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the homes of the people. They are sev- eral hundred in number, and they were all built by the Indians and with money which they have earned in connection with Father Duncan. The houses are cot tages of one and two stories. They have glass windows, porches and comfortable surroundings Each has lot about 80 feet front and 90 feet deep, and each faces upon one of the wide boardwalks that form the highways and streets of the settlement Each house has it's gar- den Some have patches of potatoes, others have flowers of various colors. Wherever there is an uncultvated spot salmonberry and elderberry bushes and fire weed have grown to the height of your waist The whole country about is clad in perennial green.
 Landing. I walked from the wharf over the long boardvallx,t to the offices Of Ear ther Duncan. He has one building which is his combined study and home It is one of the plainest of the whole settle ment and is small in comparison with the 12-room guest house nearby which he has put up for those who come to see him and his flock. l knocked on the door. and a moment later Father Dun can stood before me.
 | had expected to meet a giant with a figure and face that might have recalled Abraham or Moses. Instead I saw short, stocky, roughly clad little ola man. Father Duncan is of less than me- dium height, and he weights not more than 150 pounds He has large head, a bit bald at the crown. but beyond that matched with silvery white hair. His face is as rosy as that of baby when ex- posed to the winds of the winter, and his eyes are as blue as the skies that cover his island. He has a heavy white beard, and his face is a benediction. His eyes radiate kindliness, and l was im- pressed with his sincerity and his hon esty As | looked at him l could not realize that he was S4 years of age and when he spoke his voice was like that of man in his prime.
 Our first talk was about the Indians as he found them when he came to British Columbia. The old mans eyes flashed as he told of his fights with the officers of the Hudson Bay company and they grew sad as he spoke of the savages. I asked him whether the In dians were really cannibals when he found them and whether he had actually seen them eating each other He replied that he had seen woman killed, and had seen the savages eating a boy who had died on the beach. That was almost 50 years ago. He tells me that many of the tribes along the coast of British Co., lumbia at that time were cannibals. and that there were other cannibals north and south of the Tsimpseans among whom he worked. Some of the tribes were more addicted to the eating of hu- man fresh than others Cannibalism was
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is actually starring in Macbeth" right on Broadway. But when it comes to judging his work in that character, the critics have been by no means uniformly complimentary They say that he plays all of 1t with courage.
 Viola Allen is with him, and about the same thing has been said of her work. And you'll have to blame it all on our old friend William Shakespeare Each of these stars has done well along Alba Via, and each is capable of good work. but Macbeth" did not wage such wars as are waged today. and perhaps the audience misses the aeroplane and sub marine features. As for poor Banquo' S ghost, which appears as of old, they don't believe in it for second. And Hackett's Macbeth is clean shaven!
 News item: William McHarg, who fell down an elevator shaft on January a and broke IS ribs, has now fallen down stairs and broken four of them over again.
 Of course it does seem bit persistent on Williams part but maybe he believes IS is an unlucky number
 The DlSseSt. electrlc SlSn on broauWdy has disappeared. It used to advertise the merits of-but maybe you smoke them anyhow. In its place at the north end of Times square, now glows one about as large, which tells us about certain kind of wearing apparel. Under this, however, is large electric clock face. something that everybody will welcome to the white light district where there are very few clocks visible from the street. Seems as if New York. or Broad way, were afraid that people might start
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Said Father Duncan: T refused to stop the school. The Indians threatened to kill me, but kept the school open. Then they begged me to give up the school just one week prior to the young ladys drop from the moon I told them that she might fall. but that the school would go on. They then wanted me to stop for a day. but I refused and would make no compromise with their superstition. On the day before the event was to occur two men came to kill me. They had knives and they were about to jump upon me when they saw my teacher. an Indian who has taught me the language. standing behind me. The teacher had a pistol under his blanket, and this bulged out in such a way that the Indians knew it and realized that they would be shot if they stabbed me. You see, the Indian never works in the open If he shoots it is usually through blanket conceal ing his gun. We'll to make a long story short they gave up their design. and afterward one of them came back and tried to prove to me that he was good man"
 It was from such material as this
 
