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of slaughter. His companion in the
stern of the boat was padding swiftly
but silently, in order not to disturb a
family party of seals a few rods away,
on which the hunters also had designs.
1t was fierce and exciting chase, and,
though | felt sorry for the SEAL l could
not but admire the skill and strength
with which the harpooner sent his slen-
der steel plunging through the body of
the animal. This is primitive method
OF killing seals, but 1t Is still popular
among the Thlingits.
When l get more used to writing
with pen and ink on real paper once
more. and when the genial warmth of
the modest hotel at which I am stop
ping shall have thawed the ice in my
veins. l will tell you more about the
peculiar and picturesque peoples among
which l have lived these many weeks.
At present it is an effort to think, and
my fountain pen is still frozen.
MARK FALLON.
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SEVEN THOUGHTS.

More flies are caught with honey than
vinegar.
Ii you would not be known to do n
thing, never do il.
1t may be said that yesterday sug-
gests, tomorrow promises, but to-day
accomplishes.
1t is difficult to say who does the most
mischief, enemies with the worst in
tentions or friends with the best.
There is great struggle between
vanity and patience when we have to
meet a person who admires Us but who
borcs us.
Beware Of prejudices. a mans mind
is like n rat trap; prejudices creep in
easily, but it is doubtful If they ever get
out again.
a good and wise man may at times be
angry with the world, and also grieved
at it; but no man can ever be long dis
contented with the world if he does his
duty in it.-N. Y. Weekly.
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with Thlingits and Eskimos and Aleuts
In every accessible part Of the great
Northwest. have slept in the igloo Of
the kolosh. with sledge dogs lying on
my chest and greasy Eskimo babies
sticking their pudgy feet in my face,
half suffocated, by the pot-pourri OF
perfumes emanating from dozen
human and canine forms, and l have
huddled under the inverted kayak or
bidarka of the Thlingit, with the rain
beating upon every part of me except
my head and n bitter east wind chill
ing me to the marrow. AS fate or
dained, | have made a meagre meal of
ulikan and seaweed cakes. or have
gorged myself on seal blubber and
moose steaks. have discussed yukala
Ga very fine trout with the Aziavigiok-
hamiut and have shared shellfish with
the Aleut. To my discredit be it said,
I have tried to drink-fusel oil and all
the fearful liquor which the Eskimo
distils from flour paste, sugar. dried
fruit, berries, etc. / am happy to say
that | have been wholly unable to do
so. That vile decoction would over
strain the bibulous endurance of a
Bowery lush.
Long before I returned to this. the
capital of Alaska, I learned to appre-
ciate even the poor heat of chiksha
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PERSONAL POINTS.

Ex-Secretary John G. Carlisle, in prac-
ticing law in New York, will devote
himself to pleading cases in court in
stead of combining himself to office
work.
Count Nicholas Esterhazy, who died
recently ut Totis, in Hungary, was well
known on the turf in England, France
Snd Austria. He gave orders that he
should be buried in red hunting-coat,
with all the honors of the chase.
Congressman Walker. of Massachu-
setts, is the presidents almost daily
companion, when in Washington, be-
tween four and live o'clock in the after
noon. The tie between the two men is
their mutual fondness for horseback
riding.
Col. II. G. Shaw, in whose memory
Boston has unveiled statue, was
rather a poor student while at Har-
ward and excelled in athletics more
than in study. He was extremely pop
ular and believed in having good
time"
Among the new recipients Of honorary
degrees from the University of Oxford
are Wilfrid Laurier, premier of the Do
minion of Canada; Sir William v.
Whiteway, premier of Newfoundland,
and +. L. Godkin. editor of the New
York Evening Post.
Richard L. Gallienne seems anxious
their mutual fopdness for horseback
to take the place formerly held
in London society by Oscar Wilde.
He appeared recently on bicycle
in a black silk costume trimmed
with cream-colored lace, according to
the London Figaro, which also asserts
that his fnther Is a respectable brewer.
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Especially
SITKA. Alaska, Oct. 20.
Via SEATTLE, Wash, Nov. /.

