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C9C! '(i. 1 POOR MA£S COUHTRY. mW TOO MAT MAKE A FORTUNE Ilf THE KLONDIKE. â- m» toker um4 Work Hard - Tkea Von Hut Kn Laekr aul II»t« a <>a(Ml Mank •r i'NTlBiaaii-.lAW* a« (• Vlliuc ClalHH - ('Ml* ar an Anllt aad Avcrace Wnc-*. Ckpt. J. J. Healy, one of the mana- gers of the North American Tradint; •nd Transportation Company, and who is one of the oldest ajid most experi- enced of pioneers and a shrewd obser- ver convditions in the Yukon River country ia apprehensive of the future welfare of the thousands of people who are likely to come into the country next season says a letter from Daw- »oa City, dated Sept. 23. He says that from present indications there will be tram 10,000 bo 20,000 people come to the Tukon next year and that it will be a physical impossibility for both of the eonunercial companies to bring enouigh food to aui^ly half that number. Ow- ing to the short seasons when naviga- tion is practical it is impossible to build and equip stesuners at St. Micb>- tel's, and hare them reach this far in- taad, 2,200 miles, before thie river freezes. The experiment has been at- tempted a few times without success. Capt. Healy is a man of experience, » close observer of passing events and nne of the test posted men in the north. He believes that there are vast opportunities for profitable invest- ment cf capital which will ultimately develop the mineral resources of this great mining belt i-eat of the Rock- lee. When that time arrivea there will be ample employment for thou- sands of men, with no fear of a fam- ine. At present it is a poor man's oountry. conditioned that the man he Industrious, lucky and well provision- •4. TJ3RMS OF LBIASES. Id leasing mine* on lays most of the owners exact covenanU that the claims shall have been thoroughly worked and cooipletad by the 1st of June, 1898. If tkat policy Is carried out about two- ^ thirds of Eldorado, Bonanza and Hun- [ker Creeks will have been worked out this season, and a oonslderable part of other creeks. Of course the supply of labor and provisions and the rate of wages wiM govern the question to a Urge extent. Most of the owners are »nTio«8 to make as lar^e a "clean-up" this winter as ^sible and retire from active mining life next year. If all the people who are now In the Klondike realise their dreams of wealth and go "to the Paris exDosition of 1900 as Bon- anza Kings the Yukon valley win he well represented in -Gay Paree." JMine owners and mine workers all have the same object in view. The official, who, if he choo-ws, can exercise Czar-like power, is Mr. TIk>- mas Fawcett, the Canadian Gold Com- mUsioner. He is the officer before whom all mining claims are filed, re- corded and adju.stcd. and bis Govern- nwot h«a placed enough confidence in his Integrity and al 'lity to instruct tim to exercise his own discretion in all matters until otherwise instruct-d. He left Ottawa nearly eight months •gp and since then has had no official coininunicationB. Although he is nob a miner, yet he exercises utmost cau- tion and care to deal out justice im- partially and in a practical manner, and ao far as I am able to learn the American miners have no more cause to complain of partiality than their , Canadian cousins. His decision is pra. tically final as an appeal to the higher authorities of the Dominion capital would involve a long delay and much exjiense. Up to this date 1.40O claims have been located and filed in ' thi.'j district, [n the last two weeks, or Kince the stampede, 145 claims on Sulrhur Creek have Ijeen recorded. And III the sajne period ninety were staked off on Dominion Creek and j twenty on Flenderson Creek. ReRard- I ing the enfort-emcnt of a law relative ' to the collection of a 10 per cent, roy- a'ty on all claims, as indicated in an i Otta-a flespatch of July 2. Mr. Kaw- oett said: > ; ^♦piw [i| "I have not been advLsed of the' a* JptioD of such a law. and all that I know about the matter is the prese despatch referred to. I am enforcing the old laws, or rather the laws that were in force la'it year, and unless a spp^ial .-...ssion of Parliament was cull- ed it is hardly proliable that such a law could be adopted before the regu- lar .session of next April. T,aws canno* be passed or adopted e.xcept by the Parliament and if any material chang- es bad taken place it would seem that I would have l>een advised at the first «ip^K>rtunity."' TiHK PRESENT LAWS, | TTndcr the present laws a miner can â-  lo-ate a claim .'