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The Wingham Advance, 1904-09-01, Page 3t lerrlfserfr"ws`-'s"!, inocsomextomonmeminvinculf Antiontronocunemmorost***AIO Cqn'tsatstryi igtAve oti 2 A Word to Ministers • - Of the Gospel, I • ONLY .3 CONVICTS, OUT OF 100 REFORM. A Talk With a Parole Agent. MaX3t3tara4332103t3Caltatitatia“VtatUaMt3t3M3033110313143130:43KiK ( New York Sun.) "Three per cent. of the ex-eotivicts rce form:" sae' F. W. Ilellriegel. afr- Irellrlegel ie patrol agent for the New York Prioon Association, a -society which for 60 yenta has beeu doing what it eould to give eotivicts another elmuce In life, ILe sat in the little office et 135 East Fiftieth street, in which niany eor- ry, stories have been told. 'Three per mt., according to statis- tics," continue(' the parole agent. " Tbe other 07 return to- a criminal life, either from choice or because they liaven't strength or character to resist their old pals, "To get at the 3 per cent, though, • We're got to sift over the whole lot., Every one that comes Imre bas got. to be helped to the best of our ability, or some, of them will come. Once let the word go round that we turn eyerybody down, and they'll all stay away. "IVIiat's the difference between those who reform and those who do not? Just this. Those that reform are the mei- donnas. "They may have been wild, reckless, even dissipated. But they are not mem- bers of the criminal °lass. Give them a chance, and they'll get back, 'Without ii chance they are extremely ! helpless. So we'veigot to sift over the • -whole 100 per cent. to get the 3, But • It's worth it, "In 1899 there was a man hi this town • -who had a nice place as photographer. While he earned $00 a month, his wife would spend $65. The deficit wasn't large, but it -was just enough to keep him banind all the time. "Well, a baby came along, unexaeated- ly. There wasn't any money in the bouse to get a doctor, to hire a nurse, • to buy medicine or even proper clothes and food, He forged a cheque for ready cash, and before he could get to ais friends for a loan to make good the of- ficers had him. They sent him up for 10 months. "When he came out he found that his • -wife had got a divorce and married some , one else. He .had never done manual labor and didn't know how. He was mora bidly ashamed to go to his friends. "He came here. I gave /am meal tick- ets, lodgings, clothes and kept him un - .der my eye for four months. At the end , of that time I felt satisfied that I was • safe in recommending him. "I got him a place as shipping clerk at ;$8 a week. To -day he is earning $2,000 a year with one of the biggest corpora- tions in the country. "Now, that man was not a criminal. Under the same circumstances I would do the same'take my two years and think it an honor. But here's another case: "There was a man avlao was On adver- tising agent and afterward gum -terms- ; ter in a New York regiment in the Span- . ish war. He was jolly, popular, a good ; fellow, with a great head for executive . duties. 'After bis. retin.n from the war he got in with some sports and began to play the races. One day he went to a poolroom, playea and lost. When he had parted with his last cent a tout gave him a tip. "'He had the keys of his employer's store and the combination of the safe. It .was a .Saturday afternoon in summer and no one was in the store. "He took $300 out of that safe, per- fectly confident that he would win and replace it. The horse was left at the post, and. within forty-eight hours he was in jail. • He got a ken terna, be- cause, the eircumstapees were all bad. "Now this act was not so justifiable. In factlt was not justifiable at all. The man was entirely te, "Nevertheless, he Was not in the crim- inal class. Ile was in the bigh roller glass'but not the criminal. A man may drink, gamble, dissipate, and still never he A criminal. Nevertheless, if he falls into the criminal class it will be by rea- son of these things, and they will tell terribly against him in any trial. "Now this man was actually starving in the street when 1 foxind him. I had to feed him with peptotates at first, Ilis atomach could not bear a, mouthful of .solid food. "It was two months before he was lit to take a job. Then he wanted to go off somewhere where he would never see any one he knew again, I said to him ; "'Jimmy, uo matter where you go, some will turn up who knows you, and the you'll be under suspicion. Bet- ter start where it's all known and live St down.' "He said, 'My God, I can't do it.' "But family he made up his mind he could, and took a job in a hat atore on Broadway, between—well, we'll say be- ' tween Twenty-third and Thirty-lourth streets. , "That's a fairly well frequented thor- , °malaria Old friends of his came along , every day. He stayed there for seven anoittlis selling hats on salary and coin- ! erasion. Then he left for a better place on Fulton street. • His employer said • "This man has done time, but he hes been perfectly straight with me, and is a valeable man. "When he got ready to leave the sec- ond place, the second employee said the • same thing. He went from there into a big department store to demonstrate a certain article. And. be went from ; there' into what is without exeeption ! the hardest stem in this city to get in- to, to demonstrate a more important "He is to -day making $3,500 a year, , and he will demonstrete that article at the St. Louis Exposition. 