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new mines; but before June some Of these
northern prospectors were intllionaires,
and all, or nearly all, had fortunes.
Concerning the discovery, H. A. Stanley.
q Dinghamton IN. " newspaper man, has
written from st. Michaels, the Yukon port,
a statement which appeared In the Exam
liner. Mr.. Stanley says:
"The richest gold strike the world has
ever known was made in the Klondike re-
aton last August and September, but the
news did not get even to Circle City funtil
December 18th, when there was q great
stampede over 800 miles intervening be-
tween there and the newer fields.
"on August 18th George oormack made
the first great strike on Bonanz creek, and
on August 10Th seven claims were fled in
that region. Word got to Forty Mile n
Circle dity, but tho news was looked upon
as q grub-stake rumor. On December 10Th,
however. authentic news was carried to
Grcle oity p So J. d; wi aSa fb 81 sss 3. A hqienl
q trader. The greatest stampede ever
known in this part Of the world COM
There may be- a great deal OF question
about ssthe richest strike ever known" but
the general circumstances as narrated by
MY. Stanley accord with the statements
made BY the miners who have arrived In
Accurate reports and estimates of the ex-
tent Of the Klondike mines are difficult to
obtain. The miners, naturally, have vari-
lous opinions and their statements accord
with their beliefs and their varied observa-
tfons, while oil insist that the new mines
are enormously rich. Stanley writes:
fsTbose who made the 800 miles first
struck It rich. OF all the 200 claims staked
out on the Bonanza and ElDorado creeks
not one has proved q blank. Equally rich
finds were made june 9Th to 10th on Domi-
MON Greek. Not lees than 800 claims have
been staked out on Indian Creek, and the
surface indications are that these are as
rieh, as any OF the others"
This, too, ID supported by tho assertions
Of The miners. SO here are 900 paying
claims, without counting those on Bear
Cresk and In other districts, II the stories
mihbn Greek. Tho value OF the paying
claims may be- estimated, though without
assurance OF accuracy, from the fortunes
made by those who lave returned and
from the statements OF Correspondent
THE largest nugget yet found was
picked up by Bert Hudson on claim No. 0
On the Bonanza, and was worth EAST. Next
in size WA ono found by J. J. Clements on
indian Creek, worth s2S1. The last four
pans Clements took out were worth $1,000
and one went e775. Bigger pockets hay
been struck In other regions, but nowhere
on earth has SO rich a general n been
made as IN this section"
The individual fortunes OF those miners
who are here and OF those about whom news
has been received are placed at from el0,-
0O0 to al. 000, 600 and upward. If there is
nothing visionary or unreal in the wealth
described. some OF the Klondike pioneers
may be worth several millions. But assuIa-
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place In mining literature; and whatever
the future may have Of disappointment or
development, the renown Of the region is
won.
A country in which prlvation and suffer-
ing has been tho rule was penetrated and
explored by daring, adventurous pros
pectors. One Of the miners struck q rich
pocket of gold, but there were only q few
to know Of the discovery, and 1t was four
months later that tho news reached tho
nearest Of the settlements. There were
stampedesin the dead Of winter, and In spite
Of the intense cold nearly 5000 men made
their way to the new camp. Snow was
shoveled away, great fires were built tothaw
the ground and pick and shovel unearthed
the nuggets and dust.
1t was on August 18th OF last year that
George Cormack made tho first discovery.
On December 18th the FIRST stampede was
begun from Circle City, 800 miles from tho
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"A London correspondent in st.
Petersburg publishes some curious
information as to the property of the
Russian Imperial family. II is one
Of the richest in the world. Apart
altogether from the civil list, which
usually amounts to 81, 800, 900 a year,
but which may of course be increased
by imperial order, the house Of Re-
manoff owns 81, 900, 900 acres in diff
ferent parts Of Russia, which, under
q system laid down in the reign of the
Emperor Paul, are managed by a spe-
cial bureau called that of the Imperial
Appanages, which is controlled by q
Minister, who reports to the Emperor
alone and takes no orders from the
Minister of Finance. The Ministry
of Appanages now enjoys a revenue
of more than $40, 000, 900, out Of
which forty-six grand dukes and
duchesses are supported, at an aver
age cost in all of S25, 900, 900, or say
s55, 900 o year per prince or princess.
The remaining income is suffered to
accumulate in order to meet the con-
stantly increasing number of members
Of the imperial family, who are by nc
means always satisfied with their do
tations.
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Old mon ore drunkards because young
meh drink.
No young man ever climbed the lad.
der Of success with q whisky flask in his
pocket.
There are a great many who complain OF
the drinking water furnished. Do they
give the drinking water a ehance7
There Is q cook In o certain famous girls
school who gets on a foot, for DAYS on
Just plain lemon extracts. Not n bit OF this
favorlug can BIO kept in the institution.
which Is q sorrow to tho girls who are fond
Of lemon-aayored pies, puddiDgs and
creams.
The influence Of alcohol in the produce
tion OF epilepsy Is fully recognized by
neurologtsts, and out Of 145 patients adj
mitted into tho Craig Colony ia New YORK.
alcoholism was given as the cause Of four
Of them. The number Of e~pileptics In tha
United States IS from 79,526to l47.OO0. a
OF a total population OF 72.519, IA, and
ave per cent. ofthese epilepfics have ds-
rived their disease from alcoholism
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II brought with me something over et4,-
900 mi put tho greater portion Of 1t In the
bank, " said Mr.. Krook. "Next March I
shall return to Alaska. More gold Is await
Ing me there. Ny partner works the claim,
pays all the expenses while / am away and
at the cleanup we divide equally. This
spring there were not enough mon there TO
do the work. When n man has o mine he
wants to get tho gold out as fast as he can.
The wages paid was s1.50 an hour in the
winter, when a mar can only labor seven or
eight hours, md e15 o day in the spring,
when h days nre much longer. Nearly all
the placer gold Is from twelve to fifteen feet
down. The digging Is done In the winter
and the sluicing in the spring and summer
as soon as the water begins to TOW.
ut Is easy to get down to the black
muck with o pick. The usual way Is to dig
a hole seven or eight feet u As soon
rs the black dirt Is reached the work Is a
little harder, but the dirt yields to tho pick
and then hard gravel is reached, when the
ground must be thawed out. At night bill
lets OF wood two or three feet long are piled
In on the gravel to q height OF two feet.
This Is set on fire. By morning the gravel
can be worked easily enough. 1t is piled
up nround the mouth of the shaft and by
the time all the gravel that has been
thawed has been put Oh the dumps 1t Is
time to build a fire again.
"Usually two men work a claim. One
fills the buckets in the shaft and the other
works the windlass, raising tho buckets
and dumping their contents. In the spring
the two men turn the dump into sluice-
boxes and wash out the gold"
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|.
Large numbers OF men in the West ar.
planning to go tothe Klondike gold-minina
region.
Foreign laborers are now taxed thre.
cents a day In Pennsylvania. One-haII OF
the tax is to 90 to school purposes, and the
remainder to the county governments
The Labor Exchange Colony, at kepneri
Penn, Is In financial straits. IL was
founded by certain labor organizations
some time ago, and is 6ocialistic In charac'
Her.
Tho financial reports Of the lnternnfiona
4garmakers' Union show that the COST OF
tile eigarmakers' strike at Detroit, Mich,
which failed, after a long struggle, was
$4,000 directly to the union,
All employs IN the big B~urlington shops
IN Sc. Joseph, Mo-, are working iah hours
tile first time for several years.
The edge makers in the Taylor factory at
Canpello, Mass, were ordered out. me-
duftlon Ia wages caused the strike.
Commissioner, John T. MeDonough, Of
thdLSeV xexk State bureau OF Labor pa
tIstics{3h as started to compile a wage tanle
SLOWLY gthe amount OF earnings anu uuIn
tion q employment OF orgatized wofA
slaf Hinkley, q son Of the milli9palfy
Presl *lent Of IN Roughkeepsie 1N,i,l TO- "
tric railroad Vkpy, Il heayins COZ, o.,
si.55yp day. Harvard graduate
ord } ps q thoroughly
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The curiosity Of the modern man OF
science knows no bounds. One Of his
latest exploits is trapping had bring
ing down to the ground wfSh the aid
Of an automatic apparatus attached to
q balloon specimens.of the upper air
from the height Of almost ten miles.
The apparatus and the experiment
were Of French invention and at a
meeting Of the Academy Of Sciences in
Paris NJ. Cailletet reported the result
of the analysis Of the captured air. It
simply showed that at the height Of
81, 600 feet above sea level the COM
position Of the atmosphere is practi-
cally the same as at the surface Of the
earth, although its density, Of course,
is comparatively slight.-San Fran
cisco Chronicle.
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ME rRlp no KloNplkE mo- PICNIC,
Swineford Tells His Cousin to Keep Away
UnlesA He Wnnts to Suffer.


CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (speciaD. -. NJ. Phelps,
Of this city, has just received n letter from
his COUSIN, Alfred p. Swineford, of Mar
quette, Mich, regarding Alaska. MIR.
Swineford was Governor of Alaska during
the Cleveland Administration. Among
other things he says:
II can only say that while I have never
been IN the Yukon district. and person
ally know nothing about Klondike dig
gings, yet / have no doubt about tho
great abundance Of gold. Still, II you want
my advice l say, unless you are prepared
to take your life In your hands and en-
counter such hardshlps and perlls as arc
hard to picture even In Imagination in get~
ting to the Klondike after you lave reached
Alaska; unless you are prepared for the
extreme Of winters cold and Of summers
heat and to endure black flies and mosqui-
toes, that render life almost uncomfortable,
don't go.
"At all events, don't venture on tho trip
this season.. The Klondike is 600 miles
travel beyond juneau, and starting now,
even II in the rush you succeed in getting
transportation as far as Juneau, you can
not possibly get beyond to your destination
In time to do n prospecting before next
spring; and 1t Is exceedingly doubtful IL
you will be able to find employment during
the winter, for h reason that there Will
be SO many ahead OF you.
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ELopED WITH AN INDIAN.
Lizzie Anderson Leaves Her Home in Penn
s~yIvania with a Kichapoo.


