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The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-08-19
LETTER FROM KLoNDIKE.

literature and Ia earning moro or less per-
manency both In poetry and prose. While ais
cussing this phase Of the gold fever gentle
man read the following verses to compan'
ion last night in the rotunda Of the Palmer
House:
Klondike (Date Torgotten). 1887.
Dear Biily-I promised to write you
A line from this far northern cline
And so sit down to indite you -
bit Of cold frost bitten rhyme.
I'm here in this new III Dorado
Where clusters OF gold grow on trees,
Whore tho grounding ne or looks for his shadow
For there amt any sun if you please.
A big cake Of ice is my table
A blanket of snow Is my seat
And tell you 1t amt any fable
To say don't suffer from heat.
The breezes blow ten miles a minute
They'd freeze the nose off Of your phiz-
Old Northern Dakota amt in ii
For blizzards that know how to biiz'
Our grubS Obi we're living like princes
On the best the old land can afford
My stomach at times fairly winces
To think IL must scrap with such boardl
Fresh dog Is the leading attraction,
Broiled, fricaseed, roasted and fried,
With soup Of pale sickly complexion
OF peas that our ancestors dried.
For desert we have snowballs, with dressing
OF glittering frost and our drink-
Well, our stomachs aren't drenehed with no
blessing
OF coffee or tea, don't think.
Ice water for breakfast and dinner,
Ice water for supper, and when !
We eat night lunch, I'm sinner
II IL isn't ice water againl
And yet upon frequent occasions
sit at a sumptuous board,
Around me the rarest "provisions"
The markets can ever afford.
I feast upon meats sweet and tender.
On pastry of daintiest bake,
Till my appetite makes surrender
And begs me desist; then l wake.
Tom Smith, who came with us, is lying
AT rest in grave in the snow.
He called me mp to him when dying
And said: s"I am lucky to CO.
/ soon will be sitting and blinking
At fire that's eternally bright
Tom wasn't a saint, and I'm thinking
He sized the thing up about right.
And old Uncle Jimmy McCarty,
The Cripple Creek miner. is gone
He fell by the way while the party
Was hoofing it up the Yukon.
And Dick, with the starchy shirt sideboards
Around his long neck, and Big Ike.
We stuck up in the snowdrifts guideboards
TO point out the trail to Klondke.
Dock Burlington weakened Mt juneau,
Passed out in advance of the draw,
And, Lord how we cussed him, for you know
He always lacked sand in his craw.
But now, when inclined TO be talky,
And sit here discussing the past,
We freely admit that old DoclSy
Had damsite more sense than the rest
Goodby am all in a shiver.
OF the gold have nothing TO say
Save this, you can bet IL ever
Get back to old Denver I'll stay.
Who're one makes strike, there's legion
Will wearily rawhde IL back
And curse this ice sepulchered region
Like Hessans.
Yours, hungrily,
JACK
p. S.-You nay read her this letter
You know who mean Mary Ann
And tell her think she had better
Tie onto some other young man.
And tell tho old girl not to below
Because / am hid in the fog
Well, goodby again, dear old follow~
must go and help butcher dog.
Denver Post
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-08-19
HINTS FOR BICYCLISTS.

To lend you wheel Is sign you will
quarrel with friend.
10 read the advertisements of newly in
vented painless saddles is sign you will
die poor and dissipated.
To be chased by a yellow dog with n
head like cook stove and a mouth like
a cellar presages, bad fall.
10 puncturo tire ten miles from home
is sign that you will have SPAWN on
your off hind hoof.
To SEQ red-headed woman wearing
green bloomsrs is sign your rim will
split unless you say "kokalo" and throw
n bale of hay over your left shoulder.
n To fail to pay the regular weekly in
stallments IL an III omen. and il means
that YOU will meet dark man who will
afford you much trouble and incon-
yenience. louisville Courier journal.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-08-19

A minister In n Connecticut tuwn is report
ed to have preached against life insurance so
ardently that 100 members of his parish have
given up their policies, accepting the pastors
theory that the Lord will provide, and that 1t
Is wicked TO help ones self.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-08-19

Every time bomb explodes in Con-
stantinople they lay 1t to the Armvnians.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-08-19
THE WEATHER.
Showers, Followed by Fair, TOmor-
row Ia New EDgl nd.

