Ligonier Banner., Volume 32, Number 23, Ligonier, Noble County, 9 September 1897 — Page 7

HUNDREDS MAY STARVE. Gold Is Plentiful, Food Is Scarce, - in the Klondike. “Stop the Crazy Rush to the Gold Fields,” !_l the Cry of Returning Miners — A Dishwasher’s : . Lucky Strike. The treasure ship Portland which arrived at Seattle, Wash.,recently brought 101 only $850,000 in gold nuggets, but alsc a crowd of hardy miners who were unanimous in advising gold-seekers to stay away from Alaska until next seascn. One of them went so faras tosay: *“Warn people to stay out of Yukon this year! Tell them it means starvaticon! Telegraph to every paper in the country that people will starve there if more people go inl” These warnings were repeated time and time again by each and every one of the Yukon miners who returned on the Portland. More than this, several of these have frankly stated that had they not realized there would not be suflicient supplies-in there for the-com-icg winter they would not have come out.

- These men are in earnest. They know wbhat they are talking about. These warnings, too, they asked the correspondent to write before they knew half the story of the insane rgdx to Dawson City. ' ' When they reached Dutch Harbor on their return and secured a few scatter-

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ing papers of late dates, the latest August 5, the one topic of conversation was what the situation would: be at D:wson and in the Yukon this winter, When the Excelsior arrived "at St. Michael’s. with her load of one hundred and thirty-odd people and the miners heard that the Cleveland would bring 15v more they talked strongly /then. They said that many people were going in and that supplies could-not possibly hold out during the winter. After leaving Dutch Harbor the partial extent of the rush dawned upon them, “My God,” said one man to the correspondent, ‘“what are they thinking of? Are people crazy? There will be ternible, horrible times on the Yukon next winter.. Starvation will stare them in the face long before spring.” ‘From his own personal investigation at St. Michael's the New York World’s epecial emissary is convinced that miners do not speak tco strongly. The ccmpany is doing its utmost to get supplies up the river, and, were it pos-: sible to do so, would have food for ali. But it labors under disadvantages which cannot be appreciated until seen. A serious mistake was made by the Alaska Commercial company in carrying up too much liquor on the last trip or two of the boats. The miners want food—not liquor. Last year, with 1,500 persons on the river and facilities for transporting very little under those of

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- this season, there was a serious shortage. This year these same 1,500 people must have supplies, and they with those who went in last spring, making a total of probably %@.OOO persons on the river before the last rush, will require every pound that can possibly be taken in. ; It is doubtful if 5,000 pounds will be taken up the river this season. That dees not mean 5,000 pounds of food by any means. Perhaps the large half wiil be food, but furniture, hardware,stoves, iquors, elothing, blankets, etc.,, wili ficure up nearly one-half. ) : Regarding the sifuation over the trails or the various passes the correspondent is not informed, but these same miners, cach and every one of whom has gone in over the trails, say that it is an utter impossibility to transport enough supplies over that route at this season of tlie year. ' In warning people to wait untilspring the writer simply acts for the miners who speak in the name of humanity. There is gold in the Yukon country—plenty of it—but to seek it this season urder these circumstances is no less - than sheer madness. It is even more. 1t is criminal to those who already are in the country. ' : Living 18 propcrtionately high, board at restaurants averaging six dollars a day, the lowest price being $1.50 a day. Lodging can only be had by putting‘ up one’s tent. Two hotels are being built and will be ready by winter, but e e e s

they will not begin to accommodate the people requiring lodgings. William Oler, who left Dawson City July 14, says that there was not at that time enough supplies at Dawson to last the people there over three months. *“] don’t believe,” he said, 'that there can be got enough supplies there this season to last half the people until the river opens next spring. [ saw oldtimers paying for their supplies in advance when I left. A friend of mine paid one of the stores $l,OOO in dust for goods that had not left St. Michael’s. Numbers of men have done the same. 1 don’t think there will be 1 pound of food left in any of the stores by December 1. Firewood will be at least $l5 a cord this winter and perhaps more.”

