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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Signal, 1897-8-19, Page 2$ T>rblliidl►t August 19, 1997. SIGNAL : GODERICIr ONTARIO. t'-' MMVIMf ntrm THE FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLE on which our shoes are built is MERIT. They must be worthy. We have them made so. Not ooatent with things es they the, we go on doing better for you day by day, increasing our facilities for serving you, bettering our buying ,add bettering our selling methods. Out of 1t montes good Footwear at better prices than you harm ever known. • PRICE, THE SHOEMAN Snooeesar to H. B. POLLOCK. or We do repairing that gives satisfaction. eeaaaaaaC�ree�aeea� � a THE KLONDIKE. rod 70 ahoy. Disoovety, and olsims will av- erage 500 feet lignites, with from two to rix feet of pay dirt, and rangoug from 25ota to $200 to the pan. Bonaire • branch of the Warren Shea, brother of Ensign Shea o the S.1vado• Army in Toronto. kept a val- uable diary of bis trip from Dyea to ase eon Ctsy let April -June and a Dopy has reaobed reroute • I Tett Puget Soiled oo April lib. The voyage up we marked by several interest- ing incidence, among whish we the merri- age of a someway °oople, who went ashore - at Fort Wrangel, April, when the wedding took plum. On the 13th •11 hands turned to 114110 ooloadd freight as best we could on life boats on the rooks three miles from Dyes ; hired a row boat for $5 to get our freight w Dye., whioh plaoe tae two stores and three dwellings. April 16.—Uomm.noed work in dead earnest puking on our basks •p Dyes River eight miles to the foot of the can- yon. Erecter Sunday and not s egg is t, April 22.—'' . erythiog at &beep Camp. 13 miles from D .. Plenty of mow, but two and • half miles to the summit. A large glacier halt • mile distant, but the weather - is.etadesal•l/ warn... lote.of people ramp- ed hen ; • oity of taste. Doge everywhere. 1 saw one team of 14 in a string, all Alesk• an dog. They look like welts', but nine and smart, sad 11 is surprising how they pall. It is laughable to brae to hitt t e driver yell, " Muse, Mush " u them, std d they don't get then you generally hear . eomotbtng stronger. A peck pony worth $10 in Ontario would bring $200 here, .std a t Klondike. Theo owns* Eldorado, • branch of Bonnn- �za, with about 100 claims, sad surely the mama le the world. It is • common thing to get from 1300 to $800 to the pan oa the bedrock, and oo the damp o • cies see the gold thick in the damp. Berry brothers bate one of the riohr-'t. I got •egminted with them, and they showed me their gold duet en gawks, cans end bottles. One ot them left two days ego for San Francium with '130,0() that four mea took out in five months. Tb'v ' • difficult country to mine in, and it is • gond thing this country is rich in gold. The ground never thaws deeper then one foot, and no one seems to know how fav it is frozen down. 1 do not see bow people cat Hey lime is long a *ST ham. aft tilt b-ou t One eta tail -am old -titter as fry se be w ase him. Leh if easee of scurvy. One poor fellow was round dead in bed.• He had $12,000 oath his pillow, and was going out on the first boat to San Fnnoisoo, where be be • aistsr. There ie lou of grub here now it you have the pries, but I •otiolp•te it wilt be • little shy in the winter. The poet office to in a 'slab. There is no postmaster ; •"vane t .teat mail ca, help himself. It took me two hours to hod two letters for myelf,sad I ciao wifely ray 1 wall more delight id in my life. 1 would hardly tdt:e r ,yone oomiug to this wan - try. It isltgbb be well for • single man with a rugged constitution to tome in, bot I tail you it is far from • pleasure trip. 1 certain - ..la _studlma►sarlj ono trip_•ad Ikea. will lee out of berg. The weather is warm and nice now, but It must be " lighning " in the win- ter time. There were probably about 00 people on the trail. I spent several d.ye pro.peotiog, and could get from two to too oolon most anywhere. It takes about 30 days to sink a prospect hole to hed.rock,e•y • Swat 25 feet, bat