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The Toot ef all the confusion in
Vaanen, aed the chief present menaee
to the, stability of tile Repablic, le the
popalar hatred of the Jaw. There is
no other reeson for tile rage of the
aopulece, the shrieking of the press
and the clisoraer in the cities, than the
belief that Dreyfus, a Jew, die sell
Itaiiitara secrets, thet he is being pro
tected by a Jewish syndicateobent on
ruining Frac t,hrough its moeleY
Aiower, and, that the Government so
fears that !tower tbat it may try Drey-
fus again in opennou,rt. There can be
no other cause for alarm, for it is cer-
tain that the power which bou,aht the
eecrets of the mobilization seheme will
not; move to Dreyfus' support, the
Cliamber sides with the people in de-
manding that there shall be no re-
trial, and, the army, as represented by
Its generale, Insists that the verdict of
its court shall stand, There is no rea-
son anywhere for the popular turmoil
except the belief, assumed, or real,
that the Republic is in danger from
the Jews, and as the Taws everywhere
are only an ineignificant minority,
tbat a. whole people should rage against
them seems inexplicable. It is the
tnore so because the Jews labor under
no political or religious disabilities
‘re Franca, always perform their eiv-
Jo duties faithfullyehave served loyally
in the army, a,nd have been as Feench
as any othetr. Glass of the population.
Nevertheless, hatred ot them has stead-
ily increased of recent years, due in
part to the traditional religions peeti,.
judice entertained for them by the`
peasantry, but cbiefly to the grow-
ing hatred of the money powera and,
therefore, of the Jews as its most con-
-epicnous representatives,
Whatever the basis of this new hat-
red may he, whether pity for the poor,
or envy of tbie rich, or belief that
wealth. is constantly used. to buy le-
,.gislation and influence policies, the
Loot remains that it has spread
thavughout France. The conviction of
Dreyfus for "betraying" France gave
It a fresh stimalus, and -when to that
was added the efforts of his co -reli-
gionists to neeure his release, or in
the popular view, the efforts of a syn-
dicate of Jewish capitalists to compel
the Government to release him, the
French. public seethed with excitement.
And. as the disposition of the Prenrii
when violently excited is to express
their dissatiefaetion either by chang-
ing the form of government or by pro-
lmoing kind of anarchy. under
which dietators appear or states dis-
appear, the danger which threatens the
Republic is apparent. Should the rage
against the Jews continue and. result
In violent outbreak, the Government
must. protect them, not alone because
it. is its first duty to protect all ci-
tizens, bat because attack on the
Sews will involve attack upon all pro-
• perty, and to do this the army must
be ordered to fire. The crisis will then
have arrived, for if the arm.y shares
the popular hatred of the Jews, it will
refuse to obey orders; and as it
deem its honor to have beezi impugned,
the real eharge of the Dreyfu,s party
being that its courts are mere area -
luxes of the State and. so incapable of
rendering a just, verdict, it may refuse,
In that event, the Governmesat will be
powerless, ev.hile if the troops obey
'viers, control will pass into the hands
ef the group of generaas who direet
I he French army for only by their
eupport can the Government go on.
probability Is that both the army
which has always regarded_ govera-
ment by civilian,s. with something ap-
• proacbing coetempt, and the property -
owners whose wealth is threatened,
would then demand a stronger gov-
• ernment, and that the Republic would
give place to a dictatorship or a mon-
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
The well masa often forgets the sick
man's promiees.
Satan is always at hand to .help
man put up a stovepipe.
Some men earn their living by sell-
ing taffy and others by giving it away.
The Mimeo of the gas meter is gold-
en to the stocithelders in the company.
A. main never reakieee how insiguifi-
cant he is until he attends his own
wedding.
What the 'very young man don't
know he thinks he knows and it ans-
WOra the same purpose.
• An old bachelor says that a woman's
change of tinted is an example of an
•effect without w muse.
No matter how high a man may fly
he's got to ebrcie down to earth occa-
sionally for board and lodging.
The board of erade member doesn't
mind being celled a bull or a, bear, but
call him a calf or a cab and he gets
med.
The man who monopolizes the atm -
tions of the prettiest, girl Let s party
is both envied and hated by all the
other men peesent.
BRAIN WOUNDS.
Another in:stance In which a wound
to the Marton braiin did not result fat-
ally has occurred, In Birminglom, N.
a man shot himself in the head, kbe
•remaieed unconscious for a week, and.
the surgeons said hie death was a mat-
ter of time only. On Saturday his
•right eYe bulged out, and it was re,
moved. by (to operation. With the eye
None 82-ea1iber bullet which had been
ax late tretee's brain for six weeks, He
n ea U)(1 1,SIV to reeovery,
A BliiiTIFIO VIBION,
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THE MENT4PICTURETHAT DROWN
ED STEPHEN'S MARIIRDOM•
I SAINT'S GL11PS OF IRMA.
