■■■■■■■■PBs-- *n^Av librarian tfjL . w V_S-**«i Published in the Garden City or B. C. YOU WILL LIKE CHILLIWACK. Vol. 1. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE 11.00 PKR VEAR SINGLE COPIES PICK CENTS EACH CHILLIWACK, B. C, FRIDAY, .MARCH 1, 1912 C. A. BARBER Editor nnd Proprietor No. 26 Business Deals Aggregating $90,000 Closed Many Local Deals Consumated This Week at Big Figures. Outside Investors Largely Interested. The Royal Hotel Sold. Other Purchases. There hns been u big movement in business nml renl estate properties dining this week, "everul lurge nnd important business ilenlu being put through, the pllrillllisors being fnr the must pnrt outside men who nr' not slow tn recognize the opportunities present bere utul the values to be IiiiiI. The movement hns started curly nnd indlciitlnns arc Hticli us lo lend most people to I e- lieve thnt n entitinunnce nf investments by now men will Ihi the order, The deals closed represent un investment nf between S'.HHI.OtHt and $100,000 Tbe Royal Hotel Sold The linyul Hotel bus chutlged liuiids uml the new proprietor, J. Mel ind.- of Vancouver, will tuke possession on March 15. The price pnid for this property is between forty nnd fifty thousand dollars. I). S. Duildas the recent proprietor has not decided whut he will do, though it is not likely that he will uguin engage iu the hotel business .Mr. Dundas came to Chilliwuek eight years ago and conducted the Commercial hotel now owned by C. .1 Hatch. Four yenrs ngo Mr. Dundas erected tho Royal and has conducted the hotel continuously since that time, and is the oldest hotel man in the city, fi'.r. McDade cornea from Vancouver where he conducts the Bodega hotel. Mr. McDade haa also purchased eighty aores of farm land in the vullev paying the sum of (250 an acre, which he will use for farming nnd gardening purposes. Wl BaU Two Read-acts Samuel M. Ruttan, of Regina, and formerly of Chilliwack, has purchased two half acre lots in the flrandview Sub-division, from \V. C. Barbor. Mr. Ruttan will erect two residences on the property, one of which he and his family will occupy. The Chilliwack Land & Development Co., negotiated the transfer of tho property. Btji Twhe Acres Samuel Sutor, the new proprietor of the Kmpress, has purchased twelve acres of land close to the C. N. R station and adjoining the townslte. Seven acres were purchased from Banfonl Bros, and five acres from F. W. Beldam. Mr Sutor intends using the land for farm purposes. Mr. Sutor is one of the new men in the Valley who see a big future for Chilliwack, and property nt present prices looks liken pitying investment. His ex- umple is being followed by his friends nnd other outside investors, nnd n number of properly changes ut good prices hnve resulted. Bowling Alley Purchased It. Shirley, who bus been employed nl I'*. Clillnndcrs for some time, bus purchased the buslnessand equipment of the bowling alley conducted for some lime by C, I). Warring. Mr. Warring intends going to Vancouver, where he will construct bouses on residential property which he owns in the Terminal Cily. Tobicco Store aid Building Purchased Messrs. It. O, Atkins uud C, J. Ott took possession of Fred Glllnndors tobacco storo und pool room on Thursday, having purchased the store, fixtures nnd business. The property bus a frontage of twenty- live feet on Wellington street. The price paid was between eighteen und twenty thousand dollars, cash. Mr. Atkins has been a resident of the valley for some few months nnd Mr. Ott comes from Vancouver. We have not learned what Mr. (inlander's intentions for the future arc. Alf. While SeUs Ont A local deal was consumated this week whereby Alf. White disposes of his music store business and agencies, together with his interest in the Lyrie Moving Picture Theatre, to hia partner in the latter, F. E. J. McManus. Mr. McManus will conduct the music business in conjunction with his jewelry and optical business, the partition between the stores heing removed. Mr McManus intends to keep the picture entertainments at the Lyric strictly up to-date, and proposes making some alterations which will fttther enhance the quality and pleasure of the splendid productions at this popular resort. Mr. White, wc understand, intends to return to England in the course of a few- weeks, where a lucrative moving picture proposition awaits him: Mr. White has. been prominent in musical and social circles, giving! freely of his ability, and will be greutlv missed among the young people of thc city. Big Refrigerating Plant Tbe Chilliwack Creamery Association Place* Order for Installation of Plant. To Be Ready for Ibis Season's Bosiwu. The Chilliwuek Oreunicry Association Limited have just placed an order with Mr. (I. E. Mitchell, Viineouver represent ive of the Friek Ice Machine Co. for twenty-four Inn capacity refrigerating plant which they oxpoot to huve installed in ntnple time to supply Ihe need of Chilliwuek nnd vicinity for ico during the coming summer, The Friek style of ice milking machine hus been adopted after a careful investigation of the working out of various makes of refrigerating plants. In addition to having plenty of ice for cooling pur|Kises nt their own plant, the Creamery plans to| go extensively into the manufacture of ice cream und the supplying of ice liolh wholesale and retail, lt is their intention to sell ice at u price that will bring it within reach of every home and a regular delivery service will be maintained throughout the Summer. A feature of this move on the part of the Chilliwack Association, thut should appenl to the pro dueer of farm products, will be the cold storage facilities offered. Cold I rooms will be provided for the stor- j ing of eggs, meats and fruits and the farmer will be enabled to hold. his produce instead of rushing it; onto the mnrket when the price is low because of over production. Thc proposition is meeting with deserved support from the shareholders of the Association, the stock required to defray the cost of the plant being rapidly taken up. The farmers are determined to cut down by every legitimate means, the great difference that at present exists lietween what the producer receives and what the consumer pays and it is a well know fuel that what benefits the farmer, benefits thc community in which he lives. $100,000 INVESTED LAST MONTH That Eistcrn clients, have their eye on Chilliwack valley and city- property is plainly shown by F. J. Hart ,t Co's. monthly statment of their local branch here which reports thc sale of 8100,000 worth of property for the month of February, mostly to eastern men. Police Report For Fcbrnaiy Tho Chilliwaek Police report for tbc month of February shows that twenty-three arrests were mmle, resulting in a like numlier of convictions, ns follows : Drunk 17, ns- snult 1, theft 'J, under Indian Li-I quor Act 'i. In dofiiiilt of payment of fine twelve men were sentenced I Tin to hard lubor in the city lock-up. plot. For theft two were sentenced to six months ouch hunl lubor In tho common goal, Westminster, Ono man drew throo months hunl labor for supplying un intnxicnnl lo un In- Han, and an Indian for having The Chilliwack Hospital Opened to the Public The Opening Ceremony Took Place Wednesday, A Very Large Crowd Participating. The Equipment of a Very High Order. Hospital Free From Debt. liquor in his possession received ttv mouths hard labor, The total niiioiint of lines pnid into thi; cily dork's oiliee wus (S.-jS. Give Very Fine Address A capacity house nnd n real in- tellccluul treat were the features of the military duy program Inst Sunday afternoon by the P, S. A. in the opera house. The Boy Scouts, und the 101 tb Regiment headed by St. Thomas' Blind marched in u body from the Purish hull to the opera house, where seats wmv re- Rev. ('. II. C.ark, of Sardis, fob lowed with n short congratulatory address nnd emphasised the fact Cliilliwnck Hospital, corn- furnished and equipped, wns formally opened on Wednesday afternoon, and those who Imve been no energetic nnd prosislont In their efforts toward the securing nf such an institution lor Cliilliwnck, must have felt gratified witli the tangible results nnd by tho intorost taken in llie opening ceremonies. The hospital comploto hns exceeded Ihe expectations of almost every onoI generous support of who hns visited thc building since! both city und vnlloy thai Chilliwack city would reap the greatest benefit nnd nn the city would fall tho greater amount of responsibility in the future. Continual nnd voluntary contributions would he necessary for the maintenance nf the hospital und this would require the never failing and the people of Mis completion. Erected on a com- pmandillg site, from ench window I mountain scenery unexcelled for lieauty, muy be viewed. Tho wards lure light and airy, and the furnishings und bedding arc of first quality, while the appointments and equipment ure nlso of u high order. The whole institution is u standing monument to the zeal, enthusiastic served. When the service began I and optimistic endeavors of those with the singing of tlie national who hnve had this highly laudable anthem the house was packed. A work in hand from its inception in couple of hymns nnd ail illustrated 1908 until the presi.nl time. The recitation, the Union Jack, by Free Press guve an outline of the Hamish Ewnn. prpepeded the ad-1 plan of the building, furnishings dress, the speaker for the afternoon and equipment in a recent issue lieing Principal Iletherington of | and a repetition is unnecessary nt |Boird Medio- To-light The regular monthly meeting of Ithe Board of Trade will Ik- held to- liiight in the Odd Fellow's hull at l.-ight o'clock. Mutters of much |iiu|Hirtuncn make a large attendance Idesirnble. E. Stuart Wade, Publi- ,-ity Commissioner of New West- Iniinster, will address the meeting. i'i Need Of Altei-N The boarding cars of the track Laying gang were moved seven miles east of the city on Friday, (•'he sanitary condition of the cars said to Ik- extremely |»nor, as liuiny as forty-eight men heing con- lined in one ear. The Provincial Jlcalth Department has lieen not l-lcd through tho local Police De- lartment of the wretched state in Illicit thc men are forced to live |>iaf To Kdewaa M. A. Alsgard formerly of Chilli- lack, spent a few duys this week li the city. Mr, Alsgard has spent lie past couple of months visiting liferent interior towns, nntl has cided to open an up-to-date [staraunt at Kelowna. Kelowna Topic will find Mr. Alsgard a good attain and a lirst class Inisiness Inn in his lino. We are sorry to lie him from Chilliwack. l-rin Old Post Olce 1 Contractor Hunt, of Victoria, has Inimenced o|iomtions in prcparu- fin for thc erection of the new post IVice. The present building is belt- moved to the rear of the lot by TiCalbiek, and work on the new fil ling will he proceeded witli, nt , early date. J. C. Robertson of | illiwiick, has secured tha position building Inspector. irhe way to fortune is paved with I e ads in the local paper. CW- Society The Choral Society meets as usual tonight in Cook's Church School room at eight o'clock. Splendid progress has lieen made and is being made by the Choral Society under the leadership of Mr. Ward and the members are very enthusiastic over it. All who are interested in the study of good music in choir form will be delighted with these practices and should join at once A concert will be given some time about Easter, it is expected. A short business meeting will lie held in conjunction with the regular practice this week. Tbc Cblwicb Cricketers. The Chilliwack Cricket Club will holtl its annual meeting on Monday March I, at eight p.m. in the ofliee of Chas Hutohcson it Co. Plans iu general will lut discussed for the coming season which shows every promise of being a good one for the devotes of Cricket in the valley. All the old members nre just as keen as ever nnd several new men, who will make good cricketers, will be ndded to the list. Thc Club Inst year was unfortunate in not luting able lo piny any outside matches, but this year outside games will probably be a feature, ln this connection, 8 A. Parsons, the clothing man, lias very generously donated a handsome Cup for competition among the Clubs of the Valley and any other Clubs which are considered eligible at the meeting. Chilliwack represented this year in the annual tournament at the Coast, by a lirst class team is highly desirable and quite possible. All interested nre cordially invited to attend thc meeting on thc foregoing date. A Distressiif Accideit A sad aud unfortunate accident occurred at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Evans whereby their thirteen year old son Clordon will lose his lefl eye. Last Friday thc boy received a kick from a horse which injuried his ankle so badly that he was confined to the house. Tuesday afternoon he was experimenting witha Cartridge when it exploded, the shell striking his left eye with such force as to break the eyeball. Medical aid was quickly summoned and preparations mnde for taking the unfortunate boy to Vancouver on the evening tram for treatment, his father accompanying him. The accident is a serious one and much smypathy is expressed for tho boy ana Ills parents. Mrs. Kvans is ut presenl in California. Tbc Bubcri Wia. A good game nf football was played last Saturday lietween lbc Coqunleolius und the Hauliers. The duy wns un ideal one, and more spectators turned out to sec the mutch than have boon present at any other game this season. The Bankers opened strongly and scored a goal about fifteen minutes from the start, through Dunford. A few minutes later Carter atlded a second goul for the Bunkers and thc tirst half ended with the Bunkers two goals ahead, In the second half the play was very even but the Bunkers added another goal and finished with the score three goals to nothing in their favor. The scorers were Dunford, two goals and Carter one. On Saturday the Militia team will play the City eleven in a league game at the agricultural grounds. Four more of thc C. N. R. rail gang have joined the city chain brigade, their initiation being via tlie liquid route. They each drew ten days. Two of the previous qunrtette are now free having served their time. Columbian College. Westminster The speaker hns n pleasing, entertaining and convincing platform style, and easily succeeded in at- tracting the undivided attention of the lurge audience to "Hitching Posts'* the subject of his uddress. These were three iu number, Service Sacrifice und Love. The speaker in emphasising the worth and importance of these presented a world Tiow of the subject nnd in speaking to thc Bov Scouts nnd Militia showed the true relation of these organiza- tioiA-io the-country. X-ithing is greater than character, acter thc result of a life this tunc. The opening ceremony was honored h.v a very large and representative attendance nnd when the pi**sent Chairman of the Board, Rev. it. J. Douglas announced thc opening service the lurge building wus crowded. Rev. Mr. Douglas in his opening remarks referred to the vast amount of labor and thought that had lieen given in the erecting and equipping of the hospital, with attendant disappointments and discouragements, and the absence of any practical knowledge on the and char- j part of the Board in such work. of service,, He paid a high tribute tn the ladies sacrifice and love, which places us'for the interest taken and the valu- iu touch with thc licst, the grandest i ublo assistance given, und also to and truest in life. ''Kipling's Recessional" by Misij Kathleen Henderson was well received. A couple of xylophone solos by Harry Gardner and a hymn brought the meeting to n close. Orange Grand Lodge. the generous liberality of the people, who hud by their practical support made it possible for him to make the gratifying statement that the building as it stood, equipped and completed was entirely free fmm debt, there lieing a balance of 835 on hand over und above the total Chas. Parker has ftjlnrped from [expenditure of 810,000, which sum Kamloops where he attended the]had lieen entirely made up of sub- annual Provincial gathering of soriptions. He ventured the opin- Ornngemon. There was a good at-.kin that if the hospital had to lie tendance and the annual reports as erected this year it would cost presented were gratifying. Strong 1812,000. resolutions were passed dealing witli |*,.v. A. E. Roberts, President of Home Rule and the Ne Tinnerc tho B. (.'. Methodist Conference, decree. Xiinaimo, Chilliwack and invoked the Divine blessing on the Vancouver made strong bids for the!opening of the hospital and 111 all next convention-, Vancouver sei.-ur-1 Its future ministrations for relief of ing tin, plum. A number of minor pain nnd suffering. cbunges to the constitution nnd liy- Canon Hinehliffe gave a brief re- laws governing tho grand lodge and Lnne of the history of the move- also primaiy lodges were made. |mont which had made possible the Owing to the large number of members suspended by primary lodges during the past year for being only u few months in arrears, the grand lodge adopted u resolution thut iu future uo primary lodge should suspend uny of its members until they hud been twelve months ip arrears, nnd then only after being tlvico notified, Considerable dlsousjiion ensued regarding ihe advisability of Orangemen of the Mainland uniting in u monster celebration oh Ihe 12th of July. It wns finally decided to leave ibis matter! opening exercises on Wednesday. The first move was made in lbc spring of 1908 by Curl Grossman, ivho organized a troupe of minstrels, from whose effort.- it fund was Started. The death of a young Englishman by tin- namo of Potts, while enroule via boat to Westminster Hospital nnd subsequent events in connection therewith. Stimulated Interest in tho proposal, uud u public meeting wns culled. Among those taking an curly interest in the proposal were Mr. nnd Mrs. (!. R, Ashwell, Mr, nnd Mrs. (I. II. W. Mayor li. F. Waddington in the inaugural uddress dwelt on the fuct that the project hud not been consumated without self denial und sacrifice on tlie pnrt of those who hnd persevered and accomplished the object in view. The same concentration of the effort would still bo necessary. The Hospital wai a necessity und would yearly become more and more so, und would "require the practical support of residents of the valley in order that the splendid work might be tuain- taincd and its scope enlarged as the needs increased; this support the -Mayor maintained was a Christian duty devolving upon all. The Opening Declaration wus made by Reeve I'. C. Wilson. Reeve Wilson pointed out not only the present necessity of such an institution in Chilliwack. but, with the assured increase in imputation us a result of the coming of the C. N*. R. andG. X. R. linesthrongfa the Valley, the ministrations of the hospital would lie largely sought iind its present proportions would have to be increased. In .peukiug of support tlie Reeve paid a stroua- compliment to the splendid generosity nnd liberality of the people of Chilliwack and Valley. In a few well chosen words he officially declared the Chilliwack Hospital open. The singing of "'Praise God from whom all Blessings Flow'' terminated a very interesting and important service, in connection with a new work in Chilliwack, which haa liogun under such favorable and gratifying auspices. At the conclusion Of the ceremony the many visitors inspected the hospital und wen- served with » delicious sup of tea and refreshments. Chilliwaek's new Orchestra, tinder the leadership uf Miss Hill, rendered a pleasing pr'UTam at music during the afternoon. We are given to understand that the most active lady on the tint auxiliary mentioned by Canon Hinehliffe. was Mrs..M.C.Hall. srii, collected iu the neighborhood of -IHO, and who deserves a liberal share of credit, The President und officers of the Women's Auxiliary welcomed the guests aud took great pleasure in showing the hospital to the visitor,. nn.l hud the tables, etc., decorated wilh daffodils. In tho hands of Vancouver and Now I AbIiwoII, and L. W, Paisley, thr Westminster County Orange Lodges |Canon making special mention of to settle between themselves. Following is a list of new officers: Grand master, E. J. Clarke, Vancouver; deputy grand muster, Edwin Bush, Mission; junior deputy grand master, .1. II. Armstrong, Revel- stroke; grand chaplain, Rev. W. ('. Corey, Kamloops; deputy grand chaplains, Rev. .1. C, Mailill (Vancouver), Itev. Wm. (iovicr (Illllll- mond), Rev. F. .1. Rutherford (Ladyamith), Rev. Morton Smith (Vancouvor), dipt, A. I., stride (Cranbrook); grand secretary, W. II. Brett, Vancouver; deputy grandInient and progress of tin secretary, F. ('. Morgan, Van-|Wns familiar to most people COltver; grand treasurer, Wm. T. Jugn, Vancouver; grand lecturer. L. D. McCall, Peach- land; grnnd director of ceremonies. W. (I. (Iambic, Abbotsford; gram' As Important AitMuoceaeit To Tbe Ptbtc Of Cbftnck Valley Mr. II. F„ Broadhead Jeweler, who recently opened up business on Young street bus decided to add an up-to-date optical parlor, which will bo ln charge of Dr. I.. It. Stevens who has had many years of practical oxporlonOO in tin- optical profession. The public will hnve the advantage. of having Iheir eyes examined in a most thorough and inlonllflc manner, und glusses lilted nl umoder- f glasses and frames will always he curried in stock. Mr. Broadhead finds it necessary to add this department In his very rapidly increasing business which speaks well for the general protnorlly of Chllllwaek nnd the surrounding valloy. auditors, (Ico. Sholield (Vuncovor) und F. E. Pakenhnin (Mission); deputy grnnd lecturer of llritish Columbia, S. ('. Court, Victoria. The robins returned lust week. these ou account of thc active interest manifested by Ihem from the| early stages lip to the present line-. I.,,,, CMt A ,„, (libers mentioned were Hooves h.l C, Kickbush and P. C. Wilson, | Mayors, S. A. Cawloy, T. II. .luck- sou, ,1ns. Munro, nud T. E. Caskey nnd A. II. McKen/.ie, nlso u Indies auxiliary of three organised by Mr. Paisley, which secured about rJlilK) for the project. On n site being advertised for, W. II. Hodglns bud presented the property now occupied uml from this point the develop- scheme Canon Hinehliffe thought that those who worked lor und stood by the scheme, when the majority of the peoplo were Indifferent should not lie forgotten, nl the presenl nor yet when the hospital became n larger mid more important institution thnn it is to-day. The Canon's remin- sjconcoi w M" of u very in1 crest ing nature In nil who were presenl. Delhi Dorbai at Lyric A program of special interest will be presented to patrons of the Lyric Theatre mi Friday nnd Saturday evenings of this wc-k with n matinee on Saturday aftcrn i, when that spectacular pageant, tlie official coronation of King George and ('ueeu Mary as Rulers of India, will be thrown on the screen. This affords all, u splendid opportunity of witnessing this great event of splendor and panorama and crowded houses should he the order. CllIld.lWACK FREE PRESS ONE WAY OUT I)g WILLIAM CARLETON Copyright, 1011 Illy Small, Maynard & Co., Inc. CHAPTER n. ■■' li.un.l. Thirty Dollars a Wecli. tin wa v mil APTEll In- I. school, Rut to begin aa (,. foil all I 1 didn't gel now am! Ul. I bod too whon nl courso I"' v _. ul anil if Iin liudn' tttiiir.s I guoss I 'il liuv onco. Hul nl I was III. I lofl il go to .s, .'lii.'