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LIFE IN THE KLONDIKE. HOW THE PEOPLE KEEP HOUSE IN THE CREAT COLD FIELD. Winter ainl Summer Habits ami Customs —All Trmllnjf Done in Gold Dust—The .llosqultoes Are There lnteresting T Facts About the Na t i ves of That Region. From all accounts, it would seem That the Klondike region is a sort of earthly paradise; no fighting no shoot ing, no lynching, no theft. It’s curious, too, for there are in Forty Mile Post, Dawson, Circle City and other mining towns, saloons by dozen, gambling hells, few women and plenty of men just like those who used to die with their boots on in California. No one ever locks a cabin door. You can leave a few thousands in gold dust lying around loose, and no one will steal it. This forbearance is not so remai-kahlo as it seems. If a thief did steal when there is nothing to break through he couldn’t spend his money or leave the country unsuspected. The upper circles of the Yukon Val ley usually dwell in commodious homes of boards well banked up with tail ings to keep the cold out, and measur ing some twelve feet by fourteen. A common household ornament is a hole in the floor, through which the owner can descend and dig pay dirt in the frosty bowels of the earth when he has time. Cooking is done on sheet iron stoves, very light and small, lugged over the Chilkoot with other belong ings. There isn’t generally much to cook on the stove except the three “Bs”—bacon, beans and bread. In summer there is fresh fish; in winter also, if a man cares to brave cold feet by standing on the ice to fish through a hole chopped in it. Besides, the bole has a way of freezing up again rapidly. The cold is not so terrible a bugbear as many imagine. The air is very dry, and it causes no discomfort to work out of doors with the thermometer at thirty below. General humidity makes the cold as well as the heat worse to bear. Miners generally wear in winter the native dress of skin trousers and parka, with boots of seal or walrus akin, made by the coast Indians. The iiliiu trousers are made of woodchurch pelts or fawn-skin trimmed with white wolfskins. Women wear the parka, or skin coat filched from the fawn or wolverine,hut they have to deny them selves the pleasures of dress reform so far as to wear light short skirts over their leather breeches and boots. In summer one can dress as in New York. Housekeeping is most primitive. Men are in vast majority, and it is customary, as it was in California, for them to select partners and live two in a “shack,” or cabin, to save house work and divide expense. In winter there are no means of bathing without extraordinary trouble. The snow seldom lies more than three feet deep, there are no thaws to make crust on its surface, and all winter traveling is done on sboeshoes. Prices are extraordinarily high, and vary according to circumstances, so that one can hardly tell what they will be next spring, when the new crowd gets into _ the diggings. Beef at fifty or seventy-five cents a pound is per haps a fair example. Last winter, be cause the preceding summer had been a bad one for salmon, bacon had to be fed to the sled dogs at a cost of twenty-five or forty cents a pound. And there have been times when a dog was wortli S3OO to]ki!l to keep some miner with plenty of “dust” but no “grub” from starving. There aim physicians in the Klon dike ami there will he hospitals at several points, established by the Sis ters of Mercy from Montreal. Last winter there was a benefit perform ance in Circle City, when a quarter of beef “snaked” into the country on a dog sled, was rallied off for S4OO for the hospital. Now Circle City is pretty well deserted, and the hospital will be needed more somewhere else. There is still a post-ofliee at Circle Oily, and mails come and go every month in winter, by carrier to Juneau. In summer what a change there is! The thermometer rises frequently above ninety. Men work sixteen and eighteen hours a day, sluciug out the dirt they have been digging out all winter, and drop dog tired into their bunks at night to dreamless sleep. They can vary their food only a little. Fresh salmon are usually plenty, but game is not. Hence the great bane of the country is scurvy. It is avoided by drinking a great deal of lime juice. A.better way would be to get fresh vegetables into the country, and there is no doubt that they could he grown with perfect success, not perhaps at Circle City or Dawson, but four or five hundred miles farther south, on the Tagish or Teslin Lake, and boated easily down stream towards autumn. 