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Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1898-03-12
cANApA's FAMOUS ENGINEER.
william Ogi1vie Knows All About
KIondike aud Its Gold Fields.

william Ogi1vie Knows All About
K1ondike and Its Gold Fields.
William Ogilvie, the great geodetic
coast survey engineer OF Canada,
knows more about the Klondike and $
gold fields than most of the men who
have already made fortunes out of the
Yukon discoveries. AS matter Of
fact, it was Mr.. Ogilvie who told many
a poor man just where to go and what
to do to make himself rich. He not only
knows the ins and outs of the klondlke
country, but he is familiar with all
the country over an immence tract ly-
ing between the Yukon and the Arctic
Ocean. He made several surveys OF the
boundary and he has always been
clever enough to get the disputed lanN
on the British side of the imaginary
line that separates Alaska from the
British possessions.
Mr. Ogilvie is 81 years OF age. lie
was born on April (. 1876, in the County
of Russell, province of Ontario, not
many miles below Ottawa. He re-
ceived an appointment under the gov
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1898-03-12

episode just mentioned word came that
a woman preacher was coming to the
town to hold IA protracted meeting.
When Gabe heard this news he vowed
up and down that no woman would
hold any meeting there.
Two or three days later Gahe was
out on the range rounding up some
cattle. He was charging across tie
prairie after IA refractory steer. when
his horse stepped into prairie dog
hole. pitched over on his head. rolled
Gabe off and fell on top of him. fractur-
ing leg and severely spraining his
back.
1t was impossible to give the injured
man proper attention at the ranch, so
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1898-03-12

ready. The osprey caught the mullet
and sailed homeward.
Then the two great birds struck with
thud, distinctly heard below, though
they must have been half mile in the
air. Feathers flew as If you had rip
ped a pillow in strong breeze, and
as the two fell, it could be seen that
the talons of the bald straddled the
body of the gray and We're buried at
the roots of the wings. But the gray's
beak tore at the throat of the bald,
while his claws We're busy tearing like
the jaws Of a wolf who fights bull
dog. Their wings beat each other as a
goose fights, and they tumbled over and
over. slantingly to the sea. AS they
touched the water each broke its hold
and made for the shore. The gray fell
in the edge of the woods, the bald land
ed on a tree, nearly fell, and leaned
against the trunk for support as it sat
in the crotch.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1898-03-12

eminent of Canada as a surveyor III
1873. and in October. 1896. was APP
pointed by the present government
chief clerk and astronomer in the ser
veys branch of the department of the
interior, which position he still holds.
When the news of the rich deposits of
gold in the Yukon began TO spread in
1895 Inspector Constantine was sent
there with detachment Of mounted
police. The greater part OF the mining
was then being done on the tributaries
OF Forty Mile and Sixty Mile creeks,
close to the one hundred and forty-tirst
meridian, and it became necessary that
a definition of the line in this neighbor-
hood should he had. and this work has
intrusted to Mr.. Ogilvie, who had been
commissioned in 1887 to produce the
line OF the one hundred and fOrty-tirst
meridian, which. according to treaty,
constitutes the boundary line between
Alaska and the British possessions. In
1887 he went in over the Chilkoot Pass,
making a thermometer survey from
the coast TO the one hundred ana forty
first meridian, and then by a series of
lunar EXAMINATIONS determined the po-
sttion of the meridian, finding that
Cudahy and Forty Mile were both In
Canadian territory. He left Ottawa
again for the Yukon on June 10, 1885,
and did not see home again until De
cember. 1897, although he came out
from Dawson City on July - last.
While in the Klondike he made sur
vey of Dawson City in order that 1t
should be properly laid out. and acted
as arbitrator in settling several Of the
mining disputes in eases where the dis
putants voluntarily agreed to refer the
matter TO him and abide by his decis-
ion
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1898-03-12
FoIeLEs OF RICH PEOPLE.
Some Think 1t Degrading to Ride In
Common Street Cars.


