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NEWS REVIEW OF
CtOENT EVENTS
What Senator McKinley's
Defeat in Illinois Repuhl?e?n
PnmariAC M^Jl n t
livau A 1 UUW1 ?w ? ? WW
By EDWARD W. PICKARD
ILINOIS Republicans administered
i severe V.J: :o the World court last
weei. and the opponents of American
adhesion to that tribunal are corre- i
pon-ilrzU elated. Senator William j
B. MeKfnley was a candidate for re- |
nomination in the primaries and the ;
flzht az?.:rsr him was based solely on j
tbe fact that he voted for American
membership in the World court. He
was defeated by Frank L Smith of
Dwizht- by about lil.O'X) votes. Wash- j
Insrton was watchin; the contest with j
Intense interest, and soch men as Sen- ;
tors Borah of Idaho and Reed of Mis- i
fcouri professed to see in the result a ;
portent that other senators who supported
the World court proposition \
wouid he retired and that ultimately
the act of American adhesion would 1
be repealed. Tbourh there was. no '
statement forthcoming from the White
House, the administration forces were
plainly somewhat disconcerted and the ;
World court senators who come up 1
for re-election this year did not cor- j
ceel their anxiety. Norbeck of North j
Dakota and Ernst of Kentucky, al- '
ready have been renominated, but the j
list also includes Binzham (Rep.. ,
Conn. t. Bronssard (I'em, La.). Butler
(Rep.. Mass.).- Cameron 'RfP-. I
Ariz.), faraway (Dem.. Ark.). earn- .
? rains (Rep.. Iowa). Curtiss (Rep.. j
Kama.). (Rep.. Vt.). Fletcher i
(Dem.. F!a ). Oenrse (Dem, (ia.). j
Goodinz (Rep, Idaho). Jones,(Rep..
Wash). Lenroot (Rep.. Wis.), means 1
(Rep-.. Colo.), OMie (Rep.. Nev.). i
Overman (fern. N. Pepper (Rep,
? * Pa.). Shortrldge (Rep, CaL). Smith .
(Derr... S. C.). Smoot (Rep, Utah). I
StanSeld 'Rep, Ore.). Wadsworth
(Rep, X. Y ). Watson tRep, led.). !
Welier (Rep, M<L). Wiliis (Rep, !
Ohio).
"Illinois." said Senator Borah, "has
indexed the sentiment in this coon- j
try against the League court. The
campaign against thecoun will go forward
as promised immediately after
the rote in the senate. We have no j
Intention of ceasing efforts ontil the
matter is settled in the forum from j
which there is no appeal?until It Is !
settled and settled right."
George E. Brennan. Democratic |
committeeman, running on a wet plat- |
form, easily w<n the Democratic senatorial
nomination in Illinois, which
was highly pleasing to all wets. They i
also professed to see. in the fact that
Chicago voted in favor of . boxing exv
hibiflons. an assurance that the people
were beginning to revolt against
all sumptuary laws.
There is a lot of vague talk to the
effect that the defeat of Senator McKinley.
one of the strongest supporters
of president Coolidge. indicates
loss of prestige and popularity by the
Chief Executive. The political guessers
said if Republicans of other states
' followed the lead of those in Illinois
there would he no lack of men to contest
with Mr. Coolidge the presidential
nomination in 102**. Chief of these. It
was believed, would be Senator Borah.
SMITH W. BROOK HART was unseated
by the senate as senator
from Iowa and his place was given to
Daniel F. Steek. who was Immediately
sworn into office, the first Eiemocrat
to represent Iowa in the senate since
the Civil war. The vote was close?
45 to 41. Fifteen Republicans voted
to seat Steck. and n;ne Democrats ana
ooe Farmer-Labor senator lined op
with the Republicans who stood by
Brookhart. As has been said in this
column before, it is understood that
Brookhart will enter the Republican
primary in June as an opponent of
Senator Cummins for the nomination.
