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also at the north, running from Panama to the southern boundary of Ecuador. Between these two places it is all desert and the foot hills of the mountains have a country as sandy and barren as the mighty Sahara between them and the sea. There the rain never falls and 1t is only on the eastern slope that you find dense vegetation.
 In the southern Andes there Is a heavy rainfall This comes from the winds of the Pacific, which blow in that direction. little farther north the winds come from the east They are loaded with the waters of the Atlantic. They drop part of their burden on their way across South America and the rains pour all along the eastern side of the Andes. By the time the winds get to the top they are dry and there Is nothing but snow water. which melts on the high peaks and flows down in a stream here and there through the great western desert. Farther north in Ecuador there Is a heavy rainfall and the rivers that flow down the steep western slopes often flood the country for miles.
 I was surprised about the rain near the Strait of Magellan. In some parts of western Patagonia the ground Is cov- cred with moss as deep as your waist and there are mighty ferns with fronds as long as your arm and longer. The most of the trees are evergreens. They are small, but are so thick on the ground that you can work on their tops in snow shoes. The ground there is satuated with moisture and when I tried to make my way through the woods I sank in as though I were on one of the bogs of old Ireland. It rains there every few days. Indeed, I am told that it rains 13 months every year.
 And this brngN me to the lakes of the Andes. The western slopes in south ern Chile have bodies of fresh water that will compare in beauty with the lakes of the Alps Lake Manuel Huapi which is about 2590 feet high, is like a Norwegian ford, with waterfalls flowing down the steep walls of the basin in which 1t lies Lake Esmeralda is another beautiful sheet, and Lake Llanquihue is an inland sea second only to Titicaca in size. All of these lakes lie in a ravine or along a pass which will some day be one of the routes over the Andes. They are in south ern Chile. and are sometimes called the Switzerland of the south
 The Andes in north Chile have no water except alkaline deposits. some of which are so bitter that they would poison the man who tried to drink them. Among these are the great borax lakes, one of which is 24 miles in length. It skirts the railroad track which runs from La Paz, Bolivia, cown to Antofagasta, and it contains enough boraX to wash all the heads of the human race. I saw this lake on my way from Bolivia down to the coast. and the crust of borax upon it was so hard that one could have skated over it as though upon ice. The crust looked like ice and the borax I saw taken out
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Copyrighted. 1914 by Frank c. Carpenter
 Tos Andes Chile

