"jRefigioas Festi-Oal
Among the FsKjmos.
The Eakimo Easter i-. a religious
festival, held in honor of the return
of the sun to the north, and many
gods, both greater and lesser divini
ties, take part in it, being represented
by a person disguised iu suitable cos
tumes and wearing grotesque masks.
For weeks before the festival dedi
cated to the sun god, everybody is
busily engaged in making masks. The
tEskimns are born artists, and vie
with each other as to who shall pro
duce the most, grotesque faces. Some
of the faces are exceedingly elabo
rate, having attached to them small
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wooden images of seals, hears, wal
ruses, reindeer and other animals
which are expected to be killed dur
ing the approaching summer.
Frequently little boats are hung
upon the masks, every such append
age having a special symbolic mean
ing. The material used is nearly al
ways driftwood, of which plentiful
supplies are cast up by the sea along
the shores of the Arctic Alaska.
The largest and most complicated
masks represent the most powerful
divinities, especially the sun god, who
is himself a diet} of attributes ex
tremely formidable. It is his festival,
and even the finger masks, which are
held in the hands of the performers
during the mystic rites, are made in
his likeness.
In order to realize the significance
of the masks worn by the Eskimos at
their Easter festival, one must under
stand the belief which those people
entertain regarding the quasi-super
natural character of ail animate
things.
Their notion is that every living
thing possesses a ghost of semi
human form and features, which en
joys more or less freedom of move
ment. That is to say, the ghost of a
walrus may. under certain conditions,
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leave the body of the animal for a
time, and may appear in Its semi
human aspect to the eyes of men.
The idea is expressed by some of
the ceremonial masks, which have
double faces, a wooden muzzle being
fastened with pegs in such a way as
to be removable, to show a human
like face beneath. The same effect
Is obtained by small hinged doors,
which open outward disclosing the
human-like face, which represents the
ghost.
The bladders of marine mammals
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are carefully removed and preserved,
and at the time of the Easter, festival
are inflated and hung up in the cere
monial house. It is supposed that the
ghosts of the slain animals continue
to inhabit these bladders, which, later
on. are-taken to a hole in the fee,
opened, and thrust into the water
under the Ice, so that the ghosts may
return to their proper element. Thus
liberated, the ghosts swim far out to
sea and become reincarnated, so that
the animals they represent tnay he
killed and eaten again.
Tho religion of the Eskimo, like
that of the other sem'-savages, has
much of witchcraft mixed up with it.
An expert in magical arts is believed
to have power to steal a persons
ghost, so that the unfortunate thus
deprived of his shade will pine away
and die. Naturally, a misfortune of
this kind is greatly dreaded.
The finest collection of Eskimo
masks in existence is owned by the
National Museum, where the writer
was permitted to take the accompany
ing pictures. One Of the most not
able specimens represents the head,
neck and beak of a sandhill crane,
nearly three feet In length.
It is quite a unique curiosity in its
way, the top of the bird's head being
dug out so as to hold a small lamp,
while two holes in front serve as eyes
for the light to shine through. The
light, it may be imagined, proceeds
from the ghost of the crane resident
within.
Another curiosity is a finger mask
representing a twinkling star—a carv
ed face fringed with long feathers.
Then there is a little mask, cleverly
sculptured, designed in the likeness of
a seal head. From the mouth of the
seal projects a slender rod. turned up
ward. with several small flat wooden
ing their faros in a little box at the
front end of the wagon. The senator
saw a vacant space near the pay sta
tion. He worked his way toward it,
dropped into a seat, put his ticket in
the box. and began reading a bulky
document. Before he had read ten
lines a lady asked aim if he would
‘‘Please be so kind.” and he dropped
her fare in the box. This occurred
again and again as people got into the
herdic.
Finally an o'd negro ‘‘mammy,’
with a basketful of washing sent up
a quarter. The senator poked it out
to the driver and was given a slip of
tickets in return. He tore off one,
dropped it in the box and handed the
rest to ‘‘mammy.’’ It is contrary to
herdic etiquette to buy tickets for a
colored woman. She always wants
“change." and the senator soon be
came aware of his breach of custom
by the tearful protests of “mammy.”
“What am 1 to do?” asked tne Bos
tonian.
“I dunno an' I don’t care.” she said.
“I wants twenty cents; I don't wrani
no tickets.”
