~ The Strain of Society.
There should be an eight-hour day
for ‘‘fashionable” women. We cannot
talk scandal continuously for twelve,
as we do now. The excitement and the
strain upon the imegzination are
terrific.—ILondca Truth.
Cultivates Business-lixe Punch.
The modern woman's aim is to.be
businesslike, zad her affairs of the
heart, such as they are, she conducts
on the same principles as she would
conduct a public meeting or a charity
bazaar. She plays hockey and golf,
fences and wrestles in order to develop
her muscles, and learns jiu-jitsu princi-
pally because it is tbe fashion, but al-
so because, as an =‘bereal debutante in-
formed me the other day, “its so jolly
useful if you want to knock a man
down.’—Ladies' Feild.
Small Eeonomies.
“If one becomes a business woman,
it behooves her to know that she can
not succeed if she fritters away her
energies on too many small economies.
She can not work in an office all day
and then sit up half the nizht to make
her own dresses. If a man earns only
$5 a week he doesn’t try to save by
stitching up the seams of his own
coat or trousers; if he did, he never
would earn any more than $5; he puts
his head into his business and schemes
to make himself more valuable; then
he buys coats and trousers with his in-
creased salary. A woman saves at the
spigot and breaks down.”
Carrots for Complexions.
It's a dull day when a new fad in
food isn’t thrust upon a long-suffering
world, and the latest is carrot-eating.
if a woman would have a clear fresh
complexion, says the theorist respon-
sible for the idea, she must eat"a raw
carrot every day. He’s no vegetarian,
80 he doesn’t forbid the eating of meat,
though he does condemn the eating of
“certain of the messes called food.”
In a school just outside Boston, which
is noted for its pretty zirls, the pupils
are expected to eat a carrot daily, just
as they might eat an orange or an
apple, and they don’t make the slight-
est protest, either. But then, what
woman wouldn't suffer to be beautiful?
—New York Press.
A Woman’s Duty to Herself.
“Every woman has the right—a
right so inalienable as to become it-
self a duty—to cherish and comfort
herself; to let flowers bloom in her
heart; to lighten her burdens by allow-
ing, or if need be, requiring others to
share the weight of them. It will be
found that a household, all of whose
members share allke in the daily
routine, is more cheerful and charit-
able than one ccnducted on the sinizle-
slave plan. It is more agreeable, all
around, to contribute something than
to accept everything; and it produces
better hearts and minds and manners.
And even if the housework does -get
neglected occasionally that is better
than a neglected life; and it may some-
times be wiser to buy a new garment
than to patch the old one.”—Julian
Hawthorne.
New York for Women’s Clubs.
The Kane county federation
women’s clubs of Illinois has voted to
undertake the work of beautifying 30
miles of country road, from Montgom-
ery to Carpentersville. This road leads
along the west bank .f the Fox river,
and from it is viewed some of the most
peautiful scenery in the federation,
located at Hampshire, Elgin, St.
Charles, Geneva, Batavia and Aurora.
All of these towns, except the first
mentioned, are located on Fox River.
The entire distance between Montgom-
ery, which is the lower section of
Aurora, and Carpentersville has been
divided into six sections and each club
will be given a section of the work,
which means that each club must look
after five miles of roadway. Each
club has pledged itself to raise $300 to
carry on the work, so that there will
be $1,800 gathered in to be put to good
use.
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A Dreadful Dilemma.
A capital story is told of Governor
Van Sant, of Minnesota, in connection
with a recent visit of his to New York.
Soon after the governor had been as-
signed to a hotel room, a former resi-
dent of Minnesota called and found
him gazing with gloomy countenance
at his trunk.
After an exchange of salutations, Mr.
Van Sant said: “John, I'm in a tremen-
dous fix. I want a suit of clothes out of
that trunk. Oh, yes, I've got the key
all rbght, but my wife packed the trunk.
She was to come along, but was pre-
vented at the last moment. To my
certain knowledge she put in enough
to fill three trunks the way a man
would pack them. If-I open it, the
things will boil all over the room, and
{ could never get half’ of them back.
Now, what I'm wondering about is
whether it would be cheaper to go out
and buy a new suit of clothes of two
additional trunks.”
Significant Fable Linen.
