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THE PEOPLE'S OURNAL. VOL. 7.---NO.. 30. PICKENS, S. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 19, 1897. ONE DOLLAR A YEAR ho did the falling and who shod the ret tears in the truce between Evans nd Irby, and Irby said it was Evans ho did the first falling. McLaurin-"I think Evans ought to avo done it." Col. Irby said, in talking of Evans's onination that Tillman was sent to iuzzle him, but that he would not be kuzzled, and that ho told Tillman that no March convention was all that iuld be had, and there was no use to ry another for any one. As for Till ian, now he said he seemed to be giv ig all a fair foot race, and he was sat ified, and as for himself, he had no olitical daddy, for he was laid in the n and hatched by an eagle. Col. Irby repeated the charges that [cLaurin had said that Tillman ought be impeached during the Darlington 3bellion, and that the Reform party iid gone to hell. McLaurin said he never said any ch thing; that he had denied it be ire, and that there was no use to re 3at a thing he had often denied and hich he did not believe was printed charged. Governor Evans gave a little inside story about his gubernatorial noiui tion. Neal, he said, went to 10dge ld as his professed friend and told m that the leaders were against him id he had better not run for Governor. vans said he did not care who the Aders were for, he was going to run. ilman telegraphed for him to come the mansion, and Tillman told him o leaders were against him and ho d better not run. He told Tiliman at ho was going to run and that the dors could not stifle the people, and wont to Washington to see the Con essmen and explain matters to them, I the while determined to make the ce before the people. He said that first "busted" the March conven m, and that the Colleton plan was not tten up in his interest. Mr. McLaurin spoke first and was 3tily cheered when he started, and concluding he dealt with State mat rs for some time and devoted much no to denouncing bossism, and said at the people had repudiated it, and >uld do so again and that Irby need t boast of what ie had done to make rtain ollicers. He never believed e Rform movement depended upon y one man. in his general discussion he said eap clothes were due to the money ,uation not to the Wilson bill. In )sing he said that if he could not get lee except by trying to blacken the aracter and Democracy of others he I not want it. He ran and wanted 3ction for himself on his record. le 3tified his vote for the Tillman-Lati r bill as for State's rights, and said would do so again. lie said -he al ys opposed the Populiet party at me and nationally. Mr.,Mayfleld, in addition to his gcncr line, charged that there was a com nation in the Interest c. MeLaurin, id that it was made by the press gen ally, Tillman, and,che State adminis ation. He elaborated this idea, which il be given later. He eapecially de iunced the Record for what it had me against him, and said that it was ider the money control of Neal, E' rbo and McLaurin. His spuech was ell received. Col. Irby started out with the propo tion that he would prove the Repub tanisim of McLaurin. The abbreviat I statement about what he said about io price of goods may have been mis ading, but what he held was that on count of the free raw material sched e in the Wilson bill clothes were ieapor than they had been and would soon again in years. As to records, 3 said that he was getting MeLaurin's id thought ho could show up with m as to absenteeism. McLaurin, in >ing back on free raw material, had me back on the cardinal principles of e party, which he had never done. Governor Evans spoke last and to a ved audience. He said he never went ck on his friends, and even his one y, the New and Courier, said he did t go back on his friends and that they ew what to expect of him, which was it the case with McLaurin. After ing over how he came to run for )vernor, he said that if he had been, *lling to have gone back on Judge allace he could have been elected at rney general instead of McLaurin. o had many offers and was told he is making a mistake supporting Wal cc, but he never weat back on his lends, and McLaurin was eleuted for pporting Pope, and he (Evans) had mnc on McLaurin's bond as attorney moral, and had, it appeared, been re bid for his friendship. All about Me turin not supporting him was a rove tion to him. Mr. Evans stated that the new tariff auld raise the price of sugar from 2 to aents per pound. He said that Mc iurin was hacking and p)leading the bby act by crying combination. He ent over most of his tariff and raw atorial argument, which was very nll received, and he was heartily ap audod. MAYFIELDI DROPS OUT. cliaurin Carries the D)ay in York. Irby was not Present-ECvan,s's Char-ges as to What Evans Tol im in Washingtonu. YORK, S. C., Aug. 12.