stev. or. Talmage Dispities the EY0141 11
Dee Magnificent word Pictures — tre
• Sight Must tee Seen ley Everyone tor
• isicuself Delete Euti Deatization,
Washington, Afarch 13,—Bev. Dr, Tal-
mage tivie morning preaelleci from. Acts
vii, 56-60. "Behold I see the heavens
opened," etc, ate said• :
Stephen had been preaelling a rous-
ing sermon, and the people could not
•stand. it. They resolved to do as man
sometimes would like to do in this clataa
if they Wed, with some plain preach-
er of righteousness—kill him. The
only way to silences this man was to
knock tbe breath out of hien. So they
rusbed Stephen out of the gates of the
eity, and with curse and whoop • and
bellow they brought hien to the cliff,
as was the custom When they wanted
to take awey life by stoning, Raving
brought him to the edge of the eliff,
they pushed him off. After he bad
fallen they same a,nel. looked. down, and
seeing that he was not yet dead, they
began to drop stones upon hine, stone
after stone. Amid this horrible rain
of missiles Stephen clambers up on his
knees and. folds his hands, while the
blood drips from his temples to his
cheeks, from his cheeks to his garm-
ents, from his garments to the ground,
and theta, booking up, be makes two
prayers—one for himself and one for
his murderers. "Lord Jesus, receive my
spirit 1" That was for himself. "Lord,
lay not this sin to their charge!" That
was foa his assailants. Then, from pain
and Loss of blood, he swooned away
anal fell asleep.
I want: to. show you. to -day five pic-
tures—Stephen gazing into heaven. Ste-
phen looking at Christ. Stephen ston-
ed, Stephen in his dying prayer and
Stephen asleep.
First locat at Stephen gazing into
heaven. Before you take a leap you want
to know where you are going to land.
Before you elimb a ladder you want
to knew to wibat point the ladder
reaehes. And it was right that Steph-
en, within a few moments of heaven
sthould be gazing into it. We would
all do well to be found in the same
posture. There is enough in heaven to
keep us gazing. A. man or large wealth
may have statuary in the hall, and
paintings in the sitting rookie and
works of art in. all parts of the. house,
but he has the chief pictures in the
art gallery, and there, hour after hour
you walk with catalogue and glass and
ever increasing admiration. Well,
heaven is the gallery where God lies
gathered. the (thief treasures of ads
realm. The whole universe is his pal-
ace. In this lower roosc where we stop
there are many adornments—tessellat-
ed. floor of amethyst, end on the wind-
ing cloud stairs are stretched out can-
vasses on which commingle azure and
purple and saffron and gold. But heav-
en is the gallery in which the thief
glories am gathered. There are the
brightest robes, There are the richest
erowns. There are the highest exhil-
aranions. John says of it, 'The kings
of the earth shall being their honor
and glory into it." And 1 see the pro-
cessioo forming, and in the line come
all empires and the stars spring up
into an arolt for the hosts to march
under. The hot e keep step to the
sound of eamthquake and the pitch of
arettlanche from the mountains and the
flag they bear is the flame of a con -
sinning world, end all heaven turns out
with harps and trumpets and mYrlad
voiced acolarnation of angelic dondnion
to .weloome them in, ansi so the kings
of the earth bring their honour and
glory into it. Do you wonder that good
people often stand, like Stephen, look-
ing into heaven? We have many
friends there.
There is not a Man in this house to-
day so isolated in life but there is som.e
one in heaven with whom he once shook
hands. els a man gets older the num-
ber of his celestial acquaintances very,
rapidly multiplies. We have not hare
one glimpse of them since the night.
we kissed them good -by, and they went,
away. but still we stand gazing at
heaven. As when some of our friends
go across the sea we stand on the (tools
or on the steam tug and watch them,
and after awhile the. hulk of the ves-
sel disappears, and then there is only
a patch of sail on the sky, and soon
that is gone and they are all out of
sight. and yet we stand looking in the
same direction., so when our friends
go away from us into the future world.
we keep looking down through the Nar-
rows and gazing and gazing as though
we expected that they would some out
and stand on some cloud and give us
one glimpse of their blissful end trans-
figured faces.
White you long to join their pompan-
ionship, and the yeare ancl the days
go with such tedium that they breele
your beart, end the viper of pain and
sorrow and aereavemeht keeps gnaw-
ing at your vitals, you stand still, like
Seephen, gazing into heaven. You
wonder if they have changed since you
saw them last. You, wonder if they
would recognize your face ' Men so
changed: has it Leen with trouble, You.
wonder if amid the myriact delights
they have, they care as much for you
as they usea to when they gave you
a :belyinghand. and pue their shoulder
tuid.er your burdens. You wonder if
they book any older, and sometimes in
the evening tide, 15,hen the house is
glean, you wonder if yoa should call
them by theie first name if they would
not answer, a,nd perhaps sometimes yoa
de Malta the experiment, and when no
one bat God and .yotunelf are there
you .distinotly call their names and e
listen and sit fgEL'Ailig into hea,ven, y
Pees on now and see Stephen look- 1
ing upon Christ. My it eaye he saw g
the Son of Man at the right bend of
God. nest how Chriel; looked in this o.