A woman who has the reputation, of
being & most suecessful hostess and
dinner giver makes a hobby of her
table linen. She has sets of Nnen with
flowers, designs and emblems to suit
the several holidays and seasons, and
themselves.
even the flowers of several of the
foreign countries. There are holly
wreaths for Christmas, bells and ribbon
streamers for New Year’s, lilies for
Easter and baskets of flowers for May.
Roses, sweetpeas and ferns are for
summer affairs, when the same blos-
soms are used in decorations. Autumn
leaves and chrysanthemums are for the
functions of the fall, and are combined
with real leaves and flowers. The
fleur de lis linen does honor to the
French guests, and for an Irish patriot
the shamrock pattern in brought forth,
while the rose or thistle blooms for
the English or Scotch guest. These lit-
tle attentions are always pleasing, and
when one is buying linen one might
as well pay attention to design as well
as to the quality. Though not every
one can afford to have linen woven to
order, as this woman did in several
cases.—New York Tribune.
Deserves a Medal.
Years ago a little woman in north-
west ‘Missouri was left a widow. The
long illness of her husband exhausted
their little resources, and when the
husband and father was laid away the
widow found herself penniless with
four little children.
She did not sit down to weep and
repine. Her izrief was deep, but her
duties were heavy. She faced those
duties bravely and performed them
well. With her own unaided hands
she provided for her little flock. She
kept them well fed and well clothed,
and gave them every educational ad-
vantage. During all these years of
strenuous labor and heavy responsibil-
ity she found time to scatter sunshine
into many dark places. Her example
was an inspiration to the people of her
community. Her three boys grew to
young manhood and started in life for
All three of them are
model citizens and have achieved suc-
cess in their chose professions. One
is a prosperous lawyer, another a suc-
cessful physician and the other a civil
engineer whose ability is recognized:
throughout the country. The youngest
child, a daughter, was a successful
teacher for several years, and a few
weeks ago was married to a wealthy
merchant.
The little mother, old in years but
still young in spirit, is now enjoying
the evening of her life, free from
worry and from care, and happy in the
knowledge that she has performed her
full duty as a mother and as a citizen.
In the distribution of hero medals
should this noble little woman be over-
looked—The Commoner.
The Middle-Aged Woman in Society.
An entertaining old lady whose
friendship I enjoy used to say, with
some impatience: ‘Because the Lord
saw fit to remove Banbury is no reason
why I should be invited to nothing but
women’s lunches.” Not but what she
mourned the late Banbury most sin-
cerely, but her active mind chafed at a
narrowness of environment which ac-
centuated her loneliness. In fact, it is a
hardship to be condemned to a one-
sided social life, and it is a misfortune
which happens to many middle-aged
women and need scarcely ever happen
to a man of any age; for ordinarily a
man can have as much feminine society
as he chooses. but what will the neigh-1
bors say about an elderly woman who
announces that in order to preserve a
whole and healthy view of life she
must seek the society of men?
It will hardly be disputed that the
exclusively feminine is worse than the
exclusively masculine point of view.
True, one sometimes hears of the petty
failings of certain classes of men—
heroes at sea, for instances, who never-
theless, owing to that isolated life,
become somewhat fussy and domineer-
ing when they regain the shelter of the
domestic fireside; and the tales of Bret
Harte and his followers have familiar-
ized us with.the rude heroes of the
mining camp and the plains. But does
the naval officer, wedded to law, or the
miner, divorced from it, show as great
a departure from the normal human
type as the woman who is shut up with
other women?
Of course there are as many pointd
of view as there are men and women;
one should always remember that un-
derneath all there is the human point
of view, and that people resemble each
other more than they differ; yet, whe
all allowances have been made, some
well-recognized dissimilarites do seem
to be fundamental. Everybody knows,
for instance, that a woman has not
usually much sense of proportion; buf
as to that, does everybody realize how
destructive to a sense of proportion a
purely domestic life is,—that life
which, for so long, constituted a
women's all of living? Perhaps Evé
may not have been lacking in it be:
fore she set up housekeeping and accu-
mulated things. Possibly at that timd
her sense of humor was not subject
to lapses. It is, now; and it is most
apt to lapse when she turns her atten-
tion on herself. For the average
woman is inclined to take herself
quite seriously.—From “The Point of
View,” in Scribner's.