frequently then are plea- ty of colon oo the carter» when there •t none en the bedrock Then are 20 Csn•di•n polios beget bat they let the miners settle all disputes and d .1 with the criminal. Anyooe caught stealing will either be hung or given five boron to leave town, and it he has no grub be is given 75 pounde and a boat. Then, it be does not ro. oat Domes the hemp. Then aro • few women, some of them m•rried,and 'dm' not. There is one dance house, sever - e l saloons, three .' ices, one •mall sawmill. Lumber is $160 per thor-sod ; logs, $50 ; flour, ; i0 a sack, and everything in propor- tion. News is mighty sceros. No p .ps.s. Any old newspaper is worth 110. Oa April 28th we got everything oo the smolt of Cbilkoot Pass, ezoept the tent • aced • little grub. Rlsstbar too rough to trees the P. May 1.—Started throes the summit and made Lake Linderman at 8 .m., Bios miles in • blinding snowstorm. Ed, Whittemore and part) were loot there two days in a •uowutoim, with no wood, had to eat raw gra b. May 3.—We oroered Lake Linderman oo the toe, eight miles, hoisted sails on our sleds, end went along very comfortably on with our satire outfit. May b —Made permanent Damn for neat• building,. twenty miles duns uta Lk* Ben- oist, on what is known Its West A rm. W. joined hands with four .ether fellows, tad wore .ix day whip -sawing lumber tor three boats Timber, mostly serum, averages ten laobes. May 24 —West oo t two days' hunt up an unnamed river ; plenty of moose, but got Looe. M•y 24th was oelebntd by Lunching our boat. We had no champagne, but we shipped her with • side of bacon and °hrlet- etd tier the Viotoria. She was built by Taylor's plans •adnhe we avpoit.ted captain with Billie tint mate and Joe and I e deck bands. May 27.—Made Cariboo Crossing, foot of Lake Bennett. May 28 —Dot Bp at 1 .m. and made 40 .ales. Weather very rough, sod eeversl times we would have been swamped had we n ot had a rood boat. We were obliged to o. np for three days on amount of ioe,•bout the middle of Mad lake. Lott of game. `stdowe 0O be■1•ti*d no. ..1R.t W and party ague. • May 31 —(;oto .crow. Mod Ltke,and down Thirty Mile Myer, twenty••tx miles to Orad Canyon. Thirty Mile River is rather alaggleb, with' low, smooth mountains • rout. Plenty ot grass land. Jun 1:—Or•nd Cay eon is about three- "mestere-7Ni. mile long, and about 40 toot wide, with 75 feet walls. l'be water rune lite a mill-raae ; tow two thews and three tonsil bosti swamp, losing all their goods, bat nobody drowned. W. got through and shipped only about two bookets of water. After leaving the Canyon we had two males et swift water ; river fall of big 'maiden. and 11 was with the utmost can we got through wifely Then Domes the White Horse Rapids. the wont of all. Only one w ow attempted to run them, and she was swamped : as she was loaded with "boom," the lees was not large. White Horse Rapids supports a good-edmd grave -yard,. which Is largely added to every year. luoe 3 —Mads the head of Lake ler June 4. —pot throes 'Lake Le Barge, 30 miles, and down Thirty Mil. River, s very bad stream—very swift, arid t1 makes • fel- low squirm to go sailing slots sod se entail boards here and there,mtrkfttg the 'grave of some poor fellow, and wondering U you are to he the next. We pitched camp at the month of Hootalingot River. There we mgt the outgoing mail carrier, and sent let- ters home. The river here takes the name of Lewis, and it is an elegant stream, no boulders ; Indeed, . beautiful oonntry Traded three cape of eager with the Indians for fifteen pound. of 8.h, and paid 11 for • gypter of • mountain sheep. At 4:46 veil. lune 6 we mode Five Pinner Rapids. so named by being flee fingers or p1l Late of rook. W. kept the right-hand o1ansel, getting through eafely, tad at 6.30 made Ptak Bared'. nix miles below. A girths many boats are swamped hen. Pierre, of daoks and geese. At the mouth of Pally River we strike the Yukon proper. wbteh i• t o Immese river, with a six mile °arrest m•ey small islands. June 9 —Arrived at Klondide River or Dawson Ci'y, and leis very glad when