 community of the Metlakahtla of the present. The community has its own preachers and its own public speakers. Some of the sermons, in the Tsimpsean language, are full of eloquence and beauty. Here, for instance, is one urg- ing the people to believe that the Saw for will take care of them:
 Brethren and Sisters; You know the eagle and its ways. The eagle flies high The eagle rests high. It always rests on the highest branch of the highest tree. We should be like the eagle. We should rest on the highest branch of the highest tree. That branch is Jesus Christ. When we rest on Him all our enemies will be below and far beneath us."
 Another preacher who had formerly been vicious and high tempered, speak ing of himself said:
 q will tell you what I feel myself to be- am like a bundle of weeds float ing down the stream. I was going down with all my sins, like the weeds, covered with earth and filth; but l came to the rapids when To. there was pole stuck fast and firm in the rock. and I clutched at the pole, and there I am now. The stream is pass ing by and washing away my filth. Christ to me is the pole. I hold to Him and am safe"
 I might site other quotations to show the civilization. intelligence and piety of the Met1akahtlans. They are far above the average of their race and they are now aspiring to higher edu- cation and to full United States citi- zenship in which they shall own their land in severalty. It is in connection with this that the government has es- tablished here the large public school
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Didn't Make Good
UP AND DOWN BROADWAY--By Allen Griffin Johnson

home too early if the time were thus placed right before their eyes.
 Man recently came here from Brad- dock Pa. met some "congenal parties, took several rounds of drinks and when he was found the acquaintances he picked up had even stolen his false teeth Probably they feared he would tell on them.
 As an illustration of how thoughtful some theatre managers are, it may De cited that at the Harris theatre, in West Forty-second street, one reads in the programme that certain seats have been equipped with devices for enabling hard of-hearing people to hear better-acous- ticons aren't they? These seats will be given (sold, hasten to correcD to any one asking for them at the box office
 If you give your seat to a pretty woman on a subway train, some one may whistle Dixie but if you cross your legs Curing the rush hour. you yourself are sure to play that famous pallade by General sherman, entitled, The Descrip- tion of War" or something to that effect.
 War baby" stocks continue to be prof itable to dell baby women. Come easy, go easy" applies equally to both those kinds of babies"
 For strength and fvigor, it cuts a figure is the way a subway ad att tempts to rhyme, but the ad writer evil dently realize that the sorry "figor' he cuts in such an endeavor makes the ad lose all its ''vigure-
 You should see the Ballet Russe- Char lotte isn't in it.
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&1zAz4ktY ul NeW x OTIS dS q clty Ol.eA-
 traordinary security, it must be confessed that it is permeated by fear-fear that is omnipresent. fear that is never beneficial, fear that is always a detdment to him who enter tains it in whatsoever form 1t may visit him. But fear is not always of that shrink ing. lets-run-away from something, oh how scared persuasion. Often it has an almost directly opposite ef- feet making the object feared attract one strongly. A soldier may fear bat He. yet walk right into it, or man nav fear that he will be unable to accomplish something which he is nevertheless eager to undertake. Anger is form of fear, and, come to think of 1t. it is a very popular form or Tear in Gotham
 New York knows fear in all it's puises, entertains 1t in all forms and harbors it and nurses it, giving it more power than it could have if treated with less consideration, for after all, the only thing in the world that any of us has a right to fear is fear it. self
 This does not or should not convey the idea that caution where danger lies is foolish or unnecessary Fear and caution are. entirely different; the one is unreal and unnecessary. the other is practieal and to be encouraged. Yet caution is far the less in evidence of .the two, so far as Manhattan is con- cerned.
 The average man arises each morn- Ming filled with fear for the outcome & of the day. If he is a WEii street man N he fears the direction in which certain
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when Duncan still insisted, said: well, my good man, if you are to be killed and eaten, I suppose you are the one most interested and we shall have to let you do as you wish"
 With this permission, Father Dun can was allowed to go to Fort simp- son, not far from Prince Rupert, and he there began work. The storY of how he narrowly escaped being murdered and how he gradually worked his way into the confidence of the savages I shall tell later as he gave it to me dur ing my stay
 ltsis enough here to say that he con verted eight or nine of these tribes to the Christian religion and made them about the most law abiding and civil ized people of the Indian race. They had their own council and they gov- erned themselves They had their own boats and they established a canning factory and put up salmon for ship ment, They learned to make ropes and brushes, to weave and to spin. MT. ssDuncan went to England and. brought back musical instruments and they es- .tablished a brass band They had a schoolhouse and church with an or gan which they were able to play. They had their market house, their shops, their carpenters, timers, coopers and other mechanics They Kept the Sabbath and led moral lives What has taken ages to accomplish with other peoples these Indians, under Father Duncan, accomplished in less than 80 wears. M
 It was at this time that the Church of England began to meddle with Father Duncan's experiments, sending over bishop to rule over him and the In- dians. Father Duncan found that his work was being undone and he then asked the United States to allow his Indians to settle on our territory That was in 1887. The matter was much agl- tated in the United States. Father Dun- can was supported by Henry Ward Beecher, Phillips Brooks, and others, and through their efforts a territory was allotted to him and his Indians on the northwestern side of this island They came in August and the first thing they cid was to erect flagpole and hoist the Stars and Stripes. They next had speeches by the Hon. If. R. Dawson, the United States commissioner of educa- tion, and by Father Duncan, ana. later on divine service consisting of song and praise in the Thmpsean language.
 The next day sawmiH was unloaded, snd the people began at once to clear the forests and erect the buildings for their new homes. They built cannery and year by year added to their struc- lures until they had town hall, great church. a schoolhouse, a store, a public library and the other buildings necessary to an intelligent Christian and civilized
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By FRANK G. CARPENTER Copyright, 1916, by Frank G. Car
 Denterl


