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Show " " " 'swssawsWMssassMte ssisssssl AN ALASKAN HOME. H Row ths r.M.IIT tlalliers ttsr ths Vf H Uertk la liter. H An Alaskan hut Is not the) worst H Place in the world far from It, nays H Belf-Culliirs. 1U Interior consists of jH a square floor of earth flanked on alt JH side by two wide ledges rising one H above th other like a terrace). On tho H lower on reel th cooking, weaving LS and Ashing ut nails the knives and' JH needles, pots ami pins. On tho upper E ledge, with mm h display of wonderful- flE ly woven blankets .ere the bed. In BEf the renter of the room glows the Ore, BN the smoke groping Its wiy out of a Js hole In the roof Aft r tho day's work Stink Is done and the stnmirhs of both peo- HTq pie and dogs are full, the fvmlly galli- j flM rrs around tho fire Km In tho door jHfl sits tbo father, nest to htm the mother; j Uffi on one hand tho sons nnd on tho other BlES tbo daughters, even to tho third nnd HEP fourth generation, It niny ho Ilaynnd Mm! these nro tho servants or slave )Ach Mfcl tins his place, nnd takes It na n mat- Kt ter nf course Without, In Iho ilitk- lw urns, tho dog cluster about tho door nafll nnd howl The mysterious nnd I in- HH Placable ren keeps nn Its thunder. Th IEbV snow-cappeel mountains, with their HK Illimitable glaciers, lie Just beyond. nVfl Iho shafts uf the northern lights dart aaaVJ through tho sky like the hirpoons of HH a Titan, with Incredible celerity. Is It slrango thnt, nmld scene no wild JHJ and fearful, superstitions, also wild jBH and fearful, spring Into exlstrnco? Or Ml ran ono bo surpr.seel that In nn unlet- Hfl tercel country, tho storrylellcra nre of HHJ mighty power, nnd tell tales that nf- HHJ fright tho children till they scramble HJ to tho iwfo shelter of their mothera arms? When tho family sings In strange, broken, yet rhthmtcnl mens- LflH urea, tho dogs howl louder than before, and tha women sway their squat bodice HHJ back nnd forth unceasingly, keeping HJ their hands necuplcil m anwhlla at HJ their tasks of weaving or braiding Th HJ men enrvo their spoons or cut curious H figures from tho blnck slate Tho suitor J for tho hand of ono of tie daughters iHJ enters slyly and tnkee n tent with ths HB sons. No protest la made The father HBJ and mother go on with their llttl HHJ tasks, tho young girls gliglo after th HBj fashion of girls tho worli' over. And tho suitor, thus unrepuh ed, content! HHJ himself, thinking his ctve won. Th H oldest nmong them chniila somo old Hfta folk song, and tho fatho rises. It Is HHl tho signal for good-nlgh's. The ashr HH nro spread over tho flre.snd by tho light HHJ of n few fishes' tnlla.drled for the light- HH Ing, tho family goes t lied, forgetful HH of crashing bergs, or tho mysterious HHJ aurora, of ths mount Ins whero th Hfl snow lies forover nnd nlway. So Is HH homo raado anywhere, whero lb spirit HH of homo exists, HHJ |