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equipped with a large square sail. The
trip took four days and SIX Indians were
required to do the work on the vessel
These Indians We're supplied by the trad
ing company and they were all ex-
perienced in sailing the waters of the
bay. James bay is the southern arm OF
Hudson bay. Moose Factory is one of
the typ cal northern trading posts. We
landed at the mouth OF the Rupert river
and went up it to Lake NJ stassinni. The
name is an Indian one, meaning big
stone From here we went across the
land, carrying our canoes and other
equipment, to the San Eel cienne river. On
this trip we had fifty portages. The
land is network of small lakes be-
tween these places. For time We would
carry our things and then we would strike
upon a small lake. where a canoe trip
would again land US for a portage to
another lake.
Down the San Felicienne river we went
bee by the Canadian and Northern Que
bee railway. There is no way of telling
the exact number of miles travelled, but
I came to the op Mon that the trip had
distance is not counted by miles, but by
days. A person who desires to go to a
certain place will state that his destina-
ton is so many days from his starting
place.
up around Hudson bay there are
few white men, and they are traders only,
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Japan in Korea.

Arthur NJ. Knapp. i'll the Atlantic.
An absolutely cffete civilization. sucr
as Korea illustrates, stands I'm need o.
the very strongest protection from with
out which can be given it: and to insure
its own safety no mere formal pro-
tectorate can be i'll any way efficient.
Japan has just now in her struggle for
her own representation. saved this an
Gent mother country of hers from an
appalling danger, and the only way to
keep il saved is by the strong hand As
the next OF kin to Il defunct sovereignty
as well as its recent reScuer from the
clutches of the northern bear, she haS
every right now TO assume complete con
troll. her only care being to see TO IL that
such control be wisely exercised for the
benefit of a pathetically despoiled and
hopeless people. Whatever the future
may develop, there should just now at
least be no question raised as to the
legitimacy of Japan's ambition anent
Korea, nor should her present policy for
the redemption of the peninsula be inter
the avid nations of the west I'm their
scramble for territorial spoils. The
mereSt glance al the map of eastern
Asia. conjoined with the slightest Pc
ruSal of the recent annals of Korea.
should be amply sufficient to disabuse
any fair-minded man IF tho idea tina:
the stigma of modern imperialism should
be fastened upon Japan because Of her
treatment of the ward now placed i'll her
keeping.
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Yrs Fountain Thompson Wife Of the New Senator From North Dao

kota, and housewives are proud OF their
culinary accomplishments. l have the
reputation of roasting mutton better than
any one in my neighborhood. and really
/ take great comfort in having this ac-
complishment. We have mutton which
is as good as the famous Southdown NUT
ton, of which the British are 50 partial.
In Washington what is called mutton
would not be given place the most
humble menu. Dakota mutton is some
thing to remember when it is roasted II
golden brown and served steaming-ho
with potatoes and the prize pumpkin and
crab apple jelly accompaniment. This Is
our staple dinner, for beef is not the
best, and we pay what we think an ex-
orbitant price for the most inferior
quality. So we use little beef, and cur
mutton receives the most untiring care
We do not seem to have gotten into the
pie belt, and one of our Dakota humor-
lists says the state will never figure in
the statesman line until the public men
learn to eat pie. We take great pride
in our buildings and custards and jel-
lies and desserts made of dried fruits.
Every woman in my locality knows
how to cook. takes pride in 1t, and she
never has a special company without
making some of the dishes with her own
hands. We would consider it lack Of
form such sacred duties OF home enter
tanning as are involved in making plum
buildings, cheese cakes or relishes which
add so much to Il dinner. In Cando we
have clubs which are mostly for social
and literary purposes, and each hostess
delights in a varied menu and in achiev-
ing some special success in her own par
ticuar line. Bakeries do not flourish In
my environment, and as for having
cakes bread or sweets made anywhere
except in ones own kitchen is something
which we would consider the acme Of
shiftlessness.
