Loading...
HomeMy WebLinkAboutExeter Advocate, 1906-8-30, Page 7WHAT THE WORD IS SAYING Type of the Model Ilan Found in Jesus Christ Q Gi "Quit yourselves like men."—I. Sam uel iv., 9. We need not tern to the New Testa- ment to bear thrift voice. What is the Voice that is always speaking to us from within. We know what we ought to. do 1 ' and be, andwhenever we fall short of our ideal, we are overcome withhumili- ation and chagrin. "Quit you like men." That is what we say to ane another. Do we not go to the drunkard and eay : "Now, be a man?" Of course he is a man already. Even in his drunken- ness he is a human being, but he is not a man in the complete meaning of the word. He has put an enemy into his. mouth to steal away his brains. He has abdicated the privileges and dignity of i;rnnhood. God has seated him upon .a throne, but he has surrendered his throne and sceptre, and we endeavor to life him out of his degradation by say- ing : "Be a man." How many times we have said : "13e more of a man I" A man can be a man up to a certain point, and there . stop. He may bea fragment of a man, simply THE RUDIMENT OF A MAN. He hes a few of the virtues and graces of manhood, but in many others he is deficient. "Oh, how I wish hewere more of a. man," we say of this imperfect specimen of manhood. And where do the get our ideal of manhood? We get it from Jesus Christ; the Son of God. "Behold the man 1" said Pontius Pi- late eighteen hundred years ago. And that is what the world is saying still. Many of us have at times felt like Diogenes when we .have looked through certain quarters of society. "Oh, that my eyes might fall upon a man 1" we have said, as we have looked Into political life, with its corruption, and into social life, with its frivolity and its shame. But as soon as we turn -our eyes on Jesus Christ we say Matinee tfvely ; "Ala here fs a man." How strong ile is I Not allthe lead- ing people of Palestine can make Him budge the fraoaon of an inch. Like a victor He moves onward toward the cross, saying to His sad -hearted follow- ers : "Be of good cheer; I have over- come' the world, How. brave He is t He dares to de- nounce wrong wherever He finds it. 1 -le drives' the traders from the temple. Il:e speaks words that cut and burn to the hypocrites of the Sanhedrin. HE DARES SPEAK THE TRUTH, bath to the high and to the low; both to Nieodemus and the woman at .the well. Was there ever such bravery as His? How kind He was;, kind to everybody, gentle, considerate, ...oughtfui. He did. not believe in the doctrine : Every` man for himself and the devil take the hind - Most. Ele Himself was .always looking out for the hindmost. The poorest man, the weakest man, the lowest man, the most comfortless man, was the man which His eyes searched out and found, I-Iow self-sacrificing 1 He went about doing good. I -Ie did not live for Him- self, but for others. "He was obedient' unto death, even the death on the cross." And unto manhood He keeps crying to us au : "Follow Me; be like Me. Be strong. Be brave. Be kind. Be self.sacrlfcing." But somebody says : "I cannot be a man, I cannot control myself. I am weak." Listen to what the Son of God says to you : With God all things are possible." But someone says : "I have ruined my- self, I have thrown away my opportuni- ties, I have wasted my life. There is no chance for me," Listen to the words cf Christ,: ."Him that cometh unto me I will in no wise cast out." r e%fir= flOM****)ii HOME. YA ��t 7ft'r7i�r��iC ALL ICINDS OF COOKIES.'.. To make cookies soft be sure to use sufficient shortening and it is better to use half fresh lard. Do not use too many eggs, nor mix .too stiff but roll them .out as soft as can be handled and use a knife to lift them from board. Be sure not to bake them too much. le,When cold put them in a covered stone jar and keep in a cool, dry cellar. In cooky making, even more than in cake making, only good materials should be used, with no stinting of eggs or • butter. Use only pastry flour. Cookie:; should be turned on a cloth until thor- oughly cooled and then stored in tight- ly closed receptacles. An apple placed to the jar will aid in keeping them moist. Most cookies should be mixed as soft as they can be rolled and cut readily without sticking to the board, care al- ways being taken to use as little flour as possible in rolling them out as too much has a tendency . to make them hard, even more than mixing them a little too stiff. SUGAR COOKIES. Take 2 cups of brown sugar or 3 of white, 1 cup butter, 2 eggs, 1 cup eeour cream, 1 teaspoon soda and flour enough te handle nicely. Flavor with vanilla. To 13; cups granulated sugar add % cup butter, 1 cup thin cream, 32 grated nutmeg, ee grated rind of lemon, 