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The Press., 1898-10-06
ALASKA.

Six sleeps in . sleeper from Montreal And Q moon or SO from the end of the iine And you stand at the foot of the great white
 wall
 That is, white with the snows that fall and fal, Ger the cedar dwar1ed and the drooping pins,
 That grow at the feet of Alaska. old and wrinkled and cold and gray, With her white pail pulled OCT her stony
 breast,
 Browning and frigid and far away. She has ever stood, as she stands today, In the desolate wastes of the wide northwest
 Stands this hoary old woman, Alaska. Unmolested for thousands of years. Isolated, remote and lone, Her hard face glacial with frozen tears, While over her shoulders and in her ears The winds of the north land vail and moan
 In the ears of old Mother Alaska. A party of prospectors passed that way, And they thought the old face had forgotten
 its frown, And, pausing, they pulled her white robe away And found her treasure. "Ah, q lest que c'est S'' Said the French Canadian, kneeling down
 At the feet of old Mother Alaska. They told their story. and men went wild And pawned their chattels and joined the
 race.
 The old croon jingled her gold and smiled, And the gold mad men of the world beguiled With a promise of fortune in that far place
 At the feet of old Mother Alaska. But. oh, the rivers are wide and deep, And the north wind breathes with a killing
 breath,
 And over the mountains, rough and steep The old dread reape~ shall come and reap The rime old reapsr that men call death
 Shall reap the white fields of Alaskai
 -Cy Warman in New York Sun.
The Press., 1898-10-06

"I talked the matter over with my wife and decided to try the pills. Before the first box was half gone l was much better.
 eagerly purchased moro boxes.
 "I continued to steadily improve as con tinued taking the pills.
 I've were all astoniShed at the marvel ous change for the better in my health.
 "It didn't seem possible, after all the years of suffering and expense to which I had been put, t,that such remedy could cure me SO readily.
 "Altogether used nine boxes of the pills.
 can now walk miles without exertion.
 The rheumatic pains have not bothered me since.
 "Dr. WiiliamS Pink Pills for Pale Peo- pie cured me and have the utmost conf dcnce in their merits to alleviate suffering and cure disease"
 Many brave heroes who returned from the war found the battle against the unseen foe of disease harder to fight than the con- fliets in war, until they commenced to use Dr. Williams Pink Pills for Pale People.
 Many have found these vegetable pills to be speedy health reStorerS.
 They act directly upon the impure blood, the root of disease, by restoring the requisite vitality to all parts of the body, creating functional regularity and perfect harmony throughout the system.
 Druggists everywhere sell these pills.
The Press., 1898-10-06
Dinsculs 70 Infiict Pain.

The doctor smoked slowly on his cigar. It was plain that he had some. thing to say.
 "I was thinking of my early college days" he said, "and of a peculiar in- cident that happened very soon after began my studies The professor was instructing the class one day on the corpuscles of the blood. In order to get some fresh blood for microscopical ex- animation each student was ordered to tie rag around his forefnger and strike the top of the finger suddenly with a needle with sufficient forcE to draw blood. Seems easy, doesn't it? Do you know there wasn't man in the class that did it at the first attempt It was funny to watch some of those embryo surgeons poise the needle with a deter mined air and lauhch it to within a hair space of the flesh and there stop dead. Others tried to force the needle in slowly, but paused very shortly, with an expression of pain commen- surate to that of an amputation. my self gave it up as a bad job. and hacked 8 cavity in my thumb with a penknife, and found it easier
 '"The fact that we were very young and inexperienced is no explanation for this peculiarity, as have sillce found by personal test Almost everybody ex- hibited the same repugnance to infiict- ing pain in that manner. Try it your self"
 The other man tried and succeeded on the fourth trial. York Sun.
The Press., 1898-10-06

