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THE TIMES WASHING 10 SUNDAY, NCTVRMBRU 27. 1898. 19 THE ESKIMOS OF ALASKA Witchcraft and Degradation Prevalent Among Them. FIGHT FOR CIVILIZATION Vfter Trrentj Yearn of Untiring YVorL. il icolcbiuui Urine About a Ilrfonu HabltM of the luiiultv of Cape Pierce IuterestliiLT Slorj of Chrintliin Cniluior.

Lcs Angeles, Nov. 15 The Rev. Daniel W. MaePherson, ot Cape Pierce, Alaska, Is having a season of rest and recuperation among tlic orange groves and flowers of Southern California, sas The Times. Tor nineteen jears he has lived and worked among the native Known as Innults on the Behrlng Sea coast of Alaska, and now, after cor-stant work and privations and hardships that few men would endure voluntarli.

he has come down the coast Jnto the soml-troplcs for a rest and a change of sir months. The Improvement In the moral and Industrial conditions of a settlement of more than 0 degraded Eskimos at Cape Pierce is the result of almost his sole endeavors. Mr. MaePherson Is fort -seven years of age, but looks about thirty-live. He was born.

In the subuibs of Edinburgh. Scotland, and was a student at the university of that city. He know Robert Louis Stevenson there when the two were college bojs. He sub'equi'ntly went to Cambridge and took a minor degree as a divinity student. Posseted of ample means, through an Inheritance from an uncle, he resolved to devote his life and fortune to earning civilization and Chrlstlanit to savage races.

In 1875, when he was twenty-four, he went as a missionary to South Africa under the auspices of the Christian League of Scotland, but pajlng his own expenses and providing himself for the maintenance of a mission school 50 miles out in the bush from Cape Town. Two cars of the Intense heat of the Interior of Africa made him a nervous wreck, and, turning his mission school and all Its equipment and appurtenances over to the Christian League, he returned to Scotland, as man friends believed, to die at his birthplace. That was in 1S77. In 1S79 he had recovered his health In the cold Northern climate, and his old-time xeal to alleviate the lot of biroarous people returned Robert Louis Stevenson, who had been in Sin Francisco, met Mr. MacPherson one- dav In London and In the coiirm of dinner told of the savary of the aborigines In Alaska.

Sir. Stevenson had lodged In San Francisco with a sea captain who had made a doxen to Alaska and had observed the Eskimos along the coat Rices unacquainted with civilization had a peculiar fascination for Jlr. Stevenson and he regretted thai he had not robust health so that he- couhl go and live among the Alaskan savage Mr. MacPner-on then and thre reafolved to go and spend his life In bringing the bubarous people out of their degradation Four months later he was at Sitka, Alaska, with several thousand dollars' worth of suuplls and means for missionary effort among a barbarous ih-ple. Some whalers had told him that the of Cape Pierce, up on Bearing Sea were probably th most uncivilized and degraded jieople in all that rcgl and Mr MaePherson resolved to go there and start upon his missionary Mahlon Bowers, United States commissioner in Alaska, did he could to prevail upon the young Scotchman to abindon his Idea.

A dozen men in S'tka, who had been on voyages up Beh-lns See, urged Mr. MaePherson to keep away from Cape Pierce because the natives there would surely kill him and posib! eat him Th- said that no more intractab'e. worth uu rice lived than the Innuits, or n-klmos of the coast along Behrlng Sea The to'd of how all the whaling crews went ashore armed and watchful when the had tradiing to do with the Kivagps of that region, and of narrow escapes that even the hard whalers had at Cape Pierc Nevertheless, Mr. MaePherson was determined to make at least an effort among the Innuits. The first whirling vessW that came to Sitka on its annual voage to the north carried 4he mls-sionar up the coast to Cape Pierce-When tne boxes of provisions.

Bibles, clothing and house-hold articles were landed on the nore at Cape Piene. the who'c pupulatlon came down to the water's edge. Nothing like that had pit been seen there. With many misgivings and almost tearful warnings the sailors bade the Scotchm in farewell, and sailed awaj to the north They ex-Iiected that he would be shiln In less than a week It was August, and the spectacle that Mr MaePherson looked upon was disheartening. Two score great, clumsy, biark war canoes were hauled up on the shore and covered with bark to protect them from the weather.

Rude tents of ancli-nt -kins and discarded sail canvas snd eaves dug in the earth din's were the homes of the swarth population Bones of walrus and forest animals littered tn shore, and here and there were bones of human brings who had actually been eaten in former jears Half nude men and women, cold though the air was then, ran about the beach. A more dirt, foul-smelling and uninviting assemblage of human beings could scarcely be Imagined. In the apologies for tents and the dugout habitations were drunken Eskimos. Even children lay here and there under the effects of a. powerful alcoholic decoction that the whalers and fur traders had exchanged for walrus oik But this spectacle- only strengthened Mr.

MacPherson's determination to be a missionary amid this degradation, fly signs -and the of silver pieces the young Scotchman got several r-f the mo-e promising looking Innults to carry his merchandise to a spot In the woods a half mile Inland In countless wav he snowed the savages who came dail, when sober, and stared at him from a safe distance, that he was armed and knew how to defend himself. While he lived In a tent he paid several ot the savages ever day to guard his place rnd person One tlay during his first fortnight at Cape Pierce he was horrlfled to see a dozen men diagging a nude joung woman from the seashore, up the narrow passage wa. to the uppermost parts of the cliffs along tho const. The woman was screaming and moaning and the men were heating her at ever step. At the top of the cliff the woman's hands were bound and she was pushed headlong over the cliff to Tall some feet below on the rocks Sir.

