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SUB 9 PRINCESS TOM. BICHUST AND MOST RKMARKm ABLE WOMAN JS ALASKA. She Built Up Her Wealth t>y Sucf y cessful Business Ventures?Her IS House is Killed With U Valuables. Y I T HE orvus dalli, the Rocky, P I Mountain white sheep, is o:e | t of the rarest of North A rncriK ? can mammalia, writes ProfesI Bor Lewis S. Dvche in the Chicago; | Times-Herald. It is so rare that not' i one specimen of it is to be found in a | museum in the world. These sheep I : have been described by Government I / aoipntiats anil nanifd in honor of Dr. i William li. Dall, of the Smithsonian ! Institution, and fragmentary specimens have been brought to civilization by Indians and hunter*, but a | oomplete and perfect specimen was Hot seen, save on its native heights in tlie mountains of Alaska, until I /"brought back seventeen last fall. I left Lawrence June 1 last for / Alaska, where I hoped to find the I white sheep. I went from Seattle to ! Sitka, and thence to Juneau, where I had the pleasure of meeting the most remarkable woman in Alaska, Princess Tom, the Hetty Green of the North, who welcomed me to her home and i ahnwpri m? hp.r manifold treasures, as ! well as her latest husband. ' I was introduced to Princess Tom j / by Miss Florence Campbell, a teacher | ' and missionary at Juneau, who was ; I graduated at the Hatkell Institute for \ Indiana at Lawrence. Princess Tom ( speaks only commercial English, and TT^nly enough of that to enable her to ^ drive a trade, at which she ia very exL pert. Therefore I had to enlist the B PRINCESS TOM. p services of Miss Campbell to interpret ^ ' my expressions of regard. . Priucess Tom is short and squat and i about"sixty years old. She is keen in her judgment of men, and took quite a fancy to me, although she could not a M. ,1 T 1.^ J J unuerbiami wujr x u?u juuiucjcu cu | iar for a few paltry sheepskins, while I might have taken back the much more valuable peltry of sea otters and blue foxes. When Miss Campbell explained to her that I was impelled more by scientific interest and love of hunting than the love of dollars, she marveled atill more, because the white men she had met were hunters of dollar e. "See, I buy a man,1' said Princess Tom to me through Misb Campbell. "I pay 500 blankets for him to marry." She pointed to a grinning, fat-faced young fellow, who was ber fifth husband. "She sajp she will buy you, too, if you are for sale," said Miss Campbell, laughing. And when I said I was not for sale, she took ^rom her finger a silver ring, shaped like a snake, wonderfully chased in tbe Alaska fashion and set with a turquoise, and placed it on my finger as a token of good will. Then she set / about to. show me her treasures and allowed me to photograph her! She desired me to photograph her fat < young husband also, but he ran off * 'i i j L:J L: if I luce a dbbuiui uuj anu mu umiBeu iu | DYCHE ANI) HIS SHEEP"HU~N the town. Her house, a very comfort j able frame structure, modernly built, : is full of every description of Indian treasure, blankets, skins, baskets of j wonderful workmanship, copper ketties and domestic titensils fashioned ; by the BusfiaDs in the days before ' American possession. Her chie'est 1 treasure, besides the good American j $20 gold pieces, are her eea otter j skins. The sea otter fur is the court i fur of both Russia and China, and is ! therefore ill great demand at ruinous , prices. The sea otter has been so i i assiduously hunted and is now so j J wary that good skins, rough dried, / are worth anywhere Irom to $300 * each. In one room of her nouie this Alaskan .Princess ha? piles of cedar ' ohests full of sea otter skins, of which she is in no hurry to dispose. In all she niu&t owu about f>0(3 skins, and she has a large number of native hunters out in her sloops constantly looking for more, so iusatiable is her desire for them. To an Alaskan Indian a blanket is a tangible token of wealth as a pony i to a prairie Indian. Warmth and fooi is the end of successful existence t< ttie tat Alaskan, neace a DianKet mean something to him. Passage over th great stretches of unwalkable prairii is necessary to the Indian farther east and to hiu) wealth is best representee by a pony. A blanket and