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GOLD DUST WITH LOVE.
NUGGETS AND ROMANCE IN THE
PLACERS OF THE KLONDIKE.
Clarence J. Kerry. Only Recently a Poor
Farmer, Now tlio Barney Baraato of
tl.e Fields—Wedding Trip of Fifteen
Months Was Worth a Million a Month.
Clarence J. Berry is the Barney Bar
nato of the Klondike. He took $130,-
000 front the top dirt of one of his
claims in live months. He kept it all
but $22,000, which he paid to his min
ers. He did not have to give his
wife even so much as pin money. She
had a pan of her own. She would oc
casionally get time from her sewing
and mending to drop around to the
dump. She sifted out SIO,OOO or so
in her spare moments. This was her
amusement in the strangest year’s
, honeymoon that is recorded. The two
' started fifteen months ago as bride and
groom. She was the devoted sweet
heart of a poor Fresno farmer. They
have returned to San Francisco with
all kinds of gold dust, nuggets and
coin. They have millions in sight, and
behind the "millions is a pretty romance.
Berry was a fruit raiser in the south
ern part of California. He did not
have any money. There was no par
ticular prospect that he would ever
have any. He saw a life of hard plod
ding for a bare living. There was no
opportunity at home for getting ahead,
and, like other mem of the Far West, he
only dreamed of the day when he would
make a strike and get his million. This
was three years ago. There had then
come down from the frozen lands of
MRS. CLARENCE J. BERRY.
(As she appeared on her wedding trip to the Klondike gold fields.)
Alaska wonderful stories of rewards
for men brave enough to run a fierce
ride with death from starvation and
oold. He had nothing to lose and all
to gain. He concluded to face the
dangers. His capital was S4O. He
proposed to risk it all—not very much
to him now, but a mighty sight three
years ago. It took all but $5 to get
him to Juneau. He had two big arms,
ihe physiqucof a giant and the courage
of an explorer. Presenting all these
as his only collaterals, he managed to
squeeze a loan of S6O from a man who
was afraid to go with him, but was
•filling to risk a little in return for a
promise to pay back the advance at a
fabulous rate of interest.
Juneau was alive with men three
years ago who had heard from the In
dians the yarns of gold without limit.
The Indians brought samples of the
rock and sand and did well in trading
them. A party of forty men banded
to go back with the Indians. Berry
was one of the forty. Each had an
outfit—a year’s mess of frozen meat
and furs. * It was early spring when
this first batch of prospectors started
out over the mountains and the snow
was as deep as the cuts in the sides of
the hills. The natives packed the
stuff to the top of the Ohilcoot Pass.
It was life and death every day. The
men were leit cue by one along the
cliffs. ,
Uj.;,t--nnii ' Th . p whole
nn i fu of supplies went down in take
Bennett. The forty men had dwin
dled to three —Berry and two others.
The others chose to make the return
trip for more food. Berry wanted
gold. He borrowed a chunk of bacon,
and pushed on. He reaohed Forty
CLARENCE J. BEERY.
(The poo*' California farmer who found a
.* itune ia the Klondike.)
Mile’ Creek within a month. There
was not a cent in his pocket. The
single chance for him was work with
those more prosperous. His pay was
SIOO a month. It was not enough,
and, looking for better pay, he drifted
from one end of the guloh to the other,
always keeping his shrewd eye open
for a chance to fix a claim of his own,
There was a slum in the prospeots of
file district and he concluded to go
back to the world.
The slump was not the only reason.
There was a young woman back in
Fresno who had promised to be bis
wife. Berry came from the hidden
world without injury and Miss'Etliel
D. Bush kept her pledge. They were
married.
Berry told his bride about the possi
bilities of Alaska. She was a girl of
the mountains. She said she had not
married him to be a drawback, but a
companion. If he intended or wanted
to go back to the Eldorado, she pro
posed to go with him. She reasoned
that he would do better to have her at
his side. His pictures of the dangers
and the hardships had no effect upon
her. It was her duty to face as much
as he was willing to face. They both
decided it was worth the try—success
at a bound rather than years of com
mon toil. Berry declared he knew ex
actly where he could find a fortune.
Mrs. Berry convinced him that she
would be worth more to him in his
venture than any man that ever lived.
