bay of San Francisco-

In vain they searched for waterThen turning from the shores theywended their way back into the interior and the site upon which atemple to the honor and glory efthe Magdalene was t be erected wasabandoned

The Spanish admiral Francisco demien was the drat white man te en-ter the bay He had been forthby the redoubtable Cortes to discov-er and conquer the fabled isle ofClgvatan where Amazons ruled andreigned and guarded a mountain ofpriceless pearls It was on Christmasday 15 that the first of the worldsadmiral entered the harbor and ata glance be exclaimed with glee

Clguatan But instead of Amazonshe encountered the warlike and blood-thirsty progenitors of the present raceof Yaqais The pearls that he expected to find garnered intomountainous plies but lay at the bot-tom of the sea Added to these disap-pointments was the lack of waterBack in the interior a captive nativeexplained was the much desired supply But it meant traveling over adesert waste of fifty miles confront-ed at every turn by hostile andferocious Indians The Spanish ad-miral angrily weighed anchor and boreaway from such an hospitable shore

Others That Sailed Awayfamous Cabrillo came only

to find that his discover was f aVlscalno was tlx taInt

Mid tact of tbe great navigators tofurl hi sails te the bay and he team-ed to his that wa notwater to be had to replenish the oaksof his ships

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the Jolly buccaneers and their crewsrepaired here to evade the Spanishfrigates and dart forth upon the pollsladen galleons that came with theirtreasures from Peru to west roastports of Mexico They excavated forwater and found a limited supply onSanta Margarita Island that zcrsrs thesouthwest boundary of the harborHere were found the graves of tMrtyskeletons of English sad Dutch buc-caneers that almost a century beforehad engaged in mortal combat It

division of the loot of some capturedprize or the consequence of a drunkenorgy following the celebration

of their more successful raids forplunder It was the custom offreebooters who frequented the Pacificwafers in those days to bear downupon their prey and after cutting thethroats of crew and passengers to remove the plunder to their ownand scuttle the captured caravei

The Dutch and the English wereparticularly prominent in this indus-try and the commercial caravels ofSpain then In the zenith of its glorythe chief quarry After an adventure-of thte sort the Freebooters cachettheir golden loot in th harbors aloagthe west coast of Lower Californiathe most frequented of these beme-Magtdateaa bay Aol many are thestories of hidden v tilth buried be-

neath the sands that Mho the shoreThe discovery of the grave which

leek the skeletons of the pirates ofthose days bad caused no Jttle ex-

ploitation of the region thereaboutiiigotten treasure But none of it hatewer been found Thin skeletons whtehpaw evidence of a hasty burial atthe hands of their comrade were variMia metallic trinkets which hud survivad the decay of the centuries thathad Intervened and were of the kindworn by those engaged in the piratetrade

era came the tradersand As may be presumed

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they were down Enters and weregiven to the came of swap In whichthe unsophisticated natives came outfar to the rear These invaders withthat luck that always seems to followAjaerlcjn pioneering multiplied theproducing in the of thebay and leading their tryout kettlesand other paraphernalia to transformwhale blubber into merchantable oilthey soon gave a busy aspect to condi-tions about Magdalena bay In tactit became sort of a Pacific New Badford and the odors of srizzHng blubber considerably changed the balmyatmosphere

There were not a few tragedies re-sulting from the too free use of thewhalers rum and the mescal of thenatives Quite a number of moundsmarked the spot where tile victims ofthis unholy combination were laMaway to await the trump of Gabrielhorn The wholesale raids of theharpoon raiders on the mammothdenizens of the deep in this locality

depleted the prey and compelledthe whalers to move further northwhore they located on Guadelupe islan o and at gan Diego Then Magdalen relapsed into Its forgotten state

Hale and His OrclilllasWalker the GreyEyed Man of

Destiny in the furtherance of hisdreams of empire sailed into

bay The famous flllbustorerconcluded that it was the place forthe site of his capital city That atleast was his first Idea and from thissecure harbor he and his advnturousfollowers intended to make their sorties upon La Paz and San Jose delCabo the two cities to the south Buton second sight the filibuster chief-tain soon discovered the SpectreDrought Ho sailed away to meet histragic fate in Nicaragua Magdalena-bay was again forgotten by the greatworld and only an occasional vessel

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in strew of weather or hunting forseals put in an appearance

This stet of things remained vntttthe cominc of Joseph P Hale aEnglishman who afterward made atehome in San Francisco and died theretest or twelve years age Hate ap-preciated t rains of Ute orofcWawhich grew abundantly there fordyeing purpose It te of Ute lichenfamily and at this time overran everybush tree and shrub of the territoryadjacent to the bay It had eves fast-ened Itself the cactus whichgrows here like trees and whatdrought had not effected m the wayof redudag everything to too statue-of rock and sand the wasdestined to do eventually Then lislecame in and to the rescue of the grow-ing mesquite and chaparral He at-tracted quite a population to the vicin-ity of the bay who engaged In gather-ing and delivering the orchill to Balesagents at so much per pound lislehad the support of an American com-pany in the exploitation of the orchiUaand bad secured a concession from theMexican government amounting to 4

HMO acresThe oreMUa traffic made Hale a very

wealthy man sad his Income was seermot 5 and continued for many1 yearsitmtH the aniline dyes intomarket and orchids quoted up la thehundreds of dollars a ton was not to bethought of for practical purposes Halesaw the handwriting on the wattv and he sought to develoa tine regionabout Magdalena He bad Madenough to build an empire fororiginal concession bad been increased-by grants of several millions of aereain addition to the first one and for atime tie San Franciscan reigned theabsolute monarch over an area nearlyas enteastve as the State ef OhIo It