'True, the season is short, but growth is very rapid while it lasts. Many vegetable crops require but a short time to mature. The Danish settle ments in Greenland, quite as far north as these lakes, have pretty fair vege table gardens. The men who first get into business as market gardners, sup plying the . Yukon basin with fresh vegetables, will need no gold mines. Surveyor Ogilvie thinks that there may be room in the upper Yhikon re gion for 2000 fairly good farms. Gen era] farming will never thrive in this ' region, in his opinion, but tbe special industry of supplying fresh vegetables and meat, under admitted difficulties compensated for by high prices—that’s not the same thing at all. The day hasn’t come yet when you can get a nice Georgia watermelon in Dawson for twenty cents. Indeed, water melons can’t be raised on the Yukon. Mr. Ogilvie’s thermometer showed frost four times last August. So far as cattle are concerned, they can he driven into the mines, and kept fat on bunch grass all the way. Gold dust is the money of the Klon dike. It is reckoned at sl7 an ounce, but is hardly worth so much, the sam ples assayed iu San Francisco running rather lower. Nobody, seller or buy minds about enough gold dust to be worth a dollar or so. Nearly, every man carries a. pair of scales. Gambling is the great passion of the miner everywhere. “Easy come, easy go,” says the philosophical miner who loses at the table the dust he got by aching toil with the pick or at the sluice. There are children in Klondike noyr, wud a school is to be ready for next season. There has been a school at Circle City and another at Forty Mile. With all its faults, with all the dirt and privation and the sordid stvifo for gold, there is something simple and Hue about this mining society. There are no snobs iu it, no liveries except the livery of toil; no very rich men and few extremely poor; no thieves except those who practice the permit ted theft of the gaming table. One man is in literal truth as good as an other; there is chivalrous regard for women, kindness for misfortune and ready courage for emergencies. It is primitive society with its faults and its virtues, which are not the faults and virtues of the festering towns. There is manliness, at any rate; and there are genuine human women, with the charm that comes of open air living and plenty of exercise. The curse of the country—as of any gold region—is its instability. There is no use making pleasant homes in a mining camp. If it succeeds, the resi dents all expect to “make their pile” and “mosey for the States.” If it fails, every one will lie off for fresh diggings and leave the shacks pathet ically deserted. At one time the finest house in all Alaska was in Circle City. It cost S3OOO to build, but its owner was probably as ready as any one else to desert the place when the news of Klondike came. There can be almost no hooks or pictures in the Klondike, or the Yukon fields generally. Freight charges are high on the St. Michael’s route, and weight is eliminated as far as possible from a man’s pack when he tackles the dread Chilkoot pass. The dreary land scape, the almost perpetual sunshine of winter, which compels the resident to use snow glasses, if he would not be blinded, makes life weary and lack ing in variety. There is some relief when the magic summer brings out the scanty vegetation at a bound, further up the Yukon, but in its middle stretches the forms of flower and tree are monotonous, indeed, almost be ginning and ending with moss and scrubby little trees. Nature’s poor attempts at landscape painting are, at the best, soon marred by man. There is no occupation that spoils a country faster than mining. The great heaps of “slickens” or tailings disfigure every stream, and the face of nature is all cut and gashed and hacked with prospect holes. Mosquitoes are the plague of life throughout Alaska and the Northwest Territory. Schwatka says they sting the bears so as to drive them crazy. When the poor animals are driven by hunger down to the river iu mosquito time they are so bitten