-About 500 iople are in attendance at the cam tign meeting in p)rogrecss In the court uso here to-day. Senator Irby is not esent on account of. an attack of molera morbus. After making his usual speech, anator May fleld created something of senation. Ho exlaincd that on the ithority of Congressman Strait and 1hors ho had charged McLaurin at hester with having attempted to or inize the Populist party in this tate. Hie had also said that if this charge as not true and he could not prove it, n would withdraw from the raco. if was true, however, then It was in ambont upon McLaurin to withdraw. Since yesterday McLaurin has given im satisfactory evidence that while e did write a national Populistic plat irm for B3owden, he had preverited owdon from attempting to organizeo a opulist party in South Carolina. The vidence was so satisfactory, continued layflid, that I arn convinced that I ave made a false charge against Mo aurin and in justise to myself I hero y withdraw from the race. (Tromen INTERESTING DISCLOSURES AT CHESIER. a -.- a A QUESTION OF VERACITY. Congressman Strait Charges McLaur In with Proposing to Join the Pop-- n ulists--The Senator Adnita Vo- n n ting for Duncan and Earle after o Pledging His Support to Evans. Ca The campaign meeting at Chester was quite lively, as far as the Senato rial candidates were concerned. As for the audience, it did not seem to enthuse to any extent, and it was only every now and then that the audience would applaud. It was during Mr. Mayfleld's speech and the repeated charges that Mr. Mc Laurin was a populist at heart and that r he had ogfered to issue a populist man ifesto that Mr. Mayfield said that ho would again repeat the charge now f that Congressman Strait was present. Strait and McLaurin both jumped up ) at the same time, and Strait said to w McLaurin to make his statement. a Mr. McLaurin said that In 1892 there were three or four parties favoring tha free coinago"of silver, and that it was ,i his intention, with others, to try and - get all of these forces together ; that , Tillman, Bryan and other leaders at tended conferences to try and get the free silverites, the Populists, the silver 1e Republicans and silver Democrats to gether, and that it was those forces he to was trying to get concentrated at one of these conferences, and an address th was issued, and he, Bryan and others is signed it, and that he got members of h the South Carolina delegation to sign h it. At one of these conferences to got 9 all the silver forces together he made a speech and said that in South. Caro- ra lina everything was all right and there h was no need in his State for a Populist tI( party. What he wanted was to secure the election of Bryan, and in the last iu campaign the free silver Republicans, Ou I'opulists and all worked for Bryan. That was his sole purpose in advising t any combination of forces or of doing th what he did. As for South Carolina, t every thing the free silver people could w want was to be had in the Democratic n organization, and that was good enough c for him. 6 Dr. Strait said he had hoped not to an be drawn into the matter, but would cl say that the address Mr. McLaurin c speaks of had nothing to do with the sit address speken of to him and Talbert. cl Whdn they were seated together, Mr. oil McLaurin came up to them and said . c "Talbert, -I want you and Strait to go di in with me in the Populist party. The e time is ripe, the current is high and ju the sea coming in." m Mr. McLaurin-""Dr. Strait, you cor- h tainly misunderstood the tenor of what I said. It would be remarkable, in deed, if I were to go up to you and at make such a hold statement in such an bi cif-hand way." b Mr. McLaurin wonton to say that he at had always talked to Tatimer, Talbort or and Strait along the linus of a union of the South and West as indicated. He w said he had favored to them an amal- I gamation of the silver forces, but he d( never proposed a Populist party. or .u joiaing it. He said that Bowden had I nursed him like a woman when his w wife was also sick, and that while he was recuperating he begged and plead sl with Bowden, and had him to confine bin fight to the national electors, al- " -though it was Bowden's intention to I run a State ticket, and that it was only l by hard work that he had spared the a( State such a fight as North Carolina U had experienced. He had Bowden ci amend his platform and cut out the bi part looking to a State fight. Dr. Strait said that it occurred to a ,:..:. him as strange at the time McLaurin r should have made such a statement to g( him in an otf-hand manner, especially as he, too, was under the charge of be ing a Populist and was "hlao.klisted" t --for it.b Mr. May field then closed by saying b that if the other Congresasmen would ml h . not rove the charge he had made, he " would withdraw from the race, and if th.Le other Congressmen substantiated nc --hat Dr. Strait bad said, then Mc- gc '4aurin should withd raw from the race. Gi ... 