THAT one-half of the inhabitants Of
New York has no conception OF the
manner in which the other half exists
goes without saying" remarked Il soci-
ETY. woman recently, "but | never real
lied how differently the lives, habits
and occupations of the rich of our own
differ from those of nous outres, who
are only moderately well off, until the
other day, at sort of drawing room
debating club that we started this Win
ter the various methods of transit were
under discussion, when Mrs. Midas,
who was my neighbor, said to me:
L cannot speak from experience In
any of the matters, for have never
been in a public conveyance in my life,
except, of course, the railroads.
do you mean to say exclaimed,
for | could not realize that woman of
90 years of age, living in New York all
her days could. whatever might be her
condition, really live 50 far apart from
the great mass of her fellow creatures,
that you have never been in an omni-
bus or street carr
Never she answered.
" But the elevated railroads. | per
sisted. What do you do when you
wish to go a long distance"
81 drive she replied, looking mildly
aStonshed. Surely you do not climb
those stairs and go into those awful
things"
NO wonder that these people feel as
if they were made of different clay
from the rest of humanity. No aristo-
crat in Europe could hold herself more
proudly aloof from the hOi polloi than
do such women who by the power of
money and the money alone are thus
alienated from their kind. Such class
distinctions between those who have
and those who have not based upon
nothing but sordid considerations, are
undoubtedly widening the breach be-
tween the rich and the poor in this
country"
They mean well. these rich women
said a hard working philanthropist
who had devoted years to the people
and their needs. not merely bodily. but
socially and intellectually. And we
greatly need the money that they give,
but ! do wish they would not drive
down to our clubs with their carriages
and footmen. | do not like to say that
it was inappropriate and tended to de-
Stroy rather than foster the feeling of
friendship and self-respect that we are
trying to have established, but | tried
to suggest to Mrs. Croesus, who has
taken so much interest and donated
such large sum to our library, that it
would save her so much time If she
came down in the L..
My dear Mr.. r. she exclaimed, 1
would not go into one of those Sums
for the world without John and
Thomas to protect me, remark which
showed how hopelessly ignorant she
was of the real meaning and scope OF
our work. New York Tribune.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1898-03-12

FIGHT IN THE AIR.
Battle Royal Between a Gray and a
Bald Eagle.

Battle Royal Between n Gray and a
Bn1d Ea gle.
A man sat on the sands Mt Capron In
let. opposite Fort Pierce, and admired
the graceful flight Of an osprey, says
the Jacksonville Florida Citizen. About
fifty yards above the blue water. be
wheeled on widespread pinions. direct
ing his course by a motion of his tail o.
a curve Of the wing. Presently he bal
anced himself, the wings shut on the
body and he plunged into long swell
and rose with fish in his talons. With
a scream of exuHation he shook him.
self free of moisture, like dog. and
circled TO attain sufficient altitude to
clear the woods.
But a fishing eagle, twice his weight,
had seen the performance, and answer
ed the scream. He mounted to strike.
and the osprey, burdened as he was,
gave up the contest and dropped the
fish, With a swing, the fisher turned
and caught it and few low to regain
the blasted pine and feast.
But out of the blue came another
scream and n dim spot detached itself
from a cloud and moved straight on the
scene of action. The fisher heard the
cry of battle, and he knew he was lost
II the bald eagle struck him with a
swoop. Hastily he turned and flew al
most directly upward, still holding his
prize. The osprey SCARED back with
shrill whistlings, as if he Knocked the
efforts of the robber.
The bald eagle screamed again and
was answered by the gray. The bald
came with leveled head, like an arrow
from the bow-the fisher still struggled
for an equal position. Then the bald
curved the forward edge of his great
vans and started downward. The gray
dropped the mullet and turned upside
down in midair, with beak and talons
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1898-03-12
Make a Fly Look Twelve Miles Long


Prof. Elmer Gates, of Washington,
saws he has worked out process by
which objects can be magnified to a
size 500 times greater than by any OF
the microscopes now in use. His in
vention, he claims. will reyolutionize
microscopy, and will advance science
TO point hitherto unheard of. His
discovery, he says, will be of special
value in bacteriology and the study OF
the cellular tissues. The professor de-
clares that he has succeeded where all
other scientists have failed-in discov-
erlng way by which the magnified
image projected on Tense can be mag
nified by a second as If it We're the
original object. To do this has been the
aim of scientific photographers and
microscopistS for many years. Prof.
Gates does not take the public into his
confidence sufficiently TO divulge the
details of his invention, but he says he
will be ready to give it to the world in
a few weeks. The power of the new
instrument Is mentioned as 5000, 900
diameters.- Washington dispatch TO
indianapolis Journal.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1898-03-12
Value of skim Milk.

