Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 28, Number 52, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 25 June 1898 — Page 4

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PERILS BESETTING THE TREASURE HUNTERS IN ALASKAN WILDS. V*

Trimplot Over Mosntaioi of Ioe on the Way to tbe Copper Blm Conn try—A Storm Among tbe Qlaclers—Stern

'j| I did not blow away, but the gale kept up all day Sunday. Luckily our supplies were cached on tho opposite side of tho trail, and we had brought plenty of wood. Water was easily obtained by melting blocks of ico chopped out of the glacier. This is the only way to get it, and wood has to be hauled from tho

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[Special Correspondence.]

ON THE GLACIERS, Alaska, April 28. —One of the most disheartening under takings in the trip to the gold regions of the Copper river country is the journey across the glaciers. In the hard ships presented here the terrors of Chilkoot are surpassed. The Dyean trail is steeper perhapa It is fall of dangers. The work is hard, bat there is only about six miles of real hard work. On both sides of that almost insurmountable colossus the trip to the head of navigation is comparatively clear sailing. That trip can be accomplished in days. This requires weeks. People who landed at Valdes last fall are yet only to the lake beyond these great blue oceans of ioe.

The distance over the glaciers is about 80 miles. They are miles of hardship, privation and suffering. Tou

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cannot appreciate them until you are fairly on them, as I am. The glaciers' summit is about 5,000 feet above the sea level and it is reached by five abrupt steps. These steps or "benohes" are miles apart and almost perpendicular. The average height of these benohes is 250 feet and there is a gradual rise from the top of one bench to the foot of the other. Goods have to be packed on your back unless parties club together and yank goods up by means of blook and tackle. If a person could get goods from cache to cacho and bench to bench in one trip, the journey would be robbed of some of its terrors, or, to put it more correctly, of some of its dull, grinding toil. But to make a mile a person has to walk 20. It is impossible to carry more than 200 pounds on a sled. When the cache is reached and your sled unloaded, then you retrace your steps for another load. When night comes, you are exhausted. When morning comes, your bones ache. There is no rest.

Storms bring rest. Once fairly on the glaciers-and the storms often prevent you from leaving your leaky tent, sometimes for days. Last woek we were camped on the top of tho third bench. Saturday one of tho icy gales which sweep the summit of tho glacier almost continually blew down over tho glaciers, carrying a fine sleot. Wo were unable to leave our tent, and all that night we wore uncertain just what moment the tent would bo torn from ov our heads. We were moro fortunate than soma It

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tonwood forest near tho landing. On Monday tho storm aba tod and oamp was moved 12 miles to the foot of tho fourth bonch. It was a tiresomo journey.

We started at 8 o'clock. At noon we reached Fivo Mile oamp, where about 100 touts were pitched. There we ate sandwiches of biscuit and cold bacon washed down with water carried in a bottle. Every one carries his bottle out here. You get dry often, and woter is a soam article on the trail. There is no means C* thawing snow or ice while you are on the move. When we started out, the fourth bench seemed only an eighth of a utile away. At noon it looked no nearer. A long line of miners, dogs and horses, all drawing sleds, were strung out over the winding trail behind us. To the left towered frowning mountains.

It is snowing again. The clouds which until uow had circled tho mountains or extended along them have settled dawn upon us. Yonder a bank ol them nestles among tho mountain peaks like an ocean of cotton. In front of us at 4 o'clock rises another bench of gift cier. It is a marvelous scene. Imagine tho Niagara, in tumbling over the rocks above Buffalo, suddenly frozen into mighty wall of ioe and the water above and below it turned to ico. This would give some idea of what these ico benches look like. Sometimes they rise before you in terraces, at other times they look tumbled and tossed and jagged, as if turned to ico suddenly and without warning during a mighty rush of waters down the canyon. They surround these grand mountain peaks on every side and in every direction, and no one knows how fur they extend. This region has never been explored, and the mouth of the Copper river is blocked by them, while th*» great falls near the mouth ol the suxam make the ascent of th stream all the more difficult.

