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CHIT THE LUMBER WITH YOUR LEATHERw

hin on the way. When she had been
ten days in Dawson she wrote in her
diary: Had n meal today, $3.50; not
ten cents left"
Three days later she wrote:
I'm hungry. Saw a man pay 81
today for G. head Of lettuce that grew
in a tomato can"
The next day:
Il feel now that you have forsaken
me. Six months-there is no trail as
long as that. Well, I'm going to work
tonight. The manager Of the theatre
has Just left me. I am to take dirGnr~
with him and then 1 am going TO wOrh
in his theatre-to rustic the boxes he
told me. I presume I am to take the
coupons and show the people to the
proper seats. But first We are to dine
at 8 o'clock, 1 think he said. Mon
dieu! three hours more, and I have
tasted three days. Two hours of the
long, long night have passed. The
candles are burning in the tents and
cabins. Outside the snow is falling
softly, silently. I saw them LAY a
young woman to sleep in the snow to-
day. and 1 envied her. 1t was a weird
sight to see the people all muff1ed up
like EsauimauX, and the mute, uncom-
planning huskies hauling the black
coffin across the white field.
"Far up the mouth of the Tr~oanduick
I hear a malimute mourning his mas
ter's absence. I wonder why dogs al
ways howl after a funeral. God was
eve a land so lonely, so utterly lost in
darkness? Even the winds go by on
tiptoei If they whisper they say,
'HuShI' Not a sound comes to me
save the harsh, imperative 'mush,
mushl' of the drivers and the mourn
full cry of the hungry dogs. All my
poor little candle is going out. I must
dress for dinner now without a light.
1t is still showing. It showed on u
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-04-08
LOVED LAW SUITS.
Man In Naples Who Had a Mania
For Them.
New York Press.l


There has just died in Naples q man
whose life was like a comic opera in
one respect He was an inveterate
fighter Of law suits.
His name Was Traversi. and he was
the father Of the composers Of comic
operas, Camille and Gianino Antona
TraVersi.
Even in death he was consistent, for
he had got an order from the court en-
joining everybody from announcing
that he mad departed this life. His VIII
VIII keep his memory green, for he has
made it in sue a way hat every one
of the beneEciaries under it feels that
he has not received what is coming TO
him or her. and viii contest.
Traversi left his native city of Milan
because he lost suits against the com
munity for a reduction Of taxes. He
permitted no \ TO mention the name
Of the city in his presence after that.
He rushed 20 court SO often in Naples.
whittier he went after shaking the dust
Of Milan from his shoes, that he was
known as Law Jack" So rarely did
he win any of the hundreds Of suits
which he brought on slight and no
pr~evocation that once, when he actu-
ally got a verdict. he had it engraved
On a marble tablet and on the front
Of his country house.
His most famous suit was Z which
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the United States government. The
physical features of the earth as shown
on such a chart are c~uriousSy distorted.
but nor more 50 than when shown or
a chart constructed on the wen-known
projection Of Mercator. Mercator pro-
lection charts are familiar TO every
school boy; they are drawn as if the
entire earth were a cylinder instead
of a globe. and its surface had been
peeled off and then spread out nat.
BY this treatment Greenland is made
to seem larger than all Of North
America, and Alaska as large, almost,
as the United States. This is all
wrong, of course. Is a glance either
at a globe or a map drawn on the or
binary hemispherical projection will
Show. Yet many persons have received
ineffaceaDle false impressions as to the
geography Of the earth through charts
on the Mercator projection.
So far as the general public is con-
cerned. these false impressions can do
no harm, but the use Of Mereator
charts by navigators has been the
cause Of many long voyages that should
have been short. since on such a chart
any course lying east and west seems
shortest when following a parallel of
latitude. whereas the shortest cours
between any two points is along the
great circle upon which they are both
located This great circle can always be
found when a globe is at hand by pass
ing a string. or better yet, a rubber
band. around it in such a way that it
shall touch both points To illustrate
his memorial to the senate committee
on naval affairs. Mr.. Emerson made use
Of a globe encircled by q band which
touched Seattle as the most westerly
city Of the United States and the isl
and OF Luzon, the largest Of the Philip
pine group. This he explained, showed
the shortest possible route between
these two points.
An International Route.
