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didn't open his mouth, but he let that heavy hand remain on my shrinking shoulder, and smiled in a manner that said just as plain as words, "Wait a min ute-not so fast-you are not going to get away with that pocketbook if I can help it."
 And So I stood there with a thoroughly guilty feeling, though I was merely trying to look for the owner, and when the owner came up, he saw the officer stand ing with his hand on my shoulder and he gave me look that was the last word in ferocity. I handed him his pocket book, which he almost snatched out of my hand, and there was never a thank you' out of him.
 And then I turned around and said something to the officer That Ia, didn't exactly say 1t to him, I just said 1t for him to hear. and I'm sorry can't tell you exactly what 1t was I said
 The Hotel Mems convention In New York this week has proved one of the most successful in the history of the or ganization, and it is claimed that every hotel owner whose hostelry is in another state will return to it with new ideas in tHe DOilllaC6 Du5lneSS.
 The exhibit at Grand Central palace was a marvel to almost every one who has not kept in touch with hotel prog ress. The hotels of today are homes hos pitfalls, theatres-in fact almost every thing one could desire, and 1t is the busi- ness of the management to think of everything a guest could possibly think of before the guest thinks of it.
 Alabama, and, in fact, the entire south, have been well represented. and 1t was my privilege to hear some very compli- mentary remarks made by the hotel men about Birmngham's newest hostelry, the Tutwiler.
 Prominent at the convention was Roy L. Brown, an old Decatur man, who has been a complete success as a Broadway hotel manager for several years. He is at the Hotel Breslin, which caters spe- cially to southern trade.
 It would be quite possible to write a sob story about the passing of Madison Square Garden, and tearfully touch upon such memories as the Stanford White murder there. the fact that Barnum &, Bailey's circus may now have no New York home. and to mention many other been there. but my own personal exper- fence at the Garden inclines me to an- other feeling.
 When President Wilson held forth there just before his reelection. the jam was murderous. Inside the building the crowd was fighting even as 1t was outside, at
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He Is not only bishop and travelling mis- sionary. but he is also doctor and nurse and his work is free to all.
 Few appreciate the hardships that the missionaries have undergone in these far northern parts of our continent. Take, for instance, Bishop Stringer of the Church of England, now in charge of the work in Yukon territory, with head quarters at Dawson. He Is known all over Canada as the bishop who had to eat his boots to keep from starvation. I met him at Dawson, and had long talk with him, during which, in response to my questions. he gave me some of his experiences in attempting to christianize the Eskimos and Indians.
 Bishop Stringers first work was among the Eskimos. He came from Canada to Hershel Island, which lies in the Arctic ocean not far from the Mackenzie river. It is noted as whaling station. and in some winters more than 7G0 whalers live there in order that they may start their business with the first breakup of the ice in tho spring. Bishop Stringer's work was among the whalers as well as among the Eskimos When he came there the latter were the tools of the whalers. They had no sense of property rights, and they were sunken and degraded to remark able degree Through the Christian work of the Hershel mission. the character of the race has practically changed. The most of the Eskimos are now Christians, and they are advancing in civilization.
 asked Bishop Stringer to tell me something about the Eskimos of Can ada. He replied:
 About five-sixths of all the Eskimos of the world are in the Canadian Do- minion. There are altogether perhaps TO- 900 of them. They live along the shores of the Arctic ocean and do not go more than a hundred miles into the interior. Their chief business Is fishing and hunt ing. They sell their skins to the Hud- sons Bay company.
 Tt is astonishing" said Bishop Stringer, 'how eager the Eskimos are to become Christians. and what ardent Christians they are. Recently we had 200 volunteers who asked to be missionaries and who were ready to start upon an expedition of church work that would involve an absence of two years from home."
 It was through his wonderful work at Hershel Island that the Rev. I. 0. Stringer was made bishop of the Yukon. He has under his religious direction a territory as large as Germany. It con sists of Yukon territory and the country east of it, running almost to Hudsons bay. It Is the most northerly mission in the British empire and the most of its work is in the wilds. It was during one of his trips through that region that Bishop Etringer had his narrow escape from starving He had finished inspecting the Eskimo missions along the Arctic ocean and had started homeward over the Rocky mountains to Dawson. He was travelling on foot his only companion be- ing lay preacher named Johnson. After a while they ran short of food. They were far away from any settlement and starvation stared than in the face. For days they lived on roots, nuts and stewed squirrel. Now and then they shot .
