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THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY; AUGUST 28, 1897—2X PAGES. FIRST SUPPLIES A’ (¥. Wilson.) ‘T CIRCLE CITY. « ALASKAN GOLD FIELD! Information of Importance to Pros- pectors for Yellow Metal. GUIDES 10 THE YORON TERRITORY ; Its Navigable Streams and Modes of Transportation. —_.—_— HINTS ABOUT CLOTHING Written for The Evening Star. There have been numerous publications issued lately in regard to the Alaskan and Canadian gold fields. The majerity of them centain much that is of interest ang im- portance for intending prospectors. Among these compilations are the fol- : “Klondike,” A. Coolidge, hed by Henry Altemus, Philadelphi ide for the Yukon Gold Fields,” by Wilson, published by the Calvert Company, Seattle, Wash.; “The Gold Fields of the by Joha W. Leonard, published Marquis & Company, Chicago, Klondike Gold Fields,” by “The Charlies Alexander Plempel, illustrated by Isaac B. Beales, published by the Maryland Publishing Company “Alaska Gold Fields Guide,” ham, published the Chicago, Il. “Klondike.” the book compiled by L. A. Coolidge, an old newspaper man, is one of the most concise and comprehensive of any of the publications issued so far. It has an interesting chapter by John F. Pratt. c' of the Alaskan boundary expedition of 1804, that centains not only information about of Baltimore, by J. F. Lomas Company. id. ; the Klondike, but about the Yukon country end Alaska in general, with numerous maps and photographic illustrations. Mr. Ccolidge says regarding Alaska: “Very few people in the United States, even among the more intelligent and edu- cated classes, fully appreciate the immense area of the territory which was added to the public domain by the purchase of Alaska. The total area of the United States proper, including the fully organized terri- teries, is 2,970, square miles. Alaska proper in the mainland contains an area of 580,107 square miles; the islands of Alex ander Archipelago, off the southeastern coast, contain $1,205 are miles, and the Aleutian Islands, square miles. In other words Alaska with its adjacent i: lands embrac more square miles of ter- ritory than twenty-one states of the Union east of the Mississippi river. The numer- ous islands, creeks and inlets of Alaska lengthen out its coast line to 7,860 square Saw OM igen 00 ggg are also navigable. The Stewart, Tah- keena, Hootalingua and its lake connec- tions would make fine waterways, while the Porcupine, Tanana, Koyukuk, Anrik and White rivers, Bireh creek, Salmon riv- er, and many others, to the extent of many thousand miles, will in time be traversed by steamers. There are at present two large boats running fro:@ St. Michael's to Peily river. One is used to supply stations of a commercial company at Forty Mile Post, Sixty Mile and Pelly rivers. This ccmpany has carried on 2 trading business for many years, and has large warehouses at St. Michael's. It runs several smaller hoats to stations a!ong the lower river, and it is thought will certainly add a new and larger boat to the fleet by spring. River Rates to Passengers. A large boat used by a trading compa to supply its stations along the river i Goubje boilers znd consumes about twenty- five cords of wood a day. The two coni- penies will Gouble the amount of supplies this year, and, it is thought, will he abie bg Mia itl compiled by John W. Leonard, is another volume of ‘nteresting information on the subject. In contains a comprehensive map of Alaska and the British possessions, with special attention paid to the Kiondike. The reading matter is most instructive. This is what the book had about clothing for the trip and volume: Outfit of Clothing. “Some of the things one needs in making the overland journey will not be required if the trip is made by sea, and if one has arranged his food supply with the trans- portation company, of course the load will be lightened. However one goes, he will require a good outfit of clothing, all of the useful order. Two suits of stout clothing, such as corduroy of the strongest jeans, or one jacket and two pairs of pants; about three pairs of heavy wool socks and three of ordinary socks, ‘two pairs of blanket lined mittens, two pairs of rubber boots ART ANDcARTISTS. a The large canvas by Joseph Klir which has been on exhibition in Veerhoff’s win- dow has attracted a good deal of attention on account of the cddity of the subject. It is entitled “The Lost Bet,” and. commem- orates one of the afhusing themes which may be seen anywhete after clection. The loser of the wager Has piaced himself in the shafts of alight, wagon and is draw- ing the winner :through the streets of Chi- cago, followed' by a brass band and a crowd of hilaridhs onjookers. It is said to be an extremely, accurate portrayal of one of the