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Show n Arthur Stirliog, the London. la dead at actor, The comptroller hae made a call for jthe condition of national banka at the icloae of Dec. 1. i David Stuart Erakine, thirteenth (earl of Buchan, ia dead at London in jhia 84th year. Showalter won the seventh game of the match againat JanowaWL Janow-sk- i S gamea, Showalter 3, drawn 8. A plot to assassinate Prince Fredl-nan- d of Bulgaria baa been discovered. It ia said numerous arrests have been well-know- .. did. It will produce nearly a million dollars. "Charley la one of the leaders or THE FIVE LUCKIEST FELLOWS society in the Klondike now. Nothing etanda In the way of his becoming a IN THE KLONDIKE. and all hi cause he If the generally and well. drank wisely Storlea of How Tlioy Found Their Ulf be account of the accepted Fort one From Poverty to Affluence true. IlMk to Seattle Rolling la Money teu Pit antler and Charlie Anderson. WHY ACTORS REMAIN YOUNQ. TIIEY STRUCK IT RICH NEWS SmiJIAItY. I multi-millionai- old-time- In one sense every man who goes to the Klondike Is lucky. He Is lucky if he reaches Dawson and lucky if he is able to get away alive; luckier If he reaches the cutside world with as much money as he started with, and a marvel of luck if he reaches the outside world with more. Tho five luckiest men in the Klondike are Charley Dan" Saunders, Anton Anderson, Stander, Siawash" George Cormack and Pop Stanley. Anderson and Saunders bought their claims for a song without knowing what was In them. Cormack got his because an Indian stooped to puli up his muckluck (native waterproof boot), and Pop Stanley and Anton Stander staked theirs out of cussedness" because they happened to be on the spot, says an exchange. The discoverer of French Gulch bench was Billy Dedering. but his claim was worth only while Saunders' was worth $100,-00which only goes to show In another way the ruling Importance of luck In the Klondike. Dedering was pushing some logs down the hillside when he saw something glisten and found that he had knocked a nugget out of the ground. He dug a hole just where the nugget came oat and found about 10 cents to the pan. So he concluded that the nugget must haveibad a tumble before he knocked it out of the earth. He squinted his prospector's eye and looked up the hill, observed a little dip and said that he guessed that was a good place for gold to lodge. He washed $187 out of the first pan on bed rock. When the fact was known that some kind of discovery on the bench had been made men went up this hill on the dead run and it was soon bristling with stakes. One fellow who had Btaked a claim about 200 feet from Dedering said the next day down at the hotel at the Forks that he .would sell out for $50. This was not surprising, as Dedering would not let any one pan out of his prospect holey and It was bruited, as It always Is, that likely enough the whole thing waa a fake to enable Dedering to sell out his own claim for a few hundred dollars. In fact, that was the general opinion about French Gulch bench at jmade. A mass meeting of undergraduate tndents waa held at Wesleyan university to protest against the system of now in vogue at the col j , lege. is 83,283,000 hectol- The French vintage of estimated at 1898 offl-icial- ly 68,000 hectolitres below the vintage of last year. The death is announced of Thieb Bey, brother and heir presumptive of Sidi All Bey of Tunis. !ne was in his 78th year. Nearly the whole business portion of Enfaula, I. T., on the M., K. A T. railroad, was destroyed by fire. The loss its estimated at $150,000. It is asserted in Madrid that a marriage has been arranged between Don Jamie, son of the pretender, Don Carlos, and a Bavarian prineeess. Jewelry and diamonds valued at $4,500 were Btolen from the apartment Of Mr. and' Mrs. Max Blumenthal at the Great Northern, hotel, Chicago. James G. Lindsley, who represented itres, which is Sidi-iHoham- ed I re $50,-00- 0, 0, New York district congress, died at his home in Kingston, N. Y., aged 79 the Seventy-sevent- h In the Forty-nint- h years. Six men of the crew of the Mallory line steamship Alamo were killed by jthe bursting of a steam pipe while the Teasel lay at her pier in East river, New York, Seven persons were burned to death In a fire which broke out in the small Shamlet of Exenthal, near Sonneburg, Tbalr rs LIth, Though Hard aad Irregular, Ara Nttir Monotonona, It is conceded that people of the stage have a happy knack of keeping young, says the Denver News. When one thinks of the hard work, the almost constant travel, the late hours, the irregular meals which are the portion of these followers of Thespis, one Is amazed that their features are not marked more by the worlds wear and tear. And yet there are few really old persons on the stage. One reason for this lies In the fact that monotony has no part in their lives. The actors life racy be hard, precarious, Irregular, but :t Is never monotonous. His life is full of events and la an kaleidoscope of scenes and faces. He may be found at a good hotel living like a lord," or he may he in some tight place where he gets nothing to eat. And so It goes. Tonight (me sees him sleeping on a superior hair mattress and wire springs. Tomorrow he is lucky if he gets a bed at all. In going from place to place he Is bound to make charming acquaintances. He doesnt know everybody in town, like an old resident; hasn't watched them grow up from Infancy or grow old from