Ottiging But Original.
Meagistrate—You gave this: young
woman such: a hit on the face that
. stile canit see -omt of ber -ey®s; what
ave you to say fey yourseif?™
.often told me
me any more.
SERMON “ &
BY THE REV~
[RAW HENDERSNY
Brooklyn, N. Y.—The shocking
and alarming social conditions re-
vealed by the testimony in the Thaw
trial and*by the statistics of divorce
recently given out by the United
States Census Bureau, over one mill-
ion having been granted in the past
nineteen years, furnish the text for
the following sermon written by the
Rev. Ira Wemmell Henderson, pas-
tor of the Irving Square Presbyter-
ian Church:
Ex. 20:14,
adultery.”
It is my intention to broaden the
scope of the word which is the obh-
ject of this sentence, and to cause
it to cover, as I am certain God
means it, to-day, to cover, all that
field of human uncleanness which
strikes at the very core of our com-
mon life. The command hits hard
and swift against the social crime
of marital infidelity; but also in the
light of the messages of Christ, it
condemns, with no uncertain sound,
all those men and women in whose
hearts-and actions lust receives free
rein.
The Gospel of our Lord insists on
cleanness of actand mind; it censures
unsparingly and scathingly the viola-
tion by any and all men, married or
single, of God’s law of purity.
The seventh word, with cur Lord
behind it, forbids three sins, and the
three are these: first, the nullification
of the marriage bond by infidelity,
with all its attendant evils. Seccnd-
ly, the pollution of the purity cf per-
sonal and public life by men and wo-
men who are without restraint or
lawful tie. Thirdly, the degradation
and destruction of the spiritual and
physical elements in man through un-
bridled lust in the heart. ;
And now let us“to the points. The
covenant by and between two human
beings—one man and one woman—
to live together in the holy estate
of matrimony, is the most sacred
contract man may make. Rest-
ing as it should always rest—Dbe
it not unholy and the child of lust—
upon a growing and a gracious love
one for the other—it is the grandest
of inter-human agreements. Upon
its sanctity and preservation, as the
pledges of two people to life-long
faith, done and given in the presence
of Almighty God, the glary of our
Father and the happiness of two
souls depend. As a civil contract it
is the basis of sound political and
social life. Upon the inviclability of
the marriage contract the health of
the state, the integrity of the home,
entirely depend. Marriages may, be-
fore God, and should, throughout this
land and our world, be invalidated
only upon full and sufficient proof of
infidelity by either party. They who
are in guilt should be denied further
rights to marry. The granting of ab-
solute divorce with permission to re-
marry, foranycauseother than proved
unfaithfulness, is unwise, unsafe, un-
justifiable and un-Christian. Legal
separation and legalized immorality
are two very different things. Two
people of such uncongenial disposi-
tions, as preclude a happy common
life, had much better pursue inde-
pendent careers. But the dignity,
the importance, the sanctity of the
wedding vow demand that it shall not
be permitted to be used as a cloak
for licentiousness. The disgrace of
divorce is a menace to the perpetuity
of our institutions. The ease with
which absolute release may be pro-
cured does small credit to our brains,
or to our righteousness as a nation.
The sin and the shame that are
bound up in our system of licensed
polygamy will tend to our own undo-
ing, do we not watch out. The wrong
cf Mormonism is a great one; but
if contemporaneous cohabitation be
a bad thing—and it is—what must
be our judgment upon that consecu-
tive polygamy which pleads personal
convenience ratherthan religious con-
viction as its best excuse? If an
elder of the Mormon church is to be
kept from the halls of Congress be-
cause the civil law forbids polygamy,
what should be our attitude toward
that other leader in our national af-
fairs whose -wheole iife contravenes
God’s moral law? Yes, my friends,
Mormon polygamy is vicious in prin-
ciple and fact, but not more so than
that system of legalized vice that the
laws of our country now permit. The
sacredness of the marriage covenant
must be protected. That marriage
should be the crowning of clean love,
and that it binds till death, cannot be
overemphasized. The seal of pure af-
fection is of as much account to those
who will go through life together and
to society at large, as the legal seal
of the state. Fundamentally love
should be the motive of a life
union of two souls. Of this the
state takes no notice. The bureau
of vital statistics has more inter-
est, as a law enforcing body, in the
question of how old is the woman,
than in the motives that lead the man
to wed her. But God looks at the
matter with a different eye; and in
His sight no marriage is of good re-
port that is not based on the union
of two souls in holy love. The
courts may: declare the other mar-
riage legal, but the hand of Jehovah
will stamp it as unclean. ‘Thou
shalt not commit adultery” rings
the Messianic message and the law
puts God to shame. Here and there,
everywhere in America, we may see
the sorrow of it all. Children in the
midst of wrecked unhappy homes,
born and reared to a heritage of em-
barrassment to say the least, and in-
to immoral family conditions to say
the most. Unrestrained. divorce is
wicked and it should be prohibited.