When a set Of farmers do not know
that good skim milk at 12c per loo
pounds is bargain, what must he the
real state of dairy intelligence among
them? These farmers have been sheer
ing at "book farming for years; they
have been calling the institute workers
THEORISTS" and every effort on the
part of experiment stations, dairy pa
pers and all other agencies has been
thrown away in striving to make them
see good, clean agricultural truth'
Their estimate OF the value Of the skim
milk Is key TO their sound practical
knowledge of the dairy business In gen
eral.-Hoard's Dairyman.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1898-03-12
Pruning Lilac wiegeIa.

Both lilac and wiegela bear their
flowers on their young or green shoots,
and If pruned in autumn or winter the
bloom will be much reduced. These
plants need very little pruning. as q
rule. beyond cutting away any dead
wood or unnecessary branches, but II
at any time 1t should be thought desir-
able to shorten or head back the
branches, the proper time for doing 1t is
Immediately after the plants have I'm
lshed their blooming.-Vick's Maya
zine
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1898-03-12
Will Say MADAM

Henceforth the employees OF an East.
ern railroad company who have occa-
sion TO address women patrons of the
road will use the word Madam in
stead OF Lady" cha nge that educat-
ed persons will appreciate, whatever
the reasons that dictated it. One of
the company said by way of eXplana-
ton: 1T has become a growing ana
very noticeable eYil-among the CON
ductors particularly-o late that WON
Ell patrons of the road We're addressed
as Mrs sometimes as Miss not in
frequently as Lady and occasionally
as Madam and it was often the case
that the person addressed as Mrs.
should have been addressed as Miss,
If strict propriety were observed, and
vice versa. and individual complaints
of such cases have been reported. BY
the adoption of a uniform greeting
such as Madam it relieves the con
ductor and motorman of the responsi.
bility of distinguishing between Mrs.
and Miss and at the same time pre-
vents any possible ofense being
given"
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1898-03-12

no preaching in the town. Gabes
fame had spread abroad, and preach
ers were disposed to give him Il wide
berth lie boosted that he had broken
up the church and that there would
never be any moro services in the town
while he remained there.
Ia this, however. Gabe was mistaken,
for services We're again held in the
town, and Gabe Tucker was one of the
most regular earnest and devout at
Nendants. And it all ha1.,'rnetlsip this
MINER. About three Sci til,
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1898-03-12

