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as they usually do. though one old cock.
seeing the reporter looking at him. quick
ly made his toilet by spreading his tail.
and then said
The only grievance i have against
Supt Baker and Mr.. Blackburn is that
they will not allow me to parade + street
between 4 and ) o'clock I'm the afternoon.
| know | would cause a sensation, Tor
although i make no pretentions TO nav
ing any brains, yet you must admit that
| am just the best dressed thing that
struts" A great many children gather
around the groundhog inclosure. The
children are very fond OF these little ami
mails They say that they (the ground
hogsb are so cutel
Nearby lives Dan, the world-famed
zebra. He has the reputation of being n
dangerous beast, but the man who writes
this does not know anything about the
accuracy OF that estimate. and Is not
going to find out. Dan would escape. IL
he could. but he wears convict stripes
that would betray him in any company.
Poor old Dan has a game right foreieg.
Whether he got this painful injury be-
cause OF his unruly temper. or whether
his unruly temper is due to the injury.
his keeper could not say. Dan laid back
his big white-tipped ears. opened his
mouth and brayed. Perhaps he said:
This is a great come-down for me. l
who as the gift of the great Menelik to
the greatest Roosevelt. / who am as
much n royal beast as any of yon lions,
TO be reduced to public exhibit In a
zoo. Zounds! (another bray) TO be de-
graded from useful animal To freak
for men and nursemaids to cape at! IL
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on the federal bench i'm Alaska Terri
torial judicial appointments are for
terms and not for life. as in the federal
judiciary in the states. Then he retired
to practice law at Fairbanks. and prompt
ly was chosen as delegate in Consress
The other day. as he sat in his office
in the House Office building. the double
question was put to him: What is the
matter with Alaska? What are you cry
ing about
"Crying-whos s crying l am not" he re-
piled. II am only trying gently but per-
sistently to induce these congressional
chechacos to bounce the New York jump
ers of the Alaska pay streak and give
our own prospectors chance.
whats the matter? Ignorance, Just
plain ignorance. Congress is the darkest
Africa of ignorance about matters Alas
kan. Congress has a hazy idea that the
red-headed stepchild's estate. of which 1t
is trustee. consists OF icebergs and snow
fields. and that whoever says Alaska has
resources is prevaricator. Alaska, to
them, is an arctic mystery, afflicted with
the Guggenheims and delegate, both OF
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they cannot be monopolized by big I'M
terests or any one else.
And. fourth, legislation to curb
trusts and monopolies In their attempt
to secure the public lands or any other
national resources through forms OF
law or otherwise.
THE fist three items named above are
Alaskan In sense. but each blessing
therein was given TO every territory I'm
aid of it's development except 10 Alaslta.
The last item suggested refers 10 the
common disease and must be met by the
same legislation in New York and la
Alaska.
''tf President Wilson will give reason
able time and effort to these problems he
and the democratic Congress can solve
them easily. Really, the President can do
most everything needed TO open Alaska
to development I'm one hour by legal and
lawful executive order. VIII he do itP L
do not know, but ] intend to keep cry
ing as you characterize my legislative
efforts. until IL is done. or until the VIII
son administration. for not doing IL.
makes as great an Alaskan failure as
that which preceded IT,
ASHMUN BROWN.
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Crowds of men and women and children
gather there. His big. thick, shaggy,
wooily head was lowered and he was
refreshing himself with a pile of green
grass fresh cut from the lawns of the
Zoo. His manner showed that the meal
was satisfactory.
Hay is very nourishing food" he was
saying. as he shook his uncomhed and
unbrushed head, but n little green
salad, hundred pounds or SO. is very
appetizing. No. | do not use mayonnaise
or French dressing this salad /
think 1t detracts from the natural flavor
of the grass. The bitter i'm the weeds
chew. the pungency of pepper grass and
wild mustard, the sour of the red sorrel,
the sweetness of the clover blossoms and
the tang OF garlic give this lawn grass
a!l the seasoning my system needs
Have | desire to escape and af-
fright the good citizens OF the northern
suburbs of the city?' said the buffalo
We'll. not much So long as Mr. Black
burn has my meals served to me often
and on time, l am satisfied, Why, look
you at my warm house, roomer than
many flats you pay $40 month for.
and then have to sign lease against
having children. playing the pianoia
after 10 O'Clock or having midnight sup
pers, Do / look thick-headed enough to
want to run off. Sometimes l think of
the broad plains where ] and my fell
lows used to travel in such herds that
railroad trains had to stop to let us
pass. but here In this happy Zoo ! am
safe from those anti-conservationists.
