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growing.

The report says "there are two or
three young men and their wives who
invariably wash their faces and hands
daily and indulge in entire ablution
whenever they have a supply OF water.
Among the native women living with
white men at the stations cleanliness
prevails to marked degree. l have
no hesitation in stating that the prim.
ary reason for the lack of ablutionary
practices is owing to a want Of water
and q place where privacy can be OBJ
tained for the purpose.
"At times of idleness the women
avail themselves of the opportunity OF
visiting from house to house in the
village to call upon their female
friends, the men doing likewise with
their acquaintances. The man who
talks the least is thought to be the
wisest, but generally he is the greatest
rogue in the community. At the
women's gatherings scandal and in
nuendos are vigorously discussed, and
as many characters are torn to pieces
bv the Eskimo tattlers as are de-
molished at civilized afternoon tea."
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Sailing on a BfcYele.

The expert bicyclist often finds a
stiff breeze upon his back sufficiently
powerful to keep him in motion with
out his applying any power on the
pedals, and even enough to carry him
up hill. If one may trust q story in
the San Francisco Examiner, this force
is sometimes utilized by Charles D. :
White, of San Bernardino, in the man-
ner indicated by our diagram. A light
sail, made of sheeting and carried by
a bamboo mast, has been placed on his
wheel; and when the wind is In the
right quarter he uses this instead OF
muscle, and is said to have thus made
q speed of fifteen miles an hour. 81
In several respects such q mode OF
navigation differs considerably from
yachting. You can't beat or even sail
with beam wind on bicycle. You
can only run straight before the wind.
And there is room for doubt whether
enough is gained, travelling in one di-
rection, to pay for the bother OF car
rying the furled sail back home. Mr..
Whites rigging, however, adds only
about seven pounds to the weight OF
his wheel. 20 q
The mast, which is set in q hard
pine block clamped to the tubing, Is
ten feet high, and the boom is eight
feet long. If these dimensions were
reduced to six and four feet respec-l
lively, Mr.. Whites imitators would
probably find them adequate to their
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An Elaborate Cradle.

The most elaborate cradle of which
there is any account is that which was
designed for the children of Queen
Victoria. A description of it reada
like dream. It is a marvel OF hne
wood-carving in the Italian style of
art, and from the best Turkey box
wood. The shape of the cradle was
designed by Her Majesty, and consists
of fat head and foot panels, united by
q cylinder similar to the Italian and
Flemish cradle seen in old paintings.
The carving are too numerous to be-
given in detail. A beautiful female
head with closed eyes and supported
on bats wings, and surrounded by
seven stars representing night; q bold
head of Somnus, designed with
wimple drawn over the chin and sur
rounded by poppies; carnations tied
with ribbons interline, in fine carving,
the whole of this part of the cradle.
One end represents the arms and Ma
tional motto of England, and the other
crests and insignia OF Prince Albert:
The arms of England are surrounded
by the lions crest, bunch OF Eng
lish roses. flying birds, poppies, orna-
ments springing out OF acantnns
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BURIED TREASURES.
BY NARY SHAW.

