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Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-02-08
THE STORY OF A PEARL.
Interesting History of One Exhibited
 in Cincinnati.

in Cincinnati.
 A pearl valued at $10,000 is on ex- hibition in 5ewelry store window in Vine street. Nor is the pearl with out history. Mir. Smith purchased it from Julius Pedrazelli. descend ant of the royal house of Italy. The pearl is over loo years old and It's story is an interesting one. A party of pearl divers were plying their trade in the waters of the East Indian seas. 1a sudden commotion among the work CTS told of the presence of their dead ly enemy. a man-eating shark. All but ore escaped, and his companions were horriaed as they watched the poor few struggling in the water, unable ts.it4..s.ef 1im assistance. By great ef- fot t1ey succeeded in rescuing the uiieT part of the body from the vo- racicus fish and bore the mangled re- mains to the house of the grief-strick- en parents. The day before the bur- I.ial this almost priceless pearl was found in the mouth of the dead man. The pearl was sold to koioko, na- tive chief and for many years remain ed in the royal family of the tribe. In 1880 Julius Pedrazolli, an Italian traveller, saw the pearl, and, attracted by it's perfect shape and beauty, he bought it from the tribe, together with the crude gold setting and ring made by the native jewellers. MT. Smith purchased it from Pedrazolli and claims that the pearl has no equal In the United States. The pearl weighs 46 grains, and in daylight it's beaut1- full hues are dazzling. g.-Cincinnat Commercial Tribune
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-02-08
Preaching and Practice.

The man who invented a perfect method for the culture of the memory forgot his hat. The man who wrote a book instructing mankind how to live a hundred years died at Ss. The wom- san who wrote book to prove that there is no death has buried two hus- hands.-Chrfstian Register.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-02-08
HAIR PLANTING.
Successful Experiments of Turkish Physician.


 A Turkish physician has been ex- perimentjng successfully on the trans planting of hairs one by one to bald parts of the scalp. His results seem to show that there is no impossibility in the complete renewal of a lost head of hair by this means. The physician, Dr. Menahem Hodara, according to a foreign paper. tried his experiments in the case of a disease that had re- moved part of his patients hair. His plan was to searify the bare surface and to implant thereon hairs removed from other parts of the patients head The hairs used for the purpose were trimmed with scissors at each end. Some four weeks after implantation certain number of the hairs were found to have taken root, and in no long time a goodly new crop was pro. dueed. Encouraged by these results. Dr. Hodara has since applied tho method in other cases of badness fol- lowing favus, and he thinks himself Justified in stating that "clinically there can be no doubt as to this very curious fact-that small bundles of hair stems cut with scissors and im- planted in the ineisions made with the searffier can take root and grow, form Ing in time long and visible hairs" By microscopic examination he has satisfied himself that after some weeks a real new bulb forms at the lower end O. the implanted hair. Dr. Hoda~ ra's results are interesting in them selves, ahd still more in the promise which they appear to offer of further results, undreamed of, or at any rate unmentioned, by the ingenious expert. menter. Why, asks the New York Herald, should not the same treatment be applied in cases of ordinary bald ness? Many bald men would gladly submit to have their scalps plowed and afterward sown with new hairs if there was reasonable hope of even a moderate harvest.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1900-02-08
 Goethe,s First Love.

It Is said that when Goethe was first in love he carved upon tree in the neighboring forest a couple of hearts united by scroll, and little later received a sound thrashing from the forester for thus damaging the bark.
The daily morning Alaskan. (Skagway, Alaska) 1899-1904, 1900-07-27
FarrallOn Arrives in the
Service of New Owners.
CAPT. O'BRIEN MASTER
Ship Brings North 100 Cattle For
Dawson BY Way of Dalton Trail
Much Live Stock, Machinery,
Merchandise and Railroad Iron.

