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The Clinton News-Record, 1899-06-01, Page 3The following imitate occurred on a entalt Island et leolatea position in a large Canadian halm, to who nt mei waning the wealthy inhabitant Montreal and, Toronto tiee for reel; end recreation in the hot months, it outy to he regretted thet events of Jena. peculiar Interest to the genuine ettedent. of tne psychical eixotild be en- tirely uncorroborated. Swat unfor- ttutatety, lieWevets la the cateh Our own party of nearlY twenty had retuinea to Montreal that very days and ; Iran lett in eolitary possession for a week or two hanger, in Order to .encoomplialt some important "reading" for the law which I had foolishit' neg. • leoteo during the suinneer. • It Was late * September, and the hitt trout nod maskinonae Were stir- ring themselves in the depths of the him, and iniginntiii elowly to MoVe up • to tne %ideas' waters as the north' Vieth+, end•early frosts- lowered their texiiperiture. • +Already the maples son and. gold, and thee wild of the loans echoed in gibel- ye' that never knew their atrange ora in the stuanere With a Whole Wand to oneself, a two-storey cottage, a„penoe, and only the ,obipmunks, end the fartner's'week- ly 'Atilt with, eggs and bread, to disturb . One, the opportunities for hard read - :nig Might he very great. It ell dea nends 1 • , Tee rest of the party had gone oft with in Warnings to beware of to - Aliens; end not to stay, late 'enoligb, to 'be tile victigreeef a frost that thinks noe, ehing of forty bee*. zero. After they had gone, the loneliness ot the situa- tion nude. unpleasantly e felt. There were no ether ' islands within six eel! seven miles, and though the mein - lane forests lay a couple ef miles be- • kite zne, they sttetched for a- eery great distance unbroken by any signs et•litunaie habitation. , •But thengh the islanit was ,epamiletely deseraed and silent, the rocks and trees that. had eelmed human, leugliter,and voices • .roest every hour of tbe day tor two Months, could not lea to. retain some memories of it alt; and X was nOt sur- ,. poised to fancy Lheard.aahout or erY aie I passed from. rock to rook, and more that .ohce to 1110401e that •• heard my, own. name called aloud.- In the cottage thee() were six .tiny , little bedrhonia. divided from one an - he]. by pima unvarnished partitions, , of' .pine. A wooden bedstead, a Met-- . • • tress and a .eltititantood In each roo•m, but I only found tWo mirrors, and one .of these was broken. 1. The boards creaked . a; good deal at I moved about, and the signs of 'occup- atm, Were so recent that I ocettd hard- ly. betides 4 was alone. I half exPtict- ad to find some one left behind, still trying, to crowd into a box more than it wohlti. hotd. Tne aoor .of one rem was stiff, and refaied fore& Moment to open, and it required, very tittle persoesion to imagine aome on& was 'bolding the handle on the itisidee'and -that wlaet. it opened I should, Meet a • pair of hunnie eyes. 'A thorough sealant of tbe, floor led. •• ate to select as thy own sleeting quare .. kers a little room with e eiminutive balcony over the verandah pot. The 4 room was very small, but the bed was large. ,and had ihe best mattress of them Ali. .1f was situated directly • ovei the sitting-roont where I should live and, de my "reading," and • the. miniature window looked out .to the . rising ann. With tit° exception of a narrow Oath which led freta.the front door and verandah through the trees to the boandanding, the island was densely covered with maples, benilocke ana cedars. -The trees gathered iu Tousle the cottage' so closely that the /slightest wind made the branches serape the rein and tap the wooden • Walls. A few moments after sunset • the darkness became impenetrable, and ten yards beyond the glare of the latapa that shone through the tatting- ' room: windows -of which there were four -you could not see at inch be- fore yaw. toga, nor move a step with- out running up against a tree. The rest of that dayspent Moving my belongings from nay tent to the .sitting -room,. taking stock of the ',en- tente of the larder, and chopping enougl. wood for the Move to last Inc for a week. After that, just before unset, I went round the Leland a cou- ple of Crates in my canoe for precau- tion's sake. I had never drearaed of doing this before,. hat when a =anal alone he does things that never, omit to lam, when he is me of it large party How lonely the island seemed, when . 1 landed against The gun was down, and twilight is unknown in these • northern regions. The darkness comes up at, once. The .cantie pulled up and tureed oyer on liet face, I groped my way up the little natrotts pathway to The verandah., The tax laraps were toot butting inerrity in the front room; but in the kitcheia, where I "dined," the shadows were ao gloomy, • and the lamplight was eo inadequate, that the stare could he seen peeping tbrough the creeks between, the raft- ' ere. I toned in early that night. Though it Was calm and there was no wind, the Creaking of my bedsteakand. the wiggled gurgle of the water over the violas below'Were. not the only mends that maithen ray ears. As X lay &Wake+, the tipnalling exoptineas of the • house grew upon Me. The eorrittors and vaerint rooms seeniml to echo in- nuMerable footitteps, sittifflinge, the • Vitae Of iskitte, and a eonstant•tioder- tons of whispering. When aleep at lengtt overtook titte, the breathings *tut noises, however, panted netitlY to mingle with the voictie of My &mons.. A week pegged by, and the "reeding" progreseed favorably. po the tenth day of my solituae, a strange thing haPpenitd. X *woke after a good night's sleep to find noself Possassed with a marked vougnancit for my nem. The sir attuned to stifle me. The More tried" to define the mute of tbm dislike, the more unreamotieble If epmpeared. There was 'ottling ibout the room that Made me afraid. Absurd; es it seems, this feeling elung to me obetinately while drafting, tuid viore thin Mee I taught Myself ehtv- *ring, and tonsetous of an Meditation to got mit of the room as tpakikiy tut • paseible: The more I tried to laugh It _ *Way, the &tore rag It. teem.; and when at laet wet dretteed, and wont ou.: into the pewee, and doorstettdre Into the kitchen, it wets with feelings of rellef„ ettel art I might lagiete *0 -‘21.174r, woulti imeorepany emelt moot from I first Imis ats istant night attack. the Presence ot a dangerous ountigioue No stb�x sened disturbed the stilinses • hat reigned supreme. While eating toy bteakfaitt, X mire- - en X stood upon the wharf in the nate. noodled, evera night spent in the broad animal ot light that followed me toms, In the hone thet 1 Might in froira the sitting -roam windows; 1 iiew *Ake Way cortnect the dielike 1. now enother canoe oven the natbwey of felt witie some disagreeable tncident uncertain tight apezi the. water, and thet bed occurred in it. But the only else/pear at owns Into the impene- thing I could roma' Wae one stormy treble gloom that lay beyond. This night when I euddenly awoke and time I maw more distinctly than before, heersi tile boards creaking so loudly in wo4 like the former canoe, a big the corridor, that 1 was cenvineed birch -bark, with high-oreeted lame and there were people in the Minion ,89 stern and bread beam. It was paddled certain was of this, that had ne- by two Indium, or whom the one in acentled .the itairs, guo in hand, only tile *item -the steerer-antnered to be to find the flora and windows secure- a very large rime. I could gee tide ly fastened, and the mice and black- •verY plainly; end though the second beetles in 4010 possession of the !leer. canoe was muois nearer the, ielana than Tins was certainly not sufficient „ the firet, Fudged that they were both account for the strength of reY 004" on their way home to the GeVernMent *en lietervatitin, nelach was situated Boole The morning boors I spent in steady fifteen mile avray. upon Om mato.. reading; and. when I broke off in the lawn middle of .the day ilia a swim and 1 was won_ ring in toy mind what luncheon, I was very much surprised, couid possibly bring any 'tidings down it not a little alarmed, to find that to this pert ot the lake at anch an ray dislike for the room had, if any- hour of the night, when a third canoe, thing,. gown stronger. Going upstairs af „,„,/ iss to wive book, experienced the most 0"uxekreli");y"lw'oltrillar3Zia4" ;3;3, 4"tre'niry, marked aversion to, entering the rooele, round the owlof ale wharf. This time and while. within 1 was conscious all , the canoe was vary matob nearer shore, the time of au uncomfortable feeling and it seeeeeel,y fleshed, into nay mind that WAS bait uneasiness and half ap- that the three canoes were in, reality Prehension. The result of it was that, one and the same, atid that only one lusteed of reading, L spent the atter- cane was drains the isiendi noon on the water, paddling and fish- „xhis was el sa mesas a p meeeesent re- ing, and when I got ho, abont iion- wetia.ise if it were the correct ewe, brought with me •half dezen 0`i'stro“it LhO unusual appearance Of dell/nous black base few sUpper-thc three eeeees in this lonely part of table and the larder, , eci the 'eke at So late an Mier; the'pere An 'Map was, an importane matter pose of the two men eeelei only reason - if ,to ita at thin time, X had 'cleeid.ed that ably be considered. to be In lionte way .mt averaion to the- room wait - A- oo neete4 with niyeelf. X ..bad never strongly marked on. my' eetu.rn as' tt known, of the Indians attempting anY had been betore, I would- menne my bed down into the sitting -room, andsleep. violence OPme the satte6 Who snared ties • wads inhoapitable 'country . with tbere. . This wes, I ,arguell, in nie Neese teem ; et. tea, //awe time, it was net lie - fear, concession to an absurd and fanouni y end the region of ,possibility to sup - fear, but simply ti ptee4tion to insure, pose But then I did not epee) to, a geed night's steel).- A h-sd ' night 51" tweet think ot such hideous poosibili-- volved the kids of the next day's read- , ties, and my imagination inamediately itig,-a loss I was not prepared to ole ' our, soughrelief le ell manner of ether • ' .. ... ' solutions to the problem, which indeed ,, I 'accordingly mOvea. My bed (IOWA- cemereadily enough to mymind,. but neateotres nate°. acorner of atha emsioliteige-ir. outer!. id to. not suceeed in recoMmending e ne tu door, cl, A benaselves ,to my reason • eonamonly glad when the Operation • ' • ' ttleannthile, by a sort of instinct, I ws° .°0•tesialetedi aiad 'ille tInnr (4 UM.' Stepped back out of the lartght. light bedrooni otesed Dimity upoir the -Mae- in, which Ishad hitherto been standing, dow.sethe mimeo, and the strange tear • and waited ixi the deep. shadow Of , a that shared the rooni with , them.. - rook to 'see if tile tanoe would again The oroakiug stroke of -the kitehen m,ke its appaarssas... H01,04 00eee, 400 Clock Sounded the boar of eight as I and' not be seen; and. 'the precaution .finished washing tip' My few dishes, ,,,,„,s,„s „ .„,:ss _ and olositig the kitohen door . 