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= + eattle Star. #€#eee ee @ & €e#ee &¢ & & @#ee# e# eee @ bards ROUTE FOR CATTLE Way to Drive Stock to Dawson. N, OREGON MAN WHO TALKS | te PORTLAND, March 10, — C. M Walker, of Salem, who has recently returned from the Klondike, after having driven dn and butchered 1000 beet steers, in at the Perkins, while preparing to go on another trip the same kind. He acts as foreman in charge of the cattle, which be- long to a Canadian corporation, known as “Syndicate No 1." = The stock were purchased in Montana and shipped from Deer lodge over ‘the Nortiflern Pacific to Seattle, thence to Pyramid harbor by steam- er, At this point they were unload- ed and driven over the mountains, striking the Upper Yukon at Sel- | kirk, where the cattle were slaugh- tered am soon as the weather became cold enough to keep the meat in a frozen condition for the remainder of the season. This was in Occober. ‘The venture pald its promoters very | well, as lens than 2 per cent. of the steers were lest on the route, and } most of the beef sold in Dawson, by the side, at 56 cents @ pound. Sel- kirk is 182 miles above Dawson, and the fresh beef was rafted down this distance with comparative case. The | company atil! has some sixty beeves | frozen In the warehouse at Selkirk, and as the price has dropped to 25 cents, these will not feten much over | the expense of purchasing and bring - ing them in. Mr. Walker says the Pyramid DADE bis oD AL, 900 as | aelven They they miht prewta€ them came, but fof the old gentiem: of becoming suitors ereated a hurricane * when they anked the privileme promptly Kave the under ie plainly sighing awaine te di that they too utterly un rihy and that their presence in t future a be the slanal for opening up from an ambuscade Vaguely hinted at had ridden despera hin door before the son of Mara ap 1, Upon him the at ned up after the ueua military man wan characterised Dramimptuow and im nent The # ymiled i declined to blush, He lay #napped his fingers when gentioman followed up with « | outburet | “"Keeyy at admirably You have youths 1 Nut you are sup were wou ly away from soing,” he said, “you 4 What an actor y driven away a fee ne to b in the it a of craven dec be terri | part Then the old man wilte and surrendered, subject proval of the daughter, | promptly given, “Life In Siberia The five years that I ox berla were for me 4 great education in life and human character, says a writer In the Atlantic, I was brought into contact with men of all descrip- tions; the bent and the worst; thone who stood at the top of society and those who at the very the tramps and the # called incorrigible criminals, T bad ample opportunity watch the seule low the ap which was vegeta bottom Ways and habits of the peasants in) thelr daily life, and stil! more op- tate how little the state administration could give to them, even though it were ant- mated by the very best intentions. Finally, my extensive Journeys, dur- whieh 1 traveled over 1,000 miles in carts, on board steamers, in boats and espectally on horseback, had a | wonderful effect in strengthening |my health, They also taught me portunities to appre |how little man really needs as soon | as he comes out cirele conv | With a few pounds of bread and 4 few ounces of a in « leather bag, ja kettle and @ hatchet hanging at | the side of the saddle, and under the saddle & blanket, to be spread at the camp fire upon a bed of freshly cut apruce twigs, a man fecle wonder- | fully independent, even amid |known mountains, thickly | with woods and in winter time of the enchanted al civ ilimation. Siberia t# not the land burted in} |anow and people with exiles only, that it is tmartnwl to be, even by many Russians In ite southern part Lover after lover | nt in St- | A] Sin sh ce SN a aN al | | WW It — SPARTED ‘Spokane's Present Smallpox Scare. OMY ONE CANE IS REPORTED How It Was for Three Months Ten Yoars at the Falls | City. APOKANE, March 9,-The present *malipox scare was due to a cir- * that might have been but has not yet been at- tended by any bad results beyond a fright When Frank Daniels was here, his cornetiat fell il, and, de- _ Yeloplog eymptome of emall pox, he | wot away from his keepers and was about the elty a whole day mingling j with the crowds, and w finally | found in bed at his hotet The only important outbreak of smallpox in Spokane was during the winter of 1888-89, when the disease wan epidemic for about three months were attacked, Der cont., died, eumstan astrous, 4 14, or about © The exact figures are not to be had, the reports