1 des- sert spoonful vanilla, 2 eggs, 4 cups flour or a little more if needed, 332 tea- spoons baking powder. Roll out as soft as can be handled. One cup brown sugar, %cup butter, 3 eggs, 2 teaspoons baking powder, and flavor desired and flour to make them easy to handle. Beat eggs until light and then add sugar and butter and beat all to a cream. Bake in a quick oven. The secret of cooky making is in put- ting the materials together. Try this: Beat 3 eggs very light, then add 132 cups sugar, beat, then add 1 cup melt- ed butter and beat again. Put 1 tea- spoon soda in i/„ cup cold water and add that to the other, then hustle in the flour with 2 :teaspons cream of tartar. Flavor as desired. Be sure you have a hot oven. Bake quickly. Take yolks 3 eggs, 1 cup sugar, 3s cup butter, % cup milk, 1 teaspoon lemon extract, 2 teaspoons baking pow- der and flour to roll. These are what we call grandma's cookies and we like them very much. Take 2 cups sugar, 1 cup butter, 1 cup sweet milk, 32 teaspoon vanilla or nut- meg, 1 even teaspoon soda andflour to make soft dough. Roll thin and bake In quick oven. Take 2 cups sugar, 1 egg, 1 cup thick sour cream, 1 heaping' tablespoon lard, 7 tablespoons buttermilk, 2 level tea- spoons soda, pinch of salt and flavor- ing desired; use 32 nutmeg. The rest depends on yourself and the flour. Never use spring flour for cookies or pie crust, Have your oven hot. One and one-half cups sugar and 1 cup butter creamed . together, 2 eggs beaten light, % Cup sour mills, 132 tea- spoons soda anti 1 teaspoon Bream of tartar. Dissolve the soda in the milk and sift the cream of tartar with a little flour. Mix well and add enough so it won't stick. Flavor to taste. To 1 egg add 1 cup sugar, X cup but- , teaspoon favoring, % cup sour ' cream, % teaspoon soda, flour to roll. ' I3eat together the egg and sugar, putting in part of the sugar tit a time,, then add flavoring and butter and beat a little; add cream in which socia is dissolved and beat again, and finally add the flour about 3 cups. Turn out part of the mix- ture and roll to 3' inch; sprinkle with sinter and roil a little more. Bake in quick ©Ven, not too •hot. kneeLe SSGS AND `itNGEI1 COOKIES. • it"ttipoN t egg, 1 small cup Sit or, 1 large cup molasses, 2 tablespoons vinegar, 1 heaping teaspoon soda, 1 teaspoon gin- ger, a little salt. Mix stiff with spoon and bake quickly in hot oven. When they will not stick to straw they are ready to come out. To 1 cup molasses add % cup short- ening, %cup sugar, .1 tablespoon each ginger, cinnamon and soda, 4 table- spoons hot water, flour to make a soft dough. Rall out thin and place far apart in pans, as they spread. To 1 egg add 1 cup molasses, 1 cup sweet cream, 34 cup butter or drippings, cup sugar, 1 teaspoon cinnamon; 1 heaping teaspoon soda, a pinch of salt and flour to make a good dough- Bake lightly in a quick oven. To 1 cup light brown sugar add 2 cups molasses, 1 cup shortening, 1 cup boiling water, 1 tablespoon soda dis- solved in water, add last, just before the flour.. Use flour enough to roll out. A pinch of salt and 1 tablespoon ginger are sifted in the flour. Molasses cookies by this recipe do not get either hard or snappy, but they reach the greatest perfection when not mixed too hard and baked in a quick oven on top of grate. One cup sugar, 1 cup molasses, 1 cup butter and lard niixed, 2 eggs, 1 tablespoon ginger or cinnamon if preferred, 1 teaspoon vine- gar and two level teaspoons soda dis- solved in a little water, either cold or hot. Stir in flour until a dough that won't run is made and set in a cool place for at least an hour, or as much longer as is convenient, all day or over night. The object is to have the dbugh stiffen so you can roll the cookies out with very little flour on the board with- out sticking. The dough will become real stiff, but if mixed soft the cookies will be tender, not hard as when the dough is made stiff with flour. Hermits—Take 2 eggs. 1% cups sugar, a; cup butter, 2 tablespoons sweet milk, 1 cup raisins chopped fine, 1 teaspoon each soda, cinnamon, cloves and nut- meg. Mix soft and bake in a quick oven. WITH CRABAPPLES. Aside from the beauty of the crabap- ple as a tree, its fruit has few equals for jellies, marmalades, spiced and canned apples. Sour Crabapple Jelly.—Cut in quar- ters, take out seeds and cores, cook in porcelain or enameled kettle with water enough to cover nicely. Cook briskly for about 1 hour, then drain through a cloth jelly bag until the juice is all out. Do not squeeze them at all. Now to 1 quart juice add 1 pint granulated sugar and boil 1 quart at a time until it drops from the spoon in a small ball. Pour in glasses and it is ready to serve when cold. It is delicious. To make a sweet jelly 'use 1 pint juice and 1 pint sugar. Marmalade.