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in the arctics. 1t was constructed in Tromsoe
and first erected there, the timbers being
marked for rebuilding here. Within it is
lined with boards and building paper, and
all doors and window castings are as tight
as tight can be. The structure is 40 feet
long and IL feet wide, divided into four
rooms, each room having within it a good
stove.
We found the key to the front door in
so that any stranded fishermen seeking
haven of refuge might not be compelled to
break In doors or windows. We soon had
an American flag flying from the flagstaff
at the western end of the house, and as the
ColorS ran up they were Saluted with cheers
from our party, who by this time were
scattered all over the ice foes
Oycn to Remain ON Danes Island
Professor Oyen has kindly volunteered to
remain alone at the headquarters until the
return hither of the ship or of some mem
bers of the supporting party. 1t had been
the intention to leave a man with him for
companion, but owing to the present desire
Of the officers of the expedition to take all
the men with them to the north Mr. Oven
offers to remain by himself. There is really
nothing to fear except illness, for the bears
are not troublesome. Even if the Ragnvald
Jarl does not return as soon as we expect
the hunting sloops from Norway will make
their appearance within few weeks, and
thefe are rumOrS that an excursion steamer
with 800 or 400 passengers is coming out
10 Spltzbergen in July. Perhaps In good
tlme Danes Island will become the center
OF large summer resort population.
WALTER WELLMAN.
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noon he starts in to put out his work for
the following week. On Friday, probably,
the advance agent comes in and takes down
from the board memoranda of, the locations
of his bills. If he has time he hires a buggy
and drives around to look Of them. In case
he finds damaged sheet or date missing
he refers the matter to the btll poster for
correction. The board described is divided
up into routes. each Of which is given to a
man. who does the pasting and is respon-
sible for the work on his route. 1t is not
uncommon for the bill poster to own the
lumber in the fences on which his bills are
put.
For fences and dead walls the bill poster
usually has contracts by the Year In pay
ment for the use Of small surfaces in con-
spicuous places he gives admission tickets
to the theater. These are 81 called bill
board tickets. Usually they are for Mon
day or Tuesday night, the desire being. to
NIL the house well when the company opens.
Small Autographs are made expressly for
exposure in the windows of saloons and
shops. Date slips are printed, to be pasted
on them. For the exhibition of these which
are distributed by the advance agent, ad-
mission tickets are given.
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HOW DICKENS WORKED.
An Insight Into the Methods of the
Author of PickSviclS.

From Harper's Young People. r.
1t is always interesting to, learn how
famous authors went to work 10 write some
of the great books that are so well known
to us. Here is little insight into Charles
Dickens methods. 80
In the first place he conceived the plan
of the story. Then he thought it out care
fully and fixed the plot carefully in his
mind. This completed, ne made his skeleton
from which to work in his details; and then
came the detailed work of the book. The
manuscript of Our Mutual FRIEND formed
two large quarto volumes, bound in brown
morocco. At the beginning of the first
volume there is an outline of the story
which covers sixteen pages. The following
passages convey a good notion of the whole:
OUR MUTUAL FRIEND.-No. l.
CHAPTER l.
On the Lookout
The man in his boat watching the tides.
The -Gaffer-Gaffer Hexham-
Hexham.
His daughter rowing. Jenn, or Lizzie.
Taking the body in tow. His dssipated
partner has robbed a live man. Rider.
hood-this fellows name.
CHAPTER III.
The Man From Somewhere.
The entirely new people.
Everything new. Grandfather newt they
had one.'
Dinner party. Twemlow. Podsnap. Lady
Tippins, Alfred Lighthouse also Eugene
Mortimer. languid, and tells of the
Dust Contractor.
Four Books
L. The Cup and the Lip. II. Birds of a
Feather. III. Long Lane. ". A Turn
ing.
Sentences such as this appear on the mar
gin: Work in the girl who was to have
been married and made rich.'
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WHEN THE HAIR TURNS GRAY.
Hints rs to It's Proper Care-Don't
Try 10 Color II.

