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Yukon Valley news., 1905-07-26
By Products
 of Gold P1aCerS

Some time ago a circular was sent out asking the placer workers to send into the director of the ge- ological survey at Washington sam ples of the black sands and heavy residue of their washings. These are to be analysed and classified, and if results justify, government experts will thoroughly examine the localities furnishing the sam ples that show promise.
 This plan is designed to reform placer mining methods. Black sand usually carries profitable quantity of magnetic. Chromite also occurs. Gold-bearing prytes are often abun- dant. Platinum is usually found in quantities more or less definitely fixed. Small diamonds, rubies, an occasional topaz or other jewels of commercial value are not unusual. Yet all of this precious material has been going and still goes to the waste dump.
 Here is an instance of clear waste: A deposit of gravel on the Frazer river that is being worked by hydraulic plant for the small quan- tity of gold contained was found to carry an abundance of black sand. This sand was heavy and gave the miners no end of trouble and per plexity because of the inability to separate il from the gold. The sand carrying ihe finer gold went off in the sluicing operations and was lost. Later investigation proved this sand Co be present in the gravel at the relative quantities of twelve pounds to the cubic yard A couple of days work would handle 1000 yards of gravel continuing about six tons of this sand which on analysis proved to be a high-gTade coneen- trate carrying high gold and low platinum values. In other words.
Yukon Valley news., 1905-07-26
WEDNESDAY, JULY 26, 1905.
THE PROSPECTOR.

This is the season of the year when prospectors are considering plans for the next winters work To those who contemplate going into the more remote and out-of- the-way sections the hardships un- avoidable in such undertakings are realities that must put the strongest courage to the test Unremitting work-complete isolation, with its hundreds of chances for irremedia ble disaster-the likelihood that in the spring the old, old problem of hus- ting another grubstake will be necessary again-these are some of the discouraging features that con front the prospector as he lays his winters plans. Is it to be won dered at that his thoughts often wander back to the barroom stove :?
 After all, there is abundance of encouragement in the outlook for the prospector. The possibilities are boundless. It is not conceiva- ble that blind luck has directed men to all the rich spots in this vast gold-sprinkled land. Systematic search has not done it, for search of any kind has extended to but the narrowest limits. Another thing that is immensely in the prospect or's favor is the increased facilities that are rapidly being afforded for extracting gold. The conditions that lessen profits year by year in other pursuits enable the miner ,o produce his gold a, less cost. IL is reasonable presumption that these conditions will continue to add Co
Yukon Valley news., 1905-07-26
Calendar-/nLy-1lngua

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Yukon Valley news., 1905-07-26
ONE MORE WEEK

which Rampant the White Pass route navigation closes The through $1oo per Via St. Michael freight goods average difference as you perhaps thought Better let send your order
 c. A. KETTERER
Yukon Valley news., 1905-07-26
JERRY FORD,
 M. K. DOWNING.
NEW GOODS

GROCERIES of all kinds FRESH EGGS, per Steamer Susie FRESH POTATOES, only $ per crate ONIONS, Australian winter keeping CIGARS, and full line of chewing and
 smoking tobacco Elegant brass-trimmed enameled BED-
 STEADS Double-wove Wire Springs. can't sag Mattresses, Feather Pillows TENTS. all sizes. Every thing new and first class Creek orders solicited.
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C ! ! |! | !! l | ] :!
Baking
Powder
JUDGE DEFINES a "vvtpow..
Peffeot IL qualify.
@odevato In pSioe.

Asserts That Term Admits OF Several
h Constructions. $.
An income of 81 q weekend not
able to do much Of anything ?-and
you think: you can take care of little
girl who isn't your own-but what
about that income-how does 1t come
to you?" queried. Judge Mack, while
investigating the dependency Of Katie
Berhall.
"The income?" repeated Mrs. Mel.
bergerhein, the woman in the case.
"Well--judge-you see-my husband
gives me $2Sa week"
Whereupon Officer William Stein, OF
the Children's Aid society, interposed:
"Your honor, this woman told me
she was widow
His honor leaned yforward and stern
ly said:
"How's this? The officer says you
told him you were widow, and you
Please, your honor, am widow"
Mrs. Neibergerhein interrupted. Its
grass, isn't it-a grass widow widow
that's what am. judge. He didn't
ask me what kind, your honor
The court smiled.
"Yes-y-e-s-there's difference and
a distinction in widowsy,'', ruled his
honor" anu taii are widows We'll
have to admit that-y-e-s."
THAT'S one on me-" confessed Off.
Ger Stein, and tip for future use
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Crowded Out by Women.

