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the ice. and that these are often taken out and eaten by the miners when starv- ing. Indeed, they prove the story by showing photograph of a miner actually masticating the worms which he is suck ing from the ice. The photograph Is a real one. but the worms, I am told. are strings of spaghetti.
 As stood in front of the MendenhalI glacier and looked at the wall it seemed to me that I was under a cliff, looking up at a range of ice mountains. The rloraine was made up of boulders and pebbles of all sizes. Some of the stones were not as big as a marble and others weighed 50 tons. The bedrock of old Mother Earth had been secured smooth hy the glacier as it passed over it. and high up on the hill it had left boulder that must have weighed 100 tons The bedrock was slate. This boulder was granite.
 From the Lynn canal westward run hing from here for a distance of four or five hundred miles. are to be found the greatest glaciers of Alaska. General Greedy gives 8 catalogue of the names
 
 and G. K. Gilbert of the Hartman expedition says their glacial ice COW CTS from 15,OO0 to 20,000 square miles. These glaciers are mostly found within 100 miles of the ocean and the largest are on the south side of the coast range. There are Il wide glaciers on Prince William sound. and you can stand in Seward and see glaciers all about you on the sides of the mountains. There are two great glaciers in the Mount Mo I<inley region. one of which is 40 miles long The latter is weighted down with broken stones and is said to have a larger moraine than any other glacier of the world.
 Among the Prince William sound gla- ciers are three mighty ones, named after three of our chief mems colleges-Co- lumbia, Harvard and Yale-and there are five named after women's colleges, Well lesley, Bryn Mawr, Vassar. Radcliffe and Smith. The latter are all cascade glaciers and have mountain streams pouring from under them.
 Nearly every river in Alaska has It's source in a glacier. The tributaries of the Yukon are fed by glaciers and the same is true of the Kuskokwim. The Tanana, upon which Fairbanks is To- cated, is formed by the Chisana and Nabespa rivers, both of which rise in glaciers in the Wrangell mountains, and the Susitna springs forth from a glacier of the Alaskan range. The Copper river is fed by glaciers, and the Copper River railway, which connects the Kennecott
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Watur Waggin and do use it almost atogethur round home, but when they go on trips away rum home and muther they have been obsurved joy riding uther cars and behaving in most unseemly and unpst- riottck mannur.
 Tho Watur Waggin is grate favvorite with the ladies In fact they air the principal of the car They say that 1t is verry reabu and gets out of fix unrul1y but they sertainy have dickens of time getting theere husbands to ride with them.
 The Watur Waggn is about the only make of mod ern that has succeeded in getting into poytcks. Consiqunty it is a bone of confusion The promoturs uther cars sheer at it. and point out that it is old fashioned, slow, one sylinder and handcranked. It does not compar with of the uther which self starturs and have frum four to twelve syn- ders and five or six different speeds in all direct sions It is reealy marvelus what of the anti watur waggin will do. I have sceen them in full operasion under the most trying circumstances sailing along under advurse condisions all lit up like
 street peerade putting into traffic cops pedestrians and forran reasons with grate mparsiallity and non-shallants, and leeying odur of imported high prsed fuel in theere wake suffisient to wither the whskurs a Russhian gennerel.
 Of it is claimed for the Watur Waggin that it
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but they want evvery body else to go along as com pany In fact, they want all uther meens of riding abolished. In states they have passed laws giving the exclusive rites the hyways within sed states to the Watur Waggn and the citizens theereof air maid passengurs whethur they want to be or not
 Alabama is on the Watur Waggin; she has been Hurting with it before tooevvery now and then she desides all of sudden to becum perminint passen gur and climbs aboard with grate gusto Then sum- thing happens and she gets peeved at the conduc tor and unloads with a loud splash. About half of Alabama's children air having swell time on the presnt trip and the uther half air as sore as crab the Watur Waggin certainly is the cawse of moor fammery than enny uther moddern make of car.
