EXPLORING ALASKA.
THRILLING EXPERIENCES OF A PARTY
OF SCIENTISTS ' .
Ttia Strange Land of the Far Northwett
Ba . Many Interesting Features Lux
uriant Vegetation When There Is No
Ice St. Ellas Not a Volcano.
Mr. Israel C. Russell has returned to
Washington from that region of eternal
foe and snow in Alaska, where the high
est peak in North America rises to an
altitude of 19,000 feet from a glacier
1,000. square miles in area and as big as
11 those of the Alps put together.
Along the edge of. the glacier, all the
way from Icy bay to Yakntat bay, there
extends a strip . of green coast which is
covered with luxuriant vegetation.
Strawberry vines cover the ground for
miles, and the verdant fields are red
dened as far as the eye can reach with
luscious fruit, which compares favor
ably in point of nize and flavor with the
finest grown in temperate - latitudes.
There are huckleberries, too, and "sal
mon berries," which are something be
tween blackberries and raspberries, but
of giant size, measuring nearly two
inches in diameter. AH the lowlands
are carpeted with violets, buttercups,
yellow monkey flowers and other wild
blossoms. Here -and there, in the midst
of the vast ice fields, are the loveliest
gardens watered by the melting snow.
There are plenty of grizzly bears in
the vicinity of Mount St. Elias, but Mr.
Russell did not find them very danger
ous. He says that his encounters with
them reminded him of killing pigs. Of
brown and black bears he saw and shot
a great many. The expedition met with
enough perils, however, to satisfy the
most adventurous geographical explor
ers. Nearly all of the climbing had to
be done up 6teep walls of ice and snow
by cutting steps. At almost any time a
lip would have precipitated the party
down the frozen precipices thousands of
feet. On one occasion they were de
scending when tliey found that an ava
lanche had carried away the steps which
they had made in going up. The im
promptu staircase was destroyed for 300
feet, and they had to lower a man by a
rope to chop outMiotber, there being no
other way of getting down. Such acci
dents as this were not uncommon.
HAIRBREADTH ESCAPES.
. Avalanches were continually falling,
rushing down the slopes with the speed
of railway trains and with a roar like
thunder that could be . heard twenty
. miles nway.
One night abo'-.t 12 o'clock the party
was passing wit a bad place in the
Agassiz glacier. Two men were in the
lead, drawing a sled. Suddenly they
disappeared from sight, having fallen
into a fissure in the ice. Luckily they
were caught upon a projecting ledge at
the depth of about twenty feet, else they
would never have been seen again.
They were hauled out with ropes. The
next day in the same neighborhood Mr.
Russell chanced to look behind him and
aw that the ice field over wliich he had
just passed was gone, leaving an enor
mous hole of unknown depth. Another
time one of his men tumbled into a crev
ice, and was only saved by the pack
fastened to his shoulder, which inter
rupted his progress through a twist in
the frozen, tunnel that had yawned for
him.
The Agassiz glacier is one of the four
great glaciers which, together with about
thousand small ones, flow out from the
mountains at the north to the mighty
Malaspina glacier, pouring their streams
of ice coutinnally into this vast frozen
sea. This glacier of Malaspina, from
1,500 to 2,000 feet thick, is interesting,
not merely because of its enormous size,
but also by reason of the fact that it is
the only one now in existence of the
same type as the glacier which formerly
covered all of this continent as far south
as. Philadelphia and St. Louis, leaving
traces that are visible to this day in
scratches on the rocks. "
A GLACIAL RIVER.
Where the land in that region is bare
of ice the vegetation attains an almost
tropical luxuriance, and the "Arctic
jungles are well nigh impassable to the
explorer. One of the chief obstacles en
countered in threading them is a plant
known as the "devil's club," which grows
to a height of ten or fifteen feet, its stems
running alqng the ground for some dis
tance and then turning upward. Every
part of its surface, even to the ribs of
the leaves, is thickly set with spines,
"which inflict painful wounds, and break
ing off in the flesh cause festering sores.
In the Lucia glacier occurs a most inter
esting feature in the shape of a glacial
river which comes out from a mountain
through an archway of ice, flows for a
mile and a half in plain view, and then
is lost to sight in another tunnel. Where
the stream emerges finally is unknown.