'behind '9"'"'""'"'• - "''''''' '''-':' , • .. ',, ' rae, passed into the front roinin's All 'After lets than five minutes ' the tne laniee wereelit, and 'their reflect- canoe, as I hen anticipated, Made its foarth apPeeranee. • Tata time • it WeS ors, wnieh X had 'polished' Up . during: :not twenty 'yards' train' the Wharf, and the, day, threw a blaze on.liglit into tins roona... .. . , .. . . - 'nays that the 'Adieus. Meant te land. ' Outside '• the night. was still 4nd .r recognized the two men as those who warm. Not a „breath of Mt w as' sties had Reseed b.efore, :anti the ateerer was ing; the Vaves were 'silent, the :trees certainly; an immense fellow,It was 'enotionteese, and • heavy , comes hung unquestionabis the stone canoe. There like an oppressive .curteati, over the could be no longer any 'doubt that for 'heavens:. ' The darkness . seemed to PO= parpage of. their owe the ' mini 'have rolled. up With unusual swiftness-, . bad' been doitat round and round the oad: • notthe faintest glow 'ex ee:Iner lila on for some time, Waiting for an remained. to show' where tee sea had epporthiattt to Inuit I .strained ma. set. 'There was ;present in the atmos- °Yes tq' fnil-nw tlinnl in the darkness, phere that °Minims and ,overwhelming but the night had eompleteitsswallow4 alienee svhicli. so .often.precedes the ed there up, and not even. the faintest' deoet violent' storms - - Brien of the paddles reachednat ears , I sat down to naybooks with MY 46 the Indians . plied their long and I powerful strokes, The canoe Would. be knowing .that five Week bass were ly- this time it wiatsepoe:swibelleletheebtet140..tatme: brain . unusually.' clear, and in, my emelt.. , the pleasant:. eafteteetiou et round again .in O. few moments, and ' Mg in the ice -house,' and that to-moeS might land. row morning the old farmer would ar- rive with fresh, bread and eggs. X Was HOOn absorbedin my :books. - . • . As the night wore on the silence deepened. Even the chipniunke were still, and the boards of the tlgors and , Walla ceased '. ereekitig. .1 reed on Steadily 'tills f rapethe glooray sha.dowa of tbe kitchen,,came the hoarse soloed, in, the magazine and one lying snugly' of the °look -striking nits. .RoW loud the' strokesasoueded L. They were like blows of o big 'hemmer.. I closed one book and opened .another, feeling that I °wee just warming up to ray work, This, 'however, Aid • not 'ant long. I presently found that I was reading the .same paragraphs 'over:twice, sim- tittering the room,. f lihu-t the doer ple paragraphs 0:tat, difi not require leading to ilia verandah, arid as quick - such effort,. Then X not:teed that my ty as pessible turned Out, everyone of mind began to wander to other things, the -sir lamps. , lar be in a item so and the effort, tore:wit my thoughts brilliantly lighted, tvheiti -my every became harder with earn „digression. movement could be obiserved,•from mit- Presently ..I discovered , that I had side, while I could see nothing but ita- turned over 'two. pages instead of one,. penetrable darkness at eVerreyind.ovv, and had netsnotieed iner. mistake until was by alt lame of warfare lea trenecee- I was well down the, page.. .This was sea concession to the enemy. And beceming serious._ What was the dis- turbing • halluenee I' ,It could not be physioai fatigue. On tile contrary, Jur mind. was itsausitally alert,' and it a more receptive condition that 'meal. I thane a new ' and determined 'effort to read,' and forte short time succeeded in .giving my whole attention., to My' subject. But in a very few' mot:ciente again I found myself leaning back in my chair, staring eacittitly into slime. Something was evidently, at work in iny sub -consciousness. There was sumelhing, 1 had neglected to do. Per- haps the kitchen'• door and windows Were not fastened. . I accordingly went. to see, aid found that they were! The fire perhaps neeiled attention. I went in to see. and found that it was all righti I looked at the lamps, Went upstairs into every bedtoont in turn, and then Went round the house, and eveninto the ice -house: - Nothing was wrong; everything was in its place. Yet something was vvrong I ' The con- viction grew stronger and stronger withia me. ' • . , When I at length eettled down to My books again and tried to read, I became aware, for the first time,' that the room -seemed growing cold. Yet the day had been oppressively warm, and evening had brought no relief. The six big Leanne, Moreover,. gave out heat , enough to warm the tot:ire pleasantly, l'ut a &hilliness, that,perhaps crept up from the lake, matte itself felt in the room, and °aimed ,rite to get up to Moe the glese door opening on to the verandah. • For 4 brief Moment I stood looking out at the shalt of light that felt flora the whadows and atione some little dis- tance down the pathway, and out for w few 'feet into the lake. - ;._ Aa I looked, I save a canoe glide into the pathway of light, and - immed- iately orogsing, it, pass out •of sight - again into the darkness. It was 1301r - haps a hundred feet from the shore, .18 no. Ivo known to hire by which end. it ^Moven swiftly, these stones can be told, from the surprised that a canoe ehouid :genuine *nee. pass the island lit that time of night,- A. London. jeweler quepitioned as to for an the sunitaer visitore .from the - the pooeible .reisiiite of these 'good, and other side of the lake had gotie hoime ohisep" imitations maid that the stones weeks before, arid• the 'Mend tires a impossible to imitate might beeome long way oat of any line