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town on the straits. and where there were
but mud tracks scarcely more than
decade ago miscellaneous collection of ad-
venturers from every cline under heaven
have built an electrically lighted city of
1000 population. The adjacent wastes
north, have been converted into produc-
tive sheep ranches, while among those
of TERRA del Fuego, land of cannibals,
across the straits mines have been de-
veloped. Punta Arenas, the center of
these industries displays coaling sta
ton, good wharves and warehouses, sew
eral banks, daily paper and choice
assortment of sailors barrooms. For the
accompanying photograph of this town.
as well as for the other pictures used
herewith, the writer is indebted to the
Philadelphia Commercial Museum.
Magellan's friends, the giant Patagoni-
ans, will be quite the most interesting peo-
pie with whom Jack will rub elbows
world. THESE people, who will trade the
clothes on their backs for liquor, are
generally listed as the tallest race of
man. They are nomads who practically
live on horseback throughout the day
and sleep of nights under hides stretched
upon poles. They never battle, but daub
themselves unsparingly with paint and
grease, and the only clothing of either
sex is a mantle flowing from waist to
ankle. The men carry knives and bolas,
but tnasmuch as they drink and quarrel
when they come to Punta Arenas, they
are always disarmed on entering that
town. When on the trail they eat horses,
which they drive with them in herds,
but they prefer the flesh of the nearly ex-
terminated ostriches. which they do not
breed but hunt wild with their deity
thrown bolas. If Jack wishes to bring
home to his sweetheart a souvenir of this
strange people he may buy for her one
| of the beautiful ostrich robes which they
| make from the breasts of the young birds
Glaciers Of Emerald and Sapphire.
Some of the most magnificent scenery
on earth will be enjoyed west of Punta
Arenas. Now the white ships will pass
In single file close between towering preci-
! pices crowned with dazzling glaciers of
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sapphire and emerald. To the south, il
the weather be clear, may be seen Mt
Sarmiento, which Darwin likened unto "a
hundred frozen Niagaras." Out of the
furious gales apt to be laden with snow
on this midsumme: day of the fleets pass.
ing in February.
Skulking behind trees at the waters
edge. or with frightened eyes peeping
from huts in the snowy cliff shelters, may
now be seen the cannibai Fuegians OF
"Firelanders," SO called because when
ever ship Is wrecked along their coast
their beacon fires, blazing from cliff to
cliff, signal for hundreds of canoes to
collect around the vessel, like vultures
about a fallen beast. Smaller than the
Patagonians, they are by some ethnolo-
sists relegated to the lowest stratum of
humanity
are the sole garments of those seen to-
ward the east end of the straits, those
10 the west preferring cloaks of sea otter.
But although living in perpetual winter
all go naked the greater part of the
time. They train their dogs to driv
fish into shallow water, where the men
scoop them up while the women dive in
the greater depths for mollusks and sea
eggs. The men and women, in rude
canoes, often approach passing ships and,
stripping themselves of their otter skin
cloaks-commonly worth $40 or S25 apiece
-oner them in exchange for biscuits or
tobacco. Some time ago they dined upo1
an Episcopal missionary who had gone
down TO save their souls, and doubtless
they would enjoy a sirloin of Jack Tar
If given the chance
A three-thousand-m sail due north UP
the Pacific without stop will now bring
the fleet to Callao, Peru, on February IS.
This port is about as far south of the
equator as Barbados is north of it, and
the fleet will now have Travelled 10. zoe
miles In reaching 1t, whereas if the Pan
| anna canal were built the trip through II
| to the same port would be but 5000 miles
| or LOO miles less. Callao, although it can
show 10000 people, is not of itself the
| veriest maelstrom of excitement, but ii
is the port of Lima. nine miles inland
| where Jack will spend a red-hot Washing
toms birthday. and the four days before
| also the several thereafter
Sights of Lima.
| Lima has much to show him. Once the
capital Of all South America, the seat OF
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about New Years day when he passes the
equator. just off the mouth of the great
Amazon. Turning the easternmost angle
not stopping until he reaches Rio de
Janeiro.
Sights Of Rio.
Rio, where the anchors will drop on
January II. is very nearly on the tropic
Of Capricorn. 1t is about as far south of
the equator as Havana is north of it, but
the seasons are reversed 1t will be sum-
mer when Jack lands there, but the
weather will be damp and unpleasant
Still he will find the most magnificent
harbor in the world, and thriving city
the largest In South America-with a
population as great as that of Pittsburg
or Cincinnati; with crowded streets, big
public buildings. handsome churches.
beautiful parks and picturesque suburbs.
Interspersed with these he will find also
many historic structures, for this capital
Of Brazil is over $50 years old. He will
view the favorite haunts of the Emperor
Dom Pedro I, and his consort, the good
empress, Leopoldina- sister of Napoleon s
second wife. He will visit the Sac Sc
bastiao Church. built in 1857: also the
National Museum. Botanical Gardens.
naval and military academies the presi-
dent's white palace in its magnificent park
Of palms, and the various other palaces
occupied by the executive departments
and houses of congress.
In the outlying country villages he will
see many little houses with little white
1ags flown Ito keep off the evil eye"
At his every meal ashore he will be
deluged with wine, good bad or indiffer-
emf; for the humblest in Rio is wined
thrice a day by his master. But II Jack
undertakes any serious wooing in this
South American metropolis he must court
the whole family along with the maid who
lays the slightest claim to responsibility.
From Rio the fleet will strike out in the
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Rather High.