Washington, Aug. ~ For Maine, New
Hampshire and Vermont: Showers to-
night ana Friday; southerly winds, be-
coming northwesterly.
For Massachusetts,, Rhode Island and
Connecticut: Showers, followed 10y fair
Friday southeastorly winds, becoming
northwosterly.
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-08-19

To arufcially bleach the hair will destroy
its growth. hut IL the hair incincs 20 gray
ness. assist nature TO arrest 10 with Halls
Hair Remover.
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JACK.

=. S.-You nay read her this letter.
You know who l mean Mary Ann
And tell her think she had better
Tie onto some other young man.
And tell the old girl not to below
Because am hid in the fog
Well, goodby again, dear old follow~
must go and help butcher dog
Denver POST
The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-08-19

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will be $4,000
Evening star., 1897-02-27
The Rur.l Dl.trictx.

Few educated. persons would care to cycle
in such country as France for the mere
pleasure Of the motion alone. The vast area
Is crowded with wonders equal to those OF
any country In Europe, and it is a matter
Of surprise that the French provinces have
not been visited by greater numbers. Thous.
Evening star., 1897-02-27
OLD-TIME kEELHAULING.
Punishment at Sea That One Out of
Three Survived.

From Harpers Weekly.
keelhaulirg was method of naval disci-
| pline particularly in vogue with the Dutch
! navy, for, as Van Tremp swept the chan
| mel with broom at his masthead his
cGuntrymen sometimes used human sweep
ers under their keels, In large square-rig-
ged vessels the victim was dashed to a
SPAR and had iron weights secured to his
feet; spans were secured to this SPAR and
| lines were led from 1t to the main yard
When all was ready the culprit was sway
ed up to the main yard, dropped into the
sea and hauled under the ship to the other
side. Here is the way Marryat describes
| its operation in that small cutter where
Smallbones suffered and Snarleyow was
| thought to be dog fiend.
This ingenious process" he writes. ''is
nothing mere nor less than scudding a
| under the bottom of the vessel, lowering
him dc cwn over the bows, and with ropes
retaining him exactly in his position under
the keelson, while he Is drawn aft by
hauling line until he makes his appear
| ance at the rudder chains, generally speak
ing quite cut of breath, not at the rapidity
OF his motion, but because when so long
under the water he had expended all the
breath in his body and was induced to take
salt water in lieu. In the days of
keelha uling the bottoms of vessels We're
not coppered. and. in consequence, were
all studded with a species Of shellfish call
ed barnacles, which attached themselves
and, these shells were all open-mouthed
and with sharp cutting points, those who
underwent this punishment (for they were
made to hug the keelson of the vessel by
the ropes at each side fastened to their
arms) were cut and scored all over the
body. as II with so many lancets. generally
coming up bleeding in every part. But
this was considered rather advantageous
than otherwise. the loss of blood restcr-
ed the patient II he was not quite drowned.
and the consequence was that one out OF
three. 1t is said. have been known to
cover after their submarine excursion"
No words can add to this weird descrip-
tion of a very old and hearty sea way of
numbering. All the officers of junior and
middle rank and all the men. whether
volunteered, shanghated or pressed, were
underpaid and robbed.
Evening star., 1897-02-27
Caught Mapping.
From the New YORK Weekly.

From the New YCrk Weekly.
stranger-"Beg pardon for interruptinp
but you probably noticed in the papers
this morning that Lord Nabob, who is on
visit to this country. met with an acci-
dent In the park yesterday He is a stran-
ger here and some prominent citizen like
yourself should see that he receives proper
attention"
business Man (much fattered)-"Really.
had not thought OF It, but
on probably noticed In the paper TOO
that SIX persons were injured yesterday y
In subway explosion"
them?" 'iiohs
Possibly. No telling. Two men wer.
Killed yesterday by electric wires.''
Il noticed that; but
And number Of people were run over. !.
Yes; but the Lord"
All. yes. The Lord wills and we mus,
bow. but our families should not be rorrot.
Ten. Sir and. as We are hourly exposed RI
these dangers. l thought possibly yo,
might wish to get insured in the Sure Por
Life and Accident Company, of which
am agent
Evening star., 1897-02-27
HARPooNISG rARpoN.
a noSai sport That Appeals to Bs
Hunters and Efsherr