.l Iii a inlCimsl died. II'' Ilu lell u iiDleep l.|.- known a diffur the nine i i lie was. in lti n :■ Ins iiiiu lil'r now all. I 1110 1" QUmolVl'S lie ir.. I o. ,'.,, ovor for mo I' hla day from the timo 1> ni IK., morning auiil nway ia li.'l ii;;aiii at llii'iv would eu a i.'.l as iliiine.li thoro uethiug moro, but thoro jxt lew itinallis it s.-.'iu rd almoBt as tluui^li she was waiting. For what, 1 didn't know, ami yot 1 too I'.'li thero was a lapse In our lives. 1 iici'i r loved liar moro. Thore was oovor a timo whon she was su truly n wife nnd yot in our combined Uvea llr - nil lli.' details ' k llllll . she iu Ited kin nighl md Hhi pause. It i oughl „ bO sn wasn'l Tho ii III,' I I. I'll' I'll,' liis nlll.nllll. In kavi slioul.l huve pro- Ui„,\<s u my boy eus puliiaa. m\y gtringa of Unit IW II lllllll lllllll (.I,V nlso gell .. 1,'ulh . . Wi ivilli 1110 s ami 'li I Ilu nllv ap ngn'ui I only .,,, muking him ml mentally. Hi' ul lllltn- i in Kill IV a .la i,l initiative. m'tlv iiinri' ini ., with mu tiled upnci lllOllt 1.1,1 tl'IVll iiinily g ijllullll w ii, imi witk uuiy UU'1 „„ Sua.lavs I took the „i long cross-country a muni deal of talking i i snid rolled off liko ■ I,. ii,. i.i, ki"l energy Iln was I omltig ills- Idle-clan than either of , ,1 tho inuil-. of tho su- (.Inns thrown in, II'' chut- llnrviiril, nul as an oppor- s n class privilege.. I iliil- those ciiln ■., ui k Tin at I in.I handloi Woollen ligurcs thing outside tliat parti idlce. I was anl a Btonogruphei ni'i'iiiiulaiil, nr a secretin}'. nn called a clerk in llm dlroctorj luu did tlmt menu? Whal ll' ,_B I, nt'tor twentj years oi bur i|ii M'l wa linn started the sweat to I. But I pulled myself toge Al IctiBt I wns an able bo wm. willing iu wink, had a honesty ami faithful titelligeut as men H". im; iu ililjrit. Tin- uoighbors luul by liis time Im.rn,nl ni luy plight uml wen. :ussi|iiii}r. Ami yol in the midst of all liis I luul somo of the litu'st hours with u.- whu 1 bad over-known. (To bo continued) PERTINENT TO PERSIA Persia is a Mahoinotun country, with in aria nf 1128,1)00 square miles and a lopulatloa ostiuiatoil al about ' where she'. opo ami thrleo c e back after ncgo- ynu should be ublc t' see tiating loans ami grautlng ciiiiccssiniis right. thut wore llif curlier scuds of I'orsiu'sl ()' courso tnor'a somo women that, prosont diillcultioa. Five yonrs ago tlio uvea a ilri'ssiaaker's husband couldn't more Intelligent nf the Persian classes |pleaso, nut how very easy it is t' git a triivelin' poai" "" ' " nbsoluti populati on to the iibnut. i averages iquaro nnlo. ilus of rail- km i , like It. Bul boforo I had time to I'lirry much about tiiis the crush caino hat I bad not been vvIbo enough to foro- Alt, tl'nl while le I xproai nu in e had bless father he went to lu sotne'thlng tacking beguu to notice a lier oyos. It alwai said," "Sn Dicky san mul mother,' ami Bleep." Tlmn nun night Hers was the >am liii.l been eating a*. now and there v. plain. Uut n't b i al that und drifting, llm gunwales ovou now. ^^^^^^ in her eyes had u right to bi In 't answer it. I .,,., , mouth, I di,In'I darn speak even ono eight when slu awnetl on me. rt liungor that no. Dick was u boy nn baby to take hip i Lord, as it was I had in savu a dollar. 1 know were simply holding on tlghl Tin- imat was loaded t" And yet that expression in lliiswViv.l. But •II,. all we lui ____^^^ Hilly—just one." I gripped her hand and Bat staring into tho little imil hod llroplace which On. CHAPTER III The Middle Class Hell Saturday afternoon, I .liila'i >-,.,<■ what 1 did, su long as il gavo tu, a living wago. Surely, then, then must i" s plnce for mo hustling cltv, I lum-lit a papor mul "Help Wanted." I fell envoi,.,. at Bight of tlm long column. 1 reai through carefully. Half of tho p tions demanded toehnleol training inaiiiluil Bpociul ski-d for yuiinir m lliis alv turiii'il .mr. li ____ oil', Mn icpartment, whose ni,' enviously for live ,,asl I I'll t lire lo minr 1 I . bouse aftc WO didn't light more than once a month now. Even uh ! watched tlio Barnes 1 huw thom licking up pennies •lust ono! And I too want ful like Dick. I Imil to sn* that look night night and I had lu go to town knowing I was leaving her all atom* witli tlu* one away at school. -And what a mother ■she wa.*-! Sin- ought to liavi- had a baby liy hor side all tlm* tinn*. As thi* ono grow, liis oxponBQB in creased. Tin* unly wny to meet them was hy cutting down our own oxpen ne_ still more. I cut out smoking made my old clothes do an extra year Ruth spent halt' her ti hunting and saved still more liy taking it uut (if herself. I'm she worked harder for I did und I was working hard- that sum than dollar, but we .struggle. As V about the peopl lillle houses W grim light was going on Bome ni them wer" not su lucky us w and ran into debt, while a few of them were luckier nud were helped out will. lega i'ti-r we hi , the head of the| job I had been eye-1 ^^^^^^^ nra uow, called M.,- into his office. For three minutes I saw all my hopes realized; for three minutes I walked dizzily wilh my whole life justified. I could hardly catch my breath as 1 followed him. I didn't realize until them how big a load I ha.l been carrying. As a drowning man is said to see visimis of hla whole I saw visions of mv wind.* saw Ruth's eager faco lifted i 1 told her the guo.l news; ihe boy takon from his common* surrounding und doing himself proud in some big preparatory school where In- brushed up against n variety of other boys; I Baw- -God pity mo for ihe fool I was—other children at home to take his plnco, I can say that for threo minutes 1 have lived. Mortio seated himself in the fore his desk aud, bonding papers, talked wil hunt looking at mc lie was a small fellow. I don't suppo- a beefy man '"ver quite gets over a cer tain feeling of superiority before * small man. I could ' Morse in one hand. '•Carleton," he began, ut down vour salarv live tare." It came like a blow in Ion 't think I answen d. "Sorry," he added, "but Evans say 1 | couldn't oi lh requirements c ami again th fn *.| in upon i'n h way to help me- chair be- over his quest io the devil was 1 .' I didn't kuow w luul no relatives ti days of my groat* gran dllatl ton had ever quit tho gam even. My business nssoeii badly off aa I was ami i neighbors, Mv relations with tho peculiar, now that I came t In these hist do/en years to know the details oi thoi Innately us my o\\ n. I n n beeu liko one big familv each other as Frank, and!. and Josh, nud were fam'il annthi-i 's physical ailments when us had any. If ttilj of the childr whooping cough or the measles ill.Ill .Ills. \\ , II III I ll" li. igUU watched nt the bedside tun: Su much l.-serl. that thi mly about lift IMioru are only mud in Porsiu, The highways, save those built by the Russiaus (expense ;ed to Persia), uro of the most unlive character. In largo areas ii- are no roads whatever, only trails, c "public debt, which is a tremendous rden to thc country, is only $27,000,* | ■ in oui money. Persia's principal; . ■ i-iiiis are Russia and Great Britain. _U< h in brief is the condition of I'er , Ilnancinl ami commercial, brief nr i> statement is, it is luminous of tin mblcs in which Persia is plunged to v. If Persia were not pom*, H|i pointed, backward in all d tho most wretched of the Persian musses combined tt* overthrow the despotism of the shahs and introduce u constitutional regime, Evor since there has bet n fighting within uml fear without. The Persian Liborals retained the monarchy. There is a shuh on the, throne, and v. deposed shnh who wants to get back and who is never far frum im- Russian outposts. The official mid of Porsiu has not cume, but it. is to bo feared that it is not far distant. '11 be buddy e be gontl- glt oloni kind ition, you ought latto o thin 1 hai We ts iinhl*- I would not hnve -rot Itsolf Into tlm hands of iis creditors in a snap mortgage, for tho sum of $27,000,000 which muny a minor European country would consider n bagatelle to be easily taken care of in the routine of its Halluces, The trouble with Persia Is that it is one of the "has boons" among the nation.;. It is nmre correct, to say " Persia wns" than " Persia Is," for iln* once grenl Empire of tho shahs hus fallen bo low that il exists only iu for alily. become merely a "g'eogruph- al expression," it survives only bo* iiise Russia and Great 13 ri tain cannot k the nonr now. Russia GUNPLAY IN WASHINGTON * Five OUt Of the nine Well groomed an.l gentlemanly private secretaries of membera of President Tuft's cabinet keep loaded revolvers handy iu their ks every day of the year. They do nol often use them, but there ure just enough cranks around Washington and its departments to make a revolver feel good to the touch occasionally. Mr, Roborl O. Bailey, private soere* tary to Mr. Franklin [vtacVongh, secretary ui tho treasury, keeps his men ha ml ier thnn a desk drawer. I f you were to Btep back of tho big mahogany desk at which Mr. bailey works yuu would tlnd n small shelf to the right beside his knee. Upon it. there is a businoss-likfl looking .38 calibre rovol- wr. It has boon there o\cr since Mr. bailey wus visited last summer by a Most uny woman iccasioualiy. No f git too great t' round home. Men kin eveu happily with trained seals by uilin' em' a lisli ever' time tbey bal co a torch on thor nose. A great man really ought t' he tick I t' death t' fflt out o' th' limelight ' nway from th' friends that er usiu' him, nn' spend a few hours with th' irl that re perfume an a shave. Very fe thor wiv es society. (ly knows him un' reinem a turned his cuffs, use*! dopoudotl on his father for ;roat uieu would know n in congenial ,.,. in pi got Un- moro b-pi nf tl, boon mun wh Ma.'Vuai cense fn Mr. I! ml u uii ll .lis.ll.-v lgleet , domandi li iluii In olloil iI tlm I'll! ,.llllll V nf tlie ii'tarv "il li II' Ilu I. f ami Hi with a have" picked up, mul year. in bargain i. I littio woman i quarter than ^_____^H I used to" . were not alone in th. la- camo to know mnn in that group of hiiuu knew tlmt th'' sanu nil of them W. w All. sens. il the youngster was well again, knew to ll dollar what each man earning and what each was spun \Vu borrowed "ne another 'fl garden ind the women borrowed from ■ stht-r*-; kitchens. On tlie surfac vere .just about as intimate us 'I've got to possible for a community tu Im. hundred ilol-; ■.-.., what did it amount tol Thero wasn't a man-son uf thom in the face. I ! whom 1 would hnve dared gu and can f.ss tlm find that I'd lost my job. . They'll Know it soon enough, bn sure lie can double up on your work and of Lf that; lint it mustn't como from inc. firs to do it for two hundred dollars There wasn't nm< of thom to whom 1 more." fell free to go and nsk tlieir help to in- I ropoated that name Kvans over and torest their own linns to secure nn- ovor. lie was the man under me. Thon other position for mo. Their respect take. While watching the for me dopi nded upon my ability to lintein my nodal positron. Tlu-v were behind me. bvans and|liko steamer friends. On thr - had been stood friendl He was about twenty, worker. ••Well'" sai.l Morse. I recovered my wind. intolligon iretico to llm I'm iiker poorly placo dghl Im dollectod in inns Blinking "i ll" I.ut against any bucIi . within llm riul brauchoB 1 il ■elected with rn Uroal Britain is „ whilo il"- nonr its fall liy jinli- I ru", KusBla is i'";i y. To .ni'laplinr fnr plain facts, tb" Ilus- Bphero of influenco lakes in tbu rtbi'in I't'isia finiu ml has nearly in.I wh" was plainly looking for trn 11 close t" violently Bhoutcd: ••I del •• Ml ahead." This s i th I'.ail, desk ., broi ui llie II... "ilu" , it daahoil u had long li full I a.'in mlilu. •ili.iU I, .in ghl In I,I,ni.a nl a p, I saw my ml. man ahead of mc I had neglected to watch the man ' "Good God," I cried; "I can't live oi any less than I'm getting now!" "Then you roBigrit*' ho a**k"d quick- I liked him. they clung to one another closer than ind a hard j bark to a tree, but once the gang plunk was loweied the intimacy vanished. If I wished to keep them ns friends '. must 'stick to the bout. I knew they couldn't do anything if they had wanted to, but ut tin sum" time I felt there was something wrong ; iu u ittuation that would not allow mu rod. I wanted ;io ;ISI; even for a letter of Introduction without feeling like a beggar. I felt tin vn- something wrong when they made mo feel not like a brother in hard luck bul like a criminal, I • ■ ;an to wonder chat of sterling worth l had ^"it out ni this life during tho past do cade. However tlmt wns an Incidei mat r. The only time 1 did such think ■iiorii For a Ht'cond I .^^^—-___ •o take this pigmy by the throat, j vauted to shake him. lie didn't give ne time before exclaimingi "Very well. Carleton. I'll give you ill order for twu weeks' pay in ad- -tlllCII." The next thing I knew I waa in the lUter ulliee with the urder ill illV hand. saw Kvans at his desk. 1 guess 1, mist have looked queer, for nt tirst he Ing as this waa towards th Then Im came Ing after I hud lain awake all night nnd cxhnluted nil othn resources. 1 "wlnt's the tacklod the problem in the only wny I I could Think -*f and that was to v' " "' ■ i answered, I tried t.. speak *h or by well to-do relativi vt,,.- as much alike as peas in a pod We were living on tho future and bluff inn m't ,hl- present. You'd have thought it would have enst a gloom over th, neighbor! 1 you'd have thoughl it Would have done away with some ul the parties and dame-, lint it didn't In th.- tirst place this was, t'i the iimsl .hnwk nwnv from me nf us, just life. In the second place 0 ,uy flj(|c>" tliere didn't Beom to be uny alternative, "Carleton," he said. There was no uther wav of living. Tbt mattet e litions seemei! to bo fixed; wo had ..| guess you know, tn eat, we had to wear a certain typo "You aren't lired.' of ilross; an I unless wo wiabod '** * xisl \ bucked up at this aa exiles we had t*» meet on n certain naturally. plane of social Intercourse. The con* "Yos,1 I said, "I'm fired." veutlona were us Iron clad hero as * * iinl thai isn't right, Carleton," ho among tho noldliiy ,.f Kngliiml. N'o protested. "I didn't think it would one thouaht of violating them; no one come to thnt. I Went tO Morse ami told thought it was possible Yuu had to |,im | wanted to get married and n I- Hvo as the others did or di id be e.| more money, lb- uske.l me if 1 done with it. If anyone ni us had thought I eould do vour work. I BaldImost impos-dbln to read thought we might have soon the fool Vi.Hi \\\ \mu. *ilt,\ v,.s if |„.m nskcdlbut I hung on In *■•*>•»«■•• • IshnoHs of this but it was all so manl-,,,,,, jf | could do the president's work. test that m. one did think. The only But—come bock and let mo explain it method of escape was a raise and that to Morse." meant moving Into another sphere' |, MIH white* of hie*, wasn't it which would ruvor that. I H.,w elearlv enough hat he A now complication »*: when the | lighting for*his riRht tu low hoy grow old enough to have **'iei:i| ■ lighting for m " ' hii own. lie had made wanted to lass and 10,| tow|n..^^^^^^^^^^ back. (who trente •"Don'l go in thore," 1 warned. "The Hm thing you know you'll be doing m\ work without your twn huu drc*L. "Thnl o,' ho nns wo rod. "Bul Whkl BN you going I" •:■> now |' "■•. t ii '.eh r |ob.'' I noBWored. nn,- ..I thc great blosslng of my lift 'r* the fact that il liii-**. alwnys been DOS. to lepi.it bad new*, lo liutll. I llev hn*l to break things gontly to her. tfh< always '*"'■> u blow standing up, lit.* u man. So now I boarded my train and .it |tnJghl to the I,i.live tilhl told her, Tlu de< room. the place renter part ul northern rersia irum.-t-n-Ad.i i,, Caspian downward, and has nearly I j' ,000,000 inhabitants, while thai of h, .[ h,",, Croat Britain is in tho oxtromo south,jt1l .'. '., ami has only 090,000 population, The I mnl nil sphere, kindly loft to Persia,' contains about one lifth of the population nominally subject tu the Shah, and has about throc*tcntha of the area of geographical Persia. That Porsia has sadly fallen from its high estate everybody must realize whu recalls his schoulboy days when lie was compelled to memorize the. achievements and fates of Xerxes, Cyrus and Darius. Hut probably few persons n| prci-iate the rapidity of th " " ~x ~ nhowo . lie ick a f ation, unit, for free speech. md Mr. Balloy; "u<> be a surprise to tho II desire to shoot Up ocovored himself an.l w pnees. 'flan llO be ll lasted ten minute" Mr. Bailey put in: way. You nre all nnk accepted the vordl bow aud id 'Fine; right.' !, mad. of tht The DUEL OF BLANKETS Indiana ni Southeastern Alaska have a curious custom En their "duel of blankets." Wlu-n a friendly difference between two ni Ihem arises and a friendly sel tlenient seems impossible, one of then threatens the other with dishonor. He will cover the face of his foe with shame. He executes his threat liy tearing up a certain number of his own blankets. The only way whereby his antagonist mny "get even" with him is by tearing up a greater number of his own. If the contest be prolonged it results in the destruction nf ull the blankets they have, each Indian destroying bis own. The one who destroys the greater number is regarded as having won the fight. ABE MARTIN'S VIEWS ON WIVES O' GREAT MEN It seems that th* greater a feller is But was only was I __________________________________________ _____! houses with whom I had learned the United Woollen did business. I remembered the names of about a dozen of thom and mado thc rounds of these for a starter. It seemed like a poor chance and l myself did not know ex (ICtly what they'could do with me but it would keep me busy for a whii.. With waits an.l delays this took me Iwo weeks. Without letters it wuh nl- the man igers I untd ' Mi.'- ceoded. Here again I didn't feel like an honest man offering to do a fair re turn of work for pay. so much as I did a beggar. This uuiy havo been my fault; but alter you've sat arouid in ofllees and corridors nud been scowled , .... __., . ._ descent of Persia to its present pitiable plight. The world-shaking monarchs of Persia me in the dim, misty past. Only tho historian sees them clearly; but there have been Persian rulers and statesmen within two hundred years who made their Asiatic contemporaries uneasy, and even fixed the attention of Europe for a time. A hundred years to a Western nation is a very long period; to un Oriental nation it is but a watch in the night. A century ago Persia was uot to be ignored by European statesmen wurking out scheme, of colonial expansion or playing for influence in Ada. Persia had, it is true, begun to decline then, but Powers with "interests" in the Kast hn.l not altogether forgotten that Nadir Shah had conquered India, and fe.-ued that again a sudden revival of tin* old national spirit might hring nboul a quick, if only temporary. change un the map. The drei'm of a Persian army marching into India today never en tors upon the slumbers »f <■ - ,,,,,■ , , -. , tlm timid.-i Hindu, but a Persian host rr,b *■■ nU iu,mo PIa«< ■''' f,ftv ',o1 put a mark upon Delhi lu tho eighteenth law n mvk alimony. Arl is a peat century whieh all its subse.iuent pro* <•■"•■■<•• *••■ over thing but ben' n hus gross has iuo erased. King Qeorm is ,,!,I,"i- " ,u' ■,:"1 ■»<»* '■■ *•<••■■"' l-"1* the Boveroign of one of tho Powers now llt lim"" that ho used while campaign in practically partitioning Porsiu. When tVr ■•"'•'tor bed be thero this minui ho stood "b.-ti.re hi. Indian lieges, in all Mlt'n l,-v hls (J™16 °ovorcd with child- tl.,- glory m the Delhi durbar, did he [^ :i". try*n * Bmoko !in' hsU" fc fleet that only a little more than I7H '*'H Ull<' u'lu{ •'■ society page out loud. yoors before a'Persian monarch on tho *™ ,N' l1*'''1 ,,IH tUfl "",l *>'"'*•■■■■ sain.- spot, at the head of a great audi M"sI •"'>' k""1 " » f(,,,('r kl'* K'* Victorious army, laid down the luw to|r._?8, wltn !l W"° " D0 h:,,f W*y tH,,!'' trembling India.' That is what Nadir Shah, whom historians now call "the Napoleon Of the EOBt," did in Delhi in 1730, uml he did mure. He caused the streets of Delhi to run with blood, he A TAOIST TEMPLE Tin* leinple grounds cover an area of ubout six ur ..even ucreB, ami are mtr rnumled by a wall fourteen fool high. They are subdivided Into three incloe ures, in the principal nf which stands the main temple, surrounded by avun lies of I ees nnd a granite pavement, on either side of Which, instead nf a gran* BWUrd, Ihe BpttCO is given o\er tn half bricks, n>h heaps, notshords, brokos -lavs, and oilier imflciltloilH nf illttidi nesH and neglect, Sundry pigs, dogs, ami foWlB roumeil at will. Pound the temple enilustire were nil larod cloistors in a similar Btato of dirt ami disorder, oven to the ashes ami bit* nf charred Sticks remaining from Ihe fires made ugulusl the . hunter w;ill In the pilgrims of Ihe pnst seamm. The temple itself stands upon a raised foilll llatloil, and is surrounded by a colon h*. nu the fa f the raised foun ■bit inn and Oil Ihe walls of the tempi*' aie carvings nf white marble <n relfof \... . it. tin- temple is obtained bv a loublo flight of granite steps, uml crosn ng ihe eolonuade, we enter thruugh m imnll dtiur. The Interior is gloom) ami ;i\ i i n like, and until Ihe eye gots ar .UBtomeil tu the tturltnoBS little is seen Opposite ili*1 main ontranci is thr shrine, In which is seated a m.-i-sivr glide.] figure supported nu either Bide l.y el hers -.landing. 11. froni of the shrine is the altar, Upon which is u bowl nf burning incense and n lighted lamp of antique make. !n front nf the altar is a table upon which are carve., bamboo VOJtes uinl curinuHly carved -■hues, pari nf the stockin-t in-lr* of the priest-soothsayers. Ranged round thr walls at varying distances are other gilded figures, some gigantic nntl of ferocious appearance. Of the other three temples we. visited but otic, that containing au ancient monument. This was a representation in stone of a gigantic tortoise. <bi its back stood #. stone pillar tapering n little towanlf the top. iiv« in i ley wns ii _ i bank an' lh' auditor o* his county. Now hip poor little thin wife comes along an' gits a divorce, th' custody O* th' child1 th' harder it is for his wife with him. Look nt Art He's a great business man an' I big tih' mill an' is n director of ■■grew functions of his own. II many new t'i ii mis nml In join ti tennl ■ i*. a dancl contribute towards the support nf th. lit III. I • tiau- of the -, I I. \|,.r,- over he wav Invited to path.*, and had lo glvo parth himself, Onco again I |rie-l *i> • ■ II a*- uut nf this social business, ll - ■ tn, i such a pitiful •rta-i. nt ammunition under the clrcuni stances. I wan ted t-. -a*. ■ thi money if it wa- po ibh in Ul J w." I" eke it out, foi his i "hn ation Put ,*,i(at could 1 dot Th.- boy had to liven*, hit friends ||> * d i>r ^iv i- I li'-in ii| e I tn do ri thr It i -lit...'I He wa^ii 't a-k than the other boys •*' md but he was rlghth h much. If he couldn't I don't know tbatlatai in intruder for throo or four hours I ihouTd have been as generous ns he j'ind then been greeted with a surly was—ten years before. He had Start-1 "What do vou wantf" you CBO'j h'dp I the door when 1 called him. having a grouch, There wasn't i\ man ' my ofler as a builnen pro* i .mi to <ln ..- sss\». ..