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NOME, ALASKA, AUGUST 23, 1915.
A powerful! cartoon in a recent issue
of tiic Boston Kvening Record, depicts
Russia as a powerful young giant,
standing tnunucleu in tlie midst of a
dead strewn Liatile held raising his
chain hound hand towards the smoke
shrouded ruins of i’rzemysl from which
he has been compelled to retire.
Boldly lie stands and faces the fury
of bursting shells dying about him,
defiance and a sullen wrath gleam
from the eyes and the attitude
is that of one who is longing to leap
back to the fray but realizes his help
lessness because of the binding chains
around bis arms. Around him, gaunt
and grim in the smoke blurred twilight
are grouped the guns he cannot use
for luck of ammunition and from his
hand has fluttered downward the mes
sage “Ammunition is gone.” Thus he
stands, tho personltication of strength
and youthful power, his heart aching
to spring hack upon the foe to whom
he has been compelled to give way, not
for lack of strength or courage, hut
because ho la helpless; chained, by the
lack of means to continue the struggle.
Underneath is the caption; “Not
numbers, but preparation.’ There is
something Inspiring in his very atti
tude as he stands with gleaming eyes
facing the foe, fury and defiance in his
heart, gazing back on the ruins of the
stronghold he has boon compelled to
leave, not because of the strength of
tho enemy, but simply because of that
fatal fact that unaided strength and
courage could not alone prevail.
Tlie artists idea in picturing Russia
as a vigorous young giant spoiling for
the fray is one of the clearest revela
tions of the new conception of tho
Russians as a fighting power. No
longer do we see the bushy hair, the
unkept beard and the general aspect
Of some shaggy monster, half brute,
half man, which the artist has long
delighted to depict; an uncouth mon
ster, filled with a mighty strength but
partaking of everything that Is brutish
and savage. Gone is the shaggy cap,
the hear skin coat and the general
aspect of some savage denzien of the
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a,one age. nuie is a man, stiuigui,
upsiunuuig, teui'letf ana conscious oi a
luigniy suenglu tlial lie Wfcn nuuns
nun lu use* au ieilgei is nc inecuiicii
aruiisii iiiiiig mat nas eiingeu oelotc
a ouiuwi luma, wno nas luugni tin
unities el tlis l.oe lulliuut spilil Unu
wttuutll uesile lei ccniuiics a miser -
ao.o creature, companion lo tile ox ,
etl'tten U'lui aliule at tne will ol Ins
.iiojeiiui musters ana ugnting aim u> -
.ub vv 11u nine uileres. in me cause tiV
me result. Aim ceriea it is unit tne
ivossiim ot today is not tne sume as lie
ei a century, oi even a decade, ago. it
is v emu my a new, a legeueruieu rtus
sut that is racing the Teutonic lorces
on Uie hurd-tought European oame
nelds. Tnese are not ol me same
stamp or men w no tauered at Austei -
nut unu lied ut mkeruuum. Nor me
mey tlie some who battleo witn Utile
strength against me JupaneSo and lied
in sullen panic ul AlUKden unu liur
oni before Uie assaults of an Ulterior
toe. As the artisl bus pictured, it is
a new mail, this ttussiu thill is stub
oornly eonteslmg every toot m tne
tierman advance aeruoS tne western
plains of iuissut ailiiuugu suun ot
everything to gain success, save num
bers. 1 Itrougiioui tne present great
contest 1.11 SSI a nas reuecUled uersell
ui tne eyes ot me worm, .vu longer
uoes she appear in me eyes oi uuman
il., its an uWKwuiu, ueuiisu creature,
a, nc beast mall unman, a cowed and
uc.ueu tiling mat uareu not unu could
not stand tu me race oi adversity,
.oai.i.g me vailing per.utts ot tne pre
et .it eoliluel, A.uss.e. nas ti u.y demon
sit died mat sue is no longer to be
uespiseu. net trauieu unu willing
Olnuicis ale no tonuei me Cl lilgillg
.llnUJiii tlalisiurUicu mio tne selll
o.unec ui n sooner nguu.st ins will unu
,en. a lli.iii.ily aspect oy me auuitiou
o, ,i same aim a coat, i nrougiitmt tne
vv'.u no u*.s outiie niinseti witn inuiny
co.i.age us n ..e anew aim realised at
.am mat tie vius muecu a mail w'ltn a
mans streugtu anu aspirations.
