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The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1900-10-31
SGJTA AMERICAN Giants.
The AbOrigines of TERRA del Faeeo.
a Hardy Eace That Is Gradually
Becoming Extinct.

DR.. Frederick a. Cook, OF the Belgian
antarctic expedition. writes IN Cen
Iurv Of The Giant Indians OF TERRA
del Fuego." his text being illustrated
with pictures drawn from photographs
Jy himself.
Yhe Fuegans have been reported
from time to time, since the country
MAS first sighted and named by Ma
gellan in 1870. bat to-day they still re
4aain almost unknown. In connecUOa
with the voyage of the Belgica We had
unusual opportunities for studEinE
theirwildlife ana their weather-beatea
land They are ret, as is generally
supposed. one homogeneous tribe, but
three distinct races, with different
lang uages. different appearances, dif-
ferent habits and homes. . The
'OHas have thus far eyaded all efforts
at civilization. have refused mission
aries, and have, TO the present time.
with good reason, mistruSted white
men They have. in consequence, 70
manned absolutely unknown. =.
The Onas, as a tribe. have never been
suited il common interest, nor have
tk+y ever been led by any che great
chief. They have always been divided
into small clans under a leader with
limited powers, and these chiefs have
waged warfare among themselves TIC
The present they have had their worst
enemies among their own people, bnt
now that sheep-farmers and gold
diggeTs want their country, they are
limiting to fight their common enemy.
Physically the Onas are giants They
are not, however, seven or eight fee
in height, as the early explorers u
ported their neighbors and nearS
relatives, the PataQonians. to be. III r
average height is close to six feetH Il
lev attain six feet and six inches,
a few are under six feet. Tie wOmee
are not so tail, bat they are more cor
pulent There is perhaps no race liz
the world with q more perfect physical
development than the Ona men. This
unique development is partly due 10
the topography Of their country and 10
the distribution OF game. which makes
long marches constantly necessary
The Ona men arecertainly the greatest
cross-country runners on the Amer
sean continent.
The mental equipment of the Ona y
by no means equal to his splendid
physical development. He understands
very well the few arts of the chase
which he finds necessary to maintain
= food-supply. His game III the past
has been easily gotten; his needs have
seen few. which fact accounts for thS
sack of inventive skin portrayed in the
Instruments of the chase. The home
life. the house, the clothing-every-
ching pOrtrays this lack of progress
I've skill. Instead of the children being
well dressed and well cared for, as is
she rule among savage races, they are
mostly naked. poorly fed, badly
trained, and almost neglected, not be
cause of lex of Paternal love, bus
because of t. mental lethargy of the
people 1t is the same as to shelter
and garments They have abundant
material to make good tents and warm.
ktorm-proot houses; but they simply
5nnch up few branches, and throw To
she windward a few skins, and then
Nhiver, complaining of their miserab9
existence.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1900-07-20
A Forgotten Heroine.

Worthily worn, the gaudy trappings
of war have ever won feminine hearts.
In recording the great services to our
country of an almost forgotten revo-
lutionary heroine, a writer has
brought to light some remarkable ro-
mances. The heroine, tall, cultured,
high-born, Joined the Continental
army in the uniform of a man and
served three years with conspicuous
bravery. Her heroism brought her
preferment and into contact with the
best people of the colonies, and at all
the balls and other social gatherings
she was the lion Cor lioness). The
girls adored the brave soldier, con-
fessed their love, and showered her
with presents. THE Girl Who Fought
in the Revolution" will be a feature
of the July Ladies' Home Journal.
1t is a record of facts far stranger
than fiction.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1900-07-20
St1IpBUJILDING III OLDEN DAYS.

gamo, Verona, Chiavena and Brescia
many millions are indiscriminately
slaughtered to satisfy the demands of
the tables and of millinery establish
ments of the world. One of the
schemes is to cover the limbs Of trees
and rocks and even the telegraph
wires, along the line of the bird migra-
tion with a certain paste of such ad
hesive qualities that whenever the
birds stop in their fight for rest or
food they are held helpless captives.
Hundreds are often captured in very
small space by this simple means. Dur
ing the last year the border police Of
Tessin captured and destroyed thirteen
thousand traps sent to imprison these
weary flyers. Authorities are being
urged to take the most rigorous meas
ures to suppress the evil. The crimi-
nal courts are having many more bird
law violation cases than formerly, and
bird catching and killing crimes which
in former years were either overlooked
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1900-07-20
Magnificent Ships Once Built by the
Man With The Ak.