1 am per- fectly sure he will neverafall down noun. Fie lied bis lesson and got enough. "Now the helplessness of both these ; met was that they .didn't know either bow to do tw how to find any manual : labor. If they'd gone to a cheap res. • titurant end totted for a iob M. dishwash- . Ina, the bosh slinger weetla have turned ' them down, beeause they didn't look the part. Their lives would have wreeked without a helphisshand Just at that time. "And yet to -day they .are useful and valuable members of soelety. And their records show that inipilsonment ettn be • lived down, that the ex-eonviet Will not be hounded out of jobs if he goes about It the right way. "The elothes they give an ex -convict ,to go out into the world with are enough 'to brand hint for life. Just look at ; these." abr. lIellriegel unioeked 5 door and ciao Payed a little room full of.nien's clothes.' -There was a big book full of ties, it box -Of 'Mier& and ruffs, And shelvest lined with odd garments fitted to the mese& line form. Mr, Ifellriewd took A pair af Allots off slielf ant eyea them with diegust, L "Leek at tholes brownie," said ho. "Ilot job. Ho mu only work under orders. . "And that% the .kind of people javen- • Ile inetitutions are tinning out all the time. I coult name juvenile institutione in this eity that are breediug places of - criminals, Not eonsciously, but simply from the berdin,g together of vaet num- beta of children,. under entirely unnat- ural conditions. 0, C. Brace, lit' the Chia dren's Aid Society, ia perfectly correct when he says that the institution bred Ana is not much better than the street bred ehild. "Furthermore, the whole prison sys- tem of the State of New York is demi against the transformation of the con- vict into a useful member of society, far as my figures go, and there's no reason way they should differ very much from others, the two things that make criminele are the habit of drink and the lack of a troale. "Nearly all that eerie in here cen read and write. Nearly all profess a religious belief. What church do they belong, to? The large majority of them belong to one church. 1 won't any whet church 11 II ' isn't elutrelt or the three les they stand in need of, but goodaabits aria A trade, "Now, there is exactly one penal insti- tution in this State that teaches men up-to-date, practical trades, that they zen follow when they get out. That is the Elmira, Reformatory. "The man at the head of that is..001, Scott, a man of the type of larockwaa, bis predecessor. The politicians got Brockway out, but Seott is the same kind of man, and, like the other, be came from Massachusetts; where they raise that kind of men. They teach the men up there twentieth century trades, that they can, bring down to New York city and go to work at. • "In every other penal institution in the State they teach trades htat are per- lectly useless to the man, because they arc fifty years behind the times. '"A man will ovine In here tuid ttar' Ire is a shoemaker, What MB he make? These brogaus, there, by band, that you couldn't give away in New York because a beggar would kick them off his feet. 'Perhaps the man has been taught to make mate by hand. Itsivould take him two days to maim a mat that a machine woula make better in half au hour. The system is all wrong, all useless. a soul on the Bowery but would. Ithow where they came from. Nailed together,' leather tinned with tannic acid,. war- ranted to eat man's feet of in two week. "Well, 1 ran up, agaiust a young fellow on Houston street the other day. lie had on those shoes and one of those unhappy looking gley Piled: suits they send the mmi out M. and he ‚wait pale and down at the mouth. 1 slapped innt oit the back and saki: • "'Hello, Jimmy. When did you °got out' alio shied off and said; don't know you.' 1 said, 'but I know you, Conn with me.' "The young fellow began to look des- arate. 'I don't know what you're arresting me for,' said he, tt beven't done anything.' "Who's going to arrest you?' said '1 Want to do you a favor. Let's take a walk.' "He stopped and braced himself, "'You may as well understand,' saki he, 'that I am pot going to steal,' "'That settles it,' said I. "Well, I brought him up here and got his story. It was a mere boy's trick that got aim in than anything else; attempt- ed burglary, inspired by Cheap literature, and a desire for cigarette money. "Ile hail gone in under A false name, so as to save las family, and during his year he had never let them know where he was. Ho has a home and good folks over in Jersey. He was prepared to hoof it home, but he had no money to buy clothes, and he knew those clothes would be a dead giveaway at home. "I relieved him of his' brogans, and gave him some eivilezed footgear and another suit and a light overcoat. Then I saw him started for home, with money to eat on'and shook hands with him when he left. "I'd stake my life that he'd never get In trouble again. 