Contrary to what might be supposed
by familiar only with the Mercator
projection charts, this route does not
cross the Pacific ocean in a generally
southwestern direction, but first passes
to the northwest, touching the south
western tip of the peninsula Of Alaska,
cutting across the Aleutian chain OF
islands. and from thence going south
westerly across Japan, and so on 10
the Philippines.
Mr.. Emerson made the same point by
the use Of the great circle sailing cnart
Of the photographic bureau oetore
mentioned. Though this chart is Gus
torted. a line drawn from any one point
TO any other point VIII represent the
shortest possible distance between
them, the same as on a globe
The cable route proposed by Mr.. En-
erson. then. known as h information
oil because not all the localities 1t
touches are under control Of the United
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Dutch Harbor. they would have plenty
of business to make their enterprise
pay from the start They would heSi-
tate about laying a cable 10 Asia e.
al Il IE sO-TerEEnsDt We-e - sGrk The
proposed southern cable, because unen
the ASiatic business would be divided
and SO be too small to yield a profit.
They might lay their cable TO Dutch
HaTbor, however, in any event, since
Dutch HaTbor, being near the new
Cape Nome gold fields, would furnish
plenty Of business. They agree that q
cable connecting San Francisco and
Honolulu should be laid, but they sug-
gest that il be an independent line
and lot be extended across the Pacific.
with regard to the contention Of the
racine cable company that q cable fol-
lowing the northern route would be la
Die 10 arrangements by reason Of Arc
tic weather. they point out shat its
most northern point. Kadiak. IS in the
latitude Of Aberdeen, Scotland, and OF
no colder climate. At Dutch HarbOr
they say that no temperature has been
recorded below u degrees above zero.
his IS because Of the japanese current
which mOdifes the temperature Of
western North America, precisely as
the gulf stream modifes the tempera-
ture OF western Europe.
No corporation TO build the ~in4arna
tonal cable has yet been formed nor
has the route been closely SURVEYED az
yet. ASurvey will be made next sum
mer in all probability, however. and
the corporation viii be formed later
providing the government does No.
take up with the other route. In any
event. there is likely to be no cable
correcting the United States with the
E~hlIlpplneS In the immediate future.
frlends or the southern route say IT
WouIo take them two or three years
10 lay their cable and while the friends
OF the northern line claim they could
lay IheirS IN six months at longest
they are likely in no circumstances 70
begin work before 1902.
Inc proposed all British Pacific cah1a
e is the only other Pacific mo
JecI now on the carpet. It is not Of
speclaI interest to Americans, since its
route feache from Vancouver, the me-
IropollS OF British Columbia. TO New
zealand, and would not touch at Ha-
wan or the Philippines or any Asiatic
point It would be valuable TO the
brtlSh government, but its CONNER
clai availability would be very small
Us lotaI length, including a branch 70
Queensland Australia, would be 1885
nAuIc@I miles. Its longest stretch from
NShcouVer 10 Tanning Island. 1851
mics Woulc be longer than any exist-
ing cable, and its cost, owing to the
great depths ~traverse6, will also ba
greater ina that.of any cable now laid
ooWn It's direction would trend from
north to south, at an angle with the
seHera course OF world commerce.
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I am surnrised tc learn

I am surprised tc learn that this
Niger Jim is a white man.
The noise that comes from this place
resembles music. a man in his shirt
sleeves is calling the figures of the
dance. Sometimes ne sings them, and
tbs is his song. 1t must have origin
ated IN a COW camp:
SIute your ladies, all togetheri
Ladies opposite the same!
Hit the timber with your leatheri
Balance all and swing your daniel
Bunch the heifers in the middle!
Circle stays Il Eo-Se-do!
Pay attention to the hddlei
Swing her round and off you goI
First four forward Back to placesl
Second fellOw-shufie back
Now you've got it down to cases
Swing EN- till their trotJers crack
Gents all right a-heel and toeing!
Swing EN-; kiss EN-, if you kin!
On to next and keep a-goin'
Till yer hit yer pards agini
Gents to center; ladies round 'emi
Form a basket; balance ALL
Whirl yer gals to where you found EN-!
Promenade around the hall!
Balance to yer pards and trOt EN-
Round the circle double quick,
GRAB n kiss EN- while you've got EN-
Hold EN- to it IL they kicki
LaGies. left hand to your sonnies!