A curious aspect of the alien ques.
ton has shown itself at Berne uni
versity, where exactly one-half of the
thirteen hundred students are for
eigners, principally Slavs. In the fac
ulty of medicine there are now three
hundred and fifty. women students
from Russia, and they have flocked
to the Swiss capital for two reasons
the lack Of means Of study in their
own country, and the fact that the
conditions under which degrees can be
secured are. less severe than at the
German universities. One effect Of
this influx of fair Russians Is the over
crowding OF the laboratories, and the
Swiss youth SO feel the encroachment
that they are leaving Berne to pursue
their studies elsewhere.
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Uses for the Baby CARRIAGE.

did you ever notice the uses to
which baby carriages are put?" asked
the observant man. Just look at
those children taking those puppies
out for an airing. The youngest child
was graduated from that perambulator
less than two years ago, Ill bet. The
carriage is somewhat rickety now, and
careful mother would hardly trust
an infant to it, Dut it makes a good
plaything for the children.
Il see laundresses wheeling baskets
of clean clothes home to their custom
ers in baby carriages. 1t beats walk
ing and carrying big basket. Only
this morning noticed two poorly
clad girls gathering odds and ends OF
boards thrown aside by carpenters
who were building house. They put
their stock of fuel in a baby carriage
j suppose they will take the baby out
in that same perambulator this after.
noon. New York Press.
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CHAPTER VII.


If We believe that LIZ. is worth liv.
ing, cur BELIEF helps to create that
fact. for faith is ia matters of the
spirit all that courage is in practical
affairs. 10 Jane and Cluny this be-
lief was rot diCIcult, for Limitation
a'wc:JJfs works for happiness. and dur
iEg the ensuing year life kept within
TIC bounds of their mutual probation
ard OF C:>my's military duties, was
full CT happy meetings and partings:
days il which Love waited on DUTY
a-d again, days in which Love was
lord OF every -Four: VIXEN they wander
cd together in .he Park like two
happy children, Or, if the weather
vcs u~i!.., sat Grc-- ming in the stately
rooms OF Sandys about the little gray
house in Fifesaire, which was to be
their own sweet home.
So the weeks and months went by
and though they were not alike. thew
had that happy similitude which
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Shouting Their Praises

