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The daily morning Alaskan., 1900-11-06
THf NIMROD SYNDICATE
Looks Much Better InsLendon Than
 It Docs in Atlin.

Mr. Featherstonchaugh. who oper- ated the Nimrod Syndicate claims in Atlin last year and at the close of the season threw up the bond on them, Is likely to find himself in hot water with his company when he reaches London. Mr. A. H. Bromley, the eminent min ing engineer. gave very favorable re- port on the property He gives in this this the result of the ore crushed from several workings, running in vulues from B co to $12.57 per ton, or an aver age of sS per ton op PA tons of ore.
 The Colonial Go,dfields Gazette, one of the leading mining journals of Eng land. comments very favorably on this report. notes that the Syndicate stock is rising in the market and prophecies for it great success. 1t says
 In the autumn of last year Lord Err nest Hamilton, accompanied by MT. A H. Bromley, consulting engineer, visit ed Atlin and acquired some of the most promising claims. The Syndicate is actually the pioneer of the district, so far as quartz mining is concerned, ana the little battery erected on one of It's claims has the distinction of being sit uated further north than any battery in the world.
 'The Syndicate has actually some thing like square mile of ore bearing country. and has also secured options over the Imperial group of claims, some 3O3 acres in extent These claims are highly promising, strong and well-de- fined out-crop being traced throughout their entire length. Good values have been obtained and MT. Bromley is con- vinced that the lode is continuous"
 Yet Mr. Featherstonehaugh has thrown up the whole because '"Sailor Bill' Partridge took into court his claim to the ownership of three claims adjoining the ten which Bill states were all that were bond d to the company.
The Yale expositor., 1900-03-30

block of telephone stock, could be held
by its owner under this theory, unless
he used it with propriety. How SUI
perbly would President Eliot provide
for Harvard should he take possession
of all the property even of Cambridge
people who were using it injudiciously.
The result would be a final swallowing
up of nations, until only two English
speaking nations remained, with the
necessity of one swallowing the other.
When a truth is we'll stated it is
well to have the opposite side brought
out as forcibly as possible 1t is I'M
fortunate that we have a man, hon
ored in literature and naval service,
who will state an absolute falsehood
as though it were the truth. Capt.
Mahan, in a recent letter to the New
York Independent, lays down the gen.
eral principle that neither a state nor
people possesses any right to govern
itself, or to independence. saying: "As
to the Beers, the right they have de-
ponds upon the use they make of theil
power, and they have forfeited that
right"
Col. Higginson is one of the old-style
abolitionists of New England. His
career has been full of struggle. adven-
ture, activity in many lines, and sue
cess in a few. He has now reached the
grand old age of n, yet his mind is as
quick and responsive as it was when
he was adjutant on the staff OF Gen.
James II. Lane of Kansas, nearly 40
years ago. He was born in Cam
bridge, Mass, was graduated from
Harvard in 1S41, and from the divinity
school in 1S47, and at once took up the
pastorate of the First Congregational
church at Newburyport. In 1850 70
left the ministry and became the rree
soil candidate - congress. Failing
u election, he took the pulpit of the
Free church at Worcester, but few
years before the opening Of the civil
war he discarded the cloth a second
time to devote himself to the agitation
against slavery.
The beginning of the war saw him a
soldier in active service as a captain in
the Fifty-frst Massachusetts, infantry.
He was afterward colonel Thirty-frst
South Carolina volunteers-the first
regiment of freed slaves taken into the
service of the Union He took the town
Of Jacksonville but being wounded at
Wilton's Bluff, he resigned his COM
mand in 1864. For fourteen years he
made his home at Newport, but in 1878
removed to Cambridge. where he has
since resided. Col Higginson's fame
depends chiefly on his articles in peri
odical literature and his poems in his
first volume entitled "Thallato."
The Yale expositor., 1900-03-30

hullers thrashed out the seed which
was sown the next year Where the
seed was sown the ground remained
bare. Scarcely a sprig of clover came
up. The farmers were astonished and
scientists were called upon for a di-
agnosis of the case. They soon To-
Gated the trouble-there were no bees
or other insects which could carry the
pollen from one clover blossom to an
other This mixture must take place,
else the seed will be inert and abso-
lutely incapable of reproduction. Bees
were imported to the country and there
was never any more difficulty about
the growing of clover in Australia.
The bees in seeking honey from tn
clover blossoms get the pollen on
their legs and wings and thus carry =.
from one blossom to another. 1t does
mt take long for a few hundred bees
10 make the necessary mixture in a
big field of clover"
The Yale expositor., 1900-03-30
UNHAPPY BY AMBITION.
widows of Noted Men Who Are Now
Miserable.