When President Lincoln called for volun- ea<ru to suppress the Rebellion, s. R. Hun lsr, a blacksmith In South Serbia, N. Y., lmmsdiAtsly left his forge and was one of the first to respond.
 Enlisting in Go. K., Ninsty-fourth New York VoIuntsers, he participated in many fierce battles, escaping death in innumsr- Abls instances.
 The conflicts which he encountered in war were nothing, as compared with his coniliet with disease since.
 The hArdships of army life left him a physical wreck.
 Sciatie rheumatism developed.
 For years he doetored and spent hun drsdG of dollars without obtaining relief.
 Three years ago his limbs became para lvEsd and he was unable to walk.
 He got about only by dragging himself from place to place by his arms
 h was no trick to run a common alarming needle Into the nuseles of his limbs with out feeling the slightest sensation.
 PhYsieiAns gave him no relief.
 He believed that he would never be any thing but n hopeless invalid.
 He SaYst
 "I read In a newSpaper how Dr. Will hAma' Pink Pills for Pale People had ef- EGeted a cure in a case similar to mine.
 had very little money left to experi- mant with new medicine.
The Press., 1898-10-06
ExtraOrdinary Drinks.

Of the many extraordinary drinks regularly consumed the blood of live horses may perhaps be considered the most so. Marco Polo and Carnini were the first tu tell the wU;.,i If l.., practice of the Tartars and Mongols upei ing the vein in their horses necks. taking @ drink and closing the wound again As far as can be seon this has been the practice from timr immemOrial.
 There is wine habitually consumed in China which is made from the flesh of lambs reduced to paste with milk or bruised into pulp with rice and then fermented. It is exceptionally strong and nutritious and powerfully stim ulating to the physical organism.
 The Laplanders drink a great deal of smoked snow water, and one of the na tional drinks of the Tonquinese is ar rack favored with chickens blood. The list would scarcely be complete without mention of absinthe. which may be call ed the national spirituous drink of France. It is horrible compound of alcohol, anise, coriander, fennel. worm wood, indigo and sulphate of copper. It is strong, nasty and q moral and phys ical poison.
The Press., 1898-10-06
A STRANGE SENTENCE.
Punishment For Q Murder That Was NJ 0
 Cruel Than Death.

Punishment For Q Murder That Was More
 Cruel Than Death.
 In 1901 a man died in the Catsl ills who had been condemned by one of the strangest sentences on record. Ralph Sutherland was born ill 17O1 and lived in a stone house near Leeds. He WIS & man of violent temper and morose dis position, summed by his neighbors and generally disliked. Not being able to get an American servant, he imported 8 Scotchwoman, and, according to the usage of the times, virtually held her in bondage until her passage mcney had been refunded.
 Unable to endure any longer the rag ing temper of her master, the girl ran away. Immediately upon discovering her absence the man set off ill an angry chase upon his horse and soon overlook her. The poor woman never reached the house alive, and Sutherland was indict- ed and arrested on the charge of murder.
 At the trial he tried to prove that his horse had taken fright. run away, pitched him out of the saddle and dash ed the girl to death upon the rocks, but the jury did not accept the defense, and SouhCA4 4oLAO " oS cCAtOACCO UO upOA the scaffold.
 Then came the plea of the insufti- ciency of circumstantial evidence and the efforts of influential relations. These so worked upon the court that the judge delayed the sentence of death until the prisoner should be 99 years old.
 It was ordered that the culprit should be released on his own recognizance, and that, pending the final execution of his sentence, he should keep hangman' s moose about his neck and show himself before the judges of Catskill once a year to prove that he wore his badge of in- fanny and kept his crime ill mind. It was @ more cruel decision than the sen- tence of immediate death would have been, but it was no doubt in harmony with the spirit of the times.
 Thus Ralph Sutherland lived. He al- ways lived alone. He seldom spoke. His rough, imperious manner had gone. Years followed years. At each session of the court the broken man came be- fore the bar of justice and silently showed the moose that circled his neck.
 At last his ninety y-ninth year came, the time when the court had ordered that the utmost penalty of the law should be executed. For the last time the man tottered before the judge $ bench, but new judges had arisen in the land, new laws had been made, old crimes had been forgotten or forgiven, and there was none who would accuse him or execute sentence. Indeed the awful restriction that had bound his life so intimately to the expiation of his crime was now legally removed.
 But the spirit of self punishment con- tinued, and when Sutherland, after he had passed his hundredth year, was dis covered dead, alone ill his house, his throat was found to be encircled by the rope which had been placed there nearly three-quarters of century before.- Youths Companion.
The Press., 1898-10-06

