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extent warranted by her known min
eral wealth.
The total value of the mineral pro-
duction of the territory since produc-
tive mining began, in 1880, exceeds
$147, 900, 900.
The known mineral wealth Of in
land Alaska is embraced in the two
copper bearing belts of Copper river,
lying 100 to 800 miles from tidewater;
the Boring river coal fields, 25 miles
from the coast of Controller bay and
100 miles from a good harbor on
Prince William sound; the Matanuska
coal fields, $50 miles from an ice-free
port on the Pacific, and the Yukon
placers, from 400 to 500 miles by
feasible railways routes from the Pa
cific tidewater by high, snow-covered
ranges, broken, however, by several
river valleys.
The full development Of the mineral
wealth of inland Alaska must await
Improvement in means of communica-
ton, which will need to be of a very
radical character.
Thanks to the Alaska road commits
sion, and In a lesser degree to local
enterprise, much has been accom-
plished in the way o. road and trail
building. Much, however, remains to
be done, for in this territory, en-
bracing nearly 600, 900 square miles,
there are only 542 miles Of wagon
road, 397 of sled road, and 255 of trail.
The coastal service of ocean vessels
and the river transportation systems
of the Yukon and its tributaries are
being much improved. In addition to
this, steamboats, have been placed
on Copper and Sushitna rivers. Local
transportation facilities have also
been greatly bothered by short lines
of railway. such as those at the White
pass, at Fairbanks. in Seward PENN
sula, and the Copper River railway,
which now extends from Cordova for
about 20 miles inland.
All these improvements in means
of communication, together with the
military telegraph lines, wireless sta
tons and long distance telephone sys-
TENS, have done much to advance the
mining industry. They can, however,
be regarded only as supplementary to
a system of railways, which alone can
make available the mineral wealth OF
extensive rea In fact, they serve
to emphasize the inadequacy of the
existing transportation systems. The
industrial demands for better com
munication can be met only by rail
ways which shall connect the mineral
deposits with open ports on the Pa.
cifc seaboard.
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shocked to see that the once lovely
and charming young queen had turned
into a. haggard and p~rematurely aged
woman.
The Dutch people saw the change
with sorrow and sometimes with in
~dignation, for they were disposed to
attribute it partly to the misconduct
of the prince consort.
The loss of the queens good looks
was without doubt almost entirely due
to the repeated disappointment Of her
hopes of motherhood. The disappoint-
ment was, in the first place, natural,
such as any normal woman might have
felt. This natural feeling was intensi-
fed by patriotic sentiments.
The queen realized that 1t was her
duty to provide an heir to the throne
in order to preserve the succession in
her own family and to prevent compli-
cations which the whole Dutch nation
dreaded. The queen at her accession
was the last member of the ancient
royal house of Orange-Nassau who is
really Dutch. There are other de-
scendants of the family through the
or foreigners. The Dutch have always
been suspicious Of German designs
on their country, and apparently with
good reason
Now, the nearest heirs to the throne
after Queen Wilhelmina are not only
Gnrnann nrfNnnu hut AGaan~z IL tho
German army. 1t appears to the Dutch
that one of these gentlemen, IL placed
on the throne OF Holland, would be
very serviceable in adding the coun-
try to Germany.
A rather astonishing but very pretty
scene occurred the other day. f'wo
high dignitaries Of the court, the
Baron Snouckaert de Schauburg and
the Dowager Baroness de Harden
brock de's Heerartsberg and Bergam-
bacht (born countess of Limburg-Stir-
um) entered to announce to the queen
the arrival of a great political officer,
the Baron Schimmelpcninck Van der
Dye, president of the states general,
who came for an audience with her
majesty by appointment.
These great p~ersonages were sur
prised to see her majesty the queen of
the Netherlands crawling about on
her hands and knees on the floor with
the little Princess Juliana, heiress to
the throne, on her back. The queen
was playing gee-gee with her baby.
1t is this sort of thing that pleases
the Dutch.
The happy feeling among the people
has had much to do with restoring her
good looks and good spirits to Queen
Wilhelmina. She is made happy not
only by mother love but by the
thought that she has done her duty
to her country, the ancient home OF
liberty in Europe.
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The Mecca Of the Eat.