AN AGREEMENT was reached in
the senate to vote on the Italian
war debt settlement on April 21, and
the administration forces were confident
that the house bill approving the
settlement readied by the commissioners
would be passed. *"
The senate passed a house Mil to inPlan
Pan-American
Journalistic Body
Washington.?The organization of a
pan-American association of Journalists
was approved in one of the resolutions
adopted at the pan-American
congress of journalists. The purpose
of the permanent organization would
be to "investigate and report upon
the practicability of the interchange
^k of news between the constituent tnem
^k bers of this organization in both
^k American continents."
^ nfl^^Br ? >! Ill I
iribie l>?s Angeies is she made her first
12.000.ti40 women at capitol In Washingtc
ra. Cai, during burning of great oil t art
crease pensions of veterans of the
' Spanish war. Philippine insurrection
and the Boxc rebellion and their
widows and dependents In an aggre- i
gate of S1S.500.0CO annually. The i
treasure went to conference for ad- '
jostment of differences between the i
honse and senate provisions.
The senate judiciary committee, coo- 1
| sideiing a resolution which seeks io- i
| formation regarding the prosecution I
! of Senator Wheeler last snmmer. was '
balked by the refusal of Attorney Geo- (
e.-al Sargent to answer Senator i
Walsh's questions. Mr. Sargent's re- s
fusa! was based on the ground that i
the resointlon was improper and that
the Information desired by Senator I
Walsh shoald not be disclosed becanse 1
. "publication would be incompatible j 1
with the public interest-" s
COMPROMISE has been reached la I'
the controversy over the proposed 4
Great Lakes-Atlantic canal. Both f 1
sides have agreed that the amy en- |s
gineers shall survey both the all- 1
: American route and the St. Lawrence 1
route and report to congress next fall. *
BEN W. IKX1PER. W. L. McMenlrr.en
and Samuel Higgias were
reappointed jo the federal railroad f
labor board by the President Their ! {
terms will probably be short, as U (
seems certain the Watson-Parker bill 1
aboih-hing the board will be passed. '
s
TWO measures contemplating de- '
velopment of naval and commer- *
cia! aviation were passed by the 1
house. <>ne authorizes the $100,000.- a
000 Sve-year naval aircraft program *
which would give the navy 1.014 new 1
planes- The other creates the office '
of second assistant secretary of com- '
merce for the regulation of commer- '
cial air transportation systems.
c
Cnrr.cn. labor and peace organlza- '
tions through their spokesmen attacked
the Capper-Johnson bill for |
universal man power and complete
government control of Industry in ~
time of war. before the senate military
affairs committee. The measure 8
has the backing of the secretary of
war and the American Legion.
llTIT HAT we want is the strongest
VV thine In enfon-ement and the
weakest thing in liquor" was the state|
mer.t of Mrs. Henry Peabody of Bos|
ton before the senate committee when
the prohibition hearing was resumed
| last week, and it summarized the
pleas of the 64 women who were with
her as representatives of numerous organizations.
Stepping forward in rapid 1
succession, they presented their argu- 1
ments succinctly and effectively, and
j if they were rather lacking In sta- 1
| tistlcs. they made up for this by their
j fervor and by the realization that they ?
were speaking for great bodies of "
women firmly united In opposition to 1
any change in the Volstead act unless 1
it were to make It more drastic.
Having yielded this day to the dry '
women, the wets took charge again. *
j Father Kasaczun. a priest of the 1
! Pennsylvania anthracite region, and 1
; Mrs. Viola Andrews, chief of proba- 1
| tion officers In New York, told of the (
! evil effects of the Volstead law as observed
by them in their respective ter- '
; ritories: and the Moderation league of '
I New York offered a huge mass of statistics
and graphs. Then Gen. Lincoln
C. Andrews, chief dry enforcer, was recalled
to the stand and under questioning
admitted that In his opinion
the enforcement of the liquor laws
would be easier If beer of a low alcoi
holic content were distributed under
j government supervision for home conj
sumption. He said the sale of such
i beer in saloons should not be permit!
ted as it might serve as a blind for
I bootlegging of hard liquor. Having
brought out a lot of Information as to
the vast number of stills that are beiDg
operated. Senator Reed continued:
"Now. I want to ask you. as a man
and a citizen, don't Von think that the
manufacture of liquor in the homes
has a tendency to put the American
home Into direct and intimate contact
with liquor?" 1
"Of course it does." replied Andrews.
