FOR KLONDIKE MINERS. ALASKA. A Special Ageat's Mission im Norway:-How They Arrive-~Freighting With Reindeer. ** Dr, Sheldon Jackson is now way as the special agent of the War Department with power to purchase HO reindeer, which the government will use in forwarding supplies destitute miners in the Klondike Wm. J. Kjellman, superintendent the government reindeer herd in Alas- ka, preceded Jackson to selected the animals and the proposed expedition. IL.ieut of the army, military secretary to Sec- retary Alger, accompanied Dr as far as London and has arranged for the transportation of the herd of rein- deer to New York, for which purpose has chartered a steamer The arrangements for the transpor- tation reindeer, the sleds and drivers, will be most difficult and expensive, si the Washington Star. A large supply of Arctic arried for fodder for the § he of the harness, Moss our- must be ( as well as for across the ocean, overland to Seatt Dyea. A land from Dyea a moss gre he ney le and ain i€¢ Anda again day's journey that water Lo { caribou of that region it is conceded that reindeer on caribou. the reine can be mad » allow the Dyea any food that is good The fect a shor before from Fhe War repetition of winter, or they in the spring bility, he ‘here is a horrid they [OO T i ver, th ma: the owe at 0 be slaughtered for in dike thing th od and the orders authoris Case ey return s sion of huma will they rady establishe A be imported v 1« 1 IA8K4a, exclusive of teres tin reg n Lapland, + ts of Finland and the Kola re about I al ines in herds of 000 Jd are ali eighting iy separate animals, and is landers traffic t) and the coast are eng between the foot is planted, so that the are equally useful for traveling or in mud The sieds of light, thin wood, In much of the forward f a decked cver fc their length From 300 to pounds freight make a sled load, and ten make a team ded and one Bach sled is drawn by Now haf Yurvtst Sure th r about two-tt at fntal ¥ rut . otal Ol out sever f aert si) nine loa the driver refndec r, whose harness c« rawhide thong about the neck. single trace running between the fore tegs and to one side of the hind je =0 that the animal pulls a hit ways and does not into his tracks twice, as it if it pulled straight ahead. The ariver, who rides no the first sled, drives with reins tied his steed’s horns The ani- mals are tethered each to the rear of the sled ahead of it. Dr. Jackson will only buy ¥% reindeer also their harness and sleds. and hire the services of 50 drivers who } 1 will be wcorapanied by their families £9 gide step OW1 wold vo $3 - oLneY not but will Japanese Theatres. will interest many to learn that Japanese laws mow prohibit a heatrical pérformance lasting more eight hours. The ‘plays in the clagg theaters begin at ten or elev. and are not ended until after sun- There are intervals, of course, for refreshments, and a recent innova- tion is a theater vard for exercise, lined with eating booths and fancy stalls Boxes are secured three or four days in advance from a neighboring tea- house, where arrangements are made for refreshments and attendance ing the diy. [Full dress is never worn, The following articles, unless other- wise ordered, are brought to each pat- on: A programme, a enshion, a tobacs co fire LOX, a pot of tea, cakes, fruit, and sunshi, a sort of rice dumpling flavored wilh vinegar and topped with i piece of'fish. Valuables may be left it the ted-house, and the inclusive harge, oXcepting the waiter's tip. ia not more than 90 cents a head. The gallery is the most aristoeratic place, but the place unreserved occupied by the o. se0, ‘the deaf gallery.” Co —————- so Water Drinking. When it is considered that tae body is made up very largely of water it can readily be understood how important to health is a constant supply of this fluid. Many people have an idea that the drinking of water in any amount beyond that actually necessary (o quench the thirst is injurious, and act- ing on this bellef they endeavor to drink as little as possible. The no- tion, however, \8 wide of the truth, | Drinking freely of pure water {3 a most Toa fous means not only of | preserving the health, but often of re. | etoring life when failing. All the .ssues of the body neel water, and water in abundance [8 nec- | essary also for the proper performance | of every vital function. Cleanliness of the tissues within the body is as nec- essary to health and comfort as olean- linesss of the skin, and water tends to Insure the one as truly as it does the