How dear to my heart is the steady subscriber, Who pays in advance without skipping a year, Who lays down his money and offers it gladly, And casts "round the office a halo of cheer. ‘Who never says, Stop it, | cannot afford it!" Or, “Getting more papers each day than I But always says : “Send it; the whole outfit likes H- In fact, we regard it a business need.” How welcome is he when he steps in the sanc- tum, How he makes “our heart” throb, how he makes "our eye” dance; We outwardly thank him—we inwardly bless him— The steady subscriber who pays in advance. —A. May Robinson, in the National Maga- ziine. BE SQUARE. We may name a hundred drawbacks ‘That a man must meet in life, We may say it's all a “battle” And a never ending “strife,” ‘Then resolve to meet it bravely— Stand the test—do and dare— But the secret of true victory Lies in one word, just be “Square.” ‘There is something in the twinkle Of an honest fellow’s eye ‘That can never be mistaken And can never be passed by. Be his station high or lowly, ‘There's that dauntless upright air, Which convinces all beholders That the man they see is “Square.” Heaven gives such men influence Over those they daily meet. If they see a fallen brother ‘They will help him keep his feet— Make the “sneaks” a bit uneasy— Make the false act kind of fair, For the greatest rogue on record Will respect the man who's “Square.” ~Selected. AN ALASKAN TRIP. ‘What a Bellefonte Girl S8aw on a Trip to the Far North, and How She Enjoyed the Many Inter esting Sights and Experiences. When Zoe and I planned to enjoy our summer vacation by a trip to the A. Y. P. Exposition at Seattle, we decided that the proximity of Washington to Alaska was too alluring to overlook an extension | The to the Seattle visit. Mage = folders were consulted until i tion crystal ized into determination, and in June we bought our round trip tickets from Los Angeles to y, and sailed from the port of San ro on the “Roanoke,” on the evening of July 5th. What cleverness is manifested by the steamship companies in having boats sail in the evening! For the crowded wharves, laughing, happy people, joyous farewelie, air of Secompiish ng things, to a passenger's delusion, and as we went out of the harbor that aight, and saw the myriads of lights ing from the towns that were star- along the coast, we certainly |. felt that we were starting for ports where fair adventures lay. But when the morning of the second Soy Says, the iruth of a Tine teow one 3 s popular plays rose in, last ngs was fun and laughter, but this is the cold gray dawn of the morning after.” Everyone on the boat was sea- sick, for the “Roanoke” carried no cargo between San Pedro and San Francisco, and was tossed as a chip in the trough of the waves, not only up and down, but forward and back, and then crosswise, in such a drunken careening way, as I hope may never be my experience again, for as the boat went, so went we. We two to get dressed and on deck, but that day held no pleasure for us, and we sat around chewing dried beef and soda crackers when meal time came, | the and wished the seas might be gathered up. When we went to it was only with the thought, “Would it were morn- ing.” And that morning dawned with our boat at the dock in San Francisco, where we were to be for hours. We went up Market street and all around the business part of the city, marveling at the changes even a year had brought about, but we could not escape from the aftermath of that “most disagreeable form an error of mortal mind ever assumed,” (to quote from Life) and had we not bought our tickets to Alaska, we would have given up any idea of more ocean right there. We did go to the steamship office to see about having our tickets ¢ to rail from San Francisco to Portland, but it came to nothing, so we sadly re-embarked and went out through the beautiful Golden Gate that afternoon. A heavy cargo had been loaded for Eureka and Portland however, so from now on the boat behaved properly, and so did we. The monotony of the sea was varied by spouting whales and porpoises playing in the waters near northern Cali- fornia. As for the remainder of the trip north, I pass by the beauty of Eureka, Portland, and Seattle, i visi the Fair, being engrossed chiefly with the Alaska building, and hasten on to my main topic. We left Seattle on the “Jefferson,” at lists to round tri; ey = ists, in order to get more local color with Alaskans returning north, him and his wife, four Los Angeles friends at the pier to see us off; and steamer let- | ters were in our room, so we started out y. ow many of the people were disap- pointed not to find themselves : RR E §is ig Wi fi Lh HIE ! | i i i E | i 1] " il : f i di | ie iis ghey ; i: fi i ! | £8 i i $ § : : i g 2 : -berries giving a nov- oy taste to the Eastern tourists. town itself is typically Alaskan; the houses built all over a steep hill-side, | and