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Show snow soft when we stvied but I could se that there were light cloud on the mountain and some indication of wind. As we went up the wind began to blow a little from the south or at our backs As we came nearer the summit we began to meet, tbe n packer coming downbavlng work above as the wind waji,' getting so strong. There are two benches or narrow flat places up the side and our windlass was placed on tbe( first one about 1,010 feet from the foot. We arrived at the foot a little before 1 oclock to find that the first load which contained our beds, had gone up, but before this time tbe wind had gained such velocity .abqveJLhat our men. h4 all quit work and left. We could not turn hark now so concluded to follow our beds. After making everything fast I unhitched the dogs and calling them along we started to climb to the top. This is no smali task, I can tell you, and when we arrived at the first bench It waa afier 2 o'clock. Here the wind was blowing very hard and cold and the small particles of ice that came with it cut my face and hands so that I could not face it or take off my mittens. Here we found our beds and I also managed to find a can of frozen corn beef which tasted very good while we sat for a short time behind a pile e packed our beds of goods to rest. from this bench to the next. The wind bad now become so strong that R would almost carry me up tbe side. 1 believe It would have been next to Impossible to go down again even the I l tbropgh the snpwand storm to this. camp. -- Before the first few miles were passed tbe drifting snow bad so covered the trail that tbe dogs could not follow It and I had to go ahead and keep the road while Booth looked after the team. Ta find and keep a blind trail we use a long sharp stick and by constant we can tell the hard trail punch!11 1 broke prosa the soft snow at the Bide. (nil that day most of the time on the ruTfor nearly seven miles, through a saow storm so thick that nothing could w.n and the wind howling at our t bsek like a pack of hungry wolvea. At the top el the canyon the wind waa bub the snow- - was drifting tm and the gathering darkness made our trip down tbe gorge rather uncanny. We arrived safe, and well only to find that our tent was not yet up. Two Ututrs nuire at 10 oclock, our regular meal of bacon, beans and bread found a very hearty reception, after which I to bed very tired, of course, afterf nineteen hours of constant exertion but rotatoria ble In the feeling of good health and strength which successful combat with these grand and rugged must give to any one, and mountain not sorry to have seen. this strange lad rd Us elements while at play in ob of. their wildest moods. wisd OUR SMALLER la COLLEOES. A THUS HELPMATE. Maay Baapaota Thajr Ara Data Bat. 4a Work Than tha Largar Oaaa. There are s few striking facts about the small American college, writes Edward W, Bok In the Ladles Home JournaL One striking fact is that 60 per cent of the brainiest Americans who have risen to prominence and success e graduates of colleges whose names are scarcely known outside of their own states. It Is a fact, also, that during the past ten years the majority of the new and best methods of learning have cmairattd from ' the smaller and have been adopted later- -- by the larger ones. Because a college happens to be unknown two hundred miles from the place of its location does not always mean that the college Is not worthy of wider repute, The faet can not be disputed that the most direct teaching, and necessarily the teaching most produc-we- at five of good results, is being done In the smaller American colleges. The names of these colleges may not be the majority of people, but that makes them none the less worthy places of learning. The larger colleges are unquestionably good, But there are smaller colleges just as good, and, in some respects, better. Some of the finest educators we have are attached to the Interior abounds in to the faculties of the smaller instituI trip tions of learning. many such hardships and adventures. Young girls o The safest way to get there Is to cross young men who are being educated atlake Llndeman In February or March, one of the smaller colleges need never feel that the fact of the college being j ybile It is frozen, and stop at Lake ACTUAL PHOTOGRAPHS OF SCENES ATTENDING GOLD EXCITEMENT IN THE KLONDIKE DISTRICT. in-dla- Mr. Charles H. Metcalf, writing from He will locate here for the winter. tMweon City on the Klondyke river, While this town la a wonder at present under recent date, says: and growing fast. I think its Hfe will be Here I find myself at laat la the abort midst of the greatest and most wonderful mining camp the worH-h- w ever ' At Dyea. one Tiuridred miles from seen. Gold le ao plenty that it has to Juneau, --the actual Journey begins and carried about In cotton bag, and this la the most difficult and discourfour or live men are required to pack aging part of the many miles to be and protect the products of many of the Ha versed. --The most favora b le t!m e for claims I have seen the result of one golngjnto the Interior is before the Kay's washing on a claim In Eldorado snow melts from the qtountaina, which creek, and the figure was $ 18.000 for does not occur till the middle of. April, f waive hour work of four meu. This for the abrupt passages and wbat la fclalra was sold less than sis months known aa the "summit" are better acMO for 300. and win produce more complished by hauling1 supplies on Ihan