Vol, 1. sunscniPTioN rniCF. ii.oo run vkaii SI.MILK COI'IKS KIVE CUNTS K.lCIl CHILLIWACK, B.C., THURSDAY, MAY 1912 c. a. uakdkii l-'xlllsir ..ml Proprietor No. 38 Baseball For Mi* 24. Two tinll games aro scheduled for Victoria Dny at the Recreation' Park. Sumas nnd the Cliilliwnck Tigers nnd Rosedale und Chilliwaek Cubs will furnish excitement for the funs. Both guiiios will be played during the nftornoon. ParduM Feed Business. Messrs. .lulin and Win. Knight have purchased the Hour and feed business conducted for boiiio time h.v A. II. MeCnuley ill Ihi' Knight block, nnd will ornithine the business nt the sn me stand, Mr. MeCnuley bus deckled lo take a trip to Kurt George. Net Wisted. Twenty gnnd laboring men wanted, men win. are accustomed to tin' handling of a pick und shovel or oilier tools, at ion a. m, May 20th, nt tho corner of Nowoll uml Westminster streots, I" listen lo a quiet and interesting talk hy Itev. .1. Marshall, uf Montreal, Tm Much Generosity Hurry Roborls, tor supplying In- toxioantfl Us an Indian, was lined *_K) and costs at the Polioo Court on Tuesday, and in default of payment, fuur months wilh hard labor. As Harry had not the two hundred punks to contribute as a result of his folly, he was given u free trip to the Royal City. Will Be Appretut**: The decision nf tho City Council In purchase sovonty-ftvo street signs is t\ move which will moot with th.' approval of a vory largo number of citizens. The presence of street signs in Chilliwuek, particularly owing to its layout of angles, etc. will be ssf much convenience, especially to recent arrivals to the city. Bested Nose* ui Ott Tkre* Mostlu Albcrt Iligley, who claimed to lx* n follower of the l.W'.W., appear—' before Magistrate M.-<:illlvray on Tuesday on a charge of vagrancy, nnd drew a time check for till months without the option of a tine. Industrial Workers of the World of Mr. Higloy's stamp got copious draughts of cold Byinpathy when thoy blow into Cliilliwnck. Sale tf Or Property W. R. Nelems, uf the Chilli-J waek Lund and Development Co., reports the sale by this linn of lot •I, block '-'I, First avenue from ,1. Hnminnr to John Woodman, foromnn ut the City Rock I'liurry. Also lot 0, block 2, Division K. from Geo. Stringer to City Chief, .1. W. Derby. We believe it is lhe intention of Mr. Derby to erect a new home on tho property in the ncur feature, hml * **__*»_ Tho liest investors tliat u town hns nro tho homo investors, those that have mnde thoir money in the town. If lhe eilzens of Chilliwuek desire to iucrenso tho value of their holdings Ihey should show tlieir appreciation of onr city hv Investing their surplus funds right her.1. Tlio best Isooms thnt any community ovor has are tlu.se that originate nt homo by homo people and nro kepi up hy homo people, Outsiders will then conn' iu. oner Prices. According to the authority of an export, Mr. Preston, editor of the Produoo News of Now Yssrk, tlio worst is yol In come in high prices. Ho suys:—"Tho next twelve months will see ss.nie new records in high prices for meals, egg, uml butler. Tlie prices for potatoes would gu to 18 a barrel, if il wore not fnr Irish mul Belgian Imports. Tlie cabbage crop is short, liko artichokes, nro becoming luxuries." A Detiracthrc Bisk Rre A lire started on Parson's Hill about two weeks ngo gnvo the lire wardens fi busy tlmo during tlio week but notwithstanding every effort of a dozen men il Continued lo spread and on Sunday had gol into the timber land along the Chilliwack river,and, fanned by a strong south wind, heavy damage was done to sending timber. Tho roar oniihl Is' hoard for a long distance, whilo a dense cloud of smoko marked tho i scene of the lire and was visible for ' miles. The wind was followed by ' n welcome rain which quenched the lire, and prevented inestimable damage, To Appear To-Morrow. Messrs. A. L. Coote and P, Carey were visitors to Westminster early in the week where thoy rustled a drum nnd other instruments for the now 10 It ll Regimental Bund. The new uniforms have arrived und tho bnild will make its initial public appearance as a military organization on Friday (Victoria Dny) nud will furnish the music at Recreation Park during tho pro- gross of the horse races ami tlie hall games. St. John's Church. Sardis An afternoon and evening garden party ami salo nf work, in aid of lhe above will ho held on the 20th' .Inns'ul Oporto Lodge, tho residence of Mrs. Boilers. During the afternoon there will bo tennis, and also competitions and games for the children and a candy stall. An entrance fen of ten cents will lie charged. Tea II ft COU coilts; Strawberries and Crcuin leu cents; and Ice Creams ten cents, Rigs will meet Ibe one, six and nine o'clock trams to and from Chilliwuek. From Shop to Forest. On Satiirilny G. C. Carter disposed of liis tailoring Inisiness to P. James and .1. Turpin. This now firm is now in possession, Uuth men are well known to Chilliwack people and should command a liberal share of the business of the city and valley. By way of a change Mr. Carter hns adopted tho euro free und open air life ol n Dominion Forest Kire Ranger, liis territory comprising the south half of thi' Coitus Luke district nnd down the Columbia vnlloy us fur ns the boundary. Excursion lo Hot Sprats One nf llie strong holiday attractions for to-morrow, Victoria day, will be the river, excursion lo Harrison Hut Springs, via the coin- IM.Ssli.'SS., Me.sSSSC. , "Mcls:»l M. Seanloii" which leaves the Minlo Landing nt 8.80 n.m. Returning tin' steamer will leave the Hot Springs at five p.m. Ths- fare fnr lhe round trip is S1.00. W. R. Nelems who is conducting tbo excursion has mnde this annual outing a very popular one nnd the event this your promises a big crowd, un enjoyable outing nnd a financial success to the promoters. Fined $50 aod Costs. lu the police court on Tuesday forenoon .hums lngnlls was assessed a minimum lino of fwUnnd costs for starling a lire on Mr. Huberts' property on Glondnle Rond, without n permit. The cuse was set for last Thursday but wus udjournod until Tuesday of this week. Tlie information wns sworn out by Provincial Kire Wanton, I. Johnston. Mr. Grant of Grant & Carvolth, Westminster defended, and J. II. Howes acted for tbc Government. Mr. Ingalls entered a idea of guilty. Tlic firo did considerable damago before It was got under control. Acres of potatoes, grain, etc., in lbc pent land district wore destroyed nnd there is likely to lie n onso for damage ns a result of the blaze. Testa- Farners Milk Some of tlio ranchers of lhe Abbotsford district, says the Post, nro wondering why the govornmont milk testers do not go uul among the farmors and test the milk instead of doing it at llie coast when tlio milk is sliip|>ed. It is claimed Iluil trui' criticism cannot Ise given that will Ih1 of benefit to tlioso who ship milk to Iht* cities, Were Ibe Inspectors to go round among the i anchors it would Is' nn excellent opportunity lo educate the fanners in lhe Ik'sI wny of bundling milk with profit to themselves. Since ihe Provincial Bee Inspector has Iseon Ibrough the district lho boo- keepers have become inure enthusiastic. Tbey have rooeived instruction Ihnt enables thom logo on with their work in such a wny ns to Iss'profitable, ll is reported tlmt Inst yenr one farmer ri-oeivod such Instructions as to enable him to make *>.">00 out of liis boos. Similar profits should accru from instructions in other subjects. The Frasor River is reported to Is1 higher tlmn at this dale last year, which is re-ussuring to those who still worry aliout the possibility of dailgorOUS high water. The majority of Valley people see no real reason for apprehension under tlie changed conditions of late yean. Attended Coiner Stone Laying The ceremony of laying the foundation stone of the now Masonic Temple at Abbotsford, was carried through successful l.v on Saturday; last, with all tho picturesque ritual] uf the fraternity suitable to Iho oo-1 008.011, The service was conducted | by the Most Worshipful Grand Mas- tot F. .1. Hurtle of Vancouver, as-1 sisted by lhe ollieers nf the Grand Lodge of British Columbia. The building is u very handsome struc-| lure, steam hcatcsl and fitted up with electric lighl and all conveniences. Among those attending frum Chilliwack Lodge wore: II. Rnine, .1. W. Carniiohnol, W. A. Rose, Canon lliucldiffc, .1. II. Suart, Bert Reid, Mr. Wianco, A. A. Cruikshiink, nnd P. C. Kick- bush. Gel Afler the Fir. In Canada und the United Slides "Swat the Fly" is becomingn rallying cry, In some places in lho United Slates, a "Ply Day" has lieen fixed, when every household wilh a suitable weapon declares death to the disoase g.Tin carrying Ily. In Hamilton, Ontario, Iho Health olHcar has instituted n campaign, and the Mayor suggests that Ihe Boy Senilis ought to engage ill this warfare. Of course it is discouraging nfler you liuve "swatted" for hnlf nn hour nnd sit down to rest, to find that tho wretches are as thick as beforo. But console yourself with the thought thut u scientist has figured out, that fur every H.v killed uuw, thoro will lx- million loss next August. Somo person, who is familiar with tlie habits and and manners of flies, stntos tbut n house-fly multiplies 120 times every two weeks, nnd the 120 continues In multiply iu the snnie ratio. The sintsties should stimulate the "swatters" to exertion. The Washington Board of Health says "Swat list. |l.r ..sirly. tr*v ono female 11., s making her appearance ns late as April 10th, may bo thc ancestress of nine generations, totalling 7,000,- 000 descendants. To entertain nil these would ombarass the most hospitable family.'' Dr. Hastings, Health officer fnr Toronto, has issued u pamphlet nil the necessity of suppressing the house-fly, und suggesting thut bounties Irs offered io children for killing flics during Mny uud June. A First Uass Show Co. (In tlio occasion of their visit to Cliilliwnck Inst October the Allen Players created a most favorable impression. Tlieir visit here this wook is marked bv a strengthening of tliat impression. We venture to suy thut Cliilliwnck people have seldom if ovor had iu tlieir midst a company tn equal the Allen Players, and the opinion of those who have witnessed the jicrfor- mancos so far this week, is fluttering indeed. (In Monday evening "The Third Degree" was cleverly presented, the stage settings, the costumes and the acting of the entire company lieing of outstanding merit. Miss Verne Folton is a star, and her work fulfills nil the good things tliat have boen written of lier, while II. Irving Kennedy, Ralph! Belmont, Biron Kagan, Miss Marie' Thompson, have boon strong in their respective roles. The singing of Miss Gladys lludars is ndecided-1 ly pleasing feature. Her singing nf ' The Rosary" on Tuesday even- liig mot with unstinted appreeia- Hon. Tlu- entire company is muoh above thcuverngo, and of n calibre which it will mil often Ih- lhe privilege of Chilliwuek people to witness in the oily. Tuesday nighl "Res-; in ti'ction" was tlio hill nnd mot witli much approval liy a large audience. Last evening the company played "The Transgressor." Thursday, ovoning they will prosont the play "Cnniillo", Kriilny "The Road to, Yesterday", Saturday matinee is to I Ik" "Merely .Mary Ann", and clos-l ing tlic engagement on Saturday' ovoning witli "The Cowlstiy ami The Lady." All these plays nre favor-' itcs and as presented by Ihis com--' puny will ise well worth seoiliu. The Royal Hungarian String Quitf-I lotto is giving splendid satisfaction with tlieir musical numbers bc-j tween ads. THE CITY COUNCIL The weekly grist of municipal business was disposed of on Monday ovoning in the city hnll when nil of the City Coiincihnen were present. The ilrst item was deciding to hnvo seventy-live street signs purchased at u cost of sixty cents cnoli, The signs nre tbo same us those used by Montronl and Toronto ami will he purchased from tlio Tims. Davidson Manufacturing Co.. Montronl. A communication from Messrs. Duteher, Maxwell Co,, re services of Mr. Lon, the sewerage expert, WIIS received and tiled. ('. W. Webb, C. M. ('., wrote stating that sidewalk to Hospital had not been completed, Referred to Chairman of Board of Works with power to act. S. S. Carleton, chairman of the of the Kiro, Water and Light committee reported on tho street sprinkling proposition as follows: Streets recommended to be sprinkled— Westminster avenue between city limits nn south nnd east, Young inuil between sub-station and Bole nvoiiue, Wellington avenue between live corners and Stanley street, estimated cost being il'tl); i"'. amount to be charged to genera revenue und balance levied on improvements on said streets. Totn value of improvements 1414,660, one mill boing amount of levy required. The reporl was received | und adopted 1 CNR TRACKS WITHIN TWO MILES OF HOPE The Canadian Northern Railway company's tracks are now at the west end of the long bridge that spans the two mouths of Silver Creek. Tho track-laying crew and equipment lmvo returned to the coast for the present. Thc distance from the present rail-end to llo]ie Is less than two miles and this will Ise finished withoui the use nf the inaehini', probably before the end of May. The date uf the final completion of the Silver Creek bridge cannot he fixed. It will do- pond upon llie eiinilucl of Silver Crook during the coming season of High water. A "Y" is lieing constructed at I'lonilville, Iwsi miles west of Silver Creek, which will be used until the tracks and yards nt ■Hope nro completed and a turning j table built. After the track-laying has passed far eastward there will I still ho plenty of work ill the huilding and equipping of stations, nnd especially at Hope, where the C. N. R. tracks will make connections with those of the V. V. .V B. Kasl- ivnrd, between lln|ic and Yale, fair progress is being made by Palmer To Build Furniture Store. tl. It. Chamberlain who sold out his furniture business in Chilliwack less than a year ago will go into business again, lh- has commenced the erection of ii new store cs|>ccinlly designed and tilled fm- tho business, and which will lie located on Wellington street opposite Cowcn's Drug Store. The new building will have II frontage of forty foot and a depth of sixty foot and will lie two stor.vs in bight. Thi' front will I om- posed of brick and plnteglnss. Three large plate glass windows on the lirst lloor and five nn the second, which will furnish exceptional display space for goods. The window trimmings ou the lirsl lloor will be of copper, The side walls and rear will be of concrete construction, while in nddition to the main store a largo wni'chouso will be erected at at the roar. The new furniture and house furnishing store will be n valued addition to the pernameot business blocks of the city and up- to-date fssr the purpose for whieh ii is being erected. ""'i Brothers": Hoiining and McGilli- " ' vray Brothers, but neither firm has hud n full force working since tin- strike. Beyond Yale ante-strike conditions are reported lo he fully j restored. Burns, Jordan & Welch have all tho men thoy need between Yale and .North Bond, and tliey an.l othor contractors were well Soctai! and Personal i Mr. tors h Mr. i wore i week. and Mrs. J, Snider i . the coast this week. uud Mrs. visitors to w. Vane Uradwiu rer. this ahead of Iheir work. It is doubt-., ,„,. , , fill if the strike that failed will friends. Tbe petition of R, G. Rownt nnd others for un eight and a hnlf foot cement walk on tho south sido |cmwe am, (yay in thl, in thp ,.om. of Wellington street between Main plotio- ot the Hope-Kamloops sect- and Mary Streets was reported on .„„ _W(?st Ya!(, 1!t,vi|l,v_ by the clerk as having the required'. number of signatures. The report was adopted. TO RESIDE IN CHILUWACK The Clerk wns instructed to nd-! — vertiso that all |_tltl0IIS for cement\ .. „„,, •„_,„ „f t|,B Sentinel, ut walks must be in hands of clerk not ,,;.)t Moun(li M mt.lin, „„, later than July 1, and Hint no poll-1 f„i,(,wing ri,fl.r(.,,co ,„ ,|„, doparture lions received il.oroa tor will be fniI11 „1|lt ,„OT1 „f Mr. and Mrs. W. considered f.u- year li 12. Endicott, who will arrive nl Chilli- lhe plan nf sub-division nf 1. Mrs. W. II. Siddall, Spadina _*. cinie, is visiting with Vancouver Boimyeastle, W. G. Lillie and (.'.(I. Bonnycnstlo was accepted and thc Mayor authorized to sign the plan. Chairman Gervan of the Board of Works reported tlmt the lane for which gravel lilli ng had lieeli asked by Messrs. I). II. McKay and J. T. Policy, was private property, and that he could not recommend ilu request being granted. j ing tho,r „,,[,.,,„,.,, h(,re ,., . took „ I*he purchase of a mower lo to kMn interest in nil t*,.lt ,«rtnincd used in cutting grass and woods on ,„ „„, wi.|f.lr(, „, ,||(l |offn' |n ^ Miss Cm two weeks land, B. C. R. II. Elliott, .. guest of his gjsjter Gore avenue. Mrs. K. Duthie ing n fow day: friends this week. leton leaves to-day on a holiday trip to Peach- •onto. K. B, I tils Lyle has been -per.d- wilh \ ancs.-uver Mrs. is the Chenin Boston, of Mrs Week. ot Vancouver, Chas. Kerr. waek next wcok, and who will lie the guests of Iheir daughter, .Mrs C. A. Burlier, G.iro avenue. jClioam. this "After spending sixteen years of Mrs, John Leary nnd Miss Thurl- tho best period or thoir ves in ky, Fairfield Island, were visitors Pilot Mound, Mr. nud Mrs. Wil itm to Vancouver this week. I'lidiontt havo decided on pulling! . up stakes and pitching their tent i Klwyn Cawley, ,,f tie- fjinsl I in British Columbia, locating nt (Titles'office, Westminster, was i city streets wns left to the Chairman of the Board nf Works with power lo act. The street Commissioner Chilliwaek for the time lieing. Dur-|wcek end visitor at his home here Mr. and Mrs. Pelletier, of <:wt Diego, CaL, have been spending a few duys with Mr. and Mrs. t I. Mnrston. capacity ns a gonorul merchant, the name of W. Kudicott became widely and favorably known throughout . ■,,■■■ ■-■ MissCusk.-y and Mi- Armstrong "'' i the district as a dealer of Bterlinglof Cumpbellford, Ontario, are the I worth nnd the business a store of rt liable merchandise at honest prices, thereby creating a large trash' and good returns fssr his labor. In church, Internal and civic life. Mr. Endies.lt gave iinslintingly ssf his time and moans, and proved hllll- wlf a vory capable councillor in T. E. c.is- guosts of Mr. and Mr key this week. Sardis Hospital Auxiliary will hold a general meeting on Mondny Mny 'I',, in the K.l.'nbank Creamery hall. nsked lo ro|s.rt on tlic cost of con structing ccmcnl walkonGoreavenue in connection with proposed scheme of houlcvnrdiiig nml macadamizing, Ai Interests!? Meetiu The regular mooting of tin. Womcns- Institute on Tuesday nfler-, sou a very i-apnme ooim.ni.ii m u. ., , , ., was one of more than ordinary im- the council, a good adviser a ml Ll n..v»r,V.l. i,.', i . ■' pnrtnnoc in the way of businessLtive member of Isssanl .,[ trade, j r\ X ._„■ i\l Z" tra.isuetod. An invitation from the Und a most helpful worker In church JST™ K , MuLsqui Institute to lho Chllliwnok nnd fratcrnnl clrolos, being nt one ' Institute was acceptotl and the visit I time nnd anothor chairman ol the Miss stovens.su s.i' Sardis has willlbo mado to Matequi on Wed- Various bodies ho so assiduously taken Miss Ethel Cowley's place in nesday June 12. Arrangcinontslntded. Verily, the community enn tho Public School, while MIm Caw- were planned for the visit of Mrs.! j|] nrt,,n\ t() looses., valued a citizen, ley is absent iu England. Davics on Monday June 10, when j but having given so freely his sor- . . , , , Mrs. Davies will dollvor two Intorost-1 Ices for tho good of all whilst ho L,.A ':"*:'' ,"!""'"'', of friends of Ing lectures at afternoon and evening i remained wilh IIS, the Sentinel feels '.i , ®tt'tPa< >:lr''1-' gathered it voices ihe heartiest wish of all "' ''"' ' '!' '"' ■'■" /'.""'i* (**-''•' Hint this mu.-hcstirm.Hl ooiiple be Pf.ro.nt- *T PnKttUt '"T «'" ' :1 spared mnny hnppy yoani lo romo ki*ohon"ho,TCr "" •'"'-*'••' ;'""r- in Iheir new home, despite the fuel """"• sessions. These will probably lie held in the K. of P. hull uml nre SCIlll-yonrly visits planned by tiie government to assist in arousing interest iii sueh subjects as poultry jt j„ i„ t|„. "sunset" provinco. raising, horticulluro etc. among thoi Mr, un.l Mra. Endlcotl left for the niombers of Iho Womons1 Institute.. west yostertluv,»lurge -jrowd being A committee wus appointed lo look „t stuii.su to bid (hem good-bye" int.. prospootS for the oxil.it of the |n addition lo lhe forogolng, no- Institute al the Nnneouvor mt.loounls appear In themma Issue ,,f |m|| ,„, Theiiaporafor the nftornoon wore the preecntatlon of an appreciative 11„ the u hy Mrs. C. L. Royds .,u CerealsUddreM nnd a hnnilsome travelling m\v nnd Mm, Walker on lhe Canning bag lo Mr. Kndieolt hv his brother flnnncia und preserving of fruits nnd VOgo-|odil Follows, of whieh llnler liel tnhles whieh wns ivnd hy Mrs. | fins Wen n menil«-rf.irlw.-ntv-sevon I **.*•> illinms in the nbsoiioo of Mrs. voars and wears a Velraii's Jewel. I The members of the local company wins presented the musical cn lv "Patience" in tl,,- llps-ru house, and a fow friends, enjoyed a pleasant The whole of the west side of the Top Somas road from the boundary right to Cloarbrook was the scene of n great forest fire on Tuesday night, the firo coming very close to uur town.—Abbotsford Post. Walker and gave a good idea of the modern uml up to-dnto methods in the canning of fruits. Tho roll cull wus responded to by favorite Icings. Dainty refreshments wore served al nl tlie elose by tiie refreshment committee. Mrs. E. Bouoliot vice- president aided ns prosldenl in the nhsenoo of Mrs. Dnvios. Tlie Abbotsford Crloket Club ore iu real earnest this yenr. Every night tliey practice und the oltlb thnl COmes up ngninsl Ihon hnvo to lixik lo their laurels.—Post Ablsotsford cricketers will have aunt her story to tell afler thev meet the Chilliwack Club. t' iho ni.i Country A Cawlej , M. 1' le 1 her IIS far w lore Mi is Cnw aunt Mr-. Knlghl V .mon. The part Also of a Farewell ovoning given hy the members of the Methodist Church, the W. M. S. Auxiliary presenting Mrs. Knttlcotl with nn uddress and a beautifully hound Book ot " Thoughts,'' us nn evidence of nppiroint ion of her work Quebec on in ilu* Interests of thoSooioty, wlillo|0' Britain I tin'Church membership presented I the valued and esteemed couple with a china ohocolalo tea set ami |a silver Ism ss'l as a menu, of -sss-ial evening in the Parish "i i,In\—a happy sequel lo >rk entailed in staging tie' AIm.iii s|iii was tbe net result of ll ITotl. Mio Ethel Cawley lefl on Toes- iy morning ou a holiday trip Her father, S. P., accoinpan- ns Slcnmons •y joiinil her ml party from party will sail from May 81, by ihe Kinprcss wjU friends al Pilot Mound. Matinee ol moving pictures nl the Lyric Theatre every Saturday nftornoon al iHK'. Admission 10o. II. It. Mackenzie, siiperintcnd- out of Braucbos fssr the Bunk of . . I British North America, spent Mondny afternoon nnd evening with his | brother, N. S. Mackonclc, manager of the Merchants Bank, Chilliwuek. Mr. Mackenzie was enroute ensl from a business trip to California nn.l the const cities. i CHILLIWACK FREE PRESS ONE WAY OUT Bg WILLIAM CARLETON Copyright, 1911 [By Small, Maynard & Co., In CHAPTER XVI, (Continued) Dicks Finds a W-w Out, Too I lulked the matter over with Hath nml l found she had thu same prejudices I had had. She, loo, thoughl selling papers was a branch of begging. I repeated wlml Hick lold mo and sho shook her head doubtfully. "ii doesn't som as though I could lol tho boy du that," sin- snid. ii there was ono thing down bora lho little woman always worried about deep In her heart, li was lest lho boy nnd mysolf might gel coarsened. Bho thought, I think, withoui ovor oxactly saying bo tu herself thai iu our ambition iu forge ahead wo might lose sum.' of <in> finer standards ut' life, she was bucking against that tendency nil the limo. Thai's why sin* made me shave evory morning, that's why she mi.de mo keep my shoes blacked, that's why Bho ma tie ns both dress* up on Sundaj whether wc went to church or not, Sin- for her part kept herself looking even more trig than when Bho had Ui.