a Royal Sport That AppeaIs to Roth
Hunters and Fishers.
A writer for Outing tells about the sport
OF striking tarpon''
For this he says. lone uses harhed
iron called grains or a short. light bar-
poon known as lilly iron,' either of which
is temporarily attached to a light pine mole
the striking pole, and is cast as a spear
might be.
Inc grains is double -pronged wrought
iron instrument; the prongs usually not
more than three or four inches in length
and from three-sixteenths to three-eishths
OF an inch thick. Strong barbs are sprung
an inch from the delicately sharp, harden
ed points. having spread of tnree-eighths
OF an inch and about an incn and a half
space between the two. The prongs are
cut SO that the points, while extending in
ward, are raised from opposing sides. Thi.
gives the greatest holding power The
grains has also tapered socket for the
striking pole. The lily iron is far heavier
instrument and, unlike the grains. is can
able OF killing at blow. The upper sides
or the barbs are left broad and fiat. en-
abllng them 10 Withstand a strain of sew
eral hundred pounds. A heavier and sharn.
er weapon is used to strike swordfish or
porpotses, as the former is a dangerous
creature, uHieSs MT mortally. Then there
are necessary 800 or 400 feet Of soft "strik-
ing line three-sxteenths of an inch in
diameter, and one of the ordinary fishing
boats OF the Florida coast and a guide.
"On approaching the tarpon run the sails
and mast are slowed ard the guide uses a
pole In the shallow water and sculls in the
channel. A fish being seen the striker In
dtcates its direction. and. standing in the
bow with widely spread legs, leaning well
back with poised spear, the man waits tin
he is within twenty feet. unless he Is un-
usually powerful. then Eurls the weapon
which shoots with a hiss into the water
The fish is anywhere from two to three
feet beneath the surface Of the water
changing Its position constantly, and he
cause of the refraction seemingly anywhere
but where it really IL. A successful throw
buries the points in the flesh, and The pole
comes loose and floats to the surface to be
picked up. while the tarpon makes its first
rush. 1t Is best to let the tarpon 20 with
out trying to stop 1t on the first rush as
the barbs may fall out. When the rush is
over the boat is run toward the fish: then
out of the water it goes, not with the grace
and headshaking of a hooked tarpon. but
with a rush and surge. Then it tows the
boat. II the fish Is a 100 or 15O-pounder. at
a rapid rate. Sometimes the fish sulks and
leaps. dartinR at the boat to scrape the
grains out of it's flesh. 1t takes about half
long TO kill a tarpon with a spear as
with a hook, but it is flercer fight while
it lasts" -s
Evening star., 1897-02-27
TO FOUND A NEGRO CITY.

COlOred Mans scheme to Rehabili-
tate n Georgia Boom Town of 1900.
From the Atlanta Evening Constitution.
One of the most novel negro colonization
schemes yet sprung has originated right
here in Atlanta. The person at the head Of
1t is no other than the well-known barber.
politician and military captain, Moses Bent
ley. Bentley has his plans well under way,
and he will not take his emigrants to any
far-away place I'm Africa or Liberia, but
will settle them in Georgia, and will do SO
at small cost to those who follow.
Bentley's scheme is unique in the fact
that he will found a city exclusively for the
negro. He is to have the entire govern
nent conducted by the people of his own
race-a negro mayor and negro councimen.
negro policemen. and. in fact. as there are
to be no white people living within the city
limits, every officeholder will be negro.
Then the laws are to be the work Of negro
mental labor.
This scheme of Bentley's is doubly in
teresting. as he contemplates resurrecting
an old Deserted Village" re-establishing a
city which once houriShed nearly hundred
years ago, and which has literally been
wiped of the face of the map. This was
Sunbury, the city which was located on the
Sunbury river, at its mouth. In Liberty
county, and on the seacoast. In the year
1900 Sunbury was south Georgia boom
town." and 1t quickly sprang into popular
ity, all the wealthy planters Of that section
going there and building beautiful homes.
In 1S20 Sunbury had some ten or fifteen
thousand Inhabitants, and was considered
model city. Ships came into its harbor
and 1t was regarded a commercial center
of no mean proportions. But suddenly Sum-
bury began to decline. 1t was sickly on ac-
count of malaria, and the people fled from
the city as II a plague had stricken the
place. In a few years the city was almost
deserted. And now only three or four huts
mark the spot where once 1t fourished.
Bentley is to build his model negro city
on the site OF old Sunbury. He has ascer-
tanned that while the white people cannot
stand the malaria Of that district. the mi
asma has no I'll effects upon negroes. The
land is rich, and can be bought cheap. n
can be made shipping point for the pro-
ducts Of the country for many miles
around. BENTLEY has recorded all these
points.
"Yes.'' he said, 'T have my plans well
under way. I have written to the narttes
owning the land where old Sunbury was
once located, and expect to hear from
them In few days. This is no wildcat
scheme. l mean business, and I already
see the money In sight for the preliminary
work. have had this in my mind for sew
eral years. ! wish to show the world what
the negro OF the south can do toward SELF
government. want to say right here that
we w1l have no worthless negroessin our
new city. They have got TO be Industrious
and OF good character. / expect to have q
city Of 5000 people In two years from now"
Evening star., 1897-02-27
How Americas highest Woman Looks
From Ieslte's Weekly.,,,