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POLAR BEARS.

scratch their backs. but there was no way,
of knowing beforehand just at what
time they would permit 1t.
There were other lions not so amiable.
AS rule he did not indulge In too great
familiarity with the beasts. He was only
a keeper and not a lion tanner. He had a
wife and children dependent on him and
he found. in spite of sundry drawbacks.
that life was very agreeable. Lions and
tigers he said were not vegetarians. and
so far as he had observed they enjoyed
one kind of meat just as well as another
so II was raw
In the lions house many people are
pauSing these autumn days to peer
through the thick glass at the snakes and
Gila monsters. The collection of these
creatures is not a large one. but Ii Is
enough. They seem to be taking life easy
and are not troubled with insomnia. The
keeper told The Star man that the rat
tlesnakes. the copper heads and the Gila
monsters were beautiful specimens and
fine representatives of their families. but
that he had not adopted them as pets.
Despite many learned treatises on the
usefulness of snakes. the inoffensiveness
of snakes, the cleverness of snakes and
all that. n good many visitors at the Zoo
shudder as they look at them.
4*
Thousands of persons find the prairie
dog village charming and a lively
place. Civic uplft has apparently not
progressed very far In that community,
and the public square is yellow clay and
gravel, hard beaten by the footprints
of the villagers. 1t may be that the
whole village is a playground Many
features of village life with which mere
men are familiar seem to be lacking
there. There is no "opry house, no
city hotel no palace moving picture
show, no elite pool parlor and no literary
or debating society
score of the dogs were sitting on
their front doorsteps or in their door
yards. They seemed happy and chatter
ed or squeaked or, barked. Being in a
village. they probably were gossipng.
They wagged their stubby little moth
eaten tails with animation. and seemed
to have no longing to wander from their
fireside. One wise old little dog looked
up rather impertinently at The Star
man, and IL his squeaky chatter could
be translated 1t may be that he was
saying: mo. sir, 1 have no desire to
escape, but If / should break my bonds
and stray into a distant section of the
city l am sure that nervous people would
call me a lion or a panther or at least
q wolf"
A short way from the prairie dog viii
lage is the corral of an American bison.
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every state in the Union. and 1t also
afiiicts the territory of Alaska. 1t Is
not an Alaskan problem. but a nation
al one. Here is where so many of our
statesmen err. They cannot under
stand that 1t is a common complaint.
but insist that ii is peculiar to Alaska,
and vainly look for some specific
panacea with which to. cure 1t In that
territory alone 1t cannot be done.
What Alaska needs. and what the
people expect from the Wilson admin
istration. according to the promises of
the Baltimore platform. is, first. the
immediate construction of q govern
ment built or government aided and
controlled railroad from the mag
nificent open-all- -the-year harbors on
the southern coast of Alaska to the
naviEable river system of the interior.
thus giving assurance of freedom from
monopoly both in transportation and
coal.
Second. the prompt abo1lshment OF
the forestry reservations of a non-
forest area in southern Alaska, larger
than the state of Ohio, so that this
region may be opened to development
by the people who own Ii.
Third the opening of the coal fields
of Alaska under such safeguards that
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who would shoot me for buffalo robe.
He was really a very wise and sociable
old bison.
Next-door neighbors to the bison are
Sambar or Ruso deer. "the largest Indian
deer-a forest animal coming out on the
grass slopes to graze-mainly nocturnal
habitat. southeastern Asia" fence of
twenty-five strands of heavy wire. about
nine feet high, hens i'm these beautiful
creatures.
A few steps bring you to the wood
chuck or grounding lot The weather
prophets were at home. and a crowd of
humans was grouped about their home.
The Star man asked the groundhogs IL
we were in for a hard winter and heavy
coal bill, but the older of the groundhoss
said they never gave out forecasts until
February. One of the groundhogs was
sitting on the doorstep of his stone cot
tage and another was sitting his
launches. holding piece of carrot in
his forepaws, squirrel fashion. and eat
ing lunch. The sun was shining, and he
seemed perfectly careless of his shadow.