Copyrighted 1914 by Frank c. carpenter)
 Los Andes, Chile. C7AM high up on the Chilean side fI of the Andes. ready 10 cross
 sA.4 over the mountains from the I9apSJ Pacific to the Atlantic slope of
 the continent My next letters will be from Argentina, and will describe the greatest bread and meat lands of the future. I am now on the roof of the continent, right in the shadow of Mount Aconcagua and within plain sight of the highest peak on our hemisphere. To the north of me this mighty range extends ss far as the distance from Boston to San Francisco. It rises and falls in mighty wall whose average height Is more than two and one-haf miles and whose width Is greater in many places than the distance between Philadelphia and Boston In some places there are two mighty parallel ranges that uphold piateaus as great in area as some of our largest states. and at the far north there are three ranges, from one of which branches off the spur which drops down into the Culebra cut at the Isthmus of Panama. The Andes run southward from hero to the Strait of Magellan. and, jumping that strait, are found again in the mountains of T1erra del Fuego. ending at last in Cape Horn, a mighty rock which Is as high as Mount Washington. In these southern ranges there are many low passes and in half dozen places Chile is planning to build railroads connect ing the oceans. The mountains gradual ly fall as they near the strait, but the seas on each side of them are of great depth, and the Andes with their rocky heads still tower high above the waters.
 During tho past year my travels have been largely confined to the Andes, and in this and in other trips l have made to South America I have travelled through them from one end to the other. have never set foot on Cape Horn, but have seen the mountains of Tierra del Fuego, and in a coaeting steamer have wound my way fin and out among the glacial peaks of Patgonia and through the Strait of Magellan at the southern end of the continent
 The Strait of Magellan is merely a pass through the mountains. Cape Pillar, which marks its western end. terminates in two massive rocks 1500 feet high, and the great archipelago of Tierra del Fue- go consists of mighty mountains, which are more than half under the sea l know of no finer scenery than that of the islands which border the western coast of southern Patagonia. It is like rid- ing in a ship amid the snowy peaks of t-5~ highest mountains I wound my way through in a small vessel, going through passes so dangerous that we dared not travel at night. The distance was three or four hundred miles, and we coasted slowly along through these mighty fiords walled on the lower slopes with stunted pine forests and crowned with glaciers
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AETROGRAD, December 14-(Spe-
 cial Correspondence.)- .)--Yesterday sx5Yk went down the Galyernaya. It MHgaM Is a squalid, ill-paved, dull
 street in West Petrograd. Once America's embassy stood there. Even now the untidy back of grand dueal pal ace, which fronts on the Neva, shows through to the Galernaya. Tn this Galer- maya I went into the green grocer Koz- lin's Only in Muscovy do newspaper men visit green grocers. Because green grocers sell postage stamps. I met MT. Kozlin, by rank a ''miestchanin' or petty bour- geois from Tver. selling onions. selling stamps and crying. He had been to see two wounded sons. Neither was very bad, but fin Russia one loves to cry. To shed tears of emotion" "Sliozi umileniya" IS the phrase. Kozlin told me that his eldest son, Kyril, was in the Vitebskaya street near the mouth of the river. He had good story of fighting at Angus tovo late in September. Would I go?
 I drove with tattered izvostchils to vitebskaya. The '1zvostchik" grinned. All Petrograd 'izvostchiks" do. Here is our talk:
  tleman."
 That's impossible. My language is Eng hsh. Have you got any sons at the fruntT
 English and German are the same to us. Why are they fighting? Gentleman, I'll give you some news----'
 Here by "izvostchik" crossed himself, and said reverently:
 "A German shell fell yesterday in the Church of the Smolensk Virgin at Bob- ruisk. It destroyed the church, but left the holy ikon intact"
 But Bobruisk is GOO versts from the Germans"
 "yes. but 1t was a miracle. gentle man."
 The vitebskaya street is dingier and dull CT than even the Calernaya. The resi- dents call it "Tarakannaja." which means "Cockroach street" At the corner of sscockroach street" we collided with a hand barrow, Everyone swore. I found Dmitri Kozlin also swearing. He lives in q house over state vodka shop, which had been closed since the announcement of mobilization. The yardman closed the gates of Kozlin's house, and Kozlin and . policeman, his visitor, would not get out. Everyone swore. I swore. too, and for 10 minutes conversed with Kozlfh, through an efght-feet high gate. We both felt in prison. Then the yardmap came and opened the gate and l went to Koz- lin's room.
 Kozlin has a bandaged leg. A bullet went through it. He is one of the few men who in this war got within rifle range of the enemy. Ills Is big, ex- tremely ugly. extremely intelligent look ans man. with a red face much better shaved on the right than on the left. He has served four years. one more than the compulsory term, and is on his
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 firearms, cooking utensils, knives anu other much coveted and useful products of civilization to the primitive natives in exchange.
 The usual way of capturing the sa ] lie is as follows: As soon as the first snow falls the trapper sets out gen orally mounted on a hardy Siberian poney and attended by his faithful dog. Sometimes the trapper knows be- forehand where the animal iG to be 2 found, but as 6 rule. he is guided by the tracks of the squirrel Squirrels undertake very wide journeys in search : of their favorite cedar nuts and other food. so that occasionally there is Il vcritable migration Of the animals and the sables follow them. The trapper is warned of the presence of sable by his dog, which drives the quarry up tF tree. The trapper proceeds to set u fine horsehair net al around the tree at a distance of 20 or 30 yards. The little distance. The sable soon de- sccnds and quickly becomes entangled in the web. Small bells are attached to the top of the net, and their ringing warns the trapper of capture.
 Funerals among these people are most weird and primitive. As the ground is usually so frozen that the digging of graves is impossible, the 1 corpse Is wrapped in reindeer skins and transported by reindeer drawn siedge to some spot on the snow covered tundra and simply deposited on the surface.
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which here and there plowed their way through the green and came down to the water. Darwin compared the glaciers of Mount Sarmiento In Tierra del Fuego to 100 frozen Niagaras. The waters of western Patagonia made me think of g hundred Lake Comos, Lake Genevas and Lake Lucernes tied together In an ever winding. ever-changing river. The noun tains above compared with the Alps. Here giant rock, cathedral-shaped, covered with moss, rose straight upward for q thousand feet. and further on mountains with their heads lost in the clouds drop ped almost precipitously into the sea. There were narrow gorges in which our steamer had to tack thI way and that to get through. We plowed fields of floating ice and went through canyons walled with ice several thousand feet deep.
 remember we passed several floating icebergs during the trip, and that now and then we could hear the boom of a great Ice block that had broken from a glacier. We had to sail carefully so as not to be struck by the .bergs, and at one place we stopped and anchored be- side one in order to break off q chunk of ice weighing several tons, which by means of a derrick we loaded on to the ship. This ice was of beautiful opal escent green with a cover of frosted sil- yer. We wrapped a log chain around 1t, and the steam engine hoisted it to the deck. A little later the butcher killed a fat pig which our vessel was carrying, and for the remainder of our voyage we feasted on sausage, pork chops, spare ribs and scrapple.
 have referred to the pine forests of the far south. The vegetation on the west coast of the Andes is peculiar. From the Straits of Magellan to almost 1000 miles northward the mountains are heavily wooded. There is a dense jungle
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From Iarper's Magazine.