The recent death of Madame Ba-
zaine, in hospital in Mexico, removes
the first of three famous and unhappy
women whose histories are closely in
tertwined and whose ambitious
schemes have helped to shape the des-
tiny of France. The other two are
Carlotta, the widow of the ill-starred
Emperor Macmillan of Mexico, and
Eugene, the widow of Napoleon Ill,
Emperor of the French. Nine. Ba-
zaine was a Mexican lady and the
friend of Empress Carlotta. When she
became the wife of Gen. Bazaine, the
marshal of France, Emperor Maximil-
ian gave her princely dover. She
encouraged her husbands ambitious
projects and remained loyal to him
through all his misfortunes. When he
was sentenced to be degraded and shot
for having capitulated to the Germans
at Metz without having exhausted all
his means of defense, his wife succeed
ed in getting his sentence commuted
to twenty years Imprisonment without
military degradation. Shortly after
wal VI oiC SucClSu Alo SsCapS iAOAh PAAS
on and was his comfort and stay until
his death in 1888. Nine. Bazaines
friend and patroness, the Empress Car
lotta, is still living in an insane asy-
lum in Brussels. She is the daughter
of King Leopold of Belgium. When
her husband, Macmillan, was compell-
ed to abandon all hope of succeeding
to the crown of Austria she encourag-
ed him to accept the offer of Napoleon
III. to make him Emperor of Mexico.
When Macmillan was hard pressed by
the republican troops in Mexico she
went to France and appealed for as
sistance to Napoleon and Eugene.
Her appeal was refused and she be-
came insane 1t is said that she does
not to this day know that her husband
was shot in Mexico thirty-three years
ago.
Eugene De Montijo the widow of
Emperor Napoleon H., has been no
less unhappy than her two friends,
Nine. Bazaine and the Empress Car
lotta. She lives a sad and lonely wo-
man in Chiselhurst, England. The
overthrow of the French empire and
the expatriation and death of her hus-
band crushed her ambitious spirit, and
her bereavement was completed in
1879, when her only son was killed
while fighting against the Zulus in
South Africa
The Yale expositor., 1900-03-30
RECALLS OLD CRIME.
DEATH IN NEW YORK OF A
HEARTLESS BETRAYER.
He Came to the Escaped Murderer q
Wanderer and Was Cared For -
Finally Concluded to Try for the
Hangman's Reward.

There died in a New York liquor
house the other day man who had
drunk himself to death. His very body
had begun to decay as a result of con-
tinual saturation with narcotics. He
was known about the saloons as Jim,
the Bum" but his real name was
James Lesprance. His remains were
carried away to the potter's field, while
his soul fitted to the Judgment, there
to stand trial for a crime for which
the laws of human government pre-
scribe no punishment. Fifteen years
ago Lesprance betrayed into the hands
Of the law one Luke Phipps, who on
the night of August 49, 1888, shot his
young wife on a Detroit river ferry
boat. Mrs. Phipps was in company
with man, a stranger to the murder
er. No effort was made to shoot her
companion. The shooting was done
on the Canadian side and Phipps was
at once arrested and held in the Sand
witch, Ont, Jail, for murder in the first
degree. While awaiting trial he es-
capped with some other prisoners but
was recaptured in Pullman, III.
At the time of Phipps' capture it was
given out that while under the infiu-
ence of liquor he told Of the murder,
and revealed his identity; that William
McEwen, son of the then sheriff OF
Essex county, who was employed in
the Pullman offices, heard Of Phipps'
unsolicited confession, and wired his
father, who sent on deputies.
In recent conversation with
Detective Andy Rohan of Chi
cago, who arrested Phipps, that
officer revealed to Detroit
detective a story of baseness and
ingratitude on the part of the inform
er against Phipps, that places the first
version at naught. 1t seems that the
wife-slayer broke Jail on November 20,
of the year Of his arrest, with anoth-
err murderer named Greenwood and q
thief named Seers. They sawed
through the bars of their window and
lost little time in getting out of the
queens dominions. Phipps wandered
to the Illinois town, where, in fancied
security, he started poolroom. One
The Yale expositor., 1900-03-30
ASSAILS CAPT. MAHAN
COL. HIGGINSON FLAWS THE
NOVEL WRITER.
lie Has Been "a Political Figure for
More. Than Half Century-Com-
manded n South Carolina Regiment
During the War.

