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l’lllfigllf SHARES TO BE ADVANCED AUGUST 3!. 5898.
Mr. Joseph Ladue, the pioneer of
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Dawson City, aided by some of the most Conservative and successful finan-
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T: mining and trading-in-the Yukon gold ficlfis. ' ' ‘
,, , -~To this Conipanyhe‘has transferred placer claims on Hunker and
.1. Gold BottomvCreeks, the “Marguerite" Quartz Mine, his Saw Mill,
his Timber Lease, that virtually 'monopolizes the saw timber on the
Klondike,~and large holdings‘ol' Choice Town Lots in Dawson City.
. The Company also owns the S. S. "“ Morgan City “ now earning $20,000 per
,-_month,.and has-shipped up-th'e Yukon several hundred tons of merchandise,
.._"’_'for trade,,upon which a very large profit is» assured-
The U. S. Government
reports certify that the saw mill produces about two million feet of lumber
- : in the open season, sales price of which is from 5,140 to $240 per 1,000 feet
according to class.
Common Stock,
CAPITAL OF THE COMPANY.
Preferred Stock, 67; cumulative,
51.000.660
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Total Capital, par value, Sit) per share, 55,000,000
_ g The preferred stock has a first lien on earnings for its dividend,
and on the assets of the Company for its par value, and after all the
stock of the Company has received 6 per cent, the surplus earnings are
44.
{3 shared pro rata by the preferred and common stock.
Thus the preferred stock practically offers the safeguards; and advantages
of a first mortgage bond, coupled withan earning capacity as great as that of
the common stock.
The undersigned has obtained a short option on a bi; cl; or’ this preferred
stock which he now offers at par, $10.00 per share.
This option terminates
‘August grst, 1898, after which the price of the preferred stock will be -
advanced by the Company to $2.50 per share. ‘
This is the last opportunity
order subscriptions are received.
to get the preferred stock at par, and
in time to part1c1pate m the autumn dividend.
blaal‘ts will be alloted in the
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The Tailor Made Gown.
The new tailor made gowns are very
feminine in appearance. The extreme
mannish effect has almost completely
disappeared and only the style and
newness of cut remain to mark the old
departure. ‘
A smart gown of dark green cloth
has the skirt made perfectly plain with
the seams stitched. The jacket is a
natty affair opening at the top over a
yokeof finely tucked green taffeta and
turning back with two small revere.
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The lower part of the jacket is tight
fitting and meets ‘in the: center, orna-
mented at the top with fancy cut steel
buttons. The sleeves are close fitting.
Howa to Test, the "-1.0ven. ,
There are many methods of ascer-
taining the temperature othhe oven
without a thermometer; and the follow-
ing, which was always resorted to by a
very celebrated French cook. is cer-
tainly a reliable one. Put half a sheet
of white kitchen paper on‘the shelf of
the'oven on which the cake is to be
placed, and shut the door. If at the
end of five minutes the paper is char-
red, the heat is too great. Cool the
oven" by leaving the door a little way
open for a minute or two, and then
test again with another sheet of paper.
If it is dark brown after being in for
five minutes, the oven is right for bak—
ing small pastries and thin cakes. The
temperature a few degrees below this-
tested by a. piece of paper turning a
light brown—will be suitable for bak-
ing ordinary pound-cakes, pie-crusts,
&c. When'the paper turns only a
dark yellow the heat is suitable for
pastry, spongeecake mixtures, and
'meringues. '
Colored Statues. -
Tinted statues are among the latest
things in the French artistic world.
This is not, however, nearly so original
as it appears at. first sight, for excava-
tions in the Acropolis at Athens have
proved the fact that the Greeks em-'
' ployed color in the treatment of mar-
ble, just call; has always been known
that they used gold for the adornment
‘ of the statues of the Olympian deities.
The .modern 'French practice is,
.therefore,”unquestionably a return to
the ideas of the pastmasters of the
higher form of art. It does not. how-
ever, by any means commend itself to
a. great number of modern sculptors,
who regard the purity of the white col;
.or of the marble as essential to the
production of the effect intended by
the artist, and though here and there
specimens may be found in our gal-
leries, the custom is unlikely to have
a very extended practice.
