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eat and freeze where he has no care for
shelter. The capabilities Of our. arctic
camels have never been 50 tried and found
not wanting as in Alaska In the winter
Of 1867, when congress had voted $780,
0e0 for sending food to starving Klon-
dikers and 400 whales frozen in still fur
ther north, Is proved that. no other crea-
ture but the reindeer could either find food
on the routes Of rescue or draw enough Of
1t for its own subsistence. Reindeer
gathered from the different stations then
afforded the only reasonable plan of re-
lief, and showed beyond doubt that they
are invaluable as freighters, mail carriers
and aids to miners prospecting where no
other means Of transportation can carry
them.
Early IN 1897 three men with seventeen
reindeer finished a trip Of 1000 miles, the
longest known to have been ever made
with the same teams. Their route was
through unknown regions, partly to dis
cover new GASES Of moss pasture and
partly to learn what could be done away
from trains and timber. In twelve hours
of one day they made eighty-flve miles.
The cold was sometimes n degrees below
zero. but the colder it was the more the
reindeer throve, andat night found their
own food. In spite of a poorga-which Is
blizzard raised to the highest power
all would have gone we'll to the end. But
when nearing their goal no moss could
be discovered where it had been declared
to abound. After all, in forced march
of four days, four only Of the seventeen
in the foodless teams persisted.
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SECRETS OF TIE WORLD

the washington dnnDdss1Cor repUrJs To
Berlin in figures approaching the millions.
that means that his multiplication season
is on. At other times his cable tolls will
be light, namely, when he subtracts a
quarter or five-edghths or sixteen-seven.
teenths from his figures.
The Emperor Francis Joseph uses curl.
Gus design for his secret correspondence
He applies to his letter sheets stencil
of his coat Of arms, the two-headed
eagle which is perforated in all sorts of
places, so as to leave room for writing
down certain words. Some fifty forms
are in use, duplicates Of which are in
the hands of the emperors relatives and
in those of the premiers of Austria and
Hungary and Of the governor general OF
Bohemia.
In times of war stencils are also given
Saxony also has one as his majestys
most trusted friend and personal repre-
sentative in the. German empire The ia
nous message OF Jan. 20, 1889, addressed
to the pope: "Holy Father, pray decide
whether my poor son is to have Chris
tan burial or not, exactly like any other
man. I wish for no favor. AS for my
self, l am determined to abdicate," was
written through holes in the Austrian bird
cut out Of a thin sheet of silver.
When the emperor has written the words
through the holes In his stencil the per-
forated bird is removed and the spaces
between the words filled In with other
words, so that no one can read what is
written unless he claps a Stencil exactly
| like the emperor's on the sheet of paper.
Then he sees only the words making up
the sentences as the emperor designed
them The late Empress Elizabeth cor
| responded with her literary adviser, DR..
Christomanos, in cryptograph, which she
| made by using a stencil made out of
silver swan.
In the writing of most cipher dispatches,
| dummies or words not intended to be
part of the official message, are intro
| duced with the design of confusing the
rerson who tries without authority to
translate the message. "a.
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Lafayette souvenir Coins.

