Evening Star Newspaper, August 17, 1897, Page 8

HE EVENING STAR, TUESDAY, AUGUST 17, 1897—10 P GeeSondoatontoetongontoeteegonten niture are in the sale. SS a a ee a es ese De ee Te De ee es aseegenzee F St.,Cor. 11th. Sreseedeatneseete nee Our Great Mid-Summer . Furniture Sale. Hundreds of bargains make crowds of buyers. were not wrong in judging this great sale would be a suc- cess in the start. The fact that there’s a genuine price cut of from 40 to 60 per cent is an incentive to buyers that never failed to bring crowds. r Vive carloads of Parlor Furni- We Eleven carloads of Fur- ture and Odd Parlor Pieces bought up from ‘*Pearce,” the famous parlor furniture manufacturer, and six carloads of : Bed Room, Dining Room and Library Furniture culled < from our own immense stock. ¢ Ask for the advertised goods. $ Odd Parlor Pieces. : 0 for. Worth. : y Finish, 3 ple oat ms Mahogany-finish Divan oP : $ z 5c 3. $ Finish, 3 pleces, ta y z ak $57.00 $28.75 5 ¢ Mahogany ini inl 2 weces, grec vely 6. 20.00 oe $16.50 Mahogany’ Finish omc ate Mahogany - finish ~~ Divan, : $42.00 yas ES $16.75 aha : en wetted K 10.40 & . ae 3 sae pacha, damask $7.35 $ z jahogany ~ fini pace Finish. eae Chair, tapestry.......-. $7.00 $4.70 & Nees um. velvet... ae = ~ ahocany Finish, 3 pieces, Parlor Cabinets. : 3 Z Mahogany Finish... Mahogany Fintsh. Mahogany Finish: ¢ Mahogany Finish Mahogany Fi z W = S N } eal YQ Ge D © Z| & ee a es ee one of his customers: Customer: “Do you sel! Jeweler: “It does."* Customer: Jeweler: “Repairing "em." Do you catch the idea? give. Se DTPTH NDT THAD sehethtbeghvoreve rene nenegednr cr COMM AML MMMM MAN MA ooo too ebieeieS these watches at $5.00 cach? must cost that much to make them.’ a a a a a a aE aa a aaa One Way. Here is a little extract from real life. 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I have seen all means tried to exterminate rats— ferrets and dogs—but all proved unavailing. Only the cat conquered them. SUBSCRIBER. ————— Mrs. Williams Dead. The death of Mrs. Octavia J. Williams, wife of John O. Williams, occurred, after a lingering illness, Friday, August 13, at the kome of her birth, Oak Dale, Mont- gomery county, Md., where she was visit- ing with a view to her improvement and relief from severe suffering. Mrs. Williams will be remembered for her Christian life and character, and be ssed the many recipients of her untiful charity and kindness. he was buried from her late restdence, + L street northwest, this city, Sun- August 15. She had resided at the No. day, one place for the past thirty-seven years, the period of her married life. She was a daughter of the late John and Elizabeth Mannakee, Au- Bust 12, 1833, She leaves, son, Harry ¢ a married and was born besides her _ husband, daughter, Eugenia L., and ghter, Mrs. W. G. Elsinger. a Passing Bad Coin Alleged. Chief Hazen of the secret service division of the Treasury Department today received a telegram from New York telling of the arrest of Willlam A. Brown at Hoboken, N. J., on the charge of passing counterfeit coin. Brown, who had nineteen coins in his possession when arrested, was held In $5,000 ball. ———————e-—_____ Got the Best of the Railroad. From the Kansas City Journal. Orce in a while one of the slaves and serfs gets his knife into the railroad octo- pus and churns it up and down at a fright- ful rate. A Union Pacific locomotive set fire to a field of wheat in Russell county recently, and 150 acres of it was burned, while ten acres remained standing. The claim agent for the railroad agreed with the farmer that the ten acres should be cut and threshed, and that the company would psy for the burned grain just in proportion to the yleld from the unburned portion. It happened that the ten acres left standing contained the cream of the crop, and it threshed out thirty-three bushels to the acre, waile it is estimated that the whole field would not have averaged more than fifteen bushels. The railroad stood by its agreement and the farmer re: more than twice the value of his crop. The claim agent says that until the set- tlement had been made all the farmers in the neighborhood swore that the ten- acre patch was not as good as the 150 acres burned, and then they went to crowing over the mafner in which the railroad had been cinched. ; eee “Want” ads. in The Star because they bring answers. = her THE MIGHTY. GA -FISH | cee shee sires sarah Then we rer | A LETTER FROM KLONDIK | 89, 2ustness im Alaska aggregates #200, He is Easy to Hook, but Hard to Catch. ‘This Monster of the Orinoco Will Eat an Ox at a Meal and a Ship’s Cap- stan Cannot Haul Him on Board. An inhabitant of the Orinoco river, of which little is known beyond the shores of the waters in which it lives, is that strange mail-clad fish called the ga, or armadillo fish. It grows from five to eight feet long, and is of extraordinary thickness in pro- pertion to its length. Its body is protected by armor similar to that of the armadillo; and its head terminates in a triangular beak, from twelve to twenty inches long ard eight