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Exeter Times, 1897-9-2, Page 2W.IXN1NG HER WAY. CHAPTER XVI. ki•nie was ming whirled over the same road she bad taketa once before. The ft was autumn tied evening; her he was filled with c._peetation ; now it was L spring morning; the sun shone so brightly upon n y � the carriage cushions and iihowe,d every tear and threadbare place; the tiny mirror in a gilt frame reflect ted a pale face with an express- ion of weariness, about the mouth. Merle. leaned dangtuidly back among the cushions, her eyes fixed upon the land- scape. She bad broken the link which touted her to the eaat e; she had no one, no heart which beat in sympathy with hers. Ewen Aunt Lott had writ- ten her a delighted, half -sentimental letter relative to the good =fortune which had befallen ter. Good for- tuRie! People called that good for- tune,/ What was it t To bear the name of a man, toshare his wealth, not to have to worry about the manifold material needs-thatwas "good fortune" to them! And in the return for that she was to give every- thing-her very- t ng -her freedom. her hopes, herself, body and soul. She shuddered and closed her eyes. "Never!" sand alto, so lousily that she was startled by her own voice, and that the old lady opposite her looked up in surprise, Her ayes were east down ; she did not notice it ; she saw before her a. dark -complexioned man, with earnewvfat eyes; in her ears rang the sleigh -bells and the perfume of violets hovered around her. And yet he had tamed from her, had deserted ber-be- eaune she was a poor girl! She started aP suddenly. "Dear child, are you i111'" asked a syanpathatie voice, and the old lady bent aver her. "No, no !" said she hastily, blush- -Mg deeply. "I did not sleep in the night, and—," "Pardon, me, my dear young lady!" rhe lady resumed her seat. Then she took up a. box, in it lay a number of hunches of violets. '"My grandchil- dren picked them for me; may 1 offer you, oraer And she held the fragrant purple flowers towerd tate girl. Her tiny hand received them, but no y word of thanks passed her lips. The t donor only saw her draw back her black veil hastily over her face and o press the flowers to her lips beneath it. After o. while she fancied she Sheard sobs, but they had a tearless L sound. "She has sorrow too, and she is still fi No young," she murmured, looking Be. to church at some neighboring place. Elsie, knew the ggirl, and she knew tae, that that particular order mar- riedn its daughters lot. She had art never thought of it before; it struck bar as ,satcnething unworthy' of human - "Did she ill' go willingly, 1 she asked, p�uttting her 'head. Willingly ? That Rut she knew Re will went." doorsaseemed to the heavy. Sister Beate Beater Sister Bea Y , hand to her mat - beg God alone knows ed it so, and she • The atmosphere in- vlass8 a ed eat• ested 'awhile, pale and weary. head and th hand upon e bega.a in an un- 't!ld ane nce-not truth wvas the rescue one from truth virtues." assent without to ask you, Sis- ter Ange- ad shat she did with a she?, upon The sister g?„ question- Ceased her eyes at that No Elizabeth, her heart was like a blank p e; we live such a secluded, p"efui Life here that the passions never cross aur threshold --the passions which grieve and wound human hearts ha- the world; we scarcely know them by hea ay. You must have known that. Elizabeth. Why that ques- tion?" Suddenly this girl fell upon her knees before Sister Beate and buried her farce in the folds of her dress, "I wish I had never left here -I wish I had never seen him," she sobbed. ,"Rise, Elizabeth, and compose Your- self." The woman compassionately stroked Elsie's hair. "Help me, Sister Beate," besought Elsie .once more, raising her tearful eyes, "to keep from lying. Tell my aunt that I must write to him and tell Irina the truth at any price." To ham, Elizabeth ?" "Yes, to hams, whom they have called mA ir���ster Beate made no p<y, then she said; "you were alw my favorite, Elizabeth; but will like it here? 1t is not so easy a having been in the gay world to s down, as a thee -her with nothing duty and the hands of the clock w oleate the time before one's C. ears ago a beloved pupil' cause back fired of the world and discouraged, and she implored, me to keep her forever. t first all went well ; she worked in the Fls nu- ter oned lee Cele; ma rex an en as T 1 eo ga wets al ofte as esti at acr you rem e and you the table correcting exercises, "You should have Elizabeth.; you look so said. sine. The girl shank her proeehings her laid her Pip - sister's shoulder. •.Baster Bate," shoe stead vaire, you very long since -that only tluiaw that would difficulties and distress -that was the greatest of all albs old lady nodded lookfug; up. "What I am about ter Beate, may smile .lira had never loved, h not go to the altar her laps and in her hear THE EXETER TIMES m6nt they will dr>brk one glans bf wine after another. Aped t will draw a vivid; picture you ria a nun stand- ing behilnd the Jattuea, and Hdgebach kneeling before it with clasped hands, doublet and swords." Elsie returned to the window. 