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About The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 14, 1904)
o Second Cousin arah Br THC "iffM JVDC. SPIHSTCR." "IITTLB KATr MIRBr." ere. ere. CnAPTEB H. (Continued.) Sedge Hill was a staring edifice of con siderable proportions, with an aspect cf newness about it that fourteen years had not done much to soften. It had been built to the order of the present proprie tor, who had made much money by cot ton stockings, and had risen from twen ty shillings a week at the loom to the splendor of his present life. It was a new bouse to suit the new man who had been lucky enough to get rich. There were spacious grounds beyond, and there was a big room at the side, that was new to Reuben Culwick since he had last stood in his father's house, and It was this that he pulled up bis horse to in spect before turning into the carriage drive. Then he went rapidly along the drive, drew up in front of the house, and step ped lightly and briskly from the trap, giving the reins to a rosy-faced young man in livery, who emerged from Fonie tabling in the rear, to be of service to the newcomer. "Old Jones has gone, then?" he said to the servant. "Yes, sir. He's with Squire Bluck of Holston." "And you reign in his stead. Well, we cannot all reign." lie knocked and rang, looking teod lly through the glass doors the while. Another new face a smart young house maid, whom he bad never seen before, to replace Mrs. Perkins, who was stout and allow, came to the door and admitted him. "Is Mr. Culwick in?" , "Yes, sir, but he's engaged Just now." ."You will be kind enough to give him my card?" The maid servant took the card nnd departed, and Reuben Culwick, like the merest stranger, and feeling like a stran ger, very doubtful of his reception, walk ed up and down the spacious hall with bis hands behind him, and his hat in bis bands. Presently the servant reappeared. "Will you step this way, if you please, !r?" Reuben followed the servant along a corridor to a door at the extremity the door of the new room, he was certain, Cr "WHO AHW VOLT" iJKXlAMJHO KKUBKN. from his old remembrance of the house. The door was opened and his name an nounced, and he felt that he was passing Into spacious apartment, the walls of which were bright and rich with :nany pictures, and the ceiling paneled and massive, with ground glass in the panels, for the1 proper transfusion of light on Mr. Simon Culwick's "collection. When Simon Culwick had lost his son Keub,n, he had taken to the "masters," ancimit and modern, and given them all the love that was in his heart. But it was not at the paintings which enriched the walls that Reuben Culwick gazed with so much of curious earnest ness, but at the big broad-faced man sit ting before the fire In a capacious leath ern chair, and who was looking curiously and steadily at him. There was a pret ty, fair-haired young woman, in gray tills, sitting at the table in the recess of a buy window, reading, and Reuben was con scious of her presence that was all. She rose not at his entrance, only looked to ward him with a certain decree of curi osity as he advanced, and then turned to the pages of her book as he livid his hand out to his father. "So you have thought of me at last, have you?" was rolled out in a gruff bans, as a large, white gouty-looking hand was placed in that of his son. "So I have come back at last," answer ed Reuben Culwick. "You can sit down," said the father. "Thank you," said the son. This was the meeting after five years' absence the calm after the great storm which had happened in that house five years ago. This was the home that the on bad never liked, and that he felt he did not like now, although he had come to It of his own free will. There was pause, during which each man took tock of the other without nny particu lar reserve. "I got your letter," said the father, "and I might have senp the carriage for you had it not rained so much." "The horses might have caught cold in stead of me," said the son dryly; "but I didn't want the carriage. I was glad that I had not further to go last night than Worcester." lie looked toward the lady In the bay window at this juncture, and his father noticed the wandering gaze, and paid no attention to the bint which It convoyed. "Well, what have you been doing? What do you propose doing now that you are here? I suppose, after all that has passed, you have uo intention of sitting down In the house and waiting compla cently for my death and my money?" the father inquired. "You told me that I should never have a penny of your money, if you remember, ir. I have never expected it after that day," said Reuben Culwick. "Why should you?" said Mr. Culwick In a loud tone of voice, and yet without betraying any passion. "Have I