Furthermore, the trip would be a
bridal tour which would certainly be
new and far from the beaten tracks of
sighing lovers. •
Mr. and Mrs. Berry reached Juneau
fifteen months ago. They had but lit
tle capital, but they had two hearts
that were full of determination. They
took the boat to Dyea, the head of
navigation. The resj of the distance
—and distances in Alaska are long—
was made behind a team of dogs. They
slept under a tent on beds of boughs.
Mrs. Berry wore garments which re
sembled very much those of her hus
band. They came over her feet like
old-fashioned sandals, and did not
stop at her knees. They were made
of seal fur, with the fur inside. She
pulled gum boots over these. Her
YUKON MINER IN WINTER GARB.
skirts were very short. Her feet were
in moccasins, and over her shoulders
was a fur robe. The hood was of
bearskiu. This all made a most heavy
garment, but she heroically trudged
along with her hufctiand, averaging
about fifteen miles each day. They
reached Forty Mile Creek a year ago
in June, three months after they were
married. They called it their wed-
ding trip.
Klondike was still a good way oft',
and it was thought at first that the
claims closer at baud would pay. One
day a miner came tearing into the set
tlement with most wonderful tales of
the region further on. His descrip
tions were like fairy tales from “Arab
ian Nights”—accounts fitting actually
the scenes iu spectacular plays, where
the nymph or queen of fairy land bids
her slaves to pick up chunks of gold
as big as the crown of a hat. Berry
told the tale to his wife. Bhe said she
would stay at the post while he went
to the front. There was no rest in
the camp that night. Men were rush
ing pell mell, bent on nothing but get
ting first into the valley of tho Klon
dike and establishing claims. Mrs.
Berry worked with her husband w ith
might and main, and before daylight
he was on the road over the pass.
There were fifty long miles between
him and fortune, and he worked with
out sleep or rest to beat the great
field which started with him. He
made the track in two days. He was
among the first in. He staked claim"
forty, above the Discovery, which
means that his property was the forti
eth one above the first Aladdin. It
was agreed that each claim should
have 500 feet on the river—the Bon
anza. This was the beginning of
Berry’s fprtune. Ho then began to
trade for interest in other sites. He
secured a share in three of the best on
Eldorado Creek. There is no one
living who can tell how much this
property is worth. It has only been
worked in the crudest way, yet five
months netted him enough to make
him a rich man the rest of his life.
There are untold and inestimable mill
ion's where the small siim from the top
was taken.
Berry wanted to bring his bride to
him from the settlement and he pro
ceeded to built himself a house. It
was of logs. He built it solid and then
sawed holes for the door and windows.
This was late last summer. The ther-
mometer was getting accustomed to
standing at forty degrees below zero
day in and out. Mrs. Berry trudged
through the nineteen miles of hard
snow and took her place in the hut
with her husband. There was no floor,
but the snow bank. It cost the couple
S3OO a thousand feet to get firewood
hauled, and but little chance
to use fuel save to thaw out the moose
and caribou which the Indians
peddled.
This new gold king and queen made
the first strike of a year ago in Novem
ber. They were working along El
dorado Creek, a branch of the Bonan
za, which empties into the Klondike
about two miles above Dawson City.
Their site was the fifth one above
where the first discovery had been
made in this particular region. It
took nearly a month to got into paying
dirt, but when the vein was opened it
was simply awful. The first prospect
panned $2 and $3 to the pan. It grew
suddenly to $25 and SSO a pan, and
kept increasing. It seemed they had
tapped a mint, and one day Mr. and
Mrs. Berry gathered no less than $595
from a single pan of earth. This they
have saved in a sack by itself, and the
people who have listened to the strange
stories of the young man and his
young wife have no fear that they have
been mistaken. They have left no
room to think they are not telling the
truth—truth which seems probable in
the face of sacks and lumps of gold
which they have not yet had time t o
send to market. They have it piled
up in their rooms in the hotel in San
Francisco.
Berry and his meh worked five
months at this claim. They thawed
and washed thirty box lengths of soil.
This brought him $130,000, out of
which he paid $22,000 for help. Ho
then put fifteen miners at work in his
best diggings and started home to get
some coin. He has acquired five
claims, all of which are being worked.
He has not the slightest idea how
much he is worth. He guesses that
he has at least $1,000,000 more ready
for him by this time. It may be twice
or three times that amount. He has
a good wagon load of the yellow stuff
in the safety deposit vault. Mr. and
Mrs. Berry have one of the best rooms
at the best hotel on the coast. They
have leaped from poverty to ivealth in
a single twelve months.
