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The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-09
Birds That Cannot Sing.


i being unusually large for so small bird In color they are a creamy white, boldly sprinkled over with brown. The bee martin is a fly catcher, and is so classified He is therefore related to the great crester fly catcher
 The great crested fly catcher is a type of the fly catcher family. He is about the size of the bee martin, possibly some what smaller. The color of this bird is a mixture of olive and sulphur, and not at all striking when seen a little way off. At close range you will be greatly pleased with him. There Is a sort of pea green cast that may not please the fas- tidious. The great crester fly catcher frequents the deep woods. He is a fussy, noisy bird but possesses no part of song. He will sit on dry limb and wait for a passing insect. at which he will make a quick dart with wide mouth, returning to the same place. as a rule. It is the habit of fly catchers to take food on the wing.
 The great crested's call mate is harsh and almost uncanny. Be1ng an Insect eater he is hereabout only in the sum- mer. a statement true of the whole fly catcher family.
 It seems to be a reasonable and just observation to say that the insect eaters | eaters are more peaceable and gentle in their natures. The chimney swallow is an exception, perhaps, to this rule, al- though his vital energy, displayed in his wing exercise, is inferior to none.
 The 1walIow Unique.
 The swallow is unique bird. His wings do not work together, but beat the air one at a time, the strokes of the win alt tnv ha rlo fr1U seen by anyone. There is only one other bird that makes the alternate stroke in the way that the swallow does and that Is the bat If you doubt the propriety of chasing the bat with birds, read the 14th chapter of Deuteronomy. It Is there chased with the lapwing and other birds. TT swallow spends his entire life on the wing, excepting the night time. All other birds stop to rest, but apparently this bird keeps constantly on the wing from morning to night. The swallows feet are very feeble from disuse It seems that nature is in the process of oepriving him of feet entirely, the condi- ton in which the ancients supposed the birds of paradise to be. The swallow makes an insecure flat nest down the chimney, or sometimes in hollow tree. The eggs are perfectly white It is wor- thy of remark that all birds whose nests are hid away from the light of day seem to have snow white eggs-the woodpeck- CT and the kinghsher may be mentioned. The kinghsher is the genius presiding over rivers. creks and lakes. His stri- dent voice becomes almost pleasant from it's association with the majestic streams of our country. This bird lives alto gsther on fish, which ne takes from the water by diving for them at sight. He ] Is there fore the bete nor Of the pisicul- turist In the course of a season king fisher will take a large number of fish from a pond and will greatly deplete the stock. The kingtisher tunnels long, deep hole into some convenient bank and makes his nest where t Is difficult to reach by any nest collector.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-09
The Crew That Never Sails.
0 ln Leslie's Weeklv.

Earl Mayo in Leslie weekly.
 The captains authority over an ocean liner, and equally, of course, his respon- siblity for her, extends only over the time when she is crossing the sea. Prac- tieally the responsibility ceases when she approaches land on either side, for the pilot assumes charge of her navigation as soon as he comes aboard. When the ship arrives at her pier or as soon, to be exact. as she Is within hailing dis tance, the captain is no longer in con- trol. She Is then under the authority of the marine superintendent, who Is in command of the piers and tugs and har- bor-front equipment of the line. and who takes charge of the docking of all ves- sels
 To bring a giant liner to rest at her pier is a delicate operation. The flow of the tide, the headway imparted by her engines before they stop the depth of the water, must all be taken into con- sideration, for the quarters are marrow. and if she were to ram the pier it would mean a bad smash-up. But with the skill of long experience the superintend- ent, by voice and hand. controls the great vessel perfectly. and with tugs helping her and cables drawing her she glides into her resting-place as quiet and easily as tired child slips between the covers at night.
 Practically, from the moment when the liner is made fast she is turned over to the crew that never sails. Her off cers remain on duty. and their work is as arduous and almost as incessant in port as at sea. But the law requires that the crew of each vessel shall be paid off and discharged at the end of every voyage. In the case of the liner they are again signed immediately. but during the period while the vessel lies in port they are not officially connected with her, and the work which naturally would fall to their lot is perfromed by the port crew.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-09
The Programme of Study.

