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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-12-18
KLONDIKE NECESSITIES.
A Few Polite Announcements to Take
Along With You.

A Few Polite Announcements to Take
Along With You.
From the Yellow Book.
I am amazed at the popular ignorance
concerning proper outfit for the Klondike.
have before me several newspaper lists of
articles necessary for the outfit. The long
est contains only three hundred and forty
seven items. How ridiculously inadequate!
Now, I fatter myself that I know some
thing about the matter. ! have been hunt
ing for gold all my life, although l have
seldom obtained anything better than silver
and dirty bank bills. Moreover, 1 was
miner for number of years. l can mem
ton number of things that should be add
ed to those lists, and which are just as
useful as half the articles now on them.
In the first place, take along your full
dress suit. Gold hunting is adventure pure
and simple, and almost every adventurer
l have seen wears a full-dress suit. In
fact, often he possesses no other. Cigar
suit: also patent feathers and monocle.
The latter is also useful while actually
looking for the gold.
None of the lists mention whisky. Take
lots Of 1t. 1t Is weary work waiting for
the gold to turn up. and you want to pass
away the time as happily as possible.
There Is no danger attending its use, for
as soon as you find gold you can take the
gold cure.
Take along at least twenty pounds of
axle grease to rub on the runners Of your
sled. 1t will make the sled slip over the
snow easily. Moreover, you can eat it If
your grub runs short.
Every list 1 have seen contains a cook
ing stove. Remember that you cannot
cook over a camp fire. For the same rea-
you should take along large base
burner heating stove. camp fire wouldn't
keep you warm. In the days Of 40 every
miner camp was supplied with steam or
furnace heat. However, you can't expect
to live as luxuriously as they did.
Take along plenty Of canned goods. A
rich and varied menu Is essential. Don't
forget a good cook book. There Is not a
cowboys camp miners cabin in all the
west that is not supplied with one of these
aids to civilization.
Take along plenty of linen, there are
few laundries en- route, and don't forget
your mighty. You have got to sleep there
just as you would anywhere else. A bath
robe Is also an aid to modesty II you intend
to battle during your sojourn In Alaska. You
will soon discover that there are some that
battle, but there are others. Take along
plenty of cards and games. Progressive
euchre parties are all the rage in Dawson
cyclopaedia and an unabridged dictionary.
Don't forget your silk hat
Take along plenty Of starch for your
linen. In the days of the Argonauts men
suffered keenly because of q lack of cleans
ing material. One of the saddest songs of
the old days, at which every forty-niner
used to weep, began as follows:
Goodbye, old standing collar
With all your pride and starch.
I've worn you from September
Till the seventeenth of March"
Also, don't forget to take along q small
sack Of -four and q few pounds OF bacon.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-12-18
A Curious French LAW,
From the New York Tribune.

Owing to the existence of a peculiar law
in FraLce, which exacts that ANY person
named or referred to in any periodical pub
location shall have the right to reply in
the next number in the same place and in
the same type, providing the reply does
not extend to more than twice the length
of the offending article" one of the forth
coming numbers of the Revue des Deux
Mondes," the most important and influen-
tial monthly reviews in France. will con-
tain an article Of unusual length and
coIched in extravagant language, which
will appear In its pages in spite of the op-
position of the editor. IL will bear the sig
nature OF a dramatic author, who, in
kuria led by the nature of the criticism pass-
ed by the Revue" on one of his plays has
invoked his rights under Article IL of the
press laws, rights which were in vain con-
tested by the editor.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-12-18
NOrway's Quaint Vehicles.
rom the Montreal Star,

AS every tourist is aware, a cariole is a
most comfortable little car on two wheels
for one passenger. The seat is shaped like
a shell and nicely padded, and the traveller
goes along with his feet resting In fixed
stirrups at the side, unless he likes to tuck
them up In front of him, dispose of
them elsewhere on the framework Of the
carriage. The driver sits behind on box,
used for slowing away small packages In
side and for taking quite lot outside.
A stolkjaerre is intended for two persons
and driver. 1t is rough cart, and again
the driver sits behind Very often these
drivers are tiny lads. You may get one of
about eight in some places when the men
are busy at the harvest. and 1t is usual
when two conveyances are required by the
same party, to expect one of the travellers
to drive the second conveyance.
AS the little yellow ponies know the
routes inch for inch, and as it is the GUS
tom when numbers of conveyances are 60
ing the same way for them to form very
long procession, there is not much need for
a crack whip. A trille is rarely seen. 1t
carries four persons and is more or less
like small English barouche. The way in
which the driver manages to stow his per-
son away in a luggage crowded vehicle Is
one of the wonders of Norway.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-12-18
1.-THE Changing Yearn