to fourteen inches broad at the base, which, when opened, displays a series of ‘cross-ridges above and below, sharp- edged and as hard as teeth. This fish will attack anything that comes within its reach—horse, ox, jaguar, or man —seizing its prey with its beak and taking out, in a clean triangular piece, as large a mouthful of flesh and bone as it is able to compass at a bite. It is rare that any creature once seized by the ga escapes it, nae usually killed or crippled by the first te. The ga is seldom taken, for its armor Protects it from the natives’ spears, and when hooked, it dives, head foremost, into the mud of the river bottom, from which it is almost impossible to dislodge it. Ifa sufficient strain be put on the line, either the tackle gives way, which is the common result, or the hook is torn from the fish’s mouth. “The only ga that ever I had a chance to examine was found in a dried-up pool on shore, where it had been stranded after an inundation,” said Dr. A. H. Ellis, recently arrived in New York, after sevegal years’ residence in Venezuela. He was telling a group of friends about the fish and rep- tiles of the Orinoco. He continued: “I hooked a ga once. but failed to land it. I was in charge of the cattle steamer Coratel on the Orinoco, and we were at anchor at Imataea Island, off the mouth of the Rio Toro I saw an ox, that had waded into the water up to his belly to drink, suddenly turn, struggle to keep his footing, and then rush out of the water, bellowing, with half his brisket bitten away. “'That's the work of a ga, sir,’ said my Scotch engineer, who had been on the river ten years. ‘Now that he’s got round to the cattle’s drinking place you'll see more of that work if we stay here. “Is there no way to catch him? I asked. ‘Will he bite at a hook?’ “Certainly, sir, if you bait it with any- thing that's eatable. But that’s all there is to it. A cable and steam-winch couldn't get a ga up from the bottom,’ “ “We'll see,’ I said. ‘Let's make a hook first that will hold.’ “We went down Into the engine room, found a pinchbar two and a half feet long and forged it into a hook with a strong barb and a ring at the end of the shank. To this we fastened a new three-quarter- inch rope, and, baiting the hook with a young kid, took it out in a boat and drop- ped it into the water near where we had seen the ox attacked; then we rowed back to the steamer, where the other end of the rope was belayed. We kept feeling of the rope, which presently grew taut, strain- ing hard-on the belaying pin. The ga had seized the bait. The engineer and I, with two native sailors, tried to haul the fish in hand over hand, but we might as well have tried to pull a tree up by the roots for all the line we gained. Then we pass- ed the rope round the capstan and set it going. The line seemed almost ready to part, but at last something gave way be- low and it slackened. We pulled it in, and there was our hook straightened out like a bar, while, fast to the barb, were two of the bony ridges from the ga's jaw. The fish evidently had seized the hook and could not disgorge it, but the strain that tore the hook from its jaw failed to start the ga from the bottom. “There is another sort of bad fish In that region,—a little fellow, found in the Orin- oco and in the salt water off its mouth, called the caribe. In shape it resembles the northern pickerel and has muck the fame colors and markings, only with that yellowness of tint which almost every ship in Venezuclan waters shows. The carlve is about twelve inches long, and goes about in great schools, attacking any crea- ture, alive or dead, which they find in the water, devouring it piecemeal. The cari- be’s mouth is fitted with sharp, cutting teeth, and, whatever victim it fastens to, it comes away with a bit of flesh. Let an alligator or manatee be shot wherever the caribes abound, and almost instantly the waters around the floating body will be alive with these fish crowding to seize upon it; they even leap upon it from the water, so thickly as literally to conceal their prey from view. So suddenly and fiercely do they come that I have known a horse, that had waded out into the water only up to his knees, to be fatally injured by an attack from caribes. Seized at once by every leg and by the nostrils, the fish clinging to him in swarms, he got to the shore only to fall helpless on the bank, hamstrung in both forelegs. Painful stories are told of human beings attacked and devoured alive by caribes. “Monster alligators are found in all the fresh waters of Venezuela. It is a favorite trick of the alligator to lie in wait at the drinking places of cattle watching for a chance to seize an ox or horse by the nose and drag him Into deep water where it can drown him. This done it swims with its prey to some secluded place, and there tears it to pieces and feasts on it at leisure. I have known alligators eighteen feet in length to be killed in the Orinoco, and have seen others in the water that I knew were still lor.ger. “It is a common practice to