Pike County Democrat, Volume 29, Number 11, Petersburg, Pike County, 22 July 1898 — Page 3

.ONE LIFE IS ENOUGH. Dr. Talmage Says It Is a Mistake to Wish to Live It Over. •ft Wwrid B® • Lonelj amt Sad Pilgrimkye, and He Who Would Make It a Doinwtlc Nalsauee—At oulBf for the Fast. In the following discourse Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage extols our present -opportunities so that more opportunities than we enjoy in life do not <seem desirable, The text is: All that s man bath will be give tor hla lita —Job It, 4. , That is jmtrue. The Lord did not say it, but*Satan said it to the Lord when the evil one wanted Job still more afflicted. The record is: “So went Satan ^forth from the presence of the Lord, and smote Job with sore boils,” And Satan has been the author ■of all eruptive disease since then, and he hopes by poisoning the blood to poison the soul. But the result of the diabolical experiment which left Job victor proved the falsity of the Satanic remark: “All that a man hath will he give for his life.” Many a captain who has stood on the bridge of the steamer till his passengers got oft and he drowned; many an engineer who has •kept his hand on the throttle valve or his foot on the brake, until the most of the train was saved, while he vfrent down to death through the open drawbridge; many a fireman who plunged into a blazing house to get a sleeping child out, the fireman sacrificing his life in the attempt, and the thousand of martyrs who submitted to fiery stake and knife of massacre and head-, man's ax and guillotine rather than^ surrender principle, proving that inf many a case my text was not tr ue when; it says: “All that a man hath will he give for his life.*" But Satan's falsehood was built on a truth. Life is very precious, aud if we .would not give up all, there are manv things we would surrender rather than surrender it. We see how precious life is from the fact that we ao everything to prolong it. llenoe all sanitary regulations. all study of hygiene, all fear of draughts, all waterproofs, all doctors, j all medicines, all struggle in crisis or j accident. An admiral of the British navy was court martialed for turning his ship around in time of danger, and so damaging the ship. It was proved

aginst nun. nut wnen n is u me came to be heard he said: “Gentleman, I did turn the ship around, and admit that it was damaged, but do you want to know why I turned it? There was a man overboard, and 1 wanted to save l him. and I did save him, and I consider the life qf one sailor worth all the vessels of the British navy." No wouQer he was vindicated. Life is indeed very precious. Yea, there are those who deem life so precious they 4 would like to repeat it; they would like to try it over again. They would like to go back from 70 to 00. from 60 to 50, from 50 to 40. from 40 to 30, from SO to 20. I propose , for very practical aud useful purposes, as will appear before 4 get through, to discuss the question we have all asked of others, and others have again '.and again asked of •os: Would you like to live your life over again?. The fact is that no intelligent and right-minded man is satisfied with his past life. However successful your life may have been, you arc not satisfied with it. What is success? Ask that question of a hundred different men, and they will give a hundred different answers. One man will sav: ■“Success is a million dollars;" another will say: “Success is world-wide publicity;*’ another will say: ‘Success is gaining that which you started for.” But as it is a free country, 1 give my j own definition, and say: “Success is j fulfilling the particular mission .upon j which you were sent, whether to write a constitution, or invent a new style of, wheelbarrow, or take care of a sick child." Do what God calls you to do; and you are a success, whether you leave a million dollars at death or are buried at public expense, whether it takes fifteen pages of an encyclopedia to tell the wonderful things you have done, or your name is never printed but once, and that in tto death column. But whatever your success has been, you aie not satisfied with your life. We have all made so many mistakes, •tumbled into so many blunders, said so many things that ought not to have been said, and done so many things that ought not to have been done that we eau suggest at least 95 per cent, of ' improvement. Now. would it not be grand if the good Lord would say to you: “You can go back and try it over again. I will, by a word, turn your hair to block, or brown, or golden, aud smooth all the wrinkles

