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You Save Money. JOB PRINTING. GET YOUR DONE AT THE When you Want Butter Paper, Headlight Gffiee. WE HAVE IN STOCK THE PURE PARCHMENT. JOB PRINTING Magazine Section.—Tillamook, Oregon/march 29« 1906.' GIFTED POLISH ACTRESS. ¿.ADAME BERTHA KALICH IS WINNING FAME IN ENGLISH. SPEAKING PARTS. Unfamiliar With English Language Six Years Ago. She has ftuw Mastered Our Speech—One 01 a Race to Produce tash» Players. With so much Interest focused on happenings in Russia, it wouid be a. range indeed if we did not receive a taste of Russian drama. Tue leading cities of the country are now centering their attention upon the Russian play "Monna .anna” the t«.ie role of whlcn is being essayed by Madame Bertha Kalich, a Polish actress who won fame in the Yiddish theatres on the Bowery in New York City. Madame Kalich may not be considered a beautiful woman but through the nat uralness of her acting she touches every spark of humanity that glows in the human breast. Six years ago she did not know a word of English, yet her mastery at the present time of one of the most difficult of all speaking tongues, Is remarkable. Not only does she speak English wqll but she Is fam iliar with five other languages—Ger man, Polish, Russian, French and Yid dish. For years she has been acting at the Russian and Hebrew theatre? of New York City. Her first appearance in an English speaking play was a year or so ago when she played the name part in "Fedora.” Her earlier performances were disappointing but at the end of a fortnight she made a profound Impression upon her audience. TRAPPERS’ PROSPEROUSTIMES. Furs Worth More Now Than For GOVERNMENT MAINTAINS Past thirty Years. TRAINING SCHOOL FOR The many trappers operating along REVENUE OFFICERS. the northern boarder win reap a rich harvest toe present winier, meaning many comforts, even luxuries, in the log cabins of scores of sturdy settlers in the wilds of the northern country, who are mainly dependent upon theii traps during the cold moatns for a livelihood. The settlers and professionals in the country directly tributary to the Great Lakes look to mink, marten and ottei to make their trapping operations profitable, and the pelts of these little animals at present command a higher price than at any time during the past thirty years, while there has been a decided slump in the prices paid for furs from the black, blue and silver fox which bring only >50 each now, where a year or two ago they were as high as $300 apiece. Last wi: ter $4.50 was considered a good price for a mink pelt, and it wasn’t more than a season or two back that $.2.50 was the highest paid for a single pelt of this kind. Now a choice raw mink fur will bring $11, and a mar ten pelt from $18 to $20, where $6 or $7 was paid last winter. An otter skin is worth $22 just as it comes from the trapper’s hands, which is away above any price paid for more than thirty years. Quite a few fisher are caught through northern Minnesota and these are worth from $8 to $10. Beaver are very scarce in this state. They are worth from $7 to $9 each. The higher prices paid for furs will also prove a boon to the Minnesota MADAME BERTHA KALICH So far this Is the story of Monna Vanna tor the American people are not ac customed to the mannerisms and act ing of the Russian plays. Madame Bertha Kalich is tall and of the brunette type usual to the He brew, with eyes that while most expres sive, can hardly be said to be winning. She canDot be classed as beautiful, but her art has a mimicry which is sure to bring fame to her. Critics lay great faith in her possibilities as an actress. They believe that after thor ough schooling on the American stage, the requirements of which are far dif ferent from those of the Russian, she will become famous, for she comes of a race which has achieved wonders. And when we encounter marked talent in the Hebrew race no one living tan predict how many rungs of the ladder of fame may be traversed successfully. The greatest actors, not only of the present age but of the past, have been and are Jews. Of the women we have from Rachel to Bernhardt, and the men range from Dawison to Edwin Booth, while passing reflections may be given to the ability of David Garrick, Mrs. Siddons and a host of others in whose veins were some drops of Oriental blood. Bertha Kalfch’s appearance in Chi cago was greeted with an outburst of eDthnstasm which continued through out the many weeks of her perform ance there. Such a well-known critic as W. H. Hubbard of the Chicago Tribune in reviewing "Monna Vanna” and Its leading actress, said, ‘‘Madame Kalich is enrolled in the list of great artists She is now an actress of peculiar and uncommonly attractive qualities and gives every promise of becoming in a few seasons one of the most notable women on the American stage. Watch ing her during the week has brought conviction that she is the possessor