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Exeter Times, 1897-8-12, Page 6WINNING HER WAY eltlIAPTIfila XL At the conclusion of the meal, Hoge, ha& took his leave; the slaters ape Preachea t1 windcw in order to look after hie fine equirege, and 1411 yawned "Brr, Frieda" sate she, "I think I Shall go boom soon "I do not blame YOU Lill took ep one of ,Heyse's novels; Moritz bad gone to his mother's room and Frieda shirtly followed lake. Be- fore gong she had said: "See here, Lin, eomething is slot right over there again amd 1 shall inquire into it." Frieda had been gone a long time. and Lili was lonesome; re:t even "pale Elsie" came to relieve the snotnotony. It would certainly be best for her to go home. the thouglet. When Frieda, entered Frau von Rte- 's roomthe old lady sat in her cor- ner by the window as calmly as usual. her knitting in her hand. 'Moritz Was peeing the room with rapid etrides; be appeared very Inuett agitated. "Ahl" criea his pretty little wife, "Moritz ie like a toged lion! Whet has happeoetl?" "I do not quite agree with mama, Frieda." "Well." said his wife, iroaleally, "that th strange 1" "1 waititain," said Fran von Ratenow, "that oue annt be f1rxri. There are raaoy Nvho rebel agalost what is for their good, as a sick child does against xnedieine." "And I maintain, mother, that it is not the custom in our country to sell women to the bigheet Milder!" cried Moritz. his bosieet fate, suffused with a flush of anger. "1 for ins part have no respect for a girl who will suffer !herself to be given in marriage, simply that she may have Kennon to suppurt Ler." tie peuetellelere his motber with sparkling eyes. The, old lady's vemposure did not for- sake her. Weitz had always Veen, staciewhat of a dreamer. 'Fle inherited that from his father. The "boy" dkl not even know whet want meant to "'Frieda, go to your room, calm, your - elf," said he, "and then let us talk matters over quietly. My God, hew could you. ever tibloak su.cb a thing!" He turned pale. Sthe aught have seen that she had cut tbe great. faithful men to the quick, but she did not wise to She shook Off his bend. and left the room hostily-she was a deeply injur- ed woman! 'Oh. Lili," she sobbed,. fall- ing upon her sister's shoulder, "at is terrible in addition to everything else to .have sueb a mother-in-law. Although Moritz is so old he is still tied. to her apronestrings and never once takeh tuy part erten she treats rne like a school -girl. 'But why should be? he loves me no longer r The miserable day merged in.to a rais- erable evening. Frieda, locked herself in her room. and would not see Moritz. ant brought him the raessage, and she looked. at her brother-Ln.-lawas timidly as one would, look at a criminal of the worst order. The chilareu cried, and when be triee1 to quiet t•hom. he frightened them with his gloomy looks. He sought the open air; it was su.f- locating in the house. He crossed the ivoort, walked along the alley and aim- lessly sauntered through the eity gates. The streets were still filled with peo- ple; children played before the doors, and neighbors cbatted one with anoth- er Lea the moonlight. "Holloa, Ratenowl" cried a voice, and someone patted Moritz on the shoulder, "What are you doing here V If you are loeleing for company come to the 'Cas- 1.ao. Rost is celebrating his betroth - .Lt wits Cap•te,io von P. whe spoke' taus. aloritz waS not in the mood; he beg- ged to be excused on account of his dress. but fita,ally he yielded. The fine diaingeroom W,a,S already filled when the two men entered; the lucky bride- groom was the most concerned of all with the exception perhaps of the atelier of Bennewitz. who wee smoking hie eigar pathetically. " the deuee." said Moritz, with dif- fieuloy foreing himself to appear gay. "You. Lere. herr von. liegeoache How ooluee eau' among use prophets'?" -.they asared me, as they probably did yen, dear itateetow," he replied, (hawing up a chair ior Moritz.: "1 ditl nut care :wenn gong home -you know tatere are tunes io tile when there is no rest isa any spot." eetoraz ant not reply; he knew what ilegeeaeh meant. lie isixneelf had that morning asked him to be patient until Wio Inurrow-k:Isie was surprised, his inept:eat was sts unexpected, and many butes mitoses which one usually midges an oseeretected poor girl. I use of. in order to gaiu time, "I canuotof eceiree drag ter to the 1 After the puoth came the Sect; Rost altar, and Hegelian', te. att the Man to lwas very ,extravugaat; he had a "fine" a feetteraneaw who nad proraned to help beg fora aifeea 'was L.:r rt111.St""Vor``'' him out a his difficulties before his my ma. are alt very well a ,:aic has the • marriage. and a bottle or two more or faeco..sary ructiae. Ileu yourself keee now •. ltit Seee made no difference, ee„ . "flue•e yin sea or to Bernardi, best t eat theory anti prectoe are e Rost?" aced Assessor Dolling. different tiangs. I into: talked enough "Of curie," he replied. "Be will, I lately on that autaect; 1 will ;sty no hope, semi bis congratulations by tele - nage 1 meant wen, ate grandmoth- gaelinaletujeratieips:Itters are unbearaele." ex wad to euy: Lo•vel Love Ls' tor the 'His letters are