'I do not understand you, sweet Child,,, continued the little ohatterbox. I think Hegebaoh• wonderfully nice. I assure you if he had asked me -I veld have accepted. him D. the although k I have so-called "lover" have lovers. you know, !R otherwzse of whom should one t When ane reads poeanst The, highly necessary; but, notwithstanding 1 would have married $egebaoh. How charming for 'him' to see us bound to ane another ! Eternally est love! But One Ste m only so to pgetry, but it 5s .inter zing, highly interesting 1 Elsie, do be vexed with me,'" suddenly said to tie voice behind her, and two rims stole around leer neck. am not as bad as 1 seem to be, and if you will promise not to cry away more --do you think I cannot see it V -I will tell you something that will please You zmmesisely." 'Noti�,ing gives moe pleasure anymore Lill," was time mournful reply. I have seen thini, Elsie," she lwv pered. "in the flesh!" "w�--my cousin?" asked the ions girl. She dreaded hearing how bad received the blow she had prepared for him. She saw him before her so plainly as he, stood beside her at cher fether's'grave, and looked at her so kindly. so compassionately. At that tune she bad tried to explain to him, but larked the strength to do so. hien• ,"egebac i Nol I do not meati continued Lill."We girls would call him the one, the only one! .Elsie, come, do not be so childish . you are nineteen years old and you have been to boatrdieg-s.chnol. Ale yes," she laughed., "at'a sisterb, d, I always for- get that one does not learn mica things there ; at eighteen, girls are veritable angels of innocence. I w at G and from aur school -room ww could look down upon the court -yard t'he barracks, and each of us lied 'him: Well, r saw bine at Halle; E sic, cin you understand ? He had h violin -case. in his hand and wore h civilian dress -well, .Elsie, what you say, to that?" Elide, did not stir. "And I spoke to him -do not star Elsie, aunt did not see me; she m talking to a porter on the other std of the platform. I was getting tli re- tickets and he Weis standing a,mon ays the crowd; lie Le really handsome. iE yyoz lie. I was not well enough acquainte fter to address him, butt know how t tittle help myself under such circumstances but As T passed him my umbrella fell a hich his feet; of course he picked ,it up " Oh thank you very much, Lieutenan Bernardi." said T. He started. " am in a,great hurry." I continued "my name is r.ili Teesfeld; I am goin to D- with Aunt Rate. .. ie von I3egebach who wishes to en a convent." You should have seen face. "Yes, to enter a convent,' said. "because she does not want to rry her cousin. Good-bye, T,ieute- t Bernardi." I left hien and brave - pushed my way through the x'rovd; was about to enter the ladies' upa• he entered the next coach, It fortunate that aunt was at th her window. I had to have air very n and he tool -at the stations more eeially ! Ocea. ionally aunt called ass the !nurses acne babies: "Dirt speak. T,ili?" In anawwer to which' ark 1 assumed a very astonished recsinn.-Now. Elsie, he knows all, charged me to be very kind to • He said that to me ehen I left train ; he went farther. And KLONDIKE ff1NING-OAIP. WHERE IT IS SITUATED, AND HOW TO GET THERE. The Discovery Was Aectdentai - George Comae, With Two Wdiuns, Pound the First troll - Story of a Returned Pros Gpot, ! pecans-ittohneus t the Pay Dirt -Prices tool of the Neeaasarie or La.e. isle, The T K o ' hinds 1 ii tk d e River, on which the new are placers were discovered, is in the Bri- tish Northwest Territory, two thous- and miles almost directly east of St. Michael. It is fifty-two miles from For- ty Mile Post, whieh is the nearest large ed not be =sera le forever; it est-' station. From Juneau it is six hundred not and fifty miles in a northwest coast. soft Dawson, the headquarters of the new "I diggings, is at the junction hof the Klondike and Yukon rivers. The pop- ulation Iaist June in Dawson was 1,- 000 says a writer in Harper's Week- ly. The discovery of this new northern bonanza was an accident, as mining his- discoveries uusually are. An old Yu- aux kon miner, George Comae, who had be lived for twenty years under the arc- tic circle, and who had made little money in all this time, went up to the confluence of the Klondike and Yukon rivers to fish for salmon, which usually run do large quantities be the Yukon River at that point at the end of spring. He arrived at the place in June, 1896. The salmon did not run, and hence he bad recourse to prospect- ing in the creeks that empty into the Klondike a few miles above its mouth. Re knew that this territory, had been prospected by experts, and that their deeisioa was that. there was no gold in ei paying quantities north of the Yukon, and especially in the British possessions 1-' where he then was. is 1 Re travelled up the Klondike three is de miles, than made his way through tan- - gled thickets up a little stream with precipitous sides. He had two Indiana of ng a couple a�oR.i� THAW' A MILLIONAIRE. p- !ELECTRICITY .AND RATS. The durains feature of the develo RE Tntof tgisthatitshould � Nogexcept by men already on the Yu fimip SUCCESSFUL Iron. As 1 • have remained for six mouths unvis- ited TEST OF A TRAP Tit CATCHES RODENTS. easy as last January. Wil liam Ogilvie's official reports of the ex- traordinary richness of the pay dirt ' these claims reached Ottawa. Because Ogilvie was a surveyor and not a min- er, all the experts in Cianada as well e riin thists country pronounced his re- v exaggerated. Even as late as last March reports also came out to Juneau, brought by William Carr, the regular mail, carrier, and these also yy were discredited by the askatand this country. It was not until spring opened and. men, return- ed with sacks and tains of gold -dust as practical proof of the richness of this dist- riot that the rush actually began. Then every steamer to the north from Seattle and Victoria was crowded, and every one who could leave Juneau or St. Michael took an outfit of provisions and started for the camp. One returning prospector, T. 0. Heat - wood, of Seattle, told, to my mind, the mast remarkable story of all these pro- spectors. Re bad mined on the Yukon for three years. The first year he con- tracted the scurvey frown living exclu- sively on salt pork and beans, and was brought out of the territory al- most in a dying condition. With spirit unimpaired,, he returned the next sea- son, but his claims panned out only a aneatre living. Then he returned to Cal- ifornia, and delivered a. series of lec- tures through the State on the re - sources and the wonders of Alaska, il- lustrated with steroptioon views. In thus way he made enough money to fur- nish him an outfit, and he was at Gla- cier Creek near the Klondike when the news of the discovery came. Re prompt- ly packed up his belongings, and was among the first to reach the new camp. He took up a claim, but the prospects did not please him, and as others were disappointed in sinking their first shafts, be abandoned the camp and started down the river. HIS BOAT BROKE DOWN and he was compelled to return -on foot to the new ;mining district. By this time pans of dirt ranging from $500 down to $125 had been found in sev- eral claims, and he at once proceeded t to develop his propertyy. He worked throughout the season hiri Live Chechens Are Used for )Galt -'Visitors to. the Cage step en Trap Doors. That Leave Theur, Behind Bars - Rears Had Reiter Loch Ilnt. Rats, beware 1 An enterprising Dane has invented a trap to catchyou by eleotrioity, It fs a i ingenious af- faair, and was ulnad with eneb, success Ina New York restaurant tin other Wight, that 123 rats weresquealing in canfimement in the morning. The trap is faux feet long by two bfeet and seven inches wide„ bait the electrician says he intends to make trap. of a}1 sizes to fit oirculmstances, and 1 is bold enough to assert lie can make a trap big eaou;g'b to catch bears, q'he application of electricity to the trap is very simple, Beside tbie cage, w'Iuioh fs made of wine netting, set on and platform, stands a dry electric battery of ten cells of the power of fifteen volts. One current and two magnets, one`for each trap door, are used, and all the electric apparatus arise On the bottoms of the pllatform and out of sight, only the wirers that conn with the battery being visible. TTR.AP BAITED WITH CHICKENS. Live chickens are used as bait, but the rats never even get a nibble at thean, as they are secure in a house of their own, supplied with water and food. The ca ekeia coop is set in the. trap near the door, and the chickens are seen through small iron bars. Mr. Rat walks into the trap through a Weasel shaped entrance„ and passes along a narrotiv, wire enclosed passageway. He approaches o within a few inches of the chickens in the coop, which is directly in front of him, and fanciest he will have a fine meal in a aeeoeid, when he steps upon a. trap door. The chicken coop swings into a hollow space, opening the pas- sageway to the rat, end the upright front door drops, looking, him in. WtI,AT IS QOINO ON IN TI9$ FOUR CORNERS OF THE GLOBE. Old and New World Events, of interest Chrons lcled Brletly-lnteresttng Happenings o) Recent Data. Mr. Harry McCaimont, M.P., the mil- lionaire lass, has just arried awwidow daughter of Gen. de Bathe. Verdi according to the London Daile! Chronicle is amusing himself at Mont- ecatini by writing requiem for his own funeral. Stevenson's "Dr. "KJekyll and Mr. Hyde" is beitig printed in a French translation by the Paris Temps. as the original work of a French author. Bristol, which for many years was consolidated with Gloucester, has been officially declared a separate bishopric, money enough to pay a Bishop's eat- ery bavimg been raised. In Puerto Rico recently a candidate who had reached the age of 55 years without taking his bachelor's degree, dropped dead when this examiners told bun he bad passed the first part iof the of exandeatior. Lord Justice of Appeal Maenaghten bad bis watch snatched from his pocket by a thief ha Landon recently. Though nearly 70 years of age, be sprinted, caught him within a couple of blocks and got his watch back. Brummagen French isdangerous, A' Birmingham citizen passing two police- men on the street in the evening 1•iaid Bon jaur, monsieur, to