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Adrift on an Ice Cake.
EVELYN BUSS, cue of the vic
tims carried out ou the ice off
Bluff City, has kindly con
. sented to give her impres
sions of the terrible experience for
"The Gold Digger." She Is u frail lit
is— tie woman, who looks incapable of en
during such privations and hardships
as she was called upon to endure, but
like the rest of the party, she faced
i the danger with the utmost coolness
* and courage.
"It was four nights before Christmas
Eve that Audrey Bell, Charles Hage
llu. Eric Johnston and myself rounded
the point at Bluff City and found open
water barring the trail. Miss Bell and
I were tied to the sleds, for the way
was rough, and we did not pay much
attention to the water, the men telling
us there was often a crack at that
point. Eric Johnston jumped across
-nd ran uptown for ropes, and then
we realized tiiat we were gradually
drifting away from the shore.
"People at Nome seen] to think that
we were carried away on a little patch
of ice, but our floating prison was
many miles in extent.
"As the crack grew wider Eric John
ston and W. F. Austin, the man he
had asked to assist at Bluff City,
rowed out to us in a boat. They suc
ceeded in scrambling ou the ice, but
Austin was drenched, for It was a wild
# and stormy night. We had a robe
and two or three pieces of canvas, and
we wrapped him in one of the sleds
and let the dogs lie around him to
keep him from freezing. He had no
hnt, and his muelucs were wet
through, so I opened my trunk nnd
got out an eiderdown matinee for his
head and tore up a flannel skirt for
his feet; the rest of the things in the
trunk we used to keep ourselves
warm.
"Every one in the party seemed
anxious to pretend that there was no
danger; the hoys made light of every
thing, and Mr. Austin was full of fun.
I did not realize till the next morning
that we might drift out on the ice till
we were starved or frozen, and then
I did not see any use iu m'aklug a fuss
about it.
"That day we kept traveling to keep
land In sight, as the position of the Ice
was continually shifting. All the time
we were afloat we must nave gone
over twenty or thirty miles. I had
, been ill, and could not walk fast
W enough to keep warm, so they let me
lie in one of the sleds with the dogs
around me. Miss Bell, Johnston and
Hagelin kept walking all the time to
prevent them from freezing. As the
days went on tlicy sometimes fell
asleep on their feet.
"All our provisions consisted of some
fish for dog feed, and a little corn '
meal, but we had no salt. On the sec
ond day, when we began to travel, a
Btrauge thing happened. We found
some wood that Austin had thrown
from his sled a few days before. With
.this the boys were able to light a tire
and cook, but It was not till the third
day out that I could eat a little corn
meal, mush, and It revived me wonder
fully.
"We saw a bonfire ou the const the
third night, one of those, we afterward
heard, that were lighted us signals to
us. The fourth night It snowed, and
we were soaked through. If we had
been forced to stay on the Ice another
► night we should probably have been
frozen, for we were very wet and ex
hausted.
"But on the morning of the fourth
day our icefield drifted inshore, and
we were only separated from the
beach oy six miles of rubber ice. This
was our one chance, and we determ
ined to risk it. The sleds were put
Bide by side, and with a rush we start
ed, the ice cracking nnd breaking all
the way. The fourteen dogs dashed
on, urged by the men. I did not dare
to look, but covered my head, expect
ing every moment to go through, till
some one called out, 'We arc ou the
beach!' and then I threw 1 off the wrap
and saw one of the boys break down
and sob with joy, ami Mr. Ghismnn,
the rondliotue keeper at Chookook,
with an Indian, was standing on the
shore welcoming us."—Nome Gold
Digger.
Winning Victoria Crosses.
Before Delhi on July 1) an attack of
gloat strength, and marked by great
daring, was made by the enemy, and
was almost lifted into success by the
disloyalty of a detachment of the
Ninth Irregular Cavalry. They were
011 outpost duty, watching the trunk
road. They allowed t lie enemy to ap
proach the British position without
giving warning, and when Hills, who
commanded two guns iu front of the
General's mound, ran out of his tent
and leaped on his horse, he found a
troop ol' carabineers iu broken flight,
sweeping past him, nnd the enemy al
most on iiis guns. He shouted "Action
front!" then, to give his gunners a
chance of tiring, rode single-handed
into the enemy's squadrons, a solitary
swordsman charging a regiment! He
cut down the leading man, and wound
ed the second; then two troopers
charging him at once, he was rolled
I over, man and horse, and the troops
M swept over him. Bruised and half
dazed, he struggled to his feet, picked
up his sword, and was at once at
tacked by two of the rebel cavalry and
w
a foot soldier. He coolly shot the
first horseman riding down upon him,
then catching the lance of the second
in his left hand, thrust him through
the body with his sword. He was in
stantly attacked by the third enemy,
and his sword wrenched from him.