better than lie is," mho part imagination. I have known cried one of the young men. -Ile does a great many girls Win,O, bevaUSe they mooing but work or pla,y the violin. could net hove tleer first lovers were When 1 haa leave of absence I tried beveral Limes to get eine to go out, but ready to drown tlenaelves, only to filed Le avid he cared nothing for the out afterward that their "seconds" were theae,re and popular places of amuse - the truly loved. Come, these Muritz,its,isniarb i raelzkle..saitijority of nien la,u„ohed. surd in you; ese are °Pa/Ilene.e , ' 1 ei "I did uot trtheouble isins. again,' con - at the meet. a love-elek sellout -tar' er I eluded the officer, filling bis glass. aa old maid znigtiet uttt•r toleitidden." i "We cavalry men never weary la div - 'Jt may re" he replied sharply, "that 1. ersione' ' "I. really believe that there are za.uaray such, but 1 will not t: sell out, ' seed. another. "I found it believe it," in ettemee. in frent of out accidentally: lis he is going to asked my uncle, Frieda tan. Itaked down upon bar with who is a kind of musical crank, ie he gloaleig eyes. 'Frieda, epeak in vindica- . thought that he had talent enouga to 1 become a virtuoso, an artist----" tion ce.lot yourst..lexnstietv it's.that you mean." ale ! ' And,' interrupted the assessor an- ilitle wianati turned from con to the • itating tee see:ulcer's voice, "Uncle, 1 atter ea ierplexity. hope. said: "Dear Bernardi, you are make e "Ilegeteou prepoeed for Elsie's hand • ing a mistake; you du uot ploy badly; • to -day. and ste-e . 1 hut at the present day a great deal -ear Elsatee hand? Is tbat so?' cried ; inure is required of a virLuosu." Frieda with a leuga. Lavaluntarily ; "Wein a. manl ' said von Bost soft - Write started. 'Leant el.goified that ; ly to eis neighbor; "he is sav-ed with ohnoet he eterical laughter wilich was : cuificuity Isoxn committing ono rash act 1 only to commit a more foolish one -he neither laughter rein tears) "Of etnrett yen pereualed h,er not to ; is sinoay beside himself.' actept Leo. eileritz?" b Le eaid. . Smitten:a )ioritz ose. In bis znood "Net te taceet Lino 'au. .feriecla; on it was itup..t.eible ior inns to remain the cieatrary 1 tried to convince her of a,usid that tumult any longer. , the nei eeeity i.f the step, int neverthe- • nie.re you gcang? ' asked Ilegebach. lees else' litart ailed for her." "I will go with you, a you. will per - "Of ueurete" nb, wife lamelied still ' mit me.' more "I tau ecareely betaginc Low it "Iuu live in the hotel, do you not?" woulti fie at the castle aithout Elsie Moritz asked in the hall. volts Ileggioth." 'Yes, but I will walk along with -What do you mean by that?" asked you, itatenow." the old lady.I in streets w ere deserted ; "Oh etotheng. mamma; Moritz prob- the huonlight flooded the city, and it oay uoderetood nee." . fine mist n.ung tike a, silver veil over "I did out. Frieda," said he calmly. the house-topts and ta-ees. "But 1 did," Frau von Ratenow rose The two xae.n walksilently side end stood before her daughter -let -law. by side; neither knew just how to open 'I etave had a great- deal a patience the conversation. with you, my child -with your humors "My dear Ratenow," at length said wad caearcee by means of Which you the elder man, -1 thould not like to have tyrarenized over the entire house- have you judge me falsely. You look - axed. I. eacused you contenually be- ea a,t me so stra„ngely a short time cause I supposed that you were deep- since. i ain neither vain enough to iy attached to your busban.d. That he think that so young a, girl as Elsie allowed ;you to torment nim was hes von Ilegebach will sink with delight won, efflux. But if you dale." she rais- into my open a,rnes, nor tem 1 at that cti her voice -"evert fin your thoughas age when one restlessly awaits the de - to aseribe a dishonorable action to him, cisive words from a. pair of rosy lips ea if you dare to gully the reputation and contemplates suicide if the te the girl who ham been reared beneath chance to prove unsatisfactory. I hale eiy roof, Frieda, I shall forget. as sure bad to bear too many heavy, sorrow es there le a Ina.von above me. that you ful blows. The reasons which ' 11 -- ed me t - - 1112" o woo my cousin were partly ere .my only soles wife. that you are :Ile znother of his childreri." selfish in nature' for that is the 1 "Cease mother!" said Moritz gently, wa,y in whiell .I.' can reindier it ipegnaY1 o.izing the old tally's •threateningly for my cousin and his child to obtain reieed band. "Friecla does not now wint. she Ls sayeng; she does mot mean itia porion of our uxecle'e fortune. Bat-" e stoppedi and laid his hand upon his on thing." companions snoulder, "I must. add that e young were eat in her chair as .1 should not ha,ve olevisect that plan .ale as death; passionate defiance was had not the young girl pleased me ,• e-raten upon ber features. ait my age one no Ion ex speaks of "Yes!" she cried springing up, "I do • ' g neon soutethinag Ivy it; .1• know what I pahaiori. peod t.ain. Sioca .Eey ceedeon their way. Mor- edifferent man; he bss only lsie has been in the house • In itz .vehea salent; he new that the man hie iv: , eyes eesme nun it betspoke tete truth; he knew and thoughts for her. I know - , that he could have his choice among ter then you and. the others!" many; for he was still a handsome man; aBe silesit I" commaraded the old lady he was a man who had a noble,igen- 'with. such calm dignity that the pretty eroas heart, a right to happness, lips were envoluntartly silenced. 