the streets, running in all directions, covered with planking and built above the ground level. A bank and hotels lend to its air of prosperity. The town is in- corporated and has over 1500 inhabitants. presence of a salmon stream was what originally caused the settling of a town here, and while the fish were not running during our trip, several weeks later could be lifted from the water in one's hands, This I learned from a student here in Claremont, who came from Ketchikan, and he also told me that a year's rainfall from date to date in 1908-1909 was one hundred and twenty- six inches. Just think of that in feet! Beside the salmon canneries, copper and timber industries belong to this pro- gressive town. Here too we saw the first totem poles at close range and were di- rected to the Indian i on terra firma for a change, gentle mists had changed gradually to showers, we found the ship a cosy shelter and left this pretty harbor for the next point, not many miles farther, Metlakat- an interesting Indian settlement on Annette Island, but when we docked passengers out. It chanced that while at Stanford I had a thesis on Indian Education and 1 had learned much of this unique settlement of William Duncan's, so I was wildly dis- appointed over the rain, and [ was stand- ing on the deck wondering if it wouldn't clear enough for me to make a dash for Church, where travelers were re- ceived, when | saw an old, white-haired, rosy-cheeked man coming along the wharf. No one else was in sight but In- dians, so I jumped to the natural conclu- sion, and TURRIng down the gang plank and up to him, I asked him if he were not Mr. Duncan. He was del atiully cordial, and after talking to him, him to come aboard and tell us about his work there among the Indians, so I ushered him into the cabin where every- one was sitting around, and this dear old man, who has given his life for others, talked to us there and told us modestly of his missionary labors. Later, when we were to leave, | walked out in the rain with him again to say good bye, and I couldn't have felt in a more sanctified presence had I been with the pope. This entire town, church, canneries, homes, schools, and all, was built by his Indians. He has been there with them for fifty years, and his devotion has made this community of a thousand Christian Indi- ans from what was formerly a savage horde. From my log-book I notice that the next stop of that day was at Fort Wran- gel at six in the evening. The captain came and asked us to let him show us ted | the town,—he took turns with all the young women on the boat—so we went first to the cable office to see if any or- ders were there, and then looked up the town's totem-poles and the Indian ceme- tery, and visited the garnet stores. This is the town near the garnet mines and I got some fine Srecimens of these stones paper weights, two just as they are dug, embedded in this old slate, i formation, and one hea at least in diameter. are of little value until and then are much smaller. t surprises one in this gem whom | is its perfect facet The churches of is not that of laissez-faire, but of utmost enj t in life. uly 18th was a busy day in the Jeffer son's adventures, for about ei we were all out on deck watching Taku Gla- cier loom up before us, as we went slow- I|ly and carefully in and out among the icebergs in the inlet, and before night we | gem, an inch | water’ g i tgs fred i | | { BES FE 8. el : g r i i sof i : j i 2 7 g ; : 8 : 4 3:%s 5 525% i most i much ion | except go float- several miles I read | vied that magnificent ac- | without ng | and go leaping | over one with his little dog friend. | § ! F i fH Hi : g g 5 g § g js i Balas ; siefiie pli i : i 4 process, and used we stood on the trembling tforms above the shaking concen- trates, and when we got out, in addition to being stone deaf for many minutes, I! i felt like the man in the ad who rides a’ bike without 2 cushion frame. No visitors were admitted to the assay- | ing sections, so our keenest conceptions ' of the real Alaskan gold, once out of the! rock, were obtained in the Seattle exhib- it, where the gold bricks, nuggets and dust were kept in a glass case guarded | by an iron cage. Back of the mills we climbed up the hill-side rnd stood on the of "Glory Hole” the deep pit from which led the | entrance to the mine. As to production, | this is the second largest mine in the! United States, and as to tonnage, the largest in the world; in the twenty-eight years of its operation it has produced over $35,000,000. We went all over the co-operative section of the town, where the miners’ homes are, through the large dining hall, and reading-rooms, and then walked back a mile from Treadwell to By this time everyone had learned to make a dash for the curios stores and In- dian basket-makers, and there was al- ways great amusement on board, after leaving