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The Winslow mail., 1898-03-12
Panned $14 to the Cusnidor

There is total disregard Of the value
Of the precious metal in Dawson. Ev-
cry one has so much gold dust that the
sight Of big sacks and cans of 1t has
ceased to attract attention.
For instance" said Mr.. Thompson,
you will see wooden shack covered
with canvas, bar across one end of it.
This Is a saloon, about as unlikely a
place for riches as man would find on
earth, and yet at any time Of the day
and night the aggregate wealth Of the
men in there at any one time would
reach into the millions.
'Why, one day I was in a place of
this description and in front of the bar
was long box filed with sawdust.
This sawdust, owing to frequent ex-
pectorations from the tobacco chewing
custom, gets soiled. AS I say, I was
in one Of these places one day and
some boys came along and said to the
proprietor. If you will give up this
old box we will bring you another filed
with clean sawdust.' Take it along,
was the rejoinder. The boys imme-
diately put a clean one In it's place and
took away the old one. 1 was so inter
ested to see what they intended to do
that l followed them, and to my sur
prise they commenced to pan out the
sawdust, and In a little while they re-
covered $14 in gold. Alaska Miner.
The Winslow mail., 1898-03-12
An English Fad.

1t was said by a London contempo-
rary, though the story reads like
translation from another shore (where
English is spoken, by the way, that a
new society fad is the gathering of por-
traits of people when they were young.
Invitations are sent out, and on the in
vitations to such a party is written the
request that the guest will forward to
the hostess, at the earliest possible mo-
ment, a picture of herself or himself,
taken in early infancy-just how early
Is not stated. In they come in dribs
and drabs, daguerreotypes, tintypes,
silhouettes, carte de visites, and few
cabinet photographs-each in a way an
example of the art in various stages.
On the evening of the show they are all
arranged on a huge screen manufactur-
ed for the occasion, and numbers are
attached to them. The guests receive
numbered tablets, and are required to
write beside each number their guess
as to the identity Of the corresponding
picture. The errors that inevitably re-
suit create a delightful degree of i'll
feeling among those dear people who
are always thinking up some new form
of enjoyment. Sly remarks are made
about the woman whose baby form has
been secured by a daguerreotype, for
daguerreotyped babies cannot be very
young at this writing. Miss Susan
Slender is very much offended because
some one doubts that the plump baby
was the beginning Of her present self.
with kind intent eXclaims, ooh, you
were pretty then" And so on, and so
on. The atmosphere Of the baby party
is likely to get either frigid or torrid by
the time it breaks up.--Photography.
The Winslow mail., 1898-03-12
eggs as a Daily Diet.

eggs, like milk, contain in proper
proportion all the elements needed to
support life," writes Mrs. S. t. ROrer,
on ''The Cooking of Eggs" in the La
dies Home Journal. Being highly
concentrated, however, they lack the
bulk necessary to keep the eXcretory
organs in perfect condition. Serve with
them, then, such food as bread, rice or
cereals, but do not serve eggs in any
way at the same meal with beef, NUT
ton or fowl. Pork, such as bacon, may,
N winter, be served with eggs. While
one pound Of eggs is equal in nOurish-
ment to one pound of beef, the latter
would be borne for longer time, and
would in the end be much better food.
The mineral matter of the egg is small
in quantity but rich in quality, and the
albumen is in form most easily digest
ed We must bear in mind, however,
that the egg albumen coagulates at a
lower temperature than that in meat,
which teaches us at once that, to be
easily digested eggs must be lightly
cooked. A hard-boiled egg, one in
which the white is rendered hard, may
be digested by a man laboring in the
open air, but it is unfit for food for the
man who works in an Office or shop, or
for the person whose digestion is weak,
or for children of any age"
The Winslow mail., 1898-03-12
The Great NapO.eOn.

Senhouse was flag captain to Admiral
Sir Harry Hotham when Napoleon sur
rendered to the English, and dined with
him on the day he embarked on the
Rellerophon. He describes the Empe-
ror thus in letter to his wife, lately
ublished:
Napoleon is very i'll made; he is
short, with a big head the hands and
legs are small, and his stomach pro-
jects in front. His coat is very short
at the back, which makes him look
ridiculous. His profile Is good and like
his pictures and busts, but his full face
is not beautiful. His eyes are light
blue, with a light-yellow tint on the
iris. They are heavy and quite differ
ent from what l thought; his teeth are
bad. But the expression of his face is
variable and shows strikingly the lively
and diverse passions of his mind. At
times his face expresses a great humor,
then suddenly darkens, and sad, pene-
trating look shows the character of the
thought that possesses him. He speaks
fast and passes from one subject to an
other very rapidly. His knowledge
seems extensive and diversified, and l
was surprised at his familiarity with
all kinds of men in England.
The Winslow mail., 1898-03-12
Cat of the Commonwealth.