out of your temple of cheek, and take the beutl out of your shoulders, and oxlirpate the atifines* from the joint, •nd the rheumatic twinge from the foot, and you shall be 21 years of age. and just what you were when you reached that point before*” If the proposition were made I think many i thousands would accept it. That feeling caused the ancnent search for what was called the Fountain of Youth, the waters of which, taken, would turn the hair of the oc- j togenarian iuto the curly locks of a | boy. and however old a person who drank at that fountain, he would be j young again. The island was said to j belong to the group of Bahamas, but j lay far out in the ocean. The great] Spanish explorer, Juan Ponce de Leon, fellow-voyager of Columbus, I have no doubt, felt that if he could discover j that Fountain of Youth, he would, do 1 as much as his friend had done in discovering America. So he put but in 1513 from Porto Rico and cruised about among the Bahamas in search of that fountain. 1 am glad he did not find it. There is no snch fountain. But if there were, and its waters were bottled up and sent abroad at a thousand dollar* a bottle, the demand would be greater than the suoolv; and mult a

man who has come through a life of uselessness, and perhaps sin, to old age, would be shaking up the potent liquid, and if he were directed to take only a teaspoonful after each meal, would be so anxious to make sure work he would take a tablespoonful, and if directed to take a tablespoonful, would take a glassful. But some of you would have to go back further than Si years of age to make a fair start, for there are many who manage to get all wrong before that period. Yea, in order to get a fair start, some would hare to go back to the father and mother and get them corrected; yea, to the grandfather and grandmother and hare their life corrected, for some of you are suffering from bawl hereditary influences, which started a hundred years ago. Well, if your grandfather lived his life over again, and your father lived his life OTer again, and you lived your life over again, what a cluttered-up place this world would be—a place filled with miserable attempts at repairs. 1 begin to think that it is better for each generation to heve only one chance, and then for them to pass off and give another generation a chance. Besides that, if we were permitted to live life over again it would be a stale «nd stupid experience. The zest and spur and enthusiasm of life come from the fact that we. have never been along this road before, and everything is new, and we are alert for what may appear at the next turn of the road. Suppose you, a man of middle or old age, were, with your present feelings ami I large attainments, put back into the thirties, or in the twenties, or in the teens, what a nuisance you would be to the others, and what an unhappiness to yourself! Your contemporaries | would not want you, and you would not want them. Things that in your previous journey of life stirred your healthful ambition, or gave you pleasurable surprise, or led you into happy interrogation, would only call forth from you a disgusted “0, pshaw!’’ You would be blase at 30. and a misanthrope at 40, and ^pncpdurable at 30. The must inane aud stupid thing imaginable would be a second journey of life. It is amusing to hear people say: “I would like to live uiv life over again, if I could take my present experience and knowledge of things back with me and begin under those improved auspices.’’ Why, what an uninteresting buy you' would be with your present attain meats in a child's mind. Xoone would want such •a boy around the house—a philosopher at 20, a scientist at 15, an archaeologist at 10, and a domestic nuisance all the time. An oak crowded into au acorn. A Rocky mountain eagle thrust back iuto the egg-shell from which it was hatehed.

Besides that, if you took life oyer again you wpuld have to take its deep sadnesses over again. Would you want to try again the griefs and the heartbreaks and the bereavements through which you have gone? What a mercy that we shall never be called to suffer them again! We may have others bad enough, but those old ones never again. Would you want to go through the process of loosing your father again, or your mother again, or your companion in life again, or your child again? If you were permitted to stop at the sixtieth mile-stone, or the fiftieth milestone, or the fortieth mile-sone, and retrace your steps to the twentieth, your experience would be something like mine, oue November day in Italy. I walked through a great city with a friend and two guides, and there were in all the city only four persons, and they were those of our own group. We went up and down the streets; we entered the houses, the museums, the temples, the theaters. We examined the wonderful pictures on the walls and the most exquisite mosaic on the door. In the streets were the deep-worn ruts of wagons, but not a wagon in the city. On the front steps of mansions the word “Welcome in Latin, but no human beings to greet us. The only bodies of any of the citizens that we saw were petrified and in the museum at the gates. Of the 35,000 people who once lived, in those homes and worshiped in those temples and clapped in those theaters, not a one left! For 1,830 years that city ot Pompeii had been buried before modern exploration scooped out of it the laTa of Vesuvius. Well, he who should be permitted to return on the pathway of his earthly life and live it over again would fiudas lonely and sad a pilgrimage. It would be an exploration of the dead past The old schoolhouse, the old church, the old home, the old playground, either gone or occupied by others, and for you more depressing than was our Pompeiian visit that November day. Besides that, would you want to risk the temptations of life over again? From the fact thatjrou are here I conclude that, thouglF in many respects your life may have been unfortunate and unconsecrated, you have got on so far tolerably well, if nothing more than tolerable. As for myself, though my life has been far from being as consecrated to God as I would like to have had it, I would not want to try it over again, lest next time I would do

