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propossion that 'figgers do not lye' that atho' my suspissions aroused menny yeers ago that theere was sumthing rong sumwheere I did not dare defy public opinion and sentiment until had further and convinsing proof. have collected quite bunch of it-not only experiences of my verry own, but the experiences of uther reputabull persuns who uttered fasehood in all theere lives, unless they deemed it advisabull to do 50. I recall convursa- sion with emmi1int newspaper resently-a correspondint of quite little fame-who can rite as good story entirely innosent of facts as you evver red. He was extreemly bittur on the old and unre- liabull mottow, figgers will not lye" Why he sed, theere newer bggur peese of bunk handed out Me and my wife, he sed, relying abso- looy this lunged deseptsion, sat in the quiet of our home and fingered out plans for next yeer
 We calculated that my sallery could spend much for rent much for food much for the doctur, much for clothes, schools for the kids, amusemens and vacasion etc, etc., and then put away a few hundred for rainey day and also have large and nfewensial surplus According to the fggers, which newer lye, he sed saved enuff in one evvening out of my sallery to pay all theese things and buy siysyllender which heretofore we had not been abull to get. Theereupon depend
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do not lye" bizness yeers. ago and evvery one fell for it. am a mizzerabull and broken reck. have been played like hand organ, he sed. used to street aftur offise hours, he sed and admire the poultry. So long as confined it to ad- mirasion alone, he sed, I the candy kid arite and enjoyed myself and the scenery to the fullest extnt. used to meet little chicken down theere, he sed that thought had the finest figger evver She reguler Venus alrite and cute basket of specked pups She had figger that would make John Wannamakurs cloak model back off the stage and take to the timber he sed. Ennyhow that's the way it looked to me, he sed, and aftur strenuous cortshp, consisting of ought mobile rides, theeatur parties and winning the old folks and sevvere persunnel encounters with uther admirers of the yung lady lost he sed; that is to say, got the gur, figger and all, including muther-in-law, he sed Now know that figgers F street cannot be depended upon, he sed know that most of them air creeated to deseeve the pubc
 and air misleading in evvery detail, he sed stand for reform, he sed; I am in favur of appointing board of expur accountants to audit street fggers he sed, and I'll bet yeers sallery that the result will show that they air grately exaggurated and that the re turns have been padded to the limmit.
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advance. But our visitors seldom get into these intimate little places.
 IT we who are to remain here all summer care for tennis golf or any outdoor sport we have the finest of tennis courts scattered all over the upper part of the island, golf links up at Van Cortlandt park and over in Jer- sey, within easy reach. and there is any kind of boating one could possibly desire to be had easily.
 In addition to these summer attrac- tions and reasons for remaining in Manhattan. we are in the closest pos- sible touch with the events all over the world, have the best procurable news services and the satisfaction of knowing that we ourselves are living in the very center of things
 Pity the poor rich man--and his ilk
 who are forced to flee from fascinat- ing old Manhattan because it would never do for them to say to members of their set We are not going-or we have not been-away from New York this summer"
 of seashore. all the pleasures of camp life-if you want to establish yourself at the foot of the Palisades-including Jersey mosquitoes. a greater variety of amusements than the average town of- fers in five midwinter seasons com bined. and a sufficient quantity of legally procurable summer beverages to quench the thirst of the German army after victorious encounter with the allies. Those are some of the things to be had upon Manhattan in midsummer--and yet-and yet-some people leave it.
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ing entirely upon the well known proposision-"fig- gers won't lye'-we bought the oughtmobile on the spot. Theere is nuthing to it. he sed, with sy. Six munths have passed away cents then he sed and it's all rong Mabul1, beleeve me, it's all rong. Fig gers air no moor to be depended upon-take it frum me-than the weathur bureau.