The steamer Earallon steamed into port
Yesterday morning flying for the first time
the house flag of the Alaska Steamship
Company. In keeping with the STYLE of
the company, she also had a stack of red
with the disc of black on each side.
The ship has just been bought BY the
Alaska Steamship Company and is max
ing this, her first voyage under the new
ownership, in command of Capt John
O'Brien, who lately brought the new
Skagwav-S Seattle liner Dolphin from New
York to the Sound.
Forty passengers were brought to Skag-
wav.
The cargo of the FaraIlon included I22
cattle and few horses, which were put
off at Pyramid Harbor. They belong to
E. E. Beer who will drive them over the
Dalton trail to Dawson
Freight for this place comprised 40 tons
of rails for the railroad, $50 tons of mer>
chandise, 50 hogs for Bennett, 20 tons of
machinery for Dawson, 10 sheep 10 hogs
and a cattle for the Alaska Meat Company
of Skagway.
The ship called at Vancouver and took
on 100 cattle and some horses and forty
nine hogs.
The FaralIon is almost wholly in com
mand of new men. F. H. Baker. who has
been in the Seattle office of the Alaska
Steam. hip company, is pllrser, land J. S.
Thompson lately on the Queen with the
Pacific Coast Company, Is first officer.
Capt. O'Brien, it is understood, will
have command of the Dolphin. Capt.
Hunter will have the Farallon.
The Farallon will sail at 6 o'clock this
morning,
The daily morning Alaskan. (Skagway, Alaska) 1899-1904, 1900-07-27
Canada to Extend Telegraph
Line to FOrty-Mile.
APPROPRIATION is MADE
Americans to Cooperate In Con-
meeting at the Boundary and
Building on Railway Wire
to White Horse Open Sunday.

News was received in Vancouver a few
DAYS ago by J. b. Chareson, superin
tendent of the Dominion telegraph con-
struction, that the appropriation has been
made for the building of the telegraph line
that will connect Dawson with Forty
Mile. Skaaway is thus to be connected
with Forty Mile by telegraph. This prac-
tically means the connection of the Amer
leans Yukon territory with this port.
The new line will connect with the
Dawson Bennett Atin line at Dawson.
The extension of that system south, from
Atlin to Quesnelle and the outside world,
will be completed BY September l.
Fortv-Mile, Skagway and all parts of the
north will then be connected with the
outside. The Dominion line does not run
to Skagwav but the White Pass & Yukon
has wires from here to Bennett, thus maxi
ing practically direct connection for this
port with all points reached by the Domin-
ion system.
The appropriation for the Dawson
Forty.MiIe line is $4,000.
At the same time he received the notif-
cation of the appropriation having been
made Mr.. Charleson received the news
that Brigader General Greeley would
meet him in Dawson in August to confer
in regard to the construction OF the Amefi-
can line that Is to run to FortvMle down
the river to st. Michaels, thence by cable
to Nome. The American line, said Gen.
Greeley, will be completed sometime in
1901, and will be pushed as rapidly as
rapidly as possible.
Another advance in the telegraph facili-
ties of the north is Just being made by the
White Pass & Yukon r. r. The cons
pany has long had wire from SkagWav
to Bennett. Now that the railroad will be
one continuous road from SkagWav to
White Horse, beginning next Monday, the
company's wire from this point is to also
be extended to White Horse. The line
will be opened direct from Skagwav to
White Horse dav after tomorrow.
The railroad line to White Horse will
comprise two wires, one for commercial
business and the other for the exclusive
use of handling trains. The work of dis
patching will be done under the careful
eye of Al. Walack, as chief dispatcher,
with headquarters at Skagway.
The daily morning Alaskan. (Skagway, Alaska) 1899-1904, 1900-07-27
Trains to Run Direct From
Skagway to White Horse.
BENNETT A WAY STATION
Last Rail ON the Middle Division
W2l Perhaps Be Laid Sunday
No More Transfers Of Passengers
and Freight at Lake Points.

An epoch in transportation affairs of the
north will be marked next Monday, when
the first train will make the run all the
way from the great Pacific port of Skag-
wav to the busy new inland town of
White Horse. This announcement was
made Yesterday by General Traffic Man
ager S. N. Irwin, and later In the dav bv
Superintendent Rogers. The last few
miles of rails are now being laid In closing
the last link which skirts the shore of
Lake Bennett.
Beginning Monday all freight and pass
enger business Will be carried by train from
Skagway direct to White Horse without
change. And all business originating at
White Horse for this place will come
through without transfer, -..,.. q.
time card providing for the regular
operation of all passenger and freight
trains between Skagwav and White Horse
will be made out and put into effect by the
middle of next week.
The hour for the driving of the last
spike on the railroad has not been fully
decided upon, and perhaps cannot be just
now. However, it is expected to have
the connecting rail laid Sunday or Monday
night.
The opening of the Lake Bennett divis-
ion of the railroad to traffic means the ad-
dtion of twenty-seven miles of new main
track to the mileage of the road The total
mileage of the main track from Skagway
to White Horse will be III.
With the operation of through trains
between this point and White Horse. the
transfer of traffic at Bennett and at Carl
bou, to and from lake steamers, which has
been the custom since the opening of navl-
CATION this season will be done awav with
and time and trouble necessary to that
work will be thing of the past. The
steamer Australian and the steamer Clt>
ford Sifton haye been doing the transfer
business on the lake of late, but their old
vocation is practically gone. The Sifton
has already left the lakes and gone to the
lower river run. The future field of the
Australian is not fully decided upon. She
NAV be retained on the lakes. Aside from
the small mosquito fleet, the Cleaner and
the Australian are the only large steamers
fit for heavy passenger and freight business
combined that remain on the lakes, and
the Cleaner is engaged in the run to Atlin,
thereby leaving practically no steamer
paralleling the railroad as far as the road
parallels the water courses.
The daily morning Alaskan. (Skagway, Alaska) 1899-1904, 1900-07-27
Atlin Patient Recovering.