- fear that Mrs. Grover might drop in at uny time. And every night at dinner she presided with us much form us though she were entertaining a dinner party. 1 guess .she. thought we might lenrn to eat with our knives If Bhe didn't. "Well," l said, "your word is final. But lot's look at this tlrst as a straight business pruposition." So 1 went over tlie scheme, just its 1 had to myself. "These boys aren't beggars," ] said. "Tbey are little Inisiness men. And as :t matter of fact most of them are earning us much as their fathers. The trouble is that they've been given a black eye by well-meaning sympathizers who haven't taken the trouble to find out just what the actual facts nre. A group of big-hearted women who see their own chickens safely rounded up at six every night, find the newsboys on the street us they themselves are on their way to the opera and conclude It's a great hardship and that the lads must he homeless and suffering. Maybe they even find a ease or two which justifies this theory. But on the whole they are simply comparing the outside of these boys' lives with the lives of their own sheltered boys. They don't stop to consider lhat these lads are toughened and that they'd probably be on the street anyway. And they don't figure oul how much they earn or what the amount stands fur down here." Uuth listened and then she said: "Uut Isn't it a pity that the hoys are toughened, Billy?" "No," 1 snld, "it would be a pity If they Weren't. They wouldn't last a year. We have to have seme seasoned lighters In the world." "But Dick—" "Dhk has found his feet now. The suggestion was his own. Personally I bellove in letting him try it." "All right, Billy," she said. Itut she Bald It in such a snd sort of way that I .mid: "If you're going to worry aboul him. this ends it. Uut I'd like to see the boy so well seasoned that you won't have to worry about him no matter where lit* Is, no matter what he's doing." "You're right." she said, "1 want to see him like you. 1 never worry about yuu. Billy." It pleased me tu have her sny that 1 know n lot of men who wouldn't believe tbeir wives loved them unless they fretted about them all the tune, i think a good many fellows even make up things jusi i.. see tin* women worry I r<*nieml*er that Stevens always used t.. (..me home either with a sick headache or a tale of h0W be UlOUght he might lose bis .mi. or something **f the uurt and I r Dolly Stevens would stay awake half tin- night comforting him. She'd tell Ruth about It the next day 1 may have had a touch of that dis ease myself hefore I came down h» n but I know that ever since then I've tried tu lirt the worrying load off the wife's shoulders. I've done tny besl to make Uuth feel I'm strung onough \u take care of myself. I've want-! ed her to trust me so that she'd know! I ael always just ns though sin* was tiy my Hide, ' if c nirse, I've never been able to do away altogether with her fear of Blckness nnd sudden death, hut ku fiir ns my own conduct is concerned PVO tried to make hor feel secure In me, When I Stop to think abOUl ll. Uuth has naiiy lived three lives. Bhe has lived her own and Ihe has lived it hard. Sin- not only haa dune ber dully tasks as well as she knew how, hut she lias tried lo make herself ,. little better every flay, That has been ■» wit te *»f tuu. because she wa- jusi naturally ns g i as thai make them, hut you run Id n't ever make lur see that. I don't suppose there*! been a day when at nighl sho hasn't thoughl sho might have done something a little hitter and lain awake tu ti II tm- Mi. Then Ruth haa lived my life ami dune over again every single thing i vs done except tie actual physical l.il.ur. Why ever) oven Inn when I come back from work she wanted me t.. begin with Boven-thirty n.m. and tell her ovcry- thlng that happened after that. And when i ..nne back from school at night, sho'd wake up out of ii sound sleep if Sin* tliol gum* tu lied and ask llie to tell her Just whal I'd learned. Though Bhe never held a irowel In her hand I'll het she could go out today and build a true brick wall. And though she has haver seen half the men I've nnt. she knows them an well as I do myself. Some of them she knows better iind has proved lu me time nnd again thai sin* does. I've often told her about some man I'd Just met and aboul whom i was enthusiastic for t>i»* moment and Bhe*d nny: "Tell me what be looks like, Hilly" I'd tell her and then .she'd ask about his eyes find ahollt hll Hloilth and what kind of a voice he had and whether he smiled when he said su nnd so nml "Better he a litlle careful about him" [where millions of Ignorant, half-starve.1 ur "I guess ymi can LruBl him, Hilly," | emigrants do right along, this Ilrst year Sometimes Bhe made mistakes, but had already done il. lt "had also thai was because I hadn't reported proved, to our own satisfaction at least, iliings tu lur jusi lighl. Generally that such success does not mean a re- I'd trust her judgment in the face of I turn lo a lower standard of living, hut iy own. Then l,uth mbiiiun lie 1 ides that she ir him lhal li 1 1. Ami s ,i the hoy's life. Every l wits her ambition, Be- iiad a dozen ambitions e didn't know anything light and worked only to return to a simpler standard ut living. With soap at five cents a cake It Isn't poverty that breeds tilth, Inii Ignorance and laziness. When an able-bodied man can earn at the very bottom of the ladder a dollar und a hah' a day and a boy can earn from throe to live dollars a week and still go i" school, It Isn't a lack of money thai me thing, she] makes the bread line; It's a lack of horse sense. We found that we could maintain a higher standard uf living down here than we were able to maintain In our Old life; we could live more sanely, breathe In higher ideals, iind llnd time lo accept more opportunities, The sheer, naked conditions were better for a higher life here than they were In the suburbs, I'm speaking always of the able-bod- led man. A sick man Is a sick man Then as thuugh this I whether he's worth a million or bas- he kept light-hearted n't a cent. He's to he pitied, With and schemed to mako every single one of them come true. Kvery trouble he had was her troublo too. If be worried ;i half hum- .)■ worried an hum*. Then again there wen- a whole lut uf other troubles iu connection wilh htm which bothered h>r ami whicli he didn't know about. Besides all these things site was busy about dressing us and feeding us ami making ua comfortable, She was always cleaning our rooms iind washing uur clothes and mending our socks. Tin-n, tu,., she lookod after tbe finances and this in Itself was enough for on woman to do wasn't plentj for our _ttkes, Vou'd iind her singing tin* public hospitals what they are to- about her work whenever ymi came In]dny, you enn't say that the sick mil- ami always ready with a smile and a lionttlre has any great advantage over joke. And If tdie herself had a head- the sick pauper. Money makes a big- ache you had to be a doctor and a law- gel* difference of course to tbo sick yer rolled in one to find il out. man's family, but at that you'll find Su I sny ihe least I could do was to for every widow O'Toote, a widow Bon- make her trust me thoroughly that nlngton and for every widow Bonning- sho'd have one loss burden. And I ton you'll Iind the heart-broken Widow wanted to bring up Pick in tbe same J of some millionaire who doesn't con- Wity. Dick was a good hoy smd I'll [slder her dollars any great consul:!- say (hat he did his hesl. tion lu such a crisis, Kulh says that if I don't tear up Then, loo, a man in hard luck Is a these last few pages, people will think man In hard luck whether he has a I'm silly. I'm willing so long as they I hank account or whether he hasn't. 1 believe me honest. nf course, in it j pity them hoih. If a rich man's money way, such details are no one's busl-! prevents the necessity of his airing his but If I couldn't give Uuth the' grief In public, it doesn't help him much when he's alone In his castle. It credit which Is her due in this under taking, I wouldn't take the trouble lo write it all out. I lick told his school friend what he wanted to do and asked his advice on the best way to go at it. The latter went wltb him and helped him get his license, took him down to the neWs- per offices and showed him where to buy his papers, and introduced him to the other hoys. The newsboys hadn't at thai time formed a union, but there an agreement among them about the territory each should cover. Some >f the hoys had worked up a regular trade in certain places, and of course it wasn't right for a newcomer to infringe upon this. There was considerable talking and some bargaining and finally Dick was given a stand In the banking district. This was due to Dick's clussmcte also. The latter realized that a boy of Dick's appearance would do better there than anywhere. So one morning Dick rose early nnd 1 taked him tu a. dollar and he started rf in high spirits. He didn't hnve any f the false pride about the work that iit lirst 1 myself had felt. He was on my mind pretty much all that day ami I came home curious and a little hit anxious to learn the result. He Intd heen hack after the morning editions. Uuth reported he had sold fifty papers and bad returned more eager than ever. She said he wouldn't pro- bably he home until after seven. Ho wanted to catch the erowds on their way to thc station. I suggested to Uuth that we wait dinner for him and go on up town and watch him. She hesitated at this, fearing the hoy wouldn't like It and perhaps not over anxious herself to see him on such a job. But as I said, if the boy wasn't ashamed 1 didn't think we ought to he. So sin* put on her things and we Started, We found him hy the entrance to ono *.f iho big buildings with his papers In a strap thrown over his shoulder, lie had one paper In his band and was offering it, perhaps a bit shyly, to each pnsser-hy with a quiet, 'Taper, sir'."' Wc watched him a moment and Uuth kept a tight grip on my arm. "Well." 1 snld, "what do you think of him*.*" "Billy," she said wllh a title tremble in her voice, "I'm proud of him." "He'll do." 1 sold. Then 1 said: "Wiilt hen* a moment." I took a nickel from my pocket and hurried toward him as though I were • •lie of the crowd hUStUng for the train. I slopped lu front of hint and he handed mo a paper without looking up. He begun to make change ami H wasn't until ho banded me hack three coppers that he sjiw who 1 was. Then he grinned. "Hello. Dad," ho said. Then he naked quickly: "Where's mother?" Itul Itutli couldn't wait any lunger and she came hurrying up and placed her hand underneath tin* papers l" I0S if they were tOO heavy fur blm. Dhk earn*.i three dollars that first weed snd he novor fell below this dur« in the summer. Sometimes he went an hll^b as live and when It came (lino for him tu ku to school again he hul about sevonly-tlve regular customers II,* h:id been kepi uni of doors be* tween six and seven hours n day. The contact with a new type of buy and even the contact witb llm brisk business men who wore his customers had sharpened up bis wits all round. In the tin weeks bo wived over forty dollars. I wanted him to put this in the ! lu.nk. hut he Insisted on buying his i own wintor clothes with It and on the Whole I thought hid fOtl hotter If I lei him Then be had another proposition. He wanted to keep his evening custom* rs through the your. I though) It was going to b« pretty hard for him to do this with his school work hai wo finally agrtad i»> lot him try II for n whilo nnyway. After all I didn't like to think h*- couldn't d what other hoys wore doing. seems to me that each class has Us own peculiar misfortunes and that money breeds about as much trouble as It kills. To my mind once a man earns enough to buy himself a little | like bis foreman, he could work under' another. it didn't mean the sacrifice of any past. if he found a chance iu black boots or sell papers, he could use It. His neighbors wouldn't exile lum. He was as free as the winds and whal he didn't liko he could change. I don't supposo there Is any human being on earth so Independent as an able-bodied working-man, The record of the next three years traces only a slow, steady strengthening of my position. Not one of us had any set-back through sickness because 1 deemed our health its so much capital nnd guarded it as carefully as a banker does his money. I was afraid at Ilrst of lhe city water, but I found it was us pure as spring water. 11 was protected from its very source and was stored in a carefully guarded reservoir. It was frequently analyzed and there wasn't a case of typhoid in the ward Which could bo traced to the wider. The milk was the great danger down here. At the small shops It was often carelessly Stored and carelessly bundled. From the beginning, 1 bought our milk up town though 1 iind to pay a cent a quart more for It. Kuth picked out all the lish and moat, and of course nothing tainted In this line could be sold to her. We ate few canned goods nnd then nothing hut canned vegetables. Many of our neighbors used canned meats. I don't know Wh other any sickness resulted from this ur not hul 1 know lhat Ihey often lell the stuff for hours iu au opened tin- Many of the tenements swarmed with Mies in llic summer although il was a small matter to keep thom mil of fourj rooms, So if the canned stuff didn't get Infected It Was a wonder. The sanitary arrangements in the lint were good, though here again many families proceeded to make them bad about as fiist ns Ihey i hi. Theso pooplo didn't seem to mind dirt iu any form. It wus u perfectly simple and inexpensive mailer to koop themselves and iheir surroundings clean If Ihey cared lo take the trouble. Then the roof contributed largely towards our good health. Uuth spent a great deal of time up there dining the day and the hoy slept there during the summer. Our simple food iind exercise also bellied, while for me nothing could huve heen better thun my dally plunge in the salt waler. I kept this up iis long as the bath bouse was open and In the winter took a cold sponge and rub- them little ways of preparing their food more economically. Few of them knew the value of oatmeal for instance though of course their macaroni and spaghetti Wiis a pretty good substitute. In fuel, Uuth picked up many new dishes of this sort for herself from among them. (To be continued), SAVING THE UNBORN In refusing after Master to marry no persons "unless they present, a cert ill cute of lieu I Hi from a reputable physician to the offoct that they are normal physically and mentally, and have neiHier an incurable nur com* niunii-uble disease," the dean of the Episcopal I'alheilral of SS. Peter and Haul ia Chicago mul tin* bishop of lhat; diocese are on tlio right track, If this example should be generally folio wet I a practical way would at last be found to deal with om* uf thc most Important factors in tlie health, happiness and prosperity of tlie ('(immunity and in tin* conservation of the rare. It is no longer seriously disputed tliat heredity 1ms at least as much tu do as environment with the march nf many of llie most serious discuses which aUoct humanity. It is beyond dispute that to minimize in every way tlie possibility of I lie t niiisiuissiiin nf .1 incase from one generation lo another is to render the highest kind of service to society. It bns long and justly been asserted that one unavoidable evil which goes hand n hand with all tlio good thai modern ■ivili/.ul ion l*as brought us is ihe iholtor thrown aboul Hume human beings who for their own sake nud also the suite of lliose with whom they brought in contact, hail far hotter ir have been burn. Sooloty aiming ci\ ilm-il peoples wuuld revolt, againsl failing tu care for the halt nud the blind, tlie menially and physically diseased who Ihrougii tin fault ur will nf tholr OWtl have been ushered intu tlle world, whieh su far ns human ellorl can bring it about grows really inure meroi ful. Hul Hie higher mercy would In* to take whaiowr measures could justly bo taken lo discourage the transmission of inheritable ills by forbidding the mating nf persons whoso offspring would be certain to inherit any physical taint uue or holli parents, i iu some respects a held proposal, and it is by un moans certain that il will prove practical, but a great deal may be said in its support, ll is after ;ill unly going a step further, though it be tt long step, along the course which has been followed since tho beginning of family life in seeking for son or daughter the mate best calculated to ensure every possible success of happiness to both. The match-making mother is not the only type of woman who scrutinizes carefully the suitor for her daughter's hand. No wise mothor permits herself to he blinded to defects of character by the transports of a girl in lovo. Defects of physical constitution are no less Important and by tlie wisest parents are ao less carefully considered. Both State and Church have come more and mure to interfere in matters of matrimony, so far as law and mon are concerned, and no one questions either their right or their duty to do so. Dean Sunnier and Bishop Anderson have «-inii»i,'' pointed out an equally important right and duty: that or [inventing, so far as it is humanly possible, the spread of physical no loss than mural corruption. Frum this small beginning may well develop what will prove to be one of the greatest blessings to mankind, Students of eugenics will draw emphatic lessons frum thu ease of the Humphreys brothers, who are bntli confessed murderers of tho most shocking type. Eugenics teaches that it is better to prevent such monsters from coming into the world than to permit them to load destructive lives and finally execute them. The true wuy to deal with crime is to stop the propagation of tainted individuals. lovotoosj and in tlieir choruses they tell is, with the pud's own passion, what it means to them. Hut this faith ia violently obtruded into tho world ns it is,," , with all its diversities of character and aim, Fentheus is not a wicked man, hut lu> is the opposite of au enthusiast. Ho tloos not believe in sudden and complete solutions. Ho is a man of busi* ihI his business is to carry ou the . Government and to preserve ordinary ] Boplo like himsolf from violent disturbances. To him Dionysus is a char- j latan, ami liis followers mere nuisances, j here is a necessary conflict between the two views of lire, and ho perishes \ I; but the tragedy does not end there. Mis mother wakes from her rapture or frenzy to find that she is carrying her own son's head in triumph. There, once and for all, is symbolized tlie tragedy threatened by all wild enthusiasm for a cause, whatever the may be. That; was the tragedy of Hie French He volution, from which since awoke to Iind so many of her ts' heads severed in a frenzy of uiiipli. Tliere hail lieen a real glory which transfigured life, and midnight un.l tlu* tree of liberty to cole- bin I e the fall of real oppressors; but the Irunkenucss which came uf a joy ao well founded was as blind ami cruel as I' a mere poison had produced il. The oavon of enthusiasm was short lived ud bought at a terrible price. Wc limy be sure that, wheu enthusi asm thus briars abnut a tragedy, tliere is BOtuo error lalent in it, however lino its cause may be. And the error is lhal, exportation 'nf perfection iu this life, which, rather than ambition, is the ''last Infirmity of noble mind," The eiilliusiasl wants Ins heaven here and now. lie is ready In work fur it and lu die for il ; but he iH not ready tu re cnticilo himself to the fad. thai', what ever he does, he OIlMtol have it in his tif.-. lie will nut understand that the uncertainty uf all issues is nue nf the conditions of our life in (his world, and that it must bo nssumod bv all who WOllld really bo no III mankind hy thoir devotion to a cause. Without that as enthusiasts quickly tarn into ivtlcs, unable In believe lhat can diller from t hem except perversity or cowardice or greed. Such fanatics are often heroic to lhe point uf death; bul it needs a coolor heroism tu work I'm- n cause knowing lhat its victory will not mean heaven, that it is ant the only causa in the world worth working for, and that it is so far doubtful lhat other men cn a Opposo it without being wicked. There is something of Dutch courage in tho passion of Hie fanatic that is continually renewed by emotional dram* drinking, and even a lurking cowardice is that devotion whicli shrinks from the very possibility of either doubt or failure. In the long run no good is done to a cause by those who embrace it, because they want to escape from the imperfect ion ami complexity of •if p. Kvcii if the cause triumphs through their help, it loses its essential virtue ia the process; for tlieir real aim is not the triumph of tlie cause but the salvation of their own souls, and souls enn be lost in egoistic fanaticism as well as in egoistic indifference. »l't id fm through —.'"rem the Vaiicouvi-r Wurld food, put any sort of a roof over his head, and keep himself warm, he has everything for wblcb money Is absolutely essential. This much he can alwnys get at the bottom. And this much is all the ammunition a man needs for as good a light as It's In him to put up. It gives him a chance for an extra million over his nine dollars n week If he wants It. Hut tlie point 1 learned down bore Is that the million Is extra—it isn't essential. Us possession doesn't mako a Paradise free from sickness and worry and hard luck, and Hu- lack of It doesn't make a Hell's Kitchen where thore Is not him; but sickness aud trouble and whore happiness cannot enter. As 1 say. 1 consider this Ilrst year tho big year because it taught mo these things. hi n sense the value of my dlorj ends here. Once 1 wus utile to uml. island (hat I luul everythlo; and more Dial the early pioneers had and Hml iill I needed to do today was to ||V0 as ih.y dtd antl flght as Ihey did, I had all tin- Inspiration O man needs Iti order to live und In order to feel thai he's living. In looking buck on lh.