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Show ALASKA OF many a black, naked, stalwart native chief keeps, in his bamboo-hu- t In the Patent Medicines In Great Demand Jungle a bottle of "Somebody's cele- Wonderful Work Done by Yankees In That Territory. brated nerve tonic," of which ho takes Among the Jungle Natlvea. on hour over the Alasmiles Forty It is a curious list of things that a dose before he goes out kan tundra on the railroad nearest Uncle Sam sends to savage and countries and as curious a In return for patent nerve tonics, the the pole! Underneath the ties marshlist of things which he takes from sable savages of Africa send, among land heavy with gold. This is not tbose countries in return. other things, invoices of some of their prospective, but reality. The AlasIn far-of-f where lions the Uganda, own medicines, not patented as yet, kan seas n has JubI opened, and the roar as the train passes on the new tut highly prized in the dark contin- army of gold hunters may travel this tailroad, and the engineer has to slow ent. Among these la the poisonous year In comfortable passenger trains. down now and then because a hippocalabar or ordeal beans. In Western A year or two ago they had trudgod potamus gets on the track, the na- Africa these beans are much valued by laboriously on foot, or propelled wltfc tives buy American kerosene, and find the native for the curious property equal hardship, loaded flatboats up hallow and svlft running streams. it useful, not only for illuminating pur- they have of exposing witches. Thirty-fivmillion dollars' worth is poses, but for anointing their shining If anyone in the tribe is suspected of black bodies to make them shine practicing witchcraft he or she must the estimate of the gold clean-uof more. swallow a strong decoction made from Alaska and the Klondike for last seaThey have also taken a fancy lately the bean and the tribe alts around to son, the first shipments of which arto cheap photographs, and a observe the result If the suspected rived at Seattle a few days ago. Thirty-fmillion dollars a year is worth savage becomes a society leader when person is guilty be dies, but if the ive he sets one up in his hut They also stomach refuses to retain the decoc- building railroads and telegraph lines like American watches the largo tion he is declared guiltless and the to reach. It is the principal cause of ones, the kind which It takes about voodooman who accused him tq put to the wonderful era of railroad building which is now in progress in Alaska. half an hour to wind up and they are death instead. So great has been the recent dea As might naturally be supposed, the beginning to make market for them. In return the Uganda natives send a Toodooman tries to see to it that the velopment of Alaska that there are peculiar gum which exudes from a accused person gets a dose strong now four distinct railroad systems in tree which they call the incense tree. enough to kill. But in his anxiety to full or partial operation in the terriThis gum burns with a clean, pungent do this he sometimes gives his intend- tory, two others in a preliminary Bmell, and is the chief Ingredient in ed victim an overdose and then it stage of construction and several projected. All of the principal centers the Incense used in Episcopal "high goes hard with the voodooman. of counThe In not beans are used In this population are connected with the this church" and Catholic churches outside world by telegraph; and a milfor witches discovering (though country. For untold centuries this try cable had been secof in the line, 1,300 miles In length, itary they imported days gum hae been exported from this will be this summer beSalem witchcraft would completed "olibanum"of they probably tion of Africa. It is the tween Seattle and have are in used but doctors hisof Juneau, giving an been), by science and the frankincense cerfor route alternate commercial busiand treating lockjaw, neusalgia tory. ness. nervous tain other do Thus diseases. Inferior kinds of Incense gum are The construction of the Council City found in India and Arabia, but the civilization and savages medicate each & Solomon River Railroad, the first other. Chronicle. Chicago East African sort is the one most in of standard guage to be put In operae which-thUnited demand end the one tion has demonstrated tht in About Alaska, Woman. Sayings States buy. So when you see incense in the far north of If Russian and building possibility sayings proverbs see burned in a church you probably a as as roadbed solid are a that of any of true woindex the of position the same kind of gum burning, brought in the Unitbest the men systems within czara equipped not the domains is Emell the from the same place, anc or ed States. The Arctic bog tundra, same smell, as did Solomon when, at much better than In the land of the been has conquered by a system the completion of the temple, nearly mikado. Here are some sample land, dralnaof and the ties thorough "Where the devil can't en8,000 years ago, he "burned incense on adages: on is either dry which planted ground the altar, which was before the Lord." ter there he sends women." "The head or surface the tear except eternally of a woman Is as empty as the purse Savages delight in watches and of a Tartar." "A woman frozen. without fear clocks, but the clocks must