The Brussels Post, 1900-5-10, Page 6A PROFITABLE SUGGESTION.
Rev, Dr, Talmage Speaks of David's
Faults and Excellencies.
God Is a Being of Infinite Leisure—I-le Existed Before
the World Was Made—Beggars May Come Be-
fore the King—The Dr. Tells FlOW to Reach
the Throne,
despfcieli trona Washinoton Says:
ee-Bev. Dr. Talmage Vireaelled from the
followlog text: "BecaUse the kinga
busineee required haste. -1 Ham, xxi, 8.
AO the deptheef the sea ere 8111(1 to
eorreepond witat the heights of the
Mountains, so the depthe of 'David's
faults ;weaned to be as great es the
height oi his excellencies. However,
our business with David this morning
is not to criticise him, but catch from
his lips a profitable suggestion. He
meal's before A.binielevb without
sword, or (wed, or usual attendants,
and glves as his reason tor this un-
seemly aPPearanee, that he was On
urgent imperial busIness, and hatt no
time to paraperly accoutre or equip
himeelf, and be said, "The king's busi-
NIKO; required haste."
lify friends, we are all entrusted
wile same part, of the King's busi-
Pees ; and our great. Awed is to have
IMF speed aceelereted. God seams to
be a Being of infinite leisure. Ile
sounatianes takes twenty-five Oundred
years to do one thing. Though in
nix days( He puton the world the final
touches that ausade it habitable, for
man, geologists tell us -and. 1 believe
thein-Lhat uncounted aged passed
between the laying of the corner -stone
of the earth and its final crampletion.
Good took this tnittginable reach of
time for work thet Ile eould have done
in ,three minutes. He has plenty of
time for carrying out His vast designs,
bu. we are limited. and hence, what
work we have to do ,muse be clone
quickly, "The king's business re-
quites haste."
Christ in our Klog. King of glory,
King a Zion, Xing of stunts, King
ever all the earth, King over beeven.
He is a King that shall never die.
Where is Louis XIV./ Dead 1 Where
10 Richard III.? Dead I Where is
Ferdinand 7 Dead! Where is Peter
the Great ? Dead! At the door of
the grave lies a whole sheat of seep-
tres. Death sits in the relate of the
sepulchre, and the potentates of earth
are his cupbearers; and as the old
blind ,monarch staggers around his
palace ever and 0.11011, he trips on some
new fallen coronet. They set up
Charlemagne in his grave. end put a
crown on his pulseless temple, and a
see,etre in his lifeless hand ; yet that
eould not bring hawk his kingdom. But
our Emperor lives. He existed before
tbe World taus exude. lie 01,1111 con-
tinue after it. is burned up King im.
mortal. The French Government
thought itself rich in having so many
politees-s;. Cloud and the Tuilleries
and the Versailes, and the Pabire
Royal, and the Luxembourg; but our
King has the whole earth for His
solace -the mountains its picture
gallery;
THE OCEA.N ITS FOUNTAIN;
the sun its thandeller; the midnight
heavens its t.andelabra; illimitable
forest 14 its rk ; he glories of the
50111(050111(08 and sunset (bo tapetatry about
tbe windows; t lightning -hoof-
ed coursers dashing up and down
Ib e heavens; all the glories of the
land, and sea. and sky Hie wardrobe;
all the flowers of the field His con-
servatory; all the fish of the sea. His
aquarium; all the birds of the spring
morning His orchestra. But better
than all 'hese. the hearts of His people
on earth, and of His saints in bee -
yen, are the palaces in which he de.
Iighis Lo reign. King universal I Like
other kings He hats His army and
navy. Fighting on His side are the
hurrietanes of the great deep, as in
ihe breaking tert of the Spanish Ar-
mada; the volcanoes of the eartb, as
in the burial of infamous flereulan-
aunt; the fire, as when Sodom was
deluged with conflagration; the rocks,
as when they crashed their terrors
about the erucifixion. The Pstalmist
Boum ed. the flaming artillery of
11011 Vail, as it tame rushing down the
eky, and oried, "The chariots of God
are 2.5 housand." Elijah's sisrvents
taught a glimpse of them in -along
the mountains -a cavalcade of flame;
and the 1(0(088 had necks of fire, and
eyes of fire. and nostrils of fire, and
feel of fire. and they were driven by
reine of fire, by horsemen of fire. The
aerobia,. on Hie Sid0 1 ibe seraphim
on His side; the archangel on His side.
Ring Otnnipot eat I
Our King is wrapped up in the wel-
fare of. His subjents. The Sultan of
Turkey had a rule that when riding
ng
on horseleek, any of his subjects
might ;approach him, and stele their
mhos and sufferings; and the peo-
ple pressed so close em so the sLirrups
that it was sometimes impossible for
the Sultan to proceed, But we have
a more merciful King. We clo not
haye to wait for nubile onettsions. Any
bout' of the day or night, without in-
Sroduction, we preen into Hie pease, .
loll otfr Wants, and severe Hia help.
Going before other kings, we must
halve a court dream, rightly cut, and
ritzhlly adorned; .be begg.are may ,
(mint before thia 'King in their leis- t
end. the prodig.al, filthy trona the
t
twine's herd, is mmediutely Inhered
in. A pardoning King; A conde-
seending Xing! A mereiCul King I 0,
.1851(8 live for ever 1
It is on the business ef Buell a King
1 hat we are all sent. It Is the ltusi.