we tot off the.. The town to On both .hies of the Kloedik. We pitobed camp oa the •euth nide, knew. we Louse Town. Every. thing is all exeltemeat : lots of buildings going op : was off.,red plenty of work at $10 • day. Os the 13th we visited the mines, whtnh ars hewn six to twenty miles distant, and I hardly like be WI yes what I saw for fear hres delis think the ells .tie theories hate ada Md week se my aaeos..l But here Most .f the .Inas are jeet 1.ir- rreep•et•A. A Halm eamW of FOO feet • alp a,o-dews the islets sod freers 1ted reek res h m ►.qt• liverythns a'erbers freer Dos w' tory rYm. llama.. Omsk Ica 100 Wow Malls ter the tismdlke. Portland, Ors, Aug. 7.—L. W. Ville, Assistant Superintendent of the Railway Mail &wvio., he returned from • trip to Victoria. B C.. when he arranged with the Canadian authorities rags -ding the carrying of the mails into the Klondike digitrlot. He says that the Canadian authorities bave crested a pnstoffioe at Dawson City. This makes three office eetabllehed by them in this portion of the Northwest Terri' try. The other two offic: i it. at Forty Mite Creek and Fort_ Cudahy. The_mail w 1t by oarr ed -by the irooni,d Tronoe Item ,'e and Skagoey. Tb. sorties will 116 establish. d in about four week. New Rists..d Fields, London, Ang. 8.—Tho news Domes from South Africa of the dleoevery of important new diamond fields is Origualand Writ, in the same diatriot es the Kimberly mines. Although the first dleoovery we made at the sad of last year, It was not until May !eat Mitt tb. Governor of Oath Colony pro- e l•lmed it a payable diamond fields in ao- oardaowe with the Cape laws. Over 3.000 person. s-om Kimberley and Barkley rushed to the field sod pegged out a largo number of claims. These have been tested, and the revolts se reported in mosso letters aid o•blegnms seem to put it 11- yond doubt tbatshe find is a most valuable the, and folly equal to the famous Wessel - ton -mine .t Kimberley. The Klondike libiso -raalp. The discovery of this new northern bo- nanza we an •owidest, as mining dts°bver- ies aerially are. An old Yukon miner Ge.. Cormac, w r( lived for twenty years ander the artto carols. and who had made little money in all tithe time. west op to the oon6oenoe of the Klondike and Yukon riven to fish for salmon, whioh tonally run in large quantities in the Yukon River at that point at the end of spring. H. ar- rived at that plane in June, 1896. Tbs sal- mon did not ran, and h .oe he had recourse to prospsottog in the oreeks that empty in- to the Klondike a few miles above its mouth. He knew that this territory had been prospsotsd by experts, and that their deoMoo we that thorn we no gold la pay - Ing quantities north of the Yukon. and es- psoislly la the British possessions, where he then sea. Hs travelled up the Klondike three miles, then made his way through :sealed thickets ray, • little stream with nreoiplte■. sides. He had two Indians with him, and the three e t to week to renewed In the primitive Takeo fasblen--that is, they oat wood, set fires every .tgbs a she bro.nd ea thaw out the freesia gravel, and mob d• dug out of the preepect hole the Isom earth which was showed dew. •.t over twelve towhee by the fin. Is title way, In shoat ten day', they rt.oh bed -risk at a depth of fiftieth feat, whoa (`'memeo was aatoosehed is pan out from the loess dirt ower hod -reek from fifty to one harodred dollen in soar* geld to the pas. Ry this time bar prIlellilese were SOW. Iv exhausted.* he eget an haiku to Ferry Mils Post, fifty-two slim away, for sap plies, he remain*, *Lay tra al_fe pee- sotim flitkor. He .fee sent • sees to sewer - h l of his friends V Party Mile Pest, Wllmi than .f his dinsevethee. Seward unit lase speeded sod sante sp. took .p alums, aced buaan to prowess; t bet is wee not moll s.*rly three er.sth■ had paced Woes asp see t sere t• with as adequate ripply d pro. ei-teas, sod with tools to week she *Wale properly, Thee ase soon took wt several thooeead donee*' worth of gold-dttit, sad t{ was the rotary el two et this party to Teeny Lt. Post. lets w the 1.11, which id to the uapreoedeetd gold rusk to this little hemp. Pros fifty able-bodied male eat of • pop•le- tter of 1603 were lett in the osmp three days alter this gold -duet we brought ie.