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■ NTY ON YUKON gSitaiCiTaatilie Miners Seed Not SuL |w for For Food. ftlE* WHALERS WELL SUPPLIED SSfvlceH Indicate That the Proposed Gov- J fternment Relief (Expeditions Are Wholly Unnecessary. K-> WASHINGTON, Dec. 80.—[Special.]—Ac [ deeding to the best information obtainable ■ he's, those American citizens who are 1 Spending the winter in the far north, and fer whose relief Uncle Sam is moving with characteristic energy and generosity, have probably had a pretty good holiday 1 season, after all, and are not in danger of •tar vat ion. In these dispatches I have re peatedly pointed out a probability that both the whalers at Point Barrow, in the x Arctic sea, and the miners along the Yu ■kon are able to take care of themselves. FNow comes evidence in support of this ft theory. Two men who recently returned F from Dawson say there is no danger of starvation among the miners. Although coffee and sugar may run out, there is food enough in the country of one sort or t another to last till the opening of naviga tion in the summer. As there are 1,000 tons of provisions at Fort Yukon—the U highest point the steamers were able to Hget last fall on account of low water—it is ■ inconceivable that any of the miners ■ should starve, for it is no difficult matter m for them to travel the 200 or 300 miles be ■r tween their camps and the Fort Yukon ■ supply station. Americans who venture ■ into the goldfields are not the men to sit ■ down and starve when there is plenty ■within reach by means of a snowshoe jour ■ney of two or three weeks. B Still no one will criticise congress or ■ the energetic secretary of war for desiring K,to make assurance doubly sure by sending ■Jn a relief expedition. If new supplies are ■ plot actually needed, no harm will be done, ITat any rate, and the forwarding of these ■f relief trains will afford the world a lesson | in the watchful care which Uncle Sam ex I ercises over his citizens, whenever they F may be. F Relief Expedition Unnecessary. I One of the readers of your paper, who ft has just returned from Alaska, writes me It a most interesting letter. He says he is K familiar with the conditions which exist ■lup there, and that there is no need of a re- P lief expedition either for the miners or the whalers. Be points out that at Dawson, i which is in Canadian territory, there is a ■ sort of governoi general, with autocratic 8 powers, in the person of Major Walsh. Up ■hto dute he has made no report to the Do government of starvation or dan ■ ger in the Yukon region, which he would ■be very likely to doit there was any peril. ■ My correspondent writes: jll “I have recently returned from the ■ Mackenzie river, and the Hudson Bay p company had information from the traders I on the lower river in November that the | whaling fleet were gathered, as usual, at | Herschel island and were so well supplied with provisions as to be in a position to trade with the natives at prices against A which the overland traders could not com- Kwete If this was the case, surely the balers do not require aid by a tugboat will never reach them) or by a Bindeer caravan from St. Michael’s ||B-hich, in my opinion, will never get as ||Hr as Point Barrow). As for the Yukon and the effort to relievo them by from Lapland, I believe the ■steamers will be able to get up the river 1 to Dawson before the reindeer trains cover &half the trail from Dyea to the goldfields. ” Interest In the Arctics. |y The arctic and subarctic regions appear ■to be attracting more than their share of Btention of late. We have the government HLef expeditions to the Yukon and to gSHint Barrow, Dr. Nansen has just taken F|Too,oooof good American money through | his lectures, Professor Andree’s balloon ex -1 pedition is much written and talked about, and Lieutenant Peary is made a present ft>f a ship by Mr. Harmsworth, the London ’editor who three years ago pent an expedi tion to Franz-Josef Land, and with which Mr. Peary will next summer endeavor to reach the north of Greenland. There are still other expeditions in the air, and it is * obvious that for years to come public In terest will be largely turned to the frozen regions of the north. | It is considered not at all improbable “ that in a few years Alaska wIH be admit ted as a state. Next year 200,000 or 300,- ■ftelds. Some will go to stake out claims, to trade and speculate, and the lat sfßr are pretty sure to make the most money. F VY the Alaska gold deposits are as rich and i widespread as they appear to be, then the hj. future of that territory is a bright one. It . likely to soon have a population of a I smarter of a million souls, and this will be ’ ifa part a permanent population unless the Aid plays out. Those who are familiar with the territory say the greatest gold