Concerning gray hair. says a writer in the
Detroit Free Press, there seems to be no
rational theory for change in the color of
the hair. except that Of loss of pigment
color and presence of gaseous matter in
the hair shaft This may be the result of
natural or artificial causes. Probably among
Americans the early age at which the hair
blanches is due largely 10 nervous conditions
Mental and physical disturbances undoubt-
edly often affect the secreting apparatus
of the hair, destroying coloring matter for
history records instances of the change of
hair from dark to white in a single night
through the cerebral excitement of some
great loss bodily or mental anguish; neither
can coloring matter, once entirely destroy
ed, be restored. Do not believe the quacks
who pretend to restore gray hair TO the
youthful color in any other way than by
dyeing, for science has not yet discovered
a method by which pigment, once entirely
exhausted, can be renewed. Dark hair
may be bleached but no sane persons could
be deceived by the duh. lusterless yellow of
hair so treated, neither does dye deceive
any one, and a woman who would look
charming with a head of white hair kept
perfectly clean and fluffy with legitimate
treatment, becomes disgusting when she
resorts to such f1agrantly artificial means
for keeping the hair dark or blond
When ones hair turns gray attention
should be directed toward keeping il scru-
pulously clean; toward keeping the COM
plexion delicate and fine with color, the
eyes bright, and the expression animated;
for brilliant face, framed by snowy hair
has peculiar charm, If the hair be abund-
ant and becomingly arranged.
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was covered with forests strange and weird
Conspicuous among the plants Of that age
was the tree fern" which attained
height Of twenty or thirty feet, and carried
a single great tuft Of leaves at its top.
Next In importance to the ferns were gi-
gantic MOSES resembling in kind the low
club" MOSES Of the present, but vastly
magni1ed. They doubtless contributed the
greatest proportion Of woody material to
the composition OF coal They were forest
trees. and their fossil trunks have been
found measuring from 100 to 100 feet in
length. and from six to ten feet in diameter
Al that time all conditions were favorable
Tor rapid and enormous vegetable growth.
The air was laden with carbon, which is the
principal food Of plants-so laden that man
could not have lived in 1t. A vivid notion
OF the luxuriance Of plant life in that epoch
Is obtained by observation Of the coal de-
posts which represent its remains. There
are areas in the south of France and In In
dia where coal seams 200 feet thick have
been found. 1t must be remembered that
the coal In each seam Is only from one-six-
teenth to one-ninth in bulk Of the woody
fiber from which 1t has been derived Dr.
Homer Greene, to whom the writer is in
debted, states that the combined areas of
coal beds in the United States amount to
about $4,000 square miles
RENE BACHE.
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temperature at midnight was the lowest We
degree Of cold and not the winters ice that
caused US trouble. for it covered a great
part of the sea with a thin film, gelatinous
In consistency, not strong enough to bear
the weight of a man, but incredibly tough
when pushed against by the PROV of the
Ragnvald Jarl No ice is more troublesome
TO navigator than this young ice in con-
tinuous sheets. thin though 1t may be-
Heavier Ice in detached masses Is easily
pushed aside, but in order to make progress
through this film, the ship had literally to
Vance.
In the old days arctic navigators thought
Ice was neve- formed upon the surface of
the sea- They believed that all the Ice in
The arctic regions was land made, and many
are the ambitious polar expeditions that
came to grief through attempting to fol-
low out routes based upon this erroneous as
sumption We know that ice does form
upon the surface of the sea, even at such
slight cold as 20 F., because our ship was
Heveral times stopped entirely by this young
Ice. Moreover, we saw the new ice in the
process of formation, the sea being covered
fifth little round masses of congeIation. very
tnuch resembling lily pads in crystal. In a
uay or two. without disturbance by wind or
current. these pads join together and form
the continuous sheets of rubberlike ice by
which We were stopped. When a ship forces
Its PROV against this ice, the surface of the
water for some distance about IL set into a
bsSles OF fluctuations, though no water can
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PHYSICIANS FAT FEES.
Royalty Pays Wen When the Docto
Becomes Necessary,