shoot at these reptiles from the decks of steamers plying up and down the Orinoco, and it is seldom that some of them are’ not seen lying within rifle range. The eye is the point aimed at by expert marksmen, An alligator shot in the eye dies instantly and will float; if hit In any other part, whether killed or wounded, it sinks, “Some of the branches of the Orinoc, though very deep, are narrow, su that the tops of the trees meet overhead, producing the effect upon the voyager ‘of passing through a tunnel. From these overhanz- ing branches the great water boas hang, head downward, waiting to seize any prey that may pass on the current beneath them. A party of us were coming down one of these streams in a couriel (dugout), Raddled by Indians, and, from time to time, an Englishman of the party, named Yeo, firec his rifle at some snakes. The rest of us had cautioned him never to fire at any snake until after we had passed it; but with true English self-sufficiency he ac- knowledged our advice by firing at a large b ging from a limb just as the canoe eath it. He hit the snake’s body, but did not break its back, and instantly uncoiling from the limb the boa dropp2d plump into the boat. As nobody cared to share the canoe with a writhing, twent: foot boa, every man went out of the craft as suddenly as the snake had dropped in. The boa glided into the water as soon as he could pull himself together, and made for the shore. Those of us who were on the same side of the canoe with the snake made haste to swim round to the other side, and we all got safe aboard before tke alligators found out what was going on. Yeo, who had swum to a dry tree root and Perched himself upon it, was the last man to be taken in. We didn’t hurry a bit about going for him, but gave him a full half hour there to reflect upon the wisdom of sometimes taking advice. “In our camp on the Guanuco river, on the coast of Venezuela, a little Irishman named McCarty had a thrilling experience, He was a devil-may-care, reckless fellow, and, rising one morning before the rest of us were ewake, he thought he would take a swim. Running to the edge of the high bank, he dived without first lookiag about him, far out into the water. As he came to the surface in the middle of the narrow river, and shook the water from his eyes, the first sight that met his gaze was two jeguars on the opposite bank, lccking at him and snuffing quisitively. He turned, only to see on either side—and altogether too near—an alligator regarding him with marked attention; while under the bank from which he had leaped, lying with its tail in the water, was coiled a big bea, that he must have passed directly over in diving. The situation was too much for McCarty, and he yelled for help. At his outcry all of us in camp jumped to our feet, grabbed shotguns and rifles, and ran to the bank. There we saw McCarty ‘treading water’ out in the river, with all his unwelcome company about gazing at nee with growing intercat. They cl tercat. sy clearly been taken aback by the suddenness appeared with which he had among them, but as their surprise wore off they seemed @isposed toward closer acquaintance. “We shot ene of the jaguars and the boa; 80 hotly as to keep them away from Mc- Carty while he swam to te shore. It was & fine sight to see him clawing his way up the steep bank, 1 the wet. clay almost as fast as he clim! until he got near enough for us tagive him a hand. fe had a lucky escape @ practical {l- lustration of the wisdom of the saying, ‘Look before you Teap.’” x A Lively CAMPAIG Montgomery ~—€ounty~ Republicans Hopefal, Democrats Active. Special Corr of: Tha Evening Star. ROCKVILLE, Md., August 16, 1897. There is every¢ prespéct that the ap- proaching political campaign in this coun- ty will be the livetiest ever fought out over the local offices. Heretofore the democrats have given themselves no uneasiness as to the result of such a contest, but changed conditions no longer permit them to rest on “flowery beds of ease.” The time was, and that not se long ago, when democratic majorities of from 700 to 800 in the county were alrost annual occurrences, but for two or three years past the results have been quite different. The first cunsiderable change in the vote of the county occurred four’ years ago, wken the republicans came within 300 votes of eiecting their legislative ticket. One year later Ferdinand Williams, as a candidate for Congress against George L. Wellington, carried the county by about 500 majority. Lloyd Lowndes, for gov- ernor, was but eight votes tehind Mr. Hurst, the democratic candidate, and last fall Bryan’s majority over McKinley was 240, while the majority of Blair Lee over Capt. McDonald for Ccngress was 375. Something has put it into the heads of the republicans that they have a good chance this year to carry the county. They have nomiated a full county ticket, and express themselves as especially hopeful of electing their legislative candidates. Following ts tne ticket they have chosen: For stete senator, Charles F. Kirk; for