Finally the senator fished a quarter
out of his pocket, handed it to the
old woman, who still had the tickets,
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disks fastened along its length at
regular intervals. These disks are I
bubbles rising from the mouth of I
the seal, which is imagined to be un
der water. Many such symbolic de
vices are most ingenious, the rays of j
the sun. for example, being indicated
by feathers.
All through Mexico and Central
America, in ancient times, the faces
of the dead were covered with masks
of clay or metal, some of them of
beaten copper, and only half a dozen
years ago dozeus of skeletons wear
ing copper masks were dug out of a
group of burial mounds near Chilli
cothe, O. In a prehistoric grave in
Peru a silver mask was found on tho
head of a mummy, and in this case,
as well as in all others of the kind, a
species of deification of the defunct
was probably intended.
The Aleutian islanders bury their
dead with grotesque wooden masks
over their faces, and the natives of the
Prince William Sound region follow
a like custom, their mortuary masks,
for some unexplained reason, having
usually one eye open and the other
indicated by a slit merely, so as to
give the expression of a comical wink.
Some of the masks used in ceremoni
als by the Indians of Vancouver is
land roll their eyes and snap their
jaws in a manner at once lifelike and
grewsomo.
But, in their way. the Eskimo masks
here described are quite the moat re
markable in the world. They are
and jumped out of the herdie. Sh<\
W1J1 a smile of joy, tucked the tick
ets and money in her pocket.
WOES OF AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHER
His 'letinn Are Sometimes Not (irate
ful for IIU Efforts.
If the average amateur photographer
would not attempt to make portraits!
It is had enough to be misrepresented
in an out-of-doors group, but when
the snapshot man turns his attention
to heads, and poses them near the
camera it is too much.
One of these mental tortures did this
the other day. He cajoled a much
photographed neighbor to allow him to
practice upon her for the full face. His
must have been an excellent lens, for
nothing escaped it. It seemed to have
X-ray qualities. It brought defects out
of that poor woman's face of which
she had never dreamed. There were
big freckles which she had not seen
since she was a child, wrinkles which
made her 20 years older than she
really was, savage Hues about hei
mouth, ani her hair was turned into
broomcorn.
“There. I think that is a pretty good
portrait,” said the amateur, as he
turned over the result of his efforts tc
the victim. “That is a good likeness.’
It was a likeness, too. There was
the same strong resemblance which
the caricaturist puts into his sketches
and also the same hideous unlikeness.
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painted red, white and black, and
some are as much as four feet high,
while most of them are decorated with
feathers, in addition to the curious
images of animals, etc., attached to
them with strings and pegs. Occa
sional specimens are excellent por
traits of individuals, the likenesses
being so good as to be recognizable.
SENATOR LODGE AS A CONDUCTOR.
Not a huccMi Hli Experience with an
Olil Negro “Mammy.’•
Senator Ixtdge climbed into one of
those ancient vehicles that run on
some of the capital's streets and are
called herdlcs by the natives. The
wayfarers who use this brand of con
veyance. says the Washington sorres
spondent of the New York World, en
ter through a rear door and act as
conductors for the owners bv dvnosit
with not even the humorous excuse foi
it. It was all blank ugliness.
No one will know the blow it was
to the woman to receive that awful
thing as her picture. Her friends only
half guessed it when she timidly asked
if they thought it looked very much
like her. She had really believed the
statement, sometimes wrongfully
made, that the camera cannot lie. The
camera Is an unconscionable hypocrite.
—New York Times.
tll» Imputation Was Hurt.
The prosecuting attorney of Natrona
county. Wyoming, has entered suit
against F5 citizens of Casper, that
state, fo. damages, aggregating $100.
000. The citizens circulated and signed
a petition ask‘ng that he employ an
assistant in » /mrder trial, and he al
leges that, his , ersonal reputation was
thereby damaged !n t.ha sum nrimoH I
LORI DA BOASTS OF UNIQUE TOWN
(Vher* th« Iiihnliltitnt« Pax No Tam
ami Have No Vot«n.
The existence of a singular town la
Drought to notice by the Introduction
ay Senator Mallory of Florida of a bill
o provide public schools, one for
white, the other for colored children
n the town of Warrington. Fla.