of water _ the moot vatuebIe and the most fashw traffie. . My readiuge from this moment did i'Mable" evelittlellY.' . not make very good. progress, for seine,. „ ... . . how the piature of that otinoe, gliding peer reels tee ugn motuTu. i eo dimly end swiftly aerose the narrow track of light Ott Um black waters, sil- Hundreds of waeseen ales in thio. hos. houetted itself againet the background. ' it of patting pine in that ,nronth. hire. of my naiad with eingular vividneett. It the...!Lete ritudonst_ n dled.at .her how_ s kept coming between my eyes and tbs tiit,i, printed page. ;The more I thought 0 .1-00Penon, Xerah.c went/Wier eftsr about it the more surprised I became. .6i:tatting' 0,5 years with a pin In her It was of larger build than any / held tbrottt. More than A otifirter of * been during the past stunmer mittens _ century ago *he itoeldentally swallow* and. WAS more like the old /Adieu War : ed a ptu. Vritah lodged in her throat. cam** With the high curving bows and She *tittered exernalating patit at stern and wide helm. The more I timed, end wati often obliged to take tried to read, the lose teirenitit attended food through a tube. My attar*, eta finally I elosed my ' . 0........... books and went out on the vetandah aux FOR A MATS, to walk up end down 0, bit) and *bilk* In Upload It a Men wiettel be meta the obligees* out of my Imes. ry he km td run * rim with the girl Tim la ht was perfectly 'till, and ait &A Mt agitteble. / stumbled down he went.. The girl is given a *tart the pith_ to the little binning wharf, of of* turd ..gai whale aistexos, aula where the **ter mode the very faint- ;leer leeehy *tali ete 0100,00se tat 04;"; eet lef tdrilblg *Oder Lk* tbabters. nib If, leowever, the Morrill* I* net dia. mad of a blift tree fell in the asolu- 0,404 is iss., sts, salowi tke lois laud fetenty har latrado ' hat".• *It's to oatelt *sr up mai win thereupon rod( Sebes* be OS hie, tar, like the _164 otiologoor Inkr on his sz.(40. RR. 1 fITTO latOliDTV'P I end. Catholle *Imola* were doh* wlist hl 1 itaLIU la Lath they mind tor their Mulit, tutors were at work elsewhere tlust were to *lump SOMETHING ABOUT THE COUNTR, the Motor of the Yukon. As early IS 1,1867 gold na7 d been dinsoveried on AND ITS DISCOVERER, - er River, in British CeleMbial in IWO 1.11.1.1{ the "Caribou," dietriet; and then, in filo g teuestaenee stery.seastent weevils 1874, the "Canner" district, the latter Ito too goo soles,..4toosiss, or tko - two bninediatety south of the head- leilaters-Xstly sad Sitter Pleateneleit Wolters of the all but tinkneWii Petty nieneeeeeeeeeeee rem virtu cur_ sis4 Lewes Rivers. Thoueande of min- , god sr o olpottm vorro,0001010,40 or era rushed there, dieolosing some of iitireer'e Weekly. the riebeet plecera or the world. And Beane Fortune was never in more as these beearite exhaueted, it was but Uatural that the hardy proepeotors oaprielons mood than when theo golden 43001 push farther along the omit. treasuree of the Klondike were ripe Thus in 1880, ihatu.blriekkaulatrhrro waned - for dieooverr, Such,. incised; has been Ittjtu°071,1"&va:rid the sever Bow the history .of mining. But although Beata, and the town of juueau, first somewhat over a year has els-peed called Harrisburg, was founded, From since the full significance of the strike time to time, previoagly, reports of beourne generally known, and more than two year* since the dimovery it- self, the story of that time, so far as it has been heard, le still obscured by the ,Miets of uncertainty and contra- diction, ed.. 1 knew nothing of their intentions and two eo oneewhen the two are latg Indians I late at night ma a lonely Ia.._ land was not exactly my idea of plea- sant iutereourse. In a corner of the sitting -room, leaning up against tbe back wall, stood my Marlin rifle, with ten cartridger in the greased breiele There /was just time to -get up to the house and take up a position of defence in that cor- ner. Without an instant's hesitation I ran up to the verandah, carefully Picking My way among the trees, so as to avoid being seen in the light. this,enemyt if enemy it was to be, was far too wily and datigeroustohe granted any (mob adventagese (To Be 'Continued.) • IMITATION Etimse, One of the great prima donnas now in New York weans in one role a beau- tiful Paiute of diamonds, and she hor- rified another singer in the company by telling her that they were French imitations that had not coat one-fif-, tietk of what they seemed to have cost ; . The other woman was`diatressed be- cause all of here were real, and the thought of the money invested in them was too much for her. "natation jewels have come to he so finely made that detection ite al - moat impossible.Even for ordinary 'wear they are accounted beentiftil/ and it is only the knowledge of their fal- sity which makes them unpopular. ror every ordinary purpose they are as use- ful as the genuine pieces. The last jewele to be imitated With wonderful SUCeeea are rubles, and they happen to be a fashionable stone just now. The manufactory which has these imitation rubies on the market is situ- ated In London, and it hag already been said there that the price or real raffia Will certainly. fall In cruise- quenee or discovery of these won- derful imitations. The profits of the company Making the kubles are said to be 4185;000 a year, • ' Artificial rubies weighlog 46" aerate Oen he produced, but are not, as there would be no sale for atones of that /size. An authority /mit said that there itiii.....m.„ „ ( , . ... • If., . ,* '' PAS*Aik_;;r4/44iNa&..' ., 4. 