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THE MARBLE TIMES
—AND—
CRYSTAL SILVER LANCE
MARBLE, - - COLORADO.
, Thin bamboo tubes are fastened to
carrier pigeons in China to protect
!them from birds of prey. When the
bird Is in motion the action of the air
through the tubes causes a whistling
sound, which alarms predaceous birds,
and keeps them at a respectable dis
tance.
Competent authorities assert that
South America has greater unuevel*
oped resources than any other portioi
of the world. Any crop grown else
where can be duplicated there and the
country abounds in mines of coal, sil
ver and gold, most of which have been
only slightly developed.
Lord Curzon has just sanctioned a
considerable outlay on an experi
mental indiarubber plantation near the
Tenasserim coast. No fewer than 10.-
000 acres are to be thus cultivated, and
carefully framed estimates show that
when the trees reach maturity the
plantation should yield handsome
profits.
A Mauser bullet entered the brain of
Jeremiah O'Leary, a British soldier, at
the battle of Colenso. An expert sur
geon removed the bullet, and with it a
small portion of the man's brain. Since
then his memory is slightly'impaired,
and he detests the taste of beer, al
though he had been very fond of it J
previous to receiving the wound.
The growth of electric railway street
systems in the principal countries or |
Europe during the last four years Is
shown In a table In a recent issue of '
L’Electricien. Germany leads with
260 mi'es in 1896, which had increased
in 1899 to 2,160. Austria-Hungary is
next with 45 miles in 1896 and 600 in
1899. The United Kingdom is third
with 67 miles in 1896 and 600 in 1899,
and the other countries follow in this
order: Italy, France, Switzerland,
Russia, Belgium, etc.
Order and method are the conjur
ers by whose aid a man of very aver
age abilities may. if he chooses, se
cure to himself t.he blessing of never
being hurried. Only arrange properly
the quantum of work which is to be
got through in a day or week, or in
any fixed period, and a small margin
over and above the bare space abso
lutely needed for each part of It. and
that margin will be available for the
/hanee distractions for which people
complain that they have no time.
Not long ago a young man in Port
land, Me., bought an old army mus
ket to celebrate. A little later he was
giving the weapon an overhauling,
when he noticed some scratches on the
stock that looked like writing. After j
giving the stock a good cleaning, it
was found that the scratches formed j
the name “Samuel H. Gammon.’’ As
“Sam” Gammon is one of the Port- 1
land G. A. R. veterans whom every
body knows, the young man was nat
urally very much surprised at finding
his name on the old gun. When the
musket was shown Mr. Gammon he at
once recognized it as the one he had
returned to the government when he
was mustered out of service thirty- j
five years or more ago.
In speaking of the possibility of an
alliance between Peru, Bolivia and the
Argentine Republic, with a view to war
with Chile, an American, who has
lived in Chile for a number of years,
says: “Peru and Bolivia know very
well that they cannot whip Chile, and
the outcome of a war. ii the event of
the alliance I have named, would be
the same. The Chileans cau and will
fight. We can put 375,000 men in the
field, for 10 per cent of the population
can be counted upon in the event of
war. We have ample modern arms,
and I have no fear as to the outcome.
Should the Queen of England decide
against Peru in the boundary arbitra
tion, a war may result, though I am of
the opinion that it can be avoided."
The bicycle, according to a recent
decision of the full bench of the Mas
sachusetts supreme court, is not a
“carriage,” within the meaning of that
term as used in the statutes. Cities
and towns are consequently not bound
by law to keep their roads In such a
state of repair and smoothness that a
bicycle-rider can go over them in
safety. This decision was called forth
by an action brought against a certain
Massachusetts town, because of per
sonal Injuries incurred by the plain
tiff while riding her bicycle on one of
the roads. The court held that a bi
cycle is more properly a machine than
a “carriage,” as legally defined, and
that bicj'cle-riders, injured from acci
dents arising from defects in the high
ways of cities and towns, have not a
valid claim for damages. The deci
sion will not prevent them from con
tinuing the agitation for good and jafe
_____
One of the most fascinating exhibits
at the Paris Exhibition is that contrib
uted by thp Pasteur Institute, In tne
Pavilion of Hygiene are many neatly
labeled bottles, securely corked, one
hopes, containing an army of bacilli
and parasites. Tho ravages of the mi
crobes are further demonstrated in Its
attacks on the raw materials of silk,
of beer, and of wine: whilst hard by
another case illustrates the experl
ments whereby the great researcher
t espioded his own belief in the theory
■ of spontaneous generation.