1 never saw anybody so utterly and thoroughly disgusted with prison life. His stomach turned at the thought of it. , "Now, but one of these men was a criminal, although all bed done criminal acts. Such a man, if helped before be becomes a wreck, is apt to keep straight- er the rest of his life than he ever did before. He is effeetually sobered. "But when you strike the criminal class, per se, you find men whose hered- ity and environment has been wrong from the beginning. It's costly environ- ment. "You can take a child from the lower East Side and put it in good surround- ings, and it will grow up straight. And you .ciin take a child from the best blood in this country and put it in the lower :East Side, and it will grow up a crook. "In the first place, the babits of all these men are irretrievably bad. I be- lieve 70 per cent. of all the criminality in this country is caused by drink. And they come out of prison worse that they went in„ "The post of warden in the prisons of New York is a political job, The aver- age prison keeper in New York is a man beter fitted • to deal with animals than with men. "The men get whiskey and dope all, the time. Their folks send them money to buy comforts, and the keepers sell • them the stuff. How do I know? The men tell me. "I say, 'Jimmy, where did you get the white stuff?' That's morphine. "They say, 'Oh, the kepers ahvays sup- ply it if you put up.' Lie? Of course, they'll lie. But they 'wouldn't all tell • the same lie for six Years mining, Would they?" "These men are all drink and dope fiends. But, More than this, and worse, sometimes think, none of them has a trade. It's very, very seldom that a mechanic gets into State prison. "They have no trade, they are not even skilled laborers. But there's plenty of work that isn't skilled, and doesn't orill for any aeferences; dishwashing, 'roustabouts, pick and shovel. • "Some of them take it job for a month or two, till an old pal runs across them, and they're too weak to resist. Others Absolutely refuse to work. "I gave a man -tiled' tickets the other day, and then asked him to sweep out the area. Ile threw down the meal tiekets and said: "'1 wouldn't sweep out the aren for all the help your society can give me.' "rye had men stand here and tell me to my face that the rich people of New York suported this place to take care ok them, and they'd see me damned before they'd •work for me. Such men despise men who work, and think themselves much above the stiffs who handle the pick and shovel. They are criminuls from eboice, end they do time over and over again. "That's the two classes: regular and accidental criminals. But now aere's another. "The wife of a multainillionaire sat in this room not long ;ago and said; "Mr. Hellriegel, give a million dollars to make my boy honest.' "I said: 'Madam not all the millions in the world will "ever mole your boy honest." "That young man Is the son of one of the solid men of Me city, it banker. He was so wild and blew it in so ae,rd that las father Out off all supplies. "The youngster eimply began to forge las father's name. He WOO an expert at it. He was a fine looking young fellow and had a place in a ema estate office at $40 a weeja What was $40 a week to lam "He stole las own mother's diamonds to give tt supper to chorus girls. The old nanes got a pile of phony paper that fat In the safe that lie paid before he finally let the boy do time. What's phony im- port Vhat's bad eheques. Queer paper Is counterfeit money. "That young sna,n ie absolutely with- out, »ioral suseeptibilities, and Tie is ab- soluetly heartless. Ho 18 neither it 'regu. lar criminal nor an aciedental eriminal. Ile is it degenerate. ".There's no other Orme that is very bard to do anything with. The test of whether a men is reclaimable is \a-416ther lie will work. But ;there's one elms of people who will work if the Work is put in their bands, but who are helpiesa about finding it for themselves. "That's the institutionalized inan. have one ou liand now that I made a job for, lIeai been M it a year, and I guest bell litor° to ritzy in it. "He's respeetful, willing to work, and anxious to please. But to go out and find himself a job—he actively cannot do it. "And lie don't lanow enough to pick up it broom off the floor, if be hasul been instructed to an it. lie await initiative enough even to beg. Ito 18 thoroughly histitutionalized. lie was brought up iit an orphan esylant, lie no sooner left than he gat iitto,trouide, tout he's spent most of las life sinee in institutions—pro- teetdries, reformatories Ana prisons. 1 By Rev, Thomas. 13. Greirora ill ; Detroit Tintee, Certain things have happened of late silach would seem to make it necessary that some one, baling the cause of re- ligiou at Wart, should speak a few plain ai-oras to the ministers. It is thoroughly eettlizea, that many ministers do not need these words'but it is very evident, if reports are true, that there are clergymen who do need them, and uee4 them badly. fit. Paul, in his letter to the Romans, speaking of his calling as a preacher, said, "I magnify mine office.!' If the half that sve hear is to be be- lieved, there AM certain procliers in the land wbo, instead of naagnifYina their office, are doing their level beet to belittle and degrade it. . For example, it is said that not bong ago a Newark clergyman invited the men of his congregation to attend the church services in their shirt sleeves, assuring thent that he himself should go loto his pulpit and preach in the same easy costume. And there is the ease of the other New Jersey janitor, who notified his flock, that be Intended to hold in his church, on Sunday mornings, during the hot • weather, special services at avid& smoking was to be allowea during the stemma ' Filially, we bave the case of the Wisconsin minister who has made ar- rangements with the business men of his town whereby, in return for donee tions, they are to liave advertising privileges in his church --so much space on the walls