From Harper's Magazine.
 It was Richards first day at school. At noon he rushed into the house. picked. up the treasured funny page of the pa per and scanned it with eager antici- paticn in his face. A mornen. later he threw it down and in to1c of disgust cried.
 Gee. That's rotten school"
 "Whv, Richard' exclaimed his aston ished mother; what do you say that for?'
 Well, I've been to it whole half day and I aint learned to read yet"
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The Coldest Spot on Earth

lHe SOlueSt SpOt on Eartn
 The Siberian natives of the vast Si- leran province of Yakutsk, extending clear into the Arctic ocean, in the section around the town of yerkhoy anslS. dwell in what Is probably the earth's coldest region, says the Tech nical World Magazine. Here the soil is eternally frozen for hundreds of feet downward, and the mercury oft. en records so degrees below zero. At tho height of summer only yard of unfrozen soil veneers the admixture of earth and ice. affording foothold for t.e gray tundra moss and occasional patches of bilberry dwarf willow and grass.
 Though the spot is dignified by hay ing it's name on the map and is usu- aiy referred as a town, 1t is more cor rectly a struggling Village of Yakut yuI tas, or semi underground huts and a few one-story logI cottages, inhab- ittd by Russian administrative off cIals.
 For 10 months the country is q dreary tracSless sea of driven snow Daring the brief summer thaw of two months the tundra, as the open coun- try is called. is an impossible swamp.
 The chief possessions of the natives are reindeer, dogs and a breed of very robust ponies. Through the long win ter the reindeer and ponies subsist on Ttne moss beneath the snow, which they dig up with their hoofs
 Most of the natives live in "yur- tas." crude wooden huts, the sloping Walls of which are covered with thick layer of turf and stones. For window 'glass' they use OK bladders in sum ner and sheets of thick grass of poor quality in winter. Along the walls in- side the dwelling run low mares, ol benches, that serve as seats by day ana beds by night.
 The yurta Is divided into two parts To the right as you enter, are ths quarters of the women, children ant cattle; to tho left dwell the men. The natives cannot read or write and money is practically unknown. All trade ii done by barter. The valuable fur pelti arc obtained by white Russian traders who give brick Russian tea, tobacco
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It hurt our mems feelings to massacre them Our men were in good spirits and were determined to treat the enemy we'll as during the fight they had had news of the capture of Lemberg. But the Aus trians were obstinate and we had no power to let prisoners join their comrades on condition they give up their arms. So the house blazed.
 What next happened9"
 Our guns and rifles ceased fire. If the enemy want to burn to death, let them, said our officers They perish without us taking part. Our men wait ed, watching through field glasses the burning house. The surviving Austrians with faces red from the glare were crowded In a corner room. A single shell would have destroyed them. We waited. We expected that. maddened by the smoke and heat, they would rush out and surrender or die. And in fact one man did rush out, and fall. He was struck by a burning beam. When the flames got near the corner room, smoke
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cbscured the spectacle. Our belief is. that the Austrian officers and men shot themselves There were bullets in most of the charred bodies.
 We were afterwards told that cer- tain Austrian attachments given special missions in this part were ordered not, under any circumstances, to surrender to the enemy. That explains the mass suicide of this lot
 That was the last tale I got out of Koz-l lin An officer came to see him. This UIIieer told me some other tales which are worth repeating. l noted some down. When l was saving good-by to Kozln we had the following conversation:
 When l am quite well I shall go to my village and see my wife. I never heard from her except once.' Did you get good news?" Yes, it was all about hens. The police unradnilS had come into our village to find out who stole the proprietor's fences. and sold them to a Jew"
 Copyright. 1914, by Curtis Brown)
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1ETROGRAD, December 14--(Spe- \ cial Correspondence. .)-Ye Yesterday X I went down the .Galyernaya. It E Is squalid, ill-paved, dull
 street in West Petrograd. Once
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1914-09-24
LOCAL HAPPENINGS