. One of the latest additions to Dawson is Jack Smith’s variety theater. This was opened July 12, and the opening night was a hummer. ‘Every inch of standing room was taken, and the miners were perched on every rafter. The sole performance was a “whirlwind” dance. The audience crowded the place so that the dancer had but a space less than ten feet square to dance in. The price of admission was one dollar. The saloons are doing a brisk business. Drinks are 50 cents for straight whisky; fancy drinks are $1.50. Cigarettes are 50 cents a box of ten. Cigars are 50 cents each, and everything else proportionately high. ) Dogs, which are valuable, are sold by weight. The holding price is one dollar a pound up to'7s pounds. For anytking over 75 pounds the price rises to $1.50 a pound. These were the prevail-

ing prices for live dogs for freighting purposes Jast winter. There is no telling what dogs, dead or alive, will be worth next winter. The nearest diggings to Dawson are eicht miles distant on Bear creek. All the other diggings are within 30 miies of the town. ~ But it is more than doubtful whether thesewarnest and sincere warnings will carry any weight with the gold-seek-ing multitude now on the way to the Klondike. In spite of all protest, official and privaté, hundreds of men, and women too, are willing to brave the dangers of an Arctic winter for the sake of being the first on the field next spring. They are possessed by the greed for gold—a disease for which the medical fraternity, from Hippocrates down, has not yet discovered a cure. The stories of lucky strikes are more potent than sober admonitions; and one of the most romantic of these stories was told the other day by Clara Wilson, of Denver, Col., who went toa little mining camp south of Circle City, Alaska, a year and a half ago to serve as cook for a number of miners. Miss Wilson does not have to wash dishes for a living now, neither is she one of the deserted onesin the presence of other women. Sheisnotahandsome young woman as personal appearance goes, but 'she is now the possessor of that which makes her the loadstone where eligible young men are present

and would afford her an opportunity of taking her pick in ordinary company. In other words, the dishwasher, Clara Wilson, returns to the United States the multi-millionairess, Miss Wilson, and all through her own efforts, Miss Wilson was educated in the public schools at Scranton, Pa., but her parents moved to the western country before she had an opportunity to get above the grammar grades. At that time her father had considerable means, but he exhausted it in an endeavor to locate gold in Colorado and California. Miss Wilson was 16 years old when her father died and at once determined to make ber own way in the world. She went to Seattle and found employment as a domestic on a steamer bound for Alaska. She found her way to Circle City and became the cook and general housemaid for a number of miners. i Miss Wilson was not satisfied with tkis kind of a life. She had had some experience in mining while accompanying ber father on his pilgrimages and she “crossed lots” 1n Alaska on herown account. The result was that sbe located a copper mine which is now being worked and which is said to be panning out as prolifically as any 6f the gold mines that are making the Klondike fields famous. 'Miss Wilson had no sooner staked her claim than her possession was disputed by a number of men, but besides mining she had learned ffqﬁ her fa(tbe!’j‘h‘d‘w to use

rifle and revolver and for days she sat the sole guardian of her claim. Her possession was finally recognized and several of the men who disputed her right of occupancy are now working with or for her, and it is estimated that she is not worth less than $2.000,000. The young woman said recently: “I was in Chicago five years ago after my father died. Then I was a commonplace restaurant waiter or dish- ' washer and no one cared for me. Now I ‘am worth perhaps $2,000,000 in money, ‘and am being constantly followed by young men of good families who would be glad to take a wife. I might as well say now that [ am not marrying at this time. I do not know when I shall go back to Alaska. I may never go back, for I don’t mind saying that I have had an abundance of the kind of living they have in that country. My mother and I can live now wherever we see fit,and 1 want to tell you that we shall not have our rooms facing in alleys, as we have been compelled to since father died. “The copper mine in which I am the principal owner was all my own find. The funniest part 1s that I found it less than a quarter of a mile from where we were making our headquarters. There were indications that others had discovered the presence of copper ahead of me, but the gold fever must have had full possession of them because they passed it over. I secretly prospected my find for a month before anyone else found it, and then three men claimed prior ownership. Then I had to make a personal defense.-and this I did. [ never had to fire a shot, but I would have done so without hesitancy. “No; I would not advise any young woman to go to that countrr who has not had some experience with miners or who is not prepared to defen herself and undergo the severest hardships. In that country self-preserva-tion is truly the first law of nature. Men forget all their chivalry and although women are scarce they are not curiosities and do not seem to awaken any special interest among men. Alaska miners are not sentimental® They are looking for riches and they do not care how they get them.”