each port, in examining every | one’s . Some of the passengers must have returned with queer ideas of Alaska, for instead of going to the points of interest, they rushed out on an occa- | sional wharf, peered into a curio store, | cast commiserating glances along the | streets, crude as they are with the unde- | velopment of the frontier, and then scur- ried aboard again, while the rest of us tramped for miles on tours of inspection. From Douglas we crossed the channel to Juneau, on the mainland, and of all picturesque towns in that Northland, Ju- neau is the , set against a velvety green mountain that rises three thousand feet above it, crested with snow and rib- boned with rivulets,. We drank in its beauty that glorious Sunday, and the memory of its loveliness will always be a pleasure, for surely there is no more ideal on earth. We went to the court-house and looked into the jail, where thirty Japanese were imprisoned for seal poat ing; several of them were reading aloud from odd-look- ing books, but paid no attention to us. gg 7 8 the water, and it, the residences and the stores, are all substantial and attractive buildings. The size and tameness of the birds around this section wasnoticeable. Hun- dreds of crows and sea were all around on the beach, and the crows were as large as the gulls. 1 thought they were ravens until they cawed instead of saying “Nevermore.” One of the street signs of Juneau that offered much speculation was “Hot Air Baths.” On our return trip we were in the town at 2 a. m., wi the stores were opened for the passengers and many le were on the streets, as it was day- t, and from a concert hall we heard a chorus singing "How dry I am.” Alto- gether, Juneau savored more of wild westernism than any place we saw. The way we began to do without sleep was a strange thing, for if we went to our rooms at eleven it was just twilight, and if the purser an any stop for the morning hours of two, three or four, all the boat's would be up on deck then da; t. When the trip was over we were back in Seattle, we rom Juneau we Menden- hall and Davidson Glaciers. face of from the Haines Mission and Ft. Seward were reached in the evening, but we hadn't to Alaska to see soldiers, and Sunday et us ready for the much 5 2 § 5 gasf : HE 2} Ld 58 7 oy, ih 38s The court-house is on a hill overlooking | ti 5 i 1 8 5 : gi i ] i il seekers, this trip was all i the photographs I saw of men threading Chilcoot pase, like a black line of ants on the white snow, only enhanced the hor- ror. A man told us of the avalanche of '98 on the Chilcoot, that had killed his gw friends, and J catfs fo 3 the awidl depth sadness t lay in his eyes when he spoke of digging in the snow and finding two brothers lying dead to- gether in their tent. The English flag waved near our own on the boundary line at this summit, and {l around were dd cabins, relics of the early days wl stopped here lo ET which pa Bons. Bu lake. Banks of snow lay on the hill side and heather was grow- in A fhe descent to Skagway was made rapidly. In this town we saw our first dog team. On the whole trip we had x bot stopping for people y is a point for ing into the interior to Dawson, Fair- and other places; and since it lack- ed the raison d'etre that other towns had, having into life during the Klon- dike of it is more of 2a cosmo- politan town than the rest. It has at- tractive homes, flowers, gardens, level streets, and—the train! Above it is the A. B. mountain, so called from the per- fect formation of these letters in snow- filled gorges. A buildi Arctic Brotherhood ~~ of interest is I, faced with historic pick and shovel handles nailed on. This lodge was organized to help destitute miners, and has its chapters Its emblem is hangelsky, . | learned to roll trippi tongu OR ues this nature, and when we reached Sitka erest about of at seven on the morning following, he gave the day to his shi i cause he was a Russian, he obtained spe- cial privileges for usin the Russian church, where the priest's gold and silver em- broidered robes were shown us, and the door to the inner sanctuary was swung ! open for us to see the altar there. This church of St. Michael's had some | beautiful paintings; one, an exquisite Madonna, which has a wondrous solid- gold covering estimated at $20,000,riveted , 4am over all the drapery of the oil-painting. | An artist who spoke to us in the churc| thinks this a Raphael, but they have no idea how it came into Russian possession | in this spot of the earth. I got a photo- graph of it, as the face is one of the’ sweetest of Madonnas. Another painting | of worth was one of Christ, distinctive rw) others in representing Him blue- eyed. There were no seating a ments in | this Greek church, as the e stand or | kneel during the service. While the in- terest centers in this building, its unusual | architecture, and priceless art