of the municipal health department were af burned in the great fire that followed soon after the amalipox. De, C. G, Brown, although not etty phystelan, was in charge of the sufferers. case was marked by an incident sim- Har to that of appearance yesterday in the etty,” said Dr, Brown last ev- ening. "A racehorse follower came up from Galt Lake, I believe it was, He was not feeling well and he loaf- ed a good deal wound the old 0. K. livery stables, where a half dozen |other horsemen were established. | Instead of getting better he grew worse, and a rash became notice- abi his face Hetween 26 and 39 people | “Phe outbreak of the dis-| enigprer nn trotied around be®ore supper to | Where the bank building was locat ed just to have a look over the ait juation, It was quite a modern buiiding for the size of the town nd the owners had put in and éngine to give the power for Water and electric light and steam heat ‘ | There was nothing about this, but at the rear of the building f found something that was at least novel, It wan a plain brick laddition twenty feet high, with big | windows n its four sides, giving a }full view of the interior, and right jin the center, between heaven earth, five feet bet Hing and ter teet above the floor hung a big safe wumpended to & heavy anchor chain. It was an entirely new wrin- kie t tudying it a while I went back to the hotel de termined to ask a few questions be- for letting know what IT was | there for tel clerk, after the | manner of hin kind, knew it all, and after he had finished his elucidatt I had learned that the bank people, inet ona | high lock, burglar-proof, |tone-walled vault and safe that might be dynamited full of by hod simply bought a good big che rafe and, having put it in the high rhea bie ‘room they had built for it, had rig- | ged « chain and pulleys and attach- ed the combination to th | dow natairs, “At cloning time the safe was drown up between the floor and the ceiling out of reach from above or below and left to swing until time to begin business again next morn- ing, The steam was down by Jt o'clock, and then the onty possible way to get at the safe was to ratre tteam and tet it down within easy reach, a job the most skillful burke iT uld not perform without de- lection, because steam engin re not run on silent schedule rule. The next morning, after I had taken another look at the working of the arrangement and saw how enay it all was, I never said a word pout having safes to sell, or even that T wan in the business, but slow~- lly and sadly packed up my traps AN ENCHANTED GROVE. |The Mystery of a Ancient Shawnee Village. Away back in the 70's there was la Shawnee Indian village on the | South Canadian river, about eighty- | five miles west of South McAllister, | but the old village has long since disappeared. On the spot where the young Shawnee buck sung his kio- | wala to his dusky maiden and court- led his best girt by the light of the | full moon, only an occasional rock hearth and a few graves are left to and | engine | f HS LATEST. EXCUSE Esterhazy Makes a | Statement. - WROTE THE DREYFUS BORDEREAU ‘Champion French Scoundrel H. | Another Yarn Which He Sells to # Paper, | | LONDON, March 10.—Considerable interest is taken in what may be considered a new phase of the Dreye fun nating from London, The first installment of ex-Major Eis- | terhagy’s Intest yarn, which has | been hawked in the newspaper offices | and among correspondents here for 4 fortnight, appears in the Chron- icle this morning, filling a page and a half of that paper. It is unneces- sary to explain that nothing this | precious scoundrel puts out is ens | titled to the slightest credence It | suite his present purpose to ceny | that he was the author of the bor- | dereau in the Dreyfus ease, although he freely confenned it six months ago, related in the Bun at the time. H present contribution is of interest, | perhaps, an additional evidence, of what @ smart rascal, who a year ago was acclaimed as one of the heroes of the French army 4n Paris, is cap- able of doing, but its quality hither- = is disappointing to those who ex- pected new and sensational evid- ‘ence e, on | More Effective than Medicine. If you cannot understand why | your toothache grows as the sun sinks below the horizon, and why, | when you are tying in your bed, tearing pains In your ears, head and eyes are added to your miseries, read what Dr, Goldscheider has ta sey in the Journal of Nursing: “Light,” says the professor, “has ° oductions | it 9 am rich io natural productions | “wel asting up town, he dropped | a quieting effect