At the present time. when so much
interest is centered on the ways and
means for restoring the American mer-
camille marine to it's former position
as a great ocean carrier, it is well to
take a brief retrospect of the innum-
cradle natural resources of the coun-
try, combined with the talent, energy
and enterprise of its people, which led
to the great ship building era from
AS to 80, when the stars and bars were
seen waving over magnificent speci-
mems of American naval architecture
In all parts of the world.
1t is easy to imagine the profound
establishment of the first settlers of
New England when they beheld the
boundless parks of spreading oaks,
birch and maple, and the sweet-scent-
ed groves Of pines, spruce and fir Of
which the prlmeval forests of that pc
riod were composed. Solitary members
of those vast wildwoods dot the land
scape at the present day, and their
huge trunks, gnarled roots and twisted
limbs testify to their multi-centennial
endurance. For example, there are the
Waverly oaks, aged over 400 years, &C
cording to the late Prof. Agassiz, and
the Deadham giant, for which $500 was
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animals of these vast and inaccessible
regions for years; he has travelled
more of their country, and visited
more of them in their own native
homes than any living man. He has
had the courage to penetrate the most
forbidding regions and suffer the de-
privations one must experience in
order to study these animals from life.
The result of this work is found in
many and important forms of animal
life never before known. During Mr..
Stones travel in the north he was
alone thirty-three days among the
murderous He'll Gate Indians of the
Lizard river, where his experiences
were most thrilling. He has penetrat-
ed and crossed the most northerly
reaches of the Rockies both summer
and winter, and for forty-five days
lived on nothing but fresh meat and
tea.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1900-07-20
PROTECTING SONG BIRDS.
Measures Adopted by the Swiss Govern

Measures Adopted by the Swiss Govern
ment for That Purpose.
Switzerland has not many feather
ed songsters," says James T. Dubois,
United States consult at st. Gall, "but
those that do exist are carefully pro-
tected, not only by law, but by fos-
tering care of the people, particularly
the German-speaking people of Swift
zerland. In 1876 a law was enacted
prohibiting the trapping or killing of
song birds or the robbing or molesting
of their nests, in any part of the AL
pine republic. But in northern Italy
bird murder is epidemic, and this
spirit has spread over the Swiss-Ital-
ian canton of Tessin, where the willow
wren, hedge sparrow, blackcap, swal-
low, nightingale, and little singers of
all kinds are victims of the trap, the
net and the gun. AS the seasons come
and go the Swiss birds make their pill
grimage south, and in going and re-
turning across the land of northern
Italy and the Swiss Canton of Tessin,
they are mercilessly pursued by hunt
ers Of all ages and classes. On the
Lago Maggiore it is estimated that at
least sixty thousand OF the feathered
songsters are trapped or killed every
year, and in the region around Ber-
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offered, and which was intended to as
sist in the construction of the Consti-
tuition, and there are many other trees
in New England Of historic reputa-
tion. These remnants of the past give
some idea Of what the wild old woods
were like when the red man reigned
supreme.
The first to take advantage of these
splendid chances for shipbuilding were
the members of the Popham colony, at
the mouth of the Kennebec. The man
with the broad AK first made his debut
and constructed "a faire pinnace of 10
tons'I in 1907. 1t is said she crossed the
Atlantic.
He next put in an appearance thirty
years later at Ten Hill farm, on the
Medford river, where the Blessing of
the Bay, a ship of thirty tons, was
built.
In 1870 the colonists had produced a
mosquito fleet of faire proportions.
The Massachusetts shipyards at this
date had produced 80 vessels of 100 to
$50 tons, 200 of so to 100 tons, 200 from
80 to so tons, and 300 from to 10 tons.
For long period in the annals of ship
building merchant vessels did not eX-
coed 400 tons.
The accompanying illustration repre-
sents the America, of 800 tons, built at
Salem in 1904 for G. Crowninshield for
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bounds, and the emigrant passenger
traffic began to assume immense pro-
portions. The Swallow Tail and
Black Ball line of packets were
established to meet the require
ments, and likewise the Train
line from Boston. On the top of
this boom came the discovery of gold
in California, and, little later, in
Australia, with a demand for tonnage
that was difficult to supply. Suitable
vessels fetched high prices, and, as the
laws of Great Britain favored the pur-
chase of foreign bottoms for registra-
ton, some Of the most celebrated Am
erican clippers found purchasers in
Liverpool and London.
The man with the broad AK was now
at his zenith of prosperity; he could be
found on every harbor, creek and river
on the New England coast where a
ship could be safely floated. If one fol-
lowed the coast from Eastport to Que
bee, the same hard working genius of
the ship yard would confront him at
every turn, slashing away at foot
hook or carefully shaping the stem of
a vessel, varying in size from a schoon
er to clipper ship of 1000 tons. With
his great broad AK he would follow a
chalk line on a huge log and finish up
his piece with a quickness, accuracy
and smoothness that was quite mar
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1900-07-20
CHINESE GORDON.