—Alter using the juice for jelly,.take the pulp left over and press it through a fruit sieve. Take 1 quart pulp to 1 quart sugar and boil slowly for 2 hours. It should be stirred all the time, as it Is apt to stick and burn.. Put in glasses or jars. When cold it will he so thick it can be cut in slices. It is fine for the lunch basket. HOUSEHOLD HINTS. White tissue paper is invaluable to the traveller, as it will wipe away the. greasy look on the fage better than soap and water. When flannel geemer►is must be dried indoors by, all meens. keep them away from the fire, or they will instantly shrink. Hang 'thein in a warm room,' but never near the tire. A clean firebrick is more ,eatistaotory as an iron stand than the ordinary piece of filagree cast iron, which riot _only admits the air to the bottom of the iron but conducts the heat from it. Being a non=conductor or heat, the brick re- tains the heat in the smopthing iron, The Sunderland Daily Post and Her:aid, the oldest paper on Wearside,has ceased publication. iuE SUNDAY SGHgoLr INTERNATIONAL LESSON, SEPT. 2. Lesson X. leartirnteus.,and Zaechecus. • Golden Text: Luke 18. a4. THE 'LESSON WORD STUDIES. Note. ---The text of the Ile%ised Ver- Sion is used as a basis for these Word. Studies, Three Accounts.—Parallel accounts of the healing of blind I3artimseus at Jer- icho will , be founu in Matt. 20. 29-34, and Mark 10. 46-52. The three accounts of this event differ in detail in many respects. Matthew mentions two blind then, while Mark and Luke speak of only one. Matthew and lvlaric, again, represent the miracle as taking place when Jesus was leaving ':Jericho, . while Luke represents it as taking place' when he was approaching the city. Accord- ing to Matthew • Jesus heels the man with a touch, according to Mark, with a word or comfort, and according to. Luke; with a word of command. It is useless to attempt to harmonize the three narratives in these points of de- tail. The differences are such as we might naturally expect in three . inde- pendent accounts of the same event, given by three different persons several decades after the event itself had Laken place. We have here a goodexarap1e of the fact that divine inspiration in no case rules out or destroys the human element, and it iseonly a narrow view of inspiration and `its effects which is concerned to reconcile these differ- ences, and make each of the three ac- counts tally word for word with the others. The fact, moreover, that such differences occur in the gospel narrative is a strong argument in favor of the authenticity of that narrative. • Were the gospel stories concerning the mira- cles wrought by Jesus the .product .of the imagination of men living at some later time, or were they the . cunningly de- vised fables bf ingenious men, we might expect harmony in detail in the narratives of different writers who to- gether conspired to deceive those for whom they wrote. With the attempts which have been made to harmonize the three accounts of the healing of the. blind man, or' men, we need not con- cern ourselves. The story of 'the visit of Jesus to the home of Zacchmus is pecu- liar to Luise s narrative. Verse 35. As 'he drew nigh • unto Jer- ieho—From beyond Jordan to the east where for a short time he had been in •retirement with his disciples., A certain blind man—Mark records his name, which was Bartimceuse Begging—Blind beggars sitting by the wayside are still a common sight in the Orient. • 36. Inquired what this meant—The blind man's chance for gain depended largely upon the nature and character of the crowd which was passing. 37. Jesus of Nazareth—The most com- mon title of our Lord among the people at this time. It'`had doubtless been given to him at first by the Pharisees and others of his enemies who wished to ridicule him. To the common people it had now become a magical term. 38. Jesus, thou Son of David—A clear indication that the blind man had come to believe in .resus as the Messiah. 39. Rebuked him—His outcry doubtless diverted the attention of the multitude from Jesus, and was likely to interrupt the conversation in which he might be engaged. Cried out the more a great deal— Prompted by the conviction that Jesus was the Messiah. and teat this probably was his one chance lo be healed of his blindness, the unfortunate pian refuses to be silent. 40. Jesus stood -Stopped and gave at- tention. That urgent cry could not be a cry for alms simply, but betrayed a deeper longing and faith.. Commanded him to be brought.