Mr. Berry is going to leave in a few
days with his wife to see the farm
where he used to raise plums and
peaches. He is going to buy the place,
just for memory's sake. Mrs. Berry
wants it. She will live there the rest
of her life. The pin money she panned
out—slo,ooo—is to go for a new'house.
She has had enough of the Klonkike.
Her new king and the new gold king
of the coast will go back in the spring.
There is no chance that his property
will be jumped or robbed. He has
left it in trusted hands. Berry talks
in immense figures. It is possible to
deduct half as a tribute to blinded en
thusiasm, and he will then have enough
to rate him among the very richest
men of the world.
Berry gives all the credit of his for
tune to his young wife. It was possi
ble for her to have kept him at home
after the first trip. She told him to
return —and she returned with him.
It w r as an exhibition of rare courage,
but rare courage rarely fails. The
weddiug trip lasted fifteen months.
Berry says it was worth $1,000,000 a
month. This estimate is one meas
ured in cold cash —not sentiment.—
Chicago Times-Herald.
Incident of Travel Abroad.
Cliauncey M. Hepew tells this char
acteristic incident of the difference of
travel on railroads in Europe and
America: “It was at the station of
Bingen on the Bhine. I said to the
station master, ‘Why is your train a
half hour late?’ The station master
said, ‘I don’t know.’ ‘Well,’ I said
to him, ‘I am the President of the
New York Central Railroad, and if
yon were a station master at Peekskill,
on our line, I would discharge you in
twenty minutes if you did not know r
why tho train was a half hour late.’
‘Veil,’ said the station master, ‘I dell
you vat is de matter mit your railroad
men over dere; you are always going
chook, chook, ekook; over here ve let
dings take care of demselves and ve
live forever.’ ”
But Mr. X>spew adds that, so far as
the handling of trains, safety and
speed are concerned, the American
railways are far superior to those of
Europe.—New York Herald.
THE LARGEST WOODEN BUILOINC IN THE WORLD.
I
The chief feature architecturally of the Swedish National Exposition at
Stockholm is the Industrial Hall, shown above, which is said to be tbe largest
wooden building in the world. It is constructed of wood because lumbering is
tbe greatest industry of Sweden and Norway. The hall is built, in the middle
of the exhibition grounds, adorned with a large cupola arising to abeight of
about 100 meters. The cupola itself is surrounded by turrets resembling
minarets; in which lifts asoend to the uppermost platform, from where an ex
tensive view is to be bad of the exhibition grounds, the capital and its en.
virohs, so much renowned for their beauty.
WORLD’S YOUNCEST CYCLIST.
A Seventecn-Montha-Olil Chicago Boy Who
Bides a Wheel.
This is thepiotnre of Harry W. Sibl
ing, the tiniest cyclist in the world.
I He is only seventeen months qkl and
rides what is probably the smallest
wheel ever built for practical riding.
His mount weighs 55 pounds, has a
frame 7 5 inches high, and the diame
ter of the wheel is ten inches, It is
perfect in equipment, all the parts
having been made especially for the
diminutive machine. Even the lamp
is a midget.
Under the guidance of his father or
some friend of the family the little fel
low pedals along Chicago boulevards
with a solemn and dignified air, tak
ing no heed of the attention he is at-
HAItBY SEINING, YOUNGEST WHEELMAN.
tracting. Occasionally observing a
scorcher flash by crouching over the
handlebars, Harry tries to do likewise,
to the huge delight of the spectators.
He is learning the pedal mount and is
already making feeble tries at simple
tricks.
A Cat Tliftt Dives For Fish.
Most cat3 are afraid of water, but
the tabby mascot that sails the sea* on
board the British cruiser Pallas is an
exception. This cat has more of the
habits of a muskrat than of the ani
mals of its own kind. From kitten
hood it has had a marked fondness of
water, and improves nearly every op
portunity to swim and dive. Bike all
cats it likes the flesh of fish, and does
not wait for the cook to serve. It has
contracted the unique habit of diving
off the side of the vessel whenever it
wishes a fish dinner, and seldom comes
rerr
to the surface without a good-sized
fish in its mouth. It hunts its water
game in much the‘same way that an
ordinary cat hunts mice. Crouching
on the deck it peers over the side,
ready to spring when its prey swims
along, and then dives with unerring
accuracy. This distinctively sailor cat
is the pet of the officers and crew, and
is regarded as the ship’s mascot. Its
fame has spread throughout Her Ma
jesty’s realm, and crowds collect to
w r atch its antics wherever the ship goes
into port.
