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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.