.mougn me successive perious ol
me miguty struggle ue uus uispiayeu
e. iy quality oi which a nation cull be
pinna aim nas borne Uie buneungs ot
war witn a supreme courage, raced
by the migutiesL armies mat history
uus known anti beset by every lorce
,iuii years ot thought aim toresignt
could provide, while he himself pos
sessed i , i iew cm_olue powers Witn
winch ,o oppose tile forays of ms
mighty foe, tig bu nevertheless fae, n
m, onus vvuii a glorious vuiui unu is
signally great even though ut present
ngnting a losing ligtil. istep by step
nc uus been forced bueltwaru Horn me
nurd fought fields that had previously
y i lded lo liis eunqueroruig arm. nay
uy day he has seen the results ul ms
efforts torn from his grasp because of
the failure of ills superiors to provide
him with effective means to lighl.
Week after week he has been com
pelled to see the hard won conquests
that lie has achieved given back to the
foe whom all his strength could not
oppose unaided by the mighLy tools of
war, and yet he has not faltered and
even in retreat has soaked witli the
gore of his enemies every foot of the
ground over which they' have ad
vanced. Islinded by the fury of a
mighty force and crippled by his own
lack of effective means of defense, he
has fought steadily and manfully and
proved to the world that he is indeed
a new being—one who can stand the
buffetings of adversity without losing
courage and can continue to light
when the day seems lost and the cause
hopeless. Even in defeat he inis
demonstrated that he is great.
WHAT HAPPENS TO
UNEXPLODED BOMBS?
in the war museum in Paris there is
a very big collection of German gren
ades, air bombs, and explosive shells
which have not exploded.
It is one of the tasks of the staff of
the museum to deal with these bombs,
tnd it is naturally n task full of diffi
culty and danger.
Recently, for example, one of the
Zeppelin bombs thrown on Paris was
liscovered by a fireman half buried in
:he ground and still intact, though the
time fuse had been set. This bomb
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was removed by the war museum staff
and after the fuse had been unscrewed!
the explosive contents, weighing some'
forty pounds, were carefully taken out
one of the most dangerous tasks
the museum authorities had to handle
was the removal of the explosive from
an unexploded 12 centimetre German
shell which had been tired at one of
tile forts of Verdun,
The military engineers who under
took the job built up a mass of plaster
of Paris all around the shell so as to
hold It (Irmly in position, and then a ,
small electric motor was attached to
tho fuse piece, and set so as to un
screw It. The engineers watched the
unscrewing of the fuse from a safe
distance. Once the fuse was removed
however, It was easy to empty the.
huge shell of its explosives and render'
it harmless.
HOW VARIOUS INDIAN TRIBES i
BURY THEIR DEAD.
The modes of burial differ widely
among various peoples, from the rudest
ceremonies and methods of the wan
dering tribes to the ornate, impressive,
reverent services of “the heir of all
ages, in the foremost flies of time."
Among some the dead are burled
lying, others sitting, as in the case with
several of the Indian tribes: and in
stances are related where warriors (or
leaders in the nations have been hur
ried seated upon their favorite horse,
las was done with the famous Brack
bird, the chief of the once powerful
Omahas.
But there is a remarkable agreement
of custom for the practice of placing
tile body east and west. Sometimes
the body Is placed with the head to the
east and sometimes to the west, ac
cording as the dead are thought of In
connection with the sunrise, the re
put.nlf home of the deity, or the sunset’'
the reputed home of the dead.
There are. however, some tribes that
lay their dead north and south and
others bury men with the face to the
north and women with the fnee to the
south: while among some of the Afri
can tribes, if one happens to die away
from his home, he is buried facing his
nntlvo village
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RUSSIA CUTS OFF FURS.
Siberia is one of the great fur-pro
dui lng areas of the world. The Rus
sian-Siberian fairs are fur marts that
have an extreme importance to the
London fur trade. One-third or one
fourth at least of the finer kind of furs
come from Russia. The order of the
Russian government prohibiting the
export of furs has come, therefore, as
.1 distinct shock to the London auction
houses.
The Russian government is appar
ently figuring on having to equip mil
lions of troops for another severe win
ter campaign. Its furs are to be re
taint'd at home for that purpose. Inci
dentally the action of the Russian gov
ernment will bring considerable relief
to the Indians and fur trappers of our
i,wn Northwest, who were almost starv
ing last year because they had no mar
ket for their catch. The Hudson Bay
i'nmpany, one of the largest dealers in
fur pelts, was unable to dispose of the
Northwest production because of the
upset state of the Ixmdon market. In
deed. the upset in the fur business,
on used by the war extended from the
purchasing public right through to the
hardy trapper. The great London auc
tions that determine the fur prices of
the world are held in January, March.
■Tunc. October and December. The lat
ter is the annual seal sale. The March
sale Is much the most Important. By
the time the Russian Government re
leases furs for export, which will not
he in any event until next spring, Rus
sia will have been cm off from the out
side world, so far as furs are concerned,
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