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A WARM LAKE IN ALASKA.

The Water Never So (“old but One Could
Bathe in It ‘
Dawson City, wonderful as it is in
many things, has still another wonder
about which little has been heard. It
is anrimmense lake, ,loCated back in‘
”the mountains not far away from
the greatest town on earth, the waters
of which are always warmp Fish in
countless thousands can be caught in
the coldest weather without trouble,
for the waters of the lake are never so
cold but one cduld bathe in them. The,
third claim this wonderful body of wa-
ter has for distinction is that, while it
is hundreds of miles from the ocean,
and there is no apparent connection be—
tween the two, the lake is affected by
the tide. Lake Selawik is the name
given to this discovery by Father Tosi,
a Jesuit missionary, who for yearshas
been working among the Alaska In—.
dians in the interior.
-Father Tosi noticed that at times
during the midst of the long arctic
winter the Indians had fresh salmon.
He could not explain it, for all the
known streams and lakes were frozen
solid. Finally the Indians took him
back into the hills to a lake which was-
sixty miles long and fifteen in width.
He called it Selawik. They have kept

men know of the lake. ‘ .

Father Tosi says that a man with a
boathook could kill more salmon in
an hour than he could eat in a fort-
night, and suggests salmon catching in
midwinter as an occupation for those
who cannot get other work. With two
good dogs and a sled the lake is within
easy reach of Dawson. There would
be no trouble aboutkeeping the fish
caught on account of the high tempera-
ture. The Indians are still trying to
guard their secret, "but there are men

its wonderful
Times.

peculiarities—Seattle

I Frisian Legends.
The North Frisians are very Immer-
c-iful to people who don’t marry. One

of the sun when it has sunk below the
horizon, and the ghosts of the old

 

bachelors must fix them up in the sky,
running, like lamplighters, up and
down a ladder 'all night“.

AN INTELLIGENT Hoses.
The Sorrel Took a Motlierly‘Carec-l .l.‘
the Other Horses.

“On ._ Sunday,” says the _
(Kan.) Eclipse, “a mover in a prairie
schooner passed through this city, go-
ing West. He had a small drove of
mules and several horses, all loose,
following the wagon, and among the-m
was a beautiful sorrel horse, with bri-
dle and saddle on, but no rider. Peo-
ple on the streets noticed that the ser-
rel seemed to be overseeing the herd
and would round them up occasionally
As the caravan reached Central avenue
the sorrel ran ahead and stood in the
middle of the street, looking up and
down, as if watching for danger.
er satisfying himself that the way was
clear he rounded up the herd and the
caravan started again. Having reach—
ed the . aty’ crossing, the animal
again went ahead and, standing in the
center of the tracks, looked intently
each way. When the heid had par-
tially crossed the track he suddenly
pricked up his ears and, hurrying to
the rear, he rushed the herd across on
the run. A train was coming from the
south and passed shortly after he had
got safely over. He hurried to the next
track, which branches off several rods
from the main line, and seeing a train
coming from the opposite direction,
rounded up his herd and waited until
it passed. It was a most remarkable
performance, witnessed by a large
number of people on the streets. The
horse was evidently a, high bred ani-
mal, built like a racer, with small ears
and very intelligent head. During all
this time the mover did not get out of
his wagon, but left the management of
the whole matter to the horse.”

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NOTES OF INTEREST.

One trouble with the arm-kl is that
there are so many people in it who are
content to drift down stream. ‘

There. is a tree in India and Africa
from which butter is made. The fruit
grows to the size of a pigeon's egg. In-
side the fruit are seeds, which are
pressed, and from the oily substance
3. very good butter is manufactured.

The latest cure for a rattlesnake bite
is coal oil. When bitten upon the
hand place it in a vessel filled with oil
.-17rl the poison will come out and rise
to the surface of the liquid. I have
seen that done several times and know
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lTORTIJNIES’MADE IN SHIPPING TEXAS
CATTLE NORTHWARD TO FEED.

 

Kansas and Nebraska Farmers Buying
'uundr‘eds of Thousands and Profiting
by Their Purchases—Enormous Ship-

ments. ‘ ..