081(8 of bringing the world to God.
Compared with its all other business
Is
A HOLIDAY AND A SPORT,
If a man saint° come tinancial opera-
tion by ' which he lose e n handred
thousend dollars, and his hose and
es"itte drop cut of his posseesion, and
his (tenure upeet the next man, and
hie the next, until the whole land
quells under the panto, disaster Is
insignificant eompared with the ruin
of OW man who loses his own 0011),
11/111, by example, laces down another,
end nothe r and e not be runt 11 beneath,
earth, and hell, Aral the eternal de -
italeation, William. the Conqueror pull.
led (limn forty-six of the churches of
;God, in order thnt he might enlarge
;hie park for game. So nleu sweep
. away spiritual thinge that they may
'itavenee their amusements end World.
,ly gain. Bat the great day of eter-
Initrwill reveal the fact, that the
i et important of all business on
'mirth and in heeven, is the King's
l'businees.
. The King's business is not oniy Um,.
portant, taut immediate. 11 we do not
I ettend to it quickly, we shall never
'attend to it at all, Hera 10 a Christian
!man expecting some day to be e0n-
1 Remelted. After awhile he will be -
;mane diligent in searehing the Scrip-
; tures and in prayer. Meanwhile, the
day of grace is going. It will 80011 be
;gone. Out with your Bible, and begtn
to read. Down on your knees and began
to pray.- For the business of the
etore, of the shop, and of the field,
you are neglectiug God's business.
i Your soul is toeing its best -perhaps
'its last chances Up, man 1 The
!King's business requires haste.
l In the cloy of the world's doom,
. what will betcome of that man who had
'a thousand Sabbaths, and ten thou-
eand opportunities for usefulness, and
a million chances of being, made bet-
ter, but comes to the gate of eternity,
a pauper in Chrietian experience, and
without one sheaf, though all his
!life he was walking In golden harvest.
i fielda. You have postponed your
higher life until God tells me you will
not come to it' if you postpone it any
longer. The King's business requires
hosts.
; There is a great work of vonatort
I to be dune. If it. is not done speedily
lit oat never be dons. Yonder is a
'heart breaking; maw is the time to say
. lint healing 110111. (10 next week with
' your balsam, and it will not touch the
ease. A man yonder came under your
influence, and you might have lap -
lured hint for God. You will never
have 11111/1 her eleanee at him. To mor-
row, entailer man will be wader your
influenee, you wilt have hut one op-
portunity of saving him. 11 may be at
Len o clot], at Leckie °Mock, or at
three o'clock. mise that, and
YOU' MISS IT FOR EVER, I
fie will be lost, when you might have
towed hint Do not say, "Wait until
t he next time ;" next Lime will never
tome. Be prompt 1111(1 immediate.
The King's business requires haste,
lia the city of Thiele, Switzerland, it
*11(13 tbe eustom to have all 1 he clocks
1,1 the r IV an hour ahead. of 1 11110, for
113,. halloo ing reason. Ones an enemy .
was moving upon the eity. end their 1
stiettngem WM, to take the city at i
twelve ceeloek at 110011; hut the eathe- i
dna *'look by, tnistake struck one in- 1
stead or twelve; sod so the enemy I
thought that they were too late to 1
carry out the stratagem, nest gave up :
the assault ; and the city was saved; ,
and it was a !ranged tor many years 1
that the clock struck one when it '
was tuella, and twelve when it was t
eleven. '
Oman and woman of God, engage in
haistien work -et your clocks on, if
you want I 0 *5 *'a tho ell y! Better get t
Ito your work too early than Come too
late. The King's matinee, requires .
baste. .
I We 11,111 exercising a fatal delibera. '
tion We sit calmly in church, midi- !
toting about hew to save the well& I
Meunwhile, six million of people will '
die this year. You might start the :
Mildenium next year; but it would do '
them no good. What you do for thezaa
you will have 1.0 '(10 within a twelve-
month. Wiant you do for some of .