Col. Thomas Wentworth Higginson,
in his address before the Twentieth
Century club, in Boston, recently, de-
livered bitter attack on Capt. Alfred
I. Mahan, the celebrated American
writer upon naval affairs. Col. Hig-
sinson's address was entitled, gree
DOM" and some of his remarks about
Capt. Mahan were of rather personal
character Among other things he
said that "a rawhide in the hands OF a
Boer farmer might teach him (Mahan)
a lesson in the right of self-govern-
ment."
In criticising Capt. Mahan's late
srticle in the Independent, Col. Higgin-
son said Capt. Mahan's idea is the
naval board of prize money theory. 1t
disposes of every mans right to his
own child. Not a farm in New Eng
land, not set of carpenter tools, not a
The Yale expositor., 1900-03-30
PROGRESS OF THE SOUTH.
Twenty Years Have shown Remark
able Growth I'm Dixie

Twenty Years Have shown Remark
able Growth in Dixie.
The industrial progress of the south
during the past twenty years has been
phenomenal In the past ten years the
production of wheat has increased 81
per cent in the south, and the number
Of hogs raised there during that period
has nearly doubled. Seventy-two vari-
cites of field crops are now grown
where Their formerly was nothing but
cotton, and sixty-five varieties of vege-
tables, fruits and melons are raised in
the south for markets in the north.
While five years ago the cotton mills
in the south consumed but720 900 bales
of cotton, their consumption amounts
to nearly 100000 bales in the $50
mills, with 4,952,092 spindles and 104,-
446 looms. The number of mills has
increased 206, and of spindles and
looms $40 per cent. The finest blankets
made in the country are now manu-
featured in North Carolina, where 104
wooden mills are in operation. The
1 finest grade of wool can be grown in
the south almost as cheaply as cotton.
Two decades ago the south produced
annually but 100000 tons of bitumin-
Gus coal; that product has now passed
the $1,000 900 mark, and of the $4,000
square miles of coal fields in the south
only about 1000 are under develop
ment. While two decades ago less
! than 100000 tons of iron were pro-
duced the production has now grown
to 2,500,00 tons of very superior ar
ticle And the iron industry OF the
south is as yet in its infancy. There
are enormous iron ore deposits in diff
ferent parts of that section of the
country which have thus far not been
! touched at ELL. This is but a short
summary of che progress made in the
south during the past twenty years,
but 1t suffices to indicate the possibili-
ties of that. part of the country and
what is in store for it in the future,
since it is no longer limited to cotton.
The Yale expositor., 1900-03-30
FIGHTING WINTER FIRES.
Eiremen Show All the HerOism vi
Brave Soldiers.