Mrs. Chas. Seaver left Tuesday for
Starbuck Washington.
Mrs. NJ. G. Hayes entertained her
sister, Mrs w. B. Axtell and two daugh-
tiers, Alma and Eva, of Petoskey, this
week
The Ladies of the w r. G. Thimble
Club will meet Tuesday afternoon Sept.
30 at the w r. c. Hall.
Have you tried Holsum Bread? 1t is
fine 1t dosen't dry out. Sold at An
derson's Restaurant, Alma.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Rule have been
entertaining for the past week an uncle
of Mrs. Rules, Colonel Robert Cowden
and wife of Dayton, Ohio.
V. H. Shepherd returned TO Alma
Monday eve after spending five months
in the Sanitarium at Howell. Mr.. Shep-
herd is much improved i'll health and
expects to make Alma his home this
winter or until he is able TO resume his
former employment with the P. NJ. r.
N. SOupdnys
Henry r. Pattengill, National Prog
ressive candidate for Governor of Mich
igan, toured Gratiot County Wednesday
accompanied by Otto Sanderhoff, of
y, ina, chairman of the county commit
zee, and Chas. Kerr of Ashley, candi-
ate for Representative. Mr.. Pattengill
spoke in the College Chapel at nine a.
n. aud later at the H. then went by
auto TO St. LOUIS, Breckenridge, and
Ithaca, returning TO Alma where he
spoke in the City Hall at en-thirty p.
m, and leaving here for Saginaw. Mr..
Pattengill's talks were all first class and
we'll received. The main point brought
out in his evening talk was that the
National Progressive Porty is new and
that we should give it due consideration
and not be prejudiced
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1914-09-24
tinued it until October 18th.

tlnueu III until OcLODef Otn.
The following day, Mr.. Smith swore
out warrant, charging Mr.. Parrish
with assault and battery, and with u.s.
ing indecent language. This case was
taken to st. Louis, the justice there
continuing the case until October 7th.
Marriage Licenses--Edward Eas-
lick, SO, Alma, and Mrs. Marie Smith,
80, Alma; Earl Sheldon, 20, Lafayette,
and Ada LaRue, %, Lafayette; Leon
j. Wright, Alma, 20, and Lena Eichel-
berge, p, Alma.
The concert given Wednesday even
ing last, at the NJ E. church at Itha-
ca, for the benefit of the Ladies' Aid,
by Mrs. Rhea Seaver Lounsbery, Miss
Claudia Purnell and Miss Sadie Mes
senger of Alma, was one of the finest
ever given at Ithaca. Mrs. Louns-
bery's voice is of surprising range,
and wonderful quality and power. She
has spent the past two years in Par
is, studying under able masters. Miss
Messenger is well known and her play
ing universally liked. Claudia Pur-
nell is a youthful elocutionist of ex-
ceptional ability. The church was
crowded to overlooking and enjoyed
the treat with keen appreciation.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1914-09-24