- suburban life at (he end of this ilrst twelve months, it seemed to me that Ihe thing which made It su ghastly Was lust Ihls lack of Inspiration that comes with the blessed prlvlleg fighting. That other wm ml no help for It. lown every night. So, to did tlu I'm* the rest, we all took sensible precautions against exposure. We dressed warmly und kopt our feet dry. Here attain our neighbors were Insanely foolish. Tbey never changed their clothes until hed lime, didn't keep them clean or fresh at any time, and they lived lu ;i temperature of eighty-five with the nir foul from many breaths and tobacco smoke. Even the children bad to breathe this. Then both men nnd women went out from this Into the cold iilr either over-dressed or under-dressed. The result of such foolishness very naturally was tuberoutosts, pneumonia, typhoid and about everything else that contributes lo a high death rate. Nut only this, hul one person Buffering from any of those things Infected !t whole family. Such conditions were not due to a j ■ lack of money, but to a lack of oducation. The new generation wns inak- Ing sume changes, huwever. Often a girl or buy in lhe public schools would come home and transform the three or four rooms, though always under protest from the olders, Clean surroundings ami freah air troubled the old folks. I'nth. loo. was responsible for many THE MIND OBSESSED Professor William Knight, in n letter to the London Times upon the woman ButTragc movement, spoke of tho evil it is to women themselves tu have this pro jeel of the vote for ever on the brain, to be monopolized and magnetized by it. The suffrage movement, whether right or wrung in itself, is the most striking example iu our time of the manner in which a cause can tako complete possession of tho minds of its do* vutees, cutting them off; ns it were, frum nil the complexity of lifo. nnd simplifying the issues SO that they see nut li ing before them but a success which is heaven, and a failure which is hell. There is a kind of mind, the mind of thc born fanatic or enthusiast, which desires this shnplicntinn of the ISBUOs of life, rather Hum any of llie material prizes which life can offer, Without it. life seems to such a mind a meaningless chaos, a story without a plot, and death a mere violent and arbitrary ending. .lust as the ordinary novelist makes lovo the supreme interest of his tale, and wuuld persuade us t its lovers llBVO fOUnd Iheir heaven wheu he has married thom. so the enthusiast makes his cause the supreme intorost of his life, ami for the same reason. Novels which cad with the happy issue of a love story are popular, although we know that in real life mar | riuge never I urns earth into heaven; I because we all like, at least in (let ion, I to gel away from tlie complexity and |Uncertain issues of reality. Indeed, the ry aim nf all plots, nml of lucid d f | Changes for the better in the lives\_Ot\$jfi ■„;„,! nrt (iH j,, present realily freed WaitingI these people. Her very presence In i I Wits al room wiis an Inspiration for cleanll- shadow living In the land **f shadows with nothing to hit out ui. nothing to feel the sung of my fist against. The lighl wns going on above me and below me and we In tin* middle only hoard tin* din of 11. It was as though WC had climbed half way up a ropo lending from a pit lo the surface, Wo hnd climbed as far as we could nnd unless thoy hauled from above we had to stay there. If wa let go- poor devils, we though! there wim nothing but brimstone botow us. 80 we couldn't •l<> mmh but bold on ami kick -nt nothing. Hut down here If a man had nny kl.k in him. ho had something to kick against When ho struck out with his feet thoy met something; when he shot a blow from lhe shoulder he fell an Impact. If he didn't like one trade he could learn another It took CHAPTER XVII. Tht Second Year J Now as far ns proving to us the truth no capital If he didn't like his house, Whether ho looked mo In tho eyes at of my Ihonry Ihat an Intelligent nhle-I he could move; he wasn't tearing up that point and so on, Then she'd say: bodied American ought to succeed | anything by tho roots, if he didn't Iter clothes were no better than theirs, but she slood out among them like a vestal virgin. She came lnio their quarters utul lliude the women •shamed that the rooms won* not bettor fitted tO receive so pure ii being, You would scarcely have recognised Mich- ele's room al (he end of the lirsl year. The windows wore cleaned, the lloors scrubbed, nml even the bed linen was washed occasionally. The baby gained In weight and Mlchele when he Wanted lO smoke either sat outside on lho door step or by an open window. Hut Mlchele was an exception. Uuth's efforts were not confined to our own building either. Hor Influence spread down the si root and through lhe whole district. The district nurse was a frequent visitor and kept hor Informed of nil hor cases. Wherever I -ni li could do anything she did it. Her first object was always to awaken the women to the value of cleanliness and after that sho tried hor best to leach from thai complexity ami uncertainty of lss_0| ami the artist succeeds when he dues su simplify reality ami at Ihe same time convinces us lhat he has nut simplified it away. Itut what tin* artist dues in his work the enthusiast tries tn dn 111 lifo itsolf. He persuades himself that, for those whu can see it rightly, life is already hii simplified that thore is unly one thing worth doing in it, one issue upon which the future of mankind depends, lie is tho lover of romance, uml tlio object of his love is not a more human being like himself, subject to all Hie chances and imperfections of humanity, but a cause porfeet nnd glorious, to die for which is heaven. Once believe this, nnd lifo will Indeed I ome a romance fnr you. Uut when such forces arc let loose in life, what* ovor the merits of fhe cause, thoy are apt to turn romance info tragedy. Such a transformation is tin* theme of the Haci'lue and the explanation of those ililliciilticH whicli have pu//.lei| so many oomiuentors. ICuripides represents the new fulfil in nil its glory. It is indeed a wonderful simplification of lifo for its their missions nt tho lakes. MONEY IN HAM In certain watering places of fturope men make fortunes In bam shops. '■■ is said to be such a shop in Cailsban. -rim ,„.,„. |n Whtto garments, slices the lean Prague ham, or the falter Westphaltan, for the people who st re iit the springs. It Is said that none there are really judges of ham until they can argue, every morning outside the shop, for a quarter of an hour as lo what breed of pig gives the most appetising slice. At Marlenbad the representatives of the most exclusive circles of society In the world lunch on lean ham. THE ELECTRIC BUSINESS VEHICLE The actual and growing Interest ln electric business vehicles is being fostered by the electricity supply companies in many cities. In Boston, .Mass., nnd Newark. N.J.. money Is at present heing spent freely to push the sale of these vehicles, and a recently published list of express companies, department stores, brewers, manufacturers nul other industrial concerns shows an aggregate Investment of about $6,000,- 000 in electric storage balfery trucks uul delivery wagons, in operation ami on order. The public service companies selling electricity are especially heavy users of this form of transportation. Municipal utilization includes street cleaning and gnrbage removal, tiro trucks, police patrol and service wagons, nne of the most conservative central stations in the Baal predicts that more current will soon be sold tor ilu* charging of electric vehicle batle ies than is now being sold for light. TRICKS IN ALL TRADES "Duping films" Is ihe phrase used by muvliig-picture men to describe nourishing illicit trade in counterfeits of (he current films. "Duped" or duplicate dims are made by photographing the entire contents of moving-picture illms as tbe scenes un* projected upon the screen. An ordinary moving pic- lure camera is used for the purpose Those copies of films a (To I (I u very huge margin of profit, because the dishonest producer may avoid (hi sl of ' nltng plays; he avoids pitying tho salaries of actors and other studio expenses, ;ind In tho case of outdoor productions or travel pictures ho avoids' the cost of transportation and of in*-J lays. Moving-picl ure maiiuf.ict utera \ have found il necessary to combine against (his trallic. WITNESS OAK HONORABLY PENSIONED A gigantic oak tree Unit has slood-] for throe centuries at Grimes avonua ami MomlngSlde roads In l-.dlnn village was "pensioned" recently by the Mornlngslde, Mlnnosota. Civic League*,! The league voled to fence It In luff ovory wny und to provide for It until] It dies of old ngo. Kervlng flrsl as the government's ofH**j olal mark at tin* Junction of four qiinrt-1 er sections of land, If is unique nmongl all American witness trees; It w ntf down In the government's first field! notes us the official landmark, has al I ways remained ho and now marks thiff junction of the streois. Tbe nnelenll tree shaded Indian councils a century! ami and was well known when (lldeorf II. and Samuel A. Pond established] CIIUjLIWACK FEE 'RESS 0 The Use and Preparation of the Brazilian Wourahli Poison (By Algot Lunge) The most remarkable of all known poisons ts, no doubt, tho Wourahli poison, ar as lt is called technically, Curare of Urare, It Is used exclusively by certain aborigines Inhabiting tbe dense forest regions of the Amazon Valley in South America, but Is manufactured only by a few of these tribes, the process of preparation being little known and kept secret oven In the tribe where lt Is made. In the hands of tho Indians It forms a most formidable weapon, whether used on the poisoned arrows of the blow-gun or on the three-pronged spears. It Is ii remarkable fact that the Wourahli paralyzes (be end plates of the motor nerves as soon as ii enters tho system Of the animal, but far more remarkable is it that (be game killed iu this m:iuner can be eaten, without th*1 poison having affected the nutritive qualities of tin* meat whatever, In a losl I made recently at the l,mm Island state Hospital, no offocl was noticeable on a glliUOll-plg thai had swallowed ii quantity suftlclonl to Mil a hois... 'l-he animal eontln 1 lo feed on ;i carrot, ami afler a week hiid showed no signs of Illness or gastric disorders. Another p|,- was Injected hy pod orm leal ly with n fourth of a grain of this poison dissolved lu 1 cubic centimetre of water and Ihe following symptoms noticed: After SO seconds Increased heiirl action. After i minuto beginning paralysis. Afler I minuto ami 30 seconds hiccoughs and convulsions. Afler 2 minutes aud tbirly seconds tola) paralysis. Alter .'< minutes uml Hi seconds death from asphyxiation. Charles Wat or ton, lhe early explorer, was the lirsl to brltifj the knowledge of (ho Wourahli to the civilized world. It Is exactly one century ngo that he penetrated into the wilds of Dutch Guiana, whore he succeeded In collecting n few ounces of this poison from the Mncoushl Indians who live at tiie headwaters of tbo Branco River. Contemporary with Waterton, il. W. Hates ascended the Amazon Itiver, where he Subsequently spent eleven years of traveling. Thero ho had several opportunities of watching the Indians prepare the poison, bul did not succeed In bringing any of It lo Europe. During tbe last century very few reports have lieen obtained concerning the Ingredient employed In milking this power- .. ful drug, nnd none describing the modus operandi. White traveling In lhe so-called Jav- ary region at the Peruvian Brazilian frontier, nbout 2,400 miles from the mouth of the Amazon, I had the rare treat of coming in contact with a certain tribe of aborigines which, as It proved, were adept In the preparation of the Wourahli. I lived for several months at a largo rubber estate. In the month of August a small party of caucheros or rubber hunters were dispatched into the virgin forests beyond the estate to locate now caoutchouc trees and bring home samples. Six men constituted this party. I joined this expedition, its it offered an excellent opportunity to study the animal and floral life in this unknown region. After marching nine days into the Jungle they settled and commenced work, subsisting upon the game of thc forest. Some weeks later it was re solved to return to headquarters, not only because enough caoutchouc had been collected, but also because sickness and partial starvation bad overtaken and discouraged thom. One man died from Uie swamp-fever and was burled. Then tbe pnrty split In two, three of the men choosing a now route at right angles to the river, while the chief and a natlvo and I resolved to retrace our steps to headquarters .Hong the pathway thnt had been cut on the way out. The second day on our wny bom the chief was bitten In the ankle by a poisonous snake and died after four hours of terrible suffering. The next day, I and tho remaining companion, finding ourselves completely spout from sickness and lack of food, abandoned our cargo of supplies and tools. In this was Included my phot graphic outfit and several boxes of gold-dust collected during our stay at the but where we bad been getting the caoutchouc. The following day this man succumbed to the effects of the terrible herl-berl, and (bus I wns left alone In an absolutely hopeless condition, unable (o walk longer, and ln tin Insl stages of pernicious malaria. AU nicht I crawled around In tho dense underbrush. Tho next morning I found myself outside a large round hut Where afler having lost consciousness I was carried In and placed fn a hummock I had arrived nt a but of tbt cannibal .Mniigcroma Indians, a savagi tribe whose habits aro but little kuown Here I spent several weeks enjoying, strange to say. unlimited hospitality. Tho women of the tribe nursed me back to Health until I was able to walk. How It came about (hat these people who carry on a constant warfare with tho Peruvian half-breeds did not kill nie, and (bus follow (heir custom of OUttlng "IV the palms of the hands and the solos of the feet to ent, sllll remains a mystery to me. The Miingoromas nro very bravo. Thoy are the Zulus of South America. While tbey rarely had nny encounters with white men, Ihey wore constantly on the warpath against tin* Peruvian Intruders. Thereby they bad Succeeded In remaining absolutely Isolated In this remote part of the forests, subsisting upon the gnmo of the forest and river. The mon were all hunters, their skill lu shooting gnmo with bows and nrrows nnd with tbo blow-gun wns nothing short of marvelous. II wus here that I had tbo rare opportunity of watching the preparation and use of the Wourahli poison. Only throe men of Ihe tribe understood the making of this drug. Thoy were, as far as 1 could ascertain, a father%nd Ills two sons. However, nl- most every child know bow to distinguish lho proper plants from the dense mass of adjacent vegetation. Shortly before the men desire to pro- pnre the poison, a party Is sent Into the foresl In search of tho Ingredients. Close to the creeks, yuu will find n vine, the Stycbnos Toxlfera. The ma- jority of the vines that I observed were growing at the base of the Matamata trees. When full-grown this vine litis a stem about two Inches thick, covered With a rough, grayish cortex. Us leaves are dark, glaucous and of a cordate- ovate shape, placed opposite to one another. The fruit Is round-shaped like an orange; Its seeds are Imbedded In a pulp of a very hitler taste. The second vegetable ingredient is lho root of a plant, presumably the Strophantum Hlspldum of the Loncho- earpus family. This plant Is nlso a vine with a thick, bulbous root of lhe size of a large potato. These Ingredients tho Indian collects in a caoutchouc bag that he carries slung over bis shoulders by means of a grass-cord, Then he looks around for a certain s| les of mil (bat Is vory frequently found, especially near some decaying iree-lrunk, Tbls Is llie so-called Tuenndolrn uni. or the Ponora Qrandis. Black in color and nbdut ou*' Inch and a half long. It Is Hie largest ami most venomous anl of Uu* Amu- son, Its slim: Is nol only painful, hul absolutely dangerous. Wlib those throe Ingredients in his bag nr pouch be proceeds lo the village hut. first he proceeds to scrape lhe cries from Hie stems of iho flrsl mentioned .in*'. The bulbous roots nro then crushed'and placed together wllh ibo bnrk-Bhavings in un onrthon pot, when Ibe crushed mils and dually water are added. A slow, steady lire Is kept burning so thai tho contents of the Jar muy simmer for hours. The scum that accumulates on the surface Is taken off with a leaf. Theu the Juice Is poured off and placed ln another vessel to simmer some moro. lt will remain on the lire until It has cached tho consistency of a thick syrup of n deep, brown color, A couple of arrows are dipped Into lhe poison ami lhe strength tested on some bird In tho forest near by. If the venom comes up to expectntlons the pot Is covered wltb the skin of a marsh deer and set aside in some secure place of the hut. No ceremonies were noticed during the preparation of the poison. The men went about their work as If it was only part of the dally routine, which, in fact, it wns. The proportions used were four parts of the vine bark to one part of the bulbous root. The amount of ants seemed to vary to suit the amount at hand and could not have any great influence upon the potency of the drug. They were probably added for superstitious reasons. So much about the actual preparation of this extraordinary poison. Let us now examine the wenpon which carries it to Its destination with such fata! and swift results, that even a slight scratch and the Introduction of a fifth of a grain means inevitable death. No antidote Is known to these Indians. The blow-gun Is a very ingenious apparatus of death. A tnll reed grows near the banks of the rivers in these regions. For at least a tength of ten feet no tapering of this is noticeable. The reed Is perfectly smooth on the outside nnd the inside nnd has no Joints. This tube could not be used without treatment on account of Its length nnd brittleness. Therefore, It Is pushed inside of a lube made of o species of bamboo tree so as to be protected against brenkage or from being thrown out of alignment. One end Is prevented from splitting by grass- cords wound tightly around lt, while the other end Is formed into a sort of mouth-piece by the means of the hollowed hnlf of the fruit of the Arn- enra palm. Tbe nrrow Is from ten to twelve Inches long. It Is mnde from the stalk of the leaf of a certain palm, called Pachluba. It Is bard, straight and brittle nnd can be filed or sharpened wltb the teeth of thc voracious piranha fish, the SerraselmuB Plrnya, to an extremely fine degree. About one Inch and a half of the point is poisoned and a very thin silk-grass thread Is secured nround the arrow-point to indicate where the poisoning ends. The oilier end of the arrow Is slightly burned ovor a fire to harden It nnd wild sllk-thrend cotton Is wound nround It for about an inch and a hnlf to about the diameter of the tube. The Indians spend considerable time In fastening this cotton around tho ■diaft of the arrow, and It Is only after years of practice that they can nttnln the desired degree of perfection. It must he large enough to fit the hollow part of the tube and taper off to nothing at ench end. Finally they tie It on with u very line thread to prevent It from slipping off the nrrow. A row of fine nicks nre cut close to tbe point so as to carry the poison Into the flesh without being scraped ofT In passing through thi' fur or feathers of Iho animal or through the outer layer of skin and fat. The Mangeroma Indian when he goes out into the forest to shoot his dinner or supper, always earrles his blow- gun horizontally, occasionally raising It to any nngle that may be neeossnry to avoid entanglement In tho numerous climbers nml lianas Interlacing the jungle. Generally speaking the Man- geromn carries bis gun like a soldier "ordering arms." Hut ho Is very careful not to leave Ihe tube resting up against a tree or wall of the hut when not In uso, nor does ho place ft on lhe ground. He suspends If with n cord Hod by one end to the branch of a tree or to a rafter In lhe hut. He Is nfrald of throwing this delicate Instrument "out of plumb." When bo sights a monkey or a bird Ih the top of a tree, often one hundred fool above him. he raises the cup- shaped mouth-piece to his HpS, the nrrow, of course, being Inserted In the Imrrcl. With bis left hand be finds the noeessury elevation, fills his lungs wltb air nnd blows Into the tube, with no apparent exertion. The nrrow (lies out swiftly and silently. In this mnnner a Hook of birds or a number of gamboling monkeys may he picked off In n few moments without difficulty, ns no nolSO betrays to the animals that one or more of their number have been struck by the poisoned dnrts and hnve disappeared. Shorlly after the animal Is Struck It loses hold on the branch where It was sitting or playing and in another moment it drops to the ground completely paralyzed. The eyes are closed as If in sleep. Thero Is no visible death agony. The llesh of the game Is not the least Injured by the poison. Like the venom of the snake it is dangerous only wben Introduced into tho vascular system, and is perfectly harmless when taken Into the stomach. Neither does the flesh seem to corrupt sooner than in eases when the game has been killed by the gun or the spear. The action of the poison on birds shot by these Indians, viz., the forest turkey, the parrot and the partridge, culminates in from three to four minutes. A monkey diod in five minutes, and a three-toed sloth expired in seven minutes. On one occasion i witnessed a battle between these Mangoromas mul a band Of Peruvian halfbreeds. Eleven men were killed outright us the result of being struck with the WOU- i-iihli poisoned arrows. The time Ibut elapsed between the moment whon the nrrow struck and death was somewhat til flic ull to ascertain on account of the eiieuinstmices which characterised the light, but 1 mu sure that no more than twelve or fifteen minutes wore con- A GORDON MEMORIAL Ktt Iniu: am. as 1000 il was decide.) (o appeal for funds for a church; b. , no doubl owing lo lhe fact thai the Botlth African Wnr was then absorbing public attention iho appeal did nol attract gonoral notice, and the response wns unsatisfactory, ll was not until four yours later, in February, mot, that the foundation stone or the cathedral which Is dedicated to All Saints— was laid hy II. It. II. Princess Henry of Itallenlierg, on u site close to the Palace Gardens and Within a stone's throw of lhe spot where General Gordon wus killed. Since (hen there has been delays In lhe erection of the church, due to lack of money; but, owing largely to the zeal of Sir Reginald Wlngate, lhe governor-general, uud l.iidy Wlngate, and the support of II. R. II. the Duke of Connaught, Lord Cromer, Lord Kitchener, Lord Grenfell, and others, the work soon began to attract ti more general interest and support, both In England and in the Sudan. At a meeting held in London under the presidency of tbe Lord Mayor in July, 1909, a subscription list was opened, to which King Edward contributed 200 guineas and his Majesty King George, then Prince of Wales, 100 guineas; and many other generous donations were received. A BLOODHOUND'S RECOLLECTIONS I am a poor Siberian bloodhound, of American descent. 1 am an old actor ln an "Uncle Tom's Cabin" company, and-.1 am very much in the sere and yellow leaf. I am an actor of the old school, and It pains me to see people come in out of the cornfield and gag a part as they do nowadays. 