street corners ef Chicago, and every detail is worked up with great fidelity. There are about half a hundred figures of considerable size in the composition, and and a can of rubber cement to repair them with if they crack, two or three pairs of shoes, both stout, and one pair extra heavy; five or six yards of mosquito netting of best quality, one or two caps, sou’wester cap, rubber coat for summer, three suits heavy underwear, three or four heavy woolen shirts, a sweater, two summer neg- lige shirts, two rough towels and a car- tridge belt. “Take alonz a bachelor’s sewing outtit. You will want a shaving outfit. You may think you do not, but if ou ever have your beard frozen into a solid ice maybe you will change your mind. For the more_ severe weather, fur garments are more desirab!e, in fact, essential for comfort. These can be bought in Juneau, if the demand has not swamped the supply. There are water boots made of seal and walrus skins, and winter or dry weather boots made of vari- ous kinds of furs. Trousers are made of several kinds of skins, principally that of the marmot or Siberian ground squirrel. Most Important Garment. “The most important and characteristic garment is the ‘parka,’ made of marmot and muskrat skin or tanned reindeer skins, with enormous winter hoods or collars of CAMP AT HEAD OF LAKE TAGISH. Coolidge.) to equip all who visit the mines the com- ing season. Connections will be mide at Si Michael’s w:th boats for San Franci, and sound pointe. The following passen- ger rates are now charged: From Forty Mile Post to St. Michael's, first class, 50); second class, $10. To San’ Francisco, first class, $175; sccond class, $150. The trans- pertation company will run passenger steamers from San Francisco and Seattle. The boats will accommodate about 100 pas- sengers. Tourists, miners and others wish- ing to go to theYukon country without the hardships accompanying the trip down the river, and with a reasonable price, it is said, will do well to take this route. The “guide” says that the Canadian gov- ernment is making a preliminary survey of what is known as the Taku route, and will build a tra.l -vithin the year, if such con- cessions as are necessary can be had from the United States government. This trail would open up all the extensive country lying beyond the coast range down to the 141st meridian, most of which is a good grazing ccuntry, as well as being rich in minerals. This route leads up the Taku inlet to the coast range, thence by a low path, a distance about eighty-five miles, to water running into Lake Teslin. The pass is said to be timbered the entire distance and to run through a fine grazing country. Five Fingers Falls. By striking the waters of Teslin lake, thence across this lake and down the Hootalingua, no falls are other than the Five Fingers falls, which FORTY-MILE POST. (V. Wilson.) miles, an extent greater than that of tne | eastern coast lines of the United States ‘The governor of Alaska, sitting in his off at Sitka, is very little farther, measuring in a straight line, from Eastport, Me., than he is from the extreme western limit of his own jurisdiction. “The population of Alaska is largely a matter of estimate. According to the latest reports it amounted to about 35,000. Of these about 10,000 might be described as civilized, and this number includes not only the whites, but the Creoles and the Aleu- tians. The people called Creoles are de- scendants three or four generations remote of a mixed parentage (Russian fathers and native mothers). The native Alaskans ure a very superior race, intellectually, as com- pared with the people generally known as North American Indians, and as a rule they are provident and wholly self-sustaining.” Other information in the book is in regard to the Klondike and Yukon diggings, “life in camp,” “placer minings and hydraulics,” “boundary dispute,” “laws governing the location of claims,” climate, etc. Guide to Yukon Fields. The “Guide to the Yukon Gold Fields,” by V. Wilson, has some interesting ma- offer no great obstacle. This, it is said, would always prove an easy route, but would, in case of a trail by way of Chil- koot or White pass, be used only for the ccuntry not reached by those trails, they being so much shorter than the Taku. Should the United States government grant such concessions as the Canadian government will ask for, it is stated, such @ trail would prove the greatest detriment Sixty-Mile Post. encountered | (V. Wilson.) to trade on the Pacific coast. Not only the wholesale houses on the sound, it is de- terial. Among other valuable hints given, it says that the navigable waters of the Yu- kon and its tributaries are almost unlimit- ed. The Lewis can be ascended, beyond all dcubt, to the foot of White Horse in a suit- able boat, while the lakes above