TI1E OMAITA DAILY BEE: IT RID AY, APIUTj 27, 1900.
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THE
SUMMERING ON THE YUKON
Ewlft Steel Steamers, Each with Three
Captains on Board.
STORY OF MAUD, THE WALKING BOSS
Qunlut Little Trnnmny t tin- Henil ol
MIIch Ciinywn Iloail Around
(lie Uniililp Clirt'i-li;N llen
uut t-n n-tlii--I.il Uc.
(Copyright, 1900, by Cy Wurman.)
nennett-oa-the-Lako Ih tbo ono absolutely
cheerless station, tho ono Inhospitable port,
tho ono dreary, desolate, unnhcltored, un
shaded shoro on tho long trnll from Chicago
fo tho Klondike. It Is hero that tho pll
Krlm, for tho present, leaves tho Whllo Pass
railway nnd boards a river steamer tor Can
yon City, at tho head of MIIcn C.inyon, whero
thcro Is another change to "rail" around
"Whlto Horso rapids, a hundred miles from
Bennotl." " " "
Tho wlndo blow at Ilonnctt without cow
ing. In winter they wall up throuRh tho
narrow nock of tho Jake, cry across tho snow
nnd eob and moan In tho lc; cayes of tho
Iron freight housed. In Hummer they com
plain constantly, ulghlng over tho sands
long tho lako front nnd powdering tho faces
of pawing pedestrians with pulverized stono
tho natural paving In tho ono street of
tho town.
Tho only cheerful spot hero Is tho pic
turesque club house, standing high up on
tho bhore, overlooking tho beautiful lake.
Oh, tho scenery Is nil right! From tho wldo
veranda of tho (jualnt llttlo club house you
can look out over tho clear water, sleeping
peacefully between 'tho grand old hills that
j-lso abruptly on cither haid. Far away tho
lako mi crows to a. river and Is lost to vlow
nmong tho distant dim mountains. Now tho
wind see-ma to havo nobbed Itself to sleep.
Tho sun Is lnklng behind tho hill as wo go
down tho stoop bluff, board tho steamer
Australian and sail away. Our now-found
friends Jolly good fellows at tho club
liouso aro waving tm adieu.
Ab wo sit down to our first menl on the
waters of tho mighty Yukon wo observe that
lioer ban bounded from 75 cents to f 1.50 a
liattlo. Tho lako has pinched out and wo
nro now riding tho swift waters of tho ma
jestic river. How they hit theso river boats!
This ono has pqwerful engines nnd they aro
banging them for all they nro worth. 1
think It Ih trying to shako us to sleep.
Jim, has Just como up from tho onglno
room and down from tho pilot house and
lio assured mo that thin boat. Is "dead safe."
Built In Vlttsburg, It Is nil steel. 11.'. feet
long, twonty-slx feet beam, with water
tight compartments, electric light and two
hlg searchlights that aro constantly wo?p
Ing tho shore on cither side of the river.
Thobo nro necessary, however, only for an
hour or two at midnight and then only In
tho shadow of tho hills, for It Is never very
dark hero In tho summer.
Tho managfr of tho company proclaims to
Ms patron's that: "In addition to carrying
a Canadian master, tho company has two
thoroughly experienced swlft-watcr Amcrl
can n.llottfon each 'ol their boats."
Ayl'lirei-folil .'m t a I lie .
And they do. A Canadian captain a(ts nt
tho ricad of.,tho table, but n -Yankee runs tho
law. Thy former to satisfy tho boat, tho
latter presumably to satisfy1 (ho paseongora.
It Is not that the, Canadian 'tacks Intelligence
or training, but they aro irullprs of tho lakes,
whllo tho YankerJ come from tho over-
changing 'Missouri, tho treacherous MUsIa
plppl or tho swift Columbia. Naturally.
there Is n cood deal of friction. Roth tho
Yankeo pilots must havo a captain's license;
roch Is called captain, and the result is that
there aro threo captains on a boat, and each
feels that ho la the captain, but ho it not
Uy and by, when tho Canadians get used
to tho twist of tho trail and tlio speed of
tho current, thoy may tako chargo in tho
pilot house, but. as Jim puts it: "You want
a swlft-wntor Wllllo nt tho wheel on theso
curves and rapids."
Now tho winds begin to cry and moan
Tho ship lists ami leans far to tho leeward
Wo aro passing tho famous Windy Arm. It
Is well named.