From the Pittsburg Telegraph.
The biker's melancholy days
Have come around at last,
Ana now he joys along the streets
Where oft he swiftly passed.
He'd like to hump 1t" all the year
And sadly he complains
when nature on the earth lets loose
Her chilling blasts and rains.
Far out upon the country roads,
where he was wont to spin,
The mud is waiting for a chance
To take the biker in.
And though a stiffening freeze will come
1t cannot end the woe,
For when the mud is hardened up
There'u be a fall Of snow
The wheel is in the attic stored,
Where mice can chew the tire;
Upon the hiking suit the moths
Now feast to their desire.
The jaunty cap is on a peg,
Accommodating dust;
The stockings with deceptive pads
In secret place are thrust.
But while with faces showing gloom
The bikers make lament,
Another class Of mOrtals find
time Of sweet content;
For now pedestrians can walk
About the streets at will,
And 'scorchers'' do not dash along
To injure to kill.
But melancholy days will go.
And hiking days will come;
And then again on every side
The whirring wheels will hum.
The hiking youth and hiking girl
VIII firt for all they're worth,
And every ''scorcher' In the land
Win think he owns the earth.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-12-18
ANCIENT REMEDIES.
Alchemy and Superstition Proposed
Some Ridiculous Compounds.

Alchemy and Superstition Proposed
some Ridiculous Compounds.
From tie London Spectator
IL Is strange to notice the great belief
which the ancients appeared to have in the
restorative properties of human blood So.
Tor epilepsy. diseases Of the brain, and even
TOT Spleen human blood was much recon-
mended. I'm the month Of May take a
considerable quantity of healthy young
mems blood" The blood was distilled
twice ard dried in the sum- One wonders
what the healthy young men" had to say
on this subject Of blood-letting, especially
as "a considerable quantity" was taken. In
olden times no one need remain wrinkled
an that was necessary was to smear the
lace with mixture of water and the
pounded root of wild cucumber" If any
ore was afflicted with freckles 1t was his
own fault; the remedy was simple if
scarcely pleasant; he must rub bulls
gall on TIE face" To us who are apt to be
1rritated by dust or smoke in the eye while
on the railway the following prescription
should be valuable: "Chant the psalm Out
habitat thrice over water. with which then
dc uche the eye" A certain remedy for
Curing an inebriate was to give him as
many eggs of the screech owl boiled hard
as he could possibly eat, when he would
ever afser be total abstainer. This is
surely worthy the attention of the temper
ance societies. The search for 1.-The philoso-
piers stone" seems to have been nc mere
craze of the unlettered. Men of unim-
reachable ability and great learning wasted
the greater part of their lives on this quest.
Some supposed mercury to be the chief
transmitting force; others thought that by
sulphur the bodies of metals could be turn
ed into "the most fine pure gold and silver"
Though Bacon was a firm believer in the
elixir vitae, ParacelsuS was the most dill
gent inquirer after this wondrous LIQUID
He prepared a remedy called "Prmum Ems
Melissae, which was made of pure car
bcnate of potash and the fresh leaves of
the melissa plant, on which was poured
pure alcohol. Generally. however. the idea
seems to have been that the elixir of life
vas composed of the four elements blended
together.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-12-18
Why and Wherefore.

lila Wheeler Wilcox in Form.
know rot whence came,
I know not whittier l 60,
But the fact stands clear
That 1 am here
In this world of pleasure and WOO,
And out of the mist and murk
Another truth shines plain
It is In my power
Each day and hour
To add to Its joy or its pain.
know that the earth exists,
1t is none Of my business why.
cannot find out
What it's all about. .. b. s..-.-
l would but waste time to try.
My life is a brief. brief thing -, -
l am here for little space,
And while 1 stay
would like, If may,
To brighten and better the place
The trouble. think. with us all
Is the lack OF high conceit;
IF each man thought
He was sent to the spot
To make it bit more sweet,
How soon we could gladden. the world,
How easily right all wrong,
II nobody shirked
And each one worked
To help his fellows along.
Cease wondering why you came;
Stop looking for faults ard flawsi
Rise up today
In your pride and say:
Il am part of the first great cause
However full the wcrld.
There Is room for an earnest man;
1t had need of me
Or would not be-
I en- here to strengthen the plan."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-12-18
The neaad..ide Aeolian.

