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THE NCW EL DORADO i""Si EDWIN MOCDI3 ' Kn ' * t v>N * V copy/?AP/fr or Pmrno/f /W3.ca tt/rst N the sammer of 1909, vhea gold was discovered In the Porcupine Lake min­ ing district of Canada, about 500 miles north of Toronto, the region was so inaccessible and the conditions of life were so hard that nothing except the J lure of sold could have brought white men to the spot. Everywhere* was a trackless, low-lying forest. Perhaps St would be more nearly accurate to say that everywhere was a great marsh filled with trees. In the winter the temperature dropped to 60 degrees below zero and the snow rose to the forest branches. In the summer there was a pest of Insects. Poisonous black flies--almost invisible because of their small- ness--bussed all the day. At night the black flies bid off and the mosquitoes came on. There was never a summer hour, by day or night, when & hu­ man being oould have lived at peace; when his faoe would not have been stinging; when his swollen features ^rould not have Bade him grotesque. But f^W had ever suffered, be­ cause there were only a few to suffer. Only an occasional trap­ per ever penetrated the wilder­ ness. The prospector had not come, because the prospector, as • rule, goes only where mountains beckon. The prospector did not know that mountains, like teeth, may wear off until only their roots remain. Nor did the prospector know that, in the great dentistry of nature, these mountain roots are sometimes filled with gold and silver, nickel and iron. Tet such is the fact. When the world was young a mountain range n S71S/JLA. jgr jHi. f tk. H¥ £'L £/u/xJ\/J>Q «&> m t0'-n - - '::r: ̂ T-> - FOR THIRTY YEARS CLERK HAj| BEEN HELD ACCOUNTABLE FOR MONEY LOS3. ass 5oV'.* 1 -VVBi'-'S" xzMwmmi •<n^v v. .ML^-%2 7h£ •&&£>* sse m wr mm • jam^& m jt#sx£-r awn extended from Minnesota, across Ontario, to Lab­ rador. Nobody but geologists make the state* •lent with confidence. They say these moun­ tains were the oldest mountains on the conti­ nent; that they were old when the Rockies were jet unformed; that the glacial drift and the dis­ integrating effects of untold millions of years of heat and cold have worn them away until only the "roots" remain; and they point to the roots as proof of their theory The roots are there. . Anybody can see them. Some of them are below the surface, some are above. Over most of the roots are a few feet of earth, hut, here and there, a huge shoulder of rock thrusts itself above the surface; here and there a great ledge plows its way through the forests and then disappears in the marsh; and • nowhere can one dig far without coming to rock. A singular Incident explains, perhaps, why these mountain roots were not permitted to re­ train untouched for another hundred million jrears. The incident had its inspiration in poli­ tics. The Ontario government felt that it was losing strength with the farmers. .Wise men in the ministry looked around to see what could be done. The farmers in the "clay belt" had been clamoring for a railroad. The ministry decided that it would be good politics to give It to them. So it was decided to build a railroad from North bay, on the shores of Lake Nipissing, to connect with the great transcontinental line, under con­ struction farther north. It was while this railroad was building that Fred La Rose, a member of the construction gang, blasted his way into an old mountain root, made himself rich, made Cobalt, made more than a score of multimillionaires and caused Canada, which had produced almost no silver, to produce 12 per cent, of the world's output. Two men, in six days, trundled out $57,000 worth of silver with a wheelbarrow. As an indirect result Sud­ bury became the world's chief producer of nickel. All of which seemed to be against tbe rules mad£ &nd provided by nature. Canada had never been known aB a silver country. Near Cobalt there was nothing on the surface to indicate that silver might be near. But no eye had seen below the surface. No mind had dreamed of the gold and silver filled roots of worn-off mountains. An explanation was required--and geologists who ex­ amined the formations gave it. The geological assurance that the entire re­ gion might be sprinkled with precious metals quickly caused the country around Cobalt to be prospected. But prospecting in forest-covered ms , j marshes does not proceed rapidly. Not until the fvjv' summer of 1909 did prospectors push 250 miles northward, to the region of Porcupine lake, i# I There li £bout as much uncertainty