MaePherson subsequently learned that she had been accused of witchcraft and of having caused several, dogs to die her occult powers. Almost ever" month during the first two jears that the missionary was at Cape Pierce, some one generally a woman was put to death for some trivial reasons Several times there was reason to believe the tlesn of the -victim was secretly gathered and eaten, but Mr. MaePherson never cared to Inv estlgate the subject. There was not the least knowledge of marriage vows and obligations. Children were taught to steal and were only punished by their mothers when caught at It.

Dreadful cruelties for witchcraft were Inflicted. A little sev en- ear-old girl was beaten with clubs and starved for several das at a time to get the "black spirit" out of her. The Scotch missionary had learned In South Africa many means of communicating with the savages by signs. By holding up a coin he generally got the more Intelligent Innults to do as he wished. A lad of seventeen ears was Induced by a reward to come dally within the strange white man's stockade and repeat the names of common objects In the native language.

In a week Mr. MaePherson had a ocabulary of 100 ords. Meanw hlle he demonstrated that he meant to bo a good friend to the Innults. In a few weeks word went' forth amons the tribes up and down the coast that a new white man was there, and that he gave away valuable things, and especially that he had a new God, about whom he wished to tell all the Innults. Somo of the older and more suspicious natives were angr at this, but even the most drunken were curious to know what it all meant.

When winter came on and the last of the modlka (whisk) which the traders and whalers had left there had been drunk, the mts-slonnr had learned enough of the native, tongue to settle down to the active work of teaching the savages. He found tho bos In the tribe the best material to work upon. With their help and means of gifts of clothing and bits of money he got a crude log house built. The chinks were stopped with mud and the door was so low that one had-to bend low to enter. That was the first building In Capo Pierce, nineteen jears ago.

It was the home of the white man and was a school for the natives. Tho curiosity of tho people for more than 100 miles around was aroused by the white man's wonderful log house, and before the summer of 1ES0 even the old men wanted to learn the white man's talk and the way the whle people lived. There were more than twenty bos In the school that ear. When the whalers went up the coast and traded whisky and sugar with the Innults, there was another season of drunken debauchery and a relapse Into savage wajs, but the missionary, by strenuous efforts, kept the school of bos Intact all summer. With the return of winter and the disappearance of the last drop of bad whisky, the men nnd women renewed their Interest in the school.

The schoolhousc was enlarged the next jear, and the savages hiving become used to the comfort of the log house began building houses for their own occupancy. The chief of tha settlement had a large cabin built near the school, and he became the firm friend of the missionary because of the kilter's labor and Interest In the structure. When Mr. MaePherson had lenrned the Innuit language he -et about getting up text books. For months he patiently printed with a pen simple stories In the native tongue to teach his pupils how to read.

He got from some Russian wha'ers text books In Russian. and those were great aids in the line of morjllt and Industry. The old people In the tribe became sullen man times at the teachings of the white man and the upsetting uf all their cherished Once he was called to the door of his og cabin on a dark night and was- knocked down with a club and left for dead. Several times he was warned bv a faithful friend not to go about out of doors alone, for there was a plot to throw him from the cliff, and thrice attempts were made to polon him The discouraging work of slowl leading the Innuits of Cape Pierce into the was of clvll-zed jeople went constantl for-wrrd. The jomhs in the chool were urged to abstain from the use of the In toxicating decoction of molaraes and al- cchol that the whalers and traders left there In exchange for Eskimo products 1 ever summer.

promise of pecuniar reward the older men were graduall Indued to abstain from the fiery drink for a hole season The misslonar) 's mcdl-. cine chest proved a wonder In dispelling the superstition and witchcraft regarding illness and disease Several cures of savages av ho had been given up to die did more than all else to make the brave 1 Scotchman beloved In that region 1SS1. after live ears of extraordinary labor, Mr MacPhrxwn began to see a gratlflng change rr. the spirit and con-I duct of the people about him Not a per- on had been killed there for three he was consulted people far and wide, 1 and the Innults had abandoned their caves and dugouts and lived In huts and cabins Morallt had Improved In the summer of 1SS1 a oung man, Davie Wlsne-. of Toronto, Canada, came ndded his private fortune and his ef-l forts to MacPherson's From that time the missionary movement went for ward fast In the summer of ISSt "he whalers and traders were Induced to trade with the Indians In provisions, such as hams, bacon, flour, raisins, etc, and not the Ingredients for Intoxicants The drunkenness which had begun annually with the opening of navigation In Behrlng Sea, was much diminished from that time forth, although some of the old men and women in the settlement were so angr at being deprived of their summer uebaucherj that the plotted the assassi- I if I.

Mr MaePherson has from the first taught lessons in cleanliness In nerson 'and habitation at Cape Pierce. It ha, neen a nam struggle, for the Innults have from prehistoric times been about as fllthv a race as lives In the first ears tint tne Scotch missionary was there It vi as common for a faml! of parents and dozen children and grandchildren to live In one hovel or dugout in the cliff walrus would be hau'ed from the water Into the low, foul hab'tatfon, and be cooked by a nro on the iloor, part of the body each day, until nil but the bones and hard flesh were consumed The bones would then be pushed aIde, and a new walrus carcass cooked there, while the smell of putrid flesh and foul bones filled tho air dav and night. Now ever famll In Cape Pierce lives In a wooden habitation, and the c'canllness there will compare favorably with that of any reclaimed race. The lnnu-ts hive been taught to wear better clothing, and nowadas the traders' who up into Behrlng Sea ever summer take along cheap trousers, cous and gowns for trading with the Innults Twentv ears ago old Chief Mati-ajuk lived In a dugout with several wives He has now 40x2) cab n. with four rooms, g'ass windows and dirt floors It is a model of cleanliness He has let three qf his wives go.

and was formally mirried to the wife he retains lie emp'oya men to and hunt for him, and he has developed into a sagacious trader and Is teaching lessons of thrift and te-miierance among his fellow-countrymen. Mr. MaePherson has been lalng the groundw rk onl for teaching Christian doctrine He has never jet tried to teach the meaning of baptism, the sacrament of communion and church offices That instruction Is to come In later ears It has ben enough to teach the fundamentals of civilization to so degraded a people. He has shown the Innults how to be self-supporting, how to provide for the winter season when there is no one to bu their furs and fish, how to make an agree-ab'o hone, how to wash, at least, their faces, and how cleanliness keeps them In better health When he went to Cape Pierce there was not a dozen blankets In the settlement. Now "there are not only a great many clean blankets, but some prett good beds, as well.

