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ing in the first watch of the night. The
watch on deck relieved wheel and lookout,
and we who were fortunate enough to have
the Eight hours in lost no time in seeking
our respective hunks, since in those stern
ATTITUDES we might expect sudden call at
any moment We had hardly been asleep
five minutes, 1t seemed, when a hoarse cry
came pealng in through the fo'c'sle door
of "AH hands on deckr Shorten SAIL.
And as we all started wide awake We heard
the furious voice of the southern tempest
tearing UP the face of the deep, and felt
the massive fabric beneath our feet 1eaping
and straining under the tremendous strain
of her great breadths of canvas that we
had left hanging so idly at eight bells.
Out into the black night We hurried,
meeting the waiting mate at the formast,
and answering his first order of man the
foretops,ls downhauf' with the usual repe-
tition of his words Weird cries arose as
we hauled with all our strength on the
downhauls and splitting lines, while over
head We could hear. even above the roar of
the storm. the deep boom of the topsails
fierceIy fighting against restraining gear.
Then, with a Kissing, sp.teful snarl, came
snow and sleet. flashing US like shotted
whips, and making the darkness more pro-
found because of the impossbility of open
ing the eyes against the singing fragments
of ice. But after much stumbling and
struggling, got the four huge tops'ls
down, and, without waiting for the order,
started aloft to furl. the pltiful incapac.ty
of our numbers most glaringly apparent.
The pressure Of the wind was so great that
it was no easy matter to get aloft, but
clinging like cats, We presently found our
selves (six of the port watch), on the fore
topsail yard.
The first thing evident was that the great
sail was very slightly subdued by the gear;
it lowered about the yard like white bal
loon, making it both difficult and danger
Gus to get out along the spar. The storm
scourged pitilessly, the great round of
the sail resisted all our attempts to fist it,
and We seemed is helpless as children.
Some bold spirits clutched the lifts. and,
no irnCr ah thn fria 70 CT
hollow into it with their feet; but against
the increasing fury Of the tempest we SEEM
ed to be utterly impotent. We were
widely separated, too, that each man ap-
peared to be essaying a giants task SINGLE
handed, and that ..orrible sense of fast
ooZing strengt.. paralyzing Feel
ing left our hands; We smote them saw
agely against that unbending sail without
sensation, and still We seemed no nearer
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The baby was a
boy weig hing
nine and three
quarter pounds,
and for som c
weeks after his
birth l suffered
severe pain. Last
fall, following the
advice of a neigh
Dor. my husband
bought me Doctor
Pierce's Favorite
Pre- script On
which l took dur
ing the winter.
and in March,
1898, 1 gave birth
to a baby boy
weighing ten aud
I hire e-q ua err
pounds. 1 was
only in labor two
hours and was on
nv feet without
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The Civil Service system.

From Life.
You want to marry my daughter? Which
one of the ten? Maud. eh?'' Cro confiden-
tial clerk is Maud engaged yet, John?'
Clerk consulting book)-"Not at present,
SIR
Then put the baron through the usual
course of questions, and, II satisfactory
put him on Mauds eligible list (To suitor)
As soon as We can arrange the desrability
of the various applicants We will let yon
know the result. Good day, sir
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Stars That Are Now in a Good Pc
sition for Study.
70 LOCATE THE CONSULTATIONS
Some interesting Information About
the Great Bear.
y LESSON IN ASTRONOMY


NE OF THE OLD
est and at the same
time most mystifying
of the consultations
is the Ursa Major OF
Great Bear, which
pursues necessarily
its circular course
around the Pole Star,
and which in our
hemisphere and lati-
tude may be found
on any clear evening
somewhere in the
northern skies. W {
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Cook and Policema m.


"Why don't you get dinner?" he asked
'sYou didn't marry a COOK she replied
simply.
Time passes. 1t is now the dead of night
and muffied footballs are heard
why don't you go and drive the bur-
glars away she exclaimed
You didn't marry policeman he said.
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What a difference
in the suffering at
time Of childbirth

when Dr. r. v. Pierce's medicines are
used writes Mrs. Edmon Jacobs, of
Bargersville, Johnson County, Ind Il had
not heard of DR.. Pierce's medicines three
years ago when was confined. had to suffer
almost death. Before baby was born Icould not
be my feet without two persons holding me
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Agony Long Drawn Out.