fl.000,000 before the end. of the sleds, while the pass is covered with pear. The escltement Is now so great snow. After leaving Dyea goods must that no one will sell at any pr!cr w be hauled six miles over the Dyea there Is no chance for newcomers In Flats. From this point the route lies Utla Immediate vicinity. The country Is through what is known as the canyon full of prospectors, and every stream where the trail leads up the steep and within a hundred miles Is located and rugged sides of the mountains along kl&Imed from one end to the other. On a timbered shelf overlooking the canlbs big creeks where the gold la found, yon until Sheep Camp la reached, a dig- -, - tamely" Honan za and Eldorado, there tance oriweive miles. Here a rest is ire many men who tried In every way taken to await favorable weather, !o sell their claims for a few hundred which at best Is something terrible dollars last winter but could find no with the thermometer as low as CO to takers. These men are in possession 80 degrees below zero. This stop Is to of great wealth, which is even yet be- prepare one for the summit which is yond their capacity to realise. I could eight miles further up and 3,500 feot tot even attempt to picture this camp high and the most difficult and tedious tor city to you. Thousands of men, part of the Journey. The trail leads up a narrow and precipitous defile to . and women, too, for that matter, are fcer living in tents, or log sheds, or Stone House, another resthouses of boards with cloth roofs, each ing place, wtth a purely Imaginative habitation taking a position to ault name. This place Is at the beginning Itself with no regard for Its neighbor of the more abrupt climb and Is three lor any form of regularity. The sawmill miles from the summit In fact. It Is a running night and day, and men are nothing more nor less than a ledge. pushing about at all times of day and An extract from one of Mr. Metcalfs tUgbt'and buildings of all kinds are letters describing his first trip over the igolng up. Such Is tbs power of gold summit Is Interesting. I had ten men working at the sumthat before cold weather comes In September this wilderness will be a city In mit hauling up goods with a windlass, ifact of many thousand people. I shall which we made, and about 4,000 feet of Iso out to Bonanza creek in a day or rope which I brought for the purpose. two and loot the ground over there. The work had been delayed quite a K doubt, however, If anything can be time by storms, which are very freMon while everybody is In tbt presquent on the mountain, but en Sunent state of excitement. Circle City Is day night last I concluded that the la city ao longer; with one or two exwork was far enough along so that we ceptions all the stores and shops are might break camp the next morning Closed and the entire population has and come to Lake Llndeman. I bad transferred Itself to this new Eldorado, taken the precaution to send over a ach and all full of hope In the great small tent the day before In the event golden handicap. Prospectors are rush- of trouble In getting down on the other ing all over tbs country looking for side, 'but did not expect any. 1 had gold, but nothing of any consequence not been over here up to that time bat has been found outside of the two big the trail was being used constantly and Creeeks I spoke ot A few men will waa hard and well marked. Well, Monbe made rich here, but everybody le day morning came and with It a clear pending money in the most lavish sky and no wind. I waa up at S:30 and lpannftr.and I am getting good prices while Booth- - was- - getting breakfast tor the good T have to sell. You re- had one load of our camp outfit and my member the two dogskin robee that eost dog team ready to start.' Breakfast me 11.50 each, and which I wanted so consisted of fried bacon, cold bread, much to bring a quantity of? Well, I coffee and beans. Boon after 4 oclock old them both yesterday at $10 each, I started for tbs summit; three miles and could sell a hundred more It I had away, up tbs steep mountain side. I them; and this is a fair sample of was early at the foot of the summit trices. We bad no trouble on the or last great rise, which is so steep that river this year, but 1 do not relish everything must go up on mens backs making another trip If I could help It. or by windlass. The angle la so great I dont mind the intensely hard work that one might think the mountain waa o much, but I find the worry and anxi- leaning over and would fall, that way. ety about getting the goods safely over Of course everything is covered with the lakes aj)d river very trying, and many feet of snow. No men were paople tell me I am looking thin. I woyklng yet, ao I left my load to be ar indirectly that Booth (a young taken up when tbe windlass started man Mr, Metealf took with him) it do- - and returned to camp. The round trip very well on my claim. No.' $, on bad taken four hours. Booth had been Isatodoa creek. The weather is very taking down tbe big tent and getting Jiot and will result In much tlckness tb last things ready while I was away. had suffering in this damp marsh. Dr. Breaking a camp takes some time eo Bland has begun buatnesa already, that 10 o'clock found us but just ready and will do exceedingly well 1 feel sure. to start. The sun waa quite warm and of sine mile -- a-- si Wlfs Schama ta Gala Popularity Aauwg Baral Votan. " Great successes often depend upon smali considerations and the wife of a member of congress, a statesman to whom hia constituents are