Far away somcwhore In a rcmoto corner
of tho ship perhaps up In tho pilot housj
or uown in tho onRlno room, or In tho stow-
nnloss' boudoir-! hear n woman's voice
ringing without accompaniment, sweetly,
plalntlvelyry'Kar n way-Far away."
That was, the last I knew until tho sua
camo In at my little window nnd warmed
my nose. Tho sleeping U glorious on tho
upper Yukon. ,
Wo hurried through pur breakfast so as
to be out at tho canyon. Wo have slept
through beautiful Iiku Marsh, and aro now
In tho kink nnd eurvos of the Yukon, swift
nnd deep. Tho current hero runs threo to
four miles mi hour, tho boat makes fifteen,
o wo aro gliding ulong, between the softly
f hailed hills Just fast enough to make It
Interesting. Thcro U no snow to bo seen,
no mountains near, neither Is thcro valley
or bottom lands. Just tho rolling bills that
seem to pilrt to let tho cool, green river
slip through. Sometimes tho hills aro bar
ren savo for tho short grnss, sometimes
covered with a thick growth of low Bprucc.
Hero and thoro Ilres havo destroyed tho for
ests, and thoro Is a field of flowers. Wher
ever tho forost firo swoops tho hills tho
beautiful flrewccd grows nnd blooms. And
thus nnturo hastens to hldo her scars.
Ni Klotmtm on the Stream.
Tho river Is unllko any other river I havo
ever seen. Thero Is nothing floating on tho
fnco of it, no drift along 'tho shore. It
Impresses ono as being bran new. It is
easy to faucy that tho channel was empty
yestor-ay; that tho water has Just been
turned in. This Is because tho river Is
"high" now, but thore nro none of tho Indi
cations of :i Hood. Tho water is clear and
nlmnst as green as tho waters of tho South
Pacific. Tho trees and grass and moss
grow right down to tho water edgo. It
is Just llko n big brook. Any othor river
In this condition would bo "bank full," but,
as I said boforo, thero aro no banks thero
la no bottom land only gentle, rolling bills
(fanned ulong tho shorn.
A deep, narrow trail lien over tho hill.
Ono end of It hnngs in tho water. Tho
pilot says it Is mado by tho cariboo coming
down to drink. Early last night wo passed
u port called Cariboo Crossing.
Now wo round a bend and enter a broad,
comparatively quiet stretch of water, at
tho end of which wo see a couple of river
boats, llko our own. llcyond tho boats aro
long rows of low log houses, tho homes of
tho Northwest Mounted police, of tho peoplo
who operato tho tram r.nd offices of somo
of tho steamboat companies. On tho right
bank uro some Indians near a wood pllo
making frantic signals to our boat. They
want to sell their wood. ,
iAt tho far end of this open water tho
river turns sharply to tbo loft. Tho cur
rent Is becoming swifter. Suddonly tho
boat turns her tall down 'tho river, tho bells
Jingle, tho wheel revolves furiously as wo
swing about Just nbovo tho narrows,
whoro tho water sweeps through llko a
great mill raco.
Now, If tho engines should become dis
abled, wo would bo etiekod Into tho mill-
race, slammed through Miles canyon, and,
if anything wero left of tho boat, pounded
to pieces on tho hidden rocks In the rapids
of 'Whlto Horse. Rut tho onglnes hold her
until n lino Is mado fast to a spruco tree,
and wo swing gontly to tho floating wharf,
tho wheel still working to relievo tho ten
sion of tho headline.
Hero wo break bulk. Tho quaintest lit
tle railroad runs from hero past 'Miles
canyon and Whlto Horso rapids to Whito
Ilorso Btatlon five miles.
Passengers from tho Victorian, outward
bound, nro tramping in over tho trail, going
aboard the Iialloy and tho Slfton. Somo havo
eomo up "by rati" nnd nro already aboard
ship. A dark woman, with a hard, happy,
Irish fnco, wearing a rol dressing sack, a
black hat with a red plume, is weighing
in at tho pureor'u olllco. She has sundry
sacks of gold dust and somo beautiful nug
gots. I nsked nbout this bonanza queen and
was told that this was "Jim Hall's walkin'
boss."
I nsked about Jim Hall and they told mo
that ho was ono of the now-made million
aires at tho Klondike and owner of "seven
'rim nit
Mr. Fatts Wbero did you learn to tub
Attendant In India.
Mr. 1'atU Ah, I see India rubber.
TRIED
teen" something.
