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Home My WebLink AboutExeter Times, 1898-7-21, Page 2EXETER TIMEs )OD 1OR THE..SOUL 41. H• The towbaU ixt C-rafton stead, in 0.0 Siluare; 'Winter rains had waslaed And Watlhed against ita narrow, faded Old bricks, itU. the plaster betweee tbein heel. (4=1144 eod tbe =glee had Wern deisrin The Notate paint on the Plaines cind on the met beam, that Medea the base of the pediment had flak- ed and blistered; a amok ran from a Mote -story 'window down. towards the /rout door, tvbicb eagged a little in its bettered white frame Inside the wood- en above were so worn that the knots stood out on thenen-banumerable town meetings fairs, lectures, And all Mich elatertaintnents ao this Qf the Mon- Ingue Sisters, mane inuele travel over the wide, shallow etairoase. The walls were bare, the plaster stained and oracked, eve si broken in two or tbree laces, and studded with nails for all the different deoorations a pine or flags or ora,pe or flowers which ba,a, gone up end oast% down in more than fifty years. There were lanterns in brackets along the walls, and. a dusty ehaedelier in the middle of the ceil- ing held eight Ictinps, that oast flick- ering shadowe down on the bare floor and the rows of wooden settees, which, When Mr. Day arrived, were quite emp- ty—sm.:It was his anxiety to get agood seat. The audience came stamping and scuffling in, with a good. deal of laugh- ter, and much load, good-natured rail- lery and. some cat -ries. Very likely the person had reason for "being mad." Sweet Rosy; or, Tee. Other Man, was the play, and there was a suggestive- ness in the names of the acts which would have forewarned anybody but Peter. Be had no experience in indecencies, fie was tingling with exoitenaent; the =Aden and unusual concentration of .thougbt and feeling was not without pain—it was, mentally, like the awak- ing of & hand. or a foot which has been asleep. The curtain rolled up, caught—and despleyed a, pair of slender ankles, and opposite them two Wellington hoots, fiercely spurred—rolled on, and showed & man decorated with stars and sashes and sword, which informed the audience, that be was a soldier; and a girl, in fluffy pink skirts, high -heeled pink slippers, low pink satin skin- tight bodice,. pink Ups, pink cheeks, pink bat and feathers. Her neck and bosom were as white as swan's -down, and glittered. with "diamonds," that did not seem any more sparkling than her arcb brown eyes, which laughed over her pink fan--keighed and winked and looked right down at Peter Day in the front seat. Re grew white, and his mouth fell open; he looked at his programme, the flimsy sheet rustling in his big trembling hands until his neighbors looked. at him with impati- ence. " Bessie Montagne." That was ber name—Bessie!'efhe soldier, it appear- ed, was Bessie's brother. who svas in- structing her about the "Other Mine Mr. Wilson, wbo was shortly to appear —hampered, indeed, by Mrs. Wilson; but if Bessie and her sisters, Minnie, /genie, Mamie, would play their cards properly, the mere incident of the wife would make no difference. They would go to a picnic with the Other Man, and then, and. then, and then I—carne a rollicking chorus, with Minnie and Ma- mie and Nellie dancing round and round, Bessie, the gayest of teem all, and the Other Man and the Incident corning on to be hoodwinked, in sober and decent clothes and sanctimonious air. The audience roared at each in- nuendo; and Peter, smiling and palpit- ating like a girl, took it all to mean that the four girls 'wanted. the fun of a picnic and. were going to get the old dodger with the hey seed in his hair to give it to them. At least, when he thought about the play at all, that was his construction of it; but he hardly thought of it—the dancing en- thralled him. It seemed that Mamie and Minnie saici things that weren't just modest soraetixaes, but a girl does- n't understand half the time what words mean; very likely they didn't know wbn the masculine part of the audience roared so. Nellie had almost nothing to say, and Bessie was the pre- miere danseuse, and only joined in tbe choruses. To Peter, fromt the first mo- raena she was the most fascinating fig- ure on the stage. Her dancing and coquetting and pirouetting, her glances and gurgling laughter and ges- tures, went to his head. He saw noth- ing else; the tawdry scenery, the soil- ed cotton velvet and flimsy erurapled satin, the reek of vulgarity, never touched his immeent mind. He looked at her open-mouthed, breathless. The