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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1900-5-31, Page 61.1.11111 6 T E """nsnnenon".7"nasnan BRUSSELS POST. THE GI ISHAN LIFE. Rev. Dr. Talmage Speaks on the Evening of Our Sorrows. A. despatch from Whenlington say; s -Rev. Pr. Tebnage preached from 1 the following text; "At eventieeta it shall belight."-Zechaviala xiv., 7. Wheat "night," in all languages, le the Umbel aor gloom and suffering, It is often really cheerfel, bright, and impressive, I speak not Q suoh nights as come with tio stem pouring, light from above or silver wave teeming up light from beneath -murky, hurtl- ing, portentous, but suoh as yen Minn see when the pomp and megnattoence of heaven, turn out on night -parade; and it seems as though the sang which the morning stars began so long ago wore aiming yet among, the 00115151 - tenons, and the sons of God, were , shouting for joy. Such nights the ' eaten* Meioses from the forecastle, and the trapper on the vast prairie, said the belated traveller by the road -side, and the soldier fromi the temt, earth- ly hosts gazing upon heavenly, and 1 shepherds guarding their Hooks afield while angel hands above them set the ailver bells a ringing: "Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace; good Will loWard. men.' "At eventime it 611511 be light." 1.. Time prophecy will be fulfillnt in the evening of Christian sorrow. For aion time it is broad, daylight. The awn rides high. ALvny activities go ahead with a thousand feet, and work with a thousand arms, and the pick- axe struck a mine, and the battery made a discovery, and the investment yielded its twenty per mint., and the book came to its twentieth edition, and the farm quadrupled in value, and sudden fortune hoisted to high poen don, and children were praised, and friends without number swarmed into the family hive, and prosperity sang in tbe music, and stepped In the dance, and glowed in the wiue, and ate at the banquet, and all the gods of musia, and ease, and gratification gathered around this Jupiter holding in his hands so many thunderbolts uf power. Bat every sun must set, and the brightest day must have its twi- light. Suddenly the sky was over- cast. The song hushed. The wolf broke into the family fold and carried off the beat lamb. A. deeps howl of woe came crushing down through the joyous eymehonies. At one rough twang of the hand of disaster theehttipmtrings alt broke. Down went tbe strong business firm! Away went long-es- tabenued meth! Up Dew a finite of calummes I The new book would not eel]. .A, patent could not be secured Lor the invention. Stocks sank 1.ke lead. The insurance company tee- ploeed. "How muthe says the silent f, "wilt you uid tor this piano?" "now much for this library?' "Bow much for this family pictured' "How much Will you let it go at' less than bad - price 1 Going - going -Guns I" Will th.e grime of God hold one up in suoh circumstances? What have become of the great multitude of God's children who have been pounded of the flail, and crushed under the wheel, and trampied under the hoof? lent they lie down in the dust, weeping, witting, aad gnashing their teeth? Did they, like Job, curse God, and want to die because they had boils? When the red of fatherly chastisement struck therm did they strike back 1 Because they found one bitter cup on the table of God's supply, did they upset the whole table1 Did they kneel dowu at their empty Inoue), vault and say, "All my treassrss are gone?" Did they stand by the grave of their dead, day- ing, "There never will be a resurrec- tion." II. The text shall find fulfilment in the time of old agev It is a grand thing to be young -to have the sight clear, and the hoaxing acute, and Liao step elastio, and all our pulses marche ing on to the isruntnling of a stout beer,. Mu -sibs and tad lige wial be denied many of us, but youth -we all know what that is. Those wrinkles were not always on your brow., That snow was not always on your head. Tina brawny mueole did not always Mulch your arms Yoir have not always worn spectacles. Grave. and dignified as you now are, you. once went coasting down the hill -side, or threw 'off your hat for the rate, or sent the hall flying skyhigh. Hue youth will not always last. It stays only long enough LO give us exuberant seirits, and broad shoulders for bur- den -carrying, and an arm with which to battle our way through diffloulties. Life's patb,if you follow it long enough, will Goma under frowning crag and across trembling causeway. BLESSED OLD AGE, if you let, it tome naturally. Not a hospital, for there are no You cannob hide it. You may try to cover tbe wroikles, but you cannot cover the wrialtles. If the Liana has Come for you to he old, be