Naturally the servant question is not
so acute as in the east, because we are
prepared TO do our own work failing IL
good domest c. But we get fairly good help
In my little town which boasts of about
two thousand inhabitants / have been
as interested In the servant question s'nce
| came to Washington as I have been In
the price of food. Things seem to balance
each other very we'll in the different parts
OF the country In the east the women
look with pity OIL westerners and bewail
all that they lose by living outside what
is regarded as the social map We get
much out of life, what we think are the
essential things, and our existence is
simpler and less artificial. When We feel
the need of more refining influences, OF
theater or opera, We travel. But We
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get an amount of all Kind of pleasures
right at home. Libraries. clubs and lee
turc courses are among the forces at
work to extend the love of knowledge
distances apart, arc connected by tele-
phones. and rural free delivery has
changed the aspect Of life when 1t comes
TO the former isolated conditions.
..nur state is honeycombed with clubs
With different ends III view and every
,voman seems 10 have some outside in
terest which relieves the drudgery OF
Homework. When the question Is
minutely examined the western woman
seems TO have the better half of life.
She is not on the strain which racks her
eastern sisters and social thraldom does
not hold her captive twenty hours of the
day / ponder on whether this social
routine is not more nerve rachlns ana
soul benumbing than the houseWork
When woman labors so increasingly
and gives her entire day to the routine,
it seems as though there should be some
more important end In view than the
social side of political obligations.
''Then / question If the usual play
which features SO largely In the scheme
OF life in the east is really ent tied to
he considered among the rennlns anu
cultured forces. i tnlnk not. we udNc
few theaters and less operate treats. but
are We any poorer for the privation:
Really / think not. L find the social
side Of Washington as far as l have
seen 1t very fascinating, but / must say
that everybody appears to perform
prodigious lot of work in exchange for the
pleasure received. l have been working
very hard myself, for, according to rules,
/ must call on every senator's wife who
was here before my husband and then L
must visit all the big officials of the
government before l can hope to have
any one call on me. 1t seems large
contract, but / have dutifully begun the
rounds and If l am diligent l shall set
through the list in the early spring. Then
next winter l may hope to have some
people cali OH me-
Life Is pleasant here, though.
must confess, that being SO far south
compared to Dakota l hoped to find the
climate more balmy. 1 find also that in
Washington, where the thermometer rare,
" goes below zero. 1t requires as much
coal to heat the houses as we use when
the mercury registers below the for
ties. The dry air compared with the
moist atmosphere makes the differ
ence, but I have been amazed at get
ting figures from householders here
about the trouble of heating the homes
and the tremendous price of coal.
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Mr. Stewart visited on his observation
trip.
The story of the Hudson Bay Company
is d romantic one. The present governor
Of the company. Lord Strathcona, began
his career when boy of sixteen at Min
gam. a post in fdrthest Labrador. where
he remained for thirty years, leaving the
post only once. when he walked to
Montreal q distance of over 90 o miles.
to consult an oculiSt. He amassed a
cons derabe fortune AS each factor Is
admitted into partnership after fifteen
years o. service with the company. He
later Joined in the con Ttruction Of the
Canadian Pacific railway. and has since
been made peer of Great Britain. lie
Is many times a mill onairc, and he
equipped a regiment of Canadian cavalry,
known as "StrathconaS Horse" six
hundred strong, for service i'm the Boer
war. All the expenses of this regiment
were paid by the governor of the Hudson
Bay Company.
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pcnsations. ! can get a nice, plump,
hand-raised. milk grain-fed turkey
for 81, and il will weigh a good twelve
pounds AT that | can get the most
tempting chickens and geese for proper
tionateiy cheaper prices, and prairie
chickens grouse. wild geese and ducks
for less than The Washington people are
paying for poor beef. Our potatoes
would make the natives here open their
eyes, 50 big and solid and mealy when
cooked. and they cost us about 30 cents
bushel every one a choice specimen
II that price. Other vegetables are fine
and very cheap. Indeed. We are used
10 the best III the way of living in what
called the wild and woolly west.
Though We may miss some special pleas
res and some of the luxuries which go
With Il less rigorous climate, We have
-ull and abundance of all that Ia whole
some and palatabie, and that at normal
,oSt.