 Insted of surplus, he sed theere is stareng in the fase yawnng deffiste that would make the treasury of boom town, aftur building the waturworks, look like pker. We tried to live rite up to that schedule had fingered out and which could not go rong, according to the fggers but thing slipped sumwheere down the line and we air away off the reservasion We have been under the water long time, he sed, and cured The next who seys ennythng to about figgers will not lye, he sed, I shall speek harshly to him and tel, him, to man, that he is up walking round in his sleep
 Anuther frend of mine submitted his testimony. If ennything he is bittur than the former frend He is awful on the subject. He sed that he had pned his faith to the tinplated fake that fig gers will not lye and had been stung to fareyou- well. Not menny munths ago, he sed, he a yung, unmarried man, lite harted and free, but now, all be- of the fact that.sum guy had pulled that fig
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streams. One flows toward the west, through United States territory, and after a course of 2o-odd miles is lost in the Pacific at Skagway. The other winds its way on down into the Yukon, and 1t has over 2000 miles of travel before it reaches Boring sea. I threw a couple of chips into the streams. One has long since been lost in the Pacific ocean, and I am in hopes that the other will in time reach the same body of water not far from the Arctic.
 Our international boundary is along the crest of the mountains. We have a strip of country in southeastern Alaska which comprises the Alexander archipelago and all of the mainland 30 miles back from the seacoast or to the crest of the range , which borders it. This coastal strip ex- land canal at the south and along the range at the north as far as Mount St. Elias, from where there Is a straight line between the two countries, northward to the Arctic ocean.
 The Yukon, which has its headwaters in the lakes back of Skagway, flows through Canadian territory for wind ing distance almost as great as from Chicago to New Orleans before it crosses the international boundary near the vii. lage of Eagle. About 20 miles of the White Pass railway is in United States territory, and in the neighborhood of e miles is in the Dominion of Canada.
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60 seconds. The fuse will burn one min one only, when that rock will rise and crush you to death in this tent.''
 The foreman then ordered fire and sought the shelter of rock. Ten sec onds later the gambler rushed after him with his shirt Tapping against his bare legs. He continued to go and when last seen was on the dead run down the trail, cursing the road at every step.
 But come with me and take ride over this, the first railroad of Alaska. The cars are comfortable and we shall have moving pictures of magnificent scenery all the way up the mountains. We shoot out of Skagway into can yon- through which rushing glacial river flows. We skirt this for a mile before climbing the hills and pass on the way some log cabins which the old timers tell us belonged to a town nick named Liarsville, because no one who lived there could tell the truth. A little beyond we can see where the river breaks through the rocks and further up the mountains we find it tumbling down over the rocks, splashing like the falls of Ladore
 drSdI UcuS or TeQ IlOW0TS line the fdll- way, and these are to be found all the way to the top. Now and then bed of such flowers covers the hillside. There are trees on the lowland. and every where the vegetation is green. Passing onward, the road climbs up the sides of the cliffs. It winds about in horseshoe curves, and it's steepness is such that 1t climbs 2900 feet before reaching the top. This is 400 feet more than will be the highest altitude on the new road to Fair banks The White Pass makes its great climb within 20 miles, and it has only one tunnel along it's whole route
 As you go up the mountains the eli mate rapidly changes. You have a half dozen climates within 20 miles. Now and then you get a breeze from a glacier, and as Jack Frost travels on the wings of the wind over the perpetual ice, his breath sends chill to your bones. This is perceptible as you cross the canyon and catch the cold air of the Muir gla- cier not far away. This whole. re- zion was once great glacial garden. You can see glaciers in Skagway, and there are glaciers here and there on the sides of the mountains along the fail- road. I Saw one with thread of silver falling down the green slope below it. a rope. Lower still it had become a great cable, and it ended in the foaming rocks to the sea.