the house of del gates, Ashley M. Gould, James E. Ayton, George Minor Anderson; for clerk cf the circuit court, Thomas Daw- scn: for register of wills, Frank Page; for sheriff, W. W. Harvey, for surveyor, Willis Burdette; for county commissioners, W. B. Weller, J. Henning Purdum, Hezekiah Weeks. Oppcsed te this ticket the democrats have presented the following: For the state senate, Wm. Veirs Bouic, jr.; for the hovse of delerates, Thomas O. White, John Walter Carroll, Charles A. Eccleston; for clerk of the cirevit court, John W. Collier; for register of wills; H. Clinton Allnutt; for county commissioner, John Wesley Walker, Eugene A. ‘McAtee, Richard T. Ray; for sheriff, Horton G. Thompson; for ecunty surveyor, Charles J. Maddox, jr. Since the nomination of the latter ticket it cannot be said that there has been much complaint among the democratic voters. Yet the republicans are counting upon a deepyseated but silent dissatisfaction among that element of the party which Is opposed to the continued domination of Senator Gorman in state polities. Dr. Ed- ward Wootton and Philip D. Laird, the anti-Gorman leaders of the county, are thought to be opposed to the ticket, or at least the legislative portion of it, which is ur doubtedly friendly to Mr. Gorman. ‘An issue which may play an important part in the result of the contest is the question of local option. It is asserted that under democratic management the local prohibition law! has not been properly en- forced, and that the legal sale of in- toxicants is extensively carried on throughout the eounty.’ The Anti-Saloon League and the ftiends 6f ‘temperance gen- erally intend to thke a hand in the present campaign, and will use every means in their power, without regard to party, to elect such county’ officials as will favor the strict enforcement of thé local option law. It has been charged that certain candl- dates on the democratic ticket are not in accord with the object of the law, and will favor its repeal and the’substitution of a high-licer se_ measure. The Anti-Saloon League has addressed a cireular letter to each of the candidates on both of the tickets asking for a state- ment of his position with respect to the question, and will be governed in the cam- paign by the answers submitted. It is not thcught that either party will make a straightout issueiof the subject, as it is a delicate thing to handle, and may cut both ways. » oo JAMERSON CONVICTED. One of Three Persons Charged With Arson Found Guilty. Special Correspondence of The Evening Star. FAIRFAX C. H., Va., August 16, 1897. Edward Jamerson, one of the three men under indictment for burning the barn be- lIcrging to Constant Ponnet, near Alexan- dria, was tried today and found guilty. He was sentenced to seven years in the penitentiary. It was half-past 1 o'clock before the grand jury was through with its work, after which those indicted were arraigned and time for their trial set. When the Jamerson case was called it was nearly 3 o'clock. The crowd in the court room had been interested spectators of the morning's proceedings, but the chief attraction was in the arson cases, and when Edward Jamerson was brought in and the jury im- paneled the throng crowded around the bar. The interest in this case was largely due to the fact that a great deal of the evidence which would be adduced in the other cases would be brought out in the first. > s Mr. C. V. Ford, the commonwealth’s at- torney, in his opening statement, gave to the jury a description of the lay of the land in the iocality of the crime, and then went over the evidence he expected to pro- duce. Mr...Phornton, the attoruey for the prisoner, gave the outline of the defense, which was that Jamerson was forced at the nozzle of a pistol to eommit the act. ‘The first witness was Mr. Pounet, who testified that the amount of damage done him wus $00 or $000, and that the fire was kindled from some waste, a sample of which he showed to the jury. He knew nothing as te who was guilty of the burn- ing. Robert Colvin, the night yardmaster of the Pennsylvania railroad, testified that he had missed some waste from a box car on the night the barn was burned. He knew nothing, however; as to who took it. George H. Chichester, one of the accused, was the next witness. He stated that he, with five others, including Burnett and Jamerson, had been out fishing the day of the fire, getting back about 7 or 8 o'clock in the evening. Burnett and Jamerson were talking of going to a. festival. Then they started with tishing tackle as if going fishing. As they passed a box car he no- ticed Jamerson get some waste out of the hub, He foliowed them to the boundary of Mr. Ponnet’s place, then stood and watcaed them, He saw Jamerson strike a match and set fire to the waste close to the barn. He did not report the matter to Ponnet for fear of being knocked in the head, but walked with’ Jamerson back to Alexandria. He told a Mr. Brawner and also Sergeant Smith. He assisted in the,arrest of Jamer- son. He was moped as a witness against him