— H.rper's Weekly. Mud Advice. Captain MW : Ssnd.b, ot Moniresl, was who bee been spending the summer In Alas- ka, h.• teaobed the confines of eivil'saio.. on his return to Portlead. Be knows all •bmat the Kloodyke erase, and his advio. to • tteodtog prospectors is "Don't." In • let- ter, he soya that the situation oo the Klee - dyke is not very dissimilar to other void field.. The yellow metal is there, bat it doesn't lie 1 round the ground in shanks waiting to ba s000pd up. It ora only be eeourrd by patient and uncommonly labort- oae pt tier sniping, ioWup.red with many miles of weary tramping around from pock- et to pooket. He further soya that the journey to the "diggings" from Juneau is en enterprise oaloalated to pull the siroogtat heart. Beyond all 1his,it is the beginning now of winter in that reaioo,.od anyone who starts .gust atop over at Juoeea or somewhere else until next May. There ie oat food Boot gh in all Alaska to keep the people for one month. He dror' a hist that the eseaur part of the Kloodyke region is in Canada without "stretches an elide biundery lino one single tooh," and says the Domioioo po- lite will have something to soy •b oat Yankees Doming over there and tektite away all tee gold. Mow le Cot There. The routes that go into the Klookyde are two. The beet bat the moat expensive is by etssgitlr from BsstUf jt4 tBtt. Michael's, sled thea by elver beatt j IIbS Tatil 1,700 miles to Dawson City. By this renter 11 takes thirty-five to forty ei•ys,and the price is $180. 'the.' mere ;.east only 150 lbs. of baggage ter each p•seenrer. The ocher routs a by land by way of Juneau. There at thio season all packs most be carried on the back or on wul . When snow fall. Hedger tau be tend sod the trip canto made much mote easily. The dutanoe is 650 mile. Tee following is a desoription of the trip: "Leaving Jae .0 you go to Dyei by wsiy of Lime Canal, and from there to Lake Lin- demann, thirty melee on foot, or portage, we call it. The lakes gives you • ride of five or six mil' s, hod then follows another long € orerleod to the ha.awriters of Bennett, wblob is tseoty-.tgbt miles boo. Oa toot you go again for several mile., and glom the oar .ou crowing 1urn ashes iraas• portatioo for Te oiah Lake, when another twenty-one mile boot ride may he had. '• Tau t followed by a weal/ stretch mountainous oountry, sad then Marsh or Mud Lr to is teethed. You get another boat rids of twenty-four miles, aid then go down the creek to twenty-seven miles to Miles Canon sad to Wb'' Hein Rapid. "This is one of the moot d.ngeroue places on the entire mate, .od should be avoided by all strangers. The stream is toll of sunken rooks and rues with the sped of • milts a. Passing White Home Reprda the journey is down the river for thirty miles to Lake Labarge, where thirty- one miles of navigable water i• tound. An- other short portage and Louis River is rationed, where you have • 201.mile journey, which br:cgs you to Fort Selkirk. "At thio point Pe ly and Louse ricer•e come together, forming the Yukon. From that potnt oa 1. i.reotlo•lly smooth ailing, ;Sough the stringer must be exceedingly careful." Lduc, who is • veteran prospector, and has .sou ell the tough mining camps oo this oa it, gave today this inter( 'ting descrip- tion of the new city of Dawson, which prom'x• to have Z.0,000 inhabitants before spring. A new route so the Klondike will be opened next spring. It is overland from Juneau to Fort Selkirk, on the Yukon, and is entirely by land. Capt. Goodall, of the Peat&o Cost Steamship Company, inspect- ed it this summer. sad reported tt practio- obie. Ioissilo* seye• heeded tatter tang; and It oroa.es the divide over Chilo•t Pass, which is lower and mon easily crossed than Chilkoot Pass. No lakes or riven are on the route, buil the trail run. over • high level prairie. TID-BITS OF WISDOM. A great Enzll.b Merchant, Thome J. Lipton, who