a pony ; i blanket and a kyak, a skin canoe, i the acme of wealth to both types 1^~??.1" " DRESSED AGAINST m Ml Princess Tom has enongli kyaks ant ' 1 11 * A3-.1 OlftllKeiS lor UU .1ltlMS.au a I auoum, if there were such a person. Some o the Alaskan blankets are very beauti ful, and Princess Tom owns only th< choicest, which she keeps in piles ii her treasure room. The Yakutat Indians of Alaska an the most expert basket makers of th< North. They weave them of grassei and tender willow wood split into Ion; eilky strips. Their decorative methods, when they forsake totems, aie verj similar to those of the Yaqui and othei Southern Indians. Some of their baa kets are so closely woven that tnej will hold water. Princess Tom, beinj a Yakutat, has a passion for baskets, ? " ^ /\n??Qn n f onmo r\ f fVi a finod nuu ID VUC vnu&l Ui uvu*v w* vuv specimens it has been my fortune tc see. The mark of the totem is ovei all of Princess Tom's treasures, whether blankets, baskets, fure, ohesti or ships that go down to the sea. Princess Tom was a young womar when she began to trade. The tradinp instinct was as strong in her a9 ever il was in Jay Gould or in Russell Sage. She began by peddling the furs taker by her husband, and finding that she was skilled in trade she also made dealt for the husbands of her friends anc neighbors. Then she saw a gooc chance to make goud trades for her self, and bought furs from other In' auias ana took mem to cue iraainp posts. Meanwhile, she became a col lector of blankets, copper kettles anc that eort of thing. In the coarse of t few years she amassed a vast amounl of Indian wealth, bat learned thai white man's wealth was better. 80, as soon as possible, she sold her Indiar stuff for silver money. Later it cam< to her knowledge that gold was bettei than silver, and she traded her siivei for gold, of which she now ownsaboul $15,000 worth in ?20 pieces. Besidei these she has innumerable bacgleB, bracelets, necklaces and other ornaments made from the shining yellow coin of the United State?. Some o her bracelets have as many as fifteei 3'20 gold pieces in them, and whet Princess Tom decks herself out in her golden coin'jewelry she is a person 0 i-l-4 I.U.. in Ui/I nCl^Ub. Ji-TTi ^UiUCU uconuio AO U1U den away in a variety of places, and, as f-he never spends any of it, it ii getting to be a burden, especially ftf ebe cannot look at it very often foi fear of attracting covetous eyes to itf resting places. Princess Tom's mail is something encrmous, considering all things. Im pecunious persons who have heard o her and rely upon her being a simpli Indian maiden with a lot of money sh< does not know how to spend, writi begging letters. Miss Campbell readi Ihese to her whenever a suflicient num ber have accumulated to make it wortl Tvhil^j Affor flic* foahinn nf writara r\ begging letters, most of these begin b: stating that the person who writes ha heard of the good and beneficent Prin cess Tom, and admires her for he: ability and wealth. This sort of thinj the princess enjoys, because Bhe reall; believes in human nature, but as sooi as the reader comes to that portion o the letter which begs or demand money the princess flies into a rag and will hear no more of it, for thi old lady loves her wealth exceedingly [TINO EXPEDITION" IN CAM1'. As tlie employer of a large numbe traders, hunters, boatmen anil agent and the owner of a number of virtua slaves, Princess Torn iB kept reasona bly busy looking after her affairs. He husbands, of which there are five are graded in her estimation. Tb oldest does no work, those of the mid die-aged men who possess sufficient ir telligencc assist her in managing he affairs. The youngest and latest is be ing "raised a pet,"' and he seems t realize that he has a good position. I had several interpreted talks wit Princess Tom and found her to be a: unusually intelligent Indiau woman a well as a good American. Her obsei vations about American aQairs, an i particularly those relating or of intei ! est to Alaska, showed good sense an I mora information than one would sus pect. She hoped, she aaid, to see th time when Alaska would be mor closely govered and the vast interest of the territory opened to intelligec trade. She knows intimately the d< tails