HARANCUES TO ORDER.
Conversation lu n ll»iul-M«--Down Set*
nion S|iop.
That bill which a clergyman intro
duced into our state senate as a check
to the growing industry which pro
vides students with ready-made ora
tions and essays and compositions is
attracting some unpleasant attention
in the east, where they don’t under
stand us, says the Cleveland Plain
Dealer. The little bill is all right as
far as it goes, but it isn’t elastic
enough. The clergyman meant well.
He thought he was doing a service for
literary aspirants. But, strange to say,
he blindly overlooked the clergy. No
doubt some of them need protection
from these bureau cormorants and
from these syndicated sharks. Think
of the temptation it is for an ener
vated parson to step into one of these
hand-me-down sermon shops and say:
"What have you in about twenty-min
ute lengths?” “Ornate?” “No, just
simple and soothing." “Lemme see.
We got in a fresh lot of assorted har
rangues yesterday. Jimmie, hand me
the proofs of that matter on the G
hook. You want it conservatively
orthodox?” “Yes; mildly progres
sive.” “I know. Here, how’s this?
Hold on, that’s a thirty-minute talk.
Tell you what I’ll do; I’ll saw out this
long paragraph here on ‘the duty of
the state’ and credit you with the
weight.” “The weight?” “Yes; wt*
sell ’em by the weight of the metal.
There’ that’s eleven pounds and seven
ounces. Two-dollars-seventy - three
cents, please. So many parsons like
to strike off the printed slips to dis
tribute among their hearers that we
find the metal plant the best one.”
“But isn’t that a little high?” “Not
for that grade. We’ve got some pot
boilers here, regular insomnia chasers,
that I could let you have for half the
money. But they ain’t what you want.
You’ve been fishing a pretty good ar
ticle out of the bar’l. I’ve no doubt,
and they’d be too much of a come
down. Of course, you understand that
this is not to be released until March
11. and that only one sermon bearing
this AAiimber is to be preached in what
we v.ail a theological section.” “Very
well. Wrap it up. please.” “Thank
you. Your address on this card. We
will send it up by our 1 o’clock de
livery. Anything else?” “I’d like a
little talk on the duty of the hour, or
some kindred subject, for our Friday
evening gathering.” “Certainly. Take
this catalogue home with you and look
it over. There are twenty-three ‘Duties
of the Hour’ there you will notice.
Good-day. Call again.”
A BUSINESS SECRET.
llovr the ltest Snuerkrjiut Is Made in
M :i gUt-burg.
The best German sauerkraut is made
in Magdeburg, but when one attempts
to ascertain how it is made he en
counters an insuperable obstacle —
business secrets. The manufacturer ,
politely replies to all inquiries: “My
recipe is what makes my business
profitable. If I gave it to you, you
could make the same sauerkraut. The
fame of Magdeburg would thus be
dimmed, and what would become of
the orders which mean so much to
me?” The process of manufacture,
omitting business secrets, is about as
follows: Several heads of white cab
bage, a fresh as possible, are cut into
fine, long shreds. They are placed, in
layers in barrels, or kegs, and salt
strewed over each layer, using one
half a pound of salt for each twenty
five cabbages. The mass is pressed
down with clean feet, wooden shoes,
or a heavy stamper. A cover is put on
the barrel and upon this a heavy stone.