A group of tourists were discussing
Europe in the smoke room of the Lusita-
mia.
II put up in Paris" said a Californian,
Eat the Bristol. That is, Undoubtedly, the
dearest hotel in the world. You can't get
rooms there under 40 francs a day, nor a
meal. even a table d'hote meal, under II
francs. Thus, at the very least. It costs
you 20 francs, or s14, a day, at this quiet
and modest-looking hotel in the race
Vendome.
II met at the Bristol J. Pierpont Nor
fan. jr. Mr.. Morgan had a splendid suite.
I didn't begrudge him his weekly bill.
I'VE joked each other a little about
the Bristol prices, and Mr. Morgan said:
DO you know, sir, these prices in their
height remind me Of those tremendous
trees of yours in California? I under
stand-correct me If err-that your red
wood trees are SO high that it takes two
men and a boy to look to the top of them.
One looks till he gets tired, the second
begins where he left off, and SO on"
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TRINIDAD.EAST INDIAN COOLIES.

was attacked by "a race of giants" whom
our man-o'-warsmen. too, will behold.
These Straits of Magellan are some $40
miles long In the channel which Admiral
Evans will pick, which has about the
average width of the Hudson river. The
land on both sides belongs to Chile, which,
happily, has surveyed the channels and
dotted the shore line with lighthouses.
Only steamers can pass through such a
narrow labyrinth with safety; hence sail
Ing ships go clear around Cape Horn
when passing from the Atlantic to the
Pacific. Our square-rigged sloop-of-war
years ago. but it took her eighty-three
days to do it. Our big fleet, although
containing larger ships than ever ventured
through before, could pass in a day If no
stop were to be made and If the weather
were favorable.
If! The very worst weather in the
world is the proud boast Of this dazzling
maze of blue sea and green glaciers. The
Aeolus who rules it's winds is most lenient
about New Year day; and it will not be
long after that when the peace armada
mingles Its white with that of the snow
drifts in these precipitous cliffs. The
eastern half of the trip will be the better
as to weather chances, but the poorer as
to scenery. The shores begin grassy, low
and destitute of trees, but as the middle
of the course is approached the trees in
crease in number and the shore in height.
giants who plagued Magellan; on the
left, TERRA del Fuego, '1and of fire. and
of cannibals. Thus things will be for
some 200 miles. until the armada, on jan
uary 81. makes its third anchorage. now
at Punta Arenas,
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She Had Soldiered.

Marshall Geer. the chairman of the floor
committee Of the New York Cotton Ex-
change. was congratulated the other day
on the superb order that his committee
maintains.
1--WE do It by working together" said
Mr.. Geer. I'VE could accomplish nothing
otherwise. Not to work together is, you
know. a disastrous thing. remember the
time of the bicycle craze"
The young man smiled.
''In the time of the bicycle craze. set
out. one hot August afternoon. on a
tandem with a pretty girl. There was
before us stiff thirty-mile spin.
well. worked like galley slave that
afternoon. The perspiration simply rained
of me. I could hear my overworked
heart beating thunderously. My face
was a kind of blush red. But the girl
kept beautifully cool.
And at our rides end. as I leaned the
machine against the hotel porch, she
touched one of the pedals delicately with
her forefinger and said:
by the way. what are these little
twirigigs for?"
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of motors that are at once very light and
very powerful.
What a useful thing modern invention
u.s." said Mr.. Beachey. with a laugh. II
know. for instance. a Toledo man who
started the photograph going suddenly
the uther night.
"His wife looked I'D from her book.
What kind of a record is that?' she
cried. Tt sounds like a dog fight in a
sawmill.'
"It is your own record said the hus-
band, trfumphantly. I set the machine
on you last night in your sleep. Now,
maybe, you'll believe that you snore."
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} BY AND ABOUT WELL-KNOWN PEOPLE,