Via SEATTLE, Wash. Nov. l.
Poor Lo. the Indian, will soon be as
much of a tradition in Alaska as he Is
in the Western States. Most of the ma.
tives are passing through what for
them is certainly the degrading process
of civilization. The Alcuts particularly
are abandoing their ancient costumes
and customs and aping the dress and
manners of the paleface. Among this
people the aboriginal fur garments
have been almost entirely replaced by
the white mans store clothes and the
aboriginal stomach is being slowly but
surely corroded by the white mans
rum.
Parenthctically, I may remark that
the worst whisky on this green earth is
sold right here in little old Alaska.
would give a good-sizcd nugget for a
genuine Manhattan cocktail, and | am
not what a kentucky colonel would call
drinking man. one feels the need of
really pure stimulant occasionally in
these parts. 1t is doubtful If any man
would remain n teetotalcr long in this
latitude. Good whisky Is a blessing
here when 1t Is needed. It's like carry
ing a gun in Texas You may live here
all your life and never need 1t, but
when you do need It. you need IL
mighty sudden" What is running the
Alaskan natives is not good whisky.
but bad rum-red-ho tanglefoot, that
lt,r nd it,in
Doesn't Like the Native.
have met the Alaskan native in all
his phases. from grave to gay, from
lively to severe, and I am free to con-
fess that | am not yet prepared to hail
him as man and brother. AS a man.
he is at best a rude apology; as
brother, he would be a disgrace to the
family He Is about the dullest, slow
est dirtiest, meanest coyote to be
found anywhere on the North Ameri-
can continent, Philadelphia lawyers
and Coney Island photographers not
excepted. and, so far as the present
generation is concerned, Is, in my opin-
ion, utterly hopeless. Something may
be done by the Government teachers
and by the missionaries to reclaim the
youthful Thlingits. Eskimos and Aleuts
from their racial stupidity, but the
Alaskan Indian of to-day is a pernic-
ious and persistent barbarian, with all
modern Improvements in the line Of
savagery.
Since ! undertook to prospect this
country for news specials, | have fallen
upon ways that are dark and tricks
that are vain. ! have been in Sitka
just four days. after an extended tour
of Alaska, and have taken two baths
every day. This Is just double my
usual number but for three months
previous every square inch of me, ex-
cent my face and hands, has been n
stranger to water. You can't battle in
the open air in Alaska, save in the
Summer season, and the Russians who
preceded the American pioneers neg
lected to build Russian baths. You see,
IL was part of the Cars policy to
truckle to the prejudices Of the natives.
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JUST ABOUT PEOPLE.

Miguel A. Otero, who has been ap,
pointed by the president governor OF
New Mexico, is n leading citizen of Las
Vegas. He has held many offices and
important positions.
President II. II. Vreeland, of the
Metropolitan Traction company of New
York city, was once brakeman on
Long Island road, and his rapid rise
is often commented on by his old asso-
ciates, who find in him to-day the same
friend of past years.
On his eighty-third birthday, which
recently occurred, Verdi, the great COM
poser, was seen at five o'clock in the
weekly market of the town with some
sheep he had brought in from his farm
to sell. He also bought COW and had
a right good time with his rural neigh
bors.
Hezekiah Butterworth is perhaps the
best known writer for juveniles; his
books for boys and girls have reached
a circulation Of hundreds of thousands.
Mr.. Butterworth. for nearly quar-.
ter of century the editor Of the
Youths Companion, now devotes him.
self to writing books for young people
and travelling.
Gov. Black, Of New York. who is q
young man in the forties, was farm
er's son and one of a family of II chill.
dren, yet he prepared himself, unaided,
to enter college at IS, and graduated
from Dartmouth at %. He is now angu.
lar, tall and smooth-shaven and is often
called 'young Abe Lincoln" His long,
narrow head is covered with dark hair
and his face Is built on square lines.
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ENGLAND's CHILD DRUNKARDS.
Thirty Thousand Women Visited
HarroOnis In One Night.
iby Anglo-American fress.)
MANCHESTER, Eng, Nov.


MANCHESTER, Eng, Nov. /.
Lady Elizabeth Biddulph presided at
the opening sittings yesterday OF the
Womens Total Abstinence. Union in
Bristol.
Mrs. Vanse London) made a special
plea for children, saying that there
were hundreds Of little ones in courts
and slums who went to bed drunl,
every night
They had parents who. for the sake
of drink, We're willing to place their
children in the care of people really
unknown to them, and themselves in
toXicated.
In London alone. out of $4,000 persons
who went into public houses one Satur-
day night in the course of three hours,
over 10000 were women
The awful amount of drunkenness
among women must cause deplorable
wretchedness and suffering.
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his mother -in-law. She II the actual
head Of the family.
Womnn,s Rlghta In Alaaka.