them you will hay ia 1.0 do this month- 1
aye, this weekl-aye, this day! HaVe
you never heard that a neighbour 0115 I
sick, and said to yourself, "I must go
and talk with him about his soul, for
T know be is not prepared to leave
this world 7" but thee day you were
busy; and the next you were busy;
and the third day you wenl to see/aim,
You pulled his door -bell; a servent
name out, and you said, "How is he
to -clay V' The answer was, "He is
dead!" You say "It cannot be pos-
sible! How long ham he been dead?" 1
She a now ers, 'live minutes." God
have naerey tiptan that Christian man I
who comes to do his work rive min -
tiles too late. The king's leminese re. 1
quires haste 1
1 pray God that my text may be t
brought. home *etch specie!. power (0 c
three. in this audienee who have never
yet seught Christ. Ati many of ibe
valises that mama up in meta are ad- s
journed, sometimes beeautra the wit. 1
[gasses a38 not, ready, and stameimme I
because the plaintiff is not reedy, g'
and sometime:I beentee the defendant
le not ready, and sometimes because l
the judge is not ready, until the bill 1
of cost ia ruinous and hard to pay a
(4
Oat Stend the !Plie Meet hrlie
tient ere in the Mocie peril. Whet 11
the Mind that God bee stirell you for
MO' and! boll' 1.10eSi should perish bee
lore youi have /maid Chrifill ileaVy
fail, an tratidentel etroke op the heed,
altdden effiletione Inc which you
ere not! reedy, may kill your Intel -
teat, and( so your leet abanotai for
heaven pessi way, thengli yoti ehould
lvo en for Inch)! a year, In thegreat
ne
pemilatiothat oecupy the mylome
of the countrYi er *irefully guarded
in Private! dwellings, are huildretts of
Melt end women who expeeted Mine
day to. be Christiune, They had
abundance of; time, they thought,i but
mental disorders droppedi upon them
before they had thudded the matterl
end although now. they are irrespon-
sible, ands shell not be brought to
amount for anything they do owlet,
this mental eolilute, yet 193871 ehell
taut be called into judigment for the
long years of mental health when
they oegleeted the Gospel, What
will become, of them I leave you to
judge. While 70111; reason aets put
it, . to the grandest ose-that cif
weighiog time against eternity, and
heaven against/bell. While yoar will
rats, put it to Its highest use -in
coming. to God. While your imagina-
tion acts, bring before you Lhe reali-
ties uL another world. Look out how
you Parry, the magnifieent touch of
your intelleet, leek God put it out in
darkness forevver. The liing's bum -
12085 requires haste!
1 would have you regard the text:,
because you may have 0441110 1351(1' 10
the end of God's patience. There can
ba on doubt that some men in youth,
or middle life, or old age, so aggra-
vetingly reject the Gospel, that (Sod
lets them elone. They slant the door
of their soul in God's face and telt 111m
to bte gone; then when they call after
lom. to come batik,
119) WILL. NOT COME,
Himmel affront haa been given; and
In that book where no clusures are
made, the man's name 18 put down
among tbe. (Moused. Cross the line
that divides God's, mercy from; His
is
but 0738 i/1017 over, and
you are as badly off as if you went
ten thousand furlongs. Before the
Iron fastens the door against you.,
you had better go in. Before the last
boat sails for heaven, you, had better
gel, on, board. Haste then owl of thy
siu 1111.0. the pardon of God, The
litug's business requires baste!
Kenesaw, during the battle,
these wbo approached a certain tree
were alumet sure to get shot. Eight
men bad rattan at that place. A sign
was PUI UP, "Beware!" A. man, in a
braggadocio spirit, said, "1 inn not
afraid to stand there. There is no rea-
sun why a Mall IM011,11t be shot there
any more than anywhtire else." He
stepped up, to the tree. and instantly
fell -fatally wounded. Just. the place
you 0(0111))' to -day. ()sinner, it is a
fatal plare. Hundreds, at just your
wont of, procrasranotion, have perish-
ed. Look out that your turn does not
C0M11 next. Beware! Beware 1
Have regard to the suggestion of the
text, because your life may unexpeets
edly terminate. 'We are trading on
borrowed capital of years that'. may
in a moment be called in. There is no
map of the great future into wheh
i
we are travelling. No explorer has
been ahead, end come bath, to tell us
how it is. Each one feels his wily
along the path, not knowing what mo-
ment devouring lion may come from
the jungle. There are so many ways
at sett ng out of life; by fall, by slap,
by assassination, by malaria, by over
exertion, by insidious disease, by mis-
placed railroad switeh, by rotten
bridge, by fractious horse, by falling
wall. No man goes 3811811 he expect-
ed, nor as he expected. Suddenly the
pulses stop drumming the life march.
en t 1138 trattain faille and the W
lights are put out. e change worlds
quicker than I can drop this hand-
kerchief drum one hand into the oth-
er. Al one tick of the watch we are
In time; the next we are in eternity.
What, if with all our sins unforgiv-
en, we rush into the presence of the
Omnipotent God, before whom sin is
utterly: loatheeinel Can you imagine
the chill of that. tnoment, or the hor-
ror of that undoing? What I twenty,
thirty, forty years, to repent in, and
yet not have attended to it I Beyond
the dead line there is no rectification
of blunders. In the grave there is
NO PLAC'E TO PRAY.
Those who founder here, founder for
ever. I do not want you to fear death I
I want you to be prepared for it The
Rader on the Pale Horse spurs on his
steed; and in a moment he may be
le:sanding at the gate for admittance.
What thy hand findeth to do, do it
with all thy might. Do it now. The
King's business requiters haste!
ATI artist wished a queen te let him
ake her picture in his gallery. The
time wee appointed. 'The queen,
>romp' to the minute was at the
billies The artiet did net cattle un-
it ten !ninnies after. The queen had
gone, it was the man's last chance
or making his fortune. The King
.011111, 011 1 to meet thee, to -day; you
may now have Ills image iropreasea
upon your soul. It may be your last
hence. Meet Him promptly with your
leart's canifidence and love; or you
nay come too late and when He has
one.
