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death. Mary lives near Una,alek
and keeps her reindeer at the government
station, which is within short distance
of the Swedish mission. She has Il num-
Der of Eskimo boys to care for her herd,
and these she pays from her own pocket.
When obliged to sell deer to buy the
boys food the mission is invariably the
purchaser at the missions price of $50 a
deer. These herders have as their in
separable companions Lapland or Eski-
mo dogs. which care for the deer as col
lies care for sheep.
No animal in the world can navigate
as well in the teeth of q gale or blizzard
as a reindeer. When overtaken by a bliz-
card on the hills the deer invariably fol-
lows the wind. The farther they go
north the better the moss, which they dig
out of the snow with their feet and
nose. SO long do their antlers grow that
they often prevent them from burrowing
deep enough in the snow to reach the
moss and it is then that the apprentice
has to come to their rescue and shovel
away the snow and thus enable his herd
to feed. If this task is too great he
sorts tn still more drastic measures and
saws off those prongs of the antlers that
interfere with the deers feeding.
While the reindeer is proverbially shy
and timid. they. nevertheless. are belli-
cose among themselves. They attack
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stands strongly forth for Caesar, declar-
ing that he represented great demo-
cratic movement.
But the most interesting of his deduc-
tons deals with his studies into the char
acter of Cleopatra.
No woman in history, not even Helen
of Troy whom she resembles in many re-
spects. has won more attention from the
poet and playwright CleOpatra's story
has been told in hundred masterworks.
and the final undoing of Antony, and
then the suicide of the serpent of the
Nile by the application of an asp to her
BOSOM has been told a thousand times.
and has excited the compassion of those
who blamed the other acts of this famous
siren
In the course of these plays and poems,
the beauty of Cleopatra is extolled to a
point that would rate her as among the
most glorious beings that ever came to
furnish themes to poets.
But Signor Ferrero. dispensing with i'm,
agnation and dealing with the subject
only through the sober gaze of history
denies that she was beautiful.
:: =
Cleopatra" he says was clever per-
haps as clever as any woman of whom
history has made a record, but she was
not beautiful. Her domination over men
came through the command of a marvel
Gus intellect"
This is a blow to start with Ii has
always been said tllat when Caesar came
to Alexandria to settle the quarrel be
tween Cleopatra and her brother Diony
sus, as to who had the right of success
sion from their father, Ptolemy Aulates.
he was drawn thither more by desire
to see the famous claimant for the throne
than by the desire to see justice done
The greatest ruler of the world was
won to the claims Of Cleopatra and when
in the AleXandrian war DionySus fell.
Cleopatra, with sole control of the for
tunes of E2yDt at once became the most
powerful woman in the world
Perhaps II was her great influence in
tEe afa1rS CT the country that led its
writer's TO praise her beauty. The poets
of nation are not above the desire to
have the favor of those who rule and
surer way TO the affections and favors
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A Frank Philosopher.

THE late Charles Eliot Norton in his
Harvard lectures on the history OF
art. used often to describe meeting
between Thomas Carlyle and the philoso-
pher Mallock.
Mallock was a wise man. he would
say, but his views differed from Car
lyle's. and hence. though they were
true views. Carlyle deemed them false
and pernicious. We should all cultivate
a broad outlook. SO as to escape from
the narrow intolerance of Carlyle.
When Mallock called on Carlyle he
talked. in his fluent way. for two
straight hours. Then he rose to go.
AT the door Carlyle who had
smoked the whole time in grim silence.
took his pipe from his mouth and said
mildly:
..Weel, goodbye. Mr. Ma,lock. I've
received ye kindly because L knew yer
mither but I never want to set eyes,
on ye again.
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of a queen could hardly he devised than
TO tell the story of her charms.
),
But while they write of the beauties
of Cleopatra in the ancient records of
Egypt, there is none to sing her praise
when she gets to Rome first in &c B. c.
She went there the companion Of
Caesar. for he had been won by her bril-
liant wit and her skill in mapping out
policies, and she was with him in Rome
for two years. till Caesar fell in Al B.
G. The ceverness of the woman is the
theme of many a writer of that period
but on the subject of her personal ap-
pearance discreet silence is preserved.