dscovertes are yet to be made, and after toe pan mining era then comes the use of k Machinery. Thfs latter will go on for ft many years. So we may expect to see P Alaska a state before long, and hero in Washington we shall soon have the pleas ure of interviewing “the senator from Alaska.” • Permanent Improvements. t Although it is true the richest gold dlg tfftlsgp are I)ow on Canadian soil, it is said men who have traveled through thf RED .ROUGH Lhands Hatching, scaly, bleeding palms, shapeless nails, Painful finger ends, pimples, blackheads, mothy skin,dry, thin, and falling hair, itch :<®PK, scaly acalps, all yield quickly to warm baths CtrnctiHA Soap, and gentle anointings Mkith CUTtcuiiA (ointment;, the great skin cure. R@ticura ■F7 ;« sold throughout th® world. Pom» Druq awd Chim. Co HP., Solo Props.. Boston. (tJ* “ How to Produce Soft, White Hands," free. JACKING HUMORS Cvticuba RkmkdiksZ THREE HAPPY WOMEN. ** Each Relieved of Periodic Pain and Back* jUir ache. A Trio of Fervent Letters. Before using Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound, mj health was gradually being under mined. I suffered untold agony from painfur menstruation, backache, pain on top of my I head and ovarian trouble. I concluded to y (* try Mrs. Pinkham's Compound, and found X SHSky that it was all any woman needs who suffers with painful monthly periods. It entirely cured me. Mbs. Georgie Wash, ®23 Bank St., Cincinnati, O. Tor years I had suffered with painful men situation every month. At the beginning of /fc , menstruation it was impossible for me to stand up L 7 for more than five minutes, I felt so mis erable. One . day a little book of Mrs. Pinkham’s was thrown into my . \ y house, and I sai right down and read it. I then got some J* °f Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Com pound and Liver Pills. I can heartily say that to-day I feel like a woman; my monthly suffering is a thing of the past. I shall always praise the Vegetable Compound foi what it has / - done for me. Mbs. Margaret Anderson, 363 Lisbon St., Lewiston, Me. Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound has cured me of painful men struation »nd backache. The pain in my back was dreadful, and the agony I suffered during menstruation nearly drove me wild. Now this is all over, thanks to Mrs. Pinkham’* 'nedicine and advice.—Mrs. Carrie V. Williams, South Mills, N. C. The great volume of testimony proves conclusi veiy that Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound is a safe, sure and almost infallible remedy in cases of irregularity, suppressed, excessive or painful monthly periods region that in the future the most promis ing and most permanent mining indus tries, those which employ machinery for extracting the precious metal, are likely to be on the American side of the bound ary line. Already it is pretty certain there will be a railroad Into Dawson City by next fall, and a telegraph line is to be run in early in the summer. With a great fleet of steamboats upon the rivers, a rail road, a telegraph line and many newspa pers, Alaska will soon begin to hold her head proudly and demands admission to the sisterhood of states. Walter Wellman. THE WILDS OF CHICAGO. Visitors to the Windy City Should Go Well Armed. [Special Correspondence.] Chicago, Dec. 27.—Perhaps the one thing that most excites the surprise of outsiders who come to this city for a visit is the equanimity with which the people submit to highway robbery. It is not that an occasional case occurs such as might shock any community, but that people are robbed with such regularity in public places that no one but the vic tims pays much attention to the facts. Even the newspapers that are supposed to be hunting for sensations do not re port them at length or put scareheads over the accounts. In last Sunday’s paper, for example, I find the accounts of three successful highway robberies and one burglary with a murderous assault all crowded into a quarter of a column with a two line head. All three were on principal streets. One was in a crowd in front of the Dearborn station, when a woman was seized by a heavily built man, who exclaimed, “You utter a scream and I’ll put an end to your yelling right in this crowd.” This, according to the report er, he said, “in an ordering tone.” The woman struggled, but did not dare to cry out, and the robber, finding that “the struggle began to attract the atten tion of passersby,” gave her arm such a violent wrench as to break it. The woman fainted and was afterward taken to a hospital. The robber, seizing her pnrse, dashed through the crowd and disappeared in an alley. It doesnot appear that either this case or that of a fire marshal who was drag ged into an alleyway off State street and stabbed and robbed was reported to the police. Anyhow, no arrests