"Tab'es, stoves, and crockery dishes have. In the last few ears become the fashion at Cape Pierce, and In a few years more there will be window curtains and wooden floors A store, kept by a bright ratlvc from Sitka, has been doing a good, business at Cape Pierce and since IS33 has tw Ice been enlarged. Oj piers Aliroml. (From the Chicago New.) llverr jear in Oolcheter, Fngland, the have an October feast of orstera to celebrate the return of tlie season. -This has gone on for eo many years that, while Colchester people do not claim the custom elites bad.

to the ltoinan oc-cinution. it reatl.es ve ncarlj that far back in antlqmtj. The i'omans liLcd ovitcrs and knew whe-e to fr.d the choicest, better proof of this is needed than the oytter shells in the kitchen-middens in the Ticinit of old Roman remains in kngland, and even in Italv si ells are found Uarmj the Fpecial characteristics of the Eng ll-h Such marvelous quantities of 0 lers disappear at the Colchester orster feat that the cues- tion naturally suggests itself, "How many ojs to cat to feel sitUfiedr Bnllat Sivarin. the ffrtat French authontj on dimnp, tells the storj that 1703, exactly 100 years ago, he inn ted to a private ojster feast friend who had declared that he had never been able to eat all he wanted to cat of orsters. "In an hour ea.d Sarann, "the man consumed thirty two dozen, and fcemtd then only In full fwing.

"Hon it Ij not jour I said, ta eat your fill of ova-ters today. Lei ui dine Ae did so, and he made as 1 rar a meal if he had been fasting." Probably that accounts for the lisiiloa that once obtained of beglmucfr every dinner with outers, b) way of giving the diners an appetite. A Western Idea That Is Itap-idly Winning Favor. STARTED BY BAILHQAD MAN If One MllHt Drink, Strict Aillicre-iii-e-t Its Principles Will Sum- Illicit Hone- and Mmi) it Carouse. liulil (tuiiieil lit (lie Orifiuil-zntluu In tlic I-UMt.

If ou meet a man wearing a big whits button about the size of a quarter in tha lapel of his coat, with the T. stamped on It in bright blue, don't stand and btare at him and wear our brain round and smooth ti.nj to figure out what sort of new political bird 1 he Is. Thut button has no political flsni- I flcance whatexer. It Is the bidge ot a brand-new club called the Club, sas tho New York Sun. It Is a man's club, of course, but all the wonisn who know about It say that It Is a eiy tine thing.

And It ought to he. for It Is founded on cicccJlnsl liberal prlnc ci and the membership Is witi amazing rapldlt. The club as founded T. Monett, general Western passenger agent of tl New York, Ontario and Western Railroad, In Chicago, on September 5, with ono member, and that was Dctcmber 5 Mr. Monett expects his 1 uKs to show a membership of Gj GXI York has taken hold of the raoumuit under the leadership of J.

1 Rete ho has been appointed secretary for this State and has established hcadquaite.b nt 2J7 West 130th Street. Mr. lte ce is a oung man and for berul ears has been lctlmlzcil the treating Habit, lie is engaged In business at the corner cf I ifth and Iwls Streets, where treath j. Is rather more compulbor tl an olun-urj, and that's how he to take enthusiastic Interest In tlic Ccicago organization. When usked to talK abut the Non-Treallnj Club and Its obj.cl.

Mr. jleece said: "KIrst of all, mnko it perfectly plain that this Is not a temperance movement. Thero ha.o been man clubs organized heretofore, but the were formed In the Interest of temperance and all fell through One reason for their not (succeeding ma hue been that the lud no insignia ami no ruies, ana peop uc-sirlng to Join could not get any information about what they were expc ted to d3. This club has been founded on different principles and has gool, sound, coTimon sense for a foundation It all started in this way. Mr.

Monett found that such a large part of his solar' wa spent in treating that he determined to kce'p an account of what he did snend in that way for one ear. It turned out that he in Just one-fifth of what he made constantly using tne phras 'llae one with me' Ilti is a man who believes thoroughly that eery one of us was put on this earth for some good, an 1 he thought he saw a mj through sach an organization to help mtm to save their more and prest-re their phsical and moral soundness So he asked a fox of his friends to Join this elub, and the gladl) eon-ented. salng that they were all In I of Just such Juuoiijnienu I object of the club, htolr re il- ly to do away with this pernicious habit of treating, is ery slmpleT inueed, as it I Is stated on the- card which Is sent to each man who joins It rcul 'When you want a drink, take It, "and don't Imagine ou will offend an one by not ask-I lng eight or ten to 7oln 'ou The onl 1 pledge that a memben.xnakes is to wear tho button and make a pledge to hlmse.f not to treat an one wIijms a member hen a card Is sjrt tp an. app leant he Is asked not to dcl-icn the buttoi f.em the card if he has any scruples, but to pass It to f.iond. pne of the Chicago newspapers got hold et the fact that Mr.

Monett and ot Ms friends, all promlrcnt business and professional men, had organized sich a ub and the newspapers all over the cpuntty took It up The result was thst app Ica-tlons for membership -began to pour ii to him from one end of the comtr to the other and he was sno-ved under with letters, all expressing. aprrovat, of the scheme In a few weeks 13.M0 names were enrolled, which result speaks for Itself and Is an indication that the club Hud. fator with tne large majorlt. Mr. Monett didn't Imagine foran Instant that It would spread beyond Chlcgo, but 1 enrolled oer 3.CO0 right here in tne cKy In a few das "How did ou come to be so Hall interested in the club?" asked the repirter.