of hunting fur-bearing animal 8 and } judge that she could not be 3 easily fooled by her agents and mid0 dlemen. Sh9 brought some of her 9 choicest sea otter skins out for my ine spection, and displayed an intimate 3 knowledge of their use in other coun, tries and their value. She also insisted 1 that her photograph be taken with one a of her sea otter skins banging over her b | Iirui. OLltr um; ica i* . I which 6he well knows the usea, and al 33QUITO PLAGUE IN ALASKA. i though she owns a good deal of jew, elry, seldom wears any of it. Her f clothes she has made in the American - fashion, as nearly as Alaskan seams3 tre.Hses can copy it. 1 I asked her if she intended visiting the United States, and described to 3 her the ease of traveling across the a great stretches of country lying be5 tweeu the Pacific and Atlantic coasts. ? She said that she knew all about that, , and had heard of Chicago and New r York and Washington, and knew their f populations, but she was now too old. When younger travel was not so ea3ilj r accomplished, and Bhe was not so rich, t but now she could not leave her basi, ness and the East must get along with i out her. > She does not make friendships aasr ilv with white meD, and has never al, lowed anyone to photograph her. j Through the good offices of Mi6s Campbell, however, I was enabled to l establish stfch confidence that she r readily granted my request to photot graph her, and grew quite interested in it, although she insisted on looking l into the camera as soon a? I had tuken ; it, and could not or would not underj stand whj this was not possible until I after the plate had been developed. I At Janeau I made the acquaintance of two Indian chiefs who are great ad mirers and friends of Princess Tom. I One of these, Chief Tlan-Tech, of the Kah-wan-tan clan, was a most interl esting old chap, who wore a high silk i hat'and store clothes with a great deal t of jauntiness. He is as naturally born I; to politics as an Irishman, and lives in , a crood pine house with his numerous 1 wives and progeny. Another chief 3 was quite amusing with his preten sions of fashionable manners, creased r trousers and other evidences of opu' * - * it. U t ience, to say notning 01 iue guiu3 headed cane he always carried. His , house was furnished very comfortably, and in his parlor hung picture cards 7 and little gimcracks, besides innumerf able colored prints of saints and the 1 Christ, presented to him by the priest l of the Russian-Greek church, of which he is a devout member. f ALASKAN CHILDREN. 1 f Alaska derives its name from the Iar dian word Al-ay-ek-sa, meaning a s "great country,"and the name hits it off exactly. It is one of the greatest r nnsBPnainns of the United States, and 5 the most interesting and wonderful. y But it is only half made. It is tumbled 1 up into volcanoes that belch vapors almost constantly, glaciers that cut B paths across it, and it is tbe greenest 0 spot cn earth, where vegetation grows e raukly and grass in the swamps and on * the islands is six feet high, and berries, - the most delicious I ever ate, may be picked by the ton. It is rich m timber, in gold, in fish and in fura. It presents wonderful possibilities in the way of cultivating fur bearing animals, which 1 am incline ! to believe can be made a paying industry. The tides in Cook'ii Inlet rise to a height of thirty feet, making it one of the most dan gerous bodies of navigaoie waier in the coaatry. This season twenty-five men lost their lives in it, and probably hundreds more before them. The sands of Alaska carry gold richly. Tu the Yukon country are vast coal beds so soft that they can be whittled with a knife. The country is so big tind the extent of it to the westward so great that if one draws a line exactly midway between the coast of Maine and Attu, the most westerly of the Aleutian Islands, it would strike out in the ocean 500 miles west of San Francisco. It is a possession worthy of better government, and should receive the earnest attention of Congresa. rtillcRft Broil Convicts. s il There are fifteen college graduates in prison stripes on Blockwell's Island, r This tact was learned by a clergyman of , this city, who recently conducted a e Sunday morning service at the peniI