are re ported in either of the four cases, and no special interest seems to be excited. It is difficult to understand the coolness of Chicago people under the circum stances and impossible to think of sim ilar occurrences in other civilized cities being considered as everyday matters. D. A. C. The Greateat Discovery Yet. W, M. Repine, editor Tiskilwa, HL. “Chief.” says: “We won’t keep house without Dr, King’s New Discovery for Consumption, Coughs and Colds. Ex perimented with many others, but never got the true remedy until we used Dr. King’s New Discovery. No other remedy can take its place ip our home; as in it we have a certain and sure cure for Coughs. Colds, Whooping Cough, etc.” It is idle to experiment with other rem edies, even if they are urged on you as just as good as Dr. King’s New Dis covery. They are not as good, because this remedy has a record of cures and besides is guaranteed. It never fails to satisfy. Trial bottles free at Curry-Ar rington Company’s Drug Store. DON’T GO TO THE’YUKON. O/, If You Do, Try to Disbelieve What Captain Barr Says. [Special Correspondence.] Detroit, Dec. 27.—1 t is not likely that any one man by talking can stop the rush to the Klondike districts which is certain to come next spring, but what one man can do toward that end Cap tain J. C. Barr evidently does not in tend to leave undone. Captain Barr, who is now visiting in this city, is traus portation manager for the North Ameri can Trading and Transportation com pany. He returned in October last from a five years’ sojourn in the Yukon river district, and emphatically advises ev erybody to stay away from there. In speaking of the routes that have been planned out by study of the maps, especially one byway of the Mackenzie river and across the divide, where it is shown as only miles wide, w;th no the romb tribune. Friday, December 31, isi>7. mountains, fie says: “People'w'ho pro pose to go that way don’t know what they are undertaking. The coast of Alaska has been surveyed, but the maps of the interior are all guesswork. The United States maps of the Yukon coun try v.ere made up largely on distances given by myself, and I never measured one of them. But even if it were only 40 ir.il eq across at the point indicated and if the ground were level it is not likely Hint any one can cross there. It is boggy and overgrown with under brush. The only practicable travel is by the water courses. In summer the water does not sink into the ground, which only thaws a little way down, and in winter there is no snow. It is too cold. Eoar frost collects four feet deep, but it is so light you can’t travel on it with snowshoes. The so called mounted po lice are mounted in canoes. They can’t get around otherwise. “The mining is done in winter by building bonfires to thaw the ground. A man can thaw out with a cord of wood in 24 hours about two inches depth in a space 6 feet by 8. Next day he goes two inches deeper, and whu he gets down four or five feet he begins to tunnel to save heat, and so goes faster. Then the summer thaws destroy the winter’s work. The finding of gold is all a matter of luck. “I have known men who have been there 10 and 12 years and have been un able to get anything ahead because when they find gold they have to spend it all for food. Men die of gradual starvation. I saw two young men die of excitement after making their first strike because they were so weak from starvation that they couldn’t stand the shock. There is gold there, of course, but it is purely a matter of chance whether a man finds it or not, and the chances of death are greater.” . George Morley. BUCJKLEN’B ARNICA SALVE The beat salve in the world for cuts or bruises, sores, uloers, salt rheum, fever sores, tetter, chapped hands, chilblain corns and all skin eruptions and post t ely cures piles, or no pay required. It is guaranteed to give perfect satisi jetion or money refunded. Price 25 oents per box. For sale by Curry-Arrington Co., druggists, Rome Ga.* QnHstion'bf Headlines. One who has done institutional work among the Italians for years wonders why the printed stories of affrays among those people always are headed * * Stabbed by an Italian, ” etc. When the Irish or the Germans fight, attention is not called to their nationality in headlines, yet whenever a man with an Italian sound ing name commits a crime this distinc tion invariably is drawn. Italians fail to see the justice in it This particular man whose life has been spent among the Italians is sure that they do not have recourse to the stiletto as often as is represented. They are quick and sud den in quarrel, but so are the Irish. Why, then, should the Italian be singled out for obloquy? Often, too, it is a Greek with a mu tilated name who gets into a row and is credited with being an Italian. In the lower Italian quarter the Greeks and the Italians are hated rivals, and their similarity in names leads frequently to confounding their nationalities, when there is no need, according to this ob server, of bringing the nationality into the question at all.