9: In the course of Col. Irby's speech w -'bowas talking about the charge of of McLaurin, that the people repudi- to ---ated Evans for having been "rammed I down the people's throats," and thatw McLaurin supported him with all this. la Mr. McLaurin said he did not ; that he votedl for Duncan on the first ballot s and for ICarlo on the second ballot. E Evans (from his scat) 'You sworoe to m~e that you would vote for me, and 1) that you did later." L4 During McLaurin's speech he ox plained that while he was in the muoun tins he received1 a telegram from .~ 1E.ans.and another from Neal, asking a him to sui)pport 10vans. IIe expected to L do so, 'out when he heard that Tillman bi was going to write a letter, he advised w against it and wrote against it, and -if ~ that letter had not come out he woulo w have gone to Marlboro and have P worked in a qilet way for Evans. Af ter the letter he voted for Earle. * "Then I have given you credit for what you did not do," said Evans. "A f- ~ ter the letter, you promised to vote for me." Mr. McLacrin said he did net. Later on, Col. Irby wanted a direct atlirmativc or negative answer from McLaurin as to whether or not he was in.favor of the dise nsary or whether pt - e vWould support froe raw material in pl -a 'Democratic administration should h< oneobe had. .p McLaurin refused to answer in a ci monosyllable, oi-, as he said, to have the answer put in his mouth, and so Si there was another tilt, as to whether a McLaurin should be permitted to an- ai swer in his own way or not, and Col. 01 irby refused to have an answer unless C - e it was yes or nay. ga * Mr-. May field charged Col. Neal with S the parentage of the query in "'rho State" about suporting J. BJlt,on Wat- w son for coertain ollices. He said that he h did have a conversation with Watson it and related what it was, but most posi- cl tively denied that he otfered Mr. Wat son the support of Evans, Irby eor any hi one else. lie did tell him that he hi would not like to see him run for rail- ft * read commissioner, because of his 13 friend Crum, and that he had always 1 looked upon Mr. Watson as his and Ils e Sbrother's friend, and he would wager 1V -- that Mr. W atson never stated what w as h - credited to him in the paper. L - Mr. McLaurin said he did not know b dous applause and hurrahs for Ma3 field.) Mlaylield wont on to say, that hi withdrawal was entirely without prc judice to any of the candidates; tha all were men of character and fitnese and that the voters should vote accord to their own judgment. (Applause. HJ had spoken of the matter to a fev personal friends confidentially. Evans was the next speaker. Ii spoke sarcastically of the dramatic de velopmont that had just taken piac< and went on to say that a charge o such a nature by such a distinguiehet citizen as Dr. Strait should not be dis missed without positive proof as to it: falsity being gien the public. Mayfleld said he belLeved Strait an he believed McLaurin. McLaurir meant the national platform and Strail thought ho meant to organize Popul lam in the State. (Applause.) Evans said McLaurin told Stral this; he said it to Talbert, he said it t< me. He talked to me about it in i committee room in Washington for at Lour. (Loud applause for McL.aurii and jeers for Evans.) Evans continued his speech with the atatement that he did not mind th< iudienceo being against him. lie could ipeak as well to his enemies as h ould to his friends. McLaurin was received with groal %pplause. He spoke with so much vehemence thatr he had to stop onc nd at the conclusion of iis speech li fainted. He said that Strait had iounded him around .his district. It said Evans had gone too far to-day ir personal matters. All the speakers showed a great deal Af feeling to-day. After about five minu-tes,' Mr. Mc Laurin recovered from his fainting ipell. RUNNING NO RISKS. Clemson to be Put in Periect. Condi tion-;,n Expert Sanitary Engince and Bacteriologist to Visit tie Col lege. 'oliumbia Record. All the friends of Clemson Collegc are engaged in an active campaign tc mecure a largo attendance of student, at the next session, which opens ir September. They are meeting wilt success in their work and the pros pects are bright for the far ners' college. The return of Prof. .1, 3. Newman to Clemson's faculty is re garded as a great blessing to that in ititution. He has the full conidenc( f the farmers of this State, who havc not been satisfied witl the manage ment of the agricultural departmnun of that institution since his withdrawa from it. He is undoubtedly one of th4 toremost teachers of agriculture in thi whole Southern country. Governor Ellerbe, who has the in terests of Clemson College at heart said to-day: '"The trustees of Clemson Colleg are determined to take every stop t put the college buildings in good san tary condition and to remove all caus< of the recent ep!demic of fever and I prevent a recurrence. All- the recoi mendations of the State board health, which made an inspection c Clemson College aftot- the fever, wi be carried out. "The trustees instructed me, as Goi ernor, to request the State board c health to ask Dr. Wyman, the surgeo general of the marine hospital service to send an expert sanitary engineo and bacteriologist to Clemson to ex amine the buildings and grounds, witi a view to assisting in the work of put ting them in a satisfactory sanitar3 condition and prevent any recurrencc of fever in the future." Governor Ellerbe exp-ressed his pr.o fund conviction that p)arents would r-ur absolutely no risk in sending their senm lo Clemson College. The red tap)e way of asking the sur leon gener-al to send an expor-t t( Jlemson is made necessary by tht regulations of the -service, as he car nlIy honor such a request when pre iented by a State board of health. AN AP'PLn PuOonrEM.