'What tied 1 tell you, 'Moritz," she turned to '141„a Yet—. During the her eon. "when you wooed your bride past few weeks I have pittured to myself how it would all be, Never grow •weary of curbitng her that contioned He.gebach with a soft in- sha ma Y not grow over your bead! Now you are reaping the barvest of your tonation; "I have seen Elsie's form su.bmitaion your trifling; thereare passing through my rooms, I have wotnene and thild.ren to whom kindness heard her voice in my ear; 1 set apart la as poison -and thee was it love-snatchl it suite of aPartanents for mY cousin. Mine was not, but I respected your fa- ther ars.d never dared to insult biro.1 Now, nay son, beg her pardon and the modern romance will be ended Pe "You knew very welt, raohaer, tbat 1 sihedi nut do that," the replied gloom, .. fly. • But th,e old leafy •did not hear hini; - vae had eraered her' bedroom and bolt- • ed it belated her. , 'Triecie," ,eield he amity, turoing to- ward ale wife. "sem have made a great mistake. Clad knowe you could. and 1 planned the route for our jour- ney on the other side of the Alps. God knows, Ratenow, it would give me in- finite pleasure to show to that young erealare the thousand and one beau - tie e with which the hand of nature and of roan has adorned the world - be hesitated. "I once travelled through the Black Forest to Switzerland with my eldest, boy, and 1 shall never for- get the pleasure afforded me by the naive astoeishaseent and delight of the child1 sboald like to see those net hove wounded me more deeply." same feelings come mere. Ratenow," She etood there motionless, be blue he Baked suadedly, 'le net moineone eyes 1illed -with leers. coming?" THE EXETER 9 They were standing at the en - ?trance to the alley; the dark tree - trunks stood out boldly in the moon- sliglateanidontrrough the mist came a iendr "It is a worna.n,"•said Moritz; "it is Elsie," be added. the next instant. °Elsie, for God's sake, Elsie, where are you going?' She fell upon his neck; he could feel her frame tremble. "To father, Moritz. Take me to my "What has happened, Elsie? Speak!" He unelasped her arms from about bus end looked into her glastly fa "MP" said she, with quivering lips. "Sietbanann came for me and 1 ran away -take me there, Moritz." Re drew her arm through his. "Come, my girl." "I will go, too," said Efegebeoh. "Has it doctor been sent for, do you( know, Elsie?" She shook heir bead and ran on be- fore them; the men had difficulty in following her. She wore neither hat nor cloak, and in the unoertain ligbt there was something auctiony about her movements, She was already at the head of the stairs when Moritz and. Hegebach en- tered the door. In the dark ball they met the doctor. "Com.e in, sirs," said lie softly, "I have sent for Lis dangleter; he will not live until anoruing." . They entered a small room adeotn- Ina liegebeela's. Tick -tack, tick -tack. said the ad Black Forest clock, and through the half -open door came the sound of painful moans. Papa,' cried a volce. Do not go away from me, do not leave mei alone, so terribly alone!" The physician took a step towardthe dope, then he peused-the dying men replied with difficulty. No, no, papa, do not die -do not die! I leave somethuag to tell you, dear papa. ;Listen to me -can you hear nee?" The doctor entered the room. In it few minutes he returned and beckon- ed to Ilegebaele The latter went into tlie eha.mber oL Death. jfls eyes sought the girl. She was kneeling beside the arna-chair In which her father re- clined; her &role were about hisknees; the old man's right hand lay upon her bead; his dim eees were turned. towarci Hegebach, "It has come suddenly, cousin -but , am more contented than I was -El- sie, give me your hand, 1 have done nothing for you 1 life, poor child, Oar - give me, Elsie; raa.ke it easy for me to die -life has been so hard—" She raised her head and looked about her as if begging for mercy, bur. the dim eyes no longer sow her glance, no longer undersiood ohne: she implor- ed. His band sought hers, a•nd when it touched it, he made it feeble attempt to lift a,nd draw it over in order to place it within another. The sacred majesty of Death awed Elsie as she gazed upon her father's changed fea- tures; feebly she yielded to its in- fluence; her hand was clasped in it warm, manly embrace, and the right hand of the dying man rested upon them both. "Wilhelm, dear Wilhelm," said a. rich, deep voice, "I promise to guard and protect her." "Elsie," murmured the dying man, "you will not be alone 1 You will be no- poor- unprotected girl -no, 5 sus— She knelt beside him, her head upon his knee, her hand still within Hegebach's; it seemed to her as if a blood -red mist floated before her eyes and she could no longer think clearly. Then she heard Moritz's voice say once more: "It is over; come, Elsie, any girl." She felt someone raise her and. she lost consciousness. aVben she revived, Frau. von Ratenow sat beside the sofa upon which she had been laid; the old lady in rnorning gown and cap was asleep 111her chair. Through the window glinted the rays of the rising sun, casting a roseate glow over the tiny chamber. (To Be Continued.) . TIMES. 