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New York, June 20.—I cannot recollect any time when the bodices of gowns and the "separate waists" were such special features as now. Heretofore every dress had a waist generally to match the skirt, but as the skirts were more sparingly garnished all that trimming centered on the waists, until now they are almost works of art, each different from the next. In spite of the war there are many varieties of the bolero, or Spanish jacket These now have the back plain across and reaching quite to the belt line. In front there is frequently a pair of points, squared or rounded tabs. There are revers and these, according to the kind of material of which they are made, are trimmed in military style or in fine soutache or embroidery. The fronts hang open, showing & blouse of some contrasting color, with sharp revers overlaying those of the jacket. The opening to the blouse reveals a chemisette of white, either pique, linen or silk. This is so dressy in itself that no trimming is needed on the skirt. Yokes of very closely tucked stuff, with the lower part of the waist gathered as full at possible, is another fancy, and this is carried out with a hundred variations. One dainty summer gown of cadet blue pique had a plain skirt save for three rows of 'white braid about 18 inches from the bottom, simulating a sprung flounce. The sleeves were tight, except at the wrists, where they flared over the hand, and there were sprung caps at the shoulder bound with white braid. The yoke was tucked closely, the lower part gathered full and scalloped on the upper edges and down the center of the front, where there was set a row of silver buttons, three in each scallop.

Tucks laid crosswise, lengthwise and diagonally are very popular. There seems to be no waist, where tucks would be out of place.

The shirt and blouse waists are made so that the front is puffed out like a balloon, with different contrivances. Something like a pouter pigeon looks the lady who wears one. When a really stylish, swell young lady struts along the street with one of these distended waists on and a dress improver, otherwise known as a bustle, she is a curious looking creature and would certainly never pass for a Venus. She looks as if she had been broken in two and badly glued ""agether. But lovely woman thinks herself lovelier Vssed this way, so let her be happy whilexshe can.

Many very dainty summer gowns for "dress up" are of sheer white lawn over pink, blue or yellow silk. Around the bottom of one or two I noticed ruffles of lace or fine embroidery with Tom Thumb ribbon woven through the meshes. These were finished on the bodice by ruffles and bands of lace and insertion or fine openwork embroidered revers, and full effects are seen on the waists of these.

Hats grow more beautiful every day, it seems to the impartial observer, also bigger, as the sun has at last begun to make his presence felt. There are exquisite. hats made of some soft and very glossy fiber, with a full ruffle of the straw or whatever it is around the edge, this being often woven in with plaited crepe lisse in a color to matoh. Some hats have hard brims in sailor shape with softTam O'Shanter crowns of silk, velvet or some thin material. Some leghorns have two brims, one above the

SOME ELEGANT SUMMER BODICES.

other. The upper one is twisted up into deep scallops to hold the trimming. These are only suitable for very young faces. One really artistic liat was of a rich bronre brown straw or fiber, the crown in steeple shape. The brim was edged with a double plaiting of the same intertwined with brown crepe lisse. On one side was a brown velvet plaiting edged with brown iridescent pearl beads. On the other side was a bunch of shaded brown feathers with paradise tip at the top and a panache bow of all shades of brown satin ribbon and two loops of nasturtium yellow velvet

A new device for trimming organdie gowns is to have three or four rows of milliner's folds in silk or satin around the bottom or on the flounce if there is a flounce. The belt and all other trimming cm such a gown matches. I saw one bayadere striped organdie in gray and silvery corded stripes. There were several of these folds everywhere, making the dress expensive on account of the trimming and labor. The underskirt was of taffeta of the same shade of gray, with four very narrow shirred ribbon Mils set on in aigssags. these in different shades. Tho outer gown was loose, so that when held up out of the dust the underskirt showed. The amount of work and expensive trimming put upon inexpensive material as organdie forces one to admire tho excellent financeering abilities of woman. And the blessed husbands thank the stars for having a wife content with 15 cent organdie gowns. The trimming does not count. Ouvk Harpsb.

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Mrs. MartBoixdjgeb,1101 Marianna Si, Chicago, 111., to Mrs. Pinkham: have been troubled for the past two years with falling of the womb, leucorrhcea, pains over my body, sick headaches, backache, nervousness and weakness. I tried doctors and various remedies without relief. After taking two bottles of your Vegetable Compound, the relief I obtained was truly wonderful. I have now taken several more bottles of your famous medicine, and can say that I am entirely cured."