woman's Rights in Alaska.
Women occupy an equivocal position
among the Alaskan natives Their legal
rights are many. but until they become
mothers -in-law. their actual privileges
are few. A mother is practically the
slave of her eldest son. although he
and the rest of her children take their
surname and tribal pedigree from her.
instead of from their father. When
her daughters marry. however, her
sons-in-law become her serfs, and
thenceforward she enjoys sweet re-
venge upon the male sex. The large.
ferocious- looking females in the pho
tograph of group of Alaskan women
| sent you couple of weeks ago may
easily be distinguished as mothers-in-
law.
With that photograph 1 also for
warded a tintype of Thlingit girl, the
belle Of the village of Kanakanak. and
a snapshot of an Alaskan Indian In the
act of harpooning a seal. Poor Lo,
when / caught him with my camera,
was standing on the PROV of the bara-
bara, his harpoon poised for the lunge
at the frightened seal, an expression of
fiendish glee on his swart features and
his whole body bristling with the Joy
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A THOUGHT a DAY.

Never meet trouble halfway; let il
do all the walking.
The better one is, the more good
ness one sees in other people.
Say as little as possible about that OF
which you know nothing.
In private watch your thoughts, ir
the family your temper, in company
your tongue.
People who live only for themselves
ore engaged in very small way Of
,lusinsss.-N. Y. Weekly.
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WILL VIC FREE THE IRISH.
Petition for the Release of Prisoners
Enid Before Her.
CBy Anglo-Amerlcan PressJ

Q3y Anglo-Amerlcan Press)
DUBLIN, Nov. /.
DR.. NJ. d. Kavanagh having, through
the Home Secretary. sent a petition to
the Queen for the release Of the Irish
prisoners, has received from the right
honorable gentleman the following re-
ply:
whitehall, Oct. 8, 1897.
"Sir I am directed by the Secre-
tary of State to inform you that the
petition on behalf of the treason felony
convicts which you have submitted has
been laid before the Queen, but that
he has not been able to advise Her
Majesty to give any directions thereof.
I am, sir. your obedient servant,
CHARLES s, MURDOCH"
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POOR 10 ON ice.
THE ALASKAN INDIAN IS SLOWLY
BECOMING A TRADITION.

EsLimos. ThlinEits and Aleuts Are
Being Degraded by CivilizinE In
ducnccs and Are Embracing the
White Mans Vices Instead of His
Virtues - They Are Gradually
Abandoning Their Ancient Co.'S
tunes and Customs and sinking
Into SaynSery with All Modern
improvements Mark FnIion
Writes of His Experiences among
the Peoples of Uncle sans Terri
tory In the Great Northwest.
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The Various Tribes.

OF the Alaskan Indians. the Sitkas
have been probably less injured by civ
ilizinG influences than any other tribe.
The Takus are more self-assertive and
taller, and have better features than
the average. excepting the Chilkats,
who are much like them. The most
primitive are the Yakutats, who have
the darkest skins. The largest men are
found among the Hutznahu. The Auks
are the least intelligent and have very
bad figures. The Thlingits are very
initiative, and extremely shrewd. These
last are guilty Of all kinds of offenses
against the moral code, and would
rather lie than tell the truth any day.
I have known Thlingits to lie when ii
would have been distinctly to their ad-
vantage not to do so. They relish a
good lie as does an American a bright
joke.
Gratitude is unknown among them,
and theft is second nature. All the
men are born gamblers and both sexes
are addicted to the excessive use of
tobacco and rum. They are confirmed
skeptics and laugh in their sleeves at
their chief idol, Yehl, even while they
are sacrificing to him. Even their be-
lief in shamanism and witchcraft is a
dead letter, and, as Christianity has
not yet taken its place. they have no
faith. Polygamy is as popular among
them as it is with the Mormons.
The Cheerful kOIosh.
One thing may be said in favor Of
the Eskmo-he is the most persistent
ly good-natured chap in America. With
everything under the midnight sun TO
make him miserable, he laughs at his
frozen fate and finds humor in conges-
tive chills. Pleuro-pneumonia is
huge joke with him, and diphtheria a
delicate witticsm. AS for such petty
details as food, clothing and shelter,
they are to him absolutely ridiculous.
He can get along with less of them
than any man on earth, except the
Frisco Chinaman. / have seen him,
when the mercury was shrinking into
The lowest part of the bulb, trot around
with nothing on above his waist and
his feet bare. Nevertheless, when he
IS playing in luck, he will swaddle him
self in furs like a gay Parisienne. 1t
takes such a philosopher to eke out
existence in the Arctic Zone.
The Eskimo's cheerfulness is the
more laudable in view Of his relations
with his mother-in-law. That estima-
BILE lady rules him with an iron hand.
She has by law, what she has by GUS
tom in civilized climes, the right to die
tate to him in every detail of his shiv-
cry career The Eskimo would not dare
to build a new igloo or kayak or bidar-
ka, to go on journey, to sell bun
die of furs, to buy anything whatsoever
or to cut his hair without consulting
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The Alaskan Indians have bathhouses
OF their own, but, although some of
the most fearless desperadoes of the
Pacific slope have come hither, no white
man has yet been found with sufficient
nerve to enter one of them. BY the time
/ get back to the States hope to be
clean enough to enable my friends to
recognize me--but it's an even chance.
For three months I have foregathered
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fire, made OF the dry vines of the berry
of that name Now I am luxuriating
b1aua
The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1897-08-12