1001JOERNING ELDORADO. BEER AND BREAD. Comparative Figures On the Sum Spent for Whether beer orr"flairi.ead costs more in a year is it question on -which the. staticians do not agree but they are pretty generally of the opinion that more money is epent for drink -includ- ing spirits of wine with beer -than for bread and all other articles of nu- triment made from grain. In the 'United Kingdom, for Instance, it is computed that the expenditure for li- quor in a. year is £80,000,000 against £50.,00e,0e0 for grain. In France the proportion was 95 to 80. In Germany, where there is relatively less bread eaten than in (France, 'the figures are as 90 to '75; in Italy they are as 45 to 42, in Spain as 30 to 28, and in the United States as '75 to 60. In all of these countries, therefore, it may be said that tha consumption of liquors exceeds in value &Jae consumption of grain. The United States (have long been able to meet a considerable portion of their current expenses from the li- quor or internal revenue taxes. Since 1884 there has linen a uniform tax of 41 a barrel an lbeer, the Government's measure of it barrel ening 31 gallons. Pbis t now yields the Government about §30,000,000 a y, ay, and it has been rising steadily. Wnen first imposed 62,000,000 was the sum obtained from it. .13y 1870 the amount had risen to 46,- 000,000. In 3880 it end dou.bled to 612,- 000 000. In 1890 it had doubled again, reaching $25,1100,000. The tax on spirits is 90 cents a gallon, on the average, and this Rene of trevenue yields the Gov- ernment about e90,000,000 la year, 'hav- ing more than doubled since 1875. Whatever t,he indirect effects of the sale of liquor may /tee on the in,habi- tants of a country, the fact is undeni- able that all civilized Gevernments with scarcely any exception aet a large share. of their revenues erom beer and whisky taxes. A computation was re- cently made to the effect that during the five years bf the civil war $600,000,- 000 was raised by internal taxation and $525,000,000 from tariff. duties. Tthe peo- ple of every American community spend more in a year (for bread. than they do for beer, hut if wbislcy ,wine cordials and ale be added tbe expenditure for liquors is larger than the sum paid for bread and take. HISTORICAL. The red. nen of the forest took pity upon the unha,pply colonists. Our hearts go out to you, Teeth they. The particular hearts went out up - an that oocarsion were the raaeble heart and Om tobacoo heart; hut that is an- other story. VISIT TO THE B. C. AND 'WESTERN ONTARIO NINES. ••••=1.111‘ A Amstrad tieutleinan Considers the. Latter rialto Immense Possibilities - Descrip- tion or Wabigoon and Goldrock TOW"' Ship5. Mr. William. R,obertson„ of Montreal, has just returned from a tour of the miolog districts of Cenada.„ Mr. Robertson was accompanied by his son, a practical metier, ara.1 the trip has proven very inateresting and instructive Mr. Robertson has great faith in Jarit- ish Coluan.bia, as a field for very wealthy men and large aggregations of capital, but he is quite satisfied. that the man who has only a few hundred. dollars to invest had. better keep it In his pocket rather than risk it there. Such mines as the Le ROL Wer Eagle, Iron Mask, etc., have dente well because they bave fallen. into strong hauds, he says: but the five amid ten cents per share mines he has little faith in, Also, it is use- less, says Mr, Robertson, for a man with, a few thousand dollars to inVest them in a mine in that country, as the preliminary expenses are enormous, ev- en in a mine that eventually pays; and whether it pays or not after all, it is quite a castance of course. 0. MINING EXPENSIVE. Mr. Robertson was wadi interest in. the Nelson sraelter, which was b for the Silver King mine six m a mine near the town site of Goldrockl, for wevieb they pad fifty thousand dol- lars and. a one-fifth interest in the pro- perty. Tihey are now putting In maala mesa and will build a stamp mill this fall. me NepeWa intuit an the next lot is turning oct a good. grade of ore and the owners will put In Maallinery and. build a stamprnifl ehortly. Foley mitne is a splendid paying one. To stow that rorna,nees that raight be tragedies happen in this district as well as others, Mr. Robertson men- tions the case of the Sultana mine, The Sultana mine belongs to a fortunate in- dividual who was once a oherniet not a hundred miles from Winnipeg. He had faith las the mine through all ad- versity. He sold his business, he bor- rowed for it, and this faith was justifi- ed Be Baas paid back all his Indebted- n•ess and. is now taking out between two and three theusand dollars profit a month. He started with a five stamp mill and now he hos a twen,tyestamp one. Mr. Roberts,on has the greatest faith in the future of all this district and feels