world, just hove he looks in heavexlo
we cannot sey, A sviater in the time a
of (Thalia says, describing the Sav-
itnie8 Personal: aPPaararice, that be
had. blue eyes end light complexion and t
veal, graeefal etrueture, but sup-
poee at was all guseswork. The paint-
ers of the different ages have triad
to imagine the featuces of Christ and
Istet them upon canvas, bet we -will have
Lo wait until with, oar own eyes we
m
see laand with our own ears we can
hear him, And yet there is a way
of seeing and heariug him now. / have
to tell yeu that unless you see and
• hear Christ; on eartle you. will never
eee and hoar him. in heevens 1,00k
There he is, Behold the Lamb of God,
• Cart you not fiee him? Then. pray to
Goate take 1:bel scales eft your eyes.
Look that way—try to look that way.
His voice comes down to you this dont'
comes down to the blindest, to the
deafest soul, saying, "Look unto me,
ail ye ends of the earth, and be ye
saved, for I ani God, and there is none
ease." Proclamation of universal ern-
ancipatRd, slaves •Proo lama tion of
'universal a.mnest for all rebels. 13e1-
• shazzar gathered the Babylonish nololes
to his table, George I. entertained. the
loeds of England at. a banquet, Na -
poleax'. III, welcomed the Czar of nue-
sta and tbe Sultan of Turkey to his
feast, the Emperor of Germany 'WM
glad to have our minister, George
Bancroft, sit down with him, at his
table but tell me, ye Who know most
of th;e, world's history, whet other king
ever asked the abandonhe ed and tfor-
torn and the wretched and the out-
cast to come and sit beside him?
Oh, wonclertuil levitation 1 You can
take it to -day am' stand. al the, bead
of the darkest alley in any city and
say; "Come! Clothes for your nits,
;salve for your sores, a throne for your
eternel reigning." A. Christ that teaks
like that and acts like that and par-
dons like that—do you. wonder that
Stephen stood looking at him? I hope
to spend eternity doing the same
thing. I must seAg him; I must look
upon that faee once clouded with ray
sin, but now radiant with my pardon.
I want to town that hand. that knock-
ed. off my Shackles. 1 want to hear
that voice which pronounced my deli-
verance. Behold Wan, little children,
for if you live to three score years and
ten you. will see none so fair. Behold
biat, ye aged mean Apr he only can
shine through the dimness of your fail-
ing eyesight. Behold hira, earth. Be-
hold hixa, heaven. What a moment
when all the nations of the saved shall
gather arou,nd. Christ 1 All face.s that
way. 4.11 thrones that way, gazing on
His worth if all the hations knew
Sure
too
he.,whole earth would. love him
I pass on now and look at Stephen
stoned. The world has always viranted
to get {rid of good men. Their very lite
is an assault upon wickedness. Out
with Stephen through the gates of the
city. Down with. him over the preci-
pices. Let every mat. come up and
drop a stone upon his head. But these
men did not so mach kill Stephen as
they killed themselves.
Every stone rebounded. upon them.
While these m.urderers were transfix-
ed by the scorn of all good men., Steph-
en lives in the admiration of all Claris -
Madam. Stephen stoned, but Steph-
en alive. So alb good men must be
pelted. All who will live godly in
Christ Jesus must suffer persecution.
It is no eulogy of a 133.2411 to say that
everybody likes him. Show me any
man whole doing alibis duty to state
or church., and I will show you men
who utterly abhor him.
If men speak well of you, it is
because you are either a laggard or
a dolt. If a steamer makes rapid pro-
gress through the waves, the water
will boil and foam all around it. :Brave
soldiers of Jesus Christ will hear the
carbines click. When I see a man
with voice and money and influence all
on the right side and some caricature
him. and some sneer at him and some
denounce him and men who pretend to
be actuated by rig-bt motives conspire
to cripple him, to cast him out, to de-
stroy him, I say, "Stephen stoned 5"
When. r see a man in some great
moral or re,ligious reform battling
against grog-shopi, exposing wicked-
ness iti 'high places, by active means
trying to purify the chureh and better
the world's estate, and I find that some
of the n.ewspapers anathematize him
Etald men—even good men—oppose him
and denounce him because, though he
does good, he does not do it in their
way, I say, "Stephen stoned !" The
world, with, infinite spite, took after
JohnFrederiek Oberlin and Paul and
Stephen of the text, but you notice,
my friends, that while they assaulted
him they clid not succeed really in
killing ban. You may assahlt a good
man, but you cannot kill him.
On the gay of his death Stephen
spoke before a few people in the san-
hedrin. Now he addresses all Chris-
tendom.. Paul the apostle stood on
Mars hill addressing a handful of
phitosoplaers who knew not so much
about science as a modern schoolgirl.