oYou are doubtless aware that Miss Ianeson is my ward?'' he observed when he had appeased the Teuton sphirk.
 q learned it." replied. Permit me t3 congratulate you" "And you will also learn now," he retorted, shutting his pocketbook with a snap, .that I wish the acquaintance to end here"
 sOn what grounds?" said L of on no other than that of the pres ent-er-disgraceful scene. should be justified" " he answered, "but forbid it on-ahem-highsr grounds Then he began to talk, "as one man of tbe world to another" about Arbus- cula and her sisters. He was illogical, but convincing.
 "What is the amount of the bill?' I asked shortly.
 He handed me the receipted slip of paper. I put it in my pocket. He smiled sardonically, and gathering up his black bag went out to Miss Langton. while the waiter hailed cab by whis- tliug through his fingers in 8 most tall ented way.
 Beyond the glass door I could see TurnbulI talking to Miss Langton as she rearranged her veil. Some girls at an adjacent table put their heads to- Rether, whispering and tittering. The chariot pulled up at the sidewalk with a flourish, and Turnbull touched Miss Langton's s arm. She made 8 step for ward, but looked round and paused ir- resolutely. instantly went to her, and taking the little warm hand she gave me p5 led it to my lips. "I a{n so sorry you were inconveni- enced, r she said. ''If had only known and she actually laughed!
 ''I shall easily get over the recollec- tion of the inconvenience in the recol- lection of the pleasure have had," replied
 She blushed.
 "But why did you not tell me?" she murmured.
 "It would have been commonplace, '' replied. II preferred to be 8 paladin, though a comic one." "I don't think it comic at all, |" she replied, trying hard not to smile. "What stupid peopler'
 "Miss Langton. as this gentleman is rather richer in time than I, perhaps he | marked MT. Turnbull. "Here is the cab. Get in, please"
 She threw me bright look and wen, with him. Recollecting that I was with out my hat, returned for it and found on the ground hard by little black sill glove. I picked it up, intending to re turn it, but when I reached the street the cab was already several yards away Then the lawyers talk came back to me with diabolical distinctness, and sait to myself that. after all, he was right I went straight to my bankers, sen him the amount of the bill, answered { perfumed, badly spelled note had re ceived that morning, locked the glove with the photo away in a drawer anC took the next train for Paris. William Buckley ir Black and White
The Press., 1898-10-06
OLD MESA LIFE.

The Pueblo Woman Was Always the Head of the Household.
 When the men went down to the fields, the pueblo was really in control of its rightful owners, the women. In these old communities the woman was the important partner in the household. She was the owner of the house and all it contained. She built it and furnished it with its utensils of daily use. The children traced descent through the mother and took her clan name. The mans position, other than mere pro- wider, was that of an honored guest, and if he presumed disagreeably on his position more likely than not he was sent back to his own home. Far from being the general slave and pack animal that is her sister of the plains tribes, the Pueblo woman's duties were purely domestic, and if she ever worked in the | field it was for the common good, to save the scanty harvest in time of need.
 The grinding of the many colorcd corn for bread, the weaving and the making of pottery were her principal occupations, and are to this day. The Pueblo Indians are par excellence the potters of the southwest, and it will be confessed that they come fairly by the title, as an examination of some of the old time ware will prove, although in this case, as in some others, the evolu- tion has not been for the better.
 In the small house cell or in the white sunlight the potter sat, and, with scarcely any tools at all, fashioned such specimens of the potter's art as to chal- lenge admiration from us with all our appliances. The use of the potter's wheel was unknown, and the throwing" of a shape by this means out of the Ques- tion; but with hollow bit of basket ware or a piece of broken pot for a sup port all the forms from simple food bowl up to the largest and most elabo- rate water jars were built up by coil on coil of clay, smoothed or modelled in pattern as the vessel grew, and when one examines some of the ancient pieces, notably those excavated by Dr. Fewkes of the Smithsonian institution, one can but marvel
 Then came the decorating, and in ev- cry case, from the simplest to the most elaborate and intricate symbolic design, one must confess that the Indian uses the truest inceptive and fundamental art principles. There never Is any waste of energy in "effect' '' The design al. ways means a concrete thing, which apl calls to the understanding of the h. dians for whose use the utensils are. Through these same pottery forms and their decoration runs one of the stron- gest chains binding the old to the new. Near me are two tinajas, or water jars. One is many generations, perhaps cen. turies, old, the other perhaps five years, and yet in shape and general decoration they are much alike, and if the newer one was properly toned" they would pass as of the same period Lungren in Century
The Press., 1898-10-06
A RI usical Sentry.