worse. Why, just look at the temptations i we have all passed through, and just look at the multitudes who hare gone ] completely under! Just call over the roll of your schoolmates and college* 1 mates, the clerks who were with you in the same store or bank, or the operatises In the same factory, with just as good prospects as you, who have come to complete mishap. Some young man that told you he was going to be a millionaire, and own the fastest trotters on the turnpike, and retire by the time he was 35 years of age, you do not hear from for many years, and know nothing about him until some day he comes i into your store and asks for five cents to get s mug of beer. You, the good mother of a household, and ail your children rising up to call you blessed, can remember when yon were quite jealous of the belle of the village, who was so traoseendently fair and popular. Bat while yon bans

these two honorable and queenly names of wife and mother, she became a poor waif of the street, and went into the blackness of darkness forever. Live life over again? Why, if, many of those who are respectable were* permitted to experiment, the next journey would be demolition. You got through, as Job says, by the skin of your teeth. Next time you might not get through at alL Satan would say: “I know him now better than I did before, and have for 50 years been studying his weaknesses, and I will weave a stronger web of circumstances to catch him next time.” And Satan would concentrate his forces on this one man, and the last state of that man would be worse than the first. My friends, our faces are in the right direction. Better go forward than backward, even if we had the choice. The greatest disaster I can think of would be for you to return to boyhood in 130S. Oh, if life were a smooth Lucerne or Cayuga lake, 1 would like to get into a ypcht and sail over it, not once, but twice— yea, a thousand times. But life is an uncertain sea, and some of the ships crash on the icebergs of cold indifference, and some take fire of evil passions, and some lose their bearings and rnn into the Goodwin sands, and some are never heard of. Surely on such a treacherous sea as that one yoyage is enough. T Besides all this, do you know, if yon could have your wish and live life over again, it would put you so much further from reuuion with your friends in Ucaven? If you are in the noon of life, or the evening of life, you are not very far from the golden gate at which you are to meet your transported and ernparadised loved ones. You are now, let us say, 20 years, or ten years, or one year off from celestial conjunction. Now. suppose you went back in your earthly life 30 years, or 40 years, or 50 years, what an awful postponement of the time of reuuionl It would be as though you were going to San Fraucisco to a great banquet, aud you got to Oakland, four or five miles this side of it, aud then came back to Baltimore to get a better start; as thoug^you were going to England to be crowned, and having come in sight of the mountains of Wales, you put back to Sandy Hook iu order to make a better voyage. Would you like for many years to adjourn the songs of Heaven, to adjourn the thrones of Heaven, to adjourn the companionship of Heaven, to adjourn the rest of Heaven, to adjourn the presence of Christ In Heaven? No; the wheel of time turns in the right direction, and it is well it turns so fast. Three hundred and sixty-five revolutions in a year, ana forward, rather than 365 revolutions iu a year aud backward.