Gone Is summers rare vivid glory,
The roses Of June died long ere its noon;
Yet they live in my hearts throbbed story,
With @pansies for thoughts"-sacred to
hold
And Mays CHEEKY buttercups of gold.
But, ah. tits time in cool, calm September,
Which hints off rosty winters chill,
To bid that yearning heart be still;
That hope blooms may haunt me not With
past hallowed hours,
And perfumes may taunt mc not with june
gathered flowers,
Radiant blossoms, just to remember
Now, when soberer autumn blooms
Spring from sweet summer flowers tomns.
Autumn'S just autumn, nor will orlng
Into it's days the manner Of spring;
But why Danish balmy scents, ling ring ye''
Or sadly name remembrance, regret,
Deeming autumn days lack all blithesome
scope,
Because nigh gone is the nectar OF hopper
] cannot let my gathered treasures 60;
hearts will stay warm through stern winter
trow.
Deep In mines alphabetically bright
Safely sheltered from curious sight
will keep roses 10 recall
The Joys Of summers sweetest thrall.
SOUTH kAUKAUNA. Wis.
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Stopping The horse before they reached
the place, in sheltered and obscure spot,
Robert jumped out, then turned to assist
Ethel from the vehicle.
As he did 50 he remarked:
u really wish you had not obeyed di.
rections soimplicitly; itwould have been
so sweet to have"
Spriaging past him to the ground,
Ethel darted away before he could finish
tne sentence he had teasingly begun, and
with saucy smile still upon his lips the
cgotistical and fun-loving young man en-.
tered once more and drove toward the
stables.
Breathing a prayer Of .fervent thanks
giving to God for her safe return when
she had once more reached her room, the
poor girl brushed away the tears that
had relieved her excited feelings as soon
as she had entered, and then. with a
sinking dread at her heart, at once re.
paired to the sick mans room.
A volley of spiteful, hard words sar
luted her entrance from the irritable in.
valid, and it was some time before She
could utter one word in her own defense.
When at last he gave her an opportu.
nifty to speak, she informed him truth
fully of the outrageous conduct OF his
wife's nephew.
aRobert! Do you say Robert did so in.
solent thing? Was he guilty OF so un-
pardonable an act?" exclaimed the aston
ished baronet.
"Do not believe her, UNCLE" immedi-
ately interposed Belle, who had mafle it
her business to be present. "What she
says is utterly false. I do not doubt
but that she spent the time riding with
some beau; but, assure you, 1t was not
with my brother, for he was with me the
entire afternoon. She Is wicked girl
to impose such a falsehood upon SO sick
man."
AS Belle uttered this cruel fabrication
she glanced spitefully, yet with ill-con--
cealed triumph, towards the amazed
Ethel, who was not at all prepared for
such an artful and malicious attack.
"Sir Reginald, assure you speak
only the truth. It was Robert Glenden-
ming who forced me into his carriage,
and thus detained noe against my Will. !"
"You lie, you good-for-nothing jade!
you know BETTER" roared Sir Reginald
II will never believe it. Leave the room
instantly. do not wish to see your face
again until morning."
With cold, digniied bow Ethel left
at his bidding left, too, without another
word, knowing well that contradictions
would only enrage and excite the pas
sionate and unjust person before her.
After she had disappeared Belle also at
once took her departure, chagrined that
her uncle had not instantly dismissed her
rival from his service and house.
She did not know that this his lordship
would on no account do, as he had in
trusted to her keeping a secret which
made her services far too valuable to be
easily dispensed with. He might be en-
ragged, and so dismiss her for night;
but no fault she might be guilty OF
would induce him to part with her while
all went we'll in the concealed room.
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into preliminary phase of local or
gsnization. The same period has wit
messed the marvellous development of
Alaska's mines and fisheries. In 1880
both these industries were insignii-
cant and overshsdowed by the fur
trade, then practically controlled by a
single firm but in 1890 the mines and
salmon canneries had shipped prod
ucts to the value of $15, 900, 900, or
more than twice the purchase price of
Alaska The water ways of Alaska are
an important feature of that country
vast and nearly inaccessible in al
most all parts except by water. From
the mouth of the Kuskokwim around
Cape Rumiantzof to the numerous
mouths of the Yukon River the coast
is exceedingly dangerous and almost
unsurveyed. Shoals make off from the
east to such On extent that an ap-
preaching vessel can find soundings Of
three fathoms before the low land is
sighted. The great interior artery
of Alaska lie the Yukon River, which,
rising in foreign territory, trav-
erses the width of the continental
portion of Alaska between the 141st
and 164th degrees oflongitude, describ-
ing. in it's passage line over 1900
miles in length. The Yukon is navi-
gable for stern wheel steamers of $50
tons for 1900 miles to Fort Selkirk,
at the mouth of Pelly River, in the
Dominion of Canada. Only at three
points rapids exist in the Yukon, but
even there the currents easily stemmed
by the powerful boats now used on the
river. The steamer Arctic, belonging
to the Alaska Commercial Company,
is said to average from seven to eight
miles an hour, going up stream. be-
tween Norton Sound and the head OF
navigation. The first attempt to use
steam craft on the waters of the Yukon
was made under the auspices of the
Western Union Telegraph Company
at the tim of their vast and costly ex-
pertinent in the years 1866-1S67.
It may be news to many persons
that commerce, both intertribal and
intercontinental, WAS carried on in
what is now known as Alaska in times
prior to the explorations of Cabot,
Hudson and Raleigh on the Atlantic
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took samples OF the ore to Sltka. One
of the men to whom they showed the
samples was Nicholas Haley, at that
time q private in the United
States service. Haley, who had
mined in California and Nevada,
thought the rock good, and, being in.
formed as to the location of the vein,
went to Silver Bay, and, afte,
prospecting a few days, discovered