No cats are brought into the State
House, but they come Of their own
sweet will, and stay a great deal longer
than their presence Is desired. When
the guide gathers his tourists about him
in the House lobby and lifts his umbrel-
la to point to the honored names in the
skylight above, the visitors are sure to
see the form of cat stretched at full
length on the glass The cat is not dead,
however, as the whole force Of the ser
geant-at-arms can testify, but is simply
taking a snooze in the genial sualight.
She came in through the Bulfinch front
and sought the roof She feeds on
mice, and nobody can get within hun
dred feet Of her. If she Is surrounded
at the Derne street end she soon makes
a break through the line of her pur-
suers and adjOurns to the vicinity of
the gilded dome. At present she spends
most Of her time over the skylight in
the state library-Boston Transcript.
The Winslow mail., 1898-03-12
4" WoolIy" Jour~al,sn

This is the way they write up a cy-
clone out West: "It turned a we'll
wrong side out in Missouri, it turned a
cellar upside down in Wisconsin, mov-
ed a township line in Nebraska, blew
all the slaves out of a whisky barrel in
Iowa and left nothing but the bung-
hole, killed an honest Indian agent out
West, changed the day of the week In
Indiana, blew the hair off a bald-head-
ed man in Ohio, killed a truthful law
yer in Illinois, blew the mortgage off a
mans farm in Kansas, scared a red
headed woman in Delphi until her hair
turned white, blew all the cracks out Of
a fence in Dakota and took all the wind
out of a politician" Pretty hard blow.
The Winslow mail., 1898-03-12

Some walked as much as ten miles to
be present.
Mr.. Brooks has a slight knowledge of
Swedish, which he gained through a
friend in BaltAnore, and though he did
not lecture in this language he was
able to carry on a conversation with
the awe-struck peasants. He was a
great curiosity, unparalleled in many a
life. They were little diffident about
shaking hands, much to the amusement
OF Mr.. Brooks, and when they did many
of them cast surreptitious glances at
their palms to see if any color had come
off.
In his public addresses he spoke
through an interpreter. He was very
much pleased with the attention shown
him, and commends the dwellers of
Sweden and Norway for their hospital
lty and courtesy.
The Winslow mail., 1898-03-12

One of the most successful Of recent
novels debates a question that has
probably occurred to many thoughtful
men and women, Is it possible for one
who forms a part Of our complex and
tempestuous civilization to lead a
Christian life? The novelist's conclu-
sion is, on the whole, unfavOrable and,
therefore, condemnatory of civiliza-
ton. Such a theme, so treated, was
certain to awaken controversy. Chief
ly opinions range around the hero Of
the story. 1t is asserted that his fail
ures were chargeable to his character,
not his environment; and the criticism
is sound enough-so far as 1t goes. 1t
cannot be an adequate statement, be-
cause it fails to take note of certain
fundamental truths. In the first place
it Is important to remember that the
authors inquiry is no novel one. For
eighteen centuries, the earnest and the
faithful, straining their eyes at the
ideal of human brotherhood that Christ
set up, have wondered Gespairingly
whether man could ever reach it. The
OCllCA lAC JoNSCO w thC
ard of others-the more hopeless, to
him, has seemed the attempt. Thus
the recent raising Of the inquiry does
not mean that a single good man has
all at once perceived the world to be
growing worse. Does 1t not rather
show that an artist, keenly susceptible
to the mental influences that mold the
time, has been impressed by those as
pirations toward general helpfulness
and justice which unQuestionably tend
with him, conceding that the world
he misleads the answer to his question.
But even if we were forced to side
to dominate mankind. We believe that
has not gained wisdom as 1t has grown
older, we might comfort ourselves
with the thought that human nature
at least has not changed. There are no
new pitfalls on the road to perfe ton,
though some of the old ones may bear
new names. The saints of the early
centuries lived, as we must, in the
midst of rich and poor, Pharisees, pub
licans, sound and sick, sinners and
righteous. And in our day, as in theirs,
''the aids to noble life are all within"
The Winslow mail., 1898-03-12
Was a CuriO in Sweden.