Out yonder is a man very old at 4(J years of age. at a time when he ought to be buoyant us the morning. He got bad habits on him very early, and those habits have become worse. He is a man on fire, on fire with alcoholism, on tire with all evil habits, out with the world and the world out with him. Down, and falling deeper. His swollen hands in his threadbare pockets, and his eye fixed oh the ground, as he passes through the street, and the quick step of an innocent child, or the strong siep of an young man, or the roll of a prosperous carriage maddens him. and he curses society and he curses Hod. Fallen sick, with no resources, he is carried to the almshouse. A loathsome spectacle, he lies ail day loqg waiting for dissolution, or in the night rises on his cot and fights apparitions of what he might have been and what he will be. He started life with as good a prospect as any man on the American continent, and there he is, a bloated carcass, waiting for the shovels of public charity to put him five feet uuder. He has only reaped what he sowed. Harvest of wild oats! “There is a way that seemeth right to a man, but the end thereof is death.” And then the reaping of the harvest is so different. There is grandfather now. He has lived to old age because his habits have been good. His eyesight for this world has got somewhat dim, but his eyesight for Heaven is radiant- His hearing is not so acute as it once was, and he must bend clear over to hear what his little grandchild says when she asks him what he has brought for her. Hut he easily catches the music rained from supernal spheres. Men passing in the streets take off their hats in reverence, and women say: “\Vhat a good old man he is.” Seventy of 80 years, all for God and for making this world happy. Splendid! Glorious! Magnificent! He will have hard work getting into Heaven, because those whom he helped to get there will fill up and crowd the gates, to tell him how glad they are at his coining, until he says: “Please to staad back a little till I pass through and cast my crown at the fleet of Him whom, having not seen, l love.” I do not know what you call that, I call it the harvest of

Irene*ee wheau A young Scotch,man was taken cap tire in battle by a band of ludians, aqd he learned their language and adopted their habits. Years passed on, but the old Indian chieftain never forgot that he had in his possession a young man who did not belong to him. Well, one day this tribe of Indians came in sight of the Scotch regiments from whom this young man had been captured, and the old Indian chieftain said: “1 lost mr son in battle, arfd 1 know how a father feels at the loss of a son. Do you think your father is yet alive?” The yoan? man said: “I am the only son of my father, and I hope ho is still alive.” Then said the Indian chieftain: “Because of the loss of my son this world is a desert. You go free. Return to tout countrymen. Revisit your father, that he may rejoice when he sees the sun rise in the mnrning and the trees blossom in the spring.” So 1 say to you, young man, captive of waywardness and sin: Your father is waiting for you. Yonr mother ia waiting for you. God is waiting for you. Go home* Go home!

LAUD OF THE PENNY. Oar Country Lends All Nations In the Great Worlt of Financial Liberation. Temerity and delay are the enemies ! of all reform. Nations that are entire- | ly ruled by the rich men and politicians ; cannot be relied upon to lead in the great work of financial liberation. Anent this principle the English say: “The guinea skulks and the penny fights.” France and some other nations believe in the bimetallic basis for their financial systems, but it is certain that France will never take the lead in the financial war of liberation. In one of the great international conferences on the silver question M. Say. the French representative, said: “France has adopted a waiting policy.” Temerity and delay are characteristic of all of the acts of that nation so far as the silver question is concerned. The reason is that France is ruled by a few men, the people really coming in for a very small share of influence with the rulers. Thus, during the conference of 1878 the position of the government was dictated by one or two men in high power, in spite of the expressed wishes of the great masses of ^the people. France will never move first in the procession. When asked what she is doing for the restoration of silver, she simply points to the past and says; “See what I have done. For more than 70 years there was a voice that went forth from the banks of the Seine crying to the whole world to bring their gold and silver and France would exchange them always at the ratio of fifteen and one-half to one. For more than 70 years France kept the ratio of the world steady.” But the past France dares n,ot repeat. So far as finance is concerned she is now living on her glorious past. The fingers of the Rothschilds have deprived' her of courage and of action. She is willing to advance, but dares not lead. Her Napoleonic spirit has departed. There the guinea rules and the penny is in prison. Only in a land where the penny rules and the guinea obeys is there hope for the situation. The people are not afraid, and they can be trusted. They took up the Cuban problem and "did not hesitate to solve it by the heroic method. The rich and the politicians held back, but the people pushed them