I sterol bete oith the feeling that
1 001110 of you do not stoat for heaven
his morning, you win not start at
11. 0 that God would arouse you,
in has benumbed your soul. The in-
aensibility that yint feel is like Life
dretesitiess moues over the Swan
traveller before to freezes to death,
Awake, before you dial There is 115811 -lower ((((1811 the "Oplitalet," whiela
!meads abroad its petal beautifully,
but it is very poisonous; and the lit-
tle Deli thet touthes tt struggles but
a moment, and then dies, and other
pain's of the game flower, floating
in the waiter, wrap arouttd the fish,
and pull it down into the deadly bosom
of (he flower. That is what is the
matter with ciome of you. Sin is an
(attractive flower, end IL glom; and
we vas beau' ifully before the soul; but
no sooner do yott touch it than you
are poisoned, and must be swallowed
up, untees we may sweep you sway,
and riweep you up in this net of the
Gee(pol.
Don't you +see that the tides of world-
liness are setting against you', Don't
you nee that there are influences at
work to destroy you for evert Haste
ye to Jest" the only refuge. The next
moment mays be worth to thee 1131
eternity. The King's 13011102101 requives
beget
-so there, are men and women who
have adjoarged the ep.usa oi
sart-ritifob front' youth loThnicliile lite;
and adjourned it from healtri in clack -
noes; and adjourned it from
PROSPERITY. TO ADVERSITY,
until death, eternal will be the bill of
emits to pay. 0 prolereisttinating, de'
11118(01.10(4, halting soul; let me tell
you that the King's business requirea
haste! :13, fare you ettence in it your
mental faculties may fail, Your in-
tellect works admirably now. Some-
thing in the elimateo urges men on
to sucih extremes, and the pressure on
active totem is eo veto., that before
they are /Mara of it, the braid soft-
ens, or, mote suddenly, the mind drops
dead from( fle throne. pythageres.
studying philosophy, was se anxious
to keep awake and improve all hte
Gum teilh a string, be lien the hair
of his head In a beam Mitres, so that
the very moment he nod.ded in ;limp
the pain would, wake blue So, tbere
are men now, who have melt' moebid
anal unhealthy, notions about how
miuth work, 11 Is necessary to do, that
they never Mize any rest. They 5a31
BJ BROWN'S BURRIENOB,
48011.4
THRILLXNG NARRATIVE OF lifS
TISHRI/3LE OVERLAND TRW.
seem
rue mourned Gad smelter notelet roil,
etaltin er item Trip 00 bus tonit ol
Situ -.1111s rereenel
In the summer p131 I took the gold
fever, and was ammo as ene of a
Perty of twelVe to go to the gold
fields, writes.Dr. hi, Browit, in the,
Stratford Heeald. 1 loft Chicago on
Oet. 29, '97, Varied thrOughtlitratford
and took my departure for Montreal
and Ottawa to pity for the goods which
the somPany had Purchand. From
here I went to Winnipeg by the C.
9,11., along the north shore of Lake
Superior, where we bought 62 doge
to assist 111 drawing our goode to the
far north land,
We reached Winnipeg Noe. 10, and
here we did more outfitting from the
H. B. Co., buying 30 horses. We reach-
ed Calgary OM the 15th, and, after get-
ting on horses and loading them
on the train, started for Edmonton,
where we arrived Nov. 17. There were
In all twelve men in our expedition.
We were delayed in Edmonton, till
Dao.aoit1216w, itwth5e2n dugs
asatadrtAdauforrh
aes the
loaded, and
111TCH.ED TO FLAT TOBOCIGANS,
Lime our horses and loading them
After o couple of days um we found
the dogs Wars Of IW use, as one horse
meld draw ate much as eight doge,
and could be managed mcue easily.
We get rid of the dogs and bought
ten more horses. We now started off
with 45 horses Inc Lesser Slave Lake,
across the Swan Mountains.
When we reached Lesser Slave Lake
we had only 18 horses alive, and the
bulk oe the goods batik 50 miles. We
arrived at Peace River, about 4.410
miles from Edmonton, March 6, and
began to work getting out timber to
saw Inc lumbee to make SOWS with.
The nunaber that came by way of the
Swan Mountains was enormous, and
am safe in saying there were
THOUSANDS OF HORSES IMED
on that trail from starvation. We
started off on the 80t13 day of April,
'98, for the Peel Meer.
From Fort Vermiellon, we floated
down the Peace River, to where it
joins Great, SILLVe River, and continued
on without uny Interruption till we
ranched Smith's Landing, At this place
there is a successton of rapids for
about 20 miles to FOri Smith.
Starting from this place June 19 we
reached Great Slave Lake without any,
trouble, and started across the lake
with a side wind. We sailed all night
till about four o'clock In the morning,
when the sea got so rough that the
waves were dashing aoross the boat
so we had tu make for the shore and
unload all our goods to save our boats.
111 24 :hours the wind had gone down,
arid we again loaded up and started
for Hay River. Here in a Church of
England in charge of Rev. Thomas
3. Marsh and wife, assist ed by Miss
Marsh Miss Tints antcl Miss Veitch.