To -day he talks .to all the millions
of Christendom about the wonders of
justification and the glories of resur-
rection. John Wesley was howled
down by the mob to whom Jae preached,
and they threw bricks at him., and they
deneunced him and they jostled him
and they spat upon him, and yet 'to-
day, in all lends, he is admitted to be
bullet vacated the presidential. chair,
the great father of Methodism. Booth's'
but from that spot of coagulated blood!
on the floor in the box of 'Word's thee -
tor there sprang up the new life of
a nation. Stephen stoned, but Ste-
phen alive.
Pass on now and see Stephen in bis
dying prayer. ' His first thought was
not how the stone hurt his head, nor
what would become of his body. His
first thought was about his spirit.
"Lord Jesus, receive my spirit l' The
murderer standing on the trapdoor,
the, black cap being drawn over his
head before tbe execution, may gri-
mace, about the future, but you a,nd
I have no shame eonfessing some
anxiety &bout. where we are going to
tome out. You are not all body, There
is within you a soul, I SPAS it gleam
fromyour eyes and see it irradiating
your countenance. Sometimes 1 am
abashed before an audience not beeause
I come under their physical eyesight,
but because I realize the truth that
't stand before so many immortal
spirits. The, probability is that your
body will at last find a sepuleher in
Ma Of t110 cemeteries that surround
our town or city. There Is no doubt
nit that your obsequies will be decent
nd respectful, and you will be able
,o pillow youe head under the maple,
r the Norway spruce, or the cypress,
✓ the blossoming fir, but this spirit
bout, which Stephen prayed—what di-
vetion will that take? What guide
vill eeeort, it? What gale will open
o receive it? What eland will be
•
eleft for its pabbsayl After it ha
got beyond the light of our sun, wil
there be toraes lighted for it the res
of the way? 'Will the Soul have 1
• travel through long desertsbefore i
reaohes the good land? ff we shout
lows our pathway, will there be a castl
at whose gate we may ask the way. t
the city? Oh, this mysterious Sine
within usl It has two wings, 'but i
Is in a cage now. It ie kicked fast t
keep it, but. let the door of this cag
°pee the least, and the soul is off
Flaglees wing would not cateh '4
lightnings are not swift enough t
take up wite it. When the soul leave
the, body, it takes 00 worlds at a bowel
And have r no anxiety about it? Rev
you no anxiety about it?
• r do WV care want you do male my
body when my ptoul is gone 'or whether
you believe in cremation or inhume,
teon, 1 sleep just as well in a
wrapping of sackoloth, as in satin lin-
ed with eagle's down. But my soul—
before this day passes I will find. out
where it will land. 'Tlaank God for the
intimation. of xn,y text, that when we
site Jesus takes us. Thet answers all
%uestions for me. Whati though there
were massive bars between here an
the city of light, jest's soul d remove
them. What though therm were great
Selman of darkness. Jesus couldillume
them, Wbat though I get weary on
the way, Christ could lift me on his
omnipotent shoulder. What though
there were chasms to aross, his leand
could transport me. Then let Stephen's
prayer, be my dying, "Lord Jes-
ue, receive my epirit." It may be in
that hour we, will be too feeble to say
a. long prayer, ftemay be in that hour
we will not' be able to say the " Lord's
Prayer," for it has seven petitions.
Perhaps we may be too feeble even to
say the infant prayer our mothers
ta,ught us, whiele John Quincy Adams,
70 years of age, said every .night when
he putt hist head upon his pillow:
• Now I lay me down to sleep,
• I pray the Lord, my soul to keep.
We may be too feeble to employ cab-
er of these familiar forms, but this
Prayer of Stephen is so short, is so con-
cise, is so earnest,• is so coraprehen-
eive, we surely evill be able to Say that,
"Lord Jesus, receince my spirit." Oh,
if that prayer is answered, how sweet
it will be to die! This world is clever
enough for us. Perhans it has treat -
ea us a, great deal better than we de-
serve to be treated, but if on the dying
pillow tbere should break the light of
that better world we shall have no
more regret a.b,out leaving a small,
dank, damp house for ane large, beauti-
ful a,nd capacious. That dying minis-
ter in Phila,delphitt. some years ago
beautifully depleted it when in the
last moment he threw up his hands an.d.
cried out ," I move into the light!"
Pass bin now, and. I will show you
one more picture, and that is Stephen
aaleep. With a pathos and simplicity
peculiar to the Scriptures the text
says of Stephen, "Ile fell a.sleep."
"Oh," you say, " what a place that
was to sleepl hard rock under him,
stones falling down upon him, the blood
streaming, the mob howling. 'What a
place it was to sleep I" And yet my
text takes that symbol of slumber to
deseribe his departure, so sweet was
it, so contented was+ it, so peaceful was
it. Stephen had laved, a very laborious
life. His chief work, had been to care
for the poor. How many loaves of
bread he distributed, how many' bare
feet he heel sandaled, how many cots
of stckness and distress blessedwith
ministries of kindness end love I do
not know, but frora the way he lined
and the way. he died I know he was a
laborious Cbristiaaa. But that is all
over now. He has pressed the cup to
the last fainting lip. He. has taken. the
last insult from; his enemies. The last
stone to whose crushing weight he is
susceptible has been hurled. Stephen
is dead! The disciples come. They take
him up. They wash away the blood.
from. the wounds. They straighten out
the bruleed, limbs. They brush back the
tangled hair from the brow, and then
they pass around to look upon the
calm cou.ntenance of, him who had liv-
ed. for the poor a,nd died for the truth.