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tie white flakes generally referred to by the verse writers In the small town dailies as "the beautiful"
 The weather bureau has announced the very great probability of real blizzards here this winter, and the street clean ing force Is inadequate to cope with any thing of the kind. Last year when the snow was doing it's worst to Manhattan, only 13,o00 men could be employed. Forty thousand have been used on previous oc- casions, and if the blizzards come accord ing to the weather bureaus announce ment, we will be conscripted-all of us "able-bodied" fellows. and will have to get out on the thoroughfares and shovel snow whether we like it or not.
 The snow situation Is very acute here, al you may have heard. There have been strange and startling arrests. For in- stance, if 1t starts showing early in the evening, just after you have retired and know nothing about 1t, and you sleep 8 bit late the next morning, and the side walk in front of your home-if you have one-is not cleaned properly you may be awakened from slumber and arrested.
 This year, however, more than our own
  If the regular force can't handle the snowfall then conscription will be In or der, and the rich and poor will have to shovel snow side by side.
 Now, that's all according to the pro- gramme as just announced, and I shall not be at all surprised to find myself in the snow shoveling army and I shall not complain about 1t, but somehow, try as I will, can't seem to see 8 picture of J. P. Morgan or any of his wealthy associates doing the same thing. They may do it, but I can't seem to get 1t through my head that they will.
 On the other hand if snow shoveling becomes popular and assumes the pro- portions of a regular winter fad, I doubt if I'll be given a chance to get in on 1t, the price of shovels will be raised so high, or something.
 Somehow this thing of getting arrested clings to my mind unusually tenaciously T hope 1t not an i'll omen. However, there is one more little near-arrest story: At Thirty-third street and Sixth ave- the "L" structure when a pocketbook fell at my feet. I picked 1t up hur- riedly and was looking around to see if anyone was coming after it, when a hand fell heavily on my shoulder and l looked up into the smiling face of an of- flcer of the law.
 Now there are smiles and smiles Some smiles are mighty kindly sorts of things, and others are otherwise. and this was one of the otherwise sort. That officer
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dren to lusty boys and to girls ready for marriage. The children are Indians with reddish brown faces, black eyes and jetblack hair. All were clean and they seemed to have been dressed for our arrive today.
 We were graciously received by the teachers and pupils. There was a song of welcome in English by the kindergar. teners, and an address by one of the older girls, which she read from a paper Later we had humorous songs and recitations, and the hour closed with the children singing, My Country, 'Tis of Thee,' in which the passenger visitors joined. The celebration was delightful. and 1t was hard to realize that the little Indians came of tribes which until recently had been almost barbarian. The children are taught to read and write. The boys learn trades and the girls to cook, sew and keep house. The children live at the school, the fathers and sisters believing that they are better off when kept away from their families.
 The Episcopal church is pushing It's work in Alaska. It opened a mission and school at Anvik, on the Lower Yukon, in 1887, and 1t has steadily extended its operations in the shape of schools hos ptals and churches since then. Some of its work Is devoted to the Eskimos and especially that at Point Hope. which Is a station on the Arctic ocean above Ber- ing strait. It has number of stations along the Yukon. six or seven on the Tanana, and quite number about Prince William sound and in southeastern Alas ka. It does much work among the whites as we'll as among the Indians
 During my stay at Fairbanks met the Rev. Hope Lumpkin. who Is in charge Of the mission there. He is editor of the Alaska Churchman and is the origi- nator. I believe, of the custom of col lecting and distributing old magazines to the mining camps These magazines are sent by people from all over the states to MT. Lumpkin at Fairbanks. He gets from 10000 to 10000 copies year. The magazines are done up into bundles each containing some heavy reading and some light reading. The miners call for them and carry them on their prospecting trips over the country. They are said to be of great value during the long. lonely winters, and some men have said that they have been the only thing that stood between them and insanity.
 Two of the most remarkable mission aries of Alaska belong to the Episcopa- Hans. The first of these Is the Rev. P Rowe who came here in 1895 as the first bishop of Alaska. and the other is Archdeacon Stuck, noted for his work among the Indians, and also for having been one of the first men to reach the top of Mount Mckinley. Bishop Rowe has done as much if not more than any other one man in the christianizing of interior Alaska. He has travelled thou sands of miles, now riding on his dog sled and now walking behind 1t over the trails in his winter journeys in Alaska, and he has visited every nevigable part of the country by steamboat and canoe, He goes out with an Indian guide and a team of dogs. and in this way travels many hundreds of miles every winter.
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ptarmigan and at one time killed a grouse. The grouse is not bigger than pigeon, but they only nibbled at 1t, talk ing just enough to keep themselves alive.