play was about half over, when IL seemed to him that this mugs), or fairy, or whatever she was, flagged. and began to look tired. Once he saw the soldier frown, and make a, gesture to show that she had done something wrong, and he saw a fright- ened wince under the smiles and paint on the girl's face, Peter Day ground. his teeth. How dared the brute look that way at his sister? That was no way ler & brother to look! From that point he only' saw Bessie; he saw her growing whiter, though he no- ticed that the color in her cheek was aa bright as ever—whicb seemed. to him a very unhealthy sign. "It's that way in consumption," he thought. He felt impelled to leap upon theetage and tell her brother he ought to ta,ke better ea.re ()flier; andthen her danoing fascinated hitaso that he for- got her pellor tor a while—then no- tieed at with sheep compunction. The last whirl and plgeon-wing, the last kiek and flurry of gauze skirts, the east leer—then standing on one leg, eaoh Pester ldssed her hand, bit her Bp, looked down into the audience and winked, and—it was over! Peter Day sat like a man in a dreams Somebody eaffed him on the shoulder and. said, "Did they put you to sleep?' and there was a guffaw of laughter. He shook bis head eilentle and got Up; he looked about in a &teed way for a minute and then went stumbling out into the cool night. AS for "Bessie," she Sfit down on an overtureed soap -box behind the scenes. 031(1 panted, 'You've got a MASI). Liz in one bf the girls called oat, beginning to wash, off the paint. "Oh, I'm so tired!" she said, friintne "Oh, this is a dog's life!" 'Guess he's wailing at the side door,' IS/Ineile suggested; "he )(ante geed for se supper, enyway. Make nim staud up to us all, Liz, will yoti "Mut tip," th girl said. "I'm isearle dead," "T00% loser Old from Diektnson, 1 bet" nee of the "siatere" before:pea her; tied then, with rougn kindliness, brought her a dash of wbiskey in a, (JintY terablexe "There, Inane upl aon't believe he'll say arinthing. My God, I thought you were going tea drop these owe t Did you see Johnny Mack glare at you when you, crossed be- binat If he'll ' leeep bis mouth shut and not coraplain, I guess you won't hear from it, 1 eiesb you didn't have to move on to -morrow, though," However, they did move on; that is what it means to be "on the road" and have one-night tands. The "Xonta,gue Sisters" moved. on, and Peter 1)a,y mov- ed with them. The, first step into liberty haclbeen taken when he went to the play; then some door seemed to shut behind him! the automatio life stopped short ; felt, for the first titne since be was twenty, when his mother had nipped in the bud certain tendencies towards love -making, the consciousness that he had a life of his own. And he began Jo live it. He announced that he was going away for a week or two. "What ! now t" ejaoulated one of tho hands. "Why, we're that busy—" "I'm going," his employer said, and set his lips in a dogged, way that he had learned wader hie mother's scold- ings; it meant that be bad no ex- planation to give, and. no retort; but it meant, too, in his instance, will. So he paokea a valise made of Brussels careset—orimsoa roses on a cream. - colored ground—and said good -by to Jira, and started. The Montague Sisters went to Mer- cer, awl cm to two or three smaller plaess, and then back again On the oir- he on rippling waVe. And, ale wan, juat none almotit at the limit of her etrengtb, nhe siMpleehearted man who, threugb his big ateelerines mod epeoteenee, leoked at lier every pight front the, first row, And one te see her every na,orninn, eilent and ae faitisful aa a dog, SW in her all the beauty apel graers and good -nature of which nis harmless life had 'been etarved. Ile thought to himself, over ancl over, how PieaSant #311.0 was. He heti had little emote& pleasantness in hie forty arid yearsdear knows 1 so it eras eaey to recognize it when he saw Ble was bewildered end dazzle& and happy, and tamultaouely in love. Ine felt as if Ise wanted, to play with her; to romp, and run, and laugh, as though they were boy ant girl. He was getting young, this sober, elderly men, end the warm-hearted, quick-witted little aet- ress, with her peals of lau,ghter, her funny winks, mud grimaces, and good- natured raillery, was •the muse of it. Be never knew how hotier she defended 1une. fromthe suspicions of the rest of the company: she was so quiek to reeognize his "goodness" that she turned.. white with anger when his motives were assailed. When he told her once; blushing, that be was glad. she Sust only danced, beoauee some a the things the other yoking ladies said. evereu't just accordiag to his no - times, elle winced end rust her white teeth. "1 dant like those ;traces," she said; "truly I don't, Mr. Dans" leughed at that, in his soft, big voice, his eyes beaming at her through hist speotaeles, "You! Well., you needn't tell Me that, Miss Montague. You don't un- derstand, even. Well, now, a girl seeees to ine just like eine of those white butterflies that 'a always rcitmd. milkweed. You know 'ern? 