cent club meeting, Mr.. Rockefeller said:
Yes, training is an art. The simplest
appearing Of canine performances is,
properly understood, difficult thing. 1t
looks easy, but it is hard; and thuS'-Mr.
Rockefeller smiled-"tihus 1t is like the
man at the photographers
This man. sitting for his portrait, said
impatiently to the artist:
"'Well, have got now the pleasant ex-
preston you desire?'
eyes, thank you,' said the photograph
er. That will do nicely
"'Then hurry up growled the man. Tt
hurts my face"
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Easy Reading.

Max Goldberger, author of 1.-The Land
of Unlimited Possibility" is firm be-
lever in Americas future, and has mold
ed all Germany to his opinion.
'Mr. Goldberger made a thorough study
of US during his visit here" said a NIL
waukee banker. eat dinner that l gave
him, ne expressed the greatest confidence
in our financial. social and political sta
bilitv.
He said that everything pointed up
ward, and the signs of prosperity were as
easy to read in America as the signs OF
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Lifeless Englishwomen,

From the Lady's Pictorial.
There must be something in the charge
of lifelessness which has recently been
brought against English women by an
American critic, for the selfsame opinion
mas Just been expressed by French critic
who is otherwise enthusiastic about ms
The latter compares US to beautiful dolls
beautifully dressed, absolutely charmin q
to look upon, but lacking the breath oil
life. -
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a.
A Golf One.

L. c. Hull. the young American who
won nearly all the important events in
the freshman sports at Oxford University,
Is good at every game but golf
At Shinnecock Hills one afternoon. a
New York athlete saw Mr. Hull retiring
toward the dressing room dsconsolately.
How many holes have you played? p
the New Yorker asked.
''Oniy three or four said Mr. Hull.
"Onlv three or four in two hours?" cried
the New Yorker.
WELL" explained Mr.. Hull, 'it takes
me so long to put the turf back
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reminded me of Tom Fargus, friend of
my Frisco days.
Tom, one morning, expected a man to
call and pay bill. While he was waiting
for the man a summons came for him to
go out. Before going he put this notice
on his door:
Have gone out for half an hour. Will
De back soon. Been gone twenty min
utes alre ady.'"
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Brave Bill.
Photographic Proof.

Lincoln Beachy. the well-known balloon
list. was talking in Toledo about Henry
Farmans recent marvellous flight with his
aeroplane in Paris.
1.-THE aeroplane will some day rule the
air." he said. Modern invention makes
this probable, particularly the invention
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The Safe Way.

During recent spell Of bad weather,
when the water supply was unusually
muddy, a young woman of Philadelphia
asked DR.. S. Weir Mitchell, the famous
author and physician, how she could best
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A Look That Hurt.

William G. Rockefeller is the president
Of the National Beagle Club and an au-
thority on dogs no less than on finance.
Discussing the training OIL dogs at re-
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No Smoker.

The Bishop Of London at dinner in
Washington told a story as the cigars
came on about one of his predecessors.
when DR.. Creighton was Bishop of
London" he said. ''he rode on train one
day with small. meek curate.
"Dr. Creighton, an ardent lover of to-
bacco. soon took out his cigar case, and
with a smile he said:
"'You don't mind my smoking, I sup
pose?
The meek. pale little curate bowed and
answered humbly:
mot II your lordship doesn't mind my
being sick.
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A&
V@%

