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roots have no soil on them and they seem
to be bedded In moisture.
IT was during this walk that ] had
my first experience with the Alaska mos
quitoes The animals were not fierce. and
their bites not as severe as those OF
the New Jersey species. / had neither
gloves nor head-net. and suffered no
great discomfort. This. l am told, is
very unusual In ordinary years the
mosquitoes are almost unbearable They
come in May and June. shortly after the
breaking of the ice At that time every
one who goes through the country must
wear head-net. and have his hands
protected with gloves. Not a bit Of skin
is allowed to show 1t is best to wear
boots, for the mosquitoes bore their way
through the eyelet holes in ones shoes
and their bites raise great buttons OF
flesh on each side of the tongue. l have
quitoes, and they say the horses and
other animals almost go crazy II they
are left out in the woods
The Yukon river is navigated from
the 18th of June until the 18th of Octo-
Der every year. 1t is the highway to
the interior of Alaska, and the river
should be thoroughly plated and
marked. There should be govern.
ment lighthouse boat moving up and
down it, and the marks and lighta
should be changed with the course OF
the river. just as is done on the Missis
sippi.
The traffic of the Yukon will in
crease with the completion of the rail-.
road and the growth Of Alaska. Today
there are boats leaving every three or
four days on the upper part Of the
river. and boats sail regularly every
five days from Dawson to Fairbanks
and from Fairbanks to Dawson. There
are boats about once q week from the
island of st. Michael in Boring sea up
the Yukon to Tanana. and from Fort
Giobon down to the sea-
From Fairbanks to Dawson the chief
steamers are the Alaska and the
Yukon, Of 500 tons EACH Both have
excellent passenger accommodations,
including electric reading lights in the
berths. The food Is good. and the
rooms. which open out upon deck, are
equal to those Of the average river
boat Of the United States proper.
FRANK G. CARPENTER,
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from Col. Richard Lee of Chropshire.
England. the first of the Lee family to
come to America. That Col. Richard
Lee was a member and the secretary
of the kings privy council and came
to Virginia in 1871. His wife was Anna
Silk. One Of his sons was Col. Rich
ard Lee, second, who married Letitia
Corbin. Their son, Col. Henry Lee Of
the Westmoreland militia. married
Mary Bland, and their son, Col. Henry
Lee. second. married Lucy Grymes for
whom George Washington entertained
tender sentiments and referred to as
''the lowland beauty"
son of Col. Henry Lee and Lucy
Grymes was Richard Bland Lee. who
married Elizabeth Collins of Philadel-
phia. Col Henry Lee and Lucy Grymes
lived on a plantation which they called
Leesylvania. on the Virginia side of
the Potomac river twelve miles below
Mount Vernon. The name of that sec
ton is generally known as Freestone
point. The point is at the south side
of the entrance to Occoquan bay. and
there is a neck of land about a mile
wide between Neabsco creek and Pow
ellis creek The railroad between Wash
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Frank c. Carpenter Writes of Travel and Traffic
the Mighty Yukon, From the Rannparts Bermg Sea

ready there are small towns between
the Yukon and the terminus of the rail-
road, and in the near future the Tanana
valley will have a considerable popula-
ton of farmers.
The country on both sides of the
Lower Yukon is wilderness. That part
Of the stream is about as long as from
New York to Chicago. 1t drains thou
sands of square miles. and its popula :
ton. | venture. is numbered by hun
dreds. Going down the river you now
and then pass an Indian village and
stop at several towns which form the
ports for gold mines one of the chief
towns is Ruby, IFS miles below Fort
Glbbon. 1t is a placer gold mining CEN
ter which had a stampede in 1911.
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VIEW OF THE TOWN OF RUBY.

A VIEW OF THE TOWN OF RUBY
on the hill just above us They were
made of wood and painted IN the
brightest of colors. Scores of little
yellow, blue, red, green and white ken
nel-like houses were scattered along
the top of the hill. They seemed ike
doll houses. They the homes of
the ghosts of the departed, into which
the Indians now and then put food for
the spirits. Above each house is
cross showing how Christianity is COM
bined with the superstitions of the
past. The Indians of Nulato are dirty
and the houses are not well kept as
those of the Indians of the Upper Yu
kon. The squaws object to having
their photographs taken. / pointed my
wrapped their shawls around their
heads and threw themselves on the
ground.