not asham- ed to be old. The grandest things ih all the universe are old. Old mean - tains; old rivers, old sons; old stars; and an old eternity. Then do not be ashamed .to be old, unless you are old- er than the mountains, and older than the atars. How men and women will lie 1 They say they are forty, but they are sixty, are thirty, They say they are sixty but tbey are eighty. How some peo- ple will lie! nee that you do honour to the aged. A, Philosopher stood at the (earner of the street day eater day, saying to the Passers-by, " You will be an old maa; you will be an old. elan," "Yon will he an old wo'man; you, will he an old woman." Teople tbought that he was crazy. I do not think that he wee. eltrnooth the way for nett moth- er's feat; tbey have not many more • • will pone them open, this etupeladone tbetee tben14s daseetliralinentl Oel tee ,joe a the spirit as it Shan teward the throne of tiod, Shouting Free! Free! Yoer eye has peed ,.nu the garniture of earth and aVan; butt the eye lie th not seee lt, Yeee ear least caught, bareecanee nncounted and 'Incletioribuble-oaught them fent bup % trill, and lard's carol and waterfall a dashand oeteue's dox0- 100al batt tie Oar bate net, beard it. How did those blessed °nee get up into the light? What lutetium knooked oU tope to teice, Steady those tottering them haineil What Loom wove their anles ; they wilt soon be at rein, rubeof lighte Wbo gave them wine? Plough ,not up that nuse wall any A,111 eternity IS not long nought to mote wrinkles ; trouble and ear° have realize It -tee marvels of reneming marked it full enough. Thrust no love! Let the palms wave, let the there into that beart; it will soon cease ceowne 'glitter; Mt the anthems as - to beat, " The eye that mocketh its end; let the trees ot Lebanon' clap father, and refuseth to obey its moth- bair bauds-they cannot tell the er, the ravens of the valley shall pea belt ol it A ehengel before the it out and the young Elegies ehall eat theme, thou.faites. ti It." The Might morning and hotON, noonday' of life ve passed with teleG' ON, PRAISE ON, !sa matty. It le four animist, ti oeeoul I ye hosts of the glorified.' and if with slx o'clockon ! The sbadowe fall lger PAH' soeihres you ottaniyouth it, and and thicker, and raster. .sen o'cilool. with mere Image you cermet express it, thee let all the myriede of the bayed eight o'cloek / The sun 1,1.5 <Upped bee .,eo,tmo unite 111 the exolumatiom "Jeansb out of the ea., Nine (Polack I len naeinn Jaaaa1" o'oloelt 11 The heavy dews are falling; Tnere wet re a password at the gate the activiLies of life's day are all hush- of heaved. A great multitude come ed; it 18 bim bit go to b d even up and einem et the gate, The gate- o'oloelc1 twelve onlookl The paten Reaper nips, 'The pastworti." They arch sleeps the bleated sleep, the cool bey, "We have no password. We were sleep, the long sleep. Heaven's mess great on earth, and now we owns up sengers of light hove kindled bonfires to be great un heaven," A to -ice from of victory all over the heavens. A,t within answers; "I never ketee Another group come up to the gale of eventime ie light 1 Licia nr. My text shall fele fulfilment ntievee and 1511<411i. The gatekeeper in the latter day of the Church. Only says, "Tne paesword." They say, "el a few missionaries, a few (Marches, a have nu puesword. We did a great few good men, compared with the in- many noble things on earth. We en- stitutioes leprous ana putrified. (lowed college -t, and tette oars of, the It to early yet le the history of poor. "rhe ve.re fr0111 within says. "1 everything good. Civilization and me 0. Keew you." Another group Christiallity are just getting out of t4U 4 to the gate on heaven and the , raffle. The rein of me ltnt,..k. Tao a ekeeper eitys, "The Wakes, fleshing all up and down the , ses 'Men enewer, ' We ere sky, in bul the flami is ,,f the . tr. La thee and deserved to ing but when the 5 ent<17 OP . ,0 • Lid yea e ,a .leette-'. W rid will tome glory io one', eons " Ay yl' 11, gm, .41 hat q uering truth, in. eeeewerdl Lilt up your heees, IT SHALL BE LIGHT. ye es 5, metiug gains, ana lel these War's sword clanging back in the nnclain "CM ithThey go in and bur- seithbardintemperance buried under ' r<na.4.1 the throne, jubitent for evert ; Ahl do yore weeder that the last ten thousand broken decanters; the hours ot we Christian ea earth are world's impurity turning its brow illumitia.ed thouglats of the corn - heavenward for the benedietion "13 ass - ed are the pure in heart ;" the last ves- toeniorY? tige of seltishaess submerged in heave Light in the evening. The meth - eines may be bitter. The pi ia m.iy Le en-deseending ebaril,es; all China sharp,. Tee parting may Le hea rt - worshipping Dr. Ames Saviour; all