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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-06-15
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1t was a wild and fur-clad Eskimo
that ran whooping up the arctic sea
beach of northern Alaska. Above him
froWned bare, black cliffs of shale ana
sandstone, cutting off the low. midday
sun. The artic foes bIinked the sky
to nOrthWard, and on the slopes and
lodges lay ice masses Of compacted
snow. The elder ducks. frightened
shrieked and fled away before him,
while fast as he ran, yet faster down
the cliff plunged and whirled a dancing
bogiC. which seemed bent on capturing
the clumsy native of the artic wastes,
get which was nothing more or less
Than big meal sack full of coal.
We were gathering coal from the
vast deposits Of the far north. and
Hoodium THAT was as near rs NE could
get to his Eskimo ndmel. was our man
Friday. IL was singular what a desire,
what yearning. those s8cks of coal
seemed to have for HOodIum. There
were many other EskimOs in the party
at work for us. but none of the coal
sacks had any malignant yearning
toward them. Some of them worked
with US on the vein at the cliff top.
some piled up coal into sacks. and
some were a. the cliff base with Hood
lum, helping load the sacks aboard the
whale boat. thence to be transferred to
the ship, but none of the sacks chased
them. The sack was sure to follow
HOOdlum, however, and it only made
him more certain that there was some
Witchcraft about the whole business.
and that a malevOlent spirit having de-
signs on his life dWelt in the coal. The
black stones he was familiar with. But
that any man should be so "kukawil-
low" as he termed il. as 20 load these
stones aboard the big canoe, the uni
akpuk, and carry them away. savored
obviously of evil spirits, and the more
coal came down the harder he ran
from it.
There was magic in il, too. The
magic of money; for these same black
stones sold in Nome that year for $50
the ton, and not enough of them were
to be had at any price. But how was
Hoodlum to know that?
Almost the entire northern coast of
Alaska from Boring strait to Point
Barrow is striped with@seams- of semi
bituminous coal, and these veins ex-
tend inland no man knows how far
Upon the beach live the year round d
few Eskimo families with two wolves
CNCi a. IhS AsiOO uOOL' Adliliic anu COlu
Yet in the very ground under their
igloos, in the cliffs on which they pre-
cariously snare sea fowl for scant
refuge from starvation, lies wealth
which cannot be estimated, and fuel
enough TO heat the whole world for I'M
told generations. Enormous supplies
of coal lie almost on the surface-nC
man has yet estimated the quantity
AS vOY sail from Game feb11T.y7a r.
Cape Beaufort you may see miles OF
cliff in which the dark bands of n
slant TibbOn-like from beach to summit
| When the brief summer thaws the &c,
| the coal falls out of these veins In
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COAL IN THE ARCTIC.

masses that lie in the icy surf, blocks
containing tons Of fuel each. There
are places where a ships crew can &C
tually pick up a cargo OF good coal
fromAhe beach and the surf at the base
Of the cliffs. a blast set in these veins
sends many tons Of il rumbling down
to the water, and from the summit Of
the headland you may see the surface
groupings stretching miles inward IN
the form of parallel ridges In them
the brown ground squirrels. which the
Eskimos trap for fur and food, dig their
burrows and throw up black heaps Of
crumbling coal at the doors.
Probably the widest single vein of
coal known in the world is found there.
Such a vein is considered a good one
when il is eight feet wide: this one is
eight times that width. If you paddle
along the beach little north of Cape
Beaufort i'm a kyaCk YOU may look over
the side in shallow water and see the
dark band running in from the sea
fully sixty feet in width. How far in
land IL extends no man may know;
certain il is that far back in the hills
a stream cuts it and runs through black
coal cliffs over pebbly bed Of coal
Its depth, too, is unknown, but it and
similar smaller ones are supposed to
dip with the sandstone and cOnglom-
crate far beneath the inland hills; they
certainly reappear several hundred
miles to the south on the shores of
KOtzebue sound. The few EskimOs who
have explored the inland rivers in their
! hunting expeditions tell of cliffs
/ through which the water breaks that
are similarly scanned with "adloha,
N hfonty eF w f1fp11 q Tr-nffn r10nr1
cOvet.
Whalers. too. who have Wintered at
/ Herschel island and taken winter trips
inland with the natives, tell Us that at a
hundred or so miles back from the Arc
/ tic sea are some branches whose water
is warmed by heat from underground,
and that for a certain portion of their
course they do not freeze over, even in
| the severest weather, the natives re-
sorting thither for winter fishing.
( Whence comes the heat for the warm
! ing Of this water? Tt is not a volcanic
region. All about for ten months Of the
! year the snow lies fathoms deep, drift
( ed under the perpetual night by the icy
gales i'm whose touch lies death for
every living thing long exposed to them
yet out of the earth beneath bubbles
warmth that dedes the temperature Of
| the pole Such men claim that within
J a limited area a smouldering cOmbus-
/ ton of the deep-buried stores Of coal
! is going on.
At any rate, the coal is there. and its
/ presence on the coast has been the sal
walton Of more than one hardy whaling
J crew nipped in the Arctic ice and
! obliged otherwise to spend the LONG
1 frozen half-year without fuel. Yet
even if this underground slow combus-
ton is going on, it will be centuries be
fore the supply of fuel is exhausted
or. indeed, well ahre. Meanwhile, is
! the region Of almost perpetual winter
the terrible frozen north which eX-
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SCIENCE AT THE HUB.
It's High Position in the Minds of
Boston School Children.