>O0x660 feet in each ' di-Jtrl-t upon the payment of jlawhen fiLKt filing. Three months of coutin- I uous wi rk. and the holder must remain i on the ground all the time, must be i perfarmed during the year, when up- | on the payment of $100, a fiaal certi- ' fl( ate of ownership will be issued. He- ' fore tiling the h'lldcr mu«t .swear that he has prospected the claim and found gold. The laws are not severe and in BOiiie respe:'t8 are superior to those of "^* the t'nited States. Deception of any \ cha+acter, practised on the Commis- Bioiier, deprives a persiHi of all rights ard privileges In the di.stri't. 1 One l?lou»and pounds of gold were ' b^sught down from Kldorado Creek to- ' day on the ba^ks of four cay uses and together with about a ton of other gold will be shipped to Seattle and San Francisco in a few days. John Erics- son, a miner from Monte Cristo, and Fred liruseth, a logger and ranch- man from near Snohomish are the owners. The latter, together with Thomaa Blake, owns claim No. 11. and under their bunk in the cabin on their claim is f 100,000 more which will come down to-morrow or next day. On Eldorado between 30 and 36, the latter is where th^ largest nugget of ♦583, was found, it is i»rtieularly rich and had it not been for a technical ruling of the Government the discov- ery claim would have been in about the localiity where No. 80 is now situ- ated. All along the creek, and par- tii'ularly in this vicinity gold by the sackful is being taken out and ship- ped down to Dawson City. A short distance aliove Eldorado and emptying into B<}nanza is Skookum Gulch, which was discovered last spring and out of the prospect holes large quantities of gold, as large as and not unlike shelled corn, have been taken and pronounced the finest specimens of yelujw metal yet mined. Skookum Creek passes through claim ?fo. 2 aliove the discovery claim on- Bonanza and is on the same side as Eldorado wh<>re lx>th gulche? cjme together. The opin- ion is generally shared by old miners that Skookum Gulch will exceed Kl- dorado Creek in riches before the ap- proaching season is over. Some of the largest nuggets found in the distrit have been taken out of .Skookum and run 9375. $192 and |1AH re.spectively. From all indications Hunker Creek is proviag to he very rich and will no doubt equal if not excel Bonanza. Near the discovery claim much pros- pecting has been done and everything is in readiness for extensive winter drifting. The prospect holes have giv- en up aarae fine nuggets, and are ful- filling the prophecy made by Inspector Strickland, of the Canadian poli'-e at Seattle last July when h" arrived on the Portland and said that Hunker would I* one of the richest miningt camps on the Klondike. Hardly a panful of gravel from off the liedrock has been taken out that has not contained from 91 to 95. A .SEASONS OUTiaT. As compared with prices in the States SOIEJSOE UPHOLDS BIBLE. NO LONGER ANY CONFLICT TWEEN THE TWO BE- Uarilloc Theorlen of Ike Author of *'«Senr»U and Hodrra l^lenre** - Six Dayi for Cmitlon, )lol Oar Dan, How- ever - Intei-eatluK 4'oucli>sion« Ornwu by tke Writer. Was the earth created in six days? la the Bible rig'ht, and are its crit i -s wronc ' Can the conflittt between the Bible aad science be amicably adjusts ed at last? To these queries an af- firmative answer is given in a striking volume called "Genesis and Modern Science," which is just from the press. Warren, R. Perce, a Newport, R. I., lawyer, is the author of this remark- able book. He has been at work on it for some twenty years, and his ex- planation of thb process of creation and its literal agreement with the Bible is not only sensational, but has the ring of plausibility. Mr. Perce interprets the Bible through the science of geology and astronomy. The theory that the solar system was created In six days, not days, however, as judged by modern standards, is scientifically demonstrat- ed. The Bible, Mr. Perce avers, is not a text book of science. If the first chapter of Genesis had set forth the creation of the world in full detail, with the origin and laws of matter, the conetitution and movements of the sua and planets, such statements could aot linve been understood at that time. But the Bible must be consistent with science. The Scriptures need not aay everything, but all they .say must be