Hills on this fell bn< k upon first prin
ciples and struck his opponent in the
face repeatedly with his fist. But he
was by this time himself exhausted,
and fell. Then, exactly as his antag
onist lifted his sword to slay him.
Tombs, who had cut his way through
the enemy, nnd was coming up at a
gallop to help his comrade, witli a
clever pistol shot from a distance of
thirty paces killed the Sepoy. It was
a Homeric combat, and both Tombs
and Hills received tiie Victoria Cross.
The enemy meanwhile had galloped
past the guns, eager to reach the na
tive artillery, which they hoped would
ride off with them. The Ninth Lanc
ers, however, had turned out in their
shirt sleeves, and, riding fiercely home,
drove off the enemy.—The Coruhill.
Hugged by u Glacier Bear.
Archie Turk, a pioneer of ValTles,
Alaska, was carried off by a gigantic
white bear on September ff, nnd had
it not been for a small dog, he would
have lost his life. He was badly used
up and several bones were broken.
With two companions Park was
prospecting the headwaters of the
Sliushetna River, nnd nt the time of
his exciting experience was some dis
tance ahead of them on the trail.
Hearing a noise iu the bush, he inves
tigated. To ills surprise he suddenly
found himself face to face with an
immense white glacier benr, which im
mediately came at him with an omin
ous growl. Fark threw his rifle to his
shoulder nnd fired, but probably did
not hit, as the benr rushed ou and
grabbed him. As Park felt the em
brace of bruin he thought it was all
off with him, but he had forgotten a
little cur which he had previously been
tempted to kill as a nuisance. With
snapping and growling the dog wor
ried the bear Into dropping Park.
Park had heard that if one played
dead a bear would leave him alone,
but the plau did not work. Having
driven the dog back, the bear again
grabbed Park and was making off
with liim, wlieu the dog attacked
again and succeeded in making Bruin
drop him a second time. This time
Park crawled off into the brush, and
In the meantime his companions, hav
ing heard the noise, came up and
opened fire ou the bear, which made a
hasty retrent.
Park was picked up a mass of blood
and bruises. Several bones were brok
en and his scalp was torn loose. The
affair occurred 100 miles from the
nearest camp, and at last accounts
Park was being treated with oint
ment made from wild animals.—San
Francisco Chronicle.
Marching; Without Food.
When Hllario nnd Segovia began to
deal with the question of food for the
seven-days' march to Palanan, an un
expected difficulty was encountered,
writes General Funston, In Every
body's Magazine. The staple articles
of food at Palanan are fresh fish and
fresh vegetables, principally sweet po
tatoes. Neither would serve for a long
journey, as they would not only spoil,
but were too heavy and bulky. A
small quantity of Indian corn is raised
nt Palanan, and was the only nrtiele
of food to be had which was portable
and would not deteriorate, but the
amount on hand was quite limited.
The vice-alcalde state that If we would
remain n week he could in that time
obtain a sufficient quantity of cracked
corn to serve for all during the march.
But sucli a delay was out of the ques
tion, as I had arranged with Com
mander Barry that the Vleksburg meet
us at Pnlannn Bny 011 the 2!ith. If wo
had not arrived by the 27th a force
was to be landed to investigate.
Despite all his efforts the vice-al
calde had not been aide in two days to
collect more than three dnys' ration
of cracked corn nnd a small quantity
of dried buffalo meat. We must start
with that and take chances, or aban
don the expedition. By a unanimous
vote among the five Americans we
chose tiie former alternative, though
I must confess it was with consider
able misgivings so far as I was con
cerned. As will be seen, the result
came near being disaster.
Fnn.toii nnd HI. Men Land at Cn.lgiinr
When the dim form of the Vicksburg
had faded from sight, we lay down on
the sand and waited for the break of
day, says Frederick Funston In Every
body's Magazine. At last it came, a
gloomy, drizzly morning, and we
marched a short distance along the
beach to fresh water and prepared
breakfast of boiled rice, of which we
had brought a day's ration for each,
thinking a full supply could be ob
tained at Casiguran. We could not
bring along American food for us offi
cers, for the obvious reason that if
might arouse suspicion in the minds
of the natives that we were not pris
oners. After breakfast we continued
tiie march along the beach up the
west side of the long and narrow Gifsl
guran Bay. In places the mangrove
jungles came down so close that at
high tide we were compelled to wade.