Good living counts for much In Da-
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WASHINGTON Scien-

WASHINGTON Scien-
" fist Returns From In
teresting Trip Through Brit
ish North America - Made
Observation for Department
of Terrestrial Magnetism,
Carnegie Institution of
Washington Travelled for
Two Months Without Seeing
Another White Man In
dams Were His Guides and
Companions During Sixteen
Hundred-Mile Trip Through
Wilderness.
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likely that any of Their family Will cone
this session. Mrs. Thompson. who en-
joys hotel life for a change. will moi
bc contentcd To spend all her winter
in this way. She is on the alert for a
suitable home. perhaps with an eye 81
testing the difference between the pricr
of living here AMI i'm the borderland of
Canada and the United States. Senator
and Mrs. Thompson are members OF the
Christian church, and VIII attend tina
church, which is located III Vermont
avenue. They are sterling. unprcten
tious people of the old school, and will
toe III every WAY pleasant acquisitions 20
the senatorial set.
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cannot claim for coal, as for foodstuffs
lower prices, but then here in Wash
ington the proximity to the great fields
of bituminouS coal would seem to take
off something. We pay for the freight
to such tremendous distance. An
other difference about the way of li,-
ing Is that we cook entirely on wood
whereas in Washington coal is used IN
kitchen ranges as well as to heat the
houses.
Cooking on wood is to cook in the
ideal way. A fire hot as one desires il
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CHE Talks About the
- Prices of Living as Rated
in the East-Dakota May Be
the Land of Snow and Biz
yards, But Good Things to
Eat Are Within the Range
of All-Mrs. Thompson Is
a Native of Girard, ILL.,, and
Was the Playmate of Her
Husband From Her Eleventh
Year.
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HERE I live in
Cando, almost a,
the Canadian Dor
der. We are pre-
suined to suffer
IN 4 n v disadvan-
tages," said Mrs
Thompson. wife Of
the new solon from
the land of ice and
snow, as Dakota Is
POLITICALLY described
in the American
PM there ara com.
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little difference in our ages. We al :
tended the same school together from
that age on. and VIC always were the
most devoted friends. We studied to-
gether and told each other all our plans
and do not think VIC were much more
than fourteen when we resolved To marry.
we did not carry that plan into eXecu-
ton until We had reached Il suitable
age, past twenty-one. but KEEP; thai
end in view all through our school days
Mr.. Thompson was born near SCOTS
vile. Ill, and did not come to Girard
until he was abe ut eleven, and he had
not been long in his new home before We
met. He graduated from the II sh school
and then went to study law. while | re-
manned at home. content to wait until he
was established sufficiently to co1tem-
plate matrimcny. We did no, wait, how
ever, until wealth or even mu-h success
and promise had come. In tn sc times
young couples did not need SC muoh as
thev do now, and they were content to
make mutual sacrifices for each ether
ana economize and struggle. We had
very Ii tie as wealth goes, but We were
very happy. l had lived al my life i'll
Grard. and my father. Richard Spen "er
Walker, was member of the Illinois
state Legislature at the same time when
Lincoln and Douglas were sitting in that
body. We lived in G rard for fourteen
years after our marriage. and my hus-
band gave up law and entered business.
We moved to Oak ta in 1SSS, and / feel
L Il
of the wilderness. and ii is d home which
is as dear as our early one in Illinois.
Xxx
ct have often been asked about the
woman question. and just now 1t is quite
momentous theme i'm Dakota The
question is up for consideration before
the state legislature. and it looks to me
that a fifth state is soon to be added to
those who have already conferred the right
of suffrage on women. Personally | do
not think that / should ever become ac-
tive even If suffrage was conferred but
l belong to the vast army of women who
want the ballot because they feel that
IT is rightful privilege which is being
wrongfully withheld from them 1 want
to vote because at present / cannot vote.
! believe Is the way the cynics put il.
But l want the privilege of voting if 1
feel like using it. Dakota owes much a.
the women. and the men of the west
are very chivalrous. The women have
asked for the ballot in a dignified i'm
pressive way. and 1 think they will get
1t before the present legislature ad-
journs.'