with re- it • •iC - 1 " -- -- r#£ AAfwarmf <?O£0CAAff> 4 gard to who first discovered gold in Porcupine as there is with regard to who discovered America. George Bannerman, how­ ever, appears to be the Columbus of the occasion. Ban­ n e r m a n , a n o l d prospector, In July, 1909, scraped the moss from a bit of the surface of a projecting rock and saw wet flakes of shining gold star­ ing up at him from the quartz. But the first great discov­ ery was made by a gang of prospec­ t o r s h e a d e d b y Jack Wilson. Wil­ son, or one of his subordinates--no two reports on this point are alike--found the great "Dome that bears Wilson's name. The "Dome" is a ridge of rock, 550 feet long, 40 to 80 feet wide, 20 to 80 feet above ground, and no one yet knows how deep, that is heavily laden with gold. Pull the moss from it anywhere and there is gold. Nothing in the history of gold mining better illustrates the eccentricities of gold miners than the discovery cf,ths "Dome." The discovering party consisted of three men, headed by Jack Wilson. The expedition was financed by a Chi­ cago man named Edwards, who was engaged in the manufacture of lighting fixtures. Edwards was to put up all the money In return for a half interest in anything that might be discov­ ered. Wilson was to have a quarter interest and each of the other two an eighth. For several weeks they prospected, first to the east of Porcupine lake, in Whitney township, then to the west, in Tisdale township. They found gold and staked some claims. But the great "Dome," although they camped, some of the time, within sight of it, almost escaped them. It was finally discovered, according to the story that is generally believed, only because one of Wil­ son's subordinates stumbled across it. He was not a miner, knew nothing about geology, but did know enough to scrape off moss. Also, he had eyes. When the moss was off he could not help seeing the gold. The great ridge that was hence­ forth to be known as the "Wilson Dome" had been found. Stakes were driven and claim laid to the huge boulder. Perhaps the most remarkable story, however, that has come out of the Porcupine was told by a prospector named "Bill" Woodney. A mining man whom I believe to be reliable told me that Bill came to him one day and showed him a remarkably rich piece of gold quartz, at the same time asking him where he supposed it came from. "Not from anywhere In Canada," was the reply. "I thought you would say that," was the com­ ment, "but you are wrong." Then "Bill" told his story. He said the quartz was given to him by a widow. Her husband had been accidentally killed a short time before Bhe gave it to him. The widow told him that the quartz came from a vein near Lake Abitibi, a frigid sheet of water up toward Hudson's bay, 300 miles north of Cobalt. - Her husband and two other men whom she named had found the vein. They had not staked their claims and regis­ tered th^in with the government at Toronto, be­ cause such registration would have been a notifica­ tion to the world that they had found gold in the region. Winter was near when the discovery was made and they wanted to return In the spring, prospect the country thoroughly and stake out ev­ erything in sight. During the following winter the husband of the woman who was so soon to become a widow was seriously injured in a mill. In a few days he realized that death was near. He sent for the two prospectors who had accompanied him to Lake Abitibi. They came. "Boys," said he, "I guess I've got to die. I can't go back with you in the spring to stake the claims. I want you to promise me that if I die you will give the old woman a third of what we found last year." The men promised. The wife heard them. But she didn't believe them. The widow had told Bill who the men were. He knew them. He knew where they were work­ ing. Bill hired out in the same place. In the course of a few weeks one of them told him that they were going to quit at a certain time in the spring and take a long canoe and hunting trip in the country far to the north. That was good enough clew for Bill. Two weekB before the announced time for the men to start Woodney quit his job, packed his kit and started for Lake Abitibi himself. When he reached the lake he drew his canoe from the water, hid it in the "bush," as Canadians call a forest, and prepared to wait. On the eighth day of his vigil, as he was peering out of the busheB, he saw the sight that he had waited so long to see. Down the placid river came two canoes, cutting their ways through the cool waters