re,neering. Yet, light in the even - Ladle believing in 'Henry Marlyn's Bi- ble ; aburiginul superstition aeknow- tag. As all the stare of this night ledging De.id Brainerd's piety; hu- sine aleir anchors of Peart in Lam elan bondage delivered threagh Thom_ and river, and sea, so the, waves of as Clarkson', Caristientty ; vegramy Jordan shell be illuaninated with lbs coming back from its pelmtion at the downetlashing of the glory to come, call of Elizabeth Fry's redeemer; the The dying eau! looks up at the ron- mountains coming down; the valley's Elena tioes 'The Lord le MY light going up: 4. tenesese teneemea on On 1 my salve, bon. whom :shall I fear. }torso's bell, and silkworm's thread, "The Lamb whiteh is in the mast re' and brown thrasbern wing and shell's the throne shall lead them to living tinge, and manufacturer's sbuttle, fountains of water, and God shall wipe and chemist's laboratory, and king's away all tears from their eyes." sceptre, and nation's Magna Charta. Class the eyes of the Lleart Med one• Not a bospital, for there are no earth would seem tame lo its en - wounds; not an asylum, for there are chanted vision. Fold the hands. Wee no orphans; not a prison, for tbere work is, ended. Veil the face; it has are tto criminals ; not an almshouse, been transfigured. for there are no paupers; not a tear, Mr. Toplady, in his dying hour, sore for their are no sorrows. The long "Light." Coming nearer the expirteg dirge of earth's lamentation has moment. he 011012 (01"'. with illumini t - ended m tbe triumphal march of re- ed oateni enntice L.ghtl In • he deemed etnteres, the forests harping last instant of his breathing, he !M - it on line -strung branches, the wa- ed up his hands and cried, "Lech.' ter ehanting it among the gorges, the Light I" thunders drumming itamong Thank God for Light in the evening! the hills, the ocean giving it forth sieth its organs, trade- . windtouching the key., and Euro- clydon's foot on the pedal. I want to see John Howard when the last prise oner is reformed; I want to see Floe- nee Nightingale when the last sabre woand has stopped hurting; 11 want' to see John Huss when the last faune of persecutin has been extinguished; I want to see John Bunyan after the last pilgrim has come to the gate of the eelestiai city; above all, 1 want to see Jesus after the last saint has • his throne, and begun to sing Halle- lujah 1 Thus brigbt and beautiful shall be the evening of the world, The heats of earthly conflict are uoolecl. The glory of heaved fills all ten scone with love, and joy, and peace. At eventime it is light 1 light I IV. Finally, my text shall find ful- filment at the end of the Christian's MM. You know how short a win- ter's day is, and how little work you can do. Now, my friends, life is a short winter's day. The suu rises at eight and sets at four, The birth - angel and the death angel fly only a little way apart. Jlaptism and burial are near together. With one hand the mother rocks the cradle and with the other SHE TOUCHES A GRAVE. I went into the house of one of my parishioners on Thanksgiving day. The little child of the household was glad, and with it I bounded up and down the hull. Christmas day mono, and bbs lighb 02 that huusshold hiod perisbed. We stood, with bleak book, reading over the grave, "Ashes to tithes, dust to dust." But I hurl away this darkness. I cannot have you weep. Thanks be unto God, who givoth us the viotory, ab eventime it shell be light 1 I have moon many Christiana die. I never saw soy of them die in dark- ness. What if the billows of death do rise above our girdle, who duos not love to bathe? Wbat though Meer lights do go out in the blast, what do we want of them when all the gates of glory open before us, and 115010*5 myriad voices, a myriad harm a myriad. thrones, a myriad palaces, there dash upon u3 "Iltmannah 1 Ltos-a annah 1" I saw a beautiful being we:adoring up and down the earth. She touched the aged, and they became young. She toweled the poor, and they be- came rich. I field, "Who is this beautiful being, veneering up and down the earth ?" They told me that her name was Death. What a strange thrill of Joy when the pal- sied Christian begins to use his arm again 1 When the blind Obristian bee gins to see again! 