 ANNETTE ISLAND, ALASKA. fATY7 HAVE come to Annette Island l%Il to visit Metlakahtla. This is SSsFsS5I the seat of the Indian colony kz@XSSD brought here from British
 Columbia by Father Duncan, now almost 30 years ago. Every one has heard of Father Duncan's wonder full work with the Indianss He is now s4 years oflage and is stfilsstrong and full of vigor. He is sometimes called the apostle of Alaska, and lis work with these Indians gives him the right to the title. Nh. Duncan began life as, a commercial traveler in England. and at 2ihe4sWas well osag his way toward 9 salary of $500q-s a year. He was nat uraliy religious, and he decfaad 10 give slp Eisssvstk ahd D ollse a toItary. He went to college expecting to De sent out to India. but instead he was ordered to go to the western coast of British Columbia to work with tribe of Indians knows as the Tsimpsean..
 
 These Tsifnpscan Indians were then. among the most barbarious of any oii the North American continent They
 
 en over to cannibalism They were hunters and fishers and clothed them selves in the skins of bears and wolves. They had weird dances, during which they wore the skulls of bears on their heads. They had medicine men who Wore marks and who tried to frighten off disease with hideous noises. II the demon of disease did not leave, the witch doctors would hack away the sore places on the body of the patient with their knives or suck or burn away the ailing flesh They pointed out children and others as possessed or in such cases the tribe felt they must kill those so affected
 The Indians had also curious customs regarding the treatment of their wom- en- Young girls approaching woman- hood were confined far away in isolated cabins, and when brought back were supposed to have dropped down from the moan and to be ready for marriage. On such occasions there was great feasting, and the youths of the tribes were initiated into dog eating can nibalism and devil dancing. The In- dians believed in spirits, and they had certain theories as to the transmi gra- tion of souls. On the whole they were on very low scale of civiliza- tion.
 When Father Duncan arrived in Vic toria on his way to this work he was told that if he went on to the Indians he would surely be Killed. The man who gave him the warning was the
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Couldn't Do More

