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ROSA SUMMER HOIT, UMATILLA, OREGON.

The eighth in the series of Indian pictures by Major Lee Moorhouse, Pendleton, Oregon.

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Volume XIII

APRIL, 1905

PEOPLE PLACES THINGS

Aguinaldo's Birthplace

Aguinaldo's birthplace, and the present home of Aguinaldo's mother, is located in Manila, well out toward the border of the city. It is a plain, unpretentious house, built much on the same style as all the other houses of the masses in Manila, with its light, thin walls, cool basement and thatched roof. It stands close to the street, and is crowded in among a number of other houses of its class.

Visitors to Manila frequently visit the place and chat with the aged mother of the famous Filipino leader. While she is the mother of several sons, it is plainly evident she loves Emilio more fervently than any of the others, and her eyes blaze with patriotic fervor when the name of her favorite son is mentioned.

An Albino Deer

An albino deer is a rare, a very rare, freak of Nature. Nevertheless, a pure albino, with a coat as white as the drifting snows, and eyes a delicate pink, was killed not long ago in the pine-clad mountains. of Southern Oregon. It is one of the very few albino deer ever seen in the

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the early days; but they were always too shy and discreet to be approached near enough for a shot.

This deer was killed on Canyon Creek, near West Fork, by G. W. Donnell, a Grants Pass, Oregon, sportsman. It was with four other deer when first seen, and was at first taken for a young calf. Its white coat made it a conspicuous mark, and it is probably for this reason that albino deer are usually shunned by the main herds.

Like the albino of the human family, the albino deer is purely a freak of nature. Aside from its white coat and pink eyes, it is like all other deer. Its fur

seems softer and more silky, but this may be due to the natural inclination the beholder has to rub the white coat.

Crater Lake National Park

A genuine wonderland is the recently established Crater Lake National Park, of Southern Oregon.. It is located along the crest of the Cascade Range, and its 250 square miles of area consists of many natural wonders that even the far-famed Yellowstone or Yosemite can not surpass, -snow-capped peaks, mountains of pumice, lofty crags, deep canyons, beds of lava, plateaus of grassy fields and flowers, trackless forests and rippling streams. But the feature of all the many features is the lake the blue, blue lake, that rests serenely in the cold crater of old Mazama, the ancient volcano.

It is three days' travel out to the park from the railway, but the road, which follows the turbulent Rogue, a river of cataracts and waterfalls, of torrents and rapids, is a continual delight.

A wagon road leads to the very rim of Crater Lake, an elevation of about 8,000 feet, and here in the black hemlocks one may camp beneath a snowbank in midAugust. Grass grows waist-high, and columbines, Canterbury bells and violets find a footing in the fat earth near the melting snows.

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A Bear Totem in the Indian cemetery at Ketchikan, Alaska. It is the custom to place on the totem some of the clothes of the dead for whom the totem was built. In this case the garments are in the bear's mouth.

Crater Lake is a body of fresh water, six miles long and three miles wide, with almost sheer precipices for shores, varying from 1,000 to 2,000 feet, and with a

cone-shaped island in the center that rises 845 feet above the water. The water's edge is reached only at one point, that being at Eagle Rock. Here a narrow and

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