1Vhen the deaf Christian begins to bear again 1 ' When the poor pilgrim puts his feet on mesh pavement, and joins In suoh company, and has a free seat in such a great templet Hungry mon no more to hoesger; Meaty mon no more to thirst; weeping met no more lo weep; dying mon no mare to die. Gs, her upall sWeet, Words, ant juble Int expressiems, all rapettroin clamatione; bring, them to me, and r TEE ThIP TO Bfiali CITY HOW TO REACH TeE LAND OF THE MIDNIGHT SUN. • EXperletteeti or An It'd Timer on 11,' Aetteney -The 12e81 hareet &utile 4,1 intim Catiliffi in the Vinisn-cost or melee in the 4 <matey <haunt, me Ittrleullure. So much yellow journalism end ab- :solute rot has been written regard- ing this country, that I ehall, in compliance with many outside friends and enquirers, endeavour to state a few facts veld garnish information of a reliable and understandable nature. Ae a very large percentage of out- siders are unfamiliar with the cor- rect geography of and proper route to get into this country 1 shall first endeavour to enlighten them on this very important point. The cheapest, more dieinb and least inconvenient way is to take the C. P. R. to Van- couver; at Vancouver take steamer for Skagway, whioh lies 800 miles northwest of Vancouver. The route from Vancouver to Skagway is through the inside channel, 1. e,, the main land of Be O. Use to the east, and on the west are ranges of islands forming a natural break -water and protecting you from the open Pacific. Some of these islands ere very large, the Prions of Water; Island being 100 miles long and in some places 50 miles wide, with a mountain range running through its oentre, the maximum height being not over 1,200 Met, This island is in Alaska, and 15 without doubt the Nimrod and. angl- er's paradise, as its many beautiful streams are teaming with fish, and bar mountain sides alive with the fattest deer on the entineht, owing no doubt to the abundance of expel- lent grazing. Arriving at Skagway, Whittle lies at the foot of the White Pass, you take the White Pass Rail- way, whioh is now running from Skagway Up over the White Paso, I and on to Bennett, II 0., a distance Iof 415 miles. Arriving at Bennett., during navigation, you take ateamer, passing through Lake Bennett, 28 mi1o, thence through the nook, a short, deep obannel. At Caribou, tormenting Lake Bennett with Tagista Lake, 28 miles long, at the foot ot this lake is Togish, the N. W. M. headquarters for the Tagish Division, At 'eaglet' you enter Marsh Lake, 20 Miles long, to where It An. tors the head of that part of the Lwis known as the 50 Mile Wirer, Your eteaMer follows One river te White florae Rapid; a distance of 29 milesat this Paint you trunefer to a tramway 4 milelung tei the goat of the Vinallie Halle Anal, Where Pen nein embark on eteamer following tee same 00 Mile A/Ver 26 Miles to L4tbe Lout 01' tIi abarg°'Wilsh Ideal 'ilrloue jlesirtege: At 80 Mae River, following it to Ifoolnl- Imola, a distance of 32 maes. At tale paint the Iloutalinquia matelot tbe 30 Mile River, forming the Lewin River •, following the Lewls River to Port Selkirk, a dietetic° of 150 miles, wbere the Polly llaver enters the Lewis, forming the Yukon, watch river you follow to Dawson, a dis- tance. of 101 miles, malting a total distance from Skeen/ray co Dawson of Oid miles. The winter route from Bennett has bean score neuth shorteina ad, and the very beat ot trails were cut and built last summer by the Dunainion .Goverament, and for this excellent pleas of work too much praise oannot be offered, as the many theusands who have passed over these winter trails since the (nose of naVI- gation last fall. ean attest. et id over (hasp out -offs and winter trails that the mail has been carried, enabling the delivery or the same from Daw- son to I3ennett, a distance of 443 miles, in 5 days by dog train. PLACER, HILL -SIDE AND HUM CLA FMS, Within a radius of 50 miles of Dawson City are located the great bulk of gold produoing placer, hill- side and bench cleans. Mining in this country is so entirely different to anything the world has ever known It will be neceseary that you may form an intelligent Mee for me to 2 noribe the mode of mining up here. The plane; °Mime which Ile on either seta of the meek and river bed, are frozen the year round from the sure face right down to bed -rock, conse- quently in order to work such claims you must first thaw the ground (this is dune during the winter), so as to have your gold bearing or pay dirt all in a.•durap and ready to pass through the sluice -boxes the moment the rivers and streams thaw out and water commences to run. The hill- side and bench claims are worked in a similar vay, with the exception, in Many cases, you are obliged to pump the water from the streams below, and, when less expensive, the pay dirt is trammed down to the water, which, of nurse, adds 00 additional expense. Strange and inomeastent as it may seem to ola and experienced miners, the hill-eicle. and tumult claims, in sums oases 1203 feet above the river bottom, etre really placer ground and contain placer guld, and la many instances are proving richer and more profitable than the real placer claims. la working any of the above desurib- ed ulainat a Alan at some convenient puint on