“RESOURCES OF ALASKA. NOT THE ICY WASTZ IT WAS SUP. POSED TO BE WHEN BOUGHT. It HasRich Cold Mines, Magnificent FOr. ests, Waters Teeming with Fish and Other Sources of Wealth, in 1867 when Alaska Wi that ve had vhite elephant, Sumner, The general impression the United from tié Russians been saddled with a and Messrs, Seward through whose reg gain had, in a large me: made, came | or a of abuse, As time went and magni and understood, popular prejudice People b quired States purchas and 1¥ons the bar isure, been round share however, Inmber better er ' 004G on its fleent ral, mie fishing resources became wis gradually overcome, wan to appreciate til tory, and that the apathetic 1x I Newiy-nd wonder should administration ¢ t the only government in is Alaska tO has not ‘itory, dmply a ju governed laws only Alask Judge oO, cable te left to termine, Alaska | a thousand ferent Ton thie in every chose ulation of Ores and are « ast, came the E The ng per Ost All the lowe land call speak a rath ty River, with taking some blem, bear or totemie brothers an The erful in have their tribe are n such as whale hok-wat either badge eagle man mg ildren and 1 3 to be t and sible. may uncle's pl: praperty uncle's w a lad of six be seen with years. The o proud of her theory man should rife; he trade and erally; she sistent her own perience, he usually tiful obtain thro diplomacy. The wom position a nearly al ing the sale The Thlinkit probable that idols, Their anism. Tl their tong born he had I3 pernatural sign that he apart to perform the olices of His hair was never eat clams, upon to be an ordeal of an absolute fast for days, and if would possessed by pirit calles a sake Hereafter this spirit would be to him than ever Ariel was to Prospero. Before or during the fast he made up a wonderful paraphernalia of masks, necklaces, headdresses, rattles, buckskin aprons and charms carved out of ivory, bone and horn, each piece having a deep significance, At the end of his fast gave a performance around the of the larg: communal houses, would work himself up to frenzy and violence, whereby the onlookers would be inspired with a sense of awe and fear. He was looked upon as the home and temple of the spirits which had entered into him. Al of his knowledge and power was hereafter completely under the control of the familiar, or yake, Up to the advent of the mission- power It i 1:1 a ) with teacher fund joys an exalted wonle Th One an mong re 1a ways “rn Or object. in was was cut: he was not fol gather oe grew crabs, nor the bead tit fi strong nds reo OT ore © he fire in one He a state of never to have been called in question | mor doubted by any native, gratuitously. It is only the well-to-do who seek the aid of the icht If, for instance, a chief is sick and he sends for the sorcerer a fee 1s tendered, but usually the yake tells him it is not enough, for he knows how much pro- perty the chief has, After the yake is satisfied with the increase of the fee the icht, making careful preparations, then begins his incantation to over come and drive out the evil spirits or influences which are overpowering and destroying the sick man These per formances are weird in the extreme, The teht may continue for hours, until he is exhausted. If it is some ab dominal complaint he may clap the head of a hideously carved monster upon the sore place, then begin to pull and get others to help him haul out the demon. Then the leht will give a loud puff upon birds’ down which he has | ready and will command the sick one | to arise for he is cured, | The more we Know of mental | fluence over bodily functions the | there Is room to doubt that these men wrought astonishing cures in certain kinds of complaints; and doubtless faith in thelr power was fostered by the fact that the of healing would he talked about and remembered, while the fatlures would be thought of in si. lence and after a while forgotten The yake is almost but pot quite all powerful, It right here that his ability to de mischief comes in. In an aggravated ¢ instance, con stttaption, he cannot counteract inti These and no torture rely dealt in- loss CHUNES Is use, for the ences of witches be sinister malignant ’ orf punishment ean be too seve to them, They to dead he 1184 1 ont casses of tnd dogs to get hoy secretly put into the food of rsons, final thelr death tells sing who the to the vake “Pp one hes little all ade fhe wif 1 £: New manuf are nicely wit th ¢ vf Hels of ills are 1 re several turers wi wills on p Hines Lf et take tits oryt ¢ Hipinen i Y Mail who n thd pe ors an press, wrkabile case of ‘sev wer Knew.” sal stand Rapids, at Ai i« that of John Mich There