-Once upon time, there were two old men who sa in the market early every meorning an< sold app)les. Each one had thirty ap pIes, and one of the 01(1 men sold tw< for a cent, and the other old man sokt three for- a cent. In that way the lir-s old man got fi fteen cents for- lis baskel of apples, while the second old man re ceived ten cents: so that together thel made twenty-five cents each day. Blui one daiy the 01ld applle-man who sok three for a cent was too sick to go t< the market, and he asked his neighbol to take his applles and sell them for him This the other old man ver-y kindh~ consented to do, .and when he got ti the market with the two baskets of ap pies, he said to himself, "I will p)ut al the apples into one basket, for it wil be easier- than piceking thoem out, of tw, baskets." So he p)ut the sixty apple into one basket, and he said to himsell "Now, if I sell two a pplles for one cent and my old friend eel ls throoe foi- on cent, that is the same thing as selling five apples for two cent,s. Ther-ofor-e will sell five apples for two cents. When he sold the sixty apples, he foun, ho had only twenty-four cents, whicl was right, bedauso there ar-c twelvi fives in sixty, and twice twelve arl twenty-four. But if the other old imai had been there, andI each one had sol his app)les separately, they would hav received twenty-five cents. New, lie is that explained ? -The pension roil of the lJnitel States has almost reached the millie mark. Commissioner Evans has jut issued a statement showing that at thi beginning of th is fiscal year the p)or sioner-s numbered just 983,5:8. D)urin the last year 50,101 new pensions wet gr-anted and :3,971 persons were restore to the iroils. Old age and disease, hov ever, is working great inroadls into U1 lists for them-e wcro3,9th0 deaths duri the year. --An ar-tesian well 1,000 feet doc and 8 inches in diameter hias been sum1 on IIol'mnan's Island, in New Yer Liat her, one and.onc-elghth milon fro the shore, and fresh water has bet obtained at a rate of 30 to -10 gallot per minute. 'this is said to be the on well In the harbor, getting fresh wat, from below the salt. wata r. * TILF ASSASSINATION Ol CANOVAS s A Sketch (f' Ills Life Worc and tlhc Consetnencos of Ilis )oat h. New York Journal. The King of Spain is a child cloven years old. The R gent of Spain is a woman possessing the weaknesses of her sex, destitute of any notable ad ministrativo or political ability. In Cuba is revolution against Spanish rule surging irresistibly toward success. In the I'hilippino lslands Is rebellion calling ieavily on the Spanish govern ment for troops and money for its sup pression. In Spain itself the spirit of revolution is abroad. it is the chosen field for the optrations of anarchists, who thinl; its tottering d. nasty the easiest in all Europo to be shaken by their murderous crimee. And to-day Antonio Canovas idel Cas tillo, the strong state.suan who re placed the 3ourbons on the throno of Spain and hae guarded their interests thert, lies dead-struck down by the hand of an assassin. I f ever assassina tion promised to change th; map of the world it is at this moment. Canovas was above all things an ar dent royalist. As his great rival Sa gasta said of him, he was content to b, the minister of a king, never thinking of being the minister of the peop:lo. Since the day of his entrance upon public life in 1854-he has never been out of office since--his tf1orts have been always for the protection and strength ening of the Bourbon dynasty, liuring Spain's brief experience wiith republi can institutions Canovas remained in the background, butby no means quies cent. His every endeavor wis bent tto the task of electing aCortes that would pronounce the republic a failure and recall the Bourbons. He possessed two of the great qualifications for state craft, for he knew how to hide his time and how to keep his teiper. Sitting in the national legislature during the life of the republic, refraining from i ritating attacks upon the existing gov ernment, he yet saw that government fall before the royalist spirit which he in his quiet way had done so much to foment. Alfonso IlI, was called from his school books in an a:aglish military academy, and Canovas, who had long held 'plenipotentiary powers from the exiled boy king, became his I 'rime Minister. Alfon-o's widow and Alfonso's son he has served with cqual sagacity and devotion. His prudence and tact averted, it is b.lieved, a revo lution at the death of the late king, and by these qualities, reinforced