 So far as I am consumed the Watur Waggin looks good to if it is not carried too far. don't think it ought to be ovverdun have been aboard several times and can't say that had enny pertculery hi arus time enny of theese occasionstheere is not much exsitemnt in riding the Watur Waggin and it's habul to grow monotonus at times. But while it is slow and newer exseeds the speed limmit-it is verry safe and sound old cart. feller can teese himself into believing that he's having good time and that he is adding menuy yeers to his life and
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bearable. In summer the whole land is covered with the greenest of green, and the air is so invigorating that one seems to be breathing champagne.
 The interior of the country is com paratively low. The coast glacial re- zion is rugged and high. Many of it's mountains are lost in the clouds, and some of their peaks kiss the skies at an altertude higher than any other part of the continent. They are so high, so steep and so cold that they precipitate the water that rises from the warm ocean currents that wash southern Alaska, and give the snowfall that has built up the glaciers and keeps them aiive
 Before I write more of this region, let me show you some of the big ice masses of southeastern Alaska I have just left the Taku inlet It Is a fiord s miles long, walled with steep noun tains and guarded by islands. In steam ing up it, you can count 45 glaciers, and at the end of it come to the famous Taku glacier, the front wall of which where it enters the sea, is a mile wide and more than 200 feet high. The great river of ice widens as 1t goes back be- tween two mighty hills on each side. A little distance from the sea it is two miles in width, and it continues to widen for a distance of eight miles, where it is lost in the great ice field close to the boundary of British Co., lumbia.
 The Taku glacier is live glacier that is, it is moving down to the ocean and is always dropping great bergs into the sea. It is travelling downward at the rate of eight or 10 feet a day, and some of the masses which drop are as large as the skyscrapers of our principal cities. Only little distance away so near that it can be photo- graphed by swing of the camera, is a dead glacier, which shows out on the other side of the hill at the west. This is also about mile wide. but it seems to end at the shore and no icebergs come from it's great dusty wall.
 It was o'clock in tn morning that l had my first sight of the Taku gla- cier The sun was already two hours or more high, and its rays caught the icebergs which floated about in the inlet and turned them to sapphires. There were hundreds of these ice masses, through which our steamer pushed it's way to the face of the wall. The steamship was the Humboldt, with a crowd of tourists on board It took us right up to the glacier, so that we were within 500 feet of the ice when we stopped.
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ble had been discovered on his little farm and he had sold out for million, where- as, had he held on, he would have made several times that amount, at least.
 The deal concluded, and the money available for immediate use, Mrs. s. be- gan suggesting that they make their home in New York city.
 MT s. offered no serious objection Tn fact he had already seen one or two rural dramas in the town hall, and be- lieved that he might find better enter tainment of d similar sort along Broad way. True he had not given up the dangerous habit of inserting his pea filled knife between his labials, but Mrs S., who began to feel the lSnawing of social ambition, had hope-and all sorts of nerve to go with it, which proves that she was ripe for the great metropo- lis
 They installed themselves in a hand some morgue on the avenue, prefixed a "de'' to their name, purchased couple of 1916 models (you know what), car riage and horses, and hired stiff backed hyphen to sit behind them when they drove. but if he hadn't displayed more energy and animation around the house than he did when out driving, he would have lost his job
 One night, just after they had returned from thrilling movie, Mrs. de S. re- marked, with malice aforethought, Let's get into the social swim here, John, we can do it.''
 MT de $. gazed meditatively at the gas log. threw his cigar stub upon it, lighted his old pipe, and, having picked up a bit of Broadway parlance, replied, "Go to it''
 Mrs. de s. intimated that this would require something of an outlay" but her husband, who. in other days, was known as the gamest vport in all the fair
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were really increased. one couldn't sea them at all
 Some day We are going to write some thing about the religious life of New York But this is such an immense place that one can't get all around in a day. month, or year or two, and there are so many more things that are easier to discover than New York religion.
 Talk about brotherly love Let some unkempt, poverty stricken party find his way into one of those magnificent Fifth avenue edifices of church-anity and cast about him for the loving glances-whv. he'd feel like rushing straight out into the teeth of blizzard in order to get warmed up once more.