the suppression of the famous Tai Ping
rebellion and in other memorable cam
paigns. In China, whittier he was sent
after the rebellion had been shaking
the foundation of the empire for sew
eral years, Gordon accomplished a task
which restored tranquility to an en-
pire whose population outnumbers
that of Europe, repaired her desolate
cities and gave her toiling millions
of peasantry the longed-for peace,
waiting for which in vain they had
ceased to till their paternal lands lest
they should be but offering fresh temp
tations to the spoiler.
Before Gordons rule the soldiers
paid themselves out of the loot"
Regular pay was now given, and plum
der absolutely forbidden. The officers
of the force were not always ready to
face their antagonists. Gordon, in his
mild way, would take one or the other
of them by the arm and lead him into
the thick of the fight. He carried no
weapon, only little cane to direct his
troops. This cane, which was called
his magic wand of victory" was an
object of superstition among the Yai
Pings, who regarded Gordon as a being
capable of winning battles through
witchery. When the troops were under
fire he would appear suddenly in his
quiet, undress uniform, usually unat-
tended, and always standing in the
hottest part of the fire. This pictur-
esque and heroic character was abso-
lutely fearless. i
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reer as privateer she netted her own
er over 100000, having captured sew
eral valuable prizes. She was typical
model Of the period.
In 1916, after Napoleon was safely
lodged in st. Helena. and the world
ceased to be scared by wars alarms, :"
the owner of the America and other
gentlemen of Salem planned a round
trip to Europe, for which purpose a
very handsome armed yacht was built
and aptly christened Cleopatra's barge.
Her outside ornamentation was very
striking, separate designs being made
for the port and starboard sides, and
the carved work on her stern was very
elaborate. She was the first yacht to
make the tour of Europe from this
side of the Atlantic. The illustration
was copied from an old foreign paint
ing.
The success attending many or the
marine business ventures in foreign
lands about this time caused a very
rapid growth in the shipping of the
United States, and hundreds OF tons
were annually added, but vessels Of
1000 tons were very scarce until 1910.
From 1910 to 1850 the ship owning
interests were up with leaps and
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1900-07-20
BLOWS BUBBLES IN COLORS

dyestuffs can be used to color them
without danger of poisoning. The
bulb is made of soft rubber and filed
with the liquid, being squeezed to
force a small quantity into the neck.
The tube is then blown in, which
closes a diaphragm in the neck and
prevents the liquid returning into the
reservoir, forcing it out between the
two top disks. AS the bubble in
creases in size it falls on to the next
disk and new one is formed inside
the first. This operation is repeated
until the full number is blown, the
expansion of the inside bubble in
creasing the size of the outer ones and
keeping them out of contact with each
other.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1900-07-20
Di0iSfon of OREGON.