'Brides,' the young ones call thenx. Their wings—you c.,an't ha.rdly breathe an 'em but what they're spoiled! Well, it's like touching their wings, to have girls slug trashy songs; and. I'm right sorry the other ladies feel obliged. to do it." "Oh,, if lever had time togota walk mut towards Old Chester, It took nearly three weeks, and, Peter Day in the. country and. see the 'brides!" —never missed. a performance. The she said,, her °Yes sadni°111Y wet" "rni pretty tired. of this kind of life." He mane an impulsive gesture, and opened his lips; but he dered not. speak. As for her, she went up to the hotel parlor, and. sat on the horse -hair sofa under the steel engraving of the "Landing of the Pilgrims," and told coMpany grew hysterical with laugh- ter over him; the "sisters" played to bine and. winked at him, and kicked. their high -heeled slippeeed feet in his direction, and threw kisses to bim over their white shoulders that were so dan- gerously above their bodices; but it was more than a week before he made Mamie she wished she was dead. Peter Day knew no better than to the acquaintance of the manager and, MIS introduced to them. make his protest to Dickinson, who • "It's a dead mash for Liz," the man- t winked at the berkeeper to call his at - yea tentiomta the joke. 'PM thinking of ager announced. "Say, Liz, can't , getting up a. Sunday -school play for get him to give you a theatre? Come • • now, dont forget the company when ' ern next season," he said. you strike it rich." Liz laughed, and Peter Vii9.3 no fool; he did not pur- roaned anddro ied down n the sue the subject; but he had his own broken, springs of the horse -hair couch ' views. In his cramped,, unlovely life, in the parlor of the little hotel. , the .s.iligle exponent of the everlasting "Somebody'd better give me a grave," feramine had been has mother, Yet he she sin& esse, teseeeteen, nee played had. his ideals: he believed in goodness and in purity in a way that even ta, out." She began to ery, and the man- ager told, her, goodenseuredly, not to man who had. known them in their be a, fool. e.-, human limitations isaiglat not have " ' I 11 send you up something that'll clone. In bis grave and. simple way make you feel. better," he said. But the he knew the world was wieked. But cocktail and the kindness only made he would not have those white -winged her cry the more. Icreatures whom he revered have even be, so much knowledge as that. "I don't know what's going to come of me," she told the eneteese• ee it the end of the third week the 1Vfono can't keep this up; there's no use talk- to:glee Sisters came to Old Chester; ing 1" they had two nights here and it Nvas Mamie sat down on the table swing- on the second night that Bessie broke ing her lege back and forth, and look- down absolutely, and. fainted dead' ing concerned. "Well, now, can't you aota.y. They were ail very kind to her go home awhile ? " she said.i —the manager and the other "sisters." Bessie looked up impatiently. ee ' They were in and out of her rocas all haven't any home. 1 haven't 1101 for tbat night, and Dickinson would have six years. 1 earo.e into, this to support given her all the whiskey the tavern mother, and when she—died, I didn't efforded if it would have done any have any home. As for relations,. I've good. But business is business; the got some relalions somewhere, but troupe was advertised to appear in the they're too good for the likes of me 1 next town, and they had to move on. No, nor She got up, the tears dried, So, with protestations, and most honest and her dark eyes sparkled. wickedly; anxiety, a.nd the real, practical kind - the cocktail had. brought a little color ness of leaving some money for her into her theeks, and she was as pretty board with the tavern -keeper, they as when she stoocl before the foot -lights moved on. But Peter Da.y staid be- in. vivid rouge and snow-white powder.. binds She took tWO dancing steps. "No— , He saw her every day for