been known in all my life to break my word? Has not sticking to my word, through thick and thin, in evil report and good report, made me what I am? I would rather break my own heart than break my word. You know it," said the father boastfully. "Fifty hearts as well as your own yes, I know-it," answered the other, with an unflinching gaze at his father, "nnd hence 1 come to you not for assistance. I don't want it; not for affection. I don't expect it but with the simple moiv. which I hope that my letter conveyed to you last week, to see you, to express sor row for a king alienation, to feel j,l;id that you are well, to tell you that I am aot unhappy, and to go away sgain." The son's tones seemed to impress the fsther. who subsided Into his easy chair. Jrom which he had leaned forward, as if AVTHOX Of cowed by the cold, clear-ringing tones of the voice which fell upon his ears, a voice which subdued him, and an arro gance that bad always been difficult to oupII which touched him, though be never owned that which made him even prouder of his son, though the time ner er came for him to own that, either. The young woman in the background leaned forward with clasped hands until he caught her glance again, when the once more turned her eyes upon her book. "Have you made your fortune?" asked the father, in a different voice. "On the contrary, I have been some what unsuccessful. "How do you live?" "I write a little." he added modestly. "It is a long story, that would scarcely interest you." "It would not interest me in the least." There was another long pause, during which the son, still at his ease, still singu larly hard, despite his respectful man- ner, glanced round at the pictures on the walls, admired them even, secretly but not enviously, wondered at their cost, and looked once more in the direction of the lndy, whose pensive face and quiet grace he admired also, and at whose presence he wondered in a greater degree, though he repressed ail exhibition of surprise. Suddenly the father said, with that tin gular abruptness characteristic of the man: "Yon can stay here if you like." ."For how long?" asked the son, sur prised at last out of bis assumption of stoical composure. "Till we disagree Rgain," said the fath- er, with a short, forced laugh; "that will not be many days, I suppose? "One moment, sir," said Reuben Cul wick, with grave politeness. "A mis take parted ns, and we are laying the foundation of another already, unless I explain the first. "Go on." "I was hardly twenty-one a rash and foolish young fellow when you wanted me to marry your friend's daughter." "You would have been rich you would have been respected it would have been for the best." "I refused to entertain the proposal, if you remember. "Remember! remember it!" cried the father, turning pale with anger; "do you rake this up ajrnln to insult me?" "No, to enlighten you," said the other; "nt that period, Mr. Culwick, I bad prom ised my mother that I would not marry the lady." CHAPTER III. The effect of Reuben Culwick's an nouncement upon his father was remark able. The big man rose from, his chair with his two large hands clenched, and his face of a deep purplish hue, and glared at his son In speechless wrath. Then he sank slowly and heavily into his seat again, and panted for awhile. The dark coloring left the face, but the bushy black brows retnined their loner curves ovpr the eyes, and the mouth was hard and fixed, until the lips parted slightly to allow a few words to escape. "And this is the first time you tell me that you were in league with your moth er?" "Yes," answered Reuben, politely. "I was a willful lad who had not been brought up well or looked after carefully, and I had been only taught to fear you. My mother, who had been separated from you for some years, I was learning to re spect then. When we quarreled, I went to take care of her as well as I could. I was with her when she died." "You know how I hated your pl.-iy-act-ing mother how she hated me. Why do you tell me that you sided with her, when it would be so much the better policy to keep this to yourself?" said the father, bitterly. "Because I am not afraid of you any longer because I see now where you were wrong." - "And you expect me to forgive this de ceit, as old men do at the end of a play?" "Or toward the end of their lives," add ed Reuben, "Don't talk to me of the end of my life," be cried; "I dare say you have thought enough of It have considered that it would be as well to sink your cursed pride and your curseder temper, and come here in prodigal-son fashion. But It won't do; I'm not a man to be hoodwinked In that way." "I ajn not sorry to have seen you, fath er," said Reuben, rising; "I came out of my way a long way out of it to reach Worcester. I am glad to find you Tell. Good