and leaving flatiron wakes in the rear. Late in the afternoon Bill saw the two specks disappear in what seemed to be an inlet. The first night there was no fire, but the next day Bill saw a blue spiral of smoke curling from the bushes back of the lake. For five days and nights the fires burned. Then there was no more fire, day or night. Evidently the men had gone. Bill wanted to be sure, so he waited three more days. Then he went down to the lake where his canoe was hidden, put it into the water, took pains to observe that there was- on the lake no sign of human life, then slowly paddled his way along the shore, looking for the inlet. Bill was paddling as quietly as he could when, at the "knuckle" of the water finger--a point where the inlet was not more than 50 feet wide--he sud­ denly saw on the left bank--the two prospectors! The next instant one of them threw an ax at Bill's canoe that all but cut it in two and sunk it as quick­ ly as a mine could Bink a battleship. Woodney doesn't know yet why he Is alive. He seemed to have no chance to live. It was two against one and the one was in the water. So were his food, his weapons and his tools. If he were not murdered during the next second it seemed certain that he would starve during the next month. Not that he thought out all of these things while he was sinking. He thought out nothing. All he did was to act flrBt and think afterward. A few strokes with his hands and a few kicks with his feet put him against the bank. No rabbit ever took a trail faster than Bill took to the brush. The rest of this story can be told in short sen­ tences. Hunger, within the next forty-eight hours, drove Woodney into the very camp of the men who would have slain him. He crept up to them, late at night, and stole their food. He could not Bteal much at a time, but he stole enough to keep him alive. He stole, not once, but three times. The next time he went to steal they were not there. They had pulled up camp and gone, bag and bag* gage. He took his life in his hands the next day and went down to see the claims they had staked. He didn't find a stick or a sign of a claim. He couldn't even find anything himself that seemed worth claiming. The prospectors never returned. Whether they were upset and drowned In one of the many rap­ ids; whether they fell to fighting and killed each other, no one knows. Nor have they ever filed a claim to ore bodies along Lake Abitibi. Where He Saw Lincoln Among those who stood up in the Carnegie hall audience at New York when Dr. William Goodell Frost, pres­ ident of Ber«a college, wanted to as­ certain .how many persons of those present had seen Abraham Lincoln, was a man whose neighbor said when he had resumed his place: "You must have been pretty young at the time." "Not so very," replied the man. '1 war a little boy when I saw Mr. Lin- coln ride up J3tate street in Albany, standing in a carriage, bowing to the people. Mayor Thacher and Senator Ferry were with him. He stopped over at Albany on his way to be In­ augurated. I was a much larger boy when I joined the great line in State street which moved slowly up the hill to the capitol, where the people had p chance to look tlpon the body of the dead president." Peaceful Town of Newton, N. J. "*-L From a constabulary viewpoint the. citizens of Newton, N. J., are living In an actual Utopia, and so free are they from the usual suburban offender^ that barred doors or locks are un­ known. In looking through the village archives an early volume chronicles an Lattempted robbery In the town sto», and some horse-loving citizon was reprimanded for cutting a street £• corner, but since then the police blot­ ter has not known the touch of Ink. As a consequence, the constabulary force of two men has been abandoned. Poultry Raising. "Did you ever get mixed up with any get rich quick literature?" "Only once when I got a book on how to raisa chickens."--Washington Star. 9 BLAMED BY THE INSPECTORS Bag Repairer Finds Registry Envelope Caught by Corners at Bottom of Old 8ack Where It Was Held Whlls 8ender Cried Thief. Peoria, 111.