a. week; no— What does all the world r,are he went up to her rooms and. washed. for me?" I her little hot faee and. hands, and fed "Except Hayseed," Mamie reminded her with en:inked ice, and told her her, with a thoughtful frown, • "He about Jim; and his eyes, belaind his c,ares, it, appears. I say, Liz, I. sup- ' magnifying spectaeles, beamed like two pose you could lay off, and—" kindJ.y moons. The girl turned on, her savagely. "I'm going to merry her," he told "Now leek here; shut upl He's good." the tavern -keeper ; "just as soon as she Memiesbxieked with laughter. "Oh, can get oat." he doesn't bite, doesn't he?" It was a week before she could sit ry o ,,,,,i,., me it up; when she did., in a big wooden "Ile doesn't tte," the other said,sharply; then suddenly rocking-cheir, with roses painted on the broke down again, arid flung up her back, and slippery linen covers tied. on arras, and said she wished she was tbe Dares, he came and sat beside her dead. "Talk about a home) If I and put his hand on hers. wield stop, if I could have a billet "Miss Montague," be said, his voice house of my own and. =sax a garden trembling." "I am going to ask a—a —well, there! Ien, a fool. Yon needn't fenent" tell me; 1 know it. But I tell you "My name isn't Montague," she told what, Mame, it's awful; that's what him, her eyes crinkling with a, laugh; it is this road business—putting your- ,"that's only my- stage name." self up to be insulted. by every man ' "Ohl" he eid, blankly; "I thought that pays fifty cents to see Yen dance. tt was. Stillit doseen matter, because I'm dead tired of it. 033,, my God, 3. Miss. Mantsigutee" wish I was dead!" But even as she r• " flowed," she interrupted, smiling. said. it she burst into a laugh, her "13ees,use, Miss Doused, I was going brown eyes crinkling up with fun. to ask you to—to change it." "Mamie, what do you suppose / Hai. "Change it? My name?" she said. asked me to -day what my sistersi" Y‘m don't nleanee" thoaght of ray working so hard. `Sia- "I want you to merry nee," he said, tiers ee 1 said,—I was so tired 1 was just , his hand suddenly closing hard an dead stupid. 'Sisters t' I says. 'I; hers. She drew back with a, cry; look - haven't, any sisters! He looked dumb- , ed. at him with wide eyes; tlaent she put struek. Then 1 caught one' ' her hands over her face and began to "Ine is an innocent I" Menne said, cry, poor child, in a -wailing, heart - "He's good," the other answered, broken way. To ory—and cry—and cry, with a. sob. , vrhile he just put his arms about her She was as inconsequent end lea_ and drew her head down on his breast, moral, this little, flashing, suffering, and stroked her soft dark, curling hair pretty oreature, as the sparkle ()limn.. soothing her and cuddling her, and say - ing: " Tbere—theire I 1frientened eon, Never mind; it'e only Me, It's only Peter, there, tbere 1" She tried to say : "No; oh no! he must ;lust think en it, He -'--be didn't neiow her. Oh no—no 1 She was net good enough. Ita, she couldn't the couldn't I" But he gathered, her up in bis ars,and put his eneek down aeainst her bele and said, "There, there; it's all right, and I've got •the lloanse." Sne was so weak that euadenly she fainted, and. Peter was like a madman until young Willie Zingbe4 beep ruth- ed in and said it was all right, and she wounsi be none the worse the next (Morning. Wlaieh, indeed, sbe was not. Something hied braced, her; perhaps it was tbe bonne kindness that went to her heart like wine, • "I'll be good to him; Ill make it up to laim," she said, trying peacefully to bereelf. "011, I will be good to bleu; mid Inn. so tired—tired—tired. And Ill do everything for hien. And. Teen rest; for all my life I can just rest." So that was how it came about that, the evening of the first day she was able to go out., Peter took her, carried leer inmost, to Dr. Lavender's study, where they were reminded that mar- riage was not to be entered. into light- ly or unadvisedly—but soberly, dis- creetly, and in the fear of God,. • (To Be Coetinued.) IN CHINESE SHOES. Most famSt ine en Mermm Mere Coe FroOM. len—Their tensterienort and Coo. The thick -soled, white -edged. shoes seen upon the feet of the Chinamen in this country are all imputed from Clabaa, most of them from Canton where they are made by hand. The white edge is of a thick, rigid sole, made of a ma- terial resembling plaster, and if it be- comes dirty can be eleaued and whit- ened again. Some shoes have the wide wbite edge of this sole finished with a glazed or polished