of remarkable talents and that these talents are susceptible of a developing and shaping which can but place her high in the esteem of * larre class of the best tbestre-goere and add an other great artist til the small list of really gifted players that onr sta?e, ran boast Uh* has the power indie- . reusable to anv artist who is to endure i and whose work is to be o’ sny wide reaching influence—the power to at tract the public. ùNCLE SAM S SECOND NAVY Indians, or such of them at least, as have any business ability. A good many of the Indians trap during the winter, but the trouble with the major ity of them is that they do not know the value of their catch and are likely to sell a $22 otter pelt for $4 or $5, and a $11 mink pelt for a dollar, or perhaps a pint of whiskey. The white man is well aware of this fact, and some a- gents make it their business during the winter to do nothing but buy furs of the Indians, selling them later at a handsome margin of profit These agents usually travel from re servation to reservation by dog team or snow shoes. Even the little weasel, scores of which dally leave their tiny tracks in the snow on the outskirts of the towns are worth $1 each for their pelts. They were valueless three years ago. and two years ago were worth 10 cents each. For a time last winter the pelts brought 50 cents each. The weasel also belongs to the homologue of the American sable together with the mar ten, mink, flsber and otter. The Ameri can sable really Is the marten, accord ing to some authorities. It is common ly called the pine marten, and at first glance the only distinguishing feature between it and the mink is a spot of beautiful orange color on its throat, just under the chin. A grizzly bear skin is worth $40, If tn the best condition, but of course grirzlv bears are unknown In the Lake Region. Many black bears are trapped and shot, however, by settlers, Indians and trappers. TTo man’s Sweet Will. f»n a pillar erected In Canterbury, appears the following: ••Where Is the men who has the power and skill t 0 stem the fnrrent of a woman a will: For If she will, she will, and yon may denend on't. . .. .. And If she won't she won't, and that a the end on’t.” Evolution of Woman. W^-on Pre hrmrht woe to all mankind H'd Adem called her wo-man B-., when she woo-ed with love so kind, Re then nrononnced her woo-man. Rot now with foil» and with pride. Their hn«‘-ande' poeketa trimming. Th- ladles are so foil of whims The people call these wUneaea. A Plenty of Work and Study—Lack of Social Events a t-ea.ure of 1 his Governmental School.—Daily Re gime of the Cadets. Uncle Sam has one governmental school which, while little known, is well worthy to rank with West Point, and Annapolis in the thoroughness oi the mental and physical training which it gives itB graduates. Tins un heralded educational institution is lo cated at Arundel Cove on Chesapeake Bay, about six miles from the city ot Baltimore, and its purpose is to pre pare for their profession the caoets or future commissioned officers of the United States Revenue Cutter Service. It is only within a few years that the general public has been awakening to a leauzauon of the opportunities and acvantages open to an officer in Uncle Sam’s “police force of the sea,” in consequence of which there has been of late - marked increase in the applications for admission to the cadet school. Any young man not less than 18 nor more than 25 years of age and not less than 5 feet 3 Inches in height is, if unmarried, eligible to appoint ment as a cadet, but no person- should delude themselves with the idea that it is easy to get into the cadet corps, for the entrance examinations are quite as severe as those at either West Point or Annapolis. However, all the examinations for the selection of cadets are strictly com petitive. Political and social influ ences are entirely eliminated and this is unquestionably the most democratic school under the government. The cadet spends three years at the train ing school, each summer being devoted to a practice cruise on a bark-rigged vessel during which the young men get a taste of all kinds of sea duties and Incidentally store up good health for the academic year, which extends from October jo May. The pay of a cadet is $500 a year and a ration of 30 cents a day, out of which allowance he is r~”'lred to pur chase uniforms and textbooks and meet his mess expenses. The sum of $10 per month is also withheld from the pay of each cadet in order that upon graduation he can purchase the uniform and outfit of a commissioned officer. When the cadet graduates he receives a commission as a third lieu tenant In the Revenue Cutter Service at a salary of $1,400 per year. Three promotions will bring him to the rank of captain with $2,500 salary per year and an increase of ten per cent, for each five years' service. BALD»IN’S NEW AIRSHIP. Believed by Experts to Surpass any Fiying