other. It dissolves the waste ma- terial, which would otherwise collect in the body, and removes it in the va- | rious excretions. These waste materials are often ac- ual poisons, and many a headachs, | many rheumatic pains and sleepless nights and listless many attacks of the solely to the circulation aches, days and are due the blood or deposit in the tissues of these waste be got rid of ent supply of Dives in {| materials, which cannot of insuffic because an water Water is accused of makin people with a tenden it for that reason ictly true. It weight r fat and g fat na y 10 But avoid this is does undoubtedly not str i but it does the digestion he food eaten i and hat we call 1 i health 1} CANINE CONSTABULARY. A Force of Bloodhounds Seat Su at Every County gzested. have heen nere iame ones that 'r near Hub ! Y Oar, rdga urvi he tramp who ran down E Flagman on a Coast about shot train two anywhera ith ass paid for paid | demand for from neighboring on of countis their and regarded as a useful police t | MED heretofore, proves in every coun be as usein: The moat tegtimony to their value statement as to the effect of their ap- sarance in reducing 0 mere i having these trailers on hand is been a great thing for as shown by the marked de. the number neendiarism other serious jodger crimes. A similar equipment should a great thing for other towns or counties for the sams reason, and when itd small cr strange that every vided with one —~Charleston News and Courier important ¥ $ fn *ha is nth however, afforded p crime. TI fact of we are tol Florence, crease in glary and i nothing of cases of bur- alone or of to sav be N.C) iet of Stout Persons. i It is a mistake for the stout person to refuse to eat fat. Starches and su- gars, represented in such vegetabls foods as bread, rice, tapioca and the like are fat formers. The living body has a power of making fat out of that i which is not fat. directly. at least, to make fat in the usable addition to the diet of a | pitlent person because it has a power CO | food excess. In more than one syster: | of body reduction fat is, therefore, ad. | ministered as an essential part and | parcel of the diet cure, How a Fish Swims. | The tail of the fish is bis sculling oar. He moves it first on one side and then the other, using his fins as bal. ances to guide his motion. If the fish is moving fast and wants to stop, he straightens out bia fins just as a row. er of a boat does his oars. EARTH. TO BE PLACED ON ROMER SHOALS, NEW YORK HARBOR. Eorty-nine Feet Long, Sixteen Inches Calibre and Throws a 2,500 Pound Projectile Six- teen Miles-~No Armor Able to Resist IL Unless some unforeseen accident oc- curs the largest cannon in the world will be in the possession of the United States Government early this spring. Advices received at the Army building in Whitehall Street from the Bethle- hem, Penn., Iron Works, were to the effect that this great weapon is to be completed by that time, The gun is dve feet longer and six tons heavier than the gun exhibited by Krupp of Germany at the Columbian Exposition, { hitherto considered the heaviest plece of ordnance ever manufactured. American gun is to weigh 120 tons and be § 1 length In a ver tical line through its the gun will be glx feet in diameter When completed the gun is tc be part of the new system of fortifications to protect Greater New York, b Romer Shoals in the for this two ‘he orty-nine feet ir breech eing located ywer bay were of and upon The plans gun pleted nearly makers have more than a year Years ago, been at work John Meigs, for- utenant in the United E. L. Zalinski, who 1 the | A 1 i lie States meriy a Navy, tired matic and Capt the re officer aynamite ling t The inspection of the the Gover t. Ira MeN invente pneu gun, have been super ’ yf the n inte he construction « weap. { on the work for made by C td States Or progress ol nment has ap dnant tiemen have work down They are sanguin gel afloat that a can de sides man w where the every SO po weight afloat in diameter n of granite and through the sand on the gneiss rock that to stand twenty-five feet above Romer lies it Shoals It the su Thy $0 that a rain under of the bay at high water roof is t egr-abaped, of projectiles fre glance from it guarded agninst by water barricades The gun's range is to command all the channels of the harbor, and, supplemented by twenty 1 and 12 inch rifles at Fort Hamilton fifteen more at Fort Wadsworth, forty rifled mortars Plum Island and twenty mortars and twenty-iwo guns Sandy Hook, it is