assured that Wabigoon aincl Gold - rock vvill be thriving towns within a very brief spaoe of them. He says be never save a country where money can make money in such it little while, and he advises those who have a fair am- ount of capital to see the land and judge for themselves. Wablegoon is on the main line of the Canadian Pacific Railway and it fine new station is being Inilt there. AN ENGLISH STATESMAN. Soniething Attila Mr. chamberlain the 441=1.1 CUM 11.1M inufactured goods, if properly intro - iced, and it is believed the Ca-audian overnment is prepared to eneourege irect trade with this country. Trade vith Englaud is diminishing in several laWay. The ore its brought down, Ne:IgesiatrOUTttneluloineagweirsebeincagbaluesifieien‘es here, co The aLlarflean actursittlri motive power to return the empty otneslaumflitticitttuheersEantroopsenuensceshsefurell.y compet- To show the heavy expenses that ar.; 11111 UNCLE 811h1 ITEMS OF INTEREST ABOUT THE BUSY YANKEE. Neighborly Interest in His Doings -Matters of Moment and rilith Gathered from Ws wear pneumatic shoes. Some bioyclists of Portland, Ore., Daily Record. gold ring in a potato hill. At Colon, Mich., a farmer found , a In a storm at Marion, Ind., ligbt- fling tore up thirty feet of tiling five feet below the surface of the ground. Marriage at naidnighe, the ceremony being performed by a Coroner, is the last Kansas eccentricity reported. A man and, wife and their 16 -year-old a graveyard. daughter were arrested at Jacksonville, Ore., for stealing vases and. dishes from For assaulting a servant who was al- legea to have alienated her master's affections, the master's spouse was fined 1 cent at Mobile, Ala. , During the last espeoially hot spell, work wa.s suspended in the granite stone had become so hot. quarrie,s at Concord, N.H., because the Willie asleep in th'e woods a sawyer of Evansville, Ind, was bitten on the thin by a spider. Tel o died of the effects the acath were be oeNear Alvord, Ia., a can of stamps, ... of the bite some days later. ,Tolin respected e, ester, in that State two years ago, toughed up recently. e stolen from the Post Office Huron cat, cholera. oonotunsvaille, near Birmingham, woman wbose name used an illness Forfar, seecanall, in Birmingham's soeial ohron- hi Wished a frog farm. ,yan.m. lacy Nusbaum of Middlebury, lnd., aft eel). a victim to sunstroke, and. Lhere were 398 teams in the processiou that followed. his body to the grave, Philip Julius, of Rossville, Ind., tried to alight from a train before it rea.ched now incurred all through the Brithee The met luae.e Columbia rattling region, Mr. Robert -1 viattent attacks upon the House of son raeaations that the limestone and Lords; or he may again oharige sides other flux used iln the smelter, has tot and reOrganize the forces of Radical - be brought from euiles away; also, he saw coke at the head of Arrow Head1 Mn. Chamberlain resembles in Lake that that had been brought fromt1 tures and habits of mind, 'William Pitt, Wales, vin. 'Vancouver, ann awe then, and like that great Englisbman is a master of debate and has a passion for to be taken by trains to the smelter. He understood -When there, that a corn- Public affairs, He is the best debater pany bud been formed. to utilize the f in the House of Commons. While he owe ' lacks a commanding voioe and dignity Kootenay Falls for moteve power of presence, be speaks with business - that ism and Tory Democracy the station, and he struck on this head for electrical lighting. Mr. Robertson was mue1i interested in Le Rol. He like directness and precision. says the mine is now shipping about two hundred tans a day of the best ore, which is found by pouring water on the ore as It manes from the mine, and that the remainder is being shot upon the dump to =nit the time when smelting Phan be mush cheaper tbace. It is now. ltiouttt !Royal is a mole hill to the mountains in With& Columbia, and tra,velleug is necessarily cirouitous. alleas Rossland is only four miles from Trail as the crow flies, bert it is be- tween eleven and. twelve miles by the railway. his Public career at .Birmingham, where l he created it new order of municipal 1 LAKE OF 'Mel WOODS DISTRICT. 1 ilvernment, which hats been followed i Loant. bear beteet24nroeqie ceihVeeis except 1 !But it Waal the Lake of the Woods izer of the Liberal party on denifolfg-- district, especially en the neighborhood etc lines mid was hanct-in-glove with of Waleigoola that Mr. Robertson was the Irish leaders beforeM Glartone's • much impressed with the possibilities. r...ivel..1).1.,04,3211onrtnaegonljuislte:Aeritsheuntle; l'iValagooax lies about half ways between 12.1e, jeer.). took an active interest in liWitmeng and Port Arthur, in about Conlaseerrviejvileesainithisary as Secretary for finally entering it 'the centre of the Rainy River district the Colonies. and the proepectus .describes it as "the gateway to the Manitoba gold fields pHe is lu.hhenemoslifte,ifleaustrioue man in worksEnglish early and • Ste, takes no exercise, allows himself little social recreation, and is complete- ly engrossed in public affairs. . He is the best in ortned man ar tauten found there, Mr. Robertson