them. Tilley at once arrested him, charging him with being drunk and swearing at them in a foreign language. Larrikin, a females Australian stee- plechaser, fell in the Grand Natioual Hurdle rase, near Melbourne, breaking ver his crowd broke in and began to as the race was o out took deadiaanoother bisfor oe relics. One oth- ers the teeth and hoofs. British enthusiasts who wished to celebrate what they call the thou- sandth anniversary of the foundation of England's navy by King Alfred have been snubbed by young Mr. Cham- berlain who is Civil Lord of the Ad- miralty, with the statement that the Navy Department has bad enough cele- bration for this year. London suburban travel is made at- tractive by the presence in the !sta- tions of young women who beg for all kinds of charitable objects. One a inn a hurry after run- ning gantlet in the street, was stopped five titles between the station dear and the train by respect table beggars, and asks the press to have the nuisance put down. Matelotes and other stews of which rabbit is supposed to form apart are being shunned by Parisians since the rabbit inoculated with miscellaneous disease germ, wore stolen from the Aubervilliers laboratory. 'The pollee Aubervilliers laboratory. The police say that they have traced the lostxab- btis, and that all were eaten by oau- bervilliers people, who, as yet, have shown no bad effectas. Prince Daanrong, the Siamese Minis- ter of the Interior, who accompanies Cling Chulalougcorn on his European our, is described as being taciturn and istant in his manners, while Prince lewawongse, the Prime Minister, is ery talkative and affable. The whale iaime i party is etvciLing astonish-, ent by the extent and accuracy pf to knowledge of European matters. Queen Victoria bas paid $800 for the calking stick Prince Charlie forgot by has bedside at Culloden Castle when he „anode out wv tar fight heads battle. carvedt lies a on it epresenting Folly and Wisdom. The ed on which the last of the Stuarts sl for three nights brought $3,750, d a lieutenant's commission for a acintodh signed and sealed by the since, $475. Grand Duke Adolf of Luxemburg, ho is now 80 years of age, is'Ithe taci- t temporal sovereign in Europe. He as formerly Duke of Nassau, and ter a reign of twenty-seven years as turned out by the 'Prussians in 'fib. Seven years ago lie found et- her throne on the death of King illiam III. of Holland, whose next ale heir he was as the Luxemburg wv of inheritance does not admit wo- n. Russia will have a new tabor law e.r aJn. 1, in consequence of the re- t strikes in St. Petersburg and the ge manufacturing towns. The rking day is fixed at a maximum eleven and a half hours; for fiat - days and the days preceding horn ^s it is ten hours and on Sundays d holidays there is to be no (work. rkmen who are not Christians will be compelled to work on the days d sacred by their sects. For night rk eight hours' will constitute a ''s work. ,gland is bragging over date ip Majestic in getting 600 tons formence of the battleship Maj in getting 600 tons of on board at Portsmouth in less in six hours. The rate was 116 tons hour, 138 tans being shipped in one r. The performance is unprecedent- for the Chanliiel fleet, and -has n only surpassed once in the {ser - when the Trafalgar in the iterraneen, took in half the quan- at the rate of 141 tons an !Your. nwhile merchant steamers often at Port Said at the mate of 400 an hour. t men to help him with him, and the three set to work The richness of this pay dirt may be tae to prospect in the primitive Yukon appreciated when it is said that Mrs. e fashion, that is they cut wood, sot Clarence Berry, the wife of the man e fires ever i who made the richest clean-up in the d thaw out the frozen gravel, and each o dirt at her husband's clean, every o day dug out of the prospect hole the y, and with a sharp stick to disinte- loose earth which was thawed down , grate i some showed wed Iftracesnofclouds a el - t. not over twelve inches by the fire. In low metal. In this wsay she actually this way, in about ten days they reach- pick out by hand during three months ed r nearl�" ,3000 1- y night on the ground to camp ,was accustomed to visit the dump. r to drown her said thoughts; zest and regularity benefitted her strung iterves. But time healed mini, health returned and leek r to the gay life without our ci er eyes grew daily more yearning anally she said:. I am going. ft ter I must go; here cane creeps the world one flies 1" So she w do not know what became, of her. oniY telling youi this to show t this is no place, in which to h r•.nently the wounds inflicted world; if yoru, accept. the poeitio you bind yourself for two years Least Elsie, •Consider it twill." dhe w•as still upas her knees; she saws pink ruses and fluttering ribbons, he beard strains of the sweetest music, laughter and song -that was life, that was youth 1 And like a colorless pic- teen, suddenly • rose before her the she w •room with its baro walls -and words s young! Sister Beate's last Bark 1 troaided tiler. From the next room came clear, vibrating tone 1 Stoeneone w iaying the violin! Elsie