by an indomitable will, which has become more autocratic with his advancing years-and perhaps w ith increasing need for the strong hand and the heavy heel-he has kept down the spirit of republicanism in Spain even until the present day. What to-morrow may bring forth, no man knowing tie tem per of the Spanish people and the eon e dition of the Spanish government wil o atti-mpt to say with certainty. -)id Canovas pay the penalty foi 8 Spain's misuse of Cuba ? The q uestioi o is not yo easily answered as it tuigh . seem. ''rue, they say the assassin wa , an anarchist, not a Cuban bent on rid ,f ding his country of one implacable foe - But suppose it were so. What was Il that could have led this agent of thc -red terror that periodically unnerves f Luropo to choose the Spanish prcmier for his victim ? A certain amount of system is evi dent in the anarchist deonnstrations. The victims are apt to be men whose violent death would precipitate politi cal crises out of which the anairch ists iiopo to snatch some advantage. The crimes are most frequent and most glaring in the States where the gov enment. is in t,be most crit,ical posi tion. Had King Humnber-t fallen bo fore the r-ecent assault of an assassin. [taly, bankrupt and tax eaten, would almost cer-tainly have boon tie 'scene of a p)olitical cataclysm. Spain i~s ripe for- a social explosio0n, hence It is there that the tor-oh of anarchy has been ired. And in the chiefest part it is from the pr1otracted clfort to re-enslave Cubat that the discontent, of the S~paniard(s has spr-ung. They have seen the flower of their- young mnanhood dr-afted to Cuba, whence there r'etur-n nothing save rep)orts of futile campaigns, r-egi ments dieimated by vir-ulent. fevers, hospitals turned into) post houses, prof ligacy and embezzlemcnt by high of lcials, misery and-sulforing among the soldicrs. Stripped of its youth Spain is r-obbed of its wealth as well. The Cuban war- has already cost moe than $$200,('00,000 andl victory is further awvav t,ban ever. Peasant families, deprived ' of their wage ear'ners, find( the do . mands of the tax gatherer- mor*e extor tionat,e than ever. The moe cornfor-t able classes know that the nation is oni - the veorge of bankr-uptcy. Dilscontent i is out,spoken in mnansion and in cottage. I Anarqby is invited. >1'or this condition Ciaovas stood in s the p)ositionl of pimeil resp)otTibil ity, ,IHis was the governing hand, his th'e ,voice that time and again declar-ed th at 3 only by the abject surrender- of the ''"rohols"' couldl p)eace bn restored t( I Cuba. iIe sent Weyler' to Cuba and "has maintained hin there despite r I ports of his barbarit,y to the Cubans, and his rapacious frauds porpetr-ated 3 upon the at-my. it'inally Canovas wan 3 the main pron and b)uttress of the lBour. ihon dynasty, the man who more titan LI whole brigade of dlevoted troiops, wane e able to pr1otect the thrmono and mnain.i v tain the existing government. if Spain Is weak Canovas helped ti make it so. With all the man's intel lect, with all his magnificent, quailitic, n o' loyalty to what lie deemed the par of patriotism, his hur-tul ness to tht n'ationi he thought to serve remains tin deniable. And so great was hiis per sonal power that with him remover the most momentous conseqjuences maj follow. Cuba may be granted the in depcndence which at any rate she wil s ut-ely wvin. Butt, more than this, the' Spanish Blourbons may be again exilet gto make way fot a governent by tht Assassination is always hateful. al p most always a bloc0k to the devclop. k mont of libterty. Bitt contlitions whici k the unfortunate i'elme Minister c in Spain wits chijelly Instrumental in creau in ting make it not impro(bable that hi is dea1th may result in the establIshmuon ly of two free governmenti in the p)lac ir of one moniar-chy and one military dot potism THlE KLONDYKE REGION AND ITS WEALTH. A CIIICAGO WOMAN WILL MAKIIC TIlE TIRIP. The Fasclinations of Frontier Lifo I ho I)angers and Privations Are Iessenctl by Wiseo Preparations. Mrs. Eli Gage, of Chicago, whose husband is a son of Secretary Gage, is one woman who wilt bravo the terrors of the Klondyku in the early spring. She will wear the dress of the Siwash Indians, scale the crngs of the Chilkoot pass, plunge through the whirl of the Horse -lead ltapids and join her hus band on the banks of the golden bo nanza. This looks easy enough in print. It sounds like the prospect of a little summer jaunt to some seaside retreat. It means in reality an adventure which has been faced by but two other women. It will take thirty days cover ing the 6)0 hard, perpendicular, rocky, fri z m and snow bound miles from Juneau to Dawson City. 1Her con pnions will be LPrank l'hiscator and U. . Be'ry-the new gold kings-and the thro expect that the work which will be done on their claims this winter will lheap upon the shores of the croek more nuggets than a horse can haul. Mrs. Gage has no mine in her own name, since in the eye of the law a married woman is not considered cap able of owning such property. her husband