gaining eyes are but ty YOars ¢ was bald, and He can ne ver could, and The are Was eigh 3 were if we a fae he nearly peveral new grown out dark brown ough he was glimpse he would taken for a man of forty years, But a I¥tle closer look makes him seem even older than he really although now nearly ninety. The brown hair and bright eyes seem to emphasize the wrinkles and his skin looks like parch. ment, He has an idea that pew skin will come, and the wrinkles disappear, but, of course, that would be impossi. ble." <Washington Star, FW see gone he o hie has cut has is teeth, his hair again new hair his clear still young, and at a eves as th bee is, California Oil Walls. The growing popularity of aspbal i tam for street. paving uses has awak- ened a new interest in the crude oll production of California, aside from its very general use for generating steam for power and manufacturing pur. poses, The total annual product of crude oil in Qalifornia is conservatively esti waited at 1,440,000 barrels, divided as follows Los Angeles City, 710.000 bar. jrels; Newhall, Los Angeles county, 176,000, making a total of 885,000 bar. rels: Santa Barbara county, 180.000 barrels; Ventura county, 365.000 bar. rels, aggregating 1,440,000 barrels, as given above, The most profitable well ever drilled in the Btate Is in Ventura county, and was sunk to a depth of 2700 feet, at a cost of $18,000. This well has a record of having produced 1,000,000 baws » NOTES AND COMMENTS, number than Delaware had Texas had a larger any other State--4,022, fewest, The almost unlimited acreage of the level coast lands of soutleastern Texas is beginning to attract the attention of rice-planters of it has already been planted with rice, and the success of experiment has been great enough to justify high hopes for future of the Industry, Some the A British publication that forty-four bleyele manufacturing com panies started in Britain during the past year, with a capital of £7 aut they reports were (erent of which The erican rly 2 O00 (0H), ney S40.000,000 In cash, same au that ott the high priced they probably will, stronger, that « companies are likely American pre- took whieels British be ser thority believes Aln will drive 1 1 CIOR 08 ng and our liter In thie i ty-1 1160 4Y to ollow a number of thelr essors out of sight, While the United increasing rapid- trade between Mex still room is ovement, He note Was fro: its of Bellamy who Conn op have active five and except clothi and their ng is owned in common, the #1 take tor house week, respon plan than in pro doing ¢ i ns in they work F'wo of them do it for one then sibilit ¥ another pair assumes the So proved that applied be accommod and it posed Hotehik and enlarge Ls and hap of sree] rales of this colony company shall be ad- vessfnl has this hare wie fire CAD ated, ux House, en the One to lease the gage A servant of usefulness inom the rigid is that mitted enfe male to the house ily fio Hol a lers of mineral leases in Tennes greatly disturbed a few judicial decision of oil not a actu were months by Chancellor Fisher that mineral, and that the of the surface of the land clude the mineral title if than years without The Court of Chancery Appeals has now rey the Chancellor on both propositions It holds that oil is a min and that possession of the surface of land does pot include the title to the mineral thereunder, because the session of the surface of land i= not a on of any part of the mineral title, and no cause of action accrues to the owner of the mineral title until there is an encroachment on said title by working the same, Ago Mu was il possession would in held more OVEN reservation, ersed eral pos posse awl It has taken A long time for the In. ternational Marine Conference held in Washington six or seven years ago, to bear fruit. But it is now expected that the revised rules governing the move ments of vessels at sea will go into of feet on July 1 next. Nearly two score nations have accepted the rules and agreed to abide by them, and these na- world's shipping. With such a moral utiversal. The safety of shipping of all kinds will be materially thereby, For a time it looked as if the labors of the conference had been in vain, but at length the value of its work has been recognized by all but a few of the maritime Powers, and these will no doubt soon give their assent, The discovery has been made in St Paul, Minn., that ladies’ aid soeleties, in their methods of raising funds for church support, have been taking the bread and butter from poor women. The easy and pleasant way adopted by the ladies was to spend afternoons in pleasant chat, while they made aprons