on the nerves; of The | fot : “O Don'tdoubtit for one minute. The paper will not claim to be the best on carth with the “‘largest circula- tion’’—that is, not yet awhile, but the effort will be made to steadil 4 improve it. In the meanwhil “g temember that news “‘tips’’ 4 te to the office (Pike 150) will be much appreciated; also subscribers. It only costs wo Bits To secure The Star for | ONE MONTH Show your neighbor JIS ERIECESG @eUL jO AdOO e soquBieu sNOKA MOUS harbor route is the only feasible one as are the southern parts of Canada, on whieh to take stock into the) and, besides, half a million of na- northwest territory, as those droves | tives, it has @ population of mors ' | attempting to reach the Klondike | overiand from some point on the! | Canadian Pacific have all met with | disaster, One man, who tried the, | all-land route, has now 400 tone of | | Dee stored at the mouth of the Hootaiinqua, and an this cannot be | brought out to Dawson, there ie 1 way of preventing ita becoming « total loss when the weather turns warm again. Harris Bros. of North Yakima. started with a band of 2 three | year old steers from Edmonton, early last spring, and the outfit has never | been heard of since. Me thinks thet) | both men and animais have been | overtaken in some bilnding storm | and that all have perished. His company has 100 head of hor- | ees wintering very well, fo far, on the banks of the Yukon, opposite Sel kirk. When he left there last month, the horses were atill fat, there being browse enough within easy access. and the snow, which was only about twenty inches deep, was soft enough for the animals to paw through in search of the shorter gramaes. These animals will be sold to prospectors | in the spring, as they cannot be tal back to Montana without heavy expense, A new lot of horses, will, therefore, be purchased when | | he starts the second lot of beef steers | from Montana this sprin, | While beef is down to 25 cents a pound at Dawson, mutton is worth | $1.25, as very few sheep have been taken in. Pork i# never lower than $1.4, owing to the dificulty of get- | ting live hogs down the river. Fte- cently a scowload of porkers belong: | | ing to a Portland man named Court: | ney sank below Five-Finger rapids, | land the cargo became a total loss. | When to Shake Wands. } A hostess should shake hands with every guest who comes to her house, whether her own friend or the friend of her friend, both on arrival and de parture Any man presented to a woma: meke a movement toward shaking | ents to another the man accompany- | ing her, it is the duty of friendship, | ter and resolutely set himeecif the | task of drying away the other 9 6 | Weaver (Mies) 42 LL. hands, and when one woman pres- | ¢ than 6,000,900 as theroughly Russian as that to the north of Moscow. RECENT DECISIONS ‘The right to shoot at a person who merely rinning away from an Oficer to es arrest for a mia- demedner in denied in Brown ¥ nA and, if the officer does shoot wrongfulty, tt ie bei to be an official act cover- ed by hin bond. An attachment on intoxicating l- quors atipped into a state for an unlawfel purpose ts held, in Lan- ahan v. Bailey (8. C) 2 R.A 287, te be invalid under the South Carolina dispensary law, by which any sale of such liquors ix uniaw ful. courts have been In confilet te bring action in abit- « cor The as to the right another state to enforce the ity of a stockholder In o Kane poration, but the authorities which aupport the right are reinforced by the decision in Hancock National Hank y. Ellis (Mane. 42 Le RR. A. 296, hetding that the right of action to entoree the Hability created by the Kaneas statute is transitory. To picket the premises of a per- ron borcotte in ord to Inter : his teamaters or to prevent persons going there to trade, is held unlawful in Bock ¥. Railway Teamsters’ Pro- fective union (Mich) 42 l. R.A ” on the ground that it is an act ot midation and an unreasonable interference with the right of free trade. ‘The power of a judge to suspend Here are some simple rules for a \nostess to observe in the matter of | the execution of a sentence impos | | inal cn is denied tn shaking hands: | criminal one ts denies in the words suspending the sen- ant tence are held surplusage Evidence of the trailing of an al ‘A young girl introduced to an old. |!eeed criminal with a hound tn er worman should await the action of | held. in Pedigo v S (Ky.) 421 the elder, who, if kindly disposed, | R. A. 432, to be inadmissable unless hal hands. it ts proved that th. a by which 1 th It was done possess power of unless he i# decidedly