--Rev. Charles Burdette, brother of "Sob" Burdette, the humor­ ist, has been vindicated after 30 years of any blame In connection with the disappearance of $3,500 from a regis­ tered letter package sent out by the Peoria postofflce of Which he was reg­ istry clerk. The accidental solving of this mys­ tery, which has been a cloud on Bar- dette'a life in this, his home town, and turned many of his old friends against him, is a vivid exemplifica­ tion of the wrong that may be borne through circumstantial evidence. Men have been hanged on no Btronger evi­ dence thau that against young Bur­ dette and, though he escaped the mor­ tification of arrest, through a powerful friend who believed in, and stood by him, the fact that the finger of suspi­ cion was ever pointed at him has been a source of grief and worry to him all these years. The $3,500 disappeared after it was put in 12 registered letters by John Cuwgiock, a wealthy resident. The evidence was all against young Bur­ dette and after tho first investigation had been made ComBtock demanded that Gen. B. W. Magee, veteran of the Civil war and postmaster at Peoria, immediately discharge the registry clerk. "Can't do anything for you," said the old general. "I've known Charles since he was able to walk. I knew all his foik. They are honest and the bdy is honest. They are friends of mine and I won't discharge Charlie." Then Comstock carried the matter to Washington and an inspector came down from Chicago to make a full re­ port. "Charlie" told him how Comstock appeared at the registry window with the names of 12 men to whom he was sending money and asked that the let­ ters be registered. Comstock had asked him to watch him put the fnoney in the envelopes, which he did. He also told the inspector he had placed the 12 envelopes in one large one and had put this large envelope at the bottom of a mail sack, in ac­ cordance with the custom at that time, with the registry hook on top of the registered mail. On top of this he placed the regular mail. The railway mail clerk, who had sent the registry book back with these THIRST. m "Of all the tortures I should think the most tenable would be to be aw­ fully thirsty where no water could be «r*;ured." "Why water?" WOULD LIE AWAKE ALL NIGHT WITH ITCHING ECZEMA "Ever since I can remember I was a terrible sufferer of eczema. and other irritating skin diseases. I would lie awake all night, and my suffering was intolerable. , A scaly humor set- tied on my back, and being but a child, I naturally scratched It It was a burning, itching sensation, and utterly Intolerable, in fact, it was so that I could not possibly forget about it. It did not take long before it spread to my shoulders and arms, and I was almost covered with a mass of raw flesh on account of my scratching it. I was In such a condition that my hands were tied. "A number of physicians were call­ ed, but it seemed beyond their med­ ical power and knowledge to cure me. Having tried numerous treat­ ments without deriving any bepeflt from them, I had given myself up to the mercy of my dreadful malady, but I thought I would take the Cuticura treatment as a last resort. Words cannot express my gratitude to the one who created 'The Cuticura Mira­ cles,' as I have named them, for now I feel as if I pever suffered from even a pimple. My disease was routed by Cuticura Soap and Ointment, and I shall never cease praising the wonder­ ful merits they contain. I will never be without them, in fact, I can almost dare any skin diseases to attack mo so long as I have Cuticura Remedies in the house. I hope that this letter will give other sufferers an idea of how I suffered, and also hope that they will not pass the 'Cuticura Life Saving Station.'" (Signed) C. Louis Grsen, 929 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, Pa* Aug. 29, 1910. Snappy. "Ten cents' worth of canine pep­ per," said the little boy in the nubur- ban store." "Canine!" echoed the astonished clerk. "Why, my little man, I guess you mean cayenne pepper." The little boy was doubtful. "Maybe I do, mister," he hesitated, "but mamma said it was the kind Of pepper that had a sharp bite, so I thought it was 'canine.' " Cause and Effect. "I see from the papers," said Daw­ son, "that there is a great scarcity of chorus girls this year." "I was afraid there would be," said Wiggles. "It's only another case of cause and effect. The French cham­ pagne crop has practically failed, and lobsters are scarcer than hens' teeth this season."