We waded fully five miles the first
day. No human beings were seen,
although there were signs of the sav
age Balugas. At noon we stopped for
two hours to cook again. At this place
we found a small dug-out canoe and
conceived the plan of sending news
of our appronch to Casiguran, lest the
Inhabitants tnke alarm nt our ap
proach and flee to the woods.
The most ductile metal is Jdatinum.
Wires have been made of It very little
thicker than the threads of a spider
web.
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Marketing Fruit.
The fruit grower whose production
ie not too large to be handled in oue
market will usually do better to send
always to the one market, and if he
finds the right market man, always to
the one man. Then any pains he may
take to sell ouly the best, or to pack
honestly and neatly will be better ap
preciated, and will help to establish a
reputation that will bring its reward
lu the prices he will receive. After
lliis Is done he will find that his pro
ducts are sold as soou as they arrive,
and that he may expect the best price
the market will" hear. Not always can
one huve ouly the best grades of fruit
to send off, but never mix a good and
a poor lot, or mark a quality above
what it really grades. This has been
the secret of success with many who
have been more successful financially
In fruit growing than the average of
those in the business.
SUCCMI With Cnllas.
If one wauts a calla to bloom, a large
till er must be secured. A calla will
not bloom until it is two or three years
old, so get a large bulb. Allow any
little bulblets on the main bulb to
remain, as they throw up a muss of
greenery that helps give grace to the
plant. FOl a large bulb use an eight
Inch pot. Place in the bottom two
inches of broken charcoal, then a layer
of rich soil, composed of garden loam,
sand and well decayed manure, in
equal quantities, and on this the bulbs
(two or three cau be placed In one
pot), and cover with the soil, press
ing it down securely about the bulbs.
Water well aud place in shade.
When the shoots appear above
ground give plenty of water. Have a
large tiower pot saucer placed under
the pot and pour warm water in the
pot uutll it runs out and fills the
saucer. Do this every morning. Once
a week add a good fertilizer. Give as
mueli winter sun as possible. With
this treatment a strong bulb will pro
duce eight to ten blossoms.—New Eng
land Homestead.
Uow to Make Water-Lillet Grow.
At the farthest point of marshy
ground in the garden you can some day
excavate a little basin cemented to re
tain water, but a cheap way to ob
tain water lilies here would be to sink
some old paraffin barrels. Saw them
In half, burn out the oil, knock oft
the bottoms, and sink them In the
marshy soil, puddling the bottom well
with clay, to which add old cow
manure aud fibrous loam and a sprink
ling of charcoal. Above this founda
tion connect the barrels with small
piping. In each plant a water lily
rhizome tied In a sod of gocd turf
with a few pieces of charcoal, and fill
with water to the depth of two feet.
If the barrels do not till from the nat
ural supply, they must be kept full ar
tificially. Outsidi the barrels make
n handsome, hold group of taller
aquatics, such as calamus, eplloblum,
Gunnera sagitteria, and especially
Tylpa latifolia, the great • bulrush.
Plant these only on one side of the
little pond, and eveu if there be not
enough water for the lilies they will
thrive. Pampas grass, I think, nour
ishes In similar hot, moist ponitious.
A very little paraffin floated on the
surface will destroy mosquito grubs.—
Annn Lea M-rritt, iu Llpplncott's Mag
azine.
Protecting Weeping Trees.
The small weeping ornamental trees
are now to be found 011 many country
lawns, and decidedly ornamental they
nre proving themselves to be. Some of
these are not wholly hardy in out
Northern regions, and so require some
winter protection. Covering a ween
lug tree in not an easy matter, and cov
ering In the ordinary way does not
prevent the top from being broken
down by the snow. The manner of
growth makes the top lu danger of
receiving a great mass of possibly
damp snow, that quickly splits off the
curving branches. The cut shows
au excellent plan to use in the care
of sucli trees. Four stakes and two
cross pieces gives a framework that
permits bagging to he wound about
the tree, but at such distance from it
as to permit straw and hay to he
packed in 'about the trunk aud under
and around the curving branches
while erosshoards at the tof will sup
port any weight of snow. The same
stakes and hoards can be saved aud
used year after year, foi these weep
trees gain little In height from one
year's end to another.—New York
Tribune.