I can assure you that the nospitality
of these missionaries was not onlyto
myself and party but to all the min-
ers going north by this route, and
thare we1e fuIly 3,000in
We Left Hay River and started on
the lake again on the evening of June
22. Next night, we reached Fort Pro-
vidence about 11 o'elock. At 3 the next
mor ng lac left Providence for bort
Simpson, where we arrived June 25,
about 9 p.m., with the sun still an
hour or ore d,Igb, Earty Monday
morning we -started again on our way
north, first coming to Fort Wrigley,
then Fort Norman and Fort Good
Hope. A short daietance north of
Good Hope we orossed the Arotio Cir -
ale, on July 1. We peeped around the
mouth of the Mackenzie to the mouth
olf the Peel on July 5, andi had the
pleasure of seeing the suu shine all
night. At this 1311100 the sun deem
3101. setfrom about the first week in
une, till the middle of July. It is a
grand sight to see the sun shining
continuously, without ever sinking
below the holizon for clays at a time,
and see It shining directly in the
north.
About five miles by boat down
stream north of the Arctic Cirele we
have now gone down stream for over
two thousand mittes, and this ends
our down stream „journey. We now
have to start pulling 00.0 boats up
the Peel river. About thirty miles
up this river is Fart McPherson where
we arrived Silly 7. Here we had to wait
for She agrivat of the H. B. Co.' e steam-
er, which did not come till July 21.
Our second year's provisions were
expected on this steamer, anti as it
makes only one call to McPherson
during the year, y.ou may imagine our
feeling of disappointment when we
found that not one dollar's worth had
eome. I succeeded in buying a fairly
good supply. While at Fort MoPher-
Ben WO met the Esquireaux and Lou-
eheau Indians, who come every tmm-
mei' to the Mort to see the steamer
arrive and have a general vitiate Their
clothing is entirely, of 'the skins of
animals, caribou, etc., and they are
the wildest tribe of Indians that I
saw. The Indians learn to smoke very
early in life. 1 had our artist take
a photo of two-year-old standing In
the door of the wigwam dressed in
the little copper -colored suit that the
Creator gave .him, end smoking his
father's pipe. At Fort 1V1aPherstin
had the honor of being groomsman at
the wedding of the Rev. Mr. Whitta-
ker, which was a novelty, from the
fact that it occurred beyond the Ara-
bic Circle, that the bride came fifteen
hundred miles to meet the groom, that
the officiating clergymen, Rev. Bishop
Reeves rata Rev. I, 0, Stringer, came,
one seven hundred miles, and the oth-
er two hundred miles, to perform the
ceremony; that the bridesmaid had
travelled seven hundred miles and the
groomsman had gone about four thou-
sand four hundred miles, and last but
not least, the church was crowded
with Indians, bath Inside and outside,
every man, woman and died, shaking a
hands with the bride, and a volley if n
eart.ridges being shot Into the air as
soon as the bride stepped out of the
church.
On truly 26 we started up the Peel
River, and had to pull our heavy loade
against the streran. The Peel River
in
11 most treacherous, swift current,
end the trials and troubles we bad
110941 ACM till ihe winter overtook psi
were almost beyond description,
OA Sept, 8th ono of Cho !loot
fe men in 0(4418 party was felled
701111(4
othe river by the traelt nee and
drowned, This wee 0110 og the
SADDEST 31=4ERIENOISS,
at the whole trip. We burled him on
the lonely banks of the Peel,
At lest the lee began to ran 111 the
river, and we found it too cold to con-
tinue this wet job, 110 stopped at a
suitable place fair wood and hixaber
iriattray1111114.deinthgregeuifir :14484M jkilWrte fb c141 it!?
time Wes during the dark days. We:
1114 niot 400 010 sun above the hurl
sem from Deo. 13111 till Wan, 1st, 1899
Wseetis tIo tmil lank% orate e ttble B1)4,1(418,0 "w I
trAa;eiStIon2 WO stth:rtiortown8dresawfeinti.or
g,aucla toward the divide, or, in other
words, actress the suniratt of the Rooky
lefountains We hied several loads moll
to draw over s dietanee of 170 milee.
Our party Was drawing goods for 170
day*, naoh man drawing a teleigh or
tobote,grin. We were In the lead and
croseed the divide Itieroh 14th, 1899.
The
u 11). as se uttiecrac6ifivel vdaivilledye wtila ge r s.dP-
s* de-
scent
tr 'Bona ea ithe d e, aolludwit,IlsOLUde1,1
:04(11 muon.
tains on each side of the valley. of
immense height and size. We went
down about 84 miles on the Yukon
side oit the mountains, and there
built boots and waited for the river
to break up, but the snow did not
leave the ground till tiIter May 20.
We left cen May 22, going down the
river, not knowing where we were or
where we were going. We soon found
out we were on a &neatl branch of the
north fork of the Stewart RIV01'. we
had no trouble whatever in reaching
Dawson, except at Frazer Falba,
where there is a portegebf about half
a mile to be made.
You can only in a measure imagine
the pieasure it gave us to come into
civilization, even as it existed in Daw-
son City. On our arrival, june 5, 1899,
we foun,i that there were hundreds
of men in Dawson who could not get
a day's work, aud WOre much in need
of money. This
WONDERFUL DAWSON CITY
11010 in a ateciaure disappointing to me.
The town site is on a large, flat val-
ley, on the banks of the Yukon River.
Fully 96 per cent. of the dwelling
bailees In Dawson are log retina, about
16 by 18 feet. All the churches, hos-
pitals and 90 per cent, ot the stores
are to log buildings.
The order in Damon was excellent:.