Layton Brewer in the Criterion.
When winds stream over the rugged knoll
The highway lies along
The wires stringing from pole to pole
Give tongue to a voice Of song.
A-glint with beams Of the morning sun,
They carry q blitheful air,
Humming a burden that seems to run:
Good news is the word We bear"
This joyous one:
s'GoOd news we bear"
They swing and away at the breeze's will,
While the heavens smile above
To hear the measure they gaily thrill:
Were speeding a line Of love;''
With scale and titll:
"a line OF love-"
A cloud and shadow 60 calling bys
To the breexe's failing breath
In sinking cadence the wires sigh:
Respect for q tale OF dcathi'
More softly still:
"A tale Of death.
o the songs are many the wires sins
When the rowing wind IL sent
10 play Of gladness or suffering
On Its mighty Instrument. fsfs
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-12-18
Letter seven Year, ON the Road.

From the Belfast (Me) Republican.
November % Richard 3. Slower Of Bucks
port received through the mail a letter
which he mailed March 8. $3.50. to his faith
err. Capt. ]. G. Slower. row some time de-
ceased, then in command OF the ship DAN
lei Barnes. which was due at Victoria B.
c. The letter was In care OF the American
consul. The Barnes had sailed before the
arrival Of the letter. and for seven years
it had been pigeon-holed somewhere to be
finally returned according 10 the usual d.
rection on the envelope. unopened, with the
usual Endorsement, Unclaimed" The
Canadian officials do not seem to be opes,
ter.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-12-18
RANDOM VERSE.

Written for The Evening Star.
Welcome.
Love keeps the door with willing hand
To open at Twilight command
The woody ways are bare and chill,
No more the Hpbin,s mellow thrill
Nor lavish SUMMER fills the land.
The barren trees all tiarkened stand
And mean theft woes. a cheerless band.
Night shadows gather round him, stu
Love keeps the door.
Time runs to years in shifting sand,
Yet these fast graying embers, famed
Ky hopes dear wings the darkness fill.
Come thou from DER the sunset hill,
Late homing from the shadow land!
Love keeps the door,
WILL H. CHANDLER.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-12-18
Cards.

From Columbia Verse, 1892 1897.
They played at cards the yellow sand.
When the fields and the trees were green;
She thought that the trump was in her hand,
He thought that he held the queen.
But winter has come and they both have straye
Away from the thrObbing wave
He finds twas only the deuce she played,
She finds that he played the knave.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-12-18
Gains Wife.

Where did he get her?
Who was her brOtherf
Had she a-sister?
Had she mother?
Was she pre- Adamic-
Born before history
With her identity
Shrouded in mystery7
Maid of Phoenicia,
EgyHty ABbia,
Africa, India,
Or stif-kIsscd Snabia?
Who was her father?
Was he u viking
Cruising about
JUST tn his liking:
Out OF the Mhenceness
over, the water,
Into the Where
Bringing mis- daughter?
Native ST Norway. ..
Denmark or Sweden,
Lured Ivy the charms
OF the g:irden of Eden2
Blonde or brunette?
Rounded 6f slender?
Fiery or frttid:
Naughty OF tender?
Why are her, grates
unkSswn TO fame?
Where did Cain meet herr
What waS her name? -r
Tell me, Fe sages. s.i- . -..
STUDENTS M Life, -i-.i.., "a. ..
Answer nyssHery--c. -s 81 -.-..
Who was Gains wife7
-. - . s.. T. @
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-12-18
The Quiet House.

