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The San Francisco call., 1897-10-10

the night before the recent ficod found it
intact where he had placed it.
a new discovery of gold has teen made
on Pelley River. Mr.. Boyleson, store
keeper at Sheep Camp, has received let
ter from his brother, via Lake Linderman,
saying he had struck rich placer on
Pelley near its junction with the Mem llan
River. He wrote his brother: Drop
everything and come right away if not
too late in the season. am dazzled with
the gold One pan turned me 1925, and
am down only ten feet"
Mr.. Boyleson dropped everything and
went. He crossed his tent store and
the dlggings continue to pan out as well
as the first claim another Klondlke has
been struck. Gold has always been found
on the bars of the PeIley, but not in such
richness as Boyleson reports. Beyond
the letter it is not known how much Gre
dence may be placed IN this report.
A number of others followed Boyleson
in also with insufficient supplies, and
they may die from starvation. Among
these was Captain Hall, who was pack
ing his goods from the mouth of Dyea
Canyon to the Scales He sold his tent
and the bulk of his provisions for a pit
tance and started for the lakes, hoping to
buy boat ana supplies. Parties at the
lakes who have boats are selling seats in
them a. from $3.50 to $500 and taking as
much less provisions as the new passen-
gers weigh. One reason for this is that it
is believed the Government will send help
into the Yukon before the winter is over.
Men on both trails are removing the
shoes from dead horses so as to sell them
next summer. There has been 4 scarcity
of horseshoes and nails on the trails.
At the lakes several well-known miners
have fitted up. cabins and will winter, al
the same time devoting all their attention
10 prospecting the various creeks and
rivers. Already in many instances good
colors have been panned out The belief
among some is that rich placers will be
unearthed in the neigh borhood of the
lakes.
A remarka ably rich free milling quartz
reef was discovered by w. H. Harris while
prospecting at Lake Bennett Harris was
connected with the Colonel Ward party
and lett it when it was decided to O by
way OF Dyea. Immediately on stri king
this immensely rich reef Mr.. Harris re-
turned to the United States to get parties
interested in his find. The gold is plainly
visi ble, and Mr.. Harris considers he has
i Klondike without going into the Klon-
dixie. The letge has been traced for sew
eral miles.
A mail will leave here tomorrow for
Forty. mile and Circle City, but no regu-
lar mail will go to Dawson, though the
csrrier NAV take few letters and drop
them at Dawson. Hal HOFFMAN
The San Francisco call., 1897-10-10

| will be practicable and promise satisfac
tory results.
They have beautiful system in Cam
ada and the postal savings banks of Eng.
land have been successful ever since they
were first established. I do not believe.
however, that either system could bo
| adopted outright in this country because
OF the different conditions existing here.
81 would like 10 make the system so per.
feet that small boy who wanted to avail
himself of its advantages could deposit
his nickel aud so that all classes of people
to whom the system might be beneficial
could make use of it. As a general out
line OF the plan, L think the Government
should accept the deposits and invest the
money in safe and reliable interest bear
ing securities. This would enable the de-
partment to pay interest upon all deposits
at the rate of at least per cent per an
mum and leave possibly a surplus for
operating expenses.
1t is in this connection that one of the
chief problems arises. For several years
to come it would be easy to invest the
money deposited with the department in
Government bonds, form of security in
which there is no risk and the interest
payments are assured. BUTT is generally
believed that in the course of time the ma
tional debt will have been paid and there
will be no Government bon s upon the
market. Then the question would arise
in what form of securities could the
money be invested without risk and so as
to secure an assured income? The system
must depend TO very great extent for its
success upon the ability OF the Postmaster
General TO invest the money intrusted to
The San Francisco call., 1897-10-10
DIR. STONES REASON
HAS Been SHATTERED
Chief Surgeon of the Training
Ship Adams Becomes
Insane.
speciaI plspatch % rHE CA1L.