on. llad our government been as far from the people as that of France we would not now be waging a war in the interest of humanity. We know how persistently’ some of the great lights predicted that the first victories would be Spanish, but the people said: “We will see.’* Because the people rule in this nation is why America must and will be the financial liberator of the world. We will save nftny lives by the war for a free "uba. By it we will confer happiness on peoples in the eastern and the western seas, and the good fruits of this war will appear .through a hundred generations!. But America will save more lives and confer more happiness when she leads the battle line for the financial emancipation of the world. The fruits pf that war w ill be to all peoples and to all times. . In three months of Avar with Spain this nation has taken a great step forward. We are looming up marvelously to the vision of the foreign diplomats. The results have sprung from our latent muscle and mind. The same forces are present to be developed along the line of commercial supremacy and of financial independence. But the leaders in the government will hold hack till they are pushed into action by the people. H. F. THTRSTON. STILL SIXTEEN TO ONE. The Principle* of the Chicago Pintform Are Proof Agatnil Bond Shark*. The $400,000,000 in bonds and inter-est-bearing certificates which plutocracy has wrested from congress are not needed for the war against Spain. Not a dollar need have been added to the debt for war purposes, nor are these bonds really intended for war purposes. Their real purpose is to prevent corporation currency from being retired, and its place taken by cash issued by

government. The boml issue was forced by desperate ami unscrupulous disciples of John Law, who wish to keep cash out of circulation so that they can inflate the currency with corporation notes, circulated at the highest possible interest rate through a forced loan of the credit of the people. The men who did this are anarchists and desperadoes. Sitting in the parlors of their London banks, they plot to begin wars and to overthrow governments that they may increase their profits. Their hands are reeking with bloodshed. They care for no law. human or | divine, which threatens to stop them. If they can, they will enslave the peoI pie of America as they have already enslaved those of Ireland and India in one way, and of South America in another. They will never succeed in subjugating America. When the Chicago platform was adopted it meant unsurrendering resistance to them and it means Jt still.—Mississippi Valiev Democrat. -We cannot but believe that the Dingley measure has exhibited In its first year nearly maximum revenue possibilities. The truth seems to be that our manufacturers are working so closely to the level of prices prevailing in outside markets—and have been so little affected in that position bv the new enactment—that revenue and protection no longer travel together. —Springfield (Mass.) Republican. -We love Mr. Hanna for his Fourth of July patriotism, but nevertheless it will soon become our painful duty to atop talking about glory long enough to hear the evidence of fraud and bribery In the Ohio senatorial election.—Mississippi Valley Democrat.

THE LEADER IN MISSOURI Congressman “Dick** Bland's Ketnra to Washington Is n Protection Asrainst Plutocracy. Mr. Bland’s renomination was a matter of course as his election will be. As long as Missouri can keep him in Washington he will be kept there. There is no clearer or more forcible intellect than his in the politics of the United States, but he has something j that is more urgently needed in our public affairs than any force of intellect, however great. He has the moral force which can come only from j soundness of character—from genuine j goodness. Our public life is full of intellectual, brilliant men who are morally rotten. If moral rottenness gave out the odor which warns us against the presence of physical corruption, Washington city would smell like a charnel house. Our politics are being degraded more and more nearly to the level of our business methods— and under the corporation system as it is abused, these are characterized by the fraud, perjury and extortion necessary for success in inflating capital. in selling watered stock and bogus bonds, in making xmjust and unlawful alliances to secure monopoly, in a thousand shameful and foxy devices for taking advantage of the ignorant or the unwary. If we go on as we are going under the trust system, continuing to develop the spirit which the abuse of the corporation laws has produced, we will become a nation of swindlers and confidence operators, among whom the most successful liar, the meanest and most rapacious cheat who is willing to sacrifice most for the sake of money, will be the model man. admired before all others. Against this tendency the presence of such men as Bland in our public life is the best protest we can make. While we have such in Washington, honest Americans can always have some one to whom they can rally in the assurance that they will not be deceived or defrauded, as they have often been by purchasable leaders. Bland might have been loaded down with the fraudulent stock of every lying, cheating corporation in the country. He might have been “taken in on the ground floor” of the Standard Oil company and its allied corporations, as a man whom democrats once loved and trusted as a great leader has been. But Bland is incapable of meanness, of cheating, of stooping to grapple in the muck of the filthy rewards plutocracy offers public men for their souls. His leadership of the Missouri delegation makes Missouri now the leading state, in- the politics of the union, the only one capable of holding the breach against the combined forces of plutocracy.