would fur- nish hundreds of miles of navigable wa- ters. The Pelly can also be ascended a geod distance, while many of its branches clared, but the outfitting establishment at Juneau, would suffer. Victoria would at once come into prominence, and English goods would take the place of American products. Not only would this hold true in their own territory, but large quantities of those goods would find their way across the line and supply miners on the United States sides of the present boundary. “The Gold Fields of the Klondike,” is- sued by A. M. Marquist & Co., Chicugo, SUNDAY BOWLING IN Frem the Fliegende Blatter. THE CAMEROON. dog hair, fox fur or, still better, trimmed with the long hair of a wolverine or ‘glut- ton.” This ‘parka’ has sleeves and com- passes the body of the wearer without an opening before or behind from his neck to his feet. His head is thrust through an aperture left for it; and it has a puckering string which draws it snugly around the neck. This is a favorite, and in fact a uni- Fort Cudahy. (V. Wilson.) versal winter garment with the Innuits or Eskimos of the coast, the most esteemed kind being made of alder-bark-tan reindeer skin for winter use, with the hair worn in- side. The wolverine trimming of the hood is much favored by the white residents of the Yukon country, the hair, which is five or six inches long, being useful in protect- ing the face without obscuring the vision. A well-made ‘parka’ will cost from $25 to $100, according to the material, but it Is practically cold proof. Less expensive fur garments can be procured, but will not af- ford as much protection as the native gar- ment.” Canadian Mining Laws. Graham's Alaska Gold Fields Guide is a handy little volume of twenty-six pages, with a large map of the country. It is pub- lished by the Lomas Publishing Company, Chicago, Ill. It gives complete information on mining, prospecting, climate, routes, laws, food, expenses, maps of gold streams, cuts of quick mining tools, etc. It has this to say on the latest Canadian mining laws: “At the close of the second setting of the cabinet at Ottawa, Ontario, July 27, 1897, it was announced that the government had decided to place a royalty on all Yukon places of diggings, in addition to the regu- lar $15 registration fee and $100 assessment. This royalty will be 10 per cent on every claim with an output of $500 or less month- ly, and 20 per cent on every claim yielding above that amount yearly. It has also been decided in reference to all future claims staked out on the rivers or streams that every alternate claim is to be government property, and shall’be reserved for public purposes, the government to work or sell the same for the benefit of the revenues cf the dominion.” ———— ‘WON FIFTY, BUT LOST NINETY. He Found His Winnings Had to Be Punched as Counterfeit. From the Chicago Times-Herald. “It's not that I’ve become. convinced of ‘the sinfulness of games of chance and re- formed,” said the thoughtful-looking man, “Nor is it that I have lost confidence in my luck, or that I’m afraid’ of arrest. None of these could have given my taste for faro the jar that it received last week. “I dropped into a Clark street place with a $50 bill that had been paid me—all that was due me until the end of the month. ‘Twenty dollars’ worth of chips that I bought to start with were gone before I fully realized what had happened. That was all I had intended to allow myself to lose, but after standing around and watch: ing for awhile, I decided to give the game another run. So I bought $20 worth more. “My luck turned at once. In a_ short time my pile had risen above fifty. “When it reaches ninety,” I thought, “I'll quit. Having pald out forty, ninety would leave me a ‘velvet’ of an even fifty. For quite a while I fluctuated around seventy-five; finally a couple of good bets brought me up to my even ninety.” “And you thought you'd try just. one play more, and ended by losing all you’d won, I suppose?” “No, different story this time. I tore my- self away from the table and cashed in, re- ceiving a $50 greenback and two twenties. I left the place promptly and went to the the next morning to deposit my fifty. “Hard luck,’ was the teller’s remark, as he clicked a little machine and tossed my bill back with the word ‘‘counterfeit’ through it. “ ‘For heaven's sake,’ I gasped, ‘if that’s counterfeit, maybe these are, too!’ And before I thought I pulled out the two twen- ties. As I shoved them under the grating I came back to my senses and started to take them back. But it was too late. The teller grabbed them, ran his fingers over them, and returned them in the same con- dition as the-fifty. I realized that I had $10 to live on during three weeks.” a “Couldn't you get any satisfaction from the people you won from?” 5 banks called another large man with hands; the least of the forms of ‘dishonesty of which he then accused me was black- mail. I accepted his invitation to leave be- fore pressure was brought to bear.” ‘ “I strongly disapprove, Just think of fiitteen days in each year for bills to come: they are studied with a care that might perhaps have-been more wortbily bestowed upon a more dignified theme. Another picture which has been on exhibition at Veerhoff's is the mellow landscape by Wil- Ham Keith, which was hung for a time in the Corcoran Gallery. * * * Mr. R, LeGrand Johnston has just finish- ed the two animal pictures that he was commissioned to paint for Mr. R.S. Craw- ford of Hagerstown. One cf these paintings is a study of sheep grazing in a pasture with a background of trees,and it is equal to ariy- thing that the artist has done in this direc- tion. Hardly less attractive is the other canvas, which is a study showing several calves resting, and in both works Mr. Johnston shows a thorou; the animals. eT * * * Mr. A. L. Jordan has been doing little or no actual china decoration of late, but has been busy preparing a number of artistic designs. These are mainly of flower sub- jects, treated sometimes in a conventional- ized manner and sometimes with especial fidelity to nature, but in almost every case pleasing in color. Mr. Jordan uses the ro- coco style of design in combination with graceful flower sprays with happy results. He has been invited to Little Rock, Ari. to teach, and it is probable that he will leave the city in the fall and rema west during the winter. aura tie * * * Miss Sara Bartle, who has spent the summer in East Gloucester, Mass., for sev- cra] seasons past, has been at Newport for two or three weeks. She does little outdour sketching, even in summer, but continues to paint her exquisite miniatures. At New- port she has all the work that she can do ahead of her, and will probably remain until the season closes, though she is very devoted to East Gloucester and will make an effort to get back there again before autumn. * Miss Perrie left the scity/ about ten days ago for Duxbury, Mass., making a short stop in New York cn her way north. The Picturesque seacoast town that she is ncw visiting is a short distance south of Bos- ton, and is in the heart of a very paintable region. Miss Perrie is with her friend, Miss Emily Tyers, specimens of whose work were shown when Miss Perrie held an exhibition here a year ago.° * * ok Mr. Richard N. Brooke has been working in Warrenton, Ya., as in past summers, and will doubtless bring back suggestions for many pictures and ideas that he will develop later ifi thé year. The region about Warrenton is‘ an interesting and picturesque one, ard although Mr. Brooke knows the couniry well he never fails to bring home something new from year to year. Some of bi: best material has been amassed In these visits to his home, where he can divide his timie between work and rest t n * * * Miss Juliet Thompson lately returned to Washington after a Stay at Ocean City, Md. She did Uttle or no work during her absence by the seacoast, although the op- portunities “for outdoor sketching were abundant, for Miss Thompson confines her- self almost ertirély to portrait work. Her visit at Ocean City was for rest and pleas- ure, and the many beauties of ‘the place, which would captivate the fancy of the landscape artist and afford him such a splendid field for material, failed to tempt her into any serious artistic work during her stay by salt water. Miss Thompson expects to be in the city but a short time, efter which she will leave town not to re- turn again until late in the fall. The re- n.ainder of her vacation wili be spent in the good old state of Maryland, and she will start for Araby shortly, where she will pass the rest of the summer. a A GRIM STORY ABOUT WILLIAM. The Tragic Mystery of Lieut. Hahnke’s Denth, Von Harold Frederfe in the New York Times. The German emperor is never so thor- oughly happy as when he is concentrating attention on himself, and he apparently has not yet reached the limit of astounding pranks he is capable of playing in order to be well under the limelight on the Euro- pean stage. This makes it all the more curious that one of his many dramatic en- trances and exits, which was closely fol- lowed by the tragic death of a young com- panion, has been shut off from the public gaze by the curtain of silence raised only for a brief moment to show the august figure of the imperial protagonist In un- certain light dimmed by the mist of im- probable fiction. It will be remembered how a short time back the world was pain- ed by the information that the imperial navigator on board the yacht Hohenzollern off the Norwegian coast had received a bad black eye. Elaborate explanations were at once forthcoming as to the clumsy