A number of peacocks roasted about the
lot, the groundhogs having had some
thing for lunch which they. the peacocks
liked. So they just dropped in to be
neighborly The peacocks were sitting
around idly, and were off parade. They
were not calling attention to themselves
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CLOTHES FOR OUTDOOR EXERC CIsE

than his English cousin-hence. IL he has
started to walk fifteen miles he will walk
1T or drop dead in his tracks. He pounds
on and on until the fifteen miles has been
religiously covered. not as walk with
nature, but az variation of swinging
dtimbbells. When he gets home he IN
perspiring freely. He totters to his din
ner he has done his walk and he looks
1t.
II
Or. take a fox hunt The American uhe
writer speaks generally and not OF the
rare exception--the American who doesn't
care about his attire) will come out for a.
hard ride cross country with clothes
that suggest field marshal about TO re-
view his troops.
There are two contributing causes to
the Americans failure to wear his out
door clothes with the ease and comfort
and good effect of the Engiishman. In
the first place, the American has his
vanity of dress. which is almost Gallo
in its intensity.
In ordinary matters OF dress the
Englishman. unless he has become
Americanized, lis woefully behind the
man of this country. He will re-
morsefully ease himself into dinner
party with the air of particularly
penitent criminal who exbects the
house detective to grab him on sight
His dress coat will be punched around
the collar, tight in the shoulders and
Topping behind like the tail of dis
consulate crow. His trousers Will bag.
His collar will be a wing affair three
sizes too large and affording embar-
raising glimpses of his Adams apple.
Altogether he is a spectacle to make
Carlisle weep.
When he goes out in his ordinary
street clothes he lays himself open to
the suspicion of employing a valet who
Is q blind paralytic. The writer knew
only one Englishman who is careful
about his neckties, and he had light
heartedly solved the problem by wear
ing the kind Of "inade-up' cravat that
hooks over the collar button.
An American will take more cafe or
his appearance when he reports at his
Office in the morning than the average
will for fornlsl evening
party.
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morning. and every story mentioned over
and over the name Of the dealer. In an
instant he was the best known animal
dealer in the town. Then the snake was
brought back. The news of it's recapture
also filled many columns.
''I also recall that a good many years
ago DIR. Christy. prominent resident OF
Anacosta whose home and splendid
grounds bordered on the then clear and
clean waters of the Eastern branch.
brought home from Florida for his chill
dren a pet alligator--a baby reptile about
six inches long end just about strong
enough to eat flies. Well 1t crawled off.
An Anacostia correspondent heard about
1t. He turned that pet alligator into
'saurian monster He filled the Eastern
branch with il. The otomac river be-
came full of alligators. Nervous persons
were seeing alligators. it was summer
time and people were afraid to go in
swimming. Pleasure boating was inter
fered with because ii was believed that
the boats might be smashed and swamped
by the lashing and thrashing of the mon
ster's tail. / never heard what became
OF that saurian monster, but probably
Potomac catfish ate ii.
The Star man paused before the line
of cages where live the black leopard.
the leopard or panther, the spotted leap
ard whose skin looks like the leopard
skin rugs which sometimes lie I'm the
parlor floors of the rich. and others. the
cheeta or the hunting leopard and the
spotted hyena. The black leopard and
the other leopard were holding a family
row with good many snarls and misses
and slaps mingled in, but they soon quiet
ed down and their manner seemed to say:
"Shucks, that was a trffie--it was just an
incidental bit of pleasantry-a passage
of feline repartee.'
In the next cage big cat was lying
on the floor, it's yellow-green eyes, beau
tifu and savage. staring through the
bars. On the cage was this legend.
"leopard-panther." He or she looked
The Star man squarely i'm the face. He
or she did not finch. The expression of
the cats face was not cordial. In the
cold and unblinking gaze might be read
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what they will. Keep away from the
long -necked sweater. Wear the coat
sweater and a low collar
These are a few of the rules which
may prove helpful. Many n man has
made himself foolish by going for long
walks In lightweight shoes. This Is an
other example of the inability of the
otherwise perfect dresser to discriminate
in the wearing Of his shoes.