A Ridiculous Fashion.
The ridiculous fashion of making the
edge of the dress skirt on the front and
sides an inch or two longer than the
height of the wearer grows apace. The
, train at the back is worrying, but it is
quite possible to lift it with grace and
keep it from the dust. It is not so easy
to dispose of undue length in front. To
avoid an embarrassing stumble every
now and then, a certain very upright
mode of gait is imperative—well
enough in a school, but rather prim
and stiff in a physical-culture promen-
ade, forthe perpendicular has to be
overdone in a mastic.- which in no way
tends to grace of movement.
Cremation in Norway.
The Norwegian Parliament has pass-
ed a law dealing with cremation. Ac-
cording to the Act, every person over
fifteen years of age can be cremated
after death, if‘ he or she has made a
declaration in the presence of two wit.
nesses. For those under fifteen a dec-
laration on the part of the parents is
necessary. The police, the medical
registrar, and the doctors in attendance
on the deceased have also to furnish
written testimony as to theacause ,of
death before a body can be incinerat-
ed.
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Corn Gems.
It IS, perhaps, not generally known
that gems‘may be made from fresh
sweet corn as well as from Graham
flour or corn meal. To the grated pulp
of about three ears of corn, a cup of
milk, two eggs, well beaten, a little
salt, and a cup and a half of flour may
be added. The mixture is baked in
gem-pans for. half au-;hour.‘~
The greatest distance that a shot has
been fired is a few rods over 15 miles,
which was the range of Krupp’s well-
known monster 130-ton steel gun, firing
a shot which weighs over a “ton anda
- quarter.
firing line to hear the
SHE WAS AT THE FRONT. ‘
Elsie Reasoner Followed Shatter to See
-What War “'11:: Like.
To a bright and Winsome miss of
twenty years fresh from the Sunflow-
er State belongs tho distinction of
having been‘ the only Amzflican girl
to follow the boys in blue to Cuba and
to make her way to the front against
many obstacles and by her own exer-
tions. Elsie Reasoner Is the name of
this plucky little heroine. From her
picture. one gets the impression that
she is somewhat older and taller than
she really is.
Miss Reasoner was born in Kansas,
in the midst of daisies and sunflowers,
and is a splendid example of the
bright, cheery, breezy, self-reliant girl
of the Western prairie. She writes
well and she talks well, inheriting
these talents, perhaps, from her fath-
er, Judge Calviii Reasoner, at one time
a prominent editorial writer of Leav-
enworth and later connected with the
Chicago press.
When the Spanish-American war
broke out Miss Reasoner was at Oma-
ha in charge of the Bureau of Public-
ity at the exposition. VVlth the first
sound of the bugle she was astir, and
determined to go to Cuba to see for
herself what a real campaign and a
real battle were like.
In telling of her expoits she said: “I
first sought some encouragement from
publishers, but got little. You see,
hardly any one thought it possible that
I would ever reach the scene of the
conflict, and most of my friends and
acquaintances who knew of my inten-
tion either laughed at me or tried to
frighten me. One publisher,
whose magazine I thought I might
write an interesting article descriroive
of my experiences, wrote me that my
proposed undertaking was ‘positively
absurd and foolhardy.’ However, I
persevered, and in due time sailed
from New York to Kingston, bearing
lic men.
“I had one to General Miles, one to
General Shatter, and several to officers
of the fleet, from Admiral Sampson
down to captains of the fighting ships.
“I saw some lively skirmishes, and
was near enough to the front and the
music of the
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Mausers and the crack of the rifles
our boys carried. I was near enough
to see some of the horrors of war,
and to realize that General Sherman
had it about right. I got just as near
to the thick of the fight as the com.
manding ofiicer would permit me to
go.
“I did not see the great 'hero, ‘Teddy’
Roosevelt. I missed that pleasure, but
I did see many of his troopers, some
of them dead and others wounded.
And that reminds me, here is a picture
I took of a Spaniard lying dead on the
field. He was a sharpshooter, and.
from his perch in a. mango tree, had
been picking off some of Roosevelt’s
men. A big, burly negro cavalryman
finally located the Spaniard, and
brought him down, badly wounded.