"Well, this nelshborhood here where I work Is a great one for treating Llier truckman and workman wl-o comes in the place expects to bi treated and even time a man takes a friend Into a saloon he's expected to treat exeryb in s'ght. 1'ie been thlnklrg for a loni wlille that this treating habit Is He-easing among men rather t. an dtereaslnr. and it Is all rot: It Is false friendship and It Is responsible for the miklig of man drunkards 'Have one nlta me Is a phrase many a man nab used because ot the desire rot to appear small, and 'a frequently accepted more to aioll giving offense than because the beverage Itseit Is desired. Tor instance.

nu and I go into a cafe with the Intention of hlvng one drink, perhaps two. We meet eight or ten friends whoj ydstupon cur joining them. We do so, "and'then ou and I reciprocate, and vtryunan in the crowd Insists on eerbody h.nlng one wi.h him The cor-cquerce Hthfft etch man puts eight or ten drinks. under his nelt, and I'll bet a rew hat tfiat "there Is net one of them but would havo-preierrel the one drink to eight or ten conse he This thlrg repeated several tlmei a da ear in and ear out will ruin a man phvslcall and and It Is all foolishness. "I read about the Non-Treating Club In some paper and wrote' to Mr.

31011611 for a button. As I was the second man from this State to seek asked me to act as secretary. Tho, other jvas an up-the-State farmer. And this Is the plan he Is adopting to organize clubs'ln-each State. He asks the first man who becomes a member to form a club lri the place where he lives and to the good work, but I do not find my work confined to New York any- means Here are three letters which came in this morning's mall, and they will give ou an Idea of what hold the non-treating idea Is taking on all classes of men." The first letter was from the proprietor of a hotel in Iidgelcy, N.

and was as follows: "Dear Sir Please find inclosed 1 cents postage, for" which iriail to my address one of the buttons of, the Non-Treating Club, and Information, so that I can start a club here." This second one came from a oung man engaged In the Insurance business at Louisville, "Dear Sir I noticed an article In a pa- twt- few tlavs ne-n In re-nrrt tn x'ntir i1iiH and as a result jou will find Inclosed 23 cents in stamps for which ou can send me half a dozen of our famous buttons I tried this same scheme some three cars ago, only we had no buttons or cards or any Insignia whatever, and of course the Idea was finally wafted on the winds. I don't know how the plan will work In this State, but there Is not a man to whom 1 have shown the newspaper clipping but who has said he would like to join a thing like that, and I am going to trj to start the ball rolling with six fellows, and If It Is a go jou can look for more orders." An employe of the Hoffman House cafe at 7 Beaver Street sent the following request: "Dear Sir I haVc'iheard of the Non-Treating Club and I. would like vcr much to become a merribeii of same, so hoping that ou will kind! 'accept me, I remain," etc. "A German up the State," continued Mr. ltcece, "scntifoilr cents tor a button and said he wantedrto join the club be-cuuso he was fond of di inking himself, but did not bellere In making other rm-pic drink Jt his expense A great many Germans are joining the elub, by the way.

They nearly all belong to one bowling club or more, and they all sa that they want to Introduce the Idea among bowlers so tint the will be of one mind on the subject. Many of the applications seem to come from laboring men who can III afford to Indulge In the treating habit. "Mr. Monett writes me that he knows of numberless cases where men who were drawing silarles all the wa from to a jear are now working for J10 and $o0 a month as clerks In offices nnd such places, and gHd enough they are to get that. Not one of them will ever be on top again, and ct the were nt one time capable of managing a department.

What was the cause of their downfall? Treating. Nothing more, nothing less, it was not because tie were skives to drink, but slaves to custom I know a man here In New York who had a magnificent salary In a corporation's office, and treating and accepting treats ruined him. When he started out he tred nothing for drink, but he tried to be a good fellow and was ruined He wound up In the Tombs for misappropriating his employer's funds, and after his friends got him out 'of that scarpe I don't know whit became of him, but they all said that the treating habit had ruined him. Hut as I snld at the outset, this elub was not organized to instill temperance doctrines into men, but common sense. It Isn't the mone that a man spends In treating that worries him.

because he gets his treats back drink for drink; what he does mind Is being tanked up with a lot of stutf that he doesn't want, but doesn't dare declluo for fear of giving offence." "How have the people In this neighborhood tnken to our stand In this matter?" aked the Interviewer. "Man of them are angr about it aiswered Mr. lteece, "but I haven't hed an out-and-out trouble on acount of badge and principles et. I'll tell ou on" thing, though, all the saloonkeepers favor the Non-Treating Club or at least I know man who do, and all ought to. You see.

when a trcatj, which he is expected to do e-iiuenti, he has to treat everbcdy In the saloons, else he will offend peop'e ard drive away custom" "Are women admitted to membership In the Certain! they are." was the reply, "but so far I've received only one apl -cntlou from woman. That was from Mrs A. Van ck, of South Ilrook'n At first I thought she must be related lo the Democratic candidate for governor but I learned that sife was not. She asked for two buttons, but whether she Intended to wear one or not I cannst say. I wrote and told her that I thought ladles could do more good In this orgjnl-zstloti than men, and I do, for a man will listen to a woman when he won't py an attention to a man.

1 wlh vi omen would becoTie interested In the movement and influence their hubards and sons and brothers to jjln. The would t- directly benefited financla 1 the end. and then the Non-Treating Cltth has no clubhouse where its members can their evenings and yte have no dues and Initiation fees. One hurd-d cards and buttons cost HZii. or ngle card and button Is to be had for 1 cents.