The next town below Nulato is Kaltag.
Here the Yukon makes a big bend to the
southwark. taking more than five hum
dred miles in its course to the ocean,
whereas one could go across the country
and reach II within one-seventh OF that
distance. kaltag Is A trading post and
government telegraph station. 1t also
has wireless tower which was erected
by private parties to maintain commune
cation with the lditarod gold fields.
Our boat stopped there for an hour or
so to take on fuel oil. and while we
waited / took a short tramp into the
country. Passing through the village
consisting of a dozen one-story cabins
all fastened with padlocks because the
Indian owners had gone of for a feast
to some town in the neighborhood, l en-
tered a wilderness as untouched as it was
when the Mongols crossed Boring strait
to form the first of our Indian population.
The grass back of the town reached to
my waist. 1t was Of different varieties,
like the blue grass Of Kentucky, while
a third kind had a leaning toward orchard
grass The grass was loaded with seed,
and II should form an excellent feed.
A little further back the surface OF
the earth was covered with moss and
spotted with stunted spruce trees and
bushes loaded with blueberries, cranber-
ries and squawberries. Some Of the ber-
ries are new to my eyes. One had
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There are. perhaps, 1000 people there
now. They live in a tumble of build
ings made Of logs. galvanized iron and
implanted boards all thrown together.
Most of the houses are Of one story.
and they look though they had been
pitched out Of the sky and let fall
where they would.
The town lies in little cove on the
south bank Of the river. rock thirty
feet high marks one end of the cove.
and the space beyond il, running to the
edge of the Yukon, is just large enough
for the town. The people are supported
by the gold mines and the most of their
supplies come from outside. About some
of the houses are gardens. and there
are two hothouses that are noted for
raising fine vegetables, While our
steamer lay at the banks the pro-
prietor Of one Of these hothouses came
aboard and took passage for Nome. He
had sample OF his vegetables with
him. Ii WAS d cucumber little one.
he SAID. for he could not get the big
ones inside his bag. T measured it, 1t
was just eighteen inches long. or about
three -fourths the length of the column
of the ordinary newspaper.
htSle below RUDY we passed the
mouth Of the koyukuk river, stream
which is navigable for more than 500
miles north of where II flows into the
Yukon. 1t has rich mining camps
which are reached by small steamers.
ing into it fourteen or fifteen years
ago. and about ten years ago $500, 1000
worth of nuggets were taken from one
small patch on Nolan creek. The end
OF steamship navigation on the Koyu-
kuk Is BEETLES, which is more than four
or nve hundred miles from it's mouth
Beyond that supplies are carried in
small boats to the mines
few miles below the mouth of the
koyukuk we stopped at Nuiato. This
Is Indian village noted az being
one OF the oldest trading posts on the
Yukon. IL was established by the Rus
slams when Van Buren was President
and at about the time that Tyler en-
tered the White House IL became a
post OF the Russian american Com
pany and the chief market for the furs
OF this part Of Alaska. About ten years
later an English ship came up the
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Russian empire the attempt might be
made.
With an independent kingdom of Po-
land. Germany would have little diff
Guilty in making satisfactory CONNER
cial ARRANGEMENTS. The agricultural
products of Poland. which before the
war were imported into Germany, did
not amount to enough to prove Sc
rious competitor with German agri-
culture. but such as they were the
German commercial treaty with Rus
STA was SO adjusted as to make them
easily controlled
A counter suggestion to the idea of
an independent Poland has been that
in the final settlement Russia in ad-
dition to decentralization and some
measure of political autonomy, might
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Yukon to search for Sir John Frank
lin. 1t stopped al Nulato and the com
mander said something that angered
the Indians. They killed him and he
is buried somewhere nearby. His
grave is unmarked.