No explorer has as yet been bold enough
to enter the tunnel and drift through,
after the fashion of Alaii Quatermain
aud Umslopogaas. -The greatest risk in
each an undertaking would be from fall
idg blocks of ice. At' the mouth of the
tunnel there are always confused noises
and rhvt.hmitt virtl-jitinna frt Vu haaWt
from the dark recesses within. The air
is filled with pulsations like deep organ
notes, and it requires but little imagina
tion to transform these strange sounds
into the voices and songs of inhabitants
of the nether world. It used to be sup
posed that Mount St. Elias was a volcano,
and sea captains sailing on the Pacific
have often beheld what they imagined
to bo smoke issuing from its
- out this is a mistake, and it is probable
that the alleged smoke, was really ava
lanche dust blown upward by the wind.
Washington Cor. New York Sun.
An Old Rib of Wood.
' In Galveston, in sinking an art t;ian
well, which is now 2,040 feet in depth,
irrav and ereen clav. mixed with wnrwl
lime concretions and pebbles, were found
at a depth of 1,510 feet. The age of the
wood is estimated at 200,000' years by
Professor Sing-ley, and in the stratum.
which ia 106 feet in thickness, he .found
veeda resembling apple and hackberry
DANGER ON THE ELEVATOR.
Feofile- Who Should Be Carefnl'. How
Tliey (Ice the . Itapld Lifts.
The general use of rapid traveling ele
vator is having an effect upon the peo
ple who nse them thatis causing a good
deal of iecala.tion as to whether it is
eafe for a person having a-weak heart to
ride up and down on them habitually.
Some persons believe that the rapid mo
tion anil sudden storm are liable to tro-
duce heart disease. Doctors are not posi
tive on the subject, but their opinions j
seem to lend color to the theory that a
person with a weak heart should not
ride frequently on such elevators.
."This is certainly a very interesting
question," said Dr. Thomas J. Mays, '
who makes diseases of the heart, a I
specialty. nave neara people com
plaining -of a sinking feeling in these
rapid transit, elevators, but whether the
movemeut of the elevator has any effect
on the heart or not I am not prepared to
say. When a person's heart is diseased
in any way the slightest change of en
vironment will affect it, of course. The
movement of the elevator causes a
change of environment, but it . may or
may not cause. an aggravation of th
heart trouble. Doubtless it quickens
the movemeut of the heart, but without
investigation of the subject it would
seem to ine that the movement of a
rapid transit elevator would only affect
those persons whose hearts are affected.
However, I am not prepared to give an
opinion without study of the question."
Dr. Frank Woodbury, another physi
cian who gives heart troubles special
attention, also said he had not studied
the question, but he was rather inclined
to think the movement of a rapid transit
elevator would affect a person; "but,"
said he, I think it would have more
effect on the nerves than on the heart. I
came dowu in one of those elevators
fhl; IlirtmilinF TCltll a. lnrlv anil clia nmn !
C3 - - . , u v. II VJ WIU'
plained - of a sinking feeling, as if she
was going to faint. Not having given
the matter any serious consideration, j
aiu not prepared to give an opinion, but
I should think nervous people would
very probably be affected by the sudden
and swift npward or downward motion
of an elevator."
Dr. John B. Shoemaker was another
physician who declined to express an
opinion. "I have heard the matter dis
eased," said he, "but I have not given
it personal attention. The motion of a
rapid elevator undoubtedly has a tem
porary effect on some people, but whether
it affects the . heart permanently or not
I cannot say." ,
. Another physician said that tnany
persons' nerves and hearts are affected
by the excessive use of tobacco, and the
rapid motion of the elevator will always
affect them. The heart is alwavs af-
lecteu uy tne- constant use of tobacco, '
Rnl its mmremaiii: Ancilv 1t11iAat1.1l 1 ...
excitement of any kind". This is espe
cially the case with persons of a nervous
temperament, and those persons always ; One Way of Giving satisfaction,
have sinking feeling when a rapid transit j Incledon, the once famous singer,
elevator suddenly starts or stops, i never fought a duel, and he never in
Whether these rapid transit elevators j tended to fight one. On one occasion
have a permanent effect upon the heart some remarks of his gave offense, to. a
or nerves, he would not venture an ' nian with whom the singer happened to
opinion. Philadelphia Record. - i 'all in company, and the offended gen-
m ' . j tleman resolved to have satisfaction, for
Won by a CuS Button.
"Do you see that peculiar looking stud
that man is wearing on his shirt front?"
said a hotel clerk the other day, point
ing to a gentleman standing near by,
and on whose expansive bosom, was
fastened a gold button with a bird in
black enamel upon it.