There were no eases of robbery Or
shooting,. and a man was just as safe
there as an the city a Stratford. Sun-
day was observed in the strictest
sense. Colonel Steele, who had charge
of ell minor lawsuit eaees, was the
night man in Lhe right place. He was
feared by all men and everybudy 1118 -
ed him.
Regarding the gold dietriete of
Dawson, I might say that it is all
included In an area of aciout 25
miles square, lyound on the east by
the Yukon River, the south by Indian
RiverSen the north by Klondike, and
on the west by Dominion Creek, run-
ning south into Indion River, and
Hunker running north to the Klon-
dike. There are a number of smaller
streams that are paying fairly well,
sue.h as Sulphur Quartz, Bear, ole. In
fact there is golLd all 0800 111,1 11•11
end valleys, but the diffieully is that
it costs about thirty dollars a day to
work a (hum. 11, requiree men in
the hale and one in the windlass.
Wood is $80 a cord, and one requires
at least 1-3 a a mod each day. The
delft is dug 6 by 4 teet and must be
sunk to bed rock, an average of 25
feet, through frozen ground the whole
distance. Not more than two feet of
this goound can be taken out in a day,
and a Haim that pays over $30 in
this amount of earth mast be rich.
Anything that pays much less than
tbis cannot be worked with profit at
the present expensive method of work-
ing.
Aftee n stay ot two and a half
months in 'Dawson, I left; August 19,
I99, for the outside world, taking the
steamer from Dawson to the head of
Lake 'Bennet and the trial over the
mountains to Skaguay, a distanee of
"merielesi
Ildecided to !
TAKE ANOTHER TRIP
into the Interior and In uompany with
three other men look the train to Ed-
monton where we bought enother out-
fit and bad it freighted to Athabasca
Landing, a distance of 90 miles. We
bat a boat her and again started
north bound fur Great Slave Lake,
where gold bearing quartz, had been
discovered.
We engaged a guide to take us
through the rapids on the Alhabrocca
River but after waiting five days for
him at the Grand Rapide we oencluded
to take the boat through ourselves,
The Grand Rapids are about a. mile
long and full of big bould.ers. All
veent well till we got about half way
down when the sweep struck a large
boulder and in a moment knocked me
out into the boiling torrent, but I
hail hoild of the handle oe the sweep
with the grip of n Mason, an Odds
tellow and a Forester combined, so
that my head did not go ander wa-
ter. I nuide a struggle for the boat
and quickly pulled in.
We bow thought II :infer to take
one half a 1.149 goods out in case
01 mama aecident. We not gone
much farther when the boat began
to jerk the men an shore el a reok-
rase rate, One of them rushed and
wound the repo round e tonall tree
on the brink but it pulled the tree
out by the root and away it went
with the boot, going down, stern first,
through the worst reptile on the riv-
er, ft was indeed a
HAIR Sl'ANDIN0 RIDE.
and one twill not soon forget, eplanh-
ing, climbing, pounding on stimee, at
tintea the beef. being (almost on itn
side, I got through the whole thing,
vvith only a very small bole in the
l'f°re41fich e cl Great Sieve ke, about 1,11011
WS had no more trouble 1411 Ws
miles from Edmonton, where we re-
mained ill Jan. 1611, seettring end
poking :after our (loons, when we
tarted out on the lee with clog-tettme
,net reitched Edmont on Ma reit 4 vis-
ited some friends in the North Weal:,
and arrived in Stratford, Myrrh 24,
1900, alter an absence of nearly two
end a half years, thankful to find
my wife rind son sell during my ab-
sence ned Chatt 7 had not one dity'e
eicknees during the long trip,
eh-le-f-ltee.--.,....,*--ilt-.9-11-. •
;
YOUng F4°11(S• 1
TRICKS WITA HOGS,
/lather a pretty experiment cvitil 11
blown egg te ft) 8118P011(1 11 by means
of A Nene 01 , ootton attaolied to it
a3Lealetaallitelei/inav:i i;olione euNttr labonaladailt:LeillaiaoainaiaCt, 48,0,711 j1701
later is eoppiled by a iiOnbied tilleig 04
liroWn paper, warmed nod made elec.
trio.' by being held tightly against
the body with the upper arm, whib,
1. 18 drawn smartly 0u1. with the other
hand. '
Tlic brown ,paper, whim' will, give 11
bright electric> spark to the knuoklee,
will make the egg swing briskly by
Its attracition, drawing the egg to it-
self as a very powerful magnet will
111.8(101 0tiiakpiinnegm000iner
fIion: but in n much
m
Am egg -that is, a complete egg, not
the empty shell, melt ae we have just
been uslug--will sluk In water, But
it Will float In strong brine, made by
adding co cold water as much milt as
will dissolve in it. Cold water will
diseolve a little inure salt than hot.
if we mix a 1701111,1011 of eat with
dramPIttintre Wto14(.5131'intel,.7w1neg ctinme' eogbgtailna 18
31
mixture having the same epeolfie
gravity as the egg; 1911(1 113 this water
11'0 011 11 make the egg float, by a lit-
tle core, at any particular spot.