special Dispatch 20 THE CALL
SAN DIEGO, CAL, Oct 9.-The follow
ing item appeare IN this evenings papers
DR.. L. II. Stone, chief surgeon of the United
States training-ship Ajams. left this afternoon
in charge OF Chiei Engineer w. A. Day for Mare
Island Hospital. where he will be given medi-
cal treatment.
Such is the guarded statement given
out by Captain Gibson of the Adams I'M
fortunately the fact is, however, that Sur
geon Stones mind has finally collapsed
after weeks OF suffering from nervous
prostrauion, and that he is to-day at leas
temporarily insane. For days past the
officer. aboard the Adams have watched
their DOCTOR who was seen to be in pre-
carious condition mentally as well as
physically.
After the ship left this port last Satur-
day he giew rapidly worse. and although
everything posi- bic was done for nim, ii
was cen that thevessel must return TO port.
Phys clans who have seen DR.. Stone say
his delicate physique will scarcely hold
out long.
The Adams will sail Tor Magdalena Bay
on Octorer Is.
The San Francisco call., 1897-10-10
GARY TELLS
THE COUNTRY
HOW TO SAVE
ak With the Postmaster
General on the Postal
Savings Banks.
PLAIN PEOPLE THE HOPE OF
THE NATION.
Patriotism Will Lead Them to Trust the
Government if Feasible Plan Can
Be Devised to Handle
Their Money.

1t is, should be- aphorsn that anybody make
1t who knows how it that
wealthy. The does know how and
the achieve prosperity
in the well off" In
banks proposed who
people the lesson of elem
saving and of its plan
views of the most eminent questions
the day Call this morning gives its readers
ideas General Gary upon this
estng of all topics to the poor man.
business speaking for a business adminstra-
tion observed that Mr.. Gary is thoughtful, clear.
headed, and most practical.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-02-13
Teaching Them English.

The simple and effective method of
teaching English to the children of Ital-
ians, Portuguese, Polish and German
Jews used i'll the north end schools Of
Boston might protitably be adopted by
otter cities which are obliged to face
the fact that within their borders are
thousands of foreign children who know
nothing of the customs, institutions or
language of this country. A writer in
the Eostop Transcript thus describes the
method:
The children, within few days after
their arrival, are sent to the public
schools, as q rule without compulsion,
and here they are first Of all taught the
English language. 1t is done by a sys-
tenn Of object lessons. The teachers in
the elementary rooms are young women,
as len would not be patient enough to
accomplish the best results.
The teacher may point to her eye and
say, '"This is my eye, repeating it sew
eral times and requiring the pupils to
repeat it in unison. Other portions of
the body are pointed out in similar
manner, and then familiar objects in
the room are i'll the same way brought
to the attention Of the children.
Later, when they have made sufficient
progress i'll the language, it becomes de-
sirable to teach the different lenses. To
accomplish this, boy Or girl is directed
to run slowly round the room, when the
teacher and children say in unison,
''That boy is running" repeating the
sentence several times. The boy is then
told to halt, and the teacher and pupils
say i'll unison, "That boy did rum"
again, "That boy is standing STILL"
''That boy can run, ''That boy Is
walking" '"rhat boy walks fast, " 81
can walk, ""I can run, " 81 did walk" "
eta
These and other sentences, as they
are spoken, are written on the black
board by the teacher, and the pupils
write them on their states. Thus they
are taught the language and taught to
spell. read and write almost simultane.
OuSiY,
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-02-13
The swiss Parliament.

A parliament at which the discus
SONS are carried on i'll three different
languages is probably unique.
The country whore This singular fact
occurs Is we'll known to English tourists
VIZ, Switzerland. But few, l believe,
have ever had an occasion to be present
at the sitting Of IL Swiss parliament.
The languages spoken by the men,
hers are FlgEch, Italian and German.
Italian, true, is not as often employed
as tie C,l,l Two, the members for Tes-
sin, ii canton III the SOUTH very often
delivering ti.eir speeches in French As
almost every educated swiss speaks
French AID German, members are there
fore able 10 understand each others
speeches, although spoken i'll "a different
language t. tiluir own.
1t also often happens that when a
French speaking member wishes to
make Il stronger impression on the Ger
man speaking part oi the house he de-
Hycr& has speech in German, and also
vice versa. Ptarsou's Weekly.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-02-13
FISHER LASSIES.