The poets there were free to tell their
real opinions. and since they could not
truthfully praise they maintained 81
lenCe.
Caesars death sent Cleopatra back to
her own country. but 1t did not end her
relations with Rome. 1t became neces-
Mare Anthony, to have consultation with
Egypt'S queen. He summoned her TO
Cilicia
Cleopatra went at his bidding and
Shakespeare devotes some of his greatest
pages to tell the story OF that proud ex-
petition in which the siren of the Nile,
surrounded by the most beautiful of her
ladies. went in great state to the en-
iFrof III q gaIleS whose beauty was the
wonder of the Roman and his soldiers
when they beheld its approach.
According to history. Antony became
infatuated with Cleopatra. He went to
Alexandria. Neglecting the affairs or
state he lived only for the company of
his superb mistress.
But Ferrero tells the story differently.
He denies that there WAS any such ro-
nance as history and fiction both have
united in depicting. He says that the re-
lations of the royal pair grew entirely
out of their mutual interests. Cleopatra
felt the need Of an alliance with Rome To
make sure of her place on the throne. An
tony himself beSet With foes. His
hclts on Rome was weakening. He be-
held his chance in the assistance OF this
brilliant woman. the greatest politician
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nights IN CtiCH year. nuSDd nulhS tnelE
strength for the srueling drive on Christ
mas eve with merry Old Kris kringle as
their pilot.
Not so many years ago Old Kris paid
a visit To Uncle Sam and laid before him
the dilemma in which he found himself.
So frequent has been the visits of the
stork to American homes in the past CEN
fury that Santa Claus task in making
his yearly rounds to the freplaces in this
country alone. where dminutive stock
ings are hung each Christmas eve. had
become ~ herculean that unless he could
double and treble and quadruple his stock
of reindeer lie would be unable to visit
all the homes wherein he was expected.
Uncle Sam the justice of his argu-
ment and rather than diSappoint any
one of his million more little nieces
and nephews he promised Old Kris that
hereafter reindeer would be supplied him
from Uncle Sans own stock farm which
was to be established within his own do
main.
Accordingly. Alaska, or that portion of
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it belonging 10 the United States. was
selected as the spot where reindeer would
be established and propagated. Ennis
saries were sent to Lapland, and there
purchased a number of stays and kinds
and exported them to Alaska Several
Laplanders We're induced to accompany
the herd to Alaska, and arriving there
they have spent years in instructing the
Eskimos in the use and care of the rein
deer This was slow work. for the Es-
kimo had become welded to the use of
the dog as beast of burden and they
were suspicious of the horned mOnStrosi-
ties that had been thus thrust upon them.
In the first place they were afraid of the
stays, and then, again. in finding for
them "a place of shelter it entailed extra
labor. for snow huts, apart from those
in which the Eskimo dwelt, had to be
built Every Eskimo abhors labor in any
form. and even to this day they resent
Uncle Sans interference in seeking to
Wean them from their beloved dogs, with
whom they eat, live and sleep.
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Every one in the northland derives
more benefit today from Santa Claus
stock farm than the Eskimos, for whose
benefit Congress established them in
1892 The effort to instruct the Eskimo
boy in herding reindeer has been fraught
with many difficulties. The most impor-
tant reindeer stations are at Teller, Cape
Prince of Wales. Golfvoin bay and Una
lalek. All are closely adjacent to mis-
sions to which the government lends rein
deer and employs Lapland herders to in
struct the mission boys To become
herder the Eskimo must desert the family
igloo. isolate himself from his playmates
and practically live in the open six long,
weary years without any recompcnse
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fish or fowl is sWeeter or more delicious
than that of the reindeer. Reindeer steak
is ever hailed with delight in Mining
camp. where il is regarded as the one
deicacy OF the season. This meat usually
brings from ~ cents to 81 pound and
the demand Invariably exceeds the sup
ply. A reindeer the hoof brings $50
vet when butchered. the purchaser can
auadruple his money. for not particle OF
the deer goes to waste October and
November are the butcherinE months
when the latest of the herd are rounded
uo and slaughtered The meat is prepared
for market. the skins are stretched and
dried and the antlerS hung up and cured.
all of which Is sold at big profit TO the
reindeer butcher. 1t IS no uncommon sight
To see fifty or more reindeer sleds, each
hauled by from four to ten deer. laden
high with dead deer. on their way to tho
stations. where the meat Is to be cut up
ami skins and antlers cured.
