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ALASKAN DRIV1 WOLVES Bill Brown, Alaska's F ning a Wager of of the Klondj Driving six dogs and two wolve on a trip 25,000 miles in length through every State and territory ii the union, in order to win a $10,00 V wager, Bill Brown, Alaska's famou mail driver, reached Anderson Sun rday morning aDoui iu o wuuk, tum ing over the National highway fron * Atlanta. The appearance of the team o dogs and wolves, drawing a ricket; little buggy, attracted considerabl attention as it passed through th streets to Cheshire's stable on Eas Market street. Here the dogs wer v "stalled" to rest and be fed, am hundreds of young boys, and mer too, visited the stables to inspect th animals closely, and to talk wit! Brown. A $10,000 Wager. Brown says that early in 191 some government men in Alaska oi fered to bet $10,000 against $50 that he could not drive his team o . dogs on a 25,000 mile jaunt, visi every capital in the 48 States, an return to his home in Nome, th capital of Alaska in six years. Brow says he gathered together $500 an staked the bet, and his minin friends, having confidence in hi ability to make the trip, in the give: ^ time, made many side bets on him. W Is Ahead of Time. , The wagers being arranged Brow: departed from Nome on the 5th da of May, 1912, and up to date he ha visited 39 capitals, only nine yet t he visited. Two years of the allotte time has elapsed, and Brown say that he expects to complete the tri and be back in Alaska in four o five months from now, winning th bet with a margin of about three an % one-half years. Doesn't Steal, Beg or Borrow. "I am to earn my living on th trip by selling cards; that was on of the stipulations in the bet. I ar neither to beg, steal or borrow," sai Brown to-day. . Prom Klondyke Gold Fields. Brown says that he comes fror the Klondyke gold fields; that th gold fever still exists in that sectio of the country, but not to such great degree as it did when gol was first discovered 18 years age He says that the miners out ther are making fortunes every day, find ing new deposits. ine oia way u discovering and staking a claim i still in vogue, the claim not to b less than 10 and not more than 10 acres in area. Brown says that the mining c gold and coal in Alaska will grow t an enormous degree just as soon a the United States government com pletes the proposed railroad from th Siberian straits to Nome. Native of Newfoundland. ' Brown was born in Newfoundlanc Vbut went to Nome -when quite young chap. He is 45 years of ag< although he doesn't look' it, an IT* talks the English language fluentl> The out-door exercise, for it is rea] > ly exercise he is taking, because h does not ride in the little bugg drawn by the dogs, seems to hav agreed with him heartily. He say he feels fine, much better than whe he first started on the long journej Weather Causes Comment. "There is one thing that impresse ^ me greatly, "said Brown, in talkin with a representative of The Dail -x Mail," and that is the cold weather have experienced down in the sout is much more penetrating than th weather we have in Alaska. Win in Alaska we sometimes have sno-< deeper than the house-tops, and th thermometer drops way yonder b low zero, yet we are not so col , then as you people are here when th temperature drops below freezing Our atmosphere is dry?that is th reason, I guess." The Original Team. Brown has only three of the dog and the two wolves which he starte with originally. "Duke." the bi Newfoundland, which leads the tear is one of the original dogs, and h * ? i? jr _ i ^ is trie mainstay or tne team, uae t the wolves is a full-blooded gra *0-* Alaskan timber wolf, while the othe is about one-half wolf. The collie < are the other dogs that have wit! k stood the trip so far. In additio to these Brown has a shepherd, a sei ter and a hound. The setter was ac ded to the team a day or so ago whe Brown stopped over in Georgia. H says that he had no trouble at a. in training the new dog to do hi ? share of the work in palling the- bag gy. One of his dogs was taken fo * a coyote at the capital of New Mex: co, and was shot down by a Mexica as he went to a fountain for watei Makes Good Time. Brown says he averages betwee 40 and 45 miles a day; that h [NG TEAM OF AND DOGS IN S. C. amous Mail Driver, Win-! $10,000.00?T ells I jrke Gold Fields s travels six days a week, always rest-1 i, ing up on Sunday. He travelled 1 o a miles yesterday, as he could not 0 reach Anderson Saturday night. He s camped out near the river Saturday night, and came on to Anderson ear ly in the morning. Because he used a a part of Sunday he decided to let : the dogs have to-day off to get conif pletely rested. y The Man and the Dogs. e! Brown is wrapped up entirely with e, his dogs and wolves and they are * attached to him equally as much. He 6: does