The wind blows up from the nor'west waves
Chill, salt and strong from its ocean caves.
The sea glows yet in the sunsets hue,
And the following sky is q cup of blue
But the sentinel rocks on the headlands right
Are black anG grim in the waning light,
And out in the west lone white star
Keeps its steaGfast watch DER the harbor bar
Over the waves where the red light floats
To the glooming shore come the fishing boats
And the girls who wait for their coming in
Are something to wave and wind akin
Born of the union Of sky and sea,
Joyous, 1.-THE limbed rs the sea birds free,
Fearless in danger and true as steel,
To friend unswerving, to lover leal.
No care is theirs. All the world they know
Is the sky above and the sea below.
Light DER the waters their laughter floats
As they wait on tho sand for the fishing boats
Brown are they, yet the tint that glows
IN their cheeks has the hue Of crimson rose
And never brighter or clearer eyes
Watched across the bar meath the sunset skies
When the wearisome toll of the day is done
And the boats come in with the setting sun,
Sweethearts and brothers, tall and tanned,
Bend to the oars with O irmer hand.
Each one knows at the landing dim
Some one is waiting to welcome him.
Over the harbor the twilight creeps.
The stars shine out in the sky's clear deeps,
From far sea caves comes hollow rear,
And the girls have gone from the darkened
shore,
For the crimson has died from the sky lines
bound,
And the boats are all in from the fishing
ground.
M. L. Cavendish in Youths Companion.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-02-13
The Dreaded Germ.

At the British association DR.. Kan
thack, who speaks with great authority
on the subject, read paper on "Bac-
terra In Food" in which he pointed out
that one might swallow any amount Of
micro organisms with food without any
injury. Milk ordinarily contains about
million germs per cubic centimeter in
sandwiches they are too numerous to
count. oysters TEEN with them, and
ices from fashionable confectioner'
were found to contain from 10, 900, 600
to IA, 600, 900, or considerably more
than the much abused Italian street
vender's wares. There is not the least
doubt in the world that we eat, drink
and breathe any quantity Of germs
without suffering in the smallest de-
gree, day by day, unless the germ hap
pen to be of particular sort and to
meet with a suitable soil. All the
scientific fuss about the necessity Of
boiling this and sterilizing that in order
to kill the germs is piece of unsoien-
tific babble founded upon set of theo-
retic assumptions which take no account
Of actual everyday facts. OF course the
psychologists will not admit their mis-
take without struggle, and DIR. Kan.
thack met with good deal Of criticism.
Nevertheless he is right, and one Of
these days every one will be saying the
same thing.-St. James Gazette.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-02-13
LUCiEN BONAPARTE'S SONS.
They Were an Energetic Lot, but Had
Few Other Good Qualities.

Few Other Good Qualities.
Prince Lucien Bonaparte was the best
of the four SONS of Lucien I. The others
made the states of the church too hot to
hold them. All had impetuous, master
full tempers and literary and archeolog-
ical tastes. In different ways each con-
trlved to bleed the late emperor Of mon
ey. They were brought up at Muignano
among the Etrurian remains which
their father disenterred during more
than 20 years, to the enrichment Of
most of the great museums of Europe.
Pierre and Antoine lived like ban
ditti, carrying Off women and shooting
the men who went to stop or came to
arrest them. Pierre fired his final shot
at Victor Noir, at Auteuil, and killed
him. The eldest, whom remember as
Prince of Musignano, was married to
daughter of his uncle Joseph. He re-
volted against the pope, was president
of the Roman constituent, and such a
violent domestic tyrant that his wife
ran away to Paris to supplicate the en-
peror to protect her and her son-the
future cardinal.
Aho AAAiSo Va 4l AuCu tLl5 ny
threatening to publish certain papers Of
the first Lucien proving over and over
again the dishonor of Josephine and
Hortense. Louis Napoleon bought these
documents at his Cousins price. The
death of the wife, Zenaide, put an end
to the feud. The late Prince Lucien,
who obtained "a civil list pension Of
G250 a year-about the fourth of the en-
tire fund-tigured in Paris during the
second republic as an ultra Liberal He
played this card until he got large
sum of money and senatorship. This
post was honorary, as he had to live out
of France.
Antoine, the youngest of the four
brothers, led charmed life. His life
was spared by the pope at the supplica-
ton of Lady Dudley Stuart and her
mother. The papal government banished
him, and he went to Greece, where he
got into another serious scrape. In New
York he had the narrowest escape Of be-
ing lynched for forgetting that he was
not at Musignano. Thence he went to
Mexico and Panama, with scheme in
his head that he and Louis had talked
over at Bordcntown for making an in
teroceanic canal. He laid the egg at
Columbia (?) which his cousin Lucien
Wyse and De Lesseps Matched Is years
ago. Thus, had the man sent to arrest
Antoine shot, instead of being shot by,
him, the Panama bubble would not
have been inflated in our time.-Paris
Letter in London Truth.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-02-13
HATS OFF TO GENTLEMEN.
What Did the Girls Mean by Their Re
marks In the Elevator?