There are two stores at Nulato and
also wireless telegraph station whose
tall mast can be seen rising high
above the Indian cabins that line the
shores. The town is mostly made up
of Indians. 1t has a government hos
pital and a government school. II has
also a mission station and an Indian
cemetery.
The steamboat Sarah stied up at the
bank right under the cemetery and
we could see the Indian monuments
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ford. Related to these Lees and in
Congress with some OF them were John
Lee of Maryland and Thomas Sim Lee.
who at various times was a citizen of
Virginia, Maryland and the District
of Columbia and who was a conspicu-
Gus figure in the upbuilding of the Ma
tional Capital during the first two
decades of the nineteenth century.
Among the northern Lees in the early
Congresses We're Gideon Lee and Silas
Lee of Massachusetts. Henry r. Lee.
Joshua Lee and NJ. Lindley Lee of New
York and Thomas Lee of New Jersey
In the work of establishing the seat
of government where we live today the
Rambler has no intent to take from
Maryland and her sons in Congress the
redit that is theirs. but this narrative
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leaf like a raspberry and fruit shaped
much the same 1t was of pale lemon
color. / tasted it. 1t was bitter sweet
and of an unpleasant favor. The cram
berries were smaller than buckshot. They
were red and white. and they puckered
ones mouth like the taste of our cram
berries.
This walk through the wilds was de-
lghtful. The moss is of such depth
that one seems to be walking on feather
beds. Everywhere I went my feet sank
in to the ankles. The moss grows layer
on layer. and in some places it is many
feet deep. 1t is not wet. but it is as
cold as snow; and by pulling it up you
can come to the perpetual ice. 1t is loose
and the roots are matted together. The
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limits of Poland proper The same is
true of the basic material of the chem
zeal industry.
Much of the cotton for the mills at
Warsaw has come from the United
States. although it has been imported
through German ports. American cot
ton is as accessible as the cotton from
Turkestan and other. sections of the
Russian empire.
As an Independent nation, Poland
probably would continue to depend
mainly on the United States for raw
cotton. and even would be disposed to
adjust her tariff relations so as to Sc
cure an ample supply of 1t while at the
Same time giving some market to
American agricultural and other ma
chinery.
A detailed study Of the various classes
of raw material which enter into the
Polish Industries shows that while
there would be some dependence on
Russia it would not be SO great as to
make the kingdom an industrial vas
sal after it had ceased to be a political
possession of Russia.
In the sense of world trade, indie
pendent Poland would prove tempt
ing market. Russia. herself. not being
manufacturing country. would suffer
little. but her ally, England. would be
a decided loser. and 1t is here that the
real interests of Great Britain appear.
Polish nation. which owed its exist
ence to Germany and Austria Hungary,
and which geographically was SO close
to them. hardly could be expected to
encourage English manufacturers by
preferential tariffs to offset the geo
graphical disadvantage under which
England labors.
Germany has had a good share of the
trade of Poland on account of her
neighborhood situation. as well as
through the political influence which
she exercised in western Russia up to
the outbreak Of hostilities. 1t is a diff
ficult international proposition to de-
prive her Of this advantage. The pro-
posed economic alliance of the allies
contemplates it nevertheless. and
should they prove completely -victo-
rious and Poland remain part of the
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pmsh Kimgdom's Need of industrial Independence

The value of these industries is one
of the reasons why. when the final
peace settlement comes Russia, what
ever concessions she may be ready to
make in the way of political autonomy
is likely to prove implacably hostile
to the creation of the independent
kingdom of Poland. which would have
It's own fiscal autonomy and determine
its own tariff and trade relations
Geographically, there would be no in
convenience in such a situation, but
politically there would be most seri-
Gus obstacle to Russias continuous in
dustrial development.
Raw material for Polish industries
comes partly from Russian territory
The wool. hides and fax that are en-
pioyed are not all produced within the
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A Failure.

A STEEL riagnate, anxious to get on
~ the right side Of Andrew Carnegie.
once attacked him in his well known
soft spot. namely. his love for the bard
Of Tam O'Shanter."