wont to point aa a man of the people whom flattery cannot divert from hla old customs and associations, fully realizes this fact, says the Washington Star. A. school friend who had not seen her since her girlhood surprised and delighted her with a visit not long since. How industrious you are! ed tha-xMt- " ' well-know- n or In what way? I dont know. I suppose It Is fancy work. I know that you used to have a great aversion to plain sewing. .But you must he very diligent indeed to have your work basket In this room, Would" you like to know what I am at work on? Certainly.r You shall see for yourself. Here It Is." And she held up to view a half knit sock of blue yarn. You you dont mean to say that yourHtrasb'and wears things like that?" Oh, no. H3 wouldnt think of wearing them. I have a whole lot that I give away to anybody who will use them. Do you do this for pleasure?" No. It Isnt at all for pleasure. ItS business and I never occupy myself In that way except when It Is absolutely necessary. But I always keep the work handy and whenever one of the old- fashioned rural voters of my husbands district comes to make him a call and you have no Idea how many honor us with that attention I get It out and knit away for dear life. It Is a good deal of bother, but itls worth It, for you really cant Imagine how it plea aer them! Applan Way. By t I CmrrMias far the most celebrated road Brun-duslu- TREE. Years ago a Louslana planter, aptly named Wildeson, went to establish himself on the Rama river in Nicaragua, where he raises bananas and rubber trees with profit A Mr. Drew, who visited him on business, describe his three-stohouse as literally bulll In a tree a sturdy eboe-tre- e sixty-J&re........ feet from, tha ground. ry "At tha second bench I bad hard work to keep my feet at all but man- TgWTMrifihd our beds on a sleigh, gei the dogs in and start for the last climb. I never again expect to see fuch a atom as was raging at the top! Enow was now coming wtth the icy wind and drifts were forming in all the protected places. Tbe noise of the storm was M great that no other sound could 1 The war of contending was magnificent but I felt qulii too insignificant long to be a wltnea and was glad to get away as soon a possible. The decent on this side J very steep but not so long. After leb ting the sleds go down we Just sat dows In the soft snow and slid or droppe4 to the level below, which Is quite a large body of water called Crater Lake supposed to be the site ot an old volcano. It lies far above the timber line and la always frozen. Just at th foot there was very little wind and we stopped for a short time to rest before starting out on tbe long run heard. .. p, q f To get up and down between tb ground and the house an elevator 'll used, so constructed with block and tackle that the person using It raise himself or controls his descent by means of a rope. m, There Is also a chicken-hous- e suspended from a limb Into which th poultry Is collected at night After a Bennett to build boats and wait for tbe day of free picking and strolling, th Ice to break up. The Journey is then feathered bipeds come of themselve respect continued by drifting down a series of to be raised to their roost lakes and down the Yukon river. BeNot a Patient. A good snake story goes with th fore tbe traveler can realize it be is at That the English language has Its tha much talked of and treacherous rest Mr. Drew says: A thing that White Horse Rapids going through struck me curiously was the sight ot limitations sometimes is sometimes which many men have lost their lives. a twelve-fogliding shown with startling distinctness when As soon as the warm weather begins about on tbe ground at the foot'd a foreigner finds It necessary to coin gnats, poisonous flies and mosquitoes tbe tree, climbing over tbe roofs of a word, or give a new meaning to an make life a burden. The stories told the laborers cabins, even entering old world, in order to express an idea. of the numbers and voraciousness of them, and in general making himself A hospital physician, who was making the native mosquitoes are almost In- perfectly at home on the plantation. the rounds of the Institution In th credible. Lieut Schwatka states in hie performance of his regular duties, had Nobodyd think of harming him, visited and prescribed for all the sick report ot a voyage down the Yukon that he has seen mosquitoes in such said the old man to me when I spoke Inmates except one, an Irritable, fretnumbers aa to cloud the sun and ob- to him about the big snake. Hes ful and troublesome young man who struct the vision. Dogs and game have perfectly harmless to any one, and he had arrived only a few hours before, been killed by tbe bites ot mosquitoes; keeps the place clear of mice and and of whose presence tbe doctor had even the huge black bear is not ex- moles that eat tbe roots of my young not been advised. Well, he said, looking at his watch, empt from the pest as tbe continual banana and chocolate trees. Eat chickbites produce Inflammation of the eyes, ens! Never knew him to do such a I believe I have seen all the patients, Still, while theyre little, I have I not? causing blindness. Judging from re- thing. dont temptation in his way, but net Yes, sare, replied the attendant, put asbestos should an mosquito ports coop ot a recent Importation from the other be In the outfit of every miner. Min- keep them in a Snake-tig" side of the ocean, but zare is an iming operations cannot begin until the Ice melts, from June 1st to tbe 15th. patient