r.. Emmett, who arrived from Atlin
for medical treatment ten day ago, and
who has been at Bishop Rowe hospital
since that time is recovering,
The daily morning Alaskan. (Skagway, Alaska) 1899-1904, 1900-07-27
The Commission Finishes
Demarkating Line.
ALL TO GO SOUTH SOON
ChilkOot Pass the Last to Be De1im-
ited--Bridges ON the Old Trail
Going to Rack, and All the For
mer Busy Towns Deserted Now.

The work of delimting the famous pros
vislona boundary between Canada and
Alaska In the important Chlkoot, Chill
kat and White passes is finished. The
last work was done. on the Chilkoot pass,
and the boundary commissioners returned
from that pass to Skagwav last evening.
Thew are w. F. King, representing the
British, and o. n. Tittman for the Ameri-
cans, and his assistant o, B. French. The
party was attended in its work on the line
bv corps of assistants, including a cook.
"The work of demarkating the line on
! the Chilkoot pass" said M, Tttman, last
evening, twas not difficult because of the
sharp and pronounced summit.
I'VE found the trip an ENJOYABLE vaca.
tion and were entertained part of the time
by l.. d. Kinney, the promoter of the
Chilkoot railway enterprises.
1.-THE wagon road up the trail is still
passable but the bridges are going to rack.
They were strong enough to bear US but
they are In poor condition.
"There was some snow on the trail near
the summit.
"Dvea river Is alive with salmon. In
coming down the trail today we caught
several with a gaff without difficulty. We
also saw dog take fish from the water.
When they become 50 common that dog
can land one they certainly are not few,
However, the Indians seemed to be absent
from the country, perhaps fishing else
where.
"Dyea, Sheep Camp and other places
along the trail are, in phrase, now only
rows of abandoned, ghost like, blank and
staring vacant houses. Sheep Camp is
utterly abandoned. and Its line of empty
buildings strange sight,"
The commissioners expect to leave for
the south on the next Queen.
The daily morning Alaskan. (Skagway, Alaska) 1899-1904, 1900-07-27
CONCERT A SUCCESS.
Episcopal Entertainment Attracts
Large Gathering.

The concert given last evening in Fire
mems hall by the ladies Of the Episcopal
church was one of the biggest successes of
the season financially and Otherwise. The
hall was crowded with la 7ge and fashion
able audience, which was s,ell entertained.
The program was carried put as announc-
ed In the DAILY ALASKAN yesterday
morning. and IN addition thereto Miss
Allen sang. by request, "Bonnie Sweet
Bessie" The recitation BY DR.. Clifford
Gibbons was entitled. "The Story OF the
Shawnee, Chief" Others taking part
were Mrs. Ford and Miss Peterson; Messrs.
Wilson, jerks, Shorthil, Peterson and
Taylor and Keller's orchestra.
After the rendition of the program danes
Ing was the order for an hour or two. Re-
treshments were served,
The daily morning Alaskan. (Skagway, Alaska) 1899-1904, 1900-07-27
Florence s Submerged in
Fifteen Feet of Water.
HOUSES SWEPT AWAY
Wreckage Scattered Down the Yu-
kon 200 Miles--VesseI Is Said to
Have Been Loaded So As to List
Her and Make IA Siphon Work.

