“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.