Alamani Grand right and left
Balance all, an swing yer honeys-
Pick EN- up and feel their heft!
Promenade like skeery cattle
Balance all n swing yer sweets
Shake yer spurs an make 'em rattle!
Keno. Promenade TO seats.
Here, as at the other resorts, roughly
1 dressed men are reaching over the
tables to place their money, A yOung
woman in a nea tailOr-made gown
strollS about, nodding and calling men
by their first names. She plays roulette
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MARY'S CHANCE.
Papa Makes an Offer, Which She
Jumps at.
Chicago Tribune.)

Chicago Tribune.)
William Frederick Allen was in love
with Mary Anna Jenkins, and was I'M
happy when not in her company. When
ne began to call upon her it was only
on Friday nights, and he never stayed
later than 10. Then he began TO come
on Monday nights also. Later he adj
ded Sunday afternoons to his list. and
SO on until he was liable to drop mat
the Jenkins residence every evening in
the week. besides spending every Sun
day afternoon there.
Mr.. jenkins, Mary Annals father.
watched with growing anger the in
creasing frequency of Mr.. Aliens calls.
and often expressed his mind on the
subject to the wife of his bosom. but
she siienced him with the convincing
query: Would yOu like Mary Anna to
die an old maid?"
Notwithstanding this, Mr.. Jenkins
was rarely civil TO the young man. for
he did not like him, and he was more
than ever on the point of saying some
thing to him WHICH. in all probability
he would have regretted later.
One day, however, Mr.. Jenkins could
restrain himself no longer. William
Frederick had not omitted to call a
single night for neariy three weeks. and
had been at the house on six afternoons
in a week. After Mary Anna had dis
missed her admirer she turned and 0 n
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for a little while and then strolls out.
She appears not quite a fit here. Spite
Of the cold. mechanical smile that plays
about her once pretty mouth, her eyes
are still beautiful: deep. dark and al
most b~ewitching. But hat light must
fail soon. She is burning her candle
rapidly.
If the prompter could be suppressed,
4 a blue-eyed, brainless woman who
screams occasionally would go 10 sleeb
this camp, away up here in the shadow
of the north pole, would be as quiet as
Jerusalem and almost as safe for a
man or wOHan to walk about in.
A young nan is dancing with a young
woman in a long skirt. They appear
to be perfectly happy. They are to BE-
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-04-08
WHEN BEHEADED.
How Long Can a Man Live Without
His Top Piece?

His Top Elece!
New York Press.)
Recently there has been much argu-
ment aiming to prove that the decapi-
tation of criminals is the most cruel
| form possible of inficting the death
sentence. Some of the pronounced op-
ponents of his form of capital punish
ment declared that the circulation Of
blood in the severed head did not cease
for three hours, and that during that
period the head could see, hear and
smell. DR.. Wurm, d German expert.
has felt moved to reply TO these state
ments. He says that he handled many
heads of decapftated criminals, and
that there is not the least doubt posi-
BILE as to the fact of absolute death.
Immediately after the execution"
he says, the heads We're pale, entirely
bloodless and absolutely without life.
Not even reflex actions could be Do
duced and only for a short period could
the galvanic current produce them.
But a most interesting inquiry would
be that of remaining spinal energy in
the decapitated body. Beheaded frogs.
chickens, ducks and even rabbits have
been known to carry out independent
movements, such az scratching of an
irritated spot, jerking away an eXtrem-
lIN Wne0 II was p1nCESQ ana gong
through the motions of running, swim
ming and jumping" Apropos of this
DIR. Wurm quotes this queer tale told
in a book published in 1888 in Ham
burg, entitled Greatest Things in the
World, or So-called Relations Curio-
sac"
Emperor Ludwig of Bavaria in 1887
sentenced Sir Dietz of Sehauenburg
with four squires to death for free
booting. At the place Of execution Sir
Dietz begged the judges to put him and
his squires into a row each man one
foot from the next. Then he was to
be executed first and his body would
arise and u as far along the row Of
prisoners as he could. Each man whom
he succeeded in passing was to be let
free. The judges laughed and granted
the request, saying that never before
had they seen a beheaded man run.
Thereupon Dietz put his men into a row,
placing the one whom he liked the best
nearest to him. Then he xneeled, the
sword fell and tool his 80 clean.
n in the next-ias4sB haa
risen and was davting by the four men.