describes on alt questions of national concern, Walegoon as one of the prettiest This is the secret of his readiness in places in the world. it is situated on debate and his clearness of speech. an island -dotted bay, one mile by half . What he. himself describes as the Yul- e mile in extent, the land rising ter- 1 ing pawion of his life is ardor for ire- raceelike back from the lake frotat to proving the lot of the masses. With a range of lane over a hundred feet all the startling contrasts of a career in height. It is 'beautifully WOOdedi, inbefitinntoingcoenvsietrhvaRtiaecimic,ahelismhesabeend npeaosen: abounds in game and wild flowers, strawberries and. squawberries, tlhelat- sistent in his advocacy of the vital in- ter like a fine rasberry m shape, only setarespas.not oneee foervopreltgeraTioerTeryieme, smooth, grow in profusion, and. the sex- wluch is closely. alem to Radicalism, and rouroarog waters are well stocked with also for Imperialism., which is the pat- ] kinds f fith notism of England's world-wide em - year ago telly one log sha.nty bad. been built at Wabigoon, now there are over fifty stores, hotels, and houses, and Mr. Robertson says that at Cudney's hotel the tale is quite as good as that • tbe Wmasoor. I'he ground. upon cancer orthe eitieweirZtNst.isal, Fossae often whloh the town of Wabigoon is being built 'offers possibiloitvieesiopteneireoreacekpietania- While many surgeons deny the ex- potteryin tPae way of d Tbe earth is about istence of "smokers' cancer," others in- wo,rks. eightee,n inobe,s deep, followed by about dicate tobaec,o as the cause of ca.nrer of four feet of white clay, then. about the lips and nasal fossae. The disease four feet ai rea, then more white claa from this cause is said, to be lobula,ted of indefioaite thickness. The red clay hos beta tested and epithelioroa., sometimes composed of Lound to have all the qualities neces- mucous end sometimes of horny tissue. sary for the Manufacture of the fin - It shows pa,rtioularly among smokers who pay no attention to the cleaning of the mouth, who smokes short clay The chief charms of his OratOry are fluency and eleerness. Iie speaks with- out notes and never hesitates for a word and while he does not rise to the high- est Slights of eloquence he is always • torohebearer and 'illumines with light every subject which he discusses.' He is at his best when with his back 1 to the wall be turns upon his (ippon- : enta and gives blow for blow. But ' ordinexily he speaks without extetement and. with a smiling face, and is almost • as considerate of the feelings of oppon- ent s as Mr, Gladstone has ever been. Mr. Chamberlain has tremendous en- ergy and. is always at work. He opened to the south and the Lac Seul discover- ies to title north." ,Apart from the mineral wealth to be DANGERS OF SMOKING. est pottery and pressed brick, and it is expected tlhat the white will be just as useful. The veins in this district do not out- orop covered with an iron capping, the same as they do in British Columbia„ but are fuller exposed to the view. ,A peouliezity is that all the true veins pipes to the bottom, and who use an inferior quality of tobacco. The under lip or part a the tongue most in con- tact with the overheated stem of the pipe is most frequently attacked. These run north-east and. south-west, while neoplasms grow us the base of the the "stringer" or "lea,d veins, so-called tongue ,and on the tonsils of those who because they lead to the true yells, cross have last their teeth, and who hold the the,in diagonally. Most of the gold is pipe deep in their mouth. The weight free milling and the quartz is very reel. of the pipe is a source of irritation, air. Robertson hos some ore that assays a,na the cancer is found on the side where the pipe is held. Contagion from two men using the same pipe may re- sult. When an early operation is per- formed on cancroids situated on the lip the prognosis may be favorable, but the reverse is the ease when the tonsils or tongue are attacked. Smokers should use a, pipe -with an amber nuenthpiec,e, and it should never be smoked to the bottom. Acrid. tobaceo should be avoid- ed.. lefty -five ounces to the ton, hut of course this is an exception. This ore resembles in structure that of the For- est Hill amine ,ca•ear Cripple Creek, Col- orado, which is one of the richest mines itn America. Tetle TOWN OF GOLe)ROCK, 'there is to be a towel called Gold - rock at the head of the Manitou lakes amt the government has now sixty-five' men cutting a roadway from one port- age to another. Hitherto navigation has been carried on solely by means of ciaineee, but now one steamer is near- ly completed and will be put on the lake ready to carry passengers and freight by Aug. 15, and two more will be ranning this summer. To emphasize the need tOT oapetal, here Mr. Robert- son mentions that it costs twenty dol- lars per thousand for lumber, plus five dollars carriage to Need of lake and five dollars portaging, or May dollars io all. Ee says a oractioal ,rahn assured him that a mill could lee built fund fur- niebect for between three tliogranyi and three thousand five hundred (tellers and that it would return the