Marienbad is a place of special In
terest TO English people, for King Ed
ward bad deserted Honburg, where
for SO many years he did his summer
cure, and every August saw him in
stalled in the Church quare at Ma
rienbad and prepared to follow out
the somewhat severe regime of the
place. Twenty years ago this famous
watering place was scarcely known to
foreign people, although ii is nearly a
century since 1t was visited by so
great a man as Goethe. The springs
are owned by the Abbey of Tepl, a
large monastery some miles away,
and the good brothers evidently did
not understand the art Of advertise
ment. fer the place remained prac.
tically unknown outside German
speaking countries until recent times.
But doctors began to find out how
useful its waters were to the man who
figure had lost its lines. and nowadays
u has become the Mecca OF the tat
Wide World Magazine.
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The Atchison Globe a y that no al.
vertiser has ever tried to control its ed
itorial policy. the remark being occar
stoned by the charge often made nova
days. that the big advertisers direct
the editorial policy Of newspapers.
The experience OF the Globe is the
experience Of most newspapers. The
merchant who does a great deal OF adj
vertising Is more interested In the cir
culation department of q newspaper
than In the editorial department. If q
daily paper goes to the homes Of the
people, and Is read by them. he Is satis-
fed, and 1t may chase after any theory
or fad, for ell he cares. He has troubles
OF his own, and he isn't trying to shout
der those of the editorial brethren
There are newspapers controlled by
people outside Of the editorial rooms,
and q good many OF them, more's the
pity; but the people exercising that
control are not the business men who
pay their money for advertising space.
The newspapers which are established
for political purposes are often o n
trolled by chronic oficeseekers, whose
first concern Is their own interests.
There r newspapers controlled by
great corporations, and the voice OF
such newspapers As always raised In
protest against any genuine reform.
The average western newspaper usu-
ally Is controlled by its owner, and he
Is supposed to be In duty bound to make
all sorts of sacrifices ut all sorts Of
times; there are people who consider
1t his duty to insult his advertisers.
Just to show that he IL free and indie
pendent. If he shows q decent respect
for his patrons, who pay him their
money, and make II possible for him to
carry on the business, he Is "subst
died or controlled" The newspaper
owner is q business man, like the dry
goods man or the grocer. The mer
chants are expected to have considerar
ton for their customers. and they are
not supposed to be subsidized by the
man who spends FIVE dollars with
them, but the publisher Is expected to
demonstrate his courage by showing
that he Is ungrateful for the patron
age of his friends. 1t is a funny com,
bination when you think It over
EnsporiG Gazette.
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Indianapolis.-Most of the adver-
Using signs in the foreign sections OF
the city present many humorous
phases of business activities. They
are inartistic, In bad taste, and seem
to display a generous amount Of ig-
a or carelessness-but such is
not the case.
Investigation has disclosed the fact
that those signs, at least most Of
them, serve as business getters. They
are the mediums which bring and
hold the foreigners together, and they
attract hundreds of up-to-date Amer
leans, who think those signs stand
for just what they want. The adver-
Using in the foreign districts, how
ever crude 1t may seem, Is In many
respects more up to date than what is
used downtown. Many of the foreign
ers-and many In the foreign districts
are matured Americans-could pre-
pare or order as pretty signs as seen
anywhere, but this would spoil the
business in those districts. and the old
signs are retained.
A mar on West Washington street,
blacksmith by trade, and one who
looks every bit a foreigner, is well
educated. He knows every word In
the English language adapted to his
trade and does not have to stutter
when spelling most any word called
for. He writes a good hand and can
print the capital and small letters of
the alphabet almost as well as a grad
uate sign painter. But his sign over
the door to the shop reads:
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The MIser Of Sag Harbor.

ECONOMY" said Daniel w. Field
the millionaire shoe manufacturer OF
Boston, who at the age Of forty-ive
has entered Harvard, economy is 90
sential to wealth, but by economy J
don't mean niggardliness.
1.-TWO many men fail to attain to
wealth because they practise q
c~heeseparing and mean economy that
gets everybody down on them.
They practise, in fact, an economy
like that Of old William Brewster OF
Sag Harbor. William, you know, woult
never buy oysters because he couldnf
eat shells and ALL"
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BY WEK.
or DEY

This may MOI saem so crude. The
letters are uniform and present a good
appearance. Evidently somebody
with real artistic instinct had been
employed to advertise the wants OF
the house. Here the spelling Is the
chief fault.
A large artistic and In every way
beautiful sign. such as q be seen
in the business district. would not at.
tract tbs Foreigners. First OF al. they
think an establishment carrying q
-sfgr
to mathematical precision would show
too much prosperity. too much Amer
icanism-
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London.-The first labor exchange
for women in England was opened.
Hordes Of and girls OF all
ages applied Immediately for work,
giving painful evidence of the shock
ing number of women unemployed.
Among the applicants were stenogra-
pliers, dressmakers. m%illiners, teach
ers and domestic servants.
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(NaO0ng /
[ repaired 4

AS soon as these are noticed the on.
locker will comment on the poor spell.
ing, first of all. Then he will take
into consideration the art of sign ma
king and wonder why on earth a man
should tumble the letters In that
fashion. With that be will pass on
and forget the apparent ignorance or
carelessness displayed publicly until
he arrives at the next establishment,
which may have a sigh something
like this:
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He Had Been Observing.

why don't you call your invention
the Bachelors Button?'" / asked my
friend. who was about to put on the
market a button that a man could at
tach without needle or thread.
II fear that the appellstion would
imply too much restrictiveness," he
answered. you see,' he went on, Civ.
ing me one of his knowing smiles, Il
expect to do just as much business
with the married men as with the
bachelors"
The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1910-07-15
Appendicitis Is CONTAGIOUS.