Stephen asleep!
1 have seen the sea driven with the
hurricane until the • tangled foam
cau,ght itn. the rigging, and wave ris-
ing above wave seemed as if about to
storm the heavens, and then I have
seen the tempest drop and the waves
crouch and. everythiagi become smooth
and buruished as though a camping
place for the glories of heaven. So I
have seen a man evhose life has been
tossed and driven' coming down at last
to an infinite calm, in which there
was the hush of heaven's lullaby.
Stephen asleep I I saw such eons.
He fought all Ms days against poverty
and against abuse. They tracitiCecl his
name. They rattled at the doorknob
while he was dying with duns for debts
he could .11.0 pay, yet the peace of God.
brooded. over his pillow, and while the
world faded heave.n dawned; and the
deepe.n.ing twilight, of earths night was
only the opening twilight of heaven's
morn. Not a sigh; not a tear; not a
struggle Hush 1 qt . 1
I leave oot the faculty to tell the
weather. 'T can never tell by 1:he set- t
tmg SI1T1 whether there aill be at. i
drought or n I t 11 1 th
blowing of the wind whether will
lle :fair weatber or founon the marrow,
but I can ,propitesy, and will proph-,
esy, what weather it will be when you,
the Christian some to die, Von Tflft
have .L very rough now. it may ee,
this week one annoya.nve the next: an-
other annoyance. 11, may is this year
one• bereavement., the next • another
bereavement. Before this year has
pessed you, may bone to leg for breed
Dr ask for a seuttle of coal or a pair '
of shoes. but DA the last Christ will
some in. and darknesS will go out, and,
re
though themay he no hand to olose
your eyes a,nd no breast. on whieh to rest
your dying head and no candle to lift
the night, the ()dere of God's hanging
garden will regale your soul, and at
your bedside will halt the chariots of
the King, No more tents to pay, no
more agony because floar has gone up,
no more struggle with "the world. the
flet-sh ancl the. devil," but, peace—long,
leen, everlasting 'team. Stephen
esteem I
Asleep itt ;Jesus! Blessed Sleep,
From which none ever wake t
weep! •
A main end. undtsturbed repose
• tIninjueed. by the lost of foes.
Asleep in Jesus! Par from thee
Thy . leittrared end their graves may
he,
• Due there is dill a blessed !deep
Prom whieh none ever wake to
weep.•
,
'Yoe, have tseeti enough for One, merle
,
ug. No one eon met:es:dully examine
More than five pictures ihi a day.
T.herefore we doe having seen this
01111iter • of divine Raphaels—StoP-
ben gozing into heaven, Stephen look"
ing at Christ, Steelien stoned, Step-
hen in his dyine pra,yer, Stephen
aeleep.
KLONDIKE'S OUTPUT IN 1898,
135*iei' WUt Slave to VtligtiO 11( Thei Make
ft $10.00,000.
The gold outrut of the Klondike
country for 1898, at the clean-up in
'Tune, will be between $10,000,000 and
•412,000,000 according to the estimate of
A. D. Nash, of Portla,nd, Oregon, who
has just arrived from Dawson. He is
• an old-timer in the Yuleort country,
having mined. along the tributaries of
tbe Yukon, .8ritish territory, since
18395U
.1t this estimate may be far too
• hieh, for everything is overrated in
the KIendare country. Until recently,
the gold product of 1897 NVMS figured
al $10,000,000. By degrees this exorbit-
ant estimate suffered reduction. First
it was cut in two, Now comes an of-
&lel statement • from Ottawa which
places the output of 1897 at $2,500,000.
Estimates of this year's yields of gold
run up to 825,000,000. This is the fig-
ure given out by the combination hay-
ing,.mines to sell. Since last fall over
300 men have arrived from Dawson
with "claims" to sell. It is estim-
ated that they have over 2,000 claims
to put on the market. Some of these
claims are mythical. All the sarvslre
ors on ea,rth could not looate them.
Others are as valuable for placer min-
ing as is Central Park, New York.
• All these men agree that the Klon-
dike claims will yield $25,000,000 in gold
this year. They also say that the. Al-
aska Commercial Company and .the
North American Trading artd Trans-
portation Cbmpany hold in, their safes
at Dawson over $7,000,000 of the yiekl
opaora n0,10i8e09s .07:at ApsaIavemonatrornooft fhaocltd, tolev
• A. little figuring will show howeemre:;i:
work the Klondike miners will have to
do to run their yield, up to $12,000,000.
This winter 300 asims are being work-
ed. To make the total reach 112,000,-.
000 the claims will hane to proauce an
average of $10,000 each. • Now, these
300 claims are not of equaa richness.