That Is th onl exi ense that a Iifet mo member has to meet. It is that oung old men of all Aalks life are joining the clnb The American press and a the Nou-Treatlagi Clnb In everv cltvsln. escli State In tloj i moil can in tunc.ujaipicieiy auj isn me treating habit, andtthls wlll be far mere effective than Ieglsatlve prohlbt Ion as a promoter of tempeiance and will do much toward making men more tlulfty." A TEBEIBLE MARCH. Iti Oil! ItcKular Itelntos nit lnrlilent of Twent) vrnrs Vk. (trotn the New sUQ.) "Talking of soldiers having a tough time," said an ex-pMvate of the o'd Tnlril United States lnfantr, "I have my doubts If any In the United States ml '-tar service ever had a tougher time than the Third lnfantr had in the n-ter of ISitt un'ess It might have been the was a member of the Third lnfantr In had ben stationed at New Orleans for several eors, but duricg the strike riots In Pennslanla In the summer of 177 we were orderei to that State.

Sjou afterward we were sent West to assist In subduing Chief Joseph and tls band of Nez I'erees hostl cs. When te regiment arrived in Moatana we were ordered to Helen.v. This required a tramp of more than 600 miles. 11 reason of our long residence In tho South we re In no condition, either ph3cally or equipment, for winter In the Itccn Mountains, and our sufferings were terrible. "During a large portion ot the long march we were exposed to most -violent snowstorms, with the thermometer never less than IS degrees below zero.

Not an officer or private In tTie regiment was provided with overshoes or gloves Man of us were nearly barefoot and, ndlid to the agony of freezing feet, was the additional torture of being forced to grip the cold steel of our muskets with naked hands day after day. When the regiment left New Orleans there was not in the possession of officers and men The women and children belonging to the command. Including the wives and families of the officers, numbered thlrt-two, and transportation for these, of course, had to be secured at Individual expense. But for the tlmal aid of friends, who understood the utterly Impecunious coi dltlon of the rank and file and advanced sufficient funds, these dependent and destitute followers of the camp would have suffered abandonment In their time of greatest need and peril. On the march north to Co-rlnne several of the women and children fell sick under the terrible exposure, and how they ever managed to survive at all Is to me to this day something to marvel at.

The transportation outfit allowed to the command was limited to three ambulances. As there was. not a dollar In the regiment, the simplest wants of the sufferers could not be gratified, as the Isolated ranchmen ami hunters In that then desolate region would not part with anything when the found that cash for It would not be forthcoming. "At last, when the regiment was near-Ing the end of Its march, a ragged, penniless, freezing, half-starved body of men, some of the officers induced ranchmen to buy their pa -rolls at a discount of 25 per cent on the -dollar, and used the proceeds In supplIng the wants ot the sick and most needy, hen we at last reached post quarters, we would have been an eas mark for an enem if one had confronted us, for a dozen Indians could have got anaj with the whole command, so utterly exhausted and phslcally Incapacitated was ever man of us Soldiers on the frontier have had some terrible experiences, but I doubt it an of them can parallel that awful march of the Third lnfantr through the wintry wilds of Montana." ItnsMlnn Cnnlry Exercise. (From the Chicago News.) A ihviiicn of ItiMian cavalry, together with horse artillery, has recently been exercised in crossing the Memcn Hirer, near Kovno.

as near ly as under war con htions. The river Is atxmt rio yards wide and Fome twenty feet deep, with a fairly strong current. On: regl ment of dragcons swam across with then horses In thut three minutes and a Cossack regiment, sotnla sjeceedunr sotnla, got across in tentv nine minutes. Tha men's anna and clothes, to gctre- with the few men who could not swim, were lalea actovs in boats or en rafts, and improvised raft9 carried the guns and wagon3. The whole division got across in four hours and there were no mishaps of any importance.

The weather wis wet and, therefore, not favorable to the experiment. Sensations of Men Who Died and Came lo Life Again. STBA NGE STORY OF A DOCTOR Sonic Stnrtlfnir Kxiierleiice-K Mmcrlbed isl. Luiilx lrlxli-iuuii'n iatlt to the Worltl Ilesl.l 'lhr Use Mini lit lie ApitenrK tu-tue New York. Nov.

21 "Speaking ot strange experiences," said the professor to Ihe writer, as he sat with a party chatting over after-dinner cigars, "If ycu tare to hear It I v. Ill tell OU how It seems to die. My uncle. Dr. J.

S. Long, one of the prominent of St. told me the stor years ago. The man that died was an Irishman named Pattlclc riaherty. Mj uncle did his best to save him, but one night said he could not live till morning.

-Toshis utter amazement he found the Irlsliinan alive and on the roal to recover nie next morning. In rep to his questldtfas to vvh) he had not died during the he should have done, Pat said: 'Sure, doctor. I did die. but I came to life again. And the held a wake over jne, but I tame back nnd scared the life out of most of them.

About o'clock last night 1 fell back on the bed utterly exhausted and soon became uuconclouj How long I remained I don't know, but the next thing I knew I felt myselt falling on the floor, which I struck with a bound 1 lookid toward the bed and saw that bod la there stiff and apparently dead, while my wife knelt biiile It crlng. I glaneed nt new b3d and saw It was shaped and clothed liko old body. I did riot feel a bit sorr to sea the old man llng on the bed and never felt so well In my life as 1 did then. Jut then Mrs Maglnni, one of our ne.ghbDrs came In and she tried to console my wife. She said: "Well, we'll have the wake tonight.

I'll have my man get the pip and tobacco, send Tom Johnson aftr the whiskey and mv boy will go round and give the Invites." And so she started the ball a-rolling and In less than two hours we had a packed house and the loom full of emoke. "'Before the lieople came In I floated, up and took in seal on one of the cross beams, watching the proceedings I noticed that I was still attached to mj old bod something which looked like a string. Several times I called out to Bridget to eut the string and let me go, but she did not peem to hear me. What seamed more curious to me, 1 did not want any of the whisk nor to smcke, and It mnde me mad when Tim Cragan tried to pour some whisk down dead throut and then stuek a pipe In my mouth. "'Along toward morning I felt the string pulling me toward the bed.