the giext.merning, and after the case was hgurd they; locked him up also. 2 tat Mr. Johns Sstkider, a; Washington re- porter, the next witness, then gave an ac- count of a confession whigh he heard Jam- erson make in the pre: of Sergt. Smith and John Hall..He confessed to having committed the crjme and said nothing then about any pistaj. or coercion. Hall and Smith corroborated his testimony. A number of the witnesses were asked about Chichester’s reputation for truth and veracity. The ers Were very reluctant- ly given, but the trend pf the testimony seemed to be that-it was had. Richard Burnett; the other party charged, was the only witless for the prisoner. He stated that he ww Jamierson and Chi- chester soon after the fire, and that Jamer- Chichester made him do it by threatening to shoot him. The case was given to the jury about 5:30 p.m. . The verdict is received with general sat- isfaction, but Jamerson is considered the least guilty of the three. He is a negro, and considerably younger than the other two, who are white. The Burnett case will be the first tomorrow morning. Court will begin at 10 o'clock. ——__ Evidence Not Sufficient. The district attorney today nolle prossed the charge of larceny from the person preferred against David Roote. It was alleged that Roote stole $18 from Albert Stevens the 27th of last month. In nolle the tant District At- torney ton Brad- ley that the ost insufficient ington exp! testimony against Roote was to sustain the charge. _— ads, In The Star pay because answers. “Want” they bring The Formation of the Ground Not Indicative of Gold. Dawson Like California in Palmy Days—Claims Paying Big Money— Everything Getting High. From the Seattle Times. One of the most interesting stories that have come from the Klordike country is in the shape of a diary kept by Samuel Clark, who left for the gold regior in the spring. He has been working a claim there since June 10. He says: “We arrived in the city of Dawson, N. W. T., Yukon, at 4 p.m., June 10, the date and hour we calculated on when sitting in our Juneau coitage previcus to starting. We made the remaining sixty-five or sev- enty miles slowly and nicely, and the roll- ing hills to our left end the rocky ones to our right encouraged us more and more. But the formation, that kills ine, for a gold section—black lava, white and gray sand, limeston> and no slate, and nothing at all to indicate the immediate vicinity of the countl-ss miliions which lie unearthed among the gulches. Men and bvats, boats, boats, everywhere. The little village on the upper side of the mouth of the Klon- dike was a moving mass of men And such teles, marvelous tales, of golden beds and countless begs of gold that were com- ing from the mines above. It is the grand- est place on earth, or under it, either. “The Barty Bros. will gamble $50 that they have more money than ary man on the Yukon can lift. They have $100,000 on hand, have paid $90,000 more for slaims in clean dust and still they wash and clean up and have untold wealth beneath their ground. Maiy claims pay thousands of dollars to the day, and some clean up from two to five thousand twice 2 day and think nothing of it. Every can, bucket, pot and sack on the claims is used; they cannot gez vessels of the preper kind fast enough. Two men left on the last steamer the other day with seventy-five pounds of dust e2ch. Men ccme down from the claims with a pack of gold on their backs at night and throw it in a corner, and there ii ts. Noth- ing is locked up or hidden away; gold is seen everywhere and every man has some. Circle City claim owners are here contract ing for all the men they can get at $12.50 a day, pay to begin from this place, and equal amounts of provisions given on the claims for what they have here. Average bacon is from 50 to 7 cents a pound: flour is $12 per hundred weight; sugar, to 30 cents a pound: beans, 16 ceats; rice, 25 cents, and so on down. There is now- here near the bacon to fill the demand. Fresh moose is &% cents a pound. “Harry Ashe runs a dance hall and gam- bling hell, and his receipts are from $1,000 to $3,000 a day. There is a constant jam at the box all the time at night. Business is booraing and no place on earth exhibits the same rush and prosperity as does Daw- son on the Klondike. Every man can work at anything. Lumber is $135 a thousand. People are paid big for filling sacks with moss to chink Jeg cabins. One woman asked a man to fill a sack with chips from a tree near by and gave him $1.25 for his five minutes’ trouble. Gold is more plenti- ful than water, for that is scarce. The river is muddy and the springs are colored from the moss. Dogs bring from $50 to $65. each. Boats are selling at all prices. “I received two letters when I landed here. The mounted police brought them from Victoria. We will sell 100 pounds of bacon this evening. The saw mill is rush- ing day and night. Men stand and watch each log sawed and grab the lumber as soon as it is ripped up. Saloons are run- ning everywhere, and drinks are 50 cents. The