Mrs. NJ. E. Juhu in Montreal Witness.
Oh, mothers, worn and weary
With cares that never cease,
With never time for pleasure,
With days that have no peacet
With little hands to hinder,
And feeble steps, to guard,
With tasks that lie unfinished,
Deem not YOUR lqf too hard.
know n house where playthings
Are hidden oat Off sight;
M sound Of childish footsteps
Is heard from morn till night;
No tiny hands to Hitter,
That pull things all awry;
No baby hurts to pity
AS the quiet days 60 by.
And she, the say-eyed mother
What would she give today
To feel your Cares and burdens,
To walk yOuc weary way?
All! happy she, year blessed,
Could she again but see
The rooms all strewn with playthinga
And the children round her knee!
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-12-18
"a His Wants.

Frank Stanton in the Atlanta Constitution.
want two drums
When Christmas comes:
(But don't want. states fer dom sumsN
An wagon load Of sugar plums!
An big foot ball, an a top that huns.
&But never slate fer dom sumsD
Oh just want lots when Christina comes
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-12-18
UHfOrEivable.
From the London Figaro.

I lDHuou lSdEo
They loved each other well. they swora
And SO to wed they wildly hoped;
Wherefore 1t wasn't long before
They laughed at locksmiths and eloped.
Her pa forgave, papas do;
Her mamma. too forgave and blessedl
His ma and pa fOrgave them, too,
And brothers, sisters-all the rest.
And only two could not forgive;
They We not forgiven to this day
And wont as long as e'er they live
They cant forgive themselves, they say.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-12-18

On May 1 they were greatly distressed
having como upon a new belt Of high
sterile sand They again rested under the
shade OF tamarsk during the hot hours.
When, at o'clock. he dressed himself and
exhorted Kasim to come on. he only gave.
an q Kissing voice, the answer that he was
unable After awhile Kasim came after
him. staggering.
A. last their hopes were renewed, they
was tie forest at Khotan- Darya. They
now entered under Its shady roof. anticipat-
Ing that tns river was not far OF: but they
were unable to go further I'm the heat of
the burning sun. SO threw themselves down
Under a rerdant poplar. At o'clock In the
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1897-11-28

frayed at the sleeves, pantaloons that do
not quite reach to his Shoe tops and an
old beaver hat thai. from appearances
must have been inherited from his grand
father. He knows where all the moon
shine stills in 1.-THE county are, and has
a standing contract to defend all neon
sinners who are unfortunate enough 20
get caught in Uncle Sans meshes. He
is the leading politician of the county,
and, indeed, runs the county. He coils
everything that comes through the mill,
but his tolls are light. He is always
at work, and his income fer a. good year
will some times run up as high as $500.
His pay is, however, rarely in cash. for
their is but little cash in thsssa noun
tain counties. He lis paid for his SER
vices in whisky, produce. wood chickens
and even sometimes mule or an OK.
He has little farm of his own, and at
all seasons of the year some unfortunate
young toiler who has gotten into trouble
and been defended and cleared by him, is
work ng on this farm to pay the debt.
By this means he gets his farm worked
at but little eXpenss, and manages 10
exc out a better Living than his neigh
bors, and. above all, be the king bee of
the county in politics.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1897-11-28
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
Cured MIS-. Todd of Blindness in Less Than Five
Weeks.