outlay as profit during the first year. , SOME WESTERN ONTIA.ItIO MINES. The well-loneern cepiteliote. the Vi - ' ions of Swansea) Wales, hove bought KEGES AND WIHOLES. Proprietors of stores where musical instruments are sold say that many people seem quite unable to diSerina- inste between such establishments and those in 'which peented music is dealt it., (As an instance, it is eelated that a young men came into a piano store and asked: Do-yott sell piano pieces here? aro, answered the salesman; nothing but pianos whole. • The intending purchaser opened his eyes in a wide and puzzled way, and went out apparently wondering wheth- er the salesman thought ae wanted a fragment of a piano. and. has been insane since. There is it 15 -year-old, widow at Cov- ington, Ky., The girl was married a year ago to it 19 -year-old boy till tale peafreewnlycoenasgeno.ting. Her loriband died Trairamen on one of the railroads traversing Indiana have been ordered to cease wavixig handkerchiefs at a o- ansleinflairlotantgietnh,e line and to desist 'from John Huff, died at Has den. Ky., at the age of 99, leaving 78 grandchildren, 142 great-gra,nclehildren, and 14 great, - great -grandchildren. His inamediate family was a large ono. Nancy McKee, 57 years old, of Bloom- ington, Ind., bas sued Hiram, her hus- band, 85, for divorce, alleging the use of indecent language, besides cruelty and. failure to provide for her. Prohibitionists base not been able to drew a lesson from the experience of a Salina. Kan., young, man who open- ed. a bottle of pop end lost tbe sight of the eye which the flying cork bit. It's almost a shame to publish it in ; these days of easy Lraneportation, but tbe Cbarity Organization Society of Grand. Rapids, ltlich. has tbree more places for wonse.n. thau it has women applicants. an St. Joe, Mo., where coats and waistcoats are discarded during dog days, an ingenious chaa has devised it two-story straw hat, in the upper part al whicb he carries Ms cigars and matches, Gooch Hicks was standing Itt tin yard of Charles Thompson of Hoosierville, Ind., at midnight WI 111 Tbompson's wife and when Thompson came out Hicks fired. twice at him end Thonapson left home. John Lakey laughed. so hard at a Lail game near Carlisle, Pa., wenn the hall struck another spectator's leati and bounded bigh in the air, that he eouldn't close his mouth again and bad to be carried a mile and a half to a surgeon. One of the convicts pardened by the Governor of Indiana on tl•e ground that be was so ill of consumption that death was only a question of a Short time, is repeated to be bicycling daily and to be in better lrealth than for many - years. A small worm, which is described us a new pest, is damaging fruit trees, especially pear trees, about Galesburg., Mich., to such an extent that ruin ef the crop is feared. In Berrien county, in that State, timothy was cut a fort- night ahead of time to save it from grasshoppers. Returning from a trip in Pennsyl- vania, a Logansport, Ind.., man related an incident where gallantry saved lis life. On the train, :he said, he stooped to pick up a wonaan's luncla basket, and just then a bullet went aeross the car, piercing the -window through which • he had beem looking. In a former period of business and industrial depression there was a song, sung with an Irish brogue, tbe refrain of which was: "For it dollar a day is blank good pay, 'Maio toimeo is moighty hard." Out in Cowley county, Kan., now op a day is being paid to women for di:ming teams in the barvest field, LUCKY TAMMAS. In it small village in the county of Edinburgh an old shoemaker was el- ected as a member of the local Sohool Board. His worthy spouse was great- ly delighted at her gudeman's dignity, and sbe did not foxget to let ber friends know it. Eh! the exclaimed to a friend the calla•er day, wiaa wad hae thocht when A matoried Tananatis 'he wad has risen tae sic a •higehte Bit A'11 need tae redd (tidy) up the booze a bit, kir the Queen will likely gie Tannins a veesit short., ly. This is Jubilee year, ye ken. • HIS IDEA 093' IT. A:n old Sussex farmer visiting Lon- don for the first time was taken into St. C'atbedral. He stared about Mina in amazement, and his astonish- ment at the magnitude of the building seemed. too great for utterance. It was only wenn he stood under the acme and gazed down the vast nave arid up to the dim and misty roof that hie admiration at last found vent in words: Myl waat a foLne barn this 'ad make) ,ATia!mxprie,gaar,oigaiii PERILS OF A KLONDIKE JOURNEY. C. F. Miller's Aceourl or Ifts4purney over. land Shooting CatiroP- Men who are thinking of going to the Klondike gold carajec will find an interesting account of the hards/aips and terrible sufferings that must be endured in a letter written at Circle City by C. F. Miller to William" Baer - mann, of Windom, St. Louis county, Mo. Mr. Miller was a farraer at Rook Hill, St. Louis county, and sold /As farm in 1895 and went to Alaska in August of that year to seek a fortu-net in the gold fields. He says in his letter, speak- ing of the journey: "One goes from Jtuneau by steamer to Dyeti„ the head of navigation' on the eoast north of Juneau, and tb.en