Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1897-09-02

Some gold is fine enough to float.
Wear silk gloves and then fur.
Reindeer will be the future loco.
motives.
Alaskan dogs are wonderfully in
result of selection and
heredity.
The natives are all honest.
Hay grows as high as q mans
head.
Hardy vegetables can be raised.
All streams show true gold fis.
sures.
Take plenty of flour. Buy all you
think you need, then buy more.
Last winter man killed himself be-
cause 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 fairer trial any
where, nor any prompter execution.
Make caches on platforms six feet
high. Wolves.
1t will pay you to wait year or
two. 1t costs 81 900 now and will
cost 5000 then.
All distances are gigantic. 1t is
1000 miles from Sitka to Klondyke.
All wood in the Aleutian Islarftis
grew on glaciers in Alaska.
Whole forests break into the sea.
Some streams are bridged by gla-
ciers.
Some wood is beautifully polished
by glacier acion.
Avalanches in the interior are un-
known.
Owing to dryness there Is not
much suffering from the cold.
Take 1870 rifle, with telescope
sights.
One small tribe makes $4,000 a
year from silver fox skins. They
are worth $3.50 each.
Exposed portions of the body
freeze in three minutes.
Enough library: One Bible, one
Snowshoes not needed in the mine
Buy mines from discouraged
miners,
Trading companies will not carry
goods for competitors. Next year
competition will bring down their
prices so per cent.
Meals on the boat up the river cost
81 each.
Men who have gone this winter to
make their living saving wood will
not have time to say much.
A PEssIMIST ON SEA VOYAGES
The advantage Of sea voyage is like
the advantage of vaccination. At
least that that Is the way in which
the matter suggests itself to me. A
sea voyage makes you so i'll in one
way that you haven't possibly the
time to be Ill In any other way.
lfever you are allowed to land again
in safety, no trifling little malady
like typhoid or consumption counts
a flip OF the fingers. The most con.
firmed invalid feels himself in 70.
bust health the moment he is allowed
to get up from that everlasting up
and-d0wn game with the ocean, with
the crisscross business thrown in, so
the different parts of one's body are
all going in different directions at the
same time, in direct opposition to the
intention of nature.
l never realized how bad a sea
voyage was for one until l studied
the effect upon women. You never
see well-dressed woman on board a
boat. No one is well enough to con-
sole. them in that misery which comes
to people when travelling in habi-
tation which first falls away under
your feet, and then comes up again
so quickly that you haven't time to
get your head out of the way of your
boots, and begins coming side ways
at you at the same time. So a wo-
man goes without consolation, and
shows her misery, her despair, her
utter disregard of anything that the
world can give her by neglecting
her dress. Besides, you can't very
well dress your hair before a glass
which is waltzing In about twelve
directions independently, and only
comes across your face once in six
times. A voyage which has that
effect on a woman cannot be really
healthy.
The only indisputable advantage
of a sea voyage is that it gives the
mind a rest. There appears some
magic which the sea can calm, some
power which lulls the mind to state
of quiescence upon which only ones
immediate surroundings, including
the stewards and curtain etceteras,
can encroach.
AN OLD Salts BLUNDER.-" Ex-
perience," said the man who had
been telling tales of the sea, "is
great thing. But 1t gets in the way
I'll never forget the
last shipwreck was In, you bet."
" 1t must be terrib;e," said the boy
whom he was entertaining, "to be
adrift on the ocean,"
/" 1t is rather trying to realize that
land is miles away, no matter
whether you measure sidewise or
straight down. But this shipwreck
wasn't on the ocean,
"But you said you had sailed the
whole Atlantic ?"
Yes. That's where got my ex-
perience. But it was on Lake Su.
perior that found myself with
nothing to tie to except an old wash.
stand. 1t was three days before
was picked up"
Weren't you almost dead ?"
Pretty near"
/" From hunger ?"
Partly that, and suffered some
from thirst. But the most of IL was
humiliation. The first thing / asked
for was a drink of water. / had
suffered agonies. My throat was
parched, and my tongue felt like
herring. One of the men in the
boat looked at me as if he thought
/ was delirious, but when l repeated
my request, he took a tin can, leaned