An evidence of how the law is administered in the Yukon country is given in a letter received at Victoria, B. C. A packer named Rice contracted to take a man’s outfit over the Skaguay trail if the man went to work on the trail. The man went to work, but when it was finished Rice refused to fulfill his contract. When Rice’s train reached the summit with a load it was seized by the mounted police and. a vigilance committce and was unloaded. Rice will not be allowed to do any packing until he fulfills his contract with the man who worked on the trail. )

The first letter mail to be dispatched from this country to the Klondike region under the new reciprocal arrangement with Canada, effected by establishing an international exchange between Dyea, Alaska, and Dawson City, will be forwarded from Seattle by a steamer leaving there September 11. From that time forward letter mail will go over the new service regularly once a month. The last opportunity to send newspapers and reading material generally into the gold region until next spring was afforded by the “*paper mail,” the last of the season, which was forwarded by steamer leaving San Francisco September 5. A bit of good news for the miners has just been bulletined by the North American Trading and Transportation company. It is to the effect that a full guartz mill sent by them into the Klondike country had arrived at its destination in exgel]ent condition. ; HIS DILEMMA. Thought He Was a Hero, But He Was Just 2 Chump. One of the most ridiculous situations which at the time bring the coldest sweat out on a man’s brow, and ever after remain with him as a constant source of mirth, occurred to a Shelton merchant a few days ago. He thought he would take a bath, and as his flat is minus one of the chief requisites for the job—a bathtub—he extemporized one out of a small wash tub and enjoyed a cooling ablution. o He had just concluded and stepped from the tub for the towel when suddenly the top hoop of the tub burst with a sharp report, and the man saw to his horror that the whole contents of the tub would soon be flooding the floor. At the same moment he thought of the store beneath and the amount of damage the water would do as it ran down throngh the ceiling. He is a man of quick thought, and in a moment he did- the only thing possible—threw himself down beside the tub, and, clazping his arms around it, held the already’ fast swelling stays together. He was successful in keeping the water in, but what a situation! He dared not ‘yell, for he was hardly in condition to receive callers, especially as he knew that all in the biock at the time were of the gentler sex, and he realized at once that the only thing left for him was to stay in that position until the return of his wife, who was out on a shopping expedition. Like the boy who saved Holland, he manfully remained in his most uncomfortable position until relief in the shape of his wife appeared. Then, to cap the climax, when he asked her to get a rope or any old thing to tie about the tub, she, after a long fit of uncontrollable laughter, asked him why he didn’t carry the tub and contents out to the sink room and pour out the water. With. a look that froze the smile on her face he did as she said, and without a word donned his clothing and wandered out into the cold, unfeeling world, a crushed and humiliated man. —Ansonia (Conn.) Sentinel. : A Different Case. “What: nonsense they print nowadays,” said Mrs. Nuwed, wearily laying down the novel she was reading. “How?” inquired Mrs. Spitely, who had dropped in for a minute about an hour previously. ' : ; ‘“Why, all this about men making love on their knees, and all that nonsense. What man ever does that in real life? When my husband proposed to me he didn’t get on his knees.” “No?”’ replied Mrs. Spitely, with a surprised air. “Why, he did when ne proposed to me.”—N. Y. Journal. ~—~The famous old windmill at Nantucket was put at auction the other day and was bought by the town historical society for $BB5. One private speculator bid against the society and ran up the price with little sympathy from the tewnsmen. The mill was built in 1747, - —lt is 335 rising what things some men carry in their pockets.—WashingtenDemogwel, - . o o