have a An indication of the present trade Is bolder than a goat" "If you beat loud tick to ttem and the watches of the Nome peninsula Importance must be of generous size as well as your wife In the morning, don't forget where this road has been built, is givloud of tick The story is told of a to do It again In the afternoon." "Hit en in the records of the Custom House concern which deter- your wife with the handle of your axe, at Nome for the summer season cf a share of the West Afri- she is no pitcher to break at the first 1803. Th9 mined iq get tonnage that reached there can trade, where the natives had taken blow." "If you beat a fur It becomes from the outside amounted during warmer and If you beat your wife she kindly to j inferior brand of clocks to car four months 75,000 beln? tons, ft at out t y a rival houBe. A better willAsbetomore true to you." rled in seventy-fou- r vessels, making woman's limitations, It Is said article in the clock line was manufaca total of 100 trips. The tonnage in a that "woman's sold to at the be out path reaches only 1902 was tured nl feat only '40,000 tons. More than earn price a the good of the rival from the doorstep to the hearth." Very 5,000 passengers entered the port Is corcern To the astonlshmen of the uncomplimentary Is the belief that 1903, and 10,734,000 feet of lumber was manufacturer, the Invoice failed U "two womep - are a town meeting and brought In for building purposes. three a hell The Russian who thinks sell. The railroads now building and prothat the that "a man who gives In to his wife An Investigation showed In northwestern Alaska will has nothing good In store for him." jected cheap clocks of the first house had Nome Peninsula. completely gridiron large and r werful tick to tbera and a and says that "a man became insane The first mad put la operation there gong whict struck the hour like fire and married, became sane and hanged was called the "Wild Goose Railroad" alarm bell Thereupon the second himself." and has lately boon acquired by the firui set to work and manufactured Returning to the "big stick." the Nome Arctic Railroad Company. The clock with s louder tick and a st'll Russian opines "the more you bear first rails were laid In the summer of more resounding gong Id the striking a woman the better will be the din- 1900, and the enterprise was a finan parts, and oon captured the deslrej ner" Finally, the dog i compliment cial success from the start ed by the declaration that he Is clevtrade. During the ;nM few months the The cicely and watches of savage erer than a womsn, "because be know Nome-Arcti- c Company I fin extended and semrci "! zed peoples com" cos;-l- enough not to tark at his master." to line IVxtcr the Creek, and, securfrom tvrnectlcut and Bimlnzhan-- . to enter Nome, has a franc! be ing A Japanese War Charm. Etgland. C rnecticut having a practib tilt a station in a central part of the The custom cf the Sen Nin RIkl 1a cal monopoly Id supplying the watches. city and addel three spurs to facilitate and States United one to the that has risen In Japan during the the handling of freight This spring Egypt pen England a irious article of commerce, present war. Ever since the war be- work was tsun on a line to Council gan, at all times of day, and even City. The owners of this road are consisting or fragments of mummies r perhaps mummies whole which night, small groups of women can be mostly Alaskans who have made their are ground i:p end used in mixing seen gathering In the streets; one or money In that country. palats for waists. The mummies are more of the women will have a piece The Council City & Solomon River ot the finely preserved royal remains of cotton c'oth with one thousand Railroad company Is componed princifrcm the sepulcbers cf dead kings, but marks or dots stamped upon It "Sen" pally of New York capitalists. the mummies of the common people cf Is the Japanese word for one thousand. Work was bgun on the line about 1 of last year, with a force of 600 Egypt who passed away 2,000 or 3,000 "Nin" is the word for human being July ears ago i were embalmed lcf." either man t r woman. "Rlkl" Is, in men, drawing salaries which amountcarefully ai; laid away fn leu costly the Japanese language, strength. In ed to tsn.Ono a month. The tracks tombs theu tnelf fortunate combination the words mom "tb were laid on frwn ground frojen, that Is. from a distance of about two strength cf one thousand people." Each one of these one thousand dots Apparently enough poppy oil Isused below the surface. According as to mix lb oeculiar brown paint ob- or marks In the cloth are to Indicate the roadbed was completed gravel was tained from pulvertred mummy, to re- the place where a stitch or knot Is to hauled from the beach for ballasting turn Egypt imports quantities of Imi- be made by a woman, who, while mak- purpose, and on top of the gravel tation caihi. those little stone ing this knot, gives her best thought, was laid a layer of rock ballast from charms wcru by the ancient Egyptians wish or prayer for the safety and pro- the foothills. No bridges wete needwhich look lke a beetle on top and tection ot the soldier who will wear ed along the line, the streams being of have on In? smooth under side the this piece of rotton doth es an "obi" such a oatnn that they were easily 0f some great Prince Lleroglyphl'-or