has two. She has caught the fever, and there is no temptation in the gentle life of the 1-vanston Ave nue home in comparison with the charms of a wild hunt for the pot of gold at the tip of the rain bow. It takes courage for a man to mlako the journey, but courage is easy when the real motive is infatuation. Mrs. Gage is infatuated with frontier life, and a week at home has been enough to eon vince her that there is more content ment for her in the log-hut in the land of mushroonm fortunes than on the piazza of a pretty red house with a green lawn. "it is wonderful how fascinating the life on the frontier becomes," she said the other rorning. "The man or wo man who gets a taste of it and succeeds and thrives by it rarely gets to like anything else. It may be a barbarous confession, but it seems to me that the kindest, most considerate and most practically honest people that I over met are the miners who are risking all at one throw in the work of the K lon dyke. It was here that I saw a code of honor which made all men honest-ai life in which each man must live a fair part or get a forcible and roughly polite invitation to move. "It takes men of sturdy charactoe to get into the valley, and the virtues they cling to are ones from which they want no man to part. I do not think that I heard of a single case in my summer's stay in upper Alaska where prospec tors and diggers had ts en guilty of dishonesty. IL, may be that honesty is a trait which thrives because it is backed by the point of a gun, but it is there nevertheless. Explorers going to the held or miners coming out frequently undertake greater loads than the ,cams can pull through. It is the custom at such times to put the surplus at the roadside and go on with half. The part left behind Is perfectly safe until it shall be caled for. Doubt that this rule would work in Chicago or other civiiized places." Mrs. Gage is so enthusiastic over the customs in vogue in this ragion that one would imagine she was "to thn manner born." 'T'hi is all wrong. She does not come within a thousand miles of being the ideal tN po of the frontier woman. There is a')iolutely nothing front,ier abut her x topt her inclination to chamcplon the syle of men and bravery that~ she had found among the new Argonauts. It is this inclination that is taking her back to the land of the midnight sun' "'Mr. Phiscator and MIr. IBerry were on the l'ortland -the sh ip whItich brought the $1 ,000,000 cargo of yellow metal into Seattle. It lk not likely that one man in lift,y could p)icture these two men as they are. Tihe usual t,hing would be t,o have them half savage, uncouth and hardened by a lhng season away from men and the wvorild. Tais sort of description would not lit, either in the slightest particu lar. They are both modest,, decidedly bashful and lack all the trait,s wIhic-h the tenderfoot gives to the real miner. T[hey have no boastings to make-and this in face of the fact that, it is more than likely the next year wvill pr~ovo they are among the richaes, men in this cu ntry. "'It is pirobiall that they wvere the money kings of the Il'ortlandl, although t,he ship's safe and the captain's state room wvere hiilied to overhlowing with tho earnings (if Other mnembhers of the psegrcrew. I t, was like an actual repiresenitation of the airm castles of tai ryland. Tlhere wa'ts gold stacked on)f gol, nuggets andl in dust, tied up in sacks and also in bottles with the corks scaled. I asked the captain if he (lid not fear' to carry such a load of lure monaney. ie said he feared noth ing so Ilong as he knew lie had no one ab)oard bu t miiners. "'it was most, interesting to study the mten and wiomien who had taken tbu dlespierate chance, and had won. Some of them had gone in to the region with barely enough in' keep body and soul together. They had (inly madle the -1r) as a last resort. ilaving faled to make a success at home they had re solved to make (inc pl1ungo and1 die or come out rich. T1he most piathietic case of this k.Ed wats that of M r. and Mrs. iterry. 'They v.cnt into the Klondyke without even a grub-stake. T1hey were on their wveddinug tour and when they left they told their friends they might never get back to I'esno alive. '"This pair sat on the (lock of the -lI'ortlanad hi ftoen months after' thoeir do Iparture," and their p)lans embraced big ger things tban scheming to lind a mari whi Io would( loan them $(h0 while the3 risked their lives trying to get ovec the moiunitains and into the p)lacer dis trict. They wvoro like two children - Mr. lierry planning to buy the farn upon which he had boon unable t< fmake living wages and Mrs. lier-ry get -ting ideas on the newest thIngs ii s diamond rings. She had been forect t to omit this foature of the ceremon: o when they started for Alaska, bunt iiki all women, she was pleased that, thi ring ould nnw be bmmut We Expect to THIS If you (o not get to must not f'ail to come to s and all a cordial ilvitati pleasure in showing you 1 of goods as it has ever be see in these parts. W er fall trade, and shall