This presses the sauerkraut more and
and conserves it better. The sauer
kraut must then be allowed to fer
ment in a cellar for from three to
eight days, according to the tempera
ture of the room. The barrel then is
closed tightly and kept in a cool place
preferably in a cellar. Fancy grades
of sauerkraut are produced by pouring
white wine into the barrels after they
have been filled. Apples chopped fine
sometimes are mixed with the cab
bage.
Developed by Cultivation.
All our garden vegetables are mere
ly types improved by long cultivation
of wild species. The wild cabbage is
common enough in places by the sea,
but is of no use for food in its wild
state. Indeed, it will take a botanist
to tell that it was a cabbage at all.
Scotland owes the cabbage to Crom
well’s soldiers. The cauliflower is
but a cultivated improvement on the
cabbage. It was brought to perfection
In Cyprus and was very little known
until about a century ago. The pars
nip Is another native of this country.
You may find it along almost any
hedgerow, but it is small and in
tensely hitter in its wild state. —Cin-
cinnati Post.
Evansville Honey Industry.
ine honey producing industry of
Evansville, Ind., has reached such
magnitude that the city council is
considering ail ordinance declaring
the bees a nuisance, and requiring the
owners of hives to move them outside
the city limits. It is said that seventy
five persons have colonies of bees in
the city, and the bees produce $10,000
worth of honey a year. Persons who
want the bees taken out ask that it be
done by September 1. The bee own
ers have engaged a lawyer, who has
represented to the city council that
there is not a city in the state that
forbids people to have beehives.
Ex-Rivals.
Ten years ago New South Wales and
Victoria were about equal In popula
tion, but the former is now consider
ably ahead of its sister colony.
SHE IS A COWGIRL.
A REMARKABLE YOUNG WOMAN
OF OKLAHOMA.
On* of tho Chief Attraction* at the
Recent Reunion of ItoUKh Rider*—
I* Married and Uas Two Pretty
Daughter*.
(Special Letter.
Miss Lucille Mulhall is the most re
markable “cowgirl” in the west. Re
cently she was, next to Teddy Roose
velt, the greatest attraction at the
Rough Riders’ reunion at Oklahoma
City, Okla. There she gave an exhibi
tion of her prowess and received the
plaudits of thousands. Although she j
weighs only 90 pounds she can break a i
broncho, lasso and brand a steer and
shoot a coyote at 500 yards. She can
also play Chopin, quota Erownir.g, con- j
strue Virgil, and make mayonnaise
dressing.
Mrs. Mulhall has two famous daugh
ters, and although she is intensely
proud of them she shrinks from the at
tention they attract. Miss Agnes Mul
hall’s adventures suggested to Hoyt
the plot of "A Texas Steer,” and her
own figure may be recognized as the
heroine of the p’sy. Her little sister
won renown by killing a Lobo wolf
and last fall took premiums for las
soing wild steers against competitors
from every part of the cow country
from Canada to Mexico.
At the Rough Riders’ reunion Miss
Lucille matched her skill and courage
against the world of cowpunchers, and
MISS LUCILLE MULHALL.
because of her mamma’s refined views
on the up-bringing of girls this was
probably her last appearance in pub- j
lie. Let it be said that she covered
herself with glory.
She has already spent one term at a
convent in St. Louis studying the gen
tle art with which women are equipped
for wielding power in the great world. |
By this step her mother, while rejoic- i
ing in the bodily vigor which Lucille i
had derived from her open-air life; i
hoped to wean her from the bolster- ;
jus pursuits of the ranch.
Lucille, having as great a thirst for !
knowleuge as she had for adventure, ;
applied herself to her studies with j
great Industry and returned home a j
highly polished young lady. But t
she was homesick for the plains, and !
glad to mount a fiery cow pony, with a 1
lariat coiled at her pommel. And the |
•owboys welcomed Miss Lucille as if !
she had been one of themselves. Mrs.