treasuers, | we found other attractionsin the Sheldon- | Jackson museum with its Russian and Eskimo relics, and the Elliot F. Shephard ! Industrial school. i The Indian River Park had some unusu- | al totem poles, one having twins cut on the top, and another a a white man's face, a Russian trader thus pre- served in effigy because he had kidnapped | the twins. | The saying regarding the Indian River is: “He who drinks of the waters of Sitka | must return,” so we all took a draught | in order to assure the allurement this, town held for us. It is said to be the! quaintest town in the world, and it cer- tainly was more Russian than American, | in spite of Uncle Sam's soldiers stationed | there in the barracks. This place seemed ' to me much like Monterey in its odd: comingling of sleepy old traditions with modern activities. Mr. Archangelsky told | us of this ancient city’s charm, and when we had exclaimed our appreciation he said, “Seence one must leeve somewhere, i why not in Seetka?"” i inety islands form numerous channels | in front of the town, and beyond the bay, | i on Kruzoff Island, is Mount Edgecombe, | a Piciuresqne, extinct volcano, shaped | very much like Fujiyama, with the snowy | p. To me Sitka constitutes in a way the | close of the Alaskan impressions, for thereafter the voyage was a continuation of what we had before seen, a second trip to Taku, and on this day there were no breaking ice but only dead silence | there, other glaciers, perilous narrows, | whirlpools, passing vessels, the same stops and several additional ones on our | return, inspection of a salmon cannery at | St. Petersburg, and then back to Seattle. | \ uggested Of the ship, its officers, (especially the | @ celluloid film as the basis for the photo- other sections, being Norwegian captain, German first mate, | English setond | win, of New Jersey. Othernames in con- | the inclement weat the ship's om ase) a0 passengers: i nection with the evolution of moving pic- | western steer only demands that he mains untold, but that's another story, and I've stored it all away in memories | which I trust may never be dimmed. | | MARY MACBRIDE BARTRUFF. : i i Uncle Sam’s Six-months Day. The British flag is the only one on | which the sun never sets, but the Ameri- | can flag is a close second. It has been proved by calculations made by the Unit- ed States Naval Observatory that for half a year, from the 22nd of to the 22nd of September, the sun shines con- tinuously in the eyes of the American eagle. is astronomical fact brings a | realization of how great a nation we have | become. ! The most eastern point in the domin- ions of the United States is in the island of Porto Rico, and the most western t is in She Jsiand of Balobe, in the tember. Between May 31st and July 13th the sun rises on the easternmost point of Maine at the same time it sets on the { ly. Next came J. R. Bonheur, in America, WHAT TO TALK. Talk Happiness. The world is sad enough Without your woes. No path is wholly rough, Look for the places that are smooth and clear, And talk of them to rest the weary ear Of earth, so hurt by woe's continuous strain Of human discontentment and grief and pain. Talk Faith : the world is better off without Your uttered ignorance, and your morbid doubt, If you have faith in God, or man, or self, Say so—if not, put back upon the shelf Of silence, all your thoughts, till Faith shall come No one will grieve because your lips are dumb. Talk Health. The dreary, never-ending talk Of mortal maladies is worn and stale. You cannot charm, or interest, or please, By harping on that minor chord, disease. Say vou are well, or all is well with you, And God shall hear your words and make them true. Spotless Town. Delf recalls a doll's house. There is walk two able-bodied maids were poundi a dirty carpet, raising the very wi their crepitant ing and showering with perfect impartiality the dust on any- | one in the vicinity. Nor is this a custom confined to Rotter- . Any morning in any town of Hol- land, from 7 to 11 o'clock, you wiil hear | with dismayed ears the crack, thump, | crack of wounded rugs and murdered | cafpeis: | ow wouldn't you suppose that the Dutchman, overzealous in the cause of cleanliness, could be made to recognize the unsanitary nature of this practice? Not at all. We ed with an iatelligent | native and he said that it was a very old custom—more honored in the breach than in the observance, he might have added. | In such crowded ares as | thoroughf: Wagenstraat at The Hague, or the Kal- | 1 | 7 verstraat at Amsterdam, servants literally throw the dust in your eyes. What a row there would be in dear, dirty old New York if half the tion turned out with wicker e and, their | rugs! The very janitors on the blocks ; would protest excuse of a custom ! that flourished when the memory of man | runneth not to the contrary, is the same | given by the dwellers on the canals who ! persist in drinking their stagnant waters. | ey, when warned of the danger of cholera, indignantly answered that their | ghout had always | fathers and grandfathers gran k the Sewage, had lived long aud | ppily; so what are you ing to do ahout it?