— Mark records the change of attitude t.1 the multitude toward the blind man as soon as it was perceived that Jesus took notice of him. 41. What wilt thou—A question asked. not for information, but to 1.3t and draw out the faith of the mane 2. Zacchteus—Not mentioned else- where in the. New Testament. In the Talmud mention is made of .a Zacchtnus who lived ,at Jericho and also of his son, the celebrated Rabbi Jochanan. Chief publican—A superior among the tax collectors having subordinate col- lectors under him. 4. A sycamore tree -Lit. fig -mulberry. This tree, which is common in. Pales- tine, was related to both the fig and the mulberry, though not identical with either. Its fruit resembles that of the fig tree, its leaf that of the mul- berry; hence the name. 5. Zacchteus, make haste, and come down—We need .not assume any mira- culous power in connection with Christ's recognition of Zacchteus, and his call- ing him by name. When, however, we note how thoroughly •Jesus understood the magi's heart and life we must .take into . account the supernatural' know- ledge which he possessed, and which wasnecessary for his work. For to -day --Lit. this very day. Both the choice c: the word, and its position at the beginning of the clause heighten the emphasis. - 6. Received him joyfully —'The de- spised publicans were not as a rule thus honored ' by rabbis of acknowledged standing. 1. They all murmured Apparently. those who composed :the multitude all of . whom, doubtless, shared the can= tempt for the man with whom Jesus had consented to speak and sojourn. • A matt that is a sinner -The accusa- tion of the rnrtltitudewas beyond doubt just and founded on facts, the publicans as a class having the reputation of be- ing extortioners and oppressors..of the poor. - 8. •:Behold,. Lord -- Zacchteus cannot have failed to hear. or n t least to anti- cfpate the (elitism of the multitude on the act of Jesus. itis Conscience; More- over, Condemned him. and jtlstifled the charge of the multitude. If I have wrongfully exacted aught of Ray than-TiiiS it just the charge which mer(' generally tirade egaiust hixn, and ail of hie class. I . restore fourfold --The law in ex- teeme cases of deliberate robbery some- times exacted oven a sevenfold reetliu- tion, but in ordinary oases only an amount equal to the sum wrongfully acquired with a fifth added was re- quired. 9. A ` son of Abraham — Zacebteus proved himeelf tohe this in a twofold sense, Though despised, he was still a member el the Jewish race, and there- fore a son of Abraham after the flesh; while his penitence and faith proved Itim to be a true son of the ".father of the faithful.'' WHAT THE MAGNET DOES 11' IS VJiIW USEFUL COMMERCIALLY AND MEDICALLY. The Many Remarkable Uses to Which It is Put. and Which Work Perfectly. - Every schoolboy knows the magic lit- tle _piece' of bent steel—painted red ex cept at the ends—to which other'.pieces o! steel or iron will attach themselves as though aided by glue or some other sticky substance, and which can im- part its own wonderful attractive pow- er to other pieces of steel, such as the blai.h, of a knife, apparently without any diminution of its own strength. . This force which delights the school- boy, is utilized by the engineer in many wonderful ways. The results he attains we see in the electric light, the electric bell; in the telephone and telegraph,. as well as in the motor -car and mariner's compass. But the magnet is used in many other interesting ways that are not so gener- ally known. Ten or fifteen years ago al] boxes were made by hand, a skilled workman turning out from two to three dozen in an hour. Now, by the aid of a wonderful machine, a girl can produce as many gross in the same time. The working of .he machine is sim- plicity itself, but nevertheless it is a mar- vel of ingenuity. Nails are fed into it, and' find their way into a slot. A mag- net seizes ahem one by one,and holds them in place till the hammer drives them home. NO MORE DAMAGED THUMBS. From up-to-date shops a magnetic tack hammer may be purchased, and a very ingenious little tool It is. A. trap opens in the handle, and through this a handful of tacks is poured. They find their way into a tiny. slot, as intima box -making machine, and one adheres, point downwards, to the , head of the hammer, which is magnetic. When the blow is struck, the tack enters the floor, the hammer is raised, and, lot there is another tack ready. What a boon this must be to the thrifty housekeepers who possess' it! What a saving in patience and bruised thumbs! It is not generally known that a com- bination of electro -magnets is used 'in the handling of heavy metals in large engineering works in connection with smelling furnaces, and in forges where very heavy bars of iron or steel have to be moved about. They usually work in connection with travelling cranes, weights up to a