 Skagway river, dashing down over the
 Passing over the mountains of the Coast range. you come into new coun-
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All this is too trew-I have found out to my own bttur nollegde that figgers will ye. They air not dependabull; they may stick to you for awhile, but in your hour of need they air not theere. I had frend with whom used to play golf I watched his play and studied my own-I fingered out wheere ought to beet him in IS holes five up and fore to play, on form. was rite, too becawse the pro fessionel told ne So, relying absolootly on fig gers, when this fren1 offered to play for quar- tur hole and box of balls on the side, desded that had arrived and everybody go- ing to vie with each uther in handing me sumthing. did not give him chance to get away-I accepted his proposition the spot and began to figger what I'd do with the surplus funds. But the figgers weer all rcng. When the match ovver, I out secund-and theere only two of us playing. Fig gers, tell you, cannot be counted in the finals. Theere air thurteen republican cannydates for the nomminason this is ritten and theere mannagurs have each fingered out wheere his can't loose. But before this is printed F of them will go to the bad. So that proves conclusvely that figgers in twelve out of thurteen air rong Ant rite?
 Yours trooly,
 BILL VINES. n
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he was going to do with it. He brought it to White Horse and finally to Daw- son. There he had a carpenter make him a frame for the stone. When this was completed he let the miners sharpen their axes and picks at 25 cents apiece. They did the work while he sat back and took in dollar or more an hour for the rent of the grindstone.
 Another man was loaded with win dow panes He had sheets of glass seven by nine inches in size. When he got to Dawson he sold them for S2 a pane. Glass was so scarce at that time that beer bottles brought a price as win dow lights for log cabins. I hey were piled up lengthwise or set endwise into the windows, being chinked round with mud.
 Some of MT Whites stories related to the towns along the line. There were settlements of log huts and cities of tents. The town of White Pass con- tained thousands of tents, occupied by men and women waiting for rafts and boats to be completed to carry them down through the lakes and by way of the river to Dawson. In the spring of 1895 there were 10000 persons camped at the
 
 breaking of the ice, and on the shores Of the lake you can still see the re- mains of Mike Kings sawmill, which cut lumber at the rate of $S0 per thousand and upward for the making of boats to go over the lake.
 All of these settlements, continued MT. White, had their saloons and dance halls and games of chance of one kind or another The men were crazy for amusement and did all sorts of strange things. I remember one night coming into a saloon at White Pass where a dozen miners stood around the bar gam bling for drinks. The goddess of fortune was the. wee insect that Bobby Burns immortalized in one of his poems when he saw it creeping on young ady's bonnet. This kind of wee beastie" was very common in those days and the miners had no trouble in finding one for their sport. The insect was placed on the bar and the gamblers laid their right hands about it at equal distances away. Then they waited to see upon whose hand the beastie would crawl first That un- fortunate man paid for the drinks
 As the crow flies the distance from Skagway to the summit of the White Pass is only IA miles, but the railroad track is six miles longer in order to get grades by which the cars could be dragged up the mountains. Our train stopped on the crest of the pass, where the waters flowing into the two oceans divide and where side by side float the flags of America and Canada. He&e within few feet of each other, are two
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Carranza. the Catspaw

Harry H. Dunn in Cartoons Magazine
 For a score of years Venustiano Car. ranza-the "Mr. Venus'' of the bolder of Mexico City-was a cien- tifico, locking the sometimes cruel, but always honest, hand of Porfirio Diaz while that hand held him in a mahog- any chair in the Mexican Senate. For 12 of these years he was the absolute tool of Governor Cardenas of the state of Coahuila, who held his position, as did all other Mexican governors of that time, by virtue of his unswerving loy- alty to the elder Diaz. If Diaz wanted a bill brought up in the Senate, or an- other measure killed, it was Venus tiano Carranza who presented the arr gument for or against it; if Governor Cardenas sought the passage of 2 measure affecting the state of Coahuila again it was the senator from Cuatro Cienegas who pushed it through. Dur ing the last five years of the rule of Porfirio Diaz, Carranza became known to every senator and deputy as LEI Mozo del Senor Cardenas"-the Car denas servant. Diaz and Governor Car denas allowed Carranza to amass a comfortable fortune, estimated, in the fall of 1910, at approximately 10000. 900 pesos, then about $10,000,00
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here are just a few of the temptations offered:
 Murray's offers you-a beautiful Ro- man garden, revolving dance floor, fountain fantasies, with a bevy of comedy girls upon the watery steps of the now famous fountain a cascade fantasie and two orchestras, one upon the main and the other upon the bal cony floor All this you get for $1.25 and incidentals. the figures represent ing the actual cost of the dinner, per diner Murray's is in Forty second street just west of Broadway
 The Hawaiian room at Reisenwebers is delightfully."- cool, perhaps that would appeal to you as there is bit of well, you know-not- too -dignified- stuff. The cabaret features are un- usually prententious there: there are two performances nightly, one at 7:3O and the other at midnight; the Royal Hawaiian serenaders sing for you and Doraldina does some marvellous danc- ing. The new revue Reisenweber's is putting on is called. "Welcome to Our City" and they are also advertising a special southern dinner from noon to 10 D. m. You see, southerners are be- lieved to approve of early retiring. This dinner is $1.25 per southerner.