burst in ears and bowed her head upon h ed arms which still rested upcnt lady's knee. '1 have northing mare to live for e world, nothing more, Sister Beat murmured. I will remain wi out of tine w�irodow. I At the stations all was animation; am the coulee was occasionally filled for a t .i short distance and then was lady's tdi again. Tha old lady left the coupe. Sha stood inion the platform and watched the train as it slowly steam- ed out ; she would like to have seen that sad, child -like face once more, but her wwislr was vain, Fasts sat as motion- lessly as ever, in her corner. At Iength she tote reached her desti- nation esti nation and stepped upon the platform of the, to her, familiar station; it seemed to her as if she were dreaming. a There was the Thua ing'eni Wald as she t a Ind seen it a hundred times, and be- fo�lk��d fare her stretched the street with its (4111. neat, odd -fashioned bouses, in the win- re t bed -rock at a depth a� fifteen feet, ^. in nuggets. Ono of these 1 when Comae was astonished to pan out nuggets. is that ee valued $230 from a sem- bles in shape at $��0, and ze.5 p - ; from the loose dirt near bed -rock from pe and size a medium-sized a- h dors of which flowers bloomed in pro- she fusion; further an was the tiny church you with its sbady green chuirch-yard. All so unchanged, whitee she was not her- self. Rapidly she proceeded dorm the street and passed through the school - garden. Not a soul to be seen -thank God 1 Aid were still at work and in the school -room. h The'iTheld canary was warbling clearly in She knocked ed sand Sister Beay te sedothe threshold of the little rocen, in her four ring garb, her vett over her pale Elizabeth!" said a deep, calm voice, "is it really yox, Elizabeth?" An old -lady advanced toward her, and a pair fkiit ndly d y eyes looked Leto her sorrow - Sister Beate," she, tried to say, but she could utter no sound. She threw both arms around the woman's neck and 'her pent-up grief dissolved into an. almost convnitsvva fit of weeping. "You are in mourning, poor child?" "Myfather," she stammered. Sister Beate kissed her hand sym- pathetically and led her to the old- fashioned sofa. "Celan youaself first, Elizabeth; we will talk afterward. Caine take a. aujp of coffee. I knew that you. were naming -a dispatch is "Fran whom?" Elsie glanced at the speaker in terror. "What is it ? What does the, telegraan say f" she added quickly. I am to keeps you, from writing any letters, child, four your aunt will ar- riga Mere this er eeing." Neje trembled and at first did not speak. At length she sobbed: "Sister Beate, keep me that I may not sin as deeply as woman. could ever sin -help me that I may not be refined!" " Elizabeth;,, you are beside yourself 1" said the sister in her calm, warning voice. Bisis's clasped hands fell into her rap.- She looked moodily and search- ingly into the face of the woman before hear. " Sister Beate," she continued, in .a changed voice, "you told me when I left hare that I could always find shel- ter, with you, that you would give me a position in the school. I have come today to ask i of you." "You have come at en opportune time, dear Elizabeth. Sister Ange- lica s . pos.tioni in tine fourth Lorm is vacant." The speaker held toward the girl, as she spoke, a plate of cake. She refused it. Where is Sister Angelica ?" "She has gone. to Africa. You should eat, yea look so fatigued." '"Co Africa ? As a missionary ?" "Yes, she is going to help her hus- ba,n 1 who has a school at Natal. The �•} lot fell to her, end she left three weeks. agn ,. 1 hawse words were uttered as simply as if Sister Angelica had merely gone CHAPTER XVII. There were spare rooms in the in ute. The village inn was very prim '5., and parents often stopped ovvisit e daughters. One of th and the, best o the modes tiers was prepared for the rece et of Frau. von Ratenow. he train was to arrive at nin oak, and the principal had gone t station in person to receive th n auiit. n. the rneanwhile, ,Elsie sat in he le roam and anxiously watched thmg camas which . ��b tin enoan.. Whatoccasionally r as Ito obe e1 ,aster Bea,,te knew all the de - and she knew Frau von Ratenow well, not to tee! assured that ther a~': be a struggle.. wording to Jf, sie's opinion they >t have arrived from the station e time since. Probably the tw, "en atwere that both mome It weaving ead of her destiny. 