^i^MLmmm^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^m it would be ai tin nerlflee of his pride, she lisle 1 quietly and then took my thin lie associated with thom at all. hand, patting it fori* moment without And a |uil pride In a boy i-> something paying anything. Pit-ally sh vou ( an'I *'af.'P tamp. died -it Sad _____________^^__. «ith. II In have*the money and wo managed it somehow, Put it broughl homo the grim old fact that I hadn't as vet saved a dollar. I clung more than ever now to the nm* mv of lope the job ahead. It was ihe only comfori Path and I had and whonover I fell especially downhearted ■ho'd atari In and plan bow wo'd spend it. It look tl Ige olT the imim-diat,* thoughl oi danger. In the meanwhile i resigned ovor trum the Neighborhood Club and lol the boy join the tennis club. I noticed at once n change in the attitude "f ihe men towards mc. But I wns reaching a point now where I dbltl 't cure. In this wav, then, we live,I until I wns thirty e-ght and Kilt ti thirty, and the boy was cloven, Por the lasl few months I had boon doing night work without - ^t*:i pay si 'i ' was prneticnllv exiled from th. hnv except on Sundays !'•■ ■.•.at nnt th ■ ■ the way 1 nteil The local trn Bchnni was iln it a prit ate h •"■Well. Hilly." she sai.l. "il can't be ii.".i. can it ■ s.i good Itwk tn Bvnni and his bride." When a womnn is ns bravo as Ihnt it 'tit up all the lighting blood in a man. Looking int.. her steady blue eyes I felt thai I had etnggi rated my mil* fortune Thirty eight is not old and I WO! able hmlii'd. I uiicllt bind something even bottor Ilmn thai which I had lost S„ instead nt' n night of misery I Iind actually felt almost glad. I stirted in town on Monday in high hop.-, itut when I gut off the train 1 U. Kan in wondor Just when* 1 was bound, What sort nf a job was 1 going to apply fnr: Whnt was mv profession, mvwnyf I -.-it down in the station i.. Ihtnl the problem over. I'.ir t\\.nt\ years now I had been * In th.* i li ri.ai machinory of the ITnltod Woollen Company. I wai knowt as n I'nii i Woollen man. Ilul h ii I ii had tins exporionce mad. ,.• . ' I was nol a bookkeeper. I km-*.**, no more nboul keeping a full set of At the end of thai time two qUOftlonS were burned into mv brain: "WhU cm vou -in'" und " HOW old are JOUt" Thi iiM-r queal camo as a nvola* lion. It seem-* that from a bUfloO-l point of vlon t wa sldored sn old i SI) goml strong body counted f«»r rn th ngi my wllltngneai to undertake ani task counted for nothing, I wns tun ..h|. No 000 wanted fo botllOf wilh beginner ovof olghtoon or twonty, Tin- market demanded youth youth Willi ihe years ahead that I had a'ready sold, Wherever I stumbled by thnnce upun n vacant poiltton I found wnil ng thoro half n doaon stalwart young- iters. They lookod us I had looked when I joined tin* t'nited Woollen Com pany. I offered In do the same wirk nt the same wages ns ihe youngsters, but Ihe managers didn't want inc. Tliey lidn'I wnnl a man around with wrinkles In his face. Moreover, thev were looking to Ihe future. Thev dldn'l in lend t<> adjust a man into their mii'hin- ery only In have him die in n do/en y.-nrs. 1 wnsn*t a good risk. Mure* Ovor, I wouldn't be so easily trained, ami wilh n wider oxporlonce might prove mora bothoraomo, At thirty ■dghl I was too old to make n begin ning. Tie* verdict was linnniniOUI. All-' c.1 I had a phyilque like nu OX nn*' ■h-*r.' waan't a gray hair ih my head I "''mi' nut uf Ihe last of lh, fflee ■/Ull -, v fist- ell tubed. !'■ the meanwhile I had Use I ip or dvnnce salary and was. for the firs* "i- in my life, running into debt Uni ti* nlwayi i">i*l my bill** weekly i n I i,, crodil what*' er. Rvi n at th ■ d .if the third «■.., i, i kneu thai th man nnd Imt- Ier woro begin rubbed the capital of the Moguls of its t*hnice*>t treasures, am! he marched baca to Persia wiih a loot his contemporaries thought worth (020.000,000 to enrich his subject!, wlmse descendants tn this dny .'all him "the great Shah." Thut was the apex of modern Persia's glory, but when the nineteenth century wiih young Persia had still Vigor Onougfa left to be courted by Kuropcun inu-n- n re hs. Georgia had gout* to (Inula, which from tlie days uf Peter the OroBl ha.I Riarkod Persia fur iis ipuirry, but Persia eould still be a valuable Great Britain, 1'rai and Rusal schomod t ntrol Persia': Napoleon, always dreaming In pari. Uv. resources; ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ if a umrch ndta, sent General Hardline nml u staff of oOleori tu renrgatii/e the Per sian army ami gi\e offoctlvenOM to Hs ma*.s.s. In fortunately for Persia, it wns iu virtual alliance with Prnnei when the catastrophe nf impj tome Itunlo, free.) from the mighty anlagon lim nf Nnpnlcnn, turned nil iis wrath and ull iis force upnu Pel-tin. From that period tin* descent of Persia tn wardl Hie nbyn has been rapid, ami it has been accelerated by Persian mistakes. Persia has fought tho llritish, th,- Russians uml the Afghans, always to be wonted, until to-day a brigade «f the ezur's troops is force enough to .•impel tt to yield even thu right to moke its own select inn of nu agent to manage its own llnatiees. The .student nf mnrhhl political psy cholngy will find Persia inlerest hig ground, lie will not be long nt work before he will see tlmt Persia's misfortunes nn* due tn the maintenance ut a militarism become degenerate. Lenders liko Nadir Shnh, whu wiih nn Oriental despot) but u soldier antl statesman, have lieen succeeded by men who were Oriental despots wim were useless on the battlefield and in Ihe council. The shnhs uf Poflla Imve been clad iu gnr- geoui uniforms, and have carried r-'nhrcs 'h.v were iifraid to draw Rgnlnil nny '••il tlieir slaves. Tln-v have been in ilolcnt, savage nnd sensual ut tin* same 'inn*. Th. v have Iraim (1 both the vm ■ige and th" treasury, Soma of ihem. liko the I'd-- N'nir ed din, got B glim ng m.tii.n Hml Persia needed t" bo put in touch with the ennfetnpnrnrv world. Nni ^^^^^^ look nt a dressmaker's husband, I Titer hai nt nuthiii' in th' world as trillin' nn* ln/.y ns a dressmaker's ] husband, nn* yet he kin give must nny |man cards an' spades when it comes t' heiri' poplar around home. Have yon ovot noticed how a Intel* lectuui giant's wife slicks around th' background ? Her husband found it very easy I' ml like a humnn hem' while he wu/. spnrkin' her an' buruin' father's coal in th' dimly lighted lor. She never knew whut a really man he wus until she married him. an' now she feels like a odd cuff button. A great feller never gits it rubbed off fer OVOU om* ovenlo'. He never looks right in a theater er laughs when other folks i\n. He thinks he's pnp'lar when fnlks er unly afraid u' him. Vou kin lell by th' way u great feller pays his .-ar fare cr bins a newspaper (hat who- OVOT married him is tremblin' an' won- del m ' n hat he's goln ' I ' Imp her about when he gits home. Th' only tune most great men ever rcfYr t' their wives is when they tell how ihey cook lomethln', an' th' only time ther ever seen with 'em is when Ihey bring 'em down town l' nigti mime property awny er nppear with Yin at some high brflW function where it's necesuary fer th' looks o' things. Then alt Hi' women'11 say, "Whut ou earth du you su|>po**c tie ever seen in that little dried up tiling!" er. "I Wondor how her father mado his moneyT" A great feller's fe never gits any credit. Ot'cnniun* ally her name gits in th' paper in con- linn with Home charitable affnir, but that's only I' boost her husband. Some new phase u' a woman's char nder pops out ever' day nn' I don't re ll he ■ OUE SHRINKING EAETH During untold ages the earth has bepi< slowly contracting, is still slowly con trading, round its -ontral. ever harden ing core. True, its density is four fifths that of hammered steel; but what steel could stand tho contracting force —nr, in other words, the weight—of all that goes tn form our globef Now as the earth contracted mountain maps es were thrown up in ridges, and long sinuous valleys dipped iu folds. Ts da\ the same proCOSI ll still going on Slowly certain shores nre rising out of the deep, and thus towns that two.tho land years ago stood by the lOOahore Bro now inland villages; slowly, but C01 In inly--for no butt rej« can stay (.he Coming calamity--ether shores arc dip appearing beneath tha waves, nml thus over what was onco populous land the sea rolls. There is no quarto? of the world where this secular movement, thi* slow unrest, duo to a contracting earth. is nut manifest. Wo do ool speak of those creases nn lho earth's surface which we eall tbo Andes, ihe Himalayas, the Alps, wrinkles on the face of our good green earth, telling that it in no longer young* -elowly these were thru**: up in a far-past age as the crust Irow together; but wo do insist that la the present day iu England and in Scnlhiuil in .orwny and In riolland. In Australia and In New Zealand, by inland seal and by wldo*-trotching oceans, some land*. arc slowly upheaved one foot a contnry, while oilier lands, again, are luhllding Imperceptibly but sural). While no Inst rumen tl. however sensi ti\e. could rospond In this slow folding. producing mountains, ur to this age lung swinging, producing ocean and con tin onti, uf their existence we have abund anl evidence, Why, much nf the **iory of ' geology is a lab* of vast earth move mental Now ami sgaln the enormous pressure of a cooling uml conducting | globe getl too grent for oven tho solid j rnekl fn bear the itross uud the strain I nf it, and snap goes u rocky st alum Tl en over the Wide earth ihe |ai felt, iu every obiorvatory the delicately poised needles vibrate ,n *■■•'' atlanii«.| waves that radiate from the centre off disturbance] while over the ipol when-*! the earth, crnil has given way—pet imps only a few Inches -devaitatloi ui.I .I. ath, sueh as we witnessed cut | lv nl Mct-dnn. mark one of naiurc'1 moil awesome phenomena, 'il .Iin thrice visited Kur- NF.W USE FOU NETTLE8 Tin* search for u cotton substitutd has hen going on In Rurope for a bm-,1 time, ami many experiments have bei made with lh immon nettle whicli ims beon a promising plant on oecoonC of the strength of its Bore and its read-I growth while under the moat dlscoufl aging COndltloM, with a large yield pej acre. The great difficulty has beet eopnrattng the fibre frum the wuodJ stem, lu a method Of treatment tha| great her husband thinks he (hns been worked out in the Inst two i ht t' remember lhat it'll soon three years, the dried nettle stems ai be In morrow nn' he kin go down town .boiled nboul half uu hour in dilute smll agin. hye, and looienod fibres are thon aopaf] A few litlle kind words mean a whole ated in a mm him* wilh revolving brusr Int mora to th' average womnn than es. The material is thon inbjoetod t| any great problem OF bualnoN deiil her a number of nllernnte bailings in dilu husband may be absorbed In while he lyo and thorough wnihlnga, both and might t' be enterliiinin' her. Hut tit* high pressure. The prn.lui't is a ma never flndl it OUl till she's Dackoil lip 1 of yellowish fibres, free from RUin. tli: nn' gone back t' her fnlks nn th' news 11 nn be bleached, combed and spun iu papers prlnl her side fir-it. Ther's lotl lUltTOQI while yam. This l*t elaimetl t| o dllTeronce bctweon a goml husband have the imoothneae and aoftneaa • an' u good provider. |lla\, wilh tin* strength even great) If your wife is fond o' mimical than that of hemp. The ynru Iris hm treiiis nn' sett lemon I work ymi ought ms i to brilllanl damaak. and can I l' Im willin' t' make a few COnPOtsionl, uscl-'ilone or with other thread) f1 if she objects t' gittin' break fail upholiterloa, ribbons, ami a variety * 'eatUm she looks so ugly in th' mnrnin' fabrics. VIII uul •.» iiv.J ■/ Healili for Every Woman Ko More Headaches From Weakness and Despair Thousands Hrvn Beeu Bestorod to Eohust Good Health by Dr. Hamilton's Pills. •***-£__ Antiquity of Inventions and Stories (By Womia.ll Phillips) J havo been Bomowhat erlticlsod, was put uuiler a dove's wing and sent into ere tliey enlarged i' ami rend tho news. Tins copy ul' the Iliad must havo beon made by Bomo Bueh pro- iL_i*---^4D That sick women are made well by Di : iviiiinn'!* Piiia is proved lu tho following letter: ' ' Pur ■ ear-- I WH ■ thill llllll llolleUtO. I Insl eoloi and WUB OIlBll-i tiled; ;i M'llim pallor, i Imple 11 ■ I bb tt lies ou Bee won I onl) moi i ifylug to ay feollnga, bul beei I thoughl my skin would \\o\ ei look nleo ng tin I grew ■Inxpoudotit, Thon \n) appol Ita failed, I g nv \ et v weal. Vim iniiH routedion, .-ill . Umlen and tablets 1 i r.eil without poi mil non I benefit. \ v IbII m e v f.u.ier pul into m*i hands a box ."I hi llaaiill.ni'-, 1Mb. She placed rnl In ii re upun them, ami nne, thai the;. Imve made me a woll woman I would nul bn witll0Ul tllQItl WlllltOVOr thc.V might coal 1 found Dr. Hamilton's hy their mil-,1 yet searching nellon very unliable In lho tleluale cluuac tm of ii woman's nature. Thoy nnvov once griped am, yei thoy oh- Uhllihod regularity. My appetite |Tew my blood red and pure—heavy rings under my eyes disappeared, .mil to-day my skin Is .aa clear and nn wrinkled M when I wan a girl. Dr, Hamilton's Pills did It nil. ; o >t might forward letter frum Mrs. ,1, V. Todd, wife of n well ■ ■ -, , | iii ill l.'nge "svillo, is proof onl that Dr, Uumiltou 'a Tills are i y.i udorfnl woman 'b medicine, I'm- an ellier pill lull Dr, Hamilton's. 25c, , et bi ;. All ileal era or the Catarrho* 7.0110 Vu.. Iviii'.-tnii, Ontario. year after year, for this endeavor to • 'pen up the claims of old limes. 1 have hi en charged with repeating use* Ic.-.*'. fables wilh no ion mint ion. To- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ day I lake the mere subject of glass.! In (he Roman theatre—tlio Coliseum Thifl material, Pliny says, was discov- . .whi«h eould seat a hundred thoueaud ered by accident .Some sailers, land- people, tlic emperor's box. raised fo Ihe ing on the eastern coast, of Spam, tlghost tier, bnre about the same pro- took their utensils and supported them portion to tho space as this stand dues on tho sand by tho stones that they j to this hall; ami look dowu to the confound in the. neighborhood; ihey kind- tro 0t a six-acre lot was to look n eon- led their lire, cooked the fish, Unishod Biderable distance. ("CoiiBidorable," the meal, ami romovod the apparatus; |,v ,}„. wtly is „-, ,, Yankee word, ami glass was found to have resulted Lord Chesterfield ubcb it in his letters Irom the ultra and sea Kami, vitrified to his sun. ho it has a gnnd English by the heat. Well, I havo I n a doson origin,) Pliny huvb thai Nero ihe ty- linns eritii'ised by a number ol wise .-,.,„, tin tl ii ring with a gem in it. which men, in newspapers, who havo Bttid that ],,. looked through and watched tho LuiB w" :i \\'r-v ■'■'" tol»i 'I';'' there iword-play ol the glatliators-mon who 1fVOT *" " ' >«■*■ '» ;| *™ t"1"-; killed oaeh other nuse tho pooplo dies ol Blcks to produco vitriflention more eloiirly thau with tho naked «vn. gin mmmmmmmm ammmmmmm ng. 1 happened, two years to meet ou fhe prairies ui Missouri, Professor Bhophord, I happened tb mention Hi ta eritlcism lo him, Woll snys be, "n little practical life would ha . fl fr I men from that, doubt,'' Snid In-. "We Btoppod lasl year in Mexico to nook somo vonlsou. Wo gol down from our -a.i.iii i, and pul Ihe cooking apparatus mi sIohob we found made our lire wilh tlm wood we gol Micro, resembling ebony, and when w,< romovod the nppnriilus I here was pun* silver gotten oul of the e in hers by the intense heal of that almost Iron wood. "Now," said he, "Hint heat!nnd tl wna greater than any necessary tO vilri-|lhe aid iy Ihe mall-rials ui glass." Take the whole range of imagiii.it.ive literature, and WO are all wholesale borrower-;. In every matter (hai relates to Invention, to use, or beauty, or form, wo are borrowers. Ymi may glume around the furniture ni the palaces in Europe, and you ihay gather all these utensils of ail nr use; an.l wheu ynu have fixed tho Bhapo un.l foro' in your mind, I will take ynu intu l.m museum of Naples, which gathers all the remains oi the domestic life of i h.' Romans, and ynu shall uut Hml a single one of those modern forms of an ni beaut] ur uso that was not anticipated there. We have hardly added nne single line nr SWQOp of beauty to I he ai tique. All the boya' plays, like everything that amuses thc child in the open uir. are Asiatic. Kuwlmson will show you Hu Xero had an opera glass. Sr. Mauritius I lie Hii lllun slood on tin* promontory nf his Island, ami could sweep ovor tho ontiro sen to tho coast of Africa wllh his nuuBCOplto, which is a word derived from two Qrock words, moaning "lo see n ship." ICvidontly Mauritius, who was a pirate, had a mat Ine ioleseopii. Vou mny visil Dr, Abbot's mi scum, where you will see Ihe ling of I'heops. Uu use n put him live hundred years bo* lure Christ, The Biguot ui the ring is about the si/.e of. a qunrtor ni a dollar, ugtnving is invisible without f glasses. No man was over shown into the cabinets of gems iu Italy wit hunt, being furnished with TnE KING OF CORN REMOVERS Is Putnam's Painless Corn Extractor. Forty yea a' success in many lauds proves thu superiority of Putnam's Painless Corn |_xf ractor over every othor remedy. t_at*o, painless, prompt. I'titnam's Painless i orn Extractor absolutely certain tn reuioi >■ corns. Sold by druggi.ts, price _." cents. brought homo n stone about twenty inches lung and ten wide, containing an entire irenti.se op mathematics. It wonl.I bo perfectly illegible without glasses. Now, if wc are unable to read it without the aid of glasses, ynu may suppose tin* man whu engraved it. had pretty Btrong spectacles. Su the microscope, instead of dating from nur lime, finds its brothers in the bunks of Moses—and those me infant brothorB. PLANTATION KONGS A pari ial ily for music has always been n characteristic oi tho negro ,aie. In tlu'ir native Africa tllO Instruments usod are of the must primitive kind, Ihe drum generally playing a prominent pan. To tho untutored European such mush seems moro remarkable for noiso l hail mcl inly, though under the Influence of ■tomtom' performances ihe nogroeB iti the Wosl Indies and elsewhere have been known lo work thciiHclves up to a pilch of regular frenzy. Negro snugs havo always been popular aimmg us, and deservedly sn. On what dues Iheir attraction depend? As poetical products they are g. rally seriously dofoctlvo, The negro tins 1 n aptly described us it persnii with the intellect nf it child nml Ihe strength uud passions of a full-grown man, and these characteristics are borne out by his poetry. The language of tho plan- taliunsuug is often a disjointed .jumble, scarcely superior to a nursery rhyme, yot it contains u pathos which quite a fair sum to save by giving up oue cigur a wee!.. But thero Is more to follow, Iii those days of political upheaval and commercial uncertainty, capital was entitled to a bigger return on its in vestment than il would be today. The risk was much greater. Though we havo no actual records of Ph.ygian atos of usury, It is fair to assume thai Hie Midas's account drew Hi por coin. interest compounded annually for at loafl! the first 3,000 years, nr* until tho commercial world hud reached a com pn rati vely recent stage of development. Beginning, the efore, 800 years before Christ. Midas put into his savings 1(1 l-S tt ovei) week. At the cud of thi first 10 week- he hud a dollar, The ■■ lerest on $1 for one year is not great, even at I" per cent., but it adds an- othor dime to tlio 10 already saved. Al tho end ui the second year there Is - thing ninie than two dimes to be .■hided. Ai tho end of the first, hundred years fhe accumulations on the li st dollar, at in per cent, compounded, would bo 'HO.Otl. 'I has. .Midas, in Ihe vear 700 B.C. would havo hn I $13,780.(10, result lug from his lirst 10 weeks' _ living 'I he compounding gooa on i -trough t he noxl century so thnt ul tho end of 200 yeors or In tho vear non B.C., Mldna wuuld havo had $189,000,800.0-1 front his (Irs! dollar, Al Ihe end of llie next hundred your or In 500 B.C., the results from those lirsl IO dimes' put away would be $2; 010,028,140,100.03, Continuing this com pmi ml ing through the following _.411 years it is nol 0 * Ipllcato mathematical problem tn arrive at tli sum Midas would have today frum his' first $1 saved. Remember, murenvor, thi**. sum, which , "**_£» would be up among Ihe uncountable tril- £prP 7'"1 lions of dollars, would represent the in- I element of only -{il put away by Midas. KENDAICS SPAVIN •cue. "ALWAYS S.tfEAND-l'RE" Ic_laadtc River, Man., Sept. -6th 1910 Dh.b. J. Kendall Co, Dear Sirs—Will you plwite wall I my address a co] of 3 "Treat. on lite Ha--' r l ! ,. ■ ■ a n . Kendall's Spavin Cure on Iniu •: i Tlmt tells Ihe whole id ry, and It llie czperb nee lhat hundreds of ..in siiutls have had iu the past^o yean,aud It's the experience you will have—"Ilia the only sine remedy"*-* lor Spavin, R in [[hone, Curl), Splint, Swelling and All Lameness I Sold by DniEKlM-- $1.00 • Bolll», 6 bottlei fm l.o. Keen it on hand always. Ue ready fur lite emergency.- Kendall's Hops tli-- puin, Harts ihe circulation, pi aetra'estnd removes tbe emi-c of the dil Iti-. Aik tor a Tree copy of "A Treatise cm the Uurt.e." If not at dealers, write to*— CJ PR. 0. J. IU M'Al I. CO.. Eno-bnrf f-lli. VI. DON'T CUT OUT A VARICOCE VEIN ^ABSORBDIUK* itaiKfilc, dl*ca- - i i .[..■ at, tii.t __■ i ••und slm- _. Mr. It. I . k It ■-'. j! :. ',." . . 1, ; . Jill B thM ri-i.i ly, ■ :.. re : > i-ainl'til and latin i i iii •: ti. -v \, re i ■■ ed and pc In loo'k'Vti.V.nr^ hun \M himself, bu_ily dimes. be idle fur hi in tn look at thu inwithoiit ono. lie cntildn't appreciate the deli- cat.1 line.**: and expression of the faces. If you go to Parma, thoy will show you u gem once worn on the finger of .Mi.lmcl Angolo, of which the engraving heart. This in their great merit, and i it is mure than sufficient to count er- J balance deficiencies of rhyme, metre, grammar, and composition, and to endear thom nol only to the colored nice j but to English-speakers of all races al i_'two' tiViiuKimVvfiiVr'oid" °oTwu2!|tno worl? lvor^h° i,'l/:,M,"l,1":iI,->vtong ,, _„ .. -, * ' I rim« inn.In hv nn-clafv Ml*nof-*nl tuirt iir... runs* made by Christy Minstrel performances In Loudon and elsewhere bear witness to this fact. Plantation songs have been tho de- eyebrows. Layard says ho" would ! '_*„_i?.".11'__■ "? _ 1°!V_!!'IU_° __- _"_!"__ unable, to read tbo engravings on there aro tho figures of seven womon. You must have the aid of a glass in order to distinguish tho interlacing-muscles and count every separate hair on th UmmmmWmmmmmmmmm bi Mtnervah without stron tliey are so cxtrcuielv smal lucated, of all ages and of both sexes. spectacles !'■"' ia doubtful if thero is any kind of Hawllnson theatrical performance that is more universally popular; nor cun it bo [denied that, whether tliey strike the ntimental chord ur the lighter vein wuuld have started a new series of dollar pyramids every 10 week*1. At the end of the first, year's saving he would huve started (ive and a half of these stupendous fortunes. To compare any nne of these with the $14,007.20 he wuuld have saved If ho had received mi interest, certainly presents the interest habit in a favorable light. King Midas will bo remembered aa the man who loved gold so much that he asked Dlonysius to turn everything he touched Into gob!. Dlonysius did *^o i.::"ii:.::,.!K..f oTein* .n .mil t' :■ I ,t ti.