"Every clear evening Prof. Theodore I. King makes observations with the twelve inch equatorial. From these and other observations Prof. Morgan and Miss Lamson, both of our staff, have computed the comets orbit. We can say now that it will trace a parabola through the heavens.
 Prof. Peters has photographed the comet several times with his six inch star camera"
 Yes" said Prof. Peters, with an hours exposure on July 2s the tail of the comet, which was shown to be double, could be traced to the edge of the plate or to a distance of nearly two degrees. It is a somewhat difficult operation to
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-08-09
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To Washington, D. C., and Return Via
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The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-21
SPOILED BY SUCCESS

julius Chambers tells in the Reader now
IN 1887. while he was editing paper in
Paris. he conceived the idea OF putting
on his editorial staff an old beggar woman
who had two wooden legs and who was a
well-known sight on the boulevard. 80
he paid her regular salary and had Drill
liant interviews written with leading men
and women of Paris which he published
over the signature 1.-THE Little Old Woman
on Two Sticks He says: 1t soon pc
came matter Of pride among English and
Americans to- know the wretched creature
who had become so famous. Money was
showered upon her by American and Eng
lish visitors who had not fathomed the
fumor of the situation, and veritably &C
cepted the Inference that the beggar was
on speaking acquaintance with all tho
notables of Paris The episode finally de-
yeIoped into a farce because the old
woman's vanity was reused by the atten-
tion notoriety brought her. She could not
read English, knew nothing about the
contents Of the articles and actually fiat
tered herself into the belief that she pos
sessed physical attraction for the gener-
ous-hearted men who gave her aims or
patted her tenderly on the shoulder. Like
many another useful member OF society,
she was spoiled by success, and one day
struck for higher wages"
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-21
skErcH OF JOHN STUART MILL

Describing his impressions Of John Stu
art MIL Sir Leslie Stephen says: II
heard him speak In the house OF commons.
Instead Of an impassive philosopher. saw
a slight, frail figure trembling with ner-
vous irritabi.ity. He poured out a series
Of perfectly formed sentences with an ex-
traordinary rapidity suggestive of learn
ing by heart, and when he lost the thread
OF his discourse closed his eyes for two
or three minutes until. after regaining his
composure he could again take up his
parable. Altho his oratory was defective,
he was clearly speaking with intense feel-
ing and was exceedingly sensitive to the
reception by his audience. Some of his
doctrines were specially irritating to the
rows of stolid country gentlemen, who
began bytlistenfng curiousiy to so strange
an animal as a philosopher and discovered
before long that the animals hide could
be pierced by, scornful laughter. To Mill
they represented Grass stupidity, and he
became unable either to conceal his con-
tempt or keep his temper"
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-21

was "a nipping and an eager air" which
sent us all below for our heaviest
wraps. While the ship poked her nose
between the tiny icebergs which liter
ally covered the surface of the sea,
there was cracking and tinkling as
the crystal shallops struck one
against another and. washed by the
tapping waves, took on the most fan
tastic shapes. 1t was dull magma
ton, indeed, which could not see birds,
and bears, and antlered deer, dancing
canoes and many other interesting
shapes on the glistening field of ice.
A glance ahead explained our UNI
usual surroundings. About five miles
off our port bow--you see we had been
on the sea for nearly three weeks and
had come to think in the language of
the f'c'sle-was seen a solid wall of
ice, apparently perpendicular, to q
height variously estimated from 800 to
$500 feet. A prudent shipmaster took
us no nearer than four miles, but near
enough for us to discover with our
field glasses the Jagged and massive
front of this white rampant, streaked
with blue where the assures opened
for hundreds of feet straight down.
we were in front of the Malaspina
glacier, the largest glacier in Alaska
Mount st. Elias stands back fifty miles
from the sea, the tallest of a group
of mountains from whose submits
flows down, thru the valleys between
the lower peaks emerging like islands
a. frozen mass Of ice and snow seventy
miles in width. The eastern half /:
what is known as dead glacier, anG
is held back from the sea by moran
the deposit of ages ground off thu
sides of the mountains by the sliding
aIipping ice field. The western half
before which we have arrived, il
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-21

and most satisfactory treatment Of
the Alaskan question by congress.
Southeast Alaska with white popu-
lation of $4,000 should be made ter
ritory by itself with it's capital at
Juneau; northwest Alaska, having
white population of about $4,000 now,
should constitute another territory
with it's capital at Nome, and the re-
malnder Of the district, the great CEN
trail and comparatively inaccessible
portion, should remain substantially
as 1t is till developments warrant a
change.
n HE people of Alaska are practi-
i cally united in the demand for
a delegate in congress. They
are entitled to a delegate and
congress has only hesitated on how
ficulties would attend the election of
one delegate for the whole district
that must be commended with in the
choice of territorial officers, and If
congress denies territorial organ
ization of the district as
would not be consistent to provide
for the election of delegate. APP
pointment by the president of some
resident of Alaska would be reason
ably satisfactory, but better still, II
two territories be erected, as above
suggested, would be the election OF d
delegate from each of the territories
and the appointment Of third from
the remaining district.
This plan may be far in advance OF
what the committee Of the senate may
approve, or think it possible to secure
for Alaska from congress-; but it is
an arrangement well warranted by the
| conditions as they exist and would
promote the interests Of the district
more than the creation of one great,
unwieldy territory. Instead of one
territory, the district might better re-
! main as it is.
! But as to the benefit to be gained
by having delegate in congress, there
| is no room for controversy. Alaska
has suffered enough from the activi-
ties of self-appointed delegates and
delegates representing political FAC
lions and special interests, and from
the lack of an authorized representa-
tive to press her interests on the at
tention Of congress; it has everything
| to gain from the presence in congress
of an honest man capable OF present
| ing the interests Of the district clearly
and convincingly before the commit
ii. S. McLain.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-21
STREET VIEW in slrkA, SHOWING the eREEk CHURCH.