he was conveyed to town and located
hotel there was a lady boardcr who
had come only the day before. She
was not exactly young and pretty. yet
there was Il wholesome freshness ana
an expression of goodness about her
that made her very attractive. This
lady took n great interest in Gabe from
the moment when she first saw him,
and when she found that he had no
one to nurse him she went to the doc
tor and offered her services. The doe
tor shook his head and hesitated
"The man needs a wOman'S care"
he admitted. "but he's not worthy of
it. He is terrible character
I'm what way?' she asked.
HE is tough. He swears, drinks,
CANDLES, fights
The doctor went on to give n brief
account of Gabe's life or deviltry. The
woman, instead of being frightened
from her purpose. was all the more
confirmed in it.
IF he is that" she said, there is
the more need of throwing kind in
t1uences about him. His soul is rs pre-
clous as any soul on earth, and It Is Il
Christian duty to reclaim it il posi-
BILE"
From that day she visited Gabe,
bringing him dainty little morsels of
food and performing many small offices
1t, n,.t hn nj -,
brought a smiling face into the room,
and she was unsparing with kind, con
selling words.
At first Gabe resented the woman
visits. and she got little from him eX-
cept dark scowls and Il few mumbled
words in reply to her questions. She
took no notice of his ungracious con
duct. or at least appeared not TO, and
continued to treat him with the same
uniform consideration.
After a while her kindness began to
tell on him, and she saw it, though he
tried to keep it secret. She saw that
his face frightened when she came in
| to the room, and that he listened eager
! ly to her words, however much he pre-
| tended not to.
At last there came time when Gahe
| could mask his real feelings no longer,
and in his rough. brusque way lie
| poured out his gratitude to his nurse.
II have often wondered" he said.
"who aud what you are. Won't you
tell me?'
II am afraid should lose your es-
TEEN if did that" she replied.
Why
Il belong to class of people that
you don't like, so | have heard"
Il don't care what you belong to. you
are an angel, and | will never think
less of you than do now"
Then I'll tell you. l am preach
er."
Gabe was staggered for a moment
then he rallied to his promise and kept
it. More than that. when he was able
he attended the protracted meetings
the woman was conducting. Attended
because she asked him.
The result over 1t all was that he got
religious and fell in love, or perhaps il
would be more proper to say that he
fell in love first and that led 10 the 9th
er. The curious thing was the preacher
loved him and married him, and that
! lA~hecame her helpmeet in her minis
Hork. Globe.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1898-03-12
The Modern Chapcron.

"Oh, yes, hire my chaperon by the
wear and she costs me a very tidy
sum-"
"She must be highly cultivated"
'She IS. She can jump, run and wres-
tie, and you never saw cleverer wom-
an with her tists"-Cleyeland Plain
Dealer.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1898-03-12
AChoice Occupation.

They were making out the dance list
for a prospective ball and were put
ting down lancers, waltzes, two-steps'
etc, when they were interrupted.
What are you doing? said the new
conner.
Don't you see?" replied the wit or
the family. picking hops. '-North
American.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1898-03-12
The proner Way 30 DO.

Brown-How Is your friend Green
getting along in the grocery business
White-He's not making his salt.
Brown-Why, what's the trouDleE
White-Oh, nothing; he buys 1t.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1898-03-12

/ London,
two cruise
been build
and a sist
each, % KIN
aesOtiatina
Two cruise
.een build
Aihazonus
'i. t, ship
-, The Span
''fing to SCI
'nlMunitioI
The herald., 1898-12-11
Notes

Captain King is in the field again; this
time with the new recruits. His latest book,
From School to Battle Field" Lippincott)
is one of the breeziest boys books of dec
ade. 1t is said that the school was his own,
and the teacher called Pop was the
famous DR.. Anton of the classics.
Mr. Herbert Spencer has recently COM
pleted an. important revision of his
Biology and the first volume of the new
edition. which is much enlarged, will be
published Immediately by ID. Appleton
& Co.
The editor of the Riverside Literature
Series, Horace +. Scudder, hopes to bring
out during the present school year several
numbers representative of classic and older
English literature. He is able to announce
for the next number-to be published in De
cember-a translation by Paul Elmer More
of Plato's Apology, Critic and portion OF
Phaedo. This will be followed later by
some of Plutarch's lives and some of Chau-
GERS masterpieces. These books will be
edited with great care and will be supplied
with editorial equipment suitable for their
use in schools
The herald., 1898-12-11