-- tru a du ...;. v.- .. " . .,.'.-. . I" l It, i 1.1 "' t_ai ■:.: : I "■ '. book '. '• Ire. : »,._,YOUNG.P.D.F...to LyroaosEMa-Hontr-wl.Ci- ed to himself under the same name. These checks ar.- seldom made out for more than a hundred dollars; and ad to .refuse a ehe.-k from a responsible pox son is a serious affront, no matter how regretfully it may be done, the ■■a.-ihier will more often than not ''tak*? tht* ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ chance" when tlm - up to but at the end of the second dny Mid.is a certain standard of outward r - •■■■- came back and said: "Dlonysius, every- ability. He therefor • iBn thing I tunc.i turns to gold, but I'm amount of the bill frum the pz staining to death. Kvery time I grab "heck, uml hands the guest th.* differ sandwich it turns 22 carat. I say, :" — - ' ■ "- '""— j that tln-v came somewhere from "thi ST.MUL-.MTS SOMETIMES GOOD £*^ ' « j ?&£$*$?£ Alcohol is consumed oa a table bev- cidenta of hia Roihan stories from -.rag, chiefly in tbe form ol light.wines l.gonds of a thousand years before. imi mall liquors such nt beer, al,-. andhmieed Dunlap, who has grouped tlie ■tout, an i thc common alkaloids are hlstorj of the novels of all Europe into cafl in o aud tea and tho to one essay, snys thai in tho nations ol imin ol ch late, il we exclude , Europo there have beei two itcol oe from considoration. hundred and fifty or three hundred dis- The comparatively modern scionce oi tincl Btories. Ho says al leasl two hun- physiologicul chomistry has devoted dred of these may bo traced, before much attention to these substances in Christianity, to tho other side of the Blai .. 8ea. If this wen- my topi.*. [which it is nnt, I might toll ynu lhat -hr effort to determine their precise effect un bodily functions and their po- -.m red ... ...... w iffflr- i;..,,,........... ........ ■.. ,..,- iiS„.ul ,u««r« "unn-MCii il buriio __ LJvrut. i nro, -iueasll. Wl).- Ult thfl THE UNION BANK A of humor, thoy are innocent in tbelr wish this gold habit off nfe before 1 documoul is a forg u Drrnon VCTAD [nature and elevating in their tendency, starve." DTonysius there!'..re had Midas Ut** gracefully or otherwise, a. * t% tr_CV/*V/r&L/ ICMK Would that the sunn could be said of bathe in the river Pactolus and Mblas's 'to ]"* temperament. *—- all music-lml! songs! Eminent states- gold sank into the river sands and be* There is little risk lard Head Oiiicc to be Moved to Winnipeg men, liko the late W, E. Gladstone, came a placor mine. thc event of a hot Imve been listening with ropl attention ior asking too man; 'he Union Bank of Canada held its io theso old-fashioned ballads; while „-_„. " _ »ftftnwT10--n the guest nee a u -:■ |tho novelist Thackeray records his im-jHOW HOTELS ARE HOODWINKED[expression, | ■ 17th annual me.'Mul,' at the bean office i-i Quebec on Monday, December the 18th, 11)11. Tho meeting was u memorable one for several reasons. In tho lirst place, the reports presented by the] I'resident nnd General Manage: wer- tho bost In the bank's history, nn*] te pn ssiuns ns follows: "1 heard a humorous balladist not. long sun*!', a minstrel who performed a negro ballad that, I confess, moistened these spectacles in 0 must unexpected manner. 1 have gazed at thousands of tragedy- queens dying on tbo stago and expiring In appropriate blank verse, and I r i\or wanted to wipe them; they have Tin- hotels of the larger cities are] pnrt, assuring the cashier thai he will eontinuelly being victimized by forgers, thereafter taki one of these gentry, clothed and mnn Uouae to bis ei uored as n man ui affairs, will provide it Is the gs \ himself m some nndeihaml way -per- fl | ;[,,. | - . Imps by bribing an ulliee boy, or even parativeb small an I by having tho printing .1 himself- - greatest Inroa - with letterheads, envelopes, and blank While many fo . checks bearing the name of a respon- are exceedingly clumsy piei : Knstem Provinces. This decision on tlu Pettonkofer sums thojly, If^ there was not'an"impudent fel-1IM WC8t nf ,'i,,i'' SiIP*-'ri"r a"*- 7,j ■" neatly by saying suchjlow looking over my shoulder, reading Ontario, leaving only a comparatively every word." "No, you lie: I've not fow ;n the Provli f Quebec and the redd a Word yOU have written!" This is un Irish bull, still it is a very nil oue. it i- nnly two hundred nml fifty years older than ihe N'.-w Testament, Horace Walpole dissented from Richard Love)I Edgoworth, and thought the other Irish bull was the bosl of th l man wim said, "I would have been a very handsome man, but they changed in the cradle." That comes frnin '■nt authority matter up ve th ogs aie "lihi tbo oil to ii-mnchinc— th.-y can'l tako tho placo of tbe steam ■' st -ii. .■« i *i, bul tney can mak * the action smoother and the running bottor. Only the oil must ool corrode the mail in '' Here we have the crux of the mailer. The healthy hotly may be able to make u»o of minute quantities ni stimulants al moderate intervals without harm and oven with benefit. Hut If the ases tho natural intuition or instinct is very remarkable. No better Instance of this fact could bo cited than the ease of Black Tom. the musical pro* iitry. This boy. burn about 1850, as n too large or too ^froquent,^a | Don Quixote, nml is Spanish; but i toxic quality manifests itself, oi if the -.eu hi no be already injured <*r weaken* id i ■'.. H orgaalc trouble exlsta—an .•iln strn i ■ on tloti rlorati l tis sues Whlell thev nie lllt.-il'l. '.. .-uppiiil. Hence thi dm lot 'a commands to gi\ o ip (toffee, wine, tea, ur tobUCCO COHNSTALK PArilU Kxperti havo d< monst rated thai a verv fair quality nf paper < c be manu factured frum tbe common cornstalk. vantes borrowed it frum the Greek In th, fourth century, and the Greeks stub* it from the Egyptians hundred**, uf years lack. There is one stury which I: is laid pari of tho dlroctora ,....1 sl„,rol,ol,lcrsis1,'™' '" ,"'" S'"!"',7".TT} '"''V<''"-1" 1 ' ■■■' a most, remarkable talent tor music to move the heud office to Winnipeg is a ie. ognll ion of the growing importance of the West, The nd profits for tho year, after de* ducting expenses of management nml ■-1 i g pro**; i lion for all bad and doubt ful debts, amounted to $002,437 ns com- ■ i vlth ' i ,020 for lho pro**, lou ■ i ear, Tl in ingt for 1911 were a! ho rata of 11 por cent, on the bankV it ■■ pnl : e ■ capital foi tho year. The premium on new stock issued Washington has related, ni a man whu u.-nt into nn inn air.I a-k.-d fnr a glass _ of .Link fmm the landlord, who pushed . .,.,„,;.,„, , , .;•,:,,,., u;,,[,. ,|1(. hnlnneo forward n wine glass about h.iii tie* usual *. ■ 'lh tea-eups also in that ' -"'^ ": ;i","';'i' "" ^vrnnbor 30tli day wee- nol moro than half thi prea* amoitntod to $ • I I Theso sums, with ent size. The landlord said, "That ,■„, n0( oarnlngs for tho year, made n fcpwwltt for books, maga_lnes,|Bl« oul of which you are drlnkiug Is , , ,,,. $1190000 ;iV!l;hM„ foi ,,,, in i fur a v.-rv fa r quality of writing ort) yeurs old. "W.ll, Bald the ' paper has been mado, ami'Hm oxperti tWret) traveler, contemplating Its dim* ' '"", '" ,l" '«W ■«"■ ^vidon.U .|e. lire ii would bo possible In any cum- Inutl' a pronortionp, "I think it ii tbe absorbod 301,000, the sum ol - growing communit* for n paper mill j smnllosl thing of Its age l ever san ' waR iron, for rod to the resl accouut, as That story as tt.l.l is given as a stnrv ,. ,--,„., . . r .. of Ann-; three hundred .,..,1 seventy- woil :' ''" »»"■'•"■«> '" "'•' five years before Christ was born, j •-'i'"*' account from premium on itou (Why, all those Irish bulls ore Greek—|st euro sufficient material ol thi** char- actor to koop lbo mill busy throughout ihr* entin intu fnd.b '.in be i;rinvn purpn-ielv^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ mr paper pulp. M should Iw planted ovorj ono ol them! Take the Irishman thickly ■id * ut beforo II is old enough wl irriod around o brick as n spocl* ,n j.,.,,, -rain, ,: ,l'' house ho had to sell; tako Irishman whu bought a crow, nlleg _ , _ ! Itl,, ,|1(! , pow| r,.,„,ri(.,| tl, ]jlt, Uv„ I,,,,, dred years, and he anl to sol oul and 11 It; tal . the litshman who met a • I iv In. laid to hun, " Why, sir, I til yOU weie dead." "Well." ... the man. "I suppose you ice I m not.' "t'h. nn." suys ho, "I would believe Ihe infill who lolll llie :i good d -il qulckei than l would you." woll, __ , - _ _. —_.__. , -, r.,tl _ th. ■ j.n* illl t.n • k, \ ICOro Or mnn* ui Murln* Evo Romody Co.. chi,-nKo „ „. „ pil| , ch_ctoI „..,_ , Alhom, I (llci-ro i.ni.1 Unit In. Ii.-i.l Bonn tli*' .-it When Your Eyes Need Care i ..-I. Weak, lliu. Try Mm ini- _".».* Itftn-H) Ho Hmnn > rjH \. bi Q»li i.i* Trj ii for ll w»i.-r*/ i , il Ciraimlairtl Kyrll IraUm i>".*k in rn.h t'nrhuitv **t Is •-■c't-nni I I I nl ■ ... ■ .,!',. lit *•' >| i.-ik. " t.i i .1-.--I iii mu*. mi phi rim r li „ f.ir I.- mj rein Snt* tli .11 tied hi tlir l'.u>. Iln nn.l ru I pi Mil ir.ul „ i ... r |t..itl.- Iffi- K.ilv.1 in A***|tllu I'iiIics, '_.- iiii.l MV Your Liver is Clogged up Thtt_ Why YouV* Tired—Out of Sorts • llavn No App«lil-.i CARTER'S LITTLE^ UVER PILI-S wilt ent ynu right in * frw d.»y*. tin Iinui, which is u \ m us lar,; the New Testnmcut, written on n skin s.i ihat it eniii.i be rolled up in the com* p:i . el a mil-h.-ll. Now, this is Imperceptible to tl idinnry r\e, Vou hftVO , seen the I Vein t a I ion nf I ndcpeiiilence Iin the < pass ui a quarter of n dollar, 'written with glasses, I have today a pup'T at h a?* long ns half my hand, on which waa pholnj-riiphcii the whole . nn i en I of a l.omlnii newspaper. 11 Tl.pv do llirii dut/. Cute Cnti'lipi- ' lim, Hii- I , lonm-ii, Imlitcfitiii, ind Sick Heirliclw. OUU MU, SMALL DOSE. SMALL FJtICI Genuine n„..iu, 6jguatur» OOSttTOOUB and Ita Cnro.—When ibe eM'tel'iry orgnns lei use In perform tholi functions properly the Intostlnsi bi'i'ome otogged. Tli in is linnwn as cost hole*-** and if neglflctod gives rise to dangerous complication*., rnrmoleo's Veuelaldc fills will etTect n Bpoed] cure. Al tbe flrat. int iinution nf thin liiliiieni the sulTerer should pmcnie H ptekel Of Ihe pills uml put himself un der a COUnO of treatment. The gO0(1 effects of Ihe pills will be almost im mo*)lately evident. !., making a total transferred t** tho n t net o ■ I Df 10/17,000, The mm ol ■ io wn ■ written off bank premlsei anl and tho oflli oi ■' pension fund roi olvod ! 10,000, It .r ing b bah ai t.e,i forward ol ■ I D7fl, ,\ further exaiuln itlo i ol thi roporl ■hon - thai ilu h ■ I making rapid ogresi In oi or) .let.an tnenl Tl •■ amount 11 notes in i In ul il Ion It ed during the yenr i-\ l,3u l, 10 I, ths total depot its by <*■*.. Si * whi.-h non stand, nl M*1 '■'■' 00 I I ho i n I up capital Increase I bj f:-i 1,00 I, nnd Ihe rosl an lit bv | early $00 1,000 The total a ol i of the bank now stand ni * i 8,-1,1*1,000, as com pn rod with .-I Id, ".".uinl fnr ihe previous year, The Increase in the bunk's capital, doposlts and as-et- puts ;i in -i position t" "I" a Inrgor huslnore during tho coming yoar. The o Increases nlso nhow a gain in the confidence bf the public. During the vear the Union Bnnh absorbed the United Umpire Bnnh of Toronto, winch had twolvo bronchos In Ontario ami a paid up capital of rj-m'.i, , Later in the year ii ostnbllahed n branch in London, Rnglnnd, boing one nf the four Canadian banks having branches iu Great Britain, Altogether tbe bank bni been show* Ing marked progress nml enters upon the new year equipped to dn even bei ter work although ho was both blind and halfwitted. I.ate nne Iii gilt, after Turn's master had retired, ho heard tho sound of inns:,- proceeding frum the drawing- room. Some one was playing tho piano with deli.ale touch ami nn ordinary skill. Dressing himself hastily, he stole downstairs, and oponing the door of the drawing-room, peeped In, The sight which met his eyes almost took Ins breath nway, The talonted must- . ian proved to bo tbo blind black boj 11 ■ played not only some of the -■tuple songs he had already heard per- tulined OU the piano, bul difficult exit iob whlcb he had heard the daugh* in of the house perform, exhibiting Inl) the v hile :• ecstasy of delight. Thc blind bu-. was playing the pin no for ■ ■ i Into in his life! The fame of the new i ro llgy | rend far and wido. ProW that tune Tom was allowed free ncrttts to thu piano, to his groat do* llghl, and n ns n source of wond< t to the many visitors who fiockot] t-» hear him. Old airs which people had for- 'ii"t*i. md which Tnm could not have heart] more than once, woro played with the t;r atost .n.iiracy. Ilia man- n- Induced tn make a publh exhl i. tl 'ii of Iln boy's tnh nt, tie perform i il n vni lous cities of the Southern Bts i the llavo-laws prevented blm iii-i i * in tho North), and on the outbreak of tl"- ;:. at Civil War be ■vn • i ii,. i i i Englandi where he played to crowded nudionces in Bt James's llnlli with the tirm'. name ^^^^^^^^^ The forger arrives at the scene of operations on the same day as hia written matter. At each of the Imtols he OngagC- mure or less expensive moms under tho name of the man to whom he has addressed a letter, and asks for his mail. Aft.-r running up Bmall bills In all these hostolrlos. ho will announce his departure. To each cashier he will offer, in payment of bis account, the check ho has mado payable to the man v. hose namo ho has assumed, identifying himself by tho letter he has address- style of perforation, aa signature. Wart* will render tho prottlost bands unsightly, Clear tl sconces away by using H olio way'i Corn Core, which acts thoroughly and painlessly. Joni "I Bay, 1 funny thing to recite mild and m a great le Jim: " Abl that t i 'nan 1 niee 111 ' Jones *.'.;'' * -..I about him V ' Jim: "i ih. ■ •- heard thai Shiloh's Cure STOPS C; i'ook. Foolish mums why u.i.i't King Mldns, tho gold Invef, try In WV0 1 I CI M ■ 0 I 01 I Uo cou). hit «■ gli ■ n I ho world a wondor* ful example ui Ihe value Ol thfl laving habit, t-tesides, ho wonl.I have left . . iv- member* of his family ilivo in.!;,. Mbln was ono of thfl ol in i gia, Ab the Phyrglnn line wis wiped oul b) tbo CimmorTani • 070 i'.'',. we ni:i\ nssumo ho lived nboul ""'i it*'., i * nl leasl S711 years ago. ii King NTIdns had started In saving l'l cents n vveet h" w mild hav >■ ■■ |i v e I a dinie, therelnre. on e:t h nl I 10,870 weeks. This would make hltn the nenl littio mm of -'i 1,007.20, Mthough nol ;, fortune in the e .lav- . M l,»O7,20 e- The Rs^fO Lamp Tlie Lamp That Saves 1 he Eyes CliMrtn natuia!ly nr-vcr tliinli of pouiblc s'rniii on lii'-ir 11■• . . u ponng over ;i fa in il i '"sok. It ii up to you ton tt they do i Inan tlic-if young eye. iln- <■ ImiR - by rending under I poor light. The Rayo Limp i> nr. insurance og-iimt eye 'troubles, alike for young ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ and ul.I. llie Hay.) is n low-priced lamp, bul it ii eointructed on the soundest icientifio principles), and ilu-rc is not a belter l.m.p cude al am price. It is easy on llie eye because its li,:lit b so suit and while and widely dilluscd. And a Rayo Lamp never flickers. Easily lighted >vit!i,»iil n-moviim sluJe er chimney; easy lo rl-an .ml nwfelu Suliil liiasslhioii|;hoiil, will, hanilwunc nickel finish; also in sn.ny nthet styles and limshe— Atk your dealar tu sl^.w vou l,i, lias ,'t R >ro l.mps: or wsilc lor JrKrspliw tirc.Ur lo any ag.i.c, ol The Imperial Oil Company, Limited i^ ft{*_iW7%r4 \ cough li often the furomnner of nerloiiB pulmonary afflictions, j*el thero i-i ■ ii pi i i ire within th.* reach ui nil in Dlnklo'fl Anti*CottBum|it've Syrup nn "l I time nml widely rccotfniied lemedy, whieh, if roaorfed '** at tne i eon tinn of a cold) wi'i InveHnldy give roiiof, nml bv overcoming the troulde, guard the ivitotn from nny lorlona enn Bcquoneoi, Price M cent", nt all deal- WALL PLASTER Board Mkea tln> plnoe ol Lnth, and ih Rreprnof, 1*1 nt. Tin- "l-'.niipi-"" branda'of WoodBlier and llnniwuli Planter lor -food oonitmolion. HHAl.li WE BEND TOO FLA8TEB Lll r.llATfJK.,- The Manitoba Gypsum Co., Ltd. WINNIPEG, MAN, FP.EE PMgfr 01-JLL1-WA.CK, BRITISH COLUMBIA. em fee************************************************** 'CHILLIWACK FREE PRESS PARSONS New Spring Goods Spring Furnishings, Boots & Shoes All of the latest style and finish, i I Terms Cash. Cash discount on all J * amounts over one dollar. f \ HART BLOCK j Formerly (The New Km,) Printed unit iiublislied every Tliurstluy from It-i ntlicc, West mi nn tor Street, Chilliwuek. Subscription price 81.00 per year in advance to all point* in British Kmplre : tu United Stated 11.90, ADVRKTISINO KATES Dlspttiy ndvertlsliiK rates mode known on appll- ntiitii to tin- puhlUhcr, Classified advertisements, 1 cent per wonl each Insertion, ptiyaul- in advance, Display advertisers will please remember that to insure 11 chaiutc, copy must Iw in not Inter than VVetllicsUav tii.iriiii.K. (*. A. IIAIWKK, 1'iiWisticrand Proprietor. Local Items eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee* I DO YOU WANT A GOOD DOOR CHEAP? Wo havo in stuck a number of standard doors, assorted sizes, which we purchased at a snap price. We bought these doors right and will sell them right. The Prices Range From $1.75 to $2.15 Compare these with regular prices and come and see the doors. Come early us they will not last long ut these prices. P. 0. Box 243 Phone L2442 ChilliwacK Planing Mills 4*44*4*M*++4***.*>*++4+++++^^ ! A. G. Brown-Jamison Co. Ltd. SUCCESSORS TO A. (i. BROWN & co. Hock Cmshen Itoml Machinery Contractor. Equipment Mining Misi'liinery Ilnilcrsi Engines Interstate Automobiles Farm Implements Dairy Supplies lirainni Motor Trucks lliucluimil Milium; Machines : 1048 Main Street Vancouver, B.C. '**>*******************<■+**+**+******+**********+*+•*** I.. F .Croft, at Mee Studio for photos For photos ut Chapman's—phone 39. Coal and wood—City Transfer Co., phone 111. Slock Foods—Chilliwuek Implement it Produce Co. All coal and wood orders receive prompt attention. Phone 11). City Transfer Co. WANTED—(Jirl to do light housework. Apply Mrs. A. 8. Watson, (lore avenue. Horn—In Chilliwack, on Friday Feb. 23, to Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Barrett, a sun. Light uml heavy draying handled with care and promptness. City Transfer Co., phone 19. I). E. Munn, manager for F. J. Hart & Co., city, is the possessor of a line new touring ear. WAnted—A good driving horse quiet and thoroughly broken. Apply to John Orr, Yale road. Xo reference whatever is made to separate schools in the hill extending the boundaries of Manitoba The Delhi Durbar at the Lyric Theatre to-night and to-morrow afternoon and evening. Don't miss il. A bnsohnll meeting is announced to he held to-night at (inlanders' tobacco store for organization purposes. Ladies and gentlemen's clothes "lined and pressed. Satisfaction guaranteed. Your Valet, opposite Opera House. He suro to see the first spring opening of millinery at MissHoyle's across from the post office, on Wednesday March 6. Wanted—A good smart girl to assist in Johnson's confectionery and tea rooms. Apply at once to S. Johnson, Johnson's confectionery. Dressmaking nnd Ladies Tailoring in all branches, hy Miss Northcote N'owel st., or immediate attention given to all. orders left at W. T. Holfe's store. Wasted—By solier hard working Frenchman, work at clearing or general farm work. Apply for references to E. W. Appleby care ol Cawley & Carmiehael. Direct From The Tea Gardens in Ceylon to their .helves is the way Ashwells are buying STERLING BRAND Tea. None lietter in Canada at 11) cents a pound. Handsome Camera to sell with all appliance. Been used twice. Cost .tlO in England but owner will take *35. To he seen at "Spcrnn_t," Princessavcnue. Chilliwack. There is a Seed Scarcity; place your orders early with Ashwells Big Store. They ar- agents for Steele Briggs Seed Co., D. M. Ferry iv Co., and Itcnnie Ar Co. ; all at eastern prices. Taking a tumble to or from thc old post oiliee (as you choose) seems to Imi a very popular diversion though not a very graceful one in many eases. A number of rather bad falls have already resulted owing to the huilding being raised nm an additional step placed at thc en trance. Spring Opening at Ashweus in Dry Goods, Gents Furnishings, Slmes, Ladies Tailored Suits, and all al Departmental Store prices. A new orchestra has been organized in the city, with Miss Hill ns ..'iider. Practices are heing held three times a week and good progress is lieing made. Hefore sending your money away to Eastern Catalogue houses get the prices and see the big display at Ashwells big store. You are boosting Chilliwaek when you spend youi' money there. Horn—To Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Laughlin, Camp Slough, on Feb29, a son. Baby Laughlin is entitled to a silver cup engraved, and given to all babies born on Feb. 29, by Saturday Sunset, of Vancouver. On information laid by Deputy Gitnio Warden A. P. Cummins, S. Mules appeared before Stipendiary Magistrate, J. Pelly, on Monday, charged with shooting ducks on the Hurst Hop Co. preserve. Mr. Motes thought he was within the bounds of the law He was assessed the minimum penalty of 815 ami costs. Mr. Bower, who has been engaged in the jewelry business with lleg. E. Broadhead, on Young street, left this week for Lytton, B. C. where he expects to start in business for himself. Mr Broadhead ha-secured the services of L. II Stevens of Vancouver, who besides lieing a first class jeweler and wntehiiiuker, is highly qualified ns an optician, Chilliwack is being favored with ideal weather. Cool nights and pleasant days of bright sunshine. Dust and automobiles are Hying through the streets. Many proper ties are changing bauds, work on Ihe post oiliee has started, the hns pital is now open, ballasting on the C. N. 11. is progressing, and everything generally betokens activity and development, to which will be added the excitement of an early provincial election. E. W. Seahold, of this city, and James Seat-old, his brother, of Vancouvor, went up the Eraser valley for the week-end with the brothers George and Ed. Smith, and spent the day at George Smith's ranch, a lew miles frnn Chilliwack. Mr. James Seabold is building a live storey block in Vancouver, on Hastings street east. This includes three stores and 108 rooms of tho most modern type.—Westminster News. Thc Badminton tournament held on Monday night reversed the sue- esses of the lirst tournament. Miss Mat-den and H. Cline succeeded in winning three sets at the lirst, Miss Coote and A. J. M. Bound one and Miss S. Buthcrford and R. S. Boss one set each for their club, while Miss Cawley and W. Frost won two sets, Miss Knight nnd K. Brock, Miss Brown and C. Huteheson each won one set for their club, thus making the tirst players win by one set. These contests are always keenly contested and full of fun as well. ***************************************************** I THE MERCHANTS BANK ! I Established QF CANADA 1861 Capital paid up Reserve Funds $6,000,000 $5,458,878 Farmers Business Money advanced to Farmers at rcasonnlile rates, notes handled on most favorable terms. Sale CHILLIWACK BRANCH N. S. MACKENZIE, Manager ****************************************************** Millions Know thcValue of the Name orv a wagon For the past sixty years the Studebaker haa set the standard In farm wac'ons. Confidence In Studebaker value and Studebaker service, has been handed down from father to soa The best proof of how Studebaker service is appreciated Is shown by the fact Ua Sl.