Kirkland, ILL.,, Jan. 2nd--tSpeciaD
of the terrible Rheumatic
pains that made him cripple for
years, Mr.. Richard r. Greenhon, an
old and respected resident of this
place, is shouting the praises Of the
remedy that cured him. Dodd's Kid.
uey Pills.
Il had the rheumatism in my left
limb so that could not walk over ten
to fifteen rods at a time, and that by
the use of two canes" Mr.. Greenhon
says. 81 would have to sit or lie
down on the ground when I was out
trying to walk and the sweat would
run down my face, with so much pain.
1 could not sleep at night for about
Eve or six weeks.
Il tried different doctors medicines.
but they were all no good. Then
sent for Dodd's Kidney Pills and
almost from the first they brought
relief. BY the time had taken four.
teen boxes of them my rheumatism
was all gone and I can truly say
feel better than have in the last
twenty-five years"
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Jane Swaffham, have you no fresh.
er news?" and she pulled out of her
bosom many sheets of paper tied to.
gether with gold thread. 81 had
this yesterday" she said, "by the
hand OF Stephen, and l may as we'll
tell you to prepare to meet Stephen de
Wick, for he VOWS he will not leave
England again until he has speech
with you"
Then he is forsworn; l will not see
him"
1T will be no treason now to speak
to your old servant. The Amnesty
Act will cover you. But fight not
Stephens battles; Lave enough 10
Go to keep my ovn share of your
friendship from fraying. Now, must
tell you something concerning my
self. | an scirg to France"
''Frarce.' cried Jaac in amazcmcat.
yes, France. 1 have persuaded my
uaclc that he ought 10 go there, and
look after his affairs. l have persuad-
cd Try aunt that it is not safe for
my uncle to go without her, and they
both know my reason for going with
them, although We do rot ramc Prince
Rupert"
''W'hc2 Go sou so, A,atilda?'
'To-E-crrcw, if Stephen be ready.
AID let me tell you, Jane, Stephens
readiness depends on you
That is not So"
1T is. l hope you will be definite,
Jane. You have kept poor Stephen
dangling after you since you were ten
years old"
What about Cymlin and yourself?"
Then Matilda laughed. and her
countcnance changed, and she said
seriously, upon my word and honor,
| was never nearer loving Cymlin than
| v'cs last right, yet no was never less
deserving of it. IT'S a good story,
Jane will not pretend to keep it
from you, though I would stake my
last coin on Cymlin's silence about the
matter. He came into my presence,
as he always does. i'll at ease, and
why, l know not, for a man mere
handsome in face and figure it would
not be easy to find in England. But
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Cromwell wants only that Parlia.
ment should know it's own mind, and
declare itself dissolved. God knows
it is high time, but Vane, and more
with him, would sit while life lasts.
Martha, my heart is troubled within
me. Have we got rid of one tyrant
calling himself King, to give obedi-
ence to a hundred tyrants calling
themselves Parliament? 1t shall not
be SO. AS the Lord liveth, verify, it
shall rGt!"
There was meeting of the Coun-
Gil at the Speakers house the night
after Israel Swafrham's indignant pro-
test agairst Parliament, and Crom-
well, sittirg among those self.seeking
iEcr. was scorrfully angry at their
deliberations. His passion for public
a1d social justice burned. and in a
thuaderous speech, lit by flashes of
binding wrath, he spoke out OF a full
and determined heart; Then he
mounted his horse and rode home.
ward
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he has bad manners, Jane, confess
it; he bushes and stumbles over
things, and lets his kerchief fall, and
when he tries to be gallant, makes
fool Of himself
You are talking of my brother, Ma
tilda, and You are making him ridicu-
lous. thing Cymlin is not, and never
was
Wait bit, Jane. was kind to
him, and he told me about his life in
Ireland, and he spoke so we'll, and
looked so proper, that could not help
but show him how he pleased me-
Then he went beyond his usual man.
ner and in leaving tried to give me
bow and leg in perfect court fash
ion; and he made silly appearance,
and for the life OF me I could not help
smile-not nice smile, Jane, in
deed. twas very scornful smile, and
he caught me at it, and what do you
think he did,"
Il dare say he told you plainly that
you were behaving badly?"
My dear Jane, he turned back, he
walked straight to me and boxed my
cars. for a silly child that did not
Know the difference between a man
and a coXcomb.' swear to you that |
was struck dumb, and he had taken
himself out of the room in a passion
ere ] could find word to throw after
him. Then | got up and went to a
mirror and looked at my ears, and
they were scarlet, and my cheeks
matched them. and for moment 1
was in a towering rage. sat down,
cried, laughed. l was amazed, I
, was, after little while, ashamed, and
finally came to reasonable temper
ard acknowledged ! had been served
exactly right, For l had no business
| to put my wicked little tongue in my
cheek, because brave gentleman
could not crook his leg like dancing
master. Are yon laughing. Jane?
Well, must laugh, too. l shall laugh
many a time when think of Cymlin's
two. big hands over my ears. Had he
| kissed me afterward, / would have for.
| given him think"
| Il cannot help laughing a little, Ma.
tilda, but assure you Cymlin is suf.
fering from that discipline far more
than you are"
/ Il am not suffering at all. This
morning | admire him. There Is MOI
another man in the world who would
! have presumed to box the Lady Ma
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leaves little to chronicle. James chief
excitements came from her visits to
Mary Cromwell and Matilda de Wick.
The affection between Jane and
Matilda had the strong root of habit
as we'll as of inclination. They could
rot be happy if they were long apart.
Jane visited frequently at Jevery
House, and Matilda quite as fire.
quently at Sandys.
One morning in the spring of 1868,
Jane was returning from two days
visit to the Cromwclls. The air was
so fresh and balmy she went to Jew
cry House. resolved to ask Matilda
to drive in the Park with her. AS
she went upstairs she wondered what
mood she would find Matilda in, for
there was a certain mental pleasure
in the uncertainty OF her friends tenn
per. She found ::cr lying upon sofa
in her chamber. her little feet, pref
tily shod in satin. showing just below
her gown; her hands claspcd above
her head. her long black hair scatter
ed loosely on the pillow. She smiled
said:
Il have been expecting you. Jane.
coud not keep the thought OF you
out of my mind and by that token l
knew you were coming Pray. where
have you been? Or, where are you
eoing?''
II have been spending two days
with the CromwCils. and the morning
is SO fair, wondered if you would not
drive an hour III the park. Do you
know that Cymlin arrives from Ire
land to-day? He would think the
journey we'll taken, if he saw you at
the end OF it."
You are a little late with your
news, Jane. That is one of your
faults. Cynlin was here last night.
He spent a couple OF hours with me"
then she smiled SO peculiarly, Jane
could not help asking her:
What is there in your way Of smil-
ing, Matilda? am sure it means a
story of some kind"
shall have to tell you the story,
for you could never guess what that
| smile was made OF. Forst, however,
what did you see and hear at the
Cronlwells.'''
heard in q passing manner that
Prince Rupert is OF the seas forever
that he is at the French court, where
he is much made Of" a. S9 s5
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cuT.cuRA SOAP
The Worlds Greatest Skin Soap-The
Standard Of Every Nation Of
the Earth.