THE FARMERS' REWARD. Republicans 'Would Have It Appear That God and Nature Are in Cahoots with Them. “As if to reward the farmers for sup porting , the gold standard,” says the Chicago Times-Herald, “nature has forced the purchase of $098,000,000 of our products by foreign- lands.” It is certainly discouraging to find that both God and nature are in cahoots with the republican party. It will be news to you to learn that nature (probably acting under God's direction) caused a failure of the wheat- crop throughout the world, and starved millions of people in India. Italy, Spain and other gold standard countries in order to reward the American farmers for voting for McKinley. Really, are these plutocrats lunatics, or is it possible that their dupes are sijch nssesas to swallow such rot of that kind—rot that appears as an editorial in the paper mentioned? Nature does not support a money standard or any other scheme of man. She dispenses an even-handedi justice to all. and will wipe the republican party off the earth, even though it be a great exponent of “sound money,** for disregarding her laws, just as quick as she will gather Into the kingdom come the meekest, most ehumpish voting king that'ever sold the ballot for a dTink. But while the plutes can’t monkey with nature very much, they have had theirown sweet ways with the working classes so long that perhaps they have conceived the idea that they are in league with God and nature.— Coming Nation.

lirepliiif Quiet. Mr, Neison Dingley, author of “a bill to produce revenue,” has been u> in Maine accepting a renomination and of course he has made some speeches. But, singular to say, Mr. Dingley had not a word to say respecting his masterpiece. He made a few discursive remarks respecting the war, but the burden of his oration was an appeal to the people to “give new emphasis to the financial issue** in the congressional elections and in the presidential battle two years ahead. Of course it may be modesty which impels Mr. Dingley to ignore his crowning achievement. Then, again, the fact that the receipts under'the Dingley law continue to fall further and further below the original estimates may have something to do with it. In any event, we may be perfectly sure that, like its predecessor, the Dingley bill will hereafter have to “do its own talking.” Its sponsors and fuglemen agree with the small boy who. under certain embarrassing circumstances, enunciated the opinion that “the less said about it the better.”—Chicago Chronicle. -The democrats of Illinois will take no backward step. They will march unilier the same patriotic and progressive principles that have been the tenets of the party since the days of Jefferson and that were reiterated and emphasized by the national convention that met in Chicago In 1890/Illinois State Beo-ister,