elderly or dis-| discrimination and acutenen ad aly aiaaaty oF Sie. | aont etfficient fo , ni tinguished, must walt for her to nernt sumone tot ee that. the | it o¢ belonged to a breed which pos- as well as hospitality, for the man A proprietor of a public resort who to he met with «cordial handshake, |*™ployed an Independent contractor Ordinarily, however, women are |'© Make @ balloon ascension to at not supposed to shake hands with | tract visitors tn hetd, in Smith v men when they are presented to| Penick (Md.) 42 1. R. A not to them. This holds good even at @| be Hable for an injury to a visitor dinner party, where a woman for the | DY @ pole which fell because of the first time meots the man who in to | Nemi:sence of the balloonist while he take her in to dinner.—N. ¥. Herald, | 8" endeavoring to raise the pole ———Ee — for usc in inflating the balloon. STOOD MIS GROUND. Misrepresentation by rad buyer to a commercial Wow One Feari Suitor Met | srecting bie Snanctat held, in Poska v. Ste an Angry Attack. L. R. A. 42%, Insuffict There recently visited In Detroit a| Ter tn Ang a gale made by 4 ne who was an instantaneous favorite with | ivy. other matters, beside. the all those who had the pleasure of | \iatement of the buyer meeting her. She was tall, erect, | "°°? 2 4 graceful, with @ positive wenlth of cath aud-nihed. “Gamtamanss of| Crete of Joseph H, Choate. her courtship was entirely out of the | 1 story about Joseph HH usual, according to the Detrolt Free tells of the only time his Press. + |werenity was ever ruffled when “A hard-headed and rugged old |cross-examining a witness, It was Southerner suddenly became rich | during a famous will case, and Felix through the discovery of coal in hill«| McClusky, formerly keeper of no steep that they defied all efforts |the house of representatives, was the at cultivation. He wag a widower | witness. with one daughter, and nothing was| “Now, Mr. MoeClusky,” Insinuat left undone that money would do|ingly asked Mr. Choate, “isn't it for her. She was worthy of this|true that you are the modern Mun lavishment of riches and added the | chausen?” charm of Intellectual attainments to| “You're the second blackguard those bestowed by nature. As a re-| that hae asked me tht In a week," sult the father became possessed of |roared McClusky, “an—" the Iden that there waa not one man| Laughter drowned the remainder {n a million worthy of such a daugh-|of Mr, McClusky's retort, and it was fully five nanutes be jumed, ore it was r ial a alla lis Hshcaik | into the rug store in the little frame | | buliding where the Ziegler block now | | mtands, and asked for some sort of a salve for the eruption. The drug elerk, fortunately, was acquainted with smalipox, and recognised that | the man was suffering from a well developed cane of it. He called in the city physician, and the patient was removed at once to an improvised pesthouse in an old frame building near the fair grounds. The con- tagion spread by the original patient during bis incubation was effective, | and itwas three months before wo) | had thé pest stamped out. trouble in handling smallpox ! ie thet while the disease in develop- | tee in a mufferer, he may spread the | ‘ton, although ignorant that he himeeif in til. ‘The persons so infect- ed continue to distribute the plague even before it makes tts appearance in them, and in that way the disease i# difficult of handling. Ordinarity, | the contagion ts distributed only by dtrect contact with the person aMic- ted or with some of the clothing or utenstia which he has used. It is unusual for one to be infected mere- ly by having been near « sufferer. Dress the Sociai Gauge. The girl who haw a definite social standing. says Jane Adama in February Atlantic, who has been to & fashionable school or to a college, whore fansily lve in a house seen and known by all her friends and sociates, can afford to be very simpl lor even shabby as to her clothes, if she likes, But the working «irl, whose family lives In # tenement or moves from one amali apartment to another, who has little soctal standing and has to make her own pines, habit and style of drens have to do with her position, Her income goes Into her clothing out of all propor- tion to that which she spend upon other things, Tut {f social advance- ment (* her alm, it is the most sen- sible thing which she can do. is judged largely by her clothes. Her housefurnishing, with Ite pitiful littte decorations, her seanty supply of books, are never seen by the peo- ple whose values, Her clothes are her back- «round, and from them she is large- ly