From the Philadelphia Telegraph.
 Here is a little story that was told by Congressman Henry A. Cooper of Wis consin the other night when the con- versation at social affair turned to the subject of earnest endeavor.
 Some time ago philanthropic party visited penal institution and was per- mitted to say a few encouraging words to one of the prisoners.
 T am afraid, my poor man." said the philanthropst, that you didn'f make the fight that you should have made to save yourself
 ''Oh, yes, did, was the quick re- jonder of the prisoner. T did my level best.
 T am afraid not returned the phi lanthropist, sighfully. Had you strug- gIed just little harder you might have been free man today"
 .I couldn't have done any more, mis- ter" persisted the prisoner sadly shak- ing his head. Tt took seven cops to take me to the station house as it was'
 Didn't Make Good From the Louisville Courier-Journal.
 'I hear Yoriek Hamm has left vaude- vile"
 "Yep; to its fate"
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f| ENISTUR EDDITUR: If Pythagooras had lived IM to last Groundhog day he would have been EsS5s5 2501 yeers of age. Pythagooras died Febru- NzaasG ary 2d 497 B. c. and his untimey end has
 been morned by us scyentsts and fillossif CTS evver cents. It fills with at times when we think how the account and wicked times nurrish, and the grate and the good and the die yung. We only wunder as we mediate upon the sudden and untmely end of Pythagooras which of our fast dmminnshing group of grate men will pass away next.
 Pythagooras grew up in yung and viggerus man. hood in the little village of Samoa according to those who rite his history and in his early yuth attracted the attenson of the wise guys who was strict " up to snuff While he yet yung man Pythagoorass became the oracle and high Preest of one of the most illustryus schools sosietes of antiquity. For so yung to be oracle was indeed sumthing wurth while and the newspapers or Samora and the surrounding country newer tired of boasting that Samoa the proud owner of the only reel live and vggerus oracle then in captivity On the sign boards along the varius hyways feeding to samoa theere would be nvitasions to the publick
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When Father Duncan arrived in Vic- toria on his way to this work he was told that if he went on to the Indians he would surely be Killed. The man who gave him the warning was the head of the Hudson Bay company, who,
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lW YORK, February F. (spe-
 cial. )--In spite of the fact that I have recently written
 of New York as a city of ex-
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New York has admitted recently that James K Hackett is brave man. He
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Washington, D. c.
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NNETTE ISLAND, ALASKA. HAVE come to Annette Island to visit MetlaSahtla. This is the seat of the Indian colony brought here from British Columbia hv Father DnncanA
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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-04-25
No Such Animal.

There has been a lot Of talk lately
!; vas heard around the Street yester-
dsy-of buying Al the bottom by
species Of spectators and investors
Known IN Wall Street as bargain
hunters" Whenever prices have got
down rather low and buying. mas aP-
Ieared that could not be explained ln
tny other way the wise ones nave
ts2eiy remarked that the bargain
hunter had again come onto the scene
ard hsd begun quietly TO accumulate
s,oeks. broker who has spent TWEEN
iy years Of his life in Wall Street
shsr asked yesterday what he thought
,bOLt the general theory OF bargain
tanter buying" said that in all MS
experience he had never seen the an
ina " The buying that comes when
ieck are e. the bottom, or seem
70 be at the bottom, has, so far as
have been able 10 determine, always
beer Of the most reckless and ire
iPonsible character. a kind OF wildcat
Speculation. OF course there are al
ways the speculative repurchases Tor
he short account. But as for the
tss,ious investor buying bargains a,
ne bottom, that is the exception. lie
nay place his orders 20 buy under
ne market. but he usually gets cold
'eei and cancels when the price gets
,sfain striking distance, and he only
fsys when the recovery IS pretty well
started"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-04-25
Putting Up Call Money.