owns 420 stores is London, Soetlsad, England, Inland and Walee,m•de his vet wealth of 60,000,000 in 18 years sod hos 10,000 pawns oo bis pay rot. H. pays • tribute to oewepapor advertising is thl. wanner. ' I believe In newap•perad- vertising : It fs the life blood of modern trade, for to this advanoed see everybody reads, sad newspapers and periodical. are the best medi.me. Sometimes is pan a man to keep his wife tally ported as to his basins*. Not loan ago a CI•ntoaian advertised In s load paper that he would like to buy t seared -hand lawn mower, giving the faiths& ' X Y.' He noshed se •awn which .trues him favorably, and after corresponding some time through the newsp.rrr ofthy, found out that his wife was trying to ell him their old mower. At • meatier of the Provincial Board of Health. Dr. Bryoe, seereriry, presented • quarterly repose, wHoh stated that the general sanitary condition of the previa* ooaia.od roc 1, and only two or three set, ions outbreak of disease had .eonrred. inorwe of immlt,'ttioa will iheee.* the danger of tm•Ilpox and Modred dl.eseee. The so•rlatlaa outbreak its. Tem* which bad existed all year, had res.ltwd i. 1,188 eases and sixty-three death. A Herristnn town lady i• • harry to go to ohuroh took from ba hack °lout what she theanit be be a dolm.e. Elbe hues the gamest over her al n end did not disoover until di. hod thrown it over her pow in Lost of her i. ehareh that she bad hroorht he dtt r the a pair of her hehaed's trouser,. Ohs sod her Indy °ompanbe laughed *lead Shot they atter ot id the •et ratios et the ea - tin oo gregttioh, sad so fine.xoept them sslvse nndeete°d tie sanse of the fresh bunt of eethodasen whoa the their led off with," A. Pants My heart.' titratfoed Herald i " The medial* read- er who txlbd so sweetly to • throng of •d- mireae on the market Friday mishit sad in - doped them to anther ea sheer while he t . elided reads a wet. peeled le .foody $20 before he finished ftp, RLehg h ru4e-a • small bottle d rails wit sr end .ruse haeme Mee .slerl.g. M. wet gslett to elsy h the eity for a Nag Iiime tied de same wonderful Woos, bot be realeb.d fhoci- le7arid the lee* *pew the lee* id *nes mets with 131m." We belie*. We seise emit* imam was is Wiligheat a sheet tam.•sod did the esebehes bmaaisgIt SOME EDIBLE WEEDS. HOME OF THE THING$ THE U.O. HOT. ANIST HAS DISCOVERED. nano weed. May 5. Motu —Wilms Mame tsars Desee•aaeetes as • Yo.d nails - 'rims Limes ape■ Wkleb the investiga- tion er.n..d.d. The United States Department of Agriculture, says- The Waehingtut Times, believes that in the piaut life of this continent may be tuuud many ad- ditiuue to our dietary. Frederick V. Coville, botauist of the department, has spent couaideruble effort to examine many of the plants uow classed as "weeds" which are capable of sustaining vitality in mut. He takee the position that a "wider use 'of green vegetables iu the dietaries of most people, particu- larly those with healthy dige..tiuus, would be a marked beneflt." Chemistry brio dewoustratod largely the substauers wbi, h the human opium needs, and Botauiat Covtlle finds the vie *cutlets present in a , rear many plants, some of which err nowhere considered as effective food for man and some of which have only a local use as numen food. Mr. Coville points out that wild Lerbi- vr rows animals feed un the fats and airfoil* (irides stored up in plant seeds in the fall. They fatten, un this diet and gather in bodily fuel for the win- ter. I%aviug exhausted their supply- of fat by spring they make eeeu herbage their principal gfood. This renewa their emus tiler vigor and vitaljty. This die- tary system prevails among snvuge peo- pla and is largely followed by the In- dian■ of the Western States. Man's food bus grown more artificial with •he adtance of civilization, until, as Botanist Coville says, "foods are now *elected more by cnatom than by instinct." The European races are more given to eat- ing salads and boiled green vegetables than the people of the Unite(' States are. The greater part of the plant food consumed by Americana is mode up- at seeds, [bots and tnbere. It -it bereave : of this that the people et tbkl country are bilious. The first west which Botanist Coy -ills would have ea eat le market. This plant mows as s weed from New Eug- land to the Pacific cosh, and is con- sidered a troublesome weed in the wheat districts of Wisconsin, Minnesota and' North Dakota, It it cleverly related fes-- -Met* *aster* - -.