1 have been taught to study a part carefully and bring out everything in it. That is the way I learned lo act. To be true to nature Is my hobby. In my enthusiasm I have several times fed myself with fragments of Eliza's baby, and got myself disliked for that reason; but that is belter than to fall short of the part and lo underplay lt. That Is where 1 disagree witb the gentleman who plays the jackass In our company. He believes ln a calm, dignified stage presence, and counts on that almost solely; while I am In favor of an enthusiastic Interpretation of my part, regardless of dignity and postures. I belong to a family of actors. We extend hack as far us thc eye can reach. Wc love the generous approval of the public, nnd we thrive on ap- ptausc. To hound upon the stage with a deep-chested bark, and eat a por Hon of Eliza's borrowed child. Is meat and drink to me. For twenty years I have been on the stage, playing one- night stands and watching little Eva as she passes gently up thc flume, Twenty years I have seen Mr. St. Clair climb Into a $_ deathbed with his boots on, and die a painless death on a small salary. Life is indeed but a spun. How short a lime It seems since 1 joined the company—a mere pup. Then I was full of hope. 1 also hud a full set of teeth. Now my front teeth are artificial, and I can not rend fine print. I have seen the world, and I have found out also how hollow It Is. I have been levied on by the sheriff, and I have walked many a weary mile with my long, red, Siberian tongue hanging out In the gentle air of spring. I have learned to distrust mankind, and to rely upon nothing mundane. One thing I desire to say in tbls llttlo diary so that In case 1 should die suddenly In a railroad accident the public, and my generous patrons especially, may know the truth. It Is this: 1 nm not what 1 seem! I live n dual life! My singe appearance nnd my true home lifo are entirely nnd distinctly separate and dissimilar In every way. At heart I am not tierce. I do not euro for warm blood three times a dny. If I could be assured one rectungular meal of cold cornbeef, with mashed potatoes on tiie side, I would enter Into a recognizance never to kill and mt another human being. I havo been constantly misunderstood und misapprehended by the public because my stage manner has been haughty and hungry. This effect has boen heightened, also, by tbc fact that the manager hns compelled mo to wear a muzzle during the day. I do not wear a muzzle at nil when I am nt home. I do not need It. I can get along for weeks without a muzzle. 1 shall soon leave the stage, however; my voice Is falling me, and 1 can not walk ten miles to a one-night stand In tlmo for rehearsal ns I once could. When my voice Ib gone tt will be all up with me. No one wnnts u bloodhound with a cracked voice. I can see the gentleman wbo plays the Jackass In our company Is going to hold out much longer thnn I can, beeauso he has saved himself. Uo has taken life easily and thrown less fervor nnd enthusiasm Into his pnrt than I bave, For a while he wonted tn piny St. Clalr, so that ho could have a bed In retire Into during one act. I never saw a gentleman who took so much dramatic case us he does. He has more repose than uny olher person in the profession with whom 1 am acquainted, I have done much for the play, but thiit I did not Intend to speak of. People who have carefully compared "Uncle Tom" as it is written with my interpretation and presentation of lt will hardly recognize It us the same piece. ' It Is my own conception, the bloodhound is made to do many pleasantly ferocious things which lhe author did not Introduce. These improvements are due solely to me. Among others I might point to the feature of bringing out the ferocious brute, on an encore with fragments of a colored child in liis mouth. This never falls to aruuse In the audience a wild tumult of refined horror. Somehow I mn impressed with the idea lhal I have made my last appearance on tiie i-*i:iuc We have Just terminated a highly successful trip through ttie West, and got home last evening foolsure hut promt aud happy. our manager wants us to go with blm (o l.uropo nexl season, bul I shall nol muke the Journey. I shall send u Wntor-Bpanlol In my place. He has a good voice, nnd be is a better saltwater pedestrian Hum I .mi. HARD TO BE HAPPILY Vi.'.RRtBD II really Is becoming yearly mut' difficult lo b<- happily married thai [i io be happy iind make ono's husband huppy for one-sided happiness is naturally oul of lhe question in married life. In the past, one Imagines, 11 must hnve been a more simple mailer lo be ii model wife and for n wife to "make" a model husband, but now! It Is not only that women want to be Independent, men want to be more independent, too. How many wives one used to find who complained that after a f_.v years or even months of married life they had lost alt their Individuality, because they had been expected to merge themselves Into the personality of their husbands. The husbands had wanted them to give up all their ideals and ambitions, lo be Interested only In their interests, and generally to become part and parcel of themselves to such an extent that they—the wives—soon lost their personality. The wives did not resent this too much and rapidly grew used to their new state of mind. But matters have changed of late. The modern woman is as anxious to be independent and to assert herself as the modern man Is keen on making a name for himself nnd to make his mark In the world. And a considerable portion of matrimonial troubles arises from this state of affairs. A woman may be a "marvel" at housekeeping and be a devoted mother, and yet refuse to be an "economic slave," Intellectual sympathy between husband and wife is becoming more and more indispensable to their common happiness. As for the love of independence, how is the modern wife to solve the problem of cultivating it and allowing her husband to do so too without endangering their happiness? Liberty is a two- edged tool, as every one knows, and yet every human being would rather handle that tool at his—or her—own serious risk than to do without It. PLEA8ING PARALLEL8 Writers apparently delight in historical novels and the public devours them hungrily. This constitutes two surprises which. It would appear, could only be comprehended by reading the novels themselves. So drastic a measure being quite out of the question, lt was with the greatest pleasure that a reading of the readers was found to serve as well. We now know why Scott and his faintest Imitators are adored. It Is not for the history, or the romance, or the characters, or the humor, or the style. It Is not for any of the reasons thnt one r*. ould at flrst sight suppose. It Is for the He of the land. If that seems so tome an explanation as to appear insufficient, it Is because it has not been properly understood. There exists a large body of people recruited from all types—those that habitually read and those that do not, who gloat over the mention on a printed page of some concrete spot still existing which they can see or have seen. In order to derive this apparently simple pleasure, they will wade through pages of nrrantly dull matter. In fact, it has sometimes seemed that they prefer their spots to He embedded deep in dull and unlikely happenings. It gives contrast, verisimilitude, and to bave waded and floundered a little is to reach more triumphantly the shore of one'B fact when It Is finally reached iind scrambled upon vuuntlngly. What such readers like and there are so mnny of tbem that It Is hardly possible for a historical novel to fall utterly—is to rend thnt "the laughter of our young cavaliers rang out on tho frosty nir" as Ihey cantered across bridge which only lhe other dny the reader crossed on his bicycle. As this dazzling coincidence Is reached the reader lays down his book, keeping his thumb affectionately on the bridge, however, and ruminates, glowingly: "To think It's the same bridge! I wonder now, If It Is. I wondor If they've dimmed any of the planks. Oh, I shouldn't think so—no, no; liko ns not It's the very same as when those cavaliers cantered across, and only last summer I punctured my tire on that very spot! Little did I think then- dear mo, but It's strange how things ure happening to us nil the time and we seldom realize It!" Pinero's New Play SAVING OF DI8TANCE BY THE CANAL Tho opening of the Panama Canal will effect thc following saving of distances for such ships as mny choose the new nnd shorter route: Europe to San Francisco, 6,200 miles, and to Valparaiso, 2,100 miles; England to New /.'■nland, 1,_00 miles, nnd to Australia, 800 miles. lietween American and Oriental ports the saving will be as follows: New York to Shanghai, 1,400 miles; Montreal to Sydney, Australia, 2.740 miles; nnd between New York and Australasian ports tho snvlng of distance will average nbout 2,400 miles. WITH a sumptuous house In the West End, and secure against want by an income of twenty thousand pounds a year assured him by royalties of his thirty odd plujH, Sir Arthur Plnero, unlike less successful dramatists, can afford the luxury of experiments. Financially, then, he Is ioubtloss Indifferent as lo the ultimate fate of hts latest pluy, "The 'Mind the Paint' Girl," which Charles Krohman 'presented" at the Duke of York's Theatre recently. II was not a triumphant first night. The Btalls und dress-circle were certainly enthusiastic, but the gallery was disappointed and noisy, And as the gallery has a more robusl manner of expressing its feelings lhan the stalls and dress-circle, the condemnation of the former swamped the approval of the later. in common wiih such of the audience who remembered something of the history ..r the revival of t.ie theatre In London, the dramatist must have been conscious of Ihe irony of the situation. I'm- In the seventies and Stghtlos hu bore his full share In those efforts which brought back to the half- guinea stalls the cynics and sensualists of society. And now tlmt he had dared to write a [day largely at the expense; of those cynics and sensualists the stalls applauded nnd the gullery turned down its thumbs! Well, Plnero can afford the experiment, especially as he does not scorn to have endangered the patronage of hts richest natrons. And after all, "The 'Mind the Paint' Girl" Is quite in harmony with its author's conviction that this Ib preeminently an age of sentiment, and that the playwright Is compelled to secure bis humor by the exaggeration of sentiment. Once more he gives us probable types In possible circumstances, even if he does overstrain their sentiments and magnify their weaknesses. Perhaps that accounted for the annoyance of the gallery. As members of the class to which the heroine and her mother and her fellow musical comedy girls belonged, the galleryltes may have resented that enlarged portrait of themselves, much as the lean- vlsaged cockney sees no honor In that plump reflection of his own cadaverous face which is shown him In the distorting mirror outside the cheap dining-rooms of London. As may be Inferred from the above, the new Plnero play is theatrical In Its theme. That Is to say, the heroine le a musical comedy star. Lily Par- radell, born and reared In one of the mean streets of London, the daughter of a mother unacquainted with the letter "h," became famous by a song, one stanza of which explains the title of the play: "I'm possessed of all the graces. Oh, a perfect dream my face Is! (It may owe to Art a trifle or It mayn't! H'm, it mayn't.) And I'll cry out for assistance Should you fall to keep your distance. Goodness gracious, mind the paint! Mind the paint!" That graceful lyric, which Is quite on a par with the type of song with which fame is won in London, gives the key to Lily's character. She is common In her Intellect, genuine cockney In fact, but not vicious. She Is kindly, too, a generous daughter and a liberal friend. To her "ma" she makes presents of fifteen-guinea dresses; to olleagues down on their luck she hands blank checks. But she Is not a sinner because she is not a saint. If one of her admirers, Captain Jeyes, does possess a latch key to her flat, tt Is not for other than honorable purposes. He Is In the habit of seeing her home from the theatre and needs the key In case she has forgotten her own. That's all. In fact, Sir Arthur Is charitable to Lily and all the "girls" of the Pandora Theatre; we do, It Is true, see them adjusting their corsets or manipulating their gartor*?, but "Hon! sol qui mal y pense." Even when the "girls" go to supper wlt_ the "boys"—the latter including the usual proportion of bald-heads—It Ib still a case of "mind the paint." Fun and frolic and champagne, of course, and floral offerings and trifles of diamonds and gold, but nothing more. Until the third act, Indeed, It looks as though thc dramatist has been content with constructing the life of a musical comedy star from the posters of the theatre and the pages of penny novelettes. There Is an atmosphere of unlimited wardrobes and expensive automobiles nnd costly suppers and richly furnished apartments—a crowd ed canvas. In short, of nff-the-stngc life In all Its traditional glory. But the third act gathers up the threads. Apart from Captain Jeyes, Lily hus another admirer, Viscount Fnrncombo to wil, the heft of nn earldom. And It la between these she has to make her choice. The captain has developed into a "waster," no Idle loafer round the theatre and Soho enfes. But ln the hour of climax he protests thnt his love has made him what he Is; that It was to follow Lily he threw up his commission In tbe army, etc. And Lily believes It; and boing virtuous nnd generous nnd self-sacrificing she declines the prospect of a coronet and elects tho task of reforming the "waster." So far the third act. The fourth can be imagined. The captain recovers tils manhood; rejects Lily's sacrifice; and announces hla departure for thc colonies to make a now start In life. And so Lily regains her lord, but weeps to think she must leave the stage. *"Ueh, denrle, 'uBh!" enjoins her consoling mother. "Think—think wot a lot o' good you're all doln' to tho aristocracy." Thnt, Indeed, appears to be the moral of the ploy. "It's my belief," ejaculates another of the characters, "that the Pandora girls 'II bo the salvation of tho aristocracy of this country In tho long run! Keen-witted young women, full of the joy of Hfe, with strong frames, beautiful hair, nnd fine eyes, nnd healthy pink gums and big white teeth." And yet the stalls applaud and the gallery hoots! One wonders whether the result would have been the same had Sir Arthur substituted American heiresses for the Pandora girls. But perhaps the hostility of the gallery Is not prompted by eugenics after all. It may be that the turbulence of a Saturday night is merely a vigorous protest against the seeming sllghtucss antl triviality of the play. And on that score some excuse might be urged, as well as on the plea thut the theme was nut less udeuuutely treated many years ago hi Robertson's "Caste." Fur not the most enthusiastic Pinerolte can possibly claim a high place for "The 'Mind the Paint' Girl." Jn Its stagecraft it is, of course, a fine pl-3ce of work. No one save a master of his art could manipulate so adroitly a huge cast of more lhan thirty characters. Hut, save for its eugenic philosophy, the play In its contents can not rank wllh "The Second Mrs. Tanuueray" and lhe like. 'that Is the dramatist's way. Capricious versatility lias always been characteristic of his work. Even white he was writing his earliest farces he Was planning comedies of sentiment and serious drama. And he has always varied his theatrical fare with the Ingenuity of an accomplished chef. After "The Second Mrs. Tanuueray" he served up "The Amazons," and just as "The Princess and the Butterfly" followed hard upon "The Notorious Mrs. Ebbsmlth," so "The Wife Without a Smile" came In the wake of "Iris" and "Letty," Wherein the play is an experiment for Plnero Is that for once he seems to have abandoned his constructive romanticism. The psychology is still of the realistic school, but unhappily realism has been .allowed to control construction as well. For, somehow, the proffered sacrifice of Lily does not ring true. Her sudden changes of mood are too insufficiently prepared for to make them acceptable. Besides, granting that it is the higher prize to be a peeress rather than a captains wife, there is no sacrifice tn the coda at all. And In such mino*- matter- as background and incident the comedy is of unrelieved realism, down to corsets and garters. For once, indeed. Plnero seems to have carried Into *__« build of a play that meticulous attention to mechanism which he always devotes to his stage directions. Perhaps, then, he has made It aetur-prmf in more senses than one. TO TRY AMBER Pipes with mouth-pieces -if amber nre pretty popular, and the usual test of Its genuineness Is to rub It on th« sleeve to see If enough electricity ■_-. produced to attract _mall pieces jf paper. But every expert knows tha*- the test is quite valueless. All the imitations—copal, amberoid, and .lmiier- Ine—answer It. The real tests of genuine ".stone*' amber are two—by smell and teeth. If you bite real amber you will 3n<i lt hard, not soft like vulcanite, or if it gives at all It crackles aa it does SO) But don't bite too hard, for If it ia genuine a piece will come off. The silver band of a pipe is often only a whlted sepulchre. The bevei makes the band look thick, but the thickness is, ln the case of cheap pipes. always of plaster. The silver ia genuine, but practically only a surface wash. These flimsy silver bands :aa be bought wholesale at 17.Jo a gross. A solid, stout, genuine band costs ac least thirty-five cents ln itself. Here Is a last tip that not one pipe- smoker In a hundred knows. Sooner or later the screw of a screw pipe gets too small. The wooden or bone screw Is shrinking. Ninety-nine smokers out of a hundred think this the screw pipe's natural end and abandon it, or hurry the process by using wedges of paper. But that pipe may be good for years yet. In most cases the screw will swell to Its original size if held in the mouth for a few moments. In more serious cases. It should be laid in water for a night. In the morning it will fit perfectly ngaln. THE CUTE CAFETERIA Bven the cafeteria is an improvement upon the waiter. Hut then anything Is an Improvement upon the waiter, even hunger and thirst. It may be a stupid prejudice, but there Is always a Certain sensation Of ignominy in 5tand- Ing In lino with a large tray hold more or less grucelessly lu front of you. You never feel that you are displaying yourself (o advantage while holding a tray. Now most men believe that they could hold a sw.-rd, for Instance, nnd be a credit to It. But not a tray. If you should meet a lady friend ln a oafeiorla you would feel a momentary regret at the fact that you were holding a tray. Your powers of light and airy badinage would momentarily desert you. You would Just as soon be caught In your pajamas. You would feel that you were not at vour best, that even your most sparkling witticism would he flat, stale, and unprofitable. And then you are so liable to got lnio trouble with the lady customer behind you, who is tranquilly determined to got In front of you. Of course she does get In front of you. Thnt goes without saying. You surrender the moment she makes her little claim of priority with the edge of her tray; hut no matter how Instantly or how abjectly you do It. she makes you feel like a worm, like dirt. The woman who wedges her way In front of you tn tho ticket-office line has the same curious power to make you feel that yon aro n brute even when you nre grovellngly surrendering your rights. She makes yon wonder why God lets you live, nnd then If there Is an Inch Of starch left In your whole solar system the young woman behind the cnfeleria counter will nttend to that, too. 135 FREE PRESS, CHILUWACK, BRITISH COLUMBIA. g_5-s_5-Br_f-«_s Parson's Store Clothing and Furnishings CHILLIWACK FREE PRESS Formerly (The Now Fm.) Printed aad publlBlicd every Thurstlny from its office, WijatmiiiHtur Street. Chllllwaek, Subscription price-Jumper year in ndvuncetonll points in Urltl-li Knipin*'. tn I'nilod Stub's •jfl.Mi. ADVERTISING RATES Display advertising rates Hindi- known iiii a null ei it [on to the imlillslior. t'liissiilid lulvertiseiueiits. I eeiil in*r word cneli iii-itiiui,pnynhlcin iidvnnec, liispluy advi-rliscrs will plouso remember thai tu ui'.iui- a .-li.uii'.*. .'..in iinist bo in not liiitr thun Wednesday luoraliur, C, A. UAIHIEII, I'lihlishenunl l'ropru*to>. Patronize outside newspapers to1 ***+*-**************^ THE MERCHANTS BANK _-4.t-n.hed OF CANADA 1804 Paid up Capital and Reserve $11,400,000 Hart Block Chilliwack ORCHARDISTS The Fraser Valley Nurseries LTD., ALDERCROVE, B. C. HAVE THE FINEST HOME GROWN NURSERY STOCK Including Apples, Pears, Plums, Cherries, Small Fruits, ami Ornamental Shrubbery. For Full Particulars, write RICHARD McCONB, General Manager, ALDERGROVE, B.C. LIVE i District Agent WANTED H. C POOK Successor to WM. AHCHIBALD HEATING AND SANITARY ENGINEER STEAM AND HOT WATER FITTING BATHROOM FIXTURES A SPECIALTY Estimates Given WELLINGTON STREET rhone .r>8 P.O. Box 20.1 POLES WANTEDI If 3*oii hnve nny Cedar I'oles fnr snli', i-ul lust l-'iill ni- Winter, pleaso «-• »»ii- nmnicatc with Mi'. I'si'.'i'. Light & Power Dept, it dimensions and specifications etc. nt onco, B. C. Electric Ry. Co. Ltd. THE MUNICIPAL COUNCIL Tins Municipal Council mot in tlic City Imil on Saliii'ilny afternoon nil tlia members being present ami Acting-Hoove Evans, in the chair. ('nun. llrrtt reported thnl bo hn.l lol j.sls nl' oordqrying jlftcnn roads mi Nevin road In \V. .1. Thompson, ul u" coal nl i'.'i nml two boxes of iwwdor. Thc roud In In1 gravelled will, gravel frnin knoivlcs uinl fisiirtei'ii stimi|is removed! nlso tn put lifty yards nf gravel on regularly travelled road ai lifty cents per yard. Iloport ivns adopted, (iiiui. Man's ii'piirii'il having let s'l.nlrai'ls fur gravelling nne liuml- recf mils on rnnip Slmilig road near Breakwater rond tn Mitirbcnd for thirty routs |Kir ynr.l, twn yards in rod; tliirty-live mils nf gravelling nn I'.ronkwulor rond In \V. Hflinillnn nt thirty-live cents per yard, twn yards In mil; nu Chapman mail to \V, Hamilton at thirty-nine cents porynrd, cue nml n half yarsls tn tbe mil: Cnstleiunn rond eontrool In .1. Mcl_od nl 71 cents per yard, nne nnd n hnlf yards tn mil; nil contracts In be completed liefnre .lul.v 10. This report wns nlso ndopled. The offer of I,. A. Thornton, manager nf the Chillivvn.sk Pinning .Mills, to grade, build und crib tbe north end nf Young street bridge for 8S."i wus accepted. A petition wns presented by C, E. Eckert und six others re grading nf First avenue from city limits to (he ditch on Mi-Naught property was accepted nnd a by-law will be passed to have Ibe work started at nn early dale. An offer ol C. E. Eckert for grading and gravelling of First avenue for 81000 was accepted. Tbe clerk wus instructed to write C. S. Pearson stating tbnt a complaint had lieen made re obstructions tu roads known as Spruce Drive and Second avenue, and thai Council cannot allow any obstructions on public roads whon any pro|M'rty owner objects, und tbnt be have same removed. A grant of 82.*> was made to the Women's Institute. A prepared plan of the easterly 82 acres I). 1170, group2, X. W. II. was submitted. .Same will bo executed when rough grading is done und proper plnns placed iM'fore the council. The plan of Sub Division ..I District lol lis, group 2, property of the Methodist church was re-accepted. For n consideration of Si; lo pay for grading on School streel lhe Council will accept lbc plnns of .Mr. .Moore for N. E. portion II. I, I). F. 27 anil 28, group 2. F. Itcldnin refused the offer of 87-"i for four acres at north end ssf Pros! rond. Council adjourned. tin' exclusion of your own, and' * then denounce yours for not being!