London-Dr. Donald Hood, writing
to the Lancet, propounds the theory
that appendicitis is contagious. He
says:
IF the disease is due, as believe, to
the effect of microbe influence, the
micro-organism may under certain
conditions be conveyed from indlvid-
ual to individual.
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Cost Of spontaneIty.

Il want the office, of course" said
the aspiring statesman, but not un-
less / am the peoples choice"
1--WE can fix that, too" said his cam
paign manager; "only you know it's
o good deal more expensive to be the
peoples choice than it is to go in az
the compromise candidate"
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taken TO the
coast in barges.
The Matanuska
coal field lies
about 25 miles
from the tidewa.
ter, however, the
a northerly en-
payment of Cook
inlet. AS Cook
inlet is frozen
during the win
ter, however the
distance to an
open S q a port
must be meas
ured to Resurrec-
ton bay, on the
east side of
Kenai peninsula,
about $50 miles
from the coal
fields.
The X n o w n
C o m m e ! ally
valuable Goals of
the Matanuska
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S'~
tage; that is, their markets must be
local and probably small. These lig-
mites and lower grade bituminous
Goals have a wide distribution in
Alaska, and some Of them will have
great value to local industries.
Peat is very widely distributed In
Alaska, having been found in nearly
every part of the territory. The eli
matte conditions, as we'll as those of
plant life, in the central and north
ern part of the territory, seem espe-
cially favorable for the accumulation
of peat. Everywhere the soil is clothed
with a dense growth of moss and
other small plants, and the frozen con-
dition of the subsoil and the short
ness of the summer season prevent
decay.
Alaska contains a large variety Of
mineral deposits, and these, especially
gold and coal, are widely distributed.
The auriferous gravels are scattered
over a very large area, but much of it
is unprospected. There are some
large auriferous lode mines in south
eastern Alaska and promising lode
prospects in other parts of the terri
tory.
Copper mining has been done in two
widely separated coastal districts.
Very promising deposits of copper ore
occur In two inland belts which are
undeveloped because they are not yet
accessible by rail, and copper pros
poets have been found elsewhere in
the territory.
Tin, marble, gypsum and petroleum
have been produced from Alaskan de-
posts; iron and other minerals prob.
ably have future commercial value.
Mining began about 1880 and pro-
crossed slowly for nearly two decades.
since which advancement has been
very rapid. Much of the Pacific sea-
board, with it's cheap transportation,
strong relief, abundant water power
and timber. and equable climate, is
most favorable to low costs of mi
ming. These conditions have resulted
in the development of one of the
largest low grade gold mining enter
prises in the world, as we'll as some
others of considerable magnitude.
They have also favored the success
full exploitation of comparatively low
grade copper Ores, even at the low
market value of the metal during the
past year.
Though placer mining has been
carried on in Alaska for nearly 80
years, it has been chiefly by the crude
methods Of the pioneer that more than
500, 600, 900 worth of gold has been
won from the a%uriferous gravels. The
modern epoch of placer mining. with
labor saving machinery, has only just
begun, and the field In which such
methods are used is capable of much
expansion. Though the future dis
covery Of %bonanzas, such as have
made Alaska famous in the past. can
not be predicted, II is certain that
the possibilities of new finds are far
from being exhausted. and that there
are hundreds of creeks known to be
%auriferous which may yield gold In
commercial quantities when means
are found to reduce the present cost
of operation.
The inland copper districts await
the railway transportation, which VII
not only lead to the development OF
known deposits. but also stimulate
further search for ore bodies Such
developments Of aapde mining INDUS
try viii give a larger permanent pop
need.
A full development Of the rainine
industry is possible only by the I'm
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BEAUTY RESTORED BY BABY
Queen Of Holland Looks Like Old Self
Since Little Princess
Was Born.

Amsterdam. - Photographs fust
taken of Queen Wilhelmina of Holland
and her baby tell q wonderful tale Of
maternal happiness and satisfied
warnings.
The baby has changed the queen
into a pretty woman again.
A few years ago the world was
The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1910-07-15
He Made Two pollxwons.