belt whl fighting for his country. crossed by email timber trestles. The !n the Nile Valley when The who reigned prayer of one thousand women principal engineering feat was on a the world w is young. man are believed to protect section of the road where a tunnel one for The Aue'i-asay these false scar-abl- him from all dangers and to give him about 40 feet long bad to be bored. manui ictured In Birmingham strength to overcome and conquer the The greatest grade along the route Is England, but the English declare that enemies of fcl3 beloved Japan. Leslie s less than 1 per cent Extensive harbor facilities they come from Connecticut, where Monthly. for they are ma 2o by machinery and shiptransshipment to and from vessels ped In barrels to be planted by Arabian In Russia the native Insurance com are being provided at Dickson (Solo- discovand lands in the desert guides p.r,io9 which Co the major part of man), at whleti prt the Urgsl craft ered" In very sight cf confiding tour- the country's business, Insure the can epproach within a few hundred ists, who r? a tig price for them. lives r.f single women and widows, yards of the' beach. Deep water across T.ates do a flourishing but at a higher rate than tbose of the bar at the mouth of the Solomon The Un' business tt g patent medicines to men, and married women are only ac- fiver Is being by the building the untutored savage, who Is In the cepted In case their husbands are also rf wing darns and Jetties on both sides of the channel. All the buildings process cf bing brought Into contact Ictured. sf the company at Dickson are providwith civilization. The savage takes makes Wins that medicines. What ed with bot and roll water, are light-to you say kindly patent as not should settlers "love white the first yon thy neighbor by by electricity and heated by ?fam. Imported for their own use on tie African tfcjsclf?" in1 ere trolatly the most substanI 111 My neighbor is a pretty little tial In construction yet built in Coast, the medicines have found favor In the throats of the natives, and now wljow. ODD TRADE TO-DA- WITH SAVAGES. slave-huntin- half-civilize- d e p well-to-d- o - clock-makin- g s-- y M feilow-sub-Jecl- 't s m e sec-ire- l A railroad project of even FETISH WORSHIP. greater importance to Alaska than the Council City & Solomon is the Alatska Cen- tral railroad, work on which will not be completed for another year or more Trains, however, will be running regularly over the southern section late this summer. Rockefeller Interests are behind this project, and the development of Alaska oil fields Is oue of the principal incentives of construe tion. The Alaska Central is being built from Reconstruction Bay north and west to Cook Inlet, and thence in almost a straight line to Rampart, on the Yukon river, a total distance of about 600 miles. About 100 miles of the road are already practically completed. Steamship service between Resurrection Bay and North Pacific porta will be established during the present summer. The general manager of the Alaska Central Railroad is Q. W. Dickinson, who was formerly general manager of the Northern Pacific and later in the same capacity with the Seattle Electric Railway Company. Former Governor John B. McGraw, of Washington, Is the F. Augustus Helnze, the Montana copper magnate, is largely Interested in the company. The capital stock is $30,000,000. The country through which the Alaska Central will run comprises a valley heavily timbered, and contains rich gold, copper and other minerals, as well as abundant beds of coal. Its northern terminus Is In the center of the new Tanana gold fields. The road will make the Interior of Alaska accessible at any time of the year, and will save from two to four weeks of travel that have heretofore been necessary. It is stated by the builders that the completion of the road will bring the gold output of Alaska from Its present $35000,H)0 a year to or even more. The most ambitious of all Alaskan railway projects Is that of the Trans-alaskarailway company, which was incorporated at the Department of the Secretary of State at Washington about eight months ago. Several European capitalists are associated with moneyed men from the United States In this enterprise. The Transalaskan a point on Cook will run from railway Inlet to Port Clarence, on Cape Prince of Wales, the point where Alaska most nearly approaches Siberia, Connection will be made there, according to the plans of the promoters, with a nch to be built from the northern Transslberlan Russian line. A line of steamships will connect the Transalaskan road with Seattle and the South. St Louis Republic vice-presiden- t, $50,-000,00- 0, l- - Oo'-ernment- Indians Atfor the Implements by Which They Earn Living. In his report on the last Indian cen-suR. Rlsley, a well known authority on Indian folk-lorand anthropology, gives a curious example of the readiness with which the people accept new a e objects of worship and surround them with a special ritual. Every year when the government of India moves from Simla to Calcutta there go with It as orderlies or "chaprasls" a number of cultivators from the hills round about Simla, who are employed te carry about dispatch boxes and to attend upon the various grades of officials In that great bureaucracy. At the time of the spring equinox there is a festival called Sri