Millions Of the worlds best people
use Cuticura Soap, assisted by Cuti.
cura Ointment, the purest and sweet.
est of emolient skin cures, for preserr.
ing, purifying and identifying the
skin, for cleansing the scalp Of crusts,
scales and dandruff. and the stopping
of falling hair, for softening, whiten.
ing and soothing red, rough and sore
hands, for baby rashes, itchings and
chafings, and many sanative. antisep.
tic purposes which readily suggest
themselves to women, especially
mothers, as we'll as for all the pur.
poses of the toilet. bath and nursery
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An Extended Chair.

When President Eliot of Harvard
toured on the Pacific coast some twen-
.ty years ago, one Of the Western seats
Of learning which he visited was the
University of Washington at Seattle.
He became much interested in Prof.
o. B. Johnson, a wellknewn figure on
Puget Sound in those days, who was
ore of tho colleges leading lights, and
in the course OF conversation asked
the Western man what chair he held.
Well said Johnson, Il am pro.
lessor of biology, but also give in.
struction I'M meteorology, botany,
physiology, chemistry, entomology and
few Others"
Il should say that you occupied q
whole settce. not a chair" rejoined
Harvard's chief.-Chicago Record
Herald Sunday Magazine.
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HABITS CHAIN
Certain Habits Unconseiousiy Formed
and Hard to Break.

and Hard to Break.
An ingenious philosopher estimates
that the amount of will power neces.
sary to break lifelong habit would.
il it could be transformed, lift a
weight of many tons.
1t sometimes requires a higher de
gree of heroism to break the chains
of pernicious habit than to lead a
forlorn hope in bloody battle A
lady writes from an Indiana town:
From my earliest childhood was
a lover of coffee. Before l was out
Of my teens l was a miserable dys.
peptic, suffering terribly at times with
my stomach.
Il was convinced that it was coffee
that was causing the trouble, and yet
/ could not deny myself cup for
breakfast. At the age of SO was in
very poor health indeed. My sister
told me was in danger of becoming
coffee drunkard.
"But never could give up drink
ing coffee for breakfast, although It
kept ME constantly i'll, until tried
Postum. learned to make it prop.
erly according to directions, and now
we can hardly do without Postum for
breakfast, and care nothing at ali for
coffee.
II am no longer troubled with dys.
apepsia. do not have spells Of isufferine
with my stomach that used to trouble
me so when Idrank coffee Name
4 given BY Postum Co., Battle Creek
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HER ULTiMATUM.
Why She Objected to .Papa's Matrl-
nnnnial Assistance

Why She Objected to .Papa's Matrl.
monial Assistance.
"There is one thing want distinctly
understood" said che only daughter of
the household, as she cornered her
parents and looked as though she were
issuing proclamation of war. Il want
40 more interference in my affairs, so
far as the young men who come here
are concerned. I'm old enough to ex-
ercise my own opinions. You two act
as though you thought some young
man was trying to marry the whole
family, and that it devolves upon YOU
to make satisfactory selections. You
have succeeded in running off two or
three for whom I had a special liking.
and now call halt. That's my ulti
matum."
"See here, Gladys, I'll not permit
any such talk to your father. guess
we know what is best for you, and we
certainly have your welfare at heart
I give you to distinctly understand
II do distinctly understand. You
broke my last engagement by sitting
at the table and telling George that
baked the hot biscuits that l never
saw until they were served. One dose
Of them ruined his digestion, and ]
don't blame him for not risking his
life with such supposed danger as .
constant menace"
Then she fed in tears, and the pair
went to upbraiding each other in a
manner that tended to revive the old
conundrum as to whether marriage is
q failure.-New York Press
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Paid an Old Debt.