about the eyes as to become blinded, when they die of starvation. The late E. -T. Glave wrote of the pests: “A liberal daubing of bacon fat and pitch around the eyes and ears of our animals kept those sensitive parts free from the pests, and when my own head grew so bumpy I could not get my hat on I applied the remedy to my own anatomy with a good deal of suc cess. When not feeding, our horses would leave the sheltered places and seek the open stone to avail themselves of whatever breeze was blowing; they would then stand in couples, so that each would have the benefit of the other’s tail as a switch.” Cattle are so maddened by the mos quitoes that they will gallop half a mile at top speed against the wind in an endeavor to shake them off, and then graze until the mosquitoes force them to make another dash for life. As the miners’ camps are necessarily always in lowlands along the creek bot toms the suffering from these pests is considerable. Slavery and human sacrifice were common among the Chilkoot Indians a generation ago. These people remain a savage, brutal race, and the average miner has more direct dealings with them going in or out over the pass than he is apt to have afterwards with the Yukon tribes. . These coast Indians are the fellows that pack miners' outfits over the Chil koot Pass at twenty cents a pound. They are tricky and dishonest, and main:- use of ali sorts of devices to cheat the traveler, and they lord it unmercifully over the Indians just be yond the divide. The Indians of the middle Yukon are a more friendly ami humane, if not more intelligent lot of people. The miners see much of them. They will sometimes hire out to do day labor in the placers, hut prefer fishing, and stolidly keep on in their old ways, in spite of the rush and flurry of the gold fever. They are very superstitious and believe that iu parts of the coun try distant from them dwell superhu man monsters who eat people and are very fierce and cruel. These Indians are now generally fairly well-behaved and contented under the Canadian Government. A perennial charm of Y'okou society is the fresh and youthful vigor of the men found there. Probably the aver age age is less than thirty-five. “An old miner” does not need to be an old man. A pioneer in the region may have had but ten years’ experience and be but little past thirty. The few wo men in the mines average even younger. The unfortunate there are, but not the aged, and poverty takes its ills philoso phically, having seen too many of the ups and downs of life to despair of a turn in the luck.—New York World. From Brickyard to Premiership, The late Sir Henry Pai-kes, Premier of New South AVales, was the son of a small farmer in Warwickshire. His career offers encouragement of the good, old-fashioned, l'apidly disappear ing sort, to ambitions small boys. His family moved first to South Wales, and afterwards to Birmingham; and young Parkes was sent to work when he was only eight years old. First ho was employed on a brick field, and afterwards as a turner; but, having married, he at last decided to better his condition by emigrating, and landed in Sydney in 1839 with a wife, a baby and three shillings. Fif teen years later he entered the New South Wales Parliament, and at last became Premier of the Colony. Asa boy he was passionately fond of read ing. Stamp Denominations. Of the 250 stamps which have been issued the values have ranged from one cent to SSOOO. Five dollars is the highest value among postage stamps, but newspaper stamps reach the SIOO mark, while a revenue stamp may representssooo. OUR BUDGET OF HUMOR, LAUCHTER-PROVOKINC STORIES FOR LOVERS OF FUN. Ambition’* Apogee— Even So—Not Fitted For the Task—Pure Love-Solved at Laftt— Bottling It Up—The Ruling Pen al on—The Safest Way—Not Expert, Etc.' The kiss of Famo and art for art’s suite wore his goal When Chromer, painter, with the world first wont to cope; But now ho barely pays for bread and board and coal By making lurid posters for Van Applo’s soap. —Town Topics. Not Fitted For the Tusk, “He can’t hoe his own row.” “No. He has been a rake all his life.”—Life. Even So. Gold is yellow, but there is a great difference between gold fever and yel low fever.—Judy. Bottling It Up. “Johnnie, I hope you are not be ginning to swear.” “Oh, no, not till I am as big as pupa!”