is a. rich storehouse of the implements,
weapons. articles Of dress and all man
ner Of handiwork, ancient and mod
ern, of the Alaska Indians, as we'll as
the repository of many valuable and
interesting remains of the Russian oc-
cupation Of the country.
ID UT we are becoming surfeited with
d picturesque scenery and lit
tie tired Of commercially in
clined Indians. and are more in
terested in rambling idly about
the quiet streets Of this quaint
old town, where it is always 8 o'clock
in the afternoon and nothing ever
happens. Go to Sitka if you want to
rest; that's all they do there. And
who can blame them? No other occu-
patton would be in keeping with the
quiet seclusion of the place. You'll
understand it all in a very few hours.
There may be a big, busy, bustling
world outside somewhere, Of which
you were once a part, but you will
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-21

recognize and on account of which
they arc willing to stand up among
their clamcrous friends who are eagef
for home rule, as they call 1t, and
contend that the conditions are not
ripe,
.HE expression of sentiment varied
according to locality. From
Ketchikan to Skagway the pre-
sentiment was for terri
torial government along the Yukon
we heard almost nothing said about
it; at Nome opinion was divided again
and wds no doubt fairly represented
in the vote Of the citizens committee
on tire address presented to the SEN
among other things, asked for terri
torial government, but the vote Of the
committee on that proposition was
IL for to II against it.
The Alaskans expect that country to
become some day part of the United
States, that several states will be
carved out of that great district which
talk that way. The Nome memorial
SO expresses the hope of that COM
munity. They probably do not know
it, but just that possibility is one thing
which operates more or less effectively
against their chances for territorial
government. want to say distinctly
that so far as I have been able to dis
cover no prejudice against territorial
government on this account exists In
the minds Of the territorial committee,
but 1t is a fact that there is a sem
tirnent against territorial organization
in Alaska among leaders of the senate
who hold that territory outside Of the
United States as now constituted
should never be admitted to full mem
bership in the union of states, but that
the congress should retain complete
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-21

home government, and even Porto
Rico enjoys a larger measure Of
home rule than is accorded to
the people of Alaska, who are,
so far as the white popula-
ton is concerned, as familiar with,
and as thoroly trained In the art Of
self government as the people Of Min
nesota, for they are nearly all recent
residents Of some one of the states.
The fact is that the United States
government bought Alaska about
thirty-fve years ago and then laid it
aside and almost forgot about it. It
is true that an unsuccessful attempt
was made to govern 1t thru the mill
tary arm Of authority fora time, but
the presence of the military wrought
vastly more harm than good, and the
soldiers were withdrawn. A governor
and finally judge and a few other
district officers were appointed, till
now there are three judges and three
judicial districts with their court
officers; a collector Of customs and
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-21

take little interest in the fact. The
summer air is balny, and If the clouds
do come sometimes, the falling rain
only deepens the sense of satisfaction
you will feel in having got off the
earth, the busy earth. Who would
have expected to find up here on the
Alaskan coast a verftable lotus land?
Sitka was the capital, so to speak,
Of Russian America, and when that
vast territory was transferred to the
limited States. our flag, our symbol of
sovereignty, was run up first at Sitka.
Until recently Sitka has remained the
capital, but it retains now no evidence
of its former dignity except the resi-
dences Of the governor and the sur
geon general. All the other district
offices have been removed to the more
accessible and commercially impor-
tant city Of Juneau, on the regular
route of the steamers between Seattle
and Skagway. But without any or
gained territorial form Of govern
ment in Alaska, 1t doesn't make much
difference where the capital Is
T@ HIS matter of territorial form
Of government is one of the
most important matters on
which the senatorial committee
is expected to make recommen-
dations to congress. It was one
of the first things weIncluding
myself as an unofficial member of the
party nly-heard about on our
Alaskan tour, and one of the last. 1t
may surprise some who have not
given much thought to the matter to
know that this great district, nearly
half as big as the whole United
| States and containing a population
| of 10000 people. is governed entirely
from Washington, except in the mat
| ter Of local affairs managed by the
1 few municipal corporations they have
been allowed to organize. Congress
! has not failed to give to Hawaii a
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-21