 The Bustanoby (accent on the tan) places offer yet another atmosphere for you. The cabaret features are worth while and the food is always edible. In the black and white room at Bus tanoby's you are required to appear in full evening dress. but that will probably be just about what you want to do anyway. The chief dancing at- traction at Bustanoby's these days is a dancer who is said to be son of General Huerta, the late Mexican dic- tator. He dances under the name of Hernandez. but his real name is aid to be Hernandez Huerta
 Other places where one may dance, dine and see a cabaret of some pro- portions are Maxims. Shanleys. Pe-
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TO THE KLONDIKE BY RAIL

gone on into Dawson, and those who make the long trip down the Yukon to Nome are fewer still. The round trip fare to the summit of the White Pass is $5O0 and it costs about s13O for the passage down the Yukon to Nome, where steamers may be had which will take one across Boring sea and the Pacific down to Seattle The White Pass rail- way controls the rail and river trans portation all the way from Skagway to Nome.
 The road was well planned and well built. It has been well managed from the start, and notwithstanding the heavy snowfalls. it has, for the most of the time, been kept open throughout the win ter. It has rotary snow blows attached to the engines which will cut path F feet deep through the drifts, and it's administration is such that all slides are quickly repaired.
 The accidents that occurred during the building of the road were few. At one place an engine jumped over the cliffs, but the men raised it with block and , tackle, and it is still doing it's work. At another place now marked by an iron cross perhaps two feet in height rock weighing more than 100 tons fell from the side of the mountain and crushed two workmen who were blasting the way for the track. The rock was so heavy that it could not be moved, and the monument has been sunk in it's center.
 The builder of the road was Michael J. Heney, who afterward constructed the Copper River railway for the Guggen- helm syndicate. Heney was an expert engineer and a master in the handling of men. He had an iron nerve and would not allow liquor or gambling in- side his camp. At one time desperado belonging to Soapy Smiths gang set up a gambling saloon in tent close to the route. When Heney ordered him to go away he refused. Heney then turned to his camp foreman, and, pointing to a rock half as big as a house that hung over the tent of the saloonist, told him in the hearing of the gambler to blast that rock out of the way by o'clock the next morning. The gambler thought that this was only bluff to make him move and he did nothing. That night he slept in the tent. At five minutes to o'clock the next morning the foreman came and told him he must get up and leave or he would be killed by the rock. The gam bier replied that the foreman might go to hades, whereupon the latter said:
 T am too busy to go there this morn ing, but if you are not out of this tent within two minutes by this watch, you will find yourself there. I shall order my men toatouch off the time fuse within
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UP AND DOWN BROADWAY-By Allen Griffin Johnson

during the heated term, and as for the heat itself, we who have spent previous summers here know that it is grossly exaggerated by those who fear and flee from it; that torridity seldom fingers longer than week or -s days upon Man haitian, and even during that time there are to be found places of refuge so cool, that. in them, summer seems an un- reality.