1t nan past them an and fell prone a
few feet beyond the furthest one. Then
the emperor pardoned the men as his
judges had promised"
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the meaning of that melancholy choru
TO his sad song:

the meaning of that melancholy chorus
to his sad song:
''She had fifteen hundred dollars
Worth Of flowers at her wedding;
The poor girl, at her funeral
She didn't have a lower"
The night winds that came down the
Klondike were fresh and coo as we
stepped from the smoke-dimmed Pa
vilion" to the board walk
"Hello!'' said a CHEEKY voice, and it
named my name. Nov" thought I,
what woman knows me here?" And
then l caught the glimpse of a bright
face laughing out Of a storm Of hair,
and recognized a little lady who had
come over on the Victorian. All day a
man had been leading her by the hand.
It is long past midnight now. They
have finished their shopping and are
going home. Come on, dear" calls the
man. Eyes, papa" says the maid. as
she kisses her hand 10 me and rOmps
away. Like the breeze that blows down
from the gardens on the hill, her smile
is pure and sweet.
She is s years Old
EY WARMAN
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veying the proposed southern cable
route. For this reason this cable could
be lighter thar II il We're laid directly
across the Pacific and this, as we'll as
The lesser IEsT1-U EsBIe reeaieed.
would make it much less costly. Mr..
Emerson would not continue the cable
beyond Japan, for the reason that
there connections could be made with
land wires already in operation From
the Southernmost point Of Japan to
LuzOn, 500 miles. he would lay another
cable, (making a grand total of a lit
tie more than 5000 miles Of cable). thus
completing the electrical cOmmunica-
ton between the United States and our
Oriental possessions.
The "An American" Route.
The Pacific cable route, sometimes
called the "all-American." is projected
from San Francisco to Honolulu, 2,403
miles; then to Midway island, 1911
miles; thence TO Guam, 1888 miles:
and thence to the Philippines, 1874
miles; a total Of 1903 miles. including
a slack OF Is per cent, the amount Of
slack as calculated being greater than
for the northern route, because OF the
greater depth at which the cable would
lie
The chief mover in the "aIl-Ameri-
can Pacific cable project is James j.
Scrymser. president of the company.
who is also prominently identified with
the system Of cables and telegraphS
along the western coast Of South
America. Links connecting the lines
of this system with the Pacific cable
viii undoubtedly be made, providing
the latter is laid.
The cost Of the two Pacific lines has
been ~variously estimated, Of coufse. In
truth, however, there is no way Of
making accurate statements as TO this
matter, though there is a general
agreement that a cable along the
southern route would be more costly
than the other One set Of estimates
places the expense Of laying the north
ern cable at $1,000, eco. and the southern
one at $12, 100000. Undoubtedly the lat
ter figure can be reduced TO S10,O00,0 00
by laying 3. comparatively light cable.
As the average depth Of the southern
| route is put at 1900 fathoms, however,
a very light cable could not be used; If
1t were there would be danger Of its
breaking of its own weight in the lay
ing. The great distance between sta
tions would also make the use of q light
cable inpracticable. while the compare
tive shortness Of the links in the north
e-n cable would in large measure op-
crate exactly the other way. Mr.. En-
erson claims, also, that because of the
/ shorter links of the northern cable,
messages could be transmitted ove it
much more rapidly than over a cable
laid to the south.
Pro and Con.
It is argued in favor Of the south
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To understand the present situation
With regard to the various Pacific cable
projects must know a little about
"hat IS called great circle" naviga-
tlon- Harrington Emerson Of Philadel-
pnla, who is the man most in evidence
IN the movement for a cable hat shall
SKIRT the American and ASiatic shores.
instead OF crossing the Pacific direct,
has made a study of great circle navi-
gatlon and has appeared before the
United States senate and various Off
Gals in Washington for the purpose of
explaining what he considers the adj
vantages of the route he favors.
To elucidate his explanation, Mr..
Emerson uses a small globe and a
copy Of the ~gnomonic," or great cir
Gle sailing chart of the Pacific ocean,"
Issued by the photographic Office of
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niqbf Scenes in Dawson City.
~ warnn Describes Wild Arctic Revehy-BuSneSnkeG Gamblers and Fairies and
Gold DiggeS Anxious TO Get Rid of Their MOney-"WaSh Yer Neck Means
"Have a Drink" Rhythmic Calls For the Merry, Merry Dance.