Boston Journals
President Henry Smith Pritchett of the
Massachusetts Institute Of Technology.
who responded to the toast. Science at
the Columbia alumni dinner on Saturday
night at Sherry's, illustrated his subject
with one incident that was very much
appreciated
Science he said, rs now word to
cOnjure with. In a Boston school the
other day a teacher said to a small boy:
Who won the battle of New Orleans2'
Why, Jim COTbett, Of course was
the answer
teacher, not placing COrbett's name. and
thinking To set the boy right
He won was the prompt reply be-
cause he had more soience than the other
guy
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MODERN
BY GEORGE

NOE there was a roverish Sure
n Thfnrer who started for the
Track with a Roll about the size
" of O. Lady's Pencil. He wanted to
,.. . g, silver Certificate and bring
Pc. -. enough to pay the National Debt
A, ,,-ner he stayed at home and marked
49,. card and made Mind Bets NE could
Wv. dive out Of six. lie estimated that he
f...sur a Thousand a Month by fool
wa ground the store when he might be
~, s+ Che Merry-Go-Round showing the
non. Haw go take Joke.
,-f nrv. Saturday Afternoon had come
r.r.. NJ. pikor was hanging ON the
T- .rl .r tho ChoO-Choo with s. SoWed
ia The inside Pocket Of his Vest. while
. 3D.. U.rd there fluttcrod "a batch Of
l.Iirr.rv- written by the Smoke Brothers.
t,vt-e which ones were sure Go win
.-rras- something happened.
Mr. Tfkrr the amateur Gam. closed his
,...se and saw himself buying a real Pam
-.,q and "a dozen or so George H. Prim-.
--s. Shirts he had "A vision or riding I'm
Machine called the Pink Demon with
Cr7i~r af his side and an imported chit
frriar working the Jiggcr and moving
s-.rr tru Common People.
Percy had two or three Good Things.
trar were guaranteed to 80 through. They
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-06-15

had been slipped 90 him BIZ Cigar
Salesman who knew an Owner. They
looked To- be- the real Candy
When be arrived at the Track he gave
no for ahBddgc and a Dope-Sheet and a
couple of PcrfectOs. and this left him
with and a little something on the side
for Rcd Hots. lie fought his way TO the
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Why Suffer with aeadacba

When one dose of Sherman's Headache
Cure viii rid yoy OF 1t? They are in
stantaneous IN their effect, and per-
fectly harmless. Keep q box in the
house for emergencies. They cure mem
ralgia. 20c and 1oc a box. For sale nv
Godbe-Pitts Drug company.
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The tout told him to play Rinkaboo.

Change with Blind Man. Rinkaboo was
the Name. Breathe il softly, as very few
were Next.
me Iout said to play it across the
Board, forward and back. I'D and down
He said that RinkabOo would breeze i'm.
that he would win on the Bit, doing Buck
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Exclusiveness to Be Maintained.


Ping-Are Mrs. De Styles entertain
ments very eXclusive2f
POng-Well I should say so: she has
just made applics don to have the con-
versation of her guests copyrighted.
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Blowing Up.
(Philadnlnhia Pres .