Macnme Yet Lunstructeu. Captain Thomas Baldwin believes he has found a way to navigate the air with fair success. Captain Baldwin, be it known, is Americas foremost aeronaut, having been engaged In the profession of sailing to the clonds longer and more continuously than any other citizen of the republic. He began ballooning in the ordinary way nearly a quarter of a century ago. Then he invented the modern type or parachute and in his inventing and e. perimenting, went from one thing to another until he hit upon the dirigible balloon type of airship. in tne past umi decade Captain Baldwin, who makes his home in Los Angeles, California, has built five dif ferent sky craft, all on this general pattern, but each dnferent in many re spects from its predecessor. He hopes to improve on even the new airship which has recently been completed, but the fact remains that this latest flying machine -is so far superior to everything that has gone before it that it is well worthy of notice. In the new airshin the gas bag or balloon which lifts it hns a capacity of 16,000 cubic feet of gas or nearly twice as mifbh as ♦’••» bag of the one which Captain Baldwin exhibited at the St. Louis Exposition. It is made of Japan silk, oiled inside and out. From this bag there is suspended by means of a net of cotton seine twine a framework which contains the pro pelling and steering apparatus of the airship and which is known as the "keel.” In Captain Baldwin’s earlier inventions this was built of steel tub ing and each frame cost $700, but in the new airshin the keel is of Oregon spruce, the lightest and strongest wood in existence. A Powerful Little Engine. The engine which furnishes power for driving the baloon is located about midway on the Keel. It consists of a gasoline motor verv similar to those in use on motor-cycles. The motor weighs about 75 pounds, is capable of 3,000 revolutions per minute, and able to develop 7% horsepower, but it is seldom if ever that so much energy is required even when the aerial flyer is facing a heavy wind. Attached to the keel at the forward end of the airship is the propeller, which is eleven feet in diameter and has two 18 inch blades of painted can vas. These blades whirl around at the rate of two hundred times per minute, but it will be observed that this pro peller is at the forward end of the ship instead of at the stern, where it might naturally be looked for, and this gives the keynote to one of Captain Bald win’s most important Inventions, namely, the scheme of having the rap idly revolving propeller pull the ship through the air instead of pushing it as a ship is pushed through the wrter. Nearly fifty feet from the propeller, at the other end of the keel is the rud der by which the steering is accom plished. This rudder Is about six by eight feet in size and consists of canvas stretched upon a wooden frame. Attached to the framework of the keel is also a tank which is ca pable of holding two gallons of gaso line. The navigator of the new Bald win airstrip has nothing in the way of a platform on which to stand, but must balance himself on the skeleton framework of the keel, bracing himself by means of the net which, suspends the keel from the gas bag. Baldwin's new airship cost him more than $1,800 and by reason of the gas required to inflate It as well as other expenses, each ascension costs in the neighborhood of $250. The hydrogen gas which is emploved to lift the bn’- loon and to maintain it in a position where the propeller can do Its work is manufactured by combining iron filings or Bbrlngs, sulphuric a< Id and water on the basis of one part acid and one part iron to four parts water. This gas is generated in a big tank due to reckless and wasteful nu uinls, be bus seeu the uxuiau auil the uiul- mau move westward, switlly aud sure ly mowing down everything in bis BRILLIANT ADDRESS AT ANNUAL course until there is practically no se . tiou he has Jett uuiuvaded. CONVENTION AMERICAN FOR. At the present rate of timber cutting in ESTRV ASSOCIATION. the United States, 40 years from to-day there will be not an acre left of mer Secretary Wilson Sounds Warning chantable timber. THE NATION’S FORESTS, Note on Forest Destruction—Million Acres Snoulo Be 1 ree-planted— Everett Hale in Yigorousb >eci. Common Se>.se Forestry. "What are we going to do?” asked Dr. Hale in his deep voice. "We must use both common sense and sentiment in dealing with the forest question. It is a very great question. The in dividuals interested in American for estry, even though they be millionaires or multi-millionaires, can not accom plish anything definite and lasting un less tne states and the general govern ment can be awakened to the necessity of giving the cause large and substan tial assistance which it merits. Com mon sense, in forestry, menu» that the forestry question should be put upon a business basis. In order to make a large, immediate profit forests