.— lRETURNING GOLD SEEKERS. 4 Shipload of Miners from Un Takm Coming Home with Much Wealth to Recuperate. Sax Fraxcisco, July 18.—After bung eagerly watched for hour by hour during the past ten days, the steamer St. Paul arrived last night from Rt. Michaels, bringing men and treasure from the Klondike. There were 17® passengers on her list, and the amount af their earnings, in gold dust, nuggets and bank drafts, is estimated by the ship's -officers at S3,000,000. The largest amount brought out by a single prospector is in the possession of N. L. Pickett, who has $80,000, principally in gold dust and nuggets. Pete Wybird admits the ownership of $50,000; E. J. Nash has $30,000, and Fred Berry, of Fresno, Cal., who had previously brought out s fortune, says he has another with him now, hpt declines to disclose the amount, r , . Fifty Thousand Dollar* a J. Dumas, who has been prospecting in El Dorado creek, has $10,0Q<Ho show for his labors in the frozen north, and VV. T. Burns, who suffered the misfortune of having his feet frozen and losing both by amputation, feels compensated by the possession of $100,000 in cash, the, proceeds of the sale of his five mining claims. J. Davis spent only one month in thei Klondike, but during that period realised $30,000 from his claim, and just before his departure sold his claim for $25,000 more, so that his days at Dawson were exceedingly profitable.*; ' The returning miners say that it ii idle for .prospec tors to go to the Klondike now, expecting to locate claims, as all the mining laud of any value has already been staked. The only manner in which claims can now be acquired is said to be by purchase. Mlnook Creek Overestimated. The general consensus of opinion is that the value of the Minook creek as a mining center has been overestimated. Claims there are pronounced to be of little value, and the intending miner, if he be guided by the experience of these pioneers, will confine his operations to the neighborhood of the original discoveries near Dawson City. Dominion creek is pronounced the richest of the Klondike streams in the precious metal,- the El Dorado and and Bonanza creeks being placed by these prospectors as second in comparison to the Dominion. Of these claims great things are expected from seven and nine, not because those numbers are supposed to be lucky, but on account of their inherent richness.

Among tne passengers on tne au Paul is Brig.-Gen. George M. Randall, who, as colonel of the Eighth United States infantry, has been in command of the troops at St. Michaels. During his absence he was promoted to briga-dier-general, the news of his advancement having been taken to him by the ship Roanoke, which arrived at St. Michaels on June 27. Geu. Randall lost no time in getting into San Francisco, and on his arrival last night wired to the war department for assignment, lie hopes to be sent to the front in Cuba or to Porto Rico. The Amount Much Larger than at First Reported. Later estimates of the amount of gold brought down by the steamer St. Paul from-the Klondike make the total much larger than at first reported. Joseph Lebiek, of New York city, who has lived five years in Alaska, and himself has about §10,000 in dust, declares that the Alaska Commercial Co. shipped not less than §5,000,000 from St. Michaels. Other returning miners substantiate this statement. The officers of the company could not )>e seen last night, but the concensus of opinion among the Klondikers is that the trading corporation has secured the greater part of the precious metal mined this season. Quarter Million In Gold Dost Ptlsd on th« Floor. Many of the fortunate miners went to various hotels last night and deposited their wealth with the proprietors. At one place over a quarter of a million dollars’ worth of dnst and nuggets was seen piled on the floor back of the counter, inclosed in old sacks, boxes and dilapidated grips. Provisions Still Sold at Fabulous Fries*. L. J. Lebiv-k, who has valuable claims on Bonanza, Dominion and El Dorado creeks, says that moat of the men, like himself, have come south for the sake of their health. Scurvy and mountain fever prevail in the Klondike, and food is scarce and of poor quality. Although priees have been greatly reduced, flour is still held at $8 a sack and pieki ed butter at §2 a pound.

THE HYPNOTIZED PRINCESS. •Uadlly Gainings Strength—A Crowd Tried to Mob Riga, Who Is Seeking » Dlrores London, July 18.—The Vienna correspondent of the Daily Mail says: “Since the birth of her son the former princess of Cara man and Chiinay,' who is in Ruda Pesth with Rigo, has been steadily gaining strength. ” “On hearing that Rigo’s divorce notion was to begin at Kapesvar Saturday, the corridor was thronged with spies who tried to miob Rigo. He declared his intention of marrying the ex-princess as soon as he has obtained! his‘divorce from Mme. Rigo. SHOT AND KILLED HIS WIPE. Attempted to Kill His JFour ChUdrea sad. Then Sent a Mullet Through , 111a Own Heart. Washington. Ind., July 1*.—Sarah Cole, colored, was murdered by her di« vorced husband, James Cole, northwest of this city Saturday night. Thu murderer then made several attempt! on the iife of his four children who accompanied their mother, but his bullets flew wild. Seeing that he had I killed his wife Cole fired a pistol hall into his own hearty