hoyaAty rays wen when the Doctor
Becomes Necessary.
Some Of the fees paid by. royalty have
been eminently BETTING the giver and TAX
er, says DR.. Shrady in the Forum. The late
physician to the Prince of Wales received
for four weeks attendance at Sandringham,
during the illness of his distinguished pa
tient from typhoid fever, not only the usual
title Of baronet. but fee of 10000. Sir
Morell Mackenzie is reported to have re-
ceived more than twice this amount for
his treatment of the late Emperor Freder-
lex of Germany. Dimsdale, a prominent
practitioner of London in lT62 was called
thence to st. Petersburg to vaccinate the
Empress Catherine ii, for which he received
not only the equivalent of $4,000 but an
extra $lO,OO for travelling expenses the
title of baron and a life pension of So 800
yearly. His royal highness the Nawab of
Rampur, India, recently paid an English
army surgeon $4,000 for a three months
occasional attendance in an ordinary at
tack of rheumatism. The late Sir Andrew
Clark, Gladstone's physician, often charged
$1,000 for running down from London 10
Liverpool, and the late Sir william tSull
commanded equally high rates for similar
wealthy notable of Odessa $500 for OPEN
ing an abscess of the hip. the time occu-
pied being about ten minutes. AMI better
still, while on the same visit, he took
cnahce snot at another patient IN the shape
of a similarly simple operation, for which
he received nearly 81 500 more, certainly
enough extra to pay the fee of the railway
porter on his homeward journey.
But in all this IL is not so much the doing
as in knowing how to do. When the French
peasant said there was not 10 cents worth
of paint on Rosa Bonheur's Horse Fair"
he was incapable of valuing high art. Five
dollars for amputating the leg" said the
surgeon, 'and nine hundred and ninety
five for knowing how" and the victim was
thankful accordingly
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HYMNS FOR THE PEOPLE.
None Have Touched the Heart Like
Those of Blind Fannie Crosby.

None Have Touched the Heart Like
Those of Blind Fannie Crosby.
From the Philadelphia Press.
Judgment the countless songs of Fannie
Crosby have brought comfort to Christian
hearts. From the depths of her own great
afiiiction-she has been sightless nearly all
her life-she has brought words of cheer
so sweetly phrased that they have been
translated into a dozen other tongues that
their balm may not be denied to any ma
ton. And now, though seventy-four years
old, her fancy is as fertile and her pen as
ready ever in her busy life She is an
active worker. despite her age, and seldom
does week pass without she turns over to
her publishers five or six of her compost
lions.
1t was while in the Institution for the
Blind in New York city that she began
writing for publication. During the sum-
mer of 1852 she wrote several songs for
George F. Root. These included some which
have since become widely known among
them ''Honeysuckle Glen" Hazel Dell"
Resale. the Prairie Flower" Proud
World, Goodbye, I'm Going Home" and
There's Music in the Air." The words of
the cantatas Pilgrim Fathers" and The
Flower Queen" were also written by her at
about this period. Previous to this time
she had published two volumes of her
poems, The Blind Girl and Other Poems
In 1874, and Monterey and Other Poems
In 1910. A third volume, "A Wreath of
Columbias Flowers" followed during the
year of her marriage. which took place in
1858. Her husband was Alexander Van
Alstyne.
To enumerate the good done by her songs
would be impossible. but a few instances
will prove interesting. There is one told OF
Pass Me Not. Oh. Gentle Savior" in
which it Is said that man who had been
a stranger to a church for fifty years heard
a group of children singing:
Pass me not. oh. gentle Savior.
Hear my humble cry;
While on others Thou art calling,
Do not pass me by.
The man paused and listened. The cry
seemed to come from his heart. He tried to
reason with himself that he had no clothes
to go to church, but the argument would
not hold. AT that very place he dropped
his old life and took up the better one he
had laid down fifty years before. At an
other time, says a writer in the New York
Advertiser, when leaving one of Sankey's
Mortified meetings, a woman rushed up to
her, and, SELLING her hand, covered II with
kisses. saying impulsfveiy as she did so:
"Oh, Il thank you so much for writing Safe
in the Arms of Jesus. 1t was the last
thing my mother sang before she went
home"
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is DEATH TO BABIES
When Food Fails to Give
Strength in September.
Children Must Now Eat Well and
Digest Well in Order to Live.
Lactated Food VIII Not Disagree
With Any Child-Should Be Used.