When 1 had reached the bed I became unconscious again and the next thing I rmem-ber was when I opened mv ees and looked around, aklng the one nearest to ire for a drink When they saw that I v.as alive the pt-ople fell over eaeh othr In trvlug to get out of the house. Soon Bridget came to me and acted just like a woman who'-e husband had come to life, and we've been waiting to see ou. "That fln'shes the Iilshman's story, but If ou like I Will tell ou of another man who had a similar experleuee. which It more he was Intelligent enouii to watch the changes and report them when he returned to consciousness. This Incident hapiwni'l to one Dr.

Warren, a phlcl.an of Columbus, about twentv ears ago I will give ou the facts as the were related to me by one of the members of the Societ for Research Dr. Warren, when In lull poscssioa oi r.is iicuilies, ipp--ireu to come to the moment of death In the last stage of tphus fever. Before the 'final lapse Into unconsciousness he discussed- witlihls, friends the question of immortalltv. His voice failed and his strength weakened, and. as a last effort, he stlffentsl his legs He la for hours as dead, "the church bells being rung for his.

death-. A "tee die was thrus. Into various parts of ills bod from the feet to tho hips without, having any effect. He was pulseless for a long time, and for nearly half an hour he appeared absolutely dead. While his body was lIng in this death-like trance his soul was disengaging Itself frorajts eartlib tabernae'e.

This Is the account he gave of his sensations" "'I woke up out of unconsciousness Into a stale of conscious exlsterce. nnd discovered that the soul was in the body, but not of It. With all the Interest of a physician I beheld the wonders of my bodll anatom. Intlmatelv Interwoven with which, even tissue for tissue, was the living soul of that dead bod. I learned that the epidermis was the ou -side boundarv- of the ultimate tls-ues so to speak, of the soul.

I realized my condition, and reasoned calml thu: I have died, as men term death, and et I am as much a man as ever. I am about to get out of the body. I watched the Interesting process of the separation ot soul anil body. 'By some power, apparently not my own, the ego was rockeit to and fro. laterally, as a cradle rocked, by which process Its connection with the tissues ot the," body was, broken up.

After a little time the lateral motion ceased, and along the soles of the feet, beginning at the toes, passing rapidly to the heels, I felt and heard, as It seemed, the snapping ct innumerable small cords. vhen this was accomplished. I began slowly to retreat from the feet toward the head, as a rubber cord shortens. I remember reaching the hips and salng to mself. "Now there Is no life below tne hips." I can recall no memor of passing through the abJomen or chest, but recollect distinetiv when my whole self was collected In the head, when I reflected thus: I am all In the head now, and I shall soon be free.

I passed around the brain as If I were hollow, compressing It and Its membranes slighll on all sides toward the center, and peeped out between the sutures of the skull, emerging like tho flattened edges of a bag of membranes I recollect distinctly how I appeared to mself something like a jell fish as regards color nnd form. As I emerged from the head I lloated up and down, and lat-terally like a soap bubble attached to the bowl of a pipe, until I at last broke loose from the bod and fell lightly to the floor, where. I slowly rose and expanded Into the full stature of a man. I seemed to be translucent, of a bluish cast. 'I tied toward the partlall opened door, but upon reaching tho door turnad and faced the compan.

As I did so rr left elbow came In contact w.th the arm of one of two gentlemen standing In the door. To surprise, his arm pas-ed through mine without apparent resistance, and severed parts closing again without pain as air reunites. I looked quickly up at his face to see If he had noticed the contact, but he gave me no sign only stood and gazed toward the couch I had just left. I directed my -r-ze In the direction of his, and saw my own dead body. 'I saw a number of persons sitting ana standing about the body, and particular! by my left side, and I knew that the were weeping I have since learned, that they' were my wlfo and my sister, but I had no conception of Individuality.

Wife, sister and friend were all as one to me. I did not remember any conditions ot relationship; at least, I did not think of any. I-could distinguish sex, but nothing more Not one lifted her ees from my bod'. I turned and passed out at the open door, inclining my head and watching whero I set my feet as I stepped down onto the porch. I crossed tho porch, descended tha steps, walked down the path and Into the street.

There I stopped and looked about me. I never saw that street more distinctly than I saw It then. I took note of the redness of the soil and of the washes the rain had made. I took a rather pathetic look about me, Hko one who Is about to leave his home for a long time. Then I discovered that I had become larger than I was In earth lite and congratulated mjself thereupon, I was somewhat smaller In the body than I just liked to be, but In the next life, I thought, I am to be as I desired.

My clothes, I noticed, had accommodated themselves to my increased stature, and I fell to wondering where they came from and how they got on to mo so quickly and without knowledge. I examined the Judged It to be ot some kind of Scotch material a good suit, I thought, buf "not handsome; still, neat and good enough. The coat fits loosely, too, and that is well for summer. "How well I feel," I thought. "Only a few minutes ago I was horribly sick and distressed.

Then came that change called death, which I have so much dreaded. It Is past now, and here am still a man, alive and es, thinking as clearly as ever, and how well I feel!" 'In the exuberanco. of my Joy at the thought that I would never be sick again, I danced Irt'hlgh gleoT" I then nollced that I could see vthe back; of my coat with the eyes of my oTd'body, while my spiritual ees were looking forward. I discovered that a small cord, like the thread of a spider's web, ran from my shou'ders back to my body and was attached to It at tho base of the neck In front. Then I passed through the air upheld by a.

pair of hands which I could feci pressing lightly on my sides. I traveled at a swift but pleasant rate of speed until I arrived on a narrow but well-built roadway Inclined upward at an angle of 25 degrees It was about as far nbove the trcetops as It was below the clouds. The roadway seemed tp have no support, but was built of milky quartz and white sand. Feeling very lonely, I looked for-a companion, and as a man dies every twenty seconds I thought I ought not to have long to wait before some one would travel my way. But I could tee no one.