head as he hastened, and snarled at my
cousin:
Go to Bedlam, I'm farmer but
thank goodness, I'm not a loonatic"
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wake Of Magellan and follow it 5000 miles
before the next stop. The first third of
the way will still lie along the Brazilian
coast, then little Uruguay will be passed.
after which Argetina's shoreline will be
followed for some 1900 miles. Ever since
the tropic Of Capricorn was passed. some
fifty miles below Rio. our boys have
been in the south temperate zone, where,
although January is on the wane, 1t has
been midsummer all the while. But as
they have approached the south pole they
have found the normal midsummer
weather. growing cooler. just as If passing
up the Alaskan coast in our midsummer.
here in the northern hemisphere. So what
was said in the beginning about Jacks
passing from hot sunny Christmas to
midsummer Of SHOWS will now appear
more lucid.
The eastern mouth of the Straits Of Ma
gellan will be reached near the end Of
January. which in this reversed calendar
Of the seasons, corresponds to our late
July. While skirting lower Patagonia,
which Hes on the southern end of Argen-
tina-the bottom point of the South Ameri-
can eg-o-mutton-our white leviathans
will be in the same latitude Of the south
ern hemisphere that lower Alaska occu-
pies in the northern.
Wonders of Magellan Straits.
The weirdest, widest journey on which
feet of any flag ever put out is now to
commencc-one which. while imbuing our
blueJackets with constant wonder and ex-
element. will amaze and doubtless terrify
the aborigines Of the shore, whose widest
dreams have never pictured to them such
monsters Of the deep as these Of ours.
It has been 367 years since Magazines,
whom early spelling reformers dubbed
Magellan, sacrificed a good ship in the
discovery Of this circumbendibus bearing
his name. And that was strenuous sea-
son for the plucky Portuguese-a mutiny
On the Patagonian shore, where also he
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The Money Hunger.

James r. Keene, the famous New York
financier. said at dinner of the recent
panic:
1.-THE way men hungered. after money
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Glaciers of Emerald and Sapphire.

safeguard herself in drinking the local
beverage.
First boil it, DR.. Mitchell answered,
then filter it. and afterward-drink gin
ger ale"
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southernmost Town on Earth.

earth-a former convict station of Chile.
better known as Sandy Point-boasts Of
the climate of the Klondike and the lati
tude (nearly) OF Sitka. It Is the only
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something else were easy to read in Heinz
Wienerschnitzel.
Heinz Wienerschnitzel. he explained
with a smile. was awakened by his wife
in the dead of night.
"'HeinzI Heinz! she whimpered, wake
up. There's a burglar downstairs. l
hear him.
Heinz was out of bed in an instant.
Hist! he said.
"And slipping on shoes and trousers. he
stole softly from the room.
Some time passed. The wife. listening
intently, heard nothing. Anxiety over
came her at last. She crept to the stair
way. leaned over the balustrade, and
called:
'Heinz!'
e." ell. what is it.? her husbands voice
replied. 1t came not from below, but
from above.
What on earth said Mrs. Wiener
schnitzel, are you doing up in the attic?'
Why said Heinz. didn't you say the
burglar was downstairs
Brave Bill.
Patrick Jones. New York's superintend-
emit Of school supplies. was talking at a
dinner about corporal punishment.
Corporal punishment in our schools Is
no more he said. land that is a good
thing. Undeniably. though, under It
many boy showed wonderful pluck
Il remember a boy named Bill. Bill.
brave fellow, was doing miserably one
day in geometry recitation.
NOW. SIR said the schoolmaster saw
square of the hypotenuse Of a right
| angled triangle equivalent tor
It's equivalent to a nckin' fer me. sir.
There's the club said Bill
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Sights Of Lima,

Lima has much to show him. Once the
capital Of all South America, the seat of
The Columbus journal., 1907-02-13

A JwseIee % poaee e0oasly 0soWa -
Patersou, N. J.-Justice a tho Peace
Robert Cortese Vas fAtally injured b
his once last night By The expooston
cf IN internal machine ssat hin By
express. TIE onee was wrecked and
tie detoaatioa oosld b heard Tor
blocks.
The judge has actively aided he
roHce in the capture q Italian law
breakers receatly.
Justice Cortese died at midnight
from his injuries He had been home
to supper this evening. leaving his son
Robert In charge oe the once. Il wss
the younger man Who received tho in
fernal machine. which came from Ne.
wark and was delivered By IN AmeFf
can express wagon. II had been Pre-
paid and the boy accepted It.
When Judge Coeteso reached the a.
nee. Robert handed the package 10
him. The outside wrapper was Of p
Per, tied with strong Irvine. Judge
Costese removed this paper. Inside
vas another wrapping made fast With
q strap. such - boys use to put
around school books. Robert says he
watched c~uriously to zee what the
little box contained.
His father rested the package On
the desk and pulled the end Of the
strap toward him % a to loosen the
tongue Of the buckle. The moment
he did % there vas an explosion. A
hole six feet square WAS torn In the
floor and the desk was driven down
into the cellar and torn to pieces. The
boy was hurled into . corner and So
riously bruised and burned.
Judge Cortese was found lying be-
tween the doorway and the hole in the
flooring. Both legs and both arms
were broken, his face .So cody were
torn and lacerated and his back appar.
entity broken. Some Of the flesh was
torn from the bones. He was re-
moved to st. Josephis hospital, where
his ante-mortem statement was Sc
cured.
Judge Cortese had been . Justice
for twelve years He was shortly to be
specially appointed . sergeant Of de-
tectives in recognition Of hts active
work Is Q detective In aiding the 20
lice in running Italians and othel
criminals down.
The Columbus journal., 1907-02-13