* ns lurge nnd as ohonp ns tbo cily * papers. j * II you nre a merchant, don'l nil- "? vcrtisc in the bone paper, Imt coin-1* |sc|l th litor to go elsewhere for j % advertisements and howl lllioasore- J head because he dues so, Huv ai* | rubber stamp and use tt. li inny!!). save ymi a few dimes and make | your letter bonds ami wrappers look us though they were doing business in a one horse town. If you nre n farmer, curse the place you trade as the meanest on * 0pcn n joint accounl nml either party can withdraw * I'iirth. lull; this over to your 5* ■■_■! *? neighbor and tell tbem the men are robbers and thic-'cs, ll will make vour property less valuable; Imi Vnll don't cure. * Wc give special attention to Savings Accounts. One ± * Dollar only is necessary to open an account, interest i * allowed nl highest Bank rate and added twice a year. J * No delay in withdrawals. Two or more persons may J PECULIAR SITUATION \ pccitlnr condition of affairs bus lurisen al Huntingdon, a condition |. > "' ' ' ll-l | CHILLIWACK BRANCH N. S. MACKENZIE, | * Manager X ************ ***************************************** *************************************************** if affairs wliieli mav tin Dominion gnvernmenl in pnss special legislation, which will iilteel nul only Huntingdon, Imt the whole boundnry country. Shunted on the Aineri'-nn side of lhe boundnry line, is n mill owned hv the American LumberCniupniiy, wblcb saws up the logs and lllilkes lliein into rough lumber. Then minuted ou the Canadian side, nboul a mile distant is a planning mill known as ihe Eleelrlc l.umhcr Cninpany. Tin' rough lumber is then hauled by tennis to (he Canadian side coining in free as rough lumber, is planed nml made ready for shipment in the planning mill. This is precisely the aim and objects of lhe government in placing :. duly of twenty-live percent, nn liiiisbed lumber, to force the Americans to ostnblisb mills on the Canadian side, if tin v wish to compete in Canadian markets. But the men employed ill mills reside in Suiuns, coining over in the morning nnd returning at night. Thus practically no benefit is derived by the Canadians. The men when challenged by the customs authorities in the morning sny tliey nre coming over for one duy only, and the customs authorities are powerless. Tho work of the customs authorities in stopping (lis>so men is a- gain retarded hy the fact that Hr. Chester, Dominion Veterinary Surgeon lives in Sumas, If n Dominion govornmont agent, paid by the Dominion government can reside on the American side und pursue bis daily duties iu Canada', it would bo somewhat illogical to stop a working mail from working mi the Canadian side and living on the American side. Abbotsford nlso there are several Americans working onthcCanndain side and living iu tho United Stales and ut various otber places along the line, no doubt the Baltic conditions exist.—Ex. KILLING A TOWN Uuy from |sodsllors ns much and us often us possil.Ie. Denounce yuur inerebnnls be- caitse thoy mnke ii profit on their goods. Glory in th>' downfall of a mnn who bns done mucli lo build up your town. Mnke y..in- town oul u hml place nml stuh it every clinnce you get. defuse to unite iu uuy scheme for the bellermeul of the material interests ,,f tlio [tropic. Toll vour ms'ti'liniits Ihul you enn I.uy good, u gnnd deal citea-x-r In mint her town nml ehnrgo ihem with extortion. If n strnngorcoiiion lo your loWll It'll him everything Is overdone, and prudlcl a general crush in the ii,-;,i- future, \ Gardening Made Easy ll ymi ilu any vegeialile or Mower gardening or keep ;i lawn ymi will he interested in ll Xfcplional range of tools handled by us in supply the various needs of the gardener. In garden tools we have: Heavy and Light Wheel Barrows, Garden Cultivators, Cultivator Hoes, RaKes, Spades, Shovels, Hoes, Trowels, Etc. For lawns we have Mowers in all siies and prices, Shears, Iron Rollers, Scythes. Etc. A Full Range of Garden, Lawn and Field Seeds Carried. Chilliwack Implement ® Produce Company. FOR SALE Registered IVrclicron Mure I veins Old, Wclglll lem. His. Will I'lllisiil.'l' , r.ulc fnr work leant. Apply in II. CHAW, fft.nl lton.1, Smnll Simla*. PRE-EMPTIONS Who wants 160 acres of Fine Land ? within live miles of new railroad, where the adjoining land is held at from $lf> to $20 per acre now, nnd will be double that prico inside of three years. Wo hnve located a tract of over 10,000 acres, covered with willow, poplar nnd pine, with occasional patches of open country. < lot full information about this from our office. This land will all he taken early ihis Spring, so hurry. Call at our oiliee this Week. Chilliwack Land and Development Co. lid. Box 109 rhone 178 Chilliwack, B.C. WANTED Reliable men with soiling ability and gome knowledge of the fruit business or Nursery Stock, to represent us iu llritish < loluinhin as local and general agents. Liberal inducements and permanent position for the right inoii, STONE 11 WELLINGTON The I'Vintlllll Nur-erii- i K-nil.li-l.. .1 ISJI?) TORONTO • ONT. DO YOU WANT A GOOD DOOR CHEAP? We Imve iii slock n number of standard doors, assorted sizes, wliieli we ptirclinscd ut u snup price. Wo Iwuglit tliese doors right uml will sell thorn right. The Prices Range From $1.75 to $2.15 ('.impure those with regular p-jioea nn.l como nnd see the d *.. Coins' inrl.vnslliey will not Insl l.ingnl these prices. P. 0. Box 243 Phone L2442 Chilliwack Planing Hills EXCURSION RATES To All Points in Eastern Canada and United States. Accommodation Reserved Either by Rail or Steamship. For Tickets and Information Apply to F. J. HART & CO., LTD. Agents For the Canadian Pacific Railway and Dominion Express FREE PRESS, CHILLIWACK, BRITISH COLUMBIA. 4 WE CARRY StocKs of Lumber AT THE PLANTS OF The Rosedale Lumber Co., Rosedale j and £. 0. Patterson, C. C. Road And these will be pleased to .mote prices at points as well as delivered on the job. Damon, Puthias & Co. How It Became * Corpotabon With Limited Capital and Unlimited Dividend. By f. A. MITCHEL Copyright tiy American Pr.u A.ao- clstiou. mu. ABBOTSFORD TIBER & TRADING CO. 1 LIMITED W. L. MACKEN Yard Phone MANAGER Office Phont 224 86 ♦ aa.ii •**• i Have You Decided? Yot what kind of Fence you want. Sure Mike! An X or Z Lawn Fence. And buy it at Maynard S Murphy's Lawn Mowers and Rollers Garden Wheel Hose "Mr. Clarkson, I am huppy to see con. ne seated. Will told me Hint you a'uiilil cull. luiU'cil. tic showed me the letter which snld you were coming." The gentleman grew red In llie face 'ne showed you the letter, Mrs field ?" "Ccrtnlnly. Do you suppose men enn eeolvo letters Hint tlieir wire, am iol permitted to rend';" "Dut-but Will I. only Just married ,oii know." 'Certainly. The dny before luarrlagt and .he duy nfler miirrlagc lire very 'liferent, During Die first be la single; IlirliiK tbe second be Is double." -Hood graelntia! I did nol know thnl nnrrlugc turned nn honorable man lit., n iltshouoi'iiblo one." "If wc can't be honorable toward IWO persona we must decide In favor , nf ibe .mc to whom we have madeI •upposcd such definite pleilges-thut Is tbo wife. How- ' ''* •ver, I will do Will Justice to any that •ie did not show me your letter. 1 learn- «d nf Its contents In smother wny." "llow:" "I um not prepared lo make tlmt clear Jusi now But enougb of my having become nwnre of your feelings to ward the womnn whn bns robbed you of your friend. I can understand those feelings and bnve a proposition to mnke. I will divide Will with you. Instead of you and be being Damon and I'ythtas, we will make the firm Damon, I'.vihlns & Co., I to he the company," "Twss men nnd a woman!" Maynard ® Murphy ...»*. a.*.---—, rllll f IIVATK MAIN STREET CHILLIWACK "A month." "Won't you miss htm very much?" "Of course. I love him dearly, as ha loves inc. nm here comes In the advantage of n nlu. | shall huve you." Clarkson started ns It n bnmb hnd ! fallen on the floor before lilin nnd was . sputtering ready io explode, tr he hud | beeu looking ut Ills companion he j would have seen n very animated expression un her fnr.-. j "I was not aware, I didn't know," I be stuiuiiiH's.-d. "Hint a lady married to i the uian slm loves could let Iiini go I awny n few days after thss wedding and be contented wtth the company of his best frleud." "You forget tbat this Is a tripartite arrangement, wherein throe persous are mado one. Hut eeuse to bottler yourself about Ihul. The secret of remaining comforinlile In this world Is oot to worry. By Hits arrangement Will and I huve endeavored to obviate ttie necessity of you and be loving each other. It behooves you to ncrept the slliiullon and be content," "Yon hnve both certainly been very kind I shall endenvor to prove myself worthy of your confidence and conduct myself"— "Conduct yourself! Of course you will. Now stout trouble yourself nny i more nboul irinos. .lust fait into tba i sll nil Hon nnliiriilly and all wit! tie well." lie left her. wondering what It nil uieiinl. Surely Iheie wns some mistake. Was this wouiiiu so Innocent tbnt sbe ^^ luuluershlp as sbo proposed could endure without danger? The head of Ibe firm of Damon, I'yih- ? Ins & Co. remained away spilte long i * enough to produce a volcano ln tbe * brenst of lbo Junior member. The lady maintained the same pest- , Hon sbe bud taken at the Ilrst meeting ' with Clarkson. tnlkcd about lovo existing between the three of them Just as Innocently and bore herself Just ns circumspectly nt the last aa at tbe first of Damon's absence. Tbc only difference In ber bearing from what he might expect of his friend's wife was j a growing disposition to sensitiveness with regard lo his treatment of ber. j In one respect the Intimacy wns a sue +.;..>.j«*,M'*******************-^^^ Summer-Time Is Fly-Time AND FLY TIME IS WINDOW SCREEN AND SCREEN DOOR TIME. We have a largo assortment of Screen Doors nnd Adjustable Window Screens, Screen Wirt-Cloth in n dor.en widths, Lawn Mowers, Hose antl Lawn Sprinklers, QrasB Shoars, Oil Stoves, and mnny other hot weather necessaries nnd conveniences, DENMARK ® BURTON PHONE 10 + -i- * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ************* ************************ ********* ******* **************************************** * *********** Vancouver City Market Main Street, Vancouver Tins market is opor- nletl Ity tlie City us a mentis ol bringing Hits producer uinl consumer together. Vtsll lire in- vitotl Its seliil vnllr produce. Wo handle, everything from the (linn, (excepting milk.) Ky consigning your produco In the City Market vou will gel the hs'St price.'-, sharp returns, nn.l very prompt settlements. JOHN NcNILLAN Manager. CLASSY SUITINGS Tin* si/t* ami i|!i:..iiy of liu* BliowttifK - ilit* botimUow assort* n in it.** ui alt tin- in "A styles in snil* Ingft) in tin1 lii-lir*-! imported fabrics I lift t WO an* -hoU'llttf Ihi**" BOA- on from iln* Hook ol ftouborUii. I.iinitnl, will iiHiiniutnt yum- full attention. \Vo want foil t mo in ttn.l look nvur lho ciitirti rango while tin* linn nn* -iiii ntibrokeii. J. H. TURPIN W.HillL'l.lll S|. Opp. II|STII IfOllflO Sola Agency lloaso ssf lli.l.ls>rliii, l.iniiietl Why not? Will loves yon, and yon i lore Will. Will lores me. antl I lore Will. It only remains for .ue lo lore you and you to lore ine lo make t de- llgbtful trio." Clnrltson drew a few «hort breaths •art looked about blm like on. fearing to be caught lu a trap. "Ob. but Will!" he rejoined. "Would •u.-li an arrangement please hlmS" "Me will he delighted with It." "How do you know that?' "Before be went away"— "Went awuyV Haa be gone away?" "For n month." Clarkson looked more frightened thon ever. The lady continued: "We hail a talk about this letter of yours In which yon mourn your friend aa lost tn you and apeak so bitterly of Ibe woman wbo^hns taken him away frori you. It waa decided between ua tbat we should lake you Into the copartnership." j "Take me Inl" Tbe tone and expression on his face ! when he sulil this were so comical Ihnt tbe i nit fiilleil lo repress a smile. "Y.-a, lake you In." she repealed. 1 Au Idea seemed lo strike him. and ! he brightened. "There's an advantage ; In ibal." he said. "Another woman couldn't"— He checked himself. I "Rl|ht! I will see ihul no other worn- ' au itelss you n ssny from .if." | "I ra I her like that. Hot tell me about I Will. I'iiu'i newly married men usual- ; iy go awuy ou honeymoon trips,'?" , "Tbey do" . "Weill" She thought a moment before replying. "Will's nfralrs " *"'" wife's keeping, ami Wear A Stylish Suit Tin it i III III).. •ibli ., ull-i mportniii tiling ci ille.1 S tyll is part at: ■ 1 parrel of every Fit- It ■l.ll ml 'ailoretli kUiii.'III. A gliinc prove il C III " III' Spl ■ing ilis (,1a, will .Villi III fi ly Is' Kin.-t Fub i-i.'-. E_• elusive Kill iri I'S an, 1 Hesl Tailoring iiii.I yni I'll ■ •CI Sll iy . .ill' -nils arc scrii l.y so llllll 'J' of ( •hilliwn. _« i.-i ilrosecil inel 1. Sn|.|...-.- y Ii"|. i" lay. iiiiirrtisv nr any linn-to « ■ b' « .,i iinui would look ..ii y.s.i. See lieu linos nllorotl al i»ipuh~ prici $15.00 to $25.00 * * * + * * + * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ♦ * •e •» X * + cess. No otber woman was permitted to get near cuough tu Clarkson to en danger his single slato. As for the purity of the junior member of the firm and her loyally to the head of li there was no questlou. Nevertheless before bla friend Da mon returned Clarkson was lu love. Indeed, ttie evening before tbe arrival of the man who bad permitted this unique arrangement Mr. Clarkson made two statements to the ludy. Tbe first was Hint be loved ber madly, . tbe second that tie proposed to retire •*- at once from the Arm and never see ill ber again. He then left her with ah ! -J expression on her fuce denoting an In . * lern.'il upheaval, but whether sbe was . * offended with him for making the . * avowal he could not tell. j $ Thc next day, while Clarkson was packing a truuk preparatory to a long journey, he received a telephone message from his friend Field, Inviting _________________________ him to a meeting of Ibe Arm of Damon. "*^—"^——————_——_____________ Pythias It Co. at dinner. Clarkson tried lo beg off. hut failed, and. after | ♦♦♦*♦**-*+♦♦♦♦******♦*♦*♦♦♦♦♦♦•>'»*♦** Chas. ParKer j Your Outfitter ♦ *********************************************** NOTICE We have u new unil ui.-lo-.lutc Iibinl witb .be luteal medians for nil :1,1.1s, ..I Cleaning, l>y ills! an.l Pressing. K\|«ti hs'lp l..r all limticlii". s)«. i.il attention will Iw given h'dII Mml an.l Kxtiren onlen. Iroin Chilli- ttat'k anil llie Valley. Wca-nllctl atrial. JARVIS DYE WORKS 428 9th AVE. W.. VANCOUVER ■ritish Colombia Electric Ry. PAHRNORR MtRVlCB Wt'SllMlllll.l— l.'nve Arrive Train. Clink. Wesi.nin. 3 8.80 a.m. II.M f. l.If, a.in. B.*W 7 11.00 p.m. H.I0 heave Arrive Train lllgiln. Wesliuin. 1 ii.:iii u.iii. .*.W> Koatlssnnd— Train 2... 4... «... Train 0... Van S.'liln.m. . I'.'.l.'s nivisii . B.OOp.m, Leave Van. Wesliuin. ,,8,03 p.m. 4.011 Arrive Wesliuin. 0,00 l.'.>0 .1.10 Arrive Arrive Vuu. U.I A 4.:h> 11.110 Arrive Vim. O.lfl Arrive 1'lnvk I2.lt 8.M n.lo Arrive Miii.ii. Il.tUi FRESH CREAM 20 CENTS PER PINT r*TC8ll Itntlleii Milk nml Oain delivered dally t» any part nf the i-itv Order for Horning Delivery. MONE 275 PRICE BROS. City Dairy R. A. Hr'Nisi'iisox, n.B.&M._, ASSSSH-IVTI'. Sll sunn or Till; CNMllAN ancimv..,' civil, Rt-aiNMn. It. 0. I.ANI. Survbyoii HiHiius 111 .V II, Weslininsler Trust Work tilll.l.lWAOK, II.C. this one particularly—are uot to be divulged.'' "But I thought I was admitted Into the firm." "So you are. Itut (here Is reason In I all things. 1 nm lo know Will's secrets { and yours. Yuu are uot to kuow Will'a nor Will yours." "Well. I like thai! Do you call II reason';" I "Cenaluly. What all* would you call, j IIT i "Oh, 1 auppoee IC Is-sluce you aay ' ao." "Now I prsspss.c tn make up for losl time. You uml Will bave loved encb ( other since Isoyhood. Will and I bare loved each oilier fur several years. . The chain between >'"" and me la alone wauling. It was agreed between > Wilt and me before be left Hint I was fo take you In mid form Ibis bond i between us." Mr. Clnrksnu started and again looked wildly nboul him. "I don'l know," he said, "lhat 1 ever heard uf an arrangement like this." "There's always a first Unit for eterylhlng." "There's one advantage In II," mus- i lngly, "thai I have already mentioned. Tu ba fri.nk .villi yon, I'd rather aleer clear of women -iniililunuiliilly I mean. It'a all right fur Will to go lu for that ami of thing, but 1 don't. Thla arrangement will be a barrier for me, won't It'; numerous excuses which seemed to surprise anil offend hia would bu host, nt lasl consented. On his arrival Field look blm Into his r-'nclum and said lo him seriously: "Hols, before we dine something needs to be straightened out." Clarkson shuddered. "Before my departure 1 was struck by your letter, We both regretted the separation Hint must naturally result between yon nud me ou account of my marriage, fur you kuow tbat two bos nt before reply-' ol" rrl-i»J-* cnunot be the same after ure now In hia ' ""' marriage of one Ihnl they were some of Ihem— 'w'ol'c' "he said the thing to do was AN Al. Investment 33 ncres on MeSween tlotul two-thirds cleared nnd the balance easy clearing. First cliisssoil for mixed farming. Price $250 per acre. Terms to Suit Adjoining Property 1 For $400 per las lieen acre. so .l\ to bring you luto Ibe family. Wben I asked her bow wc could do Hint she proposed lo marry you to her sister Cynthia. She suggested that while we were ou our wedding trip Cynthia should play with you tbe farce of Damon, Pythias & Co. From what 1 j j hear she played ber part well, but now ; * thnt we have arrived at the climax ♦ she has broken down completely. She ' * Is terror stricken lest you may think ' * she deliberately set out to catch you, * whereas the really entered upon it fot ' ♦ ♦ REALTY AND INSURANCE AGENTS Impart tbls J a^a^a^a^a^a_ looklug at I *******************************Q+*44.4444m<.4mmi+ eport.' ^^^^^^^^^ Wben Field began lo knowledge Clnrkson wu him like n beast at bay. As Field pro Chas. Huteheson Q Co. CHILLIWACK cecdetl Ihls expression cbaaged to prise, curiosity. Ii,.pe, nud Dually brokt Into a beoutlful smllo. "You'll Iluil her iu Hie library," enn- tlmied Field. "Co In nud tlralgbteu It all uut. You bave Imlf uu hour before dinner, and I'm .pill,, sure Unit's mor. than enougb." "But do you Uiink"- "1 dun't think: I know. We'll celebrate your engagement at dinner. I've > ordered lbc wine on Ice." Clnrksou went Into Hie library and Id exactly forty minutes emerged with tbu blushing Cy III Ilia, tho smile on Cliirks.sp's face having broadened to radiant joy. "Only ten minutes late." cried Field merrily. "Bob, this Is the real Mrs. j i Field. Come on; Ibe dinner's wailing, ■ USEFUL AND ACCEPTABLE 1 Household Articles •Til guarantee that no woman .ball M«*J <•*''<> ■**■*»•** Hir.tiilll' KKUVIt'K l,ve. Chilliwack .Mm a.m. \ li.iily Except " Vancouver 7.00 ' | Sliiulny All paaHsiis/s'r (rains liamlle F.xpicss. JOHN H. 0IAUGHT0N IIAUHISTF.lt, MH.K'ITOH, NOTARY PUBLIC WcKtiiiitiHtcr Trust lliiililing CHILLIWACK, 11. C. BULL FOR SALE Pn.ro Bred ii..i-nin Hull, St tor nr via From lint'.'iii.l si.si'k. J. 111'I.I.AMY. phone F Km come nenr yon. To facilitate matters we will let Ihem all know Hint you lie- long to tbe firm nf Damon, Pythias * Co. by making yourself nt home here. For a starter Will left a pair ot tlcketa lo Hie I bonier for tomorrow evening. Have you any engagement.'/" "X-n-o." "Oh, If yon dun't rare to go 1 can dispose of the tickets." She looked a trifle miffed. "I .ball Ise delighted." "Very Well. Now wc will talk of otber mailers,, ll haa been quite warm lately, hasn't It's" "Yes-no. I haven't noticed. How leaf did you aay Will 1> tu bt ab»«ut'i" When Iho quartet were sealed at the Inble and ull hnd lieen served the host took a bottle of chnmpague from a cooler licside him and. culling the cord Hint held Hie cork, fired n aalule In honor of Hie newly engaged couple. Then, illltii- nil llie glasses, he raised his own lo bis lips and gave Ihe following toast: "To the Damon A rylhlaa company." "Limited," suggested Clarkson. "Nol much," relorled Field. "There'll tie no moro capital Introduced" "Thnt mnv lie." snld Field, with an Miotic grin, "but think ef Ihe aUvt- -*•*"■*" rtTXn ... —r * r. ElBoilo Tito littio Im* morsioii li.'iii- or. B oils wator in it few Sl'C'Olllls. I El Stovo T ho stove whloli boils your kettle quickly Toaster ■>t,iv«*—For ting loses ns toils- El Perco Makes dollc tolls coffee ill lit few Hiiliues, Phone 257 S. PUGH Chmmck CHILLIWACK FREE PRESS ONE WAY OUT Oopyright, 1911 Bg WILLIAM CARLETON [By Small, Maynard & Co., In CHAPTER XV.—(Continued) The Gang AT any rale I found myself at tho head of twenty men—all Italian., .ui strangers und among them three or four Just ott the steamer, My first Jul) was on a foundation for nn apartment hou.se, of course my part in ii was tlio very humble one of seeing thai ih" men kept -a work digging, The work had all been slaked out and tho architect's agenl was there tu give iiii Incidental instructions, tie was a young graduate uf n technical school iin.] i took tho opportunity (hus offered for ho was a good-natured boy —to use what little I luul learned in my nighl school and .study his blue prints. At .nl.l limes ho explained thom i and aside from what I learned myself from them II helped nu- in iiii.ii the nun mnn* intelligently. Uul it was .hi the men th.'iiiselves thai l centred my efforts, As soon as possible 1 learned them by name. At th*' noon hour 1 took my lunch with Ihem am) talked with them In their own language. I made a note of where they lived and found as I expected that many were from , my ward. Incidentally 1 dropped a word here and there a bunt the "Young American Political Club," and asked them to come around to some or the meetings. i found out where they came from and wherever I eould, I associated them wllh some of their fellows with whom 1 had worked, I found out about their families. In brief I made myself known to every man of them as intimately as was. possible. 