Judged, It ts due to this fact that girls’ clubs suceeed beat in the business part of @ town, where | “working girlie’ and “young Indies” meet tpon an equal footing, and where the clothes superficially look very much alike, Bright and am- bitlous girls will come to these doz n- | town clubs to eat lunch and rest at noon, to study all sorts of #ub- jects and listen to they might hesitate a long time to join a club identified with their own neighborhood, where they would be judged not solely on their pergonal merits an@ the unconscious social standing afforded to good clothes, but by other surroundings which are not nearly up to these. For the same | reason girls’ clubs are infinitely me lificult to organize In little towns and villages, where everyone knows sveryone e@lse, Just how the front rior is furnished and the amount of mortgage there Is upon the house. aed In some very successful downtown ‘clubs the home address in not given at all, and onty the “businesd address” is required Have We worked out our democracy in regard to clothes farther than in regard to anything else? Like Mahomet’s Coffin. ‘T've been in the fire and burglar proof safe business for | years,” remarked the veteran drum- mer to a Washington Post reporter, “and 1 guess I have sold my goods in nearly every state in the unton, but until I visited a month ago a Western town of 5000 people, I had newer na really safe safe—one |that was proof against any and all | News. the | knows full well how much) She | social opinion she most} lectures when | twenty | Indicate the former hunting grounds of the red man, says the Galveston the old village site now lives ite man. Just on the border of lthis man's farm in a spot which seems to have been the thickest set- tled port of the Shawnee village, and here ia a grove of black oak trees. In this grove are two very large postoak trees, one in the south and one in the north end of the grove. ‘In the grove can be heard most any | day the buazing of a swarm of bees so plainly that the noise has fooled many old bee hunters, but all their search has never revealed a single bee. Now comes the most pecullar part ‘of this most peculiar tale, The large poxtoak tree standing at the north end of the grove is the curiosity of the bunch, for not long ago a young man, hearing of the bees, went to the spot and proceeded to look care- fully up each tree in the grove until he came to the north tree, He was | within two feet of this tree, looking up, when he heard a note Just lke a carpenter at work nailing on boards, and trying to locate the ham~ | mering, but it atill seemed to come | | from the tree. The hammering con- [tinued until he happened to touch | the tree with his hands, when it sud~- denly stopped, The man then went away amazed. A day or so after this) man had occasion to again pass that |way. He slipped up to the tree and listened for the hammering, and, re enough, it was as plain as ever. of his finger, and, as before, the noise stopped at once. This man and several others have tried touch- ing the tree several times since, with the same result ‘They say that the humming of bees and the curious hammering can be heard any day, but no one has been able to explain the mysteries of this enchanted grove. | Walking as a Beautifier. What is the exercise most condu elve to physical beauty in women? a celebrated physician was asked the cther day, and he replied, very decided! “Walking.” Tennis, he declared, to be too vio- lent, and too much of it ts likely to iengthen the arms and make the height of the shoulders uneven, Cycling has a tendency to render! nen awkward in their walk. They gradually come to move with a plunging kind of motion, the reverse | of graceful, and frequently Maltivate weakness of the back, which makes them hold themselves badly, Riding is one-sided, and women who have ridden for years usually have one hip higher than the other. Such games as croquent really do not give exercise, and after a sur- vey of all the ways he knew in which women take physical exercise, he considered none so conducive to health and beauty of form as walk- Ing. It ought to be persevered In and done in all but the worst weather, and particularly in winter, It is the che t and safest meth- od of taking outdoor exercise, too. A woman may be hurt with a ball lat tennis, injured by a horse or bi- cycle, or receive a blow on the head from a club at golf, but there is very little danger of injury from walking, unless {t fs on very slip- pery pavements, and even then by choosing the sunniest hours of the ‘day and wearing overshoes one will