Souvenir dollars are to be coined In aid Of
the Lafayette monument which IL to be erect.
ed in Paris next year. and 1t is proposed TO
distribute them pro rata among the states and
territories. There will be 50.O 600 Of them and
under the allotment New York will be al-
lowed 4,566 Of the coins, while Nevada VIII
have 80. This IL at the rate Of one coin for
every 1900 population, and 666 for every mill
lion. The design for the monument 70 being
worked out in New York by several sculptors
under the direction Of an advisory board, COM
ssisting Of George b. Post president Of the
American Institute OF architects, who built
the Manufacturers' building at the worlds
fair; J.. q. A. Ward, president Of the Nations
q Society Of scu1ptors, and John Lafarcs.
president OF the American Society OF artists.
President Mckinley. who IL president Of the
Lafayette Monument association, and the
board OF managers of selecting the design and
and experimenting the work to this come
mittee because the gentlemen who compose
It are believed to be the most competent critics
that can be found in the United States. The
only condition is that the statue, the pedestal
and EVERYTHING else shall be made Of American
material by American artists, and be cons
spleted III time 70 be erected and unveiled on
the Fourth ct Julys 1900 S rs
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So convinced was the importer rnat the sau-
sages in question were in a sound and mer-
charitable condition that he called upon the
consul in the hope that he might do some
thing in his favor since the sausages were
bona fde American meat products.
Mr.. Sprague says: II called at the Office Of
the sanitary commissioner, and as the sau-
sages, after examination, seemed to me to be
in sound condition, I pointed out the Inn
,portance OF q careful and impartial inspection
before any other decided steps be taken in the
matter. Soon after my departure a f6mal
survey took place in which duty a justice Of
the peace. an old established English merchant,
took part, and the result ended In favor OF the
importer, who was at once relieved from any
further trouble and responsibility in the mat
ter
This is the first time that American smoked
sausages have been introduced into this mars
ket for sale. and their appearance caused SONS
+ curiosity among the usual dealers in 1talSin
I, sausage, owing to their cheapnsss. They sell
d at not more than thres-fourths the price Of the
italian article The italian sausage is not
smoked, and Ii therefore more palatabls, al
though there is greater danger Of its deteri-
Grating In this climate.
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Ex-President Benjamin Harrison will
sail for Paris on May IL to take part in
the most momentous lawsuit of recent
years. It will be held before an interna-
tional tribunal of arbitration. The parties
at law are the government of Great Bril-
tain and the government of Venezuela,
backed by the government of the United
States. 1t will settle the question that
four years ago nearly precipitated an
AnglO-American war. Ex-President Har-
rison, who is chief counsel for Venezuela,
after fifteen months devoted to thorough
investigation of all of the matters in
volved, win contend for the Venezuelan
government that the proper boundary
should be in the neighborhood of the 59th
deg of longitude west of Greenwich,
whereas Great Britain has asserted her
rights westward beyond the 63rd deg Of
longitude, taking number Of exceed
ingly Variable gold mines in which British
capital is now interested. ..-5
The. cause of this notable lawsuit was
Great Britain's persistent refusal to sub
nit to arbitration the boundary line dis
rute between British Guiana and Venezu-
ella. The United States took no stand as
to what was the true boundary line be-
tween the countries, 1t Is recalled by the
New York Sun, but only insisted that
Great Cc.tain should sa=ls=ait TO the arbi-
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tration so frequently urged by Venezuela,
In order that the true line might be de-
ternined. On Great Britains refusal the
memorable message of President Cleve-
land was issued and this country de-
termined to find out for itself by thorough
Investigation the true line. A commission,
consisting Of David J. Brewer, of the
! supreme court Of the United States, r. H.
Alvey, F. r. Coudert, Daniel G. Gilman
and Andrew D. White, was appointed by
the United States to determine the bound
airy. The commission collected a great
ass Of Information, but it I. was not
necessary for 1t to complete its work.
Great Britain finally consented to arbi-
tration and agreed to plan after a
long correspondence between Lord Sails
bury and Richard Olney, secretary OF
state Of the United States. After that
the United States had no further official
interest in the question. A treaty was
Britain agreeing to take as final the de-
cision Of tribunal Of arbitration as to
the boundary.
It is pointed out by Gen. Harrison and
his associate counsel that this tribunal
is more like the great courts OF justice
than any other that has sat in an interna-
ttona1 dispute. Tribunals in such cases,
they say, have been too much the confer
ences of the representatives Of the disput-
ing nations rather than the consultations
Of judges ITO whom the parties are quite
indifferent. Venezuela has no direct rep
resentative upon this tribunal. It Is made
UP Of Lord Russell Of Killowen, lord chief
justice of England (succceeding Lord
Herschell, recently deceased, and Of JUS
tice Collins on the part of Great Britain;
Chief Justice Fuller and Justice Brewer
Of the United States supreme court, on
the part Of Venezuela, and Prof. Martens,
Of the University of st. Petersburg, se-
lected by these four. 1t had been provfd-
ed that should the four first named menu
Sbers be unable to choose fifth within
four months, King Oscar Of Norway and
Sweden was to select the fifth, but the
use Of this provision did not become nee
essary.
Though the treaty Of arbitration was
finally ratified in June, 1907, 1t was not
until January. 1893, that definite Treasures
were taken toward having the case OF
Venezuela properly presented before the
tribunal. Then Gen. Harrison vas called
TO New York and engaged 0s chief coun-
sci for Venezuela. There was an immense
task before him. The documentary ev.-
dence extends over four centu:ies- Gen.
Harrison at the time knew little mtr Ct
the case than sanny other reads rs q
Newspapers and periodicals. Though Ven
ezuela had for a number of years appealed
to the United States for assistance In
her dispute with Great Britain, and
though Secretary Blaine, like other sec.
rataries Of state. had had some GORE
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MINNEAPOLIS MINI. SATURDAY. 0 1899