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In every country where scientiftc ob-servations have been made the fajr com-plexion proves to be lying out says awriter in the Contemporary Review Itwill vanish altogether unless the declinebe checked

Everywhere the conclusion samedark type supersedes the fair

This writer claims that the dark typeoffers greater resistance to disease andnas more tenacity to life and says thatthe constitution Indicated by light hairand eyes is not adapted to town lifeYet towns grow without ceasing at theexpense of the country 77 per cent ofus have already deserted old for street

He believes the blonde must go andsaysIf this complexion be declining newand vanishing thosn who fancy thatthe Aryan is played out may find

there a striking confirmation of theirviews The fact Is assured at anyand the cause of it ascertained theconstitution indicated by light andoyes is not adapted to tho conditions oftown life and towns grow withoutceasing at th expense of the countrythe last census demonstrated an in-crease of 15 per cent in the ten years

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lacked water and was somewhat shyoa the kind of population that msfci-

mirteslaa Well WaterWater had Mea found Ai t

the Bale Company and It gave abounttftrt supply Tbe Jesuit tethers

demouetrated that the soil sadettnmto at their mlsslnit of 9aa Lute

nets or the semttropte and trsptcsoles Halos eacperteBoe snowed thattobacco and sugar cane would tbstvetwo the coast The be ons abo t thebay teemed with nooeter reel tar

toed proem from pearl ftaberia MJnico was adverse to slavery the peons

only in exceptional andthese were not very frequent so poimladen front tIN thrifty lauttbjraatafrom Europe was what nacombination with the water to traaoform Ms aaJeaa into a second TtoridaTo get this class of people the Hate

y offered to give fifty sores at

form to settle at Ma dafree transportation a cow a muleseeds and agricultural toote That

to dtacover that there was plenty ef-sanshinp ass illimua that no orecould live Ion on either or both ofthem Them the settlers ciaimad theywere marooned and a loud wall

eminent to Investigate the ofall the note proceedtaa front th btgrThen came the appeal of Bate ma ordomo which gmahtealty told of the

things Ja

deified atforth

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preceding Seventyseven per cent ofue already have deserted the wholesomefield for tbe poisoned streets

The same fatal process Is workingEurope even in Russia and

prtocipeltttes aHrays aeooafipealed by a anilttpUcation of the

type and a diminution ot thebond Perhaps it is on a ealoaftatjoaof the rate kt which towns are

that Prof pcopustesthe absolute extraction of the fair

Before anyone perhaps had con-cerned himself these questions DrBeddoes wrote In my experience a aphysician it has appeared that oawhole dark ooraptexloMed cbOdcen howmore teatdtr of life than fair suesunder some of the waCavorabto condi-tion of town That obsctvatteu hiechoed from alt parts o the worldnow

the conditions are more fa-vorable such a boroughs ji which arelarge model dwetttaav with plenty ofopen space around the blondes seennearly to hold their own and hi the su-burban areas do so with snoreconehMton is that the iWr

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kmThey have onto ap aD COM

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caped aray tothethe toiraitsis forjtphhn aaOai hue theMrat the ar aBt Ja-sephiae bad beea tfaaatchetfscene of discontent by HaleInvitation was generally

uwrtpr nHirl

to a hail sway tsm thefrij la

After the heatta of the etaairspie sad aolltnde aamta rvhjaea atbay Tbeo th Arttlah Pacalrw-

iVOOWrOO its VvNWVtal900v

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parpesa and akhooati thethe cruisers bearina aloft tIM Marssad Strips thaDdered away at thetargets erected to the hay the ecooth-tm abided by place Water wassly to be bad at Bees artesiam i ai

sad at the water holes on UB Mac

Then OB a bright iain ianj day thestow baiMoa of sea aaarcoaarnand of Admiral Robtey DL-

palBoft their naes mto

few days later the great gees

trembled sad hffi shook with the

Water began to hose forth theparched which were espyoa wet years which are aa of roveoccasion a snow storm hi Ban Fraadeco Sprhajpi of

IIS years the of the guns ftaat-

orctoed the Specter Thumb aa theyhave many other and kindsof specters that have afflictedkind

hi common with fruitfulXM

Oho aa ahnnaanc of water withwhich te icing forth uoumKat har-veata and time refers theef the old navieators who aedaret-

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spMnsaand made reodavoss ma-g t as a supply statism-Reaotty navaldes pnompted snore

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the dirk snfcrs cmnuratl eiy IMflaIt te a example of natural se-

lection and the aanrtval of th Ittaotwinder aa aanauaral state of thhrar-

HProf Riptey asserts that m th doseiinalitjuiltd Londoa the aveca estature of people M evaa thantm tile metropolis an4 they are aarkerl-aoaOy Thin he attributes a oaastant micratloa of the taller taTMamtewho seek to better tuemauUe hi town

they are the soregeaermtty the fair o tbe dark liars w-

cTtaad for adventure remain tgate their lies in the mothar eaawtvy-

S OECi GOLF TASKPreen 8e ttend comes a sob yam Aa

pocket The visitor TQtaresponded a richt stir rll-

gie it ye the reoad Tesee Ive gotten haut a croon oa y aa-

Oaav on ID irks ear o ya a richtChicago News

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