After an absence of two years in Eu-
rope Rev. w. S. Brooks has returned
10 America to take charge of st. Peters S
African Methodist Episcopal Church at
Minneapolis. Mr. Brooks visited Eng
lang and Finland in turn. 1t is a ques-
tion whether he was more interested
than interesting while travelling in
Scandinavia and Finland. He certain
ly saw much that pleased and instruct
ed him, but his feelings were probably
not to be compared with those of the
peasants when they gazed upon the
American visitor. Mr. Brooks, it must
be understood, is black and distinctly
African in his features. Now, many of
the natives of the interior parishes of
Sweden, Norway and Finland have not
been twenty miles from home in their
lives, and the colored man is known to
them only through books. Even the
statement in the books relative to men
with black skins have been accepted
with grains of allowance by the most
skeptical. When they heard that a
black man would lecture in their neigh
Eorhood there was a great outpouring
Of the whole countryside to see this
most extraordinary of human beings.
The Winslow mail., 1898-03-12

A bride of a year was recently heard
to say that ten of her acQuaintances
were to be married before Christmas,
and that as the parents of all of them
tad sent her expensive wedding gifts,
she and her husband were in much per-
turbation about the customary return.
There is food for reflection in her COM
neEt that as they lived in small rent.
I'd house and kept but one servant,
their valuable silver was still stored
ID the vault where 1t had been placed
at their marriage; that although the
gifts represented over $1,000, the young
husband had to struggle for their live
hheed; and that the most modest pres.
ents they could select for their ten
friends would take his whole months
GALAXY.
The Winslow mail., 1898-03-12
Confederate Muskets.

Though the Confederate army,
when Gen. Lee surrendered, surren-
dered many thousand muskets," said
an ordnance officer of the army, 81
have great doubts If 100 of them are
still in the possession of the govern
ment. In the armories of the govern
ment in Illinois, Massachusetts and
California a few may have been kept,
but there are but few. The War De-
partment has a few, but the wagon
loads Of them have disappeared, no one
knows exactly where. AS an arm the
rifles surrendered were without value
except in few commands where they
had secured modern guns. They We're
hurriedly and cheaply made, generally
by contract work. l can't state now
exactly how many thousand muskets
there were, but there were at least 30
600 recorded as having been surren-
dered. My own idea is that the most
of them were broken up as valuless,
though a great quantity Of them were
sold as Junk and scrap iron. The can
non have also gone out Of existence
most of them in the same way
Washington Star.
The Winslow mail., 1898-03-12

A company Of workingmen In En-
gland lately listened to speaker who
called himself a fellow workman. In
his time, he said, he had experienced
many privations. He had known what
Il was to be cold because he could not
AFFORD fire. He had worn patched
clothes and shoes. He had lived up
on poor fare. When he was young he
learned to plow as straight a furrow
as any man in the parish, and no one
could thrash better than he. The speak
er was a man who in the table of prece-
deney comes next after the princes OF
the royal blood-the Archbishop OF
Canterbury.
The Winslow mail., 1898-03-12

The English have a much better no.
ton of what happens in parliament
than we have of the proceedings Of the
House and Senate No matter how
suddenly the debate springs up, nor
how unexpected the occasion, In the
London newspapers the satisfactory
account of all that was said and done
is next day before the British people.
Such thing hardly ever takes place
with us, writes Thos. B. Reed in the
Illustrated American If a member
makes an important speech it must be
written out before delivery and sent
by mail, and then figures in the tele-
graphic column as a monument alike
of American eloquence and American
enterprise. One disadvantage we la
Dor under is that we have no central
London. Our capital is not a London,
though 1t is no mean city. The country
at large has more than one news cen
ter. New York the Greater will have
a population Of 100000, but Is 225
miles away. Chicago has 100000,
and is the center of a vast country, but
is 800 or 1000 miles distant. San Fran
cisco has the great empire Of the Pa
ciflc coast behind it and around 1t, but
5000 miles of railway divide us. New
Orleans lies a distance of two days fur
ther south, and st. Louis and Cincin-
natl would be much aggrieved not to
be deemed centers of news distribu-
ton. While, therefore, we are salts
fed with our country, and know that
all the waste places WV be filled up,
and that we shall have Londons on
either coast and in the center, never
theless just now we are t>Q much
spread out to know about our Congress
quite as well as some other people do
about theirs.
The Winslow mail., 1898-03-12
Ivncbed by Swallows.