"That man is a St. Louis drummer,
and he has been wearing that stud for
twenty years to my knowledge," added
the clerk. "It was twenty years ago
that he married a relative of Patrick
Egan, of Nebraska. Previous to that
time a certain young business man of
Chica go was also courting her, and
among the presents he once gave her was
a pair of cuff buttous, of which that stud
was one. The rival saw these buttons
one day on the young lady's cuffs, ai:d
in jest purloined one of them and placed
it in his shirt front. When leaving the
house afterward he encountered the
Chicago suitor, who spied the jewel. An
explanation was demanded of the young
lady and an angry scene followed, and
the Chicago man left in a huff.
When the St. Louis drummer called
the next time he proposed and was ac
cepted. After their marriage his -wife
told him that had the Chicago lover pro
posed first, which he undoubtedly would
have done but for t he cuff button episode,
she would have accepted him. Ever
since that time the happy husband has
been wearing that - button, and money
could not bny it of him." San Francisco
Call. ' ' ' .-
Training a log to Dig for Truffles.
It has been found that dogs could be
trained to hunt truffles, and so great is
the demand in France for the trnfflehat
many of the canine species are now," in
certain 'districts, possessed of this esti
mable talent. The training through
which they pass in order to acquire a
scent i3 a decidedly agreeable one.- To
begin with, finely cut or sliced .truffles
are mixed daily with their food, until at
length they develop a liking for the
flavor. ....
Afterward their owners conceal in
some portion of a field where truffles are
supposed to exist a little tin dish of filet
aux truffes, covering the same1 with a
few handf uls of earth.' The dog is then
brought out and urged to hunt for the
dish, goaded by an empty stomach.
When be at length finds it he is caressed
by his master, and thus in the space of
a few weeks he will readily learn to
hunt for the vegetable itself. Washing
ton Letter.
rsing Amber to Imitate Jeacls. '
Amber is often seen carved into le-
gant forms in ancient Etruscan jewelry,
xne magmncenc necKiHt-e known s inn
Prince de Canino's. !! masterpiece of
the Etruscan goldsmith. pindiit.s of
alternate beetles of sardonyx and amber.
Juvenal represents his patron displaying
at his feast a bowl embossed with beryls
and raised work of amber. Pliny re
cords the fact that it was p.. to'irn
tate all the transparent stores, especial
ly the amethyst. Philadelphia Tiiu-.-a.
Hew Niagara Was Formed.
- Once upon a time there was a beauti
ful Indian maiden who was compelled
by her family to engage herself to marry
a hideous old man of her tribe. . In her
desperation she leaped into a canoe and
pushed it over the roaring breakers of
Niagara, preferring the angry waters to
the arms of her detested lover. But the
god of thunder, cloud and ' rain,, who
j watches over the harvest, 'dwelt in a
tao uemuu we roaring cataract. He
caught her just as her frail bark was
dashing upon the rocks below and gave
her a home for many weeks in his own
mysterious cavern.
From him she learned many new
things, among them why her people
died so often. He. told her' how an
enormous snake lay coiled up under the
ground beneath her village, and how he
crept out and poisoned' the springs, be
cause he craved the flesh of human be
ings and could never get enough of it bo
long as they died from natural causes.
The maiden remained in the cave, until
her ugly old suitor was dead; then she
returned, and the god killed the serpent
with a thunderbolt.
The great dead snake was so huge that
when the people laid its body out in
death it stretched over more than
twenty arrow flights, and as it floated
down the waters of the Niagara it was
as if a mountain appeared above- them.
Its corpse was too large to pass the
rocks, so it became wedged in between
them and the waters rose over it thus
fashioning the horseshoe, which remains
to this day. Washington Star.
The Female Bogtrotter.
We .ire becoming a little surfeited
with these wild women as globetrotters
and travelers. Their adventures, which
for the most part are fictions based on a
very small substratum of fact, have
ceased to impress, partly because we
have ceased to believe, and certainly
cearfed to respect. Who wanted them to
run all these risks, supposing them to be
true? What good have they done by
their days of starvation and nights of
sleeplessness? their perils by land and
6ea? their chances of being devoured by
wild beasts or stuck up by bushrangers?
taken by brigands or insulted by row
dies of all nations?
They have contributed nothing to our
stock of knowledge, as Marianne North
has done. They have solved no ethno
logical problem; brought to light no
new treasures of nature; discovered no
new field for British spades to till, no
new markets for British manufactures
to supply. They have done nothing but
lose their beauty, if they had any; for
what went out fresh and comely comes
back haggard and weather beaten. It
was quite unnecessary. Thev have lost.
but the world has not trained: and that
doctor's bill will make a hole in thennh-
I Usher's check. Mrs.