4.• Thi e may fieent strange to those who have obeerved no anpareut lank et he- tet-al:Lotion from the' very etart regard- ing the It tondike ; but those familiar with the ditfioulty of obteinitg infertaation'in a country like Al - alike, aria tote* of conveying it scour, - gold having been found IA the inter- ior by employes of the trading comae -- lee reached the outside. But the. pegs which led, over flee Metnetains to the head -waters of the Lewes was guard- ed by the (ihilkat Indians, Wien Mono- polized the triode with the "Stick,'" or "Woods," Indians, holding tbent in- deed in 4 state of slavery, And opposed ell white men who attempted to enter the country. The year of the Sneer Bow strike a party of miners ;vents ov,er, the first party, ot white men whom the Indiane had allowed to go in. This party brought beak good re - parte from the "Oa of the Lewes River and from now on parties begat ately through most popular ohennels ing over the Paaat building their boats of publwatzon, will pot -be surprised at 021 the • other side me deseending the river farther and side, worktng the all- In making this ,vontribution: to bars -,generally retaraing to the ooast the history of that tizne I am anireat- , ed not only by a desire to gather to- Tem 6.01.a) WAS eneess GOLD, the same year. gethez the seattered ends Of revert and , , and it lay in the gravel near the sure hearsay', but that tardy credit may be face, on tleseheads of erhat the miners given to the men, and in particular one termed "bars," A "bar" is simply the Mon, *whean Fortune, never more • un- acouanulation of gravel and dirt on kind, has deprived thus far ot meter- the inside of the bends of the winding oompensatton for 4 „generous act river. They- are built up by the wear- lal down of the align banits against and years of patient work. It is a Ms- which the gourrank eV at higle 'cinating etory, but to understand bet- water. . ter ite. eignificanoe, and, indeed, that They are covered, like tile rest of the of the present Klandike,at is neoeseary valieY, with a growth of cottonwoods 9 or fairly good-sized spruce. The work to go hack st'imewhat in time and t on them was done only in suramers sketoli briefly, eveata that, step by tater ebe freshet, winter work being ,esztedletal eild output:6"h° mernora'bie summer tabeceonuooninositetrheedsiomvnuotoiteyibolet, ttriat ograYantne but by reason ot freezing of, the water needed to separate the gold. • The method of saving the gold was by mums of the' "totiker," The "rocker" was simply a box on rookers, like a cradle, with a perforated metal top, and sloping blanket inside. The rocker was set at the edge of the river and the dirt shovelled into the perforated hopper. Water was Alp. Ped up in a long -handled dipper and Pentad in with the dirt, the 'rocker" being energetically rocked at the same time by means of an nprignt handle. The larger stones were removed by hand, the gold failing through perfora- tions and lodging upon tile bleultet, which at intervals was cleaned, the contents being placed in a bucket with quicksilver until all the fine pa.rticies of gold were taken up. The amalgam farmed. Was squeezed in a cloth filter, THE SALMON -CANNERS • • and the remaining lump heated over a fire nal -tit, practically all trace , of th on the ward, then the Pelagio scalers, queriekes-I'vee disappeared. In this man! gradually broke down this authority; It_calsierojr3table SUMS were taken but Then, after twenty years, they were _ ant;e,,ndxscovered in 1.886, Far ns the story begine with tile pur- obese of Alaska by the 'United States from Russia In the year 1867, and the histalMent of powetfut oompanY, kitown as the A.laslra Cmintercial Com- pany, into the seal -hunting rights of the Priloyieff Islands, and a •praotioad monopoly 01 the fur trade of the wnole of Alaska then 'solely a fur-produeing country.. The _Mesita Commercial COmpany was soniethieg more than a monopolist of the fur trade, it virtual- ly into the place of the Rita. e'en goverement, 'sharing_ for many years. with ,the Greer Church alone the absolite central of 'a large native .popalation 'of Indians and Eskimo, supplantedin the Seal Islands by the North eenieriean Comm,ereial Com- PanY, " • : Of the interior of Alteare little was known It is a matter of history that in 1842 one Boberte-Campbell, an em- Ploye Of the iiidson Bay Company, crossed over from the bead of Liard to -a etreate which he named the whieb he • descended to it)) junetion with anotbetr stream,- which he called the "Lewes," and, after many dangers, established. in the'Year 1848, a post at the 'confluence .oeethe two rivers, known as Fort •Selkirk. 1a 18e7 another Hudson' Bay' emPloehe A.. B. 31/urray, aimed. over from Port lido- Str TROVSAND: DOELAas for thirty days' weak. • ' Raver and McQuesten were at Font Reliance, 'nearly two hundred miles•be- low Fort Selkirk, from 1873 bo 1882, and -afterwards at ether posts above and below. As the miners worked -.down. strewn, many at theta, either dis- inclined or unable to get back the dis- tance of four hundred to six hundred miles to the posts, Wintered at the pests. where they could procure pro- visions. So yeareby year, as the min- as becasne more numerous, the traders began to cater More and' more to the miners'. trade, The winter was a "seruidli of enforced idleness. The spring:freshet at one end and freezing at the other shorten- ed the working season to about sixty - Pherson on the Mackenzie to what' is five days, during which time an aver - called. the Porcupine River, and