and located the Stewart claim. Some
years after, through Haley's untiring
efforts. company was formed at Port
land, Ore, for the purpose ofdevelop-
ing the vein, and, in 1879, ten stamp
steam and water power mill was built.
The total yield of the mines from 1880
to 1890 is 81, ,631, $40. This is chiefly
of gold, there being only $27, $40 worth
of silver mined.
The account of life in Northern Al.
aska is interesting. At Cape Smythe
and along the Ikpikpun and Kugaru
Rivers dandelions and buttercups bios
som in July and August, to appear but
few hours or few days at the most.
Mosquitoes, however, revel and make
harvest during their short life. No
sooner has the snow left the ground
than these torments appear in large
swarms, disappearing for shelter be.
meath the bladesof grass when a north
west or west wind blows cold. They
are the most bloodthirsty insects OF
their kind. g.
To understand the Eskimos of Alaska
requires years of study in their homes.
Mr.. Henry D. WoolA, writing of the
upper district, says: ''The family law
of the Eskimo race bears marked re.
semblance to the Roman law of pater-
nal succession. Children acquire their
family rights by either birth or adop-
ton. The desire to possess male
children is prominent. By custom, it
a son be born he is regarded as the in
heritor of the property; should there
be no male child borne by the mother
adoption either of an orphan by pur-
chase or in some other manner is ar
ranged, and this child becomes and
remains a member of the family and
inheritor of the property of his adop-
ton. Generally I have found that
one wife is maintained among these
tribes, but instances have come to my
knowledge where worthy individuals
have from two to five wives.
There are instances where the
mothers will is paramount in family:
that is, where she is in the position OF
the superior or first wife. Eskimo
home life has many instances Of 'hen-
pecked husbands,' but the Eskimo's
remedy when he tires of the continu-
GUS TRADES and talk Of his wife is to
administer thrashing with his hands
or o stick. Where a woman Is be-
lieved to have the powers of q shsmsn,
or medicine woman, she generally
possesses control overa household" "
The bright side of the life OF these
people is their invariably cheerful dis
position. No matter how severely
hunger or privation may afhict them
they still hope for the best. When
once marriage is completed the man
Is the ruler. His word, his fist and his
club are law. The demand for soap Is
growing.
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ishments, soy $500, 900 per annum, or
$12, 100000 in twenty-five years,
which 10 much smaller estimate than
can be predicted on the expenditures
of the last two years, resulting in q
grand total cost on the above basis of
$43, ,401, 1924. In return for this ex-
penditure we may hope to derive from
the seal fisheries, if properly con-
Quoted, from s75, 900 to $100, 900, and
from customs $4,000 to $40, 900 per
annum, O sum insufficient to support
the Revenue Department, including
the present expensive cutter service
attached to the district; nor can we
look for any material increase OF reve-
nue. for many years, except in the
event of extraordinary circumstances,
such as the discovery of go large de-
posits of minerals as would produce
an influx of population.
Now we are Informed that notwith-
standing the above predictions the
management of the seal islands alone
paid into the United States Treasury
between Sc, 100000 and $1,000, 900 in
rental and royalties within twenty
years, independent of the "extra-
ordinary circumstance" referred to
by this special agent. 1t is safe to as
sert that since the system of leasing
the Prybyloff Islands was insugurated
the revenues turned into our Treasury
from Alaska have always exceeded the
expenditure.
During the period of twenty-five
years, from 1868 to 1890, the value OF
the products-fur, fish, ivory and sill
yer and gold-reached $64, 156, 5ll.
The whaling industry yielded $1l ,O57,-
41s, making the total value of Alaska
products for those years S75, 2l3, AIS.
In commenting, the report says:
s'This valuable addition to the Nation s
resources would more than compen-
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safe us, even for an expenditure such
as the special agent quoted above, fig
ured ont so ingeniously by means OF
compound interest at six per cent. on
q cash payment The decline OF the
fur seal industry, owing to the reck-
less encroachments of irresponsible
and foreign sealers, has prevented the
further collection of revenue in excess
of expenditures since the year 1880.
But even if this valuable factor i'll AL
aska's resources be wiped out of exis-
tence our vast Northwestern Territory
will have amply pnid for itself and be
we'll worth preserving and fostering
for good, sound, commercial reasons. ),
The intervals between the Tenth and
Eleventh Censuscs was one OF the most
important periods in the history OF the
far Northwest. In this period Alaska
emerged from a mere customs district
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looked on as a semi-unknown country
"a polar wilderness of ice and savages.
Its native population were considered
but degree above the Digger Indians
in intelligence-a cross between
Greenland Eskimos and Patagonians.
When Secretary Seward purchased
Alaska from Russia for $1,000, 900
twenty-five years ago, the newspapers
called it a foolish transaction a waste
of money for collection of icebergs
not worth accepting asa gift. By the
census report the great value of Alaska
appears, and yet, according to all &C.
counts, the mineral and other re-
sources of that vast domain are scarce
ly begun to be developed. New ideas
of it's value are now seen. According
to special agents report to the
Treasury during the Forty-frst Con-
gress the price paid for the Territory,
81, 200, 900, was but small item of
it's cost to the United States. Pro-
vided the public debt be paid within
twenty-five years, annual interest on
the purchase money, at the rate OF Six
per cent, would In that period amount
to 1923, 701, 1872. IA, which added to the
principal would make the total cost OF
the Territory $50, 9O1, 1872. IA. To this
sum must be added the expense
of the military and naval estab-
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Filtering Water Upward.