water is too high to prospect, but men are out everywhere. New stakes will soon be made. A town site is now located at the mouth of the Stewart, and men are rushing up there. I may soon follow them, as there the next rush will be. Ferry prices across the river, $1 for a man and the same for his pack. Town lots are sell- ing from $75 to $5,000, the latter price being for front lots 50x100. A man can sell any- thing on earth, and for nearly his own price. Packing is 25 cents a pound to the mines, fifteen miles away. Every one is at work here. Siwash dogs carry off the clothes, washrags, anything eatable on earth, open grub boxes and do divers sorts of sleight-of-hand performances. The weather is cloudy and warm, some wind and a few mosquitoes. No darkness .at all —light all the time. “June 15—Dawson is booming; work for all. Bought one-gallon can sirup—cost 60 cents in civilization—$2.50; one can milk, 50 cents; one loaf bread, 50 cents. Have been out to the diggings. All the best ground is in a swamp, and the rock slides, but gold is in all places, where no sane man Would ever dream of looking. The mines were discovered by a squaw man, who was salmon fishing, in the bedrock which came to the surface in the only little spot in the creek. There they dug twenty feet in frozen swamp and morass and thicket in this strangest place on earth for gold. In Berry's claim he took out $131,500 in a space of 75x75 and 20 feet down by burning and drifting under in the pay streak. Other claim owners about him did still better. Claims were 500 feet up and down, from rim to rim. In places they are one-quarter of a mile wide and all pay, and in others not so wide. Down a narrow creek men are filling rubber boots, tin cans, canvas bags, in fact, anything that will hold dust. It is all heavy gold. It is estimated that $6,000,000 has been taken out so far, and not one-half of the Bonanza and Eldorado claims even open to bedrock. “There are stampedes all about to differ- ent sections. Saw much good ground when we were just out, but could not get to bed- rock, for the surface water ran us out, and the country is too flat to drain. These are winter diggings. I will probably stake off some in the morning, and have sixty days to prospect in before recording, but even then frost will come. Wish it was frozen eleyen months in the year. Some few nice rock claims are staked. There is room for 500,000 men yet on the Klon- ike and side streams if they are all good. The country is not half prospected, nor any idea of the extent of its wealth known as yet; been discovered only ten months.” ++ POINTERS FOR KLONDIKE CRANKS. One Hundred Facts About Alaska. H. 8. Canfield in Chicago Times-Herald. Alaska is two and one-half times as large as Texas. It is eight times as large as all of New England. It is as large as the south, excluding Texas. It is as large as all of the states east of the Mississippi! and north of the Ohio, in- cluding Virginia and West Virginia. It makes San Francisco east of our cen- ter. Its ccast line ts 26,000 miles. It has the highest mountain in North America. It has the only forest-covered glacier in the world. The Treadwell is one of its greatest golé tines. It has the best yellow cedar in the world. It has the greatest seal fisheries. It has the greatest salmon fisheries. |. - It has cod banks that beat Newfoundland, It has the largest river in the world. ~ A man standing on a bank of the Yukon 150 miles from its mouth cannot see the other bank. The Yukon is twenty miles wide 700 miles from its mouth. With its tributaries it is navigable 2,500 miles. It is larger than the Danube. It is larger than La Plata. It is larger than the Orinoco. It discharges one-third more water than the Mississippi. 5 ‘The water is fresh fifteen miles from Its mouth. It has more gold in its basin than any other river. Alaska runs 1,500 miles west of Hawaii. » Yukon basin gold is estimated at $5,000,- the eruptive fc fe the ie necessary force for formation of great fissure veins is every- where evident in Alaska. Silk should be worn next the body, then woolen, and then furs. Citric acid should be taken to prevent weThe food there produces rectal diseases. Take medicine. in Its color is beautifully blue to its junc- tion with the White river, 1,100 miles above its mouth. Capital of stock companies organized to It is probable that in twelve months Daw- son will be within four days of Juneau. Moose are plentiful. The fiesh resembles horse flesh. : In~ central and northern Alaska the ground is frozen to a depth of 200 feet. Snowfall in the interior is very light—six inches or so. The heaviest rain and snow are on the southeast coast. No land contains finer spruce timber. In its low temperatures gold filling in teeth contracts and falls out. Use amal- gam. Men born in southern latitudes have be- come insane in the long dark. ‘Take a chess board and men. vent dementia. te medicine chest should hold pills, pills, pills. A temperature of 75 degrees below zero has been recorded. When it gets lower than 50 there