Don't take chances with the baby.
These summer disorders diarrhoea and cholera
infantum. come with a suddenness and progress
nom bad to worse with a rapidity that throws un-
prepared mothers into helpless confusion.
Every experienced nurse knows that IL is Of the
utmost Importance to keep at hand laetated food
a. substitute for baby's food. when the
child IL fed at the breast Often the heat 50
weakens the infant stomach or the natural u liz
falls. % that a partially digested food such a.
iactsted food. must be employed, that win burden
the weakened stomach less and yet keep up the
baby's strength. The irritated condition of the
bowels Ii what leads to fatal diarrhoea when
mothers persist In clinging the same old diet
despite the warnings that baby is not only not
thriving, but I'm great danger Of cholera Infantum
and diarrhoea that carries on 50 many infants
Ii is far easier to prevent these summer disor-
ders by using pure, highly noarishng lactated food
When babies throw up their milk when they
are not keeping up their strength. especially dur
ing hot weather, Il is plain there is trouble with
the food. Either the food. il II Is mothers milk
ID poor I'm quality from long nursing or from the
effects Of the summer heat on the mother or II the
child Is weaned the infant stomach. weakened as
IT is by the high temperature, is irritated and
cannot digest and assimate sufficient food to
keep baby strong and healthy. Physicians when
called In such cases put the child ON a diet Of
laetated food Being a partially dgested food. as
physicians call IL. lactated food Is more easily
ihtO Nlsofous Dls0 tlan afy fiher food
upon which a child can lie fed. IL Is in fact. the
nearest possible substitute for healthy rncther's
milk Its parts are well nigh identical With
baby's earliest and best food. healshful breast
milk. Babies that seem TO mothers 10 take ''hnrd.
y enough nourishmert 10 keep them olive" eat
heartily when fed on lactated food. because that
great object OF a successful infant food mas been
tboughtfully attained-it pieases the infant taste
and Induces the child to eat heartily.
Babies are safely and readily w-aned during the
summer months on this splendid nutrftire. And for
the same reason that actated food is by far e hest
diet for young children. IL Is peculiarly fitted
TO the needs Of nursing mothers as veil hs IN
valids who have slight energy to extract strength
and nutrition from ordinary coarse. hearty food
Lactated food is used in all rhe large homes for
children throughout the United States and Canada
and In families possessing every FOR securing
the best for their Children: and yet Il IL easily
within the reach Of the modest household IN
the land.
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THE VALID JARL.
be seen, so elastic and so tough is the thin
frOZ1u fper "
The Three Crowns.

be seen, so elastic and so tough is the thin
frozen covering.
The Three Crowns.
On getting out this morning and taking
our shower baths in a temperature of II F.,
the temperature of the water being 81, we
found the ship near the entrance to Kings
bay, one of the few places in Spitzbergen
where coal may be had. and with three
remarkable peaks, known as the Three
Crowns. looming up in the background.
Magnificent glaciers came down to the sea-
with water fronts so or 100 feet high, blue
as the bluest of skies in sunny Italy. The
glaciers could be traced back through the
mountain passes as far as the eye could
reach, or to the high inland Ice tempting
our Norwegian members to go ashore and
try their skis upon these perfect and mag
nifcent natural tObOggan Slides The easy
approach which these glaciers gave to the
high inland ice Of Spitzbergen suggested 10
us possibility for future travel. In case
our ship should be frozen in here for a
long time it would be wholly practicable for
US to take our sledse equipment up the
glacier highway, across the inland ice
which Is smooth and practicable as a road
though desperately bleak and cold at this
season of the year. and on to the north of
SpitZbergen and the seven islands But of
course, such an alternative was not to be
thought Of as long as there was a chance
of reaching our headquarters point at
Danes Island.
Though the condition OF the new ice was
sen gave it as his opinion that We should
only waste coal in trying, we determined to
go on Though at first compelled to crawl
along at n rate of half a mile an hour
through the thin jellylike ice, we at length
reached heavier ice in detached masses and
then made much better progress. The road
continued to improve. and by dint of good
steering, with now and then hard bump,
by in the evening had passed the
nOrtnernmOSt of the seven mountains and
were able to enjoy a fine view of Amster-
dam Island, the Hakluyt head and Danes
Island. Much good it did our eyes to see
these lands looming up so near ahead, and
we were also delighted to perceive, beyond
the nOrthernmOst land aid out over the
great Arctic ocean, which is to be the
theater of our drama-whether comedy
tragedy or farce We do not know-a water
sky.
Good luck followed us throughout the
evening, for what appeared at a distance
TO be heavy, impossible ice proved upon
close inspection to be open, and through
It we steamed at n good rate. Later 4
strong wind from the east set in, and in an
Incredibly short time cleared all the ice
from the coast and enabled Captain Bot
telfsen to come down from the crows nest
and make the welcome announcement that
no distractions whatever lay between US
and Danes Island. The mighty cliffs
standing sentry over the Danish ford We
BASED at in the evening, and rs We cast
BUR eyes out over the Arctic ocean to the
northward. the region of mystery and
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One Weighed Eight Ounces and An
other Eleven Ounces at Birth.