middle age. Actors prefer to he happy. They never go out of their way to hunt up worries. There Is no other business which can so effectually elbow sorrow out of the way. No matter what load of sorrow he carries in his heart, for a few hours each day he is permitted a respite, for in those few hours he is somebody else. We are so apt to think that late hours, midnight suppers, Irregular habits, change of water and lack of home comforts add nails to their coffins and make them old before their time. When people get these ideas in their heads and talk about their beauty sleep one might think of the stage folks with profit to himself and his friends. If we wouldnt take It for granted that me Creator intended us to grow wrinkled and gray and ugly It would be better for us. He certainly gave us a good, fair start in the world, and we ourselves have done the rest We grow old simply because we allow ourselves to fret and stew and worry over things that cannot be helped the most absolutely asinine thing to do In this world. We talk about our ages and observe our birthdays and go around hunting np gray hairs and talk about them, and refuse to dance and nue a wheel because our neighbors will accuse us of being giddy and trying to be young again. ever-changi- ng about twelve miles northeast of Coburg. A great improvement in the health of the army has taken place within the Hast two months as shown by the last from first ire ports to the surgeon-generDan Saunders had overheard the re(the field and general hospitals. of the man who wanted to sell mark Lieutenant Colonel Frank C. Green, out $50 and took him up. The man for the signal officer of the department of that Dan was drunk and had thought ICalifornia, has been ordered to forshown bad Judgment, but he pocketed ward several hundred miles of tele- the money. Dan" strode out of the hotel and said that he thought he graph apparatus to Manila. The government of Nicaragua, as a would go up and see his new purchase. Hoim with a Bombraro. result of the collapse of the republic of Daring the first day on bed rock he de&l of amused comment has A good took out a thousand dollars with a Central America, has established a been on the business end of excited came next The down he (rocker. declaring Nicaragua to be an in- to the Forks to day that thousand Tchoupltoulas street during the last spend dependent sovereign state. and he was not able to do this, though few days by the peculiar headgear Phoe-niworn by a big bay dray horse. It Is an Mrs. Elizabeth Howe is dead at whisky was 50 cents a drink. In fact, extremely tall straw hat, shaped someShe was the widow of "Dan" was In much the same predicaAriz. like a Mexican sombrero, with a thing Brigadier General Howe of Illinois, ment as old "Joe" Juneau, who sold of holes in the brim for the couple and was one of the five women who .out his quartz Interests on the south- animals ears. The hat is rather rakish coast of eastern Alaska of for $200,000. founded the Woman's Belief Corps and in and as the appearance, Jaunty "Im blamed If I know how Ill ever horse lAmerica. to a possess happens peculiarly get rid of it." sold old "Joe." He was sedate and solemn Bev. A. J. LcLim, agent of the worried expression the comin this way for at least a week American Bible society, sailed for before he reached Frisco. He Is now bination is enough to draw a grin from (Puerto Bico with a thousand copies of In the Klondike as poor as Dan" a wooden Indian. One of the shippers ' in the neighborhood declares that the jthe Bible and portions thereof for Saunders was when Dan" made his beast is the living image of an old sea among the inhabitants of strike. used to be a popular charcaptain "Dan" had no reason except rumor acter on who that island. the street, and who wore Just A dispatch from Stuttgart announces to believe that there was anything In such another queer hat winter and the claim he had bought and he bought summer. (the death there of Princess Augusta of They look so much alike, It simply because he was in the humor he said the other nee Lady Augusta Lenday, that It wouldn't to buy anything. His good fortune was me of In duke the least if the horse fifth of the surprise nox, daughter due to pure luck. spoke to me any time it went by. The Biehmond and Gordon and sister of the "Charley Anderson, who, with his driver of the dray is a German and present duke. new interest, is probably worth beproud of the contrivance. He says the tween $500,000 and $1,000,000, three crown contains a The Spanish Government has sponge soaked in an important dispatch from the years ago was turning a windless at vinegar. New Orleans TImes-Dem-o Circle City. After the big strike on crat. IPhiUpplnes in which it is stated Klondike he came up to Dawson. the demands the insurgent leader, Eldorado creek, which Is probably the imof the release Ko (jnalghtly Hairpin a. the $1,500,000 for richest placer creek that the world has Inventive An friars. genius has come to the prisoned ever known, was then unprospected. It womens assistance with a very ingeniA man giving his name as Charles had been staked by those who had ous and made it possible contrivance, Walker and saying he resides at Que- rushed to Bonanza creek as a second for a woman to curl her naturally no claims were left on bec, has been arrested at Lyons, choice when locks not and be a guy yet straight was called By the miners It France, for attempting to snatch a Bonanza. which the This is done process. by