Central and Western Kansas are ex-
periencing a revival of the cattle in-
dustryihat is almost equal to that of
the famous craze of a third of a cen-
tury ago, when the ranges of this part
of the state were covered with the
herds that came up from the plains of
Texas. ' In this instance the herds are
not coming by the slow method of
driving Over the cattle trails, but are
hurried by. the latest improved stock
cars in special trains, and reach the
feed yards fresh from the ranges of the
Southwest. The rush for cattle be-
gan about a year ago, and is now at its
height. The herds that are shipped
into this state and Nebraska are sought
for so eagerly that it is almost impos-
sible to keep them long in the yards.
The farmers take them at prices that.
were ~'twa years ago thought beyond
the possibilities, and the banks in
many instances loan more on them
than the same stock would have sold
for at that time. The great cause of
this craze has been the high price for
beef and the large amount of corn and
feed that has been produced on the
plains, and has been worth asmall
price. When corn sold for 10c to 120
the farmers saw how they could do bet-
ter than that by handling cattle and
selling the grain in beef, and they be-
gan to ask for feeders. The supply

was: forthcoming, and it has so far»

kept up with the demaii‘d. While
Texas has furnished the larger amount
of this feeding stock, there has a great
portion come from New Mexico, and
the reports that have come from the
ranges from timeto time that the
young stock was getting thinned out
has not had any effect on the ship-
ments. ’

The men who have made the most
money out of the business have been
the shippers, and next to them those
who have bought the young stock and
rough fed them for a wnile, and then

turned them off without feeding them_

much grain. The shippers have bought
the cattle on therange, and retailed
them to the farmers, who are so eager
to get them that they will willingly
pay a large price for the stock. Thpy
have made it so profitable for the ship-
pers that they have in most instances
cleared $1 to $5 a head, thisvmaking a

.very nice profit for a few days’ hand-

ling of a train load of stock.

But Kansas is not getting all the cat—
tle that are coming from the herds‘ of
the Southwest. Thousands of car loads
are going through to the stations of
Nebraska, where they are to be fed on
the corn that has in some places been
stored fer two years, awaiting a fav-

orable time for the marketing of the.

crap. The statistics of the state just
given out say that the farmers in every
county of Nebraska report that they

are buying largelyof the Texas stock,.

and that there will be no shortage of
the cattle in that state. This is the
first year that the feeding business
with the range cattle of the far South-
west has been tried extensiv’ely, and.
the outcome is being watched closely.
Should there be a fall in prices and a
hard winter there will be heavy losses,
but it is not likely that any such
calamity will come as that of the great
cattle craze of the early 705, when the
cattle trail days were ending.

In 1871 about 600,000 head of cattle
were driven north over the trails to
Kansas, and has there came just then a
scare in regard to the danger of eat-
ing Texas beef and the prices fell off
in the Eastern markets, a large por-
tion of them were put on the range to
wait the turn of the tide. The West—

ern Kansas plains were dovered with

them, and without provision for the
winter that it was hoped would be
mild. In the middle of December came
a storm of sleet and high wind, with
which the poor cattle drifted until they
brought up against the kindly shelter
of a'creek bank. They died by the
thousands, and with them went the
ponies ~ and even the cattle herders.
Wherever they stopped and lay down
the cattle were frozen stiff, and the
herd owners found that from one-third
to one—half of their possessions were
gone. From one railroad station 20,-
000, from another 30,000, and from an-
other 50,000 hides, taken from the dead
animals, were shipped after the storm.
One firm put 3,900 head on the range,
and in the spring could find but 110 of
them. This sort of a loss ruined many
of the heaviest dealers, and the cattle
trade received a blow from which it
has never recovered to experience a re-
vival of the old boom.

One curious result of the importation
of .the Texas cattle has been a revival
of the love for Herefords, which were
so much in favor a few years ago, and
then went out becauSe of the growth
of the dairy industry. Now it is de-
sired to mark the new cattle with the
white faces and to get the beef results,

' and there is a demand for Herefords

that is making the starting of farms
for the breeding of fine thoroughbred
stock a popular form of investment.
~Correspondent St. Globe-Democrat.
How Thev Do in Japan.’

‘ At, the birth of a Japanese baby a
tree is planted, which must remain un-
touched until the marriage day of the
child. When the nuptial hour arrives,
the tree is cut down, and a skilled
cabinet maker transforms the wood in-
lai'furniture, which is considered by
1th young couple as the most beauti-

111 of all ornaments of the house.

--Meehans' 110111114.

yard.

' was the semi-apologetic answer
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A Turquoise Mine Discovered. in Death
Valley. California.

A mining expert, who for seven years

.has been employed by a rich mining

corporation visiting mining sections in
Central and South America, is reported
to have recently discovered a turquoise
mine in Death Valley,. California,
which, it is believed, will b1 111g him a
fortune.