Mulhall smiled as she sighed.
All the territory was talking about
the approaching Rough Riders’ re
union: Delegations came to invite
Miss Lucille to give an exhibition of
her frontier accomplishments and en
ter the competitions. Mrs. Mulhall was
distressed. This was the very sort
Df' thing she was striving to guard
against. To decline, pointed out the
visitors, would be ungracious not alone
to the territory, but to its most distin
guished guest. Governor Roosevelt’s
visit was an event of the highest Im
portance. The festival was a patriotic
one. It celebrated the country’s vic
tory in war. And without Miss Lucille
Mulhall, Oklahoma’s peerless cowgirl,
It would be inadequate.
This appeal to her patriotism con
quered Mrs. Mulhall, and she consent
ed to her daughter’s appearance for
this occasion only. Lucille, overjoyed,
went into training and was delighted
to find that her term in the scholar!}
shades of the convent had not lessened
her skill with the lariat and rifle. It
was her last chance and she meant to
make the most of it. In the fall she
will return to the convent in St. Louis
and in course of -time, if her mother’s
hopes be fulfilled, she, will be too dig
nified a young lady to engage in any
more boisterous diversions than a co
tillion.
But she will never foreet the proud
moment when, flushed with victory,
she was presented to Governor‘Roose
velt, who bowed to her ceremoniously
and told her that not a Rough Rider
in his famous troop could have done
better than she.
The Mulhall ranch is on Beaver
creek, fifty miles from Oklahoma City.
Its owners are of a Southern - family
tnd have imported with them into the
lolitudes most of the refinements of
civilization. In the drawing room of
the. homestead, for example, is a baby
grand piano on which the mother and
daughters play classical music. They
are environed with books and period
icals and their conversation shows
that exile on the prairie does not pre
vent them from taking a lively inter
est in the thought and culture of the
day.
Mr. Zack Mulhall, the father of the
family, is the general live stock agent
of the St. Louis and San Francisco
railroad, but the ranch is his own and
little Miss Lucille is his mainstay in
its management.
In earlier years It was her privilege
to claim every yearling calf that she
had without assistance roped and
branded with her initials “L. M.”
This system worked very well for a
Hum, hut Lucille’s ambition Increased
with her skill and her private hero
kept pace with both. The climax came
when, during a short absence of her
father, she roped and branded twenty
of the finest and wildest steers on the
ranch. Wishing to avoid bankruptcy,
Mr. Mulhall made haste to repeal the
law.
Miss Agnes Mulhall, the elder daugh
ter, Is as accomplished a ranchwoman
as her little sister and is also a fine
musician and elocutionist. She is best
known for her championship of the
Dalton gang of outlaws, whom she be
lieves to have better qualities than
they are credited with—and better, she
asserts, than some of the officers of the
law who hunt them. The Dalton
brothers stopped at the Mulhall ranch
one night and asked for a night’s lodg
| ing. It was granted them. Miss Mul
j hall entertained them as ceremonious
| ly as if they had been bank presidents.
I She played, sang, recited and con
| versed on topics far removed from
their crime-stained and harassed lives.
The outlaws were captivated and soft
ened. They had probably never met
a more cultured woman before; they
had certainly never been entertained
with the same delicacy and considera
tion.
They treated Miss Mulhall with In
! finite respect and departed in the [
morning with many expressions of
esteem and gratitude. On her part,
the impression from the encounter was
such a favorable one that she will not
hear a word said against the Daltons.
WAS "DESEEVED SHAMEFUL”
And Sli« Comiuu ni«'Hl«*d Her Woe* by
Letter to the Mini*ter.