tentiary, nnd it was elicited by his i- remarking to one of the keepers that r there were a great many intelligent ! faces in the group of prisoners cono fronting liim. The clergyman made mental notes of some of the faces, and n after the service he pointed them out n to the keeper and asked if they were s not college graduates. Oatoftheiivo - men indicated by him only one was a d college graduate, and, to the clergy man's dismay, the keeper designated d as college men three of tho most re3 puleive and vicious looking prisoners e in the group. One of the most intelc ligent faces in the throng was described ts by the matter of fact keeper as belt longing to t4a tough 'un, who's beer 3- on the island off and on ever since he s, was a kid."?New York Times. FASHION'S REALM. A FORECAST OP STYLES IN THE METROPOLIS. j Dress Parade on Fifth Avenue on a Sunday Mornlug?Charming Skat ing Costume?Hints of Spring Modes. (Special Now York Lettor.) THIS is a period of the year when every week that goes by seems to foreshadow some new change oE fashions until there cornea a certain sense of bewilderment as to wbat will be the correct style for next season. It is a remarkable fact that each new style seem? to be ratber better than th* one which went before, but finally the proper medium will, bs reached ia cut and color. It ie rather early to discuss at any length the styles tha'i will C08TUME OF ILLUMINATED WHIPCORD. be adopted for early spring wear, but J the walking costumes now shown by j the leading modietes for present use may safely be relied upon as models of what is really the correct fashion " * J I as far as waiting gowns are coucerueu. Black of course is very fashionable for thin season of the year, and ladies' : cloth or broadcloth soema to be the | most favored material. As a rule the skirts do not measure more than four j and a half yards. They flare around j the bottom, fit tight over hips and are very full at the back. In oae of the new evening gowns the new trimmings are seen to the best advantage. The costume referred | r*PR nv RT.TTR KEKSEY. to was made of the new shade of green silk and is trimmed around the bottom with a band of sable. At the left side of the front breadth is a band of velvet which extends from the hem of the dress to the waist and falling part way over the velvet is a flounce of white mousseline de soie edged with lace which is appliqued on the mousseline. All through the moueseline and extending over the silk of the front breadth is embroidered n pattern of maiden bair fern. Such a costumc as this is really magnificent and | well fitted for any Junction. While there are many gowns elaborately made and trimmed, there are also a number of plainer styles to choose from which are exceedingly effective and becoming. Plum is one of the most popular colors this season and it is almost unnecessary to add that it is also one of the most striking. A walk up Fifth avenue on a bright Sunday morning will suffice to show this royal color in almost every conceivable fabric. From Milady tho Matron in satin to the fair NEWEST CREATION IN WALKING COSTUME. debutante in broadcloth or oheviot it seems to be shade after shade of ( purple. The dress parade on the Avenue ex mmm mm tends from Forty-oeoond street to the Park. With these lines are many ol tho moat fashionable charohes and heire on a Snnday morning can be seen some of New York's best gowned women. '.[ taw Mrs. Herman Oelrichs out foi a \rui& fcfc J o\y UlUIlilU^O muuo AU w uuuo. cbirmingly simple costume of illumin at<sd whipcord. It was a coat and skirl coutumo and its chief charm was its ex trdme simplicity. The double breasted coat which fitted her figure to perfec ticn, was guiltless of ornamentatioi save for the tailor stitohiug on th< edges and four large hand carved pear buttons. The skirt was a Paris model driped tight in front but quite full ir th; back. The newest skirts have'the least bi( of stiffening around the foot, and in Btoad of the old fashioned braid o; velveteen binding around bottom, thi best ladies' tailors now use a band o: English corduroy. On one of the cold days last week ! ' WALKING GOOP MIXED CHEVIOT took a rue up to Van Cortlandt Pari to look on at the skating and a ga^ sight it was. Sleighs from all thi oountrj round brought merry partiei of .young people and the ioe wa crowded with the wealth and fashioi of the neighborhood. Miss Burden wh?