—: t plant covers 101 acres of _round-the largest vehicle factories in the world. If you want the wagon of finest appearance a nd -l longest life you'll choose a Studebakp- r ^andletusshowyouscoresofpoi.-s-ois ▼ For Sale by The Chilliwack Implement and Produce Co. Cows For Sale Twn good rows fur Hull-, .nn- now milking, tlu. nili. r .liu- lo frislu n ul mill Mm. lit. These nre i xtru good Block. For pi Ices eu-., apply io •Jt-tl' J. R. Pointer, Young road. Dog Lost I/ist—A black retriever dog, answers to the name of "Towner." The dog wears a narrow collar. The Under will lie suitably rewarded by phoning 8. A. Chadsey, F 64, H. C POOK i Sueii-ssnr in WM AKi'lllllAI I' HEATING AND SAN ITA HY BN'UNEEH STEAM AND HOT WATER FITTING BATHROOM FIXTURES A SPECIALTY Estimates Given WELLINGTON STREET Phone 58 P.O. Box 2115 For Sale For Sale cheap— A large team of horses, new harness and wagon for heavy work. Also pony, harness and buggy, stumping outfit, blocks and cables. Apply to \V, N, Stringer, 26. Sardis. Electric Cooking Appliances El Perco For your morning cup of coffee. Price $7 and |8 El Stovo The heating disc for general light cooking. Price |5 El Tosto Makes delicious toast on a moments notice. Price $4 Hotpoint Iron Too well known to need special mention Price 94.75 See these appliances at our Chilliwaek Offlce. All are Operated from an Ordinary Lighting Socket EL C Electric Railway Co, Limited LIGHT AND POWER DEPT CHILLIWACK Central Property F.J. Business site in centre of the City PRICE $45 per front foot TERMS HART & CO., Ltd. The Chilliwack Specialists ; FREE PRESS, C-tfLUWAGK. BRITISH COLUMBIA-. -Jjk MISS HILL Teacher of Pianoforte, Momberol M. L. o( A., Graduate of Madam Johns' Private School, New York Wishes pupils lor Piano or Organ. Apply*Henderson block, over Maple Leaf Itcstraunt. C. T. Vradenburg CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER ESTIMATES FURNISHED C Fletcher St. ChilliwacK NOTICE We have a new anil mi-tn-date plant with the latest methods for all kinds of Cleaning, Dy_m- and Pressing, Expert help tor nil branches. Special attention will l«- given to'all Mail ami Express orders from Chilliwack ami lho Valley, Wo solicit a trlnl. JARVIS DYE WORKS 428 5th AVE. W.. VANCOUVER COLUMBIA CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC VANCOUVER Teach rs nf Voice, Plana and Violin In'Chilliwack weekly. Apply liy iMisii.i .anl i.t tl,.- r.nisiTviinirv i sol I'.iniiihviiy Wesi. Vancouver mul nur tfiu'lu-r ..III rail oil roll. .I< >lIN OliAUGHTON IIAItltlsTUK, SOLICITOR, NOTARY I'l'lll.lC vVcsimillstor Trust Hiiilding CIHI.I.IWACK, B.C. K. A. Henbehron, O.E. (KM.E, .ss.Hl.vri: MBMnRII OP IIIK CANADIAN -IK'lirrV OK CIVII. KSIIISKBIIS II. ('. I.ANtl Sl'llVKVOK limine. 10 ,v 11, Westminster Trust Hlock CIIII.I.IWAi'K, 11.0. THE EMPRESS HOTEL CHILLIWACK, I. C. Opposite II. 0. E. Station Fitted with modern conveniences nnd comfortably furnished throughout. SANVEL SUTOH, Proprietor »♦♦♦. Theatre The Lyric Swecial Attractions for Two Nights Only Friday and Saturday March 1st and 2nd OVER. 3000 FEET OF MOVING PICTURES OF The Delhi Durbar A trip to India to witness one of ihe most spectacular pageants of Modern History, on tiie occasion of tlie Ottlcial Coronation of King George and Queen Mary as Rulers <>f India. Probably the most S|>eotacularCeremonious display since the days of Anthony and Cleopatra, (ini'l draped elephants wilh their Royal Passengers, Indian Princes in iheir lloyal Holies, Barbaric Potentates in all tbeir Oriental Splendor wilh a background of a tremendous panorama id' soldiers and a multitude of people conservatively estimated, 160,(100. FRIDAY SATURDAY 8 p.m. 8 & 9.15 p.m. ADMISSION 25 Cents. SATURDAY MATINEE 3 p. m. ADMISSION 15 Cents. APPLICATION FOR TRANSFER Take notice that I. D. R. McLennan, ol Chllllwaek, B. (.'., hereby apply tothe Hoard <>f l.i.i'ns.- Cotninissioners for the Cliy of Chllllwaek at thc meet ing to be held on March lillh 1912, for leave to transfer ilu. hotel license (or the sale of liquor ut the Empress hotel, Chilliwaek, 11. 0. from myself lo Samuel Sutor. Uaied this sili day of February 1912. 1). lt. Mcl.l'NNAS. For Sale or Exchange HoUteln Hull Calf, registered. Sire. Prince Rundolph. Dam. Emily H. bred by Win. Arm.tr.mg. Ililllnirsi, Ontario, Record nf Umn. 10,000 pounds of milk j iu twelve months, For particulars and terms apply to JAMES 111 SCAN. 24 d lli.rriia.il, MilN WANTED Reliable men with soiling ability and sonic knowledge •if tht' fruit business or Nursery Stock, to represent us in British Columbia as local and general agents. Liberal inducements and permanent position for the right men. STONE ft WELLINGTON The Fonthill Nurseries (Established 1837) TORONTO . ONT. It Has B.en Proved That Machela, Nature's Scalp Tonic, bus a record for growing hair—95 caws out of lOfl. It is the only remedy ever discovered tbut is similar to the natural hair foods or liquids) of the scalp. Re- moves dandriifl. Prevents falling hair. Each package contains a packet of Mueheia I'ry Sluimpuo Powder. Price for complete home treatment. 81.00, Sold and guaranteed by II. .1. Barber. NOTICE TiikV IK it l.r tlmt iippliratioii Mil) Im* iiu.ii tu iii.-ii.Mni uf i.u-ciiM* Commlmoneri nit I in* IU » Ll«n*Jcl|H Court for tin* City uf CtiilliHiu-k nt iti mutt -ittine, fur ii lir.ii-t- tu -.11 Win*/-. iDlflU, Ht-vr ur ulli.-r I'.-rin. nt.**.. ur uif>>vi. n(iris l.tnimr hy Id- tuli in that certain uulldlni know huh tin- Com* iih-tiinl H..I.-I *iiu.iii- uii llie iiurtlicrly side vt UY-.tmliul-.-i ilrcal un lul .i. nn.l tin* WMtcrl]> 1*4 uf lut ii. HIiM-k XV uuw kuuwn ui lut j mul WMt- -iiv i i..f i.ii ti in i.i.«k XVII,l)iv|iltin"B"ortlM Cltj of CliilllwHi'k tin* <wmi* i-uiiiniiiiux nut \tm Uiin i*i iih.in-, nrtuull) futm-liol mul umhI fur Hotel pulp..-.-,. Till* i.ilh.w mi: i- il mjiy uf tbt' villi ;ippln ati.-u: '* Tu tin* Bmiril uf Mi'i-ii-m* CummiMiunvr** fur " th« City ufChilllwiti.k. B.C. " I, Juhii M.'liuiiiilil uf tlu* City of Chllliu ink " In tlir pr.'.iiuvof Hriti«liCi)Uimliin. Mul.-lki-ip " cr. lur.M apph fur N llifliw lu m-II Wm.-*. " apirit**. l***«*r. nnil t'thrr lYrnutilnl ur int.ixiiat " hut litiiiur liy ret-ill in thnt mUin tiullrtini In " thi* Cily uf CliilliwHi'k known n<« tin1 Cnunnrr " (M| Muti'l l(tUat« uii (lie nmthi'tlv siili- nf "Uwtmlniw street on lot ft mul tin* w,-,ini> " I t ni lut fl. Murk XV, mm kmmii nn tut .. mul " WV-Uily I fuflut fl. ii) Murk XVll Wt-Mmi " "K"nf tin- City uf Chilli»Hrk. tlir Nun. nm " t.niniiit nut li'*.*. Iinui JA ruuntKHCtuully furtiiuli ' 111 fOl ll.it.-I pliriM'M-S iltlll ..I U llllll till' .Ippll " ''Hilt i» Iff********.'* " ikitiil thin tlmt tlm uf K-lirmiry A.It. Ittl*. John Miihiuulit." IhitH nt CIiIUIwhi k II C lint lut .Im nf Klmi mt l"l* Jiiliii Mi'Dutmlil. l.r--*.-.'. A|iplli'iiut. Britith Columbia Electric Iy. PASSKNOKII SKItVll-K IVifliNiiinil— Leave Arrive Arrive Chwk. Wcrtniin. Van. ,,,,8.80 a.m. 11.80 18.10 ....1.16 n.in. 8.4*i 4.80 ....ii.oo pin s.m ii.ito Ix-iivc Arrive Arrive lllgiln. WcHlmili. Van. 1 8.80 a.m. 3.66 0.46 KlIMlsnlllld— have Arrive Arrive 'mi.i Van Wisiiniii, Clink •' 8.80a.m. 0.80 12.16 4 12 10 noon 1.20 .1.60 S fi.no p.m. «. in II. 10 huve Arrive Arrive | Traiii Van. WchiiiiIii. Hindu. II 8.03 p.ltl, 4.06 O.lHl Train. 8. . 6. Train KIIKIOIIT HKIIVII'K ..illiv.ie l< 6 mi a.tn. I llally Rxri'pl \Hiieoiivcr 7,00 ' \ Sunday .111 |....<n, i.gci trains huudle Kxpnm. ROLLER RINK Open every evening from 7.30 to 10, and Saturday front "2.;.0 to 5. JAMES O'HEARN CHILLIWACK CITY COUNCIL Communications, petitions, and a proposed system of sewerage, as outlined by City Engineer Crawley, furnished the weekly bill of fare at the City Council session on Monday evening, at which nil members wore present. The Imperial Oil Company has been in the habit of storing large quantities of oil, gasoline, etc., within the city limits, which hal.it has been considered dangerous. The Mayor reported that he had interviewed ;i representative of the Company and that the same would not he stored within the city limits hereafter. A communication was read from jailor Munro, at Nanaimo claiming that ihe city luul romittod $15 short on account. Referred toolty clerk, who was asked to write for fulhor information. The Kooteiia.v Klectric Co., wrote linking the rates paid for electric light and power. Architect Hooper recommended payment of 82,000 to J. C. Robertson on city hall account, which was aeei'llled. A lei Ier was read from city solicitor Howes, re procedure as to obtaining wator privileges. Filed for reference. li A. Henderson appeared before the Council regarding a Sub-division on Williams rond. According to the plan submitted provision was made lorn ten foot lane only, and iln- plan was referred back that provision might he made for a twenty foot lane. C. II. Reeves was present and stated that he had constructed and paid for sidewalk fronting on his property on Young road, and same was ready for inspection by board of works. Tenders for supplying tin; cily witli lumber for thc season were read from C. J. Downham, the Chiliiwack Planing Mills, and the Abbotsford Timber and Trading Co. This matter was laid over for oue week. Mr. Sanford and others made application for a live foDt plank sidewalk nn Lewis avenue, between Young street and Cook street. Referred to city clerk for report. I). C. McQIllivray and others applied for privilege of laying a five foot plank walk on the east side of Xowell street subject to approval of Ixiard of works. Leave was granted. A petition was presented by residents of Gore avenue asking that the avenue be graded and gravelled or macadamized. Referred to board of works. The police commission recommended that the motion appointing patrolman Carey, caretaker of city linll he reeinded nnd that jailor Harding lx- appointed. Thc Mayor explained tliat the chain gang re- Alilenunn re appoint- • ornament- .1- .ity hull Mayor Waddington, Eckert nml O'Hearn tvi ed a committee to procur al trees ami shrubbery f grounds, _ At this point ihe report of the city engineer as ton sewerage system j was submitted. The report was in detail giving cost of main sewer. laterals, septic tanks, pumps, lilter! beds, etc. besides outlines and drawings of proposed scheme, the j total cost being in the neighborhood of 8210,000, complole. This estimate is given to cover all streets, which in many cases do not require sewerage at present or for some. time lo come. :-***+*+-i.************->****->*->**'!-*.:.***+.>****++4,t*t*^i.#<, WE HAVE IT! Everything' You Require for Housecleaning THE BOY SCOUTS in Many Shados Renovators The Hoy Scouts of Troops One nd Three on Tuesday night proved themselves very successful in .emu iiTnl't. Aboul nine p iu. llioy pn cceded very stenlthly toward the militia barracks, On t'cachinglhero, scouts were hidden at several posls, there lo await orders. Tlie captain of tho militia on his wny lo roach his horse and buggy wns takon prisoner. Thon a despatch was soul to Ihe officer iu charge inside the drill hall lo stale Ihnl thoy had passed their sentries, if uny, and surrounded their camp, nlso asking lo state that their captain would be held! until satisfactory terms could be nr- I ranged. The Scouts afterwards wore drilled liy Lieut. Goodland, and will again to-night skirmish willi the militia. AJabastine Furniture Kalsomine Brushes Step Ladders Curtain Stretol Gloss nnd Flat-tone Paints Painl Brushes Ceiling Brooms Denmarh & Burton PHONE 10 ********** ****************** ************************* A Cowboy's Girl. Mr, Gerald flute hasdomonslrated beyond a doubt that an old adage, ! "A prophet is without honor in his, own country" is un exploded theory., A native westerner he begun his career with the important desire for; experience, which wns tlie great requisite that he needed. He gained it in Western Canada, anil after having tlie same polished in Non- York as a star or leading man ofI several big successes, lie comes back | to us in a brief tour of the stirring western comedy drama, "A Cow-; bby's Girl," his biggest success in the United Slates. Audit tnaysafoly be said that no strictly western play has created such a furore ns this | since tlie production of "The Virginian," or "The Squawman." The charm of this piece consists in in the fact thnt it is a picturesque yet remarkable faithful delineation of ranch life, the action lieing rapid aud stirring, witli a vein of humor typically and colloquially western, A dainty romance lends added charm and holds the audience with a gripping heart interest. To anyone Buffering with acute attack of melancholy no better tonic could be described than a visit lo the Chilliwack Opera House next Tuesday Night March 5 and see Mr. ♦+•>**♦****•>****•:•*-+*•:■•',•*+*•!•+***•-•**<•*'.• ********* ********* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * X Your Suit or Overcoat Built Expressly For You Perhaps you prefer your clothes ninth-1' which is all tlic more reason why you s your measure louM borne to The Fit-Reform Store for your Suits nnd Overcoats partment is at your service. Designers are at your service in new and elegant materials await your Our Special (Irder De- The Famous Fit-Reform and hundreds nf patterns inspection. We will he pleased to submit to you patterns and prices For Your Spring Suit. CHAS. PARKER Your Out Utter. Fit-Reform Clothkr. quired Ihe constant attention of Chile and an excellent company in patrolman Carey and that in the "A Cow Boy's Girl." Seats are meantime ho could not look after! now on sale at While's music store. the oily hall, hence the recommonda- Prices 91.00, Tic and ".lie. tion. Same was adopted. , «. -.... The rental lobe asked thoMuniei- * 3*m Ml" pal Council for oiliee room, in tlie .-ity hall. Council chamber, cells, light, heat nud earetuking was placed at 840 per month. The condition of the opera house (day, but their A couple of Industrial workers of the World blew into the city Saturday and after sizing up lho situation began industriousoperatlons on Mon- ***<■**',********************+********++*****+* * | Mountain View Snap lay and experience lis. regards exits, was brought up for j W'J3 lls brief, as it was interesting. discussion and this matter was given j Dlll-IR tlie afternoon the pair visit- over to the chairman of the fire, «1 Goo. Clark and tried to arrange water and light committee to deal forithc sole of a few cases of bias] vvjtl, ing powdor putting up n plausible Tlie disposal of garbage, ctcjstnryasto their possession of the within the city limits, by the cily scavenger was commented upon and chairman of hoard of health asked to investigate and report. CHILLIWACK OPERA HOUSE March 5th TUESDAY NIGHT Tho hesl show of the SoOSOn Johnny Pringle presents MR. GERALD CLUTE Ami nnd an Excellent Com-Kiny in the Success Big Western Comedy j 'The Cowboy's Girl" A REAL LAUGH SHOW Prices—oOc., ,75c. and $1.00. Seats now on sale at Whites Music Store. stuff, but no snle was mnde. About seven o'clock in thc evening the two "Workers" appeared again at Mr. Clark's home each witli a box' of powder. About the same time Mrs. C B. Reeves 'who resides across the street, noticed two men carrying two boxes of powder from the barn where Mr. li.-ovis stores quantities of ihe oxplosise. She I notified Mr Reeves, who in turn I askod Mr (lark if he had seen any1 I thing of the men. Tlie two men at the moment were I lying tn muke a sal.-to Mr Clark, and the industrial prospects of the promoters blew up. The police were phoned for, and during tin-short interval, lightning I changes in scenery were made in lho vicinity. Clark rationed |tos-i session of one artist, the other, escaping lo tlie mill yard adjacent, whom he wus later taken in loll. The pair appeared before Magistrate McGillivray nnd Mayor Waddington at (he Court house Tuesday mom* ing and draw six months each witli hard labor, und were taken lo Westminster where thev will have op. Iportunity of practicing tlieir Industrial propensities along well do- lined lives. They gave tlieir names as Geo, (Irimes and Chas. Grundy. | hailing from Washington We have lor sale an ideal building lol on Second Avenue, close in. which can be bought for $475 cash If you intend building it will pay you to call on us for particulars. Chas. Huteheson ® Co. REALTY AND INSURANCE AGENTS CHILLIWACK ***************************************************** USEEUL AND ACCEPTABLE Household Articles Sj E. Howard spoeifl live of Sells Ltd., the rcpresentn- ell known London Publishing hoii-e, has I n in Chilliwack this week in connection with the compilation of un important publication " British Coh ubia, it history, people, commerce, industries and resources." ■> El Boilo The little immersion heater. B oils wnler in a few seconds. El Stovo The BtOVO which boils your kettle quickly Vt. -*Jm III Toaster 3tove—For all cooking purposes as well as toasting. 'El Perco Makes dolic urns coffee in ut 'few lililUles. Phone 257 S. PUGH Chilliwack CHILLIWACK FREE PRESS Ideal Protection Against Inroads ol Catarrh By Breathing tho Rich, Balsamic Vapor oi Catarrhozono You Prevent and Cure All Head, Nos., .and Throat _Jisoa_e. iem bar this: h lien using ' iuliulo ll I :li . ti, thi Villi (loi! 't Cutarrli ozone .nliug vaj-i t catarrh, In tako thai ■',,lll at. ■ii. '•What is the mutter with your wil' ■ iv iIio'b gol Iter hand iu a sling." •■liv.-Ur.-s driving,' " Automobile?" "Mo: imil." ii i in in.* biiiigs .such [jronipl re* Hoi ■ yrta well un Invigorating influ- i iuc, ur .-'u i horougbly uud speedily curofl throat i rouble**; ua "(laturi ha mho." Doctors, hospital i, suitituri inns, all say thai for those who Buffer from changeable weather, for those who lire | ispow I Lo cntii li, lung Iroubli . li ii I'm or broiivl , uo i , ■ .ii i-. *u ituii ; en able uh "I !u* Victim of Chronic Catarrh Cured. I. contracted a Bovere cold while i lowing my occupation of furniture tra- voiling, and eventually It developed Into Catarrh. Tho desultory mode of life I waa following gave me very little chance to attend to tho Catarrh condition, and at last 1 became a victim of Chronic Catarrh. I bought a large package of Catarrhozotie, used it aa pcr directions, and havu never been bothered since. I will be only too glad to give any information I possess to any poison suil'ering from the disease that was the banc of my life two years. A. II. SWARTZ, Brockvillo, Out. for certain cure, for relief in an hour, uso Catarrh ozone, the only direct, breathable medicine. Two months' treatment guaranteed, price $1.00, smull-i* size 50c; at all druggists, or tin* Cuturrhozouo Company. Kingston. Out., and Buffalo, N.Y., U.S.A. i Iwnoi -■ lure Lho ti < Imuilou il_i • Uow did yoo come to punc- ••Run over a mill, bot- - " lUiln '! ymi BCC il in linu-J' iur- " No, iii|L khl bad Ll uu uat." Oliver Uerford once onterotl uu mnn vitiug restauraul in a small S'en Vi-. li town, nnd ordo ("1 u lamb chop. 'I he rel urncd, bearing a [ dab of mashed potatoes uud mucli ovordoue chop, with a ubly long and Blender rib attui "Son bore!'1 called Herford, dered a chop." ■ " Ves, -sir,'' replied the man, i! is." *■ Ah, bo ii iw.'" mused Ilerfoi ing al it closely. "I thought i crack in the plate." Willi u n tiny, romarli hod, ■M or- "then tl, peer i was ti FOR SELLING COMPRESSED AIR An enterprising mechanio bus invented a unique device in the shape of a nickol-in-the-slot machine whieh will BUpi'ly bicycle and motor-cycle owners with compressed air to Inflate tho tirea quickly and at a moderate cost. The crank or lover attach ment is so much* more easily worked than the ordinary pump that it ia meeting with general favor. Tho machines nro placed on telephone poles along tho thoroughfares mostly frequented by cycle riders, and they are netting their owner a handsome income and providing u great convenience to the peoplo who :-.> - of >r compressed air. The ic-.ii i mis ur.* built of iron and arc i ol lai gei I has g tod slzod mailboxes. "Thut member of Congress says you have voted for bim for the last flftoon years." "That'b right,'*1 replied Farmer Corn- toBsel, "Vou must think a lot of him." "Well, i diiiino. Vou see, fifteen years ago 1 luul a couple o' horse trades with him, an' since then I've alius felt safor with him spend.ii' so much of Ins timo In Washington," A _*Iorthemor riding through the West Virginian mountains came up with d mountaineer leisurely driving a herd of pigs. ■•Where are yon driving the pigs to?" asked the rider. "Ont to pasturo 'cm a bit." "What fort" "To tatten 'em." "Isn't it pretty slow work to fatten tlieni on grassf Up where I como from we pen them up and Peed them on corn. It, saves a lot of time." " VnsB, I s'pose so,'' drawled thc mountaineer. "Bul what's time to a bnwgf" •'Tlu- Vacuum," -aid u student in one of our largo institutions of. higher education, "is ;; largo empty -pace whicli the Pope resides." Vssociatc Justice Charles E. Hughes of tho United States Suprome Couit. roll tl story:, "In a Jacksonville, Florida, court presided o\ or 1 j a doaf lodge,'' said he, ":; oted tl e line from ■ ■ ■ , ■ v. ho Btoala w.y purse atealfl tra h ' u | " A*hai *!- thatf1 tho judge demai d il, trash,1 ■ ■ D slave ■ , i. htoal irse Bteab ' the lawyer repents I, ■ 'Twas something, nothing; mine, 'tie his and has been vou. A somewhat nupatrii I ii little sou .it h \\. twelve ; old, i am to hii teacher iu the publi< school and nsked if he itil'l i a1 ■ li ■ no!i ■■ ■ h inged, •■ \\ In i yo .'. -i 'Image nauief'' Uio toaeher oskt "1 , : io bo sn Vtnerican. I live' '* ' ' . 7 P* poated tho unfortunate lawyer, '* ti lis trash. 'Twas ■" i :ni 't. you speak up?' growled the ■Them' answered 'Hill.us gtuie President W. 11. p. Fauuco, uivorsity, is responsible Co living on the hill in Hi the college was approache ay by a Btudeut-lodger, an find tho right kind of d ho, 'it would be agrei o a roommate to reduce oi "If ellow. nrdingly, the I: him ut. lliis addre you. "Hlgli wont al once ti found the man in '■_ " ' 1 wus told al sli elated, tho dy came over to lo tho proposition he man for you,' er. -i'oll Will find .lust say we sent the good woman Iln looking fo I but you mnte. Kow, I ** *1 wn-,' broke in tho young follow desperately, ' but—er—I—1 wanted a gentleman, you know.' " Secretary of stale Knos bae fo I a eoloied messenger iu his new oflice who knows something ot geography. Along ildo tho Secretary '■■ desk is n groat globe, standing over six feet high. The other day, Mr, Knox con* suited it lo see if il were really true that the sun never sets on our dominions nowadays, or to learn something elso of equal importance. The Pounayl- \ aula statesman is tlie pink of neat- uess, and was somewhat irritated to find that the big revolving ball soiled his coal bIoovo, "William," ho said sharply to the messenger, ami laying a finger on the globe, "there is dust a loot thick here." "It's tliickor'u dat. Mr. Secretary," replied the negro, with thai familiarity ihai comes of mingling with greatness. "What do vou meant" demanded Mr. Knox. "Why you'se gol vour fingah on tho desert of Soharah." Mr. Knox did badly nt trying to sup press a Binilo. . ' ■ Vou '11 find some on the Atlantic Ocean, too," he remarked as ho turned to his desk. The Pennsylvania Dutch have tlio ro* putatii ; of being very economical, and very careful in watching tho details of domestic affairs, no matter how small. "Hoiny!" called the father, * * \ ni.'" ai sworod the son. •• Run an' count, dent geescs again, 1 lei iiv." "All right." v wont; iieiny returned. '■ lloin;! " --aid the I';.' her. "VKtt" said tho son. "Did you count dein geese* again, Heiuj .'"' ■•< bess." ■• [low many vas dey, Helnyf" 1 * Vun." *■ Dat _ right, ileiny." i can 't Ige irrits blj. * *■ \\ ho ■■ With i'.. - Horses you in Amei lea now. ' to I"' u Dago. '•Whii * ■ i bo u "1 havo ore, I hnndlug i1 .