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LIVE FOR DAYS.
ON AN ICEBERG
Awful Experience of Three
Men Who Deserted Whaler
Beluga in the Bering Sea
ESKIMOS RESCUE THEM
Nearly Die From Exposure
and Want of Food Before
Natives Discover Them
Special Dispatch to The Can.

TACOMA, Dec. 10.-Living for three
days on floating icebergs in the Bering
Sea, without food or water was the
experience of Wynne Heryford, a
young variety actor of San Francisco,
who shipped from that city as a sailor
on the Beluga last March.
Heryford, along with eight other
novices, took a strong dislike to Mate
Seymour and resolved to desert the
vessel when an opportunity came. Six
of his companions left the whaler in
the Bering Sea and started over the ice
to the land, seven miles distant. Hery-
ford and two others followed half an
hour later. These three soon came to
broken ice, which arrested their prog
ress. Boarding a small piece of ice they
used their hands and legs as paddles
until the solid ice was reached again.
Halfway to land a current caught and
carried them fifteen miles seaward.
That night a counter current carried
them back toward land.
When within a half mile Of shore a
squaw and two Eskimo boys rescued
them with a canoe. For three days they
had had no food. Their hands and legs
were bleeding from contact with the
salt water. Their hunger had become
so terrible that they had discussed the
advisability of drawing lots to decide
which of the three should be killed for
food.
After filling up on seal meat and
drying their clothes in an Eskimo viii
lage, the trio took a long sleep. At
Teller they found the six men who had
preceded them. They took a schooner
for Nome. Heryford returned on the
steamship Roanoke on her last voy-
age. He is now playing in Seattle.
The San Francisco call., 1904-12-11
SENATOR CLARK DEEDS
PROPERTY TO HIS son
Transfer Considered by Many to Indi-
cate Politicians Intention to Re-
tire From Active Life.

MISSOULA, Mont. Dec. 10.-A deed
to all the property owned by Senator
w. A. Clark in Missoula and Powell
counties made to his son, William A.
Clark Jr., was filed here to-day. The
deed was signed by the Senator and
his wife, Annie E. Clark. Nearly thirty
closely typewriter pages were used to
describe the property conveyed.
The significance of the transfer can
only be surmised in this part of Mon
tana, but by many it is believed that
the Senator is disposing Of his holdings
in this State as completely as possible
and that at the expiration Of his term
as United States Senator he will retire
from the political and industrial life of
Montana forever.
The San Francisco call., 1904-12-11
MORE OF FAIRS PERSONAL
BELONGINGS ARE SOLD
Storm Fails to Keep Curious Crowd
From Rooms Where Auction Is
Being Held.

NEW YORK, Dec. 10.-Despite the
storm to-day a throng, Of people. for
most part women prompted largely by
curiosity, filled the Knickerbocker Art
Galleries where Charles Z. Smith sold
more of the jewels and other personal
effects Of the late Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
l.. Fair. So eager was the crowd to see
these gems and to witness their dis
pcsal that many stood for hours, and
women who were unable to find seats
perched on window sills and elsewhere.
There were more than one hundred
numbers sold for a total Of 1919,
which added to the amount obtained at
Fridays sales make a grand total for
the two days of S42,279.
The San Francisco call., 1904-12-11
Selects a Site for Filipino village.

PORTLAND, Or, Dec. 10.-Two of
the big tribal chiefs of the Igorrotes
of the Philippine Islands in charge OF
DIR. T. K. Hunt, who will bring over
four Filipino villages to Portland dur
ing the Lewis and Clark Exposition
visited the fair grounds to-day. Dr.
Hunt selected a site for the village on
Government Island and will also put
a Filipino theater and amusement
palace on the Trail.
The San Francisco call., 1904-12-11
LIVES AND PROPERTY
DESTROYED BY EXPLOSION
Bursting OF Tank of Glycerin Kills
Three Men and Does Much
Damage Along River
CATLETTSBURG. KY, Dec.