estate. age of eight or ten dollars a day had lisheil a post -Fort Yukon -at the con- to be made for the next Tines grub fluence of the Poroupine and another stake Avery -man was a prospector, larger river'whieh, however, was not and a hard worker, skilled at boating, proved to bo the same as the "Pally" of accustomed to hardship, rough, yet Campbell until 1860a when Campbell gerterous.to his fellows. Beyond a few dropped down, to tort Yukon. Fort quarrelsthat would be laughed off by Selkirk was burned to the ground in the others, there was no trouble 1852 by Chilkats from the coast, who among them. One custom in parttime' thereby expressed their displeasure at tar that shows this feeling was that interference with- their own exclusive when the ist of August came, and rights to the trade of the so-called there wete any who had, failed to "Woods," or "Stick," Indians. In 1809, locate a bare they were given permis- the company wereeordered by the eine to tot upon the ciente of sueli as Untied btatee to leave Fort Yukon, it, had struck it and to take out enough havingbeen discovered by our observe- for the next season's outfit. This tions that it was within hemeririan ter- peaceable condition has in general ritory. They aid so in A leisurely way, characterized the Yukon. building what is now called "old" In 1885 the tich bees of tbesattstaratt Rampart Rouse; but this also was River were discovered, and with the found to he in American territory, so rush of miners there the next summer they moved to their present location, -Harper, Maettesten & Co., established about twenty miles farther up the - a post at the mouth of that river. Der - Porcupine/ Supplied by the slow and ing the winter which followed there tedious Mackenzie River route, they was a shortage of provisions, and the aro no longer a factor in the Yukon, little Camp of seventy- or eighty men atraost the only signs of their exist- was on the verge of starvation. Me - ewe being the names of their poste, Questen himself had gone out to San I now mewed by others. leranOiS00. What caused this shortage TWENTY-SIX YEARS .AGO was the report that three notable Men entered the Yukon. COARSE GOLD They eanee froza Northwest Canada by had been discovered an Shitanda Creek, way of the Poreapine River -LeRoy N. a corruption of the Indian name "Ztt- MeQuesten known commonly as zelm-duk," now called "Forty Mile" "Meek" ticQuesten; Arthur tiarPerk Creek, from its being that distanee he- seareely known extiept as "Old Mina" low Fort Reliance, It was late in the Harper ; and AL Mayo. These three fall when report came that Mickey Mete sad. SOOle others not so well O'Brien, Jim Adams, and two others, known, located at seVeral points on the named Lambert and Franklin, had river as agents of the Alaska Commer- found Marie gold. .1/t,. stampede for Mal Company. • This company, from the new diggings followed; for the their main distributing -points, Una'. miner does not bother with fine gold &Oka and ICadittle Island, eupplied St. when he can get coarse gold. Coarse Michael's Island, the site of the old, gold, being heavier, is not carried so Russian post, and from there a email far by water as fine gold, and is neat - Mesmer took up supplies to the traders et its soutee. Thohe miners who and brought down the Marten, silver- thought they had not enough for the gray fox, and other furs Wren in bar- winter bought all the trader would ter. The Malan population was larger sell them and started for PertY than IL is now, and the furs tram the It WM tho lateexonere from up river - valley of the Yukon were Very high who suffered in consequence. grade, the marten 'being /second to A letter with the news of the find thont front Hatinteshatka, the oelebrat- was sent out from Stewart River m •4dWithilireiattesable.trabJanuary, by a men named Williams, eit provided for the with aft Indian boy and three doge. rdWitietti welfare of On natIV69in the On the summit of Chilkoot they were interior in return tot fun, and a few overtaken by a done" and Were hUr. missktriariliti Ot the artesian, English, tea for three days in the snow. When the storm abetted Williem eint14 not. , walk, and was eerried ou the beet* of the Indian boy tour miles to Sheep Camp, whence he was sledded in to Dye* by Imola Indians, and died in the store of John a. Healy. The doge were never been. again. The =leers eon- gregeted from ell parts to knew whet had brought the niaA out, for the win- : ter journey was considere4 almost eertaati death, The Indian boy, Pick- ing up a h.andful of beano, sale; "Gold all setae Mee this," The excitement was intense, and Unit spring over two hundred miners petered in over the ease to Forty Miles Forty Mile, unlike other streams that bad been prospected, orttved'to 1)8 . what the minors call a "bed-rople" creek, ITUE HEAVY' GOLD, Or COURSE, would 'Only lie on or near bed -rook, in- stead ot on top the bars.. On Forty Mile bed -rook came to or quite near the sateen. Then Franklin Gulch, 'tributary of Forty Mile, was discover- ed. In the bed of the small breok the goi4 was round under several feet of graam; Mixer tributaries of Forty Mile' Were elsoovered, all with good pay. Same et this gold is very be•autiful. I whaevpee iseeelintaeletne:netietyreogfeltneer 041(11)11%er- kin seeds: in sem and shape. Nuggets wbeElightionugnafive hundred dollars have - In the spring the trattere moved to, Forty Mile, and now, with the post for a hese of operations, still richer •placers wereodiscovered-in 1803 on Sixty Nile, and in 1894 on Birch 'VrTeheke:Oleconery