are de stroyed; they should be cut with some reference to the future; in other words they should be cropped. All the gov ernments of Europe rely largely upon their forest lands for revenue. A sim ilar condition should and could be brought about in this country." Secretary Wilson baa more than once manifested a deep interest in the question ot American Forestry. Mr. Wilson has, in tact, for some years been elected and re-elected President of the American Forestry Association, a pow erful organization, composed ot public- pirited men throughout the country, wuicu lias proualuy done more thar any other one influence to awaken national interest in the enormous destruction of the forests and the neces sity for their business-like management and preservation, even to the reforest ation of denuded areas and the plant ing of trees upon barren prairie lands. That the movement In the United States is coming to be considered an important one is to some extent evi denced by the increased recognition of tue subject by Congress, which is also due largely to Secretary Wilson s en thusiasm. When Mr. Wilson was ap pointed Secretary of Agriculture by lTesideut McKinley, 'tls forestry di THE SUNSHINE SOCIETY. vision consisted of one forester, an assistant forester and five clerks and Which Brings Coot" with an annual appropriation from An < Organization beer into Dai kened hearts. Among the many societies organ- izeu by the generous men and women of to-day for the welfare and happi ness of others none has quite so inte.- esting a history and unique a charac ter as the International Sunshine So ciety. It is so broad in its scope that it embraces all the charities, yet is in Itself no sense a charity, but an inter change of kindly greeting and the passing on of good cheer, material or otherwise. Sunshiners do not labor under any rules, but there is always the personal touch of sympathy which means so much to the unfortunate man or woman to whom fate has seemed unkind. A more appropriate name could not have been found for the society, the members of which pledge themselves to bring sunshine into the lives of others; to do something each day to lighten someone’s burden; to speak REV. EDWARD EVERETT HALE. the cheerful word that may bring new Congress for forestry of $30,000. Since hope, new life and energy; to take no then forestry division has been advanc tice of the lonely; to do the little acts ed into a separate bureau of the Depart of kindness, thoughtfulness and ment of Agriculture, employing over generosity that manifest the human, 500 men and having an annual appro sympathetic Interest in one's fellow priation from Congress of upwards ot creatures. Opportunities for doing a kindness one-half a million dollars. Fully a million acres of forest lands in the are often lost if lack of thought; the A Strenuous Life. eastern part of the United States have members of the Sunshine Society The cadets at the training school on been turned over to the Bureau of strive to cultivate the habit of sym Chesapeake Bay lead a strenuous ex Forestry for management on a practi pathy that will give them a keener istence. They "turn out” at 6:30 cal and scientific basis which will en grasp and n deeper understanding of o’clock in the morning and after half able the cutting of the forest for lum the lives of those around them. an hour allowed for dressing, report ber and at the same time insuring The Society is unique in that there for drill which continues for forty-five succeeding "crops" of timber, while are no salaries paid. The president minutes ere the call for breakfast is over 100,000,000 of the acres of gover- general, every minor officer and mem given. From 9 until 12.30 o’clock ment Forest reserves in the west have ber gives his or her services. Even there are periods of study and recita also been turned over to the Bureau the necessary clerical work is freely tion, then half an hour for recreation of Forestry for administration. It is donated. The personal sacrifices that before dinner, which is served from probable that at least another 50,000, every officer and member makes to one to two o’clock. In the afternoon 000 acres of public timber land will be carry on the work cannot be estimated. there is more study and recitation placed in federal reserves. with forty-five minutes’ drill. Half an Its Origin and Growth. Secretary Wilson in his opening ad hour before supper and one hour after dress at the recent annual meeting of The Society was incorporated under supper are allowed for amusement and the American Forestry Association in the laws ot New York in 1900 and to then from 7 to 9 comes another study Washington, uttered a clear note of day there are 400,000 enrolled mem period. An hour of ‘‘skylarking’ warning against the whole-sale reduc bers. closes the day and the cadets turn in tion of the woodland area In the The Society is the outgrowth of a at 10 o’clock. country. thought