\ £ 3 THE FARMING WORLD. WATER FOR SHEEP. Unless It Is Absolutely Pure the Flock Will Be Decimated. : Water is directly absorbed into the blood with whatever impurity may be coutained in it. It is to some extent strained or filtered of what it may have of solid matter not dissolved in it, but whatever is held in solution, and some of what it may have that is not dissolved to some extent, goes into the blood with it. Thus impure water pcisons the very fount of life, says American Sheep Breeder, and carries into an animal what may be the most injurious to the health of it. There are, however, some injurious matters existing in water which are more especially deserving of notice on account of their very deleterious effects, such as the eggs or germs of organic matters, either vegetable or animal, as the spores of various minute plants, and the embryos of the most deadly parasitic animals. Of thesé may be mentioned the germs of epidemic diseases due to the growth in the blood of minute plants derived from these germs, and the deadly para~ sites such as the liver fluke, the various intestinal worms, and the ova of many tape worms. All these may be taken into sheep in water drank from streams or springs or most frequently from stagnant ponds. One of the most frequent sources of infection is the overflowing of pastures by streams into which a large extent of manured lands may have been drained, or into which the wastes of towns or cities have been discharged. On this account the shepherd cannot exercise too great caution for the protection of his flock, or estimate too highly those most favorable Iccalities where the streams flow down uncleared mountain slopes, from the primeval forests, or where the sparse population has never defiled the 'soil with filth and impregnated it with the germs of discase. Nor can he estimate too highly the pure artesian fountain flowing from far down below the sources of impurity, and supplying the flocks with wholesome drink. And in the choice of a range or for a farm for the rearing of a flock, this point is to be considered first and last as being of the mcst paramount importance. HAULING CORN FODDER. Dray Made Like the One in Picture Saves Lots of Work. The dray portrayed herewith is made of eight 6-inch 16-foot fence boards, as shown at a a, ete., with one 6-inch fence board 7 feet long, crosswise underneath in front, b. On top in front is a 2 by 6 7-foot long piece, ¢, with 8 1-inch bolts 5%, inches long through

i% / | 1’ ’ : [/} / :% | i . At ' CORN CROP DRAY. a, b and c. On the rear of top is another piece, d, just like ¢, through which and the boards a, are run 8 14,-inch bolts 31, inches long. The heads of all bolts are underneath. Bore two holes for stakes, e e, near the outer ends of hind cross piece d. Fasten by chain in front, and half the terrors of fodder hauling have disappeared. A cross section is shown at the right of the illustration.—Farm and Home. : i Preventing Eggz Eating. If an eggis broken the henswill eat it, and it is by eggs being broken that the hens learn the vice, as they never eat eggs unless they first find one broken. The only way to prevent the hens from eating eggs after they cnce begin is to make a nest with a top, compelling the hen to walk in to reach the nest, and have the box raised ten inches from the floor, so that the hen cannot stand near the box to eat the eggs. When she goes on the nest she cannot do any harm, as she must come off and stand up to eat the eggs.—arm and Fireside.

Winter Grain After Potatoes. Wherever“the potato crop can be got off in time for seeding with fall grain it makes the very best seed bed. No plowing- is needed® if the weeds have been kept down. Tt is only necessary to pilesthe potato vines in heaps and burn them, starting the fire in a brush heap if the potato tops are too green te burn readily. A great deal of plant food is developed after growing a crop of potatoes. It is latgely nitrogenous, as the potato crop is chiefly water and carbon, with some potash, which is mostly found in the potato tops.