Long-Distance Electricity.
It is proposed to deliver electrical
energy equivalent to 4000-horse power
in the car house at Los Angeles, Cal.,
from Santa Ana, a distance of eighty
miles, under a pressure of 33,000 volts.
The power station is in Santa Ana
Canyon, tw r elve miles from Redlands.
The current will be generated at 1000
volts and transformed up to 33,000.
Tbe Santa Ana River furnishes the
power. The water is to be directed
from the stream by a canal flume and
: tunnel work along the side of the can
yon to a point w'here suddenly it falls
through 2200 feet cf pipe a distance of
750 feet to the water wheels.
The Wisdom of Kruger.
A golfer in South Africa left his
property to be equally divided be
tween two sons. Not being able to
agree they decided to let President
Kruger arbitrate. He said to the
eldest: “You are the eldest, are you
not?” “Yes,” was the answer. "So
you shall divide the property.” This
pleased the older immensely. “You
are the younger,”continued Kruger to
the other, “so you shall have first
ohoice!” —Coif.
v CURIOUS FACTS.
A Harpswell (Me.) fisherman has a
frontyoru fenoe composed of the swords
of swordfish.
The highest church spire in Europe
is that of St. Walbnrgh, at Preston,
England. It is 303 feet.
Within a short period a Mount Eion
(Ind.) hen lias laid three eggs, each
eight inches in circumference.
At Heppner, Oregon, there is a band
composed entirely of women, which
furnishee music at celebrations in
nearby places.
English sparrows in droves, not to
say hordes, have picked all tlio grains
from the wheat stalks in a field outside
of Wabash, Ind.
When Mrs. Henry Bohrs was struck
and killed by lightning in her home
near Auburn, Neb., her baby was
thrown from her knee to a spot under
a table, but was not hurt.
Under Henry V. of England an act
of Parliament ordered all the geese in
England to be counted, and the
sheriffs of the counties were required
to furnish six arrow feathers from
each goose.
Residents of Lovilia, near Ottumwa,
lowa, have formed an organization for
the extermination of rats, and mem
bers are to devote one day a week to
the work of ridding the neighborhood
of the vermin.
Mrs. Keziah Hubbard, of Palmyra,
Me., at eighty-six does a good deal of
embroidery and patchwork in a year.
Among her recent work were an out
lined spread and a pair of pillow shams,
a tasselled quilt and a half dozen crazy
quilts.
A loving husband in Vienna, Austria,
committed suicide by hanging himself.
In his pocket was a letter in which he
left all his property—the rope with
which he had hanged himself—to his
wife, from whom he had been divorced
ten years.
A certain Boston dentist is such a
shrewd business man that he insists
on receiving payment in advance from
customers who require the administra
tion of anaesthetics. This is to guard
against the possibility of their dying
in the chair.
Jacob H. Tutliill, of Oregon, who is
eighty-three, jumped into the air and
kicked his heels together twice before
touching the ground the other day,
just to demonstrate to the people gath
ered at a family reunion how young he
still felt himself to be.
Pineapple gardens planted two years
ago at St. Petersburg, Fla., have
proved so successful that the acreage
given to them has been increased
largely by different investors. Vari
eties of the pines have been imported
from the Azores for culture here.
A postal card that required sixteen
years to travel ninety-nine miles
breaks the record for slow postal de
livery. It was posted in Leicester in
June, 1881, and has just been received
In London. The address was plainly
written on the card, and no one knows
where it has been all this time.
After the death of Prince Albert the
Queen went to the Highlands, and one
of her first visits was to a widowed
peasant woman. The two cried to
gether, and when the woman begged
pardon for not controlling her feelings,
the Queen said she was thankful to
cry with somebody who knew eiuictly
how she felt.
Miisii? as Medicine.
The power and influence of thought
in elevating ideals and eradicating
evil propensities opens up a field of
almost infinite possibilities for educa
tors, and those who have charge of re
foritiatories and penal institutions.
Music is another subtle remedial
agent, which is now being success
fully employed by the most advanced
physicians. “Of all agents able to
soothe a nervously strained and vague
ly conscious mind,” says Dr. Henrik
G. Peterson, in one of his scholarly
papers on “Hypno-Suggestion," “mu
sical harmonies stand assuredly fore
most.”