likely to give any unwelcome visitor that tries to get In. a reception that will be York Commer- fax " 0 be m a hostile fleet would 1 rpedoes are to of be a series unde; at At to the harbor, ome cial historical. New Advertiser The Bulgarians. Since 1877 the country has been at a few trifling frontier disturbansces.and a generationof young men hag grown up who never have seen a shol dred in anger. Mora over, the old cause of anger against the Turks has been removed, for it is no longer Turkish soil that Monteno- gro covets. Yet the old men who stride up and down the street of Cet. tinje in gorgeous raiment, their silken belts bristling with pistol and knife, still talk of nothing but the good oid times when the man who wanted money or arms had only to cross the frontier into Albania and take them: and they stiii pray that they may have a chance of striking another blow, All the men, young and old, are or- peace, save for consists of the pistol and the red cap bearing tho Prince's initial. For ths viz.: a tight red or grenn jacket, cun- ningly embroidered by an Albanian tailor and often adorned with gold buttons, loose blue knickerbockery, white gaiters and sheepskin sandals and a bright silk sash wound round and round the waist to support the leather cartridge bag, the pistol and the yataghan; over all, for full dress, a long tunic of white or green, and in wet or cold weather a narrow plaid thrown acroas the shoulders. A man los on a journey always carriep hia | rite as well, slung across his back: but times have changed since a man living on the frontier never left his house for work or play Without his loaded musket, —lLongman's Magagl ne, i | How Ost Russlan Immigrant Became an | American, The fourth stage of the Dakota set tler's progress, which I saw reached bs {but one man, and he had been in this country seven years, is the frame-house stage. The old-timer who has gained this heighth of prosperity lives in Mer- cer County, which is almost wholly set tiled by his neat dwel Russians, and on crest of the the Misgour! and commanding a glori in every d hundred ground floor, stands i water shed Big Knife rivers ous view of This Ces between miles own land such i twenty lx all rection and is upland farmers, having | of the Red wheat-region river man of which American the rich val and deemed u could it be pr forty a of prairie mind James, had in leys othe; rt for cultivation Noi op erly cultivated methods: but ig 1807 with thelr extravagan tussian owner put one hundred and sixty acre into wheat that eighteen . 1 msl § to ise more int and igent shepherd woodhouse ar i n (io The sum two ming with mons obeyed, and in Mr. Conover hat, but it #80 he told bring th time Was presented one he wa back it was was not the nt the another GUE 10 Lake i one, deseribing 8 take was made n RO ana fiel fi then said started long master th y satisfying been oO} had News orders ed { (Ky Romance of a Girl's Hair. Some jittle while AZO a a magnilicent specimen of human halr was exhibite New York #8 silk, rich color, weighing seven ounces, anid than five feet four inches it its own intrinsic beauty would enough gocure it an the attached to doubly interesting It came head a Swabian peasant girl, who had lovers, the a poor peasant earning small week] wage, and the other a rich miller. I'he latter owned the cottage in which th girl and her widowed mother lived, and, being as mean and unscrupulous he was wealthy, he threatened to drive out his tenants unless the gir! married him, although he had alread: received part payment for the cottage, and they were working hard pay off the rest of their debt. Before he had time to carry out his threat, hap- pily a deliverance came to the villag in the person of an itinerant hair dea! er. To him, therefore, went the dis- tressed damsel, sold her magnificent hair and put herself and her mother ; cut of the power of the hated suitor Her tresses were taken to the annual fair at Leipsic and there sold to an American dealer, ft in sO f HOW? n ig lous length Fave been to in terest, but made it from the Or y of two one a as fo — i — Jealous Prince Edward Prince Edward, the Duke of York's ‘eldest son, does not approve of his new brother. The Duke of York, with his {usual kindness, invited the servasts (from Sandringham to York Cottage to see the new baby, but when the nugee brought it in Prince Edward was very {indignant at the attention bestowed up- on it, and kept saying, “Take it away: take it away.” a —— A In Scotland the last day of the year, or New