* tenchoi u dirt,*, - rap ol paper on n In, h wat « i il leu Pal iel Dennis Mc i I no longer want name would li idge. In poll I tho criei thought it tin e to interfere. Ho benl »vei tho and shouted in his eoi i ■• * lie jusi sa;.-. Bir, that an; bod" teals iii- i" iketbook, won't get I idgc Homy A. ■* Plupy" Shute was ii Introduced as au after-dinner i ine of thi ecenl reunions. , .. .. *,:.■ psbire Bat A* lociatlo i, • ■ •■ .- ■ master, Vrthur 0. 1'jiller. of . [l . i „d long I si ' Ictlml :ed i Judge shute. who, In oi loi to find on time for the w Iting of his boy ories, would run aero a tho street to where Puller Bold his law und propound legal problemi in a hypo* I manner, obtain Bomo first rate oo oi I with no mere im ;, "tlmnk you" to pay for tbat -.. ,-ii had been dolvod out by the light . 's plxt) cenl gna, woul '. trot The report that Darkey Hal 2.02 . is owned by American parties and tbat sho will be raced down the Canadian ice circuil this v. later, has been go the rounds and has drawn the attention of John K. Swartz, of Wingham, bei owner. Mr. Swartz states that lie still owns Darkey and, as bo puis it. 'will own her un1 il ti e heriff take-- hei awi . in return for whal she ban il ine tor him lu th ■ past, ■ *<■ also stnti a thai al tho home of Hal B., .'r. 2.03 and bat bi od to the famous llttlo pat ing stallion. Nij.v that the game Uttl ■ iare's racing career is ovor, d re. ie« ui:e would proi 0 ' J I ■ osting to admiring horsemen, Darkey Hal commenced racing In 1005, when a four-year-olt, and made 'iv-- -tun- and t-.ok n record of B.I9*ft Bhe wen one ■ •■ second, once third, once distanced ai ■ once unplaced. Sbe was \ery last iu 1000 and no.li tllO Sailer end of llie BOOSOI times first, once second and three times il . ■.. Ill I00S she made only (ive start,, I.i | n on a Inrgo amount of money. ITer stur performance <•'■ the season was al Dotroit where she won the -.Lien 2.07 pace from a lame Bold including such noted porformors as Coj-u do Oro 2.01, Qoorge Gano 2.02, i . ■ Mallow 2.03%, .Index 2,04, etc [Ior . ositions wore 1-3-6-M, and tbe i n.- oi the heats 2,04*4, 2.04*4, 2.04*4, _ -■.-i, and 2.00%. At JJalnmazoo sho topped the summary of tbe 2.08 puce, ; a :-'■ >, and in 0 race against Dewey G. 2.07V, at Port Huron, she won and sel. Iho Michigan half mile ■ , It iho record at 2.07V-.. ■•»■ of five starts Darkey won four races and was once third. me daughter of Star Hal had an oasy ■ ■" in 1908 and was in good shape fo n long t-ur in limit. She started iu nine races and at. Syracuse, N.V.. re ii od bor record to 2.02,4 In a winning .... e. She woo five rni es from the bpsl of I lie .veai. was oni'O BCCOIld, - third and omo fourth, and wo« u : i imiOUUt of money than in any IS ■ ■■ "ii Rai 0 goors Will neve:* ■ her remarkable races down the ■•, I tie In 1009, in tbe Syracuse raco it noil abo*-* o. she boI the season '* ccord at ihat time Cor pacing mares. She vim her heals in 2.03% and 2.02*4 ■ 1 was driven out both trips by ihe old Canadian warrior, Major Brino 2.04*4. Al Columbus, Ohio, in the Ton* i essoe 2.03 pacing slake, value $5,000, sho defeated one of the best fields of horse-;* thai <*\ Or turned I'ot Ihe word oil the grand circuil. \ine steeds faced lho starter and among Ihem were the noted pneors, Lady Maud C. 2.00*Vj Qoorgo Gano 2.02, Dan s. 2.04-4, Uron- dn Vmke 2.05*4 and Major Mrino 2.04*4, Darkey's positions In Ihe race wero 1-1-2-1, and tlio tlmo of tho boat! 2 0-1 Vi, 2.05*4, 2.04Vi and 2.00'4, The first week of tbo Columbus meeting -she started iu the 2.05 pace, purse $1,200, und defeated practically the same field in 2.04M, 2.04^ and 2.0514, Darkey Hat opened the season of 1910 witli a race record of 2.02*4 and wns compelled to meet the fastest pacers out. Evon though she meed ugaiusl mil horsoa as Ross K. _.0l*.j, Qiftline 2.02%, Ailoon Wilson 2.02*4 and The Eel 2,02Vi, she managed to win two i ices, come second twice and fourth! i breo times. Darkey was taken ont to Winnipeg; early in Ihe past season with the Intention of rat ing hei again, but one ni her legs threw out danger signs and Mr. Swartz wisely retired and bred her to Hal B. .li 2.03. Darkey Hal has been handled by dif- ronl reinsmen, aud has added addi-! tional proof-to the * Id saying "Good lio -■ mako good drivers." she gave I account of herself no mallei who held the reins, -lack Rombougb, oted Canadian trainer, drove her i o?t of her engagements over the balf mile tracks and Bill Snow, Hornell, N.Y., the pacing wizard, tea ed her down the big line. HE GOULD NOT SEEP AT NIGHTS TILL HE FOUND RELIEF IN DODD'S KIDNEY PILL- Darkey Hal was one ol the gamost nice inures that Over went down Ihe grand circuit and possessed a lot of speed and Ihe ability to carry it. She is u mare built somewhat on the thoroughbred type, small boned and slender waisted. Darkey was foaled in 1001 find is bv Slur Llal 2.04%. Her lirsl dam. Browuie (dam of Charley ii. 2,07%) by Hamlet a son of Highland Boy 1820. Second dan. Brown i.adv, by Don Juan, She wis bred by Wesley Smith of Ryck* man's Corners, Ont., and as stilted above, is now tbe property of John E, Swart/., of Wingham, and will remain so until she dies. WHEN __IE THAMES FROZE HARD for dismal drizzling rain und impenetrable fog than for snows nud ice; but about half a dozen times in tbo last threo hundred years truly arctic con* ditions hove prevailed in that metropolis, and the River Thames has been frozen ovor so (Irmly thai inoii and liorsei could go upun it. Each of these pot tods has boon the occasion of a "frost fair"; booths have been erected on lie ice; printing presses set up, various sports und games indulged in; and Ihe whole population boa joined in celebrating ihe rare ovent, The firs] grenl frost fair was held in January, EGOS; but the most, famous of all wns thai of I'.s:. I. which lasted irom Ihe beginning of December to tho ith of February. Evelyn gives lho following description of this fair iu his *■ I linry": " The frost continuing mole and more severe, the Thames be fore London was nl ill planted with bootbos in formal streotes, all sorts of trades aud simps furnish'.! and full of commodities, even lo a printing pres-ie, where the | pie *tn.| ladyes Lookfl u fancy lo have Iheir names 'printed, aud the dny and veiire sel down when prinl ed on tho Thames: tins hut r tooke so universally, that 'twas estimated llie printer gain'd £5 u dny, fur printing u line Oliolyj at. HlxpOUCO a name, besidos what he got by ballads, etc. Coaches plied from Wcstminstor to Ibe Temple, and floiu several other still res, In ami fro, as iu Ihe streotOB, sleds sliding un skootoB, n bull baiting, horse and coach racefl, puppet-plays, ami in* Praises this Anlnma Remedy. A grateful user of Dr. .!. D. Kollogg's Asthma Remedy finds it the only remedy that will give roliof, though fo thirteen years he had sought other help, Vears of needless suffering may l.e pie vented by using this wonderful remedy al Ike li.'t warulug uf t:ouble. lis use is simple, its cos! )< sliolit and it can be purchased almost anywhere. RHEUMATISM 13 Months' Suffering "Dear .Sir; "I wish you to put my letlor on record for ihe sake of suffering humanity, I lure Buffered 18 months with Muscular Rheumatism iu my back. 1 Imve spent, at least $20,00 on pills und Uni ui cuts during thut time, but nothing wo^d easo mo of the pain—in i'uet it was a chronic pain. Por I huso, long I. umntlis it stayed right with me, sometimes convulsive and cramp-like, causing me to grouu aud cry aloud. Every moment was tortuie. I could not turn in lied without yelling mil. -Now 1 will always ble^s the day when I first started to rub in, nnd to take internally. * Non iliue.' A Her using four bottles my pains have left tne. I shall always take off my hat to 'Nerviline' and enn honestly Bay it's tlie poor man's besl friend, because it will atwayii drive away from you the Demon-- I'ain. " Yours truthfully, '' Thomas Goes, Use only Norvilino, Sold in _.V. ami 50c. Imi ties the world over. I.rl.i.l. s. nii.li ',1 I,. In. :i !8, tl| iaccli ting, K umlliii i tlmt. 1 riu it ..rein npli, ur i iinui nl nn 1 IO wo ii'i." King Charloa II. 1 Ins I'i Mllly vi-Uoil Hi,' i nir, uml luul tlu'lr nn HI'S | rlntoil nn : quarto sl 1 of Dut.' , ,.:., •1. wl, I'll is Hllll et luul. I'lNDINO Titr. i: ro 1101IH VEE Tlio nvoriigi phi. lififlnl- . 1' ii rnr Boons'. I,, I,., moro Intui Ht.'.l Ill III ' liorsa power which it is capable of develop ing than in any other feature of Its ability or ofiieloncy, and consequently inn- of the moat common questions nsk od IB, 'Mow Is tin horsepower of u , motor determined i"' The simplest formula, and the one most commonly UBOll, is known ns Ihe A. L, A. M horse power formula. By tho A. L A. M. formula the horsepower of a motor Is obtained by multiplying the square of Ihe bore by Ihe number of cylinders and dividing this product bv two and one half. Il should be remembered (hut •this formula applios only to four-cycle I motors. 67// 8T0P8C0UGH8?IJcll^BcL^ e;;;.t__-_¥tti_inK__s'Ks_^^^ RLE FLAX ., . iho ■ ••■• -in.i s.'iiisi'v sumo I.ul thi big treel mm ■■. ii tlic HiiiMy lit- uu- season ul London, om.. nnil .ii ". .ml iii-u to hU ilUti ."I. At '"'"li Boaforti :.i ,. .in i'1'.ii.i- quill. Pallor luul towol bo a a. i i and m tl v.;i:!. I ortunity i" tliru.v |:. ■. reducod hor record i" -'■ , '::,., ' Ion ring tho Pro i ■• towol sho went u;;'^.'.T_ST SCHOOL ...... • "I will now In- !.. Hi.' Buffalo gn ,,. i i i,ue Judge Henry A. econd to ii"- fi tn |. I...- i,.. ' ' '.•. n as ion Vdd i:. in -''"'.. -; o • Pliipy,' l.u' now :i ',"■•'.it literary and ...■,: appearance -ii VVludsor, ni . ,| light I!, ,'. ill il. '" .vuu " " . ■ 2.01 , ■ ■! :n\ :i' : iii,. r,',.;'!io! ' i I.<■ Law, i 12.09! Pron followel von ii"- nil twaro, be get. from my the circuil '" Readrllto, and m e hi Ave. and Fort St. . ,i World Bi ..,. i' • n ii . and met . iloguo, WsalK ■ Fred. Swanson, of Saskatchewan, ;:cuds a mcB3age ol cheer to those who feci \ the weariness nnd aiscourngomcitt; that comes from broken rest. Nfacklin, Sask., Decomoer '.w.—(Spc- ci -i . 'i ho e *.* ho Buffer froi i sicei h -- ■ nights and (jot im iu lbc morning feel iug tired and discouraged will Snd re new•■ i I opo i;. iln Btaomenl mad ■ I Pre - -. ■ son of i bis ploi <•. Ho could not sleep at nights, i.e discovered the -an--. )| was Kidney trouble. lie red Mo 'in". Ii i- Dodd's Kid* " . i' ■ "' es," Mi. Swanson says iu an In- Wr\ ic.'. regai ling hi - enso, " 1 ***a- tronblc l n tli ■ K Idnej Foi over a year, bo bad th it I could not. sleep a' box of lh- Id'- Kidney Pilla I found g oal relief. Pour b ixi i' ■ •-od all "iv pal . and now 1 ! i well and I nm BB stroi • my Kidneys as any mac" bloo i be ■ ■■' lh ami I rest :- an Impossibility, Sirong. hi I UIO ni pure bloo 1. ne :■ hi \) and thai di ful r- -i nl i tho swoetesl thing In life. It.- ii'i Kidnoy Pllli always mal i -*,.. ". he lti v Kid bj Owing te bo moeh unfavorable .".eatber, many furuiere oter Westsra t.'anada have gathered at least part of tbeir crop touche i by frost o: otherwise -veather damaged However, through thi largi tagi corn, oaH, lia**lcv. fodder, potatoes Bod vegetables, ''v the unoi * nml droughl of asi summer i ti,.- United States Eastern l .* i n Western gurope, lher^ i- going to be .. stead' demand at gono pri .* u- *,il tiie grn-f! Western Canads hat* raised, no matte** *h:-* •- i:. ■■ Sn ninei. \■'-:.■•■. ... qualit*. makes .t imposslbh '■<: those .- * " pei ■ ii ■•••'. to judge the full --ubjc thai shonld be obtalDerl ■■ * • *1 jrt* therefore the fmrmer never stood mure iu need of tbe (service* of th. .'.•-*, en.-ed -ind reliable grain commission ma* to act for bin I • looking after and selling of * .* ■ than b< doon thli seasoi Farmers, voo ivill therefore do well for yours-dver not t( -'■-■ ti • -. track ii'i.t but t" ship your gram by carload direel u Pon \v.; ii; ir Port Arthur, to be handled i**;- oa i. a waj thai wi'' »■ ■ for ** "u ii there ii in it. We make liberal advancei when desired ■ * u*j ihipping i'i;;- for cum shipped. We never buy yoni grain oui ■*■> iceouot, but sel a*- your agents in Belling it to the best nd r tage for yonr aceonut, nnd we do ho on ■ Bn eon niuioi ' bust A i huve oiadf' ■■< speclalt) oi tbii work foi mani vean, sn ' well knowu over Western Canada tor our experience ■■ the grain I I -ireful attention to oui iston * ■•iterrt**tiv and p'em :■ i ■ ' sett '• ments. We Invite farmers who bave not yet employed bi to writs it' oi foi i ping ioBtructionn and markei information, nnd lu r_gar-l ro om ing ni thr* Winnipeg drain Trade, and our financls po Ho be ■ i" refer you to the Union Bank of Canada, hu-' anv of Ku 1 ra ;.(•< ii *-,, rommereial sgonelei n' Hradatrners r.nd W o !* « THOMPSON SONS & CO. CHAIN COMMISSION MERCHANTS 703 Y Grain Exchange Winnipeg: -,-,.-. II Willi III II Illl II ■! HEIII IIHI—WII \2:^f<Kj::$zxrrzwti ^Kimm\[JLmvivsmirr ':.■. Th I. I tlo |„. SHIP YOUR RAW FURS and Beef Hides i,, i and | ' ' ei lit. more for them tlmn nl Itome. In us for onr ■''■*'' ,,i ., -i S uml we "ill inuil free Watch i Ins :,.! weekly, We Boliell your KliipnieutH ... i IliileH, Raw Furs, .- Tallow, Seneca Root, ||, ..,. Hair Sheen I'elU etc ..-.-is from In- Innl * • for the youi I I I to I'i II il ■ ■. . Ri I i In IS i." im oxtouilesl eampnii M,. n .. ill ii ,, I-.. -Mi,'hi . i ih,' N.i . ■■■ . r D ■ nl ' ,ii . ■ . I'ongri vras Bjans] hnll '";t.- tre< . i-!"- ,01 ■ i iotoi i'ii"/ 'In. w». Mn ii eli .ii ■ i'ii U'liiil.t- i;.iil;ijl„ r -O.IVl, l:-ii Vi Nil 'i,' «li. ''I ' . |>l .. M.lnliV 8.0 >'. li.". ' . |.rnlir:il;iil' ..,!1 Itflpl iili.l .\,h ti.lir II..'." I'.: -i'■ V | icli of ino.l '■'■" i'i I,-, i';,.. wliora -l"- wai ,] ,\in:: ii. I-, mn lii'si-i.- thr t.'ii.'.. Viloen ivilion B,(s2*' . 0 fori I i.'.' There !,0-l| \i Port Huron ,he tn ■ iii.ii'iiiriililo •.lull.-, lioorlng olofl labl North -V/cst Hide St Fur Co. 278 Rupert Si. Wlnnlpe*. flan. • tn'oi iv illfTcn I - (qulalte il itrnylth l-ii'iii .-.ml un.yisli I | ', „',■ ,' ■ 'i. mu' llmt Hi" ir I., :i >top. •■ llott ileeornl i-cl" b e nt* the mon. "Wlml lovol.i colorl" -ai'l "im "f III.' ui'l-. ;.. i.. paint," hrI.I tlie art 1st. "Won'I ...ii i'ii-.-".' toll ii" wlmt -t"i"- bonutlful tiling, nn-!" nsk.'.l Mr. Wul- , la,.' Tl i' "i i • ■ i■'■ i"-s cla .! urmii' 1 in ": ,oi i tl" " siaiplv suit.I: •■Wl, ■ ■■ wi- ii,., ,■ Uilng, ■:" wing along tli t.i.,' hen. I never law anvil, ng lilif tin'"..'' \ pltyii g .mile sprcnil ovor tbo '.-at 'I. M't '■ fenturei. Q illnghur, .tapping on ■!» ll At Iftlca, N.V.. -hi' was ngnln ami put in two mil \l '.'. I. ' ". -. . won ■ "M hi l.l:i. 2.00*- :.' ■ timi place ill ■ wi ti. iln- Columbus grand elreull lie trnek, wbero alio n bo fnmoi '■"in! I:."- J.-iI ini'l l!ni-.li'"l ■ him in 2.0.-.V,, B.0.1M ami '.'."i'i. 'il,.' aoeond wook uf tbo Columbii Dnrke- wm Htai-tod baeb nnil thlr.l 'tu Ail.on WU I' i.'li H.Wl'/i, In -.QliVI J."Pi. S.OtIV, nnd 8.0DM, In stmts in 1007, Darkey [Inl wn. .oven nloto in lloolf, M.itl Worm t'.v'i'tuiiiiatnr .Iiiom tnnto of nny oilier mo Heine i" make it otlootlve. It dooi not full t" do its .vork. Uiaiful ln Camp.—r.M.Im." rn-. nro.| tnrsi nnd buntori will ti".l i»- Th ns' Bcleotrle Oil vorj ol l ^. mp IVhon tin- fool nnd leg. am ~ ' M't in,.I i>..1.1 il is. woll Id rn!. tl.- a ■ Qrnvo, freely with tho (HI nml lbo r< |j t re(|iiirc |bo tin- prevention nf patna in iho nut.. plea, and shoulil n out, nr ennttialon. in,. l,o sin.tiiino'1. ii"!' ' i I" i mi i is n dreaalng nr lotion DIVORCE YOURSELF FROM THf.EE nn onv LIQUOR Nil HVPOPERMICS INCflBABL. your hu.ii." i value by dlvor nn; t*our* : frmn nne i. * AI roh ol fl(*en i i'o' (train Kfltctrnr) of •\er> "moderate" drinker. It will Ion ■ r ■ our m In laol nronorilon to the . ni id ni, ■! n inking i- bul a ii.iidi. not ■ - . .1-. iu of ti" io '.*• nyi torn ir drinking wa ■■ it could not be cured lu Hirer iin**.. Pntlontt*. fi om : iir. ..ie betna cured in tliree rtayn m tin- \ioil Iu*,iIihi, •>, , tn ,-.i iiorfeetly, 1 wiv**. ■ In r relatlven, em* I loyi rn. friend*,**-— kIvo hi* tb** * ope timt Mu* drinker will at, n liquor lomfl day of lain own v^ in. H< hn no -** i:> io belli him io ■ 1..,- II Will ile^tr.ive,1 loim BRO hy i'. ohollc poison CO iv i" ■'. puree iiito. if necessary, to lake NO HTPODBUMIC INJRCTlONa IWuae t«« nil** any treatmon] for Hi** drink liaull where hypo* dermic Iniccttona are given, for thoy are to liable io r. uii io i.i i poison from un Infecte. ui. i in oui Ii can li miei of others, Knob patient I | lv nhi day. YOU ARE LOSING MONEY EVERY TIME YOU TAKE A DRINK \i*iii Tri'ntiiii'iit. When in again o normal man nft.*r three .In*--, ai Ho* \eiil InNlllUle- lie will lliillik yOU. It Ih the only ralvatlon, ihe ohly way i"i you lo save him i ni.il m I i 1 v-leal IM-liealMi. ami from bunl,- ■■ ..r worse. Vou mnii <lo ihe thtnklMK. Those men cannol think f**r Uiemselvee, Coaa tbem to i1 iho N'-ui 'i'i*' i»»i Trealmen*! now im.i give ii., iu !. fresh start for llie New Vear. ii win only take three iln*.**.. and unv mnn rnn spurn Imhi seventy.two hours lo regain his health und neutralise nil .*. hollr uolsons oul "f hii system, Call, write, r wire for booklet ami fulliM Information, Kverj thing ennii'icntlul. li i agreeing In eff' cl u pi rfp w rile to day for u copy *'f this contract ' Cornlii -i iinriiatnr imen are also troatod m Mu* !M.*«i lnsMlilfe-4. Although Mie .Ini;; tn nun. ni in entirely differ***! rrotn tho throe-day n*iuor euro, it iw, neverthelesa J»mi n» effeo- live, 'i'ln* \->ni Drug Treat meat has enroll hundreds ><t imor mm in w ho have everlastingly craved for those doadly poisons, Only n f- » days ago u inoruiiine inter ioi,i of her harrowing experience wiih drugs before a police maal* slrolo In Winnipeg, The drug so much of her sin uml Buffering thai Anally it landed her behind prison bur.". Morphine was w holly responsible for her downfall. 1 We nine every morphine or cocaine user to take courage and rorno lo the Nenl Institute uml he eured of this nwful habit, Tin strictest prlvaoy and eomfort Im maintain) _, medical cure id given every patlont, iVrttfl to-day for booklet uml run Intormattofl; u will he mailed lo any mhlresn, under plain cover. fo fn- of charge I^EAL INSTITUTE COMPANY, LIMITED 2244 Smith Street REDINA H 405 BROADWAY WINNIPEG H 802 Thirteenth Avo. CALGARY w. CT11T.1.1WACK FREE PRESS £L The Seven-Stone Charm (By Colonel Stanley Pater son) up Over the jungle-clad Ghats, across j v. tho hot, dry plains of Central India, casket along with an ancient Writiufa through tbo prosperous cultivation at which stated thut so lone; .is ;i sto<ic the Unitod Provinces, away into the | remained in the charm death would arid Punjab, heedless alike of the dark,! _ : stuffy night, the cool, gray morning naze, and the flaming heat of tlio midday sun, tijfcimiil-train steamed steadily northward, carrying tlie weekly news, good or ovil, of friends in far-away England to the weary sojourners in the uttermost outposts of our Eastern Empire. In our carriage ai, the windows were tightly dosed; the woll-sinked tatties were drawing freely, tilling the con* fined space with a pungent smoll of ciiscus; five of Ihe six Venetians wore drawn up to exclude tho blinding glare, leaving but one blue glass window available for Inspection of the burn ing world outsldo; while wo four passengers— threi olil Btagors (yellow ami drawn) ami a p'mK and-white, full blooded ' rlilln (an oarnost vouug \l,l'. ircsl i out of London by tho last boat V - lay .itruu had In our respecti\ fl comers attired n ilie airiest possible clothing common docency would permit, languidly helping ourselves nt intervals 10 ihe contents of tho indispensable ice bn. Ihul luy hun.lv under llie seal, ihe "griiou" pi. ii ting and dripping In tha unarcustomod heat, As ii was cor- l.iin he wonbl follow the way of Ills kind, mul on return to Knglund pose us nu authority on all mnttors upper tn in ing (o India, or iti all probability wnie (from the ripe oxporienco of a six week,.' tour along the beaten track) :t book dealing wilh Ilu* many COinplI en toil questions of the (iiiuiuissiuhcr the lurking twink foniinl joy when came rapidly Into requisition, wore re him many remarkable fact ding the wiiy>, manners, religion of the natives, uur tyrannical mot of rule, and anything else thai came Into our bends to while away the tedium of tin- journey. We stopped nt u station, an ordinary wayside station. Ifow Irritatiugly alike till these stations nro to tbe fugged Aiiglo.-liulinu traveller, wit li tholr crowd of sweating, chat* toriug, quaintly robed nativea struggling fur places iu the semi -cattle carriages already\ packed to thrice their carrying capacity, into which the a- tiou olncinls have to shove them by -beer force through a dense array of heads ami forms at ovary n Indow shouting to the station writer-carriers or trying hard to buy from the. plat- form hawkers some of those sticky, unappetising sweets so dear to the native palate! All over the platform another crowd lay or squatted, patiently awaiting the arrival of a train Hie probably i: lit M mr eyes and our I mid nolo book r rule Id 1. III! Mil regal etc., hods oa ono occasion, pass by the wearer; bet that whenever a stone du»app*-*aitf_ Ihe charm must ut once be passed on. Why the yogi gavo the charm, or what death his father escaped, tho old man knew not; but, us ho said. ■ Sahib, my father belonged to the Kshatriya or fighting caste, and in those days there w.is no lack of perils for such us be, As it was, ho died in battle whilo 1 was still a boy, having some time before his j hi death fastened the charm round my u" neck. There I wore it for mure years than I can count; because, buioor. though F am n Ksliatriyit, I am a man of poaco, and have lived by tilling tho ground; therefore, perhaps, deadly danger has not cume nigh to inc. Itut two years ago came tho great sickliO-S, and amongst our villagers it struck like a murrain in cattle. I was one of Llie lirst lo sicken, nud when doatll seem ed certain those of my household car lied ll ul in Ilu* nighl lime mil laid tne in tllO Btroot, because, as yo.i knuw, lluzoor, on account of the Qovorninonl order, we people like not Hml nny be fouud dead of ihe plague in our bouse". And in Ihe early duwu llm buffaloes and cattle driven oul to tho grazing passed ovor me; for though Ibey snorted and edged uwuy in fear, still iu the crush one put its fool lightly upon me. And al OIICC 1 fell a new life come into mc, I and painfully CrawlOd back to my house, where I lay all day hulf-eon- BcloiiB. Thai night there was no one lo carry mo OUl again; tho great Blck* nobs had taken them all, until, woman nnd child, uud unly this babe wus left lo me. And from the charm n stone was missing. So I fastened tho charm round the child, for I had tm one else to give it to; but, now that his tu**n Is past, to whoin can 1 better give it than to you, Uu/.onr, whose kindness helped to savo himf "Sam, though distinctly sceptical and inclined to laugh at the tale, accepted the trinket chiefly not to olfeml the old man, hung it on liis watched out a couple of rupo.s ri ted the first four days, a great deal had to bo concentrated in the last three, i'he Duko uot only presided at the deck sports, but he won tbe fat men s running prize, helped to pull the English team to victory ill the tug of war ami had several other athletic victories to his credit, Afterward he bad the •stowing the prizes upon ml whenever ono fell to would pocket it with tho MoM" must energetic nud con- in the deck dances, be- specially enthusiastic in barn i and otber lively dances. "Shake privilege of I. the winners, his own lot hi exclamation ' lie was tin spicuous flgur ing dune.. a leg, Billy,*" ho would shout swung from one person to another, exhorting all to join in tho merriment. tho "concert" given by \ga shin uio eat lilHi introductions a aimed at him, ..! heard th speeches am harmless jolt. _■__________■■■—_ Un the lasl day he passod around the hat for contributions for tbe baud amt .. . _.tniubly ts snapshots wore made of him by lourislH wishing to add a duke to (heir collection ot* foreign views. taken Hill nc llnw certain at ver thi: that he the nlu HOW TO MAifl] SKIS Tha construction of a good ski is not an easy task, t'or'H involves u number of delicate problems. Skis intended for use in lliu mountains must be both strung ami supple. Theso two qualities aro associated i" the wood of the ash, of which most good skis are made. Because of Um high prico ol ash, many moitutaiuoorn Biibstl- lute spruce or larch, which abound in the Alps. Skis are sometimes mado of two kinds of wood, a lo-uvy, close- grained species being employed for tho lower, uml a light wood for tho upper pari. Very hard and heavy oak i. used for the bottoms of leaping bktfii A ski made entirely of oak would bo tOO heavy for use. WhltQ asll presents the besl construction of the four desired qualities Of elasticity, strength, liglitnois and moderate cost. The trees nre fetlod iu winter before tho sap has started and are cul into planks eight feet lone:, four and one half inch's wide and one and a half Inches thick. Knots uro carefully avoided and tbo planks aro so cut that the grain of the wood will run obliquely downward from from to rear of tho ski. Tho plank.