< is one of the best skaters in th< city, wore a perfectly charming skat ing costume of a warm shade of blui n 1 J -:iL ~:il. fflK, diagonal irimueu witu du& u&uiu. ahwaist was Bingle breasted with a colla: whioh framed most beautifully he petite faoe, aud was edged down th fro nts aud around the bottom with th flufliest of Alaska sable. A wide bam of the sable trimmed the bottom o the ekirt, which extending to within i few inches above the ankle revdalei the prettiest of blue kid skating boote An Alpine hat of felt with two prett; Mercury .wings completed this pleat ing costume. As she left the lake an took her place in the sleigh for th > homeward drive a cape of fine bin kersey, trimmed with straps of th same material and lined with gra squirrel wa?4hrown over her shoulder giving ample protection lrom th pieroing winds. Cine of the nobbiest winter coat imaginable was worn by Ada Rehan a a benefit matinee given at tho Casin last week. It was made of Princes Cord in the new Egyptian gray an was lined with a rich shade of darl blue brocaded silk. It was withou ornamentation save for the velvet col lar and a few fancy buttons. The fashion of going to one's coun try house to spend the holidays wa this year more honored in the breao! than in the observance. Many of thi besl; people stopped in town and abou JACKET WORN BT MI33 REHAN. four score of them were entertained 01 New Year's Day by Mrs. O. H. P. Bel moat who gave a luncheon at her net* h 0U8Q on Madison Avenue. Later ii the afternoon the company was enter ttiined by MIbs Anna Held who sanf "[ Want You, Ma' Honey, "and severa other popular melodies. This singei wore a costume which is worthy o description. It was made of light yel low satin and the garniture was ful sized skins of Russian sable. Severa of these were tacked around the skirt one appeared on the left shonlder ant one or two on the bodice. Altogethei it was as striking a creation as I hav< seen this season. The cojtiimes illustrated herewith weire designed by the National Cloab Co., of New York. Must Be Conjurors. At a chapel meeting in Jamaica the following resolutions are reported t< have been adopted : (1) That we buil< a Dew chapel. (2) That wo build th< new chapel out of the materials of thi old! for economy. (3) That we wor ship in the old chapel till the new om is 'ouilt. ?Boston Budget. It takes sixty miles of wire for th daily output of buttons at a Ports mouth (N. H.) factory. , SHINES EIGHTY MILES, I ? [ Greatest Search Light and SignalApi paratua in the World. j8 It is now possible to throw a beam from a search light whioh will be 8e visible eighty miles from where the be ; light is looated. This marks the most surprising development in apparatus _? t for the transmission of light. It seems almost irrmnsqihlft trt raalizA fchfi fact I that it is less than a year and a half ja . since the search light assumed any! thing more than the crudest form of , . j the idea which first led to its construc1 tioQ' hr The thousands of people who saw ? t the great search lights that were dis- 1C , played from the roof of the Manufact tures Building at the World's Fair oan va form something of an idea of the great r improvement in the apparatus told in te 3 the relation of the facts quoted. When Bi f the display at the fair was in progress v? it was thought very remarkable that so I the beam thrown was visible 'several miles away in Indiana. The new H light, however, with whioh every ves- in ael in the navy will sooner or later be Y< equipped, oan almo3t te seen in m Philadelphia when it ia dwplayed in qc New York. * fn With such a light as this the nights el at sea, be they as dark and gloomy as iLI . _ m a. At. - possiDie, are no prooi against ine ^ brilliant beam that shines fr 3m it is eE the most marvelous light the brain of ^ man ever oonceived or his hand con- jei struoted. For instanoe, a vessel <ip- ^ preaching New York harbor at night could throw her light so as to maka ^ g THE GIGANTIC SEABCH LIGHT. 