We must not put license at a premi-
um, nor make vice easy.
No less guilty in the eyes of God
is the man who yields his life to sin.
There is need to-day for a clear,
strong note from the church calling
men to purity in living. Men must be
made to see, to know and to feel that
“Thou shalt not commit
.ghasteness is as essential for men as
for women. Away with that godless
theory that what is fundamentally
wrong in morals for women may be
conveniently right for men. God has
no two systems of morality—the one
for the men, the other for the women.
In His sight there is neither male nor
female, for the law is equally untae
both. The degradation of man by
man himself is unfair to God and
utterly witheut honor. ‘And the sad
thing of all is that men will do with-
out thought or care the evil that they
0.
But Jesus has shown us clearly
that in the Christian economy that
man is guilty of our stated sin who
harbors lust within his heart. And
although in the last analysis the
man who commits overt sin is guilty
cf sinning to a greater degree than
the man who but pollutes his mind
with evil desires and unholy thoughts,
yet both are directly disobedient to
the will of God and the way of each
is the highroad unto death. And I
am not sure but that more of us are
guilty of the latter infringement of
the law than of the former. Many a
man and many a. woman who would
not dare to go the full length of open
evil, will do themselves real damage
afd endanger the safety of their im-
mortal souls through the harboring
of ‘ungodly, sensual thoughts. And
of two things I am very positive of
which the first is this: that it is hard-
er to keep the mind clean than to re-
frain from outward evil; and the sec-
ond is this, that pure thoughts will
induce and produce uprightness of
act. If as James said, it is easier to
control a horse than the tongue, I am
sure that it is easier to control the
tongue than the mind. And the truth
of God is this, that steadfast endeav-
or for purity of heart and mind will
meet with sure ‘success and will as-
sure nobility of action.
We need a sanctified purity of
life. I am disgusted and would
be disheartened, did I not trust in
God, over the amount of unblushing
criminality I see and meet in my per-
sonal experiences. Men who are sure
that immorality is fair for men but
woefully wrong for the wives of men.
Nomen who boast that the men they
know have seen the seamy side of
life and who love them better for it.
Mere girls who think that the only
way to reap wheat is to sow wild oat¢
—a theory that only works in the
seeding and harvestinz of sin. . Moth-
ers and fathers who are so lost to
shame that they desire their sons ta
indulge themselves in a little of all
sorts of evil that they may be men of
real experience. Such nonsense as it
is, and oh! the folly of it all. For-
sooth the only way to cleanliness of
heart is through the depth of sin—
they would have us think. The only
way to Christ is through the depths
of hell.
It is not so. I know ignorance i?
not necessarily virtue. And con-
trariwise, I am heartily in favor
of the proper and -godly instruc-
tion of our youth of both sexes upon
the mighty and central truths and
mysteries of human life. But the
true way to wisdom is not through
vicious and degrading personal ex-
perience with sin, but rather at our
mother's knees. The right way to
knowledge is through the true and
noble teachings of men and women
whose experience is untouched with
sin. No man is a better man because
he has drunk the cup of sin to the
dregs. The only experience that is
eternally worth while is the experi-
ence that is good, upright, inspiring.
Resistance to temptation is of much
value to give power; but a fall intc
sin does no man the highest good.
We want to insist that morals
are most of importance in this
world. No unclean man deserves the
hand and the loyalty of a pure wom-
an. None but the clean deserve the
fair. The man of unchaste life de-
serves ostracism as much if not more
than the woman who has sinned.