is no wind. They pre- is as good as a house, and is cheaper, No shelter is needed except when the wind blows. At other times a sleeping bag answers all purposes. Just below rapids ice forms only nine feet thick, and there fishing is done. In other places it will reach forty feet. In the dark season twilight lasts six hours and almost any kind of work can be done. Elk, cariboo and grouse are common and easily killed. Don’t eat snow or ice. quinsy. In low temperatures the inside of the throat sometimes freezes. This 1s locally called “frost burning.” For frozen fingers use cold water. - You car bathe only the feet and face. Sweat under blankets in summer or get rheumatism. In summer all land not mountain swamp. Underfoot ts ice cake, overhead twenty- two hours’ sun. Everybody gets lice. Boil underclothing. Freeze sleeping bags. Talk on the ice pack is heard a half mile. An expert placer miner can pan dry. Alaskan “dust” is as big as wheat. Some gold is fine enough to float. Wear silk gloves and then fur. The Eskimo is virtuous, the Chilkat is not. Canadian rapacity will drive the miners into American territory. Canadian police are highly efficient. Reindeer will be the future locomotives. Alaskan dogs are wonderfully intelligent —the result of selection and heredity. The natives eat much decayed fish. They are all honest. Thousands of miners from other nations will go. A Chicago company leads in Alaskan ex- ploration. Hay grows as high as a man’s head. Hardy vegetables can be raised. All streams show true gold fissures, Take plenty of flour. Buy all you think you need, then buy more. Last winter a man killed himself because he had five pounds of baking powder and no flour. Under act of Congress communities of miners can make their own laws. No thief gets a fairer trial anywhere, nor any prompter execution. Make caches on platforms six feet high. Wolv It will pay to wait a year or two. It costs $1.000 row and will cost $200 then. All distances are gigantic. It is 2,000 miles from Sitka to Klondike. A boat leaving Dawson September 20 is chased to the mouth by freezing water. All wood in the Aleutian Islands grew on glaciers in Alaska. Whole forests break into the sea. Some streams are bridged by glaciers. Some wood Is beautifully polished by gla- cier action. Avalanches in the interior are unknown. Owing to dryness there is not much suf- fering from the cold. ‘Take a 40-80 rifle with telescope sights. One small tribe makes $2,500 a year from silver fox skins. They are worth $250 each. Exposed portions of the body freeze in three minutes. Enough library: One Bible, one Shakes- are. P'Snowshoes not needed in the mine coun- try. “Buy mines from discouraged miners. Trading companies will not carry goods r competitors. seers ss competition will bring down their prices 50 per cent. Meals on the boat up the river cost $1 he “Mien who have gone this winter to make their living sawing wood will not have time to say much. 8. CANFIELD. ———_—+e2___—_ THE ADVERTISING ART. Improvement and Development Show Its Value to the Public. From the Indianapolis Journal. Of the millions of people who read the daily pap2rs published in the United States, from New York to Indianapol‘s and from Indianopolis to San Francisco, a very large majority give more or less time to reading the advertisements. Some do this because they wish to find a par- ticular thing or are interested in some particular lin: of business; others because their eye is caught by a good display; others to see how business is; others in search of bargains, and so on. The regu- lar patrons of a paper, its home readers, read the edvertisements almost as regu- rly as they do any other part of the mS and if regularly followed up they ture and reflex of the time paper without its regular grist of advertisements, changing every day in the year, and giving with every change a kaleidoscopic view of trade with its reflected lights of social life, would be a very poor sort of paper. The evolution of the art of advertising is as interesting as that of any other fea- ture of modern life. In the infancy of the business there was no art about it and not much business. Its value was not apprec- lated either by advertisers or publishers and probably it had not as much value in former times relatively as it has now, be- cause it took time for people to become educated up to reading advertisements as they do now. One reason why they are so much more read now than formerly is that they are so muck more readable. They are not only better worded but fresh- er, and, teing changed so much oftener, are much more a reflex of the times. A badly worded advertisement is almost as bad as none at all, and a stale advertise- ™meAt, one that shows on its face that it is out of date, is as offensive to readers as it should be to publishers and advertisers. To be effective an advertisement should be well constructed, adroitly worded, right to the point ard changed as often as possi- ble. No doubt one reason of the great growth of advertising in recent year is that