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J C. HEARTSELL, Ed. and Pub.
VOL XII.
JUNEAU.
Picturesque Scenes in the Me¬
tropolis of Alaska.
Characteristic Incidents in the
Lives of the Natives.
Juneau is ruinous for the amateur
photographer, who can reel off spools
of film on the beach any sunny day.
Canoes are being loaded or unloaded,
or covered with blankets to protect
them when drawn high on shore,
Families and friends sit ou the sand
to gossip, eat and trade. Aged relics
crawl out to sun themselves, and chil¬
dren frolic and play. One boatman
splits his salmon and hangs them to
dry, and another has a frame hanging
full of drying seals. A worthy couple
bring the tub out, and lathering their
pet dog, give him such a sudsing and
sousing as they never gave them¬
selves. Off the wharf at Juneau and
oil the floats at Douglas Island, In¬
dians are always fishing, a restful
occupation for this large loisure
class, in a land where ten-o’clock sun.
sets make it seem always afternoon.
And (hen, on steamer days, the na¬
tives flock tu the wharf and the beach
with baskets, bracelets, spoons and
carvings for sale, tho Indians being
more alive to tho’profits of tourist
trade than tiie whites. The Indians
were not so very simple iu trade
when tourists began coming to Alaska,
but (he present absurd \alue put upon
their work is all the work of tourists.
Seven and eight years ago they trailed
the ama eur photographer for hours,
and foregrounded themselves every
time lie levelled his camera. “Quaiah!’’
cries the Indian woman now, hiding
her soot-smeared face at sight of a
black box;, and if not paid, the family
seem ready to tear the camera fiend to
pieces.
One day an old Indian wandered to
the Fashion Bazar, chose a piece of
greenish yellow satin, and producing
a shoe, said that ho wanted a dress
made to fit the woman who wore that
shoe. A scientist might have fur¬
nished plumage for a bird from that
much of a clew, but I he lit tie dressmaker
was helpless with only a shoe for a
waist pattern. “Make it heap big for
me,” was the puzzled shopper’s last
resource, and after trying it on, be
rolled it up, put it in a new basket,
and paddled back to hlsCldlkat home.
Another day (he great medicine
man of (lie Taluv tribe beached his
long canoe, and strolled up town in
gayly striped blanket, with sacred
unkempt locks fulling below ids
shoulders. His two pretty young
wives walked with him, twins in
looks and lwins- in their yellow head-
kerchiefs, and dark blue blankets
patterned and bordered with dozens
and grosses of small white buttons.
His old wife hobbled behind them, a
withered little woman of eighty years,
gray haired, nearly blind, but wearing
the soft and gentle expression of old
ago on her poor, patient face. A few
hoars later I found her sitting statu-
uesque at the back of the trader’s
Btore, while her liege was spending
many dollars over the trinket counter
irith the younger wives. This
itispeakable Turk had cornu
o confer with the Indian
loliccman at Juneau, his rival for
the hand of the Eagle Princess, the
reiguing beauty of the Taku tribe.
The aged wife had iutearupted the con¬
ference by attacking the Eagle beauty
with a knife, and the match was
off. But the two women sat in fabliau
not ten feet apart, the old woman
leaning on a bent stall'in an attitude
of desperate calm and tragic repose,
the face placid, patient, inscrutable,
and the Eagle beauty sat undisturbed
near this slumbering old volcano. The
damask bloom in her pale, yellow
cheek, her fine straight nose and
splendid eyes,were no Joss remarkable
than her self-possession, her dignity
and repose of manner, that she had
not lost even during the incident of
the morning.— [Harper’s Weekly.
The Living Tombs.