CATLETTSBURG. KY, Dec. 10
An explosion Of a tank of glycerin
blew to atoms three men, totally de-
molished three boats. splintered a big
raft Of logs, smashed many windows
along Front street and did much dam
age 10 property along the river front
to-day. The explosion occurred on the
river below the wharf from causes
which viii never be known.
Three men. John and James Brown.
brothers, and Alexander MCGUIRE
were taxing zoo quarts Of the explo-
sive to Maysville, where it was TO have
been used in shooting wells. Their
boats were slowly making way down
stream when the explosion occurred.
The San Francisco call., 1904-12-11
Compromise i'm Theater Hats.

PARIS. Dec. 1o.-Compromise is the
latest phase in the battle over theater
hats, and Partisan modistes are di-
vided. Lewis makes an enormous Louis
Treize with a great Amazon feather.
Caroline Reboux observes that her eli
ents shy at the recently created coif-
fures, so she is introducing small fiat
hats of gold lace with small roses COW
ering the crown. A bright velvet cock
ade gives smartness to the bonnet, and
the idea is already successful.
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Torpedo-Roat pestroxcrs safe.

TOXIC. Dec. lot is reported
here that since the commencement of
the bombardment Of the Russian feet
in Port Arthur harbor the japanese
observers on 203-Meter Hill have net
seen anything Of the Russian fleet of
torpedo-bOat destroyers and it is pre-
sumed il has taken shelter behind
JaOu Mountain
The San Francisco call., 1904-12-11
Paris Gambling in Sugar.

PARIS, Dec. 1l-Wild sugar gam
bling is proceeding on the Bourse de
Commerce. All classes of Parisians
have been bitten by the mania
The San Francisco call., 1904-12-11
Russian Ensign Kills Himself.

lutine Of the Russian torpedo-boat de-
stroyer Prosolivy, a son Of Major
General Malutine, shot and killed
himself with a revolver to-day.
The San Francisco call., 1904-12-11
Sues Raisin Growers, Association.

FRESNO. Dec. 1O.--A suit has
been brought by A. L. McCray against
the Raisin Growers Association for
s35,79S 80. To McCray has been as
signed the claims for rental, storage
and packing Of seventeen packing
firms. The significance OF the suits
at this time is that the final settle
mems Of the affairs Of the association.
which failed to reOrganize this year,
will be delayed until the suit is fin
ished. The raisin association is prac-
tically bankrupt.y
The San Francisco call., 1904-12-11
New POSTMASTER Appointed.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 1o.-Mfchael
]. O'Brien has been appointed post
master at Floriston. Nevada County,
California.
The San Francisco call., 1904-12-11
John p. Irish in Washington.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 10.-Colonel
John P. Irish of Oakland registered
to-day at the Hotel Johnson.
The San Francisco call., 1904-12-11

Every man who really thinks that
women are angels Is foolish. Women
themselves don't claim Il.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-12-17
GETTING the Habit.

It is wonderful what creatures of
habit we are and how short a time it
takes to form a habit. For instance, if
you get into the idea that you need a
lot of sleep the first thing you know you
are sleeping all the time, and you
haven't a chance to do anything. A
certain philosopher said recently, THE
human race eats and sleeps too much"
Well, there's a good dead in that Would
you believe that men spend more time
In sleeping than Women2 They seem
to require il. A woman will stay up ev
cry night until 1 or in the morning
and yet not show it at the end of the
week while course of action like that
would kill a man in no time. Perhaps
there is one good reason for this-wo
man can go on her nerves in default of
real physical strength. and man doesn't
seem to have that second self to fall
back upon He needs the real thing; he
needs sleep.
At a holiday dinner party the women
were discussing the strenuous and the
simple life The majority thought that
the simple life is the monotonous life,
and I'm afraid that is true. Possibly,
after all, those of US who lead strenu-
Gus lives do so mainly because we
choose to. We could if we wished cut it
all out and live simply by the plain ex-
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cessful enameling are a dry surface and
a smooth one, also a brush that is soft
and sheds no hairs. 1t is all up with
you if your brush sheds a single hair
and don't f1atter yourself that a sec
ond coat will hide imperfections. That
is just what it won't do. With enamel
paint the first coat is the test of sue
cess.
My advice is, don't do it at all.
Have you noticed the new shade
which is becoming so fashionable? 1t
is the deepest sort of deep red, a
cross between garnet and claret. Vel
vet suits of this material are ultra chic.
One 1 saw recently had it's skirt plated
into a sort of hip yoke and was then
allowed to fall in graceful folds. The
short blouse pouched over a wide crush
belt trimmed in the back with five
cut steel and gold buttons. A narrow
vest effect ran down the front. This
was composed of a tiny pale pink frill
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Theory and Practice.