Perhaps no class of professional peo
ple receive such numbers of strange,
pathetic and oftentimes humorous let
ters as do clergymen. To them the
minds of the writers are freely op
ened. A woman who apparently was
not successful in a matrimonial ven
ture wrote the following to a certain
divine:
“Dear Rev. fiend—You may remem
ber of marrying me about a yeer ago,
and alas little did I think then that I
would ever set down to rite this, but
such is the case, the man I was fool
enough to give up a good gob in a fac
tory whare I got my seven dolers a I
week and marry was as big a skally
wag as ever walked on two legs. 1
don’t know whare >lie is now an i
dont want to know. He went off six |
munts ago an I was in luck to git !
red of him so ezy. He deseeved me j
shameful. Sed he was head boss in a J
place whare he was only janiter and
otherwise lied, he was , n g right
strate through. I drove my ducks to
a dern poor market when I tuk up
with any such trash as him. But I
aint one to set down and fuss apout
what cant be helpfed an i aint shed a
tear over him an i aint likely to. My
objeck in adressing you is to know if
you are still living so I can call on
you to prove you married me if i sue
for a bill agin him. I read of a min
ister of the same name as yours dying
last week and I want to know If it
was your or no. I will be dredful sory
if you are dead for it may make it hard
for me to git my bill as the other two
witnesses was his kin and like as not
they would sware they never see us
married. Thats what comes of marry
ing into a famly of liars. If I ever
see you I can tell you things that will
make your hare stand on end. Now
let me know if the man that died was
you or not and keep me posted whare
you are anyhow for I am bound to
have a bill.”
Field Glasses Endanger Officers.
In spite of the many precautions
taken by the English in South Africa
with regard to dressing their officers In
exactly the same fashion as their men.
so as to avoid the Boer sharpshooters
picking them out and shooting them,
the casualties among, the officers.have
by no means been diminished. The
reason for this is that the enemy’s
practiced eye has discovered that field
glasses are used only hv those in
command, and as the suns rays prac
tically heliograph to the sharpshooters
when glittering on the glasses the po
sition of the British officers, the dan
ger to them remains the same. This
is how the earl of Airlie met with his
death, not by a stray or chance bullet,
but by a regular shower of lead shot at
him through the reflection, of the solar
rays onto his field glass. It is claimed
that when Sir George Colley lost his
life on that fatal crest of Majuba hill,
which proved too hot a place for the
English years ago, the bullet which
killed him drove some of the glass
from his military telescope into the
wound, from .which it would appear
that field glasses were even then a
singularly dangerous landmark.
The Future Klondike.
M. Rabot, a prominent French min
ing engineer claims that the next
Klondike will be found in Lapland.
This belief be bases on the fact that
the geological conditions of the two
regions are most similar and that gold
has been found for many years in the
valleys of some of the rivers flowing
into the Arctic. The sand of a tribu
tary of Lake Enara, in Finnish Lap
land, he declares, is far richer than
that of California or Siberia, a cubic
meter yielding three and a quarter
grains of gold. AH efforts to find the
mother rock have been thus far un
successful, but such has been the suc
cess of the prospectors that machinery
for washing gold will be sent up this
summer in the Norwegian river, the
Aletaelf. M. Rabot also says that he
has foqpd fragments of diamonds on
the Pasvig, the stream which forms
the frontier between Norway and Rus
sia “and the only diamond bearing re
gion known In Europe.”
Yorkshire has the greatest railway
mllMKO. Lancashire comes next
QUEER DEMENTIA.
NOTIONS THAT POSSESS SOME
PEOPLE.
Some Patient* Think They Are Hod*
Water Fountain*, Ola** or Wooden
Indian* — Various Assortment of U»l
lucluatlon*.