Dr. Peterson quotes from an arti
cle in a medical magazine of England,
giving the results of a soci iy known
as the Guild of St. Cecilia, in reliev
ing suffering and curi ig disease. Ac
cording to this paper, in one hospital
the proper music soo lied to sleep fifty
per cent, of the inmate v In another,
the temperature of seven out of ten pa
tients was lowered and became almost
normal whenever suitable music was
performed. The experiments proved
that music exercises a potent influence
on the nervous system, the digestion
and the circulation. —The New Time.
HittiiiK Power of Hie Ocean.
Landsmen who are slow to realize
the tremendous force of the sea had an
object lesson in New York City the
other day, when five large tanks, built
to contain 120,000 pounds of soap, but
temporarily filled with water, and
situated on the fourth floor of a large
building on West Fifty-third street,
New York, collapsed and completely
wrecked the whole structure, killing
three men and doing a large amount
of damage. The tanks were each
fifteen feet high and about thirteen
feet in diameter, and contained 161,-
703 pounds of water, but the floors and
supporting beams proved altogether
inadequate to stand the strain. A
wave of the dimensions of one of these
tanks is not at all unusual at sea, and
when such a wave breaks on a vessel’s
deck the force of the blow can only be
estimated by the amount of damage it
does in spile of the elasticity of the
water beneath the vessel to ease Ifsr in
receiving the shock. When the city
firemen state that a stream from a hose
under fifty pounds pressure will cut
through any ordinary brick wall, the
force of the sea in a gale may be,
perhaps, better imagined.—Home
Journal.
• A Veteran Parrot.
The “Daniels parrot” that died in
St. Johnsbury, Vt., the other day,
was fifty-one years old. He was taken
from the nest when very young, and
lived for fourteen years on the Isthmus
of Panama. For seven years he was
with the Spaniards in Mexico on a cat
tle ranch, and spoke Spanish well.
He spent eleven years on a steamboat
crossing'the Gulf of Mexico; three
years with the Wise family, in St.
Johnsbury, and for the last fifteen
years with the Daniels family, who re
ceived an offer of j£6s for him six years
ago from the managers of Barnum’s
circus. He laughed aud seemed very
bright almost to the time of his death.
POPULAR SCIENCE.
Borne butterflies have as many at
20,000 distinct eyes.
An electric omnibus, which goes
four miles in half an hour, is now run
ning in the streets of London.
Artificial rubber is being sought by
Mr. Berthelot, the French chemist,
who prediots that his product will be
better and oheaper tnan the natural
gum of Para.
The Japanese Government now
issues every day three weather charts,
which include observations in China
and the Lin-Kiu Islands, enabling
captains to ascertain the movements
of storms several days in advance.
Acute rheumatism is regarded by
Dr. Jaecoud as of bacterial origin, and
he looks upon the ease of a child born
with rheumatism while its mother
was suffering from a severe attack as
evidence of the infectious character oi
the disease. .
At the recent medical congress in
Berlin, the tuberculin tr-eatment for
consumption was hotly attacked.
Professor Liebreich, who vies with
Koch as a scientist, maintained that
phthisis occurred without the presence
of tubercle bacilli, and believed these
germs were only parasites that thrived
when there was a predisposition to dis
ease. Liebrecht held that the chief
thing is to increase the vital power of
the cellular tissues by sanitary living,
proper food and exercise.
The location of the stations for the
proposed earthquake survey of the
world is now an important problem.
The use of existing astronomical ob
servations has advantages, but Pro
fessor G. Grablovitz points out that
most of the active volcanoes are situ
ated near three great circles, and
suggests that the earthquake stations
should be established near the six
points of intersection of these circles
and at twelve other points symmetri
cally placed on the circles.
From the physiological point of
view Dr. Leon Muenier finds man
may be omnivorous, vegetarian or car
niverous, according to climate and the
necessities of the case. An exclu
sively animal diet, however, is injuri
ous. Man’s organization would adapt
itself more readily to an exclusively
vegetable diet, but there must he some
meat also for the most useful work.
Exclusive vegetarianism is the regime
of invalids, very effective in certain
diseases or morbid conditions. Well
persons can get along with it, but
without great advantage.
The Hindu Fakirs.