In the third act of Becky Sharp
Becky gives vent to a soliloquy which
has touch of pathos, not to say trag-
edy, in it, Sitting before the fire after
a dinner which has Endorsed her re-
Gently gained social position, she bit
terly voices her fatigue and her dis
gust at the unending labors of the So
cial climber. why" she exclaims. 1.-The
flesh of my face aches from smiling!"
Her voice is tired uttering compliments,
she is weary of everything; she would
like to go away anywhere to get rid of
it all. Yet when Rawdon Crawley, her
big, simple minded husband, proposes
that they go to live in the country and
give it all up Becky recoils in disdain.
What" she exclaims. rats and
cheese and kissesi"
Well. she knew the simple life was
the monotonous one, and she did not
dare to try it
1 don't think that people born ener-
getic can stand the simple life. 1t
would drive them mad. They want to
be in the whirl of things making their
way, fighting if necessary, and in GER
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affectionate thoughts which, some say,
put out upon the ether, take actual form
in delicate and radiant flowers of kinds
unknown in the sphere of externals.
There are those who say they have in
rare visions seen these flowers floating
about the heads of those who habitually
send forth good will and affection to all
mankind, known and unknown. Who
knows whether it may not be so, for the
human race has only just begun its up
ward climb from the animal toward the
intellectual and spiritual.
We celebrate Christmas because the
Founder of the Christian religion was
born on that day. The new departure
in Christmas observance may well be-
gin with the Inauguration of the uni
versal good will and harmony which
that Founder above all things else en-
joined. 1t is ill fitting that the day
which heralds peace on earth, good will
to men, should be married by one
thought of anger, Impotence or self
ishness. Ill fitting, indeed, is it that
among a race destined for the loftiest
development such thought should mar
any day of the year. The golden age
will be inaugurated on our planet when
we obey the very greatest injunction of
the Christmas born Teacher whom we
vainly imagine we are following:
"a new commandment 1 give unto
you. that We love one another"
KATHERINE BLADES.
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gentle faced, gray haired matron. She
said: 81 think the average life is mo-
notonous one. 1t seems to drift that
way
Eyes," agreed another woman who
embroiders very prettily and spends a
good deal of her leisure hours that way.
But 1 felt like answering, IF your
lives are monotonous you have only
yourselves to blame"
OF course I didn't. What was the
use?
I honestly believe it, though. The
average woman after marriage slumps
both mentally and physically. If she
didn't allow herself this luxury she
would have enough to occupy her, and
her life wouldn't be monotonous.
There is nothing like progression.
Once the microbe of progression gets
hold of you it gives you the most fas-
cinating feeling in the world, a feeling
you can't get rid of until you die You
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likely places too. For twenty-four
hours she attempted to dry that article
of furniture. The more she tried to
quiet it the more it wept, until toward
the end it reminded one of nothing
more than respectable chiffonier i'm
mersed in pale colored soup. Let me
give a piece of advice to the amateur
interior decorator. Leave the enamel
ing of large pieces severely alone, es-
pecially in white light colors. 1t is
no work for a nervous person, which is
perhaps the reason why Swedes make
the best enamelers and house painters.
l am sure I never saw an excitable
Italian who was much good at the job.
Wicker chairs enamel beautifully.
Any one can do those and picture
frames and bamboo articles, but be-
ware of thinking that because you can
accomplish those little stunts you have
graduated into more advanced work.
I think the chief requisites for sue
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name be one of the most common, in
any city of the United States and many
in foreign lands. Some of the things
she does seem supernatural, yet they
are not at all SO. They are only the re-
suit of uncommon natural gifts, long
training and painstaking work. Once a
woman in England wrote to the post
master general at Washington asking
him to find her brother who thirteen
years before had migrated to 'Massa-
chusetts, American Her brothers
trade was mentioned by the English
woman. The postmaster turned the
letter over to Mrs. Collins. She reason
ed that a man with the trade named
would probably be in a manufacturing
town. On this idea she worked till at
length she actually found the man him
self at 4 harrington street, Lowell.
Mass, and Immediately reported his
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A year passed away, and another
letter came to the dead letter office
from the sister in England. 1t went to
the dead letter Office because it merely
bore on the outside the brothers name,
with the address, "a harrington street,
United States of America" 1t, too, was
handed to the blind reader" and the
moment she clapped eyes on it she re-
called the man in Lowell, Mass, had
the letter forwarded to him, and he re-
ceived it duly.
The woman expert examines 1000
dead letters daily, and of these 95 per
cent are forwarded to the persons for
whom they are intended. For many
years it has been the custom of Mrs.
Collins each year to take brief sum-
mer trip overseas for recreation.
ALICE w. MORTIMER.
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Chunky" look.
Those who cannot afford fur coats
will doubtless avail themselves of the
sensible style of fur lined coats made
of CLOTH Unlike the parvenu who or
oered her cloth coat lined with. price
less Russian sable these garments are
simply lined with gray and white squir-
rel, although some of them have fine
collars of mink and marten. They are
ideal for driving or snowy weather, and
in white and pale gray they are used
even for evening coats. Now that we
have reached Christmas a fur lining to
the evening coat is almost a necessity.
The clever girl this season can easily
have a fur hat. The shapes are so sim
pie, merely little boatiike affairs that
any one with ordinary skill can make. It
really is not half so hard rs it looks, or,
what is more to the point, as the MILL
ners would have you believe. But, then,
as one miliner said to me. IF women
keep on succeeding in making their
hats we shall have to go out of bust
ness"
But we can't help it, can we, when
fashion demands that we have a hat to
match every gown?
Let the milliners charge less.
KATE CLYDE.
New York.
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Busiest ar Christmas Ofme
Mrs. Patti Lyle Collins
. i'm e
DEAD LETTER EXPERT

