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FACTS ABOUT KLONDIKE

Tie Rev. Mr. Fewelling, a missionary, ng in the Yukon Territory writes : ‘ Kloodike, or Dawson City, as it is now called, is a town of three or four thousand jnhabitants this spring. The placer mines have proved to be wonderfully rich, it is claimed the richest in the world.. A few days ago one wan brought into town on

pack horses 637 pounds of gold dust, about $137,00', as the result of his winten’s

work, and that after having paid probably $20,060 in wages. The claims are 500 feet in length. The miner carefully considers where the bed of the creek formeriy lay, and sinks a hole to the bed- rock. Thisis done in the wintertime in what is known as ‘winter diggings,’ which are worked by thawing the frost and ice out of the ground a few feet with a fire at night, and in the morning shovelling out the loose earth, using a windlass and bucket as the hole grows deeper until bed- rock is reached. A washing pan is then filled with the earth and gently washed with a circular motion ina tub of water until the dirt has all washed out and lefi the gold in the bottom. If it is then found that the pay streak has been stuck, they go to work to throw up all the earth along this ledge into dumps or heaps. ‘bese are washed in the spring by means of ‘sluice boxes,’ and a strong head of water, ridges in the trough catching the gold. ‘The go'd is then carefully washed again and dried, after which it is blown to remove apy refuse still remainiog, and is then ready for use.

“In ‘his country there is scarcely any coin, but business is transacted with this golu dust, and every man carries his ‘gold sack,’ a bag made of moose skin, some- times holding only a few ounces, or again holding two or three hundred ounces. The dust passes at the rate of $17 to the ounce, The other diggings are nearly de- %érted and all the miners are here. The mincrs a8 a class are good natured, free aud ea; sort of men, but inclined to be ungodly and rotgh. Many of them only make money to sqjuander at the saloons in

awf:.| carousals. Liquor is never searce, while men often suffer from hunger. Because more money is

made on liquor, it is brought in first, food supplies afterwards. This was the reason why some of the boats laden with provisions were caught in the ice last autumn, causing great suffering, while the boats with liquor arrived in the sum- mer.

At the stores here goods cost from four to ten times as much as outside. Flour is $12 per 100 pounds. Canned goods, fruit, meat and vegetables, 75c. per can. Kero- sene $l per gallon, etc. The missionaries buy their supplies in Victoria and ship them by the Alaska Commercial Co., of San Francisco. Freight costs about 10c. per pound, A missionary coming here should bring in at least a year’s supply of clothing, ete. In winter it is sometimes 70 dezrees below zero and in summer 110 degrees above. A difference of 70 degrees in 24 hours is not unusual, from 30degrees above tu 40 degrees below or from 110 above to nearly freezing point.

rr NOTES AND COMMENTS

—The following is from the report ofthe fourth day’s proceedings of the second in- ternational library confercnce in the Lon dop Times of July 17: “ Mr EF Blake Crofton, librarian, legislative library, Halifax, Nova Scotia, gave“ A Hint in Cataloguing,” of which the objeet was to show tue unconscious kumor of books, with arerious purpose, which contained much unconscious drollers. There were, for example, biographical books published in Canada in which the lives were written on the basisof the amount paid by the subjects of the memoirs; thus clerical and other obscurities were included, whilst the great men of the time were left ont.”

—Commenting upon the recent decision of the Crown Law officers of Great Britain the Evening Mail eays—‘ We know of no instance in Canadian history in which a Canad'an government suffered

THE DAILY EXAMINER, CHARLOTTETOWN, AUGUST 12, 1897

ment he rose, and ina set speech argued for the Government that the provisions of the British trade treaties with Belgium and Germany did not apply te the case of a self-governing colony like Canada, and, therefore, that a cnstoms preference could be given to British goods without ex- tending like privileges to the question. It was immeaiately declared tbat this settled the matter, and that Belgian and German goods would have to be admitted into Canada on the same terms | as British. Now it is announced that the Government, of which Sir Lonis H. Davies is a member, has that Belgian and German goods must ad-

sountries in

decided be mitted on the same terins as British.

LINCOLN’S HORSE TRADE:

Presidert Lincoln’s reputation as a

humorist rests largely upon the good stories he could teil or invent, to illustrate a point. Sometimes, nevertheless, he ex- hibits himself as a joker in another way,

aa in this anecdote narrated by Round Table : One day Lincoln and a certain judge, an intimate friend, were bantering each other about horses, a Finally, Lincoln said : ;

Harper's

favorite topic.