yoar claims is sunk to bed rook either by mane a steam (hewer or thawhig by the nee of wood. On arriving al: bed rook in some in- stanees, 2J fest in 0420e, 30 in some, eit feet and ao on as the ease may be, you turned out all the pay dirt in your claim from bed rook up any greet id oentamiag 00011.8 of gold dust to 214 pan (Id) peas to the square yard', will pay $3.01) to the yard. rieueintry toots to work with, 9200.00; bee been taken to the pan, but such a rash strike in the pay streak is outlet' a pooket and unfortunately soon peters out. Owing to improved machinery in the, shape of steam thawers being operated tine winter by to my claim owners, there aro larger and More nutner 111 dumps awaiting water for the cls ,ilo op than ever bit - Los; h xL fore, t h au put this pring will ha the largest in the history of that camp. N012 A L0011 faresenS CAMP. llbs uutooessibiety, :Meet upen sea - seas, and high rate of freight makes living and everything else in this country extremely bigh. in fact. without a doobt, is the most ex- pensive mining °amp Lu -day in tbe world. This statonsat 1 shall later on corroborate with actual prices. Leaving aside the cost of reaching here, a man on the spot discovers and luctites what he conaidars0 sufficsient- ly licit placer claim is woek, he meat have a prospector's License before he can stake ; this ousts $10.00. After etaking he must pay $15.00 to re- cord; to work the Winne be must build a lob cubit, 97)1(0; lay in six ; months' p rov •tone, $ 0J.02;•purchase necessary tool ate work with, 9200.02; and if he requires assistance, $5.00 per day and hoard for any kind uf labor. He gets uu returns until the spring wash up. If during the inter- val he requires reedy Gash, and his claim, is a rich ono, he ean probably, by mortgaging his dump, borrow wbat money ho may require Lor ten per Sent. per month (a common rate ot interest here), J3 Ihoss figures (and 1 am conservative in entry case) you can readily see this Le not a poor man'a camp. COST OP LIVING From the close et navigation last fall, aad up to within a few days ago, beef sold. for 91 all ea 91,25 per lb. (it IA now quoted at 50 mite per lb. by the side); potatoes, from 50 to 75 cents per Ib. ; flour, 98.00 for a 50 ib, sack; eggs, 31,00 per doz.; apples, 50 ants each; hay, at pres- ent, 9000 par ton, and edvancing wood, miserable spruze, bull pine and white wood, $20.00 per. cord at the mines, and $16.00 to $20.00 in the city, $5.00 per oord to cut it. Rents are something awful, The Govern- ment was payiug for blas P. 0. build- ing, which contains the Poet Office, the Commissioneret officio and the Comptroller's °Moe on the ground floor, and up -stairs, living roosts for a number of the officials, $1,700 per month, and this for a very tiommon tog building, veneered 'in front only With native lumber; this neat has been reduced to 01,200 per month. Fpr a small log cigar atom on the main Areal, size 10 by 30, the pros prietor told me temente that he paye for ground rent alone $1.00 per month. Although the Yukon River rivet Bows right undee our eyes. Water oosts delivered at your house 211 (tents per pail. The poorest of no- tiVe lumber is at present WO per 111, anal off $1.25 per gallon, moose and caribou, 40 to 50 canal per lb., fish fresh, frozen and very Inferior, 50 °elate per lb, 1 might go on In eO- tenet, net 58 all neeeseariee are euots ed ett about above lines I leave tbe Platter With you, I Feld on My ar- rival for room at betel (a bergain) $4,00 per day, meals 93,00 per day, bair out 91,00, With 920, shave 00 ciente; latuidry, wince Alert 75 oents, cuffs 80 ante, collar 20 otints, to. A drink of any kind of liquor, includ- ing ale or beer, 50 cents, cigar 60 omits, pint bottle of wine 91500. quart $25.00. These aro present prieen and the old timerwill tell you that the oonntry is going to the dogs with therm low prices, , CHANCES FOR WEALTH. Still, la the face of all tbese 'high prices, I know of no better mining camp for sober, industrious and cape _able mem either labuurers or mes and industrious. We are already overstocked with the bleary-eyed bums, foreign tramps element. This Yukon territory has a greet future before her. I am not basing my nat- ion upon what hats already been dise covered but on what will be disoov- From White Horse In the west to Fort Selkirk in the north lies a rioh copper belt, and already very eaten - sive strikes of high grade ore have boon made up the Polly River, west of Selkirk, and at White Horse. These discoveries will be followed by many others during the coming SUM - Mir, which will give a permanency to this territory undoubted in its sol- idity. With this permanenoe almost guaranteed to the territory, I want to see more Canadians in here reap- ing