of .heavy gold led to the first change in the Method of working. Strings of 'narrow Melee - boxes, with "rifflea" of pates for catch- ing the gold, supplanted the rocker. A dam was built above the claim to ob- tain the necessary head of Witter, a "dram (law, dug to bed-roCle, a lino of sluice -boxes set up, and the dirt shovelled in; but no quicksilver was used, and evhetever fine gold there miglit be was IOst. • The ectuntry is"one of eternal frost. True the eummers though short are warmet be temperature reaching 80 de- grees, and by reason of the almost con- tinuous daylight at that seawall, the warming power of the sun is muoh in- oreaeed. But the earth is overlaid with a carpet of moss, which the sun's rays do not penetrate, and the roots of the stunted spruce rest upon per- petual ice. , (To Be Continued.) . DAWSON'S WASH-TVS. -"lady Soapsueig" 310411m a lee. eivertnne with it, A change of underwear in the Klon- dike in tlue niatter of temperature IS doubtless " frOst." In point .9f ex - Penes it rather resembles a "roast." At least one is led. to this conclusion .after the careful perusal of, ti taut - dry hist just received from the land at geld nuggets and far, nightshirts. • , The list inquestion beesle the head- • ing "Peerless Laundry," eine in half- inch type: -Beneath, in More modest lettering appears the name of "Mrs: H. -Wetter, • obviously the oyster and,4 manipulator of Dawson MAY manipulator Washtub. Announceraen that the office is in the Klondike hotel Is flanktia by the 'alluring offer, "Mend- ing feee," heavily underscored, The reader is also assured that Firsteelass work is guaranteed" before passing to the agony of the price e - In extended enumeration' the var- hms articles ot wearing apparel Com - mop 'to menebere of, both. sextet ' are printed below, in two-golumn ar- rangeraent, headed respectively "Gen- tlemen's list "..and "Ladies' inst. In alt Some forty different piteies of per- , senal wardrobe or household necessi- ties, susceptible to soap and water :treatment, are printed. OPP.esiie each " 'figures indicating .the expense of be- nne "done up" Meta upon. the unac- customed eye. Most c4.- the theta re- quire the services of a " Tho cheapeat thing on the list is a , collar. -cost of laundering 25. cents. A " hiled" sltlit nets 'Lady Soaptaids a , dollar, and. a pair of (tuffs,. Weenie. Under the eirounastences gentlenaen callere in evening dress are not num- erousin the limes of -- KLONDIKE! SOCIETY BELLES. Sweaters, of evh:oli It is sere to seer eneoy are worn in thee region of.ehillY ieindir ore eeto temperature, cost '75 cents under thessrejtiveuatiug proeess controlled by alre'sallteiter. Towels and napkins ate -swathed for la a dozen, and the eleatinetineseneir f t •he same figure 'asses Socks are cleansed for 20 mete 0. pair, tine announeetnea being supple- ment by a second, waning "Getman Decks " at the same figure. Thus the national feeling of good -will for aliens is disseminated through the humble mediem of a Klondike wash list. The laundering of common, cotton nightshirts entails an expenditure of 75 Gents. SI ie is not surprising nyllear that sleeping in sealskins is it reign- ing fad among the nttgget 'huntere of Alaska. Clean- handkerchiefs at Si a dozen arts moll sitti ig it ITEM OP INTERMEr *Nur Tits BUSY YANKIM Neighberty Wilma le tlim thoiseinatintee. et Momitit god Mirth gathered them HU NOY Record. Andrew Carnegie has offered to the ,city of A.thinte the sum of 410,000 toe a free public library on condition that the city furnish a eite and nasintala the library at a goat of ilet lees than 15,000 a year. Tbe national Government bee Dmitri* butter an 8 -inch howitzer, with I* shells, to mark the greve of lifaktre Gstrueral ,Tohn Sedgevick, in Cornwall,: Conn. -General Sedgy/10k killod, la bettle ditring the midi war. There are tour Epee tit Senateee. Mallride, 110E/tory, Mcloaurin and Moe Iwo are Deemorate and tWO Republioans; but they all voted for the . treaty, and tweet them-MeRnery end filcLaurin-secured it* ratifioation. Within a few years, or shim) about • the time of •Anna Gould's marriagi Count Castellano, 152 riola Araeriease girls have niarried European nobles, men- dowries they Inive take across the water average $100,000 each. linber Barr, the novelist, says he awill wager he cia:A step off it train at any village. in England, and at two one .of every three houses •receive ett- firmative ,ansWer to the glasnost, "Rave You, tette relatives in eenerioa," • Congreies has just. pa:saise special. uaotarpslarcionrgbeusponeptbltbienp,en.Nsioetwrollsontlrtion,e. Ind., a Mexican war widow mad one of the war ot 1812, tter first husband Louis H. Bryan, was a great-granda father of W, Bryan. • eBlanelee Willis Howard von Teufte1,0" who died in Germany ' a few months ago, was oreniated at Heidelberg, ace+ cording to her wieh, and the urt cone taining her ashes has been brought to tins country and planed at Mount aope cemetery, Bangor, Me. Belga Kellar; the deaf, durab and blind student at Banc:lief° College, visited' the Beaton .3/fusel= of Art it lew (Jaye 'ago aid "saw" the statues,' By pesseag her sensitive figures over the figurea she Was able to get a mar- vellously correet idea of them. Ildount Vernon, N:x., judge think* that in orderto obtain, the beat remelts. a jury should be made to, feel at horao in the court -room.' Accordingly he has had the stationary °hake; heretofers. need by jurors removed; end hes :re- placed them with commodious recline • cogrt, ...learned the' trade of a printer lag cha'ir6" "'' ' . .Sudge B'utleaee'.of Phila.