—This Witty World. Pure Love. She—“Mr. D’Auber is wedded to his art.” He—“ Well, there’s nothing mer cenary about the union. ” —Life. Tin* Safest Way. “Why do you say we are perfectly safe if we elope on a railroad train?” “Because papa won’t pursue us un til he can get a pass.”—Chicago Rec ord. The Irony of Fate. “It’s hard,” said the menagerie lion. “What’s hard?” asked the kangaroo. “To be starved when I’m alive and stuffed when I’m dead.”—Piek-Me- Up. Solved at Last. Jawkins—“Why do they always call sailors ‘tars?’ ” Pawkins—“Because they’re so ac customed to the pitching of the ship.” —Punch. The Way He Lost Them. “I have never yet lost a patient,” said young Dr. Doce, proudly. “I can’t say that much,” replied Dr. Paresis. “I often have a patient get well. ” —Life. The Bicycle Back. “Our landlady had to lower the din ner tables three inches.” “Why did she do that?” “Nearly all the boarders are scorch ers.”—Chicago Record. The Haling Passion. Ho—“ That fellow is going to charge me only a dollar for this boat for the whole day.” She—“My! it’s a regular bargain sail; isn’t it, dearie?” —Judge. Some Difference. • Hewitt—“ How did you come out on your bets yesterday?” Jewett—“l broke even. How did you come out?” Hewitt— ‘ ‘Even broke. ” —Truth. Absent Presents. Mamie—“ Trust her? You surely don’t think she could keep your secret.” Jack —“Well, I’ve trusted her with other things and she kept them.”— Town Topics. Unanimity of Opinion. “Fellows, you wouldn’t take me to be a member of a millionaire’s family, would you?” “Frankly, we would not.” “Neither would the millionaire; I asked him last night. ” —Brooklyn Life. Not Expert. “I told her I was afraid to kiss her while we were on the tandem, for fear we would both fall off.” “What did she say?” “She said she hoped I didn’t call myself an experienced wheelman.”— Topeka Capital. In Her Name. Margins—“l heard that Kosutcli Wyrde has failed.” Bearish—“ Yes. He lost all his money. ” Margins—“ Who got it?” Bearish—“ Well, his wife got most of it.”—Up-To-Date. Telltale Buttons. “Matilda, I wish you would ask that young Mr. Peters to have his cuff but tons replated.” “Why, mamma, what do you mean?” “They seem to leave black streaks on the back of your shirt waist every evening. ” —Cleveland Plaindealer. Earned His Reputation. First Spectator (at the ball game)— “He is considered one of the most impartial umpires in the business.” Second Spectator —-“Is he?” First Spectator —“Yes; I’ve noticed that in nearly every game he is de nounced with equal vigor by both sides.” —Puck. Finale and Encore. He (trembling)’—“l have one last wi-wish to ask you before we part in anger forever.” She (sobbingly)—Wha-what is it, George?” He—“Wi-will you me-meet me next Th-Thursday, as usual?” She —“I wi-will, George.” Tit- Bits. Married Men Preferred. Mrs. Henpeck (with a self-satisfied air) “I notice that whenever Hard, Cash & Cos. advertise for clerks or salesmen, they always say Married Men preferred. ” Mr. H. (an employe of Hard, Cash & Cos.) —“Yes, the old tyrants. They want men who are Used to being bossed.”—New York Weekly. Not In His Set. “Fudhams, do you know Scorjel, the druggist?” “Only in albusiness sort of way. He is not exactly in our set, you know. One has to be rather careful how one— Alq Scorjel, good morning. Fine day.” “Yes, it’s a fine day. Mr. Fud hams, would it be convenient for you to pay me that sls you borrowed about six months ago?”—Chicago Tribune. Ahead of the Game. “It’s too bad!” ejaculated Hercules, throwing down sis paper pettishly. “I ’syas b?rh too soon. I was a man ahead of my ago. I ought to hare lived to-day, when I’d have a chance to be celebrated and get my picture in the papers.” “Why, aren’t you famous enough as it is?” asked Mars, surprised. “No,” grunted Hercules. “Just think what a grand centre I’d bo on a football team.” —Life. A Ilomloo. “It’s jes’ my luck,” said Farmer Corntossel gloomily. “I’m the wust guesser a-goin’. The only way fer a man to get along is to make up his mind wliut he’s a-goiu’ ter do an’ keep on doin’ jes that.” “Have you had bad luck?” “Nothin’ else. Last year I raised wheat when I orter hev tuck in sum mer boarders. This year I tuck in summer boarders when I orter hev raised wheat.” —Washington Star. Show* All tl Fire* In a City. The toposcope is a machine that ex hibits to