flapping or falling of a vaguely placed rope on one of the best-appointed vessels manned by perhaps the smartest crew afioat. Then comes the tragedy in the shape of the sudden death next day of Lieut. von Hahnke, a promising young naval officer on board the Hohenzollern, ‘und the press of Europe was required to swallow the astounding canard that this young athlete, expert at all manly exer- cises, had landed and ridden a bicycle over the edge of a cliff into the sea. All this goes very well, and the entour- age of the kaiser may be recommended as artists in fiction of no mean order. But the grim story which is now muttered un- der the breath in the land whose loyalty is so sorely tried by the feverish fuming of William the Avtocrat is of a much simpler kind. It tells of a young officer who, mad- dened by some biting speech or rough, im- pulsive act of the flery kaiser, so far for- got himself as td,strike his sovereign, and then, on the next, day,, seeing that all-was over for him, topk hig own ruined -life. If this tragedy be trve, even in part, it has its own precedent in tory if not in grave pity. By such néedle mystery and care- ful concealment’ of the details attending the young fellow’s death, added to the foolish explapations vouchsafed to the not altogether im! le rid, that the Ger- man_ authorities ” oul tim men’s minds to the gravest interp tions, even where the issue is less wen it is most curious. ‘The fatality which it Is the kaiser to do the wrong thing: with unerring accuracy, as instanced by be geanie eee Sena gram to King an e Count oi Turin off his ae ai wee pepe tae leans, is omni; it. In case the re- venge will be ceftain"though a while de- ferred, for Will thereby ruined his chances of being invited to Paris for the great exhibition of is known to have set his heart. Two Points of Resemblance. From Puck. | Sthe—“Oh! Is that Miss Gotrox? I under- stand she’s as rich a6 Klondike.” - He—"Yes; and they say fortune hunters find her just an cola.” & —______ Tt iRK ya Ot —— 14 Automatic Tor anol Baron SOLDERE THE GANS ARE GARRIED ALONG BY AN ENDLESS CHAIN, ALLOWING THE EDGE OR JOINT TO REGIEYE_ A LATER OF &0L DER FROM THE SOLDER WEise oe Sn a HOW TIN CANS ARE MADE. MADE BY MACHINERY Wonderful Processes Used in the Manufacture of Tin Cans. THE OLD SYSTEM AND THE NEW Enormous Number Used for Pre- serving Fruits and Vegetables. OLD CANS N COMMERCE In view of the fact that prominent fruit- erers say that this will be one of the big- gest canning seasons on re2ord, the won- derful process of tin can making takes an added interest. ‘Tin cans are made by ma- chinery. Over 400,000,000 a year ure pro- duced in this country. Out cf the 7,000,000 boxes of tin plate (120 sheets to the box) used yearly only 2,000,000 boxes go for gen- eral use. The remaining 5,000,000 boxes cf tin (600,000,000 sheets) are made into cxns. Common fruit cans represent two-thirds of the entire product. Assuming six inc the average height of a can, some idea of the enormity of this product may be had when it is pointed out that if the cans were to be placed end to.end ihe latter would be 37,878 miles in length—long enough to reach one and one-half times around the earth. Twenty years ago a fruit can feciory consisted of several dozen men and as 'y boy helpers, who made he 2ans ail by hand, cutting them out with shears, passing the sides through a ringer to roll them in shape. The bottoms \d covers were shaped by means of dies, and the pai all put together and soldered by hand. r- ally, when buying canned goods in those days a few cents went to pay for the can. With twenty men and ‘heir helpers, tho most that could be produced in those days was 16,000 a day. The same number of employes, most of them boys, are now able, by means of automatic machinery, to turn out over 200,000 a day. There are now in existence in New York, Chicago and Balti- more large plants employing machines, having a daily capacity of 490,000. The pro- duction has increased rapijly year by year as new machines have been invented, until now it is only, necessary to insert quantities of tin sheets into one part of ithe ma- chine to have them auton cally pass through all the stages of manutacture and drop out at the other end ‘n the shape of completely formed cans. Like a Printing Press. The improved machine of today is a com- bination of eight or ten machines. The tin sheets, cut exactly the same size, are load- ed in a machine that reminds one of a printing press. This machine is a self- feeding, rolling and mortising machine, taking one sheet at a time, looping over a narrow margin on each edge of the sheet, hocking these looped edges together, and, finally, clinching tightly the joint thus made. This process completes the body of the cans, which drop upon an endless belt- ing, and are carried to