be comparatively safe, and the ben- Jefits of the walk will overbalance the risk of a fall . dhstterie | Hmperor William never playe ‘cords excepting for very low stake: in a game with a Letpsic law- upon a time the latter lost twenty marks, He laughingly ex- claimed: “I have got into a regular robber's den." Everybody with laughter, the emperor as heart- est, When his majesty yer one forme of assault, It was the first | ily as the ltime T had struck the place, and 1| Was staying the following year at went there because I had fearned | Barby and noticed the lawyer, he they had opened a new bank, and| went up to him, handed him a 20- \I'm always on the lookout for that kind. I got into town about 5 o'clock and, without stating my business, I in diamonds in the “Re- mark piece set | form of a searf-pin and said; babsagaid by the robbers.” He touched the tree with the end | roared | | woul should icin iin ah gg | hence it heals more and quicker than do medicines, It plays a very |important part in the pathology of pain, ‘This is especially noticeable | by persons addicted to worry, or | thone whe are in any way oppressed, | Their seemingly Jolly disposition in | the day is completely transformed ar night draws on; while in bed they become ly distressed and in- |somnia fs the result. ‘usually find temporary relief by lighting the gas gr sitting up till the gray Nght of the morn begins to | break. | “There are any number of person: | who canpot sleep without the sun's rays beaming directiy down upon them. These persons have acquired this as @ habit from their youth. “But it is a poor rule that does not work both ways. The darkest night has its good qualities, for there are | hea. laches which will not disappear junc all the Ught is excluded from | the room the patient is in. Nervous, | excitable persons, when this state of lexcitement become unendurabie, will find wonderful relief if they will lonly sit for a quarter of an hour in a room completely darkened. There- fore, in such cases, @ total relaxation | from work several times during the day is especially to be recommend- ed."~—New York Herald. How to Clean Garments. A woman of wonderful resources has discovered a very sure way of renovating and restoring to their former appearance spotted, sotted or faded cloth or serge gowns. Pick about twenty ivy leaves, young green ones by choice, wash them carefully and place them in a jug or basin. Add about one pint of boiling water, cover up the basin or jug, and leave all to soak for two or three hours, when the cleanset will be ready for use. Meanwhile the garment must be thoroughly brushed, ‘nside and out, and all untidy braid © Bp re- moved from the body® When ready spread it on the table and carefully sponge it with the ivy water. It must then be wrumg out dry, | when it will be found to have re- covered its former color, and to look quite like new. Black silk may be cleaned In the same manner, but it needs more care. If the silk is in breadths it must be lightly sponged and then tightly rolled over a cloth wound | round a roller and left to dry. Black lace may also be renovated when soiled or brown with age by sponging it with ivy water and then rolling it over a cloth wound round a roller. It should not be troned.—~ London Mail. Bliss on the Mountain Tops. Some people are so far out of touch with modern life that they surprise and disappoint others who, without intimate acquaintance, try to give them assistance. I recall a breezy, mountaintop and a young hunter, whose woodcraft had won my ad< miration. Delicately I touched uport e question of education, | “Can you write numbers | ‘The answer came slow and guard« ed, “Reckon I can write some nums bers. Then on a piece of bark I drew. |the nine digits, He read them all, Next came the combination of fig s, ond I Included the date 1897, I don't guess T can tell that thar."* 1 explained it. And then a new test occurred to me. “Do you know what 189 “Tit’s the year, hain’t hi means?" | “hut why is this year called 18979 dt is 1897 years since what?” ° | “I never heard tell.” | So, too, it ts pitiful to see how |helpless these people are in esimat« ing the things of the outside world, The story is quite credible of the meuntaineer in Georgia who inquire jed why the folks of the county town were not more “tore up” over the Spanish war. “It hav been giv out in our gettlement,” said he, “thet them Spanish has flyin’ squadrons, and we ‘low thet if one of them eht in our parts they would be as hard on us as the rebs,"* FicisboitaubieS kts

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