of the church in return for so much cash. If what is said of those ministers is true, it is quite apparent that they have a aery inadequate conception of the value, dignity and sacredness of their office. If they are guilty of the alleged in- discretions, they are Manifestly out of place in the pulpit. At heart they may be good men but they don't know what it means to be a minister of the gos- pel, They have missed their calling. Of coulee, a, man sitting in church "But, now, suppose an Elmira .Reform- in his shirt sleeves, with a pipe or atory boy comes down here witli a good cigar in his mouth, looking thrmigh practical trade. anxious to work and clouds of tobacco smoke, now at the make a new start in life. Perhaps he business. ads. on the walls and ,now at never in bis life before was taught any- 1 the maims ipinister at the desk, can thing useful—'never had a chance. hear .what the preacher may hare to "Will the trades unions let him work say as well as though he Were differently a it? No, ma'am, they will not, because ' attired and in the midst et .o different he has no union card. environment, "It is worse in some trades than oth- . But theta are very few sensible people ers. In steatifitting, bricklaying and -whoa if questioned upon the subject, certain other trades it is impossible forwould not give it as their candid opinion suoh a man to get it. job, unless his that the conditions referred to are not friends have. influence with the contrite- • those under which .the gospel should be tor or tae walking delegate. preached. or heard. Down at the bottom religion. is an "And even the contractor wouldn't appeal to the hearer's reverence, and dare put atiin on at the actual trade. Heel.give him it team, or something like the conditions that are the most favor - that. able to the promotion of that senti- "Now, I aealize that trades unions ment are those above all others, which have a perfect night to keep owes ap. tho minister is in duty bound to encour- and hours of labor down, if their eau, ago - If lie lowers the standard of That's their their business, and to do at I they've got to unionize labor. But the , vice, if be permits any •otheridea time has got to come when they'll have than the one of reverence to dominate, to admit every mina to the union -who t or even perceptibly to levoelloir stihmet it eaworship, he may as tan do union work. a "No one not in this work can imagine church. i the importance of a trade. It overbid- Theres an atmosphere of worship ances even good habits. and. with that atmosphere shirt sleeves and tobacco smoke, bilboards and busi- "Why, I know a inan who is a, wire nese advertisements cannot be raade to knitter. He snakes the screens t.hey put • mound banharmonize.k cages and such places. I . There is a place in this great big never sow him sober, but hell never go • -world for the man who wants to sit to jail, for every day he's able ta work in his shirt sleeves and smoke, and he can get $7. ia place, there is, too, for the bulletin "He'll begin a piece with a certain pat - boards of trade; but that piece is not tern, and when it's half done he'll go on e o a tear, and his boss will patiently wait; the housf God. . for him to return to finish it. Nobody iThe minister who imagines that he can finish it likehim. I know men who s going to make men better .by lower - aro confirmed drunkards, and yet will Mg Ins ofifce to the level of their never go to jail,weaknesses is laboring under a tremen- because every day they i dous mistake. are sober they can make good wages, who aliou.la at- "I tell you the best preventive work I For a clergyman in this city would be it trade school for , tetmto lure Me in every boy, every boy in a trade school,' elurt to going to las -with the assurance that while in the :sacred edifice I might sit in and the imams compelled to let them shirt sleeves and •stnoke, I could work after they had learned their beide. ' mY haye no particle of reseed. "The aections of the -city criminals And the overwhelming majority of men would, I have no doubt, express themselves to the same effect. It is about thee that thisbelittling and degrading of religion by its own ministers had ceased. • It is about time that right-minded clergarmen—and those are pockets. From From the upper West Side come alloy in the majority—put m quietus the burglars, house and store thieves. upon the typo of minister I am speaking "Does this argue more brains andof—the minister who, sadly misuuder- bravery on the mut of the Wesa. Siders71 sta,ndieg the nature of his calling, is, Not at all. It argues more skill and 1 in the name of religion doing all he can manual dexterity on the art of the East to make religion the bat of ridicule and Skiers. . . "The residents of the lower East Side e"BtaecikliPtte. St. Paull And let the word are small, of stature, delicate of touch, , of every minister .be, "I magnify mine with deft fingers. They are built for office." pocket -picking. Moreover, there are schools for itstruction in the art. . "The East Side Fagins have long been renoWned for their skill and pedagogic ability. There are three persons eu- gaged in every pocket picking; the dip- per, who steals the loot; the stall, to whom he passes it, and the shover, •who pawns it: The Fagin .stands by and watches the job. "1-fis pupils. are all schoolboys, fiem 10 to 14 years old, corrupted and trained without the knowelge of their parents. He pays the dipper 50 