The American Woman in Alas 'By Mrs. cA. W. Grecly Wife of Famous Explorer Tells of Her Experiences in the Far North A City Where It Is Nearly Always Raining The Gateway to the Klondike Hardships Endured by Army Officers' Wives and Other Women. (Copyright, 13UG, by Joseph B. Bowles.; (Mrs. Henrietta X. Greely, wife of A. W. Grcely, the distinguished arctic ex plorer. lias traveled widely and as a re eult of lier observations lias written for publication with considerable success.) From the nation's capital to Alaska is a far reach. Crossing the Alleghe nles through the mining regions of Pennsylvania, so picturesque except ■where defaced by man's grimy pur suits; through busy Chicago; rushing over the western plains; across the Rockies and we find ourselves on the evening of the fifth day at Seattle, embarking on the steamship Humboldt for the famous inland passage. Here on the ship 1 am surprised to see how many women are travel ing to Alaska. Of course, the inland passage has been a favorite trip for 15 years or more, but the large pro portion of women among the excur sionists, many of them in parties of two or three without escorts, indi cates that conditions have materially improved in this part of the world. In fact, the ease and comfort with •which we travel greatly astonish me. Late on the third day we reach Junea-u, opposite which is Douglas is land and the great Treatlwell gold mine. It is remarkable that the larg est stamp mill in the world should be found in this wild. An act of con gress made Juneau the capital of Alaska. The town is buiit on the side of a hill so steep that the houses seem to be hanging from it. Hack of this rises a sharp range of higher hills that form a barrier protecting the town from the frequent snow ava lanches of the great mountains, which, in turn, rise perpendicularly behind this natural wall. As illustrating the weather of Ju neau, it is said that an old Indian woman, on being asked if it always rained in Juneau, after a moment's hesitation, replied: "Sometimes it snows." It was raining as we entered the harbor, but we were not deterred from a stroll through the town. We found good plank walks and saw some quaint, artistic little houses and sev eral churches with an effort at archi tecture. I was struck by the frequent evidence of woman's hand in the pot ted plants in many windows, while the women and children whom we saw surprised me by being quite like those one would meet in any small western town. Skagway resembles Juneau In the character of its rough frame build ings, but there are fewer indications of woman's taste. One good stone building attracted our attention. We were particularly struck with the evi dence of precaution against lire, of which there Is a great dread in Alas kan towns. There is an army post here and the soldiers have acted as firemen very efficiently in many in stances. We attended the Episcopal service, which was held in a small room over a store in one of the rougfc buildings peculiar to Alaska. There ■were about 30 persons in the congre gation. A small parlor organ was very well played by a Minneapolis woman, a teacher of music in the town, and the choir consisted of four persons. Such a wonderful trip as we had over the White pass! Skagway and Dyea, situated on either arm of Lynn canal, unheard of in June, 1897, were towns of some thousands of inhabit ants the following October. They are the gateways respectively of the White pass and the Chilcoot pass. The only two convenient entrances to the Yukon country, these passes were made known to the world by the misery resulting from the rush through them when gold discoveries were first made in the Klondike re gion. As the White pass was selected for the railway, Skagway steadily grows. Returning from Skagway we had a large number of passengers bringing their gold out. The terms "in"and "out" are used exclusively in regard to going into or returning from Alaska or the gold fields. The superintendent of one of the large mines was bringing down in four small wooden boxes and several little chamois bags $600,000 worth of bullion, the result of a single clean-up of the mine. He had two guards with him. Everyone carries a small chamois bag more or less full of nuggets. The habitues of the gold fields are marked by their nugget jewelry, the men wearing watch chains ef it and the women indulging largely in necklaces. There were a number of women "coming out." My attention was attracted, on the passage up, to a family disembarking at Juneau. The man, the proprietor of a shop, after two years alone in Ju neau, was returning with his family. The little wife appeared very much dissatisfied with the first view of her new home. I noted that it was the women of the middle class who seem to object most to life in these wilds. The poorer women accept the discom forts as pertaining to their life any- I where and the few women of the high- I er class who find themselves in this country rise superior to the small daily trials of life in a new and un formed community. The wife of an old army officer who surprised her son in Alaska by a visit found herself compelled to pass the winter in a log cabin 15 feet square, which was the best habitation her son and his two partners in the gold fields were able to offer her. She found the quarters rather limited for four persons, but she not only accepted the situation with equanimity, but went to work with a will, making hijr family of three young men very comfortable. The wife of a river captain, who was