"Is not this." questioned Reed
"bringing millions of families into coo- <
tact with the manufacture and drink- i
ing of liquor: this secrecy, this con i
tact with the police?Is not all this ut
Aala /lAetMAtlpA AI tk. __ - I _ _ ?
I ici ij uc9u uvu*c ui uic uiurais OI Uie I 1
borne In whicb this goes ooT* |l
_i
The congress declared In the first
of a series of some twenty resolutions
adopted ttiat "Its fundamental
purpose is to create bonds of sympathy
8nd closer understanding
among the nations here represented:
t to secure a fuller interchange of
news: to guard against misrepreseD
lation of the peoples concerned and to <
establish a code of ethics which shall I
he acceptable and binding upon nub :
Mentions here represented."
Another resnlotioo recommended
resort to arbitration for tbe settle
?
I
kbk,' A^V
Sight since the destruction of the
>c to protest against weakening of [ 1
k fartn which was struck bj light- ^
' '
f
"Unquestionably. It Is seriously l?- e
Jurious," admitted the general. a
All of which caused eiatioo among
the wets and led the dry leaders to c
say unpleasant things about Andrews, c
some eren demanding his removal by the
President. u
With completion of the wets' case, t
the board of temperance, prohibition a
ind public morals of the Methodist c
Episcopal church resumed the preseti- I
ation of testimony iD behalf of the c
lrys' contention tha^the Volstead act t
lot only should not be weakened bat t
should be made more rigid than it Is. s
f changed at all. t
In the senate Bruce and Edge, wet
eaders. prodded Borah until the Ida- n
loan indulged in a dry outburst that d
irocght the galleries to their feet with i:
shouts of applaase despite the efforts L
>f Vice President Dawes to maintain
>rder. Borah denounced the proposals h
>f the wets to modify the Volstead act ! o
ls schemes to evade the Constitution t
tnd therefore treasonable and tending d
o legal chaos, constitutional anarchy f
md the breakdown of constitutional s
toverument.
MUSSOLINTS visit to Tripoli was n
watched with great interest. The t
iremier was given a reception worthy ti
?f an emperor and his speeches there o
ontinued to suggest that the plan Is c
0 form a new Roman empire, though ti
le is careful not to intimate that Italy o
eeks to acquire any more territory In b
ifrica. Correspondents with his ex- f
edition seem to think no more land b
s needed as Libya's coastal plain is it
1 valley SfJO miles long and COO miles s
ride, with more cultivable land than o
here is in all Italy If properly de- i
eloped it will furnish an outlet for
taly's surplus population The land i
s very cheap now and does not need
r-r ? ceo f i /-vr? \flii.CAiini l? fifSt
if the ItaliaD government to realize
Ully the possibilities of this region. j
FRANCE an.J Spain called the Rif- b
tans to a peace conference at ti
)ndja and banded them an ultimatum, b
f their terms are not accepted they fc
ire ready to launch a combined of- 0
ensive that probably will wipe out . b
he rebels. These terms include the c
ibdication and virtual exile of Abd-el- ji
vrira and the disarmament of the b
ribes. The allies offer to restock the s
lerds of the tribesmen and to supply
Unds for the deTelopment of the coun- j.