the eyes of the observer a whole city and all the fires that break out in it. It is now in use in Vienna, Austria. The toposcope consists of a good telescope, which is solidly at tached to an arrangement of lovers, while graduated sections of a circle are arranged horizontally and verti cally iu such a way that the moving of the telescope sideways or up and down results in a change of the posi tion of the hands attached to the levers in reference to the graduated scale. It is obvious, the stability of the apparatuses being assured by their being firmly fastened, that whenever the telescope is focussed upon the same object the hands will point to the same figures on the horizontal and on the vertical sextant, and, since an index of the whole city has been made, it is a matter of but a few seconds when a flare is discovered at night to direct upon the spot of the toposcope on the respective side, to read off the numbers, to read oil' the numbers, to look up the object and to wire it to the central fire station, with all the details observed. Local conditions are necessary for the successful operation of this appa ratus. but in this case they are almost perfect. St. Stephen’s tower is over 500 feet high; the great area of the city is situated in the broad valley of the Danube, allowing an uninter rupted panorama to the city limits. The atmospheric conditions are also favorable. The toposcope up there works so accurately that even at night the exact house and number were often given to the central by the watchman on the tower, while the next fire alarm box, being at a dis tance of three or four blocks, could not have givji the exact location of the fire, and this would have delayed the arrival of the fire department ac cordingly. A Malay Forest. These forests are among the won derful things of the earth. They are immense in extent, and the trees which form them grow so close together that they tread on one another’s toes. All are lashed and bound and relashed in to one huge magnificent tangled net by the thickest underwood and the most marvelous parasitic growths that nature has ever devised. No human being can force his way through this maze of trees and shrubs and thorns and plants and creepers, and even the great beasts which dwell in the jungle find their strength unequal to the task, and have to follow game paths, beaten out by the passage of innumerable ani mals through the thickest and deepest parts of the forest. The branches cross and reeross, and are hound to gether by countless parasitic creepers, forming a green canopy overhead, through which the fierce sunlight only forces a partial passage, the struggling rays flecking the trees on which they fall with little splashes of light and color. The air “hangs heavy as re membered sin,” and the gloom of a great cathedral is on every side. Everything is damp and moist, and oppressive. The soil, and the cool dead leaves under foot are dank with decay and sodden to the touch. Enor mous fungous growths flourish lux uriantly, and over all, during the long hot hours of the day, hangs a silence as of the graveyard. Though these jungles teem with life, no living tiling is to be seen, save the busy ants, a few brilliantly colored butterflies and insects, and an occasional nest of bees high up in the tree tops. A lit tle stream ripples its way over the pebbles of its bed, ahd makes a hum ming murmur in the distance; a faint breeze sweeping over the forest gently sways the upper branches of a few of the tallest trees; but for the rest all is melancholy, silent and motionless. —Court and Kampong. Wire, a Protection Against Lightning. “People living in cities‘are prone to believe that the increasing number of telephone, telegraph and trolley wires increase the danger from elec tric storms,” writes Edward W. Bok, iu Ladies’ Home Journal. “On the contrary the maze of wires is a pro tection, and lessens the danger, since it is shown that where the wires at tract the electricity they hold it, and discharge it only at the end of the wires iu the central station. The fact is that of the 200 lightning accidents every year only an average of forty occur in the cites. The trees in the country are a far greater danger; they account for the proportion of four cases in the country to one in the city.” Field Glass Range Finder. An improved