Those flagrant polygamists wha
flaunt their sin before our faces un-
der the guise of legal marriage de-
serve our scorn no less than does the
polygamy of Mormonism. The man
of unclean life has no right to thd
hearts of the true womanhood of this
country, and for my part were I a
woman I would rather live and die
unmarried and earn my bread by the
sweat of my brow than to risk my
earthly happiness into the hands of
any man of immoral life, no matter
what his wealth, position or ability
might be. The womanhood of this
country should preserve the virtue of
this land and should put a premium
upon nobility of character and sarcti-
ty of life.
The need to-day is not so much
for schools for the culture ol
the intellect and for instruction
in the arts and sciences—the
need is rather for colleges where
the art of pure living and the practice
of virtue may be taught. The world
wants not mcre brains first, but more
character. The importance of clean
living and high thinking must be
taught and preached as paramount
and fundamental—for they are the
centre and the circumference of all
life. The integrity of the marriage
relation must be maintained. The
demand for a moral manhood as es
sential to any and all success must
be enforced. Men must be made tc
understand that purity is the stand.
ard of true worth, and that clean
manhood is real might.
We must educate our youth to the
value of goodness. We must teach
our girls that character is more of ac:
count than any material acquirement
or possession. We must tell our boys
that manliness is not recklessness
but rectitude; that only the pure life
pays. And tell them why!
How to Lose Ground.
God hath a thousand keys to oper
a thousand doors for the deliverance
of His own when it has come to the
greatest extremity. Let us be faith.
ful and care for our own part, whick
is to do and suffer for Him, and la)
God's part on Himself, and leave il
there; duties are ours, events are
the Lord's.
When our faith goeth to meddle
with events, and to hold a court (if!
may so speak) upon God's provi
dence, and beginneth to say, "How
wilt Thou do this or that?” we losi
ground. We have nothing to d¢
there: it is our part to let the Al
mighty exercise His own office ant
steer His: own helm.—Rutherford.
Your Opportunity.
God has made you after His own
plan, and He places you just where
He wishes you to work with Him t¢
bring about the highest results foi
yourself. He bas given you every
opportunity. Make yourself whai
you will—remember it lies with you
God can make no mistakes! —Alic(
Freeman Palmer.
... Patriotism ...
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By President Woodrow Wilson of Princeton.
A nation still, the rulers and the ruled.
Some sense of duty,
Something of a faith,
Some reverence for the laws ourselves have made,
Some patient force to change them when we will,
Some civic manhood, firm against the crowd.
ACH line affords a text for the matter I speak of. It re-
quires constant effort of the imagination and constant studi-
ous attention to the variety of conditions which diversify
the life of the country from ocean to ocean and an ever
persistent’ catholicity of sympathy and judgment think of
this country as every citizen should, as a single whole, a
thing to be served not merely in its parts and in its separ:
ate interests, as the States are infended to serve it, but alsa
in its entirety, as the rederal Government is intended to
serve it, keeping all interests harmonious, all powers co-operative—as a na-
tion compact of rulers and ruled, moving together under those who make the
laws and by reason of the virtue of those who obey them.
And yet only upon such a conception can an intelligent sense of duty be
based. Genuine patriotism cannot be based upon a sense of private advantaga
or upon any calculation of interest. It can be based only upon a sense of duty.
And duty must conceive its object the country, the nation we would serve.
I like to recall the passage of De Tocqueville's in which .he marvels with
eloquent praise at the “variety of information and excellence of discretion
which our polity did not hesitate to demand of its people, the common pec:
ple.” It is in this, rather than by anything we have invented in the way of
government form, that we have become distinguished among nations.
: Indeed, America has fallen to the common-place level of all the other na-
tions which have preceded her and which now accompany her in the race for
leadership, if she have not something of a faith that makes of her public
men idealists and of her typical citizens men: to whom principles seem ever
a sustaining motive of action.
If there is any circumstance which should deeply trouble us in the signs
ef the time it is that we have found as a ground of action not sturdy desire
to achieve what we have conceived but sheer anger and discontent with which
we fling ourselves upon our wrongs. We have revernce enough for the laws
we ourselves have made, if it be an evidence of reverence that we think by
the easy process of making more laws we shall moralize our public life, but
it can hardly be a firm and patient force by which we seek to change them.