What Did the Girls Mean by Their Re-
marks In the Elevator?
They entered the elevator together.
They were dressed alike. They wore
felt hats and coats, not unlike the Sack
coats worn by men, which, open in
front, disclosed waistcoats. A rundown
collar was around the throat Of each,
with small black neckties. They didn't
wear trousers or even bloomers, but
their skirts were close fitting, and every
man in the elevator knew instinctiveIy
that they were coveting the coverings
which they had for their limbs They
wore their hair cut short.
When they entered, the men simply
stared at them. No one ventured to re-
move his hat in accordance with the
time honored custom which provides
that in that way men should show their
Difference to the memb bers Of the opposite
sex. Perhaps they were too surprised at
the apparition. Perhaps they thought
that the women, being unusually strong
minded, would be vexed instead of
pleased at the mark of politeness to
woman. There are such women, it is
said, although very few persons have
ever seen any of them.
Whatever might have been passing
through the mems minds in the few
seconds which the journey from top to
bottom required, they were awakened
from their reveries when one of the
young women exclaimed in O loud
voice:
Joan, why don't you take off your
hat? Don't you see that we are in the
presence of gentlemen?"
That remark served to cause every
man in the Car to turn red and white
by turns. Every mans hand went in
stinotively to his hat. but all but one
were quickly stopped. The exception
removed his hat and was evidently en-
barrassed because he had unconsciously
taken the hint.
But he took his revenge. In an ordi-
nary tone of voice he remarked to an
other man:
"It is so hard nowadays to tell men
from women that am not surprised at
their mistake, nor at ours. -
Some scathing retort might have been
made, but just then the elevator stop
ped and every man rushed from the
Car whether it was his floor or not
Chicago Times Herald.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-02-13
The Compass Plant.

The compass plant is one of the odd
est creations of the vegetable king
that its leaves always point directly
north and south. So if you are out on
a western prairie and lose your way
just look for one Of these plants and re-
member that they always point in the
directions indicated. Botanists call
this curious plant Selphium lacinia-
tum. 1t is unpretentious in appearance
and bears yellow flowers that are not
unlike field daisies. 1t has remark
ably thin leaf, so thin as to be notice.
able even to the untutored eye. The
compass plant is really a western
flower and is indigenous to the prairies
Of that section.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-02-13
A FAMOUS YACHTS FATE,
Commodore Colts Dauntless, Anchored, n
Flo iting Memorial.

Full many a large and handsome
yacht has lost her owner because he has
tired of her, or, again, because "a reduced
income forced him to abandon the ex-
travagant luxury, but here is one that,
losing her master by his untimely death,
has been specially provided for in her
declining years. Stcadfist unto the end,
she was not sold off for half price to get
rid of her, but, like faithful dog or
horse that has outlived its days of use
fulness, has been allowed to finish out
her life i'll quiet repose.
1t is only IA few years ago that the
schooner yacht Dauntless was one of the
very stanchest boats atioat In race
across the Atlantic with the Coronet she
did herself proud. Her commander was
commodore, and her graceful form
was familiar figure in the great yacht
ing world. Now, with sails forever
furled, with peunants hauled down for
the last time and housing canvased over,
she tugs at an anchor that seems des-
tined never to rise again
The master whom she thus serves in
spirit was in life Commodore Caldwell
ii. Colt, the only child of the late Colo
mel Samuel Colt the arms manufactur-
er. He died at Punta Gorda, Fla. about
three years ago, while off ON cruise.
This circumstance, together with his
fondness for the boat, led his wealthy
mother to preserve it, though no longer
of use, just as others lay away in a
drawer the toys of dead children. So it
is that the yacht idles her life away, a
silent memorial. In further remem-
brance of the dead mans yachting career
the new Colt memorial house in Hart
ford, costing several hundred throusand
dollars, bears Oh its facade a beautiful
reproduction of the Dauntless in sculp-
tured stone and many other suggestions
of the sea
Anchored off Essex, few miles up
from the mouth of the Connecticut river,
the good old yacht is now living out her
life of ease. 1t is said that she will
never again go into commission-cer-
tainly not so long as the mother lives.
The spot is quiet, secluded and all that
a retired favorite could ask for in her
old age, and the same waters that lap
her side flow, 40 miles up stream, with
in a stones throw of the celebrated fac
tory whose machinery produced the
wealth that purchased and maintained
the boat. t.-Brooklyn Eagle.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-02-13
Freaks Of the Temperature and Topogra-
phy In San Francisco.