- Turpentine Good for Roup. Spirits of turpentine have been used as a remedy for roup with excellent results. It is given in half teaspoonful doses, once a day, mixed with sweet oil or cotton seed oil, in the proportion of one part turpentine to two of the latter. It is also excellent when used as an ointment for swelled heads or eyes, and is one of the best remedies for gapes, a few drops only being necessary for chicks. Itwill also prevent lice if freely used on the roosts and over the floor and walls of the ' poultry house.—Farmers’ Review,. Feed the Pigs Often. : Many a man would be surprised if he knew how many times a sow nurses her pigs during a day. There are two reasons for this; first, the sow is not able to retain her milk a long time; second, a pig has a small stomach and cannot store away a great quantity of food at one time. There is a natural lesson in this: In order to have pigs do well at an early age feed little but often, four times is better than three a day, especially if it is a sloppy or milk food.— Farm, Stock and Home, SRS e e s e

MOVABLE CORN CRIB.

Rats and Small Vermin Cannot Attack : Its Contents.

One of the handiest things for the corn grower is a convenient place for the storage of corn for curing, when it is not to be sold and hauled directly from the field. For several years the Massachusetts agricultural college at Amherst has used small corn cribs as illustrated herewith. They ere set up in any part of the field or together in rows. If corn is rotated on various fields the cribs are carried on teams from the old to the new corn field

B ll" .li/-i T I : MOVABLE CORN CRIB. when empty. Thecrib (a tob) is 12 feet long and (a to d) 72-3 feet high, 51/, feet wide (g to k) and 31/, feet at the bottom (e tof). Froma toiitissY,feet,atoc 20 inches, ¢ to d 6 feet and h to i 14 inches. The three floor frame lengthwise joists are of 4 by 4 inch material 12 feet long, while the front, center and rear end cross pieces are of 4 by 6 inch stuff. Each house stands on posts, is strongly made and well shingled. The door occupies the entire front end, being square; slats are placed across the door inside as the crib is filled and removed as corn is taken out. It is best to invert a pan on top of each post before building or setting the crib on the posts. Rats and small vermin will then be unable to get from the ground into the crib, provided snow in winter is kept clear.—Albert Rising, in Farm and Home.

FARM WATER SUPPLY.

How to Construct a Reservoir at a Moderate Cost. :

On every farm where a windmill is used the additional cost of storing water other than that required for stock is little, and the expense of two or more windmills is less than the loss from drought. Where there is moderate rainfall the supply of moisture necessary to assist through a dry period is but little, and excellent results have been obtained by the use of large tanks, but a small reservoir can be constructed at a moderate cost. A tank ten feet high and ten feet in diameter holds 5,875 gallons of water; but as a reservoir can be provided to hold ten times that much at but little more expense the storage supply could be made ample. This does not imply that one is practicing irrigation, for to do so large storage reservoirs are necessary, but at a small cost the farmer can protect himself to a certain extent against drought. On fields of corn that have been grown by listing the centers between the rows were opened with a one-horse plow and water conducted so as to flow down the drains. Before the ends of the rows are reached the ground becomes well saturated, and a small. piecce may be irrigated each day. It must not be overlooked that the capacity -of the tank does not limit the supply, as the pumps can furnish more water than the farmer may wish to use, and as a tank or reservoir may be drawn | off and filled several times during the: season the amount of water used will be considerable. Attention is called to this matter, as the cost is butlittle, and farmers will find it an advantage to experiment in that direction where it can. conveniently be done.~Troy (N. Y.) Times. ' ; . HINTS FOR FARMERS. -

Sell flirect to the consumer every time ycu can. v .

The young man can never buy a farm cheaper than now.

The crop of winter apples will be much less than last year. )

Corn stalks that grow unreasonably¢' big are all stalk and no corn. ;

Sorghum should never be planted until the soil is perfectly warm. Subsoiling means more rapid drainage and better storage for rain. The farmer who plants more corn than he has teams to stir the soil is unwise. :

The red kaffir corn combines a large vield of fodder with the largest yield of grain. -

Heavy rains compact the soil and cultivation separates it so that it can absorb air.

We see it stated that wood ashes and common salt mixed with water make a good cement, The most fertile soil on earth cannot grow crops without moisture to dissolve the food elements.

The only way to tell if plaster will do land good is to try it. Plaster is very uncertain in its action.