--Harper's Weekly. Important to Mothers Examine carefully every bottle of CASTORIA, a safe and sure remedy for infants and children, and see that it Bears the Signature In Use For Over 30 Year The Kind You Have Always Bought. Fortunate. Mrs Woggs--She is enormously wealthy. Mrs. Boggs--Yes. She was an only wife, you know! WHEN KCBBEB8 BECOME NECES8AKY And your shoes pinch, Allen's fc'oot-Ease, tho Anti­ septic powder to be shaken Into tho shoes. Is ju&ttho thing UJ use. Try It for Breaking In New Shoos. Sold everywhere, 'J6c. Bample FKHK. Address A. 8. Olmsted, Leitoy.N.Y. Don't accept any tvbatituts. Start of the Ill-Fated Letters. j2 letters unreceipted for, was investi­ gated. He said they were not in the •mail sack and Burdette said they -ttf/ore. The inspector made his report and it was unfavorable to Burdette. When the report had been considered at Washington a letter came to General Magee advising him of what the In­ spector had reported and suggesting that the best thing to do under the circumstances was to discharge young Burdette. Oeneral Magee wrote to Washing­ ton: "This boy is all real apd I am not going to brand him by discharging him." And Burdette continued as reg­ istry Serk. Burdette was working to get money to study for the ministry and when he was ordained as a minister was as­ signed as a missionary In Assam, In­ dia. In far away India Burdette made good' as a- missionary and after 20 years' service came back to the United States and accepted a call to an eastern church. He now has t* pastorate at Springfield, Mass. Into the repair shop at San Fran­ cisco a few days ago an old battered Back was sent to be patched. It was a veteran and to repair it meant prac­ tically to make a new sack. The first man to Inspect the sack decided it needed a new bottom and, with a knife, he ripped the leather bot­ tom off. Then he saw above it a big manila envelope, caught by the cor­ ners, which served practically as a false bottom. He opened the envelope and foun«l It to contain the 12 Com­ stock letters and the misslcz $3,500. The mantla envelope was Hot much different in color from the leather. Sharp eyes had been peering into this mail hag each time it waB emptied for 30 years without discovering the treasure. Turning the mall bag up­ side down and shaking it had no ef­ fect on the envelope, for It was held firmly against the leather under whleh Its corners had slipped. All Depends. "Want a good anecdote about a statesman?" "Was he re-elected T ' To render your neighbor a service willingly shows the generosity of your character; to preserve silence over it the grandeur of your soul.--Puysieux. You will aneeEe; perhaps feel chilly. You think you are catching cold. Don't wait until you know it. Take a dose of Hamlins Wizard Oil and you Juat can't •atch cold. Improvidence in trifles nevei made a millionaire nor swelled a bank ac­ count. Tn the Sprit purify the bloo< K cleanse the system and by the uae of Garfield Tea. A woman's club sometimes reminds a man of a hammer. _ Smokers find Lewis' Single Binder 5e cigar better quality than most 10c cigars. Her savings are the saving of many a business girl. IMPORTANT CHANGES IN PAS-; SENGER DEPARTMENT GRAND TRUNK RAILWAY SYSTEM. On account resignation Geo. W. Vaux, Mr. Harty Q. Elliott has been appointed general passenger agent at Montreal, and Is succeeded in Chi­ cago by Mr. J. D. McDonald as as­ sistant general passenger agent. t Mr. McDonald has a wide acquaint­ ance with the railway and newspaper fraternity, having for many years rep­ resented his company at Buffalo as agent in charge Niagara Frontier, and for the past eight years as dis­ trict passenger agent at Toronto, where his territory embraced the Highlands of Ontario resorts. Includ­ ing Muskoka, Lake of Bays, Temagaml and the Cobalt region. Mr. McDonald was secretary of the entertainment committee at Buffalo when meeting of the American Asso­ ciation of General PasBenger Ageqts met there prior to opening of Pan- American exposition; was one of Geo. T. Bell's. aids in looking after the general passenger agents at their Portland, Me., trip, and also two years ago when they had two Bpecial trains to the Canada resorts. Mr. McDonald's territory embraces what is known as the western divi­ sion, being that portion of the Grand Trunk Railway System lying west of Detroit and Port Huron, and also all territory west of Chicago to the Pa­ cific coast and southwest "to the Gult of Mexico. Among Colleagues. "I am afraid that man speaks before he thinks." "Impossible!" "Why?" "He never thinks." A woman can straighten up a man's desk in five minutes so effectually that hd wou'l be able IU iiuu, anything n« wants in five hours. ONIT ONE That la LAXATIVS the denature of over to Core a Cold ID one Dar E "BROMO QUININE. TU BBOMO QU1NINB. Lo 8. W. GROVE. Us»d the Look for World Modern application Is likely to ex­ tract the teeth of an old saw. All druggists sell the famous Herb rem­ edy, Garfield Tea. It corrects constipation. Each penny saved means one . less pang of foreboding. 30 ft. 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