begins the perilous journey over the moun- tains. Ruh man starts from Dyea with about eight hundred pounds of supplies. including provisions, and also tools, with whicb to build a boat. These supplies must be hauled on a band sled in the snow by the man himself if he has De Eskimo doge. It is, a ter- rible load over the straiegest country it has ever been ray lot to travel. One zuan can haul on his sled only about 200 pounds at a load. He, takes that about four or five miles, unloads, and then returns for 200 pounds more, and so on until he has his outfit moved to the spot where be left bis first load. "This tedious method is pursued un - 0118 reaches Obilkoot Pass, wbich is 3,500 feet above the sea level, and through whioh the trail crosses the coast range of mountains. This moun- tain pass is covered. with GLAC11,5RiS AND SNOW. Steps are out in the ice up the sides of this pass. Here the traveller to the gold region meets with difficulties that try his nerve and patience. One must pack on his beck from fifty to one hundred pounds of supplies at a tinie, which he carries to the summit, and then returns for more, until his 800 pounds of outfit is curled up the moun- tain. All this must be done in blind- ing snowstorms, as it snows and blows alt tnahennttir except in the two sum- na"Canter ?realm is on the north side of this pass and it remains frozen all summer. We crossed this la,ke ont our way down to the mountins to the series of lakebelow, and. then continued our journey for 3011 miles before we found suitable tinthee for building our boats. We tamped at the head ca the Gretna Canon one login, and then we nazi the canon in our boats the next moruing. Ten canon is three quarters of a mile loug and only 00 feet. wide, and the walls rise 200 feet high. The river is one-nan .usile wide above the canon. The terrible suction draws the water to the centre, causing it to be much higher in Lhe middle. "On Ibis central upheaval of water leap and whirl frightful and dangeroue 'weaken. We prepared to make this ...4. - awful run tbr 15 Canon weahx! nonon the morning of Juttlegi111.1, ranged everything in good order. We lasned the steering oar fast, discard- ed our coats and boots, and bade good- bye to the boy e on the shore, nie shoved (of and the fast inereasing current car- ried us quickly to the mouth oh the canon, and there our boat for an in- stant seemed to pause, as if afraid to proceed. But it was only a moment's stop, for, as quick as a flash, eve shot into that hell of boiling waters, All we could do was catch our breath as we were pieked up and slammed througb the clouds of blinding spray. But before we had time to get scared we were out of danger, and had run that three-quarters of a mile through the canon in two minutes and ten sec- onds. 'ae scene that la.y before as as vve merged froni the seething waters of the canon was grand indeed. We sailed along quietly between gently sloping banks that were covered with wild flowers of brilliant colors. But there was something lacking. Not a single bird song could be hoard. That beauti- ful picture was set in a desolate coun- try over which reigns .1THEn saw SaTnIL0Li (IN SaSn OF D b 0haiAns Til. San n the vicinity of that moon for ten years, and he says he will die there: But be says he would like once more to Meer a bird sing, to hear a rooster crow, a,nd see a pretty girl, and then he would he ready to lie down and die. The ground here is frozen to unknown depths, Several bodies were recently removed from the old graveyard to the new one at the Forty Mile creek, and they were in the same, state of preser- vation as when buried. The ground only thaws a. few inches froan the surface , in the summer. "I have been presenting the dark side of thepicture, but there is another. i There s gold here, and it is i11. paying quantities, but it takes time to find it. Men have taken out from $1,000 up to $45,000, but the latter amount is the most that any one man has ever taken out of the ground. The seasons are so short and food. is so bigh 111 price that it takes a tong time to accom- plish anything. "This, is very discouraging to many who come here. 1 shall try it here this winter. The miners in the winter burn holes down to bed rook and drift out the pay dirt. Then this pay diet is washed out in the spring. "This letter would be Incomplete without a word a.bout the snosquitoes. Tbey are thicker artd larger than in any other country, I believe, on earth. They never let up on a. man in' the summer. They have actually driveh men to commit suicide. I stood on; a mountain, side the 22nd of June and saw the sun set at 11.45 in, the evening and dip behind the horizon and then rise again at 12.15 midnight. 'There is no night here at this time of the year, but it will coop change and then there will praetically be no day." AT THE CYCLE CLUB. First Member -How would it do to agitate for a law allowing lacycliets to use the sidewalks and compelling pede- strians th -walk in the middle of the street? Seeond Memher-Well, that idea seems a little premature, jtist, etee. Af- ter a time we might demend slice a law on the principle of the greatest good of the greatest number.