■ether---faeitiar weed. Cbariock is known in New Yort States as "wild mustard," and is consid- ered poisonous. Cbarlock was a com- mon pot herb in northern Europe cen- ttarite cgs, bat It has not been recognized asafood for ibaa in the new works. The leaves of the ehiccory plant are also good to eat, and in .osgle neighbor- hoods are thus utilised. It occurs as a weed in the Atlantic_and Pacific States, an ere ilia -Mire -5 The Ililerior: Thy leaves grow in the form of n rosette, after the fashion of the dandelion. Yel- low rocket is a weer] common throughout the Eastern States which man might est. Iteu closely allied to the winter enema, which is lured es a winter salad and pot herb in Washington and Balti- more. The dandelion is n weed which has al- ready lready gained considerable favor as a food in the United States, except 10 the extreme Mouth and west of the meat plains, though it has noted itself in certain parts of Washington and Cali- fornia. The truckers around Paris have been cultivating the dandelion for many years with good results and have developed several horticultural varieties. There it is used largely as a salad, the plants being eaten greeqq or blanched. The Department of dgriealture calls especial attention to the dock, two speeches of which, the brunet -leafed and the curled, occur as common weeds in meadow■, pastures, and cultivated fickle. Several specter; of. dock are used widely as a pot herd in Europe. Dock was used extensively by two tribes of Am- erican tedious, -the Plums and the Mari - copes. Dock grows in the arid regions of Arizona, New Mexico. and Texas, where succulent vegetation is rare. Lambs -quarters, or pit -weed or goose - foot is a weed which belongs to the same plant family as the beet and apiitach, and oturht to be used as a table vegetable. It in cultivated iu Europe and in very cow mon throughout the limited States. Mash marigold, or "cowslip," is atta- tive of North America. It growp In swamp land all over the northern part at the tatted States and Canada. It has a local use as a hherba but its value s no genPear( at . Pig -weed occurs in many fields all over this country, but the average American does not know its value as a food plant. It is eaten by the Indiana of the Southwest And by the people of Mexico. In tante parts of California it is cultivated by the Chinese. Pokeweed is need locally . in some parts of., the Month, bat its more general use wan ld he gratifying to the economic bntrniets of the Department of Agrienl- tnre. The French people have introdue- ed this plant Into their country and es- teem it highly. The department thinks it prohable that common nettle, milkweed and round - leafed mallow will come to be regarded at good food. The etsgegstloner made by the depart- ment may be offenaive to some people, bnt then it wasn't so very long ago when the tomato or 'love apple' wee thought to be poisonous, when the e. - camber was looked tpon•ae a fatal dose, and when people of the North were pte- jndieed against the banana. ruse ter Parte In trios In 1902, at the Cafe Jacob, in lite Hoe Jacob, en obscure cabaret in an obscure street, was frequently to be seen the once redonhtahie Thomas Paine, then .hunt 05. Contemporaries reprreent him at this date as not only fallen upon evil day. but dirty,tn his person and unduly addicted to .pinta. That the general at - pea ranee of the author of the "Rights of Man" was "mean and poverty-etricken," end that he was meet withered and careworn," Reimbkch admits, and he moreover arida that "he had sunk Into complete Insignificance, end was finite unnoticed by the (loverhmen•." Bot he alen de.erlbe. him as fluent 111 speech, of mild end gentle demeanor, clear and dis- tinct in enunciation," and endowed with ■n exceedingly sett and agreenble voice —worth' whieh, ie. Hitt crrritter'tirinWHIP- Now remind ane of ittol Fopppington's philosopbie eulogy of Mles Hayden. Cer- tainly they -aesreeiy suggest the red - nomad nitel dllepidated per*nnnge who drank brapdy and declaimed against re- lish* (n hie enpe with whom modern records have acquainted us: Longman', Mag.sihe. .4 M.morr Jeerer. Mr. Pierce in a recent teeter" stated that the veloeity of Tight and electric waves, namely. 