Mr.. Carnegie" said the willy mag
nate, II see you've got several fine edi-
tons Of Burns on your shelves. George
Burns! Dear old Georgia Burns! Hes
my favorfte poet"
Mr.. Carnegie glared at the steel mag
nate.
George Burns!" he snorted. "Jim-
my Shakespearei Harry Dickens! Billy
Carlyle! Get out with ye. lBanI"
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A Bad Commissariat.

e ECRETARY OF WAR BAKER was
~ praising the commissariat department
of the army.
at stood the strain OF the Mexican
crisis WELL" he said. Everybody was fed
bountifully-everybody would have con-
tinued to be fed beautifully to the end.
There was nothing here to suggest old
Noska.
"Old Noska, a regular. boarded . street
car one day. A man looked at him and
said:
I'm the regular army. / see'
Yep said Noska.
We'll. friend said the man. take .
look at me. I'm the guy that supplies
the regular army with its butter
"Old Noska gritted his teeth. and, with.
out a word. kicked the butter dealer
through the window.
Now bring on he Sid. the guy that
supplies tho eggs!"
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give Poland the same indie pendence that
has been conceded to Finland. which
makes its own tariff. But Finland S
economic autonomy has not been ac-
absorption of the country the tendency
has been to encroach on Finland's ifs
cal independence. and to compel her
to adjust her tariff to the Russian inn
perial tariff. regardless of her own in
terest. This was the case with the
duties on -four which at one time were
of considerable interest to American
flour exporters. who found that Rus
STA was proposing to take away their
market in Finland by compelling Fin
land to increase the duties to a parity
with the Russian duties. There is. con-
sequently. no probability that Russia
would voluntarily consent to tariff
autonomy for Poland. Whatever shad-
with the central powers Of Germany
and Austria.
The question Of boundaries is another
element in the situation. 1t does not
emperors in their desire to make Poland
again a free kingdom are carried away
by their zeal to the extent of giving
back any of the territory that con-
stituted the Poland that existed until
the partition by Russia, Austria and
Prussia q century ago.
Poles who live in the old tradition of
the ancient kingdom hardly would ex-
pect the fine city of Breslau, on the
Oder. to become once more q Polish
city. Much Of its Polish character re-
mains after a century. but the great
city that has grown up is in reality
Teutonic.
Posen also. and the surrounding
country. although essentially Polish.
will remain as part Of the German ter
ritory, for there is not the slightest
hint that any Of Polish Prussia Is to be
from the German empire in
order to restore the ancient kingdom.
Galicia, which always has enjoyed a
degree Of autonomy under
rule. is to be given further
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tercourse with other countries. and this
means its tariff and trade relations The
Poles are an intensely sentimental peo-
pie. and political autonomy might for a
time satisfy their sentiment. But when
it came to doing business as an inde-
pendent state they would find that they
must have all the attributes of sover-
eighty, and of these trade relations 10
an essential one.
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0N writing of Richard Bland Lee.
who. as a representative from Viz
ginia in the First Congress. was an
q important and perhaps the most
effective advocate of the esta blishment
of the seat of the national government
on the Potomac river, the Rambler
wrote of the old house in which Mr.. Lee
northeast corner of 9Th and n streets
southwest. The Rambler also made ref
erence to quite number of transact
ton in which Mr. Lee was interested
involving real and personal property,
which transactions are among the land
records and other public records Of the
District of Columbia
Richard Bland Lee was member of
the First. Second and Third Congresses.
The First Congress, March 4. 1888, to
March 8, 1871, covered three sessions.
Richard Bland Lees colleagues in the
House of Representatives were Theo-
dorick Bland. John Brown. Isaac Coles,
William Il. Giles, James Madison, An
and Alexander White. During that Con-
gress there We're four senators from
Nirginia-William Grayson. John Walk
er Richard Henry Lee and James Mon
roe. In the Second Congress the sena-
tors from Virginia We're Richard Henry
Lee, James Monroe and John Taylor
and the representatives were Richard
Giles. Samuel Griffin. James Madison.