As there are but two other tur-
quoise mines on the American conti»
neat—one in Northern New Mexico
and the other in Southern Nevada—the
next nearest being in Persia, it is prob—
able that/the .owner will to a certain

extent have a monopoly in the sale of ,

these gems.

The formation in which tu1quo1se is
found is a tale containing aluminum.
In this vein the turquoise is embedded
like pebbles in white clay. In some
parts of the mine it was discovered

that the tale was a pure boxite, which

is a form of raw aluminun1,'and this of
itself will prove to be of value when
raw aluminum can be converted into
the merchantable article.

It was at a depth of at least twenty

feet that the best turquoise were found '
——stones in the peculiar shade which '

makes them most rare and eagerly

sought for by experts not being found‘

nearer the surface. Turquoise is com-
posed of aluminum, sulphurous acid,
capper and water. The proportion of
component parts are about forty-nine
per cent. aluminum, eighteen per cent.
sulphurous acid, from two to three per
cent. capper, and the rest water. It is
the copper that gives the peculiar blue
shade, almost pale green, and .upon
the percentage of COpper depends the

degree of blueness.—-New York Herald.

ASLEEP BUT STILL DOING DUTY.

Though Unconscious He Rang the Bell
‘ for Two or Three Hours.

“We have some-pretty long stretches
of duty,” said a locomotive engineer the
other day, “and it isn’t an uncommon
thing for a man to go for forty-eight
hours without sleep. Of course, it isn’t
the best policy for the railroad compa-
ny to allow such a thing to happen,
but sometimes it can't be helped. It
would be a pretty serious thing for an
engineer to go to sleep at his post. You
think it would be hard for a man to
sleep under such circumstances, eh?
Well, I never heard of the engineer do-
ing it, although sometimes they come
pretty near dozing, but my own fire-
man went sound asleep during one of
my runs recently. The poor fellow
.had been kept on the jump for three
days without a wink of sleep, and
when we started on the run in question
he was simply dead tired. He man-
aged to keep awake, however, until we
reached the outskirts of the city. It
was his place then to ring the bell con-
tinuously until we got into the train
He kept that bell going with
regularity, and I wondered at his vi-
tality. When I ran my engine into
the round house he never moved out
of his seat, but still yanked the bell
rope. Then I saw the he was asleep. I
called the other fellows, and we watch-
ed him for two or three hours,.sleep‘
ing away, and yet pulling dutifully at
the bell. When we finally woke him
up his arm was sore, and he was mad
as a hatter.”—Philadelphia Record.

Her Identification.

“There,” she said, as she finally got
the check properly indorsed and hand-
ed it to thepaying teller; “I’d like to
have the meney, please.”

“Before we can let you have the
money you will have to be identified."

"But the friends I am visiting took
a. trip out into the ecuntry with my
mother this morning.”

“Then you will have to wait till to-
morrow.”

“Well, I suppose I can manage it.
Will the bank be open for an hour?"

“Yes.”

“Then I’ll hurry home and put on my
evening gown. It’s a great deal of
trouble, but it’s the only way. I have
a strawberry mark on my right shoul-
der, and everybody who has read any-
thing at all knows there isn’t any bet-
ter identification than a strawberry
mark—Washington Star.

 

San Francisco a Waifi’ess City.

There are no “waifs” in San Francis-
co. Occasionally a family is discover-
ed struggling in dire poverty, but as
soon as their condition is known they
are cared for. If any of the members
of the family are capable of self-support
they are put in the way of earning a
livelihood; and if they are too young to
work or the natural bread-winners are
incapacitated by sickness or other af-
fliction ample provision is made for
their. necessities. There .are hundreds
of boys and girls in San Francisco,
children of parents who are poor, earn-
ing money with which they assist to
support their families, but there is not

one of these who would answer the de- .

scription of “waif.”——San Francisco

Post.“ ‘

. Conflicting Evidence.

“Was that a. man’s valise or a we-
man’s that the police found down by
the railroad track?” asked the city
editor.

“I dunno,” answered the police re-
porter. “There was nothing in it but
one of Zola’s stories, a copy of ‘The
Dolly Dialogues,’ a paper sack of cara
mels and a pack of Cigarettes ”—In-
dianapolis Journal.

The Chicago Times-Herald Says that
an EvanstOn woman the other morn-
ing instiucted her new cook to order
certain provisions of John, the. mar-
ket—man. “Did John have frog legs
this morning?” asked the mistress
upon her next trip to the culinary sane
t1m. “Sure, I don’t know, mum,’1
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