Mrs. HekbyDobb,No. 806 Findley St., Cincinnati, Ohio, to Mrs. Pinkham: "For a long time I suffered with chronic inflammation of the womb, pain in abdomen and bearing-down feeling. Was very nervous at times, and so weak I was hardly able to do anything. Was subject to headaches, also troubled with leucorrhcea. After doctoring for many months with different physicians, and gettingnorelief, I had given up all hope of being well again when I read of the great good Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound was doing. I decided immediately to give it a trial. The result was simply past belief. After taking four bottles of Vegetable Compound and using three packages of Sanative Wash I can say I feel like a new woman. I deem it my duty to announce the fact to my fellow sufferers that Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable remedies have entirely cured me of all my pains and suffering. I have her alone to thank for my recovery, for which I am grateful. May heaven bless her for the good work she is doing for our sex."

QUAINT CURACAO.

far a Hundred Teara an Asylum For Political Fugitives and Exiles. Curacao is a Dutch colony and the quaintest little island in the world. It is not bigger than the District of Columbia, but has about 40,000 inhabitants and has played an important part in the history of America. It has belonged at different times to England, Spain and Holland, and its cozy harbor has been the scene of many a bloody battle between the navies of the old world as well as between the pirates and buccaneers that infested the Caribbean sea for two centuries. It has been for 100 years and still is an asylum for political fugitives, and many of the revolutions that rack and wreck the republics on the Spanish main are hatched under the shelter of the pretentious but harmless fortresses that guard its port. Bolivar, Santa Anna and many other famous men in Spanish-American history have lived there in exile, and until recently there was an imposing castle upon one of the hills called Bolivar's tower. There the founder of five republics lived in banishment for several years and waited for rescue

The houses are built in the Dutch sty lei exactly like tly^. in Holland. The streets are so nar/ .,f "at the people can almost shake J^Ltls through their windows with the neighbors acrS th§ way, and the walls are would be needed for. Dutch governor live^L^-rJv ing old mansion Mm 'y or lagoon, that forms the na ed by a company of stupid looking soV diers with a few old fashioned cannon.

The entire island is of phosphates, and the government receives a revenue of 9500,000 from companies that ship them away. There is not a spring or a well or any fresh water, and the inhabitants are entirely dependent upon rainwater for existence or upon supplies brought in barrels by schooners from the Venezuelan coast, 90 miles away, or upon distilled sea water. As sometimes it doesn't rain for a year or two the natural supply is often exhausted, and a glass of imported water is worth as much as the same amount of wine or beer.

Curacao gives its name to a celebrated liquor that was formerly manufactured from the peel of a peculiar species of orange growing there, but most of the fruit trees have been destroyed by the droughts, and the supply now comes from other of the West Indian islands. The inhabitants are mostly negroes. A few rich merchants, representing all nationalities, are said to have made their money by smuggling. It is a free port. No duties of any sort are charged, and as the amount of merchandise imported annually is about 25 times as much as the inhabitants can consume and the harbor is constantly filled with little schooners that seem to be always loading and unloading there is good ground for the belief that contraband trade with the main coast is still going on.—Chicago Record.

Why, Certainly.

Customer—I wish I had as good a head of hair as you have. I have tried everything to remedy my baldness, but with no good results.

Watchmaker—Have you ever tried rubbing your head with steel? Customer—Certainly not. That seems to me ridiculous.

Watchmaker— Why ridiculous? Isn't it a fact that steel makes the hair spring?—Boston Courier.

Biliousness

Is caused by torpid liver, which prevents digestion and penults food to ferment aod petrify in the stomach. Then follow dizziness, headache.

tnsoaifia, oenroosaess, and. If not relieved, biBoos fever or blood poisoning. Hood's PlQs stimulate the stomach, roast the aver, cure beaaacae. rczztness, coo*

UpaUon, etc. 35 e«»t$. Sold by all druggists, fix ooljr PUb to take with flood*:

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Southwest Corner fourth and Ohio Streets.

The Lake Captain.

The lake captain has no knowledge of the science of navigation. Never is he out of sight of land for any length of time, and he must know his route almost as a river pilot knows the stream he sails. In truth, so far as following his oourse goes, the lake captain is a pilot rather than a seaman. His steering is by oompass and the shore line. Never does he watch for the sun in order to ascertain his position by an observation. He depends in a large measure upon landmarks in finding his way, and when they are hidden by fog or a snow squall he must make the best guess he can.