From Leslte's Wcekly..jf
A woman past fifty. who has had her
share of youthful good looks, may, If she
keeps her health. retain that essential par.
of her attracfdveness which consists in
character and expression. Such is the case
with Hetty Green. ioTime has touched her
gently, withalnIs.- Her hair is not yet quite
gray, nor her face Mrink!ed. She has keen
blue-gray eyes. a clear complexion. and
strongly marked features that indicate
truly the force and determination behind
them In repose, her expression becOmes
more softened and she looks like the home
loving and domestic woman that che IA al
heart, Mrs. Green has the reputa lion. NOT
altogether sundeserved OF being q had
dresser. This appears 10 be rather an az
fectatf0n, perhaps with 4 Purpose, on her
part, rather than a deficiency of feminine
taste. Her Ordinary street attire Of rich
but plain blnck, with ytolet-trimmed bon
net, has nothing outre about It. Her man
ner, in talking about her battles with
courts and financiers, is fun of aggressive
animation. and giyss the. impression thai
fighting suits her Temperament. A pecuIiar
spicturesaueness is inparteaEfo her speech
by the traces OF New England Quakerism
that cling to It. In moments Of self-forRet-
fuiness she says .'yaas'' almost as broadly
as the characters In Yankee dialect story.
Evening star., 1897-02-27
The Wrong Prescription.

While escorting a lady home the other
evening a popular doctor attempted to re-
lieve her cough bYsa sasiving her a !ozenge.
He told her TOT yauoM ii to dissolve in her
mouth. No relief was experienced The
doctor. felt chagrineI the mex. day when
the lady sent oAinnTa coat button with a
nete saying that he: musr have given her
the wrong kirb4 osHlozenge, and that he
might reed this one.
Evening star., 1897-02-27
Greatest Dandy i'm the World.

Prom Answers
The greatest dandy I'm the world is Prince
Albert OF Thurn- This fastidious young
man attires himself in a new suit Of
clothes every day. enough yearly to keep
twenty experienced workmen going, and
TO run I'D a bill of $4,000. Each suit of
wearing apparel Is highly perfumed with
altar Of roses at s25 an ounce. He wears no
less than 1000 neckties during a year, te-
ing an average of three every day. A
laundry employing twelve people is kept
specially for washing his soiled linen, which
he never wears more than twice. and his
cast-on boots number 200 paiss a year.
The cigarette bill OF this highly scented
total Of a. 900 per annum. and The iffYere nt
sports ne INDUCES tn. including hun ting
shooting. fishing. go,fing and bicycling, ees;
him more than $4,000,
Evening star., 1897-02-27

FIRST socialist Ito pal who has somehow
matey?" Ai'es'
Second dit.o-"Not me, wot dyer take
FIRST ditto-''Weil. you're a purity So
alIke?'" -" S"ale
md ditto-"Cer:ainly; but while I'm
drit n this ere gin I'm 1loomin' tory
Loraon Fun.
Evening star., 1897-02-27

Mrs Della II. jonas, Granville " v writes
II have the highest praise to give TO DR. BnIl.,
Cough Syrup. We have used IL In ocr family "a,
nvs yearY with tie best eRecfs." ~ >s'
Evening star., 1897-02-27