The hull of the unfortunate steamer
Florence S, which was wrecked several
days ago in ThIrtv-Mile river, lies covered
by fifteen feet of water. The house of
the vessel has been swept away and wreck
age from the craft is scattered down the
Yukon 200 miles below the scene of the
disaster. This report is brought out by
Ed Tonkin, manager of the FLYER Line,
who is in the city just from White Horse.
The report as to the wreekage being
scattered so far" says Mr.. Ionkn, lis
given me BY others. who have just come
up the river from Dawson.
81 understand the place where the hull
of the Florence is submerged is three
miles this side of Hootallnqua. If what |
understand about the case is true, should
never attempt to raise the hull. 1t is a
steel sectional hull.
THE water will fall eight feet where
the Florence lies.
at is said the captain OF the steamer
was at the wheel when she turned turtle.
Sid harrington, it is understood, was then
somewhere else on the boat.
THE wreck, understand, was occasion
ed by the steamer having been improperly
loaded. II is said the cargo was put in SO
that the boat would list, and thus permit
the siphon, which draws the seepage from
the hold, to work to better advantage. In
rounding bend. the story runs, the cur
rent struck the boat on the high side, and
thus increased the list. The list beroming
too great the boat went over. That is as
heard il y
The daily morning Alaskan. (Skagway, Alaska) 1899-1904, 1900-07-27
PUTTING IN PHONES.
Automatic System is Taking Well
More Phones Ordered.

The Arctic Telephone Company has
commenced the work of putting in phones.
Mr.. Meyer, the manager, said the company
was meeting with good success in getting
subscriber He will at once order more
switches and phones. From present indi-
cations the hundred phones on hand will
quickly taken, as the new automatic Sys-
TEN has only to be explained TO be appre-
ciated.
The automatic switchboard is now put
up in the Arctic Meat Co.'S shop. 1t gets
its circuit from the electric lighting plant,
so is only operative nights. Each eve
ming Mr.. Sirie and Mr. Never are detained
at the shop till late hour explaining the
working of this admirable system. The
phones already connected were kept rings
ing last night.
Today wire will be run down to Moore
wharf.
The daily morning Alaskan. (Skagway, Alaska) 1899-1904, 1900-07-27

While the demand for SaakeS beer con-
tnues to grow, Mr.. Sake says it does not
interfere with his determination not to put
anv beer on the market that is not prop
erly aged. He attributes the success OF his
brewery which is now finely established
as much to this feature as to any other.
He saws:
81 do not let anv beer go out of the
brewery that has not been aged by time.
Nv beer is now five months old, which Is
a greater age than manv of the old brew
cries in the states sell.
The daily morning Alaskan. (Skagway, Alaska) 1899-1904, 1900-07-27
Nearly All Gone.

Nearly all the immense stock of t c
Spencer Atkinson Company has been sold
out. The inducements offered have taken
the goods as 1t was expected they would.
Mr.. Spencer saws they have only small
quantity left and 1t must go. 1t will not
last long as the prices quoted cannot be
resisted.
The daily morning Alaskan. (Skagway, Alaska) 1899-1904, 1900-07-27

New porcelain tubs have arrived at the
Principal barber shop. Bath 25c. Up
posite u. S. barracks. 2-I3-Im
The daily morning Alaskan. (Skagway, Alaska) 1899-1904, 1900-07-27
LEG and HEAD INJURED.
Sam Gordon Hurt While Working
ION the Wharf.

Sam Gordon, longshoreman, Yesterday
suffered broken leg and severe cut over
the eve. He lies at the railroad hospital,
and is doing well. He will probably be
out again in six weeks
The accident occurred while Gordon
was helping discharge lumber from the
barge Camden onto the railroad wharf. A
piece of lumber fell from truck, striking
his leg and head. The leg was broken at
the ankle. Gordon was attended by DR..
Moore.
The daily morning Alaskan. (Skagway, Alaska) 1899-1904, 1900-07-27
Cut Rates

Tickets from White Horse to Dawson
oyer Yukon Flyer Line, SIS.
If I. R. Pumphrev.
The daily morning Alaskan. (Skagway, Alaska) 1899-1904, 1900-07-27
GEO. G. PERRY COILS IN
Marshal of Division No. 3 Passes
Through Skagway.

Hon. Geo. G. Perry. formerly of Du-
buque, Iowa, United States Marshal for
Division No. 3. Alaska. accompanied bv
Mrs. Perry, left yesterday morning for
Eagle City, which Is made his official res
idence. Judge Wickersham and the other
officers of the court went in during the
early part of the month, but Marshal Perry
had to wait until his official bond was APP
proved before he could get the funds for
the court expenses. The marshal Is the
dsbursing officer In Alaska.
coal hlanke at this offire
The daily morning Alaskan. (Skagway, Alaska) 1899-1904, 1900-07-27

Large new stock OF wall papers, prices
&c per roll and awards, at Peoples. $ 5tf
The daily morning Alaskan. (Skagway, Alaska) 1899-1904, 1900-07-27