1 don't suppose for a minute that I could have done this successfully if I hadn't really been genuinely interested in them. If 1 had gone at it like a professional hand shaker they would have detected the hyprocrlsy In no time. Neither did 1 attempt a chummy attitude nor a fatherly attitude. I made It clearly understood that I was an American first of all and that 1 was their boss. It was perfectly easy to do this and at thc same time treat them like men and like units. I tried to make them feel that instead of being merely a bunch of Dagoes they were Italian worklngmen. Your foreign laborer is quick to appreciate such a distinction and quick to respond to it. Wilh the American- born you have to draw a sharper line and hold a steadier rein. I figured out that when you Ond a member of the second or third generation stilt digging, you've found a man with something wrong about him. The next thing 1 did was to learn whut each man could do best. Of course, 1 eould make only broad Classification**. Still there were men better at lifting than others; men better witli the crowbar; men better at shovelling; men naturally Industrious who would leaven a group of three or four lazy ones. As well as I could I sorted (item out In this way. In addition to taking this personal Interest In them individually, I based my relations with them collectively on a principle of sl iit, homely justice. I found there was no quality of such universal appeal at this one of Justice. Whether dealing with Italians, Russians, Portuguese, Poles, Irish or Irish- Americans you could always get below their national peculiarities If you reached this common denominator. However browbeaten, however slavish, they had been in their former lives this spark seemed always alive. However cocky or anarchistic they might feel in their new freedom you could pull them up with a sharp turn by un appeal to their sense of justice. And by Justice I mean nothing but what ex- Presldent Roosevelt has now made familiar by the phrase "a square deal." Justice in the abstract might not appeal to them, but they knew when they were being treated fairly and when they were not. Also they knew when they were treating you fairly and when they were not. I never allowed a man lo feel bullied or abused; 1 never gave a sharp order without an explanation. I never discharged a man without making him feel guilty in his heart no miiller how much he protested with his lips. Ami I never discharged him withoui making the other men clearly see his guilt. When a man went, he left no sympathisers behind him On the other hand I made Ihem act I Justly towards their employer ami towards me. I taught Ihem thai justice must be on both sides. I tried to make them understand that their part was noi to see how utile work tbey could do for ihelr money ami that mine was not to see how much they could do. but that ll was up lo both of us lo turn out a full fair day's work. They were not a chain gang, but workmen BSlllng their labor. Jusi as they expected the store-keepers to sell them fair measure and full Weight, So I expected Ihem to sell a full day and honest effort. It wasn't always possible to secure a result, but when lt wasn't 1 got rid of that man on the Ilrst occasion. It was very much easier to handle In this way the freedom-loving foreigners than I looked for; wllh the American-born It was harder than I expected. on the whole, however, I was mighty well pleased. I certainly got a lot of work out of Ihem without In any way pushing them. They didn't sweat for me and I didn't want them to—but they kept steadily at Ihelr work, from morning until night, Then, too, 1 didn't hesitate to do u little work myself now nn.l then. If at any point another man seemed to be needed lo help over a difficulty I Jumped In. I not only often saved the useless efforts of three or four men In this way but I convinced them that I too had my employers' Interests at heart, My object wasn't simply to earn my day's pay, 11 wns to finish lhe job we were on tn the short- est possible lime. It makes a big difference whether a mnn feels he Is working by the day or by the Job. I tried to make them feel that we were all working by the job. Without boasting 1 think I Can say that wo cut down the contractor's esti mate by ut leust a full day. 1 know tliey hud to do some hustling to get the pile-drivers to the spot on time. on the next job I hud to begin ul over again with a' new gang. 11 seem ed a pity that all my work on the olher should be wasted, but 1 didn't say anything. For two months I took each time (lu- men 1 bad aud did my best with them. I bail my reward In find lug myself placed at the head of a constantly Increasing force. I also found that I was being sent on all tho hurry up work. I learned something every day. finally when the time seem ripe I went Li tlu nlrnetor's agent wilh lb.- proposition towards which I hiid all along been working. This wsi that I should be allowed to hire my own men. Tin- agent was sceptical at first about ibe wisdom i»t' entrusting such powor as this in a subordinate, bul I pul my case to him squarely. 1 said Itl brief Lhal 1 was sun* I could pick u gam; of lifty men who would ilu the woli of seventy-live. I told him that for C year now 1 had been making notes on the best workers and 1 thought 1 could secure them. But 1 would have lo do It myself. It would be only through my personal Influence with them that they eould be got. He raised several objections but 1 finally said: "Let nie try it anyhow. The men won't cost you any more lhan the others und If I don't make good it's easy enough to go back to the old way." It's queer how stubbornly business men cling to routine. They get stuck In a system and hate to change. Ho finally gave me permission to see the men. I was then to turn them over to the regular paymaster who would engage them. This was all I wanted and with my note book 1 started out, lt was no easy job for me and for a week I had to cut out my night school and give ull my time to it. Many of the men hud moved and others had gone into other work, but I kept at it night after night, trotting from one end of the city to the other until I rounded up nbout thirty of them. This seemed to me enough to form a core. I could pick up others from time to time as 1 found them. The men remembered me and when I told them something of my plan they all agreed with a grin to report for work as soon as they were free. And this was how Curleton's gang happened to be formed. It took me about three months to put all my fifty men into good working order and it wasn't for a year that I had my machine where I wanted it. But it was a success from the start. At the end of a year I learned that even the contractor himself began to speak with some pride of Cnrleton's gang. And he used it. He used it hard. In fact he made something of a special feature of it. It began to bring aim emergency business. Wherever speeo was a big essential, he secured the contract through my gang. He i:se_ us altogether for foundation work and his business increased so rapidly that we were never idle. I became proud of my men and my reputation. Imt of course this success—this proof that my idea was a good one—only whetted my appetite for the big goal still ahead of me. I was eager for the day when this group of men should really be Carleton's gang. It was hard in a way to see the result of my own thought and work turning out big profits for another when all I needed wus little capital to make It my own. .Still I knew I must be patient. There were many things yet that 1 must learn beforo I should be competent to undertake contracts for myself. In the meanwhile I could satisfy my ambition by constantly strengthening and perfecting the machine. Then, too, 1 found that thc gang wns bringing mc Into closer touch with my superiors. One day I was called to the oiliee of the firm und there I met the two men who until now had been nothing to me but two names. For n year I hud stared at these names painted lu black ou white boards and posted about the grounds of every Job upon which 1 hud worked. I hud never thought of them as human beings so much as some hidden force—like the i unseen dynamo of a power plant. They were both Irish - A merleuns—strong, prosperous-look Ing men. Homehow Ihey made me distinctly conscious of my own ancestry. I don't mean thut I wu**t over-proud -In a wuy I doVt suppose tlure wiis anything lo boast of In the Carletons bul us I stood before these men In Ibe position of u minor employee I suppose (but unconsciously I looked for something In my past to oflsel my present humiliating situation. And from a business point of view, II was humiliating. The Carlelons hud been In this country two hundred years and these men but twenty-live or thirty and yei I was the man who stood while they faced nie in Iheir easy chairs before their roll-top desks. 11 was then that I was glad to remember there hadn't been a war in Ihls country In whieh a Carleton had not played his part. I held myself a little better for the thought. They were unnffectcd and businesslike, but when they spoke It wns plain "Carleton" and when I spoke It was "Mr. Corkery," or "Mr. Onlvin." That was rlghl and proper enough. Tliey hud called me In lo consult wllh me on a big job which they were trying to figure down to the very lowest point. They wen* willing to get out of It with the smallest possible margin of profit for lhe ndverllscmont it would give them nnd In view of future contracts with the same firm which It might bring. The largest Item In It wus the handling of Ihe dirt. They showed me their blue prints and their rough estimate and Ihon Mr. Corkery said. "How much can you take off thnt, Carleton?" 1 told him I would need two or three hours to figure It out. He culled a clerk. "Give Carleton a desk," he said. Then he turned to me: "Stay here until you've done It," lie said. It took me all lhe forenoon. I worked carefully because It seemed to nie that here was a big chance to prove myself. I worked ut those figures sis though I had every dollar I ever hoped to have at stake. I didn't trim it as close as 1 would Imve done for myself, but ns It was I took off a fifth— the mailer of five thousand dollars. When I came back, Mr. Corkery looked over my figures. "Sure you can do that?" he asked. I could see he was surprised. "Ves, sir," I said. "I'd hate like hell to get stuck," ho said. "Ymi won't get stuck," I answered. "It isn't the loss I mind," he said, "but—well there is a llrm or two thnl is waiting lo give me the laugh." "They won't laugh," I suid. He looked at ine a moment iind then j sort ,,f cro8B between called in a clerk. "Have those figures put In shape," lie said, "and send In this bid." Corkery secured the contract. 1 picked one hundred men. Tlie morning we begun I held a sort of convention. "Men," 1 said, "I've promised lo do this in so muny duys. They suy we can't do It. If we don't, here's where they laugh ul the gang," We did it. 1 never heard from Corkery about it, but when we were through 1 thanked the gang and 1 found them "No need of It," I said. "Take another course in the summer Bchool." "1 wiint to earn some money," he said, "1 want to go to work." If tho boy hnd come to me a year ago with thot suggestion I should havo felt hurt. I would have thought It a re fiection upon my ability to support my family. We salaried men used to expect our children to be dependent on us until they completed their educations. For a boy to work during his summer vacation was almost as bad form as for the wife to work for money ;it any time, lt had to be explained thut tho boy was a prodigy with un usual business ability or that he was merely seeking experience. But Dick did not fall into any of these classes. This was what made his proposal the more remarkable to me. It meant that lie wns willing to take just a plain evory-day plugging job, And underlying this willingness was the spirit that was resurrecting us all. Instead of acting on the defensive, Dick was now eager to play the aggressive game. I hadn't looked for this spirit lo show in him so soon, hi his life outside of school. I wns mighty well pleased. "All right," I said, "what do you think you can do?" "I've talked wllh some* of tlu* fellows," he said, "and the surest thing seems lo be selling papers." 1 guve a giisp at Unit. „ I hadn't yet lost lhe feeling thai a newsboy was a rphnn and a beggar. He was lo me purely an object of pity. Of course I'd formed this notion like u good many others from the story books and the dally paper. I connected it newsboy with bllmi fathers iind sick mothers if he had any parents at alt. "1 guess you can get something better than that to do," I said. "Whttt'S lhe mutter wilh selling papers?" he asked. When I stopped to think of the work In thut wny- as Just the buying and selling of papers---! couldn't see any- - -T-- - — aa *~ —i HAPPY? OH, JUST A TRIFLEI —From the Edmonton Journal more truly mine than they had ever been before. Every Saturday night I brought home my fifteen dollars, and Uuth took out three for thc rent, five for household expenses, nud put seven In the ginger Jar. We had one hundred and thirty dollars In the bank before the raise came, and after this It increased rapidly. There wasn't a week we didn't put aside seven dollars, and sometimes eight. The end of my first year ns an emigrant found me with the following Items tti my credit: Ituth, thc boy and myself In better health thun wc had ver been; Ruth's big mother-love finding outlet In the neighborhood; the boy alert and ambitious; myself with thc beginning of a good technical education, to say nothing of the rudiments of a new language, with a loyal gang of one hundred men and two hundred dollars In cash. This Inventory dors not take Into account my DOW friends, my new mentul and spiritual outlook upon life, or my enhanced self-respect. Such things cannot be calculated. The first year was, of course, the Important year—thc big year. It proved whal could be done, and nothing remained now bul lime In which to dn lt. It established the evident fact that If a raw, uneducated foreigner can come to this country and succeed, u native-burn with experience plus Intelligence ought to do the sume thing more rapidly. Hut It hnd taught me that whnt the native-born must do Is lo simplify his man.lani nf living, take advantage of the same opportunities, toll with the same spirit, and free himself from the burdensome bonds of caste. Tho advantage Is alt with the pioneer, the nd- venturer, the emigrant. These are the real children of the republic—hero In the east, nl any rate. Kvery landing dock Is Plymouth Rock to thetn. They are the real forefathers of the coming century, beeauso they possess all the rugged strength of settlers. They are making their own colonlnl history. CHAPTER XVI. Dick Finds ■ Way Out, Too When school closed In June, Dick Came to me and said: "Dad, I don't want to loaf all sum- thing the matter with It. Why wasn't lt like buying und selling anything? Vou were selling a product In which millions of money was Invested, a product whieh everyone wanted, a product where you gave your customers their money's worth. The only objection I could think of at the moment was that there was so litlle in It. "It will keep you on the streets five or six hours a day," 1 said, "and I don'l suppose you enn mnke more than a dollar a week." "A dollar a week!" he suid. "Do you know whut oue fellow In our class makes right through lhe year?" "How much?" 1 asked. "He makes between six und eight dollurs a week." suid Dick. "That doesn't sound possible," 1 said. "He told me he mnde that. And another fellow he knows about did as well as this even while he was ln college. He pretty nearly paid his own way." "What do you make on u paper?" 1 asked. "About half a cent on the one cent papers, and a cent on the two cent papers." "Then these boys have lo sell over two hundred papers a day." "Thoy have about a hundred regular customers," said Dick, "nnd thoy sell another hundred papers besides." II seemed to me the hoys must have exaggerated because eight dollars a week was pretty nearly the pay of an able-bodied man. It didn't seem possible that these youngsters whom I'd pitied atl my life eould earn such an Income. However, if they didn't earn half as much. It wasn't a bud proposition for a lad. (To bo continued). MENDELI9M Ry crossing two types with only one point of difference Mendel discovered tho unit characters. Ry n unit character Is meant one whieh will not blend wllh Uh opposite, It dOOS one nf two Ihlngs In the body of the hybrid; It makes lis appearance In the body to the total apparent loss of Us opposite, In which case It Is culled a dominant unit character, or else lt cannot be seen at all In the appearance of the hybrid In which case It Is known ns a recessive unit character. Iu peas, tallness Is dominant, dwarfness is recessivo; yellow coat color of seed is dominant, green Is recessive, Jn guineu-pigs bluck color is dominant, white is recessive. In mun, brown eyes are dominant, bluo eyes are recessive. Black hair Is dominant, light hair recessive. Jn horses, buy color Is dominant to chestnut, while chestnut is rocessivo to bay. That Is to say, from two chestnut horses only chestnut foals can be produced. From pure bays usually no chestnuts come. The students of heredity are now working on this discovery of Mendel. To work out the unit characters of the various animals is the dilllcult tusk before the men of science. It is not known yet thut all failures of any animal compost* unit characters, but that is the hypulhesis on which the work Is being carried out. To Illustrate some of the difficulties in accomplishing this work, human eye color, und hair follow Mendellnn laws, the lighter In each case being recessive to the darker color. But when there is an example of a cross between a white and a negro the resulting skin color Is whut seems to bo a blend. This on close analysis may prove to be more of si mosaic than a blend, but ul present, we can attribute neither recessiveuess nor dominance to human skin color. Work Is now being done on many human features to determine thoso which behave as unit characters, l-'or example, hi addition to skin color, there are under observation such trails as height, si/e and shape of facial organs, any mnrkod physical feature, doafnoss, tendency io oarly senility, resistance to disease, as well as Ihe nielilnl tendencies lo nervousness, epilepsy, feeblemindedness and Insanity. RHEUMATISM AND IONIZATION Sufferers from rhoumattsm, from gout, and from cortain nervous affections nre known to be very sensitive to changes lu the weather. It has been Impossible lo establish any connection between Ibis sensitiveness and variations lu the temperature, Ilu* pressure, or the moisture. On the other hand, it has boon observed Ihul the hot springs which huve been helpful to many of these sufferers differ from each other so radically from a chemical point of view thiit lt has been Impossible to throw uny light upon the disorders from the side of effective treatment. In all of these hot springs, however, notwithstanding differences ln temperature and In chemical composition, there is apparently a much greater amount of radiation than Is found in the ordinary atmosphere; especially abundant are the beta and gamma rays from radium emanations nnd free electric Ions. On the basis of these considerations Dr. P. Steffens, of Freiburg, has made thc suggestion that the suffering associated with changes in the weather is caused by electrical disturbances to which the patient is susceptible. In order to test this view experimentally, he subjected some rheumatic patients to a current of negative Ions produced with the aid of a Roentgen-ray apparatus. The electrical "wind" thus produced seemed to have a beneficial effect upon the patients. The treatment WSJ later applied to sufferers from heart disease, loenl skin and Joint dl- senses, and other affections. From many successful treatments by this method Dr. Steffens concludes that the effect of bathing In hot springs Is Identical with thc action of free ions. FLOATING GNAT EGG8 Many thousands of gnat eggs are deposited on the surface of water in the form of great floating rifts. These rafts will not sink and, if ln some manner they nre upset, they will igain right themselves and continue to float on the surface. They are held so closely together thut they form a Sne mesh, and the penlngs nre so small that the water unnot penetrate between thern. The mass will flont for hundreds of yards Just as lt Is carried by the motion of the water. A fine mesh of wire will llout just like the gnat eggs owing to the fine penlngs, which will not admit the wuter to puss through. A pall mnde of lhe same mesh will not hold water, but it will flout just us the rafts of gnal eggs do. THE FRENCH DIVER Thc diving-bell used In France is of the type perfected by Churles Petit. The apparatus is composed of two parts—tlie casque and the equipment. The casque |s made of red copper tinned on the inner side; It Is In the form f a sphere wtth four round glasses f transparent crystal which permit Ihe diver to see In all di recti >ns, At the back Is a "goose-nock" pipe with a safety Valve for use if the tube nnectliifc in i rpparatus wlil. the pump is broken, The air enters from three flat orifices ami while passing carries out lhe sleam of the diver's breath uml thus prevents tho mist from collecting and obscuring tho wln- lOWIi At lhe rlghl of the casque u lOOOnd safety valve lets out the vitiated air or lets In more ulr. Hy means f u very delicate attachment thu divers can regulate ihe air according to bis need. Hut If he Is nervous, if he miscalculates his movement i, too muoh uir accumulates, the voMmoni is inflated, und the diver, despite bis host efforts, rises to the sulfate like R distended bladder, with legs mid arms spread like thoBO of a frog. The diving-bell closes by menus of three bolts. The vestment Is In ono piece nnd of Impermeable rubberized tissue, double ut Ihe knees and at tho elbows. The sleeves end In wristlets uf pure rubber. The shoulders nre covered by a metallic cape; and, hanging from the front of the nape and from the buck, >r the back and over lho breast, maintained by brass hooks, nro leaden weights weighing forty pounds. Thc shoes ure leather with a heavy leaden sole wllh brass Iocs, lu his belt thu illver carries the brass sheath of a dagger—needed In regions haunted by sharks, cuttle-fish, uud other sea monsters. Despite the acoustic tubes und ml- ro-telephones Invented to hold the diver In communication with tho surface, thc rope Is the only practical and reliable signal. One blow signifies "all right;" two blows, "more nir;" three blows, "a little more ulr;" four blows, "haul mo up." Tho diver puts on woolen underclothes to absorb transpiration, draws on hts leaded shoes, fastens his enormous casque, fixes his air tube, and adjusts his safely rope. Thon he stands on his feet and slowly descends the ladder, looking like a tough-skinned sou monster. The moment most dreaded comes when he touches the crest of the waves. Then it seems te him thut he Is buffeted, beaten, and tossed to his destruction, and when he sees the waves that dance above nis head he suffocates, a haze blinds his eyes, his brain reels, his eyes roar, und his heart fails. As he goes down the shadows deepen. And now a glassy opaque veil deforms all objects and gives them an appearance fantastic and horrible. He has lost consciousness of his whereabouts; it seems ta him that he is rushing heud downward, opposed on all sides by the water even when he touches bottom; he advances half bent, groping, with arms moving, like a timorous swimmer. When the bed of the ocean Is uneven, he crawls on hands and knees. He breathes hard; his eyes are almost blind; yet he must work hard with hatchet or with knife, for he knows that tbo men ashore are pumping to keep lhe breath lu his body; pumping ami watching the I'ope, waiting for his Btgnal, No man embraces Lhe trade of dt er unless his heal i is Indomitably stout ami his body in robust health. And even Ibeii he may die sotut* Instants or somo hours after his return from the depths to Ihe free ub*. Al a gro.il- er pressure than two a I Unispheres different troubles attack htm, lie Is slung by ihe "divers' ileus" or tormented by all but Intolerable Itchlngs, Bolow (hi ainiospheres gruver disorders appear, among (hem a deafness that may hold him imiii he dies, hemorrhages, paralysis or the feet aud legs, symptoms of cerebral or pulmonary congestion, The diver makes his ascent from the depths very slowly one motor per iniu ute mil as Ihe fool makes It, mounting by closing the safety valve of Ills casque ami rushing upward, THE GI-jEAT QUESTION It was n wilil night outside, ami they hud sut closer together thun usual for several hours before the; Dickering light of the log fire. A silence of many minutes had lain unbroken over them, uud dually, as the clock struck ten, she stirred slightly. "Henry," she said, her voice trembling somewhat. "I have been thinking matters over for the last half hour very carefully, weighing the pros and cons iis fully as 1 knew how." "Yes, dear?" he snid, feeling sure of whnt wns to come. "And I nm going to ask you a question—" She faltered. "You should know In advance what my answer will be," he murmured, softly. I think I do, Henry," she went on. "You are the only man in the world of whom I would ask It. Horry Winter- burn Is a flue man, and I nm fond of him, and I think he Is fond of me, but I should not think of nsking it of him." His heart leapt with joy. Horry Winterburn waa his most dreaded rival. "Go on, Mnude." he whispered. "Nor should I ask it of the Reverend Mr. Castleton. though I huve known him all my life. It Is you—you alone of whom I would ask this great—" "Don't—don't keep me in suspense longer, Maude," he cried. "Can't you see the endless succession of yesscs on my lips waiting for your question?" "Very well then, I will ask It," she said, happily. "Henry, will you please find Fldo and tie him up In the barn on your way home?" HOW DANGEROUSLY WE LIVE Thc Students' Union of the University of Wisconsin Is going to give a demonstration shortly on Ihe deadll- ness of handshaking. It Is said that a person can fill his palm with 3.000,- 000,000 deadly or disagreeable germs by this proceeding, some or all of which can be seen by the aid of a microscope, If you only have a microscope powerful enough. If your microscope Is not powerful enough to enable you to sec them all, use your imagination, and you will see them in all their hidoonsness. Almost everything that we do nowadays Is dangerous, according to some authority or other. It Is to be known tbat it Is dangerous for u man to kiss another man's wife, but scientists tell us lhal it Is equally dangerous for a man lo kiss his own wife. The rosebud maiden Is equally dangerous, and to Is thc widow. It Is dangerous for i man to take a drink, or to smoke tobacco, or to eat food. It Is danger- US for him to sit down In his own house, or to go into the open air. lt Is dangerous to live ou u plain, mid dangerous to climb mountnlns. It Is dangerous to wenr clothes, nnd dnnger- uh to go nuked. It lv dangerous to scrape your face with u razor, aud Dangerous to wear whiskers, it is Jnugerous lo be Idle, and It Is danger- niis to work. It Is dangerous to talk, ami It Is dangerous to keep silent, It Is dangerous to be a sinner, but It Is equally dangerous to be a saint. And If you shake hands, you get—oh, horror of horrors!