From the Topeka Capital
A reporter for the Capital was sitting
on the front porch of Mrs. Sutherland's
boarding house on Monroe street yester-
day enjoying an after dinner siesta.
Suddenly he was startled by woman's
voice on the inside-a voice loud, clear,
and joyous.
Mrs. Sutherland! Mrs. Sutherland! [
can see, can seer
1t didn't take a reporter who was
scenting a news story lorg to investi-
gate a noise like that, so he rushed in
side to learn the cause of so much jpy.
The lady who made the exclamation
was Mrs. J. H. Todd, whose husband is
an ag Mt for the Kansas Mutual Life
Insurance company.
Mrs. Todd was half laughing and half
crying by turns in her ecstacy. 1t was
learned that for the first time in six
months she was able ito see, and had
just picked out three of her husbands
photographs from a pile of about one
hundred. The sensation of returning
eyesight to one who has at least a por-
ton of the time been totally blind
for months Is we'll calculated to create
joy, and Mrs. Todd certainly felt that
way.
Afterward when she had Gained down
somewhat the reporter sought her story
and was repuss d, for Mrs. Todd sought
least of all publicity in regard to her
affection. However, the reporter had
been an accidental witness to the incl
dent of the afternoon and with that
fact as an inducement to talk she told
him her story
MY eyes," said Mrs. Todd chad been
weak for some time, and had been under
tra atment. On Thanksgiving day last
I was with my husband in the Kansas
Mutual offices. My physician also was
present.
Suddenly I felt that objects were
growing dim before me. The physician
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spread his hands before me and said,
Mrs. Todd, can you see them? why,
certainly l cam was my reply Five
minutes later the doctor repeated the
experiment and everything to me was as
black as night.
'Oh, sir, can you imagine the anguish
of being suddenly stricken blind? Shut
your eyes for five minutes and try to
realize the dumb, hopeless misery of Hv-
ing in black darkns SIS when you have
learned from merest infancy to love the
sunlight and the flowers and all of Gods
beautiful creation"
Mrs. Todd leaned forward in the dark
ening twilight and the imprs sslyeness
of her words was heightened by her in-
tense earnestness. 1t was not a play for
sympathy. The reporter was listening
to the story of a sweet-faeed, patient
woman who had suffered the tortures of
blindness than which there is no greater
and who felt herself Slowly coming back
to life and hope.
II tried everything" she said, ito re-
store my lost sight The bsst oculists
were consulted, but without avail. For
months I tried medicines of every kind
and leading physicians consulted about
my case, which, they said, was an af-
lection Of the iris.
II have never been a believer in Chris
tian Science" continued Mrs. Todd.
Probably myself and family have had
less sympathy with its teachings than
any one else. But l had tried medi-
cines so persistently and with such in
different effect that encouragement
brought desperation, and so when some
Christian Science friends urged me to
try their treatment | was in a mood to
listen to them. People in my condition
then would catch at anything that Of
fered relief.
Five weeks ago last Tuesday I quit
taking medicine and gave myself over
to Christian Science with Mrs. Whit
taker of this city. 1 took treatment
twice a day for a, week. One day /
was out driving with my husband and
when we returned to the livery stable
I could make out the outlines of the
building, and even in the bright sunlight
distinguished some of the letters above
the door. 1t is needless for me to tell
you that l was overjoyed and that
have been keeping up the treatment
since than without intermisSion.
"This afternoon witnessed the second
chapter in my sight recovery. I had
never seen my husbands face or those
of my boys since 1 was stricken with
blindness, and is 1t any wonder that L
showed my joy when l again caught a.
glimpse of the faces of my dear ones?
mo, I am not entirely converted to
the teachings of Christian Science. L
do not understand it. l cannot compre-
bend it all. But this I must say If
1 do recover my sight fully, as L seem
in a fair way to do, / Will be The most
ardent disciple of the teachings of Chris
tian Science, and will devote myself
to it.
IT am just beginning to enjoy life over
again." said the happy woman straight
tening up, land now 1T seems that L
have much to live for"
Mrs. Todd's case is certainly a most
interesting one. Shs evidently is not
lady given to exaggeration, and If her
statements needed confederation in any
way 1t could be furnished by any one
acquainted with her. case.
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Her Song.

Her Song.
From the Chicago News.
She sang: "When Jack comes home again."
And wept at every note;
All, could she have been guessing
That, as so often in the past
When Jack came shutting in at last
He'd be as tipsy as a goat?
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HandkerChiefS.

Monday-a really remarkable and extra
ordinary Handkerchief happening. It's the
annual offering of selected seconds-com-
mercially classed as "dama ged'-but these
are SO slightly that none but am expert
could detect the sightest imperfection in
one out of a score. In some a dropped
stiteh--in others a thick thread-an uneven
edge, etc.-but actually worth 99c on the
dollar.
AT 25c--The greatest and grandest gath
ering ever shown at one price Extraordi-
nary efforts have been put forth by the
25c lot ever shown on these shores.
Every kind of Observation-Disclosures
and scalloped edges-embroidered and plain
hemsttched edges embroidered and open
Linen. il landed under the new tariff You
would have to pay from 40c to 75c-the
}prices you'll recognize elsewhere, later.
[ In Plain Handkerchiefs--the yaiue and
variety is unprecedented.
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Among the MOOnShinerS
in Georgia Mountains.
neclal to The Age-Herald.
BY NED BRACE.

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