186,400 miles per eeeond, may be easily retnemhered from the tact that It was in the year 1804 that Max- well made hiagfnmon. diseovery of the Mentt,. of light and file trle waves. Whether it Is easier to remember the Arlt or the wavnnd of these• figures is a gneertion, but et all events the cartons mineideree of the two smithery Is eK fntereet. Lha Busk,. se • rattelaehrept•t, A•otber striking itlnettatinv et Wow kta'e dhr,Mthneen is seen In the mas- fee 1. which be has • disposed •ftortontoraiell at the thee ed Ids tbrier bar nen ftfs eat d to as ands . mdellAt . • dp,.er. With tnls money be set about doing good. Poor young men and women who are struggling to ubtalu aq,, education ware helped, .homes for working sten and win wore erected. He also pro - tinned i work for reclaiming wante land outside of London. This land was used for the aid of unfortunate who wished to rise again front the . to into which they had fallen throng cruel social conditions and their own'weuk- ne.ae. It le said that is wrk sug- gested to Geneystl Booth his to/tottiaa- tion fames. Ruskin has also evil• been tlbenl in aiding pours artists, rjlg4 has done much to encouresal the *ramie taste animus the young On one occasion he purchased ten fine water-e'olor paint - Ings b¢ Holman Ilunt for j3750 to be hung In public school. of London. By 1877 he had disposed of three- fourths of hia h1beritance, besides all the income from his books. But the calla of the poor and the pp an" he wished to Mtn te operation looking toward uce- tipd and ennobling the toilers and tiv- tng to their gloomy lives something more of sunshine and joy, were such that he determined to dispose of all the remain- der of his wealth except a sum runic - lent to yield him 51500 a year on wktcb to live. E.aNs's Army .n Turkey'srer. In view of the •trained relattdFts that now prevail between St. Petersburg and Constantinople it may be ut interest to state that Russia has at the present moment qn the Turkish froniter in Asia Minor a fully -equipped army or 150,00U meet compriaiitt an les• than 20 reed - tarots of cavalry, an immense force of artillery and 110 battalions of infantry. A portion of this army is actually oa the frontier, which It could cross within a few hours of receiving the order to advance, while the reserves are atatlon- ed at a distance of two days' mare.. Another still larger Russian Army has Iletin assembled at Odessa and Sebasto- pol, whence, its could be conveyed by sea In the space of 24 to 36 hours to Coil- etaatinoole.—New York Tribune. The Age of Mager* Dr. Spencer, in is recent publication on Niagara, sal s that, in his opinion, the Niagara jiver was formed :32.000 years rigor., and that 1000 years tater the falls were in existence—for some 17,200 years their height was about :7W feet He says the drainage of the lakes first flowed through the Niagara gorge 7900 years ago, and that the water in Lake Ontaio first rose to its present lev- el 3000 yeah ago. Prof. Lyall estim- ated the Niagara River's age at 35,000 year's. Haag Up the *pens•. The sponge vendor has begun to ped- dle hie wares. and the wine housekeeper will bay more than one. It will be Wand efbeae lose to mak one of these in (.old water and suspend it from the reining. It will beep the atmosphere of the mom cool *ad moist and is mirth Ignite on a bot day. ' "I'hie," inti hrTca;mi "Is thi-YLrte etear when I cat eonehierable ice." . "Ynn," said the kitchen lady, "don't tat half as much as you are paid for." —Yonkers Statesman. HOT CORN. Edao•ti',o begins at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within the hearing of little children tends towards the forma - Von of their obaracter. . In the Theatre.