The agitation for the division of Ore
gon into two states by drawing a line
at the Cascade range and creating a
new sovereignty from the area east OF
the mountains continues. The discus
sion grows out of the fact that eastern
Oregon, which leads in stock raising
and mining, has grown more rapidly
than western Oregon, which depends
upon commerce and fishing by reason
of its extensive seacoast. The Port
land Oregonian, however, deprecates
any further agitation of the project
which it declares to be impossible of
accomplishment. The consent of the
legislature must first be obtained, but
1t cannot be had. as western Oregon
has always contained the bulk OF the
population of the state and will for
many years to come.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1900-07-20
a X ind LS DYING.

Albert, king of Saxony, is said to
be dying from cancer of the stomach.
He is over seventy years of age, and
a person appealing strongly to the
sympathies of his fellow men. "His
trade is that of kingship," and he has
lived up to the noblest conception OF
this historic profession. He returned
from the siege of Paris in 1870 almost
as popular a man as Unser Fritz.
When King John died in 1873 he was
called to the throne of Saxony. The
kingdom at that time was sorely taxed
with war debt of 100000 thalers.
The new kings wisdom gradually re-
moved this debt, and his many noble
qualities endeared him to the people.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1900-07-20
Horses Couldn't BE Given Away.

Horses were cheap in the west; in
fact, you could hardly give them
away" writes Rev. Cyrus Townsend
Brady in the June Ladies' Home Jour
nal. II remember a stockman came
to a friend of mine speaking in this
wise: 1--WE got six young and middling
horses we'll broke, and considering the
hard times, in pretty fair condition.
What'll you give me for them?" "Ill
give you ten just like them" said my
friend, "and think myself lucky to
save the feed and care of four of
them" The offer was not accepted.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1900-07-20
She May BE Dead.

In the anxiety felt by the Methodist
Episcopal Board of Foreign Missions
regarding the fate of missionaries in
China the names of many of the self
sacrificing workers there have been UNI
der frequent discussion, and some OF
them are becoming familiar to the pub
lie. OF Mrs. Charlotte NJ. Jewell, mis-
sionary in charge of the Girls High
School in Pekin, whose picture appears
herewith, the question many times has
been asked: why does not Mrs. Jewell
escape from the danger that surrounds
herr" And those knowing her person
ally have as many times replied: Mrs.
Jewell would never leave all those chill
dren that are in her care. If she could
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1900-07-20

East India voyages. She was 100 feet
over all, with great beam. Her masts
and spars and canvas area would ex-
coed in shape that of 1,O00-ton ship
of today, and she carried IA guns. In
1912 she was converted into privateer
and was the terror of the seas. her
enormous spread of canvas enabling
her in light winds to make fast time.
She was considered the swiftest vessel
that sailed out of any American port
Her crew consisted of $50 men all told.
The drawing of her hull is carefully
copied from painting by Roux Of
Marseilles; the rigging is scaled from
the original sail plan. During her ca
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1900-07-20
AN IMPROVED LAWN SPRINKLER

may be Of any desired shape, and is
adapted to be supported on a pair of
small sharpened rods, which can be
readily inserted in the lawn without
marring the surface. The rods are
attached to the ring by adjustable
clamps, which are folded against the
ring when not in use, and the con-
nection between the rod and clamp is
formed by a ball-and-socket Joint,
which allows the sprinkler to be tilted
into any desired position. This ar
rangement will be found advantageous
when the sprinkler is in operation on
a terrace, where the ordinary sprink-
Ter would throw all the water down
the incline. In another model the
perforated pipes are detachably Joined,
and the sprinkler can be set up around
a tree or shrub, thus combining the
foliage with the spray of the foun-
tain.
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ocean grayhounds of the period, and
built by him, the last named, the larg
est of the vessels, being 1926 feet over
all. She was subsequently chartered
by the French government as a troop
ship, lasted 20 years, and finally dis
appeared with load of coal on her
way to Singapore.
The man with the broad AK is grad
ually disappearing. He is very hard
to find in Canada, but a few of his
tribe are still scattered along the New
England coast, mainly on the Kenne-
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1900-07-20