Uncle Sam has expended vast amount
of money in endeavoring TO popularize
the reindeer in Alaska. and in one sense
he has succeeded. AS beast of burden
I'm these regions the deer has no equal.
It's skin furnishes the warmest garments
and bed clothing for the Eskimo and its
meat Is unexcelIed as food. Yet. despite
these several virtues, the deer is far from
popuar with the Eskimo. who would
rather share his bit of jerked meat ana
crust of black bread with his beloved
dog than to own the finest herd OF REIN
deer in Alaska-that is. If he should nave
to care for that herd and give up his
dog.
Experts in Washington, however. are
not entirely discouraged. and the vari-
Gus missions and reindeer herds are not
only kept intact, but each year plans
are being formulated for the extension OF
this industry, and as the herds increase
and multiply IT must follow that their
use will become more general as time
wears on.
Uncle Sam, however. feels amply re-
paid for all the time, thought and money
he has expended on his new venture
Each year when old Santa Claus pays
him his annual visit and makes reuuisi-
tio1 for a new Dasher. new Dancer.
Prancer or Vixen, Uncle Sam smiles ms
blandest and throws wide the gates OF
his stockades. thereby giving Old KRIS
free rein to go and restock his stable
TO his hearts content. Uncle Sam knows
Santa Claus work Is cut out for him,
and he also knows that not house with
in his vast domains must be passed by
without stop from Santa Claus. even
though it takes every reindeer In Alaska
or Lapand to make the journey.
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itcal benefits furnished the motive.
These are the astonishing propositions
advanced by the foremost of living
Italian historians, Gulielmo Ferrero
Perhaps from any less authoritative
source than Ferrero these attacks on
one of the most famous of the romances
of history might be scornfully rejected.
but from Signor Ferrero they must be
accepted with the respect due the re-
searches of a historian whose work has
been one of the literary marvels of the
last decade.
Ferrero, who has lately visited Presi-
dent Roosevelt, did not start his his
toricai studies with the idea of being
an iconoclast. He merely brought to his
study of history d new viewpoint. He
examined into the characters of the great
men and women Of the past. He dismissed
the glamour of the long lapse of time. and
considered them purely as human beings.
Just as though the present century was
the scene of their activities.
Viewing history i'll this manner lie ma de
discoveries that caused the world OF
scientific research to pause in astonis1
rnent 10 mediate on his results. The
Greatness and Decline OF Rome" the
most notable work by Ferrero. has dis
placed many of the earlier noted his
tories of the Imperial city and has ban
ished many of the beliefs that have been
held to for untold centuries.
The same industry carried him into
studies of other events noted in poem
and play lie declares that the story of
ThermopyIae is an eXaggeration. He also
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ing occurred Ia him as the right way to
present himself
The fillet he wore differed only in that
1t was less fanciful.
The style most affected by the gentle
man of quality was the plain gold band.
This is what GlaucES. the Athenian.
the famous hero OF The Last Days of
Pompeii." wore.
Fashion experts of today have been
delving into the literature of ancient
Greece 10 get new variations of the fillet,
for the hit 1t has made with smart women
is sufficient to insure a liberal reward for
all that the researches may disclose.
Al the opera in this country during the
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"Y0u Can't Lose"

A RTHCR BRISBANE said. with Q
sour smile. at the recent dinner to
Lord Northcliffe in New York:
Then there is another type of editor.
This man. through foolishness, loses q
lot Of money-say in libel suits. But he
easily RECEIVERS his loss. He lowers his
reporters wages 10 per cent.
He reminds me of saloonkeepoP
who happened. one day. to break do.
canter. The saloonkeeper stood a mo.
ment regarding the fragments. con.
sidering his loss Then he turned =
his bartender and said:
Joe, put q quart of water In thai
casl, of fifteen-year-old whisky"
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NJ the summit of their glory.
Although it's Office is IT, softly bind the
hair and hold it in place. the hllct is
suggestive of a crown worn low on the
head.