MT nas1S.uu DC urrvr, ,cr:lSranIIy
apcstrophized him in this way: zone crown
the crowns in the world. am working out
the scheme that will insure your empire
And her lean hand flew over the paper, jot-
ting down regiments and armies Of figures after
the draft of a cipher upon which the imperial
governments Of Austria France and Mexico
had agreed some thirty-flve years ago. Its
Of the alphabet one even and one uneven num-
her is chosen, while in the writing both num-
Sers are used, their respective identity being
disclosed by a third set Of figures known only
to the correspondents by q certain system of
subtraction and multiplication. -sz:.za
1t Is said that the true purport of the
correspondence carried on between the
Queen Regent Of Spain and her various
royal relatives during the late war with
America was disguised by an agreement
between all concerned to make certain:
commonplace phrases represent complete
ideas by signs, strokes or ink spots, look
ing like slips of the pen. Thus a sovereign
might have s hown Christmas letters
even to his minister without giving away
the regents secret intentions.
Empress Auguste Victoria is very fond
Of sending her. husband political news
and, gossip when he Is absent on his
junketings, and to make it perfectly safe
has adopted cipher wherein the first
seven letters Of the alphabet are repre-
scented by the second seven the next
three by the last three, etc. Names
are always spelled backwards, SUBSTITUTE
ing in each case the letter previous to
that intended.
The Empress Frederick used to make
her messages to her late husband uGlin-
telligible to others by altering the
places of letters without changing their
power and by transposing letters In ir.
regular advance after a certain system
The Russian secret service which con-
trolls the wise of passports, often makes
it exceedingly warm for travellers in
Russia and foreign countries by orna-
menting their writing with certain flour
ishes' whereby the political police is ad.
vised that the bearer is an unsafe"
person, or that he is capable of commit
ting this, that or the other criminal act
and needs watching. Sometimes numbers
Of letters, seemingly indicating registry.
are used for these denunciations.
Here is a trick letter which Prince Ho-
henaoQne jokingly proposed to Issue to the
German representatives abroad, when the
Kaiser insisted upon having a certain
friend of his introduced formally at the
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AFTER THE huR1AL.

Yes, faith. is goodly anchor:
When skies are sweet 81 psalm,
At the bows 1t Tolls so stalWart,
In bluff. hroad-shouldered calm.
And when over breakers to leeward
The tattered surges are hurled,
1t may keep our head tai the tempest,
With its grin on the base OF the world.
But. after the shipwrecks tell me
What help in its iron thews,
Still true to the broken hawser.
Deep down among sea-Weed and ooze?
In the breaking g1Ifs of borrow,
When helpless feet stretch out
And find in the deeps Of darkness
No footing SO solid as Doubt.
Then better one spar of Memory,
One broken plank of the Past,
That our. human heart may cling to,
Though hopeless of shore at last!
. To the spirit its splendid scontectures.
= TO the flesh its sweet despair,
Its tears o. er the thin- WORN locket
With its beauty Of deathlsss hair!
Immortal? feel it and know it,
Who doubts it of such as she?
But that is the pang' S very sEecret-
Immortal away from ne.
There's a narrow ridge IN tie graveyard
Would scarce stay child in his race,
But to me and my thought II is wider
Than the star-sown vague of Space.
Your logic, my friend is perfect,
* Your morals most dreartly true;
But, since the earth clashedsnn her coffin
keep hearing that and not you.
Console if you will, caash bear it;
IT'S well-rneant aims of BREATH
But not all the preaching since Adam
Has made Death other than Death.
It is pagan: but wait tilI you feel tt
That lar of our earth. that dull shock
When tie ploughshare &c sener passion
Tears down to our primitive rock.
Communion in spirit! Forgive me,
But I, who am earthly and weak,
Would give all my incomes from dreamland
For touch of her hand on my cheek!
That little shoe in the corner,
II So worn and wrinked and brown,
< With its emptiness confutes YOU,
And argues your wisdom down.
-Iamas Russell Lowell
. Christianity Is the highest perfection
Of manufacturers.
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REINDEER IN aALASKA.
The Story Of Their Intr0duction, an
80 ,lEss Its RQnAf1fa