Ciarfssa-'He Henrietta, you needn't try to
deceive me-you have some painful memoir
les connected with that man"
Henrietta-"Well, 1 think so. He kept
me dressed up hot afternoons at that wa
tering place last summer and then didn't
propose.
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An Interesting Double Star.

Close beside Mizar is a star of about the
sixth magnitude, which bears the Arabic
name Aicor. the faint one. 1t is said that
this star was regarded by the Arabs as
test of eyesight; but inasmuch it can
now be seen by any one whose sight for
distant objects is not decidedly poor it is
supposed by some astronomers that this
star Is brighter than il was eight hundrer or
a thousand years ago. MiZar and Alcor form
together what might be called a naked-eye
double star-that is, they present the same
appearance as : presented by very many
of the stars when they are examined with
Il telescope. They make a very pretty OBJ
ject for the opera glass, which reveals quite
Il nest of, small stars in their neighborhood.
A small telescope will show that Mizar,
which, even through an opera glass. APP
pears as a single star, is really double. 1t
is not only a very pretty object for such
an instrument, but it is interesting as the
first discovered of the double stars. A few
years ago additional interest was added to
MiZar by the discovery that besides being
a telescope double star il is also what is
now called ''spectroscopic binary This
means that il consists of two stars which
revolve one about the other, but which are
so close to each other that they cannot be
separated with the most powerful telescope.
The discovery was made at the Harvard
College Observatory from an examination
of the Draper Memorial photographs of
stellar speetra. 1t was found that the lines
in the spectrum of Mizar were periodically
doubled. INDICATING that the spectrum was
that of two objects, one Of which at Ger
tain times was approaching US. while the
ether was receding, as would be the case
with two stars circiing in an orbit set near
1y edgwise toward u.s. The period of the
revolution Is 104 days. 1t has been calcu-
they circle is about that of the orbit of
Mars. and that the distance of Mizar from
US is something like 80 light years" Four
other spectroscopic binaries have since
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Shd!l ma the Bear at o clock this even
ing low in the northwest. 1t is now in an
excellent position for observing. standing
upon its feet, not suspended. as it some
times is, by its nose or by its tail.
This tail, by the way. is one of the mysti-
flying features of this ancient bear-one of
ne proofs, perhaps, of the high antiquity
of the consteilaticn-and yet curiously
enough. Ii is about the only feature which
we can identify with certainty 1t is form
cd by the handIe of the Great Dipper The
Rear's nose Is about as far TO the right of
the bowl of the Dipper as the tip of her
tail is 10 the left. 1t is marked by a star of
the fourth magnitude the outer of two
which form a second handle TO the Dipper.
The Bears paws are marked by three very
noticeable little pairs of third or fourth
magnitude stars, lying nearly in straight
line, which At the hour of our observation
is nearly parallel with the horizon. The
two pairs which form the hind paws are
about midway between the bowl of the Dip
per ard the Sickle In Leo.
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known by Many Names.

seven stars visible to the naked eye The
brightest are the seven which form the
weii-knOwn Dnper. These are of the sec
ond magnitude with the exception of the
middle one. which is of the third. This re-
n!arkable group Of stars has borne many
names. To the ancient Hindoos these stars
were known as the Seven Rishis. or Poets.
a name which Professor Max Muller has
suggested may have been originally R;k-
shas. that is, Bright Ones. stars The
Romans called them Septemtrones. I'm
der the Septemtrienes' was a common Lat
iii phrase for toward the north Earro
says that the name meant the Seven
Plough Oxen Here again Max Muller
suggests an emendation. He thinks that
The name was originally Seven Strones no:
Triores, and that il meant nothing more
nor less than the Seven Stars ANYTHING in
reason to clear away the mist of mythology
which enshruuds these ancient constella-
tions. Another popular Roman name for
| these seven stars WAS the Pole and Oxen.
Tie old Greeks likened the group to a
chariot, or wagon, and one of its several
Roman names was Plaustrum, the Cart.
Its likeness to wagon was noticed also
by the Germans who called il the KarTs
Wagon, a name which in England became
Arthur's or Charles Vain. The popular
English name of the group at the present
time is the Plough. while we Americans
have preferred calling il the Dipper.
The seven stars which form the Dipper
are often referred to by their Arabic names
These names, given in order from right to
left. the group is now posed are: Dubhe
PhaG, Merak, Megrez. Alioth Mizar and
BeHetraSch. The first four form the bowl;
the last three the handle Dubhe and Phad
are the Pointers" They range very near
ly with the Pole Star. the distance of which
from Dubhe Is tweuty-cight and a half de-
grees. which is about the length of the
Dipper The Pointers are five degrees
apart; the distance across the top of the
bowl Of the Dipper is ten degreeS-points
which 1t is well to remember since the
Dipper is always in sight somew here in the
night hours and thus forms Il convenient
celestial ward stick
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1899-10-13
CARS TO OBERAMMERGAU.
TrolIeys VIII Run 10 the scene of
the Passion Play"