true. Starting with the nebular hypothesis that the planets revolving around the sun were in the beginning ri'ngs of flaming matter thrown off by the sun. Mr. Perce holds that the earth provisions are very 'high iiut there is ; '^'^ other worlds were formed by the no place in North America where a ' cooling and condensing of these rings day's wages can purchase us much fo<.d ; ia the cold atmosphere. The Inner as in the Klondike. A season's outfit costs 9450 on an average. The wages are 915 a day and thirty days' work buys a season's outfit exclusive of clothing. To ascertain what a day's wages will buy I visited the stores with miners who were purcha-sing sup- plies and secured the following quota- tiontK Flour, ten pounds 91.20 Bacon, five pounds 2.00 Beans, eight pounds 1.00 Butter, four pounds 200 Coffee, two pounds. .... 1.00 Tea. one pound 1.00 Milk, two cans l.OO Roa.Ht beef, two cans, . . . 1.00 Assorted meat four poanda. . . 1.00 Dried fruit, four i.ounda 1.20 Small Stores 2.00 Total 914.10 Old miners who have lived on the Yulton for years inform me that this list of supplies will last a man wh<> is working hard anywhere from a week to ten days, and in tjise of an emergency probably twice or three times as long. The question then arises: "Can the goods he had?" The demand exceeds the supply. I've conversed with men familiar with the country, a numlwr of people in this i^ity and at the mines and in the gulches, and heli'-ve that at present there are al>out 4 ."iOO people in the Klondike and Indian River dis- tricts. It is estimated that about 1 000 or 1.500 more will anive from the coast over the trail and from down the river via St. Michael's. Those coming from l>yea and Skagua will prol>ahly aver- age six months' provisions ea-h The managers of the commercial com- panies do not anticiiate a famine, but admit the possibility of suiip'ies being short next spring when the riv- er opens. Tb li:,u.strate how little food Is a-tually required when it is ne<-es- sary to economize, it is well to cite that three years ago at Circle Citv. where 3O0 or 400 men wintered, and the steamers were prevented from arriv- ing on account of early ice. the sup- plies were divided and ea-h man re- ceived one and a half sacks of flour, fifteen pounds of ha-ou and other sup- plies in like proportion. The men liv- ed and worked seven months and but few suffered from scurvy. ARE YOU GOING TO BE PHOTOD, "A veil imparts a patch appearance to the face." says a photographic jour- i land appear part cooled first aind drew together, leavfng the oaitor mass still flaming with incandescent light. This was the creation of the first day out of prime- val darkness â€" the outcome of the com- mand, "Lot there be Light." THE QUESTION OF LIGHT. This may be said to explain away, i'D a measure, the point urged by some critics:â€" "How could there be light up- on the earth before the »un shone up- on it, whiuh was not until the fourth day, according to the Bible?" Science and the Bible are at one here. But ages were comsumed In this process. How can it be called a day f The day could not have signified the time be- tween sunrise and sunset, for there was ao sun â€" no earth in our sense. They were onily muaaes of glowing gas- es. The real definition of day. accord- ing to Mr. Perce, must be a iieriod. of darkness, followed by a period of cos- mi.;, or solar, ligbt. The first day, then, was ages long, succeeding the night ut chaos. As the mass of the earth cooled down, becoming more dense, it glowed less and less, soai^ of Ha substance pass- ing from a gaseous to a liquid state, and the atmosphere was formed, reach- ing, doulRlees, to th« moon. Through thtae Va|)ors the light of the earth grew dimmer an»l dimmer, and at last glowed no more. This was the second i might. The vapors cooled by the air fell in ' rain and cooled the earth, and then ' rose by its hfat, forming clouds. Ihe cx^ean was then Ixiiling water, but as, it cooled steam no longer rose, the wa- \ ter* were divided from the waters, there were clou<l« alxive, oceans and: lakes l^-neath. Then first the sun's rays reached tJie earth, piercing the vapory cloud.s. TIwh wa.s the second day, and agaJin science and the Bible agi^e. But now the earth was still cooler, ^nd the inner iiortion having cooled ' more nipidly ibtUD the outer the crust waa not evenly supported, and fell in in ri<lge.H, like an apple when the pulp, has