What the ascetics and the monks,
the orders of modern and ancient
churches alike, are to us the “fakirs”
are to the Hindu population. Given
any festival or any shrine of note, and
somewhere about you are sure to come
upon them in force, singly and by
companions. In one city, sitting round
the sacred “popul” tree, I counted
some twenty or thirty. Naked, but
not ashamed, with their hair and
beards long and entangled, showing
by the dust and dirt that cover them
their intense self-forgetfulness and
humilation, they are always ready to
attract your attention and beg your
alms. Never to take the eyes off a
single object of worship for years to
gether on a small barrow is no mean
feat, but to lean upon one’s arm until
it shrivels for want of use is an exam
ple of endurance and insensibility that
would be admirable enough in another
form, and that would certainly have
moved the early Christians to a fervro
of admiration. Though not equal to
them, the Mussulmans can show fan
atics of a considerable strain of piety
on the same lines. In the famous Ali
Musjid, through the Khaiber Pass, I
saw, in the midst of an admiring crowd
of soldiers and tribesmen, a holy man
of exceptional celebrity. The only
thing the “mulla" had on was a high,
sugar-loaf hat, made of leopard-skin,
which would be an insufficient cover
ing in our treacherous climate, and
seemed unsuited to the frontier cold.
He was evidently in a state of religious
exaltation, for he screamed and howled
continuously for days together. To
satisfy his spiritual cravings the by
standers kept plying him with tobacco,
which he put in his long pipe.—Lon
don Telegraph.
Diet of Grass.
Horses and cows eat grass, and so
do sheep and many other animals, but
it is not generally presumed that peo
ple do. However, William Gardner,
a Mississippi colored man, has been
living on grass and hogs’ fat for sev
eral days, so he says.
Friday afternoon Gardner was seen
picking handfuls of grass and jamming
it into his mouth, after which he
calmly chewed it in a very contented
and selt-satisfied manner. Several
persons saw him, and he ran down the
street as far as the dilapidated condi
tion of his shoes would permit. A
crowd of two hundred persons were
soon following him, and he finally ran
into the arms of Policeman Britton.
He said that he had no place to go and
was locked up on the charge of vag
rancy.
He told the officers he had lived on
grass for several days and was begin
ning to like the diet, as it was cheap
and agreed with him. The only objec
tion be had to it was that no one would
pick it for him or place it in his mouth.
He said he had been chased out.of sev
eral cities and came to Oleve’aud, as
he thought it a good place.
In the police court he said he, wanted
to go home, as he had “all kinds” of
friends in the South. Judge Feidler
gave him twenty-four hours to leave
the city, and if the spaed with which
William left the station is any criterion
lie is even now very near home.—
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Lotteries in Chiim.
As an instance of t> e practices of
hiua’s highest offici: Is, irrespective
>f the moral precepts be found in
cheir proclamations, it is interesting to
■ rote that the famous Weisiug Lottery
has just been farmed by the Govern
ment to three of the most prominent
men in the Empire. These are Li
lung Chang, the ei-Vioeroy of Can
>u; Shao Yu-lien, ex.-Goveruor of
-’ormosa, and Lin Hsuehhsuu, a chin
■ lih, or metropolitan gifeduate of con
siderably notoriety in Canton. • To ob
uia the sble right of controlling this
ottery these officials pay to the Im
■erial Government a sum of 1,600,000
,iels, and a further sum of 1,400,000
aels is required for working expenses.
WELL-TO-DO ROVERS.
An Kntlre Family Traveling About thd
Country in Wagons.
Recently a gypsy-like cavalcade
paused for a brief sojourn in Washing
ton’s suburbs. But the occupants of
the carriages were not real gypsies.
They wero the well-bred family and
attendants of Captain Jack Hayden,
formerly of Cincinnati, on their
northeastward travels away from the
warmer South. From here they moved
on into Pennsylvania. Years ago
Captain Hayden made up his mind to
see this great country in his own way.
So he fitted up a caravan of his own
design and plan, and began anew life
for health, strength, pleasure and
business. Since then he has traveled
thousands of miles by wagon. The
establishment consists of Captain
Hayden, Mrs. Hayden, two sons, two
attendants and 'ten horses. Captain
Hayden is the picture of health, n
good talker and ran over his story very
good naturedly. He said to a re-
porter :
" “I have covered this country, ex
cepting the New England States, pretty
thoroughly. Winter and summer wo
move about, just the same, managing
to get into the extreme Southern
States or Mexico during the coldest
months and working North with the
sun. I have never known what a day
of sickness is. I absolutely do not
know what it is to feel out of sorts.