the least to learn of some northern Her
culaneum or Pompeii concealed.
The evidence is very strong and cumula-
tive that the gold of Solomon's temple came
from Alaska. the land of nuggets.
SOCIAL IDEALS IN ENGLISHLITERA.
TURE. BY Vida d. Scudder, associate
professor of English literature at
Wellesley college; author of "The Life
of the Spirit in the Modern English
Poets" Houghton, NIifflin & Co.
Tis volume may fairly be called discrim-
mating survey of English literature and au-
thors, including Piers Plowmau, More s
Utopia Swift, Shelley, Wordsworth,
Thackeay, Dickens, George Eliot, Charles
Reade, William Morris and others, to as
certain what apprehension of the organza
tion and life of human society has been
shown by authors of intellectual power and
penetration. The purpose of the volume is
most happily put forth in the authors pref
ace. This book" she says, lis to consider
English literature in its social aspect.
Great literature is always the record of some
great struggle; and it is wonderful testimony
to ife's essential blessedness that, no matter
how agonizing the struggle, it becomes IA
source of undying JOY when translated into
art.
Therefore we need not shrink from
watching, in some few phases of our litera-
ture, the expression of social life, with its
anomalies, and social ideals, with their wist-
fulness, or even, at times, of social despair.
Once literature was individual in its eff
feet. Then there came to be types. And
at length the whole body of democracy has
become imbued with social ideals. The
epic, the drama. and later the novel reveal
the collective experience of the nation from
age to age" a study of the great writers
The herald., 1898-12-11
Los ANGELES HERALD: SUNDAY MORNING DECEMBER Il;

York city attic. leaves it when his guardian
dies, and goes as a stowaway to China,
where, after seeing many wonderful sights,
he finds his father, whom he long since sup
posed dead 1t is child's book, but it has
store of suggestions and facts that make
it of real value, something beyond the mere
amusement of the hour.
O O O
THE PLEASANT LAND OF PLAY. BY
Sarah j. Brigham. Illustrated by Mary
A. Lathbury, the well-known illustrator
of children's books. A collection OF
stories and poems for the little ones.
Small quarto; handsome cover design.
Dana Estes 4 Co.
The illustrations are very pretty and the
stories and poems that make up the volume
are of the cutest sort. Nothing better in its
line than this wise little book.
CHATTING DISH POSSIBILITIES. BY
Fannie Merritt Farmer, principal Of the
Boston cooking school and author of
"The Boston Cooking School Cook
Book" Little, Brown 4 Co.
We do not recall any former publication
that proposes so much to be done with the
chatting dish as this. 1t is the refinement of
excellence in effect, as well as the latest
discoveries" in the line of what this device
can do Miss Farmer is not only a we'll
known authority in cooking and its litera-
ture but she has here and now given us a
new touch of her genius in this direction.
The book includes nearly $50 recipes, all of
which have been tested by actual expert
ence. Careful directions for measuring are
given. The table of contents, which shows
how the recipes are classified and the whole
work is manual of light cooking.
The herald., 1898-12-11
One of Earth's Male Lands

California is emphatically one of ''earth's
male lands to accept Brownng's classifi-
cation, says David Star Jordan in the De
cember Atlantic. The first Saxon settlers
were men, and in their rude civilization
women had no part. For years women in
California were objects OF curlostyi or OF
chivalry, disturbing rather than cement
ing influences in society. Even yet Califor-
MIA is essentially mans state. 1t is com
mon to say that public opinion does not
exist there; but such a statement is not
wholly correct. 1t does exist, but itlis an
out-otdoor public opinion-a mans view
OF men. There is, for example, strong
public opinion against hypocrisy in Califor
MIA, as more than one clerical renegade has
found to his discontinue. The pretense to
virtue is the one vice that is not forgiven.
If man be not liar, few questions are
asked, least OF all the delicate one as to the
name he went by in the states" What
we commonly call public opinion-the cut
and-dried decision on social and civic ques-
tlons.-ls made up III the house. 1t is es-
sentially feminine in its origin. the opinion
OF householders as to how men should be-
have In California there is little which cor
responds to the social atmosphere pervading
the snug, white-pained. greenblinded New
England villages, and this little exists chief
ly in communities OF people transported
thither in block-traditions conventional
tiles, prejudices, and all. There is, in gen.
eral no merit attached to conformity. and
one may take wide range of rope without
necessarily arousng distrust. Speaking
broadly, in California the virtues of life
spring from within, and are not prescribed
from without. The young man who is de-
cent only because he thinks that some one
is looking would do well to stay away. The
stern law of individual responsibility turns
the fool over to the fool-kiler without a
preliminary trial No finer type of man can
be found in the world than the sober Cal
itornian, and yet no coast is strewn with
wrecks more pitiful.-David Starr Jordan
in the December Atlantic.