Call money loaned shortly before
VIC close Of the stock market yester-
esj al the highest rate since the end
:, 1914 In the last hour upward OF
sHVO,Ooo was loaned on call 81 30
per cent, while g number of small lots
q money brought as high Hs per
ostt At 81 per cent the rate yes
Nrdsy compared with prevailing
ItIe IN recent days Of around 70 q
p; cent, and previous high record for
We year o. per cent, made at the
,vsginning Of the year and equailed
.at Thursday. All last year the call
nc never once got above the per
eea' level, and for a short while last
ping loans were made at ! per cent.
a. ihe time the Stock Exchange re
.unec business In December, 1914, the
.eu rate stood around per cent, but
..o, cropped. Money brokers attrib-
s.ec me stifening tendency in the call
..s'aeey rate to disposition on the part
he bankers 20 follow a cautious
wliey IN view Of the gravity Of the
,,aHrhational crisis. Moreover. as was
f'iated out yesterday, bank SURPRISES
we have been falling steadily for
,..ess, and a number Of large institu-
.Vas have withdrawn from the call
tskst, among them the National City
al, ssh Sc far as could be learned yes
"''ay the banks are not calling loans
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-04-25
MARINE SHARES
RISE SHARPLY
Wall Street Hears Am. Int.
Corporation Is Seek
ing Control.

Big gains In the shares Of the Inter
national Mercantile Marine Company
Yesterday carried the preferred stock
up 6& points to s0A. while the COM
mon rose pa points 70 251s, the equiv
alont Of the highest price at which II
ever sold. More than $4,000 shares CT
the senior issue changed hands ana
more than 10000 of the common. The
aggregate turnover of $4,000 shares
was a little less than one-seventh OF
the days total sales.
The resistance offered by the stock
last week when other war issues sold
off heavily on unfavorable develop
ments in the international situation
was followed by rumors that import
ant interests" were accommodating. Yes
terday these rumors named the Amer
lean international Corporation as the
buyer. Upward of 100000 shares. ac-
cording 10 report, are being sought ny
a prominent banking house. acting Tor
the interests dominant in the company.
If later developments prove the r..
ports true. Wall Street may be treated
TO one of the most exciting contests u
has witnessed since the famous North
ern Pacific corner, when the Morgan
crowd. with James j. Hill, fought the
late +. II. Hartman for control. Only
this time. as the Street heard il, il may
be J. p. Morgan & Co, who organized
the international Mercantile Marine
Company, against Kuhn, Loeb & Co,
acting for the American International.
All attempts TO obtain ofhcial cor
frmation of the Streets explanation
for the sudden rise IN the Marine
shares were unsuccessful One banker,
who is not a member OF the hoard
said he believed IL 10 be true. A bank
inc director intimated that the report
Of a contest for control may have been
put out for stock market purposes.
The American international Corpora
ton, with a capital of $4,000 900. was
organized a few months ago by Ma
ticnal City Bank interests to promote
foreign trade. Among its most recent
activities has been the acquisition OF
the Pacific Coast fleet, formerly owned
NV the Pacific Mail Steamship Com
many. The trans-Pacifc ships were
previously taken over by the lnterna-
tional Mercantile Marine Company ana
are now in the transatlantic service.
The foreclosure application in the
case Of the company came up before
Judge Hough in the United States
district Court yesterday, after numer-
ous adiournments. Judge liough rec
commended that the case be put before
a referee. and directed that counsel for
the various committees representing
the security holders prepare and sub
init 20 the court an order for such pur-
pose.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-04-25

Judging by the showing made by tne
Southern Pacific, the first OF the I'M
portant railroad systems 10 make a
return for March, there is yet no sign
of diminution of the record volume
% railroad freight moving across the
country. Southern's gross last month
ran to sl2,773, 59s. an increase over
wear ago of 1863, $50. The increase
IN his item was entirely due 10 a gam
In freight revenue of s2,145,9s3. Pas
sencer earnings fell off s9O5,3So, as
comparison is now being made with
the abnormally heavy passenger trafnc
70 the exposition last year. Net earn
in0s Of s.. 997. $40, an increase OF 1854
32s over March, 1915, set a new high
reoord for the month. The increase
in expenditures for maintenance OF
wev for March amounted 10 s319,456'
and on equipment Sl53,627, while
TRANSFORMATION expenses advanced
s4I8.s92 to carry 100000 more traf,
&c, In the nine months Of the hscal
wear ended in March Southern Paclfc
had piled up an increase OF Sl6.4ss'lss
In cross. of which s11,223,55O came
from freight and s4,64o,767 from pas,
sanger revenues. Nine months net OF
s35' 5s2. 3O5 set a new record, exceeding
the high mark OF 1918 by S,l0fYaoo'