Senator and Mrs. Thompson are spend
ing the winter at the Hamilton. They
will have their sons here for a part of
the winter next year, but it is I'M
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OrAPoRrAaE On RUPERT RIVER

its Investigations Men are sent into
countries where experiments have never
been made before, and aid in making up
new maps, with corrections of the unre-
liable compass indications. The non
magnetic yacht Carnegie is doing the
work at sea, while other scientists are
forging their ways ahead in foreign and
unfrequented countries, carrying their in
struments and making observations to
benefit mankind. Dozens of scientists
are employed in the work, and each man
has his own territory to work. China is
being covered, we'll as Africa and the
northern wastes have already received at
tention by both land and sea observa
tons.
Scientist Stewart. who was formerly
with the coast survey, left Wash ngton
last June to make observations i'll Brit sl
North America, his second trip to that
region. He secured the greater part OF
his outfit, provisions and other articles.
at North Bay. Ontario and trip was
then made over the new Temiskamng
and Northern Ontario railway TO Mat
theson, about 2O5 m les from North Bay.
Taking up his trip from the latter point,
Mr.. Stewart says:
My two Indians who accompanied me
during the greater part of my trip We're
called Holy Moses and .Benjalem. The
latters name has been changed by the
Indians from Benjamin, as they cannot
easily pronounce the latter. From Mat
thesOn we canoed on the Black river,
going about fifteen miles, to the Abitibi
river. The waters of these streams We're
all new to me- but the Indians were we'll
acquainted with the course, and their
knowledge of canoeing aided US in MAX
ing the portages across the falls.
I'VE went up the Abitibi river to the
lake of the same name. and then back
Moose
there going to Moose Factory. a trading
post on James bay. The trip across
James bay was one of the most interest
ing. A york boat was used and was
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! would almost
seem impossible to
travel in America
for yer two
months and cover
six ee n hundred
miles W i t h o u t
meeting a white
person, yet c. C..
Stewart, a scien-
fist with the Car
negie Institution of
Washington h a S
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Just returned from such trip with two
Indians
The Carnegie Institution, through the
department of terrestrial magnetism 10
Gated in Washington, seeks the untrav-
fled parts Of the world in which TO make
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possible i'll j few minutes and II Is
capable OF more regular graduation
than coal fires. The wood in Dakota Is
hard as iron and is cut just to fit the
range as carefully as though 1t had
q more permanent use. The ashes of
wood are useful and We are still as
old fashioned as to make our own
kitchen soap from them and to use
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AT THr, END Or The LONG TRAIL

House, trading post, | did not see a
white man until / arrived at Lake St
John, October 10. At times / had to en-
ploy special guides to pilot me throI gin
the country. and on several occasions T
had guide who knew the country. 1T
one plt &c ! was unable to get a guide
but an old Indian roughly drew a sketch
OF the country and outlined the falls and
portages on the route. This map. crude
at 1t was. was of great aid MANY of
the streams are very swift and consider
able time is taken in travelling I'd them
Waterfalls also abound and care must
be taken in going down the streams.
x =
The Indians are i'm primitive state,
living as they lived i'll the United States
Il hundred years ago. Their meat con-
sists of the game they kill. In some
ways the northern Indians resemble the
Eskimo. They love fat meat, as does
the Eskimo, and their most delicate dish
IS pan Of grease.
My instruments for takiu.. observa-
lions weighed about loo pounds, but I
also carried personal baggage. cIothin.,
and provisions. The latter consisted
mainly of flour, pork and oatmeal We
were able to kill u great deal of game
Ior meat, and the fishing was very good"
MI. stewart says that many farmers
nave settled In the southern part of the
Canadian Wilderness and these men have
small farms. They are, however. no
where's near as large as the farms of
the western farmer in the United States.