—New York Xin gong | Who Invented Moving Pictures. So many minds, so many men, have evolved ideas that have been improved upon by others, tending toward the crea- tion of moving pictures, that the whole | world has Neneh ted to the evolutionary i process. Mu might m to the first in the aes Freisse Greene, in London, made the best advances, while Imiere and Anschutz followed very close- | he having conceived a plan, in 1886, which he sent in his voluminous correspondence to Thomas A. Edison. _Muybridge reproduced a famous trot- tingshorse, very crude, but interesting in the light of future dvelopment. Anschutz perfected a series of photographs showing an enlarged “zoetrope” called and ex- hibited as the “Living Wonder.” Friesse Greene's experiments followed in the early part of 1890, while the kinetoscope | was its successor. This wonderful ma- | chine was a modification by Edison of the | “Living Wonder” s by the use of | graphic emulsion, the invention of Good- | {ares are yarisworth, Destisthorpe and arey of Paris, w rst presen pic- | tures of birds in flight. Demeny, the | assistant of Marey, followed up his mas- ter's successes, and R. W. Paul, of Lon- don, made interesting and ive im- | the provements in the early Edison came along in 1894 with his im- provements on ideas already before the public. The American Bi , through erman Casler, foll close upon Edifon's achievements, as did Lumiere of us moving pictures belong to all the world and all ee Rao | us its prod : The Weight of the Brain. ed to our island the time of continual sunshine a | lower animals. month and a half to six months. TTT TT At Barrow, the northernmost| -——When serving cocoa or chocolate point of , the sun does not set at : drop a marshmallow into each before all from May 31st to July 13th, for the pouring in the hot will reason that Cape Barrow is within the arctic circle, so it follows that during interval the sun never sets on any flag that flies in the arctic. ——They who go out to hit the high places land on the dump. g —If a human being continued to grow | at the same rate as does in his first | year he would be 68 feet tall at the age’ of 10. i i they carry on their hunting and their forest rov exactly as did 100 years ago. are wild of jhe landecape and add color to the pic- To this day little is known of the Ever- glades, Swamp, hummocks, j and waterways, they lie in silent , a armed, intelligent and good-looking. When Osceolo stirred the Seminoles y ar in 1835 BE a . In seven years o ting t - ernment caught and sent West 1,929 of the tribe, while the death list of soldiers totaled 1466. Add to this the inof- fensive citizens who were slain, and it in favor of the red men. In 1842 it was su] that only 348 Seminoles were Or tase Years Speed. 10 gy in swampy ew years later these went on the warpath and some 50 or 60 were caught and sent to Indian Territory. Ever since the tribe Some of the inoles who went West headed by Coacouchec, wonderful war- rior, broke away and fled to Mexico, where a few of them yet remain. The rest stayed on the reserve, learned the arts of peace, and intermixed with the white men. When their lands were al- lotted a couple of years ago, they num- bered—full and mixed-bloods together— 2,200. They are well educated, hardly distinguishable from the whites around them, and have only language and traditions to link them with the plumed hunters of the Everglades. Common sense would dictate that the Seminoles stay where they are. They are in no one's way, and, in fact, can be made vaiuable in the exploration and set- tling of Southern Florida, while their honesty, good nature and wonderful knowledge of the swamps and jungles ought to make them indispensahle.—Ex. Roast Beef on the Hoof. Western beef is coming into its own. Not over a decade ago eastern buyers much lower price for this class of stock than they were willing to pay for that se- cured from other pl nge- are usually in the very best of health. They have a splendid frame upon which to build, are well muscled and boned,and, being accustomed to the rigors of the western climate, continue to put on flesh in the eastern feed-pens when cattle from fed under identical conditions, are losi g iven plenty of good fresh water, and suf- fcent feed 50 5k té ay Dever be han gry, will always give a good count of himself and return many dollars in profits to the feeder when he is sold in These steers shed early under favorable conditions, and when they have reached § i g 2 g where such animals are sold. ——Subscribe for the WATCAMAN
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