In word for a during wallet containing 111.000 francs, from a "pupcreek which their set use a of and of small the hairpins is supposed to he small of baby ribbon of the hue a bank messenger. of no consequence. Eldorado, with its rods and bits The desired. hair is wound in and out arrisen narrow has was and trouble hills valley, Brussels Soir says rolling on a hairpin and a piece of ribbon, of places to find in Africa between Germany and the the most unpromising has its two ends left out When which regold, according to all tradition. Those ongo Free State, relative to the Is this completed the ends of ribbon claims staked had offered there who spective boundary lines of German in a pretty little bow, the tied are them at one time os $50 and $100 and territory and Congo territory north of what made them millionaires was the hairpin slipped out, and there yon are, Lake Tanganika. with your hair done up on ribbon. fact that nobody took them up. asto decided as the has goes, story "Charley Now, Secretary Long Conditional Agraomant. of Anderson was "perty full" one night sign the Chicago to duty as flagship have refused that young wouldnt I No. 29 on Eldorade, owner of the and now is which :the European squadron, been If man you, said a maiden Id as was too which regarded positively in process of selection. The squadron far to her young and frisky niece. aunt to be of creek value the any up probably will Include about five ships even if the other claims were, found I don't think I would, either, If I'd of different classes. been some you," retorted the saucy maiden, had out that Charley" money Harper's Bazar. The Milwaukee chamber of com- and made up his mind to get It So he merce passed resolutions that the Induced Charley" to give him $800 for A Froah Sorprluo la Stora for Him. n tariff schedule on No. 29. The next day the original ownTom However can the summer girl town of the went around er boasting importations Into Cuba, should not be tha had made and become so summery, I wonder? Dick he bargain great permitted to remain in force, but "Charles naturally was hopping mad. Tut, thats nothing. Just wait till should be replaced at the earliest pos- "But I keep dot claim," he said. the winter comes and youll wonder sible moment by one more acceptable "Maybe it fool somebody yet" And It how she ever could become so wintry. to exporters from this country. :8axe-Meinenge- n, al I de-ier- ee x, ; ; ISaxe-Weim- ar, I Agui-inald- o, Spanish-America- , Yes, sir. Well, Mr. Tappan, from HELD IN CHECK. that day X lave not touched intoxicating drink. I In 1838 a man named Tappan moved would like to see your eldest daughter with his fanui from New York to the and tell her of the blessing her musle remote west, said family consisting, bestowed upon me." SL Clair once more visited the way-sibesides himself, of a wife and six chilinn, the result of which wss that dren. He had failed in buslnesa; was he In less than another year the sweet broken In spirit; his children, thought, needed fresh sir; so he accept- songstress had become his wife. Ex. ed as a gift from his brother a large tract of land upon the edge of the wil- PRINCE OF WALES THEATER. derness and settled thereon. Foaklonubla Loodoi PlayhoaM Soon enterprising people began to to 11a DemulUhad. settle beyond him, and there came to The coming demolition of the old be much travel past bis door; and as Prince of Wales theater, off Tottenham an act of humanity he frequently en- Court road (its proper address is 21 As these calls Tottenham tertained wayfarers. street), may be mourned by upon his hospitality became more and those who remember tbe days when It more frequent he enlarged his house was one of the most fashionable and and put up an innkeepers sign. crowded playhouses In London, but Not long aftei this, a party of young the majority of the people will bear of men, eight or ten in number, well its disappearance wthout a pang of mounted, were returning by a round- regret, says London Graphic. Even about way from an electioneering ex- In Its palmy days, when the Bancrofts Toward the middle of the had it In hand, the theater could never pedition. afternoon they reined up before Tap-pa- lay claim to much external beauty, and door, pretty well under the In- nowadays, with its walls a patchwork fluence of various klnda of fiery fluid, of ugly posters, and Its dirty and and, having dismounted and secured squalid surroundings, it Is really a their horses, they entered the house most deplorable looking object As a and noisily demanded whisky. playhouse It was closed a decade or so It so happened that Mr. Tappan and ago, and since then Its only attempt at his wife were both aaay, and only his notoriety was when the Salvation army daughters were In charge; and it also took It over for a time. Originally It happened that the host had never kept waa the concert room of Slg. F. ts then the directors of the any liquors in the house. Of this fact of ancient music bought and enthe visitors were Informed by tha eldest daughter, a handsome, intelligent larged It and built a magnificent royal box for George III. and Queen Chargirl of 18. But the riotously inclined Invaders lotte. Next, It became the home of The Picnics, a body of amateur playstill demanded whisky, and when they writes Mr. had become assured that they could ers, whose celebrity, not have it they resolved that they Timbs, "rendered them objects of would cut down the sign before the alarm to the professional