in ze next room who ees very seek. About the middle of September the sun Meaning of Town Karnes. The meaning of various names of cidrops so low that Ice soon forme and active operations must be discontinued ties is suggested by the discussion conTh. Flight or Bees. until the following season. The season cerning the proper orthography ol Frof. Marey estimates that the wings Is short, yet from June 15 until Aug. 1 Pittsburg, Inasmuch as the h" has a bee vibrate one hundred and nineof o hours out of much to do with It. , Old Paris was the sun shines twenty-twa second, and that such a and during the re- formerly called by its Roman Inhabi- ty times wing-beathe twenty-fou- r, of number should Mudtown. bee & mile & minute. This carry the maining two hours work can be done. tants Lutetla, meaning experiment Accordingly, when a rich claim is found London derives its name from the old was a bee in managed by fastening men sets are of or three two employed fortified hill of the Britons, standing such a way that its wings were free and work goes on continually. where SL Pauls cathedral now is. Dub- to one of them lightly touching Tbe Yukon country Is no place for a lin moans the Black Pool, and Liver- a move, cylinder covered with rotating man without money. Every man who pool the pool of living creatures." smooth, blackened paper. But It has to must work there expect and Rome Is mean to said the croes roads goes been that bees rarely do fly work hard. No credit Is given on a and Berlin Is variously translated as more proved or thirty miles an than twenty mans face. That day Is gone. Mr. meaning the short lake, the free and hour, and any practical bee keeper will before men make open place, Mitchell says-th- at the river Island", and tell unless there are plenty you the marshy spot Pernambuco means of flowersthat, a rush from Michigan to the Klondyke within two miles of his well rememto be would fields. It the mouth of hell," Bombay good hives, the business Is not a success. gold ber that while miners make from $15 boy, while Cairo to a corruption of Bees have been known to fly from an El Kahlrah, the victorious. to $20 a day. It Is at the most for only Ispa- island across seven miles of sea to the and are Is provisions days, han the half of the world; Astrak- mainland, but It was noticed about sixty they were are han the city of the star; about 50 cents an ounce; that there Bagdad, tbs greatly exhausted on their return. ' and Copenhagen 2,000 men existing In shout 150 log garden of justice, the merchants' harbor. huts, and thousands more were exExchange. REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR. pected during the spring and summer most are mails the Infrequent, that and Aa Unfortunate Combination, All men wboknow how to love woand uncertain. Gold le there in abunI am rapid enough and men love horses. Typewriter Id tbe but be difficulty to sure, dance understand business forms all rlght,but Lots of men who arent bigamists Mr. I must admit that I cannot spell. Busigetting it to exceedingly great one wile too many. have Metcalf cannot emphaslre too strongly ness Man You wont do, then, even at hardand and ot women think they want to Lota difficulties dangers tbs the price, I can't spell, either." Invote, when all they want Is a voter. ships of a trip to the interior and dianapolis JournaL : would warn everybody to keep away Drinking may cause a few divorces, unless provided with several hundred The German marine Is only half a hut it causes a lot of engagements. . A womans first attempt to propidollars and clothing and provisions to century old, the first naval officer last for at least one year. having been appointed by King Fred- tiate her husband for bavlng a baby to when she insists that It to the exact erick William ca May 2?, 1847. After wit to everybody wit tmsge of Its father. ot ht wire-nettin- g. ts ' TIIE GOLD FIELDS OF ALASKA THE DIRECT STEAMER ROUTE F ROM SEATTLE TO CIRCLE CITY. The Klondike district, which Is Is British Columbia, lies to the eastward of Fort Cudahy and Fort Reliant The nearest approach by steamer Is CtrcTe City, from which point tbe journey la made overland.) In the old world was the Applan way, the Vlarum Regina, or queen of roads, which at the period of Its greatest extent stretched from Rome to the modern Brindisi, a distance of some 350 miles. As this road was begun In the beginning of the fourth century B. C., says Pearsons "Weekly, and formed the great highway from Rome to the south for several centuries, it must therefore have been connected With, apd often have been, the scene of most of the great events of the Roman empire, which for a long period would deserve to be called the great events of the world. It would have witnessed the departure of the armies which set forth to conquer the domains of Alexander and the Pharaohs. Julius Caesar passed along it to the first Alexandrine war, which was to result in his own temporary conquest by the charms of Cleopatra. Later on Marc Antony traversed It to lose. the .world, for .the same woman.-- It witnessed, too, the triumphs of the returning generals who had led the liginws at llMBto4ksMsnt of halt the known world, and over Its well-wo- rn pavements the unhappy Zenoila, perhaps the most pathetic figure in history, was led to grace the triumph of her conqueror, Aurellan. But the pageants of which the Applan way has been the scene might be multiplied almost indefinitely and It Is certain that there Is no road In the ancient or modern world to compare with It In this |