*. are seasoned in tho air for one year. The skis are thou cut out with the nol of models and tho bottom is pt.und to perfect smoothness. Tho desired cur- at ure is usually obtained by soaking It is said that change of rooms. ba\ e beeu, it is ■ this time learn- tan made his calculations, or the great Knglish university would nol have summoned him to receive its liouorary degio . (bir readers will wish to know about Hill's work: the) will not be contented with a mere collection of anecdotes about the man himself, though such a collection eould be made a large aud interesting one. Nor is it possible to explain in a few words and in a manner intelligible to the general public just what Hill's principal contributions to science are. Ol course, his official work in the Nautical ulliee was necessarily of a somewhat routine character. liis great reputation rests upon a very lung series of memoirs which he produced in Ids spare time and published iu scientific journals. Many of these nre in Ihe domain of tho BO-callod pure niuilicniutii':', bill more ut'len his tnstQ led him to ihe study of planetary and lunar complexities of motion. Ever since tho lime of Nowton niulhemuti clans have continued the endeavor to explain these motions as necessary ecu eipieuees of lh" law of gravitation done. As the power and acourucy of nst ru ment a I appliances hns gradually m proved, oiisorvntionnl astronomer**, brought lo light small | in these motions; il believed ihnt, such Small discrepnu cios as still remain unoxplalned by tha law of gravitation would disappear if man's powers of mathematical analysis were perfect. Espoclally In the case of the union, dm* lo its proximity to our earth, hus it boon possible to extend ob sorvatlon&l Inquiry into tho most minute inodicac.es of motion; and it 'ih in ibe lunar theory, perhaps, that Hill's ItiOBt signillcaut nud most difficult work has been done. Cortain it is that he has hero bropffht about a real extension Of human knowledge, one that will stand for all timo, if we may trust tbo best contemporary critical judgment. little knife is near my heart one last wind to you, a kiss, now another—Oh, my love, I " 'I'llus it ends abruptly, with but a (lark red spot us u possible answer. I have pul the yellowed paper and the rosodtlBt back Into their resting place, and lho little desk remains a thing irt. GAME LOSERS There's im way of telling in advance how a man is going to take his complete wiping oul in game of chance. "There's no rule about it," declared an old gambler. "I've seen meu of lung tested gamoness go all to pi l-lenlv uldr-ii, i ba.d; id luu constant ly Inoqunlltlo au exchange-present, rode on his way, and dismissed the affair from his mi",*!. "Some five years biter be was engaged as one of the engineers building the great railway bridge over the Indus. On his section the huge iron girders had been swung into position, and swarms of half-naked workers were busy riveting and making secure the superstructure. Walking nlong the foot-plank laid on the girders at a dizzy height above the river, he was supervising tho work above, when u frenzied cry of .— _ __, , ,, .... . - .warning made him instinctively spring in lour or live hnurs turn, while In a baek „c|ir,v M ,,-,.. ,mhuK.e ■„ tho raore secluded corner, apparently utterly; ,|(,, Jngt'-n t-tne A wM Q _■- ht oblivious Of the bustle around him sat||r at ,,-<. watcn.cbaln, nnd a heavy an old ash-smeared fakir, begging, bowl gl^ge-hammer which had slipped from in hand, and with a peculiar silver „,. ha.lt, of |omo oflrelOTa wo).kmrini ■moment hung by a cord round his ,„.„.,,- -lis ^y, w-.,t hurtlinj- tbe ski in wator and bending it with the hands or by pressing it in a mold. Dr. Paulcke advises tho mountaineer to support the ski, in an oblique and inverted position, with its front end ovor a charcoal lire. A wet cloth is placed on tho part, to bo bent, and tha point of tho ski is drawn downward by means king **.heoj ' a month id li nn the md his 'out th-ut. 1 heard of. t him $18,* Ot IN AN OLD ESCRITOIRE 1 have long had a passion for an- tiques, furniture especially, but my fin auces will not permit of much indulgence along this line. My friends all know of my hobby and often tell me of new places where I may securo treasures, ami it was from one of them that 1 learned of a little shop on one of the lower side streets whero bargains in great variety were to be had. "Everything you could possibly want seems to be there; from the seeds of the first apple to a tooth of donah's whale," added my friend, laughingly. Ono afternoon I went down to the little shop and was well repaid. Such a delightful, heterogeoneons collection 11 ' down into the roaring torrent beneath. We were just beginning to relate for It was a narrow escape, and .--onu-how the benefit of our "grillin" somo high- |,in thoughts went living back to tho ly imaginative tales regarding these!almost forgotten charm. Ho looked; yogis or holy men. wneu wo wero as*! the chain was snapped, the charm still tonishod to see the Public Works offi* hanging on tno broken link, but another *-ial. a gru\e mnn who seldom spoke, stone had gone. staring intently through the window, ,*B ^ ,.,.,., ,,„, ,-„,_ ,,it of _.,. at the unconscious fakir, and then, as Vef w_,,. homo t(, mir 8i,teri tt) whotn the train moved on, sink back in his Sa|M wM ,, ,,v BUaobed „„,, for lomo -cat. saying, "I nover heard 0 but ono _ w_ *n ,.,;■*., ,.,,,,,,, tinth- ftirUl„ other charm like lhat. am] it had o, „f ,, Tlin, 011l. dny ,.„,,,„ - ,c|tor queer story-1 don t know ,t it is end- wyIng tho „.„,,„ -,. ;.lit. anu* prMalc )ei" England hod barely escaped o peril so We immediately stopped our bunter.) deadly thnt she refused tn name it. But and begged the yam. Bottling ourselves she wus saved, another stone wns miss* imfortably down to listen, well know- ing. and the trinket bud been passed on ny tllle the P.W.O. might tell| to her fiance, a captain In n line regi- nt then on it*, wav to the war which of a cord until thc desired curvature is of tho past I have not seen in many obtained. The cord is then fastened to I days, and especially was 1 taken with 8 fixed object, the wet .doth is removed - ind the ski i** allowed to dry over the fire. At the normal military school at, at any cou log __ would be well worth the heating. "A good number of years ago, began—''l should not like to Bay how many, they do pass so quickly, some how my brother Sum. riding quietly home after a hard morning's pig-stick ing. passed by a solitary jungle hut. in front of which, playing with tbo wax- like (lowers fallen irom a shady tnowbti tn veihoad, sat a small brown baby mil are nude except for a carious silver orname&t secured by n silken cord round his fat little middle. Such an everyday sight wuuld usually have puss- ed unnoticed; but at the moment of passing Sam's quick eye detected a movement In the dry grass Immediately in front of the babe; tben suddenly » tall CObra reared its ugly head, hood expanded, In the attitude of striking, In n flash Snm had sprung from his horso, <l Bgged the child toward him, and with a swift blow of his ptOUt riding whip laid the tcptile dead at his feel. Itut too late, tjiitek as ho had been, the cobra had been quicker; and, oro the child had reached -uifoty, with all the strength of its tensely coiled muscles it struck. "The scream** of thfl terrified infant brought a very old mini hobbling out of Ihe hilt. ..iih ll rapid glume he seemed to lake in Ihe situation, and without u word knelt beside Sum, who was vainly endeavoring to scinch the Vigorously struggling child for the si-r petit mado wound, (.real gmndpnpu for i ^^^ Briancon, iu the Hantes AJpes, tho wet planks nro clamped between forms and thus dried in .a warm, well ventilated room or in a moderately boated oven. This process is expeditious, but. is apt to caiiRo brittlencss. In tho Hagen ski factory, which turns out 100 skis por day, tho nsh plank1-, which have neon kept one year in the Storehouse, arc soaked ten minutes iu boiling water. This treatment makes the wood so pliable that it can be bent by hand on a form. Tho ski is allowed to dry in the air during two weeks, after which the final curvature is given to it by hand. Tho desired curvature having beon produced by any of these mothods, thfl longitudinal groove and tho transverse mortise are CUt, and Ihe sW is polish* cd and varnished. Tho problem of attaching the ski to tho foot is much discussed and many different mothods are employed. The attachment should be strong and simple and should assure easy and porfeel had newly broken out ia South Africn. I control of the ski. without unduly r. VVe ull kimw what some of tho lighting*, Htruiuiiig the freedom of tho foot that war was like, and especially have we nil heard of that awful night Spion Kop. Well, he was there, in the front line, with men dead and dying alt around him; but deatli ami WOttndti passed him by; only one bullet touched am) apparently should have killed him. but it struck fair on ■he charm which he wore round hll reck, ami glanced harmlessly aside, carrying the sixth stone with it. "The charm is now worn ly his bio- that, also a soldier] bot apparently death has not yot COtttfl w*ithin striking distance of him, for, so far us 1 know the seventh stone still remains in its cup. "Such is tho story recalled by the B^bl of that old fakir, every word of hatch 1 can vouch for. It is unoe- countable. I admit; though, as you know, uut a few of theifl ascetic yogis, by some knowledge, power, necromancy, or devilry never vouchsafed to us white men, seem at timet tn get some faint grnsp of the fringe of tlio inner order ni things, producing results for which we can find no reasonable explanation." We old Stagers wen* Hileiit, feeling that we had again been permitted a rare glimpse Into the practical mystl ciiin fo ever-present as to form au integral part of native life, but that Ml' 'lorn tipprnacho1' siiAlrieiitly near -\on Above all, it must bo easy to adjusl oven with fingers stiffened by cold. It also desirable to bo nblo to disengage the foot quickly in emergencies to prevent breaking the ski or tho leg. he proved to bo pent no time |0 impinge on Ihe OOtsMrtl of mi- WOSt Illation. Sn wo limbic I prehendingly. Uul to the "griffin" it was nil rank superstition; therefore he talked long nml loud of coincidence, aiitnsnggestion. ami the like, nnd scoff1- horc Struck tho snake,'ed and refused belief. Ami when, one tiny drop of|g_orehlng night in tho plains, we read iti looking nt the little bid's skin, bul im media I ely inspected the nniameut which he detached and handed to Dl] brother, saying, 'It is av I thought, Ilu /-onr—Iho child Is unhurt; this hm saved him, ne added, pointing t< , -tii-o iving In i small hollow iu the) the expected volume by the light B||vor. * tho punkah lamps on tho veranda of the "Tho ornament was a hoxsgonal I commissioner's bungalow, and found piece of silver about the llBO of a rn that the ono story that might hnvo pee. On cadi face of the hexagon and | helped to some small insight Into tM on the centre space was rudely enibos j hack of tho native's mind was carefully sod the figure of some god, uud let into I omitted, white the "facts obtained from the middle of four of these figure* wan a peculiar small green stone; from the oilier three Ihe stones were missing, a shallow cup in the silver alone marking tho place whoro they hml b -i n In one of llieso cups Iny Iho drop of venom, "While soothing mul comforting thc still wailing babe, the old man told of the charm, It hail been given lo his father manv yeurs ago by a wondering yogi, who declared he hud found It In unimpeachable sources" were all duly elaborated, we grimly smiled one to another, and more than ove- questioned the utility of matters Indian being dealt with in parliamentary debate. DUKE ON SHIPBOARD 11's great to be the only duke rm shipboard. The Inst time the Puke if Manchester returned tn Knglnnd from nu American visit he had Ihe lead n all the fun that a voyage affords s of Iho old Jain totuplOB tn tho|As practically everyone was incapocitu GEORGE WILLIAM HILL Onco upon a time—the date is unimportant, but it was not far from ttie middle of tho last century—a man and a boy went forth from an American farm house nt tho break of dawn. The i mnn carried an old-fashioned tin clock*. " Father, what nre yoo going to do with our clock!" said tho boy. And tho man answered: "I'm going to set it when the mn rises." "Uut how do you know the right time whon the sun rises*?" quoriod the urchin. I'll find it in my Uld Farmers' Al* maims." replied the father. "Hut how does tlio almanac man find t when tlic sun risost' persisted iln son. "I don't know," enmo nt Inst—the uni final answer of parents. Such i-s substantially liiil's own story, given rerbaltv somo years ago in explanation of too beginning of his in terest in astronomy. And ho added: "I mado up my mind right then I '*l tin.) out how tlm almanac was made/' Many years later, so runs lho tale middle aged man who looked like nu American fnrmrr, nno who enrried in bis nmid an old carpet bug of Iho model of tho 'Hn's. entered an inn nrnr the most famous university of England) that one, lcl ns sny, which Thnekoray has railed the unlvorstty of Catnforq, Ue loft his bag in a small back room whieh was assigned to him, and went awuy about Ills business, lie must, have visited the university, for soon great university dons began lo arrive at the Inn, for the purpose of leaving cards upon the distinguished .\mcrieun ostron oinpr. and tO beg an opporlunity of en- tortalntng him with that splendid court psy which—Thackeray again tells 08— characterizes the I'.uglish cnllogo mag unto, when he lakes Ihe trouble to be polite, nnd rattles and swells in his grnnd robe* of state. When Hill camo back to tako his com fort in hi*» inn, he found his "traps" moved into one of the very bent rooms, himself Ihe guest of honor, nnd the landlord chopfatlon through having ni n old desk or secretary of rosewood with carved and inlaid top, odd little nooks and corners, nnd—perhaps 1 imagined this—the scent of roses still cu Iging to it. Easily persuading myself that I could afford and really need* ed a desk exactly like this, I had it sent homo with some few other things. Such a happy time ns I bad that evening arranging my new possessions, and what pleasant anticipations 1 wasted on that desk. Such a dear little piece of furniture it was>, with so many delightful drawers ami cute cubbyholes, l pulled them out again and again—when by accident 1 touched a secret spring and opened at tbo sido a tiny compartment which I had not noticed before. Again the scent of roses greeted mt and I could not resist putting iu my hand as if to receive a cluster. Malingers closod on a piece of paper—old and yellowed—with a single faded rose thrust through it. The petals fluttcro ' to the floor, as rising I went toward tho light. I found I bad a letter. With fast dimming eyes I read it and here set it down for you. Peihaps you can offer somo explanation, perhaps you know a story of which it. could bo n port. Those questions now confront mc: Havo I the. desk of the recipient, or did tho writer never send tho letter but fold it away iu her secret drawer? Can yon help to solve this mystery? It has uo title nor date other than "The Pay" nml begins simply: "Is is in truth The Pay, the'great day. The sun peeped in my window this morning to awaken me, but found tne waiting for him, as I have not slept. Alas, I fear I shall make but a sorry looking bride. How pale I am! Thor eip camo to help tne dress and 1 have been to matins, made my confession and received the communion, so now I am ready to be married—or die. "Mother came in last night to tal!; With me and tell nie how lucky I ntn. and warned uie that t must not think f you nor breathe your name again, said nothing. How could 1 tell her you are my mind, iny-Jtml, my life, nnd that it ii Impossible* not to thiuk of youf Dear, those are forbidden sub. .iccts; many things are often done for (lie good of the fmuiiy, I am youug aiol one's mother knows best--yesf "Ho camp nbo last night, but I would not spo him. Uo is a very good man, and he, too. will be mcrillred, 1 am sorry, but whyf Ob, wmider-tnan, is it given In him tn huvp much of this World'l good and mv body, and yon are denied of :tll save in\ heart ? Your ruses havo Just come, "During my sleepless night I have rend ami re, read your dear letters. 1 suppose I must destroy them — I could not do it beforo. Is it wrong, I won* Ier, for ono to worship another as l lo yon? I wish you had not written inn inen loiters. "Thcrosc interrupts tne. She says it is timo to g" down. Tho minutes nro living. 1 hnvo put my slippers on ami Ihey hart me. Von know the ob1 sny- ing, "If a bible's slippers pinch nr hurt sho will walk a stony path.' Is it true, do you think? Therese is nlarmod at my tnck of color, she hns gnno downstairs to gel me somo wine. This is right. The condemned criminal is ai ways loft alotie a \\yw minutes before tho end. *^^^^^^~ "..nd this i« the Knd! I cannot, will not do it. Hoarl-of-my-heart, i am always yours and yon nre mine. Nothing but life enn part ua, nml so t will come to you in death. Kveiylhiiig is rendy. I can hear the bells—surely that is a Urge they are chiming. The-eso if ■oiuing with mv mother, I must hurry tinnd-byo, my love, for a while. The Uni* big losings; seen the -truck speechless, us weak us i with their lips trembling like I *.vi i. en who are about lo cry. "On the other hand, I 've jei with low to ehoads and weak c: reputations for crawfishing au ing wnler in light places, sin square to the finishing wrenches of runs ni devilish luck, an.l take tli - r bitter medicine with hearts apparently as bravo as their faces were weak. I'm bnbly tho best educated and tho most highly organized men aro the har6Vsi lo.-eis. "Tho gamest loser I ever saw was a sheep herder, who didn't, look to hnve Oliough character in him to -lull' li glial pelt. lie wus Imiii.■ Idaho ranges for $2. grub when au aunt uu he had scarec •h fl seen, died 000. "lie didn't, have to come east t the money. A lawyer handed it to him iu n bundle at I'o'cutello. He won! to dim llosford's faro bank ami told dim that he wanted to make a few thousand dollar bets. Hosforth told him that he'd better hang ou to his mniiey. The herder told .Mm that ho wanted action on his money, and that if he couldn't get it at llosford's layout, why, there wero others. "So llosford dealt them from the box himself with a $1,000 limit. [ saw thc whole play. It only lasted 45 minutes. The herder wasn't in it at any stage of tho game. Coppered or open, ho couldn't land right. It was the fiercest run of evil luck I ever saw a man have at faro. When the herder had lost $13,000 llosford said to him; "'You'd better pinch out that remaining $5,000, Ombrey; give yourself a chance.' " 'Vou hand me ont another box full, replied the herder. 'When I got enough i'ii quit.' "The man was perfectly cool and col leoted and laid down his last five $1,000 bills without a tremor, Ilo picked four straight losers. Hy that time the box was out, and Hosford riffled 'cm and started another one. The herder watched them slip for a minute and then he put his last $1,00(1 on tbc high card. That kind of a long-shot playing don't do ior cinch work, and the bet trimmed him out. There wasn't a particle of contraction to his features when he struck a match and coolly lit a cigar. I think those who saw the play felt a good deal sorrier for him than he did for himself. " 'Bud,' snid llosford to the herder, 'I'm no hog. I'll just split the differ 6nee with you. and he began to count out hnlf tho money he had won from tho sheep man. " 'No, you won't,' replied the herder, 'but you can givo me u drink and a bottm to put in my pocket.' " 'Better tako a couple of thousand and run to Vriseo or Denver and have a whirl out of it, anyhow,' persisted llosford. ' ■ ' I 've had my whirl,' was ihe man 's reply. "He wasn't sulky at all. am! he didn't look abused. He was simply all man and all game. " 'Where are you bound for now?' asked llosford after settling for the drinks. " 'Back to the old G—S, snid tb herder, and he started for the ranch au hour later. He had bought three tlan ne! shirts, a pair of top boots and a poncho, and he took those things along with him iu a bundle. They were all he got for his $18,000. ■'Then I recall the game lose made by an Irish coal miner named I.arkiii, iu Leavenworth, in 1881. He had beon making .