The tomato worm has resumed business. Cut him in two with a pair of sheep sheers or scissors. If you have a soil that is so gravelly that you think it will grow nothing, try grapes on it. They will grow. The meadows ought not to be too early pastured in the spring or too closely pastured in the fall. Calf raising does not pay is often said. It does pay the man who wishes to know pust what kind of a cow he has. f

If you have hog cholera on your farm, be just enough to yourself and neighbors’ interests to bury or burn the carcasses of.the dead. . If wheat and oats ground are harrowed immediately after harvest, the loss of moisture will be prevented, until the ground can be plowed. Five pails of water are absorbed by one stalkk of corn, if the roots can find | the water, and they will penetrate far and near to get it, if they can penetrate the soil.—Western Plowman. Painstaking Work Wins. : Did you ever see a cabinetmaker adish a fine piece of furniture? When the material comes from the saw it is simply rough lumber. When planed it is reasonably smooth, but far from being finished; much sandpapering, rubbing and polishing must follow before the job is complete. The more work he puts on the better price he will receive for the article. Sowith the wheat field; the plow leaves the ground rough, and there must follow much planing, rubbing and polishing. The better finish we put on the more profit inéheerop.«—A"ﬂculturalEp&tomim e

Mere Bundles of Nerves. : Some peevish, querulous people seem mere bundles of nerves. The least sound agitates their sensoriums and ruffles their tempers. No doubt they are born so: But may not their nervousness be ameliorated, if not entirely relieved? Ungquestionably, and with Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters. By cultivating their digestion, and insuring more complete assimilation of the food with this admirable corrective, .they will experience a speedy and very perceptible gain in nerve quietude. Dyspepsia, biliousness, constipation and rheumatism yield to the Bitters. .

An _Expensive Bovine Habit. Amon% the number of Baltimore fresh air fund children who passed through \Vashimfton a few days ago, bound for the cool hill country of Virginia, there was one little fellow who found tfle very best quarters in a hospitable farmhouse at Front Royal. When the cows came up in the evening to be milked, so a friend down there writes me, the little Baltimore boy went down to the barnyard with his host to see the operation. The cows were standin%’about placidly, and, as is their custom at that time of the day, were contentedly chewing the cud. The boy watched the milkmaids at work, and his eyes dwelt with growing wonder on the ceaseless grind of the cows’ jaws. At length he turnedg to his host and said: “And do you have to buy gum for all them cows?’—Washington Post.

: Try Grain-0! Try Grain-0! Ask your grocer to-day to show you a package of GRAIN-O, the new food drink that takes the place of coffee. The children may drink it without ini'ury as well as the adult, All who try it like it.. GRAIN-O has that rich seal brown of Mocha or Java but it is made from pure grains, and the most delicate stomachs receive it without distress. 1-4 the price of coffee. 15c¢ and 25 cts. per package. Sold by all grocers.

Attorney (sternly)—‘“The witness will please state if the prisoner was in the habit of whistling when he was alone?’ Witness—“l don’t know. I was never with the g)risoner when he was alene.”— Columbus ispatch.

Autobiographical.— The self-made man was speaking. He said—“My father was a raiser of hogs. There was a large family of us’’—and then his voice was drowned by the applause.—Life. .

We will pay a salary of $lO per week and expenses for man with rig to introduce our Poultry Mixture and insect Destroyer in the country. Address, with stamp, Perfection Mfg. Co., Parsons, Kan. S

Nothing makes a woman so mad as for another woman whom she does not like to make a dress like hers.—Washington Democrat. . )

Fits stopped free and permanently cured. No fits after first day’s use of Dr. Kline’s Great Nerve Restorer. Free $2 trial hottle & treatise. Dr. Kline, 933 Arch st., Phila., Pa.

.We never value m(;ney as much as we do right after having spent it foolishly.—Washington Democrat. '

To Cure a Cold in One Day Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All druggists refund money if it failsto cure. 25¢. —.— Nobody is too poor to have lace curtains. —Washington Democrat. s How to Get Well. Send for free pamphlet. Garfield Park Sanitarium, 1776 Wasliington boulv’d, Chicago.