ry. Krim will be provided for suitably 0
f he will give In. tl
i
s
FOR the second time Russia has s
unofficially declared it will not par- "
icipate In the preliminary disarma- v
nent conference called for May 18 in fi
leneva and it will not be asked again. b
Reports In London are that the pod- a
erence may be postponed or a ban
loned. the French mote to this effect t
low having the support of Polan/1. Ru- S
nania and some other states on the *
tossian border. i a
France and Germany have con- t<
Muded negotiations abrogating most li
>f the clauses of the Versailles treaty fi
estrlcting German aviation develop- j o
nent and have signed an accord per- b
nltting commercial flying without hin1
ranee over both countries. g
v
LATEST reports from China were '
that the Manchurlan troops of Mar- r
>bal Chang bad broken the llDes of e
he natiodal army commanded by a
Peng and were about to attack Peking v
tself. It seemed likely they would v
soon be In possession of the city. <
Marshal ffu Pel-fu. who had been In- v
rited by the national army leaders to t
:ake supreme command at the capi- a
:al. had made no move to accept, but i'
vas waiting with his army west of s
Peking, ready to take advantage of I
the situation, whatever it might be s
Luther -bcrbank. the world's 11
most eminent horticulturist and a 8
jreat benefactor of mankind, died at 1
Ills California borne and his body lies :
it the foot of a cedar of Lebanon In I 1
the garden where he carried on many ' a
if his most notable experiments in the ^
jevelopment of fruits. Cowers and j *regetables
8
BLOODY Herrln. In Williamson d
county. Illinois, was In the bands ^
at the state troops again after a re- 1
Dewal of the ktan warfare at the pri- j 0
maries. Sis men were killed and many I t
wounded before the guardsmen gained |
control of the situation. Further fight- j a
ing oo election day was predicted. : 8
: a
meat of all disputes between American
republics, not only of politic*,
character. bjot all disagreements
which affect the Interests or barmooy i ;
between the nations of the Western '
hemisphere. p
Still another resolution recommends *
the establishment in New York city ^
of a salon for the promotion of artistic
production in the Western hemi
sphere. This sn -.restinn was ad
sauced by Dr Jorge Mitre editor of 4.
I.a Nacton. Bnenos Aires, and Is wel> o
supported li
tJ
VT-wg TRTpy. N. C.
?oooosaoooa?ftoeoooooooao?
; POINTS ON
KEEPING WELL
DR. FREDERICK R. GREEN
Editor .f -HEALTH"
HHJOCCOOOOOOOoooOOC-OOMOBfl
1A >??- w-^fra Ncwsiwm? Ccloa.1
abdominal sick headache
j ,
C* VERTBODY knows what sick hwJache
is. Even if you are fortotate
enough to be free from this disigreeable
ailnv-nt yourseif. yon prohib!y
have some one in your own fanv
ly. or at leas: in your circle of actnaintances
who is .subject to it A
evere prostrating heada -be, accompa(ied
by nausea, vomiting and general
prostration coming on periodically and
asting from several boars to two or
hree days. It is one of the most dis:greeabte
afflictions to which one can
? suojecteu.
There has been much speculation as
o its cause. Eye strain, worry, emo
fonal excitement. indiscretions in
liet. heredity, and many other causes
iaTe been held respncsible. No one
a use is found in ail cases. Each inliridaal
sufferer generally has his own
xplacation as to what brings on his
itracks.
Physicians cail it migraine. It is
ne of the class of disorders which are
ailed functional, or as doctors say
it has no pathology." by which they
sean that they can find no changes in
he body machinery which cause It or
ire cause! by it. As is usually the
ase in a condition, the cause of which
s not known, there have been ininmerable
remedies and methods of
reattnent tried, none of which is of
enef' in ail cases and. in many !ntances.
no method of t.-eatmtr: seems
0 have any effect.
One of the strange varieties <|>f this
inpieasact affliction is so-called abk>m;nai
migraine, in which the pain,
astead of being located in the head.
1 feit in the stomach.
These attacks, iike ordinary sick j
eadaebes, come on at intervals of two
r three weeks. Having all the sympoms
of some serious abdominal coniitlon,
they are generally at first conused
with gallstones or ulcer of the
tomach.
Careful study of these patients has
Ka?-T> tha fufhpp or the
UV?U UiBi IHUi kuv ,
lother had been constant sufferers
rom ordinary sick headache. Often
bese attacks begin in early life as
rdinary sick headache, gradually '
hanging to the abdominal form. In (
he abdominal form, as well as in the
rdinary sick headache, nothing has
een found in any case to account
or the attack. The opinion of the
est authorities on nervous diseases j
i that tick headache belongs to the
ame class as epilepsy, a strange disrd
'i lr which certain centers get out
rom under control and cause these
trange symptoms in different parts
t the oody.