PSCIENJIFI
:mj|N DVSTF^IAjjfj
America Is not the ouly country
where unconsidered trifles are snapped
up by manufacturers aud put to prac
tical use. In China the down of the
thistle is gathered and mixed with
raw silk so Ingeniously that even ex
perts are deceived when the fabric is
woven. It is also used to stuff cush
ions as a substitute for eiderdown,
and a very good substitute it makes
Some of the mine owners In Penn
sylvania are providing for the safety
and convenience of their employes by
putting telephones at regular intervals
along the shafts of their mines. It
has often happened in mine accidents
that the whereabouts of the imperiled
men could not he found out, and thus
the work of rescue was delayed, and
lives were lost. It is believed that the
telephones will remove this trouble.
Bangkok, Slam, now has an electric
light plant and a tramway six miles
long, and Is laying n second line of
equal length. The service Is fairly
good. The telephone system, however.
Is decidedly bad. It is owned by the
Government, and there are some 200
instruments of German make. Bang
kok is a city of magnificent distances,
aud as the Siamese are particularly in
telligent people they would undoubt
edly patronize a good telephone sys
tem were It once established. There
should be at least 1000 instruments
instead of 200, and this number would,
of course, be increased as the system
was better understood.
Some electricians are In the habit of
putting too much reliance on what are
called insulating gloves—thnt is to say,
gloves made of India rubber or of glass
pearls, interwoven with cotton tissue.
Experiments lately reported to the In
ternational Society of Electricians
show that these gloves may not be
trusted to give security to men that
work about electric apparatus. They
should not be depended on for touch
ing directly conductors of high ten
sion, but ouly for touching the already
Insulated attachments of such conduc
tors as, for example, the non-metallic
handles of Interrupters. The dnuger
is always greater when the gloves are
moist.
The present depression In the eement
industries in the East Is universally
attributed to the recent enormous in
crease lu production due to the erec
tions of new mills in Michigan. Ac
cording to the report of the Michigan
Bureau of Lnbor and Industry there
are at present In the State ten plants,
eight of which are running day and
night, with an aggregate dally produc
tion of (1000 bnrrels of eement. Five
other plants are iu course of erection
which will have a total output of from
8000 to 10,000 barrels per day addi
tional. One of the largest cement
plants In the world, with an output of
4000 barrels daily. Is included among
the latter. This is located near the
village of Baldwin, in Lake County.
The average cost of the plants is giveD
as $500,000.
The second hriquettc-mnklng plant
111 the United States has been estab
lished lu Stockton. Gal., the first being
in Chicago, and the product of the Cal
ifornia factory bids fair to become as
popular, the San Francisco papers re
port, as like fuel in European coun
tries. These papers claim thnt the
Stockton briquette is far In advance
of anything of the kind ever before
placed on the market. Coal screenings
or slack and oil nre the chief compo
nents of the product. The process of
manufacture is very simple, and the
mnterinls are, of course, inexpensive.
The cost of briquettes is about the
same as that of common forms of fuel.
A ton of the new product, however, it
Is claimed, will last as long at least as
one and a quarter tons of coal. The
heat efficiency, too, is snt<> to be fifty
per cent, greater. With all these al
leged advantages it is surprising that
more use is not made of the mountains
of eoal slack and screenings to be
found in c*ery coal-mining district iu
the country.
Building and Loan Asnncintionfl Safe.
These people's banks, the most bene
ficient outgrowth thus far of the co
operative idea lu the Uuited States,
have increased in fifty years to over
0000 associations, distributed through
out every State and Territory, and
represent savings amounting to over
$1,000,000,000. Laws regulating their
management differ in different States;
but however their external features
may vary, the great principle of co
operation—mutual helpfulness by tiie
working together of individuals for
joint benefit or common good as op
posed to selfish competitive individual
effort—remains unchanged. "Invest
ment in building and loan associa
tion is as nearly absolutely safe as it
can be," to quote from an exhaustive
report on the associations of this coun
try published by the Government, to
be had for the asking; "for the month
ly dues and accumulated profits, which
give the active capital of the associa
tion, are loaned as fast as they accu
mulate."—Ladles' Home Journal.
A Precocious lufont.
The feminine instinct begins young.
The little girl who wore her new cloak
for the first time in an east wind was
not thinking of the east wind. Her
mother, however, was; and she sug
gested that people who allowed their
cloaks to blow over their heads some
times Caught cold. "Oh, no, mother,"
observed her daughter complacently,
"you don't catch cold when it's such a
pretty lining!"— London Chronicle.