cents for a yel- low super --a gold watch; 25 cente for a Brooklyn Eagle—a gold filled watch; from 10 to 20 cents for a leather --a pocketbook. These boys are being, cor- rupted for life simply for the sake of theatre, candy and cigarette money." "To what extent is this going on," Mr. Ilellriegel awurig in ins swivel cbair eefleetioely. "Well, now, I'll tell you," said lie, "I'M not very thinskinned, but the extent to . which it is carried on is appalling even Chicago, speaks to young women "The Vagina are all in politics, And I about dangers of the Menstrual to me. tions, I will say, though, that it slacked they keep school under all aaininistras I Period, I "To YOurso IiSroure:—/ aiiifeired for up o.little under Jerome,soand that it's i brisker now. t years with clysruenotrhea rinful periods), so rauelt 'so that I readed "The basic trouble is the tower East every month, as I knew it meant three Side It's simply a case of the practical • or four days of intense titan. The application of the theories of Theodore ! doctor said this was due to an inflamed Roosevelt. They believe ill bringing condition of the uterine appendages enormous families into the world with- caused by repeated andnegleeted colds. out food to put in their mullet or amain "if young girls only realized how enough to stow them away. The houses dangerous it is to take cold at this are so -crowded that the children live in critical time, much suffering would be the street, and then the Vegins get hold steered them. Thank God for Lydia of them." A member of the 'office force enterea DE.ri Oukid,thralchatres Vegetables Com. that was e only medicine at this moment and said, "Mr. Iielitieg,el, Which helped me any. Within three have You got anything about n, man weeks after I started to take it, I named Julius Hecht on your records?" notieed A marked ireproYaMent it my "'Milne," said Mr. Ilellriegol, without general health, and at the time of my moving, "is a pickpocket. He is a Bus- n,,,eart niorithly perioa the pain had 51511pickpockean t, d therefore superior turadlialle" considerably. I kept slIt to the home-grown artiele.4 Ire has-been the treatment, And was tatted a month (wrested five times in the last four Igl"r• 1 alt likt tult‘th° P"'1" sit"' ,years. About fifty year in State's rel, I Mt in perfect health, my eyes. are Fem. I would eecommeed for ;Whoa" brighter, I have added 12. pounds to my weight, my Color is good, awl I feel light andhappy."--MrssAenna Mtutit, MS Votette.e Ave. Chicago, Ill.— WOO *Witt it orieleat of Ague leiter pootereginuine. nias. canna ba procareod. The Monthly sleknesa teflee,ts the eoliditieti of a Womaten Ikealtli* Anything barmaid at that tbao Shoald lutVe ptOligit bad POPO' attelitlOnts ...._ ..• come from? Well, now, that's rather interesting. "The two breeding grounds for crim- inals in New York are the lower East Side and the West Side from Thirty- seventh street to Sixty-sixth. "From the lower East Side come pick - Miss Agnes Miller, of "He's mayried it girl," said the office man. "Well, no girl mule injure julius," said Mr. liellriegel, gravely. "But her folks Ewe trying "o get the marriage annulled, She's it nice girl," said the young man. "Then I'm very sorry for ;ruling girl; very, very softy," said Mr, liellriegel, W1,IVWS *VP WIDOWERS. Seale Stories About Them tint Are Bard to believe. No clam.. of bereaved people have emotions which are the subject of bp nitwit speculation as widows and wid- owers„ and while they will always re- main to be the butt of cheap jokes and the objects of mystified admiration al- ternately, there are evolences that lead us to conclude that they nearly always find a second .experiment worth while. 'Hero are some bona fide anecdotes of Philadelphia widows and widowers col. lected by en enthusiastic specialist on the subject ; A well-known man recently (1ecided to marry again, Ilia second choice fell upon a woman wlio had been a com- panion and friend to his first wife. In- terested relataaee and friends wondered how they adjusted the &Coate complex - of the situatiori. The complexities were mythical, for it is said that wife No. 2 and the quondam widower talked of wife No. 1 constantly, end the happy men was heard to soya "Do yoa know J think, aare luta the best luck it wives that eny man ever bad," On one occasion they were Been going to the country leaded with immense bunclies of cut flowers. It transpired af- terward that they visited every Sunday the cemetery where the first wife woe buried and placed blossoms on the grave. -tlertaiuly the woman who thus showed herself superior to mortal feelings de- served the bight encomiums her husband liee.pial upon her. Another widower chose a. rather dif- ferent way of impressing upon Ilia wife the fact that a sainted woman had. oc- cupied her plaee before her. Ile sent out cards for an elaborate reception to cele- brate the anniversary of his marriage to Itis first wife. But the second mis- tress of his heart was 'game." All through this seemingly gruesome enter- tainment she stood beside hint dispens- ing bospitality and claret pulich to the guests who had been friends of her hus- band's first choice. History is unsat- isfactorily non -committal as to the sub- sequent conduct of this' aniatble woman, but it is safe to Assert that there was no repetition of that anniversary fes- tilli.sto widows: Mrs. Black, a peculiar- ly eccentric woman, who adored her first husband, married again. "Will," she