Panohami, when it is incumbent on every us-minded person to worship the implements or Insignia ot the vocation by which he lives. The soldier worships his sword; the cultivator his plow; the money lender his ledger; the thugs had a qlcturesque ritual for adorning the pickax with which they dug the graves of their victims; and, to take the most modern instance, the operatives In the Jute mills near Calcutta bow down to the Glasgow-madengines which drive their looms. Rlsley says: "Two years ago I asked one of the orderlies what worship he had done on this particular occasion, and he was good enough to give me, knowing that I was Interested In the subject, a minute description ot the ritual observed. "The ceremony took place on the flat roof of the huge pile of buildings which Is occupied by the secretariats of the government of India. "The worshipers, some thirty in number, engaged as their priest a Punjabi Brahman, who was employed In the same capacity as themselves. They took one of the large packing cases which are used to convey office records, draped Its rough woodwork with plantain leaves and branches ot the sacred pipal tree. "On ihA foundation they set np as office dl patch box. which served as a sort of altnr; In the center of the altar was placcV. rss the principal fetish, a with a common Kr gllsh glass screw top, ; nd round this were arranged the various sorts of stationery in common use penholders and p rjr:!. ted, blue and. black: penknives. Id!, erasers, foolscap and letter jifip'r, er.vr. pes, postage stamps, blotting paper, sealing wax; in short, all the clerklv paraphernalia by whlca the government of India carries on Us religio- e -- Ink-po- t, pen-nib- s, work. "The whole was festooned with abundntit ( '.:s of red tape. To the Believes It all Now. fell h i!r.!; installed each one of the "I have Just returned from a visit to wi ,rshi; ' r presented with reverential the Pacific coaFt with the Congression- r.l" of rice, tumeric, p.ri!ns al Committee on the Merchant Mar and other fruits of the es, spi lne."ald Congr ssman E. S. Minor, at earth, ton' ther with the more substanthe PfiKter. "I have brought back eonie tial cfTorlng the perquisite of the pretty t.V.l pU rirs. I believe that in officiating priest the very nar future the merchant "The r.rahrnan then recited various marine cf the Pacific will equal that of cabaliPtie formulae, supposed to be the Atlantic, and certainly it will soou texts from th Vedas, of which neithhave a terrific boom." er he mr the worshipers understood a -Walt until Jim Hall gets his three single word. sJL work new tcam-rinterpolated "When the ceremony was over tho Senator Quarles. worshipers attacked a vast mass of sweetmeats which ha4 been purused to think that Lake Mkhlg-aand Green Hay were magnificent bodies chased by a subscription of a rupee a cf water, but there are others," pur- head. The Brahman ate as much as Minor. "Puget he could, and they finished the rest I sued Congressman Sound Is one of the finest harbors In asked my Informant who is a small the world. It is sixty miles long, from landowner In one of the Hill stales, two to ten r.I'.c-- wide, and In front .f near Simla, what he meant by wonht Ing an Imported inkpot when he Seattle Is 720 fret deep." 100 feet ought to have worshiped a country-mad- e "In front of Taroma it is , plow. He admitted the anomal-lydeep, twenty feet from the dock," said but Justified it by observing that, Senator Quarles. all, be drew pay from the departafter "At Seattle they ere dumping everythat the Inkpot was the emblea ment; thing Into the water at a point close to and that be had the of government; as the where the ships come to anchor, hills. These are in the his left plow of ships have to let out such a length of lower Hinduism, the aspects cabie to reach bottom. Our committee which observances of magical aerms was given a steamer and taken Into no of show dlsn" falling signs of one the to the navy yard and op to great sawmills. We saw a log 110 feet Japanese Research. long, and 22 ly 25 Inches, being sawed nation Is more strongly "No eastern diamIn I six saw many logs up. are the Japanese la than represented eter and forty feet kng going through of rclence," says annals the English the saws." Lancet the "They possess Indon "Exactly," said Senator Quar an faculty for strong undoubtedly l like "some of our logs ok toothpicks and combine the research, orlg'nal beside them." a with this Raid facility Congress"At Fan Francisco." man Minor, "I totd the Cal fornlais as to the posf e iliiies of the practical thst when I bad beard some of tht Ir application f research. The Japanese1 r.niio the ppw?r rf originalrcprts' nfames In congress UK stori s cV.i!t Ena'lish c f chemists and the prac-fi- al I had ity put them about ttflr country ir.ti'ifion of tho German. There e'.own a liars and had thought thy several noted Japanese eheta-je- t pre n that account had ben elected ho er? of the English Now, however, t told them that 1 inwere elected who rVio'":! Society, I evr tended to believe everything on account of to their fellowships bfr slo ita their country, no matfr their contributions to original science bow big story It Is." MLwaukce Wisconsin. Soft words will leave no impress U a hard fcf art Pay as you go and you will go broke. in pj.-;-cr- s 1 s ear-vlval- fe-- sharp-sightednes- s s s |