The author of With Plumer In Matebeleland' tells of some humorous sentry incidents.
 A trooper had gone down to a water hole after the sentries were posted. On returning he was challenged. but. not knowing the countersign. the sentry re- fused to let him pass
 Hang it all, you know me well enough! Whats the use of playing the fool at this time of night?" pleaded tho soldier
 Cant be helped. You know the or deIs, and unless you give the counter sign1tbere you are, and there you will remain I" retorted the sentry. And he did remain there until the visiting off, cer admitted him in the small hours of the morning.
 On another occasion the countersign was "Nordenfeldt, the name of a cer- tain kind of gun. A soldier. on ap- preaching the picket, had a hay recol- lection that some sort of Q gun had been mentioned as the countersign and in an swer to the challenge gave Maxim"
 That's not it, replied the sentry.
 "Oh, we'll, the other kind of gun !' hazarded the man.
 "Well, that's near enough. Pass in. |" said the sentry.
 An orderly officer, on going his rounds. was astonished to find the sen- tIy singing at him in this fashion:
 "Hi tiddle de hi ii! Who goes therei"
 "What do you mean. sir. by ohal- lenging in that fashion," asked the off cer.
 "The last time was on duty. sir. l was told to challenge in more musical voice, and that's the only tune know. sir, ' replied the sentry.
The Press., 1898-10-06
value of n Coustitusion.

It happened in the spring of 1860, when Garibaldi was pursuing his expe. dition in Sicily and when the words "Constitution and Lberty' were on ev- cry Neapolitan's lips. "Why are you so anxious for constitution?' asked for eign tourist of his guide and donkey driver, while they were travelling through the mountains of Sorrento. "Well, you see, your excellency." was the answer. because think we shall be all the better for it. It is now close upon 20 years that am letting out my asses to visitors from all countries English, French, Americans; all of these have constitution, and they are all rich. ''-Argonaut.
The Press., 1898-10-06
An Unexplained Point.

Peter Lombard points 8 moral in the English Church Times with this story
 Mrs. Proudie, the excellent wife oi the bishop of Copeminster, down in the midlands, does admirable work by go- ing among the poor people and talking to, them out of her own experiences and giving them wholesome advice. She did so the other day at Mudbury, near Cope minister. Next day the rector's daughter at Mudbury said to one of the audience of the previous evening, Well, Mrs. Toddle, what did you think of Mrs. Prordie's address?' Oh, it was very good; but, you see. she only went half way, Whatever do you mean, MrG. Toddle?' said the young woman. Well. miss she didn't tell us what she does when MT. Proudie comes home drunk. We should like little advice on that 'ere point, !"
The Press., 1898-10-06
THE ROSES OF SEATTLE.

o roses of Seattle,
 That bloom in June and May, You are perfect as the poets dream, Fair as the golden day; You scatter waves of fragrance On the sleeping air of night; Your rainbow painted petals Are the glory of the lighti Fair Is Nile g storied lotus
 And the rose of Gulistan, And pleasant is the poppy seed . That lulls the soul of man, Rare are the lights and shadows In the pansy's purple eyes, But the roses of Seattle Are the flowers of paradise. O roses of Seattle, That bloom in May and June, Deep hearts of gold and crimson That light the summer noon, The cottage of the lowly You paint with Gods own plan; In the mansion of the lordly
 You shame the art of mani hold them fast in memory
 Wherever may roam, These blossoms from the garden Of gods, dropped down from home The cruel years take from us
 What years cannot restore, But the roses of Seattle
 They bloom forevermore! Eliza Archard Conner in Seattle PostIntel Ereucer
The Press., 1898-10-06
THE BEAUTY.