Some may not yield $5,000. Others may
not pay for the wpodt burned. to
THAW THE GROUND
and thus make it workable. There are
only 100 really rich claims in the entire
district. These are on Bonanza, Eldor-
ado end Hunker creeks. Ali other riv-
ers, creeks andgulehes in the Klon-
dike country will be tail -enders when
the spring clean up is made.
Every foot of valua.ble ground, or
groueed believed to be valuable, within
seventy-five miles of Dawson, na any
direction, is staked. It is staked. to
last water, even to the tops of the
trees, as the old Klondikers express it.
The miner's real mining work begins
at Dawson. 'Unless he has money to buy
a claim already staked, or to buy pro-
visions and wood to enable Taira to get
a lay from a claim owner, he must
travel seve.nty-five miles from Dawson
in order to prospect on ground which
bas not been taken up. Buying is an
expensive luxury, as claims are held
all the way from $10,000 to e1,000,000. I
To get a lay the miner must have mon-
ey enough to buy wood at from $25
to 065 a cord and. provisions at an av-
erage of 75 cents a pound. The cheap-
est course open to the miner is to
prospect on his own account. That re-
quires, as has been said, a journey of
seventy-five miles from Dawson, over
a hilly and mountainous country. Then
the prospeetor must take his chances.
He may make a stake and, he may not.
It is all speculation.
The matter of food supply always is
a, grave one in the Yukon gold re-
gions. Icier since the miners began
working in the, country bee a year
passed when the cry of famine was
not raised. This winter the miners
had the closest eall they have ever had.
The men have not had, the quality atid
the quantity of food needecl to sustain
life in the sub -Arctic regions, but at
the same time there has not been the
least danger of starvation. The great
danger is not from starvation, bet from
scurvy, caused by the constant eat-
ing of tbe Ammo kinti of food. This time
next year there will be danger of star-
vation unless some way is found to
got large quantities of food to Daw-
son, which is the • .distributing point.
The 'Yukon is imprartleable as a supply
route, as it is not Open to free naviga-
tion lone enougb to enable boats to
make more than one round trip be-
tween Dawson and St. Michael. Nor can
the mountain passes be de,pendeci up-
on. The miners now in the Klondike
cettaxtry have barely sufficient food to
last them until the spring supply ar-
rives. Ail available transportation
agennies will not be able to land at
Dawson this summer sufficient sup-
plies for the miners already in the
country. The miners now bound for
the Klondike are not taking, on the
average, a year's supplies. It is there-
fore, easy to see that a large number
of people are likely to be short of food
about a year from now,
BRUTALITY.
Mrs. Nubbons—My husband is a per-
fect brute,
Eriend—You amaze me,
Mrs. Nubtons--Since the baby began
teething, nothing would vitt the lit-
tle angel, bat pulling his papa's beard,
and yesterday he went and had his
beard Shamed off,
3011la, ON TaTE NURSE.
• The nurse ilea been giving the twine
a bath, tater, hearing the children3
laughing in bed she said:
What are you, children laughing
Mont ?
Oh, nothing, replied Edna only you
have given Edith two bathe and
batten% given uxs an
MURK) 8 YIAIY 80ffOR8.
COST 0.1? THEIR MAINTENANCE roR
THE YEAR 1397.
Emritt'utet" oftrettS'Yeseltet::
Te85he1'4 end Thor saferies,
gl er'Pali° fit.ules 850
n4e oe1,1"tarf
ie ra:pt4ert,°•nofci
of Education, for Ontario for the Year
1897:
There ere in the Province 5,657 Pub-
lics schools, and 839 Roman Catholic
Separate eabools. There are10Protes-
lnae Separate sellouts and 97 Kinder-
gartens. •
There are 202 teaohere engaged in
Kindergarten worle in the province, and
41 night school teachers. The number
of night schools in Ontario is placed
at 21.
During the year the amount expend-
• ed for Public: sehooi-houses, sites end
40
sbechioldoiletega,achwerass,1313mOr,Us9;52,7fo2r4mP7,uahnlidc
• for all other purposes in, eonnection
with elementary schools 8790,964.
The total number of persons in the
province between the ages of 5 and
21 years, as ascertained by the as-
sessors 5.0.1897, was 591,717, The num-
ber of registered pupils of all ages in
tire Public) schools during the year was
441,102, or a decreaes of 3,670 as cora-
pared with the year 1896.
The aVerage attendance of pupils in
all the Public schools of the province
was 246,724, a decrease of 735 as com-
pared with the year preceding.
The number of pupils in Roman
Calholie Separate schools, 40,846;
iu-
croase, 1,073. Average attendance in
Roman Catholic Separate schools, 24,-
630; inoreeee for the year, 510.
The number of pupils in Protestant
Separate schools was 619; increase for
the year 1-27; average attendance was
365; Lacreene 58. •
The total number of pupils attendleg
kindergarten, was 10,174, an increase
for the year of 673. • The average at-
tendance was 4,051; increase 405.
The attendance at night schools in
the provinee is falling all. The nura-
ber of pupils registered for 1897 was
L394, and the average attendance 329
These figures show a decrease over
1896 of 781 in, registered pupils and
86 in average attendance.