day." lie extended his hand again, but this time his father refused to take it "You have come out of your way to give me a fresh wound, that' all," said the father, sullenly, "and you have done It effectually. I don't want you to trou ble me again. You will not come here again at my invitation. I can't forgive you why should I? I never forgave anybody. I never forgave your mother. Your two aunts offended me years ago, you know. Have I ever forgiven them? One died last summer, and I wouldn't go to see her wouldn't go near her and the other one is in St. Oswald's alms houses, blind as a bat. nnd living on eight shillings a week. Eight shillings a week, and those pictures there cost me eighty thousand pounds." "A good investment," said Reuben Cul wick, coolly, and critically looking round the walls; "they will increase in value year by year, sir." As he looked round he became aware, for the tiM time, that the lady in the bay window had disappeared. She had pass ed from the room silently, through a sec ond door at the extremity of the picture gallery. "And I never gave her a penny In my life." added Mr. Culwick. senior. "Tfoor nM 14trh -hlintt i that But In the almshouse, too! I am sorry. 1 liked V v I - ' J I . ,." 1 ! '"I v"' it 1 c 'i J J J s ' I old Sarah," said Reuben; "she was one ' of the few frienda I had when I was a I boy, and when yon were not rich. But I am detaining you, and I am pledged to reach London to-night Good by again." I When he bad reached the door, Simon Culwick called out his name, and Reu ben paused and turned. I "I am not deceitful," said the father, "and I may as well tell you that I have made my will, and that you will never be a penny the better for it. It is all left all," he added, "away from an undutl ful son." There was a moment's pause, and then Reuben Culwick quitted his father's pres- ence and closed the door after him. He went from the room Into the corridor, and thence along its entire length to the din- lUK room, uem uo uircw uiiiistrn iutj a chair with so thoughtful a mien that be .... . was not ror me moment aware tnat tne young lady iu gray silk whom he had seen in the bay window was stepping back from the big fleecy mat at the door, to allow of his egress. When he saw her, sue put her nnger 10 ner nps, anu ne repressed an exclamation of surprise. "Go back," she said, ..with an excite- a. .1- . 1- ! ,1 I V. ! . 1)1 i meilC lUHl HBIUIIJRUCU U1U1, UUUl glV a Mm liiro th.t it'. .. last chance." AWH u n c vecu iioitriuug, biiiu ucu- ben, coldly. "To every word," was the honest con - fession; "and you have not said a word lo y lease mm. auu uiucu w uueuu, ivhj did you come, if In no better spirit than this? Go back to him. Tell him how sorry you are for everything do some- thing before you go that will leave be- hind a better impression," she urged again, "No, I can't go back." iT . t 1. f f t . .. , a K ' CT' these high priced implements have "a If It mattered what you (aid to him I ' , , . . , ,r as If it were not worth a struggle toi been Introduced at a lower cost, lhe regain your position here!" apparatus here shown does not even Grasping her wrists, while her hands require a special table, but can be covered her face to hide it from his fierce 1 played on the dining table, with the gaze, Reuben exclaimed In a wondering au 0f a cushion of webbing stretched tone, "Who are you?" I arouna- tne edges by means of corner "Only the housekeeper, sir," she said, hrn.oti The ,,,,-k-t, for the Dool quaintly; "keeping bouse for Simon Cm- wick-and In your place. You should hate me as a usurper already," she add- ed, mockingly, "if you had any sp rit In you." "The housekeepeir yes but " he said wonderingly, and without regarding her strange taunts. "I was not aware n7,n. .u ...m k about me, you who are a. quarrelsome and strange as your father, and have Uent away so long? There, go home and think of the best way to bring that old man to his senses." "And Interfere with your chance," said Reuben, lightly. He was in better spir its already, and the odd manner of this young lady Interested him. "I have no chance, she answered, or I should not be very anxious for you to get back 1 should be too selfish I should try and keep you away, being as fond of money as your father is." "I hardly believe this." "Mr. Reuben Culwick can believe ex actly what he pleases," said the young lady, spreading out her skirts and mak ing him a very low obeisance, which be felt bound to return, after which be would have continued the conversation had she not darted out of the door and disappeared. (To be continued.) NOME VERY RICH IN GOLD. Value of the Deposits In That Reg-Ion I Now Folly Established. It Is not at all surprising to be told by those familiar with the facts that the gold output of Nome this year will