expressed by Mrs. Cynthia During the three year interim the "No nation on earth Is as successful Westover Alden in the office of the future Revenue Cutter officers acquire In the work of destroying its forests as New York Recorder several years ago a wide range of book learning includ the United States.” he declared. "The during the holiday season. Mrs. Alden ing mathematics, English, history, indiscriminate mutilation of the forests was the recipient of a number of cards law, hygiene, seamanship, engineer must be stopped; the matter has be from her co-workers on the paper as ing. astronomy, chemistry, civil gov come one of national interest which well as outside friends. After enjoy ernment, etc. Incidentally muscle can not much longer be ignored by the ing the cards, sLe protested that she building is looked after by meansof the people or by our legislators.” "setting up” and other athletic drills would have been better pleased if the While the officers in charge of the After advocating the broadest kind donors had not written their names on training school for Revenue Cutter ca of protective foreBt policy, he touched them. This statement horrified her dets fully realize that all work and no on the subject of reforesting certain audience and with one accord every play makes for dullness, no such prom- sections. Ha thought that every day one exclaimed: should be an arbor day, that every year "What! You wouldn’t give our pres should mark a notable advance in the ents away, would you?” effort to recover lost ground. "Why not?” was the answer. Plant A Million Acres. "What do you do with yours?” A laughing investigation soon devel "We should plant,” he said, "not 10, COO acres nor stop at 100,000 acres, oped the fact that the waste basket but should plant 1,000,000 acres in was the ultimate destination of most trees, and this would be, viewed from of the cards received. several points, the very best investment "Let me give you the history of one which the United States ever made. It pretty ten-cent card that came to me would be a paying, money Investment a year ago.” said Mrs. Alden. "It ha^ to the government, and it would tie a an exquisite poetu on ft. and I enjoyed tremendous help to our agriculture. It so much that I thought at once of The price of merchantable timber is in an old uncle who would appreciate it creasing with great rapidity, while and forwarded it to him. He, as 1 every one knows the very beneficial thought, did enjoy ft, and so much effect that has resulted from the plant so that he immediately recalled an old ing of wind-breaks in the prairie friend to whom it would appeal with Mates. ” special force. So he copied the poem Another address before the Associa and sent the card on. This reclplen' tion by the venerable Edward Everett found the card so helpful that she. Hale, now the Chaplain of the United too, felt called upon to pass it on ar<l States Senate, constituted a clean-cut before the seven days' holiday was statement of the great necessity of over the card had carried its Chris' prompt action to protect the forests. mas message to six different persons Dr. Hale Is around eighty years ot age; he remembers when the saw and the ax Of course this is exceptional, but it had scarce touched the giant monarchs still an example of the infinite possl in Ohio Valiev, when the forests of bllftles of a gift accepted In the tri e northern Michigan and Minnesota were spirit and then passed on, giving each unbroken wildernesses, and when those one the double delight of receiving an 1 the new BALLOON airship . of the far northwest. In that marvelous giving.” and is led through a rubber hose to The cards which had afforded tti Inence is given to social features as is country ‘‘where rolls the Oregon,” were the case at the academies at Annapolis the balloon. a terra tnenantta. He has seen whole little sermon were spread out and wer • and West Point. The Revenue Cutter states denuded of their valuable timber cadets are at liberty on Saturday af and burned over by devastating fires (Continued on next page.) Too Rapid Jack — "Yes, I had a little ternoons and these half holidays are balance in the bank, hut I got en usually devoted to "hops,” but aside from these functions and such merry gaged two months ago, and now----- " AIR RIFIeE &^£pS?«3kd.‘ making as can be crowded Into the two Slowgo Tom—"Ah! love makes the THIS reel barrel, all working parts nickeled; walnut Mock, pistol grip, ij afoot, itT abot and dart«; world go round.” weeks' vacation in the autumn or the ;-ecp sights; used indoors or for killing small game; shoots BB shot and darts: bo pieces of vacation of one week in the spring, the Too Rapid Jack—"Yes, but I didn’t noa accurate rifla mad« Bend us your name and address for only ao this rifle at once and young men apply themselves pretty think it would go round so fast as BOYS. closely to their studies. to make me lose my balance”