There were 8,251 teachers employed
in the Public sehools. Of these 2,726
were men, and 5,528 women; 3,40e of
them have attended. Normal School,
The average annual salary of male
teachers in, Public schools for the year
1897 was a4.00. The average annual sal-
ary -of female teachers was 8291.
There were registered last year In
Public schools 1,454 pupils under five
years of age; 480,153 pupils between,
the ages of 5 and 21 years, and 341
pupils over 21 years of age.
• There are 130 High schools in the
province. The number of teachers is
574; number of pupas 24,567, a de-
crease of 95, as compared with the re -
turtles for 1896.
High school teachers' salaries for the
year amounted to $532,765. '..Cliere was
expended in sohool houses, sites and
buildings, 884,663, and for 8.11 other
High school purposes $132,542. So that
the total High school expenditure was
$749,970.
In1882 there were only 33,126 pupils in
bite Public schools of Ontario studying
teamerante and bygiene. In 1892 the
number had grown to 171,594, and now
the number is over 209,000. Having re-
gard to the great lenportance of the
k,niowledge of physiology and the in-
jurious effects of alcoholic. stimulants
on the human system, provision was
• made by the statute in 1886 for pinc-
hclg this subject in, the course of study
for Public schools.
The system. of kindergarten instruc-
tion:was first; introduced into Ontario
in 1882 and subsequently made part
of the school system of the province.
'Within 10 years. 66 kindergartens were
established with 160 teachers, attend-
ed by 6,375 children, under six years
of age. In 1896 the number of kinder-
gartens had increased to 97, lvith 202
teachers, attended by 10,174 pupils un-,
der six years of age.
The highest salary paid to any Pule;
lie ectool teeetier ineOptario in 1872
was 31,000. The 'highest paid at pres-
eat is 31,500. The average, salary for
male teachers is the wbctle province
is 3400 ; for male teaehersin cities $865;
for female teachers in cities $420.
The total reeLvipts of' Public schools
in Ontario in 1872 were $2,530,270; in
1882, 33,469,990; in 1892, $4,811;899; in
1806, e1,886,112. The greater portion of
these amounts are, of course, derivecl
from nutniciipel sehool grants and as-
sessments. The other sources are leg-
islative grants ansi clergy reserve
fund.
The total expenditure of Public
schools in, 1872 was $2,207,764; in 1882,
33,036,975; in 1802, 34,053,918; in 1896;
34,149,207. These sums were spent for
maps, enparatus, prizes, sites and
school houses, rent, repairs and fuel.
The cost per pupil foe education in
the Public, school ban steadily increas-
ed since Confederation. In 1807 it was
$3.67; in 1872, $4.85; in 1882, $6.42; in
1892, 38.40; in 1896, 38.61,
• In 1867 only 1,283 pupils, or 211 per
cent pf the whole number of High
school pupils studied commereial sub-
jects, such as bookkeeping, in 1896 this
sabjeet was taken?, by 13,068 pupil's, or
58 per cent. of the whole attendance,
le 1867, 5.1.71 pupils, or 90 per cent. of
the shole attenidatee, studied Latin;
in 1896 the 'lumber of pupils in Latin
east 15,526, about a per cent. of the
number in attendance,
The total expenditure in the province
for Roman Catholic Separate ,sohools is
over 3300,000 yearly: The amount ex-
pended for the marntenarice of Pro-
testent Separate schools, is about $5,000
Per year. Two or the teachers hold
sectenet Mass and twelve hold third
class eertificates,
The receipts of High echools last year
Were 3806,031., mnde up of fees,
115,783, and logieletive greet, 390,-
998, The total expeeditare was $740,-
970, of whioli $5 wa,s petti in ache
ars' salaries.
The isanlial ooet per pupil for Iligh
Fohool odueation N now 130.53. There
has beeii a steady inerease IA (hist
coet per bead sieute 1867, when it wa$
821.80 per bead. In 1882 the cost Per
pupil NV 3k5 $27.56, and in 1892, 330.-
48.
In 1867 Greek was etudied bY 15 per
0311ft! .to eat poufaulsi opal 1:11dookisroillitr.)1
ie8•096th(jellelYtaistifyx' oPrertheiVi:i1b7:ort? erziii4i.g8;t44
s„fliti eine etudied Gernme; in 1898 tiles
subjects were studied by 55 and 18 per
rtaptu„ peleiss!ectively of the total number
'nen the High neaten, system of the
province was first inaugurated Ita
primary object was to prepare pupil
ft°erciattllyfor
w leatredunPierelseity
ss,1°. ns,
atlLatterly.
dS
the department claims, that the course
ofeedueat°1wblcilthe[i°v14hlbeuacei1:ablenualifiatif0: aa.
oisotberursuitsaira
Ito, 1872, 486 High school pupils, when
they fieished their High school educa-
tion, entered mercantile life. In 1696
the aramber had increased to 1,325. id
the, latter year Lim pupils went into
agricultural pursuits.