-London Tid Bits is 'authority for
the following remarkable facts:
When cutting open the trunk of an
elm, a live toad was found lying con¬
cealed about three feet from the root
It skipped away very alertly, yet, we
are told, no tree was more sound, nor
could any aperture be discovered
SPRING PLACE. MURRAY COUNTY, GA. JULY 14, 1892.
through which the Jittle captive could
have penetrated. In like manner,
while some men were squaring the
trunk of an oak they had |ust felled,
they suddenly started back in aston¬
ishment on seeing a hideous toad,
about the size of a large pullet’s egg,
incrusted in the tree, four incites in
from the bark and 15 feet from the
root. Though mangled by the ax,
the creature still moved, but it ap¬
peared old, thin and decrepit As in
other cases, a careful examination re¬
vealed no entrance to its prison house.
Similarly, no opening could be dis¬
covered through which an enormous
beetle came to be enclosed in a solid
log of wood, which was discovered iu
a ship’s hold in Portsmouth. Some
extraordinary finds have at times
been made within the trunks of trees.
A woodman, for instance, when en¬
gaged in splitting timber for rail
posts, in a wood in Scotland, dis¬
covered in the centre of a largo wild
cherry Ireo a living bat of a bright
scarlet color, which he foolishly al¬
lowed to escape, from supercilious
fears that it was a “being not of this
world.” The tree showed a small
cavity in the centre, wherq the bat
was inclosed, but it was perfectly
sound and solid ou each side. A nat¬
ural curiosity turned up iu a some¬
what siraiiar manner. This was the
nest and skeleton of a bird, embedded
in a piece of beechwood which seemed
to be quite sound all around the cav¬
ity, but the timber being sawn up,
the nest, with a bony framework of
the bird sitting upon it, was found.
The nest was partly built of mud, in
n hollow probably formed through
the lopping off of a branch, the out¬
side of which became afterwards
grown over, though it is difficult to
imagine how a bird could thus become
imprisoned.
A Millionaire’s Hobby.
Sumo intereresting stories con.
corning the late William Astor are
finding they way into print. He
owned many yachts, each of which
was the best that money conld buy at
the time, and concerning one of these
a very good story is told, with a solid,
old fashioud fact to prove it. Mr.
Astor was sailing ono day in North
River in a fine schooner yacht when
he noticed that a market sloop, almost
as broad as it was long, was a little
way ahead of him, and remained
there.
He called his captain and asked:
“Why don’t we pass that old tub?”
“Because,” the captain replied,
“she can sail faster than we. I’ve
been trying for half an hour to pass
her.”
“That’s strange!” said Mr. Astor.
“Take down her name and port and
buy her for me after wo get ashore.”
The sloop was bought and taken
to have her appearance improved to a
prominent ship-builder on the sound,
who told me this story.—[St. Louis
Republican.
Mystery of the Battler’s Battle.
The rattlesnake exists throughout
tho American Continent from the
Canadas to Patagonia. The use of tho
rattle is unknown, although there can
be no doubt that the curious and
unique mechanism has had a bearing
upon the wide survival and prevalence
of the snake. According to the theory
of natural selection, the rattle would
be an accidental variation which
turned out to have a certain utility.
Just what that utility is has not been
certainly discovered. It may have
served to paralyze its prey with fear
or have acted as a charm in attracting
the prey. It may have been useful iu
keeping its enemies at a distance.
Some utility it no doubt had. We
cauuot help thinking that its use was
in part to produce terror and that tho
hood of the cobra has the same utility.
The hood of the cobra, when ex¬
panded. is very terrifying.—[New
York Times.
A One-Eyed Puppy.
Albert McAfee, a colored man of
Americus, has in his possessian a little
white puppy that is a veritable curi¬
osity. In fact, it’s more than a curi¬
osity—it’s the biggest kind of afre»k.
The puppy has one eye, and that is
located right in tho centre of its head.
It has no upper jawbone or nostrils,
and breathes through its mouth. If
die dog lives McAfee will be able to
dispose of it to some museum for a
good round sum. He lias already been
offered $25 for if.—[Savannah (Ga.)
News.
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Union Carp* ts 32 to 48 cents per
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Brussells Carpets 54 to 85 cents
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