SPRING TONICS
I
^PRIN'G is the season of universal
^ awakening. The seeds and bulbs '
egin to sprout. The sap starts in the
rees. the buds begin to appear on the j
ranches. The animals which have
ibernated during the winter coine out
f their ho'.es. Tfc^ birds return and
egin to look for places to build their '
ests for their new families. Naturalr,
man thinks that be. too. should
ave a place in this awakening to a ]
eason of new life and activity.
For many centuries, it was genera!- j
f believed that in the spring every
ur utrunj n iwuiv.. cvui^bing
to "thin the blood" which was
upposed to have become thick and
luggish daring the winter. So the
yarb" doctors, as soon as the new,
egetation appeared, went out in the
elds and woods to gather leaves,
arks and shoots for their "simples,'*
s their brews were called.
Here was where wise women and
he housewives were in their element. j
Some of us can remember the days '
rhen our old grandmothers made sasafrass
tea or birch beer and gave it
o their families in liberal doses. Even
n the large cities today, one of the |
irst signs of spring is the appearance
n the streets of old men with their
iaskets of sassafras bark.
Those who had no opportunity to
ather these ' natural remedies" or
rho didn't know how to select them,
ell back on that familiar household
emedy which, as boys, we all detestd?sulphur
and molasses. Some of
is in our early days were so dosed !
rith this mixture that for weeks we j
Fere afraid to scratch our heads.
These beliefs were not surprising, !
rhen we consider that for centuries j
be best medical opinions were much '
Jong the same lines.
Like many old beliefs, there was '
omething after all, in the old notions.
>uring the winter we have most of us
tayed indoors too much, we have
rorn too heavy and too much clothng.
we haven't had enough fresh air
nd sunlight. We do need a spring
onle but not one out of bottles.
The best and the cheapest spring
onic we can take is green vegetables
nd fresh fraita Fresh rhubarb sauce
s worth a dozen bottles of medicine.'
Ireen food, in the form of cabbage,
pinach, beet tops, chard, celery, letuce,
green onions and radishes will
lo us more good than drugs and pilia
resu Lruiis are uun pieuuiui. pracically
all the year round. Apples, figs,
ranges, grapefruit and lemons, have
he fruit acid our body needs.
Then there is the wild, warm, spring
lr and the spring breezes and sudhine.
All of them are good for what
lis you after the long winter.
Expresaioe
"Where do you live, dear?" asaed
le new neighbor of wee Dorothy,
he little one pointed to a handsome
esidence with wide verandas. "Why,
live In that broad-brimmed house,"*
be answered.
Catholic Wdmen Organized
With a membership of more than
,000,000, the National Council of Catbllc
Women lays claim to being the
irgest group of organised women in
he wogid.
ffl&S
One of the Best Ho
j CPT9pared by tka Xatfoaal Gcocraphic
Society. WuMtftra. D. C?
WITH the coming of spring,
life takea on a new aspect
in Arctic Siberia where human
activity is still largely
confined to hunting, trapping, and ftsh|
ing. Yet It is only in winter that the
j little Tillages of this most Isolated re1
gion can be reached. Then the riv:
era, marshes, and innumerable lakes
are frozen and may be traversed, while
j in spring, summer, and autumn this
I part of Siberia is entirely cut o! from
the rest of the world by countless impassable
swamps.
The distances are almost unbelievable
In Siberia The Siberian starting
point for most of the Arctic coast
is Irkutsk, metropolis of the Trans:
Siberian railway. From there to
I Yakutsk, little more than the halfway
house. 4s nearly 1JSX) miles by
i air line: but by the route that must
be traversed, partly by steamer along
! the winding Lena, the distance is over
I l-VX) miles. From Yakutsk to Russj
koe Oatye, one of the most remote of
i the Arctic coast villages, is an additional
thousand miles or more.
To Yakutsk and a little beyond,
horses are used, even in winter: but
then one enters the realm of the rein
l,"r Br"l a taree Dart of the
remainder of the journey on si edges
drawn by those animals. The last 00
miles must be covered by dog-sledge.
The trip is through the still, primeval
forests (the taiga), such as are found
only in Siberia The way leads through
deep ravines, winding channels, snowfilled
beds of rivers, and over tall,
rocky, forest-clad mountains.