also the daughter of a clergyman, was "coming out" after having passed the winter with her husband in his boat tied up at the mouth of Stewart river, which empties Into the Yukon about 75 miles from Dawson. She seemed a very superior woman and her experiences were most interest ing. She told me that she had abso lutely enjoyed the winter, although she had not seen a human being but her husband and the five employes of the boat through the entire season, i The captain and herself had read ; aloud to each other and played end less games of piquet and other games. They had walked regularly twice a ' day on land, although snowshoes were j necessary. She had done a large I amount of beautiful embroidery, nec i essarily by lamplight, and had busied herself in the care of house plants. When she determined to pass the | winter on Stewart river, finding a great demand for well-made dresses In , Dawson, this lady disposed of the ! greater part of her wardrobe at prices | i'ar beyond cost. Ou her return to Dawson in the spring a luncheon was | given her by a number of friends, and being asked what special delicacy they ! could provide, she expressed a wish for something fresh alter her long 1 season of canned goods. A water melon was the result of the confer | ence, which later she was startled to I learn had cost $7.50. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, JANUARY 17, 1907 BI.OATED WITH DROPSY. The Heart Was Badly Affected When the Patient Began Using Doan's Kidney Pills. Mrs. Elizabeth Maxwell, of 415 West Fourth street, Olympia, Wash., says: "For over three # years I suffered with a dropsical condition with ont being aware that it was due 5 to kidney trou ble. The early stages were ache and bear ing down pain, but I went along without worrying much until dropsy Bet in. My feet and ankles swelled up, m.v hands puffed and became so tense I could hardly close them. I had great difficulty in breathing, and my heart would tlutter with the least ex ertion. 1 could not walk far without stopping again and again to rest. Since using four boxes of Doan's Kidney Pills the bloating has gone down and the feeliugs of distress have disap peared." Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. French President's Double. M. Fallieres was until recently be lieved to be the only president of the French republic who had no double, but his counterpart has been found. The man who most resembles him physically is a respectable merchant of the Rue Saint llonore, who plays hi 3 pait with decorum and dignity. He wear-3 exactly tfco same kind of bhio butterfly nccktio with white dots as the president, the same kind of hat and exactly so oddly cut a beard. And on his promenades he is always ac companied by a friend who could eas ily be taken for the president's private secretary. Dignified and with meas ured steps the enviable double walks through the Faubourg Saint llonore and feels overjoyed at being saluted on all sides. ALMOST A SOLID SORE. Skin Disease from Birth—Fortuna Spent on Her Without Benefit- Cured Her with Cuticura. I"I have a cousin in Rockingham Co. who once had a skin disease from her birth until she was six years of ago. ■ Her father had spent a fortune on her to get her cured and none of the treatments did her any good. Old | Dr. G suggested that he try the 1 Cuticura Remedies which he did. When he commenced to use it the child was almost a solid scab. He had used it about two months and the child was well. I was there when they commenced to use your Cuti cura Remedies. I stayed that week and then returned home and stayed two weeks and then went back and stayed with them two weeks longer, and when I went home I could hardly believe she was the same child. Her skin was as soft as a baby's with out a scar on it. I have not seen her In seventeen years, but I have heard from her and the last time I heard from her she was well. Mrs. W. P. Ingle, Bur lington, N. C, June 16, 1905." Mark Twain's Neat Answer. Eugene Ware, of Topeka, recently wrote to Mark Twain: "I picked up i your last volume. I read it clear through from cover to cover; it waa like a bob-tailed flush. I could not. lay it down." From No. 21 Fifth avenue, | New York city, Mr. Clem«is answered back as follows: "Dear Mr. Ware: 1 am an old brass-bound, copper-riveted, j fire-assayed Presbyterian, with 71 I years' experience in unworldlinesa, J and I don't understand your meta | phor, but I know it was intended as a compliment and 1 make it cordially i welcome." Whine from Henry James. Henry James, pursuing his theme, j "The Speech of American Women," , speaks of a group of Boston young women, "all articulating as from sore : mouths, all mumbling and whining | and vocally limping and shuffling as it i were together." Ho compares, also to j its great disadvantage, a school where parents pay so much not to have their | boys taught to speak as gentlemen, j with one "beyond the sea, in which the proviso that the schoolmaster ' shall speak as a gentleman ia so abso j lutely vital." Artificial Flowers. There are 430 manufactories of arti | ficial flowers, leaves, plants and fruits i in the district of Dresden. The largest manufactories employ from 250 to 1,000 persons, and the total number of persons engaged in the trade i 6 esti mated at 10,000, the larger proportion j being women and girls, who earn from Bs. to 12s. a week by their work. Take Garfield Tea, the Natural Laxa tive, for constipation, indigestion, liver and kidney derangements, and colds. It is made of Herbs. Guaranteed