A successful lynching took place on
the farm of Jerome Butler, south of
Marlette, Mich, the other day. In the
barn a swallows nest was seen cling
ing to the side of beam from which
was suspended an English sparrow,
hung by the neck with a hair from
l.orse's TAIL While Franklin Butler
and Orla Albertson were sitting in the
barn they noticed sparrow go into the
swallows nest, from which it began
pitching the young birds. Three swal-
lows, attracted by their outcry, imme-
diately pounced upon the intruder At
ter confning him to the nest for few
minutes they threw him out. He drop
ped about a foot, there was jerk, and
Mr.. Sparrow was hanged as nicely as
though an expert hangman had been in
charge. The hair was wound around
his neck several times, and after few
Intellectual struggles he kicked his last.
Grand Rapids Herald.
The Winslow mail., 1898-03-12

The society for checking the Abuse
of Public Advertising, founded four
years ago in England, has been highly
successful In awakening the sentiment
of reform. The Thames River is by
act of Parliament protected from any
advertising whatever on its banks; a
series of guide-books calls attention to
recent advertising disfgurements of
beautiful scenery; the council Of Lon
don has condemned some monster
boardings erected for advertising pur-
poses, and the superior courts have en-
forced the prohibition of sky signs.
America stands no less in need of such
an association and such a sentiment.
"The way in which 1 shall help" ex-
claimed a young matron recently, 'is
by never buying such articles as 1 see
advertised amid natural scenery or in
Objectionable methods. They shall be
impressed upon my mind as something
to be stunned
The Winslow mail., 1898-03-12

There Is too much of a disposition
among the farmers to pursue the dull
round of toll without thought of i'm
provement and without effort for bet
ter methods. 1t is the object Of farm
ers' Institutes to resist and overcome
this inertia. They bring together the
farmers face to face, to give each other
the benefit of their observation and ex-
perienee. They stimulate enterprise
and inquiry by showing what brains
have already done for the calling and
showing that more remains to be done.
The Winslow mail., 1898-03-12

That the greatness of the self-made
man is consequent upon meagre educa-
t!onal advantages is an old superstition
fast disappearing, as ex-President
Cleveland pointed out at the recent
Princeton commemoration. The sue
cessful man whose youth was with
out advantages has attained success
not because of those disadvantages,
but In spite of them, and it is logical
to infer that with increased intellectual
training he would have climbed to still
greater eminence
The Winslow mail., 1898-03-12

"From A to lizard" the nations of
the earth are witnesses to the evils fol-
lowing the wanton destruction of for
ests. Abyssinia has her story to tell.
Menelik has changed his capital four
times since his accession in 1889, be-
cause the wood supply was exhausted.
The woodman who does not spare that
tree has seen his best days. Public
OptHien Is awakened
The Winslow mail., 1898-03-12

Guy Mannering," "The Bride of Lam
nlermoor" and "Kenilworth." ''Kenil-
worth was taken out 625 times. Thir-
ty-five years after Scott's death Lon
don bookseller would not keep in his
stalls six-penny edition of the Waiver
ly novels, because they killed the sale
of all other books. Yet the lure was
rot in sensationalism; the popular crav-
Ing was not for poisonous sweets; mil
lions of readers found only pure and
wholesome human pleasure.
The Winslow mail., 1898-03-12

Some of the reasons for thinking
there will be no war with Spain are
that 1t wouldn't be popular. that it
wouldn't be good politics, that it
wouldn't be profitable except to a
comparatively small number of con-
tractors, that the country isn't in shape
at present to go to war with anybody,
that President Mckinley doesn't want
war, and that he doesn't intend war
shah occur.
The Winslow mail., 1898-03-12
SECURING a Substitute.

Mattie-I'm so sorry, dear, to learn
that death has robbed you of your ia
vorite poodle. How can you ever con-
sole yourself for his loss?
Helen (sobbing)-I d-don't know;
b-but s-suppose III h-have to g-get
unmarried.
The Winslow mail., 1898-03-12
lust the Place for Him.

"Say, Weary, 1 think tn Sandwich
Islans is the place for me-"
why so, chappieT
"'Cause I'd be free from tempta-
ton"
'Wot kind O. temptation?'
"Why, the papers says tn climates
so enervatin' thet there's no temptation
to work" Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The Winslow mail., 1898-03-12
Too Smart for Him.

eyes," said young Softleigh, Il like
to see a smart, well educated woman,
but wouldn't care to marry one who
knew more than / did,"
I'm very sorry" replied Miss Cut
tin, ''to hear that you have resolved to
remain a bachelor all your life.
The Winslow mail., 1898-03-12

British influence goes on in far Asia.
It has just come to light that before
the king Of Siam departed on his Eu-
ropean tour he dismissed nearly every
foreign employe of his government,
and their places have since been filed
by Enghshmen selected by Chulalong-
korn personally.
The Winslow mail., 1898-03-12

Sir Walter Scott's writings do not
pass into eclipse behind the later prod
tets Of genius. The Providence Pub
&c Library issues bulletin from which
1t appears that durIng ten years a few
books were drawn more than 35O
times. Among these were 'Ivanhoe,"
The Winslow mail., 1898-03-12
Nothing to Concuss.