A miner sat smoking behind the dump ono
day. Maud, tho walking bo3s, crept up,
peeped over tho dump and caught him, red
handed. Sho shied a pebblo down nnd tho
man looked up. "Well," said the foreman,
"you blank of a blank, you hlltin' the plpo
at fifteen dollars a day? Como to tho cabin
and get yor dust."
That was tho -way eho handled the men
nnd It is related that she saval many a
nugget tor Hall,
A Look nt Mllm Cnnoii.
Whllo waiting for tho wagons to return
from Whlto Horco I walked down to havo n
look at tho famous 'Miles canyon. At flrat
glance I was disappointed. After standing
on tha walls and looking down into tho
Hoynl Gorgi", aftor seeing tho canyon of tho
Colorado, this Is tame, nut wait until a
tycow comes around tho bend. Thero Is only
ono man, tho expert, -who takes boat;!
through hurs and over Whlto Horse, a mile
or so below, for $20, $50 or $100, according
to tho vnluo of the cargo and tho owner's
ability to pay. He steadies her at the .head,
nnd then tho current catches her nnd slams
hor through tho narrow gorgo at tho speed
of a train. It Is thrilling, ovon to btand on
tho wall and see n boat go by.
Hero comes an Ottawa man whom I met
in Juno last, bound tor Dawson, full of hope
nnd enthusiasm. I try to fead his story In
his face, but ho is a quiet, undemonstrative
man, so I ask him boldly how thoy are
breaking. "FIno," he answers, scarcely
nbovo a whisper. "Wo havo a fraction of a
claim near 17 Eldorado ono of my brothers
has been thcro for somo time. Tho other
day wo fouml dirt that washed out $9 to the
pan. 'Wo covered It up, quietly It will
keep you know nnd now I'm going out to
roturn next year."
As wo talk wo must keep turning this
way nnd that to fight off tho filthy Indians,
who thrust their dirty heads Into our faces
and their thieving fists Into our pockets.
Now the boat bound tor Dennett casts off.
When it is n good seven feet from the wharf
n fine athletic young policeman rushes down,
takes a run nnd Jump for tho moving boat.
Kvory ono holds his breath, for tho water is
swift and deep. Moreover, If tho man falls
to reach tho boat ho will fall JUBt abovo the
-whirling wheel. IIo lands with tbo breast
of his brown duck coat on tho edgo of tho
nftordeck. Thero is no one aft to help him.
HIh legs nro swinging under tho boat tho
paddles of tho stern wheel bnrely miss him.
For ii moment bo bangB helpless, with only
his elbows and hands on tho wot deck. Now
bo begins to hunch hlmeolf nlong, llko a cat
on tho odgo of an cave trough, and finally
grasps it brace and pulls himself aboard.
All this tlmo tho headline Is still tugging
nt the bow of tbo boat, to keep her hobo up
stream. A moment later tho policeman,
having raced up tho stairway nnd down
again, runs forward, and, Just as the lino is
cast off, leaps from tho lower deck to a
row boat and from thore to tho shore. As
ho walks past, panting llko a ferry englno,
I ask Kim why ho has romped so near to
death. "Oh," ho answers, with a wave of
Ills hand, "man thought his grip had gone
back on that boat, but It hadn't."
That was nil. This fearless young man
had risked his life to do a stranger a good
turn. It was not a part of his business,
but be did it and thought nothing of it.
Kri-lKht for White I In roe.
Now tho empties begin to rattle In from
White Ilorso the empty cars on tho Spruco
k;i..i,.
In this manner
QUESTION
ttWE rou
line. While tho horses cut the men load tho
freight, using a scrubby cayuse as switch
englno, The motive power of tho Spruco
lino consists of twenty-six horses, tho roll
ing stock Includes thirteen four-wheeled,
unpnlnted freight cars, about tho slzo aud
shape of an ordinary transfer wagon. Tho
wheels of tho cars aro wide and concaved,
to fit over the round spruco rail. Tho tlc-J
nro of tho same material spruce and wero
cut when tho right of way was cleared.
This, tho first "railway" In tho Yukon
country, Is better for tho moment than any
body's mine. Kach of theso cars, drawn
by two ordinary horses, walking tandem,
driven by a man who handles freight at
each end of tho line, earns $10 a trip, mak
ing from two to threo trips a day. The fore
man said operating expenses wero $'00 a
day. At least half that was dust In my
eye. Call it $300 and this five miles of
spruce road Is clearing $1,000 a day carrying
freight nnd peoplo Into a country that Is
supposed to bo dead.