Already there are numerous indica-
tions that the influx of visitors TO Ohcr-
ammprgau for next years Passion play
will far surpaSs all previous pilgrim
ages, says the London Chronicle. From
all parts of Europe and America. and
especially from France, numerous let
ters have reached the priest and village
authorities, asking for Information.
1t Is now definitely settled that the
first representation will be OH May %
and that the last will be at the end of
September. There will be 2S perform
be allotted and the rehearSalS will be
started Immediately aftcrward. 1t Is
certain that Herr Josef Meyer will not
take the part of Christ. His advanc
ing age and increasing infrmities are
the cause of this. At next years per
formanccs an attempt will be made TO
add dignity to the musical portion Of
the representation. The chOruses hith-
erto have been very weak. There will
now be So choristers.
will be entirely covered in and lighted
by long, narrow windows, is being
rapidly proceeded with. The stage will
be in the open air. The auditorium
will be 143 feet long and will accommo-
date 1000 spectators. Two further i'm
provcments are also announced. There
will be an office established for the
purpose of assigning visitors suitable
lodgings, and the tedious two hours
drive to the village from the railway
will be abolished, as we'll equipped
electric motor cars will take visitors
from Oberau in half an hour. Needless
to say. the villagers do not like these
departures, They say 1t will detract
from the devotional attitude which all
visitors to the "Passionsspel' are sup
posed to assume.
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of the SpashOre for at least 80 miles
along the beach, and for that 80 miles
the tide GIBBS and flows over the rich
est gold placcrS in the world.
"For four miles from the shore in the
soil and gravel which the tundras COW
crS the gold is universally distributed.
Nome river is right near the cape, and
five miles farther north is Snake river
All the creeks Of the Nome and the
Snake are rich in gold. Anvil creek Is
on the left bank of Snake river, and at
its junction Anvil City is tlouriShing.
In three months 1000 people conSre-
gated there, and in another year II will
be the biggest city in Alaska. Nome is
the most wonderful gold region the
world ever saw. A boy or girl can so
down to the beach when the tide GIBBS
and pan out from SO TO $40 from the
sands of the sea shore before the tide
flows again. Every man working along
the seashore with "rocker" made
from SO to $50 day all last summer,
md all along the shore for 30 miles any
IltU w llt hIlONS lloN w uSS ~ lpNhCA
can do the same bought n pump and
set four or five men to work washing
the sands with the water they pumped
from the ocean. These four men have
been cleaning up from $4O0 to 5000 a
day ever since | put them to work.
There are 800 rockers washing gold
along the beach this summer There
will lie 5000 next summer.
~ million in beach gold will be Sc
cured this season; next summer that
beach will yield $5,000,000. Don't talk
to me of the TranSyaal or OF the Nlon-
dixie. or of Bendigo or Alder gulch. The
world has never seen anything like
Nome. Follow the receding tide TO its
lowest ebb and wash the pan Of sand
and gravel that you secure there and
you will procure enough gold to buy n
| dinner at the best hotel in Paris. And
| the creeks and beach lands are all mar
velously rich. There is Mr.. Hawley,
who is taking out $4,000 a month,
working - men on Anvil creek.
bought No. 8, above, on Glacier creek,
| for $4,000 in June. | was offered $780,
! 900 for that claim in August, and
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II he had conceded the franchise aud
introduced various reforms thoroughly
and efficiently at any time during the
last fctr or five years.
The feeling among great many
OF the younger Beers. as also among
the more ignorant OF the older Beers.
Is one of confidence in their military
prowess. They really believe they can
whip Great Britain in conflict, but
| do not think the Boer leaders have
any such idea. Certainly men like
General Joubert know that such view
would be preposterous.
As TO the Boer forces. think the
published figures of 1900 somewhat
conservative. Probably 25.00O is near
er the mark. They are excellent shots,
bit by no means as expert as they
were Is or 20 years ago. when they
were great wild game hunters. Now
the wild game is pretty well exter-
by the chase. They became splendid
judges of distance This quality OF
Judging distance is not so important as
formerly. since the new rifles in the
English army, the Lee MetfOrdS, cope
with this very successfully because of
their fiat trajectory, which makes
point blank shooting possible at long
range.
The capture of Pretoria by the Brit
ish would break the backbone of the
war. The general nature of the country
would favor modern military tactics.
After the British have once crossed the
TransvHal border they would get into
fairly open country, favoring cayalry
and the transport of artillery. as the
veldt country is one Of natural roads.
"lf the English are ultimately vic
toriouS, there will be n very acute racial
feeling for n time. but this would grad.
ually disappear. The Transvaal Beers
are so few that do not think they
would offer any effective opposition to
the development of the country. be.
lieve also, myself. that a majority OF
the Beers will become reconciled to
British rule under altered conditions,
because they will find, eliminating the
question of sentiment, that such an at
titude would be more to their advan.
tage and commercial interests"
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would not sell il tor 81 100000.