Without looking to see whether he
was dead or alive the enraged negro
raised his rifle and battered the sharp-
shooter over the head until he was
dead. There he is, just as he lay when
I pasSed the place. You see I got an
xcellent picture of him.
"Oh, yes; I saw funny things, too. I
saw a Cuban sell a horse for half. of
a pineapple and a piece of tobacco.
‘_‘I saw six-footers of the Michigan
volunteers, who had fought Spaniards
almost hand to hand, run like deer
from under siZed land crabs.
“I saw General Shaffer—three hun-
dred and seventy odd p0unds—riding a
dimunitive Cuban horse.
“Two things most impressed me, one
quite as much as the other. First, the
deplorable mismanagement of the
transportation and commissary do:
partments, and, second, the wonderful
cheerfulness of the soldiers amid
great hardships and sufferings; I nev-
er saw such a body of' splendid fol
lows, and have no idea I shall ever sec
the like again. Why, I Saw young men
in some of those field hospitals? des-
perately wounded who were cracking
jokes with one another. I
ing their way to the rear for treat-
ment, whose only complaint was of
their hard luck in being hit so early
in the fight. So far as I could judge
the mismanagement of the Santiago
campaign on land was something aw-
ful; the bravery and cheerfulneSS of.
the rank and file were something glor—
lous.”
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wife do much fancy
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work?”
“Fancy work? She: won’t even let a.
porous plaster come
without crocheting a red border round
it and r inning a yellow ribbon through
the holes.”
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133' BIRDS OF PEACE [NWAFL
Inn!“ 11 min: Pigeon ls Used to Ben
' Messages from Our \Varships.
A series of most interesting experi-
ments has been made during the past
five 'or six years with the pigeons at
the Naval Academy. There has been
no appropriation for this work; and
the loft has been conducted by private
contributions from officers at the .Na-
val Academy, and has been managed
entirely by Several ofllcers and profes-
sors at Annapolis, who have given
over their time and their labor in the
hope or convincing the people at Wash-
ington of the desirability of the ser.
vice. i Prof. Marlon, an instructor in
French at the Naval Academy, who has
studied the habitsof homing pigeons
most carefully, has had most to do
with this work, and to him perhaps
the greatest credit ls'due for the ulti-
mate success 'of the Scheme. ‘Lieut.
Austin M. Knight, United States Navy",
and Edward W. Eberle'have also de-
voted SOme time and attention to the
question, and have published papers
In the proceedings of the Naval. In-
stitute Which have called the matter
to the attention or the officers in the
service, most of whom have thr0ugh
this means been shown the value of
the plan. During last Summer 18 pig-
eons made a total of 110 flights.
Lieutenant Knight writes concerning
them: ' ’ ,
"Let us consider the case of a fleet
entrusted with the defense of that part
of our coast from Block ISland to the
capes of the Delaware. Whatever po-
sition might be taken-up by.such .a
fleet, there would be thrown out many
miles beyond ltva line of-light, swift
vessels as scouts, and upon the rapid-
ity with which these vessels could
gcommunlcate with the inner line and
splendid letters of recommendation j
from quite a number of influential pub-
wlth the shore would depend,‘ in a
large measure, the success of the deb
tense. Suppose a vessel of- this outer
line to discover an enemy's fleet stand- ;
ing to the westward; she would hasten
toward the squadron of defense or to-‘ ‘l
ward the nearest point.- of the coast .
from which it might be-possible to
communicate with the squadron with
Washington and with the cities threat— ‘;
ened, and if not overtaken by the
enemy'scrulser or by a shell from a
battleship, and if she did not break,
down, she wouldultlmately communi-
cate the fact that at a certain time-
already long past—the enemy's beer,
of unknown strength, was standing in
from some unknown point on the
coast. Let us suppose now, that in-
stead of hastening off herself she could
dispatch a number of pigeonsrrwith‘
the certainty that they would carry
the news quite as sureln as she could
carry it, and far more quickly; and
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SUPERSTITION. 0F ACTORS.
They Bank Next to Sailors in Adherfis.
To Signs.