Paris.-Eugene Batillon, professor
of biology at the University Of Dijon.
announced before the Academy Of Sci
enees that he had succeeded in de-
veloping two tadpoles by producing
~traumatism in a frogs eggs with a
platinum wire. The experiment con
s~titutes a most important advance In
the phenomenon cf partheno-genesis.
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underlaid by anthracite and 2O.2
square miles undertake by bituminous
coal. The coal bearing rocks trend
to the northeast into the unsurveyed
high ranges, and it is quite possible
that there may be an extension of the
coal fields in this direction.
Coal beds varying from 6 to no feet
In thickness are exposed in this region,
with some local swellings, giving a
much higher maximum thickness. In
quality the Goals vary from an anthra-
cite, with 81 per cent. of fixed carbon,
to a semi-b,sdminous, with IA per cent.
of fixed carbon, and include some va
rieties that will coke. There has
been much prospecting of these Goals,
but In the absence of railways no
mines have been developed, though a
small output from one bed has been
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A widow may have words OF praise
for her late husband. But a sleepy
wife, neverl
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provement OF the
transportation IA
cilities. At least
me railway must
be built to the Yu-
kon gold fields,
and the inland
copper lode dis
tricts and coal
fields must be con-
nected with Pa
cific ports that are
p throughout
the year. Then,
and not until then,
can Alaska's mi
ming industry be
deyeloped to the
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@f7OrsEShoNgJ
e -

Another, almost as good, on the
front of the shop, says:
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y have often wondered" snapped
the bride OF q year, why I ever mar
Il suppose" sneered the husband.
III wAs because you couldn't have
married me without It,"
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important TO Mothera

Examine carefully every bottle OF
CASTORIA, a safe and sure remedy o
infants and children. and see that IL
Bears the M -g5Ssas
Signature Of NZzzM
In Use For Over so Years.
The Kind You Have Always Bought
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TflE COAL FIELDS AEzS5R

are two known
areas of high grade coal
the Boring river field.
in the Controller bay re-
gion and the Matanuska
field, north of Cook in
let. The Boring river
field, lying about 20
miles from tidewater at
Controller bay, en-
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A full development Of the mining
industry Is possible only by the Inn
The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1910-03-01
Water at Mansfield.

Miller & Scott, who recently COM
pleted the Great Northern we'll at
this place, were very successful in
the undertaking and the test con-
Quoted by Engineer Hill of the Great
Northern showed the we'll produced
900 gallons day, and then
some. This is 10000 gallons more
than the company exacted of the
we'll drillers and the latter felt cor
respondingly jubi1ant. The water is
of an excellent quality and similar
to the town well, free of alkali, cool
and delicious. Mr.. and Mrs. Walker
are mapping out various plans for
flower garden about the depot
grounds this summer. The tank
with a capacity for close to $4,000
gallons of water, is located a few
yards from the depot and about 40
feet above the ground, and will give
force enough to throw the water
through a hose all over the depot
lot. 1t promises to be a very pretty
greeting for people coming to or
leaving Mansfield. A CHEEKY welcome
and tidy adios, as it were-Mansfield
News.
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purposes, and it is reported that they

purposes, and it is reported that they
will commence condemnation pro-
ceedings at once against the land
owners on the west side of the river
There is an immense amount of pow
er running to waste at the rapids
and If this is true there will be no
lack of power at Pateros.
The G. N. surveying crew are
putting in permanent bench stakes
for the Methow valley railway line
and when spring opens up the survey
will be completed to connect with the
Skagit river line now built beyond
Rockport. This will give us direct
line to the Sound.
The Great Northern surveying
crew, who are completing the sur
vey of the Methow valley branch are
so close to town that they now make
their headquarters at Hotel Pateros.
The work on this survey will soon
be completed.-Pateros News.
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AeAOST|c WOMAN
AFTER OFFICE
MRS. MARILLA KICKER, ATTOR-
NEY AND SUFFRAGE LEADER,
AFTER GOvERNORSHIP OF
NEW HAMPSHIRE.

Dover, N. H., March 1.-Conster-
nation has been aroused in New
Hampshire political circles by the an
nouncement that Mrs. Marilla Kicker,
attorney at law and suffrage leader,
intends to be candidate for COVER
nor at the next election. Mrs. Kicker
has host of friends and admirers in
the state. Her announcement came
from California, where she went to
spend the winter.
Mrs. Kicker is not only suffragist,
but is also prominent in the warfare
on Christianity. She is a pronounced
agnostic and denounces religion as
the great enslaver of women. She is
wealthy and has expended large sums
in placing the complete works of the
late Col. Robert G. Ingersoll in pub
lie and college libraries all over the
country.