actors of the door, and the leader so Informed the day and exposed them to the attacks 'of the caricaturist Gil ray." About young lady. "You must do as you please, gentle- 1807 It was transformed into a sort of men," she said, shrinking, while her circus, but It could never be compared little sisters gathered around her for In this line with Astleys. Converted into a theater, it passed through many protection, I cannot prevent you. Three or four of the party made a hands and under almost as many tirush for the woodpile, cursing as they tles. Among its earlier names were went, while the leader of the gang, a the Regency, the New theater, the young man who would have been de- Theater of Varieties, the West London, the Queens and the Fltzroy. It waa cidedly handsome if he had been hima dingy, dirty enough theater in those of others his companions, self, with took a notion to overhaul the house, days, so much so. Indeed, that it waa dusthole. Insisting that there must be a drop of popularly known as the waa taken bouse the When, however, something somewhere. In a small, well furnished apart- over by Miss Marie Wilton (afterward conment, apart from the guests room, was Mrs. Bancroft), who improved the struction of the building and gave It found a pianoforte. Hello! cried the leader, who plays its name as the Prince of Wales, tha tide in its fortunes took a decided turn on this? Can you? answered the girl for the better and the days of its pros"It is mine, sir," perity began. During the fifteen years thus addressed. In which It waa under the management And you can play?" of the Bancrofts it lived up to the host "Yes, sir." traditions of the English stage and Can you sing?" waa associated with the names of FanI sing sometimes, sir." ny Brough, Madge Robertson (Mrs. us?" Will you play and sing for John Hare, Charles Coghlan. She opened the piano, and sat down, Kendal), others. When tha a and many good and played and sang. Her voice was Bancrofts gave up the management the house vis taken over by Edgar Brucd, but it was finally closed 'as a theater sixteen years ago. Its name, howdown to what handed been has ever, was formerly the Princes theater, iQ Coventry street west de OU-TI- m ns Pas-qua- ll; eon-cer- Forecast! of Storms. W. H." Wheeler, who has devoted many years to the study of such matters, says that in the Bay of Biscay, frequently during the autumn and winter in calm weather, a heavy sea geta up and rolls in on the coast four and twenty hours before the gale which causes It arrives, and of which it is the prelude. In this case the generated on the other side of the Atlantic by the wind, travels at a much greater rate than that of the body ot disturbed air, and this gives warning of the coming storm. Upon the great lakes of North America fishermen and boatmen have learned to forecast storms by observations of the undulations to which the water of the lakes clear, musical, and rich, and the ac- are subject, and a direct Inquiry into companiment was played with skill the by means of matter, and grace. The little sisters gathered show the fluctuations of level to In a semicircle close around the In- gauges of the water, has now of surface the strument. and the heretofore riotous undulations provide these that proved nearmen but riotous no more drew earlier and mere distinct Indications er and nearer up on the outside. storms than are given Some of them bad never heard a pi- of approaching barometer. the by ano before, and not one of them had After a ever heard sweeter music. Winter (7m for Hathhoaamu conclusion of a the the at piece, pause Boston is again to the fore In philanleader spoke again, but in a strangely thropic endeavor, and acting upon the subdued tone: WJll you sing for us another song?" suggestion of Mayor Quincy, the publlo are to he metamorphosed And she played and sang The Old for the winter. The ininto laundries House. Other songs were sung. Their sym- ception of this novel arrangement was pathies were aroused, their hearts op- the placing of a mangle In the Dover last summer, when it ened, and the best part of their natures street was on and when to the the Jump surface, preparing clean they kept brought had taxed the fair songstress so far towels for the bathers at the rate of that they felt ashamed to tax her more, 80,000 towels a day. The details of tha they thanked her and withdrew with as experiment are not yet fully decided much decorum as might have been ex- upon, but It is expected that laundry hibited had they been retiring from work for merely a nominal sum can be before the throne of a monarch. done for the worthy poor at a rate of A year after this event Mr. Tappan 100 families a day. chanced to be In Jacksonville on business, where he was introduced to PhilHot Beady for Sacrifice. ip St. Clair, a rising young lawyer of The doctor would like to see you inthe place. side, said the maid to the caller in tha Is this the Mr. Tappan who a year reception-rooNot much," said the ago kept a public house on the Cloud startled patient He cant try an Hill road? asked SL Clair. me. on Philadelphia Times. The same, sir. And I. sir. pursued the lawyer, Ana of th Oceana. "was the leader of that party of riotous The Pacific ocean covers 78.000,000 young men who so shamefully frightened your daughters. I suppose they square miles, the Atlantic 25,000,00 (t and the Mediterranean sea 1,000,000. told you of the circumstances? wave-actio- n, self-recordi-ng bath-hous- es bath-hou- X-r- ay se |