4llsie, Elsie," said a soft voice, "are here, or not I" e turned, saw- a girlish form at door and recognized the coquettish speltg hat and the aristoc, otic lace be- th it. "Lill !" she cried in surprise. ves it is I!" was the reply. "I fancied I should find you gazing he moon! Gracious heavens," she inued, taking off her hat, "is there 0 sofa here ? I am tired to death. Elsie, it was naughty of you to away." - id you come with aunt, Lili 1 Is she here?" h" And are casof t herself upon the edainty bed t is, she would have been, left he- at tia..10 as , it a.,t been (dor me. z anticipatr.i that, or he would nly have spared me this journey. coues, and babies,e was ! and am,onged with othem, as an Ind;an pagoda, sat Aunt ow -while I -oh, Elsie, why did o this 1 To -night there is a sup - arty at Cramm's, and I am iso of crab -ragout with asparagus!" e did not reply ; she seated her - ▪ silence beside the bed • upon Lili lay, and looked anxiously in ace, while Lili's large eyes spark- errily, notwithstanding her plain - here, Elsie, yon are furnishing undanee of matter for gossip," ued the girl. "I must confess el -en Moritz give the alarm this ng and at the same time bade prepare to accompaa}yyy Aunt ow on her search for the fugitive, ust crazy to c1i,a,e at the officers' I am canvistoed that the o - wilt be busy ; in their (excite stit iti ve, to rooms ham don too A room tier you eh the nea just t cont not Ah, rua creat Ittuu Morit certai The nurs erect Raten ,you d per p fond self i which her f led na tive aa ab con tin that N morni me to Ratan cafe. 1 prietor FIFTY TO ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS in coarse gold to the pan. By this time his provisions were nearly exhausted, so be. sent an Indian to Forty Mile Post, fifty-two miles away, for supplies be remaining on the ground to prospect further. Ile also sent. a note to sev- eral of his friends in Forty Mile Post, telling them of his discoveries. Several men responded and came up, took up claims, and began to prospect; but it was riot until nearly three months had passed before any one came remarkable feature id that this dirt, 1 bo' 1 tato. Wben the spring came, and the water tushed down through the creeks, the miners were all prepared to take ad- vantage of it. They had built sluices of the most primitive style, but al- is were though enabled to savehad thequicksilver, e eatpart d of their gold because of its weight. In the sluices, at distances of six inches, to they built little riffles of wood, which ra caught the gold. as the water brought st the mingled earth and metal down and through the sluice, Mr. Restwood esti- v mates that they saved ninety per cent, of of ell the gold in the earth. .Another m as He starts down the passageway on a tour of exploration, but he, does not journey far before he stew upon a second trap door. The chicken coop swings around in place again, shut- ting off the possibility of a return trip for the rat, and at the sante time the front door of the cage opens to admit another hungry visitor. `.Nie first rat caught now pushes his way out of the passageway by forcing open a door, which immediately closes, sthutting him out of the gangway. He now in the cage proper awaiting bis cam. INTO WAT.Lit FROM A DISK. It is the inventor's intention to add has trap a circullar disk, on which a t, coming from the passageway will ep. The disk will tura by electricity at every three-quarters of a re- lation it will drops a rat into a well water wader the cage, and, in this anner, rats will be drowned as fast they are caught. Less titan the weight of an ounce is sufficient to drop the electrical trap- doors used at present, and a mouse and a. rat as big as a cat were taken. pri- soner in the big catch made the other evening. The inventor uses chickens as bait, 'because he says rats go for them like thunder." When he builds a larger trap he Will put in a hen and her brood as bait. The trap may be, left for days with- out attention, or until! it is so full el rats that it will hold no more. As the. trap is operated now, the in- ventor is generous to the victims. Re has in the large cell plenty of meat and vegetables for the captured rodents to d upon. Their grunts of satisfac- n are heard by rats on the outside, are enticed to the door, where y get a glimpse of the chickens. The electrician who is so successful in catching rats is determined to apply _ hid invention to bigger game. i "I can catch rabbits, foxes or even e bears just as easily," he said. Wait - and see if I don't." in with an adequate supply of provi a nous y thrown up on the banks of 1 the creek during six months of the hard sions, and with tools to work the claims P winter, was all sluiced out within two properly. These men soon took out sev- _ when T have' told you that he sent a era' thousand dollars' worth of gold wreath to your father's grave and that dust, and it was the return of two of he is going home on leave -of -absence, . his party to Forty Mile Post, late in T have told you all!" I the fall, which led to the un llisie bad ceased weeping. She open - as ed to into er ligh he 1 . b in of ill her the window, leaned out and looked the garden flooded with moon - t; a nightingale was singing sweet - v in a linden tree, and her heart t rnbhM violently. Efk thought of her! He had epaken e her on the most wretched day of life. Oh, jay !