Isn't it awful how thin Dir. Heupeck
is now remarked Mrs. Gabbie TO her
husband. and he used TO be SO stout
Perhaps" chimed IN little While. re-
Numbering his trouble with the bicycle
tires perhaps mis- wife forgets 10 blow
him up regular, like you said she useter."
The Globe-republican., 1902-04-10
LETTER OF ROBERT MORRIS.

One Sold Recently SE lows Philosophy OF
victim of SAt:on.s In.ratftude-
Robert Morris, the nnancier Of the
revolution, wrote in 1897, three months
before he began his four years con
fnement in a debtors prison, hu-
lnorous letter on his financial diff
cuIties to John Nicholson This let
ter was sold recently, says the Phil
acelphia Record, to an autograph col
lector for $22. a part Of it reads as
follows:
L have sworn to let nobody inside
of my house, and not to so outside Of
the walls myself. If 1 see them it is
out OF a window, 1 being upstairs and
they down. When 1 snuff the open
air it is on the top: and there is some
thing else to snuff there, unless you
keep to windwarc1, as you know
suits again. A curse on all suits,
say L If they We're good, comfortable
winter suits. one might dispose OF
them, the more the better; but these
- suits wherein a lawyer is the Fay-
lor neither good for man, woman, child
or beast Away with them, away with
them to Chief Justice Mckean. He
will dispose of them
DO 1 write like a man in distress or
! one deranged2 Perhaps I am both
| Goodnight. I wish you rest
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why He had Nerves.

"A dentists chair is not popular
retreat says an f street practitioner,
but I occasionally find persons who
like to 1inger- 1 have just finished
job for a youngster, who is a Harvard
freshman He came in the day after
Christmas and contracted to have his
teeth fixed, but said that hard study
had undermined his nerves and he
could only stand two sittings a week
He looked as healthy and hearty as an
OK, but 1 did not mind Three days
ago his father dropped in and asked
Doctor, can't you hurry up on
F'red's teeth %
Certainly said I, If his nervous
system will stand it He said it made
him nervous, and that he could only
stand it twice week.
Nervous system be BANKED
shouted the old man. AT home Fred
said that twice week was all the time
you could give him He is playing his
teeth to put two weeks more on his
vacation.
Il finished that job in the next TWEEN
| ty-four hours, and the young man
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The fondness of navy officers for
telling Jokes at each others expense is
wen known, and their yarns, like the
traditions of the Indians, are handed
down from one generation to the
next
Years ago there was a brusque ola
admiral upon whom many stores were
told-in most cases true ones
At one time. when the war ship OF
which the admiral wasNin command
was of the coast OF Portugal, the king
of that country expressed a desire to
visit an American man-of-war.
The admiral received the party with
great cordially, but, instead OF ad-
dressing the royal visitor as your ma
jesty," he Invariably called him
king
It was step this way. king Look
out Tor your head. king when show
ing him about the vessel, and before
his majesty departed the admiral con
vuised all within hearing by saying
Hospitality, king. come down to the
cabin and have a drink''-Lippincot s
Magazine.
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% ~ o 90 oo zee &c % % . 90
SEALS Or CHINESE EMPRESS.


The Imperial seals of the Dowager
Empress of China were recently sold
by auction in London. There are no
duplicates to these very interesting
and beautiful specimens of Chinese
art. and therefore they are OF special
value to the wealthy cOnnoisseur- The
seals are four in number, and are OF
green jadeStOne- They are of interest
to artists. for the strOng-minded dow
ager was much addicted to painting
water-colors, and to prevent any doubt
being cast upon them as not the genu-
inc product of her own imperial hand,
and that pOsterity should also be en-
Hghtened as to her genius, she used
to afIix one of these jadestone seals
upon them The phoenix is carved on
two of these seals. This is the special
mark or crest of an empress dowager
of the empire But the lady autocrat
was not satisfied with the phoenix
alone. Having usurped the reins of
govern rneut, she arrOgated to herself
the prerogatives of the emperor, and
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Connecticut stale. men.

One of the original thirteen states.
which has not had so large a represeu-
tation in the cabinets of the Presi-
dents of the United States as some
others, but has always had a conspict-
Gus part in national affairs, is Connec-
tfcut. It has had but ten appointments
to Cabinet places since the origin of
the Federal government There was
a Connecticut Secretary of the Treas
ury Wo1cott. in the Cabinet of Wash
ington; Connecticut Postmaster-Gen-
eral. Gideon Granger, in the Cabinet OF
Jefferson and Connecticut Secretary
of the Navy, Gideon Welles, in that Of
Abraham Lincoln
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superstit,ons of Great Men.