Next to sailors, stage folk are prob}
ably {he most superstitious peoplei
the world. Not only are there nume '-
ous curious beliefs that have gener
vogue in the profession, but almoSt
every actor and actress of note has me
or her’pet superstition. Very few aet-
resses will wear Opals. “An opal will
kill the best piece ever put on tfib
boards,” once remarked a well know
actress. To' quote any' 'lines from
Macbeth in the theater, save; when the
tragedy itself is beingplaye'd, is sup,-
posed to bring bad luck, and for the
same reason the- “tag" of a play is
never spoken at rehearsal. Mrs. Les-
lie Carter, it is said, refuses to go on
the stage without a four—leaf clover
pin, which she has worn for many,
years. During the belfry 'scene, whey
“The Heart of Marylan ” was run;
nlng in New York, it becameunfa'b'
tened and dropped on the. stage. She
did not miSs it until she reached hei-
hotel. Then she drove straight back
to the theater and asked excitedlyto
have a. search made for it. Great West
her rejoiCing when an gentlemgn who
had picked it up pulled item of, his
pocket and handed it'to her; Many;
of the Italian ballet girls, when trav-
elling, take with them a piece of
bread from their last, meal in their
native land, tied in a. rag and worn
as a. charm. It is their belief that, so
long as they wear this, they will never
be in want of food—Woman.
DENTISTSY IN ZOOLAND.
“Toothache‘il Just tiethat end to the
diseased member and ‘I’ll fasten a stone
to the other.” '
that then, holding the enemy invlew, . ' 2‘"
she could follow his movements, and
from time to time send off new mes-
sengers with particulars of ’ his
strength, his course, and his appar-
ent intentions. It is not, difficult to
see the immense value of a. system
which promises the possibility'of such
service as this." ‘ ’ '
In view of these facts'lt will be ln-’
teresting to note some of the over-wa-
ter possibilities of the homing-pigeons.
They have been taught to regard a
ship as their home, and thus their ser-
vices can be utilized both ways; but‘
their greatest usefulness for naval pur-4
poses will be the carrying of messages
from ships to the shore. The dis-
tance one of these birds will fly over
the water to the land is still uncer-
tain; but it is thought to be about
one hundred and fifty miles. During
a series of experiments one bird was ,
kept over three weeks in confinement
on board a. ship, and when liberated
was some two hundred miles from its
cote; yet it returned in good time and
condition. This last was an import-
ant experiment, inasmuch as it showed
that homing-pigeons can be kept on
board a ship for several weeks at a
time; and yet retain their strength of
wing and ability to find their way
home. During the experiment very
few birds were lost, which establishes -
the practical certainty of their mes-
senger service.
In speed they are excelled only by
the telegraph and" the telephone. One
hundred and fifty-one statute miles
have been madein three hours and
fifty mlnutes. In Belgium one bird
covered a distance of five hundred and
fifteen miles at the rate of over seven-
ty miles an' hour. The average speed,
however, is much lower than this; for-
ty-five miles an} hour, for short dis-‘
tances, being usually considered good
time. '
_ The messages are fastened to the
leg cf the bird or tied lengthways un-
derneath-the tail feathers. V
During the siege oflParis, 1870-71, as'
many. as forty thousand messages were
safely borne into the city by a single.
pigeon at one journey. When the
messages reached their, destination
they, were enlarged by photography
and read.- - ~ , - - . ,
The ability of the pigeon to find its
way home is, commonly supposedto be}
due to instinct. .' This is only partly
true, for the greater part of this hom-
ing faculty is developed by' careful
training. What the bird is about
three or four months old and has be«
come thoroughly familiar with its
home, it is taken a mile from the cote
and "tossed." The next time itrwill‘
be taken about three miles. The air;
ferent training stages 'are'usually one,-
three, six, twelve, twenty-one, thirty-;
five, fifty, seventy-five and on’e-huni
cred miles from the bird’s. home-{'1 At;
the'end of three years careful'trai‘nlng'~
a bird-can be “tossed“ flve:hundred
miles from its native cotewlthxsome:
prospect of its finding its way back.
Hewever, only about one bird out of
fifty can be trained to return home
from a distance of five hundred miles."t -
. :‘ ETVZI 49. .‘ 5.. FRET; .
“Now I'll just chuck the, smile over ’
the limb and outgoes'your‘ tborh.” '
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“I reckon it’s good as out now.”
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