dried ajul the skin Ijecomes wrink- led. The ocean flowed into the val- leys amd the moanta<in tops appeared, just as the liil>le states:â€" "Let the dry Greenland, and w^ter lilies floated on what are a»w AK:tii! lakes. The the- ory that the sun shone upon the north- ern hemi^>here alone is said to be the only explanation of the formation of coal in the north and its al)sence from the laad south of the equator. The third day, then, cf>rrespondfl to what the geologists call the i>aleozoic age, which was one long day for the north- era henaisphere, where the vegetable life spoken of on this day in the Bible was created in groat luxuriance. And now comea One of the most startUntr of Mr. Perce's theories. This third day, he claiius, might have con- tiniied forever if tJie earth had not agaia changed its position relative to the ecliptic. But just as it had swung round at the close of the second day, so again, a change took place, though due to a, differoat cau.se. The south, being in perjietual night and so far from the sun> was soon covered with ice. As this ice grew thicker and heavier the sun drew the great weight toward itself, and the earth's angle ohajiged to that of our time. Then first was there a variation of seasoins as recorded of the fourth day in the Bible, and the stars and sun be- gan to play thiftir part upon the whole earth. Mr. Perce calls attention to the fact that hero the Hebrew Bible uses the word for making or appearing, not creating. Geology, it would ap- pear, also supports this view, showing that some great change took place at the close of the paleozoic age. With the mesozoic age came the fifth and sixth days. The author frankly confesses that geologists find fish long before this, but he states that the fiible does oot mention marine plants, and the word translated "great whales" must refer to the great rep- tiles, the ichthyosaurus ajid pleaiosa- urus. Then geology would agree with tliB Bible that birds .and these reptiles tolongf to the fifth Btu^e of creation. Geoolgy confirms the Bible also by de- olariocr the creatiom of mammals last In order before man. , AS TO ANlIiAL CREATION. Both the Bible and geology distinct- ly aXfirm the separate creations of each species of animals and disprove the theory that the higher order of animals, including man himself, have liei\ni developed from lower forms. If It were true that one order or genus was developed inito another, the book as.sert3, we ougihut to find somewhere i'n the rocks specimens of the inter- mediate forms "which linked the old with the liew, but Mich is not the case. The Scriptural history of creation is one of phenomena, not causes or pro- cesses. It. remuiins for science to step in as the interi)ret«r, filling out the blank spaces in accord with the Bible. The tendency among geologists is to greatly shorte.n geological time, among theologians to lengthen their estimates of man's existence on earth. It would not )>e at all strange if all agr<ee<l that Adam was created about fifteen thfmsanil years ago, and what has been callei prehistoric man is really a flescendaat of Adam. Mr. Perce's theories are certainly start- ling, and the mass of .scientific support anil authority which be has called to his aid is overpoweriiw. His book should arouse no end of discussion. A HAPPY GIBL. â- IM AMlaa Kelly Telia or Her IIIumd and •nbteqacnt Care â€" A Mlatcmeat Thai Uiaald be Bead by Every «Url !â- < Miss Amiua Kelly, a well-known and much esteemed yoong lady living at Maplewood, N. 13., writes:â€" "I con- sider it my duty to |et you know what your wonderful medicine has done fo» me. In April, 189G, I began to loM f lesli and color; my appetite) failed and on going up stairs I would' 'lie so tired 1 would have to reat. I continued: in this condition for three months, whea 1 was taken suddeUily' ill,^and not able to go about. Our familyt doctor wa4 called in and he proinoun^ed my illnesa chlorisis, iioverty of the blood. At first his treatment appeared to do ma good, Init only for a time, and 1 tliea Iwgan to grow worse. I continv-"J tak- ing bis medicine for three monthai when I was so discouraged at not ro> gaining my health that I deoline4 taking it any longer. I then tried 4 liquid me'.iicine advertised to cur* (^ases like mine, b|ut did not obtain tha slightest benefit. I had become terri- bly emaciated and weak. There was a constant terrible roaring noisa in my head; my feet