NarERiAL AAIR RESsENHRATOR O0LORs EUC-
cesefulIy applied. 0rieu now taken for The
'.Balt." Latest Parisisnnc effects. Manicure 90
cents MARLBOROUGH FARIOR6, lll0 q q,
NV. Uptown branch, llS2 Conn ave. fc20-f:tS
Evening star., 1897-02-27

''Gerome Desio's Retiring SALE" .
Evening star., 1897-02-27

IE4l.lFf li
Evening star., 1897-02-27
Railroad Ttcket. for Pan,

To furnish destitute and worthy persons
with transportation from this city to their
MONIES, or as near, thereto as practicable a
limited stated appropriation being proyid-
ed Tor that purpose. This aid is not ex-
tended without thorough examination by
the sanitary officer into the circumstances
attending the application, and in no case
Is the relief granted until the applicant is
found worthy and liable to become a charp-e
upon the District.
10 investigate each case, and to provide
destitute persons who apply for assistance
with temporary homes at one of the sew
eral charitable institutions of the citv nr
the Washington asylum.
In the matter Of providing transportation
the sanitary officer experiences consider
able difficulty, because of the limited
amount Of the appropriation made for this
purpose. 81 800. This means a daily allow
ance OF about S.. and yet 1t frequently han
pens that destitute families want to 20
hundreds of miles. and sometimes congress
sfonal influence Is brought to bear to gain
this. When large amounts are expended
In one case 1t means that other applicants
must take short rides or none at all
Most of the railroad companies allow a
half-fare rate for the tickets purchased by
the sanitary office. and recently one of the
roads passed an order to have the word
charity stamped on the face of the
tickets This met with some resistance on the
part OF the sanitary officer. who does not
believe In exposing the condition of those
who are unfortunate enough to be poor.
but what will be the outcome of the mat
ter cannot yet be stated. Some of the
states. among them the old dominion. has
a law against paupers being brought into
the state. and yet that state sends paupers
here to be helped along on their journey or
treated in one Of the hospitals at public
expense. The number Of persons who are
furnished transportation annually is about
nine hundred.
Each year shows a notable increase in
the number Of persons sent to the various
hospitals, the total last year being about
35O0 The states of Maryland and Vir-
ginia furnish proportion of the pauper
patients. In this connection the sanitary
officer In his last annual report said:
From Virginia and Maryland.
"The states OF Virginia and MARYLAND
continue to contribute their yearly number
Of sick and destitute persons to our hos
pitfalls. The number thus accommodat ted
during the year from the former state was
| 1917, and the latter 1856, q decrease from
the state of Virginia OF 49, while the stats
of Maryland increased It's number Ia n
seems to me that this Is manifestly uniust
not only to the taxpayers of the Disfrict'
but also to the worthy sick and fndigenf'
as II has come to my knowledge on seyerai
occasions that our own poor have been re-.
II AyvSla IN -
The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-06-22
Mr.. CuLBERSON APPOINTED
One of the Commissioners to C0dify
Federal Laws.
"A SHORT SESSION OF THE HOUSE
objection Was Made to C"nsiirr'nl
u mn GiNinn states Right 4"
Control whisky Traffic.

Washington. June el.-(Spccial. IA j.
Ilouston of Dallas rs IN the city lie wou'"
pko ia lbs collector Of custons at I'll Faso'
and there are others,
Senator Chiffon today occurred the ad"n-
t.on of an amendment to the tar'm Din
which Will prove OF value to all breeders
of bloodod stock. His amendment proviaes
that tina secrctary of agriculture shall dos-
IGNITE pure and registered herds OF foreign
animals to be admitted free for breeding
purposes only,
Az foreshadowed in these dispatches
some timc ago, the president DID the mana
some thing. and appointed Judge culberson
,s ono Of the three commissioners author
,ged by the Rundry civil appropriation pil'
10 codify the criminal and penal laws o.
the United states.
The selection OF Judge Culberson glVes
general satisfaction TO every member oil
congress, and especially TO the members
who have served in tho house with the
fudge. Senators Mills and Chiffon VIII
urge speedy consideration of tho nomihA-
ton. aud OF course there viii be no oh
lection.
The president today appointed Charlcf
J. Lewis postmaster az Clarendon. lh'f
office has but lately become presidential