bee. 1t is probable the tribe will die
out on the spot where the first blow
of the broad AK was struck The man
with the rivet is the next step in
marine evolution. He is a noisy fell
low, just a part of machine, and he
can never replace the quiet, contem-
plative philosopher in the red shirt
and overalls who stood in the Ameri-
can shipyard in days that are past.
EDWARD j. RUSSELL.
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OoIUIIHe OF VdSd, hInB AIDeTI.
is much beloved princess. The king
is said to be the only man from whom
the old Emperor of Germany would
ever accept advice or rebuke. He has
often been called the safety valve"
because when the emperor had too
much steam on King Albert was al
ways sent for to cool him off. He has
lived a clearly, honorable life, and his
death would cause widespread regret.
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1900-07-20

says that the tables were carried to Os-
tia after having been rescued from
the fire which destroyed the capital in
the year SO A. ID. Sig. Macs wants the
italian government to drain the marsh
In order to recover these invaluable
records, and a commission will be APP
pointed to investigate the matter.
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government a me-
mortal in which he
amrms that 5000
bronze tablets, con-
stituting the rec
ords of ancient
Rome from its
foundation to the
time of Vespasian,
are buried in the
m ars h at Ostia
near Rome. He
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1900-07-20
Burdeff-CouffS Exposures.

William Ashmead-Bartlett Burdett
Coutts has stirred the Tory ranks of
England with his letters from South
Africa, in which he describes the neg
lect of soldier patients in the hospitals.
He writes that they have been allowed
to die in heaps. Mr.. Burdett-Coutts
was Bartlett until his mar
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country. One of the
results of his work
has been the
changing Of the
Arctic coast line of
N orth America.
Few men, If any,
have so perfect a
knowledge of the
larger wild ami
mails of the west,
north and north
west as Mr.. Stone.
He has studied the
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velous, and in due time from his chip,
chip, chip, noble ship would grace
fully dip into the water, and from 800
to $4,000 would be added to the
wealth of the country.
Among the shipbuilders who did
much to bring this country into notice
by their pronounced skill was Donald
Mckay of East Boston. His clipper
ships were models of beauty and
strength. Discarding all old presidents
he boldly took up the canoe and con-
structed his great ship on the print
tive Indian idea of vessel. The White
Squall, Flying Cloud Sovereign of the
Seas and the Great Republic were all
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1900-07-20

The king is child
less and will be
succeeded by his
b r o t h e r, Prince
George. King AL
bert, according to
American notions,
is not a wealthy
man. He has a
civil list of $500
a year. His queen,
Caroline NJ Uaca
The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1900-07-20
Explorer Returns.

Andrew ]. Stone, the great Arctic
explorer, has just returned to New
York from a 3,O00-mile sled journey
over the ice and snow of the great
Northwest, the most remarkable jour
ney in the annals of Arctic travels.
On this journey Mr.. Stone made many
important discoveries in animal life,
as well as in the geography of the
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or punished only slightly are now
dealt with seriously. The excellent
laws are being enforced, and the song
birds of Switzerland may yet survive
the attempt to exterminate them"
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"CbfneSe" Gordon.

The present trouble in China sug-
gests the need of another Chinese"
Gordon, who immortalized himself by
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Mace Greof Find.

Sig. Constantine Macs, the Italian
archaeologist, has just submitted to his
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MRS. CHARLOTTE NJ. JEWELL.
not save them as we'll as herself she
would perish with them. We know her
character well enough to be sure of
that"