range finder for field glasses has a flat dial plate, subdivided to correspond with the focus of the glasses, rigidly attached near the rear end of the adjusting screw; a fixed pointer secured near the screw to the frame of the glasses indicating the adjustment upon a dial. A small wheel upon the adjusting screw turns it so that it will readily focus the glasses for various distances, and en abling the user to also estimate cor reotly the speed of advancing or with drawing objects. Royal Oculist. The Royal oculist, Duke Carl of Ba varia, has already done nearly 3000 operations for cataract, and .every one of these operations has been per formed between the morning hours of 6 and 8, as the Duke declares his nerves are strongest at this early hour and his h^nd_ most etaadjA A NECKLACE OF PEARLS IJPjB| Is a beautiful possesion. If a woman owns teg WB; >■?.: one, and if a single pearl drops off the string, W she makes haste to find and restore it. ■ Good health is a more valuable possession A—V NeC JmP'Y than a necklace of the most beautiful pearls, ' vet one by one the jewels of health slip away, t I and women seem indifferent until it is almost 'wl l To die before you are really old is to suffer premature death, and that is a sin. It is a sin lieeause it. is the result of repeated violations Pain, lassitude and weariness, inability to sleep, dreadful dreams, starting violently from flnV sleep, are all symptoms of nerve trouble. You cannot have nerve trouble and keep your health. In ninety-nine cases out of a / ■Sw’, hundred the womb, the ovaries and the bladder j I WBKV are affected. They are not vital organs, hence I j yfrs. Lydia E. Pinkliam’s Vegetable Com- • ' - | pound, by building up the nerves and restoring woman's organism to its natural state, relieves all these trouble some uterine symptoms. In confirmation of this we. by permission, refer to the following women, all of whom speak from experience: Miss Cki.ia Van 1© GdKffiilßa Horn, 1912 Sharswood St.. Philadelphia, Pa.; Miss J(l| Grace Comoro, 1434 Eastern Ave., Cincinnati, O.; Ypy. Jk 4/ Mrs. Newki.i., 50 Ryerson St,, Brooklyn, N. Y.: Mrs. f )"1 Isabel, Obebo, S2O Chestnut St., Woburn, Mass., WjTwjr )o£? i Mks. A. 11. Com:, New Rochelle, N. Y., and many I others • ” a For special symptoms Mrs. Pinkham has prepared a <sß 'Sanative Wash, which will cure local troubles. Give these w medicines a trial. j Write to Mrs. Pinkham, Lynn, Mass., if you are not quite / satisfied ; you can address private questions to a woman. Football and Matrimony. “There’s one thing,” said the expe rienced one, “that I’ve been thinking about.” “What’s that?” “The influence football will have on matrimony in the future. What young fellow will have the courage to ask a papa who ever played on a college eleven?”—Philadelphia North Ameri can. His Real Mean Meaning. Harper—lsn’t it wonderful! I don’t see how some of these magazines can he sold for ten cents. Brantwood—But look at the adver tising they have. That’s the way they make their money. Harper —You misunderstand me. What I can’t see is why people will pay the ten cents.—Chicago News. Excusable Jealonsy, “It fills me with envy,” remarked the man who wants an appointment, “to see that schoolboy trudging to his studies.” “You long for the pastimes of youth?” “No. I don’t care for them. But I’d like to be able to pass a civil-service examination as well as he could.” Out With It. Mrs. Ginger —How dare yon talk to me in that way? I never saw such im pudence. And you call yourself a lady’s maid, do you? The Maid —I was a lady’s maid be fore I worked for you, ma'am. —Bos- ton Transcript. Baby’s Sore M*al and chafed skin are quickly cured by Tetter ins. Don’tl et the poor little tiling scream it self into spasms when relief is so easy. Every skin trouble from a simple chafe or chap to the worst case of Tetter or Ringworm is cured quickly and surely by Tetterino. Atdruggists, or by mail for 50c. in stamps by J. T. Shuptrine, Savannah, Ha. When a man’s tongue is at a great rate his thought is generally out of sight. CHRONIC DISEASED ■—l ot nil forms SUCCESSFULLY TREATED. Rheumatism, Neuralgia, Bronchitis, Palpita tion, Indigestion, etc. CATARRH of the Nose. Throat and 1/tings. DISEASES} PECULIAR TO WOMEN. Prolapsus. Ulcerations. 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