9 every object on the water distinctly 1 visible just as far as the range of hu' man vision would permit. Every buoy 3 would stand out in bold relief against H the blackness of the water, and the d( 9 pilot would find his course made as a 0 clear to him as if the sunlight streamed cl r down on every channel from Sandy lj r Hook to the Battery. T. 13 While the new light is of the great- a ? est value in times of peace, in time of d< . war it would be a tremendous power. ei With suoh a light aboard and in work- a( * ing order, no reason oould exist which sa would permit the unseen approaoh of a vessel of the enemy. The only way lo y it would be possible for a torpedo ai boat to mako a night attack on a war vc vessel equipped with one of the lights in 0 would be to make the trip under tl e nrutor THa r.raft wonld have to be ui 6 one of that sort that the United States m y Government has just constructed at si 8 Baltimore which can travel beneath in ,e the surface just as well as that giant war ship, the New York, steams along d< ^ on top of old ocean. , ti oi ? Making Birch Oil. Ill (3 Connecticut farmers have found a " k comfortable side profit in gathering 8 t the twigs, branches and saplings of n< . black birch for the birch-oil distilleripb. rath tha ChiGaco Journal. Bv . protecting the young growth crops are ^ a quickly raised. The birch brush hag Jr Ij brought from $1.50 to S3 a ton. The 3 birch oil has sold at $5 to $8 a pound, t but is now less. One ton of biroh " yields four pounds of oil. Farmers d? can make the oil themselves. The distillery may be any rough building, ai: and the machinery ia inexpensive. The birch twigs, not over two inches 1D in diameter, are cut iu lengths of live inches and thrown into water-tight tanks with copper bottoms, in which ' m rni e?L IE are cons ot steam pipes, inree iees ? of water is poured in, the tanks her metically sealed, and steam is turned into the pipes. The water is kept boiling sit hoars, and the steam rising passes into a oipe which runs in the form of a worm into a barrel of cold water constantly renewed. The steam ta is oondensed in the worm and the oil a* drops from the end of the pipe into a mi pail. It was formerly clarified from a vo dull brown to a light green after this an process. Now this is done by spread- du ing a heavj wooleii blanket over tbe so birch wood inside the tank, and the pc oil drips out pure and ready for mar- mi i ket. fit Ye Wheat Booms in England. mi Throughout the southern part of wc Lincolnshire, England, including the Sn fens and marshes, there is a very muob be larger acreage of wheat sown this sea- UD son than has been known for many Wfi years past. This is the eequel to the ] recent high prices obtained by farmers, da . at the Lincolnshire corn markets.? ca j Chicago Chronicle. 150 , th Accounted For. ' Cho'ly?"Yas, Miss Cutter, that girl a once made a fool of me!" i. Miss Cutter?"Oh, is thai the way u it happened?"?New York Journal. I ' * . . . - 'v . 1 y . ^ POPULAR SCIENCE. The new Russian consumption oure by the inhalation of analine vapors. A machine for wrapping boxes and curing the wrappers with glue has ien invented by a Brooklyn man. The viper is the only poisonous ser>nt known in Europe, and it is found every part of the Continent, and in any localities in the south of Engnd. The authorities of the Johns Hopes Hospital, of Baltimore, have buUt oold storage room in whioh dead >dies will be kept for the use of med? al colleges in winter. The Boentgen rays are said to be inJuable to the Bnssian police for relaling the oontents of suspicions letrs without opening the envelopes, at now a Muscovite has invented enslopes impenetrable by the rays, and i official curiosity is baffled. A distinguished French chemist, enri Moissan, made a tiny diamond i the presence of an audience in New ork City not long ago. His dia- .. onds so far are too small to have anj immercial value. The process is to ise oarbon under pressure, with an ectrioal furnace. Flammarion, the astronomer, says :6 atmosphere on Mars is so diSetit from ours,'that an inhabitant of at planet would weigh seventy times as than an inhabitant of the earth of e same size. "The inhabitants of ars," he says, "cannot be like us, it they may be much more perfect an we, phvsioally, and incomparably gher in the sphere of intellect." A very low temperature, 400 deees