surface, which can be cleaned by rubbing it with a damp oloth. • The bottom aoles of these shoes are made of a number of layers of rather thin leather placed one upon anoth- er, making a built-up sole. This sole is stitched through and through in many places on regular lines, giving the bottom. of the sole a sort of quilt- ed effect. This work is neatly and trimly done, even on the cheap shoes. There are sonae Cbireese shoes without the chanantexistie thick white -edged soles, and provided with soles of lea- ther only. The top of the Chiaese sboes is of cloth or silk or satin, and the lining of the same material. Velvet is often used on the top, cut in patterns that are laid over the body of the shoe, which may be. of silk or satin. in some bright color, while the velvet may be of black, producing picturesque and striking effects. Costly shoes are made of fine materials and are often richly embroidered Chinese shoes of the re- gular style, with the thick, white -edged sole. and the leather bottom sole and cloth top, may be bought for as little as $1 a pair. Handsome Chinese shoes may be bought for §2 and upward a pair. Chinese shoes worn by persons of rank mos, be much more expensive, costing for shoes worn with court dress from $20 to $50 and raore, • CAUGHT. A country merchant from a Western rural district visited the city to pur- chase goods. His proper punishment for a shabby trick is recorded by one of our exchanges. He bought a cheap but pretty table caster for whiee he paid a dollar. On reaching bime he put on it a tag marked $14, and made a present of it to a Methodist preacher, whose church his family attended. The minister took the package home, after thanking the donor; but the next day he fetched the caster, with the tag attacked, back to the merchant! and said to him: I am too poor in this world's goods to afford to display so valuable a cas- ter on my table, and if you have no' ob- jections I should like to return it and take fouxteen dollars' worth of groc- eries in its stead. The merchant coald do nothing but assert to so reasonable a proposition. SHE WORKS IN THE SLUMS. Mrs. Heloise Durant Rose is the au- thor of several plays that have been acted in London and New York, and bas also written a volume of short poems,' a novel of New York life and many short stories. 'Most of her works have been published in England, where she took a diploma as trained nurse for ber mission work in London shams. ISTRONG EVIDENCE. The judge—What evIdence have you. that the deeeasee was not in iZull nos- seseion di his faculties at the time of his death? Lawyer—Why,' simply that all his relatives were at his bedside, la that ain't enough t� drive a mail mad I'd like to know. MILLIONAIRES fl HUTS.; How the nen VIM Have Wadi 11 /aide /five in the Itiondltga. Hall of the wenedera of the Klondike have, not yet been told, lend a 'recent aerivel noun the rukou to a London coreeeeonaent. Notnime has Struck me sQ much as the ludicrous disparity be- tween tne wealth of Many of the mins ere and the miserable conditions Wa- der which they live, George Cormealr, probably the wealth - teat man in Dawson City, wno could at any moment write a cheque for a mile lion dollars, and yet remain a rich MATI, IS living in it, hovel in which you would- n't house anus' dog. It consists of a single room of rough hewn logs, smear- ed Luside and out with raud, and witn a tiny opening of 2 It. square, by cours. teay called a window. Real) the millionaire digger sat hula- dreds of heure last winter, most of them in darkness, with lucid intervain created, by a single guttering candle. Thin economy in light, is, however, in- telligible When 1 tell you that to burn a single candle at a time through one long Inlondikelliagbt mete quite a sovereign. Ureter Coemeek's xnud floor lies bur- ied n60,000 worth of gold dust, and out- side his hut are small mountains of gravel ready for sluicing, each one of which represents a fortune. Cori:neck is the pioneer among the miners, and two years ago was earning a bare hiving - by FISHING FOR SALMON in the emnpany of his squaw wife. Another miner who lives like a pau- per, en the company of a quarter of a ton of gold dust, is Barney Finn, of Hunker Creek. Barney simply dare not take away his gold to bank it for fear that he alight lose bis elitim; and it ia stowed. away to the value ofn25,- 000inboiinkze. ne, discarded boots, and dirty la Two years ago, Clarence Berry, of whom you may have beard, was earn- ing a pound a week as laborer on a ranch. Last August