a-
~ WIN - 1aeSeaseao Vvlehio -
eee&e FeW 0ayo
Lneohs Noo. = TA0 Iailsuaa CO.
niss1oa I'm No. ran - GAnntloe g
u Ipant ;ooonlttes, aDA - soea .
copied Vim - ~intEodueed n tAe 1esse.
To co0nittee adopted tAo snbco0r
mittee bin. making only some niDee
ekaness, namely changing the salary
q the secretary from @3,60o and u
two elerks at $3.50 eoeA 70 . roand
sum a $s.0oe. to b appoFtionsd By
the coDmission. The bill q practbe-
ally agreed to r. almost identical With
the federal anti-pass aw. II h q fol-
lows:
Section 1. No railroad corporation
owning q operating any line Or lines
Of railroad In the state Of Nebraska
shan issue Or give any free ticket. free
pa1s. Of free transportation for pas0e1-
ger except to its bona Ade employees
and their families, its omcegs. ~.
geoas who v annually employed. 1T
torneys who are actually employed and
receiving . salary Of not less than Ave
hundred (>6O0) dollars Per year. minis
tiers Of religion. travelling secretaries q
Young Mems Christian association, b.
mates Of hospitals AMI charitable and
eleemosynary institutions and persons
exclusively engaged In charitable and
eleemosynary work: to INDECENT, destl
tute and homeless persons and to such
persons when transported by cAarit-
able societies or hospitals and the
necessary agents employed in such
transportation; to inmates Of the na-
tional, homes or state homes for dis
abled soldiers and Of soldiers and.
sailors homes. including those about;
to enter and those returning home
from such institutions; to necessary.
care takers of live stock, poultry and
fruit; to employees OF sleeping cars.i
express and baggage cars: and to line.
men Of telegraph and telephone com
panies: to railway mail service en-
pl0yes: to newsb0ys on trains, bag;
gage agents. persons injured in wrecks
and physicians and nurses attending
such persons.
Provided. further. That the proyi-
sions of this act shall not be construed
to prohibit the interchange Of passes
for the officers and bona 6de employees
Of other railroad companies and their
families; nor to prohibit any railroad
corporation from carrying passengers
free with the object Of providing relief
in cases Of general epidemic. pesti-
lence or calamitious visitation; any
railroad corporation violating any Of
the provisions of this act shall be
guilty Of . m~isdemeanor and for each
0fense on conviction thereof shall pay
q nne Of not less than one hundred
($1OO) dollars and not more than n
thousand ($1,O OO) dollars.
The Columbus journal., 1907-02-13
"skIP" DUNoY 70 DEAD.

Former Omaha Man and Amusement
Promoter Passes Away.
New York-Elmer 8. Dundy. famil-
iarly known rs Skip" Dundy. q mem
Der Of the theatrical firm Of Th0mp-
son & Dundy, late managers Of the
Hippodrome and Of Luna park. Coney
Island. died Tuesday afternoon. He
caught cold q week ago last Sunday,
while coming from Luna park with
his mother in IN automobile.
Omah2-Mr. Dundy was a native OF
Omaha, having been born here in
1862. His father. the late Judge e.
mer 8. Dundy. was the first United
States Judge appointed for Nebraska.
skip" grew up in Omaha and made
his home here until . few years ago.
The Columbus journal., 1907-02-13

WasAingtoa-Represe0tative Burke
Of South Dakota had q hearing before
The committee o. 1ndia1 a9Airs o.
his hin opening TIE nooeoud Fooervar
tioa to white settlGDoat. He Pre-.
seated 10 The committee the general
subjoct q opsaing Tie reservations
to white settlement. With particular
roferenee to the Rooobud r~eooevat1o0.
II VA learned that Major NcIangA-
lin h en- route to Washingtoa, and II
expected 30 bring With him the treaty
With the Sioux Of Trip county which
vim be Satisfactory to an concerned.