"You como on the lest car nnd look otter
tho luggago," said Cnplnln U. "I'll go on
to Whlto Horse, round my follows up, secure
a boat, and If tho 'Wetdrlan docs not sail
until midnight we'll take a scoot over into
tho new copper fields." ,
About 1 p. m. my car left ,tho station and
nbout 1:03 left tho track. Tho sharp rim of
tho wheel cut Into the rail, climbed it and
dropped to tho tics. A dellcato looking
woman from 'Krlsco with an 8-ycar-old boy,
who had been 111 all night, and I mado up
tha passenger list.
Wo unloaded. I helped tho long, lank,
good-natured fireman, engineer and con
ductor mako wooden frogg for the wheels.
Then wo hitched to tho roar end of the car
nnd tried to drag It back on tho rail. It
would not go on and wo wero obliged to
send back to tho canyon for help.
Finally wo were on again gone again.
When tho llttlo boy was walking In tho
dust of tho trnll ho cried and complained.
When his mother put hlra on tho car ho
regretted It, for thero was groat danger of
dislocating his spinal column. I paid a
dollar to rldo ami when I was not helping
to get the. car on tbo track I was walking;
and when I was not walking I was re
gretting my dollar.
A Little KloniltUe Ilninance,
'There," said Mrs. M. to her llttlo boy.
"thcrcv dear, aro tho dreadful Whlto Horso
rapids, whoro papa's ship was wro:kcd and
hero over this rocky trail wo walked with
bare, bleeding feet,"
Scenting "copy" I Introduced myself and
learned that Mr. M. had been wrecked In tho
rapids somo two years ago. His boat, with
his leather coat and notebook In tbo bot
tom of It, drifted all tho way to Dawson.
A San Francisco newspaper correspondent
found tho coat, guessed tho rest and Mr. M.
wns mourned ns dead at 'Frisco for many
moons. Finally ho reached DawBon and
contradicted tho story of his death, and now,
after two long years, his wife and boy wero
going to Join him nt Dawson, whoro ho has
a profitable law business,
Across on the opposite shore, high up on
the bluff, wo can seo another tramway an
nppcsitlon lino. It is a better road than
this, has "sawed rails," tho drivers tell us,
but It la not being oporated. This com
pany has bought It to cut off competition,
thero being no law In Canada against tho
"consolidation of competing parallel lines."
It has cost tho Spruco lino sixty cool thou
sand. When tho Whlto Horso & Yukon
road is completed to Whlto Horso both these
trams will bo worth In tho neighborhood of
60,000 cents.
When I reached Whlto Horse It was 4 p.
m. My friends had given mo up for lost
nnd gono to tho copper fields without me.
I was not sorry, for an old Colorado minor
told me, confidentially, that tho "Bkeeters
wero thicker out thcro than fiddlers In tho
hcroaftcr." CY WAIIMAN.
iiinnusT t;.v ix tub woiti.n.
Afiv Arm nf Defence Will llnve IlunKi
of U0.7( Ml leu.
The operation of shrinking a Jacket on
the 16-lnch gun at tho Watervllet nrscnal
having been successfully performed, the
groat gun Is being completed. Tho (list at
tempt to Jacket the tubs was unsuccessful,
the outer piece having stuck fa.st a few
inches away from the point for which It was
intended. Tho second attempt, as described
In tho New York Trlbuno, was successful In
every particular.
Tho gun when comploted will bo tho most
powerful piece of ordnance In tho wor'd
and will weigh, without tho carriage, 126
tons, Its length will bo forty-nlno feet six
Inches; the diameter of tho breech six foet
two Inches; the" slzo of tho boro sixteen
ir.cheij, The theoretical range of the pleco
will bo 20.76 miles; weight of projectile
2,370 pounds, Tho projectllo Intended for tho
big gun Is sixty-four Inches long, and the
powdor chargo consists of 1,060 pounds. The
powdrr will rest $265 and tho projectile $600,
bo that tho cost of nvrry discharge, exclusive
of wear nnd tear on the gun nnd pay of peo
plo employed In Its manipulation, will bo
$S63, Tho projectile, with Its initial ve
locity of 2,600 feet a second, will penetrate
wrought Iron to thn depth of 41,4 Inches, To
attain Its maximum ranio tbo projectile
will roach an elevation of llvo miles, nnd
tho prerouro on the gun at tho tlmo of Its
dlschargo will be 36,000 pounds to tbo square
Inch.