the next point of de- velopment. As it passes along, the seam faces downward and runs through a solder well, which fills the joint with lead. The surface of the joint is rubbed off smooth. The bodies of the cans now automatically pess into the horizontal apertures of a massive wheel, which revolves and stops like the cylinder of a pistol. Two boys, seated above this wheel, have all they can do te keep two upright slides filled with heads and bottoms for the cans. One by one these fall in place, and are forced on either end of the can bodies by dies. The wheel revolves as each is finished, and they are thrown out and carried along to the next machine. Soldering Tops and Bottoms. The can, though now practically com- Pleted, runs into a long machine, consist- ing of belts and chains, the line of cans passing up on one side at an angle of for- ty-five degrees, aroynd at the further end and back again. This is the automatic top and bottom solderer. An endless chain, which moves along faster than the cans, rests cn top of them, so that they are rolled around as they advance. The cans are tilted at an angle, so that the bottom and top edges or joints are, in turn, rolled around in a long solder well at the lower point of the angle. The tops are soldered on one side of the machine, the bottoms on the other. An ree now carries them to a burnisher, and thence to the big tester, where a pressure of thirty-five pounds to the square inch is exerted upon thecan, to insure its strength and prove it water- tight. ‘This system of machines occupies an en- ormous space, and a continuous line of bright cans is seen moving rapidly in all directicns, as a plant usually consists of a number of these complex systems on a floor. Slightly different machines are used for different styles of cans—tomato and cern cans, baking powder, condensed. milk, fruit, spices, druggists’ materials, etc.— sgme machines lapping joints over a sec- ond time, so that they are water-tight without being soldered. Value of Old Cans. It is a mistaken idea that there is. no further use for the tin can when thrown out with the rubbish. Smelting companies keep wagons employed constantly, and many individuals make a business of gath- ering old tin cans by the wagon load at the city dumps and around the suburbs, re- ceiving as high as $3.50-a load. At the smelters they are dumped on a grate, where the flames from burning shav- ings melt off the tin and lead. Some of the remaining iron pieces are frequently sold to trunk epee for use in les weights, weights for el ete., from the tin and other common forms of cast- ings, although there is now a method by which the iron from the old tins can be re- fined and used for first-class castings. SERRE eee St ALIVE AND DEAD. ‘The Difference Conditions Made in Neighbors’ Estimate. From the Detrolt Free. Press. High till; Gthiltees Gel bnbeat nce! 3 ture sash lots better than the folks that used to run him do He always had a kind wor.! for everybody, an’ there never was a day he wouldn't drop his cwn work to help a neighbor out. Poor Pete “He used to drink ri e?” asked Ezra, as he the dried apple barrel. “Why, he took his dram,” said Uncle Si, covering the barrel with a board and ing a subsoil plow on the top of it, “but they wa’n't no better man altogether in che county than Pete. He was as fine a man as Lever saw. As I said, he had his faults, but outside of them he wuz a shore ‘nough gentleman, and one ov the high- mindedest Christian citizens we had.” finder lazy, I al'ays thought,” Rzra. “That he wuzn’t,” said Uncle Si, warmly. “Pete took things easy, but ef there cver wuz a man tried to do his duty and was good to his family and friends, it wuz Pete. I don’t mind any man in the whole couniy smart, didn’t hed down into Fd said we could have any wuss red than Pete Hodgin, and ef ther town wuz to do its duty, it would cail a meetin’ and resolui some about the ioss his death will be to the communit: “Here comes Jim Hoskins,” said Ezra; ell us what wuz the matter , Jim, know what Pete said Jim; “it were Sam s it?” said Uncle Si, tak- cles and wiping them on . “Well, now! Think ov the ways of the Lord. He’s taken off Sam, the best man for forty miles around, and left that lazy, triftin’, drunken, low-cown, sheep-stealin’ brother Pete of his for to cumber up the earth!” HIGHER EDUCATION FO! R THE NEGRO Industrinlism Alone Cannot Work Out His Salvation. 