Thus if we take a tall jar full of
the fluid mixed as above, and by means
of a bent piece or tin carefully release
the egg half -way down, we shall have
the curious phenomenon of an egg 8118.
trended, as though by Laughs, in the
middle of the jar, as Mohammed's cof-
fin hung in air between eart.h and hea-
ven.
Dui if we had not wholly filled the
jar there is yet a more curious trick
greatly surprising to the unwarned
onlooker. By means of a long funnel
add some more brine to the water and
the egg will gradually rise to the sur-
face. Now add fresh water in suffi-
cient quantity and it will as slowly
sink.
Take an empty eggshell and choose
one in whieh the hole has not been
made too large. If you now put tire
empty shell into the oven, so as to
make it vevy hot, anti then plunge it
in a bowl of water for a few minutes,
the shell will suck in some of the wa-
ter, owing le the euntraction of the
(contained air in coolin(4.
1),o this once or twice until
you have he the eggshell just euffi-
den 1 eater for this experiment,which
requires that the shell shall just be
able to tloat. on Water and no more -
that, is, that a very slight touch will
s;iticot
li%d
tyadioemp , to bob uagain direet-
i2111. it in 11 large, norrow-neouthed
pickle tar, nettles, full of water. Put
the palm of the hand over the mouth
of the jar and beer heavily upon it.
lhe egg will sink to the bottom. Lift
the hand und the egg will rise quickly
to Lhe suefaoe. 'The eorapreseion of
the air destroys the buoyancy of the
eggsbell. If you don't mintl making
rather a mess in the Blatant:a you ocin
utilize this shell with the water in
it for another striking trick.
Cover the hole with a piece of paper
well gummed on and gummed over and
put the shall in the fire. In a few
minutes the shell will be blown ea -
lenity lo pieces by the steam from the
water. Stand well book from the
grate or you meg be scalded.
In the next triek it is not necessary
to allow the onlookers either 10 wit-
ness the preparittions or to be aware
of the fact that it is an empty egg
that is being used. Take a little
piece of good muslin and soak it in
strong brine. Let it dry and repeat
the process three or four times. Then,
by attac.hing a piece Of 181 30 to each
Corner of the muslin, make a little
cradle to hold the, shell. Do not do this
until the muslin is thoroughly dry.
lf you now set fire Lo the muslin so
that 11 may burn, tho eggshell teill
not, as the bystanders expect, fall.
The trick is a very surprising one and
its explanation simple. The salting
of the muslin couses it to leave an ash
suffielently strong to support s light
objeet like the eggshell.
trat.
He was the most letelligent crow Il
ever know. Ile did not belong to 118,1
but often clime around for a. visit.
Whenever I heard it lusty 'caw, caw,"
I knew that Jim had 001/18 101, his
treat of ginger eoukies. They were
the old fiushioned hard cookies, and
Jim often found trouble in managing
them. There wtts a break in our gar-
den hoes, through which the water
ran in a tiny jet. Jim was a genius;
he would hold his mokie over the little
stream until il, 14'EL8 soft, and then it
went down hia throat Milieus trouble.
If be had more cookies than he could
dispose of at once, he would hop away
to a pile of leaves and eover them up
carefully until time tor another lunch.
Our little pug dog, Tasso, had a. very
early mil, and it 4150 jim'e delight
to slip quietly up behold. ICasso and
give said tail a Pull --when there
would be 'a very augry dog and
much -amused crow,
Jim was a sea thief I One clay a
workmen, Omit the yitrd, 1,oid cjown
his pia, anil Jim, evidently not ap.
proving of the use of tobacco carried
the pipe to the top of the house and
nafely disposed of it clown the ohimney.
Jim was severely reprimanded by his
friende for his bad habit of Ittaibving,
and W11.11 1.0111 that 110 muca.be good. His
lova t.iable reply was, for Jim uould
talk; "Don't heve to; don't have to.'
One day (hey pill a Intim washing
nut al. Jim's house, lout then went
emery for Ilse day. 'When they re-
turned n sad sight mitt their eyes. It
had rallied the night before, and the
eaves, which were not very deem W0111
full of water. jim had busied him-
self, while he was a lone, blinking n.II
the (Sothis ;ibis from the line rind
11111 01117 them 111 Llje eaves, leaving the
oil n Is of his wet feet wherever he
stepped on the (dollies! Jim uisely I
kept out of the wily till the wrath of
"the Nally cooled,
Jun disappeared 01111 tiny and never
more 08 Me batik. Whether it W118 be-
cause seveval eliekens in the neighbor -
1100I1 11011 diciappeared, with nuntereas
other !hinge, or whethee Jim )m4,1114(1
of civilized liia (ncl' people, and bad
gone in 1 11I1 WO(818, 10 be with lois own,
we never knew.
MAY 10, 1000
fiR MEANT TO DE POLITE,
Paring lite visit of the Prineoss of
Wales to the London Hospital, a little
blind bay in 0140 a the wards was sit-
ting on 4 (glair and the princess spoke
to him. The oheirMan 0( 1918 hosPital,
thinking 11 110441(1 be nioe lad
to knosv who had been speaking to
him, said; 'filet lady who has been
smitking to yon le the Princess of
Wales, Would You 111 ta 00415 OP
11 114 Make your bow to her end !meek
to her I"
The boy 1,V48 delighted, and jumped
off hie choir. He wee led up to the Prin-
cess, and she was told of his wish, to
which elle very readily acceded,
The bow was duly made, and then
eamo the speech: "HoW are you nales
-11 speech whioh was hardly expected, -
but width was answered by five min-
utes' convereation, and the boy re.
turned to Ws chair proucl and happy.
