The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, August 19, 1897, Image 1
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 .