Indeed, the chief menace of our present state of mind is that there is
neither patience nor prudence in our thought and action upon the matters
which excite us. I am not sure that we need new laws. [ suspect that what
we really need is a smaller regard for persons in the administration of them.
Penal laws are of slight value without a watchful public opinion, and of what
shall public opinion be watchful if it know not what to watch for, if there is no
slow study of conditions, no patient seering of remedies, no careful observa-
tion of the real errors and the real responsibilities of business.
It seems to me to be a strange thing to propose revenue laws as a means
of checking and penalizing wealth, at the same time that we retain laws which
lead to its unnatural accumulation. The only proper object of revenue laws
is to raise money for the expenses of government, though revenue ought al-
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check or discourage industry and enterprise. It is in part by the example of
governments that individuals have used the revenue getting powers of cor-
porations to penalize rivals. The Government sets the example both of foster.
age and of destruction. Governments should supply an equilibrium, not a dis-
turbing force,
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MAN’S wife has much to do with his success in life.
Many men have ruired their prospects in life by taking
the wrong sort of a wife. :
Some men have picked out their wives only for theit
money. They have realized later cn that it was a huge
2 mistake.
I want to say te you, and I wish to make is as strong
I: ed, as I can, that a man must be sure to select. for his life
partner a woman whose temperament is like his own.
If he does not, his wife will be most apt, in time, to take him from his
natural business tendencies. She may think he would do better in some other
sphere and unwittingly influence him to take a step that will mean his busi
ness ruin.
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I want you unmarried men to consider this seriously.
Don't marry a woman who is not
will be a constant handicap to you.
the success of her husband.
in full sympathy with your ideas. She
it i3 easy for a woman to make or mat
Don’t mary a wocman simply because she is pretty. Common sense i3
what counts. If you get the right kind of a wife, you will be greatly helped
If you don’t you would be better off without one.
In the start upon a business career, a young
mind not to strive merely for material gain. He is better
wealth if he has to get it through - mean practices.
man ought
off
to make up his
not ‘to have
Men think the idea of being tied to the mother’s apron strings, as they
call it, is beneath them. [ want to say that the man who starts out with the
intention of not doing anything that his mother would not want him to do,
and the one who sticks to this principle is the one who must get ahead.
We ought net to be selfish. Men who think only of themselves are not
the ones who deserve success, and they cannot forever be successful.
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My Ship Fought the Ice 3
By Commander R. E. Peary.
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N the evening of September 16, with the turn of the flood-
tide, a large floe pivoted around Cape Sheridan, crushing
everything before it, until at last it held the ship merci
lessly between its own biue side and the unyielding face
of the ice-fcot. Its slow resistless motion was frightful, yet
fascinating; thousands of tons of smaller ice which the big
floe drove before it the Rooszsveit had easily and gracefully
turned under her sloping bilges, but the edge of the big floe
rose to the plank-sheer, and a few yards back from its edge
was an old pressure ridge which rose higher than the bridge-deck. 3 Si
For an instant, which seemed an age, the pressure was terrific; the
Roosevelt's ribs and interior bracing cracked like the discharge of musketry.
The main-deck amidships bulged up several inches, the main-rigging hung
slack, and the masts and rigging shook as in a violent gale; then, with a
mighty tremor and sound which reminded me of an athlete intaking his
breath for a supreme effort, the ship jumped upward. The big floe snapped
against the edge of the ice-foot forward and aft and under us, crumpling up
its edge and driving it inshore some yards, then came to rest, and the com-
motion was transferred to the outer edge of the flee, which crumbled away
with a dull roar as other floes smashed against it and tore off great pieces
in their onward rush—leaving us stranded but safe. This incident, of course, .
put an end to all thoughts of farther advance, and to provide against the
contingency of a still more serious pressure rendering the ship untenabls,
all supplies and equipment, together with a considerable quantity of coal,
were Janded; officers and erew and Eskimos, including the women and chil
dren, =vorking almost without interruption for the next thirty-six hours.—
Harpe¢’s Magszine. :