- • delpbie; who has rpigued from the bench of the United States instriot tiiiiiilhage,ohtineB4ee,:rfa!heraasnt Cligitersomeit , boys re the officio at die sattie time ;was Bayard Taylor. Mrs. Anna lit leaoli, a. wealthy usialinV" wbo died at St. Louis last week, be- queathed 4500, for the ()are of a pet • tall„airila/e3 ed ansd two doge.oin 12iThis'sos tespt.,‘erei,eal dentl Been left- the bulk of hee Property; Various oharitabl•e stitaione receiv- ed legatneni examen:4:g to $20,090. geeat joke is reported on the "array" from .Tunction'CitY, gen. party of night effieers on a Wegonette were. held up by three bogus bandits and robbed of riak, and • the Offieera sant beak to the post bare-headed'and CM foot. The bogus beizelits drove heck and had. all the past 'tuna out to see the otficers u.pon their return. The of- ficers were aimed and eq,uipped ready - to start for ' • Postneastee Tuttle, of Carthage; Mo.; has jest reoeheed from the federal Gov- ernment a. draft for $8.20 in pa.yraent, of a debt that has been running sines the eitil war, but of which Tuttlei kneey nothing. It appears that in . settling with Oapt. Tuttle ' foe his sere Vices as a soldier one day's' pay eigasee-e overlooked, and ale° an allowance/for elothing. It took Uncle Sam aileyeara to dieeove,r the error. . Kansas City ha$ error..,, a trade- mark. aereafter it will appear on all ,manufactured geode sent out from that city. The design ,was selected. by, the direetors of the Menufacturene Asso. toaiationt from..78,,stsn.winof eob wperee sub -e "Thiteet States, with Kansas City repree S miled by aster ir the exact centre. en.ubte0Vparetalidewsite.egre.hov.ers an eagle with 'le/piing to edvices received in 'stew rink, thlle.enillinnaire mine owner, Jos. de La Mar; iririwfiame out of the vvest a rteugh, rich, anseiftORtrip minor, 11 now going id to -marry , wife in Paris. This wife was Ne Sends, a beautiful girl, the 'daughter o a druggist. Captain de La Mar iset.e tied a neat little trifle of $200,000On her on WS wedding day, and gave her Lr a bridal tireseot a diamond trinket which, cost just exactly $10,000: W,C4 a luxury, and it is not strange that the leading dignitaries of naW8Orl are do- ing their own washing. furthermore, with tablecloths cost- ing OD cream per scrub, the best fami- lies of the tetritory meat bo pardon- ed for setting out their ancestral sil- ver tableware on plain pine bottrds. Oc- casionally, of course; they may strew' the festive hoard with " latest" copies of newspapers-4*o month's old. Under tbe " list" are two strange, entries-overtills ancl jumpers at 50 cents (mete Doubtlegs • the fair (*vets tineernetttle laundered at $1 an partners of prosperotut gold diggers need thee() things to preserVe the fresh- ness of their newly starched waists and respeetively. Ordinary wrappers tire $2 per wash; piIIow shams, #1.25; lace curtaius-strange InXtirles for log eabins and canvas_ wall tent --t per curtain. It costs 41.50 to have klailre nightdress done up. The charge for hedispreads is $1.50, and for blankets $4. So mucir for an up-to-datO laundry list in Dawson City, the metropolis of Alaska, Thera, is. Ito Insurance offered •be eorrected within twenty-four si• patrons. in Cade of f ire, and mistakes siiou .v,.41 ‘ must haute ae.cording to the achedttle. It le •;, ...*:\(1' not recorded that Mrs. Weiiet" bat /Oak - •ed Out a claim for possible gold dis- , Onfer14%. Soap and Water and an Iron- ing board Seetrt to efford her e au,rer thing than pick and *hovel. Meanwhile ell are wondering et the tardy appear-, sakes of SOMe pig-talied Celestiel, who, with a eoupIe of fiat Irene, a bucket of steroh, end it tared of ries Is likes ly to est up a flourishing rival esteb- lialenent. • . i , NNW r**04Mate SAILIMASI .5 A SUM EIGN, ' Zookis-1104 Wirt a yours ought to lin a good ten* pI.yer later a*. t you think mot , the w4 be keep* lap hie BANDS ON THE BATTLE FIELD, • • 111•4•46mr Music Helm Sehnert emt the Staten and k LVI1114 tO VICtOr.). la isatile. The utility of music in matters per- taining to war is probbly one of the greatest forces. At the present day, in all the armies of the world, intisloal war signals are sonsidered not only use- ful, but absolutely indispensable. The infantry drill regulations of many countries give the music and signift, canoe of more than sixty trumpet sig. nabs-n=11s of utimingi of assembling, of alarm, 01 eerVice and ge on -besides it dozen or more antra aril, fife signale, all of wbioli is a definitelanguage to scalers. • ,,-,,.. But its use it not. merely 'oonfinede to signalling, for inusie is need in oat. er ways for purposee of war. f the \..„, wav of dispelling weariness on the match, nothing is equal to the in io of a bruits band. Lora Wolseleyli remerked that "troops that slug as e they march will not only teeth their destination more quiekly and in better Vitiating condition then those Who March in silence, hut, inspired, by the 'MUAIO and words of the national magi will feel that .self,00nlidence veltieh is the mother of viotory." Drattbly savages are the most *us- oeptible to the warlike feeling inspired by eertain chpig mtvie. It arposeit their anger, moues their fanatitiene, and by acoompenying their war dantes in tirac of peace it tiroutiee their lust of war. for this reason it is among warlike toetione that early Inueio wes most developed. . The German army Includes more than ten tholniand military mosiclane. Other powerful netiettia no the Conti*. eat employ rather lees umbers in *glittery bands.