WOulu not sen II lot Sl,OOb.UUU.
Look at these specimens" and the
count opened Il leather pouch and took
out several chunks Of yellow metal.
This is the purcst gold | have ever
seen. These picked UP myself on
my own claims. and | am going to
mine mysclf all the gold that these
claims contain. When | came TO Amer
lea | did not know anything about
either business or gold mining. but |
learned both at Nome. | bought a
cargo Of lumber at Seattle when the
Nome boom started for $4,000 My
agent up there sold il for Sl25 900, and
| was told that was business.
Nome is the best poor mars camp
the world ever saw. When man is
| hungry or thirsty at Nome and has no
money, he has but TO get pan, and il
an hour he can wash out gold enough
on the beach to pay 81 for meal and
80 cents for drink. There is gold
| for everybody, and the tidal beach
is free to all, for no mining locations
can be made thereon. | have had some
remarkable adventures up there.
had to rough it, as you Americans
say, but it is good to look back when
the hardships and dangers are passed.
| Alaska is n wondrous land and will in
| time furnish more gold than any region
| Of the world Good food Is rare. and
! bad food is very dear. | paid $40 at
! Nome for one bottle Of Mumm.
should not like my friends in France
to know that paid 200 francs for a
bottle Of wine. hut then $40 in Nome
is nothing. Any man can make that
out Of the sands Of the seashorc in q
little while, and then up there it was
good to taste once more the wine OF
France That at Nome was cheap al
1000 francs.
Am going TO Alaska again? an
going to Paris for the winter, and
will leave for the Land of the Midnight
Sun about May next year am goini
to explore Alaska still further, and
may chance to find another Nome. Be
lieve me, there are many Klondikes II
Alaska, only it is hard to find them"
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Begging was capital ofense II
England in the days Of Henry VIZ,
when the laws We're very severe
against htggars. and, under q statute
passed in thar reign, any one caught
hcEgiug Tor tie first time. being neI-
ther aged nor infrm. was whipped 81
the carts tail. II caught second
time. his ear was slit or bored through
with hot iron. If caught thlJ
time. hr suffered death as Il fclOr. IL.
less some honest person having so !
goods or 40 nhillings in land or SC.A~
householder approved by til" Justices
would take the offender into his ScIY-
ice for two years. entering into bonA
OF f10. So the law Of England remain
ed for co years. First enacted by HeH-
ry VII. il continued unrcpe9lvL
through the reigns Of Edward ana
Mary. Reconsidered under Elizabeth.
the same law was again formally pass
ed. the two legislative houses thereby
expressing their conviction that it was
better for a man not 70 live at all th"A
to live the life Of 2 heggar.
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WEALTH AT CAPE NOME.
Count G.. Des Garets Returns
From Alaskan Goldhelds.
TELLS ABOUT THE MINING THERE.