At the close of the civil war the
business of the navy yard at Pensacola
was considerable, and the number of
employes was large. Many of the per
sons woikiug in the ward “squatted”
ipon the unoccupied land comprised
within the limits of the naval reserva
tion, and obtain permission from the
Department to build homes thereon.
The number of home builders in
treased even after the temporary ac
tivity of the navy yard was succeeded
by the lethargy that came over the
aavy and lasted for nearly twenty
pears. In time, the group of houses
issumed proportions of a town; then
,t took p name, and became Warring
ton. The postofflce department rec
bgnized the rights, gave it a postoffice,
which later it made a money-order
bfflce, and now the town has some 300
louses, six churches, several stores,
ind a population of more than 1,500
persons.
The commander of the Pensacola
navy yard rules the town; the inhabi
ants pay no taxes, and have no votes,
l'he place is kept in order by the cap
:ain of the yard, and “policed” as the
rest of the naval reservation is. The
bureau of yards and docks Installed
ind maintains the electric lights and
he sewer system, though very few of
;he inhabitants are employed by the
government. By rar a greater part of
bose who thus enjoy the nation's care
ire engaged in tishing or in farming
for a living.
N THE AWFUL GRASP OF LEPROSY
There Are 37S Cases In the Country
and Only 73 Are Isolated.
What is credited with being the most
loathsome disease affecting mankind
leprosy—has not a few victims in the
l/nited States, there being 278 all told.
Only 72 of the afflicted ones are iso
lated. although the disease is conta
gious and deadly once it fastens itself
upon a victim. The number of lepers
in ihe country was ascertained by a
national medical commission sent out
for the purpose. The cases they tound
distributed by states as follows:
Alabama, 1; California, 24; Florida,
24; Georgia. 1; Illinois. 5; Iowa. 1;
Louisiana, 155; Maryland, 1; Massa
•husetts, 2; Minnesota, 20; Mississippi,
j; Missouri. 5; Montana, 1; Nevada,
1; New York, 7; North Dakota, 16;
Oregon, 1; Pennsylvania, 1; South Da
kota. 1; Texas, 3; Wisconsin, 2.
Of these 176 are males and 102 fe
males; 145 American born, 120 foreign
born, and the remainder uncertain.
The commissioners say that the
foregoing figures do not represent the
total number of lepers in the country,
because the loathsome character of
the disease causes persons affected to
conceal It as long as possible. They
also say that it is most frequently con
tracted by inhaling dust where lepers
have been living.
The commission recommends the es
tablishment of a retreat for lepers and
expresses the opinion that It should be
in the arid southwest or In a similar
region further north, or an island In
the Gulf of Mexico or the Pacilic
coast.
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DIDN’T CLAIM TO BE ENTICING.
Uvod Story retiring on the Ariatocrmcy
of rhila<tel|ihlu.
“The story of an Englishman who
asked what a Philadelphia Biddle was
recalls a recent experience of my
own,” said a New York woman.
"1 had only been in Philadelphia a
short time when an acquaintance in
vited me to accompany her to a lawn
party on the grounds of the Metho
dist Old Ladies' home. We had been
walking around for some time look
ing at the different booths, and. rath
er tired, wo wfere directing our steps
to a seat near at hand, when my arm
was hastily grasped and an eager
voice said to me:
"‘Are you a Tyson?’
“In my amazement at the queer
question and wondering if the reputa
tion of my enticin' ways had preced
ed me, 1 answered hurriedly:
"‘No, 1 think not. I’m sure not.’
“My friend, who was convulsed
with laughter, said to the questioner
in a decided tone:
“ ‘No. she is not.’
"As I turned to her she explained
that Tyson was a well-known Phila
delphia name, and evidently I resem
bled one of the bearers of it.”
(alltlloti'l Not (aljlIlOtllHMt*
Most people believe that the inven
tor of the guillotine perished by means
of his own intention. As a matter ol
fact. Dr. Joseph Ignatius Guillotin. a
medical member of the Tlers-Etat.
who had adopted an English instru
ment (the Halifax Maiden) as a means
of making the death penalty equal for
all, died peacefully in Paris in 1S14, at
the age of 76. says the London News.