On such a winter journey the mercury
never rises beyond 20 degrees below
zero centigrade, and usually horers
about ?50 degrees. Verkhoyansk,
supposed to be the coldest spot on
earth, is on this route, and at times
the mercury there sinks to, ?71 degrees
centigrade and lower.
The primeval forests are left behind
when the Tabioni mountains are
' passed, and the traveler enters the Arctic
tundra. Northward the vegetation
grows scanter and scanter. The tall
bushes of willow become lower and
lolrer. finally disappearing entirely.
All about is a limitless snowy expanse,
with no features on which the eye mar
rest. It is in such a stretch of tundra
that the settlement of Russkoe L'stye
la situated.
Throughout the tjrhole course of the
Indigirka river, probably not less than
850 miles In length. Russkoe Ustye is
considered the largest settlement. But
It consists of six dwelling houses only.
l' The Russian word dom (house) has
here become dym. which means smoke.
And this metamorphosis is perfectly
justified, for in this land of polar frost
and blltrards. a house without fire, or
"smoke," Is not considered a house.
Population Small.
The population of the settlement
numbers only about twenty souls. All
the colonies on the Indigirka riTer,
scattered alone Its course in settlements
of from two to four cottages
each, do not comprise more than 400
persons.
These Russians represent, as it
were, foreign islets in the sea of the
aboriginal Yukaghirs, Tungus, Yakuts,
and Chuckchi. who surround them everywhere.
The aborigines live as nomads.
raising reindeer, while the Russians
have a settled mode of existence
along the banks of the river, and use
dogs instead of reindeer.
This is a most peculiar and isolated
little world. The ' inhabitants cling
tenaciously to their ancient customs
and national characteristics.
For this reason, therefore, the Russians
along the Indigirka are undoubtedly
of immense interest to the ethnographer.
To begin with it is curious
bow they ever got to the banks
of the Indigirka, so remote are they
from the city of Yakutsk, the center
from which emanated the historical
progress of the Russian conquest and
settlement of this territory. Apparently
the first Russians had already
reached the Indigirka In the Sixteenth
century, during the reign of Iran the
Terrible, perhaps eTen before the conquest
of Siberia by Yermak.
There is good reason for assuming
that these pioneers came by boat from
European Russia over the Arctic
ocean, and not by land, from Yakutsk.
At Russkoe Ustye the nearest points
f "dTillxation** are Ust-Yansk, a Tillage
of about 90 dwellings, not leas
than 300 miles In an airline to the
west, and in the east. NIxhne Kolrmak
with 25 house*, about the same distance
away.
Genius Is Humanity
Great artists are said to rereai *s
to ourselves. But bow could this be
possible, unless there were identity
of nature between their Imagination
and ours, and unless the difference
were only one of quantity. It were
better to change "poeta nasdtur" into
"homo nascitur poeta": some men
are born great poets, some small. The
colt of the genius with all its attendant
superstitions bag arisen from
?
JIBE-, I
??t=sa??l-M-J L fj
I
mm in Rutikae Uatya.
j None of the inhabitants of Roaskoe
i Cstye hare ever gone beyond these
, two points, nor hare any erer been to
| Yakutsk. Names like Omsk and Moo,
cow sound to them Like fairy tales. It
I Is. therefore, not surprising that the f
; real Inhabitants of Resskoe Cstye are j
not very much abore the state of primitive
savagery. There is not a single !
literate person among the settlers
along the InJigirka.
> Cluster of Huts.
In appearance. Russkoe Cstye is f
nothing bat a miserable cluster of a
few snow-swept wooden huts and
barns. In every direction, as far as
J the eye can see there is In winter,
j snow. snow. snow. Here and there Is
a dump of dwarfed shrubbery, buried
| under the snow in the winter. Amid
[ the monotonous landscape of this
j white desert one distinguishes with
great difficulty the cottages, half hldI
den from sight by the snow piled up
against thern
i The settlement is especially dreary
daring November and December, ? ben
the sun disappears altogether from
the horizon, and the dim twilight
! called -daylight" lasts only two or
: three hours. This is the most cheer- \
I i?? oawn of the rear, and the sad
i howling of the dogs in the darkness
' seems almost unbearable to one unaccustomed
to it.