It's return 10 life after centuries of dis
use is but another emphasis of the hold
of today.
The stay Of Napoleon on the throne was
notable for return to the modes of the
Early classical days Napoleon admired
the ancient Greeks Their ideas of sani-
;ation, Of perfect physical manhood and
womanhood appealed to him strongly. and
wherever he could influence the adop-
from ancient Greece he reveled in the
Glance hence for time the ladies OF
4iis realm wore the fllet
Bat when he topped from the throne
fashions changed, too. The fallen hero
was a lost issue to every one. and even
the votaries of fashion who had listened
50 eagerly TO his dictates when he was
al the zenith OF his imperial power were
quick To change The dressmakers and
the miiIiners were quick to yield up their
devotion as the remainder of the realm.
=
Thus passed the hlict after having fog
= few brief years ben revived
Now il is back again. and If Napoleon
could briefly return to earth he would
find many modes familiar TO him, for they
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are some OF those that he persuaded his
followers To adopt.
The fashionable directoire couture of
today was enforced by feminine adoption
of the modes of the first empire When
the dresses and hats of the period had
been accepted into the repertoire of my
lady beautiful OF today. II was inevitab BILE
that the headdressing modes should also
he followed. for the grotesqueness OF
couture out of keeping with the remain
der OF the makeup was not TO be risked
Most women who live up to the top OF
the fashions of today will be cheerfully
willing to admit that getting the hair fixed
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DRESSING HAIR IS AGAIN IN FASHION,

largely because they were embarrassed
by superiority of hair.
Many American women Will welcome II
from exactly opposite motive.
1t is an admitted. fact that the daughter
of Uncle Sam is less favored in respect
to WOmanS GROWING glory than the
daughters of some other nations.
Whether this is the result of some UNI
known effect of the climate, or whether
it is penalty Of the dash and hurry
and speed with which everything i'll this
country is done. no expert has yet beeefi
able to decide. But it is an admitted
fact that more American women are
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HE fllet that once
adorned the classic
brows of GreCian
men and women
alike has returned
TO be the fashion,
and now the gen
tier sex OF the
twentieth century
is revcling in a
mode that was in
lis heyday when
the Caesars were
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+ THE millions of
English speaking
children few. If
any. will fail to rec
ognize the fore
going Verse, and in
doing SO their
thoughts will nat
urally wander to
the great frozen
north. where t h G
reindeer b / o W S g
for 1854 days and
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''Nnrc ra,id than eagles his courserS they came.
And he whist,ed ard shouted and called them by
Now. Dasher. now, Dancer. now, Prancer. now.
Vixen
On Comet. on, Cupid, on. Dunder and Bitten:
To the top of the porch, to the top of the wall.
Now. dash away. dash away. dash away all.
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LEOPATRA was no

LEOPATRA was no
beauty. Her ro-
nance with An
tony, drawn with
saeh nj a t G y J SIS
ssEius by sfake=
spaara. vas III res
atty a very sorhid
affair, IN winch
sentiment pl y ed
virtually no part.
and where mutual
business and pol
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halr parade OF the last couple of years
VIII welcome the coming back to earth
of mode that was Old i'm the daWninS
days of the Christian era
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SlIIpIicity Is inc hey llote- JUST DIS per-
feet simplicity was the keynote OF the
early Grecian maidens who made physical
perfection their ideal over everything in
life.
The Greek ideal was to make the hair
frame the face in naturally graceful lines
that it was hard to present il in order
The great waves of it were likely to go
flying in the winds and to be sure she
could maintain it in the semblanca of or
der she had recourse TO the fiIlet.
Sometimes this fillet, was band of rib
bon Oftener it was thin golden band
beautifully chased and engraved, and it
was sometimes a band of diamonds, or
perhaps rhinestones, but in every instance
its function was the same.
1t was worn across the top and front of
the hair, and performed the valuable
service of keeping the tresses easily and
naturally in place.
The appearance was highly artistic in
character. and the Grecian maiden was
assured that no matter where she wan
dered. nor no matter how violent the
breeze that caressed her classic forehead,
her hair would always remain in place,
kept there by medium which performed
it's office SO gracefully and naturally that
the softness of the whole effect was never
lost.