syivania With a Kickapoo.
William Anderson, a farmer In Tullytown,
Penn, went to Trenton, N. j., in search of
his seventeen-yesr-old daughter, Lizzie,
who, he said. had left homo with an Indian,
intending to marry him. The Trenton po-
lice were notified, but they got 40 trace Of
the clipping couple. In the afternoon Mr..
Anderson found the couple at the railroad
station, md took his daughter home.
American Horse, the Indian. fed as soon as
he caught sight OF the girls father. Ander-
son said he had no desire to arrest the In
dian, but would wait until he caught him
in Pennsylvania again.
American Horse was o member OF q band
of Kickapoo Indians who are travelling
about the country selling magic medi-
eines. The band was at Tullytown two
weeks ago,a and Lizzie and her father visited
the camp and made the acquaintance OF
American Horse. Tho Indian passed much
OF his time at the village hotel, and
was dismissed by the medicine men for
drunkenness. When the band went away
American Horse remained in Tullytown
and continued his attentions to Miss An
derson, despite her fathers commands
that he keep away. The girl was locked in
her room, but she escaped and Joined the
Indian. He hired q horse and the couple
started for Trenton. They stopped at a
MorrIsyille hotel and were there when the
father reported the elopement to h Tren-
ton police. The girl is rather good looking
and Intelligent. American Horse Is unat-
tractive, long haired, and apparently
about thirty years old.
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The Scientific American says that excess
ve beer-drinking Is even more brutalIzing
han whisky. The most dangerous class Of
uflans In our large cities are beer-drinkers.
rhe very lowest form OF inebriety, closely
hlied to criminal insanity, follows from
b~eer-drlnking. A beer-drinker may be the
~pieture OF health, he may weigh three or
Tour hundred pounds. but in reality he Is
most incapable OF resisting disease. Com
more incurable, more generally diseased.
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If the proposed mammoth geograph-
zeal globe should be constructed for
the Paris Exposition of 1900, according
to present plans, it will be at least 100
meters in diameter. Upon its FIVE in-
terror floors it is to contain representa-
tions of all the countries OF the world.
The visitor will practically visit the
whole earth in traversing the interior
Of this huge globe. He will be trans
ported from one country to another
by electric railways.
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Dying. he refused 20 rouob L,ouor.

An exchange tells a touching story Of the
last hours OF Colonel james Mulligan, the
gallant frish-Ameriean soldier, which illus
trates tho wonderful devotion to principle
that characterized him in ali the acts of his
life. Ito was m uncompromising teeto-
taller. and remained SO to the last. Dying
of three Rhastly wounds, the at
whose house he lay proffered, as q cordial.
brandy she had saved from raiding sol
diers. He declined the offer, saying, with
a calm and gentle smile upon his DEATH
bedewed face; MADAM, In all my life 1
have mover touched a drop OF liquor. Now
that l am to die l think it too late to be.
gin. "-Saered Henri Review.
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Greatest bicycling city.

