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The suffering which is impending
over the new comers to Alaska is ap
palling. The forty-niners died of star
vation and thirst on the then arid
plains between Colorado and Cali
fornia. They went to a country
flowing with milk and honey, where
even the destitute did not perish for
lack of flood and where the climate
made shelter a luxury rather than a
necessity. The Alaska emigrants go
to a winter eight months long, to
bitter arctic cold and darkness. They
go to seek their fortunes. To the
hardships of alpine climbing they
bring no expensive guides and com
forts. Their fortune is to make, but
in order to dig and prcsjiect they
must be prepared to purchase food
and shelter in a market where staples
bring the cost of production, plus
the cost of transportation, which on
water is controlled by a steamship
company with noeompeting lines The
small Alaska towns have had no hotels
or accommodations for transients.
"With the sudden demand for food and
lodging, prices will be beyond the
means of the gold seekers whom
dearth of gold has sent intoa far land.
In cold weather a man 'especially a
a stranger must be well fed to resist
the cold. It is late in the summer
now and the hopeful hordes who are
marching to the gold fields of the
Klondyke, will not have time to adapt
themselves to the climate before the
mercury begins to sink lower than
they can ever remember seeing it go
before. With all the comforts of
home and twelve hours of sunlight
two thousand miles away the "emi
gres" will drop along the trail as
storm driven bird line the way of
the telegraph wire.
The Indians of Alaska live in furs
for two thirds of the year. Short,
with broad faces through which the
oil of the fish they eat exudes, they
are built for the cold like the seal,
to which they bear a close resem
blance. Men from a temperate zone
can not live in an arctic climate
without all the assistance that money
and science can provide. The expe
ditions to the north pole which have
been fitted out regardless of expense
have returned, in most cases, with
only a pitiful remnant of those who
started out, due, as the reports say,
'to the climatic conditions surround
ing the north pole" Although the
gold fields of Alaska arc not within
the arctic circle.they are near enough
the frozen fields to be within reach
of very cold draughts Those who
have made up their minds to try their
fortune in Alaska should wait till
spring, when they will have two or
three months of a rising barometer
ahead of them.
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The administration arch, cuts of
which the newspapers are printing is
a most unsatisfying, fragmentary
piece of architecture. It looks like
the first two or three stories of a
church steeple, with the tower part
cut off and the spire set on to the dis
membered portion. Perhaps the
architects, Messrs. Walker & Kimball
had in mind to construct a point of
observation from which views can be
obtained of the grounds and the sur
rounding country. It is not for me to
say that in this they have not suc
ceeded, though as an arch it is a fail
ure. It is like no other arch ever
made. This is the more surprising as
the plan of the new Burlington deiot
in Omaha is distinctly classic and ad
mirably adapted to the purpose for
which it is built. All the great
arches have flat tops ornamented with
statuary, carving, or architectural
devices not in the least like a steeple.
An arch is not utilitarian; it is built
for the purpose of making more sig
nificant and spectacular a triumph
which in the form of a procession
winds under its roof. It is of the
earth, earthy. It begins and ends
with the occasion it memorializes
The Arc de Triomphe, the arch
of Constantino, the administration
arch at the Columbian exposition,
though very different arc arches
still. A spiritual spire which sig
nifies the final triumph of the
spiritual is out of place on an exposi
tion arch. It would not matterabout
its significance if it were an archi
tectural success but it is very ugly.
The lower part joins two handsome
colonades which spring f rom each side.
In general, "except for the spires the
design is much like the arch at the
Columbian exposition. This arch was
purely triumphal in character and
one of the most effective sights of the
exposition.
The midsummer magazinesare filled
with fiction and their covers are bril
liant in red and gold. Scribner's
shows a maid with wheat yellow hair,
and poppies in it. In her extended
arms she holds a garland of joppies.
Behind her and up to her neck is a
field of ripe grain, and behind that
the sun turns everything into gold.
It is a beautiful poster on the cover of
the magazine and the artist's name
deserves to be known to the general
public but it is too blurred to be read.
Inside, Kenneth Grahame has one of
his reminiscent child stories illus
trated by Maxfield Parrish. The pic
tures cover the half of each page in
regular story-book fashion, and take
me back to the time when only the
real was of no consequence. The
story and the pictures tell of how a
girl's imagination strolled up and
down the streets of a little town of
which she could see only the walls in
a picture which hung in the dining
room. The little boy who tells the
story has to go calling with his aunt
and he finds a book with the little
castle and the walled town the same
little town in it and at last he gets in
side. It is realizing rapture to enter,
but as he does so two immense hands
shut the book and reproach him like
the rude awakening from a dream cf
paradise. The illustrations take one
back as Pu Maimer's 'dreaming
true," to the pleasures, not to the
pains of childhood. Frank Stocktf n
story of ''The Buller I'oddiugtou
Compact" is without esx.eial inter
est, even though the illustration" are
by Peter Jewell, except in the first
one, which is in, poster style and rep
resents two men driving a horse in
the water. Most pictures are drawn
from a side or front view. This is
drawn like a map, from above, and
shows the tops of the hats and the
back of the horse. There is a good
story by Jesse Lynch Williams who
knows the inside of a newspaper of
fice. Under a thin disguise, "The
Day" for The Journal and '"The
Earth" for The World, the two New
York papers, which are willing to spend
a fortune for a "leat." Mr. Williams
tells a very good story of "The Day's"
triumph over the treachery of its op
ponent. The story by Rudyard Kip
ling is a fable of machinery in conver
sation. The device is somewhat over
worked in Mr. Kipling's hands. IIo
began with making the wolves, bears,
monkeys and snakes of an Indian
jungle talk like folks. Succeeding in
fooling us he continued with the nuts,
bars, bolts and beams of an Atlantic
liner. His latest is a conversation of
engines in a round house. The whole
is stupid fooling except for a few lines
devoted to "the yardmaster," a small
ish white-faced man in. shirt, trousers
and slippers, looking down uion a sea
of trucks, a mob of bawling truckmen
and squadrons of backing, turning,
sweating spark-striking horses.
"That's shipper's carts loadin' on to
the receivin' trucks, but he don't
care. He let's 'em cuss. He's the
Tsar, king, boss! He says 'please' and
then they kneel down and pray.
There's three or four strings oj to
day's freight to be pulled before he
can attend to them. When he waves
his hand that way, things happen."
Compared with anything Mr. Kipling
.has done this story of No. 007 is pretty
flimsy. More than that, it would be
poor work for anybody and would be
returned with the remark that "we
are sorry that your M. S. is not avail
able." In an interview with a writer who
was getting up a "Lives of Famous ..
Women" book, Jean Ingelow said:
"As a child I was very happyat'times
and generally wondering over some,
thing. I used to think a good deal,
especially about the origin of things, .
when jieople sjwke of having been in
this world and that very house before
I wa-i born, I wondered, I thought .
everything must have begun whn I
did. "o doubt otherchildren ha vesuch
thoughts but few remember them.
Indeed nothing is more remarkable
among intelligent people than the
recollections they retain of their
childhn d. A few, a I do, remember
it all." As a lKiby of Six months who
cannot talk and who is said to "take
notice" only by kin folks, will gurgle
and gra-p at another baby, so the
children have put their morkof ap
proval on Miss Ingelow's poetry. They .
turn to it as one"chiId to another, be
cause they recognize a personality -which
is sympathetic to theirs.
Children communicate with each
other in various ways, the least im
jHjrtant of which is words. The child
ren of travelers in a foreign land are
constantly reporting to their parents
facts which they have learned from
playmates to whose language they