COOKING FOR PROFIT. small but romantic Uintah Lake in the State of Cornucopia is a most interesting locality when its merits are once known. There is no end to the places and objects to be seen if some knowing person will clearly point them out. The Barnacles family will talk about these things well enough it somebody else starts the sub- ject but are the last people to ever think of making any matter of local interest known ; and you might as well look at any old and unremarkable building in any old and unremarkable town as to look at the most historic pile in Europe or elsewhere if you have not a guide book or other informant to awaken your imagination and interest by showing wherefore the historic pile is forever famous. So that is about the way that our little company got stirred up to an extent that ttiey cared little for their meals, or at least were willing to forego a dinner or two for the sake ot an exploration, after the pa- pers began to drop in, which contained descriptions of "The Eyrie" and the points of interest about Uintah Lake. Over there by the Barnacles point you may see in windy weather when all the rest of the' lake is either yellow or green through shallowness, there is an expanse of water that remains blue almost to black- ness; it is the unfathomable place, the well, the bottomless source of the waters of the lake which has an outlet like a mill- race but no other inlet, and as soon as ., that was known there was an early break- fast, the sailboats were brought into requi- sition and all went, if only to drop peb- bles and look into the depihs and im- agine, but some went to heave thelead, and finding no bottom; went again next day, and others were led off to a sequest- ered bay that was covered with a magnif- icent species of water-lily. There is one remarkable hill on the lake shore called Crystal Cone; it is covered with pine and^ cedar and would not be ob- served without being pointed out, yet all the houses in this neighborhood have, as curiosities, some specimens of the bril- liant rock crystals that are found there sometimes in large masses, and the Cone is full of diminutive welis that have been dug in search of them Among the ob- jects of sentimental interest the chief is the half-built and now decayed chateau which a certain singular and melancholy German baron began to build in the wilderness and surrounded it with a maze or labyrinth through which no intruder could find the wav unless by chance, part of which still remains; a tortuous thicket of thorny bushes, and near by is the remains of the log house he lived and died in alone. The Barn- acles family firmly believe the place haunted and never go to that side of the lake at night, but that of course is non- sense. Our people go in daytime to find some sort of a scarce flower that he . planted here and there and as this is the season of its blossoming they sometimes bring home a few specimens and set in glasses on the breakfast table .

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small but romantic Uintah Lake in the State of Cornucopia is a most interesting locality when its merits are once known. There is no end to the places and objects to be seen if some knowing person will clearly point them out. The Barnacles family will talk about these things well enough it somebody else starts the subject but are the last people to ever think of making any matter of local interest known ; and you might as well look at any old and unremarkable building in any old and unremarkable town as to look at the most historic pile in Europe or elsewhere if you have not a guide book or other informant to awaken your imagination and interest by showing wherefore the historic pile is forever famous. So that is about the way that our little company got stirred up to an extent that they cared little for their meals, or at least were willing to forego a dinner or two for the sake ot an exploration, after the papers began to drop in, which contained descriptions of "The Eyrie" and the points of interest about Uintah Lake. Over there by the Barnacles point you may see in windy weather when all the rest of the' lake is either yellow or green through shallowness, there is an expanse of water that remains blue almost to blackness; it is the unfathomable place, the well, the bottomless source of the waters of the lake which has an outlet like a millrace but no other inlet, and as soon as ., that was known there was an early breakfast, the sailboats were brought into requisition and all went, if only to drop pebbles and look into the depths and imagine, but some went to heave thelead, and finding no bottom; went again next day, and others were led off to a sequestered bay that was covered with a magnificent species of water-lily. There is one remarkable hill on the lake shore called Crystal Cone; it is covered with pine and cedar and would not be observed without being pointed out, yet all the houses in this neighborhood have, as curiosities, some specimens of the brilliant rock crystals that are found there sometimes in large masses, and the Cone is full of diminutive wells that have been dug in search of them Among the objects of sentimental interest the chief is the half-built and now decayed chateau which a certain singular and melancholy German baron began to build in the wilderness and surrounded it with a maze or labyrinth through which no intruder could find the wav unless by chance, part of which still remains; a tortuous thicket of thorny bushes, and near by is the remains of the log house he lived and died in alone. The Barnacles family firmly believe the place haunted and never go to that side of the lake at night, but that of course is nonsense. Our people go in daytime to find some sort of a scarce flower that he . planted here and there and as this is the season of its blossoming they sometimes bring home a few specimens and set in glasses on the breakfast table .

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