or knotted quilts for the lirge stores. Before their entry into this field of la- ber, this work had been done by poor women for barely living wages. The church ladies, putting little value on their time, were doing the work for less money than had been pald to the poor women. Even if their price had been A SO 5 ssn sg———————— equal to or larger than that received | by the needy workers, the work would probably have been given to them, as the store proprietors would be loth to some of thelr best customers, course, when the discovery ‘nn the church ladies at once aban doned the work, and it went back where It was needed. But the question Is thix condition of things con Paul, or would an invest. a like injustice Of arises, fined to Nt, gation disclose where? el8. To judge from the repoit of the Paris Mint, medals, and a large proportion of the world's medais nade in Paris. At the the century the value of turned out from the Paris only 200,000 francs Last arid mors this Is un age of beginning thie mints was S40 G0) nre of medals abot had fines, oO this amount been in than five 1.000) O10) year tin of {3 ore and year francs’ worth medals Inst aver dy appeared the largest ‘entest value have alre year's product number well as the on the silver as Wire of which there were 178 Ones, « 770, while there were only 3.452 of the tie gold hould #11i the fo To ari thnt ith “tern Ole disproportion ’ Prog i followers f Brvan baer 4 Lg Worse more favor the ore ature of bis re whose How Eagles are Captured. Eagles ai wiry are captured moun- bird by eX pert i jie] building breeding se scale the for the inevitable fight birds, go to Oftentimes four %, who upon the parent and wait for the After a due time they i. well armed Ler pest, ARON mi tains, ane in with the parent these mountain eyries men to let one of them down a steep precipice cliff le dead with a kill t birds upon t approach, il attempts to with none to are required of wh two of them shots rifle oid for who shoot and he Frags ais s ie fares with the daring robber wOCNuTe protect but himself. In this way are many of the old birds Killedd for the taxidermists or for feath- while the borne away and caged for a good sale. An age | captured at first ia uninteresting Frequently they utter coarse il savage breathing heavily and fiercely all the while. Their eyes dart fire and their low brows and flat foreheads are into hate ful expressions. They will dart fierce. ly at the and, finding themselves unable reach thelr hated captors, draw themselves up and utter terrific plaints and whines, They are always restless while in captivity, due, to their na tures. Rarely an eagle is captured in a huge trap baited with a small lamb, Attempts have been made, in the Tennessee mountains, to capture them in sets, but this is impracticable, or elec the mountaineers prefer to capture them: when young by visiting thelr nests, the young binds ers, eaglets are an prisoner cries, sullen contorted bars of their iron cages, to of COUTSe, too, A New Leg. A European experithenter has pro duced an artificial leg. It as nearly re sembles a human member as any that can be devised, This artificial leg is a carious contri- vance of hinges, serews and elastic bands. Extending downward from about what in the human leg is the ankle, to a point midway between the heel and the instep, are two steel rods, One rests on a sort of roller hinge, and allows the foot to give or bend with each step. The other serves the purpose of bringing the foot back into place after the step is taken, Any lateral movement of these rods is prevented by the sides of the slot through which they move, A screw and a nut at the top of the rod also prevent the rod from turning, and thus give trouble in walking. An artificial heel tendon is placed within the foot, behind the ankle joint, and extends loosely through a hole in the leg, where it connectx with a nut at about mid- way up the limb. New York Journal, During the Franco-Prussian war the Venus de Milo was placed in an im- mense padded oak coffin and buried in She Soust yurd'of she prefecture of yo. lice in Paris, PARM AND GARDEN NOTES, ITEMS OF TIMELY INTERE FARMERS ST TO THE Rid the Fields of Big Boulders...Stolen Broods... Woman on the Farm... Feathers...Bee Houses. About FOREST LEAVES, It wri Cree is ters often advised 10 go into the legaver for bed k. There bedd But iden other Blo this If other ing thie lea that obtained with the they addition to contrary there, as insignificant chief But an ang w howe COninins, rETYVE { #0ll moist STOLEN BROODS It is possible birds and make them thls ofita a little care and An fastened kige bile iy