Carpets In great variety at Peoples 5tf
The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-12-15

dessert for every day in the year select
 ed from such authorities as Marion
 Harland, Mrs Lincoln, Table Talk,
 Good Housekeeping and others. A very useful compilation and q very
 handy book to have in the household. Published by George w, Jacobs & Co.,, Philadelphia; price 50 cents. For sale
 at Judd's.
 Nothing pleases the eye more or
 causes one to pause with exclamations
 of surprise as one rambes through the
 art and book stores than do the publi-
 cations and beautiful artistic produce
 tions of the house of Raphael Tuck &
 Sons of New York, Paris and London.
 Each successive season, as the exten- sve line of gift juvenile and toy books,
 calendars, Christmas cards, etc, of this
 noted publishing house appear on the parket, it seems as though the extreme limit of beauty, exquisite dalntiness,
 novelty and tasteful character must have been reached. But as often as the
 holidays are ushered in so also make their appearance the new and artistic
 productions of Raphael Tuck X Sons, and always with something new and more beautiful than the year before This season is no exception and these
 beautiful and attractive reminders of the holidays are being secured by those desirous of giving artistic and appropriate holiday remembrances. Calendars, booklets, Christmas cards, and in fact all of the work of Raphael Tuck & Sons is stamped with high class lithography. The designs are beautiful and the illustrations apt. The only difficulty is what to choose. Both young and old share in the de- lights that these beautiful goods afford at this holiday season, from the juve- nile fairy story to the Christmas card, which with it's greetings brings also re- membranes.
 In recent issue of the New York World, in an article on "Babists," a new Oriental sect, the statement was made that Miss Lillian Whiting, the au- thor of "The World Beautiful is be- liever in "Babism' and one of the latest to return from Syria. As the publish CTS of Miss Writings books, Messrs. Little, Brown & Co.,, desire to state that this assertion is absolutely unfounded, and that Miss Whiting had never even heard the name of "Babism'' until her return from Paris, and has never been to Egypt or Syria, but divided last win- ter between Rome and Florence. She was born and bred in the Episcopal communion, to which faith she is un- falteringly allied.
 Snow White, or the House in the l Wood" by Laura E. Richards, is a | pretty story for children by the we'll known author of Captain January" "Three Margarets'' and other popular | books It will be welcomed by many | young readers. Price 50 cents. Dana | Estes & Co.,, Boston.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-12-15
SALE FOR 1.-THE M ESSTAH."
George Hamitn WtIl Sing the Tenor
 Part Next 4 tuesday.

Part Next I tuesday.
 The sale of seats for the performance
 of the oratorio of ''The Messiah Tues
 day evening, December IS, begins this
 morning, and all those who are contem-
 plating going should take the first op-
 portunty to secure their seats for the
 performance at once, if they are at all
 particular about the location. A heavy
 demand is guaranteed from the state
 now as well as from the city, and the
 attendance is certain to be record
 breaker.
 Word has just been received from a prominent musician in Plainville that a
 large party is organizing there to at tend the performance and telephone in- quiries are coming in from many dis tant points about tickets. New London and Norwich will have representatives at the performance, as well as Bridge port. Hartford, New Britain and An sonia All this testifies eloquently to the position that the Gounod holds in the estimation of the public. It is de- lightfui esteem, too
 The regular prices for Tuesday even ing are $1 and $1.50 Seats in the fam fly circle have been reserved at $1 each. For ordinary theatrical performances the family circle is not a particularly good place, but 1t is conceded by all those who have tried it that in no other part of the house is the effect of music, whether vocal or instrumental, so good as there.
 George Hamlin, who will sing the tenor part next Tuesday, has been re- ceiving a great deal of praise recently in the newspapers, by conservative crit ics, for his recital of Strauss songs, hitherto unknown in America, except in the narrowest limit. The Chicago Times Herald in speaking of his work says:
 This young artist has been making very rapid strides during the past two or three years and in classic song and oratorio easily stands at the head among the tenors of the country. His voice is pure, fresh, resonant and always musi- cal He is commanded by a fine artistic and it is therefore delight to hear him sing"
 The Concert-Goer of New York city, speaking of MT. Hamins singing in the Messiah in that city last year, says: MT. Hamlin was highly successful in the tenor arias He delivered Behold | and See with fitting pathos and beautiful sympathetic quality of voice, | and Thou Shalt Dash Them with | sharply contrasted vigor and impetu- l osity There are few singers of equal 1 and beauty of voice before | the public.'