—" Bar why do you aioh? The acting 1e oortaialy not so tononrne." " Excuse me, 1 am bewailing the money I paid to come in." "This, Iodise and gentlemen, is the eels beste.i trick male, Dot," sod the clow., r the beat we bei^g led ante the ring. " After witty yen of effort. I am able oo say 1 sen make him do aoythiug be went. to." • " No," said Cholly, " I - will oevab Agent to having twadespr )ple in the club." 'A Why not?" ' Nr." -ed • fellow member. " Bemuse I bete twoable enough to avoid itteetieg my (twea?it we atitis." "MW Cayenne is • very bright young Waren," be restaeked, •dmttdsrly. " Does .hs .ay elverthiat s ?" " Bet' :r t}eaktih_t She sees the pent when anybody eh* gays them." Mabel—I wotlfld maw moray a w I did tot love Mtie --B51 i.ppoti t r ti wealthy tiara should proses. ¥abel—Iehoald love him, of theme. Mr. N•t•rel Mortensen, a well -know .t citizen of Isbpomirg, Mien., and editor So• prier Poston, who, for • long time, .of- fered from the most •xcuo+.titg pains of rbeassstfem, we. cored, eight years agro, by taking Ayst s Sarsaparilla, having felt • twinge of it .ince. • First Amateur—There 16 such a difficult armee in the mooed ace. 8ecoed Amateur—Whet 1. it? First Amateur—The hero tolls me that he never loved until hs met me, and I have to look as if I believed biro. " I told the hely that in order to get • good photograph she most forget where the '.4.., . wail ! ' "She did it .o thoroughly that elm west sway without making the neoe.wry de- posit." The hair, when sot properly oared for, loses its lustre, haoomes, mosey, berth sad dry, and falls one freely with every comb. lair. To pent thea, the beet drsesine in the market is Ayer's Harr Vigor. It Im- parts that silky glom so eseestitl to perteet bloaty "Darling'," said the young man, ''your eyes are like diamoads, your lips like rubles, your teeth like pearls, your hair like jet_„ "Oeerse." the interrupted, "remember that yon work in a jewellery wtsteboose. Don't talk shop." A judge Nee said to s friend, during a trial. that one of the witsetw had 1 revo- kable bead. How a Y' was the enquiry. " It is shaped like • pumpkin, he nal car- rety bat-. reddish dwells, a taro -up note, and a sage leek. A teacher /Ivies lemons ea physical fors% wbes he bed finished, asked : " New. ks�, can an111y of you tell ate hot fens iris thee moves people dung the street r Hs was greatly surprised. and fibe ohm *ably aalslsd, at medals* frees erne of the boys the *expiated sewer t "Pews, de. 1he polies Woe." C•a emesse --What de you steam by uai1fo MG that l>r/ yes .dl.4 bade re.tersr, and ta1]iR tilea—s 1j$ would r �uwouldwee* ay head to L 151byea Yk•f1t It 1 rad an* as se.*Mid a 4 hote*Imes tie.ly add. .wens.. imam 'mat — 1MiMwaadan dna 8.14, de. UNTOLD MISERY MOH RHEUMATISM 0.11. flag, Watse a's'', Y>er., sued by Ayer's Sarsapar: Ila "To, five yuan, I suffered untold missy tram muscular rheumatism. I trial every known remedy, eooattlted the bast pnys4 glans, visited Hot Sprint., Ark., throe tines, spending i10o0 there, besides Motors' bins; blit ootid obtain only temporary relief. 11y flesh we wasted away po that 1 oelghrl only ninety-three patadst my aft arm rand leg were drawn out of .13*».. the mtuc:es being twisted up fu lasts wtmabre to dress myself, except wills assistance, and could only bobble about by usher a cane. 1 bad no appetite. and was assured, be the doctors, that I could not lt1 e. The Firms. at times, were so awful, that I could procure relief only by'L:eant of hepodenrie injec- tions of morrhire. I, hod my limie bandaged in clna, to enlplr,r, to pntadces; but these give only temporary rebut. Alter tt)icr wcrytb:ng, 05,1 st-: ering Cm most at • tortures, 1 1:eg (n to take .tyer's Sweeps Inside ct two norths, I was able to tv: wittout a cnee. Ia thneo months my le,'. began to strengthen, rind is fag course of a year. 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