forethought old up the of a barn and covered with paper on the g a for barrel be barrel, 1 ors 3 » against shad : | outside, mas eed a home Tres The floor, 8 i stich chicks should and ought to have a door or some 0 keep the hen The chicks eo i jump rot the box, and in pleasant weather ould run about for their When it storms they should be shut After they are the size of quall may oam at their pleasure, even though we ground be frozen, unless there is when they should kept in inowstorms and young chickens do not affilinte, and should never be in contact. An abundance of good food and a perfectly dry place will keep chickens growing at any time of the year It is a mistaken Idea to sacrifice these late fall broods just for lack of a little Judicions care. New York Ledger | ralsed from the oross st) Els t in oul down fod, in they now, Tae brought THE FIELDS OF BIG BOULD. ERK, . Those huge stones that lay in the field may be easily gof rid of by a little prac tical use of the spades, They seldom extend more than a foot bow the sur face of the ground. The larger part of such stones are exposed. To deal with such a stone in a way to be rid of it for all times, just dig a hole s0 ax to in- clude one-third of its volume, and make the hole big enough and deep enough to take the entire stone in and sink it below the reach of the plow. When the hole is finished, undermine the stone till it gives way and falls into the pit. Be sure that you take no chances with the rock, as it may slip before you ex- pect it. Keep out of the hole and nse RID pole to pike away the dirt till the stone: falls. Be careful and keep the rich surface soll by itself, and replace it on top when you fill the pit. It will be best to haul the subsoil away that will | be left. Put it in that sink in the road | near your house, and the traveling pub- lic will be grateful. Small favors are thankfully received. Where such boulders are in a field it I= expensive business to be dodging around them with the plow, harrow, harvester and mower. They often prove very costly to a farmer. BMiany a vaivabie ma. chine has been wrecked on such stones, ~The Silver Knight. ———— ABOUT FEATHERS, Farmers who possess waterways in the form of small lakes, creeks, ponds and branches often neglect the oppor. tunity that they have to increase the income of their farms by stocking up to some extent with ducks and geese. The raising of feathers is too gener. ally overlooked, where such natural ad- vantages exist, ¥ rs — | was first explored the watercourses wore | found stocked with wild water fowl, especially in the fall and winter, They have disappeared before vince {of civilization, We still have the water and have domestic ducks and Very men iy would I dy wt 5 : 3 isgey + whole day hunting wil When the country nnd settled up the ad it FesOolUrcesy the and ho former geese, and yet of the Bone men w w iy mien 10 enlovel one an n rocks bake n pris Very i convenient a% 8 gry ferred longer it is not same plan, and becaine mos ir less house 1 convenient 10 nove COL. are same 3 the houses, pat small located around thiz ob- that bees fased close gether and all have the ie tan nirances where appea been Ob Jen tion to Dew buildings such at different place jection it has as thes ®, Ovalcome the always been practice in outtloor api to hives south or east, and have been objected to on this account, as the house would necessitate facing all di rections. 1 think there is but little to this except the practice, at least, in some localities, It may make some perceptible difference in some of the Northern States in certain tims of the season, but the damage at offset it. 1 find no aries face the bee houses rantages in handling bees in a house, The work is all indoors and out of the done in weather that would not permit The whole apiary can be closed in an instant by the turns ing of a key, and all extracting, and handling of honey, implements, ete, make a bee house a thing of conveni. once.—~Kansas Farmer, BI EL 55 A A Discovery of Perpetual Motion, At Freeport, CTL, a new industry is to be started. On a gnarter section of land an enterprising Kansas farmer will establish 1000 black cafe and 5. 000 rats, on which to feed the cats, es timatiug that the cats will increase 15,000 ‘ua two years, their skins being worth $1 each. The rats will ma : five times as fast as the cats and wil} be used vo feed the latter, while the skinned cats will furnish food for the rats. Thus has perpetoal motion p discovered at dast, sn The phylloxera is working havoe | the vineyards In the Sacramento ag Napa valleys in California.
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