said, before the secoud marriage. "1 want to ask a favor of you." "What is it, dears?" he gaiesiionea, "Why," she said, "you know I loved my first husband, and I want to ask you if you would mind having his name put with youd on the wedding cards ?" The ;enraptured husband -to -be suc- cumber', and when the wedding invita- tions went out they read: "Mr. J. Dud- ley Black Indigo," and to this day Mr. indigo is the proud possessor of a mid- dle name, which name belonged to his wife's first husband. Calling at a house whose mistress's had been a widow before her recent mar - riage,a relative saw the new husband i deep n the litter of it large packing box, "Gracious," she exclaimed, "what are you doing with that big box in the drawing room ?" "Hush," cautioned the widow's hus- band, "Pm planning a title surprise for Marie. She's had an awful fit. of, the blues since sve came home from the wed- ding trip. I just know she's been griev- ing about George, so I thought I would cheer her up. I've sent to the storage Muse for his collection of curios. You know she thought an awful lot of them, because he collected them. It -will do her a world of good to see them She'll tumble right into them when she comes down to dinner," And, plunging deeper into the cavernous box, this phenomenel man continued his work of total self' elinegattan.—Phila. Record. Two Years Abed.—"For eight years I suffered as no one ever did with rheumatism: for two rears I lay in bed: could not so much as feed myself. A. friend recommended South American Itheumatp Cure. After three doses'I could sit up. To- day I Am as strong as ever I was."—Mrs. 'John Cook, 287 Clinton street, Torouto.-2. HUNGRY LYNX IS A TERROR. California Variety, Though Small, the Most Dangerous of All. ' California has in her hills the uargest and most kind-hearted of the great fight ers, the grizzly, and. at the same time the smallest and most treacherous, the red lynx. Most hunters call them "wildcats," but they are not. The real wildcat has a long tail and lives only in Europe—in fact, he's about extinct now—and old hunters dread the wailing midnight cry of. a hungry lynx more than they do al the groVas a grizzly ever let. out. For when a lynx is maddened by „hun- ger he feara neither man or beast, the most of the animals of the forest give bhm tbe road without waiting for hint to ask it. In Canada and even in the northern row of states of this nation, the lynx grows to be much larger than they do in the warmer climate of the southwest. Save for those killed by an • ocasional hunter the lynxes hold undis- puted sway in the foothills. • No matter bow soundly they may be sleeping, you can never catch one "nap- ping, for at the slightest smut of your approach he will clear the ten or fifteen feet between his test end ground and be off like it flash in the undergrowth. About the only way to get these fellows Is with hounds, and then generally one or two of the dogs get pretty severely • tl t Is the lynxs usually stay tit tellifeekveualn6:Ferilbrush or el caves during the aay, coining out to work hevoe in the quail coveys by monlight. Then, if the night be bright, the hound hunter bas real sport, rousing the round -eyed owls, with his shouts of encouragement to the dogs,which are not Always ready to rush into the teeth of an angry eat. It, is alinost impossible to trap eat, though a hungry lion may occasionally be caught in this manner. Now and then it eat can be run into n trap pre- viously set elfin' it railway, and in this way the lunibermen of the Canadian pin - tries take many of the eats that infest Die greet forests of the north. • The Nether sorth you go the entailer the lynxs become, until the family winas tm with the little pampas eat of the South American patine. Our lynx, however, is the most savage of sal, and the liaraest for any dog, no matter /low good he may be, th master. in ft fight n eat line all immenee advantage over a dog in that he ean fight with all fours, and 'usually does so. There is little worse men be. gren antar of demi than to saake nu ola lama out of a time in their itidet. When a lynx Belts he 'doesn't bite eald let go like n wolf or dog, but bites tina hangs on like a bulldog, while last thaws keep up a. end of atutre-drunt aeconmani- metit on the dog's ribs. It tabes n pret- ty good dog to do lip a lynx and wheel it thoroughbree bunter gets Emelt e dog it takes a mighty good peke to buy lam ACROSS UNEXPLORE� ALASKA. • A TRIP PROM THE 'YUKON • •TO''rkiE ARCTIC OCEAN. • The L'ulted. States CeOlogicel Survey has just publiebea the story of the 'pioneer journey through Central Alaska between the Yulant basin and the ,Arctiir Ocean. This journey, of 035 Mile* yea recently maile by Melee's. Schrader and Peters et' the survey, with their essist- ants, and nearly all the way it was a revelation of the unknown. In the extreme mat and west, Alaska bas been erosse(1 from south to north, but no one knew wilat might be found through tile north ceutral part of the country. 