Escaping the Individual criticism or at
tire for the moment. let us take up the
subject of the Englishman and his sport
ing clothes" Any honest tailor VIII tell
you that when ii comes to dressing FOR
the street or dinner or any function or
happening within urban confines the
American can give the Engiishman all OF
the aces and most OF the high suit and
then capture four odd. The EngliEhman
only looks well when he has dressed
himself for an all day tramp or game
of golf or ride TO hounds.
But then the advantage Is all with
him. He can climb into an old and un-
creased suit and pair OF heavy shoes
and go forth into the country a perfect
symbol of the great outdoors that he is
enjoying. He will walk fifteen miles,
come home and demolish the best part
OF a beef critter' and stretch out before
the fire, a perfect picture of placid con-
tent. His clothes don't look demolished
He himself Is not frayed nor frazzled.
He is merely comfortable.
The American, on the other hand,
will go forth for his walk in a pair Of
trousers that are perfectly creased
and a coat that fits nicely. III the day
is cold he will have heavy coat
sweater under the coat and probably
heavy wooden shirt under the coat
sweater. Because it is cold when he
starts he is confident that no amount
OF exercise will warm him. He tramps
forth and soon his light shoes begin
to bend at the instep and raises creases
on his feet. He will find himself puff
fing earnestly and at the end of ten
miles will wish, with sorrow. that he
could hire a team to bring his coat
and sweater along after him. From
their weight he Is confident that moth
ing less than a team could haul that
coat and sweater.
The American is courageous no less 30
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and give sympathetic ear and assistance
to the people 1t will yield a one-hundred-
million-dollar profit per annum. 1t has
more gold than California and Colorado.
more coal than Pennsylvania. Ohio and
West Virginia; more copper than Michi-
gan and Arizona: more tin than Wales,
more agricultural land than Ohio, Indi-
ana and Illinois. and more fish than all
other American waters combined. The
trustee does not know. but the Alaska
syndicate does.
There is nothing strange or mysteri-
Gus about the Alaska problem. 1t is
just the old. old struggle for wealth by
those who have money sense i'm oppo-
sition to the multitude which has it not.
What Alaska needs is to be treated
just other territories have been
just as the Ohio territory was. and
Missouri, Colorado, Arizona and New
Mexico territories were treated. with
only one difference. That difference
grows out Of the fact that in late
years. just in time to curse Alaska with
it's affiction, a new disease has grown
on the body polite. called trusts.
THE greatest of these are the trans
portation and copper trusts exempli-
fled in the Morgan-Guggenhei Alaska
Syndicate. 1t is disease common to
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BY THE BoULEvARDIER.

(OMES now the time of year when
the athletic young man makes his
appearance and is confronted with
the question of what to wear. BY the
athletic young man is meant not the
individual who has the shoulders of
blacksmith and a weakness for homicide
which he vents on the foot ball field.
He Is not the only type which is in
cluded In the generic term The young
man who visits the foot ball field. no less
than the man who plays the game, is to
be considered.
The college has again opened its doors.
The long, open road croons its call to
stroll among parti-colored leaves and
bark to the cracking of dry branches
shaken by the frosty breeze Then there
is hockey and skating to come. The
athletic young man Il; one who Is of the
college, who hears the call of the road.
who goes skating.
One of the big complaints of the tailor
today is that the American. while he can
always appear to have Just left band
box, cannot wear what are termed his
sporting clothes" as does the English
man. Your American athletic young
man is varied type. especially when
he is in college. He may be short and
paunchy, with rather waddling walk.
Or he may be a lank. thin person whose
knees and feet have advanced the rest
of him in development. by number OF
years. He may have chest like i
barrel or a chest like sparrow.
But, regardless of physical difference.
he wants to dress for athietics< as he
would dress for an evening entertain
ment. He desires above all things to
be young man in harmony with style.
Generally speaking, the athletic young
man can follow a few rules of style
which will enable him to live up to tra-
ditions
Wear the rougher types of cloth in your
suits-the tweed style of suit. Try the
heavy type of shoe in preference to the
lighter ,and ordinarily dressier) low shoe.
Don't be afraid to wear light-coIored
clothes when they suit your type A
rough suit of light color is not out of
nlaca I'm n cnnl day let Scnffers say
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have the nerve to kill a chicken and
whose name would turn white from fright
at the bray of an ass Then has follow
ed a tremendous sensation in all the
country roundabout. And soon the an
cient and decrepit lion. impatient to re-
turn home. is led back by the cars, 1t is
good advertising. An escaped lion will
give a circus more advertising in day
than the circus manager could pay for IN
a month.