* Well, look here, judge, ]°ll tell you what lll do. I'll make a horse trade with you, Oaly it must be on these stip

ulations : Neither party shall see the other’s horse until it is produced here in the courtyard of the hotel, and both parties must trade horses. If either party backs out of the agreement he does so under a forfeiture of $25,”

* Agreed,” cried the judge, and both he and Lincoin went in of their respective animals.

A crowd gathered, anticipating some fun, and when the judge returned first the langh was uproarious. He led,or rather dragged at the end of a halter the meanest, boniest rib-starving quadruped, blind io both eyes, that ever pressed turf, but presently Lincola came along carrying over his shoulder a carpenter’s horse. Then the mirth of the crowd was furious. Lincoln solemnly set his horse down, and silently surveyed the judge’s animal with & comical look of infinite disgust.

“ Well, judge,” he finely said,“ this is the first time | ever got the worst of it in a horse-trade.”

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STANZAS FOR MUSIC.

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When upon the pass I ponder, When I think on days to be; Fated far from thee to wander, Still my heart abides with thee.

Cruel time my hopes has shaken, Like the autumn leaves that fall; But the epring-time joys awaken When thy kindness I recall.

Though no more the notes of gladness Speak the lover’s heavenly flame, Yet I hush the voice of sadness

With the music of thy name.

Every load of care I lighten, Every grief I can beguile, Every shadow I can brighten With the mem’ry of thy smile,

Beaming through the darkened disiance, Like the orb that l'ghts the pale,

Still the load-star of existence

Cheers and guides my erring soul. Lonpox, Aug. 9.—The Countess of Cowley, the trial of whose action for divorce from her husband, Earl Cowley, began in the divorce division of the high court of justice in October last, has been granted a decree of absolute divorce, and has been allowed alimony to the amount of £2,200 a year for life:

Orrawa, Aug 9.—The Dominion gov- ernmeat has made application to the U. S. Government to be permitted to build a telegraph line from a navigable point on the Lynn canal to Tagisp, across the sum- mit,@ distance of nearly one hundred miles, #0 that communication may be had with the interior of Yukoa all the year around. This would place the Klondike within a couple of weeks’ travel of com- munication with the outside world. So far, no reply has been received from Washington.

The Attorney-General of New South Wales thinks thirty thousand dollars too much to pay for the extradition from the United States of Frank Butler, the bush murderer. There isa general opinion in connection with all extradition proceedings that lawyers cost more than they are worth; but it is only now and then thata bose among them of the size of an attorney- general is found to declare it.

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@ more severe or humiliating rebuff. s Dominion and Provincial statutes have, Ca | a jt is true, been declared ulta vires before

thie, bui these statute: only applied to our

selves—to purely domestic affairs, But SQSVStUVes

in this tariff matter we recklessly under

took to put our own interpretation on Im- perial treaties an absolutely absured iu- terpretation as has been demonstrated, and to defy the world. The reault is that in Canadian history

forthe first time

Hotel guests are having good fishing from Tracadie Harbor of Cod and Mackerel.

Canadian statesmen have taken up a} Good boat, bait and fishing

position in respect to other natious from which they have beep compelled to recede,

and to pay damages for taking it.

—Montreal Gazette: Sir Louis H Davies’ | reputation as a legist has had another vin-

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Tne Passing of the Cayuse,

Fossil collections gathered in old lake beds of eastern Oregon demonstrate that the broad plains between the Rocky and Cascade mountains were the original habitat of the prehistoric horse, a fleet little animal no larger than a fox which in the long ago scampered over the lonely land. After the lapse of ages the modern horse is now to degenerate upon the stamping ground of his ancestors. The cayuse has become so valueless by the invasion of the electirc car and the bicycle and the disappearance of the stagecoach and the wagon train that the halter has been taken from his neck and he has been turned loose to struggle with nature for his own subsistence, Over this section mauy thousand head of wild now roam as untram- meled as in prehistoric days, and during the past winter these perished in large mbers,

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he well bred horse can still look civi lization In the face and demand shelter aud oats In bundanee. — Spokane Spe inan-Review.

Two Definitions of Poetry. litor, being asked to detinition of ‘‘poetry,’’ replied: nothing more than words thrown tegether with a jingle at the enc of each line like the music cf a tin cain ut the end ef a dog’s tail.”’