Year's eve, lu called Hog- manay. ] | | i | i i i i i f ITEMS OF INTEREST ON AGRICULTURAL TOPICS. Recping (rade Fowls- Foot Rot In Sheep Necessary Aplary Equipments-~Tuberosecs Easily Grown -Etc., Fic. KEEPING GRADE FOWLE The grade fow] is } ie all right for poul (eepers who keep fowls egre or | sale w trying 0 try 1071 for as poultry, thout to fai } ve depended upon gale alive and off grade can never the grade every roosters should be killed year, and only the pullets kept the | or the ¢ 1 0 repienisn ane wm which k fill veel 00) ¢ + Khon introan FOOT RO # of door Never SAY water oil be first of io a whicl fertilized with well-decayed cow moi there will few About t} {O00 wel SOMs i rans. plant sunny spot been fine blossoms the When # iO a trip some- | them | SOW | with § a per- fo secu rich and stalks strong support with a soft clot 101 in "ad ti WH hel Shoul re mellow appear, ti narrow n and 11 canst nights Cover fimes weight tO Bieak gd the fiowe; are light before they which on COO! newspapers ang f : protect if fo May April to three weeks house growih set the bulbs in f bloom at intervals of from two Fill six-inch pots with one part of sand, mold, old } cow manure and good garden soil. | Treat as directed above, sheltering from the intense rays of the sun and keeping in mind the caution regarding watering (00 freely The pote may be kept on a sheltered piazza if preferred Water about once a week with liquid manure Should tha green aphis ap- pear spray with soapsuds a very weak solution of carbolic acid The tuberose {8 a charming plant, with flowers of waxen while and subtle, delicate, though heavy perfume American Agriculturist ' for succession « from | to Juns : each leaf of DEEP, OR SHALLOW PLOWING. On the western plains, or that por- tion oo. them composed of what is known as the Loess formation, it ig a matter of seemingly little difference what portion of the soll is turned upon the surface to form the seed bed, writes J. J. Bdgerton, of Iowa. Soil from many feet down incidentally removed in digging wells, seems to furnish a congenial home for vegetation bee fore it has gone through any process of disintegration after coming to the wirface. But with the average soils such is not the case. Usually that brought up from many inches surface must be exposed to the air for several bedore it will have decomposed for plants to take kindly below the years sufficiently fg ! ‘ot. It is due to this principle that pad results often follow deep plowing. When it Is desired decompose the deeper soll more rapidly introduce matter and underdrain where necessary This iz a better plan turning it u he to thereby necessit the : nt to more vegev: ble Pp surface an f nt ating i of that 1 al of ! Lenney of the Ontario © Ga When Seo A i have de- ris surface 18 can get ’ +f of their t of 10 en i $ bis and at is lone just ie E2004 usually gquealiers ng sows better for studying quarters take ad- wisdom of wisdom however BOW first Hs can provide better furnishes Tan vantage of the nstinclive rood s and also of the point the brood upon one man, by natu: inexorable; heating food the ig to Invite 3 4 ire & fed as milk pigs. The waler-—dish can be little bran day add a bran a little corn should 8 Wook There iz no trouble in giving bran or shorts, or ground rye or barley, in the form of slop. In wards, the brood with a young litter of be fod 1 milk and not It should remem bered that first three the sys- tem ie feverish and that in no fever is there any appetite, and therefore to encourage a sow to eat food sech as corn ig simply inviting disaster Never give sour milk to the brood sow with a young litter of pigs. Teo do so is to invite scouring and ruin the prospects of the litter. When the pigs are two or three weeks old there is not much trouble in developing them right along, providing there is no disease to interfere with feeding operations. The difficult thing is to {ead properly dur ing pregnancy and the first two weeks after the litter comes into the world There hag been no time in the Siate when it was so important to look after these matters Farmers’ Guide. n—“—" Ow a ag good a as The next day third little th the fourth day added, but the sow rn for othe; sOwW saouid on ment ¢ or for be days the dd HA The luckiest lad in Toroato is Caw. thra Mulock, aged thirteen. He had the good fortune to come inte the world as the grandoephow of Mrs. Caw. thea, a wealthy widow. She has just died, and left him an efiate worth £4.000,000,
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