At last, when I was beginning to feel mlerable. a face full of Ineffable love and tenderness appeared to me. Bight In front of me I saw three prodigious rocks blocking the road. A voice spoke to me from a thunder cloud. salng: "This Is the road to the eternal world: once ou pass them jou can no more return to the body." There were four entrances, one very dark; the other three led Into a cool, quiet and beautiful country I desired to go In, but when I reached tha exact center of the rock I was suddenly stopped.

I became unconscious again and when I awoko I was llng In my bed. I awoke to consciousness and soon "This narrative was written out by the doctor eight weeks after the thing oj cur-red but he told the story to those at the b-dslde as oon as he revived. The doctor who attended him said that the breath was absolutely extinct so far as could bs observed, and every smptom marking the patient as dead was present." LOBSTEHS. Ilovr Drillers nice tu ICerp Price Lp ou Tlieiu. (From the Portland I-rrsa Something like JS0 men make a business of catching lobsters In Cumberland Coun-tv alone, and the most of these are, of course, men who live on the shores of Casco Bay.

In September, according to the figures furnished bv- FIh Warden Grlbben, who keeps track of all lobster arrivals and shipments here, 37S.1M lobsters were brought Into Portland, and the figures thU month will probably be larger than this. Of this number 93,333 were "boat lobsters," or caught in Casco Bay. "The lobster business Is rapidly on the Increase In Maine," says Mr. Grlbben. "More men are finding mploraent In the lob'ter fisheries In this State ever ear, and more lobsters are being caught and shipped out of the State.

The Portland dealers are nndlng their busines enlarging ever" ear. They now supply the irkets of fat. Louis. Chicago. -Minneapolis, and other towns still further west, and their heaviest shipment, of cours, are to New York city.

"Many people wonder wh It is that when lobsters abundant the prices do not drop to a corresponding figure. This is because the dealers have big pounds. In which the lobsters are placed when the are plentiful and held for March and other seasons of the ear when lobsters are scarce. There are probably all the way from to lobsters in pounds now all along the coast of Maine. These pounded lobsters have to be well fed on fish, and the people who have charge of the pounds hive to be very careful not to overfeed them, for If they do the lobsters will die with alarming rapidity.

'The fishermen get on an average of 10 c-nts apiece for lobsters all the ear round, and some of them make a good thing out of the buslnes. Of course, the fishermen do not devote all their time to lobster catching. Some of them are now giving up lobsterlag for a time and are soing smelting This pas pretty well at this time of the ear. The smelts are not so ver plentiful, because the are mixed up with small herrings, which are worth very little. On an average, fifteen boxes of smelts a ila go through Portland, being shipped to Boston and New York markets from Kastport.

Yarmouth and Portland. Smelts are 8 cmts a po ini, and there are about fifty pounds to a box. So ou see that as each man ships one or two boxes ever day, he Is making" a good thing out of this work. "The consumption of lobsters is on the increase, and as this fish increases In numbers and becomes more plentiful, the demand constantly There are now seven steamers owned and operated by Portland firms which make two or three trips here a week with lobsters, which the have gathered up jlong the coast from the Pshcrmen or pound keepers We are not getting any Nova Scotia lo'osters now. The law in Nova Scotia protects lobsters from July to and in January it Is so stormy that the lobster smacks do not find It ver proflta-b'e to attempt the long and hard vo-age to Nova Scotia after these fish.

"No lob3ters ore being canned in Maine now." continued Mr. Grlbben "Once this was a big business here, but the short-lobster law kl.lol It In this Mate. 1 cin-ner do not find It profitable to buy lobsters at their present rates and they can't purchase short ones. Nearly all of the canninsr business Is row done In Nova Scotia, although I believe the catching of short lobsters Is restricted to a certain part of the coast there." Cliurelics in IttiHiiieiiM Districts. (From the N'ew ork Post.) fri'adelphia churches in the hu'iness districts arc pasnirg the experience of churrhei that were similarly situated In ew Aork.

The have begun their migration to the residential districts, and the cLurch societies are realizing eroiigh from the talc of the old and valuable cliureh to enable them to erect mo-e pretentious edifice, and in cases to establish an endowment furd Coincident with this movement several instances of church consolidation are repotted, the theory that fewer churches, but larger, lietter and stronger, arc mope efhcient ia a great city, growlrg favor. Tri process of ccnohdatlon ts PQlcc on in ait the Protestant and is an adaptation of the Catholic plan of large churches judiciou.hr located, lly the end cf the year five of the larsest, wealthiest, and mot influential of the old time churches in the cit, now located en tnt al Droad street, will have been abandoned. One cf the resultant new churches, the First ItaptUt, will be the nealtluc.t institution of Its denomination in the country. IIIn ecntlvie TcMtiniony. (From the Philadelphia Time' Col.

statement before the ar Investigation Commicfeion that, being cnlv a heu-terant colenel at the trne, he rould not krow who was responsible for certain de-cribed confusion and shortcomings at Santiago, indicates an access of caution of whtch the suddnness Is, to say the least, in the nature of a shocV. It alio scores a triumph another one for the commis sion. cort-isting as it does of the officially recorded discovery of a subject on which the gallant colonel ha not a decided, assured, and readily pronounceable opinion. PBAYfflu AGAINST Til How a Preacher Saved Two Men From Being Executed. LONG PRAYER ON A HOT DAY Crowd Crew Impatient and the Mi riff Wanted to Do Ills Duty, Hut Donilulc Ityeraon Pracd On A loleiit 3Ieasnre for Stopping; 111m Under Consideration IVhen 41 Iteprleve Arrived.