probably equal that of the last two seasons put together. This la what everybody believed who knew any thing about the conditions. It has pleased the sensational newspapers to represent the Nome Incident as a mere feverish excitement, which disappeared with the vanishing of the supposed fic tions that began It It pleased the cities w hich Seattle has outstripped to take the cue and to speak of the gold product of the north as waning. At these things we can afford to smile. The record of the Klondike, about which exactly the Bame things were said, is there. The record of Alaska's gold output is there. The record of Nome will take care of Itself. This Is the first season that there has been any opportunity whatever to measure rationally the possibilities of Nome as a gold producer. The first summer was one of a mad rush by In experienced people to get Into the coun try, believing that all they had to do was to shovel up free gold on the beach. They tumbled over one another, Impeded or excluded the real' miners, and brought back the stories of dis appointment and disillusion insepara ble from such an enterprise. Both the first and the second season's work was done under Inconceivable difficulties. There was, worst of all. the judicial wrangle, the endless ap- rx-al to the courts, the tvlnir un of som of the best properties and the check upon prospecting and development by mous wa" wmcn malKea ule "m or the certainty that the first move must, 018 Roman Provlnce- After an lst he a lawsuit There was th wort of 1800 years the walls of the kind of weather, late spring nnd early Nation, five feet thick, are In a won fall, too much Ice and too little water. derful Btate of Preservation. The gate The country was bare of those neces-,'1 ar8 noble 8PeelmeD9 of Koman sary accessories to mining on a gener- 1rork- Some of the wedJ?-BnpPd ous scale-water and fuel. A more un-, 'tones In the arches are still to be favorable condition for producing gold in large quantities it would be hard to Imagine. Now for the first time Nome is In a position to show what she can do as a gold-producer. ' A strict administration of justice has bold down the unruly elements and given certainty to titles. The worthless and the inexperienced of kidnaping ants which make organ element has largely disappeared from lied attacks on other ant villages for the country. Capital has gone there In large quantities. Fuel and water are to be had In abundance and claims can! now be worked there with the advan- tages available elsewhere. The first result Is the announcement that the year's output will probably equal the entire product of the past Seattle rost-Intelllgencer. Mildly Krbukcd. 'Didn't you say that it was going to rain to-day?" weather' j 'I did," answered the prophet 'But there hasn't been a sign of mntfatlll-A H I am perfectly aware of the fact. All I rtfinlit An warn in nflfop tha Ho.t nnlnlm, on the subject that I could arrive at If could accurately foretell events, I j honlH nnlt working f. . .!... . I make a fortune In the stock market" Washington Star. 8o Thoouhtfnl. She There, dear, haven't I been thoughtful of you and unselfish He Howl "Why, I kept all these bills of mine away from you until the middle of the'th, opfa g8t rmgtn flee it MEW GAME APPARATUS. In the whiter season, when outdoor t sports must be abandoned, aside from skating, tobogganing and kindred j amugement8, the search for new games . , . t j occupy the long evenings begins. I If ft tn annnlr ni thla rfpmflnii for Itnv- 1 rvj --- eltle to fill In the winter season that ; a number or Inventors nave rouna ror- , tune smiling on them In earnest, and j discovered that some simple game or pUic. which rame to them Derhaps In an Instant has made them rich. So It Is not surprising that a host of new amusements makes Its appearance ev- I ery year, and that old favorites are . duvu uinytaieu Him nun imu . later date. In the picture we show 1 a new adaptation of a game which j would bave been popular many years . . . s .iu , af ,ad1,t ot been fo' the ,h h Prl" 01 the Implements with which It Is played. It Is unnecessary to refer to the aetual cost of the table, cues and , balls which go to make up the pool and billiard outfit, as these are well known, but recently substitutes for . ...mi M,ir flme eonslst f tpJfm"a' bICk!' which rest on the table and have each apex bored out to a depth sufficient to contain the ball. The latter must be struck with a cue and driven up tjje jncined surface of the pryamid guffleient force to drop It Into the pocket at the top. It would seem j that no small degree of skill will be j necessary in oruer 10 iouKo iu im . In the pocket, neither overshooting nor falling short In the attempt twills General Andrew Jackson's statue In Lafayette square, Washington, Is