San Francisco spraW Is over sandy
peninsula shaped like clinched fist,
with its face to the east and the noble,
landlOcked bay which the navics of the
world Would not crowd and with its
back to the Pacific ocean, which rolls
il without Il break from China, 7, 600
miles away. 1t covers an area of 20
square miles, though much of this is
built over in struggling fashion. 1t has
thrice i.s many nils as Rome boastcd
of, but over the highcst OF these the ca
blc cars climb. Seen from the bay at
night, the spectacle is superb. as the
streets are Transformed into parallel
lines Of twinkling lights that seem to
ascend, like Jacobs ladder, to the stars.
Justin Mccarthy in Lady Judith"
gives the most roetical as well as the
most faithful ricTure of ;his remarkable
sight of San Francisco from the bav.
Had the original builders of the city
adopted the Italian custom of carrying
streets around hills, with tcrraced gar
deus, san Francisco would be the most
beautiful city III the world. AS it is,
many OF the streets are merely great,
unsightly bitches that run in ugly par
ai!el lines up the steep hills and through
their SUBMITS. From Il score of points
of vantage one may get superb views of
the bay, the harbor with its picturesque
islands, the oncircling hills and the
Golden Gate, the marrow entrance
through which come and so the ships of
the orient.
What inprrss"s the visitor to San
Francisco most forcibly is the peculiar
tCndnoss for the bay window. Bat this
taste seems natural and sensible when
he is told that it is due to the necessity
OF getting all the sunshine that can be
secured. Here, as i'll Italy, between sun
shine and shade there is the difference
between summer and winter. The San
Francisco climate is the greatest eli
mate i'll the world for continuous work,
az tho mean temperature is 50 and there
is no summer lc&t. But it is trying
climate for any one with weak lungs or
tender throat. The summer is harsher
than the winter, Us cold trade winds
and heavy tcgs render the nights chilly
and make ii CRATE fire comfortable Sep
tembcr is TIE finest month in the year,
as the trade winds do rot blow and the
days are warm and sunshiny y-Chau-
tauquan.
Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1897-02-13
SHELL AND GHOVEL PILE.
a short Story of the Civil War as Told
Dy an cid Soldier.
talitlu;lll.

II. an cid Soldier.
"W WtlCncyrr / sec II pile of shovcls
stacked up on the sidewalk III front of
Il haTuNarc store, SAID an cid soldier,
'it ll.;;l,;s me think of IL pile Of shovels
! saw c!>c stacked up at the end of IA
traverse iii an carlhW ork at the time of
the civil Wal There were siege guns
and nortars of Gi.c size ai!d another in
batteries scattered along these works
III tie particular battery th;t | speak of
there were TWO leo p~uud rificd guns
There W,,S !, traverse between the two
lunS, and enc On the outer size CT each,
Il traverse, you understand, being Il
Short ridge of earth running back from
the line i'll front and at right angles
with 1t, to protect the gun and the gUn-
nel5 tron! Il lateral fire. This pie of
>huvcls lay at !lIc ora of one Of the out
q tr.ivJIscs:, - tnc ii uf li,c piece that
J. worked ca. There were SIX or eight
lACG Oh The -Uu.
y shell ti,t,, came over from Con-
tee Itir mortar battery dropped square
Cu th:t' Iilr Of sEoyvls and exploded the
!N.t,,Nt II struck. Our own gun bad just
E""n fired, aud tE, men were all stand
luI scattered around to the rear of tho
Eun t,t "t:Gp, nt lIu of them tar away
1rCm The shovel pile, and all Of them
llght III Ogtn range, not protected, as
hon!c ct thea anyway would have been
& minute earlier, by standing over on
the ether side of the gun, with the gun
and TIE 5un carriage betW cen them and
the shOvels
81 Ike air was filled with smoke, and
fragments and spilntcrs of shell and
shovcls wo1c flying in all directions
Tiiere wasn't a man but expected to
Ei.Vc his head knocked off by piece
Ct She Il, or TO be cut III two iy a shovel
blade, or at least to have the handle of
u shovcl stuck through him. But the
fragments OF she'll all flew past, the
shoVels all came down, and the smoke
cleared away, and nobody had even
scratch. Then the men all laughed and
went To loa0li." the 100 pOuIder again"
NEW York sun.