One of those men who lack only experience
and knowledge to make them great editor
said to the editor of the Gardiner Me- Re
porterJoumal recently: we expect the
local paper TO say all Of these good thing
about us. II goes in to help Gil up the new
columns. and the news is What we buy the
paper for" VERY true" says the eoitoi
editorially, but did you ever consider tha
the unpleasant things the local paper might
ruthfully say about you, but does not, would
sell ten papers TO the complimentary item
ouey We rcgrat that human nature is built
that way, but it is nevertheless, and the
fellow making local country newspaper IN
the little bailiwick where everybody is sup
posed to know everybody else's business
better than his own, finds it much more
difficult to determine what to leave out o.
the sheet than what to put in it. Thanks
awfully, for the suggestion you mean well
but you don't know"
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PERSONAL MEN TION.
Z. DeIcamp. Jr.. is ON the siel. list.

L. Delcamp, Jr., is ON the sick list
Mrs. Levi Refuwich has returned from
New York City.
Mrs. Samuel Weidman has gone to Ham
burg to visit friends.
Mrs John White. of West Oak street, gave
birth to "a SON last night.
Liveryman Neiswenter was transacting
business at llazloton to-day.
Michael Stack was entertained by Ashland
acquantances last evening.
Miss Maud Haughney, Of Mahanoy City,
visited friends in town yesterday.
Miss Julia Bradigan visited friends at
Mahanoy City yesterday afternoon.
Miss Gussie Segel of Reading, is a guest
of the Yost family, on West Centre street.
Mr.. and Mrs Charles Girvin accompanied
the NJ. +. excursion to Glen Onoko to-day.
Miss Irene Weaver, of Tamsqua, is the
guest Of Miss Hattie Marshal, ON North West
street.
Miss Dora Thomas, of Minersville, is the
guest of Mrs. Joseph Ball, ON South Main
street.
Mrs. A. II. Swain aud sons, Robert and
John, are enjoying themselves at Montrose,
for several weeks.
Mrs Daniel Ellis, Jr and daughter, Flor
ence, have gone to Philadelphia to visit
friends for a week.
Misses, Devine and Kelly, Of Philadelphia
are the guests Of Miss Martha Breslin, on
West Cherry street
Miss Lizzie Cummings has returned home
after pleasant visit to her sister, Mrs. d
Drew, of Houtzdale, Pa.
Mrs. Mary Porter and daughter, Mrs. John
Doll of Philadelphia, are visiting John w.
Hesser, on West Coal street.
/ Hester S. Albright candidate for Sheriff
circulated among his political friends her,
this afternoon, and was warmly greeted
/ Miss Gertrude Grant, Of Ridgway, neal
/ Williamsport, is enjoying the hospitality O
Miss Carrie Folmer, at her residence OF
North Main street.
Messrs. A. II. Swain, of town, and hi.
brother, Harry and family, of Philadelphia
are enjoying natures beautiful scenery abou
Glen Onoko and Mauch Chunk to-day.
Mr. and Mrs c. NJ. Whiteley, who hav,
been visiting tLcir brother-in-law, c. NJ
Bordury, lave returned to their home il
PhilaG, lphia, where Mr.. Whiteley is engaged
as buyer for Gimble Bros.
Miss Sadie Griffin left town this morning t.
spend her vacation at New York. Her pleas
ing countenance, as manipulation of the
yard stick at Gill's dry goods store, will b.
missed by her numerous friends.
Miss Anna DAWN, who has been a guest 0
town friends the past two months, will mex
week leave town to visit relatives and friend
at Lynn, Mass and Johnstown, N. Y, befor
returning to her home at Moberly, Mo. Mis-
DAWN has made many friends here who re
gret her approaching departure.
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MAHANOY CITY.