business men, having learned to appreciate its value, are more careful than they used to ke in keeping faith with the public and living up to their advertisements. In these days of sharp competition a merchant who should break faith with the public by ad- vertising one thing, or one price and offer- ing another would soon find the public letting him severely alone. A shrewd ad- vertiser would almost as soon let his note go to protest as not to live up to his ad- vertisement. Shrewd advertisers, too, look carefully to the wording of their advertise- ments, and if no one in the establishment is skilled in that direction they hire some- body else to do it. In all cities now there are professional writers of advertisements, who do nothing else and receive large sal- aries. The business has grown enormously in every direction, giving employment to anni . The art of advertising has been progres- five from the beginning. It bas never ex- Perienced any check—except bank checks and it is as expansive and progressive today as it ever was. This is the best Possible proof that it pays. A Businces Man Talks to a Farmer. From the Superior (Neb.) Journal. “No,” said the hardware man to the far- | mer, as he tied up the package of nails in the paper, “as the low price of say a word about they buy. Take do you suppose ten years ago? and now you can take the goods at 8 cents thrown in. That's 0 much on a little nails, but 10 cents isp’t much on the bushel of po- tatoes you brought in just now, and that’s all the difference in price from ten years ago, and yet you grumble at the low price. It's not the pound of nails that hurts- you: Everything in my store has gone down the substantially the same prices they did ten ago. You farmers forget that you meit tnem. Eio!)OQur Famous 47c. REEVES’ We condact five businesses under the ‘of one. ‘That makes our low The big business we've built Upon these low prices moans tan stantly changing stock. and therefore fresh “and vest goods. \, Chocolates & Bon Bons. It has been our aim to pro- duce the very best Candy that can be made. We spare no pains and no expense. We use the very best materials that moncy can buy—pure sugars— finest chocolate—selected nuts— sound fruit. We use no flavor- ing extract, only the fruit itself. Finer Candies can’t be made and sold at any price. Equal Candies are not sold under 8oc. and $1 ship order she promptly 2 Specials for Tomorro ( One a builder-up for conval- escents—the other a refreshing summer drink for everybody. (Unfermented Grape Juice: 23c. Pint Bottle —for tomorrow oaly. Regularly sells for 35e. bottle. Burnham’s Phosphates, 16c. Bottle —for tomorrow only. Claret, Orange Phosphates make t refreshing ummer drinks. Letter the cut price tomorrow, We Roast Our Own Coffee —and can give you good coffee for as little as 20c. LB. Our dry- roasting process makes the coffee light, brittle and causes it to retain its natural aroma. The coffee we recommend to everybody as the finest in the world is our selected Old Man- dehling Java and hom DOC. ID. 3 Ibs for $1.10. Ice Cream. We make Ice Cream and sell it for less than you can make it yourself. The finest Vanilla Ice Cream, guaranteed to be made of absolutely pure cream without gelatine or cornstarch. Nicely packed and delivered. $1 Gallon; 50c. 4 Gallon. You can't buy Ice Cream any- where under 50c. qt., 75¢. $ gal. and $1.50 gal. We sell qt. boxes at the store for 25¢. S. A. Reeves Successor to (Reeves, Poole & Co.), Grocer, Coffee Roaster, Baker and Manufac- turer of Finest Con! ns, 1209 F Street. Je2-3m,56. ee have things to buy as well as things to sell. Want to buy a-plow this year? There's a dandy for $12. Ten years ago I'd have asked $16 for it. There's $4 saved to you at one clip. There’ than the one I sold you $60—a_whole lot better. s ago for it along for Take #40. Remember that binder you bought of me ten years-ago for $1807 Must be worn out, eh? I'll sell you a 50 per cent better one today and throw off the $8%. You far- mers don‘t know when you are well off.” ———-e-+-____ HEROISM OF A CIRCUS WOMAN, A Chariot Race Finally Results in a Smash- From the Boston Herald. A terrible scene came near happening at the performance of the Forepaugh & Sells Bros.’ circus in Lynn last evening. For a time the 10,000 people who occu- pied seats beneath the immense canvas were in an awful state of excitement. The scene took place about the time of the chariot races, which brought the show to a close. Two chariots, one driven by a man, Sig. Farina, end the other by a wo- man, whose name could not be learned, were drawn by four horses, when the race started. Sig. Farina had the pole, with his fellow-rider closely i slowing him. At the first turn on the track the horses were going at a terrific speed, wher. sud- denly from among the clouds of dust which the flying s‘eeds created the form The great audience, fearful of the mad@- dened horses, which by this time had started around the tet track with- = driver, arose in their seats and start- for places of safety. The ringmasters