the benefits. At present Cana- dians do nut represent 5 per cent. of the population, and I regret to say a large percentage of the majority of the foreign population are undesir- able, have no interest in the country further than what they can take out of it, and that by any means. The moment they make a stake they leave the °entry, taking along with them every dollar they oan lay their hands .on, spending it in a foreign land. THE INVESTMENT OF CAPITAL AND ABUSES OF SAME. As a rule men with big capital do not care to facie the privations of this far -northern country, and in the great maIn jority of stances where capitalists and companies have en- trusted the investmenta or manage- ment ot their capita' to agents or representatives, those semoted for such purposes have in many mutes proved either incompetent, dishonest, extravagant, intemperate or some- thing worse. The temptatious and surroundings here are so many and so great that few have been able to withstand them, falling first into Abe meshes of the dance hall sirens, then the gaming tables and lastly the mining camp sharks. The re- sult naturally being every dollar is iretriveably loat, the °amp or ooun- try Is blamed for these losses by 1 misrepresentations roads by mush agents or representatives as above described, and a good camp is blaok-1 eyed instead of the dishonest agen or representative being gaoled. Any first -clads business man who is Aridly temperate, witb capital, oan double his money here many times each year, taking preach:ally no • risks. AGRICULTURE, FISH, TIMBER. Thera are many square miles of very good grazing ground. and with the long and warm days grain natty possibly be successfully and profit-, ably grown. A private experimental: farm has been in operation within two miles of Selkirk during 1899,1 and the owner informed me person- ally that he was well pleased with his efforts. Potatoes, turnips and other roots and vegetabies did fairly well, and he looks for better re- • sults this year. Them is a local de- mand for everything possible to raise, and at priest' suoh as were never dreamed of in the east. Many small garden plots in Dawson have P10500 most matisfaotory in the Pro- duotion of garden stuff. The so- called timber is a poor qualitytcommercialry m of little value bur lumber. Fish are not plentiful enough in the lakes and streams to warrant very extensive operations. The country is a mining and mineral country and will, I am confident, prove in this re- spect one of the rieheet on earth. em to the climate, there oan be no dealt. whioh the carefully kept re- cords of •years past prove, this olim- ate is preferable and much superior to that of Ontario or Quebec). For instance, commenoin on the 13th of March, the weather lies been as mild tied balmy as early May outside. NOovsrousta, overcoats, windows thrown open dur- ing the day, no suow on tbe streets and water streaming down the mourn tain sides from the molting snow. AS A TOURIST RESORT. NOW that the White Halm run- way have their road graded and will be running by Sane from Skagway to White Horse, I know at no more en- joyable trip for those who can 'af- ford the time. From Vancouver Lo Skagway, the grand mountain coast range in the east, ;Mails you have in the west one continuity of maguifetent islands. 'rho trip up over the White Pass, via the White Pass Rai,way is prob- ably one of the greatest pieoes of engineering skill and diffioult rail- road construotion in the world. The passage over is the must exciting and awe-inspiring possible 10 imagine; the experience will stover be forgot- ten during the balaace of your na- tural existence, from White Horse via steamer passing down White Horse River through Lake Laberga, theme amen the Lewis River into the Yu- kon, and on to Dasysou, with all the windings oC the tortuously crooked passing alongside thousands of beautiful islands, with mountain ranges on either skle, in many places towering up over thousands of feet, and with daylight, '20 hours each day, 10 enjoy all thle, magnificent na. tural grandeur. ' 'OLD TIMER. ars r,AsT HOPE 002925. toImml sighed the oyster, as he felt himself being conveyed trait the plate in the and of the table knife, alma is an end to all my hopes a1' matting into good soolety. Young Folks. "13011B09 13A13Y," Babb° was a little grin' monkey erne the forests of Africa, Whea he was very tiny, he was talon from bis beautiful forest home ance with his little friend 'Veto, was placed in a Cage in a large menegerie. There the two monkeys played mere elly all the day long, But one morning there came a. change. rote rioted very strangely, and, instead of play- ing games, and racing from the top to the bottom, of the, eage, she lay quiet- ly on her little bed, The attendants