What Col. Roosevelt said OF his
Rough Riders after the fight in the
trenches before Santiago, that it is
the test of mems nerve to have them
reused up at o'clock in the morning,
hungry and cold, to fight an enemy at
lacking in the dark, and then have
them all run the same way-forward-
is true of the firemen, as well, and, like
the Rough Riders, they never fail when
the test comes. The firemen going to
the front at the tap of the bell, no less
sure to grapple with lurking death
than the men who faced Mauser bull
lets, but with none of the incidents of
glorious war, the flag, the hurrah, and
all the things that fire a soldiers heart,
to urge them on-clinging half naked
with numb fingers to the ladders as
best they can, while trying to put on
their stiff and frozen garments-is one
Of the sights that make one proud OF
being a man. To see them in action,
dripping icicles from helmet and coat,
high up on the ladder, perhaps, incased
in solid ice and frozeP to the rungs,
JNh hOldlh6 lhC OllGdlu do oltduy W
it's work as if the spray from the nozzle
did not fall upon them in showers of
singing hail, is likely to make a man
devoutly thankful that it is not his lot
to fight fires in winter. 1t is only two
winters since, at the burning of
South street warehouse, that two Pipe
men had to be chopped from their lad
der with axes, so thick was the armor
of ice that had formed about and upon
them while they worked. The terrible
beauty of such a sight is very vivif IN
my memory. 1t was on the mornine
when Chief Bresnan and Foreman
Rooney went down, with half dozen
of their men, in the collapse of the
roof of burning factory. The men Of
The rank and file hewed their way
through to the open with their axes.
Ihe chief and the foreman were caught
lnder the big water tank, the wooden
supports of which had been burned
AWAY, and were killed. They were still
lying under the wreck when / came.
The fire was out. The water running
over the edge of the tank had frozen
into huge icicles that hung like great
white shroud over the bier of the two
dead heroes. 1t was a gas-fXture fac
tory and the hundreds of pipes. twist
ed into all manner of fantastic shapes
of glittering ice, lent a weird effect to
the sorrowful scene. I can still see
Chief Gicquel, all smoke-begrimmed
ind with tears streaming down his big,
manly face-poor Gicquel! he went to
join his brothers in so many a hard
fight only the other Disappointing back
toward the wreck with the choking
words, "They are in there" They had
fought their last fight and won, as they
ever did even if they did give their
lives for the victory. Greater end. no
fireman could crave.-1he Century.
The Yale expositor., 1900-03-30
AUSTRALIANS HAD TO GET BEES
Why Their First Crop of Glover Was q
Failure.

Eyes, sir, some mighty queer things
occur in the horticultural world" said
the florist, who had just been telling
how chrysanthemums were bred very
much like animals and how it was pos
sible to put stripes on them or make
them almost any shade desired. "You
probably wouldn't think that the pres
ence or absence of bees would guaran-
tee the continued existence or the dis
appearance OF an agricultural staple
like clover, would you? OF course,yon
wouldn't, and if you tell that fact and
the circumstances of an actual case
to the average layman he will think
you are telling him a hand-raised, hy-
brid horticultural joke. IL isn't joke.
An experiment down in Australia
years ago proved that nothing was
farther removed from fiction. Origin
ally there was no clover in Australia
and not bee was to be found in the
whole country. The people found that
clover would be most desirable addi-
ton to their agricultural products.
Glover seed was brought and sowed.
The climate and soil were everything
that could be desired and a beautiful
crop of clover was the result. Glover
The Yale expositor., 1900-03-30
The American Duel.

Two German students having quar-
relied, decided the earth was not large
enough for both of them to live on and
resorted to the diabolical practice call
ed an American duel" In a darkened
room the two young men drew lots,
having sworn that he who drew the
black ball would commit suicide. The
unhappy loser went to his room and
discharged a bullet into his breast,
but missed his heart, and fingered for
several days on his deathbed; his par
ents were summoned by telegraph and
besought him on their knees to disclose
the name of his antagonist, but he
steadfastly refused, and died with the
secret in his breast. The students not
only excused his conduct, but praised
fiS e~-lrage, and when his remain
were ,axen to the AWAY station to pc
transported to a distant city, they ac-
companied the funeral cortege with
torches and music. The students claim
ed he was not a suicide, for he was
killed in an honorable duel and they
maintained that his opponent was not
accessory to his death, because he shot
himself.
The Yale expositor., 1900-03-30
is AN Oh INVENTION.
FISHHO0K is ALMOST CO.
EXISTENT WITH MAN.
Story of Its Revolution as 1t Journeys
Through the AGes-PrehlstorIc Relies
of the Idea.