—New York Press. First Prize For Ugliness. This is the story of an ugly man, as told by a veteilin of the late war: “My cousin was the ugliest man in the regiment, ” said the raconteur. “He was the ugliest man, in fact, I ever saw. A general saw him and offered a prize for. the ugliest man in the army to encourage competition. A rival regi ment had its ugly man. The two were brought together. The general was there to act as referee. My cousin came up smiling and looked conteinptuously. at his adversary The other freak gave one look at my cousin. ‘Take him away,’ he shrieked, ‘he ain’t human.’ Then he covered his face and fled. It is needless to say my cousin took the prize. ” —New Orleans Times-Democrat. To Cure A Cold in One Day Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets, All druggists refund the money if it f Ails to cure. 25c. The genuine has L. B. Q on each tablet. MRS. JOHN W. GRIGGS. Probable Addition to the Ladies of tais Cabinet Circle In Washington. When Governor John W. Griggs of New Jersey goes to Washington as at torney general of the United States, the circle of cabinet ladies will secure a charming addition in the person of the popular wife of Mr. McKenna's succes sor. Mrs. Griggs is the second wife of the governor. She was married about five L ii r I® /■’ MRS. JOHN W. GRIGGS. years ago and has one daughter, Eliza beth. She is now about 30 years old. By his first wife, who died seven years ago, Governor Griggs has six children, four boys and two girls. The eldest boy is just 21. Mrs. Griggs is a particularly attract ive woman and agreeable in manner. All the children are jealously fond of her, and her love for them is unbounded. She is a splendid conver sationalist and a very keen observer. She takes an immense interest in hei husband’s career and has a pretty good insight into things political herself. She enjoys his pleasure and watches his suc cess with eyes brimming over with ad miration. Governor Griggs, like Vice President Hobart, lives in Paterson, and the two families are on very friendly terms. It was due to the influence of Mr. Hobart that the governor is about to enter the president’s cabinet. There is more Catarrh in this section of the country than all, other diseases put together, and until the last few years was supposed to be incurable. For a great many years doctors pronounced it a local disease, and prescribed local remedies, and by constantly failng to cure with local treatment, pronounced it incurable. Science has proven catarrh to be a constitutional disease, and there fore, requires constitutional treatment. Hall’s Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo. Ohio, is the only constitutional cure on the market. It is taken internally in doses from 10 drops to a teaspoonful. It acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. They offer one hundred dollars for any case it fails to cure. Send for circulars and testimonials. Address, F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, O. by Druggists. 75. A Mean Dog. He was a small boy—uot such a very small boy—in an out of town school. He had written a composition. It was upon the subject of doga Now the teacher of the school was a man, and he was not popular He was what the boys called * ‘mean. ’ ’ They disliked him thor oughly, from tbe tips of his shining shoes to the ends of his pompadour oom ti ed hair In the composition there was a story of a dog. It was the story of a very mean dog, and as the composer of the literary effort came to the last line he read it emphatically and with great distinctness of utterance, and the hearts of all the othfer small boys in the room, as they listened, quaked, half with de light and half with fear, knowing what was to follow, and gazing, fascinated, at the upright coiffure of the master, aS the reader ended, “And that dog was so mean that his hair stood on end. ” New Yor.k Tiipes Wasting in Children can be overcome in almost all cases by the use of Scott’s Emulsion of Cod-Liver Oil and the Hypophos phites of Lime and Soda, while it is a scientific fact that cod-liver oil is the most digestible oil in ex istence, in SCOTT'S EMULSION It is not only palatable, but it is already digested and made ready for immediate absorption by the It is also combined with the hypophosphites, which supply a food not only for the tissues of the body, but for the bones and nerves, and will build up the child when its ordinary food does not supply proper nourishment. system. 8 j’l \ Be sure you get SCOTT’S Emulsion. 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