 Here are some of the shows that ara furnishing entertainment and converse tion for the theatre section freauenters nowadays:
 Maxine Elhotts 'Drhe Pfide of Race :, with Robert Hilliard; Shubert. Alone at Last" Comedy "lIobson's Choice:" Princess. Very Good Eddle;, Thirtv- cnastened Woman; Punch and Judy.
 Treasure Island.' Belasco, eThe Boom erang, Republic, Common Claw" co- han. Otis Skinner in The Cock o' the Walk; Gaiety, Mrs Biske in 'Erstwhile susan; Hudson, The Conderella Man. Globe. Stop. Look. Listen.' with Gabv Deslys; Astor, The Conan 1916 Revue: !. New Amsterdam Elsie Ferguson in Margaret Cawthorn.'' Longacre leo Dit richstein in "The Great Lover, F1nn;re Maude Adams in The Little Minisfer:" Harris. Hit-the Trail- Holliday.r with Fred Nible; Lyric, Potash and PerE mutter in Societys Cort. ssAny, House: Fulton. The Melody of Youth;'' Boofh. "The Fear Market
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me remember especially the words of one woman who stood at my elbow She said:
 My, aint that grand? It reminds me of the drop curtain of our opera house. But there ,ain't no polar bear here"
 As the great ice mass fell into the water, man-he may have been a res taurant keeper-remarked:
 Gee, what a lot of ice cream a man could make out of that bunchi'
 The ice as it comes from the glaciers seems pure enough for ice cream or even lemonade. The ships sometimes fill their ice chests by lassoing the smaller bergs and hoisting them by derrick on board.
 For long tihsA considerable business was done in picking up this ice and sell ing it to the mining camps and towns along about 50 years ago it was shipped from southern Alaska to San Francisco at $75 per ton, and little later con- tracts were made at ss5 per ton, the shipments amounting to 1000 tons and up ward per annum.
 It was not far iron, the glacier that we saw a large deer swimming about in the water. Our steamer passed within 200 feet of him, and Texan on board said that he could have lassoed him from the deck The deer had magnifi- cent antlers. Its horns and head rose above the water, and it's body could be seen close to the surface. It was still swimming as we moved onward, and we saw some hunters near the shore start out to catch it. They chased the animal this way and that, and finally dragged it into their boat.
 It was from Juneau. the capital of Alaska, that 1 rode out in an automo- bile to see the Mendenhall glacier. The moraine of this mighty ice mass lies within nine miles of the city. You can leave the busiest section of the liveliest town in Alaska, surrounded by mines and mills, by stores and banks and the other busiest activities of busy man, and within less than an hour be in the heart of the wilds and in the shadow of one of the most famous gla- oiers of this wonderful territory.
 < 9Thirik of going to a glacier by auto mobile. have climbed Vesuvius by a wire cable. and have crawled up the Rigi by the famous cog railway, but this was my first experience in shooting through the moraine of glacier in a gasoline car I went as the guest of R. H. Behr- ends, the well known banker of Juneau, a man who in appearance is the very spit of James Whitcomb Riley and who in good fellowship is quite the equal of the great Hoosier poet We rode from Juneau right into the woods. Trees from 5o to 100 feet high climbed the steep walls about us. and elderberry bushes with
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 at east, by many members of the er- milk de Ia milk. However, the thing has been proved to be easy in one recent in- stance, and judging from this, it might be done again at any time by similar process.
 Of course, there are many locked doors, but the fact that there are doors, proves that entrance is possible, and there are few which are not opened by la clef d or. There are stories to the effect that money does not count in some circles of society, but we don't seem to have circles of that sort upon this island. And even if one broke in without money, certainly he could not remain for any length of time in that condition,
 In order to prove that preparation and mental equipment along other lines is not an actual necessity, I may tell you gently told me that she did not think New York best society was ''seclusive'' , enough You don't believe she be lopged?'' Well she was and is getting by with it without attracting the least bit of unfayorable attention.