Mrs. Emma Rose and SON Earl of
Albion, who accompanied the remains
of Alonzo Rose to Hillsdale last week,
returned Tuesday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Vinton Richard and
children of Alma, Ruth and Irene,
spent the weekend with George Rich
ard and family at Ithaca.
Byron Reeves of Lafayette town
ship, who has been seriously i'll with
pneumonia, is much improved. DIR.
Pankhurst of North Star is attending
him.
Mrs. l. S. Seaver and daughters,
Matte and Merle, visited at the home
of Mrs. Warren Stahl Sunday. Miss
Merle is teaching this year at Chesan-
ing.
Mrs. Wilbur Ennis, who was operat-
ed upon Sunday by Drs. Hall, Monfort
and Dean, for appendicitis, is recover
ing nicely. Nurse Marie O'Connor is
ATTENDING her.
Mrs. o. F. Jackson of Grand Rap
ids will spend the winter at Ithaca
with her daughter, Mrs. ]. H. Watson.
Miss Hazel Jackson will spend several
months in California.
Mrs. d. Ridenour has returned from
visit at Shepherd and Alma with
relatives. Her sister, Mrs. Mary A.
Rood of st. Louis was taken to Alma
/ last week for treatment at Brainerd
hospital.
Lynn Virgil Wannacott, son of
George and Gertie Crosby Wanna
colt, was born in Emerson, September
13, 1908, and died September Is, 1914,
aged II years and 2 days, leaving his
parents, one brother, Otis, aged 10,
one sister, Velta, aged Is, and grand
parents on the paternal side.
Five weeks ago, while throwing
hay from the NOW to the horses, he
fell through the hole in the floor,
striking his body across the low par
tition dividing the horse-stalls, injur-
| ing his hip and tearing his kidney.
Drs. Wheeler and Petit did all posi-
BILE to relieve his sufferings, but hem
orrhage caused his death. The family
had only just removed from Arcadia
township to st. Louis. Funeral SER
vices were conducted by Rev. j. C.
Meise at the f. NJ church in st. Louis
Friday last, and interment was made
in Ithaca cemetery.
Friday morning last, while Attor-
ney Newell Smith of st. Louis, and
| his chauffeur, Percy Frick, were driv-
ing through Center street at Ithaca, en-
route to the court house, they mad
vertently ran over a puppy playing
in the street, which belonged to II. B.
Parrish. The latter became very an
cry, and followed Mr.. Smith and Mr..
Frick to the court house, where he ex-
pressed his opinion in somewhat force
full language, taking hold of the
younger man in a threatening manner.
He later had Mr.. Smith arrested for
cruelty to animals and Justice Salter
before whom the case was taken, con-
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1914-09-24
FERRIS CENTER

Archie Kelly is i'll with typhoid fever.
S. Bollinger has purchased a new
buggy
Miss Dora Perkins of Mcbride was a
visitor at church Sunday.
Miss Nina Kiel of Greenville visited
at Grant Beach's last week.
d. Seifried is having his new house
veneered with cobble stones.
E. J. Swarthout and family spent Sun
day with his father in Crystal
Mrs. Rettie Steiner of Pacific Grove.
Cal. is visiting her brother J. p, Throop.
AL Lavoy of Elm Hall is doing the
mason work on the vault which is being
built in the cemetery,
LaForest and Edward Davenport with
their wives, of Grand Rapids, spent Sat-
urday night and Sunday with their par
ents Mr.. and Mrs. Warren Davenport.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1914-09-24
LOCAL HAPPENINGS

AL Mann returned Saturday from a
weeks business trip in the southern
part of the county.
Carl Washburn was in Muskegon
on business last week and the fore
part of this week.
Mrs. H. F. Altman returned Satur-
day from three weeks visit in Bay
City with her parents.
The Guild ladies gave Brunswick
Stew" at the Episcopal church Tues
day afternoon and evening.
Mrs. al Mann is spending the week
in Emerson as the guest of her sons,
Lloyd Virgil and Lou Mann.
Josh Fuller and son, Floyd, of
Clare were Alma visitors Wednesday
en- route to Grand Rapids to attend
the races.
Mrs. w. A. Drummer is spending the
week in Big Rapids, Howard City and
Merely. She will be joined Sunday by
Mr.. Drummer.
Mr.. Herbert Montague was in Chi
cago this week to assist in the
national initiatory services of the 33rd
degree of masonry.
There will be a reception at the M.
E. church Tuesday evening in COM
pliment to the pastor, Mr.. Brownlow
and wife. All are invited.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1914-09-24
Forest Hill News

Bert Failing has sold his city pro-
perty.
Mrs. Ellis is visiting herneice in
Saginaw for a week.
"Move" seems to be the forward in
Forest Hill these days.
Otis Capen and family spent Satur-
day and Sunday in Clare.
Mr.. and Mrs. Homer Teagarden, of
Coe, spent Sunday with Roy Wander
mark.
Gladys Failing left Thursday last
for Marquette, where she will attend
Normal School.
The Vandermark farm is sold to a
Mr.. Gwenn, of Illinois. He takes pos
session in March.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ira Moody returned
Tuesday last from Detroit where they
attended the Fair.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Kolhoff are
happy at the arrival of pair Of twins
"a boy and a girl.
liner Post and family motored to
st. Johns, where they meet Oils Post
and family and enjoyed the day.
Fred Creeches motored to Mt
Pleasant last Sunday, where they
visited Clarence Langton and wife.
Our young people who attend Alma
High School were rather late in get
ting home from Friday nights fes-
tivities.
Quite number from here expect to
visit the Sunday School Convention at
Breckenridge Thursday and Friday.
Amy Towersey spent Sunday with
her parents.