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POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY. 



it may be doubted if profits arising from it will ever equal what has 

 been attained in millinery and the sale of fancy dress goods. One of 

 the earliest milliners to come out of Dawson told me at Bennett 

 that she had disposed of a hat which brought her two hundred and 

 eighty dollars (in April, 1898), and its only ornamentation was two 



black ostrich feathers! Such prices are to-day a thing away in the 

 past, but fur capes or circulars are still marketable for three hundred 

 dollars and upward. 



Toward a more intimate acquaintance with the methods and lines 

 of business now followed in Dawson we subjoin a facsimile of por- 

 tions of the advertising page of the Yukon Midnight Sun, bearing 

 date of September 3, 1898. 