He has a.1 ways at least one port to make in a day and sometimes two or three. No pilot meets him off a harbor to share his responsibility and steer his vessel in. He must not only keep the deck during storms and when entering and leaving port, but also during fogs and when the dense smoke from the forest fires of autumn lies on the water. In harbor and at sea the lake captain's duties are many and his hours of labor long.—Allan Hendricks in North American Review.

Vans From a Fish's Fins.

Curious little fans are made from the pectoral fins of the fish known as the sea robin. The sea robin is not a very large fish, but its pectoral fins are large in proportion to its size, and in nature they suggest fans from the manner in which the fish opens and oloses them. The pectoral fins of the smaller sea robin are marked with brown, those of the larger fishes with maroon, beautifully shaded. The fins have many rays or ribs.

In making a fan the fin is first stretched out on aboard to dry. A large fin will make a fan about six inohes in breadth. The rays spread out in it, as the split bamboo stripsdo in a Japanese fan, except that the rays are tapering, and they are much slenderer and more delicate.

When the fin is dry, it is mounted as a fan, and when it has been thus completed it is dipped in varnish. The varnish not only brings out the colors, but it serves also as a preservative. Thus .treated the fan will last for years.— pVprk Soil.

medicine you can take iB that ilds a solid foundation for health rich blood—Hood's Sarsaparilla. Land and a Living l£:

Are best and cheapest in the New South. Land 13 to $5 an acre. Easy terms. Good schools and churches. No blizzards. No cold waves. W. C. Rinearson, G. P. A., Queen & Crescent Route, Cincinnati.r

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coffee at night. It spoils their sleep. You

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stimulate it nourishes, cheers and feeds.

Yet it looks and tastes like the best coffee. For nervous persons, young people and children Grain-0 is the perfect drink. Made from pure grains. Get a package from your grocer to-day. Try it in place of coffee. 15 and 85c.

To Cure Constipation Forever, Take Cascurets Candy Cathartic. 10c or 25o. If C. C. C. fail to cure, druggists refund money.

To make your Sunday dinner complete, go to Fiess & Herman, 27 north Fourth street, where you will always find an abundance of the choicest meats of all kinds. They have also on hand sausages of all kinds of their own maka Telephone 252. ,=

To Care Constipation Cortfw. Take Cascarets Candy Cathartic. 10c or fflc. If C. C. C. fall to cure, druggists refund money.

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Twenty-six hundred feet elevation. Delightful climate. Three hundred days of sunshine per year. Finest hotel accommodations in the South. The world's greatest sanitarium and place for recreation.

A reduced rate is in effect from the North every day in the year, for round trip tickets via the Queen & Crescent Route and Southern Railway.

Through Pullman Drawing Room Sleepers from Cincinnati daily. W. C. Rinearson, General Passenger Agent, Cincinnati, wili send printed matter and full information on application.

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"National" Bicycjes

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•the amount. It is only the sum paid home men for its work at home, every dollar of which has been spent by these employes among home business men for the benefit of our own people, it is certainly a splendid showing, but no one envies the company its well earned prosperity. «T#

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Daytons, $50 and 975. Readings, $4Q and 950. Elmores, $50. Premiers, $40."^

SHOULD be a pleasure to every man to bestow words of praise on his home institutions, even if it is not in his power to render them any assistance in a more substantial way.

Likewise the success of our home institutions &£••• should be a source of gratification to every good citizen on all occasions. In this connection it

We have the finest line of up-to-date bicycies In the state. Call and see them beforo you buy. The largest stock of Tires and Cycle Sundries In the ctty. Enameling, Gutting Down and General Repairing promptly attended to. All work guaranteed.

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can be said truly that of the numerous institu*

tions possessed by Terre Haute, none is a larger contributor to the support of its business interests than the Terre Haute Brewing Co., one of the most successful business ventures which

te we have with us today. From a very small beginning its growth has been wonderful, and it now ranks as one of the largest institutions of its kind in the West. A small idea of its operations may be gained from the statement that during the last year it has distributed in

salaries and wages among its employes in Terrell •. ajlr "HaufcS the sum of 198,000, which represents more than $6 for each barrel of its product Ipflsold in this city. This does not include the salaries of its agents in other places, traveling ijien, nor the sums spent on improvements and ^'repairs, which, if added, would nearly double

Its management has always been governed by

liberal and progressive ideas, to which to a great 7 extent is due its well deserved popularity and liberal patronage among the people of Terre

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