and ankles wera swollen and I was as pale as a corpse, Onje day whii<» in this conditio* any father brought huma a liox of Dr. WM- li::ms' 'Pink Pills and asked me to try them. I'n less tlia.i a week 1 could ait up, and in a couivle of weeks I oould walk quite a |Pi»taaue without beintf tired. My appetite returned, tha roaring in my head ceased, I be- gan to gain flesh and color, and before I bad used a half dozen box> es I was as heaJltby as I had ever beeni in my life. My friends did not expect me to recover aji'l are now rejoicing at ttie wonderful change Dr. Williams' Pink Pills have wrought in me. If mv sttitement will be the means of helping some other discour- aged sufferer you are at perfe(^ liberty to publis'h it." The above statement was sworn be" fore me at Maplewoo^!. York Co., N. B., this I4th day of .\liiy l,Mlt7. Tlmobhj- W. Smith, J. P. To ensure getting tbe genuine aaU always for Dr. Williams' Pink Pills foB Pale "eople, and refuse all substituted ari'l uoetnuns alleged to be just as good. nal. "Gloves make the hands apr>ear much larger than they are in reality. It is unwise to wear a new dress; it always fall.s in awkward folds. Wher- ever possible it is'inoney well spent to drive to the photographer. A feather boa or a lace fichu has a wonderfully Geology shows which portion of the • authoritatively said to l>» the azoio ' earth thus first appeared. They are (without life) rocks which underlie Canada, Newfoundland and similar geo-i logical foUittflation.s. In this way ihe miwt solid part of the earth and the heaviest was toward tbe north, and a.s it emerged from the water the centre i softening effect on the features. Gen- of gravity of the earth was changed erally speaking the head and shoul ders takes a far prettier picture than a full length portrait. AlKive all, if you want your picture to have a na- tural e.xpresslon you must forget where you are. Unless there is any urgent reason for it, it is a great mistake to be photographed if you are either out of health or in low spirits. A just- the-mode-of-the-mornent style of cos- tume or coiffure will 'date' the photo- graph and soon make it look out of fashion. A white dresa or one that takes 'white,' gives a ghastly effect, and one far from becoming, unless the sitter is young and pretty." THK EARTH SWINGS AROl'ND. I It had Ijeea revolving with its equa- tor perpeiulicular to the ecliptic, the ' path in which the earth travels round the sun. It nolw swung around on account of the greater weight at the north, which was attracted by the sun, until the equator was coincident with the ecliptic. The consequence of this was that the northern hemi.spher« always turned to the sun. would have 'â-  one unending day, the southern per- i petual night. This in pre<;isely the case with the moon to-day. The same I aide of the mxioa is always presented ' to the earth. | Science shi>w» th.'it the Arctic region.s I were formerly the warmest pOhrtjon of t.ie earth's surface. Their tempera- ture. Biologists say, must have been tropical. The great coal beds of green enormously big coeitlel What could land and Northumberland prove this, they ever do with so much room ? for coal is nothing but tropical plants Mr. Westerlyâ€" Perhaps they kept which have decomposed under water, boarders or let out furotshed rooms. Myrtle aAd trea ferns flourished iu ABROAD. Mrs. W^esiterlyâ€" Goodness t What an CHRISTMAS HINTS. The custom of giving Christmas gifts is too universal to be challenged, and must be honored if one has but a dol- lar to Bjiend. says a writer. For a week past I have been going about the house ransacking closets, drawers and hags for superfluous art>- icles that I could make use of as gifts, putting tbe little treasures into a large pastelxiard box ajid, labelling it, "Christmas Box." To my surpriso, the box i.i fillinu: up, and by actual count there are twenty-three articles already! A cup and saucer, a ttny glass mug. an odd-shaped cologne bottle, a cup and ball, a bonlxin lictsket, half a dozen llt- Ue toys, a bright colored hair ribbon, a baby's cap, a plaid necktie for a boy, etc. Every one gets tired of certain ] pieces of bric-a-brac, and with a little judicious thought they could l)e made , to do ac«:eptable duty in some other home. 1 shall make a variety of plain calico bags for a young bousckceiier. ilropplng | bags of different styles, bags for opera alasses, for lans and for