enden terest, one and all, to give are now oflering Some Rare l3argC In unseasonablo goods. We certain lot of Men's l"ur Ilats, ranging in pi lic. each. We are beginning to re< right hero that it will pay you to hi to the Racket, and know for you RCACl( T STOtE' for one dollar. are not stuck on us inuch, i. o., not 1 not stop until you are safe in the St want and as cheap its you Can buy at Wishing for you, one and all, gi Bryan's l"reo Silver, with Uncle Sat your servants to ploase, NEW YORK R 0aEslcy, 8 ('. "It is considerable of a venture for it woman to resolve to try to reach Daw son City by the over'land route, but I think I can do it. \We will start from .Juneau the last of April. \lrs. lierry went, over the pass ta year ago and I amtii anxious to have the experience. It is no eusy task, but the dangers can be reduced to a ininimuin by wise ipre parations. The thing to.do there, as overy place eise, is to do as the lItlan when in Itome, rather sensible conclus ion that the Indians who have been fol lowering the tritin for years and years havo tearned the bst methods, I shall try to do very nuch as the Indians do. "The weather at the beginning of the trip is likely to h) very cold. I shall wear at hearskin hood and short skirts. There is then a serviceable garment, made of sealskins, with the fur inside. It serves as stockings. The shoes are moccasins made of rough leather, lined with thick woolen in soles. Snowshoes are iinidislpeisa)hle for part of the way. G.lov, u of hear skin can be had from the natives and there is no storm that can penetrate the blankets of Siwash Indians. We sIha0 l carry a sna lI tent, trusting to the hemlock boughs for the buds. "Ono of the hardsh lps of the long tramp over the hills and along the frozen lakes comes from the lack of fresh mneats. Gaino Is scarce, and tho Indians supply most of the 11100 0 and carlbou. Tho hush is fro,' n, and be foro It is cooked must be thawed out and cleaned. The natives have the crudest ideas of cleanliness. It takos some time to got accustomed to their ways, but necessity breeds forgiveness and forgetfulness as well. I fear nothing on tho trip save the Chilkoot Pass, and at this timo of year the chances aro that, we will have but little trouble. There will be much travel OVer ii, during the fall and coin ing winter, and the way will be great my improved by the time we are ready to undertake it. "One of the terrors of the tip will be the mnosquitoes. They boegimn their work about the last of May anid du ring the nlight,less summers they are a pest wich makes strong men lie down and woop~ like childro'n. It is aL torment and one of the imost frightf ul hardships the minotirs have to enduro1I'. They como In swar ms andI hosts wit,bout number and the great wonder of the region is whero they go In the wint,er. T1hey are enormous In siz'o atnd their stings raise great, hum ps arid wvelts over the body. TheIny get so bad at times that p)rospOctors are compelled t,o stop work. '"This is the last wvinter in which there will be a chance for' a famine. TIhne steamnshipj camnpanics are exert ing themselves to meet the domnandis. They were bringing in the winter sup p)lies whien I left, and ot,ber boats ire being chartered to carry wvhole cargous of prnovisions. I had a letter from my husband at, Dawson Cit,y, in which lie said lie thought, the fear of a famine had been great,ly exaggerated. T[he men who weoro coming were bringing their own lood and tbe companies had mado) aibundamnt arrangeoment.s to bin g supplies for the mien ialready in the mines. it became a rule in thne last shipments that ire man was allowed to take passage wino had not his winter's kit with him. '"Thore is but lit,tle doubt that there will be great sulfo'rig ini the Kiondyke this wint,er, fromi the fact that hun drodeus of men who had rno right to b)rave the hardsh'ips have booni carriedl away with the p)rosp)ect of getting r'ieb at a single elfort,. Trho cloc'ks, profes sional men and tender'foot, wvill fall by the wayside, but this sorns to have been the lot of all advent,urers. Thelm pay Is enormous, but,, like tIhe regular avenues of life, the greater the pay the nmo the risk. It is rno p.acJ for wo men who are not used to tire fr'ontier', but I get along as well as a nman. It takes courage in both instances. "'Alaska Inudians are not, ferociouns atnd the. are perifoe)t1y harrmless. They are lIke ..11 the pecopl e of tihe far north stunrted by tire cold. Theliy arc prionoC to have large famrilieis. Tire mob,bers lug tIhe p,apooses ar'oi nr thiair backs, t,ied uip in a soiled bl an kot, about an inch thick. They ar'o just now in clover, as t,be inr'oad oif t,he inmin'rs and tour'ists has created a r'ushinrg market for all their hand iv-ork 'hey make tbe clothing which is thne best for the COiunitr'y, eaninag mflmuly wile their lords are also earning money by carry mg~ the loads over the passes. Thorn applear's every once in a while yarni abmout trihbl wars, but there is no truti ini such repnor'ts." -iIe that will not serve God excep