900 reported In 1900, probably not over
$4,000 or 10000 are Eskimos, Indians |
and creoles. That leaves from 40, 900
to $4,000 whites, chiefly Americans,
scattering over a country nearly half
as big as the United States, with very
inadequate means Of communication
and transportation between different
sections. OF this American popula-
ton approximately one-third is In
southeastern Alaska, which may be de-
scribed as all that part between Yaku-
tat bay and Portland channel. where,
according to the late boundary de-
cision, Alaska begins. Another third,
roughly estimated, is at Nome, on the
Seward peninsula, and in all that
region tributary from St. Michael
north to the Kotzebue sound country.
The remainder are scattered along the
Yukon for 1,500 miles, along the
Tanana, UP on the headwaters Of the
Koyukuk in northern Alaska, down on
the KuskokWim In southeastern Alas.
ka, in the Valdez and the Copper river
valley on the Kenai peninsula and the
southwest islands. These three arbi-f
with the division of Alaska into judi
cial districts.
INT OW the people of southeastern
in Alaska have about as much in
| common with the people of the
! Seward peninsula as the people Of
Maine have with the people of Texas
and the people along the central Yu-
kon are more remote in point Of
Transportation and communication
from the Kenai peninsula than from
SAN Francisco. The nominal capital
is now at Juneau, which is as accessi-
t9ble from other parts of Alaska
las any place that could be Sc
Ilected. Suppose a legislature and
la delegate to congress were
/ to be elected and returns made and
held in the early summer the returns
might all reach Juneau in time to
have the votes counted and the re-
lsult announced before the summer
/ was over, but any officers whose pres
/ ence was required in Juneau would
be obliged to leave the Seward pen
1nsula before the freeze up, about the
i 10th nf October, and could not reach
home again till the next summer.
/ Still greater difficulties would lie
in the way Of officers chosen from
/ other sections. The telegraph line
from Valdez to Eagle and Rampant
and Ft. Gibbon and st. Michael and
i Nome will soon be completed, if it is
4 not already In operation, and will
1 BRING the remote parts Of this vast ex-
panse closer together, but the diff
culties Of travel remain and will till
1 railroads or wagon roads, the neces-
! slty of which was pointed out in a
4 previous article, are constructed.
1 These facts of the remoteness of
the different groups Of population
| from each other without adequate
4 means of transportation or communi-
4 cation are practical difficulties in the
way OF the satisfactory operation of a
territorial form of government which
4 many Of the people of Alaska duly
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-21

The bairnies cuddle doom at NIGHT
WI muckle TAUGHT an din.
'tOh, try and sleep, We waukrife rogues;
Your fathers comm in.'
They never heed word speak,
try to gle a froon:
But aye, hap them up, an cry,
ooh, bairnies, cuddle doon!'
Wee jamie WI the curly held
He aye sleeps next the wa
Bangs up an cries, Il want a piece
The rascal start them a..
rim an fetch them pieces, drinks
They stop awee the SCUM
Then draw the blankets up, and cry,
moo, weanies, cuddle doon!''
But ere five minutes gang, wee Rab
Cries DOT, frae meath the claes,
"Mither, max Tam gle over at anoe:
He's kittlin' wi his taos
The mischiefs in that Tam for tricks;
He'd bother half the toon.
But aye hap them up, and cry,
"Oh, BARNES, cuddle doon!''
At length they hear their fathers At,
An as he nears the door,
They turn their faces to the wa
While Tam pretends to snore.
"Hae a. the weans been gude?" he asks
AS he pits off his shoon.
| "The bairnies. John, are In their beds,
a An lang since cuddled DOOM
An just afore we bed oorsels
| We look at DOR wee lambs.
Tam has his arm roun' wee Rab's neck
An Rab his arm roun' Tan's.
lift wee jamie up the bed.
| An as straik each Groom,
l whisper, till me heart flls UP,
"Oh, bairnies, cuddle doonl''
The bairnies cuddle doom at NIGHT
WIZ mirth that's dear to me;
! But soon the big warl's cark an care
VIII quaten doom their glee.
1 Yet come what will to ilka ane,
| May He who sits aboon
| Aye whisper, tho their pows be baud.
/ ooh, bairnies, cuddle doon!'
Alexander Anderson.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-11-21
cuDDLE doom

These facts are pertinent and they
sgest, it seems to me. the proper