Then Nellie puts her letter in an en-
velope, addresses it simply Santa
Claus" shoves it into a letter box and
waits. Not so many boys as girls
write letters to the saint, but every
now and then a boy, too, will write:
Dear Santa Claus-PIease don't forget
to bring me pair of skates for a Christ
mas present. ARTIE BENSON.
1t is sad to think how many of these
childish letters are never answered
because Santa Claus never gets them.
For some of the children of poverty
who write them there never was, never
will be, any Santa Claus, and these
most of all it is sad to think of.
The letters must cause many a smile
that is not all a smile to fit over the
face of Mrs. Collins, the dead letter
ONCE clerk, to whom these missives are
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q BOUT this time of year Mrs.
IA Patti Lyle Collins is uncom-
a monty busy even for her as
n N she sits at her desk in the
dead letter division of the United States
postoffice department at Washington.
This is the season when Christmas
packages are lost in the mails for want
of proper addresses. 1t is the season
when little children in all parts of the
Union write letters to Santa Claus.
There are thousands of letters writ
ten to Santa Claus every Christmas
that Santa Claus never gets. The little
Dnes. In implicit faith in the saint who
brings holiday gifts. write letters of
this sort:
Dear Santa Claus-Please bring me
big dolly that can really cry and with
eyes that wink.
NELLIE JOHNSON.
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STRANGE BELIEFS.

Many Chinese believe, it is said, that
a kingdom exists where all the inhab-
itants are pygmies, one where all are
giants, another where all are women
and still another where every person
has a hole through the center of his
body so that by means of pole thrust
through his body he may be carried
from one place to another. In sub
sanitation of this belief they say that
they have seen pictures of them.
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A Household Economist.