Haill Now she speaks. The roses ope their ruddy hearts to hsA The breezes cease to coax the lily bells To sound their voiceless chime. The nightingale is mute. And when she smiles Iris like the break of day Der Persian valleys faint with odors swess Or like entrnncing melody Conjured by master hand from strings Aglow with heavenly fire. And when she laughs An, then, the rippling music of her mirth Awakens sleeping joy, deep toned and full Of love as bells enriched with gold On Moacow's towers swungl
 Ernest Harold in Yellow Book.
The Press., 1898-10-06

ROBBED THE GRAvK.-A startling incl dent, of which MT. John Oliver of Phila- delphia. was the subject, is narrated by him as follows: was in a most dread ful condition. My skin was almost yell low. eyes sunken, tongue coated, pain continually in back and sides, no appe- tite-gradually growing weaker day by day. Three physicians had given me up. Fortunately, friend advised trying Flee trio Bitters;' and, to my great joy and surprise, the first bottle made a decided improvement. continued their use for three weeks, and am now a we'll man. I know they saved my life. and robbed the grave of another victim" No one should fall to try them. Only 90 cents per bottle at E. K. Taft's Drug Store. 6
The Press., 1898-10-06
 One Consolation.

There Is one consolation in being on the shady sido of life. When a man gets to be 50 years or so and he says Of young woman, "Confound 1t, if I wasn't married already I'd marry the girl myself, he actually believes she would have him. This is as good as get ting her, better perhaps Boston Tran. scriDt
The Press., 1898-10-06
His Beginning.

The wild young man decides to settle down and become serious To begin his reform he has counted up his debts and found the total l45, OF francs 35 cen times.
 "What are you going to do about it?' asked his friend.
 Pay the IF francs and 35 centimes at once and make arrangements for the rest. "-Gauloiss
The Press., 1898-10-06
Smoke as They Wash.

Cigarette smoking is common prac- tice among the colored Washerwomen of New Orleans They dean over the tub and make quaint picture as the smoke rolls from their lips.-Nebraska State Journal
The Press., 1898-10-06

Carries His Hatchet In His Boot Leg. In some places men carry bowie knives and guns in their boot legs. One may meet in Fulton fish market in this city 8 man carrying a hatchet in his boot leg, but the hatchet is for peaceful purposes. It is an implement much used in the market h-r opening and for nail, ing up boxes and barrels in which fish are packed, and the boot leg seems to be the handiest place to carry it.--New York Sun
The Press., 1898-10-06

A writer Tn a German periodical states that birds have been seen at a height of l5.O0O yards. Their distance was estimated by the time it took them to cross the moon E disk
The Press., 1898-10-06
Ready for
 Duty.

7Hi5 ts episode ef soldier's hie. One ef 6s first 10 Uol0afcerj he /otgt /al4iILLy aud sOeA, but retvncd q bAysfcn aoreck. 71day he Aauds AEe sbe- E1fe u0hEch wade Asm hale aud Acarty.
The Press., 1898-10-06
Snow Trade I'm Sicily.

The principal export from Catania is snow, ill which most lucrative trade is carried on ill Malta and parts of southern Italy. It is collected during the winter i'll hOllows i'll the mountains and covered with ashes to prevent its thawing. It is brought down in pan niers on mules to the coast at night. The revenue derived from this source is immense and renders the Prince of Pa terno one of the richest men ill Sicily. Snow is the universal luxury from the highest to the lowest rank and is sold at the rate of f cents for 30 ounces The poorest cobbler there would rather deprive himself of his dinner than of his glass of "aqua gCl..;a.
 It is extensively used in hospitals and scarcity of it would be considered all most as great a misfortune as a famine and would occasion popular tumult. To guard against such accidents the government at Naples has made the providing of it monopoly, the con- tractors being required to give security to the amount of so, 900 ducats, which sum is forfeited if it can be proved that for one hour the supply has not been equal to the demand.
The Press., 1898-10-06

It's the New Broom That Sweeps Clean.
 The one thing in which we don't value experience is a broom.-Boston Transcript.
The Press., 1898-10-06
A Rhodes AnecdOte.

Here is a new anecdote about Cecil Rhodes: In 1884 he was severely at tackled in the press, and notably by one journalist to whom he had given very considerable assistance.
 "I do call that man a hound," said one of MT. Rhodes friends. "after all you have done for him. ''
 MT. Rhodes flushed up. and with one of his sudden though rare explosions burst Ct with. "hUGud yourself! Do you thilk wXnleG to tribe the man?'