ton being thus hand- led. In engineering workshops, trolleys with magnets attached are often used t, collect the filings and cuttings that have got mixed ' with dust and other rubbish on the floor. A SAVING OF WASTE. These are the waste materials from the turning lathes and fitting benches, and are valuable as scrap to be melted down and utilized for castings. f-Iere again, the magnet used is an electro -magnet. ' That is to say, the mag- netism abnetism is induced by an electric current. When It has gathered up as much as it can conveniently carry, it is swung with its burden oyer the trolley, the current le broken or reversed, and, the mag- netic force ceasing to operate, the..load 13. discharged into the truck, when the operation is repeated until the trolley is full. In 1896, the year of the great cycle craze, in the city of Rochester, N. Y., al bicycle track was constructed, the top dressing being fine • ashes. When the track was opened, a great number of complaints were received from its patrons because their tyres were con- stantly being punctured. The puncture was just a tiny round hole, but often as many as five or six would be found in one tyre after it had been over the track; nor was any ex. - planation forthcoming until full. Inquir- ies had been instituted. At last, how- ever, the phenomenon was accounted for.• leOR OPERATIONS ON THE EYE. Rochester is the greatest boot and shoe manufacturing centre in the world, and from some of its great factories the ashes used on the track had conte. Large quantities of .boots and shoes had been destroyed by fire in one of these factories, and it was tiny nails from these that had , been doing the mischief to the machines. But how to get . rid of the nuisance? The authorities wero ata loss until an engineer suggested magnets. The ashes were loosened with rakes, and several. magnets were passedrepeatedly over the track, which was ever afterwards considered one of the best iii New York State. In such workshops as we have men- tioned above, it is no uncommon loci- dent for a workman to get tiny particles of steel or iron, causing very painful irritation in the eye. The most effec- tive instrument in such cases, Is a small magnet, which, if the eye be held open, and the magnet held Close, will quickly relieve the sufferer. • Some fifty. years 'ago a (lenient scien- tist and philosopher--Ilnron Von Reich- enbech---est'abtished the fir IT many experiments with semi! r ,dons, that. there emanates from 1-, a faint luminosity, and to prove that these pee - Pie actually saw 'what they desecibeif he made thtnt find" rnag.nels hidden in darkened! . morns. Reichcnbtich called these emanations "odic foree," and de- scrf.bed • thorn es a Hold. Pearsoni's Weekly. OWSAWANSAIVAAAAA,N#NAAAAANivvvwvoisAAA0004 A SUMMER TRIP' TO A. CORN R OF THE NORTH: ATLIN womAgwoosowsovvvvvyv Vv'1/4r VNV'M Dawson has its chroniclers In histor and fiction, Out, except in mining re- ports, little has been said of Atlin. A two -weeks' journey from the New York Grand Centre' Station, the forth - faring traveler is inclined to brag of the arduous expedition to which' the hand of the North is beckoning. Returned, hoevever, one brags that it has been a far easier task than to pay a call in Brooklyn, or to set foot in any mention- able corner of the borough of The Bronx, writes Marguerite Merington in Sunday Magazine. Across a .Summer -endued continent by modern train was a flight of pure enaoynient,,. with its wonderful pallor* ma . of cities, rose -clad prairies, snow. capped mountains. Vancouver, the Ganadlen pohtt of debarkation, remind- ed one of Buffalo, or Toronto, witil its fine water -line, well -gardened homes and splendid trees. An -air of bustle pervaded it, marking it obviously as a point of arrival and departure. Victoria, the capita] of British Columbia, was seven hours across the bay, and out of ourway; but one must see Victoria, for is is a venerable. city, measuring by the standards of the Pacific Coast. Ap- proaching,.it seemed all harbour, so in- tricately did the sea curl about its shores. Beacon Hill was a brilliant patch of color with the bonny broom, raised from seeds from the country that the colonist never ceases to call home. In the distance the white peaks- of the Olympic Mountains cut through fleecy clouds into a turquoise sicy. Many French-Canadians and not a few Indian half-breeds are among the leading fam- ilies of Victoria, nevertheless the city speaks in the English voice, with the provincial accent, and prides itself on its close kinship, socially, to the Mo- ther Country. Its naval harbor, Esqul- malt, is one' of the gems .of the West coast. y forbidden the precincts, that all service commands five dollars a