The Story of Their Introduction, and.
It's Benefits. #
Chicago Times Herald: Not decade
ago the present writer with his fellow
Svoyagers toward the midnight sun landed
and interviewed a score Of Lapps in the
midst OF. their reindeer They appeared
to us all the lowest among all types Of
humanity. Yet we have already found
among those Lapps helpers in our utmost
need, whom we could find nowhere else.
Let not the head say to the feet, I have
no need Of you
domestic growth. and unexpected useful
ness, where shall we find the best In
formation on this topic? It lies hidden
where nobody would loolp4 forsdt, ssin. the
United States commissioner OF education's
report, just issued from; the government
printing office (vol. H., PIP 1,e0147).
Siberian reindeer were first imported by
movement. The Alaskans were ready to
starve, for their sole food-whales, wal
ruses and native game-had been mostly
killed or frightened away by white hunt
ers. The progress from this initiative has
been great In July. 1887, the Alaskan
herds amounted to ], 466, at four stations
nc nth and south Of Prince of Wales-the
most western cape on the American main
land. This number has since greatly in
creased, not only by native births, but
by an agency established In Siberia for
securing animals all through the year and
having them ready for transportation
within the brief summer In which naviga-
ticn is permitted by arctic ice. Siberian
owners often refused to sell their reindeer
unless they were themselves taken along
to care for those member Of their fami-
lies" and they becane schoolmasters, as
1t. were to Alaskan herder appretfees.
It was soon, however, ascertained that
the Lapps were superior to all other ma
tionalities as regards the most improved
methods Of handling reindeer. An agent
dispatched to Lapland prevailed on seven
families of the most expert trainers to
teach their mystery in Alaska for three
years This service they performed with
gratifying success. Then three OF them
were persuaded to remain, becoming herd
owners, while four, in accordance with
the original terms, we're carried back to
their homes. The reindeer superintendent
Kjellmann- whose name bespeaks Nor.
sefnan, Is not a Lapp soon went abroad
with orders to import permanent colony
from Lapland for building up sort Of
normal school OF reindeer culture.
1t IS now demonstrated that Tor the de-
velopment of Alaska reindeer are an abso-
lutte necessity. Dogs. horses and mules
are as nothing IN comparison. They oil
starve where the reinde finds plenty q
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mar of Denmark engaged to embroil the
German empire with Russia by furnish
ing alleged proofs Of Bismarck's alleged
duplicity in the Bulgarian affair to the
late Gear Alexander, she employed
simple yet effective device. The emperor
being fond of playing croQuet with the
sprightly Orleans princess, her royal high
ness had constructed two croQuet NAL
let's exactly alike in length and thick
ness. One she gave to Alexander, the
other she kept for herself. When she
intended to send a secret message to
his majesty she wound a narrow slip OF
paper slantwise- upon the stick in such a
way that the edges met closely together.
On these edges She wrote her letter.
Thus, when unwound, the scroll exhibit;
ted nothing buf a series OF broken let
tiers, which became irtteNigible only when
it was wound up on the corresponding
mallet of the person addressed.
Princess Marie was playing bold game
adroitly enough, but because of her clev-
erness and her ardent love. of France she
overdid the thing. She thought Alexan-
der would himself decide whether the
proofs furnished sufficed for breaking
with Bismarck, but the car laid the per-
fumed ciphers with which the princess
had favored him before his ministers,
and the unfeeling gentlemen soon dis
covered discrepancies that could not be
explained away on. the score of mere
rejudices. So the conspiracy surrounded
with such medieval secrecy fell to the
ground, and her royal highness plays
croquet no longer.
Not long ago a convict at Sing Sing was
caught communicating with his fellow
prisoners by exactly the same device as
that employed by the Princess Wade
mar, only he wound his paper around a
bar Of his cell instead Of the handle Of q
croquet maHet.
The correspondence between the RUS
sian and the French foreign officers is
/ said to be carried on in q cipher Of brok-
I EN- numbers The letters OF the alphabet
Tin which the ''j'' doesn't figure are di-
vided into Ave groups, and each Is given
q number. In the correspondence this
number figures as the numerator OF the
fraction, while the denomination gives the
group to which 1t belongs. Naughts and
numbers above five are used for dummies.
A traveller who once visited the ex-
Empress Carlotta says
One OF the most pathetic sights ever wit
messed was to see poor Carlotta, once empress
of Mexico, as she sat bYooding over her .ciphers
in the tumbledown castle OF Bouchoute, near
Brussels. With Maximilian's portrait before
Iher she was inscribing long rows Of figures
| on stacks OF foolscap paper, which her att
PENDANTS had to receive. place into big chcial7
| looking envelopes and address to statesmen.
/ to parliament to sthe pope and numerous sover.
seigrs. That was what Carlotta used to call
ATTENDING to the duties of ruling Mexico.
henI gaW-h FIVE years ago, she tmagined
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Vest the Champion Grammarian