1.1:here remain now only two large regions in Alaska, in, the northeast and, the northwest, that am 4111 wholly untrhev PlQrodlednie is beautifully' illuatratea, with photographic reproductions sheaving the typical features of the region. We knew the John River where it joins the Koyukuk, but &limier and Peters as- cended It through its valley, across the_ Rocky Mountaine, and the pictures show it a lamed, placid stream. even Among majestic mountains that else far above It. Here we see stretches of underbrush and stunted firs along one bank, while the other is a broad 'beach strewn 'with gentle 14 to im ineppreciable t fluo neked eye. The explorers have proposed the nalfie of Aretio Coastal Plain far this tuestre, • country. Its flat einem is dotted hero and there with shallow points and lake - lets which in most instances have no out- let. Arriving at ebe ecatst they mapped the deltit of the Colville River and secured iage in boats paddled by Vogul -mum along the ocean edge westward to Point Barrow. Thus .the eutire journey was nuide by water* anil it was not a very uneemfoliteble *rip sexeepting for the plague of mosquitoee. Coel detritus, euggestiag the probable occurrence of coal of economic value, was ,found in the John River gravela among Die mountains. It may be eelled it, good grade of bitununous. Coal was also found at several palate 94 the Antic slope, notebly oe the An- aktuvuk and. Colville Rivera. On the Colville coal is abundant and esineekh. • Ems. It may not, hewever, prove suit- able for export or Esteeming purposes. No other minerals of impedance were discovered, rock debria. Not a glacier appears m the fine moun- tain views, but we see patches of suow and lops lines •of it filling the IlaiToW Sears that wrinkle the deep slopes. Ap- parently there are , no flat eurfaces of sufficient extent ta afford a gathering ground for the quantity of snow re- quired to nourish important glaciers. North of the mountains another series of river views of entirely different char- acter were taken. They are pictures along the Anaktuvuk ,tributary of the Colville, and on the Colville River, and here we see long stretenes of flatttopped bluffs bordering Ono side of the valley, while • on the other etony river plains freqeuntly .extend far away from the river. The Colville and its tributary draining to the Arctic Ocean are not nearly so large as the John, which, in its wider reaches, is majestic in appearance. Other views show the Indians and in the far aorta the Esquimanx, who hunt along these rivers. Then there are views of the flat, 1110SBcovered trunda, which borders the Arctic Ocean, and the small waves of that sea are seen breaking on the flat shore. The pictures are particu- larly interesting because they BO gralyi- cally depict a part of our domain which no explorer bas ever seen before. The party ascended the Koyukuk River to the mouth of the John, where an abundance of supplies had been stored for them, This is on the edge of the great Koyukuk River placer mining region, where miners are now washing out over $700,000 ivorth of gold dust in a year. In .April, before the John River opened, Mr. Peters made a reconpaisance up the river, travelling on the ice. For several days his party followed the trail of a soli- tary person, four of whose camps they passed. The person was overtiakon at last and was found to be it native Indian woman who was travelling alone and subsisting on rabbits which she caught in primitive traps. It is 'their custom to ascend the John and ether tributaries of the Koyukuk in winter to aunt. They find enough cari- bou to supply them with food, and as they never go beyond the timber line they are able to build fires to cook their food ond warm their eamps. Theycol- leeskins and furs ,and when the rivers thaw they build rafts and float down • to Bergman on the Koyukuk, where they tmde the skins for blankets and other commodities. a It was not till June that the canoe 'voyage up the John River began. Brief- ly stated, the explorvrs passed through three distinct varieties of eountry. The most southern was -the Koyukuk region, rich. -in gold, a rolling, hilly land, whose hills rise to elevations of from only 1,000 to 3,000 feet above the sea, While the Taaill valley floors are approximately 000 feet above sm. level The second region is the mountain pro- vince which is regarded as the north- western cOntinnation of the Rocky Mountains, Above the Arctic circle this great mountain system turns abruptly to the west and trends neserly westward across northern Alaska. Our explorers passed through the mountains from eouth to north. ray, form a jumble, With few well defined ranges. The width of the mountain belt is about 100 miles, and the average -ele- vation is about 6,000 ieet. Their sides are score(1 with the glacial marks of the ice age. P,assaig out of the mountainthe can- oes were carried over a short portage to it hake from which flows the Anaktu- vuk, tributaea •of the Onaville. They were now in the Arctic coast province. The two rivers took them north and they floated down strea,m insteal of paddling, against the current, as in the John River. For eighty miles north of the mountains extends a gently rolling plateau country, sloping northward, its elevation gradually lowering from 2,500 to 800 feet. Here the plateau gives away to the nearly flat trunda country .or coasted plain which extends about eighty miles northward, and descends in this dietance practically to sea level, -with a slope so • . ^ \YUEN BABY IS SICK, •••••••••••••...,14, Doti% dose him with nauseous cas- tor oil or other aerial griping pars gativea, Above Ail things, don't give him poisonous, "soothing" stuff, These things only make him worse, llaby'a Own Tablets are -what your little one needs. They are a gentle laxative, and make baby sleep, because they make him well. They eool his hot little mouth, case bis sour