Napoleon was superstitious about the
way he put on his stockings Freder-
lex the Great and the Great Peter Of
Russia were superstitious about dozens
of things Marlborough. both as Jack
Churchill and the duke. was SupersJi-
tious as we'll as a thief and a traitor
Nearly all the Stuarts were supersti-
tious and double dealers in religion
Henry OF Navarro was supersutious,
but that never kept him from a thou
sand inhdelIties and adulterieS- All
the children of Catherine of Medici
We're scared to death by their supersti-
t1ons. but they could lie, cheat and
murder just as Well
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one OF xye-s Best.

L. R. StocllweII. the popular actor.
says that some years ago in San Fran
cisco when Peter Jackson. the co1ored
pugiIist, was feature IN reviai Of
Uncle Toms Cabin" 'tBilT' Nye was
to have Iectured at the Baldwin thea
ter, but was greeted by 50 small an
audience that ne excused himself and
went over to hear Jackson talking of
the pearly gates to little Eva After
the performance Stockwe1l met Eye in
the lobby of the thczter and he ex.
clafmed- Hello, Nye. What did You
think Of Peter?'' We'll responded
the humorist dry1y, "anatomically he
was great, but Uncle Ironically he was
the worst L ever saw
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added the dragon to her own emblem
of majesty. This makes the pair of
seals belonging to Yi-kun palace OF
especial value, and will be a token to
succeeding generations OF her usarpa-
ton and reality of power in the en-
pire. One OF the seals is OF an especi-
ally beautiful design. 1t is Of white
jade, the surface of which is 2 beauti-
full red color. 1t belonged to the en-
peror Nien Lung G736-95). and is
stated to have been carved by himself.
his majesty having been quite an artist
in his way. 1t bears the words 1T
is only the learned of the present day
who love the lore of the ancients.'
in the above cut are shown the i'm
preston of two seals, the dowager
empress ordinary seal and the en-
peror's Yi-kun seal. The inscription
of the former is translated *-Nourish
your mind and nurse your spirits,
while that OF the latter is Written By
the Imperial Hand in the Yi-Kun pal
ace
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CHANCES OF BABY BOYS.
1ossIbIIitiss of Their Eseaching the Very.
Highest Positions.

Probabilities of Their Reaching the Very
highest Positions.
The indianapolis Sentinel has been
doing some figuring in averages on
the baby boys chances in life. 1t says
that the chances are so .ooO. 900 to one
that he Will not become president of
the United States or vice president or
chief justice of the supreme court.
Yet it holds true that any baby boy
may reach either of these places-that
is to say. there IS a. possibility until
the phenomena of his development
surely count him out.
The chances are 40. 600 to one that
he win not be a United States senator,
1883 to one that he will not be a
member of the house of representa-
tives. and S2o, 600 to one that he will
never be governor of state. All
these figures are subject, of course,
to certain special circumstances, pos
sible or otherwise.
One may presume that an Ohio
boys chance of becoming president is
much better than the chance of a
Delaware or a Rhode Island boy #
he stays at home The chances are
SIS TO one that he win not go in
sane. 1.25o to one that he viii not be
blind. S64 to one that he Will not be
an inmate of public almshouse. 400
to one that he viii never be an en-
listed soldier or sailor, 1900 to one
that he Will never pe q city policeman
and 9.11T to one that he viii never
be president OF a national bank
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The travelling bag has undergone in
teresting changes within the last few
years, and has become a much more
handy article than it used to be- Re
Gently the valise of woven straw.
which weighs practically nothing at
all, and actually not more than a few
ounces, has come much into fashion.
but now this seems likely to be in it's
turn superseded by the paper travel
ing bag invented by a Pennsylvania
man. 1t is collapsible when empty so
that it can be stored or shipped in that
condition just like a fat sheet Of pa
per. When wanted for use IT may be
expanded at moments notice into
the form of a valise, with a suitable
misunderstanding Evening Post
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aern,nn Monks in 1tn1r.