The winter nights are at times magnificent.
In the black velvet of the
sky the stars, which make their appearance
about three o'clock in the J
| afternoon and twinkle until eleven
i o'clock in the morning, blare like diaI
monds: Almost every night there is
I a most brilliant northern Illumination.
| Owing to the nearness of the sea.
j the cold there registers rarely lower
; than ?50 degrees centigrade. But the
winter blizzards are frequent and ter-:
rible. They stifle-a person, cut off the
breath, throw one off his feet with
lashing volleys of snow, and make it
impossible to see farther than five
steps ahead,
j The annual temperature at Russkoe
I Ustye Is the lowest of all those places
j where meteorological observations i
have been made, it is also one of the J
northernmost inhabited spots on the
j globe.
The winter lasts eight long months,
j from September till May. The sun*"
j mens are warmer than one would ex
i pert, the temperature in the sun reg
; istering up to 30 degrees centigrade
j (S6 degrees Fahrenheit), but it is very
j rarely that a summer passes without i
j a snowstorm. A summer "day.*" dnr
, ing which the sun never disappear! [
below the horizon, lasts almost three
months?from April 2S till July 20
The Indigirka thaws generally durinj
the first days of June.
The flora Is of the scantiest. In
summer the ground thaws to a depth
of only two feet: below that it is for
ever frozen. Throughout this region
there are no forests. Xot a single na*4
W.. ~ . '
U1C VI nuaamuc v?}r um t'a
* tree growing: to the? a common fli
tree is as much of a curiosity as a
tropical palm tree to a northern per
son.
The shrubs of the willow extend tee j
miles toward the sea and then come
to an end (it Is about 45 miles from I
Russkoe Ustye to the Arctic ocean).
There, even grass ceases to grow.
Nothing but Swamps.
In summer, no matter where oo?
turns, one can see nothing but swamps
In spring and summer the Indigirka
brings on its currents from the south I
large numbers of fallen trees. These ,
are eagerly picked off the banks by ;
the natives, for this driftwood makes
It possible for them to withstand the |
intense winter cold, and they likewise \
build their dwellings of it.
The staple food of the natives li
fish, which is taken in summer aa wellj
as in winter (under the ice). Sea
food is also fed to the dogs.
The local fish Is excellent, especially
the muksun, which belongs to the salmon
family. It Is usually cooked,!
but is often dried in the sun ani
smoked. So prepared, it serves ii
place of bread and Is regarded as a .
delicacy.
More often, however, the fish Is fro i
ten and eaten raw, and Is called stro i
ganln, or sliced fish. The skin is re
moved and the fish is rnt In slices srltk
a sharp knife. It most be eaten fro
sen with salt.
Of bread the natives are complete)}
Ignorant. Frozen bread is brought U
by the wealthiest traders, who treat i
their friends to it as one might treai
a person to chocolate. The trader?.
also bring sugar, bat ft is regarded a?
a great delicacy.
this quantitative difference having
been taken as a difference of quality.'
It has been forgotten that genius is
not something that has fallen from
heaven, bnt humanity itself.?Croce.
First in Silk
When yon admire a piece of silk
tapestry or silk damask adorning a
piece of American-made furniture it
is interesting to know that America
ranks first among all the countries
manufacturing silks, with France an*
end In production.
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picking tie r.zs-.:'.;. ^-7 I
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may mean worms. A-.: I
left in the bc:v -tiz I
health.
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Recalling Early Days
of American Care?
An innocent d' - .:JgJ
the creation ??f
ba:.k. savs ?r?i
Inquirer. Wher.
was not worth a
Philadelphia st.>... :
A bi? df>? wa?
then piasters-! o-.vr
dollar bills. With ;fiy'.ne
flaps that : -' '
down Chestnut sir-'
center of the city t> f V
of men and boys,
came Robert M>-"imanent
bank to
sylvania bank.
work and was sc- :.
Less honor is
porary bank that. > "
One thine it did ' > >
rations for Was.1
other, possibly
was the parches- ' *
rels of rum. J
"Say. old mar.
lost overcoat you
should he. I '
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only to have ?-' surereli?
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