watched her anxi- ously, and frequently poured some- thing from a bottle down Yoto's throat. Finally they (tarried away tbe little monkey. That was all Bobbo know, but Yobs never returned, and poor Bobbo was very lonesome. In place of romping geily, he sat In the earner of the cage, weeping and utter- ing mournful meas. Then his kind- hearted keeper removed hint to a cage containing other monkeys, but this obange angered Bobbo greatly. Ile obased the monkeys about, punching them and pulling their tails, until at length he was transferred to his old quarters, where he moped and was wretched. Bobbo's kind-hearted keeper then be- thought him that he would bring bis little daughter Janie. to visit the monkey, hoping that the sight of a child playing in front of the (Age might amuse the forlorn little animal. When Julia first appeared, Bobbo watched her very curiously as she played with her doll, dressing or un- dressing it, or rocking it in its cradle. After a while Bobbo began clattering and gesticulating, reaching out his long arms between the iron bars, and scolding every one who came near. What could he want, A happy thought occurred to the keeper. 'I believe Bobbo wants a Mel like Julia's,' he said, "I am going to bring Onn and setalf IL will please him." So a wooden doll was brought and placed in the cage, and Bobbo's joy was great. He clasped his wooden baby to his heart and played with it as Julia did. In a few days Bobbo began seulding again, and it was evident that his wants were not entirely satisfied. This Lae.: Julia saved the problem. I think, papa," she said, "that Bobbo wants a cradle for his doll. Ete begins scolding whenever I ELM rocking my doll in its cradle." So Bobbie was given a cradle, and this cumpleted bis happiness. When Julia rooked her doll, Bobbo rocked his; when she took her baby walking:, Bebbo, not to be outdown, seized his by the arm and marched proudly up and down the sage. His doll became sadly disfigured but he loved it none the less, and all the visitors to the menageries enjoyed watching Bobbo and his baby. One day the keeper, thinking to give the monkey pleasure, removed the bat. tered doll, and in its place substituted O gaily dressed, flaxenthaired beauty. You should have heard Belem when he beheld the radiant vision. He shriek- ed with anger while be tore the.doll's hat into Mtn Then he peered into the delicate waxen face, and, in a paroxysm oft rage and grief, wrenched off the dolt's arms, wretched her pink cbeeks, and finally bit off her nose. The less of the old doll, and the sight of the new one, nearly drove the mon.. key mad. When the attendant replaced the mutilated beauty with the old batter - d favorite, 15s14,&..joy knew no bounds. Ataightfall, when all trionkeydom IlVytgag8tipt'l tirn itcgPlii7tief?lildwiltrbbbice' beloved dollY clasped tightly in bis arms. Bobbo was happy again. GAME OF NATIONS. Do you, Image? are Pertinent some of yo tiered, and did pot 11 Use a steel pen at oeho Washington lived there were no s 00 pone. At that time, and until the year 1820, pane were made out of the quills or large feat/fere of the Ocoee and other birds, Now these ow pens, being soft, got out of order and 00 they had tre be remade. Most writers kept a sharp knife to reotalc40 these pens, to the keine of to 1 called "penknives." Tae word "pea" e, from the latin word "petina," which, ., Meane a feaLher; so when we day tenet pen we talk of a steel feather, wbiob le absurd, but then the language is made up of very funny words and phrases, and the little word, "pen', le witb evineh we writes now used only for for the pierce or et71 TRAINING DOGS. MAY 51, 19 _m.00 zarnorsrus, p Wb the; little peck° e sn oelled ponaniv • have ofte1\ worn to eek. /On' but Wh In Berlin one Herr Straus has erees tablished an academy from whiebile watch dogs are turned out by the hundred every year. His system ic educational, and la ape 4 plied to almost every lcind of dog. eel, - first tettabes the animal obedience by training it to perform certain "tricks" at command, and then trains it to] distinguish between a visitor and ea burglar, and what part of a enana body should bo Attacked to render the man helpless. Outside 01 Lhe gate the traiher ' places a dummy representing the butc glar, and to the latch is annebed string. 