THE GOLDEN KLONDIKE.

Waikato Argus, Volume IV, Issue 287, 12 May 1898, Page 4

THE GOLDEN KLONDIKE.

AN ENORMOUS RUSH OF GOLDSEEKERS GOING IN. SOUND ADVICE FROM AN INHABITANT. In the rush towards the golden fields of the Kloudike, there are thousands who are ill-fitted to stand the strain of hardship and exposure, which are inseparable from that trip. Illness, disease, and death is almost certain to claim many of the ill-prepared adventurers. The following letter from one who has undergone the hardships of the trip, will prove interesting to those who intend going into the desolate but gold-laden north : Skagway, March Ist, IS9S Dear Sirs, —My object in writing this letter is to give a word of advice to those who contemplate going to the Yukon Goldfields. For ten years I have followed the occupation of prospecting, timberestimating and mining, and the hardships and privations which one has to unclergo, are enough to wreck the strongest constitution. In the spring of 1897 I was stricken with pleurisy, as the result of exposure. I recovered from this, but it left behind the seeds of disease which manifested themselves in the form of heart and kidney troubles. I managed to reach Vancouver, but did not have much hopes of recovering. I was advised, however, to give Dr. Williams' Pink Pills a trial and at first purchased but two boxes. Before these were gone I found beyond a doubt that they were helping me, and their continued use " put me oil my feet again," to use a common expression. I then engaged to go to the Yukon country, and only those who have made the trip to Dawson City can form even the faintest conception of the hardships that have to be borne in making the jouruey. Before starting I added to my outfit two dozen boxes of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills and I can honestly say no part of my kit proved of sueh invaluable service to me, aud I would strongly urge every man who goes in, to take a supply with him, as he will find the need of such a tonic and upbuilder of the system on many occasions. I went in and returned to this place by the Dalton trail, which consists of 350 miles of old Indian trail, starting at Pyramid Harbour. In going over the trail one has at times to wade through mud more than a foot deep, and ford streams waist-deep in ice-cold waters. When I started for the Yukon my weight was only 149 pounds, aud I now weigh 169 pounds, thanks to Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. I am soon starting for another trip to Dawson by the same route. This time, however, the travelling will be on snowthocs, and you may depend upon it Dr, Williams' Pink Pills will again form part ot my outfit. I write this letter for the twofold purpose of letting you know what your medicine has done for me, and urging those who go in to take a supply with them. Every man, whether he is sick or well, who undertakes the trip to the Yukon will require something to brace him aud keep his constitution sound in that country. I may say that my home is at Copper Cliff, Ont, where n.y wife now resides. Yours verv truly, JOHN PICHE. A remarkable efficacy in curing diseases arising from an impoverished condition of the blood or an impairment of the nervous system, such as rheumatism, neuralgia, partial paralysis, locomotor ataxia, St. Vitus' dance, nervous headache, nervous prostration, and the tired feeling therefrom, the after-effects of la grippe, influenza, deDgue fever, and severe colds, diseases depending on humors in the blood, such as scrofula, chronic erysipelas, etc., is possessed by Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People, which give a healthy glow to pih and sallow complexions. They are a specific for the troubles peculiar to the female system, and in the case of men they effect a radical cure in all eases arisiog from mental worry, over-work, and ex cesses of any nature. A trial of this remedy will convince the most sceptiial. The genuine Dr. Williams' Pink Pills are sold only in wooden boxes, about two inches in length, each of which is encircled by a blue warning label. The outside wrapper has the full name, Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People, printed in red. In case of doubt it is better to send direct to the Dr. Williams' Medicine Company, Wellington, N.Z., enclosing the price, 3s <\, box, or six boxes for 16a 6d. These pills are not a purgative, and they contain nothing that could injure the most delicate.