- e drew back. closed the window, 1 and hurs-ine into tears hurled her face in her hands. What did it avail her? She w -as only a poor girl! (To Be Continuede ed gold rush to this little camp. Not fifty able-bodied men out of a popu- lation of 1,500 were left in the camp three days after this geld -dust was brought in. With the mercury 53 degrees below zero, with snow covering the ground in every direction, the party peeked their household goods on sledges, and w dogs and by hand they pulled th. sledges over the ice of the Yukon a; over the snowy fielas until they rear ed the junctbo,n of tnc Klondike a Yukon rivers, where there was a sm setileanent gathered around a tittles , mill operated by Joe Leduc, ane of t old Alaska Company's traders. The pa ty pushed an to the creek where Co. - mac had made his big discovery, and which they promptly named Bonanza Creek. This and the neighbouring creek, called El Dorado, were prompt- Iy staked out in claim, and work has begun immediately. At first, in the de- lirium of this goad. excitement, there was a prospect of fatal quarrels, over the location and the extent of the claims which each man could take up, but luckily the Northwest Territory of- ficial surveyor, William Ogilvie, was on the ground, and his suggestion to re- survey the two creeks and to give each man the allotted space under the BRITISH MINING LAWS MR. BILLTOPS HAS A DREAM. It Made Hinz Cool 011 a Dot Summer Night, lint Ile lilet Not Like It Altogether. "On one of the lottest of the hot nights," said. Mr. Billtops, "I went th bed, thieking of araatter of business upon which I had been engaged dur- ing the day, and concerning which I must make a report in writing. After I had gone to sleep Iproceeded to write this report, sittiag at a table in the front room on the. ground. floor of the house. "After I had been writing for some two or three hours my brain suddenly grew dull, so that I could no longer t continu.e the work, and it grew duller rapidly, so fast that when I stood ap to gather in an orderly shape the sheets that I had written I found my- self enable to do so. I could only draw them taut a oomused. heel) on the ta- ble and leave them there. Turning away .I. started to go upstairs and go to bed. "Crossing the threshold of the door alto the dimly lighted hall I saw on the opposite side attending on the first step up of the stairs leading to the floor above, a silent white figure. I was terrified, eure, but at the same time fascinated, and I did not draw back, but continued on across the ball toward. the foot of the stairs. With each. step that I took forward the vvaite figure an the stairs silently znov- ed a, step higher. Still advancing my- self, but now with the half -smothered ery of one in a nightmare— "That was Mee. Billtops. "And with that I woke frozen in my veins and c'hilled throu.gh an, the blood end. through from head to foot. Thad gone to bed very waren. I was aeow cold; but I would rather mot be cooled that way." s. elea.niup, as ratners call it, a the olaims on. the Bonanza and El Dorado creeks averaged $5000 and up- warcLe. It is an equally REMARICA.BLE FACT that not a single miner a the 300 who staked. out. claims on Bonanza Creek drew a blank. Every one had at least $5000 in gold dust at the end of the It would require columns to give any adequate deseription of the exception- al features of this mining-carap ender the arctic circle. Everything is of the crudest description. Mathrial, tools and , supplies are extremely costly, far ',ea. ith beyond the cost even in suoh remote tact e00 a hundred pounds, bacon sold at he r - was ac,cepted. Re promptly surveyed terrttory, and, each claimant receiv- ed 500 linear feet, extending aoross the width of the creek. In this way some men. obtained cleims 1000 feet wide, but the great majorite recerved allotments ee wide The news of the extraordinary find spread with great rapidity down the yukon, and in a few weeks most of the mining-caraps for 1000 miles down the river were partially abandoned, and the few people who had been working in mines that paid frora, $5 to $20 a day axrived at thenew bonanza. Around Lad.ue's old mill sprang up a town of tents and shanties, which Leduc nam- ed Demean. in honor of the original Bri- tish surveyor,. who mapped out ail this far northern territory. The Alaska Commercial Campany sent in all the provisions that it could gather up from tts stations, but niost of this food did not reach the camp until the following' spring. There would have been actu- al famine in this little remote mining district bad not one men had the fore- sight to brieg in tood. This was Olar- e.nce Beery, a young farmer from Fres- no County, California, who had been mining with indifferent; sucoess on the Yukon for two years. Lucktly he had $2000 worth of provisions .vvhen the newts came of Coemaz's rich strike, and be added tio this another $1000 worth', whieh he bought at Forty Mile Post. ith tbis large supply he was enabled to keep alive the 500 or 600 men who were worktog tie the camp until the Alaska, Comraercial Company was en- abled to bring in further supplies. No one had any money, eitt Berry sold his goods on credit, takWg in part pay- ment ehares sixteate different mines on the creek. In ibid. way he *as en- aibled to help out Ibis companions and at the teatme time acquuie interest in these manes, whi in another sea - eon wall make him AN AWFUL TRIAL. A curious custom prevails la Bul- garia,. All newly married women are obliged to reraain dumb for a month after marriage, except when addressed by their husbands. When it is desir- able to remove this restriction perman- ently th,e husband presents