At one time my wife suffered con
siderably from malaria and rheumat
ism, but this was when she remained
at our home in Cincinnati. A trip to
the woods and fields, large and in
cessant doses of pure air, and she’s
now all right again. All our vehicles
are easy running and our horses good,
and we can make many miles in a day
if occasion requires. ”
A big covered wagon is the sleeping
apartment of Mr. and Mrs. Hayden,
when in camp. It contains a hand
some bed with the neatest linen and
pillows, with lace and satin shams.
In this wagon there are also a hand
some cabinet filled with fine china
ware and the wardrobe of the party.
The arrangement of the doors and side
windows is such that thorough -ventila
tion is secured. >-■ <*■■**
“How about your comfort during
heavy rain storms, Captain?”
“We are never inconvenienced by
even the heavy downpours. Both
wagon and tents are waterproof, and
we rest as dry as punk. As for light
ning, I feel safer in the wagon or tent
than I would in a house, and I believe
I am so/’
“What is the prime object of your
travels?”
“I buy and sell horses as the gyp
sies do. I know I could do business
if located in some city, but the health
consideration is an important one in
the manner of life I lead. Our ex
penses for foodfor ourselves and horses,
horseshoeing, wear and tear, and re
pairs, toll, etc., run about S3O a week. ’
The, two sons aud attendants sleep
in the tent used as a dining room dur
ing the day. Two large shepherd dogs
guard the camp at night. The Cap
tain is well read on all subjects aud
his family is a bright one. He was
born in England, hut he came to this
country at an early age. He said in
conclusion:
“If more people knew the real pleas
ures of such a nomadic life, easy, rest
ful life, there would be hundreds liv
ing in the woods the way we do.
House living is not in it. I would not
dwell in a cottage if it was given to
me free of charge. Give me a life in
the woods with plenty of spring water. '
—Washington Pathfinder.
Wages Arc High in Japan.
The competition of Japanese labor,
which has been so much dreaded by
the American workman, is not likely
longer to be a menace if wages in Japan
continue to increase in the extraordin
ary degree they have maintained since
the Chiua-Japanese War.
United States Consul Connolly, of
Hioga, has supplied the State Depart
ment with tables, showing the wages
of various classes of labor, more or less
skilled, for 1894, 1895 and 1890, that
illustrates this wonderful increase in
certain lines. Argiicultural laborers,
m ale and female, have had their wages
advanced in that period of time from
.10 yen per day to .25 yen; weavers
from .15 to .35 yen; tailors from .60 to
1.20 yen; papermakers from .18 to .40
yen; blacksmiths from .45 to .85 yen,
and so on through many kinds of la
bor.
The Japanese manufacturers also ap
pear to be having their labor troubles,
which they are endeavoring to over
come in unique fashion, as shown by
the Consul’s report, based on newspa
per accounts. The great activity in
the cotton spinning industry has led to
a demand for labor in excess of the
supply. One great mill raised wages,
and thus enticed away labor from its
competitors. The latter replied by a
boycott against the offending mill, and
then sought forcibly to prevent the de
sertion of their operatives. Pickets
were located at stations and along the
river route, but notwithstanding the
boycotted mill continues to draw away
the laborers who manage to make their
escape. *
Fruit and the Complexion.
Each year people grow to appreciate
more fully ".he value of fruit, aud eat
it, not as a luxury, but as a staple
article of food. Fruits are nourishing,
refreshing, appetizing and purifying,
and consequently have effect upon the
health and the complexion. Yet there
are differences. Grapes and apples are
highly nutritious. Grapes usually
agree with the most delicate persons,
for they are so easily digested. Noth
iug is easier to digest than a baked ap
ple, taken either with or without cream.
Oranges, lemons and limes are of great
value as a means of improving the
complexion, aud they are especially
good if taken before breakfast. Kipe
peaches are easy of digestion and are
fattening. Nothing is better to enrich
the blood than strawberries, which con
tain a larger percentage of iron than
any other fruit. Fruit with firm flesh,
like apples, cherries or plums, should
be thoroughly masticated, otherwise
they are difficult to digest. The skin
of raw fruit should never be eaten, and
before eating grapes or any small fruit
care should be taken to remove all im
purities by washing. Never swallow
grape stones. Stale fruit and unripe
fruit should never be eaten, and very
acid fruit should not be taken with
farinaceous foods unless the person
has vigorous digestion. Chioage
Becord.