4lex. Crummell, D.D., in the Independent, It seems manifest that the major factor in this work for the negro is his higher culture. There is no dispute as to the need of industriaiism. That is a universal con- dition of life everywhere. But there is no need of an undue or overshadowing exag- geration of it in the case of the negro. And, first of all, industrialism itself is a result in men’s civilization, not a cause. it may exist in a people and with much ex- cellence*for ages, and still that people may “lie in dull obstruction,” semi-barbarous and degraded. We see in all history large populations moving in all the planes of industrial life, both low and high, and yet paralyzed in all the high springs of action, and for the simple reason that the hand of man gets its cunning from the brain. And without the enlightened brain what is the hand of man more than the claw of a bird or the foot of a squirrel? In fine, without the enlightened brain wnere is civilization? The negro race, then, needs a new factor for its future life and being, and this new factor must come from a more vitalizing source than any material condition. The end of industrialism 1s thrift, prosper or gain. But civilization has a loftier ob- ject in view. It is te make men grander; it is to exalt them in the scale of being; and its main agency to this emd is the “higher culture,” > If a more precise and definite meaning to this word is demanded, I reply that I use it as indicative of letters, literature, science and philosophy. In other words, that this negro race is to be lifted up to the acquisition of the higher culture of the age. but now and all along the development of the race. And no temporary fad of doubt- ing or purblind philanthropy is to be ul- lowed to make “industrial training” a sub- stitute for it. This does not mean that noodles and numbskulls shall be seat to college; nor that every negro shall be made a scholar; nor that there shall be a waste of time and money upon incapacity. No one can make a thimble hold the contents of a bucket! But what it does mean is this, that the whole world of scholazship shall be opened to the negro mind; and that it is not to be fastened, temporarily or permanently, to the truck-path or to the hoe, to the anvil or to the plane; that the negro shall be allowed to do his own thinking in any and in every sphere, and not to have that thinking relegated to others. It means that when genius arises in this race, and elects, with flaming torch, to push its way into the grand arcanum of philosophy or science or imagination, no bar shall be raised against its entrance; albeit it be in- carnated in a form deply tinged with “The shadowed livery of the burnished sun.” I submit: 1. That civilization is the foremost, deep- est need of the negro race; 2. That the “higher culture” is its gran3- est source; 3. That the gift to the negro of the scien- tific mind, by Fisk and Clark and Lincoln, and Oberlin and Howard and Yale, and Harvard and other colleges, is of the most incalculable value to the black race. The Great American Weakness. From ‘fown Topics. I greet with a glad hand the organization of a soclety “to be composed of the boys and girls who are too ycung to be eligible to the Sons and Daughters of the American Revolution, but who possess all the other necessary requirements.” Brooklyn, that capital and center of the noblest thought of the century, has the honor of being the founder of the new society, which is to be" called the Little Men and Women of 1776. Everybody must have felt for a long time that there were not enough societies in the United States. I know personally of a num- ber of women who only belong to fifteen or twenty of these so-called patriotic con- cerns, and they complain bitterly that there are not more of them to join. Many men, too, have had the same grievance. There are Sons of the Revolution, Sons of the American Revolution, Sons of the Men Who Emigrated to the Co:onies Before 1630, Sons of the Men Who"Emigrsted to the Colonies After 1630, This culture is te be made a part! of its heritage; not at some distant day, | — 2 ~ he SEAM QDOWwERING 0 THE CANS ART CARRIED ALONG UN ENDL 6 DEL TING DOKN AND ARE S01 DLRED AD [NEY PASS OVER A ®ORDER WELL Trit DLAM> FACE with buttons and to serve upon committe ‘his Brooklyn organization points the wa: to the step in the development of patriotic socie ies. There must be a Society of Babes in Arms of the Am: n Revo- lution. The committee business cannot start too soon Scns: = Thinking of Others. From the Pr Journal. Now that t time for summer outings has arrived, and we are absorbed in plans fer going and doing, we want to remem- ber, as we arrange for our own comfort end pleasure, the lives outside with which ours come in contact. What can we say and do that will be helpful to another? What should we leave unsaid? Many kindly things wiil suggest them- selves to be done, many words or acts ¢ pain. Charity suppressed that might cau for fauits will ver a multitude,” an grace—the willin s to do things lovingly —be hourly exercised. Yet there is one failing many uncon- weariness and sciously indulge in to ri distress of their hearers, which, if realized as a failing, would often be