not use reins in driving them ^ on the highway, using the words l,| "gee" and "haw" in making the core ners. The big Newfoundland in the k! lead understands him thoroughly, ' and this dog prevents any break in : the ranks behind. One of the dogs - ! is a hound, and every time a rabbit ~; crosses the road there is a strong ? j temptation to pursue, but the other *| dogs hold him back, and the rabbit * is allowed to proceed on his way un^ j molested, e' To Columbia Next. u j: After departing from Anderson j Brown and his team will proceed toI ward Columbia, where he will secure 1 the signature of the governor, and ' then go for Raleigh, North Carolina. After reaching: Washington, and se j curing the signature of President n Wilson, if he has time to leave the j Mexican troubles long enough to see | him, Brown will go towards Bangor, ? i Maine, and there visit his last capi^ tal. He will then hurry across the a j country to Alaska, and there take P i down the $10,000 wager.?Peoples r' i Advocate, e j ^ ^ i Hunting Up Trade. The old way was to let trade find e j its way to a city, but the new way is e I to go out and bring trade to the n city. There are various ways of dod; ing that and a city which expects to get its share of the trade has to use ! one or another of the various ways to u get trade. e ! On Monday Charleston had anothn | er trade excursion, which left that a i city for an itinerary through the upd | country. A large number of Charles). j ton jobbers, representing various e lines, accompanied the special train, t- j and, of course, they are going along if i so they can meet business men in s the interior and give business men e j a chance to meet them. There is a ^ ?Awino- froHoi o n/I w gicai ucai m niiui?iu& uuu : letting the trade know you, if there 'f ( is very much in you. o; Trade excursions are pretty good s j advertisements within themselves. j They indicate that a jobbing centre e! has confidence in its ability to sup: ply the trade. Jobbers have bet: ter facilities than ever for doing I. i business, and the live business man a j is not content to stay at home withi, j out personally meeting his old cusd j tomers and making the acquaintance r. j of new ones.?Wilmington Star. I-1 ? e Too Much Publicity. >' I e 4T disapprove of the senate having s, secret sessions. I favor the utmost Q j publicity for everything." T> | "I did; but since the new gowns S came out I think the women are go? | ing a bit too far.?Seattle Post. sr i &, v ! Ain't. Tt. Finfl To-dav. T j k i Sure this world is full of trouble? e! I ain't said it ain't. 1 Lord I've had enough an' double K Reason for complaint. e Rain an' storm have come to fret ' me; ^ Skies were often gray, e Thorns an' brambles have beset me ? i On the road?but, say! e' Ain't it fine to-day? What's the use of always weepin' ;s Makin' trouble last? d ! What's the use of always keepin' g Thinkin' of the past? n | Each must have his tribulation, ej Water with his wine; >f I Life, it ain't no celebration, y' Trouble? I've had mine? T But to-day is fine. *! i-! It's to-day that I am livin' n I Not a month ago; t- | Havin', losin', takin', givin', I-1 As time wills it so, j Yesterday a cloud of sorrow, e1 Fell across the way; j It may rain again tomorrow, s ' It may rain?but, say! ?- i Ain't it fine to-day? r ?Douglas Malloch. n; Russia's population is increasing -.'at the rate of about 2,500,000 a I year. It now stands at about 147,ni 000,000 of which 100,000,000 are e I peasants. NARROW ESCAPES. Hudson Maxim Has Figured in Some Perilous Incidents. One of the most thrilling adventures in my experience took place at the government proving grounds at Sandy Hook, N. J., when the United States government was testing maximite before adopting it. Near a light frame building in which I was filling shells with maximite, -a ten inch gun was being tested. A number of shots had been fired from the big gun. Just as I had concluded my work and started for the wharf to take the government tug for New York, the signal was sounded for another shot. I was walking along a stretch of railway track directly behind the gun. At that instant I remembered that several years before, when one of these guns was being tested, the breechlock had blown out, passed through the bombproof and killed six officers and men, but I argued with myself that the chance was infinitely remote that the breechlock would be blown out of the present gun on this discharge at the very instant I was in range, but upon a sudden impulse I ran with all my might. The gun was discharged. I looked round just in time to see the huge breechlock pass through a building near the one in which I had been at work. It came up the track, striking and breaking one of the rails over which I had passed. Tt ricocheted against the top of an old granite fort, a shower of stones and debris fell