The ground seems to be fertile, and AL
most anything can be raised that is
grown IN this country. The government
gives away the farms in much the same
fashion as new land is opened I'M in the
western part o. the United States
Throughout the territory ar und Hudson
bay the Hudson Bay Company has con-
trolied the fur trading business for hum
dreds of years This company was FIRST
formed by number of men interested
in the Newfoundland trade. and the land
was first acquired from King James III
in 1870
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In the earliest days the company had
a hard time to mainta' n existence, as the
French repudiated its charter. The first
governor of the company was Prince
Rupert. and its second was John Church
ill., Duke of Marlborough
The Hudson Bay Company now has
about two hundred and fifteen fur trad
ing posts IN Canada, and several of these
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Bl MARGARET i. DOWNING.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1910-02-23
WITHDRAWS NAMES
OFCUSTOMS JUDGES
President TAFT Will Submit the
Question of Reduced Sal
aries to Appointees

WASHINGTON, Feb. 22.-The presi-
dent today withdrew the nominations
of Alfred c. Coke, William H. Hunt,
James F. Smith. Grin NJ Farmer and
Marion de Vries to be judges of the
court of customs appeals.
The explanation at the White House
of the withdrawal of the nominations
was that these persons were offered
the appointments with the understand
ing that they were to get $4,000 year
each, as is provided in the Payne bill.
Congress having refused to provide
more than $1,000 each, the president
felt that it would be better to with
draw the names until he had, time to in
form the men nominated of the facts
and ascertain whether they were will
ing to accept under the new conditions.
1t is known some of the proposed
judges will not accept at the reduced
salaries. Judge Alfred c. Coke, on the
second circuit, who was nominated to
be chief justice of the customs court,
has indicated that he would not accept
the position at $1,000 a year. Those
proposed judges who are willing to
serve at $1,000 probably will have their
names again sent to the senate.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1910-02-23
WATER WAGON FOR
WOMEN IN CHICAGO
Anti-Liquor Order Proves q
BOmbshelI in Resorts and
Exodus Is Expected

CHICAGO, Feb. 22.-'Permit the sale
of no liquor after May 1 in any place
where women congregate.'
This order, given by Chief of Police
Steward to his inspectors yesterday.
came as bombshel. The effect. over
shadowing of Mayor Buses announced
order forbidding resort proprietors to
sell intoxieants without a city license
was to electrify the south and west
side "levees"
In giving his orders Chief Steward
said:
Not only are you to stop the sale of
intoXicants in resorts which have not
city licenses, but under no circum-
stances. are you TO permit the sale of
liquor in saloons. concert halls or cafes
where women are permitted to eongre-
gate"
AS result police officials predict
there will be an exodus from Chicago
of $4,000 men and women
Local option leaders were successful
yesterday in their efforts to prevent
saloon keepers and bar tenders from
serving as Judges and clerks OF election
April 5, when the wet or dry question
comes to a vote. When the protest of
the dry campaign committee and the
Chicago law and order league came up
for hearing before County Judge
Lewis sRenaker the IS election officials
involved voluntarily withdrew their
names from the lists submitted by the
republican and democratic committee
for confirmation by the county court.
The formal statement presented joint
ly by the saloon keepers and bar tend
ers was as follows:
"Inasmuch as we are vitality inter
ested in the main issue at the coming
election and as We desire to take N
active part in the campaign to pre-
serve our means of livelihood. we re-
specially asked to be excused from act
ing as registration and election officers
at such election
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1910-02-23
STOCKTON CITY COUNCIL
SEATS NEW MEMBER
Property Owners Oppose Free
mont Street improvements
Especial Dispatch 10 The Call


STOCKTON. Feb. 2.2.-Henry Esh-
bach took his seat on the council last
night. making the first time since the
first of the year when Francis Cut
ting resigned. that the second ward
has had its full representation.
The most important matter that
came before the councils attention
was the protest against the improve
ment of Fremont street. Last October
the council adopted a resolution de-
claring its intention to improve Ere
mont street from Center to Orange
street a distance of IA blocks. Pro
tests were filed and the matter was
postponed time and again.
Last night abut $50 of the property
owners discussed the matter and it
was agreeable to the majority to i'm
prove the street from FL Dorado TO
Edison. The council took action ac-
cordingly and the work will be done
without delay.
The council adopted resolutions an
nouncing its intention to install sewers
in the district bounded by Taylor to
Jackson and Center to the west side
of Edison street The section is to
be divided into two districts.