other Eleven Ounces mt Birth.
From the New York Daily News.
A dispatch from New Orleans says that
George From, an employee of the Crescent
City Railroad Company, is the father of
the smallest baby ever born. 1t is boy of
perfect form and weighs but nine ounces.
1t is in the best of health, cries Justify and
feeds ravenously.
Mr.. From is forty-five years old, weighs
10 pounds, while the mother is forty-four
and tips the scales at 125 pounds. She is in
the best of health and vigorous, after hav-
Ing given birth to seventeen children dur
ing her married life of twenty-five years
Once there were triplets, and at another
time twins were born.
The dispatch errs in one statement, and
that is that this is the smallest baby ever
born, for Mrs. From has given birth to two
other hlputians one of which was smaller
than the one just born. In 1873, before the
6th avenue elevated railway was completed
above 10th street, car driver jumped off
his car in front of the Daily News office,
wife had just given birth, to a midget
smaller than the late Lucia Zarrette, who
was then supposed to be he4snallest crea-
ture alive of the human speeies.,'
The reporter found the From family in
Lawrence street, above 127th street. which
was then almost a wilderness. There in a
little old-fashioned house. in a. tiny dolls
crib. rested the smallest specimen of human
flesh ever recorded. 1t was then thirty six
hours old and weighed precisely eight
ounces. 1t was the wonder of the neigh
borEccd. and the surprise was so great to
the doctor In attendance that delicate set
OF DIT ggists' scales were BORROWED with
which to again try the avoirdupois of the
youngster, who was just as clipper as a
bouncing ten-pounder. " 20
Several years went by. and one day the
same News reporter accidentally, ran across
From on the forward end of street car in
Minneapolis, Mimi, which he was driving.
On being accosted, he said:
Come up to my house next week. There
is to be an interesting event there, and in
dicaticns suggest II at the child will be an
other midget. From said that his wife had
given birth to several children in the in
term after leaving New York, but that
they were all of a normal size. Sure
enough, when the eveLtful time arrived, It
proved to be boy who tipped the scale at
d trifle over eleven ounces.
The rigorous winters of Minnesota proved
too strong for the little fellow, and again
the FTCms disappeared, and were not heard
from Until now, when the advent of the
third liliputian brings them again before
the public down in the crescent city.
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pST NOW THE
travelling theatrical
companies are start
ing out from New
York for their regu-
lar annual tours. An
important and ex-
pensive part Of their
equipment is an out
fit Of display bills for
advertising. For this
item alone a first
class show on the
road will spend about
S11H N .nl~ r.
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ERE WE ARE AL
our summer head
quarters. Just under
the eightieth parallel
OF north latituds. We
arrived here last
night. Capt. Bottelf-
sen was again stop
ped about 2 o'clock
Monday morning or
Mitre Hook, In lati-
tude 10 degrees 5
minutes, or within
thirty-eight miles of
Danes Island Tba
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How the Flames Undo the Work of
Centuries.
A SERIOUS Loss IN SOIL DESTRUCTION
Plans for Replacing the Waste on
the TreeIess Plains.
THE VALUE OF FO RESTS
Written for The Evening Star.

ILL IhE UREA L
forest fires Of 1894
teach US a lesson?"
Professor Fernow,
the gov e r n m e n It's
chief forestry expert,
shook his head in re-
Spouse to his own
question. 81 doubt
it," he said. "Yet
such catastrophes are
preventable, IL only
laws were made pro-
viding for proper su-
peryision and control
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Account of the Wellman Party's Ar
rival at Danes Island.
THEY RECEIVE A CHILLY WELCOME
An Englishman's Shooting Box Fur
nishes Comfortable Retreat.
ARCTIC HEADQU ARTERS

Copyright, 1894, by Walter wellman)
Special Correspondence Of The Evening Star.
DANES ISLAND, Spitzbergen, May
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IMPROPER AND DEFICIENT CARE OF THE
scalp will grayness of the hair and bald
ness. Escape both by the use of that reliable
specific Halls Hair Remover.