An italian inventor in New York has
lust devised water filter, the prlncl-
ple Of which embodies theory OF his
own, that water is best filtered upward
instead of from the bottom. The ad.
vantage of fltering water upward
rather than downward is obvious.
When water is filtered downward 1t
has to be strained through the accu.
mutation of impurities. In fltering
upward the impurities fall to the bot
tom of the yessel.-Chicago Times. -:
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A Deadly List.

The Brooklyn trolley cars killed another
victim. a little girl OF six years, the other
DAY. This brings the list Of trolley killings
in that city up to forty-sx for twelve months,
almost one a week. 1t is said that the city IL
greatly worked up over the ghastly showing,
and the people promise to find some way OF
demonstrating the popular indignation. Be
sides the forty-six killed, 127 have received
serious injuries. and a great many more
have been slightly hurt.
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steel brims are also seen, faced with
some filmy shirred material.

steel brlms are also seen, Iaceu WILD
some flmy shirred material.
One of these "late creations" is odd
enough to gain it fashionable favor.
Wide-spreading hoops of forget-me-
not blue velvet are arranged to forms
crown. No actual brim is visible, but
a lattice-work of cut steel is placed at
both sides of the half hat and half
bonnet. Toward the front three
hoops of steel tower one above the
other, showing off to great advantage
the curls which rest upon the wearer's
forehead. Two small pale blue tips,
sprayed with silver tinsel, curl them
selves into fluffy ball above the steel
hoops in front. New York World.
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Women Importuning for Work.