 And now we'll look into the diversion feature. That is. perhaps, the real an- swer to the Manhattan dweller's sum- mer content. For every six attra
 diversions or amusements offered by the average resort, Manhattan offers 600--or more You see. in spite of the flight of the wealthy. there are people here understand that New Yorl's summer residents are not unwilling to be amused at nominal cost-and sometimes are willing to pay far more than mere nominal sum for their diversions. Do you suppose for moment that the average amusement enterprise is enabled to keep going on the money it receives from it's wealthy patrons? Well. one moment, is quite long enough to imagine anything of the kind-stop it right there. What would Coney Island be today had it de- pended upon wealth to support it?
 And Coney may as well head the list of summer diversions here. It is the happy hunting ground of the poorer classes, perhaps. but others visit it as well, and If you don't believe they like it. glimpse of the Coney and Brighton beaches on any Saturday or Sunday of the summer would change your opinion in a twink ling. And this year it is supposed to be a sort of converted Coney. It's conscience Is advertised as having awakened.
 As matter of fact. nothing of the sort has or could happen tob coney Island. and the patrons thereof would be much displeased if it did No one goes by Coney's Island to find spiritual, or even highly moral atmosphere. They expect to be fooled hoodwinked. in a
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 the various far-off resorts as if pursued where are thanking their Deity that they do, as they picture us perspiring in congested tenements, and struggling along sun-blistered thorough fares in search of coin and comfort newspaper advertisers are advising us to support their various summer ventures by our presence at this, that or the other hostelry, located upon this, that or the other ideal" spot, and offering the usual forms of ntertainment-bathing. danc- ing, golf and tennis.
 But in spite of these facts, there are still few millions of us who, either through choice or necessity. are going to remain here all through the summer. What on earth are we going to do? Push and perspire around here. filled with envy and ennui as we long for the de- lights offered by the proprietor of the >Iotel Hotstuff, at Dormantville? Or sit here sweating and swearing as we think of what we are missing by not being in on the social thrills and frills furnished by summer in the, exclusive township of Alfalfa. Clover county, where you couldn't climb across the tennis court on the high gear. and the beach is only 9 miles from the front door of the Man sion House. over a route as yet undis- covered by the good roads advocates
 What are we going to do about it? Let's see: To begin with. those of us who arc here for the summer, are those whose wealth Is not so great as to confine us to any certsn set, section or selection of summey gences. .IA other words, we can dd y much as we please. being limitek 5nly by our funds and fun ca pacitSv That let's us in on anything that this deserted village may chance to offer
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kin, Tokio, Garden. Cafe Boulevard, Hotel Wallick. Hotel Marlborough Blenheim. Churchills and many others. And all of them are going to keep wide open right through the little old heated term.
 As for attractions without the food features. they are legion. The theatre season is said to be about closed, yet there are numbers of fine shows run ming now and which will no doubt be able to hang on all through the sum- mer.
 Miles and miles of beaches are within easy reach and parks and even coun- try roads are possible to the automo- bile owner who may enjoy them an hour and within less than another our be back in the heart of Manhattan
 Why, within just a few blocks of me, right on upper Broadway. is MT. Nickers "Unter Den Dinden." 1t cov- CTS about half block and is filled with great trees which give real. cool shade Under them are gravel walks and tables. Music is heard at frequent intervals, and upon the tables-ah- ping it in on people. and this article Will be read in prohibition territory. Too bad.
 Aside from these better known places are numbers of hidden away cozy corners. wherein one may dance and dine to his or her hearts con- tent, and where one may meet people the world frequently hearts about. and some that it will never hear of. I have in mind such place now. It is run by three enterprising women who offer one splendid cuisine and delightful service. The dinner is one of those with pint of red ink affairs. but it Is charming in every respect. The patrons are people of the literary and art world and in order to procure a table there on any Sunday evening one must engage it week or more in