There are many queer cases of de
mentia and in nearly every city in the
country mildly insane people may be
encountered on the streets. One pecu
liar case—the hallucination of a double
personality—recently came under a
Chicago physician's notice, writes a
correspondent. When I would ask the
patient, says the physician, “How are
you feeling this morning?” she would
look far away and say. “The doctor
would like to know how you are feeling
this morning.” She of course imagined
that she was a sort of double person,
one personality subjective, the other
objective, or, perhaps, she thought she
was two persons. She thought I was
inquiring for the health of the objec
tive or secondary person. In a few mo
menta after she had repeated my ques
tion as if to another and looking as if
she saw a third person some distance
away she would suddenly turn to me
and say, "She says she Is feeling first
rate today.” Then perhaps I would
ask, “Are you going out riding this
.afternoon?” Again she would turn as
if addressing someone else and say:
‘‘The doctor wants to know if you are
going out riding this afternoon.” Again
she would pause as if listening to a
reply and then she would say to me:
“She thinks she may go out for a lit
tle while if it is a pleasant-afternoon.”
All of the questions asked of the pa
tient were always answered in perfect
accord with her own condition, opin
ions, inclinations, etc. That is, when
she spoke of the imaginary person be
ing well she herself was well. And
quite often I heard her talk as if carry
ing on a conversation with a third
person.
A somewhat common hallucination of
an insane person is the belief that he
or she is made of glass or some very
brittle substance. They warn everyone
who approaches not to touch them for
fear they will be shattered in pieces.
Then there is the patient who imagines 1
he is perfectly hollow inside and that
there is no way by which food can
reach his interior. When he is fed he
even then insists that no food has
gone inside of him, and that he has
had no nourishment whatever.
Very often the insane become pos
sessed with the idea that they are apt
to become contaminated with anything
which they touch or which touches
them. They allow no one to touch
them, and if they happen to let their
hands touch even a door knob or any
thing whatever they instantly plunge
them in water and wash them thor
oughly.
THOUGHT HE WAS A SODA FOUN
TAIN.
One day a man was captured on the
north side with his lips puckered up
and giving forth a sizzling sound in
imitation of a soda water fountain.
The man said he was a soda fountain
and that he made his living by wak
Cape Nome
a Fraud....
So many stories of the wonderful 1
richness of the mining sands of Cape
Nome have been published that the
account of Walter Kane, who works
for one of the transportation compan
ies, and who certainly has consider
able knowledge of the state of things
there, will be received with bewilder
ment. According to Mr. Kane, who
has just reached Tacoma, Cape Nome
is a good place to keep away from.
He says:
“Any man who is making a living
here who would go up there is the
next thing to crazy. It is nothing
more than a transportation scheme,
and the proof of it is ,in the fact that
of all the steamers that have come
down from there now, after miners
have been working for more than a
year, no gold has been brought down.
When the Klondike was discovered
and the first- steamers came down they
brought the gold. That talked for It
self. But no gold has been brought
down from Nome.
“Nome is the.most desolate country
on earth, and when you see scores of
women wandering aimlessly about the
streets weeping and wringing their
hands, without knowing how they are
going to live if they stay there, or
how they are going to get out, it
makes a dismal picture.
“Wood is $50 a cord, coal is $75 per
ton, and everything else high, which
would be all right if there was the
gold there to pay for it; but no gold
Not Constituted for Swimming.
Camels can not swim. They are
very buoyant, but ill balanced, and
their heads go under water. They can,
however, be taught to swim rivers
with the aid of goatskins or Jars fas
tened under their necks. During the
Beluchistan expedition of 1898 the
camels were lowered into the sea from
the Bhips, and their drivers, plung
ing overboard, clambered on to the
back of their charges, causing the ani
mals’ heads to come up; ahd thus as
sisted they were successfully piloted
•chore. —Pearson’s IJhgazine.
ing the “sizz" sound with his uioutn
He said he made the sound tot anybody
who wanted to hear It and that every
time he "sizzed” he received the pries
of an Ice cream soda. The poor fellow
was soon landed where he still con
tinues to play the animated soda foun
tain.
Quite often insane people lmaglns
they are certain animals or even pieces
of machinery. Occasionally there la a
case in which the unfortunate thinks
he is a steam engine, and he goes along
the highway at full speed, his arms
giving imitations of the flying drive
wheels of the locomotive. It was only
a year or two ago that a man over on
Milwaukee avenue was possessed with
the idea that he was the Lincoln Park
elephant. He got down on his hands
and knees and before anyone was
aware that he was insane he had chll- i
dren piled all over his back and was
crawling up and down the street glvw
ing the little ones a free ride.