—3,000,000,000 germs upon your palms. FIRST WOMAN ON ENGLI8H 8TAGE January 3 Is un Important anniversary ln the development of the llritish drama, for upon this date In 11161 I'epys went to tho Clare Market Theatre, saw the "Beggar's Bush" well performed and records, "the first time that I over saw women como upon the stage." Previously all female parts had been taken by hoys or young men. The change was probably suggested by Charles II. from his Continental experience and arose from an amusing episode, The king had gone to the theatre "before his lime," and finding Ihe actors not ready, nsked for nn explanation, whereupon ho wus gravely Informed thnt "the queen hns not shaved yet!" As tho Merry Monarch loved to laugh nt a Jost as well as to make one, the excuse was Accepted and ■ a reform Initiated. 136 CHILLIWACK FREE PRESS _*_ Sarcophagus of a Single Flower By ANNA McLURE SHOLL We were, as the Italian proverb has it, not in the world, but in Maremma. Carpenter had challenged me lo a summer journey through that land of misty memories und malaria, believing that our enthusiasm for Etruscan remains would render us fever-proof. On that memorable evening we hud arrived ut a small town upon a sudden little hill rising like an islund In the wastes of brilliant green. Though the sun wus fur down toward the blue horizon line of the Mediterranean, waves of heat still quivered above the plain, to be changed with the first coolness into ghostlike wraiths of mist. Afler arranging at the wretched inn for our lodging, we sought the principal church, that wo might make the acquaintance of the priest and hoar from him the traditions of the neighborhood. The Angolus bell guiding us. wn passed along the solitary streets, encountering only d Cow pale, listless women ami childron. The church Itself, at whose slops Ihe town suddenly ended, looked gaunt and Idea* bed In tbe while glare of lho setting sun. Lifting the leather curtain, wo passed into a bare nave, from whose wills frescos by forgotten mnstors were scaling. As we advanced lownrd I he altar, w<* became aware of a kind of tiior- tu.ity cbupei, breaking tho smooth expanse of tb.- south wnll, ami containing threo sarcophagi, al lho sight of which Carpenter gave m oxclntnoUon of delight, I laid a winning linger mi my lips, for i saw ibal by the farthestI nne a young girl was kneeling. An old priest wilh n benign expres- \ slou now emerged from lho sacristy, uud camo forward to greet us, As wo whispered our names and tho objeel of our visit, lho girl rose from her knees and loft tho chapol, evidently with the Intention of speaking to the padre, until she perceived that strangers were with him. As sho passed us, even Carpenter, cold and blind antiquarian as he was, looked in wonder upon the Borrow- ponetrated beauty of her face. Italy breeds such loveliness from time to time, ns if in vindication of Raphael and Da VlOCl. Instinctively we turned to the priest with questions ln our eyes. "The Slgnortne Beatrice Ceclnn." he murmured, "the last member of an old family of these parts." "Yet she wears the peasant costume." Carpenter commented. The padre seemed to think our curiosity entirely justified. "She is very poor," he explained. "In her orphaned babyhood she was adopted by her father's steward and his wife, old peasant people whose remains now rest in two of those sarcophagi." At the mention ut these treasures it became evident that for Carpenter, at least, lhe girl no longer existed. His eyes glowed with an antiquarian's ardor. "Th.-y are purest Etruscan," be said in his dry. curator voice—"of alabaster, ami Indicating, 1 perceive by lhe single. double, nnd triple flowers of iheir decoration, thai Ihey once contained the bodies of d young, of a middle- aged, end of ;in old person. Where were they found?" "Upon the farm or the steward, the foster-father of the Slgnorlna Beatrice —in one uf tbe subterranean tombs with whlcb this soil Is honeycombed." Carpenter left us tn examine the three ancient coffins more closely. I turned to the priest. "Even a stranger can see that the Slgnorlna Ceclnn is in great sorrow." Th** padre sighed. "Alis. yes! The surcophugus of a single dower, tin- alabaster tomb of youth, is still empty, but If this tragedy continues 1 fear thai Beatrice Ce- clna may be laid there." "What tragedy, father'."' Before answering in* looked long and attentively at mo, "You ure stopping overnight V "Yes, and perhaps longer, Should my friend decide upon researches In the neighborhood." "In thiit case I Insist upon you both coming to my house. The inn Is terrible. Ymi could nol endure Ihe food. No, do not refuse me. We live In such isolation that when a stranger braves our mists ami miasma. It is the least we can do to make him comfortable. II. That evening, nfter dinner, the priest and 1 sal before a tire of driftwood, lighted as a protection against tin poisonous mosquitoes. Carpenter had left us for a stroll 111 (he moonlight, after assuring ihe anxious padre thai he had lived for weeks at it time In perfect health among the swamps of tropical countries. I was glad of his absence, l wauled lo hear moro of Beatrice Ceclna, "And so." I began, "there Is a trng edy connected with the beautiful girl We saw this after) n'.*" "Yes. She was betrothed, when Very young, to Bltvoslro Alfaul, the son of her father's dourest friend. The young mun wus also of au uncieiil und Impoverished family, and, like her, he hod been early orphaned. They grew up logo I hor, became devotedly attach- ed, uud expected lo be married on Sll* vostro's return from the University of Bologna, ur us soon us ho could establish himself lu his chosen profession, the law. What happened ut the university 1 do mil know, bul I suspect that Hllveslro, always a dreamer ami an enthusiast, hud, In an hour of madness, become Involved wllh one of those secret societies which are the bane of our country. Ho returned silent, preoccupied, ami unresponsive, (hough seemingly as much In lovo as ever; but ho gave tho Impression—to mo at least—of living under a sword of Damocles, One day It fell. Without a word of explanation or farewell to Beatrice Ceclna, to myself, or to any ono else, ho loft for Florenco—summoned, without doubt, hy an authority he dared not disobey." "How did you know that ho went to Florence?" "He had bought a railroad-ticket to that city, and through a priest, an old friend of mine who resides there, 1 learned lhat he was living in an obscure quarter and frequenting a cafe whose proprietor is noted as u political agitator. My friend, the priest, sought out SUvestrOi entreating him to send us some word of explanation, but he received no reply from the young mun, who appeared, Indeed, half distracted at the mention of his betrothed's name. As for Beatrice Ceclnn, she no longer writes to him. She waits und prays— but she is pining uwuy beforo our I mused a while, thinking that it must be indeed a grave mutter which could snatch a young man from a beautiful woman with whom ho was deeply In love, utul whom he expected soon t" marry, Some exaggerated sense .if honor was probably behind this defection. I fell Instinctively that a girl so apparently noble In mind iind s..iii as RoatrIco Ceclnn eould not lovo a nu f small or tratloroiis nature. Strolling nexl dny along lho dosolato beach, I came suddenly upon tho slgnorlna, standing motionless, as If lost in her sad thoughts. The glare of the morning sunlight look not one degree fr lior Liveliness, bul II revealed her pallor, and tin* signs or n wasting grlof lhal might oaslly prove mortal, Bho soomod liko n white Mower grown amid poisonous marshes. Recognising mc. she bowod, anil, picking up her basket of seaweed, weni silently on her way. Thai night I told ih.- priest und Carpenter that I was going lo Florence to seek SllVeslro AI la til. Carpenter, ii heady in the grip of burled centuries, obsessed with visions ttf dead knights stretched In corroded geld upon carved slabs beneath the waving grasses of the Maremma—Carpenter looked lu dreamy scorn upon the quondam assistant, as If to Intimate that 1 mlgbl go where 1 pleased bo long as 1 left him In this heaven of ii swamp, uud In the company of a priest who waa as well versed In Etruscan remains as in the doctrines of St. Thomas Aquinn". But the padre's eyes kindled with Interest. He listened to my theories and plans with a warm glow of sympathy. When 1 had finished, he gave me his approval and his blessing, then added: "While you ure absent, I shall en deavor to lake your place with lhe learned Slgnor Carpenter In his search for Etruscan treasures; but my interest in antiquities during these last months, I confess, has been chiefly that the sarcophagus of a single ilower should remain open und empty." ill. The Inn of the Crimson Sword, as il was melodramatically called, from a long, red stain on Us door-post, blocked up the end of an alley of evil smells, all dominated by a composite odor of sour wine and hot oil. I found a brown cave of a place, crowded with tables. Three women served all comers. One of them wus very beautiful. From certain words which passed between her and a Caravaggto brigand of a man, whom i identified as the host, 1 surmised that she was his daughter. She gave me the impression of a woman of great courage, capable both of cruelly and of tenderness. Suddenly 1 saw her fan- assume the blanched, tender, transparent look of a woman in love, as she greeted a young man who had Just entered. From his resemblance to the photograph In my pocket, and from the priest's descriptions, I luul no doubt that he was SUvostro Alf an I, Whatever his outward affiliations, he was evidently living in another world than that of the prowling patrons of the Inn—a world or the Irrecoverable past. His distinguished appearance only added to the effect he gave of being overwhelmingly conscious of some irretrievable blunder along the devious paths on which he was now groping. Another figure darkened the doorway — another swarthy Caravaggto with eyes like rapiers. He looked Jenl- ously al the innkeeper's daughter as she lingered by Alfanl's table, endeavoring io draw him into conversation, The newcomer approached the pair; then with a curl bow to the young woman—whose name, I learned, was (lemma Hold- he brushed her aside and seated himself opposite Bllvostro, opening at once a serious conversation with him. I Watched thO young man's face us Ills visitor Whispered Ulld gesticulated —saw tt grow gray, uequlesceiit, uud hopeless, (lemma hovered III lhe background, never tnking her eyes from the iwo men. Beneath her lowered eyelids were expressed alternately fierce haired and a fiercer love. That tin* man talking wiih Bllvestro wielded an nbsolule nulliotiiy over him was evident, but It was also clear that Bllvestro, though obedient, was nol oowod, His companion seemed to affect blm only ns a link In a chain wlib-h bound him to iilote extraordinary fortunes than he had ever dreamed of in his little Maremma village. 1 resolved thai when he left lhe inn I would follow nml accost him. Fortune favored me. I was not fur behind him. und near (Hollo's famous bell-tower I overtook him. "SIgnor AI fan I?" lit* turned sharply around, "SIgnor Alfanl, do you remember Ihe sarcophagus of a single Ilower iu lhe church al Nollo?" Ills face became as while as the gardenias that a passing flower-girl held up to him. "Who are you, slgnor"" he asked In a tow, vibrant voice. "Do you remember tho sarcophagus of a single Ilower?" "Remember I" A world of pain was In his voice. I drove my message deep Into his open wound. "The padre sends ymi word that they are likely to lay the Hlgnorlna Beatrice Ceclnn In thnt sarcophagus of dead youth If you do not return." A despairing cry escaped him. "She is ill!" "Well and happy, of course, slnco she hears nothing from you!" Ho turned fiercely upon me. "You can mock us well as wound! Who are you?" "A visitor to your village sufficiently interested In the Slgnorlna Beatrice Ceclna to wish to sec her huppy. With the padre's consent und approval, I have come here to ask why you leave her In this miserable suspense?" As I spoke 1 took two letters from my pocket und handed them to him. He read them In an agitated silence. Then he said: "Will you meet me on the terrace of San Mlniato au hour from now, slgnor? I will tell you all | can of this unhappy mutter." IV. Tho sun wus setting when Alfanl finished his narrative, which, briefly, was this: While a slmlenl a( lhe i'nlvorslly of Bologna he hatl been persuaded to Join a club, the real nature of which- to promote political unrest had been revealed to him only after his Initiation. Then he found thai he was lu a nost of youthful subvortors controlled from Florence by I lomenleo Toslul, Hie man with whom he had conversed at lho inn. Toslnl's life-work, as slated by himself, Wiis lo tid the world of those rulers or statesmen win* were deemed obstacles to tho spreading of the gospel of subversion, Heing ri powerful personality, within his limited range, he had played upon Sll vest ro's sense of honor until, iu a fatal hour at the end <if a students' meeting, the young man had signed a paper pledging himself to obey any mandate issued to him at any moment. The summons had reached him iit Nello. telling him that his aid in an approaching crisis was required, and that he must come to Florence ut otice. Though he believed Ihnt imprisonment nr death was probably before him as the result of his being Toslnl's tool, he had departed without a word. This night he was to learn from his hated director whut he wus to do. "But do you consider yourself bound by a pledge wrung from you In a moment of high tension at some furious students' meeting?" 1 protested. "The paper 1 signed Is in the possession of Tosini," he replied. "I cannot go back on my word, even though It should cost me my life." "And if the paper could be taken from Tosini?" He smiled faintly. "What he holds—he holds! listen, slgnor. 1 meet him tonight at this very spot to learn the nature of my commission. We shall speak In French, You understand French, slgnor?" "Yes." "Be on the other side of this hedge at nine o'clock. What you hear report to the Slgnorlna Beatrice and the padre, l should be glad of a faithful witness to relate to ihem under what compulsion 1 went to prison—or to mv death." II*' spoke iu the passionless voice of tin* man for whom life Is already over. "I Shall be here. Tell me- is Gcmm,' Dolfl, the inkeeper's daughter, of this band?" . "Poor girl! She hus hud no chance for any other existence." "Is she betrothed to Tosini?" "Her father wishes her to be. Tosini Is in love with her." "And she is in love with you," I add ed mentally. V. They were punctual. At first 1 could distinguish, through the Inter stlces of the hedge, only two blurs of while -their tense, pale faces. Then the powerful figure of Tosini disengaged itself from tbe surrounding gloom. He began to speak quickly, In excellent French, I listened wllh deepening apprehen slon iis the purport of his instructions became clear. A ery of horror from Bllvestro Interrupted at one point the (low of the even, merciless speech. 1 had thc sensation of seeing a young winged thing caught iu some mon Btrous WOb of a misshapen spider. Tosini ended by an Invitation t< Bllvestro to have supper with him, bul this fantastic hospitality wns apparently declined, for the two men went separate ways Ibrough the darkness. 1 Waited for some moments, and then, trembling with agitation over What I had heard, stepped out of my hiding-place, As I did so, a figure emerged from another vuutugc-polnt. 1 recognised Gemma Dolfl. Her look of comprehension told me thai she understood my errand there, as 1 understood hers. That my presence did Hot startle het* showed me h<>w Imig she had lived among strange chances and changes. I bowed. She returned my greeting, speaking abruptly. "You nro tho American who was ut my father's Inn yesterday?" "Old you climb this hill for a view of Florence by night?" "The night Is not favorable for a Study of the scenery, slgnorlna!" "Do vou understand French?" "Yes." "I do not!" A note of anguish wns In her voice, as If she had beeu baffled nt the moment of a great crisis. I was becoming aware that she possessed the lutein gence, not of education, but of a strong nature— a fnr higher type. "Then," I snld, "I have the ml van• tuge of you, slgnorlna." We stood, two strangers, talking In seeming riddles, yet we knew that we were skirting a subject of Intense Interest to us both. Suddenly her manner changed from that of Inquisition to appeal. Her voice became soft and gentle. "Can you not share your advantage wilh me, slgnor? I fear for—for tho life of Slgnor Alfanl!" .'■'ft-*-'"1 k m KB If00,7 Eg,- ALOOIIOI. 3 PER t'KNT. , AVegclablePrcp-aiionrorAs-' stmtlallng the FboifamlReguta- lingllu-SioMclisandlSowisor Infants .♦Th.uhiei. 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Paregoric, Drops and Soothing Syrups. It is Pleasant. II; contains neither Opium, Blorphlno nor other Narcotic substance, [ts Ago Is Us guarantee It destroys -.v.inns an.l allays Fovorlsluioss. lt cures Diarrhoea and Wind Colli'. It relieves Teething Troubles, euros Constipation and I'lnliilency. It assimilates the Food, rcgi-Htcs tin-. Sl.illiii.il and llowels, giving healthy ami natural sleep. Tbe Children's Panacea— Tbo Mother's 1'rieud. GENUINE CASTORIA ALWAYS i Bears the Signature of NEW YORK. Atb months old J5 Doses-35CENTS Gunr_-iUeduncteriheroHS| Exact Copy of Wrapper. The Kind You Have Always Bought In Use For Over 30 Years htPANV, N(« von "Vou have your suspicions, then, that all is not well?" "I know that he Is in Florence and among—among'our people against his will. He was a stranger, but even I could see that he had lefl all his life behind him somewhere. 1 know, too, that a crisis Is approaching, but for once Tosini has not taken me Into his confidence. 1 came here because of a chance word I overheard, but—they have spoken in French!" "You ask me to share my advantage with you, slgnorina. I will tell what I know. While at the University of Bologna, Stlvestro Alfanl signed a paper, the full import of which, I believe, wus ut that time hidden from him. However that may be, he pledged himself to carry out uny commission which certain persons might require of him. Tonight he learned Its exact nature. Within the next six days he starts for Home to fulfil a pledge from which he shrinks in horror—an errand, in short, of assassination. These leaders are apparently too cowardly for such work themselves, so tbey make lools ol younger men!" A pallor nt faintness overspread her face, but she remained tense and un- drooplng. "Without doubt Domentco Tosini holds this pledge in his possession," she said in a low. meditative voice, as If speaking to herself. "If it were destroyed, Slgnor Alfani would be free of his obligation, but he would not be free of Tosini!" "At least he could not be held to a deed for whicli he has only abhorrence." "Tosini is a tiger!" she* replied. "He would truck a deserter lo the ends of tho earth. He is the supreme menace. The others are merely his tools. "Better that Alfani should die as a victim than as a criminal:" "Why are you sn Interested In him?" she demanded. "Did you know him ut Bologna?" There arc some natures so small that It Is safest to tell them nothing, others so great that it is wisest to tell them everything. 