 During all this time they had no quar- rels as to the division of the food. The bishop told me that most men lose their sense of what is right under such condi- tions. They are prone to suspect their fellows, and qrarrels and deaths have been caused through the belief that one man gets more than the other The bishop prevented this by agreeing with Johnson that turn about one of them should al- ways make the division of the food DOT tions allotted for each meal and the other should then have the right to pick which of the two portions he desired.
 For instance" said Bishop Stringer, "our meal might be the head and the leg of a ptarmigan. After 1t was over we would discuss which part had the most nourishment. We finally decided on the head. We each lost 50 pounds during that journey"
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If their owners were as happy as he was But he kept this up too long, or carried it a bit too far for safety.
 On Broadway corner, in the Fifties, he saw a demure and sad looking It, tie girl about IS years of age. She was rather poorly clad, not particularly pretty, and certainly she had forgot ten to don her mask, for dejection and care were clearly cut-pictured upon her countenance.
 He studied her for minute, and the thought crossed his mind that here was. in all probability, poor, hard working girl, who had had a hard day at some sweat shop, had little to look forward to when she reached home, and who was generally in need of human sympathy and understanding. He did not for moment think of offering her any aid, or of addressing her, or of doing anything-he just felt sorry for her and wished that he could somehow put a little happiness into her heart
 lie had this feeling for her when she suddenly turned and looked in his direc- ton. He was hardly expecting it, but it made him look into her eyes and smile what he fondly believed was a smile of pure ana unaQulterated sympathy and un- derstandlng. He declares he had no other thought in hiss mind-just wanted to let her feel that a fellow creature felt a human kindship for her In her trouble, whatever it might have been
 But there's where he was wrong IS he ROW admits. There's where he should nave worn his mask, instead of pulling 1t off in the hope of Tightening that girl 8 heart for a passing moment. AS soon as he saw the smile she looked for police man. She found one at once beckoried tance was soon facing the man on the bench, and the charge against him was flirting with the little lady whom he had hoped to make understand his smile of sympathy
 Nor was that all His arrest reached the ears of his sweetheart, and she could see nothing else to the affair except a regular filtration, and now he is not at all sure when the wedding will take place.
 Of course, as a rule, smiling at women is dangerous proposition, but the thing does seem to have reached an extreme in this city, and both women and men are afraid to be human to each other on the streets of Gotham, or in Gotham's sub- ways or surface cars. When man ac- costs a woman or a woman man in pens every day. and arrests are also made daily, nor are the men the only ones arrested.
 Very recently the New York press car ried the story of a well known suffragette
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who was arrested for accosting a man on the street. She had good reason to speak to him, and there was nothing in the action which was in any sense wrong, but it was unfortunate and resulted as stated. Another recent arrest followed the &C., tion of man who, seeing a woman try ing to stop a Fifth avenue bus on the near side,'' walked up to her and told her the busses stopped only on the "far side" She didn't care for the informa- tion, apparently and landed her inform ant in jail
 Then, there's another danger along the same or similar line: The jam in the subway and "L" trains Is at times noth- ing less than indecent. Men and women of all nationalities, ages and sizes and dispositions are crowded against each other, and are often unable to move hand, foot or trunk. In spite of this, however, there are women who get into these jams, and cause the arrest of men who are damned against them.
 So you see, it's safest to wear the mask at all times in public in this city and in addition to the mask, do all else possible to create the impression that you are in no sense interested in either men or women about you.
 There are times when the wearing of the mask is a bit heroic. There are many who put it on over faces that would otherwise show to the world that their owners hearts were none too far from breaking.
 There was a case of this kind recently. A feIlow-and he came from Sunland, too-was walking along Forty-second street as hard as he could go. Looking as if he were very busy with his own thoughts, and certainly very busy either with his own business, or that of some one else
 As a matter of fact, as learned after ward, he had on the only suit of clothes he owned, had only 10 cents in his pocket and was out for job of any kind or earth that was honorable
 At Fifth avenue I saw and recognized him. It was like stopping an automo' bile almost, to make him pause, but finally succeeded and asked him where he was going in such a rush. Nowhere, he replied, turn me around and I'll gc Just as hard in the other direction" And he smiled as he said it, and somehow no matter whether he had a destination then or not, I believe the fellow is going to get somewhere before he stops-he was So thoroughly heroic in his efforts and his smile.
 New York city is going in for war anc conscription. The enemy will be the lit
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does work among the whalers and the that part of the territory. Altogether the Presbyterians have about 16 churches. of which 12 are for natives. It was pr. Jackson who did most in the introduction of the reindeer into Alaska and thus established a stock-ra raising industry, which Is making many of the Eskimos and Indians rich.