London isnot only the largest city In thu
world, but 1t is the greatest bicycling city
An approximate estimate of the number OF
wheels In London Is Zoo 900, of which 20,'
sycie may also be judged from the fact that
at a recent bicycle meet Mt London the
Countess of Warwick presented the prizes,
assisted by the Lord Mayor and Lord
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The Tarialn operation.

The Treasury Department holds that the
new Tariff law became operative after mid
night on July 23 the beginning OF the day
on which 1t received the approval Of the
involves between 800, 600 md 5000. 600 in
customs and probably q larger sum in In
ternal revenue. The new law was put in
operation without friction at the New York
Custom House.
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chihuahua, that old Mexican city
rendered memorable by the famous
march across the plains Of Doniphan's
regiment more than fifty years ago,
has completed an industrial college
building at a cost Of $50, 900, and will
commence the construction Of an out
fall sewer estimated at a cost Of $780,
O0O.
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The Senate failed to confirm thenomina.
tons of Terence v. Powderly, Of Pennsyl
vania, to be Commissioner-Gener of I'm
migration, and Thomas Fitchie. OF New
York, to be Commissioner Of Immigration
at New York.
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why He Would Not Pledge in Wine.

"Boys, I can not pledge myself with you
in wine," said o young man at q banquet,
when urged by his companions TO drink to
the success of some pet scheme. "and this
Is my reason for refusing; ! once had an
idolized mother whose temperance prin-
ciples were of the strongest. Before she
went into the great unknown / promised
her to always abstain from the Intoxicating
cup, and the promise is as binding to-day
as when first given" The raised glasses
were set down again, the wine untouched,
for somehow that mothers influence ex-
tended beyond her boy, ind all present
were touched by the words so impresslyely
spoken. Tho mothers influence, beautiful
and strong, reached out from the grave,
md was a power in that gathering. 1t
Ind not only moulded the young mans
character, making him strong OF purpose,
but It set his friends to thinking, awaken
Ing them to a sense Of their duty-the re-
suit, a glorious victory.
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silver. dollars Coined.

A statemenf prepared at the mint bureau
shows the number Of silver dollars coined
st the United States mints during the last
6scal year was ~, 400, 70t on which the
seigniorage, or profits to the Government
amounted to s8s3S6. l04. The profits have
been turned int0th treasury from time tc
time as the coina&e progressed.
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Temperance Is an octopus clutching In
its invulnerable grasp and hurrying on to
destruction 6ntire families. 1t is the chief
source Of all the other vices to which the
Hnce Is filling our prisons with criminals.
our poorhouses with paupers and insane
asylums with lunatics. Il makes wives
widows, children orphans and fathers flends.
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The President and Secretary Alger de-
cided to send u company Of troops to
Alaska to support the civil authorities in
the administration OF the law at the new
gold fields.
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RICHEST WOMAN N TAE WORLD.

Sonora Isadore de Cousino, n Famous
Chile Widow. Is Soon to Visit Us
A woman worth over s100, o0o, 900 is soon
to visit the United States. She is Sonora
Isndore de CousIno. The senora's prop
erty Is in Chile. She inherited much Of
1t from her father aud brother, but her
own shrewd instinct for business has
served to add largely to tho property.
Among her possessions are many copper
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MIXED MARRIAGE DIVIDES A CHURCH.
The Pastor Married a Colored Man to a
White Woman.

The race question has caused strife and
secession in the Trinity Evangelical Church
at Milwaukee, Wis. Some months ago the
Rev. George Hertz, the pastor, married
David p. Redd, a colored horse doctor. to
a white woman. Meetings were held at
which the minister was denounced for his
action, and these meetings eliminated In
the secession OF half Of the congregation
from the church. The s~ecessioRists met
and organized a new church. The corner
stone OF its doctrine is anti-miscegenation.
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,a~fhe average value Of the claims TO 5-
I 10000 and the number Of Claims to be
l3hly 700, the Klopdike region gives promise
n 4 weld Of not less than &70,0 O0. 900 from
me prospects that had been opened prior
to June.
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The tornado in tho county of Essex, Eng
land. destroyed d. 900, 900 worth of prop
artv
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7HE NEW LAND OF GOLD.
Reports From Alaska Are Like News
Of California in Days Of Old.
HUNDREDS OF PAYING CLAIMS.