he and his pretty and plucky young ,he took 426,000 worth of dust to San Francisco to bank; and it is estimated that one of his claims alone will bring him at least 1,0,000 a year for the next six years. He might retire to -day, after two years' work, witlea million dollars to his ered- i. Re bas 'been equally lucky in bis speculations in town lots; andI know as a fact, that he is drawing £300 a year eachlrom a large number of lots, for which he paid n20 a piece eighteen moieties ago. One of the cleverest women in Daw- eon is Mrs. Flaherty, who, three years ago, was cook in a small hotel in Cal- ifornia. She was induced fo accompany her brother to the diggings, and, to occupy- her time during the long win- ters, took with her a large quantity cif coarse yarn. • With this she began to make stockings, which were pur- chased at £4 a pane Her first sav- ings she invested in real estate, which quickly grew to ten times the value she paid for it. With her increased mental elle took to money -lending. and various forms of speculation, until to- day the ex -cook can put her bands Oil $100,000. Of course, there has been a great deal of high play in Dawson City -dur- ing the winter. THE GREATEST PLUNGER was Jim Dougherty, a splendid fellow, well over 611. Jim thought nothing of risking half a: hundredweight of gold on a, single, game of cards, and once atalced 60 lb. of gold dust on the -throw of the dice. Like so many reckless men, Fortune srailed-on him, and he is already almost among the 'millionaires. Prices have naturally, been terribly high. I remember a single box of can- dles last winter VMS sold for 'n30, at the rate of 5s each; and one miner refused an offer of £20 for a small can of ooaj. oil. On my jouney down from Dawson to Dyes. 1 met at least 15,000 men, straggLing towardsbbs Yukon; a01 from one part of the Chilenot Pass I counted no fewer than 200 beets of isa- migrants. Many of the woulclebe min- erS -were in a state of shocking desti- tution and suffering; in fact, the whole of my journey down was a, long trail of dyieg mere Thousands were suffer- ing from seuevy and frost -bites, and several fine fellows had to be taken back to Dyea to have limbs araputated. However, if the half has not been told of privation and suffering, it has also not been told of the wealth of the Klondike.I fully expeet the roinere will take out from £3,000,000 to 44,000,- 000 worth of gold this summer; and it would be safe to estimate the value of the accessible gold in the 700 square mike of the Klianclike district at as many million dollars, IN THE RESTATJR.A.NT. Stranger—Waiter, let me have peached egg. Stranger at next table—One for me too, please, but see that it isn't a bad Waiter, in the kitchen—Two poach- ed eggs, one good one, THE -HARBOUR OF SANTIAGO DE CUBA. --(From. a photOgraph ) s.ne neon" ear, 0., 6 restesentnnegnasea— enen - 'd oln ) ' 41Z, 14, City of unUago, /2: lag 1$, Point Blanca. In Cap etatones 6, Lightliatiee, 1, Morro Castle, le, pane waxen, ' '1, Ceyo Smith. 2, anorrilla Point, 12, Sal Point, 9, Lbeeta, Ponit, 8) Niariero Ban, 3, Estrella, Bettery, 4, Spate, Catalina Pert 8, tort La noteee. i• The Sunken Merrimac. PURELY 0111191tIN NEWS. INTERESTING ITEMS A1301.1 OUR OWN COUNTRY. Gathered from Various Points from tho Atlantic to the Panne. heson is the taint town in the Koo- tenay to own its eleetric lighting plant. Coal merchants in Hamilton are cut- ting prices. Farmers in other parts are cutting bay. .1 McNerhenie, of Shoal Bay, 13. O., was found dead on the trail near. Fanny Bay. Heart disease. Winnipeg has an agitation for a by- law to prohibit bicyclists oaxrying, children on their machines. 'Twenty-five thousand persons have gone to the KlonclUos via the Chilkoot Pass so far this season. . Of tbe .$30,000 required to wipe out tee debt of the London Y.M.C.A.., all but e1,000 has been raised. In the Sloan riding of West Koot- enay there are 1,510 voters, and in the Nelson riding there are 1,000 voters. Owing to the ravages of grubs, the foliage is completely stripped all the trees at Horse Shoe and Heron Islands, A Brantford lineman, E4. Lantlaer, seized a live wire. He wrestled with 2,- 000 Volts, and came out with no injuries save burned bands. The 1Vlassey-Harris Co. will spend $15,000 on their Brantford works as soon as the Council assures them flood prevention will be adopted. Kent county jail, according to the grand jury, is a disgrace to the coun- ty. Tramps will please take notice and govern themselves accordingly. Mrs. Howard McLeod, of