The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1888-07-27

ally unpaiated pieces of wood nailed to-
gether III the form Of cross, and driven
into the earth. A few Of them have been
kicked over, but even on those t!at arc
4 still standing the numbers that were on
| them once have been So defaeed by the
weather that they are scarcely leeible.
The newer graveyard Is In d much bet
ter condition. The wooden crosses are
4 Comparatively new, and the numbers that
I are on them can be plainly seen. Al the
/ head Of q few Of the monnds stand rongh
stones, crudely cut Every one Of these
stones tells story more pathetic tiIan do
/ many Of the pretentious Monuments in
/ big ana finely kept cemeteries. Thes8
stones are al the work 81 prisoners, WHO
labor during hours Of leisure as acts Of
] friendship.
When a prisoner Is very i'll and there
seems to be danger chat he viii die, his
friends are notified, and the iron rule OF
the prison IS for thc time unnetjced. lie
1 is allowed to settle up III the presence of
/ his friends all Of his worldly affairs, and
to have them about his bedside until ss!Ssa
end comes. There are occasions, OF course,
a0a many OF them, when tho prisoner is
either absolutely friendless or Is only aIix-
ions to die without malSing his saalae
known to his friends When the end
, comes the body is then free, and to the
| friends OF the dead man IS given the mel
anchoIy privilege of bearing the body out
side OF the prison walls "a prison funeral
| Is usually solemn aHair The Sig bells
that arc used in the prison are always
Changing out some kind Of an erder to the
prisoners or q summons 60 tho keepers,
\ and they aiways stir world Of echoes IN
the silent corridors When prisoner IS
dead the fact is generally well known.
Eand an unusual silence II preserved even
for this dreary place. 4hen the whisper
! Is heard that the dead man Is to be buried
in the co&vict ground The coain is
brought FORTH the body placed ii tt tho
chaplain reads n service andthen it is in
terred New Ai.'l, cs~
FLOWERS Of the Arctic Regions.
The polar flowers seldom have any PET.
! fume, and the few that exhibit this de-
1 lightfui quality, however feeble are,
think, from that class that have crept over
the cold border marked By the Arctic
circle; OF. in short, none ofsthe fifty men
tioned- Eskimo flowers, we might call
/ them in popular way--have any appre-
ciable odor. The color of these boreal
blossoms are generally Of the cold tints,
as If IN harmony with the chilly sur
1 roundings, instead Of the warm hues that
! would break ia upon the aesolation with
double effect hy sheer contrast where SO
| few cheering sigtts are 10 be seen. White
and Light yellow predominant, and these
colors seam associated with frusts and
cold weather. Tor IL appears that these
] flowers we call eyerlaatings and which
are the longesn to defy the nippings Of the
! coming winter weather arc nostly tinted
\ Ike the northern Slows and yellow
northern lights
II Is Ii the depths cf old ocean that we
fixd soIne of the largest expressions of
sF'5ant lii< A the polar zone Here, within
shor5 Instance Of siI8re are coaassal
kelps aud other life that grow throaghout
I the year; of course, negotiating thS ulost
in the short GUNNER months LAID
/ plants, as already said, are piginies CON.
pared with those Of the sea- ~ even the
corresponding clslss IA lower lattndes
and this dwarfeA condition, naturalist
tells US, Is not dlle SO much to the Intense
eeid in the arctic winter as to the fsct
they do not get enough warng1A In sHeh-
mer toueysl0R them perieNiy. Or. Joseph
hooker iaeutions It as Fare property Of
I oneof the gratRineB lthe erpssesl, 1'rise-
tun Subspicatnm, that ii Is the only polar
species known which is eqhally an inhab-
itanf Of the arctic and antarctic regions
- rederick Scswatka IL Woinan