somncthing be given him, would serv the devil if hn wonul gie him more. Try Ourselves FAL ! Easley before Fall, you ce us. We give to one on, aiid will take great Ls nice and as cheap line en your good fortune to ire preparing for a big vor to make it to your in us your patronage. We 1ins - - - - ly can interest you ! We have one 'ice from $1..!1 to $1.75, all to go at 3olvu our L'AILL GOODS, and say >Id to your dollars until you can got rself how much you can buy at the We are aware that our Competitors n love with us. BLt be sure you do )>o where you can buy what you nyvwhere. >od success, and William -Jennings n's seal, E. Pluribus Unuim, we are ACKET STORES CLYJDE & NA 1IV, l'oprieturs. HIGH PRICES FOIR DIRElsSES. A Seatstress Coining Money With Hui- Neeudle in the New Eldora do. A letter has been received in Ta coma, Wash., from Mrs. Chester Adams, a seamstress, who went ft om a liuber town in the State of Washing ton last spring to Klondyko, to make a fortune with her needle. Mrs. Adams pron ised before she went away to send back to her friends a true story of the gold liolds, and thils is what she writes: "1 know you are anxious to learn how we are succeeding and whether the great 'yarns' we had heard when with you last winter wore true or not. I will not exaggerate, nor do I wish to encourage any one t) coo here, for it is t long, dangerous journey, but we enjoyed it very much and would not have muissed it for anything. "It was perfectly grand from begin ning to end, sledding up to the sum mit. h.r.dpu.kg....14 ivur, siedding to the lake, whli) sawing lumnber and builling boats, sailing over lakes, gliding down rive:-s-sonetimles 10J miles in a day-running (,he grand can. yon and lining the Whito llorse rapids. "Our boat was 15 foot long on the top and 5 foot wide. Lots of people re marked on how nicely she came through the canyon. Uotr name is the l"lyer. I rodo through the iiivo l"ingers and Sink rapids. It was nice. "WellI, now about the big stories. I know you will not be1love inc if I should tell you all the truth. I don't blame you, hut the half has never been told outside. 'rhere are said to be 2,000 more people in and on the way here. All Sixty-Mile and L"orty-Milo and nearly all Circlo City people are hro, yet miners' wages a: o $15 it the dig ginls, and there will not be near enough men to work. "Anson hired out for $10 the night he got here, a week atto Thursday. lie has earned $120 already. ills busi ness is muilsic. I went to work dress making with a woman last Mlonday ablouit 3i o'clock because she had a house and a sewIng iachino. She was sick two days, yet wet figured upi $110 Satur day might--$i5 a p)ieco, with a great p)ile of dIress dry goods stacked up ahead of us. "When I got hero there was not a womanghere who could cut and lit a dross5. Thoroe are no0 bones, waist bind ding or can vas to be had, but ou r p)ricos are $5 for- a calIco mother hubbar.1, $11 for empires, $8 for' a p)lain woollen skiirt and $10 for a waist. And they weigh out the gold and most always pa~y more. "I sold one b)racolot for $25, a cheap) pair for $5, a little locket for $4.50 and thr-ec live-cent sacks of candy for *1.50, mnakinug $30. The p)uichiaser', a gir-l, p)ouroed the gold on the scales, saying she would give me good weight to bilg me luck. When I weight it there was $15.50, and that is the way 4t goes. Gold is plenty., "Chester went to the mines ono day. lie met moni coining down staggering iunder loads of gold, 100 p)ounds apiceo, which they had earned b~y working mines on shares in the last boven mioths. Sonmc left on the steamer yesterday with fotuinns. T1he largest for one mtan was Ii30 pounds. ''Chester say there wvas over $2,030, 0001 in gold dumst that went out on the steamlier yesterday. There has been $1 ,SiJ0 takeit fronm one pan by one man; $1ti,UtJ froii what two men'shoveled into the sluiccooxos in four hours. T1h is is from a mine on B3onanza, the samoe creck we have leased on. "T'he cold (lid not hurt us coming. I have sulloredl more in two hours in .\lichtigan from cold than I did on the whole tip. Trhey are finding new creecks- and new mines all around us.'' -liavoc is being made of the best cedar swaimps in the country to supply the increasing demand of the lo ng..di tance electric transmission plants and the po0wetr and lighting lines, for poles. Onie firm hand led 15)0,000 poles last year, and has been making large con signments to Bennous Ay res, South America and Canada as weil as ship iments to Texas, Utah and Colorado. --The statistics of mineral p)rodue tion in the United States dur ing 1896 show that the amount of copper prio ducod last year was tho gr-eatost ever repiorted. I t reached nearly 468,000,000 pounds. Considerably inure than half of it was sent to foregin conntries. -Spain, among hcr(dosporate resorts 1 to procure money for the war in Cuba, has established a monopoly for the sale and manufacture of gunp)owder. In t the call for bids it Is announced that 0 none under *$i00,000 a year will be con sb1emd hv th e Governmnt .