A few years ago a homeless wanderer
suddenly went insane on South Clark
street. He at once became possessed
with the idea that he was an Indian
cigar sign. So with one hand lifted
high in the aid as if it were holding a
tomahawk and with the other posed in
front of him as if holding a bunch of
cigars the man took up his station in
front of a tobacco store. He stood there
stolidly for nearly an hour and a half.
It finally required the services of three
policemen to remove the cigar sign to
a patfol wagon bound for the detention
hospital.
The Monkfish and the Dog.
A monkfish made a quick meal of an
Eastport dog Saturday noon and was
captured a short time later near one
of the sardine factory wharves, says
the Lewiston (Me.) Journal. Very few
monkfish are seen in Passamaquoddy
bay, but at different times they are
found of large size and have been
known to come to the surface suddenly
and gobble up any sea bird that hap
pens to be on the water. They are
among the homeliest fish that are
found along t'ne neighboring coast, the
mouth being unusually large, and fish
ermen have known them to swallow
objects nearly as large as themselves.
In appearance they resemble a big
sculpin, and the one killed here Friday
came in for a full share of attention
from the many spectators on the
wharf. The unfortunate dog was en
joying a swim along the water front,
watched by his owner and a party of
friends, when without warning the
monkfish came to the surface with
open mouth and the dog went down
without much of a fight for his life.
Later in the day some boys were
spearing flounders in shallow water
when they-saw an odd-looking fish b*
low, and with a boat hook soon gath
ered it in. The dog was found inside,
but. was. considerably mangled by the
sa-w-like teeth of the fish, and it was
noticed that the dog was nearly as
large as the entire monkfish.
Premier One's a Reporter.
Sir Gordon Sprigg, the new premier*
of Cape Colony, south Africa, began*
life as a reporter in the house of com-*
mons. fl
Gold is Scarce. Suicides
Common, and Starvation
Imminent.
has been brought down. One vessd*
that was reported to have $142,000 oL
Nome gold, I happen to know, onll
had $42,000, and that was taken on 4
St. Michael, from up on the YukoJ
I never saw a more despondent, lot fll
people in my life than I saw on thl
beach and along the ten-mile-loai
street of Nome. Suicides are commoil
not a quarter of them being reportei
to the outsit’* world, and there aifl
hundreds of men and a good man
women and children there that do n(fl
know how they are going to lit®
through the week. The gov€frnm«®
will have to bring them out. TMJ
will be a great amount of suffering
there unless something Is done ifl
once. I
The chief benefit accrued to t*
transportation companies. Take
Robert Dollar, for instance. She w4j
built for about $40,000. She was chi*
tered by a company at $6,000 P*
month. They loaded her with <W*
1,000 tons of freight, at an average*
say $50 per ton, and 300 passengers,*
from $75 to $125 apiece, say $100 apifl
on an average. That makes ab<*
$75,000 receipts for the trip up, if
brought nothing back. This Is OjH
than enough to pay for the ship l*
her expenses and all in one nion®
Take a big ship like the Tacoma, H
Olympia, that carried 600 or 800 ffl
sengers and 2,000 or 3,000 tonlH
freight, and makes the run in nin*H
ten days—you can see what a
there is in it.” iH
Peat of Germany.
A scheme for the utilization of I
great peat beds of North Germanfl
the generation of electricity has 4
proposed in a German contempo*
The author estimates that an ac*
turf 10 feet thick would give a t*
sand tons of combustible mat*
equivalent to 480 tons of coke, m
mosses of the Ems valley, which *
an area of, 1,000 square miles,
furnish the equivalent of 300,01*
tons of pit coal; that is to say, *
than the total production of Gert*
tat thrae years. ||