New York has floating population OF
charwomen who so from house to house III
the resident quarters offering TO do any sort
of domestic labor for seventy-flve cents and
something to eat For the most part these
housecleaners are the wives OF day laborers,
mechanics and tradesmen out Of employ
ment, and mothers OF children III distress.
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needs. It is also to be remembered
that the 'ssheet" or cord controlling
the outer end of the boom ought not
to be tied fast to the machine, but
run through small pulley under the
seat and kept in the hand A sudden
gust of wind is liable to lift the hind
wheel off the ground unless the sheet
is promptly eased of. -New York Trl-s r.
hnna ~ n. 80. SSk y -
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Ronnets' Of Steel. .

The unique bonnet is the bonnet OF
the moment. Ia
Steel is at present in high favor. Il :
is used as glittering crown, framed
by a putting of crepe de Chime, and
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u.,,anty-year-oId Voters.

The new Louisiana constitution Will give
the right OF sufrrageto twenty-year-old boys.
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leaves, two angels heads, ball and
crown, and friezes of arabesque dol
phins. The entire work was made to
symbolize the union of the royal
house of England with that of Sake
Csburg and otha.-Detroit Free
Press.
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ALL ABOUT ALASKA.
OUR "COLLECTION OF ICE
BERGS', A RICH POSSESSION.
What the Census Has to Say About the
Territory, Its Population and
Resources-Peopled by
Queer Races.

N many respects an
important wor k
is the Report on
the Population and
Resources of Alas
ka, ;" just issued by
the Government
from the Census Of
fee. Alaska, says
the New York Press,
has long bee en-
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A COUNTRY WITHOUT SILVER.
In Italy Private Firms Issue Tokens 10
SANDY the De land.

It is a strange story which comes
from Italy by way of the London
Globe. So great is the scarcity Of
money that a private firm at Milan,
Messers Gavazzi & Co., has taken to
coming on its own account, and as the
credit of the house is unimpeachable
the metal tokens-for of course that is
what they really are-are freely ac-
cepted by the shopkeepers.
Italy presents remarkable excep-
ton to most other nations in the mat
ter of currency. While they are com
planning everywhere else OF the super
abundance Of silver, the precious metal
is actually at a premium in King Hum
bert's dominions.
Change for fve-franc piece can only
be obtained on payment of a penny on
the transaction.
The reversion 10 tokens carries us
back almost to the middle ages. There
was period in the history of England
when such promises to pay" con-
stituted almost the only circulating
medium. They were made of lead,
tin, and even leather, and passed as
readily from hand to hand as coins
stamped with the royal image and
superscription.
1t is stated that In the middle Of the
seventeenth century as many as
twenty thousand different kinds OF
tokens were in circulation ia England.
Messrs. Gavszzi's coinage will pass
freely where the issuers q known
and trusted, but will not be looked at
twenty miles from the Lombard capi-
tai.
The extraordinary action Of the
Milan firm has been taken. perhaps,
not only in the interest of its clients
convenience, but as a means of putting
pressure upon the government. Right.
ly or wrongly, it is contended that
something might be done by the au-
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New York Tribune, was to find a broad
roof, hilltop or other convenient ele-
vation, run a few steps against the
wind and then leap into the air. Hori-
zontal impetus was thus acquired be-
fore he left terra frma. He was then
able to slide downward at an angle Of
only ten or fifteen degrees from hor-
izontal, although it was in his
power, by shifting the center of grav-
ity relatively to the center Of exist
ence, to change the inclination of the
wings and descend more rapidly. No
mention is made of his success in steer
ing himself laterally. As the greater
part of his weight was suspended be-
low the wings, of course he kept right
side up without difficulty. To lessen
the atmospheric resistance, however,
he drew his legs up somewhat While
he was about it, one could wish that
Herr Lilienthal had made kite OF
himself and tried to see how long the
wind would sustain him at one end of a
long light wire, the other end Of which
was in the hands OF three or four stout
men, or securely anchored.