below zero, has been shown to kve a remarkable effect upon the lor of many bodies. The brilliant arlet of vermilion and mercurio dide is reduced, under its influence, a pale orange, the original color rerning with the rise of the temperare. Blues are unaffeoted by oold id the effect is comparatively small . )on organic coloring matters of all nta. The basis of the new oancer care of .0 Russian soientist, Dr. Qospodeea enisenko is swallow-wort, known to >tanists as chelidoninm majua. Its ffron-colored juice has long been led by peasants to rid themselves of arts, and it was this practice that ive Denisenko a hint of his disoovy. The juice oan be taken inrnally with good results, but for tis purpose it must be specially preired, as in its natural state" it oonins two poisons. Imitate an Automaton. An enterprising >coufeotioner of ; elena, Mont., has in his store win- > )w a mechanical device representing little bear, which, by the aid of ockwork inside, is made to constant' move his head from side to side. be bear is an exoellent miniature of perfect bruin, and attfacts a great sal of attention. The drc'lery of the i tpression of his face was caught with Imirable exactness by the designer, ' .ya the Chicago Chronicle. Men, women and ohildren step to ok and are captivated by the little limal, whioh hardly ever fails to pro* >ke a laugh. Sometimes they remain i front of the window, captivated by le expression of his face, nntil they aconscioualy fall to following the ovement of his head from side to de in an endeavor to note the varyg expressions of his eyes. At times a crowd will gather and ? azen persons at one time fall into ie side to side movement, until to an itsider it looks'really fanny. The discovery of the effeotof the ttle toy was not made by a man * andine in the window, and probably - * \ jver would have been, for those who ie it fall unconsciously into the habit lemselves. A man was standing iroes the street talking to a man is te doorway of a shoe store. He nooed the crowd across the way. "What ails those people?" he said. It looks like a crowd with St. Vitus ince. Let's go over." Qo over they did, he and his friend, id before they knew it they were iggirg their heads from side to side unison with the little figure in the indow. J?1 - ? ? " ^ af f k am lantfll* ; >! " "J. UUUiai U, DOHA UJJ.U ui >U.U1| g, as he realized tbat they had fallen to it, too. "It oomes natural, bat . 10 would hare thought it would afct you that way?" Huiitincr the Sea Otter. Harvey Jacobs and George Neidever e m luck. In six weeks they hard ken four sea otters, and as the skina e worth at least $1000 the hunter* ast be classed as among those fared by the gods. The hunters were iopg the two raost successful men iring the cruise of the sealing hooner Herman, and on their return toled their issues. They had enough aney to purchase a whaleboat' and her out, From here thoy. went to equina bay, and there hired a third in to row the boat. One day Jacobs >uld steer and Neidever would do the - ' 1? -'I inning, and tne next uav it wvuiu vice versa. Latterly it has been tusually rough on the coast, and the ives have ruu mountains high, jvertheless the men have gone out y after day, and on nearly every ocsion the Bea otter was shot when the at was in the trough of the sea and e mammal ou the crest of the wave. Jacobs and Neidever are uow off equina bay, and they intend staying that vicinity for another two anths. Should they do as well in at time as they have during the last c weeks there will be no necessity for eir making a trip to Bering sea next ?son. Many a schoouer has spent >nths in the arctic and never took an ter, but here two men go out in an en boat and secure four of the valule furs in less tbnn six weeks and ink nothing of the feat.?San Franico Call. Pilgrims Vis.t Ktc's Grave. The supposed grave of Evo is visited over 40,000 pilgrims each year. It to be seen at Jeddah, in a cemetery, tside the city walls. The tomb is ty cubits long an I twelve wide. The abs entertain a belief that Evo waa e tallest woman who ever lived.-? ttsburg Dispatch. Hard-Worked Ten. Byron wrote his celebrated poem e "Bride of Abvdos" in one ni htf 1 without mending his pen. Che u is still preserved in the British, seam.