K Lrt..'.. 1 1. -r r -r -
Lynn Linton in
Nineteenth Century.
his wrongs. Accordingly he hunted np
Incledon the next afternoon, finding bim
at dinner in a noted hotel. "Mr. Incle
don," 'said the waiter, "a gentleman
wishes to see you, sir." "Show him.up,
then," said the singer. "Sir," said the
visitor, entering the room in a towering
passion, "you have been making free
with my name in a very improper man
ner, and I've come to demand satisfac
tion!" After some parleying Incledon
rose, and, striking a graceful attitude in
the "center of the room, began to sing
"Black Eyed Susan" in his most delight
ful style. When he had finished the
song he said coolly, "There, siiv that
has given complete satisfaction to sev
eral thousand people, and if you . want
anything more, I've enly to say 'you're
the most unreasonable fellow I , ever
niet!" San Francisco Argonaut.
Narrow iSscape.
"An sure," said Patrick to his friend
Dinuis, "I was near indade the day to
bein made a prisint of a most byootifnl
harse, wid the coat of a duck, the .grace
of a dancing masther, and the' spade of
an antilawpe." .
""Arrah!" said Dinnis. "The loikes o'
you bein' near made a prisint of a harse!"
"Sure, an that I was, Dinnis, dear.
Twas by a grain that I mid3ed Mm. It
was in a chaise he was, and dhruy by a
roine gmtleman of me acqua ntance. He
I stopped ferninst the house of me im
i pl'yer the day.
" 'It s a fine harse ye hev t-hayre,' says L
- " I belave ye're roight " says he. ,
" ' Wud ye give bim to me? says I. '
" Naw!' says. he. -
"An begorra, if he'd said Yis,' Fd V
had him!"' Youth's Companion.
The iear Old. Soul. .' . ' '
Miss fit. Cyr was" talking to old Lady
GoTdf oil ' about her heart affairs, and
during the course of her conversation
she said: . "i-
"Even your own son Harold, Mrs.
Goldfoil, was a quondam lover of mine."
' The old lady almost bounced out of
her chair, but laughed it off, and when
she had gone to her room she " Bpoke to
her husband. -
" "Well," she said, indignantly, "there
may be some excuse for fashionable
young women talking about their vari
ous sweethearts, but profanity is utterly
unpardonable." Detroit Free Press.
Comparing; Fruits.
In comparing the earlier description of
fruits with modern accounts it is well to
remember that the high standards by
which frui n are now judged are of re
cent establishment. Fruits which would
once have been esteemed excellent would
today be passed by as unworthy of re
gard. Professor G. L. "Goodale in Pop
ular Science Monthly.
For chapped hands the following is a
most excellent remedy: Camphor gum,
8 drams; beeswax, 3 drams, spermaceti,
3 drams; olive oil, 2 ounces. Put in a
pan and set in boiling water until melted,
and apply to the bands.
Trasses for Pletaree.
Oil paintingaihouldbefTanredingold, -silver
or bronxe. . A frame of white and
gold is best for a water color, while en
gravings and etchings., look beet in
frames of natural wood, either polished
or varnished, but never -gilded. Photo
graphs can be framed in natural wood
or modest flat gilt or bronzed frames,
according to the subject and the tone of
the picture. Soft gray or cream tinted
mats are the best for pictures in general,
throwing the picture back from the
glass and softening the effect, but tinted
mats may occasionally be used. A dark
blue mat, when the picture is blue in
tone, or a wine colored or rarely a sil
vered or gilded one, may be very effect
ive, but should only be used cautiously.
The frame for an oil painting should
never be flat, but always thicker at the
outer edge, to throw the picture back
and increase the perspective in which it
is best seen, and harmonize it with the
walls. Sometimes an oil' is of modest
coloring and low tone, and is most ef
fectively framed in dark crimson or dull
blue velvet, the pile of the velvet soften
ing the picture yet imparting a lumi
nous and rich effect, which the glitter of
a golden frame almost wholly absorbs to
itself.
Water colors are often harmoniously
framed in tints which carry out the deli
cate prevailing cojpr in themselves, es
pecially in landscapes and marines. The
mat. can often' be the palest tint of
cream, pink, buff, atmospheric gray or
sea green, while the frame itself may re
peat the tint, witn delicate lines of gold,
or be made of simple white and gilt
molding. Harper a isazar.