*_ a day in the mine and was unmarried, lie wasn't a drinking uiuti. When ho knocked off work on summer evenings ho would bat u ball around a lot for the young fellows until darkness camo on. Home near relative left I.arktn $3,000. Larkin washed up and took the money over to one of the priests. "The priest told him he'd bettor bank the money. Lark in got inside the bank, and there was n log line of depositors before the window **f tho re epiviug teller. Instead of Inking bis place in line ho waited at the door. Across tho streel ho saw Ihe attractive window of Col. JamlBOn '« bon boil gambling layout, which was wide open at that time. "Ho drifted across the sireet tn look on for a while until tho line at the re reiving teller's window should become te.lined somewhat. He dropped the whole $8,000 at a stud game in less than eu hour and ho walked back to his boarding house whistling 'The RokM -•' u.il waters reflecting the Bunlight >' brilliant while Bheets, From this heigh railroad lines, because of their nouti tint, were largely Indistinguishable, At the height of 200 metres belfries of small churches were confounded with house.-, but la ge churches isolated them- selves admirably. The French army's idea is to isolate ou tho proposed chart those objects which naturally detach themselves most visibly on the earth, Towns are to be Indicated by vivid red, with a difference iu shade to indicate the relative sizes. .Shiuls for dirigibles, aerodromes, and depositories for hydrogen are to be marked witb convenient signs. Vinos, gur- dens, and slopes of country are also to bo indicated. With such a **ystem of signal*-, thi French think t Imi greater security should follow flight, largely by giving tho airman additional confidence and also by saving him time and worry. Hy ibis means also, after a little practice, ho will bo aide to lay out his route with tolerable p cclslon for the outcome of dying is expected to show that airmen will keep iu certain currents precisely us sou pilots learn to avoid danger murks in harbois. The Aoro * !Iub of Prance has also taken up the ipn-stion of charts, Hot this iduh has decided thnt neither compass nor eluirt u ill answe nil pui11 es the aviator must bo able to •* langer ous obstacles—ami to ibis end it is not unlikely that in lime each municipality will go to the expense of erecting dan ger signs iu its vicinity, as well as marking points of location withi.n certain woll-doiiiio'l distances. The president of the French Aerinl League ka> como out with n proposition that poles lie in* ted on all high towers, etc., with letters traced upon them to 6how dft tances, 'i'he figures, the lea gu< lays should bo two in kind: one to the distance, north or sonth, res between any given place and rhe parallel of Paris; and the other, :; tanco east or west from the merid tho French capital. For exam an aviator reads the figures .31.3*1 will know that be Is 4:il kilontet • • - the south of the parallel aud 340 from the meridian of Paris, and by cons his annual register can easily get a - bearings for the next lap iu his :i _:'■* CAESAR'S TRIUMPH OVBB POMPEY Supplies were so difficult ro obtain that at one time Caesar's *■ . - . to subsist on roots . • -V some months, Pompej **. I is■.. ■ ■ i vocations to pitched battle, and would actually have destroyed Caesar without lighting, had uot tim Bomaa nobles in his camp, rendered impd by inaction, anxious to returu to the capital, nml emboldened by t'ansar a Acuities, obliged htm to gfve battfc. The two armies came to blows 'in the Sel of Pharsalia, August :i. t& B.- .. u_d Caesar's veteran infantry, seasanad by a decade of wars in Haul, undid in a few hours all tbe advantage 'if Pmn pay's great numbers. Wtth the blfaat occurred a general disbanding o_ Pun pey's party. Fortune had once more favond Cm ear; and once more he -owed himsolf proof against self -deception, pur— tg that, notwithstanding the rfisftary, hia foe could still command fatees greater than his own. He gave .mother won derfnl exhibition—his last—uf mado . tion and tact: he dementi? a tted Ib his side the uncertain and those, n. hail followed Pompey from 61 ai I -■ ir gratitude, or because connections, and grac ed Ehe surrender of many of I a - trious partisans, ami % tbs .. Junius Brutus. il is otlicial announcement o_ the suggestion of celebrations-, . i ed Anthony thither mend duty oi' directing hia par*- . again master of the com .i senate. Meanwhile Pom •■■ fle ; * following to Egypt, onferred benefit - <■• reigning mons I winds of bis soldi* Knowing that ble *-■■ b] bad * ■. gone to Bgypt in order to contri a ths renew..1 of be wnr. ■ laesar with two legions to captors him and n conclude the struggle. When h** ar rived, he discovered thai Pofl-poy was already out of reckoning; he had been killed by the ministers of King I" . Hut there wanted little of bts l'i_ ging Caesar, too hot in pnrsoit, ro reia in Egypt with himself, for Alexandria, the latter - _i_ I « i Us legions in a national civil war, half of Cleopatra, ngain.-t the par the king's ministers, n .'"una her joint rule with her brother Pte *' " SOME USES OF SNAKES What la th.- use nf snake*! In thv-ir 'going on thai hoarding I .Uullow.' ^^^^^^^^^^^^ "lie finished ont the afternoon but ting he ball raund the. bit for the youngsters, and Ihe i ext morning. With his tin lamp hi his hat and bu din ner bucket, ho set out for thc mine1-. still whistling merrily." STONAL-CUAETS FOR AIRMEN The French army is Studying B proc tleal menus of making aviation at onci less iliP'cult ami less dangerous by menus of aerinl charts. Atwood in his flight from St. Imuis followed tho line of railroad, ami the delays he met witb me well known. The French idea is to have beforo the compass a card which the airman should bo able to read at a glance, no matter what his speed, confirming its information by D glance at the earth over which ho is passing. Aviators consider thnt characters in white spread over the green surface of the earth arc most serviceable for iden tillcatio". From ihe height of 0,00'- 'notres while lines wore distinguished last April by two aviators sent up fot purpose* "f observation. From thl' height villages appeared iii dark spots belly,"' UlS '-ireum stam-e that so offended Bacon, lies one of their greatesl uses, because that, together with tlieir internal formation and external covering, enables them to penetrate where no larger carnivorous animal could venture, into dark and noisome monuaes, iog jungles, swamp* amid the tangled vegetation of the tropics, where iwarms of the leoae. rep tiles, ou which nn many of them feed, would otherwise outbalance- the har mnnv of nature. Wondrously mid exquisitely cnn^tnic ted for their habitat, they are nidi* to exist where the higher animals could not; and while they help to clear thosr inaccessible places of the lesser vermin, they themselves supply food for a num ber of the smaller mammalia, which, with many carnivorous birds, devour Vast numbers of young snokes. The hedgehog, weasel, ichneumon. rnt, peccary, badger, goat, hog, and nn immense number of birds keep snakes within dm* limits, while the latter per form tlieir part among tho grain-devouring ami herhevoroui lesser creatures, Kiln - That young farmer tried to kis*. me. saying that he had never kissed a girl before. st, Ms What did you tell himf Gila—Thnl I was no agricultural «x- perittHet station. He sang about the "good timet, With all his heart and sonli No matter how the world behaved) l!< still iried, "Let '-r mill" FREE PB-I&i <&t.UWA£i RpJT-tSIl COUTMBtA Young Street The Scene of all Future Business Expansion and Activity. Prosonl plmis of various interests involved, make it absolutely inevitable thai this stroot must, become tho soiit of development nud extensive building operations immediately. We havo listod with us evory available piece of property on Young street. We recommend investments on Young sireet, heartily and will be pleased to submit quotations which will prove the excellent opportunities existing along this thoroughfare. We carry the choices! list of Farm and City Property in the Fraser Valley. Most complete and reliable information cheerfully given to all enquiries. Chilliwack Land and Development Co.Ltd. P. O. BOX 109 PHONE 178 OFFICE-YOUNG STREET Next to Empress hotel i LETTERS FROM DR. AND T. B. HENDERSON Ci.tuiiyl iivti, lost peek. j "S. S. MakUra, nt tlio Equator, |.Tan. 7. 1 nm starting this letter throo or four Jays before we get to Suva. ovory morning _ very beautiful, and the sunset hit evenim; was the moat wonderful sight, you could] Imagine. We have passed n larger: ntimbor of Islands today quite close, (Jan 12), Vcsterday was Wednesday and today Is Friday so we lost a Personal Mention This being Silt-flay it is quiet on day, by putting our time back. We •«r______i ■_____•■_____■ .___■__■<»•,____■_,__■---• HIGH CLASS Tailoring for Ladies and Men* Satisfaction Guaranteed A. CUPPLES TWO DOORS FROM POST OFFICE board as the day is well observed Tonight we are going to havo service at 8. p.m. and i understand there is to be some ex.tra singing. We crossed the lili« today about noon bul being Sunday, Father Neptune did not appear. We heard yesterday that the temperature at. Winnipeg was forty below. 1 wish wu hud what they could spare. It would make tilings much more | pleasant, (lero wc are trying with ice-cream, and putting off all tho clothes we possibly can, to keep cool Imt it's of no use.. Hot, you .ju-t feel you would give anything for n change. The nights are not much lietter tbun the days, still you can manage to get a lair amount of sleep. We usually turn out lietween six and six-thirty anil skoot for thc bathroom. It feels fine when yoij arc lying in the salt water, but you are not over drying yourself when you want to go in again. 1 must now go hack to Honolulu and tell you something about that place. Unfortunately our stay tliere was for only a few hours, so as soon a-, we got ashore our tirst run was to the post office to mail our letters wliieli we hope you have received. Then we had to go to the bank to get some of our money changed to Anieriean. Then we made inquiries for a ear to the Aquarium about four miles out. Tliey have a tine ear service, the cars are longer than ours and open at both sides, making it handy to get on and off. The cars took us out to thc Aquarium, four miles, for five cents and the scenery on cither side of tjie street I can't begin to deserilie. Palifl trees, Ban- nana, Cocoanut trees with fruit on most of them, al) kinds of smaller plants and pretty little houses in among thc trees, all looked like a regular Paradise. The Aquarium is said to be one the of thc finest in the world. Tolk alxiut beautiful li.-li of wonderful colors and shapes, i I never could have believed such I fish existed. The octopus or devil j fish was there too and of all the I ugly repulsive creature* I ever saw ! it takes the cake. We had no time to go to tbc oilier places of interest as B . we had lo l»- back on board at ! 1 |i.iii.. so we came back, had lunch at 12.30, and amused ourselves ; throwing iUiaJI coins ipto thc water and seeing the natives dive after them and I did unt see one of them miss finding tlic coins. , There were live of t'nclc Ham's ("misers in pojt a;id we would have 'iked to have goiio aboard as they are passing Islands, some of them completely surrounded with reefs aboul two miles from shore nnd the breakers are dashing on the reefs nnd inside there is not a ripple. Wo will mail our letters from Suva if we get in tonight, and write next from Auckland. Church News Ilev. C. B. Clarke and Mrs. Clarke are moving to their new home, the Rectory, at Sardis. The services in the Methodist church next Sunday will lie conducted by Uev. E. L. Best, of the Columbian College, in the absence of the pastor. Last Tuesday at the regular monthly meeting of the Woman's Missionary Auxiliary in the Methodist church it was decided to organize a Mission Band for the members of the Sunday School, The first meeting is being held today (Friday) with Misses Graham and Wood- worth in charge. The birthday social given in the K. of 1' hall on Tuesday night by Mrs. II. Eckert aud Mrs. K. A. Henderson wan aiieligbtful affair, and the many who were there entered into the spirit of the evening with fun and spirit. Original games and conte-ts, a short program of musical selections, and very inviting refreshments, served from a long centre table artistically decorated were the contributions to the good time spent. It doubtless meant a good deal of extra work on the on the part of the ladies in charge and their ..apablc assistants, Miss Morse and 11. A. Henderson particularly, but thc result was worth while. Next Sundav, Rev. A.E. Roberts will act in his official capacity as President of tho B. C. Conference of thc Methodist church and preach tlie dedicatory sermons in connection with thc opening of now churches at Dundonal.l. near Now Westminster, and Sperling, on the C. Electric. A splendid new Methodist churcli is also being opened at Prince Rupert with Rev. Dr. Chown, General Superintendent, preaching. Another new church will he 0|ieiicd at Wilson Heights. Vancouver, on March 10. Ta Be Ordain*. Smdiy Thc first Ordination Service ever held in connection with thc Church were some of their newest ships, 0f England in Chilliwaek, will take but there was ^a-im1!. Tho town place in St. Thomas' church on was full of about 1 ..'10 foiTTarf we reached on the 6tli after a very pleasant run'from' Honolulu. It was shining bright 'and clear when we made fast to buoy anchor about a mile off shore. We were only there a little while when we were treated to a real tropietd shower of rain and didn't it come down for about |ts. We left j Sunday morning next at ngtsland which leven o'clock, wneu tne new Incumbent at Rosedale, Mr. Scarles, of Vernon, B C, will be ordained, by Bishop di Pcncicr, of Westminster, assisted by Archdeacon Pontreath of Vancouver. Bishop de Pcncicr will preach the morning service and Archdeacon Pontreath in the evening. A service of interest and Watch and Jewelry Repairing I lout send your Watches and Jewelry out of the city lo be repaired when you can have thom repaired here carefully and promptly. We guarantee perfect satisfaction, (live us a trial and be convinced. REG. E. BROADHEAD Agent for the Columbia Phonograph. Second door from Empress hotel, Chilliwack. a half or three quarters of an hour, j importance of the foregoing is rarely land then oul bright and clear again. | Thc Island is only three miles in ', length, alxiut two miles in width and is said to be only fourteen feet alsovc I the sea level.' It looked very pretty |from tho ship, coyta- with palm j trees, date, and cocoanut trees. It :onductcd outside thc larger centres and such an event is not likely to take place in Chilliwack again fur some time. Ck_-i him* Rally The Quarterly Rally of the Local has been occupied' by the British!Union of Christian Endeavor So- i Government for some time nasi as ■a. cable station. There were alxiut ; a dozen white people ou the Island and two or three down natives. ; No one was allowed on shore as we j wen- only tliere an hour or two, but ! we will la- most of the day at Suva. 1 Wc have a series of tournaments on I the ship. Ihe passengers selecting a sport ; games and mitt.-..'. W cietics was held in the Carman I Methodist church Sardis, on Monday evening. The very large: attendance was an indication of the! interest that is lieing taken by tho i young peoplo of thc valley in this I movement. President Copeland j occupied the chair and after the; opening exercises, called on the j eonimiltee to got up the'Rev. C. G. Parker of Vancouver, to o are two of the com- address tho mooting. The speaker | made a program, col-1chose as his text, 'Quit you like looted money to buy prucs and the I men, be strong," and spoke particu- I tournament lias Boon on for two Marly along the line of courage, idays and will last two days longer; The three things necessary to make ! if it, does nol,'gjH too hot, We had a la great man are, Strength, Courage Whist drive in whicli forty-eight of Und Wisdom. The speaker showed .the passengers wore playing at once, how the absence of Courage spoiled 1 We bad quite a little' excitment on to a grout extent the other two board today, when (SnjS"of the pas- qualities and how its development isaugers, a newspaper correspondent I brought the others lo a fuller de- of a German paper, tried to com- velopmcnt. During thc evening ***************************************************** Particular Printing For particular people is the kind supplied customers of the Free Press *****^******+^****+i+*e**************************** imil suicide by jumping overboard. j He had been drjnking'hei'vily and became despondent.' The ship's Iofficers took him in charge and l he was locked Up. It has boon : frightfully lint today and we have ; lieen lying nbout deck most of the I time. Wo also had for a change a game of cricket oil deck. Tonight it is very dark' ami has" every appearance ol a tropical (storm as it is frightfully close and oppressive. A very large number of the passengers arc sleeping on the upper deck under the awnings (Jan. 10). Another boiling hut day. 1 can see' thc sun rising out of the sea while lying in my berth and the <ight ducts were rendered by thc Missc LerOUX and Trciiholm and Mr. and Mrs. Sissler. Ths; banner given for thc best attendance during the Quarter, was won by the Chilliwack Baptists with 77.304 percent, while thc Chilliwack Methodists came second with an average attendance of 77 por cent. Thc ladies of Car-1 man League provided a very dainty treat of homemade candy which was pnsfoil around afler thc meet- j ing was over and was very much appreciated by ull present. Milton j Orr was appointed secretary treu-' surer, pro tern owing to tho illness uf the secretary treasurer, Miss Hunter of Sardis. Mrs. F. Lay went to Vancouver on Friday. Mrs. McPhcrson went to Portland on Saturday. Mrs. D. B. Hall went to Vancouver on Monday. Geo. K. Fraser of Vancouver was in the city this week. Mr. and Mrs. Williams arc visiting in Seattle, Wash. W. II. Burton was in Vancouver on Inisiness this week. Mr. and Mrs. Alex Grant have moved to Prince Rupert. Miss Broe of Matsqui was home for a few days this week. M. II. Nelcms of Vancouver, spent Sunday in the city. I). It. McLennan was a passenger to Vancouver on Monday. W. J, McGillivary of Vancouver, wns at home over Sunday. Mrs. Geo. Eggley is visiting her son in Vancouver this week. Mr. and Mrs. John Bathgate went to Vancouvor on Sunday. O. A. Weeks was a business visitor to Vancouver Monday evening. Mr. Broe of Blaine, Wash., spent the week end with his parents here. Alderman (I'Ilearn is on a business trip to Vancouver this week. L. 11. Boultbee, of Vancouver, spent the week end with Chilliwack friends. Mr. Fottisficld and Lincoln Ballam of Sumas, were in the city over Sunday. °. L. Hodges, Cheam, has returned from a visit to Victoria and Vancouver. W. L. Budd, or the Chilliwack Land & Devolopement Co. is on thc sick list this week. Mrs. V. L, Cooper of Pilot Mound Man., visited Mr. and Mrs. J. Grieves last week. Mr. Swan, chief engineer of the C. N. R. and Mrs. Swan visited Mrs. Ileal on Friday. Mrs. Macken returned last week from a visit to friends in interior cities and Vancouver. Mrs. J. T. Jack man and Miss Eva Jackman are visiting friends at Edmunds this week. James Ford and Stanley Evcrall came homo on Monday from a visit sjx-nt at thc Coast cities. Mrs. A. H. Ingrains, of Vancouver is the guest of Mrs. It. E. Broadhead, Gore avenue. Mr. Sherwood formcr'y of the local branch of the Bank of Montreal is visitiiiK in the city this week. The Provincial Legislature has been dissolved. Elections throughout thc Province will be held on March 21. K. W. Stnde, of Chilliwack. was in town on Thursday looking for a business site to start a general store. —Abbotsford. F A. Murray, accountant of thc Hastings street branch of the Merchants Bank, Vancouver, spent Sunday in town. The Rcbekah Lodge held their usual successful open evening last night, a good number enjoying the event immensely. W. R. Nolems, O. A. Weeks and 0. E. Pott man, all of Chilliwack, were visitors in the city yesterday .—Columbian. Professor and Mrs. Hetherington of Now Westminster were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Siddall on Sunday and Monday. Mrs. It. E. Biiiadliond will receive on Monday, March I, from 3.80 to ii p.m., and in future on thc first Monday of the month. Major Hamilton of Rrantford, Ont,, was the guest of II. Tyron and Mr. and Mrs. N. 8 McKenzie. Chilliwack, during the week. Mr. and Mrs. Woodruff of Vancouver who have been visiting their daughter Mrs. W. Siddall, Spadina ave. left on Tuesday for their home Mrs. Cox. and her daughter, Mrs. Heel and Miss Cox, who have been visiting Mrs. D. 11. McKay for several weeks, returned to their home in Brandon, Manitoba, last week. Chas. Terry, of Chatham, Ont., who with his wife, who was a recent j guest of Mr. and Mrs. W. N. String- - er, of Sardis, has purchased twenty | acres of tho Robert Stevenson Citato ■ at Sardis. , I ' ' """*--' * —*e.*«ll**ff mmaamamai ■ en $ffi. 4.. Wikon "Wood form" Sjimas, who has boen confined to hir limine on account of illness for t|jj gaat week, is slowly recovering. Mr. nnd Mrs. John Kinnison, who have been tho guests of their daughter Mrs. A. M. McNeill, city, returrujd (6 tlieir home at Aberdeen, \V«Sh'., pii Fridny. F. U Robson, agent at the B. G."E. ijt.'fflWtJOt and Mrs. Robson have r'etvirned and Mr. Robson is ou<-y more <cm duty feeling much the hotter of I'is holiday. J. J. Maynanl who was n delegate from the Provincial Live Stock and Dairymen's Association to thc Dominion L, S. and I). A. in Ottawa has returned home. Mrs. ft. 0. Atkins, Yale Road, will lie at home tc her fricn Is on Wednesday next, March li, from three to five, nnd afterwards on the Hint and third Wednesday. Mrs. T. Boyd, lute of Minncdosa, Map., who is at present visiting lier son J. 11. Boyd, at Abbolaford, and Mrs. Wm. Hiilstead, of Portage la Prairij'. Man., who is visiting friends ip Vancouver. spent the week end With Mrs. jl. J. Harding, Hazel sireet*. f Miss Teate Bcnib Chiirloawnrtli, one (if the nursing staff of Ihe Brett Hospital, Banff, Alia , has Is-en vis'iliijg ber aunt, Mrs. Humphrey Thompson, Sardis, the past week. Miss Cliarle.stti.rlh lefl on Fri luy to take up her duties nt the California!! Hospital, Los Angelos. M|'s. Sophia Davies of Vancouver will speak in the Women's Rest rpo'ma in the Hart Block on this Monday evening, March ,1 at eight o'clock. While coming under the auspice! °' *'"-' Women's Institute. all men us well as women are invited to hear Mrs. Davies as her subject "Poultry Raising" is one iu which both are interested and a scientific discussion of the subject will prove beneficial to those engaged in this branch of work. The Gill Guides held a meeting on Friday afternoon all the members turning out, full of bubbling enthusiasm. A. L. Coote instructed the new order in some of thc worlf, and a good start is being made by Hip young recruits, if such they may bo called. The Guides will meet again to-day by order of the captain, Miss L. Marsden. SPRING SUITINGS We are showing nearly 400 iliffor- etjt lines' of Spring Snning. com- ~Mjhaj.lg-.il1 jnc new color cHi-cu. _rl|_K weaves i" medium W ■"■'-•"weightcloths. J. H. TWIN ST*. Ifin^ton st. Opp Opera Housu Nol** Agency Hon**' of Iloblxrlin, Limit'd Danger Signals of Disease Every home should have a Clinical Thermometer A shipment just arrived of the highest grade— ranging in prices from 75c to $1.50 H. J. BARBER Druggist and Stationer
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Title | Chilliwack Free Press |
Publisher | Chilliwack, BC : C.A. Barber |
Date Issued | 1912-03-01 |
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