 The Society of Friends Is working Tn the far north. It has three missions about Kotzebue sound, which opens out upon the Arctic ocean. It's school there Is one of the largest among the Eskimos and its missions are noted for their excel lent work in training men to take care of the reindeer.
 The work of the Moravians is remark able. They are in one of the least known parts of Alaska. Their missions are along the Kuskokwim river and on the west coast The largest is at Bethel, not far from the mouth of the river, place until recently reached only by the native kayaks or skin boats Owing to the work of the coast survey, steamers can now go up the Kuskokwim for hun- dreds of miles and the mission supplies can come in on large ships. The Bethel mission was established more than 3o years ago. The Moravian missions are doing well with their reindeer. The Eslxi- mos about Bethel have 150O and in the last midwinter holidays they had what might be called reindeer contest or fair. This was to stimulate an interest In all matters connected with deer raising. There were speed contests in loading and flashing sleds and speed races. There were premiums for the best lassoing of an unbroken deer. the best and quickest harnessing and hitching, and in driving deer for quarter of mile. half mile and longer. At the same fair the men practiced foot races and the women brought in baked bread for prizes. The Moravian missions have now about S00 tsklmos among their members. They are said to be doing excellent work
 The Catholic missions are largely man aged by the Jesuit fathers. There are nearly 100 stations, of which F are pro Vloed with resident priests Nineteen or the missions have chapels. There are also number of schools and several eonvents. There is an industrial school TOT Indian boys and an orphanage for lndlan girls at Koserefsky, and there are schools for boys and girls here at Holy Cross
 The Holy Cross mission is on the Yukon not Tar from the mouth of the Innokc riVer. The place consists of the mission buildings. postoffice and a large In oian Village made up of one-story log capins. There is no hotel except steamer which is anchored near the shore and used as such. the guests com ing chiefly from the boats going up and down stream.
 The mission buildings are on a bluff 'ooAlns out over the Yukon. They are surrounded by large fields in which DO tatoes. turnips and other vegetables are Erowlng. There are also pastures upon which the cattle, owned by the schools. 1eed, ana long los stable where the cows are kept In the winter.
 During my stay have visited the schools. They have now about no pupils, ranging in age from kindergartsr chii-
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asked the bishop to tell mo about eating his boots He replied:
 we did not do that until we were out of all other food. We should have starved had we not eaten them, and 1t was only because the boots were of the kind used by the Eskimos that we were able to eat them. Boots made of leather tanned and dressed In the ordinary way could not be eaten The boots we had were of sealskin dried without tanning. They reached to our knees and contained quite good deal of hide Our first ex- pertinent with them was not a success. They had been greased night after night and the oil had turned rancid. The taste was such that it was impossible to swal- low or chew the skin. At last we tried boiling it and then toasting 1t. The toasting took away some of the taste, and after that we were able to con- sume them. With the exception of a few bits, we had eaten two pairs of boots when we were found" The bishop ahoXed me some of the pieces left oyer
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times. and recall the ruse of an elderly woman just ahead of me. She fell for ward, declaring that she must have room, that she was dying. I started to grasp her around the waist to support her, when she very calmly winked at me and remarked that nothing was the matter with her, except that she wanted a chance to move forward and knew of no other way to accomplish her purpose. The ruse was successful.
 Atlantic City may have the longest board walk. but Broadway is the longest board ride in the world. The poor old world famous thoroughfare has probably never known the time when much of its surface was not boards.
 Broadway merchants are now declaring that they are losing business as a result of the streets torn-up condition and are making a fight to have 1t permanently paved with something noiseless. Some how. there's something about the fight of these helpless merchants that reminds me of home, sweet home-and Broadway will continue to be torn up and boarded up no matter how gallant a war they may wage.
 The advertisement of young man who dances with ladies at s5 an hour, reads 'I am very handsome" and he is doing all the business he can possibly handle Yet people talk about lack of faith these days
 An explorer who desired to present The odore Roosevelt with the skin of a polar bear failed to find such skin in the arc tic regions, but discovered exactly what he wanted on Broadway. And if Shack an even chance that he will return to New York a1sl find, somewhere along Broadway, almost everything he found in that region.
 The woman with the walking cane is getting quite numerous along the avenue these days. Don't know whether she con- siders it weapon or a decoration. But it looks bit odd to seethem put walk ing cane under the arm in order to free the hands so that powder may be applied to the proboscis properly.
 News item states a woman was robbed in a taxi the other night while the taxi was on a ferry boat pound for Manhat- tan. Don't see any news in that: every the fellow with her is when he pays the bill and tacks the unavoidable tip on- to 1t.
 There can be no doubt that Wilson is