OURMAIN DWELLERS OF INDIA.
India which II/ at pasitient being
scourged by the periodical visitation
of its Nemesis, famine is a oountry of
strange traditions and practices,
though those entailing cruelty and Imo
Intelsat have for the most part, been
Put aside, largely throligh the influ-
ence of English colonization, Amens
the revolting and horrible customs of
the poet, was that known ae the Sati,
which was a widow burning ceremony,
In the ancient days married women
had a surer and more expeditious way
of ridding themselves of undesimble
husbands. They fell into the danger-
ous habit of putting poison into the -
food of disagreeable mates, and the.
habit became so alarmingly widespread.'
tbat a decree was issued that all Wi-
dows should be burned alive with the
bodies of their dead husbands, the only
alternative being a life of shame and
dogendatIon. It mattered not hout
many wives the husband had at the
time of his death --all were added to
the human sacrifice. It is recorded
that 275 widows perished in this way
in the year 1803, within a eirele
Ly miles from Calcutta. The crema-
tions were attended with a great deal
of ceremony and speetaeular effect,
end gradually became a phase of tbe
Hindu religion, the women accepting
their fate with an air of pious resig-
nntion. Finally the custom of widow
burning was stamped out, but blor
status of womankind in India, hes
never ritien to a very exalted plane.
The sociological history of the coun-
try shows tbat the people were divid-
ed into tribes, or °lens, and that no
legitimate marriage meld occur be-
tween people of different clans. Cir.,
cles of affinity formed on the basis
of the origin Of the Glans governed
the matrimonial plan of the country,
and these idene are still in vogue to a
great extent, ln modern times we find
thc icfohninixiedan woman of the uPPes
east. relegated to a lsfe of seclusion
and patient trabanission to the will of
her liege. Her home is practieally her
little world, where she directs the du-
ties of tire household servants and re -
wives the commands of her master,
The subjects of women's rights and
cowl suffrage are a closed book totter,
The visitor to Intlia-and especially
the Bengal Presidency -never sees n0.
tive women above the rank of the la-
boring classes. As he sees handsome
earriagee driving Ginnie: the parks
he will, until he becomes norm/inlet
with mein) customs, marvel al. the aly
nonce of lady occ,upants. It Is tht
Name et fetes and social functions. Tbr
male kinsmen of the person tendering
the function receive the guests, and
there is no sign of women. Should the
visitor allude to the patron's wife 08
daughters, he wouM be regarded ne
having made 1171 inexcusable breach of
derornin. The master of the house
expects to have the courtesy of fol-
lowing his ouetom of ignoring them
eniirely. After a while a person be.
comes acrustomed to this apparent
neglect of the women
Many Englishwomen have tried in.
effectually to abridge this custom. but
their aroused sympathies inevitably
submit to the insurmountable cllfflcnl'. .4
Hee that lie In the petit of their ef-
filets and which have 1 heir root in
the principles flint underlie and influ.
enee the lite of oriental countries.
The women of trona whose relate can -
drums there to eneh nn exelusive ex-
istence, ere known as "
ere." On the extraordinary °evasions
when 'Mervin -we with them ere per-
mitted, they remnin obsoured behind
a 5011 of seinen called a chlic, which
is mode of thin strips of bamboo. This
wbolly abuts off the view of the per. „
son on persons outride, though Gm
Indy herself can see her visitor who
is given 0 ohnir ne.ar the molten. So
deep-seated hes beecone the custom
that the "curtain-clwellers" regard it
ne horrible rind degrading to he seem
a men other than their husbands,
-4
t
PROJECTILE AIR.
i —
Theory ,That IhiblileA Driven by MIMIC"
1111110IN ENfOlOilt. 1111 HIP node.
Playsitians in South Africa now
Wive anothe,r theory for explain -one
away the charges ,Inade by both Bri-
ton and' Boer that the other is tieing
explosive bullets. The extensive
lareratioli often found in bullet
wounda is now said to biedue to the Ilk
Whiat the Ciliet drives before it
to the wound. The existenee of this
phenomenon eitn he proved easily, If
a ralend bullet be dropped into s glass
of We Leis from the bight of s few feet
it will be, seen that when the bullet
tallithim the bet tom a hove bubble Of
1111' will heroine detached; and rise le
the titillate. In, 1138 0118C the bubble
will usually he from tim to twenty,
tunes Lite size of the bullet,
.1\ OW, a 1(1011508 bullet traveling et
high speed ts maid to terry before It
O tantalite of, compressed air oaf large
dimensions, Experiments niatia laYt
a eurgeoe who fired ci pistol into a
riass (if writer showed the bubble to
he hundred times the size of the 11e11,
From the appeartince of the remoras
and from; theme experiments 11 et eon -
eluded *Chet the 31(1888 Of am driven
by a Abuser bullet explodes m the
body of the stomncled men with Hut.
Wien* (+tree to cause extmeive innere.
lion, This destruei ire eir bubble is
well known ti surgeorie under the
name 01 projeetile air.