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Show The Alaskan-Yukon Exposition THiE pi ojectors of the Alaskan-Yukon-Pacific exposition, ex-position, to be held In Seattle next summer (June 1st, to October lGth), have gotten out a flaming prospectus in words and in illustrations, setting forth what is to be, and they do not hesitate hes-itate to declare that it will be the world's most beautiful exposition. And it ought to be fine. Seattle is a wonder-i wonder-i ful place, with its bay in front, with its lake in the rear, with its mountains of peiennial green; and then there will be charm about this exposition, expo-sition, because it will bring, down from the north i soi .ew types, and we shall se.es too, American ci -n of the last frontier of the country, where i the strong men are making their fight up against H almost the Arctic circle those men of the mid- H night sun, those men of the northern type, which H after a few years in that region take on some of H the power of the northern cold, some of the glory ! of the aurora borealis. H A learned piofessor in the east wiote a book H some years ago, in which he took the ground jH that the sun is not a fiery orb, as it seems to us, H that our heat does not come from.-the sup,..but H comes from the electricity thrown off by the sun H which, traveling the awful space of tremendous H cold between ua and the sun, finally strikes our H atmosphere and then begins to warm and makes H for us the summer day and the harvest. H His idea is that the sun Is a beautiful semi- H tiopic world, and that what we see and which H looks to us like flame, is but a beautiful corona, the protosphere which always hangs above the H sun and gives it a canopy of everlasting light, even as it says In Revelation, "There was no night theie." H Well, on our earth that same corona hangs H over the northern latitudes and makes what we H call the aurora borealis, and the men of the north under that light, take on, after a while, natures M a little different from ours; they grow, after .a M while, not to care for the ordinary dangers and H the hardships of life; they are up there, as it were, M on the rim of the world, making a sturdy struggle H .out of the frost and out of the snow to wrest a fortune, and the emblem of their lives js the M mighty Yukon. that flows in, awful volume on and M on, sometimes choked with ice, sometimes ice- M packed, but never stopping, following out its des- M tiny to find a home in the sea beyond. And so these men fight their way against ob M stacles, suie that this year or next they will strike M Jt, and when they do, with frontier fierceness they M spend their money, with utter recklessness, rp- M gardless of the effort it cost to procure it. M They will be down in full force to Seattle, and M It will be worth going to Seattle to study them as fl they will appear in what to them will be a strange, M new world. They will have their dog sleds, they M will haye their furs; probably the ill bring with M them some of the natives, and Seattlo will be to M them a summer land and their thought will bo fl that they must be nearly on the edge of the world M and that there cannot be much beyond it. M That Puget Sound country is an ideal country fl in which to hold an exposition; that Puget Sound M is an inland sea; it is very beautiful almost every- M wheie, and one cannot Imagine a people growing M up on that Sound, with facilities for navigating it, fl that could ever be a small or a mean people. All M the tendency Is toward largeness, whether It bo M on the Sound or in tho background of mountains, M over all of which Ranier stands out, majestic and M austere. M Our advice to people is to lay by a few dol- M lais now and then and make a trip up to that m exposition, for in the exposition itself and in the M surroundings there will be plenty that will enter- tain them during a whole month. M |