the oldest equestrian statue now standing In the United States. The first equestrian statue erected In the New World, which still stands, Is a colossal statue of Charles IY. of Spain, In the city of Mexico. The sixteen thousand monastic es tablishments of France have about four hundred thousand inmates, or one to every one hundred of the popula tion. The Washington Elm at Cambridge is now old and feeble. A plain tablet near the trunk bears the following In scription by Iiongfellow: "Under this tree Washington first took command of the American army, July 3, 1775." Iu central England there Is a broad region among the mining and manu factuiing districts which lies more or less continuously under a pall of smoke, and where an area of land, estimated to cover fourteen tthousand acres, Is burled with ash heaps and refuse, on which a little grass grows. This Is significantly called the "Black Country." M. Tesslpoff, a Russian naval sur geon attached to the Baltic Sea fleet has beeu experimenting with an appa ratus for taking photographs of the sea floor at any depth; and, It Is re ported, with such success that reli able records of submarine life may now be reckoned among our available sources of biological knowledge. South American cities have many equestrian statues, but the most nota ble Is that of Bolivar, the Venezuelan liberator, which has a prominent place In one of the parks of Caracas. It Is estimated that there are almost four hundred equestrian statues In the world. At present Washington has eight, or one-fiftieth of the entire num ber scattered among the cities of all countries. A most Interesting memorial of the Roman occupation of England has p Deen som uuaer lne auctioneer s hammer. This Is the Roman station of Amboglanna, the largest on. the fa- sen on tue lne lnterlor or tn9 camP ,a male1 rltllM"1nes of streets and the ruins of buildings. ANT8 KIUNAP THEIR FOE& Balds Neighboring Villae. end C.rry Off Many Prisoners. Dr. H. C. McCook tells of a species the purpose of capturing slaves. Here Is an account of the attack: "At last the muster Is complete. Mysterlouslv but effectively the signal 'Forward!' Is given and the column moves from the hill. There Is no regular alignment, but a show of sol- Idarity, a holding of the ranks within close compass and touch a 'rout step,' In fact There is no general; there are no subordinate officers, but such Is the sympathetic unity that they seem to mT In response to one will and com- mand. If every warrior Is a law unto 'himself the law so binds and an imates and compels all alike that the enda of an tan w nort are servea. ASSBUll, Dame uu iiuiukb ioou ,ulek1' nPn the "T Tb bJe0t' ,Te P'nl 01 xne " ",l " ""' nunorea Varus uiBiaui . . ruscnu yards Tillage. The route thereto lies across the edge of a grove, over a footpath, along a fallen tree, under whose shelter and shaded by tufts of grass Is the de voted commune. It Is feeble In num brt and there Is a bare show of de fense as the freebooters burl them selves upon the hill ind plunge Into the first onset through unassalled or seewt passages. Some run the eaunt - let through the assaulting rankf. All who can, carry a part of the family treasures eggs, larvae and pupae. Like their brobdingnagian brothers of the i human race, when disaster befallB, ' .L.I. A A ha 1c fsti. thai I ntfarwliMT incir uisi mm in Uuo,.....B. The fugitive mount Into nearby clumps of low wood plants, whence they look down upon the devastation or their homes with what feelings? For one must suppose that the midgets ao feel, though sometimes he would fain hope Otherwise. "Meanwhile the Invaders issue from the gates, bearing In their Jaws the Fuscan young ana occasionally an adult. They take tne nome trail, uut not in ordered rants, u is go-as-you- please now. iney are weicomeu dbck by their black confederates, who re ceive the captives and take them their very own sisters perhaps into the domestic quarters. The soldiers hurry back to the scone of action, for their work Is not yet finished." Har per's Magazine. FOE OF THE BATH-TUB. Dr. Robertson, Who Says Body Wash ins! Is Not Healthful. "Don't!" says Dr. John Dill Robert son, of Chicago, when you speak of bathing. "It may kill you. "I have not had a bath In two years," said he In confirm ation of the theory advanced by him at a recent meeting of a Chicago socie ty and which has been made the sub ject of not a little ridicule. "In fact, I have not had more than four or five baths In the last 10 years, which DR. ROBERTSON. about covers the Derlod of mv medical career. My skin is Just as clean as when I used to bathe, I weigh 172 pounds, and I have better health than I ever enjoyed before, whereas, form - erly, when I tried baths of various kinds hot, cold and tepid I was scarcely ever free from a cold lu