stoniach„ and help his ob- stinate little teeth through painlessly. They are what every mother neees for her baby—and the older choldren, too. Mrs. Routhier, Greenwood, B. C., says: "I consider Baby's Own Tablets worth their weight in gold in every home where there are children. My only regret is that I did not learn their great worth saooner." These Tablets will help. every child from the moment of birth on- ward, and are guaranteed to contain no harmful drug. Sold by all medicine deal- ers or sent by mail at 25 cents a box by writing The Dr, Williams' Medicine Co., Breekville, Ont. UNCOMMON STORIES. Egyptian War Cartoons of Three Thous- and Years Ago. Some Egyptian war cartoons 3,000 years old. are attracting attention in London. Pharaoh's chariot is drawn lay dogs, his soldiers are represented by rats. The enemy's army is composed of eats: A single combat between a rat and a cat, each armed, with it sword, is graphically depicted. This drawing was the work of a cartoonist of renown in the year 1100 B. 0. Another cartoon represents a donkey and a lion playing a war game of draughts. The caricaturist was also a writer. He describes tee soldier of the period as the victim of "bad victuals" and water. This would indicate, remarks the Baltimore Sun, that like Uncle Sean, the Egyptians had their "onbalra- ed beef" problem. Many of the ideas expressed by the ancient cartoonists in their productions are found in the drawings of modern caricaturists: There is nothing new- under the sun. A modern weapon In the battle for health.—It disease ha* taken your citadel of health, the stomach. and is torturing you with indigestion, dys- pepsia and nervous prostration, South Am- erican Nervine is the weapon to drive tho enmity from his stronghold "at the point of the bayonet," trench by trench, but swift and sure, it BINVay8 • Merely Used Horse Sense. The villagers were all gathered round the little store, taints about Sam Jones' lost colt. It was a two-year-old, and had strayed out of the pasture lot the day before. Sam worried about it, the neighbors had all been out looking for it without suceesi, and no one seemed to k:now where to look for it. Jim stood there, looking on Etna listen- ing. Jim 1MB a tall, lank young felloy, regarded as half witted by some persons ,and. as foolish by others, "I think I could find your horse," be said to Sam Jones. "Ye? Why, Jim, bow die you think you could find him when we have had the best men iu town out looking for bun?" "Well," said Jim, "I could try, couldn't I?" "Yes," answered the owner, ."you. Ca31 try, and if you find him I'll gore you a dollar." "All right," said Jim, and waked away on Ins search. To the surprise ot all he returned in less than half an hour leading the missing horse by a rope tied around his neck. "Well, well," said Jones, as he took the horse and paid Jim the dollar. "How in the world did you find him so quickr Jim answered in las long-di:awn-out words: "Why I thought: 'Now if X was it horse, where would I,gor And to I went there, and ho hada—Youth's Cows A RIVAL FOR THE WINTER FAIR. 4+44 444 -444.44 -4 -04444+4444 -4444 -4 -444 -0444,44 -4 - The arrangements already made for the best varieties of fruits for their the provincial limit, flower and honey purposes. On the lad day of the ex - show, which will be held hi Toronto dur- labition, it big auction sale of fruit will big the second week it November, indi- take place. elite that it is likely to prove as im- The money offered for Bowers Is portant an event in He line as the big over 100 per cent. more tban has ever winter fair acid yearly at Guelph. No before been offerea in Toronto. About effort is beitg spared to make cruel feat- el,500 will be given in 'niece in this sec- ure of the showof the greateet of the tion alone. The en -augments are in kinEl that has ever been held in Can- charge of a floral committee of which ada. The Ontario Fruit Growers' As- Mr. Edward Tyrrel, president of the To- sociation has drawn up it liberal prize ronto Horticultural 'Society is their - list and will pay the transportation mat. The honey prize lid is also a ehargee one way on all exhibits of fruit liberal 011e. Several prizes o.re offeted sent to the show. for commercial peekages. Special kerizes will be offered for the Amongst the important gatherings, best exhibit of fruit made by any Agri- that will take place at the time of the cultural society, It is expeeted 1110,11Y show will be the annual meeting of tho of the soeieties 18 the province will Ontario Fruit Growers' Association ittia send their total exbibite feom their fall the Ontario tee Keepers' Aetoeiation, fairs to this show, Arrangements have while it meetlug of delegates from the been completed to keep this fruit in various, horticultural societies of the told storage. In this way, it ie hopea province will else be held. The Ontario to have representative exhibite of ftuit Government him made it grant of CA° from all parte of the province. Donlon- ta aia the exhibition, which has bean stratiots in peeking fruit Will be givensupplemented by a grant of $00 frorit and bulletins will be issued describing the City of Tema& the epeciat mutlitiee of each variety of Particulate regarding, the show may fruit, and kitting whether it 18 best for be letti by writing to the Secretary, Sti. tookitig or eating purposes. lo this- way perintentlent If. II. Cowan, Parlisairllt bouseholders will to enabled to seoure truilablgs, Toronto.