Senators Vest Quay and Penrose while
waiting on corner near the capitol for a
street car few days ago, became involved In
an amusing discussion, a Washington CORE
spondent says, as otthe gender of the pub
lie conveyance which was approaching them
from around the corner. '.Ah, there she
comes" exclaimed Senator Penrose. Senator
Quay quickly corrected him. You're wrong =
he said. seTlle proper way to put 1t is, There
It comes.',' WELL" laughed Senator Vest,
..ttat- just proves how mistaken two men can
be rnwtttingly. You are both wrong. You
ought to say, There he comes The car was
close on them by that time. Senator Vest
was right. It was mail car.
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GIBRALTAR CAPTURED.
The Feat Was Achieved by Ameri-
can SamSaR

New York Press. Gibraltar has been taken.
The American sausage has captured It, Here
tofore the 'Rock SCORPIONS have been eating
Italian sausages. Now the Yankee sausage
has taken the fortress and the town. There
was q struggle at first, but the Yankee sau-
sages won. ~. ...-
Consul sprague writes from Gibraltar that
there were recently imported from New York
about forty-one hundredweights of smoked
sausages. After selling the sausages to severa;
grocers in this market, and while a small
quantity was being offered at retail at the
auction mart by one of the buyers, the sani-
tary, inspectors, with the approval Of the med
ical officer, condemned the goods unmer-
charitable and Immediately after the others
who had caught the remainder of the lot
were required to forward to the sanitary board
samples of the sausages In their possession,
that they might be examined.
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BoARDER

various couz1s. Monochrome DOESN'T nKe
the person referred to and the Kaiser
didn't likeHohenlche's letter when fol6ed
in the middle and read in single column.
So it was never issued Here - the
letter: ssi -
Sir-Mr. -, an American, -
Is the man who will present to you
this letter. He is one of the most
meddling persons that have ever. known,
His majesty has long earnestly solicited ne
to give him a suitable character,
which have accordingly granted to
his importantly; for, believe me, sir,
should be sorry that you should be
misinforned Of his real character,
as some other gentlemen have been,
and these among the best Of my friends;
Il think it my duty to advise you
to have especial attention to all he Does .
nor. venture to cay anything before him
in any Sort for may truly say, there Is
none whom 1 should more regret TO see=ss i.
received and trusted at your embassy.
And / well know that as soon as you
shall become acquainted with him
you will thank me for this my advice.
courtesy obliges me to desist from
saying anything more on this subject.
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!. scribbler by profession,

a scribbler by profession,
as his passport to your protection,
discreet, the wisest and the least
or have had the pleasure to converse with.
to write to you in his favor aid
and introduction atyour court,
his real merit, rather ] must say, than to
MS rnodesty is only exceeded by his worth.
wanting in serving him on account OF being
i should be afflicted II you were
misled on that score. They now esteem Mm'
wherefore. and from no other motive,
that you are most particularly desired
to show him all the respect possible,
that may either offend or displease him
no man I love SO much as this American, -
neglected as no one can be more worthy to b
Base, therefore, would it be to injure him
are made sensible OF his virtues and
you will love him as do; and then
The assurance ] entertain Of your ~
urging this matter to you further, OF
Believe me. sir, r-.-s ~