'Tell me, DOCTOR" said the father Of
the disabled football player, do you
think it is concussion of the brainw
NO." replied the doctor, 'there isn't
any danger Of that. It's merely a brok
en- SKULL"
The Winslow mail., 1898-03-12
The CYuic.

"We've got a woman living down our
way who says she is 106 years DID,"
said the enthusiast.
"Well, a woman never tells the truth
about her age. She's probably only
about &c." said the cynic.-Yonkers
Statesman.
The Winslow mail., 1898-03-12
Neiphborly Charity.

Fond mother-Isn't the baby the very
image of his father?
Neighbor-Yes; but you shouldn't
mind that as long as he's healthy.
The Winslow mail., 1898-03-12

Now that helium and argon have
been found In the Caucasus as miner
ais Ia pure state, for the first time, the
center of scientific and chemical inves-
tigation may be found in Asia for a
time
The Winslow mail., 1898-03-12

Though, as is said. $4,0OO,OO0,00O
have been disbursed by the United
States In pensions since the close of the
war In 1865, 1t Is we'll to remember that
the money has not been boarded, nor
l.: It gone out Of the country.
The Winslow mail., 1898-03-12
Drawing to a Head.

"My DEAR" remarked Mr.. Grumpy.
as he opened letter at the breakfast
table the other morning, and his wlfes
milliner bill dropped out, my dear, this
is the third bonnet you have had in less
than six months. You must have mill
inery on the brain"
"Well, suppose l have" replied Mrs.
Grumpy, 'isn't that the proper place
for it?'
The Winslow mail., 1898-03-12

That Connecticut preacher who
claims that he can get gold from ordi-
nary sea water says the idea struck
him while he was riding in palace
ear. The idea of getting money from
some source or other usually strikes
the average citizen before taking such
a trim
The Winslow mail., 1898-03-12
Short Suffering.

"She never complains of her hus-
bands ill-treatment of her." remarked
Squildig. "She suffers in silence"
IF she suffers only when she is si-
lent" replied McSwilligan, ''she doesn't
suffer long at a time" ."-Pittsburg
Chronicle Telegraph.
The Winslow mail., 1898-03-12
A Good suggestion.

Editor (of country weekly)-Pm at a
loss to know whether this article is in
tended to be humorous or otherwise.
Assistant-Well, why not run it in
the puzzle column and let the subscrib-
ers guess?
The Winslow mail., 1898-03-12

It seems scarcely worth while to i'm
prfsen anybody In Kansas for violating
the prohibitory law, since heparapher-
malta for first-class joint, smuggled
In by two whisky sellers, was recently
discovered In the county Jail at Lar
The Winslow mail., 1898-03-12
An EIuerreucy,

why" he exclaimed, Il thought you
said the last time you had the dress
maker that you wouldn't need another
gown for three months!'
81 know did, DEAR" she replied, ''but
in going through my trunk to-day L
found piece of ribbon that will make
a lovely sash and haven't anything
to go with it."
The Winslow mail., 1898-03-12
The Wrong Man,

"You are wasting your time, old
man." said Fred to George. You're
courting the wrong girl"
mo; she's the right girl. I'm afraid
the trouble is that l am the wrong
man."-Tid-Bits
The Winslow mail., 1898-03-12
Travelling Repair Shop.

"Gweat heavens, Algy. Do you al
ways have gwoom in attendance
when you go wheeling"
"He Is not a gwoom, deah boy. l
have the fellow along to make we
pairs. s."-Indianapolis Journal.
The Winslow mail., 1898-03-12
Invariably

Little Edgar-Papa what are the Sd
lent watches of the night?
Papa-The policemen who ought to
be on hand when burglars are In the
house.
The Winslow mail., 1898-03-12

Some obtuse persons begin to dimly
realize that there Is distinction TO De
made between scrimmages of raw, un-
disciplined schoolboys and a scientific
game of football.
The Winslow mail., 1898-03-12
Smoothing the Way.

Superintendent shall have to think
the matter over, for you are married,
and, frankly, l should prefer to give
the place to single man.
Applicant-Oh, well, l can get di-
e!-Fliegende Blaetter.