Beet sugar may be bought in certain
stores in. our eastern cities. To the taste
it cannot be distinguished from the best
eane sugar except by experts, who say
it is richer in sweets than most cane
sugar.
pimples.
- The old idea ol 40 years ago was that facial
eruptions were due to a "blood humor," for
which-they gave potash. Thus all the old Sarsa
parillas contain potash, a most objectionable and
drastic mineral, that instead of decreasing,
actually creates more creptions. You have no
ticed this when taking other Sarsaparillas than
Joy's. It is however now known that the stom
ach, the blood creating power, is the seat of all
vitiating or cleansing operations. A stomach
clogged by indigestion cr constipation, vitiates
the blood, result pimples. A clean stomach and
healthful digest ion purifies it e:;d they disappear.
Thus Joy's Vegetable Sarsa-ari;ia is compounded
after the modem idea to regulate the bowels and
stimulate the digestion. The effect is immediate
and most satisfactory. " A short testimonial to
contrast tbo action of the p'as!i Sarsaparillas
and Joy's modern vcgi tnt.-'e preparation. Mrs.
C. P. Stuart, cf -lOO IIa;v? at., S. F., writes: "I
hare for years )!t!.-l i:;t:.';-c -tlcii, 1 tried a popular
Sarsapariila bat it ottvnJ! .- . .vi-c-1 more pimples
I to break or.t od mr fac e. i: u:iig thai Joy's was
i a later prepa-a ion an.l au-;r H.'Vcrcntly, I tried
it and the pimple? immediately iis;:T'pcared."
Joy
Vegetable
v Sarsaparilfa
largest bottle, most ed-dixe. same price, '
For Sale by SNIPES & KINERSLY
THE DALLES. OREGON.
LH GRIPPE
CUKED
By using S. B. Headache and Liver Cure, and 8.
B. Cough Cure as directed for colds. Tbey were
, STJCOZISSX'TJIjIj-S-
used two years ago during the La Grippe epi
demic, and very nattering testimonials of their
power over that disease are at band. Manufact
ured by the 8. B. Medicine Mfg. Co., at Dufur,
Oregon. For sale by all druggists.
Severe Law.
The English peo
ple look more closely
''to the genuineness
. of these staples than
we da In fact, they
have law under
'Which they make
seizures, and de
stroy adulterated
products that are.
pr-
not what they are represented to be. Under
this statute thousands of pounds of tea have
been burned because of their wholesale adul
teration. . , . , . ' ,
Tea, by the way, is one of the most notori- .
ously adulterated articles of commerce. . Not
alone are the bright, shiny green, teas ' artifl-'
ciaUy colored, but tlvoutands of pounds of
substitute.) for tea leaves are used to swell
the bulk of cheap tea's; ash, sloe, and willow
leaves. being thbso most commonly used.
Again, sweepings from tea warehouses .are
colored and sold as tea. Even exhausted tea
leaves gathered from the tea-houses' are kept,
dried, and made over and find their way Into '
the cheap teas.
The English government attempts to stamp
this out by confiscation; bufr no tea Is too
. poor for U", and the result is, that probably
the poorest teas used by any natlon-are those
consumed iu America.
" Beech's Tea Is presented with the guar
anty that it is nncolored and unadulterated;
In fact, the suu-curea tea leaf -pare and sim
ple. Its purity Insures superior strength,
about one third less of it being .required foi
an infusion than of the artificial teas, and its
fragrance and exquisite flavor is at 'Once ap
parent. It will be a revelation .to you. In
' order that its purity and quality may befaar
anteed, it is sold only in pound packages
bearing-this trade-mark :
BEEC
Ptfre.AsIBiIdh6od:
s
H5. TEA
urn i
; Price 60c per pound. For sale at
Xieslio Butler's,
TDE DALLE8, OREOO.
Tne Danes
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Of the Leading City
During the little over
has earnestly tried to fallfil the objects for which it
was founded, namely, to
industries, to advertise the
adjacent country and to
the sea. Its record is "before the people and the
phenomenal support it has received is accepted as the
expression of their approval. Independent in every
thing, neutral in nothing, it will live only to fight
for what it believes to be just and rii ht.
Commencing with the first number of the second
vc lume the weekly has been enlarged to eight pages
while the price ($1.50 a year) remains the same.
Thus both the weekly . and daily editions . contain
moie reading matter for less money than any paper
published in the county.
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