"I read not Ions ago," said a Buffalo citizen, "an arrruslng account of a man who prayed against tlmo for an object, and it reminded me ot a praer against tlmo that I heard when I was a. boy. That prayer was a serious matter, too, I want to tell jou, for the lives of two men depended on It, although they didn't know-It. It saved their Uvea, but It came mighty near killing- the man who prayed. And this put me In mind.

too. that only the other day. In rummaging among some old papers, I found a tlme-stalned sheet of paper on which was printed a a dozen or more verses In length, entitled the 'Mournful Ballad of Carr and I hadn't seen or heard or thought of that poem for sixty years, but the moment I saw it every word In those twelve verses came back to my mind, for I had real them so often when I was a boy that I knew them by heart, I will repeat you the first rerse to show you what jou might expect of the other eleven. This 1 the way It goes: Come, all ye weeping; friends, and see Alexander Carr die on the gallons tree, lor awful crime he did commit. To it abetted by Solomon T.

Smith. And see Solomon, he. too. will die The same awful fate, he hung on high; Blind jostlce with her awful sword Cuts on these two with one accord. "Justice must have been blind.

Indeed. In the case ot Messrs. Carr and Smith, for she was going to cut them oft with her awful sword for the henlous crime of stealing an ox! There is no date or reference of any kind In the ballad to In, dlcate where on this earth it was that weeping friends were Invited to see Alexander Carr and 3oIomoa T. Smith ex-plate their grievous offence on the gallows tree, but fortunaTely I am able to supply the missing links and tell the story of the case of Carr and Sm'th. which Is used so lugubrious') by this unknown poet to point a moral and adorn a tale.

The poet, though, wasted the time of hl3 muse, for although hundreds of weeping friends and others who did not weep accepted the Invitation of the ballad, they did not see either Alexander Carr or Solomon T. Smith die on the gallows tree, notwithstanding that Alexander and Solomon T. were both on. band ready to be cut off with one accord. They were.

saved; and saved by prayer, too. And that's the prajer I am going to tell you about. "It will seem Incredible that within tha memory of any person now living capital punishment was the legal penalty In Canada for the stealing ot live stock, but such Is the fact, for I remember when thpL was the law there. The ear this ballad was printed must have been 1K3. that In which Carr and Smith were to have been hanged at the little village of Vittorla, not far from Toronto, for the alleged stealing of an ox.

I was a little boy then, living in Vittorla. but I remember the circumstances well, although the main Incidents I know frcm, having them frequently related by others Carr was a simple-minded man of middle age and Smith was a younger man of about the same mental ca iber. A farmer In the vicinity had an ox stolen one night. The skin was found In a plac where Carr and Smith had been seen, and the two men were arrested, charged with being the thieves. The case made out against them on the trial seemed to satisfy the jury that they were guilty, and they were convicted and sentenced to be hanged.

"Among those who held that hanging for such a crime was no better than murder were the Rev. John Ryerson. a Bap-tist preacher, and Dr. Rolf, both of Vittorla. They had doubt3 also of the guilt of the condemned men and used all their Influence for them on the trial, but In vain.

The day was set for the hanging and the gibbet erected In a public place. On the morntng ot the day of execution Dominie Ryerson and Dr. Rolf resolv ed to make a final effort to save the two men. The doctor was to mount his horse and ride pest haste to Toronto and appeal to the governor for a reprieve or pardon, while the dominie, as spiritual adviser ot the condemned men, was to delay the hanging until the doctor's return by exercising his privilege In prayer. "A great, surging crowd of people surrounded the gallows when Carr and Smith were carried under the gibbet In a cart, I was one of them, hav leg stolen from home for the occasion.

The sheriff, of course, granted Ddmlnle Ryerson's re, quest to offer prayer for the two unfortunates. It was 'a hot day and there I was no shelter for anyone from the fierce rays of. the- sun. No one had any suspicion that the good preacher had any ulte-I rior motive in making that prajer, and for the first fifteen minutes ot It the sheriff and sweltering crowd listened with re-j spectful patience. Then something of un-I easiness began to take posssesslon of the great audience.

But the dominie prayed on The sheriff moved about to call the preacher's attention to the fact that time was passing and the sweating- crowd began to sway and murmur. But prayer was not to be rudely Interrupted even on such a pressing occasion as that and the dominie prayed on. An hour passed. The preacher's voice had grown husky. His throat was "dry and parched, bis tongue almost clung to the root of his mouth and his lips were shriveled and cracked; but still he plaed.

The condemned men themselves became Impatient and showed by their looks that t-ey longed for the good man to cease. Still he praed, uttering words of no significance and almost Inarticulate. "Tho crowd became noisy In their heat and Impatience and the sheriff, at last feeling that duty should take the place of reverence, was about to take the dominie the shoulder and compel him to 1 cease, when there was a shout heard on I the outer edgo of the crowd and tha people made way mechanically for a man who struggled through the surging mass toward the gibbet, waving a paper over his head. The man was Dr. Rolf and the paper was a reprieve signed by the governor.

"At the sight of tho doctor with a paper Dominie Rerson fell Insensible on tho cart and It was for a long time a matter of grave doubt whether he would recover from the effects of the extraordinary physical and nervous strain his praer against time had subjected him to, but he came to In good time. The reprieve led to further investigation Into the case of Carr and Smith and the result was a pardon for both of them and the abolition of the death penalty In Upper Canada for any crime except murder. "This old ballad I refer to was one of many similar pieces of doggerel that the expected hanging of Carr and Smith called forth, and they were purchased by the hundred by the excited crowd, more than half of which wero disappointed at tne way the affair ended, as It spoiled their holiday, after listening to a prayer an hour and a halt long. That was pray, lng against time to some purpose, wasn't itr New York Sun..