 But the process and the case in ques- ton: We'll. here is what actually hap pened upon Manhattan isle, and certain names are withheld through motives of mercy solely Mrs. s, living in the village of O., kissed her husband good-by one morning, then returned to the kitchen to finish washing the dishes. MT s. re- inained absent about three months, and when he returned he was a millionaire He wasn't clever; he simply couldn'' hsl9 ik You see. something very valua-
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nfnes with the sea, passes between the ChiIds glacier and the Miles glacier on its way to Cordova. The Childs glacier is BOO feet high and three miles in width. It winds it's way down the mountains like a mighty frozen snake for a distance of 75 miles. The Miles glacier is almost as large.
 Glacier bay is only a short distance from where I am writing This body of water is 50 miles long. and it has more than half dozen glaciers of enormous size The biggest is the Muir glacier, named after John Muier, who discovered it. It is three miles wide where it en- teis the water, and the height Of the ice wall is almost 1000 feet, 700 feet being underneath the surface. The glacier is very lively and it has been supposed by some to move as much as 60 feet a day, but fair estimate would probably be one-sixth of that speed. Very few of the well-known glaciers move more than a foot day. although there are some in Alaska that move five and 10 feet and one in northern Greenland that is said to move more than four feet every hour. The movement of a glacier may be meas u ou ny ldylnB stones upon or driving posts into the surface. As the glacier moves onward the space between these posts and fixed points on the landscape shows how fast it is travelling.
 Tn addition to the valley glaciers, Alas ka has some great ice fields, or ice caps. such as the Malaspina glacier This gla- cier is a great sheet of ice larger than the state of Rhode Island It has a front of about 90 miles as it faces the sea, and runs 30 miles back into the country to the St. Elias range of mountains It is really vast plain or plateau of ice with lakes and rivers. and with hills and noun field on the North American continent although 1t is only patch in compari- son with the great ice caps of Greenland and Antarctica. The Greenland cap has an area of over 100000 square miles, or two-thirds that of Alaska. The ice sheet of Antarctica is supposed to cover about 3,ooO,Ooo square miles It is as big as the United States proper
 The Malaspna glacier had a series of convulsions about 10 years ago which changed it's whole surface, twisting the bed rock and uprooting the timber for miles about In 1912 lake in one of the erevasses of the Miles glacier burst through the walls of ice and hurled blocks weighing thousands of tons down into the river wave 90 feet high spread over the flats, and icebergs weighing many tons were damned against the bridge of the Copper river railroad
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locked door of New York society. In- deed. his opinions on various important subjects have been frequently quoted while Mrs. de S. is absolutely secure upon a social pinnacle from which noth- ing can remove her unless it be the loss of MT. de SIS million.
 Naturally, all rights in the foregoing are reserved. We don't want to see it in the movies nor yet on the comic opera stage, as the truth of it all would be de- cidedly embarrassing to many notables, both here and in Muckrakia, which but proves that once again are we prompted by motives of mercy
 There is only one thing that can make possible the publication of the names con- nected with this stoiy--t that is, doubt cast upon our truthfulness. In that event --bing. And down will come the social pinnacle, de S. and all. Of course, as many truths do. it reads like fairy tale, but, let us say, with Maude Adams. who is again saying it nightly at the Empire theatre, Don't you believe in fairies ?''-- and their tales?
 During our recent. heavy snowfall the street cleaning department was able tc procure only about 5000 snow shovelers, when it had need, and urgent need. of about 15,0O0 This might seem to indicate that there were not so many poor and destitute men here now but when one remembers that the city forced it's snow shovelers to wait in line two days for their pay-well, there is easier work pro- curable.
 In Central park these snowy days one
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about the only ones who seem to get any pleasure out of Manhattan snow.
 If any lawyer of New York city an- nounces that he has been doing work for or against the Interborough railway it is at once conceded that he must be rich man. This kind of love for ones enemies seems to have been profitable up to certain point, at least.
 A woman named Kitching, living in T small hall bedroom in lower Manhattan, has refused to accept s4oo00 left her by an uncle who, she says, was a miser, and ground down the poor. She claims to be happy and declares that money is not an essential to that condition How she ever reached such a condition while living in New York is a mystery. vet one can't but believe that there is a lot of truth in what she says-anyhow s40.000 is strong argument in her favor.