Men have doubtless been fishers from
very remote times Hunger would
teach them to catch fish as we'll as to
hunt mammals, but while the evidences
of the latter are so abundant in the
shape of stone weapons the weapons
or implements used for catching fish,
being made of less durable material,
have disappeared. The exceptions to
this general statement are the few in
stances where fishhooks made entirely
of stone or of a. combination of stone
and wood or bone, have been preserved
with the other implements of similar
material, says Popular Science. Fish
hooks of silicious material have not
been found in America, but hooks COM
posed of flint or chalcedony and bone
have been found in Greenland. The
invention of rude implements to ia
cilitate the catching of fish would not
require the exercise of any great in
genuity or mechanical skill. From
watching the fish snap at or swallow
objects thrown in the water, the idea
OF trying some tempting bait on the
end of string and throwing it into
the water to be seized and swallowed
by the fish, which could then be pulled
out by means of the string, would be
very simple and from this to the earli-
est known attachment for making the
capture of the fish more certain that Of
attaching a silver of wood to the end
of the string or line in such q way that
! any attempt at escape on the part of
the fish would make its capture more
certain was very easy. Afterward
| pieces of bone or wood sharpened at
each end and sometimes grooved in the
middle to keep the string from slipping
were evolved. Implements of this char
acter are still used by the Eskimos for
catching seagulls and other water
fowl. A cord made of braided grass,
! fifteen or eighteen inches long is
| looped around the groove in the bone
and fastened to a trawl line, kept eX-
tended by anchored buoys the bone
being baited with small fish, into which
the implement is inserted lengthwise.
! The trawl lines are placed near the
breeding places Of the birds and would
be equally effective in the capture OF
certain kinds of fish. AS man gained
experience and advanced in knowledge
other forms of implements would be
evolved, better suited for the purpose,
but with the exception of better mate
rial being used in the manufacture the
fishhooks of the civilized nations of to-
day are but little in advance of those
used by savage races and prehistoric
peoples Prehistoric fshhooks of bronze
and others made from the tusks of the
wild boar are found in the Swiss lakes.
Another form of bronze fishhook, found
in the lake of Morat, is almost identi-
cal in form with those used today.
Chippel flint fishhooks are found in
Sweden. Among the aborigines of
Wisconsin native copper was used in
the manufacture of various weapons
and implements and fishhooks of beat
en- copper have been found in some of
the mounds of that region.
The Yale expositor., 1900-03-30
FLOCK OF BUZZARDS.
The scavrngers of Charleston. aud Work

The scavrngers of Charleston. aud Work
Evry Day Except sunday.
Washington correspondence Chicago
Record: One of the curious sights in
Charleston is a flock of buzzards,
which, six days in the week, hover
around the streets and alleys, and par
ticularly the market places of that
city. They are the public scavengers
and are protected by law. They clean
the streets of garbage and other filth,
and work from dawn to sunset in a
most energetic and faithful manner on
familiar terms with the population.
They have learned not to fear any one,
but swoop down wherever they like
and carry off all the decaying animal
and vegetable matter they find. When
the sun goes down they fly across the
bay and roost in the dark groves that
line the banks of the river. They
never work on Sunday. Charleston is
a very religious city. The observance
Of the Sabbath is more strict there per-
haps than in any other place of its
size in the country. The people, most
ly Presbyterians and Huguenots, re-
tain the old-fashioned ideas about the
fourth commandment. Even the vul-
lures respect this sentiment, and Re
member the Sabbath day to keep it
holy" When they disappear Saturday
night they are never seen again until
Monday morning, and this has been
their habit as long as the Oldest in
habitant can remember.
The Yale expositor., 1900-03-30
CAUSE OF THE GRIP.
A Queer Theory About London's Pres.
ent Influenza Epidemic.

ent Influenza Epidemic.
OF all the many theories about the
origin and spread of influenza the lat
est is surely the most weird, says Lon
don Truth. Some eighteen or twenty
years ago occurred the loudest noise
ever heard on the earth in historic
times. 1t was the effect of a violent
volcanic disturbance in the Pacific.
which converted the Dutch island OF
Krakatoa into fine dust floating in the
higher atmosphere, and it is said that
every Dutchman swelled with pride at
the thought that his country was re-
sponsible for so distinguished a phe-
nomenon. The fine sunsets produced
several years afterward by the absorb
ent properties of the dust were mat
tiers of common observation. But the
dust, if we are to believe the new in
fiuenza theory, has far more to answer
for. In common with other kindred
varieties, it affects the breathing sur
faces of sensitive people and initiates
the eyes, throat, mouth and bronchial
tubes in much the same way, we take
IL, DIS lle uuSL VI fdIlOuS NeSeIduie
compounds produces sneezing, asthma,
and other inconvenient effects. In that
case no wonder we find it difficult to
protect ourselves from the ravages of
the disease. Apparently we shall have
to depend on the efforts of the YES
tries to have the atmosphere properly
cleansed and disinfected. Failing that
perhaps some genius may be able to
invent an anti-influenza muzzle or
respirator. We will, no doubt, be ready
to make the wearing of it compulsory,
and we may yet see the unmuzled por-
ton of the public chevied about the
streets by muzzled constables.