Rat Port- age, reeved to Fore William, staking some doves with her. The doves flew back home, a distance of 300 miles. The model farra at Guelph, with its lunch attachments, attracts almost daily excursions of farmers from dif- ferent parts of the province. William F. Coulson, of Kingston, Ont., is one of the marines who put SuPPansillc4 ehata GPulustenktYanafimgho t Baagya, itkOsutbat.he Berlin Board of Trade had a confer - 411108 with C. P. R. officials, and made satisfactory arrangements as to freight rates when the new line reaches the city. In fifteen years Lake Huron stur- geon have advanced in value from no- thing to 63 a piece. The eggs are now osahvippreed. to Germany to be made into ia A man entered a law office in Van- couvergl3.0., gagged the office boy, emptied the till of $25, and disappeared It is thought he was either a robber or a collector. A Vancouver man recently married and started for Dawson on his honey- moon. And now opinion is divided as to whetber he boerawed trouble or went looking for it. , Old John McKenzie of Brantford, who was recently removed to the House of Refuge, was literally starving to death and had. undergone such privation that his recovery is doubtful. Two St. Thomas ball players cuffed a small boy who said nasty things about their playing. The boy told his troubles to a policeman, and the police magis- trate will act as umpire in the dispute. The Conger Lumber Co., of Parry Sound, have sold their winter's out of logs, in all 19,000,000 feet, to Messrs. Turner & Fisher, of Bay City, Mich. The logs are all to be taken away by September let. Three PeterboroS boys, of respectable parentage, raided a fruit store, and the police auttorities, bothered by the mix- ture of inherited respectability and con- tracted "cussedness," hardly know what to do with them. The* two-year old son of D. O. Slater was operated on at Guelph for ap- posed tuanor in his nose. The tumor proved to bo a button that had got into the little fellow's nose, and got completely grown over, • A Hamilton boy who preferred the open air to the somewhat closer atmos- phere of the 80h001-3.°cm, when pursued by the eluant offices, ran into the water up to his neck, and smiled cone plasently at his pursuer. The officer knew his name, however. . There is a rtrrnour in the Kootenay that the British American Corporation is trying to buy the breweries at Trail Roseland, Keene Nelson. and Revel- stoke, and thus monopolize the beer trade of the Kootenay. A SHARK'S QUEER DEATH. -- crushed In ins Native, Eterilltlit by a MR: Stone. A sheik, over three metres long, met with a singular death in the Vera Cruz port works a, few days since. In the prosection of „the works in queation, enoemous stone blocke are raised on derrieks and thrown into the water on the mattresses which have been previously sunk. About the beginning of the week the workmen on the sterface of the water were here rifled to obeerve that immediately an ter they had dropped, in the water one of these huge :once an immense cloud -of WOW COMO UP from below, so that the water int around the. wharf -was Won tinged a deep red. They thought that one or more of the divers had beee crushed beneath the tremendous weight. Soon the rope which attached one of the divers was violently shaken as a sigeal that the man down beimath the water wantei to be raised. Wben he was safely bask OU the wharf the work- men gathered around him to learn the WOrSt. To their • great relief he told. them that a big shark wbieb had beeh swimming at the Imidoin of the bay, near Where he was at work, bad been crushed to death by the boulder ewhieh thee deopped on him, KLOIDIKE GOLD OUTPUT, THE SUM Twe Whousand dive Iltundred men at s 01 $15' ,Wo otaLo 0R. EACH Wort; In the Idlltres—Itleft DIMON( ho mom A Correspondent of the Chicago Re- cord writes his paper as follows :— I have juet enturned front a four YNeeike week' trip a giliplor:aancirayon section of', th elusion is that if the civilized world had cause to become excited over the, gold sent out last year, then there wilbk be good excuse for going hatea frenzyl over the amount that will be shipped out this season, Fifteen million dollars is a conservative estimate of the amount of gold. that will be taken out of the mines in the Klondike fields this season. These are the figureI arrive at after making a thorough investiga- selection at mine after mine. meas. tuiroeud, dIephathd ainntderviews with nearly all employes. I panned dirt of my own, of the mine -owners, as well as many • WIDTH OF PAY GROTJND. counted the windlasses in operation and took note of the number, of men employed, the length of time they have worked and will yet remain at worn. There are in the neighborhood of 2,500 meu in the mines,, working nine hours a day. The time is soon to be lengthened to len hours at most of the mines. Last season the work was. not begun before January. From 250. to 300 constituted tbe entire working force. Cabins had. to be built and wood out. There eva.s little method and no system, andi the pay streak had to be. located—a marked contrast with this, SeaSOU. Cabins were tniilt aud.wood cut during the suxnnaer at most of the mines. The loc,ation of the pay ground, being shown in most cases, work began. SOOX1 after the hard. freeze-up in No- vember. The work in every detail is done in a systematic manner, and many of the methods—such as the building of the fires, 'hauling of the dirt, etc,—have been improved on. somewhat. over what THEY WERE LAST SEASON. There have been no sensational finds. of big nuggets yet this year. Quite a. number worth from $125 to $200 have been found. Last year no bench claims. were worked. This year in the neigh- bourhood of thirty are being ,worked, and the output from these claims alone will amount to the astonishing figures, of $1,200,000. The richest section of the diggings ex- tends from the mouth of El Dorado up- stream a distance of four miles, and an. Bono.nza a, distance of twelve miles be- ginning a dew miles above the mouth. It is not an uncommon thing in the rich, sections to select pans tb.at pay from $50 to pm. In some of the richer - mines a run of dirt taken at random. will pay 0. The average pan; how- ever, of the dumps will not go more than from 50 cents to el. The district. is extending northward, and good - ,strikes are being made on some of the claims on Lower Bonanza. This part of the Bonanza creek haslieen neglect, ed, owing to its great width, which:, makes it difficult to locate the pay streak. At the mouth of Bear 'Creek a, very rich deposit has been found, which. extends out into the Klondike bottom. Pans ranging from $5 to .415 oan be obtained at any time from the pay dirt. The first two claims above the one at the mouth are very rich. Twelve ;min- dred dollars was rocked out in six days. by one man from one of these mines: People should. know, especially at this time, when the world is being flooded. with Klondike mines, that the pay, streak does not extend • ALONG A STREAM UNBROKEN.. There are many blanks even in the richest section. There are mines which are very Poor, and often where one endi a a claim ie very rich the other Ls blank. On the Klondike, nearly op- posite Bear Creek, 35 cents to 1 to, the pan has been found.; three miles. lower down, at a depth of four feet. pans pay from 15 to 35 cents to the pan found, and opposite the mouth of' Bonanza there is a good. prospect pan- ning from 15 to 56 cents to the pan. Dominion Creek,' which flows into Indian river, is exciting mare anterest at present than any other stream. It pronus* es to equal HI Dorado as a pro- ducer. Dirt paying from $3 to e16 to the pan is found there. Claims have, jumped from $1,500 to $30,000 in the last six weeks. The raining kings of Bonanza and. El Dorado are the best customers. Alexander McDonald "king cat the Klondike," is buying every- thing he can get on Dominion Creek. Dunker, Sulphur and Quartz promise as well as Dominion. Where the limits of the Inlonclike district will end no one can venture to say. The nature and. origin of the deposits are little understood even by the best mining experts. There are but few streams , this section on which gold. in some qu.attity cannot be found. P MONO') S PLANTS. This is the season or,: the yeer wheal 11 is very neon:18m.y to be oil the look- out eor poisonous plants while worS- , ing out cel doors. .A, vesimple ae Id fficticioue reme- dry y nor poison ivy is appliattions hot watere-as hot es van be borne. (this should be applied at ietervele ape hour or as often as the rieehing sc- enes. A eouple 01 days of this- tread:- 016ra will 11,SUtIlly 01lea a nave. Poison einnac will yield_ to the same treatment. The hot water tends to reduce the Stensimmatioori end in this; niatnaei. eelieves the ittehing and, burnititt, Linseed oil is a very load eemede koe poeson and should be ;ippried, once or twice a day, to elle pane unfected. DESIRA 13 DV, She to grocer—Saall 1 open an ace count, or (10 yoti prafer (,0 have me pay for what I get? , Geoser—lioth 020.dain,