Dealt the High schools gave to mer-
cantile life and agriculture in 1896, 2,-
104 pupils of well-reeognized educa-
tional standing, and to the universities
a,nd learned professions 959. The whole
number who left tbe High schools for
mercantile life since 1872 was 21,235,
and for agriculture 16,737.
The occupations of parents of High
school pupils are as follows :—Agricul-
tural, 9,126; co.mmereial, 6,792; mechani-
cal 6,162; professioiml, 2,487.
In 1883 there were 93 Mechanics" In-
stitutes and free libraries in the pro. -
vine. In 1897 there were 323 libraries
reported. la 1883, 51,920 volumes were
issued. In 1897, $2,157,965 were issued'
and the assets had increased fromi $255.-
190 to $844,692.37,
The gross amount expended by the
Educational Department for all educa-
tional purposes since 1,867 is al5,114,503.
Ot this sum $7,372,801 win divided
among the Public, Seperate and other
schools; to meet the annual expendi-
ture for teachers' salaries and other
purposes; 32,722,435 was spent for the
training and examination cit teachers
of Public schools, and for tam inspec-
tion of schools; 32,492,504 as paid
directly for the support of High schools
and $220,277 indirectly for the bene-
fit of High schools, in, the way of in-
spection, and training of High school
teachers; $1,246,611 was paid to super-
annuated teachers and 31,959,812 in
aid of technical education.
HOW SOLDIERS FIGHT.
rer-R •
eava1re en the Battle Of the,
In•the February number of Pear -
son's 'Magazine there is a most forcilqe,
descriptive article by Mr. F. Norreys
Connell. in 'which the dutiesof cav-
alry on the field of battle are admir-
ably explained. '
"Speed and strength are now, as on
the day when, three hundred and
twenty -even years before Chriet,
Alexander's cuirassiers bore down the
horsemen of Porus, the essential qual-
ities of the cavalier; for speed and
strength are the great forces whieh
serve cavalry in what is, has always
been, and demenstratively must re-
main its great tactical end—Shock;
' acItione
' "Shock action'—the phrase conveya
its meaning; it brings before us at
once the old dense columns—the mod-
ern long lines of galloping horsemen
speeding down to drop their ponderous
weight on a like body of the enemy,
or. it, may be his infantry or his guns,.
ex even tbe convoys bringing him his
powder and shot or his bread and but-
ter. To dub against, to overturn by
sbeer physical violence, is the mean—
ing et shock action. And shock aetion.
may be considered the meaning of oar-
alry ; for cavalry incapable, through
defective organization or poor leading,
of shock tacties, is of no more use on
the field of joined battle than are
mounted infantry or bicyclists. .
' "Not, of course, that a cavalry leader
may fling his sqnaclron on all in front
of hira—horee, foot and artillery—re-
gardless of the conditions of the come -
bat ; but. if he feel tletitheeettelt1S11).44ge
fhtrig"1hdoisi, something realtr ------,
greatsomething by which hist coun-
try ma.y benefit, let himnet count
the test to hinaself, but semi his gen-
eral• word, blow his trumpets, and.
'ride honie.' He may never mine back,,
but he wilt be heard; of again. and
more often than it he ha.d died in' hed.
"Remember it is not riding home te
pull up at the point, of the bayonet,
and wave your sword or fire a pistol.
To ride home tis in gallop on the bay -
oast point at the greatest speed of •
whieh your horse is capable. To do
so requires a, eourage and nerve whieh
civilization does not make more come
mon."
114I1.ROAD MILEAGE Or? EUROPE,.
A.eeording to a recent official re-
port there were at the beginning of
1897, 150,025 miles of railroads in oper-
ation in Europe, an inerease of 3,144
miles over 1896. Of this inerease, Aus-
tria-Hungary bad 806 miles, of which,
Hungary had 579 miles. In Russia,
there was an inorease of 555 miles. Ger-
ninny increased her Tail:toads 579 mites,
the kingdom of Prussia receiving 3E37
miles. Th.e countries of Europe wee
having the most railroads in operation,
aceerding to f;h*ir area, are in their
order: Belgium, 3.582 miles; Gx'eat 'Bri-
tain and frtnand, 21,217 melee ; Ger-
many, 29,1155 miles; Switzerland. 2,209
Intim ;lTd lotuS, 1,608 miles; France, 25,-
089 miles, The othe.r countries of Inn
rope have 1 he tol low i rig ilroad mile-
ages: Austria, 18,951; Denmark, 1,605;
Spain, 7,615; Greece, 599; Italy, 9,349;
Luxemburg, 260; Portugal, 1,451;
Roumania, 1,784; Tinsels, proper, 22,e
455 ; Finland, 1,181; Setae, 335 ; Sweden,
6,073; Norway, 1,201; Turkey and Bul-
garia, 1,507; the Island of jeteey, :Melte
and Men, 611
'
• Big words have oft en proved the saw
in the hands of the u,i 1.1185. eveted
the IWO 00 whieh tie woe perched