day, and that the married women who come into camp come to wash for their own men, and the single women to find men of their own to wash for. Water, more- over, has to be hauled up from the. lake, orpaid for at the rate of five` cents, the pail, when the waterman brings it by dog -team to your door.' Dog -teams form as picturesque a fea- ture of the life as they are an essential one. A waiter at the hotel In Victoria said to ire: "You've been "fetched up to think .that dogs hadn't oughter do. manual labor; but you'll soon get over that." And get over it I did, the me- ment of our arrival, on seeing a fat ,child tri a soap -box on wheels teaching a fat "husky" how to drawl Descendants of northern wolves, these valuable mem• all benstrace of a of " Itloridike household have lost. - THEIR SAVAGE ANCESTRY. Two thousand feet above sea -level, only sixty degrees north latitude, yet there is a "crack o' doom" appearance in the fiery sunsets; a glacial brilliancy about the moon, an intensity of color in the Northern Lights, giving one a sense of being in the workshop of the world. The Celestial phenomena have justified' the journey a hundredfold. The climate reminds me of that of the coast of Maine exaggerated. From June through September I slept between fur robes, but under mosquito -netting to es- cape the northern pest, which attacks with songless sting. The clays are warm, but with a hint of chill, as if the sunlight had passed through icy cor- ridors. Living was primitive, but expensive. A five -cent lamp -chimney cost fifty cents, the dealer unblushingly stating that the extra charge was for freight. A small loaf of bread sold for ten cents. A well-intentioned dinner, mostly of canned things, could beobtained at a popular restaurant for half a dollar. Its style was its attraction, for it boasted paper napkins, also every table stood it: its own "cabinet particulier," screened from its neighbors by curtains of blue - checked gingham. Vegetables grew readily; but few had Lime to spare from gold -hunting to grow them. One thrifty German gained a deserved vogue for his lunch -counter by adding a lettuce leaf, or a radish, to every plate of bacon and eggs. And one flower -lover found time to surround bis cabin with a riot of poppies, sweet peas, nasturtiums, that in their bloom- ing isolation reminded one of Celia Thaxter's garden on the Isle of Shoals. Balls, concerts, church -going, theatri- cals, all were here as elsewhere; but daily conversation was likely to turn on samples, values, claims, silver, "boa- nite"; but above all, gold,gold, goldl The men down on the creeks with their primitive gold pans and cradles,the huge monitors day and night storming ,Nature's earthworks at the hydraulic stands, the huge stamp -mills, crushing and pounding—all were gold -seekers. THE SHOW NUGGET OF ATLIN, BACK TO VANCOUVER. to embarkfor Skagway; and then for three days we threaded a winding way. up the Alaskan' coast. Let those who yearly turn their faces to Europe --only and always to Europe—remember that a wonderful section of their own coun- try lies waiting to be explored. Dense woods covered, the islands by which we gilded, so close that a stone's throw would reach some of the tall totem poles that marked the Indian villages upon the shore. Then the waters widened and we came upon glaciers that cast wonderful. reflections as from mirrors in the snow king's palace, bedded be- tween white -capped, purple -shadowed mountains, while eagles screamed eerily overhead. Then hp the Lynn Canal to Skagway. Over the White Pass Railway! What a great sense of height those words convey! We had thougbt ourselves on exalted ground when our train danced through the Selkirks and nimbly climb- ed the Rockies; but here we were rid- ing on the ridge -pole of the world, where waterfalls and rivers had their source. A marvel of engineering, this road. We never lost our- sense of security, no matter how dizzy the eminence from which we gazed. Up, up, up, till we paused at Summit, whence one stream hurried with greeting to the United States, and from the same spring an- other stream hurried with greeting to British North .America, and the sister flags and sister Customs buildings stood amicably side by side. A mounted policeman told us of a woman who, coming out from British territory, was so moved on seeing her own Stars and Stripes again that she wept for joy, and sang "America." while hugging the flagpole. On returning to the train, however she discovered that one of Uncle Sam's men had confiscat- ed her sealskin jacket for revenue, which so enraged her • that she turned right back and married the first miner who showed a willing heart. Speaking of willing hearts, at this paint we met our first