Il remember having heard of an animal
dealer not so many leagues distant from
the Zoo who had an anaconda. or a
python, or a boa constructor or 1T may
have been a dragon, tied UP in a sack
and carted away in the night. Then he
told some newspaper mel. about his ter
Frible loss. Havoc. What blood-chiliins
stories brimful of grisly details and
panicky forebodings appeared the next
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correct word. but in this century of mar
vels 1t is dangerous word. The fierce
animals, like the cats, have bars on all
sides of them and above them. Though
some of them have the freedom in the
day of "A yard in the rear OF their
cages. and this yard Is barred above and
on all sides, they are confined indoors
at night. They are thus housed at clos
ing time each afternoon. not because
there Is any fear on the part of fhe<Zoo
authorities that they may escape, but be-
cause of our interest in the animals Hav-.
ing been i'm captivity, 1t is not well for
them to be exposed to storm or cold. so
for this reason the creatures are kept
indoors at night. Night watchmen are on
duty. IL there happened to be any
shortage among the animals IL would be
noted at feeding time. which is twice a
day. Each keeper knows every one of
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his charges so well that he would miss
an absentee
Animals that burrow have a dirt lot
to practice their pastime in, but under
that dirt is thick bed of cement. Walk
around the ratings and fencing and ce-
ment copings and see for yourself what
chance or lack of chance any animal
would have to get away. Then you can
write something to calm the troubled
spirits of people who see panthers in the
night.
II have known circus sometimes to
turn loose poor old lion that WOuldnt
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which they wish were in the land Of
shades, at least.
''In 1909, the czar leased Alaska to the
RussiAn-American Company, which there
upon became both government and mo-
nopoiist Of all trade and opportunity in
Russian America. This Russian lease to
a single monopoly continued until in the
treaty of purchase in 1867 the United
States paid an extra 5000, 900 to end it.
Immediately upon the purchase, the
United States, in 1870. leased Alaska $
only known resource, the fur seal
islands. to a United States monopoly for
forty years. This lease expired in 1910,
and thus for hundred and ten years
Alaska was in a state of leasehold
peonage, created first by the Russian
czar and second by the United States
Congress.
after the American prospector was
permitted to enter Alaska other valuable
resources were discovered. Whereupon
the fish trust, the copper trust and the
transportation trust got busy to secure
to themselves the great. undeveloped re-
sources of the territory
Alaska has long been, to use the apt
language of a great senator, surrounded
by men who know exactly what they
want. The great corporate combinations
which for more than a century engaged
portunities in Alaska were officered by
efficient managers and guided by cum
ming experts having the last word in eX-
act knowledge of her wealth and how to
obtain 1t and keep out of Jail.
ION the other hand the general ineffi-
cheney. lack of knowledge and want of
proper appreciation of the facts by those
government bureaus charged with the
protection of Alaska's resources in
Washington in pitiful contrast with
the efficiency of those who have hereto
fore so skillfully monopolized the pro-
duction of the territory.
what production? Has Alaska any
production worthy of big business? That
inquiry explains what is the matter with
Alaska. Sig business would not make
,o ;hat - inquiry. but congr9es constantly
"Of course. Alaska has production
and the following statement shows how
valuable that production is. and how
much it has put into the tills of Ameri-
can merchants in forty-fye years. over
and above the original cost and mainte-
nance of government in Alaska:
Balance sheet OF United States In account with
Alaska, 1867 to 1871. both inclusive:
Production
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I could but lay my heels on the author
Of this outrage!'
conveniently call on old Dunk. who lives
hard by. Dunk has been at the Zoo
since April, 1891. Before that he was
In the circus business and likes to tell
of the parades and performances he has
taken part In In many cities.
II would like to sit around" said Dunk
to The Star man, ''and chew hay and
eat peanuts with some old friend I'm the
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VOICE crying in
Congress is James
Wickersham. terri
torial q e ! e & a I e
from Alaska. Be-
tween a voice cry
ing in Congress
and one crying In
{ h G wilderness
there is no differ
ence in the eyes of
Delegate Wicker
sham. Neither can