1 knew thnt Gemma Dolfl belonged to this latter (-lass. "He wus u stranger to me until 0 week ago," 1 replied, "whon 1 heard of him through the padre of his native Village In tlie Maremma. Ho Is betrothed to a beautiful girl of noble birth there—and she Is breaking her heart tor him!" I heard the sweep of the wings of tragedy in the very utterance of my winds saw their profound shadows veil Gemma's face for n moment. To whal depths of bitterness she descended I could not guess, bul I fell Instinctively lhat she bad known from the Ilrst fhat her love was hopeless. -Mt I ii dominant -till unorushedi she answered: "I have Influence Wllh Toslul. Ite- IIOVO me, slgnor, I shall one It!" SIm aski'd me my name and uddress; then, with a proud Inclination of her bead, she left uu- and Was soon lost Itl the BhadOWB of the night. VI. I went listlessly Ibrough (he next I Wo days. Scorching heat plagued Florence. The oppression lu tin* ulr rendered even the most dramatic events dreamlike and far-off. Iu the middle of the afternoon of the second day a messenger arrived, pale und breathless, from (he Inn uf the Crimson Sword. He Implored me to go at once there, that tho Slgnorlna (lemma might speak wllh mo before she died. She hud been mortally wounded by Tosini—sho wished to see mo. As we hurried through the nearly empty streets, the lad told mo nil that he knew of thc affair. It seemed that Tosini hnd come in very late, when tho Inn wns quite deserted, and hnd asked for food. The Slgnorlna (lemma had served him, and then had seated herself nt the table with him, Thoy hud appeared very happy. Ono of the servants ubout the place hnd remarked that ihe slgnorlna must he at last re lenting and listening to Toslnl's suit. After a while, as If in answer to some plea of hers, he wns seen to show her a paper, then to give it to her. Upon getting it into her hands she had torn it suddenly into fragments and had cast these into a brassier of burning charcoal. Tosini became violently angry and drew a knife. It seemed, the boy continued, that she might have saved herself, An open d or wns just behind her, but she had stood us still as a statue in a cathedral niche and let Tosini stab her. Tosini had escaped in the panic that followed, but the officers had traced him to the Porta San Niccolo. It was thought that he would be captured. The Inn of the Crimson Sword waa packed with people as I entered. Among them I saw SUvestro Alf uni. The Innkeeper met me, his face stained with tears, and at onco conducted me into his daughter's presence. From that small, stilt room thc last echo of earthly passions seemed to have died away. Gemma lay defeated, yet victorious, glad. It would seem, of the price she had paid for another's ransom. 1 took her hand In silence. "Tosini is a fugitive from justice now," she whispered. "He will probably be captured before he reaches the coast or the mountains. With him out of the way, there's nothing tn four from the others. My father lias promised mo to teil them that Sllvestro'S pledge is annulled—he Is safe now and forever!" 1 gassed at her through my lears. "Ymi purchased his safety with your life. Why did Tosini—" Sho saw what 1 wanted to nsk. "When I burned the pledge. I cried out, *1 lovo SUvestro, not you!' it was then lie drew hii knife." "Hut you could have escaped—" A weary smile hovered for u moment about her lips. "Ves, I could have escaped." "Shall 1 call Alfanl?" "No. he Is suffering enough—but he will soon be happy!" An hour after her death we received word thai Domentco Tosini, seeing that his (rapture was Inevitable, had shot himself some miles beyond the Porta San Niccolo. Carpenter and I witnessed the marriage of SUvestro Alfanl to Beatrice Ceclna In lhe church at Nollo. After the ceremony, with thc other guests, old friends and neighbors, we led her to the sarcophagus of a single flower, We hud turned it lnio a bride-chest by filling It (o the brim with wedding linen nnd silver. QUAINT AND HAPPY MUNICH How your pious soul would delight In tills most Catholic of all the German oltlesl The must Catholic H Is, and Iht* Jnlllest, too. Surely there never was a big community i» whloh the people took life more pleasantly and easily. Ou the slreels they stroll along, Instead of rushing, Prom -1.30 to six o'clock in the afternoons all the cafes—ami there nre dozens of them Hint are bigger than the Hotel ltalllmoro dining-room—are Simply Jammed with men ami women having afternoon tea and coffee. The cost is trltllng, even In the showiest und most fuslilonublo places. A little later In the evening the same resorts are crowded uguin with dinner and supper parties, and they nre filled once more after tho theatres. Always tho throngs are good-natured, well behaved and huppy-lnoklng. Music Is prevalent—from tho grand opera <840 nights In the year), nnd the dally open- air concerts, at noon, by a military band, to tho quartet, or single performers. In the littlest cafes or beer halls. At every possible chnnco*'ioy haven holiday. For Instance, the day nfter Christmas Ib a full holiday, the excuse being that, on Chrlstmns dny somo of tho shops are open for two hours ln the forenoon, so thnt the workers do not have a complete rest after the extra work before Christmas. Christmas In u great event. I never snw such varied displays of toys and children's things anywhere else. Midnight mass. Christ* mas Eve, is a ceremony that crowds every church. Somewhere in each it the Banctuar.es a representation of the Nativity is arranged. The virgin ind Child, the shepherds, the manger, a-id all. Including a cow and often .i dog. Sometimes the figures are Ufa size, In tho national museum, by the way, a deal of space is given up to _ remarkably interesting permanent exhibit of these "i IrlppeiC gathered Oram the Catholic countries, some of them hundreds of years old, some very «lu.* borate, some very primitive. The symbol of Munich — its 'trade murk." so to speak—is the Sgnre of i jolly little boy in a monk's robe, with upraised hands, and the fact chat: he :a often shown with a mug of beer ;n one hand doesn't detract from its men-. Be Is called der Munohen kind—the it nd - eh child—and you see him everywhere Over the principal portal of the ro_-_ paluce, in the centre of the ■'**■—:■• residence, it Is called—is a shrine. fjhssj Inclosed, with a perpetual light. E is typical of easy-going, gocrf-OBtused Munich that this great iprawltng palace, which covers a.3 much ipofi-fl is an ordinary city bloi k, Is penetrated with passageways and court? trdS lU open to the public at ill hours tr.: n constant use as "short cuts" ■ in ordinary street or alley. THREE PREHISTORIC RACE3 Science has proofs of the existence of several races, but only thr have left traces of their hind them. These are Borne Bttro- pous, Homo Ehlt-Uuicus, .ind Homo Kuraslcus. Tho flrsl raci Its representative man resembled the remains of Neanderthal; his forehead was low and retreating and hts eyebrows beetled. Probably tho lect nd rs • .m***/* ed to Europe from th-> north of Africa. Their traces have been found on the Thames, in Moravia, and in caves oi different regions. Sergy, a close student of human origins, traces the second rot • to thu paleolithic culture of the Quaternary epoch In the south of Prance. In thai culture analogies with My* «naear* ami prehistoric Egyptian clvUliatton arc found. Some families of the race may have been Inspired by tbeir id** venturous and artistic instim ts to Sf ir.- der onward out of their own land to a land specially suited to the development of their dreams of methlng that they had never been able to produce In ihelr own country. The graphical conditions, the climate u.: the natural beauty of the land thoy settled iii may have allured them and encouraged them to develop their rude arts. The third race. Homo Burai came Into Burope from western and its members were tin- iii., si, ft .,f the modern EBuropoan peoples BIGGEST BUILDING STONES Probably the Isrgesl stones ever used lu any building are n en in tb*' Wi Item wall of lho groal tempi.' i.r Baalbek In Syria, and the problem is still unsolved as in the riiethods used In conveying them from the quarries and of placing ihem In position, The quarries from which these blocks were undoubtedly cul can !"■ leen aboul half q mile to tlie southwest of the temple. The three stones lie horlsontally and form pari of the outer wall nf the bulldlnc. Tbey are not on the lowest part of tho masonryi bul nre twenty-throe feet above tho first row of stones. Bach Stone Is over sixty feet longi thirteen feci high, and ten feel thick. The most wonderful block nf all still lies In the quarries, for something must have occurred to stop tbe work of separating It completely from the rock, nnd the groat wtone has lain thero for centuries awaiting completion. This stone is leventy feet longi fourteen feet high, and thirteen foot wide. The three sides nnd pari of tho fourth hnvo lieen beautifully chiseled, and aro smooth and even. 136 PRE •BESS, OHILI..JWACK, BRITISH COLUMBIA Local and General Lighl nml ln'iiv.v draying handled wil h en vc nml promptness, Cily Transfer Co., phono 49. Yesterday wus Umpire Dny, L.F.Cioft. nt Mee Studio for photos I For photon at Chapman's.—phone 39. L, F. Croft wa" a visitor to Vancouver Tuesday. Coal arul wooil—City Transfer Co., phone 19. Are you going to Harrison Hot Springs to-morrow? Provincial Chief Gladwin, of New \V visitor in t'isvii Tui'i Firo Wnrdon ■sliuinslerwnsn In.v. Matinee of Lyric Theatre noon at 8.80. moving pietures at every Saturday after- Admission lOe. lin stock Foods—Chilliwack pleiuent & Produco Co. S. Kelland was n visitor to Vancouver (luring the week. Horse ltaecs and hull games ut Recreation I'ark to-morrow. .1. II. Ashwell was a business visitor to Victoria this week. Telephone 49 for all express and dray work; City Transfer Co. Ico cream in all the popular forms and flavors at Johnson's. \V. L. Macken was a visitor to Vancouver on Tuesday evening. County Court will be held at Chilliwack on Juno 15, at 11 a.m. Help Wanted—male and female, apfily Chas. F. Smith at Chilliwack Cannery. Col. lioultbce left Monday on a business trip to Vancouver and Nanaimo. Contractor Hunt has the cement foundation for the new post ottice completed. Sam Pugh, thc electrician, was a passenger to thc coast Wednesday on business. Jas. K. Anderson of Chas. Huteheson _ Co., spent tho week end at thc coast. All coul and wood orders receive prompt attention. Phone 49. City Transfer Co. Cheam, returned few days business II. Proctor, Monday from a trip to coast. "Nothing does a town more good than the wagging tongue of an Optimistic Citizen." Full muny u nlsick of goods is Imrn lo blush unseen for luck of advertising.—Ledge. He who does not advertise should remember that without bait it is .litlicult lo cutch lish. A Ladies" jacket, black, round on Pralrio Central rond on Thursday last, awaits owner ill ibis oiliee. City Transfer Co, have their oiliee with tbe Chilliwaek Land and Development Co., on Young street. T. Henderson announces a reduction of twentv five per cent on all millinery, dowel's and trimmings. Foil Sale—All • codar row boat, and two pairs of ours, on Hope river; apply to F.Thornton, Sardis. Matinee of moving pictures at thc Lyric Theatre every Saturday afternoon at 3.80. Admission 10c. WANTED—A second hand ladies bicycle in good repair, apply to Miss A. cart; of Free Press, stating price. Gordon Rutherford, nephew of Dr. llutherford, has entered the service of the Merchant's Bank, Chilliwack. A. McFarlanc who has been with H. J. Barber, stationer and druggist, for some time, left on Tuesday for Vancouver. An ad in a newspaiicr is a silent salesman that never sleeps, and does not require a cash register to make him honest, J. L. Stork, C. P. It. ticket and Dominion Express agent at F. J. Hart & (Vs. was a visitor to the Coast on Monday. J. Hammnr was a business visitor to Vancouver on Monday, and will attend the K. of P. Grand Lodge at Nanaimo. The man who does not advertise unually has a store full of old junk I t|,e rM.upio of Conlmont. lhat is dear at any price. No live merchant keeps dead stock. Iteg. \'.. lsi'iiailbi'uil. the Young street .lewelor, ami Mrs. Ilrnuil- hciul were in Vancouver tlie early pari of Ihis week. While in the City Mr. Ilrnailheail completed the sale nf liis repideneo und properly in Fairvlow, for u handsome cash consideration, L. A. Muiinuel who bus been attending the Ontario College of Pharmacy, nt Toronto, has passed his tinal examinations. He is expected to return to Ohllllwack nbont June 1, and will resume his former position in H. .1. Barber's drug store. The anniversary number of the West Yale Review is to hand. It contains twelve puges of interesting matter concerning the tuwn of Hope and district and is well illustrated. The front page is in two colors. Jus. Pennic, the publisher, bus produced a creditable number. Suphend, in the city, wrote to a farmer stating that having arranged to spend thc summer in the country, he desired to purchase an ice-cream cow. The farmer replied by the next mail, slating that he had a nice cream cnw that would just suit him. The merchants who are overflowing with business are the ones whose advertisements are kept running no matter what conditions prevail. How often is T. Eaton it Co.'s advertisement dropped? Advertising is just as great a necessity to an active business life as fond and drink are to u healthy physical existancc. Matinee nf moving pietures at Lyric Theatre every Saturday afternoon at 3.30. Admission 10c. The Conlmont Courier has mado its bow to the world. The lirst edition owing to the non-arrival of supplies is printed nu brown "Craft" wrapping paper, supplied by one of the merchants of the new town. Such a display of stiektoitivencss on the part of the editor should lie rewarded with the liest support of STATIONS FOR MINISTERS — Itev, II. Haley, Methodist minister at Kltiimntt, has been I elected president nf lbc II. ('. Muth- n.list Conference, Tbc Ilrst draft' of stations has been submitted nnd! cITi'i'ts lbc Westminster district as follows: New Westminster (Queens avenue)—Wesley A. Abbott, 11. A., II. l'l. John 1'. Howell, superunu- uled. Columbian College— Wilfnrd .1. Slpprcll, B. A., 1). D,,principal; Albert 10. Hothorington, I'.. A., II. I)., acting principal: William A. Clifford, B. A., B. 1)., vice-principal; Henry L. Morrison, II. A., Sow Westminster (Sixth Avenue); \V. S. A. ('., New Westminster, I (Sapporton)—Edwin I). Ilriiilen; .New Westminster (south)—Tn be (supplied under Superinl lent nf Sapporton; New Westminster (Chin- jese mission)—Tube supplied; Lum .lohn Pny, New Westminster (Japanese MissionlTn be supplied; Y. Akagawa, Coqultlam—To be supplied, under superintendent of Sup- perlon; East Hiirnubv—To be supplied under superintendent of Sixth avenue; Jubilee—To bo supplied (15. It. I'.) under suporintondcnl of Queen's avenue; Lailnei— F, S. O'Kell, Chilliwack Arthur E. Roberts; Carman—('has. E. Ilatgold (Sardis); J. II. White D. 1)., superintendent nf missions; Chilliwack (Indian Mission)—To be supplied; R. II. C, Sumas—W. I'. Illuiit; Cbeum—Thomas (I. Barlow; Ah- Imtsfurd—To be suppliod; Langloy —Fred L. Carpenter, Milner P. <).; Clovordalo, Tl ins 11. Wright; While Rock—To be supplied; Wesley W. Colpitis,superaniiuali'il; Port Mann ami Harnsloii Island—To be supplied. Members iu British Columbia not elsewhere enrolled—Superintendent of Missions, E. M. Burwash, M. A., It. I)., permitted to continue studies at University of Chicago; F. Albert Mngeo, Allan K. Sharp, left without stations at their own request; William E. Jones to attend Victoria College; Charles F. Watson to attend Columbian College. John Robinson left on Tuesday to attend the sessions of the Grand I/txlgc of the Knights of Pythias i which convenes at Nunniino. ■1. Felly reports that every item of dyke tax was paid by Saturday An edition which reflects credit upon the enterprise of tlie editor and the optimistic alertness of the licople of Coquitlam lo benefits derived from the use of lhe press as an agency for tlie development of Iheir district is the recent Progress Number of Coquitliim Star. It is As we go to press the weather promises to be line for the holiday tomorrow. Quarter Acre Home _= Sites • 1 have for snle some Quarter Acre Lots exceptionally well situated for Home Sites. Prices from $350 up, on terms of $30 Cash, balance $15 per month, interest 6 p.c. Tt will pay ymi to seo these hefore you select your building site. A. E. McLANE Real Estate and Insurance Chilliwack ■ | We Repair Watches __________________________________________ i. -——__—_————________ !. (Mucks, and Jowolory in First Class Style. Kngrnv- '•• ing and Optical wmi; attended to promptly und correctly. A trial solicited. REG. E. BROADHEAD We .1.. engraving mi tin.' promises, itul door from Empress Hotel **************************************************** Chilliwack Electric Co. Honse Wiring Fittings Fixtures J. H. Patterson Proprietor Wellington Sl., opp, Olseru House P__P__f__5_r_S»_*__;___ ■uU'''',;<;A,;Hr>'.*toJP "(161 fit? . tin.- IHH'I sr. i.'iiiiiinii,, | , , , , ^ . lust, hence the sale of lands for this "» i",'.,""",'s P.*odnotion for a place tax was not held on Monday. •'!'.' Ri?,c ° ffif; •}■*•' ""' editor 11. \\ . Ilulbert is Iss he con- City Transfer Co. handles Well- gratulated on the splendid result Two instalments of the story "One Way Out" are printed in the Free Frcss this week. Horn—On May 21), to Mr. and Mrs. Sam. Calbick, Westminster sireet east, a daughter, I ■ ington coal, Ibe best in British C i umbia. also wooil, and delivers to i any part of the city promptly. i Hev. Father La Salle will conduct service in the Human Catholic church, Mary streel, on Sunday I May ii'i. Mnss at 10.80 a ni. A. E. Mi'Liuie, real estate nud insurance agent has uu advt. in the Free Cress today, making special mention of .pinrtor acre home sites. This rir.1 TI..M./-4 f.r 5,1. 1.1 ,„„,,,_ ,,, „,„,,_, ,,,,,. ttlncholl, Nature's Scalp T.s.iie, „, all mining licenses oxpir , May moves .luiiilrufl uml prcvciil" falling nf 81. Henewals may be secured nt liilr. Hm a rernrsl for (.Timing hair— the Court House from Ifegistrar 95 cun out of 100. Kiicb package coin |>e||v. mils, a packet si! ssf Machela Dry SlmnipiK. Powder. I'liee for .•omplolel |'. Hughes, of Cheiiin, has pttr- lioiiii- Ireallilinl $1.00. Snlil mill guiriuttcd hy II. .1. Harlier. PUBLIC NOTICE Notice il hereby given llmt all |seti- lions, fnr cement .iilcwulttis to he constructed during lhe current year liiiiul Ise ifcceivwl by the City Clerk nol later lhan July l.t. Petition." received after that dale will not be ii.ie.l upon. I). V.. CARLETON, Cily Clerk. FOR SALE Fine driving horse (our years, nl.l I "ircd by litis Tim | giniruntirsf .mind und u Iailci ladies driver, ami Lh.iniiiflily re- iiblc, also slightly iu.il Mc_lUgliiili eiish- ion lynsl buggy, and lumen. V.. }. Boucher, ssfllee, Westminster mrcd. MONTREAL. THE STANDARD ll the National Wcs'kly NcwnpaptT ul llm Iximlnloii vf ('ainula. it ll natleiml In ull It. ■Imi>. li uses the mom einennlve (ngrav- Inn., tsrofiirlnB llie photographs from ■II ov.r tins world. In. article, are carefully lel.ctod and Its. editorial pulley I. thoroughly llllll'I-S'Illl. III. A «ulwrlptlin tn Thl .Standard com. $2.00 par y«r la nny addro.i In Canada or Ureal Erluln. TRY IT FOR 1912! M.nlra.l ll.nd.rd f*ukti«hin» C, L'mll.d, Publi.hir.. chiiscd through A, E. McLane, real estate and insurance agent, a qiinr- ter acre lot in Ihe T, Honnycastle sub-division. Four new members will lie initiated into tbe mysteries of Odd Fellowship on Tuesday evening. A full attendance of memliers is looked for. "A copious precipitation of moisture" since Sunday night has been of untold benefit to all forms of vegetable and plant life throughout the valley. Lost—On Yule rond between Chilliwuek und Chus. Kerr's, Cheam, a purse containing a sum of money and valuable papers. Finder will be suitably rewarded by leaving at Free Press oiliee, If the builders of houses were required to tear down and reconstruct as much nf their work ns Ihe printer is sometimes asked to ilo to rectify mistakes of others, most of us would.be living in tents. Tho cost of a house would be entirely beyond any but lhe very rich. The lack of air is Ihe main cause of tuberculosis in Canada. Air is free and that is ono reason why people do not use enough of it. If il was as dear as whisky, some people would break their windpipes trying lo lake all that was on the I market.—Ledge. ! No iiarrow-gauagc ndvertising | space for a broad-gauge store. No lone takes seriously n store's claims to Importance unless the morohant shows Hint he, himself sloes—shows it by ndvertising on nn Important iseals. Advertise iii tin' For Press. eotnplislieil, ll.tw often we hear of a .voting Ind whn has entered his teens tell how he scampered sill tn school when his m. it her did not see him, uud yet, while iu bearing distance, when she called m him, he made lielievc be did not bear, just simply In gel out of currying in the coul nr gel some water or do SQliio little chore, but lefl it for his mother to ilo, who has her bunds lull of housework ami perhaps many other little Ms. tn I.sok after. The good Lord knows lists muoh fulls on lhe shoulders of ninny goml mothers, by the truant conduct of a thoughtless boy. Remember my boy, you've only nne mother. A Vancniiver housewife bus tubulated the follnwiilg list of callers at her residence on one of her "not at home" days: A man whn wanted to clean up the yard; a metal polish pedlar, smnll lioy selling water-cress; a tisli jiedlnr; woman selling flavoring extracts, old mun wbo wanted to cul the lawn; col lector of old rubbers; three piano salesmen; two book agents; one life Insurance solicitor; little girl with tickets for "Our Concert"; one vacuuni cleaner agent; woman selling switches; the iceman, the milkman, the butcher aud the grocer. Free Press Printing Pleases. BE A BOOSTER Hn ynu know there's lots o1 people Seitin' rsnuisl in every town, Urowlln' like ii br.so.ly chicken, KnsH'kin' every go.s.1 thinii down? Dun't ymi he thut kind 0 entile, 'ClIUO Ihey nin'l no use on earth, You just lie a Isssssstcr rsHisler, Crow und limn for all you're worth. It your town rtoeils IhmshiIii', boost 'st; Ii..ii'i huld hnek mul wait tn see. II aome oilier fellow's williii'— Sail right in, this country's froo, Nn nnc's im ii mortgage on it, It's jusi yours us much us his, If ynur Iiiwii Is shy nn iKsnsts'i-s, Ymi get in the boostln' bis. If ihiinis jiiHt don't sii'in In suit ynu And iho world seems kinder wrong, What's the miller will. a-liooslln' .lust lo help the thing along? 'Cans., if thing* should ship again' We'd Ise in a sorry plight; Yuu jusi keep lhat born nl.l..win' lloosl'er up with nil ynur might, II ynu kuuw snme feller's fniln's, .fust forgcl Vm, 'eiiusc ynu kimw Thut siiiue lellcr's gnl some l*.....I points, Them's the ones you waul lo show. "Cast your Iniives oul mi llie water*, They'll come hnek" 'm saying' Inte, Mcl.lsc, |oo, they'll conic Isiiek "hut- lerd" tt'hi'ii snine (,.||,.r l»«,s|s f,.r you. Where Do You Shop? ]"\0 you shop in a brisk, active store or in a dull store ? Advertising makes bright stores. Failure to advertise goes hand in hand with dullness and stagnation. Advertising brushes away cob- wobs and dust, smartens simp windows, quickens tbo intt'lli- gence of salesmen, and lots in tin.- sunlight. Advertising makes tho morohant think of you—of your wants nn.l needs; makes him anxious to serve you to your liking and advantage. Advertising keeps stock from having birthdays. Advertising acquaints you with new things, nn.l briglltOHH your homo, your life, your person. Advertising keeps a business from growing lazy nud stupid. Advertising injects rich red blood into the arteries of business und keeps il healthful nnd active Shop where your wants and needs are uppermost in the mind of the nierehant. Shop in tlio store which reflects you, whieh you dominate. Shop where your money returns to you in lietter goods, bettor value, better service. Shun the shop that is dumb and dark and dreary; keep away from the shop that never speaks to you, never smiles at you, never bothers about you. Reward by your custom the nierehiinl who lives to serve you, mid who is doing his utmost to build up this community; wbo takes you into hisconfidonco by means of advertisements in your local newspapers. Smile hack at the shop whieh smiles at you. Shake hands with it—keep company with it—your favor will be returned to you tenfold. llW^^rW^^^Wi^lr^^^fU^- ®mWfi?y$^H&@^!^ ■■{
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