Seventy Million Dollars Said to Bein Sight
and the KIondike Region Only Par
tally Prospscted-rhe Amount Taken
From the Mines in six Months Put ut
e5.ooo.ooo-story of tho Rich Discovery
sAs FRANCISCO. Cal. (speciaD.-seventy
million dollars in the new Alaskan gold
fields. and the region only partially PROS
pected.
That is the summing up of the stories
brought from the Klondike camps by men
who emphasize their assertions with bags
Of gold dust and nuggets.
The history Of the Klondike discovery
and the defiance ofArctic danger and hard
ship by the mon who fought their way to
the gold fields will have o picturesque
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In the six months ending July l $4,000,
300 Of mortgage Indebtedness was paid OF
In Nebraska to the mortgage and loan com.
panieg.
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The Canadian Cabinet has decided Il
levy a royalty on gold taken out Of tho
Klendike.
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Shake Into Your shoes

Aliens Foot-Ease, a powder for the feet. 1t
cures painful, swollen, smarting feet, and in
stantly takes the sting out of corns and bum
Ions. It's tho greatest comfort discovery of
the age. Aliens Foot Ease makes tight-ht-
cure for sweating, cailous and hot, tired, ech-
ing feet. Try 1t to-day. Sold by all druggists
and shoe stores. By mail for &c. in stamps.
Trial package FREE. Address, Alien s. Ohm
sted, lie Roy, n. Y,
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dred steamers and sailing vessels, tho en-
tire town Of Lota In Chile, coal mines OF
incaleuleble value, farm lands, planta-
lions, fruit ranches, vineyards and three
palaces, the like Of which are not to be
found outside tho imagined glories OF the
Arabian Nights"
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Fits permanently cured. No fits or nervous
ness after first days use of DR.. Kline's Great
Nerve Restorer. S2trial bottle aud treatise free
DH. II. II. KLINE, Ltd, 9l Arch St. phfla.. PA,
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w. II. Griffin, jackson, Michigan, writes:
Halrs Catarrh Cure cured me" Sold by Drug
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Mrs. winslow's Soothing Syrup for children
teething, softenst the gums, reducfngi nfiamma
lion, allays pain, cures wind collie. aa5c.a bottle.
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After six years. suffering l was cured by PI-
sos Cure.-MARY. THOMSON, 29K Ohio Ave,
Allegheny, Pa, March 10, 1904.
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LIFE AT THE MINES.

Digging Done in the Winter and the sIuic-
ing In the Spring.
sssrrLr, Wash. (Special).-A man ofper-
haps t~hirty-fye years is Robert krook, a
swede by birth, who has passed -four con-
secutise summers and winters in the Yukon
river country. Having brought $4,000
rom the new Dondike piaeers, he Is pre-
pairing 10 RQ hemeforsthe arsttime In four
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Cold winds roughen and chap the skin.
Glenn's sulphur Soap ~softens and reunites it.
Hills Hair q Whisker Dye, black or brown, zoe.
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Beef sells for half . dollar a pound 10
Alaska.
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Beer scored another great victory on
board the famous United States warship,
the Indiana, last Wednesday evening.
While the officers Of the ship were distribu-
ting the regular daily rations of beer, a sea
man who was already drunk became en-
ragged and plunged his basonet into the
back Of an officer, killing him instently-
At 6.10 p. m 1t is the custom on board the
warship Indiana for a signal to DO given
when the ships crew cline up" on the for
ward deck and o supply of government
liquors Is distributed among them. During
the afternoon of the fatal day, Philip Car
ter, q seaman, was of on a leave Of absence
for q few hours-long enough to get beastly
drunk. He was, however, back promptly
at beer time, ready for a fresh supply Of
government liquor. There was a drunken
wrangle cyerthe amount which he was to
receive. Thomas A. Kenny, the master-at-
arms Of the ship, who also seems to have
been the ships bartender, refused to give
him his usual supply.
There was q disturbance over the matter,
and a half-hour later the drunken Carter
slipt up behind Officer Kenny and plunged
a bayonet into bis back up to the hilt
Kenny died instantly, and Carter was placed.
in irons-all the result OF a drunken row
over rations OF beer supplied by the gov
ernment.-The Voice,