restricted, viz., the tendency to speak of one’s physical ailments. What right have we to spread before others an account of some s often going into tediovs minutiae, ung that we ourselves are the only especially interested i in afitiction. We may desire sympathy, does that excuse us for thrusting our troubles, mental and physical, in the faces of our friends? Does it not show a want of deii- c on our part and of consideration for th Some believe tha ating ac- counts of sickness so keeps it im mind as to cause a liability of its return, ‘and that the sympathy of the hearer ulso helps this liability. The physicians say to their pa- tients, “You will be snuch if you take your minds off of This is a point worthy of consideration. Do we ourselves cnjoy having our friends relate chapters of their ailments? Do not these recitals sometimes anount to posie tive rudeness? 0s White Negroes. From the Philadelphia Press. The fact that a girl who has negro blood in her veins graduated with high honors from Vassar College, none of her fellow- pupils having discovered the African strain, @ces not surprise southerners. A gentle- ran who was born and raised in New Or- leans and is now living in this city de- clares that some of the most beautiful wo- men he ever saw were of partly African descent. “Some years ago,” said he, young northern man came to New Orleans to spend the winter. One night a party of us asked him if he did not want to go to a ‘coon’ ball. He supposed we were out for a lark among colored people, and he agreed to go along. We were in evening dress, and at about midnight drove to a house in the French quarter, where we found a ball in full blast. We introduced our visitor to a number of the guests of both sexes and he enjoyed himself hugeiy. After a couple of hours he declared that he had never seen so many lovely women together before. He said he was glad that we had given up our project of going to a ‘coon’ ball, as he was satisfied to remain where he was. He was absolutely dumfounded when told that every woman present had an admix- ture of African blood in her veins, but it was true. Those women have a society lis- tinctly their own, and mix with neither the whites nor blacks, yet nobody could know that they are not purely Cavea: Some of them are brilliantly intellectual. our nerthern friend fell in love with one that he met at the ball and married her. Her friends in the north all think that she is @ creole. Alongshore. From the Independent. ‘The tide is low, the marshish plants show tall; The dusky brant is houking on the bar; He eats the rivboned leaves, that float and fall, And tiny fish, with shells Ike lapping spar. And wading plashing in his noisy glee, The mottled coot, among the water-oats, Josties their ticking stems, which softly free, And rain the ripened seeds, on which be gloats, The ocean's pulse upbeats; in curving lines The little fleets of birds go sailing slow, Above the bars submerged, where tranquil shines ‘The water round their plants that root below. The feeding grounds are set with blinds of brush, Fast sunk where sand-banks shewi and brim, at tides; And Ilt decoys, with backs Hke painted plush, Look toward each living bird, that gally glides. ‘They come: a friendly pair, or covey fair, Allured to death, by cruelty refined; Nor dream the strangers poise before a lair, Where lurks the skiff behind the bushy blind. ‘The sportsmen’s skiff, behind the lind may rock, But darkly waits; the sportsmen’s eyes are keen; ‘The clicking triggers loose the waiting locks; The fatal shots tear through the air serene. And far, the dusky brant may dying swim, And long and deep, the wounded coot will dive For life, until bis ruby eyes are dim— Yet faintly feel, ‘TWAS SWEET TO BE ALIVE. ELIZA WOODWORTH. Spots on the § “The sun has great activity in its spots,” says Bayne’s “Pith of Astronomy,” “these being sometimes 50,000 miles in diameter. These spots are enormous vents for the tempests of flame that sweep out of and down into the sun. An up-and-down rush has a velocity of about twenty miles a second, and a side rush a velocity of one hundred and twenty miles a second. These tempests rage for days and months at a time, and as they cease the sides of the spots fly together at the rate of 20,000 miles an hour. They strike together and the rising spray of fire leaps thousands of miles into space. It falis again and rolls over the Himalayas of fire as the sea over the pebbies on its beach. If strips as large as this earth were placed in such a tempest they would be mere corks as tossed by an ocean storm.” Harduppe—“Isn't It a beastly thing to have a lot of debts you can't pay?” worse.’ “And what's that?” “To have a lot of debts you can't make other people pay.”—Life. ett Im for It. From Life.

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