Although tho gun Is of monstrous pro
portions, it Is put together with the nicety
of a dellcato instrument aud tho difference
between the outoldc radltir. of tho gun It
self and tho Inside radius of tho Jacket
which was shrunk on last wcuk wan only
six ono-hundredths of nn Inch after tho
Jacket has been heated. Tho Jarkct, weighing
thirty tons, must bo lifted while hot from
tho furnace and swung up over thei gun
and then lowered into place.
"The slightest Inequality in tho heating."
said Colonel Farely, the ordnance officer In
charge of tho work, "an error of tho small
est fraction of nn Inch In the measurements,
and all theso months of preparation will
havo been wanted, for onco that Jacket
Bt'ckB that en,'ls th- offrt- 11 cannot to
heated and taken off. It must bo cut off
Then tho work must bo done all over again."
It was necessary to construct now ma
chinery to mako tho gun, a nojablo plero
being a latho 135 feet long, with a swing
of nlnn feet.
CAi'TAi.v rurrAitirs i,am snir.
Journey Over lie 1'lnlnn of nn Anolent
l'rnlrle Schooner.
In theso dnys of automobiles, motor cycles
nnd horseless vehicles, observes tho Kansas
City Journal, It may not bo uninteresting
to know that ono of the early Inventions In
this country to do away with animal motive
power originated In Kansas City, Kan. Sam
uel Poppard was tho genius who constructed
a vehlcio that carrlod him and threo com
panions over tbo plains from Oskaloosa al
most to Denver, and with such rapidity, too,
that ho not only passed all tho whlto peoplo
Journeying tho same way, but easily dis
tanced Indian pursuers nnd won for his rig
the unstinted admiration of tho red men.
It was during the tlmo of tho excitement
following tho discovery of gold in Colorndo.
A great many peoplo had set out for this
Eldorado and long wagon trains wero to bo
seen overy day moving across tho plains. Mr.
Peppnrd was anxious to go, but thcro was
one great difficulty In tho way ho didn't
havo tho money to buy horses and wagon.
So bs sat down nnd thought It nil over, and
then as a result ho gavo out that ho was go
ing to build a wagon with a sajl, which ho
thought would mako tho trip In nbout as
good tlmo as any pralrlo schooner that was
floating around over tho wild nnd woolly
west.
When ho first began to build tho wagon tho
wise men of tho town all luughcd at him for
wasting his timo on such n craft, Just as
other wlso men of Noah's time scoffed at tbo
good patrlach. Mr. Peppard's advisers do
clarod that If ho attempted to nnvlgato such
a craft ho would cortalnly bo killed, and tho
people In general looked tho wagon over,
shook their heads and called It "Peppard's
folly."
nut Mr. Peppard kept on sawing wood nnd
turning it Into wheels nnd running gear and
boarda. At last It was finished. It wus
mado of rough lumber nnd shnped llko n j
skiff. It wns eight foet long from prow to '
stern nnd threo feet across nt nmldshlp nnd i
two fect deep. Tho bed waa placod on a
running gear with axles six feet apart, tho j
wheels nil tho eamo slzo and about ns largo
as tho front wheels of u buggy. A ten-foot
mcst wns fnstcned to tho front nxlo and j
camo up through the bottom of tbo wagon
box, and to this two Ealls woro rigged, tho
Inrger eleven by eight fect, tho other sovon
by five feet. Thoy wore both to be worked
by a ropo through a pulley at tho top of tho :
mast. ;
If tho wind wobi high tho smaller was to
bo. used, and if It wns low tho Inrger was t3
be ompioyed. Tho wagon had n broke and ,
a rudder for stocrlng. Tho hounds, Instead '
of having n tongue attached, enmo up ovor
tho top of tho bod and wero wolded together.
A bar was fastened hero and extondod back
ward threo feet. Thero was a seat placed
at tho end of the bar for tho captain, and bo
steered by pushing tho bar to the right or i
left. Tho craft rigged out weighed 350
pounds, carried a crew of four men, a cargo
ct 500 pounds, the camping outfit and pro- ,
i'lrlona serving as ballast. '
Deforo Mr. Poppard started on his ovor- '
lanji voyago ho mado a trial one mile south
of rtkalo-sa, on tho present slto of tho Jef
ferson county fair grounds, Thero Is a love I
stretch of severnl miles and a good HlllI
breeze was on, When It struck tho largo j
sal. 'the craft stuck Its noao down to tho
ground nnd camo near capsizing. Ho slacked
tall and set out again with tho large sheet )
reefod and tho smaller full against tbo wind,
and nway it whizzed. It went to fast that I
tho boxing in tbo wheels heated. Then,
wbon It went over a llttlo knoll It leaped I
about thirty feot Into tho nlr and camo down
with a crash.