13y means of the string the gate is opened slowly, until the hese re. of the dumony becomes visible, when the dog is taught to fly at his throat Herr Straus is very pertieutar about, this; be makes his dogs attack the • throat or the upper part of the beely pipeline Sometimes a real man, well padded, takes the place or the., dummy, and, of course, he is well paid for his screams. All dogs, it steams, may, be made s good watch dogs, but the St. Bernard and the Russian wolfhounds are the best whore property of great value is' to be guarded. Per dogs not so fier as they are a different system treating is used. They soon learn t guard aeything committed to theist ears, but are not so guide to attack! an Intruder as the fiercer dogs are. ' Ate Couldn't 80150 It. As 0 train was approaching a town on the Great Northern railway in Ire- land an intelligent looking young Wale , man observed a lady standing up searching her pocket She eoznmencen to weep. "Have you been robbed?". he asked "Ob, no," she replied; "I've lost My ticket, and they will accuse ine of fraud." Sseaeling: her distressed state of mind, be d11 "013, don't mind, Here, take my tic9- et, and I will give tbe guard a pre, lem," while their fellow passeugers awaited the scene at the stationawlth Interest When the train stopped, the guard collected all the tickets but one. • "Wbere Is your ticket?" he asked the I young man. "You have got my tteket" he replied.' "No, I have not got It I'll call the i station master and see about it." "Where Is your ticket?" asked t.e,a,he, • station master when he appeared. -la "He Imes my ticket. See If he bars a ticket In bis hand with a small piece off the corner." "Yes, you have, Dave. There It is." "Well, see will that flt ler said Pat, 'handing him the small piece, andeWs did. A look of surprise crept over the guard's face as he left tbe carriage, while Pat caused much amusement by exclaiming, "Begorra, I knew he could not solve it!"-Lontion Tit-BIts. - Vero of Nast'. Vetoes, William M. Tweed was a portly man of medium size, with a long, pendulous nose, little porcine eyes, fat, drooping cheeks and a otralgbt, firm mouth that ' was decidedly his best feature. The The questions may be written on outlines of his race were those of e Bartlett pear, little end upward, and I never saw craft so palpably written • upon a human countenance. Nast used to be fend of drawing Tweed. face, by tbe way, as a sack of money. The general contour of Ms head lent itself to the outlines of the sack. natio1, be used $ marks for the nose and eyes. Strange to any, It was a capital pee pieces of stiff white bristol board, to which pencils deoorated with rod, white and blue ribbon aro attacked. Another way is to write each question on a separate slip of paper and fasten it to articles of furniture or to the draperies. The guests should then be provided with pencils and paper num- bores to oorrespond with the quern trait. tions. A little silken flag may be awarded to the one correetly guess- ing the greatest number. 1. The nation from which we start ? Germiriation. 2, The nation for teacher 7 Replan - 3. The nation for pupils? Subordina_ tion. 4. The melon tor actors 11 Impersona- tion. 5. The nation for a popular Prince PorOnation. 0. The nation for tbeological stu- dents 7 Ordination, 7. The nation for a politiotin ? Nomi- nation. 8. The nation for the ungodly? Domination. 9. The nation for an unpopular offi- Mal? Resignation. 10. The nation opposed to darkness ? flluininabion, 11. The nation for a contagious die - e08107 Vieocaniition. 12. The nation for pests? Extermina- tion. 18. The nation for wrongdoers'Con- demnation. 14. The nation for the irresolute 7 De- termination, 15. Tao nation fon the superstetion Ha 1 1 act n talon. 16. The nation which monopolizes de- sire ? Combination. 11, The nation toward whioh we lean? 18. The nation which indicates a class/ Denonaination. 10.2114 nation we have now readied? Termination, Another of Nasal] trick pictures was1_ one of aoacoe Conallug. He would draw a large letter V, with a groaner v Inside it and surmount the pair with an Interrogntloo mark upside down. The big V represented Conkllug's point ed beard, the mener one its sharp nose and the Interrogation point the Hyperion curl which he always allowed to fall negligently upon big forehand, %%at caricature inside the haughty sen- ator wild and exaspetated btm more than any bit 0f11113 that was ever poked in his dlrection.-New Orleans TIMM- " Democrat, HOW ARMIES MARCH. , Some curious statistics have re. cently boon oollected, showing the speed at which the soldiers of tang various nuropean armies march. Tain normal length o man's step atn 31 1-2 inehes, annaat. 125 steps aro made in a minute. In the German army the step is reckoned at 3L t-2 inches, and the number of Mine Inft minute at 112; in the Austrian at 20 1-2 inehes, and the timber at t15 to 130; in the Italian at '29 1.2 limbos, and the number at 120; .le the Prenoli at 29 1e2 inehee an the number at 115, and in the English at 30 inches and the number at 116eteet a Minute. , Henry Jnanes, the novelist, is to rt - Lure to America, fleet fall, after a long minutiae° In seareh of materiel for s. a new novel, tt,