over a wide area and many fragments struck the ground close to me. I walked back to the scene of the accident and found that the windows in the little building where I had been filling maxamite shells were completely riddled with partly burned cylinders of .smokeless powder that had been blown from the gun. I once had another curious exper ience at Sandy Hook during some trials of the Maxim automatic machine gun. 4 Among the severe tests to which the gun was subjected was one intended to stimulate what might occur in making a landing upon the seashore, where the mechanism of the gun might get filled with sand. The test is known as the "sand test." The gun being tested at the time was of the kind using black gunpowder cartridges, for it was before the introduction of smokeless powder. There was so much energy in the recoil of the barrel that a great deal of sand could be thrown into the mechanism without interfering with the working of the gun. The commanding officer did not arrive to see the gun fired until after the board in charge had completed the test. He then appeared and demanded that the firing should be continued for his benefit. The chairman of the experimental board demurred, saying that the gun had passed through the test admirably and that it was too bad to fire it more than was absolutely necessary, with its mechanism filled with sand. But the commander insisted. A schooner was apprdaching near the line of fire. The commander said he only wanted to see a few rounds fired and that the firing would be completed before the schooner would come within range. Accordingly a belt of 333 rounds was inserted, and the firing begun. After perhaps fifty rounds were fired the command was given "Cease firing," but the gun kept right on. It afterward proved that the trigger was blocked by sand, so that it was impossible to stop the gun. The schooner came into range and the bullets flew over and around her. My assistant, who was firing the gun, did his best to work the trigger, and stop it. It did not occur to him on the instant, to unlimber the gun and swing it round so as to bring the schooner out of range. As the gun fired at the rate of 750 shots a minute the firing was all over inside half a minute. Fortunately no damage was done. When the same gun was undergoing a sand test at Annapolis, Md., I came very near being killed by it. The gun had passed successfully through a severe test, but the officer in charge wanted to see whether he could put enough sand into the gun to stop it. So he had the gun box filled full. The gun fired about 150 rounds and then stopped. My assistant threw down the safe?that is to say, locked the trigger, so that it could ' not be pulled?and began clearing the gun box. Thinking that the gun was safe, I was just about to step round in front of it. Suddenly it fired a dozen or more shots so close to me that my clothes were seared by the powder gases. One of the tests made at Anna *0,000 CAN'T MOVE NOW. Chicago Landlords Have List of Evicted Persons. \ ??? More than SO,000 persons in Chicago will be unable to move on .May 1, the annual spring moving day in this city, because of the unwillingness of landlords to receive them as tenants, according to a statement to-day by an official of the landlords' information and protective bureau. "From 20,000 to 25,000 persons are evicted every year for non-payment of their rent," said the official. '.More than 80,000 persons have been sued by their landlords. We keep the names of such tenants in our books. Other lists are obtained by working with real estate men and with neighbors of undesirable tenants. This information is given to landlords for their protection. "Some people find it less expensive to move than to pay rent. One woman moved 4 times a year, or 24 times in six years. She was evicted everywhere she went after three months."?Chicago Tribune. Brother Not in the Same Fix, "Why do you object to vaccination?" asked the busy magistrate sharply of the applicant for an exemption certificate. "It's a matter of conscience, sir," was the reply. At that moment the clerk whispered to the great man on the bench. "Ah," 6aid his worship, "I am informed that you have a brother on the police force. Now, does he object to having his -children vaccinated?" "No, sir." "Very well, if vaccination is not | against your brother's conscience why should it be against yours?" ? "Well, you see, sir, it doesn't ex- ~j actlv follow. Bill, as you're talking I about, has not neither children nor conscience." He got his certificate.?New York Globe. polis was to fire a Mexican gun vertically into the air. We had fired a couple of hundred 6hots in this manner, when something struck very near us. It then occurred to the officer in charge that what goes up must necessarily come down. 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