ber with a gift and then:Lathe Can obatter to her heart's matelot, Dried. fruit, which is absolutely indis pensable in the miner's dietary, sold a a dollar a pound. Rubber boots wer quoted at $25 a pair. Mackinaw jack eta were a2de ach. Board of the rud est kind was 43 a day. Miners' wages were $15 a day for ten hour's work, or $1.50 an hour. for shorter time. The men live in rude leg huts, plastered over the top and chinked between the logs at the sides with moss. They heat- ed these cabins with sheet -iron stoves which are prepared expressly for the Alaskan trade. They dressed in heavy flannels, with outer clothing of bear- skin and wolf -skin. They were enabled to work out -doors throughout the win- ter, except when the mercury fell be- low 60 degrees, but they were forced to take great precautions to guard. against perspiration, as any moisture on the exposed skin led to dangerous When the spring ca,me they suffered even greater hardships than in the winter, for the sudden heat was terri- bly enervating, and the clouds of mos- quitoes and gnats made life a burden. No portion of the face could be exposed without attacks from these pests. It is the humid heat of the Mississippi Valley which cotn,es suddenly upon this arc- tic region as S00112 as the snow melts This humidity is due mainly. to the large bodies of water which lie in every di- rection. Every creek, river, and lake is filled with anuddy water from the melt- ing snow, a.nd the•powerful rays of a torrid sun fill the air with vapor, whieh is deadly to all except the strongest persons. From the talks that have had with the returned miners, I think a recent statement of Dr. Willis Ever- ett, of Seattle, is not exaggerated. Re made a toeogeaphical survey of the Klondike distriot for the government, and he says, "I have yet to see a man wbo has remained in that country for two years and retained his health." HIS CONFESSION. Baldwin -I suppose eon took your plec.e of =eked: glass and looked at the eclipse of th,e sun the other morning t Rambo -No. Tim fact ie I-aw-for- got all about it. (f looked through too many unsmoked glasses the night be- fore. SIZING HIM U'it. First Trempt-Yer say dat the wom- an. girve yer de grub didn't b'lieve ye war a gentleraain fat reduced einem- !stances ? Second: Traiiep-pa,t's what I said. First Trama-Did she tell yer so? Steepet1 Tramp -No; she brought me a knife( ter eat der pie wid. PROOF AGAINST POISONS. A Girl IVIto Laugho at Cobra and name snake Mlles and Doesn't Know Pain. Miss vatima. Tardo. aged 26, of St. Paul, Minn., has all her life been abso- lutely free fram pain and has no idea Wha.t it is except -by word of mouth from others. She is also free from the poisonous effects that fallow the bite a certain reptiles and insects. Not only that, but she can ewallow the deadillest Poison known to science, while all stimulants, narcotics, anaes- thetics and sedatives have no effect up- on her. When. she was 5 years otd, living with her pareets an the Island of Trinida in the West Indies, a. cobra threw it self upon her and bit her terribly. Her parents laid her out to die, but she wen.t to aleep for thirty 'hears and awoke as fresh. as a rose. Now a cobra can bite her a dozen times a day and the best lie can do will be to make her a, little. sleepy and kill himself. She stood ap in a doctor's offiee re- cently and made pu,nctures in herself as though she were playing with a paper bag. While explaining to the little audien.ce that her case hacl been the wonder of the surgical and medical men ot all parts of the world, and that the only explanation was that she had been born with a. defective nervous sys- tem in so far as the sensory nerves are concerned, she was jabbing pins into her face. The doctor ran a long needle into her repeatedly and a rattlesnake was allowed to lake her in the peesence of the witnesses, azdt no effect was ob- ECHOES IN CAVES. la a cave in the Pantheon, at name; the guide, by- striking the flap of lits coat, makes noise equal to a twelve - pound. caanonts report. The sing,ularf ity is noticed, in a lesser degree, in the Mammoth Cave in Ken,tucky. In the cave of Smellin, near Viborg, in Fin- land., a eat or dog thrown in will make a screaming echo, lasting some min- utes. Fingal's Cave, an the Isle of Staffa, has also an abnormally develop- ed esito. es ot me aft cen lar tvo of ur an Wo not wo per coal tha ain bou ed bee vice Med tity Mea coal tons ELECTRIC POWER IN AFRICA. Atten.tion was recently called to the proposed use ol the cateracte of the Nile. fox tbe genera.tion of electric power. At a in,eeting of the Institution of Civil Engineers in London a short time. ago, Professor Forbes reported that he had. been. eousaiited a.bout an- other similar enterprise the "dark oontinent." was a proposition to employ the Victoria Falls of tbe Zam- besi River in suppaying electric power to the goild-.miloss in Matabeleland and the Transvaal. He thaught the scene was not so chimerical as it'beet at first appeared. to hian. Ira his opinion "the distan.oe over which poiver might be profitabby transmitted by eleotrieitv wee not far shOrt of 1,000 raile8."