fancy, wori>:. Then for evening work there will be , bright-co'ored reins and wristlets from ; any odd bits of worsted and yarn. | Some older friemls will be remem- | bereil with sachet envelopes decorated â-  with some little wildhflower and tied with narro\v ribbon. It does not lake â-  a real artist to copy a flower in water color and it it Is to lie among one's laces and handkerchiefs, and not decorate the over crowded mnntlepiece, it had use as well as beauty, A pretty head dress for an' elderly lady is made of fine liobinet lace or tuile about six inches wide. wound around the head and t,ed in a bow knot on top, or. on tiie si ic of the head. Ihe ends should lie houuned or tucked. For bonbon boxes take clean straw- berry boxes and co.'or iheuiiwith diam- ond dyes or gild or bronze them, line wtih sheet wadding and cover with crepe paper, or cheap bright colored silk. Put handiles to some of them,, and they will look very well on the tree. 'Iho candies for filling thenil if made at home, as they should be, cost but little More tiian the time it lakes. Kvery- thing else sliould be donel first and the last few days devoted to making the mint drops, ipciuiut nougat, walnut creams or any good candy you know to l)e a fovorite with your friends. I sometime swonden why* the rich .so seldom buy home-made Christmas gifts. 'They are usually much lietter, and more iinterostiug iirn-u the conventional pocket hondlcercliief and silver thimldel If they would look almuti them and get some of th ehn.rd-working' .sisters to take orders for Christmas things, like children's and nurses's apron."!, flannel embroidery, silk mittens, home-maxle candy, etc., it would prove a real bleasing to many fauiiliea. LEPROSY PROBLEMS Mill a Natter oi iKiubi Whril.er TkU Dl>ra»r la lii:rriiun». The leprosy conference has pronounc- ed that this terrible disease is iufeo- tious, says the London Standard. W« do not yet hear now many inemliers dissented, nor, in fact, is there any hint that the verdict was not unani- moms. Henceforward, all per.sons wh» sulnnit to authority know what to !)•- lieve upon a very important matter. But we suspect that not a few of those who have to deal â- vith leprosy will prove reljeilious. No medi al question is more disputable. The arguments and iu.'stances and experiments whicb satisfied a majority of tbe conferenca are not yet reported. But it is cer- tain that Dr. Muskett, who directed the Le|jer Hospital at Hopetown for many years, finally convinced himself, after careful ol)servations and number- less tests, that the disease was not ccntagious. So confident was he that be allowed visitors to spend m much time OS they liked witii bis patients. Bickmore miule inquiiies upon the subject In the Dutch East indies, where le{)er.s are terril)ly common, and be reports that Ihe some opinion is held by most din-tors there. A Euro-, pean soldier was attacked, neverthe- less, to Iheir lewiiderinent; but the most searching inquiry tailed to show hc«v he could possibly have come in- to contact with a ieiieir. In South Af- rica, it has l!een observed, there is no hint of refeience to the pest, for • hundred and fifty years after the set- tlement; tlien suddenly the govern* ment ordered a .strict examiiiallon of all white i>eoide, wh'u if we renieinl er rightly a male sufferer was identified and a girl was vehemently suspected. Thin does not suggest that contagion is much to le feared, and tbe Cape gov- ernment drojqied aii its projected mea- vsures al once. Hut the conference has gone further. It declares also that leprosy is not hereditary. This is re- ally astonishing. At a moment's no- tice the authorities at Ho|>i'to\vn or Roblien Island could advance volumes of evidence, not opinion but hard fact to the contrary. The dlseasi' some- times ski|ie a generation. Hut the grandson, if not the son, always reai;>- pears at the hospital. HER IDEA. Mr. Honk. Nxiking up from bit news- paperâ€" '\'hat barbarians those African natives are I I have just lieen reading that the Wallagi tril)e, to whom Rev. Mr. '\\'hoopler was aenf, as a mission- ary a few months ago. l)ec«ine incens- ed at the doctrines ho preached and dragged him Ijefore their King, who, without trial, promptly cut off the clergyman's sacerdotal functions. Mrs. 'Honkâ€" Horrors 1 And was it fal>- al? FOR TWENTY-SEVEN YEARS DUNMS BAKrNC POWDER THE COOK'S BEST FRIENR LAnGKSr SAkK IN CANABud â- '>. fip '^<i*t*^^*MM