Has Many Claims and Says That the
Cape Region Is Rich With Ore-Hc
Relates Marvellous Incidents of For
tunes Made In the New District.
Count G. Des Carrots of Paris regis
tered at the Auditorium Annex the 9TH
er day from Cape Nome. Alaska, where
he has acquired extensive gold mining
properties, says the Chicago Inter
Ocean. He is OF one of the oldest and
noblest families of France. After
spending some time in the klondike
in the vicinity of Dawson City, Count
Des GaretS visited Cape Nome early
in the summer, From II population of
100 At that time the place has incrcaS-
ed to n population of 5000. with pros
poets Of even greater prosperity.
when | appeared Off Cape Nome
early in June said he, lit seemed
to me Il picture of dcsolation The
beach was swept by terrific storms,
and had to wait for days before land
ing Then | tried to reach the beach
in a small boat but the boat was over
turned on the shore, and billowS rolled
over it and me. That was NY first cx'
perience at Cape Nome, here is nC
harbor at Cape Nome, and no wharfs
or piers are possible. All freight will
have to be landed for all ii ne to come
upon the beach. Ships must lie in the
ofling until the weather is calm enough
to land freight and passengers in small
boats.
cape Nome was a terrible place
when | first landed, The food was
nauscating. the cold was horrible anC
the rudcst accommodatiL, $ only rx
listed. But then the gol was every
where. 1t was mixed W the sands
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positions of any Importance In the
Transvaal side with the British on tne
broad ground Of the justice of the lat
ter insisting upon political equality.
After the defeat Of the British at
Majuba the British troops We're assem-
blcd in such force as to leave no dUubt
about the result of further fighting,
but Great Britain, through Gladstone
Staid her hand on certain conditions.
Among the most prominent of these
was one that British subjects shoulG
receive the same treatment as the
citizens Of the Transvaal. At that
time, believe, five years residence
was necessary to acquire the franchise,
but gradually the requirements
changed, and as the matter stands to-
day it Is practically impossible for an
Englishman to obtain the franchise.
so much stress is laid on the fran
chiSe, in order to protect the English
and other foreign capital invested in
the country. Today the foreigners con
tribute 90 per cent Of the taxation, yet
have absolutely nothing to say about
the expenditure of penny. AS the
situation now stands it Is in the power
of the Boer government to eXpel any
resident in the Transvaal and send
him across the border without any
trial. contiscating his goods at the same
time.
".As to the uitlanders' commercial
grievances, it is n fact that the report
Of the Boer government on the matter
was in favor of the uitlanderS and
strongly recommended redress; but, in
spite Of this report nothing was done
to carry out the reforms or other recon-
mendatiOnS
There are many other grounds of
conflict between England and the Bocr
government, but l think England has
taken up the position that when once
the British residents have secured
equal political rights they will in time
be able to redress these grievances
themselves. The settlement Of this
question on proper lines will, think,
result In giving a great stimulus in the
development of South Africa gener-
ally.
1T Is q distinct error to suppose
that only Great Britain is financially
interested in South Africa. There is
a large percentage of the stockholders
of the great mining companies in
France Germany and on the continent
generally. This whole question Is by
no means n purely English question
in its politCo-cconOmic aspect. \ great
many companies are entirely controlled
by French or German capital.
".AmCrican capital is not very greatly
invested. but the most important min
ing engineers throughout South Africa
are Americans. Almost all the impor-
tant technical work is done by Amcri-
cans. Also a great amount Of Amcri-
can machinery and supplies 20 TO
South Africa.
"Krugcr had an opportunity that
comes 50 very few StateSmCn-NtZ
that Of rcconcilinG all the opposing
aud conflicting political influences in
South Africa ana strengthening his
republic so that no aggression on the
,tart of Great Britain or other coun-
tries would have been possible. Kru-
GER could have accomplished al this