My ears are full of the plants of an
energetic creature who tried to enamel
a set of drawers for a Christmas pres
ent. oh, me, and also oh, my! She
will hardly try it again. She splashed
the floors, she splashed the wall paper,
she tracked the stuff all over the rug,
and as the climax her weeks laundry
fell in a crumpled pile against the new
ly painted side, SO that every article
received a fine. beautiful spot, some of
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tain moods the
more opposition
tn e m errier.
Where is the
thrill of a game
where all is
easy? It's a
pleasure when
y o u h a V e a
brain to pit it's
cunning against
that of other
brains and to
let the best one
win.
And there is
so much in the
world!
We haar of
patient plodding
w o m a n k i n d
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dlscussion bu the leomen.

IL with holly and mistletoe. When each
of these is surmounted by a red candle
and red shade the effect is charming.
But now that my presents are all
bought and out of the way, 1 can't help
INDUCING in a few thoughts not COM
mon to Christmas. nor, for that matter,
to any season.
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ing and one of cream white. The
sleeves were in the shape of the fash
ionable double puff, than which nothing
is more up to date. The long cuffs were
trimmed with black silk braid, and this
odd touch was also to be observed
around the collarless effect.
The copper shades are going out just
as fast as any shades can go out. After
all, it was hideous fad, and this range
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always want to be doing things you
never did before, to be moving on.
1 think there are only two things very
much to be dreaded in this world
sickness and stupidity.
Given good health, a strong brain and
passable looks, and all men are kings
and all women are queens if they
choose to be.
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A PAYING INVESTMENT.

The value of quartz lodges at Nome
has been demonstrated by Mrs. Charles
Lane of San Francisco, who bought a
prospect on creek two years ago and
put ten stamps in operation. She has
now returned nearly half million dol
lars better off on her transaction.
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The Drifters,

At the dinner party last night most
of the men-fnely alert men they were,
too-united in praising the strenuous
life, the life that crowds all it possibly
can into the twenty-four hours. But the
opinion of the women was voiced by a
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away in the dullness of monotonous,
oppressive household. Well, patient,
Flooding womankind has only itself to
thank for that.
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OF DlllOuS cOIOrS
always depress-
ed me in every
shop where /
saw it.
Box coats of
fur are smarter
than anything
else this season.
In fact, the fur
garment pinch
ed in at the
waist seems to
be a thing of
the past. 1t
might as well
be, for, no mat
ter how pinched
in, it never gave
it's wearer any
I hi N o. In I a
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RE ID "A ND G. REEN
DIME r PARTIES
MEeg Christmas
KATE CLYDE'S YULETIDE COMMENT
,YDE'S YULETIDE COMMENT


pedient of doing without things. But
would we be happy? Wouldn't we miss
the toot and scramble, the excitement
of getting there?"
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sCHEIIlE Is IIIOsL 81 BBEsLIFG OF
Christmas and ChrisstmaS week 1t can
be admirably carried out with ropes Of
evergreen in which are imbedded tiny
red electric bulbs which glow like holly
berries. The common iron candlestick
may be transformed for Christmas
week into a thing of beauty by winding
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face cloth. 1t is made plain on the
shoulders, the becoming fuIlness being
supplied at the waist line. Braid forms
a simulated bolero, and the little waist
coat is fastened with handsome large
buttons, which also trim the shoulders.
cuffs and bolero. An enormous SQUARE
buckle fastens the girdle.
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TO WORK FOR WOMAN SUFFRAGE
Lady Cook has come to America fror,
London to work for the ballot for We
men in this country. She is wealthx,
and popular in London society. Sbs
will remain in the United States tn
present winter. making her headouar.
ters in New York city,
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A SMART CHRISTMAS BLOUSE.

The blouse illustrated is one of the
smartest models of the season and is
happiest in effect when carried out in
one of the fashionable shades of fine
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@HIS is the time of the year to
give red and green dinner
parties. This bright color
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