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September 7,21. Octoberb,(9 On these dates round-trip H ALF tickets,good for 21 days, will be sold by all Burlington Route agents and by those FARE of many eastern railroads at pj,q $2.00. e e | The undersigned will send you free on axilpllcation a handsome illustrated pamphleg describing Nebraska, with a large sect}’onal map of the State. S A Dry, Healthy Climate. . A Soil Unsurpassed for Richness, easy to cultivate, and yielding all varieties of crops. That is what Nebriska offers to the homeseeker. Ask your nearest ticket aggmt,about the cheaß rates, or write to_P. 8. Eustis, General Passenger Agent, C. B. &Q. R. R., Chicago, 111, SRGIETSRE S R N g TIMIOLES WHUMEDE At R .’¢ (S 8 . {:".‘ 1, Jlu Go ." m "B _ls a ; l.nß.;s*» Sold by druggists, g ' CONSUMPTION E Se L e b

New Through Passenger Route for - Colorado, Utah angl«Calitornla. - The Chicago Times-Herald of August 27 says-that on September 12 the new traffic alliance between the Chlcaéo,_ Milwaukee & St. Paul railway and the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific railway goes into effect, and on that dafe the former will send its first Denver sleeper out of Chicago. This ‘will be attached to its regular m%ht train for Omaha, and will be delivered there to the Rock Island. On October 2 the tourist car route over these two lines, the Colorade Midland and Southern Pacific, will be inaugurated. Tourist cars will bé run once a week between Chicago and San . Francisco. For further details regarding this new route call on or address Geo. H. Heafford, General Passenger and Ticket Agent, C., M. & St. P. Ry., 410 Old Colony Buﬁding, Chicago, 111. Where He Agreed with Him. “What! What!” t_The irate old man choked with indifna--lon-— : : “You want to steal my child from me, to rob me of my daughter? %Vhy sir!—"’ His rage got the upper hand of him, and he fasped some more— ; “Rascal is no name for you!”’ ' ‘The young man was perfectly calm. “Youbet it isn’t,” he said, slowly; “and if anybody says otherwise there’s liable to be trouble.” - - In the face of such sublime gall what could the old man do?—Puck. Prosperity of Farmers in Tidewater, Virginia. There is cause for rejoicing among the farmers in Virginia. The crops of melons, potatoes, peanuts, general grain and truck have been unsurpassed and the prices obtained in the Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia and New York markets have been the highest ever paid. On the first and third Tuesdays of each month Settlers’ tickets will be sold from Chicago and the Northwest over the Big Four and the Chesapeake & Ohio Ry., at ‘greatly reduced rates. For particulars and descriptive pamphlet of Virginia, address U. L. Truitt, N. W. P. A, No. 234 Clark St., Chicago. ' Boundless Egotism. ) “You ought-to give up trying to sing. Don’t your neighbors smash your windéws ‘when you sing of an evening?” said Gilhooly to a vocalist. ' “They don’t do that because my singing is bad; on the contrary, they smash my windows so they can hear better.”—Tammany Tin;gs. 2 e —_—— ﬁ Using a Word. . My child, what made your face so dirty 8" ‘ “Fhat Billy Bludkins an’ I had a fight, an’ he ﬁ%rowed more dirt in my face than L could?digest, mamma.”’—Judge. % g : McVicker's. Theater, Chicago. Thomas W. Keene, America’s foremost tragic actor, will open a two months’ engagement September 5, in Richard 111. ) e R A Sundayschool Interruption. — Clergyman—*“St. Paul made one error, my de§r children.” Juvenile—*“Did it let in a run?” —Truth. : el g i I use Piso’s Cure for Consumption both in my family and practice. Dr. G. W. Patterson, Inkster, Mich? Nov. 5, 1894. —_— e Great minds may run in the same channel, but there is plenty of room for more.— Washington Democrat. S ) v Hall’s Catarrh Cure . Is a Constitutional Cure. Price 75¢.

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