miner as fiction always pictures him; the- rough-and- ready soul in top boots and corduroys, who pulled forth a poke, a narrow chamois bag, FULL OF GOLD DUST AND NUGGETS, samples from his claims, and told our party with impartial invitation that he was looking for a wife. Mining ex- perts in the party assured us that the samples showed royal values; but we let the chance slip by, and went on to At - lin. The five -hours' journey over the White Pass brought us to the steamer that. was to take us on the all-night pas- sage across Lake Bennett. Discomfort her at last, you suggest? I assure you not aboard an Atlantic liner is one more gently berthed or more palatably fed. Morning found us' at a portage, which we crossed in an open oar hitched to a sparky and skittish , locomotive, and than we were aboard a small steamer. crossing Lake Attie. A wide expanse, this inland sea, coldly blue, as are all glacier -ted streams, walled on the west by a stupendous pile of natural masonry. And smiling at as from file low lake shore' opposite, a pretty little port of entry to the goldfields among the hills beyond, was At:lin. Good roads, characteristic Of the Do- minion Government, whose loamy earth rs niiDed with building chips, divide the township into squares.. Here and there a poplar or spruce has been spared the axe to tell from what primeval begin= nit gs the camp has sprung., helosures about the lents and cabins there^are none, but willow bushes form a slight screen that enables you while doing your washing in the open. to appear un - Conscious of your neighbor Cleaning his t teeth at his back dont. ' Yes, you will have to do your own r ensirin; , 11. with a light pose, the tastes of allele eivilfza lion. ,tilt dint; to h 1011. Otte I;badost (IMO at the' laundry cost trio fbtn' ilollturs 1111«l. Oittthfy-five r tl cetirts -tor fL must ber rernenrlhtredl' that C In se end Japans' 4 h e a Japanese cheap latter is I found on Boulder Creek, was put into our hands. It was as big as one's two fists put together. Every man's undeveloped prospect is, of course, the finest thing that ever was; the only difficulty is to find a financial backer to believe in it. Companies are formed daily (in conversation); financed. heavily (in conversation) by Eastern cap- italists who would laugh to hear how blithely their names are used to float these conversational enterprises. When it was rumored that a quiet man look- ing about him, apparently at the scen- ery, was a representative of Clark, of Montana, Atlin boomed itself ferocious- ly. The impecunious man who bad been stalled in the camp from its in- ception went out magnificently (in con. versation) "to keep Christmas in God's country with the folks at home." Even the dreamer whose ambition had nar- rowed down to the desire of possessing a pair of pink -silk pajamas, went about (in conversation) thus adorned. Here as elswhere the men who make a living are those who work .steadily, whether for wages or In Independent venture, on assured ground. The men who lose are those who dream or drink and don't work. The large prizes that seem the result of accident, out that demand faith and imagination as well as experience, go to those who dream and work. 13u1 alasi progress has been woefully retarded by litigation. When court is in session the whole population crowds into Government Building, with griev- ances involving ditch, flume or dredg- ing rights, "your tailings on my claim," and the like. An agreeable neighbor called on us every evening that he was let out of jail on parole, or by mistake.. Technically, his offence � consisted in having jumped a ditch. We rejoiced when he ' finally .was acquitted, as all along he tearfully protested his spot- less innocence. A difference in nationality up ih;,are seems to be a bond of brotherhood. Dominion Day and Independence Day are kept, in beautiful paradox, on the sante date, the sister flags lovingly in. tertw.incd. We had to go. Soon 'the boats would he laid by, and all the communication with the outer world cut off till the lakes were hard -frozen enough for sled traffic. 'Then we should have to "mush 11." The oheechako coveted the experi- ence; hut our party had promised to • convey the Atlin exhibit to the exposi- tion to be held at Victoria in honor of the Prince and Princess .of Wales. 'Wo glided over the lake, Tawny with Au- umn, ,Akin Jay like a- speck of gold- dust thy miners called "a color") 011 the • ecedfng shore. A prospector standing I tollowcd my farewell glance. "A e e remarked characteristi 1 "you , ca IY, fou het your hoots.. silo". an attractive lit- e .l,r=lposi1ionl'.'• and then. with a smile aught (role the List rays efathe Gum,: Atha' vanished' behind hsi NO' Unteati ;