Wet to be ou‘done by the above, a Georcia editor adds this opinion:

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stitrtion. There He Drew the Line. “Pardon me,”’ said the polite highwar- man, ‘‘but I must ask you tostand and deliver.’’ The coach stopped. The door opened with surprising alacrity and a young wom- an with a very large hat stepped out into the moonlight. In her hand she helda siwall leather covered box. ‘‘Here they are,’’ she said cheerfully. ‘“What?’’ said the highwayman. ‘‘My diamonds,’’ said the lady. an actress, you know, and’’— The highwayman leaped upon his horse. ‘‘Madam,’’ said he, removing his hat eracefully, ‘‘you must excuse me. I may bea highwayman, but I am not an ad- vyertisement.'’—Boston Budget.

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An African Menu.

Attendant— What would your illustrious eminence be pleased to eat for dinner todag?

African Chieftain—I think a hump would be very vice.

Attendant—Pardon me, sire, but do you mean from a dromedary or a bicycle rider?—Londor Answers, =,

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MY LADY’S SECRET.

My lady always smiled—not much to do, But when the hours and days increase in care, And dreariness and weariness pursue, When youth and love grow dim in backward view, And lite is but to bear and still forbear, Ah, then, her gentle sweetness, undefiled By years of bitterness, shone forth. She smiled.

My !ady always smiled, in life and death. Some envied her a life that seemed all smiles, And some cried out or caught a sobbing breath, Self pitying, and God and man reviled, But some, to sorrow’s burden reconciled, Were glad the gladness of her face to see Through toil and care and heartless apathy.

But when they laid my lady with the flowers To sleep, where wake a thousand smiling springs,

A solitary father, praying hours

Beneath grand arch and grave cathedral towers,

Thar ied, for my lady’s rest, the King of k‘ugs.

He knew her soul had yearned a weary while Te aleep aud rest the burden of a smile! —Pearson's Weekly.

“nAC’S”” IN PAST CABINETS.

McKinley the First ““Mc” In the Presiden- tial Chair.

Major McKinley was the first ‘‘Mc’’ to be president, but ‘ 8‘ in the cabinet are no novelty. Washington had one in his second cabinet, he being James Mc- Henry of Maryland, who was appointe¢ secretary of war Jan. 27,1796. McHenry wus also secretary of war under Presi- dent John Adams.

The next ‘‘Mc’’ to be chogen to a cabi- net position was John McLean of Ohio, who was appointed postmaster general by President Monroe June 26, 1823. President John Quincy Adams contin- ued McLean as postmaster general dur- ing his administration.

Andrew Jackson, remembering his ancestry, made a ‘‘Mc’’ secretary of the treasury. ‘iis was Louis McLane of Delaware. His appointment was made Aug. 18, 1831. Two years later (May 20, 1833) Jackson made McLane secre- tary of state, he succeeding Edward Livingston of Louisiana.

In 1841 President John Tyler went to Ohio for a ‘‘Mc’’ for secretary of war, choosing John McLean, who had been postmaster general in Monroe’s cabinet. | _ President Millard Fillmore had a ‘*Mc”’ for secretary of the interior. This was Robert McClelland of Michigan, who was appointed March 7, 1853.

M@&rch 7, 1865, President Lincoln ap- pointed Hugh McCulloch of Indiana sec- retary of the treasury, which position’ he filled while Andrew Johnson was president.

The secretary of war under President Hayes was a‘‘Mc.’’ This was George’ W. McCrary of Iowa, who was appointed March 12, 1877, and was succeeded by Alexander Ramsey of Minnesota Dec. 12, 1879.

The next ‘‘Mc’’ to sit in the cabinet was Wayne MacVeagh of Pennsylvania, . who was attorney general under Presi- dent Garfield.

There have been four secretaries of war whose names begin with ‘‘ Mc,’’ two secretaries of the treasury, two post- masters general, one secretary of the interior and one attorney general.

Of the letters following the ‘‘Mc’’ three have been C’s (three distinct per- sons, three different positions), two have been H’s (the same person, same posi- tion), four L’s (two persons, five posi- tions), one V.—Salt Lake Herald,

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So busy that we did not have time to advertise and tell you all the fine things we have for this season aad the low prices we are selling for, but the people find us out, for it takes over forty people to keep tie orders we get made ap, 30 it Keeps us moving to keep everything going right, But for those who do not know, we might say that we keep all the old reliadte cloths such as Bellwarp Coating and Serges, Tyke and Blen- heim Serges, Fashionable Trouserings to no end. Come and see us and see our stock and the fine clothes we make,

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— are “right ia it” as the saying goes in this thing of selling boots and shoes.

See our $1 Ladies’ laced kid boots ; chocolate shoes at 90c and $l and upwards.

Girls’ Button Shoes, 75c, and 90c.

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