Andrew Moore, John Page. Josiah Par
ker. Abraham B. Nenable and Alexan-
der White.
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In the Third Congress Nirginia's sena-
tors were James Monroe. John Taylor
and Henry farewell. and her repre-
sentatives were Richard Bland Lee
Isaac Coles. Thomas Clairborn. William
b. Giles. Samuel Griffin. George Han
cock. Carter Is. Harrison. John Heath.
James Madison, Andrew Moore, Joseph
Neville. Anthony New, John Nichols.
John Page, Joseph Parker. Francis
Preston. Robert Rutherford, Abraham
Nenable and Francis Walker. In the
Fourth Congress there were several new
names in Nirginia'S delegation, among
them being Richard Brent. Samuel ].
Cabell. John Clopton and George jack
that Richard Brent succeeded to Rich
ard Bland Lees seat in the House.
There were several of these Virginia
Lees in the early American general and
national Legislature The Richard
Henry Lee who was in the Senate
while Richard Bland Lee was in the
House was the mover In Congress of
independence and one of the signers
of that document. Among the other
Lees in the early legislature of the
states were rFancis Lightfoot Lee, who
was born at Stratford and was a dele
gate in the Continental Congress
from 1175 to 1873: Arthur Lee,
a brother of rFancis Lightfoot Lee
Continental Congress from 1882 to
1885. Henry Lee. born in Westmoreland
county. a delegate in the Continental
Congress of 1856 and a member of the
Sixth Congress. 1899 to 1901, and Rich
ard Henry Lee. who was born at STRAIT
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and Austria have
placed Poland on the map of
Europe. Russia and the en-
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>mbler Writes of Work of Richard Bland Lee

proved December 3. 1888. and it re-
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-01-08
EDITOR
THE ANTI. TREATING Law.

Tribute after tribute comes from London TO
the remarkable efficacy of the new anti-treat-
ing law. The latest in our notice IS that OF an
American Just returned to New York from a
visit to Germany and England. He writes, IN
the New York World: III"
Whatever else England gains or loses,
believe she has evolved the greatest minor
regulation of her existence and one that may
90 good ways toward regeneratlng the ma
ton. | refer to the anti-treating law. In a
nation of drinkers throughout society, the array
and the workers it is wonderful how this little
law. at first regarded as a joke, works out
miracles under your eye H.
at is a punishable offense to treat anyone,
and the law is strictly enforced 1t is amusing
to see the customary congeTlial groups, each
ordering his own beverage end paying for it.
Then there is an unwonted awkward pause,
while each looks at the other, but the words
are never spoken There are sheepish smiles,
but eventually the crowd drifts away or dis
integrates. It'll.
EVERY one had had what he really desired
and no more The extra three or four rounds
the good fellow thing-have died a-born-
ing. commend that regulation heartily and
freely to any American legislator He could
go far to solve our temperance problem
sanely.' !. III =*
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The next few weeks are likely to witness
some hot fighting in the halls of Congress over
the Philippine issue. The Star Bulletin some
time ago told of the exchange between Ex
President Taft and Secretary of War Garrison,
in which Taft used the speech made by Govern
or General Harrison in Hawaii two years ago
and Garrison Immediately denied that the Phil
ippine executive had been correctly quoted
Now the fact develops that man close to Taft
and his official friends of the Republican adj
ministration has sent to Hawaii to secure full
reports of Harrison's speech where he coined
that unlucky "saturnine pleasure phrase.
1t was before an audience of local Democrats
that Mr. Harrison told of the 'saturnine pleas
ure" it gave him to see the Democrats in po-
sition to kick the Republican dog around but
unfortunately for his later peace of mind, there
were reporters present and the phrase was re-
produced. Nor was it ever denied, so far as
Hawaii knows, until few weeks ago.
Patriotism will soften the Republican attack
on the presidents foreign policy. Senator
Lodge, for instance, has already upheld the
president on the matter of shipments of MUM
tions to belligerents. But the Democratic adj
ministration is due for some scorehing sarcasm
and burning denunciation from the Republican
orators in house and senate upon the Mexican
and Philippine issues.