the bead. To be clean Is not to be moist, but to be dry; not to bathe, but to keep clean clothes 'yy changing gar ments often. Is j. miner dirty Just because he Is covered with carbon? Is the diamond dirt because It Is car bon? For what do you bathe to be clean or to look white? The bath causes a useless waste of fat, which must be replaced with tissues of the body. Soap and water loosens and destroys' this fat, and nature is kept busy manufacturing more. Boys in the swimming season lose flesh and get poor. To bathe much Is debilitat ing. Many peoplo are bathed out of the world. Bathing, especially In win ter, Is frequently the cause of pneu monia and other dangerous diseases. "Nature warns us against bathing in winter by freezing nil her bath tubs. Few animals bathe In winter. Alco holic drinks and bathing are respon sible for nearly all our pneumonias; both send the blood to the skin, caus ing it to glow; both predispose to cold, by dilating the blood vessels, and both are dangerous. A skin that Is bathed frequently also has a greater growth of bacteria thnn one which Is not sub Jected to soap and water In a word, he who bathes much must necessarily be filthy, because, first, by rough fric tion he scars his skin and makes It so that loose particles of dirt will cllnj to It, and, secondly, he makes the skin do part of the work of the kid neys, and anything that carries sew age can never be clean. To be clean, then, is not to bathe, but to keep clean clothes." ONE OF DOWIE'S STORIES. An Old Fcotclnnan Who Went Thronir Bankruptcy. John Alexander Dowie is opposed to the bankruptcy laws, which he regards as dishonest Mr. Dowie holds that if a man owes a debt he owes it till it Is paid, and no law on earth can absolve him from It. In his hotel one after noon, during his New York campaign, Mr. Dowie told a reporter a bankrupt cy story. "In Scotland, where 1 come from," he said, "there used to live an old man named Fergus MncGregor. Fergus car ried the bankruptcy law to Its logical conclusion, and proved, unconsciously, its fallacy. "The old man was a chandler. He got Into dirflcuflles, failed, went tlirough the bankruptcy court, and was let off at the rate of 5 shillings to the pound. Permission was given him, that Is to say, to liquidate each Just debt of fl by the payment of only 5 shillings. "Well, Fergus was a happy man when the order of the court was an nounced to him. He paid all he owed at once. He said he saw his way clear to growing flch. And next morning he started out to do a little shopping for his wife. "He went to the grocer's and bought potatoes, tea, oatmeal, sugar, eggs, and so forth, to the extent of 2. At the end, taking up his parcels, he laid down 10 shillings in payment ' 'Fergus, man, this is not right,' said the grocer. "Your bill Is 2, not 10 shillings.' ' 'Oh, yes, that's all right,' said Fer gus. 'I have permission from tie Judge to pay 5 shillings in the pound.' 'Fergus, you see, thought that the judge's order was to hold good for the rest of his natural life, and It was a hard business to convince him to the contrary. What I say Is, why shouldn't the order have held good? Why isn't it as right to pay future debts at the rate of 5 shillings to the pound as to pay past ones?" Merer Touch. d Him. 'Hello, old chap!" said the chronic borrower as be met an acquaintance, "you're looking well." -Yes, and I'm feeling well," replied the other, "since I gave up my worst habit." -What was thatr asked the c. b. -I gave up giving up," was the brief but significant reply. Not Much of an ImproTemnt.' "Do you think siiat man descended frnm mnn k p v 7" "Som. n".nnl" .n.wri ml. Cayenne, "and some merely dress 6if- ferently." Washington Star. M 1 ARTIC LITERARY PILGRIMS, ,,. Kspertmo-,-or...t.dMwt. i with ilnportt Sncce... ( expedition left Copenhagen for Greenland In July, 1002. Its purpose was not especrally exploration, the in ' . , , . . t 1 1 . l leiHion ueing raiuer iu coueci guuu inn 'terial of nil kinds for a general descrlp ton ot tije i8iand and Its people.' It ( wa8 caie$ n Denmark the Danish lit era,.y Greenland expedition. rerhaps the word "literary" has not been appiii before to a company of geographic travelers. The Germans . ha ve not ouite n)a je out tne ,,, and g0 liae duljl)ej the party the so- callei literary Greenland expedition, In gpIt? of ltg nnmei tue party uag done very prediie WOrk and already carTled out tlie greater part of Its pro gram. Arriving at Godthaab near the end of the summer of 1902, It went by boat to Jakobshnvn, on the neighbor ing mainland, and established winter ijuarters there. In February the expedition started, Just as the sun appeared above the southern hills, for Upernlvik, the most northern village of the Danes In Green land. Then a genuine piece of explora tion