 Some one has been agitating the put ting down of temporary paving on Broadway. As a matter of fact, Broad way is already temporarily paved It has every kind of paving from boards to bitulithic macadam, including Belgian blocks. wood blocks, natural dirt and grass-if you go far enough north along the thoroughfare.
 Ricardo Martin. the grand opera singer now touring the south, used to be Dick Martin when he lived in Nashville, whence he came from Kentucky.
 Burlesouers at the Olympic theatre are said to be exceeding the speed limit cant be done. Burlesque here has all ready attained such speed that. if 1t
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By FRANK G. CARPENTER NCopyrighted, 1916. by Frank G. car
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 Steamer Humboldt,

steamer humboldt,
 Lynn Canal, Alaska fAIY1 AM in the Iceland of Alaska. HXl There are more than 5000 56Szsss glaciers between here and &%sxs&b Seward, where our railroad is
 building. Hundreds of them some down to the level of the sea, and 25 are always dropping icebergs into the tide waters Alaska is the great est glacier region of the world, with the exceptions only of Greenland and Antarctica. There are many glaciers in tho southwestern part of the terri tory, and you can see some of the big gest of them by ride of four or five days from Seattle on a comfortable steamer. You can steam among ice- bergs as big as a ship amid masses of crystal sapphire right up to the walls of ice.-the ends of ice rivers that are slowly flowing down the sides of the mountains. Now and then the tide leaves icebergs on the shores, and the green pines bend over and kiss them with their branches
 I am now in the Lynn canal on my way to Skagway- Looking through my stateroom window, I can see a wall of snow-capped mountains. which are green almost to their tops Just op- posite me is great field of ice upheld between two lofty peaks. The field is miles in width, and it slopes upward until lost in the clouds That field is B glacier.
 The true glacial region of Alaska begins little beyond the international boundary, and 1t runs from there along the coast for a distance as great as from New York to Chicago. It skirts the ocean and extends for hundred miles or so back into the interior. The most of the glaciers are north and west of Skagway They are confined within an area about TOO miles wide and 800 miles long, comprising a ter ritory perhaps as large as the state of New York. This, all told, does not comprise one-tenth of Alaska, but it is that part of the country most fre- quented by tourists, and it is from their stories that many have received the idea that Alaska is nothing bpt mountains and ice. The truth is, most of the territory is north of these glacial ranges which border the coast and great part of it is as dry as northern Dakota or Montana. The Yukon valley has crisp, cold winters and short dry summers. The winters have clear skies, and the climate is
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NdIteIy or peSSenBurS--WlCn that esteemed
 old Gtney-the Watur Waggin. If a feller could in get an exclusive franchise for the opperasion of the Watur Waggin route and col feet fairs what cinch in transportation he would have Neerly evvery boddy has ridden on the Watur Waggin Its funny thing how peepul will do things at times that they little enjoy. The scenery along the Watur Waggin route is not butful especally-in tnenny instinces it is reealy oppressive. We have known of passengurs the Watur Waggn that claimed to see all kinds of things along the road Little animals running around with the he'd of a rabbit and the tail of squerre dwarfs without heds snakes and simy creatures and tnenny varieties of perfectly hardwurl1ing horrows, Usuelly theese ex- hibisons rum the Watur Waggin air givven ex- cussvely to sertan passengurs who have been forsed to take trip, and who, as mattur of fact prefur enny uther old style of riding to that furnished bv the Watur Waggins corporasion
 Those who advocate the Watur Waggin above all Mther meens of transportation air usuely verry en- Ahewsiastick about it. They air not contint with going ahed and enjoying themselves as best they can jogging along life's rugged road abord the old cart
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Tn Central park these snowy days one frequently sees baby carriages on run ners instead of on wheels. Pretty slick idea. However, babies and visitors are
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EW YORK, February 10.-(Spe- cial. )-Breaking into the creme de Ia creme of New York so- ciety is not generally consid-
 cred an easy accomplishment,
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AM in the Iceland of Alaska. There are more than 5000 glaciers between here and Seward, where our railroad is hatf115oer H
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Burlesouers at the Oiympic theatre are said to. be exceeding the speed limit can't be done. Burlesque here has all ready attained such speed that. if 1t