Constable James Russell was violently MS,
saulted last evening while evicting Michael
Albert and his wife from a property owned
by ]. J. Kelley for non-payment Of rent.
The assailants were arrested
Peter Flanagan Sustained painful, but not
serious injuries by fall Of pipe at the North
Mahanoy coliery yesterday.
Rolandus Correll died at his home on East
Pine street at 1920 a. m. to-day after a long
illness. He was crippled by paralytic stroke
received while residing at Delano three years
age. He was an old Lehigh Valley Railroad
engineer. Correll was SO years old and is
survived by his wife and seven children.
w. D. Hall, Of the firm of StnwbriGgo &
Clothier, Philadelphia, yesterday lost $50 in
cash somewhere between this place and
Tamaqua.
When James Close was driving mule al
the North Mahanoy colliery yesterday the
animal ran against locomotive Of passen
ger train that was bound for Delano. The
mule was knocked aside by the engine and
fell over dead. Close escaped injury.
Prof Jones' orchestra Of ten pieces gave @
concert on the awning of the Mansion House
porch last evening which was followed by q
banquet rendered to Mine Host Burchill.
]. Clemens c. Turble and A. J. Minsley
professional tripet riders, will pace Starbucb
in the two and FIVE mile exhibition bicycle
races at Mahanoy City park tomorrow.
Thomas Lannon, Of Jacksons, had a foo
badly bruised by fall Of top coal at the
North MahanOy cOlliery.
Miss Katie, daughter of Charles Olp, and
John Faust of Mt. Carmel were married al
the residence of the BRIDES parents in Barnes
Vile yesterday.
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DECREASE IN IMMIGRATION.

At the Lowest Point since the Cow
erumcnt Assumed Jurisdiction.
Washington, Aug. y. - The tide Of
immigration is at the lowest point since
the general government assumed jurls-
diction of the subject in 1882. The num-
Der of arrivals from all countries. ac-
cording to the treasury statistics dur
ing the last fiscal year was 23O,S3 a
decrease as compared with the previous
year Of 112 1875. The lightest immigra-
tion of any previous year was i'm 1895,
when the number from all countries
was 279.9lS. The year of heaviest i'm
migration was the first of the period
beginning with 1882, when arrivals
numbered 1SS, 1922 During the entire
period Of federal supervision 1892 OLE
have entered the United States.
The arrival of Russian Jews for the
past year numbered 22,75O as against
45,137 for the fiscal year ended June
&c. 1896,
Italy furnished the greatest number
of immigrants, 54.431 a decrease of
8,629 from last year. The cause of the
heavy italian immigration of 1896 was
assigned to the war of Italy with Abys-
sinia, but the figures for the last year
are not abnormal, having been ex-
ceeded by several years of the period.
Since 1882 there has been large and
steady decrease in German immigra-
tion. In 1882 $50 $50 entered the United
States from that country, while in 1896
only 22.533 arrived. 1t win be seen that
the number of German immigrants
during the first year of government
supervision exceeded the immigration
from all countries during the last year.
immigration from Austria Hungary de-
creased from So, 1O3 in 1896 to 49, O31 in
1897. The decrease from other coun-
tries is as follows; England, 49, 492 in
1896 TO 1914 i'm 1Ss5 Sweden, 21137 to
l314l; Norway, S,15S to 5,G42; Ireland,
4O, ,2G2 to 23,42l,
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Representatives from the United States
and Canada to the l. C. B. U. international
convention will assemble in Scranton on the
18th and 18th instants, This will be one OF
the most important gatherings the organiza-
tion has held in years because some important
changes in the constitution will be made
Daniel Duffy National President; j. j.
Burns and Joseph p, Mcdonald, of st. Clair
John @. McKenna, Port Carbon James f
O'Heam, Shenandoah; f. J. Pepper, Ash
land, and M. f. Kane, Of Shamokin, viii at
tend as DELEGATES.