was mostly successfully carried out. March 24 Erichsen, Knud, Rasmus sen, an educated Pane v.io was born ,in Greenland and is a perfect master of the Eskimo language, and Harold Moltke, the artist, started along the coast to follow It to Cape York, the southern limit of the habitat of the Smith Sound Highlanders. The news that the party skirted the whole coast from Upernlvik to Cape York shows that it accomplished a piece of explo ration which has several times been attempted, but has never before been achieved. One of the Teary expeditions suc ceeded in surveying the northern half of the wide Indentation of Melville Bay south of Cape York, but the entire ' (coastline of this famous bay had never been revealed. So rnapmakers have not ! been able to place on their maps of 1 Greenland the outline of this part of the western coast. In completing this survey the literary fellows from Den mark have made a distinct contribu tion to the mapping of arctic regions. The physician, Dr. Bertelson, who was with the party to study the dis eases of Greenliftid and the influence of the dark period of the year upon the quality of the blood corpuscles, com pleted his investigations, and then de sired to reach the east coast and to make similar studies among the 500 Eskimos on that side of the Island. The doctor was only about 250 miles from them, but he was compelled to take a very circuitous route to reach them, and he will not arrive at Ang magsallk colonoy until next summer. In August last he returned to Copen hagen on the steamer Godthaab, ond next spring he will go on the steamer to Angmagsallk. This party is not a government expe dition, but was sent out at the ex pense of various societies and private indjvlduuls. The last result of the ex pedition will be a book which, It Is ex pected, will be both good reading and scientifically accurate. It will Include researches In several departments of science and also the first complete map of the west coast of Greenland. New York Sun. MAYOR HAS LARGE SALARY. London's Kxecutlve Spends More Than He Receive. In Entertaining. One of the best paid officials in En gland is the lord mayor of London. Nevertheless a poor man cannot af ford to accept this office even if he Lcould get It, for large as the compen sation is It does not suffice to meet the outlay required of this official. At one time the election of Loudon's lord mayor took place on the feast of St, Simon and St Jude (Oct. 28). Then It was changed to the feast of the Trans lation of Edward the Confessor (Oct 13), but since the year 154(1 it has In variably taken place on Michaelmas day, says the London Chronicle. The lord mayor receives out of the city's cash 10,000, more than twice as much as was received by Lord Mayor Wilkes in 1774. But his expenses are usually much in excess of . his allowance, Wilkes' account showed a balance of expenditure over receipts of f3,337. Among other curious Items of revenue was 702 from the "cocket" office, an annual present of plate from the Jews, worth 50; alienation of a young man's place, 40, and sale of a young man's place, 1,000. Many lord mayors besides Whlttlng- ton have risen from low estate. Sir William Staines, who was lord mayor In 1801, has been a common bricklayer. An old lady foretold Sir William's fortune. She said he would be lord mayor during a period of turbulence and scarcity; that we should be at war with France, but that during his mayoralty peace and plenty would be restored. The prophecy was fulfilled to the letter. At the beginning of his mayoralty we were at war with our French neighbors, and Nelson was pre sented at the Guildhall with the sword publicly voted after the battle of the Nile. There was also great scarcity, bread being 12d the quartern loaf. Bread riots were the order of the day. Before Sir William Staines' term of office had expired peace was declared, and It was hoped that bread would fall to Od the quartern loaf. A Mistake. "If you only knew it," said the pa tron to the cigar man, "that wooden Indian is a mistake.' "How so?" "Why, It Indicates that you cater to the Indian trade, and any old plug to bacco will satisfy an Indian. Why don't you put out a sign that will catch the discriminating smoker?" "I've thought of that," replied the cigar man. "I thought of putting the figure of a real swell out there, but the fashions change so fast that he wouldn't be a iwell more than two weeks. That's where the Indian has an advantage as a sign." Chicago rost Method la HI. Madneu. Peckem I lay, old man, why In the world do you wear iuch a disreputable-looking hat? Enpeck Because my wife has em- phaticaily declared that she will not wn on tbe ,treet witn me unle I get a new one. See? GEO. P.' CROWELL, iPuooMiior to E. 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