The common blunder was probably
caused by an entry in the Annual Reg
ister on thin day (February 28). in
17*14, to the effect that J. B. V. Guillo
tine, M. I)., of Lyons, was executed
lately: “It is an extraordinary thing
that he should die by an instrument
of his own invention. He died with
great reluctance, and declared that
when be produced his instrument to
the world it was from motives of hu
manity alone.” This alleged motive
was founded on fact, but the date
of his death and its manner
were as imaginary as the initials affix
OF COURSE THIS WAS IN IRELAND
Experience of « I.arty visitor to • l.ltfle
l»etftl'le Tiwn.
I recently beard u good story In the
west of Ireland It concerns the rising
little seaside town of Lahinch, a placo
which has recently developed tremen
dously through the tourist and g,.|f
booms. A few years ago the public
baths, like most other institullons la
the village, were very primitive. They
were situated in a little cottage,
which was just above the hi"h-water
mark. Shower baths w'ere a specialty,
and they were to be bad in a room
which had a bathtub placed In the
middle of the floor. On pulling a
string a perfect deluge of bracing sea
water came through the celling.
A lady visitor once stood ready in
the tub and gave the dread signal.
But instead of the usual avalanche of
green water there came from aloft the
gruff voice of the fisherman-proprie
tor of the baths. "If ve il move a
taste more to the wesht, ma’am," said
the voice, “ye’ll get the full benefit of
the shower." looking up. she, to her
horror, descried the old fisherman
standing by an nperature in the ceil
ing and holding a barrel of Eea w’ater
ready for the douche! Whether the
lady moved to the west and received
the shower or not, the chronicler docs
not relate. But Lahinch has made
giant strides since.—T. P. O’Connor,
In Igjndon M. A. P
Young Croker’s Fancy Dogs.
Richard Croker, Jr., has entered
Cornell law school and has taken with
him to Ithaca six dogs of the English
hull species, said to be worth $16,000.
They are the finest animals of the ca
nine species ever seen in Tompkins
county, and their arrival created quite
a sensation when they were led
through the streets.
Wherever you go carry the oil of
ivimlness in the can of courtesy.
Money is "cold cash.” Not even a
good circulation can make it warm.
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tel, Omaha. Newly Furnished Through
out. Central location. American Plan.
$2 and l'p Per Day; European Plan, $1
and Up. The Lincoln. Opp. Depots,
Lincoln, $2 and Up Per Day.
Miss Brandon Once an Actress.
Miss Braddon has published over
sixty novels since 1862. Previous to
trying literature, however. Miss Brad
don appeared on the stage. There Is
some doubt in the matter, but “An
Old Player” has declared that the fu
ture novelist made her debut at the
Brighton Theater Royal in 1857, and
that during the five following months
she Impersonated as many as fifty
eight distinct characters. Her stage
name was Mary Leyton, and, though
now known as Miss M. E. Braddon,
she is really Mrs. Maxwell and a
widow.
Literal Illustrations.
In Dolly Madison's prayer-book,
which one of her godchildren gave me,
are several quaint wood engravings,
relates Victor Smith. The frontis
piece is entitled "Father, if thou be
willing, remove this cup from me;
nevertheless, not my will, but thine,
be done.” This book was published in
1844, not so long ago, yet this picture
represents Christ kneeling upon the
grassy ground in prayer, with what
resembles a large silver goblet in front
of Him.
The “Smart Set” Still Wheels.
Among the guests present at a recent
meeting of the Torrington (Conn.)
Wheel Club were the governor, chief
justice, road commissioner and a con
gressman of the state. H. S. Earle, of
Michigan, president of the L. A. W.,
and Abbott Bassett, of Boston, secre
tary of the 1^ A. W., together with the
mayor, postmaster and all the local
dignitaries.
A philosopher is a man without feel
ings and without regard for the feel
ings of others.
It’s often the woman that doesn’t
know her own mind who is willing to
speak it.
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The most fashionable thing in heav
en is realism in religion on earth.
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Blaming others is the way some peo
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Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All
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Unprofessional people give advice,
but professional people sell it.
Pain—Hamlin's Wizard Oil. Use the
last on Ihe find, and you will neither
have one nor the other.
It's a wise man who can be silent
on any subject.
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All grocers sell large a oz. package, 5 couts.
When the king plays poker his red
face won't pass for a royal flush.
Superior quality and extra quantity
must win. This is why Defiance Starch
is taking the place of all others.
Music, strangely enough, has to be
rare to be well done.
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