The mosquito liar is gone. He just
simply pined away and died when he
had seen and heard the trial liar and
the raisin liar.
Here comes a man crying Seattle pa
pers only eight days old. Behind him,
in the cleaning a man is carrying a
basket of sliced Watermelon; little cres-
cents cut thinly from a six-inch shell,
and he wants % cents a bite. Water
melons are cheap now. You a buy a
whole one as big as a boys head for
$3.50. They were $40 earlier and they
were $25 last year. In a little market
a man is cutting a round steak for 70
cents a pound. POrterhouse is 81.
The Merry Dance.
Across the street, three blocks away
a white banner is stretched, bearing
this notice, in screaming red and
black letters:
:....'' -'''''''"'.s..'' '..-.'.:
'NIGGER JIM'S PAVILION"
:-.-...-.- -.'.-...----.-- --.-.
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wedding day, you remember. mon
chere. And You spent 1880 for fow-
ers. Good night"
That was all she yer wrote in her
diary. But the barman, who had been
her friend, who had loved her with
out knowing her past-almost without
knowing her-told US that she had been
very unhappy in Dawson. One night
they missed her at the theatre. The
next night She failed to show up. and
on the day following the manager
called at her room. That afternoon he
sent a doctor up, and two days later
an undertaken.
And this man with the wide blue
eyes M pale hair had been her hus-
band She had been dead a year when
he came to camp. Now I understood
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ne Won against the unhappy keeper OF
q He entered the mans
place and ordered a nortio1 81 -
beef. Unfortunately It so ban1e5eS
Inst al the roast beef had been eafan
IraVersl protested. He declared that
the restaurant keeper dad no rfghf to
on his menu that he had
sOmetnlng which he could not serve
when it was ordered
tie finally left the restaurant in
rage' only 70 return with 8 notary
euDnc n two witnesses, and an at
HudHlL was drawn up On the spot de-
tIs 1nSt the roast beef was not to
be had Then he brought euit anS 49,
in two courts. In the thru ~
ana a the supreme sat~isfacfic7 %
seeing the restaurant keeper Sentences
20 pay a 1ne Of I.20 lire, the value or
the portion value VI
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married after the ball, and they are
going outside"
A spare man, with wide blue eyes
and pale hair. is leaning on the end Of
the bar reading a poem to some friends.
A Romano of Sadness.
When the poet had gone out I Guilt
waited the barkeeper, who had a wom-
ans diary in his vest pocket and her
story by heart.
This is the story Of the woman:
They were married in Montreal I'M
der the rose. 1t rained flowers that
day. The streets were crowded with
carriages. It had been a case Of love
on sight with both of them, but they
quarreled, as the best Of lovers Will
and he went away to the Klondike.
She tried heroically to live without
him. but she was a woman who could
not live without love. So she followed
him. He took the Edmonton trail. n
went i'm over White Pass and passed
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States government. would begin at
Cape Flattery, near Seattle, run TO
Sitka, SOB miles; then the Kadiak isl
ands, 6S2 miles; then TO Dutch harbor,
no miles; then 10 Attu, the western
most North American island. SO miles:
then TO northern Japan. SO miles; a
total of 4,4SS miles, it only being neces-
sary TO allow 10 per cent for slack"
cable, becadse Of the shallOwness Of
the water in which the cable VIII be
laid.
This route follows very closely. but
not exactly, the great circle on which
Seattle and the n-Orthernmost point Of
Luzon are Located. 1t lies compare
lively close to the shore everywhere,
and, consequently, does not pass over
any spots of profound ocean depths like
the Nero deep, lately sounded by the
expedition that was engaged in sur
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eru rorte that it is all American n
hat il touches Hawaii, now an espe-
ciaTlv important point in the United
States government. For his reason
II is sought 10 have the government
either build the cable outright or suoa-
die it. Various plans looking 10 Doth
these courses have been suggested, II
being held that, owing 10 the heaVy
initial expense and the nign
cost no private corporation could lay
and work such a cable probably with
ont help. It is hardly e1-
pected that any Of these plans VIII De
acted upon finally before the adjourn
ment of the present session or con-
gTeSs.
The friends Of the northern cable do
not ask government help. asserting
that by reason Of their cable toucnlng
at various points, such as SlrAa @n0