under the Pure Food Law. After making a strenuous effort to get out of a rut a man finds himself in a hole. STIFFNESS, STITCHES, LAMENESS, CRAMP, TWISTS AND TWITCHES, ALL DECAMP WHEN _ YOU APPLY 'W? JACOBS ill THE OH PRICE I H OLD-MONK-CURE WH&B 25 AND 50 CENTS 2 OLD CAPT. CACK'S QUESTION. Bomewhat Pointed, But It Denoted Quick Intelligence. Pierce Jay, the commissioner of banks of Massachusetts, at the Ameri can Bankers' association's convention in St. Louis, advocated a better ac counting system. "But above all," said Mr. Jay, In a discussion of his idea, "we want intelligence, if embezzlement is to be thoroughly put down. Systems are good, but intelligence is better, and in cashiers and tellers and book keepers and note clerks we want the same keen, quick intelligence that characterized old Capt. Hiram Cack, of Gloucester. "Cack lay very ill. One day he got down-hearted, feeling that his case was hopeless. " 'I fear, doctor," he said, 'there Isn't much hope for me.' " 'Oh, yes, there is,' the doctor an swered. 'Three years ago I was in your condition precisely, and look at mo now.' "Cack, intelligent and alert, said quickly: "'What doctor did you have?"* For Infants and Children T JJ 5 Signature/TO Thirty Years ' The Kind You Have Always Bought THE CfNTAUR COMPANY. TT MURRAY STUtCT.NIW VOBR CITY. Complaint Is generally despicable, always worse than unavailing.—Car lyle. How to Trap Wild Animals. 40 page trap book illustrated, picture 46 wild animals in natural colors, also barom eter and calander, also gun & trap catalog, also prices on raw furs. All sent post paid for 10 cts. stamps or silver. Address Fur Dept. N. W. Hide & Fur Co., Minneapolis, Minn. Kinsmen of Immortal George. Many kindred of George Washing ton dwell on and about the original Washington plantation in Westmore land county, Virginia. The present oc cupant of the plantation is named Georgo Washington. STATE OF OHIO, CITY OK TOLEDO, I LUCAS COUTV. 112 FHAVK .J. CHENEY makes cath that lie Is senior partner of tlio Una of F. .1. CHENEY Catarrh Cure Is taken Internally and acts directly on the blond and mucous surfaces of the system. Send for testimonials, free. F. J. CUEXEY & CO., Toledo, O. Sold by all Druggists. 75c. lake Hall's Family Pills .or constipation. Restored by American Money. Charlton, the ancestral home of tho earl of Suffolk, is once more the scene of glories of the olden time since the marriage of the earl and Miss Daisy Leiter. It is a fine Jacobean mansion of dark sandstone, with mullioned win dows and carved stone portals, and contains many treasures of art, includ ing the family portraits. Tallest Americar. ooiaier. The distinction of being the tallest man In tho United States army be longs to Ernest D. Peck, a first lieu tenant in the engineer corps. He is six feet four and a half inches in height. Lieutenant Peck is a native of Wisconsin and was graduated from the Oshkosh high school. Lieutenant Peck is now on duty at Yellowstone Park, Wyoming, and has supervised the building of a military road known as Peek's Pike. He is called Pike's Peak by his comrades in the service. Waterproof Buitdini* Blocks: Fence Posts: Side Wollts, Bridges; Roofs, Floors, etc. Write tor Descriptive Cement Institute What is'Pe-ru-na ? Is it a Catarrh Remedy, or a Tonic, or is it Both? Some people call Peruna a great tonic. Others refer to Peruna as a great catarrh remedy. Which of these people are right ? Is it more proper to call Peruna a catarrh rem edy than to '•all it a tonic ? Our reply is, that Peruna is both a tonic and a catarrh remedy. Indeed, there can be no effectual catarrh remedy that is not also a tonic. In order to thoroughly relieve any case of catarrh, a remedy must not only have a specific action on the mucous membranes affected by the catarrh, but it must have a general tonic action on the nervous system. Catarrh, even in persons who are otherwise strong, is a weakened condition of some mucous membrane. There must be something to strengthen the circulation, to giv® tone to the arteries, and to raise the vital forces. Perhaps no vegetable remedy in the world has attracted so much attention from medical writers as HYDRASTIS CANADENSIS. The wonderful efficacy of this herb has been recognized many and is growing in its hold upon the medical profession. When joined with CUBEBS and COPAIBA a trio of medical agents is formed in Peruna which constitutes a specific remedy for catarrh that in the present state of medi cal progress cannot be improved upon. This action, reinforced by such renowned tanica as COLLINSONIA CANADENSIS, CORYDALIS FORMOSA and CEDRON SEEI>, ought to make this compound an ideal remedy for catarrh in all its stages and locations in the body. From a theoretical standpoint, therefore, Peruna is beyond criticism. The ure of Peruna, confirms this opinion. Numberless testimonials from every quarter of the earth furnish ample evidence that this judgment is not over enthusiastic. When practical ex perience confirms a well-grounded theory the result is a truth that: cannot be shaken. |IP|P||VA H «li«.n K. < ulrmia, J'ut.-nt AttOT- I rA I tfl 1 A. N. K—C (1907—2) _ 21C0._ RHEUMATISM^ \^' The Circulation Stimulated and the Muscles and Joints lubricated by using HI Slopes I HHLLii\in\eivt J Price 25c 50c&$!.00 | llllllii Sold by ail Dealers | WW/ Jv "Sloan's Treatise On The Horse* Sent Free 1 J| Address Dr. Ear! S.Sloan.Bcston.Mass.l i E tive Ely's Cream Balm j — ADEBS . JSKJ is quickly absorbed. 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