The Greek girl and the French woman
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poorly off in the matter Of hair than
any of their sisters of other chimes
1t is the southern countries in the trop-
les where the capillary substance -four
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ishes i'll its best estate and as a large
part OF the United States is given over
to severe rlgorS of climate, il seems
more than likely that here is the reason
why the women of the land OF the free
and home of the brave gladly welcome
any artitice that aids them TO present
ly theirs.
The fllet exactly fills the bill Once
the natural hair is deity arranged into
an apparently large and fluffy pile, the
tillet keeps it in Just that condition.
There is no comeback, no catastrophe
after .milady has started out for her
walk. or gone to call, or gone to dinner,
or to the opera. In every case the Golf
fure is just she arranged it before size
started out. and, moreover. far from look
ing like the imprisoning band it is the
fillet aids to a most artistic and natural
charm.
Paris has its own original style OF
fillet, which might naturally be expected
from country which sets the fashions
of the world, and where ingenious brains
are ever on the search for thoughts in
dress that will win the tickle heart of
the most capricious class of women in
the world
The essentially Partisan fillet is gold
ehain. which bands the Psyche directoirs
i'm "a most enhancing fashion. and is being
copied by women of the gay French city
in increasing numbers.
This modern adoption of the filet is
another instance of how prone the gentler
sex is to mOnopolize a fashion that once
belonged equally to both sexes.
= >:
The Greek man had just as much claim
to the fillet as did his woman folks.
Moreover, he had just as much need,
for lie wore his hair long 1t was lux
uriant and beautiful, the close-cropped
ideas Of the modern centuries never hav-
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often but aS BELTS the Opulence of the
favorite social show place for wealth, 1t
is more likely than not to be band of
diamonds.
Those who have shuddered Al the false
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but his keep. If all goes well. however
al the end of the sixth year Uncle Sam
presents him with fifty reindeer
To separate an Eskimo from his family
is little short of capital punishment in
his eyes, for he is thoroughly domestic
creature and communistic i'm every in
stinct. sharing all their possessions i'm
common. No spirited boy will endure
such a life, and spirit is not lacking in
our Eskimo cousins. If at the end of the
nrSt year the apprentices work satisfies
his Lapland instructor he receives two
female deer. The increase. if success at
tends, should he in six years fifty REIN
deer, but not infrequently upon one pre-
text or another the Laplander turns him
claims as his own the deer for which the
apprentice has toied. The Eskimo NAV
sell the male of his herd for support, but
the females belong to the government.
During his apprenticeship tn, mission
supports the boy. but as the reindeer
supplies food. clothing, bedding and shell
ter his keep can hardly be regarded as an
eXtravagant outlay of cash
Although the reindeer industry in Alas
ka has been established about fifteen
years, and while from Bristol bay to
Point Barrow there are 10000 Eskimos,
yet it is extremely doubtful if one in every
fifty owns a reindeer. One man living
near Golfvoin bay has herd Of 200 deer
for which he toiled thirteen years. while
another herder boasts of eighty deer, the
reward of fourteen years labor.
The WeathieSt Eskimo in Alaska is
Sinrock Mary. Mary owns 300 reindeer
which she inherited at her husbands
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The Greek girl and the French woman
of the directoire period wore the 1ilet
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ion of hair dressing is 10 keep the lines
soft and graceful
The ladies of Napoleon's court did not
adopt into their hairdressins habits
mountain of puffS, switches and friZZeS.
Nor were there lot of mechanical de-
vices to keep the hair in rigid lines. The
whole effect was designed to be soft and
graceful. and the instant it took on a
semblance of heavy fiXedness the whole
appearance sought for had been lost.
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Mobiles Troubles

MOBILE, ALA, January II Especial
correspondence = The recent Alabama
legislature passed law requiring the
closing of saloons at nine o'clock, but
the defiant saloonkeepers of this city,
who have been talking about seeding
from the state of Alabama, attempted
to ignore the law and secured an opin-
ion from city official to the effect that
it is unconstitutional Today Judge
Semmes settled that question, declar-
ing the law constitutional and filming a
saloonkeeper $50, with the alternate of
twenty days in Jail