IN 1890 a German Franciscan friar.
Father Bernard Joseph Dobbing, was
elected bishop of the ancient united
sees OF Sutri and Nepi. The story OF
his coming thither is remarkable
one. 1t was in the times of the Kul-
turkampf in Germany that a certain
number of F'ranciscans, driven out of
their own country. took refuge in italy
and purchased. a few miles out of
Rome. an abandoned old sanctuary.
SAINT Ella. near Nepi. Father Dobbing
was their superior Through their
restless energy and untiring zeal the
German friars soon brought back the
ancient place of pilgrimage to its
former celebrity. The church was re-
stored and decorated, new buildings
were erected. divine dignity was car
ried out with fitting dignity and splen-
dor. the fathers toiled in the confess
sional, in the pulpit, by missions and
retreats, so that their convent became
a focus of religion and sanctity for the
entire district. Their superior is now
bishop of the diocese. and is exceed
ingly beloved by his italian flock
Tablet.
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wan Paper Cost 100000.

Probably the most expensive paper
room in the world is the library of Col
William Rowland Amory of New York
1t is covered with certificates of stock
of company in which he became in
terested ten years ago and which went
under in a panic in Wall street before
it had been fairly launched.
The side walls represent $40, 0O0.' .
said Col Amory to-day. and the
frieze, which is made of the coupons
drawing 6 per cent interest, represents
SIS. 900.
1T seems an odd thing to do-to
have staring you in the face the re
mains of a lost fortune-but it was the
only way in which I could use the
bonds. and the idea struck me as being
unique when 1T first came to me-"
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Gomrers Allesorx.

When President Gompers was in
Boston he told a most amusing story
illustrating the principles of trade
unions
a boy one day was strolnng down
the street with his hands IN his pock-
cts, whistling merTiiy, when he MOTTO
ed a dog of yeI1owish color and un-
certain breed sitting on the curb
Walking up behind the dog he gave it
q vigorous kick The poor dog ran of
ye1ping, ana the boy continued his
walk AS the boy turned a corner he
met another dOg-a different kind of
dog-one OF the kind whose lip hangs
down at one side and which is very
bowlegged Did the boy kick that
dog2 No, sir. He stopped whistling
a nd carefully walked around it, and
didn't feel safe until he was out OF
| sight
And so it is with the union If it is
strong, no one will modest it
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A WONDERFUL AGE.
Most Wonderful of All It's Products If
Young America.


From the corner of Juniper and
Chestnut street IN Philadelphia, the
top of the city hall tower is visible
above the low roof of the old mint
The other afternoon 4 couple of rig
gers with the aid of ropes suspended
from the broad brim of Willie 2enn's
hat, Were working about the statue,
looking at that dizzy elevation no
larger than flies.
Many people, walking along Chest
nut street, stopped at the Juniper
street corner and gazed upward at the
intrepid workmen, nearly 500 feet
above the pavement A fussy old WON
an, who was near-sighted, elbowed her
way through the crowd.
What's the matter? what's the
matter?s- she asked.
Why spoke up a messenger boy.
-'sIarconi is up 6ere sending q wireless
telegram TO de mayor down at Charles
ton Ter to come home an all viii be
forgiven
rs it possible." exclaimed the old
woman, according to the Philadelphia
Record, peering upward through her
spectacles. This is indeed wonder
full age
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eamb,sng on ocean Liners.

In regard to gambling as a pastime
in crossing the ocean. Mrs TweedIe
who recently crossed from America to
England, says THE Atlantic liners
are hoJbeds of gambling An Ameri-
can beauty who is married to an Eng
lishman crossed the herring pond.
lately with a small party who played
bridge for six days for seven or eight
hours, as the weather permitted They
rarely went outside of the saloon, and
the moment the tables were. cleared
after q meal they sat down until they
had to make way for the next repast-''
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LOOKING FOR PRINCE HENRY.
New York Spectator Asked He Was
In

New York Spectator Asked He Was
In Army Wagon.
Amusing incidents occurred in the
crowds that were waiting at various
times to see Prince Henry In front
of the metropolitan Opera House the
night of the gala performance for
hours the driving rain had soaked the
thousands that filled Broadway
Mounted police galoped up and down
and trolley cars charged into the
swaying lines of the people The hours
dragged along and the time set for
Prince Henry's arrival passed, and
still there was no sign
Suddenly there was a scurry of hoofs
and rumble of wheels, and a squad
of the troop accompanying a forage
wagon gaIIoped up
There he is, There he Isl shouted
the excited crowd Then one solemn
old Yankee, who had been silently
waiting for hours. peered out from I'M
| der his UNI brella, aid. catching 81 ght
| of the army wagon anxiously inquired
| of the driver:
Say. Mr. Soldier. have you got
! Henry in there? '