Il have just had my first actual ex-
perience with conscience money, so
to speak, said prominent business
man.
Seventeen years ago a man con
tracted a debt with me, and as had
never been able to make collection, had
to give it up as lost. There was no
way to collect it by law, and you can
imagine my surprise when received
a check to-day for $500. While this
did not cancel the amount, appreciate
it deeply, and can use it to advantage
lust now.
1T is not often that man owing
a debt pays after SO many years, es.
pecially when the law could not reach
him." 81
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Masonry and Truth.

In France man, called as wit
ness to court, demurred to. taking
the oath to tell the whole truth, 3
because it might require him to tell
Masonic secrets. The grand master
OF Freemasonry in France has written
to the court stating that there was
nothing in the Masonie oath which
would prevent witness telling the
whole truth. II anything, the oath
made him freer man.
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Retaliation at a Dance.

She was young. 1t was her first
season. and it pleased her to snub her
cab cousin most numerically when.
ever he asked for a dance.
No." she protested, one. evening.
you can't see my program-it's all
full"
But therell be extras. Can't l
have an extra?"
"Ye-es," returned the young WON
an, grudgingly :'e'inquishing her card,
"but don't take tic first one, it's prom.
ised."
Later in the evening when she
looked to see which dance her cousin
had appropriated she found that she
had food for reflection. The young
man had put his name down for the
four hundred and ninety-ninth extra.
Chicago RecorJ-Herald Sunday Mag
azinc.
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GOOD INDEX 10 cAARAcrER.'
Habits and ldiosyncracies Betrayed Ii
the Laugh. Il

Habits and ldiosyn Betrayed IN
4. the Laugh. X. II
Anthropologists say that the ability
to laugh comes to the child as 1t
grows older. The first smile Is OBJ
served when the child is about forty
to sixty days old, but it does not be-.
gin to laugh until some time after
that
Children and women laugh more
than men. not because the cares Of
life lie less heavily upon them, but
because the the former are more ex-
citable, and because. the moderating
power of the cerebral hemispheres il
less in them than among men gen
orally. :$,
Profound study makes men serious,
and SO foolish people are sometimes
noted for laughing immoderately.
Yet laughter is not so much an index
to intelligence as 1t is to the condi-
ton of health. Healthy, vigorous PEG,
pie are proverbially of good-humored
joyous, laughing natures, while the
"sallow, gloomy-eyed dyspeptic" is a
description scientifically accurate.
The envious, wicked and malevolent
rarely laugh, because, phrenologists
say, they are impregnated with bile,
and are, therefore, morose. The
naughty. the vain and the awkward
also laugh very little, for fear of los,
ing their dignity. The Spanish people,
proverbially grave, are good ex
ample.
People who have lines extending
downward from the angle at the
mouth toward the chin we'll marked
rarely laugh, and, moreover, show
tendency to pensiveness in youth and
melancholy in after life.
Those who have lines raging out
ward from the eyes are, on the con-
trary, people who laugh a good deal,
especially when the upper lip is
framed by two deep burrows running
down in the mouth.
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...... The Porch.
When father built the veranda,
He kicked about the expense,

But ma, she said:
Don't mind it, Ed
Don't think OF dollars and cents'
That autumn Clara was married.
1t made pa glad as could be,
And ma would smile
Most all the while,
I'm proud OF that porch" said she
Last summer both Belle and Amy
Would race for the porch at night,
And all the rest
OF us thought best
TO stay indoors, out Of sight.
But Belle ran faster than Amy
She got her man in July;
And Ihl commend
That porch to send
bachelors oath sky high.
Last Sunday Amy informed us
That she mad told Jimmy yes"
And now us three,
Pa, ma, and me,
Can get on that porch. Z guess.
Cleveland Leader.