Ilia vessel was a wreck, but Mr. Peppard
was not discouraged. He mado new epln- '
dies, ropalred tho damage nnd in u few days '
he and thre-o companions were reudy to start.
Profiting by his first experience, Mr. Pop
pard chuAo a day to start when tho wind
was blowing only about teu knots an hour. ,
Tho first day they went fifty miles. Their
route lay northwest through Knnsnn and
across tho Hauthwrstern part of Nebraska
until they struck tho Pouih Platte river, and
from thcro they went toward Denver.
"Our best tlmo was two miles In four
minutes," said Mr. Pcppard In describing
tho tncidcntn of tho Journey. "Wo could not
run faster than that rnto na tho boxing would
havo heated. Ono day wo went fifty miles
In three hours nnd in doing so passed 625
teams."
runnier ti;u.mi:.t imrsus.
ImpriM Iiik I lie ('iinilltloii of Vow York
Wurkini? 1'eople,
Somo novel Idea In the model apartment
lino will bo lncorpoiated in a group of now
buildings that nro to be erected nt a cost
of $300,000 in tho borough of tho Bronx, re
ports a Now York letter. The Baron do
Hlrsch fund has advanced tho money, tho
aim being to provide better homes for work-
Ing people at a moderate cost. Thero uro
to bo two rows or tenements, ono row on: them when the day of trial came. A go:d
ono side of thu block and tho other ll- commander of horse, nays tho expoiito, Is
roctly opposite. In tho intervening space, raro ub a good commander-in-chief, ho nctoda
midway In tho block, will bo constructed , ho raro n union of prudonco with imptt
nn ornamental nrendo for tho common uso J uoslty."
of nil tho tenants. Thero will bo five ills-
tlnct buildings opening nn each street, mnk- IIuIIiIIhk" Unten liy Aiitn.
ine a frontage of 150 fect. Tho depth of' Mississippi Valley Lumberman: A Wash-
tho block la 200 feet. Tho central nrcado
will extend up to tho cornico of the bouses
nnd bo covered In with a glasa roof. Tho
ground floor will contain n kindergarten,
nurseries', recreation rooms nnd a club
room, all for tho exclusive uso of tho
tenants and their families. Thero will bo
accommodations for two families on onch
floor, making 110 families in tbo ton build
ings, tho height being seven stories. Thero
will bo two elevators In tho arcade, and
ornamental bridges will connect each floor
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with tho elevator platforms. Thero will bi
stairways also on each side of the nrcade
Ilotb theso features nro novelties in tene
ment construction. I.ight prccscd brick,
with Indiana limestone trimmings, will be
tho material used on the steel framework.
It Is tho Intention to mako tho structures
as nearly fireproof ns possible.
Croiiivt ell un mi Iilnl,
"It was not until 1615," says Mr. Morley
In tho April Century, "that Cromwell had
begun to stand out cleiar in the popular
Imagination, alike of friends and foes, as a
lender of men. Ho wru now tho Idol of his
troops. Ho prnyod nnd preached among
them; ho played uncouth practical Jokes with
them; hoi was not nbovo a snowball match
against them; ho was. a hrlek, encrgotie,
dklllful soldier, nnd ho was an invincible
commander. In parliament ho mado hlmsolf
felt, ns having tho art of hitting tho right
debating nail upon tho betul.
The saints
had nn Instinct that ho was their man,
' and that they could trust him to stand by
, lngton mill has taken an order from tho
uniieu amies government ior doo.uod reel or
cedar for uso at Manila. Tho first govern
ment buildings were built of fir, but tho
whlto nnts which Infest that country ato it
with apparent rollsh, and with bo disastrous
effects to tho buildings that cedar will ba
substituted, it being claimed that the ants
will not attack cedar. It Is claimed by somo
that hemlock is nntproof. Should this fact
he proved, tho question cf a market tor hem
lock has been solved.
Reduced
- Third
Quotations.
Nearly One Million Dollars.
$810
$8.00