Miss Lillie Degenkolbe, Treasurer South
End Society of Christian Endeavor, 3 141
Michigan Ave., Chicago, 111., Cured by
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my good spirits. I spent money doctoring without any help, when a
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Pinkham's \ egctable Compound, having used it herself, that
nothing would satisfy her until I sent for a bottle. I have thanked
her a hundred times for it since, for it brought blessed health to me
and cured me within seven weeks.
I now wish to thank you, your medicine is a friend to suffering
women."— LILLIE DEGENKOLBE.
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womb, that bearing-down feeling, inflammation of the ovaries, backaohe.
bloating (or flatulence), general debility, indigestion, and nervous pros
tration, or are beset with such symptoms as dizziness, faintness, lassitude,
excitability, irritability, nervousness, sleeplessness, melancholy, "all
gone, and "want-to-be-left-alone" feelings, blues, and hopelessness,
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She has guided thousands to health. Address, Lynn, Mass.
EQUINOCTIAL STORMS.
What Is Supposed to Cause These An
nual Disturbances.
The belief that the sun's crossing
the equator in the spring and the fall
causes atmospheric disturbances dies
hard, but it is dying, for all that. It
Is true, as a rule, that we do have such
disturbances about the middle of
March and the middle of September,
but the mere "crossing of the line"
by the sun does not produce them,
as many persons believe. The dis
turbances are due to atmospheric
changes that take place over the
equatorial belt when the cold season
gives place to tho warm, and when
the warm season gives place to the
cold. It has been shown by carefully
kept records in England that more
storms occur dring the week preceding
and the week following the equinox
than during the week of the equinox.
That the sun's passing an imaginary
line should cause a storm is absurd
from the scientist's standpoint, but it
Is true, nevertheless, that the storms j
are caused by the sun's position in
the sky. There is no objection to
calling the storms equinoctial because
they occur at the equinoctial season,
hut there is objection to applying that
term to them because they are ex
pected on the equinoctial date.
The Healthiest Land in Europe.
An article in the Statlstlsche
Wochenschrift, upon the comparative
increase of longevity in the various
nations of Europe imagines that J
Sweden will before long become rec
ognized as the healthiest of Euro
pean lands. In the early part of the
last century Its sanitary reputation!
was bad. but between 1830 and 1840 its j
mortality was reduced to 26.8 In the
1.000. Each successive decade has
shown a remarkable improvement in
the longevity of its Inhabitants. In
1870 the deaths were 20.2 in the 1,000;
in 1880, 18.3; in 1890, 16.80, and lastly. {
in 1900, 16.5. With such favorable'
conditions of health it is no wonder
that the tourist in Sweden should say
that he "met au old Swede at every j
turn."
Marriage Epidemic.
Servia Is in trouble now with an
epidemic of marriages. The cause ]
is the system of marriage banks
founded as an encouragement to thrift. 1
but which have proved to have quite an |
opposite effect. The young men and
maidens of Servia begin paying In to
these institutions at an early age on J
the promise of a premium on mar- j
riage. Immediately a small sum has j
been accumulated the desire for mar
riage grows overwhelming, with the |
result that the first offer is snapped
up. In consequence prematurely
early and unhappy marriages are gen- j
eral. The matter has now reached
such lengths that it is seriously
troubling the government, and the ad- j
visability of abolishing these banks, J
which are held to he the root of tho I
evil, is being debated.
In 50 years the words and phrases
of the English language lexiconized
under the letter "A" have increased I
from 7,000 in number to nearly 60,000. j
Science and invention requiring new |
terms are largely responsible.
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The Height of Waves.
At the recent Glasgow meeting of
the British Association for the Ad'
vancement of Science Mr. Vaughan
Cornish read a paper on the size ol
waves at sea. He said that the
height of the ocean waves in deep
water far from land had been deter
mined with fairly concordant results
by a number of independent observ
ers. He gave the following table
as the average of the heights of a
number of successive waves: Hur
ricane, 28.54 feet; strong gale, 20.64
feet; gale, 15.42; strong breeze, 10.8S,
These values are only about one-half
of the 40 or 50 feet which experienced
seamen frequently state to be the size
of the waves met with in strong gales.
The author explained this by the fact
that waves of a larger size probably
recur at short intervals and that it is
these which rivet the attention and
are dangerous.
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